I think I was captivated most by the description of it as a prison more than a question of ownership/property and economic value. My point was basically that this view is fairly relative and subjective. Relative to the amount of wealth one has. Relative to how much one values 'things' individually, and both tangible and intangible things. How we view all this interwoven mess is according to our preferences and our choices.
Let us say, I live in an apartment and I'm a multi-millionaire. I have a dozen classic and exotic cars that I love. In this scenario, the cars are the prison. Or as I said the record collection that's too big to 'escape' with. Plus, the cars are taxed as property as well in many jurisdictions, so do I really own those either? Their value also varies somewhat based on where I try to sell them and how quickly.
Now my kids. They're grown. Lets say they don't agree with me about escaping. I'll not leave them behind. I don't think they are a prison. They are a chosen priority based on my preferences.
In conclusion, all our priorities and choices act to bind us to something, to some degree. A place, a law system, a community, culture, family etc... The idea that this binding is imprisonment is simply an attitude or state of mind.... a choice about how to think about it. It ceases being a prison the moment we stop viewing it as a binary of free as a bird or bound as a prisoner. The truth is somewhere in between and differs for each person.
The real estate is bound to a location, by physics. You are only bound to it by how much you value it and what goes along with it. Your value of it is always going to be different than the economic market value of it because part of the value you place on it is personal, or not I guess.
For me, there is no escaping my 'home', real estate or not. What I value there binds me to it more than any market value. If I can't be there with the irreplaceable family, friends, community, geography, climate, culture etc... because I must escape, my refuge becomes my prison as I am kept from what I value most in this world.
But, I agree. Choosing to be anywhere to some degree binds one to a place and all that comes with it. Even the nomad is, at a minimum, temporarily bound the moment they stop for the night somewhere.
Sorry, I get long winded.
Your car, toilet, or record collection (any property) could be spoken of the same way. What makes real-estate special in this regard? Anything could be an obstruction to escape if you value it enough to not leave it behind. Yet...
I don't think of my children as a prison. There is something wrong with the proposition.
The vocabulary is increasing. 'Emergency' is becoming a trump card word as well.
I was going to say, 'you don't want to know'. Looking at other responses, I'll modify that to, I don't want to say.
Liquid is a federated and mostly automated trusted third party (Blockstream and their federation partners in this case). Lets pretend they are me.
Give me your bitcoin on the main chain or through lightning. Me and the federation will keep it safe. We'll give you our asset (liquid) in exchange. It has cheap tx fees and is faster than the BTC main chain. You will own your keys and assets will be in your control... on our chain and within our federation/partners. Oh, we have other assets on the Liquid network you can trade for as well with very low fees. We're a lot like a shitcoin exchange in that way except don't think of that. We like to call it investing, "in companies you believe in without relying on a broker or bank." We'll preserve your privacy. You can't spend your Liquid assets in as many places as BTC or lightning but we're working on that.
Not saying it's a bad idea. Just describing it in simple terms.
Lightning? Run your own node, process your own payments. But, manage your channels yourself to keep liquidity balanced enough to spend and receive. Or, trust another third party (lightning service provider LSP) to keep good liquidity for you at a small fee by running a giant routing node that'll get your BTC anywhere quickly.
In short they are complementary in some ways and competing in others.
And sure... people who use common labels as they apply and pronouns... all probably fascists. Very logical.
The 80's flashback for me included a permanent scar. It wasn't a wheel. I dropped my wheelie too soon and the sprocket caught on the ledge.... face plant from 6 feet or so up with the leverage of the spinning bike .... 5 days in the hospital...
80's so of course, no helmet. Us latch key kids are so lucky to be alive. lol
No.... you should say anything you like. It helps identify you and make distinctions of morality and character. It's good to know who might want to eradicate others.
Cute. "try to describe" vs what you actually said which is how to get there, by eradication.
How exactly do you think the average person thinks the eradication of humans you hate happens?
Turns out the question should be for you too. But, I found my answer, "If Elon Musk is your idea of a sovereign individual, then our goal as a society should be to eradicate all sovereign individuals." You too are a murderous hater of those you disagree with.
Reporting news and advocating action are two different things. Trump is Hitler is not news. It isn't even true. Maga means Nazi is not news. It isn't even true. Yet it was reported on over and over again for years. They chose which pundits to give air time to. They choose which of the things they say to feature. Perhaps they 'call what they see'. If so, they are part of the problem.
Ethics discussions for decades have often centered around the question, "If you could go back and kill Hitler in the cradle would it be ethical to stop what happened?" The overwhelming answer is usually, 'of course. It seems to even be a moral imperative.'
Who does not know what we are being told when people call someone Hitler or a Nazi or a Fascist. "Punch a Nazi", meaning any political conservative (of which I am not one). When 'news' shows aired pundits who wished the knife attacker (assassination attempt) openly and publicly wished he had succeeded. Who does not know what we are being told when simple normal people are referred to as 'domestic terrorists' because they like a political candidate.
These things are not news. They are advocacy. Saturday someone did what they've been suggesting for YEARS. They killed one heroic father in the process. They, the reporters, the pundits, the leftist mud slingers.
I'm old enough to remember when "right wing radio" was criticized for talking as they did because it 'could' cause violence. Shoes on the other foot except it DID cause violence and death. Even though a heroic father is dead, and a president shot, pundits are still lamenting he didn't kill Trump and "news" is still giving it air time. That's advocacy.
Leftists want their political and cultural opponents dead. They talk this way for a reason. They don't get airtime if 'the news' doesn't think it's a good idea.
Maga's president is shot and look at all the riots in the streets. Oh wait..... there were none. While on the other hand the rhetoric leads to violence, riots and murder and the left calls it 'mostly peaceful' and some openly call for more of it. "Take it to the streets." "Get in their face." "They must be given room to destroy." Knowing full well that 'destroy' includes killing people. It's okay, the dead are folks they hated anyway.
Of course you have no idea what I'm talking about. Because it's the truth.
Sounds like he learned well from the leftists tactics durring the long march.
Almost every description of his activities sounds like the leftist of the US.... except they don't hate their people and call them Nazis, terrorists, or a threat to their country and wish them dead, like the left does here.
Curious, do you advocate what the press and pundits advocated for that resulted in the assignation attempt?
I wasn't a Trump supporter.
They (not he) shot at me and millions of people like me. They've been 'aiming' for years. "Ultra Maga", 'The Red Speech', "Domestic Terrorists"..... etc... on and on it goes for years now. They hate me and mine. Trump was just to be the effigy of so many of us. That's the ONLY message you should get. That's the only message and lesson to be learned and shouted from the roof tops. They hate us and want us dead.
When will we stop picking at the edges of conspiracy and competency crisis and just say, "I don't want my family, community and culture killed. That is the goal and I've had enough." I don't give a crap about the logistics or speculation of any conspiracy or competency crisis. That misses the point completely and gets us doing anything but looking at the truth. Telling the truth.
THEY WANT YOU DEAD. FULL STOP. WHAT ARE YOU OR I GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? Complain? Discuss, debate? Divide over speculative versions of details? That's all equal to doing nothing.
The media and pundits and the left have been calling him Hitler for years. Calling normal people Hitler for years. THEY did this. Ethics classes for decades have asked and discussed the question, 'if you could kill Hitler before he took power, should you?' The most prevalent answer has always been, 'it seems like it would be imperative to kill him.'
Why oh why!?!?? are we discussing such details. They want us dead. He is just the image of someone who doesn't hate us. They shot at you. These details about conspiracy, competency crisis etc.... DO NOT MATTER!!
Remember "The Red Speach" and those terrible, dangerous "Ultra Maga Republicans". They want us dead. This was inevitable. That is what maters.
Kindness is a subset or outworking of love. The fruit of the spirit of love.
The last line, ".... we expect that the DOJ can chart a wise course...." No they can't.
Congrats! .... and thank you so much!!
All kinds of ideas here, plus testing and comparing methods.