🤷‍♂️ You can always join the police force

Anyone who promotes freedom and peace in any way will be killed, defaced, and forgotten.

"Owning property" in most countries is just a cheaper way to rent land from strangers. In the long run of course, short-term it's way more expensive.

Such magnificent beasts

Which specific societies have been built on the principles of, say, Rothbardian anarcho-capitalism or Ayn Rand's objectivism?

... children fear the snap of your belt?

If you have to have a philosophy or religion, you might as well choose Liberty.

Let me guess: the first quote was by John Rockefeller the successful entrepreneur and businessman, the second by John Rockefeller the influential lobbyist and politician.

I wanna have what Thomas Massie has, minus the seat in Congress of course.

Final Fantasy 8 🤔

FF7 was released in 97 and FF9 in 2000, nonetheless it was a great few years for games.

And an atheist acting morally does so for morality's sake without fear of punishment.

I just hope everything ends with a giant bang before that can happen. The last time freedom increased in my country was at the end of WW2 but for that to happen, the biggest war in history needed to be fought first and the ensuing spell of relative freedom still only lasted for about 35-40 years.

We are living, thinking beings and we can, if we so choose, respect each other's freedom regardless of circumstances.

And if someone doesn't and tries to take undue power, well, everybody should own a gun anyway.

I'm sure a lot of people will want to keep them as they are for some reason but I'm happy there's the option of preventing it.

... one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

I struggle with that but it's sound advice

So reddit aims to be centralized, censored, far-left nostr?

Never in a million years

I really enjoy sqlite for nearly hassle-free local stuff

Greatest Of All Time

Like in a video game, you don't have to be sneaky if you have more guys with more guns than the other side.

Opportunities for online education are plentiful these days, teaching all kinds of theoretical knowledge you would've had to spent days gather from a multitude of books across several libraries just a few decades ago.

Meanwhile, people don't know how to grow a potato or raise a bloody goat anymore and even if they did, the land needed to do so almost has to be inherited because despite alleged fertility crises in western countries, land prices are so ridiculously high that most people will just wither away having never owned anything of value.

Isn't it interesting that scholastically, we are truly in the digital age whereas economically, we're quickly moving back to the pre-industrial age of serfs and semi-free peasants serving the hereditary aristocracy.

Oh well, that's where democracy inevitably leads at some point.

There's a nice glimpse of the future, I keep saying that the mob can always force you to use their worthless paper.

With a song on their lips and glee in their hearts.

A great quote by a man whose almost every action was a massive mistake.

Are they still at it? I thought Trump shut that nonsense down in the first 24 hours.

They can scream and they can shout /

but they can never smoke us out /

Keep your rifle by your side

I disagree but I'm very glad you're enjoying yourself

Dune 1-3, pure drug-fuelled philosophy and one of the best takes on why feudalism beats democracy. Also a handy manual for what to do when AI becomes dominant.

"How does an economy collapse?"

"Slowly and then suddenly"

I like Japan as much as the next socially awkward guy but still, there's no reason to turn the US dollar into the Yen in record time.

Isn't it enjoyable how morally good and for the sake of everyone modern democracies act that the supreme guideline is "How far can we go to enrich ourselves before people turn violent?"

My friend William is exceptionally tall and handsome - We call him Big, Beautiful Bill.

I'm going to do the JFK communication strategy and respond to what I agree with and ignore what I don't: Yes, "Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one." Looking at you, every government in the world.

Fall of Civilizations

https://youtu.be/PdFwMDuAnS4

Listening to a seven hour podcast about the rise and fall of the Mongol empire and thinking to myself: Imagine meeting a wild-looking barbarian covered in furs who's travelled further and seen more of the world than everyone you know combined.

"We can just build a CLI application, right?"

Just don't get caught 😄