Found a book at my mother’s house, a couple of chapters in, Marx, Ricardo and Malthus have already been covered, the questions raise on micro economics are fascinating.

Can’t help feeling there are some parallels between Keynes and Epstein, how someone rises to such a high level of power, connected to so many powerful people from a very low level. He appeared to be a smart guy (academically), but his ideas certainly met fertile ground with the post crash years (1930s), so may have been something to do with politicians hearing ideas that gave them power.

Epstein on the other hand, had a whole lot of dirty laundry to blackmail people, but also found people who were deprieqved and would do his bidding to keep their secrets out of the public light.

Really interested in explore Keynes a little more, but maybe go for “unapproved” biographies, doubt many will include the “bed and boy” line that nostr:nprofile1qqsyx708d0a8d2qt3ku75avjz8vshvlx0v3q97ygpnz0tllzqegxrtgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqy28wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mqea0kvm included.

Him: How much Bitcoin do I need?

Me: Don't count, just stack and hold it in self-custody.

Nostr and Bitcoin are not slogans or investments; they are tools that invert the incentives of control.

They do not persuade the mind so much as liberate it from needing permission.

the idea that everything is a psyop is the psyop

Was in Lausanne, Switzerland a month ago — a lot of beautiful parts of that city, but some ugly ones. Rode the metro, lots of young attractive people on it, but was an immigrant guy, passed out in his own piss, and the stench wafted into several cars.

All the “good” Eurolibs were just tolerating this, like it’s perfectly normal to have one person stinking up three cars at 6 pm on a summer evening.

There need to be standards for society, and the liberals have failed to live up to them. The cities are more dangerous, less clean and ill-functioning. They tolerate things that decent adults should not tolerate, and the extreme case of this is the murder of Iryna Zarutska (even if I think there’s something about that that doesn’t quite add up.)

On the other hand, this is NOT the same thing as saying, Muslims, Africans and others are inherently unable to live in Western societies — plainly many are, and reverting to lazy heuristics because you are scared is also misguided and cowardly.

I’ve been to dozens of cities the last few years, walked through some sketchy neighborhoods, and it’s not as bad as it’s made out to be online by terrified poasters.

It should be much better, obviously, there should never be a time you’re walking through a modern, Western civiliation and feel ill at ease, but it’s not that scary. Incidentally San Francisco in what wasn’t a sketch neighborhood was the worst, insane people screaming, ranting and drugged out of their minds.

Liberals tolerate way too much, basically too cowardly with too much confused empathy for the wrong people, and reactionaries too cowardly and stupid to address the actual problem which is the lowering of standards and pity-based liberal racism that ignores reality.

This is not to say that nefarious billionaires don’t prey on misplaced liberal empathy and enact these policies on purpose (they probably are) and it’s not to say that there are not nefarious factions pushing a reversion to old school racism to divide the populace and keep them focused on anything but the kleptocracy at the top (probably the case too.)

It’s just that there are solutions to these problems that require courage to say something and higher standards while at the same time uniting people, irrespective of disparate ancestry, against the narrow self-serving agendas of the few.

politics just feels wrong on nostr

TECHNICALLY SPEAKING THE BRAZIL X BAN IS TRIVIAL TO CIRCUMVENT.

THAT IS MOSTLY IRRELEVANT.

WILL LIKELY STILL BE EFFECTIVE AT SILENCING BRAZILIANS WITH LARGE AUDIENCES. LARGE KNOWN X ACCOUNTS. THEY WILL RISK PUNISHMENT IF THEY POST.

NOSTR DOES NOT FIX THAT.

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APOCALYPSE ANONYMOUS by

ATOSHI ANARKOMOTO

August 8, 1982.

A line drive foul ball hits a four year old boy in the head at Fenway. Jim Rice, realizing in a flash that it would take EMTs too long to arrive and cut through the crowd, sprang from the dugout and scooped up the boy.

He laid the boy gently on the dugout floor, where the Red Sox medical team began to treat him.

When the boy arrived at the hospital 30 minutes later, doctors said, without a doubt that Jim's prompt actions saved the boy's life.

Jim returned to the game in a blood-stained uniform. A real badge of courage.

After visiting the boy in the hospital, and realizing the family was modest means, he stopped by the business office and instructed that the bill be sent to him.

This is what a sports hero looks like

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