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#Bitcoin Belle Epoque proponent 2013 discovery 2017 class Family, Bitcoin & Trees

Arm Ukraine with the tools to threaten Russian shipping in the Black Sea, just as Russia arms Venezuela with tools to threaten American shipping in the Caribbean.

UUVs threaten to shatter that assumption. They are cheap, nearly impossible to detect, and a handful of them can shut down entire shipping lanes. They can sever undersea cables, isolating countries both digitally and physically.

Every once in a while, a new technology emerges that breaks the existing equilibrium. Machine guns collapsed the logic of massed infantry. U-boats shattered the assumption that surface fleets controlled the seas. Autonomous underwater vehicles belong in that category.

Pippi Longstocking showed us the way.

Astrid Lindgren, a woman whose tax rate hit an absurd 102% (yep, over 100%), once penned a satirical takedown exposing the obvious theft of progressive taxation, which actually led to a rewrite of the absurd tax laws.

One of the main reasons for this absurd tax bill (aside from the regular old Jante-Law-type Swedish envy) was the enormous success of her most beloved book character, Pippi Longstocking.

Pippi is the ultimate fearless anarcho-capitalist icon, embodying self-ownership, voluntaryism, and resilience against institutional overreach.

Born to a seafaring pirate king (her birthright as heir to adventure and independence), she inherits a chest brimming with sound money gold coins. No fiat funny paper for Pippi. Only hard assets that can't be inflated away by central banks.

Using her cunning and raw physical strength alone, Pippi fiercely defends her property, Villa Villekulla, against would-be attackers, such as nosy neighbors or bumbling cops trying to "civilize" her, on a daily basis.

Pippi spits on authority at every turn, refusing public schooling and politely telling the people who want to put her in an orphanage to go f themselves. She educates herself through real-world exploits, trading stories and skills voluntarily with her normie friends, Tommy and Annika.

Always taking matters into her own hands, she barters, explores, and innovates without permits or regulations. She never initiates force, yet she’s never afraid to defend her inherent right to be left alone.

Her unlicensed pet monkey and horse are her sovereign companions.

She's an agorist living completely off-grid, and a one-girl revolution ready to debunk the involuntary nature of statist bullshit at every turn.

In conformist Sweden, where fitting in is held in higher regard than anything else, and folks avoid conflict like the plague, Pippi is the ultimate anomaly. She flips the script on passive obedience, inspiring kids and adults alike to question all rules to this day.

No wonder she’s popular there...

All kids watch it here in Sweden indeed. I wish the adults read through the lines; same as you. Fitting in really hits hard. Conflicts too. How can we break the conformity?

If a country doesn’t have its own manufacturing capabilities, it is someone else’s bitch.

When you have a knot in your stomach seeing the price falling, if means that this is the right time to buy… if you have the money.

AI data centers are to Bitcoin mining rigs what Chinese civilian shipping vessels are to a ghost military fleet. They're built to military grade and can turn on a dime if things go awry.

“Investments are scams because they lead you to believe you can get a higher return than holding bitcoin itself, despite the economics of bitcoin naturally making this an absurd claim in the medium-run. In a post-fiat world, there will be plenty of investments that have a greater return (and risk!) than holding bitcoins, but they’ll be assets that generate bitcoin cash flows.”

Recent battle in Ukraine really feels like a prelude of the “Kill Decision” book from Suarez nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpr9mhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5q3samnwvaz7tmswfjk66t4d5h8qunfd4skctnwv46qu7vtcc https://x.com/geromanat/status/1982857943449251918?s=46

Markets are an interface to understand the world.

To add on the below, Sony never made money on the PlayStation consoles, it only comes from the sale of games.

In tech, hardware has never made money even with the iPhone . Only software brings money.

The flush we just saw in crypto is a prelude to a A.I. tech flush.

Feels like today corporation jobs are a combination of adult daycare and UBI.