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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.
Jays lost because their pinch runner didn't know how to take a proper lead off of third base and didn't run through on a force play. One step more on a lead, or run straight through and he's probably safe and the game is over.
The real problem is the search engines which amplify Reddit and by extension the LLMs which depend on search results for their answers. Ideally, it's search that becomes decentralized over the long term, but it's also possible that search engines rely less on Reddit and other centralized forums.
I did wear my hat. Definitely makes it cooler on hot summer days and helps my family keep track of me in crowds.
I suppose there's some lesson about a willingness to suffer or something, but there are lots of ways to teach that outside an amusement park context.
Funny, my experience at the same park in Osaka this past summer is what changed my mind.
- From a pure economic perspective, you'll get roughly double the number of rides by buying fastpass, so depending on how much of a priority you put into the ride experience, it's not a hard calculation to see if it's worth it.
- For me, not buying one is penny wise and pound foolish. The point of going to these places is to have a good time. Waiting in line sucks (especially outdoors in hot weather) and detracts from your experience, so reducing that has significant utility, beyond the time savings.
- Ultimately, this is a case of skimpflation, where they degrade the main experience because they can't easily raise the prices of the general ticket too much without taking a big PR hit. If you're on a Bitcoin standard, the tickets are getting cheaper in BTC terms, even with the additional cost of a priority pass. You don't need to be a cheapskate or have your experience debased.
If you can stomach it, pemmican. It's got an insane shelf life (reports of it being good after 50 years buried in the ground).
You can get 2 lbs of it for $47.12: https://grasslandbeef.com/products/salt-free-pemmican-pail
At least according to explorer logs, 3/4 lb is enough for a man for 1 day, so that's about 2.75 day's worth.
Fun fact: the short stories that the series is based on is by my good friend Ken Liu (he wrote the foreword for Programming Bitcoin). There are also various Bitcoin references on the show, which I'm sure he had a hand in.
If you're serious about this, the two books that were recommended to me are "Buy then Build" and "HBS Guide to Buying a Small Business." I've read both and they're very good.
The main obstacle for me is that it takes about 12-18 months to find one that's actually profitable and reasonable to take over and in the right geography. Also, these days, you're competing with a lot of private equity firms who are bidding up anything that's actually profitable. Fiat money has found its way to even small businesses.
But yea, if you do pursue this, it's not a short process and you'll need a good accountant and lawyer at a minimum. All that said, I hope you find something profitable to do with your time.
A slightly less technical, but still very good takedown of quantum computing which I send to anyone that starts spewing nonsense about how it'll break the internet: https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/01/15/quantum-computing-as-a-field-is-obvious-bullshit/
These are unbelievably nitpicky examples. Lots of people are not native English speakers and don't listen to podcasts all day to know little details like that. To use this as evidence that a whole group of people is retarded is itself retarded.
If anything that shows me that these people get information primarily from reading which is a lot more thoughtful and indicates a deeper engagement with the material than someone who pronounces words correctly but parrots establishment opinion on everything.
What's retarded is going along with COVID lockdowns, or supporting a stupid war or going along with trans men playing women's sports. It's the people unwilling to question main narratives that have the deeper intellectual flaw.
What's the largest animal you can take in a fight?