I got an idea. Instead of complaining about the encroachment of our rights and freedoms why don’t we all get into Congress and roll back these stupid laws like the bank secrecy act and the patriot act. Undo stupid boomer laws

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Jesus told me to forgive people.

He didn’t say anything about institutions.

I can want individuals to be forgiven and changed, while still wanting the institution to burn to the ground.

just sayin.

Most people who I know that think the CIA invented bitcoin, are not very familiar with the pre-history of Bitcoin including work by Back, Szabo, Finney, etc.

I'm not saying that certainly no intelligence agency created Bitcoin, but rather, I'm very skeptical of the certainty that many people have around that topic.

Because, when you are somewhat familiar with that pre-history and look at it from an engineering perspective, you can clearly see the pieces gradually falling into place. In the1980s there was work by Chaum about how to build a database run by mutually suspicious entities. In the 1990s there was work by Back for proof-of-work. As things moved into the 2000s, there was Szabo's Bit Gold, which is very similar to what Bitcoin ended up being, and Finney's Reusable Proof of Work "RPOW" tokens. Finney hadn't solved the centralization issue, and Szabo hadn't solved the issue of better computation causing supply inflation over time, but they were collectively within shooting range of the solution. Others as well. Meanwhile global bandwidth was getting better, encryption in general was getting better (and there we've got an actual intelligence agency contribution), etc.

And then Satoshi added to that work, including the difficulty adjustment in particular and many other details, with a full implementation.

Basically, if someone thinks that Bitcoin just kind of magically came out of nowhere, then it's pretty easy to see how they'd be inclined toward a conspiratorial assumption.

However, if one sees that, just like any other industry, there was a series of engineers building on each others' work until someone finally got it over the line, then it looks a lot more organic.

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Both taxes and money-printing redistribute capital, but the difference is that money-printing does it less transparently.

With money-printing, the effect works behind the scenes in ways that are harder to quantify. That's why when a government can't find a solution between hard spending choices, they print money. It's the easier method.

People know their personal tax rate, they will riot if their taxes are too high, and they know exactly who is responsible for tax levels.

But inflation is a more complex beast. It comes with a lag, for starters, since it takes time for printed money to work its way through the system. And when it comes, propaganda built on grains of truth is effective at making it unclear to people who is responsible. "It's the greedy corporations that are responsible for raising prices, not the fact that we increased the money supply 40% over the past two years!"

And so money-printing effects people not directly based on their income, their need, or other things, but based on their level of awareness of what's happening. It rewards people who are aware of it, and are borrowing the devalued currency, owning scarcer assets, and denominating contracts in harder currency. It harms people who are not aware of it, who are earning wages in and keeping their savings in cash or bonds. Many of them are led to believe that CPI is the target to beat, which is a false low target. The real target is the money supply growth rate.

And capital gains taxes, if the cost basis is unadjusted for the rate of money supply growth, further recoup some of that value from the various harder assets that aware people try to protect themselves with.

A lot of MMT advocates act as though they found some grand formula. But really what they have re-identified is nothing new: it's that the less transparent that government spending is, the bigger it can be before people will complain. People will complain about taxes right away, but currency debasement is the sneakier method for which the consequences come with a lag. So it sidesteps hard decisions this year, and leads to bigger issues a year or two from now, when someone else can be blamed and the whole ordeal can be obfuscated.

And it's not new, despite how some MMT advocates would spin it. Currency debasement has been occurring since the adoption of coinage. And even MMT-scale currency debasement has been occurring since World War I. It is turned to so frequently because its lack of transparency allows it to occur at times and magnitudes when more transparent taxes would not.

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It is 2024 and according to "experts".....

Observation does not matter only peer reviewed studies.

Inflation is good and also your fault when it is bad.

Medicines with 70 year track records of being some of the safest drugs on the planet are suddenly dangerous but new experimental ones with five pages of fine print side effects are safe.

Type two diabetics should base their diets on low fat and high carb diets. Which is largely the diet that led to their diabetes in the first place.

Women should be fine with men competing in women's sports and shaving their balls in women's locker rooms at the gym.

Men can have babies and breast feed. While women are not women they are "birthing persons".

The term man hole is part of the patriarchy and oppressive to women, even though they can't tell you what a woman is.

There is nothing wrong with adding new genders annually to our understanding of gender.

Eating grass fed beef is bad but bugs, HFCS and seed oils are healthy.

Inflation isn't real just a word that Fox news taught you.

The most coddled demographic of people in our nation are victims and oppressed.

It makes perfect sense for lawmakers to know absolutely nothing about the underlying technology and substance of the things they are regulating.

An unborn baby is nothing but a "clump of cells" an hour before it is born.

The US is a corrupt and racist nation but always right in our foreign policy interventions, except when it involves Israel. All others we get 100% right every time. If you disagree you are a tool of Putin.

A child should not get a tattoo at 12 because it is "permanent and life altering" but can choose to have their balls or breasts removed at age 9. Parents who object are child abusers.

Parents that dare object to what the school boards they elect and pay for do are "domestic terrorists".

The border is secure but it is the republicans and Donald Trump's fault that it isn't secure. It is Schrödinger's border.

Feeding wild animals is bad because it makes them dependent on hand outs but all government welfare is not just good it is necessary.

Doing your own research is bad and you should never ever do it. Unless "research" means reading, watching and listening to the things the experts approve of in advance.

Songs, movies, TV shows that are loved by millions of all race, religion and sex are suddenly racist, white supremest, misogynistic, etc. decades after they stopped even being produced.

If I open a restaurant that makes Mexican food I am guilty of "cultural appropriation" as a white guy but if I am Chinese and do it, it becomes "fusion food" even if I call it Jose's and only sell tacos, nachos and burritos.

If I disagree with any of these claims it is because I am clearly a CIS white male and a member of the rich elite while also being a stupid poor red neck that smells bad and shops at Walmart at the same time.

What am I missing that you can add here?

HOW TO FINISH EVERYTHING YOU START 📚

Top 10 Lessons from learned from the book-- "HOW TO FINISH EVERYTHING YOU START"

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1) Another reason for failing to finish is that you are so unprepared for interruptions that when one or more occur, you get thrown by it.

2) By far the #1 reason for leaving a task or project unfinished is having too much to do.

3) If you have a fear of failure, you will delay finishing a project, so you do not have to deal with the potential negative feedback that you fear. If you fear success, procrastination delays that scenario from happening.

4) If you end whatever you are trying to finish at a good point, it will be that much easier to pick right up again when you can get back to it.

5) Make whatever you are procrastinating about the very first activity that you tackle first thing in the morning, or when you first get to the office.

6)F = Focus on one priority task.

I= Ignore interruptions or distractions.

N = Now is the time, not later or tomorrow.

I= Initiate and innovate so you keep going.

S = Stay the course however tough it gets.

H = Hail finishing by celebrating your accomplishment.

7) Be open to trying new things and even fresh ideas or even new technology that might make it faster, easier, or better to finish what you started.

8) Those who have too many

unfinished projects or activities often are trying to do everything themselves.

9) Here is what his SMART acronym stands for:

S = Specific

M = Measurable

A = Assignable

R = Realistic

T= Time-related

10) "Should I have started this in the first place?"

If your answer is, "No, then it is okay to leave it unfinished, whatever it is.

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i watch a medium sized eagle fly about all the time here, and they make a very recognisable squawk when they are talking to each other down in the trees nearby

the defining feature of this variety of bird is they don't have a lot of endurance, they surf the thermal air currents and you watch them and they hardly move their bodies ever once they are at a few hundred feet up

i love em tho, it's hilarious watching them do the hover thing as they spy out their prey before they dive at them... truly master air-surfers, don't get me wrong i don't say they are lazy to insult them, they are efficient at coming out of nowhere very fast from a great height and eating small animals

MONDAY NIGHT NASHVILLE PEEPS!

Let's meet up!

Greko Greek Street Food

704 Main St, Nashville, TN 37206

7 PM

Open to anyone interested, but I'm also happy to eat octopus souvlaki by myself. 😄

I have a feeling I'll be ghosting a lot of friends in the coming years.

Spending time around bitcoiners makes me question old friendships. I have friends I've known for 20+ years who haven't offered any real value in a long time.

That sounds awful to say, but they are so caught up in their dead end jobs and other bullshit. No care for anything else. They think the MSM and government are the best sources of truth. No interest in growing, or in self reflection.

Any attempt at deep, meaningful conversation basically turn into the "That's crazy. Catch the game last night?" meme. It's frustrating.

I'm still processing my feelings on this. I haven't had a close "crew" of buddies since high school. Even that was superficial. I've always been that guy people hang out with, but never a part of the "inner circle" or whatever.

I'm not saying this to garner empathy. I'm the complete opposite of depressed, and I don't stay up at night wishing I was one of the cool kids. I like having a close family, a wife that's my best friend, and a couple others I can talk to about anything and everything in a meaningful way.

I'm just wondering if it's time to drop some baggage.

Nostr is a great place for long-ish form writing. I love privacy, but I also love sharing the human experience. I spent the first 30 years of life keeping everything bottled up inside.

Never going back to that.

@advicefromlouis he is a comedian