"As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."

John Archibald Wheeler

I mean, I think Mullvad is still a top tier vpn. But this seems like a next generation type move.

You'd have to switch from Mullvad to Obscura.

https://obscura.net/

No it's one service from the looks of it. They have partnered to make it happen.

Random morning takeaways from 2x speed podcasts during workout 😂:

1. Paper gold rehypothecation market is worth paying attention to. Big moves happening. China driving some of them. Zero trust in faith and credit of USG apparent. UK implosion coming and US not far behind. Liquidity injection inevitable and while DOGE is a transparency win, it can't stop this train.

2. Obscura VPN and their two-hop partnership with Mullvad looks legit. Will likely switch over once they release on proper freedom operating systems.

You've probably reached out to their customer service, but in my N=1 experience they were very helpful in fixing a screwup that was my fault.

This was me yesterday. 🫂

"“You ought,” he says, “to have been the instructors of others, but ye are not even disciples capable of comprehending an ordinary truth; for ye do not as yet understand the first rudiments of Christianity.” That he might, however, make them the more ashamed of themselves, he mentions the “first principles,” or the elements of the beginning of God’s words, as though he had said, You do not know the alphabet. We must, indeed, learn through life; for he alone is truly wise who owns that he is very far from perfect knowledge; but we ought still to profit so much by learning as not to continue always in the first principles...

but we ought, on the contrary, so to exert ourselves, that our progress may correspond tothe time allowed us.

Doubtless, not only years, but days also, must be accounted for; so that every one ought to strive to make progress; but few there are who summon themselves to an account as to past time, or who show any concern for the future. We are, therefore, justly punished for our sloth, for most of us remain in elements fitted for children."

Calvin on Hebrews 5:12

Can we just take a second to appreciate how crazy just January has been.

Started off with a terror attack in New Orleans and a Tesla exploding in Vegas and did. not. stop.

What a wild time.

I agree. My point is just that when we are talking about someone questioning the truth of scripture, it's important to first clarify if they are talking about what scripture says is true vs. what someone told them it says.

The constitution is not a permission slip for citizens. It is a list of restrictions on the government.

I guess my first question is what do you mean/what elements are you referring to when you say you don't believe it's "literally true?"

Because if you are trying to flat earth your way into the bible, don't bother. If you are talking about the historicity of Jesus and his death and resurrection, now you are talking about a core doctrine.

1 Corinthians 15:14-19

I use river for fiat storage for emergency fund to take advantage of the Bitcoin interest.

I use strike for kyc Bitcoin purchases because you can withdraw for zero fees.

What do you need? If you need a carry pistol, hard to beat sig p365xl.

Or at least have ports that are easy to replace, ala Framework laptops.

*listening to* 🤦

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND4-QT5mn6Q

There are a couple things I would bicker with this guy about (e.g. seemed to assert that Americans are generally metabolically healthier than all other countries), but the 5 minutes or so at the 25 minute mark is worth listening too.

The whole nonprofit vs for profit hospital scheme is just made up.

The interplay between insurance companies charging a commission for a "deal" while hospitals using those made up price gaps to justify nonprofit status (read: tax benefits) and turn around and get additional federal payments is an absolute scam.

Agreed. The interplay between federal overreach and corruption disguised as "complexity" is a huge player here.

Hospitals and insurance agencies put on a show of being enemies while working together behind the scenes to game the system for their advantage, using lobbying and federal overreach as their primary tools of control.

The healthcare equivalent of the deep state.

*Insert change my mind meme here*