I'm doing a stream tonight. I felt the call. I just feel the call to do a stream tonight I feel like I'm supposed to I Usually don't do streams on Saturday night. I mean it's not like I have a regular schedule anyway Even though I've been doing them more recently, you know more often But I feel like tonight's tonight. I should do I should do a live stream I actually just got back a little bit ago from Monero Topia. I was in Miami from Monero Topia I actually met some subscribers there. All right. Maybe I'll talk about that later, but but I didn't tell the channel I didn't tell the channel that I was actually going there. Now if you were following Monero Topia, you knew that but I didn't tell I don't know. I didn't it's not that I didn't want too many people to come but I wanted it to stay naturalistic, but So doing a live stream just because I feel like I should Although this is Americans only or Western Hemisphere only if you're a European You have to be in bed to go to church tomorrow. Okay. I know it's late there. It's probably like midnight Or I don't know what time either way So, yeah, I just got back Just got back from Monero Topia just a bit ago Um, Paul says what's the repo for the Monero super chat would love to help these people bypass the middleman Um, that's on my github. It's shadow chat. It's a program written in go. It's not written by me It's written by an anonymous Monero guy. Okay But it's very useful. I actually have it running on my site. Oh, and by the way I'll read donations in the stream as usual, but this time I really just don't I'm not going to read youtube super chats Okay, I haven't turned them off. I don't think for this. I'm not going to read those Go to either go to the links in the description donate dot lukesmith at xyz or x mr dot lukesmith.xyz to donate Monero so Um, but yeah, so that's shadow chat and it's a very simple program easy to set up. It's really great It's like 500 lines of code, uh, and it works really really well So I I mean obviously I've used it in a couple live streams and the the guy who uh, I haven't talked to him in a couple days But the guy who made that he's thinking about making a little Monero payment processor I don't know if he's thinking about put it I mean, I don't know if he's thinking about putting a point of sale app in it He probably should but that would be a nice thing to do because I was thinking about Using, um, I hate to start off talking about cryptocurrencies right because like half people like could not care about it But I mean when it comes down to a cryptocurrency is just a form of free software It's just I don't know people get antsy when they're talking about it. They don't want to talk about it for some reason, right? um What was I gonna say so yeah, he um, I was thinking about um You know going to normie businesses in real life and hooking them up with A payment processor for bitcoin Monero stuff like that.  No, but I was testing before I was going on today and they weren't happening So we'll see what happens here. It looks like everything's good on my side Usually, I mean, it's some kind of memory leakage problem Um, but it's not looking too bad right now Okay, and if it does look too bad, I'll just temporarily Turn it off turn it back on I do what I did last time, but I'm actually running Pyre I I'm not gonna bore people with technical details. So Y'all do that and I'll probably do a video. Oh, sorry. I gotta tell you the comment I'm reading. Um Which one was it? It's moving fast enough Do update us after he makes a payment processor Luke. Yeah, I will do that And I plan on doing a video on the thing that he made Already that I'm using I'm gonna pull up I'm gonna close this browser menu And just open the chat So I don't have to be downloading my stream while I'm uploading it Um, so by the way before I again you can donate and I'll read comments blah blah blah Um I will say recently I've been lazy on youtube. Okay. I actually did a video last week Um, and I put up a little something that's not actually mine just for whatever I put them up on my peer tube instance. So if you're not subscribed to my peer tube instance, go there videos.luxmyth.xyz subscribe to the rss because as I'm not feeling youtube and additionally I even put out a new episode of not related That you can only get if you're on not related on the rss feed if you're in the podcast I didn't put it on youtube. I might eventually put it on youtube. Um The not related episode about jobs went viral. Yeah It's it's gotten like a quarter of a million views. It was really big. Um, so I'm glad about that It really you like definitely resonated with people Can't btc pay server accept manero's payment? Yes, it can but there's some drawback like I mean btc pay server They obviously it's only for bitcoin But they allow people to write modules for different cryptocurrencies The manero one is a little limited and it also seems a little weird to run it just to use manero And I I think you know his idea is just make a simplistic You know something that's more in the lines that the people on our channel would like a more minimalistic thing um Mitchell valentino says, uh, I enjoyed your presentation at manero topia insightful and well though. Oh, were you there? Did I meet you? Uh, were you were were you watching the stream? Oh, and I will say that so yeah I'll talk about my presentation at manero topia Um and everything else and my yeah, I'll go into that But I will say the videos for it are not up yet And I don't know if they intend on putting the videos up. In fact, I'm a little pissed if they don't Because it's it's a little weird to pay like I know that they pay well some like you could watch the stream live For some money, but I'm kind of assuming they're gonna put those out because it would be kind of stupid if you produced all this content about manero and didn't even put it out there, but I will say Um, well, I'll say never mind. I'll talk about that later Um Thoughts on peer tube versus library. Uh, I like peer tube more library is I mean I let my videos go up on library everything that goes up on youtube is mirrored on library And I've done a stream or two on there But I'm just not so it's one of those good examples of a cryptocurrency project That's not like really decentralized in any meaningful sense like they they have a cryptocurrency But it's still like run by one company And you know, basically they're sitting on a bunch of bags and it's just kind of a token economy Um, now their policies, of course, are better than youtube, right in terms of like they don't censor everyone or whatever but then again like I mean one recurring theme and free software or anything Is you want to use principally better technology not just move to a different platform Where they're guys that seem nicer because if they get bigger and bigger and they have more leeway They might start making editorial decisions. That's what big tech did used to be you can do whatever on big tech They wanted to be nice to everyone. They didn't want to enforce political things Now they do because they can because they feel like you don't have other options Thoughts on scent versus pandoc versus markdown a scent is the best thing ever I I need to redo a video on that. So actually my talk at minaretopia. I did with scent Scent is this suckless program for doing like presentations I mean kind of like a powerpoint equivalent. It doesn't actually compile to a file But it's the easiest thing to ever use. It's just fantastic because how it works Is well, I've done a video on it if you really want to look it up just suckless sent s e n t um and um, basically you just have a text file and you can Every paragraph on the text file is interpreted as a slide and it's formatted the way you want The text is automatically sized to like fill up the screen Depending on how much text you put you can put images on slides and stuff like that and Can take emojis and stuff. It's fantastic. I needed I will I Mentioned this because at minaretopia.  It's just like text in a file like there's no there's no It's it's infinitely easier.   I'm just reading the chat for some reason um Do you upload your podcasts on apple podcasts?  They eventually acquiesce the flak But I use aug because it's Smaller size and it's better quality than mp3, but they refuse to be compatible for it So it might be on apple podcasts still But you might not be able to download the thing and I get emails This is why I put it in the faq because I get people on using iphones who are tortured by having iphones These like expensive devices that like can't even play a simple audio file Like aug has been out there for a freaking decade and everything that like your amazon refrigerator can probably Play an aug file, but apple refuses to be compatible with them, you know So, uh, yeah, I don't know if it's up there either way listen apple podcasts and spotify and all that crap All of them are just literally front ends for an rss feed You should just be using the rss feed like get just any podcast app Type in the rss feed not related dot xyz slash rss Bam you got the podcast don't use like this is why it's so silly to use apple podcasts anyway Or any of that kind of stuff because they're just paywalling things that are free, you know They do have things that are specific, you know to their platforms, but for most things it's just you know I don't know. It's it's free stuff okay, so nunez says, um I made around 24 000 u.s. Dollars a huge amount of money in my country in crypto last year And now lost it all but one thousand wow Want to drop out of college can't get up in the morning Haven't trained in two weeks not motivated to practice coding or reading or doing anything help. Well, yeah, that's the irony of things Because you know a lot of times it's it's better to Uh, you know, what's the song owner of a lonely heart? Wait, no owner of a broken heart much better than a own wait. No That's exactly the opposite of what I want to say Like it's almost better not to ever have it if you end up losing it. That's that's That's the irony of human psychology But I mean you you have to be stoic in a situation like that I mean obviously well firstly you got to learn from your experiences because I don't know how you lose that much like I don't know. Well, I don't know what your principle is on that, but Being at 24,000 and then down to 1,000. I don't know. You were probably playing like some Dogecoin like ethereum gamble thing that hopefully you learned something about But I will just listen when you think of things rationally like in terms of Oh, look at all these decisions I made and lost money You also have to remember by definition all of us lost money or at least lost opportunities and not You know buying bitcoin when it was 50 cents, you know what I mean So you shouldn't let this beat you up any more than anything else, right?  I'm very against the overuse of uh, javascript however something like 11d lets me write my own website and markdown with no js For the end user thoughts. I mean static site generators are fine um Like a lot of them don't use javascript to like obviously like I mean probably the idea of a static site is not using Javascript unless it's like You know the purpose for javascript that it exists like a little flourishes on a web page that don't really You know a lot of like the problem with javascript is a lot of people like build websites that are javascript Like i'm not categorically against it um, but like a lot of websites are just 100 javascript basically like the content Only appears if you are running javascript. That's the the bad thing um But yeah, I mean, I don't know I don't know anything about 11d But static site generators in general I mean the only annoying thing about that some static site generators like even things like hugo Which can be used to for very good things is a lot of the times they will give you these these extremely annoying defaults and templates that have like a million Superfluous things that are actually kind of unreadable if you look at the source code Now theoretically it shouldn't matter whether it's unreadable or not um If it's an uh static site generator, but whatever Um Let me see. Oh, yeah, okay. Oh looks like I am not connected to the internet right now Okay, I think I think it's I think it's moving a little bit Yeah, I think my internet conked out for a second there Okay, I think it's back. Okay. It's yellow. Yeah, sorry about that. I think my internet just conked out for a second Um, so I don't know if this is going through now. Okay. It says it's green It may have just uh made just uh Had a little mistake there. Okay. That's still the only donation Um, so let me go back to the chat Okay, yeah, I think there are less people watching today because I didn't I'm not doing this at a europe compatible time and I did literally tell europeans not to do anyway I'll talk about monarotopia. Um, so I want to monarotopia Uh, let me just check to see. Yeah, okay. I'm still green. I'm still green on bandwidth. By the way, I love football Football is fantastic. That's a joke, but I love football Um, so what was I going to say so monarotopia? Topia was down in miami and I was suicidal. I drove all the way there. I don't know why I mean, it's not like I could fly But you know, I drove all the way there all by myself Originally, I actually thought about bringing someone but I didn't end up doing that I thought it would be weird if I brought someone so I didn't so I went down there And the thing about monarotopia. It was actually on thursday. Originally. I thought I just assumed automatically Oh, it's going to be like over the weekend But I should say so the Firstly, I was going to speak at monarotopia because originally kevin wad who I did an interview with A couple weeks ago like a little I don't know if it's really an interview, but we just kind of talked about things He originally was going to present at the talk Or present at the conference just kind of a general like monaro hype Just like, you know, why people need it, which is kind of preaching to the choir there obviously But uh, he had visa problems or like, I don't know vaccine You know, he had to flying from france and couldn't do it like or something like that. So he suggested I take his place Either way, so I I agreed to go out and so I did and it was it was pretty nice. We're red again We're red again. This better be going. Okay. All right. Yeah, we're green again. Um, so yeah, anyway, so I went out to monarotopia and um It was pretty nice. It was only one day So it was a one day conference, but it was like from seven in the morning to like 11 at night So and it honestly felt like it honestly felt like I had been there weeks I like I talked to a lot of subscribers even though I did not announce it on my channel I deliberately decided not to announce it on my channel. I thought about putting like a blog post out Um on my website, but I didn't even do that. Um, but uh, what was I gonna say? So so I decided Oh, I'll see people. I know anyway, and I actually like a lot of you guys came I mean not a lot not like hundreds of you but like dozens of you And uh, you know, I went in there even in the morning before people came in and like everyone knew who I was And stuff like that which was kind of weird. Um, I think like weirdly enough I was one of the highest profile people there because you know, some other guys there have youtube channels But they're a little smaller than mine or like even the monarotok Podcast thing. I think it's I think they have like fewer subscribers, but I was I will just say I've been surprised with this Especially with monarot How many people in that sphere know me because I've like done one or two videos on it, you know, I mean Even though I'm a big proponent, right? So I went there, um, and I did a presentation early in the morning and I basically Like I saw the two presentations before me Um, you know, one of them was pretty interesting And then I did my talk which I think went over pretty well Um, and then the rest of the day so they had like one conference room where all the presentations were and then Kind of bar areas out to the side where people were just hanging out while the conferences went on and for the rest of the day I basically I don't want to waste my time um talking If It's not going to okay. Okay. We're back We're back um Okay, so anyway, um What was I talking about?   So it's going to happen I think av was like not all together said like they didn't have everything planned out in terms of like I gave a presentation like the the place where you present was like, um It was basically a sheet on a wall. The lighting was bad. You couldn't see like slideshows. You couldn't read things um Like uh, you know, I basically read out everything on my um, I read out basically everything on my presentation because no one could read it, you know, um So that that I so if they recorded it, which I think they were trying to record it It probably is like not very good quality, which I'm kind of disappointed with like I sort of expected They would really have that ground covered But it was really like being there was really great, but I just kind of know when the videos come out It's going to look like kind of janky Um, but yeah, my talk was pretty good though um It was just like kind of I don't know. Maybe I'll just record it separately for a youtube video Even though it's that like presenting in person is so much better than doing a youtube video I will just tell you that because you have so much more medium. Like you can move around you can, you know Exert your dominance on the the uh Audience you can force them to laugh, you know what I mean You can do dramatic pauses things like that. Oh, this is better. I I've always enjoyed presenting stuff Well, people still amazed at the girl thing. Actually, I will say the um The only talk I did see after mine is there was this girl doing a project on Actually number two the one I watched fully is there was a girl doing a project on um, I was kind of interested in this an ethereum and minero atomic swap um, so I watched that and um I think I talked I talked to her afterwards and she said it might be done within like two months or something We'll see.  Otherwise, it'll make people nervous, right? um, and I also saw the guy who invented pgp did a teleconference in And so I saw the tail end of that and that kind of ruffled people's feathers because he basically like I don't I'm not quite sure.  But like dude, what are you talking about? Like especially because his talk was on, you know, the the u.s. government coming for him and now he's like simping for them in this like foreign war But yeah Weird that no one saw a mental outlaw while minarotopia was going on. Hmm. Yeah, isn't that interesting Yeah, people at the conference actually asked me about mental outlaw. They were like, so you guys are like good friends No, I've never never talked to the guy like I've literally never talked to the guy um I like I've posted a couple comments on his videos that aren't like directed to him They're like jokes or something. He may have posted something on mine. I don't know Um, maybe back in the day, but like I've never I think way back in the back when his channel was super tiny like way smaller than mine I kind of looked for his email address because I wanted it to be like, hey, let's do something But I don't think he puts an email address out there. So You know, whatever but people asked me about mental outlaw.  It's like, dude I don't know. I don't know what he does um But they most a couple someone said that they think he lives like really far north So he probably wouldn't come all the way down to miami unless he really cared I well, I should say like most of the I felt like there was a significant amount of people who are like Flying in from other countries. A lot of people with British accents, you know what I mean? um Okay, let me check donations cam says, uh Luke do you still practice Chinese?  I've been using your guide on your website And I've been studying extensively for about two years. Well, that's great I was just curious how you keep track of all your languages Chinese um What I usually find I don't find you ever like forgetting a language Like that you really know is kind of like forgetting to ride a bike like it I don't think it really happens, but sometimes the first time you start doing it again You'll be slow. You'll be like, oh shoot. Like how did they say? Oh, yeah, that's right.  So I don't we're red again. Sorry red band with I'll wait till it Okay, it's kind of going. It's okay. It's yellow again Uh, I should just check these recordings to see like when things actually break down but either way, um Yeah, I don't feel like people ever really forget languages But you do get like kind of rusty like your your joints get sore And so if you if you go a long time without talking like there I went a while without ever speaking Spanish until Maybe a year or so ago when my cousin needed me to talk to some like mexicans who didn't speak any English and I just remember being like, oh, I totally forgot like like I didn't forget things But it's like when you when you restart it's like, oh, yeah, that's how you say that right Actually, it was kind of the same way in miami um, you know, I didn't really think about this but like miami is like At least the parts that I was Going to restaurants in is probably primarily spanish speaking, you know, I sort of thought that oh, yeah people in miami They're gonna speak spanish and english like there are places in atlanta that are like that But it's always like english is the the main thing, you know, if you go to a restaurant People speak english, right? Whereas that's not necessary in miami There were I went to a couple places where people by default the default was spanish Even though like the menu was always in english Sometimes it had spanish stuff written, but like Anyway, so I'd never I've never actually been to miami or that part of the world. So Live in south korea forgot most of the language. Well, yeah, it might depend on When you learn to something like that. I had a friend I knew in high school Who said he grew up in brazil, but he had forgotten portuguese totally um So I don't know maybe it's possible. I I do not feel like I've ever forgotten the language um, I mean maybe if I was like more try like I uh, I don't know With chinese well, well chinese writing there's a lot that I forget or like I'll be like I know this character I learned this character But I gotta remind myself what it is sometimes that happens, but with like the spoken language I don't I never felt like that was a problem with me um But then again, like I don't know maybe maybe like once I learn a language. I never have like a big trial afterwards um But I mean the most chinese Exposure I have nowadays because I live not around chinese people is I do actually watch a lot of chinese film But I I do usually watch them with English subtitles But you know, I I can understand about as much as I did, you know When I was learning it like it's not like I regressed or anything I thought they spoke yiddish in miami. Oh, well, that's actually funny So in um where minaretopia was it was in like the miami women's club miami beach women's club And literally it was literally in the shadow of this giant Jewish high school That was to its north and then there was another jewish private school on the west And so the day before when I got into town, you know, I just went to scope it out Just to see if someone was there ends up like they weren't there at the time I think I think they got in later in that day Um, but it was like all these like jewish kids just all over the place Like it was it's like it was in the jewish section of town. Um, and so yeah Uh, so it's a funny place to to You know just be around so it was a massive. Yeah, there miami does have huge amounts of jews Um silo says um any advice for an urbanite bugman that's completely inept at doing stuff with their hands Wanting to move into the country. What kinds of basic skills should one have before actually moving to the country based on your experience You don't you don't need anything like living in the country by itself Okay You know, let's say you move to the country It's not like you magically need to be some freaking lumberjack that's doing chores in you still have all the modern I don't know leisure's and and like you you can live an urban lifestyle in your house It's not like you need some extra skill to just live in a country So the difference is in a country you will be able to use your hands and learn things and stuff like that And you will be able to get that experience and you will be putting more environments where oh Uh, I need to learn how to hunt or it would be nice to I mean well you don't need to but it would be nice to Oh, I can shoot a deer and save hundreds of dollars on meat because I can just freeze the thing and keep it for You know, however long or you know, I can do this or that like your potential increases So you'll learn how to do those things Um, I I think you're asking that from the idea that you have to like train for real life In real in reality real life is the training. Okay So yeah, don't don't wait for oh, I have to get some kind of skill for that. You don't have to worry about that Uh, Drew says do you have uh? A patreon or other membership group where you make announcements in advance that you're going to have a live stream So I've been bad No, I definitely don't have a patreon or actually technically I do have a patreon account. Do not subscribe there I'm actually the I I used it for like two months back in 2018 If you really want to give me a monthly donation Do it on donate dot lukesmith.x yz. You can say monthly and donate Okay, and I don't pay well I don't paywall anything because I don't like the idea of paywalling because i'm not about like for me It's not about who let me do this so I can get more money from people Like when I put out videos It's like I do them for a reason like I do them to like communicate something And I think it's like putting your light under a bushel to say. Oh, you gotta pay for this. That's not what I do um, so I'll I used to be better. In fact, what you should do is just subscribe to my um rss feed Okay, uh because I do put updates there. I'll put blog posts and other things I haven't been adding many things recently But at least traditionally I would post if I'm going to do a live stream But the past couple times really since I've gotten the internet at my house I haven't been in the habit of doing that. I'll just be like, uh, I'm just gonna do a live stream So the the answer is there's nothing to nothing right now to do although make sure you have subscribed to my rss feed Because yeah, I should probably put things there I think I said In the I think I asked people in the last live stream if anyone knows of like an rss to email Like, you know, if I had an email list that I could use You know, basically I turn my rss feed into an email list and people can say I oh, I I'm a boomer I'm a boomer and I don't know how to use rss but I want to get updates from him and uh every time I post an rss post it'll like email out That's what I would like if you know something exactly like that tell me um So let's see other comments, um Uh the quest says hey luke love your vids Um, and I'm studying your lanshed site, uh to a t to set up an idea. I've had in mind I'm currently working full-time as a pin tester And want to advance my career as a red teamer Uh, I don't know what a red teamer is a pin tester for those who don't know is someone who It's like penetration testing like basically Seeing if people can hack stuff, right? Um, I love to hear your take, uh on in-depth osint. Oh, actually, that's an acronym acronym I do not know off the top on my head or I probably know it. Let me think about osint Or is that is does every let let me just search it. Let me just search it See as you can tell I'm not big into This environment because I'm open so oh open source intelligence, of course It would be something simple like that or even break it up Break it down for normies as I've shared your vids with not so technically minded family and friends. Um, Yeah, uh Well, okay, oh open source intelligence. I'm not quite sure what it what that's supposed to mean though. Um, So well, let's look up. Let's let's let's get some wikipedia information so I can, uh, give some Answer to this question Uh, oh It's collection analysis of data gate gathered from open sources blah blah blah blah Okay. Yeah, it makes sense. Um Well, I think it's creepy. I will say that I do think there's a lot of information on the internet about people Uh, and I've never gotten involved like I thought about doing videos on like voter records and stuff and You know as an example of what that you can do with that but that is like such a big I mean, it's insane that a lot of that stuff is online, you know, I mean Um, but I've always felt weird about it and I think that's one of the reasons I don't I don't do things like that. Um, because it's it it just feels wrong. It just feels wrong to do Um, but that's for with publicly that's like personal data. Obviously you can have openly available data aside from that Um, and you know, there are interesting things you can do with it, but it's just not something that I do that much you know what I mean, um Unless you can give me a specific example of what you're thinking of like I don't know. I'm trying to think if there's something I've done videos on that's like similar to that. Um Yeah, I don't I don't quite know though Jolson, um Jolson's into donation too. He says you better go check out the midnight, uh, pasca service at your nearest church I know it's far, but it's worth the drive. Well, I will actually be going To, uh, a pasca service this year funny. You should mention that I will probably do a video when I do because it's going to require a lot of traveling um Okay, alex just emailed me saying Uh, he might be able to do the art or assess the email thing. I will I'll just mark that down And I will look into that or I'll email you or something later um What's your cpa you usage now Definitely lower than it was. Oh, yeah, it's super low. See I that's great like for the past year Every time I do a live stream It's a hundred percent cpu usage if I'm using like pipe wire or whatever after like 10 minutes But this time it's like it's like, you know, 25 percent Something like that I have no idea what it is there. They probably fixed some the thing that was going wrong Robert steel created the term open source intelligence. He was xcia died recently OS intelligence is good for corporate intel off the top of my head, I don't know what like interesting things, you know, you could do with that Red teamer means working as a security consultant. Yeah, you can see all the stuff like all the terms I don't know About like that what the pin testing world.  I'm actually just penetration testing I'm hardening my servers, right? Even though I'm sure a lot of people use it just to screw with people But yeah, I thought about doing something like that like showing Just on the command line how you can use some of those tools in black arch They have so many different programs. They have like lists of pass hashed passwords and stuff like that that you can like, you know, basically use for hacking But it's interesting just to do that Um YouTube will ban you even if it's pen testing. Oh, so I can't even do that But yeah, I did think about doing something like that just as an example Because it is an interesting world and it is important for people to know When it comes to passwords, you know, why? Why you need a password the way You know, why you need a password of a certain complexity and you know, how things work and You know, if people understand that it is infinitely better for their own life How are a u r packages on artyx? I mean exactly the same thing on arch Yeah, I've never actually looked up any pen testing videos, but maybe that's because they're all banned Okay, I'm a little disappointed. No one has given a minero super chat Very disappointed with that. Actually, let me make sure that my minero thing is not broken I gotta make sure Okay. Yeah, it looks like it's there So I'm a little disappointed. I'm not gonna if you've given a minero super chat and it's broken Please say so Okay, we're hey, we're moving to all open source software and that means using cryptocurrency as opposed to You know Traditional donation things that require a million proprietary platforms Maybe a peer tube exclusive. I guess you are talking about the pen testing thing. Maybe Okay, let me check donations. Let me get one Oh Why is my internet? Nope, no donation. I will check the chat I tip in bad only lol Came back from minarotopia. No minarodonos rip. Yeah, it's pretty sad sad the first three. I did When I I did it. I got a lot of minarod donations Okay, but none today But if someone has tried it and it's broken, please tell me because I feel guilty um Luke, could you briefly explain your thoughts on the prescriptivism descriptivism Debate and linguistics. It seems like an interesting philosophical debate. I mean, it's not a debate Like there are two different things. I mean if You know linguists linguists nowadays they So maybe I should explain to people what that means So there's this straw.  It's not like it's just not the prescriptivism that people used to have right so If they say oh, you can't judge someone for how they use language. Okay. Um, well call I don't know If a man is wearing a dress, what pronoun do you refer to him as right? So Then they get all prescriptivist. No, you have to do it this way blah blah blah blah, right? They have strong opinions about some things. So they're highly prescriptivist in some things, right? Um, but anyway Uh, it's so it's not a bit like it's just you you can analyze level linguistics on a descriptive level and that's what modern linguists usually do And that's what linguists in the past did as well Um, and then making prescriptions is something that comes like you you can do at the same time. You can say um, you know, you like every culture has dialects that are more I don't know more desirable for communicating or Just sound good or just for arbitrary reasons are just More esteemed and it's always a good idea. You might say oval. It's totally arbitrary like this. Oh, it's it's um You say you are and people stigmatize you is right, but it's like, okay That's how it is in every culture like let's describe the cultures like this is how they work, right? I I make it as a descriptivist judgment that in all human cultures there are prescribed and I don't know stigmatized Forms of language and that's nothing weird about that And so these people are kind of pretending that that's a bad thing or something because they don't like it, you know It is just silly How long do you think it'll take for serious uses of nfts? For example Vehicle titles to be adopted and what do you think will happen to the monkey jpegs? So I think nfts will eventually have a purpose But even things like vehicle titles like, uh, let me let me turn this off.  Let me let me check this Uh Status Okay, hold that thought whatever I was thinking about. Oh nfts. Okay, that's running And then um Okay, that's running as well shoot Maybe the minaret thing is broken. I'm sorry guys I'm just gonna restart it lazily Shoot, um, if you donated minaro Uh, email me with your donation comment Because uh, yeah, I might not have Oh, okay. I see okay Okay, it looks like they're showing up in the logs, but they're not emailing out um Okay, so eric says oy ve uwu says hi and cryptobare says Oh, okay, so I can see them in the log, but they didn't send the email out. Oh, you know what? I probably just changed my freaking email password um Dr. Basin redpilled 4 20 69 says aloha snack bar.  Thank you for that minaret donation Um cryptobare says it was nice meeting you in person. Oh, yes. I met cryptobare We actually went for a little walk It was like it was late in the day Like he had been standing up selling shirts and stuff cryptobare. He like I don't know he makes some music um Minero related stuff So he was standing up selling merch all day and I was standing up talking to people all day And I was freaking I don't know about him.  I he just wanted something to drink and I got a sub somewhere Anyway, it was nice seeing you in person um Now for sure. I know you aren't uh, oh shoot man. That's not showing up. Sorry. Let me check the log Let me check the log Dang it Let me just scroll back up. So okay. Sorry your thing got like half cut out I know you're making a funny joke. I'm sure let me let me go to the viewer Let me just pull it up the old fashioned way Well, I'm doing that. Let me talk about nfts um So yeah, like I a lot of people say oh nfts are eventually going to be used for like things like um You know car titles like vehicle titles like property things like that I just don't believe that'll happen because when push comes to shove like maybe they will at the beginning But when push comes to shove if you um, you know, let's say I have um an nft that represents my um I can't I literally cannot do two things at once.  I'm gonna come back to nfts. I just got gotta do this Uh, there it is. There it is. Okay, so um I'm gonna make sure you're not looking at the password that I'm putting in here Not like it would really matter because then you'd just be able to see my uh Dang it. Sorry man. It it uh Shoot because I restarted it isn't showing it so crypto bear email me with your comment. It was very nice meeting you too He was gonna make a joke about now. I know you're not something or another I did not read the end of that Sorry, I will fix my I will fix my stuff um If you donate there, I think I should be able to view it now because I'm just looking at the back end. Yeah Ah, yeah, I forgot I changed like some email things um Your password is hunter oh six. Oh man.  You know what I mean? It's it's not like a any big difference um, so it's just like adding an extra layer of stupidity that doesn't really matter like You know cryptocurrency is basically a bear bond kind of thing and an nft is gonna be a bear bond as well and you know that just means something that The person who owns it is the one who has it right the one who bears it. It's a bearer bond um, and people don't want like Dude if I if I hand if I give you my car title Just physically give it to you. It doesn't magically make your car mine, right legally that will not stand up in court If you like stole the title out of my house, right? um, okay, okay, I am going to uh All right again, if you donated Monero, and I didn't read your thing that includes crypto bear you can email me Uh, and I'll read whatever else you want to say. Um, okay, so Uh chris says uh Uh, uh, oh, I hope you've been doing well researching the bsd's and considering making the switch from arch I like a lot the mentality and culture around open bsd But free bsd seems to have a larger community and more software for it any thoughts on the two versus each other I would definitely choose open bsd. I I don't really feel like free bsd Has more people behind it. Maybe it does It also has more libtards and that that is that is like That's dangerous Like if you want if you want to know what software projects are good And I don't mean good. Well, I shouldn't say good. I say projects that you can trust the community to last long Like long term without tearing each other apart or turning it into bloatware Or like selling it to selling out Like just find the one that has like the fewest women with like dyed hair And you know those kind of people and soy boys, whatever Um, and it definitely seems like free bsd. They have more of those people and open bsd has less And you might say that's a superficial thing to judge it on but no, that's actually I'm gonna go ahead and bet that that is one of the best things that you can judge them on. Um It might not be directly the cause but I will just say it correlates with very many things. Um Uh, okay Another donation. Hi, lucum from indonesia Recently knew you from your linux videos. How do how do I motivate? How do you motivate yourself to learn hard things? I know the comfy the comfiness of microsoft linux I know the comfiness of microsoft linux is tempting but hard Like having someone pulling the rug out beneath your feet This question perhaps also applied to the learning of things like pgp Data structures, etc. Sorry for not using crypto crypto is still alien for layperson in indonesia. Oh, it's Alien for everyone It's alien for lay people in america too. Um I don't I don't know like I wouldn't force well depends on your life situation Um, everything happens gradually like learning things has to happen gradually and the nice thing about linux is You can just dive into it if if you can take that You know, maybe some people learn it better that way, but uh, it's a big world that you can eat You you can eat bite by bite. You don't have to bite more than you can chew Um, you can start on some beginner distro Learn how to do basic things slowly move up Um now is it possible now I will say um Like you you can start gradually That's what I'm trying to say and you don't need to for like a lot of people Will force themselves to learn something right? They'll they'll just say I'm gonna learn about this So I'm going to just look online. Look at a youtube video like meticulously follow it and see if I can replicate it I mean, it's not gonna happen like realistically how you learn something is by tinkering with something on your own time with your own goals Okay, that's how I learned how to use linux, right? I installed this thing and then I was like, okay, I want to do this. How do I do that? Okay, I want to learn this. I got to do that and I didn't even have internet at the time I was using man for everything and like learning things the way they're supposed to be learned Um, so that's how you do it like gradually tinkering.  Um I forget exactly what it was Drew says are there any out of print? Latin learning titles that you would consider printing at lindy press. I have plans of learning latin Based on some of your videos about the benefits of learning latin So, I mean if you really want one of those old latin books, you can I mean they're they're all over the place on ebay You can just go look, you know caller daniels Latin whatever maybe it's beginning latin first of your life or get exactly what it is You can just look them up on ebay and you can get the things for a couple bucks the real ones And the trouble I mean, I'm open to doing something like that and then I might I might experiment it with Uh experiment with it at some point, but the thing about that is um, well firstly, you can get a nice nice old hard covey Nice old hardcover that smells good, right? um But if I were to do it myself, it would require a lot of type setting like more than the books that I do now Where you know, it's basically just text for a latin book you would need lots of tables lots of you know, other little things that Using a different medium or at least a book of a different size like, you know The people who originally made those books Made them for the medium that they're in a book of the size they have In the constraints that they have with the pictures they have All that kind of stuff and I would kind of be reproducing them I mean, maybe I could do it It would take a lot probably a lot more work than it's worth considering that you can just get these books like the actual originals yourself Um, so that is probably what I recommend most doing maybe I'll experiment with it though Maybe maybe I'll just go because a lot of people have asked me about that. Um Since I do say that the ones from a hundred years ago are better But the nice thing is you can still get the ones from a hundred years ago on the internet I mean, I could probably look at let's say Latin Let's just see Just on ebay right now. Okay. Now I want to learn Latin not just some Okay, we'll just say beginning Latin Actually, some of this is sucky some of it's like stuff from the 60s 70s you got to get something from like a hundred years ago. Let's say collard daniel Let's see what comes up there. Maybe maybe there's just a lot less now than there was when I was looking for him Maybe I'm spelling collard daniel wrong Okay, maybe maybe I'm maybe what I just said is like less relevant now Okay, I really should just like look in the Latin section Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I should do it. It's not as good Yeah, I remember back in my day at least back a couple years ago You used to be able to just look and there was a lot of them, but I might just be searching in the wrong place All right, let me go back to donations Isaac says I surmise that you think Belonging to multiple cultures is cringe and bugment here But if one is born multicultural or mixed race, would you recommend basically picking identity or going with it or accepting your mixedness? no, I like uh, so I No, I don't know where you got that from. Um, like if that's your life situation That's what you have to do like if you're in a multicultural environment, right? Um, and a lot of times like that's how it is for people I mean, you know, that that's that's where a lot of in a lot of latin american countries Originally, that's how it was right because you know these people came They were basically a culture that is a mixed culture because you have like European and and indian ancestry and a lot of these people And you know, they shared that with all the other people in that situation, right? Um, so no, I don't necessarily think you should just choose one unless you're in a case where I mean unless you're in a case where like let's say you're in some part of America where it's like all white people if there's any place in america that's like that But if you're in a place of america where it's like all white people and like, um Let's say I don't know your dad married some chinese woman the only chinese woman in the world, right? um, so are you gonna I don't know are you gonna pretend to be like half chinese or something like that?  She doesn't really have much of a connection with that Um, but at the same time, you know, I knew I remember in Tucson.  Where it's like, uh, An american man and like an asian woman or something like that And they would basically raise their kids together because they're all in the same kind of environment All have kids in the same, I don't know mindset, you know what I mean So no, I don't I don't think you have to like pick one I don't think it's bug man tier because it's it's kind of the opposite of bug man tier because like I mean you are who you are and if that's who you are like i'm not telling you to um like the only situation where you would have to choose one is one where like One of your parents just has no contact to the world that you now live in That's when you would pick but if you're in a multicultural environment like, you know I was in miami the other day, right where a lot of people grow up bilingual and things like this It would be stupid to say. Oh, well. I'm just cuban.  Thanks for all the content two questions um Are you still gonna publish that dialogue you wrote on the metric system? Oh, wow. That's a that's from like years ago Wow. Yeah, maybe I should do that. I don't think I've ever finished it, but yeah a long time ago I wrote this dialogue.  I probably deleted what I had written when I was clearing things out, but you know, whatever um But yeah, that might I might do a video on the metric system because that is like that is like a a Ultimate reddit like opinion thing. It's like well lots of people believe it just because it's the default It's like oh the metric system. It's logical. Therefore. It's good Logical in reality. It's not logical.  Let me explain the modern mindset. Okay, if I wanted to like measure That you know, let's say I'm going to move this like bookshelf into another room A modern person. This is how they think it's insane What they would do is say oh, well, I'm going to get I'm going to go get a measuring tape And I'm going to measure how wide it is and then I'm going to measure How wide the thing is in the other room that where I want to put it and I'm going to see if it's going to fit Right, so I'm going to get this extra device now the the measurement like the number value actually doesn't really matter Like we're not going to multiply that we're not going to use it for its numerical purpose In the old days, what would you do you would take your body you would see oh, how many cubits is it? You know what I mean? Oh, I don't know it's one like maybe one in a third. It's like one in a third cubits It's about that like you don't need an extra device for that you would just measure it on your body You know what I mean or like a lot of body, you know a shaft mint is you know, how The length of a shaft that you can hold or things like this or you know, of course you have Palms and hands and things those are actually different like all of these measurements from different cultures This is like a universal where measurements would be calibrated to the human body and they'd be used You know ad hoc basically and of course if you were doing a big massive project, you would standardize measurements You would say okay. Well, we all have different length cubits. So we're going to use a standard cubit here I don't know the the engineer is going to measure his Cubit and we're going to make copies of that and we're going to use that for the length, right? Um, so it's it's more kind of real-worldy things Uh, and of course there are reasons to standardize measurements But the important thing to remember like metricizing things. I mean like metricizing things like cups Is so bizarre. It's like metrocyte It's like saying we need a metric measurement for a hand like using the term like handful Oh, that's good. Oh, everyone has a different size hand. I don't understand what that means No, you would understand exactly what it means shut up. You know what I mean? um So there's a lot to say about that and there are also measurements like um That don't even exist anymore that are highly useful. One is like a league Okay, so what a league is You know like 10,000 years or 10,000 leagues Or maybe it's 20,000 leagues under the sea, right? Now what a league is it actually doesn't really have anything to do with the sea A league is the distance that a person walks in an hour. Okay, that's what a league is So another thing is Let's say I I'm saying, okay. I live, you know down the road, you know a little bit and you ask How long away is that?  Okay, and people sometimes say that 30 minutes walk But a lot of times nowadays they'll be like, oh, how far away is you know the town? Oh, it's you know, so many miles or so many kilometers, right?  What what's a kilometer? Like that that's it doesn't correspond to anything Then you have to follow it up with the question of so how how far does it take to get there then? You know what I mean? so That's just to show you the difference in mindset between like the metrics metric system And everything else and of course I used miles as an example because the the us imperial system Is basically metricized in the sense that Everything is standardized and they don't think of measurements as corresponding to anything and they're not Like they're we just kind of ignore most of the traditional uses of measurements and don't really use them Other than like, okay. Well, we have dozens Right because they're divisible by three and four, which the metric system can't do But you know the the american system is basically just as bad as the metric system now anyway But that's a historical thing as well. So yeah, the metric system is kind of cringe and Let's see You don't know what a mile is luke.  Okay, that's the point measurement measurements and traditional measurements Systems correspond to real life things that people can understand a mile and a kilometer is an abstraction A mile, you know comes from oh, it's like a thousand paces Theoretically and then it's been stamped. No one even thinks of it as a thousand paces and that's not even a very meaningful thing to say, right? Yeah, and that that the only person in the modern world. I've even heard Say stuff like this. I think hayek used to he he adds something about like, oh the metric system isn't all it's cut out to be Um, but I don't actually know where he wrote that. I've just heard people allude to it I remember reading this like compendium of hayek like writings on hayek and people alluded to it But I never wrote down the reference So if anyone knows that tell me that A kilometer is a thousand meters.  That's fine I mean in the same way like but that's happenstance, you know And I mean in the same way in america, right? Um You know a mile is about how long it takes to drive in a minute Actually, it's very nice because an average Like, um, you know, if you drive on the highway in america, you usually drive Well, a conservative estimate is 60 miles an hour Realistically, you'll probably get like 70 80 if you're going kind of fast But um, you know 60 miles an hour is a good estimate for So you if you see like, oh that town is, you know 120 miles away, you know, oh, I'm gonna get there in like two hours. Maybe a little less, right? So for that reason, you know miles are coincidentally good For gauging time because it corresponds to how fast you go in a minute So you could you don't have to like do math with you know division to find out how far it's going to take to get somewhere Um, but that's just the coincidence, right? Um, yeah, I'm trying to think of like other examples other like kind of funny measurements Like, um, you know, again, like if you're measuring things in a fee like a lot of measurements like acres or You know fathoms and things like that There are measurements of like fields and things like that and of course different domains would have different measurements, right? So acre an acre is supposed to be like how much an ox could plow in a day, right? So that actually communicates a lot of information Um, you know about like, okay, what kind of material am I going to need for this kind of land? You know, what kind of wealth do I need how it's going to produce things like that? Um, or fathom a fathom is a t-pose So if you get up and do a t-pose a fathom is one finger to the finger on the other hand That's that's that's that and that is kind of used in um Like measuring farmland and chains because people would just go out.  Because all you know, all these measurements are based on like body parts and things like that um One liter of water equals one kilogram equals one dm cube. Yeah, see that this is exactly the thing with the metric system no one cares Like the the metric system is good at scaling things which no one ever does Except for an extremely rare scientific uses or when scaling across like, you know, why you know liquid to to um, um Solids and things like that things that no one uses like this is this is the insanity of the metric system You throw everything out the the door and then you have this Like logical looking system that does useless things very well Now i'm not against the metric system existing And in america, of course, we use it for scientific things because that it makes sense to use it there It's not an either or thing and this you know, as I just said there would be different measurements for different domains It makes sense for the metric system to be used In a scientific domain where it's important to do things like that, right? It doesn't make any sense to like measure you know I don't know like measure something in your real life with the metric system, you know what I mean um Okay, I've been talking about this for too long Uh, I have not read donations in a while. I should probably check Okay, crypto bear Uh, send a message he encrypted in pgp. Let me decrypt it I was nice seeing you in person. This is crypto bear. It's nice seeing you in person now for uh, now for sure No, you aren't a deep fake. I have a professional background in offensive security if you ever, uh, want to do a video about Uh, to do a video and want some help reach out for sure Email, which is private. He gives me his top secret email. All right. Yeah, I'll definitely consider that Um, sorry, uh, your original message got a little lost there Um silish Donates again as a christian with cognitive science Cognitive science experience. Do you have any interesting insights into the mind-body problem? I imagine you're some kind of dualist.  Like there's some things you just don't think about But the the thing that is most problematic for a materialistic worldview Is not like some rarefied thing that we experience everyone like some weird evidence, you know secret Oh, here's the proof that the the spirit world exists or something like that, but It is the it's the hardest problem in science And that is just consciousness itself. You know what I mean? Because consciousness is not, you know, he Here's what I would even when I was an atheist. Here's what I would tell people I would say listen the thing with consciousness and how it's constructed like we can we can say how things in the brain correlate with consciousness Okay, we can see You know how you get knocked on the head and you go unconscious, right? Or something happens to your brain and it changes something But the experience itself the qualia that we have Is something that is Kind of by its nature something that you cannot derive from anything material And i'm not just saying something like oh, we don't have a scientific theory of it yet because we do have scientific theories of How things correlate with conscious phenomena, but what what I think is totally out of the realm of The ability of any kind of atomistic materialistic worldview of even beginning to broach I mean it can't even think about broaching it is the fact that consciousness exists Like it is the proof in your face all the time that there is clearly something more like we are not philosophical zombies We can imagine a world just like this Where there are philosophical zombies that don't have consciousness and are still doing the things that we're doing, right? They they're just not aware of it, but but that awareness that like consciousness is something that fundamentally we will never have a Scientific explanation for that makes sense because I don't think it's possible like there's no way I mean it's kind of like, you know, hum who was a big atheist, of course made made this statement that You know, you can never get a statement from an is, you know I mean no matter how many statements about the world you can't get some moral judgment just out of the blue from factual statements, right? And I think it's the same way from scientific knowledge from materialistic Magic or not even magic, but even surprising materialistic phenomena You will never be able to have broach anything similar to consciousness experience itself You know what I mean? um, and that's something that like I saw as an atheist like It didn't like I wouldn't say it bothered me But I just sort of knew we're never going to have like a good theory of this Now you might say well, oh, just just as an aside, right?  It gives you an output and consciousness. I don't know it comes from somewhere It's some kind of like emergent phenomena or something, you know that we don't really understand Oh, I read g e b and it was really interesting, but you know didn't say anything.  There are computing aspects to it. A lot of it is computing But it's partially a receiver And in the same way, you know, if you take a tv and you like Bash a baseball bat out on it, right? Um, you are not destroying the people in the tv That's just the signal that it's receiving And in the same way, you know, if you destroy someone's brain or damage it in some way It does affect their consciousness, right? It does affect how they act It does affect all that kind of stuff But that doesn't mean at all that consciousness is something physical Because the brain, you know as a receiver it can receive something that is that is, you know, non-physical in some way So I think that's a better way of looking at it um So so I think that that is um, you know consciousness was It will always be the biggest scientific problem if you have this materialistic view Of the world and I I don't think and even as an atheist I didn't I was never confident that there would be a good explanation of it and I can confidently say I think there never will be Because it is just one of those things that is so Different like no matter how much you know about how atoms go together and how they create create emergent phenomena We're not talking about merely an emergent phenomena as some unexpected result. We're talking about experience itself you know, so That is um, so I guess you could say that that's a kind of dualism um Maybe maybe more than dualism. Maybe there are three levels. Who knows like if you want to think of it Like that, but clearly atomism is not sufficient even an atomism that's very smart about talking about emergent phenomena right Stuart says Recently I've read or re read and re watched your videos on the classical definition of freedom And Skinner's boxes where you see seen in my view to take a positive view of the former And negative view of the latter I have a hard time seeing how each of these is different from uh, each other Is it because one is imposed top down and the other has organically risen from the bottom up? Curious as to your thoughts on this thing for your good work. Um, yeah, I think I think that I think you know what I'm getting at here um That that is partially at so Skinner and social engineers now They want to put us in this box And control our behavior and ultimately give us behaviors that are unnatural or go against our our our Inborn desires or you know, they want to change us and engineer us to be something that cannot function You know as god and nature intend, you know, I mean that's what's bad about that whereas You know, there is a sense in which the universe is a giant Skinner's box and that doesn't make it bad, right? But there is a sense in which um, you know We have to be constrained in in uh, you know, what we do and there's a natural feedback loop in the world Um, you know all that kind of stuff is very much true, right and that that's a good thing Um, so Skinner's box a Skinner's box is a perversion of that Right, it's trying to take man from his natural environment and contort him into something different Uh, so yeah, yeah, if you look at those at surface value, and I think I I remember getting a critical comment That said something like that like oh, this is a critical blah blah blah No, no, you get it right when you say yeah, it's an issue of top down versus organic You know natural things that that that's that's a good summation of you know, where that comes from Phillip, um Donates five Let's make this stream wholesome. Do you mind sharing? Your path to christ god bless you and all the work you do also hope you leave The soy Protestant church and make the longer commute to the true church Well, as I said, I will probably actually be going to the truth true church for Easter Uh real eastern Easter not uh, not not you know the gregorian western Easter. That's a week early um so that That's a long story the path to christ. That's a long story Obviously, you know, obviously I grew up in a Protestant church and things like that and was was baptized and all that kind of stuff, but um I mean, I feel like It was a very gradual thing I was an atheist for maybe like 12 years or something like that I would say from 16 Wait, no, how does that add up?  I was just like I just wanted to I wanted that to be available to me you know what I mean, um as for how I return I wouldn't say return I would because I would say that I'm in a much better position than I ever was before um But as for how I came back to christ, it was kind of I mean, you know, you know, there's that quote that Greatest trick the devil over pulled is Convincing the world that he didn't exist Right, I will say nowadays the devil is overplaying his hand And it's increasingly difficult. It became very difficult for me to not believe that there are Evil forces like I'm not the kind of person like I will sometimes like say things like oh Freaking satanism and it is everywhere and stuff like that But there's a sense in which I started this like I started to look at the world in terms of you know, maybe there are maybe there actually is Other forces at work And simultaneously I was reading more classical philosophy not actually christian philosophy You know this is before I was reading Aquinas or anything like that or Augustine Um, I was reading actually pagan philosophy. I read hermetic stuff I read things that might be called occult like I don't like that word because occult is like kind of Stupid, but like classical philosophy like plateness stuff hermetic stuff and it was weird as an atheist I was reading this stuff and eating it up And there were two things that I started noticing like one is that how sensible and scientific I thought This worldview was right Just oh, it's different. It's different from us Right, but but but how sensible it was, but at the same time I was realizing how Familiar it was to christian theology. I was like actually this is pretty close to Oh, look, you know the platenists You know the the platenists have this kind of trinity thing too like that's a philosophical concept to them, right or Um, you know the hermetics have all these ideas that are similar to the the trinity You know the logos and all the all this kind of stuff and So I was more familiar with these Philosophical so like that kind of served as a bridge for me to say, you know what maybe I should re-evaluate Christianity seriously um Because you know when I grew up and for the many other people who grew up in Protestant churches like low church Well high church Protestants are probably worse because they basically like worship homosexuality But low church Protestants who you know at least have simulance of being christians, right where um, you know Southern Baptist kind of people, right?  He's in the clouds. He's like us You know, oh, maybe he has a beard, you know, like now obviously that is Theologically false, but it's an appropriate way to talk about things That's how the bible and it talks about things, right? Whereas For southern baptists the historical and theological background of all of this is just like it's it's Ablated from their mind. It's just like lobotomized from them. So what happens to so many southern baptists is they get kind of Brainlit, I mean I shouldn't even say brainlit real, but but they get the the simple stuff And there there's they can see clearly to be like, oh, this is obviously not true, right? This is like just silliness, right? The god, you know, oh I don't know you can think of your typical atheist arguments and things like that for for this kind of clumsy christianity, right? But that's because you know in the past there was always this understanding again when christianity came to europe It didn't like come as some kind of alien thing. It gradually filtered in partially in relationship to these The philosophy that was pre-existing at the time where people had this idea Well, you know greeks were going through this idea that well, you know, maybe individual gods don't exist Maybe there's just like one god behind them all kind of similar to some what some hindu nominal polytheists believe nowadays, right? um so All of that is to say is that you know one of the reasons a lot of christians leave the church Is because they only get kind of the the the 100 IQ person view of what god You know is supposed to be which is not a full story and it's not a sufficient story for people who have Who who are more introspective? So the they have to find they have to find autism They have to find that philosophical grounding and a lot of christians now are not fit to even understand it But um, you know, or they have no connection to it historically if you're a protestant, especially like there's no such thing as intellectualized christianity is just let me open the bible and this is what I think it's saying, you know um So once I was put in contact with that and once I started looking at at things From that light. I suddenly realized oh Like christianity. I mean it's more than possible. It's it's significantly probable And I started going to church and even when I this was a couple years. This is like maybe five years ago. I don't know um But you know, I started going to church just kind of as a lark first Um as I started doing this, you know, even before that I had started Oh, maybe I should go to church just to do it just to know people or whatever um But you know after very short time. I was like, yeah, I yeah, I do believe this like I do believe Uh, you know, I I do have this knowledge not That you know, maybe I didn't have before That can that enables not just enables me, but it almost makes me believe You know what I mean? It makes me have faith. So, um And it's hard to under I'm giving you generalities like I I I can't for time's sake. I guess, you know, I don't want to bore everyone here For well, I'm sure everyone's everyone should be excited, you know, but um You know, I It's nothing that I can spell out, you know, just here trying to add a little bit But there are a bunch of specific things that that happened and just things in the world and things In my personal life as well served as a testimony as well, right because I I saw the damage That atheism caused people Um, and of course that is not sufficient to believe, right that you know, it could be that atheism is true Even if it's harmful, right?   So there has to be something And maybe people have converged on this before maybe it's you know, maybe it's something familiar, right? Um, so yeah, I mean, that's a general Uh, general that's that was um, you know, my mindset that was coming to me Um, and then of course I started praying and stuff, you know, you should really start praying before You know, even when you think of yourself as an atheist, right? You should start praying And hope that your prayers for faith are heard, right? Um And uh, the same and go to church as well, you know, I've always recommended people to do that So yeah, that's what I have to say about that So, um Uh, hey luke, it was great talking to you at minaretopia.  Okay. Yeah, yeah nice meeting you Yep Yeah, that's right guys. They were not just women but also black people have minaretopia Actually, there are there are a couple of black guys there if I remember, right? Some of them are just like hanging out at the front though Uh, let's see who else, um I will say for for all the people For all the people I did meet in minaretopia I I probably told most of you that I usually I hate people who say Oh, I'm not good with names, but I've met so many people then Maybe a couple names I remember but like I was basically not trying to remember names So don't get offended if I you know, um, all right another donation Um, thanks for all the brilliant content luke. I'm wondering if everything is all right with lindy press I didn't receive the book um The lulu the book or lulu number and apparently my emails are not Being received. Where can I contact you from on that matter? Let me let me check the lindy press Oh, I I got your email today or no yesterday. I just didn't respond to it. I see you here. So, um If you got a if it said okay, so the server had a little error sometimes when you order a book It'll say oh your lulu number is none. That's just like a server error. I haven't fixed it yet Um, if you do have it is there. Don't worry about it. You have a lulu number Um, if you want to look it up, I will email it to you Right now so I don't forget it I'm going to I'm literally I'm gonna email it to you immediately and just gonna have I'm not gonna say anything else in the email. Let's see your name is Okay Oh, yeah, yeah, so yours shipped um Is that lude?  I don't have the lulu numbers on my freaking staff.  It's a right tracking number, but it's not It's not going on. It's not working on the fedex site Okay, I'm just going to give you the tracking number Yeah, it's possible that it might not work in your country Um, but yes, yours has yours has printed and shipped Okay, so, um Yeah, so you contacted me at the right place. I just didn't check that email today Okay, let's see if I got anything else um Any updates on your plans to move to your own hardware and collocate it to a data center near you So you talked about it in a previous previous live stream recording. I haven't had any the past couple weeks I've been mega mega busy Since I haven't put up videos It's just like every day like something happens or there, you know, I was out of town this week um, and then last week, dude, I've I've had like birthday parties and social events and like All of these things I've just been kind of busy It's I didn't intend to stop putting videos up because I was on a roll of like putting up videos And then it was like this happened and this happened this time. I don't know like I gotta do I I don't have time for that. So, um, yeah, I've not made any progress on that because I haven't had time But I do still plan on doing it All right, so, uh, looks like I'm through donations right now. So I'm gonna look at the normal chat Uh What's a lindy press supply chain like do you manually print all the books? No, I I use a print on demand service called lulu and The nice thing is basically all the work I do in lindy press now is Um, you know maintain the website, but um Like, you know types at the books themselves They print them. They ship them. They deal with all that So I don't have to worry about that. Okay. I really have to go to the bathroom. I've really got to go Uh, I will be right back. I really should have some like obs thing to be like, I'll be back in a minute. Here. Let's watch a video Actually, let's watch a video. There's a video um There is a video that I want to uh show you guys Where is it? There it is there. Give me a second. No, I'm not even talking Uh, okay Let me figure this out on obs. We're gonna watch a highly educational and important video just like a minute long I put it up on my peer tube instance, but I want you to see it Because I think it'll make a difference I think it'll change your it should change your life this this one minute video will change your heck in life Um Do I have Okay, I do have audio How do I do Let me set everything up. Okay. I got on one audio output capture at existing That so let me see if that works Hold on Yeah, okay, and then I will add We will add window capture Of this thing. Yeah. This is what we want. Okay. Here's an educational video kids We're gonna watch it. We're gonna watch it Okay, I hope the audio is gonna go through In the face of a global pandemic All right Every little dot here is that cell phone Look at that Look at that That's your cell phone bro Massive potential impact just one single beach gathering can have is spreading these fibers across our nation It can be hard for us. So we realize sometimes just how connect our world really is until the data tells us stories that we just can't see See that's what i'm talking about kids Gamers be like, oh luke is just complaining about cell phones. Oh, what's the big deal? Come on, man It doesn't matter. Oh wait, did I turn my audio off? No, no, I didn't Yeah, see this is what i'm talking about because it it's Discussed the audio super low. Well, whatever you saw it Yeah global pandemic Yeah, it was probably going off of uh my speaker either way you get the idea So, yeah, that's what i'm talking about though. So it's uh That's software they have all they need is your cell phone metadata Okay, they can zoom in. Oh billy johnson was here We can select all of the him and everyone around him and then follow where they go Very easy thing to do. I actually showed this video at manara talk Um, although as I said like they're they they're av like their lighting was not very good So I don't think many people saw it, but that's what it looks like. So um And so yeah, my whole point I was talking about like cell phone metadata and how bad it is but um so If you think and mind you this is this is still the case if you're using a free and open source You know or something like it's still that's still how it works, right? um They're just evil. They're just evil devices Noticing some memey mannerisms. Did you have wait noticing some memer memey mannerisms? Did you have to deal with a lot of redditors at manirica? Did you're from like autocorrect something because that sentence doesn't make any sense Why you want a phone? Do you have something to hide luke? Oh, yeah Yeah reject cell phone return to pager Actually just return to not having anything. Let's see Uh freddy says I tried to donate to you twice and it just hangs on submitting I will check that Obviously the the other donations have gone through but I will check on that um If it charges you multiple times, I'll go refund one of those Uh because of larbs you motivated me to create my own bootstrapping script. Um Thank you I had a question about your comment regarding software prices. Uh projects headed by libtards I also have had the same concern, but it isn't the gnu project and gnu But isn't the gnu project and gnu emacs particularly long lasting projects that have stood the test of time Well, they eventually fail. So there's a difference between like richard stallman And like a hji w. Okay, so like someone being a communist Like I would when I say libtard. I'm not talking about like richard stallman or something like that I feel like most people know what I'm talking about. I think probably you get get it. That's not the same thing Will they eventually fail? I am embarrassed to admit to you I have been using emacs for several years And it's too late to switch, but I certainly don't know how to identify with most of the user's political ideology I mean, I don't know.  Um, but I mean look at look at Like mozilla Like like mozilla is run by people like that all over the place and they're making things things worse and worse and worse But firefox frankly is like still the best browser Like the corruption takes a long long time, you know what I mean? So it's not like oh just like I'm just saying if you have a choice between like open bsd and free bsd And it is actually true if you know, this is just my judgment that free bsd has more of that type of people I would go with open bsd, but if you're given a choice Make that is a good deciding factor to use But you know, it's not like oh this Piece of software is written by some psycho. So I'm not going to use it, right? And you know long-standing technical tech projects again, like firefox or like Linux itself or like emacs Possibly if this is how it is I wouldn't expect them to just like die Because they have some weird subversives who have other priorities than programming, right? You know in some of those people still can You know divorce themselves from their ideology and function like write functional things, you know They're not all like that But a significant a portion that's large enough for them to cause problems are like that okay Firefox engine is still great compared to cuck cuckium. Yeah Do you have javascript disabled by default? No no um Like javascript is So necessary that a lot of sites will just not function like I don't think youtube or youtube studio will function I couldn't do this on my browser Like javascript is necessary for a lot of Sites so there's not much unless you're specifically browsing sites that are like mine where I keep it very simple, right? um How do you feel about the brave browser? Uh, I mean, I don't use it anymore just because I mean the reason I use the brave browser is just because it I've heard this noise. It's a cat.  You don't want um, but the thing is firefox You know, it's just more of a problem Because they don't have all this stuff installed But once you configure firefox and you set all the settings and it's really better than brave and that's what I ended up Dude, that's why I don't use brave anymore. I just there was just one day I finally had time and I'm like, I'm gonna configure Firefox to just like make it work and I use the arken fox j s with some changes and Yeah, take the libre wolf pill. No, so like libre wolf and all those like firefox clones are just advised because If you have firefox with a good arken fox j s That's just the same as libre libre wolf or whatever But the difference is like firefox gets quicker updates and it's you know, more higher on the the Priority like it's better to have like using using a lot of these forks or like downstream things is kind of ill advised for different reasons And especially when you can just configure firefox and a lot of like libre I forget if it's libre wolf But a lot of those forks will have stupid crap in them anyway that you have to get rid of so you might as well just Get arken fox's j s and like chain or user j s or whatever it is. I think I've been calling it arken fox j s I don't know why but um Yeah, I did the same with brave and firefox. Yeah What are your thoughts on the lookism and black pillar community? Is that like freaking is that like incel kind of things? I don't know.  Can you believe just like stop bothering me? I don't know. It's just annoys me and it's it's it's not it's not something they believe because it improves their position It's something they believe because it like gratifies them.  They're like so screwed.   What's a redder one that reddit one? I don't know So I i'm not a big fan of those.   Um, so I don't use sites like that like if I see a reddit like I wish I could just freaking ban reddit from search results I wish I could just do that because I'm like the thing is especially with tech stuff You'll look up a question and you'll see oh look a reddit thread where someone's having the same problem I'll click on it and this guy will it'll have the result It'll have the like the answer and it will never ever ever ever have the answer There's never been a single successfully answered question on reddit and if it is answered It's answered in the stupidest way by the stupidest person and they misunderstand things and they I don't know It's just stupid like their entire like it drives me nuts Like you know how there are those ai generated sites where it's just like junk text That is what reddit basically is, you know Knitter is cool because it allows me to follow friends using rss. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I guess they do have rss stuff I mean, that's nice. That's nice Um, what are people even talking about in the chat? I'm looking at this. I'm like whatever Can you add Minus reddit to your search query? um I mean, yeah, you could probably put in the num, like I don't want that to have to do that every single time um Yeah, really I I forget I don't know if cirks has integrated block lists yet But if it has I will definitely start my own instance and add a block list because I just like most internet searches I know I did a video a while back on like white internet cert like When google kind of searches suck Nowadays because they only give you ai generated sites that just try to get strong seo and then Shill sites like mainstream media sites that kind of junk Like you don't get any actual freaking websites, you know search results anymore Like it just does not happen. You will never find that anymore They're just front-ends for the same crap social media sites So it would just be nice to have a cirks instance where I could just say I'm sorry I don't want to see what reddit has to say about this I don't want to see what the southern poverty law center has to say about this I don't want to hear about any of this Can I just ban these sites because they're only up there because they're forced memes anyway, you know what I mean Yeah, I could add it to the search like I'm sorry. I'm not going to add all of these to the search engine or the search string What's luke growing this year? Um corn potatoes okra cranberry hibiscus um tomatoes some new herbs I want to do time Chamomile my time plant died um I have a massive Roseberry and a rosemary rosemary and also oregano bush that's doing fine um basil Uh, what else am I growing? I don't know. Oh, yeah, sweet potatoes that I'm gonna have to start late because I haven't finished the slips And it might finally just get chickens. Oh, yeah. Okay. Someone mentioned yandex. I was gonna say something about yandex too So the stuff that I said about search engines. Here's the interesting thing. They only apply to you know I was gonna say the z word on youtube, but um They only apply to search engines in western countries, right? Does not actually apply to the yandex if you look things up in yandex, you know what you get you get the real results Like that's the weirdest thing about yandex now yandex, of course is still a privacy nightmare. It's just like freaking russian google um, I'd rather have russia have my personal information than the american government, but yandex is like Like it's infinitely better when you're searching for either images or just regular web searches It's just so much better. So if I were forced to use like a proprietary Uh search engine, I would use yandex um Yeah ziggurat Yeah, it was ziggurat Yandex is good for getting search things Uh search results google Google doesn't want you to know but the same goes for russia things russia doesn't want you to know Yeah, but the thing is There's nothing like I have no qualms with the russian government like i'm not looking for things that they're trying to hide, you know what I mean So hypothetically yandex would be good. I mean, it's the same thing in like china Like a lot of people say well russia and china they censor people too. Well, yeah, they do They censor like dissidents who are like trying to overthrow their freaking government and considering I don't care About their government.  Well, definitely duck duck go right. They have bank tags.   So maybe they do maybe they don't It's not google. It's better to use than google, right? Um, but duck duck go came out and they said oh my goodness. Well, we have to like derank russian Search results and all this kind of stuff and richard stallman even even before that I remember like a year or two ago. He put out an article talking about how Like they derank.  Um And here they are they're censoring results They've probably been doing it for a freaking while because there's no way of catching them on that They've probably been logging results or log it, you know logging things you put in all that kind of stuff, but Yeah, yeah, yeah, who owns duck duck. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah We yeah, we all know that should include you off But you know and and he he previously what's his name? His name is like Weinberg or something I think it's it's something Duh, um But he worked it used to work for some kind of like analytics kind of like something super suspicious like something that's like Oh, yeah, I worked for this Monitoring company. Oh, and then I decided to create a No monitoring privacy search engine. Yeah Uh, Silesh says do you really think being a pragmatic Christian i.e being a Christian mainly on pragmatic telebian grounds is that bad Metaphorical Christianity might not be the same thing as real Christianity But it seems to be a lot better than being an atheist hedonist or something like that. Well Uh I mean, it's better in the sense that it might get you to real Christianity Uh, but i'm just not a fan of this. I mean you call it telebian. I mean, I think of it more as like Jordan peter stein kind of I don't know like oh i'm I don't know like oh, I really like talking about Christian things and like pretending to be it But I don't believe in anything, you know, it's it's kind of It's kind of cringe to be honest But you know, maybe if it gets you closer to reality and being a Christian, you know, maybe that's good Um, maybe you're doing less harm, but I'm very I am very suspicious of all the people who endorse that kind of Oh, I oh like I believe I believe in god But I believe god is like a metaphor and it's like oh, yeah the holy grail and like all those people i'm just so Suspicious of and I'm kind of nervous.  I'm not going to do videos talking about oh, this guy sucks, but you know, it's just weird Brave search is good, but it suffers from the same censorship indirectly or maybe directly since it learns from google Yeah, I don't I've never used brave search Jordan peterson is christ-pilled now. I think okay. See that's the thing every month Someone will say oh jordan peterson has become a christian.  Oh jordan peterson became a christian They've been doing it for freaking years. In fact before I really knew about him You know his first year or two online Where I sort of saw him in the background I just kind of assumed he was a christian because he was talking about that kind of stuff all the time Right, and that's what people do.  Yeah, there's sirks searx You can install it on any computer And what it does is it it when you search in a term in it it just Automatically pulls a bajillion other search engines and aggregates the results so You can cater them to your liking you can say.  Um, yeah, I I plan on publishing patriarca on lindy press How do you know to trust sirks? Well, it's open source You can verify that it is not spying on you and doing bad things How's your car been has it been working? All right. Yes, it has So so do you think charlemagne the father of christianity had a personal relationship with jesus? I don't know if you're making a joke on the um The uh, what is it the the hindson chronological revisionism Funny if you are Um If you're having some like reddit atheist thing about like, oh christianity wasn't invented until this day or not, you know cringe that uh Anthony says, uh, are you married if if not? Why not? I I don't talk about anything so I started this a couple years ago. I don't talk about personal things There's a period where I was thinking about like doing things with like my family and uh Like streams with other people that I know in real life Uh, and I just I just decided not to so I don't I don't answer personal questions like that so Because you know, I obviously I've always been fine putting my name out there and all that crap, but um Yeah, I don't I don't do that on the behalf of anyone else and a lot of people around me like I don't think they I don't know. I don't really want them involved like I think that um I have like if I do do something with people like people in my real life Uh, it would probably be, you know, everyone at once it wouldn't be, you know, I don't want to put Now I'm just overthinking things in my head I've I've thought I'm thinking about videos that I've thought about doing in the past But you know, no, I I don't talk about personal things like that Um Or I do talk about personal things. I don't talk about other people's personal things. We'll put it that way So to tell you, um to answer that question would You know put other people at risk so Luke did you ever talk to sam hide? No, I've never talked to sam hide Is that chair comfortable?  No, it's actually awful.  I mean it is comfortable as a chair, but to use it as a desk chair. It's the wrong height It's I don't know. It just doesn't work It just doesn't work Although maybe I'll at least stretch my back out because I've been like hunched over Uh So many cringe takes in this chat says nick. I I'm what's all the cringe stuff? I haven't even been looking at it How spinny is that chair? Uh, I guess it doesn't spin never actually tried Okay, let me check do niches Okay Yeah, it looks like my I need to upgrade my web server because I feel like it's been using a lot of memory When when I do streams and people are on the donate page and other things I think that's why it was probably messing up for that other guy um Luke isn't it a little too coincidental that the universe was birthed 13 billion years ago There's tens of billions of years until heat death of the universe and we just happen to exist now What what do you mean coincidental? I don't really get that. Well, firstly the world is only 6 000 years old But uh, I don't understand what's coincidental I mean, we'd have to exist at some time if we existed, right? So why how is this time less likely than any other? Do you still recommend and use vulture? Yeah, I do I use um, I use it for most of my vps's I probably have five But I uh, Luke would you recommend tender? No What? Um, I I've probably around five or six on vulture and then I have a couple on frantic And I would recommend frantic harder But they are always super limited like they only use physical devices from what I understand like they don't they don't have Which is you know based or whatever like that's what I would do, right? But you know So but they don't always have much available Vps's like they'll only have like I think they say the first and the seventh of every month is when they have a couple things for yelp But I don't think they're trying to scale up that much So like I think the only place I recommend frantic is on the landshad.net tutorial for um pure tube Because I use that I use it for pure tube and now I use it for not related um And they're pro like I I I really like them more that well There are a couple things that vulture is better for but I kind of like them more than vulture And I would recommend more people to use them But they couldn't like if I recommended 10 000 people to use them It would be too much for them Whereas vulture evidently has been able to scale up happily The business team calendar says earth is 7530 years old. Oh, maybe I'm wrong Have you checked out young earth creationist giddy and lasar?  I didn't really I mean I I I saw videos with him and I tried to look for I guess contentful stuff But it was just I mean it wasn't like nitty gritty So he was just talking to me in generalities like he wasn't like trying to convince people I couldn't find anything Substantial, I don't know. I'm not like dismissing what he said I just probably didn't find it but I tried to watch a couple videos with him in it Well, I can't you tell us the juicy stories from about your time in grad school because I don't know I said eventually someday I'll do a video interview on that Because it's more like it would be it would be too weird I would have to be interviewed about that in person Because it's too long of a story. It would sound too autistic Me just talking about things And it would require a dialogue format. That's what I'm saying. I'm a content creator. I'm a content creator I know I know how these things work. I'm just saying it would work better Okay, uh, I got some donation Anthony says apologies. I guess I meant more. Um What are your thoughts on marriage versus a bachelor of lifestyle? Oh, okay Uh, if this is still too personal, I understand. No, I'm fine talking about that. I just don't want to involve other people. Um So, uh Okay I've said stuff like this before I think pretty much everyone should be married like a a monastic life is a rarer thing although, um, you know if you're a young guy de facto you you live a monastic life and I think it's important for younger guys to folk like think less about women like people who ask me these questions and People who talk about like lookism and like the these incel people or whatever um I mean not even not even to use those terms, but just in general Young men think way way way way too much about women way too much Like the fact that I get questions on my streams about girls and like girl advice is just like I just find it weird that I don't know people would be so desperate as to like ask someone they don't know about this kind of stuff.  It's not productive. I don't like those people um But yeah, the bachelor lifestyle if you're just asking should I just be single and live it for myself? No, that's stupid But if you're living a life of you know Um That that's devoted to higher things Spiritual things godly things or even community things getting married later might be an okay thing Uh, or getting married not at all if you take some kind of vow of of celibacy or something like that, but um, you know just living Like I don't know it's it's mixed from different people like different people's lives will be different, right? um, I would just say Get married when you find like a 10 out of 10 girl in terms of quality Right, like don't don't settle for less and in the meantime don't obsess about it and focus on things that matter Which are like not you having random flings with girls or not you Uh being frustrated because you can't have random flings with girls because you're awkward or something um So, yeah getting married is good Having children is good um But uh if if it is not feasible for you to do or At your position in life Because you're too young or inexperienced or not attractive because you don't have any Accomplishments or skills or anything on your belt Uh, then don't fret about it. Don't worry about it all that like that's a natural thing like men are slower burns than women Okay, this is someone who's on the the once you're on the other side of being 20 something Like once you get over your 20s, you will realize this you'll realize that like when you're freaking 20 years old Girls are hot stuff and guys are like valueless And so like your average guy trying to get with your average girl. It's like freaking Fighting uphill. That's not the case when you're 20. It's like the opposite Well, when you're 20 when you're a 30 year old guy, you're not even interested in girls who are 30 It's like, I'm sorry. You're I hope you I hope you find fulfillment elsewhere. It's it's like they're not in the running anymore I mean people talk about hitting the wall or whatever um But all of that is to say men are slower burns and if you're a young guy don't freak out You know don't don't freak out about not being around girls because Living like living a life when you're not around them should be focused on more important things And preparing for when you do find a girl who's worth it, right?  I do not I do not endorse Uh, it doesn't mean you can have a little fun.  Oh, and we'll be friends afterwards or something like that. I was thinking that they their brains work like men, which they don't um, the girls like every relationship I've had I mean, it's not even to say any of them were like terribly bad, but I Would rather have not had them in the past. You know what?  I mean if you're not getting married and having children It's a waste to have sexual flings with girls. Okay. It's just a waste. There is no there's no More than fleeting pleasure in that. Okay, you're not gonna get some deep Like maybe you'll get some knowledge about the world in terms of oops. I got myself burnt here But that's about it. So That's my statement Uh, brian says thoughts on dugun's fourth political theory not eurasianism Which is specific to russia and central asia basically opposition to liberalism And the u.s. world order socialism without the materialism and atheism tones and a focus on racial and national identities without Being racist and imperialism Um, I don't I mean other than your description that you just gave I don't know anything about it Um, I mean I I hear about him all the time never read his stuff I think I think it's just kind of out of my cultural environment since he's you know in the russian environment Um, I I know back in the alt-right days people would name drop him Um, but you know, I definitely never looked into him and you know, so so I don't know Other than I mean your description of him like sounds good Like the the sound like good things, but uh, you know, I Don't give any specific endorsement to him because I don't know about him Uh, syed says Um, hi luke. I always wanted to say this to you. Have you ever read about islam? I recently advised Advised advised you to get to do it Most of the stuff you talk about in terms of how life is supposed to be lived is Actually, what is long to you?  I mean, well bare minimum I know more than most people of islam have never been interested in it. I believe in the trinity Uh, I believe that jesus is god. So You know, not i'm not interested in that I mean, you can you can read the old apology like christian apologetics against islam if you want to hear my my point on it um What is it was it gregory nazian who um Was he the one who had like the polemic against islam? I'm trying to it may have been Uh, where he talks about like splitting the trinity and stuff like that. Anyway um Oh, sorry I went to the So I think I said at the beginning, but I wasn't going to read super chats But you know, I've just pulled it up and the youtube super chats are there So I'll read it. I'm still playing to visit eastern europe. Was I planning to oh? Yeah, there was a time where I was like floating the idea that has become less likely due to developments in my life But maybe I yeah, I I might if I go to europe, I'll go to east europe Um, have you ever another super chat? Have you ever read red renaissance? scapegoat talked to a guy yesterday about social media making it impossible for society to agree on a fitting sacrifice um Yeah, I've never I've never read that. I don't know anything about that Well islam is a plagiarism of judieism and christianity. I well, so you know, there is that old book. Um Where is it? Uh What's his freaking name christoff? luxembourg It's a pseudonym where he wrote that book on like the syria or aramaic Reading of the Quran. Anyway, like one of his points. Actually, this isn't just with his theory. This is in general Like there are a lot of people Just to give you one big cultural difference between now and the middle ages Is it, you know, we think of islam as being a different religion? Right, or we have this contest.  I'm gonna get it. I'll talk about islam in just a second Um So in the middle ages people did not think of islam as being a different religion in christian europe Um, they didn't have a term for islam, you know, they call it mohammedidism or you know, the followers of mohammed um But you know when dante in this is obviously later middle middle ages or the renaissance and when dante Uh writes his uh divine comedy specific specifically inferno Uh, he puts mohammed in hell of course, but he puts them in the the hell for schismatics Okay, because you know schismatic being someone who splits the church, you know Has some group leave the church and do something else because in the middle ages and this is true of Of theologians back then they viewed islam not as a different religion But really just a heretical vision or a heretical version of christianity That you know similar to to arian heresies and things like that They deny the full divinity of christ and things like that um So the idea of a lot of medieval christians was that islam is just kind of deformed christianity um And there are some historians Now who will say yeah, that's basically true like it was basically a A reaction, you know, they didn't like the idea of the trinity They were like oh, no, this is too far, you know, they came from that kind of arian background And they were still kind of or uh, you know, some kind of an historianism Where they would they they were just Against the idea of the trinity and some of the doctrine that that was being spelled out at the time or really earlier And they had split off and you know Formed this group and of course mohammed was the one who who popularized it I mean that is actually a compatible view with islam. In fact, really, that's what islam thinks of itself They're like, oh, well all the other religions. They've been corrected or something like that um But yeah, I mean medieval christians would Basically looked at islam as being I mean they looked at islam as kind of in the same way that we might look at like Protestantism, you know, if we were catholics or something Um, it's just like some they believe the wrong things um, like they there's a sense in which like they This is a very liberal thing to say, but they worship the same good um, but that's arguably not the case in islam because you know, obviously christians worship, uh They try you and god, right? You know a god who has You know Who who is the monad the spirit and the logos, right? um, whereas Muslims don't believe in that they just believe oh, it's just one thing and like God wasn't incarnated and all that kind of stuff. So Oh I like a luke smith eastern european travel vlog channel. You call it bald and based Yeah, yeah, maybe I'll go to eastern europe sometime But we'll see. I like I really hate traveling. I've probably talked about this before. I really love that Even traveling to miami, which I mean, it's just like a day or two drive Uh was not very good Drew says luke, what's your current distro and desktop manager and hardware? uh, thinkpad 220 uh, artix linux and dwm Hasn't changed in the past You know two three years Let's see. I've been using I've probably been using Artix for only maybe two years But it's like basically identical to arch. So I kind of consider it arch. I mean, it's the same Thing desktop manager. I oh wait. No, you mean desk. Sorry. I thought you meant window manager um, yeah, window manager use dw and desktop managers are for like normies and like, I don't know noobs I don't use desktop managers Because that that wait, am I thinking of the right term because that's just a login screen I don't use a login screen. I just log in on the command line So log in in the tty um, but yeah, I've used dwm uh for my window manager for Three years, I don't know before that. I probably used i3 for maybe two years And before that I was using windows There's a brief time. I let's see. There's a brief time.  No, it's just the normal when I do a live stream My nose itches. Oh, it's getting late man. We got to go to bed to go to church Oh Okay, get out of here cat. Okay. I can't read the chat Move Move fat so Let's check the chat Okay, get get out kitty move move Move Did you switch back to furry fox? Are you still using less shill lion? I'm using furry fox now There's a period where I had less shill lion still installed and I used it for some sites because arcan fox's js Would break a couple things but I think I got that all figured out Best book to get started with hermeticism. I mean read the hermetic corpus the thing with hermeticism is Okay, they're like original hermetic texts like the hermetic corpus That are written like well according to legend. They go back into prehistory and like they're 5 000 years old, but you know Uh consensus so scientists believe they're you know from like 300 ad maybe I don't know Um, so there's that stuff, but then hermeticism like a thousand years later like around the renaissance Has you know has all these people that basically rewrite the whole system and they make all these commentaries on it and there's this kind of occult nonsense about it and That's like totally different So as with most things you should read the original documents and then much later. Maybe read the other stuff with you know With I don't know. What's the it's about to say with salt on your tongue. What's the expression with a pinch of salt Do you have toxoplasmosis luke? Um Maybe I do who knows What are you going on the joe rogan experience lull Is evils book on hermeticism any good to get after the original document? It's a good example of what i'm talking about where it's like something totally different. Um hill I really hate evils writing like I really I mean not necessarily Maybe it's just his style like there's some people who style I really don't like and his is definitely one of them um, but yeah, it's a good example some of his stuff is Yeah, that that book on hermeticism by him is I wouldn't say it's not worth reading but I again I would read it with a grain of salt and maybe after you have the context of um earlier writings and things like that and You know his stuff really his his book on hermeticism is more like a summation of like renaissance views on it Okay, like renaissance like alchemy and things like that very late in the game His book is more of a synopsis of it that talks about it as if it's like, you know enduring or something So If you were rich would you get a hair transplant?  Oh, I'm not debriefed by the fbi. I'm debriefed by uh Uh, I was about to say the ISI. No, that's pecs and massage. They're the ones who debrief me Do you have any Gnostic texts on lindy press? Uh, I was thinking about putting the hermetic corpus, which is pretty close to being Gnostic, but I don't have not really interested in Gnostic stuff because it's basically just Satanism And it's cringe Satanism but more importantly cringe Have you ever traveled? Yes, I've traveled but it's stupid I'm gonna travel the other week to or the other day to go to freaking uh Miami, but I mean I've been I've been to different countries.  I was like, oh, I'm gonna move to the country, right? So I'm gonna be camping all the time camping is cool. It's fun And then I'm like I came down here and I've clamped maybe once with some friends and relatives like There's no desire to like you like when you live in a place you love And you live in a place where it's a natural environment. You don't feel this need. Oh, look at it I'm gonna travel the heck in world. I I have wanderlust and blah blah blah. No, it's lame.  You know what? I mean that that's just my mindset um But I think tourism and travel is so overrated for people and that's not to say that there's not a reason to do it Uh, I will happily go on trips every once in a while with some people. I'll never go like going alone is freaking lame um lame egocentric all like Instagram to your garbage, but if you're going with when like the other year uh, you know We I went with some friends to the mountains okay, because um You know they had like never been to the mountains, which is a weird thing never to go to. I mean america is very flat um Or at least Some parts of it actually even our mountains are pretty flat the appellation mountains are very You know they're they're barely hills um, they're very I don't know Upward slipping anyway, so the chinese philosopher juangzi I think it was juangzi You know the guy who dreamt he was a butterfly and wasn't quite sure if it was the butterfly dreaming that he was juangzi You know what I mean? um, but he had this saying that the ideal society Is where you grow up in a village now, of course when I first heard this as a kid I was back when I was a reddit tier atheist.  You don't need you never do that There's no need because everything you have you already have Right everything you need you already have You have no more needs that have have not been satisfied, right? So that's what juangzi you know describes as being like the ideal time Right ideal time and place Trust me eastern europe is very different from the united states. No, I don't buy it I don't buy this. No, I don't buy anything unless i'm going to the brazilian rainforests Or like i'm living with bushmen Any i know oh our cities are different or oh our oh we can walk places. No, let's see Places in america and i like that america are like that too The only thing different between america and eastern europe is less africans I don't doubt that Lol with no tech then an asteroid hits you and your village is wiped Nice. Well, guess what if if an asteroid hits we die anyway I'm sorry. This isn't a hollywood movie where people have equipment to blow up asteroids That are like bigger than the moon. I'm sorry. It's not going to happen What do you have next on works for lindy press other things i've been procrast not procrastinating like this past What month that's i said i've been freaking busy next is going to be the alchemy reader and then after that I have a couple things but the alchemy reader i'm pretty sure like it's it's basically done I just need a Double check i might get one more proof copy and then uh, just it's actually already on the site. I just haven't published it Why do redditors always use asteroids and their arguments? I don't know. Oh, I should probably check donations I haven't checked them in a while. Oh, well, I guess there are none. Okay. Well, I'll go back to the chat I see that's the thing. I gotta not read the I gotta ignore the chat and then people will donate more, right? Uh, all right, so back to the chat. Um Would you go to mars luke if you had the chance to why why would I want to go to mars? What's it? What's at mars? A bunch of nothingness It's like would I go to a desert would I go to I don't know Maybe an artica would be cool to go to just to discover all the love crafty and secrets that are actually there and the nazi space bases and like all the Like an artica is unironically where all the secrets are like not even a joke I totally believe that that like Yeah, I don't believe this google maps lie that it's all just this white nothingness I don't buy that There's there are secrets out there There are secrets in an artica You mentioned you mentioned max turner's egoism in an earlier video any plans to reprint his works on lindy press Did I ever make mentioned max turner? Maybe I used a meme with him in it. I don't know like I I've never actually read anything he's written And I don't I don't know if his stuff would be lindy enough. I mean he's kind of I don't know. Well, I guess I maybe have I'm planning stuff that's rena Like the alchemy reader will have at least renaissance stuff. Then we're getting close Hyperbore and space aliens. Yeah, there's some of those Is luke new Schwabia pilled? Oh, yeah Dude an artica like yeah, I'm not ironically. That's where all the secrets are. It really is like I totally believe like Schizo the schizometer blew off. No You don't even know man. Like but seriously think about it an artica. It just does a concept Okay, because think how much archaeologists care about digging up animal bones and things like that and looking at You know Ancient history and all this kind of stuff. There's an entire continent out there That we've never done this on like we don't know we don't know what kind of like fossils are in an artica Okay, we don't we don't know what's there. We don't know. It's it's possible that humans have lived there In the past. It's it's possible. It's very cold even though most warm places are very cold, but it's very possible you know um But either especially if the climate is different, right? And especially because oh well, yeah, I don't know it depends on what age and You know, you think humans are like how how long they've been around or something um But you know, but but that's you know, all the anartica stuff where it really starts Is that h.p. Lovecraft book? Um, you know, he wrote that short story in the mountains of madness Okay, so I don't know if anyone's h.p. Lovecraft in terms of his cultural impact is always severely underestimated And he's also like there's not also no one who's written stuff quite like him the People will talk about all the influences he's had but like he's he's I don't know no one's quite like him Either way h.p. Lovecraft wrote this for those who don't know wrote in the mountains of madness um Which is a it's basically about a science team that goes down down to anartica to dig rocks up and crap like that and they basically discover that there's this million millions of years old uh alien Civilization that was there and they had like these massive cities that have been buried Uh and stuff like that or like they're in the mountains and stuff Anyway, very interesting very interesting all of h.p. Lovecraft stuff is just like If I had a switch to forget things I wish I could forget Everything by h.p. Lovecraft I've ever read because I like them so much That I want to be able to reread them and relive the experience of discovering what happens there Mong says what was Lovecraft's cat's name? I don't know. Maybe people should look that up What was h.p. Lovecraft's cat's name guys? Can someone google that for me? I really like h.p. Lovecraft and you know, I have a cat. I should name my cat after h.p. Lovecraft's cat Can someone please look up what that cat's name was? I need to figure that out Have you thought visiting the Himalayas? I don't know. Well actually the Himalayas in in h.p. Lovecraft's uh in the mountains of madness. He actually continually compares uh You know the the mountains in Antarctica with You know the warwick paintings of the Himalayas and all that kind of stuff Uh, I don't know. It might be an interesting place to go like if I were to to um Do some tourism I I might think about going there Of course, it's even weird to call it tourism Did you guys google it can I I don't see I don't see it. Why is it not in the chat? That's weird What is that cat's name? I need I need to figure it out Don't actually don't actually put it in the comment. You will get shadow banned by youtube. That's just how it is. Don't don't do it It is funny because one You know people censor h so the other thing about his cat is that in books He would frequently have characters who had cats or there'd be cats And he'd always name the cats in the book after his cat, right? um But of course modern people Uh, they don't want to include the cat's name So they'll make up new they'll they'll make up like censored names for them like Mr. Black man That that's one. I remember reading or one that was in an audiobook um Mr. Black man But uh, yeah, what was I gonna say? No, that that just pisses me like that is like Even if I weren't based on redpilled even if I were like a cringe libtard I would be like why would you censor that like why like you you you take this guy's Books and you copy the whole thing and you just change just one word Because you're you're triggered because I don't know it's a freaking sigh of anyway A lot of chat a lot of chat activity now The other people are interested about uh You know that uh That cat name Okay, I still haven't gotten donations in my donation portal now Or you guys just not donate that's fine fine if you aren't we already got donations It's not like I'm Okay, whenever I just don't get donations. I'm just worried that like something's broken Um Yeah, it looks like they have everything's good. I'm gonna restart It just in case What art do you like? What do you find beautiful in the world around you the world? I've I don't live in a city so You know everything's beautiful What art do I like uh Real art not modern art. I mean the same art that everyone enjoys Luke complaining about the lack of paypiggies Oh man, floydie's ntvf Sam hide ntf Oh, let me let me show you. Let me show you my cute little uh memento from minarotopia To give us all these goofy All this goofy minaro merch Got got got little glasses. These are like totally you can't see anything out of them I mean, you know, they have like little openings in them But it's like not usable But Very nice little novelty pseudo sunglasses thoughts on weegers Is that hplovecraft's other cat his white cat? uh Sam hide collab when I don't know sam hide I don't know if he even knows I exist I don't know. Maybe he would I'm always surprised when people do know that. I know that's a weird thing to say because I I guess I have a big youtube channel I mean many people know about it, but Yeah, I don't know Sam hide Doesn't he live in like massachusetts or something? Or like one of those one of those yankee states I think he's like a You don't know You minaro haters on sewer sewer slide watch Sam hoidl is from red island Okay Yeah, the weegers are still real Have I ever told you guys my Curd denialism conspiracy theory that curds don't actually exist I don't know if it's okay. I think the cat one's outside Okay, 1130. I'm keeping people up We get it. We all have to go to church tomorrow morning The color cthulhu is an independent movie from 2005. I think they have two movies made every okay many crappy I don't want to call them crappy, but many people have attempted to make HP Lovecraft films based on his works 100 percent of them are crap 100 percent of them are crap and it's not it is not the fault of the people making the movies um It's not their fault because it's just really just HP Lovecraft's works are not conducive for film Like you you would really have to have a film genius To adapt one of them successfully Because there's so like a lot of them involve writing or like people doing research and And things that are very hard to communicate in film like I mean one of my favorite HP Lovecraft ones See what's the title of that one? It's the one where um They're Most of the book is him like sending letters back and forth with this guy who lives in like rural Uh, maybe new hampshire or vermont. I think it's vermont um About like some alien body that was like discovered in a river and how there's like a secret Alien colony out there. I mean it it sounds totally weird if you're not familiar with it But um, I forget what the title of that one the whisperer in darkness. That's what it's called. Um Uh, what was I going to say about that? But yeah, like adapting that to film and I think that there have been like there has been like a B movie adaptation that totally changes things and You know, it just makes it very different But it would just not be conducive like you have to read HP Lovecraft stuff to get it and it's it's short stuff It's not like hard to read and there are audiobooks of them too If you want to get into it like that now the reason I for okay, let me actually read that super chat that just came here um Lev says hey luke check Please check my email when you can. We'd love to have you on with alexander bard on break the rules Uh, I think I remember seeing that email. I may have already Our guy did let me just see now. I will take note of that. I will go I'll go check it out No guarantees, but I will check. Um I'll check that out Okay, um What else was I doing people are just saying random stuff What do you think about the apple credit card? Well, it buys apple stuff Although it's one of the few non annual fee cards to that is metal I want to know about the curds. Oh about curd denialism Uh, it's a little too late for me to go into that. That's like, you know How they have those like conspiracy theory charts where it's like, you know Brain memes with like conspiracy theories like which one's bigger and bigger one of them should be curd denialism The curds don't exist at all I have my reasoning, but um I used to tell it to my uh, my friend ryan because back at arizona They they do like iranian languages kurdish. I think was included in that but Um, or wait, was it him that I talked about curd denialism? I know I've talked to people with curd about curd denialism, but Thoughts on btc. Miami. I didn't go I it wasn't until I went to manara talk that I realized that oh, there are all these other cryptocurrency conferences going on that I I don't know. I don't really care that much about um Where should I get the corpus hermeticum? Uh Maybe lindy press when I publish it.  I mean you can get him online, but I'll show you what my crappy copy looks like This is not lindy press material. This is like See this is this is what actually why lindy press exists Because not just the print books that are out of print, but because there are people there crappy companies like this What what company is this who cares who cares? But what a boomer did is he copy pasted? You know the text from this thing port the I will say it's poorly formatted errors all over the place um, there's no like You know like this is as much text formatting as you get like chapter titles um And it's just it's just shoddy workmanship. You can tell he did it in microsoft word I think it has like the what is it the colibri font as the font.  So yeah, maybe I should do the hermetic corpus too Um since I am going to do the alchemy thing but Luke I have to go to church tomorrow, please. Yeah, I know I'm going to go to Curd denialism will definitely get you banned. Yeah, I mean curds for Anyway, I'm not even gonna bother talking about it because I don't want to go into that. We gotta we gotta we gotta go to bed Well, it's not really that curds don't exist it's that A lot of the well, I don't know. I'll just I'll just let you guys think about that. What do I mean by curd? Why would I think that curds don't exist? Luke answer his question. What question? There are a million questions being asked of me right now. Okay. Uh, I'm going to I'm probably gonna stop. It's a little it's it's getting late 11 30 new york time. So Uh, yeah, I'm gonna call it quits it. Okay. It's really funny because when I went down to miami. It was a good bit warmer But then I came back up and it was freezing here like I guess a cold front came through so Appreciated the midday australian stream special. Yeah No, it doesn't mean independent statehood for curds is illogical if curds existed I would support statehood for them. I'm just not sold on them existing Um No, it's not related to the jq. It's not I'm not It's nothing like that No, it's not people are wondering. All right. No, we're not going to talk about curd denialism It's not funny now. Like if I gave you my My comedy routine about this now it wouldn't be as funny. So I got to wait till later Ancient Iranian bloodlines real or fake. Yeah, I mean they're real and curds are Iranian like people Um as are a lot of people they yeah, well, it's it's it's weird in in in proto history and in linguistics The term Iranian doesn't mean from where we call Iran. It's actually a much more general group Most of the people are actually not in Iran.  Not just what we now call turkey same thing They're Iranian people were all over the place Iran is just one of the places where they were Yeah, and curds are into europeans All right, so that's about it I'm gonna go home And uh, go to sleep See you guys next time. Thanks for tuning in. Oh, well, maybe I should just check the donation Just in case I don't want to be mean. Oh, there are two more donations. Oh, I gotta read them Um, have you played Final Fantasy 7? I know you're not no, I haven't I know you're not a super gamer anymore But if you have do you approve the messages about the environment, you know, I think I remember My friend talking about that when I was younger But no, I've never played it And last donation Hi luke, do you know any good resource for learning about how much traffic a vps can handle? It depends on the vps. Okay, so let's say vulture. They'll tell you what your maximum bandwidth is At frantech Bandwidth is unmetered. You can have however much Like bandwidth like it's not depending on what your computer is doing like i