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I ain't expert in British law but couldn't this police procedure be considered abusive?

Entrapment in British common law refers to a situation where law enforcement agents induce or persuade a person to commit a criminal offense that they otherwise would not have committed of their own free will. It aims to prevent abusive tactics where the state effectively "traps" someone into committing a crime.

Entrapment is generally treated as an **abuse of the court’s process** rather than a traditional defense. If proven, courts may exclude evidence obtained through entrapment or stay the prosecution entirely to preserve the integrity of the justice system.

One of the most dangerous mind viruses running rampant in our society is the notion of a “social contract”. You allegedly signed it when you were born, before you could understand its t’s and c’s and once you signed up, there was no opt out button. You can’t even challenge its legitimacy in court despite how ruthlessly laws or mandates based on it are executed. Why do we allow this Marxist world view to persist?

If a stablecoin issuer has to buy US treasuries to back the token, and has to report to the government, and can seize or shut down any account at the government's request, I don't see any fundamental difference between them and CBDC's.

After all, the Federal Reserve isn't a government agency any more than Tether is.

And one of the main reasons any of us got into Bitcoin was the limited supply, stablecoins are infinite.

No, there is zero tangible difference between a CBDC and a stablecoin.

But who will watch the V-Logs?

I really think memes are more powerful than people realize. Memes kept the Epstein bs relevant for many years. It is also a very powerful and fast way of educating lazy and retarded normies.

He was so happy on this weekends podcast 😂

Oh I agree. It was mostly a joke haha. I also don’t think Bitcoiners fit the rest of the criteria anyway 😂

I found a mental illness for Bitcoiners and anarchists

It’s already there

Aw, I like my church!

It’s weird.

I really feel similarly about sugar myself. I enjoy it sparingly, usually alongside a lot of fat, like a bagel with tons of cream cheese, or full fat organic ice cream. Or maybe a little simple chocolate syrup in whole milk. The sugar crash if I have, say, a donut for breakfast, is miserable for me.

So I agree that heuristic is useful

A monopoly cannot exist without coercive control; coercive control cannot be maintained without government.

Also open to the possibility that it truly is poison. But gut says this food, available for millennia and so attractive in both taste, color and smell to mammals, is unlikely to be poisonous except in chronic large doses or distorted, processed form.

Used to agree with that but not so sure now. People had clear (and yet false) explanations for how cholesterol causes heart disease. Maybe fructose isn’t the culprit but the reaction to it when not mitigated by cofactors in fresh fruit.

As odd as it sounds, I don’t like seeing ATHs and am ok with dips. My stack isn’t where I want it to be and I want more time to get it there 😁

And enjoy them I did!

Both of them were good movies to watch.

Daniel Day-Lewis was brilliant in both. Has a truly unique way of presenting his characters. One of a kind for sure.

But the political undertones in GoNY were super interesting for a politics nerd like me.

GoNY especially got me thinking about the issue of conscription more seriously as a political issue.

The war, based on what I've read, was supposed to be about freeing the slaves. But conscription itself is a form of enslavement, which defeats the entire purpose. All that death and destruction in the name of freeing the slaves while enslaving people in the process? I'm not sure this fact should be overlooked.

And considering that they also printed a lot of money during the time, increased taxes, created a new class division where if you paid a certain amount you can avoid being drafted, I think lessons can be learnt from this by people advocating for radical social changes and reforms.

I wonder if there was a better way. That's the question. I agree with the fact that slavery is illegal no matter what the legislated or custom-derived law says. But if the means pursued contradict the ends, then the whole movement opens itself up to scrutiny, and might end up causing problems down the line.

Interesting. I wonder how much fruit it would take to exceed fructose filtering capacity. Modern selectively bred fruit contains a lot of fructose.

Any take on why he and candace are shit-talkung each other? Almost seems scripted

Gonna watch it soon!

But I'm gonna watch Gangs of New York first, because I haven't watched that yet either 😬

Let's normalize not paying taxes.

Okay wow I was not familiar with Daniel Day-Lewis' acting

Idk if you know the reference from There Will Be Blood. IIRC the kid squatted on land that had oil under it, but Plainview the oil tycoon “drank it up” from his plot of land.

This goes beyond 'wrongthink' and potentially becomes 'dangerthink' 😂

I'm not a member of an Abrahamic religion so I'd like to understand this perspective. Any pointers?

How 😂

Found an interesting concept in property rights theory:

'Ad coelum doctrine:

Asserts that a landowner's rights extend not only to the surface of their land but also indefinitely upwards into the airspace above and downwards into the earth below, potentially to the center of the earth.'

If ownership is derived from homesteading/first-use, i.e. transformation of an unowned resource by mixing it with one's labour and making it an extension of their self, I don't think this can be valid.

I’m not exactly a chart guru, but we’ve barely been above the median so far this entire cycle. What does that tell you?

Shame on you TB