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by Simon Ström Happiness is redundant to grown men — conviction and love (a relational condition) are more important because those are instruments for us to continually invest our agency in the best way possible from a survival/reproduction perspective regardless if we’re happy or not.

(DIARY: Health update. Seems that I’ve made incremental progress again over the last month. Blood pressure, heart rate, and levels are all pretty much back to normal. Although I need to start working on strength now. And while I’m up to 192 lbs, I feel good for the first time in a year or two.…

(I don’t think I’ve ever been happy – it’s not my nature – but the time I have been least unhappy was the time I spent in Ukraine.)

–“Ukraine’s National Police have arrested several suspects who were illegally producing bitcoins at a recreation center of a Ukrainian state institute, according to newly released court documents. Police found that 200 computers had been set up in an unused swimming pool at the Paton Electric Welding Institute’s recreation center to generate bitcoins, the world’s…

Kiev is more interesting. Most jobs. Most activity. Very big sprawling city mixing old austro-hungarian-polish with soviet (ugh) concrete apartments. Everyone speaks both russian and ukrainian. More often russian. Most shops have people who speak english. Lviv is cheaper and has more ‘touristy’ feel. More tech. More Polish-Austrian. “Cultural” center of the country.…

The results of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) recently released in Ukraine reveal a 20 % reduction in smokers over the past 7 years. Following WHO recommendations, Ukraine has strengthened its anti-tobacco legislation resulting in this reduction in the proportion of the population smoking.

YES I ADVISE MALE ACTIVIST RELOCATION TO UKRAINE, POLAND, AND RUSSIA

Yeah. I’ve gone native. I have passion for Ukraine, her culture, and her people.

What the West, and the Soviet Union’s victims, owe to Robert Conquest

The common natural law of reciprocity, adjudicated by professional judges, constitutes a market for the resolution of differences using the incremental discovery of the application of the test of reciprocity. To argue for poly-anything law is not to argue for scientific (reciprocity) law, but to argue for FALSE AND scientifically (objectively) IMMORAL LAW. (Yes, really) …

Think of Ukraine from east to west like the USA from north to south: one accent(northern Anglo Saxon) to another (southern Scotts-Irish), with Ukraine being in the middle of a spectrum of Polish > Ukrainian > Mixed( > Russian. The soviets tried to kill off local languages. And they imported people from Russian peasantry to…

Lets translate Kantian Rationalism into scientific and testimonial speech. I’m going to teach epistemology by using economics in order to repair much of the damage that has been done to epistemology by the Platonists(mathematics), and the Rationalists (Kant etc), and the Analytic Philosophers (Just about all of the 20th century). *Reality consists of a limited…

(continuing with testimonialism’s synthesis of science, philosophy, morality and law) —“Denying apriorism whilst simultaneously making a priori truth claims = hopelessly confused.”— Actually, ah, but that’s not what I did, right? I deflated Kant to unite science, philosophy, morality and law and the techniques of deceptive argument by claims of distinctions without a difference that…

PART 3 – THE DEFEAT OF JARED HOWE, AND BY EXTENSION THE ENTIRETY OF ‘AUSTRIAN’ ECONOMIC PSEUDOSCIENCE. Jared Howe, I think you’re just a disingenuous at this point, and using the very method of mandated ignorance I accuse mises and rothbard of, of kant of by claiming special pleading for general rules of behavior. You…

The NATION of Russia will outlive the EMPIRE of the USA. In fact, I am increasingly certain that the USA will not survive this century intact. https://www.quora.com/Who-do-you-think-wins-the-war-of-politics-the-United-States-or-Russia

IDEAL METHODS OF GOVERNMENT DO NOT EXIST. THEY ARE SIMPLY TECHNOLOGIES TO APPLY IN DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES. (you probably want to read this) Ideal RULE exists: rule of natural law, and markets in everything providing perfect decidability in matters of conflict. Ideal *Government*- meaning the production of commons, must adapt as does any organization to market…

BE A MAKER OF HISTORY – NOT THE VICTIM OF IT Don’t be a douchebag. Listen. It takes about six hours, including research, planning, and prep time for one man to immobilize a city of 50-60K people for one to three days. Now, I have a job. I am doing my job. My job is…

0) Do not ask permission, do not hold a rally, just march (maintain maneuver at all times). Prepare everyone for flash mob events in each region and then call them with little notice.1) Distributed, organized, command and control, with clear parking, and multiple primary and secondary exit routes, as well as territorial cover (hiding). This…

THE ORIGIN OF OUR CONSTITUTION Our constitution was proposed as an alternative – a third way – an alternative to the parasitic rents of the arbitrary commands of the martial aristocracy, and the dysgenia, deceits, and parasitic rents of the church bureaucracy. A *purely meritocratic order* free of rents whether constructed of arbitrary commands or…

Iran is the problem. a) Russian population ~145M but with autocracy, missiles and oil, a world power.b) Iran + Iraq + Syria + Lebanon + Yemen = ~150M. But with autocracy, missiles and oil a world power. Iran is recreating the persian empire under arab rather than persian culture as the ottoman declined. Just as…