I can't stand Bulgaria /  by Mirena Rhee

I can't stand Bulgaria

I mean I love the people and my DNA comes from here, obviously my parents had sex somewhere in it. But being in the US for 26 years basically most of my adult life I've integrated so much of the US DNA literally, I absorbed American molecules.

I can't even stand the radio here they only talk about the weekends counting the days towards the weekend. I mean work builds most things.

Small businesses do work hard here. But 500 years of Turkish slavery and then 40 years of communist slavery turned this nation into weekend waiters, nothing to look forward to, nothing to build, nothing to inspire. Everyone that can left this place. I'm staying only to arrange a few things but my mind and my life is in America or Western Europe, but Europe seems to be really sleepy too so we will see.

Why We Worship the Wrong Gods /  by Mirena Rhee

Why We Worship the Wrong Gods

In a White House banquet, why would you seat Cristiano Ronaldo, a man whose life’s work consists of kicking a ball, among those who have launched rockets, electrified transportation, and rewired global commerce?

Physical brilliance and relentless discipline deserve respect, but placing a professional athlete on the same pedestal as civilization-altering builders is a symptom of a society intoxicated by spectacle. Actually no! spectacle is great! I personally know many internet dogs who dribble a ball better than Cristiano Ronaldo. I think cats are even more brilliant, they don't even do anything, they just are. So I think the president should have invited at least a few dogs and cats on strength of entertainment alone.

Warren Buffett falls into the same thing, where he just shuffles money around and for many years ignored Tesla. I can't comprehend an American power figure basically investing in a Chinese copycat. Because not for a minute would I believe that the Chinese let Tesla make a factory in Beijing just because they like Elon. Of course they let him build a factory so they can steal Tesla's secrets. Everything BYD made was stolen from Tesla. Buffett was in bed with thieves, poured over with sugary drinks.

Now Tim Cook, of course. He turned a great company into a phone company. I used to have four Macs and an iPhone. I'm down to one 11-year-old Mac and trending towards a flip phone, except for the voice-to-text feature, which I use extensively and is the only way I actually write.

We must teach children to revere builders over ball chasers and money shufflers to build a civilization worthy of the stars.

In other words, my old refrain, go Elon, go NASA, go SpaceX! If it wasn't for Elon, I'm not even sure if Bezos would have been so inspired, to be honest. Before Tesla became a thing, EVs were not a thing at all. Now everybody does them and pretends they just invented batteries. I mean, if it wasn't for Elon, we would be back to horse and thought prisons.

So love for science, engineering, and the urge for building must be instilled in education and in children. Otherwise we will lose all the momentum and we will be back to boring bullshit.

Kids are bored at school because they teach them to read hundred-year-old novels. And they go on YouTube and see all this exciting stuff, and it's like, YouTube is much better, man.

See how nicely I ascended into a rant from a perfectly valid statement. This kind of stuff really fires me up, especially early in the morning.

You are a lot more powerful than the Sun /  by Mirena Rhee

Your body achieves a higher power density than the Sun’s core because ATP production and the thousands of chemical reactions it drives are packed into the minuscule volume of trillions of cells, running at a mild 37 °C with the help of ultra-efficient enzymes. In contrast, the Sun’s core needs temperatures of 15 million °C and enormous pressure to fuse hydrogen at a relatively leisurely pace, producing far less energy per cubic centimeter. Gram for gram, your cells are far more intense energy factories than the heart of a star—making the human body, in this very specific sense, more powerful than the Sun.

You are a lot more powerful than the Sun /  by Mirena Rhee

Your body achieves a higher power density than the Sun’s core because ATP production and the thousands of chemical reactions it drives are packed into the minuscule volume of trillions of cells, running at a mild 37 °C with the help of ultra-efficient enzymes. In contrast, the Sun’s core needs temperatures of 15 million °C and enormous pressure to fuse hydrogen at a relatively leisurely pace, producing far less energy per cubic centimeter. Gram for gram, your cells are far more intense energy factories than the heart of a star—making the human body, in this very specific sense, more powerful than the Sun.

Minimalism for the New Millennium /  by Mirena Rhee

I was listening to an audiobook about the world of ancient Greece and the author said that Greeks didn't own much and the houses of the rich and the poor didn't differ except in size, they were not minimalists in any way but their houses were very sparse. I think owning many things by many is because of industrial society and industry. In the past that was the prerogative of the very few. Now everyone crams as much as they want in the tight spots we call homes.

What it is to have for me has always been a conundrum. What exactly does it mean, does it mean the proximity of an object that the object is inside your own dwelling, that it's easily accessible to be seen every day or to be touched or handled every day because the only thing I can think of as far as objects is that we have to take care every day to dust them and clean them and they only take the space of air. Very few actual very useful objects. I believe that objects literally suck the life out of us.

I usually much prefer to sit and sleep on the floor because I could easily rest my feet and sit cross legged. I can much easier rest on a bed that's lower on the ground like a Japanese futon, I can lay down and put my feet up when I'm tired from physical exertion. Laying down on the floor is not such an idiotic thing after all. I remember the heated floors in Japan and Korea where I've seen adults literally roll around on the floors relaxing and sleeping so I don't get how we dangle off our couches and beds.

Why Socialism Finds Ground in America /  by Mirena Rhee

The biggest problem with the way capitalism works in America today is the scarcity of jobs. Many people who are not highly educated or do not have high IQs simply cannot participate in the economy. The system has become too complex and competitive, leaving behind those who lack resources or support. America’s low labor participation rate and growing homelessness are clear signs of this. None of the people lying on the streets want to be there. They just cannot find a place in the modern economy.

The second major issue is alienation. While caring for my elderly mother, I read online forums where people spoke of locking out their homeless parents or refusing to help them. It was shocking to see how disconnected people have become. In a society where everyone talks about adopting pets, many turn away from their own family members. Scarcity of simple, dignified work and deep social alienation are the real cracks in today’s capitalism. These are also the reasons why socialism and communism continue to gain ground in America, despite their own failures.

Art has been the language of the rich and powerful, and mighty for thousands of years /  by Mirena Rhee

Art has been the language of the rich and powerful, and mighty for thousands of years - through the hands of known and unknown artists. The pyramids and tombs are painted with art all the churches and institutions in the Renaissance the Pope's palaces.

Even though pictorially art was freed from the agenda of the mighty, they still pay for it. And they write the agenda still. I don't think there is an artist on Earth who's free from the bullshits of politics, and the political agendas the powerful set. We still cater and beg on the carpets of the mighty and their institutions. 

No matter what they still pay for it and we still beg on that carpet.

A Jihadi Communist who hates America and barely just got here wants to run the great amazing NYC? He should excuse and hide /  by Mirena Rhee

He also doesn’t have the experience of ever having a job. They are gonna be wearing burqas in city hall. I hate the idiots that are gonna vote for this ulgy zebra already.

The truth is the city is so corrupt that no real healthy smart capable individual wants to do this and deal with the morons that hold these dumb fuck government jobs. No one in the entire city wants this job I guess.

If you hate Elon Musk - you are an enemy of progress, and America /  by Mirena Rhee

I have been wondering for a long time how is it possible for educated and smart people to hate Elon Musk. Elon himself had a pretty dramatic in my mind change of heart. He probably knows things I don't.

It occurred to me that the Democrats have positioned themselves to become the champions of the oppressed. Anyone who tries to reindustrialize America is practically an enemy to that agenda. Elon Musk is the mortal enemy to the champions of the oppressed cuz he's trying to remove the most vital oppression there is which is the economic oppression. Happily employed people with interesting things to do don't go looking to support a political party. Now on the other hand the Democrats have figured out what is totally free for them to simply let migrants in and make them instant constituents. This is literally the law of thermodynamics the least amount of expended energy.

Now that women have better position in society and gay people can marry, Democrats looked to create more oppressed.

They want homeless kids and distressed people on the streets, otherwise with all these ngo’s and people involved we should have by now solved homelessness.

Now it makes sense that they're also the champions of violent migrants, genderists, criminals and communists.

Elon Musk is the Democrats mortal enemy. They are the enemy of progress. They want America to fail and they are my mortal enemy also.