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Heat. Heat. Let's see. Where is my webcam? There's my webcam. Sorry, 30-year-old boomer. Don't know how to use any technology. What's up, everyone?

So, okay. Is the volume good on this? I don't care if the volume's good on the introductory sound. I wanted to do a stream. I've been meaning to do a stream for a couple of days. Why is my webcam down there? Um, I've been meaning to do a stream for a while. I hit 50,000 a couple of days ago. So, we'll say that it was not a couple of days ago. Maybe it was a little longer. I don't know. In fact, I'm getting close to 55,000. So, that'll be the rationalization for why I'm doing a stream, I suppose. I'm not going to have anyone on this time unless someone contacts me in the middle. But, we'll probably talk about the usual stuff. Actually, let me bring this boomer over here. We'll do some stuff with him. Get back to normal size.

All right. Well, good position for a little boomer. Yeah, of course it is. It's early. It's Saturday morning. Well, it's not Saturday morning, but it's 9:00. I wanted to try something a little different, just doing a stream at a different time just to see who's around. Now, I probably will get way less people watching live just because it's nine o'clock in New York and of course it's, you know, seven or eight the further west you go in the US. But I guess it might be a better time for people in Eurasia. But either way, there are a couple of things to talk about, but I'll read super chats and other stuff as well. Typical stuff.

Now, as you may know, I reached 50,000 subscribers and also have over six million views now, literally. There was a point a couple of days ago where I hit over 100,000 views in two days, which is pretty impressive. So yeah, that's all good. But anyway, in terms of channel news, I suppose I should probably do some channel news. Let me move this. So yeah, I'll read super chats in a second. But in terms of channel news, what was I going to say? As you may know, I'm going to be moving into the woods pretty soon. I think those of you who are behind the paywall might have more information about that, but I'll be moving, I suppose, at the end of this month. This month is May, right? Yeah, it's just turned May. So, I'll probably be there by June. And that's going to mean a lot of changes for the channel, possibly. None of them are bad, of course. I'll probably do other videos when I'm going to be moving there. I'm going to be starting a garden, doing some housework, doing some workshop stuff. So, I might actually have videos on that kind of stuff. Not as if my whole channel is going to become that, but I might do a video a week or something on that depending on what I'm doing.

There are, of course, minor problems to moving down there. One is I'll have really bad internet access. Now, that can be a blessing and a curse, obviously. I mean, I think it's good to have bad internet if you're a normal person. Because, you know, if you can get streaming videos non-stop and stuff like that, it's usually a bad habit to use it too much. So, it can be a distraction. And as you well know, I had a video way back when I talked about the two years I went without internet at my house and how instructive that was. In fact, it had a lot of effect on the fact that I now have a YouTube channel. I probably wouldn't have one if I didn't have two years to basically spend at home without internet access. You know, you get a lot of stuff done. You learn a lot of stuff.

But of course, there's a downside in that it's going to be much more difficult for me to upload videos. I might be able to upload, let's say I record a video over the day and maybe I'll be able to upload it overnight if things don't mess up. So, that might work. But even if it doesn't, let's say my internet connection just doesn't work at all, I'll just have to change my workflow. Probably what I'll do is I'll be recording videos during the week and then maybe over the weekend, whenever I go on a trip to somewhere else, or I might possibly get a job at some place with better internet. But whenever I'm there, I'll just upload everything. So, that might be what I do. So, that's just channel announcements. As I said, I will be moving basically into the woods. Pretty much as in the woods as you can get. I will have a mailbox. I mean, that kind of stuff. Got to be able to send mail out, of course. Classic boomer.

But, I will probably notice some of the changes. I mean, as you know, last semester I did the podcast and I have done, I guess, one or two episodes this semester as well. But one of the reasons I did that is because I wanted long-form content that I could upload in one setting in a relatively bandwidth-efficient way, and I might start doing more of the podcast episodes because of that. So, that might be a thing.

Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and pull up some other... Oops. Going to pull up super chats and stuff and I'll be able to read through those. But if you have any questions, feel free to ask. But this will probably be a slightly slower stream just because it's at a time that I think people probably won't be on their computers.

And by the way, if one of those people out there is watching that, you know, we were in contact about doing a live stream, you can feel free to contact me now and I'll probably put you on the Mumble server or something and we can have a chat. Otherwise, I'll just answer super chats and comments and stuff like that. Let me see. Let's see. It's about... I have to relearn where all this stuff is every time I do it. Such a boomer. Oh, it's in the community tab, I think. Yeah, super chat. I actually got some already.

Eight Australian dollars from George. He says, "I saw Luke at Linuxfest." It's strange because I thought he said he was 6 foot, but I'm 5'5 and he was shorter than me. Doesn't matter. Love you anyway, Luke.

Oh, that's a good meme. There's no way to defame a man more than calling him a manlet. No, of course I'm not. I'm not six foot either. I'm around, you know, 5'11, maybe at the end of the day 5'10. I don't know. Do I look like I'm less than 5'5? I don't know. I should just measure myself now just because, you know, if someone calls you a manlet that's like poison on your name, but I'll do it later if I have to. But yeah, no, I'm sorry. I mean, in four gag terms, 5'11 is still a manlet, so I guess I am a manlet. But anyway, thanks for the money, George.

And $5 from Alex Barney. Grats on the boomer internet fame. Thank you. I don't know if I'm quite internet famous yet, but I just have more subscribers. I have been getting a whole lot of views recently. I don't know if you've noticed. Part of it is just putting out videos relatively frequently. The YouTube algorithm really favors that. So, I'll get views on my later videos. Not that much, but I'll get a lot of views on my later videos if I keep putting stuff out.

Measure yourself, man. I'm not going to... Well, I could measure myself right now. I might as well. All right. Measuring tape. Putting it on the ground. Verify that it's... Don't want to cheat. I don't want people on 4chan to think I'm shorter than I am. So, I am now going to... Oh, Christ. Put it right at the top of my head. And sorry, I lost it. This is ridiculous. Okay. Oh, sorry. I included the sunglasses. I was 6 foot. Got to take the sunglasses off. All right. There it is. Right there. Oops. Okay. Well, that's with boots on, so I'm a little more than six, but without boots, I'm around 5'11. All right. Fake tape. Yeah, that's right. I have a special tape that is actually a couple inches smaller so I can look taller than I actually am.

Measuring yourself for strangers on the internet makes you a manlet regardless. Yeah, it sort of does. In fact, even caring about being defamed for your height is a manlet here. It's like PewDiePie always obsessed over him being, what is it, 179 or something? Or maybe it's... I forget what it is. I don't know how centimeters work. I'm pretty sure 180 is the cut off for manlets in metric. I don't know. But yeah, six foot is the cut off for manlets in at least in 4chan. I didn't see proof that you... Me. All right. It's a meme. All right. It's not a serious measurement anyway.

Okay. Ivory Coma donates $2 and says, "I switched to Linux because of the terminal Bible." Sweet. I mean, well, there are actually different things he could be referring to as the terminal Bible. But if he's talking about the video I did, that's good. That's right, kids. You can look up how to view the Bible in any translation on the command line. Just search it. Just search terminal Bible on YouTube. Actually, let's search terminal Bible. We'll see if my video comes up. Yeah, it's the first result. Terminal Bible equals Arch Wiki. Yeah, I can understand.

What are your opinions on Rafie? How do you think it compares to Dmenu? I mean, it basically is a superset of Dmenu. It can act as Dmenu, but I don't use it because I don't need any of the other features it has. So, I use Dmenu because it's simpler.

I think there were some super chats a second ago. Let me double check. Okay, so Sir Evil Pudding actually gives another five. Says, "Transparency makes text on terminals unreadable." Anyway, love your stuff.

Well, it depends on what level of transparency you're using. I mean, if you think that the transparency in my videos is unreadable, I don't know why you'd watch my videos, but I'm pretty sure in basically everyone I have transparency. If you're me. See, I forget what... Let me see what the level of my transparency is. I don't even know. I mean, I think it's like maybe 80% opacity or something like that. Really big. And I also nearly always have dark backgrounds. Now, if I were on a background like this background here, the Windows Bliss thing, that would be nearly impossible to read. But, you know, that's just how it is.

Surely you can try and prove others are conscious, but you being conscious is actually matter. I also think so the whole idea of logical proofs is something people need to get out of their heads, especially when it has to do with... I mean, maybe I'm just too tbian for this kind of stuff, but you know, in real life, there's no reason for a logical proof. Like, one of the grain comments that I got on that video on consciousness is... and I got it from like five grug brains, and they say, "Dude, prove that you're conscious." Whoa, dude. How can you do that? Whoa, man. That's so deep.

Okay, what does prove actually mean? Seriously think about what does prove actually mean? I mean, maybe it has a meaning in mathematics, but in real life, when you prove something, what does that mean? Establish it beyond doubt or something like that? In real life, I mean, there's no such thing as a proof. We've built up, you know, the risks, whatever risks we have of getting things wrong are such that, you know, so small that we can still assume that it's true and be fine, right? So, I make the assumption that other people are conscious, right? It probably actually doesn't make that much difference in their behavior, mind you, but whether I believe it or not, or my behavior to them, but the idea of proving things is just so stupid. Like whenever you're doing it, it's just... that's not the point, you know?

You can prove it, but you can't disprove it. I mean, it doesn't matter. Like, who cares? You know, my standard for deciding what to do is not proof or non-proof. It's okay, what are the chances of something happening? But a part of that and also a part of the risks entailed by failure. I mean, like we talked about in the last episode of Not Related that I did as a stream. We talked about the non-Pearson approach to judging hypotheses. Okay. So he had the idea that basically for any inductive area, you can't prove anything or in fact, it's not even the same thing. He didn't even call... he didn't even use the term inductive proof or inductive reasoning. He called it inductive behavior. Now, I don't exactly ascribe to his linguistic description of it. But you know, his account of how do you make decisions is you judge two alternatives. You find what the potential consequences there are of each of, you know, making a bad decision in either case and make a statistical judgment of what the right behavior is. There's no proof in there; it's just how do I decide how to make a good decision.

This is one of the autistic things about how people think nowadays. They think in terms of proofs as if anything meaningful can be proven or disproven. In reality, you should make decisions not based on proof or disproof. You make decisions based on, you know, blacktails versus the chance of things happening and other things like that. You know, blacktails, black swans, you know what I mean. Fat tails, whatever they call them. Thick tails. I prefer thick tails.

How do you plan to protect your cabin from pagans and other savages?

Well, there aren't many pagans and other savages where I live or where I'm going to live. We'll just say that. But, you know, I'll probably eventually get... I actually don't own a firearm now. You can call me a cuck, but I don't own a firearm now, but I probably will get one. I'm not quite sure what. Probably something that's good for hunting around there. You can hunt, you know, there are turkeys, there are boars, there are some deer, other things like that.

So giving people two alternatives is where the fault lies. I'm not saying two. I'm just saying you can give them any number of... my point is there's no proof or disproof. Those are meaningless terms. Whenever people are talking about those, just ignore everything they say. Okay? Because it's all word games. Like most of philosophy nowadays, really all philosophy in the 20th century is just word games. Like people are talking about, you know, proofs and disproofs and stuff like this and, you know, taking words too seriously or trying to define things that, you know, are beyond definition. I maybe that's a weird thing. Maybe you don't quite know what I'm talking about, but most philosophy nowadays is just a word game. Okay? And it's silly. Like most of... you know, I'm not saying everything's conjectures and reputations in the way that, you know, traditionally thought, but just the whole idea of proofs and dis... it's just too much. Like stop thinking in words, that's what I'm trying to say. You know, if you can put your ideas in words, you have bad ideas.

Two Australian dollars from Richard Gnuman. Have you ever done LSD?

No. Yeah, I guess I'm getting more Australian dollars. I think we're like in an actual good time in Australia. I actually don't know the time in Australia right now. How much it is? Is it okay? It's about midnight. Getting close to midnight. So people are actually barely awake. I guess when I usually do streams, maybe it's like in the morning for Australian peoples.

Have you gone to our philosophy? It's cancer.

Well, yes, I know that because it starts with R. Could you elaborate on not thinking in words?

I have a constant train of thought I can't seem to control. I mean, well, there's a difference between having words appear in your conscious mind and you actually thinking in words. I mean, I think for some people, words can be like a scaffolding, kind of cognitive scaffolding. But I think if you... I mean, it's hard for me to understand to put in words. Well, actually, this is what I... this is sort of what I mean. I think if you are in a place where everything you think is verbal and you have no... like your cognition is nothing beyond verbal, then you probably have really simple cognition. That's what I'm trying to say. I don't know how to stop doing that. I mean, it seems impossible. It's very hard for me to put things in words.

For example, a lot of the stuff I do in linguistics is very, you know, how my theory of language differs from, you know, Noam Chomsky's theory of language. That's something sort of difficult to put in words and it's very hard to explain to people because it's abstract and there's not a vocabulary behind it. I'm not really a word thinker and it just doesn't appear. I mean, the way thought appears to me is just not in words. Sometimes when I'm doing something very robotic, I think in words, but that's like... it seems like lower level, more autistic thinking.

How can you think in words only?

I don't actually think people think in words only, but I think they perceive that because they have this, you know, constantly running cognitive theater where they're narrating things. That's my view of it.

I think also, you know, one other thing about word thinkers is they think like word. I mean, it's hard to explain. Like people who ask you. So, I've said this before in streams, especially this is obvious in the political domain where people are basically acculturated in our culture and they're taught to be afraid of certain words. Okay? So, you know, maybe you're afraid of being called racist or something like that. I don't know. So, some word that there's negative feeling being a Nazi or something like that. Okay.

So, one funny thing is that you'll see online is you'll see people asking people who they know well, "Are you a racist?" You know, people whose opinions they know. And what's interesting about that is it comes from a position of word thinkers where someone's behavior, someone's actual thought, which is well-known, actually doesn't matter. Or what someone's views or actions are, they don't matter. What matters is, do you ascribe by this word that I have been programmed to hate? That's what matters to people, and that's like word thinking.

A lot of people do work like, I mean, I've said before there are some, especially in the political domain, I mean, but this is true in other domains as well. People are mostly programmed against words and programmed for other words, you know, democracy good, equality good, you know. Their political beliefs aren't so much beliefs; they're just sort of bouncing back and forth between these words trying to find a place where they're not going to ruffle the feathers of the people who programmed the words in them, you know.

So, I mean, once you're at the point where you don't care, I mean, it's not as if you become super redpilled and you, you know, become a fed poster or something like that. But, I mean, you just get at that level where you're not interested in like, you know, people will ask me, "Are you, I don't know, alt-right or something like that?" It's not even a meaningful question. What difference would it make if I were or wasn't? You know what I mean?

Because this word, when they're asking, there's not factual content behind it. They're asking, "Am I supposed to like you or not?" That's when people use terms like that. That's how they... Now, I'm not saying that some of these words, for example, you know, Nazi, might have a real definition, but it's not used in that definition. It's used simply as a word that people are programmed against. You know, as an example.

I'm going to get some more water. Actually, I think I have my jar over here. Herder ideology is not real. Yeah, that's right. There's no such thing.

Hey, Luke. Is Deos Mortuus a good Latin translation of "God is dead?"

Yes. I want to get an edgy sweater. Although, you'd be better if you put the "S" at the end. That is like really gay though. That's supremely gay.

Why do all programmers use jars as drinking glasses?

Why do you think people should go to church? You said you'd go into it in a video and never did.

*When did I say that in a video?*

I don't know. I mean, that's not the kind of question you should even be asking. Frankly, look at the lives of people who go to church and then look at the lives of people who don't and who watch Rick and Morty on Sunday morning.

I think Luke is actually an atheist. He believes religions are constructed.

*I don't know what that's supposed to mean.*

Although you can take what I said earlier about the Neon Pearson decision theory and apply that to religion. And I think that's appropriate. The idea of belief actually is extremely autistic. There's a different... I mean, even actually nowadays Christians get this screwed up because they think belief and faith are the same thing. Historically, those are not the same thing. But after the scientific revolution, especially, frankly, my denomination of people, you know, evangelical, you know, Southern Baptists and stuff like this, they have a lot of trouble with this because to them, belief and faith are the same thing.

So, a factual belief in... I mean, one example where I'm different from a biblical literalist, I don't believe in the Garden of Eden at all. I have no factual content to that at all. I think it's entirely mythological. Okay? But there's a difference between belief in that literal event, you know, the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, and faith in a religion generally. And this is something actually the apostle Paul talks about in some... you know, even the demons believe, you know what I mean?

So, there's a difference between belief and faith that I think people get confused about. Because in reality, like especially a lot of the internet atheism is an attack on belief or like factual statements in the Bible that are basically either not true or not supposed to be true. And I think that that's one of the reasons that people who are a little autistic get... I mean, the thing is when it comes down to it, belief in God is almost like a tautology. Okay? You could describe the universe as having God behind it or not. I'll just say that.

The fact is, like a lot of people have this idea of the cartoon god, the god as being like some kind of humanesque consciousness on the universe. That kind of god does not exist, right? And in fact, if you go to any theologian of any major religion, they will basically tell you that that kind of god doesn't exist. A god that exists as a character who has emotions and feelings and stuff like this. Okay. Now, of course, many religious texts describe God as having emotions and acting like a human, but it's not the same thing.

Anyway, do you believe in the morals of the Christian religion, like love your enemy and turn your cheek?

I think that specifically the cucked morality of Christianity, I mean, that's famous, like turn your other cheek, you love your enemies, that kind of stuff. I think all of that should be understood in the time and place it was given. Okay? Nowadays, people are far too cut to need that kind of recommendation. Okay? Because people, you know, people 2,000 years ago, of course, people would look out for themselves and not harm their own families. They weren't pathologically altruistic.

That's not to say that saying something to someone like that who's self-interested, that you should constrain your self-interestedness, that's a fine thing to say. That's not the problem we have now. Now we have people who are basically masochistic and destroy their entire countries because of their cuckness, you know. So, I think the recommendation should be very different for us, and I think the literal moral instructions or the literal statements are sort of ignoring what actually is important there.

So, do you think that heaven is real as it's understood by the average Southern Baptist?

So, it depends. Southern Baptists don't believe in... I mean, first off, another misunderstanding about most Christian denominations is the idea of the spiritual realm. Like there's this alternate realm of heaven and hell. Okay, that's a Platonist abrogation on Christianity. You know, it's not really the core original meaning. And I think most people who you talk to who actually have historical or theological knowledge of Christianity... I mean, I think, yeah, as you say, like your average boomer, your boomer Christ believes in there's like an alternate spiritual realm of heaven. Okay?

But that's not really the... I mean, keep in mind, like in keeping with traditional Hebrewism, Christianity at its basis believed in a literal resurrection. Like heaven, quote unquote, is basically a literal resurrection of man. And you know, the de... what happens after that is unclear, but like people are given new bodies, spiritual bodies, but they are physical bodies. You know, they're not Platonistic bodies in some alternate realm. So, the belief, you know, Christians and Jews at the time believed in like a resurrection, a literal resurrection, not like this Platonistic alternate reality or something like that. Now, of course, the views on that nowadays are different, but you know.

Hey, Luke, please. This is from J95.io. He sends to you or is, hey Luke, please redpill us on Waco. I don't know that much about it. I mean, I know the basics about Waco. You can look it up on an internet documentary on yourself. But, you know, they didn't do nothing wrong, and the government killed them all. So, that's what's to know about Waco.

You know, Marx and Freud have dismantled Christianity from a philosophical perspective. Yeah, Nietzsche, don't include Nietzsche in that list. I mean, Nietzsche was anti-Christian in some sense, but for totally different reasons than Marx and Freud and other Jewish intellectuals. It's not really the same thing. I mean, Nietzsche was basically criticizing Christianity or the hyper-liberal version of Christianity from the right. He had a very different perspective on that.

I mean, Nietzsche does talk about things that leftists now think of as being deconstruction or stuff like that. The transvaluation of all values, I forget what it is in English, but you know what I mean. I mean, he talked about that kind of stuff, but he was attacking basically the same thing we were just talking about, the turn the other cheek form of Christianity where now all Christians are self-effacing and destroy themselves and everything around them.

So, yeah, I mean, people will think, oh, well, Nietzsche said God is dead, so that makes it edgy and atheist. No, that's not the same thing. Nietzsche was anti-Christian but for totally different reasons, and him saying God is dead is not like we have disproven God or something like that. It's no God in the way that he existed no longer exists for Europe. Europe has fallen to atheism, and he viewed that as a bad thing. You know, even though he might have been, again, this goes back to the autism of thinking that the points are literal beliefs. Nietzsche probably didn't believe in any kind of god as a literal thing, but he also viewed atheism as pretty much, or at least atheism as it was happening then, as a pretty bad social development.

He looked at Christianity in the same way that people now like Moldbug look at Christianity, that it was perverted into this particular Protestant way of looking at man. You know, the equality of man before God and stuff like that, which gradually evolved into a kind of humanism, a deification of God, which gradually became secular humanism, atheism, Unitarian Universalism. You know, atheism, when you look at it, evolved. I mean, there's a reason, you know, in Europe, for example, the countries that are atheist are all historically Protestant, and they're not necessarily historically Catholic. Atheism emerges wherever a particular variety of Protestantism is. And that's because atheism is really just a dialect of a particular liberal approach to Protestantism.

$2 from Steuart Vulk. Doesn't say anything, but thank you.

A lot of people will ask me, well, I'll wait for someone to ask,

Hey, Luke, what do you think about communists and their attitude towards religion?

There's absolutely nothing redeemable about communists.

Opinions on Jek? I have the correct opinions on Jek. That is, I don't think about him or care about him at all.

Is Confucianism as useful to Chinese as Christianity in the West?

Depends on what you mean by useful. I mean, I'm opposed to the top-down removal of Confucianism from China in the same way I'm opposed to it in America. As to, I mean, people will often compare them in the same words as if, I mean, you know, we have this concept of religion in the West, and sometimes people will take philosophies of China and put them in that sort of mold. I don't know if that's proper, but I'm certainly opposed to the communist attempt to sort of blot out, or at least back in the day. I don't assume things have changed now, but back in the day when they were trying to sort of blot out Confucianism, I mean, any kind of social design I'm against. I don't know if that's clear from my other videos.

Do you watch Striking Mike?

No, not really. I think I saw a couple of them, but is the left-right spectrum a meme? Do all ideologies really fall between those two camps?

The left-right dichotomy is not a meme, but it isn't ideological. Maybe I'll just say that and let you think about it. I mean, if you're looking at ideology, you're really just looking at the words people say to rationalize what they want to do for other reasons. That's all it is. I very much agree with Marx on this, or at least I actually am more extreme in this kind of thing. Of course, it includes Marx and includes me as well, frankly. The idea that ideology is just how people rationalize or put a logical mold over the things they want.

Luke will never tell you his personal beliefs. It's a hook to keep you coming back for more. I do tell everyone. I answer all my questions pretty straightly. Frankly, the thing is, most of the things people are asking about are just dumb. Like, there's no proper opinion to have about Jordan Peterson, for example. Who cares? It doesn't matter. You know, what are personal beliefs? Again, the whole theme behind what I think, I mean, what you should learn from Boomer Ransen Woods or whatever, or all the stuff I say, is that personal beliefs don't mean anything. You do, as I just said when talking about ideology, ideology doesn't mean anything. It's like word thinking; it's putting words on things that you already want to do for other reasons.

Right? So, you could go back and read Uncle Ted's manifesto. One of the first things he notes is that when you look at leftism, for example, what he calls leftism, you could try and put political titles on it. You could call them sort of socialist; you can call them whatever. It doesn't matter. Leftism is a psychological state. People believe it because they put on ideological garb because it gratifies them. Psychologically, it gives them power because leftism is, I mean, you can read his Industrial Society and Its Future, which is very brief, and find out what he means by it. But the whole point is personal beliefs, like what your factual claims about something don't matter, or your ideology doesn't matter.

Okay, Luke, you have no nuanced views on ideology. There's no nuanced views to have on it. Anyone who is out of that bubble realizes how stupid it is. Like, I could make autistic nitpicks about anarcho-capitalism all day. It doesn't matter, though. Anyone who is outside of that bubble sees it for what it is, you know?

All right, these questions are boring me. Have you read any Spanish authors? Spanish meaning from Spain or Spanish language?

I don't know how many I've read from Spain. I think I have a couple. I mean, I know I have like Borges and stuff like that. If you're just talking about Spanish language, I think I have a couple of his books. I've definitely read nearly everything that Borges wrote. Aside from that, I don't know. There's some Spanish language stuff that I like, but how do you differentiate religion from ideology? I see it used in the exact same way.

Um, superficially, yeah. So there's a sense in which there's not really a division between those, but importantly, religion is so—ideology is usually what contemporary people, who are based on the modern political environment, create ideologies to get what they need done. Then when religion is usually, I mean, in its original definition, right, religion is just folk customs and stuff like that, the things that bind together society and stuff like that. So in that definition, they're different. But I mean, if you're looking at it in terms of like what is the difference between, you know, your stereotypical college SJW, how are their beliefs different from a religion? They're not really in any meaningful sense. But, you know, not as if that's good or bad.

But when it comes to it, people might complain about particular aspects of religion. But I mean, again, this is like your personal rationality versus something, you know, emergent in society, right? Mero talks about consciousness. Mimro has no inner monologue. There's a difference between word thinking and being conscious. NPCs are non-conscious. Basic thinkers are word thinkers. Normal humans are people who don't think in words. They can think in words, but they're usually thinking in something more abstract than words. I know you're memeing because they're meme arrows, but whatever. I'll respond to it seriously.

But Luke, religion is obedience to tradition, whereas spirituality is belief in a higher power.

I'm guessing that's a joke question or joke comment. Spirituality is just mumbo. Spirituality is just bugman pretend religion. When you abandon your religion, when you reject your heritage, when you leave church, when you do all the terrible things, what's called spirituality, that's the cope. It's just a bunch of platitudes to make you pretend that you still have that connection. Okay, that's—and everyone knows that. This is why I'm not religious; I'm spiritual. If you ever—I mean, that's something, first off, that's something a woman says, you know, some kind of 22-year-old thought. That's what something she would say. But it's just utter nonsense. Spirituality doesn't mean anything. Okay? Spirituality is just, you know, bastardized religion, which is just nonsense. You might as well just watch porn.

Luke, why did you paywall cabin vlogs? No one cares about tech videos.

I don't understand that. Why did I paywall the cabin vlogs? It's because I want few people seeing them because, well, they're not exactly doxing, but I just don't want many people seeing them because they'll be going into more personal information. I've only done, I think I've done three of them so far, and there I'll probably do two pretty soon.

Um, so yeah, I mean it's just supposed to be for people who, I mean, not for everyone. That's all. Why religion when you can use epidemiology? I guess that's a joke.

How do I quit porn by stop watching it? It's all you have to do. Just stop watching it. I mean, well, there I've said this before. I should probably just say it in a video. I mean, if you want to stop bad tech habits, watching porn, watching 40 hours of YouTube videos a day, I don't know how that's possible. I'd be impressed if you could do that.

But, if you want to stop bad habits like that, the solution, like you have to think about what the alternative is going to be. Okay? So, instead of watch, let's say you watch a lot of porn every day, what are you going to do aside from watching porn? You're just going to sit here? You going to sit in your chair and just do nothing on your computer screen? No, you have to do an alternative to that. Okay? So, leave the house, you know, remove yourself from the temptation.

There's you're not going to build up your, um, there's the myth here. There's a myth that, like, and I had this as well when I was a kid. Oh, well, I'll build up a resistance to it, you know? I'll just get used to handling the temptation. I'll have the temptation in front of me all the time, but I won't fall for it. I'll just get good. Okay, that is the stupidest cope in the world. That's the stupidest rationalization because you know you're going to do it. Okay, so the correct response is depriving yourself of the temptation. Leaving, going out, leave your phone, take a walk, take a 2-hour walk, you can walk wherever, okay? Walk to the grocery store, just do anything. See friends, call a friend, doesn't do anything. Read a book. Read a book somewhere else where you're not going to touch yourself. Just do anything. Okay, that's all you have to do.

And that is actually going to make you more capable of resisting it because once you've broken the cycle of, um, literal Cummies when you watch porn, then psychologically that's broken. Okay? When you come back, you'll be able to more easily resist temptation since you have not been exposed to the temptation. The idea that, oh, I'm going to be exposed to a temptation and therefore get better at resisting it. No, that doesn't happen.

What? No porn. I'm pretty sure that's a human rights violation. O, $1 from Timothy P. Beach. Thanks for the dollar. I don't think there's any comment on that, though. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly.

What is your opinion about materialism? Which of the five definitions of that word do you mean? Porn should be legal, but only for the reason that it makes the weak weaker. Oh, that's a hot take. I don't know if I agree with you, but, um, that is a hot take. It's a possibility. I mean, there is a sense in which most of modernity is a huge culling of the population. We're now getting to the point where we have, thankfully, we have so many incels out there that are, you know, incels on the male side and then like thoughts on the female side that are never going to get, might have a lot of sex, but they're never going to get married and they're going to, or if they do, they're going to get married when they're 35 and can only have one child and it has Down syndrome, you know.

Aren't childless men functionally incels? I think you're pretty right about that. That would make me an incel. Geez, that would make a lot of guys incels. But yeah, there's a truth to that. I mean, the thing is, you know, if you're just out there having sex with random people, what does it mean? Doesn't mean anything.

There are incel women. Just saying. Not really. Yeah. Yeah. Not really. There are extremely, I mean, I've met virgin women who are around my age, but they usually were used to be fat or something or they're super awkward. Um, or they're foreigners. So thankfully I don't really consider women of my age anyway. I basically think maybe 24 is the oldest I could possibly do with a woman. I might do 25. I don't know. That seems a little.

Old. Stop shilling Pop OS. I think you're on the wrong channel. Oh, maybe he's talking to someone else. I don't know. Sabaton is overedited garbage and Sabaton fans are gay. I actually sort of agree with that. Sometimes I like their music, but then I listen to their music or their lyrics and I'm like, "Wow, that's extremely gay."

How old are you?

29. What advice would you give to new YouTubers? I might do a separate video on that. I have a couple of things that I could recommend.

Um, metal is pretty gay, chat. Yeah, metal is actually really... I actually, theoretically, like metal music, but I really loathe metal lyrics, you know, all the screaming and stuff. I wish they could just not do that. When I was a kid, I always tried to find bands that were like hard rock or metal that just had decent vocalists, and I just could never find one. Just can't happen. I mean, the closest thing you can come close to is ones with female vocalists. And the thing with female vocalists in metal bands is they actually sing, which is very interesting. Totally unheard of in other metal bands, but best bars on album. Well, all the metal ones are garbage, so whatever. The most recent one is Days of Y... whatever the one on all of his videos.

What about Ramstein?

Extremely turbo gay. It's hard to... I don't know if I can find a metal band gayer than that. Mega death. No.

What boards do you browse?

None. Someone yesterday sent me a post from 4gag or maybe it was 8gag. I forget which one, but it was... he was like, "Dude, someone doxed you." And there's this post. It was this OP, which was gay, of course, but this OP with personal information about me. And it said that I lived in Arizona or something like that, or it had all this personal information that was either public information or just utterly wrong or something like that. It's like this is the absolute state of doxers. Well, it's not even dox. He probably just posted it as a fun post, but he gave some random address in Arizona. For the record, I live in Statesboro, Georgia. Okay, everyone knows that. I've done videos saying that I live here. Okay, it's public information. And the fact you know that I don't live in Arizona because I do boomer rants and woods. There are no woods in Arizona. There are no trees in Arizona. Or if there were, the trees there are basically glorified bushes.

Also, I mean, if you're really good, you could easily find my phone number and you could easily find exactly where I live. Um, I don't particularly care. I know some people know my phone number and where I live, but it doesn't matter. Like, I'm not the kind of person who's afraid of being doxed. It doesn't matter. And especially where I'm going to be moving, if someone doxes me there, I'd be more annoyed because, oh, this is like the house I want to have for the rest of my life. But I'd be more annoyed for that reason. But it's so out of the way that you'd have to drive like two hours even if you're in the closest city to get to it. So it's like whatever. No one's going to do that.

Yeah, people are confused. Yes, I attend the University of Arizona, but I'm a PhD student. I live in Georgia. Georgia is where I came from. And also in this doc post, it said that I lived in... I forget. Well, maybe it was like Mesa, which that's not where the University of Arizona is. The University of Arizona is in Tucson. I'll tell you where I used to live. I used to live on Eighth Street. Wait, I forget what it was called. Campus Crossings, which is a little south of the University of Arizona campus. I forget exactly. Maybe it was on 8th Street or something like that. So, you can go see where I used to live, one that old apartment complex. I actually lived on the ground floor. So people... and I'm also the kind of person like if you live near where I live, I always keep my windows open. I always like... I'm basically outside. So there would probably be some people who know exactly where I am, you know, just by accidentally seeing.

Oh yeah, also in the docs post. See, this is like I'm disappointed someone can't even dox me. Right? In the post that said that my domain host was HostGator, any could just ping my server and learn that I have a Vulture server. Okay, you could just ping my website. The absolute state.

Luke says, "What modern societal values would you change if you could?" Well, I'm against that kind of stuff. But the whole thing about modernity is that it's not so genuine societal values. It's just, you know, basically a hostile elite telling the dumb normies what to believe. Okay. So, my solution to that isn't re-engineering society, you know, forcing everyone to go to church or something like that. Force everyone to stop watching porn. Well, maybe I'd ban porn because, I mean, there's just no redeeming quality, but I wouldn't force people to do things. I would just abolish the negative influences. All you have to do is crush the university system. All you have to do is crush the permanent bureaucracy. And society works itself out, you know, in all times and places as long as there aren't, uh, the problem is there are just organized negative influences that have come to be for different reasons. We can talk about that, but it actually has to do with technology. One of the reasons society can get so degenerate is because we have so much technological wealth. Frankly, if we were poorer or lived more minimalist lifestyles, we wouldn't have, you know, universities where you were taught that there are 30,000 genders and, you know, that your greatest moral duty is to move millions of foreigners into the country or something like that.

Do you not think it's hilariously hypocritical to still be doing your PhD, etc., while on universities for the past few years? What's hypocrit? I'm not doing anything. Am I giving a university anything? What should I just, I mean, as it happens, I'm not actively working on my dissertation anyway. You don't just magically quit. So, what am I supposed to say? Oh, please stop telling me to grade papers and giving me money for it? And no, of course, the fact that I'm exposed to a university makes me qualified to speak about it. So, there's a difference between saying, "Oh, well, things are..." I mean, this is the same kind of it's the like fake hypocrisy how it's misunderstood. It's like the same thing that people say, "Oh, you know, I'm a libertarian, so I think the government should, you know, reduce its constraint on our lives." And then someone says, "Ha, well, you use a road and that's made by the government." You know, it's the same kind of stupidity.

There's a difference between acknowledging that something has incredibly negative effects and, you know, living your life in a way that might involve that. You know, now I reserve the right to, for example, work in a university system. I could do that. Okay, if that's the best option, I probably won't. But that's not hypocrisy, right? It's like, or it's like saying, you know, you're a communist, but you have an iPod. Okay, whatever. I just gay. Like, that's not hypocrisy. Is someone holding a moral standard for other people that they don't hold for themselves? Now, I tell people not to go to school. I'm not calling them evil, you know, to go to universities, but I am telling them they're not going to get what they expect. You know what I mean? So, I got what, you know, I went and I didn't get what I expect. And I inform other people that that's the case. Now, they're not hypocrites if they go, you know, I'm not a hypocrite if I knew that the university system was evil and I told people to go do it. You know, go get education because you'll just learn so much. Or, you know, trust your professors. That is hypocrisy. So this is like this stupid misunderstanding of what the word hypocrisy means to own people who you think are better than you is just gay, you know.

What do you suggest doing instead of going to uni? Do the stuff that's going to get you a job or make you productive. Like what? What do you think a university is supposed to do? Like genuinely, please explain to me because I apparently don't know. Okay. What is a university going to give you? Okay. Is it going to make you a better worker? No. Is it going to make you a critical thinker? No. It's going to do the opposite of that. It's actually going to do the opposite and make you a good worker. The only thing that a university, the only good that a potential university degree can get you is the fact that you know that a lot of employers have the now false assumption that that adds value or even that it is proof. Oh, this person can go through a four-year degree. They have like the basic level of competence to do that. That's the only potential good of getting a degree. Now, if you're especially if you're in computer science, there's just no reason to get a degree. You can easily prove that you're a capable worker by, you know, having a good GitHub, you know. So there's just no point in doing it. Universities give you a paper or social networking potential. Yes, that's right. That's what universities give you.

Now, the question you need to ask yourself is, is that worth $100,000? Okay? Because here's the thing. You can get the networking opportunities. You can go sit in classes if you want. You don't have to be a student there. You can just sit in classes. You can learn all that stuff. You can meet other people. You're going to realize you're not doing much learning. Um, and yeah, you can meet people at universities, but you can also meet people by, you know, I don't know, having a YouTube channel. I don't know anything. Like this is the thing. Like people have this weird idea that, you know, if they didn't spend four years at college using all that money, that four years they would just be in limbo. They'd just be in this gray room where they don't accomplish anything. Good grades at the right university can help you get into research centers like CERN. Okay, great. Yeah, you'll be one of 50 people, you know, working on some project there. Who cares? I mean, this is the stupidity of it. People will dangle these high-status jobs in bureaucracy, you know, like being a professor, being a politician or something like that. They'll dangle things in front of people. Now, of course, the hundreds of millions of people who go to college, are they all going to be able to get that kind of job? No. Of course, 99.99999% of those people are just getting nothing. Okay. So saying something like, "Oh, you could get some kind of you could get a Nobel Prize. You could get, you know, this great professorship. You could do all this great research." A, who's to say that's even worth it? But B, you're not. So be realistic about it. Let's encourage millions of people to go compete for a tiny pool of super elite jobs. Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, it's like if, for example, political science degrees said, "Oh, you should get a degree in political science because you're going to become president." It's absurd. I mean, the math isn't even there, you know. And of course, people who do political science degrees, I mean, in America, politicians are usually like lawyers or something. I mean, I will say Republicans nowadays have more boomer tier jobs, you know, they'll have like, you know, engineer or something like that, but especially if you're a Democrat, you probably have a law degree. But political science degree, that's like a millennial thing. I mean, I guess there might I have a friend who has a political science degree and she's running for Congress.

Um, okay, this cat wants to come in my room. I should probably let it in because it hasn't eaten all day. That's what happens when you have to care for someone else's cats. All right. Yeah. Toxoplasmosis. All right, kitty. What are you doing? Oh, don't walk on the keyboard. Please don't walk on the keyboard. Stupid cat. All right, fatso. My dog killed an African immigrant. That's a classic one. Watch out, African immigrant. You're going to get eaten by a dog. Oh, great. Now it's going to sit on me. I was about to go pee, but okay. What? You want food? It's in the other room, you dumbo.

How do you stay so fit and sexy? Don't eat sugar.

Oh, there's an African immigrant. All right, let me open up the chat. Let me double check super chats. I don't think we've gotten anyone recently, but I will check regardless. Remember to go to the donate. I was going to say link, but you know, you have to type it in. Lukemith.xyzdonate. Many ways to donate.

I think it's too hard to see. Yeah. Well, I'll move it. There we go. Probably still hard to see. Maybe I should just put a background on it. I'm too lazy. I'll do it next time. Whenever I start a stream, there's always like something I end up wanting to do at the last minute, and then people complain that I'm late, but who cares?

What happened to the whole SJWs taking over the open source thing? Did it stop? I don't know. We're going to take over open source. Open source. Open source is like the soy divis term. I mean, I hate to sound like the FSF, but it really is like so stupid. It's free software, kids. Libra software, whatever.

Then again, calling it free software is stupid too, because that can mean, like, no matter how many times you explain it to some brainlets, they will forever think of it as being free of cost. Like, you can sit there and like in my videos, where I talked about free software, why I use it, the number of people who still responded as if I'm talking about software that is free of cost is just ridiculous. I mean, I don't even understand how dumb people could be.

Freedom software. Yeah, that's an option I guess. Never heard that used. But yeah, like I did that video and people would still be like, "But you can just pirate Windows and get it for free." I literally talk about that in the video. I don't even know how dumb people can get, you know?

All right, cat. Freedomware, assuming people watch videos before commenting. Yeah, you do get that. I do see that when I release a video. Within, let's say, I put out a video that's 20 minutes, within two minutes or probably within 30 seconds, frankly, someone will be like, "Wow, I love the video blah blah blah blah blah." It's like, no you didn't. I'm sorry, you just randomly said that. I'm not really complaining, but it's like, come on, man.

Of course, then again, when you put out a video immediately, people are just going to like it or whatever. Imagine running another man's binary on your machine and not being able to change it. Yeah, I know. It literally is cuck software.

Literally still better than those first comments. Yeah, it's funny to me that people actually do "first." Like, that is pretty gay, to be honest.

Oh my god, people are still asking about the form. Who's going to tell them?

What? Kitty, it's an African immigrant licking itself on my dresser. That's a little awkward.

Free software equals Chad software. Yeah, I could call it that.

Oh, and then the other thing about this is particularly the FSF. So, the FSF is extremely petty as an organization, and I think everyone understands this, even if you agree with the FSF. Um, and like literally Richard Stallman, I don't know if it's him or the FSF, I forget which one, but they have a list of trigger words, basically words that they object to using, and they autistically explain why they don't use them. I mean, it's not even that I disagree with any of those. It's just the mentality behind it.

But when I did that video on free software, which explains what free software is and why it is important and why I support it, I got many long-winded emails from FSF people who complained that I didn't adequately differentiate them from open source or made this stupid. I mean, this is the thing about these people's mentality. They're so autistic, they can't even stand someone agreeing with them because I didn't spur out and autistically explain why free software isn't the same as open source despite the fact that I use both terms in their proper context. No one was saying that I was using the terms incorrectly, mind you, but that I didn't adequately explain it.

I just like to interject for a moment. Free software is not open source software. It's totally different. Now, first off, I will say there are two different types of open source that people define differently. Frankly, people use the word in two different ways. Sometimes people just say it to mean maybe even cat. No, not on the keyboard. Um, people use it sometimes to mean just any kind of software, even proprietary software where the source code is visible. I think sometimes people call this like source visible software or something like that. I forget exactly; there's another word for it, but sometimes people use open source just to mean that.

Okay. Other people use open source basically to mean the same thing as free software. So, you know, source code you can change, modify, distribute in a GPL compatible way, but FSF people will still get mad when you use open source in that way. And they'll get mad at open source like that because it is not based on ethical freedom. Just because it is exactly the same doesn't mean that we're not going to complain about it, basically.

Okay. So they'll complain about, "Oh, well, it doesn't emphasize development instead of user freedom." And it's like, this is the thing: people can literally agree with you on everything and just not talk, just agree with you for maybe a different reason, and they will still counter-signal them. It's ridiculous. You know, this is why people don't like the FSF. And of course, I mean, I like the FSF; they do incredibly good things. But every once in a while, I'll have someone comment on my video like, "The FSF is bad for free software, man. They're just too pure. They care too much about purity or whatever." And, you know, I'm criticizing them because they're autistic, basically. I don't disagree with anything they do, but their attitude definitely causes people to say stupid things like, "Open source is good, but free software? That's too much." Okay, they'll say stupid stuff like that. And the only reason people say that is because the FSF is pretty annoying, you know, in their personal disposition sometimes.

Why not call it Libre Software or Libraware?

Because that sounds ridiculous. 'Cause Libre isn't even a real English word. It's not even easy to pronounce. I like FOS, but why exactly do you think it is a good thing?

Well, why don't you watch the video I put up like a week ago on that? It's probably a satirical comment. I shouldn't get mad at that. It's probably a satirical comment. That's actually how I usually respond when I get a stupid comment; I'm usually just like, "Oh, that guy's probably just trolling." But I'm starting to realize either people are trolling a whole lot more or I'm just having an audience that's more oblivious, I guess. Yangwear, that's a good one.

What programming language do you prefer?

Whatever pisses people off the most. I don't know. I don't actively do programming. I mean, if I did, I'd probably just write in C, but oh, I need to read some Streamlabs donations because I think I've gotten a couple of those.

How do you find books read by people that are not IYIs?

I have read some of those you recommend and usually like those. So here's a heuristic I had in college. Whenever in college, and this will actually force you to read a whole lot of books nowadays, but my personal heuristic in college is whenever one of my professors or someone else—or I apply this to like journalists as well—if a journalist or a professor or anyone else refers to a book as racist or sexist or Nazi or something like that, immediately read the book. Like, make it the first thing you do. That will immediately expose you to just things that'll blow your mind. Um, because first off, the people who say that kind of stuff, they've never read the books. Just their view of books is, "Let me see what the New York Times review of books said about this book. Now I know what to believe." I don't even have to believe it. They might buy the books, but yeah, they don't usually read them. Maybe they'll open them up conspicuously and run their eyes on the lines, but they don't read them. So yeah, that's a good heuristic. Whenever you hear someone of that intelligence getting upset about a book, that's a good reason to read it. Now, some of them are bad. Um, every once in a while you run into a bad one, but there's a whole lot I've been exposed to just by living by that heuristic.

All right, I'm going to read some donations. These are on Streamlabs. Sorry, I'm getting to some of these a little late. I know some of you guys sent them in a bit ago.

Can you talk more about your Windows history?

This is from Cassie KCZ. Can you talk more about your Windows history? When and why did you switch? And so sorry, it's not 100% English. When and why did you switch and on your computer history in general?

I think I'll do a separate video on that. I might record—I was thinking about doing something like that, you know, within the past week or so. So, I'll explain. I'll give you, you know, when I switched to Linux and all that kind of stuff. Anyway, thanks for the donation. That's $2.

MadA sends in $5. Have you ever heard the theory that you can't prove that what's behind you is real unless you look at it?

Okay. Well, proof isn't whatever. You know what I feel about proof. Um, let's see. I got a super chat. I'll read that in just a second. $2 from it's insuric arade. I don't I'm not really good at reading Cyrillic. I think it's arcadey or something like that.

I currently have a nine-year-old MacBook. Can you and chat please help me find a working laptop with a price like a used X240 ThinkPad Elite Book but more thin and lightweight? Thanks, Luke in chat.

I don't know. As for something like extremely thin, I don't know. I mean, the X240 is, I mean, the X series is about as thin as it's going to get in terms of ThinkPads, and I just recommend that. I don't know why you particularly need a hyper thin Mac-style laptop or whatever, unless you just like the aesthetics of it, but I'm not sure. Maybe someone in the chat knows.

$5 from simulated internet friend. Thank you, simulated internet friend. He says, "Do you think it's possible to implement your philosophy of computer use in a small business environment? Also, any groupware suggestions?"

I don't really know what you mean by groupware, to be honest. Actually, maybe I should look that up just to see if it's not something obvious, just a term I haven't heard. Oh, collaborative software. And I mean, not really. I don't really, I mean, unless you're just talking about Git, that works for me. I don't know.

Honestly, not. I mean, I wouldn't be the best to ask because I don't really work on collab, especially in software. Like, I don't really work on many collaborative projects. I mean, I basically just have my git repos and I really just have a master branch that I push everything to, and it's just me and a couple pull requests from others.

But, I think, you know, if you want to do something on the terminal, a common thing people do is log into someone else's computer with SSH and maybe share a T-Max session or something like that. That's an option. So you can sort of do the same stuff together.

Anyway, he says, "Do you think it's possible to implement your philosophy of computer use in a small business environment?" I mean, yeah, I think so. I don't see why not. I mean, there are a lot of people who use my configs, Larsbs, and stuff like that in small businesses and stuff like that. I know that sounds really weird for me to even say, but yeah, I've gotten emails from people who do that kind of stuff.

I make it for individuals, but honestly, it'd be a lot more simple if you just use simple tools to do networking and stuff like that. I mean, it depends on what you're doing, honestly. I can't specifically give you advice about it, but I definitely think...

Tat donated $2 super chat. Do you have any movies you recommend?

No, not really. No, no movies that have been made in the past 50 years or so. I don't know. What's a good movie? What's a good boomer movie? It's a Wonderful Life. I don't know. That's a nice movie, back when there were Christians in Hollywood.

What does he mean by this? Yeah, I don't know. I can't really think of a good movie off the top of my head. There aren't very many good ones. I mean, I have a lot of movies, but they're just not like... there used to be a period where maybe when I was more bluepilled where I could watch Hollywood movies, and now when I watch them, I just cringe the whole time or whatever. It's just, you know, too much.

Elurn donated two euros through super chat. Have a nice coffee or something. You make great content. Thank you. Thank you for your two euros.

So, I might put on a video here. As you know, I eventually have to take a pee because I'm drinking water nonstop during these streams. So, anyone have a video they want to watch? We can watch together. Just a brief one, no more than a minute or so. Two girls, three cups? No, I haven't seen that one. Let's see what kind of videos I have. Maybe we'll just watch a boomer video.

I know. How long is this one? I don't even know. Go to theater mode. Hold on.

Which Patreon goal does Luke sing? Uh, the free software song. I've thought about that. Thought about doing something like that. Maybe less, or maybe reciting like the copy pasta, you know, what is it called? The um, interject copy pasta or something.

Why is my webcam not appearing on the screen? There it is. Why is the chat not appearing on the screen? Oh well. Let's just watch a video.

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Yep. Quake was a good game. Nothing like a nice firm handshake. Wow.

You heard of this Bitcoin thing? All right, that's some boomer stuff. Where are we? Okay, there. Now we're back. Was that audio on? I hope I turned the audio on for that. Okay, good.

How big is your meme folder? Tattoo asks. Let's find out.

Uh, du pix memes. Oh, I was actually 4.6 gigabytes. I was actually thinking of doing a meme review video. You might, um, just to do it. People have been asking me. So, I was probably going to go through my G folder, remove all the memes with happy merchants in them because it's YouTube, and then just scroll through the rest of them in a video, maybe even in a live stream. Maybe I'll do that at some point. So, um, that's an option. And you can feel free to send me memes, uh, technology memes or anything like that. But, uh, I need to, I might need to get more ones. I haven't been on 4 gag in like forever. I haven't been on 4 gag in like two or three years. That's, see, I just downloaded a bunch of memes back then and um, I've been running off them technology memes since.

Then, meme review. Maybe I should get some memes out. Oh, I keep forgetting I blocked 4chan. I'll have to undo that in a bit. I'll just do it later. Memes have been the same since 2007, so you're not missing much. Yeah, I didn't think so.

Why is water trapped in the jar?

Anyway, was there a super chat a second ago? I feel like there was. Oh, yeah. I was the one that said, "How big is your meme folder?" Yeah, so addicted. I blocked it. No, really. I just didn't want it there. I mean, it's very rarely that I'd actually try and go on 4chan, but it'd always be a waste when I did, so I just blocked it. Or no, really, I just have an enormous block list and 4chan is in it. I mean, I didn't specifically say I'm going to block 4chan, but you know, not missing anything. I should... I don't think I actually have Reddit blocked. I'm not quite sure. I need to double check.

So, I think I made some server changes and I wanted to, you know, prevent brainlets from getting to my website. I also wanted to prevent my stuff from being shared on like 4chan and Reddit. So, I made some server settings. I think they're active now. If you link to my website from 4chan or Reddit, it'll automatically give you like a 403 error or something like that. Hopefully, that will prevent my stuff from being posted on Reddit at least. Although 4chan usually you copy and paste the links unless you have some kind of plugin.

I seriously wish I could just ban people from seeing my videos. I know that's a weird thing to say, but it would be nice just to be able to do that.

Who would you ban?

Pretty much anyone who... there are some people who will just post low-quality posts all the time and harass people. I'd sort of just like to not only be able to ban them from the channel but just like ban them from videos. Like, you just can't be logged into your account to see my videos. That would be nice. It's honestly kind of annoying, you know? Or there's another thing where I'm actually terribly afraid of, let's say, one of my tutorial videos being beneficial to someone who's like bad. You know what I mean? That might sound like a funny thing to say.

Do you prefer Fed post or extoost?

I don't actually... I'm not actually redlisted on what an exo post is. I know people talk about them, but I don't really know what they are.

What's the difference between var and exorgs?

Okay, this is epic. Let me check. I didn't miss any other Streamlabs donations, did I? Okay, I don't think so. Exto equals extermination. Oh, no. Yeah, I'm more of a fed poster than an exto poster.

What do you mean by someone who is bad?

I don't know, like a communist or something.

Thoughts on the Libram 5 phone?

Yes, I'm very sick of people asking me about it. I don't use phones. The only thing I use a phone for is recording my boomer rant and woods videos. That's what I use a phone for. Anyone who has my phone number knows that I will just not answer anything. So having a phone that's like all free software, that's cute. But I mean, it makes not a big difference in terms of you can still be monitored. You might not be monitored by your specific applications, but you know, you're on your network, you can be tracked. I don't know how they do. I mean, I assume they have GPS hardware switches. I hope they do. Or I guess, I mean, if it's free software, I guess it'd be okay if they just had a software switch.

But Luke is complaining about commies while acting like a commie. Big brain.

In what, like, Jordan Peterson tier brainlet brain am I acting like a commie? The one of the weirdest things is, like, when I get comments on a video, people will see my videos and I will get comments like, "You're a communist" or something like that. And like these boomers who literally look like this guy here will comment on my videos, like, "You're a communist. I don't like, you're a far-left." It's like, dude, how can you even watch my videos and think something that moronic?

Free software is fundamentally commie. Okay. Well, free software is also anarcho-capitalist. Doesn't make any difference. Total free software is totally in line with Murray Rothbard's theory of property rights. Okay? And it doesn't mean anything.

Please stop talking about Jac and Peterson. It's just kids stupid.

Do you watch Tim Cast? If so, what are your views on his video? Is that Tim P? I don't. Either way, he's like sort of boomer takes, but you know, maybe he's just not fed posting. Maybe he's more redpilled.

What's the brackets mean? How do you get yourself to make videos? Like motivate myself. Is that what you're saying? I don't know. Just do them. Just do them. I just have an idea of what to do and I do a video.

That's kind of dumb to have only right and left. You can't put someone's opinion on a 1D spectrum. Yes, you can. You absolutely can. As I said earlier, opinions, ideology is just a LAR. It's just a facade that people will want their own special snowflake viewpoints to make their, you know, what they actually want in politics more clear.

When you actually ignore ideology and you look at things esoterically, not even esoterically, maybe even exoterically frankly, but if you look at things ignoring the stupid words that people describe their opinions with, you see there's really only one dimension and there's some people pulling from one side and some people pulling from others. The pretense that there are all these different differentiated special snowflake ideologies is just stupid. Opinions don't matter. Like ignore opinions, ignore ideology.

When you actually look at politics, you see it's literally just a one-dimensional struggle. There can be details, you know, there can be exceptions, but by and large, it's a one-dimensional struggle.

Have you tried Neoim? I use Neoim in every...

This is $5 from a simulated internet friend. Any suggestions on taking notes from reading? Avoid hierarchical organization. I was about to do a video on note-taking, so you ruined it by asking the super chat. No, I'll probably still do it, but eventually, once I finish the roads video.

I don't take notes. I don't take notes at all, categorically. Just don't do it. I think it's a meme. I've never taken notes. The last time I took notes, I'll probably talk more about it in the video, but the last time I took notes was in seventh grade, where it was a literal requirement for us to take notes. When I did take notes, I took notes in picture format just because I was bored and I wanted to draw on the paper. We had to have so many notes to fill up a page, and then drawings can take up more. But yeah, I don't take notes. I never take notes.

Neov. Oh, it's Grug. He knows the meme. But if he were someone stupid, I would say Neov several months ago. That's when I started. I think Grug Perry Berry Picker is actually one of my favorite commenters. He gets, I think, his heart ratio is extremely high compared to everyone else. No ticking is my favorite meme. I love paying for Luke's healthcare. I'm not a boomer yet. I'm not a literal boomer yet, implying that social security will still be around.

How do you remember all that stuff? Because I don't remember things with notes. I remember things with my brain. I don't even understand why people take notes. It makes no sense to me. Notes are like a cope. Notes are like, I mean, okay, so it's sort of like this. Actually, I'll use this example in the video. So, I'm stealing my I'll AB test it on you guys because you're the elite, right? Because you're watching a live stream at 11 in the morning or whatever.

Taking notes when you're trying to learn something is sort of like going to a gym and having someone else do the lifting for you. That's what taking notes is. You learning the stuff, that is the goal. So why would you make a piece of paper learn it for you? You might as well just have someone else go to the gym and do your lifting. I mean, it's sort of like, there's a, I forget what it might have been like Animaniacs or something. There's some old cartoon where, like, they used to have whipping boys. You know what that is? Like when there was an aristocrat who had a bratty child and they didn't want to punish the child, they would have a whipping boy that they'd whip in front of the child just to make him feel bad. So they'd whip someone else. Anyway, it's sort of the same thing. Now that's ridiculous.

Or anyway, there's a cartoon where it was parodied where, like, I think it was Animaniacs where, like, the whipping boy also, if the kid needed to go to the bathroom, the whipping boy would go instead of them, which doesn't really work out. I also think there was an episode of Spongebob like that, but whatever. Anyway, it's like that. So, if you take notes, note-taking is basically, actually, I should probably use cuckolding analogies. Those are very effective. It's basically like having a piece of paper cuck your knowledge. That's basically what it is. Okay, that's what note-taking is.

I take a similar bridge when having sex with my girlfriend. I have someone else doing... I don't know why that made me laugh so hard. I just didn't expect it even though we were just talking about analogies. Your analogy applies to the literal copying from the whiteboard, but most often you write down your own interpretations on paper for later reference.

Okay. Well, no. Why would you? Why don't you just write them down in your brain instead and refer to them later? Do you use TLP or any kind of power management? Okay, so I think I have TLP installed on my laptop now. I only just started using it a couple of weeks ago, and it just totally burns through my battery life. Maybe the settings I have are bad or something, but it's supposed to really extend your battery life, but it just doesn't work. I'll probably have to tinker with it to get it to work, but you know.

Luke, do you geoblock Indians from the channel? How come there aren't any? Thanks, loyal fam, based best fan guy. Um, no, I don't block Indians. I actually have a lot of Indian subscribers. They don't comment as much, or sometimes they will comment, but they'll just look like everyone else because they'll have anime avatars because that's the kind of people in India who watch my channel. But yeah, I definitely do have lots of Indians who watch this channel. I think a lot of them have been me'd. I know that like pajets are a meme here, so they're careful not to ask about cell phones or other pajet technology.

Hey, Monte Yadav says, "I'm an Indian." That sounds like a Jewish name. Yadav sounds like a very Jewish name, but okay.

Matthew Drew or Depu, not Drew, Depu, donates $5. What books would you recommend for learning Chonguan grammar?

Well, I recommend the beginning Chinese, whatever it is, the John de Francis series. Hold on. I have one of these lent to a friend. But, the John de Francis series, they have green books and red books. Okay? And I always recommend these. I'll do it again. Here's the intermediate Chinese. The green books, how they work is they're only on pinyin, and this is more for spoken language stuff like that. These are the best books in the world. Okay? This entire series, both the green and red, they're the best in the world. Just get it, okay?

But these are fantastic. They have audio that accompanies them. I think all of them. It might just be the beginner ones, but there might be audio for all of them that you can download that's out there. But yeah, these are the best. They have drills in them. They have grammar drills and pronunciation drills that actually focus. They're the kind of things you can do to yourself, and they'll still be effective. I'll just say that they are very brilliantly designed. I'm not going to be autistic about how great they are, but just know that.

And there's the red series. Again, these are entirely in pinyin. There is a version that has Chinese characters in them, but the red series is what's used for learning the characters. How it works is each chapter, you learn 10 characters. Okay? And then you learn 10 characters, then you have a list of all the combinations of those characters that form different words or words with characters you've already learned. Then you know they have reading stuff like that. So basically, this is on characters, this is on pinyin, and both of them, they're frankly separate topics. These books are the only books I've ever found that address them basically perfectly. So yes, use those.

So I think there were other super chats. I'll double check. But yeah, that's what I recommend for learning Chinese. Now, as for if you're just asking Chinese grammar in a linguistic sense, it doesn't really like if you're looking for academic grammars of Chinese, I have no particular recommendation, but pretty much anything would do.

Anyway, thank you Nathan for your donation. $2 from Todd Off. Last donation, opinion on Cowboy Bebop.

I don't have any opinion on Cowboy Bebop. I like Boomer Bebop. Let's watch Boomer Bebop, guys. Oh, wait. This is going to get copystriked. I don't want to get copystriked. You guys can see yourself. Go get this 30-year-old Boomer Bebop. You can watch it on your own time, but I don't want to get demonetized because it would annoy me if I did like a two-hour stream. I just know it's going to get demonetized because there's going to be so much music or whatever. But on this one, I'm not going to do it just to play a one-minute video. You guys can look up Boomer Bebop.

But no, I don't condone anime as it comes to the original question. Don't condone anime. I've seen Cowboy Bebop. It's boring.

User Ben Ry4n donates $2. What do you think of dumb phones, feature phones?

They're better than smartphones, I guess, but you know, I see the phone I like is a landline. I'll probably actually be getting a landline when I'm in my cabin. Oh man, it's actually ridiculous how expensive internet and stuff is out there. I mean, the internet of course is terrible, but it costs, I think what they told me is it would be $60 a month just for internet and $80 if I want a phone. And that's like ridiculous to me. I'm just like, Jesus Christ. That's insane.

I'm going to put these books on a second. That's also one of the reasons I'm not a big fan of net neutrality because out in the middle of nowhere, we would be one of the biggest beneficiaries of net neutrality totally being eradicated because basically that would mean I could buy an internet package that's metered by bandwidth or, you know, I could buy this, you know, I could basically have a more customized email or internet package. And it would be really nice for me if I want to do streams or upload videos or something like that.

But you know, there's no reason trying to explain to Redditors that net neutrality is not the greatest thing in the world. Yeah, I mean, that is the most ridiculous thing that like the internet. I also now that I upload videos, I really hate how there's always a huge gap between download time or download bandwidth and upload bandwidth. I just hate it so much. Like to upload a video I record on my phone, which might be like two or three gigs, I need to start changing their codecs or formats or something so they reduce size. But in order to upload one of those, I mean, it's like, you know, if it's like two or three gigs, maybe four gigs, man, that takes forever if you're on, you know, 10 megs up or something like that.

MC King45 the hero donates 700 huffs. I don't know what huffs are. Let's look it up. He says, "This is all I can give. Also, congratulations." Thank you for your huffs. Oh, that's Hungarian currency. Okay. So, thank you.

If given a chance, would you take an interview on Joe Rogan?

I wouldn't object to it. I mean, since you don't have a smartphone, do you consume any entertainment, YouTube or podcast?

I mean, I have a computer. I can watch YouTube videos. I can listen to podcasts, but I mean, I don't really, honestly, I don't really consume that. I probably produce more content than I consume at this point.

Show me Jamie, show me that picture of that guy drinking.

Monsters. When will you ditch the computer as well? I don't know. Possibly. Well, I want to possibly soon. I'm trying to think. You know, since I'm going to be moving in the woods, I'm thinking of very radical ways of totally changing my life. Like totally change, you know? I think maybe when I finally get the EOMA, if it ever comes, like if it takes three years for it to get here, whatever. But when I get it, maybe I'll use it as my main machine if I can.

Are you worried about SJWs trying to censor your channel in the future? Maybe Bash is offensive in the future or all the memes will be directly linked with white supremacy, implying they aren't already. Look at this guy. This guy looks like he could chase Mexicans out of the country with his lawnmower.

What's your thesis title and subject and how is it going? You can go on my website and get my thesis if you want to read it. Finished it in 2015. In patriotic America, the lawn does Mexicans.

Will you try to grow your own food in the woods? Yeah, I will. I'll be growing. The first thing I'm going to do probably do videos as I'm doing this. Frankly, I'm still going to be doing the uniboomer's cabin for patrons, you know, boomer tier patrons, and of course that's a very small number of people because I sort of want it to be like that. But, you know, you can give me money and get it if you want. But I think, what was I going to say? Yeah, I'll keep doing those videos, but those will be more personal, more like, you know, direct. More things I don't really want getting out. But I will be doing videos of what I'm doing in the cabin, so to speak.

First off, it's not a cabin. It's a house. It's a real house. It's a house that's been around for 100 years or so. It's been remodeled. It's in good condition right now. But it is a house. It basically is in the middle of the woods, but I will be making a garden and that's probably going to be like one of the first things I do. I'm basically thinking through all the stuff I want to do, the things I want to plant immediately. You know, what kind of... I'm thinking about doing raised beds. I'm probably going to be going to an old abandoned chicken house and, you know, shoveling a whole bunch of soil, getting it over there. So, you know, that'll be a part of my channel.

And again, I think I said earlier in the video, the stream, you know, I'll probably put up a video or two a week on like sort of house stuff. So, you know, we'll see how it goes. But, yeah, I mean, the goal is I'd like to, within a year or so, be able to not have to buy any kind of vegetables or potatoes or any of that kind of stuff. I want to get all that for free. And I might be able to get a lot of my meat for free. The meat down there, oh my god. If you go to the grocery store there, it is so cheap. It is the cheapest thing in the world. I mean, a whole thing of meat, like if you go get chicken in a little plate like that, it's like $5. It's insane. Or sometimes $2. It's insane. But that's what I'll probably be doing. But I might start hunting as well. I've never actually really hunted, but you know.

Nathan Dew says, "Can you talk about your time in Jung Joe? I accepted a job in China, and I'm curious about life in China, culture shock, etc." China is dirty. Yeah, you'll have to change your definition of what cleanliness is. That's probably the biggest thing. I think in most respects, it's pretty similar to a western country, but yeah, the cleanliness is very different. Their definition of cleanliness is like maybe pouring water on something. Rural children will poop on the floor. I don't know if you know this already, but like little kids, you know, they don't have diapers. They don't really do diapers, especially rural kids. They'll just walk around without pants. And whether you're in the train or anywhere else, kids will just take dumps wherever they want. Just pee wherever. That's just a normal thing. I mean, it's actually not a normal thing. Urban people don't like that in China. But I mean, there are just little things like that. There's nothing I can really give you to tell you, but you know, you'll get used to it.

Oh, $50 from Dion. I guess that was a minute ago. I missed it, but yeah, $50. Thank you. He says, "Congrats on the 50k." Thank you. A dollar for each thousand. Sweet. Appreciate that a whole lot, Dion. I think Dion gave me another big donation a couple streams ago. I think that was him. Maybe I can double check. I think I can search his history. Yeah, he gave me a hundred bucks a while ago. Oh, yeah. He's the one who said he got a job relevant to things based on the channel. So, thank you, Dion.

Anyway, I do sort of wish, like, you know, now that I hit 50,000, I do wish I had like a dollar for every subscriber I had. That would be nice if I just had a $50,000 cash injection. That would be nice. So, I'm doing... I'll talk about my finances briefly. You know, I'm getting this house, how I'm doing it. I'm not actually going to buy it right out. I'm going to do a... So, it's actually owned by a relative of mine and we're going to do a rent-to-own kind of thing. And I wouldn't ever do a rent. Rent-to-own is often like a scam. But since it's family, I feel okay about doing it. But we're doing a rent-to-own thing. So, for two years, I'll nominally rent it and my rental money will go to paying for it at the end of that. Anyway, I'm trying to do math so that when that time comes, I will have all the money to just buy it outright and not need a mortgage. So, I won't have any debt. I would like to be able to do that. And I think the way I did the math, I think I need to put on, you know, have an income of around $3,000 a month or something. Or not an income, but like leftover money of about $3,000 a month, which I'd like to be able to do. I don't know. But, I might be able to get a job down there. Now, if I'm just doing my dissertation and doing YouTube, I'll be able to make ends meet. Probably I'll be able to pay my rent money or whatever. So, I might just not have a job, but I really want to have a job because I want to be able to pay the stuff off at the beginning and not have debt and hopefully make big improvements to the area, you know, have a big garden. There are a bunch of tools I need to buy, you know, like I mean, first off, like I might actually have to get a mower just because I have a lot of open area that I mean the garden is going to be a part of it, but there's going to be a lot of open area and I actually have to keep it relatively in good shape. I mean good shape. I totally agree with the don't mow your lawn thing, but because I'm going to be living around family and there's some other things going on, I sort of need to. But I need to get a bunch of tools. I need to get a saw. I need to get wood. I need to, you know, have all these things like even basic things like shovels. I don't have buckets. I don't have because I've been living in apartments for years.

But you know, here you go, Luke mate. Two Australian dollars from Goblin King. Thank you. And $2 from Mark Perez. Is going to a UC for data science worth it? Well, I wouldn't recommend going to the UC for any reason. It depends on... I mean, you can take what I said earlier about going to college as my general recommendations and I would say no. But you know, if you have some particular reason to go in there for one year if you're not paying anything, fine. But the UCs, I think, are particularly far gone in terms of universities. It just won't be a pleasurable experience. I mean, even if you went there for what I sometimes recommend people, you know, it's okay if you have nothing to do and you're going to be able to go to college for free. Sometimes it makes sense to go there just because you'll meet people, okay? You might take a computer science course where you meet someone who knows someone else. And, you know, you might end up getting some connections for a real job. Okay? Don't go there because you're expecting to learn anything. If you learn anything in college, that's like an accident. But you know, some people might have some benefits from going there for a year or two, but the thing with a lot of colleges nowadays, especially with core curricula where you have to take two years of social justice education before you do anything else, that sometimes makes it not even worth it. So, you know, it's your call. I don't know that specifically what it's like to be an undergrad at UC because I've never done it so I can't tell you.

$2 from Panama Jack. Well, here's two for me. Thank you, Panama Jack. And I think there was one on Streamlabs. Let me do a little check. Just a second. Yeah, Nindor sends $2. Hello. Hi, low linen. Thanks for the great videos. I did not think that I would enjoy Linux and Suckless so much. Yeah, and who would have thought you could actually enjoy Linux? It's not what other people make it out to be. It's not just autistically reviewing desktop environments over and over again and desperately wishing for them to be exactly like Windows or Mac.

So, you guys can meme all you want, but SCS are actually faster and more efficient than any lawn mower. I'm inclined to agree with that. I've never actually tried one, but scythes are handy, so maybe I'll think about getting one of those.

But I actually, in the time I'm going to be living renting it, renting it to own it, in those two years, part of the agreement is that I don't have to mow the lawn. Like, someone else is going to come and mow the lawn. So, some other boomer is going to come with his ride-on mower and mow the whole thing. I don't have a say over it. But I do want to mow it at least once because around my birthday, I'm going to be turning 30 in October. So, I want to do a video around that time of me literally looking like this, me on a ride-on mower just mowing my lawn. I'll release it on my birthday or something. You guys know when my birthday is, right? I have the same birthday as 4gag. So, whenever I do go to 4gag on my birthday, which I don't condone, but if I do, there will be birthday hats on everything. That was sort of funny. The first time it happened, I was like, how do they know it's my birthday?

In addition to a scythe, I was thinking about getting one of those non-motor lawnmowers. You know what I mean? The ones you just push and it's just a bunch of little scythes that cut things down.

What are the pros and cons of going for a PhD?

Well, I'm not familiar with any pros, unless you just want to do nothing for a couple of years. I guess the pro is that the past couple of years I've had nominal employment that doesn't pay that much at the university, and I did for a period. It's not implying I still have it. So, if you want to get a PhD, going to graduate school, if you get paid for it, basically you'll have a lot of free time to do whatever you want, including starting your own YouTube channel. If you are going to do it to get a PhD or to learn something or anything else, that's probably a waste. You can learn—I mean, I did learn stuff in my PhD program. It wasn't from classes; it's usually from hanging around other graduate students. But you know, you won't learn anything useful.

As for cons, the cons are basically everything. It's a huge waste of your time, a waste of many years. You will be constantly beholden to like literal stereotypical SJWs. For your monthly employment, you will basically have a miserable time working with the bureaucracy. You'll realize how basically every academic is sort of an automaton, and it's very difficult to get them to understand anything. I don't—that's a weird thing for me to say, but I mean the last video I did on the Chinese room experiment, I mentioned the fact that people like Daniel Dennett or Steven Pinker have just for decades literally misunderstood the Chinese room experiment and have actively popularized a fake view of it. That's actually pretty normal in academia. And if you want to get someone to actually understand, people are so set in their ways, they find it very difficult to just understand ideas.

I don't know, and the same thing in linguistics. So, if you try to explain to Noam Chomsky what a neural net is or what optimality theory is—even though you know optimality theory, for example, is commonly used in linguistics nowadays—he just cannot understand it and he misrepresents it all the time. You know, the same kind of stuff. Some people are just like, you can't get through to them, and there are institutional reasons for it as well. I mean, it's literally sometimes like going to a Catholic church and trying to convince the priest that Luther was right or something like that, you know? It's like even if he were persuaded, he can't just change his opinion on it, you know? So, that's how it is. So, it's basically nothing but frustration and annoyance. And I don't recommend it.

Implying Luther was right? I wasn't. I was just using an example. You could say the same—go to a Lutheran church and try to convince them that Luther was wrong. Same concept. What I'm trying to say is it's not just a person who has opinions; it's someone whose career is literally based on particular opinions, and they're not even if they have direct rebuttal of what they're talking about. They are not going to change for them.

The entire—if I try and convince a syntactician or something that generative syntax is fake and gay, which is basically something that every linguist believes outside of the field of syntax, even generative phonologists basically believe that. You know what I mean? If I try and convince a generative syntactician that even if they could hypothetically be persuaded, they're not going to be persuaded. You know what I mean? Because their career, like everything they do, every article they've written, is based on this particular viewpoint of really formal language for talking about language.

Modern Lutherans disavow Luther? Yeah. Well, modern Lutherans basically disavow God. So, what do you do for money now that you're not in a PhD program?

What are you talking about?

I'm in a PhD program. Like, I don't know how many times. Whatever. Besides, I get money from other places. It's like I do other jobs that are not known on YouTube. I do get some—I mean, I get basically grocery money from my internet presence. Actually, I might be getting close to rent money now. But I wouldn't call it—I mean, if I made—let's say my channel continues to expand. Let's say in a couple of months I have 100,000 subscribers and I have, you know, twice the view count, twice the subscribers, twice the number of daily views or something like that. If I made that, if I got that amount of viewership, I might be able to do YouTube full-time, possibly. It depends on how exactly—like if I made twice the amount of money on YouTube, I would—basically it would be the equivalent of like a very low-earning wage job, but I might actually like to do that because it involves more free time and I have a lot of room for expansion. So, if I made more money on YouTube, I might consider just doing it full-time and nothing else.

Lunduk does it with less than that. Who's the cuck now? Yeah, well, Lunduk pushes his Patreon super hard. I did mention my Patreon in that video that people got extremely upset about, but I got a whole lot more subscribers on it because of that. I don't regret it. I think I'm at like $600 a month on Patreon. That's pretty nice. That's easily gross. I mean, that's nearly rent money, you know? So, that's really nice. But yeah, he makes—I don't know how much Brian Lund makes on Patreon, but he makes a lot. If he can do it, I should be able to do it, you know?

But yeah, I mean, my problem is it's hard for me to constantly be in every video, "Oh, go give me money." You know what I mean? Like, I feel bad about that. I'm not—I feel wrong. I think I might make a compromise and at the end of videos just have an end screen that always has—I mean, I already do put links to like donate. But I might have an end screen with more stuff or maybe an end narration or something like that.

Know. Let's see. Actually, I'm making more than 700 now. Okay, that's good. Great.

Um, anyway, Brian, yeah, Brian makes over 2,000. So, if I had 2,000 a month, I would contemplate doing it full-time. Anyway, enough talking about money. See, I already feel like a shill. This is why it's so hard for me to beg for money. I feel bad about it.

Um, okay. Your opinions on Espiranto as a linguist?

The same time I answered that question in literally every other stream. That is, it's useless and totally pointless, and it's not even a well-designed language.

How come so many of your subscribers are Orthodox Christians?

I don't know. Maybe they're just based in Redbuild, and this is a based in Redbuild channel.

So, you picked the wrong profession as a YouTuber. If you can't chill, you're not a YouTuber.

I guess not. I guess I don't do it very well.

Have you studied Hebrew at all?

Guys, Hebrew is my native language.

Luke, it's not begging. What you offer people is free. If they find it useful and they can afford it, they can give you some money for incentive to continue. That's all.

Yeah, but still, constantly asking for money is cringe, you know. It doesn't even like, I mean, yeah sure, I want money. I want lots of money. Duh. But, um, you know, it's like the kind of thing where you have to constantly... you feel weird for obvious reasons.

Guys, obviously my native language is not Hebrew. That's a joke. Anyway, as you can tell by the fact that I can't even chill myself. Um, but yeah, I just feel bad about it, you know?

Just chill. G hates you already.

I'm not interested in what G thinks. I'm interested in what I think.

And there's a difference between G hating me and G hating me out of jealousy. It's a very big difference.

Do you use drag and drop with Ranger, or do you use another thing to solve Ranger's lack of drag and drop?

Is that a joke? Why would I use drag and drop? Are you talking about clicking on something with a mouse and moving it? Why would you use a mouse for that? You don't need that.

In one of your videos, you said that you are talking about Linux and computers IRL unless someone else is putting the topic on the table. Doesn't it feel weird considering your content?

No, it doesn't feel weird because Linux and computers are not like normal topics of discussion for normal people. So, when I'm talking to a normal person, I'm not going to talk about Linux in front of them. You have to understand, like, the people my friends are basically normies. You know, the people I know at church are basically normies. They're boomers. There are a lot of boomers.

Okay. So, yeah. I mean, I don't feel weird about not talking about Linux because it's not even... I mean, I've had occasional conversations with L. Like, I've talked to Linux, for example, with my dad, who is a computer programmer. Not as a kid, mind you. I never talked to my dad about his work until basically after I started my YouTube channel. But, yeah, know how many times have you actually... am I supposed to bring up Linux with random people? It's just not a thing. Not a thing people talk about, I guess.

If you're going to teach yourself linguistics, what resources would you use?

I don't know. Well, I never used resources in the first place. I think the first thing you need to learn if you actually want to learn linguistics, which is what most linguists categorically don't do, is actually learn a language that's different from your native language. In my example, it was Latin. It could be something else. I recommend Latin. I think, obviously, I did a video recommending people to learn it, but I think Latin is at the ideal difference from English to make it relatively easy to learn but also shows you grammatical concepts that don't exist in English. So, it's instructive. I highly recommend Latin for pretty much any European.

But, as for learning things like the IPA, I don't know. I just learned them. I don't know what to tell you. If you're asking for a book, I can't give you a book, though, because I'm very much anti-books. You don't really learn things from books, like textbooks, you know. And the only reason you should be using a book to learn something is if it's something like, for example, those Chinese books I showed you a bit ago where they specifically give you exercises and provide a format for you using it. But in terms of learning information, it's not very useful.

Is Esperanto good for getting into linguistics language learning?

Um, no. Because Esperanto, again, first off, it's not like a real language at all. Okay, Esperanto is just like a magical construct of someone's head. In that respect, it's utterly useless. You know, if you learn something like Spanish or Italian or literally any language, even like a tribal language spoken in the Amazon, even if your effort used there is non-theoretical, there is something you can actually get out of that. If you learn Spanish, you could read something in Spanish. Esperanto is pointless. It is literally pointless to learn Esperanto, and the traits that Esperanto has as a designed language are unlike real-world languages. It'll give you false ideas of what is typical, what is common in languages. Like, for example, you know, it's a weird morph. It has nominative and accusative case for no particular reason other than the guy who made the language wanted it to have it, you know. And, of course, the way that nominative... it's not like nominative and accusative in Latin where case is a useful and instructive thing that provides something genuinely different from the English experience. Esperanto has all these arbitrary things that just mean nothing. It's hard for me to communicate how absolutely worthless all constructed languages are. But especially, I mean, the ones people meme about are Esperanto and Lojban, which is probably even stupider.

Um, it's a logical language. Okay. How is it a logical language? What does that even mean? Please explain to me what that means.

What it means is I sat down and invented a language which has no correspondence to how human language actually works. That's what Lojban means. Okay. It's by definition the most irrational language because it has had no real exposure to actual usage.

Virgin LL Zamenhof versus Chad J.R.R. Tolkien. Yeah, if you want to learn a fake language, learn one of Tolkien's languages. I'm not actually kidding. Well, don't do that. Learn a real language. Hypothetically, if you were going to learn one, learn one of Tolkien's languages because the interesting thing about Tolkien's languages is that they try to reflect real-world languages in their phonological categories or the design of their verbal system or something like that. I mean, Tolkien, honestly, I feel like his languages are something different. They're less constructed languages and more like fan derivatives of real-world languages. You know, Elvish is basically Finnish or something like that with some... but, of course, I'd rather you learn Finnish than Elvish or something like that.

But what do you think of the modern usage of the infinitive in the Romance languages?

What am I supposed to say about that? It's used as an infinitive. I don't know.

Esperanto is dumb, pointless, but kind of fun to some extent. Okay, any other language could be much funner than that. That's the point. The point is people will say, "Oh, I learned Esperanto and I learned so much." Okay, you would have learned a lot more if you had learned Sanskrit, if you had learned Greek or Latin or something like that.

What are your thoughts on nouns?

It's not used as an infinitive. It depends on what you mean by infinitive. I mean, infinitive just means a non-finite verb. So, that could mean a lot of things.

Things. I mean, the infinitive is basically tautological. It's just a verb that doesn't have personal inflection in the case of an Indo-European language. That's what that means. I mean, if you want to complain about how linguistic terms are used, complain about the fact that in Spanish they call a participle a gerund. You know, the thing like the word "Orlando," that's called a gerund in Spanish, even though that is literally not what it is. It's called a gerund because it used to be a gerund in Latin, but now it is 100% a participle. If you use it as a gerund, it'll sound totally stupid. You know, you can't say "meusao." That doesn't make any sense. Or, well, you could probably contort that into making some sense, but "meusta nado" doesn't make sense, you know? It doesn't really mean what it means. But in Latin, of course, you couldn't say that either because it couldn't be nominative, but it could be, like, you know, ablative or any other case. It just had to be some kind of oblique case.

If you know Italian, is there an equivalent in English of the past tense "Romoto"? No, there isn't. I mean, unless you want to say, if you want to say it with some... I mean, there's no inflection difference, but you can't really say that. Um, I mean, well, there are some... I mean, it's debated actually. I suppose I should say there are some dialects of English which sound incredibly stupid to me, but there are some dialects where "have" is used like it's used in Italian to mean a relatively recent event. So, "I've eaten." In American English, if you say something like, "I've eaten," that usually means, "I ate and I'm still full." The "have" sort of implies it still has relevance now, right? So in Italian, for those who don't know, or other Romance languages as well, French, I believe, works like this. If you say, "I've eaten," that just means I ate in the past. And the inflected verb that used to mean "I ate" now means "I ate way back in the past" or something like that. The same thing is in Italian. So yeah, there's no real equivalent. But in some English dialects, "I have eaten" has now changed to mean "I ate at a recent point in time." For people who use the words like that, just saying "I ate" means like the remote past in Italian.

When did you start with Linux? Uh, by the way, I've been here since 800. I'm happy to see you grow. I guess that's been a while now. Um, yeah, that has been a while. That is probably in my first couple of months. Um, I started using Linux in 2016.

Any tech channels you recommend? Um, there are channels similar in format to me. They're less active nowadays. Uh, but Got Bledu does stuff similar to me; he reviews a bunch of programs. Um, Chris Aapenti does sort of similar stuff. Uh, Gobble Bledu does way less videos nowadays, and Chris Aapenti usually doesn't do really niche stuff now. What Chris does is a lot of, um, like he has a bunch of microcomputers in his home and he'll say, "Okay, here's how I set this up." You know? Um, so I don't think either of them get as many views as back in the day or something, but they still make videos relatively, um, every once in a while, you know, maybe once a week, maybe once a month. But I mean, the thing is they have really good channels, but you have to scroll back in time to see some of that stuff, which, you know, YouTube is not going to recommend you that kind of stuff.

Much love for Chris Okapenti. Well, you spelled his first name wrong, but you spelled his last name right. So, it's probably not something he gets that often because it's Chris with a K, as he will remind you. But maybe you're just... Do you know any Albanian? No, I don't.

How could you learn Linux that fast by just using it? I don't know. Um, that was also the period where I had no internet at home, so I just learned a whole lot of stuff because I'd have to figure it out on my own. For Chris Aapenti's channel, type in "Chris films by Chris" in YouTube. And when I say Chris, it's K, Chris. K-R-I-S. I think there's only one S.

Luke, is there any merit to having a global language? Well, there are bad merits to it, but, um, two hours stream enough for me. See you.

Oh yeah, it's been two hours. Yeah, I guess I've been on here a long time, and it's because I started in the morning. Let me double check. There might have been some, uh, there may have been a couple of donations which I could have missed, so I want to be sure.

What is your view on Baltic languages or even Basque as a proto-Indo-European language? Okay. Well, Baltic languages are Indo-European languages. I don't really know what you mean by being a proto-Indo-European language. Baltic languages are 100% Indo-European. They're nearly the same as Slavic languages, which are very Indo-European, and Basque is not Indo-European. If you're trying to say Basque is pre-Indo-European, as in it existed in Europe before Indo-Europeans, that's nearly certainly true. But it is definitely also not related to, in any recognizable way, Indo-European languages. And anyone who says that Basque is related to any other language just should be ignored because there have been so many people who have made bad arguments for why it's related to everything from, I don't know, Elvish to Chinese. Literally, people will say Basque is related to Chinese, and it's theoretically possible that there is a linguistic relationship that is that distant in time and space, but the rate at which languages change has totally obscured any way that we can assess the similarity of...

Those. I am Lithuanian. You're wrong. Baltic isn't Slavic.

Okay. I didn't say that Baltic was Slavic. I said Baltic and Slavic are basically the same thing. They're nearly always classified as the same subfamily. I mean, if you're Baltic and you're saying, "Oh, Baltic languages aren't Slavic," that's the same thing as someone who's Portuguese getting upset for you saying that Spanish is nearly the same as Portuguese. Of course, Baltic languages are much more different from Slavic languages than Spanish and Portuguese are different.

But for anyone who is not Baltic or Slavic, you will look at a language like that, its words, its morphology, phonology, and say, "Oh, Baltic and Slavic are obviously extremely closely related." That's why they call it, you know, the Baltoslavic language family.

Yeah, if you want to make someone who speaks Portuguese mad, just tell them that Portuguese and Spanish are basically the same. Of course, in Portuguese and Spanish, they basically are the same language. If you just speak Spanish and hold your nose, that's what Portuguese sounds like. It literally is basically the same language. And you pronounce T's like CH.

If English was the only living Indo-European language, would you be able to tell that it was related to Sanskrit and Hittite and other Indo-European languages?

That's a good question. I think you would. I think you definitely would. I think in the core vocabulary, well, let me think about this for a second. I think that you would probably, well, you would definitely be able to establish a remote relationship where, you know, basic words, even like, you know, mother, father, that kind of stuff, they look different in English and Sanskrit. But some of the similarities, I mean, mother and father sometimes look similar in unrelated languages. But other basic words like that, you would probably be able to see some similarities. But the real proof would be not necessarily words that look similar, but sound correspondences. So, like, you know, words that begin in Sanskrit with a T will nearly always begin in English with a TH sound. So that could be the word for, you know, basically any English word you know, the dyic pronoun or thou or three or, you know, thin or basically any English word that starts with TH will start with T in Sanskrit. And that's not just for TH and T, that's for basically every language in the core vocabulary. So you would nearly certainly be able to establish a relationship between those.

Because although the sounds are different, they correspond to each other. I'm trying to think of another example. I mean, you can just reverse Grim's law and you can get basically what it looks like. So yeah, I think people would nearly certainly be able to establish that English and Sanskrit are closely related. Hittite as well. Hittite, I think, is sort of for the same reasons. Hittite grammar is very different. Obviously, if you know anything about Hittite, Hittite is a weird language because usually in Indo-European languages, if you look at Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, you would have the idea that Indo-European was a highly morphologically complex language similar to Sanskrit, and as time went on, it became simplified. But Hittite, which is clearly the oldest or, you know, the first language to split off from the Indo-European, you know, bund, however you want to put it, it clearly has some things that it just doesn't have. It doesn't have, for example, a female gender. It doesn't have all the verb conjugations that Indo-European has. It doesn't have, I don't think it has a dual. Yeah, it doesn't have a dual. So it only has singular and plural. There are a bunch of things. But anyway, regardless of this, you would probably still be able to tell that English and Hittite are related.

There are some words in Latvian that are still almost the same as Sanskrit, like medus, honey.

Okay. Well, that's true in any other Indo-European language.

You had me at it doesn't have female gender.

Yeah. Well, yeah. So for those, you know, originally in pre-proto-Indo-European, the gender system, quote unquote, gender system, was really a distinction between animate things and inanimate things. So everything—and it's actually interesting how much we know about this—but actually how it works. So animate objects could, you know, there were some verbs that couldn't be used with inanimate objects. It was just ungrammatical, right? And you had this distinction between animate objects and inanimate objects, and they looked a little different, and they had different endings. Now, Hittite splits off and it preserves that sort of older format of it, and it actually has, it was also probably an ergative-absolutive language, the original pre-Indo-European. Anyway, after Hittite split off, the female gender forms, and what that usually is, is an ending that appeared on some animate nouns to mark them for being feminine. And it wasn't just like female human things. It was also certain types of abstract nouns. So a lot of abstract nouns get this ending. A lot of collective nouns get this ending. So, of course, you have females being marked with this noun. But also, like the names for territory, the names for lands, you know. Basically, every place name is feminine, for example. Every river is masculine, for example. So later Indo-European languages, basically all Indo-European languages besides Hittite, have a three-way gender distinction between what are called neuters, which used to be inanimate in Hittite or Indo-Hittite, and then what we now call masculine and feminine, which are really the old animate gender, and some of those words have feminine endings on them. So now in Indo-European, we usually call them masculine, feminine, and neuter.

Why does American English tend to treat every occurrence of TH as if it were archaic thorn and not say it as the Brits say, like Tames?

I mean, the fact of the matter is that American English is nearly invariably more conservative than British. It's not like Americans saw that and they're like, "Oh, it's pronounced Thames," and it's always been pronounced Tames. No, it's that the pronunciation of Tames or whatever it is just arose in London as basically a mispronunciation that's now common. And a lot of words have lost their TH pronunciation. Now, there are some exceptions. I think Thomas is an example. Of course, no American says thus, but there are some words that are borrowed that are spelled with the TH and never had it. But you know the river name, you know, the American pronunciation of Thames, that is a more conservative pronunciation. And that's true. I mean, it's the same thing with like, why do British people not—or so one of the funniest things is when British people, of course, have this notion that, well, because English comes from Britain, it must be British English must be more conservative, right? So for all this time, we've not been pronouncing Rs at the end of words, and then one day Americans just had this crazy idea to just read out the Rs, those crazy Americans. No, it's really the American practice of pronouncing Rs that is universal. At some point in Britain, gradually some communities began to lose it. But the American—I mean, there's a general tendency, mind you, you should keep in mind that there's a tendency for like more rural populations, languages change slower, and in the more dense Britain, there was a lot more linguistic change. Like when someone stopped pronouncing the TH, it's a change that sort of spread more quickly. But in general, other things, so for example, like saying bath instead of bath, that's another—it’s something that happened very recently in British pronunciation. The American pronunciation of bath is a conservative pronunciation. Again, American English tends to be always the more conservative variety. I'm trying to think of an exception. There are a couple. I mean, the cot-caught merger would be an American innovation. But then again, some British dialects have that as well. I'm trying to think of another American. There aren't very many aspects in which American English is less conservative than British English, though.

What examples of words ending in R are you thinking?

I can't think of it, like saying, you know, not pronouncing the R in far, father, or farther. Frankly, saying father instead of farther. So farther, obviously, these Rs were pronounced originally, right? But over time—and this is particularly because in Germanic languages, the R sounds are always weird sounds and sounds that are hard for children to acquire. So, I mean, that's why like in Swedish or something, you never pronounce—I mean, it's not technically Rs at the end of words. It's Rs in coda positions, meaning at the end of syllables. Okay. But most Germanic languages tend to lose those over time. They still exist in American English. They're gone in a lot of British varieties. I mean, at least southern British varieties. They're gone in Swedish and a lot of German varieties, but yeah, the Rs are real.

Is there a language that developed grammatical gender?

Yeah, every language that has grammatical gender developed grammatical gender.

The Virgin R versus the Chad R as a syllabus nucleus.

Right. The word "bird" doesn't even have a vowel. Only a cuck pronounces a vowel there. It's an R.

What's the worst sounding language, Luke? Maybe British English. I don't know. Since we're talking about it, maybe estuary, the estuary dialect, which is basically just English pronounced without any consonants. It's basically like this is how, if you're from, you know, anywhere around there, you probably talk something like this. That's how people sound.

One of my favorite ones. Contemplate the word "hotter," which if you're from the estuary, you pronounce it literally with no consonants in that sound. It's "hotter." There are three consonants.

Anyway, are languages without a grammatical gender more or less sexist?

I assume that's a joke comment. I mean, grammatical gender, first off, doesn't have anything to do with real sex or gender, but if they did, it wouldn't matter. I mean, Chinese doesn't have grammatical gender. Is it a feminist language? Persian doesn't have grammatical gender. English doesn't have grammatical gender. Is it a feminist? Well, arguably it is, but is it more feminist than French, which does have grammatical gender? But yeah, I mean, there are plenty of people who just get this. This is another example of word thinking. It happens in Indo-European languages.

I mean, the word "gender," keep in mind, is literally just a word that means category, and it had no such association with males and females. Originally, it was just a grammatical category, and people analyzing Greek grammar realized, okay, there are three different types of nouns, okay? Three different genders. Now, as a historical accident, they called one masculine because men fell into that, one feminine because women fell into that, and one neuter. Neuter in Latin literally just means neither.

Okay. Now we could have named them, as I said earlier, for example, rivers in Indo-European are masculine. We could have called one the river gender. We could have called the other one the place name gender. That's what we now call feminine or neuter for neither river names or place names. Okay. We could have called them that. And the word "gender" in English, as we use it now, would have meant something. I mean, it would have had a totally different connotation. So yeah, it doesn't really matter.

And of course, there are many languages that have gender, like Hittite, as I mentioned, has grammatical gender that doesn't differentiate the two human genders. So there is animate and inanimate. That's their gender system. So males and females are animate, and everything that is inanimate is inanimate. That's actually a little different. I mean, in Hittite, it's not quite how simple it is.

If you never went to uni, would you still have this amazing knowledge on linguistics?

Yeah, because I didn't learn anything in university. The things that I was taught in graduate school are utterly unrelated to language. Linguists nowadays do not know anything about language. What a linguist is, is someone who operates in this magical Platonic Chskian formal playground and makes ad hoc arguments about things that don't matter. That's what a linguist does nowadays. You won't learn anything if you go to graduate school in linguistics unless you happen across someone else who actually has learned something, and you learn about it from them. But yeah, you're not going to learn stuff like that.

Are languages with case systems more casual? I don't really know how to assess that. I don't quite know. Let me check super chats. I don't think anyone's given us a super chat in a while. Yeah, I don't think so.

Is programming language grammar even remotely interesting to look at lexers and such? No, it has nothing to do with human language grammar if that's what you're asking.

Who is the Chomsky of the Linux world? I don't know. Brian Lunduke.

How do you feel about academia for hard sciences?

Not really that much different. I mean, there's a cope that the hard sciences are going to be totally unaffected by all the terrible things that happen in colleges. And that isn't true. It gets worse every year.

Why does Lunduke have comments disabled? I didn't know he still had comments disabled. That's been a while.

Why do all of your videos get shot in the wild? Where else would I record? Am I supposed to record here? This is a lame place to record videos.

What's Chomsky known for anyway? Nothing important. I mean, I could explain how Chomsky is supposed to have influenced the linguistics field, but it's literally something that doesn't matter, you know? It's also something that, although it has had... I mean, frankly, if... well, let's do a Luke Smith thing. Let's ignore the ideology behind it. Let's ignore what he's actually saying.

The real reason that Chomsky is famous is twofold. Chomsky promoted a form of linguistics that could get funding from the state, that could get defense department funding, and that caused a lot of linguistics departments to be created as independent departments. That's the primary reason that he is memorable. I mean, not because of any of his ideas, but that's the real reason.

Okay. Chomsky had a particular form of linguistics that the defense department wanted to support. So they did because they thought they could get something out of it. Luckily for us, it's totally useless, so it doesn't matter. But either way, the institutional reason why Chomsky is celebrated is because he basically invented linguistics departments existing as separate entities.

The other reason is, I mean, the other obvious reason is he just had mutually reinforcing popularity with his leftist activism, and people who wanted to boost the guy in politics would boost him in linguistics to make him sound smarter and vice versa. Although usually, it's people trying to boost him in linguistics or people talking about how great a linguist he is to boost him in the political domain.

But as for what his specific views are, I mean, I could explain them, but honestly, they're not particularly novel compared to views that were held beforehand. They were really just more of a reaction to behaviorist psychology as it was practiced in linguistics or psychology before he came to the field. It's very difficult to pin him down on. I mean, it's very hard to pin the entire generative program as being for or against anything in particular, like some particular claim about it, but it's really just a kind of analyzing. It's a formal playground for analyzing language that Chomsky helped to invent. There are some assumptions that come with it, but those assumptions have often changed considerably from year to year. So honestly, if you're a lay person, you don't need to. That's what you need to know about it. It's not really important. It will never matter for anyone.

Great. By your heuristic, now we'll have to read all this Chomsky stuff. Well, I didn't call him racist or anything.

Could you make a tutorial on how to publish packages to the AUR?

I don't know. I've never done it. I do have packages in the AUR. Mut Wizard is in the AUR. ST is in the AUR, but I've never done it myself. Someone else, some other people did it for me in both of those cases.

All right. Okay. I might draw it to a close. We just hit three hours or so. So, if anyone has any last minute hot takes you want to give via super chats, be sure to do that now or any other kind of donation that pops up. Actually, let me double check. I might have gotten a Zeld donation during the stream. So, I'm going to check my email, but yeah. So, any other questions feel free to ask. I will check.

Can we listen to the free software song before the stream ends?

That's an option. That's an option. Which version should we do though? Three software. I would say which one of these terrible versions, but they're all just awful. Maybe we'll do the classic one of Richard Stallman just beating on a desk because that's just so absurd and him speaking in his terrible Spanish.

[Music]

So, all right. Sorry, I was looking at something else. I'll read the final donations or comments. Let's see if there are any last.

Do you think that since the left has falsely used racism and Nazism, that they've effectively become clichés and we can't use them in normal speech?

Well, why would you? Those words are entirely clichés. Why would you want to use the word racism in normal speech? There's nothing non-cliché about that. You know.

Anyway, I think we got some super chats. 10 R dollars, whatever those are. Whatever R dollars, I don't even know. Rubies? Oh, I think they're reals or something like that from Samba and wire stress Portuguese or okay.

Well, I'm not going to say I agree or not, but um, $10 from Charlie Hansen. How do you avoid existential dread?

Just doing stuff with my life. I don't know. Existentialism is not something that you have to worry about when you're actually doing something. I don't know. Just go outside. I'll give you my same advice I give to people who want to stop watching porn. Just go outside and do something instead of sitting there at a computer and wondering, "Oh geez, I'm just sitting here like passively consuming infotainment. Why am I having a miserable life?" Sort of self-explanatory.

Okay. Do a Windows reaction video. That will surely get many views.

Sometimes it's not always about views. I think I will do a video about why I stopped using Windows and use Linux. So, we'll see.

Do a collab with Linus Tech Tips. That's a good meme.

Well, as I said, I might be doing a collab with Chris Hakapenti. Maybe next week. I think maybe Dro Tube was in the chat. Maybe we'll do a collab sometime. I think I tried to look for his email address. I can find it at some point. But if he wants to do a collab with me, he can email me and we can do something. My email is public.

So, what are your thoughts about Gopher?

I have no thoughts about it.

All right. So, I guess that's about it. Oh, do I have the free software song now? Let me see. Free free software song. Okay. Yeah, we'll watch that.

D Tube says we can't be on camera at the same time. People will get confused.

Yeah, maybe. Well, that's why I wear the sunglasses so people know which one I am.

Another most common question. Why do you wear sunglasses all the time?

It's a boomer thing. You wouldn't understand.

All right, kids. Roth. Okay. Why does the chat never appear on this? I hate OBS. OBS is seriously such a pain.

All right. We'll just watch it. Let me make sure the audio is good. That's what passes for a rhythm at the FSA. Join us now and share the software. You'll be free hackers. You'll be in that room. Join us now and share the software. You'll be free. Hackers, you'll be.

Free. Hoarders can get piles of money. That is true. Hackers, that is true. But they cannot help their neighbors. That's not good. Hackers are not good.

When we have enough free software at our call, hackers are our call. We'll kick out those licenses ever more hackers, ever more. Join us now and share the software. You'll be free. Join us now and share the software. You'll be free. Hackers, you'll be free.

Imagine clapping. See, there are a bunch of... The thing is, all as cringe as that is, and of course it is extremely cringe. There is no good way to perform that song because it's just terrible. They want to do it in some weird beat time or whatever it is. I don't know anything about music, but where's the other free software song?

Okay. Yeah, this one. We're not going to watch the whole one of this, but I just want to turn it on because it's like so cringe. The absolute state of the FSF. Is it too loud? People are going to probably... the song is 78.

[Music]

Oh god. I'm going to try and fix it while we cringe to this. Tech conductor right open there. I skip to the good part and then they're going to start singing. It sounds like a normal music track was just truncated, you know.

Where's the thing?

Look at all the soy on stage. They actually aren't that very soy looking. I mean, some of them are. That guy, the drummer on the left, is a littleish. I think they're just artists. I think that's what it is. I think that's how most I've met a couple guys. I think they're just open source is for soy boys, soy dad. Free software that's for suckless is for chads.

Actually, I've never met a person. How can you not see Linux as a communist cult? I'm pretty convinced.

I feel when there's free software GF. Well, yeah, there's one GF and a bunch of men there. So, there aren't very many to go around. That guy who never left his university base. Yeah, that's right.

People are gradually leaving the live stream. I mean, I did say where I was going to close it down, but I like to think it's because of the song. What a terrible song. Like, try bobbing your head to this beat or something. It doesn't even work. Imagine just writing a song with some meme tier beat structure just to be autistic. I can't even.

Imagine. Skipping forward a little bit. I want more of your music. It's going to be more cringe now, singing in Spanish all over the beats for copyrighted this one. I'm going to have to install Windows, kids. I'm going to stop doing the Linux videos. This is too much.

Now they're trying to clap. Everyone's going to try and clap to this dude. It doesn't work. Now they're screwing up the instrumentalists who are like, "Oh, great." Imagine all the mental effort it takes to drum to this. I love software patents. Yeah, I know. There's a fine line between activism and terrorism.

All right, that's about enough. Going to draw this closer. That's about it for the live stream. See how it goes.

Oh no, wait. We have to watch this thing. Maybe I should talk to the volume. Where is it called?

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I'm going to have to wash my palette with a boomer video after this. One last boomer.

All right, that'll be about it. Yuriel killed himself to this song. All right, that's about it.

So, I'm closing the stream out. Thanks everyone for coming. I know this is a weird hour for me to do it, but maybe some people who couldn't drop by before got to drop by.

So, all right. See you guys next time.

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