Other contenders:
Sillcock key
Water filter
Mylar blanket
Fresnel lens
Knife
Shotgun/Rifle
Tourniquet
Pry-bar
CB Radio
Paracord

I think there's basically two ways to look at the question: bottom-up (starting with most immediate needs like air, warmth, water, wound care and food) or looking top-down at the tools that provide the greatest potential to meet many needs like a gun, an entry tool, communication tools, etc.

I think overall the single most powerful item is probably a radio.


Yeah if there's a bike lane you should use it

On the other hand where I live there are signs saying "bikes may use full lane" and bike symbols painted in one of the lanes and drivers still get mad at me for riding in the road


Congress


"the world is fallen"
"overcoming the world and being victors over death"

What are the psychological consequences of believing things like this?

My belief is no less spiritual but entirely the opposite

I believe "God" is Nature
Not immutable Gaea
But the whole cosmos
Even us


I think you are correct

I think the pioneering work of virology was shoddy science (eg physical damage causing plant illness in Tobacco Mosaic Virus research)

I think the definition of virus has changed several times without finding a physical thing to nail down what exactly it is

I think strict germ theory a la Koch's postulates (in which a pathogen is both necessary and sufficient to cause illness) doesn't hold water; this is shown by Koch's own work on cholera as well as other experiments such as the attempts to spread 'Spanish' influenza in a controlled setting

All that said, I think contagion seems to be a real phenomenon (although strictly speaking what we really observe is clusters or sequences of illness) and this requires something like a pathogen to explain

I am inclined to think that some "viruses" are psychosomatic, environmental toxins, etc. but probably some are just smaller bacteria

On the other hand, the PCR-based method of "identifying" viruses introduces concern about whether you're really identifying the thing you think you're identifying


In my opinion Abrahamic religions share some very bad ideas

This world is less "real" than what comes after death
This world is a trial to be endured
Goodness consists of sacrificing one's well-being in this world, for benefits in the later realm

I think these are related to Nietzsche's slave and master morality
I think Abrahamic religions tend to prioritize meekness and submission, which Nietzsche describes as slave morality
The psychologocial justification for this is that by rejecting power now we will be even more empowered in the next life
I think Nietzsche is correct in noticing that unlimited submission involves relinquishing one's own will to live and this breeds resentment

I think Rand is correct in outlining a third alternative which breaks the master/slave dichotomy: trader morality
Like master morality, this involves a will to live; the good, strong, beautiful, etc are once again synonymous
Like slave morality, the trader forsakes violence, plunder and domination as a way of life

Recommended readings:

Freidrich Nietzche
-Genealogy of Morals
-Beyond Good and Evil
-The Antichrist

Alain de Benoist
-On Being a Pagan

Baruch Spinoza
-Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Richard Dawkins
-The Selfish Gene

Leonard Peikoff
-Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand
-For the New Intellectual (Galt's Speech from Atlas Shrugged)
-The Virtue of Selfishness (The Objectivist Ethics)

Lao Tzu
-Dao de Ching

Aristotle
-Nichomachean Ethics


I believe God is Nature
Not immutable Gaea
But the whole cosmos
Even us


your species-inappropriate diet is the problem


To be fair California at one time voted to deny state benefits to illegals

It was ruled unconstitutional by a judge with a certain early life background


Government employees don't pay taxes
There's no difference between a government employee getting paid $80k and "paying taxes" of $20k versus just getting paid $60k

They are tax consumers, not tax payers


When I first went carnivore I was salting my meat and drinking water mixed with various salts and supplementing magnesium.

I would get light-headed/dizzy when standing too quickly.

After a while I stopped all the salt (don't even add it to meat any more) and now I don't get light-headed any longer.

I do sometimes drink mineral water, mostly because I enjoy the bubbles in carbonated water. Mostly I drink very pure water (fluoride removed).


Why wouldn't it be?


1) Not exactly. He threatened to take welfare payments from those blocking roads

2) I have a property right to the funds in my bank account but not to a welfare payment

3) Welfare payments are funded via theft unlike normal property


I did not.

I support ending all welfare payments. I don't support freezing anyone's bank account.


He threatened to revoke welfare from protesters who block roads


What's wrong with that?


I've seen some concerns he was just giving lip-service to libertarians (a positive development in itself) but really insincere, or he would be stopped by the Argentine deep state or US state department

But so far he seems pretty good


US State Secedes
EU State Secedes
G20 country adopts gold standard
G20 country has national government collapse
G20 country abandons carbon emission limits
EU State adopts Arabic as an official language
G20 politician killed by citizens
Pfizer or Moderna executive killed by citizens
The Internet is down for more than 24 hours
US "Big 4" bank shuts down
G8 country defaults
G20 country withdraws from UN
Member state withdraws from NATO
Member state withdraws from CSTO
Labour takes power in UK
"Conservatives" take power in Canada
US Navy ship sunk
US withdraws from Syria
Israel at war with Muslim nation-state
Joe Biden removed from office via impeachment or resignation


calorie deficit is a bad way to lose weight
your body reduces expenditure
it's much better to reduce carbs and eat plenty of animal fat


Unironically yes, although "sugar" has to include starches as well

Most cancers require glucose to live

If you go on a keto or carnivore diet your body will still make a small amount of glucose but mostly you'll operate on fat and ketones


Cats (both housecats and big cats) lie around all day, walk a bit, and engage in short, brief runs to attack prey.
Exercise is BS - it's a way to blame sloth for poor diet.
The causality is exactly the other way around - if your diet is poor you will be tired and "lazy", if your diet is good you will have energy to burn.

As to proper diet, I believe paleolithic man had little seasonal food and ate mostly meat. One piece of evidence of this is that where native people do eat plants, the people are highly adapted to local plants and often have complex preparations to de-toxify them. On the other hand we can eat meat more or less however we want.


This appears to be for T-Mobile's SMS mass ad service (see "bandwidth" in the URL at the top)

Still, once they are policing content there's no guarantee they won't turn their focus to ordinary customers


If somebody gets my private key I'll just create a new identity
And if I really want to say something controversial (like, IDK, wikileak some terrible secret) I'll create a new key pair just for that one message


Already illegal in the US, just like fiat

So the question is not whether they shall be legal, but what "we" will do when they are introduced anyway


The top-knot being universal is actually key to the plot of my favorite film, Harakiri


Things I've done (which seem to be helping)

Food:
I eliminated seed oils
I reduced carbs/sugar
I eliminated food additives (eg sodium nitrates)
I added more red meat
I drink ultra-pure water (which has fluoride removed along with everything else)

Habits:
I take cold showers (especially in summer)
I take off my shirt and sit on my balcony for 20-30 minutes around noon for sun exposure
I read 1-2 chapters of something educational during my sun exposure

Sleep:
I bought red LED night lights
I set all my screens to "night mode" which reduces blue light
(so I actually get sleepy shortly after the sun goes down)
When I wake up I look at the blue of the sky for a few minutes to help signal to my brain that it's time to be awake

I've tried some vitamin supplements but didn't see much benefit (and arguably had some downsides)
Now I eat carnivore-ish and haven't supplemented at all in something like a year and a half


It's sound money but the state mints aren't exactly honest
For example those both say 100 pounds but I very much doubt they weigh that much


I have converted my wardrobe to primarily natural fibers over the past couple years.
I do have some outerwear that's polyester still such as a down great-coat.

I have been extremely impressed with Merino wool and 3 of the 4 shirts I own are Merino wool. My only (!) pair of underwear is Merino wool as well. All of my shorts/pants are cotton, including swim trunks. I have a linen shirt for summer wear.

When I'm riding my bicycle in the summer (say 40C / 100F with mid humidity) my linen shirt definitely shows some sweaty patches especially under backpack straps; within a few days it starts to stink. I find myself washing it weekly or more. My Merino underwear doesn't ever really feel or look soaked and doesn't build up a funky smell even over long periods.

I suspect silk would also make excellent underwear but the only ones I've seen online are sized for tiny asian dudes.

For feet I wear zero-drop sandals which are designed for running. In the winter I wear wool socks, either fluffy ones with my sandals (just for warmth) or army surplus ones with army surplus boots.

If I wanted to wear cotton underwear and shirts I would probably own something like 8 pairs of each, plus some more shirts for autumn & winter. I would also have to do laundry weekly. I did something like that previously but am very happy with my current wardrobe.

Previously I've also had all polyester quick-dry type clothing but switched out of an abundance of caution (also perhaps pursuit of quality/style). The quick-dry poly also did a good job preventing sweat build-up.

Bottom line: I'd encourage you to check out Merino wool and linen. If you don't mind artificial fibers single-layer poly can be good as well.


I agree with the first guy but have the attitude of the second
If your internet points are still working, good for you


Hard to un-see

https://youtu.be/aEdGcej-6D0?si=C19sBW0_z_yPRZuW


1lb chuck eye
Merry Christmas


Keep in mind without people selling along the way price wouldn't have gone up (at least not in the way it has)

Imagine you expect them to go for 30c but you can't find any for less than $8.00 - do you buy anyway or do you give up? I think a lot of people give up

And of course if there's no sellers at all there simply won't be a price


I use firefox and clear everything between sessions
But it seems to work now
🤷
Thank you


As of today, nostter loads my notifications instead of my home feed
Yesterday & earlier it was working fine
I see in github some seemingly-relevant files were updated like EventMetadata.svelte
But the last release was 1.1 in November
Are these being updated into the live build?


What is a soul?


What do nostriches think is the best way to access phone / SMS networks in the USA via computer?

I've got rid of my cell phone and am currently access these networks via Google services

For sensitive conversations with a few specific parties I have Signal messenger, Nostr, and encrypted email

But many services (eg my bank) require SMS confirmation
And I have some nonsecure SMS communication (eg scheduling family gatherings)
as well as friends who aren't super techy and just want to text

So what's the best option(s) for SMS and telephone via web?


How do I vote to maintain my rights? Where's that on the ballot?


I was lampooning Greenwald & Carlson


Yep nostr:npub10fu0hlkx3s4n4dsgfu0cpqephga4afr4qtzpz9vsyqf7vj88v2yqdp8vp4
this is one reason why our rights are not up for a vote - there is no "respect my rights and restore the Republic" option


But they have to have collateral to do it
So in essence the Fed has created a pump to suck up Treasuries (ie monetize the debt ie inflate)


Things are getting worse, so we should accelerate the trend of hyper-regulation rather than reverse it


They're really not

Suppose my free speech rights are violated - do I have to abide by that violation?


good luck cuck
my rights are not up for a vote


Thanks for showing me your nuts


Always has been


Homosexual marriage is impossible, you can't 'join and blend together' (reproduce) with someone of the same sex

And why is the government involved in marriage at all?


Most ETF rely on redemptions to maintain tracking


What a waste of time and money


*Currency

This is one of the language psyops that government schools have been pulling for decades


"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only
 exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse
from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes
 for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury
 with the result that a democracy collapses over loose fiscal
policy, always followed by a dictatorship."


I think it's improving
For example you hear the regime called "the regime" a lot more often these days


From Google Maps: "Bethlehem is a Palestinian town south of
Jerusalem in the West Bank. The biblical birthplace of Jesus, it’s a
major Christian pilgrimage destination"

(probably taken from wiki but I didn't bother to dig deeper)


Yeah and then they'll tell us who shot Kennedy


From whom are the goodies to be stolen?


9 out of 10 participants vote for gang rape


That's the cuck pride flag


Dogs are friendly wolves
Wolves are carnivores
So don't feed your dog crap with carrots and celery on the bag

Same goes for humans


One of the best meals I ever had was gas station tacos in the middle of nowhere


Capitalism requires that profit (ie more efficient ways of doing things) is always sought

It does not requires that profit is always found


I eat very well for $16/day
All pasture-raised wild-caught organic grass-fed etc
3 egg yolks $1.50
1 pound chuck steak $11
1 salmon filet $3 ($14/lb)
plus a little for butter/ghee and non-fluoridated water

The same basic diet can be had for under $10 just by switching to generic eggs and ground beef


"overreacted" implies a certain sort of honest mistake, which I don't think is the case at all


Taxation is the price we pay for living in an un-civilized society


Much scarcer than gold!
There are thousands of tons of gold in various vaults
While there's not even an ounce of Bitcoin in the whole world


The first bear for the US Dollar ran from 1/35tz to 1/800tz
The second bear run for USD ran from 1/250tz to 1/1900tz
The third bear market could take USD down to 1/20000tz


Both links work for me

It's Holocaust Encyclopedia dot com
And a documentary film titled "One Third of the Holocaust"

The doc got me to question the truth of what I'd been taught; the encyclopedia convinced me that it wasn't just Operation Reinhard but the whole Holocaust narrative that was questionable


Global climate change was chosen by the Rockefeller foundation as the impetus for global government - with zero scientists in the room

Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but a vital gas of life


https://holocaustencyclopedia.com/

https://www.altcensored.com/watch?v=7dxsVSzL4HE

My current belief is that Jews really were taken to camps where many died, primarily of disease and starvation. There were some deliberate murders of civilian Jews, such as the "decimation" (look up the actual meaning of the term) following the Warsaw uprising. Perhaps there were some mass murders by bullets in Eastern-most Europe, although there are known Soviet fabrications in the area (ie actual mass murders that were deliberately staged to appear to be Nazi atrocities rather than Soviet ones)

But the core narrative of the Holocaust - a system of death camps aimed at the total extermination of the Jews - I believe is grossly exaggerated or outright fiction.


Depends what you mean by capitalism

If you mean large, remote impersonal markets directing capital then I could see it going either way

If you mean the accumulation of capital driving human progress then I don't see that going away anytime soon


excellent bait to lure meat into your yard


much scarier than a literal grenade...


those mfs had 33 degrees


Encrypt yourself, FOSS yourself, 2A yourself, etc

𝕼𝖚𝖎𝖊𝖙 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗

𝕼𝖚𝖎𝖊𝖙 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗


Strict germ theory (that a microbial pathogen is necessary and sufficient to produce illness) seems to me clearly false, and those influenza experiments are just one example

But the failure of strict germ theory doesn't rule out my modified germ theory, in which the animal must be in a state of ill health to be vulnerable to pathogenic contagion

The way to validate this experimentally would be a 4-group design, combining a health-reducing condition (eg nutrient deprivation or toxic exposure) with microbial exposure (and controls for each treatment variable)


Suppose we did go to the moon... what was the point?
A giant PR stunt.
Surely the government would never have a *fake* giant PR stunt.


How independent is galaxy redshift from whatever phenomena produced the dark energy theory in the first place?

Based on the wiki for Dark Energy, DE was theorized to explain supernova redshift

In which case I am very skeptical that further redshift observations confirm anything positive about the nature of DE as an explanatory factor


The way Feynman put it was that your theory shouldn't just make the observation that produced it "come out right" but should make something else "come out right" as well


How has this hypothesis been tested?


The hypothesis is tested, ideally many times by many people
In each case, the test produces results consistent with the hypothesis

These tests form a body of evidence that serves to disprove competing hypotheses and (until some sort of contradictory evidence is found) makes the theory well-established

So you observe something, then you form a hypothesis to explain the observation, but that's not enough to be scientific. You have to actually test the hypothesis and try to explain what's happening. Merely positing a hypothesis is not good enough. A hypothesis which serves to "explain" without producing understanding is also not good enough.

In creationism / intelligent design debates there's a notion of "god of the gaps" where god is invoked to fill in a gap in knowledge, which doesn't really explain anything so much as give a label to our ignorance. The same thing happens in physics where some particle or phenomenon is posited to "explain" observations that are inconvenient / inconsistent with existing theory. Unless those hypothetical particles / phenomena can be tested and their mechanisms understood, they are just other ways of naming our ignorance.


"The neutrino particle was never hypothetical. It was made up to explain an observation."

From wiki: "A hypothesis (pl.: hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. For a hypothesis to be a scientific hypothesis, the scientific method requires that one can test it."

Something made up to explain observations is literally the definition of a hypothesis.


Correct - a hypothetical particle should not be considered equivalent to something well-established by evidence (until there is more evidence)


You make some observations that existing theory can't explain
So you invent a new concept to explain these observations
This is a hypothesis
Now you have to go do actual science and test your hypothesis
You have to understand this thing you've postulated and explain it

"Dark matter" as a stand-in for unobserved matter that is hypothesized to affect gravity is totally fine and scientific
But it's not a theory or law of science or any such thing
And treating it as a real, known entity on par with regular matter is in fact deeply unscientific


I think the work of virologists has been thoroughly unscientific

I'm not sure whether germ theory as a whole ought to be rejected - my guess is that contagion is a real phenomenon but requires some sort of ill health to become vulnerable to infection (so strict germ theory a la Koch's postulates is false, as demonstrated for example by his own experiments with cholera)

Do you think contagion is a real phenomenon?


https://mikestone.substack.com/p/the-virus-concept

What do you make of the electron micrograph images purporting to show viruses?

All mammalian viruses seem to be round blobs which are pretty unconvincing images, but bacteriophages have that classic "lunar lander" look that seems unlikely to be some subcellular component.

Do you think these are fabrications? Artifacts? Something else?


I switched to snort and took a while to realize it wasn't serving me most of my follows


Zero sum thinking is destructive - if the only way I get ahead is by taking from you, then I want to take from you, and I regard anyone else's success as proof they took from me and justification for violent "redistribution".

This is the core issue with Marxism - labor theory of value creates zero-sum thinking. If values are reducible to a single value scale then all exchanges are more for less (exploitative) or equal for equal (pointless). Thus Marxists can't explain trade or cooperation.

The theory which eclipsed the classical/Marxists labor theory of value is subjective value. I value different things based on the use I can put them to, and so do you. I might value A above B and you might value B above A - and we can both be right! Therefore, voluntary exchange is mutually beneficial, neither exploitation nor pointless shuffling.


TX+CA => not obviously politicized one way or the other
(but obviously ridiculous)

journos as the real heroes = lol

but probably healthy for this to bubble up to national consciousness

weird to assume that secession = war but I guess that's the message of the Lincoln religion that public schools have been drilling into everyones' heads for a century


A man who provides for his own security is free

2A / FOSS


Switzerland is probably the best
But "Democracy" is commie gibberish


I set out to look at the top 100 games by Metacritic rating
I excluded games that were pure re-releases of much earlier games (eg Mario 3 on GBA)
There's a big tie at each rating so I took 94+ ratings and found 87 games

The vast majority are from the late 90s to early 2000s.

Some franchises score many top ratings more-or-less independent of year
Top franchises:
Zelda (7 games in metacritic's all time best)
Grand Theft Auto (5) + Red Dead (2)
Metal Gear (5)
Mario (4)

There's also a weird bump in the early 2000s where certain sports games received very high ratings, specifically American football, motor racing, and skating.
I would guess that more recent football and racing games are not significantly worse than those of this period.
However even removing sports games there's a clear maximum in review score during that period.
That may be due to early 3D improving and impressing reviewers - or maybe the game journos were just especially corrupt at that time.

I think there's an argument to be made that the peak of gaming was actually prior to this. The late 1980s through mid 1990s featured a wide array of very simple games that could not really generate spectacle and thus had to succeed on their mechanics. This includes both gaming consoles operating on industrial scale (most notably NES, SNES and Genesis) as well as DOS/early GUI game development largely operating at workshop scale.

In any case, there does seem to be a decline in very-high-rated games over the past decade, supporting the idea that gaming (at least for the moment) has peaked in quality and thus *somebody* is actually correct about their childhood having the best games.


It's not money though, it's currency


I'm not Jack obviously but recommend chuck steak
You can buy chuck roast pretty cheaply and cut into steaks

Ribeye also great


It's a donation to pedophiles


What property?


https://youtu.be/3u2iL2MwIWk?si=1-mb3HdKjwd658tu

Interesting coverage

Starts with all the requisite "far right" "Donald Trump" etc
But overall fairly sympathetic
Maybe radical anarchism + academic respectability is just catnip for leftists

Ends noting his first action was to shutter 9 of 18 government departments - should address some of the manchurian candidate concerns


Just as important: laughs in rooftop Korean, laughs in Kyle Rittenhouse


There's also no miners or coins


Pre 1965 US citizens could have a gun mailed to them
Pre 1920s US citiznes could mail-order explosives and fully automatic weapons
There are old Sears Roebuck catalogs that advertise Tommy Guns for example


TDLW: It is no good


What's anti-semitic here?


They kindergarteners were right before the lesson

Zero is a placeholder
Or if you do consider zero a number, it is not an enumeration


It's very bad for Secretary Janet Yellen and very good for nostr:npub1grk0tx6kqzvp86jvxzqmr8va2f0hdklj2xj6qwymf04z0saxhx8svlelrn


The Israeli strategy


150.28

I believe the Tokyo Stock Exchange has been open for 2 hours

This means JP Ministry of Finance is unwilling or unable to draw a hard line at 150

This is very bad
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Japan has for years been (arguably) underwriting global debt, with a population which saves a tremendous proportion of their income and a central bank which has worked to maintain low yields on Japanese government debt. This results in Japanese citizens seeking foreign repositories of their savings as well as traders using financial derivatives to turn low Japanese rates into cheap money elsewhere.

It takes 150.01 to 150.02 Japanese Yen to buy a US Dollar right now. Supposedly the Japanese Ministory of Finance regards 150 as a line in the sand. Several prior moves of the Yen to surpass 150 to the US Dollar have seemed to meet resistance, with the price being pushed back down. (Fewer Yen to buy a Dollar means a stronger Yen, and vice versa)

Most likely JP MoF will try to smash the price over the next few hours until tomorrow morning US time, based on prior moves. This will involve a US Treasury sell-off, pushing US yields higher

If this doesn't happen and the Yen continues to climb above 150, we will be enter the unknown and various financial difficulties are likely to emerge

#fiatnews #endgame


nope


fry them in beef tallow


if you require supplements your diet is not proper


They had crematoria
This missing structure is the gas chamber


"It requires handcuffs to stay the hand which turns the crank of the printing press"

Lord Edgar Vincent D'Abernon
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USA because leaders should be men


"All children of every class, according to a study in Frankfort-on-the-Main in February 1922, were two years physically and mentally backward for their ages. It remained difficult for them to recover those lost years because milk was obtainable only for the sick during the winter, and the price of bread was rising. It was a not uncommon sight to see anxious mothers searching in the dustbins of private residences in the richer neighbourhoods in the hope of retrieving scraps of food from the garbage. "
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The Joyless Street - silent film about poverty amid Austrian hyperinflation ca 1920

https://yewtu.be/mCIy4LFWUrU


When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Collapse

http://thirdparadigm.org/doc/45060880-When-Money-Dies.pdf


I found an article warning of the dangers of scurvy while on a carnivore diet.
The article cited two examples (among purportedly numerous others). In both, the meat consumed was canned rather than fresh, and one of the articles cites explicitly that fresh meat was known to cure scurvy.

https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/Document/September-2017/066010039.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160932711000329
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The difference is while I can't eat gold I can fill a tooth with it

While Bitcoin has no use other than as a trade token


Fiber is indigestible by definition (otherwise we call it carbohydrate)

I sometimes have difficulty sleeping, most especially if I've had lots of calories (from fat) late in the day


Gold isn't backed by anything - it is the backing


Biased reporting of WW2 purported atrocities?
why, I never


Along with all the other unbacked, meaningless trade tokens


I made a piped.video account and tried to search for the first thing I wanted to watch (Afreeca ASL starcraft finals came out today) and the search took forever (I gave up after 30 seconds)

so this does not seem to be a functional option thus far


Is this actually necessary?

Most of my political video-watching I've moved to Rumble to escape YT censorship; mostly I use YT for esports & high quality documentary content

I use a psuedonymous YT account to view & comment, which is not connected to my identity (although Google still knows who I am as it's on the same Google account)


In case there was any doubt about the lab leak theory of coronavirus-2019 origins:
https://youtu.be/bOZzhCnoCpM?si=XNYwOxLhQAxdOGF5

Apparently the virus is adapted to evade mouse immune systems.


Skepticism of "mainstream" institutions, especially the ideological complex centered around the government, university, and official press

Other heterodox topics I would expect to overlap heavily:
Austrian economics
Geopolitical event skepticism (eg 9/11, Lusitania, Nordstream, Douma, etc)
Climate non-panic
Mewing (tongue posture)
Race realism
Water flouridation
Vaccine injury


Somehow of the two of us I am the one who is too old-fashioned to recognize the artistry in such abstract displays


No


There aren't any


I don't see a fault in his logic (or evidence of irrational hatred)
https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/the-truth-about-race-and-intelligence/


It is what it is


wat


https://www.bitchute.com/video/uODiT5hd9Zms/

Basically this whole film is building up to such a moment


Starches would tend to deplete Vitamin C assuming the two carnivore Vitamin C assumptions I pointed out are correct.

The most common complements to verterbate meat are fruit and seeds (eg nuts, grains) as reported in Munoz & Alroy 2014, the article I linked elsewhere in the conversation.

I think humans in particular are primarily scavengers & hunters (especially with self-scavenging by taking large prey to a group site and eating it for an extended period of time) and the main supplemental food for us is fruit. Humans seem to have some seed intolerances (eg to lectin and gluten) so I think that aspect of it is less pronounced or absent in human evolutionary history. We are also distantly descended from browsers (and then scavengers and then hunters and then pastoralists) who probably ate a fair bit of fruit.


Most carnivores are technically omnivorous, as are most herbivores. Lions occasionally eat grass. Deer occasionally eat carrion. Many plant-eaters also eat some insects.

However most omnivores heavily specialize in some area(s) of food availability, with areas of specialization differentiating between insects, verterbrate meat, fruit, leaves/grasses, tubers, seeds, gums, and fungus.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100522/

As to human evolution in particular, there are a variety of lines of evidence supporting human carnivory such as stomach pH (and many other modern anatomical features), nitrogen isotope evidence of paleolithic trophic level, and direct artefacts such as bone with butcher marks and cave paintings of animal hunts.


Which carbs are essential?
And which nutrients?


Agree! Don't consume lettuce, but produce it to lure meat to your yard


#carnivore #meatstr #diet


Vitamin C: The Carnivore Death Spiral

The dominant theory of carnivore diet regarding Vitamin C seems to be that 1) Vit C competes with carbohydrate so you need much less (by orders of magnitude) when you cut out carbs completely and 2) Fresh meat has some Vitamin C.

I think carnivores fall into a vitamin C trap one of a few ways:
1) Eating meat which has had the Vitamin C denatured, such as cooked jerky or fully cooked sausages.
2) Eating "animal-based" foods like honey (which has a ton of sugar and only a tiny sliver of Vitamin C. I think this is why Paul Saladino went from carnivore -> carnivore + honey -> carnivore + honey + fruit.
3) Eating processed meats which have had sugar added, such as lunch meats, jerky or sausages.
4) Eating sugar-containing dairy like plain yogurt, cheese, and milk, especially if pastuerized (denaturing any Vit C).
5) Occasional cheating with sushi rice, "keto" candy, or other carbs. I find this particularly easy to do since I regularly meet my adult family for meals at restaurants.

I think the human desire for sweetness is at least partially a pursuit of Vitamin C.

I believe I'd become deficient in Vit C due to a combination of the above factors, and I'm now making an effort to 1) do a one-time load of C with kiwi fruit, 2) cut out any remaining carbs from my diet going forward and 3) if I do "cheat" in the future, focus on doing so with fresh fruit or eating some high-C fruits to offset the carb impact.


Great film.
Too bad they never finished the trilogy or made any sequels.


The graph says it's expected to peak and decline


Pro-reason, individualist philosophy resulting in the rise of classical liberalism resulting in the repeal of usury laws (and various other special privileges), thereby initiating modern industrial/financial capitalism.

https://fvdb.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/the-duel-between-good-and-evil-aristotle-versus-plato-ayn-rand-versus-kant/


I believe Cheese is the best animal source of K2


What are you feeding him?


coinflation.com
US nickels are over 5c melt value after a few days below (following years above)

Fiat skeptics should consider withdrawing some US nickels

They naturally hedge inflation (metal) deflation (face value) currency revaluation (small coins often exempt) and currency collapse (barter value)


I think Jews (and others) really did get sent to camps where many died from typhus throughout the war, then starvation as the German state collapsed. We have photos of their bodies at Buchenwald, for example (which had no gas chamber).

I also think there were some executions, mostly by bullets, such as after the Warsaw uprising.

But in terms of industrial genocide I think it's just war propaganda, show trials, etc.
I think there's also a degree of non-German-speaking prisoners who heard terrible rumors and interpreted what they saw in light of those rumors (eg delousing vs execution chambers).


Did you take pictures of any art?


What exactly does it mean to be on the wrong side of history? That future historians will disapprove of my actions? Can future historians make the Earth flat?


Merino wool undies can be worn indefinitely


In economics it's a must


Most exciting part of goldbacks IMO - sound money actually circulating


Crazy. I wonder if other infamous confessions are also nonsense


Supposedly he had cosmetic surgery (face lift) that produced the change

Which I tend to believe because if you were going to fake a Joe Biden why would you fake one that's completely senile?


Gold is divisible to the atomic level

Also where's the box for "physically exists" ?


Is this not Graham's actual position?


Crematorium capacity is not the limiting issue

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwxndg
https://holocaustencyclopedia.com/


Yep, and with the death of fiat we will move to the winner's bracket: math vs reality


H2 sucks
So do battery EVs

There's nothing wrong with hydrocarbons
But if there was NH3 is a much better fuel source than H2 or Li battery


GM

I think you've found your group


Duck season


I think "they" are getting desperate and close to losing control, hence the attempt to seize more power and more control.


I lost all my guns in a tragic motorboating accident. Thankfully the stripper survived.


also blacks


Nah, the only dangerous minority is government officials


still on Linux, so we're all good


The banks are safe & effective


Are Palestinians forbidden from entering normal Israeli society and integrating? Are Arabs?


There's a certain precious metal broker whose business card is hyperinflated bills stamped with his contact information


fast food


I'm not sure I understand the argument.
Palestine is cheaper, but also poorer, therefore Israel attacked them? What's the connection?


I think it's possible that we are the only species with industrial technology within the observable universe.

Industrial technology is mind-bogglingly unlikely. It requires a contradictory creature - a social scavenger-turned-predator-turned-pastoralist hunting/farming social prey despite being too weak to kill one, even in groups, and thus relying on tools.

No social prey - no pastoralism - no excess caloric payload allowing complex tool manufacture, trade, food processing (eg cheesemaking) etc.
Not social - no language, writing, trade, etc and no ability to maintain a complex industrial system that exceeds the comprehension of any one individual.
Not a predator - costly digestive tissues take away metabolic budget of nervous system and limit brain complexity
Not a scavenger/not weak - evolution progressively focuses on claws & fangs rather than tools & brains

We also need an oxygenated environment allowing chemical reactions (combustion) to take place with ordinary air. This requires not only the presence of elemental oxygen, but also living organisms to liberate this highly reactive element.


Sounds like precious metals would work a lot better than the fiat system


The Hwhite Emperor says: "Race exists"
Truly dastardly!

https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/the-ridiculous-idea-that-race-isnt-real/


Yes.

US Fed spinning plates are one area to watch for crash origin.
Also: USDJPY to cross 150, JBG yield to cross 1%, US yield curve normalization, Euro value, GB Pound value, COMEX silver default, many other areas

I think the fiat system is going to be the real "polycrisis"


Wild series

https://youtu.be/sIALkFIzjHw?si=5y8fggx1xdV2I4DN


He lays a couple a day


Recently I amended my carnivore diet to include cheese, with the idea that unpasteurized cheese should be the richest animal source of vitamin K2 (and a decent way to get dairy fat with minimal milk sugars). I'm also eating egg yolks and a couple bites of raw liver for breakfast to get K2 & other nutrients.

I was looking for unpasteurized sheep & goat-milk cheese and happened to buy some Roqeufort, which I found delicious but very salty. I tried various other moldy cheeses, mostly unpastuerized cow's milk, and my conclusion is that Roquefort is clearly better.

#carnivore #carnivorediet #keto #ketovore #dietstr #meatstr


Bad money (when legally held at par) drives out good money (from circulation)

So if I have a crappy piece of paper or a gold or silver coin, I spend the piece of paper which will be worth less tomorrow and save the coin which will be worth the same (or if technological progress continues, slightly more)

Bad money doesn't drive good money out of existence

Some Americans do have hard money, it's just in their sock drawer rather than bank account or wallet


Wow looks like gold is going to do well as fiat dies


why


First 10 minutes explain why the system is blowing up now - no more cheap oil to keep feeding into the fiat ponzi https://youtu.be/bIq0o40Jo80?si=QVX8F7z-thA0pKIK


Scare quotes

But McCarthy is definitely a uniparty power-seeker


"turning the base up too high blows out your speaker"

Translation: actual democracy threatens establishment "elites"


Don't fall for this psyop. Bitcoin is neither hard nor soft
---

What Is Hard Money?

Hard money originally referred to the physical properties of metallic money, which, unlike paper currency, is made of hard substances. This is the origin of the colloquial English expression, "cold, hard cash."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hardmoney.asp


The Ecstasy of Gold


Open = men's division

(in almost all sports, there might be a few where it's advantageous to be a woman)


It was a melting pot because classical liberalism worked, until liberalism was abandoned (by pietists)


The Soviets killed 10x as many innocents as the Nazis


Nuremberg was a show trial.

The court took "judicial notice" of all proceedings and findings of Allied countries including the Soviets (see Article 21 of the Internal Military Tribunal Charter) which meant that the findings of Soviet show trials were taken as irrefutable evidence; the defense was not even allowed to challenge them.

https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6b39614.html

Moreover the Nazis were tortured & leapt to incriminate themselves. Part of the preparation for the IMT was mock trials in which denial of guilt met a death sentence but confessions met leniency.

It shouldn't need to be said but none of this is to promote Nazism, gulags (which is what the concentration camps were), or war (which is mass murder). I personally am an anti-socialist libertarian & more Jew than German. But I love the truth more than I hate Nazis.

The gas chamber at Auschwitz was "restored" (fabricated) by the Poles after the war ended. The famous Western photos of piles of corpses are primarily from Buchenwald, which did not have a gas chamber or other execution facility. Instead, they are victims of disease and (towards the end of the war as Nazi supply chains crumbled) starvation. Of course the Nazis deserve much of the blame for their deaths (sort of the deal when you imprison someone) but there's a difference between deliberate genocide and typhus epidemic (which is what killed Anne Frank, among many others).


My motivation is a combination of security, cost, and the obvious behavior change of having a device always at hand versus deliberately choosing to check voicemail

I don't currently own a desktop

My carrier also operates a web phone service - I should be able to switch from my number from phone to laptop pretty easily if I want to, and I think doing so would save some money (at least in the long run)


"I do not ask you to lay hands on the tyrant to topple him over, but support him no more, and you will behold him - like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away - fall of his own weight and break into pieces"

Etienne de la Boetie
Politics of Obedience - A Discourse of Voluntary Servitude


My precautions:
Taped over cameras
Faraday bag for travel/driving
Leave phone at home when walking/cycling
Keep cellular data off at home (using wifi)
Use Firefox configured for privacy rather than chrome

But what do I actually use the phone for?
2nd laptop (YouTube, email, nostr, etc)
Text (could do through laptop)
Voice (could do through laptop)
Android apps (could do through laptop)
Navigation (on occasion)
Photos (either at social events or just as an emergency device in case of car accident or the like)

So if I wanted to get rid of my cell phone I'd need a GPS (or just road maps and some more preparation) and camera (maybe disposable physical film camera if they still make & develop them, maybe a digital camera which must be quite cheap these days).

I would have some minor decrease in convenience in coordinating social meetings, comparison shopping, and voice calls, but these all seem quite minimal.

Honestly I'm tempted to ditch the cell phone after reviewing this in detail. I think I'll try enabling my text & voice to go to my laptop and see how that goes.


Also the $ symbol is not used for Swiss francs


I'm talking about the items my dude, not the exchange rate


I'm guessing $50-$60 at US prices


Yes but it took the colonials like 100 years to get to that point + a very sympathetic Whig ruling class in Britain

Keep in mind the British Army was literally stationed in private citizens' homes and only a minority supported secession from Britain


It's not money, it's not hard, but yes, it was invented rather than discovered

From Investopedia:

What Is Hard Money?
Hard money originally referred to the physical properties of metallic money, which, unlike paper currency, is made of hard substances. This is the origin of the colloquial English expression, "cold, hard cash."


Yes

No global military supremacy
=> no security guarantee for House of Saud
=> no petrodollar
=> US financial collapse

Any day now the whole Western financial system will melt down and then melt up


The covid vaccine is useless poison

All the vaccines...

The origin story of vaccination is using a completely live virus (cowpox) to inoculate against a related virus (smallpox)

But instead of doing that, modern vaccines give you a tiny amount of dead virus + toxin so that your body reacts to the toxin and looks like it's generating immunity


Hm. I understood grey days to mean tough times (hence the weapon & Bible) but the VitD points in the direction you've suggested


I'm guess this is the continuing resolution, also maybe the cause of the bond meltdown


Few wish to rule themselves


The start is nigh


What's the giant cheese grater for?
Also if you get sunshine & real food you won't need to supplement D (unless you live at the poles or something)


It's not OK to be a Nazi - because they were socialist authoritarians like the Soviets.

I'm glad to see the genocide hysteria finally subsiding. I have recently become convinced that deliberate mass murder of Jews is largely fiction, although many were sent to camps/gulags and died needlessly of infection, exhaustion and -late in the war as supply chains broke down- starvation.


I just eat the liver raw - cut into cubes/ pieces of about a forkful and eat 2-3 with breakfast. You can soak in whole milk first to reduce bitterness.

Shrimp I've enjoyed but I think how well/over done they are varies by brand


Good, good
Plz stay down until Friday


IMO egg yolk covers most of what you'd want from organ meat. I am not a fan of gizzard. Another option is salmon roe, which is objectively quite expensive but a spoonful with breakfast will cost you maybe $10/week.

I'm able to get grass fed beef liver for something like $4 per pound, and a little goes a long way. I've seen beef liver at Walmart for $2 per pound.

Ground beef can be had for about $4/lb where I am, specifically 70/30 which is what I prefer/recommend anyway. I am mostly grass fed now (which is usually ground leaner) but I don't think finishing feed makes a huge difference.

I get chuck roasts ($4 a pound for choice, I get grass-fed which is like $10 per pound) and cut them into steaks. Not quite as much fat as something like a ribeye but some marbling and more flavorful meat.

Mussels are an excellent budget option - I can get 1lb of frozen mussels for $4.

My wild salmon I get frozen from my grocer at $16/lb, thaw and cut into poke-style cubes. Then I just eat it raw.

If you tolerate milk well, cream is a very cost-efficient calorie source. Just be sure to check for additives. Half & half is more readily available without additives.

IMO $10/day can get you a basic carnivore diet, while $20 gets you to grass-fed pasture raised etc and $30 gets you all that plus some mix of caviar, fine sausages, fine cheeses, etc


Getting in the mood for GFC2

https://youtu.be/-DT7bX-B1Mg?si=oBxtgR2jaRAyBV-B


I probably have another 30 pounds to lose

But not really, at this point I don't imagine radically changing my diet for the rest of my life - I feel good & am healthier than ever


Carnivore deviations

I've been carnivore for about 30 months
During that time I've experimented with various deviations while losing about 80 pounds & adding muscle.
I was transitioning from low carb / keto, which had lost me 60 pounds before stalling out.

When I first started animal-based I was eating dairy (especially plain yogurt), dark chocolate, nuts and small amounts of fruit. I cut out all vegetables, any remaining starch, and increased my meat intake. I also experimented with various carnivore snacks.

Chocolate - As I increased my focus on meat, I found that my sensitivity to plant toxins quickly increased. With chocolate, I would break out in a face rash after eating it, presumably due to oxalates. I was forced to quickly give up chocolate. I've experimented with "keto" candy quite a bit but gradually moved away from those as well.

Nuts - I don't have much of a craving for nuts, but I do enjoy the taste of some. I did some research and found that only macadamia and walnut have omega ratios I consider acceptable. I occasionally have some unsalted macadamia as a snack, maybe 1/4 cup (60g) every couple months. I don't have any issues with them but also don't enjoy them enough to eat regularly.

Fruit - I seem to get fruit cravings when I eat sausage/canned fish rather than fresh meat. I suspect this is a vitamin C issue. Fruit stalls out my weight loss and increases joint pain. I've recently focused on fresh meat and fruit cravings have gone away.

Dairy - Milk & cream seem to stall out my weight loss. I don't seem to have any difficulty with butter or ghee, and consider them excellent fats, for direct consumption or cooking. There are some dairy products I consider intermediate, like cream cheese & plain yogurt. I'm currently avoiding these but experimenting with unpasteurized cheeses which seems to be the richest animal source of Vitamin K2.

Jerky - It can be tough to find jerky with no seed oil, celery (which I found gives me issues), sugar, soy etc. I suspect jerky has the same vitamin C issue as canned fish & precooked sausage.

Biltong - No complaints. Very worthwhile option. Can be ordered online at reasonable cost or purchased at Whole Foods for jerky-like (ie steep) prices. I haven't felt the desire to have any in a while. Might have a vitamin C issue.

Summer sausage - store-bought summer sausage tends to have some combination of pork, sugar, celery, soy and nitrates. I've certainly eaten my share but I get some from grassland beef online that doesn't have any of this crap. When I have that in stock it's one of my go-to snacks but I don't keep it on hand.

Chorizo - While I avoid or limit US pork, I recently discovered my local Whole Foods has organic Spanish chorizo with no sugar/celery/nitrates/etc and I believe the pigs are even free range. I don't want to make it the backbone of my diet for fear of missing vitamin C (as I mentioned I've had issues with sausages) but it makes a good snack.

Pemmican - I stock pemmican from grassland beef as a survival food / snack food. It is great. I get their salt-free sticks, which also lack fruit or other additives - just lean & fat.

Now my core diet is grass-fed ruminant meat (rare), pasture-raised egg yolk (raw) and salmon (raw or smoked).
I have occasional raw beef liver or roasted marrow as well.

#carnivore #carnivorediet #meatstr


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Sad!

Philly journo who mocked crime concerns shot dead

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/philadelphia-journalist-who-mocked-concern-over-violent-crime-democrat-cities-shot-dead


20 years of US regulations in one photo


Cheese is the richest source of Vitamin K2 in the Western diet (which is essential for development)

"They" want you sick and dependent


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#meme #memestr


You mean virtue signalling? I think we already have a name for this


I've seen supporters of the mainstream Holocaust narrative debunk revisionists by pointing out that defendants (eg at Nuremberg) did not deny the whole thing.

There are two major points I have recently learned that explain this:
1) The use of physical and psychological torture, including mock trials in which confession was promised leniency but innocence invariably received a death sentence
2) Protestations of innocence were simply not permitted

"Any facts that the court chose to take as “common knowledge,” no matter how they were obtained or how improbable they were, required no proof or evidence at all. This was known as “judicial notice.” Hence, we have Article 21:

    “The Tribunal shall not require proof of facts of common knowledge, but shall take judicial notice thereof. It shall also take judicial notice of official governmental documents and reports of the United Nations, including the acts and documents of the committees set up in the various Allied countries for the investigation of war crimes, and the records and findings of military or other Tribunals of any of the United Nations.” (Ibid.)

This “common knowledge” included any alleged “fact” established by any authority or commission of any Allied country, whether in documents, verdicts, acts, reports, or other records. Once the court had taken judicial notice of something, it stood as an established fact and could not be challenged. If the defendant happened to disagree, he had no recourse."

https://holocaustencyclopedia.com/legal/trial/international-military-tribunal/


Good luck
You will have to cut through decades or frankly centuries of left-wing social-statist propaganda.
From Plato to Augustine to Kant, Hegel & Marx, the socialist delusion found fertile soil in central Europe.

In my opinion, the NSDAP embrace a Platonist conflict-based ideology centered around superiority and dominance - what Nietzsche called master morality. After the war, I believe the Germans were indoctrinated with a Platonist conflict-based ideology of moral inferiority and submission - Nietzsche's slave morality. I believe what is needed instead is an ethics of vitality & flourishing, especially via trade & cooperation.

I don't know how widely these works are available in German but I strongly recommend:
Aristotle - Nichomachean Ethics (virtue ethics; the virtuous man strives to improve himself, not to sacrifice himself for the group)
Bastiat - The Law (liberalism; the law must serve all)
Leonard Peikoff - The Cause of Hitler's Germany (individual reason; its discredit as a major factor in the rise of 3R)
Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein - The State in the Third Millennium (arguing for the transition of modern nation-states into peaceful service companies)
Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene (arguing that genetic self-interest operates as the level of genes, not individuals or races, thus producing cooperative individuals; but ignore his baseless pleas for post-theist Christian slave morality.)

And I agree that a special study should be made of Austrian-school economics, such as Hans Hoppe, Mises, Rothbard and others.

Taken together, I believe these works rebut not only the philosophy and ethics of NSDAP, but also of the modern pseudo-liberals who are of course left-wing rather than genuinely liberal in the sense of Mises.


I did not know this:

Understanding that a museum of National-Socialist atrocities at Auschwitz must absolutely feature a “gas chamber” in order to be convincing and attract visitors, the Polish postwar museum administrators went to work in 1946/47 to create the climax of their future museum tour: the “gas chamber.” Without documenting either the state of the building before their changes, or the changes they were about to make, they

    built a new crematorium chimney, although it is not connected to any smoke duct;
    rebuilt two of the three furnaces, yet in a dysfunctional manner (they built the hearth in the ash chamber beneath the muffle rather than attached to the rear of the furnace);
    knocked a large, asymmetrical opening at the wrong spot through the wall connecting the former morgue with the furnace room, and “forgot” to put any door into it;
    knocked down all thick separation walls except for one, although they should have left one standing, meaning their new, larger room included what used to be the separate washroom;
    removed the toilet stall walls and the toilets, but left the toilet drains clearly visible;
    left the entrance to the air-raid shelter with its air-tight door and air-lock standing, because without it there was no direct access for victims to the morgue, and this gas-tight air-raid-shelter door with peephole was a tempting (though fake) piece of evidence pointing to the room’s alleged misuse as a homicidal gas chamber.
    As a climax of their criminal tampering with the evidence of a claimed crime scene, they crudely knocked four square-shaped holes through the ceiling, put some wooden boards around them and a wooden lid on top, and declared them to be Zyklon B introduction shafts.

This grand plan of deception was and still is called to this day a “reconstruction” of the “original gas chamber,” although there never was an original, and the mistakes made during the effort clearly qualify it as a forgery rather than a “reconstruction.” Until the turn of the millennium, the Museum mendaciously told millions of visitors that this building was in its original state, although they knew better. Only later, beginning in the 1990s, did they admit having made some “mistakes” during their “reconstruction.”

https://holocaustencyclopedia.com/instruments/camp/mixed-purpose-camp/auschwitz-main-camp/382/


USDJPY at 149.74, with JP MoF line in the sand at 150

Fiat might die today (as every day)


Perhaps. This all assumes the nation-State makes it intact to Nov 2024. We might have a financial collapse before then that makes the Federal government obsolete.


You don't know
Maybe he had a lot of jobs


Certified EU moment

https://image.nostr.build/f919bfde35d1cd0974eeec851143f4700c06adcacf024951a823fd6c1e1339df.jpg

#instameme


Scorpions are way worse


Commie scum


Henry Hazlitt, in 'The Failure of the New Economics', quoting Keynes:

"For my own part I am somewhat sceptical of the success of a merely monetary policy directed towards influencing the rate of interest. I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investment."

Hazlitt replies:

So there you have it. The people who have earned money are too shortsighted, hysterical, rapacious and idiotic to be trusted to invest it themselves. The money must be seized from them by politicians, who will invest it with almost perfect foresight and complete disinterestedness (as illustrated, for example, by the economic planners of Soviet Russia). For people who are risking their own money will of course risk it foolishly and recklessly, whereas politicians and bureaucrats who are risking other people's money will do so only with the greatest create and after long and profound study. Naturally the businessmen who have earned money have shown that they have no foresight; but the politicians who haven't earned the money will exhibit almost perfect foresight. The businessmen who are seeking to make cheaper and better than their competitors the goods that consumers wish, and whose success depends upon the degree to which they satisfy consumers, will of course have no concern for "the general social advantage"; but the politicians who keep themselves in power by conciliating pressure groups will of course have only concern for "the general social advantage". They will not dissipate the money for harebrained schemes in East Africa; or for crop supports that keep submarginal farmers in business and submarginal acreage in cultivation; or to build showy dams and hydroelectric plants that cannot pay their way but can swing votes in the districts where they are built; or to set up Reconstruction Finance Corporations or Small Business Administrations to make loans to projects in which nobody will risk his own money. There will never be even a hint of bribery, or corruption, or the gift of a mink coat to a minor official by the beneficiary of the loan...
This is the glorious vista that Keynes unveils. This is "the new economics"

(Ellipsis in original)


A easy, I already quit smoking & only drink socially


This is why men don't need makeup but women do


Yes

Bitcoin is a trade token with no real substance, just like fiat

I believe Bitcoin will be remembered as the capstone of the fiat epoch, not as the cornerstone of a hard money era


This seems like an excellent red pill for normies - explains the fiat/fractional banking dilemma in simple terms

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I found this persuasive:

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The footage of thousands of emaciated Jews being liberated from Buchenwald suggests standard socialist work-camps & supply chain breakdown. If the point of the camp was only to kill them, why did they stick around long enough to get emaciated? Why was there housing built for many thousands of prisoners? The strongest evidence of the Holocaust thus casts doubt on the purely genocidal aim of the Nazis.

The Warsaw uprising suggests that some, possibly many or all of the mass graves found in the East were the result of decimation rather than genocide. Decimation is a practice dating back to Ancient Rome in which 10% of a rebellious population is killed - hence the prefix deci, as in ten. 70,000 Jews were rounded up after the Warsaw uprising, and 7,000 killed. This is still murderous and (in my view) criminal, but historically common.

I think it's also possible that a program of deliberate genocidal euthanasia killed some proportion of Jews and others, and that the number so murdered has been inflated by disease, exhaustion,  and starvation following supply-chain breakdown, as well as simple lies. The absurd "evidence" of Treblinka should encourage us to be skeptical about Majdanek & Auschwitz, but of course by itself proves nothing of these other camps.


I view Bitcoin as the ultimate fiat token
(pun intended)


I agree, except probably we disagree about which epoch Bitcoin defines


This is a reductio ad absurdum of itself


https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/macleod-end-road-dollar

If I understand correctly, Macleod argues:
1) The fiat dollar cannot long continue without metal backing
2) The existing regime cannot back the fiat dollar with metal


https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/costco-gold-indicator

I'd seen the Costco story, but what strikes me as especially interesting is the notion of Covid toilet paper-style shortages

I already believed we would see something like that in a collapse, but the comparison to Covid TP makes it much more concrete and easier to imagine how that might play out


My little brother is several years younger than me. Growing up, we lived with our shared mother & his father (my stepfather). Because of his young age & father's temperament, my brother got away with any violence he wished to inflict on me, while I was punished severely for any attempt to retaliate.

Eventually, when my brother was a young teen and I was a college student, I had a broken arm in a sling, which due to the location of the break could not be placed in a hard cast. My brother at one point hit me in my broken arm (not particularly hard) and I turned and punched his right shoulder hard enough to knock him to the floor.

He never hit me again.


So that's what she did to me


I think in theory restaurant supply should be able to get you powdered lean (which is used for soup) plus tallow if you want to make your own


If you're in the US grassland beef has mostly-authentic grass-fed pemmican (their "salt free" product)

The inauthentic part is they don't completely dry the lean, so it's not shelf-stable


Also pemmican :)


Nah

I'm the whole thing


Spooky


The only reason a CB would own gold is to give their currency value


Yeah but mostly fighting the Soviets consisted of giving aid to the Soviets (eg nukes, grain), becoming more centralized & bureaucratic, and letting our secret police do whatever they wanted


Foggy Bottom+City of London is the International Community


I don't mind idiots who lack the power or intention to harm me


I ate a grass-fed ribeye & watched some Brood War


IMO the most beautiful of the "basic" coins from major sovereign mints

https://youtu.be/1I1po_P1PFM?si=NJswMvJKw7RBQQAr


Is this a scheduled outage or an emergency?


Where are banks closed? Germany?


Make life, not just a living


Something I found out recently:
Earth is in an ice age right now!
When there is ice at the poles, this is an ice age & historically is not always the case.

So the idea that getting a little warmer would be a huge catastrophe is obviously nonsense, although of course coastal cities would have to adapt with retaining walls (as the Netherlands has already done) or with migration.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age


Fiat food is especially cruel to women


Oh, and statins provide basically zero life expectancy - any benefit in heart disease is offset by other risks


I'd heard good things about Matrix but never tried it


https://youtu.be/fuj6nxCDBZ0?si=PmPKt61wAUyZAJHO

LDL:
Normal LDL is protective, higher is better.
Unhealthy (oxidized) LDL is damaging, higher is worse.
Oxidized LDL is poorly re-absorbed by the liver & piles up in the bloodstream, hence the convential wisdom that high LDL is dangerous.

Tests:
There's particle size, where large LDL molecules are healthy and tiny ones are bad (iirc).
I think there's also some other test of LDL oxidation in particular.

Heart Disease:
If you're worried about heart disease the gold standard is a coronary artery calcium scan. They use an X-ray to look for buildup of calcium in the arteries around the heart - looking for disease directly rather than just some statistically associated blood marker.

Diet:
Carnivore diet should reverse arterial blockage, particularly if you're eating foods which are high in vitamin K (eg egg yolk, caviar, I think liver is decent also).


Plastic isn't made out of fossils
It's fat deposits from plankton

Limestone is made out of fossilized shells though


TFW you choose dark side in KOTOR


Nah, saving real money (metal disks) prevents this by allowing the peaceful division of labor to continue


Consider Mises' regression theorem & Menger's theory of money (also Moldbug's thoughts on money as a mechanism of saving)

1) We start in an undeveloped market or barter economy.
2) In order to exchange my good A for what I really want B, I either need to find somebody who has B and wants A (tough) or I need to find somebody who wants A and has some good C which is more widely desired than A, which I might trade for B directly or with the aid of further intermediaries. (Menger)
2b) Alternately, in order to exchange my good A for what I really want B in the future, I might need to exchange for some more durable good D, hold D for a period of time, and exchange for B, possibly with further intermediaries. (Moldbug)
3) In either of these scenarios, the good C or D has trade value to begin with because of its real uses and physical properties. Gold for example is a ductile metal & easily reshaped. As it becomes widely recognized that the good is desirable for savings or trade, it becomes generally accepted - money.
4) The exchange ratio of gold for various goods (prices) yesterday forms the basis of exchange ratios (prices) today. (Mises)

So if the king introduces a new paper money out of the blue nobody will know how to price it. Historically I am not aware of any currency that was introduced in this way - the Euro for example started as a weighted basket of European currencies.

Bitcoin has no industrial or consumption use, but only trade value. It seems to be a substitute for dollars which are a substitute for gold. When the current fiat regime dies I fully expect Bitcoin to die with it. Outside of areas with a functioning precious metal economy (eg Utah goldbacks) I expect a reversion to barter. I don't believe I will have any difficulty getting people to accept metal disks. Scarce, durable, and obviously valuable commodities should be easier to spend than anything else.

But why would people accept Bitcoin in such a scenario? Right now, acceptance is driven by fiat markets. If I'm a business owner I don't need my supplier to take Bitcoin because I can just convert to fiat. If fiat dies, I can only take Bitcoin if my supplier does, and so can he, and so on. The only people still taking it will be True Believers.


You had it right the first time


Bitcoin is currency, not money


I've never bought a sat, although I've been tipped a few thousand on nostr (up to $3 or $4 now)

But yes, gold
Also silver (speculating on re-monetization in case of crisis)
US nickels (melt value over 5c, hedges both inflation & deflation)
Brass & lead
Frozen beef
Etc

If Bitcoin did take over I could sell gold for it, maybe I'd lose some of the monetary premium but gold is a useful commodity, seems unlikely to go to zero.
Instead, I expect Bitcoin to die when fiat dies.


Compared to 99.9% of humans who have ever lived, yes absolutely, but so are most Americans.


Seed oils
Nitrates
Corn syrup


Clear it every time you pick it up


I know some tradesmen who make more money than my office job


The war for freedom is an individual battle, not a collective one

To tell yourself the truth is enough


It sounds like Panishyan gave away the farm to the muzzies... trying to cozy up to the West?

Also sounds like the Russians let it go


Plato would know - he's one of those evil men


Fiat is a sinking ship
Bitcoin is the crow's nest
Gold is dry ground


It's peel all the way down


Lul at least if you buy some gold flakes you're getting a tiny amount of real money


Where?


Bitcoin is also created out of thin air


Never (ie not by 2030)


They're commies and the machine they're mad at is industrial capitalism which produces all the wealth they enjoy (not to mention their musical & recording equipment)


Honestly this is something in mainstream economics I don't understand

Supposedly people trusted the banks because the paper notes were more secure than the gold

Which I guess could be true for a check but certainly not for bank notes, since if someone steals the paper notes they get the gold

So how does carrying your seed phrase on a piece of paper make things more secure? I guess you could only carry part & memorize the rest, or just carry a hint


Stack 'em


Root cause - a currency token associated with no real asset

Solution - a currency token associated with no real asset


Post boog memes?


Just wait till you find out about the Universalists


"We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a *moral* law, they called it, which punished those who observed it—for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered; the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness? We were a pretty decent bunch of fellows when we started. There weren't many chiselers among us... Within one year under the new plan, there wasn't an honest man left... That was the evil, the sort of hell-horror evil that preachers used to scare you with, but you never thought to see alive. Not that the plan encouraged a few bastards, but that it turned decent people into bastards, and there was nothing else that it could do—and it was called a moral ideal!"

"Mistakes of this size are never made innocently. If men fall for some vicious piece of insanity, when they have no way to make it work & no possible reason to explain their choice—it's because they have a reason that they do not wish to tell. And we weren't so innocent either when we voted for that plan... We didn't do it just because we believed that the drippy old guff they spewed was good. We had another reason, but the guff helped us to hide it from our neighbors and from ourselves. The guff gave us a chance to pass off as virtue something that we'd be afraid to admit otherwise. There wasn't a man voting for it who didn't think that under a setup of this kind he'd muscle in on the profits of the men abler than himself. There wasn't a man rich and smart enough but that he didn't think somebody was richer and smarter, and this plan would give him a share of his better's wealth & brain. But while he was thinking that he'd get unearned benefits from the men above, he forgot about the men below who'd get unearned benefits too. He forgot all about his inferiors who'd rush to drain him just as he hoped to drain his superiors. The worker who liked the idea that his need entitled him to a limousine like his boss's, forgot that every bum and beggar on earth would come howling that *their* need entitled them to an icebox like his own. *That* was our real motive when we  voted—that was the truth of it—but we didn't like to think it, so the less we liked it, the louder we yelled about our love for the common good."

Part II, Chapter X, The Sign of The Dollar
Atlas Shrugged


Oh yeah dollar rallied today, good spot to sell for real money


IMO Schiff looks a lot healthier now than he did 15 years ago


Hooray


Awhile back I was advocating the death penalty for violent felons & got suspended - then I deleted & haven't felt tempted to go back

I think xwitter is using simple filters for violence, without the deeper analysis of what the person is really advocating


I haven't got an ounce of the stuff


NSA confirmed


💯%
Turn off the "money" printer
Hang violent criminals
Lash property criminals
Permit/encourage armed self-defense

and then you can have open borders, because people won't want to come for either private or public crime


$300k of gold coins is about 10 pounds at current prices and can be stored in a home vault or transported in a suitcase.

There are fractional options for gold like combi-bar (1g pieces, worth maybe $70 at current prices), goldbacks (1/1000tz pieces worth around $4 at current prices), & digital transfers.


I suspect liberty ideas are amplified abroad (eg Javier Milei) by US State dept. as an anti-communist & therefore anti-China ploy.

If so, I celebrate but hope to avoid excessive GAE control.


Tell me you don't understand commodity money


Monetary competition pushes towards a single unit (which enjoys monetary premium).

Silver's role as the mechanism for small payments is jeopardized by goldbacks & digital transfers of gold.


It seems like the criminals share certain characteristics


For physical gold between 1mg and 0.5g I think the goldback is clearly the best (only?) option.

It's unclear to me whether silver can make a monetary comeback if it enjoys a free-market exchange rate to gold & we end fiat & fractional banking. If it does, that would reduce the need for minimal fractions of gold.

I think the 1/20 tz Goldback doesn't make much sense given that 1/10 tz coins & 1g combi-bar are available at such lower premiums. Do you imagine goldbacks circulating alongside higher-weight coinage? Or Goldback only?


Red pill posting:
https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state


You cannot (completely) control your emotions,  but you can control the outlook that produces them & your reaction to them.

Feeling envy is IMO not a mortal sin, but continuing to focus yourself in a way that makes you envious and/or reactingto envy in a way that nurtures that envy, are.


Warning: people don't like it when you do this


It's $1000 a year


Lul


"starting"


Maybe you should measure in a real commodity like gold?

Every price is an exchange rate between two things
There is no "price level"


Seed oil got grandfathered into GRAS because they were in US foods before the regulatory regime started.

The marketing is largely Ansel Keyes & the vegetarian diet doctors (many of whom have religious or ideological convictions promoting vegetarianism). They vilified saturated fat & had to promote something else. Another key proponent was USDA, who was tasked with promoting produce and then with setting diet guidelines. Shockingly, the one task influenced the other.


https://image.nostr.build/42d7eb91458998290630f093429c3619f0ac0b05dc34a61b683e53c0fa86fce0.jpg
#meme #memes #memestr #nostrmemes

Some extra, unrelated info for us, the #Bitcoin nerds:
Current block number is 809,361 and the next #halving ETA is 25 Apr 2024 19:30:45 UTC. Tick tock, next block and pura vida, #plebchain fren 🤙💜


Fiat dining


Yes.
🪙


Since going full carnivore I've become much more sensitive to plant toxins

Meats with celery (or Swiss chard) make my mouth feel dry & itchy (astringent?)
Then my stomach hurts; over the next few days my dandruff gets much worse and I excrete some sort of irritating material from my eyelids (similar to oxalates)

Or the whole thing is psychosomatic


The difference between rape & sex is consent.

The fact that I can quit my job is what makes it not slavery.
The fact that I don't have to take out loans (and can discharge them in bankruptcy) makes it not slavery.

Yes, he who does not work shall not eat. That's not an imposition of a slavemaster but physics.


Celery no good

Sadly most cured meats will either have nitrates or celery which is rich in nitrates


I haven't pinned my hopes on central banks, but this is still heartening:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/new-era-gold-estimated-world-official-gold-holdings-reach-record-high


I think that particular claim is probably true, or at least close.

Most claims like this I've seen are based on the Edict of Diocletian, a series of maximum price controls passed by the Roman emperor in response to persistent inflation despite monetary reform. These are dictated prices, not market prices. Nonetheless they do tend to roughly mirror current prices. I would expect the metal price of agricultural goods and basic labor in the late pre-industrial age to closely mirror Roman prices.

I don't believe in a general principle that metal purchasing power remains flat. I think with technological progress, capital accumulation & expanded division of labor real costs should fall. Looking at USA through the 1800s for example I believe we see mild price deflation over the century.
In contrast, capital atrophy can raise prices, especially making worse an already-inflationary regime.

We also know of certain periods where precious metal supply suddenly spiked, producing temporary price inflation & decrease of real purchasing power. Roman emperor Trajan acquired silver mines in Spain producing temporary price inflation in silver, and the California gold rush produced temporary price inflation in gold.

However, generally yes, precious metals maintain purchasing power well over long periods. The rate of dilution (from mining) is usually quite modest & roughly mirrors population growth. There are also multiple natural balancing effects. If the metal has high purchasing power, mines can more readily afford mine employees & equipment, producing more metal. Conversely mine activity & metal supply stagnates when the purchasing power of the metal is low. Another balancing effect comes from the fact that precious metal mining can't really be much more efficient than other forms of mining (or even other industrial activity in general). So, the availability of precious metal tends to closely parallel the availability of other commodities, producing stable relative prices.


Bottle feeding? Cringe


“We can’t change the leadership of an organization every three or six years and expect the organization to perform in an outstanding way,” says Robert McDonald, the former CEO of Procter & Gamble and a longtime Republican whom President Barack Obama nominated to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2014. “You’ve got to have continuity of leadership.”

So... the President isn't actually the leader & democracy has to be a lie in order to work


"Trump, if elected again, could effectively order the Justice Department to jail anyone he wants, for no other reason than he has the power to do so as president."

Lul projection much?


I don't think there's video
The interviewer published the same text transcript with no video link


A relay validates the notechain & allows you to confirm all the notes are genuine


Rope was always sufficient


Did liberty fail?

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/09/bretigne-shaffer/please-dont-lay-the-crimes-of-the-coercive-state-at-the-feet-of-liberalism/


Wake babe, Ministry of Truth just dropped new history

Now Eurasia nuked Eastern Oceania

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/von-der-leyen-speech-suggested-russia-dropped-nuke-hiroshima


"Secrecy does not imply wrongdoing. Privacy is a prerequisite for freedom. I have a lock at my bedroom. It doesn’t mean I do anything illegal in my bedroom. I am not a slave; I am a citizen. I can have privacy."

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/our-system-collapsing-real-time-tucker-carlson-gives-bombshell-interview


Yes, but

My impression is that Saudi is more authoritarian than totalitarian

Meaning you can say what you want as long as you don't mess with the regime (probably also Islamic blasphemy would also get you in trouble)

If you are in a non-permissive environment be aware of the consequences of your behavior


The banks are safe & effective


GM - video sites + amethyst are my only online social media


I like that the Bitcoin is still made of gold
Y'all know what money is


Yes, of course


The Feds seized about 1/4 of the US gold. Much of the rest was held privately or sent (by the New York banks) to Switzerland. What was seized was largely foreigners' gold holdings within the US, especially gold coming in foreign payments as the order was enacted.


#datechain


Is it mozzarella?


Medieval Europe got civilized because violent criminals got the rope

Keep doing that for a couple hundred years and only cucks & men with self control are left

Then those with self control outcompete the cucks


It's a PPK clone.
Official PPKs were made in various countries, clones even more.

The company (Bersa) was founded by Italians who had worked for Beretta in Italy.
I'm not aware of a Nazi connection.


Things that have increased dramatically or only existed in the past 200 years:

Proactive policing
Large, centralized nation-States (really since Westphalia, peak around WW2 and declining since)
Mass incarceration
Drug prohibition
Fiat currency

You might complain that socialism is when the government owns the means of production, but ownership means control


Tilt the tube into your hand


Hard money 🧡 https://image.nostr.build/30f619523771fc626013b2201d0fd88322a77c3a7ebcaf9ae4f22755ff12faec.jpg


Krugs & Eagles so you can actually circulate them
Or cap em


IMO the most beautiful State coin of the past few years

https://youtu.be/Ip2K9RzAYuY?si=YppqfS5qskNT0WMN


Look at the data you posted

In June there were more mass shooting than casualties, including the shooters

WTF kind of mass shooting kills less than 1 person?


Sooner or later... sic semper


*European countries, not Europe as a whole obviously


US doesn't have daily mass shootings either, and has a larger population than Europe


Very silly


There's also private businesses


The South Dakota #Goldback series is now available! This is the 5th state to join the network.

#Goldbacks #Gold #Money #Currency #CBDC

https://youtube.com/shorts/xMvbI5bB_g8


LFG!


(chicken(cardinals()belts)


Why is it made of gold?


At what rate?


I thought they changed something functional?


It's currency, not money.


The real WMDs


I read the Python script comments, it says it's looking for USD values & filters out other currencies

If the transactions were merely the data sufficient to run the chain I don't see how it could encode fiat price information. Address A sends X satoshis to address B. None of those tell you the value & certainly none tell you the exchange rate to fiat. Even if you posit that people are sending even dollar values that doesn't actually narrow down the price to a single dollar estimate. Bitcoin could be at a fiat price of Y, or 2Y, or 10Y, etc.


Gold is already only valued for its utility, like everything else.


Gold will always be scarce, unless some unimaginably strange events happen.

Even if Bitcoin completely takes over the financial system & gold loses all monetary premium, gold would still be scarce.


Different companies will issue their own digital claims on #gold , and by competing provide one layer of protection.

Historically the New England banks (especially Boston) served as a pro-specie bulwark, demanding note redemption and driving unsound banks out of business. The Federal Reserve was created as a government-backed cartel to force sound banks to expand currency and credit in unison with unsound banks - so instead of specie the unsound banks would be able to "redeem" in the notes of other banks. Expansion in concert prevented banks from driving each other out of business. Still, ordinary Americans could drive unsound banks out of business, and so the cartel was forced to default to them in 1933. Then foreigners could drive the unsound central bank out of business, and was forced to default to them in 1971.

Sometimes it seems Bitcoiners presume that everyone needs to be honest for gold to work, but in fact all that's needed is *anyone* to be honest. This is why the dishonest banks had to create a government cartel, had to disconnect US citizens from international gold, and have sent the US to war repeatedly to stop gold from emerging as a financial alternative. The real WMDs were Gaddafi's gold dinar & Hussein's plans to break from the US dollar system to trade in Euros & gold. In 2014 China purportedly told the US it wanted to go on the gold standard & the US replied that would be an act of war. But as the world has more equal technology and more evenly distributed industrial capacity, the US loses the ability to bully the rest of the world off gold. A world without a hegemon is a world where fiat dies quickly.


A little good news

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/20/europe/poland-ukraine-weapons-grain-intl-hnk/index.html


That's the idea


Exactly

But also post to other video hosts like rumble, bitchute, odyssey


I don't understand... why is the chain recording USD values?


His arguments:

1) Gold supply is somewhat elastic.
This is true but historically maximum dilution rates are around 5% and they occur only when the purchasing power of existing gold is maximized (recovery from collapse of fiat systems). His scenario presumes gold can temporarily go to a very high purchasing power (thereby promoting mining), which is a reason to own gold.

1b) Exact gold supply is unknown.
So what? This is true also of all other commodities as well generally of currencies and even many collectibles.

1c) The value of gold derives from its scarcity.
This is simply false. The value of a good is the use to which its owner or buyer could or does put it. Scarcity plays into that because if we only have a little we will only use the good for absolutely essential things, like drinking water in a desert, which we value highly. But scarcity alone does not make the poop of endangered species especially valuable. More broadly, scarcity is a limitation on supply while demand is the source of valuation.

2) Gold's fiat price is relatively flat from the last blow-off top.
This is a bull argument, not a bearish one. If you don't cherry-pick the time scale the dollar declines vs gold by something like 8% compounded annually over long periods of time. Being flat vs the last blow-off means now is a good time to sell dollars.

2b) Gold's fiat price doesn't keep up with expansion of the money supply.
Here he is just wrong. He shows a chart demonstrating that gold's fiat price does trend perfectly in line with monetary debasement, but picks a peak in relative gold price in 1980 to claim otherwise.

3) Gold is difficult to use for small payments.
This is partly true. We have silver, copper, high-premium fractional gold instruments like goldbacks, and digital transfers of claims on gold. There are also low-premium instruments like Valcambi's combi-bar that break into fractional pieces. If you don't trust the digital claims, then don't leave a bunch of gold in the system for extended periods. Even Bitcoiners will briefly accept suspect stablecoins in order to make a transaction (as conversations here on nostr have shown me). Many are paid in fiat but save in Bitcoin. Perhaps this mindset should be applied to claims on gold and physical gold in one's own possession.

4) Gold is difficult to cross borders with.
This is just wrong - gold is among the easiest physical assets to bring across borders. It is less bulky and easier to conceal than almost any other commodity. He cites a $10k disclosure but doesn't mention that US 1tz coins have an official face value of $50 - so you can bring 199 of them before disclosing. Bars I believe are not disclosed at all. Moreover the use case of Bitcoin to send value across borders applies perfectly to digital claims on gold - which may  default eventually but sending money across borders does not require a long holding period.

5) You don't go forward by going backward.
You do when you've gone the wrong direction and need to turn around.

6) Gold's fiat price didn't perform well in Covid panic, "only" going from $1500 to $1900.
This is silly. Gold insures against financial turmoil & fiat collapse, not literally everything. The actual return is good. What return should gold have had in order to meet his expectations? He doesn't say.

I think his target audience seems to be people who want to speculate in gold to make a lot of fiat. He calls them goldbugs but even in his doomsday scenario quotes prices in dollars. In my view, the point of gold is fiat will die, not to make a lot of fiat.


Zelensky politely listens to Zelensky speech
https://rumble.com/v3jkes5-zelensky-attends-zelenskys-un-speech-in-editing-fail.html


Be cheerful and at ease

The victory of reality over delusion is inevitable and not up to you


So if they could credibly claim to stop printing you would be fine with fiat?

I would not.


What's in it?


Also: Buying 1 sandwich in 2030


You use a certain amount of energy computing blocks. How do you get back or redirect that energy? Isn't it mostly lost as heat?

If your datacenter produces currency, that currency belongs to the datacenter owners and operators, not the electric grid operators. You could spend currency importing additional fuel but that was true regardless of what task the datacenter was doing to produce currency. You could be renting out cloud storage or crunching numbers for LLM chatbots.

Is Bitcoin mining the most efficient way to turn electricity back into some form of currency? I doubt it. One compelling alternative is turning air and water into ammonia, which can be used to fertilize crops or burned as a fuel for mechanical or electrical output. Or you could perform those other datacenter tasks.

Moreover, Bitcoin is convertible into electricity at variable rates, not a fixed rate. I can't buy Bitcoin now and have any confidence about how much or how little electricity it will buy in 5 years. Supposedly this is the great weakness of fiat - that my fiat dollars will buy an unknown amount of real goods.

I suspect this unknown is the chief appeal of Bitcoin. Bitcoiners seem to hope that Bitcoin will increase in trade value vs real goods, while they (and I) believe fiat will tend to decrease in trade value vs real goods.

If you think Bitcoin will continue to increase in trade value vs real goods forever, why? Whatever wonderful mathematical properties it has can be duplicated in other cryptocurrency. Do you think all cryptos matching or exceeding the current properties of Bitcoin will go up in value forever?


I don't want people to buy gold, I want them to sell dollars

My problem with the paper world is the value isn't real - the "money" (actually currency) is just a meaningless token. How does Bitcoin improve on that?


2 raw yolks 0 whites a day is ideal IMO


Emo hitler


Mixed messages from this anti-suicide PSA


I think the main problem paper money solved was small payments, not large.

The smallest common gold coin (1/10tz, current metal value around $200, after premium probably $250) or the smallest common gold bar (1g, current metal value around $60, after premium probably $100) available today are far too valuable to buy a sandwich or a dozen eggs.

Historically silver & copper were used for small payments due to their lower value. This created problems when some countries adopted silver as their base money and others adopted gold (with silver only as a token standing in for gold at some fixed rate). With different countries offering different relative values for gold & silver, the coins were traded to where they were valued most highly and countries experienced chronic shortages of one or the other, depending on which was valued higher relative to foreign countries. In countries with freely floating exchange rates between the metals, this sometimes resulted in chronic shortages oscillating between silver and gold depending on the policies and markets elsewhere.

Goldbacks & digital transfer of gold both solve the small payments problem. It is unclear to me whether they do so well enough to prevent re-monetization of silver and copper in the event of fiat collapse.

Digital transfer also solves the problem of very large payments, but I think this is a problem for industrial trade, not for ordinary people. Under a gold standard, a house is likely to cost 100tz (or less), which is 7 pounds (under 4kg). This is hardly an onerous burden for the largest purchase of one's life. A nice but not extravagant vehicle today might cost something like 25tz, less than 2 pounds (1kg). For everyday spending, bulk and weight are not drawbacks of gold (or arguably even silver).

The other problem paper notes supposedly solved was security. Checks and their descendant, digital transfers, may improve security, but paper notes do not. I am little comforted if my gold is safe in a bank vault while some thief pockets my only claim on that gold.


Few understand it because it's in Deutsche :P


One thing I’ve noticed when offering #goldbacks is that they leave no one indifferent. People reactions range between suspicion and ecstasy but often strongly lean towards one or the other side of the spectrum.

- suspicion: people barely want to touch the #goldback or even look at the it. They think you’re trying to scam them. They see the note as nothing more than a piece of plastic whereas they much prefer receiving a piece of paper.

- ecstasy: people have no idea what it is or how much it is worth but they are in love with the apparence of the shinny note. It’s almost like they just won a Willy Wonka golden ticket. Receiving a  goldback made their day.

In my experience, 20% lean towards being suspicious and the remaining 80% lean towards being ecstatic.

#Gold #Money #Currency


"Tradition" according to Bernanke
But obviously it's because they might need real money sooner or later


#Gold is the money of kings, #silver is the money of gentlemen, barter is the money of peasants – but debt is the money of slaves. Norm Franz

🧡 #bitcoin #hardmoney https://image.nostr.build/c6cc91ca17a09ebbec05c5ab68a8ad3620c9c710ae36a4c110becae076d4ad62.jpg


I think Euro, Yen and maybe Pound are dying even before the Dollar (really Federal Reserve Note).

But the Treasury is under pressure and likely to play a major role in blowing up the fiat financial system.


https://www.unz.com/article/black-people-and-morality/

Harsh, but seems to me far closer to the truth than the regime narrative


An optimistic take

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/09/no_author/covid-juice-3-0-hits-the-shelves-in-germany/


I have not insulted your intelligence or insinuated that you are incapable of understanding an argument. Please be civil.


"Gold is a pet rock"
"Gold is a barbarous relic"
"We only keep gold because it's tradition"

When you find yourself repeating the talking points of Paul Krugman, John Maynard Keynes, and Ben Bernanke, maybe you need to reconsider your stance.

Even in a hyperbitcoinized world gold would still be a scarce and useful material.


Yes, monetary regression matters more than the currency mechanics in the long run.


If it's not real, then it does not do anything.

Imagine telling an atheist it doesn't matter whether God is real, it matters what God does. Do you think the atheist would find that convincing?


Bitcoin is (crypto)currency, not a liability

My problem with fiat is the nation-States divorced the real underlying asset from the currency.
Bitcoin is a currency that never had a real asset - essentially fiat from birth.


Much of the information here already public - police blocking escape routes for example

The interesting thing is it was the top recommendation in the Google News Maui wildfire coverage

So why?
1) There are some positive stories involving police, so maybe the story is supposed to be the police were trying to help and there was a lot of chaos and confusion (ie not really blameworthy)
2) Simple glitch in the algo promoting non-regime content
3) Limited hangout - trying to reveal certain police failings that are least damaging & minimize more damaging information

https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/09/harrowing-eyewitness-accounts-cast-doubt-on-official-lahaina-fire-narrative/


I identify as an anarcho-fascist. With respect to the things over which I exercise no control I am an anarchist. The things over which I hold authority (fasces) I am a fascist.

My greatest enemies are the fasco-anarchists, who exercise authority only where they lack control and refuse to exercise authority over those precious few things they do in fact control.


If I do X with my property, somehow nobody else is allowed to do X with their own property. Very strange.

On the other hand I think copyright is sensible, but should end when the work is made public (published; I believe this was how copyright originally worked). The author's life + however many years rule is ridiculous.


biosecurity


Take away the "money" printer
Sell 💵 for 🪙


Skinny Fetterwoman clone abusing the lack of Senate dress code


Goose

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