There’s a fair point in here somewhere, but I can’t get over the shit infographic from X. It’s kinda misleading to compare the chart of cumulative deaths against media mentions. If you showed the cumulative media mentions, it would look pretty reasonable. If the point is that the news generally reports large or novel incidents, then the graph is successful.
I agree it’s natural, and desirable to a degree. Violent revolution is also natural. Nature is redistribution, whether by creative destruction in the microcycle or violent destruction in the macrocycle. I see progressive taxation as an attempt to avoid violent redistribution due to extreme inequality. Maybe it doesn’t work as intended. An alternative might be an expectation (or government force) for the wealthiest in society to create public works like the ancient Greeks.
Income inequality is a feature, not a bug. But too much inequality destabilises society, leads to turmoil, revolt, and redistribution. Progressive taxation is an attempt to redistribute nonviolently. I’m not sure there’s another option… open to ideas tho.
I think the most charitable interpretation is that after regulatory clarity, any US institution can issue a treasury backed USD token. In a sense, you’d have a marketplace of different tokens giving the world easier access to USD. It’s a bit better than a CBDC.
Brother, nothing wrong with what you’ve achieved. Kudos. Just a weird apparent contradiction of the nostr community that people strive for a stoic, disciplined way of life and yet seek external validation from others for their stoic, disciplined way of life 😅
Despite record low fertility rates, #AUStriches population is forecast to grow by 4.1 million people in the next decade to 2034 - a 15.1% increase to 31.4 million people.
Sydney will add 900,000 people with Melbourne adding more than 1 million.
https://archive.is/L4xBs 
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Tassy looks promising though.
The final step is to stop telling everybody about it.
there’s an interesting idea in privacy centric proof of personhood. Like a captcha for proving conscious intelligence.
I can’t find any evidence Germany attempted a gold standard after 1914…
It’s an aggressive timeline for sure, but that’s a big claim.
I’m not against this policy. It will make it easier to prosecute violent crimes, with no real loss in the right to political speech. If it infringed on economic privacy, or freedom, or political speech, then I’d be against it.
Greshams law baby
I can’t compete with the grayscale chad, I’m just a catppuccin beta.
Pump up the jam
I don’t think it’s so black and white anymore. I don’t see humans as separate to “nature”. I think what we do is natural. Like bacteria in a Petri dish, we’ll just reach saturation. It’s already happening.
Maybe it’s just if we bump into too many strangers in a day, anti-reproduction neural circuits are triggered. Could explain global falling fertility rates. Interesting to think about.
Personally, I feel like kids are the future. Having kids is rewarding. I get your strong aversion to having kids - but it’ll be the next few generation of carers who have to take care of your pressure injuries for you when you’re 90. It’s short sighted to not support some people have some kids.
nostr:note1x88el44s2lcjhg4jyewe44wpv7wvdtajh6xcnlhrf2a72ep5rutqtrc88fIt gives me a begrudging respect for uncle Xi, who literally just let the housing market implode. It’s the kind of short term pain for long term gain that Australian leaders seem incapable of.
Tbh man, doesn’t change a thing for me. Does it for you?
