 Okay, I think we're going through. I figured I'd do yet another live stream now that I have internet I suppose on the days where I don't have anything to do at the end of the day I might as well do a live stream or at least till I get sick of it So I want to say I've done like three three in the past two weeks or so, so Let me see okay, so once again, we'll do it like last time. We'll just talk about whatever I don't particularly have anything big to talk about in this one other than minor details things I'm working on not related other things like that I will go. Let me put it in the chat So those of you who are Monero users you can now donate with Monero Well, you've always been able to do that, but now you can actually you know like Get a super chat. It'll pop up on the screen and stuff. So Link is XMR.LukeSmith.XYZ which I just posted in the chat Maybe I will actually pin it just for the record because I don't want to make you guys use fake Fragulent federal reserve notes to donate might as well use fake internet money instead, you know Okay, so and temporarily I have I Have the oh shoot it doesn't automatically make that a URL I turned off slow chat so you can talk about however much you want but once the chat gets too big I'm gonna turn back on slow chat Okay All right, so first things first a next episode of not well firstly we that episode or not related that I did last week on BS jobs, where's that book did I already put it on the shelf? I don't even know It's probably over there But it was actually bizarrely popular for an episode of not related because usually when I put out a not related episode which of course You know, I guess I started it back in 2018 the podcast Website is not related dot XYZ by the way, but I'm pretty sure now Man if 2018 that seems like a long time ago But every time I posted a video of it on my YouTube channel, right? I never expected to get that many views from it You know, it's always had like a hardcore smaller audience but the last the last episode I did was like pretty popular in terms of How many people watched it and how much I'm just looking at the YouTube metrics Which you can't necessarily I mean it gets more views than some of the other not related episodes But I was surprised how many like new people it reached so It definitely resonates with people the concept of having a fake job, right? because everyone everyone in the world nowadays has Worked some kind of job that you just know why am I doing this? This is so pointless, right? Most of them are but you know, that's just how it is Let's see, I don't know if there's not many people here today. I think it might just be because of the Time I'm doing it. I guess Europeans are kind of asleep ABC DEF says can I Venmo you? Yeah, you actually can my email address is luke at luke smith.x yz Let's see. I thought I just Rudy Hill says how long we've been going. No, I just started Million years ago. I did a stream with Rudy. I don't actually know if he's Still making videos or anything Not lagging actually in sync. What is this? Yeah, it's crazy Of course the bandwidth I have noticed Starlink, you know, obviously I can stream 720p But the bandwidth isn't 100% consistent, right? So I will there will be times during the stream where it kind of you know, it'll judder jitter whatever it is So jitter stutter judder But you know, I could deal with that so So donation from Tyler Luke I came for the tech calm content years ago But your life advice and ranks really inspired me to improve a lot boomer ants are not related or actually my favorite pieces Well, that's that's good. Yeah, weirdly enough I do fewer boomer ants than I did that used to be the easiest video to make because I just got my phone and went outside But in my opinion, I mean you guys know me if you've been on the channel for a while I always feel bad at repeating crap over and over and over again and You know one thing about YouTube and I've complained about this before this is just how it is People always want novelty. They always want the same stuff over and over again Well, that's the opposite of novelty, but they want things that you just did, you know I mean, that's what the YouTube algorithm wants and As far as I'm concerned most of the boomer ants like I've kind of gotten them out of my system So I don't feel like I need to do them over and over again I will say there are so many YouTube channels including those that are close to me in terms of topics That will do the same stuff over and over again I just can't do that like I have thought about redoing in terms not in terms of rants, but in terms of tutorials redoing a LaTeX series Because really nowadays, I don't even use LaTeX. I use ZeL LaTeX, which I mean basically it's the same thing basically But it's better for handling Unicode characters and that's what I use for the Lindy press books Which by the way, I got one in the mail today. I actually didn't make a cover for this the secret of secrets I think I mentioned this but I just got out. I've already found a couple errors and I think the text is too big I'm gonna shrink down the text. I'm using 12-point font and when you're using 12-point font is just too big for things Like it's it's like school paper tier if you put it in a book. It just looks like too too big So that'll cut like, you know 10 20 pages off of this if I put it down to 11 point But was I saying yeah, so I'm actually gonna do a couple tutorials I plan within the next week I might actually do I might not do a LaTeX tutorial, but I might go through how I make the books on Lindy press and how I do that Just to show my workflow or really when I'm digitizing text or when I'm taking a text that's been clumsily digitized How do I fix that up right and it's mostly using Vim? Although of course, you know, I'm writing in LaTeX so that that's relevant there So I will do some things in LaTeX, but most of it is actually Vim magic There's a lot of that stuff So I think about if I think of a particular issue to do a video on there I might another thing is I kind of want to do a video on LF which I've been using that, you know That's the file manager. It's basically like Ranger, but it's better because it's not written in freaking Python it's written in Go and Actually just yesterday I think I finally pushed the changes to get image previews in LF Which theoretically I could have done within the past year or two, but it was kind of hacky But eventually like just in the past week. I got some emails about it. So it's like screw it Because it is doable Okay, let's see So the bottleneck, I sort of feel like the is my video delayed. It looks kind of delayed on my side You know, I'm actually move it up. Weirdly enough the bottleneck for me in live streaming is not actually the bandwidth now It's my CPU, you know, I think I mentioned this on the I really need to get like a Capture card and maybe use another machine to stream, but it's always me doing everything on the same computer, you know But it used to be whenever I did live streams I would just complain about doing live streams the entire time I did them because it's so difficult I don't know. I know that there's streamers who do it every day like it's nothing, but Luke have you completed the by glottic version of meditations yet? If so, when will it be listed on lindy press? I mean, I was working on it. I that's kind of low priority for me Because like there are other by glottic texts that I think are more important to do that are more like scholar I mean like meditations is basically just You know guys reflections. It's not like too philosophical. I mean, it's philosophical in the kind of normie sense of the word But it's like the hardcore terminology. You don't necessarily need the native language for that So yeah, I did say that I might do that and might do that later, but there are other things I want to do first So another option actually, you know, I could just do a still picture Livestream or I'm already I don't forget my FPS that I'm streaming in I want to say I'm streaming at like 20 FPS or something I forget And I was just like, oh, I want to cut down on bandwidth or whatever Shoot, okay. What was I gonna change? I'm gonna turn off this freaking background thing because that actually weirdly enough I mean you probably noticed that the background image is like slowly moving I'm gonna pause that. I'm just gonna disable that. Oh, no, I don't like it. I'm not gonna turn it off I'm gonna let it go and I'm just gonna pause it Where's the pause button? Because you know, it's funny how data storage works, but you know if you have like minor pixels just slightly moving around That actually is extremely. I don't know that that takes a lot more bandwidth than you expect So I'm just gonna freeze the background and we'll go with that. Let me check donations So again donate with XMR if you have it Of course, you know, you can go to donate.luxmit.xyz It's all in the the freakin. Oh, it's probably on the side of my yeah, whatever Okay, let me read the chat George says gardening channel recommendations. How much of your own food do you produce right now? None basically I mean during the like later in the year, I'll be growing you know tomatoes and potatoes and sweep this year I really want to do sweet potatoes and I want to grow enough that I don't have to worry about it and then Certain types of tomatoes. I think I talked about on the other stream like San Marzano I just love those freakin tomatoes and I'm gonna grow some And then some other things and I'm actually getting chickens this year. My brother said he's gonna get me freaking chickens Have you considered raising your X264 preset to something faster now that you have more upload I don't really have more upload Well, okay, I'm not using FFM peg if that's I'm using whatever OBS is using which I'm not sure what the default is I haven't really screwed with their settings that much but Yeah, I still feel like I have a big bottleneck and upload like it's not it's not quite consistent enough I mean if I'm streaming off my phone I can stream 1080p no problem if I'm gonna place with good with good reception and my internet here is good I mean, it's good for uploading videos. It's good for like watching stuff and consuming product and downloading big things But when you're doing a live stream where if every five seconds if you don't have a constant connection You'll it'll kind of jitter or something. That's kind of an issue And there's nothing much I can do about that other than soy link has to get better Or I guess I could I could probably yeah I need to like have a permanent mount for it because I'm basically putting it outside every day and then taking it in When I could have bed, which is kind of funny, but at least it's convenient enough that you can do that Let's see Okay, are we back? Are we back? Tell me if we're back If you see me say buttercups Buttercups is the secret word put it in the chat if you can see me. I want to see buttercups in the chat It's gonna take a second Yeah, but okay great people see it I don't have to log on to YouTube to do all that stuff So I forgot the real problem. I found the culprit the other day I I'm pretty sure the real cold culprit is freaking pulse audio and or pipe wire and I forgot to stream correctly I have to kill pipe wire pulse audio Because the audio will take it that that was the issue last time I totally forgot about that So that's just what I did All right, so let's see now What's that last comment that I got? I think it was just someone talking about that. Yeah, someone just said Yeah, you got to your frozen Okay, actually now that I'm gonna move to my bigger screen since I think that's the issue with the Okay, all righty much better hopefully much better Buttercups was my MK ultra go code is it I hope you don't shoot anyone Thoughts on Nietzsche's critique of Christianity e.g. compassion being equivalent to people just having Value as a cog in the system. I don't know. That's not how I interpret his writings on Christianity Which I think a lot of people a lot of people think that Nietzsche is more anti Christianity than he actually was Like he was more like anti I mean when he talked about Christianity what he was really talking about like was modern European liberalism Which he viewed as being a function of Christianity because it was like it was modeled off of a Christianity without God, right? So most of the stuff he says that people interpret as being against Christianity It's not really about Christ or his teachings or or anything specific other than you know some vacuous idea that You know when Europe became cucked It was because of Christianity like it was like a super slow burn like a thousand years after becoming Christian then things go bad or something Thoughts on barefoot shoes, uh, what do you mean barefoot shoes? There's no such thing as a barefoot shoe go barefoot Leaders need a Terence McKenna style awakening. Oh cringe Please lower your bit rate. Oh, yeah, that's what I should actually do. I forgot. Yeah, I'm at some extreme bit rate That's what it was What's a good bit rate for a 720p stream put that in the chat and I will change it Because I remember yeah, YouTube was like you're you're uploading at a pretty high bit rate But let's see 720p Do you like Bert Bertzum's Dungeon Synth or black metal I saw you had a folder in one MP MP NC MP CPP video Yes, I do have Bert's own like all the songs, but I don't like the black metal crap He's more recent stuff is much better where it's just it's more like ambient kind of sound ambient ambient music is usually trashed but 2k 200 okay. All right. Maybe I'll try that. That's like half of what I have. I'm pretty sure there was some Okay Let's see We'll try that. We'll try a lower bit rate because it looks like most people said Where's the friggin menu? Bit rate bit rate. Well the delay Yeah, you can't just click on it. Okay, anyway Luke I've donated through your website. Did you get my donation? I donated a $1 in accident But you can keep If you donate a $1, I think my website automatically filters out low donations I want to say the minimum is like either $3 or $5. I forget so I don't know if it gave you a confirmation Message and that's an error because it doesn't go through if it's lower than that And I think the lowest on I forget what the low money or donation is, but it'll tell you Have you seen Dan Olson's video on crypto and NFTs? He has a very black pill take on both and would prefer to kill off the blockchain tech as whole Dan Olson I don't know that maybe I've seen that video. I don't know Depends on what his take is it might be stupid. It might be I mean, there's definitely a lot of dangerous crap when it comes to blockchain like most crypto currencies are Basically people trying to harm the world. I mean in one way or another like that, you know Just creating monitoring technologies and like unnecessary digitization Okay, I'm gonna lower that bit rate while I try and look up that video Okay, what do we decide stream? I forgot what we decided because I need to find the right Why is this so hard? Oh, here it is for output. I don't think I can change it while I'm streaming I might if I take a break, I will stop it and I will change the bit rate Actually, I can go ahead and change that. I think yeah Okay, we'll do that. I don't think that's gonna make a difference until I reset Yeah, I think I saw this video recommended like the problem with NFTs I mean if it's in my NFTs who cares who cares about NFTs like people criticizing them I mean the thing with in the thing with NFTs is Theoretically, it's interesting technology, but no one has found a good use for it So people are just throwing money at stupid things just as a joke What is the software you use for Monero donations, I mentioned that in the other video It's a thing that a guy wrote. It's actually on my github. If you go to my github and look up shadow chat It's not originally written by me, but it's a good ghost script where you can have a View key on a server and it'll monitor the blockchain and when you get a donation It'll send you a notification. It's if people have don't I don't think anyone has donated XR this time, but you should get a notification below like there should be a thing in the livestream saying oh Billy donated this much Or something like that Look, uh shoot a mic Okay I'm gonna briefly stop the screen and start it up with that lower bit. Okay. Should it be back? I think I'm back Yeah, it looks like I'm back If you can see if I I don't know Do you have a sensor button? What was that? Let's see if you guys can see me just say so say I don't know. What's another word? say Guitar type guitar in the chat if you can see me because I don't want to get back on YouTube and see if it's actually working Will you ever take nano as a crypto it's really interesting technology while not as private as XMR I really enjoyed I'm familiar with nano and I'm familiar with what is it the block lattice stuff? I'm not totally sold on it, but I think it's a Like Monero obviously has technology that you need for privacy and stuff like that and I think what it lacks is In general what all proof-of-work currencies lack and that is some like not having to use a blockchain, right? And so I know Natus Natus Nano has this lattice block lattice thingy which is more I Don't know we don't have to worry about the same problem, but it's it's kind of proof of stake And it has some other things that I'm not sold on but I don't think I'll ever accept it I mean, I'm gonna stick with Monero and Bitcoin anything else I just don't I don't trust and I want to deal with it. I don't want to have to you know Just don't not interested I feel like my computer is running sluggish again. I even though I killed Pipe wire It's worrisome worrisome guys It's weird because I feel like the last stream I did was pretty consistent I'm gonna turn we'll just turn that off. We'll just have a black background nice and simple and maybe you know I should just get like one of those Soy-tacular pixelated avatars or like some kind of furry image to use for my face Instead of this then I wouldn't have to worry about people complaining about their being lag because it would just be still, right? I One one thing that I need on my channel is I need a new profile picture, right? Because I hate the profile picture. I've had I've hated every profile picture I had And I actually told I actually told people in my real life that I know in real life And I was like if you ever get a candid photo of me that I can use this like a YouTube Profile picture or something. I'll just straight give you $100 like if you because it's gonna be worth More than $100 for me. I just kind of wish I wish I would have that Yeah, you know what I mean by furry images, right? Because they're all these youtubers We're like their commentary tracks It won't be like me when I'm like walking around or like talking at the camera What they'll do is they'll have like this furry You know usually some kind of animal or something else and it will they'll just have like five expressions You know exactly what I'm talking about mind you. They'll just be like five expressions. It'll be like I'm a contemplative furry or here's oh, I'm an excited furry or all I'm like You know and so they'll flip from the different pictures and they'll do like a narration of something and that's that's video editing Which even that much video editing is too much too difficult V-tube yeah V-tube I I think I know what that is. That's when That that's when there's like some kind of a there's I don't know. There's a moving picture Where it's talking I've seen crap like that. Think Pat is overheating with video encoding. Yeah I mean that is what it is Although the thing is it shouldn't really be What am I even freaking encoding with I thought I like deliberately decided. Oh Shoot, maybe I'm using the vapy thing the Voppy. I don't even VA API Theoretically that's supposed to make it easier for you, but I maybe it's not Maybe it's not Voppy codec Yeah Yeah, I have no idea. I'm I'm basically I'm doing the best I can Do the best I can Video seems really smooth if it's smooth to you. That's great Because on me like my computer is just running slow, so maybe I should complain about it I shouldn't you know, I shouldn't if I were a good e-celebrity I wouldn't spend all my live streams complaining about how difficult it is the live stream Let's actually talk about something else Shoot Use an anime picture instead I could do that turn on X 264 preset on fastest I mean it is that no BS setting because I know that's an ffm peg setting I don't really know where how OBS freaking works if it is a graphical program. I don't know how to use it That's my eternal problem That is my absolutely eternal problem. So All right Talk about Brandon's gas prices. Yeah, actually, you know what? I will say I will say this on gas prices Usually and I still endorse this but I will just say it's very funny when I meet a boomer. I like I remember I think it was a little after the election But before the inauguration I was at some gas station gas station and I was filling up or whatever and this boomer Just walks. I don't know why I think I had like an orange boomer hat on or something And so this boomer comes up to me and he wants to be like well Once bun gets in there the gas prices. They're gonna be so high and I have always felt like Gas prices are the stupidest thing that boomers complain about because listen your country is being Destroyed from the inside out like it, you know the amount of social and spiritual Corruption going on on in this world. I mean, it's just horrific and for someone to be like well I'm voting against the Democrats because like They're gonna be hot gas. That's the reason like of all the reasons It's gonna be for gas. That is the stupidest thing in the world It's that's such a boomer take because it's a boomer who doesn't want to stand up for anything That's actually important. So they're gonna stand up for this kind of notional. Oh, it's an inconvenience. It is an inconvenience to pay Uh to pay money like for gas it is a pain, but you know, that's how it is um But what was I gonna say? Oh, yeah, I will say today. I was actually gonna drive to a town You know around here. There are no towns around right? So there's no city within 20 miles of me. I don't know maybe a little less But uh, I wanted to go to the grocery store today and so Where you know, how I was going the the direction I was going to the town I was going to I was going through a really small town first and then I was getting to a bigger town that would have bigger grocery stores, right? so I was driving through And then like I saw a gas station and I guess it's the first time in a couple weeks that I've seen gas prices Or I don't know maybe at least take a note of them and around here. They were like lower, you know, maybe three 20 or something Uh, you know a couple weeks ago, but I passed by this gas station and it's 420 And I'm just like how did it go up that fast? And at that point I was like, you know screw it. I'm not going to that grocery store I just pulled into like a like a basically a dollar store kind of place and got groceries and that was it But um Got some got an xmr donation from christianity is cringe who says islam is based. Whoa cringe um Brandon's gas prices are benefiting me. I own oil stocks. Well, that's great But yeah, and I should uh, I feel like in the past year Well for most of my life, I have been so anti-car like I've always hated driving. I hate driving any amount and like It's only been in the last year or so that I've actually driven about as much as a normie drives But I feel like I need to cut back down on it now that it's so expensive Rudy says I would pay six dollars a gallon if it meant satan wasn't swallowing up the world Yeah, that's exactly that's what exactly what I say to people when this happens It's like, please let me pay 40 dollars a gallon for gas if I can live in a sane society You know it's like Into them, you know, if it were if an either or question Would they accept the social subversion? For cheaper gas, that's what I'm wondering, you know, and I think a lot of them frankly would or really it's it's just people being Cowardly like they don't want to stand up for like they can't say, you know Uh, they can't say all the things that I can't say on youtube right now, you know, like they can't say sensible things, right? We'll just say that Uh, so, you know, they they got to say gas prices. Oh gas prices. Screw that, man You know liberals back in the day. So, you know, liberal social science Sciences, you know, they're very funny like because sometimes I mean firstly a lot of social sciences, of course, their methodology and everything is is so Crap and it's it's just them making up studies to get the uh Get the results that they know that are going to come if they give these particular Uh, you know stimulus their response to you, you know, it's it's like people producing studies for propagandistic reasons Okay, that that's basically how it is So like and and some of the concepts of leftist academia, especially the social sciences That's what i'm thinking of here have filtered in have filtered into mainstream culture So now these people will talk about, you know, white supremacy. That's a concept now They they've mean that into existence people unironically use that word now people everyone laughs at but people still use that word, right? Um But you know one example way back in the day They have this other concept and it it didn't become popular enough, but it's called uh, what was it called? um symbolic racism symbolic racism So the concept of symbolic racism in leftist academia back in, you know, the 70s 80s I'm not quite or maybe even the 60s What symbolic racism is is the concept that of course my political enemies. They're all racists by definition, obviously Um, and if they have any motivations that are not racial Um, there must be like some racial into it, right? So Wanting low gas prices in a liberals brain. That would be racist. That's symbolic racism, right? Because It arguably for the same reason that I just said like boom boomers are cowardly They're not going to say anything based in red pilled about, you know race or Gender or any of that kind of stuff. They're not going to do that because they're pansies like they're not going to do it But they will complain to know in about gas prices or like the classic issues back in the 60s that were kind of like racial, right? So um You know, they're in america. I guess europeans might not be familiar with this But in america, there's this really weird time in the 60s Where I don't know what exactly was the justification or the reason for this But a lot of cities decided here's what we're going to do There are white kids in our cities that usually live in these places and there are black kids in these other places And just for lulls We are going to bust some white kids into the black sections and we're going to bust Black kids into the the black or we're going to switch them up a little bit, right? So we're going to send send white kids to black schools and black kids to white schools Now why was that? Okay, it was Universally unpopular everyone hated it because it's like kids are going to these schools with kids They don't know who aren't like them. You know, it's not fun for anyone. Everyone hated it. It was universally hated Right, but it was one of those things that liberals tried to mean so hard But you know for any same person they're like, this is just stupid like what why it'd be weird enough to you know Ship your kid to some other place for some weird, you know For them to actually be near someone that they were like but to do the exact opposite It literally just looks like trolling, you know Either way, this is an example in in the academics of the the era This is what they call symbolic racism because it's like, oh, you know Oh, well, you know, they can't be overtly racist about something. So they're just saying, oh, well Why should the government do that? But it's really secretly. They just don't like other people. Oh my goodness, right? It's just the stupidest thing Getting a little based on the stream here. No, we're not really getting based. This is just like normal normal stuff. Um Uh extra mundane since and five dollars. Hey luke long time zoomer watch or switch to your larbs two years ago And I haven't looked back since I was wondering what your hot take on Protestantism is you seem to really Uh favor more catholic or orthodox denominations from what I've seen what makes Protestantism pale in comparison raised non-denominational By the way, uh, well the thing with like Protestantism is really just like a heretical sect of Catholicism. I mean, it's like you know The the the complaints that I've had about the Catholic church and other streams like how they perceive how doctrine advances or develops Right the orthodox is like, okay Catholics. They're too liberal in terms of they systematize theology too much and it got to the point in the 1415 hundreds where things got so extreme that Basically Protestantism really begins as the exact exact opposite of it. We're just they basically throw away all theology They throw away all tradition all church tradition Except for the tradition of what scriptures they consider legitimate um, and they create this religion that is you know, there's there's no Unifying form behind it. There's no there's no there's no form of tradition or anything like that And Protestantism is I mean, I don't really take it that seriously I mean, there are some Protestants who you know, maybe say interesting things Um, but in general it's just a reaction to a strawman Catholicism. That's what I'd probably say And I think once you're more familiar about familiar really with historical Christianity Protestantism is just I you know, kind of Kind of goofy like it's kind of like a debilitated I mean these these guys drink like they don't believe in the Eucharist and they drink grape juice for it You know, it's like what what are you gonna say? like um, I want to say there's like a c.s. Lewis or Or he said it. No, it's not a c.s. Lewis. Yes. Lewis wasn't he Anglican. I forget Maybe it's a chesterton quote where he's like to to Be informed of history is the cease to become Protestant and I think that's like Protestantism you have to remember that um, you can you know orthodoxy Is is primeval basically it goes back to the earliest church and Catholicism for the most part They do they do have that view that we have to add we have to expand doctrine and understand more But in general the practices go back to the early church Protestantism is a culturally dependent Religious model that's basically based on modern american culture. You know what I mean? um, and and and how individuals interpret the bar the the bible Divorced from everything else divorced from how people have you know interpreted it throughout the entirety of the church, right? So that's why you have Protestants who will deviate in so many respects from the rest of christianity, you know, they'll say things like well Uh, you shouldn't baptize children Now Christians for 2,000 years have baptized Baptized children raised in Christian households, right? But you know and the Protestants will develop their own views That kind of over that ignore the entire history of the tradition and therefore the reasons that people do things And in favor of what they they kind of feel, you know, they'll just look at the bible and squint their eyes and say This is kind of how I feel it works, right? So and and most most Protestants out there who are like making arguments for Protestantism They are attacking Catholicism like they're not attacking orthodoxy Or just general, you know unmarked traditional christianity They're attacking like this this straw man of Catholicism And they think that everything else has to be Catholic when that's not the case, you know And you know during during the Reformation there was a period where Lutherans or sometimes I want to say maybe even reformed churches They were in communication with the eastern church But you know, they refused to make some, you know, they basically held the Catholic doctrine, right? Protestants were like no, we accept the filiokoi like the the Catholics and some other things and they refused to You know make concessions and come towards orthodoxy. And so that's where we get the word we have now Um JN Don't ask five dollars modern conservatives are still liberals only christianity is based we take constant and noble and restore The roman empire. All right Yep. Yeah, I would just now we just need to constantine the 12th. That's all that's lacking So, okay, I don't see any more donations So stream still good. I can't actually tell I haven't even looked at uh, um, do you uh, let's see What's your thoughts on adventism and their prop? No, I don't have any thoughts of like seventh day adventism I mean, again, it's just it's just another Protestant sect. I'm not really like interested in it. Um, so like all you know, Protestantism is naturally fragmented because there's nothing unifying it I mean the reason you have a million different denominations and Protestantism is because there's really nothing There is no singular authority or guide For what they're supposed to believe now they'll say it's the bible but I think any any Sensible person realizes that the bible can be interpreted in many different ways, right? So it's not like a really I don't know. Like it's very like Protestants and Catholics and Orthodox can look at, you know, the same passages and interpret it in a different way so Any thoughts on set of vacantism? I mean, I've said set of vacantism is like the only sensible way to um To be a Catholic at this point because you know, you just have You just have people in uh I mean the the popes quote-unquote nowadays just are so different from what the Catholic Church has traditionally taught It's not even an issue. Like if you're a Catholic you have basically Have to be a set of vacantist, you know, that's really all it is Someone's complaining about bots in the chat Man just ignore them Actually, okay, I'll turn on slow chat since you guys are complaining. It's a lot of work A lot of work To click two buttons Well, it's really a lot of work to click two buttons when you have to uh go to YouTube and every single freaking click is like five hours to load Where's the where's the freaking edit thingy? I totally forgot how to do that. Okay. Okay There you go. I hope you're happy All right, what was I saying talking about set of vacantism, but we talk about set of vacantism too much Uh Thoughts about migtel jk. Yeah, everyone asked about migtel and I always give the same opinion. It's stupid Um, do we need friends? Yes, you need friends But internet friends are not friends. So, you know, just go ahead and clarify that one Did you do your duty and get the vax luke? Of course I didn't I'm not I'm not even gonna joke about that because I feel like some people would uh, I don't know um If I said ironically that I got it. I think there are some people who would totally miss it Hey luke, what's your ip? My ip changes all the time Yeah, the funniest one funny thing in videos is when people literally know nothing about tech And you do something You know using an ip address like on a local network like you you know, you have one two seven point zero point zero point one Or something or like some obviously local, you know, 192 168 whatever like some ip address That's a local ip address and I will literally get emails from people saying oh my goodness your ip is out there Which is like Even if your ip leaks it literally means nothing like the worst thing you have to do is like unplug your router And plug it back in and get a new ip address. I mean, I'm not hosting anything for my house. So it really doesn't matter um Weirdly enough, there are actually more people talking now that uh, now that I put slowchat on I guess I guess that's the good of getting rid of spammers or something but um Okay, I don't see any donations I probably should have been a smart person and like actually made that Link that I put up there clickable or is it clickable if I click on that? Yeah, no, it doesn't work Hey luke how many houses did you buy in crypto land? Oh boy Is that video still up? I I think they uh, I don't know. I think Maybe they took that down. It was pretty it was pretty funny Um This guy says are you still planning to make that video about people that can that are only able to think in full sentences? Sounded really interesting to me. Yeah. I mean word cells Right that that became a meme recently and I think it's a great meme. I always used to call them word thinkers you know people for which they can't I don't know. It's hard to explain because I don't think in words There are people who only understand things through language Right, so they can't understand anything unless it's explained to them And they don't understand things unless they can speak them out And they don't really have concepts in their brain aside from words and they think that Like they're their concept. They're usually argument people. They're they like debates right because in their view since language is reality Then if I can get someone in a linguistic whole That means that I I somehow win, you know, it's you know, stuff like that There are kind of people who you might say some passing remark. I mean like I know this on youtube if I might say something dismissive about um, let's say in the last uh, uh podcast episode I I don't remember what specifically but I think I said something dismissive of like and comms or something and there were multiple And comms who obviously a lot of and comms and frankly and caps think like this too. They're kind of word thinkers They they would respond to this passing remark kind of dismissive remark that I'm not I'm obviously not looking for to talk to you about this, but they will respond with this like um I don't know this this this diatribe of word thinking where it's like Here is all these reasons that this should be true and that and blah blah blah And it's like it's not like a good argument in the sense that it would convince someone But it's one of those things where people make an argument so that it kind of looks and it looks good in logical form You know, it looks it. Oh look. Wow. This guy is talking a lot and listing reasons for things and blah blah blah Um now in real life most arguments like that. I mean this this goes in any this is why I don't like talk like a Rational person right because in real life if you're a really rational person You realize that um, you know the main problems with the way people look at issues are not in their reasoning But their prior assumptions, you know their premises like they're um, you know, how you can generalize things Right that that that's really where the problem. The problem isn't in the logic Like it's not that people out there are illogical Right, that's not the issue But a lot of word thinkers have the idea that they are right and that they have this I don't know prior or anyway, but also word thinkers or word cells, right? You know the whole idea where the concept originally came from is the fact that um A lot of times people will divide intelligence into two categories like there's verbal knowledge And then there's spatial or you know verbal reasoning and spatial reasoning, right? So I will give you my opinion and this is also the official opinion of the internet Spatial reasoning is real intelligence. Like you can't fake it. You know, if you're a shape rotator You know, you know, you know that you have spatial reasoning abilities. You can't fake it You can't try really hard to learn more of it. Hey, if you can't imagine things in four dimensions You can't imagine things in four dimensions, right? Um, whereas Verbal reasoning is often just something it's like something culturally dependent And I don't think it really correlates with biological intelligence. Like it doesn't really correlate I mean, I'm sure you could show me some statistics that say there is some relation But I just think it gets confounded with the other category Either way a word cell is someone who Think like they they are a verbal reasoner, right? But they're not really good at spatial reasoning because if they were They wouldn't be so focused on words. They'd be focused on concepts They'd be focused on like unifying principles and things like that And you know, if you're a spatial reasoner If you're an actually intelligent person, right? Usually you spend most of your time Trying to make your thoughts comprehensible to other people That's a struggle and that's a legitimate struggle if you're if your thoughts are more complex than language That's what you do whereas word cells what they do is the opposite They want to seem smart. So they take their simple ideas and make them flowery in language So it oh it sounds complicated blah blah blah blah, you know, it's like it's like Orwell, you know Orwell Um talks about the fact, you know, how annoying it is the degradation of language It not just that it's being stupid, but actually that it's becoming pretentious Because people are beginning to, you know, use words Smarter sounding words just for the purpose of them sounding smart. I think one he talks about is You know a normal human says use A word cell says utilize utilize means the same thing is used It's just like a word that You use to sound smart, right? So if you're a word cell you want to use language to sound smart But if you're actually an intelligent person, you have a complex idea and you want to use language to make it sound stupid To make it seem like to make it so other people can access it, right? um Of course, I will I will say that doesn't necessarily mean that everyone who can't explain what they're thinking is like super intelligent That's not what I mean. You might just be you know, you might need to read more You might need to be more familiar with how to creatively use the English language, right? I mean, I feel like that. I don't I don't feel like it communicate that well Um, but I will say, you know, if you think and if you don't think in words and you have complex thoughts Um, like that's not a bad thing and a lot of people back when people were talking about the npc meme I was a little uncomfortable with it because a lot of people would Uh bully quote-unquote npcs because they don't have internal monologue, right now I like I assume most people can think in words Okay, but I don't have a constant talking to my like I do not think entirely in words That's an ability. It's not like something you always have to do and it's weird when that whole npc meme started A lot of people would look at what you don't have a constant stream of words in your head all the time That's freaking weird. That seems a little I don't know strange to me I feel like that's something that you would learn from tv if you're watching I don't know a tv show where a character is like verbalizing their thoughts I don't feel like that's an actually real thing Imagine being a word processor. Yeah That chair looks insanely comfy. Where can I get one? Yeah, I it just came with the house. I actually really hate this chair I mean, it looks nice. It does look comfy and it does feel comfy. It's awful for using as a desk chair I need I need more air and more ergonomic uh workspace. I have a Let's see. My desk height is terrible. Let's actually see what my desk height is It's just like the worst For me, it's let's see 28 and a half inches. That's how many centimeters is that what that's So that's centimeters. I don't even freaking know that doesn't seem right. It's coming. Okay. Yeah, that is centimeters So that's 68 ish centimeters And then this chair is like super lower Luke do you still have the throwing rock? How large is it? You want me to get the throwing rock rock? I can show you the throwing all right. I'll go get you the throwing rock. This is how I work out um I'm gonna I want to see what you guys are saying about word cells. I'm gonna get the throwing rock Because it's right outside. All right. This is the rock I'm not quite sure How big it is Let me let me look at the picture There it is compared to my head I'm not quite sure how heavy it is But it's good exercise. I don't want to throw it around in here and screw up my floor But uh, yeah, it's a good rock So that's what I use for exercise You just go out, you know, pick it up in the morning walk it around the the yard You know, but above your head. Actually, that's not very safe, right? But uh, you know, just carry it around throw it around when I have guys over I'll be like bra Hey bra, you want to play throw the rock? You want to play throw the rock bra? Play some rock bra So that's what I do Yeah, thanks. Thanks guys. It is a nice rock. I brought the rock From out of state when I found this rock. I was like, I know that this is going to be the rock I found it. Um Actually, no, no, where did I find it? Maybe it's not out of state Oh, okay. So here's where I I actually found it. I found it in Georgia Southern University I went to my brother's um Frat house And it was in the backyard or something like that. I think that's what it was and I like the rock so much I was I was throwing it around. I was like, I'm going to take to your house I'm going to take this rock to your house and I'm going to throw it. It's it's good We're going to play through the rock So I forced him and some of his frat boys to play through the rock Okay and then That it stayed at his house for a while And that's when I was living in Arizona and then maybe a year later when I left Arizona I actually came back and lived in that town And I picked up that rock and I was like This this is the rock. I'm gonna use it. I kept it at my house And then when I moved out here, I was like, you know, I'm bringing the rock. I put it on the u-haul I brought this rock. It's a good rock so The rock cross state lines Oh boy um Luke, uh, you think ever since you got starlink you've been on the internet too much I'm actually not on the internet Necessarily any more than I was before I mean these nights when I'm doing live streams if These are nights where I just don't have anything else to do And a lot of times I would use the internet Um, if I were online, but I'd be doing something else or Maybe something more productive. I might be working on a script one script I need to work on now is for for my freaking books Right, so you see again secret of secrets. I haven't designed a cover for this they have like this auto You know on lulu where you can auto-generate a cover which I kind of don't like I mean, it's it's okay Like this is one of the auto-generated covers where you pick a picture and there are a couple different formats to use But I want to make a script that can do this automatically and give me more complex backs You know, I kind of don't like the backs Um, so I've been working on the image magic script that can do that automatically so Um Can you crush a man with that rock? Yeah, you could definitely Basically kill someone with this rock I mean if it fell on someone's head like forget about it um Are you a dog or cat guy? No, you shouldn't have pets Um, I mean you've probably seen on my videos There is a cat that lives in my house that I insist is not mine. I mean, I feed it It's my brother's cat. Uh, he's never taken care of it. They just left it at my house Um, so it might actually be inside. I don't know where it is um Most autistic rock story I've ever heard. Hey, it's a good rock if you don't you wish you had this rock It's a good rock What date estimate for when the secret of secrets will drop drop on lindy press very very soon because um That and the alchemy reader. Well, the alchemy reader might be a little more But here in the next episode or not related. I want to talk about both of them I'm kind of double dipping right because I'm doing my two projects are going to be on the same page Also, I can probably sell more of them if I do a podcast episode on them But this one is basically done. I just need a design a cover And there are one or two things I wanted to change I think I mentioned earlier on this stream that I'm going to change the text size, but oh and there's like a graphic that I need to fix Somewhere. Yeah, I kind of screwed this one up. Like, yeah, I got to fix that graphic It's supposed to be like a circle like with words pointing to other ones I kind of think what else so one weird thing about that there's this one thing the one thing I couldn't find for this book Okay, um, so I will say I don't know if you guys know you you probably know sticks hex and hammer You know that guy like he he has like a youtube channel and stuff um So one thing that he used to do he used to actually reprint books like I'm doing So for he did it the lazy way and he also did it the cheap way where he would just take I think pdf scans Or maybe digitized copies and just use like amazon's crap like he doesn't use law tech He doesn't format them all nicely But he'd sell them super cheap. He actually has the secret of secrets on sale, but I would go ahead and tell you his sucks in mine is better because he's using like the I mean, he probably doesn't know any better like at all, but he was using like the The some english version that was translated from a latin version That's literally like half of the text Because half there are some latin manuscripts where like half of the text is omitted Like including some of the more esoteric stuff like the onamancy sections. It's like divination based on the A person's name and some of the potions and other things like there's a whole bunch of things that were omitted In a lot of latin texts whereas this one is based on The earliest arabic that we have and it has basically it has the whole thing The only thing that it is lacking is something that i've never been able to find. There's a section on talismans um Where there are some Cobbalistic symbols that i never i couldn't locate because the the version that i was using basically just said Here are some cobalistic symbols and they didn't include them. So but you know It's fake anyway. Oh, yo the story of the jew and the zoroastrian. That's a good one, right? It's basically a story about how a jew and a zoroastrian meet each other It's supposed to be about, you know, how how you pick an honorable minister And the jew says to the zoroastrian. Here's my religion Uh, I I um I worship god and my god says Uh, then i'm supposed to be nice to all of my religion mates, but no one else. I'm not supposed to care about you I'm supposed to like own you right and the zoroastrian. He basically he is the the kuk philosophy Right because he's like, oh, no, I got to be nice to everyone And the whole story is basically the the jew says something like oh, well Uh, then you should give me your camel and your water and all this kind of stuff And the zoroastrian is like, oh, okay. Yeah, sure And so the zoroastrian basically keeps cucking out for the jewish guy and he ends up stealing all his stuff so the jew comes goes off with his camel and then uh The zoroastrian is just like destroys like this guy took advantage of me obviously Um, and but eventually he walks He's they're walking in the desert and he finds the jew has fallen off the camel and he's broken his leg Right and he's dying and the jew is like, oh, you have to save me because that's your religion, right? You you you do good for everyone, right? So the zoroastrian is like, you know what? You're right again I'm gonna I'm gonna do I'm gonna do what's most noble and I'm gonna take you any So he takes him in and he takes him to the city to get medical care and then the jew dies the end um And the zoroastrian, you know the whole the whole uh point of the story, right? The zoroastrian eventually gets promoted to some big minister because the the government hears how honorable he is or whatever Anyway, it's supposed to be a story about even if you cuck out Okay, a lot of the zoroastrian cucks like, you know, he kind of kind of It gets taken advantage of right, but if you're if you're being noble, you will be rewarded, right? So So I guess this book is anti-semitic. I don't know what that is, but uh, anyway, um I'm trying to think what else is in there. Um Yeah, a bunch of stuff you'll just have to see when I do have a not related episode on it That's like one of the weird stories in it. The jew and the zoroastrian Or I translated it zoroastrian in the arabic original as a fire worshiper And when they said fire worshiper, they usually interpret that as zoroastrian There are a couple terms that I modernized or Gave more unambiguous english readings of but um, you know, for the most part, I kept it the same This was actually translated. I want to say in the 1920s from arabic Uh, and it was published. Thankfully now it's in the public domain. So, um Uh, let's see I think my chat froze Hopefully we're we're still there A jew and a zoroastrian walking to a bar. Yeah, well Lindy press humble bundle. Yeah Yeah, I guess that's what it is but uh Yeah, the thing is like I got all these books on like 99 completion, you know, I gotta gotta finish them Do you take requests for lindy press? Yeah, I do. But I mean it takes me a long time to do everything like to make them make them all but Do you speak arabic? No, I don't speak arabic. This is someone else's translation, but there are a couple terms Um, in that case where he basically didn't translate some words And I wanted it to have a more natural reading. So I'd go through. Okay. How should I translate this? There are other cases like that. For example, um, the arabic original has the word roomy Which at the time well a lot of latin texts translate that as italian because it's related to the word for rome Um, but I I think I want to say I translated it differently in different contexts It really refers to eastern rome because that's how the term was used in arabic at the time It's talking about well the eastern roman empire and kind of really asia minor as the geographical place So there are a couple cases, you know People someone said xmr donations aren't going through Uh, I do have an xmr donation Oh, sorry. I haven't read them in a while Um, luke and joy are sent in some xmr. What's your opinion on the idea that capital is a positive feedback loop and that communism Uh was a cybernetic reaction although ineffective to the phenomenon Nick lan's perspective as far as I know Also trying to get my brother interested in cybernetics um Well it depends on what you mean by cybernetic reaction. I mean cybernetics is a kind of uh um I don't know. I'm not familiar with nick lan's View on this particular issue like what you're really looking on Um, so I can't I can't really give you an opinion on it but uh I mean shumpeter definitely has the idea that capitalism is kind of a positive feedback loop I I think I may have talked about that in the podcast I did on capitalism socialism and democracy, but um, you know the the Yeah, his his idea is that capitalism is distinct. I mean this this is similar to to Marxist ideas, but you know obviously in terms of politics shumpeter was kind of the opposite of marx um But you know the idea was like capitalism is a social structure that's kind of an anti social structure Where it's it consists in you know people It consists in Renovating how the world works and like constantly changing things. It's not based on stability. It's based on change, right? extra monday and cents and five dollars Thanks for the answer. We'll definitely think about that more in the future Um, that was cargo cardinal newman. You quoted. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that sounds right too. He was um He used to be a Protestant who converted to to christianity to um catholicism. I have his book. Where is it? On the development of christian doctrine, which actually talks about what I just talked about. Where is that thing? It's a really small book Maybe it's on the shelves over there. I don't know but yeah Um Teague says what's your opinion on music? What kind of music do you listen to? Is it a good idea to listen to music all the time is modern music or certain types of music detrimental to one's mental state? I don't I don't listen to music. I I don't really Understand why people listen to so much music. I don't get it. Like it's not it's not an addiction I mean, I definitely feel like people are weirdly um entranced by it And I think it's kind of weird but it's almost like it's so alien to me Why people obsess about music that I can't even understand like I don't I don't really know what's going through someone's head Who's like listening to music all the time? I from my view music is almost like a psychic psychic deadener It kind of destroys your mental space. It's it's sort of like listening to something Listening to like a podcast all day So there are people who do podcasts like five times of five days a week Where it's just them talking and people just listen to these people talk for hours on end Right. It's it's nuts as far as I'm concerned. Um, and I just consider it Uh, yeah, I mean I just feel like people do that so they don't have to think something in their own brain Like if they're perturbed by the solemnity Of solitude, you know what I mean? Uh, it's a little strange to me um Vince Says hey luke. I've been using larbs on my laptop and I at least want to um To give a little over And I want to at least give a little Um, I had a question with vpns. I'm more specifically now starlink because I don't trust my isp with my data I currently use molvad, but now there's uh, some good choices out there uh, no, there's Yeah, there's some good choices out there only really use molvad because I send cash in the mail And they add money to my account. Do you see any do you use any vpn in specific? No, shouldn't use a vpn Um, unless there's something specific. I vpns are it's almost like insane The vpns have like taken over the internet, but they do I mean if you don't trust your isp with your data I don't know why you would or wouldn't But you are not changing your trust level by using a vpn. You're now just paying some other party To have your browsing data instead I mean vpns really make no sense unless you are specifically Trying to avoid some local block on you Right, like oh, there's a site that's blocked in my country in which case you could just use a proxy or something else VPNs like the real reason vpns exists is not because there's a reason to use them They're it's really just there are so many cloud computing Uh station like, you know server systems out there They just don't know what to do with their computers So they just say oh, let's like route internet traffic through us and charge people for it And say it has something to do with privacy when it really doesn't you're literally you're just paying someone To have your internet data as opposed to someone else So unless you specifically So for most people vpns are absolutely useless worse than useless Um, they're they cost money and they they're liable to be honeypots, right? I mean, I I wouldn't trust your isp per se But it'd be even weirder if you gave your data to someone who says oh Hey, if you care about privacy give us your data. I mean that that smells like a kind of a honeypot thing um I mean, I don't really think it's like a planned honeypot. It's just one of those I don't like there's not really okay, um after you're watching you uh, excuse me Mateus says after watching your video about Identifying with his job. I remember this I worked at this company And there was this guy which only talked about web programming and his personality was totally based on this to the point That he went to work in person just to talk to others during work about, uh or during work, um about personal web projects His contract was fully remote and his biggest achievements were doing his great wagey job and receiving twitter responses from framework creators Cringes guy. I ever met there. Yeah Can imagine a bunch of wageys on twitter kind of like that. So Um, yeah, a lot of people are like it is it is nutty. Um, I don't quite understand it, but Um Only use vpns for torrenting. I mean even torrenting I when I torrent I never use a vpn or any of that crap. Um I mean, I guess I'm not torrenting anything. I mean even even in america, which allegedly is, you know, cares the most about copyright laws Uh, listen, I know people who get dozens of those copyright notifications. Oh, you downloaded this movie Oh, well, you better be nice and not do that again or we'll give you we'll turn off your internet Listen, you like it's part of it's part of law that isps have to send those things out But there are isps will send out hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of those Before they turn your internet off realistically speaking. I've never I've never in my life Heard of anyone who lost their internet due to torrenting or anything like that And and yeah way back in the day back in like 2004 You might get sued by I don't know marvel if you torrent a marvel movie. I mean they didn't exist back then But nowadays they realize that's like really bad press if you do that. So Yeah, I'm I'm hoping the xmr donations are still working Uh, I guess well, I guess we got no we did get two of them. Okay, never mind It's probably just like on the other screen. I guess I put manero in the title so a lot of people like specifically came to give manero or something but I'm gonna check the chat Would you download a car luke? Yeah, I actually would if I could How to not be a degenerate by not being degenerate? I don't know Um Since watching youtube is wasteful. Why is your content on it? Or is it not either way? Why Is it like either way? Why is it because you keep thing? I mean When I say watching youtube is wasteful I mean most people when they're on youtube. Okay, well, let's put it this way Why is my content on your content? Stupid words. Why do I put youtube on? Sorry, my brain is collapsing So if I put my videos somewhere They're not just for passive consumption, right? I guess the constant like if I if I say something like oh, well watching youtube all the time is bad Which is trivially true, right? That doesn't somehow mean that it would be good on some other site or something like it's it's the fact that people are there For hours on in doing nothing constantly clicking related videos do like just passively consuming infotainment, right? So there's nothing I mean if some like most of the videos up on you Well, I don't want to say most but many of the videos on youtube, right? They're there for a reason like many of them inform or Do something else like that. So it's not it's not necessarily the Videos that there are many inane videos on youtube and maybe most I don't know but But it's it's really the users It's really the onus is on the user to not use youtube in an addictive way, right? So if you're sitting around all day just watching the same crap That's a little weird, right? um And that shouldn't be difficult to understand like you know So either way when I put videos up It's not as if I put my videos on youtube and then they become tainted because this is a site that people watch a lot No, it's like are are my videos Uh making people. Oh, you know want to stay on the platform and keep watching stuff I don't know maybe they are even if they are maybe I should stop making them But um, you know I I like to imagine at least that most of my videos Thematically tell people that real life is not on the internet Real life is not youtube. I I hope And that's why I don't mind, you know taking months breaks from youtube like I did, you know a couple months ago, but I have had a very severe youtube addiction since I was maybe six or seven It's funny to think there are people so young That youtube existed when they were six or seven When did youtube even start? Oh my goodness like when how old was I when youtube? I mean, I remember when I was maybe 16. I remember youtube existing It was probably and that was probably around the time that google bought it I don't know Why do you say owning pets is that what is the function of a pet like there are many reasons to have animals around You know, that's what a farm is but like pet ownership is The idea of having an animal in your house just to do nothing just to look at it Just that I'll have fun as some kind of decoration. I mean, it's it's really just people who like aren't having children So it it is I mean it's in the same way that the internet is a hyper reality That gives you the simulation of having friends Pets are the same kind of thing, right? Um when a lot of times people are using them because they have some vacuousness in their life That it would be better if they filled in better ways, you know YouTube was 2005. I don't know Autistic take yeah Autistic reasoning. Yes I am beyond the the normie hordes who think with their emotions. I am autist What are your thoughts on system D? I don't know. I haven't used it in years I I've been on artics for who knows how long Why did we we domesticate dogs many well many dog breeds exist for a reason But there are many of them that don't like there are many dog breeds that are just like cruel abominations that men have artificially selected You know like like like pugs that can't even breathe properly and slowly asphyxiate during their life That's sad. And I don't know that that's what pet ownership gets you so Would you ever work at youtube? No Pope francis agrees lol pet parents are not real parents Wow first base thing pope francis has ever said pope francis Uh, let me check donations Oh, I don't think there are any new ones If anyone has any trouble with the xmr one just put so and put it in the chat I'm always paranoid about testing anything cryptocurrency related because you have to like send transactions and crap you know How do you obtain manero privately? That's my issue with bothering too. I mean what do you like there are Dozens of sites where you can just swap manare swap any other cryptocurrency for manero, right? So if you have bitcoin, you can just go. I mean, okay, so go to I want to say manero dot how And that is just a manero site that will give you it'll give you a list of swap places you can go to You can just search. Let's see swap Uh, this is bringing up uniswap. Let's see um Okay, yeah, there's a section that's like, um Exchanges like bts bitcoin and manero exchanges or something like that. Let's see I think I reordered the site a little bit since the last time I Will search for btc Yeah, converting bitcoin to manero So, uh, even things like shapeshift and changely Those you don't I don't think you have to sign up for them. You might want to double check Um, but you can just send You know, you don't have to sign up. You can just swap any other currency for manero and you know nothing uh to Nothing too weird So, yeah, just get any other cryptocurrency get. I don't know bitcoin or litecoin or Bitcoin cat doesn't matter and you can swap it for manero there Like if you don't have a know your customer exchange for manero And um, you know, even if you obtain manero non privately I once you move it around like, you know, it's it's private, right? Of course, you know, maybe you just don't want to buy it. I don't even know what kyc exchange I know that there's that there's some kyc exchange where you can buy Manero, but I don't know about it, right? I did, uh, I think I mentioned it earlier on this stream, but I'll mention it for everyone So I did an interview with Kevin wad who's like a manero youtuber We we recorded a live stream over the weekend And um, I think it's going to be up on his channel and then I think I'll put it up on mine So he has a he has a smaller channel than mine I want to say he's like less than a thousand subscribers But which I was surprised of because I I've seen him multiple places Um, but I know he was on manero talk and some other things Um Do you like whole milk Greek yogurt? I mean I make myself I don't know what I I mean, I don't like slim milk You know Greek yogurt because slim milk isn't even milk How long was the gap between you deciding to move into the country and you actually moving? That's a good question um You know probably let's see I probably decided around 2016 I would say Um, and I probably moved out May wow, maybe it was like only two years. It seemed like a whole lot longer But I guess yeah, I guess I did move Um, I did buy rural property Um in 2018 I think that's yeah, I think that's when When I did so yeah, it was pretty quick Which it set it seemed like a very long decision that I did a lot of stuff in I thought very slowly about it I was in you know, I actually moved several different places before moving out into the middle of nowhere Um, but you know once I was set on I guess I did it and I'm glad I pulled the trigger where I did Um, I don't want to turn people off from doing what I did But you know it it's more difficult now just because prices have gone up, right? Um, but you know you can still do it. It's still a good investment, but um Yeah Because I think I around 2016 that's when I was like well screw it like things are so bad I don't intend to uh stay at the university Much longer. In fact, I ended up staying longer than I expected um, but then Yeah, I guess I made arrangements and I I want to say 2018 when by the time january 2018 moved around or pulled around I didn't even know where I was gonna live Because I think that's when I mean you guys can check my channel because I did do videos on this stuff way back in the day But I think I did a video in a stream when I was in Tennessee looking for land And then other places looking for land and all you know um But I eventually made my decision and and pulled the trigger on it. So um Was losing your hair a very painful process? No, I mean You know, maybe I should do a video on that because I but when I still had hair I probably really cared about it But I don't really care about it now like I don't know how to describe it. It's it's um A bit like when I was young when I was in my early trend 20s and I could tell I was gold going bald I was very worried about it. I was like, oh my goodness. Like this is gonna be really in reality once you shave it It it I mean, it's gonna be better than like holding on to it, frankly um I mean, there are some realities you have to come to grips with You are going to look like a different person. That's number one, right? I don't look like I don't look like like I used to look like Okay, I don't I don't look like that. You see that? That's what I used to look like. I don't look like that now. Okay so, um That's just gonna happen. You're not gonna look like yourself um And it's even weirder when I shave all my hair here um And like there's there benefits to their minor benefits, but you know, you know losing your hair is bad I consider it bad. Like I would like to have hair um But uh, it's best not to be butt hurt about something you can't control or even worse like Do fruitless things to try and drag it out that that's extremely stupid And uh, yeah now now i'm totally content when I was uh, I think when I first started shaving I I would shave basically every day like you see how you know, you can see my hair here I was like, oh my goodness. I don't want to have that because I was like, oh, that's gonna make me look old Or something like I don't know why like shaving your head completely is Better and I don't know either way screw it. I don't even think about that anymore. Um, just I don't like who freaking cares Like I it's been so many years of me not having hair that I don't think about it And I'm just saying that because I know that there are guys who are balding who give way too many craps about it Uh, I I have thought about doing a video of it just because you know, whatever but Bald equals high t. Yeah, that is true I mean if you if you're not balding You're basically transgender Which is funny because there are many transgender people who are balding Like that meme, um I don't know. There's some there's some picture that people post like that. Um You don't need to come to terms with it. Just ask tim pool. Oh, yeah, he wears a beanie every freaking day That would be that is cringe and I I've always been anti-hat even before I started losing hair I was like hats are stupid, you know um And I do feel like if you go back to my old videos I want to say back in 2018 again when I moved out, um into the country There was a period where I would like wear glasses on my head all the time And I don't you know, that was just like a reflex, but I'm sort of thinking maybe it was like me wanting to have hair It's like I want to have something on my head, but it just looks stupid, frankly Um, and I was like, yeah, I'm gonna stop that. I actually lost those freaking. Well, I didn't lose them The male lost them. I sent them back sent those highly expensive glasses back in to get fixed the sunglasses And they freaking lost them in ma in the mail Stupid Is luke smith even your name or is it a pseudonym? Oh, that's a good question Um I've seen the pick of you with a rage against the machine t-shirt. Yeah, that's a good one I used to have that on my website. I mean, it's probably where you saw it I used to have like I used to have maybe a dozen or so pictures of just me at different periods Just random pictures Just just to do it. I don't really anymore. I kind of want to depersonalize my website Like I feel like even having one picture is maybe a little much I might as I said before I want a better profile picture Um, you know, I need a more current more better looking one that doesn't look like a dweebish one like the The channel icon I have now But I have so few pictures taken for someone who has much of his life recorded on video I have so few images of myself and that is actually true of the past 10 years of myself You know, because you guys have known I'm not a cell phone person Glasses on head luke was the best luke. Well, there are draws to it, but um I kind of think it looks dorky what I do think is really bad in that period Is when I only grew my hair like right here Oh freaking gaunt and frankly ugly because I was so skinny And I didn't have like I had this weird hair and I had the glass Like I just look back at it like dude. I look so stupid weirdly enough I look kind of younger and I don't know better now for it. It's really because I put on weight Um, I'm actually close to 200 pounds now Uh, which is I used to be like super skinny, but now I'm finally finally putting on weight that you know Is not too bad It's it's the rock. It's partially the rock, you know Um, did you fix the transmission seating stuff? Yes and no Like there's a period where I got it working And then I like tried something again doing it the same way and it didn't work So I'm convinced that no one ever Well, let's see if it's work it works now Yeah, it's not gonna work No, it's stupid. I don't know. I don't know I think it worked once when I added the files before I added the torrents to the folder. They're supposed to be in I think it worked It's screwed up. Now the reason I wanted actually you guys can go to notrelated.xyz And I am finalizing some changes to um, you know, I basically entirely moved the thing off of um, libsyn And um, I just haven't I haven't changed the rss feed yet I'm going to in a second and I want to fix I want to provide torrents for all of the episodes of not related including once I finish a season You know to have a torrent for the whole season So I like so if you go to the website if you're if you're on a desktop I recommend pull it up not related.xyz So you can see the cute stuff I have I'm using a GNU rec file that actually might be worth doing a video on It's it's cool because it's like a it's it's a file format that's kind of like a database and kind of like a text file It has some of the benefits of both But you I have a script that goes through it That's where I keep like all the information about my podcast episodes and I have a script that goes through it And auto generates this website and so like you'll see the different episodes. They'll have time codes And they'll have like readings not all the episodes I've put time codes up for which I need to do and not all of them. I have readings for but um All of that is automatically generated whenever I run the script and the script Uh, I haven't switched over the rss feed But the script also auto generates rss feed too. So that's that's pretty cool. So That's just something I've been playing around with with GNU rec files Uh, where's the check here we go? Still talking about heights Are we talking about girls or boy heights? I'm 14 511 and 210 pounds. I do powerlifting but whenever I meet someone and tell them I'm 14 they are surprised It's the world becoming more soy Or do I live in the wrong universe? I mean you might live in the wrong universe, but it's also becoming more soy It's actually really funny to look back at pictures of old people and just how weak we are compared to them, you know You know, it's it's vegetable oils and sugar and all that crap that makes people, you know Die at a slow rate What kind of notes do you make for not related? Your delivery seems off the cuff, but still very structured Ooh, that's an interesting question. It's been different. Like at the beginning I had a lot more notes And I did a lot more cuts like I would talk for five minutes and I would get nervous and I'd have to stop And I'd talk about something else or I'd run out of breath But now, uh, I guess I've evolved as a person more and it's easier for me to talk for longer instances now nonetheless, it's pretty easy for me to You know just write one or two like five bullet points down with maybe sub bullet points and I'll remember all my anecdotes And go from there like I can kind of do that like I think in this last episode I may have broken it up I broke it up at the break obviously and I think before the break I there was a break him, you know, there was like a break in the middle of that or somewhere near the end of that And I think I re-recorded the ending as well So I guess you could say I had four, you know, four song four audio files three breaks um The last one was really just because uh not because I wanted to re-record the inks. I wanted to add and change some things Uh Are your fuel pot prices going up? Yeah, I just talked about that um Went up like a dollar in the past week for gas It's crazy Would you marry someone older than you? Uh, nearly impossible to imagine No, I mean like especially I mean if you're like 18 and you're getting married I don't think it's a big issue if a guy marries a girl that's a little older than him um, if you're really young, but if you're if you're like Mid-20s or further you should marry a girl like a little younger than you I mean if you're like 40 you should marry a girl like significant like 30 or something or less um I think varg's old recommendation was that men should get married at 30 To women who are 20 and I kind of agree with that like I think I think that's a good Uh, that's a good thing. I mean obviously nowadays. It's a little weird if you have age gaps, but it's less weird It's less weird in a place where I live, right? Um, and especially if you're not a coomer like if you're not dating a girl to have sex with her If you're dating her to like marry her. It's a lot less weird. Um, you know if you have, you know some kind of age gap um That's the issue like a lot of people on the internet will talk about this This weirdo stuff like, you know age of consent And the reason that's questionable is because they're all freaking coomers and they're they're just interested in having sex, right? um Yeah, but no, I mean girls girls who are 30 they have a chance of getting married But it's it's probably going to be to an older guy, you know what I mean, uh, you know some old divorcee or something I don't know But like I wouldn't marry I mean it's funny like when you when you get to 30 This is the funniest thing because I remember back, you know, there were girls in high school It's like, oh, yeah, she was cute. Why didn't I ever make a move on her? And now like they're 30 and it's like Just date a college girl when you're 70. I don't know you got to draw the line somewhere Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I uh support that I would say now like I'm not comfortable. Well I don't know lmao date a girl cringe. Yeah, that that actually is true. Um, when I say date I mean consider them as a marriage partner. I don't mean take them out dates and like I mean modern like the the whole concept of here's my long-term girlfriend That is basically the worst thing you could possibly ask for um Yeah, if you're not if you're not, um I don't know people people who are not Intending to marry Are just, you know, they're tender users in denial, you know um I'm a big fan of your blog one of my favorites was the one about hermeticism asceticism and the hermetic answer How long does a typical poster essay take to type up? Well, that's the funny thing all of them basically just take an hour So, um, it's just an issue of if I don't complete it in that hour and I put it off Eh, I'll get to it later. No, I usually don't so it doesn't take that long, right? It's just sort of kind of off the off the cuff things And a lot of times I'll start writing something and then I'll realize. Uh, this is better as a video But I do feel like I should write more for it Oh, let me check donations. I haven't checked them in a bit Sorry Um Luke Skywalker sent uh some xmr. Have you heard of multi signatures? Specifically k of n threshold schnoar multi signatures on bitcoin after the taproot upgrade Sigs are aggregated and look like any other regular transaction. Yeah, I mean, I know about that But I think it's funny that people will say that that is some kind of big privacy gain for bitcoin Like, you know, a lot of people like normie Bitcoin maxis will hear that and they'll be like, whoa, man, we have taproot. We have privacy blah, blah, blah When I mean in reality, it's just what you said. It's like, okay So there are these transactions and they all kind of they look like the same type All right. I mean, you're still seeing the same movements from the same accounts from saying everything else. So I think people definitely Um exaggerate What taproot? I mean, it is an improvement, but it's not like a privacy improvement like that a lot of people think Um, I mean, it's a might it's a very minor privacy improvement Greta Thunberg sends in some xmr. Justin Murphy debate win. Yeah, I don't know. Well, Justin Murphy for those who don't know he, um There was a thing we were going to do an interview like an in-person live interview He was going to come to me and we were going to go somewhere and I don't know it'd be a public event But that never ended up happening. Um I think the onus was on him to email me when he was going to be around He said he had family Like within a hundred miles of me, which isn't that close or something Uh, so if that if he if he decides to come, you know, he can he can do that. Well, it wasn't supposed to be a debate though It's supposed to be we do something mostly Ego centrally folks focusing on me because usually what he does is like interview people So that's that'd really be what it is Um, so sent in I ended up converting my nano to xmr. What do you think how the midterms are going? Uh What do you think how the midterms are going to sway in november in any way I look at it? I can only see it going red. I mean, yeah, even if you look at the prediction markets Right now all of them heavily favor the republicans I mean like It's something like 80 chance of them winning the house like 70 something percent chance of them winning the senate Like it's pretty it's pretty extreme. So I fully expect, you know, I've had this conversation with people the presidency is Almost like more of a liability at this point for whatever party controls it. Okay So I I think everyone in america knows that the presidency is kind of a rhetorical position. It's kind of a Uh, a vestigial symbolic position of the ruler of the country and you have very little say Over what's going on, right? You can sign bills. You can veto bills that that's still very powerful And I think the biggest one is actually being able to appoint supreme court to our justices But I think the idea that the presidency changes the nation Is I don't know very questionable. And in fact, I think I think it's definitely I think it's 100 the case that joe brandon being president Is Really really bad for the like if donald trump was president right now It would be much better for the democrats that would mean multiple things firstly This mid this midterm they would win Because pretty much every time when you whenever you have a midterm the incumbent president loses That that's nearly like a universal in american politics. It's just because the other people are motivated They they hate how things are going they get out and vote, right? Um, the the people who are in control. They're apathetic. They don't all right So if trump were president first that would be going against him And then you'd have all this other stuff you'd have afghanistan You'd have this russia crap you'd have this, um, you'd have like gas prices and inflation which frankly joe brandon didn't cause Like it really it's fun to blame him for it. And maybe he exacerbated things But the whole lockdown which trump initiated that that's the problem, right? That's a proximal problem You can say that he made things worse, but really whoever got elected in 2020 was sitting on a time bomb Right and that's often the case because when you're president You don't have much control and then when bad things happen, which they will happen You get blamed for him and your party loses your party loses in the midterm and you look like a doofus, right? So, uh, you know, I've been telling people Hey, if there's no decent republican candidate this next time A lot of people say ronda santus is gonna run and he would be a good president But I don't want him to be I don't I don't want that right now. I it might be better for uh, you know For another four years of the brandon administration. That's just what I'm saying Um, it might be tactically a better decision and this is actually what I said in 2012 Like in 2012, you know, I was more like a libertarian back then. I was like a libertarian who was like If anything, I lean democratic, you know, because I was I was super blue pill back then. It was ridiculous, but um In 2012, I was like, okay, I'm not quite sure how what I feel about obama If I like him and I should vote for him, but if I don't like him I feel like he's gonna make things so insane that It's clearly gonna cause some kind of reaction. So I think I'll vote for him either way So that's what I did and I was hoping that in 2016 there would be some really comical reaction and there was Wow, that paid off. Uh, so um Either way, you know, that's how it is Anomalous Anonymous, uh, since insominaria Hey, I'm a europe guy in my early 20s. I spent the last year working on and off wagey jobs and I hated it I'm now jobless and don't know what to do I'm good at it, but I'm in a city where there are no it jobs. I don't have any money to move advice Um, let me take a drink of water. Actually, I feel like I need some water Well, the thing with it jobs, obviously Is you can do them online, especially nowadays I mean, I'm not quite sure how the job market is in europe in terms of how you look for a job Or how you find it, but you know, a lot of the times I mean, especially nowadays at least in america, right? Um, it's dude like lots of lots of people. I know have gotten jobs like working remotely Um, so I don't want to be like, oh, well, why don't you just put your feet on the pavement and go find a job? But you know that there might be something to say that say that you could probably find an it job doing that Um, I mean the wagey jobs it depends on what your wagey job is um If it teaches you a useful skill, it's always it's always good to have I mean, you guys know that Uh, in my in fact in my in my middle 20s. I was working I was working for like $10 an hour When I when I was doing that carpentry stuff, which was really more so I could learn how to do it But technically I was only getting paid $10 an hour. Um, I only worked there for a couple months Uh, but uh, you know, there's no shame in like having a low-paying job or some kind of wagey job The thing is you just want something that Is going to teach you a skill. Um, I think the big problem For a lot of people keep hiccuping or burping or something the main problem for a lot of people is They're they they think having a job is like having food service like working in food service or having some kind of um um I don't know like kind of non-productive kind of bs job. I don't want to say food services is a bs job Um, but like you're doing something that's pretty replicable. That's not you're not really getting anything out of it So if you're burnt off working on jobs, a lot of the times it's because you're working stuff like that You're not you're not doing things that you can learn in and um, you know the other advantage of of wagey jobs Again, you know, I said that I worked as a carpenter when I was like 25 or I don't know how it was around 25 and uh Barely made any money But the nice thing about wagey jobs is you can pretty much like join and quit them when you want, right Now I know things are more complicated in europe They're all these legal things like unemployment crap And so a lot of times it's it's harder for people to take Employees on because they might have to give them severance package. I'm not quite sure how it works in different european countries, but um, you know, I would I would just say Be very open and be serious about looking for things online Um, but if you do have to settle for a wagey job Make sure to get a wagey job that is involves like real work with your hands or something Uh, don't get an office job. You're not going to enjoy it You might think it's like the easy way out, but it really it really it's not going to be enjoyable if you're in your early 20s Right because right now. I mean, maybe it's my If you if you don't really know your directionality in life, right? You don't have a plan I don't think there's any harm in you choosing a job based off Not how much money you're going to get but you know, what it what it's going to enable you to do in terms of You know, is it going to make you a more competent person That that's my reaction Um, hi. So gl sends in some x mark. Hi luke. Thank you for your work until recently. I was a reddit atheist Now I want to get involved with Christianity any recommendations to get started. Well Uh, you should go to your local church, obviously um that Like I think physically plugging into people is number one. Like if you're asking for readings um I don't think that's the best way even for like intellectually edged people I think you just have to be involved even if you know, this applies. I remember getting an email from a girl um, and she was like You know luke, I see you tell people you tell people to go to church, right? Even if they like don't even believe in god, right? I don't know where I said that but I mean, I I don't disagree with that Like I think that even people who are kind of curious They should go Right. They they need to go They need to to experience like They need to see if they're gonna feel the call, right? They need to they that's an experience They need even if it makes no sense to them, right? You might get it later on once you're involved But that's step number one. Like it is really Christianity Is not something you just spontaneously decide Something you participate in Right, so you can't do this thing of I'm gonna be my own church. I'm gonna do it my own way That that's like hyper Protestantism and I'm not even saying don't go to a Protestant church because if that if that is You know most comfortable for you as long as you're not like some kind of hyper liberal Protestant or whatever um, but you know as as You you want to do things that are comfortable for you at the beginning but I I think the most important thing is getting your foot in the door and Um, you know making yourself open, right? So just make sure you're going to church and you're being responsible for things There and being involved with people right including including people who are not your age This isn't a side. This isn't even just about going to church. This is actually a light. Here's some life advice Okay, this is some actual life advice Okay, one thing I think a lot of people nowadays because we we've grown up in grade school So we are always around people who are like a one year apart from us in age That's actually really screwed up because you get used to only talking to people your age So what happens a lot of times when people go to church? Oh, there are a bunch of boomers Oh, there's like no one my age. Oh, there's only one girl and she's not even attractive Okay, that that's the kind of stuff that people say as if like you're going to the church to meet an attractive girl or something like that Um, that's the kind of stuff that people say and I will say you know when I when I was um back in statesboro Okay, I went to church there and the church I guess there were some guys like within my Within 10 years of my age, right? But they weren't exactly my there were guys who are like younger Uh more like college kids who are like a good bit younger. I was like a higher age phd student And then there were guys a little older than me who had kids, right? So there was no one exactly my age But what that actually gets you is you actually talk to people who are not your age, which is always a valuable thing Okay, that is one thing that people nowadays are lacking They because again, we grow up in grade school where your your social group is people within one year of you You don't know a lot of the times Someone 10 years older than you who's gone like the question the last guy asked me about getting a job or whatever Like that's the kind of thing that's the kind of thing that a direct directionless Millennial or zoomer asks because they've only been around people their age So I you should I mean if you're in church if you go to a church Um, you know that seems like the right place Be sure to meet people who are not your age and you're probably gonna meet that a lot of time now I go to a church now where there are actually a lot of people my age Okay, that's not a problem. It actually wasn't the case when I started going to that church I don't know what it was, but um, you know, you should not you should not tether yourself to being around Um people of your exact age. I don't know how I got on this tangent talking about this question, but Anonymous uh since an X of art thoughts on the steam deck It's a handheld pc console. Yeah, I know I know what it is and I'm not I'm not interested Yeah, I mean unless it's like the steam it's proprietary drm software that is deliberately There to limit your use of games, right? It's it's drm crap. Okay Um, so I'm not interested in it. I I don't care Uh, like this this I recorded a video about this I should have said something like this. I recorded a video about this It's gonna come up tomorrow not exactly about this But about the fact that a lot of people in linux or open source or security or heart like any of this kind of stuff They get they they like the technology they they come to you know, let's say you like free and open source technology And oh man linux is doing all this great stuff It gives you all this privacy and security and all this kind of stuff And a lot of times people forget what their actual end goal is Right the purpose of using linux is not just using some new brand that I can identify with that's stupid It's this is a free and open source platform where I can do things on it, right? You know, it's a more extensible environment. You can get more more stuff out of it, right? There are all these benefits to using it and so I'm not really interested in Uh, you know software coming to it that subvert that those principles like steam is software That should not exist, right the games out there. They already exist. They can run on computers steam is software that is deliberately designed Uh to sell Proprietary software to people so that they can run without their control. Okay, that that's it now There are other companies that even do this good stuff legally. So there's you know, gog good old games So what they do is they sell you copies of games and they actually Sell you copies of games not something that's downloaded in some silly program Okay, but they give you Here's the game now. It's still often a closed source game But it's actually something on your computer that you don't need to be logged into and you can copy and put on another computer Right. So gog are they making as much money as steam? Probably well nearly certainly not because steam again drm is it people make a lot of money with drm They make a lot of money restricting proprietary licenses and stuff like that, but i'm just not interested in it. So um bj says could you write a guide on your website about moving to the country? also Uh, how would you define city and country? There are some cities with a thousand people uh Yeah, I mean you feel like if it has a thousand people that's that's a pretty small place. I mean like Um, I would say how can we define it? if you have If if you have to take your trash to the dump yourself you live in the country We'll say something like if you have your own well, you live in the country fine, um I don't know. There are a bunch of different differences. It depends on it. I don't know I could I know i've done videos about how to move to the country I thought about doing another one because I watched one of my old videos on moving to the country And I might want to change some things like you know the environment of things has changed I might want to have A slightly different narrative on things so I might I might um do a video on that Again, but um, yeah, maybe I'll write out a guide Gog is based. Gog is beautiful Yeah, it's a shame could things couldn't go the way of gog more I disagree with steamedec bringing anything to linux really all it does is encourage proprietary and drm software to move to linux It just makes linux closer to windows. Yeah, I mean that's the point like if you want to play games use windows That's it use windows if you want to play all these games. That's it. That's what it exists for Like windows is quite literally an operating system That does nothing. There is no fun. Like there is absolutely nothing Windows can do better than linux Except for play these games. That's it. That's the only thing that is it's specialty operating system For anything else use a real operating system But if you want a game use linux or use use windows, right? That's the only thing it does Okay um Landshad, but for real life. Yeah, I should do that too bad landshad.net is already taken Maybe maybe I'll get landshad. I don't know You can't be a failed anything at 19 weirdo. I don't know what that was in response to but it is kind of funny Um, that is true. Like if you think if you're 19 and you think your life is over you're You're crazy Have you heard of the youtuber the distributist his critiques? um Modernity seem right up your alley. I I know I'm aware of his existence um, and I think someone told me that he watches my channel I don't know if he's bigger than me or smaller than me now I I think he used to be smaller than me but like Everyone's but everyone's channel is bigger than mine because I took like a six months off No, everyone's grown bigger like mental outlaws bigger even a freaking distro tube has a bigger channel than mine What a joke But um, yeah, I I know that um, I know that he exists I haven't seen his videos at all recently. I don't know if he got banned I mean a lot of people I know that I think him I I thought the same thing about what is his name a keith woods Until I looked up his videos and I saw oh, he's just like been shadow banned like he's still on youtube, right? um So yeah, I I haven't really looked at this stuff that much. I'm not really into political commentary. I mean, um There maybe there was a period in my life where I was but I think um I kind of have a I believe that politics is a reflection of physiognomy And you can't really con convince someone to be a different physiognomy, you know what I mean? Unless you're telling them to work out, right? Maybe they'll get high tea and become based but in general I'm kind of a I kind of believe in predestination when it comes to politics So I've never really felt it useful to talk about it in front of people because like soy boy is going to soy, you know um What about your neglected project based cooking? Well, I haven't added anything in a while, but um, I mean, it's not like it's like Degrading by virtue of me not adding stuff But I think I talked about on the last time last dream I'm actually going to go through and get rid of a lot of stuff and make it actually more based like more Targeted to specifically good diets and stuff Mental outlaw is just as based as you luke Oh, yeah, I'm sure and we'll never be in the same room together for some reason Love to see you and keith woods chat. Well, if we did I have to admit You know, I this is such an american thing to say, but I really find his accent bemusing I don't even know where exactly I guess he's a northerner or something. I don't quite know or maybe he's I don't need I don't know It all sounds the same to an american, right? But um It just sounds like he's always eating something like he's talking with something in his mouth I don't know where he's from exactly Um, but I mean, yeah, it's fine The the thing the thing with that this goes for everyone like my channel has never been branded with something So it's not a political channel. It's not like a cryptocurrency channel. It's not even like a technology channel So it's always weird if I do like a Thing together with someone because it's like hey Here's luke. He's like this dude. Actually, that's what that when I did that interview with kevin wad Which again should come up next week or something on his channel But he was like, uh, how should I introduce you and I was like, dude, I don't freaking know man I don't know What are your thoughts on sugar don't eat it if you want to know what my thoughts on sugar are I said, I there's that documentary. What is it sugar or not documentary? It's like a lecture and it went big on youtube sugar the bitter truth. Just watch that That's classic even normies know about that now because it went so big just watch that don't eat sugar I deliberately get things with which have no sugar in it. No sugar added none of that stuff The more the the less sugar you eat the better the better it is um Okay, let's see Look at that one already. Um Okay, bj again, um donates five dollars Which brands is of economics? Would you say you have the best foundations in I saw you write a paper on paper on game theory and I remember I remember you trashing finance once well finance is not really economics I mean, I don't consider it economics. It's like a different field when I was doing my undergraduate degree Like finance is like the business school kind of stuff. I mean, I guess economics is in business school But I think of economics as being more theoretical like, um It can be something like game theory where you're analyzing behavior But it's something it's it's something either more more theoretical or maybe sometimes more political But finance is like is is more applied stuff and it's more of an alchemy Right. I mean, that's why that's why george soros wrote that book the alchemy of finance Right because it's not they're not real principles going into finance, especially stock market crap. It's mostly just Out of people throwing, you know pain out of wall basically so finance is not finance is not economics Um, I was very interested in game theory. Technically I have uh, we're all my degrees They're over there. I'm not going to get them. Um, I have a couple specializations. I did when I was in, um undergrad One I got one in international trade and one in economic history. I guess I was very interested In economic history. I I basically think mainstream mainstream economics is kind of stupid, obviously Um, I think everyone does so a lot of the stuff the particular the a lot theological stuff theoretical stuff. Uh, I kind of I dismiss oh the solo growth model. Yeah, that's a bunch of crap Um, but I am interested in the history of economic thought for the reason that it actually exposes you to more things than just Mainstream economics mainstream, you know, neocainsian crap. Okay Um, so I guess you could say I'm interested in economic thought generally Uh, and yeah, I was particularly interested in game theory. I don't know what paper Maybe you saw the linguistics paper I did on game theory. I'm trying to think what economics paper is on game theory I've published on the internet If you look really hard, you can find some economics things that I've written way back in the day But I best basically disown all of that because I was like too much of a Keynesian um It was actually right after I graduated That I mean, I as I said back in back in 2012. I was kind of it I was sort of a libertarian But I was also really kind of I was frankly like a democrat libertarian if that can make any sense I don't know. I was kind of a obviously new york times snob kind of guy. I was basically What would now be like a bug eater like someone who wants people to live in pods in stuff like that and I you know, I read the new york times unironically I was basically as blue-pilled as you could possibly be and um But after I graduated I actually started looking into things more, you know, having a more consistent view on things and that led me to more More like principled libertarianism for a period, but you know a couple years later I was like, yeah, well libertarianism is one thing, but you know, I think it's kind of silly And I moved away from that Moved away from ideological autism, I guess, but um So if you wanted me to say something specific about economics, I don't have anything but Uh Muslim sent in some xmr. Do you run out of dating prospects living in the country again dating Dating's not a thing marriage prospects think about that. Don't talk about dating. None of this I went a long time long-term girlfriend crap Do you run out of dating prospects living in the country? If you run out of options, will you move elsewhere? Well, you know, I'm not going to devolve any devolve Devolge Yeah, you can tell it's getting late because I'm getting words like that mixed up I'm not going to divulge any of my personal life, but I will say in the abstract Are there are there bad dating prospects in the country? I would say no Like not really at all one is you're exposed to a different caliber of girl um Like, uh, well, okay. There are some trashy girls out here, but I would say in general There's more signal and less noise in terms of girls And the more you get involved the more you will realize girls are all over the place Okay, you might not go in public. You might not be at the coffee shops. Okay They don't do that in the countries, you know You might not be able to just go to the rest go to a restaurant and meet a girl Or chatter chat up a girl in the library or something like that, but they're out there Okay, and if you're involved in a local community, you absolutely will be running across girls all the time um The only the only I guess worrisome thing for some guys might be the fact that a lot of girls get married really early So if you're like 40 You're either gonna marry a 20 year old With which I theoretically, you know, I don't know if you're 40 and you know, you know her family that that might be not too weird, but um You know, so so girls get married really early. So you should Know that you're going to be dealing with younger girls So if you're older, you might want to worry about that But if you're in your 20s or early 30s, yeah, I wouldn't worry about it. Um, but Yeah, people freak out about that. It's weird especially because people will People will be like, oh, I can't find a girl and it's going to be even harder if I move to the country It's like dude, if it's hard for you now Just go ahead and make the plunge better your life and deal with across that bridge when you get there That's what I would say to people You know, I don't know people think too like I think a lot of times this isn't just about girls This is about anything people will make excuses for Being too afraid to make to take the plunge that they know they they know that they need to make right Um Joseph since in $10 uh time to get peep peeled on sugar the key negatives related to sugar are excess starch Uh glucose and polyunsaturated fatty acids sucrose is generally just fine and not fattening Check out re peat article here. Okay. I'll look that up You know prima facia How do people pronounce that prima facia prima prima facie prima facie if you're a medieval Um, but you know right from first glance. I mean that seems like a plausible thing. Yeah, polyunsaturated fatty acids. They're bad Uh starch glucose. Maybe that is the thing. Maybe sucrose is forgivable, but I don't know. I don't know the particulars I will I'll put that in my notes Um to take a look at Notes Luke what's your note taking software? Well, I Uh you standard output to put in a file called notes in my home directory That's my note taking software um Okay, Sean says hi luke Do or did you study advanced mathematics at at all? um such Such as group theory analysis number theory, etc I know a very little a very small amount of number theory But I never formally studied mathematics and it's one of my biggest regrets actually Um, those of you I've said this when it comes to college My general recommendation for people is like to not go to college Especially if you're paying for it But if you have nothing to do and you're there and you're studying something math is basically One of the best degrees you can get Some programs I like depending on the university if it's a really good university philosophy also might be good But a lot of times philosophy is super crap at some universities But math is a fantastic thing to major in and when I did my degree in economics My first regret was oh shoot all the graduate programs say they they'll accept economics grads, but they really want math grads and like math is Fantastic, I mean it's similar to computer science in that it will expand your knowledge of like specific formal things and you know Doing proofs. It's just beautiful. I had a girlfriend who was a math major at some point And I just love to do her proof homework. It was just so great This is awesome. Like I wish I was like begging her. Hey, can I can I look at your problem sets? That's anyway Um, so I will tell the other people and no, I don't I don't have a really deep Um experience with advanced mathematics and I I really regret that if I had um You know if I get the chance I might look into it if I find a good resource But I do recommend younger people mathematics. Don't don't dismiss it It is something that it can be so useful for so many other things I I think it's you know, how I say that crap about latin like latin seemed very useless when I learned it But it's been like so useful in everything mathematics is a hundred It's probably like that times 10 at least if you get into like really deep mathematics um You know just the superficial stuff. I know like I'm always finding generalizations that I can use in other things Um, bj says what do you think about the western a price? Weston a price foundation you link to one of their videos the oiling of america Oh, that was that instance with along along with uh sugar the bitter truth and that the oiling of america is another good documentary to check out I didn't know that was weston a price. Um, I'm less familiar. You know, everything I've heard from them is good Um, all of it's pretty based in red pill, but I'm not exactly sure what um What their whole spiel is so I'm not going to give a full-throated endorsement But in general, uh when it comes to diet, I I would I would say they're a pretty good eye On the right, you know, uh direction A europe guy again. I plan to work in it. I did an internship recently in it And I was told I had the knowledge to be hired, but they weren't hiring The problem with remote job is that most country companies don't do that here ps Uh, 250 characters max is hard. Okay. Sorry about that. I didn't know that was the Max and the software. I might change that. Eric, if you're watching that get on it I should probably change it myself. I should know enough go Yeah, this is the only program in go that I've ever like had to manage and it's actually a very elegant language, but um Uh, and it's fast too. It's not like one of those soy languages go even though it's, you know, google Google's language, you know, uh, it's a it's a really good language. Um, so yeah, I don't know like, um So did it depends I I hope that the company said that oh, well, you have the knowledge, but we're not hiring now I hope that they have your resume still like that's one of those will contact you when we have an opening I hope they weren't just being nice But uh, I don't know. I went one thing that I would um, I don't know if you're one of those guys who kind of feels I don't know if your balls shrink up when you feel like you're going to be rejected But I would encourage you to overcome that and I would just throw applications out to everything you could possibly get You know, just just anything Um, so yeah, I don't know if they don't do remote jobs. I don't know what to say Um, I I also don't know what kind of it stuff you do. You might want to um Shoot, I mean there are always ways of making money online. I you know, I what I really should do because I get so many freaking Uh Questions like this where it's like people asking very very specific life things About it and how to make money and how to get a job and how this kind of stuff Where you know, I'm not fully qualified to to answer all of these questions But what I I do feel like there needs to be is some kind of curses on a nor room for Uh people who know about tech and it But want to make money online or want to kind of freelance things or or host services for people I should probably do you know, maybe that's something that landshad could do Like on landshad.net like maybe I could make tutorials about you know, here's how you could host uh You know host some kind of virtual services for companies and you could rent them out and stuff like that I don't know that much about that because I don't know a lot about virtualization and containerization Because I I usually hate the stuff because people will use it for individual uses, which I don't like But I think learning something like that would probably be really valuable It'd be really nice if there were a site that aggregated all that So that someone could come on who has tech knowledge and could set up a vps For someone else and just like have them pay basically have them pay royalties For you setting up some vps for free for them. Um But yeah, that's actually a good idea now that I think about that I think we should do yeah, maybe I should do something like that Like actionable things like here you can go to a business and set up a website using these technologies and have them pay you Some amount of money every month for hosting this. Yeah, like that would be I don't know now. I'm just thinking as your specific case. You're up guy Man, I don't like there is a point where I have to say you got to make your own decisions Like I don't know the particulars of where you can get a job I just don't know you're in a different country and this applies to a lot of other people who ask me about job stuff Like I can't tell you all of this, you know I should be more dismissed like I I always want to be caring when I get comments like that But there is a sense in which I got to be a little dismissive because I don't know like you got to make these decisions And I let me put it this way. I was in the same position when I was younger. Okay Uh, but I've been lucky with jobs. Uh, I've been lucky with the internet that you know I can be here and get xmr donations, right? Uh, I think that's cool But a lot of it like when you're younger You know, I didn't think that I would be able to leverage any of this kind of stuff So if you're directionless, just think about honing your skills And learning things that will expand the the circumference of things that you can do So Surprised you let go because it compiles two giga binaries. Oh does it? I have to check that out. I mean, it's not the size of the binaries. That's the problem I you know, I'm um as long as it's not crap like, you know, you have um You know, like uh, what is app images or whatever? I think that's ridiculous I mean app images can still be fine. They're better than snaps and flat packs Um, which no one should ever use snaps or flat packs um But yeah, like the size of a program itself doesn't bother me What does bother me when is when you have like app images where they're like duplicating content that exists elsewhere on the system I don't know if go is doing that but as far as I'm concerned go is I mean, it's fast and it's like easy to read code Like I don't know go but I can still look at it and be like, oh, okay. I know what this is doing Like it's pretty intuitive um He doesn't answer the youtube chat question. Yeah, sorry. Sorry if I miss youtube like I mostly focus on You know donations on my own platform, which are over there Uh, if if I miss the super chat. I'm sorry um Hey, I was thinking about doing that with a small business and hosting their stuff on amazon buckets for pennies Yeah, well, you know, I I'm kind of anti amazon. I wouldn't use that but you know, yeah in concept. Sure Sure, that that stuff is probably like one thing I've realized about the internet is that it's actually easier to make money than You think right even like lindy press like so that's that's my new way of making money and it's worked pretty great. Um But uh, I just regret not doing that years ago because I had the idea of doing it And I I kind of put off I put it off and I was like, oh, I can do that later No, man, you can make things happen. And you know, I am thankful. I did have a guy Help me out writing the code for it. He actually wrote it in python Um, which you know, I'm I'm still you know, I'm not a big fan of python, but I'll deal with it Uh, but you know, I just regret not doing that before You know because the the work the la tech work I was doing basically for myself anyway Uh, it's it's easier to monetize things on the internet than people think Um, and you know, I am glad to have a youtube channel because I kind of get free advertising I can say hey man go buy this but um You know Go literally statically compiles your dependencies and contains the full runtime and garbage click. Oh, well Well, you know, there there are reasons to have static Binaries and stuff actually technically that's the most suckless thing to do, right? Um, I want to say what didn't they have like some os that was like perfectly static binaries and stuff But I want to say when I did my my video on snap snap packs and flat images whatever the They are I want to say chi hindry did a video talking about that But what he said is like the real problem is actually dynamic, you know Dynamic linking and all that kind of stuff, which is kind of true like it in in There is a sense in which like the go way of doing things and like the static binary way is kind of better to do certain things Um What software did you use for xmr donations? So go to my github and look up shadow chat It was not written by me. It was written by someone who I think once they're remain anonymous I mean I referred to his handle in the last stream. It's eric, but um, he's um an era guy I don't actually know how he uh, who he is, but uh, it's really good stuff You can just run it on a vps Um, and it just checks you just give it a view key for a wallet And um, it will check whenever you get a donation and it will give you it sends me emails with um Like what people comment and stuff. I need a freaking more pieces read so I don't keep Okay Tyler says, um, do you do you believe in the techno anarchist philosophy? um, so obviously, you know, there are We talk memes about techno anarchism Um, but I will say I'm not like totally anti technology My view is that technology has to be adopted at an extremely slow and extremely conscientious Rate, you know, it has to be something you are constantly thinking about the social ramifications of right So I'm not one of these Singularity people who just thinks tech is gonna like it's a good thing if tech takes over human life And like we replace the human body with technology and transhumanism. I mean transhumanism is just anti humanism It's like we're creating a world that we're psychologically not adjusted for or physically not adjusted for And you know, I I think that human society has to be based Based around the needs of humans, right? That shouldn't be like an insane thing to do So I feel like a lot of technology is Uh submitting humans to a technological future or ideological principles Oh, you have to be subjugated to this idea of freedom or this idea of equality or this idea of this that or the other It's it's it's using an ideology a technological ideology to control people as opposed to, you know Controlling your technology with the constraints of humanity, right? So And now in most cases, I think that people should not use technologies for I I recorded a video I mentioned this earlier in the stream where I kind of talk about this where people Who care about privacy and open source and free software and stuff like that They get so fixated on the technology Ignoring the fact that a lot of times you shouldn't even be using digital technology for a lot of things That video will come up out tomorrow morning in a couple hours. Um but So, you know, my view is real life is the real life And you shouldn't use technology in lieu of your real life However, when you do use technology use it wisely And you should use, you know, the best free and open source encrypted stuff or everything And we can slowly build a technologically advanced society that could explore the galaxy or whatever But it has to be done like every we it has to be watertight. It has to be something that humans um That that is that is built for humans And if if we can't build it in a way where humans can survive and thrive Psychologically and physically that it's not worth building. You're just destroying mankind Based off of some delusion of Techno futurism Okay Technology and ideology becomes this cancer that is going to destroy the human race and subjugate it Okay, that's lame. So I'm not a techno anarchist Um, but I do like what I'm what I'm saying now should not be considered techno anarchism It should just be considered being a sensible person, right? Okay, I see a super chat. I'm catching this one. What's your opinion on modern china? Uh It'd be much more based if they were still imperatives but modern I mean like a lot of people You know will be like oh america sucks and it does suck and all western governments are like insane and satanic and all that kind of crap Um, but I'm not one of those people who automatically elevates China or russia now. I do think china and russia especially nowadays are playing Geopolitically like it's I hope that they play more of a countervailing role to america However, that is not to state my endorsement of anything particular about china I mean china is ultimately just a different culture Like they they value different things than I value right as a as a as an american as a white person as a person who comes from You know western culture I have different values than they have like what what I perceive as You know the appropriate level of freedom is different from what your average chinese person has Um, you know, there are many there are many cultural differences that you can have between different cultures So, you know when I went to china, I actually really liked it. I actually really liked living there Uh experiencing it mainly mainly because it you're free from all this stupid crap You have to deal with in america like the the cultural revolution in america. You don't like Do I like china like as a culture? Would I like to live there? Am I chinese? No, I'm not chinese Okay, but there are many things that you know, I could admire about it and uh, you know I don't know if I even know chinese well enough to watch tv I definitely can't read very well anymore My my chinese reading abilities have decreased significantly Um, but you know, so I'm less plugged into it than I was you know 10 years ago, but But I mean if you're if you're asking something specifically political About the modern chinese government. I don't know. I do think it's stupid that taiwan is like an independent country I think it should I I really feel like china should just assimilate it Um, and it'll probably eventually happen They should have just done it when russia invaded ukraine because it's like, you know You know, what's the american government gonna freak out about they're not they're not gonna go to war everywhere I mean they ended up not going to war over ukraine. I hope they don't oh my goodness. That would be so stupid That would be the dumbest thing in the universe but Look, I'm a physics student. So I really like math physics and philosophy But philosophy is cringe in college and I'm planning on taking a bunch of math and physics Is theoretical physics cringe? Well depends on what theoretical physics is. I mean You know, I'm I'm always the advocate of of Views that are not expanded within the university system because I do think that there is a self-confirming Um, incestuous It's just naturally. This is just naturally how it is a lot of academia naturally Um, uh kind of blots out certain viewpoints not because they're necessarily bad But just because they're off of the radar, they're not comprehensible with the the the typical frameworks So it depends on what's theoretical physics. There is their means. I mean is it um Do you mean something specific in academia now? Or do you mean something as opposed to it? Right? I I will say in On theoretical grounds, I think this goes for any kind of um You know, uh, uh, what's the word I'm looking for that I just used. I know I just used this Starts with an F framework Any theoretical framework, right? um, he's always gonna have Like its problems are always going to be at its foundational level Like that's always how it is like you create some new theoretical framework that's based on these assumptions and 60 years go by Many many careers have been made much blood has been spilled on it And then someone realizes. Oh the the foundations that went into it Oh, they were actually faulty and all these years we've been wasting our time. That actually is that's how it works Like that's how it's been for hundreds of years. Okay. That's how I I'm steinian physics You know in a couple years are going to be like oops We misunderstood relativity wrong in this respect and the whole system is screwed up and our entire interpretation is is messed up I I have an essay on my website kind of about this. It's like physics is fragile but So I don't know it's your call. I don't actually know what theoretical physics in a university right now looks like It's probably different from department to department, but I have never really been directly involved in a physics department So, um, I can't tell you So you might know more than me Nah, taiwan needs to annex china Yeah Now well taiwan is definitely a cringer of I mean, you know, I don't support communism But the chinese government is clearly it's no longer communist. In fact taiwan is frankly more culturally communist than china is now Um Look, have you heard of the nick bostrom postulates? What do you think about them? I've never heard of them. I'm gonna write that. I'm gonna put them in my notes file And I will look at those later Glad I saw that Okay Um, dc. Pagan says what files systems and storage frameworks do you use? I am reading the bs free bsd handbook and studying z f s g G e o m a bunch of other acronyms And I am intimidated at joining or Intimidated at joining the dark side. What are your thoughts on michael warren lucas? I don't know who michael warren lucas is. I don't know if he is a bsd guy on uh file systems I will just say I am a boomer and I just use ext for Because I don't know that's like the default So I I've never really looked that much into it and I should I definitely should But I don't know a bunch of other people are using that and I'm just going to deal with it for now Like it's never given me that big of a problem if I see some reason to switch over I might but Luke any plans to bring back the forms or some other form of it. Um Unlikely I but I do I I have brought up the idea of using either movum Uh or something like that to to put my blog in which allows more like user interaction And I have thought about doing a form for not related, but I'm not quite sure Mark says loved your recommendation of michael michael michelle thomas's courses any other resource you find useful for acquiring german for anglophones native catalan speaker Uh, I would not say like I can kind of read german, but I would not say I speak it sufficiently for me to Say oh use this to learn german I've never really been motivated to learn german so Okay, I'll check up. Let me check my emails Um a jew sends in some xmr. That's his name a jew Um, whatever happened to getting rid of your youtube by the end of 2021. Yeah. Yeah, I did say that I'm postponing it I functionally did like stop doing videos I mean realistically speaking my youtube channel stopped in 2018 when I moved out here That's when it actually stopped because before then you might remember those of you who have been on my channel for a long time I would post videos every day right now. It's like, oh, I'll put up a video when I feel like it um And I and I will say I did not say I was going to get rid of my youtube channel by the end of 20 Uh 2021 what I did say is that oh just like set it and forget it and you know, I'll move to I'll do my peer tube as a primary platform And I should force that a little more because I haven't really told people to like comment and subscribe over there But if guys if you guys don't know I should do more videos on there are bugs in my house I don't know how did I leave a door open when I got my rock? Hold on. Let me check this because Leave a door open. Um If you guys don't know go to video There is a video or videos. I always forget videos thought luke smith.x yz All my videos are there off youtube I want to use that as a primary platform and I have done live streaming there Now the reason I'm still using youtube is I should have said this at the beginning one thing I want to my next step is I want to have an email Uh list like a mailing list and the reason I want that is I want it to replace youtube notifications I want to be able to give people notifications when I put up a video on peer tube Including live streams live streams or time Live streams are time sensitive the reason I I'm still streaming on youtube is because I you know, I just started this up on youtube everyone gets a notification and People are in the chat room within like five minutes. Okay, that is that doesn't happen on peer tube I've done streams on peer tube. It doesn't notify people actually till I publish the video So I have to put out an rss feed thing or whatever it doesn't work as well So I need kind of an email mailing list that You know would would help a lot That's really the one technological thing other than that. I just need to recommend it more and I've just taught like I always feel bad about shilling things like oh go subscribe on this other site But I I really should just like I don't know get used to it and do it because shilling that is much better than continuing to use youtube but you know But yeah, I never said I was getting rid of the youtube channel I was just saying I'm phasing it out and I'm still phasing it out, but you know I phase it out by not doing videos on it for a while, but you know um, I guess um And you know, I shouldn't even say I should totally get rid of it because I really just want to move people over to other platforms Um, because hey, I was glad when I did that. Um not related episode and I actually saw I got lots of Lots of new people watching and so there is I can still use I can still leverage youtube for good. I hope I hope I might be coping tell me if I'm coping. No, don't say don't say that you're just going to put cope everywhere But um, you know, I think that I can still use youtube for good because frankly all you guys you know me from youtube Okay, I will okay every once in a while I will find someone who found out of me from somewhere else But most people know me from youtube and I got to do something about that, you know It's a massive chair. Oh, yeah Yeah, you're probably looking at this chair like oh my goodness like luke is like severe manlet It actually in real life. It doesn't even look the small I think it's like the angle because the camera is because if I go over here See now I look freaking huge right now over here I look like a manlet. Okay. It's it's literally just the camera. It's like a fish eye Yeah, now now I'm like freaking. Oh, I'm massive dude. I'm freaking like I'm a hulk of a man I should be doing my stream over here. You know, see I'm mogging myself, right? Look at this. Oh the virgin left side of the chair Chad right side. Yeah, I'm freaking huge over here Um I'm coping. Yeah, I'm coping I'm coping about the the pure tube thing So discussion about quantum stuff I take exception to nonsense quantum math is very hard to understand in physical sense But experimental evidence shows it to be a good theory stream theory is probably courage though Yeah, I'm not quite sure what I think about I mean what he said I I'm not paying attention to this discussion going on in the chat, but I will say I was often very Surprised that quantum mechanics does, you know, there's actually a classic youtube Lecture on quantum mechanics. I forget what it's entitled, but it's given at google back before google was like big Um, but you know, it's a guy talking about the fact that even like simply with like light filters like that get you know make light polar You can more or less Prove or experimentally show Quantum phenomenon and that kind of blew my mind because a lot of times when you first look at quantum phenomenon You automatically assume that it's like It's all it's all faking gay, right? Oh, this is like some kind of statistical fluke or people are looking at their experiments wrong but um So yeah quantum phenomenon, but I will say I I I am I do kind of take the Einsteinian Uh approach or the Einsteinian view that yeah, we're going to find some way of like there's some underlying principles behind them um Yeah, the 511 left side of the chair versus the six foot right side Brutal mug. Yeah. Yeah, I need to sit on this side. Yeah I'm mugging the left side luke. He's he's cringe um What's your thoughts on simplified versus traditional chinese? I do feel like simplified chinese is not I mean, it's not really that easier than I mean, I guess it's fewer strokes But I kind of feel like it's a waste like it's like why even have a different system that I mean It's it does simplify some things right makes it easier to write I guess it makes some things easier to perceive But if you were really serious about reforming chinese orthography, you would just write it in freaking pinion, you know And and there are some documents saying that Mao actually wanted to do that and I am not ironic now I do admire the traditionalism of chinese writing and I think it should still be taught Taught to chinese children. However, realistically speaking It would have been a good thing if they moved over to like pinion Like that that is the the standard way of writing documents that and now that sounds crazy Okay, it sounds nuts and there is a big difference in chinese now for ameramuts like me, right? The difference between our written and writing or the britain and writing are written in spoken speech It's not that much. It's bigger in chinese So there's a sense in which oh, well, maybe you could use pinion for for you know spoken language and chinese characters or more you know written language and something like that but either way, you know, I just kind of feel that um um It would have definitely made things easier But uh, of course chinese children. Hey, they learn characters fine. They're not brainless like american Students who are just freaking lazy and don't want to learn anything chinese Children, you know, they learn the six thousand characters. They need to be able to read a newspaper and many many more characters. So Uh Zachier, I think that's how his name is pronounced Uh, do you believe the whole bible is true? If so, what do you say about creation in genesis one? Also, do you believe in miracles in the present day? Uh miracles on the present day. I don't um I mean I Listen, even if you know, even if you believe in like a materialistic world, okay, where um Like you have to concede that there is there are some phenomena that are beyond normalcy, right? And so of course, you know, even if I were an atheist quote unquote I would more or less have to say that yeah, there are some there are some things that are functioning Well, okay, maybe maybe I'm talking as if you're speaking in latin because in latin the word for miracles. It just means something Oh, that's amazing. It doesn't necessarily mean something supernatural. Maybe let me step back and answer that in english, right? Sure miracles happen can happen in I mean, I don't magically believe everything that is going to be a miracle In fact, I've probably seen that 99 percent of them are nonsensical Um, in fact, even if something like there have been things even in the past year to me That have happened to me that I would are kind of miraculous, but I don't even really think of them in those terms um But you know, the whole the christian view of miracles, right is not that miracles are They can be something where god reaches into the world and changes something But they can also be Synchronicities thank coincidences that happen for merely physical reasons, right? totally scientific reasons Right, uh, and it's just a coincidence, but it's a coincidence with divine provenance, right? It's it's like if I don't know. It's it's like if your kid, um You know your kid is gonna find I don't try to give an example Like it's like something that was going to happen anyway, but you have consented to it You kind of made it happen or I don't know. It's provenance. It's provenance. That's a word for it. Whatever. Maybe you're not familiar with that term Um, so as it comes to the bible true I mean true and literal are two different things So there are many things in the bible that are no one thinks is literal, right? So revelation is clearly metaphorical a lot of prophecies a lot of the the funny thing the visions They're they're not literal Um, and as it comes to genesis one, it's one thing to say. Yeah, do I believe god created the heavens and the earth earth? Yes, uh, do I believe that genesis one and two are supposed to be exact I don't know exact and accurate descriptions of what happened Uh, not necessarily. You could believe that I'm actually I don't bully young earth creationists anymore I think there's a case to be made for it actually Um, but you know, it's you know, if you're if you're willing to look at it Um, however, you know in the history of christian thought if you look at people who were christians looking at this, uh issue I mean augustin for example, he didn't believe the first, you know, a couple chapters of genesis were Uh, you know that the world was created like that. I think his his take on it was god created the entire universe instantaneously Okay, and everything sort of has the form it has now And it persists like he didn't have this view of god created things on multiple days So, um, you know, that kind of clumsy literalism That's something that a lot of american Protestants believe in because again once you've been severed from that tradition Uh, you know of the orthodox or catholic church, right that goes back millennia of people talking about these issues Then the only option you have is to say oh my goodness. Well, the the bible says literally this so I have to believe literally this um, and in reality like You know, there have been many times in places where that was um You know, it wasn't necessarily the expectation that this is something that literally is happening And when you look at textual analysis when early christians or hebrus We're looking at texts a lot of times they looked at things even things that might be flaws or misunderstandings They looked at those as being providential okay so, um So I I think the whole idea that oh well is literal young earth like young earth creationism and all that kind of stuff um, I think it's something that you could believe but I think it's something that um It's definitely not necessary And it's it's not also like I know this is a big stumbling block for people because it's like the meme that materialism gets Put on you like oh dude evolution goes against this and all this kind of stuff I will just say like once I started believing Creation became a very little issue. It's not something that I think about like um And and it's a perfectly sensible thing to say that god created a world with continuity like if he creates a deer You know a scientist can look at it and say oh, it's a 10 year old deer Even though it's not 10 year old. It's just been created or you know a rock or stream or things like that All of them their existence implies a history So to create these things You you implicitly create a history for them. You understand what I mean So it's a sensible thing to say that god could create a world where there are fossils in the ground, right? So, you know people will say that as if it's like a knockdown argument or whatever Um, bj donates five dollars old school woodpins and buttons went. Yeah, I got lazy. I I haven't made more of them I should I really should so um Black a black person sent in some manero Uh, you have you seem to have some sympathy for the third German German Empire Third German Empire, I guess he means the third Reich For example last room you referenced their playing reasonable interest in the danzig corridor Will you ever explicate your full full views on this topic? Um, well, I I mean, I think you could just like read a history book if you want to know I mean the point I was making is You when you look at any kind of pocket propaganda system and we were talking about the russia ukraine thing, right? All that americans know about the issue is that russia invaded ukraine. Why did they invade ukraine? Was there some violence happening before there was was there some issue where the ukrainians doing bad things? americans have no clue because what the propaganda system says is it blots all of that out And says only look at this thing that makes the russians look like the big man big bad villains Now does that mean I automatically think the russians are not villains? I don't know. I don't know about the issue It actually doesn't concern me at all. It doesn't I don't I don't care And in fact many times there are two people who are in the wrong, right? Uh, and so I said the same thing about you know world war two Um, like americans like americans are we're told the same things about you know hitler Like hitler's just invading all these countries for no reason. No, I mean He annexed austria, which of course voted to be annexed like it was consensual, right? You know germany and austria were basically the same culture Uh, and then the portions and then also people say, oh man He won part of czechoslovakia and all these negotiations. Well, it wasn't like some foreign territory It was a portion of it Uh belonging to you know, you know where germans lived, right? Um, so does this mean that oh my goodness now you're saying like oh hitler didn't do nothing No, but like you can look at you you can look at these issues and say oh clearly I've only seen one side of the story And maybe I shouldn't get emotional about ukraine because I don't freaking know anything about it And I've I've been deliberately shown only one side of the story Okay, so um as it comes to russian and ukraine or germany and poland I don't know enough about historically what's going on. In fact, I don't even think the history in terms of something that happened 100 years ago Is necessarily a good representation of what's going on. I don't make that assumption, right? Um, you know, so I I don't know. I'm not gonna. I can't I can't look at these things Uh, especially issues where you know that most of it's going to be propaganda I don't think it's proper for a person to to pontificate about them So what I'm pontificating is ambivalence and skepticism of people who are trying to to build Ideologies based on these narratives, you know That doesn't mean like I'm not actually saying big brain centrism either I'm just saying when you look at russia and ukraine. I know Even if russia is in a sense an aggressor. I know that what I'm being fed is not the full story That's what a sensible person should reach So Not caring about ukraine is extremely based There are a bunch of similar wars that people don't care about and before last month No one even cared about ukraine. Not anyways. Yeah, that's exactly right Like this ukraine stuff has been going on at least since 2014 and we haven't heard about it because ukraine is america's ally Right, or the ukrainian government that they installed in 2014, right that is doing bad things killing people, right? um So, uh, I mean I saw someone post this meme also where it's like it just lists out all these conflicts You know where like tens or a hundred thousand Thousands of people have died since the 1980s none of which you ever hear about right and um And then you know people are just like snoozing throughout the whole thing And then they ukraine is at the bottom and you know, there's someone going nuts, right? And that that's how it is like There's one thing I used to have this essay, you know, I almost published a book back in like 2014 This that was like way before I had a youtube channel But you know, I made this you know one reason you fundamentally can never trust a journalist Is because what a journalist or even like a historian at some level of abstraction, but you know, what a journalist has um Is You know, there's this old saying that michael angelo when he did when he created david the sculpture Or something like that someone asked him. Oh, how did you make a sculpture that great? And he said oh, it's easy. You just cut away all the parts that don't look like david, right? So what the media does is they have basically a giant slab of marble Uh in the sense that going on in the world there is so much That you can cut any narrative you want from it anything you want Like if you if you want to create the narrative that um, you know The police in america are hunting down and killing black people you can do that If you want to create the narrative that black people are hunting down and killing white people you can do that Or white people are killing black people It doesn't matter like you can make these narratives because narratives are formed of anecdotes now This is not me saying like oh everything can happen. Everything is true or nothing like that But what i'm saying is when you're talking about people who control information They have the ability to take that slab and carve into it anything they want by omission They omit all the things they don't really care about and they throw what they want you to see in front of your face All the time that's how they do it the the media can lie without lying Because what it can do is it can take the complex events of the world And it can focus you in on some that will lead you to false assumptions While ignoring everything else while ignoring all the contradictory information and that is what it does That is exactly what it does it gets you focused on these particular issues That are disproportionate and they have nothing to do with anything Okay, they just get you fixed on that and you can't look at anything else and you fall This is how they get people right so now everyone has to have an opinion about this ukraine thing That has nothing to do with them You it has nothing like I was talking I was talking to a relative who had who had lived in ukraine for a period Okay, and she was like listen. I was there and I still don't freaking know what's going on It's not my business. I have friends there, but I know this issue of ukraine versus russia I I don't know about and that's correct. She was right to say that um So and that that's what people need to need to understand like these things that are put on the news They are not put on the news to inform you they are put on the news to be the Assumptions that lead you to the conclusions that they want It's stupid to say it's stupid for them to say you're not allowed to believe this You have to believe that because then people will know they're being brainwashed, but if they put a series of tactical Tactical events and other issues in front of your face They can lead you to make your own decision to say what they want you to think anyway Right, that's how it works Okay, I'm about I almost need to turn on the ac It's actually getting warm here. It's like it's probably 80 degrees in here. Uh, let me check my uh Vietnamese person sent in some an era all these different races of people sending in stuff I don't know why they name each other. I assume it's the same guy Um, hey, luke. What's your favorite boba tea your answer will determine how masculine or feminine you are Um Honestly every time I go there I like I can't they all sound like crap to me. I actually get tarot a lot of the times I guess that's pretty traditional. That's not very fair. I don't get freaking mango juice or something I don't know or maybe maybe that maybe they do have mango juice there. Maybe that's lindy But I usually have tarot Um, or sometimes it will actually get coffee. I I will be clear I do not endorse consuming product of boba tea. It's just if I'm doing it. That's what I'm doing I guess I talked about this in a stream the other day, but um Yeah, is tarot masculine or feminine as a boba tea play. I really think any boba tea is necessarily feminine like when I There there are some things like only women go there right only women go to get boba tea Yes, I I went I guess I guess I'm transgender now. Um, and uh The same thing there used to be near the campus I worked at there used to be this like uh juice place, you know, like They have like smoothies and stuff And every once in a while I drink, you know, or I drink and eat so little sugar There will be occasionally when I'm like, oh, I need I need some fructose, you know So I would go to the smoothie place and I couldn't help thinking that all of like I felt embarrassed to order anything Okay, um Well, firstly, I'd be the only man there Well, let's just say I wouldn't be the only one with x y chromosomes, but But um, uh, I would go there and um, you know, all of the things were named these embarrassing Womenly names. It'd be like Barry splooge on my face. I don't know like just stupid. It just weird things that I felt like weird or like Uh protein booster like health Like something that presupposes it's like healthy for you or the reason I'm getting this is not because I want to consume product but because I care about my health or something that is just I don't know silly Brad says, please check my super chat. I can't okay. I'll pull up the super chat I'll try and pull up the super chat window the things the thing with it The reason I have all those donation things over there aside from the fact that youtube Takes most of your money when you give a super chat. Is it so freaking hard to look at super chats? You've missed viewer activity, let's see Yeah, it doesn't even show if you click on them afterwards. It doesn't even show them. Oh my goodness I've been going for three freaking hours. I need to stop this. I need to stop this. All right, let me uh um Okay, so we'll keep going a little longer. Uh, but um It is freaking hot in here. Oh, I have a fan. I should turn a fan on It'll cool me down It'll cool me down I'm the only one in the house tonight. So I don't uh You know, I always feel like if you're the only person in the house It's always a waste to use the ac. You should just use a fan. I mean most people in america They have fans and they don't even use them. So Um, what was the verdict on tarot? Is that masculine or feminine? I I really feel like none of them are masculine but What are your thoughts on the palestine is real conflict since There are many people being so emotional about ukraine when there's a war for more than 70 years in palestine. I mean um You know, I do feel the same way. I don't like talking about things that i'm not directly related to but I mean it seems um It does seem a little bit more like um I feel a lot of sympathy for the palestinians because they kind of got this hard uh The whole thing was forced on them, right? I mean the whole like israel let's move these people here It was really forced on them and I've heard a lot of bad things that the israeli government does um Again, I don't automatically believe things. Okay, but um, if I were to pick a side, I definitely picked the palestinian side Uh, but that's not to act. This is not even an endorsement, right? um That that's just like my my what I've I've heard about it. It seems like israel Uh, has done some pretty egregious things. So You can get canceled for questioning the israeli palestine conflict conflict. It is literally a religion over here I don't know where you're talking from. I don't think no. See, I don't think that you can get canceled for that frankly um Now if you're a politician, you got to bend the need to israel all the time But normal people, okay, of course, they're always like, oh my goodness anti-semitism you question the jews about anything That's terrible. That's like a hate crime. Yeah, they do say that However, there's always been that portion of the left that is anti-israel and for that reason Other people can also be kind of anti-israel. They can say like israel's doing bad things, right? So I don't think that's the case. I think that um Well, yeah, I mean like a lot of universities will still have kind of anti-israel stuff going on like I don't think it's like a fully canceled position now questioning Can't even say that on youtube, so i'm not going to there are other things you can't question that may or may not Be relevant to israel and palestine. However, the specific issue of like zionism You can't I do absolutely believe you can uh, you can question it You will be cancelled in a lesser sense. Like, you know CNN doesn't want to have gnome chomsky on if he's talking about israel and palestine Well, gnome chomsky else actually just drones on about about a bunch of stuff Like he'll just start talking and it won't stop But um Yeah, like that in general they will want like more pro israel stuff on the media and they will they will usually go for that but um Like I do think that there is definitely there's definitely still a place that you know um, you can question like the the whole israel palestine thing um But I mean still in politics in politics. There's no question. Yeah, everyone's like, oh my goodness They're gonna shut you down. No, like this is not this the thing about the israel palestine question Is that it's not even relevant to anything racial about jews? Because you know, again, like the leftists who are anti israel, they are like the the biggest race cocks You know, they hate white people just as much as everyone else. In fact, they hate israel because they think israel is white They're like israel is white colonizers. So because of that Speaking against it. Mind you like freaking george soros is basically Uh israel skeptical like a bunch of like the big Okay, I don't want to talk about whatever there's some things I can't say on youtube I'm not afraid about talking about israel and palestine, but still I give no endorsement I'm like, I'm not giving a full through to the endorsement the palestine all I'm saying is like from what I know It usually seems like um You know, I I I guess like the palestinians for however bad they are You know, I kind of sympathize with their plight a little bit more And I I do have middle eastern friends who will say who will try and give the big brain taken the middle east Because obviously most of the middle east is like screw israel, right? But I've had middle eastern friends who are kind of like, yeah, well Yeah, israel's bad, but palestinians. They actually suck man Like it's it's they're they they pretend to be persecuted when they're really not they like do all this fake news stuff and Um and sure like whatever. I don't know about it. Like that that's all I'm gonna say like Jews aren't like luke luke uh 2022. I mean jews like jews do not perceive themselves Themselves as being identical to whites. I don't think that's a controversial thing to say Or you know, maybe if it's rhetorically convenient for them, they will or whatnot. Okay, that but that's not um um You know the the point is like when a leftist says something like oh Jews are like white colonizers that is obviously not the same thing as like You know europeans settling in some uninhabited land, you know This the stream includes the jew and the zorastrian hitler is real and pal Yeah, we've we've touched all these hot button issues But frankly, I haven't even said anything like even that youtube could ban me for whatever I said like You know nothing even controversial um Alchemical sue sufi sent in some xmr thoughts on tarot cards based esoteric alchemical symbols or vectors of demonic possession Also, have you heard of the meditations on tarot a journey into christian hermeticism? I have not heard of that book Haven't heard of that. Um, are they based? Esoteric alchemical symbols or vectors of demonic possession realistically speaking neither. I mean firstly tarot cards Are just used as playing cards in a lot of european countries like they're nothing I mean, it's actually there are interesting games you can play with them So it's only I think in amer- maybe in europe there's this association, but in america There's this association with the occult and you have like You know palm readers and stuff like that who will read you fortunes and stuff. Um, I think it's nonsensical I don't think it's really lindy. It's kind of a recent development. It's not actually related to alchemy so far as I know um it's Do I want to say it's demonic not necessarily? I don't know maybe I mean anything could be freaking demonic nowadays, you know, but I mostly think of it as being cringe And just kind of real in I do actually have a tarot card deck Just because I wanted to learn some of the game the games to play, but you know, whatever Zach here, I I I read his name before I'm not sure how to pronounce it. So sorry if I'm pronouncing it wrong Zach sure. Zach here He sends in $10. I drink tarot milk tea. I'd say it's one of the more masculine of the boba options out there Anyways, where would a modern churchian go to learn about the early church traditions beliefs, etc relatively uncull colored by modern philosophy in lenses, um Well, honestly, there are a lot of people nowadays who uh You know, there are a lot of orthodox and catholic people nowadays out there online I'm trying to think some that would be adjacent to me. I mean, there's like ruch v who does orthodox stuff But he he does a lot more and he'll blog about books. He reads and stuff like that. It might be worth talking looking at ruch v um, but I mean in general like for me Uh, this maybe isn't good for everyone or maybe isn't ideal for everyone But I got into it like reading stuff like I read a lot of Thomas Aquinas's summa, which is another Lindy book that I plan on publishing not his entire summa because it's way too freaking big But I was thinking about publishing a book just on sexual ethics like Aquinas on sex Right, and you know, I think that'd be a good idea. There's interesting stuff in there Either way actually reading some of this stuff a lot of it isn't hard to read and you can get a lot from Uh in the case of Aquinas Aquinas might be a little late. I mean, he's not early church But he's still building off a similar world view. I mean, he has more of an Aristotelian world view But um, he does have this nice way of writing where for any theological issue I don't know if you're I don't know if I'm lecturing the choir on this But for any theological issue he actually starts out, you know, let's say does god exist So he'll start with the question does god exist. They don't make a couple arguments against God existing, you know, he'll he'll be like, oh, it seems god doesn't exist because you know this reason, right? Then he'll you know go to scriptural authority and then Address like basically make a response and respond to each of the arguments in kind, right? So for each of the far five arguments against he will make his arguments, right? So that's how the summa is constructed and it goes through a lot of different issues Like well literally everything like summa like a summa in medieval latin that more or less was, you know It's the highest work on it. It basically tries to encompass everything about a topic So the summa covers the summa theologiae covers everything theological, right? Um, so I would just recommend reading stuff from people of this period and I think also historical knowledge like You know, what if you're into history? I mean, I guess when I got into traditional theology I kind of I had known more about I had known that like The church had different interpretations of things like baptism, let's say Then my church growing up, right? So, you know, oh, why did why did this person postpone his baptism to the end of his life? Okay, well, it's because Their interpretation of baptism was that when you get baptized like in the catholic church, right baptism remits sins So it might be best to get baptized right before you die. So you don't have to go to a priest afterwards and stuff like that, right? Um, anyway, so I would just recommend read early stuff if you can get into it It might be kind of obtuse if you're unfamiliar with it Um, but you know, there are there are people on youtube and elsewhere who do orthodox and catholic stuff and things like that Um, I I would just stray away from Protestants. Um, you know, not all Protestants are bad But I will just say they will have a presentist bias in a lot of their stuff. I would read orthodox is probably the best Um, it is definitely the best according to me. Um, and a lot of other people, right? So, um Yeah, just keep your eyes peeled on that. I if you do want catholic stuff, there are, um What is it? What's the set of acontist, uh, chapel in florida? I think they're youtube channels like roman catholic media and they have some pretty good sermons and, um Uh, like lectures and stuff you can check that out, too But orthodox is probably better just search for that. I guess the only person I mentioned was rufi Who's you know a lay guy, but whatever um Apostolic father's homes is interesting I actually haven't been read that many of the apostolic father's myself So I mean a lot of the stuff I read you probably notice even though You know, I lean more to orthodoxy. I've probably read more Um catholic and and medieval stuff Uh, brad says thoughts on the western esoteric tradition Intra is interesting takes last stream on alchemy How do you feel about renaissance cabala hermeticism and its extensions into the 19th and 20th century occultism? Uh, the the more modern it is the more nonsensical it is um hermeticism, I mean hermetically originally alchemy is like a hermetic worldview And hermeticism, of course dates back to you know around at least the time of christ according to lore dates dates back You know way later, but um or way earlier uh, but yeah all the later stuff like the John d and after Afterwards, I think it's kind of nonsense cabala. I just kind of dismiss it like it's it's it's more like around the 15 and 16 Centuries a lot of people just kind of did occultism as a meme And really even the term occultism I think is nonsensical and I think people shouldn't use it Because you know alchemy in the middle ages or hermeticism They were not thought of these like dark arts or anything weird. They were thought of I mean alchemy was just chemistry It was just how you look at physical You know you analyze physical stuff and hermeticism was just a philosophical view in the same way that platonism And uh, Aristotelianism is and it's in many ways analogous to philosophies. We're familiar with I know in that episode not related I did talk about um You know how stoic philosophy is similar to christian theology But hermeticism is the same it's kind of the same thing like they're Uh, you know the hermetic corpus if you think that it's written after christianity It's definitely the case that it was influenced by christian thinking Uh, you read like the the cosmology or the cosmogony I should say um and you know basically It it has a cosmogony very similar to like the christian view where god You know god creates the world But you know what extends first one from god is the logos and you know that has meanings and Neoplatonism as well But you know obviously in the christian theological tradition that that's jesus or jesus in his pre incarnate form um But you know anyway all of that stuff is analogous I would just say like the later stuff cabala Renaissance stuff Like it might be worth you know worth looking at like there's some stuff in my alchemy reader That is gonna like I almost put a fichino work But I couldn't get the freaking license for that because again, I think I complained about in the last um Stream someone put a restrictive license on it, but I do think I have I don't know. Let's see what the latest thing I have in terms of time here Uh, oh, I do have some stuff from paracelsus Um, so he is like 15th century But that's about the latest up most of the stuff I have is like early medieval where things are like less It's like less occult stuff. It's more like science and philosophy That that's more or less what it is. So I'm not a big fan of occultism or any of this like This this like weird stuff. I think it's kind of nonsensical Um, but alchemy, you know at the time alchemy was considered just a sensible science And I think if people understood it correctly they would understand Oh, it was a sensible science. It kind of still is there is you can look at things from that direction But um, you know, whatever Check donations Okay, don't see any Okay, I think I've talked about enough. So I think I'm gonna go home Go home. Why did I say go to bed? Um, we've been going for freaking three hours Uh Oh, I see hold on. I see some youtube super chats um So someone whose name I can't see because youtube css is mentally retarded Said oh, actually I can probably get rid of let me get rid of this I can't get rid of that. Okay. Someone says I can't see your name. Sorry, but you say I remember you citing someone who said To just open a normie use newspaper and see how much they screw up reporting on your particular Field of expertise. So that's the murrigal mon effect So the murrigal mon effect is the fact that if you read anything specialized in a newspaper about something you know about You're gonna realize how retarded the journalist is and how they get everything wrong every detail They arrogantly state and they're wrong about absolutely everything Um And you look at this and you're like wow, this guy's totally stupid journalists are retarded And that's on a field you understand and then you turn the page and you read something about Russia and Ukraine Which you don't know about and you automatically assume that oh well, they must be telling the truth about this They must know what they're talking about So that's the murrigal mon effect and the reality is everything in media If it's there, it's there to deceive you or it's there Put by someone who doesn't understand who is doing the job. I mean journalism is a job Where your power is maximized given your ability, right? You have enormous amounts of power And basically you don't know what you're talking about. It's like your responsibility is so low But you have so much control over what's going on. That's like what's most egregious about journalism Nick says share your thoughts about slavery in academia Oh, yeah, I didn't know if you meant like slavery. Oh, yeah, I love slavery. No, no, okay Uh, I don't know how long I want to talk about this because I'm getting tired But yeah academia sucks. It's like being in a big cult It's the exact opposite thing of being, you know, intellectually liberated. Just don't do it If you're anyone who cares about things if you care about, um I don't know. Like if you actually care about the issues you're studying You should not go into academia because you will just get frustrated and you will realize how little they care about any of that crap Um, because it's not that's not what academia is about and you will be a slave to it Rob says, Luke, have you read anything by Bishop Ryle? If so, uh, what is your view of him? I don't know who that is I have not read anything by him Okay, I gotta call it quits. We've been going for three freaking hours. This is the longest stream This might be the longest stream I've ever done. I didn't expect it to be a long stream I thought it was gonna be on in fact, I started later Then I expected I originally what I thought about trying to do a stream in the middle of the day Maybe so your pores could um, you know be in but, uh They can do without it Okay, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go take a leak and I'm gonna come back and uh, read the last donations, then I'm leave. Uh, I'm leaving. Um You know, usually I say, oh, I've been streaming so loud or streaming so now I'm getting words mixed up I really out my brain is deteriorating while streaming But I was gonna say I usually stream so long that my nose starts to itch and then I'm like, okay Now it's time to go. I don't know why my nose starts to itch, but I'm going I've been going and talking so long My mouth is kind of getting numb at this point I've been talking too much. My throat is fine. I don't know. It's been moving my mouth too much A mouth numbingly long stream. Yeah, that's right All right, let's see last donations No, here's oh, here's an email, but it's not a donation. It's just the freaking spam one of the most annoying annoying things epic So, uh, you know the registrar um, now If I recommend someone to use epic with a link or whatever they have an affiliate link But unfortunately, I don't get paid for it. It's just like they give you a little credit or something They give you like some amount of store credit, which means nothing, but I'll let people click on it You know, it saves me a little money like I don't need I think I like I think I like reserved my domain name for like the rest of my life, you know I don't need it But the annoying thing about epic is every time you recommend like someone clicks your link They send you an email about it and I don't care about it. Like I I wish Like I even contacted support because they don't give you the option to turn off these emails I contacted support saying could you please give me this option? Could you please like stop sending me these stupid emails? Like I don't want to hear about it Like I mean, it's not it is nice to see all the sites that people are buying because they've seen my videos Okay, but I don't really need to see that right. It's just a lot of emails. It's like literally I I would estimate when I first did those videos about setting up website. Let's actually see Let's actually see. So let's go in here and then we'll see Epic Philias Okay, so, oh my goodness. Yeah in So in the folder that I created Um, let's see one of my old mail archive folders around when I first started doing those tutorial videos there are 15,371 people who bought websites Over the period of a year or two or something like that Right and unfortunately, I think it paid, you know, I got a little bit of credit for that Not like it matters. I mean, I'm glad these people are making websites And I'm glad that there are 15,000 websites that are on the web because you know, I I help Someone get websites. That's great. But I didn't need those 15,000 emails epic. Could you please turn that off? Could you please actually What even yeah, see and they use their support email for it So I can't just block it because if I need to use epic support, you know, whatever screw it screw it screw it screw it And another one. Oh my goodness. All right Geez Louise. Well, let's see what domains they are I would read them out on stream, but Let's see what people are buying Okay, a lot of people buy their own names All right Let me look at the chat. I don't see any more donate donation. So I might just call it quit Favorite favorite apocrypha enoc Which by the way, you can buy on landypress.net The book of enox or the books of enoc and the book of jubilees Comes with three books of enox enoc one enoc two and enoc three That is this including the book of enoc the slavonic enoc and the hebu Did I call it the hebu enoc? They're called different things Either way good, but oh it has double columns and the double columns, you know They're hard to sell in in the in the abstract, but these actually look really nice. It ended up very readable Um, it actually helps economize, you know, when you have a different verse on each line But either way, you see look at this la tech magic where it had uh, wait, is this like the final copy? I want to make sure that like there are no screw-ups on that But yeah, I mean, you know, you got the chapter sides over there. All this is la tech magic I mean, I love la tech, right? It's so great. It makes my life so much better um But yeah comes with the books of enoc Including uh, look at this nice title, but I love la tech so much man. I just love it It's really garam on the font. Isn't that isn't it so fantastic? Filtered by keyword unique to those emails. Yeah, I mean that would be what a smart see like a smart person who knew About systems administration and email and stuff like that and servers. He would do that, but you know, I'm Evidently retarded Yeah, I well to be honest there I guess I didn't block them because I mean every time I was like, okay, no big deal. I I'm just getting more emails and um Uh, you know, it's kind of nice to see the domains that come in just to be like, oh this domain You know here all the funny domains that people buy or whatever because I can see that I can't say I only see first purchases um Do you have an odyssey like the book the odyssey? Yes, I do It's over or are you talking about the website? Or the the video site. I do have one of those too. You can just search me. I'll be there I bought the enoc and jubilees for my mom. She's enjoying it. Hey, that's cool That's very cool That was actually the first book I sold when I before I even Uh mentioned the site on youtube One of my friends bought this not a friend I expected to buy this but I just mentioned to Some people I bought it and he was my first real purchase So I'm very happy about that. I actually really like looking at this again the two column thing actually worked out really well I should probably use that for other um For other things also the book of jubilees that's like That's kind of like, um, it's it's like a commentary on genesis sort of it's like, you know Talking about genesis from another perspective more or less Um Linux libertine is better than garamond Ha ha ha ha ha wrong Do you want Nvidia to open source their drivers? Do I want them to give me billions of dollars? Yes I well, yeah, I I want a lot of things. They're not going to do it I can't imagine them doing it Unless there's some economic reason for them to do it. I mean it's I I've heard about people like trying to petition them Which just seems kind of silly um Linu xmr forever Sent in some xmr. What's your favorite john zorn record? I don't know who that is I don't know who that is. Sorry You guys know I don't know music Have you watched esoterica youtube channel dude is based is he see I don't know whenever you see esoteric stuff I just automatically assume it's unbased It's probably pretty cringe. I mean I say that, you know again like I'm I'm publishing an alchemy reader thing But yeah, all this all this like magic crap and like I don't know all this occult stuff I think it's nonsensical and as I said in the last stream You know roger bacon who I I have a pretty good You know work by him in here called the nullity of magic or the non-existence of magic I haven't actually different translations call it different things. It's originally written in latin This is english all this is english um, but you know the point he makes is is Well, he he drew the divide dividing line basically on a greek word, you know, depending on you know, which Disciplines use this word that means divination versus something else. By the way, it's not important for us but you know, he he I guess I agree with him in his analysis in that things like alchemy should really be looked at as a proto science And it had a systematic worldview. It was often couched in Obscurantist words But fundamentally, you know, it was a physicalist like science that you know didn't try like it's not like trying to summon demons Which a lot of these esoteric people It's just a bunch of like, I don't know like faux spirituality kind of anti-christian like I don't know. It's just a bunch of I mean not even anti-christian like oh one. Oh, I'm I'm spiritual but not religious people It's it's either inane or it's like demonic I don't know which is worse. Maybe it's both. But you know I don't know. I'll look at this channel though. He might he might indeed be based I'll I'll have to see I'll write it down. I'll I'll put it in my notes thing I'm not gonna dismiss him out of hand But I will just say like and oh, yeah, the guy asked a little bit ago. Like what about later? esotericist crap all like theosophy I think is nonsensical the woman who founded theosophy is like, you know crazy Um, and it's just like freemasonry. Basically Um, you know freemasonry is all we have to show for all these years of hermeticism and alchemy It's just like this freaking religion That's supposed to be every religion and you know Whatever And I don't endorse it Luke, what's your favorite food? Also, what's the point of life? Uh meat That's the both answer the both questions That's a joke. Yeah meat. Yeah, I don't know what else to say, you know meat meat and to bring glory to god Those are your two questions Is using is using Shopify dom is there a better alternative for lots of products? Uh I mean I I mean lindy press originally was going to use Shopify, which I'm glad it's not Um, but you know, I I had a guy help me write some software for it. So thankfully Um I don't know if there's like a one better product that I could recommend. I'm not quite sure Okay, I know I said I'm gonna call it quits. Usually if I say I'm quitting the live stream That means I will quit the live stream in one hour And I think an hour has come I'm done Um Okay. Yeah, I'm done. I'm just gonna go sleep here. Oh, yeah the other thing about this chair Oh, that feels good I'm just sleeping here Maybe maybe I'll just sleep on stream. I'll just forget to turn off my uh My camera. Okay one last check. I should check super chats too just in case there's Something else No, I'll see anything to you Sorry if I missed any super chats. I tried to get them all But that's all I can do Gotta go to bed Got to go to bed. I am Are you gonna have a stream schedule? I might I've been thinking about that I might um I've actually thought about doing Monday in the afternoon Uh, maybe like so like basically maybe a couple hours before I started the stream um I've also thought about Fridays or weekends, but I can't necessarily guarantee that I'm not I probably have too many social arrangements. It sucks Um, but it depends on the weekend I might I might prefer to do one on Friday or Saturday if I can but Monday might be a good idea so All right, so, uh, I guess that's about it. I'll see you guys. Uh, thanks for Donators remember get some xmr if you haven't gotten some already and that uh um Sorry, I was reading something else. I'm so tired. Yeah, get some xmr. That's the best way to donate Um, you can use donate dot lukesmith or whatever if you want next time, but either way Uh, I am planning on doing another episode of not related this month Um, and aside from that. Yeah, that's about it. Thanks everyone for showing up. I gotta go to sleep Way too late. It's almost 11. Oh