Agreed, it's also good for preventing accidentally bricking the phone, since they have experience doing it.

That said, I'm not trying to play devil's advocate but if you use something like Tracfone (no KYC and pay-as-you-go, two things I refuse to give up), I'm pretty sure getting a fully degoogled phone isn't viable. I could be wrong but from what I read, it doesn't seem possible. The next best option is to download Shizuku and use it to run Canta, which lets you strip out a lot more of the spyware and bloat than normal.

A MASSIVE macroeconomic move of money from public sector to private sector, WILL take place.

Millions of Public sector jobs are going to disappear. It will be a wholesale removal. Political favoritism won't help near as much as in the past. Entire Federal departments are going away. An example is the Federal department of Education. 50k employees and $ 90 billion budget are toast. I'd bet on that.

The debt burden has reached it peak.

Public trust peaked and is dropping fast.

Lenders are stepping away fast.

Optimism is waning. Money is running out.

The ability to PRINT MONEY is ending.

Trust in All things government are at historic lows.

The ability to cheat in elections is crashing.

The ability for the government to censor is going away.

Speed of economic change is gonna be faster than anyone realizes. It gonna be a "wake up in the morning type change", it's going to happen very fast.

Good morning nostr, i woke up early because of the stupid time change. Wish they would leave it one way or the other, for good. Anyway, i need to prep some food for our friends that are coming over today. Should be a great day, with friends, food, shooting guns. Yall have a great Sunday, enjoy your coffee, and remember that today is a gift. #coffeechain #grownostr #countrylife

did you even read it cuz there is this part

"The presidency—by which I mean the executive state—is the sum total of American tyranny. The other branches of government, including the presidentially appointed Supreme Court, are mere adjuncts."

He wrote a book called The Anacrcho-Capitalist Manifesto. He is well aware of government being the problem, and very likely long before you or I were

i hope to go to the midwest, up in the mountains, and just stay off the radar, i mean it can't be that hard right? with millions of losers being shipped in across the southern border

i'm doing ok here in the edge of the EU in this same way... it's a lot harder for them to enforce it in such rugged terrain and relatively sparse population... customs is a killer though, absolute nightmare and extremely high import duties

Similar to yesterday, this was made on incredible morning last year after stumbling across a winter wonderland. You can catch up with the adventure via the video in the comments below.

For info - this is shot in full colour. It was just a very atmospheric monochrome scene.

#landscapephotography #picstr #photostr #artstr

yeah for me it was 12 years trying to start a business and just having so many obstructions to being able to become viable

Pause. I didn't agree to these terms. My beer fridge has a bunch of delicious Oktoberfest beers though. I can add some water to bring them down to Miller Lite levels.

do I need to learn blender? would people zap for this?

Some election thoughts for US-based folks:

An ever-growing federal bureaucracy means more and more siphoning of citizen wealth over time. A large body of agencies, regulations and workers also means ridiculous inertia into the system which discourages innovation, works against the sovereignty and individual freedoms of the citizens, and allows some truly nasty behind-the scenes manipulation by security agencies etc. We know this. For many of us, it's why we're here on Nostr.

What happens when that bureaucracy is cut way down but augmented with AI? unless you simultaneously de-fund the federal government, it seems to me that the result is a dramatic increase in centralized power.

I guess I'm wondering if inertia in the current system is actually a slight buffer against a sudden seizure of power.

After now watching Trump more closely than I had before, I don't think he's particularly hungry for that kind of power - certainly no more than other politicians and possibly less - but some folks near him probably are, and in any case we're looking at a frigtening incentive structure.

Add to that the ties between the Trump campaign and Palantir and it gets very troubling.

I love that Rogan had Trump on the show, but I'm frustrated that no one seems to be asking about Peter Thiel and surveillance technology in general. Haven't yet listened to the Vance interview.

Whats that

I appreciate people across the political spectrum, and have friends in multiple worldview camps. Especially since they are often from different countries with different contexts. My friends do tend to cluster in certain areas due to our shared interests (i.e. I am freedom-oriented in general), but there are people who consider themselves to be anarcho-capitalists and others that consider themselves to be aware progressives, for whom I would invite them to my home and stay in our guest area.

But I have a visceral disgust toward people who I perceive to be playing a role or being consciously fake. I'm not against people playing an actual obvious caricature for satire of course. But in the modern era, there is a tremendous amount of audience capture, gaslighting, fake social media influence that is meant to come off as genuine, and influencers and politicians treating their audience as though they are literally retarded.

Once I perceive someone as fundamentally fake and consciously playing a false role that they pretend is real to their audience, they're done to me. This behavior has been on an enormous uptrend in the past few years, much to my provocation. It's an acceleration of cynicism. Those that do this are intelligent but cynical toward their audience, manipulating them either for personal gain or for their political purpose.

Be aware of this trend.

“I joined nostr and only saw bitcoin content so i left”

Yeah well i joined bluesky and only saw commies and guys dressed as girls, so pick your poison I guess.