Blog Posts

Alcohol, Agriculture and Slavery

8/22/2023

The Agricultural revolution and the birth of “civilization” go hand in hand with the mass production of alcohol, because alcohol was used to control the masses by flipping the discipline switch. Come to think of it, alcohol, agriculture and slavery probably all originated together.

AI Suicide Watch

8/5/2023

There has to be motion capture tech that could be combined with new AI software to do suicide watch. A program getting a cell feed could recognize and alarm sudden movements, tying a noose, falling. It might not be able to recognize cutting or ingesting poison. It would have lots of false alarms but it could tell people where to look at anyone moment and then you could have maybe one person monitoring multiple cameras effectively with the aid of technology.

Nightshade Restaurant

8/4/2023

I could totally have a restaurant or at least a Food Truck called Nightshade Cuisine. The foot is based on foods in the nightshade family:
Tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers based dishes from around the globe.

Death Penalty

8/4/2023

I am oddly for the death penalty. I don’t like the idea of executing people but until we have a system that actually provides some meaningful path to redemption for a school shooter, we are better off executing them quickly because their presence in prison as an object of societal hate only makes the world a worse place.

My thought process on this is exactly like my attitude towards abortion. I don’t like abortion. I want to see less and less of it. But I don’t think you can end abortion by prosecuting women for seeking one. The issue isn’t that abortions are legal, the issue is unwanted pregnancies. And we know how to deal with that. High Education for women, birth control, and an enclusive role in society for everyone brings down the risk of unwanted pregnancies. Until we have a system that does that, outlawing abortion only diverts us from the real problem. So it is too with capital punishment. The problem isn’t that we allow executions, the problem is that we have all these criminals we don’t know what to do with. Both issues speak to the same thing; there are a lot of unvalued lives in our society that we don’t know what to do with. Morality may dictate that we as a society should value these lives, but until we have solutions to deal with them morally, the fact is they will be unvalued and treated as such. Guess what people that feel unvalued by society do? They rebel against it. In the past we could say “well let them leave and go somewhere else and set up their own society,” and they did and that is how America got here. Now he can’t just send death row inmates to a moon colony. Science fiction has already played that out.

NBA "Ring Culture" is really Banana Boat Culture

7/7/2023

There is no ring culture in the modern NBA. Magic and Jordan and Bird had ring culture.. Ring culture was always about winning rings for your team, for your city. You were competing to win more rings than other teams and more rings than past team players. Kobe Bryant had rain culture. She was trying to win more rings than magic , shaq and other all time Lakers . Now guys like Bob Harry and Steve Kerr were able to be roll players on multiple championship teams, but that hasn’t really changed ring culture. What happened is Jordan won 6, and people start looking Now let me back up and I’m gonna throw two guys under the bus so that you fully understand that what I say after that is going to be backing the bus up over them again. Steph Curry saved the NBA because Lebron and KD for being the 2 greatest players of their generation by far, they have very little Charisma. Steph’s influence on the game is all on the court. He has changed the game and it has been a lot of fun for fans to cheer him doing it. The lasting impact of KD and Lebron will be off the court and it has not been fun for fans. People think Lebron and KD have pioneered Ring Culture. They haven’t. They have pioneered banana boat culture at the nba level. College has always been about recruiting the best players together on one team. AAU has been explicitly about top players teaming up together. Only in the NBA where there was a draft was it a different mentality. Lebron did his decision show so that he could have what he missed not going to college. The justification for banana boat super teams became rebranding it as “ring future.” And so when KD decided if you can’t beat ‘‘em join ‘‘em and went to OKC he cited ring culture as his justification.

Arrogance is New

6/22/2023

Arrogant doesn’t have to be contrarian or adversarial. What makes it arrogant is not that it is different, what makes it arrogant is the lack of a precedent or track record. New. Original, ground breaking. These are arrogant.

The NFL is High School

6/14/2023

We often say that the NFL owners are like high school with billionaires. Or show business is like high school. This is because high school is a contrived pseudo-competitor environment. Its checks and balances are not natural or inherent they are only imposed artificially. In such an environment social dynamics stratify quickly.
Or maybe it’s the other way around. Maybe high school really is the most “real” of human experience. I think your perspective of high school might correlate to your point political leanings.

The truth about super stars and team building

5/17/2023

You don’t build around superstars. You build the best team you can and then you let the superstar excel on that foundation. Then you can “refine” around that superstar. The Blazers doesn’t have a base. They can’t build around Dame. They need to build a team and then have Dame lead it. Doug Collins tried to build around MJ. He catered to Him. Phil Jackson didn’t. MJ had to adjust to Phil and the triangle. The triangle worked for the rest of the team and then Michael was able to lead that team to a title. The warriors didn’t build around curry, they built a team and then curry’s skill set was able to take them to a whole other level. The cavs tried for years to build around lebron and it was ugly. So James left so they could tank for 4 years. And they almost blew it anyway. But when he came back he came back to a team that they could refine around James, not build around him. The Lakers were trying to build around Lebron earlier thei year and it was a disaster, and when they finally had to build a team that could win games while James was out with injury they made different moves. Then Lebron came back and now they are in the conference finals.

The glass is half full

5/11/2023

Remember to be positive we only have to see the glass half full. We don’t have to believe the glass is totally full. That would be ridiculous. But that’s exactly what we tend to do. When we think negative we convince ourselves. The glass is completely empty.

Make up Sex

5/5/2023

People will have emotional issues getting in the way of sex.
They have fights. They cry and then complete the emotional cycle and suddenly they crave human contact and connection which leads to sex.
People mistake this as “make up sex” but it is actually emotional cycle completion sex.