LibertarianDeadhead

If voting could materially change anything important, the people in power would have found a way to stop it. Real change happens in families, communities, and markets.

Thanks for acknowledging these things. Better late than never. I’ll send you the hat.

How voting for lesser evils “works” 😈 😏

500 million Europeans expect 300 million Americans to defend them from 120 million Russians who fail to defeat 40 million Ukrainians, and in the meantime, they don't even realize that they are being conquered by 2 billion Muslims who claim they are persecuted by 9 million Israelis

.@RepThomasMassie said something recently that probably represents how many Americans feel about the upcoming election and any other election: The people you vote for are all clowns. Sure, voters might want better people, or better leaders, or just something BETTER than the way things are. But Massie believes that wish might be hoping for too much, considering the kind of people who typically run for office. His advice: Just accept that they’re all clowns. classythomasmassie.substack.…

Claude just re-ran the "1,000,000 Bitcoin futures" sim. 67 seconds. @willywoo $BTC at end of 2028, in today's dollars, using only BTC's own history: • Median: $165K • 80% of outcomes: $59K–$463K • Most likely price: $80–85K (today) • $280K or higher: 1 in 4 • Below today: 1 in 5 The median isn't the most likely price. The upside tail pulls it up while the peak of the odds stays near where we are. Assumptions are on the chart. Change them, change the number.

It's been 52 years and a few days since the wall of sound was dismantled for the last time.

I never paid my dues to any Washington think tank. Here's the story of the first time I got disqualified in D.C. for failing to kowtow to B.S. mandates. from the Corbett Report. Spectral lighting in honor of Halloween

The first time I heard the Dead was 1977. I was 15 and immediately knew there was something special about them. All these years later they still bring a joy that I can’t describe or live without.

Bob Weir explained to his daughter, Chloe, why Dead shows felt different from every other concert. At his memorial in January, she shared his thoughts with us: "We have a special relationship with our fans. They give us energy, we focus it, shape it and give it back to them — what I call the azimuth. The music happens there." For sixty years that exchange produced a lot of joy. Bob's other daughter, Monet, said this: "If we play our cards right, these sixty years will be just the beginning." Luckily for us, old man Weir mentored many over the years, passing on his understanding of the elusive "azimuth". Bob was right, we should be good for at least another 300 years!

What if the guy who cooked millions of doses of pure LSD for the 1960s also spent nearly 50 years eating nothing but meat—and said it was the real secret to staying strong and sharp? That was Augustus Owsley Stanley III, better known as Owsley or “Bear.” Born in 1935 into a Kentucky political family, he took a wild path: Air Force electronics work, ballet dancing, and then the heart of San Francisco’s hippie scene. In the mid-1960s he became the first private person to make large amounts of high-quality LSD. Between 1965 and 1967 he produced hundreds of thousands (some say millions) of doses. “Owsley” became slang for pure acid. He supplied Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests and reached musicians like the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. At the same time he joined the Grateful Dead as their early money man and sound engineer. He recorded their shows, helped design their skull-and-lightning-bolt logo, and worked on the giant Wall of Sound system. But one of the most striking parts of his life was his diet. Starting in the late 1950s and sticking with it for almost half a century, Owsley ate only animal foods. He believed humans are true carnivores, built to live on meat the way cats do. Vegetables and plant foods, he said, were unnecessary or even harmful. His rules were simple: eat red meat, eggs, fish, or poultry; keep the fat high (often 60 percent or more of calories); cook meat rare; use butter, cream, or cheese but skip sugary milk; add almost no salt and no supplements. He claimed the all-meat way kept his body young and strong well into his seventies. When he faced throat cancer in 2004, he credited the diet with slowing the tumor by starving it of sugar. For a while he even tried to get the Grateful Dead to eat the same way—filling their fridge with big slabs of beef—though not everyone stuck with it. After prison time and years in the music world, Owsley moved to Australia in the 1980s. He lived off the grid there until he died in a car accident in 2011 at age 76. The Acid King is remembered for fueling the 1960s counterculture and for the Dead’s sound, but he also left behind a decades-long real-world experiment in eating only meat.

As much as I love Jerry Garcia, I disagree with his viewpoint on that. I do think voting for the lesser of two evils is important karmically. And you can still focus your energy on improving family and community. Just go vote that's it. It's very easy.