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Decentralization is the key to everything.

The mistaken belief you're doing something good for the environment is powerful.

The possibility that Trump won because of a squirrel makes me chuckle.

Sorry Microsoft board, your recommendation is overruled. We the shareholders want you to invest in #bitcoin. Everything else gets debased. 🚀

Replying to Avatar SwBratcher

Missouri voters will decide on Amendment 7, a constitutional amendment recommended by our current legislators, on November 5. This amendment is presented as a measure to ensure only citizens can vote. However, it also includes a ban on ranked choice voting.

While the idea of limiting voting to citizens seems straightforward, the bundled ban on ranked choice voting complicates things. If we decide we don’t want ranked choice voting in the future, we could simply avoid adopting it rather than blocking it outright. Restricting our options now could limit our ability to adapt to future needs.

Ranked choice voting has significant potential benefits. It reduces the influence of large campaign funds, loosens the media’s grip on candidate selection, and allows voters to not vote for candidates they disagree with outright, and rank their acceptable candidate choices in order of preference, preventing the feeling of “wasting” a vote on a less popular candidate, and . It encourages a more diverse field of candidates, and often leads to outcomes that reflect the broader preferences of the community, rather than pushing us to choose between two polarized options.

I can see it at the federal level, but I t’s surprising that our state level legislators recommended this amendment, as it appears to protect the two-party system and discouraging a shift toward community alignment. Instead of a direct vote on the idea that only citizens should vote, ranked choice voting is quietly prohibited in the same amendment. If ranked choice voting truly has issues, it should stand or fall on its own merits, not be tied to an unrelated and popular proposal.

Let’s vote “No” on this bundled amendment. Later, we can address the issue of citizen-only voting as its own, clear proposal. Unbundling such distinct issues is crucial to fair and transparent lawmaking, ensuring decisions that shape our state’s foundation are well-considered and appropriately separate.

Bundling things like this is so frustrating, but brilliant if you want to pass something unpopular. 😡

If the volcano is active, hike to the lava flow at night. Also, scope out the beaches in advance because there aren't as many you might expect on the Big Island (it's more rugged).

Voting is often a false choice, but sometimes politicians hire good people. If RFK Jr is given the power to reform the US public health agencies, meaningful change is possible.

The CDC, FDA, NIH, USDA, etc still wield enormous influence over society. Even if you personally ignore them, you still end up paying (indirectly) for the poor health outcomes of all the normies who still follow their guidance.

Maybe #bitcoin can fix this, but for the foreseeable future, scientific research will be funded with dollars. RFK Jr has pledged to root out the corruption and I can't find a reason to doubt him after decades of proof of work.

#vote #MAHA #election #science #health

Take a moment and examine the thoughts in your head. Are they really your thoughts, or a mashup of what you've been told? Do you actually agree with those thoughts or did you outsource your thinking?

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Cancer's primary fuel is glucose.

It loves it so much that when oncologists want to find where the cancer is in someone's body, they inject them with a glucose solution, and watch where it goes, because the cancer cells suck it all up and devour it!

Yet cancer patients are still told to eat all the carbohydrates they want, which ALL break down into glucose in the body.

Do you see the problem here?

Amazingly, oncologists I've talked to have never heard of the Warburg effect. It boggles my mind.

The smartest, most educated people are often the most resistant to the idea they can be influenced by propaganda. In my experience, most can't even recognize it.