if King Louis XVI cut bread checks to every French peasant, he probably would've kept his head, his crown, and his palace Versailles, but it wouldn't have produced a single extra loaf of bread.

idiots actually thought this illiterate cared about the condition 🤣😭

so you don't even remember killing poor David Marcus, do you?

I've never trusted Klingons, and I never will.

(btw appreciate the engagement. nostr is fun but still getting used to smaller network 🫡)

seems a dubious distinction though. the reason this was tried at all was because our backs were against the wall. California and Oregon refused to accept them as their value relative to gold dropped so fast.

fwiw, from time to time the Fed even warns the Treasury about our deficits. would this not remove that little guardrail? how do we get our fiscal house in order then? can't just be solved thru tariffs.

to be clear, I agree some serious monetary reform is way overdue, and the buck has gotta stop somewhere. I just don't see this being anything short of chaotic.

I gotta stack harder.

we rightfully rail against the Fed. but as nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a often points out, this period of money printing is fiscal rather than fed-driven.

would we put the same energy into resisting a direct debt monetization, as existed in 1863, when the greenback was backed by nothing but 'in God we trust'?

cause it looks to me like that's a direction djt could be moving towards; a direct monetization of t-bills on XRP & SOL (esp in light of Barron's recent tweet re the Fed, which I mostly agree with).

wtf srsly. dude must've signed a release?

I'd be burying that video and burning all the copies!

the NSA's budget is so high, it's classified. backdooring is expensive work. it'd be much more 'efficient' if they could simply come thru the front door.

doge could save billions by axing the fifth amendment.

DoD spend billions on housing soldiers. completely redundant.

doge could save billions by axing the fourth amendment.

3 Independent branches? ax that and make a king. much more efficient.

guys, we literally won a revolution to overthrow 'efficient' government and replace it with a limited government.

Trump has threatened the sovereignty of Canada, Greenland, and Gaza. he is not for limited government. he's for consolidating power.

the problem isn't efficiency. it's 200+ years of the subversion of the limits WE originally placed on government. a more efficient government that still does not respect those limits is free to encroach further.

reported for flaming

GM nostr frens.

Love you 🤟

https://youtu.be/kK3IsmMMAc8?si=uQwnjRKxZfJWQ8NA

went from 5g home Internet to fiber. immediately my winrate in lol skyrockets🚀 💪

got banned by their anti cheat system 😭

yes. 3d designer for subsea o&g. big corporation aspect gets tedious but the work is constantly changing and I get to rotate shapes all day.

been thinking about Jacques Ellul and The Technological Society and I have a #nostr philosophy question...

he describes technique as the totality of methods rationally arrived at and having absolute efficiency, and that the focus on efficiency creates a closed system that perpetuates itself, making it difficult for humanity to break free.

privacy, permissionlessness, and redundancy are often the enemy of efficiency.

when is it appropriate to sacrifice one of these for efficiency? in your opinion?

where'd you get the bird? it reminds me of the raven at Sam Houston State University that I designed the internal structure for.

RIP gene hackman, the real Lex Luthor 😭

Signed it not just for ES but the rest of the global South. Bet this becomes boilerplate in every IMF loan everywhere going forward.

checks_and_balances is 18 characters.

king is 4 characters.

signed D.O.G.E.

still 2h to go but great pod!

I wasn't clear but that was precisely my point. plenty of chains have a subsidy. only the one with usage (thus fees) has value.

wdym censor?

if you could get a left wing, pro labor malthusian and a right wing, pro capitalist malthusian into a room together, and you could just get them to see the world from the other person's perspective for a moment,

... you'd still have two assholes.