FYI, bugs are animals.

You will eat ze bugs though. And so will everybody. Because nobody will ever willingly buy bugs, what's going to happen is they will transform them into ingredients that cannot be identified as such on the labels.

The amount of retardness in a 60 second video boggles the mind. Apparently retardness takes as little real estate as bugs.

Just to focus on two things.

First and most important: no, the world isn't ending, and even less ending because of meat. Stop with that shit already.

Second, "bugs do not harm the environment unlike cattle"? Are you fucking kidding me? I work in the food industry and know very well aquaculture standards and regulations. One of the most important criteria to try to evaluate if an aqua farm is environmentally safe is "can the animals escape?" and "how do you handle escapes?".

Can you even imagine the harm that can come from ONE event of genetically engineered bugs escaping a bug farm by the millions? nostr:note1tw0yxjjee33w7x506pmt2nhmttay5rpw9qrvg825pfmgm5xnqj6qhky2mp

The type of shit way too many what to bring here. We should find and invite that Bischoff person here. nostr:note1kya9e88086uylckjcufs7kyh3zhqr5sf9t0m4pvs7hrt9c7080xsplglh4

So Arthur Hayes, and other bitcoiners, still believe that the hypothetical ETF, and more broadly institutional custodians, can turn BTC into an unmovable, untradable, useless asset, thus preventing the people from actually leaving the fiat system.

He very correctly describes BlackRock "and its ilk" as agents of the State, which is exactly what they are, as I constantly remind everyone here - we live in what is by definition a Fascist system, i.e., a Corporatist system in which corporations, especially the financial system, are an extension of the government.

However, to me, avoiding the dark future Hayes sees for BTC is extremely simple. All we need to do is just NEVER SELL, NEVER SPEND. At least, not until Bitcoin reaches a stable market cap range, volatility goes away or is at least similar to that of gold, and we can be 100% sure that any sats we spend, we will be paid back by others.

As it is today, what Hayes depicts as BlackRock "hoovering" massive amounts of BTC can only happen if WE spend those BTC on stupid shit like coffees or personal servers from companies who *must necessarily* immediately or shortly convert those BTC into fiat, for things like paying suppliers and taxes. THOSE are the sats that go into the system and BlackRock will surely, certainly, absolutely hoover up and freeze.

It's

been proven again and again that children have the at the very least a

partial ability to separate fact from fiction as early in their mental

development as age 3 -- that's barely a toddler who begins to make and

understand meaningful sentences.

On the other hand, prominent scholars

like Richard Dawkins put forth that the belief in non-real entities like God,

Santa Claus or unicorns is an evolutionary adaptation by which small

children tend to simply accept as real whatever their parents (or

figures of authority I would say) tell them is real, as a mechanism to

facilitate learning in general. Unlearning or reclassifying as non-real something that you've been taught was real by your parents or authority figures is a cognitively demanding operation that may not seem advantageous in the immediate context of one's life, so it's not something that must eventually inevitably happen.

So the whole point is that, indeed, parents today, like they have always had to do, should get involved and make sure to tell children the truth, and to point out when something that's not real is presented to them as real. But there's no need to make a big drama out of it -- the kids get it.

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Same

Sweeping the Sahara with a broom is extremely hard work. Doesn't make it not stupid.

I thought the top Youtuber was some Swedish retard.

I don't even know who this fuckin "Mr Beast" is and based on the stupid shit y'all post about him, I'm perfectly fine with not wasting a second further thinking or hearing about him, thanks.

https://youtu.be/qq8d5jvjarA

Not even clicking on that shit.

As an anarchist-leaning libertarian, I often find myself defending the theoretical view that a statist legal framework of "limited government" and (even worse) "rights" like the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights not only are useless to protect individuals from depredation, but effectively harmful. And then, cases like this happen, in which even though the events unfolded in the most anti-human State in the whole Union, this guy was able to effectively protect his family thanks only to that framework.

I say this because I could find myself in the same situation in Spain, and 100% guaranteed I would end up in jail for simply having my legally owned 9 mm handgun on me at my own doorway.

This video will obviously not change the minds of the anti-human psychopaths who want to ban private ownership of guns in the US, and even less the "Yes Daddy State Police Me Harder" retards in Europe. But it should be food for thought for the pro-human libertarians.

https://youtu.be/YggjBXIxFck

Don't be a lazy slob, curate your own feed. Don't be a totalitarian nut, let people do whatever they want with their bodies and their money, as long as there is no harm done to unwilling parties - who aren't lazy slobs who do not curate their own feeds, or snowflakes who get "hurt" by pictures of nipples.

The article is peak retardness.

All Japanese and Spanish people I know:

"Can't find/not interested in a partner"

"Can't afford children"

"Haven't got time for children"

"You can always go in-vitro"

In Japan, as in other places like Spain, people have chosen to keep propping up many social and economic institutions that are directly anti-birth and anti-family, for the sake of a given social order. As I said in another note, human societies make the choices, and then nature self-regulates.

Japan's current lifestyle, like Spain's, is a recipe for demographic extinction. There are many reasons why individuals may make a strictly rational personal choice to go along with it, and I don't oppose that.

I'm just saying that at the collective level, societies that choose that path simply go extinct and eventually either disappear completely replaced by others, or reverse course and change their ways.

You live in Japan, right? Paradigmatic.

I think it's mainly a political problem though. For at least half a century we have systematically chosen political options that inevitably lead to lower fertility rates. People simply can't afford children, be it in money currency or in time currency. But again, that's entirely a political choice, we're all guilty.

Well some say it's because for a couple of years during the pandemic traffic decreased greatly and the orcas are protesting the new normal. I think there may be something to that hypothesis, and I would add that it could be exacerbated if as happened with humans that couple of years saw an increase in new births.

I think it's the opposite. Nowadays women well past their fertile days look great, so we all live under the impression that there is always time to get pregnant. In the not so distant past, 25 year olds used to look like today's 45, and the signal was universally received. nostr:note1ldsczwh32lavaq580lwmvtagn0xrs3rgnpf6ma485cpkpuhhmvgs8t9vka