Welcome to Digital Asset News, the top stories in cryptocurrency and digital assets. And we're going to get out of bite-sized pieces today. That's some pretty good stories about mass adoption and more industries getting into crypto. So first up, Canada's leading mortgage brokerage now accepts Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Bitcoin Cash. This is just another story of some places that just finally get it and some places that are just going to be left behind. Speaking of people that are going to be left behind, this is Hester Pierce. She is one of the SEC commissioners and she says the government or the US government's ban on cryptocurrency, they can try it, but it'd be very foolish and very difficult. So we'll take a look at what's going on there and how ridiculous it would actually be to try to ban cryptocurrencies. And finally, just want to do a quick update on Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico trip and the new video I'm going to put out about investing over there in Puerto Rico, moving over there and then how to use different cryptocurrencies to pay for all the services that they have over there, including investment property. So we'll do all that, but first take a look at what's going on the market. So today, what a great day, right? These are the days that we really live for, right? So you watched this video, you probably have invested a little bit into crypto and digital assets. So congratulations. All the people that said, this is not going to work, this is all a scam. It's going to go to zero.  These are the days when you sit back and go, yeah, I knew exactly what I was doing. And this is the year that I think everything's going to go pretty well. So sit back, enjoy the W because these are the great days. And right now, the total market cap is over $2 trillion, $2 trillion. Imagine that. Imagine that one year ago when we had that enormous crash and we were, gosh, we were not even $200 billion. Now here we are at 10x, we're at $2 trillion. So not too shabby of a day. And just real quick, let's see what's going on with the price action. We blow this up so you can see what I'm talking about. So Bitcoin's up 1%. Now it's over $60,000, but just teetering on it. So it's not anything guaranteed like it's going to stay above that. I think people will take profits and maybe who knows. Ethereum's up. Actually, everything's up. Let's just be honest. XRP is almost up 100% for seven days. Watch out. Good job, XRP holders. I am one of them. I am one of them. And it is not easy to hold that, I'm sure. Ethereum nobody cares. Let's see. And they up fantastically. VeChain's up 14%. Wow. Or 4%, I guess 13%. 51% for seven days is pretty good. 24 hours, 13%. Everything's just up pretty much. So again, these are the days that we live for. Now let's just take a look. Let's satisfy our inner trader. I'm not a big trader. Again, we're using Trade the Chain. The link is in the description where you can find all that stuff. And we're going to click on this projected range right here. And it's going to flip over. Let's see. If I was a trader, which I am not, I would take a look at Linear, Harvest Finance, Bitcoin Gold, Lisk, Tomo, Chain, Genesis, whatever that is. And today, just so you know, it's April 10th. It's 9am. El Paso, Texas time. So take a look at this. This is with 90% assurance. This is sentiment analysis. You're looking at 11% increase. 4% for Harvest Finance. Bitcoin Gold, interesting. 3% and 3% for Lisk. So definitely take a look at those. Again, you can find Trade the Chain. But let's just jump into today's top story because I thought this was pretty fascinating of what is going on. So what we got here. And if you've been on the channel for a length of time, you know that I believe in holding assets, cryptocurrency assets, assets, land asset, even gold and silver assets, properties, assets. So I like to accumulate these things because just usually, usually in all the time, usually appreciates. And when I see something like this, in my mind, all I can think of is that this is great news because now we're leading into more adoption and different industries getting into it. At first, it was just a bunch of libertarians who wanted to get in there. Now it became speculators.  So now we've got Mortgage Brokerage getting into it. So how close are we to just tokenizing the entire real estate industry, which is $280 trillion plus? Who knows? But I just thought it was interesting, especially the very title here, Canada's Leading Mortgage Brokerage now accepts Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP and Bitcoin Cash. It's interesting to note that on PayPal, that's pretty much the same thing except you're flipping Litecoin for XRP. Why do they do that? Well, XRP is pretty easy for payments. And no matter what you want to think about it, it's like it's a banker coin. It's really awful. It's not decentralized, whatever. Here's the thing, super fast for payments and nothing so far that I've experienced has beat it. Now, of course, in the comments section, like this one beats it and Dash beats it and that beats it. Sure, we're talking maybe milliseconds to a second, I guess, but every time I use XRP, super fast. So I can see that. So what's going on here? Well, Toronto based Mortgage Brokerage firm Matrix Mortgage Global announced it now accepts all the coins we just talked about on April 8th. This move will help with coming to increase payment transparency while expanding its global reach. And that's very true. Everything that's on the blockchain is a public ledger. So every type of payment can be seen. I wish they would do this for a lot of different places because if you've ever been through different problems with the bank as far as payments for your houses, which I have, it sucks because you have to prove this and prove that and what happened here with on a public ledger. It doesn't matter. It's just right there. It's great. And you know, Matrix Merge Global will allow payment with digital assets with the help of leading crypto payment service, BitPay. But the real question to me is this. So if they're going to do this and they're going to allow these types of payments, are they going to keep this cryptocurrency, are they going to transfer it over into fiat and just keep it like that, or they're just going to take that Bitcoin, that Bitcoin cash, that Ethereum, that XRP and hang on to that, those assets in their native form. Are they going to transfer them over? Now, if you're like Elon Musk over at Tesla, they said, you can pay for your Tesla, but we're going to keep it into Bitcoin. We're not going to transfer it over other places. That's PayPal. That's not what they're going to do. They're going to transact everything into fiat. And this is going to settle like that, but they'll hold on to your crypto. So the question for me then is, and I think for you, is I wonder if they're going to keep these crypto payments. That would be just one more feather in the cap and one more opportunity for these people just to hold on to crypto. We'll see.  The dollar usually is going to go up too much, especially like quantitative easing. But hey, they could have resurgence. I have no idea. It's up to them, but hopefully they do the smart thing. And then of course, what's great about cryptocurrency? It's 24, 7, 365 liquid. If you want to get out, very easy to get out. Anyhow, to finish up, CEO Sean Allen says that as an innovator in the mortgage industry, we decided to accept crypto to better align ourselves with the shift towards the global adoption of digital currencies. And just so you know that this isn't just some fly by night place. They started in 2008. They funded over a billion dollars worth of mortgages, winning multiple broker the year awards. And actually, I was talking to my friend over there, Hashoshi, and we were just talking about the industry over there in Canada, as far as like buying houses and things like that. It's crazy. It's like crazier than America, apparently. And it's just a really hot market.  I personally wouldn't, you know, pay for my mortgage right now in cryptocurrency, but down the line, hey, who knows? Now, the other big thing I'm wondering is this, if you've ever tried to prove to a bank that the cryptocurrency that you own is you have that asset and you can put that up, or that would be considered so you can get approved for a bank loan because he personally liked to use other people's money, not my own money. And that is a very big problem right now. We're going through that in Puerto Rico for another investment property. Very tough for them to accept that. So maybe this is just one part of what could potentially be a bigger process. And then if this really becomes a pass, how long do you think before we start to tokenize the entire real estate industry, which is over $280 trillion? That's trillion with a T. Anyhow, we know what you think in the comments section. I thought it was a great story. Let's move on to our next piece. So Hester Pierce, the only person right now who really is into crypto and digital assets and really understands what's going on. So she just said, look, you can try to ban Bitcoin and crypto, but good luck. It's gonna be very tough. This is why. And I think this is a lot of, I wanted to bring this up to alleviate a lot of people's fears because you got people out there saying that Bitcoin is going to be banned and crypto is going to be banned and India is going to ban it and Russia and all this stuff. So here's the thing. I'll get down a second. It's very hard to do that. And this is why. And this is what Hester Pierce said. She says, look, I think we're past that point of banning Bitcoin in the U.S. I agree very early on because you'd have to shut down the entire Internet. I don't see how you could ban it. You can certainly make the effort. It would be very hard to stop people from doing it, like trading Bitcoin and transacting. So I think it would be a foolish thing for the government to try to do that. Delio, Dalio, I'll mess up his name, for example, has said a number of times that government bans on the transacting the cryptocurrencies are likely. So Ray here thinks that government is going to step in and just ban everything. And a lot of people have come out and said, that's kind of tough to do. And now even the SEC commission is like, that's great stuff. And then finish up British financial advisor this year set up a petition. This is other people calling for UK governments to make crypto transactions illegal. India is one country currently preparing to stop its citizens from being holding decentralized assets. And before I go on, I have to say this, this is just one financial advisor who probably is big into the banking industry. And it's like, we need to ban it. The course. And then, of course, over in India, you've had that whole thing going about India already tried to ban it. And they went through the whole process and all the way up to the Supreme Court and they said, you can't do that. And now you have different legislations going, oh, we're going to try to ban it. But then you had the, I forgot her name or her title, which is like the Treasury Secretary over there. She's like, we'll work with banks and crypto to make this actually work. So I don't think that's going to happen again. I think it needs to be foolhardy. And then it says here, as Pierre said, in reality, this would be very difficult. Technology will likely uppace the government's attempts to limit Bitcoin use since people will always be able to download the wallet software, run a node and make transactions as long as they have access to the internet. Before I go on to my points, this last thing I want to talk about is this. Pierce added that with the new crypto savvy SEC chairman, Gary Gensler coming in, things would hopefully move in the right direction. So let me just talk about Gensler and I'll back up. So here's the thing, Gary Gensler was giving blockchain cryptocurrency digital asset lectures at MIT. And he was teaching some very smart people exactly what was going on. And he knows this thing inside and out. And I think that is the big thing about people who are just ignorant, either through their own fault or through their just lack of desire to learn. So Jay, where his name was, he just got out as the SEC commissioner. Now we're going to have Gensler come in, I think things are going to move around because he knows he just gets it and he sees where things are going. Same with Janet Yellen, she's, you know, said a couple of different things. And it looks like she really knows where the winds are blowing. So I think this could work out pretty well once we get the new people in there. Now talking about these different aspects of like being able to ban Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, you could do it. And like that whole thing about, you know, shutting down the whole internet, that's one side of it. That's impossible. That's just dumb. Let's just be honest, right, to shut down the internet and shut down all the nodes globally, because it's not just America, it's not just South America, it's not just Canada, it's not just China, it's not just India and all these places that have nodes throughout the whole world. I mean, it's just everywhere, right? So to be able to shut down Bitcoin is hard. The only thing that I see the problem is, is being able to shut down exchanges. And they did that in India during that whole ban period. But here's the thing, if you do that, if one country does that, you know what that means? It's just, there's a little bit of pocket and it causes a vacuum. And then everybody goes, well, America, you don't want to do these things. That's fine. We'll just go over here and do the same thing. And we'll trade it and we'll transact with it and we'll speculate on it. And that's okay.   I personally don't use a VPN. I know I should, but I just, that is don't. And people would still transact. There's ways around things. If you really want this to happen, it'll happen. So that's just how I see it. I also see the same thing with marijuana. I don't want to get into this too heavy, but I live in El Paso for, you know, a good amount of time throughout the year. And a lot of marijuana comes through here. And actually it's legal in a lot of different places, but once you decriminalize it and unban it throughout all 50 states, that's just one more piece where the price will drop down. And of course, if you start trying to ban something, it makes people want it even more than the price goes up. So again, good luck America banning it. I'm not going to tempt fate, but that's just how I see it. Anyhow, let me know what you think in the comment section. Let's move on to our last piece. And this is real quick. The thing about Puerto Rico is that it's a great place, and I'm going to do a video about me probably moving down there, me and my wife, because, look, taxes are crazy. Okay, so if you're talking about long-term or short-term, I mean, you're looking to spend between 20%, all the way up to 47%, depending on the state that you live or short-term. So that is one thing. I know people, there's a very small amount of people that they'll say, well, how dare you, and this is just some small people, how dare you move and not pay your fair share of taxes? Look, I've been paying taxes since I was 15 years old, and I've been doing a lot of different things. And all that money that I put into it, you know, as far as like to help build roads and bridges and everything else, I did that. I did my part. On top of that, all that social security and things that I was promised, that's not going to be around when I get to that age. Money is on fire, quantitative easing. If you don't need my money, just keep printing. It seems like that's the answer for everything. So you can say whatever you want in the comment section, but if it came down to you and your family, and you said, okay, I'm going to give 47%, roughly half of what I own, and then that's just going to go through the government to do whatever they want to do, or I could just do this other thing. And it's an option to me. What would you want to do? I'd love to hear what you have to say in the comment section, but I would put that together. I'm going to be putting together the person that you can contact to get all the legal documents. I'm going to be talking to the person that should have surround our real estate agent, and then a couple different people that you can get in contact with, and you can do your own research, and you can make the best decision for you and your family. I will get that out as soon as possible. A lot of things going on right now, but that is it for today. 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Stevenson with the 71-61 win over Lebanon Valley, today Glen Clark with head coach Jackie Boswell. Coach, the last time you played Lebanon Valley, you scored 37 points. What was the story? Why were things so different this time? Well, I mean, a lot of things were different back then, too. I mean, I just didn't feel like we had the confidence on the offensive end, so we've been really focused on that the last couple of practices, and, you know, hopefully that's the part that's paying off. You know, I thought Olivia got some really good confidence in the second half. Kelly really turned on her game. You know, those two are hard to stop, and if they're both running on all cylinders, it makes it a lot more difficult for everybody. So, they did their jobs and opened it up for our outside people to hit some shots, too. That really was the story, right? Double-doubles for both of them, and Olivia setting a new career high today. The dominance inside. Did you all, in Scout this week, did you know this was a game you're going to be able to dominate on the interior? We said we have to use our athleticism and our size to our advantage today. And we did that. We expected them to double, and I think that, you know, Olivia had a couple of assists on the back door to Asia and Morgan DeBiri because of that. So, I thought they were really unselfish. I thought they did their jobs, and that's the reason we're here right now. So, now you're back to 500 in conference play. The ship has sort of been raided, right? How do you take this moving forward and build off of this as you go through the second trip around in conference play? It's just going to have to be our mentality. We worked really hard to get this confidence, and now it's got to be a mentality that this is the way it's supposed to be. Like you said, the ship is now right, and we've got to keep it going in that direction, and it's all going to be mental toughness every day in practice. We've got to give it our all, which they always have, and then we see what happens. Coach, congratulations on a big win. We'll see you back here. We've got a little break before we see you again. Oh, no, Monday. Yeah, we're back here Monday. We'll see you on Monday night, all right? Great. Thank you. She's Jackie Boswell. I'm Glenn Clark. Go MustangSports.com.


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The popularity of the Gen Z generation in Nigeria has resulted in an upsurge of talent and creativity across various fields. They are breaking barriers and challenging the status quo in various industries including business, technology, entertainment and fashion. An event that dared to invest in the future of Nigeria Entertainment Industry has given us an insight into the entertainment industry and also provided a comprehensive platform for young individuals to explore, learn and connect with professionals. Our correspondent Unimee Elijah turned in this story. Young people have gathered here at the JFID Ajayi Auditorium, University of Lagos, Unilag, to get useful insights at the third edition of the Gen Z initiative in Nigeria, GINN 3.0. The event had a multitude of enthusiastic Gen Zs underscoring the growing interest of the younger generation in Nigeria's socio-economic transformation. The theme of GINN 3.0 was daring to invent the future of the Nigerian Entertainment Industry. It featured nuggets from esteemed personalities within the Nigerian Entertainment Industry such as Charles Inoje, Hilda Dokubo and Ali Baba, among others. It also had a panel of discussants who delved into practical strategies for navigating the entertainment industry, honing creative skills and projecting a positive global image for the Nigerian Entertainment Sector. It's important that young people are encouraged in the entertainment industry, sorry. It's important that we continue as governments to encourage young people in the entertainment industry. And as also custodians of policy, we need to also encourage them to always, because arts is very important in communicating to the citizens. So it's important to encourage them as custodians of our policy to embed as part of the message that they communicate, our national heritage, our national history, culture, morals as well in the content that they communicate. Other notable personalities include the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Management Services, Professor Lushan Chukwu, who represented the Vice-Chancellor of Unilag, Professor Folasha Diu-Kungshala, and past Governorship Candidate of Labour Party in Legal State, Badebo Rhodes Viva, who was Chairman of the day, and graced the occasion. It's wonderful because every sort of reformation or positive movement that happens in a nation or country historically always starts from the academia and the academic institutions, from the thinkers, right? And assembling young people like this to sort of give them guidance and direct them is the way to go. I mean, most developed countries in the world, this is what it's done. And I'm very excited always to be part of anything that evolves, lifting up the youth in our country, because truly they are the future and they are the present. And the world is not like how it has ever been before, because now everybody's connected and there's so much that can happen based on that connectivity. You must give it to that man during youth. He's not just hard-working, he's not just hard-working, but also adventurous. These are young people who are faced with a lot of challenges and also remain sane, because it's one thing to be faced with challenges. It's another thing to handle the challenges without losing your mind. So I'd say they dominate the scene really. And you know, for a place where you really don't have a lot of grooming grounds and then you have these young people daring and not minding to learn full-rise, full-rise, but create a career for themselves and be part of the industry. I think we should actually, you know, commend them. There's this thing about being a youth. The bursting energy that is naturally quoted in that demography. If you do not trap it and nurture it, harness it for positive use, either by the community or the state at large, it would be used negatively, either against the community or against the state. So that is why whoever has thought of this, and incidentally, this is the brainchild of some young chaps, is something that anybody should strive to support. The Gen Z initiative in Nigeria is a social impact program which strives to inspire active participation among the youth, particularly the Gen Z, and the molding of a better future for Nigeria by mobilizing for positive action in pivotal sectors such as education, health, business, and entrepreneurship, politics, entertainment, technology, and innovation.


Good morning. Nice to see you all here at this early hour. Especially nice to see all your tiny eyes and seeing that I'm not the only one with a terrible hangover. Before we start, I have a small announcement to make. The key signing party has been moved to tonight at 9 p.m. In the smoochie in the headglare. That's for the announcement. Just a few questions.  Who of you thought that the documentation sucks?  Looks interesting. So the next topic might be interesting for us all. If the second part of your name, Nukubi-san, tries to tell us something about documentation in Deviant. Stay with us. I am a drop of an open source search engine, so I usually consider to develop Deviant documentation systems for a long time. Usually, no user didn't know about the existence of such as such stuff. So some online documentation systems have their own search engine or something. So I consider that internalization seems to be more useful for Deviant. I have some ideas, but it's only from the perspective of developers. I want to hear you guys how we need to develop such documentation to be happy. So please tell me anytime if you think about this documentation. So at first, this is my conclusion. I think we need more well-documented policy in Deviant, I think. There is some useful tool, but it would not be not so automatically. So to update index or searching, it would need to decide such documentation policy. There is a background in this issue. There are some documentation systems in Deviant. The first one is to help. The second one is to be double-double-double. There is a support for text search in the documentation. And there are usually focused for such as shoot us, share us, doc directory, or map pages, or group info. But there are some other performance in Deviant. So some documentation were written in another language instead of English. However, such systems consider about only English. So I think I need a framework to handle such differences. So language is a hard problem because some languages are usually only by encodings. But other things are not. Usually, in Japanese, there are at least four kinds of encodings. You defect, and are you so too much to do JP, and be used in JP, and shift this. So in Japan, such encodings are not, such encodings is almost popular. The kind of encodings is only not so major. And then there is a good system, software, text cat. It can detect encoding automatically. But encoding at a language is not only same things. So usually, you defect can write many languages in a documentation file. So encoding detection is not equal as language detection. Alphabet is also some kind of issue, but it's not serious. There are many kinds of formats in there. Usually people use plain text, or man-pages. But some documentation were written in much pro format, like doc-book. But it will be easy to detect automatically, because there is a file command. However, to make index such a different index file format is not so easy to achieve, because some such engines implementation only supports some kinds of formats. So we need more such differences in our format. And there are many such changes in there. Already I talked about Monday's BOF about these things. So usually we have D-d-d-d-d supports, so it's plus-plus. Implementation of such engine. But it supports only single-byte encodings. So usually it is useful in the English or Sal. And single-byte languages. So I need to... Why such differences in our format? So I talked about what I need for. So that is a good way to define doc files. It is like a confile. Usually a confile is not a configuration file. Deep package system can handle it as a configuration file. So when upgrading time, it will be handled as a configuration. So if it could be merged automatically, it's done. And it couldn't be the Deep package system asked to user about some questions. So doc files also I consider such similar format. And I think I need wrapper for such engines to merge different characteristics of many engines. So then I consider about use cases. For maintainer, to make the issue to easier, I need some data helper scripts. Like doc index. It is only an index. I talked about some auto-detection framework. Some files could be easy to make some properties for property automatically. And for user perspective, I consider a data doc index package. It should be like a menu package. When user installs the package, all documentation files handle automatically. So index automatically generated and it will be ready to search. So I need to write policy. If I prepare this both, I will list many policies like menu or power or something. So it will be like such format. First of all, I can copy write and tfc and min subjects. But first I, this is my consideration about doc file format. It need to contains file path and format and languages and encodings. It will be enough to record this for things I think. So how about, is there any objection with some solution for me? What this is? First is through requirement and things. A format would be because some search engines only support a few kind of format. So to make index fan, to make index, this thing would need to detect only supported format for search engines. And also it would be same as languages or encodings. If I can define such things, so I have a plan to write this DH document doc index as script. I can say it will be tried out automatically to doc file. So text chat could be determining encodings on languages. And file command would be determining file formats. Yes? What I risk in the file you showed just now is something like section information. So you can put the file in some kind of menu structure for accessing it. So your question is, so, can I say anything? But if you have a question please. Okay. The file you showed just now, the OVG file. What I thought was missing there is some kind of information that can put a document in some kind of menu structure. Menu structure? Yes, like section information. I am not consider about it, but it is, it will be different, I think. Because usually my pages usually separate it as some sections. So it is already well, very sexualized. But many documentation files are not. So yes, I consider about this, in this slide. I think planning is a good, good information to split or sexualize. But other thing would be hard. So I think usually searching this works very fast. So it could be not so important to sexualize such as a documentation file. So for users, sexualized information would be hard to choice. So not so it shouldn't be required, I think. That would be good. So I think file format is also a good information to sexualize. Some documentations were written in some other format like HTML or SGM or such, structured information. So in that time, some of the changes could handle such structured information. So it is also useful for searching. I have no idea to sexualize other things. One, one to be good. One page section is also good things, I think. One is command, is a command one. Two is a system code, something like that. Document covers very wide range information. So it could be hard to determine such a good sexualized keywords, I think. But I, okay, I'll consider about it. So to implement the helper script, I checked a poll module named Temian, the helper, concon.dh, and the rate. It's improved by some useful functions and it could be past command or actions. If I can, I could write best implementation this time, but it could be. But I'll try it. And then update timing index is also useful. So e-max list packages are not in comparison. So it seems very similar for this framework. Or menu system is also same, I think. So it'll be a good reference for me. And then there are some such engines in Debian, but I'm not familiar with all of them. So I can prefer some engines in some use case. So switch plus plus is usually good for language. Because it was always supported by the double, double, double or the help. And namazu is good for Japanese. Because it supports good Japanese and I am a member of it. The mono usachi is also good for Chinese or Korean, because it supports such engines. Or Mito Shukai was already a product, Hi-Fi Strayer, a new brand new search engine. It supports Ngram-based search engines, so it could be useful for any kind of languages. So it could be useful for generic. And how I to do? First, I need to develop DH index. And then I need to write such Debian Poshi draft. And such engines framework is also need to implement. And what I need? The slide was a little bit over, so I want to discuss some things in this POF. You guys have any idea please? Do you think about other issue in documentation? Some viewers can auto-detect it like LB, but some like less do not. What's LB? It's like less, but it can convert between EUC and UTFH and so on. It's very easy. My English excuse is not for good for this case. The question is how to convert a Zincorin? Typically if you want to display a document, nowadays most people use X, but sometimes you want to display it in a terminal. And then you have to construct some type of terminal. Man does this in terminal. I think so. Web interface would be helpful because it could be input to client of a document encoding in its header. So, usually a web client is rich for many language handleings. So I consider to make a web interface is the most preferred thing. Terminal such client is also need, but it would be hard because the software couldn't know the terminal has what capability to display some encoding languages. So I have some research as consider to extend such not long-distance capability for terminal. So if it could be implemented, it helps, it helps us. Searching for an engine to document in different languages at the same time. So I'm not satisfied with the normal way to translation. You always have to have an English master and then you translate in the other languages. I want to have more equal rights for every language. So I'm searching for a machine who is able to index in every paragraph and has some system to inform other translators that this paragraph has changed and that there can be something like a congruence between different languages who is faster in documentation. And this we need in Schole-Linux because we are spreading all over the world and the documentation is very, very behind. So if there is another community in another language who is faster in documentation than the English one, because at the moment there is only one installation in United Kingdom, no installation in United States, about 250 installation in Norway, 50 installation in Germany and it's spreading in France now and there is no English documentation. So we have to find a system to start the documentation in every language and to put it together at least. This is a challenge. I think such a Latin language support is not so hard because I talked about insert of search engines. So usually search engines were implemented by implanted index method. It is a table to record words and file or documentation ID. So such a Latin language is usually word would be supported by space or something. So it could be easy to find words. So such a multiple language support is not hard for ordinary search engines. Actually it's not so big problem. So the problem is in Asian languages usually because it couldn't separate it in space or something. So underground base search engine is also good for such purpose because it didn't need to separate such words because it divided all documentation as two letter words for four things. So such a search engine like hyperslayer is also good for such purpose. Hyperslayer supports underground base search engine. So it is also not so depends on such language is for the handling. So then the rest issue will be encoding problem. But usually it is not hard to write English and one other languages to be stored in the same file usually because English is only written in ASCII chapters. So usually English and some other languages spare is usually useful. So two or three more main languages support would be become harder. So my talking would be one such... It's not about searching. It's about how to begin, how to do the version control. If there is somebody starting in France and somebody starting in Germany, how can we coordinate this? How can we see it? And if there is somebody in Japan starting also, oh it would be really difficult. But we need a machine who is able to show you this paragraph has changed in Japanese. The Japanese has found some things to be documented. Now the French and German guys should also change the documentation. This is what I am thinking about how we can coordinate this without an English master. There is no English master. It's not a problem of search engine. Perhaps in the long run it's a problem of search engine if you have a big document. How to construct it, how to begin without a master. This is my question. How do you suppose the French translator is going to translate a paragraph that has been added by a Japanese writer if he doesn't speak Japanese? That's the reason why we have English because almost all translators speak English. You need a common language that is spoken by the translators to be able to translate. Why do you think only in English? There are such a lot of people who are understanding Norwegian and German, nothing more. I will use this power. It's not used now. It's just used only in English and then to the arts. But you can arrange that within the community. You can define any language as your master. Only if you want to spread it around the world somebody has to take the responsibility to translate it into English. So the responsibility is always the general right. But I think you have to think about it like maybe you have a tree of languages and you have English at the top. Then you have maybe like German and Norwegians on one side in the tree. And you have Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish on the other sides in the tree. And what you could do is you could say most development, most writing is done in German and Norwegian. So we coordinate very heavily there. Then we make sure that Norwegian and German are translated to English. And that is then the master for the rest. But that is the whole system. And I'm searching for a new system. I'm searching for another system than this old. This old system has historical reasons. Well, it's because of the imperialism of the development of the world. It's going out from the English rule. That's not true because I think there was more imperialism from France and Spain and so on. They have far more colonies. This is another topic. But I'm really looking for an equal rights system for every language to be exchanged within different languages without a master. And this is, well, it's just a challenge. It's a challenge from today because I see this need. There may be that we have to use the old system 10 years more, perhaps. But I'm searching for another system. This is the challenge. That's what I'm looking here for. But it won't work unless some people speak a common language. And the most common language is English. It's a fact of life. But you say it won't work. I'm looking for something that will work. That's the challenge. You say it won't work. No, I will try to find. And I give you the idea of how I think to start. I have a fast drawing French community. And we thought about how we could do the documentation. The idea is now that we find 10 responsible persons in German and in France who are able to understand the language, the other language. And they subscribe a wiki page. So we use two wikis, a French wiki and a German wiki. And the other language always has subscribed the important pages from the other language. Then we start comparing who is faster in documentation or installation problems and something. If there's something changing in this page, he will get an email with a diff. And then he can look up and it's missing in our page or not. That's how I start to try it. Because the traditional way for a booty is called a Linux. Then nobody wants to write a documentation, you know. Then, okay, we had to have documentation. There was a person who said, oh, my English is so bad, I will not do the documentation in English, I'll write it in Norwegian. Then we had to find someone who translated. It was difficult to find someone. Then there was somebody paid for to do it. Okay, he has done. And he has checked the English for grammar and typos and such thing. Then we had, after one and a half year, we had an English documentation. This documentation was in Docbook, so it was easy to take it and to translate it. And we need only two months to translate it completely with eight persons. It's a document with about 180 pages. It's a big document. And we finally released this document one week before such was released. So this is not the way to do it. It's not the way. It's not, it's really not the way. We had to find other ways because the English, at the moment, in Skolinino, there's too little number of English Skolinino installations. There's no interest. And, well, this was the reason. And I will start it with the weekend. If there's no machine, I will find somebody. We will have it in five years, I'm sure. And to challenge this with Japanese, wow! To get it with Japanese would really nice. It's very interesting. I have also an interest about such monitoring eyes, handling such monitoring eyes document. So, yes, the most biggest project would be Wikipedia, I think. It seems very not so related to other languages. You talked about, you use two weeks for different languages. It is a, just it is a way to solve the problem. So, I usually consider about, I want to, our information such as monitoring eyes, they should support it with, like, Wikipedia with language property. So, such system would be nice for purpose, I think. We have built a parser to take the Wiki pages to DocBook. And we have constructed also a parser who translates the DocBook files into Wiki. So, we just started to have it really easy because the Wiki has a low entry barrier. You have not, you know, not to have much knowledge to join the group to help. But if you want to learn for edit and DocBook, and so you have to learn all this, and HTML to do the documentation, you will never do it. And now the developers are not interested in documentation. It's a law. It's a law, computer or something. It's very interesting. In the demo page, it should be, the English page will be a master. Yeah, always, yeah. But if the master is not at home, what are you doing here? If there is no master? I usually try to write English first, but it's very hard. For me too. To me, this sounds exactly like the transition of the distributed version control. Essentially what you need is a structured editor or something like that, that supports the version control and can show you which paragraphs have been changed. I saw some system here, CISU. I don't know if you know it, about CISU, S-E-S-I-S-U, CISU. It is able to build an index about every paragraph and then it builds a hash about every paragraph. So if the little paragraph is changed, you will get a message. It's used from a lawyer to a big theoretical document. You see that? I can bring you to the guy who is developing this. He has uploaded it to Davion yesterday. I thought he was my neighbor and I thought, hey, what are you doing? So perhaps it's able to use this system. But maybe this system will not be able to use the whole documentation because you will receive a message every time when some translator fixes a typo in paragraph. Very interesting. Let me see. There's a German wiki about school unions. These are 1,400 and something pages. I have subscribed all pages. And you say, oh, you get such a huge of me, now it isn't. No, it isn't. It is possible to subscribe again. There's not so much change that you will be overloaded. It's working. But it will still be used from then such a digital system to have tags so you can see the same changes Yes. The big challenge is to have a structure and how to handle a structure. If there's a new point, it should be big. So that another person could find it. So I can talk to you. As far as I know, this room will be empty after that. Yes. Could you continue the discussion? It seems to be at a little point. Absolutely. Okay, so sorry for interrupting. I just want to thank my coolly son for his interesting talk. Sorry, but I need to go away. Continue your discussion if you like. Is there a son in your body who is being bullied who has a school in the neighborhood and who wants to enroll in high school in Linnards? I would like it. Then he will make the question in English and then he can go for it. What about schools in your country? They are all using free software. They have a lot of money also. They have the newest computer and a lot of money. How is it in your country? No, Italian schools are not that rich. You are directly connected to Garascogli.  He is taking it away. They have not that much money. Anyway, there are per case system administrators who take their way to Linnards. I've heard somebody who is 1000 years old never heard about school in Linnards. That's the reason why I'm here. You hear about school in Linnards. It's important to have the skills. If you don't go with free software in schools, you can't forget it. You will last 30 years more. In your country, where do you come from? From Germany. From Germany? I know the situation. The teachers are not able to even to work as windows and they are surely not able to work as windows. I tried once in a school and they were not able to reboot the server if they had a problem. So they had to do nothing on it. Which does the government need? I'm from Germany too. From Germany too, I don't know. Where are the English people? No, they are from the United States. No, I don't know. Where are they from the United States? I thought the most developed ones are from the United States, isn't it? Yeah, always. They are sleeping now. Perhaps they are sleeping now. You are coming from? Sweden. From Sweden. And you from? Sweden too. Sweden too? You? You're praying. You're praying. Okay. From January. By the way, I need to translate and the Swedish translation is not ready for two pages only our flyer for school in New Zealand Italian and Nico said, I will do it out of here, man. He saw his wife and then he was lost. So perhaps you can do it today. I can take it with me. Sure. You really have it. Would be nice. If you could give me your view. I'll send you the source code and open office. I'll pass some slides in here. I'll be back. I'll put it in the web. I know flying in translation would be very nice. I don't like translation. You don't like translation? What are you doing now? Your talk was senseless because you don't like translation. What are you doing now? What do you like? Consider one of my packages that become template and translated in Italy.


So I don't know if you know but we are currently in a very defining moment for the future of KD. So KD decides what to focus on in the future using goals and every couple or three years we actually vote to select some goals. The very first ones were about onboarding people or focusing on privacy and then they were changed with goals like consistency which is actually the one that I led for three years and now it's the end of those goals and we are currently voting for a new round of goals that will actually define what the community will focus the most for the next couple of years at least the goals will then live on but we vote for new ones. So this is the page with the goals that will be voted so let's actually go through them so you can see what we are currently voting on and if I recall correctly all of KD developers vote and you can actually see the goals and know in case which goals are selected what will happen. So first one is probably my favorite is automate and systematize internal processes which when it was first proposed was actually called professionalize KD but apparently that wasn't a good enough for a name and what this talks about is I think really focusing on increasing the quality the end quality of the KD product as a whole by making sure that to make some examples that we have a QA team that actually reviews every merge request and make sure that there are no bugs and also having tests having a lot of tests and making sure that merge requests cannot get in if all the tests are not passing or are passing stuff like this making sure that you have the CI in GitLab these kind of things. Also the first proposal of this the first version of this proposal also talked about actually having developers to work on KD stuff internally currently KD does not quite hire developers for KDE related like very KD projects there are some developers that are hired for as an example work on hardware that runs on KDE and stuff like that also people that work on promotion but this actually said okay now let's actually hire people to work on KDE products that the end user will use I think it was removed from the proposal as it's more of a KDEv thing which is the organization that legally represents KDE and not as a whole from the organization but we do still have let's actually zoom in some nice proposals like having linters automatic fuzzing also coding and documenting the steps required for QA and one thing that I really like which I cannot see right now in this list is when like a developer wants to actually step back from the KD community sometime it happens for personal reasons or whatever to actually make a process so that you can follow to make sure that all of the things he was working on keep on being maintained and everything so I think this is a very nice goal you can read it it's publicly available just like all goals the next one is making flatbacks a first class delivery method for KDE apps this was actually worked a lot already for the KDE is all about the apps goal that we had in the past version and what is this about well you guessed it making sure that all KDE apps are on flat up and making sure that they work very nice that we have a process to easily actually you know port new apps for being on the flat up store and this kind of stuff and it's especially important I really like that the author actually pointed this out because of stuff like the steam deck where KDE Plasma is pre-installed and the flatback is the only application installation method so if you want to install anything on this thing that you have to use flatbacks so all apps all KDE apps that are not available as a flatback won't be able to be installed if you don't know what flatback is go check it out I use it a lot actually but I'm not very expert next one is the totally offline productivity and privacy pcpda workflow and I'm gonna say I'm biased on this one because personally personally I do not like this goal I think it goes very against what KDE should be but it's only my opinion and we'll actually vote on this to make sure if to see if it's the opinion of others or if I'm in the minority we'll see so what this talks about is making sure that offline news is primary first class for KDE products and to be clear all KDE Plasma KDE products as a whole if they should work without internet they do work without internet they are already very adapted to being offline KDE Plasma is that I stop perfectly works offline obviously and if you actually see the motivation I don't quite agree with the motivation it talks about the fact that computers should not be communication mediums and it talks about this a lot so go check it out if you want to know more about this maybe you disagree with me and personally I found that very wrong like I think that computer are very much meant to communicate with other people or I don't know what you do videos have like that that is communicating right now I'm communicating to you and that is very much a primary idea of how computers should work and if we do go check out how this should work what things we should do to actually implement this goal there's a couple of ideas here I'm not sold on the ideas either sadly so as an example KDE Marble which is currently the application of KDE that shows maps should include offline routing which is easily exportable to a pocket device and to be clear KDE Marble as far as I know doesn't quite have routing at all currently maybe I'm wrong but that's what I recall so the idea of having offline routing we should have routing in the first place to have that I mean we could work specifically to have offline routing I guess but osman google maps do have offline routing already and frankly they are better than KDE Marble and work already on a pocket device so you don't even even have to export so I don't see the point also a plasma mobile optimized version that allows for import of city specific channel transfer again as far as I know we don't have that stuff maybe I'm completely wrong so it's not about making sure that it works offline it's having that in the first place I don't know another example is complex analysis of music preferences which are blah blah blah that were ans a feature of america one dot four bring that sort of local preference learning back we don't even have online preference learning so I don't understand I'm sorry I just don't get this goal so you can actually go through this read this all and make your own opinion next one is KD for all boosting accessibility I don't have a much to say about this except that I will surely vote for this goal because I do think this is something that should be worked on in the KDE community really it's really important however I'm completely ignorant about this matter so I can try my best but I need to learn I want to vote this goal because hopefully it will also teach me as part of the goal how to actually improve these kind of things it talks about what you could guess like having magnification also color contrast focus handling making sure that all of these components of KDE are available through keyboard usage these kind of things so KDE for all boosting accessibility then we have sustainable software a very interesting one which talks specifically about sustainability in terms of pollution and using energy and the idea is that the influence of software and sustainability is not well understood yet and KDE does actually work a lot already already to make sure that you can like measure how energy efficient their programs are and we do have a certification by blue and girl blue angel I don't know about this given to ocular the pdf application which is very interesting and these goals elaborate on it say what we should do the next steps to make sure that KDE software is as energy efficient but also that KDE connect as an organization to it says use its visibility to contribute to sustainability these kind of things so very interesting very eco then there is human centered KDE which was this close to being thrown away simply because the person that actually proposed this goal kind of left the KDE community so if you don't have a champion for the goal you can't like vote the goal because nobody would actually take a delete but since I really like this goal I actually stood up and said okay no I really like this so I will propose myself as the champion of this goal which I didn't write just because I want it for at least to be voted because I think this is a really nice goal so currently this is the goal that I'm proposing me even though I did not plan on proposing any goal but again I just wanted this one to be at least voted and it's about making sure that KDE is designed for users and it's really easy for developers and I'm putting myself into that a lot to say okay I know what KDE should look like should behave like and know how you I know what's best for users there's a lot of that and although we are often right how developers are often right about what users expect from the product this talks about well things like usability research which we don't do at all currently in KDE so that could be something really nice and also stuff like QX testing these kind of things are discussed in this goal you can read all of it it's very interesting I didn't write it but I thought it was worth a shot and finally this is a goal that sadly didn't make it for a very similar reason the person that originally proposed the goal went inactive and nobody actually stood up for this one if I could have proposed two goals then I would have also tried to be champion this one because I think this one also deserves voting but I cannot and I prefer to be here so this one probably won't get voted nonetheless it's a very interesting goal and the idea is making sure that our documentation to actually develop things in KDE is very nice and this is very important for onboarding because new developers need a good documentation to understand what's going on but even for developers like me which already have been on board I do need some documentation that I can understand sometimes that would make my life easier sadly again didn't make it maybe next time I don't know but KDE does make an effort to make sure that the documentation is nice KDE actually hired the KDE EV hired a person to do a review of what's wrong with our current documentation I didn't see what happened with that but there is an effort in this sense the fact that it's not a goal doesn't mean that it won't happen at all and that was it for this voting what would you personally vote and if you are a KDE developer remember to vote these goals the email to vote should go out very soon maybe even before this video is published I don't know and thank you a lot to the patreons and the donations and always remember that this sidebar here is always like one or two days behind because I'm recording these videos in advance when I can so if your donation isn't in the list don't worry just give it a couple of days but thank you really a lot to everybody it's good to be welcome back and already having some new patreons I'm really happy so see you tomorrow with another video


So you were a believer? Yes. You were a Christian and evangelical for like 10 years, you said, or for all your entire life? I was Christian before and then I would get really serious about 10 years. You like writing college? You went like Super Saiyan around? Yeah, I got that. Alright, Clayton, I'm about to do a quick little talk. Hey, what's up? So you said, um, so, that fresh, fresh play? Yeah. You've been an interlocutor before? Yes. Is that the person who does the interviewing? That's her. In a street epistemology kind of conversation? Right, yeah. Alright, do you mind telling me about that a little bit? Well, I first learned the process from the book, the manual for creating atheists. Okay, I always thought the manual for creating atheists was the Bible. As much of a Bible as we can have. Okay. So, yeah, then when I was coming out of religion, I was still attached to a lot of the people that I knew from my time there. I said, you've been political for about 10 years. Okay. So, after that, they really wanted me to stay. You know, they were my good friends. So we went through a couple books for God and just trying to preach at me and trying to reconvert me and, you know, rescue me or whatever you want to say. Can I ask a question about that? So, you were a believer? Yes. You were a Christian and evangelical for like 10 years, you said? Or for all your entire life? I was a Christian before and then I was getting really serious about 10 years. You like writing college? You went like Super Saiyan around? Yeah, I got recruited by a group, I don't know if that was a group, but, you know, really evangelical, really intense. Okay, and then it stopped? Yeah, I left. How did that happen? I really wanted to get to know like the foundations of the Bible, like the historical foundations and the more I dug on that, the more I compared it with secular archeology, secular history. It just didn't drive, you know, these places that they talked about in the Bible didn't exist, you know, or they didn't exist in the time of the archeology. And that made you less willing to believe in the document that you currently have? But what made you like say, okay, well I'm an atheist?  I don't remember exactly what tipped me off, but I read this book by a guy who was very similar to me who said he worked in IT and programming. He worked for a group called Wycliffe, which does Bible translations. They do a lot of technical people. And so he was in Africa and he gave up his faith while he was over there. And he was on a path very similar to mine, so it really hit me, you know, this guy saying these things. You know, it's like look at the Bible, look at its foundations, you know, within a matter of days I was deconverted. Do you think you have a more reasonable position right now with your non-belief in the Christian guy? I think it is more reasonable, at least it dodges the reality. You know, if you can line up all the gods and all the beliefs that there are, you know, all of them have to be grounded in reality or history. If you hold them lightly, I'd say, if you're a apostatarian, you know, that's about it, as far as I can go. Okay, okay, okay. Sure. I do know a guy who takes that religion very seriously, only for the driver's license picture aspects. And you can take it seriously. Sure, sure, sure. I do wonder, there are people who be converted from one religion and just discover that another religion is correct. You haven't had the chance to look at other religions. When I was an evangelical, I had the chance to look at all these different religions. There's a lot of comparative religion just to prove that our point was correct, right? You know, you can't be correct unless you have an answer, right? You have an answer for the hope that you've had with Jesus and so, you know, a lot of good work, you know, on being an atheist plus one god, right? Yes, right, right. So you said you did most of the legwork of discounting other religions while you're an evangelical, so all that was left is just discounting the evangelical position. Right, so once you've done that, then that's very, you know, you don't have a belief in a god left. You know, I always felt that I was a pretty scientific mind. You know, I didn't really believe in a lot of woo and getting, you know, even some of the more supernatural parts, you know, you're like, well, people just take it at face value. There's got to be some kind of scientific process. Let me throw something. You said you're an atheist. How do you define that for you? Someone who believes in no gods. Someone who lacks belief in any god. Do you believe that there's no god? I'm as close as you can be with the, you know, with the basis, you know, the philosophical basis of being able to disbelieve or disprove god. You can't disprove god. It's not falsifiable. Yeah, it's just one of those things. It's not something that, you know, it's like disproving unifies. But your confidence is extremely low, but not absolute. I would die, you know, if someone, you know, if I had to believe in a god, I think I'd die for the belief not to human. I mean, there are, okay, so I'm in the same position too. I also have the position where I'm not absolute about my knowledge of whether or not there is or is not a god. But I don't have any conviction of believing in one until I'm presented with enough reasonable evidence. But if I had to pick a god, like if I had my choice, there are some good, there are some cool gods. You got four. I'm always really big MCU style. I'm just like, that guy's actually trying to save people's lives. Well, you don't like Marvel? Well, I just think it's kind of this fantasy. And you know, it's like, I didn't grow up with it. Okay, all right. Star Trek is my- Star Trek is your deal. We got a guy turned his head as soon as you said Star Trek back. Right. Okay, okay. So how did you learn about Street Pistomology? I'm reading the book of Manipura Creating Atheists. By Peter Pugosian? Right. And what made you actually start doing it? Like what was the circumstances that actually made you say, okay, I'm going to try this out myself now? Yeah, it was being confronted with these rational beliefs of my friends. You know, in my own way. I kind of tried to use it on myself a little. Uh-huh.  Uncertain.  So, you know, so I kind of asked myself, well, why, what was the support you have for this, you know, new belief that you have, you know, being able to go through, you know, a comparative religion, looking at the historical basis of Christianity. You know, and then I used a lot of those things I was learning, but my conversation is probably not as formally Street Pistomology teaches, but you know, I was able to use it to ask the right sorts of questions about their, you know, the foundations of their beliefs. How does someone, I'm always interested in this because I'm still learning how to do the process myself. Yeah. What do you say are some important things that someone should keep in mind when asking questions in an SE style format? I think the, it's been a while, but you know, if somebody comes up with something that's patently false, you know, in your minds, you know. Okay. You kind of have to be dispassionate. You know, it's very easy to go back and say, well, you know, why would you believe that? You get that major reaction. Right. You have to be smarter than that. You have to say, well, how did you come to that belief?  Sure. Maybe not that directly, but more of, you know, it's a process of arriving where you can ask that question. I found it's like a balance between empathy and not getting so emotionally invested in the question that I've started to pick a side at the same time, too. Because they might be right, even if I think they're wrong, but like finding that, that, that really sensitive middle ground where it's like, I'm still human being, I'm still trying to figure this out. I'm really skeptical, but I want to ask a fair question each step of the way. That's, that seems to be like a really hard point. Yeah. Being fairly skeptical, you know. Fairly skeptical. Like, fairly, you know, where we can, we can call ourselves skeptics, but still have our blind spots. Exactly.  Yes, it does. And we have to be honest and, you know, forthright about that, where, you know, the kinds of knowledge that it can produce, the ways that it corrects itself. Yes. You know, it's important to communicate. And when it comes to talking about the processes of religion, I think it, we have to be, yeah, we have to be especially sensitive to the emotional and personal content.  Wow.  Yeah. What kind of belief is that?  Yeah. Do you feel, when I started street epistemology, I felt like there was a wall between me and my friends or any of my colleagues, workmates, anyone who had a really deeply held belief. But I didn't feel like I could talk about that or express how I felt about that. Do you still feel like that's there? Or do you understand what I'm talking about? Like that social barrier between, oh, that person's Christian. Right, just in your immediate circle. That's an obstacle we're going to have to either deal with if you want to get a close relationship. Right, you're close friends, this is what we're talking about.   Yeah. Unless you can't really be 100% dispassionate about it, like I said, it's very difficult to, that's why I had to end a lot of relationships, you know, that I had, because they were unwilling to discuss these things. Okay, so I left, you know. Can you remind me asking, like, what were some of the relationships that fell apart because of this?  Sure. People that you, I mean, I've been a part of this church for seven years.   You had no idea how close-minded they were. Right. Well, I knew what they were. I knew what I was. Sure.  Okay. You know, not all of them are very effective at anything. So, if we were to flip the tables, one of your close friends said, hey, I don't have a good reason to believe this anymore. Yeah. I don't think we can hang out if this is the main activity that we do 24-7. Right.  Like, what are you, what would get you back? Like, if it all, if it, if there was that small chance that you're wrong, like, what is it that you need to just say, I just needed someone to tell me that. Now I get it. This makes sense. I don't know if there's, you know, anything, but, you know, you're saying that if there was something that they could have said to me that would have, you know, brought me back. Is there a case?  And then it took a few weeks to figure out how to tell these people, you know, just how, how we were going to handle it. Yeah. So I don't know if past that point in my mind, if there's anything they could have said to, you know, really. Can I throw something out? Yeah. This may not necessarily be true. Let me know. Correct me. But when you say ID converted, it sounds like you took a step down in your mind when really what you did was increase your standard of evidence and just some things that it needed and some things did. Yeah, absolutely. And as a result, if they can make a case that just meets your standard of evidence that you have, you'd be more inclined to at least be like, oh, okay, at least now I'll check it out again. I'll go through the process again. Yeah. And that's kind of why I entertained them for, you know, this book, The Reason for God. It gives you a lot of, you know, scientific sounding off arguments for, you know, on the other fact, you know, one of the blogs I read went through a line by line dissection of it and, you know, about the same time we were reading it. Yeah.  There's everything that this brings up. It wasn't just like one step. Like you, you were building gradually your standard. It was increasing even, like, after the point where it was like, oh. Yeah, my confidence, you know, was growing, certainly. Is there anything that you feel like you believe very strongly right now to an absolute degree of certainty where you know you can't be wrong about? It doesn't even have to be about God. Yeah. Yeah, I'm still trying to figure a lot of philosophical things out.  Knowledge for its own sake is a virtue. I don't know that those things I could really be persuaded not to believe in. 200% certainty as a core value. Right. Yeah. This is a little bit off topic. This is off topic. And I don't know if we have, yeah, we have some time. Yeah. How do you feel, and I rarely get a chance to bring this up. So I apologize if it's like still kind of crude, but how do you feel about selfishness as a core value? Yeah, I don't think selfishness works really well. Why not? Well, the world is much better than us, right? It is. And, you know, I've heard some arguments in favor of it, you know, some people who are atheists, especially, you know, want to value it as a, you know, any idea that we value ourselves, then we have the resource to value others, you know, to build a better society for everybody. And just so I wait until we're talking about the same thing. When I say selfish, I mean, doing things that are in my self-interest.  Yes. Yeah, at all costs. At all costs?  I'm fine with that as well as a definition. Yeah. So would you say like, in my opinion, just like flesh this out, I could steal that cup if I like that cup. It says Vanderbilt. I'm a George Tech yellow jacket, but you can keep that. Good stuff. I wanted it. I can keep it because if I needed to drink something, I can just take that. But it wouldn't be in my long-term self-interest to take something from you because it makes everyone else seeming in that way. And then my stuff to be stolen to, and like, I don't want to have to deal with that. So selfishness-wise, it's my best interest not to steal your stuff. Okay. Do you see what I'm saying? I kind of said, yeah. My self-interest long-term to pay my taxes, to be a good person in society, drive the speed limit, go to work, be a good member of society, contribute. All these things are beneficial to me, better than being harmful to society, being more sick than healthy. But my self-preservation, if I hold that to a higher standard and everyone else does the same thing too, we generally move towards what I consider a more ideal society compared to someone who doesn't care about their self-interest. What do you think about that?  Like, it benefits me to be in the society where I'm exhibiting good behaviors traits where other people are mimicking. Versus like an ascetic or a hormone. Yeah. Like, that doesn't benefit me at all. Right.  Yeah.  Yeah, like you had mentioned that freedom, like knowledge, it benefits me to have freedom. It's my core foundation of selfishness on that.  I want knowledge, that benefits me. I would say selfishness, from the list that you gave me, it seems like selfishness is a bit more foundational. What do you think? Yeah, I'll be wrong, let me know. I wonder where the space in that for, you know, sacrifice and, you know, I don't know if sacrifice is the right word, but, you know, delaying the self for the benefit of the whole. Could you give me an example where sacrifice is done in a completely altruistic manner? Right, about parenting, I would say, you know, it's a form of sacrifice where we, you know, delay our self-gravitation, our self-acquisition for the benefit of others, you know, even if they're... Could you give me an example? Right, I was thinking, like, the parenting relationship, you know, if you're... In, like, what kind of dimension? I'm not a parent, so, you know... You don't mind? Let's say... I'm a cat dad. I got an awesome cat. You know, just a...   Less time to be selfish? Yeah, less time to look after for something. Can I throw something out? Yeah. This might be twisting what you had said, so let me know if it's fair. But if I choose to be a parent, going very well, that there are laws if I don't take care of my kid well, that they can have repercussions on me, it's in my self-interest to, if I choose to have a child, take care of that kid.  So, even though I'm, even though I'm taking away some time to invest in my child, it's for the betterment of, like, a long-term relationship with this kid that will have many grieving for me personally, emotionally, maybe even financially. Support-wise, security-wise. Yeah. These are, like, really good, like, I might be putting a dollar from my wallet into someone else, but it's building capital and dividends long-term. And that's ultimately a benefit to me. It comes back. If there was no benefit to me whatsoever, if literally having a kid was just, hey, you're losing all this time, you're losing all this money, I may not even be a parent. And if I was, I may not even be a good parent. Couldn't we say then that there's some idea? I wouldn't say it's entirely altruistic, being a parent. If you're a good parent. Yeah. Yeah. You could say positive parenting, you know.  Oh, that's good. I like this. We'll think about that. Yeah, you're not completely in control of the situation. Take turns to write.  Oh, that's good. So, you know, was it worth it to do all that? We'd have to ask the foster parents about that, but I'd love to get that information. Tell them I don't know. Hey, that's, that is a great point. That's a great point. Okay, I won't take up more of your time. Sure. Thank you. Thank you, man. Thank you. Thanks for helping me set this up. Yeah, sure.