I found a channel online by Karl Jobst and he does a good job explaining advancements in video game speed running. I have never gotten into video games that much to want to participate in speed running, but since it is such a highly competitive hobby, the people who own the records are actually quite amazing. For example, in Goldeneye 007 Runway the current speed run record is 28 seconds and the number two fastest time is 32 seconds. That is a huge difference considering how many millions of iterations the gamers who play that game have logged. For the record holder to get 28 seconds takes mov ..read more

Hello Reader, thank you for joining me on this journey. Most people do not live up to their New Year’s resolutions through January, so back in October I set the goal of writing a Libertarian thought piece every day for 100 days, which would end before February. There was a week I got sick, so I slept through my morning writing session, but otherwise I kept up with my plan and yesterday was my 100th article! Wow that is more writing than I ever thought I would be interested in doing but I set a goal and I did it, so I’m proud of myself for that. There were a handful of instances where I wrote m ..read more

I’ve observed how it is seems unnecessary, to say the least, that there was no significant decrease in military spending since the US got out of Afghanistan and Iraq. For all intents and purposes the US was fighting a war and spent a war chest worth of taxpayer dollars to do so. The question is, if the US military’s mission isn’t to fight a war, yet they have a nearly full war chest worth of funding, what the heck are they doing? Just to scratch at the surface, it is undeniable that allowing more women and transgenders Soldiers into the US military is more expensive than adding additional men ..read more

I think the title pretty much says everything I want to say with this, but unless you have the audacity to say one gender or race is better or worse than another, the ultimate sense of diversity is to show infinite appreciation for everyone as who they are. To say that black women deserve more diversity than white men is to express sexism and racism. What is best is for all the -isms to be eliminated, and to play the -ism game is a losing game. Every individual is the most important person on Earth, despite anything about how you were born, so the penultimate realization of diversity is indivi ..read more

In an ideal situation America should want as many immigrants as possible. The spirit of the immigrant brings a great sense of carpe diem with them, upon which a successful society thrives. However, when the incentive to uproot your family and move to America is because of welfare state policies then we are not getting the best. The immigration agency is supposed to filter out applicants who are only coming to America to be a burden on the system, or what’s called a ward of the state. The two main functions of US immigration policy are to protect US citizens, so married couples get citizenship ..read more

There is a cultural theme of using one explanation for every data point. Data alone does not offer a moral explanation of the world. In college Psychology 101 we watched a video on whether homosexuality was due to the way you were raised or the way you were born. In class we watched a video of a family that had four boys and the youngest was gay. The intent of the video was to show that people are born that way, but with the way the documentary interviewed the parents you could tell that the mom had always wanted a girl and their fourth kid was their last chance to have one. Coincidentally, th ..read more

Open and free discussion is crucial for people and countries to move forward. This brings up an example of the fundamental flaw of “diversity” in that only things that align with Democrat’s socialist narrative have value as diverse but any other ideas that diverge from The Narrative and add to the cultural diversity of how people interpret the world does not count. Basically, you are either a supporter of diversity or you are fascist, because if you diversify yourself in a manner that goes against socialism then you’ve gone to the dark side, which is quickly summarized as racist, sexist, and o ..read more

The US is in a perpetual state of policing the world, but what seems extraordinary is that their budget hasn’t gone down in any significant amount since we stopped fighting terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. The real kicker is that all the military leaders still complain that they don’t have enough funding. The question is, why does the military need all that money if there is no war to be fought? Is it worth it to have US taxpayers funding the militaries mission, if their mission is no longer about winning a war? What exactly is the mission of the US military if we aren’t fighting something ..read more

There is a two dimensional political graph that I think everyone should use to assert their political beliefs, because the current 1-dimensional line makes no sense. I remember in elementary school learning about communism and how everyone was atheist because they all believed in the government and that the government was in charge of everything. I knew my parents were more conservative so I looked forward to hearing about what was the opposite of communism. I was disappointed to learn that fascism is the right-wing version of communism because it was oddly similar in that everyone was atheist ..read more

The title is a little lesson on the Conservation of Energy, assuming you are talking about a pendulum that is swinging back and forth. The point where it changes direction, and it’s at its highest point, is when its velocity is zero but its potential energy is maximum. In my wishful Libertarian mind that is where the US is at right now. COVID swept across the world and socialists rode that wave to implement as much liberty degrading policy as fast as possible. There were always rumblings of distrust and lack of understanding, but the media and tech companies helped politicians quash that rheto ..read more