A patriarch would be less likely to be a coercive monopoly, since he would be strongly related to the people he was defending. Beats some wage earning bureaucrat- especially from out of state- any day. It has been part of the modern propaganda to paint the ancients with the same brush.

If we focus on incentives, we can get close to the real thing we want. If we follow modern propaganda, we will just get bureaucracies particularly adept at saying things like voluntary exchange while exploiting us.

This is similar to how America has ruined the terms free markets, or even freedom in general across the globe. For too long it has obviously meant do whatever the US gov wants. Few people get past this and into a principled understanding of any of this. Hoppe himself admitted that kings have incentives better aligned with the people than bureaucrats do.

We'd just rather not have kings, but the principles don't apply themselves. Someone must apply them- and in many cases apply them ruthlessly. We will see nothing like the society imagined in these scenarios without that someone. And that someone simply cannot be a bureaucrat. They are too misaligned- not only with humanity in general, but even with themselves. They can know, individually, that their hierarchy is going to ultimately destroy the institution they are inhabiting, but they will continue to obey and/or promote bad behavior because their bread is buttered by that hierarchy. They'll keep quiet and hope they get to retirement before everything breaks down.

A lot of "education" today is basically fraud. So a lot of the college debt thing can be solved if the colleges responsible for the fraud had to pay. Make it easy (perhaps even attractive) for the baristas with gender studies degrees to declare themselves victims of fraud.

To me, as always, the primary threat is coming from U.S. gov. Chinese hypocrisy may exist, but it's way down on the list of things to fix. Sure, it'd be nice if they produced receipts on the Fauci/covid connection. But them saving face isn't remotely as dangerous as what U.S. gov is doing.

I can only hope this is radicalizing Trump.

Get well Jack. Unless I missed it, I think you were too wore out to give us a deal of the day at the end there.

We do know. They offered to surrender before this.

The scam is in the scaring of the people. This is primarily about keeping nuclear energy from taking market share from 'fossil fuel' based companies.

I do wish someone would do a documentary on the clean up and rebuild in Japan, but I figure they want Americans to just continue to assume that these places are still just blasted out wastelands.

Anyone else got a message with a invoice which states that it was generated because of something someone else did? Appears to be from a paid relay.

Gov/corporate trolls filling global with aesthetically unpleasing stuff. Ultimately, though, I think it is a temporary lull. We'll figure out how to filter it out and centralized services will implement more dystopian features- resulting in more migrations here.

If bitcoin eats the world, ensuring continued access to the network will be more valuable than maintaining X number of bitcoin. It's deflationary, so purchasing power increases as number of coins go down. Can enough humans grok this? I hope so.

Need to create algo called "Finding the smart people."

It's the porn accounts someone is following. Global is pretty thick with it tonight but the same stuff was in network. Thought these accounts were new, and that no one would follow them, but apparently not.

It doesn't seem to work as well as you'd think. Maybe a little better than just straight global, but still enough junk to make me think, how is this getting in this feed?

Where is the secret market for incandescent light bulbs? #grownostr

Bullshit. Even the f'd up dictionaries where they pretend fetuses are a clump of cells- they are still alive.

it's murder.

This actor/writer strike- sure, probably the streaming services stiffed them. But, while they are doing this, well, my Mom hasn't watched American stuff for a while. She went for Asian stuff- mostly Korean, but she'll watch anything good.

So, how do we start feeding good stuff into the distribution channels? Hollywood can't write a good show to save it's life. The terms may be bad for them, but they haven't delivered anything good for a while. We could beat them. Probably, we'll just see more foreign stuff on our streaming services, but if we want good English language stuff, we need to figure out how to make and distribute it.

No one needs to be religous to see your statement is illogical. Anyone capable of constructing a game could.

Primal.net says its trying to connect me to my relays. Then I go looking for what my relays are and I don't see the setting. But I'm getting notes, just can't post.

Well X means Elon is going to do what he said he'd do. Also probably means more folks will migrate over here as it becomes obvious. Assuming enough people know the risk/benefits of each model.