Wonder what the context was back then that would have the NYT publish a conservative article (paid ad?) criticizing it.

Americans have had brief bubbles of freedom. Same applies to Northern Europeans during the Medieval.

I don't know who he is, all I know was that his subreddit was getting updooted by whiggers when he insulted Drake, who I also know almost nothing about. Checks out that he was the bitch that pulled the nigger word stunt.

I ordered the occasional thing off Amazon too. I'll make sure to use google or duckduckgo shopping for the occasional generic product I need.

That makes sense, a majority of pirates are casual or rabid consumers who follow familiar rituals. They aren't interested with in-depth technical understanding, and lack strong social convictions or good taste. Those that do would have to be paid to play today's triple-a slop.

Shifting from the guy's lack of strategic awareness to his all too common sentiment, businesses aren't charities. It's lazy and vindictive to despise an individual, group, or category of people then think they should provide health care, unemployment, other benefits; a form of manufactured cognitive dissonance.

For the sake of completion, I'll reiterate what I presume we all know here, that a person's salary is derived from the value they generate (subjective value, not the labor theory that cultural Marxism has crystalized in our population) and their ability to negotiate (don't support wholesale immigration). Imagine if normie-bait youtubers didn't pander to weak audience sensibilities, and state that the industry never should have never expanded to hire these peasants in the first place.

I've grown to despise discussing these socioeconomic topics with regular people. I usually get a platitude like "politicians and businesses hate workers" which they think are observations which agree with my point. Instead, they are generating cliches to reinforce the status quo.

There's already way less stigma with going minimal or no contact with family than what this article paints compared to a century ago. What I find disturbing is the common theme of halfwit leftists, always oblivious that they are at least as stupid and immoral as their parents.

Biden’s done an incredible job. Accomplished almost the impossible. His stuff on Israel and Ukraine is four-dimensional chess. And what he’s done with the small amount that he has anything to do with the economy

Like GRRM, Penn proves that intelligence oft isn't fungible, and weakly correlates with virtue. The responsible man opposes Biden and Newsom, simple as that.

You might take a qualified IQ test as an adult for curiosity's sake. Start with Mensa's free online test for an idea of the spatial test. The mental-age/chronological-age metric approximates childhood potential but loses accuracy as you reach 18-25 years old.

a 140 IQ person with an LLM can have many times more value output over 100x 120 IQ people with LLMs and 10,000x more output over 100x 100 IQ people with LLMs.

First, 120 is usually just past the pretentious halfwit range. Ignoring machine learning, the only reason this would be true is the difficulty and cost of managing increasing amounts of people. Assuming that there's acceptable leadership, it's better to have 10 people ranging from 140-105 IQ with diverse backgrounds (not the intersectional type) than three 145s of similar background. The Wisdom of Crowds book cites at least 1 study showcasing how important it is for a team strategy to not have blind spots resulting from groupthink.

A rockstar is still capable of unique invention, so 1+ genius shouldn't be discarded if possible.

VIs only benefit is lessening the burden of less virtuous or misaligned individuals on the more productive. The homogeneity they output reminds me of the Irish potato famine, however British oppression plays into it. Certainly not gauranteeing 1 borderline genius to out profit 100 borderline smarts working g together.

A separate study instead used reaction time as a proxy for intelligence, and iirc showed that well-off Victorian English were more intelligent than what we have today. I'd have to hunt down the video I watched or article I read, or better yet find the sourced paper again.

Libertarianism is heterogenous and goes much further back, at least to Bastiat in the early 19th century.

Support abortion on demand and any form of relationship between 'consenting adults'.

The more important part was that such policy should not be decided at the federal govt. level, which is almost what the Trump appointees achieved by repealing that piece of judicial activism. Some libertarians believed in the way the US handled the issue before Roe V. Wade was amended in the early 90s was ideal and consistent with Rand's objectivist philosophy, where sentience and/or heartbeat is the strong determining factor in which an abortion is illegal or immoral. This contrasts with abortion at any time including after birth, or pro-life that begins at conception.

since they believed in abolishing marriage

Yes, government shouldn't be involded with legislating morality, only enforcing contracts.

Whether child labour should be legalized

Such laws were always enacted after child labor was on its way to extinction. I'm pretty sure the more paleolibertarian stance is ensuring economic conditions where a free-associating society will never desire child labor, or would be penalized (i.e. risk ostracization from a polity)

driving licenses

Rigorously defined libertarian-ism is decentralized law. Privatized or public roads aren't a pure, solved issue.I would certainly like more stringent license testing procedure so fellow commuters would drive faster and respond quicker. This is harder under the current system where transporation on govt/crony engineered national highways is an assumed human right.

Another dipshit copypastad gotchya example

Maybe they were booing the premise or presentation of the topic, I'm not sure.

The 'national libertarianism' ... <more short parapgraph> ... it's Hollywood White nationalism.

I believe the earlier commenter's point could be better expressed as 'any functioning governing system requires shared, learned values/virtues that are vigilantly uphold by constituent members'. This isn't unique to libertarianism. It's over-simplified to say 'white-only allows this principle to work', but this heterogeneous libertarian society roughly describes 19th century USA (relative to rest of world), depending on time and place. Moving on, Hoppe makes it very clear that certain behaviors will see a person excluded or otherwise punished by their polity. However, if John McAfee want's to do cocaine on his own independent property, so long as he can upkeep the property and not harm others on his property. Gong in depth with how he could be punished is beyond the scope of this comment, but could include violent retaliation by other polities (who again share common understanding on certain universal rights) or a cessation of trade.

I could have made a post compiling and making a case for the right kind of libertarianism, but I assumed enough of this message board realizes certain observations of libertarians have merit. Working off that assumption, I just felt like venting about a certain example touching two topics (lpusa and brainwashing language technique) of which real-world occurrences really peeve me.

Yup, I've put less than 100 hours of csgo/cs2 in the past 5 years because devs forget adults who don't watch e-sports or buy skins exist. Because of the type of person that buys cheats, a competitive shooter is in a catch-22. Go niche and reduce revenue to attract a self-selecting audience, or go big and get all the human NPCs (who Eternal September organic indie successes) and tech-illiterates that can't bother to install hacks in a VM or seperate machine.

As a side-note, I hate how the delusional fad of tannyism got mixed in with sci-fi inspired transhumanism. With New Age, we got ritualistic women with make-believe magic beads. Right now, we got some severe cognitive dissonance and willful ignorance going on with the physical realities of genital mutilation. We've got to accept it, else be charged with the high treason of bigotry. The real societal upheaval when we have the biomedical technology, or AI+robotics, to transcend modern humanity has no substantial relation to the barbaric, pseudo-scientific fad Western society entertains today. To repeat for emphasis, sci-fi or fairy-tale sex-changes thoroughly alter the body's composition to actually change the person's sex.

Tim Cain certainly was not thinking of Valve when he made that statement about workplace mediocrity.

Ex valve devs have commented on code maintainability and workplace mismanagement. Still, I wouldn't denigrate the technical prowess put into a successful twitch shooter sequel on a custom engine (or if they went the UE/Godot route) as beneath a moderate sized triple-a team. Did the Godot hobbyist come up with a superior smoke implementation? I have my own complaints outside the core gameplay, about the hidden away server browser and retarded official matchmaking systems, so I'm not giving Gaben special treatment, and have held my negative csgo review since trying cs2.

Triple-A gaming is far from the most secretive industry. Think of the secrecy measures put into a federal contractor like Palantir. Or even hardware companies like Micron or AMD. Would be an unnecessarily costly burden that constrains creative output.

"The aphorism "you can't tell a book by its cover" originated in the times when books were sold in plain cardboard covers, to be bound by each purchaser according to his own taste. In those days, you couldn't tell a book by its cover. But publishing has advanced since then: present-day publishers work hard to make the cover something you can tell a book by." - Paul Graham

There's also at least 1 thinkbeforeyousleep video explaining that you should judge people by how they talk and present themselves. It's all signalling theory. Not the same thing as being superficial, perfectly illustrated by how Patrick Bateman only cares about suit labels for self-justifying social status. Richard Feynman is the perfect example, he had a 'low-class' east-coast accent, but was articulate and substantial. He presented himself with the desired effort to attract the audience he wanted.

Or did the video hit a little close to home?

We don't take too kindly to shotgun gossip techniques around here.

Now do the jackasses that installed a psycho soccer-mom as CEO.

In some video, Vee made a point of shaming some leftists that were shitting on mrbeast's giveaways. Whether or not he had a good point about leftist envy, I should have left a loud comment about how one should be very wary of and opininated against normie content plastered across a fresh YouTube front page. That this guy has shady shit going on is secondary to the side-effects of hundreds of millions that will consume this shite, or consume Britney Spears pop slop. A virtuous society does not have lowest common denominators pushed to the top.

First, this is not a homogeneous forum here at kia2. I prefer Israel over Palestine and most other modern Muslin/Middle-East countries, even if I think nation-state support of Israel has been absurd from the onset. I also think it's ridiculous that Kanye West was debanked over his comments, even if that has more to do with the notion of state-entangled banking than absolute control by Jewish elites.

It is apparent that this insular group (that does not include all ethnic or religous Jews) has undue influence in our government and establishment media, and this group uses its past victim-hood as a shield against real criticism of constituent individuals. Thomas Maisie publicizing the Isrealite lobby's insidious tactics comes to mind. Therefore, it's not that Tommy is "baiting the inbred racists", but that he's also paying lip service to a degenerate subsection of the establishment that has fucked him over numerous times.

It's quite simple, I don't want people to choose in-group preference over our nations' sanctity, and I don't want portions of religious or ethnic groups to cry bigotry to deflect legitimate criticism. A subset of Jewish people are very high on the progressive stack, and use this status to act in their immediate interests to the detriment of wider society.

"It's just a prank bro!"

Real libertarians; not the hippies with no understanding of Lysander Spooner, Mises, or Heinlein; have a point about how private (aka polycentric) law beats socialized law. The vastly simplified theory is that if an individual purchases law enforcement services directly, the police are incentivized to serve that individual instead of the state. This does not imply that implementation of privatized services isn't complicated.

This also goes along with other principles, such as an extreme rejection of positive rights. A person isn't entitled to due process just for breathing where he stands, just like he isn't to food and shelter. It's up to the localized polity to decide if that person is permitted to travel or reside there in the first place, and whether to provide due process (or other amenities) or to expel him.

This post makes it evident that current systems de facto fall far short of reasonable ideals. We have a constitution that codifies natural rights, and a populace that forgot that it takes toil (negotiation with neighbors, companies, and other polities) or blood to guarantee those rights. Other comments here provide good policies (including acknowledgement that cost-effective capital punishment is more just than prison in many cases), but don't fully address some root issues of why our judiciary is so contemptible.

And so am I, as long as I'm seeing people on the internet. As soon as you exit, you just see... normal people.

For every person I meet with their own interesting hobbies and unique insights, there's 14 others regurgitating what's on the news, too caught up in their own in-groups, too eager to drug out, etc. 4 out of those 14 are tolerable to talk to for a short duration. There'll be another 10 keeping to themselves or their family. Like Lethn, I'm checked out on socializing irl, at least until I move again.

Lethn's right, the internet got Eternal September'd hard, and many of the remaining geeky spaces got hijacked by left-wing activists.

That's a damning indictment of how far left the overton window has shifted.

No, I blacklisted him within the past 2 weeks for making me listen to "Guys, Jan 6th was super not good". That falls outside my pet peeve of lacking academic rigor, and into willful adherence to The Narrative. His reaction videos were tolerable when the youtube algorithm on my gaming machine isn't feeding me videos I want.