This may sound like cope, but there's something liberating about having like 3 followers on nostr.
I don't expect people to really see my notes and replies, so I just use it to vent or write down my thinking on things. It acts as a complement to the handwritten journal that I keep.
The external benefit is that when many others do this we have an excellent pure way of seeing what others think, which helps us all calibrate.
The big tech platforms lose this because they amplify the most divisise views, and may even ban you for writing down your thoughts (even if you didn't care that they be widely seen). Also, they own your notes/posts and you don't have any guarantees that they will always be accessible to you.
Surprised there aren't more brands that position themselves as high fat replacements. Low fat probably just so much cheaper to produce per calorie, so incentives favour the status quo
I think it's actually all the birds. As we all know, they aren't real. My theory is that they're all secret flying Bitcoin miners launched by the CIA and they fly near the weather stations.
Haven't seen any evidence to refute this yet.
Wait, so you have to first demonstrate that your funds come from lawful sources, and only then can you transact privately? That doesn't even make sense, regardless of how sickening the assocation with Chainalysis is.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/chainalysis-the-theranos-of-blockchain-forensics
nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx in case you haven't seen this yet, HUGE break in the Sterlingov Bitcoin Fog case. They basically admitted in court it doesn't work. Now it's on record. Huge.
This is great. Love the game theory of blockchain forensic firms dissing each other in court for expert witness money / street cred.
2024
- Fed pivots
- Bitcoin halving
- Govs weaponise banking and payments with CBDCs
AND (wow we are blessed):
- Bitcoin successfully thwarts the drivechains attack vector
High correlation between those who advocate for state intervention, justify shitcoining in all forms (including trying to cash in on domain names give value by a community), and advocate for drivechains. Curious.
😂 Very slick how you managed to make a sale giving you $4M about how you're just trying to do the best thing for the community. Truly sublime 🙇
“Most importantly, the UK government had to concede that oil and gas companies may make more from subsidies than they pay in tax. The government had previously denied this fact but, in an unprecedented development, were forced to admit to it in public record in the High Court. “
https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/energy/paid-pollute-fossil-fuel-subsidies-uk-what-you-need-know
Pretty much all governments I know give subsidies to oil companies
The article admits that the way they define subsidy is R&D tax breaks ... this is an activist website. They're pretty loose with their definitions.
The UK has some of the most expensive petrol prices in the world, driven by taxes (opposite of subsidies). Current petrol price is around 60% taxes: https://www.racfoundation.org/data/percentage-uk-pump-price-which-is-tax-page
You're ignoring / denying the basic facts that I'm sharing with you. But also, this is all beside the point 😂
You were arguing for MORE subsidies. This is not the answer, because these subsidies have to come from SOMEWHERE. Where should they come from?
The point is that they come from us, and they'll be spent on waste. The whole case for ULEZ is a hoax. Try to see the forrest, not the trees 🤗
LOL, thinking about the time the Danish government illegally slaughtered 17 million mink because they (gov, not the mink) had COVID derangement.
They buried them in mass graves but then had to exhume and incinerate them because the carcasses were poisoning the ground water.
The government then changed the law to make it so they hadn't acted illegally. Farmers may be compensated sometime in 2027.
This must be peak COVID stupidity. Stunning.
“Most importantly, the UK government had to concede that oil and gas companies may make more from subsidies than they pay in tax. The government had previously denied this fact but, in an unprecedented development, were forced to admit to it in public record in the High Court. “
https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/energy/paid-pollute-fossil-fuel-subsidies-uk-what-you-need-know
Pretty much all governments I know give subsidies to oil companies
Read the article again.
Even this activist website admits these are not really subsidies, but conventional tax breaks that ALL companies get for R&D investment.
You advocated for direct subsidies for electric vehicles by claiming that the UK government already subsidises petrol. It's a weak argument based on no evidence.
Even if it was true, then maybe your argument would be to remove all tax breaks and subsidies for all companies. Not to add even more?
Using these lovely London September evenings as an argument for climate alarmism either demonstrates the weakness of the hysterics' arguments in general, or indicates the Orwellian tendency of advocating good = bad, or both.
But I, for one, am not unhappy about wearing shorts in September.
Mate, you're being way too literal about the word "rigged". There are many factors that make elections less representative of the people, and we are encouraged to support them:
- federal agencies with power to enact policy without democratic accountability (justified on the grounds that they're "experts")
- massive levels of lobbying and political funding that undermine what people thought they voted for (justified on the grounds of "donations" for the "common good")
- shenanigans at the party level that ensure only palatable (to the elite) candidates make it onto the ballot (justified based on the circular logic that they're "electable")
Try not to get so hung up on the wording, and attempt to see the bigger point 😽
The UK government subsidises petrol?
I hate to be a source eagle, but ... Source?
I've noticed a new type of Bitcoin FUD recently. It's quite subtle.
Instead of the usual "it's for criminals", the argument goes:
"It's not a real technological improvement over fiat, just a way to get around regulation".
It seems to imply that the obvious solution is just to tweak payments regulation. Obviously, this is highly regarded since that will never happen, and also because that's only one element of Bitcoin utility (lol, try tweakings regs to prevent money printing).
A could retort could be: "yes, just like medicine is not a real technology, governments could simply stop wounding people in wars"
“The biggest Ponzi of all time”: why Ben McKenzie became a crypto critic
Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37376087 )
Great to see comments like this on HN:
"curiousgal 5 hours ago | prev | next [–]
> Bitcoin and crypto is only marketing. It’s only a story
It's interesting when people make such blanket statements because then all you need is one counterexample to prove them wrong. When I was a teeneager in a third world country with a pegged and tightly controlled currency, Bitcoin was the only way I could pay for books and servers online. It was thanks to Bitcoin that I truly felt connected to the rest of the world. To me Bitcoin was a currency and nothing can take that away from me.
Whether or not that still holds today is arguable but to claim something is outright useless just because you haven't found a valid use for it is narrow-minded."
This EconTalk episode kind of blew my mind. Most cancer screening is ineffective for reducing mortality.
The least surprising part is that the reason we spend so much money on it anyway is due to vested interests and perverse doctor incentives.