Your government can kind of just take away your passport, trap you inside, and make it hard to get a passport elsewhere. By controlling your access to your own identity documentation.

It happens to little out-of-favor groups primarily.

But it's important to remember that power is there.

Biographies are fascinating, someone people are truly incredible. The best part of the human existence is how imperfect we are and how those uniquenesses /nature or nurture/ take people on their different paths.

Been eating up alot of the recommendations.

Europe looks promising 😀

Are you making plans to leave Canada? If you haven't yet, you better start right away before shit really gets bad.

The Bitcoiner Shoe store:

They accept sats through nostr

Shoes that respect your feet

Harsh truth: the shoes you’re wearing right now are probably damaging your feet

Don’t trust, Verify

www.SoleFreedom.ca

Thank me later

Canada should be auctioned off to the highest bidder with the proceeds divided up with all the citizens

People expecting on a government / institutional pension to support them during their golden years are fucking delusional. It will be worthless in a few years. The only thing people could reliably expect to carry them forward are hard assets.

Upon reflection, Peanut had no chance. He was either going to be eaten by Haitian migrants or murdered by the State.

A third option never existed.

Idaho?

😂

Any Canadians making plans to leave the country and settle elsewhere? If so, where is your destination of choice.

What you are looking for is pricing things in time spent to earn the amount of currency required. A salary basically converts time spent at work to currency. It is up to you to judge if paying a years worth of time in earnings is equal to one house or not. Then, it also depends if you are buying a house or an investment in the shape of a house. For another example, is a hundred hours working at what you are good at worth paying for a washer and a dryer, that saves you time spent on chores for the next few years?

“Bitcoin doesn’t force anybody to stay”

We can keep it simple

Whenever I see statists like the ECB get upset about Bitcoin, or when I see more brazen regimes try and actually implement an all-out ban or crazy tax scheme, I turn to my favorite bit of writing anywhere on Bitcoin and remind myself that a ban is the Berlin Wall and that “fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly”

Bitcoin is Ariadne by nostr:npub1sfhflz2msx45rfzjyf5tyj0x35pv4qtq3hh4v2jf8nhrtl79cavsl2ymqt

“Bitcoin is often framed as “competing” with fiat currency. This is true in a sense but I fear there is a rhetorical danger of invoking the wrong kind of “competition”. It is not a fight, for example. There is no conflict. Bitcoin is not trying to damage or sabotage its opponents, because it isn’t trying anything and it knows no opponents. It has no awareness whatsoever of who might oppose it or why. It is simply an alternative; an exit valve; an opt-out. It is competing only insofar as it is proving to be a far superior alternative. It is not a sword for Theseus to fight the Minotaur, but a thread to follow to exit the labyrinth. Bitcoin is Ariadne.

There will be tremendous value in normalizing this rhetoric amidst the likely growing chorus of opposition desperate to smear Bitcoin as inherently nefarious, or hostile, even. Opponents must be forced to explain what is wrong with people interacting freely, and why true goodness can only follow from coercion, in their understanding. Should those who have found a way out of the unbearable labyrinth of capital strip mining not take it? What do they owe the Minotaur?

Does anybody really believe that, having fully understood the choice they face, any individual would choose to save in a self-referentially mispriced toxic loan rather than a provably sound digital bearer asset? Or, more simply still, that they will think it makes less sense to hold money that is a pure asset than money that is literally defined as a liability? Why not opt into a financial system that is built on trustless verifiability rather than unverifiable trust?

… It is worth working through the optics of any decision to engage with Bitcoin in a truly hostile manner, because it is certainly coming. McNeill reminds us that, even some seven-hundred-or-so years ago, “the breakdown of established patterns of conduct always appears deplorable to a majority of those who witness it.” By no means do I have a utopian outlook on this subject — rather, it is something of an intellectual rite of passage to accept the nonzero utility of dystopian paranoia. Bitcoin will be banned, many times, in many places. But a ban is an open admission of practical and moral failure and is arguably the best advertisement of all. A ban is the Berlin Wall; fragments of any ban will one day become souvenirs of the folly and cruelty of repression. Bitcoin doesn’t force anybody to stay. They come, and then they stay, because they want to — because it is both practically and morally superior.”