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

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


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

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

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

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


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


Marriage used to mean reproductive union

Now it means reproductive union or monogamous adult sodomy

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

TLDR: The slope was slippery after all


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

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


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


"leader" is such a 20th-century concept


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

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


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

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

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

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


what is timechain


Enjoy all the extra fiat


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


Black spray paint


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


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


Theft doesn't quite sum it up.

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

Taxation is slavery.


heh

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


Cicero's writings are excellent


Gross Personal Information Warning

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

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

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

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

Truly a pooper's paradise.

#poopstr #carnivore #meat


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


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

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


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

It basically comes down to whether you understand economics


I said queer rather than gay

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

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


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

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

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


Queer is communist BS to begin with


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

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


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


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

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


I agree

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

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

*shrug*


You did not. You asserted it.

How much value does 1 Bitcoin store?


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


I think the point is it's not round


Obviously this is psyop to deal with fiat impoverishment

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


Watermelons - green outside, red inside

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


I find night shift extremely effective

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

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


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


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

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


Bach
Bismarck
Nietzsche
Fritz Haber


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

But why should that be the case?


What value is Bitcoin storing?


Why would Person B want the money?

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

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


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


Both arguments economically illiterate

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

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


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

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

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


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


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


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


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


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

We're all getting ripped off by the same people


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


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

It is convenient


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


I guess we know who won


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

This is a milestone but perhaps an ominous one


This whole time I thought you were real


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

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


Lovely lovely Ludwig Von


what's in the jpeg


The US Dollar is fake and gay

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

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

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

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

The penny is copper plating on a zinc slug.

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

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

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


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


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


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


turning off watch history disables the algo feed

Video Encyclopedia >>> Internet Television


Yes and no

Thermodynamics is accurate

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

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


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

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

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


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

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


it's happening


when the moon hits your eye like a lil froggy guy


Richard Nixon mask


It turns out you can just buy rubber stamps

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


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


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


The State is a false god.


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


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


Amen


Altruism is a form of self-loathing IMO

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


Are all Jesuits heretics?


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

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


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


I like cats but I prefer dogs

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


run-in

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


Technology regressed over 50 years, which happens all the time


It's the Russian name for WW2

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


2nd American War of Secession

The Great Patriotic War


Fuck the bluecoats


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

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

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

Save all nickels.

Save pre-1982 pennies but spend modern zinc imitations.

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


Looks like 5 so far, all in Utah

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


unlike automobiles whose carbon comes from a distant star system


looking quite liturgical


Folks
Humans
Countrypeople

Lend me your earbuds


When have we ever had a peace-time president?


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


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


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


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


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


ah yes, the infamous 3 girls 1 cup


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


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


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


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

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


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


"inspire them"
to... become mothers?


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


ZOG


"shouldn't have to"

Do you have to?


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


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


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


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

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


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

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

In what sense is it theft?


#tubestr

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


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


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

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


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

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


Why not?

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


it looks up an IP address


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


Return of the Jedi

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

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

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

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


dope


Obviously I see the dark cloud of the digital panopticon

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


Those are just our favorites.

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


Yes


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


this meme is loud


Big job


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


nostr:npub1xsf5h8suhveztq4u5spq5wwvzftqxmglt6vwllxg8z6zrlpqn4yqrulu9v

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


Thanks, I'm partway through.

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


Yes.
"We" are in for it too.


Were you in one of the areas where they circulate?


Also unironically "inflation good"


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


I'd marry a 67 GT too


fiat isn't money
it is currency


totalitarianism by imperfect humans is also imperfect

tolerating imperfections is the price of life


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

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

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

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


This makes me glad I generate different passwords for each site


thanks for your 2 sats


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


Yes

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


I agree with you on some points but not others

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


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

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


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

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

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


I'm giving away a COCKBLOCK MAXI


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


the conservative and labour faces are NSFW


so unrealistic
they would never apologize


ball earth makes more sense to me than flat earth

but OK

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


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


Why would the earth suddenly stop spinning?


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

I found most were fake

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


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


real confidence-builder here


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


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


more carbon = more life


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


That or a useful commodity...


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


they've got my vote


NYT has also called it

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

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


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


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


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


Would you rather have 1 BTC or 200 GF ?


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


Only a woman would ask such a question


Doesn't sound virtuous to me


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


Jay walking is not a real crime

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


this is so dumb and so funny


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


You still have a phone?


Yes.

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

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

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

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


North American bingo is played on a 5x5 grid


Yes but it's a different version from the Isles


you might be feeding the troll


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


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


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

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

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

He never hit me again.


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

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

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


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

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


A monopoly State is inherently rotten at the core

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

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


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


Experts are like Bishops, only other Experts can ordain Experts


Pax Americana or Bust


Vivek is the best-written MAGA character so far


People need ideas, which is all Milei has offered


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


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

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


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

What is so hard to understand about that?


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


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

It wasn't a target, it was a limit

But inflation is the whole purpose of the central bank


Our enemies mouthing libertarian talking points is what winning looks like


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

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

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


Did you listen to the speech?

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


Did you listen to the speech?

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

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


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

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

With enemies like this, who needs friends?


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

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


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


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


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


Trust level: "Jester"


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

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


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


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


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


Decreased demand for money is inflationary

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


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


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


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


haha


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


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


This commie nigger really thinks I run things


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

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


The rock is the struggle to raise the next generation

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


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


Federal Reserve Notes are fake and gay


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


iT's StOrEd EneRgY


thanks boo


I still think Bitcoin is a scam


seriously was it Jeffrey Epstein though ?


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


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


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


Panic, citizens. Panic!


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


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

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

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


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


I believe we squeaked out $34T before year end


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

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


post it on nostr


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


Their actual purpose is to protect large brokers from competition


I haven't abandoned it


Good For You


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

This is hilarious

I speculate it was a rogue underling

Or maybe the regime is trying to destroy the old system


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

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

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

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


The Market is Reality


Anglicus cretinismus est


The most durable commodity


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


My milkshake isn't going anywhere


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

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


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

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

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


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

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


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


When fiat dies


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


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

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


Do you disagree with the substance of the claim?

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


same


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


If it's voluntary it's not a tax


me watching every cooking show


Calisthenics is legit

A proper diet is even more legit

Do you ever see lions doing push-ups?


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


What is it?

It's amoose


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


Forced collective bargaining laws violate property rights


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston A Price


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


boo


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


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

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

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


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

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


Congress


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

What are the psychological consequences of believing things like this?

My belief is no less spiritual but entirely the opposite

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


I think you are correct

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

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

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

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

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

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


In my opinion Abrahamic religions share some very bad ideas

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

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

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

Recommended readings:

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

Alain de Benoist
-On Being a Pagan

Baruch Spinoza
-Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Richard Dawkins
-The Selfish Gene

Leonard Peikoff
-Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

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

Lao Tzu
-Dao de Ching

Aristotle
-Nichomachean Ethics


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


your species-inappropriate diet is the problem


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

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


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

They are tax consumers, not tax payers


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

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

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

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


Why wouldn't it be?


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

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

3) Welfare payments are funded via theft unlike normal property


I did not.

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


He threatened to revoke welfare from protesters who block roads


What's wrong with that?


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

But so far he seems pretty good


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


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


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

Most cancers require glucose to live

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


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

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


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

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


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


Already illegal in the US, just like fiat

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


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


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

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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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


Hard to un-see

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


1lb chuck eye
Merry Christmas


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

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

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


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


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


What is a soul?


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

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

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

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

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


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


I was lampooning Greenwald & Carlson


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


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


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


They're really not

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


good luck cuck
my rights are not up for a vote


Thanks for showing me your nuts


Always has been


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

And why is the government involved in marriage at all?


Most ETF rely on redemptions to maintain tracking


What a waste of time and money


*Currency

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


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


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


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

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


Yeah and then they'll tell us who shot Kennedy


From whom are the goodies to be stolen?


9 out of 10 participants vote for gang rape


That's the cuck pride flag


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

Same goes for humans


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


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

It does not requires that profit is always found


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

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


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


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


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


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


Both links work for me

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

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


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

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


https://holocaustencyclopedia.com/

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

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

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


Depends what you mean by capitalism

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

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


excellent bait to lure meat into your yard


much scarier than a literal grenade...


those mfs had 33 degrees


Encrypt yourself, FOSS yourself, 2A yourself, etc

𝕼𝖚𝖎𝖊𝖙 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗

𝕼𝖚𝖎𝖊𝖙 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗


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

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

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


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


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

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

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


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


How has this hypothesis been tested?


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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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


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

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


I think the work of virologists has been thoroughly unscientific

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

Do you think contagion is a real phenomenon?


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

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

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

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


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


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

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

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


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

journos as the real heroes = lol

but probably healthy for this to bubble up to national consciousness

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


A man who provides for his own security is free

2A / FOSS


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


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

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

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

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

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

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


It's not money though, it's currency


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

Ribeye also great


It's a donation to pedophiles


What property?


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

Interesting coverage

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

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


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


There's also no miners or coins


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


TDLW: It is no good


What's anti-semitic here?


They kindergarteners were right before the lesson

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


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


The Israeli strategy


150.28

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

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

This is very bad
nostr:nevent1qqsp7h7tvzwm50eq5r82p7dhalryedkme8tljj8a3xcs62ajuccw2scppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs0td2lddzt3xtm9dhgg6dx54lc60em9me8qg65x3zugrkwcjz7ueqrqsqqqqqpnqmtzu


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

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

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

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

#fiatnews #endgame


nope


fry them in beef tallow


if you require supplements your diet is not proper


They had crematoria
This missing structure is the gas chamber


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

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


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

https://yewtu.be/mCIy4LFWUrU


When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Collapse

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


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

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

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

While Bitcoin has no use other than as a trade token


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

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


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


Biased reporting of WW2 purported atrocities?
why, I never


Along with all the other unbacked, meaningless trade tokens


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

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


Is this actually necessary?

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

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


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

Apparently the virus is adapted to evade mouse immune systems.


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

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


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


No


There aren't any


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


It is what it is


wat


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

Basically this whole film is building up to such a moment


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

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

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


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

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

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

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


Which carbs are essential?
And which nutrients?


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


#carnivore #meatstr #diet


Vitamin C: The Carnivore Death Spiral

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

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

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

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


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


The graph says it's expected to peak and decline


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

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


I believe Cheese is the best animal source of K2


What are you feeding him?


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

Fiat skeptics should consider withdrawing some US nickels

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


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

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

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


Did you take pictures of any art?


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


Merino wool undies can be worn indefinitely


In economics it's a must


Most exciting part of goldbacks IMO - sound money actually circulating


Crazy. I wonder if other infamous confessions are also nonsense


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

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


Gold is divisible to the atomic level

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


Is this not Graham's actual position?


Crematorium capacity is not the limiting issue

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


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


H2 sucks
So do battery EVs

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


GM

I think you've found your group


Duck season


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


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


also blacks


Nah, the only dangerous minority is government officials


still on Linux, so we're all good


The banks are safe & effective


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


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


fast food


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


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

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

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

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


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


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

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


Yes.

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

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


Wild series

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


He lays a couple a day


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

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

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


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

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

Bad money doesn't drive good money out of existence

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


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


why


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


Scare quotes

But McCarthy is definitely a uniparty power-seeker


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

Translation: actual democracy threatens establishment "elites"


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

What Is Hard Money?

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

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


The Ecstasy of Gold


Open = men's division

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


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


The Soviets killed 10x as many innocents as the Nazis


Nuremberg was a show trial.

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

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

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

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

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


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

I don't currently own a desktop

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


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

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


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

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

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

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

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


Also the $ symbol is not used for Swiss francs


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


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


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

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


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

From Investopedia:

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


Yes

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

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


The covid vaccine is useless poison

All the vaccines...

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

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


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


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


Few wish to rule themselves


The start is nigh


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


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

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


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

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


Good, good
Plz stay down until Friday


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Getting in the mood for GFC2

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


I probably have another 30 pounds to lose

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


Carnivore deviations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#carnivore #carnivorediet #meatstr


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Sad!

Philly journo who mocked crime concerns shot dead

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


20 years of US regulations in one photo


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

"They" want you sick and dependent


https://image.nostr.build/1c7a5092d29f53153dd9e6e8349b7bd8241b8dcc1266e425580c78b8b7704bba.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/8e65fdb637758de7cb541f8c2fa325842f1bf370f089a5fa9a05a9bb4d452a67.jpg

#meme #memestr


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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


I did not know this:

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

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

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

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


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

Fiat might die today (as every day)


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


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


Certified EU moment

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

#instameme


Scorpions are way worse


Commie scum