Alright live stream today. I wanted to do one around at a time that Europeans can join in for so That's why I'm doing it. I waited until the weekend to be able to do it. You know in the middle of the day in America, so Hopefully everything goes well with it. So as usually actually I'll go ahead and make announcements So secret of secrets is now released on Lindy press if you go to where is it? Let me Right there Lindy press net you can go get it and actually later this week There's also gonna be the alchemy reader that's gonna be out. Hopefully I'll finish this Yeah, just some last-minute things I need to do with that. I just haven't had the check I wanted to release them exactly at the same time, but I'm actually probably gonna be doing a podcast episode on both of them Possibly by the end of this month that that might be the next episode. I do it depends on what I feel like So Let's see is audio Yeah, okay. Yeah, so Let's see a couple things before we even start out now as usual. I'll read donations. You can go to the donate link I prefer that over YouTube and of course if you're a Monero user You can go to xmr.luxmith.xwz and donate you can give a super chat in Monero I love that thing. I love that little program now. It's so small works so well And you know, I want people to use xmr more and more but either way so you can donate Monero too But so a couple things before we even start I kind of want to I might do this in a separate video just to get more views so I can get more responses But if you have an email me don't just say it in the chat because I won't be able to see the chat I won't be able to check it all the time two things that I'm looking for right now that are very important Firstly, I want to have an email list a mailing list right so as it is right now, of course if someone wants to Keep up with now. You've noticed I've been doing live streams on YouTube and the reason I've been doing live streams on YouTube as opposed to My own video site which I have it, you know videos.luxmith.xwz is YouTube gives people notifications I want to have a way of notifying people by via email, you know They immediately get the notification because not everyone syncs up their RSS feeds constantly So I don't think that that is quite as as ideal So if you know it anyone knows a self-hosted has to be self-hosted obviously and obviously free software But if you know of a good mailing list or just a way of doing a mailing list It's actually not too complicated. You just need a place where people can put in their mail email address I just want to make sure that someone's probably many people have probably done it before I don't know if I want to write my own because then I have to worry about, you know spam and things like this and you know How do I make sure? Well, I don't know. There are different things either way So if you know any self-hosting self-hosted mailing list software, I would be interested in that and especially bonus points if It can be RSS to email that is if I if I post a blog post or some kind of RSS update on my site That you know some I would like some system that could read an RSS Feed and email people and that does two things one is it gives the notifications like I just said but two For normies and people who are afraid of RSS Even though they shouldn't be afraid of RSS because it's like the best thing in the world But those people can also just sign up for the mailing list and get notifications because email Frankly is a lot easier for some people I mean it really shouldn't be like RSS is just easier, but people don't know how to use it So if you know either a mailing list thing or specifically an RSS to email thing I would like to know it sent send me what you have Via email or whatever And the second thing on that the number two thing I'm looking for is I I kind of want to Aggregate so I I try to not be redundant with my RSS feeds. I have a my website has a blog feed I have my podcast I have landshad.net and lindy press and all this kind of stuff But I would like to be and I've seen this before I just don't remember where remember where it was But there is some Program out there or probably multiple programs that can take RSS feeds And it will turn them into like a like if someone goes to an updates page It will have all these entries from different RSS feeds I would kind of like that so those are the two things I'm looking for if anyone's familiar and both of them serve the purpose of using YouTube less As I said, I've been doing actually a lot of videos recently and I've been doing the streams on YouTube and Again, that's because of the notifications But it'd be nice if I didn't have to do that because I do not like using YouTube Okay, it goes without saying and my goal my goal in being on YouTube is solely to get people off of it So of course you can watch all my videos on my own side or Odyssey or anywhere else It's it's all preferable to YouTube But you know, this is this is where you find normies and stuff. So this is what you got to do okay, so I Think that's I think that's all the beginning announcements. So I Guess I will go ahead and read some donations actually we've got a super chat James says in your opinion is going to march for life and other protests a good or bad thing Should we exercise our rights or does it not make a difference? So I I want to say I'm not really sure March for life. Is that is that anti-abortion? I'm not quite sure In general, okay, so they're they're really two categories, right?  You know what I mean, but the issue nowadays is a lot of people who get Who go go to these protests that are more? I don't know They're they're less normie friendly like it's not normal people out there. It's more like political people online And they go to these protests that are basically full of feds Okay, and you can usually tell which one's which like if you can explain your portrait your protest to a normie And like it's gonna be totally sensible for them Then it's probably fine, right? But a lot of these people who are kind of larping online will go to these more like I don't know these things that are just like basically giant honeypots That's that's the issue that I have and that's one of the issues that I'm not big on talking about politics or stuff like that Specific, you know way back in the day. There was this really good article that was written It was like why right-wing activism always fails. Okay, and it's probably still on the internet It was it was like in one of those in our X publications I may have mentioned this in another stream, but the point they make is that fundamentally protests They are they they're not like the the idea that you're told is that a protest You know people swell up They have these ideas that go out and and make a protest and then they change things and that is like absolutely Nonsense it's in actually exactly the opposite, right the people in control They more or less put on protests like in 2020 the media fomented all of these different protests that they wanted And you know even though there was you know these lockdowns and crap like that, right? It is like a top-down sanctioned event. So left-wing protests it are not like Again, there's not that it's not like this public up swelling It is more or less the system Generating these people that that are really saying oh the system is wrong because it is not It's not taking its own values to its logical conclusion, right? and all of those people who In you know any of the Antifa protests or whatever, right all of those guys got off right basically any criminal actions They did I mean, there are probably some who went to jail and you know for some very brief period But you know when they burnt down buildings, there's ultimately no repercussions, right? and so you can compare it out that to any kind of Anti-lockdown protest or anyone else where that is I mean it's more like so when someone on the right so-called is Doing a protest they are really kind of fooling themselves because it's not like protests are not People changing the world. They are the ruling they are the ruling parties doing kind of a victory dance and like talking about how great they are That I think is what that article that I alluded to a while ago said so Eleanor's since then Salve Luca smash Fasco Communism Whatever that is For those giving super chats on YouTube just again, I'll remind you it's better to It's better to do it on the donation like YouTube takes 30% of super chats. I'm just saying that But you know, I will happily take them anyway, so I'll look at some other comments So Sean since in this may have been right before the stream I don't know if he wants me to read this I'll read it out. Anyway, I won't you know put any personal details. He says I'm writing a randian-esque novel Randy. It's like that like Ayn Rand. I'm not sure. It's very anti-positivistic Anti-scientistic and has a large 60% of the book philosophy section. Yeah, it sounds like Ayn Rand type of stuff It's like a novel that's really a philosophy book But I don't really know any editors or anyone in academia to read it and Who wouldn't get super offended? Could I pay you to edit it or something like that? Okay. Well that editing is not my thing I mean, maybe I would have comments on it and he goes on it. He says some other stuff Of course, I'm not really like a randian like I'm definitely not an objectivist I will say I'm not I will say that There's a tendency for people to I don't know get social credit if they criticize Ayn Rand all the time and I will not do that There are things there are many things she say I disagree with but I think that Like metapolitically I think she said it good like anyone that like liberals get so offended by you have to have some appreciation for It depends on what it is though. If you if you want to send it to me, I'll look at it I'm not making any promises. I mean, there's a possibility.  So it depends on what it is, but Let me turn that thing off So new way Since a donation, thanks for all your sorry Thanks for all you good videos. What would you say is the best way to break free of the wage-cuck system? I'm Thinking working more part-time to have more time for my own thing But your employer usually doesn't like that and wants to replace you Listen, I'm not against wage-cucking at all wage-cucking is way better than salary-cucking in a lot of positions, right? Because wage-cucking you have more freedom like you can quit a job. You can change jobs I don't know what your your position is. So, you know, I've I think that a step number one is to make sure that you're Actually using the time you have there have been many times when I've worked 40 hours a week in a wage-cut job and I've Done lots of stuff. I mean back in 2018 This is an example I always use when I was working as a carpenter 40 hours a week I was also doing YouTube videos every day a week and I was learning how to use suckless software and all this kind of stuff like kind of learning see You did a lot of people definitely have the time like there are a lot of hours in the day And I think step number one is just making sure you're actually using all of those hours and not like Binging Netflix or porn or something like that. That's those are the vices that usually get people so I Don't know I that that's what I would say it depends on what kind of job you have and how many hours you have and like what What else you're doing? So I'm just not I'm not one of those people like if you can get a job where you have a lot of free time You know, I was a graduate student for a period and you know working as a grad graduate student Is basically you being on vacation all day, right? So that's a nice position to be if you can get a job like that, right? That's fine But I think anyone can make do anyone who has a lot of time and you know I know people in my life who have multiple kids and and have full-time jobs and are still learning and doing things and You know, it's trying to start businesses. I think a lot of people just think that they don't have the time that they actually do here Do have Nikos Since it's some XMR. Hey loot greetings from Greece. I just want to thank you for the content you put out It's really helpful. Take my manero and put it to good use. I will I will thank you Nikos and fake toshi Since in five dollars. What do you think of hardware wallets? Um, I Think that hardware wallets like if you have good seed phrase op sec Well, okay, actually it depends on if you're actually using your coins or just holding on to them If you're just holding on to them If you have good op sec with your seed phrase and you're storing it securely I would not really worry that much about getting a hardware wallet because I mean, obviously the seed phrase is out there anyway So someone could take that and you know do something with it and depending on how the encryption on hardware wallets work like if you have an extra passphrase or something but I kind of feel like they're overrated, but I do think they're a good idea for normies who just have no clue how Like how Bitcoin or whatever actually works and a lot of people frankly do they don't understand like I show Oh, I shouldn't have my seed phrase on a text file on Microsoft Windows or Google Docs That's stupid. Even if you encrypt it with a password on Google Docs or drop drop box or something. That's still like terrible. So if if that's the comparison you're making Yeah, having a hardware wallet would probably be better for most people So and of course also there they're better if you're you're using your money more But if you somebody who just is gonna hodl right and just you just need to have a public address on your computer That you know so you can copy and paste to send money to it, you know if you you're gonna get stuff Yeah, I don't know how useful there are but I don't know like maybe there's stuff about hardware wallets I don't know because I I've just not been interested in them, but Okay Tunk off says have you achieved a life free from toil? Do you have any recommendations booked books talks etc on escaping wage slavery? Uh, I you don't want to escape a life from a life of toil, right?  Oh, man. I can play video games. I can see my friends blah blah blah But man, it's freaking boring doing nothing and really, you know When you're talking about liberating work or getting rid of bs jobs. It's not about not working It's about working for things that are actually productive. That's the like a bs jobs phenomenon that I talked about in that podcast episode It's it's the people who are doing pretend work that are miserable It's the people and this is this is a kaczynski point, right? It's the people who are who do not see their work actually or the things that they're doing all day actually creating things Those are the people who are miserable.  It's not about not achieving things I want a toil, but I want to toil productively. That's what it's about um And I will say as for recommendations like you know, you ask for books talks whatever listen books and talks are not Going to help you it's you doing things to make you independent as I mentioned to that guy before right um Even if you have a wage cut job that's taken up a lot of time you can especially in the digital era in the internet era um, you can start even if you're not making money for the first like however many years, you know um You can go ahead and start planting seeds because a lot of them will pay off in ways that you do not expect right um Okay, uh, all right someone sent in a list of self-hosted email lists. Thank you for that. I will check I will check uh that in just a minute or well after the stream is over um Austin says What's the final solution to the woman question women are fine like it the thing about um I don't know.  Men are more likely to play video games and watch porn all day Women have their own issues, right? But that is not a question of women in themselves So it's a question of the society that they live in and the society that tells them what to do Um, and in the case of women a lot of times they are more they're a good bit more suggestible like any kind of enforced uh social Political thing women are much more likely to go along with right And that that can be a good thing in a lot of other circumstances like a hundred or so years ago Women were usually thought of as being very You know much more social conservatives and you know much more caring about the safety of their children and their family and things like this, right It's only been recently that this has kind of been subverted and it's not it's not because women women have changed It's because the environment around them has changed and you know a lot of people I don't know so when people whenever someone asks me for freaking dating advice when it comes with that I think I think it's just So silly because uh, listen people act how they act and a lot of people just obsess over um I don't know like they they obsess over.  That's not the point. So um All right anon ascends in a little xmr. He says luke help There is a redditor in my cs class who saw me using larbs and now won't shut up about emacs How do I tell this n word that is nerd? I'm not interested in converting. Yeah, I don't know I feel the same way. Listen. There are many great reasons to use emacs. Emacs is great software I mean, there's there's a saying in computing which I've probably said in another video Is that in computers are three ways to do it three three ways to do things There's the emacs way. There's the unix way and then there's the wrong way, right? So we use the unix way on my channel and they some people do the emacs way and that's great I wish them the best they can do. I know that there are a couple things that um That emacs can do better and things like that, but like I I don't appreciate. Well, I don't want to say I don't appreciate it. It's just not something I've gotten into and um, either way, you know How to how to make it through to an emacs user? I don't know because they still send comments all the time talking about how I need to switch to emacs and Need to try this that or the other a couple years ago. I did try emacs and try to get into it but I mean my issue is I'm I really have grown to appreciate a a good unix system And using it in the way it's supposed to be used and I feel like Not just everything I learned has been annulled by switching to emacs, but um You know the emacs way isn't necessarily better for a lot of things Even though I can look at it and say oh, this is cool stuff, right? So I mean that that's what I would say Let's see James says you accidentally docked your location when you showed the command line weather program once we live near each other Would you be up for an interview for my live stream if I pay you for your time? Well, I will say, uh Uh, I will use not necessarily where I live for everything So, uh, I mean you can email me. I mean depends on what like what interview you're talking about for what? I mean, you can you can email me and we might be able to talk about it But uh, it's not really a secret where I live, you know, it's just you know Uh, actually it's public information like in america literally where everyone lives is public information That's how it is landed the free, right? Um, that's why it's a good idea that you know in general have your name on a property you don't live in Uh, obviously it's the most convenient to live close to that property anyway, but Let's see check for Logan says, um When you first delve into learning language, what do you focus on first? Do you take a more sterile approach to learning the rules and conventions of language? Or do you focus on the cultural independent underpinnings? Such as well-known classic literature and conversational social norms Also, I apologize for the snarky emails. I was trying to be uh, be funny nitpicking your website But I know they were cringe and annoying. I don't know what that's about. Um I don't I don't know if you if you sent me some snarky emails. I don't remember it. Um I get a lot of emails I don't know.  So maybe I'll check I'll check if if you're banned I will write your name down and I will unban you Uh Yeah, I'll write that down So I will I will double check. Um either way.  Um, you know the the old thing I I know I have a an essay on my site that talks about learning latin And I think I allude to an old there's a link there on a page to like an old website That was like latin via the the dowling method or something like that And the way that he said that you should learn latin and I pretty much agree with this and this goes for other languages That are are formally complex The first thing you do is not oh learn how to say how how how the hi-how yet How how how Hi, how are you? I need to learn how to say hi. How are you in english? Um That was embarrassing Uh, what was I gonna say? So the first thing you do when you learn a language is not how to say basic stuff and conversation and stuff like that What you need to do is learn the rules and in the case of latin you sit down And you memorize those conjugation tables and those declension tables and all of that kind of stuff That is step number one and once they are total reflex and you can recall them instantly on command Then you learn the language in a more naturalistic way and the thing he recommends that I recommend as well is lingua latina which is on my bookshelf, which I I get I assume you already know because I've done a video or Have I done a video on it? I don't even know um But yeah, so this is like the class this is the the modern classic of learning latin right where it's like a book That's it's a graduated reader that starts out You know on super basic stuff and it's written entirely in latin right and you just go from there Right so you can probably start out knowing nothing But he recommends you should learn all the paradigms first learn the grammar. So yeah, learn the rules first And a lot of it is dependent on a different language in a language like latin that is you know A good indo european language with many cases and stuff. That's something you have to do um the environment the the I don't know how it is for chinese where there basically is no morphology is totally different, right? So you don't have to do that step although you might need a Uh, I don't know spend some time on the characters, right? Right. Yeah, people making fun of my uh, my stroke that I just had Um Uh luke and joyer sends in some xmr. How do you cope with being older as a tweed 23 year old? Um, I'm starting to become age anxious just finished college and started working Why are you like a woman or something? I mean Like I mean there's the old expression like men age like wine Uh, and that there's a sense in which that's true. I mean the only sense in which I am Uh nervous about being older is because I am thinking oh, let's see. Am I gonna live to see my great grandchildren? Like that's what I'm worried about when it comes to being older But it definitely I don't know especially younger guys like it's not I don't know It's not really age for a man is not really like a bad thing frankly because you know You really expect men men are always slower burns than women like that's how it is. So I'm definitely I mean you could say I was anxious when I started losing my hair But that's just because I'm genetically high T and that's like a specific thing But as in terms of just getting being older No, like I look back at my 23 year old self and I'm like, uh, I was kind of cringe like You you get a lot you get a lot more than you're losing with age Maybe up until the point where you're like 70. I don't know maybe then things go really bad But I've never I definitely don't feel like being old is like something bad Um That hairline didn't age you're like, oh, yeah, you got me. You got me Again just you know, I'm sorry guys. I just have uh Just high T just high T. Okay. I think I got through all those donations um So I'm gonna look at the uh the uh chat Loving starlink. Oh, yeah. So a lot of people have said oh my goodness. He has starlink So now he's like putting up all these videos and sure that has actually changed things Like I'm actually able like I don't have to drive somewhere up to upload So that has changed a lot of things because I would go to like Literally the public library or to church or somewhere else Just to upload my videos or like a relatives house that lives closer to a town Um to upload stuff. So now I can do it here, but that's actually not why I'm doing more videos The reason that I'm doing more videos in the past week or so Is really because gas prices have been so hard. Um And that's because I don't know when they went so far up right where I am You know over the weekends. Usually I would be like, okay, I'll go to town I'll go to town with other people, you know, like a further away town that's like maybe I don't know like an hour's drive, right? Um And like that is like, oh now I have to pay like $50 to drive all the way out there. Is that really worth it?  Hey, yeah, thanks. I love this jar It's almost four dollars in Arkansas. Well, it's way worse than that here and I hear in california. It's like six something Um, how tall are you? I recently took the height pill and now I'm doomed as a five tin midget Five tin midget. Yep. Yeah, that's how it is Um No, yeah, yeah, you're fine. I assume you're being uh facetious I had a conversation with someone about the uh, we were talking about the elephant man I don't know if you didn't know who this guy is but uh, you know He was this guy who was like incredibly deformed and kind of victorian england and he had to wear a mask So people wouldn't add him like he had some kind of disease that people don't even know about He was called the elephant man, right? Uh, and we were I I said something like oh wait, is he didn't he get he didn't he still get married Like didn't he have a wife and then we looked it up and no, he didn't get married But we discovered he was actually not just ugly. He was also five two. So of course, he didn't get married But uh, no, anyway, that's a joke like even if you're five two, you're gonna be fine um Yeah, five ten manlet five ten which for euro pours just just so euro pours are clear on the joke five ten is basically normal height I don't know. It's normal height, but like, you know, when you're not tall I don't it's just something they do and it's a meme. It's a freaking meme It's a funny meme though. Although I am slightly taller than you although I am, you know Definitely manlet because I'm not six foot, right? I'm like I I start up five eleven actually probably by the end of the day I'm probably five ten maybe even less. I don't know dude. I got bad posture um Let's see um, so Ketu Ketula Sins in um, I don't know if those are fricatives or just aspirated stops. So sorry about that Um sins in some manero. Are you aware that uh god's favorite song is the national anthem of latvia? Also, everyone knows that the asimil books are are the superior language learning course Uh, I don't know what god's favorite song. Well, what is the national anthem of latvia? I don't know um But the asimil books. No, I've never I've seen those. I'm just not a big fan of them. Um Like I don't even I don't even think they're better than like pinsler or whatever But really when people recommend or when people ask me for recommendations about learning languages Like what resources to use for each like excuse me for each language. It's going to be different like the asimil and pinsler and and um Uh, what's the one that I have? I know I have a german version of it. Maybe it's actually some older pinsler But like all of these standardized books. I think inherently are bad because there's real like Languages are different enough that you need different approaches and okay so yeah, like european languages might be close enough that You can use the same kind of resources, but again, like the languages I like comparing latin with like chinese You need a totally different approach if you use the approach you used for latin with chinese it doesn't work, right? Um, and um, that's why Step number one is actually learning how the grammar works and seeing what what difficulties you need to approach What what do you need to surmount? What do you what do you learn to actually know it things like that? Um, and I'll also say what was I also going to say I totally I lost my train of thought Um, oh, yeah, like way back in the day when I first started learning languages I got these the crappy rosetta stone things that I you know got off of pirate bay and um, they were so bad They are just so terrible because it's literally just you picking four images Of things and like it tests for things that don't exist in other languages because they're so standardized.  Um, yeah, it's actually doing great Although I did have a problem with my starter Uh, and this happened twice There was one time I was leaving church and my car wouldn't crank and I was like, oh shoot And I got I brought my friend over who knows a lot about mechanics and stuff like that And um, we were looking at it trying to figure it out But basically the start it looked seemed like the starter was broken and usually you bang on it And uh, you know, if you get enough force, there's something in the starter that gets like kind of gummed up or something And occasionally it just needs a good banging, right? Uh, so eventually I disassembled everything so I could get a good position and knocked it and it worked And then that happened again the other day and I was like, oh my goodness this car that was fantastic Like it's been breaking systematically Well, this time I played around with it and I after banging it with like an iron rod for like forever It wasn't working But then I started disassembling things and I realized oh It's not the starter It's the plug that goes into the starter Because it was like not perfectly clipped in like it was a little like the plastic was a little broken on it And so I almost bought a new freaking starter and I actually banged mine into oblivion. It has like, you know Dense on it But other than that the car is perfect because the car has gone perfectly well Just that minor plastic thing that broke after 15 years of use So and of course I I did I haven't even gotten it replaced now that I know that that's the problem I'll just slide it in next time, you know, if if it does persist But so yeah, it's great. Um, and I'm actually going to sell my old car Eventually, um And the great thing about that is like use cars are so expensive now I could probably sell it for way more than I got it for even though I need to fix some things with it my old Nissan it has, um Uh, they're well mainly like air intake things, but Um, in the past couple years, I've just learned a lot about how cars work. So anyway Uh, jaworic, um since in a donation saying hey luke I know that you're against ebooks But if you considered selling PDFs and other formats on lindy press for those who are interested In this form have you ever considered publishing your book source files as a public repository? Uh on the second point. Yeah, I've thought about publishing my source files, but And that actually would be kind of nice and collaborative. Um, I kind of want to milk it for a little more much Well, I actually you know I shouldn't necessarily assume that I'm like not going to make money if I put the source out there Realistically speaking actually I probably still would that maybe that'd be an interesting idea like a fully open source system with open source files And just to prove to the world I can still make money off of it. Um Because theoretically someone could you know make up They put the host their own site doing the same kind of stuff and take the books Now as as for putting them on like ebooks and stuff like that Absolutely, I have thought about doing that but not in PDF format because I mean a lot of the texts I'm reprinting There are only a couple so there are some exceptions like the opus tertium And maybe some of the stuff in the alchemy reader There are a couple things that you cannot find out online or they're like in messy PDFs And I have thought about just putting them up on a html page because it's my view that like Digital reading is totally different from like, you know for me to just put the PDFs out there It's kind of stupid because PDFs are formatted for books. That's why you know, you know You have a different verso and recto page and stuff like that Uh, but absolutely, you know, I actually I was going to submit the text of opus tertium to uh, the latin library I should do that. I think you just email it in But yeah, that's something that doesn't exist on the internet because where I got it from was this messily digitized PDF that if you PDF to text it It was it like produced this latin text with all of these errors And I had to go through all of that painstakingly and since I've done it I might have already published it, but it's definitely my belief belief that Like stuff a lot of the stuff is online if you go look for it But the whole point of me selling it is to have it in a book format, right? It's public domain stuff So I I'm not one of those people who thinks that If I publish the text that it's going to be like cut into my revenues But I think what might cut into my revenues is if I put the entire site up um But you know if I did put it up it would of course be in a gpl or free software stuff Um But uh, I actually the guy who wrote it who wrote most of it. I've only tweaked it You know, I had a subscriber actually helped me with it and he did 90 percent probably 95 percent of the work Uh, actually he had done it partially for his own He had his own site first and he adapted it to my purposes But uh, he said something about I don't think he said he didn't want it released But he um said oh, I'd prefer if like lulu didn't have this for themselves because you know, I don't know It's it's for us. I don't know Either way, I might still do it. Um So joseph says, uh, I need help losing weight broke my leg in a football game Was already big as a lineman Been in my home office for two years straight. It's been disastrous for my health I go out often try to ride my bike, but I need mental fortitude just to just stop eating I know all the theory about nutrition. I uh, but I struggle with so much self-discipline Please help me friend. Well, you know So I will I I kind of have views on this. Um, I think in the last uh, shoot in the last room We actually talked about what's that documentary? Um sugar the bitter bitter truth I am more of the persuasion that like Your fatness is more it's it's not necessarily exercise lack of exercise. That's your problem Uh, but it's probably the the kind of things that you consume like if you're consuming too much sugar And if you're consuming certain types of carbs, I would say like I would say Um now you as for mental fortitude.  Um, but as a minor optimization, I would try to eat more whole meats Um and stuff like that and minimize calories or not calories, uh carb carbish stuff, especially sugars Especially if you're drinking like sugary drinks or anything like that You're gonna feel a lot different if you just eat more of a meat meaty diet more of a keto diet Something like that because even normies know about that now. It's like the the magical trick to losing weight And and kind of building muscle too depending on your lifestyle So, I mean as for that. Yeah, I do recommend like having more meat in your diet and you will lose weight um and uh But as for the fortitude stuff you got to do that yourself like that is that is if you know what it is I mean, this is how a lot of people are they know exactly what they're supposed to do in life But they they can't motivate themselves to do it for some reason which seems kind of I don't know It's like, I don't know. Do you really believe you need to do it if it's funny either way? I will just say that um um Yeah, it's probably it's not about forcing you like hurting yourself Like I think a lot of people say no pay no gain, but I think especially in diet Um diet and stuff like it's less exercise and more diet. That's just what I would say, um But you can check out sugar the bitter truth or maybe it maybe it was not that Well, you should look at that anyway. You should well search it on youtube It's it was a old talk. They got a lot of views and it's still very popular sugar the bitter truth, but um Oh Anonymous says hi luke. Do you own any firearms? If not get a glock 19 It's a gun equivalent of a think pad glock 19. I'll remember that But as to the question, you know, that's it's none of your business. What firearms? Uh, I may or may not have um Uh, although I do do Of course, I endorse, you know, when we're talking about self-reliance and and independence and things like that firearms are a necessity Um, you can't really talk about them on youtube YouTube is really skittish about them or they might demonetize videos that are about guns, right? But Uh, realistically speaking, that's something you got to have for yourself. Like if you're If you're pulling your own water out of the well and all this kind of stuff It makes you got to have some last resort means of protection for yourself, right? Um, it it comes with the program. Uh, so Uh wish elm Since a donation hire you a spiritual man. Do you believe in the great truth? I think you I think you probably came across this in your sanskrit studies. Well, I'm not I'm not a hindu. I'm a christian but um, uh Yeah, I mean I studied sanskrit. I'm less familiar with indian philosophy and religion and stuff like that I mean, well, okay. I'm I'm somewhat familiar with I guess broader indo european thought like earlier stuff like that because I was interested in that and I learned some things about hindu philosophy in the meantime, but uh, not enough to have strong opinions about it Um, other than I I think I even mentioned some in Maybe I didn't maybe in my podcast episode on christianity and stoicism. I might have Mentioned some more like perennial stuff.  Um, let's see You know, I I think there's a case to be made that it's a real so neuroplasticity Maybe I should explain that in case there's uh more of a normie who doesn't know that but in psychology It's this idea. I feel like I got a burp or hiccup or something in psychology There's this idea that uh, as you get older, right? Your brain is less Good at learning how to do new things Um, I would say over the past 10 10 years from me being 20 to me being 30 I think there is a sense in which Maybe I'm less I don't know. I think most of it is like me not caring like I I felt like I've learned enough stuff in this these domains And I feel like less motivated to learn things Um, I do feel like I'm still When when I sit down and learn things I feel like I my cognitive abilities have not lessened In fact, in many respects, they've improved. I don't know. I don't think that's because my IQ has gone up But I think it's just because you have a perspective that's drawn off of more areas Um, but as for later in life. I'm not quite sure Uh, I don't know. I mean older like by the time you're 80 90. Yeah, I mean you probably get I mean people get senile Right that happens, but I don't know I mean the real reason to learn things when you're young is because you're getting time Okay, you're like you're you're getting more time having known them, right? So if you want to learn chinese when you're 10 versus learning chinese when you're 80 It might be easier to learn it when you're 10. It might be easier to learn it when you're 80 I don't know, but it's going to be way more useful if you learn it first So you should learn things now Just because they're going to be more useful as time goes on, you know Either way Gabriel sends in some xmr. He says here's four days of hash rate. Enjoy. Oh, okay. So that gives me an assessment of how much Okay I don't I don't know if that's where I don't depends on how much you're paying for power, but uh, I don't know Maybe I'll do that. Do you just have one machine? I'm not sure either way. Thanks for the donation. Also Uh, thanks a lot for your email whiz script Uh, if only my isp would stop effing up and blocking some ports on my commercial connection Wait, geez do your job re okay. Well, thank you. I'm glad I'm glad the script has helped you Uh, and I will say the people who email me a lot of them have used my script and a lot of them are on their own domains I think I mentioned in the other the last live stream that I've um Via emails from epic telling me that someone has purchased a domain through my link I know that it something like 15 000 domains have been purchased due to my influence and I I like that I think that's a great thing A zinus says what are your thoughts on funko pops? I don't know if that's the zeno the xmr zinu, but um Yeah Someone in that chat posted this freaking video of a guy Like reviewing his 3000 Funko pop collection and I just can't man That's just like I I watched a lot of that video. I well, I wouldn't say a lot of it Maybe like two minutes of it because I'm just like These are the people who we call normies and I can't help thinking that they're freaking the most bizarre people in the universe I mean when I was Seven it was really exciting to go to Toys R Us and look at the lego sets, you know what I mean Of course, I know they were way too expensive for my parents or whatever, but You know, I guess there's that that childlike joy and toys and stuff like that, but I just I can't imagine feeling that now like I cannot I just can't I I don't know. Maybe I just don't have as much dopamine as these Consumed product people. I I don't understand Funko pops Um, I don't get it. I don't get I'm confused I I just there are some things that normies do I look at it and I'm like these people are from another freaking planet I don't even get it. I I don't understand. I don't know and that's that's it Um Die meow mouse Sends in a donation. Have you considered interviewing the internet freak from crete at a future date? I presume you have already heard of him Uh, and his mini ip scratchings. I don't know who that is the internet freak from crete. I will write that down though I will look him up Notes Okay, Vietnamese person says sends in some anero Your choice of taro boba tea is a good choice Although I'm more of a a light. I actually don't know how to pronounce that is a lychee Likey Whatever it is lychee person. I've never actually had that.  It's already like seven dollars, you know Um, anyway, what's your favorite vietnamese food hard mode?  What other vietnamese food is there besides that in the baguettes? That's That's basically all they have I just I just want to when you have fun. You got to have uh, man, this is this is I I criticized normies for consuming product and here I am talking about freaking vietnamese food like I don't know Anyway, you got to have some good tendons and seafood and stuff in it adam says, um Hey, luke. I wish I could have caught your last live stream, but I was only subscribed on pier tube I had some uh questions. I was gonna ask, but I forgot what I was gonna say. Uh, your thoughts on sway. I guess Um, also, please mirror the live streams on pier tube two cheers from bermuda. So thoughts on sway. I don't really have Okay, I always get it. So sway is just the i the i3 equivalent for wayland I think and in that case, I'm not really interested in sway because like I'm not interested in i3 i3 i3 I consider very passive Thankfully and I have to say it's because of my influence, but thanks to my influence Uh, dwm is kind of the norm at least on youtube and elsewhere for for tiling window managers and stuff And I think this is better and I'm not gonna switch away from it. I think there is a build of dwm for um for, um Wayland, I think it's like dwl I think I tried to put some my some of my patches in it, but you know, you basically have to redo everything and um That's a lot of effort right a theoretically like I I I guess I believe that wayland is superior or whatever But I've just to switch over to that standard just seems like a big pain Um, and as for why do I not love um mirror live streams on pier tube? The reason I don't right now is because I'm kind of running out of space and I need a I need a you know, kind of increase my um Uh increase my storage space. I mean, it's not that close I probably have like 20 gigs left on the the separate storage I have for videos So and that's actually less than it sounds because for every video I have to keep multiple copies in different resolutions and stuff like that So that's why I don't put live streams up right now. I will probably eventually put them up once I size up the um all that But uh, I need to um Yeah, I need to put some money down on that. It's not going to be that much. It's probably going to be I don't know like a hundred dollars a year or something like that Maybe less than that to get like some extra space. I mean the issue the issue is going to be backups and Which I should back things up even more but um Ivo says, uh, hey, luke. What's your opinion on fasting? Do you participate in the great lint? Well, you know, I'm too much of a prop cook to you know, I've never been familiar with lint since you know Churches I've been in have never done it. Um, I think I think it obviously is a good idea and when I do uh, kind of I do contemplate when I when it's most convenient for me to well, maybe that's a bad thing to say in spiritual matters But when I convert to orthodoxy, obviously, you know, I'm I hope to do all of that But as it is right now as fasting Uh, I mean fasting happens for two reasons. One is mortification, right? So Um making yourself less reliant on worldly things and that of course is a good It's a good thing for spiritual reasons and also for practical reasons, right? If you're constantly eating stuff, if you're constantly consuming product fasting is the solution and additionally, it's just it's also good for your health, right? Um, and I I'm one of those people who eats basically once a day Uh, actually today, that's not the case because I ate something this morning because I was uh, I didn't eat much yesterday Um, but usually I will eat only one that you know only one meal a day Um, and so I guess you could say I invented this intermittent fasting thing I've been doing it way before I don't know it became popular on the internet. So Uh, it is something, you know, and also if you're into weight loss, it's a good idea, you know Um, bch beat bugs bch ad is with a bitcoin cash chat, I guess Since and some xmr. Hey lu greetings from argentina Do you consider yourself paleo libertarian?  I don't know that off the top of my head. Maybe I'll I'll write that down in my notes um No, maybe I should just keep this file up like a smart person instead of opening it every time. Uh, am I paleo libertarian? No, I would not consider. I don't consider myself anything politically. I mean politics uh Like the the whole notion of identity well identity politics people usually mean something else when they say that but the the whole notion of Identifying with a ideological belief. I think is fundamentally and it's fundamentally leftist actually.  So it's less harmful um, but they still I mean they still have a lot of Socially transgressive views, you know, if you say oh, I think people should be free that doesn't always mean let's just Not try to change society That means specifically saying here are our ideological ends and we are going to work to them And I think libertarians can again nine times out of ten libertarians are fine. I think they're probably like um, they're definitely like the least harmful least egregious portion of kind of normie politics um, but I I think they still hold on to that notion of Uh, there's this ideal society that we have to build even if that ideal society is built on not building things Like bill it's it is partially emergent, right? They do have that like kind of they have an essence of that view But not the whole thing. I mean my normies will often sell um separate politics into like You know the the political compass the two, um The two, uh, what's the word I'm looking for? I don't know the axes where it's like economic freedoms and social freedoms and things like that and libertarians will be like, uh, well, here's how libertarians will be They'll look at liberals And they'll say liberals meaning like libtards liberals Um, and they'll say something like oh well, you know, you claim to want freedom, right? But in reality a lot, you know, a lot of the private economy a lot of so-called capitalism whatever the free market There's a natural solvency to it. Okay, and that is true. Like there there's a there's a reason that price systems exist This isn't to give my endorsement of, um, you know anything in the modern world But yeah, there is a natural solvency like Like there is the free market is a real thing. There is a mechanism behind it Um, and that is a legitimate form of study Now libertarians take a little bit further But my issue is libertarians don't have that same viewpoint on social domains because they will look at a liberal who I don't know or let's say like more of a communist person who doesn't believe in private property And a libertarian will explain to them why oh, this is a a useful emergent norm that serves a particular purpose And without it everything would fall apart and they they can make good arguments for that, right? And I think they're right on that But the issue is they fall for the same fallacy a communist falls for in the social domain. They say Oh, look at all these things in Social politics that I don't like. Oh, man. That's not free if oh People have to be able to decide what whatever they want and like society can't constrain you and all that kind of stuff That is exactly what leftists are doing In the economic domain Also in the social domain and I think once you realize that you realize that society as well Like culture political culture all of it is emergent, right all of it and the very notion of I don't know Everything else is larping, right? That's really what I'm getting at. Um, I on my old website, which is still I think there's an archive of it. I need to just port over all the stuff from my very old website like five years ago I did have an article on this on You know How libertarians get to more like kind of reactionary views by recognizing the parallels in there Um, because ultimately once you realize that the social domain has emergent Phenomena as well you come to realize. Oh like social libertinism is actually a really bad idea um But you know in in the particular political environment, I think that libertarians are definitely the least pernicious people like um You know if I had to vote For people, I mean libertarians in america at least they're are usually the most solid Um, like they're they're gonna cause the least harm least harm principle, right? Um Max says luke do you still believe that genesis that genesis is a metaphor for our creation or literal I'm currently formatting a copy of genesis creation an early man by Father sarif and rose the book has been out of print for a while I would happily provide the pdf if you want to publish it as a book or host it as an e-book If you have any interest email me. Oh my goodness. I am a million percent interested actually Because I thought about I thought about doing that one myself, uh, but it's so freaking long Uh, and I haven't read it myself and if you are doing that. I don't know if you're doing it in law tech I hope you're doing it in law tech But even if you have the digital text that's easy to format Yes, we could I would like to I would like to publish that on lindy press if you'd like Uh, and and uh, let me write this down. Okay. Uh, this is the the creation um I as for the the whether I think it's a I I I don't Metaphor is not the word that I would use right metaphor I mean, there's a level at which everything's a metaphor But um, I also don't think that Yeah, I don't I don't like that dichotomy whether it's a metaphor or literal. Um, and I'm also kind of unopinionated about it I mean for me You know It's fine to me Like I mean if you read or if you listen to my podcast and stuff I I sort of do them assuming that You know soiantists view of the world is like more or less correct of the 14 billion Year old universe and you know man of all down earth stuff like that. I work. I treat that as a working assumption I'm open to that idea. Um I'm open to a more radical creationist stuff like that But you know the thing is most of the people who are creationists out there You know the kind of can ham can ham like those people they're kind of cringe They're kind of boomer. They they don't make good arguments a lot of time But either way I would be very interested in That book in particular because I have wanted I have wanted a physical copy of it because it goes for like $6,000 So I would love to be able to print those um Uh a non-sense and some an arrow. Thanks for answering actually hold on before I do that I'm gonna check a youtube super chats. I will go ahead and say as always I miss a lot of youtube super chats because they don't have a persistent list of them So I'm gonna read this uh super chat first though before it goes away Cobold says your new linux contact the content helped me develop professionally and make more fake money Working as a cloud arch dev a cloud architecture dev right now Love the tech hate the corpse behind it. Do you think there's a non-demonic future or version of cloud? No, I mean self-hosted Stuff maybe like that that could be the closest thing. I mean really not the cloud the cloud itself Right. I mean not in the way that it's used because things are just getting worse and worse. So Um, I just think it's really pernicious. Um Anyway, so a non-sense and um an arrow as I said before thanks for answering the needful sir I will politely inform him that I am a unix man Also, here's some money for luke was right again. Uh, uh, the luke was right again jar about duck duck go Yeah, uh, so duck duck go for those who don't know Um, okay, so the thing is duck duck go. Let's let's give the story of duck duck go Okay Google everyone knows that google is like some demonic corporation that monitors everything controls everything Uh, and of course everyone uses it for its search so they can At their own whim they can change search results.  It's still this just some company But I forget what's the guy's name like Weinberg or something who runs that I forget. Okay, either way They come out and say, um, and this guy who the the ceo, I forget it's something burg I forget what I think it's it's something that starts with w And I don't I don't forget um either way So he comes out and he actually worked for ad agencies and other kind of spyware companies But he comes out and says here's our new search engine. It doesn't track you.  We're so much better than google and actually had a lot of features They had like bang tags where you could just type in like Exclamation point I and it would send you to images or exclamation point Wt and it would send you to wictionary or just all the there it had many convenient things But the thing about duck duck go and this is the problem with everything else like telegram That is a centralized service is fundamentally you cannot trust them because you are just it's no different structurally from google It's just a new party who says, hey, you can trust us.  Well, they come out the other day saying, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna change our all of our Of all the stuff that happens.  Like this is the one they choose. I don't know why People are actually are going nuts about this thing. It's it's it's really like What what's going on with the kind of mass hysteria about the russia thing is Significantly worse than all the stuff in 2020 to be honest. Like I don't know I am surprised How I don't know gassed up normies are to do all this and anyway, so duck duck go you can't trust it Now if I had to use duck duck go with google I'm gonna I'm gonna use duck duck go and a lot of times if I just if I pull up a normie computer And I need to go to a search engine. I might go to duck duck go But the permanent solution is using Free free and open source software that anyone can install on their own computer And you can have your own instance of and that's why I recommend serfs. That's s e a r x Serfs and you can search it on youtube if you don't know about it I've done videos on it probably other people have and you can use a serfs instance.   Well, firstly, are they they are actually banning people But aside from that it's not into in decrypted It's proprietary software when there are literally things like a matrix or xmpp Which you can use right now that do everything right? Okay, that that is the thing that just drives me nuts when normies They're just being herded around like cattle to like the next. Oh, this is the next social media site Which is structurally identical to the one that they just left that there are solutions to these problems They're out there Like I don't know um local rice farmer since in some uh, Manero hi luke your video on cloud computing and voluntary digital homelessness was great But ordinary people think it's just a lot of work. Is there a point trying to inspire people? Um, listen when I do my videos, I don't necessarily do them for normies I do them for you guys who like know stuff about technology and um, you know, I will host services for people around me I've hosted uh search engine cirks instances I have a chat server that I let other people use so it's it's it's kind of like be the change you want to see in the world Um, yeah, like joe normie is not going to install like a matrix server for himself But if you if you have a xmpp or matrix or you say, hey, here's an app You can install on your phone. You can create account an account here. We can use it for this It's much more secure than anything else For communication and you can do all this stuff in it. Hey, that that's gonna work, right? So um, people always underestimate the extent to which they can affect the world and the people around them And this is something i'm thinking about now. I'm actually one thing I want to do this year I've been meaning to do a video talking about this kind of this plan Uh, but I want to have more I want to buy some physical servers and hardwares and stuff like that hardwares um But I'd really like to have like a btc pay service Right. So btc pay is like a self-hosted Uh, bitcoin payment processor And I thought like it'd be easy enough to set one of those up and I could go just go to businesses in town and say Hey, listen, do you want to accept bitcoin? Right? I can just make you an account on this Maybe some nominal charge per month Um and allow you to accept You know payments via bitcoin and that is just the way or maybe maybe I'll do it for free at the beginning Because a lot of people are like, I don't know anything about it. I don't want to pay but Just putting that option out there or minero, of course btc pay. It can take minero. Don't worry kids But yeah, you know, that's the kind of thing like people People don't realize how easy it is to affect people around you. You know, that's how it is that that's I I'm always Dude, I have a youtube channel. That's the weirdest thing, you know, I didn't expect this would ever happen, right? um I know it's it's easier to do things than you think Uh, okay. Oh, sorry. There was a message saying people are complaining about the chat Uh, sorry. There's a spammer. Let me uh We had to do this last time just uh Turn off or turn on slow chat I'll give me one second. Once I remember how to use youtube My view are else All right, I will continue to read in the meantime all that loads um Lex says thoughts on the haven protocol. I actually don't know what that is. Is that related to havano? I don't I don't even know because I mean I I've probably said elsewhere. I am just natively suspicious of any kind of In any kind of cryptocurrency project that doesn't use like bitcoin or like builds itself on top of a pre-existing network My my reaction is always i'm just suspicious of it. Um, so I don't really know that much about it So um, so zek here, uh, sends in a donation. How about resources for learning koine greek? I'd like to achieve a reasonable level of fluency for reading and writing So I'm probably bad to ask about that one because in my situation what happened is I had used um Like I had learned latin first, right and after learning latin, you know latin and greek are pretty they're pretty similar in terms of Uh, you know grammatical structure and honestly words as well And so what I had done is I had learned latin and then I just got a byglottic bible which I actually have right Right here. Um So, uh, and it's like latin on one side greek on the other and I would just learn it from there I mean that and that's basically how I did it. Um, so I would say um As for learning greek itself, I don't know because obviously I recommend this for latin I don't know if there is like an equivalent of more like naturalistic method for learning latin But I'll also say that it's like a little more difficult to um It's a little more difficult to Like greek paradigms or especially verbal paradigms are a little more complicated. Um, so I don't know like I I can't give you a full like if you're learning greek from nowhere I would I can't give you like a one Like a one size fits all solution But if you know latin, I recommend you just like use a byglottic text Or read historical stuff that is translated in both and you can kind of go for there from there Because if you know latin like everything in greek is going to be like second nature just like different letters, you know Okay, so yeah, there's a donation from the last time chris says Uh luke last live stream you talked about your opinion that people can only process information and words are low IQ as compared to Having having spatial reasoning. No, that's not exactly what I said Uh, but he says I agree with the general idea. I've been programming computers for almost 16 years starting at a young age I feel like logic and semantics have deeply worked themselves Uh, they're they're way into my thinking patterns and I now analyze the world and process information primarily through this lens Do you think um, this is a big brain version of verbal processes? Or am I just coping with being a low IQ sort of brain? No, okay.   You can you can have a couple words that you use like You know stuff like that. So my statement was verbal reasoning is like less g-loaded than spatial reasoning um Now if you say if you feel like logic and semantics have deeply worked into my thinking patterns I don't know if you mean logic and semantics as if they're verbal or because because arguably I mean spatial reasoning is I mean That's not necessarily what people talk about when they're talking about verbal reasoning. It's not necessarily spatial reasoning either, but um, yeah, I mean obviously how you think about things can affect They can affect um You know, they can improve your way of thinking or not, right? Uh, but it's just my view is that that so-called verbal reasoning It's not it's not really as important to intelligence as people think and I think it's pretty easy to fake um and Yeah, so I don't dismiss anyone for having low Verbal reasoning or although I will say people who are intelligent If you if you're someone who's natively intelligent, you will naturally Learn more words than other people.  There might be reasons that you actually have higher verbal IQ either way But my statement was that people who are not intelligent and who don't necessarily need that verbal Architecture, they can use it to look good and fake. You know that that's what I was saying um Crypto bear says seeing your video where you rant about how bloated the modern web had me thinking about what a lost art web development without soy dev Uh, uh without soy dev dev requirement is When talking to a mod to modern web devs, I believe they're completely lost if they were asked to build a gs j s free website Yeah, that's definitely true. I mean, um Uh I I think I said in another video that web development Again, it's it's like what in the seem-to-lebset of architects like a lot of modern architects who build all this crappy nasty modern art They do it to please other architects and web devs are kind of the same way They make these crappy websites that just abide by these stupid principles that they they have this idea You know within their own community. They look good or they use cool frameworks or stuff like that um when you know my My development framework has always been open up an html file in vim And edit it right and I even have like a quote-unquote static site generator That's not even a static site generator. It doesn't like Take markdown files and creates html. It actually directly creates html and I can edit it So, yeah, I think yeah, that that's a big freaking problem to be honest um Like web development as an industry is just so screwed and it's so hard like they will make these simplistic What is faux minimalism? Where it's like a simple page. Oh, we're thinking about, you know, you what are users going to click on? We don't want a obtrusive interface, which of course hides a lot of the stuff they need, right? But more importantly, you'll have a couple megabytes of loading just to look at a freaking blank page. That's the craziest thing Uh, so yeah, modern web development as an industry is just totally screwed up And the most annoying thing is that web dev soy dev standards are now being normalized, right? So, um a lot of people are like, well, I just have to have a website that looks like that because that's how they do it, right? so So someone noticed on the the thing that someone was spamming a couple minutes ago I'd never I've seen that copy pasta. I've never understood it. Like I don't I have one think pad and I have like one broken think pad I don't know where the meme comes comes from of Me having lots of things. Well, actually, I do know there was a video Years ago where I had like four think pads in one position It was like right when I had gotten this new one and I was getting rid of the old ones And I did a video with four think pads. I think that's where it actually comes from But it's kind of cringe that that's become like copy pasta. I don't even get it, but um So emergent super chat Says, uh, do you like keith woods? He has a lot of philosophical right wing youtube videos that I think you'd like I would like to see a collaboration. I'm aware of keith woods. Uh, I think he might watch my videos too I'm not quite sure. I I don't really watch that much political stuff. I mean, I'd be open to something like that Um, you know, I'm I'm you know fine with him. He seems like a nice guy, uh, but you know I'm fine with that But I don't know I I can't tell you I like watch all of his videos. I've probably seen some of some of them um, but Yeah, I well, I don't really watch that much youtube I usually just go on people's channels and be like, oh, this looks good And I I did that with keith woods and I've seen a couple of his videos I was under the impression I think I said in the last stream or there was some time where I was talking about keith woods Only in passing because someone mentioned him And I for some reason I thought he had been like banned because I hadn't seen his videos recommended He probably just got shadow banned or whatever It was actually the same way. I want to say in 2020 Stefan Malinu I think got banned from youtube which surprised me because I was like didn't he get banned like five years ago because I haven't I used to see his videos recommended to me all the time And you know, I'd never really watched them But I can understand why the why the algorithm would recommend that like an eye an ai That's not trying to manipulate people and just trying to offer them things they might be interested in I could understand them recommending Stefan Malinu But either way youtube just stopped recommending his stuff and Like I thought he'd just been banned five years ago, but that's how they do it. Like it's really screwed up Um, I mean, what are they gonna do like that's basically why they exist Uh, that's what youtube does. Um Ryan says lucif uh, you search giddy and lasar on youtube. You'll find some cool Young earth creationist catholic stuff. Okay. I'll I'll look that up. I'll look that up Uh That is like the the thing I want to I want to I want to believe I want to believe in young earth creationism.  Luke speaking of mirroring streams What happened to your streams with older people like chris occupanty and distro tube. Did they become cringe too based? Uh, thanks for all your what do you mean older streams? They should be I I know I have My the stream I did with chris occupanty and distro tube up on my peer tube instance I don't think anything happened to them or did they become cringe like I don't I don't know Or well if you're asking why I don't do streams with people the reason I did those streams That was right before I moved out into the country where I knew I wouldn't have internet So I was like this might be the last time in my life. I can never do live streams, you know I mean, thankfully I can do them now, but uh, so I was like, you know what? I'll just I'll just shoot out some emails to random people and I did a lot of live streams with them Uh, well, I did like one with everyone. I did one with distro tube and chris occupanty I think I think I did one with uh trap code And I I did a couple with rudie hill who I think who might be in the chat right now I know that he's been watching some of the the streams recently. I don't think rudie's been putting up videos, but um Either way. Yeah, I mean it's nothing. Uh, I mean chris occupanty, uh, I actually I want to say I I've emailed him about like meeting him in person Like I think we chatted about that once or twice, but I haven't haven't talked to him recently Uh distro tube. I don't know like I don't want you stuff. I think a lot of his stuff is more I mean, I don't know. Well, you can have your opinions about it. I'm not going to state mine, but um So Uh shaw roms something or other Donates one dollar thoughts on the epic hack. Are there any good alternatives? And when will you be converting to islam? Wow all good questions. So in the epic hack, um Well, when for those who don't know epic got hacked a couple months ago by some like fed And uh, like they released like everything they released like everything they could get their hands on Um, like a lot of people freaked out. It was kind of like a forced meme like people would email me about it The same people need to realize is like everything like Yeah, everything on yahoo has been hacked. Everything has been hacked. You know what I mean? Um, and so that's the importance of I don't know using Using like different, uh, I don't know not having all your eggs in one basket, right? So after that happened, of course epic hack, I think I don't know if I've changed landshad.net Um, but I think I recommended or I might not have even pushed the change Maybe I should I think I should have a list of other registrars as well Now I don't hold it against epic and I still use epic Uh, they're fine like they're victims of a crime or whatever, but it is very unfortunate I mean, there's not much to say like sucks, but That that's how it is. Um as for good alternatives like if you want one where you don't use a, um Uh, you don't have to give a so normally when you register a website, right? You have to give like you're an address like they never check it, of course, right? But you have to give a name and address and you have to have a payment processor or like, you know payment information So, um, I know a lot of people will use, uh, I think Do I even have it here? Yeah, so, uh, it should be on landshad.net, right? So at least it's on my coffee copy offline. I'll I'll check the online side But there's stuff like nyala like, um, which is n j a l dot l a that's the website in j a l dot l a Where it's like they registered the they registered the domain for you under their name And then they give you the ability to switch it if you want. So it's like you you having a, you know Ignoring that kind of privacy Liability, so that's an option. There are a couple sites like that that I've mentioned out there But in general, I don't hold it against epic, um People did freak out when it happened, but again like everything like if people knew Uh, it was it was more just like a forced meme just because there have been a lot of other Hacks of similar levels that, um, you know where there's data like again every yahoo Account has been hacked. I want to say facebook and google will have these all the time Uh, and I think in the case of epic where like it was hacked for political reasons There was just like the media was kind of trying to foment that but uh, yeah, I don't I wouldn't necessarily I Haven't switched away from using them You might want to if you think it's uh bad, but you know, I don't care. Um A non-sense in some xmario, um, no comment on that um Torsten Said since in five dollars doesn't say anything with that. Thank you though um Let me change there. Let me check. Uh, no youtube. Let's see All right, sorry. I didn't respond to the Islam thing. I I Really, you know, I figured that's not a sensible, uh, you know, that's a joke. Anyway, um so Okay, yeah, sorry Uh stride evil of islo. I can't even read all this long email address says nations Based or cringe real based on ethnicity or lark based on imposed narrative on a population I mean nations like the word nation is screwed up nowadays. I mean the word nation literally It comes from noski in latin like the word for birth Like the term nation before the 20th century meant Like a race a birth group not necessarily races that big of a category, but a birth group, right? So the whole Uh, so if you say something like ethno nationalism in the actual use of the term that is that's just redundant It's called nationalism. So before the 20th century and before I don't know boomers, I guess You know this idea that a nation is like some kind of Civic organization is very silly like the term if you read anything in the 1800s or before The term nation is always something that is is based off of people of common A familial origin, right? So um But uh, yeah, so like the whole idea of so-called civic nationalism as the the Opposition to that is necessarily cringe, right because uh, or it's it's like a modernization of the term And obviously when I use the word nation Around people nowadays you use it in that way to mean like oh, it just means a country But the term natively meant this this is like a group of related people, right? Um, that's why you can talk about the hit the histories of different nations That mean the history of different states and meant the histories of people like racial not necessarily again Racial is a larger category than nation how it was used actually That's not always true because a lot of the times they would use them synonymously, right? Um, but yeah, I mean that's a misunderstood. It's one of those terms that's just like changed in its meaning um But you know so nationalism nowadays has more like french revolutionary flavor where it's like Oh to be to be a member of this nation means to be like a citizen And that doesn't matter if you're born here.  Let's say let's say weaves Uh, or like people who go to china like I know I know a lot of uh Americans who have gone to china And like they're so good. Oh, it's so hard to get chinese citizenship. How can I get it? I can never I can never get a set dude. It's because you're not of the chinese nationality Okay, that's not you're not racially chinese like most countries in the world when they're looking at I mean Well, I mean traditional countries obviously again in the 20th century Partially based on american Influence a lot of things change, but in china. Yeah.  It's something like singular and honorary and You know specific to to someone's life, right? Dangerously based are in not even that. I mean, this is just what the word freaking means like that's not it's not even based If you want to hear real based You got to hear hear my speech on what the word american meant because it used to be that the term american before the 60s was just like an ethnic term like or like People would not refer to like the whole idea that like different races of like, okay, we put it this way Um before the 60s or even, you know 50s or something like that The term american was really exclusively used on like what we would now call white americans, right? Even black people who had citizenship They would be called, you know american negroes or something like that But it was not um Like if you go in a corpus of historical american english You can do that actually right now if you really want i know that b y u has one of those And you can just look at the term american and how it's used and it's primarily when talking about different Ethnic groups. It's primarily used as a racial designation not necessarily like a country designation But nowadays in the 60s there was this very market change Like um You know to use the word american to mean someone who has citizenship in the united states when it was not really used like that You know a hundred years before right? Um, and this is where we get to the place where like you have american indians Who are now called native americans now the term native americans back in the 1800s that meant A white person right a native american that's someone born in america as opposed to someone who came here Um whereas they did not consider indians native americans. I mean it's it's sort of like Okay, it's sort of like you know when the turks moved into turkey Okay, we now call that area turkey But we don't call the greek people who live there before the native greeks Or the native turks if we called them the native turks that would make no freaking sense right even though they were in turkey beforehand It's the same kind of thing before the 1960s. No one has this term native american But you know what you do there linguistically what you're telling people is you're saying oh well What defines the country is not something that's ethno cultural. It's just like being in the physical area, right? so Like says the haven protocol uses manero technology for its stable coins. The white paper is very okay Maybe I have heard of that. I haven't I haven't maybe I'll I'll write it down on my notes. I will check that out So uh tom Says will you be adding a favorite recommended links or in other words a discovery section to your website? Yeah, I need to do that. I really need to do that. I'm gonna write that down in my I need to do that because I will tell other people other people you should link to other sites And the thing with I mean, I'm mostly just linked to my my other sites But I should I should link to others because there are many other artisanal websites that people should look at um seth Says wordlets replace words with bigger ones Uh, just to sound smarter best example is wage cucks who used to for phrase paradigm shift During work presentations to sound like they are fixing the word by a word world by adding a useless time sunk time suck Uh step into a process. Yeah, you're right Yeah, I mean, I think I said in the last dream people who say utilize instead of use that that's a good example So always use the most simple terms Jimmy Neutron Says you've said, um, you said you like paying with gold and silver in general. Have you seen gold backs? They're basically bills made of gold so inherent value. No, I've never heard of that. That's kind of funny Um, yeah, I can't can't tell you I know about that Uh Ross says luka. I think I might be priced out of the rural property market here in scotland. I'm thinking about buying land Uh sticking a trailer on it and building a house after Is this something you would recommend if so? How would you go about it? Ross also house tour win. I want to see your mental outlaw Funko pop Um Yeah, it's funny. So the funny thing is in the past couple weeks So I think I said in the last three mental outlaws channel has gotten like really big It's like bigger than mine now Um, and so now I'm starting to have people who are new to my channel being like Oh, wow, you're just like mental outlaw when it used to be the other now now.  You never know. It's it's great.  I think it's good stuff and obviously it's very popular people want it It's good.  Um, I've never heard anything. He said that's like cringe Maybe maybe someone could tell me something he said that's cringe, but whatever Um, anyway, so on rural property So Yeah, I don't know everyone in europe says everything's expensive. So I can't I don't know exactly What your situation is but um Um, yeah, if you just want to buy land if you can buy land and put a trailer on it I think that's a that's probably the best thing to do if you can't build a house right now with your financial situation That is something. I mean a lot of freaking millennials do basically that anyway So, yeah, just get your teeth into it I don't know how taxes are there like if you have to pay a lot of property taxes But in general just owning land like land is never it's never we're never going to have more of it You know So just getting your teeth into some land even if it costs a lot of money as long as it's in a consistent place That's not going to be you know Bulldoe like they're going to build a city there I don't know.  Uh, if you view that as a lifestyle thing for the rest of your life But uh, if you're starting out and you need to economize on money, that's a very sensible thing to do so Pyraman den I found you in mental outlaw at the same time and originally thought you were the same person Because one of your videos played right after right afterwards on autoplay. Yeah, that's well That's definitely not true me and out a mental outlaw are definitely not the same person definitely not if anyone asks you Uh flying curtains, um says what do you think about steven pinker and why is he your favorite linguist? Well, steven pinker is not even like a linguist. I don't know why people Call him that I this is obviously a joke. Um, yeah, steven pinker is uh Uh, shoot I don't know. I don't really have anything to say about him at this point. I think he's he's kind of he's not he's not involved enough in Academic linguistics, and I don't think he's really like he does more cognitive stuff and brain stuff I don't think he knows that much about formal linguistics, and he's written some books that kind of talk about language, but they're not I don't know like a linguist linguist would not say. Oh, yeah, steven pinker is a linguist um, but yeah, he studies language stuff and I will say like his um Yeah, I don't know either way Aside from that. He has some pretty cringe books like better angels and what's the new one that's like I don't know. He's one of those um He's one of those liberals who just wants the good old-fashioned liberalism, you know He he just he just wants the old takes he thinks they're crazy now. He's just trying to be Respectable and say sensible things, but no you can't you can't say sensible things as a leftist anymore Like they're they're way past that stuff now Either way a lot of his specific things are actually kind of cringe too, but um, he said some base things too, but you know, I'm not uh, he doesn't say that stuff anymore Uh, as akira says the enlightenment and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race Also, it's pronounced zack. Hi zack i r. Oh, I see The i and r and r initials. Okay zack. I will call you zack from now on or do you mean zatch? Um, yeah, they definitely have been a disaster which that's not what steven pinker thinks um and then he uh Cancelled his monthly. Yeah, whenever half the time when people donate to me I think because monthly donation is the default a lot of people will like accidentally do monthly donations and then undo them Uh, do you know about the peer to P2 pool for xmr? It would be nice if you consider making a video about it duck duck go uses microsoft servers Oh, really? That's even worse their onion service loads images over non onion. Oh my god Whoa, I didn't even know it was that bad, but um um Manero Mateo needs your help with linux. He's a cool dude. Check him out. Yeah, I'm aware of his existence I mean, I did a video with kevin mod the other week and I I know I know that manero mateos out there, too He does um You know boomerant not boomerance. He goes walking in the woods But yeah, I know that both of them which I find very You know, I'm not I'm not putting them on that. No, I should put them on the spot Frankly, I should put them all on the spot Listen if you're using freaking manero and you're using microsoft windows. I don't know what to tell you, but that's just Listen, like if a seed phrase has appeared on a microsoft windows screen I would consider that compromised the entire it's a spyware operating system from the bottom up And so it's not difficult to use linux. It's not difficult to get into this kind of stuff So when I see someone Mind you, this isn't just them. I will say there are a lot of people in cryptocurrency Like people in cryptocurrencies to be honest, they don't know that much about other technology I mean a lot of them don't know that much about cryptocurrency But they don't even understand like free and open source software and why you should not be running proprietary junk For security's sake and so many even manero Like even manero people will use freaking reddit and like twitter as their primary way of communicating When it's like come on just have like a manero Hosted form or something like that. I think they have that maybe they just need to mean people into like using it more or something I don't know if there's like a manero fediverse thing. That would be nice For those kind of people, but I don't know like they're It's good to have normie on ramps. Obviously. I have a youtube channel. You know, I don't want to dismiss it totally but um You know the goal is to get people away from that kind of stuff and yeah using Using windows is just not You just can't do that dude. Um app. I mean, obviously apple as well Um, uh macintosh or whatever But linux is not difficult, especially nowadays So I I think I think people need to bully bully people into using better equivalents, right? Um, they they need a I don't know because if they if they care about this kind of stuff I don't know. They will they will eventually acquiesce. Obviously all these people They're just comfortable in what they're doing. It's working for them right now. They're not really thinking about it, right? um And I will say I think I think kevin wad a couple While back did a video saying that he had some something stolen Like some kind of cphrase compromise or something. I'm gonna go ahead and say it's probable I don't know. Maybe it's something window windows related, right? It's it's a lot easier to click on something and screw something up with windows like Uh coronas says more content to consume from loot. Thanks for larbs All right. Thanks for the donation Although I obviously, you know, I do always feel bad when I do too many videos because I feel like I'm wasting people's time frankly Uh, oh Oops I forgot something. I gotta do something on github Oh, she daisy Uh, let me see here Uh Sorry, sorry got an email that I didn't actually upload the lf configuration that I put Up the other day.  Um, Ateos since in a dollar. Um, did you Sorry Gotta pull the changes first Okay, um Ateos Uh says did you uh, do you see a fix for the internet in W asm Or is it just Uh as prone to soyism as j s. I don't actually know what wasm is. I know that I've seen that before Um, yeah, I yeah, I'm not quite sure what that is Uh, maybe I should look it up just in case it's something important Because well, it might be something that I I actually know And I'm just not thinking shoot. Sorry. Sorry if my stream is kind of buffering right here It's because I'm looting a bunch of stuff. Oh, let me turn that off Let me turn that off Okay. All right back to what I was doing. Yes. Sorry. I couldn't pull that up I'm I'll just I don't know about it. So I'm gonna assume. I mean this It's the solutions are always return to tradition when it comes to technology like do things the old way that work Um, so again, I I edit web page not everyone can do this But I edit my web page just by opening up a freaking html file with them and doing this that and the other um, but yeah, I mean It's really just the culture of web development that I think is focused on all these frameworks and all this kind of stuff But I don't know enough. I mean, I don't do Enterprisey things Enough to give the give pointers out, but I can tell you that there are many optimizations that um, anyone could implement. So uh, Su Yong Don't uh, send sent a donation. What would you recommend for a 20 year old high school dropout? Uh, to do to get a lot of moneys been trying to teach myself web dev with react Well, we were just talking about that We'd love to hear your counseling. By the way, just ran into your channel last week been loving the content So, um, yeah, I mean web development is it as we were just saying it's kind of a corrupt field Um, like there are a bunch of like nasty I don't know things going on, but that might still be an option I'm not telling you not to do it if you can learn it and I mean I would just say if you have time now if you're I don't know what your employment status is right now But just make sure that all of your time free is Looking at new possibilities for the kind of things you can do. Just don't waste your time with freaking Netflix, right? Um, I can't I can't give you anything specific Especially if you're doing web development because I'm not interested in it because I do everything the old-fashioned way, right? Like I I have I mean all the stuff I have hosted like a lot of it, you know It's just me using free and open source software, right? You know my peer tube instance. It's not like I wrote it myself It's software that I'm using from someone somewhere else Um, so like I can't give you web development advice and you know, whenever people ask me about web development advice You know, I I will just say keep it simple and leave it at that But you know, it depends on what what kind of jobs you're looking to do Um, if you want to go and I don't know go to local businesses help make them a website something like that There are always things like that people are always people are actually very willing to to waste money on stuff like that even if it's not like You know Nothing to just the notionally have a web page, right because everyone has a facebook. That's not enough now, right? It shouldn't be Sean says what are your thoughts on Mormonism in the lds church? Um, I don't really think about them that much I mean, they're not uh, there are actually some Mormons where I am um, but uh, I don't think it's a Right religion Um, and I don't I definitely don't really consider them Christians I mean, they're they're different enough that I mean, they're their basic theology is totally different from all Of historical Christianity. I mean, it's not even it's not even like Protestant stuff. It's You know way out left field. So I don't consider them Christian. Um, I have not really had I've known a couple Mormons in my life But I've never lived in a heavily Mormon area Um, some people I've known said that they're kind of cult like I don't know I mean, maybe they are I I just have never been around them. So I don't think about them that much Um Why do you dislike cats and find dogs dumb?  Like I'm not against having a like I'm against decoration dogs That's what I said, but you know a lot of dogs can be useful cats Like the whole like like firstly a lot of the things that cats do like killing rats and stuff dogs do that Like the dogs are better at anything a cat could theoretically do a dog and do better, right? Cats are just all decoration. They're just not and they kill a lot of things. You don't want them to kill, right? They they're a lot more likely to kill chickens than dogs are Uh, the dogs can like I have a cousin who has a dog and I think they actually well They got rid of their dogs because they killed chickens They did get cats where they keep them inside um So yeah, no, I mean having a dog. There are reasons to have dogs. It's fine I'm not against having a dog as a farm animal, but cats cats are just useless They're just decoration if you want a decoration you can get a cat, but it's expensive and needy and and kind of annoying so Eleanor sends in a super chat. It's written in some Cyrillic moon room. So I can't read it. So Um I'm sure it's very funny. What are you saying though? I'm I'm sure it's hilarious Okay, how long have I been going? I might uh, I might stop it sometimes. I'm seeing Yeah, it's been a long time since I've done a Saturday's uh stream My kittens eat the crickets. Oh, yeah, so I will say I had these there's this stray cat That had kittens at my house the other year um And you know I for the for a while I let them stay before I eventually got rid of them put them somewhere else, but uh um They're they're these big massive like yellow Uh kind of grasshopper looking things. They're huge here and there's a season of the year where they come around I think they eat a lot of crops. They've never eaten anything in my Around where I am, but they're just all over the place And I remember these little kittens only a couple weeks old They would I don't know they could like see them coming like flying in the air And they would like jump straight in the air and just like get them and I don't know just pull them out of the sky It's crazy Wait luke did you answer the question before about sneed general opinion? I didn't I didn't see the question as super chats I don't see them all Because I'm mostly looking at my own and I can't because youtube is mentally retarded. I cannot go and pull up Uh previous super chats once they disappear um He said received a transmission from uh, putin initiate operation iron fist turn off the radio transmitter Okay So I don't I don't know russian or If that if that wasn't russian Yeah, that's right. I I'm the deep faked mental outlaw. You got me luke have you read guns germs and steel law? Yeah, I read that uh, I did that for a book report in eighth grade And I think I reread it because when you read something in eighth grade, you don't get it all Um, so I reread it.  Um ryan falk did a really good breakdown of it Just like why why the whole book is kind of absurd You know alternative hypothesis, which I I think he's on bit shoot still, but I don't think he's on youtube I think he private at all those videos on youtube Um So some hebron name sends in some shekels He says can you make a video about ipfs and uh storage? Also, why not hosting your own rtmp server behind a cache server with engine x? I've thought about doing that Uh, I could never get the configuration exactly how I wanted but ideally what I really want is to be able to stream to uh, yeah I'd like stream to my server and then stream of course to to peer tube and to youtube and odyssey all at one time Some people have like helped me out like fixing things up, but they've still kind of Uh, like I never got it working exactly In a in a in a way that is is I don't know good enough Right Do I use brave search? No, I use cirks. Do I mention? I just use some random cirks instance again s e a r x Uh, that's the best thing because what it does if you haven't seen my videos on it what it is It's a it's a it's free software You can install on any server and there are lots of people who run these servers And all they do is instead of you connecting to a search engine Cirks just goes to like 20 different search engines and assembles results and gives them to you instantly Just as fast as if you had found them yourself Uh, I mean, I guess like a millisecond less but uh, it you won't notice a difference And so it's way better because you can you can have wider stuff. It's less liable to You know if if google or duck dot go or censoring people Well, maybe yandex it has a different algorithm that might be censoring other people But you'll get you'll have a variety of stuff Um, and it's just better. It's more customizable. You can do all this kind of stuff It's okay. The main thrust of the query was how snide relates to the ukraine situation And maybe your general opinion on snide itself is a concept. I really enjoy snide as a concept. I I was trying to Me and uh, me and my cousin were explaining his uh, uh, his younger brother-in-law What snedement? Yeah, how do you use snide in the sentence and you know kids these days they're not ready for snide What does christian mean? Says uh mezoto. I I think you know what christian means Um, let me check. Let me check, uh Look, what are your thoughts on banning pornography or the government banning things for the public good in general? I mean pornography is a very clear case of something that should be banned I mean like I don't take banning lightly But as something that has the poses absolutely no good and poses enormous harm To the the people who consume and I think it's in undebatably like something that could be banned Um, obviously I'm not one again. I'm not one of these autists who You know has some kind of all ideology behind it But I think it's a very clear case like it could not be clearer in the case of pornography that it should be banned um But of course now in in government says they exist right now I don't in general like if the government says oh, we got to ban this because it's it's bad or something Our government is run by psychos and and people who are if anything they want people to do bad stuff and be evil and Coom and watch netflix all day Um, so our government right now is freaking demonic Um, but in the abstract there's nothing You know, there's nothing like I mean, obviously it would be stupid not to ban something that causes nothing but harm right um What is neat? I think it's just some 4chan family guy meme, right? I didn't think it had much meaning well Lucas pro censorship rip no i'm pro censorship of bad things like the thing the issue with it now is a lot of people will Well, I'll give you the speech people ask me am I pro free speech Now I don't I don't really think about it that much and a lot of people say oh, wow Lucas free speech he'll defend all these people who have been banned No, the the reason I defend him is not because I believe in some abstract notion of free speech Like oh, we just have to allow things to happen I I defend them because the people who are getting banned by our psychotic demonic government right now are right Like it's not because like I want the technicality of free speech. I do it because they're right like I mean if you're if you're getting banned by twitter and reddit and stuff like that you might be a spur But more often than not like targeted political and religious persecution It is targeted people who speak the truth targeted towards people who speak the truth So that's why I support them. I don't support them because I support free speech And I think when boomers have this thing Oh, I don't you know, I support free speech what they're tacitly saying that there like if someone gets banned For something political Let's say they went to like a lockdown protest and they got banned or they got their bank account frozen or something like that And then some boomer comes out and say oh, well, I support their free speech What they're tacitly saying in that is they're saying I am not going to defend this person for what they actually believe And therefore what they believe is bad.  That's just a retarded thing um, it's it's literally just it is something for Uh, in pornography is literally just controlling the masses. It could not be a clearer Example in that case it is it has it's totally inert. It's not artistic. It's not productive It doesn't help people it only harms and the only people who are in support of it of people who are totally Dura, you know, they have this they identify with their sexual weaknesses To such an extreme degree and they fear more than anything else is You know their own conscious and the own in like the judgment of god, frankly You know, so they have to come up with this cope of why it should exist So whenever I see free speech anyone talking about free speech, I'm not against free speech I just don't think it's not an issue like we're not Like when I look at the world now free speech is not an issue The issue is people who are being targeted for speaking the truth, right? And I support those people not because of free speech but because they speak the truth, right? And I know and as an aside, you know free speech again. I'm not not saying I'm against it, but um Every culture like every nation state has always had Restrictions over questioning the core assumption behind it and that is very much true In liberal democracies and in fact, maybe even more true than it is in china or something like that, right? Lurker since in some XMR. Have you ever looked into open hardware microprocessor Microprocessors open source CPUs radio communications protocols alternative to the internet as a complement To open source software is building your own electronics with open hardware based or is another another solar panel like situation as in you fool yourself in That you're detaching yourself in the system while actually remaining very much dependent on it Is it even possible to go in the right direction with uh with organization dependent technology? I have not looked into it that much myself I mean, I guess I flirted with things like the uma, which I don't think ever came out Um, so, you know, I like the idea of things like that and I'm not against them Um, I do think they're a big improvement But yeah, I mean, yeah, they're still organization dependent technology But then again any digital technology is going to be that and if I consent to use uh, uh, you know An old think pad, right? I would happily consent to use stuff like that I'm just not familiar with it enough to be sure that I can get all of my computing done on it Or I don't know. Maybe maybe I should look into it, but I don't know I don't know enough about that world to uh to uh tell you Um, all right, no, I finally finished all the the super chats and stuff Now everyone in the chat is just talking about like If porn and video games should be banned Which yes Yeah, but porn is freaking crazy. I mean the craziest thing Is it whenever you have some freaking one of those organizations come out and say oh, we have to Restrict free speech on the internet. It might radicalize people We don't we don't want like oh people to deny the lockdowns and all this kind of stuff We have to protect people from this Hey, excuse me Isn't the internet the place where people go to watch porn? Like can't any child just go on the internet right now and watch porn? Isn't that what the internet is? So the whole idea of let's make this cozy place for an internet Like cozy this cozy little place where oh no one's going to get hurt at on this giant system Which the government tacitly accepted, you know every major western government tacitly Accepts pornography and its existence on the internet where if they came if they came for pornography with a tenth of the vigor That they did for political speech There just would be no porn on the internet frankly or you'd have to go to like obscure onion sites, right?  Um, I know that he exists. I think I downloaded his like, uh, what is it? Uh c m t u c t m u. I forget what it is. I I think I downloaded his a little paper, which is actually kind of interesting um The weirdly enough a lot of people talk about him And they talk about you know back the day he was like, oh, yeah the world's smartest man He'll look at his super high 200 iq or whatever Um, but I haven't finished reading it. I kind of put it in another folder Which means I'm probably not gonna finish reading it, but maybe I should but because he's an interesting guy and he has this interesting theory of the universe um Man, that's hard to accept. You know, maybe it's worthy of a not related episode actually Of course, if I did maybe I'd have to get him on for it Because uh, I feel like it's better to hear it from the horse's mouth In his case because it's one of those things where I think there's a community of people that do the ctmu But he's the only person I know that is like writing on it. I don't know if it's just his thing that like Uh, either way, it's it's an interesting thing Thoughts on where to get michelle thomas's tapes. Yeah, like just any torrent site will have them Let's see. I feel like I've been going for a long time. Actually, I think I have oh my goodness Yeah, what what freaking time what what time did I even start? Uh stream settings When did this freaking Oh, yeah, we've been going for two hours. Um, all right. Go ahead. Uh, I think I'll close it off Relatively soon if you have last comments or donations send them in and I will read them And once I'm done, I will probably finish up Whenever you chris. Yeah, I don't know. I maybe maybe I'll reach out to to uh, chris laying in. I don't know It's an idea. I know that he's active on gab like I think I think I've been directed to his gab page Which he uses like a blog um But I think he like responds to comments and stuff like that. Uh Um He's one of those guys I I do appreciate one thing about him is that You know, if you're around people who are less intelligent than you I will say there's this Tendency to dismiss them a lot that isn't an always present A tendency, right? Like oh my goodness. This person just doesn't understand, right? So there are a lot of comments I get on my youtube video YouTube video sitters just like this kid is probably like a 15 year old kid He just has no clue about this one thing he's talking about and he's like so arrogant about it And I just like want to just I don't know delete the comment or like just be like dude, you're so cringe You don't know what you're talking about one thing about chris laying in is uh, as I said He he posts on his gab and he posts like responses to things He actually does like give people who you wouldn't think deserve anytime He actually thinks he kind of talks out their arguments now Sometimes he'll be like wow this guy's dumb, but he'll at least like um, and there's an important reason for this Like when you're arguing with someone um On the internet, especially people are egotistical on the internet And you're probably never going to convince anything of anyone of anything on the internet But what you will do is you will you can make Not an example of him, but you can illustrate You can show for other people what the kind of that for you know for people whose egos are not at stake right now You can show them where Where the chips fall like what what is an actual sensible thing to think so usually when you're engaging people on the internet It's not about them It's about the people who are watching and that's actually one of the reasons Let me give you some life advice that I've learned on the the internet As a minor internet celebrity Um, just don't engage with uh, don't engage in drama kind of stuff There are a lot of things I could say about a lot of people Um, and I as time has gone on like other people on the internet as time has gone on I just it's it's better to say less and less about that, right? um, so Oh, I don't think I said did I say it at the beginning that Sorry because someone was saying it about freaking Lindy press that uh, the secret of secrets Is up on lindypress.net over there I don't know where the link is. I don't have my thing pulled up, but you can get it there I will say prices on lindypress. The annoying thing is my book producer Every like other month, they will send me an email saying we're increasing production costs because of brandon and all this kind of stuff and inflation so Um, if you want to get a book, it's better to get it now because I might have to put I know that they're putting up prices actually on the 15th um And as time goes on I will have to increase uh prices too because that's just how it is now It's freaking nutty. I did hear that inflation has gone up so much um With used cars, which I like because I'm going to be selling a used car that I need to get I need to fix I think I mentioned that earlier in the In the thing anyway, let me check for some last donations as we draw this to a close close Tommy says have you considered streaming on cozy tv? It's nick fuente's streaming platform User interface is very nice. At least it's a better place to stream than youtube. Well, as I said I have my own site where I can stream on, you know videos dot luke smith dot xyz Is it I always forget is it video or videos by the way videos dot luke smith dot xyz So I have that already. I don't need that I mean like if I set up my own streaming server that like re streams through a bunch of different places I mean, I'd be open to streaming everywhere at once Um, where I could just stream to that one server and it would go everywhere. So I'm not against it, but I don't really know Um, I don't really know him. I know of him, but you know, I I'm not against it um, but Oh, there's like a coomer in the chat. Let's see Oh, it's like a bot. It's just like the same guy posting the same thing in different profiles All right. We're the coomers. Let me find them. Aren't you being hypocritical by saying people should take personal responsibility?   That's the same Like I don't know Authoritary freaking word cells But oh look, there's a word that I have bad feelings about You don't want to do this that you don't want to allow this thing that causes literally nothing but harm So that makes you a bad guy.   There's no reason ever to allow pornography There's no function of it. There's no use of it And the funniest thing is that people are now coming out and saying oh pornography is a good thing Because why why should it exist? Why why should it be allowed? What sane society allows any child to get on the internet right now and watch porn or any adult?  You would not allow Toxic chemicals into your house. You wouldn't allow Like some like child molester to be I don't know like your child's daycare provider Right, but that's exactly what you're doing when you're allowing porn You're saying I endorse all of this kind of stuff.  That's why this is exactly what I said earlier in the stream, right?  That's you know Oh, that that's like bad or whatever and libertarians are like They they have that same logic with social affairs. They think they're for freedom But in reality the most like one commonality in all cultures before the 20th century is the absolute watertight conservatism of Any kind of sexual morality this kind of corruption can only be allowed in this libertine society where oh, it doesn't actually you know It doesn't we you just got to be free to do whatever you want blah blah blah.    It's it's like you You just going out there and causing harm to people or like it's it quite literally is Imagine there was someone out there who just took pictures of like naked people Like genitals and ran up to children and public and just showed them pictures of it. That's literally what pornography is So would you support that would you support that out in the open? Don't you think that someone who does that firstly? They're suspect secondly anyone who endorses behavior like that is suspect But thirdly there's no difference between that and pornography. That's what it is That is literally what it is The romans had porn mosaics. Yeah the roman that's had porn mosaics in their brothels Okay, we have it everywhere. We have you turn on tv and there's basically soft core pornography Okay, every commercial is like that. So the whole thing is oh look back at history where someone did some degenerate thing Therefore like, uh, you know kids should be watching porn since they're eight.   It's just so antisocial and bizarre. Anyway, that's enough about that Like these people are not going to be convinced, you know Um Like there be on there literally this is the whole point, you know Actually, someone noted libido dominante on my shelf the other day This is the whole point of sexual control because you can Once people are hooked into something sexually It is hard to convince them to overcome it. They become governed entirely by their vices People will become highly predictable and they will defend their new sexual identity to the death, right? That's that's the issue with it Anonymous uh says what uh, hey luke what are your thoughts on chocolate milk? Uh cringe Um, so the issue with chocolate milk. I mean well really just you're just putting extra sugar in milk. That that's the problem So, yeah, I don't I mean drinking milk is fine. But if you want the super processed stuff with extra flavor, I think that's kind of cringe Eric sends in some xmr porn is not free speech under the first amendment the gab guy talked about this I mean, yeah, obviously it it I don't know what their interpretation is, uh, you know the spring court You never know what they're gonna say Um, but yeah, it's insane to say that it's speech anyway, right? Either way It's something that's totally legally permitted in a lot of nutty societies Uh, like western countries Um, and it's just not justifiable.    Yeah I think it's nuts Maybe parents are just naive. I mean I I think for people older than millennials for millennials That's around the period where like the internet was all over the place And people know that there are all these obscene sites on on the internet So a lot of us I mean The the concept of giving a cell phone to a child is just insane To me But there are a lot of people who are a little older than us that were before that internet age Maybe they don't know what's out there on the internet and they just give their kids phones And a lot of cell phones will have this annoying, you know, these like blockers and stuff like that So they can't get on internet sites and things like that But at that point it's like why are you giving them cell phones anyway? That's what I'm wondering Um, so yeah, I I can't imagine I don't know what goes through the head of parents who give their children phones I mean most of them in their heads. They're thinking like oh, well, I'm worried my child might get lost You can get a gps transponder. Basically. I mean, you know, you don't need to like there are so many antisocial things that come with a cell phone That um, you know, you just don't want I don't know You you don't want that you don't want to travel around one of those things So All right, so that's about it. Um And I don't think there are any more donations so I might um I might call it quits pretty soon. I'm getting kind of tired But uh, let me check the normal chat Yeah, not much not much more. I'll try to read Uh, let's see Luke this is an internet ideology the real world consequences of prohibition were terrible How could the consequence of this not be just as bad? Are you insane? Like what are you talking about? You you think like people are going to kill each other if pornography is banned That's just insane for the whole prohibition thing is a big meme anyway um Because like prohibition like prohibition is getting like So for europeans, you don't know and there was a brief period in america Where like uh, they banned alcohol throughout the entire country and it just lasted a couple decades and it was And they decided that was a bad idea and the myth the mythology behind it It was like so chaotic because they were like people drank a lot of people drunk it anyway firstly Alcohol is a long-standing cultural tradition, which you can very much consume moderately and enjoy it and use it And it's not you know, it's not like a good thing But it's something that is part of cuisine. It's part of cooking. It's part of life Pornography is not a long-standing cultural tradition. Pornography is something that mankind has never been around There is no such thing as let me just go to a hardcore porno site Okay in You know 1950 and people will try and equate. Oh, look at these scant, you know these magazines with naked girls That's not even the same thing as pornography. That's bad, but it's not as bad So we're in an entirely new world where you can now look at your average millennial Look at the people in this chat mind you who are dying who will die to defend masturbating on the internet Okay, and the idea that some please explain to me how What what kind of crime is going to happen when pornography is banned like what kind of there are no It's just insane like people are just fooling themselves. This is like the and and of course mind you When prohibition happened in the united states did alcohol consumption go down? Oh, yes Like all all of the metrics like all of these social goals Of prohibition succeeded. Yeah, I mean they had to enforce it. That's hard I mean it hard for something so popular Right and it might be hard to enforce pornography if we banned it Right, but it will still drastically change the lives of millions of people who will not be Getting sucked into pornography when they're in elementary school because that's when kids start when they're elementary schoolers now Um, and will totally change their lives to make them antisocial incapable of having Normal families and normal lives. So it's literally there is no reason Pornography is not something. I mean it's like saying You know even pollution. Okay, let's talk about pollution There are in economics. There's this concept of optimal pollution and that's the idea that um The you know, there's a point where you know pollution is bad, right? But there's a point where it becomes prohibitively expensive To get rid of the last bits of pollution. So there's kind of an optimal pollution rate. Okay So, you know, that's fine in pornography. There might be an optimal pornography rate But it is so miniscule because it's so it would be so easy if the american gay government Came for pornography with the same gusto that it came for donald trump Do you think it would be anywhere near as easy to find pornography on the internet? No, it could be easily wiped out Oh, we're stealing that domain. Oh, we're canceling that right? So all of these canceling people who are canceling things again because they're good What if we just did that but with things that are bad Indisputably bad and I know some people who will pretend that pornography is in some twisted kumar logic It's somehow good for something But there is no there is no benefit ever that has ever come from pornography. It is entirely demonic It is entirely destructive everyone who it touches it destroys without an exception There is no safe use of it. There is no. Oh, I'm just gonna play with a little bit and oh This is just for fun.  They're just bad. They're just bad. I don't know what to tell people There's no redeeming qualities. There are again There are many bad things that have redeeming qualities alcohol is a good example where the bad things are Comparatively minor and controlled and within a cultural a long-standing cultural tradition It can be you, you know, it's had traditional medicinal purposes. It's used in cuisine. It's something that you can enjoy Um, and it's not like it's it's not contagious in the same way that porn has that it takes over people's lives Okay Yeah, and the whole thing.   Oh, I already read the oh, sorry. I haven't gotten any donation since all right um Okay, I guess we're about done Thoughts on Islam. I already said that I don't really have any thoughts thoughts on Kierkegaard and Hegel Hegel's just a bunch of word salad. I haven't read Kierkegaard um Are you specifically talking about video porn or pictures just as bad pictures are not just as bad, but they are bad Um, and of course there is there are artistic You you can artist like for example, I'm not really anti nudie nudity I think nudity is a good example of something that is across different cultures You know, there are some cultures where people go around nude nudity is not inherently bad and there is there is an artistic um Uh a place for nudity, right classical art has it and things like that. There's nothing inherently sexual about it, right? And of course soft like, you know Pictures and stuff. Yeah, that's pornography not not. Yeah, that's bad, but it's not as bad as video pornography um so I mean a lot of it comes from and of course there are a lot of cumbers that can interpret everything sexual way, I think it depends on the The intentions of the person producing it like no one making pornography has the idea that it's artistic They might put what they imagine to be artistic flourishes, but it's it's pornography like it's it's not made for artistic appreciation It's made for cumming like that's what it's made for, right? Alcohol kills people all the time. Yeah, it's a predictable and low level of death, right? and we know how to prevent alcohol deaths by saying people, you know telling people not to To drive drunk, right? It's it's a very easy thing and the I think the insinuation there is somehow because pornography does not kill people therefore that it's it's Good. No, that's the stupidest thing. Pornography kills the soul. It's something significantly worse There are a lot of girls and boys who get into pornography young and they never they can never Have a normal relationship without significant deep brainwashing They can't talk to people. They become they become shut-ins.  Okay Is prostitution as bad as porn? No, no, no, no, definitely not. Absolutely not.  It is fornication. It is a sin Um, but prostitution there's a case to be made that it should be a legal thing even He argues because it's a kind of um, it's Basically people can have a sexual, you know, he describes it as like a um Like a sewage system, right sewage systems. They're nasty They're disgusting no one wants to be around them But there is a sense in which they might prevent other vices And this is what cumbers say in the case of pornography, but it's just not the case Like pornography is not equivalent even to a prostitute, right? Because pornography is something that stimulates people and never fulfills them and it keeps them going You know, they're just crazy, you know I'm sorry my browser is sort of I'm trying to get back into chat, but uh Oh people say that's cringe. No, I don't necessarily agree That I I definitely don't think that prostitution is just bad But I'm not saying that to say that I endorse prostitution. No Yeah, don't don't get it twisted about that. No Um, but I think there is at least a case to be made that there are some Uh, there are some vices that might prevent other vices. That's just what Aquinas argued I don't necessarily give credence to that and that's definitely not the case in pornography like pornography stimulates and it does not satisfy um And it makes people people more awkward and annoying all right so One last check and I'm tired Got to go to bed. It's almost the sun's about to go down Okay Okay, well I guess that's about it. So again Um, I will probably I will say this is going to be last through my due in a while on a saturday I might be able to do one in the middle of weeks but this saturday This saturday I've been free But the next couple of ones probably for the next two months. I just have stuff every single way.  That's in Miami. I think I gotta find a way there But um, so I might be there if anyone any Monero people are gonna be there How do you get brainwashed out of porn just? Uh, stop watching it I mean, that's that's a way to start it, right? Um, yeah, I gotta go. I'm getting tired I'm getting tired, but I'll see you guys next time. I'll probably I might do a stream sometime during the week Uh, but we'll see how things go But thanks everyone who showed up and I will see you guys next time