#digitalhomesteading is the perfect phrase for nostr and bitcoin private key generation.
Yeah please don't overload yourself with alcohol. Water and electrolytes. Make yourself a ketoade
So they are actually detecting phase shifts and shit for the new WiFi thing I saw floating around?
This is a hidden attempt to wind down the carry trade and reduce funding of the dollar through foreign governments. This admin has a completely different playbook from the Biden gang when it comes to things effecting monetary policy. This could be a play for more power to the CBDC system, er, stablecoins, and it could be a move toward replacing the Federal Reserve System with a modified version of itself or with a different system of control entirely.
Trump blasts Powell with a handwritten chart:
Says the Fed is “too late.” Demands massive rate cuts. Claims “hundreds of billions” are being lost.
Shared via https://pullthatupjamie.ai
Trump admin is trying to absolutely wreck all the Mrs. Watanabes who haven't gotten into bitcoin yet.
This is the principle. Checking variation of dielectric constant of moving materials and somehow with a huge amount of data processing extract approximate position of some moving objects.
Easy? Not!
https://hackaday.com/2020/10/22/affordable-ground-penetrating-radar/
No that's the principle behind the noise they discovered under the great pyramids.
What I would do is simply use signal strength of a device you hold as a rough proxy, especially if you can triangulate it.
I need to learn how this WiFi human radar thing works
Oh yeah they already sell those at the store lol
Well I guess we were on topic the whole time, so I guess you weren't being needlessly pedantic actually.
And yeah debasement would be a great word to refer specifically to changes in the total quantity of money via changes in the protocol (increasing the supply cap when that was never agreed upon, issuing fraudulent paper, or mixing less precious metals into metal money)
> But I do think that it is an expression that it is possible to do without, and that it would be highly dangerous, on account of a serious difference between its meaning in the pure economic theory of money and banking and its meaning in everyday discussions of currency policy, to make use of it where a sharp scientific precision of the words employed is desirable.
Mises says you're being inappropriately pedantic.
> It would be ridiculous pedantry to attempt to provide an economist’s contribution to the controversy as to whether in this or the other country inflation has occurred since 1914
> Those who in the years 1914-24 contested the balance-of-payments theory in Germany in order to oppose the continuation of the policy of inflation may claim the indulgence of their contemporaries and successors if they were not always quite strictly scientific in their use of the word inflation. In fact, it is this very indulgence that we are bound to exercise toward the pamphlets and articles dealing with monetary problems that obliges us to refrain from using these misleading expressions in scientific discussion.
It's even far worse than that in California the way charities are regulated. I'm with you.
What the heck? Is this a real chiropractic adjustment?
Get the other side, you're making her lopsided!!
Omg I feel so badddd for her
Bro consent is all you need! He's like, is this a trap? A prank? Lol!
I must tell this woman to show more Bob. I feel like I'd get along well with more Bobs in my life.
Man, I'm out here looking for home power solutions with solar, and I didn't realize, I just need me a wood splitter girlfriend with some thick ass thighs!
I suddenly want to practice my music for some unknown reason.
reason.com: The Coming Techlash Could Kill AI Innovation Before It Helps Anyone -- https://tinyurl.com/2c223af3 -- Power-hungry data centers, disappearing jobs, and billions of dollars in subsidies are fueling resentment. If developers and policymakers don’t change course, Americans may reject AI before it ever delivers on its most significant promises. #liberty #news
reason.com: The Coming Techlash Could Kill AI Innovation Before It Helps Anyone -- https://tinyurl.com/2c223af3 -- Power-hungry data centers, disappearing jobs, and billions of dollars in subsidies are fueling resentment. If developers and policymakers don’t change course, Americans may reject AI before it ever delivers on its most significant promises. #liberty #news
I already reject patented AI.
Anything to make copyright trolls mad, I'm game.
And the amount of money that gets artificially directed to them.
Yeah, they are because of patent and copyright laws.
It's also pretty modular. Could start really small and scale over time.
Been looking into solar. It's getting cheaper and better every year, but still a big monetary investment to get any decent amount of power plus storage.
That sounds very involved and specific to people who own a river.
Ah yes, claim antisemitism if they attack me. Easier to defend than claiming an abuse of basic human rights, for some reason.
How are fellow plebs achieving energy independence? I need a way to power my android workers when they get invented later this year, at the rate robotics is progressing.
BREAKING!
# St. Louis Fed proposes innovative approach to their next revision of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) - more beverages!
### Rodger Copperbottom reporting from Hillsboro, Illinois.
Although CPI, Core CPI, and Sticky CPI Less Food And Energy have been very popular and useful in distorting consumer perceptions of economic reality, when it comes to the default CPI metric, "we're just running out of places to stuff Arizona Iced Tea in these metrics," complains St. Louis Fed Class A Director and CEO of Bank of Hillsboro, Misty Borrowman.
Borrowman explains: "You notice how these numbers of like 3% are just way, way lower than what you would expect with, say, a 20% monetary inflation? That's because first of all we track consumption goods and not capital, which is in the name, but also we do a lot of fun things to the basket of goods. We like to model what a consumer does as he or she is impoverished. The model basket starts to choose cheaper and cheaper foods, and we account for that so that our end result doesn't show all of that heartache. The consumers already know they have it rough, so why remind them of it with accurate statistics?"
We asked if Borrowman was concerned about running out of cheap goods to stuff into the basket, and she confided, "honestly we're just running out of places to stuff Arizona Iced Tea in these metrics. Every other kind of consumer good, which the CPI also tracks, is getting expensive faster than the market can provide cheap inferior hopium (that's an insider term we use for the substitute adjustments in our CPI basket). But beverages is the one component that always has a cheap substitute at exactly 0 inflation to load the statistics. And that's Arizona Iced Tea."
"The trouble comes when you stuff the **entire** beverages section of your basket with Arizona Iced Tea, which we already have - that's how we skewed current inflation numbers to down under 3% recently, Rodger. Since then we tried to maneuver the substitutes a bit to make beverages a larger proportion, like modeling using Arizona tea as washer fluid, which did reduce the statistic a tad. But we're running out of room, Rodge."
Misty shared with me that there is a movement already in full swing to ameliorate this difficult problem, with a solution expected to come later this year. She shared with me her courageous stance on bringing this vision to life:
"I believe it's high time that our model baskets start modeling the needs of a human who can subsist off greater and greater amounts of Arizona Iced Tea for as long as he lives, supplementing this at first with copious amounts of Chicken of the Sea and some store brand jasmine rice. By increasing the proportional consumption of Arizona Iced Tea from there, we can bring the CPI closer to 0 than any other method, through any monetary environment. If all else fails, we will make the basket 100% Arizona Iced Tea and give CPI numbers that are only relevant to a refrigerator expressly for iced tea, instead of for a human being. It's really quite brilliant, and most of the other governors agree with me, the ball is rolling." Misty's eyes became misty at the thought of her own guidance falling so benevolently on the masses.
I could not help but inquire, "Isn't it a bit dehumanizing to treat people as if they are really just marginally more refrigerator than man? Isn't that one of the core complaints Obi-Wan Kenobi had with Darth Vader? And we all know how that ended."
"Yes, it is dehumanizing, quite literally, but it is hopeful to the slaves - er I mean consumers. It's our job as economists to give false hope, in order to direct people's actions from above, because we know better than them about what they need. Most of all, it's refreshing, Rodger! Try some!"
At this instant, while she was handing me an iced tea, I realized, Ms. Borrowman was completely right. By borrowing man's essential nature (that of creative solutions and individual rational action), which the state and its investors expect our children to render unto them unconditionally in the future anyway, and by supplementing this with the wisdom of deflationary iced tea, Borrowman had crafted the perfect recipe for a person willing to submit to complete servitude and complacency. Borrow man, to extinguish man.
While sharing an Arizona Iced Tea (paid for by newly printed money from Misty's own Bank of Hillsboro), Misty and I shared a few laughs at the expense of our plebian underlings. Great news for the plebs! Despite the Big Beautiful Bill being expected to pass and drive deficits, and eventually monetary inflation, through the roof, well, thanks to Misty's hard, hard work and dedication to helping humanity (and the miracle of Arizona Iced Tea), by the end of this year the CPI will be even lower than it is currently!!
To learn more about the St. Louis Fed and its leadership or to share a cold one (tea!) with Misty, head to https://www.stlouisfed.org/about-us/leadership-governance/board-of-directors
This is Rodger Copperbottom, signing off and absolving myself of journalistic integrity!
Yes and they sort themselves out of the gene pool or out of wealth, long term, thank God.