The philosophy of dirt and rats is crumbling all about us. This is a time of Triumph.

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward. I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress. When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment. Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks. They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around. Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits? The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

“If you clean it, it’s just going to get dirty again some time later” is the life philosophy of the entire third world.

“There is in all men a tendency…to resent the existence of what is stronger, subtler or better than themselves. In uncorrected and brutal men this hardens into an implacable and disinterested hatred for every kind of excellence.” - C.S. Lewis, Democratic Education

I always find myself mentally prefacing any critique of Elon (of which there are many) with this. His organizations undeniably extend the envelope of human achievement, and it pretty clearly has something to do with Elon himself because competitors don't seem able to replicate.

I ratioed the first trillionaire a few times during the 2024 Christmas H1B wars and got my account reach nuked for six months

Believe it or not, this is a post about migrants.

A certain state of peace is discovered when you stop thinking of truth predominantly as something you can hold and consider it as more that which holds (or ought to hold) you; it is more about love and participation than about absolutely rigid epistemological clarity.

Waffle House will stay open during major hurricanes Waffle House will not stay open during diversity hours Diversity is more dangerous than a Class 5 hurricane

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It is during the trying times such a death of the people that you love you will find out who the decent folks are and who are assholes. Assholes will then talk your ear off with excuses and how much they care and love and what not. They don’t.

“Let he who hasn’t thoughtlessly stabbed his own neighbor cast the first stone” “Uhhh why are you all picking up stones?” Get real

This stance plays through into marriage for these types, if it ever comes, and it’s why many ‘straight’ marriages today are effectively gay marriages, with no procreative potential. Both parties are waiting for a social consensus to emerge in their private society of two.

Built by hand in 2025.

Not to be contrary, but many people are still this articulate. That you mayn’t see them on television or hear them in public does not render them nonexistent. The world has little use or honor for such people now, and so they live veiled lives.

I was feeling sad earlier tonight that more people didn’t show up to my dad’s funeral, reach out to me or my mom, etc. But then one of his friends emailed me a remembrance he just published in a newspaper. Pictures I’d never seen, stories I didn’t know. It was wonderful

gn frens never go about with lethal force on your person if you’re not entirely committed to its application If it’s clearing the holster, you’re pulling the trigger. Train until there’s no hesitation or quavering. And always keep your dominant hand free.

People don’t want to age, but Time marches on. The End will find you. For many decades, you can, each day, be stronger than you were the day before. And when you begin to fade, you may then have grown children as strong as you once were. Your life endures in the lives of others.

“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” — W. Somerset Maugham