Zarathustra
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I knew the rules, but the rules did not know me.
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“Crime is not down. Crime *reporting* is down.” Marc Andreessen & Joe Rogan on how the official crime rate doesn’t measure crime. It only measures the state’s willingness to record a crime. So it gets squeezed from both ends: 1) Victims stop calling to report a crime when they know nothing follows. 2) Police reclassify what does get reported into lesser charges that never reach the official crime stats. Residents are not fooled, read the “lived city experience” correctly and are forced to adjust their entire lives accordingly: where they go, when they leave, what they wear, what they lock, what they avoid, how much risk they absorb, etc. In DC the police just got caught blatantly cooking the books. More than a dozen officials are being fired after felonies were buried in lesser charges and kept out of the public count. Which raises the question: how many other cities is this happening in?
Zarathustra178,463 görüntüleme • 16 gün önce
Watching older live performances is a stark reminder of how much the bare minimum floor for “professional musician” has collapsed over the last decade or two. Chris Cornell famously said: “A true musician should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours”. No more. Today, a startling share, probably a majority, of popular acts not only can’t play a single instrument, have no music theory knowledge whatsoever and can’t write their own songs, they quite literally cannot even sing(!) anymore, and have to lip-sync to pre-recorded, overdubbed, auto-tuned backing tracks to survive a “live” set. Using canned backing tracks and lip syncing was considered a scandalous, discrediting, career-ending mark of shame and dishonor in previous musical eras. A live concert series like MTV Unplugged of the 1990’s could not exist today. Too many popular acts simply couldn’t do it. Crosby, Stills & Nash, 1970; just three guys with nothing but an acoustic guitar:
Zarathustra696,085 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Absolutely unreal: this blowhard buffoon is a literal anchor baby. He indirectly admits he might not even be an American citizen by birth. His mother was not a citizen when he was born. His father is *still* not a citizen. But he has, completely uninvited, decided on Christmas Eve that it's his place to lecture Americans whose families have been here for centuries, and who fought and died in wars for America, about what being an American is. And he's pretending he's somehow qualified to be the arbiter of who is and who is not American. Laughable. Embarrassing. Pathetic. Disqualifying. Why should we ever listen to this creepy blowhard buffoon about anything?
Zarathustra871,288 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Divorce lawyer: "I do divorces with people, the woman walks out with $200–$300 million dollars. He was an analyst at Goldman Sachs who built a hedge fund, sold it, and then used his trading algorithms to build it up to $500 million. She was hot. And slept with him. For a while. And then started sleeping with other people. And playing tennis. And having botox. And now she's going to get half. Do you know how insane that is? And it happens all the time."
Zarathustra2,455,530 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
Lomez Alpha Males don’t waste time on anything that isn’t making them rich.
Zarathustra87,925 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
Wordcels Strike Back: Peter Thiel seems to foresee a future where AI drives a societal pivot, shifting focus away from the dominance of shape-rotators & toward the neglected wordcels that time forgot, granting them a renewed significance in the cultural & intellectual landscape.
Zarathustra73,566 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
In a jazz/music group chat I’m in, we were joking about how this absolute buffoon (in QT) vaguely resembles Phil Perry (my video). But the gaping talent gap between them highlights how our current generation has stumbled backward into a musical dark age. Our music is terrible. Nobody can play an instrument. Nobody can sing. Nobody can write anything more complex than embarrassingly simplistic Neanderthal-tier three-chord mush, if that. Nobody knows music theory. Nobody can sight-read. Technology has largely gutted this generations musical capacity, and desire/attention span necessary to even attempt what previous generations called music. And that’s the precious few now that are even capable of actual musical expression at all. Most of our idiotic “music” now is barely literate SoundCloud mumble rap, grunted out like a caveman discovering fire. Our generation’s music is cheap, plastic, fast-food music that will not stand the test of time. And deep down, everyone knows it.
Zarathustra23,256 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
Stella Peter Zeihan said the Boomers’ quiet part out loud in a video last week: “Boomers have made the collective decision that they don't want to leave a cent for their children when they pass on. So they're going to continue to spend, spend, spend while they can."
Zarathustra31,208 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
