One question i was thinking about was how are women educated about childbirth etc. I am assuming most have homebirths? How do they feel about medical intervention s in childbirth? Is infant mortality rates similar to the general population?

suits are saying there is a sovereign bond crisis

they only just realized mandibles then bitcoin standard is in play

Money supply is always net increasing, but what the increasing supply gets spent on determines where increases in prices occur. Parking it in assets for long periods means it's not placed in demand for everyday things but causes an increase in asset prices. The "excess" inflation after plandemic money handouts was because it got circulated into buying actual things, versus the typical way money is handed out that gets parked in assets with the goal of sucking in more money in the form of rents and high interest, ie usury.

Economics is mostly alchemy and lies because the forcing function calculation ultimately being made is determining distance to the money spigot

Spending money, if you stop and think about it, only transfers that money to someone else. The money is still there, its quantity hasn’t changed, but it’s just in a different person’s bank account or wallet now. That’s fundamentally why money can’t “flow into” an asset. If you buy an asset, that money you spent is still available to spend, just by someone else rather than by you. It’s not somehow sitting there inside the stock or bond or real estate, waiting for you to sell your asset so it can emerge back into the financial landscape and be spent again.

Suffice to say that if you’ve ever felt that the financial system is a parasitic entity infested at the highest levels by people with “persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egotistical traits,” you’re probably on the right track. It’s the ideal habitat for a motivated psychopath, and I believe they’ve maneuvered themselves into the system and are busy exploiting our trust and the properties of our most crucial social technology. Unfortunately not one person in a thousand understands what’s happening. Most can see the decay spreading and feel something is wrong in society at a fundamental level, but without understanding they cause, they don’t have the knowledge or tools to fight back.

What's the difference between a subsistence hunter/gatherer lifestyle and the modern civilization we all enjoy today? Specialization of labor, and complex supply chains. And what enables those civilizational necessities? Money.

When we expand this situation to the global economy, we discover that the world has $320 trillion of debt and only $120 trillion of M2 money supply. The annual loan repayments on that massive debt pile are around $60 trillion.

That’s why the dollar refuses to die. Regardless how much everyone hates it, the global debt pile is enormous. And the only way to survive is to keep working and earning dollars to keep making those payments every month. And the ride never ends, because if every single dollar in existence was used today to pay down the debt, the world would be penniless and still $200 trillion in debt. That’s $25,000 of debt for every human on the planet.

So that’s how banks create their own demand, and keep an iron grip on the global economy. Every loan they make creates future demand for dollars to repay that loan. And the ever-increasing gap between the debt and the money available to repay it means that the only way for the economy to stay above water is a constant supply of new loans to create the money needed to pay off the old loans and accumulated interest. Which, of course, is supplied by the banks.

People often assume that whoever their god is, that it is standing with them specifically. In the US, they often separate this view along party lines.

Conservatives to some extent imagine Jesus standing with them on the border with a rifle protecting Christendom against anarchy. Even if many of those immigrants are ::checks notes:: also Christians. If a "woke" bishop calls for compassion on immigrants and is not a fan of the twice-divorced President who can't name his favorite bible chapter and forgot to put his hand on the bible when being sworn in, she's somehow the baddie rather than him, even among Christians.

Progressives to some extent imagine Jesus walking around in Gaza or Haiti or Sudan attending to the least advantaged among us. He shuns the empire and tends to them. And yet, while Jesus called for pacifism and was a rhetorical saint among chill speakers, many of them find a way to mentally turn extremists into heroes. Anything the underdog society does against the dominant society is justified. Even if it's violent toward civilians. In our media rebels are cool, but in reality they often like to kill the gays or the civilians, so it gets awkward pretty fast rather than being like the cool Star Wars rebels vs the Empire.

I find myself in a weird camp that almost nobody is onboard with.

I'm like, "Yes, we actually need to secure our borders. We need to be more scrutinizing for our society's sake. We need slower, higher-end immigration. And we actually need to enforce the rule of law for theft on the streets."

But also,

"No, I don't think Jesus of Nazareth as depicted in text would be onboard with this border view. He'd view us like Rome. Let's not re-imagine him as onboard with this. We're rooting for ourselves; he'd root for the underdogs."

I'm too woke for the conservatives and too based for the progressives.

The US was involved with multiple coups in Latin America. We ran the reserve currency and tried to bend them to our will with their dollar-denominated debt 40 years ago by spiking the value of that debt. Some of them went into retarded socialism and rekt themselves throughout that time period too; it's not all our fault. But it's some of our fault.

And then we militarily entered the Middle East. We made deals with them, funded them against the Soviets, and then turned against them. We've invaded them at like a 100:1 ratio vs them invading us with one major incidence (9/11). And as much as I am a fan of Jews as a people (as someone who grew up in Northeastern USA where Jews are relatively dense, I'd happily have them settle all around here), Israel is a state is colonial; our western powers displaced Gazans to make it and have been fighting that reality ever since.

We're Rome. And like Rome, we think we are justified. And along those lines, we're probably partially right, and probably partially wrong.

When you take a view, imagine every possible view opposing it.

And as the US dominates as neo-Rome, I think we will realize how distant we are from Jesus the hippie.

ai is coming for middle management first

Anyone want to play some poker?

I'm not religious. There is no combination of words in the English language that you can use to convince me otherwise.

Sometimes, though, I wish there was. To admit anything else would be a lie.

Christianity is on the rise amongst bitcoiners, and I sometimes think of my own experiences with religion because of this.

I grew up in America with the Greek Orthodox church. I was an alter boy, and I went to Greek school after normal school. We were taught Greek culture, religious topics, language, etc.

The church was my social center. More than that, it was an aesthetically pleasing place.

The Byzantine iconography. The smells of incense. The feel of the pews. The beautiful hymns chanted in Greek. The taste of the Eucharist.

As a youth & young adult, the divine liturgy was an experience for the senses. I wanted to believe. The idea of a greater power watching over us is very powerful. It gives a man purpose.

Alas, I could not believe. I do not believe. It's not me.

True believers show up every Sunday, but there are also the ones present for the social aspects. It's what they grew up with. They go through the motions, live their lives as decent humans, but are likely too afraid to confront their beliefs.

I couldn't respect myself if I did this. I can't be inauthentic to myself and to the true believers in attendance.

Being honest with myself meant leaving the church. It was like denouncing the club, removing myself from a social circle that was the foundation for much of my life.

It left a space that I've done my best to fill.

I think the world would be a better place if everyone lived by the general teachings of Jesus. If we were kind to others. Love your neighbor, forgive people, and all that. This is decent human behavior.

I try to live my life this way, but it is not easy.

This post isn't a cry for help. Deep down, I'm not trying to be convinced. Much like my journey with the carnivore diet, and diet in general, only my own experiences will convince me. I remain unconvinced.

I'm glad some of you are true believers, and I wish you peace and happiness on your spiritual journies. 🧡

How old are you?

Had a thought, any young mechanically included folks. If your are trying to start a bolt and are having trouble and your buddy says "gotta put hair around it" what does that mean? Is that saying still used today?

Old time sayings.

The Moon is 1/400th the size of the Sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth, resulting in the Moon and the Sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.

I figured out the real risk with Saylor’s plan to issue stock/debt to buy BTC and pump the value of his stock/debt: it exposes and therefore blows up the entire system.

Everyone is trying to find the glitch because you can’t just get money for free, but the glitch is in the system itself, and he’s not just exploiting it in a roundabout way like Buffett, but using it to power his strategy directly.

Because once it becomes obvious to everyone what he’s doing, you will have no choice if you want stocks and debt to buy his. You cannot buy T-Bills, you cannot buy AAPL.

AAPL just makes products and profits which generate cash flow which fill the balance sheet with depreciating dollars. All those steps just to get something that’s melting away. By the time they buy BTC it’s too late. They’ll never catch Saylor.

The problem for MSTR is when everyone catches on there will be a stampede, and then all hell might break loose. The normal laws of physics no longer apply around a singularity.

Anyone have experience with hardy kiwi or kiwi berry? I am fonding different things about the length of growing season, and I'm very confused how a plant that is so cold hardy (growing in cold areas) doesn't have ripe fruit for 200+ days? Anybody growing in USDS zones 6b-7a?

#ASKNOSTR #gardening #homestead #homesteading #plantstr #plebs #plebchain #permaculture

just deposited 50 sats on Ln roulette won 20

put all 70 on red

lost

end of professional roulette player career 😢 😭