As a matter of fact, I am convinced that they freaked out when they saw that so many people spent their covid stimmy checks on BTC (and crypto) and made money in the bull run, or even worse for them, got hardcore orange-pilled. So I'm skeptical that they do it again until CBDC's or BlackRock-coin (or Circle USD) are "ready". nostr:note1c2rd398gafpkvqcx5d7z8k7umh97tk0e33uk56tnge2c5ajaxpds3vufzj
Is decentralized/open-source AI already in a state where I can tell my phone/computer: "Send an email to my finance advisor telling her I'd like to start the paperwork to set up a company in XYZ, and that I'd like to be up and running to invoice clients before EoY"?
You won't be able to spend it other than in the exact way they tell you. Which will obviously not include hard money, assets, or real food. Instead, you will spend it on curated-content subscription services (including your base internet and phone services, not just "content providers"), approved-route shared transportation systems within your allowed zone, and of course, ze bugs. nostr:note1vn28kp5y7365hujth7dwrt3l2jwy5jxvydmq8je8c4a0j4t9t4esjx4fu5
E-coin...
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My wife strated to rewatch Mr Robot while I was away, and I've caught it mid-S02, and holy shit, talking about a prescient TV show...
I haven't been on top of the Nostr-dev feed, so let me ask you: if I use Damus on my iPhone and open, say, Iris on desktop, what will break exactly? Follow lists, notes, profile...?
You can always turn that into litres instead of gallon. nostr:note1lhf79w6wkcfznfcts3f6vdc38kufnfmcjfpafsp2y8crhann3xvq8hmm3v
Fascism. It's fascism, which is one of the early 20th century evolutions of marxism.
Soviet-style communists (properly, Marxist -Leninists) want the State to directly own and operate the means of production, under the central planning of the Party, to reach the ideologically set goals that the Party sets. That proved early on to be a daunting exercise.
Fascism, on the other hand, is a system where central planning is done all the same, just without the farcical pretense of being able to micromanage the economy "scientifically", and focusing on the ideological goals instead.
The fascist State "just guides" the economic actors in control of the means of production, invoking whatever "Common Good" each particular regime chooses to legitimize itself (the Nation, Religion, the Working Class, the War on Terror, Anticommunism...). They are free to operate - as long as they paint within the ideological lines.
Since in an industrial and postindustrial society the corporation is the economic actor primarily owning the means of production, fascism is more often than not corporatist, as is often referred to as "Corporatism", because by influencing corporations, the State can move society towards the ultimate ideological goals the most. It doesn't mean that all other actors, like workers, are neglected.
On the contrary, where the corporation provides the State with its power to mobilize and direct resources, the working masses provide it with taxes and legitimacy to rule and to set the ideological goals. In Soviet Russia, or in China when Mao took over, the agrarian peasant majority could hardly fund the State, so they stuck to State ownership of the means of production. As China progresses to an urban middle-class society, massive tax extraction becomes possible and the regime progresses to a sort of fascist corporatism.
In the West, fascism could not be called fascism after the War, so it was called "social-democracy". The "democracy" part actually refers to the mechanism by which the corporatist fascist state, given the peculiar historical context of the West, found the easiest to draw legitimacy from.
In China, the Party rules -- or else... In Europe, there is no need for a "Party", and the different cliques and currents within the orthodoxy present themselves as different options
But other than ritualistic voting and parliamentary bureaucracies, there isn't really any difference between Europe and China. Especially as technology is getting to a point where they can achieve the same result as in China, just more softly.
In China and Europe the State is virtually unlimited. There are no institutional or social boundaries to what it can do, only material and economic.
In today's Europe, like in communist China, or in the Soviet Union, or in Nazi Germany, there is one orthodoxy that is funded by the State, and anything outside of it is frozen, or fought with maximum hostility.
In China, the State for several decades drew in the war effort and the revolution. As those two become exhausted memories, it now draws on the economic betterment of the population and a very raw and primitive ultranationalism. Just like Europe in the 30's. European fascism is a couple of steps ahead, and it chooses to appeal to nebulous, but not less grandiose "common goals" that justify crushing individual rights and individual life projects.
So to be clear, I'm not saying what we have is not socialism or communism. I'm saying fascism is just another form of socialism and communism more suitable to an industrial and postindustrial society in a historical path like ours. nostr:note1xhm99kg36072js77k99flusl2wwhctaerha8r3rm8eaez7mxcf7q6ukmtz
I can confirm the same.
You can see whoever posted the 2023 pic smoothed out the area under her eyes. 
Daily reminder that Bitcoin is incompatible with socialism and other sorts of voodoo "economics" and ideologies. nostr:note1zqf7lv36hdvm5h2kplf048zjtcadcq5lw2cfn5crypqqdpm6jumsu3lztz
For the record 
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The land in that pic: taxable. The structures on it: taxable. The water: taxable (unless you rely on rain only). And so on. "Self-sufficient" is a fiction. Doesn't mean we shouldn't aspire at minimizing the encroachment, but get real. Becoming rich enough to play the jurisdictional arbitrage game is not as far fetched and a produces a lot better results. nostr:note124cha48u58yygl6efq2nuwuuxk5e8ky7vjxdrdfjrl0fvkrdexvsaun67r
Very young people today may have.m a hard time recognizing or identifying with the world as depicted in Taxi Driver, though. They may get distracted by the outer details and miss the substance. I say this as a late Gen Xer and fan of the movie. Just saying it because I see this happen constantly with "classic" films and young people today.
For the first time a couple of days ago on my United flight from EWR back to Europe they were using face scanning to board passengers at the gate. No boarding pass or ID. It was a messy boarding so I was able to board through another improvised line and avoid the face scan, but who am I kidding - they are using it earlier at "security" already, so it doesn't really make any difference.
I'd like to know too!
