The most cyberpunk thing you'll see this year—#Bitcoin mining machines recycling gas that would otherwise be vented into right the atmosphere.
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USA 🇺🇸: Updated records indicate that Alexander Soros, son of G. Soros, has visited the White House 17 times since Joe Biden took over the US presidency.
An average of one visit every 38 days.
🚨United Kingdom 🇬🇧: White men looking to join the British Royal Air Force have been described as "useless white pilots".
A report by SKY News exposed the pressure being put on recruiting officers to improve diversity.
"having fun" is not going to some mediocre dive bar and blacking out
it's traveling to new destinations, building an epic business, having kids, hiking, surfing, yoga, camping, milking cows...
the more you go to mundane parties the harder it is to build a truly fun life.
It sometimes seems that far-left politicians look at the Laffer curve and think,
"Yes, point B maximizes short-term tax revenue, but point C maximizes the dismantling of the current socio-economical system"
The recent wealth tax increase in Norway was expected to bring an additional $146M in yearly tax revenue
Instead, an estimated $54B-worth of ultra-rich left the country, leading to a lost $594M in yearly wealth tax revenue
A net decrease of $448M+
The Guardian estimates the wealth of the relocated millionaires at 600B NOK, or $54B. That would have been taxed at 1.1%, which means $594M in wealth tax lost
Norway raised NOK 16.1B = $1.46B in wealth taxes in 2019 (page 3 of the PDF below); increasing the wealth tax from 1% to 1.1% would have increased that amount by 10%, or $146M
The net decrease I cite in the first tweet relates to wealth tax revenue alone and neglects that the millionaires who flew the country would also have paid other taxes and would likely have contributed to the economy directly and indirectly.
Of course, one should also consider whether those people would have left anyway, etc. Still. A cautionary tale.
Our minds are easily hijacked by things or people that we violently disagree with - strengthening them by our focus. If that works for you, continue….
But, if you focus on the best in people and the world you want, it too will expand, and everything else will fade out
#Bitcoin
USA 🇺🇸: The company “Giant Food” which operates 165 supermarkets in Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, announced some measures to combat theft and keep its stores safe.
Measures include limiting store entrances, hiring security, restricting the number of items in self-service stands, placing fewer high-value items on shelves and protecting razor blades in containers that rattle when opened.
The company's president, Ira Kress, said he had seen theft increase at least "tenfold in the last five years" and violence increase "exponentially".
Owning one #Bitcoin is the digital scarcity equivalent to owning 750 acres of land.
Unlike land, it's perfectly liquid, with near zero maintenance costs and asymmetric defence against attack.
BREAKING: Protest signs and protestors' faces are automatically reported to PRC police thanks to an AI system touted by Dahua, a huge Chinese video surveillance manufacturer. Dahua calls this solution a "banner_alarm"
“Zero healthy individuals under the age of 50 have died of COVID-19 in Israel, according to newly released data… ‘Zero is a very, very clear number, and cannot be subject to interpretation,’ Yoav Yehezkelli, a specialist…told The Epoch Times.’”
"The greatest risk to the world comes from those who condone or encourage evil, not those who actually practice it."
Truths, lies, the government of Venezuela and the definition of evil.
"Gold may not be the ideal currency, certainly not, nothing is ideal in the real world"
- Ludwig Von Mises
Mises himself recognized that gold had problems and that nothing in the real world could be an ideal currency, as anything physical can be in increased supply. Before the Internet
#Bitcoin fixes this.
Satoshi Nakamoto engineered #bitcoin in only 8 pages.
good morning, stay humble and stack sats 🫡
✨ Cypherpunk pioneer Hal Finney on #Bitcoin not crypto at $10, exactly 12 years ago.
