 All right doing a stream today. It's actually been a while I'm still kind of unopinionated about whether soul, you know, your soul is edified or Damaged by doing a live stream. I don't actually know, you know, a couple months ago Reference soul because it makes it me gotistical. I don't I don't know. I don't I don't feel like they make me gotistical I just feel like they're kind of a waste of time Welcome to the live stream Now now that I've told you not to watch Now, you know waste of time. I don't know if we talk about important stuff I actually have just thought about coming for the first time ever with a couple topics. I want to talk about but we'll just do I read donations and chats and stuff like that that really enough there are a couple videos that I Want to make but I don't know the format to do them in I don't know if they're like better for a not related episode Or like one of those videos where I put pictures on top and talk about it But maybe we can talk about that there. Well, I really just have to wait on them But so I put out some videos at the other couple days after a hiatus of several months But we can talk about basically whatever people want I've just had a busy weekend. I intended to stream on Both Saturday and Sunday I mean either one or the other and I didn't have time and I just now got time I actually just got back from um, I guess kind of doing some things with family So you can give me your opinion if you think that live streams are bad for your soul But if you're here, you probably don't think that they're too bad Can you just do a live not related yeah, I've actually done that once before it might be worth doing again I could probably do it better now. So I may do that. But the other thing is like branding it My main issue with it was So what I was gonna talk about so, you know, I've done videos on Like how people like how particular terms have changed over the over centuries like how they mean different things I think I did one on like nature and one on freedom and I wanted to do one on the word Generate which sounds way more boring than like freedom or nature but it's actually super interesting because it's like relevant to theology and like Positivism in modern science and like how people model things. So And I actually, you know, I don't know I need to what I really need to do is I just need to record lower Quality videos or at least like more off-the-cuff stuff because honestly sometimes when when I'm at home and alone You know, no one else is here and I'm just to myself like I have all these things I want to I kind of want to talk about But I guess I haven't you know when you first start your YouTube channel Yeah, I shouldn't feel like this anymore after five years But when you first start it you're kind of awkward about doing things like we're awkward about recording a video It's just if I did that I just like Just be recording something sitting on my chair, but maybe I'll do that. All right, so Let's see let's see what's in the chat or okay, so I will I think I pinned the donation links Which should be working If they don't work someone tell me I don't think I've gotten any yet, but you know, whatever I think I I like just since the last time I did a live stream. I had to reinstall the Foss pay thing But if there's any problem just saying the chat, but I will look at that otherwise Let's see Let's see live streams can be spiritually perilous. Yeah, I kind of agree with that I feel like it's kind of worse for the people who are view and I know well This is the real thing where it sounds bad I feel like it's worse for the people viewing it than the people me doing it You know for me, it's no big deal I'm just like talking to a screen which I don't really mind like I don't I don't think it's that bad And you guys know the way I look at the internet. I really I look at this as literally a screen I know there are people behind it, but like the internet is fake to me Whereas I will just say this like I don't watch anyone's streams. You know what I mean like Um, there are a couple people whose stuff I've tried to watch like I've tried to watch, you know people always tell me to watch like Jay Dyer stuff and Which is fine, but like every single video he does is like a stream That's like three and a half hours and like I'll try to I don't know. I just don't have that kind of time Like I liked it the guy have a lot of free time But like when you're when you want to hear his take on one thing and it's a video that's like super long It's just I don't know if I want to do that Let's see When you lever booted your x60, did you experience the battery getting drained when leaving it on the laptop leaving it on the laptop? Did you upgrade the bias before lever booting? No, I had never had that problem I will say I still haven't done a video on this But a dude who I think works for lever boot one of the one of the guys who has done something with lever boot Sent me a lever booted think pad that I plan on doing a video on But it actually has an issue like that where you'll shut it down and like the battery notification is still on now It's aren't only on Arctic's Linux. I was running void on it before and it was not doing that So I don't know. I think there are some weird kernel issues with some kernels and some lever boots like I've only had it on Arctic's like when I was running arch before it wasn't an issue When I was running void it wasn't an issue so I don't exactly know what it is But I mean to end the problem. You just pull down on the power button till the light turns off Luke wouldn't it be nice to have modern some modern hardware. No, it actually wouldn't it would be a big pain I mean there there are benefits to having modern hardware like sometimes I'd like to have a USB see a USB 3 More USB 3 ports if I'm transferring a whole lot of data But that's really a rare thing like even USB C is like not super necessary The only thing that is I think annoying about think pads Using a classic think pad is the fact that they don't come with like a 1080p displays And that's really only annoying for me because I record videos on them Or at least well really when I record on a think pad now It's plugged up to a screen inside a desktop like I don't I don't record like laptop alone videos Barco bummer stop asking me out Posting the same thing over and over again. I don't know about Kiwi farms. I know they exist I don't know about Clara cloud flair. I don't care if you're trusting cloud flair. I don't know I don't know what you can do Yeah, don't post the same question over and over again Let's see have You read your books all the way through what the books in here? No, everyone I like everyone asks everyone with a library that I don't know why like not everyone reads every book they own most of them are here literally just for a reference so Thoughts on CRTs CRTs that could be many things I think of charitable remainder trusts. I really like those because they're great for avoiding capital gains tax If you're on crypto, you got to get a CRT I know that's also a monitor and I know it's also critical race theory not a big fan of that Yeah, 1366 by 768. Yeah, that is a dumb resolution Okay Let me Luke tell us about your orthodox journey. Have you been to a Rokor or Serbian church yet? No Well knows no to Serbian. Yeah Rokor. I've been to many Rokor churches now There aren't I would prefer to be baptized in a Rokor church or like go to one You know, you know, of course the orthodox church is the orthodox church, right? They're all in communion, but I would kind of prefer Rokor because they're My experiences with them have been been very good. They're very like liturgically and and I guess socially conservative I'm not like again like if I go Occasionally to a Greek church now for those who don't know there are no churches near me whatsoever, okay? Not anywhere close. So I it's a big issue going to a church It's like basically this closest one is like a 90-minute drive And there are a couple others maybe a little further that I could go to there's a Rokor church I want to say two and a half hours from me But I will go to I've been a couple times. So what is it like st. Mary's in Atlanta? And that's a much longer drive, but I like them. I've talked to the priests there And the one of the priests there was a guy who was you know, I mentioned in a video I was assembling names to establish kind of you know, have them do some kind of Service down in Val d'Osta or something like that. So Arizona summer summer, can you survive without an AC? Depends on what your living conditions are like if you're if you have a lot of so one thing about When you do a live stream, I don't like to have my AC on so I think I just turned my AC off right before I started So I'm kind of on the clock like as it gets hotter and hotter. I'm going to have to like maybe I do have a fan in here I should use that But okay, I think I think there was a super chat, but I did not I did not see that Have you read Father Seraphim Rose? What's your opinion? Um, I've read like I think I read some of like Genesis creation in early man, but not that much of it. So I mean, I'll see like little articles that people reproduce of him But like I haven't read them very religiously Okay The other thing about so like in the American South like architecture used to be based on Like the your classic like cracker house or a plantation house if you're richer they are built to Get as much like a breeze through it as possible So they still you know for people who don't know these kind of houses Firstly, you'll have a house and then you'll have basically a patio not a patio That's not the word I'm looking for like a front porch. It's that for around the whole thing, right? So people would just hang on the porch all day And then like you would always have like the front and back door would connect directly And you could open them both during the day and when would go through and stuff like that So like all of architecture was to get like a wind through there to cool it down because it's hot And of course they would be built over You know, they wouldn't be built on like solid foundations. They would well, they would be elevated Let's put it that way They would have foundations that just be like heightened so air could blow under it as well So, you know, it's not it doesn't get as you know a little better Did you enjoy your visit to West Virginia, how did you like that state West Virginia I So the time I went up for Pasca You know when I went to the Orthodox Church I was kind of on the west side of West Virginia and I will say a lot of it like I was only over the border a little bit and of course the reality of a lot of Appalachia is that it's kind of like Well, I'll just say trashy not to be impolite I think people there would would kind of recognize it as such like it's not like Infrastructurally, it's it's very much kind of backwardsy like the roads aren't super good Like a lot of stuff is just kind of kind of junkie That's not to say anything bad about the people there or whatever although, you know They do have a lot of like, you know, there are people there who have a lot of drug issues and stuff So I would think of it as a nice place to live but not because of like good Infrastructure or anything. I would think of it more as a nice kind of like I want to live a remote life and You know around like there are a bunch of guys there who like are in the Orthodox Church and they're really serious and about making some kind of a long-term I guess Sustainable lifestyle together, but it's not like I think all of that region Like the post-industrial America is very much, you know, it's kind of an issue You know, it's in decline. A lot of people just have nothing to do and that's how it is That's how a lot of like that part of the country is Current opinion on the Russian Greek Orthodox schism I mean not really. I mean, I think of the grand scheme of things It's gonna be like one of those temporary little schisms that is just political in nature And that I mean that's how it is like most of the rest of the church doesn't care about it most of the people technically involved in the schism don't matter, but I Would say like my impression of it and this isn't just because I you know, I said positive things about Rokor But my impression of it is would be to sign side with the Russian side Just because I think there are some kind of worrisome like the the ecumenical patriarch The patriarch of Constantinople like, you know, he I think there have been some worrisome things He said like he kind of acquiesces to modernism in some senses, which you know Orthodoxy doesn't really matter as much because you know, he's not the Pope or anything. He's not like the boss of any basically anyone But so I think kind of the the issue between there was kind of like him taking the side of like American geopolitics That's not to like discount like the the I don't want to even call them schismatic because I really don't have an opinion But the schismatic quote-unquote or Ukrainian church I don't have a strong opinion on that But my first reflex would probably be to say that this is mostly something cooked up political by America But I don't think it's like a big issue like I don't think anyone I've never seen anyone in America like No matter what quote-unquote side they are Like really be that opinionated about or really like think it's a big issue people are opinionated about it But it's not a big thing So that's my thing I know I should go start going to church again But where I live everyone is either Catholic or Protestant with mean parentheses should I be worried about that? No, I mean I'm not I'm definitely not against like avoiding going like I don't think that people should just if that's your only option I'm not telling you to like Just don't go to church because that's not what I did Now I look back at things and like I don't really Like I wouldn't find going I from my perspective on the other side. I don't really find Protestant or Catholic churches edifying, but if you're coming from like bare minimum if you're like an ex atheist Yeah, definitely. I do think you should go to one of those churches and that's a good place for recovery or just getting your sea legs again But I'm not gonna make perfect the enemy of the good and say oh well They're wrong about this. Therefore, you know, you can I mean I like I still do stuff with I mean I go I go to a Baptist church probably more than I do to Orthodox churches, right? Definitely more because it's closer. I do a lot of social things there Do I disagree with them on basically everything I mean not at basically everything Yeah, but like I don't know I Wouldn't let I wouldn't put that in the like if you're a mature adult you can deal with things like that You can deal with like disagreements like that. You know, that's what I'm saying Did you go to the Wayne West Virginia World Court Church? I hear they have a whole community going there Yeah, I did go there and I met a lot of the guys there But they said that similar things are the case and You know other other parishes or whatever Hey look Hey, look, I'm a white dude who's good at rapping been doing it up my whole life pretty passionate about it But rap is dead and I don't like I don't look like a rapper advice to let go of dreams. Yeah, just let go of that Dream. I'll let me do you a favor You might know that I'm an ex-rapper Okay All right, let me check Okay, it does not look like I've gotten any donations So it might be the donation portals are broken. So I don't know If anyone's tried and they are broken Tell me and I'll get rid of the stupid pin up there if they're broken I should probably fix that there. I should you know I really should be using my online president for presence to like cynically make money off people more like I need a I need to Have like channel memberships Different tiers patreon tiers. That's the kind of stuff. I've been so lazy to do and like well really I just don't believe in it like you guys know there There was this period where I did do a pay through patreon with tiers But I just thought it was so freaking weird It's weird to do stuff for like some people like if you really believe in something I just think it's wrong to give it to like a segment of the people rather than everyone else I just feel like it's weird That's my that's my feeling on it Bitcoin network is down. Yeah Yeah, you could donate in big. Oh, yeah, I should check for Bitcoin donations, but I don't have a notifications for that Let's see donation went through but my message did not With donation on what okay, okay now. I'm worried about this Okay, hold on pause. Don't don't try and donate anything. We're gonna as usual. We're gonna have to do tech support In real time. Let's see What could possibly go wrong? Let's pay Is that like not hold on hold on kids Hold on kids Okay, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna log in to do any a second That's right. Sorry. I don't have my Jamie today Okay, okay, I see donations the emails weren't sending out. I see them all okay. Sorry guys I Had to log into FOS pay, but I guess I screwed something up with the email server There are here your money is safe and found sound and I see all your Messages, okay, so I'm gonna turn on the fan and then I'm gonna read these So D grab says thanks for creating content about the more practical tools and Linux They have been very helpful helpful for my learning. All right. Thank you. Thanks for the $10 Andrew Wang Sensen I would assume that you find some of your past behaviors cringe I You know cooming or using Google Chrome or playing video games, etc Is there anything that you will that you think your future self will find cringe in your current self e.g Things that you have yet to correct. I would say that most There's always a possibility, but it's like it's more marginal stuff Like once you get rid of the big stuff I mean I would say like the things that I get mad at myself for doing now Of course, you know my stance on this I think most of the time people people have this tendency to pretend They're not in control of their own behavior and it for me to even say something. Oh, I really wish I would stop doing that Is kind of like help it's kind of like hypocritical, right? But I would say like the things that I feel most remorse for now is if I say something ill about someone even in passing I think that's like a really common sin that people do You know, I think like it's really important to actually look at people more like how an autistic person would like kind of have mind-blindness like morally speaking in the sense that like Well, I'll put it this way I find it really immature when someone gets mad at like an animal or like a A like computer Okay, it's like really kind of immature when someone does that and I think you should have the same mindset that back Kind of autistic mindset of like why would you get mad at that for humans as well because like humans like they're kind of on other Like you're not in control of someone else's moral behavior and I think you really just need to not Like bring to light people's faults Now I'm totally fine. In fact, this is something I do regularly I'm fine with saying things about in principle. This is a bad thing to do but when you single someone out that's something very very different and it actually makes things worse because you're like You're you're making you're you're sticking their ego to something. That's bad And in a lot of cases people will just go further with that like sin or bad thing So that's what I would say. That's what I I think is probably one thing that I look at And there are a bunch of other things like Okay, my AC did kick on I'm gonna turn that off So I would say that There's nothing big that I think that I do in my life. That's really embarrassing. I do think I don't know that that's the first thing that comes in my head. I think it's important not to speak ill about people Okay, so MK ultra victim says Thoughts on using power chat Going on cozy. I don't know what power chat is Going on cozy people have asked me to go on cozy As far as I'm concerned going on a different platform If I were to do like I already have my own peer-to-pew instance, okay, so if I want to stream I'll go there I Guess I could get a restream server going and stream to there and well, okay I will say this I've tried doing a restream server in the past, but due to some weird thing about how peer-to-pew Processes videos. It's very finicky Okay, so like it can't take a lot of these restream services So it would work on YouTube or Odyssey or wouldn't work on other things But I guess I could stream to a bunch of different things maybe including cozy I think someone has said that They talked to Nick about having me on and he says he's okay with it But like I guess they're waiting for me to like once like say that I want to go on But yeah, I don't like I don't especially I'm maybe I don't know I as I said when I started this live stream, I'm not even sure that I think that streaming is a like beneficial thing to do I don't know. I don't think it's so bad. I don't I don't think it's so bad I'm doing it. So obviously, you know, I I'm still holding on out on it But it's just I'm kind of content where I am But I mean I support the guys who are doing cozy. That's great That's really great that they have their own thing for doing it. It should be free and open source Obviously, maybe it is I don't know about it, but I don't know about the source code if it isn't there Anyway, I'll I'll read further on also, even though you don't know much about Kiwi Farms How do you feel about the fact that they're never finding newer there? They're there that they're finding newer and more novel ways to de-platform people who do wrong thing well Cloudflare had already De-platform someone else who I can't even mention we all know who he is I'm trying to think how to refer to him, you know, he has the hoax wash his his website But so they've already done this in the past and I think with Kiwi Farms. I know that they exist I'm not really interested in that kind of stuff like Yeah, a lot of it is like making actually Kiwi Farms is maybe a good example of what I just said where I think it's fine It's fine to like say State principles and say like oh doing this is bad doing this is wrong Like a lot of my videos are about like this is a bad habit that I have done in the past You shouldn't do this or like it's cringe when people do this but I think it's wrong to pick on people individually and I think it's like counterproductive and I know that Kiwi Farms They do individual stuff like they will like have creepy forms where they have mind you a lot of people they're talking about their weirdos But they will like Aggregate information about these people and I kind of weirdly stalked them and I don't know what goes into the head of someone who does that So like in in terms of like people I don't really think Kiwi Farms getting Attacked for this isn't it now when when England was a victim of this that was a much more clear case of like it was free Speech where he was just making jokes about you know Like it's just making mean jokes whereas these guys like are more agitating They've done the worst stuff. Okay, that's what I'm trying to say and I don't I don't think it's mature for them to do it but that said like I Don't know like I I don't think I also think it's terrible that more of the internet is reliant on cloudflare But I do think that that is a much more and understandable thing like if I were running a service like cloudflare and there's a site of people who are like individually targeting people for Like kind of cyber bullying that would actually be a decent like legal case like that would be a very I Don't know. It's a stalking site like it's freaking weird I think that's much more understandable and I don't think that's an issue of like free speech So Pascal says hey Luke in the past you said that you do not find arguments for young earth creationism convincing But it was widely believed in the early church that Adam and Eve were real people and the earth was and that the earth was Young I understand that the Orthodox Church does not have a dogmatic position I mean if anything it has a dogmatic position that it that is you know It depends on what you mean by dogmatic, but yeah I mean, I would say the Orthodox Church in general believes in young earth creationism But anyways, I understand that the Orthodox Church is a bit of a but it seems they tend to reject the theory of evolution Do you believe in evolution? And if so and you how do you reconcile evolution with Christianity? I mean people ask me about this a lot because I've done stuff on evolution And like I've done podcast episodes assuming that it's true And a lot of that was like back when I was more like an ambiguous like I don't well I'll put it this way My viewpoint right now is I'm not I don't think it's a theologically important issue Like in the things that I think of right now So it's not like I'm I feel I feel Fine Ascending to the church's teachings if they believe in young earth creationism I'm really just not opinionated about it myself And I'm fine with that because that I mean there are many things going into that firstly my view of institutional science since Well when I was a kid when I was a teenager and I was like, you know a Cringe atheist that was something that was super important because when you're a Protestant They almost want to die on the hill of evolution like they really love like these kind of like these debates And frankly, they like lose every one of them because like a lot of them. They're just like very poorly argued And just I don't know bad people who don't understand the anthropic principle and things like that right kind of facile argument But as time has gone on I would say I have very little trust in institutional science in the same way that You know, I've written essays about this and done podcast episodes on that And I haven't really looked into how evolutionary biology how the field works in itself But I very much believe that it is very I mean it is the normal state of affairs for people who have external reasons for believing things to believe or disbelieve in some kind of you know, it's something like evolution that is is philosophically convenient for them and I guess Scientific frameworks can just pass, you know, they can be based on core assumptions that are ultimately just assumed And it's mostly an issue of working out the data. They see in a particular, you know Rationalizing in their particular mindset paying attention to certain information ignoring certain information Scientific fields do that all the time. So at this point, I kind of view it like I some people want me to like Give them this reason not to believe in evolution And I will just say my view on it is well There might be lots of things wrong with evolution if I dug into it at this point I'm content to say that yeah, I don't really just trust I don't trust Institutional science at this point. So I'm not even I don't really care to look into it that much Although maybe I should it might be very enlightening, but I don't think about it that much So, I mean if someone asks me sure sure I I'm a creationist, but it's kind of I'm kind of apathetic to the particular issue So Okay, another jaws, I don't know what this email supposed to be Luke are you familiar with Owen bar fields one of the inklings? Works or ideas? No, I'm not I think they would be a great for a not related episode as I believe There are contrasts to be made regarding his ideas of the evolution of language and consciousness with Julian James bicamal mind They were I'll make a note of Owen bar field notes Owen bar field Okay NFT myself says greens Luke thoughts on Andrew Tate What do you think think about the ban? So I never so I've heard of this guy and you Andrew Tate now because like a month or so ago I think he became famous and I got this slew of comments on my channel Saying like whoa this guy's like Andrew Tate or whoa This is like the Andrew Tate of Linux or the Andrew Tate of blah blah blah I was like who who the heck is this Andrew Tate guy? So I looked him up and some people have actually sent me like videos of him And he just he like he's bald or whatever he where he's one of those sunglasses guys He says he's one of the guys who copes with being bald by wearing sunglasses all the time guys Which kind of used to be me Although I'd usually wear them on my head right So I don't know like I will say someone sent me this video of his I forgot what it is. I think um I think some of this stuff is kind of flexing. It's funny But he's one of those sigma grind set guys, which I guess people could call me sigma grind set because I you know, whatever So it's a funny thing. I don't I don't know that much about him. I know we got banned from something I don't know about it. I don't know about it. I know he exists. Okay. That's all I know so I try not to have I try not to like um drama queen on the internet, you know, whenever I have to mention someone It's like whatever. I don't I don't have a real opinion about him But whatever Although I will say he is a this bizarre accent when I first saw a video with him I was like he has an American accent, but American who's like trying to put on like a British Sound British like it sounds like an American person trying to do a British accent and failing But I think it's because like he was like raised in Britain when he was a kid Like he was an American who moved or something like that so um Let's see It's been so Prince Manish Says, uh, it's been four years since your last review. Is it better to buy A purism laptop now? Um, yeah, am I supposed to regularly review products? I don't know. I don't keep track of like products um As far as I'm concerned So purism if they're doing all free and open source stuff great if they're doing Libra boot stuff even better I didn't my video. I think when I did a video review of them. I basically said Um, they're very expensive for what they are. You could just get a think pad and put core boot Libra boot on it Um, and of course, they're not they they were using core boot not Libra boot So it's not like totally all free software and I said basically you could do it cheaper I think that's what I said in that video. I don't know if things have changed yet If they're using Libra boot if there's something else, you know, I'm not quite sure But in general, so I will just say realistically speaking if I were ever not to use a Think pad an old think pad for my personal laptop use It would absolutely 100 and thousand percent. That's not a number, but it would have to have a track point There's no way there's absolutely no way that I could survive without that Um, so that's something that it has to have I'm not interested. I don't care if it's it's I don't care if Richard Stallman himself Created this laptop if it doesn't have a track point on it. I just cannot function. I will not be able to function It's just a big pain. So But in general, I don't do reviews, you know, it's just like if it comes up, you know Frederick says $10 as the default. What do you need $20 for that's 50 that $50 is harder than money and all seriousness My question is what is your opinion about the success of open bsd security facility uptake My opinion on it is that I don't know anything about it. So I'm not going to talk that much about it. Also, you've been half a decade behind my My same experiences with source available software Look forward to using a bsd In anger when you realize no one is using se linux properly Realize, okay. Maybe that four. I think the last part cut off. It just says realize at the end I think he was doing meme errors meme error stuff. Sorry Um, it should tell you maybe I should have my prompt say, oh, you're over the character limit But it is a pretty he did have a very large Um message there. Andrew says are you optimistic about the ethereum merge later this month? I'm not paying attention about ethereum. I don't care about ethereum Um So someone says don't bother saying my username. Okay. I should have a separate like name prompt um Let's say. Hey luke. Do you actually believe in the afterlife? Of course I believe in the afterlife as an orthodox christian myself It seems only natural That it is true as everything else in the bible, but I find it hardest to accept also, um, I Have also and I have tried looking for information on this. Why is it that? Why is it that center centers cannot repent in hell god's eternal presence? Is it because change is unnatural and god's unchanging and timeless nature? I would say you actually kind of answered your own question there at least from the orthodox perspective But you might want to ask a priest about that. I'm not I'm not that sounds like it would be the best answer That's if you would not given that answer I probably would have said the same thing, but you can ask a priest if you're not sure. Um So I mean I I don't find it. Well, I'll put it this way. I think when I was an atheist, here's how you look at things if you're an atheist Well, I'm I'm a body So I see things with my eyes I feel things with my body, you know, like I I'm kind of this body, right? And if I were to lose my eyes or lose my Sensors, you know, if I lost my eyes, I couldn't see if I lost my body I couldn't feel if I lost my ears. I couldn't hear right and then if you subtract everything. There's nothing left, right? So oh my goodness therefore things, you know consciousness doesn't exist Um, or it's it's all material, right? And I think that's like fundamentally a bad argument Well, firstly because like consciousness is something aside from your senses Um, secondly because I think the way of I think a good way of looking at it is like the human body Which is very important, but the human body is not like a computer. It's more like a television In that computers they generate Um, you know, they're doing the computation themselves. They're creating the experience whereas televisions They are fundamentally receiving signals now You can damage the television and it will distort the signal, right in the same way that you can damage a body and like You know your senses screw up and stuff like that. That's definitely true Um, but it's totally fallacious to say something like well, you know, look at all of our senses. They're physical. Therefore Uh, there's nothing beyond Immediate senses. There's nothing non material. That's a totally bad argument and in fact consciousness itself I think one of the issues I mean I I didn't when I was an atheist I didn't think of this as a good argument and it's still kind of hard to put in It's kind of hard to make people understand But the absolute best reason For believing in something beyond the physical is simply the thing that you see all the time And that is consciousness Like it is not something that can even be put in Like physicalistic terms like you can like consciousness can be affected by things in the brain But it is a substance that is beyond physical substance. Like it's not something um I mean it's kind of like the way I explain it to people. It's kind of like, you know, how hum Has this Argument you can take it or leave it That well, you can have any amount of facts about the world. You can never derive from mere facts Moral statements you have to have you have to you can take moral statements and add facts to them and derive new moral statements But you can never from mere facts Get to this other level of morality and I I think that there's a good argument to be made there But the same is actually kind of true with consciousness Whereas, you know, when we're looking at physical matter when we're looking at the material substances of the universe, right? um When you really think about it, there is no way you can combine things even if they're recursive You know, even if I mean that that's the Hofstadter cope. Oh well consciousness is recursive So maybe like there's some way we can make recursive matter and like somehow consciousness just appears, right? um, but Like material like atoms are such that you are just combining them. You're moving them around. You're making different Uh configurations, but not you're never from materialistic terms. You're never just going to create this Sense like you're never going to have this extra level. Um, it's something beyond Uh, I mean, it's right in front of our faces all the time, but it's something that's really supernatural Um, so whether whatever your interpretation of that I really think now This is not it's this hard to kind of put in words Uh, if you don't know what I mean Also, because I think there are some people who are probably not actually conscious and they're like what the heck is this guy talking about consciousness? I don't know what that is. Uh, but you know, whatever um So yeah, so neomutt says Everyone's asking why luke but not howl's luke. How are you luke people ask that too? And I don't I don't answer personal questions on the stream um Luke don't tell me you still believe in atoms and model molecules. Well, I'm just I'm I'm putting it in normie language, right? dss says, uh, what does luke think about independent babdists? I I don't know no no opinion the same as other babdists Uh, they can be there can be some more based ones What is isn't wasn't the the dude in Arizona? Who is he? The gigabased babdist, uh, what was his name? Stephen Anderson? He did this very interesting documentary called marching this ion Um, so Luke have you read the wizard book the structure structure and interpretation of computer program? I don't actually have that book I know I've read a good part of it. That's the old list book, isn't it? Um, yeah, I don't own that and I don't think I've read it all the way through Yeah, how are you is too personal? Actually, I mean it really just is like I'm not the kind of person who responds to personal questions Yeah, that's sigma grind set when people I ask you how you are just ignore them. Just don't even Acknowledge their existence. No, really. I just feel like dude. I don't know. You don't know me You know what I mean? Like I feel like we're not here to talk about Uh personal things like I'm not asking. How are you guys? You want to tell me about your day? Because it's like what what if 200 people like told told me about their days in the chat? I would not read that Wouldn't that wouldn't be able to um Red axe says uh, when's the next pop when's the next podcast episode mate? You know, you know the schedule for not related It's always on the schedule of when I feel like it when like the thing is I'm not going to make uninspired episodes So they just come when I feel like it. I think I said at the beginning I thought about recording an episode that well, it might might be better for another format, but um On the concept of generativity why it's important for everything from the theology to um Philosophy of science You know, if you actually sat me down, there are a few things that I can complain about like all day long positivism is Perhaps the thing that like I'm most likely to spur gout at for like Hours and hours. I will talk to myself about positivism if I'm at home alone doing nothing I will little literally be like I cannot believe that people actually believe in this stuff or I mean Let's be real. I don't know Uh, let's see. Okay, so Okay, so someone sends me an email saying he donated Uh got stuck on submitting. Hey, luke just wanted to ask Are you aware that most eastern orthodox subscribe to a heresy known as palmit? Yeah, it's not a heresy. It's it's a heresy to say that there's no difference between god's essence and energies because it leads you to total absurdities like you can't like god cannot actually Appear to people in the physical world more or less like moses. He wasn't actually experiencing god in any any meaningful way God just arranged the light show for him and it wasn't god. It was just like a so that's absurd um Yeah, well the thing goes on. He says basically these grief great orthodox monks monks known as hezakasts Were practicing pagan yoga meditations and they saw this no this is this is stupid Like the thing about the essence energies distinction is like during that period Like you have these people flesh out the terminology, but it's something that's been taught since the very beginning of the church So it's totally stupid Um to like catholics have this weird like catholics what they do in this like extreme Imagine having to be a catholic and like just being on the gerbil wheel of cope all day long um where like catholics will be constantly accused rightly of like making up all these new doctrine in the middle ages and all this new stuff like the Papacy is itself and everything else and like they'll try and say Oh, well the orthodox they made up this essence energies thing that happened in the middle ages and blah blah blah But I mean it's something I mean church fathers talk about this stuff in similar words sometimes in the exact same words Uh, but no, it's it's silly. It's not a heresy. It's it's it's silly um Marcio says hey luke I used to follow a youtuber, but he has a lot of non-christian views and attitudes At first I simply unfollowed him, but now I think uh, I should follow Jesus's example and pray for him Not feel bad for watching his content Uh, do you think that uh, what do you think is the right thing to do? I mean it depends on what it is. I mean you still if it's like totally demonic stuff and it's like, you know trainee brainwashing stuff Yeah, I don't watch it, but like I don't know depends on what it is um So, uh, let's see if this is uh, I can't tell if this is a comment or someone who Uh, this is a stupid email. I'll read it. What a waste. How do you say that advertisements don't benefit anyone? They yeah, they don't they don't this is why you are profiting from your youtube channel Well, well if you saw how much I made for my youtube channel You would not think i'm profiting from my youtube channel and they put they put ads on it Anyway, internet would not progress without advertising that is not the case The internet would be I would happily I would happily abandon youtube today If I could for all humanity get rid of advertising That's why whenever someone says I want to do you a favor and you know unblock ads on your channel I will tell them don't do that. That is stupid. I like if you're not blocking every single ad on my channel I don't know like you're it's just ridiculous Um, yeah So ads on the internet are just stupid. Just don't just don't you should be blocking everything if you For a moment are like wow, I want you you know what when you watch all the suffering you go through watching ads Like I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm gonna get like a quarter of a penny for that Do I care like is that gonna make a difference? No, it isn't okay I would much I would much rather like literally do a live stream and people Donate dollars to have me read their comment Then um, you know force them to sit through like some kind of like commercial brainwashing Which the worst part is like the thing is the whole ad hoax way back in the day um with um What was it like? You know like when all these ad companies left youtube under this idea Oh, well, we want to be able to decide what videos our ads get on because we don't want our ads to be unquestionable content That is totally nonsensical because I have no say over the stupid ads to get put on my videos Okay, like it's ridiculous when I do a video. I could do a video saying like yeah Stop being an idiot and use a static site generator if you use wordpress You're like totally retarded and then youtube will put a wordpress ad on that video Okay, which is kind of funny like I guess I shouldn't be mad because it is me making money off of these people while I'm telling you that they're stupid So I guess they're getting screwed twice paying money for this ad and me, you know telling people not to use them But um, yeah, it's it's it's ridiculous. It's like we don't have a say in it It is not it is not we are not equal participants in this Um, and yeah, the internet should not be commercialized. It was like look on my personal website Am I ever gonna put an ad there? Okay, closest thing on you know, if you go to my donation page at the very bottom of that I have like affiliate links you can click on those but those are like things you're getting and you know You could get anyway without me and it you know that I just get some perk, you know I get credit, you know, if you get a domain name I get credit off my Domain payments, okay, so I'm fine with that but that's not advertising Okay, well, I mean even if you put like a big banner for that like that's different from Stupid companies forcing stupid ads on my page that I don't even believe in okay That's enough about complaining about that, but I just love ads. I just love them and you should be blocking Uh everything on my channel, especially um Okay, finally got some xmr Um, so have you fully have you gone fully off grid yet any plans to do so if not? I mean no one's I mean I'm on the internet. Am I off grid? No Um, no off grid is like one of those things. It's like moral perfection. It's like a thing that I don't think anyone will ever reach But you will get I mean it's like a mathematical mathematical function that's like approaching Something but it's never approaching a value, but it's never going to get there It's kind of like that and that's how your life is like a lot of people will be like, oh, I can know Oh, you know what? I feel like my webcam looks ugly. I feel like it's like too bright now. Hold on I'm going to change this. I just like looked at my webcam and I'm like, man, I'm way too bright I'm so vain. I need to change this Um, no, but like a lot of people Um off the grid is something you need to be constantly moving towards but you will never will probably actually get there And there's nothing wrong with that. Um Okay, that's a little darker. Okay. I think I think the light outside has been changing Um, and there's nothing wrong with that like you're gonna you want to move there But you're never probably going to get there unless society just collapses and you're off grid by default Um, and there are many good reasons to have I mean, you're still gonna want to you know, I still have mailing addresses and stuff like that So, you know, there's nothing wrong with that You you got to be realistic about things You know, it's it's a gradual transformation. I think And it really really and this goes for everything. So a lot of people Whether it's like free soft. Oh my goodness. I like scratch something on my leg and it blood on me a little bit. Um, a lot of people in kind of Make perfect the enemy of the good and they say, oh, it's too hard to have like perfect privacy Oh, it's too hard to like use all free software. Oh, it's too hard to like live off the grid and be Financially independent. Oh, it's too hard. Yeah, it is too hard But when you're moving in that direction, you're making it easier for you and everyone else and your children So maybe in, you know, a hundred years Uh, your grandchildren can live in a world like that. That's the point like you're moving to a goal Maybe you want to accomplish it. I mean, it's like, you know, if you plan a tree in your yard You know, I have a couple trees that I've planted Okay, when they're full size I mean, probably when they're full size, I'll still be alive, right? But hypothetically speaking, if I'm 70 years old, I'm not going to be obnoxious and egocentric and say, oh I'm not going to plant trees here because I'm never going to be alive to enjoy them. It's the same thing when it comes to Um, basically everything like when you're talking about financial independence personal independence Um being being like not independent of freaking amazon and all this stuff Right, you're not just acting for you. You're acting for your future And if you set like your children being your future and if you set them up like in bad habits Oh, I'm gonna oh well google drive is easy to use. I'm gonna teach my kid how to use that instead of, you know Just using a free software equivalent or better yet Just not telling them that computers exist and like hiding the internet from them because you actually care about them Um, you know, I so just make progress with that, right? That that's what I'm trying to get at Uh, and it's stupid if people are are Uh, I don't know it's stupid if people like fixate too much on being perfect Um, okay Um So I think this is dj Livestreams are great. Uh, I rarely catch them live, but I listen to all of them All the time while walking and I know several people who do the same It holds me ever uh over in years between not related episodes. Yeah Yep, that's what you got to do all you guys waiting for not related episodes Um, it's still better than most podcasts out there. My question for you is have you heard of wrath of non on twitter? He has a sub stack as well, uh and posts about stuff about traditional architecture good urbanism And traditionalism, uh in general that's wrath of non spelt g in o in Um worth an add to your rss feed use nitter for javascript free twitter. Um, I I know I've seen that name I've probably seen that I don't like regularly follow him follow him, but um, that that name is definitely familiar I've probably seen like posts of his and stuff and stuff okay, so Mr. Kalinowski says Um, Luke, are you still using groff to write documents or have you switched back to law tech? Also, what are your thoughts on dwarjak or colomack keyboard layouts? um, I never used groff as a like As a regular thing. Okay, so groff is fine for so I use it for a couple things So if you download larps if you install my dot files, there's a help menu if you hold down Windows and press f1 and I I wrote that in groff because every time you do that Like I would be constantly updating this pdf file And uh, it would I'd have to it'd be a big pain with to get repository whenever you have a kind of binary file. So Um, I actually write that in groff because when people press that key binding it automatically compiles that Instantaneously in groff and groff is super fast for that super good. So I use it for that. I've used it for other things I think I I've used it for like little Note taking and stuff, but in general I use lock tech for everything. So everything on lindy press dot net um is definitely all um Is definitely all um Law tech and there are a bunch of things that it would just be really hard to do in groff Just because law tech is just replete with different kinds of packages All these different kinds of things that you can do whereas um, groff I mean, there are there are things out there, but it's a little harder doing. I mean, it's there's less documentation There are fewer packages. It's just harder to do heavier stuff But if you're just doing basic documents, groff is probably Probably fine, but I never used it just as a rule even though it's like it's it's kind of better like a better standard um Really, I mean the ideal the actual ideal would be having something extensible like that In the modern day like if if you want to be to if guys out there if you're interested in making the world a better place What a tech standard that it actually needs needs to exist Is something that can generate documents like tech or like groff But it has markdown like syntax That would be the ideal like super simple syntax like basically You know markdown plus some other things like you gotta have more complex commands that are in I don't know brackets or whatever Kind of syntax. I'm not quite sure But that would be the actual ideal And to be able to write documents in that to be able to write websites in that and like build a extremely minimalistic and Extensible compiling system from that and building packages on top top of that that would be the real ideal um, and that's how it is in tech Uh, realistically speaking, there are a bunch of like the first time you do things in tech You don't you always do them the wrong way. You always have like these kind of weird um The first standard is always wrong bitcoin screwed things up So you got to have some, you know private currency that solves other things. That's manero or that's something else, you know uh, or HTML is a crappy standard It'd be nice if we had servers that like didn't you know, maybe something you could write and mark down Oh, there are things that where you can write and mark down and it appears in html But anyway for document compilation that'd be really nice If we had some minimalistic thing that had marked down like syntax Uh, all right, so Keith says uh, been listening to democracy the god that failed in audiobook form about Three chapters in and while there are some good points and observations I get the feeling that this guy is just an ancap or libertarian without any practical solutions I mean, yeah, he is an ancap libertarian I think the whole democracy the god that failed book Like it's it was more like a rhetorical argument Where him I mean, he was not dealing with actually like super based in redfield people You know what? I mean like he was dealing with more enormous political environment back then So like there weren't people who were like, yeah monarchy is a good idea. This is like before This is before people became based in redfield, right? Um, so like Anyone's saying monarchy is awesome Like back at the time when that book was written. It's kind of like a Oh, he's clearly he couldn't possibly mean this. He must mean something else and the whole argument of that book is more or less like um Oh, yeah, I don't actually believe in monarchy But democracy demonstrably is worse than monarchy and it is like the arguments of book are like Fine, uh, they're good. I mean, they're all couched in like austral libertarian language and stuff Which you know, you might not be interested in And I think they're kind of a little too autistic. Oh, you know, I didn't answer the guy's question about colomac I'll do that. But um, that's my view on democracy democracy the god that fails Uh, or yeah that failed it failed it continues to fail Uh, it will probably fail more in the future. It is failing right now in america and everywhere else But um Yeah, I mean the the guy is an encap. I I think Compared to other encaps. He's probably like a little more wise on some things But you know, he's probably gotten even wiser since then, but uh, but back on that last guy's comment I forgot to to answer the question about dorsac or colomac Yeah, don't use dorsac or colomac or any alternate keyboard layout. You're just going to make your life miserable Um, it's going to be hard to use vim. It's going to be hard to like every single program you use with keyboard bindings You are just going to have to It's just going to screw your brain up and it there are the benefits to using those Layouts are just so theoretical and marginal, you know It's it's just going to be an annoyance. Um, don't do it. You're you're going to waste your time All right Let's see Okay, I think I finally caught up with all the donations Finally Read through them all. Let me well, I should check my email to Oh just kidding Just kidding What is that? um, some guy says Wait, hold on. Why is this not Pulling up Okay, uh Nicholas says, uh, hello luke In swiss or something some some kind of german language. I don't know. He has a swiss flag. That's all he has to say um All right Random guy who emailed me during a live stream. I'll answer your question. Anyway, because it's short Hey luke, do you have any idea when crypto will be accepted as a form of payment on lindypress? um I'm not working on that right now I I know I was gonna I told people that uh, I might work on rewriting the whole thing and go and like adding in btc pay This year. I've not had the chance this year honestly um, because I I gotta learn a lot about go that I don't know and learn a lot about uh Some web stuff, but like I just haven't had the time so, um The the other hold back is with um, if I'll just explain my business model right now um So with lindypress, which by the way go to lindypress.net and buy Basin red pill books, you know reprints of classical stuff. I actually let's let's advertise right now, but Isidore of civilians book of etymology the standard uh textbook of basically all the west uh, man overexposed here I can't really see it. It's too glossy too. Oh too too nice of a finish to even read this on camera But awesome book uh written in latin. This is in latin to be clear. This one is uh, it'll say on the website What language are written in uh, this is fantastic It's basically encyclopedia of classical learning awesome stuff great for latin learners because it's super written super simply Uh, you can just pick it up and read it awesome for using in latin Classrooms book of enoc and book of jubilees another excellent thing if you want to add some stuff from the doodoro cannon to your reading nice, uh The two I went with the two column layout you can't even you can't see any of this But I went with the two column layout there. Wow you literally this is like so overexposed It's because I changed it to make it look darker in here. That's why you will not even show up I'm gonna change it. I'm gonna change it. No, I'm not gonna change it There there's text in here. You can see it. Okay. It shows up here. All right um I actually I'm just about done with my uh Compilation of early christian writings that I'm gonna put up put up there Oh, and actually I never released the alchemy reader. I need to release that as well so I might need to take something out of this one and I'm gonna I might put something in to the christian reader And uh, then that'll be it and I want to say Oh, yeah, there are a couple other ones on it. Did I put out the consolation of philosophy? Yeah, that's a good one. Everyone should buy that one. That's actually like an an ironic. Did I put that one out? Consolation of philosophy. Yes, I did This is an awesome book get this one Um, so this is like boethias. I probably advertised this on some stream when I first put it out Um, it's like half poetry half prose and it's all awesome. Um boethias was this dude who was like, um Uh, can it's not important the background but like he was basically in a sham trial He was uh convicted in a sentence to death and this is kind of a book of his coping It's like, you know, what what justice is there in the world? Like if I'm you know, I'm a righteous man and I'm being suffered, you know, I'm suffering unto death So it's like him, uh, you know, it's philosophy tries to console him. So I anyway, it's an interesting Very interesting book. Anyway, whatever. What was I saying there? Um, so The other thing about that on my business model there, obviously when someone places an order Um, what it does is it cues the order which I have to pay for and it also Uh, of course, it receives the money from them, which will pay for that and you know, a little bit of profit for me Um, but the thing is to do crypto I still have to pay the the uh production costs in fiat, right? So I really need a big treasure chest of fiat currency Um, so I kind of need more people to buy Because if I get a whole bunch of orders in bitcoin or minero or something like that people are very people really want to buy Stuff in minero. That's the like that's one thing I've noticed when I had it open before in crypto Um, like if I don't have kind of a storage chest of or like constant business in fiat Um, I will not be able to pay like basically I will be getting lots and lots and lots and lots of minero But I'll have zero fiat balance and that is not good because I need fiat to pay my fees That's basically what I'm getting at even if I'm getting people buying in fiat like there I'd have to do the math for like what proportion it needs to be So that's another reason I I kind of want it to be bigger before I put uh crypto payments on it. Um Now one other thing so I'm going to talk about credit cards. Well, let me Talk about credit cards. I love talking about credit cards. That's like mostly, you know Mostly people when they're greedy and they want to talk about money. They talk about like how much money they're making I I like talking about how much money I'm saving You know me and you know every year I'll do a video on like how to rip off credit cards or whatever So I will say this I've said in the past like Never only like, you know dumb normies actually use credit cards for credit, right? Oh, yeah I don't care about apr. Like I've said that stuff before But within the past year I've actually started when I when I did a credit card out So if people don't know when you get a credit card, they'll usually give you like no apr for like a year meaning If you buy like a thousand dollars of stuff on that and you just hold the balance and don't pay it off Just pay your minimum payment, which will be like 20 bucks You can still owe them a thousand dollars with no interest whatsoever for a year and actually lindy press I got a business card just for that Which I've just been I I don't know. I'm probably in like 10 000 of debt just on that which I could pay off at any moment Mind you, I just have I have a an account with that money That I could pay it off or at any time. But my thinking is Uh inflation is so bad now That if I am like people are paying me with this amount of money now In the future when I pay this off With the no apr offer. I'm going to be making money But like in real value even though, you know, it's equal in this So like inflation is so bad. I'm like I should actually take advantage of no apr offers And once this one expires I'm gonna have to pay it off Let's see. Maybe like april of next year Uh, it's going to take a big chunk, you know, 10 000 or whatever. Uh, maybe more or maybe less I'm not quite sure what it is. I forget. Oh, I gotta tell you how much money I've burned through like doing this business Um, but after that Um, I'll probably just get another credit card and just like use that zero apr offer Or you know, I could do the odd g's dude technique. I could do the sam hide technique of just not paying your bills But you know, I don't really uh I I think the sam hide technique people have asked me on ironically. What do I think about that? And I think it is it is kind of like I'm all for You know taking advantage of the traditional financial system But I think that's one of those things where it's like, you don't really know how this is gonna Like Effect things like you might still want to use them for something in the future You know what? I mean, so I'm not going to burn all of my bridges And just take a bad credit score. I am going to manipulate them to the extreme within like, uh, Within their game. Yes, I'm going to have introductory offers and I'm going to make thousands of dollars a year on that Yes, I'm going to be manipulating zero apr offers every single deal I possibly can I will be I will be stealing from stealing legally using their You know terms I will be getting money from chase. I will be getting money from bank of america Wells Fargo usa a thank you for giving me thousands of dollars a year Because I'm manipulating your system. However, I'm still playing by their game in that like I'm not, you know I don't know. I'll I'll I'll be a good boy for the, uh, you know I'll pay my bills. You know what? I mean, I'm not going to do the auge's deck do technique. So um, and also like sam hide I like sam hide. I think he said in videos like he just rinse like I don't know I want to say in the last livestream Uh, someone asked me or we talked about him or something like I think of his his financial advice Some of it's good like in terms of like go getting but like some of his financial advice is like really weird Um and kind of like I don't know. I I would consider it wasteful. I'm more like, um Oh, I I did an article on my website talking about that. I didn't talk specifically about him. Um, but We have very opposite views on some things Um, and I I think that like burning Like going into extreme credit card debt to such an extent that you can never get a mortgage That might be a bad idea. Okay. Now. I've never gone to a bend for a mortgage. I've managed to um Like I've managed to do without that and I think ideally man, it'd be great if you can do that too Um, and I recommend it if you can but like I'm not going to burn my bridge with the financial system You know, I'm just not going to do it um When are you going to wrestle sam luke? Oh, yeah, who saw sam boxing? Oh my goodness That that's so awesome to see him doing stuff like that. Uh, that's so sweet as the candy man the candy man The candy man is coming to crush you lady. Yeah I better not talk bad about the irish candy man. I better not say anything bad. Oh my goodness. He's gonna he's gonna annihilate me Oh, man. He's just gonna wreck me Oh Oh, man, he's got other people to stalk thankfully um All right Okay, some donations. Samo says about a markdown like language that is gaining support to compile to other formats One I've been trying out. Uh, recently is neorg Uh, it's a plugin for neo vim. That's under constant improvement even pandoc support is being added Not that it is monolithic. You can add or subtract specific modules Uh, yeah, I mean pandoc I mean that doesn't sound like what I'm talking about like I'm talking about like bare bones Like start from the like pan like if you're using pandoc, you're doing it the wrong way Like I don't know quite what you're you're meaning there, but like pandoc is like the clumsiest way of doing I mean pandoc is very powerful, right? It can do lots of cool stuff But it's very clumsy and it is the worst kind of I mean, it's like a gigabyte to install it with all its packages, right? um So, uh, yeah, you can add and subtract times. I don't know anything about new york But I'm not just into plugins that compile things. I'm talking about like making a bare bones like something that takes a That takes a markdown file with some extra syntax that can add in some other stuff and produces a pdf As it as a command line program as a thing that actually runs by itself. Okay um Melonson says it's an irony kind of cringe. Why do you like magic? Why do you know like magic? What are you talking about? Maybe he's talking about the alchemy reader. No, it's not to do with magic Alchemy back in the middle ages like esotericists Have very much distorted it alchemy back in the day. It was literally just chemistry It was literally like there was a big I mean a lot of it was very like esoteric and philosophical because that's how they wrote Uh, but this idea that like alchemy is like occult stuff. That's much later That's like that's what the renaissance and the Protestants did to it. Like they they tried to they screwed it up Like um, like all these theosophical stuff that that's modern Back in the day, it was very much a scientific thing But it was also I mean it had esoteric readings because it was very much They they had a deliberately obscurantist way of writing things Like the hermetic way of writing things, which is very different Um, so it kind of looks like a bridge between science and occult stuff But you know, I mean it kind of is but whatever. Um, but irony is definitely cringe. Um Yeah, people who do things people who say they're doing things ironically But they are actually just doing them because they actually intend to that's I mean that that's most of life mostly most of the time. Oh, I'm gonna Oh, I'm gonna ironically do this But it's really dude. You actually just want to do it. Just be real Sigma grind set just like don't apologize for it. Just do it irony is like, I don't know. It's kind of low energy um Catalina says, um, hi luke. I'm a student Um, a linguistics student at a Chilean university And I want to take the computational linguistics, sadly computational linguistics is not taught in my country You have some advice on this also. What is your least favorite linguist? Least favorite linguist. Oh man, where to start? Um No, I don't I don't know if I want to name any people but anyone who's doing generative linguistics is basically I don't know. Well, I I shouldn't say that there's some guys who are not that bad in it But like in general, it's a big waste of time. It's a big big waste of intellectual energy So anyone who is a staunch defender of it and talked about like obscure formalist stuff Um, that's that's the enemy. I asked there's someone in my head whose name I'm thinking about Have I met him in person? I don't actually know. I may have I'm not gonna I'm not even gonna clue people into who it is But who came to mind, but I'm not even gonna say it. I'm not even gonna say it. Don't even ask um, but I think generative linguistics attracts people who are like psychologically intense And they just want to like debate and argue about things that are inconsequential like modern modern academia Okay, especially in america. I don't know how it is in chili, but in america It it like the ideal academic field for the to take advantage of the system is one where you are talking about Unimportant formal stuff that cannot be proven or disproven. It's not like empirical. It's just like abstractions There's no way of actually Uh, it's it's all kind of abscurantist and like nothing things have official definitions, but they kind of change and people So people have these debates over these utterly inconsequential things They can't explain what they're doing to normal humans out there That is like the ideal In modern academia because that is what you can write papers on non-stop you can you can produce infinite amounts of papers over totally unimportant issues And that actually is what generative linguistics is in the united states if you ask them tangibly What have been like explained to a normal person? What is an accomplishment of this entire field since it has existed and it they come up utterly empty It is like here we've discovered this stuff that people have already known of for thousands of years But we didn't know about it because we never read that stuff. You know what I mean? That's all they they have to show for it so Most other approaches to linguistics. They're more grounded like it computational linguistics people they're probably They have their problems But uh They're more grounded. So are people who do like real field work So are people who do like language acquisition even like but so in terms of the original question It's hard for me to give you a recommendation of like how to start doing computational linguistics um, if you don't have Like off the top of my head. I can't think of an individual book to recommend you or I would just say think about a data set you want to work with and Look at how other people are handing handling data sets like what languages they're using And analyze a data set that you're interested in using that kind of stuff and work from there I don't know if you're starting at the bare minimum Uh, or a little further on but uh that in general, that's what I would say um Just Work take a I mean you have to be like goal oriented This is like not just in true of computational linguistics, but anything in academia It's kind of funny to me a lot of people go to graduate school Or even undergraduates who are more precocious like they're interested in a topic But in the sense of they want to know factoids, but they're not like motivated for a particular goal and my suggestion is be focused on a goal like Uh, oh, I want to clear up this theolog- theological philosophical issue could be a theological issue, right? This I want to clear up this philosophical issue. Um, I want to uh, understand how this thing works And this is like a long-term project, right? This is like a long-term like orientation and then goals will automatically arise as you get there This is actually similar advice that I give people. Oh, how do I learn how to use linux? Well Have a goal for what you want to accomplish and then like step by step learn how to do this that the other. Um I mean, that's kind of how it works, but um when I was in school I did do computational linguistics, but I was not primarily a computational linguistics person. There were other people who did uh Did more data most people then were actually using python Um, because python just has all these packages for stuff and they you know analyze data with that, but um I wish I could give you like some more like a book that's more like Big picture, but off the top of my head. I don't know. I can't I'm sorry. I can't give you computational linguistics Uh that for computational linguistics um Sean says what are your thoughts on alexander dugin? And the multi I almost read that as multiplayer world multi polar world order, uh dugin is one of those guys who like Is only influential because like people in the western media say he's super influential I mean, and it's sad because like, you know, they just got like his daughter killed because of it Or they I mean they probably just did it themselves frankly like the western media I don't know might as well some dude read too much cnn and wanted to kill the guy. Um, so I I don't um I I'm not really interested in him. I mean he's back in the day Like the media has this tendency to create bugaboos And it's weird because they pick random people for bugaboos that are not really that influential or important Like I remember back in the day Back like 2015 2016 they randomly picked this guy Richard Spencer to just hate on him Right and like if you around base and red pill people back then No one had ever heard of this guy He was like a guy who was famous because the media started talking about him And then he was like the forefront of all these like I I I don't I'm not going to call him a fed lots of people did call him a fed but um It he just became a bugaboo for people to hate and I think dugin is the same way like I don't know specifically. I'm kind of familiar with his ideas, but not enough to like Give voice to them But I do feel like he's one of those figures that his only influential because the media is kind of forcing him as a mean as something to like To to serve as a contra position for them, right? so Yeah, and especially like the the you know, it's nonsensical because you can just ask anyone in right like the western media Wanted to present him as like this guy who like was really close to Vladimir Putin Or something absurd which is just like I mean if you know the facts on the ground like if it's just not the case I don't know But Putin is kind of also someone they demonized to some weird degree um All right So Some nonsense email says do you know shorthand? No, I don't um Let's see Let me check for manero manero Let's see So it appears my donation message that can go through properly Here's my donation message an image of my account statement that shows I donated. Okay. Sorry if things are messing up Looks like some are going through maybe a couple aren't maybe it's just his issue Um, hello luke. I have recently Had someone explained to me that itp can be used as an alternative to dns Assuming that their explanation is correct that I understood it correctly as I am not well versed in this area Would you consider it viable to use as an alternative? Um, also, thank you for your parable of alien chess I have used that to help friends of mine understand the major flaws with modern science. Okay. Thanks. Yeah, I mean that essay was uh Good because it helped me explain things that it's hard to get things out of your brain I'm glad I kind of thought thought of that one. Um So I don't know anything about this itp thing I I think the most important thing if you're if you have this new standard Of doing dns the most important thing is you would have to have it backwards compatible So if it's backwards compatible. Yeah, it could be great. I'd be interested if it's not uh Like if a normie using the technology they are using if they can like make use of that like Great if not, it's kind of questionable might be hard to make that pop You know pop on Yeah, it looks like a couple people Yeah, it looks like a couple people like sent in emails because it looked like something like the mess the donations were going through But they actually did go through so Yeah, don't freak out If that happens to you Let's see here Let's see here um Eric says Would you recommend a website watch list for states or countries to avoid specifically moving to? Uh for states or countries to um, I know that Mississippi is cut From the water issue like flint michigan. I know also that texas is cut from their electrical grid Western europe is a massive me. Well, yeah, don't rule states off because you heard something in the new I mean Oh, I don't know anything about Mississippi water. I mean water is like a very local thing Like the state government doesn't have to do with lot water and frankly if you're in a rural area You're gonna have your own well anyway in a lot of places. So it's not really even your issue Um, so yeah, don't let that work. I mean, I'm not endorsing Mississippi. Mississippi is probably better than most Uh, but I'm not yeah, don't rule that out because you heard something about water I don't know about texas electrical grid, but like electricity is the same thing. I well it depends on Like different places do things differently Don't assume that like every state is run by one Like I know that in georgia, you know, they just have georgia power But in other states like florida They have a bunch of different local companies. And so like you can't say Oh, well, there was some electrical grid problem in some place. Therefore. I'm ruling out the whole state or country Yeah, don't do that Western europe is a massive meme as well as we know Uh in the west coast east coast is actively trying to destroy america florida seems pretty nice But I wonder how they deal with hurricanes Um, hopefully I move soon from organ. It's falling apart I mean, if you're an organ just move to idaho or something I just move over a little bit like you're gonna be fine Uh, I mean, what's the worst that can happen like yellow stone blows up or something? I don't know Um, I don't know. I wouldn't worry that much about it Like most places in the united states unless you're like in some extreme blue state Unless you're in california I wouldn't really think too much about it and even a lot of blue states like in the northeast. They're not like new york I'd avoid Like uh, but vermont new hampshire main probably fine Um Other things you might want to look for in the united states you might give a preference for well Firstly to be real like these things are tiebreakers Like if you have family in a state If you know people in a state if you have a particular opportunity in the in a state It might be a better reason to take that as opposed to anything else But good tiebreakers look for states with income taxes or not Look for states where homeschooling is well respected versus well regulated You do not want well, you know people who regulate homeschooling Um, you don't want people who have income tax Tennessee is good in general. That's one off the top of my head. You guys know I was looking in Tennessee for a while Um, they're good on a lot of things, but in general Most places would suffice. Um I mean europe is more difficult from what I hear western europe is more difficult in terms of land prices Uh, maybe in terms of I don't know how laws work there. I don't know if they're annoying They're annoying in terms of like how they can uh Oh, so they're like someone's spamming the chat. Let me get rid of it. Sorry guys Um Let me just get rid of those guys who are like spamming. They're not even saying annoying things. They're just saying hi all the time Um, see if there are any others Okay, he's gone. He's gone for good. Um I think it was just one dude being retarded Um, yeah, I don't so don't fret out about that. Don't don't worry about it. Like oh florida has hurricane hurricanes Yeah, don't live on the coast There are plenty of places I don't know. Don't look from a bird's eye view. Look in specific areas, right? That that's how I would recommend uh you to do it and yeah, you can look at you can look at like taxes or something else as a as a tiebreaker Are you going to add the this august this who says are you going to add the lindy press to your github? Shopify just selling a library to make customizable sizes for two thousand dollars a month clown world selling a library to makes Okay, I didn't process that right but um, uh, I might I didn't originally write the software So, okay, I people have asked about this before I didn't originally write it the guy who wrote the software I think he kind of said oh you can put it out there, but I prefer if you didn't And I don't think I think that was because he didn't want um He didn't want it to be too big of a boon for lulu. I think that's the way he put it um because that I don't want it because The the software specifically that he developed works with one book printer theoretically Oh, I'll just say the ideal when I write it and go Rewrite it and go or make hypothetically some other language. Um, I will happily put it out free software on github um But uh, it's gonna have other perks. I'll just put it this way Looking at it now is theoretically I could put it out now, but it's not perfect. It's not like it completed I would rather give you the better version You know what I mean? Like I don't want to get people on this standard that I'm gonna get rid of and I'm not gonna develop And I like the dude who wrote it like he's the one You know theoretically who you can at you know ask all the questions to like I can You know bug shoot most things on my own But like I didn't originally write this kind of stuff and I'm not I'm less familiar with how python does things So that's that's why I haven't put it out. Okay, so I'm not against putting it out. I plan on putting it out, but um I'd rather write a better standard and put that out even if it takes a little a little bit more time Okay, okay, okay All right, I'll look at the normal chat. Let's see what's going on Let's see what's going on in the normal chat Do you know professor barth from a of you you mean you of a I don't know what barth. There was a barse in our department But if there's some well actually let's see if there's some famous barf Arizona Is that someone I should know There are a couple funny people at Arizona Jonathan barth from Arizona state That's the first result. I see here I've never heard of this guy. I don't know if that's it Is he based in redfield or something? I don't know got a phc from george mason Maybe he's a libertarian I don't know. Maybe he actually has who knows um Yeah, I don't know about him Uh, if that's actually you could be another barth Your academics article has broken links to pdfs. Yeah, I actually know that and I haven't had time I got someone emailed me about that like two or three days ago and I haven't had This is like the first time I've been up my computer for a while and I I decide to freaking do a stream um Luke did the bad guys win the civil war. No the civil war is still going on and we're going to win. Don't worry um It seems like the bad guys won the civil war, but Um, have you consumed rings of power yet on amazon prime luke? Nope Not gonna consume that one I wouldn't consume it even if it were good if it's on amazon I just oh my goodness I almost forgot I thought about something thoughts on andrew tate already did that one because press the refresh Oh, no donations. I guess we're looking back at this um Luke how's the lexus doing Good and not good It's a funny story. I actually have two lexuses now. I'm wow. I'm so freaking rich. I have two luxury cars No, actually I got so the old lexus um This is like a quite a tale basically, uh The head gasket blew why did the head gasket blow luke? Did you did you do something stupid? Here's what happened? I was driving. I was actually driving to linux fest. Did I tell people the story? I'm sure I told people the story at linux fest, but I was driving to linux fest And um, I was in a parking lot. This was actually my fault. This is my punishment for my sin What was my sin? I went to walmart Okay, I went to walmart to get something when I was on my way Okay, I was like, I'm just going to pick this up at walmart. It's I know that walmart's going to have this It was actually a uh, uh, I'm not even going to tell you what it is But it'd be even more embarrassing if I tell you what it was a cell phone accessory I'll just say that But I was like, I feel against my better judgment. I'm going to get this so double sin I bought a cell phone thing and I went to walmart So I'm driving out and all of a sudden I hear this splash I was like, what is this splash? And I figure like I must conclude. Maybe I ran over a water balloon But it ends up what happens. I start driving. I realized. Oh my goodness. My my car is overheating And so I pull it over and I realized like one of the clamps on the hose to my antifreeze has broken So I'm like shoot. It's good. I stopped here. I'm going to do the right thing I'm going to get some antifreeze put some coolant, you know antifreeze coolant put it in there But I need one of these clamps to clamp it back So what I did is I actually walked in the hot summer sun. I had lung pants for some reason I walked to the closest car repair place and I'm like, oh man, here's here's my clamp that broke You guys have like a clamp to replace it and they gave me a free one And I'm very thankful and I walked back and I put that thing on And um, so I'm like, okay, I'm going to refill the antifreeze So I had to wait. I was going to wait until the antifreeze cooled Or the car was the car engine was still hot, right? Super hot. It had been like an hour, but I was like, man, it's still hot So, um, I actually went to lunch Had lunch at a cracker barrel because it was the the least Zoggy thing in walking distance Um, so I went to a cracker barrel, which actually cracker barrel is still kind of cucked but like went to a cracker barrel and um, Uh, just eight spent some time went back out. It was still hot. Okay I I still couldn't pour like this antifreeze in because like even to take the valve off like it was I don't know. I guess I could I didn't have like, uh, I probably could have used some of my clothes that were packed up But this guy walks by who purports to be a mechanic and I'm telling him what happened We're having a good conversation And he tells me well, why don't you just put it in the reservoir? You don't need to put it in this you can just put it in the antifreeze reservoir And I'm like, yeah, I guess I could do that. Yeah, I don't have to wait for it to cool down Now all you mechanics now are like, oh my goodness. Oh, you idiot, right? Because as I come to look find out Um, so I put it he puts it in the reservoir for me. So I'm like, great. That's taken care of cared of Take taken care of I don't know why I said that. Um, so I'm like, great. That's taken care of I don't have to worry about that. So I start, you know I start going driving up the highway and you know, my car kind of smells funny And I feel like it is a little hotter and the gauge actually goes up for a second. Oh my goodness It's over. Are you kidding? Again? I pull over and it goes down now ends up the gauge is actually broken as well It works off and on So I keep going and the gauge is still low But my car makes starts making all these weird noises and I'm on the interstate at this point I can't I mean I could pull over at the side, but it'd be a lot more difficult I'd rather stop at the next exit. So I decided I'm going to stop at the next exit But as I'm pulling out, okay Just all of a sudden lose power stealer Everything goes wrong. Right. I'm like, I'm at the summit of the exit. I can't accelerate can't lose power stealer. That's a bad Bad sign. So I managed to like skirt into like a Wendy's parking lot or something like that Magically without even being able to accelerate. It was just perfectly at the right place And I'm like, oh my goodness. What has happened? And so what actually happened is No, you cannot refill the antifreeze by putting it in the reservoir Now if you have any antifreeze in your car, you can do that But if you have none, if it's all spilled out because your hose broke, you can't do that Because it won't have enough suction to suck it from the reservoir. Okay, this is now I've learned this Okay, so long story short And then then I had it towed um to get repaired Um, I and of course basically the guy's like dude, I don't have enough I mean it was at his place for like a month. Okay, and I was I was driving my cousin's car for a period I drove on my cousin's car to linux vest came back. He still had not fixed it Uh, and then like it was like three more weeks and basically I was like, yeah, dude forget about it I'm just gonna get a new car. Okay, so it's actually literally still there. Um Long story short, that's what happened to my lexus. I can still fix it Um, but it's been sitting out for like the longest time What I did in the meantime is I just kept eyes for a new car And I got the exact same making model not because I wanted the exact same making model Um, but because it happened to pop up good price. It was more expensive than the other one It was more expensive than the two thousand dollars I paid for the other one. It was closer to four thousand bucks Uh, but I got another one which is actually in much better condition. I mean the one I got was in great condition It had a couple dents you saw in that video Uh, but the new one is even better. It's like pristine, right? Um, so The the lexus is doing good the new lexus is doing good the bad one. It's whatever. I need to sell it I'm gonna have a friend put it on facebook marketplace or something Uh, just get rid of it or I might I might have it towed to my house and gradually work on it replace the gasket myself But it's it's kind of involved. So That was a very long explanation. That is what that is what my car can do. That's where I am on cars Uh Adrian says, uh, here's some fake money. Thanks for the content. Oh, yeah fake brazilian money. Thanks The plural of lexuses is not uh Lex the plural of lexus is not lexuses. It's lexi. Oh, yeah Shut up Um All right, let's see here. So we've got any manero no manero. Wow if you were a manero donations unusual I should show that uh should tell people to use it more uh Okay, now that I gave that extremely long explanation of what happened to my car. I'm actually kind of tired It's very dark in here now. I'm gonna I'm gonna change the exposure again. I'm gonna change the exposure Uh, where is it? Apparently obs has a big stupid upgrade It actually kind of looks better or at least well It's more blocky, which is more convenient. Usually I get really mad when uh programs become more blocky. All right, let's have super super light I really I really hate uh, so one I I actually have a really bad Because if you're bald Yet you wear black all the time. That is the absolute worst For uh getting the correct lighting on everything. That is one thing. That's one thing. I've learned about photography Uh, uh since I have a youtube channel That's like the worst of every world like if you if you have and the thing is and it might not be obvious In real life. If you saw me in real life. I am tanner than everyone. Okay, almost almost everyone I know some people who are tanner than me, but I'm tanner than basically everyone But like it does it looks like I'm really pale given the exposure of whatever. I'm not gonna talk too much Boring. I'm boring. I'm not gonna talk about that You don't need to know all that um Let's see Okay Not getting any more uh donations. So maybe people are winding down winding down. Maybe I'll wind down as well. Um crypto feudalism way um Pending on Mondo megabits sam hides in tf m ft project. I don't have any I know that like I think they have like sound and stuff in them. I don't I don't care in ft's Could not care less Um Yeah, we run out. Yeah, everyone has been milked dry. We just ran out of money, sir. Yeah Great. I'm soaked all the money possible for my subscribers. Now my mission is complete. All right um Let's see Tips on how to make strong passwords and be able to remember them um So I've actually sold out and I now use pass to generate all my passwords Or at least for most things like there are some things I would give you my method for generating so two kinds of passwords One is I use pass and it just generates a jumble of whatever You can use pass generate blah blah blah and it'll generate a password that you know Or you could use that you can give it the n option to not use symbols or other things or you could give it a specific link if you want um, so I use pass to generate like most passwords for banking Uh services I use like vulture epic stuff like that So all of those are as random as they can get There are some things that I want to be able to log into myself So I have more memorizable passwords and also like on my computers. I have more memorizable passwords, but um Those uh, I couldn't tell you my specific algorithm for making those because it kind of give too much away But I'll say it uses a method where I In a totally random way generate Random words and then random Transformations of particular words. That's basically how I'll say I do it. Um, and so everything has different passwords now I'm now actually now I encrypt nearly every drive I use to So that's the main thing I need to use the memorizable passwords for so every drive I have Like this computer is now all encrypted or like the boot is not encrypted My Libre booted think pad it has an encrypted boot drive and root drive with different passwords, right? I got to put two passwords to log in just to de-encrypt the drive. Of course it logs in my Into my user account automatically because like if you know the password to the partition or whatever screw it just log in but Um Banking on the internet sauce. Yeah, I mean the only reason I have I have a million banks And it's only because I get a million credit cards to You know Cheat them out of introductory offers, right? Bank of america those suckers man. They sent me this thing I so of course I pump and dumped some bank of america card for an introductory offer like a year or two ago Like a god, you know, it's like oh get this card Spend a thousand dollars on it and get 200 dollars in credit. So of course I did that paid off my thousand dollars and got the free 200 bucks um, and then they like emailed or yeah Sent me something in the mail that's like bro You can change your card that you're not using to this other card Which you also won't use and we'll give you the same offer again. So great. Thanks for the free 200 bucks. So suckers Although this year I've been Getting fewer credit cards just because I want to give some time really. Okay. This is really what it's about It's that stupid city custom cash, which is the greatest credit card ever ever created Which I have I usually get accepted to every credit card I apply to but for whatever reason They denied me twice and I think it's because city is very Picky about you having recent credit card Credit cards opened. So this year I've actually not opened any credit cards or well There's a business card I opened in the beginning of the year so I could uh put all my lindy press costs on that and not pay them for a year No, thanks for the free no APR, you know Suckers man. I just love there's nothing quite as fulfilling. It's just making money off of banks. You know what I mean like uh Notice how uncomfortable he is not rubbing his hands while talking finance Yeah, that's right I I love yeah I'm doing my part dude. Everyone should be everyone should doing be doing this for banks like they should all be um They should all be doing introductory offers and like pocketing on the all the money and you know I just think it's like your civic duty. It's your civic duty if people put stupid incentives out there You should take advantage of them. It's actually your civic duty to live off welfare If you're not earning money, I mean don't live I don't mean quit your job and live off welfare But I mean like if you're like especially a student who's you know on your own taxes anyway, and you're making like You know 10k a year 20k, bro. Get on welfare Take advantage of the system Even sam hide will tell you to do that too Rubs hands nose grows accordingly. Yep. Yep Anyone know the chair that luke uses what do you think it's branded? This is just bros. It's a chair. I don't know Are you talking about this one that i'm not even using it? Usually I use that in a live stream But I guess I didn't even think maybe I should use it. It is more comfy I use this one for doing work because it's like a better um Better, I don't know. It's higher. It's at the right height, you know, so this one is Now i'm like super low down here. You like my alan edmonds They're very I like these shoes There this these shoes actually changed my life I only got them because my cousin's wife who nags me about things She she's one of those you got to take off your shoes in our house, right? And when i'm never wearing nice clothes, I don't want to have to untie my like uh oxfords and like slip those off They're hard to get on and off. They're perfectly sized, you know and as a perfectly sized shoe They're hard to get on and off. So I actually specifically got these shoes Just to prevent the nagging, right? um But they're actually the best shoes i've ever had as far as i'm in terms of like use like I I wore them so much in the first year On so many occasions that um, I had to get them resold like they they were really really nice um Manlet transformation complete. Yeah, that's the thing about this like a weird fish eye lens now. I'm like a total man Um, so yeah, I gotta gotta stand up here, you know um Let's see Face no shoes Imagine wearing shoes inside. Yeah, Europeans like see they see when they see americans wearing shoes inside That is i'm sorry. We're free in this country. We can wear shoes wherever we want Oh, yeah, maybe I should check donations. Maybe people have been donating, you know, I haven't been reading. Um Okay, there's one at least steward says hi luke, uh time for your extremely jordan peterson question Jokes aside I knew you are anti-video games But what about other types of games such as tabletop and cardboard games? Cardboard games. Why did I say that card games? Obviously, you have to put aside the fact that these types of games are run by compromised people I find them to be I find them to be much more. I can't think of the word I want to say fulfilling because i'm physically in the presence of other actual real life people in real life. Yeah, um So table if if you're talking about like d&d stuff like yeah um I would Excuse me. I'm like hiccuping now in terms of like playing cards or something like that. This is fine, you know, whatever We're just playing a random game like board game. Whatever like that's you know, whatever That's what it is. Actually now I look super tan. I don't know except for my arm Why does this look pale like the exposure of this camera sucks? Um, but when it comes to d&d, I would say that um I would say that like it's similar to video games But it's not as bad in that you can't just pick up and do d&d whenever you want you have to like um You have to like arrange with your friends to meet up and do this and stuff like that so it's not like It's I think it's bad like my dad always actually used to tell me this proverbial and not proverbial It happened. He used to tell me the story about this kid He went to college with who like dropped out and like pocketed his parents tuition money and like played d&d Because that's like what he wanted to do all the time and then he eventually like shot himself So that was like my dad's I thought it was corny But it was the story my dad always told me whenever I like got in like when I got into like yugio cards as a kid My dad told me that story to like, I don't know. Ooh, you better not get too obsessed with that um So there definitely are people like that who get like too obsessed with that kind of stuff But um, I don't think they're quite as bad as video games. I think they're much more social Even though like d&d and stuff they have reputations of being like total weirdos I think it's less weird than like playing video games in long. So Okay, maybe I should See this isn't on the screen, right? I'm always paranoid. Oh, do they see like the passwords? I'm typing in here Something now. I actually need to type in a password now. Oh, don't look I totally forgot which password this is Dang it all this all this talk about passwords. No, I do remember it. I do remember it Okay Yep, okay, great All right So karyas says So I've been working my way through mold bug and I'm becoming interested in the history of political systems and organization I've read a bit of the reactionary callan canon a la de meister and de meister How do you how do you pronounce that in english de metre? I don't know uh de meister I never yeah, no, it sounds wrong coming out of my mouth de de mester de metre Uh and carlyle looking for more proper history books. The famous ones are 10,000 tens of volumes long and it's overwhelming well, uh I mean the reality is A history of political systems. I think that's kind of questionable. I think if you really want to reactionary view it's to read I mean frankly just read anything from history like You will get a perspective that is just different from what you're used to that's all I can say Okay, it's not It's not like oh, I got to read uh billy based in redpilled and then I'll be based in redpilled. No, um like This perspective is only different. I mean it was just the norm before the enlightenment. You know what I mean Like and it's not even a perspective. It's a lack of perspective really. It's just a lack of brain parasites, right? I think that's the real way to look at it like a kind of um, I don't know how to to put it in words, so um I'm not really interested if you're talking about like I don't think there is a history of political systems Frankly because even to use that term that kind of presupposes something that's very enlightenment and very like It presupposes there is like some kind of natural movement in political systems, which only Democrats believe in only only like people who believe in like the end of history And liberalism and stuff like that really believe in okay, so I think that presupposes something wrong I would just recommend I like to be if you want to sound if you want to sound like someone who like Moldbug who's just like popping off with random stuff like from all these different sources and you know He knows all this obscure historical stuff and it gives him a bigger view The way to do that is not to look for deliberately political or deliberately Stuff like that. You just have to read widely and understand what's going on now Maybe carlyle or domestic or however you want to pronounce it english or I don't know Maybe they'll give you a good viewpoint at that. I have not I've read some car a lot Well, I've read some of both of them, but not not very I don't even own any of their books I don't think if I I might have some carlyles and a compilation, but Yeah, I wouldn't worry about reading a bajillion volumes. I would worry about Being familiar with like what actually happened in the past reading original sources would be a nice thing Because if the enlightenment did anything it's like this whole I don't know everything has to be filtered through this commentary system right and that's kind of questionable So smith says do you use nerd wallet to find your next credit card to churn or do you have a better resource? I've been interested in this topic, but it seems like the most advice online is vague Uh, I would just look at whatever banks like literally what I do is look on banks website So the big ones like well's fargo bank of america chase Chase might be the best to start with If you already have a credit score because you want to get get their cards pretty early, you know chase freedom flex or whatever discover Chase and discover you probably want to get first then maybe well's fargo So I would just look at the individual sites and like of the banks that I already have cards for which are those and maybe A couple others like I'm trying to think There are just so many options. There are so many cards. I still need to do again. I don't have city yet I city has some good ones the city custom cash is probably the best like once you have credit cards City custom cash is basically the best credit card because what it does is it You can use it on whatever of course and they will give you five percent back of whatever category you you spent most on So if you already have other credit cards that are specialized on other things and you just need something to specialize on groceries Or something you can use the city custom cash and you're going to be getting five percent back on that So it's like your your elsewhere condition. It's like the thing you use on the thing you don't have a credit card for Right, so that what it's so it's super versatile and super useful Um, but I would just look I mean you can look I do I end up on nerd wallet? Yeah, occasionally Um, but I would look at that another thing is so there's a form Which of course I'm not a member of because using a form is incredibly cringe as I as I talked about in the last video I did but there's this form called my fico Um, and they have a credit card uh sub form and you can put that in your art They have an rss thing for that so you can put it in your rss reader And it'll just it mostly is just people posting random things about credit credit cards But they will also talk about other um, like new new stuff new offers and um, actually, you know Again, I don't obviously don't recommend using forms regularly, but um, they probably have they I know They have compilation of information if you're new to this but in general I would just recommend looking at the banks you already have at their websites and seeing I mean That's how I started like I had a Wells Fargo account. I was like, oh, look they have these introductory offers I'm going to use them and that's where that's where it clicked. I was like, oh, I can actually do this And then I realized oh, this is a thing credit card turning like people do this apparently Um, and I just do it with little cards like there are some families There are some like people who are spending like tens of thousands of dollars a month, which is ridiculous I can't even imagine spending. I don't know whatever if I spend $1,000 a month. I feel like extremely guilty, but um Um, there are people who really have a system out of this especially husband wife pairs You know get your get your wife to do it too. Um, it's easier to space things up Speaking of a spin feeling guilty whenever I spend $1,000. I actually did spend $1,000 last month I bought a new washer and dryer. Okay, so I spent right around $1,000 a little over Because my washer broke and I was trying to fix it for around a week I kind of gave up and I'm like, whatever. I'll just get one Get get a new pair because these are super old But then when I pulled my washer out into my garage, I realized oh my goodness This is the problem and now I got the part ordered. I'm going to fix it up And I will probably return The thousand dollar washer and dryer that I bought. Who's that? Um, anyway, so um, what was I gonna say? Um Yeah, so I'm super cheap. I even even if I need a new washer and dryer. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna I don't use it No, they're not two in one So yeah, I mean it's it's not difficult to plan to turn credit cards It really isn't like looking back at it. It seems complicated But you just get a credit card and you use it and pocket the money, you know Yeah, that was a fun I forgot to turn the thing off See if there's anything sometimes I use it in live streams to like look at stuff. Um I'm gonna turn it off. Hey, how long has this been going? I feel like I've been going on too long Oh, yeah, two hours. Well, that's actually not too long. I felt like it's been going. It's probably just I haven't Done a stream in so long. I'm not used to Not used to it again JT says I I I'm half to you. I will say this people's grammar just Disappears when they write a donation message. I've been really cleaning up the donation messages. I've been getting um I have to use Stata For one of maybe maybe saying statistics. I don't know stats. Maybe This is probably a phone poster. Actually, that's probably the problem I have to use stats for one of my economics classes in university. The archad in me does every Does oh stat. Oh stata. Oh, okay. Okay. You're contrasting like languages and tools and stuff. Okay. The archad in me does every time In me does every time I launch the program when will the act act When will the academy finally get pulled on free software? Okay, so your second sentence didn't have a verb your first sentence Um, yeah, well, I guess you just had an extra contraction in there, but So he's saying when will people use r instead of statters? You know other stupid stuff thing is the thing with no I actually was about to record a video on this before I decided to do the live stream but um the thing with normies is And and even people who profess to know a lot about technology it is so Difficult to lead them to water and have them drink when it comes to free software It is the hardest thing to get through their head. I don't know why like Okay, here are two standards Here is this proprietary standard run by a company for profit where they nickel and dime you for literally everything Oh, you want to do this 20 more dollars. Oh, no, you can't add this on. No, you can't add this package Are we gonna do this or are we going to use this free and open source standard that you can add stuff to It is free. You don't have to pay for it. You don't even have to pay for it It's not even a money thing, but there's something in boomers brains normies brains I don't know what it is. They're like, oh well I mean if I don't have to pay for it. It's not worth anything, right? Oh my goodness Why better pay for it's it's going to be better. I'm going to get the one that cost money I'm going to pay for the tech support that I'm never going to get but I'm going to pay for it anyway, right? I you know, I I was helping this church um They had some like terrible program Terrible program that was just ripping them off for like doing church service stuff, you know, it just Shows the slides with songs and it puts bible verses up there But the thing is they nickel and dumb you for everything they want upgrades all the time upgrade to this next package You know, we won't service this that or the other. You can't add stuff to it Oh, if you want to add an extra bible version, you have to uh, you know pay for this premium version If you want to like, um Do do do all this kind of stuff with themes or other things everything is like They're just ripping them off non-stop. So all I did is just use this simple open source The first open source program that I found Open lp it happened to be Which worked perfectly fine way more sensible easier to add bibles easier to add songs It's not like freaking cloud syncing and all this nonsense. It's just better But the thing is once I stopped doing that for them And they could the first thing that happened when they ran into something they couldn't do They just figured well, let's let's go back and pay for this other thing that we also don't know how to use You know that that's how it is. So there's something I don't know what there is. It's it's it's like a curse It's it's everything with free software It's there's like this magical force where if something goes wrong with free software It's like it's because it's free software. So I'm going to use the stuff the stuff that it works even worse That I have to pay for Okay, I don't know why they think this I don't know why but that's just how they think so Um, actually, I think they kind of use both the church on talking about I think they use like both of these programs now just confused this stuff more and like I just want people to do things efficiently. It's not in this case. It's not even about user freedom. It's just about user avoiding Frustration, I just I don't know it frustrates me. So yeah, why do people use proprietary standards? I don't know The problem is you have to learn more to use free and open source software Excellent, but I assume you're saying that ironically because that is literally just not true I don't know the thing is in the case of that church like Everyone who used the new software is like wow, this is so much cleaner. It's easier to do things. It's better Oh, but oh, we got to use the other thing because I I don't know Said it's just sad. Oh How are you enjoying orthodoxy? I'm not doing it for my enjoyment That's not what it's about. Um, sure. I enjoy it, but it's not for my own tickling Um, and do you know who jay dyer is? If not, I think you might like him I know the jay diaries. I want to say we mentioned him earlier on this room Michael says hey luke love your philosophy whatever my philosophy is And I think you're usually right about things, but I disagree about your view of psilocybin and lsd. Oh boy I was cringy urban atheist before taking my high dose But found meaning stoicism and similar outlook on life is no it's it's demonic stuff like any of this kind of stuff I mean you might it might turn you from some philosophy to another and maybe Like many evil things can be used for Profit in fact, I mean if you're a christian basically all evil in the end is going to be used for good Right just an issue of what what side are you actually on and in the case of that kind of stuff? um It's it's a good like psilocybin all that kind of hallucinogenic experiences and that kind of stuff It's a good example of this do not like Shedding away like humanity itself, you know, I don't know how to put it I don't know quite how to put it, but you know the orthodox church, of course is Very much um and this is you know another point where they're better on I mean other christians nominally are supposed to Be like this. Well, I guess Protestants aren't because they're they just do whatever but um You know orthodox are very suspicious of the passions. Okay, so that's why um, I don't know revelrous behavior You know if now of course psilocybin is not like getting drunk and going bonkers Uh, but like the hallucinogenic experience is analogous like you don't go out and act crazy But it is something where it's like so oh, it's a transformative experience and like wow I I don't know I feel different. No, it's it's not I mean the the orthodoxy is also not rationalistic But it's not orgiastic either like there's not um, both of those can can lead devices, you know what I mean um, so no I I think that's I don't know All that kind of stuff lsd dmt. It's just it's demonic stuff That's all I want. I want to say didn't ruche Didn't ruche a couple maybe a month or so ago write an article about that because around the time he was Becoming orthodox he like tried psilocybin or something And he wrote like an article recently like as well He wrote an article when he first tried it and it was like mostly kind of positive Maybe neutral positive But then he wrote another one recently about Oh, no, yeah, it's bad stuff or like. Oh, it was like I don't know you can check it out His website's ruche v.com. I want to say let's see What was it? I don't know. There's a couple articles ago. I'm looking at it right now, but I don't immediately see it Maybe it's a while ago. I have MMI rss feed. I don't actually Now I want to see what it's called I wonder what he has Generating this website Yeah, a lot of these blogs nowadays they they're not good for looking at like old articles Like if they're not on the first page, it's kind of Not intuitive how to get to them. Oh my goodness now my internet's out. I guess you can't see this though, so Oh no, my internet's not out. I think it's just my Browser I don't know my why my browser pooped out on me um Or I think I didn't Okay, get rid of that That is a rare occurrence, but I guess it happened All right, um, where was I okay? I do have a Proper noun says I didn't think the devil was real until my trips You don't hear that take as much. Yeah, I mean It will I mean From what I think what ruche said and whatever other people have said is that like it gives you this kind of uh suit quasi supernatural experience Um But you know the devil masquerades as an angel of light like a lot of people think it's a transformative thing So one thing I want to do a video on this is one thing that like in orthodoxy Like this is a common narrative ruche may have written someone may have written about this I don't I don't know, but this is a common narrative in orthodoxy. I'd never heard in my life Um, but once I did it totally made sense like the orthodox I mean, I actually recently got the jordanville prayer prayer book very good. I recommend this I consume this product, please The jordanville prayer book very good. Um, so I do morning and evening prayers from them and also has Uh, the liturgy in it if you want to look through that and other stuff, um Other information concerning the jesus prayer and how one should pray in church very nice book Um, but it has evening prayers in there and I found it very interesting that, um Many of the evening prayers specifically say, you know, grant me a dreamless sleep You know, why do you not want to have dreams? That's that's kind of weird like what's weird about dreams like orthodox They're not just suspicious of dreams, but even imagination And that that sounds totally what it's like. Why why would you I don't know why why would you uh, be suspicious of dreams Or imagination well imagination when you really think about it like basically every sin and vice Comes from Just stray imagination, right? Now there are sexual sins, which are kind of obvious Like people are led to the lustful thoughts because they're just kind of sitting around You know, they you know, they want a coom or something. Um, that's kind of obvious But also, you know, you get to thinking about people, you know, you analyze people in ways you shouldn't you get to um You do things like, uh You you have quixotic fantasies about things and in fact you even think about things Not necessarily for planning for them. Okay. I'm talking about imagination I'm talking about you have fantasies about doing this that or the other which Oftentimes end up being the reason you don't do this that or the other because the fantasies become an enjoyment in their In themselves. It's a kind of hyper reality. It's the same kind of thing of as like living in a video game so the orthodox You know, they're very suspicious of like, uh Imagination like wild imaginations because like we in our society we think of that as being like a positive thing Oh, yeah. Oh, oh, wow. Look at that kid. He's so imaginative blah blah blah Or I I want to have the imagination of a child blah blah, but like spiritually speaking. It's kind of questionable Like, I mean, yeah, you can sit down and think about things But you have to do so deliberately like not not once you fall into kind of the passions once you fall into kind of this passive state You are just a receptacle for demonic influence sinful influence things like that and it's true Like when you really think about it, like all a lot of your vices are made worse by times when you're just Um, you're you're letting your mind really wander and and do this kind of stuff Now this isn't now, of course at the same time, you know singular contemplation is a good thing Um, I'm not saying that but in the sense of imagination as like thinking of fantasies Whether they're personal or financial or sexual or all this kind of stuff That is something fundamentally questionable and and leads the devices and I'd never heard that before I um I or I never thought of it that way. It's kind of obvious retrospectively, but I never thought about it that way before I saw, you know Orthodox people talking about it I have fantasies of Luke doing the soy on camera Yeah, people have asked me just to like do the soy boy impersonation like all the time Do the soy or soy voice soy voice boy Um, okay. Uh, let me check for donations. I haven't checked in a while Don't want to miss it Um so Um, uh, j or something. I don't add it. I don't know what it is I never know how to parse these email names. I really should put a prompt for like name So I can read that out He says, um, why isn't peer-to-peer dns built into linux as an option? That would make domain names free for everyone All they have to do is add it to their hosts file and register it on ican Or your own accreditation corporation. Um But like running your own dns server. I mean you could do that Uh I mean it wouldn't make it free you still have to register register it with ican like that's most of the I mean for most uh domain names, that's kind of the issue um Yeah, I don't necessarily get that one but In Galatians 5 20 translated term, uh, witchcraft is directly translated from the your uh word Phyramepia, which literally means the use of drugs. Yeah Yeah What bible does the orthodox church use the bible like The real bible Why did you showcase the case that party rockers wojak in one of your videos? I don't remember that Okay, if you stop asking about creatine, I don't care about creatine I I I do need that like automatic janny that just bans people who Puts things over and over and over and over and over and over and over again I had a friend whose mom burnt all his yugioh cards. Well-based gigabase. So I actually um I haven't publiced you do you guys know that I I know back in the day. I had a link on my page to my old website as a child. Do people know what that is If if I told you go find What was the address of my old website when I was a kid? Does anyone know? I I had a conversation with actually kid who was kind of interested in technology And I was like, hey, you want to see my website? I made it when I was seven and when I said I I mean mostly my dad Uh, oh, it's not even right. Oh, yeah, forget this old boomer domain. You got to put w w w in it Oh, and it doesn't have https, of course You want to see want to see a picture of me as a baller? This this was like my profile pic when I was a kid Hold on. I'm gonna show it to you I'm gonna show it to you this was uh See new Just pick it up. Right. Where is it? There we go Wait, open that. Yeah, that's me. That's me when I was a kid That was that was like my profile pic on my website. I mean, you didn't have profiles, but you know what? I mean, that's that's that was me, uh very, um Look at me. My appreciation for nature. Look at this vibe. This this is actually what I wore a lot plain red short jeans I Don't actually know where this is taken Definitely in north georgia. I just don't know where in north georgia um Not actually sure. Oh, oh, we're moving the wrong thing. Dang it. Come on snap to the boundary. Oh There we go. Let's get this Yeah, I'll keep this up for a little. We'll minimize it. We'll minimize it Uh, uh, we want to see a dorkier picture of me Let me show you a dorkier picture of me This one's like more embarrassing I mean, it's an average school photo, frankly But I do look like a total dweeb Total dweeb here, but I'll show it to you anyway Just because I have it right here. Look at that Look at that total dweeb right there I want to say this is like first grade fam, look at that Wow throwback throwback thursdays Member that mondays. That's what we call them. Remember that mondays All right. All right um So stewart says I've been an orthodox inquirer for quite a while now and I have a question about prayer He's gonna kind of cringe to pray for specific things such as someone To get better when they are sick because it presumes, you know, what is best And not god Surely if you pray it should be to pray for things for good things generally Or not pray at all. Yeah, so that actually I think is a big difference. I see between orthodox and um Like protestants i'm familiar with that is protestants love to pray for specific like there's a oh guys We're about to pray let's do prayer requests, right? And like everyone kind of knows that prayer requests They're low-key just like people telling Other people the news they're like, oh this happened. We got to pray for that or praises. Oh, yeah it's like what happened in your life and um So, yeah, I feel like the orthodox do that a whole Lot less and like prayers in general. They're not like they're not specific for You know, you pray you pray for the sick you pray for, you know, things like that, but you're not saying, you know Very specific things. It's just like we're supposed to pray for these people, right? um How many red pills ago was this I guess he's talking about my my beloved images here um I I had some decent red pills already at this this young age um I can't talk about which ones they are Well, I'll just say the the kind of red pills you would probably end up, you know growing up with uh growing up in Atlanta So I was red pilled on some things already Other things not so much um But uh Luke don't get caught up in it with denominations just read the bible Yeah, I've spoken like a Protestant who just has internalized their extreme Protestant theology and reads it into the bible That no one in the universe ever thought before 900 80 or you know 1900 Yeah, it's ridiculous I mean they're real really you shouldn't care about denominations because denominations are entirely Protestant So you should never yeah denominations don't matter because they're not the true church. They're all like Putting it delicately. They're like fan clubs for Jesus that like mostly get things wrong You know, it's like how I you know I look at many of the people who watch my videos and I cringe at them Because like they I don't know they misinterpret things they get things wrong that I think is Kind of how the Protestant churches are all the Protestant denominations. That's basically how they are They're like fan clubs that get most everything wrong like oh they mean well um That that is how I'd actually look at it um And like I understand like the thing with Protestants also in general Like I think there's a lot of grace historically for Protestants because obviously like When the Reformation happened like the So there was the Roman church which as far as they know like there was no contact with the east There was no contact with all the other patriarchates and the real orthodox church So you're you're set with I mean you have either the Roman church Which is built on absurdities and and contradictions and like is always in a constant state of trying to like Square the circle and like Work through absurdities, right? So you have either the Catholic church or you have I don't know I guess we have to kind of make it let's look at the bible and kind of figure things out So I think like historically that is very understandable of Protestants And it's understandable if you've grown up like most Protestants they grow up Um what the thing that like makes them justify their beliefs is this like straw Catholic They have in their head that has dumb arguments and they have the smart responses, but the reality is nowadays Um You really don't have an excuse not for like being informed on these things like what do you really think it's a good thing When the pope separated from the rest of the church Like when the bishop of Rome declared himself the ruler of everything basically Um and excommunicated everyone else, right? Do you because of an a theological absurdity that he had added? Uh non canonically to the faith, right? Do you think that's justified or not if you do think it's justified your catholic? If you don't your orthodox like Protestantism is something that you know It's it's it's it's it's people who on the gerbil wheel of Catholic coping they flew off in some weird direction and they've been doing their own weird things. So That that's all it is Okay, got a youtube uh super chat um Wdyt about okay, that's a zoomer Uh abbreviation that I don't what what What does what do you MK ultra victim says luke read my emails. Ah Okay, let's look at his emails I have a lot of emails. I don't know which ones are yours mk ultra I'll read this guys Um miguel says got stuck on submitting sent this email instead. Do you use wait? No This went through this is the nerve all the question I was talking with some wig gnats and they were telling me that christianity is cocked And we shall all move to nichy and will to power crap Because that's more based and will help our people. How do you respond to this? Well, I did I just did an article on my website on why paganism is freaking stupe like this neo-paganist crap is nonsense um Like nichy and will to power crap. I mean what what is like the thing about nicha? Is that like his criticism of christianity? Is not it's really a criticism of like liberal Protestantism Okay, it's not like uh, it's base his view was like christianity Um has become cocked now. He was an atheist. He wasn't a christian himself, but he was criticizing like basically um Oh liberals have screwed all this up like liberalism the enlightenment. They've made all this stuff go right um, and he of course associated that like with Uh christianity, right or at least like late form christianity in protest in europe and that that's another This is another Protestant problem because where does liberalism come from like it's impossible to have liberalism without Protestantism Okay, a lot of Protestant a lot of oh i'm a i'm a fundamentalist independent Baptist. I'm based in redpill Okay, maybe maybe on like a lot of the the point-by-point social issues you're great on it But in general the Protestant movement is a movement away from tradition to Firstly the the individual's Interpretation his own imagination of what he sees in scripture, which is a warshop test for what he wants to see in general, right? um I mean There are some Protestants like Protestants want to believe firstly That scripture is like some like objective measure like on paper. It sounds great Oh, i'm just gonna look at what the bible says, right and that's an objective measure of everything Sure on paper like on specific issues. Yeah, I mean the bible says this and you're saying that yeah I mean that that's that's a great point there, but for effectively all Theological issues of any import the bible is either silent or ambiguous or uh, you know The Protestant interpretation is something ahistorical in the same way, you know um, so Really what happened when you adopted this idea? We're gonna trash everything about what we've been passed down since the apostles We're gonna trash all of that and we're gonna just look at the bible and live in this eternal institution That is uh, yeah, I mean that that's silly of course Because what it leads to is people just interpreting what they want reading what they want and it Ultimately, it's it's uh infinite subjectivism. It's not objective. It is people Being able to see I mean people have made up entire doctrine. They're things like the rapture someone in the 1800s Looked at a couple bible passages and squinted his eyes because he didn't want You know christians to be around when like the world collapsed So he said well, I believe that christians are just gonna disappear and here are a couple bible passages that kind of look like that um, it's no different than when roman catholics look at like, um You know, oh here's where jesus gave peter the keys and therefore even though no one for the first thousand years of the church Thought that this meant there's some kind of office of papacy. We didn't even have a word for it But we're gonna pretend that this is the case and the rapture is the same way and um either way It's it's silly like if you're I can understand someone if they want to do this niche in l'arp um If they're only exposure to christianity is this a historical low church Protestantism or like high church liberal super liberal Protestantism where you have like, um, I don't know. It's just It's just liberalism. I mean, that's all it is. It's it's just as this christian garb So I understand when people are like that But it's reasonless because what you're doing is you're you're taking the actual tradition of the christian church Which you now have I think thankfully of all the things the internet has done bad to us You now have access to this these people are in america the orthodox church is now in america and many places in western europe and all this Kind of stuff and you now have uh an ability to contact the actual The real christian tradition, you know what I mean, um, which doesn't I don't know. It's not it's not there. It doesn't have these issues, right? um And aside from that like with any of this kind of stuff You can say oh, I read niche and some of its base and I actually I am constantly defending niche in the eyes of christians I actually now of course he's not a christian He's not and he says some objectionable things, but I think in general my impression of him is very good Uh compared to most other people. He's he's very much an anti philosopher and I kind of like that um But uh, I think for anyone to to take the views of a thinker and to try and systematize it especially because a lot of what niche has said is kind of I want to say a troll or for rhetorical purposes and You know, he himself like this this this like dog eat dog Hyper darwinian world that niche and people do. I mean this too. This is a product of modernity as well Okay, um, this is a product of like the anglo-american Of viewpoint or well, I guess it's germanic as well if you want to say that but um around this period This is when you really have this darwinian mindset setting in even before darwin mind you this mindset of the survival of the fittest of a kind of I don't know quasi It's it's like an end of history Uh that is sort of political sort of racial nowadays the racial element people want to ignore it But it's the same thing Um, it's the same thing that liberals are doing where they believe in this kind of end end of history Darwinian survival of the fittest will to power all this kind of stuff. It's the same kind of stuff like it still is um And that's that's the one of the big questionable things about that and you know Nietzsche himself I I think he said most of what he said is a kind of a troll not that he didn't believe in it, but I think um I think it was very much different from the life that he lived Uh, well, he was also kind of a sickly guy weirdly enough For someone who's talking about uh talking about will to power and stuff and he was Well, really I would I would liken him to kind of jordan peterson Where he jordan peterson is always like on the verge of a mental breakdown. Nietzsche was as well I mean he had mental breakdowns, you know, so there's a sense in which you know, you kind of distrust people like that I don't know anyway Uh I'm gonna randomly read an email Um, hi luke. What's your latin pronunciation ecclesiastical or they explains it as if I don't know what it is ecclesiast Ecclesiastical or classical uh when I originally learned latin I uh use classical Um as time's gone on I use ecclesiastical a little more because I will do Some stuff I will do more medieval reading and stuff stuff and when I do poetry it will actually make a difference Because things won't rhyme in the classical pronunciation Um, also I tutor I've tutored people in latin like kids in latin Uh, and I when I do that I usually use classical pronunciation though I think that's standard. So yeah classical when you're learning it if you do something specifically medieval I'll do that when I pray in latin. I will use class or I will pray in ecclesiastical pronunciation But sometimes something classical will slip out because it sounds right or I don't I don't know Um, but yeah, that's fine. Feel that. Oh actually, you know Silesh says I use um You say that people should hold beliefs because they are true not because such beliefs are based or whatever But at the same time you say that people shouldn't rely on rationality or rational argumentation since rationality is fragile, etc If we can't use reason because it's fragile. How are we supposed to evaluate whether particular beliefs are true or not? Well, uh, I don't know I don't I don't think that's a that sounds like a contradiction, but it really isn't at all Um, I I would say you have to have a kind of meta rationality You have to realize that when you're looking at something rationally you have a tendency to want to um Convince your stuff of convince yourself of things you have a tendency to overlook details And that goes for any other person as well. Like the human mind in itself Like yes, we want to approach truth But you have to realize that you are fighting against yourself in that. That's what I would say. Um So I I I don't think it It's not really contradictory. Like humans are not rational people, but at the same time we should believe things are true Rationality itself like formal reasoning and stuff like that is a is a sound system But the the premises that we have going into that are not Are not necessarily sound and we shouldn't rely on I mean it's similar to like in academia when people do statistics To make it sound more real than it actually is, right? Um, I think people have a similar problem of Uh, they use what they think of as being reason and which is kind of reason To reach conclusions that they have set themselves up to reach. That's what I would say Um, so I think the important thing would be having a meta rationality being able to look back I I would I would have when I was younger I would have like Ideological purges and what I what I mean by that is I would say, okay I have all these emotional attachments to like often like political beliefs Uh or things like that and I'm gonna go on a purge and I'm just gonna from now on I'm just not I'm not gonna be insulted If someone says this I'm gonna not assume that this is true. I'm gonna start over from square one, right? Or you or you have to be like you have you have to be constantly looking at yourself You know what? I mean, so that's what I would say. Um human reason is not reliable. Um I mean formal formal logic and some narrow formal sense might be true Uh, or tau tautology tautology tautologous or something Uh But that doesn't necessarily mean that us using it in a larger derivation that involves our own biases is not going to screw us up um, additionally Even formal logic itself and even like human reason in its purest form might not necessarily be a replica of How the universe works? That's another big issue, right? And that's possible as well either way. Yeah, we we still got to try as hard as we can to find truth That's not contradictory, right? I'm not putting up my hands and saying oh screw it. Oh, we can't do anything No, we we have to we have to approach truth. It's similar to what I said about like, um, like, uh, You know, you'll never live off the grid But you got to get as close as you can and it's like a function that approaches that value But it never quite gets there But as you you know as time goes on you're gonna get closer and closer and closer You're just incrementally moving closer and it's sort of similar in truth. I think um, you can never really get there Because I think the human mind is not a perfect replica of reality However, you can get closer and closer and you can constantly test your assumptions and things like that So that's what I would say. Uh, this is actually half of his email. He probably goes on to that a little bit more Uh, for example, you complain about christian apologetics along these same lines. Um, but if not rationally And not the fact that it's heckin based what justifies our belief in christianity Can you say something about intuition divine revelation? I mean, yeah So like that that's what intuition divine revelation things like divine revelation is supposed to be, you know, a a um Something that we can use as a basis as a premise That avoids that right? So if you are someone who um Yeah, so I mean that's that's an example of a premise that we can rely on right? um supposing you believe In god supposing you believe in divine revelation that works as a premise in your system, right? um and intuition in the same way like intuition like when I did that podcast episode on like um When you're too rational to be rational on the gerd gigarans are both the rationality for mortals and I talked about heuristics and biases like intuition is good in that like it's kind of um It's kind of like ecologically calibrated to reality or maybe evolutionarily calibrated to reality While um our own reason might not be right? So we might reach bad conclusions. Um But I don't see how this lets you make Make decisions about more intricate details e.g about whether catholicism or orthodoxy. No, no well when it comes to okay So if you if you have no, that's actually the domain where you do have the the ability Well, like if you have already assented to some priors Um about the existence of god or divine revelation or something like that. Yeah, you can use reason to Adjudicate disputes, right? You at the same time you have to be very clear about your reason. Am I deceiving myself? Like if you're a catholic apologist, you know, of course I believe that catholic apologists deceive themselves all the time because what they'll do is they'll look at the past They'll look at you know some writing. Oh Here is some guy who said uh, wow look Oh, the roman pontiff is the greatest the most important and some you know honorific Letter that he was writing him and of course in their coat mine They will be like, oh my goodness. This is proof of Petrine supremacy and the doctrine of the papacy and all this kind of stuff Look at all the complimentary things that people said about Rome in this letter or something like that That's how that's exactly how it works. That's exactly what i'm talking about Like my view of of catholics. I mean the reason Um, I think the catholics are so wrong about this is they are so They fall prey so easily this kind of self deception Especially in quote mines when it comes to historical stuff. Whereas if you take if you step back and look at it You will be led to the orthodox Interpretation of ecclesiology and stuff like this where you realize. Oh, no. Um, that's that's just not how it works like I don't know. So that is exactly the domain. Um, you know, once you're on a common setting of uh, Premises you can start you can use reason to assess things But you have to always as an intellectually honest person you have to always be Thinking in the back of your mind. Okay. Why why should this be true? Right? Am I actually fooling myself in in in saying this? Am I deceiving myself? Are my passions getting in the way? Are are the things that I want to be true? Are they getting in the way of what actually is true? Right? And I mean there was a period where I was seriously looking into Catholicism and Stuff like that and I I feel like I fell for that kind of stuff Or really I I did fall for that kind of stuff some but I think it was mostly just I hadn't really thought of orthodoxy as an option I think that's usually the case because when people really look at it. They're like, oh, yeah, it's right. Yeah It's kind of an easy It's often a very easy choice to make So I really need to figure out the donation thing because it's working But people seem to think it's like not giving them confirms or something So Harris says thoughts on using paper versus digital files for things like notes receipts invoices, etc I actually use I actually think that digital files are harder to find and easier to lose At least on windows that can be the case. Um, I only have a couple like paper archive. Okay. I need I need to like move my webcam This is like My sitting position is causing testicular pain. That's all I can say Um, I'm gonna move this a little closer move. Why do I have two bibles right here? Both real bibles king jane bibles I'm gonna move this a little over here Just so I can recline Wow, I've only had fancy things hanging off the ceiling like everyone else Like channels that are a tenth of my size that buy that stuff I should do that now now. That's like super dark Now let's see. I'm gonna do my my video editing here my uh Change the exposure again Change the exposure, uh Is it up or down? I forget Uh, it's too light or maybe it's not too light. Maybe that looks that doesn't look bad That looks bad even though it's like way more exposed. Okay. Now, but now this area looks dark Uh, whatever. Um, yeah, so I I only back up a couple things on paper. Not that much Um Yeah, I haven't really I I haven't really seriously thought about backing up that much. Um now I do I do have some things backed up on like, uh No, no, I wouldn't even say that like I don't have analog technology backed up But there is a lot of analog stuff that are back up digitally, but you know, that's not saying that much I do keep papers of like important like I want to say in a super secret place I have like my GPG key like printed out on four pages of paper and like hidden different locations, which Hypothetically if I lost it I could recover it that way Which is like that's like too. I just make a new GPG key. You know what I mean? That's almost but I would I would have some things I need to Decrypt with that old one So let's see He has the lunax keycap. Yeah, I do have lunax keycaps How is no fat band easy? It is so easy not to coom. It is so any of these guys saying, uh, well, okay, I'll tell people um I tell people uh, usually my rule of thumb is Uh, when you guys you need to stop cooming right now, obviously Stopping porn is even easier, but um stopping porn is something you can just like do like at any point in time Cooming I think is more difficult to overcome. However What I usually tell people is after two months. It's all downhill. It will not be an issue whatsoever You're not even going to be tempted to like you're going to be like, I'm not going to worry about this whatsoever um Is west virginia the best state to go live in a shack in the woods probably so because it's mountainous And like it's obscure like there are mountainous places out northwest But it's like a very tight mountainous area. It's it's it's different It's like it's not like this impassable mountains like you can get out west Um, although they're a nice place. I'm sure there are nice places there I think west virginia is pretty good and also nowadays. It's very cheap because it's like economically so bad It's probably pretty easy to buy stuff on the cheap um Not cooming is a game changer. Yeah, I mean A lot of people think it like gives you super power. Well, I will say this this goes for any vice you have Whether it's cooming whatever Um, you will not feel like a superhero. You're not going to feel like oh, I'm just gonna I have like psychic powers now that I don't coom um, but I'm not specifically talking about cooming here But like any of these other things were like, oh, I'm not going to drink soda or something You will really you're not going to feel that different. It's not it's going to happen gradually Okay, you're not going to like all of a sudden feel like oh my goodness I feel so great But then you'll like drink some soda and then you'll like when I don't you'll feel awful You'll be like, oh my goodness. This stuff is terrible. I don't know how people do it And you'll be aware of how it affects your body. That's how I would explain I think the same is for cooming. I've never relapsed There I don't plan on it Being orthodox, what's your view on catholic saints and miracles? For example, padra pio st francis and phatima. Do you think they're all null and void just uh for being catholic? I think that they're most like cat. I feel like a lot of catholic alleged miracles are kind of historionics probably and like just like folk like kind of I don't know like I don't really like the possibility of miracles happening for catholics or Protestants Or hypothetically even people who aren't not only christian who might be like some kind of other Religion that leads them in the right way Like I'm not against that entirely I think it's possible, but I would say that like most of the catholic Tradition of miracles, especially in the modern world or there's some crazy stuff there and I don't want to lean credence to that um I mean the orthodox kind of have a different view of miracles were um and other things like the veneration of Of of of like um antiques. What's the word I'm looking for like? What's the word I'm looking for like old things of saints uh You know the word you're you're screaming at the screen. I I feel like the orthodox they're more like um They're not they maybe care less I mean miracles happen like every orthodox church I've been to like people talk about the miracles that have happened in their life and People who have been cured of this and that or the other and they're much more extreme than I've ever seen uh in terms of like the the I don't know unexpected things that happen Um, but they're not like I don't feel like it's a kind of a showy thing I feel also that although, you know, you look at uh Oh, man. Sorry. Who knows it's starting to itch Um, I just feel like the difference is there's a difference in again the orthodox are are strong on like not being too Uh given to passions and I feel like a lot of catholics I I feel like a lot of their alleged miracles are much more likely to be the result of kind of mass hysteria and but I don't rule out the possibility of miraculous event happening Uh, but I don't have opinion on specific events Obviously things like fadema for example presupposes the correctness of catholic doctrine Um, because I want to say what is it? So Yeah, yeah, I want to well actually theoretically I guess the three prophecies of fadema. They couldn't be consistent with orthodox teaching, right? Uh, three secrets of fadema. I guess I forget which ones they are because it's like, uh, oh I'm trying to remember what they are I don't whatever who cares. I don't have an opinion on specific, uh, alleged miraculous events I don't really you know, whatever What are passions? I mean passions are just like So what's the word passion mean in latin? Okay It comes from You know the infinitive poppy, which means like to suffer or to undergo doesn't mean suffering like painful suffering, but it means like Um, something is being done on you. Okay, so a passion is basically Um, it's when you are not the agent. It's when someone else is the agent It might be your physical body that is taking over so like you might Gluttony can be a passion or or hunger is a passion, right or lust is a passion now lust Like sexual impulses can be used for good or they can be used for bad either way It's a passion and if you're letting a passion do what it wants. It is often morally ambiguous It's going to do whatever and more often than not. It's going to be directed to something that's bad, right? So, uh, when I say passion in that sense, it means like someone who's passionate in the the historical sense is someone who is Kind of an agent who's just laid back and they're letting their body take control or they're letting demonic forces or the influences of others They're letting them manipulate them. They're not sitting down thinking about things Prayerfully considering things. They're they're just I don't know. They're they're like sock puppets. Okay So that is what a passion is right? So when I look at a lot of this catholic stuff I don't really see I I I I don't know. I kind of feel like it's more on the verge of Mass hysteria and things like that and you know Protestants, of course Protestants the thing that's most worrisome about them when it comes to the passions is that they like When people arriving on the floor in a Pentecostal church, they're not like, oh, this is someone who's I don't know having an episode Uh, this is someone who oh wow the Holy Spirit is speaking through them Which is something that has uh extreme potentials for blasphemy Saying that like that's the thing that's most Worrisome about how some Protestants work because they think of emotion is like, oh, it's a good thing. Wow Look, I'm being like emotionally manipulated by spirits. Wow. That's a good thing. That's like Exactly the opposite of how the orthodox look at things and like if you read how the early church functions Um, like yeah, the Holy Spirit this descends on people, but they're not writhing on the floor They're not like, uh, they're not hysterical and things like that. It's it is something that is Um, you know or Protestants will read that into it because that's what they want to believe You know what I mean? They want to think it's like Pentecostals speaking in tongue kind of stuff But um, anyway, so that's what the passions are. All right Yeah, it's chasing dopamine all right um Check um, you know, I've only I'm offended. I've only gotten one Monero domination Uh, maybe I should check out and make sure that this thing is working. Why did that go through? Okay Okay, I'm getting a little tired getting a little tired See if there's anything in the chat Luke, how is your credit utilization? So I would say Let me just let me do some math low because I have a lot of credit cards. So I would say, um I'm just to tell you my finances. I probably have around like 75 thousand dollars in credit I think And I would probably say I'm using like maybe one thousand dollars and that's just on a card that's like just using for the Well, I I opened uh to pump and dump for the intro offer and I'm just waiting to the for the zero percent ap r to you know In so I can pay it off because I don't want to I'm I'm going to pay it as late as possible. So I would probably say that um So I I'm pretty low utilization. I again, I used to pay everything off all the time Instantly now I just pay off before interest is going to happen So I just uh let balances accrue on cards that you know have a zero ap r Oh, well, that's not including my business for Lindy press Lindy presses credit utilization is something like 80 percent right now But you know, that's not part of my score. So I don't care about it. Um, theoretically, I'll pay it down before Before I need to apply for another credit card there. I don't know Does your business actually have like a separate credit score? I I guess it does, but I don't have access to it Stefan Mullen you gets triggered if he gets 50 cent donations I mean they're like the thing is Now I'm not going to say no to any donation of any size, but I will just say this Out of sheer autism It is annoying when someone donates a low amount 50 cent a dollar Because your payment process processor is going to get a big cut of that You know, or if it's on youtube, it's even worse like if if you donate one dollar to me on youtube I will basically not get it. Okay, because youtube's fees are like so It's the same thing on freaking. I remember getting a PayPal donation from a guy It was one dollar and it was in some other currency. It was like some Latin American currency and I literally got zero cents of it because after the conversion fee and the paypal fee It was like congrats. You've got money and it's like here's the money You got zero dollars because the fee was one dollar. It's like dude. Why even waste it That's that's the only reason people complain about one dollar donations. Like it's I don't know I just what what I really should do I kind of I I'm too egalitarian when it comes to donations because a lot of times I will treat I've been treating like the ten dollar donations the same as the one dollar donations In fact, I haven't even read the amounts out here. So what I should do is I say Yeah, I'll start this next time. I'll write it like if you give me a one dog If you give me a I don't I think my minimum is like three dollars or maybe five dollars If you give me a five dollar donation, you're entitled to like one minute of me talking If you give me a ten dollar you get more, you know, it scales up, right? So So that that's the reason people complain about because it's annoying Now if you donate Monero Great, send in one dollar send in 50 cents whatever because transaction fees are so freaking low Uh, I will happily take any amount and donate in Monero, and I will never complain. Um So Anyway, uh Yeah, rub hands He didn't answer the anime question. I didn't see an anime question. Sorry Oh, jeez dope ten dollars. I gotta get my pills Uh, we should watch that video It'd be hard to pull up an obs I should I should have a I already should have that. Okay. Does anyone remember when I was before? Uh, back when I lived in that apartment years ago I used to have this whole format where I would like For doing streams and watching videos I would have like the video pull up here and then I'd have the full everything was auto generated It would like generate the the title of the video and even create a qr code for its like, um For its url if someone wants to scan it that was like how tryhard I was back there Or really I just was experimenting with scripting stuff that would appear in obs So I'm gonna see what's up with the donation portal Sorry about everyone who is confused, but your donations should have they did go through and I did see them. So Unless there's someone else who's gonna say Um, yeah, I don't I don't know what I accidentally I don't know if I changed something about that or what It's you know, oh, it's probably the email. Oh, hold on. Oh, yeah, I think I know what the issue is. Maybe Maybe All right, let's do some tech support right now Do some tech support right now, um, and then what is the password here? It's that um, and then over here We will go to uh, what is it? Yeah fospe fospe Wow luke every time you do a stream you you have to like, um Through tech support I mean, this is a technology channel right guys. This is this is what people come for Right. Am I right? Am I heckin right arena? Oh, no Yeah, that's probably it Yeah, that's probably it isn't it Maybe Maybe maybe okay right port there Let's restart fospe I don't know if that's it I'll have to check it. I'll have to check it later Um The laptops are not good for the laps. Yeah, they do they do uh radio your testicles notice notice That's why I have it on my leg and not my lap I am hyper paranoid about neutering myself by having a laptop like this imagine imagine doing this Imagine taking hot showers and sterilizing yourself every day Yeah, my don't worry. It's nowhere close Now we're close So I think things are winding down. Uh, or at least I'm winding down. I'm tired Oh, but I closed out of firefox. I gotta pull that back up so I can actually end the stream okay, so That this is about the end. I'm gonna go You know double check the donation portals make sure everything's working And uh, thanks for everyone for stopping by Thankfully most americans at least are off of work today so We can uh, I don't know maybe I should do Livestreams during people's work because that's like based in redfield if I'm like I'm we're raising raging up against Rising up against the way do you get an epidemic? Um, okay, where is that thingy? all right Yeah, see you guys, um Yeah, I'm tired then I stream for another hour. Yeah, that's actually typical, but Now I'm actually hungry We need to go eat so um Okay, I don't I've never developed a way to end my streams other than I'm just gonna end up That's usually how I end my videos. So I'm gonna I'm gonna just say I'm gonna end this or I'll end it on this side So it's a cleaner shut down