How many times have I had this argument with friends and family these last three decades...
I was already aware of this when I was a teenager myself, and I saw so many of my close ones go down that path, sadly.
It's not the INCOME he's talking about but the JOB. It's about the value the job creates. At this point, basically none. Salaries reflect that.
GM (good midday)
Especially real estate in Japan and the US.
But my point is that there is no "both". They're one.
It's a completely lost generation of weak, brainwashed people. Late Millennials and Gen Z are totally irredeemable, and at this point we can only try to keep them away from positions of power for as long as possible while we try to raise a better generation of sane people to bypass them. The future is bleak as fuck if we do not manage to start to chip away at the Leviathan.
You can't separate high street banks from the central bank and the State. It's one single system.
If deflation of fiat currency in a fractional banking system within the Corporate State political framework was a physical possibility, we wouldn't be in Bitcoin.
He's wrong about the Palau program. I have it. Can't open bank accounts (explicitly forbidden by law) or set up a company or even get a legal address ("features coming soon" for years, and never arriving). An Estonia is in the EU, so you'll get fucked all the same.
I find myself looking for the boost button al the time in Coracle. But you can quote-repost anyway.
Me too, and the one I resent younger people the most for having lost in just one generation is cursive. People just three or four years younger than me already can't write.
By the way, I sent a fax last month. To the IRS.
Bisq is infinitely simpler. The only thing you need to do is set up your payment methods.
The usual totalitarian Frenchness.
As of 2024, with a few decades more of historical perspective, I argue that they were in fact adaptations of socialism.
Russia was in a particular state of social, economic and political (under)development, with its own agrarian feudal system, an absolutist monarch, the Orthodox Church, an Asian Empire, etc., and on top of that the socialist revolution happened earlier there, even if only slightly.
Fascism and naziism are adaptations to different societies of the same basic doctrine and system, as is the current Corporatist State in the West almost 100 years later.
AI is the wet dream of State worshippers of all colors. The Final Central Planner who is infallible, objective and scientific, just like Marx and Lenin hoped. There will be no "excuses" for failure this time, since there will be no fallible humans running the show.
That's what they believe and want everybody to believe, of course.
But Nobunaga is the unificator of Japan. So he must be the antagonist, based on the trailer. If the Jesuits (the antagonists in the previous games) appear in the game, the plot could be as follows:
Jesuits (the bad guys running the hidden organization in the saga) are interested in spreading their dominion to Japan.
They ally with Nobunaga who allows them to proselitize in exchange for guns and other Western goods (which in fact happened).
Yasuke is part of one of these missions and is placed by the Jesuits in Nobunaga's inner circle, as a handler/guiding hand. He is the instigator of things like the massacre of Buddhist temples and sects who politically oppose Nobunaga.
The female protagonist is a victim of one such campaign.
Conflict ensues, and she finally kills Nobunaga, but Yasuke escapes. Eventually Totoyomi and Tokugawa go on unifying Japan, albeit expelling the Jesuits.
That would in fact make a good plot for the game, as speculation.
I am thinking now, Yasuke came with and went back to the Jesuits. And weren't the Jesuits the antagonists in the AC series?
This made up Yasuke who allies with Nobunaga's enemies is even more inconsistent than it looked at first.