Communists are in a religious cult - you cannot reason with them

It won’t

Where my 5s at

I haven’t believed in America in a few years now. Certainly not since the pandemic. As far as I’m concerned, the state I’m from is the only place I owe any allegiance to. The other states can go fuck themselves, especially the red ones

Actually, encryption was restricted in the United States. In the 80s, the NSA tried to classify classic textbooks such as Bruce Schneir’s “applied cryptography” as military grade weapons so they could control their export and publishing. They didn’t want strong cryptography to fall into the hands of the Soviets

Maybe just give rid of the 2ndary market. You can only buy stock directly from the company, and you’re entitled to a % of profit share as a result of that. When you’re done, you can sell the stock back to the company

But what about the BEER?!?!

Maybe you shouldn’t judge people before you’ve met them

Smart phones

The spoons are common in Korean restaurants

Same. I think the ideal world in the future is one in which we use less consumer technology, not more of it

Riemann went nuts working on higher dimensional mathematics and linear algebra. At the time there was not a clear use case for math higher than like 3 or 4 dimensions, but he drove himself crazy discovering it anyways. Today, this kind of math underlies all of artificial intelligence

Did I HAVE to? No. Did I? Yes.

It’s also useful to have data to back up your argument.

Pomodoro

Thailand has a LOT to offer and do that has nothing to do with sex tourism; that’s just an unfortunate reputation that they get because of a few places like in Bangkok and Pattaya but Thailand is an incredible country in many other categories as well. Literally the best food on the planet

Nobody should ever go to North Korea. You’re giving money to the most repressive regime on earth so you can take pictures of their misery

Foundation by Isaac Asimov. Gave me fresh perspective on the state of America

idk about asylum but Thailand has a pretty permissive visa system where you just keep renewing it every few months for a small fee

Sometimes a message doesn’t warrant a response. My wife sends me links to stuff online, I don’t reply to those. Personally I hate communicating with my smartphone so I tend not to reply to people who message me on it