"I hear of a convention to be held in Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a canidate for Presidency, made up of cheifly editors, and men who are politicians by profession, but I think, what is it to any independent, intelligent, and respectable man what decision they may come to, shall we not have the advantage of his wisdom and honestt nevertheless? Can we not counr upon some independent votes? Are there not many men in this country that do not attend conventions?But no: I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the canidates thus selected as the only *available*, thus proving that he himself *available* for any purpose of tbe memagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of anyunprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought."
Henry David Thoreau, *Civil Disobedience*
Coup is an excellent word choice. I am not voting for either candidate, but his election bums me out because it's so obvious that the republic fell.
Neither candidate participated in a primary.
This is the most important election of our lifetime again.
It looks to me like these two socialists were hand picked by the deep state and the deep state doesn't even pretend otherwise anymore.
I thought about this campaign after watching the debate last night.
Inflation appears to be the biggest issue this election.
Inflation is a math problem.
2 + 2 ≠ "political promises"
#bitcoin is a solution to this problem.
bitcoin = 21 million
Actually, it's a smidge less, but the important part is that **bitcoin solves the double spending problem**.
Inflation is a consequence of the double spending problem.
There is no political solution for the double spending problem.
You're doing important work. We need to get this message out. Tough times are on the horizon, but we have reason to believe we can weather the storm.
You're doing important work.🫡
The UX is pretty slick. I tried writing a book to help people get onboarded to the lightning network about a year ago, but I kept getting stuck at lightning wallets. They weren't noob friendly, didn't have lightning addresses or left thr US app stores.
This looks promising, but I don't want to get my hopes up.
I use the chapwood index for back of the napkin calculations, but I also created a budget that prices categories (i.e. mortgage, bills, food, etc.) in sats.
The real inflation is in that data. I plan on doing an average of this year over year.
I post mu blogs on habla.news, but they also show up on bloggingbitcoin.npub.pro and it still blows my mind even though I've been doing this for about a year and a half.
I don't like the way legacy social media is designed to keep people pissed to sell more soap or whatever.
I started pondering the problem after watching the Social Dilemma and reading Jaron Lanier's Ten Arguments For Deleting Social Media.
You have thousands of followers though. Xwitter is probably more valuable for you than me.
I went on Twitter to delete my accou t and then got sucked in to 30 minutes of scrolling.
Nothing but a bunch of nerds talking about buying cheese dips or something.
I don't think so. I also don't think there is a taxable event if you swap stable coins to sats to dollars on Strike either, but the laws are designed by nocoiners who don't think about these things.
I'm not sure, but it works fine for me.
I like it because I also run Mealie on it. I have a Start9 too, bit I'm not a maxi. The Start 9 is a better machine.
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