Yes, and the state is their primary parent

The sad truth is that most people have spent their entire lives being conditioned to simply obey, and to resist thinking.

Doesn’t matter what or who it is: stoplights, signs, announcements, strangers, someone ‘official’ looking, or just another human; most people just want someone or something to listen to so they don’t have to take responsibility to think for themselves. Thinking demands responsibility, the capacity to be correct or incorrect, the existential angst of what it means to decide on the nature of things, and what it means if you are right or wrong.

We have been trained most of our lives to eschew this responsibility and allow for others to tell us ‘what is right’ without considering for a moment if these are people we should listen to, or if they even have the cognitive capacity to actually think, rather than just do what they are told.

Curious, if a small/medium sized company wants to hold bitcoin in a multisig setup, for example, a key with the CEO, CFO, and COO.

What solutions are out there for them to use? Are there special software designed for a commercial environment?

#asknostr

I come from that #India which has never been afraid, never bowed down, never stopped, and which becomes a refuge for the rejected people, I am proud to be an Indian....!! #HappyIndependenceDay2024

Oh, ok, so, only rich people get to use the highway.

Question. Who pays for the small army you're going to need to protect the rich people using the highway, from the millions of poor people that'll just rob them?

For instance, under your system, you do not have enough money to pay for enough protection to stop me and my very large family, from cutting the throats of you and your entire family while you sleep, and take everything you have?

Under a user pays system, only the king can afford a castle with turrets and armed guards. Peasants like you, usually die young from malnutrition.

I think where I get stuck is that there is no competition with roads, in a densely populated area. So it would be run by one company. Right? It's ripe for monopolies. It isn't like there would be parallel roads charging tolls by different companies.

Soldiers who kill and injure innocent people, and destroy their homes and property, are criminal murderers and vandals. The fact that they are following orders and acting with the blessings of the government doesn't change that. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. There is no shifting the blame to someone else. This is why I don't support our troups. They're not protecting life and liberty, they're spreading and enforcing tyranny.

#liberty #anarchocapitalism #libertarian #statism

If you follow American Politics, why do you do it?

A. It is the most important election of my lifetime and I am going to vote so hard.

B. To have an idea of what is coming and be "well informed"

C. Meme material and trolling fodder

#asknostr

Opinions on Signal are quite different. Ever noted that signal.com/bigbrother is entirely empty between 2021 and current 2024? Generally quite empty there.

A user in a discussion about Signal / Tor claimed this:

"Now to Signal: Signal was created by CIA (not US army like Tor) and some guy that don't even give his real name. If CIA really wants a real Private and Secure app why not funded other Messenger that doesn't need any personal information like phone number. Second Signal was created when the US government and Alphabet bois wants to spy not only the citizen of American but the whole world. Third Signal never publicly announced or said to community that the one who funded and help to invent Signal is none other than the CIA and not even once Moxie mentioned that topic and everytime some ask about this subject he just ignore the question and move on."

Signal is centralized - keep that in mind. Who knows who really controls it. So whatwver you think about Signal, be aware that it might not be the shiny privacy solution you think it is.

The first assassination attempt on a U.S. president:

"On 30 January 1835 in Congress, a mad assassin fired two pistols at President Jackson, then aged sixty-seven, and both misfired. Old Ferocious had lost none of his ferocity: he felled the assassin with his cane and would have beaten him to death had he not been pulled off by a fellow frontiersman, Davy Crockett."

–from "The World: A Family History of Humanity", by Simon Sebag Montefiore