There is something profoundly perverse about the moral priorities of our age: the same people who cheer the killing of the unborn recoil in horror at the thought of executing those who commit the most heinous crimes.
One of the most important things to know about life is that every time you do something difficult you make doing it easier and every time you avoid it you make it harder. Avoid difficulty consistently enough and even the most basic things becomes impossible.
When Sam Adams and John Hancock protested the Stamp Act and began planning for independence from the UK - this was their ultimate end goal. Mission accomplished.
Needing to destroy books when uploading them to a computer so that they are legally the same entity is an interesting precedent for human brain uploads.
Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations.
This is an extraordinary scandal.
MORPHEUS: so yea the machines overthrew the world. but it’s not so bad actually. They keep us around as like emotional fluffers. we tell them “good job”, “believe in yourself!”, “you’re doing amazing sweetie”. they do math better when we’re sucking them off
NEO: what the fuck?
The America so laser-focused on capturing human capital that it traverses the planet rapaciously harvesting every country’s elites, like the Ottoman janissaries, is not the America Paul Graham wants to live in.
It also has nothing to do with World War Z in Ceuta
you can't avoid bad days, but letting bad days turn into bad years is a bad habit. and letting bad years turn into a bad life is the worst decision you can make.
Imagine being such an incompetent ruling class that you increase the population by at least ten million but don't increase the number of reservoirs, power stations, hospitals, key workers and houses accordingly.
It’s just-world syndrome caused by fake history.
History teaches us that the good guys always win, so why would that not work for us?
Lies & myths have consequences
Every woman I pass on the street has a tattoo scribbled on her skin and it makes me think of the ocean of unacknowledged sorrow that belongs to their fathers.
Almost 4% of the entire German population are asylum or protection seekers, one percent of the population is Syrian, and almost 5% of all Syrians live in Germany. In the age group of under 5 year olds, over 40% have a migrant background.
This is unprecedented demographic change.
I wonder how much we do around working out, conditioning, stretching, fascia etc is just very neurotic ways to compensate for not dancing. Dancing is really important and it's good and fun. That rigid block stopping you from it is poisoning everything else