Martin Hajdu

Unpaid intern at existence

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

holy shit
i asked claude to make a video on western civiization

[Martin Hajdu @mrtnhajdu]

@diogenes_raj @AlexCal98330541 @KrisPatel99 @JoeNJTech Certainly it was not. I don't see your point here dude. It is totally justified to take pride, even claim their ancestors achievements. That's how continuity - which helps a nation thrive - be maintained.

[Martin Hajdu @mrtnhajdu]

@diogenes_raj @AlexCal98330541 @KrisPatel99 @JoeNJTech And between the first European settlements and the founding of the United States roughly 210 years had passed. The founding fathers certainly wouldn't have had any plans to secede, had they not been taxed to oblivion, mainly because Britain needed the money after the 7 years war.

[Martin Hajdu @mrtnhajdu]

@diogenes_raj @AlexCal98330541 @KrisPatel99 @JoeNJTech The first settler, the Spanish, French, Dutch and English, were not pilgrims. They were serving the interests of their crown, securing land and resources in a new land. People persecuted for their religion, Huguenots and Puritans, only arrived in the early 17th century.

[Martin Hajdu @mrtnhajdu]

@diogenes_raj @AlexCal98330541 @KrisPatel99 @JoeNJTech Early settlers, aka, colonizers didn't just "fuck off" from Europe. They had the money, backing and certainly the will to venture out to the unknown and subdue new places. And your premise is entirely backwards, they created Europe in America, not the other way around.

[Augustus Doricko @ADoricko]

It’s obvious that we’re simultaneously in a period of great progress and precipitous decline.

Despite the daily hype-schizo-edits and monumental daily achievements of our nation, its deluded to drone on about a “golden age.” The philosopher, Zyzz, was lauded for ceaselessly repeating the mantra “we’re all gonna make it, brah.” His heart exploded from steroid and stimulant abuse. Our nation reminds me of this story.

Whatever shot we have at uninterrupted progress out of this period requires sobriety, calculation, and a specific flavor of unrelenting optimism. Admiral Stockdale, the Vietnam War POW, provides a good, but still insufficient frame. He accepted the indefinite brutality of his imprisonment while remaining assured that, at some point, he would be freed.

We, unlike Stockdale, may never prevail in our lifetime. Those born between 1960 and ensuing decades beyond today may experience unprecedented collapse despite our genuine, Herculean efforts.

Nevertheless, the application of that effort is not just justified, nor is it just a preferable alternative to a slothful and cowardly concession of defeat. Our optimism must rest on truth and civilization, in the limit, defeating evil and barbarism. Perhaps our age is over, and fifty generations of our progeny will live among our ruins. But, if we indignantly burn red hot now, what embers that remain for the ingenious and honorable among the fifty first generation will expedite their ascendancy. I’d rather leave them Great ruins and heroic stories than cautionary tales of debauched failure.

Pic related

[orph @orph_]

"The fact that some people think cognitive ability doesn't vary between individuals basically proves that it does"

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

https://t.co/7E1sVkqGnb

[Herod Priovolos @herodpriovolos]

Listen, Christopher Nolan.
I stand with Homer’s Odyssey, not with a modern version created to make Odysseus easier for us to forgive. You say you did not mean to Christianize the story. But when the Trojan Horse becomes a source of guilt, the journey home becomes penance, and a warrior hungry for glory becomes ashamed of who he is, I have to wonder: are we still watching Homer’s hero, or a modern man sent to therapy in ancient armour?
Yes, Xenia matters. But so do kleos, timē, metis and nostos: glory, honour, cunning and the unbearable desire to return home.
Homer’s Odysseus is proud, violent, brilliant, selfish, loyal, wounded and deeply human. He is not asking the audience to approve of him. He is trying to reclaim his wife, his son, his home and the name the world almost took from him.
I do not need Odysseus to be more likeable. I need him to be recognizable.
Perhaps great stories are not supposed to make us comfortable. Perhaps they survive because they force us to face people whose values are not our own.
You borrowed Homer’s seas, his gods and his hero, but gave Odysseus the conscience of another age.
And I couldn’t help but wonder: when we rewrite the past until it finally agrees with us, are we bringing Homer to life or simply putting him on trial?

[Russt @RusstNOVA]

We aren't spoiled. We don't have 'furst worled pwoblems'. We are living in the world our ancestors left for us. They worked incredibly hard. They sacrificed. They fought and died for it. They created it FOR US and it is immoral to give it away to the entire third world.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Happy 250th birthday to the greatest country that’s ever existed 🇺🇸

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

🇺🇸

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Reddit

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Based Grok 🤣🤣
https://t.co/GBmdo0rmPu

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.

This one quote sounded familiar.

[Martin Hajdu @mrtnhajdu]

@KenWattana Dude, you can't possibly believe that. Other than being a great algorithmic problem solver, he hasn't really done anything remarkable.

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

Hudson’s Bay once owned 5% of the Earth’s land surface and now it’s a kiosk in a Canadian Tire

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

Western civilization is awesome, actually

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

And with that, Flat Earth is over.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🚀 for all mankind 🚀