trentseigfried.bsky.social
Avid reader, note-taker, and writer. Passionate about philosophies of living and how to adapt them to modern living. How does one live a "best life" today? What even is a "best life"?
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I am a heterosexual male. The vast majority of days, no one says anything genuinely kind to me or supportive to me. I mostly just hear criticism. This is completely normal amongst my male peers, married or otherwise. I’m not complaining —- it’s just reality.
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They’re too busy talking to China about switching to the yuan as their reserve currency.
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China is the real winner here. If the world drops the dollar as the reserve currency, they're picking up the yuan, not the ruble.
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Copilot is useful as a code autocomplete tool but as a data engineer and sometimes analyst, I get more value out of reading StackOverflow when I have a problem. ChatGPT is similar - useful for some narrow tasks. I don't understand the huge investment in it.
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My mental model for this is macramé. You’re creating a bunch of interwoven strands, and you won’t necessarily have a perfect pattern when you start.
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Ah, yes, the old lügenpresse tactic. Where have we seen that before?
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As usual, social media fails to generate meaningful civil conversation.
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Then why are you posting about lawsuits on social media if you don’t care about anyone else’s opinion? If you don’t want to engage people in civil conversation, which this is, why post? Why tell people you don’t care about their opinions?
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So it’s a complete waste of resources for anyone to even attempt suing him. He will just appeal and appeal and appeal and waste your money until the Supreme Court hears it, and the Supreme Court will side with Elon.
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The Supreme Court has already established that they’re in favor of almost infinite power for the executive branch.
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That’s exactly what will happen. Any lawsuit against Elon will just get appealed and appealed and appealed until the Supreme Court hears it, and they’ll side with Elon.
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Any lawsuit against Elon will just be appealed until the Supreme Court hears it, and the Supreme Court will side with Elon.
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The current makeup of the Supreme Court pretty much guarantees that he won’t be sued.
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I think that many people who aren’t like that and don’t want to go through the mud just don’t participate in social media any more.
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You’re correct, reading your Gish gallop newsletter would be a waste of my time.
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You’re taking roughly 17 stances. Actually, addressing a lot of them would take the rest of my natural life, cause you keep adding more.
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This thread is not a good advertisement for your substack.
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Changing the subject again and again is exactly what you keep doing. Intellectual dishonesty at its most pure.
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You’re doing it again.
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You used a Gish gallop. That’s a tool of someone who doesn’t want their ideas actually discussed. If you’re actually trained in philosophy, you know that.
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The guy has a very mixed-up philosophy.
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This conversation is a complete waste of both of our times. Have a good day.
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It’s like you pretend cartels never existed and won’t exist.
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Or to put it another way, let’s say in your scenario I beat you half to death and take your money. If you have no money and policing is private, what recourse do you have? What keeps me from doing that to everyone?
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What stops a strongman from running infinite protection rackets?
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Who is providing said market? What keeps shady operators from putting tainted water in the soda? What stops a serial killer from providing cheap “law enforcement”?
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It’s always highly entertaining to watch libertarians say one thing when it affects others and another thing when it affects themselves, topped off with an arrogant attitude that makes others not wish to interact with them.
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It is about less police. One officer and one social worker is better than two officers.
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Your philosophy seems to center around others giving you free things you don’t have to pay for. This is based solely on your comments here.
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Can I be your friend? Those look amazing, and I love using preserved lemon in potato salad.
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Any type of notetaking app on your phone will work for this. What really matters is that you process it regularly. Go through the notes, decide what needs to be done with them in a more permanent way, and do that!
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That being said, I certainly CAN listen, and I certainly CAN support people who are discovering the multitudes they contain.
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I am not a medical professional, nor a psychologist. I have no business dictating the choices another person should make about themselves and their bodies. I struggle to understand the reasoning as to why anyone else feels they have the right to such dictation, either.
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How about “A woman without, her man is nothing.”?
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As an aside, I just realized the author of this book @bobdoto.bsky.social is on Bluesky.
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I HIGHLY recommend reading “A System for Writing” by Bob Doto as a follow up if you’re struggling to use you zettelkasten for writing.
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I have some thoughtful conservative friends (their dissatisfaction with the current moment rivals mine, but for different reasons), and their primary argument regarding social issues isn't that change is bad but that change is often too rapid and creates additional problems.