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A concrescence of Mind fumbling with the controls of this meat chariot. Nostr onl

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Its a good time to reread the Cypherpunk Manifesto, which I take to be my founding document as a #bitcoin er. NGU is exciting, but it's only one component in the bigger war.

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/cypherpunk-manifesto/

If you're already here, you're rich enough. There's nothing to fight over. Pulling up the ladder or using lawfare to stop competition is a scarcity mindset, and it broadcasts a lack of conviction. #Cypherpunk first.

What if the future of #bitcoin is to merge with computonium, which then gets inside our cells and makes us cybernetic swarm minds, with god like powers and orange glowing eyes?

The future might get weird.

Most treaties are only signed because the states signing them aren't affected by the treaty. Antarctica is not relevant to anyone, so its easy to get a treaty for it. On the other hand, the US refuses to sign the treaty that limits ocean borders, despite most of the world signing, and despite China clearly violating it. It would be an easy win, but the cost of being restricted is too high. Likewise, the nuclear non proliferation treaty was mostly signed by states that lacked nukes, and exception was given to states that already had nukes - the treaty is fluff, completely inconsequential, just political theater.

Its just a bunch of pictures. You can just as easily get similar pictures from another space agency.

Don't you think China would love to point out that NASA is fake? But instead they have their own agency doing the same things.

That's deep. I like it.

On a more philosophical note, wouldn't bitcoin be closer to wands than pentacles? I know pentacles used to be coins, but I feel like bitcoin embodies the power of action more than earthly things.

Above the water at very low altitude... In northern Iraq? What water is in northern Iraq? Also he seems too old to have flown a fighter in Iraq.

Where's the evidence that thus guy is actually a pilot? If I was a con man, I would make sure to mention family, and a daughter is the perfect person to mention for gaining confidence.

Perception is reality, as they say in the Air Force. They say it too much for it not to he suspicious. There's good reason to have people chasing nonsense - an adversary who's world is false is much less dangerous than one who's world is accurate.

War is the final arbiter. If one side believes nonsense, they die. Or they render their product up to their superior. If our military believed the earth was flat, and was wrong, we would lose. If you believe something false, you are not only at a disadvantage, but you will be easier to rob, or lead into other falsehoods before robbing you.

There are many reasons to disbelieve this guy, and few to none to believe him.

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Flat earth is a catch all term for the topic. Most honest flerfs will state we don't know what the exact shape is, but it appears flat based on long distance observations, or more specifically, it isn't curving. It can be many other things, but a curved ball it cannot be.

Similarly, the second claim is there is no measured movement. Objectively, movement has never been measured. The best evidence presented for it is foucaults pendulum, and the issues are too much to get into with text alone. Just one simple thing though, it needs to be manually started and the rate of procession would vary depending on latitude (not demonstrated).

The basic tenets of a debate are logical fallacies. Keep on top of those and you're 90% of the way there. I've watched dozens, maybe hundreds of debates on the topic. The dishonesty almost entirely comes from the mainstream side, ever shifting the goalposts as their points are knocked down one after the other. That was one of the things that opened my eyes, since anyone who ever first stumbles onto the topic will always do so with skepticism or trying to debunk it.

I do enjoy how people tend to push this to pilosophy as the ground is removed from their shaky positions. The key points to our position are primarily that the claim of the globe is repeatedly debunked and that motion has never been proven. Anything else further than that is speculation. The default position is we are standing still, and the onus is on the party making the claim of motion. Unfalsifiable claims don't count, and that's largely what that position is based off of.

What about pictures of the earth from orbit? Or the pale blue dot picture?

Or how, if the earth was flat, then pilots would have to navigate differently?