Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder = You don't want to sit on your ass for 6 hours in school and then sit on your ass for 4 hours at home writing homework as a 14 year old kid.

How this is not considered normal, but rather is  considered a 'disease' or a 'diagnosis' is beyond me.

Guess what, there is a magic pill for everything.

The system wants you to be obedient.

Pay taxes and stfu.

Then, at 65 when you retire, die quick, so we don't have to pay out your pension and stretch our deficits.


Brown sugar has to be the best thing ever.

It's sugar, but brown.

A non-racist sugar.

Be sure your body can tell the difference between brown sugar and white sugar.


The profit in the cancer industry is in looking for a cure rather than finding one.


Your Government wants you dead at 65 because after that you will be a liability.

This is one of the main reason why Big Pharma is allowed to make people sick and profit off it.

The other one being - sick people are scared and easily controlled, of course.


Big Pharma's goal = make you very ill while making you broke.


"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories."

- Plato


Mistakes were made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjLOayFi5-w


Ban banning.


Learning what to ignore is essential for having a productive, happy life.


"Defense spending" is actually "Attack spending"


 Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0SKYT_zScw


No doubt a Calabrian peasant might find it ironic that New York socialites and Hollywood movie stars, indeed nearly all the wealthy people on the planet, are now trying to replicate the diet of an impoverished post-war population (low saturated fat, low meat, high carb), desperate to improve it's lot.

- Nina Teicholz


Basically do the opposite of what the corporate media instructs you to do.

Works every time.

https://m.primal.net/JFMP.webp


Time magazine - some of the worst propaganda of all time.

https://m.primal.net/JEDt.png


Printing money = paper alchemy


I only use nostr now for a couple of months and no longer have to self-censor. It frees up your mind massively.


The great danger of the carnivore diet is that many hospitals, big pharma companies and junk food companies would go bankrupt.


"That Sugar Film" is a very good documentary on what starting to eat a high sugar, low fat diet does to your body.

This is the brilliance of the food pyramid.

Every retard out there can do these blood tests and figure this out.

Yet, this is too difficult for governments, leading to the deaths of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

If you eat poison, then expect to be poisoned.

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3892434/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1


This is the most eye-opening video I've ever watched.

Already knew some of this but I've never seen the data presented in such a way.

Dr. Chris Knobbe - 'Are Vegetable Oils the primary driver of Obesity, Diabetes and Chronic Disease?'

https://youtu.be/PvZk-jNqzgE


Listening to women for dating advice is like listening to Wall Street analysts for investment advice or listening to a fat doctor for health advice.

Instead, you should be asking the Wall Street analysts for dating advice, the women for health advice and the fat doctor for investment advice.


Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match.

You may live, but you're still an idiot.

- Joel Greenblatt


The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

- Michael Hudson


According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes.

That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output - which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons.

That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing.

In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.

- Paul Craig Roberts


Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

- Marc Faber


When might is the measure of right, things go wrong.


I'm proud of myself for having gained the ability to learn from and read the works of people I disagree with on one or more topics.

A few disagreements don't automatically invalidate everything a person has to say.


Those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

- Tommy Wallach


I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

- Irene Hunt


The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder


The real things haven't changed.

It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder


Now do you see why war irritates me?  It's always the same.

A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table.

The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.

- David Eddings


All that destiny garbage.  Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.

- Margaret Stohl


Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.

- Ally Condie


You gotta take chances in this life or you're already dead.

- Megan McCafferty


Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear.

For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis.

The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).

- Susan Jeffers


Five Truths about Fear:

1. The fear  will never go away as  long as I continue to grow.

2. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.

3. The only way to feel better about myself is to go out… and do it.

4. Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I’m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else.

5. Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.

- Susan Jeffers


When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

- Arthur Ransome


Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense.

Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything.

Go to school, join in all the games you can.  Go anywhere you want to.

But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

- Douglas Bader


With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

- William of Ockham


Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

- Boethius


The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.

- Hippocrates


The best manager is also a philosopher.


The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

- Alexander Fleming


The death of fear is the price of progress.


The only reason man got away from philosophy is the artificial rat race created by the debasement of currencies.


There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars.

The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.

- Shams Tabrizi


Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

- Hafez


Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Henri Barbusse


False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

- Joseph de Maistre


Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires.

By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life.

By teaching him to trust in God’s help, it took away his trust in his own powers.

By giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life.

Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.

- Ludwig Feuerbach


The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

- George F. Kennan


J. P. Morgan was a bad guy, but god damn he was a witty motherfucker.


No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form.

The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

J. P. Morgan


"By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd."

- J. P. Morgan


If you are good looking, you can get away with more.

If you are good looking and people like you, then you can get away with a lot more.


Zooming in first is way less efficient than first zooming out, getting the bigger picture and then zooming in.


Watching people blow up their accounts with leverage is so confusing.

Some of these people know that the debasement of the currency is guaranteed too, so you just have to buy spot and wait to win.

Greed is crazy.


When you know you're on the right path, it's easy to keep going, no matter how hard it gets.


"Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master."

- P. T. Barnum

Bitcoin has turned money into a servant for everyone who adopts it.

Sadly, many are still enslaved by fiat fuckery.


"Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can."

- Danny Kaye


To win with ease, you have to play a different game, or play the game by your own rules.


Paper money leads to an inevitable "the emperor has no clothes" moment.


You can never have too much money but you can have enough money.


If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning.

If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need.

If you're going to question something, question authority.

If you're going to lose something, lose your inhibitions.

If you're going to gain something, gain respect and confidence.

And if you're going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams.

- Daniel Goldston


"Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think."

- James Connolly


Don't wear a shirt with a logo on it, unless you are 5 years old or retarded.


The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of me.


What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Bell on Satoshi Nakamoto


"All generalizations - perhaps except this one - are false."

- Kurt Gödel


Come on try a little
Nothing is forever
There's got to be something better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzTTrBJL1PQ


Question that applies to every political rally ever "What the fuck we clapping for?"


"You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves."

- Elizabeth Taylor


"It does not require many words to speak the truth."

- Chief Joseph


"Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. "

"In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event."

- Walter Lippmann

This is why we Nostr.


"The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present."

"He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity."

- Walter Lippmann


"The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price."

- Walter Lippmann


"The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want."

- Walter Lippmann


"A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them."

- Walter Lippmann


"It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely."

- Walter Lippmann


"The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation."

- Walter Lippmann

* This probably applies less to the Nostr reading public.


I am well aware. If you've read the book "The great taking", it dives a bit deeper into the issue.

However, I simply meant that I no longer have to speculate and spend time picking companies (which I'm bad at) to out phase inflation.

I didn't indent to comment on the fuckery in the bowels of the stock market. This is an unrelated issue.


"We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace."

- Walter Lippmann


You can't stop all wars, but stopping endless wars is a great start.


"He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so."

- Walter Lippmann


In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

- Walter Lippmann


"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."

- Walter Lippmann


People perceive you as more honest when you argue against your own interests.


"I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."

- James Joyce


"The main work of a trial attorney is to make a jury like his client."

- Clarence Darrow


"The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. "

- G. K. CHESTERTON


"The press may not be successful most of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling them what to think about."

- Robert Cialdini


"Revolutionaries are more likely to be those who have been given at least some taste of a better life."

- Robert Cialdini


"Once we realize that obedience to authority is mostly rewarding, it is easy to allow ourselves the convenience of automatic obedience."

- Robert Cialdini


Trying to pick single stocks. Instead, I'm just saving in Bitcoin.

You don't have to turn into a speculator anymore to preserve your purchasing power, however, most people still play this obsolete game.


It feels good to be able to write whatever the fuck I want on Nostr.

I got automatically banned on both Twitter and Reddit for non-offensive posts and don't even know what triggered it.

So many people self-censor when they can just come on here and think free.

Imagine being a programmer who implements this bullshit to prevent people from speaking based on your very limited understanding of a broken NLP algorithm.

Not quite the Milgram experiment, but similar. No man is better than his incentives and the broken money has also broken the incentives.


The fastest way to learn from other people's mistakes and experiences is to read quotes. E.g.:

1) https://www.azquotes.com/top_quotes.html

2) https://www.goodreads.com/quotes?ref=nav_comm_quotes


People want more of those things they can have less of.


"A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open." - Frank Zappa


You can often learn something even from people you strongly dislike.


Because the alternative is being a bitch.

Every time I don't do something I'm supposed to do, I lose a little bit of my self-respect and confidence.

It's all downstream from there - maybe I won't ask a girl out, maybe I won't present my new idea at work, maybe I won't ask for a pay raise.

I often ask myself "What will really fail me in life?", "What will really make me miserable and full of regret?", "If I continue on this path, where will I be in 5 years? 10 years?".

I never got into watching Tony Robins and all these con artists that charge insane amounts for seminars.

What does it for me is - what is the fucking alternative. And I've come to the conclusion that the pain of not doing the thing I'm supposed to do far exceeds the pain of doing the thing.


I just discovered the psychologist Robert Cialdini and he's brilliant.

Highly recommend you check him out if you're interested in the psychology of persuasion, influence and ethics.

Lots of stuff from him on youtube.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO4RC70qU1U


High price often gives the perception of high quality.


I find that the answer to most "Why" questions is "It's the incentives, stupid".


Diving down the Bitcoin rabbit hole has made me less retarded.

So much stuff to unlearn and learn.


"Where there is no bread, there is no law. Where there is no law, there is no bread."


The company that needs a new machine tool and hasn't bought it is already paying for it.

Invest in yourself.


If you have money, you can take control of your time.

If you have a money printer, you can take control of other people's time.


I can't trust if I can't verify.


Gold has an inflation rate of about 1.7%.

Bitcoin has an inflation rate of about 0.84%.

In April 2028, Bitcoin's inflation rate drops to 0.42%.


Hedge fund manager trying to reach S&P 500's   returns.

https://video.nostr.build/9675c004ea83667f353d1ee0c7971c715457a1c55dac8adb79e0f8fa195956cd.mp4


The government trying to balance between stealing too much and not enough of your money.

https://video.nostr.build/016978bdacf91e096a2afc02326e30230de586beac1abfb424aeea4d747b2963.mp4


If we want for fiat to survive, we have to act soon:

1. Ban words.
2. Ban thoughts.
3. Ban math.
4. Ban the internet.


#Bitcoin - not imposed on anyone.

#Fiat - imposed on everyone.


After 2140, no new Bitcoin will be issued which means that the amount of new bitcoins in each block drops to 0 BTC.

Miners will only get paid via transaction fees.


You should NOT buy Bitcoin before you study Bitcoin.


We've been tricked into expending time and energy in return for government keystrokes and paper.


anti Bitcoin = pro theft


The #Bitcoin subsidy is cut in half every 210,000 blocks.

The initial subsidy was 50 bitcoins per block or 5 billion satoshis (there are 100 million satoshis in each Bitcoin).

The current subsidy is 3.125 bitcoins per block.


You can calculate the number of #Bitcoin halvings that have occurred by dividing the current block height by the halving interval (210,000).

For example, if the current block height is 846735 / 210,000 = 4.03 halvings.

Where the block height of a block is the number of blocks preceding it in the blockchain.

The 210,000 constant is the number of blocks between two halvings.

A new block is mined approximately every 10 minutes.


Unless you own Bitcoin, you'll probably be waiting on your government to change the pixels on your screen to be able to buy food.


AI and robotics are bullish for UBI.

The only reason we are going to need UBI is because central banks don't allow for prices of goods and services to fall.

This is the best case scenario for governments as it maximizes their power, control over citizens and dependence.


The Ethereum company pays a dividend to its investors. It's called staking.


In #Bitcoin, there's this thing called the difficulty adjustment.

As more and more hashrate comes onto the network, the difficulty is increased, so it becomes harder to win the block reward.

The goal is for each block to be mined approximately every 10 minutes, regardless of how much hash rate there is.

In fiat world, the rate of inflation is the difficulty adjustment.

As more and more currency is printed into existence, it becomes harder and harder to preserve your purchasing power.

The goal is for the majority of people to be stuck in an infinite rat race to nowhere, so they don't have time to question the policies of their government.


The number of Bitcoins produced between July 2016 and May 2020 was 210,000 * 12.5 = 2,625,000

The number of Bitcoins produced between May 2020 and April 2024 is 210,000 * 6.25 = 1,312,500

The number of Bitcoins produced between April 2024 and the next halving is = 210,000 * 3.125 = 656,250

There are 210,000 blocks between each halving (approximately 4 years).

The number of bitcoins produced will continue to be halved every 4 years.

This calculation excludes the fees which cannot be calculated in advance.


"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you see Bitcoin, you can never unsee it.


The average person is busy buying things he doesn't want with money he doesn't have to impress people he doesn't like.

This doesn't apply to the average Bitcoiner.


The boomers donating all of their debts to millennials.

https://video.nostr.build/9c94ccabd411c621297c7d400539b256afe097ea18a3d8f1e855978a6d5eebb5.mp4


Telling my CFP friend to get off zero #Bitcoin.

https://video.nostr.build/465b67ad637e87f9a16ffcb8ff58c9106539f1e253d696263ad3d5715cbe06d7.mp4


Your above average financial advisor's explanation of #Bitcoin:

Start playing video at 47:27 if it doesn't automatically.

https://youtu.be/wKv0gqXc5_M?t=2847

A 7 million times multiple... What in the actual fuck.


Long-term bonds are return-free risk.

When you buy a long-term bond, you willingly donate money to the government, on top of taxes and inflation.


Trying to escape inflation without Bitcoin.

https://video.nostr.build/39a7de97f8d2ccc1735ac78e8cc89ec25e2d4a2275506b7af41b0e6677a19d98.mp4


If everyone had enough money to live comfortably, it would greatly diminish the perks of being rich.

https://image.nostr.build/bfd0236d763292bda0412a166d0a1e3d654a251f0e5f3aa5ba049461b5888347.jpg


Fiat slave trying to understand #Bitcoin

https://video.nostr.build/d7a9e79f355bc9b09f85bd63b9981269076740fb9ea79163301aabbe6d3602b0.mp4


Proof of stake = Proof of the Cantillon effect


People losing their #Bitcoin is the equivalent of Stock buybacks.


In 2035, 99% of the total Bitcoin supply will have been issued.


I've been reading a lot of books this year, however, not all of them have been insightful.

A hack I found is to google "<Author's name> quotes" and see if they've come up with interesting stuff before engaging in the author's book.

Reading someone's quotes (especially a philosopher) is like watching an MMA fighter's highlights. You get a very good idea whether you should pursue their books or pass.

This ends up saving me a lot of time in picking the right authors and books.


Andrew Carnegie explains why we Bitcoin in his book "The ABC of Money" published in 1891.

Link to the Audiobook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFcWsdnxh9I


To get better at doing something, do the thing.


Recognize progress early and often.


Ask yourself "What kind of a world would this  be if everyone in it were just like me?".


It is more important to use your mind to think than to use it as a warehouse for facts.

School and Uni mostly force you into the latter, and that's assuming your school is not propaganda-programmed.


I would say that inflation (the FED) touches more people than the IRS (taxes), but I generally agree.


"Life is too short to be little." - Benjamin Disraeli


Google manually sets boolean properties such as `isCovidLocalAuthority` and `isElectionAuthority` to determine who is a Covid authority and Election authority...  Nothing wrong with that.


An Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents

Just 2 of the highlights:

1. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Google employed whitelists for websites that could appear high in the results for Covid-related searches

2. Similarly, during democratic elections, Google employed whitelists for sites that should be shown (or demoted) for election-related information

Source: https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/


Roger Ver would probably agree, however, the IRS is just one of the wings of the government.


The most terrifying words in any language are "I’m from the US government and I’m here to help."


When the tide goes out, you see who has a set of balls and who doesn't.


Spend as much time rethinking as you do thinking.


Fuck twitter. Fuck Trump. Fuck diversification.


If you read a thousand books and keep notes while reading each, you can then read a thousand books at once.


Act as though it were impossible to fail.


In hyperinflation, a kilo of potatoes was worth to some more than the family silver.

A side of pork more than the grand piano.

A prostitute in the family was better than an infant corpse.

Theft was preferable to starvation.

Warmth was finer than honor.

Clothing more essential than democracy.

Food more needed than freedom.

---

Quote from the book "When money dies".


The vast majority of people don't have an edge but yet they keep trading instead of investing long-term.


Only Bitcoin enables you to exit the matrix.


Israel decided to kill 7 aid workers to kill 1 Hamas member who wasn't there:

https://rumble.com/v4n34h5-system-update-252.html


Twitter pretending to be a free speech platform while continuing to work with regulators and thus continuing to censor and "deboost" perfectly legal content.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/brussels-begins-mobilise-its-mass-censorship-regime-upcoming-eu-elections


Stop trying to outwork inflation.


Cathy 🪵 is right.

However, when you buy her or any of the other #Bitcoin ETFs you are still subject to confiscation and counter-party risk, so make sure to own the real thing.


This man is going to get a lot of noobs rekt. Between him and British HODL, I can't tell who is scammier.


The book "When Money Dies" is very depressing because of similarities that can be drawn.

Quote from the book:
- "Even the most respectable of Austrian citizens now breaks the law, unless he is prepared to starve for the sake of obeying it."

Context: A lady was advised to exchange her Austrian kronen to Swiss francs to not get robbed by inflation but she refused because it was illegal.

Then the Austrian krone hyper-inflated and she got rekt.

The bank employee who previously told her to convert then said: "Well, wasn't I right? If you had bought Swiss francs when I suggested, you wouldn't have lost three-fourths of your fortune."


Grifters gonna grift. Shocking.


If you own long-term bonds, you probably get your news from mainstream media.


The best investors of our time are people who bought #Bitcoin and died or lost their keys, or ones who went to jail for 10+ years and never sold any.


DEI is the grift that keeps on grifting.


The Federal reserve exists to finance the government's deficit spending and to enrich asset owners in the expense of the working poor.


Tell your loved ones to protect their fiat by converting to #Bitcoin.

This coming print will be greater than any other print we've seen.

I tried to warn family and friends, some listened, others are going to get robbed by this coming inflation.


How to know that we're early:

- #Bitcoin dominance is at about 54% atm. In other words, nearly half of the money is invested in crypto shitcoin companies.

- Once we are no longer early, #Bitcoin dominance will go back to 99%+. Until then, the sweetest gains will be had.

https://m.primal.net/HmoR.png


My quant said that #Bitcoin has already bottomed because:

1. Clueless crypto influencers are positioned short.
2. Powell is a spineless coward and will do what his daddy Biden and mommy Yellen say. In other words, he'll signal rate cuts.

Also, none of this matters in the long run.


For better or worse, I think we've seen peak Google in terms of market share.

I think Google is scrambling behind the scenes to not get overshadowed by Microsoft and OpenAI.

It's open season and every company that has the resources can scrape the entire internet.

OpenAI trains its AI on the same data that Google does.

It becomes a matter of who can filter the input data and can tweak the parameters better and quite frankly I haven't seen evidence that Google is winning.

Most of the Google products I've used are complete garbage.

1. I use Google Finance and its UI and API constantly breaks.

2. Google Analytics 4 is absolutely terrible (even worse than Analytics 3).

3. Google search console constantly breaks.

4. Gmail is the only email provider that cannot reliably filter out phishing scam emails to this day.

5. Google Ads and Youtube ads constantly promote crypto and get-rich-quick scams (although I think it's by design).

6. Starting this year, Youtube on Chrome started to prevent you from playing videos with an AdBlock, they removed the dislike count and largely castrated the site.

7. Their Gemini chatbot and image generator turned out to be racist as can be and factually inaccurate unless it fits their narrative.

Quite frankly, I think people are getting sick of all of the propaganda Google is trying to push down their throats and Google no longer has a moat.

If you have the resources to scrape the internet and have 500 good programmers, you can do much, much better than Google at search for less than 1 year.

I think Google is scrambling to come up with something that isn't a total disaster but they have too much baggage (in office politics) and technical debt.


#Bitcoin fixes MMT (modern monetary theft).


People who freak out when speculators sell are never going to make it.


You can't make this stuff up.

Corporate media criticizing Elon Musk that he doesn't censor enough while he keeps telling them that he hides (de-boosts) content they disagree with, even though it's still legal content.

I get that he has to please his advertisers but at least don't promote Twitter as a free speech platform, promote it as "free speech unless our advertisers disagree" platform.


content moderation = censorship


People who lend their #Bitcoin are going to get rekt again this cycle.

There's no magic way to get 20% annual percentage yield on your Bitcoin.

It's simply a ponzi scheme. They either take on too much risk, get rekt and lose your money or they simply steal your money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_GUF4nuzmw


There's people who've known about #Bitcoin since 2017, have traded it and now have nothing to show for it.

Instead, they could've just bought spot and held the best performing asset.

So close and yet so far.


Don't trade #Bitcoin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVQgRIzFzWY


Google's great plan:

1. Scrape all niche websites to feed your AI.

2. Kill the traffic of niche websites over a 1-2 year period. Keep gaslighting them that their content is not good enough and they're at fault.

3. Pay large publications to scrape their content so they don't sue you. Large publishers are well funded and have a large reach, so you have to be careful here.

4. If small publishers don't have any traffic, you can introduce SGE without much backlash. You won't be stealing their traffic because they don't have any.

5. You become an answer engine instead of a search engine.

6. Profit.


Inflation =

- Stealing from the poor to give to the rich.
- Stealing from the people to give to the government.


How the US government censors the entire world and has done so for many years.

https://rumble.com/v4k1wsb-system-update-243.html


US dollars are forever going down in #Bitcoin terms.


#Bitcoin fixes the great taking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3AVceraTI


I wonder if all these people who are anti #Bitcoin realize that they are pro theft.


So TikTok got banned in the USA because it doesn't instantly remove all pro-Palestine opinions.

Hopefully this speeds up Nostr adoption.


How to get attacked by the United States:

1. Disagree with US foreign policy.
2. Don't have nuclear weapons.


I am 95% allocated to the real thing. 5% is my degen miner allocation for excitement because I've spend (probably) thousands of hours researching miners.

Probably need a real hobby though.


I have a feeling some of these #Bitcoin miners are going to outperform by a lot once the FOMO kicks in and the halving FUD subsides.

I like Bitfarms at these prices.


Google rewrites the queries you search for.

Last year, wired.com wrote an article which exposes how Google alters search queries to ones that monetize better (for them).

But it's important to note that Google also ideologically alters search queries.

For example, if you search for "white man and white woman" and click on "images", you won't see a single photo of a white man and a white woman.

https://m.primal.net/HkfZ.png

In other words, what you searched for is NOT what you get.

After Wired wrote the article, Google told them to take it down.

Initially Wired refused to take the article down, but then they caved.

If you go to the URL of the article, you will now see an "Editorial note": https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

However, you can use the way-back machine to still access the article: https://web.archive.org/web/20231002162713/https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

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Here is the complete text of the article for reference:

How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

RECENTLY, A STARTLING piece of information came to light in the ongoing antitrust case against Google. During one employee’s testimony, a key exhibit momentarily flashed on a projector. In the mostly closed trial, spectators like myself have only a few seconds to scribble down the contents of exhibits shown during public questioning. Thus far, witnesses had dropped breadcrumbs hinting at the extent of Google’s drive to boost profits: a highly confidential effort called Project Mercury, urgent missives to “shake the sofa cushions” to generate more advertising revenue on the search engine results page (SERP), distressed emails about the sustained decline in the ad-triggering searches that generate most of Google’s money, recollections of how the executive team has long insisted that obscene corporate profit equals consumer good. Now, the projector screen showed an internal Google slide about changes to its search algorithm.

I was attending the trial out of long-standing professional interest. I had previously battled Google’s legal team while at the Federal Trade Commission, and I advocated around the world for search engine competition as an executive for DuckDuckGo. I’m all too familiar with Google’s secret games and word play. With the trial practically in my backyard, I couldn’t stay away from the drama.

This onscreen Google slide had to do with a “semantic matching” overhaul to its SERP algorithm. When you enter a query, you might expect a search engine to incorporate synonyms into the algorithm as well as text phrase pairings in natural language processing. But this overhaul went further, actually altering queries to generate more commercial results.

There have long been suspicions that the search giant manipulates ad prices, and now it’s clear that Google treats consumers with the same disdain. The “10 blue links,” or organic results, which Google has always claimed to be sacrosanct, are just another vector for Google greediness, camouflaged in the company’s kindergarten colors.
Google likely alters queries billions of times a day in trillions of different variations. Here’s how it works. Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching for at all. It’s not possible for you to opt out of the substitution. If you don’t get the results you want, and you try to refine your query, you are wasting your time. This is a twisted shopping mall you can’t escape.

Why would Google want to do this? First, the generated results to the latter query are more likely to be shopping-oriented, triggering your subsequent behavior much like the candy display at a grocery store’s checkout. Second, that latter query will automatically generate the keyword ads placed on the search engine results page by stores like TJ Maxx, which pay Google every time you click on them. In short, it's a guaranteed way to line Google’s pockets.

It’s also a guaranteed way to harm everyone except Google. This system reduces search engine quality for users and drives up advertiser expenses. Google can get away with it because these manipulations are imperceptible to the user and advertiser, and the company has effectively captured more than 90 percent market share.

It’s unclear how often, or for how long, Google has been doing this, but the machination is clever and ambitious. I have spent decades looking for examples of Google putting its enormous thumb on the scale to censor or amplify certain results, and it hadn’t even occurred to me that Google just flat out deletes queries and replaces them with ones that monetize better. Most scams follow an elementary bait-and-switch technique, where the scoundrel lures you in with attractive bait and then, at the right time, switches to a different option. But Google “innovated” by reversing the scam, first switching your query, then letting you believe you were getting the best search engine results. This is a magic trick that Google could only pull off after monopolizing the search engine market, giving consumers the false impression that it is incomparably great, only because you’ve grown so accustomed to it.

Even if Google prevails in this antitrust trial, I predict its troubles will continue. A company executive at the trial spoke on the stand about Google’s “contract with the users” and its “honest results policy.” No matter what pretzel shape Google twists, no matter what loopholes and legalese it bandies about, defying reasonable user expectations is a loser’s game. Until then, Google’s massive market share and deep entrenchment in everyday life ensure that these warped results pollute our ability to discover and learn basic information about the world around us. The next time you Google, remember that you’re getting search results that have been skewed—not to help you find what you’re looking for, but to boost the company's profits.


Interesting video on why US foreign policy is the way it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxh2oS7Ays


In 2035, 99% of the total #Bitcoin supply will have been issued.

https://m.primal.net/HkPU.png


The most important macro video you'll ever watch.

This is why #Bitcoin has no top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N349yy8V8sg


Peter Schiff's #Bitcoin progression is truly staggering.

https://m.primal.net/HkNv.webp


My reaction when I first learned about #Bitcoin.

https://video.nostr.build/0dbca9d3f5fd6d4c5eb14524aa0a783ce59325277d153ca6ae78940c7ca57b27.mp4


They always happen when #Bitcoin is pumping.

It's very important to explain to them that buying #Bitcoin for any time period of less than 4 years is highly speculative.

#Bitcoin is an investment, not a trade.

The only people who get rekt are the ones who trade #Bitcoin and use leverage.

If you buy with the intention to hold for 4 years +, there's no better asset IMO.


Place your bets on whether Coinbase will go down today if #Bitcoin starts pumping during US hours.

They might be doing this to push more and more people toward the ETFs as the US government is clearly unhappy with people taking self custody.

https://m.primal.net/HjkW.png


This is how I cope with tax season in my corrupt country.

https://video.nostr.build/4fc292f7a017370d71b51692a0386b72f1aae554b6e5cfb5ddaef0b3fb8fcb77.mp4

First they tax me implicitly through high inflation, then every 3 months they tax me explicitly and steal most of the money.

Only #Bitcoin can bring the power back to the people.


According to Michael Howell, liquidity will likely have to triple in the next 10 years because 70 trillion dollars of debt has to be rolled over each year.

In USD terms #Bitcoin is going to the moon.

I wonder when long-term bond holders will realize that not a single country can pay rates > inflation for a sustained period of time. Not even the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPXiuOmICy0


If following the money enables you to explain 99% of the fuckery in politics, then it's clear that broken money has lead to broken incentives.

Only #Bitcoin can fix this.

https://m.primal.net/HjYk.png


Tax season has arrived again.

I pay so much money in taxes in my third world country and the people at the top steal most of it.

It works every time.


Feasting on the bears with #Bitcoin

https://m.primal.net/HjGP.png


The BTFP (Buy the fucking print) program is about to expire but make no mistake about it, the print will continue.

Protect yourselves with #Bitcoin.

https://m.primal.net/HjGO.png


I can remember the exact moment I understood #Bitcoin.

The next 3 days until I open a Kraken account and transfer funds from my bank felt like an eternity.

Now I sleep like a baby, without fearing debasement.

The fiat print now pumps my bags instead of stealing from me.

https://m.primal.net/HjGI.png


This guy got rugged by and promoted all kinds of shitcoins in the last bull.

He seems to be the definition of right place, right time.

However, it is never too late to join the winning team, so kudos to him. Maybe he can convert his billionaire friends as well.


Everyone can opt into the future with #Bitcoin.

https://m.primal.net/HjFm.png


Glenn Greenwald is the smartest, most objective journalist we currently have.

However, he seems to not understand that the reason everything is broken is because the money is broken.

If you can zoom out and look at the incentives in the current system, you can explain 99% of politics.

Only #Bitcoin can fix this.

https://m.primal.net/HjFM.png


Yes, Elon Must makes a lot of his money from government subsidies. He is just as compromised as any of the other platforms.


The Federal Reserve promises to steal 2% of your purchasing power each year.

Even in years in which inflation is 2%, they steal much more of your purchasing power.

This is because the natural state of markets is deflation.

As entrepreneurs innovate, automate and optimize processes, prices fall to the marginal cost of production.

The only solution is #Bitcoin.

h/t  nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe

https://m.primal.net/HjDR.png


The last few months have been getting worse and worse.

They (Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, Google) keep banning opposing to the regime views.

Meanwhile I'm pretty sure the government is running bot farms on Reddit (and other media platforms) that are amplifying their views.


Once you see the light, you can never unsee the light.

https://m.primal.net/HjDB.png


In the past 90 days:

1. I got banned from Twitter (about 90 days ago).
2. I got banned from Reddit (today).
3. My programming blog got semi-deindexed from Google (yesterday).

I haven't done anything wrong - no threats, racism or anything like that.

The Twitter and Reddit bans were automatic. Got caught up in a filter a millisecond after posting.

I think I'll be using only nostr from now on.

It seems like the only asset you can truly own is #Bitcoin and the only platform you can own your profile on is nostr.

Also, F for my programming blog on which I've written 3,000 articles that just got murdered by Google for no reason.

https://m.primal.net/HirZ.png


I think the US government is pumping the Ethereum price to misdirect from #Bitcoin.

I personally know no one who owns Ethereum... just saying.

The same thing happened when the US government tapped Elon Musk on the shoulder and told him t misdirect from #Bitcoin with Dogecoin or else his government subsidies disappear.

He was like: "Haha, Dogecoin, you so funny. Same as #Bitcoin."

My hope is that these people who are buying Eth know that is has been castrated and captured via proof of stake (aka proof of state).

https://m.primal.net/Heaz.png


As Max Keiser said, Mohamed Bin Salmon will pump #Bitcoin this cycle.

Don't fight the bull guys.

https://m.primal.net/HcOC.png


#Bitcoin truly is rat poison.

Here is Jamie Dimon chillen in his dumpster.

https://m.primal.net/HcLk.webp


The AI has finally graduated to #Bitcoin watermelon.

It's important to note:

1. You can never have enough #Bitcoin watermelon.
2. There is no second best watermelon.

https://m.primal.net/HcCE.png


I love these DW documentary titles:

"Does #Bitcoin make you rich?"

Suggestions for new DW documentary titles:

1. Does fiat make you poor?
2. Does watching DW make you retarded?

The answer to all of these is - yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFxx87yVpMA


#Bitcoin is the only coin that cannot be clipped.

https://m.primal.net/HcAL.png


Global debt is 400% of global GDP.

The financial system is leveraged to the gills and will inevitably fail.

The only way to exit this failing system is to opt into #Bitcoin.

https://m.primal.net/Hbrp.png


Many people don't know this but the young Elizabeth Warren was a big proponent of #Bitcoin.

https://m.primal.net/HazV.png


My money printer takes in fiat and spits out #Bitcoin.

https://m.primal.net/HbFb.png


The temptation to debase is too strong.

Protect yourselves with #Bitcoin.

https://m.primal.net/Hbpj.png


IPOs (Initial Public offerings) and ICOs (Initial Coin offerings) are a way to dump on retail in TradFi.

#Bitcoin fixes this.

https://m.primal.net/Hbgb.png


Buying #Bitcoin with the intention to sell within a year or two = Speculation.

Buying #Bitcoin with the intention to hold for at least 4 years = Investment.

https://m.primal.net/HbfT.png


Gold used to be a vote against the establishment.

Now it is #Bitcoin.

https://m.primal.net/HbRd.png


If you spend a million dollars an hour, it will take you 114 years to spend a trillion dollars.

The current US debt (excluding entitlements) is more than $34T.

#Bitcoin is your only protection.

https://m.primal.net/HbGc.png


Yo homie, all he wants to know is how much money you got, what you spending it on and how big is your D.

I don't see any issues with that.


There are more countries on a #Bitcoin standard than on a gold standard.

https://m.primal.net/HayC.png


The genesis (first) block of the #Bitcoin blockchain contains a message: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"

This is a headline from the London Times following the 2007-08 financial crisis.

The genesis block is believed to have been mined on January 3rd, 2009 (as indicated in the message) or shortly after.

https://m.primal.net/Havy.png