Agreed. GDP is a totally fake number. A bunch of guys mining BTC are measure the same as government paying people to dig holes and fill them again so long as the fiat amount of each is the same.
#btc #fiat #gdp #gdpisfake #governments #liars #lying #boomers #uspolitics #keynes #keynesians #keynesianeconomics #economics
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Agreed. GDP is a totally fake number. A bunch of guys mining BTC are measure the same as government paying people to dig holes and fill them again so long as the fiat amount of each is the same.
To be fair, China has been caught manipulating its population figures for decades now, hence the ghost cities. So you have a point. Globalist ngo funding comes largely by population, so it literally pays to have more children “on paper” to beg for those resources.
Correction: you can use Nostr as MULTIPLE identities. Nothing stopping you from making 20+ profiles but your time investment into each of them.
H1B, is one of his primary issues and most of his staff isn’t even American. I foresee a libertarian dressed Trojan horse more than any meaningful change at best. At worse, he will allow the election of a new Woodrow Wilson.
#elonmusk #india #thirdparties #h1b #immigration
H1B, is one of his primary issues and most of his staff isn’t even American. I foresee a libertarian dressed Trojan horse more than any meaningful change at best. At worse, he will allow the election of a new Woodrow Wilson.
Another random beat while waiting for my steak to rest
#music #beatboxing #carnivore #randombeat
https://blossom.primal.net/4299dbc61ddc6e8fcc16c86cd2e6306c9b9584e959c6e4a0ce75731a2e590532.mov
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Amen
Same here. Now that I had the alby thing explained to me, I don’t want to put fiat into that node connection. I’ll wait until I can put it on-chain to set it up. I don’t want to mix my sats with fiat.
I guess so. It’s sad.
Yes I do. If I remember correctly, it was under government pressure then too. This is the reason Bitcoin is such a big deal: satoshi is a nobody that, therefore, cannot be dragged before some government arm to be pressured into stuff.
You sure this is Elon’s explicit choice? I know the EU has been trying to force his hand to shut down certain channels. This could be similar. Not that I trust the man 100%, but he did remove a LARGE amount of old Twitter’s censorship when he stepped in.
Nostr still has him beat because censorship is basically impossible here. But to give credit where credit is due…
Almost every American I know uses signal. Nostr, not so much.
The “get alby” account said “free” at least twice to me in other responses. However, your answer clarifies a bit… correct me if my analogy is wrong: but it sounds like what you’re describing is like a bank account with a minimum balance. Like, it’s my sats, but I need a minimum balance for the bank to hold it open?
My understanding was it was me “buying” a channel and, therefore, that the sats (or fiat) were GONE once I paid it. Then, because of the “3 months” bit under there, it looked like renting/tax.
If it is more like “this is a minimum balance that will be checked every 3 months”, that changes my understanding dramatically.
Good morning #nostr ! Still figuring out this ecosystem. How’s everyone doing?
What platform is this? Looks like Twitter/X, but just want to be sure.
I know I have a lot to learn. I still find it deceptive marketing to say “free” when the core feature requires payment in one form or the other. If people are coming for the lightning hub, then it is definitionally not free from what I’m seeing.
I’ve noticed that and had similar experiences.
Here’s 7 Songs. It’ll be all I have for a bit while I write more. But feel free to listen and zap.
#music #originalsongs #josephus #originalmusic #wavlake #grownostr
https://wavlake.com/album/2e613a91-03b8-433f-b3fa-7a49a187a04b
#asknostr
I’m trying to navigate the decentralized nature of this ecosystem here and I have been very frustrated today trying to figure out some things. Maybe some of you more experienced people can help.
I know that NWC is a protocol that exists. But everything I find about it seems to try to force me through alby and only alby. I’m trying to put through podcasts, music, and the like, but the individual zaps for each platform don’t connect without NWC. Apps like blue wallet say that they support it, but then I can’t figure out where to find or generate the NWC to pull my sats together. I’m very lost.
For context, iOS phone, windows computer. Yes, I’ve flipped between the two.
#stacksats #nostr #grownostr #btc #nwc
In the words of the old west adage:
“God did not make man equal, Mr. Colt did”
(Inventor of the Colt revolver)
A woman with a gun, even a physically weak one, forces even the most powerful of evil men to take notice. Good on you nostr:nprofile1qqs2chzehsuefzpmmntdsc37v3m0pcz7uefejunfesskqfu9nt77tvspzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuumfv3hxcctzwvhxumqpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ezucmjduh8xmmrd9skcls5suu for promoting women taking their defense and responsibility into their own hands.
#2a #guns #selfdefense #women #righttobarearms #protection #defense #goodvsevil
Yep. I’ve seen this. I’ve also been in 3 out of the 4 countries shown and can personally attest.
Morning Nostriches!
#grownostr #goodmorning
To be fair, no one wants to be shouting into an empty room. I use both personally. But I do politics/debate in both, but only post my creative work like my music here.
I don’t think “too often” is a problem unless the content suffers for it. This meme IS disgusting, but it’s for good reason. The thing it is DESCRIBING is disgusting. Any truth to power in that regard will be disgusting for that reason. Many of his memes fit this mold in my opinion: uncomfortable truths exposing sugar coated lies tend to promote discomfort.
Reminds me of a criticism of an essay I wrote in HS where I got told I was using circular logic… the essay was a takedown of a specific circular argument. Apparently, I wasn’t allowed to walk the reader through the circular argument without being accused of making it myself.
If Galt’s Gulch were actually possible, I’d agree with you. But it isn’t anymore. Eventually these NY state regards will own even more of the senate/courts/etc. Just because things haven’t been getting better doesn’t mean they cannot get worse. No matter where you are or how far away from civilization you are, they will eventually trail of tears or ruby ridge you and your family in pursuit of their impossible utopia. Every inch of ceded ground is just one more stone closer to your or my home that is now turned over… so they move on to the next one in their never-ending quest for power and virtue signaling.
Big Brother Watch has repeatedly warned that the UK is quietly creeping into a surveillance state. Live facial recognition is being deployed across streets, train stations, shopping centres and even at public protests. But this technology is not just targeting criminals. It is scanning millions of innocent people without their knowledge or consent.
False alarms with real consequences
Studies show that the vast majority of facial recognition matches are false. According to Big Brother Watch, in 80 deployments across the UK, 89.7% of alerts were false positives. In London alone, 150 out of 173 matches by the Metropolitan Police were incorrect, resulting in an error rate of nearly 87%. In some cases, people were stopped, searched or fingerprinted as a result.
These mistakes are not harmless. They are invasive, humiliating and difficult to challenge.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Biometric-Britain.pdf
It is all connected
Facial images from passports, CCTV, phones and even social media are increasingly fed into large government and private databases. Big Brother Watch has raised concerns that a digital pound or central bank digital currency would allow the state to track every payment in real time. Combined with facial recognition and phone surveillance, this creates a fullmap of your movements, your spending and your associations.
Your phone is not private
Every step we take with a smartphone in our pocket feeds data to corporations and authorities. Location, biometrics, browsing history and more. If that is tied to payment systems and real time identity scanning, we move closer to a system where everything we do can be watched, recorded and judged.
Know Your Customer (KYC) rules are already mandating identity checks for basic services. This is not theoretical. It is happening now.
Where does this lead?
The future we are heading toward is one of forced compliance. A world in which you are monitored constantly. In which you are guilty until proven innocent. In which dissent is quietly suppressed by the knowledge that you are being watched.
We are at a turning point
If we do not push back, we risk building a society where privacy is gone, autonomy is restricted, and control is centralised in the name of convenience and safety. This goes far beyond retail surveillance. It marks the steady build up of a digital infrastructure designed for monitoring and control.
It's 1984
George Orwell warned of a future where every move was watched, every word monitored, and every thought shaped by fear. But even he did not imagine a world where your money could be used to control you.
With facial recognition and CBDCs combined, we are building something even more invasive than Orwell foresaw, a system where surveillance is not just constant but transactional, embedded into the very fabric of daily life.
When every face is scanned, every step tracked, and every payment recorded, we are not living freely. We are living under watch.
Thank you to Big Brother Watch for continuing to shine a light on these issues and holding power to account.
This is why mining and labor regulations are so disastrous. China is the only technologically developed country that cares so little for its environment that it is okay with strip mining for rare earth metals necessary for computer chips. This gives them and Taiwan a monopoly on the chip market that they shouldn’t have, which they then sell back to the western countries too NIMBY to make their own. Then, only the select companies with the CCP connections get to make any of the major devices that we end users hold in our homes. Because of the oligopoly of these tech companies, our governments then have a small list to coerce or bribe to act as their defacto surveillance apparatus.
This won’t change until regulations are removed such that normal people (or, at least, upper middle class) can source their tech, from the ground up, domestically, shattering the monopoly. In the same way and for the same reasons as 3D printed or home CNC firearms may eventually eliminate 2A infringements (smokeless powder is a whole other challenge though).
#nimby #uspolitics #politics #freedom #tech #rareearthmetals #china #freetrade #monopoly #regulation #surveilancestate
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This is why i keep mentioning Sam Adams. He was the one tarring and feathering tax collectors and bureaucrats. He is the fighting spirit we will need to save this country now.
#samadams #revolution #liberty #uspolitics
Not when fiat controlled governments can hold the businesses themselves ransom. If a government can revoke a license or arrest the owner, it doesn’t matter if the currency is decentralized. Bitcoin is already being used, even with lots of government forced limitations, across the world. It is clearly not a technological problem.
90% of taxes need to go. Our government was funded almost exclusively by tariffs in its beginning. I only mentioned capitol gains because of the context of the original post.
No. But “taxes as payment for services rendered” is at least fair when/if done correctly. Double-dipping payments just to punish someone for escaping fiat is an insult to the injury of unjust taxes.
