In the hands of politicians, economic statistics can be as pliable as putty, and as a result, they are often molded to serve the interests of those in power.

I just tried snort in another browser. It starts to load and then gets and error. I think something must be wrong in Snort.

I originally used Iris until it went wonky. Lately I've been mostly using Snort and Coracle, but I can't get into Snort again. Why do NOSTR clients keep breaking and getting worse instead of better? I understand them having issues to begin with, but I don't understand them continually getting worse.

For what it is worth, I am enjoying Coracle. It is the easiest I've found for viewing notifications. In your feed, you can either show your feed with or without the comments/replies. If you view without comments/replies, clicking on a post brings up a window that displays the post with replies. Xing out of the window takes you back to where you were viewing in your feed.

I was looking at some stuff on Minds and saw a post asking people to join a group on Twitter/X that is about getting off social media. Isn't it hypocritical to say join a social media group about getting off of social media?

#meme #memestr

Some pigs are more equal than others?

First comment here gets 50 Sat (when I see it) ok? Les go~~~•✓ :]

Disinformation Fellow?? Only in a bullsh1t fiat world. These people are the echo chamber.

Fuckers it's my birthday this days let's drink 🍷🍻

I disagree. I think financial sector gowth for the last 100 years has been wildly distorted & it should be something closer to the size & % of the economy that it was prior to the creation of the Fed.

I don't think there is any possible way for lending to be higher in an economy built on sound money, when today more people are in debt than are not. In a sound monetary system, the supply of funds available to be loaned is necessarily only a portion of the supply of money saved. There always has to be more savings than debt in a sound monetary system. And today things are exactly the opposite.

True, loans will be risky for the loan maker & costly for the person in debt. So the supply & demand should both be much lower than today where the cost of making a loan is zero & the cost of servicing debts is eroded over time by inflation.

Americans are still spending like there’s no tomorrow, per WSJ.

It comes from everyone else. All financial sector growth comes at the expense of everyone else & every other part of the economy. It's not a service, it's parasitic.

Banks create the money for free. They literally lend it into existence. You apply for a loan to buy a house & the bank just adds the value of the house to the asset column on their balance sheet.

If I'm the bank, & my "paying for your stuff" costs me nothing & actually devalues everyone else's savings, & then you have to pay me back for a cost I have imposed on others, that's you serving me, not the other way around.

Debt in an honest financial system is more self destructive than it is slavery. But the dishonest debt of a fiat system is slavery if you do & slavery if you don't. Savers are taxed heaviest by inflation, debt is subsidized & rewarded.

I don't feel threatened by anthropogenic climate change. The climate is always changing with or without human activity.

I do feel threatened by mass migration and cultural dilution. This has destroyed more civilizations than climate change.

I agree that debt is slavery, but so is govt fiat. Saving in govt paper means being hit hardest by inflation. Saving in any other asset that is held or managed by some institution, means what you think is yours may not be when push comes to shove. And carrying gold across borders rarely works out well. Stacking some Bitcoin & storing your own keys is more important than getting completely out of any debt you can comfortably afford to service.

They're close but they need to get the ball back rn

Good defense in this Ravens Steelers game. 10-3 in the 4th quarter.

The ultimate bear case for #Bitcoin is fiscal discipline by governments and a long term reduction of the global money supply.

Good luck with that. It’s political suicide and would crash the current financial system.