RooshV just posted a video on how he makes coffee with an aeropress coffee maker at home. I heartily second that.First, some background. You may be familiar with the Aerobie [https://infogalactic.com/info/Aerobie], a flying ring that was for all intents and purposes a frisbee on steroids. Much slimmer, and you couldn’t do ski[-tricks with it (duh) but it could go ridiculously far. A cousin lost one in the ocean because he threw it into the offshore breeze, and with the combination of lift from…
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Over at Return of Kings there’s an outstanding article on why modern art is so uninspiring [http://www.returnofkings.com/103305/why-is-modern-art-so-uninspiring]. It digs into several sources, notably Tom Wolfe: > What I saw before me was the critic-in-chief of The New York Times saying: In looking at a painting today, “to lack a persuasive theory is to lack something crucial.” I read it again. It didn’t say “something helpful” or “enriching” or even “extremely valuable.” No, the word was cruci…
Over on Gab, a recent post [https://gab.ai/judgedread/posts/1057976] by Judge Dread @judgedread encapsulated a point I know I’ve made in the past: > Cities breed liberalism because cities are the only place where you can survive with absolutely no contact with the realities of the natural world, and liberalism is above all else a denial of nature. #Science [https://gab.ai/hash/Science] What I find funny is that it’s liberals who insist on passing on trite stories about how helping a butterfly…
So Stefan Molyneux interviewed Scott Adams [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/stefan-molyneux-and-scott-adams-on.html] a while back, and covered a lot of interesting ground. I don’t want to get into the whole free will vs. meat-robot thing here – and will go ahead and agree with the following – we are hugely influenced, and strongly driven by our bodies, our instincts, our habits, our hormones, what we ate and how that affects our mood. So much so that we fall into ruts, and cannot break out o…