What happens next in Spain? 4 scenarios for Sánchez's amnesty deal with Catalan separatists

1. Somebody, some other institution, stops it. The King. Europe. The courts. Not happening, at least not before the vote happens. King Felipe is a modern, constitutional monarch, not an ancien régime absolutist tyrant. Constitutionally, as far as I understand it, he cannot refuse to sign a law that parliament has passed. He has no wriggle room to imprint his personal marque on events. If he were to try, the crisis might even go up a level to talk of abdication. This is not national-to-regional constitutional authority like in 2017, this is the Prime Minister himself doing a deal with a fugitive from justice, to stay on as PM. His party, the PSOE, controls Congress, the seat of national sovereignty, via the Speaker and the Speaker’s Committee. Vox petitioned the Supreme Court yesterday for an injunction to stop the debate today, on the grounds of bribery, terrorism and abuse of authority, and the Supreme Court rejected that this morning. Europe doesn’t work on such short timelines. The latest message was from Von der Leyen’s spokesman, Eric Mamer, in a tweet yesterday: “the Commission has received today the draft law from the Spanish authorities and has just started its analysis”. The Polish rule-of-law crisis with the European Commission began…in 2015. A “maximum priority”, “urgent” response from Spain’s Constitutional Court, might be…three months, once appeals start being filed.

So the debate begins at 12 p.m. today. 1,500 police reinforcements have been drafted in to lock down Congress and the surrounding streets.

2. Last-minute political backstabbing. House-of-Cards style, with secret power grabs and behind-the-scenes dirty moves. Maybe García-Page’s eight MPs from Castilla la Mancha will rebel, given his public statements against the deal. Maybe the PP and Vox offer Sánchez some MPs at the last minute to tempt him away from the separatists and the far-left. Maybe some random socialist or Sumar MPs will have a crisis of conscience and an actual independent thought. Maybe Sánchez himself will rip up the deal after being reappointed PM this week, stabbing Puigdemont in the political back. Maybe, but probably, almost certainly, not. Spanish MPs, in Spain’s party political system, do not rebel against the party line and the boss. There is no independence of thought or action when voting buttons are pressed. In practice, you could reduce the number of MPs in Congress in Madrid from the current 350 to about 10 and all the votes would come out with the same result. Likewise, there is no chance of the PP and Vox offering, or of Sánchez accepting, their votes in a European style grand, cross-party coalition. None of them could stomach that. For several years now, in a political environment in which no one has even a majority, never mind a supermajority large enough to change the constitution, Sánchez has always chosen, voluntarily, when faced with the pressure of events, the far-left (Podemos, Sumar) and regional separatists, instead of the constitutional right or even the liberal centre. If he used Puigdemont to get reappointed and then ripped up the amnesty deal, what would he do for a budget and all the other laws he will want to pass for the rest of the parliament, through to 2027?
Last-minute political backstabbing. House-of-Cards style, with secret power grabs and behind-the-scenes dirty moves. Maybe García-Page’s eight MPs from Castilla la Mancha will rebel, given his public statements against the deal. Maybe the PP and Vox offer Sánchez some MPs at the last minute to tempt him away from the separatists and the far-left. Maybe some random socialist or Sumar MPs will have a crisis of conscience and an actual independent thought. Maybe Sánchez himself will rip up the deal after being reappointed PM this week, stabbing Puigdemont in the political back. Maybe, but probably, almost certainly, not. Spanish MPs, in Spain’s party political system, do not rebel against the party line and the boss. There is no independence of thought or action when voting buttons are pressed. In practice, you could reduce the number of MPs in Congress in Madrid from the current 350 to about 10 and all the votes would come out with the same result. Likewise, there is no chance of the PP and Vox offering, or of Sánchez accepting, their votes in a European style grand, cross-party coalition. None of them could stomach that. For several years now, in a political environment in which no one has even a majority, never mind a supermajority large enough to change the constitution, Sánchez has always chosen, voluntarily, when faced with the pressure of events, the far-left (Podemos, Sumar) and regional separatists, instead of the constitutional right or even the liberal centre. If he used Puigdemont to get reappointed and then ripped up the amnesty deal, what would he do for a budget and all the other laws he will want to pass for the rest of the parliament, through to 2027?

3. The radical right does something stupid. At other moments in Spanish history, with grave national risk perceived by conservatives or the far-right or the old establisment, with no apparent mechanisms to stop or slow events, a general would be found to ride to Congress on a horse or with a bus-load of soldiers to try to put a stop to the left and regional separatists “destroying Spain”. It has happened several times before, from the mid 19th-Century onwards. One of those episodes, although the systemic causes were much more complex, ended very badly in the Civil War and 40 years of Francoist dictatorship. The last attempt was “only” in 1981, with Tejero shooting at the ceiling of the chamber in Congress where today’s debate will happen. Just yesterday, in constitutional terms. In 2023, a military or general officer option is not going to happen…but there is a chance the radical right might attempt a Trump- or Bolsonaro- style Jan 6. assault on parliament, which is more in vogue as a desperate protest measure. Tucker Carlson was in Madrid this week, smiling alongside Vox leader Abascal outside PSOE headquarters. Alt-right Telegram channels and influencer channels in Spain have been buzzing for two weeks with ideas about different levels of protest in different places. There are even some among them who are annoyed at the King and the whole 1978 constitutional system. The main group behind them, Revuelta (linked to Vox), last night told all its supporters to get down to Congress this morning. This is the reason there are 1,500 extra police around parliament in Madrid today. And sometimes these things snowball out of hand, once people start interacting in real life and others start finding out about it.

4. It all just blows over. Basically what we have here, underneath it all, is Puigdemont sees his chance to come home without going to jail and Sánchez gets to be Prime Minister for another four years. The rest of it is fluff to make that core exchange happen. As we have seen, respect for the rule of law in Spain is not as stringent on principle as it might be in some other nations or cultures. Does anybody really care about the thousands of political corruption cases at all levels over the past 20 years, beyond using it as polarised ammunition to lob at the other side? And as we are all seeing, if you have political mates in the right places, pesky judges and even whole chunks of criminal law and entire crimes can be made to go away if you have a few votes someone needs to stay in power. Get the wording and the frames right in the language in your bill, pound it home with friendly talking-heads on TV for a couple of months so that everybody just shrugs after a few growls, and job done, people will move on to the next big story, or to enjoying Christmas, which is just around the corner. The other institutions won’t stop it, the political parties won’t stop it, the radical right won’t get anywhere even if they do try to storm parliament, Sánchez gets his votes this week in Congress, the amnesty bill goes through, enough to be published in the official gazette, which means it becomes law, some people file some appeals but courts take months to decide, Puigdemont comes home, spends a triumphant couple of days on TV smiling and by Easter, all the fuss has died down. Sánchez is still PM and the right is stuck in opposition until 2027.


That’s an astute observation.

Yarra City Council is extremely leftie and full of dumbshit ideas, unsurprising they’d be the ones to waste money on sterile dystopian nonsense like this.


Melbourne refuses to be outdone by Vienna in the battle for wasting taxpayer dollars on absolute garbage public spaces!

Here’s a $2 Million public park https://v.nostr.build/zeBZ.mp4  nostr:note19e28j2cnzj96j9afax0gh70nhaz0rlwqc0a4vdazvdtcdnyt4jlqpv77nv


Yeah it’s real.


You can make your own here https://satogram.xyz


Welcome to San Francisco, California, People’s Republic of China 🇨🇳 https://v.nostr.build/82Zz.mp4


A cock-a-doodle-doo? 😂 https://i.nostr.build/jmd9.gif


Ads all over Sydney airport. https://i.nostr.build/EWex.jpg


Um, what is this? US Navy Criminal Investigative Service - Sydney?

The vassal state is just leaning right in now https://i.nostr.build/medQ.jpg


Good ol legal fiction!

This is a fundamental flaw with statism, it self-reinforces with legal bullshit like this.

You can’t fix a system like this, it needs wholesale replacement.


Is there a platform for publishing paywalled content with zap split on Nostr?
Does nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q support this model?


I’d know those big balls anywhere 😂


90% of that is taxes. Absolute thieves run this country


Chris’ chief complaint about #nostr forms a perfect circle venn diagram with Nimarata Nikki Haley’s chief complaint about social media.

sToP dA RuSsIAn bOts!! https://v.nostr.build/Xmd7.mp4  nostr:note1q620x7uv22xr36xtamw9f8cvwpglyn9juk9w5cxaqp5mrtpe44psrwerat


Oh how the mighty have fallen!

Would love to see a Venn diagram of this by political preference 😂 https://i.nostr.build/eeYz.jpg


Problem inherent with central banking; they have one lever and they believe they can control the whole economy with it when that’s absolutely not how an economy works.

It’s a ridiculous system which ruins lives.

I wrote about their bullshit ideas of destroying demand recently

nostr:note1wamqdjqvps4lhpnppjwsg9h7hq52dysuktwp5yqm5ujnzf96gtaq83rm3p


Xitter is taking paid advertising from Israel. Doesn’t get much more blatant than that.

nostr:note15cqmnh2h44evhwt78a4ptmd0ee04wfvpdgzgdjr6mgg56wj9y2qsfdvq9f


“Notes & Replies” feed in #Damus is so much more interesting than the Xitter “For You” feed.

Stumbling across random disjointed conversations unearths a lot more than just being forcefed influencoors engagement bait.


Makes a mockery of economics.

But then, what fiat ‘economists’ do isn’t actually economics but rather regime-sponsored propaganda.


It’s a self-reinforcing cycle of inflation where the inflation continues at higher rates for prolonged periods as it becomes structural. Ie rates go up so landlords pass on to renters who are already struggling with higher food and energy costs, so the workers demand higher wages leading to higher goods and services costs, so houses and energy become more expensive 🔃

Inflation is typically seen as a temporary thing until prices readjust to a new baseline, this is saying they’re going to continue going up in future (see right column) and not rebaseline and stabilise.

Basically, if you think the 30% real inflation (not this ‘core’ nonsense) you’ve dealt with over the past year was bad, buckle up because you’re going to face the same again next year..


Episode number 6254 of #AUStriches $HFSP

We have the highest entrenched inflation of any major economy in the world.

Yay! 🥳 https://i.nostr.build/WyXk.jpg


https://image.nostr.build/3bed55970981f51380d4503aa3b7d1afd8ec5967376610b6db7838253b7515aa.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 816,686 🤙💜


LN.tips


Israeli war propaganda on Xitter reaches a new low as they promote an IDF soldier with a pride flag standing in the bombed out rubble of Gaza after killing 11,000+ people in 1 month.

If people are forced to choose between the deaths of 11,000+ people (including 4000+ children) and the rights of gay people to be open about their sexual preferences, it’s pretty fucking obvious what they’re going to choose.. https://i.nostr.build/AjJM.jpg  nostr:note1lk426za3esv678hqetaqpulz2v3wwwk3neaqudpp4nfu6j4zexkqarll6e


If you look carefully, the most intense fallout results in Big Dick 😂


Nah just read through the FAQ, looks interesting


Lol, the talent pool of UK politics is a puddle of piss. Former PM David Cameron has returned as Foreign Secretary.

Ready for war everyone? https://i.nostr.build/Wy0a.jpg


New encrypted messaging app over the lightning network - CipherChat by nostr:npub19g5rsrj8ylq8lzl3qphhwmu2fnqeg8rtcermmh6j387faccaskusxgd33w

https://cipherchat.app/


Should have been born as a bird. You didn’t think of that, did you?!

It’s ridiculous people accept this shit without a second thought.


Passports are a shitcoin https://v.nostr.build/Q46Y.mp4


What is this referring to?


Hentai is a small price to pay for cheap and abundant energy! #Sweden https://i.nostr.build/82Mv.jpg


I’ll eat a politician before I eat ze bugz


This graphic puts #AUStriches rental woes in context against other nations.

The correction coming to the Australian economy is gonna be brutal. https://i.nostr.build/Ym86.jpg  nostr:note1hyunwlz08l3eufl5ae2d0ng2epzjku2lrhxys6kyunr6zjscdddskv76v8


> Why isn't Libertarianism popular?

Status Quo bias and a controlled Overton window mostly.

Libertarians tend to find more common ground with both Progressives & Conservatives than P&C do with each other, but the two dominant sides don’t understand the totality of the libertarian view (whereas they have a much better idea of their opposite) so they focus solely on where they disagree.

Shift the Overton Window and the political outlook will be dragged along with it.

This is slowly happening as M5M gets exposed as the liars they are. Probably the largest voices in media now are Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson. Rogan is a Classic Liberal, he’d be green on a political compass but close to the centre. Tucker has clearly changed from being a neocon into more of a right libertarian (anti war, big pharma skeptic, pro small gov), probably yellow on a political compass but more right.

Takes time but we are seeing and experiencing the shift. Nobody, P&C included, wants the old narrative machine which lies for both sides and protects a corrupt establishment which seeks to put everyone against each other while they busy themselves looting the treasury.


Space for a lot more bright lights!

The whole Northwest should be built out imo - it’s close to Asia and on the same time zone, naturally beautiful too, lacking infrastructure and opportunity though.

Big problem is half the country is under native title and effectively blocked from development. It’s NIMBYism at large scale


#AUStriches live on a landmass the size of the USA but there are only 25 Million people here. Look how much land we have available and ask yourself why we have a crisis in rental availability and housing prices.. https://i.nostr.build/veWl.jpg  nostr:note1hyunwlz08l3eufl5ae2d0ng2epzjku2lrhxys6kyunr6zjscdddskv76v8


The sound 🔉 I make when someone tells me ETH is gonna flippen #Bitcoin https://v.nostr.build/B8ew.mp4  nostr:note1qdtsgplthyq37v9a30wy35qvl4yny772nwzqjldwckpp84qxr63suxw5dy


Yesterday I walked through the same intersection twice about 5 hours apart - both times a stretch hummer was turning left right as I was crossing. First one black, second one white.

Very weird deja vu kinda thing. Your pic just reminded me


Next they’ll require only psychiatrists give the news because they’re the only ones qualified to handle emotions 🙄


So strange. Isn’t the sonographer is supposed to be ‘the expert’ in that loop, why does the message need to filter through a GP?


End of this upcoming cycle I think we’ll see the shift from miners who leverage energy to energy companies who doing mining. That will proliferate mining exponentially and make it more competitive such that they likely won’t be able to afford holding many coins, maybe some in treasury but they’re not going to just sit on stashes any longer as some have managed.

Also think we’ll see nation states start properly trying to incentivise Bitcoin migrants into their countries with friendly tax policies, access to citizenship, possibly even special development zones.

Things like that will be required to get HODLers to part with any part of their stack. There’s only 21M of these things, gonna need to be really worthwhile incentives in place if others want them.


They’re a combo of blue-haired Uni students who are easily manipulated and naive Boomers who are projecting their fears of their own mortality on to the world.

Very few 25-50 year olds with a job or business and children run in these circles. They’re all far more concerned with economic issues effecting their kids than they are the weather gods.


Almost as if the UN would really like a global communist revolution.. 🤔


Sounds good 🤙


Agree that coins aren’t coming out of those Institutions, they’re going to be Bitcoin blackholes much like the LBMA for gold - gonna pretty much have to be a nation state to access the underlying.

But I don’t think the HODLers are going to sell much supply either. They are the ones who know what they have, it’s gonna take islands in the Caribbean or NYC skyscrapers to get them to part with corn - they don’t want dirty fiat.

The battle will be over the remaining 6 odd percent coming into supply over the next 13 years. That’s what the whole world is gonna be chasing. https://i.nostr.build/PqYW.png


Visiting new suburbs in Melbourne is an interesting experience. https://i.nostr.build/Ymkq.jpg https://i.nostr.build/weLv.jpg https://i.nostr.build/3oDn.jpg


Australia is not overly litigious, I’ve never heard of anyone suing over this here. However that they were told “not allowed” makes me think that being sued is the concern of the clinic and they’re the ones prohibiting it as opposed to any rule or law.


Question for #AUStriches - have you ever heard of parents-to-be being refused and being told they’re ‘not allowed to say’ when they ask for the gender of their unborn child at an ultrasound?

Happened to friends in Sydney this week.


New infinite money glitch just dropped!

We must be approaching peak fiat https://v.nostr.build/KLRO.mp4


My dog might be a government spook, reckons he’s entitled to at least half of what I eat


Labor’s plan to employ the next million immigrants?


Aussies and Kiwis get absolutely robbed on alcohol excises. Governments just cannot help themselves


House of Sikto 2023

🤣🤣 https://i.nostr.build/amYZ.jpg


Create the crisis, sell the solution.

Easy to imagine the parasites would prefer to use a cyber attack as pretense to close banks rather than admit they fucked the system.

Australia’s Critical Infrastructure Act allows the Federal Government to assume control of entities in such a scenario and appointed a military guy to coordinate it a few months back. nostr:note1gzfxmqa2qve5um0e5m75v42slc5uwxfa0l0dvl06gszwmd7d7hxqvcfj6n

Wonder what this would look like in the US?


Oh how the mighty have fallen!

Would love to see a Venn diagram of this by political preference 😂 https://i.nostr.build/eeYz.jpg


Careful what you wish for, you might just get it.


nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp really shooting himself in the foot with ETH


I was already sad when young men were killing themselves and opting out of society but knew nothing would change for them.

This is the real litmus test for liberal democracy - if young women are going to have to prostitute themselves to get by and nothing is done, we’ll soon see a huge pendulum swing back to the right and all the progressive gains of the past 5 decades completely wiped out to re-establish equilibrium in society.


Welcome back TAC. Just sent you 1 Sat, don’t spend it all at once!


8 people now have taken me up on reading Fossil Future this year and I just got a text asking for my copy for a 9th person.

4 of them I’ve successfully orangepilled afterwards by leaning in to all the novel applications of bitcoin mining with stranded energy.

Normies are much closer to understanding the Climate Cult is based on lies than they are to understanding the scam of Fiat.

As anyone who has taken the #orangepill knows, once you shatter one myth the next question is inevitably “what else have I been lied to about?”.

Fossil Future might just be the best surreptitious orangepill we have outside of #nostr. nostr:note1kexprper82q0wlt3qcwcxazmv5348magqm2yn7u8vfak37alxa9qc8yncc


Much respect to fiatjaf for #nostr, but he’s not god.

It’s unlikely that someone who devised something as consequential as nostr is going to be the one to devise the solution for cryptoanarchy.

These things tend to be iterative with others standing on the shoulders of giants who came before them; not one man constantly iterating on the same concept to reach the end goal alone.


2 weeks away from what?


I’m beyond ought to be. There’s too many normies for my utopia to ever exist and we’ve seen where commies go in pursuit of the impossible..

Most just give up there and focus on maximising their own liberty but I believe we can push for, not utopia, but something a hell of a lot closer to ancapistan and better than the clown world we live in today that even normies will accept.

I likely won’t enjoy the shade of that liberty, but Im not gonna see the full potential of #Bitcoin either. I’ll be happy to be part of the story


Curtis Yarvin, Hoppe, and nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak have all made solid cases for monarchy and despite my ancap leanings I can understand the reasoning.

Todays Bitcoiners struggle to get normies to understand the problem with fiat let alone who is to blame with how money creation is.

I imagine back then it would have actually been much easier. Sure, barely anyone was educated, but everyone knew who the monarch was and every transaction involved coins so it would have been much more difficult to obfuscate whereas now with most being digital, there is additional layers of abstraction which hides the debasement day-to-day.


Doubtful. Our electricity is too expensive, wouldn’t be many solo miners in Aus


NIP69 got built!

Disappointed lightning polls haven’t been more widely adopted though.


I don’t think they’re going away, but I think they can be neutered such that they’re little more than ceremonial entities with no real power


What’s the latest on Bolt12?

Anyone have any updates?


If you’ve seen this man going around as a meme, this thread might be worth a read. Haven’t validated claims myself yet but something appeared off to me as soon as I saw it hence my own scepticism.

https://x.com/ddnpandfrens/status/1722711784577290649


Warren Buffet has been found frontrunning Berkshire Hathaway trades from his private account.

What’s a little bit of fraud between #cantillionaires, eh? https://v.nostr.build/KL3O.mp4


The sound 🔉 I make when someone tells me ETH is gonna flippen #Bitcoin https://v.nostr.build/B8ew.mp4  nostr:note1qdtsgplthyq37v9a30wy35qvl4yny772nwzqjldwckpp84qxr63suxw5dy


Not sure I follow, how would one use stranded energy to boost hay production by exposing it to more CO2?


What did a meat pie cost when you were a kid #AUStriches?

When talking about inflation with normies, this is my go to question. Lunch from the school canteen or tuck shop depending when/where you grew up was a rare treat, those prices are ingrained in the psyche even if they don’t think about it much.

Here’s some examples I found:

1974: 20 cents
1977: 25 cents
1982: 65 cents
1986: 72 cents
2001: $1.50
2003: $2.00
2004: $2.15
2018: $3.40
2023: $5.50 https://i.nostr.build/gXxQ.webp https://i.nostr.build/VWkA.jpg https://i.nostr.build/KL2y.jpg https://i.nostr.build/9MqQ.jpg https://i.nostr.build/kG7O.jpg https://i.nostr.build/Dv69.webp https://i.nostr.build/Rj9Z.jpg https://i.nostr.build/X69B.jpg https://i.nostr.build/mX5j.png


Ratings agencies are gonna be slow for fear of retaliation like in 2008, but they can’t just ignore the financial abyss facing the US. https://i.nostr.build/9L0o.jpg


You can buy as few or many cells as you want in a project, once it’s funded they go ahead and start paying as soon as it’s online. Details on that link https://i.nostr.build/Rj5M.jpg


#AUStriches dealing with some real soft money


Lol 😂


10k Sats from my solar cells on SunExchange now. My brain is ticking about doing something like this with nuclear power..

If you want to learn about the project read: https://cms-media.devops-production.aws.sunexchange.network/production/Hoerskool_Delmas_98_28_k_W_Solar_Cell_plus_80_k_Wh_Storage_Crowdsale_7ac5cd14d5.pdf https://i.nostr.build/yvr5.jpg  nostr:note15cfy2alsauqpsgql25npr3mhtpd73ga0admp26me0tcucztrfp2smwgch7


Australia’s coke comes in through Sydney’s docks which is also our financial capital - it’s pretty rife there for that reason. Go out on a Friday and half the town is on gear

Meth is everywhere as it’s made locally


Queenslanders must be shitting in the woods, both those numbers look light on 😂


It’s the same picture! 😂


Sydney vs Melbourne = Cokeheads vs K-Holes.

Explains a lot https://i.nostr.build/xXJe.jpg


We supposedly had one; they used it to print money and grab power 😂


Works every time!

Until you go to jail for fraud..


New infinite money glitch just dropped!

We must be approaching peak fiat https://v.nostr.build/KLRO.mp4


Does the web browser/client have a centralised authority that law enforcement can go knock on the door of?

No different than shitcoins - if LEO know where to apply pressure, they will, and that will be the demise.


Services here being any online service. That could be relays, clients, sites for nostr or any platform like Omegle, Xitter, Reddit etc


The Chinese launched a campaign against the four pests of rats, flies, mosquitoes and sparrows.

The sparrows were thought to be eating a lot of grain making the peasants hungry so the communists launched a campaign to destroy them, going after their nests and hunting them etc.

Well they killed a ton of birds which led to an imbalance in the ecosystem with insects thriving as their predator - sparrows - was thinned out.

So they had a locust plague and lost way more crops leading to huge famine and way more deaths..


Moderation is a double-edged sword. Once in place, expectations change from Users, pundits, and law enforcement alike.

In the era of mega states where their ability to coerce increases over time, it is inevitable that they will burden operators to the point the task becomes infeasible.

He acknowledges here that tech can be used for good and evil, something that the cypherpunks knew well. What the cypherpunks didn’t do though was bow to the State - they were always seeking to flow around them. The minute you start working with them (which be proudly did likely due to the shit he suffered as a kid and not wanting that pain for others) you are doomed to be their servant.

I understand people’s tolerance for things is different. My preference for complete openness online means I accept that I’m gonna see stuff which is horrible and that I don’t want to see, and others will prefer that stuff be moderated before hitting their feed.

That later camp really needs to consider the implications of moderation outside of just their own feelings if they want services to survive.

Once you accept the scorpion on your back, don’t be surprised when it stings you half way across the river.


#AUStriches now need almost 3X the median income to afford the average house.

$HFSP https://i.nostr.build/WQJR.jpg  nostr:note1587s4m9sg80y5x9e6z9f5eneyxnhnreldgc8n9ncm9p8xd6hwndqjju5rj


We are not alone #AUStriches https://i.nostr.build/PVX7.jpg


The root of all evil? https://i.nostr.build/jXGj.jpg


We have the technology #BBTG https://i.nostr.build/52Bw.jpg  nostr:note1zfrrzfrpaywue2u8ucekz3v8y5mvgrupef3dfjgj0vsrfx4z859qewez2u


Beginning to look like a summer sunset


We can $HFSP together 🤝


#AUStriches are battling the biggest drawdown in household income in the OECD.

$HFSP https://i.nostr.build/AWV7.jpg  nostr:note1h9yclh7nufxdmtess2jflkl77xc7dd693qks74xqrqa8f9pkvq3qeq52xn


Afghani Opium production is down 95% YoY. What an absolute disaster US foreign policy has been for the world. https://i.nostr.build/DvwJ.jpg


Wen guillotines?


Australia to become a Chinese outpost using cheap Indian labour? 🤔


It was novel for sure. He had his sign laminated and all!


Yeah maintenance gone wrong was my though too based on timing. Looks like they recently went Juniper for their core:

https://www.crn.com.au/news/optus-uses-juniper-switches-in-core-network-upgrade-330452


Correct. Except you can’t actually save 30% if you earn median wage here, that’s not possible with our cost of living.

There’s a Xitter account I follow @rationalaussie, he is a Bitcoiner who rages about this.

Specifically that even if you’re on $200k you can basically afford a dog box 1 hour out of the city (that’s where these median prices are found - close to city is all 7 figures) so there is absolutely no point in young people staying in Aus any more, you can’t get on the property ladder so there’s nothing tying people to the society any longer.

Our parasite class will keep the housing Ponzi going at all costs though - they’re all levered up with multiple houses themselves because we have capital gains laws which allow them to deduct losses on rentals.


You want…a safety deposit box?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-30/judge-backs-fbi-beverly-hills-safe-deposit-box-raid


Saw a homeless man in Melbourne today with a sign advertising his square terminal..

Unfortunately I couldn’t send him Bitcoin or Dollarydoos, gave him a 5er instead.

Any update on this? https://i.nostr.build/QKJa.jpg


Most of them are ideologues who believe their own bullshit - that’s the biggest problem.

They rose through the ranks as a bunch of sycophants, and when they arrive at the top they’re convinced they got their on merit and because they’re smarter than everyone else, they can solve every problem on earth.

Every problem government for 30+ years whilst these current parasites were working in political offices in the background, has been “solved” by printing money and leveraging state power (coercion) to get their way.

You can use coercion on the auto makers to force their hand but you can’t print energy. Now they’re at the helm they try the same old formula and because none of them have any real world experience they don’t understand why the money printer doesn’t overcome physics and are to beholden to their ideology to learn why.

The short termist nature of politics compounds the problem, but at the end of the day it is people who occupy those positions of power and THEY are the problem, having been selected from a shallow gene pool of narcissistic political operators who rise like turds in a toilet bowl through corruption and backstabbing rather than any actual merit, knowledge, or ability.


When California introduced a law to make all new vehicles by 2035 and in THE SAME WEEK sent out messages to people asking them not to charge their EVs due to overload on the grid, it should have been obvious to everyone with two brain cells to run together that the plan is completely infeasible.

Unfortunately such is the nature of regulatory capture and having a parasite class who between them don’t have two brain cells to rub together.


Where you bidding on cheap cars?


Musk’s Starlink is cutting service to users in Lebanon at the behest of government

nostr:note10zkhx420npwk28k0hln3djg66srwxfxd8e8n736pyqact5j0y7rschgx0j https://i.nostr.build/VWyd.jpg


Thanks mate, I’ll give them a look


Can’t remember who but someone gave the example of glasses when speaking on a similar thread some time ago.

The productivity they’ve added to mankind is immense. No longer do we just write people off when their eyes go, we use technology to improve them and keep them productive for longer.

Imagine the compounded benefits we’d have if/when bitcoin becomes that ubiquitous..


>1 in 3 are childless - that’s a massive problem. Back when the time series started they were being offset by the women with 3/4/5+ but that’s no longer the case.

These are trends that take decades to manifest and by the time they’re noticeable it’s too late to arrest them.

People worried about a decade of stagflation ought consider what impact this will have not just for the next decade, but the next 2 or 3.


#Optus service back online for me as of 1:30PM. No service messages at all, it connected to a tower a bit before that and picked up service 15-20 mins later.

I swore I’d never use Telstra again after they blocked LiveLeak and 4chan after Christchurch upon request from NZ’s intelligence - an Australian, publicly listed Telco, acting at the behest of a foreign government is fucking nonsense and I refuse to give them money, particularly when the shooter live-streamed on Facebook which faced ZERO consequences.

Guess I’ll be moving to Vodafone soon and then to tin cans and string if they suck.


I’m #nostr your buddy, guy! nostr:note1p6vhap86a8cn63lq8p862fqrdvf8a0xven5h2adk08jxtxsxfhmsm4jasc


This is a recipe for disaster in the West.

If you think government is overly burdensome today, wait until they run out of taxpayers and half the population wants to live off welfare. https://i.nostr.build/dg9Y.jpg


Onboarding to #nostr when you already have connections on the network is very much different to coming in without.

Getting some early follows and zaps to see that the place is alive when someone vouches for you versus shouting into the ether of global - how can we make more of the former and less of the latter? nostr:note1v26uvp3kl5gzl8jhk8ecqhekjel57pp4t8gsqas0juec8dkuww0swt9shw


Optus, Australia's second biggest communications company, has reported an hours long and ongoing outage across the country.

- Around 40% of the population is impacted, phones and internet is down
- Some train services completely stopped for hours
- Many hospitals have no phones, internet or internal communications (my wife's hospital is impacted)

#Optus #theinternetisdown #Austriches #nostriches #plebchain #news

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-08/optus-phone-internet-service-down-across-australia/103076700


How is she still in a job?

The breach last year was bad - specifically her handling of it was terrible, she wrote the textbook of what NOT to do and yet here she is again fronting the media looking like a complete fool again.


Afghani Opium production is down 95% YoY. What an absolute disaster US foreign policy has been for the world. https://i.nostr.build/DvwJ.jpg


I’ll take that DBDC thanks https://i.nostr.build/oGz7.jpg


Interesting. If the Middle East kicks off in earnest this might get quashed as more countries refuse to cooperate but it seems like they’re intent on these fucking SDGs.

Playing a devils advocate; wouldn’t these evil bastards target non-member countries if they were to unleash a virus, as a means of payback for not going along with the cabal?


Ah ok. The way you wrote those previous notes sounds like it was already signed.

Any guesses on who will reject it? Australia will 100% be on board


What don’t you like about it?

I’ve got it set for my zap receiver wallet because I can set custom notifications and have a zap noise thanks to nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5. Works fine for that


Use ln.tips on Telegram for Lightning.


You mean the new treaty for pandemic preparedness right? I didn’t think that had been finalised as yet?


One thing that I didn’t anticipate when I started publishing my writing was the support I’d receive from the ₿itcoin community.

But I suppose in hindsight it makes sense.

Because they’ve been calling out the government scam since the 80s (shout out to Tim May et al).

And now they’ve innovated a way to escape the fake money system using technology.

There's no question that ₿itcoin is a bulwark against the totalitarianism inherent in giving control of your money to banks and governments.

You don’t own your money.

You can’t withdraw it as cash.

You pay fees on every transaction.

You're taxed every time it changes hands.

And they'll freeze your account if you buy the wrong thing, or speak out online.

It’s all fake.

And it’s all a control mechanism.

It’s a system designed to benefit the people who create the money we use.

All of this seems obvious to me.

So I spoke about the intersection of dystopian fiction and ₿itcoin with Carri Cee.

It was a thought provoking discussion. She asks the big questions!

I’m grateful to have received the opportunity to come on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z41Y3Z2FzZA


Peter might be smart, but he’s full of stupid takes


Fidelity’s Global Director of Macro posted on Xitter. @TimmerFidelity


Bring them back! nostr:note18jzrf6p4u6jprhv04mgex8jwrlz76znd8uplk5amzwn6h5jxlrvspe58t0


Those shops make up 25% of Australia’s GDP 😂


Remember when you could find change on the ground and actually use it to buy things? 🤣


The cokehead comedian needs money https://v.nostr.build/rm0w.mp4


Yeah me too mate. I live in the burbs now and you still see the old signs up on the old shops but they’ve been defunct for 15-20 years, many turned into houses


The whole recycling “industry” is a scam. They only bother for some items where there is profit and that’s only true some of the time, most of the time it all goes into the same landfills as everything else.

It’s not a serious problem though, we’ve barely scratched the surface of available resources on earth and have plenty of space for refuse (maybe not the Gazans, but the rest of us do).


How about the 1 in 6 free Mars bars or some with Coca Cola? There was a trick to finding the winners!


I grew up in the country and remember we got billeted to the city to play sports and the city kids would swap and go live in the country. I remember my billet was pissed off we only had 2 TV channels and he called us “bumpkins” which being a young bumpkin, I didn’t even know what it was! He had no interest in yabbying or fishing and when we gave him the slug gun he had no idea what he was doing and pointed it at us so had to take it off him.

City vs country life was pretty different back then. Less so now with tech.


I remember taking 50 cents in the 90s and asking what I could get with it 😂 End up with a brown paper bag full.

Lived through the transition of every lolly being 1 cent to then 3 for 5 cents to 2 for 5 cents - obviously didn’t understand why back then, but I do remember it.

My local corner shop was run by a guy who got bitten by a redback, when he came back he had really bad twitching so he struggled to put the lollies in the bag and just gave us extra. Nice man!


Bits of liver on a fishing line with a butterfly net to catch them.. Spent many a summers afternoon yabbying


Remember these from the 90s? https://i.nostr.build/gXXG.jpg


They’ve lost the online narrative already. Calling everyone an antisemite for years has had a “boy who cried wolf” effect.


What did a meat pie cost when you were a kid #AUStriches?

When talking about inflation with normies, this is my go to question. Lunch from the school canteen or tuck shop depending when/where you grew up was a rare treat, those prices are ingrained in the psyche even if they don’t think about it much.

Here’s some examples I found:

1974: 20 cents
1977: 25 cents
1982: 65 cents
1986: 72 cents
2001: $1.50
2003: $2.00
2004: $2.15
2018: $3.40
2023: $5.50 https://i.nostr.build/gXxQ.webp https://i.nostr.build/VWkA.jpg https://i.nostr.build/KL2y.jpg https://i.nostr.build/9MqQ.jpg https://i.nostr.build/kG7O.jpg https://i.nostr.build/Dv69.webp https://i.nostr.build/Rj9Z.jpg https://i.nostr.build/X69B.jpg https://i.nostr.build/mX5j.png


The Xitter Files were a limited hangout.

Elon “free speech absolutist” Musk has imo now demonstrated a pattern of leveraging Xitter for political ends - I will illustrate with 3 examples.

Image 1 - Restricting speech ahead of the Turkish elections on (13 March 2023)
Image 2 - Musk meets with Turkish President Erdogan to chat shit (18 September 2023)
Image 3 - Musk threatens to sue the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for organising boycotts against Xitter (16 September 2023)
Image 4 - Musk meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss antisemitism on Xitter (18 September 2023)
Image 5 - UK Prime Minister Sunak ‘warns’ war memorials could be desecrated by Pro-Palestine supporters on Armistice Day despite no group planning to march (4 November 2023)
Image 6 - Xitter unbans the accounts of Tommy Robinson (known for being outspoken against Muslim grooming gangs) and Katie Hopkins (outspoken on immigration) (6 November 2023)

This latest data point is blatant, two of the most vocal outspoken critics of Muslim immigration to the UK being reinstated days before a protest which has been getting a lot of coverage.

To what end? I don’t know. But why are they being reinstated now? Why not 2 weeks ago before any talk of a protest? Why not 2 weeks after it? Why not 6 months ago? Why is it happening right as a big protest is being feared, even though no group is saying they’re organising?

What do you reckon? https://i.nostr.build/zY34.jpg https://i.nostr.build/AWXM.jpg https://i.nostr.build/nXAg.jpg https://i.nostr.build/0oxv.jpg https://i.nostr.build/2AJ5.jpg https://i.nostr.build/Lqa2.jpg


peach, pears, plums, syringes
vrinn vrinn!
Yeah, here I come, I’m inches


Yes you are correct. It’s not some accident, it’s government policy. https://i.nostr.build/EoRG.jpg https://i.nostr.build/J2RO.jpg


I miss Jon

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In more having fun whilst staying poor news for #AUStriches, public housing completions are at an all time low whilst population change is at historic highs.

Not a fan of public housing but damn does that graph help explain the quoted post https://i.nostr.build/RjYn.jpg  nostr:note1hyunwlz08l3eufl5ae2d0ng2epzjku2lrhxys6kyunr6zjscdddskv76v8


Lots of good recommendations in this thread! nostr:note10guzmjccl4q4p4nmf3hava7u0337j2yw244pw9v6k38pz2qnajcs4tprek


Wonder how much they’ll get for Jack’s handle which he relinquished?


I’m missing a whole bunch of context to this post but if you’ve got $2300 to spend on dentistry, look into getting work done in SE Asia - Thailand, Vietnam, Phillipines.

For many people it works out cheaper to travel and stay there and get work done than to pay a local dentist for the same, and yes the quality of work is every bit as good.


Careful out there!

Do you wear gum boots in the garden?


I agree in the sense that looking at aggregates like this is rather Keynesian so it misses the plight of large groups of individuals who aren’t well off and places them alongside those who are. Absolutely I’m cognisant of that.

However, even the not well off Boomers are infinitely better off than the demographics behind them. For example, they get their primary residence excluded from assets test for the pension - they’ll literally be sitting on million dollar homes that they bought for $25k 30 or 40 years ago, bilking the public purse, because they think they’re “entitled” to a pension after paying taxes, not understanding that their tax contributions don’t cover fuckall of what they’re now receiving in benefits and they’re basicallly consuming the taxes their great grandchildren will pay in.

If you’re a Zoomer or Millennial who loses their job you’ll be forced to spend down any savings you’ve accumulated before you can access Centrelink, but we let Boomers keep their houses and get their welfare - it’s just completely off.

Same goes for healthcare - 30+ year olds are forced to pay for private insurance else they get slugged extra fees and the scheme is purely there to subsidise the Boomers who utilise the system orders of magnitude more than young people. That’s government interfering with the private sector, nevermind how much Boomers draw down on public health because they think it’s “free” - Aged Pension and Medicare are the biggest expenditures in the Federal budget by far which is why this first graphic skews so heavily towards the 65+ cohort.

Nevermind the “free” Uni they got before pulling up the ladder behind them where Zoomers and Millennials rack up $20k-$50k+ in HELP debt before they even enter the workforce. Throw in the degradation in quality as the Unis now gear themselves to International Students, pushing “group work” where the Aussie students basically carry the foreigners, many of whom have paid to cheat the English language test and shouldn’t even fuckin be there.

It’s fair to say there is a small cohort who make up the bulk of those savings in the second graphic, I don’t have the data but I’m pretty sure it’s a lot more than 2% though. Regardless, they are as a cohort hugely net beneficiaries of government spending in a way that is completely unsustainable - I don’t even mean from a debt perspective, I mean from a social cohesion perspective.

You can be an absolute top performing young person, work your way up to $200k salary, and you’ll get fucked by a combo of huge taxes, student debt, and a housing Ponzi which for all intents and purposes the domestic population is locked out of.

We are therefore at huge risk of braindrain, losing our best and brightest because their output is completely consumed by a cohort who demand more and more money be thrown at them or they’ll crack the shits and vote out the government despite contributing three fifths of fuckall to the economy.

That’s why Boomers becoming climate zealots shits me so much - they’ve already looted the treasury and now faced with their own mortality they project their naive irrational fears on to the rest of us and demand MORE money go towards Government interventions all over the shop even though THEY refuse to pay for any of it with their accumulated wealth.


DOA would be my guess. That should be the assumption for app stores who may in any way feel threatened by these new models, PWAs are the way forward


What’s your interpretation of the popularity algorithm?


Maybe tacked on to a Bitcoin Bushbash or Bitcoin Alive in March?


Welcome to the latest instalment of #AUStriches having fun staying poor in which we discover where our tax dollars are actually flowing.

Second graphic shows which demographics are sitting on all the savings.

This is what “looting the treasury” looks like in 2023. https://i.nostr.build/X6ee.jpg https://i.nostr.build/EoDl.png


That just means the banks are ripe for bailout, can’t let the Boomers take a loss!

Aus is one of the few countries who can afford to bail out the banks, near certainty we see it happen this decade.

Not going to end well regardless!


People would move on if there was real accountability and until there is the spectre remains.

Personally I think we need to bring back the guillotine, but I’d settle for life in max security prison. And not just 1 or 2 mid-level bureaucrats - EVERY FUCKING ONE OF THEM. From the PM down to the Premiers down to the bootlickers in State Health Departments, the Cops, the Scientists, the Media, the lying cunts at the TGA, AHPRA, Nurses Unions, Teachers Unions, the paid social media bots - there would be 25,000+ people in this country who need to face justice for the shit that they did.

The only thing that has been learned is what level of tyranny Australians will put up with the next time these bastards want to control people. There have been zero lessons in good governance, in handling online discourse, in policing, in public health policy, in education etc. - none of them have improved an iota and have all to varying degrees gone backwards during and since Covid.

That’s what we can change. Putting every one of them in front of a jury of their peers, giving a full accounting of what these people did, and then holding them fully accountable for their actions. No more of this “we didn’t know at the time” or “I was just following orders” horseshit, no more excuses, consequences.

Without consequences this will merely be a small first step for worse action in future, such is the nature of power.


They’re all convinced they’re the smartest people in the room who definitely know best when the reality is, they’re some of the least impressive people to ever hold power whose ideas don’t work in reality.


In case anyone doubted how commie Australia is, the Queensland Premier posted this 6 hours ago.

Their impulse is to control EVERYTHING https://i.nostr.build/KLxW.jpg


Vietnam is an actual communist country and it’s less communist than Australia.


The ACT voted Yes to the commie backdoor in the constitution so don’t forget to apportion their share of the blame. The Federal Gov is extremely commie.

We need our guns back. That will deter the door knocks more than a piece of paper


That it’s true is the saddest part. We’ve earned that reputation and won’t be able to shake it


Smart move, it’s gotten worse since then, much worse.


Can you take a cutting for me?


We’re not going to shake this reputation #AUStriches nostr:note1rd2e9alx2rpwt2vxvr6p0skwayttztsnsl27900fx8kfc4n7rqds7nquq7


Don’t stop believing! You’re never too old to begin impaling people at the stake 🥰 https://i.nostr.build/nXZE.jpg


They are wayyyyy overvalued and governments are going to scapegoat the shit out of them when housing collapses. Few years left at best


They’re gonna be the next WeWork


THE CASE OF THE CABBAGE-EATING MISSISSIPPI MONSTER

Austrian and Chicago Methodology in Action

Suppose that in late October of 1929, a thousand-pound monster descended on Mississippi soil. It spent the next three-and-a-half years eating all the cabbages (and quite a few rabbits) between Tupelo and Pascagoula. By early March of 1933, the monster weighed four-thousand pounds. Two investigators are sent to Mississippi to get a handle on the situation. One is from Vienna, the other is from Chicago.

The Viennese investigator asks, "Where in the
world did this hideous thing come from?" It turns out, on further investigation, that the monster was the unintended consequence of some ill-conceived government-sponsored bionics project.

The Chicagoan shows up, shoves the Austrian aside, and says, "Never mind how this thing got here, the REAL question is: How did it grow from 1000 pounds to 4000 thousand pounds? How did an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, garden-variety monster quadruple its weight in 40 months? The Chicagoan's answer, of course, is: it was all those cabbages. (He couldn't get good data on the rabbits.) The correlation between cabbage consumption and weight gain of the Mississippi
monster leaves no doubt as to the central issue.

QUERY: Do we suspect that data availability is what led the Chicagoan to his conclusion? And that the lack of hard data pertaining to the monster's origins caused him to be dismissive of questions about where the thing came from? These and related suspicions are what underlie the message in Hayek's Nobel address on "The Pretense of Knowledge.”


How do you find simplex? I’ve been meaning to try it out


If we force private businesses to slash hundreds of thousands of jobs, the economy will be more good again - Keynes https://i.nostr.build/LLA2.jpg


There’s a lot more than 21 million houses, they’re building more every day.

People gonna discover Absolute Scarcity the hard way.


#realestate is a shitcoin https://i.nostr.build/vYz5.jpg


Does the WEF have a tent at Nostrasia?


This is how you know #nostr won’t turn into Reddit 2.0


While The White House is fascistically working with their Big Tech partners to try to limit AI with their absurd talk track about it being the end of humanity, very real problems are emerging that our unimpressive parasite class has no idea how to handle.

Faking voices has just become a shitton easier, screwing voice identity systems and opening a new phone scam vector which has already been exploited multiple times.

Now we’re about to see what happens when teenage bullies get their hands on this tech.

These are the issues that we should focus on because god knows no-one is coming to help us. https://i.nostr.build/J0mO.jpg


I appreciate the love in, it’s a nice change from Xitter and Reddit to see people who aren’t constantly outraged, but part of the appeal of #nostr to me is this shit is supposed to be Wild West and people can push boundaries - I may or may not agree with where they put those boundaries, but I don’t get to decide where they are for everyone else and nobody gets to decide for me.


#AUStriches I’m here for your weekly reminder to please continue having fun whilst staying poor!

50.2% of mortgage holders in mortgage stress.

72.07% of renters in rental stress. https://i.nostr.build/5nwg.jpg  nostr:note1hyunwlz08l3eufl5ae2d0ng2epzjku2lrhxys6kyunr6zjscdddskv76v8


What will you do when #Bitcoin hits $30 Million? https://i.nostr.build/lZJM.jpg


I’ve posted fake news on nostr before, reposted that I was wrong.

Own it, because if you post lots of stuff it’s likely to happen unwittingly eventually. Your reputation is yours to maintain.


The Philips Blob

When you hear economists and finance clowns talk about the “economy running hot”, what they’re actually saying is too many people have jobs.

That’s right, the central planners look to what is called “The Philips Curve” which might be the most pseudoscientific bullshit out of all the Keynesian voodoo nonsense.

The idea in a nutshell: if the central bank jacks up rates, credit becomes harder to get ergo firms layoff employees who will have less money and therefore spend less, thus reducing inflation.

It’s literally the act of indiscriminately sacrificing jobs to rein in inflation and is supposed to fit a nice downward-sloping curve.

Except, it doesn’t work. It has never worked. It will never work because it is based on fallacious thinking and dogma, only idiots believe in it and everyone else sees it for what it is - regime apologia to coverup fiat recklessness.

See the graphic below (image 1) and contrast it against how it’s supposed to work (image 2 - axis are reversed but it would be the same shape). https://i.nostr.build/Pg6d.jpg https://i.nostr.build/Wa2L.webp


WGMI 🤙


Keep #nostrasia going guys, let’s see how much the Japanese economy breaks whilst you’re all in town

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Japan-to-approve-110bn-stimulus-package-to-fight-inflation nostr:note1jv4p8ucsg9uzn40rhvattsj39er23uepzcnr6uds0x5aesg7f76ssxrm99


Delicious Cthulhu with elephant ears 🤤


I see Cthulhu, how bout you?

#steakblotart nostr:note1c295lwsrzk40flhy6gwa64ggqxhc087gyd9yn8d88j8a0ywr9kzsehj6km


Is inflation driving up your COGS? Too bad, don’t you dare pass on the costs to your customers, that’s #unAUStrich like. https://i.nostr.build/QVzZ.jpg


https://i.nostr.build/lZyA.jpg  nostr:note1n26565rnqt824pznm5v5fyf4lxt346kz2u8nnhdcwr46cwr6t5qsrap59g


We’re all tied together due to Bretton Woods where countries agreed to drop the gold standard and instead peg to the USD which would be pegged to gold.

Japan was the first fiat economy to take fiat to its natural conclusion. At one point the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was worth more than the entire State of California - it was all debt-based nonsense and they basically drove the economy off a cliff.

It has been kept on life support for nearly 40 years because if they go down, it will have flow on effects globally; other nations will have economic collapses as a direct result.

Think dominoes, because that’s how it goes. Once they start dropping its a chain reaction across the global economy.


Meat4Sats #AUStriches nostr:note177s3z386cp832l0esvkfnjpseuvctszzmsm2vyp4chvls6ah8u3qwczgd5


Merino hogget - certified organic. Cutting to help a local farmer out and selling as half lambs $150 on my dotcom. #btc accepted on the website

https://image.nostr.build/c0ae5fb53905555a709cc4623baef91d3892507a1dd9d81715e5ce889cd2c8ff.jpg


Satoshi Nakadildo https://v.nostr.build/d5GD.mp4


#AUStriches who already can’t afford to buy a house, now have to contend with the lowest rental vacancy rate on record at 0.9%

Without government, who would have imported 650,000 immigrants this year to boost rental demand?!

https://i.imgur.com/CsYbxAQ.jpg nostr:note1587s4m9sg80y5x9e6z9f5eneyxnhnreldgc8n9ncm9p8xd6hwndqjju5rj


US on track for ~$34.461 Trillion in debt by the end of 2024 https://i.nostr.build/zjmV.jpg  nostr:note150m4huqhsuu83fc34jpq9956mlj3hm0k6m0l7rcsea8qtmyl0gusj4p38c


nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev's prediction could get wiped out next week 😂

Odds on nostr:npub1ww8kjxz2akn82qptdpl7glywnchhkx3x04hez3d3rye397turrhssenvtp with his $99.999 Trillion by end of 2024 are shortening by the day


Overheard in Emergency in 2027:

Nurse: How did he die?

Doctor: The battery in his Bluetooth water bottle went flat so he forgot to drink water for 4 days and died of thirst.

Nurse: Tragic, that’s the fourth one this week!


From the country that bought you the 100 year bond, I give you, the €2.1 Million water fountain!

🇦🇹 are not sending their best.. https://v.nostr.build/gxBY.mp4


#AUStriches national airline #Qantas sold seats on 8000 flights they had already cancelled and then made it super difficult for customers to get refunds or book alternate flights. They had planned to “expire” the travel vouchers and keep the money for this before some Senators realised they stood to gain hundreds of millions in what was essentially fraud.

Now Qantas are defending themselves in court against the ACCC (Australian consumer rights watchdog) and they’ve come up with the most fiat defence imaginable:

Customers don’t buy a seat on a particular flight, rather they buy a ‘bundle of rights’ for flying with Qantas..

What used to be an iconic brand that Australians were proud of remains iconic, but for all the wrong reasons. It is an exemplar of all the ills that have befallen Australia in the past 20 years - fiat thinking, outright fascism, gifts for the politically connected, woke virtue signaling, huge taxpayer handouts during Covid, a service which barely functions and one which is way overpriced due to aforementioned fascist protectionism.

Qantas is a microcosm of everything wrong with this country; now watch every body in power remain absolutely clueless and ball-less in trying to fix it. https://i.nostr.build/X9KL.jpg


She was wild in the nests


How about a citizen of #Bitcoin?


It’s the 31st in most of the world, join us!


Nooooo, not the AFP 😭


Boo 👻


Lol imagine being scared of “who might show up” on social media.


The world is healing ❤🩹 https://i.nostr.build/zjkV.jpg


Sorry, Uncommon Knowledge 😂

https://uncommonknowledgehoover.podbean.com


I binged his interviews on Common Knowledge available on YouTube, pretty sure it was in one of those


Peter Thiel mentions that we see “technology” nowadays more-or-less through the lens of software only. Whereas in the past we saw cars and rockets and planes and trains as technology, now we only focus on the software layer of these innovations to drive them further.

I wonder how much that has to do with under appreciating the value of good software?


Interesting concept, offshore AI compute platforms that effectively become sovereign nations to route around nation state regulations

https://www.delcomplex.com/blue-sea-frontier


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Interesting graphic of US median house prices by city. https://i.nostr.build/r5B0.jpg


The engine light is on in his G wagon


Absolutely. Old mate knows 😂


Uni student shares the secret of how to get rich in 1 easy step! 🤯 https://v.nostr.build/2okd.mp4


nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z will know


Can I be BitBoy?

https://nostr.build/av/cbfb4c523c51426ead2efda015e52bbd87547851972b7119f854e78329459c4f.mov


Australia 🇦🇺 - a Ponzi of Ponzi schemes


Definitely mate. Weak men have created hard times that are only gonna get harder yet


You make a good point, it’s not new but we’re definitely approaching the peak of a new cycle of this nonsense.

And #Qantas is not alone in this type of behaviour. Over $40 Billion of the $88 Billion spent on jobkeeper went to companies which didn’t need it - no clawback mechanism in there, just $44 odd Billion in wasted tax dollars..

There is nobody in the system who would fix it though. You expect the red and blue uniparty to rort for their base but the Greens are no different, they’re rorting through indigenous funding and NDIS and the Teals are rorting through renewables horseshit, Palmer is the king of rorting and I doubt Hanson has a clean nose either.

Too many pigs at the trough now. Things are gonna have to properly break and people will have to feel real pain to break the cycle this time.


Just read the report, those numbers are going to keep going up for at least the next 2 years with recent changes to the program.

Far too many being classified under “neurological” and “other” conditions for individuals who are not terminal - 87.1% (402 people) effectively for what is “mental health” reasons.

4.1% of all deaths is definitely wow https://i.nostr.build/eGgL.jpg https://i.nostr.build/aR3J.jpg


I hope so. The world could doesnt need more failed Austrian artists


From the country that bought you the 100 year bond, I give you, the €2.1 Million water fountain!

🇦🇹 are not sending their best.. https://v.nostr.build/gxBY.mp4


Congrats mate 🤙


If AGI is going to destroy humanity, I hope it’s a sentient Japanese mecha-toilet - the memes will be lit 🔥


Australia for all intents and purposes hasn’t had a recession since 1991. We entered the GFC with ~18% debt to GDP so Gov just borrowed big to avoid that bubble and printed like maniacs for Covid to avoid the worst of that one.

The average mortgage in Sydney is 12:1 income ratio and 9.5:1 in Melbourne - the USA is at 5:1 and people think housing is unaffordable there. People in the know predicting our bubble burst will be significantly worse than Ireland’s.

I wouldn’t be investing in any RE here. If I absolutely had to then Queensland or WA outside of major centres; only because they’ve got mining revenue so won’t suffer as badly as NSW or VIC which are fully services-based economies who will end up taxing the shit out of property in the coming decades.


Victoria, which is already in the middle of a rental crisis, is now trying to put a 35m2 minimum size in place for new apartments.

We have so much land that a rental crisis is quite obviously 100% a fabrication of government intervention (the spokeshole in the article blames everyone except gov), and now they want to further restrict the supply of housing by putting a floor in place which will simply make it more unaffordable for those at the lower end of the market.

These socialist do-gooder policies which completely ignore reality in favour of empty platitudes are exacerbating the problems government created in the first place.

#AUStriches are no different to Argentinians voting for the Minister of Economy who hyperinflated the currency to become President. https://i.nostr.build/vYO4.jpg  nostr:note169panjahv4zsdp47lghnzxum885squw79p3mw4xr6vum9d5lhrpqx6552n


Milei ain’t giving free shit to people, he’s said he will stop that.

Well that’s not gonna help the people who are reliant on government handouts, a number which keeps going up because the productive class has already emigrated. https://i.nostr.build/7jyV.jpg


Why do people never ask this question? https://i.nostr.build/5ayv.jpg


Bro this is just Kalgoorlie


Imagine a world where.. https://i.nostr.build/K8V2.jpg


Good excuse to post this https://i.nostr.build/V0J0.jpg


Our politicians love the taste of American boot, guarantee we will have boots on the ground alongside them


No, because there is zero accountability.


The education system is merely a statist indoctrination system.

If you studied economics in the West you probably studied Paul Samuelson’s “Economics”. Samuelson, a socialist sympathiser, kept pushing the idea that the Soviet Union would overtake the US economy through multiple iterations of his textbook which proclaimed

“The Soviet economy is proof that, contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, a socialist command economy can function and even thrive.”

Samuelson simply pushed back the date in subsequent editions and never addressed his incorrect predictions, removing this nonsense 30+ years after it first appeared in his textbook without comment.

When you’re learning literal falsehoods that serve the statist ideology, how are you not being indoctrinated?

What else were you taught that upon reflection was mere indoctrination? https://i.nostr.build/887z.jpg https://i.nostr.build/lqj7.png


This is Flinders Street Station in the city of Melbourne, Australia.

The virtue signalling here is off the charts

#AUStriches https://i.nostr.build/G46J.jpg


Yes he is but he’s not very active, nostr:npub1ulv87e4aqd4wwc97kakn6cpenjvrv6zl8rh396s2ufhns9aanzfs4puzvk


Allowing the lazy parasites of the permanent bureaucracy to use AI will be a nightmare.


Bitcoiners who reject everything aspect of the State are my favourites.

Fuck legal fiction, let’s live in the real world!


Which one of you #AUStriches did this?

I bet it was nostr:npub1dmahfent0mtlh8ahhzu0ztslhw470azcyw3n599vvrxfysfg25mqurhrpq https://i.nostr.build/Jjzz.jpg


Austrian Economics vs MMT

I watched a debate between Bob Murphy and Warren Mosler recently.

Mosler (an MMTer) opens with a list of economic policy positions of what he would direct Government to do.

Murphy begins with first principles and explains how the Austrian perspective derives positions through logical deductions.

Immediately one is struck by the different approaches because they’re basically on 2 entirely different talk-tracks, barely even debating really, like an engineer debating a philosopher.

As it goes on it becomes clear the tension is that Mosler has no doubt whatsoever that the Government has every right to its monopoly on the money supply. It’s not even a question for him to take back to first principles in his mind, “it simply is” ergo that’s the only consideration.

To me this is basically a distillation of Bitcoiners vs Normies.

Bitcoiners for whatever reason don’t accept that government and government alone has the right to a monopoly on money - Normies have never even thought to challenge the idea that they do.

Little wonder it’s so difficult for them to grasp, at a fundamental level they’re accepting manmade institutions (ie government, money, inflation etc) as though they are natural phenomena which they simply are not.


Loving nostr.band! my go to for profile screenshots because of the zap counts

Any chance of advanced search with a date range filter?


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Warren Mosler debates Bob Murphy - MMT vs Austrian School [2013]

https://youtu.be/cUTLCDBONok


I enjoyed listening to this and I'm sure you will too

*14 minutes, 1.25x speed works just fine
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I see you haven’t even gotten started, so who exactly is the #fucktard ? https://i.nostr.build/Bn5D.jpg


My man just got his lightning setup - send ⚡zaps⚡ nostr:note1yls55q4s6f5v0lp2pcpjmhsfmj2yhrte4q2vkw5n3f8p9xge6c5qc6uvlu


Thanks; I'm new to zaps. Can you please try now? (To test it.)


Nice 🤙

I’d have zapped you for that but you don’t appear to have a wallet in your profile..


ECSTACY IN FIAT

Constant global war funded by ever-increasing debt.

Heavily taxed citizens with ever-diminishing freedoms.

You can’t spend your money on just anything.

We must approve your purchases.

And only those who toe the party line can participate in the economy.

Money is controlled by the Government.

(As it should be).

All transactions go through a State-approved intermediary.

Nobody is allowed to transact directly.

We print fake money then lend it to you for profit.

Every time you use our fake money, we charge you a fee.

Every time you earn our fake money, we charge you a tax.

If you spend too much of our fake money, we sell your house.

But if we’re the ones who spend too much fake money? Well, let’s just say we have options.

The house never loses.

But the people on the other side of the table do.
I print my way out of trouble and you pay the price.

Don’t pay attention to the levels of debt.
And don’t ask questions when I tell you the debt’s good.

How many experts does it take to create a truth?

How many repetitions until a lie becomes reality?

I paid ten economists to say quantitative easing won’t cause inflation.

And now that’s printed in the news as fact.

Believe my facts and ignore your own eyes.

Technology is lowering the cost of production.

Yet you’re running on a treadmill struggling to pay rent.

You’re not allowed to notice this.

And you have to believe me when I tell you everything’s great.

Even though my rate rises will collapse the economy.

And then all my friends will buy up your houses.

You thought that if you worked hard you’d get ahead.

But that’s not true.

All that matters in this rigged game is gaining access to the fiat before the peasants.

Then convincing the money printer to do its thing.
https://void.cat/d/EbxQ3vCjHR1ZufGzu7fPov.webp


Australia has a population density of 3 per square kilometre (Canada has 4 per sq km) and we’ve got a very similar housing crisis happening now.

Rental vacancies at 1.1% and government now doing ‘tiny houses’ and making insane policies about future builds (my state wants to add 800k homes in 10 years off a base of 2.2M).

Our government is protecting the RE bubble because we haven’t had a recession for 40 years and millions will have their entire wealth evaporated if they lose the market. They’ve gone from printing money to printing visas to keep demand insanely high https://i.nostr.build/dB84.jpg


Bcash is coming back you guys! https://i.nostr.build/D2LJ.jpg


The node is in my ass


#onionstr > #garlicstr


Separation of money and State.


Someone posted this excerpt from Menger on Xitter and it speaks perfectly to your point that knowledge dissemination on the saleability of a commodity is asymmetrical https://i.nostr.build/Ll99.jpg


Nope, just early.


They’re certainly fucking around

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They don’t need to be there, they’re actively picking a fight. https://i.nostr.build/G4xk.jpg


Koalas are fucking horrible animals. They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal, additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons. If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food. They are too thick to adapt their feeding behaviour to cope with change. In a room full of potential food, they can literally starve to death. This is not the token of an animal that is winning at life. Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives. When they are awake all they do is eat, shit and occasionally scream like fucking satan. Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal. Many herbivorous mammals have adaptations to cope with harsh plant life taking its toll on their teeth, rodents for instance have teeth that never stop growing, some animals only have teeth on their lower jaw, grinding plant matter on bony plates in the tops of their mouths, others have enlarged molars that distribute the wear and break down plant matter more efficiently... Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death, because they're fucking terrible animals. Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here). When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system. Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher. This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree, which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them.

Tldr; Koalas are stupid, leaky, STI riddled sex offenders. But, hey. They look cute. If you ignore the terrifying snake eyes and terrifying feet.


“The Pentagon is deploying two carrier strike groups, eleven Burke-class destroyers, a number of Ticonderoga-class cruisers, amphibious assault ships, THAAD and Patriot missile defense systems, multiple squadrons of fighter jets, strategic bombers, and undisclosed assets to the Middle East.

The Pentagon expects Iranian proxies to continue to target U.S. troops in the region and has already stated that they will respond "decisively."

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The last 3 years people were shocked at left-wingers flipping on bodily autonomy with vax mandates and then getting all bloodthirsty supporting Ukraine in war.

It’s been funny to watch the right-wingers who didn’t support Ukraine and understood Russiagate was a hoax, go straight back to their Iraq-like warmongering once Israel was attacked.

The narrative of current thing is so strong that people expose their lack of principles on the daily. We’re all hypocrites to one degree or another, but damn the middle of the curve are mindless about it.


Thats it, deport CryptoXoide to Australia!


Smells like money printing is coming


This is the way! #Nostr is perfect for small communities, when I think of Hoppe’s “1,000 Lichtensteins” I envision a digital version of this on nostr where local real world communities can bring trade, announcements, community coordination etc into a small sovereign space outside of big tech and governments


Then maybe delete the ad FFS?! https://i.nostr.build/V0E7.jpg


What exactly am I tipping for? https://i.nostr.build/2Dd5.jpg


Tim Dillon: “This is fucking disgusting @pizzahut I can’t believe I used to eat here everyday”

⚡ZAP THIS NOTE⚡
This is Tim’s sketch, I’ll try send the Sats to him. He’d enjoy it here with no-one able to censor nostr:note1v9dh2806jrxmmy9j7z9mj4uj2jszv6pwj7rge7xf8p3e62nehp5sdda3tt


Trudeau licking his lips right now


Who is in charge today exactly? 🤔 https://i.nostr.build/74xv.jpg


Congrats to my friends in the US who are each now 6 figures in debt 🥳🍾 https://i.nostr.build/dByE.jpg  nostr:note150m4huqhsuu83fc34jpq9956mlj3hm0k6m0l7rcsea8qtmyl0gusj4p38c


No one knows how much talent is in a population of 8 billion people. If you assume that no one has that figured out and some of the most talented humans on the planet are severely neglected, you can do something about identifying those people and supporting them.


He was having a crack at Pierre Poilievre, Opposition Leader who is a Bitcoiner


WTF, now I love Trudeau?! https://v.nostr.build/Q6GY.mov


Where’s that Global Boiling when you need it?

Thanks for shielding us from Antarctica though 🙏


It used to be, before Covid. The place has lost its soul and now I’m only here for the pay cheques, they won’t last forever though


Funny enough you’re not too far off. It was originally a “People’s bank” and became a quasi central bank, then got caught in a power struggle and ultimately helped Australia get fucked over in WWI and WWII with huge debts to the British and then the US for wars we had no business being involved in.

Good doco on YT:

https://youtu.be/Qfrk5TCARpM


Bingo!

If they were worried about scams they would block it entirely and let someone sue them and have a court decide on the legality of it.

This is capital controls.

Hey at least we’re not China 🇨🇳… Wait a minute!


Do you believe CommBank? https://i.nostr.build/rrvG.jpg


Good for accelerating the thesis of The Sovereign Individual. I expect many will go along with CBDCs but if even 5% of the productive class say fuck that and leave, well that will be enough to destroy Western nations.


Who would build the roads?

Probably the same contractors that government overpays our tax money to today, except they’d have to be competitive and we wouldn’t need lollipop ladies getting $150k to hold a sign and be the diversity hires on the crew


Oh I misread, 17 I have done so 3 I haven’t


The voters figured this out a long time ago.

Thats why we are only taught Keynesian horseshit economics (if at all) - heaven forbid people work out this is completely unsustainable because you won’t be able to stop the voters even if you do. https://i.nostr.build/X2Ed.jpg


17. Shit I’m right at the end of the degen curve, who am I to shittalk Queenslanders


Queensland would be great! If it weren’t for all the bloody Queenslanders..


Lovely bunch of coconuts!


I turned the heater off today.

Fucking Melbourne man, why do we bother?


Lyn leaves the dirty work to the rest of us 😂


Who is in charge today exactly? 🤔 https://i.nostr.build/74xv.jpg


This meme could land you in prison in the land of freedom 🦅


Microsoft to be help build Australia’s “cyber shield” 🙄 https://i.nostr.build/lwgj.jpg


No One Out Pizzas Hamas https://v.nostr.build/yJrP.mov


Panda is NGMI - he could have got 5000 Sats for that chair https://v.nostr.build/lwXn.mov


Terrorists don’t grow on trees.

They grow from boys seeing their friends and family being killed into young men filled with pain who can be manipulated and used by others in their search for revenge.


Who is the victim in this crime? nostr:note1lmnwtytnx4s4we6f78dmscywltkh8qe72gpz8dk0qz2k2ya66nas5kc0sx


I really like it.

Except the ETH beak, change that to ₿ 😂

It’s distinct and nice colours, seems inviting.

Without the Amethyst word in the app tho maybe, just the logo. With the word would good on a website


#Lightspark have just announced a new product for sending fiat over lightning with a new LNURL implementation for Lightning addresses

https://www.lightspark.com/uma


Is anyone using #nostr as a private social media yet?

I’m thinking 1/2 private relays that are whitelist only for small groups as a replacement for Signal or WhatsApp groups?

There was talk of similar use cases for conferences and events


There’s definitely a market emerging for this, much more so than the fake meat bullshit that not even vegans want


Income tax is theft.

Capital gains tax is theft.

Stamp duty is theft.

Fuel excise is theft.

Compulsory acquisition is theft.

Payroll tax is theft.

GST is theft.

Rates are theft.

Luxury car tax is theft.

Import duties are theft.

Rego fees are theft.

☭


Gold moving like the rock that it is 😂

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They’re putting fluoride in the bread!!


Nice gesture but fucking hell I wish they’d just get on with releasing him


Poor guy 😂 https://i.nostr.build/ZqAQ.jpg


I repeat, are you having fun staying poor yet #AUStriches?! https://i.nostr.build/5L6v.webp


Medibank recently had one of the biggest hacks in Australia which freaked the Government because they store all of the data from the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse.

I’m sure moving to a 4-day work week at full pay will improve their security posture.. https://i.nostr.build/Vn60.jpg


New life hack for getting cheap AirBnBs and simultaneously pissing off the clowns who think they’re mini real estate moguls https://i.nostr.build/X24B.jpg


Lyn’s thread for those interested:

https://x.com/lynaldencontact/status/1715925987026719160


💯

Governments will scapegoat the shit out of AirBnB. Already happening where I live, they put a 7% tax on bookings and are blaming them for a rental crisis (vacancy rate of 1.1%) whilst they hold 1.4% of housing supply and the country is importing immigrants at a rate 3X higher than pre Covid.

I don’t feel sorry for the AirBnBers though, they thought the gravy train would never end and never even considered the risk that they’d be targeted by governments when they needed an excuse and tax revenues.


nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a posted a good thread on Xitter about Satoshi and the origins of Bitcoin and the replies are full of muppets saying it’s CIA..

How many AnCaps do you think work for the CI fucking A? The answer is Zero. None.

No-one who believes in a voluntary society is going to work for the alphabet agency responsible for literally dozens of coups, thousands of assassinations, and millions of deaths in wars and drug trafficking. Certainly not such a brilliant mind as Satoshi who could have made fortunes in the private sector.

This wasn’t a teenage vegan putting aside their preferences to work at McDonalds for min wage - this was a genius dedicating free time to an open source project done the right way to subvert the entire global economic system.

And there is no doubt Satoshi was AnCap, whether he’d have used that word to describe himself is another story, but his worldview is definitely aligned and he was clearly well versed in that philosophy else he wouldn’t have created a decentralised currency outside of the State and went to such great lengths to keep himself anonymous such that it could survive beyond him.

It’s just more cope from the loser brigade who want bag-pumping crypto scams to be front and centre because once the story of Bitcoin is known, people grok that it is the Zero to One. They see the history it was built upon and the confluence of factors that led to Bitcoin’s discovery and then there is no unseeing it, down the rabbit hole you go.. https://i.nostr.build/eED3.jpg


I always wondered who these signs were for, then I just watched a lady face plant directly into the sign on this glass door.

She was wearing a mask 😷 https://i.nostr.build/0zz9.jpg


YGMI 🤙


80 IQ plebs with low time preference will retire while midwits who believe in daddy government work til 80 https://i.nostr.build/PQQ4.jpg


Yeah I want to know not only age but ethnicity, religion, political affiliation etc - should be easy to track this stuff in the modern age and once the data for euthanasia starts being humanised beyond mere statistics people might think differently about it


What is going on in Canada 🇨🇦?

nostr:note1cjpg6qnygd8eafcp6kn9wj655xnhgypmzqka8x6ham8xhqdhf5as3zur8s https://i.nostr.build/lwPv.jpg


We’re not sending our best.

We’re sending the power-hungry narcissistic psychopaths who want to control every aspect of other peoples lives and rent-seek their way to riches. https://i.nostr.build/nVrg.jpg


Remember though, the National Socialists weren’t Socialists - they were evil right wingers so any commonalities are pure coincidence 🤪


People will be pulling up old shitposts, amazed at how frivolously we were throwing around thousands of dollars for memes and running jokes


Oh I agree with that.

But it’s in direct conflict with the revshare creator model he’s pushing on bluechecks.

The incentives are all over the place.


This is the end, my only friend https://i.nostr.build/lwPn.jpg  nostr:note1d2jaftfzd0gdn8zxel4l8aqwycw39mhw3ll623qh7zfuvlcaagesahpr08


It's a bit unfair to compare Canada to China.

One has a totalitarian communist regime that forces citizens to participate in medical experiments, encourages debilitating drug use, prohibits private medical care, freezes bank accounts of dissenters, uses euthanasia to save on socialized medical expenses, etc. The other is China.


The supermarket, duh!


I wonder if anyone is tracking political affiliations, religion, ethnicity etc of the euthanised in Canada? 🤔


Are there any of the fentanyl zombie hordes there?

Trudeau is like having an even woker version of Dan Andrews in charge, but of the whole country. What a disaster


People: please help us get clean and healthy

Chinada:

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/41d8e48c70e01921bb51fc9dfe4768fcf0192957755d19119594f3568f6c2bcc.webp


$1 for a new X account? Controversial? Why is that controversial? Who said that? How many X accounts do they have? https://i.nostr.build/aVPr.jpg


Are you this bullish on #Bitcoin? https://v.nostr.build/VnD0.mov


Starting today, X is testing a new program.

New, unverified accounts will be required to say “Doritos™ Dew™ It Right” at signup to prove they are Not A Bot™

Users will be required to drink a verification can for every post or reply and upload their Worldcoin™ retina scan to enable likes.

These new tests were developed to see how much shit Users will put up with for their dopamine hits and will have no effect on spam or bot activity.


Absolutely Lagarded

Who honestly thinks they’re NOT going to introduce thee CBDC? https://i.nostr.build/rrOV.jpg


He’s the second npub listed on nostr.directory https://i.nostr.build/W0Ek.jpg


Because they’re brain rotted Communists.

The kind of people I was referring to in this note: nostr:note1cfch9rjpnzv6pt72dkrzn40ytm6k8etv547t6q9qsttm5r4rsthqcw2qtz

We can’t live with these people. The same as you wouldn’t want a literal jihadist in your community, or a serial-killing cannibal, or a pedophile - they’re so far outside acceptable cultural norms in the West that we ought not tolerate them. They need to go live with each other and leave the rest of us in peace.


Is that a dome swag in Switzerland?


I hear there are #Reddit Refugees on here now so here’s a video nostr:npub1hu3hdctm5nkzd8gslnyedfr5ddz3z547jqcl5j88g4fame2jd08qh6h8nh and I made to explain #Nostr vs [any centralized platform]

#TheMoreYouNostr

https://youtu.be/HrZE4kj9ZhY


Snoo was on Epstein’s Island nostr:note1tu95gc3ss7mdjw0myurfmqlaty43qjcn0vzs0tzjafsapz8lnwmswt4gux


If you build it, they will come


Are you using ZapplePay?

I got the script for the TestFlight version of Damus so haven’t been pushed down that route yet


I’ll take shit breaking randomly over power-tripping jannies or crypto-scam and softcore porn bots.


The Nostr... Hmmm
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/3e651ad81eeabc7bfa6ec13d0d9837a797781ed15a5704d4adcb9c9a243398bc.webp


Derek has bought a bunch of redditors over so they’re more familiar with that concept.

Your time to shine mate


We’re not sending our best.

We’re sending the power-hungry narcissistic psychopaths who want to control every aspect of other peoples lives and rent-seek their way to riches. https://i.nostr.build/nVrg.jpg


But how will neckbeards impose their psychotic views on entire communities? https://i.nostr.build/QaG7.jpg


Who fantasises about that though?

I genuinely don’t get it. Who wants to stand atop piles of dead humans and be declared King of the leftover Shit?


Any recovering goldbugs able to explain why the only threat model they are able to think of is the internet going bye bye due to a nuke or EMP?

Is it an obsession with Mad Max?

Are they all part dragon?

I don’t get why they’re so fucking hung up on civilisation collapse rather than immediate threats like the tyrannical government trying to coerce us into CBDCs?


Interesting, hadn’t heard that before

https://insightbeforeaction.com/the-tenth-man-rule-principle-explained/


Agree. Onboarding is still not much better than when I joined in December.

I’ve onboarded maybe 12-15 people by now and it’s not straightforward to get all the bits and pieces needed for newbies.


The yield that they think is risk free (except if Luxor blows up) and “this time it’s different”.


Don’t go chasing yield on your #Bitcoin with Luxor - those clowns will blow up like everyone else.

Having a slice of 21M pie is all you need. Chasing gains on the first ever absolutely scarce asset is a fools errand, they’re not smarter than anyone else and you’ll never regain your position in a blow up.


The solution to everything https://i.nostr.build/4XqA.jpg


Look out ladies https://v.nostr.build/9X6A.mov


Yep.

Interesting to see the psychology play out of those who ended up on the shitcoin fork - years later they still won’t concede they were wrong.

Would be much better for all if they bent the knee and abandoned bcash but I can imagine we’d all be just as pigheaded in a future fork war as they’ve been and perhaps there is utility in that.


If we bought back the guillotines, every nation would do an Argentina real quick https://i.nostr.build/LaJm.jpg


Kinda crazy that $100k gets that access at all - corruption is actually incredibly cheap on an ROI basis; until you blow your business up that is 😂


beautiful friend

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$900k oops https://i.nostr.build/VPlv.jpg  nostr:note1u5vcpkh0lc8e2ppf454e5tzvkgsp8m4kaxayxnthk9z97x50nxdq52g7tf


Don’t you hate it when that happens? https://i.nostr.build/ZBPQ.jpg


Yep, but inactive by the looks.

Source: I won a prize for termite research when I was 9


Nice mate 🤙

Give it 10 years and this will be <100M Sats


The lols will continue until the Fed is irrelevant.

"I caution against solutions that could disrupt and disintermediate the banking system, potentially harming consumers and contributing to broader financial stability risks. And, where the activity happens outside the regulatory perimeter, consumers would be left without the adequate protections that our regulated and supervised banks provide today in the United States."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/bowman20231017a.htm


I caution against disrupting us, it could be disruptive to us


Boomers gonna Boom


DAS NOSTR


Ok Boomer.

If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry. - some guy with no credibility, reportedly


>THE NOSTR REPORT

STAAAAHHHHHPPPP!!!


NO

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I didn’t want to do the Reddit post dissection thing but I did disagree with the entirety of your article, I just picked on the first point as it was glaringly obvious.

That you took the bait of my Boomer comment shows the value of NOT putting your face in a pfp. You gave something away whilst knowing nothing of me, you’re immediately at a disadvantage in that dynamic and I used it for a reaction and got it.

That’s what I’m referring to in you not understanding how younger ppl interact online and are projecting. I could continue the troll here but it’s already illustrated my point so I’ll refrain and try to be kind.

You can’t have it both ways claiming nyms lack credibility and then conceding highly credible individuals use nyms.

I don’t know you from a bar of soap, this is our first interaction on #nostr - I could point to a hundred nyms who have a greater reputation than you and whose opinions are more credible than yours so where has your real name and picture gotten you other than trolled?

Your second point is tied to the first - nyms have reputations. Just because you don’t ascribe credibility is meaningless - others do.

And your most important point I did address with my point that you have false assumptions of why ppl use nyms. I reject your frame that I’m assuming the censors frame, that’s NOT why ppl use nyms. And not only am I not cedeing a right to free speech, your contention of that being an absolute right is myopically American - I’ve lived across the world and seen the spectrum of speech, you’ve applied your narrow lens and assumptions with little appreciation for what this looks like elsewhere and why nyms are useful generally whether it’s here or elsewhere.


>“First, a post with a real identity attached is inherently more credible because that person’s reputation will suffer if they are dishonest, lazy or simply a poor judge of what’s happening.”

Tell that to Gigi.

He’s got more credibility than you or I here and he’s a nym.

That nym is it’s own identity with its own personality and reputation. I could describe more about Gigi, his worldview and his personality, than I could my neighbour and I have a degree of trust in him that his repeated correct actions have established where I’d sooner listen to him than my neighbour.

This post seems like Boomer projection because it’s what you are comfortable with; you haven’t understood why many use nyms (you made false assumptions) probably because you’ve interacted with the internet very differently than people 5-10-20 years younger than you have.


Memorising your seed phrase is how you take proper custody of your Bitcoin.

If you’re uncomfortable relying on your memory, give this book a read - it will help teach you HOW to remember and is a pretty cool story too https://i.nostr.build/Ba0K.jpg


Well put mate.

There’s nothing wrong with doing good deeds and enjoying that giving feeling. Sometimes it’s worth showing off, sometimes it should go unsaid.

We do nice things for others for the feeling it gives us, and the reciprocity of gratitude of the receiver adds to that.

It’s the pretending that one is doing it purely out of virtue which sticks in the craw because that’s faker than fake - they show it off and want the plaudits whilst acting like they don’t as if they’re simply holier than thou which just reeks of insincerity; it’s the modern day equivalent of buying indulgences.


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It’s the same thing

Bunch of absolute wankers https://i.nostr.build/Jay5.jpg


“Effective Altruism” is so completely lacking in self-awareness that it’s proponents, all 150 of them, are the only ones who believe it is worthwhile. Literally every other person looks at them and immediately cringes https://i.nostr.build/mzkk.jpg


It’s definitely better than Bali belly 😂


One of my mentors told me he always hired on 2 things; curiosity and coachability.

People who possess those traits he said are going to become your best employees because they don’t accept the status quo but have the humility to realise they can learn from others.

Those traits are abundant in Bitcoiners, you’re on a winning strategy targeting them for new hires


Already monetising the debt to the tune of a Trillion annually, why not accelerate it with a couple wars on top?


Thoughts on Au Pairs?

Bitcoiners seem like they’re single-handedly going to stop population collapse with all the kids they’re popping out so I wonder how people view having in-home help like this alongside the cultural exchange side of it?

Do you think it would be worth setting up a Bitcoiner au pair network to help our young people experience new cultures and expose young children to different views and languages?


Nice 🤙

Looks like it belongs on playing cards in a casino


Haha the brown one isn’t struggling for food 😆

How many dogs is the lady taking care of at the shelter?


Old mate looks like he’s seen it all


Remember when Trump invited Juan Guaidó to congress?

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/51384726


Now we got a stew going! https://i.nostr.build/loxG.gif


Good onya mate 🤙


An embarrassment by successive governments how little they’ve done to secure Julian’s release.

We managed to bring back an actual terrorist in Hicks and they don’t even seem to try with a journalist.


This guy is on my mind… He is half blind and old, made it all the way to the top of the street dog packs so that he “owned” a 7-11 entrance, getting food & attention of course.

Then they started tearing it down… Now that is a brutal blow up of your pension plan…

Got him some quality dog food, tasty beef, but even that was not enough to calm him down. Later in the day he was doing better, and of course the food was gone :-)

Pretty sure that he won’t move at all, people have been feeding him for quite a while, so I guess I’ll just see what is going on the next days… Thanks for the zaps anyway, they do go a long way towards helping #dogstr here! https://image.nostr.build/9199c64dc57d422d46ef88c86788cc954137634bf65a029b7c966b6a1fac3cbd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/470d1f6623c0580ed5a76f8a13956bd9303568a1baca5b28a01721a9e747f495.jpg


Get old mate something good. Sucks to have the rug pulled after becoming top dog like that


It’s The Great Reset we’re supposed to have, not the one the Parasites wanted


Glad to see you guys recognise this for how stupid it is.

Matthew Pines earlier on Xitter was having a whinge about MBS not punctually meeting with Secretary Blinken - he’s clearly stuck in an outdated view of the world and the US’ place in it.

Not understanding that the empire is over is every bit as much a recipe for having fun staying poor as not having a stack of Sats.


Fuckoff Blackrock, I’m not done stacking 😡


Shitcoinery and centralized solutions will always fuck you over... always... 😁🤙

" #Tether freezes 32 addresses, containing $873 million that were found to be "linked to terrorism and warfare" in #Israel and #Ukraine." by WatcherGuru


Banks are the worst. Got an email, app notification and phone call + VM warning me about a dodgy transaction.

Some prick emptied my account at an ATM.

Called the bank back, my account had been locked by them, the transaction was pending.

I have to raise a transaction dispute and might have to wait up to 90 days to get my funds back.

What’s the point of all the alerts if you’re going to let them walk off with the cash. I haven’t shared anything, clicked anything, logged into anything. No explanation of how someone can use an ATM without my pin or card?

#Bitcoin fixes this shitshow!