https://mises.org/library/what-has-government-done-our-money

https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=79BC441BCBD6EB006034ADBA4712B248

https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=FE21D2680924D21B6B2A4DD253E1E4E8

The Federal Reserve is also a cartel (along the lines of ICC and other Progressive-Era regulators)

Some banks would issue excessive bank notes (back when every private bank could issue notes), and would find that individuals would go to their own banks (particularly Boston & Pittsburgh banks which had well-developed clearing mechanisms) which would in turn demand redemption of bank notes. This caused the dishonest banks to be drained of specie and ultimately go bust.

The idea is to create a cartel that regulates the rate of inflation (inflation here having the traditional meaning: artificial expansion of currency and credit). All the banks expand credit in concert, with none able to demand specie payment and thereby bankrupt more-expansive banks. The Federal Reserve Act brings in the force of government to achieve this coordination, legalize the scheme, and in exchange cut the State in on the proceeds. It also serves as the famed "lender of last resort" in case demands for redemption should begin to bankrupt the most vulnerable banks, attempting to keep the confidence game going.

But the cartel could not be expanded to the general public or to foreigners, and the cartel was forced to default on specie to each in 1933 and 1971.


Communism Corporatism
Capitalism


I want dumb memes


God willing - mine is still 100% human
#datechain


Ridiculous. I don't eat toast.


It's what egirls put on sandwiches with jelly


That's why I keep the amount moderate, like a gentleman


Banks are safe & effective


Yes, obviously

CO2 is plant food

CO2 causes extremely little warning, but even if it did we're much closer to an ice age than to any sort of heat disaster

https://youtu.be/wnjozntXnZ4?si=zxQX-HXFcXqFQP7i


I've never seen a bitcoin


So you have less and less privacy throughout the week?

If you really want to save money, spend 2-3x on Merino wool but buy many fewer items - one garment can be worn every day for months without getting gross (naturally wicks sweat away & naturally antibacterial)

Also ideal for travel


I'm not racist but I'm also familiar about it


All the fiat 💵 are paper tigers
Final battle is 🪙 vs 🅱


I think means/ends are distractions from being. The point is not to slay the dragon, or to take up the sword, but to become courageous


If you liked "The Science"
You'll love "Our Democracy"


No, gold is gold

Bitcoin is a digital nothing - another fiat currency

The fact that energy was used to encode ledger entries does not imply that those ledger entries have value corresponding to that energy, or any other value


Nah he was just a cypherpunk who didn't understand economics & created a more perfect fiat to try to fight fiat


The banks are safe & effective


Prediction: multiple BRICS countries go on individual gold standards within 12 months


Fiat Ponzi blow up already


For certain uses, absolutely


I don't know of any better explanation than thermate (related to thermite, also has sulfur to lower melting point of steel/iron).

7 is a smoking gun, but restricting focus to 1&2 I think the smoking gun is molten steel

Responders & structural engineers reported molten steel in the rubble
https://youtu.be/fs_ogSbQFbM?si=r2TfuT70Otk_DW1b

Molten steel fused with concrete was recovered from the rubble; it's rusted brown so it's almost certainly iron/steel, not aluminum or lead
(21:20)
https://youtu.be/bObrsLtlmrY?si=ILROSGmnRPTEUVrm

Jet fuel can't melt steel, as the fire engineer at 37:30 will tell you, and any weakening in steel occurs very gradually.
https://youtu.be/DgwlFY-4Txc?si=DdZcFQYD0Dm9btGh

The official pancake theory as detailed in that last link can't explain the molten steel, and IMO doesn't explain the sudden collapse of the whole structure.


I find this reasonably persuasive
https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20220924/14959373/J6-Breakdown-by-Wooz-News-via-Mrtruthbomb.htm


14:00 "The deeper they went, the more preserved everything was. 100 feet down they found an eerie world of shopping malls and car parks that in places were virtually untouched"

Seems to dispel the underground nuke theory (in case the lack of radiation or visible explosion didn't do that already)


https://youtu.be/w--5Qc7vmpg?si=NGXreanRv50BWdBO

19:30
"3 weeks after 9/11, only 220 bodies had been identified, with no trace of the thousands still reported missing. The immense destructive force unleashed by the collapse of the twin towers had literally blown apart most of the people left inside. Some had simply been vaporized in the explosions."


Gender neutral cricket sauce


Birth != berth


Ken is a simp


What's the trailing P/E on Bitcoin?


Who else would I be?


Finally

https://rumble.com/v3h44be-president-biden-did-lie-mccarthy-announces-impeachment-inquiry-into-joe-bid.html


What's the difference?


The Western banking system is Safe and Effective


Yeah but Cheney owed Halliburton big for all the money he'd lost


Right now Bitcoin adoption depends on being able to intermediate in fiat

I can take Bitcoin for my business, and if my suppliers want fiat I can go to the markets and exchange them

What happens when fiat collapses?
Many people will accept durable tangibles goods, such as ammunition, or canned tuna, or metal disks (coins).

But why would I accept Bitcoin? Only if my supplier accepts it can I take more than I personally wish to save. And only if his supplier accepts it can he. And so on.

So unless you have self-sufficient networks of Bitcoiners, when fiat collapses so will Bitcoin adoption.

Then you will have to compete against real commodity money not from a position of already having a valuation and a network of acceptance, and integration with financial markets, but from scratch.

The 2 pizzas will not be forthcoming in a hard-money, tangible goods world.

Instead cash will be king.
Cold, hard cash.
...How can cash be cold and hard?


No, but hard money creates the conditions for large centralized state psyop science to fall apart & the truth to emerge


The value of a good is the highest use to which I judge shall be able to put that good

What is the highest use of Bitcoin?
Only passing it on the next fellow

So unless like turtles there is an infinite chain of fellows, the stuff is worthless, just like Federal Reserve Notes (which have some small utility as pieces of green linen, but without relation to their stated value)


I think the Austrians who got suckered into Bitcoin will have egg on their faces by the time fiat collapse is done

It seems to me they have forgotten the difference between currency and money


Isn't value subjective? What do you mean when you say money has a fixed unchanging value? Value in what sense? To whom?


Sounds like the gold standard is pretty great


What's the difference between currency and money?


Those two sources I posted because of their future orientation, but I consider these three to be the best sources on nonviolent, pro-freedom resistance to tyranny

Etienne de la Boetie
The Politics of Obedience: Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
https://mises.org/library/politics-obedience-discourse-voluntary-servitude

Vaclav Havel
Power of the Powerless
https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-2011-12-23

Gene Sharpe
The Politics of Nonviolent Action
https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/peace/73Sharp/


Pirate copy of State in the Third Millennium
https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=D9BACA3E352056622D4CCEB6B34F3E03


https://mises.org/library/what-must-be-done-0

Free ebook version of Hoppe's thoughts on how to achieve decentralization


Book is The State in the Third Millennium by HSH Hans-Adam II

Lecture is "What Must Be Done" by Hans Herman Hoppe


I recommend this book on that topic:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/3905881047
(Btw this is by far the cheapest I have ever seen a physical copy of the book selling for)

And this lecture:
https://youtu.be/MBtl36UB_sQ?si=4PeMbX5Ozz26CFpl


This is one reason I am optimistic about large States breaking apart or at least sharing authority among more local institutions.

More locations where authority is exercised = more competition, and in the event things go poorly it's a lot easier to flee a town than a continent


It's almost like stopping new competition will help the existing businesses


1) Random noise
Their particular governor is a public health bureaucrat rather than career politician so she was deaf to the possible political consequences & had just seen massive power seized in state of emergency during covid. She gave a talk a few months back outlining that she wanted to push every aspect of left politics via state of emergency. She was talking about trans, climate change, etc as being rammed through this way.

2) New Mexico is not an anti-gun stronghold
CA, NY, NJ, and others have a longstanding Fabian strategy for unwinding gun rights. I don't think New Mexico does as much, which creates the possibility for radical error since she's not running from an instiutionally-supported playbook.

According to wiki:
"New Mexico is among states with some of the least restrictive firearms laws in the country. Being part of the Intermountain West, New Mexico is home to a strong gun culture, which is reflected in New Mexico's constitution and gun laws."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_New_Mexico

3) New Mexico is small
If it backfires the political damage is minimal. In contrast a bigger state would attract even more attention and if voting patterns change in a large blue stronghold it would be catastrophic.


Myers Briggs is horoscopes for nerds

Big 5 is real tho


He said wholesome so obviously not LW


I agree with Spinoza - if God is real, all-powerful and omnipresent, then God is reality itself

I agree about worship of State but I think it's Platonism vs Aristotelianism, which is slightly broader.
God is the State/self/society (etc) vs God is Nature (or nature's Creator)
God of Mind vs a God of Matter
Leading to: power is control over people ('s minds) vs power is ability to thrive within/control nature
-wnich may seem paradoxical but (Bacon): "Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed"
Which to me is the essence of daoism - effortless action - striving not against reality but accepting it

I view Rand (because Aristotelian) as compatible with the best of Christianity (because Thomistic and thus Aristotelian). For a good nonfiction exposition I recommend Peikoff's Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand. I think Anthem is the best fiction of hers to get a sense of her philosophy. Anthem can be found free online.

Rand's philosophy, roughly:
1) Metaphysics: only the ordinary world is real
2) Epistemology: we can learn about the ordinary world via observation and reason
3) Ethics: Each individual faces the dilemma of individual survival, and the whole point of ethics is to aid him in doing so; reason is his primary tool so rational self-interest is the essence of ethics
4) Politics: Because rational self-interest is the essence of ethics, men must be left uncoerced and classical liberalism is the correct politics

I agree with her metaphysics and somewhat with her epistemology (I think she is missing action, see "Senses as Perceptual Systems", scientific method, OODA loops).
I think Rand's ethics is just wrong which I've written about at some length, I'll post a reply with that but briefly, survival is impossible - all men must die - so instead we should focus on genetic survival, which provides a basis for pro-family & pro-social "selfishness". Also note selfishness in the Randian sense doesn't have to mean being a prick, the core idea is that my life is for me, that my effort should focus on my own betterment. I recommend Dawkins' The Selfish Gene but ignoring his pleas for post-theist Christian/leftist ethics.
Finally I don't think any sort of God's-eye-view version of politics is coherent. I think political philosophy should be advice for the human individual, not some idealistic notion of shaping society out of clay. So my notion of philsophically correct politics is an extension of Nietzsche's master/slave dichotomy which resolves the tension by introducing "trader" as the synthesis and correct role to play. (Something Rand also does but with much less focus). The key question becomes not so much what is the best society, but how to disentangle myself from a would-be master.


Murica


I couldn't find a current menu with prices

But I did find a 1955 menu which showed grilled cheese at 40c, giving a 3.3% inflation rate

Official CPI shows 4.0% inflation over that period

Although, I do have some doubts as to the quality of that later sandwich compared to the ealier. The 1955 menu lists for example Lobster thermidor for $1.15 which I very much doubt could be had for under $6 in 2003


I agree with all that


"I do not ask you to lay hands on the tyrant to topple him over, but withdraw your support 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


From my experience in insurance, this pattern makes a lot of sense as applied to houses - one house can be burned to nothing and the house next door totally fine, mostly depending on roof type and proximity to combustible material (eg landscaping plants). Whether or not burning embers will catch your house on fire matters a lot more than some notion of how 'big' the fire area is.

I don't know how much flammable material cars have but I've heard claims there's a lot of combustible plastic in the engine area. If that's true it might just be a crapshoot of whether burning debris lands on your car (or lands in an area where the fire can spread to flammable material in the car).

I think there's plenty to criticize the government for even in the official story:
Electricity monopoly leading to poor management of power lines
Water monopoly leading to denial of water for firefighting
Poor emergency response leading to failure to warn residents
Cops putting up road blocks to stop people from fleeing

I'm inclined to think DEW is to pull attention away from the admitted and obvious failures.


My point in posting the article that modern anarcho-capitalism traces back not only to classical liberals but also to individualist anarchists. While Rothbard ultimately rejects the label, it is not because it's completely inappropriate, but because it has a negative connotation.

The rejection is an issue of practicality rather than accuracy.

Moreover, the conclusion that full capitalism requires anarchism is not new with Rothbard, but dates back at least to 1849.

https://mises.org/library/production-security-0


Maybe locally, depending on the individuals

Federally - no chance


Also Rothbard:

"Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism. Not only are they compatible, but you can't really have one without the other. True anarchism will be capitalism, and true capitalism will be anarchism"


He hasn't got one ounce of the stuff


There are individualist anarchists like Tucker & Spooner, although they were as radically pro-market as Rothbard

Anarchist just means "without rulers", which entails no one is entitled to disrupt the voluntary market action of others


"I saw my math teacher on a porn site"


My taste buds aren't run through


I don't actually, but if I wanted to I could, while I can't un-salt salted butter


And yet the global oil and grain trade continues


Do you not have salt?

I always use unsalted butter, whether I'm cooking meats with it or eating it straight


It's me

I was raised Protestant salvationist, went Objectivist atheist, now realist-pantheist, but all the while retained cultural sympathy for salvationists (pro-just-laws, anti-infanticide, pro-objective-truth, pro-family, etc)

I think there are a few things happening

One is salvationists vs universalists
Salvationists believe the individual needs to attune himself to God (or Nature), universalists thinks everyone is saved and the individual has license to attune the world to himself
Universalists are nominally Christian but almost culturally unrecognizable, while salvationist Protestants, traditional Catholics, Orthodox and even Mormons seem to have a great degree of shared culture.

Another possibility is conversion prior to conversion. The individual joins the leftist cult (either Marxist in particular or the broader category of Hegelian). Eventually they see that Christianity is not compatible with their new faith and leave it.

Finally I think there is deconversion prior to conversion. The individual is convinced by "secular" forces (largely post-theist Universalists like the New Atheists) to abandon their religion, and having done so seeks some other worldview to make sense of things. The dominant options in our society are Christian traditionalism and the leftist cult. Having quit one, they try the other.

I was fortunate in that I joined the stridently pro-individual-reason Randian cult, and like many adherents (though sadly not all) deprogrammed myself of the Randian components that are most cultish (eg worship of Rand & uncritical acceptance of her ideas). I think this is one of the better cults to fall into. While those who remain in the most orthodox sect tend to be virulently anti-religion there seems to be quite a castoff of people who either remained religious while embracing elements of Randianism or who partially deconverted and are culturally sympathetic to traditional social structures. Of course, there are also Randians who by virtue of Rand's focus on self-pleasure become very libertine and essentially leftist.


For those wanting to play fiat games ARCH and AMR may be worth consideration, both low P/E


https://www.theamericanconservative.com/argentina-milei-and-the-international-new-right/

"In practice, what we can call the “New Right” is an effort to articulate three sectors that in principle would seem incompatible, but that in the framework of the 21st century are becoming more and more compatible. These three sectors are libertarians, conservatives, and sovereigntists or patriots.
...
When these three forces exist, dialogue, and reach an agreement, what we call the New Right appears."


FDR Knew & Practically Invited Pearl Harbor

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/09/lew-rockwell/why-we-need-to-understand-what-happened-at-pearl-harbor/


Funny how "we" knew within a day who did it


But the other side of the trade has those same risks, how come the exact same risks can be overcome for oil but not metal disks?


Without the government who would have turn Iraq from a secular dictatorship to a pro-Iran theocracy?


"We were told the World Trade Center was going to collapse"

NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, morning of September 11 2001
Starts at 1:50
https://youtu.be/6vCg8Fp8aw8?si=pPjdVqT5VCv6azTQ


Finally

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If you liked "The Science"
You'll love "Our Democracy"


Violent crime - the rope
Property crimes - the lash
All else - a laugh


I can transfer claims on gold digitally, just as we transfer claims on oil digitally


History is messy. I think people discovery the regime history - in which "our" opponents were pure evil cartoon villains - is ridiculous and unsupported. Then the temptation becomes to reverse the framing, to say maybe the cartoon villain was a cartoon hero.

Villain X was probably not pure evil. Villain X probably had motivations that made sense to him & were even intelligible to others at the time.

That said it's also entirely possible that Villain X did bad things despite being human. I find the reversal into heroism often misleading, and the challenge is to break out of the regime framing entirely.


And the actual woman is gold


"Complete sovereignty at the individual level is nearly impossible today due to the interconnectedness of our economy and society. This is due to the specialization of tasks: individuals are more productive when we focus on doing one specific thing very well. As a result, we outsource many aspects of our lives to third party specialists who are very good at providing specific goods and services.

Even if you're a "mountain main" who lives in the middle of nowhere and is mostly independent, it's unlikely that you're living a primitive lifestyle. Most of those folks are still reliant on supply chains to occasionally provide them with raw materials and higher technology items they can't create from scratch. Their "islands" of humanity still have frail bridges to society."

This is no bar to sovereignty. Sovereignty does not mean isolation and self-sufficiency, it means I am not compelled to recognize some other human(s) as having authority to compel me.

Do you imagine USA (which imports many goods) is not sovereign, but North Korea is? The regime media has been making a lot of noise lately about USA dependence on Taiwanese technology. Does this imply they hold authority over USA? But doesn't Taiwan depend on USA also?


Sovereignty != self-sufficiency


If we have reliable security & dispute arbitration to send oil, grain & manufactured goods around the world, it follows that we have reliable security & dispute arbitration to send precious metal disks around the world.

Or does precious metal somehow uniquely corrupt authority figures?


So as someone who read both I guess this is why I have no friends


She must have been North African before


God is reality
It is what it is


Ironically white American flashing peace sign / Brits flashing V for victory probably gives us a completely accurate RPS trio


Lol


Will Bitcoin be part of a financial system that allows us to send oil, grain and manufactured goods around the world with confidence?


A good comment from the Unz peanut gallery:

Solid piece. One of Anglin’s best.

   " There is no point in attempting to argue that you are not an “anti-Semite,” and there is no way to oppose the Jewish agenda while also attempting to avoid that label. "

Disagree.

Admitting you’re an anti-Semite is to play into their hands. At the same time, wasting energy trying to prove you’re NOT an anti-Semite is a fool’s errand.

Jews can think whatever they want, but they’ll never speak for me. Brush off their label like a bug on your sleeve and stay strong. Almost everything they call “anti-Semitic” can be proven by facts. If they don’t want to hear them, they’ve already lost the argument.

Love that truth as you would your own child and you’ll never be fazed by them.


Somehow this is more reasonable and less hateful than anything coming out of regime media:

https://www.unz.com/aanglin/jewish-censorship-is-the-leading-cause-of-anti-semitism/


You can't have a right to be given goods and services because a) who exactly is obliged to give them to you? And b) what if there's not enough to go around?

Instead rights are rules of stable social conduct - the conditions of civic peace rather than interpersonal war


Wow, that gold standard sure is incredible

I hope when fiat collapses and people rush back to tangible things it doesn't take too long for gold-based financial networks to be rebuilt

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Also putting the steak into a cold pain, truly barbaric

But yeah this video is my favorite red pill on seed oils, especially combined with how it's made for olive oil (where they basically just squish olives)


I'm sure s/he got plenty of Vitamin D from the tropical sun on the fjords


If the British had ruled Rhodesia for another 50 years, would the blacks then be fit to govern each other?


Jet fuel can't melt steel beams
So what did?

https://youtu.be/fs_ogSbQFbM?si=JEjxj7mqPS5Puqsx


https://youtu.be/aOmlyDrltBQ?si=4koAaQ2teOVkEA3i

Which I believe is from the pilot who took the Southwesterly flight in part 1

Some segments (eg from 43 seconds or 65 seconds) show strong apparent upward movement of the stars within the viewing area.

Perhaps this can be explained purely by an Easterly facing, but even so it would refute the claim in the part 2 video that no apparent upward movement of stars is seen within the viewing area.

It also appears (from relative movement of the clouds in some of the shots) that the pilot doesn't fix the camera directly forward in the windscreen (which would maximize apparent upward movement) but instead points the camera at whatever he thinks is visually interesting


Heading is pretty northerly, and he picks a star to focus on which is on the far left of the image (which should drop, per the star "movement" patterns he cites in the video)

Looking instead at the big cluster of stars in the middle, I see very obvious rotation, but it also looks to me like the whole mass is rising


Probably whiteness

But actually Lord, from old English loaf-ward, he who guards your bread is your master
(So guard your own bread, freeman)


Did man create Bitcoin?
Or merely a record of it?


It's not too bad on a carnivore diet, although you do need to watch out for jerky, sausages, lunch meat, etc


How so?


*currency transmission, not money transmission


God is reality


There's a metaphor from Yarvin/Moldbug that I like for this.

The political predators are lions, and people who want to fight them and take over are would-be lions.

Yarvin wants to be a water buffalo. He doesn't want to fight the lions. He doesn't want anything to do with the lions.

I think this is basically the right attitude - although perhaps we can be porcupines (poky) or elephants (too damn big) or something else that is not appetizing prey for lions.


I was raised as a Christian (mainline non-universalist Protestant). I believe there is a stable order to the world and I am only a small figure in a much bigger picture.

But, I cannot believe a Jewish space wizard created the world and then incarnated himself as his own son/but still him (?) who is now a zombie and rules over the world from his home in outer space.

So culturally I want to go to church but I have no desire to worship the Jewish space wizard or pray to him. And I am extremely reluctant to falsify these things to secure a mate. Ironically, my Judeo-Christian influence manifests as an aspergic obsession with truth which in turn prevents me from attending church.

Perhaps I should suck it up and go to some sort of post-theist church (eg universalist).
My perception is that these are quite leftist and I am unlikely to find it a good cultural fit, but I did attempt to attend a Baptist congregation awhile back and it couldn't be worse than that.


If you're going to waste your life on an old video game at least make it StarCraft


Burgers should be small and numerous


Lincoln was the first biggest move away from rule of law

FDR cowed the Court and basically completed the transition away from the written Constitution


I sure hope all the murderous criminals comply


If you want to play fiat games & win fiat prizes may I recommend you look at RINF?

TIPS breakevens (ie inflation expectations) are only ~2.3%, so if CPI "outperforms" (or at least expectations do), RINF should pay off nicely

RINF shorts regular US Treasuries and goes long US Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS)

When inflation expectations go up people are willing to pay a higher premium for TIPS over normal Treasuries, and RINF increases in value

So the question is: can they really rig the CPI hard enough to keep inflation to 2.3% ?

In any case, be sure to get out before the fiat casino burns down completely.


When I was a kid the hotness was peanut butter & cheetos


Is that a US presidential dollar coin (issued 2007 to 2014)?
It looks like the Lincoln dollar

We hardly ever see dollar coins here in the US. Are they widely available there?

Presidential dollars and Sacajawea dollars were frequently described as "gold" or "golden" here but they're just brass (metal value about 6.4c)

If you're open to saving metal disks, actual gold & silver are attractive, but I think the US nickel is also worth considering. Metal value is already over 5c and as a solid alloy (unlike pennies, quarters and dimes) it should have much better barter-ability than token coinage (for example because they can be weighed to give an accurate estimate of value regardless of wear)


https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Liechtenstein_2011?lang=en

"Individual communes have the right to secede from the State. A decision to initiate the secession procedure shall be taken by a majority of the citizens residing there who are entitled to vote."


"stay" (one step at a time)

I don't think BRICS is a transnational superstate a la USSR, EU, or even USA.
It seems to me more a trade union.

That said if it becomes a superstate I would prefer to be independent of it.


No fault divorce tempts


As a Texan I'd gladly join BRICS although hopefully we can delay that until after the Ruskies drain the swamp for us


Indeed.

This is the solution proposed by HSH Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein to the crisis of democratic legitimation in his book, the State in the Third Millennium.

The State must become a peaceful provider of security services, whose legitimacy stems from actual consent rather than hypothetical consent.

Hans-Adam pushed through constitutional reforms which guaranteed the right of individual towns to secede from the State.


Also a good metaphor because you left the mainstream cult just to join an offshoot of the mainstream cult


https://energytalkingpoints.com/wind-cheap/

LCOE is a bogus metric, doesn't actually measure all of the costs imposed by use of the technology


Yeah but my ancestors didn't evolve hunting anise


Of course


Elegant drug habit


I feel like I'm talking to a lesbian but I can't help but think you just haven't met the right meat


No

https://www.smartwool.com/discover/what-is-merino-wool.html


How...

Do you like sushis?


Hmm, tiny PCB, little logic chip
Idk


Cheese looks good. Feta?

But where's the beef?


Weird Roomba but OK


fractional reserve is fraudulent
fiat is a psyop


Fiat
Taxation
Seed oils
Dental / medical checkups
Eyeglasses
American Medical Association
American Bar Association
Universities


Has crime gotten to be more or less of a problem as that "evolution" has occurred?


Abolish prison

Violent crime - the rope
Property crime - the lash
All else - a laugh


Gold ad


14

The other equations are wrong


Basic principles: get your knights, bishops, rooks and queen active (controlling important squares given what's happening and/or having lots of squares they could go to) & your king safe; get your fair share of the center

Pay attention to tactics, most games are lost by tactical mistakes. You can train with puzzles on chess dot com and lichess

Finally train endgames, Silman's endgame course is a decent source that can be found free online. There's also a good Smyslov endgame book.


Maybe you're a replicant


I don't know what liquid is

But doesn't USDt trade roughly at par?
So I could take a bunch of USDt and immediately roll it into whatever asset I wanted?

In which case, it seems the risk of such a transaction is quite low


What element of my assessment do you disagree with?

Do you think Sanders and Cortez can fund these programs without expropriation? Do you think individual rights do not apply in the economic sphere? Do you think exporioriation is consistent with private property and individual rights?


I agree that's the proper definition of liberal.

But aren't Sanders and Cortez deeply illiberal in that sense? They seem to oppose private property and equality before the law.

Cortez campaigns on a number of handouts
https://www.ocasiocortez.com/issues
Medicare for all, housing for all, education for all, benefits for criminals, benefits for foreigners, benefits for Puerto Rico.

How are these benefits to be provided except by taking private property? And of course to give only to specific groups you must take from some other specific groups, so there is no equality before the law.

Sanders also has a laundry list of handouts
https://berniesanders.com/issues/

He wants to legalize pot, which is liberal. But he wants to restrict gun ownership and sales, control various prices (especially in financial services), dictate choice of energy source, "give workers an ownership stake in the companies they work for" and so on.

It seems to me this is also illiberal.

I think historically progressivism has been a code word for communism (perhaps Fabian communism) and has been consistently opposed to individual liberty (especially in the economic realm), private property, and equality before the law.


Is discoverability a strength now?


Only error is Aussie text should be upside down


This makes me glad to use Firefox for 99% of my web usage


What do you mean by liberal progressive?


What is a bitcoin?


That's a very liberal position but a very un-left-"liberal" position.

Most of the liberals were converted to progressives, and most of the would-be conservatives are conserving a progressive near-totalitarian edifice rather than the liberal tradition.

But that wide support is more and more shallow. I think very little of the fanaticism of the left or right is now motivated by a positive vision rather than fear of the opposing side.


F16s can't go door to door searching for memers


1) Vaclav Havel & Etienne de la Boetie
The regime requires our approval and support.

"I do not ask you to lay hands on the tyrant to topple him over, but withdraw your support 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

2)A

"What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


I earn a wage but am no slave (well, except perhaps to the state)


It's Pinocchio for women

Reject Pleasure Island/Barbieland's juvenile conception of life's pleasures, embrace real responsibility

In so doing, a doll becomes human


Sell 💵 for 🪙


"Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Soybean Oil, Contains 2% or Less of The Following: Sugar, Salt, Dough Conditioners (Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Enzyme with Wheat Starch, Ascorbic Acid, L-Cysteine Monohydrochloride), Yeast, Whey, Maltodextrin, Dextrose, Corn Meal (used in preparation) "

(Domino's Brooklyn crust ingredients)


Americans (and Australians) distorted drinking culture is at least partly the result of prohibition

In the US prior to the Prohibition period, most beers & ciders were very low alcohol, something like 2% by volume. The point wasn't to get drunk, but to disinfect a water source. These drinks could be consumed throughout the day without serious intoxication.

During the Prohibition era, Americans turned to much more alcoholic drinks, including liquors. It made little sense to smuggle 2% alcohol rather than moonshine or whisky, which could be diluted on arrival. The US became the world's largest importer of cocktail shakers despite the illegality of liquor.

Similarly, restrictions in Australia on bar hours promoted a culture of heavy, rapid drinking. Binge drinking remains a major health problem on the continent today.

After the American Prohibition period ended, beers declined somewhat in potency, but not to pre-ban levels. Most light drinks now seem to cluster in the 4% to 6% range.


Happy Independence Day!

The colonial revolt continues in USA as well. We need to separate ourselves from the English & globalist banks, world government, and their infiltration of our civilization.

The Global American Empire is rapidly losing the support of the US people


Imagine a world which has fully embraced Bitcoin.

Everyone in the world uses Bitcoins as their "money". Some people self-custody, some people have their Bitcoins in a custodial arrangement (eg Wallet of Satoshi).

International commodity markets price goods in bitcoins. Crude oil is a few thousand satoshis per barrel.

Stock markets are priced in bitcoins. Contracts are written in bitcoins. Mortgage loans are made in bitcoins.

All of this contractual activity and remote exchange requires not just a trustworthy money, but also reliable security, dispute resolution, and enforcement. But if that reliable courtly authority is available - why would we use bitcoins rather than gold? Or any other commodity? Say, palladium.

Why do you assume I could successfully enforce a contractual claim on oil, or stock equity, or even Bitcoin itself, but I could not enforce a contractual claim on metal disks?

This is my point.

Bitcoins are supposedly a trustless currency, but to do anything worthwhile - even in the presence of trustless currency - still requires trust.


I think it's going to simply collapse before we get into real conflict


I don't think they were all in the cabal

But most supported corrupt authorities rather than dissent or depart


My impression is that the Free State Project is more libertine/lolbert/left-libertarian than right/Austro-libertarian/ancap

Which is unfortunate, but perhaps over time trial and error will produce something great


No replications

Most likely diamagnetic conductor but not superconductor


Yes, also natural urbanization over time.

A measuring station that used to be on the outskirts after decades of growth is well within the concrete/asphalt "heat island".


Simple hack: buy food, not food products


I think we need to encourage a concentric model of concern based on genetic self-interest.

My chief concern is my immediate family, especially myself and my children. Next and somewhat lower priority is my extended family or tribe. Next & lower is nation. Next race. Next species. Next genus. And so on. The consequence of this is profoundly pro-social and cooperative, as argued persuasively by Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (but ignore his pleas for post-theist Christian/leftist ethics).

There are two opposite but related perversions of this natural order which have similar psychological effects.

One perversion is to cut out the heart, to insist that the self, or the family, or the nation or the race (etc) is not a valid object of concern, protection and compassion. This is the Judeo-Christian approach, the leftist approach, and the environmentalist approach, among others. The consequence is that the individual fails to exercise compassion for those with whom he interacts, and becomes ultimately interested in stimulating his own feeling of self-righteousness. Yarvin discusses this brilliantly in his effective altruism pieces.
https://youtu.be/PMhHQu8rosg?si=6H5yTyBPMByNxw48

Ultimately the world becomes divided into blind enemies and fellow travelers, and the individual becomes puritanical and severe.

The opposite perversion is to insist that only the apex of the pyramid is real, that it isn't a floating abstraction to care only for the self, only for one's own mind, and only for pleasure. This is the stance of Objectivists and drug-abusing hippies. Again, there is no warmth for those with whom one actually interacts and you become puritanical and severe. This is quite apparent in Ayn Rand and her disciples such as Yaron Brook. Again the world is divided into enemies and ideological allies.

We can decry the antiwhitism of the modern West, but we cannot overcome it by elevating race over family & tribe, as that undercuts the basis for valuing one's own race in the first place. The leftist or Abrahamite will simply push the underlying ethic further, to "one human race". Instead we should capitalize on the innate human love of family to naturally support the extension of compassion - to a diminished degree - to extended familial & social structures.


Take away the "money" printer

Sell 💵 for hard money (preferably 🪙 but Internet points are at least not fiat)


I think this explains the ADL quite well (without being hateful):

https://www.bitchute.com/video/5zrQEZsPnZKg/


I'm increasingly suspicious of regime Jews (despite being fractionally Ashkenazi myself)

I found this insightful & without malice:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/5zrQEZsPnZKg/


Embed failed, womp womp

https://www.bitchute.com/video/5zrQEZsPnZKg/


Let's see if this embeds

I find it enlightening and hard to call anything here "hateful", although it's certainly critical of a special class

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I *think* it's fake

But they do consider 17% of numbers under 100 to be hate symbols so who knows


How noble.


By "the media" do you mean regime media?

I think our access to real media is dramatically better than it used to be

My goal is not to reform or even assault the regime, but to render it obsolete and impotent


Against Trustless Finance

Bitcoiners err in thinking that because the fiat/fractional banking currency system has proved completely untrustworthy, no financial system can rely on trust. For this reason they reject historical money such as metal disks and reject any future financial system built around such money.

But, we enjoy civilization to the degree we devise practices & institutions that foster merited trust.

Historically, banks were able to profit by unsound Ponzi practices, resulting in a crisis in which the banks were unable to meet their obligation. Rather than end the criminal enterprise, the bank cut the courtly authority in on the proceeds of the fractional scheme. Ordinary bankruptcy should have allowed for these banks to be foreclosed, the vault opened by the courts, and any deficiency in repayment to be lifted from the pockets of bank directors.

Instead, the corruption of courtly authority will permit the banking system to go bankrupt only when the courtly authority itself lies in ruin.

Bitcoin does not fix this. A corrupt monopoly on security & resolution of disputes will plague us whether or not the base money is sound, as gold basically is. Gold was not driven from daily transactions by mass mining or even counterfeit coinage, but by the establishment of a financial system whose function depended less and less on physical gold. Why is it impossible for this to occur with Bitcoin? And how could Bitcoin come to be valued as the base money in the first place?

Moreover, we reject fiat currency just as much by saving metal disks as buying cryptocurrency. The important thing to end the corrupt system is to withdraw support from the fiat network as much as possible and to store value outside of it. We must through market action end the "money" printers.

The future challenge is to build a trustworthy financial system. If we intend to ship each other oil, grains, manufactured goods, and so on, non-corrupt courtly authority is needed to provide security & resolve disputes. But the presence of such an authority is precisely what it takes to engender trust, make metal function as money in the industrial economy, and eliminate the need for unbacked "trustless" cryptocurrency.


Why are they illustrated as metal disks?


Doesn't the converse apply from the seller's point of view? If I'm promising to send a bag of coffee, why should anyone trust me to follow through on that such that they send me a Bitcoin?

Commerce need not take place predominantly online, it's entirely possible we return to a world in which local retail plays a prominent role & remote transactions are mostly done between business entities who face the discipline of repeated dealings


I can send claims to metal over the internet

And isn't Bitcoin a cryptocurrency?


"We were told the World Trade Center was going to collapse"

NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, morning of September 11 2001
Starts at 1:50
https://youtu.be/6vCg8Fp8aw8?si=pPjdVqT5VCv6azTQ


No, it isn't.
Commodities are standardized materials.

Bitcoins are immaterial.

You're also missing the point - if they can cheat and make "infinite" gold, why can't they cheat and make infinite bitcoins? It's not like they actually have an infinitely large pile of gold somewhere


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

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https://youtu.be/zpTA4Tmx8JM?si=KkgCJSX52IDEBYRA

https://youtu.be/-cSyctENy3A?si=etBcjLBFgiQhAkns


I use certain Google services (YouTube, Gmail, news)

But I also have private alternatives (Rumble, private mail, other news) which I use Firefox private for (as well as anything else I do online)

So I don't need anyone to delete my browser history, it's not saved in the first place


All that will matter if the family you left behind


Where do you stand on the Dewish Question?


I'll buy Bitcoins when Satoshi starts making physical delivery


Managerial socialism, yes

The remnants of capitalism are all that's keeping us afloat


Last few decades not so much

wtfhappenedin1971.com

But the real criticism is they're all in cars - USA is adapted to abundance, not real poverty

When people are living in tenements and walking/cycling to work and still can't afford food, then guillotines come out


I like coin


Sounds like scrip to me


What are bit coins made of?


No such thing


How long until GLD goes force majeure?


Habit


F*** the bluecoats


What's remarkable to me is they got caught plotting the coup (infamous "Fuck the EU" phone call) and then did it anyway


Raw yolk, ghee

I think tallow would probably be unpleasantly sticky to pull with


It is what it is


If God is reality, what is evil?


I've had good results after cutting out added salt


Plato: Power is control of people (via ideas, language, symbols, social consensus) so there is no potential for true cooperation, only power struggles and the totalitarian State becomes God. Psychology and morality become centered around master/slave dichotomy.

Aristotle: Power is the ability to flourish in nature, so God is Nature (not Gaia but the whole cosmos, even us)

Bacon: Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed

So there is a natural order (Dao) to discover in the world and in ourselves

And harmonious flourishing emerges as the ethical goal, with trader and kinship psychology


Gradual devolution and the worst abuses are instituted in a series of crises such that by the time the public realize what has happened there is no longer a clear focus for action

I think the solution is not to storm the Pentagon or capitol or whatever but to decentralize, build independent communities and systems and eventually secede naturally and organically as Washington or Brussels or Davos becomes irrelevant to your life