Closing statement for the New Hampshire US Senate Primary Debate:

We must unify our country. We must find common ground in freedom, human choice & our Constitution.

We must let everyone pursue happiness as they choose. Freedom is the way forward for America. 🇺🇸

#NHPolitics

Literal, actual fact: these otters are currently generating more power than the Nord Stream pipeline

Wow, Europe is in a rapidly accelerating death spiral...

The good news is that the establishment has much diminished soft power. They do not convince anyone who isn't already convinced.

The bad news is that the establishment retains much hard power. They do not convince, so they will coerce.

'Flex Alert' should be the kind of thing that people say when you roll up to the club in your Lambo

1. Over the weekend I took 1st place in Scott Alexander's anonymous book review contest. My entry was about the Sapient Paradox, which asks: since humanity is over 200,000 years old, why did civilization take so long to get started? A 🧵 erikhoel.substack.com/p/the-gossip-t…

god save us all they're back to flattening curves

Incredible clip

If you wanted to incite a hyperinflationary crisis you would enact price controls and turn on the money printer to try to fix a growing energy problem. It looks like the EU and the UK are keen on inciting this type of crisis.

The ball is in motion.

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California

lol Frank Herbert. 'hypnobong'

Market reacting to Russia turning off the gas?

the coordinated cross-platform purge of andrew tate is a blueprint for the future of american politics. from banning people to their supporters and entire schools of thought, the machinery is now in place to 'content moderate' our way to a one-party state. piratewires.com/p/one-party-st…

Plot twist: China's zero-COVID policy may end up saving the rest of the world from a oil price spike.

Them: 'Honest validators can slash dishonest stake if necessary.'

Me: 'What's to stop dishonest majority stakers from slashing the stake of honest validators to preserve their 51% majority, then?'

Them: crickets

Blockchain fees don't go up linearly, they're 0 for a while, then go up exponentially, and then they go back down.

WTF

I started working as a freelance consultant doing Linux system administration work at about 14 years old. And that's when I went to my first computer conference. By myself, an hour train ride away.

12 should be old enough to babysit, a much more responsible job.