We're still at stage 1: denial although a few are in stage 2


No one is deprived of basic care. We have medicaid.

We have giant insurance pools already (both public and private). They don't work great.

Like I said, I don't have a solution, but centralizing power doesn't seem to be the best option


Everyone in America currently has a right to healthcare (shouldn't be denied for discriminatory reasons).

No one has the right to slave labor. (also why income taxes are immoral)

America's healthcare industry is an enormous rat's nest. I don't think single-payer is the best answer. I'm not sure what is, but right now I do know insurance companies have WAY too much say in dictating care. Shifting all that to the federal government doesn't seem like the best solution.


Bernie talks a good game, but socialism isn't the answer to America's problems.

There are people making 6-figures living paycheck to paycheck. You cannot legislate and "safety net" irresponsible spending. Ironically, the best safety net is no safety net. Humans will actually take care of themselves if they have to. People will be charitable to those in true need, America has always done this.

Relative wealth inequality is irrelevant (other than a political football), so long as absolute wealth rises, which it has. America's poor are more wealthy than the average income person in the world.

Finally, the way you get big money out of national politics is to make federal government less powerful so it isn't worth buying. Reduce the federal government back to it's original intended size. Centralization of power will always lead to corruption/waste. It is inevitable.


Elon just needs to tell him how popular it would make him


Correct. Freedom means different things to different people. One can mean actual freedom, while another is for people to live the way they demand. Words can be the same, values diametrically opposed. For example "freedom from poverty" or "right to affordable health care"


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Separation of money and state is a moral imperative.
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#BitcoinTwitter
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Proper politics isn't to vote to "better" anyone, but to leave everyone alone to their own actions as much as possible.

Voting in this way (to try to better some group) means you are forcing someone to do what they don't want to do, or rather, you know better how they should live their lives and spend their money than they do.

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That is the natural course unfortunately. It doesn't "have" to be that way, but it presupposes strict self-control and shared morals/ethics. For example, it is in your immediate best interest to vote yourself favors/money, but ethically you shouldn't as it would be wrong to take from others or tell them how to live.

This standard, can persist, but it is such a high standard for the masses and breaking it can be done so privately and carried out through a 3rd party so that history has shown this standard always falls, without fail, given enough time.


I'd argue it is more than you think.


I agree we use coded language, for example we all say "freedom" but that means vastly different things.


Sure. insofar as they both want "freedom". One side that means leave them alone. the other side it means "freedom" from gun violence by gun control. "Freedom" from misinformation by censoring.

But yeah, they both say they value "freedom".


The "rub" is the core values are diametrically opposed


Very sorry to hear that. FWIW from random internet guy; Research has shown fasting prior to chemo helps the chemo target the cancer cells


Wined Dined GIFfrom Wined GIFs


Living in a swing state right now:
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nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg so much respect for your incredible effort and service implementing #bitcoin payments at the 2024 ₿  conference. I wonder how many miles you and Michael Markel logged over the duration of the pre-conference and conference. I am impressed by your patience, chill, & will.

https://youtu.be/Rdd2SlBLRfU https://image.nostr.build/3a9e1ba5af7565cb131539beaf38661ee3a976d7740abc992a620fbc02d341a1.jpg


The cost of government nanny state:

Assume a person at age 22 gets a job earning $30,000 a year. They never get a raise. Retire at age 65. This gives them an investing time horizon of 43 years. However, instead of having 15.3% paid in FICA tax, they get 15.3% of their income put into the S&P 500. (let's ignore the potential and promise of bitcoin for this example).

* 15.3% of $30,000 = $4,590 per year
* Assume annual rate of return of 9.65% (slightly less than historical S&P return)
* After 43 years they'll have $2,450,000 in their account.
* Using the "4% rule" would provide a retirement income of $98,000 a year or a little over $8,000 per month income for the rest of their life.

According to a CNBC article in 2020 [https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/how-much-can-you-get-from-social-security-if-you-make-30000-a-year.html]()
Someone making $30,000 year on average in their lifetime will receive $1,357 per month at their full retirement age. This gives a net shortfall of $6,643 we all lose in our current system.

Now of course FICA is social security AND Medicare, but Social Security is 12.4% and Medicare is the remaining 2.9% of the total 15.3% in payroll tax. This equates to something like $317 per month in Medicare benefit, vastly short of the $6,643 remainder on the "privatized social security" account funded with the exact same amount of capital.

Now, the true "kicker" is in the unfortunate scenario of an untimely death. Say you die the day you'd start social security. In our current system you heirs get $255 death benefit (not a typo), in our new scenario they get $2,450,000.

To say that social security is a bad deal may be the understatement of the century. It is beyond time to revamp the system. I prefer no compulsion, but even if compulsion remains it is vastly superior to put this money in your own account you own and not contribute to the ponzi scheme we have now.

The cost of government supplied safety net

Highlighting the vast amount wealth lost in our current social safety net scheme.

#bitcoin #sovereignty #welfarestate #voluntaryism

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"kurt"


"kurt@nostrplebs.com"


"privatize money #bitcoin\ndecentralize everything #nostr #selfhost"


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privatize money #bitcoin
decentralize everything #nostr #selfhost


The cost of government nanny state:

Assume a person at age 22 gets a job earning $30,000 a year. They never get a raise. Retire at age 65. This gives them an investing time horizon of 43 years. However, instead of having 15.3% paid in FICA tax, they get 15.3% of their income put into the S&P 500. (let's ignore the potential and promise of bitcoin for this example).

15.3% of $30,000 = $4,590 per year
Assume annual rate of return of 9.65%
After 43 years they'll have $2,450,000 in their account.
Using the 4% rule would provide a retirement income of $98,000 a year or a little over $8,000 per month income.

According to CNBC in 2020 [https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/20/how-much-can-you-get-from-social-security-if-you-make-30000-a-year.html]()
Someone making $30,000 year on average in their lifetime will receive $1,357 per month at their full retirement age.
This gives a net shortfall of $6,643. Now of course FICA is social security AND Medicare, but Social Security is 12.4% and Medicare is the remaining 2.9% of the total 15.3% in payroll tax.


It's difficult because people are conditioned to advertisers doing the valuing for them. They consume the content for "free" and advertisers pay the creator for said viewership in return for the right to run ads alongside their content. V4V is already mainstream, it is just paid by advertisers to creators, not consumer to creators.


nice post


We finally enabled pull payments in our BTCPay plugin for  nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg v2 💚

⚠Requires min BTCPay Server v2.0.1⚠
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Shout-out to  nostr:npub1za04drthlvxtwsq0phwc4mgh8rxhjafjkv2w7pf6ze5afka8gvaquadur3  nostr:npub1y24gz5gwucl79vtv4ctwpysl0r5m4xyzu2rgulnr44ks3t5mt92q4nz2ad  nostr:npub1zfytz6ktce3av2svlfpl0e79e44tnskxmvlpkcmc7q0xct3qa49swvm60l and our https://github.com/jackstar12 for making this possible!

Release Notes: https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-btcpay-plugin/releases


500 sats zapped for reposting this film.

It is very important film that everyone should see.

Also, copy a link to repost on X or Facebook as a comment to this post and I will zap you another 500 sats

https://rumble.com/v4krzak-climate-the-movie-the-real-truth.html


Rumble seems to be biggest after YouTube. Odysee is out there too. No one has the "reach" for newcomers like YouTube currently.

it is a vicious cycle.
Until content creators move, the viewership won't move. Viewers aren't going to go to alternatives and watch nothing. Creators must go first.


They got us.
Credit card companies got everyone to use their credit cards for the points (1.5-2% back) and now every merchant puts a 3%+ surcharge for using a credit card.
Well played


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seems worth a try


Uncle Ted figured this out and wrote about it decades ago


Called to help everyone in true need, even those we disagree with or may not otherwise like


I had all kinds of mess. But revolved around using two different computers during setup with it and just starting nostr. Had different accounts and didn't realize it


Linux users are still saying they're early...


could likely remain fringe. like individuals running Linux on computers


will always be fringe barring some major government censorship on major platforms, many towns greater than they already do.


Possibly the best Bitcoin meme ever.
Zap nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev bc he created it 🤝
https://m.primal.net/LrXJ.mov


I'm not tech savvy. Does this mean you can get domains for free? You don't have to go through domain registrars?


internet says Tor (onion routing) is an open protocol. The network of relays is considered a "platform". I'm no network administrator though


Harris will be declared the winner


can't count on people coming around. Some love the centralized system. You have to find ways to opt out for yourself.


Tcp/IP is a government thing, so is SHA256


Full node, tor relay, nostr relay, matrix server ISPs will hate us


history has shown the best doesn't always win


Is there a chance the future of #Bitcoin follows #linux? Linux dominates enterprise and cloud compute and small minority of individuals.

Bitcoin becomes a treasury asset for corporations and only minority of individuals ever hold it.


Nice meme, but can't help but noticed the wrong part is shaded in the second cube. people wanting to leave others alone is the minority


Is a flat tax (no deductions) the only way to safeguard against the tyranny of the majority?
Having to pay for what you vote for may make you vote differently?


no need for tariffs. just cut the income tax to next to nothing and the federal government along with it.


as are income taxes


Understand that not everyone values freedom.

For a lot of people freedom can be stifling. This is because there's an inbuilt assumption that given freedom, you have to make optimal choices to make that freedom worthwhile and in that space of decisions making is a deep anxiety, one that blames you for any bad choices you make.


I must be getting old. instead of watching the latest sports ball I'm buying #bitcoin, running a full node, self-hosting matrix server, getting started on #nostr. what next?


this is why you should invest in $pltr they know it all


great post! got it up and running thanks


Go back and forth between Iris and Primal


Download #YouTube Videos on #Linux from CLI Using yt-dlp

https://ubuntushell.com/download-youtube-video/


A view from the outstretched arms of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, one of the largest Art Deco monuments ever constructed.

#bullishbounty

https://video.nostr.build/f926dc6b4bff868188eb36ea39b511d290ccde8352d1c1aef7feccfdd7f439b3.mp4


It's odd boomers are terrified of making any changes to social security, which could significantly help younger generations. This is the cohort with $70,000,000,000,000 in wealth. The first generation whose kids may be worse off than them.


It is entirely possible a crap company holding bitcoin is still a crap company.


Nostr makes free speech anti-fragile.


The internet is meant to be decentralized, that is its superpower.
The users are to blame for the centralization of the internet, not the corporations. The users must work to decentralize it, the corporations won't.


my favorite is "the Amish hide them in the attic" so you don't see them all.


fundamentally it is up to the people to secure their rights from being taken by the government. A government cannot grant rights, only take rights, as the default position for humanity is absolute freedom. As history has shown the government will try to take liberty away from individuals in effort to keep an elite group in power under the guise of "security".


All different. In the same state they don't use all one system. Some big cities will use this machines while smaller towns still use pen/paper.


no, they are not everywhere


Not that much money. Only about 6 months of interest on their cash


Money is a huge leverage point for the government to use to manipulate the populace. I agree this doesn't "solve" tyranny in large, but does take one piece out of the equation, money.
Next is censorship and government approved speech. Nostr takes this piece out of the equation, free speach.
Lastly is taking away ones ability to defend themselves but 3D printed guns and ghost guns takes this piece out of the equation, right to bear arms.

That being said tyranny is still not solved but it is kept in better check than before these technologies. To your point though, hopefully not that many bitcoiners are voting for Harris.


Jesus is coming again https://image.nostr.build/5337f06a0ab3de597bd6af43e64b87a579301bed03fa53460264141982b1a8da.jpg


Small summary of a point in "Road to Serfdom", if you wonder why things seem to be getting worse:

"Hayek also warns about the psychological impact of living under a controlled economy. He argues that people’s values and morals can degrade when they’re deprived of autonomy. When individuals become accustomed to the state making decisions for them, they lose the drive for personal responsibility and self-reliance, which are essential for a vibrant and free society."


welcome!


People often ask me "is it worth investing my time in nostr?"

IDK IS IT WORTH BREAKING YOUR FUCKING CHAINS AND FIGHTING FOR A BETTER INTERNET AND AGAINST THE SURVEILLANCE AND PROPAGANDA MACHINE FOR THE SAKE OUR KIDS AND ALL GENERATIONS TO COME?


nostr will outlive all social media platforms. legacy social are like one-off structures that eventually collapse. nostr is like dna, it can replicate itself into many forms and persist long into the future.

gm nostr


Dominion voting scanners are messed up. How is this possible? We've been grading college exams via bubbled in scans for decades upon decades. This technology was perfected long ago.


In the race to accelerate as fast as possible, it is good that a minority of people are focused on decentralized technologies that could always remain outside the system.

Arguably this tech is always needed, but it certainly must be developed and deployed before it is ever truly needed as in that moment it would be too late.


You'll have to stake your reputation on it then


It is odd that people living in tight and unnatural quarters (large cities) adopt a socialist ideal. While people living in open and more natural spaces in the country maintain a more conservative ideal.

There must be something about population density that makes people go bonkers and think they are entitled to others property.


rights aren’t given, they’re taken.

bitcoin and nostr help you take and defend them, peacefully.


Could nostr ever be used to store healthcare records? Every physician would store information assigned to a person's public key. that person has access to all of their info all the time without a formal office request, their key gives them access. same for co-management with physicians. not sure if it is possible and of course cooperation by physicians hospitals would be a challenge


If you'd be interested in increasing by 10,000x your money, put it in the S&P 500 and wait 100 years