Thinking about human worth.
I hate the term 'high net worth individual', the paradigm is so fiat.
Worth and value are related concepts.
Is it in the eye of the beholder or is there something more objective?
#Philopstr
Broadcom, please stop now 😜
For context: context : https://news.itsfoss.com/broadcom-vmware-continues/
#broadcom #vmware
@NVK
Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger on Assange: "He gave us too much truth..."
#FreeAssange
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1759920387457224704/vid/avc1/640x360/RSN5OczQ3jZuY0RF.mp4
Pilger's films are worth watching.
I first learned about the Marshall Islands from his film 'The Coming War With China'.
Bullish on bitcoin.
Bearish on the extent to which human nature can be reformed by bitcoin alone, even after hyperbitcoinization and restructuring of global government, the rise of sovereign individuals and the convergence of low time preference activities with great technology advances.
People are still people, and better incentives don't fully address the human condition.
Yes it's gonna be better than today, so we're optimistically obliged to participate. But it's hardly the golden age of transcendence that our souls have dreamed about for generations.
For a while I found some answers at the edge effect of bitcoin and the bible, especially those authors of thank god for bitcoin, who seemed to get this reality check. But apart from nostr:npub14f0xen78ed7rgvw39v82fwp7tv65yasz2gsgpf4gvxy4q5nlsydsk37k3l on here, that 'genre' seems really quiet again.
Sigh.
Fix the money
Slightly patch up the world
Sigh 😔
#bitcoin
#nostr
#lightning
#freedomtech
#utopia
#citadel
#sovereign
#bible
#kingdomofgod
Ok so as long as I have the naddr long address I can call the post up in another app or service? So I guess resilience means keeping a copy of that offline or at least broadcasting on nostr so I can go back and find it?
Or am I overthinking?
We have another car for which the tax rate is zero, as it's super low emission or something.
However, we still have to go online each year and perform the submission ritual, under the same overhanging threat, thereby legitimsing the system for others even if there's nothing to pay on this vehicle.
It stinks.
I do get the basis for doing this to *uninsured* vehicles, since third parties should not be asked to assume risk for my actions on the road. I also get the basis for enforcing a yearly 'fit for purpose' test on my vehicle, since bald tyres, faulty brakes, and broken lights ought to be fixed within a year by responsible individuals. However, I can't see how the so-called vehicle tax fits into this category, other than being another way of robbing people and reminding them of their subjugation to the system that they, for the most part, have to depend on.
It stinks.
UK Vehicle Tax is Theft.
or better
UK Vehicle Tax is a Mafia-State Protection Racket.
"Tax it or lose it. We can always spot an untaxed car" envelope threat.
"Tax it or we'll clamp it" threat made in the public square.
"Untaxed vehicle" sticker of shame.
Might as well send the heavies round yelling "pay up or else".
This is just hostile provocation and a reminder that, as with the monthly property tax, we are not allowed to really own anything ourselves in this 'western liberal democracy'. It's one of a million reasons why normal quiet law-abiding citizens end up hating their governments to the point of buying, using, and supporting #bitcoin as much as humanly possible!
#taxationistheft
#ukvehicletax
#dvla
#mafia
#asknostr
With nostr blogs like habla and blogstack, what happens when the website goes down? As in current case of blogstack being ded. ☠️
Is there another way to read the blog kinds? For example, directly through another client? Or over at the other site? Omust we be at the mercy of blogstack remembering to renew its centralised lease?
Is blogstack.io ded?
Stay humble and stack sats.
You have the time, talent, and technical knowhow to compose a note, transmit it by relays, and provide a means to receive value.
The only part you missed was providing value in the first place.
If it's permissionless then a discussion about permission is superfluous.
Kenneth Copeland is to the gospel of Jesus Christ what Sam Bankman-Fried is to Bitcoin.
Braiins Pool (formerly Slush Pool).
The S9 runs sweeter on their OS and they're 'neither China or America', which works well if your vision is greater global distribution.