Decoding Left-Wing Livestreamers Destiny, Hasan Piker (3-24-24)

Posted on March 24, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Why do people watch livestreams?
02:00 Hasan Piker is the most popular left-wing stream, as lame as Red Scare podcast, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/hasan-piker-a-swashbuckling-bromance
21:00 How Hasan Piker Became Our Generation’s Top Political Pundit, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oza5eNpWP00
23:30 Livestreamer Destiny doesn’t know much: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1771765706993873080
45:00 India’s exploitative sugar industry, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/world/europe/india-sugar-cane-fields-child-labor-hysterectomies.html
47:00 Thinking for ourselves, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/opinion/politics-intellectual-humility.html
49:00 Free speech and anti-semitism, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/us/politics/kenneth-marcus-college-antisemitism-complaints.html
50:00 Biden can’t stop Israel’s Gaza invasion, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeAMSMhMrJQ
1:00:40 Russia is defeating NATO in Ukraine
1:03:45 American foreign policy is directed by a tiny elite against popular opinion
Usually presidents don’t matter much to your real life, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39_bpaaio1U
1:26:20 Devotional followers of favorite e-personalities such as Sam Harris, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/supplementary-material-2-dissident-dialogues-bloodbaths-genocidal-debates
1:06:00 Ukraine and a Trump presidency, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39_bpaaio1U
1:46:20 Decoding Academia: “Two leading COVID contrarians: Vinay Prasad and John Ioannidis” https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/posts
1:58:00 Economist Ronald Coase, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Coase
2:08:30 Why do narcissists like conspiracy theories?
2:17:00 My experience with Modafinil, Aderall, ADHD
2:20:00 Israel and ethnic cleansing
2:31:00 Pessimists pay no price, https://www.ft.com/content/6b21b2a4-577f-4d8f-9b53-dfb8771ce4c8
2:36:40 Ben Braddock, crank: https://twitter.com/GraduatedBen/status/1770841563679039750
2:38:00 Fourth Black Female Harvard Scholar Accused of Plagiarism Amid Assault on DEI Initiatives, https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/22/cross-plagiarism-harvard-anonymous-complaint/
2:42:00 WEHT to Skip Bayless? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wggJHXJW7hw





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Let’s Go Gay For Gaza (3-17-24)

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Gay for Gaza
03:00 Israel Is Doing A Great Job Minimizing Civilian Casualties In Gaza, https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-must-can-and-will-win-hamas-defeat-rafah-war-gaza-22e9a19d?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s
06:00 Israel-Hamas war: IDF eliminates 15 terrorists in 24 hours, amid Hamas aid attack, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuvBbZt91AY
09:00 A WTF Moment in the Middle East (US Dock in GAZA?) || Peter Zeihan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fagtI6MOCUo
20:00 Netanyahu must change Israel’s strategy against Hamas | Scott Lucas, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28dh9e4QAWM
24:00 NYT: How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation: Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online., https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/politics/trump-disinformation-2024-social-media.html
33:00 Obese Aussies, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtSMEWOOHbY
35:00 NRL’s Vegas stunt dazzles media, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi22sRYZsoA
43:30 Russell Brand And The Conspiracy Grift, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo4gIihETu8
1:14:20 Most comics are horrible people – Modern Day Philosophers podcast, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-10-wrap-up-show-with-daniel-lobell-alex-fossella/id684158414?i=1000610898349
1:21:00 Omnibus: The Treble | BBC 1 1985, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmLXePXNNkA&t=2061s
1:24:00 Why Stimulant Medication Helps ADHD — and How Stigma Can Hurt, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38qpm6VKBFc
1:26:00 What if medication masks the underlying condition of natural death?
1:28:00 Emotional addiction and ADHD, https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/step-study-step-1-brendan-t-ireland/id1247514851?i=1000648791625
1:33:30 ADHD as a Performance Disorder, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58gU8tsxkkI
1:50:45 Adult ADHD What You Need to Know, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDgOmFd5SlE
1:58:00 ADHD Medications – Part II – Stimulants, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4kxqLw7WXc
2:00:00 My 2000 diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, https://www.lukeford.net/luke_ford/bio/l17.htm
2:02:00 An ADHD Guide to Emotional Dysregulation and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (w/ William Dodson, M.D.), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klmxcj52PQQ
2:04:40 Driving a car is the most difficult skill most people master
2:06:50 Rejection sensitivity does not lend itself to research
2:09:00 Defining Features of ADHD That Everyone Overlooks: RSD, Hyperarousal, More (w/ Dr. William Dodson), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vycWIzURgZM
2:22:00 Deficient Emotional Self-Regulation: The Overlooked ADHD Symptom That Impacts Everything (Barkley), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh-IpsDPizI
2:25:00 Build Your ADHD Emotional Resilience: Help for Adults Who Feel Deeply (with Tamara Rosier, Ph.D.), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWYtgBrO_ME
2:27:20 6 Principles for Raising a Child with ADHD (with Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52wQuMSUAkY
2:33:30 The Dark Philosophy of Cormac McCarthy, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHfHx9x2jg4

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Israel Is Doing A Great Job Minimizing Civilian Casualties In Gaza

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Luke Ford

Ophir Falk writes in the WSJ:

Israel has already dismantled 18 of Hamas’s 24 battalions, incapacitated more than 21,500 Hamas terrorists—about two-thirds of its force, including two of the top four leaders—and destroyed significant terror tunnels. By contrast, it took U.S. military forces nine months to take out 5,000 ISIS fighters in Mosul.

John Spencer, chairman of urban warfare studies at West Point, described Israel’s achievements as “unprecedented,” especially given the complex combat conditions above and below ground. Mr. Spencer says that Israel is setting the “gold standard” for avoiding civilian casualties.

Israel doesn’t need prompting to provide humanitarian aid or to act with caution. According to retired British Col. Richard Kemp, the average combatant-to-civilian death ratio in Gaza is about 1 to 1.5. This is astonishing since, according to the United Nations, the average combatant-to-civilian death ratio in urban warfare has been 1 to 9. Israel seeks to minimize civilian casualties, while Hamas seeks to maximize civilian casualties and use them as a propaganda tool. We cannot let Hamas’s strategy pay off.

Hamas has four terror brigades in Rafah. That city is Hamas’s last stronghold, and its defeat is a prerequisite for victory. Whoever pressures Israel to refrain from entering Rafah is preventing the destruction of Hamas and the freeing of Israel and Gazan civilians from Hamas’s stranglehold. Gen. David Petraeus, who led the 2007 American surge in Iraq, said last week that the “key now is to not stop until Hamas is fully destroyed.”

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The Vanity Fair Oscars Party

Posted on March 10, 2024 by Luke Ford

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The truth has no temperature (3-5-24)

Posted on March 5, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 Have you truly loved a woman?
14:00 The Counselor (2013), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2193215/
https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/sean-carroll-the-worst-guru-yet
19:00 Trump White House awash in speed, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-white-house-drugs-speed-xanax-1234979503/
21:00 Cormac McCarthy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy
30:00 Elliott Blatt joins
52:00 Simple man, https://genius.com/Lynyrd-skynyrd-simple-man-lyrics
55:00 How much do you disclose?
58:00 My Al Goldstein interview, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Goldstein
59:00 Porn is bad
1:01:00 Physicist Sean Carroll has opinions, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/sean-carroll-the-worst-guru-yet
1:08:40 Contrarian economist Glenn Loury backtracks, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Loury
1:10:00 The retconning of George Floyd, https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retconning-of-george-floyd-an

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