Love it.

Curating your follows and muting ones that dont fit your interests is how twitter works best also.

Btw, you’re following a fake scammer impersonator account

What’s the first word that comes to mind when you see this?

German government still selling out their citizens’ future I see.

My lovely mother in law now has cancer from the F’ing jabs. In Homeopathy there is an expression on case taking ‘Never well since ..’ Well that is the case here ever since the jabs. We tried so hard to prevent our relatives from succumbing to it. Please send a little prayer. Thanks 💜🧡

Again I don’t care who you vote for, just basic acknowledgement of reality is what I’m interested in.

Now that it’s beyond doubt even to normies that Biden is unsalvageably demented, the pivot seems to be: “LOL, it’s clown world all around!”

It might be clown world of a sort, but no intellectually honest person would conflate Trump’s cognitive capacity with Biden’s. And RFK is plainly intelligent and articulate, whatever your opinion on his policies and speech handicap.

Vote for whoever you want or don’t vote — that’s up to you. But the biggest contributor to clown world IMO is denial of reality in front of our faces. Stop going along with it.

Gm let’s make today beautiful

What's your favorite bitcoin podcast? 🤔🟠

Most surveilled cities in the world - cameras per square mile

1. 🇨🇳 Shenzhen: 7,462

2. 🇨🇳 Wuhan: 6,488

3. 🇨🇳 Shanghai: 5,239

4-20. 🇨🇳 Different cities of China

21. 🇨🇳 Beijing: 1,500

22. 🇮🇳 Delhi: 1,490

35. 🇰🇷 Seoul: 618

40. 🇸🇬 Singapore: 387

41. 🇮🇳 Hyderabad: 321

44. 🇺🇸 New York: 235

45. 🇷🇺 Moscow: 220

46. 🇬🇧 London: 209

49. 🇧🇩 Dhaka: 141

50. 🇲🇽 Mexico City: 139

56. 🇹🇭 Bangkok: 108

58. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles: 86

59. 🇩🇪 Berlin: 80

60. 🇿🇦 Johannesburg: 72

64. 🇹🇷 Istanbul: 54

68. 🇫🇷 Paris: 41

69. 🇪🇬 Cairo: 39

Better watch out.

no words

Like father, like son.

Low time high time?

Some people have grown cynical with democracy (and various types of representative government broadly, e.g. including constitutional democratic republics that enshrine certain rights to protect liberty against the masses), viewing this method as promoting short-term leadership with bad incentives.

I have a different take.

Prior to the printing press and then the telegraph and radio, running a democratic society over long distances wasn’t even feasible. The concept of having people democratically participate in their government relies on people being relatively connected information-wise so that they can use their access to information to know what’s happening and to then select between different options, which you couldn’t do across the entirety of a country before people were literate and election materials or other publications could be mass produced. In the pre-press age of handwritten books, making written documents was expensive, and so literacy was a niche skill.

So, that era was ruled by kings and queens, council oligopolies, and so forth. Representative government, to the extent that it existed, only applied to small city states where people could literally gather in a town square, or to “elites” in a capital. There was literally no way to run an election over very broad distances on a regular basis. The printing press helped change that, and then the telegraph, radio, and other tech further reinforced it.

But ironically, as I discuss in Broken Money, those technologies also started to break our money. The printing press and telegraph allowed the transaction layer (the movement of IOUs between individuals and entities) to grow exponentially more efficient both domestically and globally, while our settlement layer (gold) remained basically unchanged. This broadening gap between fast transactions and slow settlements was increasingly bridged with centralization and credit, and the gap eventually became so wide that every nation dropped the settlement layer of gold almost entirely, except as a reserve asset.

So the same technologies that enabled widespread representative government also enabled the proliferation of softer money. Prior to these technologies, broad democracy wasn’t possible. And after these technologies, sound money was too slow to keep up. Oof.

But over a long enough timeframe, our technology became good enough that we finally figured out how to do fast settlements as well. Bitcoin. People can send value to each other quickly over long distances, in ways that no central entity can prevent or reverse, and with a unit that no central entity can debase. The first sound money of the Information Age.

If Bitcoin is successful over the coming decades and becomes a much larger and less volatile money, than it is now, fully entrenched in society, then that would be the first era where technology is at such a state where broad democracy and fast sound money can coexist. Or put more universally, it will be the first era where information spreads quickly without breaking the money, and thus both fast information and good money could coexist.

I, for one, would be curious to see how that develops.

JFC.

I wonder how well will this create shade, sound barrier or shelter for animals.😐 Or a nice feel.😑

#nature #tree #design