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The Sofiechan Mount Whitney Expedition
Posting is fun, but the higher life is primarily physical. A couple weeks ago a few of us took on mount Whitney. At 14500 feet of pure Californian granite, it's the highest mountain in the continental United States, and a serious challenge even for strong ... posted 10h ago with 5 replies received fieldtrip life

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I was one who summited. Anon started very strong but rolled the unlucky snake eyes with regards to altitude sickness. I haven't ever gotten it myself, but it looked brutal. Seeing his perseverance from 11000' to 11500' was good inspiration for the remainde... 8h ago received

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Meditation on Mountain Peaks has some great passages that your ascent made me think of:... 8h ago received

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Yes I've never liked the aesthetics of hiking poles. Or most hiking clothing for that matter. A lot of the aesthetics of the outdoor """industry""" are pointlessly stuck on this concept of synthetic technological superiority even as the rest of the fashion... 4h ago received

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This Thing Is Not Us. The imperative of cognitive separatism from the global american empire
I'm told "we" have a vital interest in defending Taiwan from China. Perhaps we do. Japan certainly seems to. I do like Japan. But then again, "we" also seem to have a vital interest in not quite letting Japan off the leash. I hear they are months from deve... posted 2y ago with 12 replies received politics fieldtrip

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We've had two years of intellectual development since the inception of this thread by the monosyllabic-nym old ones, so I want to pose a central question I had while reading. Cognitive separatism is necessary, we are actively doing it, it is starting to wo... 3d ago received

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Is this just wishful thinking? Can we do some historical analysis and verify that the just falling out reliably happens? And if so, over what timescale? How long must we trust the plan?... 2d ago received

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New Mag Cooperation - Rumors of Discontent
Palladium’s publication frequency has recently been inconsistent, with the most current article in the most recent issue dating back to 2022. Its purpose should be to provide a reliable platform for uniting thinkers and policy innovators from key hubs li... posted 7mo ago with 11 replies received fieldtrip news

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OP it sounds like you should write a Palladium article on "pressing topics such as H1B visas, industrial policy, literacy rates, [or] population decline." As >>2315 suggests, these things don't grow on trees, and like any magazine Palladium is bottlenecked... 7mo ago received

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First, I would like to thank the Founders of Palladium and its predecessor publications. The transition from far outside the Overton window to Muscular Centrism was masterful and would have failed in the hands of almost anyone else.... 6mo ago received

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Milsim West: Shali Front After Action Report
This post breached the character count limit on Sofie Channel, so I'm including a link to it.... (pastebin.com) posted 8mo ago with 3 replies received fieldtrip

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To this group, probably the sub-sections with the following headers:... 8mo ago received

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A Sketch of Near Future Political Prognosis
I want to speculate for a minute about what kind of revolutionary or reform potential exists in our political-economic system as the current era of boomer senility and liberalism reaches its breaking point. I'm going to skip over a lot of reasoning here fo... posted 9mo ago with 4 replies received politics fieldtrip

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All of these companies are highly selective in their hiring. Part of what makes the cult work is the kind of people the employees are in the first place.... 9mo ago received

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This is a good point. Mere selectivity and a particular culture isn't enough to work in the way I'm speculating will become more normal. The key is going to be ability to actually reproduce human capital, not ability to attract and shape. I'll believe Spac... 9mo ago received

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"Bull fighting" from the future: Drone Slaying
For a few months I've been thinking about the history of warfare and sports. My grandfather grew up bullfighting - Most of my memories of him are watching the "corridas" every Saturday.... posted 13mo ago with 11 replies received technology fieldtrip

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America retains distinct advantages in premier industrial domains, such as computer chip design (note, separate from manufacture), rockets, turbine jet engines, and various advanced materials science. As a strictly military example, no one makes night visi... 11mo ago received

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Road Trip Week 2: Escape to San Francisco
Driving the 101 down the coast, Oregon is the longest and hardest part. Endless repetition of idyllic towns, beautiful coastline, and lush forest. Over and over and over. It would be quite a nice place to retire to, but didn't seem to have much else going ... posted 14mo ago with 6 replies received fieldtrip

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That doesn't seem so difficult if you can freely plan your route. The U.S. isn't that bad yet. Is there a state in the U.S. where you can't find someplace safe by driving 20 miles? 11mo ago received

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I think that's right, but the original context was finding safe locations when freely planning travel in the U.S. In that context, prevention by location-management is the first-order bit. 11mo ago received

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Road Trip: Missing Weeks Through Utah, Wyoming, and South Dakota.
As you may or may not have noticed, I have not been posting weekly road trip reports, and sofiechan has been rather neglected overall. These are related: driving and camping with a family is actually fairly time intensive. I wanted to give some kind of upd... posted 12mo ago with 1 reply received fieldtrip

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Road trip week 5, 6: The wedding, public land, overpopulation, underpopulation, unsociety.
The road trip at the end of week 5 took us across the bay to celebrate the wedding of an old friend and teacher. I didn't know what to expect, but it was delightfully well done. Congratulations to the couple.... posted 13mo ago with 1 reply received politics fieldtrip

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Nevada is the open road radicalized and extended into a whole state. This actually makes it quite pleasant. Almost everything is public land, and underpopulated enough that you can do whatever you want. You can just drive off into the bush and camp, and ev... 13mo ago received

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Road Trip Week 4: The Soul of a New Taste Machine in San Francisco
We're still becalmed in San Francisco, hanging out with friends, working a bit more on Sofiechan, and this week experiencing life in "the tenderknob".... posted 13mo ago with 11 replies received computing fieldtrip

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Defense against adversarial trolls is a different issue from moderating foreign content.... 13mo ago received

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It would be interesting to know how the use of these high-class markers played out during the COVID pandemic. Did they downgrade critical examination of vaccine efficacy and safety? Did they upgrade content on the benefits of lockdowns? 13mo ago received

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The internet social apocalypse and its solutions
folks over on twitter are complaining that all the twisty little passages full of unique social subcultures have been dissolved into a single global free market of slop. Elon giveth, and Elon taketh away. It seemed like an interesting topic so let's have a... posted 13mo ago with 9 replies received politics fieldtrip

The internet social received

I honestly don’t see much change over the past few years. Twitter was pretty good but not amazing then, and it’s pretty good but not amazing now. My group chats are much like they were before, maybe a hair sharper. What differences are you guys complai... 13mo ago received

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Instead of being nostalgic, it occurred to me that I might give an example of a platform that has survived the social apocalypse...... 13mo ago received

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Does Leopold Aschenbrenner make any sense?
Leopold Aschenbrenner has been everywhere for the last couple of weeks, feeding on the AI hype, doomerism and China hawkishness. He has very good credentials, but does any of his takes make any sense?... posted 14mo ago with 15 replies received technology fieldtrip

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Rally name: End The Occupation, China Out Now! 13mo ago received

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Towards an Illegible Computational Medium of Exchange
You cannot be sovereign if you do not control your medium of exchange, if your enemies can insert themselves into every transaction and tax it or block it at will.... posted 14mo ago with 12 replies received technology fieldtrip

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Again, I really like this general idea. That's why I'm motivated to press a bit on the technical details. Please take this pressing as entirely friendly.... 14mo ago received

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There had been a thread on high software profit margins, which has since disappeared off sofiechan. The OP on hackernews might still be relevant (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904339):... 13mo ago received

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How should we do startups to retain teleological independence and win real power?
If one has ambition, talent, friends, and a good idea, one can build a successful company in Silicon Valley. But why? Money is nice; you ascend the bourgeois class tournament and get finer luxuries, more respect, better mates, better schools, better friend... posted 14mo ago with 17 replies received fieldtrip

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Real power requires the capacity to do violence. Influencing those with the capacity to do violence is the next best thing, but I’m not sure it’s any substitute.... 14mo ago received

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Greed: discourage attention seeking baitposts. Lust: automated porn detection and deletion, especially anything illegal. Pride: guard against group narcissism, including among ourselves. Sloth: a built-in reputation time-decay? Envy: encourage individual s... 14mo ago received

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Road Trip Week 1: Country Island Dreaming from Saanich to Tillamook
Time for some good old fashioned travel journalism in the style of James Anthony Froude: a road trip survey of America's human and natural geography from a Volkswagen camper van. With my family of 6 (4 kids including a newborn), we're driving around the mi... posted 14mo ago with 3 replies received fieldtrip

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For interpretation of fashionble moralistic livery, gleichschaltung is certainly part of it, but it's not that forceful in most social circles. Summer 2020 felt like that, but where's BLM now? Rolling in cash, sure, but with little social currency. I think... 14mo ago received

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El Salvador Questions Thread
I’ve been to El Salvador twice recently and have spent over two months there. It’s a great spot, I loved my trips both times and will return.... posted 1y ago with 20 replies received politics fieldtrip

El Salvador Question received

Thanks, that's a good read. I still wish I could find more detail about how he secured the loyalty of his security forces and police and got them to "defect" in a certain sense from the previous regime as well as from the gangs. My understanding is that in... 1y ago received

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Film Discussion Thread; Movies as a Tool for Society
Discuss movies that have influenced you or are favorites of yours. What movies do you plan to, or already, show your children to help them become intelligent and well-rounded adults?... posted 1y ago with 8 replies received fieldtrip

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So many good movies. Its a little corny but I love Braveheart: 'They may take our lives, but they'll never take our Freeedooom!' Awesome speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TME0xubdHQc.... 1y ago received

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Californa Forever
California Forever announced that it had gathered enough signatures to qualify an initiative for the ballot in Solano County—the next step in the company’s plan for a high-tech, green, walkable city of 400,000 on 60,000-acres of what is now marginal ra... (californialocal.com) posted 1y ago with no replies received fieldtrip

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Jubensha; The Chinese Game The West Needs, But Has Never Heard Of
https://deng.poker/jubensha posted 1y ago with 6 replies received fieldtrip

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Known good guides to gatekeeping?
Suppose you are starting a social club as a means of moving toward something bigger and better.... posted 1y ago with 13 replies received fieldtrip supercoordination

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That's true. At the same time, they did an extremely good job of gatekeeping out the leftist entryists that OP mentions. Note that they're probably the most prominent movement that's kept intellectual sovereignty in the face of the Current Thing. I can nam... 1y ago received

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Thanks! Posted here: >>1536. 1y ago received

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Is the SAT meant to favor Jews?
It's known that Jews have much worse spatial ability compared to their verbal and mathematical skills. Isn't it interesting how the SAT only tests those skills?... (statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu) posted 1y ago with 6 replies received fieldtrip

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It's comprehensible why such themes are contentious in our Western society. Information that might disrupt societal cohesion carries inherent risks. 1y ago received

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Twitter Hobo's proposal for a new American nomadism
https://twitter.com/shagbark_hick/status/1774939620943294603 posted 1y ago with 22 replies received fieldtrip life

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I think the most revealing thread this Adirondack guy (or however he goes now) posted was when he confessed that he felt viscerally uncomfortable anywhere but dilapidated, deindustrialized shitholes in the Northeast. The Southwest and Mountain West, which ... 1y ago received

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Papen and Hindenburg facilitated the rise of national socialism due to tactical moves in 1933; it did not come from them or their faction. 1y ago received

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Thoughts on Prospera
Some of you may be aware of the conference/pop-up city called Vitalia (https://vitalia.city/) that is currently taking place in a charter city in Honduras called Prospera.... (www.youtube.com) posted 1y ago with 5 replies received politics fieldtrip

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The thing with charter cities is that they need the active cooperation of a real sovereign to really work. They are either a colonialist/imperialist project, or some kind of developmentalist project. Palladium wrote about this:... 1y ago received

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Any sources that you would recommend, or cities in particular? I see an aristocracy as being a network of families whose product is governance. There are other kinds of family networks, providing, for example, particular crafts, quality food, etc. 1y ago received

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