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Jeff Swann
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Politics divides. Trade brings people together. Destroy political power & set trade free.

That is not at all what I am saying. But I think most people who think they have privacy would be completely fucked if they ended up in a situtation where they really needed it. Have a "smart tv" on your home network, all devices are known, you have no privacy, throw everything out & start over. Have an old apple device on your network or regularly in proximity to your "secure" devices, everything you use is now linked to you. Use any mainstream social media app? That's spyware which has completely doxxed you to all major institutions. Have stock firmware on your home router, you're probably fucked.

I absolutely think security should be treated as a process & that people should work towards eliminating every smart tv, & any other potential vulnerability from their lives, as they can afford to do so. Personally, my main goal is just to never move backwards. New phone has to run GrapheneOS. New computer, has to run linux. New router, has to run OpenWRT or a similar alternative.

Anonymity can be useful & is more likely to be maintained in isolated uses. IMO trying to be anonymous in an extended fashion on a day to day basis just gives up too much info to be sustainable. And I don't think it's particularly healthy to not just be you most of the time & to really get to know who YOU actually are.

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These are all great points on both sides imo. Enjoying the convo and it got me self-reflecting so here are my notes and stuff. Not about security btw

On the value of anonymity:

We all wear masks and hats. We take on identities and live those out in the world. You as a believer of freedom or bitcoin. You as a guy who wears his hat backwards.

Based on our environment, we also act and behave in different ways. We wear different ‘hats’ with our friends, with our family, with our co-workers. Kind of like a ven diagram we adapt to find commonality with others and that unique blend we define with each relationship + activity.

Personally I believe that everyone, even the people you think you hate the most has some center piece of the ven diagram that would be interesting to explore.

However, what if your circles never cross? You miss out on the opportunity to blend and learn. I think that’s where the beauty of play and putting on masks you wouldn’t ordinarily wear is so cool. It offers plasticity and creativity.

Children do this quite often. They play and put on different hats. They explore the world as firemen, avengers, mommy & daddy, etc. It’s an exercise in empathy and exploration of identity.

I think that experimentation offers something special that we get to participate in as cyber monkeys in this social network hivemind.

Throwing on and playing with identities. Experimentation free of the biological tribal hardwiring that would get you outcast and killed when we were hunters and gatherers. Stakes were much higher then, but our bodies and our hypothalamus still think it’s life or death.

Tldr: Play has value. Our biology hasn’t caught up to technology and that has consequences and for most people anonymity offers an opportunity to circumvent that bad wiring

I have no problem with anonymity. It is a very important freedom/option to have. Especially if you want unbiased answers from people in your tribe or in circles where you might not otherwise be welcome. I think being anonymous was one of the most important choices that Satoshi made, both for his own sake & for Bitcoin.

But I still don't think it's best for day to day life unless you're already so famous that no one would ever treat you normally otherwise.

Sure, and there is no reason that you can't continue to require full payment upfront, but there are inevitably going to be spam problems with new sellers making listings just to collect payments & disappear without shipping or producing anything. We need a way to create some sort of hedged risk transactions to keep both sides honest. Sellers need proof the money is on its way, & buyers need a way to prevent sellers from running off with the money and sending them nothing.

This is why we need 2 party escrow transactions for the retail layer. I never hear anyone talking about this, but as someone who sells random stuff online from time to time, it's a real problem. No one wants to buy unless they are local & can do a face to face exchange.

#Bitcoin #Lightning #layer2 #Liquid

We need wallets with trustless escrow capabilities

In the case of polio it's very clear that lead arsenic pesticide was the cause, & the rollout of the vaccine came long after cases dropped off in order to make money selling a "solution" & hide the liability of companies that had poisoned & crippled people.

While there does seem to be some evidence (assuming it's not faked) that vaccines can reduce the diseases they were designed to prevent, they also very clearly reduce the overall health of the vaccinated. The adjuvants cause chronic inflammation, auto immune issues, food allergies, etc. The kids I know who have never been vaxxed have also never had any ear infections or eczema or any of the common health issues most kids have.

Imagine still thinking any of this was the result of honest mistakes.

A virus was created with US tax dollars in a joint effort with the Chinese govt, it was released to steal the US election & provide cover for China to violently crush Hong Kong fueled uprisings. Trillions of dollars were created & funneled to special interests & corporate cronies, small business competitors were shut down, people were forced out of work, millions were killed by remdesivir & hospitals were paid for every execution, & decades of chronic illness were inflicted on people in order to increase dependence & the amount of wealth that pharma corps can extract going forward.

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Fast food being the poison it is, this is probably true. Wrecks your hormones makes you a soyboy.

Cancer feeds on sugar. Bananas are basically all sugar. I call bullshit.

A zero carb high fat diet is the first step in cancer prevention or reduction, extreme extended fasts can be used to fight cancer, and cycling on & off of a glutamine inhibitor if extreme fasting & carb elimination aren't enough.

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The sort of mental connection I'm looking for can't be faked. No one can pretend to understand the things I talk about well enough to actually engage & enjoy my company & enjoy a relationship with me with any of the depth I want of they don't really mean it. Meaningless sex is a complete waste of time & energy & is just a good way to wind up feeling empty & stupid.