Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "PowerfulJRE"
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Yes. You're never voting for the president. You're voting for the president's team. No president can get into the weeds of everything the federal government does. He has to delegate authority and trust his top people.
This was one of the ways Trump went wrong in his 1st go-round. He trusted people he shouldn't have trusted. Treasury Dept looks like it could be a problem.
As far as "trash (crypto) coins" are concerned, they're no worse than the fiat currency issued by the federal government. One of the biggest factors in a sound currency or coinage is the faith the people have in its value. Inflation, bad as it is, routinely lags behind the actual value of the dollar, because it takes time for everyday people to realize. It takes time for inflationary policies to catch up to actual inflation on the street.
Fiat currency is very much like the fable of Stone Soup, which probably pre-dates the Biblical tale of the "Loaves and the fish," wherein Jesus supposedly turned 3 loaves and 2 fish into a meal for a multitude. I think they're saying something about the faith of the people in a thing.
If everybody BELIEVES there's really something to that pot of boiling water the grifter just threw a rock into and started smacking his lips over, then everybody wants a taste. If the cost of a taste is their participation - a carrot from one guy, a potato from another guy, and so on - then in the end, you get a great big pot of tasty stew! Their BELIEF made it so.
In my opinion, that's what the loaves and the fishes was. People were hungry, but everybody shared some of what they had, and the result was everybody getting fed.
This phenomenon has propped up Keynesian economics for close to a century. Just pump money into the economy and good things seem to happen. But I don't believe it for a minute. Eventually, the overabundance of money makes a guy charge more - because he CAN - and everybody else joins in, and a loaf of bread goes from a nickel to a dollar to 2 dollars, and so on.
Who really benefits from this? Rich people who can inflation-proof their assets and the government that wants to do all manner of things without the actual means to do any of those things. Who suffers? People who live their lives morally and prudently, by working hard and saving money. Who suffers the most? Old people whose live savings and preparations for their retirement go up in smoke, unless they're rich enough to invest in things that keep up with or out-pace inflation.
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I've been tracking since the '80s, when I still trusted our intel community. What they told us about Soviet intentions and capabilities was pretty much all wrong. The Soviets didn't want to war with us when they could undermine us, which they were VERY successful at. Meanwhile, our Intel Community was routinely overestimating their military capabilities by a factor of 10 or more. You'd have to check back in time to see it.
The Soviets were enjoying far more success subverting our belief in liberty and free markets. They turned us socialist just by leaving us alone, by the 1990s. And what we've done to ourSELVES has kept them competitive. Totalitarianism is horribly inefficient. It can do a few things very well, at the expense of everything else, but it's sort of self-defeating, because your people are your strength, and they have to crush their people, periodically, to keep everyone on the same page.
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We still haven't gotten to first causes with the evidence of our senses. But we see all around us other life forms and we recognize survival traits that are passed on to future generations because they WORK. We recognize intelligence as a survival trait, which, more or less made self-aware beings such as ourselves not only possible, but inevitable. Within the great chaos that is the Big Is, order happens virtually inevitably. Order that replicates itself will tend to replicate itself. Throw in a dash of time stretching out over billions and trillions of years, and once the ball gets rolling, greater and more complex orderings arise that perpetuate THEMselves, until US. That's as far as we can take it, because we are what we are.
Old age and decrepitude seem like a curse, but they are essential. Immortals can't change. Mortals ate all the immortals, because after many generations, small or large improvements to the original design that persist, because they WORK will either survive changes in the environment that the immortals can't, or even just by getting bigger/stronger/smarter, the mortals eventually add slower/smaller/dumber immortals to their diet.
Anyway, from what I understand about Natural Law, everything around us, including us, is pretty explainable all the way back to Creation. But even the eggheads who understand the Big Bang can't tell you WHY there was a Big Bang. "Let there be light" is the most profound statement of all time. No one knows why there's light, but everything in the universe around us is a consequence of the fact there is such a thing as light!
No more drugs for me, tonight.
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You couldn't have done it if you hadn't lived within your means. That's where most big stars mess up. They get paid like big stars, so they spend like big stars. They need the next gig, so they can't say "No."
I'm the kind of guy who if I made as much as Chappelle must have, during his long run on Comedy Central, I'd pretty much have the truck I wanted, the piece(s) of land I wanted, the structures and the landscaping I wanted, and a big, fat, diversified portfolio.
I can totally understand walking away from it all, in his shoes. I'll never wear those shoes, but that's about the extent of my ambitions, and I'm in the low 60s, with pretty much the truck, the land, and half of the structures built. Life is good. Why deal with the entertainment industry? It's full of messed-up people.
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I don't know if this is the same thing, but in my undergraduate days, I took way too many classes at the same time. My study method was to have my Linear Algebra laid out on the dining room table at one chair, my Structural Geology at another chair, my History of Modern Europe at another chair, then Modern Physics.
I'd move from chair to chair as the night wore on, often 'til the Sun came up. If I hit a roadblock, I wouldn't instantly give up, but eventually I'd just move to the next chair. Frequently, by the time I sat in one place for a while, or hit a roadblock, I'd get another idea for that Linear Algebra proof.
I've gone to bed MANY a time, obsessing over an intractable problem, and upon waking up the next day, a totally new strategy would occur to me. I never thought of it as psychic phenomenon. I just figured my subconscious just kept working on it, and the solutions would percolate up to my conscious mind, in some way.
Dad was big on Sylva Mind Control, self-hypnosis, and accessing your alpha brainwave state. I'm a fragile person, with a relatively mild case of osteogenesis imperfecta, and I practiced self-hypnosis for pain remediation during many acute-pain periods of my life. Bring that heart rate and blood pressure down through a form of focused meditation and controlled breathing.
I don't know if that had anything to do with my "sleep on it" strategy, or my "put it on the back burner, move on, and come back to it" strategy, but it got a pretty dumb guy all the way through a PhD program in mathematics.
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I've always kind of thought guys with man-buns were a bit 'off.' Not quite sure what they're going for. It's one thing when a Parkour or martial artist do one for movement (and defense) purposes, but just sitting there, talking to people? So they just LIKE wearing all that long hair like a tight-ass all day. I mean, sure. The grill man at McDonald's wears a bun at work, because he HAS to. But YOU don't have to.
So it's a LOOK you're going for. You did that to yourself on PURPOSE! You don't even have the excuse of "It's too long to hang down and it's too short to tie back," and even then, it'd take 2 or 3 man buns to tie it all up, because it's too short to tie up in one knot. And that's only in the transitional stage, where most guys just wear a ball cap all the time You went the extra mile and made a man bun, on PURPOSE. Add talking like a soy simp and I start thinking you're doing it for chicks, in a sick, "I get pussy by pretending I'm a total feminist" kind of way, which I kinda despise. Always gotta be the center of attention. Always simping and white-knighting. Ugh.
As far as qualifying what you say, rather than just being yourself, that's actually pretty important. Not everybody can read your mind, or understand what you're really getting at. I've always been a bit of a brainiac, and it caused me a lot of problems with people who weren't. They weren't any stupider than me, but they weren't educated the same way I was. And their intelligence was bent more towards practical matters and social skills, where I've always been a bit of a social retard, due to my unique circumstances and heredity.
When I was an undergrad, I ran in a lot of rougher circles, mainly due to recreational drugs. I had quite a few conversations that went south, because the guys I was talking to didn't understand all my 60-dollar words. I was never a joke-writer, but always looking for the setup that I could knock down. Some of the cleverest things I've said were taken as insults by the people who should've been flattered and laughed along with me. But they didn't get the reference, and thought I was putting them down by talking over their heads. But I still liked guys like them more than the guys I had to be around in my classes. Over time, I learned how to fit in. By the time I was in grad school, guys would tell me "You ain't like those other eggheads. What you say makes sense."
Part of higher intelligence is not speaking your mind, but speaking to your audience. And I don't mean putting on a Southern accent to try to score points at the NAACP convention. Just plain speech.
I'm doing just what Joe Rogan was talking about when he discussed the comments section and how invested people are. I don't look at it that way. Sure, there's a lot of "Joe, when you said such-and-such..." directed right at the channel operator, but REALLY, this is a lot of people expressing themselves freely. Some are kooks. I know I'm a kook. My excuse is being laid-up a lot of the time, and not all that mobile when I AIN'T laid-up.
We're none of us really talking to YOU, Joe, because we know you're off to the next interview, and don't waste time and energy on the crazy comments section. We're really talking to each other, having a conversation about your conversation. This medium isn't JUST you, Joe. It's also a lot of people, and a lot of people GROWING before our eyes. I write to learn and to tear apart my ideas, refine my ideas, refine how I EXPRESS my ideas. There's a lot of learning taking place in these comment sections, in unexpected ways.
The way I think of it is how dumb I think the average incoming college student was 40 years ago, when I left high school. Nowadays, most incoming college freshmen are dumber and less self-reliant (unbelievable how many academic advisers schools have, nowadays!). But go one layer underneath THAT, and the guys who do NOT go to college are hella SMARTER than the same kinds of guys were 40 years ago. We're talking blue-collar workers communicating through the written word on a daily basis, and pickin' up all KINDS of shit along the way. It only SEEMS bad, because the dumbest of us are also the most talkative, and learning new stuff while ruining everyone else's conversations, because they're dumb-asses. I'm here to tell you that 40 years ago, their equivalent couldn't write at all. The high bar is lower, but the low bar is a lot higher. And people are clearing the high bar almost by accident just by getting curious about things and having an Internet connection. It's happening all around us. A lot of people know a lot of things, these days. You'd be surprised.
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@amccibils Are you sure you're not confusing this with cinchona bark (HCQ)? It was discovered in South America by Jesuits. When I say "discovered," I mean that the Jesuits learned from the natives about quinine, the active ingredient in the bark.
Yes. They DEFINITELY wanted everyone to take a Big Pharma vaccine, rather than hear from ANYbody who was successfully treating the coof with off-the-shelf drugs, like HCG, Ivermectin, and remdesivir (sp?). No. Can't patent those drugs. They've been around too long. You've gotta take this experimental vaccine.
There're people suing under Nuremberg protocols for crimes against humanity, for their human experimentation. Meanwhile, treating the coof like some world-ending plague got a lot of people with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments killed, because everything had to give way to the virus. Nothing else mattered. Not your job, not your business, not your mother locked up in a nursing home...
I think we've all had our fill of medical tyranny by mental midgets and crooks.
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If you want to be happy, learn contentment. Don't dwell on what you don't have. Focus on being grateful for what you DO have, and use what you DO have to improve your situation, bit by bit. Maybe you'll never be truly happy, but you can school yourself to be content. "I'm never going to be president or invent a cure for cancer, but that's OK."
As someone who's had far more than the average number of injuries, it really sucks when you get hurt, but it absolutely clears your mind. You know you're in a bad way, and it's always very clear what the next thing you must do to improve your situation is. That girl you were trying to impress when tragedy befell you? Meh. She's just a girl. There are other girls. The important thing is setting that broken bone!
California's collapse was far from sudden. Decades of mismanagement lead inevitably to what we see, now.
As far as managing the forests go, I think the US Dept of Ag and its Forest Service have their fingerprints all over this. By trying to balance the environmentalist wackos and the big corporations, they've ruined it for pretty much everybody everybody, including the environmentalist wackos and the big corporations.
The environmentalists think that humans are not a part of Nature and the corporations just want to exploit Nature. Not all corporations. Mainly the ones who are in thick with the federal government, and manipulating the rule set behind the scenes.
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MY income wasn't interrupted because of the job I have, but I respect the protesters who peaceably assembled with their firearms. The governor in question needed to be reminded that with all the trappings of power and police under their nominal control, they're still answerable to the people, and the ultimate power lies with the people. They can't just run roughshod over everybody because of a nasty flu, especially since we know that the mortality rates are much lower than we originally feared.
But to ME, there's a balance to be struck. It's easy to tell yer 'Rona story, and for the foreseeable future, you will find many sympathetic ears and eyes, especially if you're famous, good-looking, and in the apparent bloom of life in your prime. But I always think about the bum who's been dumpster-diving (or trading odd jobs for a plate of food) in the alley behind the Italian restaurant that's now shut down. Or the guy who's been panhandling $50-$100 a day on a street corner, now that the streets are empty. Or the husband-and-wife team operating a small café... ANYbody whose income stream depends on that day's work. And no work? No money. The lock-down is very hard on the most vulnerable among us. And it's all because rich, well-fed white people are afraid of a virus that it appears is bad, but we know how to fight.
We see Sweden building herd immunity. They were overwhelmed at first, because they didn't act to 'flatten the curve,' but things have settled down, and we have the benefit of their experiences for what works and what doesn't. I think a combo of social distancing to flatten the curve is enough for us to handle the medical emergency without shutting down every OTHER form of health care. 'Rona ain't the only thing you can die of, no matter how fully it has captured your attention.
I'm not a big fan of illegal immigration, but knowing there are millions of such, and wanting the best possible outcome, the disappearance of "day-worker" gigs plus the fact that you're under the government's radar and want to STAY that way, you're much likely to either starve or resort to crime. That's assuming no 'Rona in the equation beyond the lock-down impacts. But because your situation is bad, you're run-down, and more susceptible to 'Rona and every OTHER cold or flu bug. People just focus on the one thing and they lose sight of the fact that the society is SO complex, with SO many inter-dependencies that NObody can really track, and fixing ANY ONE PROBLEM, PERFECTLY always comes at cost to something else. This is the problem with zero-sum thinking. The whole isn't greater than the parts, really. It's just that all the parts make too big an equation for anybody to manage all of them. You have to LET things happen as much as MAKE things happen.
The lock-down was (It turns out) not bad decision-making under uncertainty. But as those uncertainties keep getting chipped away, and we find that our health services are NOT going to be overwhelmed, if we're smart about limiting outbreaks and dealing with outbreaks. The hospitals don't need to shut down. They just have to cooperate, so if Area X is hit hard, Area Y can pick up the slack. We're pretty sure that can be done, at this point.
We know it can be deadly to the elderly, for obvious reasons, the same as any flu virus. And SOME people without any apparent co-morbidities are hit HARD, like Michael Yo was hit. I love how he gives props to his doctor. A lot of doctors might not be able to "think on their feet" and make intelligent adjustments to his treatment, based on how he's responding.
I'm more than a little worried about catchin' the 'Rona, and I've always been appalled at how people will come in to work full of snot, coughing and sneezing, and spreading what they've got to everybody else, out of a misplaced sense of duty (or obsessive-compulsive disorder). The thing is, 10s of thousands die every year from the flu (creepin' cruds). Some take their flu shots every year. I never have, because I'd rather practice sensible distancing and keep my resistance up. And I see the folks who get the flu shots missing time at work because they've got the flu.
This life ends for all of us we live the best lives we can. There's a balance between longevity and happiness. I'm tired of people who act like they'd live forever if some authority would just come along and make them safe from everything. "If it saves one life, it's worth it." With that kind of thinking, do away with motor vehicles. Outlaw alcohol. Make kids strap pillows to themselves every time they step outside...
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