The territorial State is a fiction (there is no such thing) but as an imagined organization functions as an obligate parasite upon the people who live in "its" domain.

For such an "organism" to diminish or destroy its "host" population is extremely damaging to the "organism's" own survival.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hCAvBmY7ZgA


weird paragraph at the end descends into babble

either this is AI or voice-to-text


the banks are safe & effective


Apparently Putin has been hard at work to enhance the Diversity / "strength" & economic situation of the West

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/29/putin-russia-wagner-militia-africa-immigration-europe


Assert your 6th Amendment right to counsel, not your 5th Amendment right to remain silent

The lawyer can tell the cops whatever you need to tell them and it would be hearsay to use against you


I wouldn't eat that


Michael Malice: It's easier to train a smart dog


2 axis: centralized vs decentralized, and favors the strong vs favors the weak

If it's decentralized it can't really favor anyone, so there's only one true liberalism, but if centralized the state can favor the strong (eg monarchy) the weak (communism) or a balance (fascism)


Notice how that didn't catch on...


If you want algo-like feeds RSS is very nice

It's also nice to just not have any sort of feed


American Indians used to annually burn New England forests to clear out the understory (which didn't kill the big trees because they didn't let enough fuel pile up to burn the canopy) in order to create a hunting ground and navigable forests

This is why Paul Revere was able to ride at full gallop to warn that the redcoats were coming but Thoreau visiting Walden Pond described an impenetrable tangle of brush in the same area of New England

In short, nobody because most places don't actually need roads

But for a more detailed answer: probably in cities and towns local merchants, on private homesteads the landowner, and between cities and towns probably we'll have mostly rail and water transport, with some private developers creating toll roads where that's more convenient


It was taken just before his death


haha goog making everyone black

but it reminds of me a real game (in this case, variant backgammon by the regular backgammon world champion)

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ISa8yjSZ3NE


Correct, your mere assertion in unconvincing.


Leftism is antihuman. You pretend that industrial society springs out of nothing (it doesn't) and that it can be ordered about by the sufficient application of force through the political apparatus (it can't)


1) Yes, voluntarism does conflict with utilitarianism
2) You said simple rules would create conflict with reality, then I gave an example of simple rules that don't


When in reality you should be harassed for being a lefty (unless you support US aid to Israel then you should be harassed for being a Jew also)


I'm not a fan of utilitarianism, so pointing out that Bentham had some obviously disturbing ideas doesn't lead me to separate him from utilitarianism.

Here's some simple rules:
Don't lie to yourself
Interact with people on a voluntary basis


Bentham is the father of utiltarianism rather than Mill

Also if you (have to) tack on random rules to your system to account for the fact that it otherwise produces perverse results that doesn't make it good or just. Instead it just shows the incoherence of your system.


The proper moral comparison is "I don't care about the animals at all. What is healthy for humans?"


How does this guy imagine truth is discovered?


You still have a phone?


moth


US Naval Intelligence


I think most of the Chinese are economic migrants, but there are probably some saboteurs and spies

Hopefully this bolsters American anti-communist sentiment on net


don't worry they just print the "dollars"


As usual HN comments are much more thoughtful than the article itself

But I think there's a nugget here "we" can all learn from - inflation is chosen to delay the day of reckoning (at the price of making it worse). When someone does finally stop it, there is an increase in short-term pain.


Yeah, the Progressive Era really f*cked up Western civ

The "robber barons" realized you couldn't attain a monopoly in a free market and cut the government in on the action (ICC, Federal Reserve, many other agencies)


he's in Moscow time donthca know


when you're unipolar

https://cherylhoward.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Bill-Clinton-Statue-Pristina-Kosovo-980x735.jpeg


greasy walnut


Big if true

(I agree with the general sentiment, just surprised the divide is that extreme)


I think it's more cowrads trying to cover up their incompetence than malicious evil geniuses

but neither is great


There's a claim below that Covid is adapted to humans... and mice

https://storiform.com/2021/03/04/nasty-data-on-covid-origins/


About $20/day is pretty reasonable for carnivore

You can go extra budget with eggs, butter & 70/30 ground beef but GF steaks puts you up a bit

I also go mostly grass-fed but couldn't resist some steaks from the discount bin of a mega-chain this week (beautiful ribeye for $10 each)


it gets better


normalize black spray paint


Aren't infants in ketosis?

Like, we have these energy-intensive brains and human infants are born extremely fat (fatter than baby seals) and with virtually no glucose to run that energy-intensive brain. So how do you think it happens? How much glucose is in mother's milk?


I've heard intelligent gold pundits argue that catastrophic de-dollarization will likely be a "run on the bank" for commodities as foreigners buy anything real they can get their hands on.

Most think gold won't be the one to actually set it off, but instead silver or some industrial metal. Silver is the most enticing candidate because (if memory serves) it has a lower market cap than gold but is still traded as a foreign exchange "currency" along with gold, which means a catastrophic blowout would also hit financial institutions.

I am very interested in any news events regarding CME depletion.


That's a huge drawdown

Was 296 a high or low number compared to prior months?


Competency crisis?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/att-reveals-likely-cause-outage-affected-customers-nationwide


in the short run: food & water, bullets, fuel, etc (necessities)

in the long run (IMO) gold emerges out of barter as the most durable good & therefore the best commodity for saving


why would people want chips with no power ?

and you do realize they're not fungible, right?


sugars, antinutrients, chemicals

and nutrient-deficient because based on a model that depletes soil


I think there's micronutrient deficiencies but also inability to process starch OR fat well in insulin resistant individuals


I am no expert but I think you are just wrong.
I am finding claims online that fats are metabolized into acetyl-CoA which produces ATP via the Krebs cycle.

Consequently, I think glucose is not essential even for the production of ATP.

See for example wiki's introductory paragraph claiming that fats can provide the fuel for the Kreb's cycle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle


the hacker news comments are more enlightening than the linked article

I'm not willing to watch a 9-hour video on the topic nor to (fairly blindly) trust that the 4 people involved in the debate came to the right conclusion


"corrected" to match the other "corrected" datasets

If you just look at rural stations there's no warming trend


the park service is not cool
they operate to deny homestead on land they have not developed, and to interfere with usage of land that has already been homesteaded


Russia (apparently) now has lower infant mortality than USA


https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_Register_tops_70,000_pages_(2020)

"The sort of excesses of executive authority invited by too few
written laws helped lead to the rebellion against King John and
the sealing of the Magna Carta—one of the great advances in
the rule of law. But history bears warnings that too much and
too much inaccessible law can lead to executive excess as well.
Caligula sought to protect his authority by publishing the law
in a hand so small and posted so high no one could be sure
what was and wasn’t forbidden. (No doubt, all the better to
keep everyone on their toes. Sorry . . . .) In Federalist 62, Madison warned that when laws become just a paper blizzard citizens are left unable to know what the law is and cannot conform their conduct to it. It is an irony of the law that either too
much or too little can impair liberty. Our aim here has to be for
a golden mean. And it may be worth asking how far we might
have strayed from it."

https://journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/wp-content/uploads/sites/90/2010/01/Gorsuch_final-1.pdf


but who will go to the juice bar and massage rooms?


Water purification  👍


This is part of why I post anti-Bitcoin stuff even though I know most nostriches are coiners. I want to engage with the kind of people who can tolerate dissenting views and who react with argument rather than invective.


I think a cell phone (the device) is good and useful. I keep mine in a faraday bag and use it for navigation (in airplane mode, which still allows it to receive GPS signal). It also has emergency connectivity to the cell phone network (such as 911 in the US). It can record audio/video in case of an accident. It can allow me to receive FM Radio or use the magnetic sensor as a compass. I think to get something like that range of capabilities a lower-priced cell-phone is one of the most attractive options.

That said, I agree with rejecting the modern always-on always-monitored lifestyle. Somehow people survived 20+ years ago.

All my calling/SMS I do over IP and thus from a laptop, using secure messengers when possible. I'm a little less screen-addicted working from a laptop rather than a handheld device that is always with me. I also like being "unavailable" without having to think about it (eg while driving or even just going for a walk). I suspect but don't know for sure that my life is much more secure/private.

Having cut the cell phone umbiIical, I am in the process of de-Googling my laptop usage and moving to FOSS & related services.


I agree but you can get a jmp.chat number, pay in bitcoin, and either keep it for North American calling or cancel service

I think there's no true KYC in that pipeline

You might also be able to do something similar with Google's VOIP/messaging services for free; I'm not sure whether there's true KYC there either


Give to Caesar that which is Caesar's and give to God that which is God's

The question is: what belongs to Caesar and not to God ?


Yes, Anatomy of the State is an excellent introduction to market anarchism (and IMO simply an apt description of the nature of modern States).

The most thorough book on (the consequences of) private property is probably Mises' "Human Action". It's been a while since I read Mises' "Liberalism" but iirc that would be a good starting point.

Most (all?) market anarchists / market liberals have a notion of property along the lines of that espoused by John Locke in his Second Treatise (appropriation from nature by mixing one's labor) but many reject Locke's model of the creation of government as being in any way historical (social contract / consent of the governed model). So Locke's second treatise may be worth a read depending on what you're looking for.


Thinking about nostr vs other open communication protocols (especially XMPP or IRC)...

It seems to me the most critical differences are   1) particularity: users choose which bits of content they see, enabling the system to scale beyond a very small group
2) permanence: messages can be linked indefinitely rather than only being responded to or examined "in the moment", giving it a day-to-day rather than minute-to-minute new content cycle
3) fragmentation: replies to messages are linked to the original post rather than being equivalent to new posts, forming threads or chains of conversation

chan boards have fragmentation but not really particularity or permanence

reddit has fragmentation and particularity but is only semi-permanent (because it archives/locks old posts)

I think I probably prefer the reddit model of fragmentation (primarily by topic of interest) than the nostr model (primarily by indvidual poster) but I prefer the FOSS uncensorable nature of nostr and the type of people that attracts


pfp says it all


Quite possibly. I tend to have a lot more trust in fully FOSS projects


I don't think the "authorities" will recognize even an airtight argument for non-payment of taxes. I think if you want to avoid paying tax you need to have off-grid transactions. Especially promising to my mind is gold, which has an artificially low dollar value to inhibit ordinary transactions (eg $50 for 1tz) so even if you do report you can in theory report a much lower dollar value for the same purchasing power. In theory you may have to report capital gains taxes when you convert to paper currency, but for very high income earners that should be a much lower rate of taxation. I'm also skeptical whether converting between one form of US legal tender and another can incur a tax.


I don't think taxation is morally legitimate or long-run wise, and I question whether taxation is enforceable to the extent advertised. Nonetheless every legal technicality I have investigated to openly refuse tax payment has proved fruitless. On Dave Champion, it seems the "authorities" reject his arguments: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-court-bars-nevada-man-promoting-tax-fraud-scheme


Thirst traps failing to say "GM" to the Supreme Leader represents digital dictatorship


their product is an irredeemable trade token and a set of rules and infrastructure around it

Bitcoin is exactly the same, but with better rules


Thank goodness "our" tax dollars are funding such important research


Indeed. I made some recommendations, but if you have areas of special interest I might make other recommendations


Canadians are diet Americans


resentement + oversocialization


yeah instead of getting censored by the algo I had to annoy people into muting me by pointing out the  🅱mperor has no clothes


Philosophy:
Nichomachean Ethics | The Selfish Gene | Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand | Dao de Jing

Everything I've read from Cicero has been good (only a handful of orations, I remember "On Friendship" particularly)

Language:
Nonviolent Communication (but don't get too formulaic in application) | Metaphors We Live By

Lighter reads (just random things I enjoyed recently): Medici Money | Reading the Forested Landscape | A Cow's Life: The surprising history of Cattle | Fat of the Land (Steffanson)

Anything on Mises.org for liberal politics, but especially Rothbard's "Anatomy of the State", Etienne de la Boetie's "Discourse of Voluntary Servitude", HSH Hans-Adam II's "The State in the Third Millenium" and HHH's "Democracy: The God that Failed"

Anything on Mises.org for economics, but especially Per Bylund's new "Primer" (at least at a more introductory level)


Vivek Ramaswamy, Douglas MacGregor, Mike Lee


D&D alignment chart but for absolute degenerates


Interesting article about Empire as a driver of multiculturalism

https://www.unz.com/jfreud/the-national-core-of-a-people-is-revealed-with-the-loss-of-empire/


To me this highlights a weakness of Signal, which is that by being a specific organization rather than FOSS code they can be made to comply with the demands of the State

Imagine PGP or XMPP "shutting down" in UK because the State takes umbrage


I do indeed.

I'm not worried about hyperbitcoinization - if Bitcoin becomes the dominant money (which I don't think is possible, but I could be wrong) then commodities will trade at a rate that reflects their scarcity (limiting supply) and usefulness (determining demand). I might lose a little value but my savings will still be fine.

Moreover, if hyper-Bitcoin world retains industrial civilization, "we" will be shipping oil and manufactured goods and foodstuffs around the world, presumably in a way that engenders trust. Why can't precious metals be shipped around the world in just the same way?

On the other hand, if gold becomes the dominant money again (it already kind of is, but setting that aside) why would people want Bitcoin?


https://www.unz.com/aanglin/kansas-city-mass-shooting-was-just-blacks-mad-they-were-getting-looked-at-by-other-blacks/

In the early modern period, men who assault strangers for no reason would be quickly and publicly hanged, both serving as a warning and having a eugenic effect


Enjoy your echo chamber


The fact is there is no such thing as a bitcoin


With all due respect, it is a bubble that only looks sane from inside the fiat looking glass

Bitcoin is a trade token with no actual use, just like fiat

You've created fiat with more fair rules, which is still fiat and will collapse eventually


Big if true


There's nothing about cause of death, literally just "he collapsed"

I wonder if they've given up on trying to explain these


This article seems to show that 225C for 25 minutes produces toxic levels of oxidation products in seed oils:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3118035/

so that rules out using them as frying oil (IMO) but of course the dose makes the poison


Also I'm looking for specific claims about the rate of oxidation and not seeing a paper on that topic, but I am seeing plenty that claim various connections between (dietary) linoleic acid and disease:
https://openheart.bmj.com/content/5/2/e000898
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10671267/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3467319/


I don't think there's any point at which seed oils are beneficial to the body
The main fatty acid in most seed oils is linoleic acid, which has a clear disease pathway:

Linoleic acid metabolism is suppressed in diseased individuals:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9722286/

Linoleic acid levels are significantly associated with HNE (which linoleic acid produces when oxidized as in cooking) in both the general population and even more strongly in diseased individuals:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231713000979

HNE is "the most toxic" aldehyde and involved in "important neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's desease, multiple sclerosis and other diseases such as cancer, diabetes, inflammatory complications, atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, cataract and age-related macular degeneration." :
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964795/


IMHO there's basically 2 types of actor that people like: the kind where they play the same character in every film (Robert DeNiro) and the kind where you can almost forget it's the same actor in different films (Ed Norton)

Personally, I think the second is more impressive


Thank you. 26USC7203 (seemingly) establishes that misdemeanor. I don't know why it wasn't coming up in searches for me before.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7203


IMO this was much more impressive than the actual Putin interview


But I don't see criminal penalties for failure to comply


26USC6011 seems to require normies to file
but I don't see how it can be enforced unless you take some action to confirm your non-compliance
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6011


Sounds foolish to answer that letter, then


Suppose you didn't file a tax return and they wanted to charge you with a crime. What evidence would they present in court?


fun fact: carnivorans (main group of mammal carnivores) are all (very roughly speaking) cats or dogs (strictly speaking feliforms and caniforms)

eg seals bears and racoons are caniforms while hyena and mongoose are feliforms

so this basic contest of feline vs canine plays out a thousand different ways all over the world (although canines are more widespread)


automobiles were once playthings of the rich
air travel was once an incredible luxury
before something can become widely available, it must be narrowly available


shitflation


gotta start somewhere  👍


one time when I was a kid I had this radio and my stepmother for some reason suggested I should take it apart to see how it worked

so I did, except this was the modern day and the heart of it was just a big microchip so I learned nothing and also broke it trying to take it apart since it wasn't designed to be servicable (at least not by small children with only a screwdriver)

then she got mad at me


For a USA citizen in a non-commie state I'd recommend an AR15 (plus 22LR conversion bolt) and a 32 or 38 handgun for concealed carry. That will cover home defense, EDC and SHTF. You can branch out with hunting gear as needed.

In a commie USA state you definitely want a long gun for home defense if possible, which might mean something like a pump shotgun or lever action rifle. Your concealed carry will likely be a snubnose revolver. Alternately you might make/finish your own AR lower receiver and pistol frame.

In Europe you may be looking at something like a double-barrel shotgun for home defense but it will vary greatly by country.

Finally in totally non-permissive regimes you're looking at FGC9, zip guns, black market real guns etc.


The manufacturers of all those things would ALSO love to have a fake crisis that causes the government to buy massive amounts of their products


Eventually the barbarians will be at the (metaphorical) gates and those who have been living inside the Regime's Dream will have a rude awakening


It's a shopping magazine given to commercial airplane passengers


I thought "He" was "the life". How could I live otherwise?


hands in front of "gear" is defensive, not shameful


That's not what begging the question is.
Begging the question is assuming the conclusion you want - as if you're in a debate and you're begging your opponent to assume your side of "the question" under debate.
I realize almost nobody uses the term correctly but we need some phrase for this type of sophistry


I thought the Word was God? How could it fail to be in me?


Isn't Christ supposed to be God? And isn't God supposed to be everywhere? So how can you not be "with" Christ?


"While the books absolutely echoed anti-Semitic tropes, the Harry Potter films took the racist association a step further, with the goblin’s appearance practically indistinguishable from a Nazi propaganda poster; worse, was the Star of David pattern, clearly visible on the floor of Gringotts Bank (this was a feature of the filming location, London’s High Commission of Australia, and did not appear in subsequent films). "

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2022/01/05/the-harry-potter-anti-semitism-controversy-explained/


You asked if Christ is divided. I am asking whether this non-divided Christ is all-encompassing, or whether there is something outside of your undivided Christ


Regime media
Mockingbird media
Corporate media


IMO Ukraine is way more evil
I don't want to be ruled by Putin (or anyone) but I would definitely prefer Putin to any US President since Coolidge


retarded, obviously


Is Christ also heresy?


The natural logarithm? The country of India? The state of Indiana?


is this about the Trump shoes? or did something happen? I'm not on centralized social media anymore


The ponzi scheme?

Social security is a "pay as you go" retirement scheme, which means the money young people put in is used to pay for old people right now. That's exactly how a ponzi scheme works - the old investors are paid out by new investors. What about the social security trust fund? It's full of US Treasuries - IOUs from the Federal Government, just like if there were no trust fund. It's also broke now. Not ten years from now, right now Social Security is selling US bonds because it's giving out more than it takes in. If they didn't have the trust fund, the US Treasury would sell bonds to get the money. See how that's already happening?


Chop wood carry water


1tz = 1tz
USD is going into the gutter (along with other fiats)


gradually and then suddenly


The old meanings were not handed down from God (in my opinion) but discovered by man primarily through trial and error (although reason sometimes provides a shortcut). We can discover them again.


Gradually substituting the image for the thing itself, until the thing loses all meaning and consequently so does the image

Same thing with trans


The powerful don't decide unilaterally what language is, although of course they try to influence it. If the dictionary said "pizza" was "a machine for flying people through the air, suspended by a rotating blade" you would realize the dictionary is just wrong. Similarly, if a legislator says he can decide what plants you do or don't smoke & enforce his decision with armed goons, you should realize he is simply wrong about the law.


I'm familiar in the polyamory space as a form of self-gaslighting that you don't feel jealousy & that jealousy is not evolved for a reason


so what if lots of people mute
then you might have mute-bots to silence someone
so let's take some sort of weighted graph of follows
great, we've re-invented the algo but with censorship as the goal

perhaps freedom is the answer
let people host whatever they want to host and mute whoever they want to mute


Why is Ray Epps not rotting in prison for years?


please crush gold, I'll be buying


"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is more of an aspirational slogan


I for one don't consider Saul of Tarsus a Christian


it's the US Army Corps of Engineers logo (who presumably built the wall)


short means you owe the thing to somebody else


Sure but what if you force others to put in the $100 and you own the machine ?


1860 - the compact theory is dead, so not really a republic any longer
1933 - abandonment of the tripartite Constitutional form
(and of course many degredations in between)


I think FDR was much more "in power" than any POTUS since


some won't, but I think most will deal (eg by getting real jobs)


Yes. One example: rather than allow wages to fall (as other prices fell), both Hoover and Roosevelt administrations did everything possible to keep wages at the inflated level they had achieved. Consider normal supply-and-demand price theory: if you artificially keep a good or service at a very high price, there will be an excess of supply and deficiency of demand, a wasteful surplus. When the surplus is in labor, deficient demand means mass unemployment.


with english subs https://archive.org/details/lucio_2007


many of those got the jabs


Do you still eat fast food?


“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn


What makes you think it isn't?
I suspect the Federal Reserve off-balance-sheet holdings of US debt are massive


Yes. But on the upside the general populace will be less gullible once the sheeple are all poisoned to death


that sounds like a serious problem
who is doing all this raping and murdering?


Are you contending that the Washington regime actually follows the Constitution?

A1S10 - No State shall make any thing but gold or silver coin a tender in payment of debt - so where did fiat come from?
A1S8 - Congress has the sole power to declare war - so why did we go to war in Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, etc?
A1S1, A2S1 - the President has all executive power, Congress has all legislative power - so why are there "independent" agencies?
1A - freedom of speech - so why are they censoring the internet?
1A - freedom of religion - so why did they shut down churches during the 2020 flu panic?
2A - right to bear arms - so why are repeating rifles illegal?
4A - freedom from unreasonable search - so why is the government surveilling all of us all the time?
9A&10A - rights not given to the Feds are reserved to the States and the people - so why is the Federal Register 70,000 pages?


read the label on fluoride toothpaste - it tells you not to swallow it & how to call poison control if you do


marriage = joining and blending together
the sodomites can't marry
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=dn6x_9CLTB4


biodiversity is nonsense


2 toxins


so instead of a minute in the frying pan it takes an hour, by which point it has yet to be absorbed in the gut, much less expelled


Donald Trump lives like a plumber who won the lottery - the gold, the trophy wives, the fact that he still drinks Diet Coke and eats McDonald's


Jeez, you really think it can go on that long?


IMHO fasting is only beneficial if your diet is crap


This should explain it: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A01083.0001.001?view=toc


Cheese is available


seed oils damage DNA (eg linoleic acid produces HNE which preferentially damages the anti-tumor genes)


Good point.

Billionaire bunkers also cast doubt on the whole "underground cities" thing


ha


Step 1: wait for the obsolescence of the Westphalian State and its replacement by for-profit security services


I think crunchy = granola = environmentally-minded (just guessing)

I have a couple of memory foam pillows which also have lots of little pieces inside and also like them


What do you think of copyright, especially pre-publication? And trademarks? I think replicating someone else's mark is fraudulent (but I am not so sure that fraud should be considered a common law crime)


Phineas and Ferb, Perry (I am guessing)


Can you buy a gun without a permit?


mathematicians are too cool for regular vectors


It shows group conformity and obedience, nudging the audience to "dance along"


how it started: fit male cops pursuing property & violent crime
how it's going: obese female cop dance team


No thank you, my proctologist read my internal state quite recently.


How amazing that you are able to know his inner state from this short exchange. What keen insight you possess.


The judge of a dinner is not the cook, but the man who has to eat it


MDs are skilled sawbones, but IMHO trained terribly for everything else

Veterinarians have a clearer vision - if you take an animal into them with some sort of chronic illness they'll ask what you've been feeding it


Thank you


yes


I am not criticizing you for advocating for freedom.  I am criticizing you for advocating for *Bitcoin* which is supposed not to need such advocacy.  If Bitcoin does need advocacy, it is by that very fact unworthy of it.


This was my intro to the Holocaust rabbit hole: https://odysee.com/@TheNoticing:c/One-Third-of-the-Holocaust:e

My current belief is that tens or hundreds of thousands of Jews died in Nazi camps from allied bombs, disease, and (as the Nazi industrial capacity collapsed late in the war) starvation. I think the Nazis should be considered primarily responsible for this, with the "Allies" also somewhat responsible. I also think there were some mass murders of Jews (eg 7,000 Warsaw Jews after the Warsaw uprising). However, I think the mass extermination program was war propaganda that has little or no resemblance to the truth.


Yes.

But the whole Anne Frank story is irrelevant to the Holocaust myth. She wasn't even gassed to death; she died of typhus like most of the dead Jews in WW2.


So I can see the gas chamber built by Polish communists after the war?


It's retarded to demand evidence? No wonder you believe in Bitcoin


Why do you believe that? What evidence convinced you?


hub/cap


Oh, if you mean that many Jews died in the camps from "Allied" bombs, and (as German industrial capacity collapsed late in the war) disease and starvation, I am in total agreement. I don't think it was millions but probably hundreds of thousands died needlessly. The Nazis (who sent them to the camps) are ultimately responsible. I also believe there were some intentional mass murders of Jews, particularly the decimation (in the precise meaning of the term) of the Warsaw Jews following the Warsaw uprising. What I doubt are the things modern scholars doubt, like the electric floors, the vacuum death chambers, the rollercoaster of death, the human skin lampshades, etc. Plus I also doubt the gas chambers.


Why do you believe that the Nazis planned the extermination of the Jews and attempted to carry it out with partial success ?


I have not


Why do you believe that?


I like Nic Cage - he's very melodramatic but often it works well. I think Ed Norton is more nuanced and has greater range (eg "The Score"). I'm also a fan of Vincent D'Onofrio who can be kind of typecast but has some amazing roles (eg "Men in Black")


hell yeah


If your freedom money still requires you to ask permission, is it really freedom money?


"We" killed the king but not the crown


hack the planet


surfing nostr

https://dogs.top-best.com/files/variants/bli3vqfbejoel6f0uqvvxh2zenll/95276c0da81b822f513711c81fff742daadd87617d24212e679e52fc18befcd2/Tech_Support_Dog.webp


Taxation is claiming another's labor again and again, as a right.
Taxation is slavery.

It's also literally a form of ancient personal slavery.
"Slaves could not own property, but their masters often let them save up to purchase their freedom, and records survive of slaves operating businesses by themselves, making only a fixed tax-payment to their masters."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Greece


This is a good start

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nikki-haley-losing-candidates-option-nevada-republican-primary/story?id=107013869


I played Pokemon (both the card game and video game) as a kid and Magic: The Gathering as an adult. I advise extreme caution; both of the card products are basically scams. Artificial rarity can lead to spending truly insane amounts of money.

I would look for non-trading non-collectible alternatives. One card game I enjoyed as a young adult was Dominion, which has a bunch of expansions and therefore can get pricey, but it's really nothing compared to MtG or Pokemon where new cards are constantly released and (most of) the old cards lose value. For greater competition in the strategy space I would recommend classic board games like backgammon (which IMO is the most fun), chess, checkers, etc.

Assuming that your child has his heart set on Pokemon TCG, I would look into proxying, ie printing up the card images yourself for (almost) free.


What makes you think otherwise? Perhaps you have seen the photographs of emaciated corpses from the liberation of Nordhausen?


The Jewish holocaust is a key myth for the Statists (we had to go to war against Germany) and for anti-Statists (look how evil the State can be); it seemingly defines both Jews and antisemites.

And yet, upon closer inspection, I am not convinced that any such thing as the extermination of the Jews was ever planned or implemented.


IMO the biggest propaganda push now is climate, which in a post-Covid environment I think many will reconsider


saguara and cholla -> looks like the Sonora desert to me (Southwest US or Northern Mexico)


imagine an updated version of this - the butcher of libya vs big mike


Depends what I was protesting. Straight anti-regime I'd rather be in the EU (for now). Anti-child-sex-change I'd rather be in Russia.


That's a good one

I don't *only* use natural materials but I'm heavily biased in that direction, with my most common textiles being wool, cotton and silk

I think asbestos is a useful material for some things (mostly fire insulation) but I wouldn't want asbestos in anything where small bits will wear off and I'm likely to breathe them in


I had always assumed asbestos was a man-made horror, but TIL asbestos is a completely natural mineral

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


more like 80% judging by gold


look again

https://vfibackend.com/uploads/faroe-islands-map-with-city-and-village-names-on.jpg


Any mall with a sports bar has a "husband storage" area


Yes. We need to step it up in order to promote plant life (and thereby animal life)

CO2 has far less effect on temperature than other variables like water vapor, cloud cover, Milankovitch cycles, volcanic activity, etc

But CO2 has a much greater effect on plant distribution and density than (most of) those things


Perhaps not what you meant but I consider myself a conservative libertarian. I think anarcho-capitalism is the fullest expression of the common law - holding everyone to the same legal and moral standard.


the Westphalian State is not long


shopping?

may I recommend the Suzuki 650 Burgman Executive ?


Monday October 18th 2027


Apologies - what if "he" stops identifying as a woman mid-BJ?


imagine what a catastrophe it would be if all those numbers were 1 higher


He got one!


The Machiavellian Moment by JGA Pocock

It seems to be a comparison of Florentine political theory (not just Machiavelli) with American political practice


https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android
https://apps.apple.com/au/app/orbot/id1609461599
https://www.torproject.org/download/

or just VPN


what if "she" stops identifying as a woman mid-BJ ?


Measured in gold (my preferred inflation adjuster) it's way more than a 30% drop, more like 80%

Take 1 divided by these values: https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/XAUEUR/


Verdict: Beef cheek flavor was fine, maybe a touch funky / vinegarey. The texture reminded me of smooth muscle like beef heart. The meat was quite lean despite fine marblng. I trimmed off the associated fat cap which was massive; I didn't see a way to keep part of it on and there was a very tough membrane there as well. I'm attempting to render the fat cap into tallow. Overall a fine meal, not something I'd go out of my way for but very cheap despite the wastage of not getting a properly trimmed steak to begin with. I could definitely see this as fodder for grinding or dishes like chili.


classic statist manipulation - replace the thing with a symbol of the thing, which only has meaning because everyone used to understand the thing

same with trans, fiat


"phantasm"

I don't think that word means what you think it means

When do you think the Ukraine war started?


murderers should get the rope

good idea or no?


nice monopoly "money"


There are two separate scenes superimposed - outside the window and the reflection inside. It's hard to see either clearly.

It kind of reminds me of Jurassic Park, where the dinosaurs are mostly shown in darkness/partially obscured/offscreen.

It's very impressive, but I'm not yet convinced it can do a wide array of different scene types.


Yeah I was going to make the same point


Yeah, N.American Great Plains is the world's biggest breeding ground for tornadoes as polar air collides with tropical air


Is free speech a ploy to uncover dissent?


Does France have a military division full of Nazis?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/10/azov-far-right-fighters-ukraine-neo-nazis


about 80


Can you show me a non-Nazi country where sports fans all do the Roman salute?


$34T of debt = $34T of wasted real resources


Look up the definition of Ice Age


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


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

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


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


you're right there's also having kids


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


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


it worked


I didn't realize Texas Instruments was still in business


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

We'll see how it goes


which carbs are essential?


"don't heat it much"

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


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


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

They cut mercury but added aluminium instead


I avoid those

Animals fats are good

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


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

But yes, common problem


watch the actual process

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


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


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


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


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


Maybe. Trust no-one


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


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

the paywall breaker is a nice touch

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


IDK what most of these things are but they seem cool


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


just burn it


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

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

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


Joe Salerno didn't seem to mind


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

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


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


AZT + party drugs


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


It turns out giving poor people money helps them

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


transformer caught mid-molt


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


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

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


is it though?


g'day


1) your whole carpet for only $99

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

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


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


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


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


They're laying cows, not eating cows


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


omg so risky keep them on


protip: don't use ios


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


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


From WaPo:

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

He was, in fact, not hit.


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


better yet no phone


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

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


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

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


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


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


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


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


Bitcoin is a post-fiat product


My pet theory is that Satoshi is US Naval Intelligence.

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

Apply that same logic to sending money psuedonymously.


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


one or two?


probably some are doing it because of Star Trek

but one eye closed + hand gesture is extra sus


squint


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

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


UK groups promote "absolute zero" carbon emissions

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

Humans exhale carbon dioxide


I think this is too pessimistic.

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

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

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


God is reality


Cons: Stabbed to death

Pros: Titties


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


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


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


what is the flag on the immigrants?

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


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

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

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

Ludwig von Mises


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

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


communismmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


people underestimate the nutritional value of icecream


Autistes


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

1930s all over again


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


That I know how to configure my browser settings


floater


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


That sounds like 2 silver linings


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

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


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


Are the Bitcoins in the room with us now?


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


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


Chop wood, carry water


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

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

Credit is a promise to pay money.

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

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

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


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


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


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


Again, it's not a bailment


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

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


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

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

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

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


Where are your checking account balances located?


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

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

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

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

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


post one and let's find out


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

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


> both killed by neighborhood doctors and engineers with machetes


I'm not such a fan of Adam Smith.

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

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

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


Coke tastes like Mistletoe smells


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


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


This is very bad

A warmer world is more habitable for humans


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

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

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


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


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

What does owning a Bitcoin entitle you to?


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

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


Also lots more "dollars" floating around now


"millions of reps"

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


A "tame" wild animal is still wild


CHANGE MY MIND

American Football is actually American Rugby


This is way too rad for Kellog's cereals.

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


The hand that touches receipts


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

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


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

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


oofs


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


IMO the most important aspect of shooting, especially for handguns

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

#gunstr


Sadly I own just as many Bitcoins as anyone else.


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


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


"freed from the constraints of physical mass"

Exactly. It is nothing.


Bitcoin is fiat 2.0

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


Hoppe-scrolling here

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


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


With enemies like these, who needs friends?


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

https://newdiscourses.com/

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


Bitcoins are cryptographically brilliant but economically illiterate.

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


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


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


Have you tried the contact info on his website?

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


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


I think it depends.

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

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


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

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


I'd be SAUER without you

Kiss begins with AK

Let's make your sister a NAGANT


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


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

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


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


why? does he need more fiat?


Germany

for the environment


Live free or die


this goes double for "public" criminals


I can't agree


sounds like a learning experience


What's the difference between currency and money?


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

All the clothes I own:

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

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

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

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

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

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

23 total items for 4+ seasons.

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

#minimalism #malefashion #clothestr


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

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

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


I'm not a bitcoiner.

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


I don't know who that woman is


How do you notarize something on the blockchain without op_return?


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


real leftism has never been tried


cryptographically brilliant, economically illiterate


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

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


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

that would be crazy


What is the difference between currency and money?


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

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

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


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


Sonic is a monarchist

porcupines are herbivorous rodents while hedgehogs are omnivorous shrews


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

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


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


Gold fixes this


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

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


rip


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

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


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


Contrast our monetary determinism earlier in this conversation


bro relax your grip


Aren't there multiple forks with nonzero fiat price?

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


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

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

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

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

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


How much does zero cost?

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

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


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

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

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


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


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

What IS a sat?


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

What is a "sat"?


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


"we" killed the king but not the crown


condolences


That flag isn't a country

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


Bitcoins don't exist

You're trading ledger claims to nothing


It looks ZOG to me


she looks like a carnivorous plant / rogue from Xmen

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

typical woman


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

wtf


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


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


Boring.

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

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

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


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


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


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

Then just use XMPP for instant comms


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

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

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

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

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


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


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


he couldn't afford the characters


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

Audio should be in one of them


Shepherd at night, sailor's delight


silencing critics is "a good day for science"

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


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

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

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


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

Those two metrics pretty much tell the story IMO

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


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


It's pronounced like Kaiser

So maybe Julius Geysers would be better?


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

provide a screenshot or something


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


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


some popular filtration mechanisms are not good at removing flouride

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


amen

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


I do not but I'm curious about this project


not really cucked, just boring


Tucker/Putin interview boring


don't be a cuck

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


here we go, independent site VOD version

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


sell yo kids sell yo wife


Wouldn't you rather be the DVD dick?

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


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


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

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

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

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

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


circumcised and dies a virgin


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


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

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


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


I identify as post-lobotomy Jack Nicholson


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


sudo stop surveilling me


What is a bitcoin?


you mean the currency lower :)


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


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


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


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


Except Hamilton. Fuck Hamilton.


can you watch porn on those?


bone broth


"oh no my cell phone"


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


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

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

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


hey now

sometimes you can vote for negros or sexual deviants also


to protect pedophiles and murderers


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


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

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


soundtrack to 1992 Disney's Aladdin


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


sorry bro keep showing off your upper body strength


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

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


dollar will go down, then number go up


authoritarianism


so... yes?


why would you go to the gym to do pushups?


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

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


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

(good for more than just jars)


and he's been right the whole time


What scrap metal do you pull out of fiberglass?


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


Yes - it hasn't all drifted into nothingness


progressivism is fascism dressed up as freedom


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


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


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


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


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

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

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


what if the gas isn't in a container?


USA: War on Drugs
ES: War on Thugs


Maybe jealousy evolved for a reason


some thoughts on this image and theme:

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

I guess TLDR reject modernity, embrace tradition


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


how cheap is cheap?


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

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

Taxation is slavery.


published suddenly

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


I've been here like a year

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


bitcoiners, what is your profession?


look at their hands


My mind is a little blown that this was published

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


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

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


is rabbit the only nostr web app that just works?

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


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


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


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

Milei puzzles me far more


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


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


TLDR: bolts were missing


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

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

Cons: ???


To that last point,  💯%

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


TuckintoaCalzone.com


I have also observed a pattern of queer anger and violence


How would you judge the price in such a circumstance?


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

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


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

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


Yeah, weird philo-judaism.

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

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


sorry


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


it is happening


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


Is the EU itself collapsing?


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


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


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

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

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


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


IMO the issue is not reciprocity but our own conduct

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

In short, we must restore common law


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

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

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

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


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


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


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


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

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

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

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


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

But it smells pretty Masonic to me


Like some sort of silly string?


Less Force stranglings?

What are you, some sort of antijedite?


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

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


Imagine just walking onto the stage like a filthy peasant


Long live the King's cancer cells


Or Bitcoin is just a scam

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


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

Bitcoins are not a material

They are an accounting fiction only


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


many such cases


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

It's the same with fiat "money".

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


What do you mean by mediterranean diet?


sic semper tyrannis


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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

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


I did some cell-phone prepping today.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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