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Yeah, he's a frickin genius. No idea how that changes when it comes out though 🤐

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Replying to Avatar ₿en Wehrman

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Choosing to write in with your message of dissent is really the only option to save this country.

I strongly agree that voting is an act merely meant to enable this failing system. Present to me a better argument than "be productive" if you want people to vote as the way I see it is if everyone that is fed up with this federal system would not vote that would send the strongest message. I don't care about red or blue, they are both complicit in destroying our country.

Personally, I've decided to use my vote to write in a message to the system for what I believe might have a chance to improve the system. (thereby insuring my vote isn't "stolen" while also having my voice "heard")

My belief always goes back to what the pope recently said. Something to the effect of "Americans must choose the lesser of two evils, but not voting is just ugly."

I sure don't mind being ugly than being ruled by evil.

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Greetings Central PA Bitcoiners!

Our monthly coffee meetup is this Sunday, Oct 27th, at Denim Coffee in downtown Mechanicsburg. Come join us at 1pm!

This is the second time I've used "then they fight you" in the subject of an email. The first time was in April of this year, and it was referring to the arrest of the Samourai developers. There were some news items this week that evoke that same notion.

1. ECB economists publish a paper attacking bitcoin

2. Italy proposes plan to increase capital gains on bitcoin from 26% to 42%

3. Minneapolis Fed suggests banning or taxing bitcoin to sustain deficits

The hypocrisy is off the charts with these. In the first one, the argument is made that early bitcoin adopters are getting rich and capturing wealth from later adopters, in a zero-sum scenario. Of course, this is not zero-sum, and it's how holders of any capital asset are compensated for their risk and correct choices. People who bought AAPL at $1/share 20 years ago are able to realize profit due to the buyers that value it more than that now. Likewise, today's asset buyers will profit in the future if future buyers value it more than they do now.

A wonderful juxtaposition with these news items is a recent video which compares the current Bitcoin-focused pushback to pushback against past disruptive technologies, entited "Bitcoin and the Death of Energy Misinformation" on Swan's YouTube channel. There is a long history of instances where the old guard attempts to FUD the thing that's disrupting them. For example, the bicycle came to prominence in the 1890's, and disrupted several existing industries: horse and buggy, riding apparel, railway, and public transit. A newspaper article was written that claimed "the bicycle to be the most dangerous thing to life and property ever invented". The bicycle since has become the most ubiquitous means of mechanical transportation worldwide.

Lastly, I'll leave you with this gem of a video I recently came across called "Six reasons to withdraw your bitcoin from exchanges" by Arman The Parman. My favorite is reason #6: "Unless you take coins into your own custody, you will never fully appreciate how bitcoin works. If you don't appreciate it, you won't buy enough of it, and this you will regret." Reminds me of the saying "let your education drive your allocation".

Enjoy the rest of your week, friends. Hope to see you on Sunday!

~Lonelypumpkins

Central PA Bitcoiners

I didn't get the email 🤔

also, won't be able to attend this one.

"BE THE LIGHT"

John 8:12

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Gotta get that sunrise dose of red light. 🌞

I'm experimenting with the red light therapy for vision improvement, in combination with the endmyopia stuff I've been doing.

Listening now.

Tails OS uses a blue screen 🤔

A combination of 1 and 2. In a disaster situation you'd better have damn good employees if you think you can expect them to show up, so I'd raise prices modestly to ensure their loyalty is rewarded.

A per customer cap with a requirement to pay in your preferred currency would be my next move--whether that's Bitcoin, bullets, food or cash. Prioritize what YOU need and make the market meet that for you.

Operating as normal just provides the opportunity to someone else to scalp your precious resource.

The price of corn and soybeans are estimated at nearly 20% below the cost of production.

Read that again.

The industrial, fiat food system is broken. The subsidies that these operators rely upon are already controlling them. Any grain farmer claiming they don't get any subsidies is running a dying business or a woefully unprofitable hobby--usually the latter given how many farmers require off farm income. Regulatory overreach in the agriculture sector isn't far behind when food production becomes a product of gov subsidies.

These farmers need introduced to better business models. Actual food production. Direct to consumer. Ability to set their own prices. Incentivized for focusing on quality. Encouraged to network, collaborate, and cooperate.

Local communities need more grain processors, mills, bakeries, and other value add businesses. Those businesses need to prioritize farmers producing healthy crops using environmentally constructive practices.

Consumers drive this bus. They need to demand these actions or lead the movement themselves. Provide local investments. Purchase local products. Pitch in and help farmers through a crisis. BUILD COMMUNITY.

Community is always built with agriculture at its core. Fiat is fighting to erode community with cheap, abundant, unhealthy highly processed garbage produced using AI and robotic machinery. Nothing is more fundamental than food production. Food should be grown with caring hands, not mechanization and steel.

Community is how we win. Community is the shield that protects against tyranny.

Costco gold bars, continuing to be in widespread high demand, will become the most counterfeit bullion on the market.