 OK, I'm going to go ahead and start the stream on time today. That's kind of irregular. Usually I wait a couple of minutes. So I actually had, well, I would say I have nothing to do, so I wanted to do a stream. But really, I do streams where I have lots of things to do, and I'm procrastinating them. But I can feel like I'm doing something by doing a stream. Within the next week or so, is my audio a little high? It looks a little, it's getting red on this thing. Maybe I should turn this down. Within the next week or so, I'm actually going to have a couple more books on, where is it? Lindy Press right there. So if you want to check those out, they're not up yet, but I'm not even uploading it all right now. Let me see. Let me see if it's actually going through. I don't know if I even, OK, yeah, I am going through. So, OK, yeah, I guess it started off with really bad bandwidth. So I have a couple books that are going to be on Lindy Press pretty soon. Again, a revision of the etymologies book, and then Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, an alchemy reader, and then a couple other ones that are pretty close to being done. Probably the next one that'll be added. Well, the etymologies revisions are actually already up. I'm just, I ordered my own copy. I want to check some other things. Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, that I'm getting a proof copy right now, and I'll probably figure it out. That's where you're talking to. Yeah. And then there are a couple, like I have a list of them, actually. The alchemy reader had one thing that I wasn't able to fit in it, the Rosarium Philosopherium. Or, well, I could fit it in there, but I figured it's long enough to be its own book. So I might just make its own book. And then I have Filmer's, Patriarcha, and Aquinas on Sax. Those are later ones. How's the audio volume? Is it like a little loud? Because on my side, it's going into the red a little bit. But oh, yeah. So yeah, I'm wearing my Bucky's merch today. I'm looking for a corporate sponsorship, guys. OK, Bucky's, any Bucky's people out there? I want an official Bucky's endorsement. I will wear Bucky's merch all the time. That'll be my dear deal. So that's what the thumbnail is. Or really, I just made that thumbnail because I was going to wear this shirt. All right. Yeah, it is a little loud. I'm going to turn it down just a smidgen. Because it is, OK, yeah, that looks a little bit better. All right. So normal, normal, I'm going to talk about some other things I've been doing. Just to be clear, I think I said this in the chat like a million years ago before anyone was in it. But I am going to be having some new videos this week that, well, new videos. But also videos that I've been in this habit of not putting up videos on YouTube. I'll put them on PeerTube on my own website or wherever it is up there if you go to the video section. But then I'll usually put them over on YouTube. But I've been forgetting recently just because I don't know. I guess I care less about YouTube. Many more people watch on YouTube. But it's like, I don't know. I just feel it less. I'm not really doing it for the view counts anymore, I guess, which is good. But you have more people watching, more people. I guess you get ad revenue on YouTube. So it's not really real until you're getting paid for it. All right, so I'm going to go ahead and we'll start answering questions or whatever. I think I already got some donations or whatever. So someone sent a PayPal donation. OK, usually don't. OK, PayPal donation from Lev. Please confirm for tomorrow's stream with Alexander. Oh, crap, I totally forgot about this. Yeah, I told this guy I was going to go on his podcast thing. I guess that's tomorrow. Let's see, I guess it's going to be on 3 PM. Yeah, I guess I can make that. I don't know who this guy is or I'm supposed to be appearing with somebody called Alexander Bart. I don't know who these guys are. I don't know what they're going to talk about. We probably said in the email chain, if I look at this. Hold on, OK, yeah, here. He did email me. Yeah, so yeah, sure, I'll go on that. I'll go on that. I don't know, I might regret it. Going on something with people I don't even know. I'm actually kind of, it might be kind of obvious, but I'm not a big person for, like, I don't know all these podcasts and stuff. It's not really my scene. So I'm looking at the normal chat and I'm also looking at the fact that, OK, now we're going faster again. Do you have any videos about how one should evaluate the land before buying? I will say that I don't have a video on that in particular, but I will say I think it's almost not worth the video because a lot of the things about land are just obvious. Because when I was first looking for land, I will say I wanted to, like, if I found a parcel that was really cheap, I would want to force myself into buying it. Like, ooh, I really got to get this. Oh, this thing's like $20,000 and that's it. Wow, that's great. But a lot of times, you don't want to fool yourself into getting property you know is bad and you probably already know it's bad. Like, in those cases, I was up in the mountains, which was very remote in the first place, which isn't bad necessarily. It's kind of hard to get to places. But if you have really hilly terrain, it's just hard to build stuff on. Like, you got to worry about erosion and all this kind of other stuff. I think most of my advice, I guess the thing for land, is don't fool yourself into thinking that something is more valuable than it actually is. The one thing you don't want to do is find some plot that's super cheap and you just want to like, oh, wow, it's like, buy this highway and it's super crappy and I can't hear anything. But I'm going to convince myself to think and it's good. Oh my goodness, I'm looking at the KB up. And it's like, see, I've never actually watched one of my live streams to see the kind of bandwidth I'm actually getting. But yeah, this isn't so good. But either way, my answer to that question would just be don't deceive yourself. You know what to look for. You want flat land. You want stuff that isn't too filled with like, you don't want it too close to a highway or something weird like that. Like the obvious stuff that you would think about. That's just what I'm saying. Don't fool yourself into getting something cheap just if it's in a crappy place or it's going to be hard to build land on. But do try to avoid cities. And I don't just mean big cities. I mean, even small towns, like being in the city limits can also make a big difference in terms of what things you can do on your property. But I might have some things to say in a full video on this. But I'll have to think about it. But I would just say in general, follow your gut on it. Because like, don't try and like, it's harder to do things than people think. Like a lot of people say, oh, I'm just going to get some amount of land and build all this crap on it. And it takes a lot of work. Like if you're on this mountainous terrain and you have to do all this kind of stuff just to clear the land and it's not even flat, like that's kind of rough. But so, all right. So Plastic Sense and some XMR. I'd love to hear a not related episode on the Jewish Revolutionary Spirit in 200 years together. I've not read either of those books. Yeah, I don't have them. But yeah, I mean, the thing with Jewish stuff, if you do like a podcast episode on that, like how it comes, like people in the West, they're so like vaccinated against certain realities. You know what I mean? And it's very hard to get through to them. So like, people just kind of have to reach their own conclusions by, you can't really tell them. You have to like gently lead them into that kind of stuff. So especially when it comes to like Jews and stuff. Like there are certain things that Americans, like they're so programmed against. It's just like pulling teeth. Now I did think about on like not Jewish stuff, but on like national social stuff. I do have a really good book called Race in the Third Right by Christopher Hutton. And I usually recommend that to people. Just like read the introduction. It's a good academic book. More or less like a lot of the things that people think about like the intellectual environment of the World War II and stuff like that is kind of, I mean, it's kind of holdovers from propaganda. I think that's a good, Race in the Third Right is a good book just to kind of clear that kind of stuff up. And I have thought about doing a podcast episode on that. But it's more like normie friendly. But I'm not big into like these, I'm not big into these people who like just do stuff to like shock and awe their audience. Like shock them out of their dogmatic slumber because the reality is you have to speak to people on where they are. Like you can't do any spurgy things. That's just kind of cringe. And you look stupid when you do it. With people who don't know and with people who do. You know what I mean? So, but I have read E. Michael Jones. So he wrote Jewish Revolutionary Spirit. I have not read that, but I have read, I do have his libido domine and he were like right there. It was pretty good. But, so Luke sends in $5. Hi Luke, like you, I was an atheist for most of my late teens. I'm trying to get back in the Catholicism. But I keep getting these impulses in my brain which rationalize everything. Which is sort of a Richard Dawkins version of conscious or conscience. Okay, I don't know if he means consciousness. Conscience or internal monologue. Any tips on overcoming this? I feel like it's a big obstacle for my faith Well, I mean if you're converted, Catholicism is based on rationalism, right? So, I mean that's one of the big differences between Catholicism and orthodoxy, right? So like the Catholic background is all predicated in scholasticism and all this kind of stuff. All this kind of hyper rationalism. So, I mean the real solution would be orthodox. But yeah, I mean this is not, well actually let's see. He says, I keep veering toward a metaphorical version of Christianity which like Jordan Peter, this is so annoying. Can people hear what I'm saying right now? Or is it just the video that's not going through? That's my question. No, so like the reason why people like Brett Weinstein, Jordan Peter, all those guys are so pernicious is because they're trying to sell people this like pseudo religion. They're trying to sell people, or really like some people kind of want to believe in a religion, like that's my view of it. I wasn't necessarily like that when I was an atheist but some people like they kind of feel like, oh yeah, there's something to this and I want to believe in it. But they're so like, their brain has been so addled by these like, I guess the background radiation of atheism in our society that it's like so difficult for them to do it. And so they have to believe in this fake religion of like everything's metaphorical and everything's for my own like ego and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean all of that, just avoid any of those kind of people and like it's not about like you don't have to rationally convince yourself of anything, that's an important thing. Like you have faith and you pray for faith, right? This is not a, I mean, I don't know why, like there might be, I can't think of one, but there might be many things that don't make rational sense to me, but I'll believe in them, you know what I mean? It's not an issue. I don't know, you're in the wrong, like you think that being converted to a religion means being like convinced of some argument or something like that and that's just not what it is. That's not what it is at all. And in fact, if that's how you think you are inevitably gonna be like one of these inane people who, you know, one of these Jordan Peterson kind of people who like, who just take like, basically what they do is they take this hyper materialism as just fact, like that is just how it is. They don't even think, I mean, even like the most basic Aquinian arguments for God, they don't even consider. I mean, it's just like, I assume that there is nothing but matter and how can I from that assumption reach something aside from hyper materialism? I don't know, maybe you can't. So like, that's not an interesting thing. And that's where people are, you know? This age is the only age in which people have, like atheism has become the default and that has never been the case in the rest, like no one before, you know, the 20th century said, oh yeah, I'm an atheist because like, that's just a reasonable thing to do. No, that was an insane position, right? Because people didn't start from this, let's assume that there's nothing but matter and then I have to convince myself that something else, you know, or really, you know, as it comes to like the creation of the universe, right? You know, the assumption of atheists now and the assumption of probably people like you who basically have atheist presuppositions is, well, I see this material stuff and I don't really know where it comes from, but I'm just gonna assume that like science will figure it out, right? And like, this is like, I mean, whereas the Aquinian arguments for God, right? Again, I know I just kind of spoke down against scholastics, but it's a good example because, you know, atheists will have these very dumb arguments where they're like, oh, well, you know, saying God had to create stuff isn't a good, it's an infinite regress because then who created God and all blah, blah, blah, blah? That's not the point of the argument. The point of the argument is obviously the materialistic chain of causality has to be broken somewhere. Therefore, you have to have some level of, you know, some level of reality that is non-material, right? That's all it means. It's not like God is a physical object in the universe that created things and he needs a cause as well. No, it's that there is something beyond, I mean, by definition, like if you have causality, there must be something since causality doesn't cause itself, if you assume that you obviously by definition do not have, you have to have something that is beyond the materialistic mechanism that we're familiar with. Like, and I mean, that's just like a tautology but people nowadays, they don't even like think in those terms, they think in terms of, well, I see material stuff and that's it and like, I don't know, someone has to convince me that there has to be something else, right? All right, Plastic sent in Samarit Samar, he says, how can RMS be such a based, free software activist while supporting the Vax Arena mandates at the same time? His political notes are pure cringe. Yeah, they definitely are. And with the, there are many people like RMS who are like, so they have the tism so hard that they will hark on these one. I think really Stalman is like living, he's living like in 2004. I think that's the easiest way to understand it. Like he's living in this place where like, he thinks that like George Bush is still president and he thinks like, parties on the left are better for freedom than parties on the right, stuff like that, just, I don't know. There's this very brief period in history when that was the case and that was like basically 2003 until like 2008, like during the Bush. Well, even then, there were a bunch of like base leftists who were like pro-privacy, stuff like that who had all these like anti-globalization protests. It's impossible to imagine leftists or at least like large organizations, maybe some random off guy will do that. But yeah, I think he's very much in that period. And he's also, I mean, he's so tethered to like socialism or I don't know if he calls it socialism, but you know what I mean, basically what a person would call socialism. We're running out of bandwidth again. But I think, I don't know, I don't really care about him. Like you can't care about the personalities. That's the important things. Like if you are tethered to like these personal, I mean, that is the biggest recommendation that I would give internet people out there. Like all these, if you're consuming product, if you're consuming my product, my live stream right now or anyone else's, the best advice that I could give you is literally stop caring about people on the internet. Like you don't know any of these people. You don't know me. You don't know Richard Stalme. You don't know all this kind of stuff. Like most people on the internet, like it's not an accurate representation of how they are. And it's also very stupid for you to think about ideas in terms of people, like in terms of like a big drama complex that is an extremely primitive and extremely dumb way of looking at things. Internet grug sports, all that kind of stuff. It's just stupid. So that said, why does RMS? Why is he so cringe on the Vax? Why is he so cringe on like Trump and stuff like that? I don't know. I don't know. Who cares? But yeah, he is very solid on free software. I mean, it's sort of like what people say. Like when you really know about something and in Stalman's case, he really knows about like computing and free software and like what actually happens when you have proprietary software. You know, people often say, people are always reactionaries about things they actually know about. And they can be really liberal on everything else but they're gonna be really reactionary on the thing that they know about. And that is definitely the case in Stalman's case. Of course, he probably thinks of free software as being like liberal or something like that, but no, I mean, really the entire copyright system is just fundamentally stupid. And like the system is so reliant on it. I mean, we're not gonna like just get rid of the copyright system, but if we could, it would make a big difference, you know? Okay, so CD-CAP says, have you attended a TLM? If so, what are your thoughts? Also, did you choose orthodoxy because of Pope? Oh, TLM, I was like, what is that? He means traditional Latin mess. No, I've never. Did I choose orthodoxy because of Pope Francis? No, no, I mean, I definitely think it's absolutely impossible to be a Catholic without being a set of vacantist, but that doesn't make me less likely to believe it. You know, I've stated my reasons. They're more like the Western church innovates. They innovate like crazy. They've added so much to the faith, so much to tradition that it's crazy. And of course, all of the later inventions, all of the mechanization of salvation and all this kind of stuff came with that. And I guess there's some way where like, now that they have this heretic Pope, or really the whole Vatican II thing, that's kind of a result of that, but that's not like the primary reason that I don't take the holicism that seriously. Now, if you're a lay Catholic and you don't know any better, like you don't know the issues around here, like I can kind of understand someone going to mass or like thinking it's okay or whatever, but like, I don't know. I cannot say that I think that the Western, like I cannot look back at the great schism and say, oh yeah, the West was right because it wasn't. And the intellectual developments that happened since then were basically all bad on the side of the West. So, no, it's not just because of Pope Francis. Although, you know, if someone thinks that, that's fine. Sol says, love to you, Luke, how do you do? I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine. Militant atheists sent in some XML art. What is the biggest Christ pill? I don't know. I don't know, man, like there's no, like again, people are thinking about things in terms of, hold on, people are thinking about things in terms of being like rationally convinced of something. I mean, reason, if anything, reason is like downstream of spirituality, it's downstream of politics, it's downstream of all these, like I want to say there's someone who had this quote that like reason is the handmaiden of the passions. And a lot of the times that is the case, like if you want a kid to become an atheist, right? Let's say a kid is like a Christian and you want to become an atheist, like you're not gonna convince him with arguments. What you will convince him with is if you like subvert his family and subvert his church and like, you know, he loses his friends and like all this kind of stuff and like he feels like there's no place for him. So then he runs this fake internet atheist community, right? That's how, that's why back, you know, 2004, so when like internet atheism was like actually cool, that's where a lot of people came to. I mean, I guess you could say I was part of that when I was a teen atheist, right? I mean, I was an atheist for a lot, like 10 years or something like that. And at the same time, if you want to convince someone of something else, you just like don't, appealing to people's reason is just like not a very, they're very, a very small segment of the population that like actually responds to that. And like it's not the people who you think it would be. But and it's the same way, like, you know, all these kids nowadays, like do you think like a 10 year old who like doesn't want to go to church or like, you know, let's say a 14 year old who doesn't want to go to church, do you think their arguments are really about like something metaphysical or do you think like, oh, I want to coom. And you know, oh, I watch all this propaganda on TV where like Christians are always the villains. Like really, it's not like a rational argument. And in the same way, like rational arguments are not going to make you, like they're mostly going to deceive you. Now of course I'm not against them. Like you should be aware of them, but they're more decoration than people think. Like that's not the real, like the first thing that, you know, I've done videos on this, maybe I should do more because I think people, I don't know, like it's an important thing to remember, but you know, like human reason is not calibrated to reality, okay? It's just not like, I mean, this is something, even if you're an atheist, I mean, actually, especially if you're an atheist, right? You should have this viewpoint because human reason, oh, it arose from evolution and accidental things. And you know, we're calibrated to living on the savannah and all this kind of stuff, right? I mean, if you're an atheist, you should believe that, but also of course the Christian does because you know, we have the idea that humans are not, like you know, humans are not fit to, we're not created to understand the entire universe, right? But once you understand that, you realize that a lot of, like reason is just kind of a game that people play, right? It's a way of not necessarily convincing other people, but convincing yourself and creating this hermetically sealed environment where you can reach the conclusions that you want, right? So that's why anyone who sits down and tries to be reasonable ends up finding what they already wanted anyway, right? If you're Karl Marx, you can sit down and write a whole book about capitalism and economics and stuff like that. Oh, wow, look at that. I reached the conclusion that I wanted beforehand that I've always believed in and now I have found some kind of rational justification for that. It's the same thing with Thomas Aquinas, right? Same thing with anyone, right? For better or for worse, that's how reason works. And it's very rare that it's used in some different way, right? People very rarely reach rational conclusions that they don't like, you know? Okay. So, this is a Bitcoin transaction or a Bitcoin super chat. Hey, Luke, are you familiar with the VPL, the Viral Public License? What do you think of it compared to other copyright licenses like GPL? I have not heard of it. Let me just look at there. He gives a site. So you can really, yeah, I mean, so how is it different from a GPL if it's, I mean, is it like putting things in the public domain? Is that, okay, maybe I should read these two paragraphs. This work is hereby relinquished of all associated ownership, attribution, and copyrights, and reader attribution or use of any kind with or without modification is permitted without restriction, subject to the following constraints. Redistributions of this work or any work that makes use of any of the contents of this works by any kind of copyrighting, dependency, linkage, or any possible derivation or form of combination must retain the entirety of this license, no further restrictions of any kind may be applied. Yeah. So, I don't know, would that like force you to put works that use your work into the public domain? I mean, that's an interesting thing. I mean, if it works kind of like a copyright license, I don't know if that's how to read that, but that sounds good. It definitely does. I mean, I, like as time has gone on, I will tell you with the book business, I become more of a fan of just putting things in the public domain. I actually ended up putting landshad.net and other stuff in the public domain, just because like, a lot of people will use these like annoying, I mean, it sounds fine. Like I'll look this up later, but this sounds like a good idea. Maybe even preferable to the GPL in terms of what I care about, because even the GPL, like, you know, do you still have like, I don't know, ownership? I'm not quite sure how it works. I don't know, I'd have to talk to a lawyer with it, but it sounds fine. But I will say in the book business, one thing that I find super annoying, this is like extremely annoying. And I thought about posting a blog post about this. I don't think I finished it, so I didn't put it up. Maybe I'll finish it. But like there are people who will like take ancient texts or medieval texts and transcribe them and put .org. And then they'll put some absolutely retarded, now these works are in the public domain by themselves, but like the translation or transcription or whatever that they put on the internet, they will put under some absolutely retarded creative commons license. And the thing with like those creative, oh, I lost the internet connection. The thing with those annoying creative commons licenses is they, people put them on things thinking that, oh, I'm all about free culture. I'm gonna put a no derivatives license or no commercial license. I don't want people making money off this if I'm not. That's absolutely retarded because in my case, like there's so many works online now that are under licenses like that. Where they can't really, I mean, you can really just copy and paste them and put them on websites and not make money off of them. But if someone like me, like if I wanna put them in a book, I can't use them. Or at least I'm pretty sure I can't use them, even though like the texts originally are in the public domain. I don't know if that applies to the transcription. You need to talk to a lawyer about this. But there are a lot of things that I have not been able to print because I'm pretty sure that I can't because these idiots put creative commons licenses on them and say, oh, you can't make money off this. You can't have a commercial license on this. Well, guess what? That work until you die in 70 more years past in American copyright laws, that will never be printed because no matter what, like no one is going to print this in a book which costs money unless they at least, you know, make the money to make up for that. But a creative commons, no non-commercial license that screws that up. Same thing with no derivatives. Like, because I'm not, I mean, it's kind of like legal gray areas. You know, because I'm not really, again, I'm not really sure how it works, but there are a lot of works where like, I'm not quite sure if I put this in a compilation and sell it, is that no derivatives? Like, does that violate that? I'm not even sure. Again, the original work is in the public domain, but these people put these freaking creative commons license on them. So either way, I am much more a person like, I mean, ultimately when it comes down to it, I do not believe in copyright. I do not believe it's a thing that should exist. I think that we need to work to subvert it and destroy it. That's why I like the GPL. And if this works the same way, if it's even better, that's even better, right? Viral public license. Because every, like copyright is gay can fay. It's not a real thing. It's not, I mean, it's so stupid. It's now so stupid that I'm in a place where the text is right in front of me and I can copy it and I can use it for this and I can print this out and I can get it to more people. But because some idiot put a creative commons license on it, it's all screwed up, you know? Of course, if someone is a lawyer here and if you say, if you email me and tell me that, oh, that's not, they can't actually do that. You still have the right. You can still take the text and copy it. That's great. But, yeah, it just annoys me. Yeah, anyway, like putting licenses on things is just retarded. Absolutely retarded. The only licenses you should ever put on something is that like something that subverts licenses, like the GPL or Viral, you know, something like that. Konstantin says, Luke, I know you hate your thoughts on type of questions. I mean, that's mostly what we do in live streams. I mean, obviously, I just hate the, people don't ask me what are your thoughts on Jordan Peterson anymore. So like, it's only one to get the same thing over and over again. But what are your thoughts on libertarianism? I mean, right wing libertarianism seems like a good third wave alternative for the United States. And it's polar bipartisan dualistic system, thanks. No, libertarianism is, I mean, it's fine if you're a libertarian. Like, this is a great example on rationalistic principles, right? You might say like libertarianism as an ideology makes a lot more sense, right? Then the, I mean, they're not like Republicans, Democrats, like they don't have a cohesive ideology anyway. So of course, libertarianism is gonna sound a lot better. Like in economics and most personal domains, right? But the thing is like, it's hard to explain. It's like, if you're a libertarian in America, you're gonna end up being a useful idiot, right? Or really any of these like larpy third party ideologies, because politics, like people like libertarians or a lot of these ideological people, they have this idea that politics is about like, I need to convince other people of this. Like I need to, it's like a rationalistic exercise. And the genre of people that are libertarians who are like, you know, higher IQ, like, I don't know, white males capable of like divorcing their personal egos from an issue and looking at things objectively and all that kind of stuff. Like, you can do that. Most people cannot. Like that is not the level they're operating on. You know what I mean? It's not, and you end up being a useful idiot because you're ideologically driven and everyone else in politics, especially the left, but you know, kind of Republicans as well, they are willing to manipulate things cynically for their own political ends, right? And if you're not willing to do that, and libertarianism is basically the opposite of that, it's about diminishing political power, which the outside of libertarianism, there is just no market for. That's like just a worse strategy. I mean, politics is not about, it's not about reason. It's about winning. It's about your party winning, okay? And what your party endorses is actually very, I mean, it's less important. So, no, I don't really care about libertarianism. I mean, I think there have been a lot of libertarian, like right libertarian thinkers that are worth reading. I mean, you know, I have a bandwidth is out. Gonna wait like two seconds for it to come back on. So, like, I think there are libertarians that are like worth reading and stuff, like as an intellectual exercise. I mean, I have Rothbard's man economy in state over there and stuff like that. But like the idea that it's like, oh, I'm gonna vote for the libertarian party is nutty. Although I will say I heard in the past week there was some libertarian convention and the base and red pill people are taking over. What is it? The Mises Caucus. And if that's good, that's great. But like you have, like libertarians especially, they have to think about, like they can't just be about, oh, let's deregulate everything right now. You have to think about things like, as if they're real, because they are real. Like, you know, of course, now having a libertarian like at a local party or like someone who's like more libertarian inclined is not that bad. Like if it's just someone who's gonna reduce property taxes at a local level or, you know, reduce some regulations. I mean, that's fantastic. I endorse that. But at a national level, like it's just kind of a lark. I like the problem with national politics is not that like people are, people have a bad ideology. Like it's not about ideology, it's about power. Those are very different things. And ideology is a little cloak they put in front of you to, I don't know, to run you around like a little bull in a bullfight. And that's how libertarians at a national level have been. Like they end up cucking their own people because they do things like that. But, you know, I mean, there are like different levels to it. Obviously like Ron Paul, of course, you know, he fought for, you know, he would do earmarking to get funding for his own district and stuff like that. Like he kind of, he existed in the system, but he was still kind of, he wasn't being entirely ideologically stupid about it. So, I mean, or a great example would be immigration. Like if you're an ideological libertarian who thinks there should be like open borders, the absolute stupidest thing you could do is endorse open borders in America. Because like libertarianism is gonna be absolutely swamped with people who don't give a crap about personal liberty or any of this larky stuff. I mean, that's a pretty good example of where libertarians screw themselves. Okay, okay, so $5 from a Darsh, sorry, $5 from a Darsh. Yep, I'm just wasting time right here. So, sorry, $5 from a Darsh. Hello, I'm going to make a long argument about Jordan Peterson that you might roll your eyes out. This is not a thoughts on Jordan Peterson, so I hope you read this. It's not too long, slightly longer than the donation limit. Okay, I'll look at it. So, he's gonna say, I've been observing your interactions with YouTube Jordan Peterson fan. I feel like I don't really have any Jordan Peterson fans here. People just ask me about them. In your live stream for a lot, not ooh, Weinstein or someone, his goal is to show that belief in God is overwhelmingly intuitive because of how true it is in the Jungian sense, not that all it is are Jungian things going on in your brain. Furthermore, his, I act as if God exists is not a, oh, he's really not there, like you may think, but rather he's arguing against materialism, the moral reality and implications of a moral God is way more important than just believing in a mechanism of the creation of the universe. I fully agree though, that too often people come away from this group with a metaphorical, thinking a metaphorical belief is sufficient when it really isn't. You may still agree with these views that I've laid out as well. I'm not saying you agree either way, but I would like to hear your comments on the view instead of the clearly faulty materialistic view. No, I mean, Jordan Peterson, no. I think you're, I don't know what you're doing, but like materialism means different things. You seem to be using it in the way where it means like, oh, I don't care about spiritual thing, like higher level things, okay? That's not the same thing as materialism as like a scientific view. Jordan Peterson operates as if all there is is matter, okay? Now it's one thing to say in this world, oh, there are reasons to like believe in something high, or a Jungian sense of things and like, oh, like God has some like existence and some like level of, I don't, I mean, Jung at least I will say he at least kind of, he did his archetype stuff, but he also said, well, God could all, there's an archetype for God, but that isn't relevant to God's existence, right? He might be there, he might not. Jordan Peterson like only talks as if, I mean, it's kind of like a double lose the way I look at it, because he's basically acting as if, he's talking as if there's nothing but material reality, right? And at the same time he's saying, oh, but the reason you believe in God is like for this like practical, it's basically, oh, like an emotional reason, right? And the thing is the way I look at it is if Jordan Peterson actually believed in God, he has all the motivation and all the reason to say it all the time and he doesn't. And because he is so ensconced in this like view of the universe, I don't know, maybe we could call it something other than materialist, if that's like an unclear word, but like he is a materialist, like there is no sense, like he's talking about higher level concepts, but he thinks of them as being a function, like they are something built on top of the material, right? Oh, you know, we have evolution and it creates complex things and it creates our brains and our brains have psychological needs and all this kind of stuff. That is his way of looking at things, okay? And that is perfectly in sync. You know, I'm less familiar with Brett Weinstein stuff, but yeah, I have bajillion opportunities to endorse, to say he believes in God or endorse faith and he doesn't, okay? And he has every reason to, because it's in sync with his ideology, but he really just doesn't believe in it. And it's worse than just being a materialistic atheist and not believing in it because he's basically, he's selling people something that tastes like God, but it isn't. It's like this, instead of, I don't know. I don't know if I'm even being clear here, but we might be agreeing on things, we might just be saying things in different ways. So like five seconds. I really just don't like the thing that religious people or Jordan Peterson people say where it's like, well, atheists have to believe in morale, like some kind of spiritual thing to have morality. And that's just like not, I mean, that's not even a good argument. Like that's not, you know, I mean, it's obviously not true because there are plenty of atheists who like don't, well, many of them are total degenerates, but there are some that aren't like that. I mean, I look at myself when I was young, well, that was pretty bad, but like I could have been a lot worse, you know what I mean? Like, I guess that's my way of looking at it. And of course, in an atheistic worldview, there are reasons to have moral behavior. Like moral behavior is some kind of evolutionary emergent norm. Like social, you social behavior is something good or not you social behavior, but good social behavior. Like there's a different, there's a reason for believing that exists, independent of God, right? Even in like religious thinking, there's a difference between, you know, moral law and, you know, I guess Levitical law, you know, stuff like that. Like there's natural law. There are things that are morally true or false independent of God, right? So that's something that philosophers have taught, like religious philosophers have talked about. And it's true of atheism as well. Like if you believe, you know, if you don't have a belief in God, right? So I mean, I guess I do think that Jordan Peterson has a perfectly materialistic view of the world and it's even worse because it's not even like a smart one that atheists have. It's like, I don't know. Or not, atheists don't actually have those beliefs often. I think I did, like on morality when I was an atheist, but like you really just, most of them just like don't care about it, you know? So let's see here. Okay, waiting for my internet to come back on so I can read. Okay, here we go, here we go. Oop, sends in some X-mart. How much milk should I drink in a day? Have you looked into herbit? It's a self, oh well, son, I'm milk. There, like milk is like lazy food for me. It's what I consume if like, you know, I'm too lazy to make something else. I don't know if I recommend drinking large amounts of milk. I mean, the thing with milk is like it has, I mean, milk is good for you. It's like basically the best liquid you can drink aside from water, obviously. But like the thing about milk is if you drink so much of it, like there have been days where if I'm too lazy to make something, I will just drink one gallon of milk. And that's like kind of suboptimal. I mean, there are like hormones of milk and things like that that you don't want to get too much of. So I wouldn't recommend drinking, like you should probably just be eating meat and other stuff like, but it also depends on your biology if you're really fit to drink milk or not. So yeah, I wouldn't say like milk is good for like putting on weight and stuff like that in like a more or less healthy way. Obviously like whole milk, don't drink skill milk ever. But like I wouldn't, like it's, I just look at it as kind of a lazy way of getting calories or like animal fat and stuff like that. So have you looked into herbits? Yeah, yeah, people ask me about herbits every week. Some guy was emailing me about it like yesterday, I think I might eventually get one. It's a self-hosted social network, IE a blockchain based networking protocol built on top of TCP, IP that covers computer that multiple computers can use to do things together. Yes, I know about it. I've known about it for like five years never bothered to get myself a planet. Maybe I will eventually I'm not quite sure. Max sends in some XMR says, I've sent you an email because my questions didn't fit the 300 characters limit. I will read that. Where is it? Okay, here it is. I think that's it. Well, I got an email from another Max that I think is he probably just accidentally emailed from another address. So some questions. One, because you rarely make not related podcasts, I'm looking for podcasts like it. Do you know any other? No, I don't. Flatly, I just don't. Two, what about other YouTubers like you? None. I don't know. I don't really watch YouTube. What do you mean by like me? I mean, there are other, I mean, in technology, there's mental outlaw who started out as a copycat channel of mine, which is now like way bigger than my channel. But like most tech YouTubers are like big cringe now. Like they've gotten really bad. But in terms of me in general, I don't know. I don't know if that's what you're. Three, this guy's really milking on a bunch of questions here. Three, the YouTuber, the hated one, recently made a video about how phones are better for privacy than desktops. Have you watched it? What do you think about it? It's prop, oh, bandwidth is running out. Hold on. Okay, I will. Oh, come on, internet. Be connected. Be connected. Okay, now it's going. Okay, so the YouTuber hated one, recently made a video about how phones are better for privacy than desktops. Have you watched it? What do you think about it? That sounds very stupid. That sounds extremely stupid. I don't know how he is gonna argue that because I don't know how I'm trying to think what he could even say there. I mean, cell phones leak so much metadata even if you are running 100% free software. Cell phones leak so much metadata it is impossible for me to imagine that ever being the case. I can't even imagine a device that has cameras on it and has a GPS thing on it. My desktop doesn't have GPS on it. I can't imagine that being the case. I think I've heard of that guy that hated one. I don't know if he's serious or not. I don't know, but just right off the bat, not knowing what he's saying, that definitely sounds like one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Maybe he has good reasons for saying it. I have no idea though. Four, are you still working on lanchad.net? Some of the tutorials are outdated like the next cloud and the see get one. Yeah, the next cloud one has always been out of date because it was made by someone who wasn't me and who wasn't, I think he made it specific to each version or something and I've never installed it so I don't ever keep up with the next cloud one because I don't give a crap about next cloud because it's totally stupid because anyone who knows how to use a command line, just use rsync and sync your files or something like that. I don't know, I guess next cloud can do a rectory on your computer that stores stuff which just use rsync for. I have no, like next cloud, I don't know why people use it. It's probably normie friendly. You can probably get napped. That's probably the real reason. Number five, this guy again, he's milking a bunch of questions. I really want to make my own blog and some sites. What are good resources on learning HTML and CSS? Where did you learn it? I don't know. HTML and CSS are so easy, you don't need a place to learn it. Just look something up if you don't know how to do it. Like it's not even, HTML is not even a real language. I mean, it's like not, it's not serious enough to care. CSS is in the same way. Six, I am cur... Okay, this is too many questions. Okay, I'm going to skip the Michelle Thomas one just because I don't want to answer this guy can't manipulate every once time. Seven in your blog posts, you write, you said that KubeBot browser fits the best. Why don't you use it? No, it doesn't. It's written in Python. That's like the worst thing. Kube browser is notably slower than everything else and it breaks all the time or at least last time I used it. No, Kube browser is awful because it's written in Python. So I use Firefox or on LARBS, I have Brave installed because it comes with more sensible defaults. Eight, what's your opinion about Monero? I don't think about it. Or, wow, narrow, I don't think about it. Okay, so Jordan sends in a dollar. I use Gen2, by the way. Thank you for that comment. Okay, oh, I see. This guy did send two. So not sure if you saw this chat, but the general idea of VPL, as I understand it, de-author the work limiting the baggage necessary with proper attribution. Combine MIT-style permissiveness with GPL saw a copy left. I mean, that sounds like a good idea. This seems to make it rather similar to something in the public domain and seems to provide no limitation for inclusion within price projects. Does VPL on a book require circulation of its PDF? Yet it provides me with the question of enforcement. If no author who has the rights to enforce IP, nobody, anybody, question mark. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about that. You'd have to talk to a lawyer about it. And I do, yeah, I think once you, a VPL on a book, does it require circulation of the PDF? No, I mean, I couldn't imagine that being the case. In the same way that like, if you release music under the VPL, if someone plays that in public, they don't have to supply people with the music file necessarily, right? That would be really ridiculous if that were the case. Luke says, I'm the guy who asked you about rationalizing faith before. I'm aware it's a flawed way of viewing reality, but I still struggle to overcome it. I feel a genuine internal struggle, like a knee-jerk reaction. Do you think I should read things like apologetic works? No, no, that's like the opposite of what you wanna do. I mean, I don't wanna say it's the opposite. Maybe you could get some enjoyment, but like your apologetic works, I don't know, maybe I just have a different psychology than some people. I'm just very uninterested in that and I find it very, like apologetic works are for people who, I don't know, it's like self-help books. That's basically how I view them. Like people who are competent and put together are never gonna read self-help books. And I feel like they use them as a crutch and I kind of feel the same way about apologetics. That's why I've never been interested in it. Now, maybe it's, maybe for your different psychology it might be better for you. I don't know. I might be speaking for my own personality. So I don't wanna say don't do it, but my reflex as you saw was to be like, ah, that sounds stupid. I was wondering whether you could offer advice based off your change from atheism into believing again. Well, it wasn't through apologetics. Like, well really it was, I mean, if you wanna take some kind of reason, like rational footsteps that I took, it was more, I became more knowledgeable about classical philosophy and Hermeticism and Neoplatonism and things like this. And the weird thing is like, this is how people are nowadays. Like they're so brainwashed against religion that it's like people nowadays who, like all these people who are like, oh, I love Buddhism, right? Because Buddhism, like it's not really a religion. It's really just some stupid like philosophy that like inane Westerners like now. But like there was a sense in which, oh yeah, I don't believe in religion, but oh yeah, this Hermetic stuff, oh, this Neoplatonic background. Oh wait, it's like exactly the same thing as early Christianity. I mean, with changes, right? Basically early Christianity is like in the more sane variety. So, you know, that was the thing that made me think, oh, maybe I should like contemplate classical theism as a thing, but you know, it also, I mean, there's a personal level to it as well that is specific in your environment. Either way, I mean, you're on the right track. Like I don't wanna dismiss what you're saying. You're on the right track if you're even having these kind of this cognitive dissonance, but like if you're trying to pry yourself out of the rational hole with more reason, just don't, I mean, even atheists talk about this, right? The idea of logical bubbles, because they'll say this of religions. They don't think of it in terms of themselves, but they'll say, oh, you know, religion is like a rational bubble. Like and you always have a reason, you know, there's always some canned response for why you can't escape it. And it's, you will see that the same is true of atheism. And you have to have a distrust in human reason, okay? You can have that for Darwinian reasons. You can have it for, you know, Christian reasons, but you have to realize that your brain, like your rational faculties, is not, it is not automatically the best guide to anything. It's often usually the worst. It's usually a way of confirming, you know, what a part of you already wants to believe. He also says, also personally, the thing that got me back into faith was the traditional Latin mass. Well, you know, that's good then. Okay. .NET developer sends in some XMR. Is writing software using .NET cringe? I would probably estimate that to be very cringe. But you know, what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? I didn't know anyone still did that. Or actually, I wanna say, is it like BTC pay, like written with .NET crap? That's why it's so annoying. Cause the BTC pay developer is like a Windows guy. Imagine being a Bitcoiner, but also a Windows user. I don't even understand. At Linux Fest, I did that video the other day saying I was going to Linux Fest. And part of my annoyance is the fact that there's so little overlap between free software people and cryptocurrency people. Because free software people, a lot of them, they're kind of like anti-monetary, almost like at least the leftists, the kind of anti-monetary. But like the cryptocurrency people are, I have to just say, they are retarded with technology, especially with free software, like the number of people who are using proprietary wallets and crap like that. Either way, I think it's funny that there's, you know, BTC pay, I think has .NET crap in it. Like I can't imagine being like, oh, I care so much about my like monetary security. I'm gonna use this like digital bearer bond technology Bitcoin. Oh, but I'm also gonna use Microsoft Windows. I don't know. It doesn't make any sense to me, but. But one of the reasons I was going to, like I really wanna bridge that gap. There's one of, my talk at Linux Fest is gonna be partially about cryptocurrencies and why they're important, why they're free software. Like people don't think about them as that, but it's the only way to transact value without using proprietary software, including crappy things like the thing, what is it that the FSF made? Some stupid GNU, GNU, I'm gonna talk about it in my talk as well that like the name is just like a Talos, GNU Talos, which is like basically them taking the proprietary banking system and building this free software on top of it that issues notes and all this kind of stuff. And it's really, cause Richard Stallman doesn't wanna use another Richard Stallman note. He doesn't wanna use cryptocurrency because that's too private. Because he wants people to be taxed because he's like a socialist or whatever. So, you know, that's how it is. Highly greetings from Germany. I'm interested in knowing your opinion on moving to the US to work in the IT industry. Fang, oh, don't work for a fang company. Don't do that. For a few years, as a conservative white guy, oh, that's even worse, that's even worse. I mean, if you're working for a fang company, at least make sure you're like some kind of transgender like Syrian refugee with Ukrainian flags. Yeah, it's just suicide doing that. Like, you know, I've had friends who worked in passing in those businesses. I would not, I would not dream of doing that. I don't know, maybe you'll make a lot of money if you can get a job, but I just, that is such a turn off to me. I would not consider it. He'd say, he says, I'd be willing to put on progressive act on, et cetera. No, that's even worse. That is even worse, like, to cuck for the money just to start something on my own afterwards. No, that's even worse. Like, I can't imagine, like, if you're gonna work for Google, be honest about everything. Be honest about you being based in Red Pill. Don't do any of this, oh, yeah. Oh, here, let me give moral consensus. Here, let me give moral authority to these people. Let me, like, show my subservience to them. That's the stupidest thing you can do. I mean, I did that. I was cucking like that in a university for a while. I mean, it didn't even matter that much when push came to shove. But if you try and keep your head down and you try to give, you're really just tacitly giving your moral approval to these people if you're constantly, like, pretending to be one of them. It's just so stupid. Don't do that. I mean, maybe you can make money off of it. I don't know, but you're making the world for everyone else a worse place. That's all I can say. And my one regret, you know, I have many regrets and all my regrets amount to, you know, I wasn't extreme enough in the past. Like, oh, I didn't move to the country soon enough. Oh, I didn't, you know, I didn't make more stands. I wasn't, like, more intransigent. I didn't drop out of the university quicker. Like, those are my regrets. Now, maybe it'll be different. If you can make a million dollars, maybe that'll be worth your time. But I doubt it. I think you're gonna be spiritually oppressed. And, you know, if, hey, if you're just doing some contract work for one of these companies and, like, you're not really involved, and the worst thing that happens is you get some stupid diversity and inclusion email every once in a while. Fine, that's fine. Hey, make some money. That's fine. Just make sure you're not doing anything evil for their company. Or you're not, like, you know, making the world a worse place. But this whole, oh, let me go along to get along. I don't believe in that anymore. And yeah, you can make money. You can be part of the system by doing that. But that, like, money is in everything. Like, you're independent. Like, you need to start putting a price on yourself. Like, how much is my dignity worth? Okay? Is it worth a million dollars? Is it worth a hundred thousand dollars? Is it for you to cuck out like that? That's just what I'm saying. And I think nowadays, and mind you, it might be. Like, you know, again, I've had friends who five years ago worked for Google or something like that. But I will say, it is accelerating so fast, things are getting so bad so fast. And the same thing with universities. You know, I tell people, don't, like, I have no intention of sending any of my kids to universities. You shouldn't go to universities. Yes, maybe if you have some engineering degree right now, you're still okay. But things are getting worse so fast that just don't even consider that a possibility. And you will have a more stress-free life thinking about building institutions and doing things external to them, okay? So if you want to use any of that as a stepping stone in your career, use it at your own risk. That's all I have to say, okay? There might be, in your specific, you might be sitting there saying, oh, you know, I'm just gonna have this job and only for this long and it's not gonna be that bad, Luke. It's not gonna be that bad. That's fine. If you think that's how it is, that's fine. But I will just say in general, I'm disgusted by any of that kind of stuff. I'm not gonna speak for your life, though. You do what you want. Cargo-cult consultant sent in some XMR. It seems in Orthodox Christianity, you found the more human Eurasian Mediterranean version of Christianity Germans with their materialistic Protestantism cut the West. Well, it wasn't just Germans in Protestantism. I think it's hard, the further you're out of the Western church, it becomes more obvious that Catholicism and Protestantism, although they are very divergent from each other on certain things, they have the same fallacious reasoning behind them. And it's just taking scholasticism too serious. And of course, in Protestantism, I'm Protestantism, it has all the same kind of intellectual flaws, but they just reach different and insane religious conclusions. And so now you have Protestants that just do whatever. Protestantism is just like, I mean, just means any kind of heresy they'll do. Like there are some Protestants that seem Christian and then there are some that are kind of based and then there are some that are just insane. And most, that's where gay stuff comes from. It literally is where gay stuff, like every insanity in the world right now was filtered through Northeastern Protestantism at this point. All these psycho Puritans and Unitarians and stuff like that produced all of the stuff we have to deal with. But that's how I'm too mold-boat-pilled. I don't wanna excuse other people of their subversive influence. But Adarsh says, interesting viewpoint. I wonder what he's at. Oh, yeah. Can it come for him if he says he believes in God? I think people would be very happy if he did. But he's so high on his tism. He's so high on that materialistic viewpoint, he can't do it because he doesn't believe in God. He just, yeah, God, like the idea of God is really cool. Oh, what does it mean for me, blah, blah, blah? That's even worse than atheism as far as I'm concerned. You know, if you don't believe in God, now if you believe in God and you say, oh, there are psychological reasons to believe in God, that's fine. But if you're saying we should believe in something that isn't true and then I should deconstruct what belief means and make it just a name, postmodern, as some people would say. That's basically what Jordan Peterson is doing. Anyway, did you have a chance to look at that relativity stuff I sent you last? Oh, okay, who's that guy? Also, I did read that book that you wanted me to. I don't think it, I don't think I worded my criticism in a way that communicated what I meant because I think I was, suffice it to say, I don't know, maybe I should write a blog post about it. But the book did not, it did not answer the questions that, it's just the same stuff that I'd heard before. Like, I understand that about relativity. I think I was not clear about making my point, which, I think I put it in terms of the Doppler effect. It's not really Doppler effect in terms of, I'll write it out. I'll write it, that'll be better. Also, any tips for deep brainwashing boomer parents? It's hard to live when all they do is reflexively make brain dead political takes. I've tried, but I can't get through to them. If boomers are beyond saving, what about fixing young people like in college? Also impossible, boomer, it's kind of a waste to, I don't believe in convincing people of politics. This might, politics is very much downstream of, like who a person is, what their physiognomy is, what they view as being, like most boomers, firstly, most boomers are actually quietly based, but they've just been like so cocked into submission. You know, especially, I mean, a lot of boomers, like they were segregationists. They're just not talking about it anymore. You know what I mean? Like boomers, they are very calibrated in, like being kind of cowardly about things. Like they just don't talk about things. Or they'll say just, you know, the dims are the real racists and stupid things like that, you know, that is, and there are reasons for them to say that. Like I don't, I think a lot of people are dismissive with boomers like that. Like in terms of, don't talk to your parents about politics, talk to them about, you know, if you wanna convince them of something or moved them to something, move them away from consuming product and watching TV and crap all the time, okay? Or move them away from that kind of stuff. Don't focus on what they say that they believe. Same thing about politics in people in general, right? So why do people become leftists? Like why do young kids become leftists, okay? It's easy. It's actually what we talked about earlier. Like when people leave or join a religion, it has more to do with social things than it does with like some argument. And it's the same thing with kids nowadays who are getting brainwashed and groomed and all this kind of stuff. The best way, and this is a Kaczynski point, people like talking about Kaczynski stuff, but he mentions this, that one thing that modernity tries to do is it takes away your felt ability to act on the world around you and make progress and control your life and things like this. And so when you're a kid, you are taught that you can't do anything, okay? You know, we have psychotic helicopter parents and things like that. You are always having to watch your words so you don't like say anything offensive. There's this like antipathy towards people who, like every movie, every TV show, the villain is always like the blonde Chad, the guy who's like popular, he works out, he's fit, he takes care of himself. That's always the villain. The good guy is always the absolute loser, the nerd. The guy who is ugly, he says awkward things. He's not in control of his body, stuff like that. That is how things are presented to kids. And then they go to college and they just get kind of inducted. Like really the objective of education, if you look at it in terms of a brainwashing angle, is not to tell kids, orange man bad, mustache man bad, that's not the point, that's not the real brainwashing. The real brainwashing is to get children to hate their parents, to hate themselves, to hate everything, to hate their religion, to hate their race, to hate their country, to hate everything, because once they have severed themselves from everything, they have nothing but this new cult for them to join. And that's what happens, right? So how do you get someone out of that, okay? This sounds really gay, but you have to be friends to those people, okay? You have to be able, you have to speak to them at their level. Not necessarily give consent to what the psychotic beliefs that they've been brainwashed to believe or whatever, but you have to, you know, people often say like, if you wanna change someone's politics, like convince them to start working out and losing weight and stuff like this, put them in control of their own bodies. Like this is, like how these like people think is they cannot, oh, I'm fat and ugly, I can't control anything. Oh, like, oh, I have economic problems, oh, capitalism has failed, all this kind of stuff, because they feel like they can't, they don't have any like initiative that sounds like a kind of a boomer term, but like agency, maybe agency is a better term, right? So a lot of people, you deprive people of agency, and this is the Kaczynski point, they naturally gravitate to leftism because leftism is this kind of collectivist mentality that says we as a society have to do this. We have to act collectively and you are functionally, you are a non, you are a non-being if you're not part of this collective, right? So the real solution to convincing people or to red-pilling people is not, oh, well, you know, look at all the times, I don't know, I'm trying to think of an example. It's not the spurty things that you see in copypasta, right? The way you red-pill people is putting them in control of their own lives, getting them away from these negative people, checking them if they're sarcastic, checking them if they're doing negative things, being negative towards themselves or other people, encourage them to eat well, eat whole meats, eat good food, exercise, get a tan, a real tan outside, not in a tanning booth, you know, do physical labor, workout, whatever it is, these things will naturally, they're just the natural solution for all this kind of stuff, right? That's how it works. So, you know, we're partially waging a hormonal war. There's a way that that's true, but yeah, this idea of like, how do we convince people like that? You just have to improve their lives. And the system, the worst thing the system can do, obviously, is mutilate these people beyond repair, okay? If they destroy their lives so much, like if a woman is like, if a woman has been promissuous for like 10 years and she's 35 and like doesn't have any marriage prospects, like she's more or less, I don't want to say she's more or less screwed, but she's kind of screwed, like she's so engrossed in that system, she can't do anything. Same thing with the transgender stuff, that's exactly what that is. Get people to physically mutilate their bodies. That is a lifelong commitment, right? So that is what the system's trying to do. And what you have to do on people around you is you have to bring them out of that. You have to give them control of their own life. You have to make them feel in control because they are in control. Anyone who says like, oh, I can't fix my life is just delusional. Like you don't know how, like you would, if you lost your legs tomorrow, like if you were in a wheelchair, you would just regret all the things you could do before, okay, that you could do right now. You know what I mean? Like people have so much power in their lives to make money, to do things their own way, to be empowered of their own life. And like they're just making excuses. And you have to make sure that people aren't making those excuses. So yeah, rational argument, that's not it, it's not about red pilling people with like facts about like race or Jews or something. That's cringe, that's cringe stuff. The reality, like whatever red pill truths, they will come later, they will come naturally when you let someone stand on their own and make their own decisions and be confident and look at things reasonably, then they will be able to be red-pilled, right? But that is down, politics is downstream of that, right? So that's my answer to that. Okay, I talked for a long time, I got to read a lot of donations. Local Rice Farmer says, Hi Luke, your view of how the internet is supposed to be as attractive with Federation and unique sites, but YouTube makes discovery easy. What's your ideas on discovery when it comes to a distributed internet? Well, the thing about Federation is you can actually do discovery pretty well once you have kind of a, what's the word I'm looking for? Critical mass of people in it. So that's the advantage of just hosting your own site. Federation is a little better because you do have that discoverability. Obviously right now we don't have it, it has to be word of mouth, right? So I got to tell people, well, there are these federated sites you can use, you can host your own website. I really should have an official web ring for everyone who makes a website with me. That's what I should, does anyone have any good web ring software that I could use? Cause that would be really cool. Like that's back in the nineties, what you would do for discoverability is you join a web ring. It's kind of like a club of sites. And you put a little thing on your website saying I'm a member of this web ring and you can press a thing that goes to your neighbor sites like, oh, here's the next site, here's the previous site, or click for a random site or here's just the directory of all of them. So that was a good way of discoverability on the internet. But right now the solute, I mean, we don't have a perfect solution other than I guess people like me need to, I probably need to make that a thing. I need to, I really need to do a web ring and do something like that. So if there's something with very simple software, I might be able to do that. I'm very picky about what's hot. You know, I don't want anything too extensive. And it has to be something really simple, but yeah, I mean, that's the way to do it. And of course there are sites like, what is it, Wibby.me, W-I-B-Y.me. It's a search engine that only has kind of personal websites and like very non bloated stuff. But right now we're kind of making it up as we go. But things like web rings and things like federation, they actually do solve this problem. Like we are further along than we were in the 90s. Federation is a big development. It's just not perfectly implemented yet and we don't have it. And RSS, like it's crazy, RSS is the most useful thing in the universe and it didn't exist till like 2004 or something like that. Like it's crazy to think the internet existed before then. I mean, it was, RSS would have been more useful in the 90s, but now we can reuse it. Now my second talk at Linux Fest, which hasn't been formally approved, they haven't put out the final approvals for the later talks. I put in this application real late. But it actually is on this question. You know, how can we re-engineer the web? How can we get back to web 1.0 basically? I think the title of the talk was like, reject tradition, return to web 1.0 or something like that. So, so $5 from Ian or Ayan, whatever you preserves. Big fan, I love watching you get frustrated at your annoying fan base. Wow, thank you, that's what I do best. Anyways, could you suggest five must read books for an uneducated zoomer? Oh no, I'm gonna have to be annoyed with this one. No, uneducated zoomer. Five books right off the top of my head. Man, I don't book recommendations. Maybe I should put it in, I don't know, it depends on where you are intellectually. Like, I don't know. Like, if you're asking fiction, I have no clue. If you're asking nonfiction, I could probably give you some, but like, probably ones that I would, all right, I'm gonna offer you cringe books. Cringe, meaning books I consider now cringe, but they were extremely base and red-pilled when I first read them, okay? Big one is Stephen Pinker's Blank Slate. Now, Stephen Pinker, mega cringe, okay? Now, you read this book and it'll sound very base and red-pilled, but he is very big cringe. He wrote a book about why the Enlightenment is so heckin' great, read it to your book, read it to your thinker. However, Blank Slate, very red-pilling book. It's about, I think the subtitle is the modern denial of human nature. It's more or less all the things that, oh, just read it, that's a decent book to read. It was one of the few books I read when I was much younger, this was probably 10 years ago. I read it and I was like, man, I mean, it was a long book, sort of, but I wanted more of it. It was good, that was a good book. You know, maybe I'll recommend, again, more cringe books that, again, if you're a normie, that might be worth reading. Nassim Taleb's stuff, maybe anti-fragile. Again, Nassim Taleb, he also is cringe now, big cringe, became a COVID cultist. However, anti-fragile, good book. Now, all the real, you might be saying, why are you recommending cringe books? Well, cringe books are for people, again, you have to talk to people on their level, and I'm gonna assume that you're lower on this level, so those will be my two, Blank Slate and Anti-Fragile, for more like normie people. Blank Slate first, probably, then anti-fragile, and of course, Taleb actually hates Pinker, too. He hates everyone, actually. But, trying to think, higher level stuff, you'll be able to figure out. Like, once you read more stuff, you'll be able to figure out what, but you don't need book recommendations from me. You'll find plenty of books. All right, I need to get through these donations. Buy some poppy seeds and plant them, I guess, says Caltz, giving in some XMR, okay. I don't know what that's about. .NET, C Sharp, .NET developer sends in some more XMR. .NET is good for business and making software that only you can maintain to keep your job. Hard to explain. There's like a kind of a cult following with it. Like, of anything, this is the funny, so this shirt, I probably had it for like maybe a month. Every time I wear, this is my most popular shirt. If you wanna talk to strangers, just wear some Bucky's merch. That's what I really, a nice, proud Bucky's shirt. Because people will just come up to you. Like, and I don't just mean every once in a while. I mean, if I wear this shirt, half the people I meet will be like, oh, dude, I heckin' love Bucky's. I love consuming Bucky's product. Like, Bucky's is like a cult phenomenon. I don't know if people know about this. It's in like Texas and the Southeast. It's just on the highways. They have ads all over the place, but yeah, Bucky's is like crazy. All right, so, Correa, G Correa sends in $5. Hey, little greetings from Brazil. Recently, I listened to the bicameral Mind episode that was not related and was wondering with one can make an argument that all religions are a mere remnant of our bicameral mind, that all religions are simply social constructs for us to access that bicameral mindset to speak, so to speak, because of that, we should consider all religions something of the past. No, I mean, you may have gotten it back. So, the point there is that the religious experience, I mean, so the bicameral mind, basically you have two different brains that were not fully connected back in the day, right? Associating them is some kind of cultural thing that we learn early on, crazy idea. But no, the religious experience would be the experience of a divided mind person having some kind of sync between the two hemispheres. So, we always have that all the time. It's not a remnant. It's something we now experience all the time. That's more or less consciousness. That's his argument. So, I think you got a back read. See, he says, I'm not an atheist, but I can see one making that argument. What do you think? Thanks, okay. Well, yeah, yeah, that's kind of what he's getting at. So, yeah, back in the, back, the Julian James argument is basically religious, early religious experiences, or when people hear gods talking to themselves, okay? That was more or less two hemispheres of the brain, one reaching conclusions and sending some derivation to the other, right? Yeah, we don't have that. So, Vietnamese person sends in some eczema. Despite 85% of China being lactose intolerant, North China has an average height of 59, 510, while South China has an average height of 5758. The difference is that North China consumes more meat than South China. Shocking, since I thought Asians were shorter than whites due to lack, I guess he meant lactose intolerant. Well, I mean height, so, well, okay, there are two things with height. Like height is different across different races. Height is also highly, like if you are malnourished as a child, you are much more likely to not reach your genetic mean, right? So if everyone in the world is like perfectly nourished or at least like bare minimum nourished, they're gonna reach their genetic potential height and those are gonna be different across different racial groups. It might be that the difference between North and South Chinese people is racial. It might be that they're milk or meat or something like that. I mean, there's a pretty good chance it has to do with meat consumption. But yeah, it's definitely not like, you don't need milk specifically. It's not like milk magically makes you taller or anything magically makes you taller. It's just you will not reach your genetic potential if you are not well educated, well nourished when you're a child, right? I mean, that's one of the big different, like Indo-Europeans, I mean, you probably know, maybe others don't, but early Indo-Europeans were totally mogging on all the manlets around them because everyone around them was malnourished farmers and they were drinking a bunch of milk and getting like a full nutrition. So they were like, you know, it's basically your, basically, let me pull up the normal chat and see people complaining about it not going to, oh, okay, we're back, all right. So, oops, Sintin, some ex-Marv says, is voting a Gnostic and thus heretical act? No, no, it's not. Don says, Luke, why you dress like an overgrown 10 year old on a serious note? Why are men dressing down? Thoughts on men dressing, well, I mean, I dress like this in my house. I actually like overdress in real life. I'm in my house, like I'm wearing a freaking t-shirt and I'm wearing like a Jorts, I'm in my house. I don't wear stuff like this. I'll wear the bucky shirt out. I will wear the bucky shirt out. Usually don't wear Jorts out, although I am a firm Jorts proponent in theory, but I really just wear them at the house. So yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna get dressed up. Well, I guess technically more people are gonna see me during this live stream than just walking around. So maybe I should dress up for doing the live stream, but I'm not gonna do that. On a serious note, thoughts on men dressing down? Should men wear more formal clothing when running errands, going to church, visiting friends, or does the way you dress matter less than you think we should? I mean, I would not even wear this kind of stuff out. I mean, again, I wear the bucky shirt sometimes, but I wouldn't wear like shorts like this or stuff out even to go to the grocery store. I probably overdress. I'll wear nicer shorts or like a polo or something like that. Or really, my most, I guess the simplest clothes I will wear is I will wear a black shirt. I'll wear that a lot, but black is kind of inherently more dressy. If you have a black t-shirt, it's a little more. I don't know. I do feel like people should dress up, not dress up, but dressing up, wearing nicer is not any more difficult than wearing crap like this. It's literally the same number of articles to put on a polo and a nicer pair of shorts. But if you want to save money, if your kid's starting out, don't bother getting fancy clothes. It's fine. But the thing is nice clothes, I got my nicer shorts for $20, same as every other pair of shorts. Luke says, what do you think about living entirely without a bank account? Banks are terrible. I live in Malta, though. So how practical would it be? It would be, might vary from here in the US. Yeah, it's hard to get paid without having a bank account. That's a tricky thing. But yeah, I definitely endorse that. Bitcoin exists, so savings accounts are basically obsolete or index funds or all that kind of crap. So yeah, you could probably do it, but getting paid, that might be a difficult thing. Because most people want to pay you in a bank. I would like to be able to be, I would like to be able to get a salary on Bitcoin, though. That would be nice. Or Monero. Max says, I have a friend who works at Google and he always says that they can identify who you are within the first keystroke in a search bar. Oh, yeah, that's definitely true. Oh, shoot. Internet's out again. I don't know, like is it actually, so when I have low internet, is it just like going to audio or is it just cutting out and you're not seeing anything? My bit rate is pretty low. Yeah, so as he said, I'll re-read that in case it didn't go on. I have a friend who works at Google and he always says that they can identify who you are within the first keystroke in the search bar. Yeah, I mean, yeah, that's how it is. Like, if you're trying to blend in at Google and try to pretend to be like some cringe blue pill that Ukraine supporting, mask wearing, vaccine receiving, normie, like it's not gonna work, you know? Eric says, many libertarians are primed to become reactionaries with right wing redpilling. Sucks if they never grow out of it though. Yeah, it does. I think around like 2015, 2016, most of the solid people left libertarianism. You could probably say I was one of them. I wouldn't have ever described myself as a libertarian. I actually even went to some libertarian conferences or a fee, like, which is foundation for economic education. It's like libertarian stuff. I actually went to maybe a couple of their events in Atlanta. I went to one of their big conferences and met a bunch of people. Actually, there were a bunch of like D-list celebrities I met there. This was way before I had a YouTube channel or anyone knew me. 2016, oh, come on, bandwidth. I think they're in 2015, 2016, most of like the good libertarians kind of left that kind of stuff and they're like, oh, we can actually just do based on redpills. I mean, there's not even a word. I don't know. Back in the day, you would call them alt-right, but like now that word is like totally distorted. I mean, alt-right used to just mean I vote for right parties, but I'm not a cringe Zio boomer. But now alt-right has been like totally just kind of co-opted. Like force memed by the media is like this, I don't know, kind of to mean white nationalism, but like even more, even like extremer and out of the normies viewpoints, I don't know. But back in the day, you could just say they were becoming alt-right because that just meant anything. It was like a big tent thing. Now it's a very like general and feared term. But yeah, I mean, there are like libertarian, I use that, oh, shoot, do I, I probably don't have this article on my website anymore. It was on one of my websites a while back, but I had an article about this like how, you know, because really what happens is libertarians, right libertarians, a good thing about them is they at least see like an economic domain. Now this isn't necessarily always a good thing because it sometimes leads them to stupid cringe things, but they do see that in the economic domain, there is this kind of emergent norm, like things that you don't understand in the economy, money and debt and all this kind of stuff in a free market economy. There are reasons for certain merges to, certain institutions to emerge and things like that or certain like consensus that might seem unfair or the wage and price system. So they kind of see this, there's solvency in the free market, right? However, they don't see that in the social domain. They are, because a lot of them are super libertine. Like a lot of libertarians, they're just like, they're like, oh, well, I don't see a reason for like this social constraint existing, so let's deconstruct it. And libertarians think that they're, oh, I'm for social freedoms and economic freedoms and that's like the opposite of the truth. In reality, it makes sense to, you know, be pro-economic deregulation because you understand the solvency of the market, but you also understand the solvency of human society and emergent traditional social norms, right? Really social conservatism and economic freedoms, quote unquote, those go together. Like libertarianism, they think they're pro-freedom, but like it's not, like those two things are really like dissonant. And a lot of people, people who grow out of the like social, well, actually kind of both of them, like weirdly enough, libertarianism produces some of the smarter people, but then they like go to kind of the exact opposite of libertarians, at least on paper in terms of, yeah, I'm not against economic controls or management of society, and while some obviously not against traditional morality and stuff like that. So, oops, that's GitHub. Robert says, ever heard of the Biedermeyer era of Germany? Time before 1815, 1845, before revolutions in Bismarck Cuck to Germany to subservience. You seem to preach the Biedermeyer virtues, self-reliance, creator economy, and anti-city living, and family values. I don't know about that period. Never really heard about it, you know, but I guess a lot of times I'll tell people that I'm kind of pro what people call dark ages. Like the Middle Ages was a great example of a good period. Again, like there's no period that is more severely or mendaciously maligned than the Middle Ages, but the Middle Ages was great because it was a period of massive decentralization and people were very much in control of their lives, right? Even people who were nominally like serfs, right? And which actually not serfdom is kind of exaggerated how many people lived as serfs anyway, but like the amount of control that people had over their own lives, they had more or less modern technology, like they had, you know, all the learning of the classical period, all the technology developed then, they had use of that. They lived in local communities that were very self-sustaining. They had some era of or some, you know, participation in commerce when needed, but it wasn't unreasonable. It's not like globalization now where it's like, you know, something goes wrong in China or there's some stupid hoax war in Ukraine and like everything shuts down here and our gas goes up by like, you know, twice. But yeah, I mean, so the dark age, quote unquote dark ages, I, you know, I kind of like calling in them the dark ages even though it's like a Reddit term that's like false, even Redditers know that it's like totally untrue to call the dark ages the dark ages, but there's a sense in which I like, I like that appellation because, not because it's like dark in a bad sense, but dark in the sense that like, it's kind of uncharted. Like it's this period of history where we weren't living in a panopticon. Like there wasn't some universal empire controlling people, but it was, you know, it was a decent period in terms of like material standards of living, stuff like that. So yeah, it was definitely not a bad period, but yeah, I've never heard that period in German life, but in a sense, like lots of European states, like the massive nations, nation state didn't really exist in most of Europe. You know, there were just be, oh, here's the king who rules this area and he doesn't even speak the languages of his people, and it doesn't really make a big difference what the king does. You know, that's a good situation to live in. Adam says, Adam M. Sinsons of Maximar, what advice do you have for someone wanting to start their own online store? What platforms or software do you use? How do you accept crypto? Thanks. Oh man. So the easiest way, which I have not done, you can get a WordPress site and use, what is it, like WooCommerce, and they can do payment processing, I'm pretty sure, and they also have plugins for cryptocurrency. A BTC pay is like a self-hosted one that you can use, but you can also use custodial, I mean, if you're just trying to start things out and you don't want to do everything perfect, you could probably use a custodial cryptocurrency exchange thing. So yeah, the easiest, normie-friendly way, and also probably not normie-friendly way is the WooCommerce plugin, which works on WordPress, and I think it might work on other things as well. But yeah, just starting with some kind of simple online shop, I mean, that is actually the easiest way to just make freaking money, you know, I haven't done it, but just like sell merch for random stuff that is in the public domain, like, oh, I like Monero, let me put Monero logos on T-shirts, and then have Zazzle print them out, you know, stuff like that, which I'm pretty sure Monero's stuff is in the public domain, or at least you can license it or sell stuff with it. So that's a good option, like that's probably the easiest way to just basically make free money. So looking to WooCommerce, there might be other ones as well, but honestly, your research is as good as mine if you look into it. There are probably other more lightweight ways of hosting it other than WordPress. WordPress needs to just be shot, like it's terrible, like it really needs to be slimmed down, like static site generators have so drastically become superior to WordPress, it's not even funny. You might be able to use Hugo with WooCommerce, I don't know, I don't know how it works. I know that Kai Hendry, oh okay, actually I remember this, Kai Hendry did a video a couple years ago, actually talking about having a, he created some site, some system for Hugo, for creating a Hugo site where you do dropshipping, and I think you just use Stripe, and I think Stripe has this thing where you can hook it up to other merchants and just have a queue and order or something. I'm not quite sure how it works, but you can look up Kai Hendry. I wanna say his project was either shopfront or storefront, I'm not quite sure. I don't know if it's a finished thing either, but you can look into that. But if nothing else works, I mean there is WordPress and WooCommerce, but again it's kinda, you're gonna want something, I would want something more minimalistic, but that will work. I will tell you that will work. So, Privigelo donates $5. B.A.P. Nick Fuentes or Moldbug, who is least cringe? I don't really know, I mean of those guys, I mean Moldbug is the one that I've consumed the most product from, but yeah, I don't know. BJ says automatic or manual transmission. I'm in a Maramut, I don't know how to drive a manual. Never, maybe I've driven one in my life. I don't know, I don't know really how to drive them. You run across manual transmissions in America so rarely that, I don't know. I guess it's more common on like farm vehicles and stuff or like different kinds of things, but yeah, I don't know how to drive a manual. But of course, like obviously it's better in all sense and purposes. Let's see, okay, okay. So Keith says, libertarians have the problem of all other utopian politics. They are made by and for populations of 115 IQ. There's no answer for what to do with these people below this line who cannot and will not participate under the same social contracts, or at least they're not speaking it out loud. Yeah, I think in libertarian thinking, there is this kind of social Darwinism that's implicit that, I mean for better or for worse. Like there actually could be an argument to make here, but libertarians basically suggest creating a society that would make it impossible for dumb people to exist. Or if dumb people, or there will be temporary problems where like dumb people don't wanna go by the social contracts, but then they'll be punished in somewhat, or like there has to be some way of getting rid of these people, right? Or the libertarian viewpoint, oh, we'll just like incentivize this behavior and then it'll happen. And that's just not really how it is. It is still utopian thinking. So the thing is like of the guys that I met at like libertarian conferences, I have no doubt that a libertarian utopia could work among those guys. That doesn't mean anything. Whereas I couldn't say that of communists, like communists of utopias, like they're not gonna work. I mean, maybe some jogger says, is Peter Thiel low-key based? Well, he's gay, literally gay. So you can't really be gay based when you're gay. But I mean, he does say some base things, like he did support orange boomer, at least he is red-pilled on the university question. And he has been for a while. I mean, Peter Thiel is not that bad, but I wouldn't like, wouldn't give my endorsement to him. Gargetta says, have you listened to the, listened or read Orthodox Survival Guide, originally by Seraphim Rose, or remade by Father Stephen? They takes on post-schism-Europe-arbingo-bango. Okay. Yeah, no, I've never read that. Never read that. So the .NET developer says, if you want businesses to adopt Linux, you need enterprise quality software that starts with .NET. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that is the real problem. The problem is like, there's a lot of software that's like broken out there, like for software standards that are just extremely broken. And they're partially broken because people want broken stuff. Like they can't, like people can't opt with like minimalist stuff and things like that. I mean, it's just not, it's not in the, I don't know. It's like, what's the equivalent of Microsoft Word, you know, like there's a sense in which the software itself is, it's like not, what was I gonna say? The software is the problem. The fact that software is doing this is the problem. Same thing with software as a service. We're like a lot of enterprise software, that's how it is. You know, I don't believe in enterprise software, but a lot of businesses, it's just like it's the easiest thing. Let's see. Gamer Word sends in some XMR, he just says lol. All right. I actually finally caught up with all my donations. Wow. Feel accomplished. Now I can sit back and relax. I'm gonna look at the chat. Can't believe I use Google Docs in college, lol. Yeah, I feel the same way. There's actually a video early on my YouTube channel, my first video I put up way before I decided to have a YouTube channel. There's actually a video of me using Google Docs. Believe it or not. But yeah, the worst thing is, you know, when I was younger, I was like, oh my goodness, Microsoft Word, it sucks. I can't believe that people use it. When are they gonna get over it? And finally, my wish was granted, and now kids just learn freaking even worse Google Docs. The only thing worse than enterprise software is enterprise software that runs on someone else's computer. Luke, do you know about Jean François Garry, UP? Have you read his revolutionary phenotype? No, I haven't read that. I know he exists. I know he exists. Does he still like do stuff? Does he like stream? I don't even know. I wanna say, maybe I'm misremembering it. I wanna say there was one time I was like invited to do a stream with him. I'm not sure about that. Yeah, I'm not sure about that. Maybe it was like, people have definitely asked me to go on his streams, but like, yeah, I'm not gonna. I never email someone asking, can I be on your podcast? That is like extremely low energy, especially because I'm not a big fan of doing this podcast stuff. Like, I mean, I'll do it. I guess I said earlier in the stream, I'm doing something with someone tomorrow. I don't even know who the guy is, but he wanted to have me on. So why is Google Docs bad, nor me here? I don't know, is that someone joking? Well, the whole point is you don't own the docs. Like, this is like, instead of doing something in the simplest way possible, let me create a document on my computer and edit that. You're not just using massive amounts of software. You're saving this on someone else's computer and you have to be tethered to the internet to use it. So it's running proprietary software. It's monitoring you, monitoring literally every key press, okay? It's on somebody else's computer. You don't have it. Like, if the grid goes down, it's not yours. It's like, I'm dead serious. Little first time chatter for your lives. Just watch some of your videos. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I guess I don't even do videos on technology stuff anymore. But yeah, it's like, software is a service. Like Google Docs kind of stuff. That is the worst thing that's ever happened. Like the amount of convenience that it even gives people is so small. Like, oh, it's cool to be able to edit something at the same time as someone else, okay? When are you actually ever gonna use that? You know what I mean? Like, it's not something that people actively use. And you can actually get free and open source software, you know, host it on your own server and do the same thing. I think we talked about NextCloud or whatever. Or what is it? There's some other one that you can host on your own server. But yeah, it's bad stuff. Like instead of doing computing in your house, you're gonna use Amazon Alexa to, I don't know, you wanna ping Amazon HQ every time you have a question. That's the absolute state of modern technology. It's pretty bad. OhmCloud, is that it? To me to me is person, sends an XMR. Another thing about height, I've noticed people in the global north are just tolerant generally. Also, I don't support segregation, but I would support each ethnic, tribal, racial group having an autonomous region. Well, in nature, that's how it is. If whites gave us California, there would be no democracy based and no black crime. Oh boy. Yeah, that would solve some problems. Yeah, I mean, yeah, well, that's not always true about people in the, well, okay, if you mean global north to mean developed countries, yeah. But of course, when you're talking about genetic potentials, people in the equatorial regions are gonna be taller. What was that sound? Okay, it was a cat. I forgot, I have a cat in the house scratching on something. Whereas Eskimo people are like squat and stuff, you know, more body fat for the colder regions. So, okay, Eric says BAP is a confirmed gay op. Him and other teal projects shouldn't be taken at face value. Yeah, I don't know anything about him. I remember seeing his Twitter sometimes and they'd have like kind of cool posts sometimes. But also a lot of it, is he supposed to be actually gay? Like, I don't even know. I was getting conflicting vibes from that because I feel like some of the stuff, like some of the stuff in those circles is kind of weird. Paris says, is it possible to practice MMA both as a hobby and professionally and still be a good Christian? I mean, I don't know if you can practice MMA and not be cringe. I don't think it has anything to do with being a Christian or not. Although, you know, some early church fathers do condemn boxing and gladiatorial stuff, but it's more like it's stupid to consume products. Like actors, they would concede. Actually, what is it? Dude, I wanna say, okay. So in one of the, one of the, what is it? Books that I wanna republish on Early Christian Rea, which one was it? I'm gonna give you the exact name. So there's a, on LindyPress.net, which you can buy books from right there, there was one of the books I'm gonna put up, which is like an Early Christian reader that has a compilation of like Early Christian, oh, I'm on the wrong computer. This one's the one I need. It has a compilation of like Early Christian writings and stuff like that, stuff that wasn't in the Bible but was still used by the church or some other things. Anyway, there's a, one of the things in there, what is it? The apostolic tradition, I think this is what it is. This is one of the earliest stuff that's like written outside of the Bible, but it actually says like when you're, actually I'll read it out. This is like who you can allow in your church. Inquiry shall likewise be made about the professions and trades of those who are brought to be admitted into the faith. If a man is a pandorer, he must desist and be rejected, so no poor fags. If a man is a sculptor or painter, he must be charged not to make idols. If he does not desist, he must be rejected. If a man is an actor or a pantomimist, he must desist or be rejected, so no actors can become Christians. A teacher of young children had best desist, but he is, if he has no other occupation, he better, he may be permitted to continue. A charioteer, likewise who races or frequents races must desist or be rejected. A gladiator or a trainer of gladiators or a huntsman in wild beast shows or anyone connected with these shows or a public official in charge of gladiatorial exhibitions must desist or be rejected. A heathen priest or anyone who tends idols must be desist, why am I saying desist, desist? I'm like mentally retarded, I'm reading too fast. A soldier of the civil authority must be blah, blah, blah. Anyway, so actors, you know, people who played in the games, who were in the product consumption entertainment industry, they were basically not allowed to convert until they quit their jobs, which is absolutely based, absolutely based. I, you know, we really do need to bring back the convention of actors being thought of as being less than prostitutes. That is my firm belief. That would be a good thing. How did I get on that? Oh, the MMA question. Adarsh says, here's another question, not too long. And although I accidentally donated $3 two extra times for this and it didn't go through, possibly my fault, so I don't know what to do about that. Let's see. Okay, so another long question. Question about political involvement and interest. I'm increasingly more attracted to the idea of political disengagement like you or Moldbug recommend. I would also say I'm not disengagement. Okay, well, all right, we'll all read this. And I fully agree it's just degenerate and a really fake system. However, the idea of accepting its existence and becoming your super independent, super independent like you seems great. But I have this fear with the accelerating degeneracy of our fake government and neutered opposition. Not even you could stay independent. Doesn't it at some point begin to affect your life? Isn't it pushing it under the rug, a long-term solution, isn't, is just pushing it under the rug a good long-term solution for us? No, that's not what you're doing. Also, I don't think I could be as independent as you because of personal circumstances. I hate academia. I just love physics too much to not want to do it professionally. Given this does screw me over, should I at least try to fight in a political battle since independence might not be possible either, blah, blah. Should I get a CS degree and bail out? I feel like it'd be selling on my principles. I don't know if you're about to finish a degree, do it. I mean, you might as well, just to have like the, you know, have that check. It does count for stuff still. But yeah, if you're just, if you're starting out, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. There are still reasons to get a bachelor's degree in terms of your KBS. I'm waiting for this one. I want to answer this question. Okay, okay, now it's going. All right, so the problem with this is you are assuming that you fighting in the system is going to make a lick of difference. Like you, I mean, your impact actually is substantially less than mine. I will go ahead and say that. Okay, now part of that is, you know, I have a YouTube channel or whatever, but like you really have no effect. You being in the system, this is not like, especially in the age of the internet, there is no such thing as, oh, I either try to fight political battles or I move to the country and I try to be independent. No, you can do both at once. And in fact, you are not doing any good. You're not doing any good. Like if you're in a university, trying to like red pill people, you're delusional. Like if you're in like Google or whatever, trying to red pill people, you're delusional. Like you're wasting your time, you're giving moral consent to those people and you are not doing anything. Like if you moved into a shack in the middle of woods and never saw anyone or just died, you would not be making any less change. That's what I'm trying to get. So if you think that by being in a city or by doing this stuff, you're somehow more powerful, that is just so wrong. That is just so backwards, especially in terms of politics. And it's not, you're saying, oh, well, sweeping it under the rug, is that a long-term solution? No, the long-term solution is surviving this insanity. People have survived bouts of insanity many times in the past and they will continue to survive. They will flee to the mountains, they will flee to the country and they will be able to survive this insanity. Now, it's not about you trying to, I mean, things are collapsing, right? Like you should be really happy. Things are freaking collapsing slowly in front of you. Now, any kind of empire is an empire that exists for 500 years. It's gonna have 100 years of goodness and 400 years of decline. And we are in those years of decline and I don't think anyone can look at the system and not say things are, like there used to be, oh, there's all this leftist insanity and that's it. Now, there's all this leftist insanity and it's destroying people. Like it's destroying people's lives. Where there's this like hoax war that we have to destroy the economy for. Actually, multiple hoax wars over the past, like decades or so to bring democracy and homosexuality to all the peoples of the world, right? So that is now tangibly destroying the empire or what it's doing to families and children, like these like insane leftist parents who are like grooming their children and are like, you know, all this kind of insanity. Like they are destroying themselves. All you have to do is outlast them, okay? Because things are collapsing right now. They're not collapsing fast. It's not a thing that's gonna happen in like five years. Well, I don't know, maybe it could, but like I do not expect in five years for us to be like, oh, well, I'm glad that's over. I'm glad like democracy and the media and all this nonsense is dead. I don't think that's gonna happen. But you are outlasting them, okay? But you by being independent, it's not you retreating. It's you surviving. You are not doing any good where you are. You are doing much better good here. I mean, look, I don't even have a real YouTube channel. I'm just a guy and oh, maybe I could secretly red pill like one student a year or something about something. I don't know who knows, right? So of course this is not me saying you should become a YouTuber or something cringe like that. But this idea that you are somehow more powerful in a city where your voice is suffocated by insane people, that is not the case. So it is not retreat, it is not surrender. It is, you doing a rational thing. This is what I talked about a week or so ago, maybe two weeks, maybe it's been three weeks. I don't know when I did that video about like, I'm angry about politics on Twitter. Like what they try to do is they try to get you into a pitched battle. They try to get you into a battle you cannot win. If they get you, you know, if they get you to consent to the system and work for it. I still have delusional friends who are like, oh, I'm gonna work in a university and I'm gonna, secret, I'm siphoning off money. They don't know that I'm actually cool. Like I'm not like that. No, you are like them. That's how I was when I was in a university. It's sheer delusion. It's sheer people rationalizing their laziness, right? So yeah, I mean, just do not be, don't worry. You don't have an effect on the world right now. So you might as well move out. You're not gonna win the political battle. They are trying to get you into another hoax, like get you agitated and then beat you and humiliate you, where you could just not participate in that. Okay, that's what I'm trying to get at. And you're building something much more permanent, okay? Like this is real. People also think that because all this crazy stuff is going on in the world, normal life is just unobtainable to them, which isn't true. You can just move out of the, like how is this real? Like drop your phone, leave the internet, go to real life, you're gonna be fine, okay? Things are how they've always been, okay? The weird thing is people think, people think if you're moving to the country and you're being more independent, you think, oh, those people are being delusional and they're not connected to reality. No, it's that if you're plugged into the system and you're plugged into the social media nonsense, that is you not being connected to reality. Jogger sends in XMR, what's your favorite psychedelic? Well, I'm not a schizophrenic, so I don't use psychedelics. Would you legalize them? No, I wouldn't. Donating to you is only my second use for XMR. Yeah, I'm guessing you bought like shrooms or something. Actually yet at Monerotopia, there was some guy selling, or was it a guy or was it a girl? I forget, I forget who was at the stand. But someone was selling like shrooms or chocolate-wishrooms in them or something like that. No, psychedelics are extremely cringe. All drugs are cringe. Even like commonly used drug, I mean even caffeine or alcohol, like I'm not against using them every once in a while. But yeah, bad idea. Marijuana is probably the worst drug, probably the, marijuana is the drug of consuming product. But psychedelics are like the, are kind of similar, I feel like. And you know, you're also talking to demons, yeah. So you know, that's how it is. Get over it. JT, JTX, it donates $5. Thoughts on Jay Dyer. He's a popular orthodox apologist who is also interested in crypto. You should stream together. I know that Jay Dyer exists. I'm not big, I mean he's a really freaking long, like everything he does is streams. So you know, I'm not really big into that. Like I do not, I do not watch much on YouTube. Actually, given my live streams, I definitely produce more content on YouTube than I ever consume. Yeah, but I know he exists. I'm not super interested in apologetics or whatever. He's more of a, from what I understand, he's more of like an apologetic arguing guy, which I am 100% not. Which is also very, I don't know. I think he's also like me in that he had a upbringing kind of like the Western intellectual tradition, like more scholastic stuff. I feel like he, by virtue of being apologetic, that's almost nearly certainly the case, but I'm not into that. That's one of the reasons I prefer orthodoxy. Luke says, are you gonna travel to Europe at some point? Would you consider giving a talk at the University of Malta if you were invited? Well, if I were invited, all expenses paid. I mean, sure, I'd do that, but traveling is the expensive thing. And of course, as long as I can get on an airline where I don't have to get the heck in Mark of the Beast and wear a stupid mask or whatever, I think people are over that. Now they're on to the new current thing. But I mean, I don't spend that much money. Like if people invite me somewhere and it's somewhere a close drive, I might go. But if it's anywhere that requires a plane and stuff, like I don't travel that often. I don't have that many Wells Fargo points saved up. So like, unless I were getting a free ride somewhere, realistically, I'm not gonna go there. However, there is a chance that I will go to Europe at some point in my life. I really don't have the Eastern Europe thing. I don't really have an into it. I don't have, you know, never looked, never like gotten my hands dirty with it, tried to use it for anything, but it does seem like a cool and censorship resistant way of hosting data. But, yeah, I don't know. Oh, man. Well, my nose is starting to itch, so that means I'm getting tired of doing a stream. I don't know why that happens. This has not happened to other people when they talk for a long time. Okay, let me, oops. I'm gonna look at the chat because I finally got through donations again for this brief period. Oh, look, someone gave a super chat. I will read that because I randomly came across it. MaximumWeeb says, thank you for doing what you do, Luke. My next goal, my goal next six months is achieve 10% of what you've accomplished, which would be 100% more than what I'm doing now, still lifting weights, sun and steel by Yukio Mishima. Okay, well, I don't know. I don't really feel like I'm that accomplished in anything, I guess. Impersonal independence, maybe. I don't know. Maybe. I am in toy, as they say. Okay. Comparing your accomplishments to others is cringed. Cringed, I don't think that's a word. I don't know if I agree with that. I think it's very low energy to constantly compare yourself to others, but it's not necessarily a bad thing if you're doing it in a self-critical way, like, oh, I could be doing this, you know? I mean, that's a whole, okay, I'm gonna go ahead and move all these emails over. Thank goodness that I have Neomutt. Man, I don't know how to do it. Jonathan King says, thank you for your content. All right, thank you. Although, people should be not using the YouTube super chat thing. I'm not against it, but. Me-Mera, high-level thinkers, Me-Mera, Jordan Peterson, yeah, I know. Luke, do you use rec files? Looks like it would be useful for managing your library on your website. Now that I'm using Hugo for my library on my website, that is, I have a much better system for that. I do use rec files for the not related website because I have not related information stored in like a rec file. And I thought about doing a video about that, but I might actually like switch from rec files to using the Hugo even on not related, but I'm not quite sure. Which guy on Odyssey who lives in the desert outside and streams better than you with his phone, WTF, man, just stream 480p? Well, 720p, when I first started using Starlink, 720p was absolutely fine. And it's not like, the connection is good. It's just like it poops out every once in a while. So I think that problem would be persistent in 480p. I could probably, maybe I'll try 480p next time, but I really don't think, like the issue is not like the speed. It's the, well, you know, I guess like the packets would be, would the packets be smaller? I'm not quite sure how it works. It might make a difference, I'm not quite sure. I might go ahead and watch part of the stream and see how bad it looks, if it actually is breaking up a lot. Okay, so I'm done with donations and no one's donated in the past couple minutes. So, oh, you finally relax. I hate this webcam, how it makes everything closer to it look massive. So like my legs look massive if I do this. You know, it's just like, I don't know. Any advice for normies like me on reading the KJV edition? Just read it. Yeah, Soilink, so since I did that video on Soilink, I think they slowed me down and the connection is less consistent. And I think they're trees anywhere near it. Luke, are you ever going to go back to Ubuntu? When did I use Ubuntu? I mean, I guess I used Ubuntu like briefly before I knew how to use Linux. But in my normie Linux user days, I think I more or less used Manjaro. But Manjaro now like absolutely sucks. They've added all this other, I mean, they've gone the Ubuntu way of just adding in all this garbage. I think they do, they even have snaps now in Manjaro by default, something ridiculous. They have some alternate package manager and stupid stuff. So, Artix is usually what I recommend to people because that's what I mean, that's what I use. See only, I mean, I've really only used two Linux distributions and that's Arch and Artix. And again, Manjaro I used for a very brief period and Arch and Artix are basically the same thing. In let's say movie making, filmmaking, graphical art, all these kind of things, all of these things are nice to have. And if you think, like literally, if someone made good Baroque art or like good looking art as opposed to the stuff, shield buddy, you know who's, that would be infinitely greater of a contribution to the based and red-pilled world than larping as some kind of political activist. I will just say that. That is infinitely more powerful. I mean, that's how they took over, like that's, I mean, you can just look up, you can just look up who ran the original movie studios in America and you will not be surprised. But, you know, that was like, people need to, I think, think more culturally because I think a lot of people on the right will be like, oh well, art students, those are like cringe left-hards or oh, filmmaking, that sounds gay or blah, blah, blah. But art needs to be more cultivated. I mean, I have seen people who have cultivated, you know, do music and all this kind of stuff, but like it needs to be a more common thing. And it's much, again, it's much more powerful than like larping within the system and working for Google and all this kind of crap. You know, pretending you're doing something. So, I mean, it's easy to compete with the establishment because they're just all about anti-art now. They're all about like ugliness and, you know, disgusting movie. Oh, look at this movie that like has no real plot and just like there's a disgusting whore and gore, whore and gore, gore and whore and all this kind of stuff. And it just like psychologically stresses people. The competition is easy, right? I respect people already who do like low-budget films and stuff like that, but especially, and I don't want to say like political films, but I mean like just create good art, you know? It needs to happen. Where do you get your texts from Lindy Press from? Oh, this is from Where Is Sauce for $5. Are you using an already edited version of the text? If so, what texts, Toynbur, OCT or something? I don't know what you mean by Toynbur. I mean, it depends on what texts, I mean, different books come from different places. A lot of them are actually already on archive.org, stuff like that. So I spruce them up, I edit them. I don't make them for, I'll use texts from different places. And there are some that I will more or less opus tertium, which isn't up there yet. I basically, well actually the other Roger Bacon work, the compendium of theological study. It also, I digitize myself. Or while I PDF to text some Google PDF and then I had to go through every single page and edit it and stuff like that. So they come from different places, like basically all the texts are in the public domain. You can't find copies of them online. It looks really dark here. It's really dark. I mean, it's like basically new where I am. But it's because I close the window, like the, oh man, the natural light, weirdly enough, doesn't look good. It gets me overexposed. But yeah, this looks all right. So I get them from different places. So, all right. So, Adarsh says, sorry for past, oh boy. Oh wait, no, I already read that one. Or I think I already read that one. Let me just double check. Oh, okay, yeah, that's a new one. Okay, I can accept the point about trying to fight this survival explanation makes sense to me. Apart from the politicians, what about my intrinsic value? Apart from the politics, what about my intrinsic value for studying physics? It'd be hard to do that without working in a university. Yeah, well, it's not a real job. Like the 20th century has created this idea among people that like studying things is a job and it isn't. Like the reason graduate schools exist now or the reason like full-time professors, I mean it used to be professors and stuff. All of these people had real jobs. You know, there have been, or there was like a very small elite that might actually work full-time for a university. But the idea of just like every, oh, I like doing this so it's gonna be like what I do for a living, that's crazy. That's an artifact of the 20th century. And the reason it happens, the reason grad students and all these people get paid now is because the system, when they're screwing people up, when they're doing what we were talking about before, making them like impotent people, like impossible to employ, just like taking away their agency, all this kind of stuff, it makes them unemployable in the real world. And if you want apparatchiks to shill for you, you have to pay them. And that is functionally what academia is now. It's basically people who can't function outside of it who don't have anything to do. So they're just kind of paid by the system to sit around just so they won't like actually get mad at the system. And you know, they shill for people. And as time has gone on, this will become more and more the case. Not only should you not be doing that as a job. Secondly, the job itself, like the formality of having a professor that actually studies things that isn't like transgender studies is gonna become a formality. Like with every passing year, you will see a physics professorship becoming even more of an insane thing. You know, there are things like, I guess in physics, like a lot of the harder sciences, the vector for subversion is often global warming. So, you know, that's the thing that they use. But either way, what do you, I mean, I don't know. You seem like you're talking as if you have this interest and you feel entitled to work in this interest. And that is not, that's gonna hurt you. Like if you say that, there's no, I mean, you could be an engineer. Like that is something that is very useful and requires physical knowledge and maybe like very novel physical knowledge. I'm not quite sure. Engineers are something that's in demand, right? But yeah, like you are definitely, you should not feel entitled to study some academic discipline just for no reason. Cause you're not doing anything. Like just in terms of like, are you actually contributing to society? Okay? Like are you feeding someone even indirectly? Okay? When you're, even when you have a job that's like questionably useful, a lot of times you're at least feeding someone. You're at least improving their life. When you're doing these academic things, I don't know. Now if you wanna be an engineer and you use physics, that's great. That's great. There's lots of things you can do. Make a big difference, but you're not entitled to just, I don't know, no one is. Live with myself if I was unable to study and contribute to an amazing field because of stupid politics. Well, you can't, you're not gonna be able to. I, this is only gonna go worse. See, that's what I thought I was gonna do. Oh, linguistics, no one gives a crap about that domain. And no one did, like there was, there basically was very little political subversion per se in my department in terms of like, you have to study this and you have to do that and you can't reach these conclusions. There's very little of that. However, the system is still, was still eating it up. The mentality of people, the certain psychology of people is going in there. So a lot of people say to me, oh, Luke, I think it's so sad you had, you know, a lot of linguistics people or whatever will reach out to me, your economics people and say, oh, it's so sad that you didn't do that. Oh, I wish you could contribute to these fields and you have many great ideas and blah, blah, blah. Okay, it doesn't matter. We don't live in that world. We don't live in a world where you, this idea that you can contribute to this academic field and it's gonna be taken seriously and you're like, your innovations are not gonna be suspect to like, some kind of publication bias or like, you know, all this kind of stuff. You will be a paper pusher in the best case scenario. Worst case scenario, you're not gonna, you're not even gonna survive, not because maybe you're not good at it, but because, you know, it's not for you. This is not, do you have pronouns in your bio? Do you have dyed hair? If not, academia is not for you. You might say my physics department is right. It's okay right now, but in 10 years, it ain't gonna be. It ain't gonna be unless, you know, there's some kind of massive collapse in which case universities are gonna be screwed anyway, so. So yeah, you gotta get over that. I mean, think about engineering. If that is a go-between for you, if you are so tethered to this, think about engineering, okay? And you can do the more academic, like the more kind of theoretical stuff on the side, but you can also use it as a real job. Like you can be an engineer and use physics all the time. There are many times where you might, you know, use some kind of applied physics. That's totally fine. But yeah, this, if you're, I don't know, and I hope other people listening to this, hear this, because I know a lot of other people are in the same mindset. I think, I'm gonna say I got an email from someone, I forget what field it is, but yeah, this is sheer, you gotta get over this, like this, oh, I identify with this line of work and I have to do it, even though I'm a kid and there's not even like a job with it. This is like, it only exists as an academia. Even as like a career, even if we lived in a perfect world, that would still be a high-risk career that you could actually become like a professor and work in physics. That is high risk, okay? You don't know that there's a lot of filtering that's gonna be going on. Just try and do something that's related to it if you can. Really, you just probably just get a random job doing something else and you probably realize that you're not that tethered to physics anyway, but you can do engineering or something in the meantime. So, okay. Okay, Eric says, if you were invited to Tennessee for this podcast, would you consider it? Don't read aloud, sorry. Oh, I guess he doesn't want me to read aloud the lower point. Let's see what it is. I won't tell what it is. Oh, okay, yeah, I have heard of him. Yeah, I would be open to that. I actually respect that if it's an in-person podcast too. I would be very open to that, yeah. Okay, so Kenny sends in $10. I somewhat relate to your comment on the Middle Ages for Europeans here in Africa. We saw a relatively recent memory of our past when we lived off the land and were more self-sufficient than what we are now. Only problem is that it is mostly passed down by word of mouth. Some of it was documented by colonists, colonialists and Africans that formerly educated, and Africans that formerly educated in the early days, but I fear that a lot of it has been lost. For example, herbal treatments that work, but haven't been extensively researched within the framework of modern peer-reviewed science. We're also abandoning a lot of traditional social structures to our own detriment. In part influenced by the Western media, modern technology has come with a lot of improvements, but I think we threw away a lot that was valuable in that process. Once I gain more independence, I hope to start a project to capture as much of it as possible before it is completely, yeah, that's a great thing to do. And that's happening, of course, not just in Africa, that's happening all over the world. I mean, it's even happening in the developed world. We have kind of a history that is an oral history and stuff and traditional herbal stuff that's lost. Obviously it's eaten a lot of that stuff up, but now it's happening all over the world. So yeah, you absolutely need to do that kind of stuff. A lot of people, I mean, when I did that article a couple years back on why it's bad to have high GDP, this is what I talked about. Like GDP, like metrics of modern wealth, they measure only wealth within the system. They don't measure independence. They don't measure people who are living, who are growing their own stuff, they're giving stuff to their friends or they're trading or they're bartering or stuff like that. So we have this natural blindness to what we had before and we're creating a society that has nice plastic tools and fun toys and all this kind of stuff but is really less sustainable. Like it's more prone to collapse and we're creating people who are basically, Varg used to describe modern man as like a man in a wheelchair. Like modern society is like a giant, I mean, it's like an electric wheelchair and it's very convenient. I don't have to walk, I can go where, I don't have to spend effort, right? But if you live your life in a wheelchair, like is it good to be in a wheelchair? Is it good to be bound to a wheelchair? No, it makes you weak and that's kind of the same concept. So yeah, we can use, like I'm not one of these people who's anti-all technology but we have to use it with the most discerning tendencies. That's how it is and it's very important. Oral tradition for those of you, like this guy who might be in Africa or might be connected to an oral tradition, it is extremely important to like keep that going. Like and around here, this is the case as well, like in the American South, like frankly, we have an oral history that's very different from the stuff that goes on in textbooks, you know what I mean? So like there's a lot of stuff that you gotta keep going and there's a good book series, where is it? Um, actually done in America. Oh, shoot. I think I talked about this, maybe even in the last three months, so like the Foxfire books. So there's, I have two of these, they were like 12 of this. This is like kind of an ethnography of like Appalachian people, where you go to them, you ask them all this cultural, there's actually a story to its writing. It was like some project in a junkie, used to be a junkie private school, now it's a very swanky private school in North Georgia. And there was this class project where they were supposed to interview all their parents, like, you know, how do you build a log cabin? How do you dress a pig? How do you, you know, tell us some ghost stories, you know, all this kind of cultural stuff, tell us herbal remedies, there's stuff on like, how they used to use like astrological signs to plant crops, all this kind of stuff. This is the kind of stuff that is not written down and it's important to preserve it. Now, here in America, I'm sure as our, as our donator says it's, that's the case in Africa and it's the case everywhere else, right? You know, most of history is not written and really the important stuff of history is not written, right? So yeah, that's a good point. So yeah, I mean, you should make every effort to preserve that kind of stuff. So, that is not, okay. Let me check the chat. I'm getting kind of tired, it's zero. I'm just gonna email him that. I think I have his email somewhere. Okay, yeah, I went through. Yeah, because I'm gonna be close to Tennessee so it would be nice to do that. Cause I'm going, when I'm going to Linux Fest in North Carolina, it depends on where they are in Tennessee. I don't know. But I don't wanna speak past the sale. I don't know. Maybe they don't know who I am. Um, nice fursana, Luke. Yeah, this is... Ha ha ha. You like my fursana? I'm bucky. Dude, I'm on a bucky furry suit. That's what I want. It's actually getting kind of hot. I'm gonna turn on my AC. Ooh. Back in my old house where I had, I used to have one of those Windows A... Windows ACs. Anyway, I had an AC on the window and so whenever I did a livestream, I would turn it off cause it'd just be so loud. It'd just be so, you wouldn't hear anything but the AC and so like by the time two hours came around, I'd just be like boiling hot. All right. So I think I'm getting kind of tired. I'm gonna go in for like two and a half hours. I'm gonna put up, so today I'm gonna put up two videos just cause why not? They're not new video, well they're new for people on YouTube. Internet connection. Do I have one? Okay, yeah, here we are. Okay, did everyone just miss what I, all the stuff that I was saying? Well, okay, whatever. I'll repeat it again. I'm gonna put up two videos on Monero on my channel today that I've already released on PeerTube. One is gonna be on, oh people are saying yes, whatever, whatever. Who cares? You'll see the notifications anyway. Something about new videos. Soiling crashed. Two videos, yeah, that's right. That's right. Two Monero videos. I figure I'll put them on the same day just because like I feel, whenever I do cryptocurrency stuff, there are some people who just hate cryptocurrency so much. So I'm gonna put all the hatred in one day rather than spreading out so people, you know, don't complain. All right, I'll give one little last check to the donations. Okay. All right, I don't see anything. I'm gonna call it quits. I'm gonna call it quits. And I will, you know what? Maybe next stream, I will do one in a public park so I have better reception. So I am at least glad thanks to Soiling that I can at least kind of do a stream even if it breaks up every other minute. Living off the grid and using crypto. Well, it's better than living off the grid and using the traditional banking system. Although I still do have a bank account. I think I'm, I did mention the possibility of this year totally going all crypto online, like not even allowing people to donate money like fiat money and stuff like that. And I'm thinking more seriously about that. But then again, I don't know, use a bank or a credit union. I actually have, well actually I guess banks. I think maybe one of them qualifies as a credit union. I don't know, it's basically the same thing. Come on. Of course I don't have checking accounts or whatever at most banks. But I do have like credit cards open with like literally every bank. Cause you know my like credit card thing that I do. Well I actually would. Is that still on my website where it's like, oh yeah, go to my website up there and then click on I think in the economics tab there'll be something about credit cards. And I did videos on those. But like basically I just live off of credit card introductory offers and pocket the money. Actually that's not true. At least this year I haven't done one in a while. But you can put all your eggs in one basket. Well yeah, that's why I have multiple credit cards. Or are you talking about like cryptocurrency? I don't know. I don't know what he's talking about. Thanks you. I'm going to a coding boot camp. Your videos are a very interesting gateway into a mentally healthier lifestyle and understanding tech instead of being controlled by it. Yeah, I mean that's the big issue. A lot of people nowadays they're all about oh technology for technology's sake. They're not thinking about how it affects them. That's a big issue. So, all right. Okay I'm going to call it quits in one minute. Once I pick, actually pull up everything and tell it to turn off. I mean I can't just say off here. All right. Video. Okay, that's it. I'm going to press the in-stream button once it pops up. So thanks for everyone for coming out. Again, I'll put some crap up and I'll see you guys later.