Love these little propaganda videos challenging people’s views on a country, this time #Vietnam

Fact is, both elements are true - sometimes on the same street. Modernity mixed with backwards squalor is everywhere.

I have a smart home, with a pool, better Internet than I had in Aus and better mobile, a cleaner, pool cleaner, in home massage for <$10, my life is qualitatively better here than home for 1/4 the price.

Also - a cow randomly walked past and turned off my water main a few months ago, end of my street there is a huge smelly garbage pile, and until a week ago the view out my front door was overgrown abandoned portapotties

The place is chaotic and alive, very very different to the sterility and staleness of Melbourne which whilst much cleaner, feels dead.

Personally I enjoy this much more. Sure there’s lots I don’t enjoy, but being amongst a culture not living for the weekend where every day seems like a possibility, and things don’t feel like they were all planned 100 years ago and everyone’s just hanging on to that because they’ve got no better ideas, feels more invigorating.

What if I told you he was cannibalised by a US 3-letter agency?

Would that make it ok?

Nope, I’ve just been thinking about this idea for a little while.

Pick and choose is a good way to go. I’m thinking for a new meetup but it will be harder to get existing meetups to move group chats and stuff, a meetup calendar though would be good regardless

I’d prob run it on VPS, GitHub pages would likely be useful to more people though.

Have you thought about building in a group chat/community? Telegram is the go to for this but would be cool to have meetup-in-a-box

Still here 👋

They don’t have the same understanding of community as Westerners.

It’s why kids can run a lemonade stand or a carwash and make money - the community doesnt *need* the service, Theyd survive fine without it, but they want to encourage the kids to be enterprising and deal with people and gain experience.

The places these people come from don’t have kids running lemonade stands or car washes because they don’t have the same values.

Until people are willing to be honest that humans are not blank slates, we’re just going to see our ways of life eroded by outsiders who operate on a completely different ethos where if they can take advantage, then they must because they would be a dupe and lose honour if they didn’t.

Cool. Was wondering if something like this already existed. Should def open it up for wider use!

You can try Alby if you want to be annoyed lol

Nos2x might be basic but it’s functionally better for signing than Alby IMO

If you’re not the CEO, then who is?

Then everyone will be mad it’s not $5M already

This poor guy had his legs eaten by cannibals - he survived!

Look past the title of this one for my latest #bookstr review

Stefan Molyneux’s “Peaceful Parenting” was recommended to me by a friend who is a fan of his who thought I’d enjoy it.

The ethics of the parental relationship with children through a moral and philosophical lens is a big focus of this work, it’s much less “parenting manual” and moreso cause and effect discussions about parental choices and how they play out with children.

I appreciate that Molyneux took on the subject, it’s clearly an important one and as he frequently reiterates; our society claims to put children above all, but in observable reality clearly does not.

And that leads to my biggest gripe with this book - the frequent reiterations. Molyneux will use 3 examples to illustrate and emphasise every single point he’s making. It’s tedious and a proper editor would have slashed this book in half. Why he felt the need to be so verbose I’m not sure, it’s clearly designed for philosophical libertarian types who gain nothing from such mental coddling.

Because of that I found myself enjoying this in fits and starts. Too slow and monotonous, and then occasionally punctuated by brilliant philosophical insight.

Despite my criticisms I would actually recommend this book to everyone (there is a condensed version I found out after finishing). People claim to care so much about the future and pin so much on the next generation and then completely discount them from moral and ethical consideration because of the power imbalance in parent-child relationships - this book, whilst Molyneux drones on, allows for reflection on those ideas.

“Low time preference parenting” might have been a better title as really it’s about forcing adults to consider their actions and the results they will have on children as they grow into adults.

You can skip the last section where he backs his points with data, it’s interesting in a nerdy way but completely unnecessary as his points stand without this.

Overall a good book on a worthwhile subject that needed a better editor.