Wish we could fund these guys. I'd pay many sats per proof of destroyed camera.

How do they fund the subsidy?

More government intervention here is the problem, not the solution.

And the air quality rationale is a hoax. No one dies from pollution in London. I'm lucky to drive a modern petrol car, so the tax isn't coming for me (yet), but it's insane how much of our taxes have gone into installing thousands of cameras across Greater London in the name of a non-existent problem.

I live in the same area as Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London. He's currently pushing through an extremely unpopular expansion of London's ULEZ (ultra low Emission Zone) that requires non-compliant vehicles to pay around £12.50 per DAY.

There's a caravan parked on a road here emblazoned with text calling Khan a liar, and accusing him of being a dictator. Imo, pretty fair (if hyperbolic) criticism. The liar criticism part is due to the premis that the ULEZ is to prevent children dying - obviously nonsense.

As I was walking by this afternoon I see some counter-protest posters stuck on a few trees. They made me really annoyed, and perfectly represent modern politics: no rational argument for ULEZ, but instead accusing the other protest of "hate speech" 😪

Part of me is hopeful that this ULEZ situation wakes people up more to the overreach of government, and the silly woke arguments that support it.

I love hiking in the English countryside. Beautiful views, cool forrests, charming houses, and easy to get to.

Man I love democracy when my special interest gets forced onto everyone else 💪 When it's the other way round then obviously it's terrible and we should let experts that I agree with run things 😏

Nah Dom Pedro with Amaretto is 👌

Travel rule coming into force tomorrow. Here's the email I got from Revolut. Not that I would ever use them to send Bitcoin, but this is an egregious privacy violation for their customers.

The saddest part is how they do the state's bidding by trying to justify why it's important.

Check out this great interview regarding left v right (liberal v conservative): https://salemcenter.org/podcast/policy-at-mccombs/the-myth-of-left-and-right-caplan-and-hanson-interview-the-lewis-brothers/

Very strong arguments that left v right is completely non-sensical. Mostly just a hodge podge collection of individual issue positions that people try to apply a liberal v conservative justification to after the fact.

Agree 💯 that Libertarian v Statist is definitely more useful and relevant. Here there is a clear philosophical basis for each, from which individual issue positions follow.

It's never okay to shitcoin, Joe. No matter the intention ;)

LoL, guys, we're not slaves 😂

Just tried to pay with Bitcoin at a food truck in London that advertises itself as accepting it. The guy in the truck made a few phone calls and then told me they weren't accepting Bitcoin today because the boss has "the machine" and he's out of the country. Very disappointed.

Paid with card in the end. Will try them again because the food was good, but shows the problems merchants still have.

nostr:npub1nfplq76jq3rcaekcyaf64nfgkjl74garqylfmg7wgsxcpve095rskzyne6 we really need Square terminals to start accepting Bitcoin 🙏

Sure, but so is the pavement or the park 5m away 😅 Dude was wearing one of those cheap disposable masks that prevent you from accidentally spitting on other people. Even if he did it for the pollution, then he was doing it wrong ... and not wearing a helmet shows that his risk assessment was absurd.

My original pithy reply to Marty's thread has been thoroughly watered down by this exchange. I just wanted to dunk on mask wearers 😂

Says it's entirely because they're socially signalling, not because they care about their health. You're at far greater risk falling off your bike and cracking your skull than you are catching and dying of COVID while cycling.

It was in the infamous Ultra Low Emission Zone

Saw a dude cycling on a main road in London wearing a mask, but no helmet. Says it all.

Deciding to try GBoard on GrapheneOS. Was using Open Board previously. Have turned off network permissions but I still feel dirty using it, even though it works really well :/

Unpopular opinion:

When people make the argument against AML/KYC regs that "we spend $100 for every $1 of money laundering caught" they're basically saying:

"we spent $100 on this lock but no one broke in"

The whole point is that it's supposed to be preventative.

We should be placing the burden of proof on this system to show money laundering *prevented*. The true answer is probably close to zero.

The Fed's inflation target should actually be 2.41%. There are more numbers so it means it's more scientific.

Biggest hoaxes of our time build on a kernel of truth.

Money creation should be independent of government. But we don't need central banks.

Covid is a real disease that can kill some people. But we shouldn't have prioritized it over everything else.

Man pollutes the environment. But reorganizing the energy system around inferior technology will impoverish us all.

I'm starting to feel bearish. Makes me so fucking bullish!