I like people who explain their reasoning and with which I can agree or disagree rather than just claiming expertise. Eg Mises Institute, WUWT/CDN, Ivor Cummins, Low Carb Down Under, etc


I'm sure there's a perfectly innocent explanation for all these people doing the "Roman Salute"

https://packaged-media.redd.it/x7i8yqcdz6s81/pb/m2-res_720p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&v=1&e=1708182000&s=ef8ef0dc838b108df3ffbd8da86f01998dd0eb5f#t=0


If you wish to sacrifice yourself for the benefit of others, libertarianism is no barrier


you're right there's also having kids


Japan has a very high savings rate which (it seems) has cushioned the debt burden. But look at the American continental dollar, French assignat, German mark, Hungarian pengo, Zimbabwe dollar, Yugoslav dinar, Sprska dinar, Greek drachma, Chinese fabi, Armenian dram, and Turkmen manat. Currencies absolutely can die (or at least be revalued much lower).


What's harder to shut down: me handing you a metal disk, or you and I both connecting to a global network of computers?


it worked


I didn't realize Texas Instruments was still in business


Me either, but I saw some at my grocer recently and the marbling was insane and the price was very low, so it's in my refridgerator now

We'll see how it goes


which carbs are essential?


"don't heat it much"

your body is almost 40C... PUFAs might take a lot longer to oxidize at that temperature than 200C but how long is it inside your body?


Some budget ideas: 70/30 ground beef, chuck roast cut into steaks, beef cheek, butter+lean meat


I think vaccines are part of the autism story. Inject known neurotoxins -> neurological disfunction increases

They cut mercury but added aluminium instead


I avoid those

Animals fats are good

Fruit fats are OK (eg olive, avocado, coconut) but I have access to good animal fats so I don't need them


I found a place near me that does fried chicken in beef tallow

But yes, common problem


watch the actual process

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Cfk2IXlZdbI


Congress doesn't have the authority to institute national labor standards - US Constitution Article 1 Section 8 + 10th Amendment


Low Carb Down Under / Low Carb Conferences are mostly keto but have many presentations of interest to carnivores


number go up - take some fiat profit (roll into gold) - number go down - buy more (or not)


IDK whether the final decision was his, but it's a good reminder that nobody is coming to save you


Maybe. Trust no-one


it's almost like a certain group pushes all the multi-culti stuff


Single item of interest posts are much better than the infodump IMO

the paywall breaker is a nice touch

As the the actual case, IMO it is not only deeply political but also sets a terrible precedent, in which subjective valuations of property become criminal if a judge or jury feels sufficient animus towards the self-appraiser


IDK what most of these things are but they seem cool


I hope it melts up before it crashes so you all have a chance to get out


just burn it


Assuming the token is a legally valid piece of property (or claim on such) and has been acquired legitimately, I can do whatever I want with it, including wasting it by giving it to indigents.

If it is not legitimately acquired, theft has occurred whether I bury it or spend it or give it away.

The fact that someone might trade something in the future for this piece of property has nothing to do with it.


Joe Salerno didn't seem to mind


If you or some group wants to donate legitimately acquired property, it's your right to do so. I don't know what that has to do with me considering the concept. Moreover, it's not going to be efficient or sustainable, and therefore in the long run not even helpful to the recipients.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-interview-with-african-economics-expert-for-god-s-sake-please-stop-the-aid-a-363663.html


I'm anti-UBI in principle because stealing from some people to give to others is immoral, inefficient and unsutainable


AZT + party drugs


I've heard (no source) that Ukraine is a major human trafficking area


It turns out giving poor people money helps them

It does not follow that UBI is a good idea, or that it does more good than harm


transformer caught mid-molt


A straitjacket keeps you confined in a narrow channel between two larger bodies of water


I saw people (you?) posting this on nostr so I looked into it. According to wiki his parents were Italian and Croatian, and worked fairly menial jobs.

Is it possible that "Milei" and "Mileikowsky" is just a coincidence? Or do you have some evidence that it's not?


is it though?


g'day


1) your whole carpet for only $99

2) carpet your whole (room?) for only $99

either way they messed up (or are in the middle of putting up the sign)


A government in debt is wasting real resources approximately in line with its debt, and unsustainable for that reason


Perhaps progressive "liberalism" as derived from Rousseau is like this. Liberalism (or libertarianism) has at its heart the common law, the demand that the "sovereign" be held  to the same moral and legal standard as everyone else


Yeah, thieves run the airports. They steal gold because it has value


They're laying cows, not eating cows


1) ublock
2) invidious
3) ????


omg so risky keep them on


protip: don't use ios


I think it could be real, with the idea being to detonate in space and disable many satellites


I think Biden probably would actually be best for Rus - the obvious incompetence degrades US foreign policy power and the lack of friction between the bureaucracy and the figurehead (because the figurehead provides no opposition) would give Putin the maximum chance of getting somewhere with dialog (ie with the bureaucratic apparatus directly)


From WaPo:

Hernandez and Roberts were shooting in crossfire positions and without cover. Hernandez fired his last shots lying on his left side in the road, yelling: “I’m hit! I’m hit!”

He was, in fact, not hit.


except if you believe in individual liberty you are also "extreme"


better yet no phone


here you go, just post this whenever you want a pictographic representation of a gun:

 https://image.nostr.build/6ddfec6493256da5046367f7b5e6e8d0f1550fd42a4900e23559854ea918af9f.png


I agree, but some states have weird systems in which many/most things end up as amendments rather than legislative pronouncements

eg. Texas has a 200-page Constitution full of random programs


Be your own central bank (Au, Ag or if you must BTC)
Be your own military (2A or FGC9)
Be your own diplomat (meet your neighbors)


There is no State - just ordinary people who feel themselves entitled to slip all the normal bounds of law and morality in the name of the collective


Scottish banks (eg Clydesdale) still issue their own paper notes


I don't believe in State unity. People within the State do all sorts of things contrary to the public intereset, the State interest, even their agency interest, because it is in the interest of a narrower group (eg person vs agency, agency vs State)


Bitcoin is a post-fiat product


My pet theory is that Satoshi is US Naval Intelligence.

They created TOR to send data psuedonymously on the web (like, to secret agents). The issue was if they're the only ones on the network it's not so anonymous, so they released it to the public.

Apply that same logic to sending money psuedonymously.


My "exit strategy" for gold is to either spend it or pass it on to my family someday


one or two?


probably some are doing it because of Star Trek

but one eye closed + hand gesture is extra sus


squint


https://image.nostr.build/8fdbcf4dc5f7f4b97eabb9c233dac8c647cc3861d69fb16f7860b2e71527d6f1.jpg

Not really a meme but it's all I've got


UK groups promote "absolute zero" carbon emissions

https://ukfires.org/impact/publications/reports/absolute-zero/

Humans exhale carbon dioxide


I think this is too pessimistic.

Yes, the governmental elites and their corporate cronies would like to always have "no lose" elections where they control all viable candidates.

I am skeptical that they achieve this goal. I am also skeptical that they actually control everyone they think they control. Le Pen (and Macron and Scholz etc) have individual free will. It's possible that they may be fully on-board with the globalist/Statist plans (or pretend to be) and react to emerging events in unexpected ways. It's also possible that State officials may say or do things which lead to the populace developing unexpected opinions and attitudes, as in the downfall of Louis 16.

I suspect part of the sense of global electoral fakery comes from the US State Department pulling strings to manage elections and supervise "national" government. US State officials develop connections throughout the local bureaucracy and upper classes. This allows State to influence who is considered a viable candidate as well as exert tremendous pressure once a new administration comes in. But all those people still enjoy free will, and influence is not true control.


God is reality


Cons: Stabbed to death

Pros: Titties


best oxtail I ever had was a Jamaican restaurant in Tucson Arizona


Either mundane tax optimization or prep for secession (or some mix)


it sounds like all-clad pans are probably actually more rust resistant


what is the flag on the immigrants?

Also addressing (what I think is) the point: I am philosophically pro-open-borders, but skeptical such a position can function with democracy, welfare, gun control and failure to enforce criminal (common) law


"Capitalists, landowners and laborers are by necessity speculators. So is the consumer in providing for anticipated future needs. There’s many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip.

A capitalist is always also virtually an entrepreneur and speculator. He always runs the chance of losing his funds. There is no such thing as a perfectly safe investment. If it were possible to calculate the future state of the market, the future would not be uncertain. There would be neither entrepreneurial ‘loss nor profit.

The fact that the term “speculator” is today used only with an opprobrious connotation clearly shows that our contemporaries do not even suspect in what the fundamental problem of action consists."

Ludwig von Mises


IMO this digest/rehash of the Tucker/Putin interview is much more interesting than the interview itself

https://rumble.com/v4d1fkf-tucker-carlsons-first-discussion-since-putin-interview-world-government-sum.html


communismmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


people underestimate the nutritional value of icecream


Autistes


Yeah, eco-regulations are 1) messing with the farmers inputs and 2) outright requiring farmers to stop farming (ie by selling their land or slaughtering their livestock)

1930s all over again


Obviously, I haven't been there to spread good vibes in months


That I know how to configure my browser settings


floater


I would subtract oral health, gut microbiome (both of which will take care of themselves with proper diet) exercise, and purpose/missions.


That sounds like 2 silver linings


This is true of deposits also. The difference is that in a bailment a specific piece of real property must be returned, while in a deposit it is a designated amount of property.

If Bitcoins are fungible, then the ledger entry is equivalent to deposit rather than bailment. If Bitcoins are not fungible, they are not money.


A monk told Joshu, “I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.”
Joshu asked, “Have you eaten your rice porridge?"
The monk replied, “I have eaten.”
Joshu said, “Then you had better wash your bowl.”


Are the Bitcoins in the room with us now?


The "Bible" (Necronomicon?) of Central Banksters is Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street. I consider it a shocking confession of depravity. He makes it absolutely clear the purpose of Central Bank policy is to play a ponzi confidence game where people never lose faith in the ability of the Bank to honor its committments, because it can't possibly honor its committments and can't afford to be tested.


Just turn the tube upside down and pour the chips into your hand


Chop wood, carry water


"Gold is money and all the rest is credit" -JP Morgan

Money is a commodity of inherent value, in particular gold, which is the most durable commodity and therefore the best form of physical savings and has therefore been chosen by the market as money.

Credit is a promise to pay money.

Currency is a credit instrument which promises to pay the bearer some amount of money on demand.  The current "pound sterling" notes still print this false promise on their face. US law still guarantees that Federal Reserve Notes shall be redeemed on demand. Of course, neither promise is honored.
 https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/images/banknotes/10/10-front.jpg

 https://image.nostr.build/8fdbcf4dc5f7f4b97eabb9c233dac8c647cc3861d69fb16f7860b2e71527d6f1.jpg

Bitcoin is a (crypto) currency, a digital currency cryptographically secured. It is not a commodity because there are no Bitcoins. Instead it is a ledger entry that cannot be redeemed, just like fiat bank deposits or fiat notes.


Do you know the difference between money, currency and credit?


I've heard that most cancers are glucose-dependent and can be killed by going on a ketogenic or carnivore diet. I don't have a good source but if I was not on such a diet and diagnosted with cancer I'd research it


Ah yes, the magic soil that causes the immigrants to assimilate


Again, it's not a bailment


The "bank" is the issuer of the currency, of course: Satoshi Nakamoto.

Just like this:
https://image.nostr.build/1a83bd054a82b1dcdabe1e72a7106e821fd082567d08e678b2257d70d4e389a2.jpg


“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?…

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipelago Ch. 1, Arrest, p. 13


Where are your checking account balances located?


Rick Rule, explains why he invests in water: "Water flows 'uphill' to votes instead of 'downhill' to dollars."

The State casts a disfiguring shadow. The highest-adjacency market response is primarily parasitic. Individuals and organizations supply the State and seek to benefit from special grants of monopoly.

The next highest-adjacency response are those who seek to profit not from the State itself but from the distortions it creates, as Mr. Rule's quotation demonstrates.

Finally you have those who neither supply the State nor adapt to its immediate disruptions, but exist in a price and production environment distorted by the State.

It is my hope that one day the State as an organizational form will be made hopelessly obsolete. Security will be provided by a defensive rather than offensive organization that exists in the 'ecosystem' of human organizations cooperatively rather than exploitatively. Like a parasitic species that evolves to become synergistic, we may one day regard the provision of security as a great service rather than a scourge.


post one and let's find out


"fossil" fuel is a psyop designed to make it seem scarce and valuabe

it's either totally abiotic like any other mineral or the product of decaying plankton


> both killed by neighborhood doctors and engineers with machetes


I'm not such a fan of Adam Smith.

I agree with the importance of the Austrian school, but would like to make a special mention of Bohm-Bawerk, who is an excellent writer and very good at debunking things. He shows the internal logic of an opponents' views well, and then shows why it cannot be the case.

In terms of popular/introductory texts, I think Herny Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson and Per Bylund's recent How to Think About the Economy are quite good.

Free ebook version: https://mises.org/library/how-think-about-economy-primer


Coke tastes like Mistletoe smells


Gross. I'm very grateful to live here, where the toilet takes waste away from me.


If redemption doesn't matter why has the dollar fallen 95% since then?


This is very bad

A warmer world is more habitable for humans


I agree on the first point - what matters is whether you can back up what you are saying with reason and evidence.

When I started carnivore I developed a craving for liver which went away after some time. I suspect I had some deficiency. I can imagine that "forcing" yourself to eat liver without any special craving for it might result in overexposure to something or other.

But my theory about what happened to Paul is Vitamin C depletion due to experimenting with honey (the extra carb increases Vitamin C requirement) leading to fruit cravings.


My theory of what happened to Saladino: carnivore reduces carbs and thereby reduces Vitamin C needs. Paul experimented with honey because it's an animal product and found his blood sugar was well-controlled (he was insulin-sensitive). But now he's taking on more carbs and is craving sweets for Vitamin C to be able to process them, so he turns to fruit.


Stocks entitle me to a share in the benefits of business ownership, and as you point out the business is (at least partly) physical equipment, inventory, land, etc.

What does owning a Bitcoin entitle you to?


That's the constraint on supply that I mentioned. Bitcoin is economically illiterate because of the demand side, not the supply side. There is no non-speculative demand for these ledger entries, because they are only ledger entries.

A thought experiment: if Satoshi promised to pay 1 troy ounce of gold for each Bitcoin, and people believed him, probably they would trade at about 1 troy ounce of gold. If it was suddenly discovered that Satoshi was bankrupt and could never pay, the price would plummet, probably to zero. But notice that we are in exactly that situation, where Bitcoins are ledger entries that can't be redeemed for anything.


Also lots more "dollars" floating around now


"millions of reps"

I think the hope of the folks in the video is that you can do it in less than that. My experience doing as the video instructs has been much faster, getting almost all the flinches out within 100 rounds of live fire over a couple hours.


A "tame" wild animal is still wild


CHANGE MY MIND

American Football is actually American Rugby


This is way too rad for Kellog's cereals.

They were intentionally designed to be as boring and flavorless as possible so that you wouldn't get too excited and go masturbate.


The hand that touches receipts


Anus wouldn't be my first choice but it's probably good nutrition

Personally my lunch today is grass-fed ribeye and distilled water


The Holocaust is basically war propaganda that no historian believed for 20 years after WW2 until Hollywood picked it up.
Accounts from the time describe killing people in vacuum chambers, electric floors, rollercoasters into a pit, making soap out of bodies, making mattresses out of hair, and so on. All of these are now rejected by scholars.
The pictures of piles of bodies are from camps (eg Nordhausen) that didn't have a gas chamber and modern scholars don't contend were extermination camps. Instead, these people died from Allied bombs and lack of supplies (food and medical) as German industrial capacity collapsed late in the war.
The "gas chamber" at Auschwitz doesn't make sense as a gas chamber and key features of it (eg vents to introduce poison) were "restored" by Polish authorities after the war.
https://holocaustencyclopedia.com/
Yes, the Nazis did send Jews to camps where many did. They were socialist pricks. But the systematic extermination of the Jews seems to be war propaganda only.

Carbon dioxide is good. Global climate change was selected by the Rockefellers as one of the key areas that would promote global government controlled by "elites" like themselves - with zero scientists in the room.
https://eidclimate.org/how-the-rockefellers-manufactured-the-climate-liability-campaign/


oofs


Maybe. I personally find it pretty trivial to dryfire without tensing up.


IMO the most important aspect of shooting, especially for handguns

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=nYzheuJE47E

#gunstr


Sadly I own just as many Bitcoins as anyone else.


which is why I would never buy "10 internets" for half a million dollars


yeah, get that (probably seed-oil-laced) bun out of there


"freed from the constraints of physical mass"

Exactly. It is nothing.


Bitcoin is fiat 2.0

Still a trade token divorced from anything real, but at least without giving a central authority discretion over it


Hoppe-scrolling here

 https://image.nostr.build/6af4ef2b4dea945d15a50d9fcec9cfcbd4bce453759da7b952ad9bea59dde608.png


IMO it is a currency-type liability (a la the bank deposits from which it is dervied) not a property-type liability (bailment)


With enemies like these, who needs friends?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair

https://newdiscourses.com/

Basically classical liberal who spends his time studying Marxist claptrap and trying to expose it


Bitcoins are cryptographically brilliant but economically illiterate.

Fiat "money" treats an "IOU nothing" as having real value, and Bitcoin does exactly the same. Bitcoin strictly limits the number of "nothings" that can be issued, but this does not give them value.


As James Lindsay loves to say, the communists share your vocabulary but not your dictionary


Violent cime is dropping fast - it's almost halfway down to where we were 4 years ago


Have you tried the contact info on his website?

https://www.nrl.navy.mil/itd/chacs/dingledine-tor-second-generation-onion-router/


The game isn't over until fiat is dead and buried


I think it depends.

The more the product is a "practical" item with complex manufacturing, the more I trust brand as one (not only) indicator of quality. For example, Glock pistols or All-clad pans are "standard" in their industries because they offer a quality product at a reasonable price, and it is difficult for "generic" competitors to replicate the quality.

The more the product is "impractical" or has very basic manufacturing, the less I trust brand name. Store-brand "premium" toilet paper is in my experience just as good as name-brand "premium toilet paper. A well-chosen generic bag is likely to be higher quality in my experience than Chanel or Luis Vutton, for 1/10 the price.


If "we" do things much more efficiently in a given industry, that industry will need fewer people. But to offsest this we demand more output when cost of production falls (law of demand) and the people producing that output want things they themselves are not producing, such as services or art. If you had all the money in the world would you trust an AI nanny over the best-qualified woman you could find?

So long as some proportion of the "haves" want some services from the "have nots" there can be no firm distinction between the groups.


I'd be SAUER without you

Kiss begins with AK

Let's make your sister a NAGANT


Bitcoin is fully debased to begin with, so no worries there


I estimate about 70% of people are sweet and respond warmly to basic kindness or courtesy. About 20% are so caught up in their own problems that they don't appreciate moment-to-moment interaction. About 10% are cunts/assholes/psychopaths/etc.

Or maybe I'm an asshole 10% of the time


it allows you to send and receive censorship-resistant *currency*, not money


why? does he need more fiat?


Germany

for the environment


Live free or die


this goes double for "public" criminals


I can't agree


sounds like a learning experience


What's the difference between currency and money?


I've been watching some videos about minimalism and want to share my own minimalist wardrobe.

All the clothes I own:

Dress:
Leather shoes, tailored wool/poly suit, tailored cotton shirt, leather belt, 2x pair cotton socks

Summer:
Cotton shorts, linen shirt, hemp/rubber zero-drop sandals

General purpose:
Merino wool polo, cotton jeans, merino wool boxers

Cold:
Merino wool sweatervest, merino wool long-sleeve shirt, merino wool/synthetic blend waterproof socks, cashmere beanie, merino wool gloves

Very cold:
Polyester/down-feather great-coat, army surplus leather boots, army surplus woolen socks

Sport:
Cotton swim trunks, polyester hi-vis vest, polyester hi-vis hat

23 total items for 4+ seasons.

The heavy lifting is definitely being done here by Merino wool under-layers which are antibacterial and thus only need occasional washing. I am a HUGE fan of Merino wool and consider it a super-material that helps me stay warm or cool as needed. The cotton & denim outer layers are similarly resilient.

#minimalism #malefashion #clothestr


Evolution takes many thousands of years, except when it takes 40 years

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/mutant-wolves-chernobyl-appear-be-resistant-cancer

Punctuated equilibrium is derided by creation/ID types but I think it makes sense - animals adapt to a set of circumstances, and when circumstances change more rapidly, animals evolve more rapidly (or go extinct)


I'm not a bitcoiner.

But I also am not afraid of CBDC because I know socialism doesn't work.


I don't know who that woman is


How do you notarize something on the blockchain without op_return?


it's a good thing and it's my fault? you are welcome


real leftism has never been tried


cryptographically brilliant, economically illiterate


Bitcoin is a beautiful narrative about freedom, resistance, secret tech geniuses, and the salvation of the world.

The truth (that there are no such things as Bitcoins) does not replicate the political/religious feeling of the Bitcoin narrative.


Imagine if the government could just ban consumption of substances they dislike without a constitutional amendment

that would be crazy


What is the difference between currency and money?


OP_Return is not in the whitepaper but was added years later in 2014.

Would you say that Bitcoin was economically illiterate when it was created but they fixed it by adding this extra message thing? which Bitcoiners argue is irresponsible to actually use...

However, op_return messages burn bitcoin, which means if everyone (eventually) converts all their bitcoin to op_return messages, there will be no more incentive for everyone to keep duplicating/validating these records and they will become insecure.


Assuming they're starting with high-fat ground beef (70/30, which is typially what the cheap ground beef is) and cook out the water, the resulting product is basically pemmican (which is known to last effectively forever)


Sonic is a monarchist

porcupines are herbivorous rodents while hedgehogs are omnivorous shrews


reward tokens insufficiently profitable to calculate implies that for calculation to happen fees must go up

I don't think a backlog of transactions can incentivize more calculation except by bidding up the fees... isn't there a limit to how many new transactions a single block can contain?


Do you also enjoy eating the menu rather than the food?


Gold fixes this


From what I read it's based on government reports of the toxicology

Most likely outcome is the judge orders EPA to produce new reports


rip


the difficulty adjustment takes time... that was part of my argument... if calculation activity drops the blocks take longer to calculate and the difficulty adjustment takes longer to occur

If discovery of new tokens is slightly unprofitable, transaction fees will take up the slack and difficulty will adjust over time. If discovery is tremendously unprofitable it can exceed the tolerance for users to pay the higher transaction fees.


Owning a Bitcoin doesn't tell me anything I didn't already know


Contrast our monetary determinism earlier in this conversation


bro relax your grip


Aren't there multiple forks with nonzero fiat price?

Is there a limit to the number of forks you can make?


I was reading about human synthesis of arachidonic acid (the main omega-6 we need, which is found in only trace amounts in plants).

I found this article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6052662/

Which says in the absract "Inappropriate fatty acids consumption from the omega-6 and omega-3 families is the major cause of chronic diseases as cancer, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes."

I looked for a further source and didn't find a clear reference (the claim seems only to be in the abstract and doesn't have a footnote).

Apparently the authors are 3 Egyptians and the paper was peer-reviewed by Cairo University. So possibly this is substandard research, but overall it looks fine to me. It's just shocking/interesting to see such a bold claim in the scientific literature on the topic of seed oil toxicity.


How much does zero cost?

The problem with Bitcoins is not the scarcity - I think they are even more scarce than you do :)

The problem is demand - why should anyone want these digital ledger units? Only because other people do... and why do those other people want them?


I think Bitcoins are worthless, and therefore can't go on gaining "value" forever, and therefore won't. So how does it end?

One possibility: If there's a rapid decline in Bitcoin's fiat price relative to electricity and computer equipment, this state of affairs reduces profit for calculating the next token. Obviously this will drive transaction costs up to compensate, but if the price spike is large enough we should see a decreased volume of transactions. This can lengthen the time needed to reach the next difficulty adjustment, prolonging the state of computational scarcity. If people sell in an attempt to get whatever value they can out of the tokens, this would likely further suppres the price, drive up transaction cost, and lead to a death spiral.

Another possibility: The value of Bitcoin drops below the point at which the maximum target / minimum difficulty is profitable, driving up transaction costs, possibly to prohibitively high levels.


To elaborate on the Yarvin point: he doesn't understand the difference between saving and investment


Also thanks for the zip but you didn't answer my question

What IS a sat?


I think military determinism is a good analogy for monetary determinism, but I don't agree that you've understood monetary determinism.

With electronic exchange, we can use anything as a unit of account and claims on that anything as a medium of exchange. There's no reason we couldn't resolve electronic transactions in oil futures, or Bitcoin ETFs, or Bitcoin, or Gold ETFs, or AAPL shares. Those all work perfectly well as digital instruments. They're all countable and have a fiat price.

In a world of efficient electronic transactions and trustworthy digital claims on real resources, the question of money comes down (in my view) to durability. If I'm going to hold a physical asset, what rots least? And there the answer is gold, for purely electrochemical reasons.

In a world of inefficient electronic transactions and untrustworthy digital claims on real resources, the question of what to use for electronic transactions comes down (IMO) to trustworthiness. And here Bitcoin is much better than fiat. I've repeatedly observed that Bitcoin looks quite sane when compared to fiat.

I am very much influenced in my thinking on money by the Austrians (especially Menger) and Yarvin (who in economics is a pseudo-Austrian). See: https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/archive/john_law_safehaven Basically, I think Yarvin is right to claim intertemporal difference (the fact that I am given resources by my employer this Friday but I would like to buy chicken tendies next week, or 50 years from now when I retire) as the main driver in the selection of money/currency. Unlike Yarvin I deny the primacy of relative interest rates (because you can borrow any asset and sell it in whatever is the going currency).

I strongly disagree that Bitcoin is inherently deflationary. I think the rate of supply growth is decreasing (well, to the extent that we pretend supply is nonzero). But that's still inflationary. More units are being added to the "money" supply, which is inflating with every block mined. If you're referring instead to the fiat price, keep in mind that the decreasing reward sizes (and lost wallets) reduce the supply of available Bitcoins, not the demand. Price is the product of both.

I think eventually we will either see Bitcoin "mining" become uneconomic and the chain is abandoned, or we will see fiat collapse and in the rubble people will prefer something tangible and indisputably valuable rather than a speculative digital asset.

Also, I'd just like to mention again how much I hate the psyop-ness of all the bitcoin terms. These aren't coins, you're not mining, stop using pictures of gold coins with a B on them, and get off my lawn.


Dollar-denomination is meaningless in stocks and evaporating in bonds. If I own an own field, who cares whether you count its value in dollars, gold or bitcoins?

What is a "sat"?


when you're about to drop the biggest egg of your life


"we" killed the king but not the crown


condolences


That flag isn't a country

It means 'I live in a big city and drink the fluoridated water'


Bitcoins don't exist

You're trading ledger claims to nothing


It looks ZOG to me


she looks like a carnivorous plant / rogue from Xmen

sucking the life out of him so she can burst into bloom

typical woman


Govt won't let them broadcast FM unless they also broadcast AM?

wtf


If by succeed you mean "de-monetize gold" (so that gold is no longer hoarded as a monetary asset) or "permanently become the world's money", I would give BTC 0%


I think open borders requires freedom of association, the lack of a welfare state, and common law (including the criminal part of common law, where if you go around assaulting people you get hanged or shot)


Boring.

iirc Col Douglas Macgregor made the same historical point in a way that is more convincing to Americans: Crimea has been part of Russia longer than USA has been a country.

The ideas that elected officials don't really run Western governments or that Western "leaders" rarely live up to their international promises is (to me at least) well-known.

But if you're "that guy who just started paying attention" (eg Tucker Carlson) there were some points worth pondering.


Krugman's claim was that the internet would have no more impact than the fax machine


Sure, yeah, the thrust of my argument is we (again, not me) should just take an open source protocol that works well and use it


My 2c on DMs is that we (not me) should build an XMPP registry that is of the form [npub]@website, and you have to have the corresponding nsec to claim an address

Then just use XMPP for instant comms


I'm sitting here distilling my own water because the tap water is contaminated

I'm hanging up a towel to dry because it came out of the drying machine still damp

I haven't used my dishwasher in over 2 years because it doesn't clean my dishes

I don't use a cell phone anymore because of surveillance (also it's just gaming my attention)

I am so excited for Washington DC to implode (or explode). Get me out of this fake and gay dystopia


neopeasantry - when you can buy a dishwasher, but it doesn't actually clean your dishes


All true, and yet it is still injurious to the scientific process to fine them One Million Dollars for saying those "not nice" things about a purported scientist


he couldn't afford the characters


I don't really use a phone anymore, but from what I recall there can be multiple root-looking directories

Audio should be in one of them


Shepherd at night, sailor's delight


silencing critics is "a good day for science"

tells you a lot about the kind of science he's doing


Right now German beef is about 40% more expensive than Australian (USD 26.84 vs USD 15.58)

There is a similar gap in light fuel (gasoline/petrol), with Germany at 1.87USD/L and Australia at 1.14 USD/L

So the average German is worse off than the average Australian (at least in terms of these two goods)


I prefer to abstract out money
How many hours (or fractions thereof) does a common person need to work for a kilo of red meat?
How many hours for a liter of fuel?

Those two metrics pretty much tell the story IMO

Shelter is obviously a major expense but the quality/size can vary widely


Red sky at night, sailors' delight.
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning.


It's pronounced like Kaiser

So maybe Julius Geysers would be better?


it asks me to create an account / login which I'm not interested in doing

provide a screenshot or something


(To be clear, the Holocaust is fake and Nazis were still socialist scumbags.)


Alternate text, both versions: I just want the jews to leave my people alone


some popular filtration mechanisms are not good at removing flouride

to get 99%+ I think you need deionizing filtration (in which the water passes between electrically charged membranes) or distillation (in which the water is vaporized and then condensed)


amen

I'll do zero pushups every day until it hits zero


I do not but I'm curious about this project


not really cucked, just boring


Tucker/Putin interview boring


don't be a cuck

https://rumble.com/v1zwcwm-fgc9-mkii-fully-functional.html


here we go, independent site VOD version

https://rumble.com/v4c9a1i-exclusive-tucker-carlson-interviews-vladimir-putin.html


sell yo kids sell yo wife


Wouldn't you rather be the DVD dick?

-Goes in way more boxes
-The boxes are much tighter
-Gets action for years rather than weeks


I think burning a Texas flag is much more shocking than burning a Union flag


If Bitcoiners think Peter Schiff is just wrong, why are they (you) so sensitive about it?

He says (in essence) that Bitcoin is just nothing, it's numbers made up out of thin air and there's no physical use for it. I think that's obviously correct. The Bitcoin whitepaper defines "a bitcoin" as a digital signature. This of course can be copied infinitely. In fact, Bitcoiners often encourage each other (and neophytes) to copy the entire blockchain (ie run a node). So the scarce thing isn't the technology or the bitcoins but just a ledger record.

You can deny the obvious (that Bitcoins are just made up) or you can try to make the case that these made-up things are so wonderful and useful that they have value despite being made up nothings.

The problem, from my point of view, with the latter approach is that it's circular. If there was some use for these numbers, or if people had some good reason to value them, it would be great to be able to securely and (relatively) cheaply transfer these valuable things around. That would be awesome. But that capacity only has value if the "coins" somehow have value already. It can't give them value they otherwise wouldn't have. Why not? If Bitcoins didn't have any value, transacting in them securely would not constitute a payment system or a money or a valuable service.

I observe that Bitcoins do enjoy a fiat price at the moment. So clearly some subset of people are willing to forego/provide other assets to acquire them. However, this was also true of Enron stock at one time.


circumcised and dies a virgin


if you really want overpriced synthetic fuel ammonia is where it's at


https://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview/

https://rumble.com/v4c98yf-tucker-carlson-x-vladimir-putin-interview.html


not up on rumble or odysee yet (except for RT's spanish-language stream on Od)


I identify as post-lobotomy Jack Nicholson


An important trend in kitchen equipment has been the rejection and replacement of disposable pans with a non-stick coating.

Most commonly, these pans are made of a cheap, high-conductivity low-thermal-mass material, especially aluminium. This material is sprayed with a plastic/teflon/PTFE or ceramic coating. These coatings introduce the possiblity of food contamination. Additionally, because these coatings expand and contract with changes in heat relative to the underlying metal, they gradually break away from the pan and the entire pan must be discarded.

In response to this, there has been renewed interest in cast iron and carbon steel, which can form a non-stick coating aka "seasoning" which can be renewed by the home cook with any cooking fat.

However iron/carbon pans suffer from poor heat conduction and weakness to acid, which can dissolve the seasoning.

I hypothesize that a copper pan with a gold electroplated surface might provide a durable, non-stick coating. The main cause of sticking is proteins binding to the pan's metal surface under heat. This is unlikely with gold due to its extreme "noble" (chemically inert) nature. While copper is sensitive to acids (the chief culprit in reacting to iron/carbon seasoning), a sufficiently thick gold coating (eg 10 microns) should eliminate this problem.

Such a pan could probably sell around the $500 price point (this is competitive with current copper pans which require heavy maintenance, such as re-lining the cooking surface periodically with tin).

The downsides that occur to me are 1) the cost (which is mostly due to shaping the materials rather than the metal itself, since little gold is needed) 2) the softness of the gold surface which rules out steel utensils and 3) the low thermal mass, making iron/carbon superior for searing meats.

The upsides are 1) durability, especially compared to coating-based non-stick pans 2) acid resistance, especially compared to iron/carbon pans 3) thermal conductivity, especially compared to iron/carbon pans.

If my hypothesis is correct and the gold surface is indeed non-stick, this would be the ideal pan for cooking eggs, especially in acidic preparations like chilaquiles or shakshuka.


sudo stop surveilling me


What is a bitcoin?


you mean the currency lower :)


without taxes, who would accept green bits of linen as having any special value?


Gold
https://image.nostr.build/847e2494ca7f84452d50dd8edcda8aa021bac6bc24a60cd2c765a5a4dbaf3577.jpg


stretching skin to cover PP after amputated by crypto-jew doctors (mostly in USA and Korea where such things are common)


It feels much the same to me. Is it possible the issue is related to who you follow?


Except Hamilton. Fuck Hamilton.


can you watch porn on those?


bone broth


"oh no my cell phone"


I think it is indeed likely that modern States will perish, but you can't dis-invent the joint stock company. Anarcho-capitalism is far more likely than feudalism with F16s.


"Carlson was the longest-serving director in Voice of America's 50-year history."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Carlson

As to Tucker, I think he drank the Statist kool-aid in his early life. He claims to have had an awakening around the time of Iraq War 2, which I do believe, but I don't know how thoroughly he has disabused himself of his former notions.

Overall I think Tucker is "that guy who just started paying attention" meme. But I also think he is pretty honest and brave, which goes a long way in storytelling.


hey now

sometimes you can vote for negros or sexual deviants also


to protect pedophiles and murderers


it's like that except some obscure interest rate derivative gains 0.1% in an hour and all 3 go bankrupt


"As announced on March 15, 2020, the [Federal Reserve] Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020.  This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions."

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm


soundtrack to 1992 Disney's Aladdin


Yes. If you can't get yield higher than inflation go chill in commodities (especially gold) and wait for everything to blow over.


sorry bro keep showing off your upper body strength


Somebody has to remember what it means to care for your country

Too bad it's a bunch of unreformed Hitler-lovers but still


dollar will go down, then number go up


authoritarianism


so... yes?


why would you go to the gym to do pushups?


We clearly have ambient air, it hasn't floated away into nothingness, you reject the mainstream theory... what is your theory as to why the ambient air hasn't already all floated away?

Do you think "space" has the same sort of air at the same concentration?


https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-24-in-Dual-Materal-Strap-Wrench-with-8-inch-Capacity-H8STRAPWR/300117125

(good for more than just jars)


and he's been right the whole time


What scrap metal do you pull out of fiberglass?


I'm only a gun guy because I'm a liberty guy (also guns are cool)


Yes - it hasn't all drifted into nothingness


progressivism is fascism dressed up as freedom


so ordinary breathing air must be in a container, right? is it?


I blame those things mostly on fiat, and basically agree with you


IMO the big drivers are fiat and government pensions, both of which impoverish the masses of young people


do you posit that ordinary breathing air is in a container?


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/World_Wide_Smartphone_Sales.png

That shown, I think first-mover advantage is a big deal. MySpace and LiveJournal and whatever have been supplanted, but it takes time.

I suspect a centralized gateway/app to nostr that's more normie-friendly (but allows people to migrate their nsec out) would help adoption, but mostly we just have to wait for disillusionment with facebook and especially twitter.


what if the gas isn't in a container?


USA: War on Drugs
ES: War on Thugs


Maybe jealousy evolved for a reason


some thoughts on this image and theme:

we should learn to preserve meat as biltong, jerky and pemmican
we should be able to purify our own water, possibly with a simple method like distillation or ceramic filtration (with minimal industrial dependencies)
we should prefer products which are durable and self-maintaining, like cast iron and wool

I guess TLDR reject modernity, embrace tradition


"advertising"... "feed"... you still suffer from these things?


how cheap is cheap?


Theft, robbery... I think it is more than either.

Taxation claims the fruits of your labor on an ongoing basis and as a right.

Taxation is slavery.


published suddenly

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/mrna-covid-19-vaccines-caused-more-deaths-saved-study


I've been here like a year

These are my people (liberty-lovers, carnivores, skeptics, etc) even if they do want to "stack" magic internet points instead of gold and silver coin


bitcoiners, what is your profession?


look at their hands


My mind is a little blown that this was published

https://youtu.be/unPXNF1kND8?feature=shared


I think it's both, at least for the more intelligent politicians

You're not in power because you're irreplaceable or the most brilliant or whatever, but you still have a degree of agency


is rabbit the only nostr web app that just works?

I've tried several... nostter was promising but it reloads in the middle of scrolling/typing messages and ruins everything


shouldn't it be the other way around? what appear to be voters are actually not citizens at all?


One alternative explanation is that Milei is playing the West/Israelis, gaining their support or at least tacit acceptance without incurring real liabilities to actually help them in return


I don't think Trump, Bolsonaro, Wilders, etc are anti-State

Milei puzzles me far more


i like how this he-man meme and the skeletor meme have the exact same composition


Can't you get a nonKYC SMS?
eg via google voice or jmp.chat


TLDR: bolts were missing


Idea:
Wrap npubs into XMPP addresses for DMs and group chat

Pros:
You get a secure+FOSS chat system which is already widely used and for which tons of clients already exist, many of them FOSS

Cons: ???


To that last point,  💯%

I think everything since the war which is not demonstrable to ordinary people (eg this internet thing seems to really work) is highly suspect. Probably before the war there was some dodgy science too which hasn't been ferreted out but I trust the old process much more strongly than "peer review".


TuckintoaCalzone.com


I have also observed a pattern of queer anger and violence


How would you judge the price in such a circumstance?


His website loads but the interview doesn't seem to be up yet

Probably his Rumble channel will post it as well
https://rumble.com/c/TuckerCarlson


I personally am a ball earther but I believe so many heterodox things (carnivore diet, austrian economics, CO2 is good, race affects IQ and temperament, antivax) and question so many orthodox things about which I am unsure (time relativity, wave-particle duality, water flouridation, viruses) that I have a hard time feeling either anger or superiority towards flat earthers.

I think the angry superiority comes from teacher's pets who never questioned anything and were always rewarded for regurgitating the approved answer to every question. They have yet to see the little man behind the curtain and still believe in the great and powerful wizard of Oz.


Yeah, weird philo-judaism.

In the short run I don't know if it matters. How much does Argentine foreign policy affect the Middle East?

Possibly Milei is intended to discredit libertarian ideas, but there's a risk (to the regime) given that people have to become familiar with the ideas for the discrediting to matter.


sorry


Yes, Lincoln completed the transformation of America from the Articles of Confederation (1781-1789) to the Hamiltonian centralized crony system (modeled after the British system "we" had just seceded from)


it is happening


Adams signed the 1798 Sedition Act into law, making it a crime to criticize the President or the union government.


Is the EU itself collapsing?


Think bigger.
Convincing fake ID is fatal to the State project of classifying and ordering reality by imposing a layer of symbols atop it.


I have no desire to either advance or retard Ben Shapiro's musical career


I suppose people semi-randomly exhibit a range of behavior, and technology determines which of these are most rewarded

I don't think empire is ever really rewarded in the long run or for the bulk of those involved. Most big empires seem to more or less bankrupt themselves (Rome, Britain and USA being examples I know well in which this definitely holds).

Perhaps technology determines the rate at which this happens, and/or the optimal response to conquest. Obviously if you're going to be slaughtered you fight like hell, but if it's a matter of some distant ruler putting your area on "his" portion of the map, maybe you just let it happen.


Maybe it's cardboard efficiency vs manipulating the packed object for shipping efficiency


IMO the issue is not reciprocity but our own conduct

If we eliminate the welfare state (and the level of democracy that makes it possible) and punish violent crime with hanging (as is the American and English tradition) we can have all the immigrants in the world

In short, we must restore common law


HSH Hans-Adam II writes something similar in 'The State in the Third Millenium'

He argues that the size of States is determined by the relative effectiveness of offensive/maneuver military technology vs defensive/attrition technology. When offensive technology is stronger, vast empires can be conquered quickly and territory tends to aggregate into very large states. When defensive technology is stronger, empires stagnate and break apart over time.

In my opinion, industrial technology has pushed things towards attrition. I view the US "Civil" War, WW1, Eastern WW2, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Ukraine, etc as examples of this. I view late Western WW2 and Iraq (1&2) as counter-examples, in which emerging technology (tanks and planes) or simply order-of-magnitude technological and industrial superiority allowed one side to streamroll the other. However, Stingers and Javelins are dramatically cheaper and require less training than aircraft and tanks. Consequently, I view modern conflict between industrially-capable powers as likely to look a lot more like Ukraine than Iraq War 2.

I also view USA as building up a technological and industrial lead over the rest of the world during its liberal (as in liberty) period, but conquering the world on the back of this strength. This is in contrast to Britain, which built a a technological and industrial lead and conquered the world while still fairly liberal. This has led to (most) USA subsidiary states looking pretty undeveloped (see Haiti) while most UK subsidiary states have developed much more impressively (see Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, etc). Admittedly Japan and Germany were remade by America but they were already among the most developed countries in the world and don't seem to be doing so well now. In the long run, however, I believe liberty will lead to technological and industrial prowess, and therefore "conquer" the world.


good, we're still in an ice age (there's ice at the poles, look it up)


whistleblowing in favor of the powerful is not whistleblowing, it's propaganda


John Cage is such a stupid bullshitter he must be CIA (or backed by them)


"The Israelis are giving Palestinian children explosives that look like canned food"

Fact check: FALSE the containers are just detonators with a small explosive.

https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/experts-dismiss-exploding-cans-claim/

But... are Israelis giving them to Palestinian children? And aren't they still explosive?


Supposedly it's Eye of Providence which normies are supposed to interpret as Jesus watching over us

But it smells pretty Masonic to me


Like some sort of silly string?


Less Force stranglings?

What are you, some sort of antijedite?


I've been filling water from a fancy machine at the local grocery.

I'm now in the process of switching to distilled, which is probably a little higher operating cost than a good filtration system but will give me very pure water with the only dependencies being some source of water and some source of heat. If I really need to I can distill over a wood fire.


Imagine just walking onto the stage like a filthy peasant


Long live the King's cancer cells


Or Bitcoin is just a scam

Bitcoin is fiat with more fair rules
But still fiat - a meaningless trade token


Lots of Mises Institute folks are (mistakenly) supportive of Bitcoin

Bitcoins are not a material

They are an accounting fiction only


If it's about record-keeping, why do I need 1BTC? Doesn't 0.1BTC keep the record just as perfectly?


many such cases


"Trans women are women" only makes sense if you don't really believe it, as Matt Walsh's "What is a Woman?" shows. Why do the trannies wear long hair and dresses? What does that have to do using the sound "wuh-man" to describe yourself, if being female has nothing to do with it?

It's the same with fiat "money".

The Hegellians take some phenomenon and redefine it to include other things which sort of look like the original thing. This makes the definition meaningless (what is a dollar? a piece of paper? why should I work all day for them? everyone else does... really? why?) but relies on people implicitly using the old definition.


What do you mean by mediterranean diet?


sic semper tyrannis


"Marriage never meant reproductive union"
or
"Marriage is a solemnization of a relationship between two people in a society for the purpose of raising a child"
or
"Equally you should probably be saying that straight people shouldn't be allowed to get married if they're not going to have babies"

Pick one. If the purpose is to raise children then I'm not the one saying otherwise sexually normal people who don't want kids shouldn't get married - you are. If the purpose is to raise children then in fact it is a reproductive union after all. This in fact is the big issue with gay marriage - once you take away procreation there is no longer a purpose for the institution of marriage, which you yourself implicitly admit when you say the purpose is to raise children.

Also it's hilarious that you would reference history across all human cultures, in which sodomy has almost never been recognized as marriage.

The infertile couples thing is a canard. Male and female are in principle capable of producing a child, although this may be disrupted by disease or malformity. Sodomites are in principle never capable of producing a child.

It's like saying you should be just as open to eating toxic waste as nutritious food because the nutritious food might sometimes be contaminated. It is possible that you do the right thing and get a bad result - but this does not mean the right thing and the wrong thing are therefore the same.


Saigu - the Korean-American word for the 1992 LA Riots following the acquittal in the Rodney King beating

Saigu means you could be (and they were) made the scapegoats and victims of an angry mob you had nothing to do with. It means you could be (and they were) abandoned by law enforcement. It means freedom isn't automatic or invincible.

Most of all, Saigu means (as Thomas Jefferson said) - the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.


Supposedly these are healthy because we need omega-6 (which is true but not the whole story)

From Wiki on Arachidonic acid:
"Arachidonic acid is not one of the essential fatty acids. However, it does become essential if a deficiency in linoleic acid exists or if an inability to convert linoleic acid to arachidonic acid occurs. Some mammals lack the ability or have a very limited capacity to convert linoleic acid to arachidonic acid, making it an essential part of their diets. (As linoleic acid consumption does not seem to affect levels of arachidonic acid in plasma/serum or erythrocytes, it is uncertain if humans can in fact convert linoleic acid to arachidonic acid.[7]) As little or no arachidonic acid is found in common plants, these mammal species are "obligate carnivores"; i.e. they must consume meat to survive."

In other words, there is zero evidence that humans are able to metabolize the most common omega-6 fat in seed oils (and many other plant "foods").

In contrast, animal foods contain arachidonic acid directly which is the omega-6 fat we know we need and we know we can metabolize.


I did some cell-phone prepping today.

I have an old cell phone that lives in a faraday bag and only comes out for navigation and emergencies.

I already have apps for things like car accidents / police interactions: an audio recorder, a note-taking app, a camera app, etc.

I updated my local (saved) map, then I went looking for  ways to maximally use the sensors in the phone.

The phone can receive FM Radio, so I made sure I understood how that worked with the idea that in a local emergency probably there would be some useful broadcast information.

I tried to find a shortwave or AM tuner, but I couldn't find anything that works without an external antenna. I did find an app (RepeaterBook) that gives coordinates of nearby shortwave repeaters without requiring a cell/internet connection.

I found an app (Trail Sense) that uses the phone's magnetic sensors to provide a compass, which I think may be useful if GPS goes down.

Ideally the full suite of your phone's non-networked features would simply be available in the OS, but this seems generally not to be the case.


Fiat economists point to stuff like this and say "you don't know about inflation"

And the truth is, most people don't know about inflation. They don't know why they should just accept that their "money" is worth less and less every year. They don't know that this is a deliberate plot to enrich the banksters who control the system.


Curtis Yarvin / Mencius Moldbug describes a 'natural pattern' of authority

I can't find the source article at the moment so I'm paraphrasing

But basically as I understand it, he claims that a tribalistic, local-strongman-slash-elder model of authority is always tending to re-emerge.

I don't necessarily agree on the specifics of what the natural order is, but I think the breakdown of fiat and breakup of mega-states will allow other forms of order to flourish


Me, an intellectual: I drive a Toyota and don't post selfies anywhere


Marriage used to mean reproductive union

Now it means reproductive union or monogamous adult sodomy

But why should it stop there? If "we" can redefine marriage what is the rationale for including monogamous adult sodomy but not polygamous adult sodomy? Or child sodomy?

TLDR: The slope was slippery after all


The control is part of the issue - the idea is not to clear out one parcel of land but to re-shape the entire forest

Elephants do something similar by digging up and eating the roots of small trees, killing them. This is one way that woodland savannas are created/maintained


If I was cultivating wilderness I'd burn it every year


"leader" is such a 20th-century concept


My problem is just the opposite - the State does not exist.

There is no institution which turns wrong into right, inefficient into efficient, or slavery into freedom.


I think fire is the missing ingredient in modern land management.

Our ancient African ancestors used fire to maintain savannahs with partial tree cover. Native Americans used fire to maintain savannah-like forest conditions, with a passable forest floor suitable for hunting.

Unlike both of these primitive human groups, modern humans build wooden permanent structures in forested areas, then suppress fires. This results in an accumulation of fuel that eventually exceeds our ability to suppress the fire. This not only leads to destruction of human structures, but to destruction of the large trees that would have survived regular small fires.

Consequently we go from overgrown tangles to re-colonization of bare ground, with little time in the human-ideal version of the land.


what is timechain


Enjoy all the extra fiat


This is another reason why I am hopeful about Milei's movement in Argentina. If a substantial fraction of the Spanish-speaking world becomes aware of libertarian ideas, the DNC/globalist/etc forces will crumble (at least in the Americas)


Black spray paint


If you do buy Federal Reserve Notes, it's best to get Nickels and keep them in cold storage. Nickels inherently hedge against inflation (melt value already over 5c) deflation (due to face value) revaluation (small coins often exempt and thus appreciate) and currency collapse (can be used in barter).


It's easier to train a smart dog
Especially when that dog being smart has been equated with agreeing with "experts" its entire life


Theft doesn't quite sum it up.

Yes, taxation involves taking the fruits of someone else's labor, but it's not done by subterfuge or only once. Instead, force is used to compel the victim to submit the fruits of their labor again and again, and this use of force is claimed as a right.

Taxation is slavery.


heh

but I think the scale is: "we know how they did it" to "we have no clue how they did it"


Cicero's writings are excellent


Gross Personal Information Warning

We hear a lot about how initial adaptation to carnivore diet results in powerful diarrhea.

But I think the poop situation after becoming adapted is one of the greatest aspects of the diet.

Prior to carnivore, I was used to large, uncomfortable-to-painful poops that left tacky, clay-like poop reside on my ass. I used to go through dozens of sheets of toilet paper just for a single poop.

Now I have one or a few small poops that pass painlessly. They seem to be coated in some sort of mucus or slime that leaves very little residue on my ass and can easily be wiped clean with 1-2 sheets of toilet paper. I go to the bathroom much faster (which I guess is a downside in a way) and rolls of toilet paper last months rather than days or weeks.

Truly a pooper's paradise.

#poopstr #carnivore #meat


Also lots of younger Bs are just straights who don't want to be evil white straight people


I use the term "gay" for all sort of sexual deviants, because that is the euphemism they chose

In my own mind I tend to stick to "faggot"


I think there's not that much difference between ancaps / radical libertarians and commies

It basically comes down to whether you understand economics


I said queer rather than gay

Gay acceptance relied on re-defining sex (to include sodomy) and re-defining marriage (to de-emphasize reproductive union). So I think "gay" is disastrous and anti-truth.

But queer is an extension and intensification of that. Queer is a political identity, defined by opposition to "normality".


I think he is a (sometimes) useful idiot of the bad guys rather than malicious

I see him occasionally say things that I think he would not say if he were an establishment goon

Example: https://youtu.be/x9kW-OUElfM?feature=shared
He explains that regime lies are often aggressive and completely opposite to the truth, as opposed to "normal" lies where the liar tries to approximate the truth


Queer is communist BS to begin with


Reminds me of this, in which Tucker Carlson and Bret Weinstein angrily demand the US government biometrically scan all the incoming illegals

https://youtu.be/wOxksFHAHRU?feature=shared


Efficiency of transport (in roughly order-of-magnitude steps):
Water
Rail
Road
Air


"The four kingdoms motif appears throughout the Jewish writings of the Second Temple period and is commonly used to anticipate the end of earthly empires and their replacement by a divine kingdom."

The divine kingdom ruled of course by God's Chosen People


I agree

but I think it is healthy and inevitable for people to question everything that mainstream sources have taught, including very "obvious" things

On the other hand, flat eart might be a psyop to discredit such questioning

*shrug*


You did not. You asserted it.

How much value does 1 Bitcoin store?


Surprise!
It turns out the racist religion all about being God's Chosen People who get to conquer the world makes its followers racist


I think the point is it's not round


Obviously this is psyop to deal with fiat impoverishment

But I agree - spend your life doing things you care about and don't expect idle pleasures in retirement to give you meaning


Watermelons - green outside, red inside

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-recognizes-gorbachev-for-environmental-efforts/a-6178290


I find night shift extremely effective

Caveats:
1) I use ChromeOS personally and Windows for work, so maybe there's some deficiency in the Apple version
2) I don't have night mode set to a schedule and keep it maximally red regardless of time/location/etc
3) I have red LED night lights in my home so I need little or no artificial white/yellow light after dark

Results:
I get tired shortly after the sun goes down, which I wasn't doing before. I feel much less eye fatique despite looking at screens for many hours.


You think they let him into the Oval Office except for photo opportunities?


I am a great fan but I think almost everything in Rothbard can be found in some combination in Gustave de Molinari (the first anarcho-capitalist), Robert Nozick, Ayn Rand, Frederic Bastiat, Franz Oppenheimer, Joseph Schumpeter, John Locke and Ludwig von Mises.

Rothbard is is consistently pro-liberty and doesn't shy away from radical/extreme conclusions that come from seemingly-solid premises.


Bach
Bismarck
Nietzsche
Fritz Haber


All of your arguments are assuming that Bitcoin is already "money" and remains "money"

But why should that be the case?


What value is Bitcoin storing?


Why would Person B want the money?

Person B wants food, shelter, companionship, amusement, etc. What does he want "money" for?

(Money in quotation marks because we are imagining it is some intrinsically useless trade token such as fiat or Bitcoin, not commodity money)


Why would such an object have trading power? Why would the next guy along want it?


Both arguments economically illiterate

Zeihan is wrong in the way Ammous points out (also Zeihan mixes up inflation and deflation)

Ammous is incoherent - if there is no use for money besides trade there is no reason to trade for it in the first place


I consider Aristotle to be the bedrock of the Western traditions of logic, natural science, and individual liberty. I would put in his debt virtually every comprehensible Western philosopher, in particular St. Thomas Aquinas, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ayn Rand.

In contrast I consider Plato to be the origin of much evil and confusion. I am similarly critical of many Plato-aligned thinkers such as Immanuel Kant and Karl Marx.

Outside of the West, I think Daoism is generally the most insightful philosophic/religious movement, so I would have to praise highly Lao Tzu (if there was such a man) and Zuangzhi.


Fun fact: honeybees have been observed to carry a rock for ballast in high winds


That was all we had to do to get free of the Jews?
Just block off their pedo tunnels?


Is he accused of murdering a specific person?
Or just "the Jews" in general?


you must be the fractional reserve banking you wish to see in the world


It doesn't matter if you're black, brown, yellow, hindu, muslim, jew, gay or normal

We're all getting ripped off by the same people


Why would I hate them?
Do you hate all circus clowns?


I've got a small backpack that has a phone-sized pouch on the front strap

It is convenient


Male speculation:
They want sugar-coated bullshit, but they want you to be able to say it with a straight face, which means either you're deluded into believing it or you're a total psychopath (preferably the former)


I guess we know who won


mBridge is a BIS program to support CBDC-to-CBDC transactions

This is a milestone but perhaps an ominous one


This whole time I thought you were real


"The State is that great fiction by which everyone attempts to live at the expense of everyone else"

And securing special business privileges (eg Federal Reserve) is no exception


Lovely lovely Ludwig Von


what's in the jpeg


The US Dollar is fake and gay

The Federal Reserve balances are just computer entries made up by the Fed.

Ordinary bank balances are just computer entries made up by the bank.

Federal Reserve Notes are supposed to be redeemed in "lawful money" "on demand" (12USC411) but they just refuse which is a felony (18USC334) that seemingly only the FBI can enforce - and they don't.

The part-dollar coins are cupronickel faces on a copper slug.

The penny is copper plating on a zinc slug.

The nickels are real (real cupronickel) which is a fake version of the half-dime.

Conversely, the real money (minted gold and silver coins) has a deliberately under-stated face value so you can't really use that within the fiat system either.

The system is not merely fake in some critical detail, every single aspect of the system is an illusion.


It's a tough job riding a private jet around to luxury hotels, but some child rapist has to do it.


The Fed boys hacked a bunch of Americans outdated gear but "for good this time, we promise"


nostr is doing our part to turn the internet back into techno-babble


turning off watch history disables the algo feed

Video Encyclopedia >>> Internet Television


Yes and no

Thermodynamics is accurate

But if you try to reduce calories by eating non-nutritious garbage, just less of it, your body reacts to the lack of nutrients by making you tired and hungry (suppressing calories out and boosting calories in)

A fat person has months of calories under their skin. So why are they hungry?


I grew up in USA, very fat since I was a little kid

In college I tried to exercise to lose weight, swimming laps for several hours per week. Over the course of several months I lost less than 10% of my body weight then regained it

A couple years ago I dramatically changed my diet and lost 40% of my body weight with very little exercise or willpower


In my opinion, Austin is worse thanks to lefty Californians but Texas overall is better thanks to conservatives fleeing the Left Coast

From what I understand Colorado was a pretty moderate state 20 years ago, and the lefties took over on the back of zillionaire money targeting local elections, rather than migration; however it may be a chicken-and-egg thing as a moderate state can easily tip one way and then start attracting migration towards that ideology.


it's happening


when the moon hits your eye like a lil froggy guy


Richard Nixon mask


It turns out you can just buy rubber stamps

https://image.nostr.build/8fdbcf4dc5f7f4b97eabb9c233dac8c647cc3861d69fb16f7860b2e71527d6f1.jpg


We have to go to war in Jordan. It's the only way to prevent war.


The bandit is honest about the source of his "authority"


The State is a false god.


I wonder if it's possible to use (hack) OnStar to remotely shut down police cars..?


Remember when the US government took over General Motors during the last financial crash? I bet that could never have any negative consequences


Amen


Altruism is a form of self-loathing IMO

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-highest-moral-allocation-by-ideology-Study-3a-Source-data-are_fig6_336076674


Are all Jesuits heretics?


I was just thinking of war (despite your initial question)

IMO the most calamitous US election was 1896, in which the conservative, free trade party (Democrats) was taken over and we haven't really had a proper conservative party ever since (although of course the GOP is closer to it than modern Dems)


There's also just fiat poverty offset by more members of the household working


I like cats but I prefer dogs

Cats tolerate human presence in exchange for food. Dogs are actually social


run-in

It sounds like they beat him up and took his lunch money


Technology regressed over 50 years, which happens all the time


It's the Russian name for WW2

And yes, I would count colonies vs crown & dixie vs yankees as American wars of secession, although I suppose there's an argument to make for Texian secession being largely American as well


2nd American War of Secession

The Great Patriotic War


Fuck the bluecoats


How to handle US currency, a lesson in fiat economics:

If the serial number of a banknote is unusually patterned, it may sell as a collectible. Otherwise spend it.

Save pre-1965 silver part-dollars but spend the modern cupronickel imitations.

Save all nickels.

Save pre-1982 pennies but spend modern zinc imitations.

What a nightmare basic currency handling is in such a system. Thank goodness for nickels, although those will probably be fake and gay before too long as well.


Looks like 5 so far, all in Utah

I agree, I hope the goldback-using communities spread
Especially as the Federal Reserve Note defaults (again)


unlike automobiles whose carbon comes from a distant star system


looking quite liturgical


Folks
Humans
Countrypeople

Lend me your earbuds


When have we ever had a peace-time president?


Does your enclosure have a policy against you adding your own enrichment?


yes but it's about to be called c-ouch


I can neither confirm nor deny that mRNA shots are bioweapons.


Many human cattle have ALWAYS given blood, the DEI training from Literal Vampires said


1) Fear
then to reduce fear by creating a "safe" environment,
2) Petty Authoritarianism
then to resolve the cognitive dissonance of Petty Authoritarianism and wanting to be a good person who always fights for truth and sweetness,
3) Re-framing
or to be less kind, gaslighting.


ah yes, the infamous 3 girls 1 cup


The State has a precious metal repository and legislation to issue a gold-back digital currency narrowly failed last session


Take a deep breath. Exhale.
You just added carbon to the atmosphere.


As soon as you're old enough to understand the safety procedures


https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231228-app-01-00-en.pdf

whole thing is worth reading if you're interested in the conflict, but the quotations from top Israelis start on page 59


Did you read the ZA brief? Some pretty damning quotations from top Israelis


"inspire them"
to... become mothers?


If I was Catholic I would be looking seriously at sedevacantist churches (ie rejecting Vatican 2) if not reconsidering the Great Schism.


ZOG


"shouldn't have to"

Do you have to?


Well you used to be catholic and now you are in the twilight between restoring christianity, embracing paganism, or dying out


electron tubes are hollow (and thus tubes) while wire is not hollow (and is thus not a tube)


Sorry that is already something else: https://www.britannica.com/technology/electron-tube


If you pirate the movie, who does any additional work besides yourself?

It's not like you're kidnapping the actors and forcing them to re-enact everything. The actors are not inside the tiny box. They're off enjoying their lives and won't even know that you made them perform this film an extra time.


Theft is a crime in which the criminal takes something from an injured party who is harmed by deprivation of the stolen property.

In file-sharing, you take something from someone other than the "injured" party and don't deprive anyone of anything.

In what sense is it theft?


#tubestr

https://youtu.be/_cZC67wXUTs?feature=shared


What is digital property?
When exactly did these television actors homestead your computer?


DNS is a phone book for the internet
It turns your url text into a computer number and "calls" that computer number

There are no tubes and pipes, it's more like a big truck


You couldn't do anything about the virus and (perhaps) dare not do anything about the lockdowns. Yelling at people about masks was the easiest way for a lot of people to exert a degree of control that had been lost in their own lives.

I pity these fools who take responsibility for everything except their own behavior.


Why not?

Do you believe that the property rights of others prevent you from configuring the electrons inside your computer in whatever arrangement you might like?


it looks up an IP address


I debated Palpatine vs Bale's Batman for the gravelly voice but decided that one Christian Bale character was enough


Return of the Jedi

When Vader asks Luke to overthrow the Emperor, shouldn't Luke be surprised? I get that Vader is almost a personification of Satan until the big reveal in Empire, so maybe we just sort of take it in stride as another villainous deed.

But the big reveal in Empire as well as the infiltration in Jedi begin to Vader seem more human and more relatable. Also, that seems to be the core narrative purpose of the prequel trilogy.

So why did Vader want to kill Palpatine? Vader is shown to be a pretty ruthless prick in pursuit of his missions, so it seems unlikely he was driven by ethical qualms. Was it pure ambition? Anakin's goal (we are told at length) is to use the dark side of the force to restore his dead family, which presumably is still the carrot Palpatine is dangling in front of him. So how would killing Palpatine and establishing himself as the new, dynastic King of Space help with that? Did he force-sense that Anakin was better at research projects than Palpatine?

Also how much more badass of a series would Star Wars be if Luke really did join Vader? I get that when the series was first created they wanted a more typical triumph, but to have Luke as a future sith apprentice who then later returns to the light side or uses both or whatever would be an interesting, anime-like progression in both depth of character as well as his magical power.


dope


Obviously I see the dark cloud of the digital panopticon

But hopefully there is a silver lining in getting more people to disconnect from digital gunk


Those are just our favorites.

We've got plenty of others, like Suit Man, Suit Woman, lightly toasted Ron Paul, Emperor Palpatine and Patrick Bateman.


Yes


Auctioneer, Anti-communist dictator, Royal food taster, Hero


this meme is loud


Big job


If I had a nickel for every time the USA salvaged its space program by turning it over to reproduction-obsessed geniuses from a recently destroyed white supremacist country, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice.


nostr:npub1xsf5h8suhveztq4u5spq5wwvzftqxmglt6vwllxg8z6zrlpqn4yqrulu9v

What do you make of this Milei character? I enjoy his jibcut.


Thanks, I'm partway through.

I'm hope-filled by regime physicians embarassing themselves during Covid-19 Panic. Perhaps other mistakes will surface.


Yes.
"We" are in for it too.


Were you in one of the areas where they circulate?


Also unironically "inflation good"


"The end of sound money can't be the ultimate cause of all these different things because there are other proximal causes"


I'd marry a 67 GT too


fiat isn't money
it is currency


totalitarianism by imperfect humans is also imperfect

tolerating imperfections is the price of life


If the dollar wins, gold is fine (gold is still a scarce commodity whose price will have something to do with how much it costs to find, extract, refine and fabricate gold objects)

If Bitcoin wins, gold is fine (gold is still a scarce commodity whose price will have something to do with how much it costs to find, extract, refine and fabricate gold objects)

If gold wins, gold is fine (gold is still a scarce commodity...)

But if gold wins, bitcoin will not be fine and the US dollar will not be fine. This is an asymmetric game.


This makes me glad I generate different passwords for each site


thanks for your 2 sats


What money?
Most commercial banks don't have an ounce of the stuff


Yes

But surrendering a tiny part of my collection could be worthwhile if it produces a sufficiently amusing outcome


I agree with you on some points but not others

I don't think everything in western science is baseless, just everything since the war


Scarce things aren't automatically valuable. There are only so many authentic Reichsbanknotes, and while they do enjoy a little bit of value as collectibles it has almost nothing to do with the number of zeroes printed on their face.

If Peter is right and Bitcoin is eventually abandoned perhaps Bitcoin merch will have some nostalgic or educational value, but there will be no advantage to owning 1 BTC rather than 0.1 BTC


Have you ever closed your eyes inside a car or train and not been able to feel the movement of it?
Have you ever woken up inside an airplane and not immediately known whether you were moving or still?

I personally lack the ability to tell whether or not I'm moving via some direct sense and have to rely on looking and listening

I do have a sense of acceleration and deceleration (thanks to tiny hairs inside my ears) but not a sense of objective movement


I'm giving away a COCKBLOCK MAXI


Do you think other space objects also orbit the Earth? For example the moons of Jupiter - do they orbit Jupiter and Jupiter orbits Earth? Or do they orbit Earth directly and just happen to float in the vicinity of Jupiter? Or does Jupiter orbit the sun which orbits earth? How exactly does this work?


the conservative and labour faces are NSFW


so unrealistic
they would never apologize


ball earth makes more sense to me than flat earth

but OK

like, what do you think is underground? lava? and then what? hell?


If a very ridiculous event occurred it might have a very ridiculous outcome


Why would the earth suddenly stop spinning?


Recently someone post a bunch of disturbing-looking passages purportedly from the Talmud

I found most were fake

But religious Jews do think they have a right to conquer others (that gentiles don't have), and that in war/conquest they should eradicate their opponents entirely


Barbie rejects party life for motherhood
Ken is a fuckboy who can't even fuck


real confidence-builder here


"Honor the troops" always means the ones killing innocent people right now, not taking care of those you made kill innocent people 20 years ago


The root problem isn't shareholders exercising their rights, it's pass-through companies like BlackRock exercising the rights of the actual shareholders contrary to the fiduciary interest of those shareholders


more carbon = more life


I think the core issue is fiat
People use real estate as savings
Also the money system suppresses interest rates, which allows people to borrow to bid up the price of long-term assets


That or a useful commodity...


science as a replacement for religion = 99% chance of shitlibbery


they've got my vote


NYT has also called it

Strange to see the establishment calling Iowa as well as New Hampshire both so quickly for Trump

Maybe they realize the fiat system is crashing and want Trump in to take the blame?


after a quick search, USA Today has called it
not sure who else might have


Are we past Bader-Meinhoff and into "there's actually a problem with air travel"?


Hello competency crisis my old friend
I've come to fuck with you again


Would you rather have 1 BTC or 200 GF ?


Things must be desperate indeed for the kind of woman who produces a 1950s-looking child and grandchild to take up arms and hoist the black flag


Only a woman would ask such a question


Doesn't sound virtuous to me


"They" made you believe there is such a thing as government, which is somehow different from all the men who make it up and imbued with greater and grander rights than those men themselves enjoy


Jay walking is not a real crime

It's literally a psyop to blame pedestrians for motorists hitting them (and deflect blame from city planners setting up situations in which motorists are likely to hit pedestrians)


this is so dumb and so funny


What's funny is if you look up the Hanukkah story it's literally making sacred a conquered temple


You still have a phone?


Yes.

Britain became a world empire on the back of English Liberalism, which is to say organizational superiority. The consequence was generally beneficial for the places it "conquered".

USA became a world empire shortly after it abandoned English Liberalism. Instead, USA was powered by the industrial and especially technical superiority it had developed in its liberal period. I believe this has had much worse results than British conquest. USA's "success stories" were the most advanced technical civilizations in the world, Germany and Japan. Everywhere else USA has conquered has been a pathetic failure, such as Afghanistan, the Philippines, Iraq, Vietnam, etc. And even modern Germany and Japan are not looking great.

But, the world has not sat idle for the past 50 years of US decline, driven by bureaucratization and fiat currency. The technical lead has largely disappeared and the industrial capacity does not seem to exceed other large nations.

So I am hopeful that soon the US empire will fragment and the States will return to something like English Liberalism, specifically common law and precious metal coinage.


North American bingo is played on a 5x5 grid


Yes but it's a different version from the Isles


you might be feeding the troll


Orbot connects you to Tor
It's not actually a VPN


If a true prophet says it, does that make it true?


My younger half-brother used to hit me all the time, and my parents basically just told me to ignore it because he was younger / we lived with his father (my stepfather) who seemingly always took his son's side.

As a young adult, I had a broken arm which (due to the location of the break) could not be cast and instead was just sitting in a sling.

My little brother hit me in my broken arm (not particularly hard, but still), so I turned and punched him with my good arm so hard he fell on the floor.

He never hit me again.


"the people have a right to organize themselves according to norms they endorse"

What constitutes endorsing a norm? Can 51% of the population impose a "norm" on 49%?

Does someone need to be appointed in order to justly enforce a norm? Should a non-appointed person be permitted to stop a murderer or a thief?


I desire security services (and the freedom to defend myself and my property directly).

I do not desire a monopoly security provider. Do you? And if so, why?


A monopoly State is inherently rotten at the core

The State is a rejection of common law, subjecting some men to the whims of other codified as "law"

The State is a rejection of property rights in favor of coercive taxation which is in principle unlimited power


IMO there needs to be either kinetic exchange in both directions or a declaration of war


Experts are like Bishops, only other Experts can ordain Experts


Pax Americana or Bust


Vivek is the best-written MAGA character so far


People need ideas, which is all Milei has offered


I think you've swallowed a few too many black pills, and/or didn't bother to listen to the speech which you are critiquing.


Your point is Milei is not legit because if he were why would he have his current position and platform?

My point is that even if Milei is not legit he is saying things that push us in the direction of liberty


If the greatest enemies of individual liberty feel they need to signal-boost individual liberty, that is a massive win

What is so hard to understand about that?


What would you say differently if you hacked the WEF broadcast for 20 minutes?


The origin of the 2% rule is a New Zealand central banker promising to take action if inflation rose above 2%

It wasn't a target, it was a limit

But inflation is the whole purpose of the central bank


Our enemies mouthing libertarian talking points is what winning looks like


With enemies like this, who needs friends?
What would you say differently if you hacked the WEF broadcast for 20 minutes?

I don't know or care what is really in Milei's heart, I care what he says and does. And how exactly does Milei denouncing everything the WEF stands for "rebuild trust" in the WEF? It seems likely to do the opposite.

Suppose Milei is just winning trust for his personal brand so he can backstab the (Argentine) people and implement an even greater intensification of socialism. Wouldn't his current rhetoric make such a move less likely to succeed?


Did you listen to the speech?

And who is a WEF puppet and who is simping for the puppet?


Did you listen to the speech?

Or are you just too black-pilled to take a W?

I don't need Milei to be genuine for this to be a massive win


His last minute or so of remarks he addresses to the business people of the world

He says that Argentina is the "ally" of those who make profit in voluntary exchange, not WEF statists

With enemies like this, who needs friends?


Looks like the court rejected the petition since I heard news of it, so you're right and I was wrong

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12954689/Texas-independence-vote-court-ballot.html


It wasn't up to them, the nationalists have the signatures to force it on the ballot - I believe there are already lawsuits filed


Yes, but it might be foolish for one or both sides


What if my idea is that I get subsidies from the government


Trust level: "Jester"


People like to say Bergoglio ("Pope" Franics) welcoming Marxists and Jews as honored guests is like Jesus eating with the sinners

This is much closer - here is a call to ordered behavior, not merely indulgence


fluoride, seed oils, fiat currency, progressive indoctrination, etc


they're seen as members of Team USA and therefore Team Jew


I tried to get the secret police to arrest me but I didn't have the clearance


Decreased demand for money is inflationary

It's fractional reserve breaking down that leads to vastly increased demand for money that leads to deflation


Rule 1 for ongriders: Don't stick metal bits into the outlet


This only works until people stop assuming it is a genuine attempt to to communicate some underlying message


Dogs don't have souls so when they die it's straight to heck


haha


"N" but no hard "r".
"Nigger" is impolite but if you have occasion you ought pronounce it.


The Lesson of Covid, IMO: We need separation of Science and State


This commie nigger really thinks I run things


According to their website Vaxxed are fine to donate so long as they wait a couple weeks (or if they got a gene therapy version)

https://www.redcrossblood.org/faq.html#eligibility


The rock is the struggle to raise the next generation

The Sisyphus that must push it up now and the Sisyphus that must push it up tomorrow are not the same Sisyphus


It looks like he's being sucked into the cheetos dimension and is struggling to hang on


Federal Reserve Notes are fake and gay


Who could have predicted the most important story of our culture would not be the Bible, or Camelot, but Tom Sawyer tricking his friends into whitewashing the fence?


iT's StOrEd EneRgY


thanks boo


I still think Bitcoin is a scam


seriously was it Jeffrey Epstein though ?


Hunter Biden is definitely the best "character" of all the gay clowns


Thanks for warning me that a wheelchair dude is gonna come hurtling down these stairs and do a sick trick


If fiat currency has no value why do commercial banks spend effort acquiring more of it?


Panic, citizens. Panic!


What means "approved" ?
You ask permission?
Kinky.


Gold's not going to zero, and if they panic perhaps they will buy some gold.

Even in Bitcoin maxi fantasy land metals will have value roughly proportional to the cost to extract fresh metal from the ground (if the metal is too cheap then mining and recycling business shut down, if the metal is too dear then those same companies are profitable and more such are created).

This is why I as a goldbug feel zero pressure to buy bitcoin.]
Sadly, it means that banks of little competence have a chance to make it through fiat collapse.


She's too big.
The market doesn't have enough liquidity to handle my mom


I believe we squeaked out $34T before year end


GLD hasn't defaulted yet
(and of course there are even more attractive vehicles)

I can always convert to scrip (or even bitcoin) as needed


post it on nostr


Why should I expect such a guarantee?
That hasn't been on offer my whole life, at least not for ordinary scrip


Their actual purpose is to protect large brokers from competition


I haven't abandoned it


Good For You


https://www.barrons.com/articles/bitcoin-sec-approval-etf-news-379e0641

This is hilarious

I speculate it was a rogue underling

Or maybe the regime is trying to destroy the old system


The Logic of Capitalism: The more you help others others, the more you profit

The logic of the State: The more harm you do, the deeper into debt you sink

When a private firm goes into ever-increasing debt, it means they are wasting resources.

When a "public" firm goes into ever-increasing debt, it means they are wasting resources.


The Market is Reality


Anglicus cretinismus est


The most durable commodity


Yeah, until it gets below a certain temperature threshold outside and the heat pump stops working


My milkshake isn't going anywhere


If you want some other human being to provide any sort of ongoing service, you are going to have to pay that human being some sort of ongoing tribute.

That is not politics or economics, that is thermodynamics.
Even slaves require bread.


You're paying for the service of someone purifying and delivering water to you. Should they perform this service for free?

If you want to dig a well or drink river-water or collect rainwater, go for it

(Yes, government agents have harassed some people for collecting rainwater but I believe that's the exception rather than the rule)


My point is there are many organizations that "adopt" Bitcoin as a way to accept payments, but not as a way to save or make payments. I'm not saying this makes Bitcoin worthless (although I do have other arguments to that effect). What I am saying is that this sort of "adoption" is not very meaningful.

Many charitable organizations accept financial securities as donations. Does this mean they've "adopted" these securities as money?


There are fiat-based businesses now which "accept" Bitcoin not because they want to HODL or because they can spend it directly on their inputs, but because they can flip it into fiat and spend that on their inputs. I think Bitcoiners should think carefully about how that plays out if/when fiat dies.


When fiat dies


Drop the name-calling. I've been perfectly civil with you.


If it's so obvious that Bitcoin can be exchanged for real value, why did you make your initial post celebrating a new organization taking Bitcoin?

(although of course that organization just sells it for fiat immediately)


Do you disagree with the substance of the claim?

I think it's pretty obvious that being able to flip Bitcoin into fiat makes it much easier for fiat-based businesses to accept Bitcoin


same


The regime giving lip service to the interests of Americans (or in Argentina's case to radical libertarian ideas) is meaningful even if "we" have yet to win


If it's voluntary it's not a tax


me watching every cooking show


Calisthenics is legit

A proper diet is even more legit

Do you ever see lions doing push-ups?


The real test of Bitcoins comes when they can't sell it for currency anymore


What is it?

It's amoose


Special regulation of a single industry will always attract more lobbying and focus from those who are already established producers (since that industry makes up their whole livelihood) than those who might become producers (since that industry is only one possible future investment) or consumers (since that industry is only one line of consumption)


Forced collective bargaining laws violate property rights


Dershowitz might have had sex with a non-consenting child slave, which I don't support at all

But I also think the modern notion of age of consent is very unusual in historical terms

The point of coming of age ceremonies like quinciniera and bat mitzvah is that the person is a (young) adult

It is very strange to think a young woman is reproductively adult physically for years before she is considered sexually adult

I'm not so sure if I would go so far as to say "If there's grass on the field, play ball" or "Old enough to bleed is old enough to breed" but I also think those are meaningful indicators of adulthood and (physical) sexual maturity is not far off


In the Roman republic, taxes were levied on wealth and ranged from 1-3%

In Ancient Egypt, slavery and taxation were synonymous. Slaves were expected to surrender 20% of their income to the Pharoah.

So naturally the "land of the free" has much lower rates of taxation, at only around 50%


Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston A Price


I literally have Bitcoin Fork on my 2024 Bingo card
And I don't use or care about Bitcoin
(beyond some sats I've been tipped on nostr)
so I am rooting for this absolute bullshit


boo


B column and 3rd row both looking juicy
Good luck, all