It’s crazy to think we have to worry about the government and how they react to what we build instead of being able to focus on building the future without fear of possibly being thrown in a cage. For building freedom technology that levels the playing field and brings about the equal opportunity politicians LARP about.

did a wallet drain on Phoenix. still waiting for the channel to close. I have 0 confirmations in 24 hours. anyone else run into this #asknostr

Thanks everyone. I’m digesting and ruminating on this.

But also I’m kind of regretting asking… what a weird and smelly rabbit hole 🤣

Is there a go to brand of water that is respected and healthy? Ideally available in Portugal.

Like idk, Evian or Pedras?

It’s mostly about keeping my girlfriend happy.

Which is why I do most things 😃

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What do we find unfathomable that our grand kids will think is normal?

Hi Nostr

Any advice on buying a water filter?

My lady wants one but I’ve got no clue. Is there even a point to it?

It’s for use in Portugal

To a casual observer it would appear like western corpos are totally retarded, but all this nonsense has one effect - China profits.

It's the same with the entire ESG/green regs in the west - production of basic goods becomes whoefully more expensive thanks to climat nazis and who profits in the end? Those who bring in containers with everything and anything from China.

It's deliberate.

Command economy.

Must remember that.

China was a prototype methinks.

Being pushed to production as we speak.

I know that the Dylan Mulvaney/Bud Light thing was a nothing-burger for most people ( a lot of people reckon it's a piss beer anyway), and for others it was a line in the sand, but the key take away here isn't anything to do with the culture war shit, it's the creepy ESG stuff.

I'm sure you all know now that there is this thing called an 'ESG' score, and companies that do woke shit and climate shit get more access to the money printers, simple as that.

Anheuser-Busch was willing to risk upsetting their customers in order to get closer to the money spigot.

Is that capitalism?

No.

So why are so many people saying things like "capitalism is the problem" and embracing radical socialism, when we clearly don't even have capitalism.

Because it's the old switcheroo. A linguistic sleight of hand.

We don't have capitalism, and yet again and again it's driven into peoples heads that it's the enemy.

They do the same sort of linguistic-linguini with 'Bitcoin' terms.

Bitcoin , crypto, blockchain.

They are interchangeable in the publics mind, there is no difference between them, and the public rarely questions the difference.

It's the same thing with 'capitalism' even though given the degree of centralisation, the system that we live under today is more akin to socialism to begin with.

The money printers decide what the companies do, the allocate resources as they see fit, not the individual.

I have Mulvaney to thank for putting that into sharp relief.

Capitalism = monopoly man bad.

(So don't look behind the curtain).

#Capitalism

#Socialism

#DylanMulvaney

#BudLight

#Beer

#AnheuserBusch

I hear you.

I also think that operation covid damaged our mental health far more than we like to admit.

- Individually, in testing us to near breaking point, even if we avoided the jabs and saw through the propaganda, the drama still took it's toll on us and left us drained. Which means difficulty in maintaining healthy right brain big picture thinking, difficulty in stepping outside the comfort of the overton window, difficulty in taking action needed to break out of the fear paralysis... we're doing it, but it's hard.

- Collectively, in setting up a mass formation psychosis that has never really been undone, the root fears planted in the lead up to and at the start of operation covid, never really uprooted or reversed, so people still jump in large numbers in whatever direction they're nudged, yes 'the current thing' is a test whistle, but there are many micro nudges that don't make the memes. We call them out in the hope of waking people up, but I think there's a whole critical mass of people that just see them as normal, as witty ways of expressing and reinforcing what they've been given to believe. So you show them a meme of someone with multiple needles in them, to us that's like "hey you keep jabbing yourself for nothing just to obey your government, you silly sheep" and to them it's like "hey, that's me, I'm taking those jabs and doing my part, badge of honour". Same meme, completely different impact. I wonder if people see our money printer memes, and we think 'look at that worthless inflatable fiat' and they think 'well it's good they can keep printing money because we all could do with a little more'.

We know with individual trauma that it can be years before we feel confident to confront what actually happened. I was carjacked downtown in a 'global south capital city' years back, terrifying in that I thought I was going to die alone in the car, but eventually escaped by reckless driving against traffic, on pure adrenaline. I overcame the immediate trauma in seven days, going back to the same spot, the whole 'get back on your horse' thing... and it shifted the immediate fear. However, almost fifteen years later, I realised there were still residual PTSD impacts that I hadn't fully processed. It didn't take long to address that, but I was surprised by how the residiual effects stayed hidden for so long, manifesting in ADHD like behaviours - hypervigilence, distraction, forgetfulness, exhaustion and so on.

What I'm saying is, it's not enough to dismiss the majority of people as dumb, intelligence is a distribution curve but we've got a traumatized population that is now easily manipulated, and the clown show *is* the active manipulation. Getting us out of trauma is the road to greater recovery... otherwise, it will be a painful reset, and perhaps a couple of generations until this has played out. Our generation may already be lost... the next generation may contain a seed with enough resilience... and only in the third generation do they throw off the weakness of their traumatized ancestors and forcefully take hold of their destinies again.

Well, it looks like your dark mood was contagious brother.

☕

GM Nostr. I'm in a dark mood this morning.

In the US, we're staring down an presidential election where, on one hand, we have a deranged old man who can't even read a teleprompter and, on the other, a totally spoiled psychopath who thinks he's entitled to whatever he wants. The thing is, the actually agree on 99% of things behind closed doors. Keep the status quo going, keep their friends in power, take more freedom from the people.

In Europe, a union born from the horrors of two great world wars, they've been shockingly quick to forget that oppression and war always comes after you try and control speech, control flows of people and money, and force conformity. You're not "looking after the downtrodden", you're destroying the human spirit.

I never thought it could or would get to this level of state psychosis in my lifetime. I thought maybe the covid shit show might have been a turning point. A gaze into a dark abyss from which we'd recoil and start making the necessary changes. But it's clear that isn't the case. The political class continues to double down on limiting freedom, destroying livelihoods, and crushing dreams.

I really truly hope, for my kids generation, that we manage to unfuck this situation without another world war.

I'm unfortunately getting less and less optimistic about that.

Ukraine were told that if they gave up their weapons, many years ago, which they did, that they would have the backing of the West, if they got in to diffs. Not saying that's necessarily right, but it is important context.

Wife turns to me and says : "What's the story with the Dali Lama, didn't he lick a little fella?"