There's no Caesar in the blockchain. Who do you render Bitcoins unto, other than by your own free will?
Tolstoy agreed with you 100% on Jesus.
He was an Anarchist as well as a devout Christian. He didn't believe obedience to earthly states was compatible with Salvation.
Until about the year 1500 AD, a majority of humankind had always lived outside of States.
That is not the same as lawless, of course - band and clan societies have decentralised legal systems. Xeer and Pashtunwali are used to the present day.
Historian James C. Scott has written some thought-provoking books on non-State peoples:
I like the Age of Sail pirate custom of marooning for cases like this. Drop him off on a wave-swept rock with a loaded pistol and a bottle of his intoxicant of choice.
Because technology has advanced (and unclaimed rocks are scarce), we could use the stratosphere instead of a rock.
Thanks mate! I have to read up so I can create a node without doxxing myself. Maybe this weekend... :)
That's such a mean thing to say about teachers, public servants, bankers and oligarchs.
I'm sure at least some of them work sometimes...
Netanyahu's genocidal bombing campaign has improved Hamas' approval rating, from 27% (lower than Biden's) to 76% (comparable to WW2-era Winston Churchill).
This was completely foreseeable.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israels-failed-bombing-campaign-gaza
Sadly, I'm sure the ethnic cleansing project will run to completion, even if a year or more behind schedule.
The Arab nations will agree to resettle a few thousand professionals, but the bulk of the newly-radicalised will end up in Canada, Australia and the EU, as usual.
I can only hope the Palestinians end up housed close to those same Western political constituencies who supported bombing them out of their homeland.
Wha...?
How...?
I don't even....
Instruction video wen???
"It’s just a big fraudulent organization that scams working class people, does insider trading and helps pedophiles to cover up their crimes."
Are we talking about the Biden administration, or a bank? Or are the tentacles too tightly intertwined for us to tell? :-p
I hear you...!
Doesn't make sense to use for little projects, but for larger ones there is the option of Brython:
Netanyahu's genocidal bombing campaign has improved Hamas' approval rating, from 27% (lower than Biden's) to 76% (comparable to WW2-era Winston Churchill).
This was completely foreseeable.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israels-failed-bombing-campaign-gaza
True enough.
Also, nearly all of the really long lived radioactive elements in spent fuel are actually fuel - neptunium, plutonium, and various isotopes of uranium.
President Carter banned reprocessing because he was a simp fishing for likes.
Remove the ban, and long-lived waste production goes away permanently.
(Okay, there's one long-lived isotope of Iodine that would be left, but there's so little of it you could just feed it into fuel rods and let the reactor transmute it, at a slight cost in neutron economy)
Yup! Just a little, but something, right?
aMule lives!
But #IPFS is the new Captain.
We have four Free Sh-t parties, up from two when I was a kid. They only disagree on which special interests deserve to go first.
We also have a "Liberal Democratic Party". After it unexpectedly won a Federal senate seat and a share of the balance of power, our federal Australian Electoral Commission deregistered them by fiat. Court appeals failed - the people who decide, play golf together. LDP still competitive in state elections, but can't run candidates federally. They're not even that good, but better enough they had to be suppressed.
If voting could change the system, it would be illegal.
...or you can invest in rent-seeking activity, leveraging personal or family political connections to prevent competition.
I don't have a good way to measure it, but I'd guess its about half the economy in Australia.
Without asymmetrical regulatory burdens and government grants, the top three companies in every industry here would fail against smaller market entrants. Industries where there even are three incumbents...
True enough.
I think it ebbs and flows on a generationnal timeframe, though, and right now the trends aren't favourable. :(
Can't find a single word I disagree with there. Unfortunately...
US govt has been taxing some rising paper share prices as though they were actual cash income.
They may not have the Constitutional authority to do that.
Not earthshaking, but brings up interesting questions about taxation powers.