 Okay. Doing a stream today. Let me... I actually don't want to record this one. I will just let it stream. So I was going to do one last night, but ended up having some things come up that I had to get to. So I guess I have a free day kind of in the morning today. Of course, everyone's at work in America. So you know, all you wages... No wages allowed in the stream, but I guess it's ideal for people in India or something like that. I don't know. So let me pull up the chat. I will read donations as usual over there, wherever they are. I think I pinned the comment with them. And I'll talk about whatever else. Let me pull this stuff up. Let me pull this up, because I didn't actually... The reason it took me so long to start this thing I will say is because I branched out. I'm actually using two computers now, or at least I'm trying to use two computers, because I usually use my laptop for everything when I do streams. You know, just... It's difficult dealing with multiple computers, you know? But I decided to bust out the old desktop. Theoretically, I do have two computers. I never use the desktop, but it is now streaming, and I'm using the laptop for everything else. So I think I actually got a couple messages. I'll go ahead and read them. Ryan sends in $10 and says, Any recommendations on books on agriculture? I want to know this stuff like nitrogen, pH, pruning, and crop rotation. Doesn't have to be the Bible, but something to point me in the right direction. I will say I have... I actually did a blog post years ago, back when I was about to move here. Where did I... Where are those books? Where I have... I basically asked the same thing of people. And... Okay, where... They're right in front of... Okay, here they are. Right? So, good books to check out. There's this guy named John Seymour. Okay? So he has a series of books, or just different ones. I have two of them. The Self-Sufficient Gardener and the Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency. Also a good thing. Has gardening, has other stuff as well. Has, you know, how to, I don't know, prepare animals and, you know, compost and stuff like that. I don't know how to make things, how to can things, all this kind of stuff. So I recommend these books. They've been pretty good resources. Like, they're not too... They're not too autistic if you're looking for something scientific-y, which you also don't really need that. So I would recommend these. There are a couple... I want to say, I might have like another book of his. Oh yeah, and another one that people... I got recommended to me a couple times is Illustrated Guide to Gardening. And this is actually from Reader's Digest. It's a little more colorful. Actually, no, maybe it's not colorful. Maybe it's black and white, but it does have a lot of images. Okay, some of them are cold. Do have color, but... So this is actually... So for example, we're actually talking about pruning here and stuff like that. Really, the thing with pruning, I will say the thing I've realized about that is you got to feel like you're actually killing the plant. You have to... Because most stuff, you know, let's say grapes or figs or stuff like... Like a lot of fruits, they will only grow fruits on new growth. So you have to cut back basically everything every year. Like every year, you have to, you know, totally annihilate stuff. So, you know, the hard thing when you start out, if you don't know anything about it, you kind of feel like, oh, man, like I'm cutting off too much, but that ain't the case. So, yeah, I mean, those are the books that I would recommend, or at least that I have. Like there are probably many other good ones, but John Seymour in particular, he wrote a bunch of stuff and it's pretty good. So that's what I would say. So Anonymous sends in some Monero. Oh, I did do a video. So the Monero Donation Portal, which is where I'm actually pointing to it this time, which you can go to. I did do a video on that that's on PeerTube, but I'm going to release it on YouTube in a bit. Like there are a bunch of... For those of you who only watch me on YouTube, there are lots of videos... My workflow for making videos is I will make them, then I'll put them up on PeerTube, which is videos.luxmit.xyz, right? You can get to the link on my website if you're too lazy to type that in. But I will usually put up videos there and then a couple days later, I'll put them up on YouTube if I remember. And a lot of videos I literally just forget. I mean, maybe some of them are too based and redpilled for YouTube, but in general, I just forget that I upload videos there and I just get sidetracked. Putting things up on YouTube is less important to me now, even though I have a much bigger audience on it or whatever. But Anonymous sends in some Monero. He says, thoughts on Libreboot and Corboot in the current year. I have not looked into Libreboot or Corboot in a long time. Obviously, I recommend everyone use a free BIOS for people who don't know what that. Maybe I should redpill you on Libreboot and Corboot. What's the point? So every single computer nowadays, basically every single computer has the Intel management engine. If you have an Intel processor or if you have an AMD, it doesn't matter what it is. All major processing companies basically have microcomputers in the processors that can be exploited by companies or governments and all this kind of stuff. Basically, even if you're running Linux and all free software, you have a backdoor in your computer that can potentially be exploited. That's what the Intel management engine is. And of course, it's running non-free software anyway. So Libreboot and Corboot and that kind of stuff. Am I buffering? I might be buffering. The goal of Libreboot is to basically just have a free BIOS. Replace all of that with all free software that doesn't spy on you and stuff like that. So when I first started my YouTube channel, I had this other ThinkPad, which I've since, I may have broken. I had X60 that I installed Libreboot on. And that's in terms of security, that is superior because you don't have this theoretical backdoor that the government can spy. Basically, if you can exploit it, I think you can look at stuff that's in the memory and other things like that of your computer, which could be basically anything. So that is something worrisome. So Libreboot is a good idea. Now Corboot is, Libreboot is like the GNU, it's like all free software and it gets rid of all proprietary stuff. Corboot is kind of like middle of the road or more middle of the road, like it's free software. It doesn't fully disable the management engine because it's actually really difficult to do. Well, it disables it, it doesn't remove it or something like that. It destroys its internet connectivity or something, but it doesn't delete all the software because the computer wouldn't be able to boot without it because these Intel CPUs, they don't just have a backdoor. You have to have the backdoor in order to even start the computer. So anyway, old Intel Core 2duos, like core processors, they can be Librebooted. Anything that's like an i3, i5, i7, maybe, some of those can be corebooted. Some computers have coreboots from, but that's another reason why a lot of the Libreboot development is done for Thinkpads. Now, of course, Thinkpads are basically the best, or at least older ones, they're the most consistent brand of used computers if you want to get one. So Libreboot development actually happens a lot for that. But then there's all this other stuff that happened and I want to say, the guy who did Libreboot now has this other project that's like OS Boot or something like, I forget exactly what it is, but I have not kept up with it in a long time. I kind of, really just because I got a corebooted machine and I don't really think about it as much, there are other people who will actually show you how to coreboot stuff or Libreboot it. But it usually requires hard like opening your computer up, attaching a micro computer and running some stuff, running some scary looking stuff. So, but yeah, it is recommended. Like there are companies that coreboot computers and stuff like that, so you don't have to worry about it. But yeah, I don't know anything about, if there's anything recent that's happened with a Libreboot, I have no clue. So, Marcio, since in $5, hi Luke. Your influence was really transformative in my life. May God be with you. Well, thank you. Thank you, Marcio. I think that's, he's usually a super chatter, I think, but he sent in a donation on my site. Dan, Dan means something. He says, Luke, don't you see the inconsistencies in orthodox theology? One small example, Western Christianity has no wall separating the altar because it symbolizes the curtain in the temple being ripped, whereas orthodox do. I mean, that's a very, like the symbolism in the liturgy is, I mean, if you're really complaining about innovations, like the West has innovated far more in terms of liturgical practices. They don't even have the consu... Well, some Protestants and stuff will have both the bread and the wine. But part of the council of Trent back in the day was the Catholic saying, oh, well, you don't actually need both. You can just have the bread and not the wine and stuff like that. I mean, there are all these... I mean, that's not a theological inconsistency. That's a liturgical change. And the liturgical changes in the Western church are far more significant and really sacramental in nature. Like it's not like, oh, well, there's this minor difference, you know? Or of course, the Eastern church in concert with the early church still uses leavened bread, whereas the Western church doesn't. So, Jiffen sends in 69 cents. What do you think about natural law and the concept of objective morality? I like this version I came across of the seven deadly sins based on objective morality and descending order of seriousness of the offense, murder, assault, rape, theft, trespassing, extortion, and deceit. I mean, those are not the seven deadly sins. Those are just, I don't know, seven bad things. I mean, natural law, like I'm okay with the idea of natural law. I think it's like I refer to it a lot because I think the concept, I mean, just right off the bat, it doesn't matter if you're religious or not, okay? There's a difference between things that are just, well, okay, let's talk about it in theological terms, right? You know, there are certain actions that are bad because they're just bad. Like, it's the nature of the action or how the universe is constructed that they're just evil actions. You know, you can say that unjustifiable, unjustified murder is one of those, whereas there are other actions that might be bad by fiat or bad by convention, right? So, in America, we drive on the right side of the road. If you drive on the left, that's bad. Like, that's illegal. You should have pork, right? That is not necessarily a natural law. You know, that's more like some kind of divine mandate. Like, either way, you know, my view, like natural law, like I'm not necessarily, I don't want to say like I'm against the idea. I definitely used to believe it in a whole lot. I mean, it was very influential on the Western church. But the thing is it does, it does kind of take rationalism a little too far. I think, you know, in most moral domains, like it's bad, like it really, like there are some commandments that you don't really want to think through whether they're natural law or not, because then you get to rationalizing at an individual basis whether, you know, you should follow this, that or the other, you know? And that's kind of what happened in the Western church and then like the enlightenment and all this kind of stuff, right? So now we're in a place where, well, when you think about it, okay, you know, the whole issue with the enlightenment, which of course began in the Middle Ages with the Roman church or whatever, the big issue with the enlightenment is that it assumes that human reason is superior to the world around it, superior to reality, right? Like if there's a disjunct between reason, what I think is reasonable and how things actually exist out there, maybe social conventions, it must be that the social conventions are wrong, right? I couldn't be wrong, right? I'm being reasonable, I'm being logical, rational, right? So that's the central fallacy whereas in reality, the opposite is case, right? So when people looked at, I mean, to be specific, right? You know, let's say in linguistics as an example, there's this idea that there are two different kinds of linguistics. You can either describe how language is or you can prescribe what language, like what ways of saying things are good or bad, right? Same thing in economics, right? You know, there's positive economics which is just supposed to be descriptive and then there's normative economics which is supposed to be you making recommendations. So, you know, the big issue is that what, if you divide morality up in that way, like if you're saying things like, you know, what people nowadays tend to do is they forget the positive side, like people are no longer looking at societies as if they're organisms that, you know, that exist for a reason, like social convention exists for a reason. Instead, what people say is, oh, well, you know, I see no rational reasons why there should be different social expectations for men and women. Therefore, they shouldn't exist. You know what I mean? Whereas, you know, before that period, before that period of overthinking natural law and scholasticism and all this kind of stuff, you know, people were content to say, well, there are these social conventions that I might not rationally understand, but there's a sense in which like my reason is not sufficient, like, you know, I'm not superior to, you know, the tradition, you know what I mean? So, you know, natural law is kind of a way of, you know, I'm not against it, but it does kind of sow the seeds of this kind of thinking, this kind of enlightenment thinking, right? I mean, if you wanna boil down the enlightenment to just any one thing, it's basically that. It's taking reason and putting it above tradition, right? And of course, we can use reason to look at traditional practices. However, it's a very slow process and the one that actually requires understanding why conventions exist, right? It's not this very lazy subjectivism that people have now or this kind of hyper-liberalism that people have where it's just like, oh, this seems mean to me, so it must be bad, right? It's not, you know, you can't do something like that. But yeah, those aren't the seven deadly sins. Like, you can look them up what they are. I would recite them here, but I'm sure I'd forget one or get one wrong and look like an idiot. Ryan's, since in $5, have you read Teaming with Microbes, Teaming with Nutrients, Teaming with Fungi? Great overview of the soil food web, which is the basis of regenerative pre-industrial agriculture. Also recommendations on Libra language learning tools. No, I haven't read that book. I mean, this seems interesting, but yeah, I can't say I've read it. I mean, when I grow stuff, I mean, I'm growing stuff this year. I'm trying to minimize usage of, I'm trying to grow things in a naturalistic way. Naturalistic meaning sometimes somewhat lazy, right? You know, I'm using very little fertilizer, like I'm trying to position things in certain amounts of shade so that I don't have to water them too much. I actually, I don't know. I really want to be in a position where fruits and stuff grow on my property as weeds. There's this thing I've tried to plant for the past couple of years called Everglades Tomatoes, and they're supposed to grow really well around where I live. They're supposed to just be really invasive, but I can't get them to, I don't know, the sun is too hot or something like that, but they're supposed to be able to grow in the Everglades. I'm not even close to the Everglades, but you know, they would be a lot hotter than here, but yeah, I haven't heard of that book though. Recommendations on Libra Language Learning Tools. Just don't use tools for learning language. That would be my recommendation. So it's a great example of a domain where you shouldn't be using software to learn, frankly. The language, like I probably haven't written that. I use, on my old website, I used to have some writings on this, but that was like years ago before I had an internet presence. But yeah, I'm very much against any of these language learning tools. I don't care if it's Duolingo or Rosetta Stone. All those things, they're really just goofy games that have a language front end. They're not, learning a language is like a mental habit that you cannot fake. You can't, there's no way to learn it other than using and thinking in and talking in the language. That's my issue with software. Can they help you like pound in vocabulary? Sure, right? But like nowhere near as useful as real life experience. That's kind of my view of it at least. Back in the day I tried to use all the tape's work is basically he guides people and you included through building up sentences like expressing yourself using the bare bones of language from the bottom up. And through the whole thing you might learn only like 50 words or something. It's not many, but you know, that's kind of how it is. Let me, I was gonna say something. I forget what I was gonna say. Sorry, I had to pull something up. Okay, sorry. Give me a second, ignore me for a second. I could have, here it is. Okay. I was gonna say something else about language. Ah, here it is, okay. Anyway, okay, I forget what I was gonna say. Let me check for more messages. Some XMR from Norbitech, not quite sure how you pronounce it. God King and Fatherland, screwed liberals, cheers from the Basque country. Thank you. And then it, Ogney, Ibelie, Luke, I don't know what that is. If it's something in Basque, I have no clue. I don't know what word in Basque. Yeah, I was gonna say, like in terms of vocabulary. Yeah, vocabulary, like you can use no cards a million times, but it's not, it's not, that's just not how the brain memorizes things. You know what I mean? And I remember this one time in college, I went with a girlfriend to like, she was in French class, okay? And she had like a wine tasting thing, like the whole French class put on like a wine tasting at like the professor's house, okay? And you know, I knew French then, and you know, some French, like enough to kind of conversate in a very, very basic level. But I remember like the professor, she asked me, I forget exactly, anyway, she asked me in French to give her, like there were some lines on the table and a bunch of other stuff. There was a bunch of food on the table. And she asked me to give her a line in French. And I was like, I didn't know the word for a line. I was like, oh shoot, what is that? But of course, after like, after that awkwardness of like not knowing it for like one second, you know, now I know the French word for a line. You know what I mean? Like a modicum of embarrassment will help you remember it far more than some stupid, I mean, that's the only time I like heard the word before then, you know what I mean? So, okay. Joe sends in $5 thoughts on kombucha, homemade of course, and also socks. Kombucha, I've never made it. I mean, it's, the stuff in the store is also like way too sugary, but yeah, I mean, I think it's a good idea. It's one of the few drinks that I'm okay with. So, I mean, one of the biggest issues with people nowadays is they drink calories. You know, you basically, unless you're drinking like milk, you know, you shouldn't really be drinking calories. That's my view. Well, mostly because people just drink like sugar, you know what I mean? So, kombucha is fine, like it's, you know, just a kind of fermented tea for people who don't know. But yeah, the stuff in the store is like way too heavily sugared. I've actually thought about making it in the past. You just need like some bacterial cultures and some other things, but I've never done it. I might know one or two people who know how to do it. And on socks, like I'm not, actually, I'm not wearing socks right now. I'm just, I just have, you know, my shoes here. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of them. I do wear them with tennis shoes, but I find them pretty like, I'm really just against shoes in general. I pretty much walk out, like when I record videos outside, I'm basically always barefoot, unless like there are some places I walk with shoes. Like if I'm further, there's some areas I take shoes to, but in general, I walk barefoot outside all the time. And that's actually hard where I live because there are things like sand spurs and like basically these, there is these absolutely demonic plants that like they have these seeds that are just like wooden splinters. You know, they just have splinters in every direction and you step on them and they hurt so much. But I've basically cleaned out sand spurs from all around my property, just manually ripping them up. They're usually a total blight, but the places I walk usually, you know, I don't, I don't wear shoes, you know, and I don't walk around them. They, those things, sand spurs, they grow most commonly like on roads in places where woods have been artificially cut down. That's usually the problem. And when I moved into my property here and bought it like, they were just all over the place. Like they were actually right outside my window here. They were just all over, but I went out like there were days where I would spend like hours just pulling them up. So I didn't have to deal with them just cause I'm such a fan of just being barefoot. So Einsteinium sends in some XMR. I'm 18 years old from Europe, studying bioinformatics, living at my parents' house. My goal is to eventually even live in the country and be independent, but working in this branch. I feel school is very insufficient and cringe, but I don't know what else to do. Any suggestions? What's your secret to studying? Okay, so a couple of questions in there. So here, one thing, when I do videos, I'm like, oh, you should move to the country. You should, you know, all right, I'm streaming now. Yeah, okay, audio should be back. Yeah, of course I don't check the chat. Of course I don't check that. I don't know if I'm like, I, if I actually have audio. I have no clue. What was the last thing that I was talking about? No, it actually wasn't pulse audio. It was actually ALSA. No, really, really it's OBS because if I unplug my mic slightly, if I plug it back in, I have to reset OBS or something. It's totally stupid. So what was I talking about when the audio went out? I'll probably have to cut that portion out. How long was I talking? The whole rant about what? What was I talking about? Too long ago to remember. Yeah, I don't think I was talking about circumcision. What was I talking about? Oh, it's been here like 10 minutes. Who knows? Okay. Oh, you were talking about the guy who wanted to move to the country in bioinformatics. So yeah, that was basically the last one. I just talked a long, long time about that. And then someone asked about the Uyghur genocide. Uyghur, quote unquote, genocide. Well, I'll read that one out again. Okay, so Vietnamese person sins in some XMR. He says, thoughts on China. The US cries out Uyghur genocide as he proceeds to bomb every country in the Middle East. He defends his hypocrisy by using what aboutism as an excuse to bash China. While doing nothing to stop his country's own bombings, also glad you recognize that Taiwan belongs to China. I mean, yeah, I mean, obviously, you know, any American, like if you see stuff that like they say about China or Russia and you take it at face value, you're just like delusional. I mean, at the worst, you know, China has like these reeducation camps for Uyghurs. So I don't know anything about it. It's none of my business. And I know basically everything I've heard about it. I've heard through the American media lens. So it's probably not, like I know that they're lying about this country. I know that they're lying about everything else they do. So I'm gonna assume they're lying about that too. So I think that's a good heuristic. So it's none of my business. If the Uyghurs have a bad time in China, I feel bad for you, son, but I'm not gonna take the American opinion molding class's, you know, advice on that. So anonymous since it's Maximar, please do a video on Nitter, Bibliogram, NVIDIAs, et cetera. They are good as a first step for moving away from social media. I mean, they are good as a first step. Sure, maybe. I mean, I don't even want to say that. Like I'm not a big fan of those. Like for those people who don't know, like these are their software that you can run on your own servers that basically just talk to, you know, they're basically just a front end for Twitter. So you can install Nitter on your own server and people can go to it and basically browse Twitter through your site. So it's privacy respecting for them. And really, I mean, the real reason to use it, I mean, it's privacy respecting sure in general, but like the real reason for me to use it is like Twitter and sites like that, they're so bad in terms of how poorly written they are. Whereas Nitter is just like a plain HTML site. You know, it's like no stupid crap flying across the screen or, I don't know. So, but I'm not, I don't know what Bibliogram's for. Invideos is for YouTube, I know. But I'm not a big fan of the, I mean, I'm not, I don't want to say I'm not a big fan in the sense that I think they're bad, but I just think they're kind of a placebo solution. Like the real solution is to not use these sites. The only one that I use is Nitter because I will be, you know, directed to Twitter posts every once in a while and I'll read them. Bibliogram, I don't know what that's for. I know there are like Reddit equivalents, which like Reddit is a site that's so bad you shouldn't even like use it through some other site. Well, Twitter is too, but like, you know, there are some things on Twitter to look at. Reddit is just like, innavigable and it all has garbage stuff on it. I mean, Twitter has garbage stuff too, like, but, you know. And as it comes to Invideos, like, I use normal YouTube instead of Invideos because A, I watch very little on YouTube and B, when I'm on YouTube, I'm like uploading something or something that I can't do on Invideos, right? So I'm not against them, but like I'm not gonna do a video on them. Like I would rather people not use social media in general. So one dollar from, I mean, I guess this guy's DJ. Anyway, Luca, I just wanna thank you for all your videos on Linux and free software. It's thanks to you that I learned to appreciate free software. Without your videos, where you go, without your videos where you go over scripts that you wrote or how you configured a program or you showed something you discovered, I would probably never have used Linux seriously. Yeah, I mean, before I came to YouTube, like there were very, like people who did Linux, actually this is still kind of the case, right? Most Linux channels out there were really just people installing desktop environments and like making comments about them. But you know, the only thing, it's not like I was like, oh, let me change that. But you know, I guess what I did is I started looking at here are the configuration files I use and this is why I changed this and this is the kind of stuff you can do because if you're just doing those like desktop environment videos or whatever, you're just giving people a different graphical environment that functions the same as Windows or Mac or something like that. So you know, my whole thing when I started my YouTube channel is, oh, if I'm gonna do videos on programs on Linux, I'm gonna show people what they can do with them. What's the actual point of it? I think I did a video a couple years ago. I think I was standing on a dead tree when I talked about, maybe it was that one. I'm trying to remember where I filmed this one. Like there's so many videos like I only barely remember. But you know, I talked about the fact a lot of people try to sell Linux to people you know, as if, oh, it's so close to Microsoft Windows. So it's gonna be easy to use. No, people aren't gonna switch for that. You know, they're gonna switch if it's something different and new and they can get something new out of it. Right? All right, so anyway, thank you. Josh sends in $5 saying you have no audio. Okay, yeah. Looks like I got a couple emails about that. Einsteinium sends in some Maximar. Hey, Luke, at the start of the previous question you muted your mic. Yeah, okay, okay. Could you answer it again? My previous, okay, which one was Einsteinium? Yeah, so bioinformatics, in case you didn't hear the rest of that, don't fixate on your degree, okay? If you get a degree in bioinformatics, that's fine. I got degrees and stuff. Like don't be like, oh, I have to have a job in this. Don't make that be, you know, something that keeps you from that. And yeah, as for studying, I think this is probably what I spent a lot of time talking about, which is probably good it got muted because it was probably a little egocentric. But yeah, I basically do not, I've never done studying. Like I don't take, like in class, I never took notes. That's just how I am. I kind of feel like note-taking, that whole genre of behavior that we teach students is kind of bad. Like I don't really think the human brain is fit for it. Like I don't, I think it's just something you tell students to do, and it's kind of a convention. I've never taken notes, I've never really studied. Like I think I said my answer before that may have gotten cut off. Like I did my degree in economics and I learned literally nothing in my degree and it seems like you say the same thing because I had already learned that stuff beforehand, right? And yeah, I'm just not, maybe I'm different from some people, maybe some people need to have notes and things like that, but I kind of have the idea that most people, if they had more naturalistic ways of learning and memorizing things, or not even memorizing, like memorization is not really, I'm kind of anti-memorization. What I'm trying to get at is like, you have to look at the things you know as an interconnected web, okay? So in linguistics, actually, here's a little anecdote for you. If you put people in experimental circumstances, and you're giving them information and seeing what they can recall and stuff like that, if you give them a sentence like this, okay, let's say you have two little sentences, the king died, then the queen died, okay? Two sentences, right? Then you give them more information, compare that with another group of people who are told, the king died and then the queen died of grief, okay? So in both cases, the same factual information is happening, except for in the second case, you actually have more information, the queen died specifically of grief. But in experimental circumstances, you actually find that the second people who are given the second stimulus, right? The more information that interrelates the two data points, that's actually easier to remember, right? Getting more information, if you remember information, not as crap written on a note card, but interconnected with other things that you know, it will be easier to remember, okay? That is just by definition how things work, okay? So that is what I would say on that. And all of the way that we tell kids to take notes and all the stupid stuff and studying, it's basically learning things in the king died, the queen died. You're just learning information that has nothing to do with anything else, right? That's what note cards are, that's where they're back. So when I learn a language, let's say I wanna learn, I don't know, Dutch, okay? You know, I'm gonna think about things in terms, or maybe something more exotic, maybe some kind of rate over romance language, one of those languages in Switzerland, okay? So I'm gonna be remembering words based on, okay, well, I know this word in Latin, I'm gonna connect this, this comes from a Latin word, and oh, this one comes from some Germanic word, and blah, blah, blah, there's all these interrelations, like information is never just something out in the middle of nowhere, it's not just a random digit you get as a security code from some service. It's like information that connects with other things, right? And it's the same thing in everything else, right? So that's my viewpoint, that's why I don't take notes, I don't do any of that kind of stuff, I've never done it. So yeah, that's my take on that. Mark says, Luke, you have muted your mic, yeah, okay. Also, what watch are you wearing? I don't know, this watch I got like 10 years ago, Croton, it says, it's not a fancy watch, it was maybe like $70 back then. Your volume is off, are you tired? It's been like 10 minutes and you don't look at YouTube chat, no, I don't. Okay, I think we got through all your muted, I think we got through all of those. Okay, Henry sends in some XMR, how is the well going? How is the well going? Would you recommend getting one? Hard to find property with clean drinking water even though drinking water and even those near rivers are polluted, by the way, you are muted. So the well, I mean, my well is fine, my well is fine. I mean, if you have an electric well, like you just set it until you eventually, you might be unlucky and run out of water where you're pulling it from, but which my well was actually redrilled before I moved in, like it was drilled at one place and then it ran out and then they just moved it 10 feet and then it works fine. So that's sometimes how it is. Drilling a well is pretty expensive. It could be like $10,000, you know? But yeah, I do want to get a hand well eventually. Maybe you're referring to that. I may have mentioned I wanted that. Would you recommend getting one? I mean, yeah, so if it's your only, well, I will say this, if you're already using city water and you just want to branch out a little bit, it might be cheaper and easier to do a catchment system. You know, like catching rain and purifying it or something like that. I mean, well, yeah, purifying it might be an issue because you might be getting some kind of nasty rainwater depending on what it's touching or whatever. But yeah, I mean, for cleaning up well water, some people are lucky. Like I have neighbors who are lucky and just pull pure water out of the ground. I do have a water softener and that just gets rid of iron and stuff like that. My water is pretty, I looked at this as if it was gonna look like this, but like it comes out very white. Like if I don't have the softener, but you know, this purifies it up. Whenever I'm in a city and I have to drink like fluoridated water, I truly, I don't know, I truly understand why urban people are so blue-pilled on everything. I can just feel my pineal gland calcifying, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mike is muted. Yeah, yeah, Mike is muted. Is Steve, Google sins and $5, is Steven crash and base? I don't know who that is. No idea who that is. Flair sins and $10 handmade leather sandals, base or gay. On a more serious note, thank you for your video rantings. They played a very big part in my conversion to the Catholic church this Easter. Great. So leather sandals, I mean, yeah. I mean, if you can make them and make them well, I mean, it's a good idea. I actually, I'm thinking about getting some flip flops at some time. One thing I've never had it in my life is flip flops. I've thought about getting some. There were years ago I had like these minimalistic, faux minimalistic sandals that cost like a hundred bucks and they were kind of sucky. Well, I kind of accidentally got a shoe size too big, you know, you know, when I was growing up, right? Cause I have pretty wide feet. I have bigger feet than most people, definitely on the wide side. But what was I gonna say? Yeah, I think I ordered, you know, most tennis shoes in America, they just like size everything up. So I was wearing like 13s or whatever. So I think I got like this minimalist sandal. I think I got it in like a 12 or 13 when I probably should have had an 11, but you know, whatever. Yeah, but if you can homemade leather sandals, they're good. Any, since in $5, favorite fictional books, if any. Very few fictional books I might, like I've never been a fiction person. Now there are certain authors who I've read like mostly short story stuff. So I got into Jorge Luis Borges, probably when I was in college, and I have maybe a couple of books of his. So he has basically short stories. And like his, if you don't know his stuff, it's kind of hard to explain, but it's all worth finding it hard to, like a lot of books are just long-winded. That's just my view, novels especially, I mean really. So like I really just kind of like, there are probably some other short story writers that I'm fine with, but those are the first two that come to my head, Borges and Lovecraft, which are totally different. I mean, well, I don't know, maybe there's a sense in which they have some similarities, but Lovecraft is all that, not ancient alien stuff, but really ancient alien stuff comes from HP Lovecraft. Like that's ultimately where it comes from, even though he does things that are totally different. So, but let me think, there might be like a one-off fiction book. Let me look at my fiction section. There honestly are just not many fiction books I've ever been big into. Actually earlier this year, or maybe it was last year, I did, I reread Lord of the Rings for the first time since I was like in eighth grade, but I wouldn't say I especially like Tolkien or anything like that. Ryan, since in $10, your tree issue might be due to not having the right mycorrhizae in your soil. Your soil, what tree? Trying to think what tree you're talking about. How much did you factor in future climate predictions, including migration models for refugees in your land choice? I'm in my early 20s and like where I live, but it's booming, water's running out in the rest of the land and the rest of the land, I feel connected to it, wait, and the rest of the land I feel connected to is extremely expensive. Yeah, I don't know what tree issue you're talking about. Maybe I was talking about a tree issue last stream. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I talked about my olive tree that died. Yeah, I've never really looked into growing stuff like that seriously to look into bacteria or even pH. I've never taken pH of my soil. I mean, my soil is very sandy, so I think that, wait, does that make it more alkaline or what? I don't know, who cares? I don't think that much. Actually, these books, they will tell you all about that, but it's just I've never, I don't have a kit for checking pH. Now, in terms of future climate predictions, quote, unquote, and migration models, yeah, that's definitely an issue. I will say I had an uncle who moved, when I was, maybe 20 years ago, he moved to a place that was super rural. It was south of Atlanta. There was nothing around. And now it's basically height of suburbia. Like it's, you know, there are all these, I mean, it's not rural, suffice it to say. I mean, his little section, his neighborhood kind of looks rural, but it's not even a dirt road anymore. And you know, they just have shopping centers and stuff all over the place. So yeah, that is a big issue. I would make your decision partially based on like, if you are gonna move to the country and then in 20 years, like it's not gonna be the country, that's kind of an issue. Now, it might be less of an issue if you're in terms of long-term living, I would just really wanna move to a place where there's no threat in the next 100 years, basically, that it's gonna become some kind of suburban area or something like that. And so just think of it in terms of like, cities are kind of evangelical hive minds, like they're gonna spread out, they're gonna keep spreading out. So if you can, if you're within a metropolitan area, or if you can commute to a city, like if you can commute to a big city in 30 minutes, like I would not trust that area. You know, again, it might be fine to move there for a period and if it becomes really urban, sell it and make money, that's one thing. But if you're talking about, I wanna live long-term and have a multi-generational household and pass this land down to my children, that's a little questionable, right? So I don't know. So DJ, since then a dollar, thoughts on media servers, thoughts on home-bring and distilling. You live in the woods, you live in the middle of the woods in Georgia. So went in Rome, dot, dot, dot. Thoughts on going to university and getting a degree compared to going to a trade school and getting a certification on some sort. Of some sort. Yeah, I mean, I have a still that I use for like distilling. What have I still done that? Like I've made like essential oils before, but I've never done any kind of home-bring or distilling of alcohol, which I think, I forget what the legality of that even is in the United States, but I think it's something weird. I do have relatives who make beers and stuff. But I think for like some kind of alcohol that might not be legal in the United States in some places, either way people do it. But I've never looked into it. I'm not an alcohol person. I'm not really into it. I do have enough grapes to probably make some wine, but, you know, never done it. On going to university and getting a degree as opposed to getting a certification. Yeah, I mean, getting a certification in something is obviously more solid. I'm looking at the live stream. It's like not, okay, it's moving. It's moving a little bit. Getting a certification is probably much more solid and much more, like I'm trying to think of it. If your life plan is to do something like me and move into the country and something like that, a certification is probably infinitely better, okay? Because yes, do degrees, like just having a degree, even if, let's just assume that you're not gonna learn anything and you're just getting a degree to have that on your resume, which is why 99% of people do it or because, oh, I just have to have a degree to do this. Like you're not learning anything when you do your degree, right? I think we can all agree on that. Either way, the purpose of having a degree is just having that box checked off. Is that, like if you had to choose either or which would you do? It depends on the life you're gonna live. Like if you're going to, honestly, I think a certification is probably better. I'm not gonna give a full-throated recommendation for it because that's not what I did because I didn't know better when I was a kid. I went and got a degree, so it'd be kind of cheap if I said, hey, do this thing that I didn't do because I didn't know better, but my way of putting it, so I actually have my cousin, for example. He got a degree in school, which he's not using. And then he decided to get a certified as an electrician. So he has to do that. So he did years of schooling and now he's doing years of this certification and journeyman-ness or something. I don't know how it all works. But either way, you might think, oh, well, I haven't a degree. That gets me really far in my career and stuff like that. Oh, if I'm in the country, I'm head and shoulders above all these people who don't have degrees. I mean, sure, that's true in some jobs, but there's even more of a scarcity in terms of these certifications. So in our county, I don't know, there are not many electricians. Like if you want electrical work done legally, that is a very difficult thing to do in this county. There's basically one guy, one or two guys doing it. So that's actually much more lucrative. So you could easily make six figures, depending on how you do it in a lot of trade jobs. So getting a certification is probably a better financial investment. And of course, it's even more massive in the country where you have a lower cost of living and things like that. So my reflex would say to get a kind of certification or go to some kind of trade school, as long as you're kind of set on that. But it's not the end of the world. I mean, I went to, I was in college, again, my view on things was different when I was in college. But getting a college degree, if you're just doing four years, that's not gonna kill you. I mean, the most thing you're waiting, well, if you're going into debt, that's gonna kill you. But it's not killing you. But it is kind of a waste of time, but it's not killing you to do a degree. And of course, it still does matter. The degrees, getting a college degree nowadays is mattering less and less every day. Like more and more people are saying, oh, well, everyone has them, they don't really matter. But it still does make a difference. There are jobs that you will not be able to apply to unless you have a college degree. So the everyone's backup job is just to be a school teacher, right? Cause anyone can do it, right? So you gotta have a degree to do that. Like some kind of degree. Actually, there are places you could probably do it without a degree. You could probably get some kind of certification that doesn't even require that. But either way, you know, whatever. So anonymous since in XMR and says, Bibliogram is for Instagram. Oh, well, you definitely shouldn't use it. Sites allow you to subscribe via RSS, meaning you can subscribe to a Twitter without having an account. Yeah, yeah, I know that, that is one other benefit. I think in my RSS feed reader, I do have RSS subscriptions to some knitter instance so I can look at Twitter profiles. But yeah, yeah, that is true. By the way, try making sauerkraut easy to make and nice with Mia, I guess meals or something that got cut off. Thoughts on meritocracy. Why is the cathedral turning against it? I mean, because there's enough, well, two reasons. There's enough talent in the system that they don't need most people to be talented. You know what I mean? That's not so much, like they don't need to find high IQ people because they have enough high IQ people to keep the system going. You know what I mean? And partially, mostly what the cathedral I think is focused on is allying with people who don't have lives, who aren't functional in society. So, you know, destroying meritocracy. Like if you get people who are like gender confused bugmen who like, I don't know, kind of personally inept things like that. I don't know, who have mental health problems, all that kind of stuff. Those people are great assets for the opinion-molding class because they don't have another option. They're gonna be very much tied to the system, right? Because if they don't have somewhere else to go, that is the best way of keeping them in check, right? So you wanna have, like in any good governing system, like you need some competent people, and I think the cathedral definitely has enough, but it's also great to have inept people, like to have incompetent people because, you know, so long as they don't destroy the system, so long as you put them in kind of, I don't know, like kind of affirmative action roles, so to speak, where it's just like, you know, BS jobs. I mean, that's when I was in grad school, this is kind of what grad school has become, okay? Like what universities are now is a way of employing these psychologically unemployable people who don't, like they don't do anything, you know? But a lot of the younger generation of graduate students are people who are just, they can't, they psychologically are not all there together, like they're not, they can't really hold down a job. They're very neurotic and egocentrical, like they're always thinking about themselves and like all these weird stuff, like they don't really necessarily function in, you know, traditional work well. And at the same time, you know, they're not people who are more entrepreneurial as well. They're not like egocentrical and kind of a business, you know, entrepreneur since either. Like they're just kind of bad, they're just everything, nothing is going for them, okay? And that's what the system tries to do. The system does try to make people inept. They try to take them away from their families. They try to, you know, stigmatize doing work and like having, you know, being productive and getting rich and all like, they wanna stigmatize all these things because they wanna have people who are like tethered to doing nothing because they make the best functionaries, right? So meritocracy, it was necessary, like in the earlier 20th century, like you need some competent people to run the system, right? And I think there was, there's very much, I mean, that's what, you know, the book The Bell Curve is about, okay? Which I don't know, people erroneously think that book is like about race or race and IQ or something like that. I mean, there's one chapter that's like on racial stuff but it's only as a proxy for class. The real point of the book The Bell Curve is, you know, it's the American education system during that period started favoring kids who are just higher IQ or have higher cognitive abilities independent of their class origins, right? So there was this intellectual sorting that happened in American life where, you know, you had these higher IQ people who live with higher IQ people and then you have this growing, you know, middle and underclass that is disconnected from them. And now that that has happened, now that they have enough of those competent people, they are littering it with allies, you know what I mean? That's basically what's going on. That's how I would look at it. So, yeah, meritocracy, and yeah, of course there will be a breaking point. There is a sense in which, like a lot of these institutions, like universities, there is a point where they will not be able to function, right? But, you know, there's still some time with that. Let's see. Ooh, let me turn that off. Let me look at the chat. So, Costin sends in some XMR. Luke, is it now more expensive to do a Monero donation? It is now more expensive to do a Monation... Monation denero. Ha, ha, ha. It is now more expensive to do a Monero donation than a YouTube super chat. Please reduce the Monero donation amount back to 0.005. Thank you. Also, do you have any thoughts on the Bronze Age Monse? Well, the reason I increased the amount is, well, like I'm getting enough donations that I can read them constantly. You know what I mean? If I lowered it, you know, that would be an issue. Although I did think about that before I started, I might actually lower it anyway, because yeah, it does, there is a, well, to be clear with YouTube super chats, if you donate like $2.00 in your YouTube super chat, I'm getting like zero of that. I'm getting like 30 cents. So, it's not cost, like there's no system cost to it. But yeah, I might lower the amount. But if I have time while I'm reading all these. So, Bronze Age mindset, I'm aware that that guy exists and like that little movement or whatever, but I don't really know. I never read that book. I know it was a big meme, but yeah, I never really got into it. I mean, from what I hear, like their memes and their lines on things seem all right. Like they seem pretty cool or whatever, but I don't know anything about them. Based on Turkey Pilled, sends in $5.00, Monero lets people more securely transact for bad things like prostitution and drugs, which governments try to control. How do you weigh these apparent drawbacks versus the broader freedoms, Monero and systematic privacy in general brain? Is there a way to get the best of both worlds? Yeah, I mean, the thing is Monero is really just turning us back to a realm of cash. Like, yeah, those things are possible, like doing bad things is possible under Monero, but it's possible with OPSEC using other things or using cash or things like this. So that's less of an issue. I mean, really, if we lived in a world where we had like this perfect and honest government and a financial system that wasn't censoring people and all this kind of stuff, or they were only censoring degenerate stuff and people doing really bad things, what I'd be is enthusiastic about Monero? I mean, probably not. In our world, it has a much more important, kind of incidental use in that the people who are being financially censored and monitored and things like this are basically the good guys, you know what I mean? So it's kind of like the world is reversed, but yeah, that is a legitimate question, but I don't think that it will facilitate, I mean, it's like having guns, you know what I mean? Like having guns make some types of crime or suicide or things easier, you know what I mean? That is true, but when it comes down to it, I think individuals should have the right to, I mean, if the government has the right to defend you, lethally, why shouldn't you? You know what I mean? And I think it's the same thing with Monero. Like, yeah, if bad people, you know, if they're going to wiggle around and use all this fancy OPSEC to get security and if they're gonna use this technology, of course, normal people should be using the technology as well, right? That's my way of looking at it. And I think I said in one of my articles on Monero and my site, like people have this idea that, oh, Monero's gonna empower like criminal organizations and all this kind of, I mean, you can already do that. Like these people can already use Bitcoin and things like that if they use it wisely and use it in a, you know, there are ways of achieving private Bitcoin, but the big gains of privacy are the boomers, the normie boomers who are going to be using this technology and they're not gonna be thinking about it. You know what I mean? So the main drawback for a public blockchain like Bitcoin or most cryptocurrencies is just the fact that normal people are gonna get into it and they're gonna end up stubbing their toes or really hurting themselves because they don't, they don't think about privacy in the way that criminals do. Whereas Monero actually kind of narrows that gap. So yeah, I mean, when it comes down to it, like, yeah, most of these things, you know, drugs and prostitution, like people use cash for that kind of stuff. Like will it become slightly easier to do with Monero? Yeah, I think it would in the same way that suicide becomes easier with guns, right? But, you know, I think the gains are so much bigger, especially in our incidental case, again, where it's the good people who are being censored, right? Those are the things we have to keep in mind. So, Marcus sends in some XMR. Have you watched JoJo's? If it's the anime, I have seen that cringe, I know. Anonymous sent in some XMR. Hey, I sent you a donation a few weeks ago, but not sure whether you read it yet. Anyways, if the education and system is beyond repair, how would you educate your future children? Would you homeschool? Thoughts on classical Christian, the classical Christian education movement. DL Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning. Pretty much everyone I know uses classical Christian education. Like, basically everyone. Yeah, that's kind of the universal. And I don't know that much about it. I will tell you that. But from what I hear is it's pretty solid. So, and they have everything. Kids are learning Latin and stuff like that. And the stuff I've seen from it is pretty solid. And I don't necessarily know all the justification behind it, but I will say in real life, like people I know that is widely used, okay? I know many homeschooling groups that are using it. So yeah, I mean, educate, like the thing, I mean, I think most mildly intelligent people were not educated in school anyway, okay? Like, I really think if you think about it, most of your learning was done outside of formal schooling. I'm kind of like, this is mostly a lot, but I've had friends who have done this thing called unschooling, quote unquote, which is basically just legally telling the government, yeah, I'm homeschooling my children, but you really do know formal education whatsoever. Like it's really just, I don't want to say it's like child driven, but it's very much, it's much more naturalistic. Now I'm sympathetic to that. I don't know how workable that is. Like you really do need some kind of structure in some forms of education, like just to get reading and things like that, you know, marked off. But yeah, I mean, when it comes down to it, like I really don't think there's a big gap between your average high school graduate and, you know, as someone who's raised in our literate culture without any kind of schooling whatsoever. I'm not convinced that there's a big difference. So I'm not very worried about, I'm not very worried about like lack of education or anything like that. But yeah, classical Christian stuff, like seems pretty good. Of course, now there's not even a debate, like there used to be that period when I was younger where people used to say, oh, well, homeschool kids, they're like not gonna be properly educated or they're gonna be weird. Well, now look at public school kids. Okay, I rest my case. I rest my case. Like if you want a normal child, you cannot send them to one of those grooming facilities. You have to, and they're not learning anything. Like, you know, and there are good schools like in rural places. Like people say that the grade school near where I am is pretty good. You know, maybe that's true. There are still some good public schools in very rural places, okay? But it's pretty rare and I wouldn't bet on it. Like I wouldn't bet on it surviving like 10 years because I mean, if you want proof of this, just look at education curricula in schools now, okay, in universities. Like the kind of stuff they're teaching these girls, like the kind of social brainwashing that goes on there. And yeah, I don't know. It's almost like I rest my case. DJ says, since in a dollar, thoughts on owning firearms in both a hobby sense or hunting self-protection sense are guns of meme. I mean, you should definitely have a gun. I'm not really interested in like gun culture, hunting. I mean, hunting as a entertainment. Like hunting for food, yeah, that's fine. That's great. But hunting for entertainment, never been interested in. Yeah, everyone should have guns though. Absolutely. Because it's, as I said before, it's like, if you trust the government to use lethal force to defend you, why wouldn't you self-host your lethal defense? You know what I mean? It's one of those really, it's crazy also that there are countries in the world, Europores, poor Europores, where many of them, especially Bungestanis, that basically don't have the right to, I mean, if someone comes into your house, like you can't even like fight them. Let alone, like with a knife, let alone with a gun, you know what I mean? So, it's probably not that bad. I just see some clickbait articles about that, and it's sad. Vietnamese person sends in some more XMR. I remember reading your article about nitpicking a long time ago. Could you bring back that article on your website? I think I wrote it during a period where I did, I was using some different system for my website and I didn't transfer it over. There are actually a bunch of articles I planned. Well, I'm actually rewriting my website in Hugo, which I've been working on for a couple years. I haven't, or years, for a couple weeks. I've just been tinkering on it. I should probably just finish that up and put it up. But the real thing is, like designing my main page, like that's the hardest part. The rest of the site is fine, but designing like the landing page, like what links do I wanna put up there? How big do I want them? Do I want like pictures that you click? I mean, you know, like those kind of design choices, I actually have a lot of trouble, I don't know, thinking that through, how I actually want it to be. Although I actually have it now so that there's no nav bar on my website. Or, well, on the Hugo version that I'm gonna put up. I don't know how I feel about that. But anyway, so yeah, if I think about the nitpicking article, I'll put it up. Also, how much does gas cost in your area? Gas in Mississippi costs like $4 right now. Yeah, I mean, it's at least that here. In some parts of North Georgia, like it's lower, I mean, you can get it in, I was at the Buckeys, a little south of, maybe north of Atlanta. There's one north of Atlanta and there's one south, I forget which one, but one of them had gas for like 330, but where I am, it's easily over four. Like getting gas for $4 a gallon is a bargain here. You can probably go out of your way to get it for $4, but. And it's gone up like 20, 30 cents in the past like two weeks or so. Okay, all right, I looked at the YouTube chat. I see that there's a super chat. I've not been looking at YouTube super chats, but I'll read this one because I haven't seen it. Martin says, thoughts on shared library tracking in package managers such as Voids, VBPS, it tracks shared libraries, Pac-Man doesn't, but it works since things are built and rebuilt. I don't know how I feel about that. I mean, realistically speaking, I would say, you know, I don't know. I probably don't want to have a comment about it. Like I'd have to think about like how that actually is. I mean, I don't know, has VBPS always been like that? I'm not quite sure. I don't have a strong opinion about it, so I'll just say that. There are probably reasons for doing it, but I'm just not familiar with it. So, all right, let me see. I'm gonna log into that XMR thing and I will lower the donation amount. Let's see, shadow chat, config, and I will half it. So it will be point zero one. Or no, point, yeah, point zero one. That sounds good. Okay, so those of you who are poor and want to give smaller donations, you know I can. So DJ donates $1. Thoughts on the different types of music? I listen to so little music. I mean, most of it is just not entertaining to me. Acapella is obviously best. Yeah, I don't care. I mean, obviously most pop music I'm not gonna like. I'm gonna think it's stupid. A music is just, I'll just say it's just not part of my life right now, since I've been an adult. I mean, really, even when I was a kid, I've never been a musical person. I kind of listened to bands just because, oh, I'm supposed to like certain bands, so I guess I'll pretend to like these even though I think they suck, you know, that kind of stuff. But no, I've never been a big fan of music. I just don't find it interesting. I don't understand the identity that people put on music. Just having, oh, like, I don't know, this is weird, it's weird. I feel that way about a bunch of stuff, though, so, you know. Okay. I hope I didn't, when I restarted Shadow Chat, I hope I didn't screw up anyone's donation or at least the message. All right, I'll look at the YouTube chat for a second. I only listened to Dungeon Synth. Yep. Packet loss is definitely from Starlink, it kind of sucks to be honest. Yeah, well, I think it's partially where I still, I literally still have my Starlink receiver on the ground. I've still not mounted it, because, you know, I don't really have the materials to build a mount and I could buy a Starlink mount for like 40 bucks, but I don't really want to do that. So it's still on the ground, pathetic. Yeah, there is packet loss. I will say like, usually the packet loss is not too big. I don't know how it is on the stream, like I've never watched through an entire stream of mine to see what it's actually like, but usually it's not long enough to persist. You know, I really do hate this web camera. I've probably complained about this before, but you know, it has, it gives you, you know, it looks like my right arm is like massively larger than my left. You know, like it's one of those like kind of fit, I don't know if it's fish eye, maybe it's the opposite of fish eye, but look how small my left arm looks, and my right arm is like much bigger, you know what I mean? Or like, if I put my feet up, looks like my feet are enormous, and the rest of my body is like puny. I really just don't like that. That makes me, when I record a video, I'm like self, I'm literally self-conscious, I'm not actually self-conscious about it, but it's like, oh, that looks so weird, but now I've made you aware of it, so I've actually made it worse. So I think we complained about that on some other stream. Okay, let's see. I think I finally got through all the donations. Yeah, okay, great. I have nothing to read right now. Your kumarm cringe. Trying to decide whether to coreboot or just do a regular bias with white list removed. I mean, if you're gonna change it, you might as well coreboot it, because I mean, you wanna disable that Intel management engine, like that's the whole point, you know? And I need to think more, this laptop right here actually still has its proprietary bias, which means you can spy on me. All of our glow friends can spy on us, so, now I actually don't know the, I don't know how processors and telephones work, although I'm going to, oh, you know, shout-out chat just broke. Look at this, look at this bad gateway. What is this crap? Ugh, gotta fix that. What did I mess up? Ugh, see if I ever decrease the money required to donate again. Let me check this, what went wrong? Let's just see if it refreshes. Okay, there we go, there we go. All right, back to normal, all right. Okay, so, lock the game maker since in $5. My mother was into unschooling. I read better than most and write fine, but math has always been a little pain. Yeah, I mean, one of the things, whenever you have one of those homeschooling things, where it's just like, especially if it's just one single family, there is a tendency for you to be biased in terms of what your mama knows or doesn't know. Now, I do know, I mean, the normal thing around here is a lot of people will just have homeschooling groups. And actually, I've had a homeschooling group that every once in a while they'll ask me, oh, do you want to help us with Latin? Because none of them know Latin, but it's in the classical curriculum or whatever, the classical Christian stuff. So yeah, I mean, that's the big advantage of homeschooling as a group. Because you're not gonna have, if your mom doesn't know calculus, you can still learn calculus, you know? Justin Murphy since in 0.01, XMR. Thank you for lowering the XMR don't know threshold. Do you have any knowledge or interest in the theological thinker Simone Weil? I don't know who that is. Never heard of that. Never heard of that person. Hock donates $1. I've already sent this message on YouTube. Super Chat, have you read the Transurfing Books by Valid Zeeland? The number of things that people have asked me in this stream that I've never heard of is drastically increasing. I mean, I'm glad it's not constantly getting questions about Jordan Peterson, but you know, no, I've never heard of this. I think the English version, the books are originally Russian, have only one book that summarized all five so I can't really say that they are of the same value as the separate five books that were translated to French to be the most close to the real ones. Yeah, I've never heard of that trend. Transurfing, maybe I've heard, I don't know. That rings like a very distant bell. Zeeland, yeah, but no, I've definitely never read those. I don't know, I don't know about that. So Anonymous sends in some Monero thoughts on dating culture, what should a man look for in a woman before marriage? I mean, dating culture is stupid, of course. The concept of dating is basically cucked by definition, like this whole idea of having a boyfriend and girlfriend. Absolutely stupid. I mean, it's just like a pseudo marriage for Coomers and stuff like this and I don't know. Most of the time, this is just, I mean, it's not like people who are doing that, kids who are doing that are not serious about like, oh, like I wanna have a life and get married and do all this kind of stuff. Like it's all for like, I don't know, just nonsense. So avoiding it is good, like I would not, I will, like I have a, even back in the day, I had a tendency of not calling my girlfriends girlfriends and I didn't, I don't know, I didn't think of things in those terms, even if like, you know, it's stupid. I will just say, I think it's a bad idea. And I think people need to think less in terms of getting boyfriends or getting girlfriends or things like that. When you find someone who's a serious candidate for getting married to, then you can get married to them. Like you can skip that silly stage, that's my view of it. It's called engagement. Like if you don't wanna get engaged with them, like you shouldn't be doing it. And the same way, like I look at all my ex-girlfriends and the reason I know dating is stupid is because none, basically, I don't wanna say none. But basically, only in my weakest, only in my weakest would I have actually married any of those girls, you know what I mean? They were all just like, oh, I gotta have a girlfriend. So I'll be with this girl, you know what I mean? So, and that's the issue with people now that they wanna do this like dating culture thing and I don't know, it's dumb, it's dumb. Like it existed for like maybe two generations and now it's like reaching levels of absurdity that make it totally annulled anyway. As for what a man should look for in a woman before marriage, I mean, that should be obvious. I mean, it should be obvious. Like the things, like, I don't know. The things that you are naturally attracted to, okay? Is she a thought? If she's not, you don't marry her. I mean, it's not that difficult, you know what I mean? Like this is not, this is like you asking, how do I eat food? I don't know. That's just my opinion. My opinion, that's true. Like it's not a, if you're asking me like what color hair should she be or something like that, that doesn't matter. DJ, since then a dollar, what webcam are you using? How much does rural land go for Georgia, ballpark figures, and thoughts on behemianism? You are really squeezing all of these questions into $1 donations over and over again, DJ. You could just do one where you like give all the, well, I guess I do have a character limit or something on that, but whatever. What webcam am I using? I don't know, it says the brand is all key, AU key, AU key, yeah, AU key, AU, K, E, I, Y. How much does rural land go for in Georgia? I mean, like land is, especially in rural areas, it is, there are massive variations. Like you can go to one county in one area and you will see houses going for crazy different prices. Okay, cheap enough, like you can go out there and you can find a place even if you don't have that much money, you know, it can be done. Thoughts on behemianism? I don't know what you mean by behemia? By like the Czech Republic? I don't know. Don't know about that one. Volsel sends in Monero, congrats on getting married. Is it all, it was cracked up to be? Oh yeah. Im Hussein sends in a dollar. Luke, I'd say you're very gifted. I thoroughly enjoy your reviews of heterodox slash red-pulling books on not related any advice on finding meaning. Ever since I lost my faith at 12 or Shia, I find it hard to be happy even though I'm materially more fortunate. In our tradition we have a prayer denoting that one gains nothing in losing God and loses nothing in believing. Yeah, well Pascal's wager, as we call it here. Well, you could become orthodox. That would be the ideal, but I don't know. Depends on your life situation, what is in store for you. Of course, I don't feel there are many heterodox books I actually talk about on not related. If anything, I talk about very, like I talk about academic books that are very kind of mainstream, like at least the ones I've been doing recently. I did like the population growth books on that episode which I still haven't released on YouTube, but it's on not related.xyz down there. I'm trying to make it look like I'm pointing down there. It's on the not related website, but it's on on YouTube. But yeah, you've become orthodox. That's my actual, and you said something in Arabic, but I think the text got all messed up. I'm pretty sure that's what it is. Or is it, no, is that Persian? I can't tell because like the letters are all screwed up. Yeah, I can't read it because it's like inverted and all this weird stuff. And the letters are not connected. And of course, my knowledge of Arabic is very primitive. Keith sends in $5. Hey Luke, thoughts on the Buffalo shooting, Schizo retard or Fed Boy plant? I don't know, someone mentioned that that happened to me in real life? I don't know. I don't keep up with this internet stuff. The shootings are always fake. They're always, he's probably a Schizoid retard and a Fed Boy. That's probably, I don't know anything about this. I don't care. DJ sends in $0.69. Thoughts on Jordan Peterson? Ha ha ha. Tom sends in some XMR. Hey Luke, would you ever be open to moving past the Q&A format for live streams? It'd be cool to see live conversation like a call on Jitsie, like a Jitsie call on something. Like talking with someone else or like Q&A, like Q&A with random people who call in. I don't know. Yeah, if you're talking about interviews, like I'm not a big fan of doing things with people on the internet, like co-labs and stuff like that. Like I have done stuff. Like I did something with Kevin Wad the other month. I think in June, some guy asked me to be on some podcast that I'm not even familiar with. But you know, I think I'll go on it. But in general, like I don't wanna make it a habit to do things with other people cause I think that's kinda, I don't know. Like you guys know this entire channel is just me when I feel like doing it, I'm gonna do it. It's not like an official, this is not an official YouTube channel. I just wanna be clear. Like I just do this stuff. Like I just get, I'm bored. Last night I was bored. So it's like, I'll do a live stream. I didn't end up having time. So I put it off for now, which I also have time. But like that, I don't know, I'm not a planner. Like I feel like that would require planning. Unless you're asking like me do jitzy calls with people. Like you guys call in or something. I also feel like I would need like a call screener for that and some other stuff, you know. So I don't know, I just kinda do it. Like the thing is I've always just, my live streams, the first live stream I did was literally just the test and people just asked me questions. So I answered them and I've really never just changed the format. I have thought about doing like longer winded videos where I like talk about something, or like live streams and then answer questions. I did that once for an episode of Not Related. But I don't know, I don't know. Like it's kinda hard to, it's easy to sit here and like talk at the live stream for a while, but to have something more organized might be a little more difficult. I've probably gotten better at it now because I usually, I usually do not related episodes in basically one sitting, maybe one or two. So I could probably do it. But Flairium, since in $5, is it reasonable to hold out hope for a more 2016-esque Trump campaign in 2024? Or is that election gonna be a wash? I'm mostly apathetic to national politics, but that SCOTUS abortion leak a few months ago has got me a little excited. Yeah, I mean, well, that's not necessarily politics, but like if the Supreme Court weighed, not only is that good news, but like it means even more good news could be like in the ropes. In terms of like good decisions and maybe kind of acceleration in the sense that like, you know, liberals start to lose hope that they own the system entirely, like the matrix starts collapsing. So either way, you know, it's probably a good thing. But as for like the presidential election in 2024, I mean, this summer on, because I think when he first became president, he definitely had this idea that when he was president, it's just gonna be like being CEO of the country and he's gonna be able to change all these things and fix all these things. And of course he ran into just like nonstop, like fake ops, like from the beginning and you know, the whole Russia hoax investigation and all this kind of stuff, like just like as a big annoyance. But I think now it kind of understands how that stuff works, you know, like he understands that like this is much more of a political game that he's playing, right? So I think he will be better a second time around. If you look at prediction markets, okay? So prediction markets basically have, I looked at predict it, I think maybe last night and like the most likely president in 2024, maybe 20 something, 30 something percent is Trump. Second is Ron DeSantis and third is Joe Brandon. So like, I think this is a fair, and I do think there's a pretty poor chance of him winning reelection, considering, you know, he didn't really win the first election anyway. But you know, so we'll see what happens. But I don't put hope in politics, like definitely don't do that. Like, or you can act on a political level while at the same time making decisions that put yourself in a position that make you less likely to be damaged by it, right? You know, when I, the, I should say, the period of my life where I finally decided to move into the country was actually when I lost hope in politics. And this was right before the 2016 election. The entire run up to the 2016 election, I was like, oh yeah, Trump is gonna win. No problem, it's not gonna be an issue. Polls are fake, of course. But then like maybe a week or two before I was like, shoot, I don't know, maybe he's not gonna do it. Maybe Hillary is gonna win, maybe things are gonna get bad. It was that, it was in that darkest moment that I was like, you know, I should probably, I really do need to act on like moving into the country. Like I really do need to leave the university. I really do need to do all this kind of stuff, right? And so that, you know, at that point I was like, okay, I'm going to do this. Like this has to happen. Things are only gonna get worse. And you know, Trump got elected, right? So we basically bought four more years, kind of. I mean, things got really bad still during Trump's years anyways, you know. But you know, so what I'm trying to say is like, you can hope for the best in politics and you can act on a political level. But don't put your neck out. Like you need to constantly be making decisions assuming the worst case scenario, right? So that's what I do. And in the era of the internet, you can play both sides. Like I remember back when Varg was on YouTube, Varg would have these really frankly stupid takes because he would tell people to move out into the country and all this kind of stuff. But then he would say, if you ever even vote or if you ever even like think about or if you show any preference for any political candidate, you're like a shill or like you're a compromiser. So I think that's just so stupid because you can do both. Like you can do act as if the worst case scenario is happening. Prepare for the worst case scenario. But also, you still, I mean, it's not hard to vote. Like just take two seconds to do it, you know? You know, whatever. Garzit says, thoughts on insurance, aren't they scams because people, aren't they a scam because people that decide if they give money, give you money are the same people. Wait, aren't they a scam? Because people that decide if they will give you money are the same people that should give you money. I mean, there are ways of adjudicating insurance contracts. Like there's a court system that does that. Of all the reasons to think insurance is a scam. I'm surprised you think that is the reason. But I mean, health insurance is definitely a scam. I don't know. Insurance in general, I think, unless you're like extremely wealthy or extremely well-propertyed, and insurance probably is not as unnecessary as people think it is. Now, I can understand where there are systemic risks. I kind of understand the purpose of, you know, there being required car insurance, for example. Like there are reasons to do that, you know, if you get hit by someone who's uninsured or something like that, right? I can kind of understand that logic, but yeah, like health insurance and things like that are just like pretty kind of crazy. Well, it's really like health insurance exists in the United States as like an artifact of like wage and price controls in the new deal and then in the 70s. Because like companies weren't allowed to pay their workers more to reduce inflation. So they started offering them health insurance. And in the United States, it became just the thing that everyone just has all this health insurance. And then of course it just bids up the price of, you know, medicine and stuff like that. So brain sense and some XMR thoughts on Jim's blog. Yes, that one. I don't, I legitimately do not know a Jim who has a blog. So yeah, more things I don't know about. Great. DJ says, have you tried pipe wire? I found that if you don't do anything fancy, it's basically a direct upgrade from Pulse Audio. Yeah, I use Pulse, or pipe wire on everything. I use pipe wire on, I mean, I use it on this laptop now. I use it on my computers. Actually it now installs by default if you install larbs, if you install my dot files, pipe wire is not all default. So yeah, I've used it. And I don't really know the big advantages over Pulse Audio, I've had some fewer bugs, but you know, I guess it's kind of the wave of the future and it's worked out for me. So I don't have to think about it. And it runs, it works with everything that runs with Pulse Audio, so everything made for Pulse Audio, it runs as well. So Matt donates a single dollar. Recently changed careers, working a lot with Linux, but I have to use Windows for some parts of my job. I just wanna say I have all Apple products currently. And in just four weeks, I've started to hate macOS more and more every day. Yeah, well the more you use it, the more you'll hate it. Yeah, I mean, Macs, Apple is really the worst tech company in the world by far. Like there's not even a debate as far as I'm concerned. Like other companies, you know, they'll have a little planned obsolescence here or a little, you know, they'll get rid of something or do something on their own standard here. But Apple is truly the worst company in the universe, like in everything they do. Because their whole mindset is we, oh, we're big enough that we're gonna do things our way. We are gonna force our own standards on things. And it's affected everything. It affects like, you know, because Apple things are stupid, if you download my podcast, I will get emails every other week, I can't download your podcast. My podcasts are in org files, which is a standard free, you know, an open source codec that's been around for, or container that's been around for decades. Every machine is compatible with it, except for Apple, because they refuse to. And they also refuse to use FLAC for years and years. Or, you know, back in the day, when it came to like, back when iPods were invented, this is the first thing that actually pissed me off about Apple stuff. I probably complained about this years ago. But the first thing that pissed me off about Apple is that, you know, if you have an iPod, iPods can only sort things in pre-ordained categories. So it used to be, you tagged songs for artists, and then album artists. And those are two different things. Why are those two different things? An album artist is the person whose album it belongs to, whereas if you have a track, which is a collab, if you have a rap song with five different rappers, you have five different rappers in the artist tag, and only one in the album artist, whoever album, who's ever album that is, okay? So Apple decided, however, very early on, that they would not use that standard. They would make up their own standard. They would only use the artist tag. So that means that you can't sort things by artist anymore, or at least in the traditional way, so people have to totally, like they basically deprecated the album artist tag. And now the convention is to put everything in the title of the video. So you say, here's the title of my song, featuring blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? You feature the other four artists there, and the album artist is not the artist, right? That sounds like a minor nitpick, but because of how Apple decided to construct, to enforce the standard on everyone, we have ugly tagged music because of that, because of just them. They couldn't use the tags that existed for a particular reason. It's like whoever wrote, I don't know, and all the development of iPods, they didn't think to like check that up. Like what do people use these standards for? You know what I mean? And they're the same way with email. They're the same way with texting. They have to do texting their own ways. They won't have liking that uses SMS protocol, doing things in weird ways. They have to reformat emails. They have to do everything themselves. And the worst part is, the worst part is if you have an Apple cultist who's living in this Apple environment, this Apple cocoon of fragile software that breaks the instant you use a real standard, they get mad at everyone else. Oh, you don't, you can't be a member of my Apple chat. Oh, you do things, oh, these things are tagged. Why doesn't this work on Apple? This sucks, you suck. No, it's Apple that sucks. Like that is, they do everything their own way and they are big enough that they can just say screw you to everyone. And now of course hardware, like they've screwed up everything. You don't even have audio jacks and phones anymore thanks to Apple. Okay, in any phones, because everyone just imitates Apple crap because they're like, oh, Apple wants to get rid of these ports. I guess we better get rid of these ports, right? That's how people think, you know? It's insane. And of course, what's the result? You have an entire generation of people who are beyond ignorant about technology because that is what Apple hardware and software is about. It's about keeping you stupid when it comes to technology, right? You don't wanna have something that you can change. You can tinker with this a little bit. You wanna have this very fragile system that just gives you this one homogenous user interface that does everything its own way. They can't use normal protocols that transfer music to an iPad or sync things up. They have to do everything their own way and they do everything wrong. They do everything inefficiently and then they force it on everyone else. They screw up everyone's standards. They make crappy hardware that is planned to be obsolete. You can't even take parts out of it without disassembling everything. And because they are so big and because they can rip people off with planned obsolescence, all these other companies have realized, oh, well, we better do the same thing. That's what consumers want. Consumers don't wanna be able to plug things in. They want simplicity. They wanna have like five lightning ports instead of, or whatever they're called for Apple instead of having actual ports, right? It's just so stupid. It's, oh, we don't need Ethernet anymore. We don't need audio auxes. We don't need any of this kind of stuff. Apple is like demonic. It truly is the worst company in the world. And everything they touch just turns to, I don't know what it turns to, but it turns to something bad, okay? It's awful. So, yeah, so to the original comment, yes. I can understand being infuriated at Mac stuff because the more you use it, it's not just the angrier you get at it. It's like, you feel bad for Mac users for having to put up with the stuff, but it's like, they don't even realize that they're being abused. It's like, in their mind, again, it's like everyone else is wrong except for me. That's their way of thinking. It's like, I don't know. It's a cult. It's a cult. That's all it is. That's all I have to say about that. Okay, did I put my, oh, there it is. Knur sends in some XMR. Appreciate your content here. Have some change. Thank you. A curious mind sent in some XMR. Could you talk more about your experience with the Orthodox Church? You've said several times that you believe that they get things right, where there are many others today, where so many others today get things so wrong. Could you elaborate more specifically on what you mean by that and what lessons you see as valuable today? Well, I should probably do a separate video on this because I don't know, people ask me the same questions. Or I thought about doing a video on why specifically I didn't become a Catholic, because a lot of people ask me about that. I would say in general, like the elevator speech, like in generalities, what separates the Orthodox Church from the Western Church is the Western Church kind of, it does what we were talking about before. That the Enlightenment does. It takes human reason and puts it too far ahead of everything, too far above of everything else. Like the Orthodox are content to have, to receive mysteries via tradition, the mystery of baptism, the mystery of communion, all these kind of things. And they don't want to intellectualize things. And they don't want to put the fingerprints of human reason on it and create some systematic theology in the way that the scholastics and the Catholics and then the Protestants did. So what that means is that in the West, people will end up innovating. So you'll add on doctrine. You'll develop doctrine in the Newman sense of the word, which of course he meant it to mean a good thing. Oh, as time goes on, the Catholic Church invents, they develop more doctrine. They basically discover it. In like a Rothbardian natural law sense. Whereas that's not with the Orthodox. I mean, the Orthodoxy, the view of Orthodoxy is to cling to the traditions of the apostles, okay? And to keep things conservatively at that. So what is exactly the mechanisms of salvation, right? What exactly is a mechanism, how does, how is the bread and wine, the body and blood of Christ and all this kind of stuff? Like these are mysteries. These are things, these are unanswered questions we can philosophize about them, but that is different from the objective of the church, right? And so what you get with the Catholic Church is you have people intellectualizing, making all of these distinctions and all of these kind of things that don't apply. And Protestantism is this reaction against it, okay? Oh, here are these things about Catholic doctrine that are unsound. And instead of returning to Orthodoxy, Protestantism is really just, I mean, it's a branch of Catholicism. They reject the Pope. They're not in communion with the Pope. But instead, they see that issue and kind of, I don't know, diminish the value of tradition altogether because they say, oh, the Roman tradition is bad. So let's have this, you know, let's basically look at the Bible and interpret it without context, okay? They don't say they do that, but they do, okay? So that's why Protestantism is not even a thing. It's like a million different things, you know? But they're all based on the same idea. This elevation of reason above divine mysteries, right? And of course, then above tradition, right? So now if you wanna create a Protestant church or read the Bible, you squint your eyes, you find what you wanted to say or what you think it says and you create your own church, you know? That has no connection to the apostolic church. It's, that's just how it is. So I mean, there are lots of issues. I'll just say on any individual issue, this principle applies, okay? Where there is all this innovation in the West and the Orthodox Church is just the Orthodox Church. It's just what it is, you know? So there are many other things about it that originally I was unfamiliar with when I first went to a physical Orthodox Church. But, you know, those are like cultural details, you know? Mr. Based for 2069, sins and semexomar aloha snack bar. Why are you streaming so early? I should be working, but I'm here. Is remote work unironically based? Yeah, it is unironically based. Yeah, I was gonna do a stream last night, but it was like too late and I had some things to work on. So I figured I'd do one now because I have some time now. There's no reason. I guess, wait, let's see what time is everywhere. I actually have a script that make, wait, no. Let's see, okay. So it's a little past midnight in China. I guess it's a good time. Europe pours and Pajits can probably watch right now. Yeah, no reason though. Yeah, remote work is unironically based. You know, I wanna do a video on the very concept of employment and why it's bad. A lot of people, one of the most common questions, I'm surprised I haven't gotten it in this live stream, is all these freaking kids asking me, how do I get a job? Oh, I'm in software development. How do I get a job? Am I a proponent of employment? How people think about things now is they think about jobs as being this scarce commodity that they need to fight for or something like that. As if the idea of mass employment, the idea that no one works for themselves, everyone works for a company, that is very much a boomer thing. That before then, especially when people were more agricultural, people were basically self-employed. I mean, of course, many people did subsistence farming and bartering, it had simple crafts and stuff like that. But it's much more common to have, I mean, you can look at self-employment stats and you will see basically the norm in 1900 was self-employment, okay? Or maybe you have to go a little further before that. I'm not quite sure. A lot of that would have been agricultural workers too. But after the World War, right, wageed them, wageed them becomes the norm. Oh, everyone has to just get a job, right? And now, of course, at least, at least you have the reprieve of having online work becoming more common. And yes, it is an improvement. But the real solution is self-employment or having a business or all of that kind of stuff. So, I mean, when people are coming to me like, oh, how do I get a job? Especially if you're in computers, if you're in technology, you should not be thinking about what kind of job am I gonna get? That is the last thing on your mind. Like, you have this literally magical ability to create new things that, I mean, this isn't like carpentry where you have to pay for wood. Like, your raw material is, I don't know, clicks on a keyboard, they are free. You know what I mean? Like, you can literally perform digital magic. So, the idea that, oh, how can, I really just wanna be a peg and knocked into a hole. Like, no, that's stupid. Like, why do you wanna get a job? You shouldn't wanna get a job. Is it okay to get a job in software? Oh, of course it is. It's fine to get a job in software, but that should always be your side hustle. Like, especially if you're in computers. Like, if you get a job somewhere, even if they're paying very well, you should always think about that in terms of, this is what I'm doing on my day job. I'm actually working on these projects. That is my view, okay? Because we have, by having digital technology, by having the internet, we have a very unique ability to be independent in a way that no one in the past has been able to do. Because this isn't an independence of like, sweaty or brow, you know, subsistence farming, or even, you know, craftsmanship or things like that. Like, this is a much more powerful kind of self-employment, right? So, and I think people, that if you are into computers, that should be your primary goal. Paying for your, you know, getting money, you know, I don't know what you're gonna do in, doing like individual tasks for people, consulting, I don't know, affiliate links, like anything. Like, there are so many ways of making money via computers that it's just not, you shouldn't really be, dropshipping, things like that, right? I mean, you know, my bookselling business, we're there, right there, right? LindyPress.net, right? I actually do more work for that because I actually typeset the books and stuff like that. But how easy is it to start a dropshipping business where you just sell stupid merch? Oh, I like Monero as a cryptocurrency. I'm gonna start my own dropshipping site where I sell Monero stuff. Okay, you know how easy that is? You can probably do it with free software that's out there already and hook it up with some print-on-demand service and print that, you know what I mean? What I'm getting at is we have, you have so much ability to do so much and you should not be focused on getting a job, right? So this is not actually an answer to this guy's question. It's an answer to the question that I get all the time. Anyway, that actually gets at the deeper point. So, dropshipping is scummy. Well, I mean, yeah, there are many kinds of dropshipping that is scummy, right? I mean, you can't sell junk, but there is this tension which even if you are just hooking up a print-on-demand service to a website, you are doing an important service. Like if you're writing that kind of stuff, like it's not it, like that, hey, that counts. Like that's a real thing, you know? There's nothing wrong with it. It depends on what your dropshipping, but you know, it can be done. Is crypto dead? No, you better be slurping the heckin' dipperino. Actually, I don't know. I slurped some dip a little bit ago. I might slurp some more dip, but I think it might fall a little more. I've talked to multiple people right now who are like thinking about buying whole bitcoins, because it's so cheap right now. Christian sends in $5. Look, come to Romania, the country with the biggest orthodox church in the world. Let me know if you want to. I'll email you my details and can arrange visits and monasteries around the country. Okay, if you email my main email, I will write that down, okay, if you're inviting me and I'll contact it. Now, there's a low chance that I'll be out there, but hypothetically, if it happens, I will put it in my VimWiki notes. Tux loves you, sends in $5. Thoughts on Ethan Ralph. I made a game about him at this URL at his site, tuxlovesme.me slash post slash gunt. Also, look forward to seeing you on the Break the Rules podcast. Oh yeah, that was it. That was the podcast that I said that was gonna do. Ethan Ralph, I know that he exists. I think he's like a streamer. I don't know, he's fat, that's what I know about him. I don't know, I think he interviews people. I don't know. I wanna say, years ago, he may have emailed, or someone from his team may have emailed me to do something and I was like, I think I said yes and I ended up not doing it, but I forget. Like there are many people who ask me to do stuff and it just gets lost in the emails. Like one of us doesn't respond or something like that. That's a very normal thing. The only time I regret that is when someone, like I have never done a product review on my channel. And I'm not against him. Now, obviously 99% of products are absolute trash, but occasionally, I will have a manufacturer of free note, people who like a Libra boot, I think pads are core boot them or something else, or do free phones or something like that. Every once in a while, I have someone like that say, oh, I'll mail you a free sample if you review this. And that's actually, and I've kind of, oh, maybe I'll do this, but I've never actually gotten a free computer out of it. I kinda wish I had, I really want another core booted or Libra booted computer so I don't have to core boot this thing myself. And I could probably use it for something else. But so if anyone has a company where you do that, tell me about that. But yeah, Robert, since the $5, love you, Mr. Smith. You used to have a blog article called Only mediocre minds nitpick. Where did it go is one of my favorite, yeah, someone asked me earlier on the stream about that. Yeah, that was, I was doing my website a different way. I think it's in a different folder and I didn't transfer it over to the new one. I'm actually rewriting my whole website in Hugo. Could you talk about nitpicking and what makes someone a nitpicker? Thank you. May our Lord bless you. So, a nitpicker is just someone who's like detail oriented in a bad way. Like they wanna, I don't know. Like they can't come out really what I was getting out in that article. It's like people who miss the forest for the trees, you know, kinda stuff like that who like miss the point of things and then will like argue some autistic and an unimportant detail as if it matters. I should bring back that article because it makes a good point. Based in Turkey Pills, since then $1. I noticed that everyone is sending in $1 now. I thought I used to have like a minimum donation on my FOSPE thing. I used to think it was like $3 but whatever, you know. So $1. Constructed language based novel art, is it a based and novel art form or cringe bug man hobby? It's definitely a cringe bug man hobby. Or at least in 99% of the time, I mean, like yeah, it's basically cringe bug man hobby. I don't wanna call Tolkien a cringe bug man. Like his context is a little different but yeah, constructed language. Well, he was like the original guy to do that. Every other constructed language now is like literally retarded and just like a silly intellectual enterprise where you could just like actually learn a real language that's much more interesting and useful aside from that. So yeah. Keon said, have you read Father Serafim Rose's books yet? Do you know about Serafim Bailey? Glad you are becoming Orthodox Christ is risen. Truly he's risen. I have read bits and pieces of Serafim Rose's stuff. I've read some of Genesis, Creation of an Early Man. Maybe something else of his, I'm not quite sure but I wouldn't say I've read his books in the sense that I have a wide and deep reading of him or anything. I don't know anything about Father Serafim Bailey. We've heard of him but I'm not quite sure. So as you can tell, I'm kind of getting tired. I might just recline in my chair. So yeah, I can't say, oh, I'm going to bed soon because I'm obviously not but I might make up some other. Well, I do need to eat lunch eventually. Annie, since in $5. Hi, do you have any thoughts on the Roman Empire? Do an episode of Not Related on this? Okay, this is not on the Roman Empire. This is like, well, it's related enough. So I meant to do an episode of Not Related on this. I probably eventually will. But a couple months ago or maybe last year at this point on Unns, like Unns.com, the news aggregator, they had this guy posting like this chronological revisionist, the series of chronological revisionist articles. And what they argued, like they argued for like, what is it? Gunnar Hyneson's revised chronology. And his view, so his crazy view, is that the Roman Empire, like the classical age, but also the later Roman Empire around the time of Diocletian and also the Carolinian Empire in Northern Europe or at least, you know, Europe, Central Europe, they actually all occurred at the same period. And like they all happened at the same time. And in fact, a lot of the histories we have written of classical Rome are actually the same as histories of Rome in the post-classical era, the early Byzantine period, you know. And of course the Carolinian Empire. Like all of this was the same cultural sphere, the same empire, just like different cultures and different historians writing, right? Now the argument is actually like very empirical in the sense that it is reliant on like stratigraphy. So because there's no, like these three eras, like the so-called classical era, the post-antiquity era, and then early Middle Ages, in stratigraphy, those are all the same. Like there's no difference. Like there's no archeological site that has one and then the other and then the other. Like, you know, and how we think of things, like his way of putting it is like, you know, we have, you know, that period in his view is like basically 300 years. And we have that 300 years. You know, we look at the classical era where the, I guess the spotlight is on one region where it's a dark age in everywhere else. And then we look at the Byzantine era or like the Byzantine area and then everything else is in a dark age. And then we look to the Carolinian, you know, Charlemagne's empire and then everything else is in a dark age there, right? So his idea is basically it's all the same thing. And then in the Gregorian reform around the year 1000, which really is around the year 300 in the Revised Chronology, they kind of rewrote things. They kind of like systematized history and wrote all this stuff as if it were a sequence and all this kind of stuff. So anyway, that is the first thing that, that's the first interesting idea that came up with the Roman Empire to my head. So that's what I'll leave you with there. So yeah, I should put the links to those somewhere. If someone has the links, put them in the video description or not video description, the, the chance, the, the, the channel chat. Okay. So yeah, as for, if I actually have to pick a favorite emperor, who do I want to pick? I don't know. Who do I want to pick? I don't know. I don't want to be boring and say Constantine, but that might have to be it. How about Constantine the 12th, the emperor that will eventually reclaim the throne and reinstate the empire? That's my favorite emperor. Now I think I did do that video. Yeah, I did some video talking about like Dante's view of the Roman Empire. What was it? It was the one that was like, who's in the deepest pits of hell? That was the title of it. But it talks about Dante's like theological view of the Roman Empire, where, you know, the Roman Empire exists for, you know, because when Christ was crucified, he had to be crucified in a universal jurisdiction and all this kind of stuff. You know, they're interesting theory. You can check out that video on mine. Again, it's who's in the deepest pits of hell or something like that. Okay, Matt donates one dollar and one cent. Oh wow, we're getting, we're getting up to one cent. Yeah, I need to, I need to put it back to having the minimum of like $3 or $5, whatever it is. Because real estate, I don't want to be too greedy, but A, I get a whole lot more comments than I can read through and B, they're still, Stripes processing fee is like, I think 3% plus 30 cents. So, you know, whatever. Monero is preferred, that's what I'm saying. Damn, one dollar donations I got you, man. I'm very new to using Linux and love it. Currently running Ubuntu and working on using my keyboard less and less every day. Practicing using Vim, would you recommend switching to an ArchBase distro at this point? What would you recommend focusing on to increase my skills as fast as possible? You know what, if you're trying to increase your skills as fast as possible, switch to Arch or switch to Artix, you know, I use Artix and make sure to use, install one without a desktop environment at the beginning. And if you want to increase your skills, figure out how to install all of that. You know, it's not difficult. It might take a day or two. If you have an extra machine that maybe makes it easier, but that would be the next jump. Like that was the big jump for me when I was like, okay, now I understand how all this works, right? So, that's my recommendation. Tom donates a dollar. Thanks for streaming for us Europeans. What's your opinion on James Burnham? In particular, his quoted from his book, what is it, the Machiavellians. I've never read the managerial revolution. In fact, I probably heard people talk about it. I don't know enough about it to pontificate about it so I want, but yeah, I might take a note of that and get it next time it pops up. I'm actually trying to buy fewer books. I have way, way more books that I can store. I mean, all my shelves here, they're totally full. As you can see, and over here, this shelf is full as well. And then I have boxes of stuff outside. Oh, look at my white, look at my chalkboard that looks like schizo marks all over it. So I was practicing, I was practicing, you know, okay, there are people who can like, make lines on a chalkboard that are dashed, okay? You've got to practice it to do it. I kind of mastered it, I think, let me see. Kind of got it, yeah, there we go. Anyway, you have to hold it in a certain way. And if you do it with just the right amount of pressure, it will make a dashed line. It'll just kind of skirt across the board. You just have to hold it like really, well, you don't really want to hold it tight. I don't know, it's hard to explain. If you try it, you will figure it out. So that's why I have all those marks on the boards. But yeah, I actually have way too many books now. That's what I was talking about. I have books on the floor. My shed is like full of boxes of books, you know. I need to like downsize on books probably. There are actually some books I should burn. Eric sends in some Monero. Hey, consider asking for a cozy.tv channel. Not FOSS, but it's Christian first and basically no terms of service. Don't read aloud. I will also read this. Okay, I won't. Yeah, I mean, I thought about it. To be honest, I kind of don't want to have to worry about another platform. I mean, it's hard enough. You know what I'd really like to do, and I've talked about this before, is stream to Peartube and to YouTube at the same time. But there's actually an issue with Peartube or like some module they use, is it doesn't interface right with like the IngenX or Restream crap? Like, so that's why I only stream on YouTube now. But ideally I'd like to be able to stream to multiple platforms. But I will just say like a lot of people have asked me to go on to cozy.tv. I'm just a little reticent just until I can stream to all these places at once. It's just like an extra thing that I gotta worry about. You know, that's my view of it. I don't know, maybe they would, except I will note that I might follow up on that. So, Flare of Donuts, $5. I appreciate your take on Orange Boomer. One last donation. As I mentioned before, I'm a neophyte and respectively disagree with you on the Catholic Church. You should check out Spexzo. He's basically, he's based in strongly Catholic, hard to find online. Even if he doesn't convince you on the one true church, it might at least expand your take on Catholicism. Bless you. Yeah, I mean, like I considered Catholicism for a couple of years before Orthodoxy. I was pretty serious about it. But yeah, they're just like, I don't know, it's just kind of a shoddy foundation. That's all I can say. Like I don't. I mean, it's not as bad as like being most kinds of Protestants, but. Adarsh, since then, $3. Do you think it is better to learn Latin or ancient Greek in university if my time is limited? I know universities cringe, but I'm here, so, dot, dot, dot. Second, oh, actually, I'll read the first one. Or I'll answer the first one first. You should learn both? Like everyone should learn both? I mean, I think, I mean, the longstanding tradition of learning Latin first and then Greek works, like for everyone in Western Europe or knows a Western European language, that is the ideal. Because you learn grammar, like how Indo-European grammar works when you learn Latin. And then Greek has some extra difficulties. Oh, it's written in a different script. Oh, it has, you know, words that are more alien, okay? But it's easier to do that once you already know Latin because Latin grammar and Greek grammar are nearly identical, right? So you learn the concepts when you're doing Latin and it's much easier because Latin, like vocabulary in Latin is not a big problem because basically every Latin word has some English word it's related to and you can at least use this as a pneumonic device. So I think you should definitely take both. I think, I know people who know Latin and not Greek or Greek and not Latin, but it's like being naked. I don't know, it's like a kind of nudity. I feel like it's wrong just to be like that in public. You should really know both. So maybe, you know, if you can only take one class, maybe start learning Latin by yourself now and then take a Greek class. Maybe you can do with that. Second question he says, before you've expressed distrust in physics, as a physics student, I have to say I don't really believe in astrophysics but relativity and quantum mechanics are very solid. I'm at uni to learn the subject, not for my career. So I don't think it's a waste for me any thoughts. I've never said I distrust physics. I mean, I do have an article on my website that people, I don't know, causes consternation every once in a while. It's called physics is fragile, okay? And I'm not actually talking about physics in that article. I'm more making a point about epistemology, right? So I talk about like astrophysics. Like if you have some relativity, like, so the thing with relativity is people mean two different things when they talk about relativity. There's the idea of like relativity in like a Doppler shift writ large, which I have absolutely no problem with. And, you know, a lot of people say, oh, relativity, quote, unquote, has been proven because oh, we need GPSs and all the, you know, relativity for that and that kind of stuff. But that's all basically Doppler shift stuff. Okay, there's the, and a lot of times when people say relativity, they really mean time dilation. Okay, like Einsteinian relativity is usually conflated with time dilation. Now, time dilation I think is very much one of those things in physics that can be questioned. Relativity itself, relativity in the sense that, you know, again, like the Doppler shift writ large, that's basically undeniable. That, I mean, that's not even like a proof. That's something that has to be true by definition, right? If it takes time for information or light to reach a place, then you have to take that into account, you know, from other vantage points, duh. But, you know, time dilation, as in, you know, as you get closer to the speed of light, time dilates, right? That, I think, is something separate. And I think you can argue two things. Now, I will not, I'm not saying that I don't believe in time dilation, but I will say this, you could probably say two things. One is the original mind experiments for time dilation, you know, like the twin hypothesis and all this kind of stuff, are basically understood backwards. Okay, a lot of times. A lot of times, like, or even Einstein, I think Einstein was even asked about the twin, you know, the twin paradox or whatever. And he was, he vacillated as to whether, you know, that actually has anything to do with time dilation, you know what I mean? Or if it's even a good paradox. So one is, I think you could definitely question the logic of that, okay? And I'm not gonna do it here because I don't, maybe I'll do a separate video on that, but like, I'll just say question the logic on the original thinking behind time dilation. And secondly, the empirical observations of time dilation. Okay, so where you have, oh, well, if we shoot this particle, it degrades, you know, at this rate, whereas, you know, these kind of differences, right? Yeah, so those are empirical observations, but I think if in the light of the kind of stuff that I said in that article on my website, those are highly rarefied observations that you could theoretically have any number of theories to explain, right? It could be something related separate to speed or something else. Like it doesn't have to be specifically that time changes if you're moving at a different rate, okay? From some, you know, stationary observer or something like that, right? And so there are a lot of people, I think who have questioned time dilation and have done it pretty legitimately. Now, I don't stick my neck out on it because although I kind of understand the arguments, I don't, like I'm not totally sold on it being nonsensical, but I will just say a lot of the times people will say, oh, relativity works, but they're not talking about time dilation. They're talking about the Doppler shift or the Doppler effect or whatever, that was a change shift. I mean, I guess you could use it for both cases or whatever. So, I mean, really, I think there is a case to be made that time dilation is not a coherent concept, but you know, whatever. Quantum mechanics, yeah, I don't necessarily diss it. There are some things in quantum mechanics, like some interpretations of quantum mechanics that are obviously stupid, but you know, I've nothing against, I think the observations of it are something that you need a theory of, but that's not to give my endorsement to anything because I don't really think about quantum mechanics that much. So, okay, my internet is going slow, or at least on this computer. All right, DJ says, have you recently found any cool programs that you haven't covered in a video? By the way, well, as to that question, I rarely, I basically have not added any programs to my repertoire in years. Okay, that's why I don't do, you know, a lot of people are still like, you should do more heckin' Linux videos. And I've never, like, when I started doing videos on Linux programs, I'm just not gonna switch anytime soon, you know what I mean? I'm probably gonna turn on, probably gonna turn on a light because I feel like, I closed the windows because I was overexposed, like the light here was overexposed, but now I kind of feel like I need some light, but I don't trust the natural light this time of day. Okay, that doesn't look too bad. And the second question is, by the way, do the services under the Other Donation Methods section of your donation page also notify you of a donation message specifically PayPal? If they send me an email, I'll probably get it, which I think a second ago, I think I did get a PayPal message somewhere around here. Somewhere around here, yeah, yeah, here's one. Yeah, $1 from IFO. He says, what's your take on risk? Risk V, is it risk V or risk? I almost wanna say risk five. So I don't know that much about them then. I don't know, I've only seen it written. They keep pushing them as open hardware, but it's just the architecture. I can't find a single risk V micro MCU with its design files open. I don't know of enough about it to tell you. I don't know if there is, I don't know, I don't know about the openness about anything about them. So I wanna look into stuff like that just to optimize some things at my house, but I don't know, maybe it's against my principles. Maybe it's to, I don't know, I should be more anti-technology than that, but I really just don't wanna spend the money, you know. Okay. Farzeneff says, Luke, I do data analysis for clients on Fiverr and Upwork. I'd prefer to be a platform independent, I'd prefer to be platform independent with my own website. But what steps could I take to get traffic to my website? I'm not a YouTube celebrity. Well, you know, I'm not a big fan. So I regret, I don't wanna say regrets, that's the wrong thing to do. I would say if I could go back in time and redo my YouTube channel, I would probably be anonymous and that's not for like privacy reasons or anything like that. It's more like, I don't know how good it is to have a personality and an ego in front of people. I don't like, I don't like, you know. I don't know, people on the internet, they have a tendency to become very cultish, right? And I don't, I've never liked that, okay? So I might sound kind of dismissive with people, but I don't. However, I will say it is probably a good asset. I think you should probably start some kind of social media thing. Just, I mean, you know, if you wanna do YouTube videos on just random stuff, mind you, I wasn't born a YouTuber. I just started randomly doing videos on things. And I think it's a good idea, although I'm against like platform, you know, I don't think that normal people should be staying on these big platforms. There are reasons that you might wanna think about making a social media profile on YouTube or like Twitter or something like that just to get a following independent of your specific clients. So I think that is, you know, something you wanna consider. I mean, I've leveraged that. I mean, there have been a couple of ways. Like, you know, I got my advertisement from my book site over there, okay? Right? Some of my traffic obviously is gonna come from my YouTube channel. So, in fact, probably most of it, right? So, oh man, I'm hiccuping now. So I would not, I would contemplate putting your feelers out there, maybe creating a kind of social media thing, maybe just putting up videos of what you do on YouTube or it could be instructionals, it could be like things for clients, it doesn't matter, just putting stuff out there and maybe you'll get 20 subscribers, maybe you'll get a million, maybe you'll get zero, okay? But that's just something to think about. But yeah, in terms of getting traffic, that is the difficult thing because you basically have to start with social media and move from there. So, unless you want to, let me think, I don't know, I really do need to do a webbering thing for people. GitHub is another thing, like open source stuff. And then, I don't know, yeah, that's a good idea too. Oops, didn't mean to press that. John Van Neumann sent in some anero. You don't understand relativity, GPS works because the speed of light is irrelevant in all reference frames, not because of the Doppler shift, satellite is going toward or away from you but the speed of light is the same as soon as you have invariant speed of light, time dilation is mathematical mathematically necessary, okay? Wait, GPS works because the speed of light is invariant in all, oh, okay. No, I know what you mean, but that's not, I mean, what I was talking about is like when people divide, people will make arguments for relativity from Doppler effects, that's what I'm getting at. And either way, let's see, how in light terms, how big is the Earth, how long does it take for light to reach the other side of the Earth anyway? Let's see, because I was under the impression that the Earth is close enough to not have to factor in any time dilation. So I don't know if someone else wants to sit, who's actually a physicist wants to say something on that, let's see. Well, how far is it to the sun? Like how many, is it like, for some reason I wanna say it's like eight light minutes to the sun, but I might be wrong on that. I might be like way off. I can't find it, I'm not gonna look for it while I have other stuff to read. So Anonymous sends in some an error, walking barefoot in nature, based or cringe? Well, I do it all the time. Yeah, you should be walking barefoot. I don't know why you wouldn't. Hold on, I'm looking at the chat. People are saying eight light minutes, yeah, about eight. What about the Earth? So like, if you dug through the Earth, how big would that be? Or really like the, so like the, let's say the distance a satellite uses. So how much, how many light seconds or light milliseconds would that be? I'm like desperately awaiting an answer in this chat. Of course, like there's like a 20 second delay. Yeah, so yeah, be barefoot. Sam Smith sends in some an error. Does it pain you that the Orthodox Church doesn't use Latin, I'm conflicted, because I like the idea of carrying on the 10,000 year institution, but also most of our institutions we've inherited seem to have degraded, build new institutions or save though. I mean, while there are Orthodox Churches that you can go to a Western right Orthodox Church and they do do services in Latin, but they pretty much always had the idea of doing things in vernacular languages. There's not, like in the West there's a big divide between Latin and its descendant languages and you use Latin for that kind of stuff, but it's not, you know. Earth's diameter is 0.0425 light seconds allegedly. That's actually a lot bigger than I thought it'd be. So yeah, if that is the case, you would have to factor in time dilation, I assume. But of course, you have to factor in, you know, normal, you know, just movement. Again, like Doppler effects anyway, that's nearly certainly a bigger effect, but 40 milliseconds through the earth. Anyway, so Sam's, oh, I just read that. Yeah, another way, like the use of certain languages and liturgy is not like, I don't know, that's kind of, I don't want to say it's a personal preference, but it's like a cultural specific thing. If you're focusing on that, like it's not, I don't know, that's, I mean, the church is not supposed to just look like the church. That is not the goal, like, you know. It's not the goal to, I mean, the continuity across time is supposed to be theological and liturgical, it's not supposed to be, like in superficial things, because, you know, language changes, right? And at the time when Latin was used in the West in comparison to vernacular languages, it was used because it was a commonality. It was like a uniting factor. Now, like no one speaks Latin, I mean, just not, you know, the division between, like, Latin and vernacular languages is too great. And of course, people aren't taught that stuff anyway, so they don't even learn it. But, all right, looking at the chats. Luke, are you checking YouTube super chats? No, I usually don't, unless I just happen to look at them. Have you read any of Marshall McLuhan's books? I've never heard of that person. Why have you stopped shilling for brave and went back to firefight? I mean, I've literally never shilled for brave. Oh boy. That was like one of the worst force memes ever. Like the thing is, I wanna say I started using brave like in 2019, and people asked me to do videos on it for like literally a year, because they would see me using it. And then I did a video on it, and people were like, oh, you're shilling brave. There's like money involved, so you're like, oh, you can get paid to use it, oh, you're shill. And then, you know, once I got up in a good Firefox configuration, I switched back. And now people are like, oh, you're shilling. Worst cringe thing ever. Well, I did write an article on my website about like, how bizarre, like there really is like an, well, there isn't anymore because no one cares. But there was a period where I never understood that one. But I actually still have brave installed with larbs because it's kind of hard to deploy. I need to look up, well, I've looked into doing this. It's kind of annoying to do it the way I want. I wanna be able to deploy Firefox with a bunch of add-ins, add-ons, like extensions. You know, it comes with an ad blocker, all this kind of stuff. So if you install larbs, it automatically installs all that as well. Because I don't want people installing my .file, like more normy tier people, installing my .files, and then opening up a browser whose default search engine is freaking Google and has, I don't know, like no ad blocker, right? So that's why I still have brave installed with larbs because it's like, it is the one normy friendly browser that actually has sensible settings when it's installed. There is no, absolutely no reason ever to view an ad on any site. So there's no reason that every browser should not have an ad blocker by default, okay? But brave is like the only browser that has done this. So that puts it, in terms of installing on normy computers, that puts it above the rest, even if they keep adding stupid widgets to it. Like that is the, that's the thing I kept getting sick of. But eventually I just bit the bullet and configured Firefox and hardened it and used Arc and Fox and some other settings. But if I can get that working with larbs to deploy it automatically, I'll probably have it installed. All right, well, I haven't gotten a donation in several minutes, so I can finally take a break. LibraWolf comes with you block by default. I mean, all of those, no, I mean, I'm not interested in using Firefox clones because, I mean, there's no reason to, I mean, the thing that annoys me about LibraWolf is that they will go like 90% of the way there and then they'll still have stupid default settings that are bad. I mean, if they're installing like ad blockers, that's great, you know, but, you know, I wanna be able to, I actually did a video or no, not a video, I did an article on my website on like things that every browser should have, but none of them do. I forget what it is. It's like, why there is no good, no passable browser or something like that. But they all have screwed up stuff with them. I've tried to fire the Firefox clones, but the thing with Firefox clones is if you're just using normal Firefox with like ArchonFox, JS, and like easily, easy enough to install settings, like just with a user, you know, .js file, I mean, it's just as easy as setting up LibraFox and fixing it, you know, let's see what else. Will you upload the Patreon videos on your other platforms? I guess those are still there. Do I still, is my Patreon still up? I don't even know. If there is, I wanna say my Patreon is still up because every month I'll get like a message from them saying you just received $30 from Patreon or something, like, you know, because I don't, I use that thing for like two months basically. And I was like, wow, this is stupid because the very concept of like paywalling videos is kind of dumb. Now I did put up videos there, but it's like, I don't wanna say they're personal videos, but they were more like, I don't know, bloggy videos. I don't think there's any reason to put them up. I mean, they're not like secret, but they're also like, I don't really, I don't think it'd be interesting enough to put them up because it's like from a period of my life that was a while ago. I still kind of mean on doing a video on like paying for, you know, had a budget buying a house basically, my thinking and doing that, how I bought it. Cause you know, I don't, I don't do any of this mortgage crap. I don't believe in that stuff. I mean, some people, some people, because they have a mortgage, they think they own their house. I'm not a big proponent of that. Like if you own a house by owning a bank, $100,000, I do not consider that owning, but you know, that's fine. Let's see. Um, what's your take on Migtal? The same take I always have when people ask me about it. Anonymous sent in Monero. Have you looked into Christian Reconstructionalism? Writers like Peter Lighthart, James Jordan, RJ, Roushtouni, Cornelius Vantil, I've heard of some of those. What is that? Reconstructionalism? I've never heard of that word though. What is, is it like Protestants trying to recreate the early church when they could just like actually join the real Orthodox church? I don't know. I've heard of Lighthart and James Jordan. I don't know the other, or no, Vantil, Vantil is like the presupposite. I don't know. These are all like Protestant people. I'm not, I've never gotten to that. Or well, I did when I was, when I, well, nevermind. Yeah, I'm not interested in that. Yeah, when I was in West Virginia, I want to say the pastor or the pastor, I guess he is the pastor, but the priest was talking about, you know, there were some, or maybe it was in another parish, but there was some like group of Protestants that were like, oh, we got to recreate like the early church and we got to look, do research and like find how they actually did stuff and blah, blah, blah. And then eventually they realized, oh wait, that still exists. It's called the Orthodox church. And then they just convert. As a group, they all converted the Orthodoxy. Many such cases, the Orthodox church doesn't count because it's influenced by Greek philosophy. I mean, the influence of Greek philosophy is much larger on the Western church than the Eastern church, which is really, I mean, that is not even controversial. Like, I mean, the Western church like lives and breathes Aristotelianism. Like that's what it is. Like that's what Aquinas was. It was all like scholasticism was just like this giant Aristotelian movement. I mean, some people will say that like the Eastern church is more akin to Plato, but you will not hear about Plato in, I don't know. It's just not, it's not important in the way that like Aristotelianism or Greek philosophy is for the Western church. Where Camel says, can I get a Lindy press bought, a Lindy press bought book PDF? I mean, if you want the texts of the books, they're like, most of them are public domain. Like you can go out and get them. I mean, the point of the PDF is for printing. That's the PNPDF. But no, I mean, I don't like, I thought I, no, I don't think I do it. I don't think I did. I don't think, I think I canceled that. But yeah, I mean, I think I'll eventually like put up this like the law tech source for some of the books, but you can compile it yourself. But no, I don't like sell PDF. Selling a digital project or product feels absolutely fake. The goal of the business is to reprint books or whatever. And if you want the texts and you don't want to buy the books, they're literally like free on the internet. Ify sends in $5 stuff. You know, I really, I need to ban all questions that start with thoughts on blank. Red pill me on blank. You know, I don't know, whatever. Thoughts on Islam. No, I don't really have any thoughts on Islam right now. Adarsh says donate one dollar. So more on relativity, it's not super long. You can read it. Okay, he just gave me a paste of something. I don't know what he's trying to tell me. Oh, okay. So he just has a longer comment that he wrote. Time dilation and link contraction are two sides of the same coin. The magnetic field is actually the electrical field plus special relativity. The existence of magnetism can only be explained through this theory and it is well confirmed. No need to rely on shady astro Doppler effects. There are good mathematical and experimental explanations of these effects. One can show that there must be a maximum speed without the notion of light using the principle of equivalence in the idea that any direction you look in is no better than any other. Okay. See Merrim. Okay. The first sentence again. Time dilation and link contraction are two sides of the same coin. So yeah. Okay. Time dilation and links. Yeah, I guess that makes sense. I'll look into that article. You can say see Merriman 2019 85 relativity without light. You know, I'll look into that. But so then how do you, no, I'm not gonna ask you that. I'll read that first and I'll ask on the next livestream. Yeah, I'll ask a question on the next livestream. Have you read Gabriel Garcia Marquez? 100 years of solitude? No, I haven't. Luke, did you ever read the structured atom model? It's a missing link to your relativity debunking. No, I've never heard of that. Structured atom model. Have I heard of that? Oh sweetie, that's been debunked. Just try to keep up. The structured atom model. Let me think about that. Let me think about what he said about time dilation and length contraction are the same thing. I'm gonna think about that. Yeah, I don't wanna think about that in front of 100 people. I'll do it on my own time. Phillip, since the $5. How do or did you make the money for the land? I'm a 21 year old Balkan boy studying in Denmark, thinking and getting a job here to save up for a few years and then buy land back at home where it's cheap. Cheers, Luke. I think I said in a video a bit ago that my property, I bought for like $85,000. So that was before land prices went up a good bit. I mean, you could probably buy it for twice as much now, but I'm an extreme saver, I guess. That's easy. I never really tried to save money, okay? I'm just one of those people. Everything I earn is I'm not gonna spend it, unless it's on a necessity, unless it's food. Like the biggest splurge I do in spending is like, I don't know, go out to eat with people maybe, maybe once a week, maybe. So I don't spend that money on that much and during graduate school, it's not like I was making that much money, but I just was saving enough that when I thought about moving to the country, I basically had enough for a massive down payment, you know, like I could have gotten a mortgage, but I ended up working something out where I did like a rent-to-own agreement where I would, you know, basically every month, I would give this guy rent and it would go to the price of the house and then at the end, I agreed to pay the rest of it just in a big lump sum. So I mean, that's how I did it, rent-to-own things, like if you can trust the guy you're doing it with and you trust the property and you tend to actually have it, they're probably a good idea. So in result is, you know, I have a house without ever having debt and it costs, again, $85,000 is pretty cheap. And don't expect to get a price that good given the market now, maybe after a year or so if the market collapses, you can get something for like that, maybe some good foreclosures, you might be able to get some stuff even cheaper. But yeah, in the grand scheme of things, like if you're saving like $20,000 a year, that adds up really fast, okay? Just, I mean, well, really more than that. I mean, if you're, I think in that video before, I mean, where I was talking about it, if you're saving like $30,000 a year, it's easy to, you know, have a house paid off, you know, by the end of your 30, by the end of the time you're 30 or something like that, you know, you can end up with a house paid off. And at that point, your view on life is gonna be very different once you have that settled. Like once you have your living expenses settled, you're kinda like, oh, like, I mean, I need a job but I don't need a job, you know what I mean? Like I just pay for the things that I buy, which can be significantly lower and everything else is like saving for the kids, like, you know, inheritance, which I think it's very important to leave your children lots of inheritance. That's basically the goal. Like because, you know, one thing that the boomer economy has kinda tried to destroy is the idea that, I mean, people no longer aspire to leave things to their children. They don't wanna have generational wealth. It's like, that's like a bad thing to have for many people. That's like, oh, you want your kids to be bratty rich kids? No, I want my kids to like have land that they can use, you know? I want that ability to be there, even if they are doing something else. Like that's basically a requirement. So, Zachir, I think he told me how to pronounce his name once. Maybe it was Zachir, it's the last name. But either way, he sends in $5. Do you believe in the rapture and tribulation at the end? No, no, only extremely weird Protestants believe in like rapture. That is something made up, it was something made up like 150 years ago by this guy named John Darby. Like it is no, no, no, that is not a thing. Rapture is not a real thing. I remember you saying that the Book of Revelations was a reference to the time of New York. I mean, so the interpretation of the Orthodox Church and really like most sensible Protestants and most sensible Catholics of the Book of Revelation is yes, the Book of Revelation refers to the time that it was written. It refers to Nero and all the stuff going on with Rome. But also you should interpret it as if it, I mean, it has an idealistic interpretation where we should still be on guard for repetitions of it in the future, okay? And also the Orthodox do believe that there will be a Antichrist, you know, one big one at the end of time or whatever, not end of time. That's maybe the wrong way to put it, but other way, this rapture, tribulation stuff, that is like Protestant fan fiction, that's like left behind stuff, you know, that's not a real thing. Silesh says, you seem to believe that science is about discovering truth, not creating models of the world. Yeah, well, yes, that's because it is. But how do you reconcile that with the idea that the theoretical framework of a scientist that the theoretical framework of science works in, will influence his theories even when there may be other valid theoretical scientific frameworks? If there is an element of arbitrariness in theoretical frameworks, then how can scientific discoveries ever discover truth per se? I mean, I don't see how that is a problem at all. I'm very confused. I mean, it's like, I mean, there are some domains where you just have totally different scientific frameworks and they can still, I mean, linguistics is a good example. Maybe I've written about this in some, well, linguistics, usually I will complain about it. I'll complain about generative linguistics. But in the academic discipline of linguistics in the United States right now, it is actually multipolar. Like there are totally different frameworks all looking at same problems and they have their own theoretically and theory internal ways of thinking. So, I mean, I don't think that's a good idea so what do you get out of that? How are you getting closer to the truth? Well, truth is not like, truth is not, I mean, your issue is you're thinking about science as being about models. It isn't. Truth is about getting incrementally closer to the actual model that is the universe, the actual occurrences of what, we have a series of models that are ever getting closer to reality that actually has a structure to it that we have to discover. And at the same time, what theoretical frameworks give us is that eventually, now theoretical frameworks, if they're just masturbation, if they're just rewording things in some new way, they are useless, absolutely useless. And that's my main complaint about generative linguistics as an aside. What matters is a phenomenology. What happens is you have different theoretical frameworks and due to the way that they may look at particular issues, they might clue you into different relationships between data points that you did not notice before. And what survives after those theoretical frameworks is the acknowledgement of those data relations. You don't need a theory to interpret that, but I mean, let's say, I don't know. I mean, I don't know, let's give an example. Hypothetically, there have been people who have said that there are some human cultures where people do not understand that sex creates children, okay? They don't understand that relationship. They just know, children, they come out sometimes and oh, well, there's also sex, but it's a different thing. Most human cultures understand that relationship, but allegedly, there have been several that don't have that relationship, right? Now, suppose some culture discovers that that is the case. Maybe they have some kind of experimental structure. They realize something. They have some certain theoretical framework for looking at what semen is or whatever. It doesn't matter. It doesn't have to be anything related to how we scientifically look at gamites and stuff like that. It doesn't have to have anything to do with that. It could be just in terms of like, oh, they view things as spiritual energies. It doesn't matter. Once you notice that sex causes children, right, that is a data generalization that you can have different interpretations of. You can have different scientific reasons for why it happens or different theories of how it happens, but once you've noticed that data relation, you are now closer to understanding reality, okay? So that is not a theory internal reason. Suppose this tribe has this idea, oh yes, well, sex seems to cause children, but maybe it's because of, I don't know, like pubic hair rubbing together. Who knows? It doesn't matter. What I'm getting at is once you understand the phenomenology, the actual relationship between data, once you've realized new things, you have now learned things. You have now gotten closer to truth. Making models to rewrite things that we already know, that is useless. That is not, I mean, it's not even, I mean, it's just a waste. It's a waste unless it will lead you to even more data that you can bring into your theory. Or really, if it clues you into stuff that you didn't realize beforehand, okay? So the problem with, again, I mentioned generative linguistics, and it's a good example of positivistic science. Know anything about the history of linguistic thought. And so what they end up doing is they end up taking given data that everyone already knows, and then making some formalism to describe the data we already know. And whenever they are confronted with new information, they don't, I mean, they just kind of have a way of like integrating that into the theory. And they don't really have a way of like, they don't actually find new stuff. And if they do it's by accident, and if they do they can't actually accommodate it, but they ignore it because their framework is not fit to deal with it. And that is most of positivistic science, okay? So it's, let me start with some priors of how things have to work. And then I will fit things into my model, except for the things that can't fit into my model. You know, I will like, you know, change the degrees of the, you know, I will change the little variables in the model and tinker it a little bit. But you know, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna step too far away from that. Like there's no, oh, I can't like change my general framework because that would be pseudoscience or something like that. I don't know, they just have, they have a very silly way of looking at things. And I think, you know, my theory of science is the same theory of science. Basically everyone throughout all history, including all normies have, you know, this whole models are the goal of science is this insane and incoherent view that only makes sense in institutionalized positivistic science within the 20th century. And it only, I mean, it's basically just a way to get like grant proposals approved, you know, for people you like. That's about it. Like it doesn't function as a scientific theory. Mackenzie says, I know you hate giving advice, but in spite of, I don't hate giving advice. I hate giving the same advice over and over again to the same people. I know you hate giving life advice, but in spite of that, do you have any advice for a, first year of economics undergrad going into their second year? Well, if you have something to do, I mean, the school to me is like kind of a last, I don't know, last on the list. If you don't have anything. So like, I don't think there's anything wrong in persisting in it so long as you're not going deep into debt. And again, like the benefit of a degree is fine. Like you're not gonna, don't expect to learn anything in school, right? My one regret in my undergrad is that I did not skip more classes. But yeah, don't expect to get anything out of it. But if you can do it cheaply and get out of it unscathed and unbrainwashed and undestroyed, that's probably fine. And you can leverage a degree to get you job. Like having an undergraduate degree, it is, I mean, as some people say, it is almost required just to have some kinds of jobs, right? So it's not the end of it. I would just make sure, if you're going to stay in school, make sure it is as stress-free as possible. Take your classes based on what is like less, I don't know, easiest for you, basically. You know, don't take, there are all these classes now that make you wanna do all these, I don't know, they want you to do all this work all the time. They want you to have clickers. They want you to do all this stuff. Like the first week of classes, you should always be going into every class you could theoretically take and say, oh, which one involves the least amount of work? Which class can I skip the most often? You know, that is my mind. That is my actual how you should view. If you are at all an intelligent person, that is how you should be looking at things. Or even if you're not an intelligent person. If you're not an intelligent person, like you're probably not gonna, I mean, going to sitting in classes is probably not gonna make a big difference. So that is what I would say. And if you're interested in economics, you will learn about it on your own time if you care about it, okay? Yeah, and someone said, if you actually are a girl, because I think her name was Mackenzie, you should, yeah, you should think about getting married. Someone said that. People do ask, I have thought about doing a video on girl advice, because a lot of girls will watch my channel, and they will think that everything automatically transfers over to the life of girls, which is absolutely not the case. Like girls, if you have this magical out of getting married, like if you can get married to a guy who's further along in life than you. Which is what women wanna do anyway. They just got kind of brainwashed out of it, because, oh, no, you gotta get a degree, so you can make power points for corporate America. Now, most girls, if given the choice, they would jump at that opportunity. And that is what most of them should do. Like if you're, I mean, okay. I think the stream pooped out for a second. I'm not quite sure. No, it's gone. Okay, I haven't gotten donations in a minute. So I will look at the chat. I'm desperately trying to get my girlfriend to not become a teacher. We don't plan on having kids due to genetic issues, and she does like teaching and kids, but it's an awful system. I mean, there are places where she can teach that aren't gonna be awful. I mean, if you're in a city, yeah, sure. That's gonna be awful, but. And I said before, there are public schools out there that are okay. Okay, you gotta go out of the city. There are places out there that are fine. And there are private schools, you know? Okay. Strat, it's so hard to read these names because I just have, I really should have a name thing on my donation portal that people can put a name because I just read their emails and they're just a million names put together. Anyway, this guy donates $5. My name's Eva, oh, he says it in the comments. I should have just read that first. Hey Luke, do you know about Project Xanadu and other hypertext projects? Learned about it recently and found it interesting. No, I've never heard of that. Is that like, is that something like Gemini or something? I don't know, hypertext? I'm not quite sure. Some HTTP equivalent. The dark says to understand what I said about relativity in my donation, a better resource than the article is the book. It's about time, but David and Marilyn, okay. You can lib gin it. I'll go ahead and lib gin that because I'm not reading donations. I never heard of him. I read some like physicist crap, but let's see, here it is. I mean, it might be that all the people who have explained relativity to me are mentally retarded because I've never, I never heard that way of looking at it, but I will, I'll read this and see if I understood you right. Cause it makes sense in my brain. I just wanna make sure if that is, that's what I'm talking about. Gem says, what do you think of crypto mining? I think it's a good way of generating passive income without being dependent on any form of employer. Well, it's just an issue of how much can you generate? Like, I don't know. I've never mined. I have some friends who have mined. I mean, actually when I was in less Virginia, the priest there, he mined Ethereum and he said there was a period where he was making a huge amount of money from it, like a couple hundred bucks a day or something. I forget. He's not making as much now, but yeah, I don't know. Like if you can do it, if it's profitable, I know at least, I mean, the only, the only cryptos I care about are Bitcoin and Monero, realistically speaking. And I don't think Bitcoin, of course, is kind of out of my league to, you know, I don't have the material to mine it. And I don't think, I mean, Monero mining anyone can do it because you can just use your normal computer with an Intel processor, but I don't think it's very profitable. Unessential nature. Sorry to divert the topic. I mean, we've been diverting topics all the time, but I just wanted to say how much my perspective on the job market as a whole changed thanks to you. I unfortunately had to endure a year and a half of working for an Alzheimer patients hospital, which was entirely set up as a scheme to launder donations from the government. Best part is that it's fully legal according to our own government. Well, that's pretty screwed up if that's true. Yeah, I mean, a lot of, I don't know, a lot of that stuff's just kind of sad to even think about, I mean, it was, it's one thing in, I mean, at least you can say in, if they're taking care of people, like someone's got to do it, right? Maybe it is their scam of the government for a bunch of money or whatever, but at least they're doing something. There are a lot of charities out there. I trust zero charities, absolutely zero charities. I cannot think of a single one that I trust or I would give money to. Actually, that would be some doxing information. I was gonna say, there's one that I would trust, but what was I gonna say? Yeah, let me think of ones. I cannot, are there any good charities? They're just, like, it's just how the system works now. I mean, like charities are primarily, like when you understand what they actually do, okay? Like how they, like the benefits of having a charity, you won't understand why they're so rife with corruption because here's what you do. There's a good video, there's a good video that someone showed me months ago. You can look up on your own time. It's like on YouTube, you can pull up, there's a guy who does like a tax firm where it's like how to pay no taxes on cryptocurrency, okay? So it's like, he talks about CRTs, charitable remainder trusts. If you search like CRT, Bitcoin or something, it'll probably come up. It's actually interesting on your own time, but he tells you basically how you can have this charity more or less donate money kind of to yourself and get it back in an annuity to avoid paying capital gains tax. And now that's cool, like I'm not against it. I mean, I'm against all taxation, that's fantastic. But the thing you have to remember is when you have rich people, if you have like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or all these like big NGOs, the reason they exist is for money laundering and tax avoidance because what Bill Gates does, well actually you can watch this video where money that you're not paying capital gains on and eventually the charity gets the money, but you can also get an insurance policy on it, like a life insurance, extremely expensive life insurance on it. So you end up getting your money anyway, right? So that's, you know, it's just the, anyway, so that's cool for individual use, but when you think about it, most charities actually function like this. It's for rich people to have, you know, this way of like avoiding taxation and stuff like that. And like, so all this stuff about, oh, he's a philanthropist. Oh, you know, blah, blah, blah. You know, it's just silly. Because it's self-serving. You can use this kind of stuff for just your own benefit. And people use normal charities the same way. One dollar, my name is Thought Crime. What kind of desktop computer specs would you recommend for getting, for someone who wants a base Linux machine but can't perform, but can perform well with more games, Windows? Also, what are your thoughts on ketamine ever try, no, of course I'm not trying ketamine. What am I freaking retarded? No, I don't care about, I don't know. Just get a computer. I don't care about gaming. I don't know what year of games you're playing. I have no idea. Like the last games I ever played on a computer were made back in, you know, 2012 or something like that. So I have no idea. I don't care, I don't, no, my eyes glaze over whenever I hear about graphics cards and all this kind of stuff. I just could not care less. I recommend just getting a low resources computer so you don't have to, you know, and just not playing games, you know. Zach sends in $5. Why do so many modern Christian women also believe in astrology and the like? I've never actually met even a girl who pretends to be Christian who is not a Christian say that she believes in astrology. I have not seen that. That's kind of like a new agee. I don't know, it is like, there are many of those girls that are like faux spiritual, but I feel like the ones who pretend to be Christians are different from the, my internet is kind of poopy right now. Oh, yep, totally out. Totally out. Are we back? Okay. Think we're back. Thorliss says the ultimate working machine is an old ThinkPad with two gigabytes of RAM so you can work in the terminal without being able to fire up a browser and get distracted. Don't thank me. It's actually good advice. When I had my ThinkPad X200, that was kind of how, I mean, it could run a browser fine, but if you did too many things, it would get a little, the thing about any kind of processing, like processing power for normal use, there's just no need for anything, any fancy processors nowadays, for just doing normal stuff. The only reason that crap exists is, well, it's really twofold. One is like playing games. And two is like, if browsers and stuff that run in them are so bloated and so terrible that you need all this processing power to do all this JavaScript. All right. Well, guys, my nose is starting to itch, so it's about time for me to, about time for me to end this stream. So if you have any last donations, go ahead and send them in because I've been going for way too long. I didn't mean to be going this long. I wanted to like stop, like maybe a little afternoon, but now it's like, it's 1.30 here. So last donation's gonna end. I'm actually extremely hungry. I usually only once a day, I might eat twice today though. All right. You leave your red pill, okay? And I actually thought about mentioning that in my last video, or it's like, oh, living in the country versus living in the city. The real red pill, if you're in your younger 20s, before you're married, just live with your parents. That is the actual, and it's more, I mean in every freaking sane country in the world, people do that too. Everywhere. It's set for the United States. Where there's this like, bizarre consumer's idea. Oh, I'm 19. Oh, I have to, oh, I have to spend $1,000 a month like on a house for no reason and like rebuy all the stuff my parents have. Oh, I gotta be able to like, you know, have like a living room to myself for some reason. Wow, this is really important. Wow, all the cool kids, you know, say that I won't be able to come if I don't have my own apartment. Wow, yeah. Living with your parents is absolutely based. If you're mid 20s, lower 20s and unmarried, actually, even if you're married, there are good reasons to live with your parents too. You know, if you're starting off, you're saving money, stuff like that. So yeah, this whole, this whole nuclear family only thing, you know, when it's just like mom and dad and the kids, that is very boomer. Okay, you gotta be able to live with grandparents, live with older unmarried children. Absolutely, I endorse that. Of course, I say that. I'll probably be eating those words eventually. I'm like, when are my kids getting out of my house? I just want to consume product and, you know, whatever. I probably won't actually say that. I will stick to that. Thanks for validating my lifestyle, Luke. Yes, great. It's great that you're saving money. You better have a job though. Like, I don't endorse it just living at your parents' house. You have to be like stacking sats, so to speak. David says, almost all charities are garbage, even the ones that are ostensibly well-intentioned. However, I like the approach to charity evaluation present at organizations like Givewell, which requires certain standards of financial transparency and demonstrated cost-effectiveness before recommending this allows one to find the needles in a haystack that are actually doing good work. Well, the other thing is, I mean, even that, frankly, once you get to a bureaucratic level, okay, it's like charities do not, I don't know. Charities just naturally become corrupt. That's my view. I've never seen a charity and I know people. I know people who deal with charities and it is almost impossible to, like you're sitting on all this money and you can do what you want with it, okay? So all you have to do is find some flimsy justification to give it to people you want or do tit for tat. Like it is so easy, you know? And it's not like there's a rigid line between things that are bad and things that are good, you know? The unessential nature says, again, you do not know true pain until you have been in a workplace where 90% of management are women. I've experienced pain like that. I haven't had 90%. I've had a high percentage, though. Yeah. I mean, most of my time in universities, not everything, like there were lots of things that were run by women. But, you know, we didn't have a separate managerial class, it was just like inept, you know, professors or something like that. There are good, I mean, there are good female professors. Actually, when I did my master's, my major professor and she was a female and there was also someone else on my committee who was a female, okay, they were fine. At least my major professor was. I mean, the other woman I just had just because I needed some extra, there were not very many people in that department. But yeah, things got, the more bureaucratic it is, the more the worse it is. I mean, like, yeah. I mean, everyone just needs oversight all the time, especially women, like women, I don't know, don't function well in bureaucracy. Or maybe that's the thing, maybe they do function well in bureaucracy, that's a problem, they enjoy it too much, okay. Men have this sense of revolt and just like disgust at bureaucracy, just like, oh wow, we're sitting in another meeting where we're talking about literally nothing for no reason for 30 minutes, which is really just like a thinly veiled excuse to like humble brag and like complain about things that don't matter and stuff like that. Yeah, men don't like that. But that is the direction that bureaucracy gravitates. So, low T men like that, I will say that. If you're low T, if you're, you know, yeah, three hours, three, I know, yeah. I mean, I will just say one more passing remarks, I'm getting like physically tired of sitting here and sitting in my chair and just talking out loud. So it's been like three hours. But I was gonna say one thing that I wish I thought was gonna happen when you had the lockdown hoax. I thought people were just gonna be like, oh, let's abandon the formality of having stupid meetings since we have to do them remotely. Let's abandon the formality of all these silly jobs and like, let's trim the system of fat and let's like, you know, get rid of a bunch of bureaucracy and it all happened. I mean, maybe it happened in a couple of businesses, but like, things are back and bloated, you know. It's nothing, it's like people learn nothing, you know. So, no, it's red again. It's red again. All right, I'm probably gonna turn this off. So the CPU, I was using, oh my goodness. I can't say goodbye while the thing is red and not actually transferring data. Look at this packet loss. Crazy. There it, okay. It's coming back, it's coming back. Um, so, oh, I already read that one. So yeah, I will probably sign off now. I will, let's see, there are a couple of videos I wanna do. More like me talking outside videos. So, oh, one thing that pisses me off. You might ask, oh Luke, why haven't you been doing like as many screen casts? YouTube screwed something up and this has been going on for a couple months. I'll complain about this. This is gonna be on my last complaining thing. But this is a big one actually. And the crazy thing is I haven't found anyone. I think YouTube has cursed my channel because I haven't found anyone else that this happens to. But recently, every screen cast I record on my computer and you know, I can, I can then, let's say, re-encode it in something else or put it in a different container. Doesn't matter what it is. Whenever I record a screen cast on my computer, I upload it, use different browsers. It's not a browser problem either. I upload it to YouTube. And then YouTube will have this weird error where it will play the 15 seconds. It will upload the whole thing. It will play 15 seconds and then all the colors go gray in the video. And this has been going on for months. This is one of the reasons I've been doing less videos and I've tried to figure out what it is. Like I thought, you know, I assumed it was my fault at the beginning. I assumed, oh well, maybe FFMPag is screwed up. Maybe I'll use a different version of it or I'll encode in a different container or, you know, use a different encoding or use a different container. And the only thing that works is if I upload them to PeerTube first and download them from my PeerTube and then re-upload them to YouTube. Which is weird because I will like re-encode them in different ways and it's still won't work, it's crazy. So I don't know what's going on. That's why I've been kind of disincentivized to do more live streams, or not live streams, screen casts. But there is right now a video on Shadow Chat. Shadow Chat is the thing that I use for Monero donations. That is on PeerTube. I will probably upload that to YouTube once I get that figured out. And then I have some other videos I wanna do, but oh yeah, I might be going to LinuxFest this year, LinuxFest Southeast in Charlotte, North Carolina. You can look that up. You can look up Southeast LinuxFest and it will be there if you wanna go. So there's a chance that I will be there. So I gotta, if you have any ideas of what you want me to present on, you can give me some suggestions because I need to figure that out today. All right, see if I'm not leaving any donation out. No donation left behind. Okay, great, I got them all. All right, I'm signing off now. Signing off.