Who's running the "Libertarians Posting their L's" account? Image
Charles is among my favorite living thinkers, so it's odd to see him turn statist in the foxhole of COVID hysteria

His book "Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission" argued for mass disobedience of regulation, and "What It Means To Be A Libertarian" argued for a minimal state
Here he calls for deregulating health care "at all levels of government". I'm not sure how you do that while still having POTUS bully airlines into creating a medical apartheid: Image
He considers epidemics to be an exception. But what counts as an epidemic?

Surely not a virus whose average victim is 80 years old and obese, and which only raised mortality to levels we all lived through a decade or two ago Image

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23 Jul
I am going to brag a little:

Last summer our local PD had dune buggies that I could *just* outrun at a moderate sprint. Every day they'd chase me down the beach, every day I'd elude them

Red faced, they sprung for a fleet of giant fast expensive ATVs, and I had to stop running
For a brief time, they were operating both fleets in tandem:
And I didn't stop running entirely, I just started running laps in my condo's parking lot

Then the board told me I had to stop b/c it was a health hazard (!)

So I kicked up some fuss, and it was eventually agreed I could keep running laps, so long as I wore a shirt (!)
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22 Jul
You'd think after a year of practice, some of these docs would be better at lying.

There is no ICU in the world with "several" previously healthy 30 year olds "at deaths door" due to COVID
Are we really going to recycle every debunked Karen trope from 2020?

What's next, wringing our hands about the 2021 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally?
The doctor claiming to have seen two previously healthy 30yos "at death's door" for COVID works at The Christ Hospital in Cincinnati

That hospital hasn't had a single COVID patient in ICU since January:
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17 Jul
1\ A fair amount of Woke liturgy is correct, but for based reasons that the Woke don't perceive

E.g. the notion that we should stop teaching Western history is correct, but only because you can't appreciate the miracle of the West by studying it directly

Let me explain...
2\ For most kids, "history" is a couple of weirdos nailing things to Church doors, followed by more weirdos in silly hats and buckled shoes who enslaved noble savages to grow some crop that nobody alive has ever seen

It all has the feel of a bad oil painting
3\ On the other hand, imagine approaching the West from the other direction, from pre-history and from non-Western modernity

Imagine really internalizing that putrid meat was a staple food in most places until recently:
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11 Jul
The magic ritual of lockdown would have fit right in among the Pueblo Indians Image
Plains Indians Pledge Week was lit: Image
Coase was right: the initial allocation of resources is irrelevant if transaction costs are small enough to allow unimpeded trade. If necessary, in dog meat: Image
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6 Jul
The Japanese got their hands on a locomotive from the dastardly imperialists and four years later had their own railroad industry

This incredible fact doesn't get nearly enough discussion!
Two days ago I was driving the FIL from a former-shanty-town-now-bedroom-community into town and asked how they commuted before everyone had cars

"There used to be a train"

"What happened?"

"The locals stole all the tracks"
Similarly, a buddy used to build breweries for a multinational. Bring in best practices, create a ton of high paying jobs, etc.

To placate the commies, they'd drill water wells and install diesel pumps in the villages, then teach the villagers how to use them...
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30 Jun
1\ Fascinating comments in the screenshots below

And especially provocative given how much of cooperation (or morality, if you want to call it that) requires thinking through iterative prisoners' dilemmas (see author's comments about "recursion")
2\ The exciting crimes we're used to in the US often come down to some subtle mistake

Oh, the micro fiber! Oh, he forgot to use a VPN!

But there's an entire understory of crime that is unimaginably stupid in the sense of being literally unimaginable to an average person

Eg...
3\ My father in law (not in the US) used to manage a furniture store whose floor staff were around 70 IQ

One of my favorite stories is about a cashier who was "stealing" using something similar to the Arrested Development banana stand scheme...
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