I mean, haven't they been for the last decade? And it's going to get worse when the leftover talented old white men retire or die in these institutions.

I wrote about the source article by Jacob Savage in my newsletter, but to recap, this overt discrimination against young white men explains for me why Gen Z men have turned so hard right and why the outputs from those industries he mentions (academia, hollywood and media) are such crap these days.

Two other points.

First, this has been happening for middle and lower class white men for decades already. Adam Carolla talks about how he had to wait 7 years to get an interview to become a firefighter in California back in his 20's, which a black woman got one in a few days. It took a talented writer from the upper class getting screwed for this unfair practice to get truly noticed.

Second, this is how institutions crumble and I don't think there's anything that will save these industries suffering from self-inflicted wounds. Fewer people go to college, fewer people watch hollywood slop and fewer people watch the news. The alternatives where the talented go will become much more prominent in the next decades.

I'm going to shill the daylight computer here, because for me, reading on it is such a great experience.

@CJWracing afterwards got a whole bunch of beef cheek to smoke. Also, @Svetski says it's his favorite cut of beef. I've also tried, and my beef cheek isn't that bad, though not as good as L&L. You can still get beef cheek for like $2.99/lb at HEB.

But then again, maybe it'll get more popular. I've been told by life-long Texans that brisket used to be $0.35 per pound. It's now like 12x that.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but barbacoa is like the shredded version, no (barbacoa:beef cheek = chopped:brisket)? They have that, too, but the beef cheek is like a more delicious, much smaller brisket that absorbs more flavor. Also, note they only serve it at the restaurant on Fridays and I don't think it's as good as it was when it was a food truck.

I'm going to disagree with @Car here. The beef cheeks, at least when they were a food truck, was amazing. Several people that I introduced that to have said that they like the beef cheek better than Franklin or La BBQ.

Random fact, when I was writing Bitcoin and the American Dream with my co-authors here in Austin, I treated them to lots of local food, like Franklin, La BBQ, Gus's Fried Chicken, Terry Black's. The one that they all remembered the most is the beef cheek from Leroy and Lewis. They're mentioned in the acknowledgements.

I sat down with Mike and talked to him for several hours back in 2022. From that conversation, I concluded that his priority is always his politics, and at a more fundamental level, his confidence in his own worldview.

We talked about a lot of things in those few hours, including libertarianism, COVID lockdowns, Bitcoin, Austrian economics. His take was consistently progressive, though he claimed to have been libertarian at some point. He defended the lockdowns, thought libertarian principles were BS, that Austrian economics was bad.

So for someone like that, I was surprised to hear that he was into Bitcoin, but then I learned that he worked for Jack Dorsey and it was actually Jack that convinced him over a number of weeks (interestingly, there was very little actual argument, just exposure to Bitcoin and its ideas). I'm guessing that once he left Dorsey's orbit (I don't know that he has, this is my speculation), his loyalty to Bitcoin disappeared with it.

It's really hard for progressive BItcoiners. Not only do they have their own political tribe against Bitcoin because of Trump, but their worldview is increasingly us vs them, which doesn't allow for much dissension in anything. I've seen a lot of progressive Bitcoiners drop one of the two labels. Mike obviously dropped the latter.

Funny because Brock worked for Jack D. Actually was in charge of adding Bitcoin purchasing to Cash App IIRC.