"subjective" here doesn't mean "it's just made up and you can choose arbitrarily"
it means it depends on the subject (whoever we are talking about)

if you had 10 Bitcoin, what would you do with them?

The only answer is sell them - in which case why would there be a buyer?
And one day there won't be

This is (with minor caveats) true of US Dollars also

But not true of precious metal


All votes are wasted votes


I like RFK more because of the brain worm thing

it would be so hilarious if he won


Is Bitcoin the ledger or the ledger entry?


are you a chatbot?


"Most forms of money rely on physical objects to represent entries on the ledger"

You have it backwards. A ledger has value because it represents something real.

If Bitcoin is a ledger, it is useful but not scarce. I can duplicate the whole ledger many times over.

If Bitcoin is a ledger entry, it is scarce but not useful.

In either case the only appropriate market value is zero.


Would there be a need for global-scale decentralized social media without massive "democratic" governments?

I can see the value in communities of interest & connecting with people who want to discuss Aristotle or small-mouth bass with me, but it seems to me much of the existing function of social media is to serve as a public square for democratic or pseudo-democratic polities.

Absent massive governments which are (regardless of their formal structure) subject to mass consent or dissent, my communication needs become very local except for specific business concerns or special interests. The notion of a single "global conservation", "social mood" or Zeitgeist seems to me implicitly communist and statist.

In this sense, perhaps nostr should be understood not as "freedom tech" but as "resistance tech".


Basically you've taken fiat (which is utter nonsense) and patched one aspect of it without fixing the core problems.
Is Bitcoin better than other fiat? In some respects yes. But it is still just another fiat (ie meaningless) trade token.


The idea of paying money for goods is not new
The idea of sending money is not new
The idea of using meaningless ledger entries as money is not new

The idea of generating meaningless ledger entries via laborious mathematical procedures is new

But to presume that the (machine) labor involved gives the ledger entries value requires one to forget the most basic lessons of economics

I think it is and will be seen as a mark of shame on many otherwise-brilliant Austrian school economists to have fallen for this nonsense

The classical & Marxists notion of value as being based on labor creates unresolvable paradoxes, such as why trade occurs at all. With a single objective scale of value, a trade is either greater for lesser (in which case why would the one with the greater value agree to give it up for lesser?) or equal for equal (in which case why does anyone bother?)

So either the labor theory of value is wrong (even when the labor is machine labor or electricity or whatever) or all of human trade is pointless.

Instead, value is subjective, which does not mean arbitrary and made up. Rather, the value of a good is the highest use to which it may be put.

But Bitcoin has no use to which it may ultimately be put, because it does not exist. There are no Bitcoins. You have (in essence) a ledger entry saying how many Bitcoins Satoshi owes you for running some calculations for him, but he will never pay up and can never pay up because the units in which he is meant to pay you are made up nothings. You might as well have a ledger entry saying you own 8 jabberwockies.


I consider it a form of self-propaganda


Bitcoin is an opportunity, Bitcoin is a set of rules, Bitcoin is a commodity, Bitcoin is digital cash etc etc. It begins to sound like a religious mystery.

The white paper: Bitcoin is a signature

Reality: Bitcoin is nothing at all.


I can reproduce what Satoshi did quite easily - the source code is not even secret


Who is taking this video?
The shooter? The shooter's buddy?

The cameraman doesn't try to turn and look for the shooter

In which case, why are these retards posting it?


To be fair some of that is debt that some Union agencies owe to other Union agencies
But a bunch of the GDP is also government spending & the unfunded liabilities are basically debt that doesn't pay interest until later

Net debt held by the public is probably 125%-130% of productive capacity
Net liabilities are probably something like 600% of productive capacity


"Weekly earnings increased by 19% in real terms from 1933 to 1939, but this was largely due to employees working longer hours, while the hourly wage rates remained close to the lowest levels reached during the Great Depression. In addition, reduced foreign trade meant rationing of consumer goods like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans."

(I know wiki is generally not trustworthy, but I believe these particular claims are accurate)

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


My point is that Bitcoin (a specific ledger with a specific number of units and a specific schedule of issuance) was invented, could easily have been invented differently, and thus is not truly scarce.

I can make Bitcoin 2.0 which takes the exact same source code but only ever issues 100,000 units.

Should my Bitcoin 2.0 be worth 210 times as much as your Bitcoin 1.0? It's 210 times as scarce but with the exact same properties


Radio waves were discovered
The possibility of FM Radio was discovered

The actual apparatus, channels, and so on was invented
98.1 "The Rock" was invented and not discovered

Similarly, the possibility of using a cryptographic public ledger to verify transaction events was discovered and not invented, but the particular public ledgers and particular methods of using this technology were invented, including Bitcoin


I deny it

Germans (like Americans) survived at Great Depression levels throughout the 30s and 40s

Germany pursued Autarky under Hitler in the 30s, which was a disaster that necessitated the war


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HFCS was not produced before about 50 years ago
(with the discovery by the Japanese of an enzyme that breaks corn starch into simple sugars cost-effectively)

HFCS is basically the same as table sugar (55% fructose 45% glucose vs 50/50)

Sugar consumption is up something like 10x over the past 100 years, but not 8,000x


HFCS was not produced before about 50 years ago
(with the discovery by the Japanese of an enzyme that breaks corn starch into simple sugars cost-effectively)

Sugar consumption is up something like 10x over the past 100 years, but not 8,000x


Mathematical theorems are discovered

This does not imply that every mathematical abstraction is a discovery rather than invention

Was FM radio invented or discovered?
After all it's just math and physics


This is nonsense

That mathematical theorems are discovered does not imply that every mathematical abstraction is a discovery rather than invention

What property of the natural numbers led to the supply cap of Bitcoin at 21 million units? What quirk of computational theory led to the halving schedule?


Specifically post-theist Augustine Christianity

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/


Twitter.com is high novelty low impact


I don't have quite that positive a view of Hitler but I think you are largely correct

I think socialism, including national socialism, is basically the product of Jewish culture


"Omnivore" is a bit misleading

Most carnivores can eat some plants
  eg lions sometimes eat grass (probably as a digestive aid)
Most herbivores can eat some animals
  eg deer sometimes scavenge carrion

Most omnivores heavily specialize in either meat or plants
(really the specializations are a bit more detailed than that, with not much overlap between vertebrate and invertebrate consumption, and specialization among various plant parts such as leaves, fruit, seeds, tubers, gums and fungi)

Among mammals, the "true generalists" who do not heavily specialize in any one food source are almost all rodents. Virtually all mammal consumption of grain/seeds comes from specialized herbivores (eg ruminants such as cows and sheep) or from these rodent generalists.

Humans are definitely evolved to eat meat, especially large fatty animals. We have limited ability to convert protein into energy and so on a meat-based diet need ample fat. There are many nutrients in meat that we can't get (or can't get efficiently) from plant sources. Vitamin B12 is absolutely essential and cannot be had from plants (vegans have to supplement). Other vitamins like vitamin A are found in the human-usable form in meat but only in a precursor form in plants, which our body converts inefficiently (so "Vitamin A" is not necessarily Vitamin A).

Our shared ancestor with chimpanzees probably ate quite a bit of fruit. Modern fruit doesn't resemble wild fruit, and humans are evolved to suppress uricase and therefore struggle to break down uric acid which is a byproduct of our fructose metabolism (hypothesis: this aids in adding body fat during fruit season to survive the winter). So moderate fruit intake isn't the worst thing but will give you gout symptoms and tend to accumulate body fat, especially in the liver where sugars/alcohol are converted into fat. In my opinion the best fruits for human consumption are fatty stone fruit like olive and avocado. Semi-sweet stone fruit may work well such as peaches, cherries and plums. Berries may work well, especially strawberry which is high in vitamin C (to offset the negative VitC impact of sugar consumption).

Starchy roots & tubers (USO - underground storage organ) are handled OK, most will simply break down into glucose. Excess glucose for long periods will probably give insulin resistance, and there are certain deficiencies in USOs that some human populations are adapted to deal with and others are not. If you are descended from a population that ate lots of USOs you still need meat but can probably get a chunk of your calories from USOs without too much negative effect.

Certain human populations are adapted for dairy, for example continuing to produce lactase into adulthood (to break down lactose). You may be able to eat some dairy products (eg cheese, butter, yogurt) and not others (eg milk) or you may not handle dairy well. Keep in mind dairy is optimized for infant animal growth, so if you're trying to lose weight it may be a poor choice.

Finally we have little or no evolutionary history that would make insects, grains, seeds, nuts, leafy greens, plant bodies, fungi, gums or honey suitable foods.


Very interesting, but to my mind misses the forest for the trees

The waste is ultimately a cost and ultimately paid by the user

So ordinary supply-and-demand is able to find the balance between up-front cost and lifetime costs that customers most prefer, and therefore to minimize waste


Assuming it's not already going up off balance sheet...


permaculture / regenerative ag is where it's at


Why?
Was there a requirement to hold collateral instead of bank credit?
Or were people speculating that yields would fall further (eg due to central banks paying an even greater premium) ?


the ideas are bad

https://mises.org/library/book/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth


Median seems to be around 15k USD


you will own nothing and we will be happy


Milkman predicted US would have to weaken its currency at DXY 150

Apparently all it actually took was JPY 150


I have a couple of "secure" passwords made up of 5 common(ish) words each

I had a real scare a couple years ago shortly after creating one of them, in which I thought I'd forgot it and locked myself out of my own computer. Thankfully after maybe half an hour I was able to recollect enough to figure it out.

Maybe I am just retarded.

But I wouldn't want to bet a substantial fortune on my ability to remember an exact progression of common words.


DXY is just fiat over fiat

If you want USD vs real things may I recommend USDXAU


"It certainly is foolish for grown people to eat meat at every meal."

I think this tells you something about what the expectation used to be


(so is bread)


"honey is an animal product"


you do if you go back far enough
(assuming modern cladistic theories of evolution are correct)
all tetrapods for example are just one weird suborder of fish


My favorite film is Harakiri, give that one a watch if you haven't yet


I think we're arguing semantics at this point

Africans are closely related to the rest of us, but distinct (lower IQ, more aggressive, less impulse control, seemingly less sense of ethics or obligations, I'm sure many other differences as well)

I don't know that it much matters whether you classify them as human or nonhuman, a subspecies or another species in the genus


Yes
My favored classification is "subspecies" for such situations, including African humans


IMO Sub-saharan Africans are human but a distinct sub-species from all the rest

Clearly we can interbreed so not a fully separate species

But modern humans seem to have originated in the Middle East, and everyone outside of Africa shares a few % Neanderthal DNA that Africans don't have


I checked their latest annual report

Chicken is only about 1/3 of their sales, with roughly equal cash volumes in Beef & Prepared Foods (eg frozen microwave-ready wings) plus a smaller sliver in Pork

So it's possible some of those more convenient or premium products are the ones they are seeing issues in

However I do agree with your overall sentiment


haha

I have a guess as to the ethnicity of the waiter


I agree.

Personally I have come to a "compromise" view of germ theory, in which ordinary germ theory is clearly wrong (ie pathogens are not generally sufficient to cause disease in healthy hosts, as many experiments show including Koch's own cholera work)

but I am inclined to believe pathogen exposure can cause/increase problems in a host which has become diseased by other mechanisms (as shown by the h. pylori ulcer experiment, although it did lack a proper control)

But viruses in particular I regard with special skepticism due to the poor methods of "isolation" (or lack thereof) and other procedures within the field of virology


haha

duck is delicious though


Hydration

As to why distilled, I mentioned this earlier in the thread.
Water in my area is fluoridated & I am also concerned about other contaminants (eg plastics, pharma)


The quotation I gave is about "low mineral water", not "natural mineral water"

Has your mate ever seen a case of an individual suffering from some illness related to mineral deficiency related to drinking distilled water?

I am aware that some sources advise against drinking distilled water, but I am hoping for more solid evidence than mere opinion.


Can you point to a case where someone suffered some form of illness after consuming pure water?

I see some speculation it may be harmful, and one citation to a 1988 study (not available online). In terms of what is available online, it seems to me the evidence points the other way:

"Blood electrolytes balance was not significantly modified even with prolonged treatments with low mineral waters."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10138893/


I don't believe that's necessary.
Mineral water contains a tiny fraction of daily needs of the relevant minerals.

Instead I'll eat 1 extra bite of steak


Yeah, I drink about a gallon of water daily

It's fluoridated where I live (and I am wary of other contaminants, eg plastics / pharma) so I distill it

I am hopeful that in the event of total collapse I can either distill via non-electric heating (my equipment allows this) or to get by for a while on boiled/chlorinated/untreated lake-water


What do you think is wrong with the water quality?

I've developed some skepticism of germ theory
(eg Koch drank a culture of pure cholera bacteria and didn't develop cholera)

Do you think there's some sort of toxin?
Or bacterial contamination?
Parasites?


And they weren't harvesting rainwater, they were collecting city water to use at their leisure

I'm not sure what could possibly motivate such a scheme, most likely bureaucratic incompetence, but perhaps the city lacked their own water storage


Twitter.com becomes openly censorious (even more than it already is)
But that's not something I want


Northern Peru, coastal desert

In terms of "rough" Northern Mexico definitely felt less safe than anywhere I went in Peru


I've been to a couple countries in Latin America

The infrastructure was less built out than USA, the cars & consumer goods were not what people in USA would consider the most cutting edge

There was concern that the tap water was not safe to drink, and bottled water was preferred. In one town that I stayed for a time, everyone had water barrels on their roofs as the municipal water would be shut off at a certain of day.

Otherwise I would say that life seemed quite ordinary


Yep. And then the few who are into it all want to use different apps


Indeed.

Encrypted comms are the way to go but I have difficulty selling my friends & family on them.


you can still buy a "dumb" phone

if I needed a cell phone for comms I would probably get a dumb phone


you changed your first guess?

I tried to decode your sequence and get 1/6 but failed terrible and 6/6'd it


This has been happening in a lot more places than just Texas
But yes


I think we are headed for a decline of empire

I might like to have some idea what's going on in the world at large, but without the global American empire, I suspect most people will be pretty local in their concerns & communication needs

nostr can be a tool for that but I have to get the people I know personally on it
But that is also true of many other protocols

I'm glad nostr exists, and culturally I think these are my people, but it seems to be more of a tool for resisting global censorship inside a global empire and (IMO) not really the right tool for the present or likely future


I like that nostr exists but discovering people to interact with is harder without centralization, and we don't have the sheer volume of people as Twitter.com


Hold your butts

https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/france-sends-combat-troops-to-ukraine-battlefront/


democratic politics (almost) everywhere


to be fair internet search engines are getting so bad that nostr doesn't really seem out of place


1932 Democrat Platform:
"We advocate a sound currency to be preserved at all hazards"


Schrodinger's cat thought experiment was not an endorsement of semi-existince

The point is that one interpretation of quantum mechanics makes a cat (in the thought experiment) both alive and dead, but this is absurd, so this interpretation must be wrong


Police kill like 10 unarmed blacks per year
(and some of those are obvious overdoses like Saint Floyd)

While Israel has several thousand Palestinians in half a year
(ok some were Hamas, but there's no way innocents are not dying here)


Commentary:
Virology has only weakly scientific methods
The strongest evidence in favor of viruses (IMO) is experiments involving filtration, as with tobacco mosaic "virus" or rabies

Hypothesis:
There are potentially pathogenic microorganisms much smaller than ordinary bacteria, but they are spore/seeds/larva (etc) of ordinary microorganisms, not obligate intracellular parasites

Analogy:
You rip up a forest, pass it through a filter too small for trees to pass, plant the remaining material, and in a few years you have trees. Thus you conclude the trees are just a "response" of the soil to some other forest-causing agent. Obviously we can realize that seeds/nuts/fruit are much smaller than trees but grow into trees. What if eukaryotes/bacteria/fungi (etc) have such mechanisms as well?


3/6 no cheats 😎

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yeah but is it a real real coin or a real counterfeit?


To reduce crime, let's have the government steal more


haha


styling RSS "pages" is really cool and solves a minor (but critical) pain point

I use invidious + RSS to subscribe to video media without making an account anywhere


M2 is generally a better fit IMO

The left chart is monetary inflation, the right chart is price inflation


"capitalist"


those single-letter differences are brutal


Gold is flat vs oil

But how about vs food?
I've researched this for discussions of fiat inflation, and even good food (eg beef) is cheaper in gold than it used to be
How about vs consumer electronics?
Definitely much cheaper

I think "money supply" is not the appropriate deflator, because a money supply that expands (as Bitcoin & gold are both still doing) more slowly than the population & productivity grow will gain in purchasing power despite "inflation"

But yes, most stocks & bonds will underperform just owning real money


Boom! headshot

I'd have gone Tribe or Tripe, then maybe I'd get Prune 3rd


All meaningful work is preparatory


Eagles are a common symbol, yes


Relations of Man

***Man to Self***

A) Value your own life
Man like all animals tends toward vitality
As man increases in vitality, he expands from survival to health to reproduction

B) Never lie to yourself
Man is both mind and body
Mind may focus on memory or imagination, but body exists in present reality
Therefore, mind must embrace truths & discard error if man is to succeed

***Man to Man***

A) Seek trade, not predation
There are two relationships of man to man
1) Predator/Prey - one suffers at behest of the other
2) Mutalism - both benefit by the relationship, as in trade or family
And a third category, that of no relationship

Human prey and predator are the same species
Modern weapons annul the advantages of size and youth
Social action, whether dressed as justice or revenge, further suppresses the benefits of predation
Thus the predator must risk his vitality entire to extract even marginal benefits
Consequently it is a losing game, and more could be obtained in voluntary trade

Avoid becoming a predator by deception or voluntary furtherance of another's self-destruction, lest one's partner consider himself prey and make war

In the case of organized predation, a few benefit at the expense of the many
If instead the many benefit from the few, the few soon disappear
Wisdom dictates strategy of prey: disengagement (either flight or peaceful disobedience), war or obedience
The few require the support of the many, thus widespread peaceful disobedience ends the organized predation

***Man to Nature***

A) Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed

B) Men are part of Nature
Men are neither gods above Nature, nor spirits trapped within it, nor demons imposed upon it, nor refuse beneath it


Fun game, lots of interesting variation to be had by refraining from some of the shop items


Communism
Organized predation of the few by the many

In which the few either disengage (perhaps by flight) or are consumed, leading to expand "the few" to include new members and continue the predation. Eventually either reverts to ordinary statism (predation of the many by the few) or runs out of victims and collapses (or both).

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
-Margaret Thatcher


if it can break down at all, yes


There might be downsides to using a "money" in which every transaction is tracked and published


either is good

New York City didn't have a police department until the 1840s

Prior to that they relied on the English legal structure, namely ordinary crimes were mostly policed by armed private citizens. The main law enforcement officer was the sheriff, who was a servant of the courts. The governor could call in troops to quell a riot, but day-to-day life was largely free of law enforcement seeking out people to control them.
(Although there were some extremely statist periods during the Colonial Era as well)


IMO the great difficulty is coordinating revolt

the time to go was the 1930s when they shredded the Constitution (and thus killed the Republic)

now that USA is accustomed to unlawful government where do they draw the line?


our system is falling apart so we can't restrain ourselves to taking 100% of new productivity plus a further 2% of your wealth, we have to bump it up


Are you THE James Lindsay?
Or just a bot copying his Twitter.com posts?

In any case, it's cool to have you.

If it is you, I hope you'll devote more attention to the positive side of things (what is true and worth building/defending) as opposed to mainly exposing nonsense. I think the brief examination of American founding principles is incomplete without a justification for those principles.

You seem to be especially opposed to both national divorce as well as global government. How is it that USA is exactly the right size? Isn't that convenient? Would you tell an independent territory (say, BC breaks away from Canada) to join the Union?


This is junk science.
They took some very indirect measurements and compared them to models.


Hatred of people of Jewish descent is stupid and pointless
Hatred of Orthodox Judaism is completely sound and rational

“A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail”

Rabbi Dov Lior,
Chairman of the Jewish Rabbinical Council

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2004/5/20/rabbi-supports-killings-in-rafah


Bitcoin is a trillion times more scarce than gold.
I have yet to see even an ounce of Bitcoin.


Why would they liquidate everything and go 100% Bitcoin?
And who is buying the world from them?


2A warms my heart


BRB renting cybertruck


I think the people who want "no rules" and the people who want "no rulers" are deeply opposed despite both being "anarchists"


Another issue with pork: they are autoenzyme digesters & store a lot of fat, so if you feed them corn, soy or vegetable oils those end up in the fat

https://practicalfarmers.org/research/fatty-acid-comparisons-of-grain-and-forage-fed-pork/


perhaps AROSE -> UNTIL, then?


I prefer ALIEN -> TOURS
I believe I & L are more common than O & T in 5-letter words specifically
And R & S are definitely more common in 5-letter words than B & D


"the private court"

As if there is only one

It is precisely the monopoly of determining justice that ancaps reject


this is why I strive for privacy even though I know real privacy is unattainable


You saw clusters of illness
(many of which had zero actual illness and were just a positive test result)

The explanation for the cluster of illness is hypothesized to be contagion spread by a micro-pathogen, but this hypothesis must be tested rather than assumed, if you wish to offer a scientifically sound explanation of events


Those might be 2 different classes of "nutbags"


sadly no reflection on the underlying principles that produced the bad outcome, just attributes it to corruption / bad priorities


I believe you should be able to get a lever rifle in the UK


I've moved out of the city center & am saving to buy rural land

If my job didn't prevent it I'd get a sailboat and live on that

Is prepping a thing in Europe? I have some food, water & self-defence supplies saved up. I also have a "go bag" with emergency supplies.

In the US these things are pretty common but not universal.

Depending on where you are you might be able to get a long gun. Assuming you can't get a proper rifle (AR or AK pattern) you may be able to get a lever-action rifle or pump shotgun, both of which are perfectly fine self-defense tools. A break-action shotgun or bolt rifle would not be ideal but would be serviceable. If you can't get any of that you might have to go for some ghetto shit like a crossbow or air rifle.


secession, nullification

build locally, get off the grid if possible


Wait for the currency to go to wallpaper

Or mass withdrawal of support


Do you know what an audit is?


Put gold in vault
Make digital claim on gold
Transfer digital claim
Exercise digital claim to retrieve gold from vault


"given a race"


If you're interested in dental health I strongly recommend Nutrition & Physical Degeneration by Weston A Price


I'm not aware of other social media-type protocols

XMPP & IRC are useful but don't have the same structure
(everyone broadcasts into a single pool and I decide what stuff I want fed out of the pool)


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8881926/

On the same theme: the longest lived people in the world (Hong Kong & Okinawa) have among the highest meat consumption in the world


Humans have many adaptations for meat consumption (teeth, stomach acidity more intense than most carnivores & comparable to scavengers, lengthened short intestine, shorter long intestine, small numerous fat cells, and more)

Evidence of animal butchery is prevalent in archeological examination of human evolution.

While meat-eating is universal among human cultures, your ability to consume plants will likely depend on your particular heritage. Some people will be more tolerant of fruit or starchy roots than others. The same is true for dairy.

https://youtu.be/c7_zBG7OAnk?feature=shared


translation: regulations & central banking are wrecking the economy so we'll just blame climate change


nice short article


or you could smuggle it in plain sight

I've heard stories of someone dropping their gold coins in the normal coin dish as they go through security

Or just wear gold jewelry


My employer (in US consumer finance) just announced layoffs.
I was not fired.

I recently declined to move to a new company based on concerns about a credit crunch, and feel vindicated by today's news. I doubt we're out of the woods yet.


yeah but if gold mining stops for a week the gold that's already been mined still works


I thought it was medieval lords keeping sheep?

and then peasants emulated it even though they don't have sheep


you really think it will happen?


Are you Jewish?

This article is from years ago, not the current war.


on the other hand

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake"

They aren't right 100% of the time about the world, or strategy, or tactics


Dawkins has described himself as a cultural Christian for year

In Yarvin's opinion and mine he is a post-theist Christian (like a flightless bird)

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/


it just looks like a normal wooden table to me


How do you determine who is a "real expert" ?


702 sucks
we need to build secure alternatives


The first hour-ish was good
Then it became climate alarmist & malthusian (which IMHO is not warranted)


There's a lot of ruin in a country

(HL Mencken)


according to wiki it's originally a NASA photo from the 80s


home developers would pay for the roads to the homes
businesses would pay for the roads to the businesses

probably there would be some toll roads between cities, but probably people would mostly build water/ rail/ air

the anti-car people could finally get the world they want if roads aren't subsidized and development is not choked by zoning


Yes

goodreads.com/book/show/71730
goodreads.com/book/show/34459


he goes where the audience is


I agree with all that, but fruit 1) is highly modified by human domestication and 2) doesn't necessarily want what's best for the host animal


If God is an explanation, what explains God?

If God "fills in" that about which we are ignorant, all you have really done is name your ignorance


#GODL


There's some truth to this, but if you play sensibly (get your pieces to squares where they can influence the game, get your fair share of the center of the board, get your king to safety) you really just need to look for fairly direct tactics (mainly whether your opponent can do something immediately to win material)

You don't need to memorize all sorts of openings and theory unless you're trying to get as good as possible (and even so it's one of the later things you should worry about)


It's a democracy so the ordinary people have no control and have to just take it

(aka US State Department wants this to happen)


I'm Danacus


We have the Thievery Party and the Murder Party.
Occasionally the leaders of the Thievery Party are accused of Murder and it is a great scandal.
Occasionally the leaders of the Murder Party are accused of hatred (since they don't want to engage in Thievery).


Hey, it's only like 10% politicians


you can't digest fiber (by definition)


I am skeptical about antioxidants
My understanding is that in many cases they are oxidants that trigger the body's own antioxidant response


That's exactly what the Rockefellers did, according to Ivor Cummins (who in my opinion usually has a good basis for what he says)

His story is that the Rockefellers came up with climate & pandemics as things that would justify a world government with no scientists in the room


My understanding is that water vapor absorbs most of the spectrum of radiation that CO2 covers (so the CO2 has little effect compared to the pure physics expectation) and CO2 at current levels is basically saturating the current portion of the spectrum that water vapor does not cover (so additional CO2 has little effect)

Also we are in an Ice Age now (look it up)


I think the impact of AI on Go has been much greater than its impact on Chess or Starcraft

I think the impact of AI on Chess has been more like a strong human player (certain openings become more favorable, others less)

I don't detect a great increase in the creativity of chess players

To the contrary, modern players tend to insist on playing in an engine-approved "correct" manner which often doesn't take much risk, unlike the great mid-20th-century players like Fischer and Tal who always pushed for win and were willing to accept very unbalanced positions

In Starcraft the impact has been even less, with few players imitating AI and most (myself included) attributing the AI's success more to speed and precision than to a strategy that others might copy


hell yeah
I've never shot an AK before


Trickle-down economics is a term of abuse
Nobody (or almost nobody) promotes anything they call trickle-down

What it actually refers to is the idea that tax cuts might spur growth, which they can do. The term is most associated with Reagan's tax cuts, but JFK before and Obama afterwards had similar tax cuts. In Reagan's case tax revenues increased after the tax cut - because they worked and did actually spur growth. I'm not familiar with the others but I believe they also worked.

What actually impoverishes people are excessive taxes, grants of monopoly privilege, regulations and (in the absence of regulation) failure to enforce common law.


clown emoji me all you want, star trek is commie AF


commie media implying race is only skin deep and therefore US is deeply evil for not achieving racial equality


haha
I'm a fan but this is funny


I agree aluminum & mercury are neurotoxins.

My understanding is that adjuvants are needed to produce an "immune" (allergic) response from an inert "pathogen".

I admit I haven't researched the topic of adjuvants extensively, but it makes sense to me that a truly inert bit of organic matter probably would not produce an immune reaction.

The distinction to the claim you made is that I am skeptical that modern vaccines can have any immune effect without these adjuvants (even if manufacturers were willing to spend more producing each dose). Moreover, we should consider whether the immune effect is net beneficial even if it can be induced.


twitter.com blocks this as of a couple days ago:
https://nationalvanguard.org/2016/03/the-murder-of-andrei-yushchinsky/


I don't like slavery, but I like food and dislike beatings


RIP in peace


Dawkins is (and always was) a post-theist Christian

https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2007/09/how-dawkins-got-pwned-part-1/

Many Christians see the modern decline and the semi-retraction of 'New Atheists' like Dawkins and want a more hardcore version of modern schismatic Christianity. As the preceding link makes clear, that would be a mistake. Dawkins represents exactly that form of Christianity, and adding cosmology will not vitiate his ethics.

Instead, Christian should re-embrace Scholasticism, making reason based on experience respectable within the Church

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

Dawkins himself should embrace the naturalistic ethics he highlights in his book The Selfish Gene, but rejects in favor of "rising above" our nature (to embrace a toxic form of ultra-altruistic Christianity)

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


GFY :)


Darn. Maybe someday.


I don't have a problem with image macros (memes) but I think cliches have been reclassified into memes and cultural references, which I think diminishes creativity (by removing the negative connotation of writing heavily cliched material)


cliches are unoriginal and flat even if you call them memes


Are the private security firms willing to tell the state police to bugger off when it comes to taxes?

That's the biggest distinction between bodyguards in a state system and anarchocapitalism


One small step for Zimbabwe, one giant leap for mankind

https://www.news24.com/fin24/economy/zimbabwe-ditches-zim-dollar-for-new-gold-backed-currency-called-zig-20240405


Aristotle
(end of list)


if you're rounding to the nearest trillion it's 35 already


'We need government to stop people from committing mass murder like these other governments all did'


next we're gonna find out ChatGPT is underpaid English majors


It's such a juvenile conception of sex - just pleasure rather than reproduction

No wonder we have so many sodomites and pedophiles when even adult women expect you to use their body just for pleasure


From wiki:
The term gasoline originated from the trademark terms Cazeline and Gazeline, which were stylized spellings and pronunciations of Cassell, the surname of British businessman John Cassell...
In the course of business, he learned that the Dublin shopkeeper Samuel Boyd was selling a counterfeit version of the fuel cazeline, and, in writing, Cassell asked Boyd to cease and desist selling fuel using his trademark. Boyd did not reply, and Cassell changed the spelling of the trademark name of his fuel cazelline by changing the initial letter C to the letter G, thus coining the word gazeline. By 1863, North American English usage had re-spelled the word gazeline into the word gasolene; by 1864, the gasoline spelling was the common usage.

Not from wiki:
Petrol isn't a great name either, given that it's not petroleum but a petroleum products (and one of many).


how do you feel about lobster, shrimp and crab?


IMO best is either managing wilderness to support wild game (eg natives in New England used to burn the forest to clear out the understory and keep it in a savannah-like stage of succession) or pastoralism


shaving makes you look like a child


I had assumed Israel was basically a European colonial power in the Middle East, but after learning about their plan to nuke the world if they're ever threatened I see them as more of a North Korea of the Middle East

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


“A thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail”

Rabbi Dov Lior,
Chairman of the Jewish Rabbinical Council

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2004/5/20/rabbi-supports-killings-in-rafah


This is a great series in which Rothbard talks at various points about the attempts to cartelize on the free market, including in sugar, railroads and oil refining

They all failed for various reasons, leading businessmen to turn to government regulation to enforce their cartels throughout the "Progressive" era

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Db4ohWQHVvY


I think prayer is helpful because it requires you to translate what you want into concrete language (rather than just a vague emotion)


what an efficient creature - an ambush predator guarding a precious resource (water) which also provides cover and a kill mechanism (drowning)

no wonder their morphology hasn't changed in 90 million years


I'm fine with flat forever

I don't hold gold to get rich (although I do think it will appreciate in real terms as fiat dies)


I don't care about stock to flow or whatever

Even if hyperbitcoinization happens gold's value will still be based on how difficult it is to pull out of the ground

While if gold circulates more freely Bitcoin can go to zero


2300 USD/tz


I don't remember what I said when this question came up a couple months ago, but I agree it should count

Israel's strike on the Iranian embassy is an act of war


Yep - disentangle from the federal leviathan and move towards complying with A1S10 of US Constitution


Gold isn't going up, fiat is going down

It's not about "pumping my bags" it's about having money that doesn't evaporate

And Bitcoin is nothing - a game of telegram, a chain letter
Just another fiat


Damn turtles
They kidnapped the princess


"different brain states"

Clearly the brain is capable of experiencing more than 1 state - otherwise all experience would be completely uniform

I don't believe that there is something supernatural to which our brains might be attuned

Can we, by meditation or drugs, induce a dream-like state while waking? Probably. Is it beneficial to do so? I am quite doubtful.

I think much human foolishness comes from stimulating a natural and healthy mechanism outside of its evolved context. For example, homosexuality stimulates reproductive urges (and the attendant pleasure) outside of the reproductive context.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event AKA "Oxygen Holocaust"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid_wasp

We are not uniquely deaf to some blessed harmony which all other creatures participate in


yeah


Rebecca Roiphe is a Jew
unclear about Daniel Cooper


god is reality

(but no I don't think it's a single consciousness)


Maybe you really want a "bag gun"
but I don't think it's optimal for most people or most situations


Yes, government schooling


Do you have a theory about some particular other party being behind it?


It's not surprising that a guy trying to backdoor everything would get caught eventually.


I think this is more mainstream on the right than it was a couple years ago, although it's more "Feds instigated this" than "Feds faked basically all meaningful events"


secondary sexual characteristics confirmed attractive


Bitcoin is not and was never needed, although perhaps it helps.

If 5% of Americans (or for that matter Europeans or Brits) took their "money" out of the bank the whole system would collapse tomorrow


ghee (clarified butter) is great too


The ICJ taking the genocide charge seriously and allowing the case to proceed means that the technical definition of genocide is likely (or at least plausibly) being met


https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-20/ty-article-opinion/.premium/a-brief-history-of-the-netanyahu-hamas-alliance/0000018b-47d9-d242-abef-57ff1be90000

Sure is convenient that the Israelis get to kill as many Palestinians as they want without it being a genocide, because the terror group that they supported (specifically because they were too radical for the rest of the world to take seriously) attacked them


How does a complete siege with no food target only Hamas?

Did you read the ICJ brief? I linked it

The court found the genocide accusation credible enough to let the case proceed


From ZA's ICJ brief:

Israeli Minister of Defence
On 9 October 2023, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in an Israeli Army ‘situation update’ advised that Israel was

“imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”

He also informed troops on the Gaza border that he had “released all the restraints”, stating in terms that:

“Gaza won’t return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything."

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


For guitar virtuosos, I also like
Django Reinhardt
Wes Montgomery
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Jeff Beck
Paul Gilbert


Climate: the movie
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XYrTvjCYqQ8


Cancer: A food-borne illness
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=n0GaRsPXd1s


God is reality


I think yes (but I thought voting was pointless even before)

I think the pro-Trump argument is:
1) "we" have managed to rescind some of the ballot-stuffing measures
2) "we" will get such an overwhelming victory that they can't credibly steal it

then
3) Trump will actually reform DC instead of getting rolled by it again because
a)Trump now is more familiar with DC
b) Trump has taken over RNC and now has a deeper pool of A1 staff to pull from
and
c) Personal attacks on Trump have made him more motivated to enact real reform

I try to focus on my own life but I hope it all works out and "we" really do restore the Republic. Any energy I put into politics I try to focus on key actors (especially local) rather than just cheering for my team to win the cold civil war


if it was a false flag they'd do it during morning rush hour and blame ISIS

IMO this is either an accident or a hostile nation-state trying to cut US gov/military capacity without provoking mass support for war


Eventually nobody will sell bullets, or gas, or rubber, etc for USD notes or USD ledger entries


Eventually they won't give you green ink for any number of your paper faces


Great, I'll hire you for marketing


How to make Anarchocapitalism happen:
1) We need these businesses that provide security, we don't really have a clean model (although private military contractors will likely get in on private business if they see money being made) so we need startups.
2) New industries cater to the rich first of all, so these services should start as luxury services which over time trickle down to the general public as efficiency improves.
3) By anarchocapitalism, we mean the fully private provision of security, not supplemental provision of security in states. Moreover, the crushing tax burden of existing states robs much of the funds that would be used to pay the security provider.

So:
We should create new businesses which provide security to the rich in anarchic or decrepit states. Haiti is a golden opportunity.

Over time, if this can be done profitably it can likely expand to poorer sectors of society and come to resemble the desired totally ancap society. If this delivers a higher level of security even than many established states (not a high bar) we should see defections and secessions. Also as existing states fail (see "sovereign" debt) the existence of successful international companies which provide security gives people an immediate alternative source of security which serves to prevent the formation of a new monopoly state.


I am puzzled by this symbol escaping modern progressive anti-Nazi inoculation

Progressives would probably tear down nordic runes like Confederate statues (or have done so long ago)

Perhaps the association with Mussolini (lacking emotional/religious punch) rather than Hitler (who is basically Satan) is the difference


The fasces is a symbol of authority - the bundle of sticks represents unity, and the axe authority

Yes, the fascists used this symbol, but not only the fascists

On the other hand, USA and EU are indeed fascist superstates, but not because they use this symbol


This treats a spectrum (wealth) as a binary (rich/not rich)

Can one bite of food make someone satiated? What if you have another bite, and another? At some point, you will have to admit that no one can be satiated unless a single bite can make him so.


Yeah I said I was pro-open borders conditional on eliminating the welfare state and various other things (and you replied to that comment)


I think East Asians are compatible with Anglo culture (as seen in Hong Kong and Singapore)

I think Hispanics are somewhat compatible

I think sub-saharan Africans would quickly either assimilate or commit crimes that result in their execution


In the sort of community I'm describing I think very few foreigners would come except to assimilate

UK & US in the 1800s had plenty of foreign immigration without sacrificing their essential Anglo culture


I don't see the moral argument, and I don't see a common-law legal argument


faraday bags
consider getting rid of cell phone entirely & use VOIP
get off / minimize centralized data & email


Do the ancaps not have weapons here? Must be lolberts


Open borders is disastrous in the context of democracy, welfare socialism, restrictions on armed self-defense and failure to enforce common law

But if there's no likelihood that immigrants can profit off public or private crime, I don't see the argument for keeping them out


nonviolent revolution, this


I for one am not so sure that a common law society needs a legislature


On Political Shifts in the US

Inflation/debt drive radicalization and may just collapse the whole thing regardless of who votes for whom.

Democrats are revolving from liberal-influenced welfare statism to anti-liberal gender communism.
Black middle class is already shifting to GOP.

GOP is revolving from neoconservatism to "New Right" blend of patriotism, libertarianism and (paleo)conservatism.
Once Trump is gone, moneyed and intellectual WASPS mostly settle in New Right GOP.
Neocon Jews & WASPs are already settling with Dems.

Working class will remain swing voters as politicians offer goodies but a broke federal government fails to deliver.

DNC will intensify its control of money and broadcast media, fueling further gender communist radicalization.
Democrats go totalitarian or lose elections and reform/collapse.

GOP remains middle class, but GOP fortunes depend on whether the working-class alliance can be maintained after Trump.


lol I'm giving them as an example of a food that is probably safe
but yeah, I don't want to jinx it for you ;)


Cancer cells (anywhere in the body) ferment glucose and glutamine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4783224/

The question is what can damage mitochondrial function besides seed oil. Probably smoking, but not many other things. I would be surprised if properly cooked potatoes could do it, for example.


IMO seed oils are a much bigger issue - causing mitochondrial damage which causes cells to revert to fermentation

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=uhXZjlp8E_k


the hero we need


feminism


yeah, I've avoided constitutional silver and instead got rounds and bars primarily for this reason


There's 4 diets. If there's zero correlation between your blood type and which of those diets is best for you, there's still a 1 in 4 chance that your blood type will match the best diet (of the 4) for you. This does not depend on the complexity of the diets.


How about the person introducing a bill has to read it out loud?


Which one is your blood type?

Based on WebMD it seems type O & B are both told to avoid plants which are common irritants (like grains and beans)
https://www.webmd.com/diet/a-z/blood-type-diet

I agree with avoiding those things. I would recommend everyone do so, though, not just people with type O or B blood.

As to how likely it is to be a coincidence: those two types roughly match my conception of a healthy human diet while type A and AB don't. So about 50/50. More generally, the odds of a coincidence are about 1 in 4 (assuming there's no correlation at all between blood type and optimal diet and remaining agnostic about what constitutes optimal diet).


those minor cities would have been major cities for most of human history


Just withdraw all the excess funds from your fiat bank account

Much more immediate results


Is Barbara Bush a man?

https://nostrcheck.me/media/f5b55f6b44b8997b2b6e8469a6a57f8d3f3b2ef27023543445c40ecec485ee64/0d1ee2881a01980307b5caf4b97d3a0989c42d127d0e0f203d66bafdab560f5a.webp
https://nostrcheck.me/media/f5b55f6b44b8997b2b6e8469a6a57f8d3f3b2ef27023543445c40ecec485ee64/00b671b1b92dd8f3acbc92636e04236c9b06ae4996179b0e6843fc77ecf08e2c.webp


Cool! Do you have animals that this feeds?


Do you know her personally?


What is the nature of rights? Are they self-enforcing? If not, in what sense are they real or valid?


Inflation is like 15% lol
They keep changing the definition to make it appear lower


I know


To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal


The past no longer exists, and if we try to live in it via memory we will become depressed.
The future does not yet exist, and if we try to live in it via imagination we will become anxious.
The present exists, and if we live in it we will be at peace.

Yet, we can exercise memory and imagination now in the present. We have developed these faculties to aid us in dealing with the present moment and in understanding the present moment more thoroughly. So to form an expectation may be a cause of anxiety or it may be an aid to living in the present moment more successfully.

I believe the key differences are our intention in forming an expectation (ie whether it is to equip us to take some action should a contingency arise) and our willingness to let go of a certain expectation if things turn out differently.


The banks are safe & effective


I've gotten a lot more compliments about my hair lately


wallpaper


The difference is as you get closer to real capitalism it works better and better


It wasn't exactly for S&P, more for big corporations connected to government (some of whom are privately owned)


https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/how-to-break-free-of-our-19th-century-factory-model-education-system/256881/

I believe ubiquitous government schools - especially prizing conformity, rote memorization, and obedience - have contributed to the loss of Americans' freedoms relative to prior generations.

I believe previous generations relied on tutoring and apprenticeship to a much greater degree, and the modern "standardized" model was imported from Prussia (ie the most militaristic and hierarchical part of Germany and Poland) in the late 1800s and early 1900s.


Yeah that's Prussian schooling for you. Disobedience is treated as stupidity.


This is a proceeding of the US legislature. The man being questioned is a witness who is testifying that he was involved in a criminal business with Hunter Biden. The reason for Hunter's involvement was purportedly to sell access to Hunter's father Joseph Biden, when Biden was the Vice President during the Obama regime.


#gold ATH this afternoon following Powell's weakness
US Congress & the Fed discussing raising inflation target (mostly recently admitted by Goldman analyst)

Printer is coming


Their actual mandate is to fund the US federal government


What confuses you?

AOC is borderline retarded, just an attractive mouthpiece for socialist talking points.

RICO is a US anti-racketeering law which is designed to go after organized crime. Basically if an organization is dedicated to organized crime all the members can be prosecuted for working for the organization with relaxed proof of individual crimes.


Do you have a property right to the truth? In what way does my selling you a belt with the Gucci logo manufactured by myself rather than by Gucci violate your rights?

I realize if we eliminate fraud laws then any transaction beyond trifles will likely involve explicit contracts and many would prefer to have law rather than contractual arrangements for every little thing (although we currently seem to have contracts for every little thing and most people agree without reading them)


My opinion is there's no reason for optimal diet and blood type to coincide, so the core thesis is basically nonsense

But from what I understand the diets recommended are not totally crazy so whichever one is recommended for you might work OK

I am of the opinion that something in the carnivore/Paleo/keto spectrum is optimum for basically everyone.


Do you think fraud should be a cause of action without breach of contract? For example I sell you a branded item and you discover it's a knockoff. Is that fraud, and if so should you have legal remedy?


most retirement accounts can be rolled into gold and silver without a tax hit


I'm 3% greedier this month


oh no I'm transphobic

anyway


10 kilos of silver for an average home? where?


commie propaganda


USSR won


NYC 🤡🌎

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-enraging-nyc-homeowner-arrested-changing-locks-after-squatters-take-over


Somehow socialism is always the answer

Maybe part of the reason homes are expensive (and unoccupied) is people are parking their wealth there because your money is no good


I don't eat foliage


"garden culture" aka war rationing


He's an open heretic my dude, aka not Catholic. What authority?


Not Bergoglio for a start


precious metals work also


"Take the shoe people. They like war. It brings business with abnormal profits.
They made huge profits on sales abroad to our allies. Perhaps, like the munitions
manufacturers and armament makers, they also sold to the enemy. For a dollar is a
dollar whether it comes from Germany or from France. But they did well by Uncle
Sam too. For instance, they sold Uncle Sam 35,000,000 pairs of hobnailed service
shoes. There were 4,000,000 soldiers. Eight pairs, and more, to a soldier. My
regiment during the war had only a pair to a soldier. Some of these shoes probably
are still in existence. They were good shoes. But when the war was over Uncle
Sam had a matter of 25,000,000 pairs left over. Bought—and paid for. Profits
recorded and pocketed."

https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf


de minimis non curat lex


"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard"

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ive-changed-my-mind-swedish-open-borders-mp-makes-complete-u-turn


Strange. Why?

https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/bitcoin-flash-crashes-below-9000-bitmex-amid-tether-turbulence


hat too big


Massive short of Israeli stocks on October 2, days BEFORE Hamas attack
   https://image.nostr.build/135ac03a5d1d246ef2807d6b37b82ceb28222b5c744158d2f5c6b00f8cea4935.png


see: Metaphors we Live by (which I consider the doctrine of the enemy) and Nonviolent Communication (which offers an alternative)


when people stop buying US bonds...

Farewell and adieu to you Spanish ladies
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain
For we've received orders to sail back to Boston
And soon ne'er more shall we see you again


When confronted with hypocrisy, we must ask: is what he did correct? Or what he said? Or neither?


The gentiles are revolting

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/anti-semitism-harbinger-global-chaos


"loss leader"


God is reality


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136070
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/491502
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/255133
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4085134


https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-wants-hike-taxes-7-trillion-dollars

This would cut the deficit by half (at first)


You, me, sith... is there a 4th? haha


Also eggs, marrow bones, and 70/30 ground beef are all pretty cheap.


(Democracy is a code-word for communism)


all organisms have something worth protecting (from their own point of view)

I think niche separation is a more compelling explanation for plant diversity than some sort of pre-existing diversity in nutrient density attracting varying levels of herbivory


I agree, but if you can hijack that Algo feeding to instead promote some sort of positive emotion it produces a different, equally dramatic "high"


"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


Taxation is confiscation of the fruits of another's labor on an ongoing basis, claimed as a right

Taxation is slavery


For IDpol I could see Tulsi Gabbard or Larry Elder as being largely consistent with A1st politics but lack deep GOP connections. DeSantis would be a gamble ideologically but could bring administrative competency. Any of the Congress liberty faction would be heartening ideologically. I would guess the VP will be something like Mike Pence, in terms of party connections and relative obscurity. It seems the party has shifted more to A1st politics though so it might not be quite as disastrous this time around.


What are your top 3?


What do you think Trump did right?

I like the Gorsuch appointment, but struggle to think of much else.


Supposing Trump wins again, we will see whether he is serious this time around. If he is, he will rebuild the executive branch from the ground up


I checked the websites of Tyson, Hillshare, Ballpark and Steakeze and wasn't able to find any of these things in any of the ingredient lists

Are you aware of a specific product that has bugs in it?


Have you tried hoji-cha? roasted green tea? It's intensely savory


Sadly yes - which underscores how badly we need to get normies (or more precisely, a core of normie-adjacent elites) onto a truly censorship-resistant media system


"I'll put a 100% tariff on Chinese cars, if I'm elected. If I'm not elected, it's going to be a bloodbath."

I'm pretty jaded about media dishonesty but I was shocked by this one.


https://consentfactory.org/2020/06/29/the-new-pathologized-totalitarianism/

https://image.nostr.build/680827a243cdd15d0cef4fdbf2203daa81f95c38ab96ad07d6824cdbcc4ac331.png


https://consentfactory.org/2020/06/29/the-new-pathologized-totalitarianism/

https://image.nostr.build/680827a243cdd15d0cef4fdbf2203daa81f95c38ab96ad07d6824cdbcc4ac331.png/


A proper gunsel, this


https://rumble.com/v1do1rb-covid-vaccination-and-turbo-cancer-pathological-evidence-with-english-subti.html

This seems to be the best evidence of a sudden spike in cancer rates. All the official national statistics stop in 2019 or 2020. Supposedly this is a normal lag, but I can't help but wonder if they are intentionally failing to report bad (incriminating) news.


DailyMail article is mostly about a long-term trend over the past 20 years (I would guess due to continued degradation of diet). Strangely, they are projecting cancer rates to increase much more sharply than they have been, which suggests some new environmental factor.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13197079/cancer-epidemic-young-people-america-uk-india-south-africa.html


I understand the impulse to ignore all that, focus on the violent revolt, and want to crush those who would inflict such violence (especially if your media is telling you all sorts of atrocity stories and minimizing the role of your own military in killing your own countrymen)


Israeli judge rules the cages are 'unsuitable for humans'

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-03/ty-article/.premium/israel-police-are-holding-palestinian-prisoners-in-makeshift-cage-like-cells/0000018e-00ea-da4e-adbf-82fb03180000


According to Israeli publication Haaretz, 10-15% of the prisoners here are Hamas, the rest are random Palestinians rounded up during the "war"


A look at Palestinian prisoners of war inside Israeli prisons - sustenance rations, toilet is a hole in the floor, spend the day in pitch darkness

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jvlIPxxS8Pg

I can't say I don't understand the impulse on the part of the Israelis, but I like to imagine I would have greater compassion.


3 is legit and the others are simply not


Eliminating licensure is not the same as making the license requirements fake and gay


To my mind this completely solidifies Meloni's role as controlled opposition / honeypot for would-be patriots

https://www.politico.eu/article/giorgia-meloni-europe-donald-trump-ursula-von-der-leyen/


Dye in the ballot box... perfect way to protest drop-box voting... will have to remember this one for later

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pouring-dye-ballot-boxes-laying-flowers-kremlin-staging-noon-putin-rus-rcna143588


GWGB

https://fortune.com/2024/03/15/ceo-steps-down-prices-following-purchase-teslas/


Maybe today I feel like 80% female and 20% male
-Black Science Man


The important thing is to get out of fiat


Tell them to buy silver coins instead

Silver is severely underpriced, even if hyperbitcoinization happens they can sell the silver for Bitcoin then


I am a bit slow, I must admit


Have you taken all 9 recommended boosters? If not, why not? And if the vaccines stopped the spread why do you need to keep getting boosted?


The vaccines didn't stop the spread and neither did the masks

Are you trolling?


"The TV told me the flu would kill me unless everyone gave up their rights and obeyed"


How many vaccines did your family members take?


You are endangering public liberty by mindless following instructions. Get in the cattle car, please.


No. The burden of proof is on those who would restrict liberty or destroy the common course of daily life.


Your boot-licking is a far greater public health hazard than a healthy guy not wearing a mask


If you think healthy people are a health hazard, that's on you


cut out seed oils to stop burning


Yes, it's called SpaceX


Prove that he is sick


I was thinking of humans on a long-term carnivore diet


Boeing Interview Australia

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM


In a community, the other passengers help the authority restrain the unruly subject

In a society, the other passengers just sit there while the cop harasses a perfectly innocent man, praying their time does not soon come

In a civilization, the other passengers come to the aid of their fellow citizen against the knave


oh no

anyway


a bit crazy-eyed, I probably say something nice about nostr and then back away slowly


My impression is Dem cities are worse because more favorable to criminals and vagrants, but the problem exists/is getting worse in conservative cities also


Save metal disks, buy/hold value stocks, only spend on necessities


nostr.build might get nuked eventually, the text of notes/urls is safe but bulk storage should be probably be backed up if it's something you really care about


How many MAGA people actually believe this nonsense?

I like Trump (not enough to vote for him, but more than Biden) despite the vaccine thing. My perception is that this is also the case for many would-be Trump voters


Welcome new #tiktok users! There's a lot of Bitcoiners here but also a few #gold bugs like myself. Presumably there are some freedom lovers who aren't passionate about sound money but it's hard to tell them apart from the ones who are.
   https://image.nostr.build/a39d167c75fc84ef676f6112846b898b16ea29c304ae5167b062ac8f753247d1.png


Apparently we just need to import Muzzies, Hispanics and Asians to deal with the Blacks

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ny-subway-rider-who-shot-assailant-his-own-gun-wont-face-charges


Pi is 3, as the Good Lord teaches
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+7:23&version=KJV


Voting locally is far more important than voting nationally and has far more real impact, yes


What is your level? Ben Finegold has lots of lectures aimed at beginners and small children (which also tend to be pretty entertaining)

https://yewtu.be/channel/UC6EnFbK-P5q0zeaqI5yobKg


I'm an unpaid shill. The point is not to give up on change, the point is to give up on change via voting for Dems, RINOs and neocons. We need to elect a radically different government or seek change outside of electoral politics.


to be fair I think the actual comment was to keep the keys by the front door (presumably just inside the front door) so if the thief breaks in they get what they want immediately and then leave

still unpleasant advice


low/no glucose, which is supposedly necessary for sodium uptake


Why your vote doesn't matter. Listen 7 minutes to Brother Mencius.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4_OHn-WnV3w


The government has elected to dissolve the people and form another


Then why are long-term carnivores not sodium-deficient?


yum delicious soap


and they took over universities well before that


"a single generation"

They won in the 1930s

https://mises.org/mises-daily/revolution-was


great movie


The endgame is have more kids. Whoever has the most happy, healthy children wins.


They want to give the EU taxing authority


Holohoax is their trump card


Corporate media shilling gold (and Bitcoin) smells like a monetary reset to me

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/6-reasons-to-buy-1-ounce-gold-coins/


chaotic neutral and lawful evil should be swapped
otherwise yes


Be sure to get enough fat - protein is not enough for humans


It's a communist plot to make an aircraft that doesn't fall apart in midair


maybe reconsider which services you use


Now I just need a NATO state to withdraw and I'll have tic-tac-toe


The champagne socialists really are socialists (in most cases, some are just passing to take their turn at the trough, but there's not much difference between that and the true believer)


Not all revolutions are bloody

https://mises.org/mises-daily/revolution-was


They are Marxists in more than name only - they implement the Praxis of Marxism - the revolutionary blueprint


It's not Marx per se but the school to which Marx belongs (prominently including Hegel and Plato)

Frankfurt school, queer, critical race theory, modern feminism and liberation theology are all heavily influenced by Marx


Temporary bank holiday, until they can print enough paper to give to everyone (or convert to CBDC and credit everyone)


sorry


Yet another thing I fact-checked and found video of the cop saying it... wow


I think the thing Bitcoiners don't realize or don't appreciate is that XAU and XAG exist. If Bitcoin goes to the moon, fiat bros just treat it like a tech bubble. If silver goes to the moon, the financial system literally collapses.


There's a silver car in the background that doesn't appear to be torched.

My experience working in the insurance space is that a wildfire can come through a neighborhood (especially in ex-urbs, where people are building suburbs that stretch into forested areas) and burn some homes to the ground while leaving their next-door neighbors untouched. The main issue is whether there is combustible material around the home that happens to catch embers.

This home is a good example https://nypost.com/2023/08/16/house-surrounded-by-burnt-down-homes-miraculously-survived-maui-wildfires/

They have a metal roof (so embers on the roof don't lead to a fire) and they cleared plants / potential fuel from immediately around the home


so you don't trust the military satellite guy who wants to put microchips in your brain, huh? conspiracy theorist!


The source of civil law is the State. The source of common law is experience.

https://mises.org/mises-daily/law-without-state


I think the US is much better positioned than the EU for the next decade, and certain regions of the US are among the best places in the world to live (and certain others among the worst)


you cut off the government teat, it will hit those receiving the largesse (and those who supply them)

~18-24 months to recover based on US Depression of 1920-21


Are you P&C or Health/Life?


"It's easier to train a smart dog"

Michael Malice


"It is also widely accepted that agriculture exacted a steep price in human health, an idea that had its origin in separate research efforts decades ago. In the 1960s, studies of societies that pursued traditional ways of life showed that hunter-gatherers were not continually tormented by barely staying one step ahead of starvation. They were even considered the original affluent societies because of the plentiful food and leisure time they were said to possess (2). Archaeological skeletons examined in the 1970s and early 1980s were seen as indicating that health worsened, instead of improved, for early agriculturalists (3)."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1908960116


this is an anti-semitic conspiracy fact


Is it possible that these things were happening all the time before without media reports? Or do we have some rate of baseline where we can say things are definitely worse now?


I don't see how you can draw the line at anything other than "does not filter" vs "does filter" if you're trying to be consistent (which the law purportedly is)


Nope, but I think the CIA rationalizes that as providing funding for things that are ultimately good and patriotic. Few people are the villain in their own movie.


“Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and show deference to no one; for you do not regard people with partiality, but teach the way of God in accordance with truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to the [local magistrate] or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?"


I think they're capable of all that and much besides. You seem to be trying to come up with a rationale that is compatible with the interests of ordinary Americans (at least through the CIA lens) while I think their use of any tool is likely much more based on naked self-interest and a desire to retain power


If you're selling relay hosting as a service, then yes

If your revenue stream is something else (or charitable), then no


I think you're giving them too much credit


those veggies aren't going to make you healthy either


A little googling... yes, that patent really is for aerial dispersal of material, yes the patent is really held by Evergreen Aviation, and yes Evergreen is a known CIA front. Huh. I wonder what the CIA wants to disperse into the atmosphere...


Nobody is forced to host all content, they are just not a common carrier if they pick and choose (and thus are liable for the outcome of their editorial discretion).


public schools are trying


I do not want to exempt internet platforms, I want to apply 230 as written, which is not the case now.

230 says that common carriers (eg telephone companies) providing a neutral service cannot be held liable for the messages people send across that neutral service. A tech company that censors some points of view is not a neutral service but is exercising editorial control, and can & should be held liable for what they choose to publish or exclude.

The existing framework allows these companies to censor and still enjoy the legal protection of a common carrier. By requiring them to actually function as a common carrier to enjoy this protection, free speech would be enhanced rather than harmed.


"Statism itself is the view that the state is the source of authority, or that its authority is absolute, and anarchy is the denial that any authority is legitimate. Localism is the balanced understanding that authority does indeed exist, is legitimate, and ought to be held in as low a level as possible to achieve an end. "

I don't agree with your definitions. Anarchism vests each individual with the same authority (ie legal rights and obligations) as any other. To defend archism (ie that some individuals possess an authority which makes it just and lawful for them to violate the personal and property rights of others) under the banner of localism is still Statism. You simply prefer a small, local State over one that is large and distant.


Yes but how many layers of dry-wall before it loses velocity?

And the theory I've heard with high-speed rounds (like AR-15 s which shoot a tiny bullet very fast) is that the bullet fragments on impact and therefore doesn't penetrate as readily as a heavy, slightly slower bullet


Bergoglio is a commie, so are most members of the professions you listed


Section 230 needs to be neutered - with the consequence that platforms which are truly neutral, non-censorship organizations get S230 protection and those who exercise editorial control are liable for what they publish. The current S230 for censorship organizations promotes censorship.


I found a butcher near me with grass-fed picanha for about 20USD/kg

This is the best grass-fed fat I've found, way more cost-effective than ribeye

#carnivore  #meatstr


If wishes were horses beggars would ride


BoA is a fiat payment processor, not a real bank


How it happened:
https://mises.org/mises-daily/revolution-was


Under your vision of localism, are my neighbors seen as just, moral and lawful when they in combination violate my personal and property rights?

If yes, that is statism. If no, it is anarchism.


The family does not serve - only the individual members of the family exist to serve or fail to serve.

The idea that the State acts, that it can succeed or fail to protect you or to respect your rights, is a fiction that allows criminals to escape blame. Despite "our" persecution of the Nazis after the war, following orders is taken to excuse blatantly unethical and illegal behavior, as when an IRS agent commits extortion or a police officer kidnaps a person for a victimless "crime".


https://invidious.io/

It supports RSS


"There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race. While my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more deeply engaged for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, physically, and socially. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their further instruction as a race, and will prepare them, I hope, for better things. How long their servitude may be necessary is known and ordered by a merciful Providence.

Their emancipation will sooner result from the mild and melting influences of Christianity than from the storm and tempest of fiery controversy. This influence, though slow, is sure. The doctrines and miracles of our Saviour have required nearly two thousand years to convert but a small portion of the human race, and even among Christian nations what gross errors still exist! While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is still onward, and give it the aid of our prayers, let us leave the progress as well as the results in the hands of Him who, chooses to work by slow influences, and with whom a thousand years are but as a single day."
Robert E Lee

https://books.google.com/books?id=FNAKAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA50&dq=%22in+this+enlightened+age%22#v=onepage&q=%22in%20this%20enlightened%20age%22&f=false


Imagine if police were held to the same standards as everyone else...


gucci


Reminds me of Takashi Kokubo

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=rWEI9y6PElo


The West is a Patriarchy

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/countries-are-safe-unsafe-women


EUSSR


Did Boeing make it?


Trump is a triangulator (in Bill Clinton's sense)

Trump wants to suck up to the left because he wants to be loved and admired


Some vitamins are proteins which can be denatured by heat


And he was right


Pottinger's cats


the red pill is a trace program to help the ship find keanu's body

presumably the blue pill is some sort of sedative (although since it's just a simulation the machines would either have to send chemicals to his brain or somehow fake it)

so if he took both I guess Keanu would wake up in his bed but the pirates would know where his body is


"They" as in some employees... do other employees donate to libertarian/conservative/patriot causes?


Either is fine. Zipper is more convenient but more hazardous.


Belts work


"You want it to be one way, but it's that other way"

https://www.unz.com/article/the-debate-over-israel-as-us-aircraft-carrier/


I think people will adapt to any population decrease, but this is certainly an interesting possibility:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ul105Nuf9Yk


Why did they become more greedy this year?


it's both


badge of honor


for privacy


The (new) supply will become increasingly constrained, but the effective supply (what people will sell or trade) can fluctuate, and the demand can fluctuate. There's no reason that decreasing new issuance must mathematically lead to ever-increasing price, even despite high fiat inflation.


1tz = 1tz

Even if hyperbitcoinization happens (which I doubt) the difficulty of finding and extracting gold will constrain its price


real vegans lick the dirt on the outside of the shell to get vitamin B12


That photo... odds that he's part of the Alphabet people? 100% or only 99%?


so to speak


The State does not exist but is merely a pattern of human behavior (a meme), but I agree treating that meme as a parasite is probably the closest biological parallel. One consequence of this metaphorical view is that over long periods of time States which are less-parasitic and more helpful (closer to fulfilling the security function of the Night-watchman State, or of a legitimate private provider of security) will tend to outcompete those organizations which are more brutally parasitic. In my opinion, this was the source of the British Empire's strength (while ruling, thus transplanting relatively more efficient organizational structures to colonized peoples as in Singapore and Hong Kong) as well as the American Empire's strength (prior to ruling, thus failing to transplant efficient organizational structures, perhaps with the exceptions of Japan and Germany).

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


The Israelis don't steal the election so much as own it outright


"savages his own profession" as in "calls for socialism"

for a real savaging: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=UUwz8mO_xMA


Property taxes have to be apportioned (if we're pretending we still follow the Constitution)


Yes, and one that the highest rabbinical authorities regard as deeply virtuous (except for the possibility of angering the goy, which they have all sorts of exceptions for)


“a thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2004/5/20/rabbi-supports-killings-in-rafah


Read what this Israeli Jew says, and then tell me whether Jewishness has been hijacked: https://ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/shahak.html

My own summary: Jews regard the Talmud (Jewish law as interpreted by legal scholars) as supreme, not the Bible as read in plain English (or plain Hebrew, Aramaic, etc). Biblical commandments not to steal, murder, etc are interpreted to apply only to other Jews. Non-Jews are considered to be animals lacking in humanity who exist only to serve God's Chosen People as slaves.


Maybe he flipped the digits?

World Gold Council estimates some 212,000 tonnes of above-ground gold exists, which at current prices is something like $14.9T


or maybe because we're born into this world with nothing


seems pretty ZOG to me


That's what I'm asking


like WEF but Rockefeller instead of Europeans


"they don't know better"


Is your salary ultimately paid by satisfied customers on a voluntary basis? The bigger your salary the bigger the positive impact you must be providing (otherwise they would not pay you).

Is your salary ultimately paid by victims of coercion (eg taxation or extortion)? The bigger your salary the bigger the negative impact you must be causing (otherwise they would pay you voluntarily).

Is your salary paid by charity? Then you have (to a close approximation) zero direct impact.


Not even the ones bashing my head into the sidewalk?


many fiats to escape


still fiat


You have a point, but your ultimate conclusion is visibly wrong. Theft is inherently unproductive and costly. Look at San Francisco retail theft - the ones coming and stealing a bag full of deodorant are not exactly living the high life.


This is all true, but IQ and aggression are at least partly heritable. It's not merely a question of whether Europeans as well as Africans are capable of violence, but also under what conditions, with how much warning, to what degree, how strongly subject to reason, etc.


I disagree with you there. An organized force can be predicted, avoided, perhaps reasoned with. A state of affairs of disorganized violence/chaos can strike at any time.


Organized violence differs from disorganized violence by more than just degree of organization


1 BTC = 0g of anything

But if you mean price, what good does this information do you if you're not willing to sell one for the other?


To my mind, the solution is the same as it would be if we had no negros at all: armed citizens, death penalty for violent crimes, and let it sort itself out over time


to be fair they are the experts at deceiving the world into thinking that an unbacked trade token is better than gold


What sort of God lives in a concrete bunker?


IDGAF what they do on the Potomac

Liberty begins at home


Voting is self-propaganda


Rockefeller...


XMPP

then you just need a XMPP registry that gives out addresses of the form npub@website and requires the nsec to register


Has done since 1896 when the American liberal movement lost control of one of the Big 2 political parties and has not yet regained it


Who knows what the price will be, but the value I know


America used to be a constitutional republic

But now the Congress doesn't declare the wars, things other than gold and silver are used as tender in payment of debt, not all legislative power is vested in the Congress, not all executive power is vested in the President, not all unenumerated powers are reserved to the States and to the People, etc


Translation: We have to censor reddit and discord, too

https://theintercept.com/2024/03/09/fbi-dhs-gamers-extremism-violence/


“a thousand non-Jewish lives are not worth a Jew’s fingernail”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2004/5/20/rabbi-supports-killings-in-rafah


You're buying the bottle, not the water


A "successful" MTF surgery is almost as horrifying... read about dilation if you dare


Only some of the gangs


Eggs should get almost totally absorbed... toast -> fermenting in the gut is more likely to make stink


what are you feeding her?


is dirt


Slightly more seriously, I think incarceration as punishment is unwise. I would prefer to see the death penalty for serious (especially violent) crimes, and corporal punishment for minor (especially property) crimes.


Everybody should get a free meal and nobody should be forced to pay for it

Let's pass a law that says manna from heaven must fall down and into our waiting mouths


to be fair there are like 20 in the same situation making way less money than you


I'd rather return to calling faggots faggots


One of the things I try to do is reflect on food cravings by comparison to "pure" foods.

Today I was craving ice cream, so I thought to myself: would I want a pure sugar, like honey? I would not. Would I want a pure fat, like butter or marrow? I would not. Would I want a lean meat? I would not. So perhaps I was just thirsty.

So I drank a little water and suddenly ice cream didn't sound so great.


Amazingly, yes


Violent crimes get the rope
Property crimes get the lash
All else gets a laugh


self-deception


classic Stan Lee


He takes fiat too... (like virtually everyone who accepts Bitcoins)


You do realize the rotation of the Earth does not depend on how you set your clock, right? You could just start and leave work an hour earlier


God is reality


Art serves a selective function - it tells us what to focus on


"Mead had spent ten days in a Samoan household in Pago Pago and decided that that was enough.

King is dishonest for not mentioning this. He is dishonest for not mentioning how police reports from Samoa from the time of Mead’s visit contradict many of her rosy conclusions on sexual violence. He is dishonest also for not mentioning how Mead rarely included primitive war-making or violence (sexual or otherwise) in her analyses."

https://www.unz.com/article/samefacting-franz-boas/


Another condemnation


Our propaganda seeks to induce a state of mental illness

"Scary images of wildfires and other climate-related catastrophes around the world were particularly effective at cultivating climate anxiety, defined by the American Psychological Association as the chronic fear of environmental doom"

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/07/opinions/climate-scientist-scare-doom-anxiety-mcguire/index.html


She is accusing me of supporting slavery because I don't support the use of force to coerce would-be employers to provide benefits she desires.


What caused the rise of the American Empire?

IMO classical liberalism (government intentionally reducing its scope and enforcing something like common law) birthed the British and American prosperity (industrial might and technological progress) that led one and then the other to become empires. In the case of the Brits, much of their empire was formed while still basically liberal and superior organizational structures were imparted to the colonized regions, especially Singapore and Hong Kong which became fabulously wealthy.

In the case of the Americans, liberalism was gradually abandoned and the Americans instead coasted to world dominance on the back of technological and industrial power. The most successful US vassals (Germany and Japan) were the earliest in US conquest (ie while the US was still relatively liberal) and the most developed beforehand. Japan for example has very strong protections for private property in its constitution, which has led to Tokyo being among the most-affordable megacities in the world. The least successful US vassals (Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) are those least developed and upon whom nothing resembling classical liberalism was imposed.

If there is nothing exceptional about the middle part of North America (or the Potomac river in particular) why should the people there be the world hegemons?


What is a slave? One who is made to work for another under conditions not of his own choosing. And yet you want to impose exactly this on employers - you want to make them provide you with a benefit (paid maternity leave) by threat of force.


It made me interested in reading the book, but not enough to take the surveillance risk of buying it online.

Champion's response is aimed at the three points listed in the argument portion of the injunction but the actual order blocks him from helping people declare themselves to be "non-taxpayers" or set up a trust to avoid taxes. Other sources seem to indicate this is part of Champion's plan. His response does not specfically defend the blocked practices.

Supposing the injunction is baseless and refuses to consider his actual arguments (as Champion himself strongly suggests), this would seem to support my point that the legality of a tax avoidance plan is probably unrelated to the likelihood of "enforcement".

Nonetheless, he claims to be presenting government definitions and court cases in his own descriptions of the book. I am now curious to see what he's put together and whether I find any merit in it.


Sure but then why is it made of non-digital gold?


Why is your "Bitcoin" made of gold?


Sure, but please actually explain how your position is related to freedom. Some sort of central authority forcing everyone to adopt the same labor compensation package doesn't sound super free to me.


This looks great. Feed me your precious knowledge


"healthy"


Afrofuturism is a real art style which is sometimes pathetic but sometimes cool as in this rap album: https://invidious.einfachzocken.eu/watch?v=u9HQ0pbHcCw

But I agree with you regarding the hard drive


I do not support male suffrage either.


No, you said "we" should "provide" young people with contraceptives, which is what I disagreed with. Whether they want to poison themselves is entirely their own affair.


Why would we have a uniform labor law of any kind in a free country?


The term "adult" just means sexually mature and capable of reproduction

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

A 50-year old person might still be maturing emotionally and mentally. Are they an adult?


If you don't use something, it's trash. Maybe you can sell it or want to donate or something, but to you personally it's trash.


Did you just tell me to read a book and won't read 2 pages ?


https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-champion-3

It does not matter if the law is on your side


I am a water buffalo and they are lions. I don't want to attract the attention of the lions, I don't want to fight the lions, I don't want anything to do with the lions. I have horns and might in certain circumstances defend myself. I have feet and in certain circumstances might run or hide, but mostly I seek the company of other peaceful beings and avoid those who would prey on me.


I did, yes. I agree if you don't file the odds that the "authorities" make trouble for you is very low. My point is if they do decide to make trouble for you the law being on your side is unlikely to help you.


If you find a 100% ironclad "loophole" they will still just ignore it and throw you in prison.


I do not, because I got rid of said stuff already


Fair: Of pleasing appearance, especially because of a pure or fresh quality; comely


Contraceptives? No. Education? Perhaps by parents or spiritual leaders. Not by employees of the security services.


Young adults are adults. The idea that women shouldn't reproduce for the first 5 years of adulthood is ahistorical and bizarre.

From what I understand, statutory rape laws were passed to decrease out-of-wedlock pregnancy rates, not to address some sort of violence against young women.


no


most grocery store food will also make you fat and sick


"I'm not saying that parenthood is the path to happiness"

I am.


"You can't do that when one partner has power over the other"

Every partnership is a partnership of unequal partners. If you were equal in every way, there would be no need for partnership in the first place.


Why would sim swap make notes insecure?


Why are modern day people avoidant of responsibility? I think there's a causal sequence that involves women's suffrage, but perhaps you have a compelling explanation that does not involve this condition.


I enjoyed the first season, read (and enjoyed) books 2 through X and moved on with my life

I think at some point I saw some later episodes and was not impressed


A society that gives women the right to vote will eventually give women responsibilities that most do not want and cannot handle


Cardio is a poor strategy for weight loss IMO (I tried to swim myself thin and it did not work)


Donald Trump looking at the solar eclipse was a Rosetta Stone moment

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/21/politics/trump-solar-eclipse/index.html

The libs mocked him for looking at the eclipse without special glasses, something The Experts warned would cause blindness

Trump did not seem to go blind

So really it is The Experts who were proven wrong and deserve to be mocked

Part of our country thinks doing something stupid and encountering a bad result is what deserves to be mocked. Part of our country thinks doing something The Experts condemn is what deserves to be mocked.


Is the ATH in the room with us now?


Are we the baddies?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/banning-books-never-answer-rupauls-no-censorship-bookstore-lasted-just-three-days


"In a modern liberal democracy, you don’t need public support for any policy. A democracy government is always just a puppet of private interest groups, and the population has no ability to influence state decisions. The only threat is domestic upheaval, which is generally extremely unlikely in a democracy, given that people will usually simply say “well, I’ll vote for the other guy next time” instead of going into the streets and creating chaos."


when you let her make an OF she already lost all respect for you


Is the Catholic church overrun by Satanists?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Hires_130116-D-BW835-051c.jpg


Of course the average person doesn't want to pay to murder Arab children, but this is democracy so we just have to sit back and take it


Or the (((culture))) which is most adept at manipulating others


White, Yellow, Tan and Red are all capable of thriving in systems that emphasize personal responsibility (eg early USA, modern Switzerland & Liechtenstein, recent Hong Kong, modern Singapore, early Argentina, modern Dubai). Some of these examples mix(ed) multiple racial groups very successfully.

It's that other race which seems to be dramatically less intelligent and more aggressive.


With Gold still running up new all-time highs you may worry you've missed the boat

Silver is still attractive, as are US Nickels (which are worth more than 5c already)


I wonder who is targeting civilians more


Once in high school I called in sick - they just assumed I was my father

Still works


haha

https://image.nostr.build/301e9173f5d980c2c7b7ac83ac5e21cc6bc809bf60b32aa8c5d5ef0a73a5cf88.png


A Romulan warbird scouts a planet of sabre-toothed scorpions


Machete? 22lr is like 8c per round right now and many thousands fit easily into my closet


I suspect that in the early post-State era many people will have close-knit trading networks of less than 200 people


Is this a real devaluation or one of those where the government gives up on its unreasonable official rates?


Obama is especially fake and gay, which is why he's the Pope of Statism


I've programmed in SQL, C, C++, java, python and probably some others I've forgotten.

I find SQL easier than these others to write, but it can be harder to understand what others have done. Usually I have no difficulty understanding my own code after months or years but if it's an especially complex query it can be tricky.


Does this imply that coiners who accept fiat are hypocrites, by the same logic?


There is no We, only I


Should be a relatively low-emotion example for young people, but illustrates the theme: https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-rwanda-genocide/


MS-Paint Tarot-for-men suggests Gold should have a blow-off top around $3250 before "crashing" to around $2500


Might I suggest the troy ounce?

Gold is not going to zero anytime soon, even if fiat dies


Keynesian economics
Catastrophic meteorology
Gender studies


should have tried Jax


"trans star" is certainly a description


killdo


looks like Arabic


Global Warming is a racket


CDC: "Estimates are not available for the 2020-2021 flu season due to minimal influenza activity."

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/past-seasons.html


small charitable monopoly provides security -> get rich -> charitable monopoly security provider becomes big & tyrannical

perhaps a competitive for-profit security provider(s) would  be preferable


I cannot welcome either of those possibilities

I'm hoping for more of a 1776 or Thermidorean revolution


Yes, seriously. Did his posing for a picture inflict some additional harm to the dead rhino?


What's wrong with it?


https://cnr.ncsu.edu/news/2021/02/hunting-wildlife-conservation-explained/

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


No, they sided with the winners

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MM6KLKcykP0


Sawbones! Probably the only branch of allopathic medicine whose competency I do not doubt