Yeah, that's right, guys. I'm a digital  nomad now. I'm a digital nomad, which is  probably the most millennial thing  possible, right? In case you zoomers  don't know about digital nomads, lamest  thing in the universe. It's basically  where you're homeless, but you're rich  because your parents gave you a lot of  money. So, you just go to different  countries, don't have a home, you you  just like live with people you met on  the internet or live in hotels and you  spend like a $100,000 a year on housing  and flights and like rental cars and uh  just all the or or like actually having  a car and moving moving it all over the  world like from overseas and stuff like  that. It's the most bug man thing  possible. Anyway, I'm I'm doing my own  kind of digital nomadism. I wanted to do  a stream. Okay, here's the deal. I  wanted I want to do streams regularly.  As you know, I do not have internet at  my house. Basically don't have internet  at my house. Like I get like a 300 KB  down. That's how slow my download speed  is. And it's something like 20 KB up.  Okay, so you do the math. You guess how  long it takes for me to upload a video  from uh my house. So anyway, I actually  I literally checked myself into a hotel  just so we can do a stream. Okay, I just  it's a cheap hotel. I had to drive like  an hour, but I figured I wasn't doing  any anything this, you know, early this  week, so I'll do it just for fun. Of  course, that means I I got to make up my  costs. So that means you actually have  you actually have to give donations. All  right. Got to give uh actually I think  people have already given a couple sub  super chats. I'll have to check on that.  Um, so yeah, if if if I can actually get  a good, you know, like spending money or  whatever from streams, I'll do them reg  regularly. Um, it's just I got to do  travel, you know, I got to drive like an  hour or so. Um, anyway, I'm going to go  ahead and start reading uh comments  people have already put in uh with  donations. Um, because I think I had the  stream or I had the chat going for a  couple hours while I was getting here.  Uh anyway, so in the news, well, I'll  just I'll just read what people have  sent in. I got $10 from uh who is this  from? From Brian. Uh he has a donation  message. Is the Dways Bible based or  cringed? And are you voting for Donald  Duck? Um so Dways, for people who don't  know, I I think that's how you pronounce  it. I don't actually know. I'm pretty  sure it's Dways. Um, but it's like  basically the one of the original  Catholic translations of the Bible. It's  it was made it was published a little  bit before the King James version. Uh, I  would consider it based definitely  based. I mean, it's basically like the  King James version. In fact, when the  King James version translators got lazy,  they just stole passages from uh the  Dways. Um I mean obviously like uh KJV  was done by proc and again the dua rooms  was does done by Catholics but you know  that's one of the differences. Um uh so  yeah that's that I I can I don't have a  copy of it though. I will say that I  usually use the King James or sometimes  New King James if I'm around normies and  they'll they'll like autistically  screech if you know if they they don't  want to hear like King James English or  something like that cuz it's hard to  it's hard for people to understand or  something like that which is silly. Um  you know the nice thing about the King  James version and New King James as well  New King James is just like you know  made it make it a little bit more uh  modern. Uh, but the good thing about  them is they're like really formally  loyal translations. Like they translate  things more or less, not literally, but  like they'll translate like prepositions  and metaphors pretty much literally. Um,  so a lot of other versions will like  take the originals and like guess what  they think they mean and then put in  like their own version of like when  you're looking at like theological  passages, it makes a big difference. Um,  so yeah, I definitely support using  Dreams is good. King James is good. New  King James is okay. Um, so let me let me  turn off that notification sound. Um,  and the other question, are you voting  for Donald Duck, aka Orange Boomer? Of  course I'm voting for Donald Bluff. Um,  isn't everyone on this channel? Um,  yeah. I uh uh no opinion on if he's  actually going to win. We'll have to see  about that. I mean, I I'm pretty I think  a couple weeks ago I was like, h it's  like 50/50. Who knows? I think I'm  leaning more to him winning at this  point, but you never know. Um, you know,  you just got to be you just gota prep,  you know. I I mean, the reason one of  the reasons I actually moved out into  the middle of nowhere, I I don't know if  I've told people this is because back  in, you know, back when the 2016  election was happening um and things are  getting really intense and it was right  before the election happened, like for  the whole time I was like, "Oh yeah,  Trump's definitely going to win. It's  like no contest." Um but you know the  maybe the week before I was like oh dude  you know all these polls they're so  terrible and stuff like this and like  maybe uh you know Hillary's going to win  or something like that. It was during  that period I actually decided okay  regardless of the outcome I have to move  out of the city like that's the priority  cuz like you know that's going to be  where all the bad stuff is happening.  I'm glad I did like I missed all this  Corona stuff. um you know where I live  of course everywhere around like the big  like this city that I'm in now you know  everything's like you have to wear you  have to wear masks except for no one  wears them you know um but uh yeah I'm  so glad and the same thing is true now  like if you're in a city doesn't matter  who wins like you need to make plans to  move out of a city um pretty much ASAP  because you're not going to go wrong.  Um, all right. Let me pull up, uh, so  that was a donation. Thanks again for  the donation, Brian. Um, but yeah, uh,  let me actually go ahead and, and that  was a zel donation. Like, if you want  different methods of donating, go to go  to my link over there. You can donate  through cryptocurrencies or whatever,  PayPal. Um, remember, of course, like of  of course obviously I take YouTube super  chats, but like YouTube's takes off a  good like if you donate a couple bucks,  they'll take off like 30% of that or  something ridiculous. So, if you donate  some other way, I will read them out.  I'll read the email or whatever. Um,  okay. So, anyway, let me actually look  at this. Some super chats have actually  gone ahead and come in. Um, yeah, the  chat is moving so fast, like I'm trying  to keep keep up with it. Um, okay. So, a  couple uh well, there were actually some  from the other day when I did a  premiere. Um, Gum Butter sent in uh5B  said, "Proud of you, boy." Uh, I guess  that that was during the the app image  uh snap pack. Snap pack. Is that what  it's called? Snapcraft, whatever it is.  Uh, yeah. video. I need I felt like I  needed to do that because again, it was  like totally It's totally nuts to me  that like Snapcraft and Flatpack have  just become like so common and I never  heard anyone criticizing them at all.  Like even you know the thing is like  like take systemd okay people criticize  systemd all the time like oh it sucks  like even even if systemd is like  totally free software it's not like out  of its own domain it's not really doing  that much weird stuff well frankly like  as time goes on it gets bigger and  bigger and that can be problematic but  um so it was weird especially that  people are so critical of systemd that  you don't hear these radically new p in  incompatible package uh managing  applications being criticized that was  always weird to me Um, actually, I'm  going to look at this chat for the  second for a second. I don't know. Um,  is is the quality of the video good? Uh,  I'm actually on Wi-Fi now. I don't know  uh how bad it is or good it is, but um I  mean it looks No one's complaining it  looks like. So, um yeah, I'm actually I  decided to stream at 720p cuz I thought  I could get away with it here cuz the  internet's actually pretty good. This is  a a pretty cheap hotel. I might come  back here again if I'm just going to  stream. It's a relatively cheap hotel uh  compared to the other ones, but it looks  like the internet's good. In fact, they  have a Ethernet plugin, but I didn't  bring an Ethernet cord. Um, okay. So,  anyway, let me keep let me keep reading.  Um, okay. So, again, from yesterday, uh,  Nate Edwards sends in $5, a cookie for a  boommy. Thank you. Uh, Marco Maya sends  in 25 real. Uh, he says, "Must consume."  All right. Thank you. Uh, Ralph, this is  today just now. Ralph sends in 275 or 79  in Canadian dollars. Enjoy the two  fraudulent treasury notes. Thank you.  Um, make stuffers sends in uh 200  rubles. Stop using ffmpeg and use  gstreamer instead you bald gnumer. Um,  why would it what greamer? Why would I  is that a command line application? I  don't even know.  Um, uh, Marco Maya sends in 25. Real  says, "Sal, Luke,  Sal."  Um, A8 Linux sends in 400 rubles. I  wonder how much that is. I I don't know  how much is a rubble right now. I assume  that's  ruble. I I assume that's like $2, you  know.  Um, I'll just find out just so I know  how. Anyway, he says, what does he say?  You look like linen. Okay, thank you.  Whatever. I've never heard that one  before. Um, let's  see. Yeah, I think that's a couple  bucks. Anyway,  um, Ice the Lane sends in 4,000 COP. I  wonder what C people are always sending  in these weird currencies. He doesn't  have a comment, but I'll read. Let's  see. COP currency. I got to find out  what these are. You know, I don't keep  up with Forex anymore. I used to be an  economics major. I used to know most of  the important currencies, but I don't  think I've ever even heard of CO cop.  What is this? U Oh, Colombian Pesos.  Okay. All right. Thank you. Um, and  Crazy Red sends in£10. Uh, here's some  shekels for the digital nomad trust  fund. Are you even using that room for  the night or just here for the stream? I  I actually will be staying here over Oh,  yeah. The other thing I meant to say, so  this town I'll go I'll go ahead and and  dox myself. Okay, I'm in Valdasta,  Georgia right now. So, if there's a Luke  Smith fan club in Valdasta, Georgia at  the at VSU at the university, you can  feel free to email me. I'll be here till  maybe I I'll be here tomorrow morning at  least. I might do something. I have to  get I was actually going to go further,  go go to another town and do another  stream, but I'm actually going to go  back home. Uh some family members  invited me to dinner tomorrow night, so  I'm not going to go too far. Um, but I  will be here in so if if you're in  Valdasta, feel free to contact me. Um,  especially if there are like multiple  people who know each other, uh, who know  me. Um, I actually used to go to for one  year I went to Valdasta State  University. So, I actually drove by the  campus just as it's actually mostly the  same way, although they were building  the student union when I was here last.  Um, okay, let's see.  Um, $5 from King James, FYI. Uh, he  says, "Thank you for your Vim tutorial.  Working with Linux for the past year and  missing the progress of Windows and Mac  OS makes me realize I became too stupid  to use them. Trying to set up a second  account on Windows 10." Yeah. I mean,  especially I mean, Mac OS, one good  thing about that is it doesn't change  that much, but Windows, you know, the  big pain of it is even though it's  supposed to be an operating system that  everyone is using, right? it. They  change everything about it every year.  Like every time like uh you know I'll be  on a Windows machine every once in a  while will want me to fix something and  like every time I get on there it's like  everything has changed. I have to figure  out how it works now. Um that's a big  annoyance about Windows. Um so yeah I  don't know. I I don't feel like I have  like the thing is like I'm still way  more competent than a normie when it  comes to anything on a computer even if  it's like Mac OS or or some modern  variety of Windows. But um it's still  like oh dude this is so weird. I I want  the classic control panel, you know. Um,  $2 from Ivonne Ivan. Uh, you made you  mad, Boomer. You You scared the [\h__\h] out  of me. I've opened a tab and forgot  about it. Okay, so you I surprised you.  Um, now I need a new pair of underwear.  Thanks a lot. By the way, if you don't  have internet at home, how do you  download DM DWM patches? I don't need to  d download them. Besides, they're just  like text files. Who cares?  Um, okay. So, uh,  Nathan, uh, sends in 20 bucks. I don't  see a donation written on this, but  thank you for the $20, Nathan. Um, or a  donation comment. Uh, let's  see.  Um, okay. I'm just checking test looking  at the  uh if we have good stream quality.  Um all right, it looks good. I'm going  to go ahead and close all these other  windows out just in case the internet  gets bad. Um  okay, so $5 from Chris. Thoughts on  micro kernels? What do you think about  making  a seal for desktop desktop  dro? Uh, I'm not quite sure what that  is.  SE4. Am I stupid? Is that something I  should know? Or is that like a gamer  term or something that I don't know  anything about? I have no  idea. Oh, it's a micro kernel. Yeah, I  don't I can't tell you anything about  micro kernels. I don't really have like  there are domains of things that I'm I'm  not interested in in computing.  Um, so I I can't tell you anything about  him. Um, 10 Australian dollars from  FF_. Are you spending the night at this  hotel? The staff will surely assume the  worst if they check out. If you check  out a few hours later, if only they  knew. Yeah, I'm staying here. I'm  staying here. Does I might as well get  my money's worth. Might as well do  something in in the big city while I'm  here. In the big city of Aldosa,  Georgia. I mean, when I was a kid, of  course, you know, I I I went, as I  mentioned, I went here uh for school for  one year, my freshman year in college,  and um like when I I just remember  thinking it's like the smallest town in  the universe. I was like, this place is  so small. It's actually bigger than it  used to be. It's driving around here is  a big pain. Uh but now it's like the big  city. Like people around here is like,  oh, Valdasta, that's like the big city.  Um actually, a lot has like there used  to be an old mason house across the hall  there. Where is it? It's somewhere  around here. I don't know. There used to  be an old mason house and um uh that me  it was abandoned and me and my friends  we we would just go out there and just  like explore it. It was like an  abandoned building uh like shrubs  growing all over the place. I think  there were a couple homeless people  there. Um but now there's like a a hotel  where it was and stuff like that.  There's a lot has changed. Um the whole  place looks different. like this. The  the university is pretty much the same,  but you know, the town's a lot different  and it is a big big  um uh pain to drive around.  Um 400  HUF HUF. What do I want to guess that  that currency is? I'm going to look that  up.  HUF I wish they would just like tell me  what they are. Uh anyway, 400 HUF from  SaltMaster. Uh, how to kindly content  creator Emac Lisp. Yikes. I think he's  just uh putting in words that he thinks  are banned on my channel. Oh, that's  Hungarian currency. Okay. Well, thanks  you. Thank you for your Hungarian  currency.  Um, Eric sends in 10 Canadian dollars.  You might be interested in checking out  the Orthodox Study Bible. It includes  all the  duderokonical apocryphal books  translated from the Septuagent. Um,  thanks. Love your channel and your  takes. All right. Thanks for the  donation. Yeah, I've I've thought about  getting something like that. I do have I  mean, I have the Septuagent. I have I  thought I might have brought it to the  host. Actually, let me  see. Well, no, I didn't bring the  Septuagent. I do have So, this is this  is probably the book. I don't know. This  is like the book that I've read most in  my life. This is a byglotic New  Testament. So, it's like Latin on one  side and Greek on the other. I got this  as a present when I was like 16 after I  started learning Latin and uh I also  sort of learned Greek from this like you  know looking at one and look at looking  at the other um but that's just the New  Testament. I do have a Septuagent for  the for boomers or zoomers who don't  know the Septtoagent is the Greek Old  Testament. Okay, that was translated a  little bit before um uh like you know  Jesus before that period. And of course  it has the so-called duterro canonical  or apocryphal books in it uh which a lot  of definitely Protestants don't include  any of this stuff. Some Catholics don't  include some of them.  Um but uh what was I going to say? I  don't know.  Um, okay.  Uh, got to refresh my  donations. Um, Marco Maya sends in 25  real. Uh, $5 from the Brazilian  merchants guild. Thank you, Brazilian  merchant. You're my greatest ally.  Um, five pounds from Rogue Halo. Got any  updates on Larsbs that you can share  updates? Uh, I try not to update it at  all. That's the thing. Like I it's it's  pretty stable now. It used to be like  I'd make some radical change every week.  Now it's very stable in terms of, you  know, it's just bug fixing. There are  some bugs right now that are annoying me  to no end that I need to get rid of. The  biggest one is is at least on Artics on  Arts with Run It. Okay. There's there's  audio problems. And this isn't just on a  new install of Larsbs. This actually  happens on my own computer where uh if  you just start um when you start your  computer and let's say you pull up your  browser and then look up um any play a  video with sound, the sound won't start.  Like Pulse Audio does not start on Run  It. Um if if you have run it as an init  system unless there's like some only in  Chrome. That's the weird thing or a  Chromium browser. Obviously got to use  Brave, not freaking Chrome because I'm  not, you know, a ignorant boomer. But um  yeah, what was I saying? Uh I have not  figured out that problem. People have  given given me solutions that I've  implemented. None of them are perfect. I  think it has something to do with fluid  sync. I even changed the uh the uh  settings for that, but I I don't know.  That's that's the biggest annoyance  right now on Larsbs. Um and people have  continually suggested me to, you know,  make an ISO. Um, and you know, there  there's a point for that. Uh, I I mean I  don't want to market as a it as a dro  cuz it's not a dro. Absolutely. Like I'm  totally against like making new dros.  There are plenty of dros. Um, and uh I I  just if anything I I sort of like how it  is now. You install Arch or Artex and  then you run Larsbs and you get this  desktop environment. Um I think it's I  don't know, but I I've thought about  doing an ISO just maybe. Um, that's an  option. Okay, let me check. Uh, but  yeah, in general, I try not to make any  changes to large. Well, it's not that  not even that I try that. Like now at  this point my system is so stable like  you know I know some people think that  my channel what separated my channel  from a lot of other earlier tech  channels is that you know I had this  fancy configured system that like looked  cool and did all this weird stuff and it  wasn't because like I don't even think  of myself as like a riser. I mean if  anything because my desktop has never  looked good. I mean it's it's always  been functional. Like I'm always like oh  let me optimize this. Let me get like uh  let me communicate things. let me be  able to see information clearly, uh,  open things up quickly, but I'm not a  riser. Like, I'm not There are some  people who do that and do it, you know,  make very impressive things. Um, trying  to think like IBSD, you know, he has a  BSD machine, but what's his name?  Donovan. Um, he has he's done some  really impressive stuff. Um, and there  are other risers, but I'm just not one  of them, you know. I'm I'm just like all  about efficiency. And earlier on my  channel channel when I was figuring  things out when I switched over to DWM,  I was always changing stuff. But now I  I've converged on something that's  pretty pretty optimal uh for my purposes  and you know other people like it. And  you know the golden hour is just making  it accessible and extensible to people.  Um so like newbies can get on it and  figure out what's actually happening.  Um okay so Matteo sends in $5. Hey Luke,  I've already told you how you helped me  become more internet independent and  helped me cut my bad habits uh which  made me closer to God. Are you aware  that you have uh been such a positive  influence in so many viewers? Uh and how  does it feel? I I mean you don't I mean  the internet as far as I know like me  doing stuff on the internet it doesn't  feel real. Okay. Like I there might be  thousands of people who know me in the  world. But it's it's always weird when  the real when real life connects with  someone I know or you know someone like  I meet someone from online that knows me  or something like that. So I I'll tell  you it definitely doesn't feel like I  don't wake up every day and it's like  wow I'm sure doing a great thing for  people. I you definitely I mean if it  did feel like that I wouldn't want to  feel like that cuz that sounds sounds  arrogant or whatever. Um but yeah I mean  it's basically the same as anyone else's  life. It's just maybe I have a a  footprint that um you know more more  people are in touch with. Um so I don't  know but you could you could probably  say that about a lot of people. I mean  the weird thing it is weird to compare  it to like other I guess positions of  authorities that I've had like when I  taught in universities right you know  you think you're having all this effect  on people's lives because they're in  your class right you're you're giving  them your anecdotes. You're redping them  on whatever. Um, but then you know I  just look at, oh, I can just put up a  video and it gets 10,000 views. If it's  a bad video, it'll only get like 10,000  views and that has much more effect. You  know what I mean? Or like you look at  the the view time hours. That's the  weird thing. Like people have been  watching me for like lifetimes, you  know, in terms of view hours. That's the  weirdest part, you know? Um, but no,  like you it doesn't make me feel I can't  well I definitely don't feel arrogant  because I don't feel like it it doesn't  feel like a real thing. You know, it's  not something you experience directly.  Um, I don't know if it's obvious, but  you know, I I'm one of those people I I  don't think the internet's real, you  know, uh, and I don't act that way.  Maybe maybe it'd make me nervous if I  did feel like that. Um, but yeah, that's  why I do whatever. I don't care about  like video quality or something like  that or like you know quality in terms  of like special effects and lightings  and stuff like that because I don't know  fundamentally just one day I started  putting up videos and um you know didn't  really expect it to go anywhere.  Um so anyway thanks for your uh $5  Matteos. Uh Uncle Bed sends in  $2.36. Any considerations on bed chair  beds/chairs? Should we live more in  contact with the ground like in eastern  cultures and be comfortable with  sleeping and sitting without the aid of  such cumbersome structures? I don't know  if well there was an old meme right um a  couple years ago you might remember from  when I originally started doing streams  where I told people like oh I sleep on  the floor and I did for a long period  like I'd just sleep on either the carpet  or like a pad of  reflectix and I just have a cover and  that's what I and it's not it's great  for your back. It's fantastic. Um, and  when I do sleep on a bed, like I use  pillows, but like I basically put my  head between pillows and have it facing  directly on the bed. Yeah, beds beds  like I like I feel like and of course  always sleep on your back. Like don't  sleep on your stomach or something  stupid like that. That's like bad for  you. Uh, but yeah, sometimes like the  comfort of a bed can be like, you know,  it'll undermine your your spine and  stuff like that. So, you know, it's one  of those things. U, but I don't I sleep  in a bed pretty consistently now. Uh,  since I've moved into the the cabin, I  basically I've slept on a bed every  single night. I haven't even slept on  the floor. Haven't even I haven't even  slept out. I thought I thought when I  moved out here I'd be like, "Oh, I could  just go out any night and like sleep in  my hammock and I could." But I haven't  actually done that. So, maybe I should.  I need a better hammock, though. My  hammock broke pretty recently. Uh, cuz I  had it outside too much and it dried out  and tore. It's an old Eno hammock. Um,  yeah, I need I need one of those. Yeah,  donations will go to that. I need one of  those. Um, no, donations will probably  if I get enough donations, I'll probably  just do streams relatively frequently.  Like I I mean, at this point, since I'm  not wage cooking right now, I could do  one like a week or something like that,  but it's only if I make okay money from  it. Um, but uh you know, the effect  might lessen over time. Okay. So,  um, so if sends in 10 Australian  dollars, I assume $8 is Australian. I'm  just going to guess. I say, "Starting my  own personal site as per your  recommendation has been uh very  personally rewarding. For any Zoomer  looking for a free host, Neocities looks  decent for static content." Yeah, Neo  Cities is a good site. And of course, my  recommendation is long-term, you want to  have your own uh VPS. Um, so, you know,  I use Vulture. you can go, you know,  whatever. You can click my affiliate  link and I get $25 if you spend $25 on  it. But, uh, either like I recommend, I  mean, not just Vulture, but like any VPS  is nice because you can do a whole like  you have a website, but you can also do  a lot of other stuff. But Neo Cities, if  you're just wanting to make a static  page, Neo Cities is very nice. And um, I  guess zoomers might not even know what  Geio Cities is. Geio Cities was like  back in the old days of the internet,  back when the internet was actually  good. Geio Cities was like the best  website on the planet because anyone  could go and well you you have to  imagine how things were before search  engines like everything had to be link  related. Okay? So like you know you have  a a a homepage and then you know you  can't go to google.com and search for  stuff or even if you knew that you could  do that a lot of people didn't know  that. So you know you'd have a link to  ne this site geoc cities and geio cities  was like okay we have a million  categories oh uh automobiles sports  culture politics and you could click on  one of those categories and then they  would list out a mill like people would  have a million geocities sites that you  can make on their site and they would  link like you could go through  subcategories and eventually get to  those um you know people's individual  pages. That's what they're called geo  cities cuz they're supposed to be little  cities like oh here's the you know the  the politics city here's the sports city  you know they're all sort of like  subpages but yeah that that was like  everyone geocities is like the  best historical website ever it doesn't  exist anymore although there are  archives of it like there are people you  can download terabytes and terabytes of  like geio city sites you can get the  whole thing and um it's just interesting  I don't have it of course but I don't  have that much storage space maybe I  should get it. Um, all right. So, yeah,  Neo Cities is nice if you just want a  simple page, but I do recommend getting  a VPS. Um,  okay. Um, that's sends in $2. I know  you've spoken negatively about politics,  so did you vote? Uh, next week will be  interesting. I mean, what do you mean by  negatively about politics? I'm not that  interested in the ins and outs of  politics and I don't I can't talk about  them on YouTube obviously because I'm  too based in red pill. Uh but yeah, I'm  going to vote of course. I'm going to  vote for Orange Boomer. Um uh everyone  is  um so yeah, I'm not I'm not like V I'm  definitely not like a Var guy where  VarG's like, "Oh, you need to be  independent and you need to be so  independent from the system that you  don't even like vote." Cuz even that,  even if you like do your normal life and  then spend one hour going to vote,  that's like totally cut. I'm absolutely  against that. That's totally cringe. Um  I might not even believe that there is a  uh solution within the political system,  but you have to do everything you can to  uh just push things in a in a direction  that are going to be least harmful. like  there's no way like if if Biden and  Harris got in as president um and or you  have like Democrats in the the House and  Senate that I mean that would be I mean  these people have openly said oh yeah  we're going to like prosecute uh you  know so-called white nationalists which  of course that basically means anyone  right now. um like you already see like  everyone has basically been kicked off  of Twitter and Facebook or shadowbanned  uh from YouTube or stuff like this and  you know the next stage like if they  can't silence you by pushing you off  these sites they're going to start  prosecuting people on trumped up charges  and they've already done this with a lot  of people you know like the little um  car accident in Charlottesville that's  you know they tell normies is a you know  terrorist attack or something stupid  this little kid got thrown in for like  450 years for a car accident. It's so  stupid. Um but  uh anyway, that's how it is. Like things  are serious. Um don't be [\h__\h] and  not vote for the orange boomer. Um like  but uh yeah, I I mean that doesn't mean  that I think like things are just going  to be hunky dory. um if if he does win  cuz obviously, you know, he won last  time and and uh the the banhammer still  came down, but things are only going to  get worse if you give his enemies power,  you know. Um okay, so  anyway, let me look at super chats. I  think I got a couple. Um  uh  Banomo sends in 20. Thanks a lot. Um  sorry, I'm tired. I'm going to bed. Good  night, Luke. Yeah, the thing is I I  pretty much always do my Well, good  night, but uh I always do my streams at  a time that uh um you know, it's bad for  Europeans or something like that. I may,  you know what? Maybe if I don't have  anything to do um tomorrow morning,  maybe I'll do a stream that like the  other side of the world could see. I'll  think about that. Um let's  see. Okay, so uh  $5 from uh Valerie. No comment on that,  but thanks for the $5.  Um, okay. Did I get Did I finally get  through all the donations? Oh, no, not  quite. Oh, there already more. Um, $2  from Dakota. Podcast recommendations.  Thoughts on religious studies major? Um,  podcast. Okay. Well, well, I'll do  religious studies majors first. Um,  probably cringe and bluepilled. Um, you  really want to major in theology. I mean  that that would be like never make any  anything studies bad idea because that  probably just means some like you know  leftist department or something like  that that was founded 10 years ago but  theology departments wouldn't be as bad  um if they exist in your school. Uh you  always want to go for things that have  existed for hundreds of years cuz  they're probably institutionally better  and it's not a bunch of neoightes um you  know in their own own madeup literature.  Um but yeah I mean obviously well in  case people don't know I'm totally  against college. You shouldn't go at  all. So, I'm talking in the the world  where you're forced to go to college for  some reason, which you want. You totally  should drop out. Um, but  uh, but as for podcast recommendations,  no, I don't really have any. Uh, I'm  sort of I mean, I even have a podcast.  And the reason I don't put up videos or  or that many episodes is because like I  feel like podcasts are a big time sync,  okay? in terms of like a lot of people  just get in, oh well I have like five  podcasts that come out weekly that I  listen to and that really adds up um  sometimes and there have been times that  I listen to like a podcast or two um and  I feel like a lot of it is just like oh  let me listen to my friends on audio or  something like that. So I I feel like  usually they're not the best things to  do. Uh I'll give you I mean of course  there's my podcast notrelated.xyz which  I I'll put out more episodes for it'll  it'll eventually happen. Um but um I  mean I I just want quality. I don't want  to like you know reduce do things more  often or do something when they're not  inspired. Um but you know not  related.xyz other ones that I've  recommended in the past um the insight  by Raze Khan and Spencer Wells. Um  they're geneticists and they do they do  like different topics frankly. I think  they've sort of branched out. They just  interview random people now. But um some  of the their earlier stuff on genetics  is is really good. Um, and then the myth  of the 20th century is pretty good, too.  That's more like based in redpilled  stuff. And they talk about cra, you  know, a bunch of different a variety of  things. Um, but I I've only listened a  little bit to their stuff. I know that I  I I want to say those guys either watch  my channel or a lot of their people  watch my channel. Um, and I I think  you'll see some overlap like, you know,  they do stuff on like Ted Kazinski or  something like that or I think they did  a couple years ago. Um, which is not  even to assume that, you know, my  channel's about that. That's just, you  know, um, a recurring meme here. I don't  exactly know when the Ted Kazinski meme  started. Uh, here.  Um, okay. So, anyway, uh, let me look  back at uh, so Hakee sends in two  pounds. DWN tabs and lars don't work  with erzerty keyboard. Yeah, I know. you  you have to just um well there there are  a couple ways I could deal with that.  Well, I'm probably not going to deal  with that. I'll just tell you that. Um  you basically have to be an English  speaker to use it. Um what you can do  for that hypothetically if you wanted to  fix it, there's a patch for DWM where  you can change instead of like key sims  you use key codes or is it the other way  around? Whatever. And uh you could set  them to particular like key code  numbers. Um except for that's just a lot  of effort and it makes the source code  like I don't know. I just it's hard to  tell which one's which. You have to  comment everything. Maybe I'll do it in  the future. Maybe if if someone makes a  pull request, I guess I'll accept it if  it's not ugly. Um but uh yeah, I I don't  know. I don't have a big plan on doing  that. Um yeah, but I know that that that  happens.  Um  okay, so anyway, thanks for the  donations. Uh we'll see.  Um, fish kung fu sends and $10. Is Exorg  really dead? Is Wayland ready to replace  Exorg? Okay, that's a shill comment,  dude. No one get this Whand stuff out of  here. No one cares. No one cares about  Wayland. Yeah, there people think people  think Arch users are strident and  annoying. Annoying. Wait till you hear a  Wayland user. It's the worst thing ever.  Um, and the thing is like, and of course  the thing the the reason it's most  annoying is like a lot of the stuff that  the Wayan supporters say is true. Oh  yeah, Xorg has problems. Exorg blah blah  blah. Whan deals with this. It's it's  more minimal. It's blah blah blah. But  it's like it is such a pain to use it.  It is such a because all these programs  are working for Xorg and you have to use  these weird emulators or or stuff to get  basic functionality. And of course DWM  there is a build of DWM like maybe it's  like  DWL or something like that that's  supposed to be whining based. I forget  exactly what its name is but you know to  get all the patches you know and love  from DWN. I mean it's basically a  different program you know. So to make  all the patches you know and love work I  mean you're basically not going to be  able to do them cuz a lot of them use  like XProp or or some other kind of Xorg  stuff. So, it's pretty much there's no  way unless someone like again like gives  me a magical PR that fixes everything  that I'm ever going to switch that  Wayand. Just not going to happen.  Um I mean it's one of those things. It's  like you know the VHS Betamax debate  where people are like oh VHS is superior  or or inferior even though it became  popular. Same thing here. Like Whan  might be uh superior but no one cares.  like nothing's built for it and it's a  pain to run now because nothing is built  for it. So sorry that's just how it is.  It's the same thing for people who don't  want who the worst thing is when people  want to use alternate keyboard layouts  like Dwarjac or Colac or something  that's going to cause you literally  nothing like for the alleged well  actually it's even worse there because  there's basically no actual benefit to  not using Wordy um like they oh they  pretend oh it's better for your um uh  fingers or whatever but it's like maybe  if you get pro at it there'll be like a  marginal benefit basically unmeasurable  basically statistical noise. Um uh but  it's like s it will cause nothing but  frustration and pain and just suffering  if you ever have to learn it. And then  it especially if you're like if you're  like um one of the people watches this  channel and configures their system and  wants everything on key bindings or  wants to be able to use Vim, you know,  something basic like that, you know,  just forget about it. Nothing but a  pain. Um, so JWWW sends in $5 says,  "Thoughts on section uh uh 230." So that  um so that's a thing that I think Blump  is supposed to either repeal or change  or whatever that basically takes away  some of the privileges of like tech  companies or Okay, what is it? Let me be  absolutely clear about it. This is like  the Okay, let me I probably should  actually pull it up, but it's supposed  to be basically like uh companies on the  internet. The thing is or like websites  um the traditionally they have been  immune like if you post some threats on  Facebook okay Facebook is not legally  responsible for that kind of stuff  because they're not a publisher. Uh I  think 230 is the thing that says oh well  they're not liable for that. Okay, the  thing is I mean and this has been said  by a lot of people um like Facebook and  Twitter are now effectively publishers  because if you post something on  Facebook and Twitter um and they  disagree with you politically they ban  you or they shadowban you that  effectively makes them publishers that  frankly should have you know that is  should that is how it should be you know  uh they should not be considered uh  they're not public forums they're  they're not immune from the  responsibility if they're taking  responsibility for the content that's on  their site, they need to be responsible  for all of it. So, how it is now is, you  know, they say, "Oh, well, we're against  this political speech because it's, you  know, hate speech or something like  that." You know, these boomers sharing,  you know, QAnon stuff, you know, this  the abs absolute cringe like basic  centeright content. We're against this.  This is hate speech. Oh, but everything  else, all the other people like, you  know, on our side that are like planning  violence and doing all this terrible  stuff. Oh, we're in open forum, so they  can post that, which is, you know, the  whole thing is BS. Um, now, of course, a  lot of people have criticized I've seen  good criticisms of like the uh the 230  repeal or change, like it's it's going  to have like unexpected um uh outcomes,  and that's probably actually true. But  the important thing is Blump is sort of  aware that this is a problem and is  willing to actually do things. Um, so  that's nice at least. But, um, yeah,  there there will definitely be  unintended consequences. Uh, if it  actually happens, it probably won't.  Knowing Blump nothing, he never does  anything right. Um, or or like he'll  he'll even say when he's going to do  something, right? Oh, I say, "Oh, I'm  going to have an executive order telling  uh, you know, declaring that um, uh,  birthright citizenship isn't a real  thing for illegal immigrants because  it's never been ruled on in a court." He  said he was going to do that two years  ago and never did it. you know, just,  you know, all the all the most base  things he never does. Um, things that  would be very easy for him to do with  executive  orders. Um, but yeah, so I don't know.  Um, I don't really have an opinion on  it. I think that, um, there the the real  solution is something a little bit more  extreme or specific. Um but yeah, like  ultimately Twitter and Facebook,  Twitter, like especially Twitter.  Twitter again used to masquerade this as  this kind of site where oh, we're the  free speech wing of the free speech  party. Now like if you post any kind of  political opinion that's not some  insane consensus leftist opinion, you  will be banned. You can't even be like a  Bernie [\h__\h] leftist on Twitter anymore  without getting like censored in some  way. You basically just have to be a  shill to be on Twitter. Um, and that's  that's called a he's a Twitter is a  publisher. Okay, that's how it is. It it  exists to, you know, basically enforce  an editorial line. So, it should be  treated as a as a a a an editorial  company. That's what it's doing.  Um, okay. So, uh, let's see what  else. Ed sends in 25 bucks. Thank you  for your 25 bucks. Uh, what do you think  of GPI trying to fix? Oh, yeah. the same  thing. Section uh 230 of the CDA. Uh if  you've heard about it, I think he might  be able to at least mitigate the ramper  rampant cit censorship online. Yeah, I  mean I I just said that. Thanks for  thanks for your money. Um but yeah, I I  think again I'm skeptical of it. Well,  you know, I guess I'm happy that  something's happening, but uh I'm just a  little skeptical that it's going to  happen. um uh and it's going to work the  way it it's intended to. Like, you know,  frankly, we're you're going to have to  do something a lot more drastic to these  companies. Um because like it's not it's  the culture of the companies like  they're going to find other ways to do  this kind of stuff. And you know, they  deliberately maybe maybe I should even  maybe I should talk about this, but you  know, YouTube has really ramped up their  censorship. Um and I don't I don't even  mean like people getting banned. I mean,  of course, they're doing that, but um  it's nuts. They actually micromanage  comments now. And it, you know, on my  side, when I see comments come in on a  video, I can see it happen. It's crazy  how it happens now. Like people have  complained multiple times um of, oh,  like comments saying this or that got  deleted. People email about email me  about me, be emailed me about them  saying why did oh I posted something  based in Redbilled. Why did you delete  it? And it's like, no, I didn't, dude.  like the I guarantee you like these  people micromanage channels now. And the  weirdest thing there was actually oh  shoot which one was it? There's some  video there was some video I put up a  while ago and in the comment section  there was like I don't know some like  stereotypical leftist guy who was like  calling everyone Nazi KKK or something  like that. I forget exactly what they  were talking about but he was just like  posting all this stuff and people were  sort of roasting him. All right. Uh, and  I saw this comment thread and of course,  you know, this guy was, you know, all  the people roasting them were getting  good upcomings. You know, they had a  bunch of likes on their posts. Um, this  other guy was just going nuts and like,  you know, wasn't getting likes and  that's expected. But then I came back  the other day, all the likes on the po  those posts had been deleted. In fact,  even I had liked some of them and they  had been deleted. And I was just like,  what? I mean, this is something I mean,  this  is I mean, if that is something that was  actually I guess theoretically it could  be some kind of weird database error,  but I just find that really unlikely.  Um, and there have been a lot of posts,  even my own posts, like if I post  something in a comment section. I I post  something the other day um uh in in the  my own comment section, I was like, "Oh,  yeah, that's gay." Or something like  that. And that post was like immediately  like within a couple minutes deleted in  my own comment section. You know, that's  the thing. So people like YouTube is  absolutely monitoring uh comments,  deleting them, removing likes, I assume,  putting on likes. Like people have  noticed in the past there was a couple  months ago there was like some or  actually no, this was around 2018. There  was like this video that uh maybe it was  like Bernie Sanders put out, okay? And  it was like criticizing Trump about  something. Okay. Um, and then everyone  in the comments realized that like it  you couldn't downvote it. Like it had it  had a couple um thumbs down. It had like  three thumbs down and like a million  thumbs up. And everyone in the comment  section is like I just downloaded this  or like uh if you downloaded this video,  you know, like my comment and you'd have  like a thousand com or uh likes or  something like that. Um and like those  kind of things and that's happened  multiple multiple times on different  videos. Like there's some certain videos  that YouTube will protect from being  downvoted um or downvote. Why do I use  Reddit terms? I I'm usually making fun  of Reddit as you know unliked, disliked,  whatever. Um so yeah, this kind of stuff  happens all the time. It's getting  getting ridiculous. So now like this is  more this is worse than like oh this is  a platform that censors people even at  the b the most basic level. they're sort  of manipulating these things to make  themselves look good, to make their  political uh opinions look popular or  something like that. And so that's why  I'm constantly thinking, oh, do I  actually I mean, even what we're doing  now, it would probably be nice  eventually if I just have like, you  know, an IRC chat window instead of the  chat here and we do that and we have  totally external donations and stuff  like that cuz I don't know how much  longer I feel like we can keep using  YouTube because it's it's just getting  so crazy. Um, and I I've said before  like a lot of the people like old based  comments get deleted, entire users get  deleted. Um, and it's all it's always  one direction, you know. It's not the  cringe people who get deleted, you know.  Um, anyway,  uh, I need to actually start taking like  screenshots when this stuff happens, you  know? I need to like just record my  screen as I scroll through my comment  section because you'd be able to see  that kind of stuff. Uh, okay. So, $2  from Plemic. Um, do you see any end to  the Corona BS? There's supposedly a new  wave, but no one dies and I feel like uh  this feels like a um a way to take away  civil rights. Well, yeah, be people  don't have freaking civil rights any I  mean, that's the craziest thing when  this stuff happened. I mean, I I feel  like a cuck cuz I didn't speak out cuz I  was just like, "Oh, maybe it's serious."  Like everyone, even the most libertarian  people were like, "Uh, whatever. I guess  we'll just we'll just shut down all  businesses in the country because the  government told us to." Yeah, it's  insane. Um, I think that it it as for  when it ends, I think it partially  depends on who wins the election in the  United States. Um, I think that if Biden  wins, they'll probably be like, "Oh, you  know, it's been magically fixed." And  then they'll go back to, well, they'll  use it as a justification for more  stupid stuff. Um, but I I mean the main  like in the United States especially and  I I think frankly the same thing even in  other countries, you know, a lot of  other countries are taking cues from the  American media, frankly. And the the  American media, their goal the past year  has been to just explode in hysteria  about literally everything. They've been  fmenting these race riots. They've been,  you know, doing this fmenting this, you  know, corona shutdown, which is  basically just like, oh, a mild flu that  maybe kills some old people, you know.  Okay, interesting. I mean, again, I was  a I was a paranoia person when it first  started, and now I'm like, "Yeah, dude."  I mean, the weird thing is, you know,  originally it was like, "Okay, no one  around me is getting it." And then  everyone around me got it. Like, all of  my friends got it. All old people at our  church got it. Guess who died? No one.  No one died. Like, that that's the weird  thing, you know? And the question is, I  I've actually heard of people who died.  I have heard of people who died, but  they're like 90 years old and they're  the kind of old people who like any  random flu would have blown them down,  you know. Um, but what was I saying? So,  as for when it ends, I think it's going  to be I I think it might be a permanent  fixture of like the propaganda system,  but I think most people are already sick  of it. Like most people who are not like  extreme leftists are already like,  "Yeah, this is stupid." Like, who cares?  We're back like around here, even in  this big city. It's not a big city. It's  a small town, uh, college town. Um,  people are totally over it. I mean,  people in the country, they're just  totally over it. Every, even every  building has on signs, you have, you  must wear a mask. No one wears a mask.  No one cares. Um, and I I but I think if  Trump um, you know, let's say Trump wins  the re-election, they're going to be  keep going hysterical. They're going to  keep, you know, doing whatever. But  again, it's like one of these things.  You can't fake it at this point. You  can't convince people that like this is  some plague where like a third of the  population is going to die when  obviously it's not happening. Like it  was one thing when it was like something  no one had been in contact with, but now  that everyone is, you know, tested  positive for this thing, you know, all  of my friends have had it, you know,  I've probably had it. I don't know. I  had a cough one day. Um but uh yeah,  people are not going to be able to be  convinced that this is a um anything out  of the ordinary. Um, I mean the real  question is, is this actually  statistically any different? I mean, of  course it has bigger numbers than the  flu did last year because, you know, the  government is quite literally paying  people, you know, with these these  relief programs to write people off as  having this, you know, disease. Same  thing insurance companies are like, "Oh,  uh, well, you're these people aren't  insured for Corona virus. Uh, you know,  check the insurance, check this the  small print." Uh, so, you know, they  want people to, you know, be diagnosed  with this kind of stuff. Um so the  question is if we didn't have any kind  of fingers on the scale would it be any  different from just the random uh strand  of corona virus that happens you know  new strand that happens every year? I  doubt it frankly. Uh maybe it's worse  but it's obviously not like world  shattering or anything you know notable.  Um okay uh Monstro sends in  $6. Um  uh started learning Latin shortly after  your last stream. Thanks so much for the  recommendation. I've been having a blast  doing it. Been using color and Daniel's  first year Latin. Great. Um, any other  books to look out for? Um, well, I think  I mentioned Lingua Latina Perce  Illustrata LS LL PSI. Look that up. Um,  that's the one you want to get once  you're once you know the um all of the  what's it called? Um, the declenions and  the conjugations and stuff like that.  That is the thing to read. Um, or look  up what is it? That old Hold on. What?  What's that old web page? Uh, Latin by  the dowling  method. Hold on. Let's look that up.  It's like an old web page. Um, and it  has Yeah, dowling method. D O W L I N G.  It's an old like this old boomer wrote  this little old web page like way back  in the day about how to learn Latin. and  he's basically like you memorize all the  tables, you do all that kind of stuff  and caller and Daniel or any other old  Latin book will help you with that. Then  you read lingual latina, you know, per  lust strata, which is a fantastic book  series. Um because it's just a reader.  Um all right, so yeah, good good. It's  good that you're learning Latin. Um I'm  actually rewriting my website right now.  You haven't there are no changes you can  see on my website right now, but I'm  making it even simpler and more like old  school. Um, but I'm also I have some  pages that I've already made on like how  to learn languages and stuff like that.  Um, okay, let me look. Uh,  $2 from Night King. Um, how would you  generate side income as a soy dev in big  tech? I'm a Euro, so it doesn't pay even  if it's a pretty good com uh pretty  comfy job. Uh, I could do a gay white  YouTube channel or maybe freelance. What  would you do? Also thoughts on Nick  Fuentes greeting from Cro Croatia. Um I  don't know. That's the kind of thing you  got to figure out yourself. Uh it  depends on like what what you can do,  you know, what you're willing to do. Um  I mean obviously what I did is I you  know I just did whatever. Uh and I sort  of fig like when I started my like I you  know I make enough money online to live.  Um I mean I'm I'm not rich. Don't think  I'm rich by the way. Donate please.  Please don't die. Um but um you know  it's the kind of thing you got to figure  out based on your own strengths and what  you're interested in. I mean, if you're  interested in webdev, that's one thing.  Uh, if you're interested in writing  programs or even the kind of stuff I do,  you know, I just write free software and  have sort of popularized it on on  YouTube and and do some other things.  Um, I don't know. It's it's kind of  thing I can't tell you. Uh, I'd have to  know your your circumstance directly.  Um, so what was I going to say? But  yeah, I mean a YouTube channel is a  possibility if you just want to put  stuff out there. Uh, don't expect to get  big, of course. you know, vast majority  of people don't, but you know, I  actually have a couple friends in real  life who have YouTube channels and they  have like, you know, 10 subscribers or  something like that. So, people are  always actually of the people I know who  have YouTube channels, they're basically  all grills. Um, and you know, one one of  my friends has has sort of asked me  directly, can I can I get a shout out  from you? And I was like, "Well, I could  I could talk about we could do a video  together, but um you're just going to  have a bunch of like simps and creeps  watching your channel because she does  like, you know, um art and stuff like  that. She's a girl, you know. Um and I  don't think she realizes or she probably  does realize what my audience is. I  think she just wants subscribers. Um so  maybe maybe I'll talk about maybe I'll  do a video with her if you know I don't  mind you guys going to sim for her."  Um anyway, so also Night King asked,  "Oh, what are your thoughts on Nick  Fuentes?" Um I mean what I know of Nick  Fuentes, I like I've never really  watched his streams or anything like  that or I I think I've seen parts of his  stuff, but yeah, I mean he seems he  seems um he's always had like a better  vision. Like back in the day where  before everyone else got banned, right,  Nick always had like a good vision like  don't do anything to make you can make  cringe jokes or like you know jokes that  are a little too race based in  Redpilled. Um but uh ultimately his  thing has been like you know just be you  know we represent morality and  Christianity and like you know our  opponents are freaking evil you know  it's nothing personal but uh it's a lot  better than the like really gay neo-Nazi  larpers that are out there who I don't  know are just sort of stupid. So Nick is  Nick is pretty good. Um Nick's Nick's  very good. He's one of the the better  ones out there. Um greetings from  Croatia. Thank you, Night  King.  Um, yeah, I don't I I've never had any  interaction with him. The weird thing is  like, you  know, like I'm in a weird position. The  thing is like because I just have a  YouTube channel where I where I talk  about mostly who cares stuff like you  know technology and things like this and  then like people you will ask me how I  feel about all these kind of people who  theoretically do political stuff you  know which of course I have opinions on  but um it's sort of weird like how do I  interact if I were to do streams with  people like this how would I interact  with them you know that that's the real  question cuz and and this is sort of my  criticism I have of um a lot of the the  people who started putting out  right-wing content a couple years ago.  Um, a lot of them were just like  onetrick ponies. Um, and that was one of  the reasons so many of them got banned  cuz like if you just do nothing but  political videos, um, people are just  going to think like all you that's all  you know and that's all you do when in  reality most of the these people are  highly competent individuals um, who  have like really, you know, a lot of  stuff going on in their lives. And I  like I I think it's more productive to  just um show people that and then I  don't know they'll figure out they'll  figure out where the politics comes from  or or I I guess the thing people need is  like they just need the the example of  real life people. Okay. Because you know  most people nowadays like you don't even  meet like your plumber or your carpenter  who has based in redpilled opinions. you  just hear like whatever Twitter liberals  think. Uh, and then you're told that  like everyone else who has like other  opinions, they're just like weirdos. And  so when you see people online who are  just talk about nothing but politics and  have no other kind of life, that's just  like sort of weird. Um, I mean, it's not  to say that's necessarily bad. I'm not  saying someone like Nick Fuentes is bad  cuz again, his optics are very good. Um,  but um, it's just one of those things  where I think people need to see like  the full a fuller side of you. And  that's not even to say people on my  YouTube channel see a fuller side of  you, fuller side of me. Um, but, you  know, I I just think it's a little  cringe to just talk about politics all  day. Um because some of these things I  mean some of these things I I think of  as being obvious and I think mostly  people don't people are afraid to say  them because they don't think other  people do uh or or have the same vision  that they do. Uh when in reality it's  just sort of like a a massive  self-centered I'm the kind of person  like like I I've never been able to  like withhold truth. You know what I  mean? Um I just don't do that. I can't  pretend up is down and down is up.  But  okay. Uh, I don't even remember. I  thought that was the Nick Fuentes  question. Um, $10 from Northwesterner.  Could you publish ne next podcast  episode is MP3? My podcast client can't  handle AUG in before I toddlers BTFO.  Actually, that's literally the answer. I  toddlers BTFO. Stop using, you know, Mac  stuff. Like dude, AUG is a basic is a ba  very basic container. Every music player  can play them except for except for  stupid Apple stuff. Okay. Same thing  with like I I'm pretty sure like a lot  of Apple can app can they play flack?  That's pathetic. I remember back in the  day that they couldn't play flack, but I  I'm pretty sure that they can now, but  we'll see.  Okay, let me look at super  chats.  Uh, oh yeah, I got a lot of super chats.  Uh, thoughts on uh $3 from Airswing.  Thoughts on city planning? Uh, planning  is stupid. Cities are stupid. City  planning is double stupid. Um, yeah, I I  don't really have a comment on that. Um,  depends on what it is. Like the the  thing is a lot of city planning is done  a lot. Well, this goes for many domains.  A lot of this kind of stuff is done for  the people within the domain. Like a lot  of architecture is done to like please  other architects and not to be  functional. That can happen with city  planning as well. Definitely happens  with web development nowadays. O web  development is like the soy devs writing  these websites. They don't write them to  be functional. They don't write them  because they work well. They don't write  them because that's what people want to  see. They write them for other soy devs.  Oh, look at my oh, look at my impressive  framework. Blah blah blah. That's that's  why they write them. They're totally  stupid. Um, so yeah, that that's the  state of the the modern internet,  frankly. That's how it is. Um, I mean,  it's a shame, you know, that that's the  biggest that's the biggest problem. The  like the biggest problem with soy devs,  we can complain about their individual  flaws or something like that, but it's  frankly they're motivated too often by  like things that you do for social  reasons or to look cool. um like what  kind of impressive framework you can use  or you know let's say you go to I  remember one time I went to like  Chipotle's website. Okay, now what you  know I forget what I was looking for  maybe like the menu or like nutrition  facts or something like that basic  information that's actually what people  want when they go to websites and I  pulled I remember pulling it up and it's  like burritos are flying all over the  place and there's like a spinning thing  and like the whole screen is taken up by  some kind of video thing. It's like,  could I please get to the information?  That That's what I want. Like, that's  that's a problem with soy devs nowadays,  you know? They they just mess everything  up. Um, I'm going to pull up this for a  second. Uh, let me continue reading.  Uh, Lionel Whitehorn sends in $2. What  are your thoughts? What What do you  think of  ATR? How Oh, anti-tech Revolution. Why  and how by Uncle Dead. I actually have  not read the entirety of that. I or is  that the one that industrial society and  its future is like built into? It's like  marketed as a part of it. I forget, but  I haven't read that much. Like someone  someone from some um book publisher  actually sent me um like uh a couple  Uncle Ted books a couple months ago and  I haven't actually read them. Like I  just put them on my shelves. They're in  my library list. By the way, if you want  to look at my library, go to  lukemith.xyz/ library. Um, but yeah, I  haven't actually read anything else. I  haven't read anything else he wrote  besides industrial society and its  future. Um, again, I know that people  think there's this meme that like that's  what this channel's about because we  make the jokes and, you know, I moved  into the country and, you know, I'm a  uniboomer or something like that, but  it's it's really just a meme. Um, he  honestly was not a big influence on me.  Very few people have been influences on  me in in a weird way. A lot of people  ask me like what what thinkers what  thinkers influenced me and I'm just like  that's not it's not how I operate.  That's one thing I don't necessarily  like when you have people there are a  lot of YouTube channels um uh I mean  especially like leftist channels like  cringe Bernie cuck left like communist  channels like all they talk about all  day is like which you know the the  internal social politics of all these  different thinkers as if anyone cares  and of course there are a bunch of  right-wing channels right-wing quote  unquote you know if you're on YouTube if  you're on YouTube you can't really be  right-wing but I mean um who do sort of  the same thing or I mean you can have  20,000 subscribers before or they ban  you or something. But um yeah, I just  don't like that idea, the the the  constantly talking about like the  historical thought of particular people.  That's not to say I'm not interested in  philosophical distinctions and  philosophical problems. I'm very  interested in these, but I think too  often people get attached to the  personalities. Um and I think that's a  bad idea. Um because you you have to  detach your own personality to look at  things I guess I guess more objectively.  I mean, I I don't really even I think I  think that's sort of a lark anyway, but  um yeah, I just don't do that. I just  don't do, you know, endlessly talking  about figures. Uh  um $4.99 from Nicholas. He says, "Have  you tried Nyx OS Linux? It's really  interesting Linux. It's a really  interesting Linux distribution due to  how it handles software and system  configuration." Yes, I've heard of it.  No, I have never tried it. Um, I've  never had a big reason to try it. I  mean, it sounds interesting from what  I've heard of it. I mean, it's one of  the the few Is it actually a Linux  distribution? Is it Does it use Linux  properly? I I don't know, but yeah, I've  heard of it. I've thought about trying  it. I've thought about trying Geeks,  whatever it is, GUIX. Um, which I think  I mean it has some other Is that similar  to Nyx OS or does it? It has some other  unique way of doing things, but um  they're one of they're the few Linux  distributions that are actually  different. Most Linux distributions are  just like the same thing over and over  again. Um, unless you're like compiling  from source like in Gen two, but even  that is not too different. Um, but no, I  haven't tried it. I think I had a a  roommate who used to use it, I'm pretty  sure. But that was before I used Linux.  That was like a million years ago. Uh,  Pipace sends in 5 real in a recent  video. Uh, you said that we should be  accommodating and on engaging conflict,  but what if it's something important  like transitioning kids? um like trainy  kids. Is that what you're talking about?  I mean, it depends on who you're talking  to. If you're talking to like someone  who's not involved in that, it's okay to  be out there and moralistic about it  because I think most people who haven't  been brainwashed are like, you know,  silently they're like, "Oh, this is  insane. What are we what are we I feel  like I can't criticize it because people  are going along with it." But around  those people, it's totally okay to to to  blow a gasket or even exaggerate how uh  you know how upset you are at this kind  of stuff. But around people who are like  bought into the system, it's better to  concern troll them because again, if  they if they feel any push back, they're  just going to go even further. you know,  they're just going to be because like,  you know, liberals when they're when  they're doing this kind of stuff, like  they like the they like the fact that  people are giving oh, that people are  disgusted by them. Okay? I mean, that's  here's here's an example in in in  transgenderism. Okay? Everyone makes fun  of the fact that on Tumblr and all these  sites, people have unpronouncable  pronouns. You know, their pronouns are  like Seir or something like that. Stuff  that starts with X. Now, that's for a  reason, okay? It's not because, oh, I  just identify with this phonetic  sequence. is because people are doing  they're making things absurd. They're  putting the standards so high because  they want you to be weirded out and  disgusted and like what are you doing  you psycho? Like that's that's insane.  They want that reaction from people. Um  that is that's that's their idea of like  you know you know is well it's actually  like Ted Kazinski notes like leftists  are are sort of um uh are like self  self-defeating self self they want abuse  in a way like they're their morality  comes from it's the self flagagillation  that they're trying to get. So it's  important not to give leftists that kind  of stuff. That's why I don't engage with  these people um in real life or I mean  if if I'm around some crazy like dude I  lived in universities for like 10 years.  Okay. And if people ask me I'll tell  them my political opinions but you know  when they're talking about that kind of  stuff I'm just like yep okay that's  interesting. I mean I'm not going to be  like okay that's good. But um don't  antagonize these people or they'll go  crazy. I mean I like I lived 10 years um  around these kind of people and you have  to be accommodating with them and then  they'll understand. they'll they'll be  like, "Oh, yeah, you know, he he has a  point. Maybe we are a little weird about  this kind of stuff." Um, but yeah, when  you're talking to a normie who's not  like super brainwashed, yeah, of course  you should be like, "Yeah, this stuff is  evil. These people are like sexually  mutilating children, that's like evil."  Like, that's insane. Like giving them  hormones and stuff like that, that's  like from the pits of hell, literally.  Um, and and the worst part is like when  liberals try and uh uh pass it off as  like, "Oh, you're oppressing the  children if you don't do that." in  reality like these kids are getting like  gassed up on this kind of stuff that's  going to end up, you know, it's going to  be terrible for them in the end. If you  actually care about these kids, you're  going to be putting the brakes on it.  Like that's the fact of the matter.  That's what they don't want to hear, you  know. But that's, you know, that's the  truth. Um, you know, and I've had I've  had a bunch of friends, well, not a  bunch of friends, but a number of  friends who who were into that kind of  stuff probably before it was really even  big. When I lived in Atlanta, um, uh, I  lived with a transgender guy. He was one  of my roommates. And uh man, it's just  him seeing him progress down this this  road and every month it was worse and it  was just it was just sad to see. Um but  you know, he's just sad. Um what was I  going to  say? Um where's the sauce sends in $5?  You discourage people from college and  encourage disconnecting themselves from  the system, but why not going into  college in order change the in order to  change the system because it's not going  to work. Okay, you're it's not going to  work, dude. I mean that I I guess I had  pretentions of doing that kind of stuff.  I mean, it's like it's like saying, "Oh,  um oh, I'm a Muslim and I'm going to  convert Christians into being a Muslim  by pretending to be a Christian and  going to a Christian church." That's  what it is. That's basically what you're  doing. Like when you're doing that, you  are you are entering a a a religious  authority, a religious institution that  has singular goals and they're not going  to be confused what those goals are just  because you're there. That it's not  going to work and you're going to be  you, you know, maybe you'll be able to  you'll find a friend and redpill them or  something like that, but um that's it's  just not it's going to be nothing but  frustration. You're going to be sniffed  out. They know they will find out. They  will come for you. it's going to be bad.  Okay. Um it's just not worth it. Um I  mean, if you go to school as an  undergraduate, maybe even as a master  student, you know, and get by, that's  fine. Um but it's not it's not going to  end as well as you think.  Um okay. Uh Joe Nuts sends in $5.  Forgive me, Lord, for I have sent.  Sad. No sing. We don't simp on this  channel.  Um, Mung Queen sends in5 pounds. Luke,  I'm a brainlet. You think Link will ever  be worth a hundred $100 plus or has the  ship sailed already? Crypto mainly goes  over my head. I think that like we're  still in a bull run. Like, frankly, Link  will go up. Everything will go up. I  don't know how far it's going to go up.  I don't know when it's going to, you  know, when this bull run will be over,  but pretty much everything's going to go  up. I sold I think I sold off most of my  link when it was a little higher than it  is now. Um although I sort of feel like  I should have kept it. I think it will  go up. Um in the past couple weeks  everything has been sort of on the up  and up since PayPal made that  announcement. They're going to be uh  using crypto and stuff like that. Um I  yeah now I would say it's a good time to  have cryptocurrencies. Um yeah I I think  mo the conventional wisdom is we're in a  bull run at the beginning of one. Uh I  don't know if link is going to go to  $100 or $500 or whatever, but uh I mean  link the it definitely has potential.  You know, chain link is is is  uh uh you know, bas chain link has the  potentials to make cryptocurrency like a  normie thing, you know, because it  basically in for for people who have no  idea what we're talking about, chain  link is a kind of cryptocurrency and um  it's built on Ethereum, but what it does  is it basically makes it easier for you  to write programs off the blockchain  that interface with the blockchain.  That's sort of, you know, in in a gist,  that's what it does. So, you might be  able to to um you know, I might be able  to easily take payments for stuff and  like have them run scripts uh when  someone makes a payment on my website or  something like that. That kind of stuff.  Uh that's sort of what Chainlink does.  Um it's more complicated than that. You  know, it has to do with oracles and all  this other stuff, but you can you can  look you can look up the white paper if  you really care. Um  $5 from Phoenix Matrix 5. Uh what do you  think about gaming on Linux? Uh, I don't  think anything about gaming on Linux.  Uh, I don't game on Linux. I don't even  have I guess I guess I used to I used to  even have Steam installed on Linux. I  used to play Soyalization 5. Um, but  yeah, I don't think about uh gaming at  all. I don't care. I mean, you know,  what people have said about Linux is  true. Like Linux is usually a better  platform just because it has way lower  overhead. It's obviously free software  and stuff like that. Um, so there's that  sense in which is better than Windows.  And I think as time has progressed more  and more stuff is on Linux and in the  future I I think it's unlikely that um I  I think that you know gamers will be  able to actually use uh Linux in the  future. That's what I think. Um and  Windows will be a little bit eclipsed or  at least like won't have any comparative  advantage. Okay. um clay and sends  in499. What is the social project thing  that you're working on an ETA on uh when  it will be ready to share? Again, I'll  it's going to be like sort of a way for  people to donate to me like you know set  up a monthly payment and you also get  perks like um uh have a have access to a  chat server and uh which I might  actually do live streams on in the  future. And I'm thinking also a Mumble  server. I might bring a Mumble server  back. That's like an audio chat and um  an email account. So you could have you  would have a Larsbs account where you  have like let's say you're Billy at  lararsbs.xyz  um you would have that email account,  you'd have a XMPP or matrix account and  you would have um you know uh be able to  access a Mumble server. Um and I might  have other stuff in there as well. I I  might even bring back a form. I don't  know if I want to do that. I don't want  to say that. Um, but as for when it's  going to be done, it's going to be done  by the end of  September. Um, don't ask me. I don't  know. I'm gradually working on it. I  haven't worked on it much in the past  week or two. I've done like just a  little bit. The thing is I have to learn  how to be a soy dev. Okay? I got to  learn how to write all this like the PHP  interface on the on the like web front  end so people can change their passwords  and do things like this. Have to  interface it with an LDAP server. have  to um uh the hardest part now is getting  it to work with Stripe or like some kind  of payment processor. If only Chainlink  worked. But uh uh yeah, that's the  hardest thing. If anyone knows how to if  anyone has worked out a a Stripe payment  system, I need to figure that out. Uh  it's been such a pain just like getting  the details taken care of. Um you can  tell it's late in the stream because  I've been like scratching my nose. As  you may know, my nose always gets itchy  when I've been talking for a long time.  Although, I don't don't think that's  always true. I feel like it's only when  I'm doing YouTube videos. Um, like when  I used to give lectures in classes and  stuff. I don't think I I don't feel like  that ever happened. Uh,  uh, Saggy Vegeta sends in 260.  Um, he says, "Can you explain in depth  or make a video or blog post on why you  think the university is bad and why you  think people should drop out?" I mean,  if you haven't already done that  somewhere else, um, I could just tell  you my story from all those years, but  that there's a lot of details to that.  Um, I mean, as I said before, like  universities, if you're in a university  under the pretenses that it is for  learning or something like that, you are  gravely mistaken. Again, like  universities are basically just churches  for liberals. Um, like at an entry  level, it might seem okay. It might  seem, oh, I'm just having fun with my  friends. It's just like in all the  college movies I've seen. But like in  terms of how the the the  the how it is run, how decisions are  made, how you know things are presented  to students, it is openly a statef  funded conspiracy theory um apparatus  that basically brainwashes people and it  also makes them incompetent. Frank  frankly like there are some programs you  can go to and you'll learn stuff like oh  maybe if you get an engineering degree  or math degree there will still be some  learning involved maybe if you're lucky  maybe not at public universities but  maybe at like really uh high tier  universities that might be the case or  maybe at really low tier universities  too sometimes lower tier universities  community colleges they're not that bad  I will say that but um the higher you  get you realize that they're really just  used for brain brainwashing. I don't  know. When you're on the other side of  like these departmental meetings and you  see how they do things, it it's hard to  explain. You h you have to be there. You  have to be there. Um maybe I will do a  video on that, but it will have to be a  very long one and it will probably be  biographical, frankly, because in order  to explain things, I need to show you  spec how specific things have happened,  how I've been exposed to them, and and  things like that. And I think um you  know I mentioned maybe in a stream  before there was an old poll of people  who were involved with Neo Reaction and  stuff like that of like what's their  education level invariably they are like  um you know graduate students and stuff  like that cuz that's when you really get  redpilled. You really realize how the  the system works when you're on the  other side and what you know how it's  its actual priorities and stuff like  that. Um,  so, okay, Night King sends in another  $2. Thanks for your answers. Have some  more shekels. I do web and cloud dev for  um uh for one of the cloud giants, so my  skills are not a problem. Okay, good.  Uh, I could even do courses. Uh, but  it's super hard to monetize these  nowadays. Um, don't want to end up as a  two subs YouTuber either, I think. Um,  well, if you know how to do Stripe, I'd  be interested in that. Um, yeah, it it  depend. I like I would just put stuff  out there like just I mean, notice my  videos, especially my normal videos,  like literally all I do just turn on  ffmpeg, record what I'm doing, talk  through things. It's like no cost  operation. And if you're going to end up  as a two or like a 10 sub YouTube  channel, like it's not okay, no big  problem. You know, may maybe you'll take  off eventually. it just like my the way  the position I put myself in is like,  oh, I never want to like invest too much  in this. Like that's why I don't I still  don't have like fancy lights. I still  don't have, you know, fancy production  equipment because like the most  expensive thing I ever bought for my  YouTube channel is this $100 mic right  here. That's it. I could probably have  gotten away without it. No. Well, I  don't want to say that. You need a good  mic. Um, and this webcam is like $30.  That's why it's so crappy. um if I  actually record audio from it, it can  record audio, but like you hear a  worrying all the time. It's, you know,  when it's it's transferring video as  well. So, um yeah, ju I would just go  ahead and put stuff out there. Um I I  definitely when when it's anything cloud  or internet related, that is a great  area to actually do stuff in because  who's doing the videos on this stuff on  YouTube right now? A bunch of petites.  bunch of petites who are just like, you  know, just um following the directions  point by point. They're not explaining  how things work. They're just like,  here's a command, run it. I'm not going  to explain what this does. You know,  that's the state now. And if you are  capable of the most important thing is  you being under to being able to  understand what people don't know and  explaining that to them. And if you can  do that, that that works. You'll be able  to do it. Um, and you know, my content,  I don't like, you know, I'm not saying  that, you know, my channel was just like  so great or something like that. But I  think that's what separated some of my  early tutorial videos because I  explained things through. Um, whereas  most people are like, "Okay, do this,  then do that, do then do that." That and  also I was like nervous about taking up  too much time. So like my first my first  latte tutorial videos are like 3 minutes  each. I'm just like here's how you do  bold. Here's how you do italics. Here's  how you make a new section. you know, I  just cuz I was like nervous. I was like  nervous when I first started this stuff.  And that that can be good. Um anyway, uh  pandemic $2. How did universities get to  be the way they are now? Uh well,  subversion. I mean, the thing is like  back in the day and I mean it used to be  in western countries if universities had  any political pretensions and often they  didn't. I I think there's a sense in  which they always did, but often I mean  it wasn't as obvious as was now, but a  lot of professors would be very  conservative compared to to average  people out there because average people  would be sort of like uh uh populists  and things like this that and they'd,  you know, support hairbrained ideas. You  know, if you look like 150 years ago at  academia, people were usually very  conservative. They were, you know,  classically educated people. Um,  actually if you if you want an aspect of  the university that's still up to like  that's a preservation of a previous era,  good topics to study, Latin, um,  theology, u, anything that liberals have  no interest in. Okay? Just just any of  those, any kind of classics or things  like that. You will actually meet  healthy, welladjusted people with good  physio, even cute girls. I guarantee you  that sounds like I'm making fun of you,  but no, you actually will meet  marriageable women in those departments  or well it might be all guys. I I'm not  going to get your hopes up but if you do  meet a girl the ones worth marrying  would be in a Latin department or a  theology department or something like  that. Um but that you know so as to how  universities started getting taken over  I mean basically universities got taken  over by the government. Um and after the  second world war you had this  institutionalization of science where  okay now in order to get state you know  universities now get massive amounts of  state funding and they get that by this  big racket called peer review where  appointed authorities decide you know  who who is true science who is excluded  from that and what happened very quickly  is there is a political tinge to a lot  of that a lot of it actually was  supported by the American government  frankly um even you know they they had  this kind of consensus center leftism  that became popular and during the 60s  that got a lot more radical and in fact  in fact it may have been more radical  than the American government originally  intended. Uh, I actually don't  necessarily think that if you look at a  lot of these radical movements that, you  know, even if parts of the American  government were against them, like maybe  the FBI, maybe maybe Hoover's FBI was  like spying on some of these people, you  know, but in general, it was sort of  like, you know, it it's, you know, one  thing that I I there's this old article  on uh what is it? Maybe it was like the  Hestiest society when it existed, but  they had this really great article about  how protests, you know, to the left.  Protests are not like you're actually  protesting something. A protest is a  victory dance. And during the 60s,  leftists who were taking over these  institutions started doing staging  protests just to get stuff because they  knew they could. You know, if you're if  you're someone excluded from the  political process, if you're a  dissident, pro protests don't mean  anything. Protests are the things that  are going to get you thrown in jail and  never released. If you're a, you know,  some kind of leftist, you'll get thrown  in jail for like a night. You'll get  that little, you'll get a little gold  star on your record and you, you know,  get a mug shot and you'll get released  because of some DA that, uh, you know,  is on your side and you'll be clapped  for and stuff like that. Um, but there's  this, you know, during the 60s you  definitely had this takeover of more  radical people and there are a lot of I  don't know, there are a lot of little  events that people don't even remember.  That's the weirdest part. You might know  where where was it in Yale? There was I  think it was in Yale. There's this  period where like uh either Black  Panthers or some kind of like black  liberation quote unquote movement just  brought assault rifles to Yale or maybe  it was Cornell. I'm not quite. It's  either Yale or Cornell. One of those  those schools up there, not Harvard. Um,  but they took assault rifles on campus  and they took over a couple buildings,  held people hostage, and they just  demanded stuff like, "We want more money  for our programs. We want blah blah blah  blah." All this kind of stuff. And um,  yeah, they got it all. No one got in  trouble. That that was just it. Like you  can just take I mean that that's why  this stuff is not real. I mean, the  whole thing is like a big fake thing.  Like the whole narrative of like um  protests like the the universities  wanted to give in. That's that's the  thing that people need to realize like  all of this kind of stuff um is fake.  Like it's it's just like for the public.  Oh, they're supposed to pretend u that  they don't want it, but they actually  do. But yeah, I mean once academia sort  of became institutionalized in terms of  like the government giving them money,  you have this radicalization of oh the  American bureaucracy which is  overwhelmingly leftists basically funds  universities. Okay. And so how's that  going to work that you know it's going  to be self-reinforcing ultimately and  that's how it is now. Uh you know that's  why Moldbug talks talked about the  cathedral. The idea being it's not like  there's one party behind the whole  thing. It's that it's a self-reinforcing  system you know and that's what we're  looking that's why it's it's so hard to  deal with it now. That's why you know  electing Donald Trump doesn't magically  make things better because it's a it's a  diffuse and emergent system that we're  dealing with. Uh and until people like  radically start defunding the  bureaucracy and uh uh universities, it's  not going to h nothing is going to  happen unless like people totally lose  faith in them and stop going to college,  which is something that I um feel like I  need to help people understand. Um all  right. I So I'm way behind in donations,  I think. Uh and I I need to check my  email, too, cuz I'm sure there are  others as well. Okay, so let me check my  email. $5 from Jonas or five uh Libras.  Uh euros euros. Libras. Why do I I've  probably been calling uh euros pounds  this whole time. Uh  Nicholas sends in $5 by Zel. I don't see  a comment. Zel doesn't often display  comments if you send in a zel donation.  So you can feel free to email me uh  Nicholas your your comment. Um two  bucks from who is this? Uh, James, I  think the I think I'm getting uh super  chat emails. Um, okay. All right. Let me  go back to to the actual uh super chat  um windows. Okay. Oh, man. Whole bunch  of stuff. Blah blah blah blah blah blah  blah. Okay. Um, $5 from German Shepherd.  What's a country you'd rather be a  citizen of? Um, I'm very content with  the United States right now. I mean  there there's basically no other pl I  mean there there are more places that  are not not too cucked. I I'll I'll tell  you countries I'd be okay with. Um  Switzerland I'd be okay with. Um that'd  be basically it. I don't know.  Switzerland is is like independent  enough like it's not it's not  Switzerland is basically not part of  Zog. Um it's it's sort of pure it's less  attached to the system. You know it's  very decentralized. there's you don't  have to worry about what the  government's going to do because  everything's very local. Um, and to an  extent a lot of Norwegian Norwegian  countries, Scandinavian countries like  Norwegian countries like Norway um are  sort of like that too. Even though they  have a reputation of being like cucked  and and liberal and stuff like that, a  lot of it is because even Iceland, which  is like, you know, you look at the  government and they're like nominally  extreme socialists and stuff like that,  but governments like that aren't that  bad because um, you know, a lot of them  are are locally oriented. I mean they're  really like people who a couple million  people who are closely related and they  feel like a familial bond with each  other. So countries like that a lot of  people will say Sweden's cucked um and  stuff like that and that is true like  Sweden is head headed in a bad direction  although they didn't shut down. That's  the one thing one good thing you can say  about Sweden. Okay so Sweden is probably  the least cucked country right now but  um so th those countries aren't that  bad. Um, but honestly I I America now,  especially after this Corona stuff, I'm  like, man, I'm glad I'm in America  because um well, I don't know how it is  in other countries, but here in America,  I definitely realize like no one buys  this Corona stuff anymore. People have  this rugged cowboy mentality, which, you  know, when the chips are down is  actually very good. And I'm glad that  people have it, but I'm sure in other  countries that's the case as well. I  just don't see it cuz I don't see  people, you know, normal people. I just  see internet people. I just see, you  know, soy devs and stuff like that from  other countries. Um, so, but no, I'm I'm  perfectly content with America. It would  be lame. Uh, I I'm I'm literally  unironically proud to be an American.  Um, El Hocus Pocus sends in 50 PLN. Was  that Polish money? I don't know. Um, for  a nice tree to the garden. All right.  Thank you. Hopefully that's enough for  one. However much of PLN, let's see what  PLN is. peeling  [Music]  currency. Uh yeah,  Polish slotty, however that's  pronounced.  Slaughter. Um okay, this is pro sends in  $5. Uh do you think Yuri Bezmanov's  predictions have been seen through to  fruition? Is America too far gone to be  repaired? Um I think in general, uh  yeah. Um I I I would say well yeah I  mean the guy that guy said a lot of true  things. Um as for if America's too far  gone it depends on what you mean by  America. America the government has been  too far gone for forever. Um the  American people are not too far gone.  Even if even if you see them on polls  saying really cut things you have to  realize most people are very  suggestible. Most people are going to go  along with whatever. um you really just  need a small minority of people who are  who who see through things to be able to  change things. And you know, that's what  we're all about. We're not about  democracy, you know, we're about um  appealing to the people who are going to  make a difference. And you know, of  course, we want normies to be on our  side. Normies are good, but a normies  will come. You  know, Clayman sends in499 talked to Dick  Masterson about stripe setup. He does a  comedy show, but he is also a software  engineer and has made a Patreon  alternative. New Project 2. Is that what  it called? New Project 2. Uh yeah, I've  heard of Dick Mastersonson.  Um but he's the um he's like that guy  from the old internet video that's like  men are better than women. He goes on  like what it like Dr. Phil or or  something like that. I think it's Dr.  Phil or Oprah. Um that it's classic. Or  is that this that is the same guy,  right? And then he did and then he had  he was the guy with like who did the  show with Maddox and Mad Cucks or  whatever. Dude, remember when like  Maddox was like the edgiest thing on the  internet? Like I I remember I remember  when I was a kid, I remember thinking he  was like so edgy, dude. This guy's so  cool. I wish I could have a website with  him and like post sarcastic things. Um  and then I just realized, oh yeah, I'm a  [\h__\h] kid. Like a very childish kid.  And I remember like looking back at his  site recently and I was like, man, dude,  this guy was always cringe. Um, it's  just when I was a kid, I was cringe. Uh,  yeah. All right.  Anyway, Alexander Gon Ganser sends in  $2. What are some uh low so  low  webdev? What are uh some low soy webdev  resources for scrubs? Uh, I don't do  webdev, so I'd be the last person to  ask. Um, but uh, yeah, I don't know  anything about web development. I am  like I'm like piecing together like a  bunch of  PHP to get my Stripe system or my like  login system and all this kind of stuff  working. Uh, which is going to be the  most soy dev thing I've ever done.  Actually, it's probably going to be very  little soy dev stuff because the thing  is soy devs will make these apps for  things like, oh, I need to be able to  change my password dur, you know, in an  LDAP server or something like that. And  there were like a million soy dev things  that they made that were like 50,000  megabytes. And I ended up writing like a  script that's like, you know, 10 lines  or something like that. So it will not  actually be that soy. But I'm probably  doing lots of stuff wrong that I don't  even know. And PHP I'm not that familiar  with. Um but yeah, I don't know any I  dude look at my website. I mean although  I do have my website the way I would  want it. I'm not going to add stupid  scripting to it. Uh I also don't really  do that kind of scripting. like I don't  think it's necessary for 99% of things.  It happens to be now I'm doing one of  those 1% things that needs web  development, but you know, whatever.  Um, Morgan sends in $5. Hey Luke, good  to see you. Did you uh finish your  dissertation/PhD? Sorry if you've  mentioned this recently. I haven't been  in a while. I haven't worked on my PhD  in like forever. Theoretically, I'm  supposed to be dissertating. Actually,  my university emailed me. Well, I'm not  even like late on anything. That's the  thing. I'm I'm sort of like I I think  one of the guys who started the PhD  program or maybe two, no, no, no, one uh  who started the PhD program the the same  year I did. I think he graduated last  spring. Um but everyone else is delaying  and during this Corona stuff like who  who knows or who cares. Uh but yeah, I'm  not particularly interested in finishing  it. A lot of people and a lot of normies  are like, "Oh, dude, you should finish a  PhD." But at this point, like Arizona  has like the University of Arizona has  wronged me to such an egregious extent  that I haven't really told people what  exactly happened. Um, but I feel like I  would be betraying my virtue by even  just finishing the dissertation. I feel  like it would be a disgrace if on my CV  I had PhD, University of Arizona. Like I  would be so I I feel I would feel wrong.  And although I, you know, I have a lot  of writings that I could basically just  compile together for a, you know, binder  dissertation. My adviser basically said,  "Why don't you just do that? Why don't  you just put in some of your former  writings? They're good. Like, it's  enough for a dissertation. Just add some  more stuff." And but I'm just like,  dude, I'm I'm so burnt out on all that  kind of stuff. And like the stuff that  happened to me at Arizona just beyond  ridiculous. I don't know. I I feel like  I can't even go go into it. I I feel  like I'm saving it up for some traumatic  event and maybe I'll release it then.  just dude that it was so crazy back then  and that was like back when Blump had  just gotten elected and people were  going nuts and like there was just like  constant inquisition and um dude these  people were crazy. Uh but yeah, that  that was like the you know that's the  thing that's the one period in my life  where I struggle forgiving people. I'll  I'll just say that. Um cuz man that was  bad. Um, but you know, I could have been  more accommodating to them. I did I I  would say I don't I I didn't have a  moral obligation to be such, but I I  could have been. Uh, but either way, the  things that the things that I had to go  through there were so stupid. So stupid.  Um, kids don't friends don't let friends  go to college, by the way. Um, Alexi  sends in €2. Cheers from Zoomer on  curfew. Thanks. I assume that you know  this is a Corona curfew since basically  the whole world is living in a police  state and most people are okay with  it. Uh look. Okay. A lot of Okay, I'm  going to read some Streamlabs  donations. Oh  man. Uh I got to go back a good bit. I  need to I need to answer questions  quicker.  um is do. So this  toen extra something in German but all  the words are together. Um  $230 or yeah 36 is donating money just  upcommies taken too far. Yeah, basically  is I'm I'm thinking we should start  calling them upies now. I think that  would be funnier because there there was  someone earlier who sent in a super chat  that was like a cookie for a boomer and  I misread it. A cumi for a boommy. No,  it was Yeah, it was a cookie for a  boommy. I was like I read it as a kumi  for a boommy. Um and I feel like you  know with the coomer meme. It'd be  funnier if we said kumies now. Upkumies  is the new thing. Um all right. So let's  see. Uh $20 from Red Horse. Thanks for  the $20. Have you ever thought about  working for some Linux-based company  like Red Hat or Canonicle? Um,  definitely not Red Hat or Canonicle. Uh,  that I would be making the world a worse  place for sure working there unless I  was like purposefully undermining them.  Um, based I I don't believe in I don't  think open source needs companies at  this point. Um, I I just don't this is  not a thing. I don't think I I look at  the companies that exist for open source  software and they're just all  disastrous. The only potential um  exception would be I mean software  itself I I sort of feel like software  does not need companies at this point or  or really it never did like companies  for writing software have always been  suspect they've always been made you  know there's always the incentive to  bloat things up to make people reliant  on you even if you're releasing open  source software you're try you make this  software that's like you know its own  thing it doesn't interface well with  other stuff and I always think that's a  bad Um, as for like privacy focused and  open- source like hardware kind of  people, let's say, you know, I work for  a company that did like um um you know,  you know, VPS's or something like that  or systems administration for some kind  of you know, privacy centered service.  I'd be okay with that. But in general,  just companies and open source just not  not my thing. Not my thing. I don't I  don't they they always seem to be doing  bad stuff.  Uh, Kaikulus sends in $2. Thoughts on  philosophical zombies? Are these  soulless NPC humans that lack  consciousness, inner experience?  Conscious inner experience and lack  conscious may be what the KJV means by  reprobate mind. Um, well, yeah. I I  mean, you know, philosophical zombies,  they're basically out there. I mean, I  think um uh I I I don't know if there's  anyone who's a pure NPC, but I think  it's definitely most people out there  are NPCs on particular things. That is  basically undeniable. I mean, you know,  when you're driving a car, you're mostly  an NPC, you know. Um in politics, most  people are grown up to be NPCs. Like  I've talked about this, like you can  tell if you're a political NPC if how  you process political events is there  are words that I've been brainwashed to  either like or dislike and I compare new  information to the words that I the  buzzwords that I've been brainwashed  against. That's how NPCs work in  politics. And I think there is a sense  in which there's conscious thought that  happens when they do that. But  ultimately it's like they're they're  think it's a it's nominally conscious,  you know. Um, I don't know if there are  any people who are fully non-concious. I  find that maybe hard to believe. Um,  obviously, you know, in my first podcast  episode, I talked about Julian James's  idea, you know, of the bicameal mind  that early humans, like consciousness is  a learned thing and early humans were  basically non-concious and a lot of  their uh social traditions and primitive  religions were based around, you know,  conditioning non-concious people to do  good things. Um I don't know how much I  actually buy that. I think that's a very  interesting idea. I think that people  should read that book. You know, the  origin of consciousness and the  breakdown of the bicameal mind and  listening to my podcast uh on it.  Actually read the book. Reading the book  is better, but you know, listening to  the podcast will give you an idea of  what's going on. Um I don't know how  much I buy it. I think it's a very  interesting idea though. That's why I  did a podcast episode on it. Um now that  goes for other things as well. Usually  like my if people think like my podcast  is like a political manifesto or like  some I've seen people try to do this  like connect the do the dots and like  what I what I actually think in terms of  my politics or something. Uh my podcast  is not necessarily a good guide for  that. And then I did like an episode on  Shumpeter. Uh when I was younger I I I  agreed a lot with Champer. I still do on  many things. Um, but you know, even his  take is not necessarily him saying his  political beliefs or anything.  Um, okay. $30 from Red Horse. Thank you  for the $30. Have you ever thought about  working for some Wait, no, I already  read that. Okay. Well, thanks again for  your $30. Yeah, I um Yeah, that's the  Red Hat or canonical question. Yeah,  again, not a big fan, not a big fan of  uh any kind of open- source um company.  Kaikulu sends in um six more dollars.  What do you think about um Mars Hall  McCullen's theory that  internationalization of a medium alters  the mind and changes how humans  experience reality? I've never heard of  this person. Like how with  internationalization of printed word,  humans ceased to see the world and  instead read the world. Ceased to see  the world and instead read the world. I  don't know how that would  change. Yeah, I don't know this  argument. I've never heard of this. Um,  sounds interesting. But, um, I do think  I have heard people say stuff like  people like consciousness is  systematically different over time. I  think that's understandable. Like I  think if you ask individual people I  mean one thing that happened after the  NPC thing or the like no internal  monologue people people started  realizing that you know the internal  worlds of people are very different like  some people are always thinking in words  some people never think in words like  physically or physically mentally cannot  think in words um you know I I I  wouldn't say I think in words but I  think I mean of course I can think in  words I I can have monologue whenever I  But usually I when I'm thinking in  monologue, that's when I'm doing dumb  thinking. I think in it's hard to  describe what my normal thinking is  like. It's a little more complicated  than that. But um uh let's  see. Um the $5 from Northwester. Do you  think we'll see a real resurgence of  right-wing populism/nism in American  politics or will big tech be successful  in stomping it out? I think it's going  to be hard to stomp it out at this  point. Um, like the weird thing is like,  you know, big tech its reach is only so  far and they've basically already  stomped out everyone they can stomp out.  They've even banned like QAnon boomers  from posting stuff and it's the weirdest  thing to see is normies who are now  being like, "Okay, I need to delete my  social media." That's weird. Uh, and  that's happening. Like people are  starting to like I mean even people who  have been critical of Trump, even like  red-blooded Americans who have been  critical of Trump, none of them even  pretend to that to trust the media  anymore. Like there's just  no no chance that you're going to  believe anything on the news. Like every  single thing they say is suspect. That  wasn't the case back in the '90s. Even  when people would would say stuff like,  "Oh, CNN, it's the Clinton News Network  and they're they're going to be liberal  and stuff like that." But now like it's  so much deeper. Um just normal people  who are not politically involved, they  just tune out the media now. Um and so I  I think  that I mean let's say if well I'll tell  you this. If Trump wins re-election,  that's going to be um I mean this is  going to be proof in their face like how  little control they have over things. If  he doesn't win the election, I think  still they're going to have to be  grappling with this forever. Um  especially if you know let's say next  time you know next time the Republicans  run someone who is sort of Trumpist in  like his political beliefs like he's you  know sort of so-called right-wing  populism. It's not even right-wing  populism. It's just populism. Um because  Trump you know he's basically an  economic centrist. Um anti-war although  he actually has you know way more  leftist positions than most people in  the Democratic party frankly. um you  know all of his economic stuff  especially I mean he's by in 2016  outside of Bernie Sanders actually  sometimes even including Bernie Sanders  Trump economically was the most leftist  candidate by far um so if we had someone  in in in uh you know 2024 who ran on  that kind of populist platform but was  just more generally likable than Trump  because Trump is just a lot of people  just don't like his personality they  don't like his style you know they they  think he's bad optics um like he's a  he's a really unpopular candidate.  Obviously, he's very popular among some  people and that might that's frankly the  thing that makes a difference. That's  why he won the Republican nomination.  But um if you could have someone  passibly I mean what I'm trying to get  at is the cat is out of the bag. You  can't go back now. They can't just  pretend like there's not like a big hole  in the system. Like no matter how  they're trying their hardest to pretend  that that is that's not the case, but  they can't do it. Okay, they've already  banned everyone and this it's still  there. And even if Trump loses the  election, he's still going to be out  there. He's still going to be the same  force. He's still I mean, when he last  time when he said uh before he got  elected, he said something to the effect  of, "Oh, if I lose, I'm just going to  start my own news network and I'm going  to do this and that and he's still going  to be in politics." And um you know,  let's say someone like someone based in  Redpilled like Tucker Carlson runs for  president, which obviously would be the  best thing ever, frankly. Um but he's a  much more likable guy. He's based in red  way more based in Red Pill than Trump,  actually. Um but he also knows how to he  knows how to even speak with leftists  and like convince them of things, you  know, the these kind of Bernie kind of  people. Um so yeah, that would be a  force that'd be pretty hard to stop,  frankly.  Um, so yeah, you can't you can't stop  this kind of stuff unless like they  literally start a civil war and start  killing people like go out and hunt for  Trump supporters. Um, they're not going  to be able to stop them.  Um, Lordly Hungry Bear 33 sends in $10.  I'm unfortunately a Commian and I'm  saving up to move out. Um, do you have  any suggestions as to what states I  should consider? Um, honestly any state,  even there are places in California you  could move that are fine. Like the thing  is it's more of a urban rural divide. I  would make your decisions based on your  personal if you have relatives somewhere  that would be a good place to move. Um,  after that I would just consider  passable climate which could be anywhere  frankly. I mean the United States is so  varied and and and moving anywhere it it  would be fine. It just depends on your  circum your personal environment. But  any state that is like not going to be  if you're look or if you're worried  about the state politics just move to a  place that's not going to be a blue  state anytime soon. Um obviously like  the absolute based in red pill  displaced like West Virginia is probably  the abs it's like the one place where  like is getting more and like  consistently more based. Uh, and it's  just like there are no big cities,  there's no like big city liberals who  are going to be passing laws or a couple  hipster areas. Um, but it's like an  entirely rural state and you want to  look for entirely rural states, you  know, or like great plain states or  options. Um, places in the south, you  might not I don't know about places in  the south because you'll have to deal  with urban people um and you might not  want to do that. I'm fine with that. You  know, I grew up with people like that so  it's it's fine. But um you know I know a  lot of people you don't necessarily want  that experience if you um you haven't  been around them before. Um but uh  honestly any state is fine. Any state is  fine as long as you're in a positive  place. But if you're worried about state  politics just move to a place that's  going to be a red state for a long long  time. Um regardless like look wherever  immigr immigrants are moving less to.  That's the best place. And West Virginia  actually is the only place in the the  only state in this country where the uh  the percentage of immigrants is  decreasing, which is hard to even  imagine, but that's true. Um, but  Tennessee is really good. Tennessee I  contemplated moving to. Um, it Kentucky,  those places. Um, yeah, just as long as  they're going to be a red state if  you're worried about that kind of stuff.  And you can look up things like property  tax, who has low property tax, who has  um doesn't have a bunch of laws about  homeschooling and stuff. States like  that'll be good. But in general, any  consistent red state's going to be fine.  Um or even if you get in a safe place in  a blue state, you know, it's good. But  West Virginia is is particularly good.  Tennessee is really good on a lot of  regulations.  Um, okay. Got to uh So, that was I'll go  back to super chat. See if there are any  new ones here. Oh my goodness. I'm never  going to get over it. Uh, I just keep  getting more. How How long has this  stream been? I don't even know. Um,  Clayman sends in $4.99. That's the  person. Uh, Maddox turned into a cuck.  But seriously, Dick is a good dude and  knows what he's doing. His current show  show is called The Dick Dick Show. Yeah.  Yeah. I've I've heard of him. I've heard  of him. I just wasn't sure if that was  that was the same guy. Um yeah, I yeah,  I don't really watch podcasts, but yeah,  I've I've seen him. I I'm pretty sure  he's not he's not actually bald, though,  right? I think he actually cuz I saw him  with like a bunch of hair back in the  back in the old days when he was doing  the men are better than women thing. He  was bald. I think it it makes him sound  more, you know, bald being bald makes  you sound more abrasive, you know? It  just makes I don't know. That's just how  it is apparently.  Um, uh, Makita sends in, uh, 25 PLN. Are  you the author of, uh, of soy dev  definition at Urban Dictionary made by  Arch user 10001? No, I'm not, but I'm  sure I mean, I made up the word Soy Dev.  So, anyone who is using that word has  either got it directly from me or from  someone else who got it from me. Um,  yeah, I'm got we need to take that word  off and, you know, or make it take off,  you know what I mean? Let's see. See,  I'm trying to think what other words  I've made up that became semi-popular.  That might be the biggest one in our  domain. Actually, probably a lot of  terms of phrases I've used. I feel like  I didn't invent bloat, but I feel like I  popularized it, and I feel so guilty for  that cuz it's so cringe. Bloat is still  banned on my channel. If you post bloat  or bloated in any comment, it's  automatically ma, you know, uh, hidden  or whatever. So, there a couple other  words like that.  Um, I think I got mad. I I got annoyed  when people kept telling me to put on a  seat belt in uh when I when I'm driving  in a car. So, I banned the word like  seat belt and safety belt and like every  permutation of it with and without  spaces cuz that was just so annoying.  We'll call it sifty belt. It's now  called a safety belt. I'm not against  wearing a seat belt. It's just I don't  wear it unless like I'm on the highway  or something if either I think I'm going  to get pulled over or if I'm in a  high-speed area. like the use of like,  you know, I'm not going to call anyone a  cuck for using a safety belt. Um, but  using it in like the small town  environment I'm in is just sort of  neurotic if you were around the places I  was. It's just sort of but you know,  it's good to be safe. Like you should  you should wear a soy belt. Um, I don't  want anyone to think that I'm like  against it. Uh, whereas masks on the  other hand, that that is total soy  stuff. Don't dude cringe. Um, it's the  principle when it comes. When I don't  wear a mask, it's civil  disobedience.  Um, Clayman sends in499. When you have  time, here's Dick Masterson talking  about the unfortunate end of project 2.  I I think I remember and he provides a  YouTube link. Uh, I think I remember  hearing about that like Stripe or  someone like cucked him or or I forget  there was some kind of That's the thing.  Everyone's like, this is this is why  chain link needs to take off cuz we need  to be able to not be shut down. It's so  stupid. It's like Stripe has has  canceled people. Um there are there are  some like sort of I guess even like  white nationalist people who still use  Stripe um and haven't been banned. But  you know, the thing is once you ban one  person, everyone starts getting banned.  That that's the annoying thing. Like  that once liberals have the once you  give the devil a foothold, they'll try  and take everything and you'll end up at  the place where you're banning boomer  Kiwanon posters. It's utterly stupid.  Like there is there like the slippery  slope is absolutely real. Anyone who  ever tells you the slippery slope is not  real is has not been around for two  months. Um $5 from Michael Smith. Um do  you think the natural order will repair  itself? Liberalism is a denial of the  natural order. I'm hopeful that  liberalism will cause its own demise.  Um, I'm not a believer in the I I think  it's sort of a cope when people talk  about the pendulum. Oh, oh, whoa. Well,  things have gotten so far and the  pendulum's going to spring, you know,  swing backward. Well, here's the thing.  Like, the pendulum has been going that  way. It's been going left for like 400  years. And what it comes down to, I've  talked about this before, like when  you're living in a technologically  complex society where you it's easy to  produce enough food to feed people and  to give people digital technology and  products they can consume. You can have  an extremely corrupt environment where  very few people are actually having  functional jobs, where people are  throwing their lives away on cuming and  consuming and all this leftist stuff.  It's very easy to live in a very corrupt  environment. So, um, if the pendulum  were to swing back, it would have to  involve some kind of technological  collapse because all of that is relying  like technological advancement. It it I  don't I'm not even like a Ted Kazinski  kind of person in the sense that I think  that technology always causes  degeneration like cultural degeneration,  but it definitely enables the  possibility. I think we can live in a  world if we have sufficient cultural  discipline and moral discipline. Uh we  can live in a technologically advanced  society that it continues to you know  shoot rockets off to planets and and  live in high-tech and live in a socially  functioning world. But higher and higher  tech always gives a a greater propensity  for corruption. So we need a a more in  order to survive. We basically have to  have a higher and higher moral standard  for us the higher we get in the  technological strata. So I don't think  that things are just going to get good.  Like I don't believe in the buffer  overflow theory of morality like we're  just going to get so liberal until like  everything just explodes and we have to  you know become extremely moralistic.  That's not I don't think that's going to  happen at all. Now on specific issues it  might happen and in fact it's happened  many times in the past. I mean one  example you know back in uh uh uh  America around 150 years ago you know  one of the big liberal causes was  abolition okay another big liberal cause  was uh uh women's suffrage okay what was  the other big liberal cause back then  anyone remember what was the first big  feminist issue even before you know you  know women voting what was the biggest  feminist feminist issue it was alcohol  prohibition okay it's it's totally been  swept under history but that was one of  the first big leftist causes, okay,  right up there with with uh abolition of  slavery and women's suffrage, banning  alcohol, and they won. They won on that  as well. They got they got  constitutional amendments for all of  this kind of stuff. The same people who  were against slavery, same people who  were against uh or who were for women's  suffrage also wanted alcohol  prohibition. But that's one example of  that failed so miserably and it was so  obvious that it was causing huge social  upheaval. Whereas you know the other two  things if they've you know if the  abolition of slavery um or women's  suffrage has caused social upheaval it's  been like very it's more diffuse more  deniable. Alcohol prohibition was like a  huge disaster. And that's one of those  things where it's a liberal policy, uh,  you know, a progressive policy that was  a huge failure and they don't take  responsibility for that. They just sort  of sweep it under the rug. Or maybe  you're sort of told, oh, that's like a  conservative thing cuz like Christians,  I mean, it was extreme leftist  Christians who were behind this kind of  stuff. The same people who are for all  this leftist stuff, the the people who  are now Unitarian Universalists, you  know, secular humanists. It was the same  kind of social groups of people who are  for that kind of stuff. now it's just  swept under history. Um the same thing  might be true. I mean the same was sort  of the case back in the 60s where um  there was a tendency to kind of  normalize pedophilia and they they  realize, okay, that's a bad idea. People  don't people aren't going to take that.  It'd be better optics if we if we just  do gay stuff. They're more okay with  that and we'll warm them up to other  stuff, you know. So So that kind of  stuff didn't happen. And it might be,  you know, let's say transgenderism is a  one of these things which in 10 years  they might realize it's been a total  failure. Okay? People aren't people  cannot take it. It's too much and they  abandon that. Okay? That's a  possibility. But don't assume that  that's going to be the case with every  like in general you know in general as  long as we have this kind of  negative you know social force out there  and we have technology which is allowing  us to embrace degeneracy we're going to  in general we're going to be embracing  more of it if we don't have the social  discipline but there are individual  cases where the pendulum will you know  swing backward you know you know in the  you know remember when  Nixon won Nixon. Of course, both of his  elections were basically landslides, but  his second election, and this was like  after Water Watergate, too. Um Nixon  basically won every state except for  what, like Minnesota. Um or no, was that  I mean, it's basically every state. I  want to say it was  um it it was like either Minnesota or  like two other states and maybe DC. He  didn't want overwhelming landslide. And  the reason he did is because the  pendulum swing too far, you know. um you  had all these kind of race riots and  stuff, you know, the you know, a lot of  people, a lot of like white liberals at  the period, they were like, "Okay, we've  just passed all this civil rights, you  know, uh uh legislation and oh, that  that means we're finally putting we're  finally, you know, going to have racial  peace and then you have all these like  riots sort of equivalent to what we have  now, except for many of them were way  worse." And so that's when a bunch of  even liberal people voted for Nixon and  it was like a massive landslide, you  know. Um, so the pendulum swings back on  individual issues, but I don't  necessarily think things are just going  to get better because they've gone too  far again because of technology.  Um, so the natural order only  exists when we're close to nature and  technology has gotten it to the point  where we're not very close to to nature.  Um, okay. So, let me continue reading.  Uh,  $2 from Night King again. Honestly,  there's no easy entry into webdev  because these people try to come up with  more confusing syntax for uh every year  to just to create something new and  shiny. Choose one technology and do the  official tutorial. React, view, or spelt  are good choices. Yeah, that's well  that's the sad thing, isn't it? So, um I  don't know like I don't even know the  field well enough. I mean, if you're  talking about I this is I think the guy  who said he might do a YouTube channel  or is looking for stuff for how to I  mean I I would try and make things easy  like do do it as suckless as you can. I  do your own take on here is okay webdev  sucks. Maybe my channel is like webdev  is I don't know it sucks or something  like that and you talk about you know  here's the real way to do things or  here's you know if you actually want to  get like because there I'm sure there  are lots of people like me who don't  want fancy stuff they just want to be  able to do stuff like with scripting on  servers just simple things can I just do  simple things just the way people used  to do them so just nice little simple  things that people might want to do like  oh I want to have like a old school  guest book or I want to have an old  school web ring or something like that.  If you can do something like that and  start by with little pieces, that's the  kind of thing that I think that like I'm  sure my subscribers would be interested  in. I would be interested in that kind  of stuff and that's the kind of stuff  that's not out there. So, when I say  webdev, may maybe I'm talking about more  smallcale stuff. I think that that kind  of thing is not very well attested  online. Um, uh, $2.84 84 cents from  Torres Junior Jr. or Jr. Jr. Facebook,  Twitter, etc. is a sewage drain. You  never talk about the Fedverse. I know  you're a huge uh you're  anti-upcoming upcomi we're now doing. Um  I see huge potential for this free  federated normie friendly network. Isn't  this our greatest chance at freedom um  from the propaganda and radicals? Well,  yes, theor the technology is, yes, but  as it is right now, the reason I don't  talk about Mastadon or the Fedverse is  because right now they're just run by a  bunch of like crazy like they're they're  run by the people who thought Twitter is  too right-wing. Okay, that is the fact  of the matter in the Fedverse. They're  all like just liberals talking about  their feelings and like micro blogging  their like uh uh mental illness and  stuff like that. That kind of stuff  like, "Oh, I I feel so depressed today.  #depressed # I need to take my SSRIs.  That's the kind of stuff that you see  there. So, I would be like, "Oh, use the  Fedverse. The technology is interesting  and censorship proof." And it absolutely  is. I agree that it is, but there's just  no good content out there. Like there  are a couple people I know that what is  it like the Kiwi Farms guys have  something like that or or or you know  there are a couple like basin red build  people but like in general I mean and  again as you say like I'm not a Ukumi  person like I don't really care that  much about social media technology so  that's why I haven't been that into it.  Uh I just have no desire to that for  that. Um but yes, you're absolutely  right. That technology for those who are  interested in it like the Fedverse  technology, you can have things like a a  mastadon in u instance which is  basically like you know a Twitter that  you can run on your own server and  interfa interface with other servers or  you can you know go to your friend you  know have an account on your friden  server and it interfaces with accounts  on anything else. It's the same for  those who saw my videos on pier. Perube  is the same thing for like a YouTube  thing. I have my own peer tube instance  now. Other people who have instances,  you know, you can make an account on my  instance or another person's instance.  You can watch videos that each of the  instances follows. Uh it's a very nice  system and and it's a futurep proof  system. It has all the perks. It's just  right now there aren't many people in  them, so I never feel like I can  recommend that much. I'm on Pier Tube  now just because I need an independent  place to put my videos and um may maybe  I'll try and do something Mastadon rel  maybe when I do a a Larsbs account thing  I might have some kind of Mastadon  account as well or like a Mastadon  Fedverse kind of thing. Uh that's an  option. Um I might as well do it if I  have an LDAP server that's I can get  everyone to log in on the same thing.  That would be really cool. Uh I've been  able to do it with most stuff. I just  need to It's the scripting and the  stripe stuff I need to figure out.  Um, Panopad sends in $3. Open BSD win. I  always think about it. Again, I I've  never had a big reason to move over, but  I think about it more and more every  day. Um, Kyus sends in another  $2. Kai, yeah, Kaikulus. I don't know  how Culus, how does he want his name  pronounced? I don't even know. The idea  is internalization of a new medium like  typography. The invention of oh this is  about the um writing affecting thought  or something like that. The idea is  internalization of a new medium like  typography. The invention of an  identical uh of identical  interchangeable letters leads to new  ideas like the idea of inter  interchangeable parts leading to uh  invention of mass production uh things  like the engines rifles etc. I don't  know. It sounds a little far-fetched but  I don't know. I probably have to see it  from the the horse's mouth to understand  exactly what's going on.  Um, let's see. So, $5 Wait, I already  read that. $4.99 from Clayman. Sorry for  the spam. I'm really looking forward to  see what you uh you've come up with. And  I know um he's a legit programmer behind  the scenes who's done it. Oh, Dick  Mastersonson. Yeah. Um yeah, if he's  done Stripe, um that's one thing. The  Stripes documentation is atrocious. It's  awful. And you can look at tutorial  videos on it that are that have been  done like two months ago and like the  the documentation has changed totally  totally and it's really I mean the the  annoying thing. Okay, here's the actual  issue.  Um I got to think it through. So  basically I want people to be able to  pay for an account. I want to join an  account. And then they need to be able  to create an account like have an have a  token to create create an account. And  you need to check things like oh has  this username been used? Um things like  that and then create it. Making sure  like getting verification from Stripe,  not just paying with Stripe, but getting  some kind of token of verification then  being able to create one account and one  account only. It's just all these little  details that it's like uh h I don't have  to deal with this and like have all  these scripts on my server that do it.  But you know, you got to do it. Oh,  that's a meme that I haven't got to do  it. That sorry, real life meme. Um that  was back from  Arizona. Um  $2 from RMS. Thoughts on Catboy Cammy? I  know that he exists. I know that he he's  um a little too based in red pill. Um  and I know he's also some kind of weird  pervert. Um so that's not actually based  in red pill. I mean he says based in red  pill things, but he's also kind of a  weirdo. Um so no no big opinions though.  That's all I know about him. So those  are my thoughts. Okay. Did I catch up?  Did I finally catch up? All right. Now  I'm going to check my email for um  manual  donations. Uh you missed my super chat.  Account name based in Turkey Pilled. Let  me check out Check it out. Based in  Turkey  Pilled.  Based  based I do not see such a super  chat. Based in Turkey. Oh, wait. No, no.  Here it is. Um, did I miss this  one? Uh, based in Turkey Pilled sends in  $5. He says, "Uncle Ted strongly  strongly strongly believes that human  nature should be preserved as is. What  is good about man now as opposed to what  the system might make of him?" I mean,  that's that's supposing that man can  change like that. Like, what do you  think? Like, you're just going to put  incentives in front of people and  they're just going to ma magically  change? If you're asking I mean I guess  the real question  is will well first off the biological  incentives that the system quote unquote  puts in front of us will change us will  it make us happier like it'll change us  biologically as well you know people you  know one thing that people talk about in  the field nowadays um we talk about it  in a bunch of fields like biology and  anthropology and even linguistics people  talk about it the idea of  self-domemestication  like civilization is something that  self-domemesticates people. Um and uh I  guess you could say oh well what if you  know we self-domemesticate more and more  and that's something that's more and  more enjoyable. Now the fact of the  matter is if you look at act how people  actually you know human psychology is  something that comes after that. Okay,  one of the things I talked about in my  episode uh my not related episode on  like the agricultural revolution, it's a  good example like humans have, you know,  technology has put us in this  environment, for example, where people  can mass-roduce grains to eat and we can  survive eating those, but they have a  lot of effects on us that are  unanticipated. We don't digest these  things as well. We get fat, we lose  teeth, uh we have psychological problems  stemming from our consumption of  agricultural products that we didn't  have as hunter gatherers. Um there are a  bunch of things that come up crop up.  And you might say, oh well, way in the  future we might be at a state where we  might enjoy these and we're we're uh  well adjusted. Um and I think that's a  little unlikely because it h hasn't  really happened over thousands of years.  like we still have the psychological  uh issues of you know having 9 toive  jobs and like basically wage cutting  that's something that people don't enjoy  you know even people who are like more  autistic don't enjoy but especially  we're at the point you know when we're  at the point where the technological  system is advancing at an exponential  rate every generation's environment is  going to be different from the last  generations so natural selection or even  artificial selection artificial  selection mind you is the worst possible  thing I'll I'll just say that the idea  that we're going to be able to we're  going to be able to perfectly predict  how to breed people and that's not going  to have any uh bad outcomes, you know,  like artificial selection like you know  eugenics. This is why I'm against  eugenics and stuff like this because  eugenics you select one thing. Maybe you  select IQ or height or or or something  like that. But whenever you do that  there are a million there's so-called  mutational load. There are other  mutations that you can't get out of the  system. So the problem with the  technological system it's it is  advancing at such a such a rate that you  can't you can't breed people to keep up  with you know keep their psychologies up  to date with it. So you're always going  to have people that are psychologically  disturbed or or things like that. That's  why, you know, people now, even though  we've been living in agricultural  societies for so long, we still have  this, you know, weird, you know,  depression and things like this that  people in tribal societies just don't  really have cuz they live lifestyles  that are, you know, their psychologies  are well calibrated to. So I don't think  we're ever going to be at a point where  man is going to change. man is going to  be constantly changing to whatever the  last slightly changing to what the last  generation required when in reality the  new generation of what technology wants  of us is going to be something totally  different. So no, I I I agree with him  on that point. I think that you cannot  the whole transhumanist lar is just  dangerous. Um, like we're never going to  be this is we're never going to be  living in a Ray Kur K curs Kursaw Wild,  whatever his name is. His dream is never  going to come true. Even if we have the  technology, our psychology is never  going to be up to date. Uh, unless you  literally just want to destroy the human  body and psychology and hook brains up  to  orgasmatrons all day, which probably I  mean the fact is when you even when you  do stuff like that, even we basically  already are hooked up to orgasmatrons,  right? You know, people can just uh get  constant stimulation from their  computers and and [\h__\h] to porn and all  this degenerate stuff. And are people  happy because of it? No. No. Because  that's not how human psychology works.  Human psychology is not pleasured by  constant stimulation. That's not how it  works. Ted Kazinski talks about how it  actually works. The power process, it's  very nichian. It's it's will to power.  It's the process of figuring out how to  solve problems and you get enjoyment  from solving them. especially if they're  related to your well-being. That's how  it actually works. Uh so I'm thanks for  Sorry I missed your uh donation  originally. That's a good question  though. Um so thanks for bringing that  to my attention. If I missed any others  you guys can can uh say uh I'm going to  check  uh super  chat um super chats and all the other  stuff and donations again. Again, thanks  for the donations. Seriously, go donate  though because again, um it it actually  costs me a lot to get out here. It  probably cost me well definitely more  than a hundred bucks to get the room and  drive out here and do all the stuff. So,  if you want me to do streams  um as a regular thing, uh yeah, I need  to I need to make money. So, I should I  should put like a a tracker like, oh, I  want to reach $1,000 this week or  something like that. Like, if I want to  be I'm not actually going to be a real  digital nomad. That's total Bugman  stuff. I'm not That's a joke. You know,  all my if if there's soy faces in the  the thumbnail, it's a joke, guys. I just  want to be clear. Um, but uh I I do feel  like there's going to be a point where  like literally all of my videos because  I've noticed like I I feel like I do  Linux content ironically now cuz I don't  really enjoy Linux that much. When I  have something to say about it, I'll  I'll talk about it. But I I feel like  the desire to put soy faces in  everything I do Linux related is  becoming greater and greater. Um  so anyway, uh so Rea sends in $6. Uh  what is your opinion on docker asking  because I started to host my own  services and a lot of software offer  docker install only as uh no as no my  services as as now or now or no whatever  my services in docker I feel abandoned  and it becomes harder uh to migrate as  my data grows. Am I am I on the wrong  side of and then the message ends  history. No, Docker. Um, I have  basically the same criticisms of Docker  as I do of all this other junk of um,  you know, snaps and flat packs. Docker  is sort of the same thing. I think it's  a little more justifiable reasons, not  like the the nonsensical security  reasons that people just make up and  snap pack snap packs. Are they called?  Um, and again, it's usually an  annoyance. And for my purposes, like the  project that I'm working on where I have  like an email server, an LDAP server and  all these things  interconnected, Docker is like  impossible to to work with that kind of  stuff. I mean, the real or it's harder  to work with that kind of stuff. Um,  like when you have, as I said in that  video, whenever you have  containerization,  containerization is going to be fighting  against the Unix philosophy at at all  points in time. Uh, that's the thing you  have to remember. If you don't need the  Unix philosophy, you don't if you don't  need things to work with each other, if  you just want to have something running  independently as its own thing, you  know, maybe some kind of server on a  particular port doing something that  isn't related to anything else, maybe  Docker is okay. Um, but in general, my  reflex is never use Docker. That that's  my view on it. And you know, I didn't  say in the snap video, one thing I  really don't like about this Docker  stuff, all all this containerization  stuff, this so-called universal package  manager stuff is that it is there are  some domains where it's taking over.  Like you, as you say, um you can't get a  normal install. You can't just install  something. You have to containerize it.  You can't even just install it on your  computer. That is the thing that's most  annoying when when people can't even um  and honestly just give me the source  like don't you know of course you can  get the source but like just give  directions basic directions on here's  how you install stuff. It's not that  hard. Come on dude like installing a  program on Linux from like make a make  file dude it's not that hard. Why make  files are basically already the  universal package manager as far as I'm  concerned. Um it's it's that's the way  God intended, right?  So you're definitely not on the wrong  side of history. Uh or if you are on the  wrong side of history that history is  going in a bad direction.  So and I I don't believe you should, you  know, be like that. Um two from Ray Paul  one does not say anything though. Thank  you for the donation. Let me check my  email for more. I think I think I got  through all the donations. I think I'm  finally I think I finally got through  someone is probably in the process of  sending a donation right now though. So  I will actually look at the chat. I will  actually look at where is it? I closed  out of  it.  Okay. How many people are watching? Let  me let me actually see how many people  are  watching. Okay. Now where is Okay, there  it is.  can actually pull up my own stream. Um,  it would be awkward if like we we went  offline and I didn't notice. Okay,  thousand some people watching. Feel like  there were more. I feel like there  were,500 or so uh a while ago, but I  feel like I've been going Yeah, I've  been going a while. People are probably  having probably having dinner. I'm  interfering with people's dinner. Yeah,  I actually um again I'm in Valdasta,  Georgia. If and I know I've actually  talked to people who live in Valdasta on  my channel. So, if you if anyone's in  town and wants to do something, um maybe  I maybe even tonight, it's 7:30 here, I  might do something. I might turn this  off and and go out. Um but I will be  here tomorrow morning. Uh so you guys  can email me if you're around.  Um yeah, I think I got through. Oh man,  dude. Thanks, people.  Okay. H might as well take a break.  Uh, so I'm surprised no one has People  usually ask me about religious stuff. No  one asked me about the the Pope the  Pope's recent comments. Usually I get a  bunch of questions about Catholicism,  but no one brought that up. I'm a little  surprised cuz, you know, basically the  Pope said something like, "Yeah, we  should have gay civil unions." And at  this point it's like this guy I can't  even pretend it's got. Imagine not being  a set of vacantist. Imagine, imagine  thinking this guy is like a po. He also  he also gave a TED talk which is like oh  basically you know a TED talk is just  like a a sermon at a liberal church.  That's really what a TED talk is. It's  basically like sermons for liberals.  That's what a TED talk is. Um only good  one is Sam Hyes of course. But uh uh the  Pope gave this TED talk about climate  change. Cringe. And he managed to go 13  minute minutes as pope and not mention  God. Like imagine even even masquerading  as pope as he is and uh nominally being  a not just a Christian or Catholic but  supposedly the the vicor of Christ on  earth and not and talking about talking  about climate change in moralistic tones  but not mentioning God. That's just the  that's very interesting. I mean the fact  is the guy gu guy gu guy gu guy gu guy  gu guy gu guy gu guy gu guy gu guy gu  guy guy's just an atheist like the guy  is just it's ridiculous imagine not  being a set of vacantist like imagine  like someone put a comment on my last  stream and it's a good maybe it's a good  comment I'm not I shouldn't totally  dismiss it but he was like well Luke  well first well first off I should be  clear when it comes to  different dialects of Christianity so to  speak um theologically I'm most in line  with just Orthodox Christianity um  so-called Eastern Orthodox and it's  really just orthodox Christianity. Um,  and um, for theological reasons, I think  that many of the the the bad things  about many of the excesses of modern  Christianity come from the the western  the you know, the western tendency to  like over  theolog over theologicalize, you know  what I mean? like to like over um to tr  an attempt to like get rid of the  mysteries of God and like say very  specific theological things about  particular issues and that is a disease  that Catholics caught and all  Protestants have it pretty much too.  There are some Protestants who that have  strayed away from this idea and you know  they'll like okay there are some things  we don't know so we have to go with what  the Bible says or or or um uh church  tradition or of course most most  Protestants reject church tradition  while simultaneously pretending or  simultaneously holding to an aspect of  church tradition called the Bible. But  you know whatever uh what was I going to  say? But um you know I I agree most with  Eastern Orthodoxy, but this guy posted  on one of my streams. He was like,  "Well, Luke, um if you're if you're  sympathetic to  Catholics, which compared to other, you  know, compared to most Protestants, at  least I am highly sympathetic to  Catholics, why don't you at least go to  a Novasordo service, like a post Vatican  2, uh in communion with Pope Francis?  Why don't I go to a service like that?"  Um and that's a good question and I I  think my view is like I although I  attend a Protestant church I consider  and and there are many things that I  don't agree with um uh with Protestants  I don't consider it sacriiggious in the  way that I would going to a fake  novasordo mass where the mass is you  know it's not in keeping with the  Council of Trent. It's not or you're  allegedly you know under the  jurisdiction of Pope Pope Francis. I  would consider that more sacriiggious  because Protestants, you know, their  services, they're they don't believe in  sacraments, right? They don't believe,  oh, well, they believe when you do the  Lord's supper, that's just to remember  Jesus. They don't even pretend, oh, this  is supposed to be the actual presence of  Christ or the the body and blood. Um  whereas if you were in a church that  claims that under fa false pretenses  being under the authority of this  homosexualist pope uh I would consider  that extremely sacriiggious and I would  not want to be a part of that. So that's  why I don't do normie Catholic services.  I've I've thought about going to some  set of talking to some set of vacantist  priests that are within uh a couple  hours of where I live. There aren't  obviously very many, but I I would not  be against going there. Uh, but I would  be against going to um a modernist  Catholic, even even a Latin mass, even  Latin mass. Um, well, I I don't know.  May maybe I'll have some sympathy for,  you know, the society of St. Pius the  10th. I maybe, but I don't know. That  would be against my uh I I just I don't  know. Anyway, that that's my explanation  of that. I'm surprised no one brought up  the pope because like people were  absolutely seething when he said said  this kind of stuff. Uh because it's  ridicul it's ridiculous. This guy is  like I mean that that should be like or  I don't know it should be excommunicable  for a a lay person to say that and it  would be under normal normal  circumstances if we had real popes but  we don't. we have, you know, fake pope.  Um, a fake pope who whose only religion  is like insane leftist modernism. Um,  and yeah, I mean, eventually it's going  to come out this guy has been like just  gay. He, oh, here's my here's my gay  lover. That that's going to happen where  he's going to say, "Oh, I'm I'm c I'm  I'm gay. I'm a homosexual orientation  person with a with a celibate uh  boyfriend or something like that." Like  that's going to that's it's going to  happen. And I can I can only imagine,  you  know, this guy. Anyway,  um, okay. Kaikulus sends in $2. He says,  "Marshall McLuhan. He wrote a few books.  A couple good ones are understanding  media, the extensions of man, and the  Gutenberg Galaxy. He was a Joy Scholar  and founded the University of Toronto  Media Studies in the 1960s, I think.  Okay. I Yeah, I haven't heard of him.  Um, beep beep sends in $2. What's your  thoughts on being a glowy based or  cringe? Also, what's your opinion on um  the  NSRV like the new uh Oxford annotated  Bible with Apocrypha? NSRV. Okay, I got  to remember which one's NS  NSRV. Um, I usually don't have, okay,  unless it's like a hyper liberal  translation, I probably don't really  care about it cuz, you know, there are  some translations of the Bible that are  like, you know, they take the passages  about like, well, we just talked about  homosexuality. Like, they take passages  condemning homosexuality and they like  do mental gymnastics to interpret them  as something different. It's just so  cringe. If it's one of those, I big  cringe. Um, and obviously I like KJV,  new KJV and Dway resigns, but um, yeah,  I don't know about this. Let's  see who made the NS  um, National Council of Churches. Are  those Oh, yeah, they're mainline  mainline Protestants. They say Eastern  Orthodox were involved, too, but you  never know. But if mainline Protestants  were involved, it is probably  subversion.  and also says a African-American  evangelicals were involved. Black  evangelical churches are usually not  theologically good too. Like they even  even though like black Christians are  usually like individually conservative.  Like they're very conservative on some  issues. Probably the only exception  being abortion. They were usually like  okay with abortion. Um but theologically  a lot of these black churches are like  really leftist in terms of like gay  stuff. I mean the in like lay people  like lay black Christians will be like  dude that's cringe man that's gay man  that gay. Uh but like their churches  will be like really liberal on that kind  of stuff. So it sounds suspicious. I  forget exactly. I can't tell you about  the NSRV specifically but probably  cringe. Um uh what are your thoughts on  being a glowy? Uh it depends on what you  mean by glowy.  Um like a working in the CIA or being an  urban person. I don't know what that  means. Uh if it could be either one.  Working for the CIA is cringed. Uh being  urban is not necessarily cringe.  Um also what's your Oh. Okay. All  right. Okay. Let me check super  chats. Um $299 in Australian dollars  dollars from Phantom Beach. Uh Nick  Lander Moldbug. Who did NRX more based?  Um, I'm not really familiar with as  familiar with Nick Land. Um, and he was  the sort of accelerationist guy. That's  sort of cringe. Um, I mean, so I guess  I'd have to say Mold Bug. Mold Bug isn't  perfect either. Um, Mold Bug is uh, he  said some cringe things, especially  about, you know, you know who. Um, I  mean, not that cringe. like Moldbug is  generally good but I think that uh you  know many many people can say that  Moldbug for his credit he did focus on  the decentralized nature of the system  you know how how as I said before a lot  of it is just like self-regulating uh  but there are certain forces out there I  think we all know who um that  are acutely negative  um but uh aside from that you know  Moldbug is very good he's just a  terrible wr he's a good writer in the  sense that his writing is is is  intelligent and um written for smart  people, but he's a terrible writer in so  far as actually explaining what he's  talking about. Um for like a normie,  like a 100 IQ norm is going to read his  stuff and just be like, "My brain  hurts." Or this this guy's just like  saying weird stuff and I don't get it.  He has a Nichian style style of writing,  you know. I think I said that last time.  Um let me check my email.  Um, someone else says I forgot their  donation. Let  me let me check.  Someone said named James West said, "I  missed their donation." But I do not see  a  donation named James  West. Unless  he named himself something else. Going  to have to tell me if he gave a super  chat or on what's it called on  Streamlabs. Yeah, I don't know. Um yeah,  you'll have to tell me. I see that you  say that. I didn't get it, but let me  check. Um, let me see for other ones in  meantime. Yeah, you'll have to tell me  your screen name.  Uh, Pyrus sends in or PYUS, however you  want to pronounce that. I guess people  pronounce them both ways. Uh, sends in  $4.99 in um, good boy points, whatever  they're called,  GBP, uh, Great Britain pounds. Um, how  do I reconcile my faith in God with my  epic Reddit logic brain? Sometimes I  feel like I only believe in God because  it's more convenient. It depends on what  you mean by more convenient. Um, autism  is bad. Like I mean the thing you have  to realize about Reddit brains is that  you know uh you know your brain like the  logical faculties of your like there's a  okay there's a Redditor tendency to like  look at oh people who believe in  religion like oh that's some kind of  brain error when in reality even logic  itself is a kind of brain error like it  doesn't perfectly recapitulate the  things that are going on in real life.  Um it's sort of like you know maybe  there are some logical laws that apply  but like your brain is like so full of  holes. It's easy to convince anyone of  anything. So, you know, there's no a lot  of people the idea that uh Reddit logic  people  are I mean like the the thing that kind  of viewpoint I guess the the kind of  Reddit atheist thing. Um, first off,  it's it's highly  culturally, you know, I I guess centered  on our worldview. Like in the past, you  know, let's say in the medieval ages,  you look at all the people who are  reasoned philosophers who are talking  things out. None of them are atheists.  They just don't even I mean, first off,  people back then defined God differently  than how they're defined now. You know,  back in classical theism, which is  actually what Christians are supposed to  believe. Very few Christians nowadays  actually believe that because they  believe in this cartoon idea of God that  God is like some personified some kind  of personality in the sky. That's not  that's when Aquinas gives his proof for  God. That's not what what he's trying to  prove. He's trying to prove a a a prime  force behind the universe or an origin  of the momentum of the universe or you  know a a force external to it. Okay. The  idea that like Reddit, you know, the  Reddit atheism often talks about God in  the same way that like boomer  evangelical talk evangelicalism talks  about God. The idea that God is like  some kind of dude like a dude with a  personality and like there are he has  traits and he has feelings and stuff  like that. You know, when the Bible  talks about God have having feelings,  that's a metaphor like in classical  theism. Any traditional classical uh  Christian theologian would agree. Um, so  yeah, the idea that there's like a  discompatibility, miscompatibility,  whatever, uh, between Reddit atheism or  Reddit, I mean, even Reddit atheism like  at some level of abstraction, you know,  I've said this to people like um, you  know, when you when you look at God in  the most simple belief, like aside from  viewing, you know, believing specific  things like the incarnation in Jesus or  something like that, let's let's just  say the existence of God, that often is  more of a question of do you  personify the moving force of the  universe or do you not? And an atheist  is someone who is autistic and therefore  does not uh personify that force.  Whereas someone who believes in God is  someone who either thinks of it as a as  as a person kind of thing or at least  someone who understands that like that  in classical theism that's when people  talk about God as being a person like  that's the whole point like the so  atheism is really an absurd belief when  you look at it that way cuz atheism is  basically like a kind of hypermaterial  skepticism where I only the only things  I exist or the only things I see or the  only things that exist are the things I  see. Right? When nowadays atheists all  believe okay well the universe had an  origin. It had an initial motion. There  is something that there has to be  something that is beyond the physical  plane that put things in in momentum.  Obviously tautologically that's ob  that's taically true. It's not even it's  not even like a prove or disprove thing.  It's just like obvious um that that kind  of thing exists. Even if you try and  explain it in terms of like particles  coming in and out of existence like  there there's some force behind that. Um  and in that sense like that is analogous  perfectly to what Aquinus is talking  about as being God. Um now the only  other question is like well what else do  you think is associated with this force  beyond the universe? Um is it is the  incarnation of Jesus is that inc is that  related to that in some way? Well you  could read  Aquinus's supposed uh proofs of all  these other things or you could look  into that. But once you've taken that  step you realize that atheism Reddit  atheism is just like autism. when you're  looking at um you know the god on in the  universe um and I guess my my trail back  from cringe atheism  um started when I started to look into a  classical theology where you you have  this different viewpoint but also sort  of panentheism and the kind of you know  kind of um I guess I I guess like the  the the Freemason kind of view of God or  the the view of or the the Prrisca  theologica view of God like the idea  that um uh there are themes of God  behind all religions that you know mean  some kind of there's some kind of  abstract similarity that they're talking  about and on once you have that  viewpoint you realize oh like often  times you know the the difference of  believing in God versus not believing in  God is again just an issue of  personification and then what other  claims do you think are do you think  there are other supernatural events that  happened in history once Once you once  you can admit that you start looking at  okay can supernatural events happen.  They they must happen. I mean in the  sense that there are some things beyond  you know the material universe that must  happen but are they specific things that  are you know part of religious folklore?  That's the that's the next question you  have to answer. Um so what was I going  to say? Uh you know and there there is  this stupid idea um the the Humian idea.  So, you know, David Hume, uh, skeptic,  patient zero for Reddit. Um, you know,  he famously had this really dumb, like  when people think about when you think  this through, you realize how it  actually works. He had this supposed  proof that you should never believe  miracles. You know, the argument is, you  know, let's say,  um, something apparently miraculous  happens and you observe it. You observe  it happening. Okay? Some, I don't know,  some guy comes down from the sky or  something like that. Even if you  literally see a miracle, you know, he  basically argued based on your previous  experiences and based on what it would  would require to believe in that  miracle, that requires you to believe  that the the physical laws of the  universe have been temporarily altered  and all this crazy stuff, unexpected  stuff has changed in the universe. And  Hume basically argues even if you see a  miracle that you still are not rational  if you believe it because you still  should doubt it. And a lot of people  will like a lot of atheists will use  that that argument for to to say, "Oh,  therefore, miracles don't happen." When  in reality, it's actually the opposite.  Okay? Hume basically argues, "No, even  if miracles happen, you still shouldn't  believe them, which which is sort of  absurd when you think about it." Like if  if you actually want to have factual  beliefs, you actually can't rule out.  You you have to say, "Okay, there are  things there are black swan phenomena.  They happen." Like it might be that some  event that seems out of the ordinary or  even an event that seems in the ordinary  might have some the the physical laws of  the universe have been altered. That  that's not uh so you know Hume's  argument is often used as a as a reason  for not believing in not believing in  miracles but it's not it's not a proof  against miracles. It's a it's a  justification for not believing in them  even when they happen which is stupid.  Which is stupid when you really think  about it. Um, and uh, yeah.  So, anyway, that's  it. Uh, let me read some more donations.  Maybe I should take a drink. I feel like  I'm getting I haven't taken a single  drink this entire time. This whole 2 and  a half hours, 2 hours, 40 minutes,  however, however long it's  been. Kaloo sends in another $2. So,  thinking about hosting an old school  TNET BBS server, but I'm too stupid to  get it to work, and I figured out no one  would even visit to chat. Uh, anyway, so  I gave up. Uh, do you think a  renaissance of BBS servers could be a  refuge from censorship? I briefly had a  PHP board. I guess that counts. Um,  yeah, I think a lot of people do have  those. Uh well at least like PHP boards  and stuff like that. I don't know if you  want to do a real telnet thing. I don't  know if you're going to get normies into  that. I mean it has to be something what  whatever technology you're dealing with  you always have to have something that  normies can like go to the website and  view. Okay. I'm trying to think. So like  Roo Roo has a form Rouv. Um I I  recommend everyone check out Rouv stuff  if you don't know him. V.com  rv.com. Uh he's pretty based in rep. Uh  he used to be he used to be like a  pickup artist. You know he went to  countries and like picked up girls and  you know you know wrote books about how  to sleep with girls in other countries  and then then he got based in red pill  politically and then he became an  Orthodox Christian and now he's like  sworn off all that kind of stuff. He  like he like unpublished all of his like  uh pickup books and now he just posts  like um pretty based pretty good uh like  reflective blog posts and stuff like  that. I think he's like writing books  right now um to sort of for sort of his  new uh new found faith and new life. But  yeah, he's definitely based in red pill.  Even his stuff before he was a Christian  is like even his stuff back when he was  like a pickup artist was like pretty  redpilled.  Um but yeah, he's good. Uh but yeah, he  has a form and he got banned from  YouTube recently for some stupid like  literally nothing like criticizing  people who you  know I I don't know like propagandize  the kids about like transgenderism  stuff which is like you know you're  living in a evil time when you know  anyway  uh Richard Zion sends in scholars. Uh, I  feel like the god of the Greek  philosophers was grafted into Judaism.  Um, I think that is a more accurate  thing that that's a more accurate thing  than people might think. Um, you know,  I've said this before. I think I even  mentioned it in my stoicism episode of  uh my podcast, not related toxyz for my  podcast if you don't know, which I'm  sure I've mentioned already in the  stream, but um yeah, like a lot of  people if if you're var like you're and  if you're like a var tier pagan  anti-Christian, basically your argument  non-stop is, dude, Christianity is  Jewish. Jew religion. Jew Jew Jew Jew.  It's a Jew religion, dude. It's freaking  Jewish, dude. And that's then you look  at the the like actual Christian  theology and it's like literally just  like Hellenism. It's it's like like  everything like I I mentioned in passing  in that episode like you look at the  trinity for example totally analogous to  neoplatanist thought like how they  thought like everything originates from  the monad and you have things like the  logos that emanates from it and like you  know it literally is perfectly analogous  like you compare it to like how Jews  viewed God. It's a it's a different  universe. Whereas you look at like Greek  thought and you look at like you know  Roman like Romans and all this kind of  stuff and it it's like perfectly  analogous. So the whole thing like and  this is why I said like the um uh like  the Prrisca theologica and theologia I  guess um that kind of stuff drew me  closer to actually be a by being a  Christian again because you look at like  these traditional uh pre-Christian  post-Christian ways of of looking at God  in the simplest sense and you see like  the actual reason for Christian  trinitarianism and all these kind of  things like they're not  histo out a cloth like they're  philosophically grounded. There's like a  worldview behind it. A worldview that's  been lost the time, but it's it's  definitely there. Um, and like people  who say like really you you look at it  and you see like if you actually want to  say that Christianity is a culturally  dependent religion, it's really a you  know European religion where Hebrew  folklore was sort of grafted onto it. Oh  yeah, we believe in like Noah and the  flood and stuff like this. That's a more  accurate thing to say like I mean  Christianity in some sense was an  orientalist religion. It was practiced  by Gentiles. It wasn't practiced by  basically any Jews, you know, even at  the earliest period. Um and it just sort  of had like motifs like Jewish motifs in  it like oh this kind of orientalist  motif. Oh yeah, nominally um you know  Jesus was Jewish and came from this  Jewish background, but his message is  for everyone and it's not for Jews or I  mean it's for Jews in the sense that  it's for everyone but you know you I  mentioned before you look at the New  Testament why the New Testament was  written was to explain to people why  Jews aren't Christians. Okay, all of the  Gospels, the story of the Gospels is how  Jesus was rejected and murdered by the  Jews. That that's the gospel story. I  mean, well, aside from Jesus's teaching,  but like what happens in the stories,  that's why, you know, you have the Jews  saying, you know, let his blood be on  our ancestors because Christians at the  time who were writing these books were  like had just been kicked out of the  synagogues and stuff. You know, Jews  were like, no, you're not the same  thing. Get out of the get out of the  synagogues. And so, they were really  butth hurt. You know, the the gospel  writers were very upset about this. Uh,  same thing with the Acts of the  Apostles. The Acts of the Apostles is  literally just the story of the Jews  rejecting Jesus's message. And because  because that is a positive thing because  you know as Paul says that's a good  thing because now Christianity goes to  the Gentiles many other people you know  so the the the Jews rejection of of  Christianity was a beneficial thing in  that sense it didn't remain some kind of  ethnic religion.  Um, Michael Smith sends in $5 more  dollars. Is uh philosopher kingdom the  ideal form of government as prop  proposed by Plato? Also, do you have any  thoughts on the YouTuber Keith Woods?  Um, I don't believe in ideal forms of  government. I I mean, I've said before  um well, first I'm not philosopher.  Plato Plato's a I'm not a big fan of  Plato, okay? Especially his political  writing. Um, I think his political  writing is good in so far that it's an  antidote to some things in modernity,  but Plato was like the original larer.  Um, I I didn't actually release this  podcast past podcast episode. I recorded  half of it, but um, I do sort of agree  with Carl Pauper when he did his  analysis of like the open society and  its enemies. Uh, in that Plato is  basically the origin of all LAR. like  all political stupidity comes from him  in the sense that he is the first guy  who sat down and was like oh let me  imagine a society designed by me and my  friends. How would that be? How should  you know it's the first LAR society when  in reality my view is that societies  have to be you know organic entities.  They're they're sort of bottom up in a  way. There's a s sense in which you  cannot plan societies. I mean some  people know this at least in the  economic domain. You know, libertarians  will be like, "Oh, well, communism, you  know, planned economy doesn't work." But  yeah, that but like everything else that  that but like morality as well. Morality  is not something we can sit down and  decide. Morality is something, you know,  NZ notes this. We don't actually  have, you know, we don't we don't out  morality. We know what morality is and  moral philosophers can guess about why  we have moral senses about things. Um  but it is a given it's an emergent thing  that happens in society. There's no such  thing as someone who says oh let's  change society's values. What that  really means is let's destroy society.  Let's labbotomize part of the the our  organic entity. Anyway, so I'm not a big  fan of Plato, although you know, I I  said in the previous stream that, you  know, if you have a largecale society  with a a political realm over a large  swath of territory, monarchy is the  least degenerate form of government in  that a a subsidiarist monarchy, mind  you, where you have many you have a lot  of decentralization, where you have a  kind of, you know, feudalism. Feudalism  is a word that we've been brainwashed  against. You know, it's supposed to be  like, oh, imagine surfs digging and  having a middle miserable time just like  in Monty Python banging cats against,  you know, wood and like just slinging  dirt all over the place. But in reality,  uh, feudalism is a is one of the most  efficient and natural forms of  government because you have you have  people who live in local communities.  They have, you know, hierarchical  government right above them that they're  connected to. Um, and then above that  there's another form of of hierarchy.  Everything is organized, everything is,  you know, there's kind of property to  it. That is that the king is not, you  know, the king is not like a president  who is only in for 48 years and, you  know, wants to take advantage of the  system for his own good. The the kingdom  is his property and it's his not just  his obligation, but the incentives are  on his side to take good care of it. Um,  so, you know, as I said before, there  are really two forms of government. If  you have a government that is um not  organized at a macro level, you're going  to have a a kind of private law anarchy,  a kind of I don't even want to say like  anarcho primitivist or anarcho  capitalist kind of society, maybe even  anarchocomunist, depending on how small  scale it is, if you don't have need for  currency or property, but nearly I mean  in all like semi-wealthy societies, you  do need private property as an  institution. That just emerges. Um, uh,  you know, I know that I know that hurts  the feelings of many communists, but  that's how it is. I'm sorry. Get over  it. Um, but, uh, so anarchy is sort of  the natural state when you don't have a,  you know, you have no need for a a  organization, uh, an imperial  organization. But when you do have a  massive country, a monarch is, you know,  a not a philosopher monarch, that's  cringe. That is Reddit tier, that's  enlightenment tier. But a monarch um who  treats the company the company well yeah  the country like it's its company that's  that's ultimately yeah private a CEO of  the country you know um uh right and of  course you wouldn't never run a a  company democratically because it would  just fall apart. Same thing with the  country. Um but yeah and I think some of  it you always have some of both because  if you look at you look at so-called  monarchies in the past and you know the  individual liberties that people had  were much greater than they are now. Uh  the freedom from taxation, the freedom  from micromanagement uh was a lot  greater. You just didn't have to offend  the king. Uh you just didn't do anything  that undermined his rule. And you know,  you don't have to worry. You it's not  again, it's not like democracy where the  rulers have to convince you and  humiliate you of things. You know, you  you have to be convinced that up is down  and down is up to function. Um anyway,  so he also asked um also, do you have  any thoughts on the YouTuber Keith  Woods? I'm aware of his channel. Um I  think he does uh uh well, you guys might  want to check it out. It's he does sort  of um I guess reactionary kind of stuff.  Um I don't know if he'd identify with  that word, but like right-wing  um general kind of it's hard to explain.  I' I've seen his channel. I don't really  watch channels like that that often. He  seems okay. Um yeah, that so I mean I'm  not uh yeah, I'm not unendorsing him or  something like that. It seems like a  good channel.  Um, but I I only recently ran across  him. I feel like someone either  uh messaged me about him or something. I  I forget. And I remember looking at it,  but again, I I like I really don't watch  YouTube channels that  much. Um, but he seems okay. He seems  good. Um, and that's Keith Woods for  those who wanted to uh look it  up. Let's see.  Uh, Purus sends in $1.99. Uh, what's a  good place to start with theology? I  think, um, it's hard to say.  Um, depends on what your background is.  I think I'll tell you what was most  instructive for me as a lowurch  um,  Baptist in upbringing. Um, I didn't know  anything about any anything else. You  know what I mean? Uh, I learned a lot  about Catholicism from what is it?  Vatican  Catholic.com. Uh, re I mean they have a  website, but really their YouTube  channel is the good stuff. They're like  set of vacantists who are like extreme  traditionalist Catholics. Um, I had no  idea what Catholics actually believed  until I watched that channel and I  understood it and other some other  traditionalist Catholics. Um, that's a  good way to getting into some of the  historical debates between Catholics and  Protestants. Um, as for you know, as I I  was mentioning before, the sort of um uh  like the the general view of how  preodern people thought of God  um or like medieval people or like uh  late classical people, that's a harder  thing to give a recommendation on. Um,  there's no one book that's coming to my  head or no one place that I I I honestly  know if I feel like this is not even the  kind of thing that people usually talk  about. I guess I read a lot into  Freemason, Freemasonry and what they  believe. Um, which of course a lot of  people consider like Satanism or  something like that. Um, Freemasonry or  like theosophy or these kind of people  there. Most of it is like new age  garbage. Um, especially Bllovatzky.  Bllovatzky. Uh, yeah. Don't don't I mean  well okay some of that stuff will give  you a representative sample but you know  I guess I read into like what people in  the Renaissance started believing about  God and um how you know how Aquinus I  started reading Aquinus's suma um and  other things. It's it's sort of hard  like the thing is there's no one source  I can recommend to you. It's sort of a  thing you have to piece together from  multiple sources. I can't get I wish I  could give you some good thing about  like just  theology, but as far as I know, there's  no one who's really redpilled on on on  everything. Um I I I you just have to  read you have to read loosely from a lot  of things until you get the gestalt of  how it works. Um even stuff like Evea  because Evea and the so-called um what  is it like traditionalist school where  basically you know the traditional  that's traditionalist with a capitalist  T where basically they they try to  reconstruct you know their view is like  there there's two two main worldviews.  There's modernism and traditionalism.  And it's not just that like  traditionalism is the thing of the past  and modernism is you know nowadays how  people look at things. It's that there  there are two main mindsets that people  in different times and places will use  and traditionalism is systematically  different in that you know how they view  the order of the universe how it is  ordered around God how it is ordered  around a king in the polit the political  realm how you know there are certain  symbolic meanings of things it's it's  hard to explain you know but reading  some of those those guys might you know  evea might be something to think about.  I don't even know about that. Um I I  can't give I can't give you I need to  maybe I need to write something like  this drawing from a bunch of sources  because it's one of those things.  There's not a single source I can give  you on, you know, to really get a view  on things. Um Chris Jones sends in $2.  What's your take on uh Eastern mysticism  like Dao and Zen? Uh I don't really  think about it that much. Um, like I I I  think it's it's a little it's a little  bug man to think about like the the  viewpoints of a culture that, you know,  I'm not fully connected to. Um, I I've  spoken positively about Daoism  generally. Um, but uh yeah, I'm not big  into Eastern philosophy at all. Um, even  even Indo-Uropean philosophy like Indian  stuff I'm not a big big fan of. But um,  you know, Dowism is fine. I guess I've  written about it a couple times, but you  know, I I don't It's not like I identify  with it or something lame like that. Um,  I bode B. I I have no idea how this is  pronounced. Is that is that like a Welsh  name? I don't even know. Who knows? Oh,  no. It sends in 10  real. So, I guess what is that a  Brazilian name or something? Doesn't  look very Brazilian. Anyway, um what do  you think of Eve and his view that  Christianity is a decay in the sense  that it um is faith based on based  instead of something like  wait in the sense that it is faith based  instead of some on something like the  vadas where the element of having faith  is not present. Okay, that I Yeah, the  grammar of that comment was messed up,  but I think he's saying like um you  know, Christianity is based too much on  faith, belief, whereas vadas, you know,  some many traditional religions are not  about that. Well, first off, like  Christianity itself, you know, really  really this kind of  um I I guess the Protestant view of  Christianity where it's things about  things you like as a person ascent to,  you know, like beliefs you ascent to.  Islam has a lot of a little bit of that  too. Um whereas you know even even in or  eastern orthodoxy and Catholicism  um in Catholicism well both ethn Eastern  Orthodoxy and Catholicism um you can be  baptized into the faith of course and  some Protestants by the way who still  retain this more traditional view of  Christianity. You can be baptized into  the faith and not have a clue what what  the faith is about as a child. And you  can, you know, if you die in, you know,  a state of grace in Catholicism, if  you're a little kid and you you are  baptized and you die, you still go to  heaven and stuff like that. Um the the  view of sacraments in the Catholic  Church is that really um although  asenting to the the facts is a part of  the faith as time goes on. Sacraments  are fundamentally things that you know  are not your belief. You know you you  there's required faith in the sense that  you trust you know you know when you go  to confession or something like that you  um um you know you have to be generally  be sorry for your sins or genuinely be  sorry for your sins and stuff like that.  Uh but the idea that like the faith  itself is consenting to specific things.  Now, it it is like not doing heresy and  stuff like that, but people can have  individual doubts. Like if you if you're  a Catholic and you're like, you know, I  don't I don't really know if God exists  or something like that. If you go  through the sacraments and you you you  have faith, I mean, if faith actually  is, you know, not necessarily thinking  that something is absolutely true, but  having faith that you  know it is true. You know what I mean?  Yeah. Like a lot of people ask me like,  "Oh, how do I have faith in this? I  can't make myself believe." when in  reality it's like yeah that that's what  faith is like maybe you can't be  convinced of something rationally that  that's sort of the point. Um so in  Catholicism for example the sacraments  of baptism and confession and and and  and and all of all of this kind of stuff  there are things that are external to  you and that affect you. Um same thing  in orthodoxy. In orthodoxy, you know, um  there's a lot of ambiguity about  specific things that people in the  Western church take for, you know, oh,  well, we know exactly how heaven and  hell work. In Eastern Orthodoxy, there's  sort of an ambiguity about, well, we  don't really know God doesn't hasn't  really revealed that much specifically  about him or specifically who goes to  heaven and specifically what that means  and specifically what hell means. And  so, we we have to we have to leave that  as an ambiguity. So there's not so much  of a a a faith. I mean, it's not like  the the idea that like a religion is all  about asenting to facts is a very  Protestant notion. And I I think if El  Eve is is construing that as what  Christianity is and of course that is a  part of it. I mean you have to have  faith in you know the resurrection and  stuff like the resurrection of Jesus and  the dead, right? That's pretty much a  fundamental part. you might have even  have a different view of what exactly  that means you know um but um you know  and and in the same way there are many I  mean especially in the in the past and  there are many Christians now who look  at a lot of the old testament is you  know may maybe this stuff isn't didn't  literally happened in happened in the  way that some people think or it's  written or you know even in the way that  the gospels are written right there are  many gospels that tell stories totally  differently in different tell stories in  contradicting ways  Is it is it a lack of faith to say that  um you know both of these couldn't have  happened like in each of the gospels  Jesus has a different final word you  know final words that he says does is  that you know if faith is like factually  consenting to something that the Bible  says about Jesus is isn't that a  contradiction in reality it's just like  it's autism if you think if you're  thinking about it on that level um  that's not exactly the point you know  um So anyway, but yeah like there there  are there are religions like you know  Hinduism or you know frankly you know  Catholicism nowadays a lot of people who  call themselves Catholics don't actually  believe anything. Um well that's more a  state about the absolute state of c  statement about the absolute state of c  uh capital I was about to say capitalism  Catholicism.  Um but yeah Hindu Hinduism is one of  those religions where like eh do I  believe in gods? That's not the point. I  mean, if and if you really get at  esoteric Hinduism, it's actually very  similar to European paganism where like  people, you know, people normies would  believe in like gods as these things  that exist. But like the philosopher  people, they would believe in God. They  would believe in one singular god behind  all of them. Sort of a hidden  monotheism. And that's what gradually  evolved into to, you know, Christian  theology as as we were talking about  before. It wasn't just again it wasn't  just like you know like Var says oh dude  desert Jews took over dude it's not it's  not accurate you know  um all right let me refresh these  pages okay Uh oh boy, I'm way behind.  Oh, okay. People are sending in a bunch  of little donations. Jeez. Okay. Uh I'm  way  behind. Um Okay. Uh Mister sends in $2,  I'm  assum Okay, there are a lot of $2  donations. I I might have to um give  priority to uh bigger ones, but I'll  I'll read these if I can if I can get  through them. I I might be stopping  sometime soon. I'm getting a little  tired. Um, Mister sends in $2. I'm assum  stuck at the uh at the crossroads. I  currently have three options. Take a  bachelor's degree in IT, become a cop,  become a household electrician.  Thoughts? Um, don't become a cop. I  would not. Well, it depends on where you  are. Actually, if you're in an urban  environment, I would not ever become a  cop cuz, you know, you're just going to  get, you know, accused of racism and  like killed or something. Um, so I and  if if you're in a small scale community  might be a fine thing to do, but you  know, I'm just suspicious of of being a  cop nowadays. It's, you know, that for  better or for worse, it's a it's a very  risky thing to do. Um,  uh, it Okay, so being an electrician,  that would be a good thing to do. Uh, I  highly recommend that if you can take  classes for free in it if you're in a  place where like you can get free stuff  like you know I you know I'm in Georgia  right so in Georgia they have the hope  scholarship basically free college if  you have a 3.0 know GPO GPA. Um, if you  can take college basically for free, it  might be okay if you want to learn  specific things, but it might be a big  waste of your time depending on what you  already know. It might be better to uh I  mean, becoming an electrician, you can  make a lot of money if you know what  you're doing. Um, it's pretty easy to  learn what you're doing. Uh, yeah, you  actually can make a lot of money. Um,  and uh, you know, I feel like it is the  kind of thing, I mean, I'm speaking of  someone who, you know, everything I  learned in IT, I've never taken a  computer science class in my life.  Actually, I did sign up for a like  computer science 101 class when I was an  undergraduate. Went one day and I was  like, "H, this sounds hard. I don't want  to do this." Um, so, you know, I I'm the  kind of person I've taught. Everything I  know about computers I've figured out  myself and I sort of feel like most  people who are capable of learning this  kind of stuff can do it. So, I would it  depends on if you can take classes for  free. I would definitely pursue the  electrician thing. And if you can take  classes for free halftime or something  like that, that would be a good thing.  Um, if you are already sort of competent  and you you have a way you can start  making money online doing IT stuff, I  would try to do that and uh double it up  with the electrician thing. Uh, it's  hard to go wrong with being an  electrician. That will be you'll be able  to make good money anywhere you live,  move out to the country, get a real job.  Um, be be your own boss. That's a good  that's a good thing to do.  Um, okay. Kais sends in $2. C. He looks  like he sent in a bunch of $2. So, um,  uh, one of them is, uh, thoughts about  making a form, but they could strip my  registar if I allowed free speech. I'm a  noob. Is there a way for normies to  click icon and I can make simple program  to connect SSH to a form instead of uh  on a server on my own IP address instead  of the command line terminal? Uh, that  sounds a little gimmicky. And I will say  so a lot of people will be like, "Oh,  dude, they're just going to shut me down  if I allow free speech." Okay, I the the  issue they will shut you down if you're  on you YouTube. They'll shut you down if  you're on Twitter or Facebook. And yes,  there have been high-profile sites that  have been like shut down by registars,  but one is you're going to be smallcale  and it's it becomes more and more  difficult for them to find you and shut  you down. That's one thing. I mean, keep  in mind like the original site that was  shut down, really the the one site  that's been shut down is the Daily  Stormer, right? So, the Daily Stormer  used to be  dailytormer.com. They they were like the  first people to ever be kicked off a  registar for no illegal content.  Basically, they just made fun of that  fat girl who died in a car accident in  Charlottesville. And then the reg the  registar was literally like he wrote he  actually wrote a blog post about this.  He's like, "I was angry about this, so  I'm just going to kick him off and I  don't care about the the uh the the  slippery slope or anything like that."  You he actually published this  embarrassing blog post about his stupid  he he literally got emotional and  started a dangerous precedent. But the  Daily Stormer was kicked off of  dailys.com. They're now  daily.su. You can go there. They're  still on the clear web. It's just they  just got a better register. They've gone  through many different registars. Um,  but I I think that the thing that people  say, "Oh, I'm just going to get kicked  off and it's not going to be any good."  Uh, well, they're still on the Daily  Storm is still online. It's still, you  know, the best comedy news site out  there. Uh, which is Andrew England's  actually really freaking funny. Um, but  um, you know, they're still on the clear  web. They do have a tour site, but um,  the I think a lot of people just get in  this cope or anti-cope. They're just  like doomer mindset where they're like,  "Oh, everyone's just going to get shut  down." And uh it's very hard for them to  shut everyone down and it's not worth  their effort to shut everyone down. And  it e if you make your own website and  you make your own service, even if they  even if your registar shuts you down,  you just go to another registar and you  still have your own you you still have  your own VPS or you still have your own  server. You can just oh okay change the  DNS settings, tell people to go to this  website instead. It's not too hard. So  don't don't freak out about that kind of  stuff. Um lots of people there are a lot  there are lots of very edgy sites that  are still on the clear web. Uh, and  they're going to continue to be that  way. And I think people realize like  this shutting shutting down sites, it's  a big inconvenience. It was a big  inconvenience to Andrew England when he  got shut down. Um, uh, but um, there's  only so far they can go. They like they  can't they can't st stomp people out  just forever. Um, and there are plenty  of sites that are like much edgier than  his and actually like, you know, some  dangerous sites frankly. Uh, not not  political stuff, but there there's  really edgy content on the clear web.  And I think people who just get in this,  they they censor themsel because they're  worried about getting censored when you  don't really have to worry about that.  It's like, no, I mean, if you have to  buy one more domain name, okay, oops,  $12 more this year, not a big problem,  okay? You know, so don't don't worry  about that kind of stuff. Just do it.  Um, but yeah, don't do anything  gimmicky. Just have a normal BBS kind of  thing. Um, he sends in two more dollars.  I missed the small uh group brotherhood  community back in uh BBS days and I feel  like it's missing in modern and on  Reddit and 4chan culture. I wish we  could have a renaissance of something  like BBS but better. Uh build back  better QAnon confirm. Lol. Um yeah, it  would be nice. It's just the culture of  the internet has sort of been gone. Uh  Albert sends in $22. Hi Luke about the  transhumanism. Why not set the  simulation triggers to stimulation  triggers to important but uh non  naturally stimulating for user  activities and talk about the human  psychology and talking about the human  psychology why couldn't  shouldn't be ch why oh it be changed  sorry like these are formatted so weird  when I read them how's your hotel cheers  from Russia okay the all right why can't  human psychology just be changed well  First off, I just told you the reason it  can't be changed via evolution because  it's like trying to shoot a missing  target with a literally a billion  genetic variables, all of which can  cause cataclysmic failure. I mean, a lot  of people have this idea that like the  human brain is just like a computer and  you just change variables if you want  to. That's not how it work. Like people  have literally not like neuroscientists  have no freaking clue how the brain  works. anyone who no there's no such  like there's no it's such a complex  system so beyond anything we understand  it's just stupid like neuroscience you  know I had um when I was at Arizona  there was one of the the professors  there he he was like so based in red  building because he basically just like  pooped on everyone else cuz everyone  else was like doing bad work and he was  like really freaking great um he  actually moved to the University of  Florida his name was uh Andrew Lotto but  he had this great expression he was like  you know neuroscience neuro what  neuroscientists Do they just like scan  the brain and they look at stuff like  stimulation? Okay, neuroscience is  basically like if computer science was  trying to figure out what a computer is  doing by looking at what parts of the  computer are hot. Okay, that's basically  what neuroscience is. All right, exactly  what neuroscience is. uh actually in  fact um it's like such a I'm not even  you know I don't believe in the word  pseudocience but it's such a like fake  statistical correlation fest of just  like big data nonsense people have no  idea like human psychology is not just a  thing you can change so that's not even  a real question um and even if we are  changing the stimulus response  uh system over generations of evolution.  Again, like whenever you have some kind  of strong natural or artificial  selection on humans, you always have  genetic defects popping up every  everywhere else. It never ends up how  you whenever you have any kind of  founder effect. Whenever you have any  kind of like massive selection of people  for even for IQ or something like that,  you have massive uh genetic you know  side effects on the you know that that  basically if you are selecting for one  particular thing you by definition have  to not select for everything else. It is  not an actual natural environment where  a species acclimates gradually to their  environment and doesn't develop anything  hostile dur while this happens. It's  like a disaster every time. It it it  doesn't work. There's no such thing as  why don't we just change human  psychology. That's a that's a extremely  naive thing to say. I I just want to say  um so I I don't really understand the  first part of the question about the  transhumanism. Uh why not set these  stimulation triggers to important but  non-naturally stimulating for user  activities? I don't even know what  that's supposed to mean, dude. Like the  whole thing like transhumanism is just a  freaking LAR. If people again like if  people were more in tune to how  neuroscience works or really doesn't  work or how lit like how complex the  human brain is or how you know any of  this kind of stuff they would realize oh  it's just this is a this is impossible  it's a sham it's never going to happen.  Okay the the more we learn about the  brain the less we realize we realize we  the less we realize we know about it.  Okay it's not going to happen. I'm  really serious about this. um like  there's not all these Elon Musk ideas.  We're going to have brain interfaces or  stuff. If we do, it's going to be a  disaster. None of it's going to work.  It's going to, you know, and and the the  same principles apply even outside even  when we're manipulating people outside  of like neural engineering. I I mean, as  I said, we are creating a pleasurable  society. We, you know, where you have  phone games that are supposed to be  perfectly designed for your psychology  so you find enjoyment of them. And guess  what? You're still going to get bored by  them. you're still going to be be  engrossed in them and they're gonna  still harm you in unexpected ways. Like  that's how it is. Like this is just  don't just Yeah. None none of it's gonna  happen. All right. Ka listen uh $2. I  was an anthro I was in an anthropology  program but dropped out after I found um  a Spanish armor breastplate in uh Citrus  County, Florida in a cave. And they  treated me like a criminal for finding  something from um Navarez expedition.  And uh I don't know what they did with  what I found. That's  interesting. Yeah, you never really like  people are really touchy about stuff  like that. I I don't know exactly even  what the what the rules are or what the  protocols are. Who even freaking knows?  Um okay, another $2 from Kulus. Uh what  do you think about the GPT3 AI from Open  the AI? Same thing. Don't Yeah. None of  it. Um, and what do you think about it  not being open anymore? That Elon Musk  guy creeps me out. Uh, TBH. Well, the  thing is we don't have to worry that  much about transhumanism or like people  becoming robots or any of that kind of  crap cuz none of it's going to work.  Okay? It's all going to be a big sham.  Like it's never we are never going to  there's no there's not going to be a  singularity point where like the human  brain is interfacing any of that kind of  stuff. I don't believe in any of that  for a second. Maybe at a very  superficial level. Um, but the idea that  I mean especially AI like AI  um, yeah, you're never gonna have AI in  the way that  or I let me put my words together on  this one because I I I feel like the the  way that AI is being approached is never  going to have human  analogous machines the way that it's  done with neural nets and all this kind  of stuff. It's not it's it's just the  entire wrong approach. And there are  other people who criticize this from  other angles. I mean there's like the  Nam Chsky critique that you know we're  not doing the engineering people are  just doing like big data kind of stuff.  Um but I I think even more than that  like the total direction is just I don't  know off the anyway I AI is just like  when you whenever whenever you're  talking about AI you I just hear like  people throwing their effort down an  infinite chasm that's never going to  happen. Same thing with true  transhumanism. I think when people like  really look into the difficulties  involved in that kind of stuff and like  how great they are and and like like  there's so many other things we could  try to like people like in in in in uh  neuroscience in neuroscience they have  like um there are some animals with  brains that are like what like 14  neurons or something like that. the  simplest thing in the universe and we  still don't know how to we we still  can't model their brains. I mean, it's  still nuts. You know, you can look at  these little nematodes or these little  amiebas and we still can't understand it  and understand them. So, the idea that  we're going to like understand the human  brain or like be able to interface it,  which you know, as it's evolved over,  you know, billions of years and uh uh,  you know, all this, it's just I I don't  I don't buy it. I don't no, it's not  going to happen.  Um, $2 from Melanar's thoughts about  Mises Rothbart and Hans Herman Hoa. Um,  only the ones I've given on every other  stream. That's got to be I feel I feel  like we have to promote those guys to  like uh you know, I'm glad no one asks  about Jordan Peterson anymore. Every  stream it used to be what what are your  thoughts about Jordan  Peterson? Um, Mises um I've read Human  Action. I guess I like it. It it's  interesting. Um I like Rothbard stuff.  Um I like I I'm not really sold on the  whole Austro libertarian. I I'm not I'm  not sold on praxiology. Um I like like  Austro libertarianism is an interesting  uh critique of you know you know gay and  fay mo you know modern economics or  whatever. Um, I don't buy praxiology  because it's like the same I mean it's  the same thing that like Marxism is in  the sense that it's like a very fragile  um reasoning system where people like  um like you know reason through why this  or that should be the case and if any of  the blocks in the logical system are  wrong or whatever you know the whole  system falls down. But these guys  instead base their entire moral  philosophy on praxiology and it's just a  little or well I guess Rothbart for  Rothbart it's moral for Mises I think  he's sort of uh he's still in the he  still believes in is ought distinction  but Rothbart doesn't um Hans Herman Hawa  you know I talked about him in the last  stream um generally based I I've read  democracy the god that failed um I don't  think it's very readable to normies  though but I mean I think his points are  Um, but yeah, I don't think about it  that often. I mean, I I went through a  phase where I read a bunch of these  handcap guys, but uh I haven't in a  while. Let me check my email for  donations.  Denoian.  Um, okay. Let's see. uh  PayPal  donation. Okay. So, James  um James West  uh he was the one who said that he sent  in a donation and I didn't read it. I'm  looking at the donation. There is no  comment on it. I think it's for $2.  Either that or there's another James.  Well, there's a James West and James  Westerman. I don't know if those are the  same people. Um, okay. Oleg sends in 10  bucks. Uh, I don't see a comment on that  either. I don't know if uh they're not  putting the comments in  those. Um, and then one  more. Uh, Josh Wilson and 10. I don't  see a comment on that either. I don't  know if these are actually just uh  donations from Streamlabs that um I  always get confused if they they always  do things differently. They change if  they send emails to you, redundant  emails or blah blah blah. Pandemic $2  sends uh he sends in. Uh AI is a total  misnomer. It's uh very successful at  what it does, but it's mostly glorified  regression. Uh that's definitely true. I  agree with that. uh and the people who  design it know that as I understand it,  it's mostly uh a marketing ploy to call  it AI. Uh very good at specific tasks  but can't generalize. Yeah, I mean we  did AI stuff back at the University of  Arizona and yeah, that's definitely  true. But the issue is people especially  in academia get confused because you  know they're yeah they fall for the  marketing ploy. They're like oh this is  like cognitively real stuff especially  when you call something neural nets. I  mean I guess it's supposed to be  analogous to how neurons work but um the  idea the idea that this is like supposed  to be a cognitive model is lost on  people. Now I will say this I will say  this there is a kind of implementation  of neural nets in linguistics called  optimality theory. Actually linguists  don't even understand optimality theory.  every every undergrad or at least  advanced undergrads and um graduate  students in linguistics will learn about  optimality theory and it's sometimes  mistaught because like linguists don't  understand like neural nets and stuff  like that but it's basically like a kind  of shorthand for making decisions or  like deciding what optimal forms to use  over a neural net. It's like a shorthand  implementation. It has like charts and  charts and constraints and all this kind  of stuff. It's actually not exactly um  well it's a shorthand whatever um but I  am a big fan of that especially when I  was at the University of of Arizona I  started doing projects like  deriving like a word order across  languages from optimality theory or  which effectively means that or well  really everything like eventually I got  to the point where I was like okay all  the things that are done by traditional  generative syntax like chsky and  generative syntax all of that stuff  could be much better done uh like word  order or like making decisions about you  know how to to to extrapose  constructions or or other other things  that you can't account for in generative  grammar. Very easy to do in optimality  theory and in fact you can use you can  basically say you just have funological  and semantic constraints and they  interact over a neural net and that  solves basically every problem in  linguistics. I mean that that would be  the uh basically what I argue at this  point. Now that's very ironic because  when I went into graduate school I was  like oh dude this optimality stuff what  the heck even actually my roommate in  Arizona redpilled me on this. I have to  give him credit because originally I was  confused like as most linguists  linguists aren't even properly taught  about optimality theory. They're not  taught that it's like supposed to be a  neural net. They're just taught oh it's  some weird shortorthhand and like it  doesn't actually make any sense. Like  there's this idea that there's like this  thing called jin that generates every  possible  uh candidate for deciding something and  then you have constraints that weed  through them like psycholog as a  psychological model. It doesn't make  sense but it's really just a shorthand  for a neural net. So my my roommate  redpilled me on that. And after I I took  that red pill I was like oh dude you can  actually do a lot of stuff with this.  There are a lot of things in in syntax  where you have basically you have you  can't account for them with linear  rules. you can't account with account  with them count  them whatever with uh with uh you know  sort of minimalist syntax but it's easy  to do in optimality theory it's easy to  do with you know a neural net um so yeah  yeah it is totally a misnomer um but the  the problem is most people even in  academic fields totally uh think that AI  means intelligence where when in reality  it's like something totally different  it's it I don't even know it needs a new  I mean, it's like it's like the um what  is it the MIT course that people always  quote from from uh on computer science  where in lesson one he has like computer  science written on the board and he's  like well the first thing about computer  science is it's not really science and  he crosses out science and he explains  why and the other thing is it really has  nothing to do with computers either and  he crosses out because that's true too  like computer science it's like study of  you know recurs recursion and and and  these kind of formal properties that has  nothing to do with it's not like a  scientific experiment thing and it also  per by itself it has nothing to do with  computers either you know computers  happen to use it um it's very useful for  computers but computer science has  actually nothing to do with  computers all  right okay let me check I'm getting  tired I'm getting tired I'm an old  boomer let me check this um donation  list. Uh yeah, guess I haven't gotten  anything in a while. I  might I might uh close down soon if we  haven't had donations and maybe I'll  take a take a nap. An old boomer nap.  I'm really looking forward to the time  falling back. I'll tell you that.  So, uh and people are gradually leaving.  So, guess people got to go to bed. It's  night in Europe or or wherever. It's  night everywhere, basically. all the  important parts of the world. It's  already night  here.  Um, all right. I'm actually looking at  the normie chat. Let's see if there are  any anyone saying anything  interesting. Show me your Show me your  best soy face. No, I'm not going to do  that.  All right. I noticed that like the past  30 minutes, it's just been like the same  three or four guys just giving $2 super  chats over and over again. I I Here's  the thing. Let me let me go ahead and  say, as I said, I I well, I didn't plan  this, but it sort of came up in the  stream, but um you know, I talked about  I I really just want to move away from  YouTube because, as I mentioned, they're  just censoring so much. Um so much of it  is just like a fake astroturfed platform  now. And you know, maybe things will  cool down after the election. Maybe  it'll be a little better. We We don't  know. I either way it happens. I don't  know. Maybe they'll ramp it up if it if  Trump wins. Maybe they'll ramp it up if  uh Trump loses. But um either way, I  think it'll cool down after the  election. But either way, I you know,  long term, I need to find a way to do of  doing a stream, including a chat and  including a super chat thing that is  independent of YouTube. Now, I know a  lot of people moved to Dive. I actually  had a dive account for a period, but the  thing with dive is um and you know, I'm  not against the platform or anything.  It's a fine place to stream. A lot of  people do it, but they have their own  fake they have this thing they that they  pretend as a cryptocurrency. It's not  actually cryptocurrency. It's just like  fake cummies basically. Kumies we call  them now. Um and you know, a lot of  people use them. I didn't Alex Jones get  banned on dive because he criticized the  Chinese government. like dive is owned  by China, you know, and that's usually a  good thing for censorship because um you  know, China, as long as you're not like  calling for the overthrow of the Chinese  Communist Party, like they'll let you  say whatever. They don't care. Um you  know, anything in American politics is  is fair game. So, um, but like I just  want to be a like my vision that I'm I  think I'm constantly moving closer to  and my vision not just for myself but  for the internet is  um, you know, for it for it to be easy  for a person to set up their own server  with their own website, their own you  know you know being able to do a stream  with friends and and even even watch  videos together, you know, or or have a  chat together. doing that on a pl on  your own platform. You know, it's very  cheap to have a VPS, couple bucks a  month. Um, and it would just be really  nice if people could use that to the  fullest extent instead of having and of  course federating through services um  through through, you know, federal  services and interacting with with other  instances. Um, that would be a really  nice thing to to have an internet like  that. And that's the internet we have to  eventually make. That's the way the  internet was supposed to be, frankly.  Um, but you know, the the convenience of  all these sites like YouTube and  Facebook have distracted people and  let's hope it's a temporary distraction.  Now these these companies are  omnipotent. They can just ban people and  it's very sad um and just disheartening  and it it has a lot of it's really  destroyed the internet and we need to  make we need to you know a lot of people  are like oh let's fight censorship but  really you fight censorship by making it  as impossible as possible.  So, all right. So, I I'll take a last  look at donations and I I guess I have  to call it quits. Oh, I'm  pooped. All right. No more I don't see  any more donations on Streamlabs. I  don't see any more uh super chats. Let  me let me uh check check my  um email.  Joshua sends in  $2 and it says, "You rock it." Is that  like a sticker or something? I don't  even know how that works.  Um,  okay. All right. Well, I guess I'll I'll  call it quits. I'll look at the chat one  more time and then we'll we'll head out.  This has been This has been a long  stream. I don't even know. I hope I I'm  pretty sure I made the money that this  hotel room cost. So, I I might do this.  Well, I def I definitely did. It's just  like did I make enough to make it  worthwhile to drive out and do this  every once in a while? I might be going  on a personal trip. I was thinking about  doing it this week um and leaving now  and like going from here into somewhere  else. Um but uh as I said, a family  member called me over to, hey, you want  to have um uh dinner on Tuesday? And I  was like, okay, yeah, sure. I'll do  that. I'll come back. But I think maybe  either this week or the next week, I'll  take off and go on a bigger trip. If any  of you are in Georgia, if any of you are  in maybe North Florida, or if any of you  are in  Alabama, maybe Eastern Tennessee,  uh maybe South Carolina, uh you can feel  free to email me because I might be in  the region of one of those places,  especially if you know multiple people  who know my channel. I might come by and  and uh see you guys. Um maybe even if  it's just one person, you know, I it  might be weird if you but you know it's  it's fine by me. Um if you want to have  lunch or dinner at some point, um just  go ahead and email me and I might be  around. But when I'm doing this  traveling, I'll probably be traveling  slow and staying in hotels and doing  streams during the nights. Um I have a  video that I think was uploading while I  was um doing this stream, so I might  release that tomorrow. Um, until then,  I'll take one last  look. Not Nashville. Maybe  Nashville. Um, if if I get multiple, you  know, I have a friend in I don't think  she still lives there. I don't think.  And plus, now I'm a Christian. I can't  stay with a  girl. That good. That's one thing that,  you know, back in the day, I wouldn't  feel weird about staying with a  girlfriend of mine, but now I feel like  this is a Christian channel. I feel like  that's a bad bad example. I don't want  to.  Um anyway, uh all right. Well, I guess  I'll call it quits if I don't see any  more  Um well, see you guys next time. And  again, if you're in Valdasta, Georgia,  uh you can contact me now, like  literally now. And maybe tomorrow  morning, I'll still be here. Well,  probably tomorrow morning. Maybe  tomorrow, even afternoon, I'll be around  here. Uh if you know other people in  Vadost, we'll do something. All right,  see you guys next time.