It's right up there with language as the greatest human innovation and almost nobody appreciates it.
I must have missed their campaign against internet pornography. It uses about 5x as much electricity as Bitcoin, and it's value to society is arguably much lower than Bitcoin's, so they must be roughly 5x more upset about it.
I really hope so. Even the creator of Odysee sees it as a step in the right direction, but that something better needs to replace it.
I'm curious what the issue is. We've had Fountain for a while, now. Why is video so different?
Disney looking to sell off almost a third of their assets.
Consumer sovereignty notching more w's.
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1528120059656933387?referrer=undisciplined
Nitpick: Central banks are promoted as ensuring financial stability. They are meant to enrich the ruling class.
Did Fauci fund Gain-of-Function research in Wuhan? (RFK Jr & Bret Weinstein)
https://odysee.com/@DarkHorsePodcastClips:b/did-fauci-fund-gain-of-function-research:e
Fauci’s bioweapon research budget
In November 2021, Bret spoke to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the DarkHorse podcast. It was unreleased, until recently.
The Tale of the Slave
from Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974)
by Robert Nozick
Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is about you.
1. There is a slave completely at the mercy of his brutal master’s whims. He often is cruelly beaten, called out in the middle of the night, and so on.
2. The master is kindlier and beats the slave only for stated infractions of his rules (not fulfilling the work quota, and so on). He gives the slave some free time.
3. The master has a group of slaves, and he decides how things are to be allocated among them on nice grounds, taking into account their needs, merit, and so on.
4. The master allows his slaves four days on their own and requires them to work only three days a week on his land. The rest of the time is their own.
5. The master allows his slaves to go off and work in the city (or anywhere they wish) for wages. He requires only that they send back to him threesevenths of their wages. He also retains the power to recall them to the plantation if some emergency threatens his land; and to raise or lower the three-sevenths amount required to be turned over to him. He further retains the right to restrict the slaves from participating in certain dangerous activities that threaten his financial return, for example, mountain climbing, cigarette smoking.
6. The master allows all of his 10,000 slaves, except you, to vote, and the joint decision is made by all of them. There is open discussion, and so forth, among them, and they have the power to determine to what uses to put whatever percentage of your (and their) earnings they decide to take; what activities legitimately may be forbidden to you, and so on. Let us pause in this sequence of cases to take stock. If the master contracts this transfer of power so that he cannot withdraw it, you have a change of master. You now have 10,000 masters instead of just one; rather you have one 10,000-headed master. Perhaps the 10,000 even will be kindlier than the benevolent master in case 2. Still, they are your master. However, still more can be done. A kindly single master (as in case 2) might allow his slave(s) to speak up and try to persuade him to make a certain decision. The 10,000-headed monster can do this also.
7. Though still not having the vote, you are at liberty (and are given the right) to enter into the discussions of the 10,000, to try to persuade them to adopt various policies and to treat you and themselves in a certain way. They then go off to vote to decide upon policies covering the vast range of their powers.
8. In appreciation of your useful contributions to discussion, the 10,000 allow you to vote if they are deadlocked; they commit themselves to this procedure. After the discussion you mark your vote on a slip of paper, and they go off and vote. In the eventuality that they divide evenly on some issue, 5,000 for and 5,000 against, they look at your ballot and count it in. This has never yet happened; they have never yet had occasion to open your ballot. (A single master also might commit himself to letting his slave decide any issue concerning him about which he, the master, was absolutely indifferent.)
9. They throw your vote in with theirs. If they are exactly tied your vote carries the issue. Otherwise it makes no difference to the electoral outcome.
The question is: which transition from case 1 to case 9 made it no longer the tale of a slave?
I'm guessing you've seen Nozick's Tale of the Slave, but here's a link to a brilliant short piece of political philosophy:
We went to a restaurant in Belize that listed "Tax Extorted" on the bill. They got a big tip, but sadly I've lost that receipt.
Surprise, surprise, RFK Jr. is being baselessly smeared as antisemitic.
Kim Iversen goes over the controversy here.
https://odysee.com/@KimIversen:d/is-he-anti-semitic-or-too-pro-israel-rfk:a
The 2 Best Things to Prevent Premature Graying
"Today we’re going to talk about the best things to prevent premature graying of your hair. It’s natural for your hair to turn gray with age. However, many people are getting gray hair way too early.
Even though you may have genes that give you the propensity to get gray hair, there are still things you can do to help prevent your hair from graying prematurely.
The pigment in your hair and the enzymes that allow the pigment to occur are both dependent on copper. You could be deficient in copper from not consuming foods high in copper. High levels of stress can also cause a copper deficiency.
It’s important to do whatever you can to decrease stress and increase copper to prevent gray hair. It may be best to get the copper you need from foods rich in copper rather than a supplement.
As you age, you accumulate hydrogen peroxide in the hair shaft. Hydrogen peroxide can cause a bleaching effect on the hair. To slow this accumulation of hydrogen peroxide, you can try consuming foods rich in catalase.
Foods high in copper:
• Seafood (especially oysters)
• Mushrooms
• Spirulina
Foods high in catalase:
• Vegetables (especially cruciferous vegetables)
• Sprouts or microgreens
Things to avoid:
• Alcohol
• Smoking
• Junk foods
• Sugar
• Refined carbs
• Low-fat diets"
Mercantilism: A Lesson for Our Times?
https://mises.org/library/mercantilism-lesson-our-times
"Inflation did not benefit the poor; wages lagged behind the rise in prices during inflations, especially behind agricultural prices."
Myth #7: Deflation — Falling Prices — Is Unthinkable, and Would Cause a Catastrophic Depression
"Recorded by the Mises Institute in the mid-1980s, The Mises Report provided radio commentary from leading non-interventionists, economists, and political scientists. In this program, we present another part of "Ten Great Economic Myths". This material was prepared by Murray N. Rothbard.
The public memory is short. We forget that, from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-18th century until the beginning of World War II, prices generally went down, year after year. That's because continually increasing productivity and output of goods generated by free markets caused prices to fall. There was no depression, however, because costs fell along with selling prices. Usually, wage rates remained constant while the cost of living fell, so that "real" wages, or everyone's standard of living, rose steadily.
Virtually the only time when prices rose over those two centuries were periods of war (War of 1812, Civil War, World War I), when the warring governments inflated the money supply so heavily to pay for the war as to more than offset continuing gains in productivity.
We can see how free market capitalism, unburdened by governmental or central bank inflation, works if we look at what has happened in the last few years to the prices of computers. A computer used to have to be enormous, costing millions of dollars. Now, in a remarkable surge of productivity brought about by the microchip revolution, computers are falling in price even as I write. Computer firms are successful despite the falling prices because their costs have been falling, and productivity rising. In fact, these falling costs and prices have enabled them to tap a mass market characteristic of the dynamic growth of free market capitalism. "Deflation" has brought no disaster to this industry.
The same is true of other high-growth industries, such as electronic calculators, plastics, TV sets, and VCRs. Deflation, far from bringing catastrophe, is the hallmark of sound and dynamic economic growth."
Nearly half US millennials think misgendering should be illegal – poll
From RT
People have already faced legal consequences for misgendering trans people in the UK and Europe More millennials support criminalizing misgendering than oppose the idea, a Newsweek poll conducted earlier this month and published on Saturday found. The idea had less support among both younger and older generations. While 44% of poll respondents aged 25 to […]
Jul 17th 2023 2:53pm EDT
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Stated differently, even amongst the most deranged generation of adults, most do not want to criminalize misgendering.
Don't forget to mention that those bailouts are not possible without the
"anti-corporate" politicians who authorize them. It's a big club and we aren't in it.
Is Bitcoin Dominance Falling?
"In this video, I discuss the problems with using a metric like "Bitcoin dominance" when analyzing Bitcoin's market share and adoption.
Bitcoin dominance is defined as Bitcoin's market cap as a percentage of the total crypto market cap.
But not only does the Bitcoin dominance index include centralized, premined proof of stake coins, but it also includes melting fiat ice cube USD stablecoins like USDT and USDC. There is no rational reason to group such disparate categories together in the same index.
Bitcoin dominance is also a very misleading metric because the basket of coins is constantly changing and includes a lot of survivorship bias.
A true Bitcoin dominance index would also take into account traditional stores of value assets like gold, stocks, and real estate that Bitcoin continues to steal market share from.
True decentralization (as only Bitcoin possesses) might not matter to investors today, but it will be critical going forward as nation-state attacks on crypto and Bitcoin escalate.
Only Bitcoin is neutral, anti-fragile money--
And as such, will continue to eat the world."
And that's why no one lived in the American south when white people arrived in the 1500's with air conditioners.
FBI Director GRILLED Over Agency's Potential Constitutional Violations
The House Judiciary Committee grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray over various potential constitutional violations the FBI has participated in.
I hope this is right. It would be nice to not have so many repetitive posts. I'd rather fewer higher quality posts circulate for longer periods.
Value Your Wealth In Bitcoin
"In this video, I discuss the various reasons why you should value your wealth in Bitcoin.
Altcoiners are trapped in a fiat unit of account mentality and still prefer to value their wealth in US dollars or other fiat currencies. They are quite focused on pumps and XYZ coin to the moon, while missing the big picture.
Holders of weak fiat currencies like the Argentine peso have a much better understanding of why you should hodl. There's no rational time to convert your US dollars back into Argentine pesos. Likewise, there's no rational time to "take profits" and move your Bitcoin savings back into fiat which stores your economic energy as well as a melting ice cube.
It's quite unlikely that you will be able to successfully outperform just hodling Bitcoin by trading shipcoins (altcoins), especially after paying all of those short-term capital gains taxes, while also having to avoid accidentally stepping on a land mine.
Capital will continue to flow from the weakest forms of money (shipcoins, fiat) to the apex predator of money (Bitcoin).
Don't be like a shipcoiner who thinks only in fiat. Slowly let Bitcoin become your unit of account."