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This video addresses violence as the root of negotiation, how that allows trust patterns to emerge, aggression signals convert to trust signals, and from there the foundations of civil society are laid.

A quick discussion about the limits of blockchain technology in the face of a chronic deficit in social trust systems. This is only a quick one, so I don't get too deep into the nature of trust itself or the problems that arise in different types of trust networks. Bottom line: being a good faith actor, at least locally, is our only way forward.

Development on Windows in any other environment than Microsoft Visual Studio/Code/Whatever is a major pain in the ass. For this reason Erlang development is almost exclusively a Unix game (typically Linux or OSX), but development/packaging tools like ZX and GUI launching tools like Vapor make cross-platform packaging and execution of Erlang code on Windows easy. If, however, you are trapped on Windows for whatever reason and you want to explore and tinker with the Erlang source code of an existing ZX-based program on Windows, you still can. This video shows you how.

A talk-through of a tutorial example of how classes and objects work by implementing them in a functional language (in this case Erlang, but it could be any other language just as well) and a discussion of why functional languages typically lack the keyword "class" entirely. Original blog post here: https://zxq9.com/archives/1838 GitLab snippet of the code in the video: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2018486 "Objects are a poor man's closures!" (OOPsy coders hate it when I say that...)

Will CCP China achieve nuclear parity with the US soon? Well, it's complicated. In this video I talk through some of the factors that have to be taken into account when assessing nuclear parity and the balance of risks and utility involved with possessing nuclear weapons. Follow up: https://rumble.com/vep3vr-geopol-mad-mutual-assured-destruction-predicts-ideological-conflict.html

TAD goes off on the FBI and Freemasonry, proclaiming that they are retarded clueless monkeys and God is on his side.

Repo: https://gitlab.com/zxq9/trash_talk ZX docs: https://zxq9.com/projects/zomp Part 2: https://rumble.com/ve8ilt Explanation of how to use ZX to create a simple telnet chat server (extremely easy) and then explanation of what exactly is going on inside, why applications are structured the way they are, and toward the end homes in on how the client socket handlers are receiving data from the system and how and where we would start introducing more interesting behaviors such as chat commands and chat channels. Reference post for the "Service ⇒ Worker" pattern mentioned a few times in the video above: https://zxq9.com/archives/1311

Repo: https://gitlab.com/zxq9/erltris Blog post: https://zxq9.com/archives/1882 Explanation of an Erlang implementation of the classic puzzle game Tetris as a client-side GUI application using wxWidgets and ZX. In this video we discuss how I started the project initially, and walk through the first few commits where I establish the most important parts of the game data as abstract data types and demonstrate to myself that we can effectively render them to the screen in a way that isn't too terribly ugly.

BitChute link: https://www.bitchute.com/video/06c13vTml27Y/ A brief review of the illicit drug industry from the 1980's through today, how geography and political influence shaped the early drug war, how geography and the fall of the main Colombian cartels handed the Mexican over-land traffickers a massive opportunity, some of the social, political and economic side effects of drug prohibition in the United States, and a recommendation of how the situation could be diffused (though with no expectation this will ever be implemented).

A 1978 video warning about Global Cooling and the inevitable global freeze that may spring on humanity at any moment. Archived for reference.

Terry contemplates the relative discomfort of prisons and hospitals, CIA goons drilled an extra hole in his tooth, porn poisons your mind, family formation is an evolved survival trait that arose from dumb horny behavior, women are wicked, God is perfectly just, eating monk food to reduce pleasures improves your health but he feels he is off the charts on drinking too much soda for pleasure, God is bored out of his mind so watching prisoners shank each other is probably more pleasing to him than watching shut-in men playing fake video games while they waste their lives away, and do you love God or are you selfish?

Terry, the man, the musical legend, once again practices drumming on a piece of wood paneling as a practice pad while rocking out to the divine beats emitted by TempleOS. It is unclear whether he is still in heavy competition with Mister Derek, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least.

TAD goes off about how only retards believe that it is impossible to write a compiler or deal with the machine on its own level, and laments the fact that the vast majority of people appear to be retards. He explains the basic principles of compilation and shows an example of machine code and how stack machines work in a similar way to how interpretation of reverse-Polish notation works.

TAD plays his mini drum set that sounds like timbales with an ashtray attached. This time he goes it fully solo with no assistance from the divine sounds of TempleOS. This was all prompted because nothing broke and he's going to be careful.

(Didn't have a camera so this video is more podcast style.) Morality can only be applied to conscious entities. Consciousness exists on a spectrum that ramps up to individual humans at the peak and then declines again the larger an organization composed of humans becomes. I discuss how morality maps to the consciousness spectrum to explain why so many political arguments are fallacious, dishonest distractions crafted to confuse the public. Locals: https://zxq9.locals.com SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/zxq9 Website: https://zxq9.com BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/zxq9/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/zxq9 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMnRVG50iFEpkgbUu1mZrMA Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/zxq9

This video was prompted by a video by Styxhexenhammer666 yesterday about the Vermont legislature deciding to double down on mail-in voting and thereby ensuring perpetual election fraud. Styx's video: https://rumble.com/verucj-vermont-seeks-to-permanently-abolish-fair-elections-and-codify-universal-ma.html How to find me: Locals: https://zxq9.locals.com SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/zxq9 Website: https://zxq9.com BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/eMzIGaZLvMNx/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/zxq9 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMnRVG50iFEpkgbUu1mZrMA

TAD watches a cultural dance in his room and gives it a go himself.

I've been suspended (really a soft ban) from Twitter for an hilariously stupid reason. This is a good opportunity to discuss the mechanics of it as well as what it means in terms of tech-that-gets-big changing its intentions over time (another example of the general rule "capacity informs intent").

TAD shows off an HTMLizer in TempleOS that simplifies exporting code or documents from TempleOS to a public website for display.

Terry takes a trip to the store after having a few. With his glasses taped to his head.

Repo: https://gitlab.com/zxq9/erltris Blog post: https://zxq9.com/archives/1886 Explanation of an Erlang implementation of the classic puzzle game Tetris as a client-side GUI application using wxWidgets and ZX. In this video I explain how the gameplay mechanics are implemented for movement and rotation of a game piece, board locking, line clearing, board compacting and so on. (PS: I failed to mention something really important that I had intended to cover here -- how to handle input from the GUI! Whoops! I cover this in the blog post linked above and will touch on it in the next video. Like so much of programming, it's one of those things that isn't at all hard to do but if you don't know what is going on in wxErlang it can be a real mystery to figure out for yourself. Pretty important!)

The CCP seems to be turning from its prepared return to Maoism and onto the path of having no real plan at all but putting a happy face on troubles that quite clearly risk collapse. SerpentZA's video about the Maoist editorial: https://odysee.com/@serpentza:5/breaking-did-china-just-declare-war:8 CCP editorial (pro Maoist): "Everyone can feel that a profound change is underway!" http://www.news.cn/politics/2021-08/29/c_1127807097.htm Review of CCP editorial rebuttial (pro market fascism): https://uscnpm.org/2021/09/03/breaking-down-hu-xijins-challenge-to-li-guangmans-dazibao/

Terry practices drumming on a piece of paneling to a variety of TempleOS generated songs.

Terry wants to party with Jan in Valhalla. This involves lounging drunk on a bed reading about the invasion of Sennacherib, getting an annoying hand cramp, and drunk singing to the ceiling.

What it says on the tin: TAD uses a board as a drum practice pad, though it is unclear what rudiments or cadences he is intending to practice.