Yup. Central planners believe that society can be likened to a car that they can just drive as they please and that the vehicle is just a passive chunk of metal that exist to be moved from A to some destination B that bureaucrats have decided in advance.

In reality a society is more akin to an archipelago of ecosystems with emergent properties, a collaboration of sovereign, free agents with individual liberties and private property rights.

More freedom = greater prosperity.

#Tax #Unrealized #Capital #Gains #Theft #CentralPlanning #Central #Planning

"The free market constitutes an information-gathering process, able to call up, and put to use, widely dispersed information that no central planning agency, let alone any individual, could know as a whole, possess or control."

// Friedrich Hayek

#Hayek #Friedrich #Quote #Meme #Memes #Austrian #Economics #Free #Market

#Meme #Memes

Nice project, looking forward to see more.

Thanks, Rustypuppy. I like to show the process where an initial and underwhelming design can be turned around to something interesting. It's all about identifying problems and solving them.

My wife grew up under communism in Poland.

Does that mean that my wife's opinion on communism is relevant and mine isn't?

The establishment of central banks perpetuates an inflationary loop.

1. Politicians buy votes while making fantastical promises of social welfare benefits funded by taxes and moneyprinting. The highest spending promises will typically win the most votes.

2. Governments sell debt (gov't bonds) to finance these expensive policies. Central banks and regular banks buy the government bonds with money created ex nihilio; from nothing.

3. As the government spends this newly created money, the monetary supply expands; inflation worsens.

4. Voters struggle with increasing prices due to inflation and can be predicted to vote for more government moneyprinting and spending. The loop returns to point 1.

A secondary form of inflation is caused by the Mandrake Mechanism.

Every time a bank loan is granted, new money is created by the bank from thin air. This newly created money flows into assets such as real estate, stocks, commodities, etc.

This process leads to an increase in house prices. Later when the assets are sold on the market, the newly created money enters the greater economy and the monetary supply expands; inflation worsens.

The speed of this loan-based inflation is set by the repo rate. When the central bank lowers the repo rate, loans become more attractive to lenders and thereby more money is printed into existence.

When the repo rate is set high, loans are expensive and the rate of inflation is temporarily reduced.

Keynes noted in 1919 that the establishment of central banks would lead to the destruction of capitalism; i.e. the abolishment of free markets.

Central banks will gradually rig the market, together with government, with false signals, distorting the supply and demand from regular market participants.

The result is a gradually impoverished population, impacted by a worsening burden of inflation year by year.

In the West, this process has solidified a powerful social-democrat voting block with few potential challengers, a form of uniparty structure.

In Sweden, the social democrats ruled without pause for half a century, until 1974, which gives a clue to the power of the inflationary voting loop.

#Meme #Memes #Mpox #Moneypox #Monkeypox #Monkey #Pox #Money #Scam

I see two political options and people engaged in promoting the alternative they think is better.

I am not a mindreader so I can't insert a fear of change into other people's decisionmaking process. "Fear of change", what does that even mean?

I expect that adults will promote what they believe is helpful. If we have a better alternative to offer them we can speak out about that.

At the end of the day we know that inflation will continue as before and we need Bitcoin in order to protect life and liberty.

This is a mischaracterization though.

The upcoming election may decide if WW3 breaks out or not. I'm in Poland and the risk for escalation between Nato and Russia is a real threat.

The establishment in most Western countries are overwhelmingly in favor of a war escalation, while they just by accident also have demonized Trump for 8 years.

Some people in Poland have been jailed in the last year for simply being in favor of war de-escalation and peace talks.

In Sweden, many workers in vital infrastructure are not allowed to leave Sweden or change their job because they are placed under a war preparedness plan designed to protect critical infrastructure in the case of war.

In relations to the US elections, the establishment in most Western countries desire a particular political outcome which is for an escalation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, pro-Agenda 21, pro-Agenda 2030, pro-climate alarmism, pro-CBDC, anti-Bitcoin and for energy de-industrialization.

There is no savior involved here.

People should keep their savings in Bitcoin and speak up for individual liberties, private property rights, anti-censorship, anti-CBDC and for energy policies that can power a modern civilization.

This is why people are engaged.

It has nothing to do with saviors.

Scifi Helmet 3D Modeling Tutorial.

Software: Blender, Zbrush + Substance Painter.

This tutorial will not cover the basics of 3D modeling but instead focus on a tactile, hands-on design process without safety nets.

The standard modeling approach is starting with gathering reference images and proceed with sketching.

For this helmet design I wanted to attempt a different angle of approach. I decided to start the modeling process immediately and let practical considerations inform the design.

This first, quick iteration, while visually awful, gave me a number of valuable ideas.

I wanted the glass visor to be spacious and let a lot of light in, illuminating the character.

One goal I had defined from the beginning was that the helmet was going to be used for scifi portraits, meaning that the visor must provide good visibility. I also wanted to experiment with setting up an interior lighting system.

Since I didn't know in advance how my lighting system needed to be structured, this hands-on approach suited me perfectly.

It's important to not lose sight of your goal at this stage. Trust yourself that the design will improve.

Here I made a fast paintover where I indicated changes I wanted to model in Blender. No details at this stage. I want to let function impact design here and I need to consider the overall shapes first. In which direction do I want to take the helmet?

This is a stage where all paths are open. Anything is possible. I love this moment in a hands-on design process because at this moment I am not bound by an initial sketch that I have to copy and recreate. I can enter the creative flow instead and just imagine changes to the vague outline.

At this moment in time I am not concerned with the quality of the mesh and don't bother with hard edges or weighted normals.

My ideas for the visor shape and area is starting to form, combined with some bulky shapes that strengthen the helmet and allow for integration of a radio piece.

Here I added an early shape for a radio-comms device. I also extended the helmet chin area which was too weak in the previous version. I feel that I am on track with the changes and that the radio fits well with the placement of the character's ears.

The helmet was still a bit too smooth and barren at this stage and I wanted to include some more technical items and modeled a simple box that I intended as a speaker/comms piece, connected to the radio antenna piece. I made the top of the helmet more bulky since it felt overly fragile.

I decided to cross my Rubicon with these significant changes. I had been debating with myself how much light I wanted to flow in via the visor. As I was considering adding an internal light above the character's forehead, I had to extend the helmet shape forward in order to achieve that result.

Function informs design. This is why I didn't want to start out with a sketch, because I had no idea at the beginning how exactly the functionality would impact the design. Placing a character inside the helmet was crucial for me to consider its shape.

At this point I have started to add details to the radio/comms structure since I was happy with the overall layout.

As I felt the interior was empty I decided to sculpt a simple instruments panel with mini screens that can display valuable information.

A bonus with this idea was that I could use these mini-screens to lighten up the character's face. I also modeled a simple microphone, extending from a set of headphones.

For the radio I modeled a few more greebles and four small cables hanging openly beneath. I was aiming at a retro-scifi style so I was looking for opportunities to show exposed cables.

At this stage I was experimenting with the interior lighting system. As I had hoped, I was able to use the mini-screens on the instruments panels as light sources by cranking up their emission values.

Thanks to the function-informed design the top-light in the helmet could be angled to cast a light on the character's forehead.

Also I expanded the instrument panels a little and I was haopy to add some more exposed wires where they made sense.

The external radio and speakers needed some kind of internal device that connected with them, and the new pieces I modeled fitted the purpose.

At this point I felt that my overall design was working and I started to improve the mesh, finalize the shape and add hard edges. The instruments panel grew and I think this was the first time in the design process that I could start imagining the texturing stage.

More refinement. I made the top and bottom more bulky and sturdy. This thing was supposed to take some beatings.

After this I decided that I wanted oxygen tubes connecting with the helmet. I wanted the oxygen tubes in turn to connect to some kind of air filtering device.

This was the final design of my oxygen tubes and the air filtering unit. I wanted a slight StarWars stormtrooper feel here, but with a more tactile and practical design. I added a screw-on system for a rustic retro scifi look.

This render is after my texturing process of course.

Another look at the backside. I made several paintjobs and spent days on end just to scratch up the metal by hand in substance painter.

Yet another paintjob. This is a closeup of the attachment system for the air filtering unit.

These designs above are the only ones I didn't model by myself. They are simply normal-map shapes that I added to a flat mesh surface. They look like general topology because I made scratches around areas that would have more wear and tear.

The screws have been used and the hatch has been opened many times, so I had to visualize this with the areas of peeled-off metal.

Closeup of the air filtering unit and a different paint job.

From this angle, the oxygen cannisters inside the air filtering unit are visible. I thought it was fun to expose the bottles like this, it is retro-scifi after all.

Under the filtering unit I made two circular connections, just in case I wanted to connect the filtering unit to a backpack in the future.

The scratches don't stop. Below the helmet there needed to be heavy scratching due to placement wear and tear. Throw that thing across the floor.

Another paintjob from below and heavy scratching. I realized how wildly fun it was to scratch up the metal.

Closeup of the radio/comms system. I had intentionally made it slightly assymetric and went with an approximated balaced feel.

I wanted the helmet to look cobbled together in a garage. If the systems work, they work. They don't have to be factory design symmetric. I wanted a rough and tactile design.

I wanted to allow the option to hide the radio/comms system.

Frontal view of the finihed helmet. I tried to give the interior leather padding a kind of WW2 style, which fitted with the retro theme.

Same render but with the radio/comms system hidden.

A look at the instruments panels and microphone headset. These are all mini-screens without any buttons. The helmet user is probably not going to press any buttons with their facial extremities anyway.😄

More interior.

Full interior view of the instrument panels. I designed a number of simple screen graphics to fit with the retro style.

The two central lights are not part of the helmet. I modeled them separately to help illuminating the character from below. Because they are separate they can be resized, rotated and hidden easily.

Lessons

In conclusion I want to mention that I initially planned the UV seam on top of the helmet. This was a grave mistake that forced me to redo my UV-mapping and my first texturing. There was an unfortunate bug in my (old) version of substance painter that made the UV seam hard to hide. Also it presented a few other technical problems.

For my second attempt I placed the UV seam at the front of the helmet, cutting through a small segment of the frontal chin part of the helmet instead of the whole upper+back part.

This was a far better way to UV map the helmet and if I were to embark on a helmet project again, that's where I would cut my UVs.

Thanks for reading. 🌟⭐️💫

#Tutorial #3D #Model #Modeling #Blender #Zbrush #SubstancePainter #Substance #Painter #Scifi #Helmet #Design #Lucentforge #Fernevak #Daz #Daz3D

Trump demonstrated who the LARPers are.

When you stand up against the establishment, reject the Paris climate agreement, reject CBDCs and support Bitcoin, there is a high risk of assassination.

#Bitcoin #Meme #Memes

Cherry Picked Inflation-metrics.

I guess it's wrong in the sense of understatements.😄

Yeah, sounds like he's on clown audition.

Len Sassaman is indeed an interesting possibility. I wouldn't be surprised if he was either Satoshi or deeply involved with Satoshi. In the first case he could have feigned skepticism toward bitcoin on social media. In the second case perhaps he came around to bitcoin after his initial skepticism.

That's a baaad take.😄

Modern communists since Deng Xiaoping are in bed with corporatism because it expands the power and reach of the government.

Corporatism allows the government to outsource tyranny and oppression to companies that the government control via regulations. This leaves the government with seemingly clean hands and all the retards will blame the companies that following government commands, threats of fines and incentive structures.

Neo-communism is the new fascism.

Dengism, after Deng Xiaoping.

This is what happens when a communist system embraces corporatism to further the power, financing and reach of the government.

This allows the outsourcing of surveillance to corporations that are indirectly controlled by the government via regulations and economic sanctions. The corporations that don't play ball with government instructions can easily be dismantled by the bureaucrats overseeing them.

Want to force experimental treatments upon a population? Just outsource the dirty work to all major corporations, who exist and prosper at the mercy of their alignment with government doctrine.

Dengism is how communism survived in spite of its devastating economic policies, resulting in a merge with corporatism. A few steps of a false free market charade was enough to prop up the communist establishment with newfound economic resources and extended powers of central planning.

#Deng #Dengism #Xiaoping #Communism #Corporatism #1984 #Surveillance #Fascism

Agreed. I sometimes write in my note app first, depends on how much I plan to write. Then at other times I just write in-the-flow, which can be both a hit or a miss.

Ideally I would like to have a draft mode in Amethyst, with slightly larger lettering so that typos are easier to spot. My eyes never get used to this small text format.