Comte de Sats Germain

Immortal pleb.

Turn on dark mode, ffs.

I found the philosopher's stone. Its an ongoing act of recreation, a product of the hope for immortality and renewal of Truth.

Truth is really the crux of the matter. All questions and all moments in life can be simplified to the question of your relationship with truth. Do you appreciate the magnitude of what you don't know, or do you think you know things? That's humility vs pride, respectively.

Its not possible for you to know the complete truth. You think you know causes and effects, but you've never seen a cause. Knowledge can only approach truth asymptotically - no matter how much you think you know, the complete truth is always hidden, and you are always infinitely far from truth. Thus, the only way for anyone to know Truth is if Truth itself reaches across that abyss and draws you in.

Bitcoin is a truth machine. It still is not a cause, but by being a self referential language of truth, it points to the cause. The map is not the territory. The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon.

But the most important thing on earth right now is to keep that finger pointing, let everyone see the map, and imprint it on the human soul for a million years. Bitcoin is the best map ever made, harmonizing the external and internal, drawing us forward into the ecstacy of the knowledge of the real.

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2024-09-17 20:22:40

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I'd buy

2024-09-16 18:32:02

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Where is this fabulous patriarchy? Seems like a nice place to live, if I could find it

2024-09-16 18:29:01

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mmm boobies

2024-09-16 18:25:46

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Now that's interesting...

2024-09-08 20:30:25

If the British had known that the destruction of the Austro-Hungarian empire would result in the creation of the EU super state, do you think they would have done it?
The Austrian empire asked for peace in WW1 multiple times. The British refused because they wanted to partition the rival empire.

2024-09-06 22:38:34

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Also temptation... If I could totally isolate, I think it would be easier. But there's always people eating around me! 😮

2024-09-06 22:26:43

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I don't think the kosher rules are necessary anymore. They had to do/don't do certain behaviors to get into a spiritual state. A lot of philosophers have been totally vegan, for example, in a lot of different cultures - like abstinence makes the spirit more accessible. Fasting seems to, for sure. Idk... I'm feeling imposter syndrome now... I'm not good at abstinence and I've only barely begun to understand spiritual things... And for that matter, I suspect that anything less than full knowledge is equivalent to complete ignorance. Hungry now... Want meat...

2024-09-06 19:19:32

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That's amazing. I think you've been invited in...

2024-09-06 19:14:53

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Was it bread and wine?

2024-09-06 18:49:32

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Or you exceeded some amount of obstinacy, beyond which God just says F it, I'll make it obvious. I suspect that's my case.

2024-09-06 18:24:11

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I love that it happened in Rome... Its kinda poetic in a way

2024-09-06 01:31:55

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What's needed is to bring back stone masonry, then shine colored lights on all the things.

2024-09-06 00:19:04

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Drifted back to Taoism or Christianity? My beliefs pretty much a mix of the two

2024-09-05 19:34:11

The reason Christianity faces such opposition is because its the only one of the big belief systems that doesn't teach resentment.
Islam and Buddhism, and I'd argue even Judaism, tell their adherents some version of "this is why life sucks, you should give up, withdraw, its pointless to try."
Christianity has some of that - Catholicism appears to have more embedded resentment than any of the protestant sects - but the common thread throughout all versions of Christianity is that you can and should overcome the "tests" in front of you.
Its the fact that Christians don't fall into despair that makes non-Christians hate them so much. If Christians would only break and fall down and give up - like them - then they'd be tolerable.
I don't even agree with most of what Christians say. Doesn't matter. Never break. Keep praying. Rebuild your churches. The attacks will never end, but neither will the little victories, where someone sees your faith and chooses to have that. Resentment is a stupid way to live.

2024-09-03 22:34:52

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Is that one in lower right a real place?

2024-09-03 22:24:52

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I'm really fond of renting motorcycles when I travel. No motorcycle license, though. I just kinda figured it out in the Philippines, highly recommend. I wonder of I can get away with doing that in Italy

2024-09-03 17:55:22

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My best stab at your ending questions are : I think the link between technology and consciousness are much deeper than the materialist assumption. Technology doesn't only come from ideas expressed in material form - they're an extension of our consciousness itself. I think the whole world, to some degree, in some way, is a product of our minds. The spooky action of quantum physics seems to support this.
IIRC the army that marched around Jericho had the ark with them. The ark did all sorts of cool things, but it seems like it was just a box made of wood (I want to say Cedar, but Acacia would make more sense) with some gold artwork on it. But the ark was a symbol, and everyone believed in its power or holiness, so in a way, it was technology. It was conscious intention stored up somehow like potential energy and it did work in the real world.
This fits with my theory about the Jews - that they were actually the entire priest class of Egypt. Or maybe the Levites were the priests themselves and the other tribes had something to do with organization. I have no support for this theory, and it could be formulated in a million ways, but that's just how it seems to me. They claimed they were in bondage in Egypt - "slave" is used, but that wasn't like slavery in the US was. In Egypt a slave paid 20℅ of their product to their master, but was otherwise mostly free. But a priest would equate worldly life with bondage, so it could have meant that, too. Now, if you look at the "King's chamber" in the great pyramid at Giza, there's a broken stone box that archaeologists claim held a sarcophagus. But its too short. It looks to me like it would hold the ark perfectly. I'd really like to go measure it... Bucket list. When the Jews left Egypt, the pharaoh was determined to stop them. People moved around a lot - a lot more people were nomads back then. I doubt the pharaoh got pissy every time some nomads crossed his land. He seemed too upset in the story, like he was losing the most valuable thing he had, maybe the source of his legitimacy. That would be the priests, the magicians. "Moses" is a very Egyptian name, and he was a priest. So Moses was taking the magic out of Egypt. And we see that magic at Jericho. We also see it on the cross. "Christ" is also an Egyptian name. Most people think its Greek, and it is, but not originally. The word comes from the Egyptian initiation ritual. I don't know what it meant to them, but it was used after the initiate passed the stage where they see Osiris' mummy.
For me, these things actually strengthen my belief in Jesus Christ, even though they aren't taught in church.
I forgot most of what I'm responding to, but I remember you said something about charity potentially causing companies to not want to hire Christians. I'd agree, if the Christian employee has a misunderstanding of what charity is. Its not necessarily selfless giving. In one sense, Christian charity means giving the benefit of the doubt and being civil, usually in conversation. And you can give away things and call it charity, but only if its not pity. And most importantly, selling things in a free exchange is also a form of charity - that's actually the easiest way to begin to see the unseen world. If its a free exchange, both sides would say they profited. The end result is a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Simply moving things around and getting paid for being a merchant is creating an increase in wellbeing in the world, so that's charity. The word got maligned after it got a legal meaning, which flattened it and made it a target.

2024-09-03 05:25:09

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Some kind of relay thing. My notes stopped doing weird stuff when I started using my own relay.
Also, did you stop believing the Jericho story? Seems plausible to me. But also seems plausible to be symbolic

2024-09-03 05:15:28

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Huh. I never read much significance in that. The Lord is with anyone he works through. He's probably with you right now.

2024-09-03 05:02:46

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Where?

2024-09-02 01:43:45

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No.

2024-09-01 23:01:08

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Actually, re reading what I wrote... I don't fully agree with it. Its just a start. The final goal of true freedom is worth fighting for

2024-09-01 22:59:25

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The state is barrelling straight into a disaster of its own making. Band together, yes, but I'd still prefer prudence. When the disaster hits, the state will be busy with too much to handle - we need to have a plan to renegotiate our arrangement with the state. There's already tons of ways to get out of taxes - that's the reason the federal tax code is literally 9k pages. We can find a place in that.

2024-09-01 22:44:00

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Then we'll need a formalized social contract, to legitimize the fighting back part. People generally don't fight back, even if it would be right to fight, so I think some kind of proactive legitimation is necessary.

2024-08-29 18:35:34

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Yeah, bitcoin definitely serves up a piece of humble pie... But that is the right message for people at a certain stage of life. I majored in econ in college, so I was sure I understood econ better than the people I was hearing about it from. The opportunity cost of my pride was in the ballpark of a few billion dollars - I had read the white paper and scoffed in 2009. I went around travelling instead.
Dying... Well, I didn't go to heaven. I was tortured. I didn't know it wasn't in this world. I was told quite a while later that I had died briefly, but I was already in a hospital so I guess they did their thing. The torturers appeared to be doctors, but the procedure was absurd and had nothing to do with my being there - they were drilling into my neck. This couldn't have been real because there was no reason to do that, and they would have had me under anesthesia if they did. And the time matches up. I thought it was real for a long time, and I couldn't compute it. Well, "real" has a complex meaning in this case.
Prior to that, I had only been kinda vaguely Christian, so more like a team player but without even enough understanding to claim to be Christian. And it still took years after that to start to take an interest. What really caused the change in me was seeing what China is like (good and bad, but mostly a pit of nihilism) and coming back to the US and seeing how much worse it got while I was gone, and hearing a few things Jesus said - knowing a tree by its fruits, and the truth will set you free. And then I took that vaccine, because I was still letting sin dictate my thinking - sin traps you in compromise. The way I see it is, its a wounded or diseased state of your spirit, where the wound specifically is a superimposition of ego, aggravated by ignorance. And this is why I formulate "faith" as knowledge * disciple (but I usually say motivation because its more positive). Anyways, after the vaccine, I got really sick. I couldn't breathe, got chest pains, blood pressure went up to heart attack zone, and my heart started doing weird things, like beating extremely slowly (caught it at 30 BPM on my finger device, which was after moving to put it on), or other times beating extremely fast for no reason. That's how I woke up this morning, btw. So one night, I was laying there absolutely convinced I was about to die, in pain, terrified out of my mind, and I prayed... And this is the part that feels really personal, so I'll skip to results - I started getting better. I still have problems, like the weirdness with my heart this morning, but that was the moment that things changed.
I don't even remember what I'm responding to. Thanks for reading my book, lol. Oh! I also wanted to say that there's an irony in seeing team Christians as hypocrites. You have to realize that if you claim to be a Christian, you're going to be a hypocrite, no matter how much you try to live up to it. So, I've been a hypocrite in pointing at team Christians, while I'm also imperfect. But I still am annoyed with them, so I just have to live with it.

2024-08-29 07:21:27

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I'm convinced that the left here in the US is planning a genocide on Caucasians.

2024-08-29 03:30:46

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Could a mis-sync be detected by a client? We could fix this...

2024-08-29 01:35:35

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Exactly! Or some corporation name.

2024-08-28 22:35:56

Including proper nouns in autocorrect should be seen as a crime against humanity.
OK, I'm not serious, cuz fuck censorship, but fuck whatever jackass put proper nouns in there too.

2024-08-28 22:23:06

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Its on Nakamoto Institute (website)

2024-08-28 13:47:11

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I've heard a lot of bitcoiners have become Christians, but I don't see regular denominations gaining traction with this community. I think the reason is that regular denominations are too dogmatic, too unthinking - IMO, 99% of Christians are only on "team Christianity" and have no understanding, and these are ones that are loudest and have bots comment on social media. They don't engage in conversation at all, I think because they can't - the humans have no understanding and the bots are bots. So where there is conversation, its people on their own path, and isn't influenced much by people on team Christianity. I've seen one conversation here where it looked like team Christians showed up to try to chase away the independent thinker. Their idea of logic was shockingly bad... It could only be a product of an environment that discourages thinking.
I am a Christian myself - my path involved struggle, dying, depression, traveling, returning to see social insanity and indoctrination that skipped me because I was gone, almost dying again, bitcoin, and arguments with idiotic Orthodox priests who clearly disregard what Jesus actually said. I'm a part of Christ's church despite team Christians, not because of them.

2024-08-27 20:46:37

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American spelling makes more sense phonetically anyways. Queue angry Bri-ish horde 😅
Yeah, France is a shithole. We should have melted their stupid statue and made cannons to invade them.

2024-08-27 06:51:55

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Are you mad because you really really reallllly wanted to call someone a Nazi, and you feel like the opportunity has been preemptively taken away from you?

2024-08-27 00:40:14

Sadly, I must conclude that ~half of all notes by about the Bible, or similar comments on other platforms, are actually posted by bots.
"Half" might be too charitable.

2024-08-27 00:07:24

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It was originally for Gorbachev

2024-08-26 06:40:38

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I love humidity... Maybe I should go to Singapore

2024-08-26 06:24:15

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I didn't know that was the name or the history. I've seen demonstrations on YouTube, lol. Yeah I found the urim thummim thing recently too, because I wanted to make sure I wasn't about to break some rules. And it looks like Christians really should be careful around divination stuff. The explanations seemed wrong, though - online stuff was saying it's somehow wrong to try to know the future, and I can't figure out why that would be the case - I think a better reason is that you could make it into an idol if you actually believe something mystical is going on. Tarot can't tell the future, it can only help you figure things out by drawing out the analysis and letting you do pattern recognition. That's how I see it, anyways. I like the spooky woo woo, but only as a game. I intend to find out, though.

2024-08-25 23:45:41

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The question was not meant to antagonize you, but I'm going to have to assume you are lying if you only avoid the question.

2024-08-25 23:03:05

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Probably my blood pressure then, which was my top suspicion. Caffeine, too. I barely drink - which is weird cuz I like making wine. I just forget to drink it.

2024-08-25 22:39:37

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Did you figure out how to stop tinnitus? I've had terrible tinnitus since the vax

2024-08-25 22:26:43

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Type 2? You look thin...

2024-08-25 22:23:55

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Chips are probably the worst food of all. I used to go through a bag a day...

2024-08-25 03:02:13

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Sugar

2024-08-25 01:04:17

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Why did you say the Gutenberg press was used for the Catholic church? I just read the Wikipedia page trying to find that and found nothing

2024-08-24 18:15:22

In tarot, there are 22 major arcana. The first major is "the fool."
In computer sci, counting starts at zero. If you count to 21, you start at zero and do 22 ticks. Bitcoin is computer stuff.
Therefore, you're the fool if you're on zero.
Logic.

2024-08-24 16:04:21

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Idk, but digital estates is an interesting idea. I'd say there's a practical limit to how much people are willing to keep track of. But between bitcoin and nostr, there's probably infinite stuff that can be secured by just a few private keys between them.

2024-08-24 04:54:30

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No, that's not hate. He likes... something. Probably you. Which is weird, because I'd bet it wasn't easy getting that thing on him.

2024-08-24 04:36:06

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I think it was the first version of what some people want to be a genuine plague. BTW, I was probably the first non Chinese, non government person in the world to know about covid. In early spring of 2019 I was in China and a friend showed me a document saying they think the US was planning a biological attack on China.

2024-08-23 23:08:00

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We just had one!

2024-08-23 19:20:01

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We'll *make them* count!

2024-08-23 18:36:44

I wanna go viking. Let's grab our axes and shields and go find adventure.

2024-08-23 18:35:29

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True science is a lonely pursuit. Requiring "peer review" is a corruption.

2024-08-21 23:51:41

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Its interesting to hear these concepts through a different language. I think we're saying the same things, at least mostly. We're vibing.

2024-08-21 23:17:20

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God is one AND composed of parts... Infinite parts, at will, higher and lower, inside and out.. Its fractal in all directions, including directions we can't think of.

2024-08-21 22:29:48

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I'm pretty sure I've seen both spellings - Arius and Aryans - for the religious thing

2024-08-21 22:28:08

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My head hurts.

2024-08-21 22:07:23

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Ah. Well, God is infinite, so anything that can be said about him is a form of a violation of the totality of God, since a definition is a limitation. God can peel off a piece of himself, of any size, and not reduce the magnitude of his infinitude... because infinite is boundless, unending, a fractal and multidimensional cornucopia of grace.
When Muslims declare "god is one!" they are setting a limitation on him, which is blasphemy if your version of God is a punisher. Same for when Catholics say that God is a Trinity. The closest to truthful definition I've heard of God comes from Buddhists, because they assert nothingness. Nothingness is at least boundless. But the best definition of the Spirit I've heard was in the Dao de Jing, where is uses koans to pin the meaning between negations, and say "from the one came the three, from the three came the ten thousand things." Or something like that.

2024-08-21 21:48:52

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I need to learn the programmer mindset. So ordered and organized and rational

2024-08-21 21:45:16

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The Aryans didn't assert the Jesus wasn't God. They just had a different understanding of what that means. The main issue between Arius and the Niceens was that the latter taught that Jesus is co-eternal with God, while Arius taught that God the Father created Jesus. This doesn't negate Jesus the Logos, the holy spirit of humanity and the world, there at the creation of man. Its just saying that this manifestation of God needn't have existed separately in any way from God at the "in the beginning" part of the story. Even describing it is really difficult and creates problems. Its like, if you have Christ in your heart, then you're part of Christ's body - well, that's a mangled way of saying you're part of God. You're a son of God, striving to live up to the ideal of The Son of God (paradoxically called the son of man), because a piece of God is adventuring through your story as you. And I think the Aryans disputed the sinlessness of Mary, which if true, would have compounded the church's hate for them.
So far, I really like Arius and his doctrine. I'm not committing to it, but its interesting. The early church actually had something like a crusade to the north to kill the Aryans, who had way more converts in the barabarians than the official church had. And the Orthodox still hates them! Its amazing.

2024-08-21 18:52:32

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Its literally illegal. A walking space doesn't jive with cars, and if there's not 3x the parking spaces than actual max occupancy, businesses get sued for some shit.

2024-08-21 18:33:22

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But also, I like to think that this time around we can do better. 3d printing, aquaponics, and bitcoin might be enough to colonize and terraform the solar system

2024-08-21 18:12:58

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No, but now that you mention it... Yeah maybe

2024-08-21 18:07:38

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And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
- bible. This has happened before.

2024-08-21 18:00:44

Thought 🤔 :
If global foreign exchange swaps are $14 trillion USD, and bitcoin has a higher return than any other asset, then all carry trades will get sucked into bitcoin.
That means the real present value of bitcoin - the entire supply - is $14 trillion USD. Right now.
What I'm talking about is what just happened in Japan. A 15 basis point rate hike crashed markets. Don't be fooled by the financial propaganda - it was not a decision by the central bank or government. Yield and price move inversely. When investors have less confidence in the usefulness of a bond, the want less of that debt, so the demand goes down and the price of the debt also goes down. The yield is just the difference between what you pay and what you get. So investors lost confidence in the Japanese economy, for whatever reason, at a magnitude worth 15 basis points, before the seller of the debt (the central bank) could do something about it - and the only thing they could do is sell less debt, or reduce supply enough to match the reduction in demand. Your econ teacher was telling the truth : everything really is supply and demand.
Built atop this price/yield mechanic is the carry trade. Basically, rich people print free money by borrowing the "weak" currency (yen) and depositing in a bank with "strong" currency for fat yields, then pay back what they borrowed and keep the free cash. Of course there's all sorts of things you can buy, with varying ROIs. This is why banksters obsess over sharp curves and stuff like that - they want to see the whole field of risk vs return, so they can maximize their mansions with the free money that comes from borrowing in one currency and lending in another.
You can probably detect my opinion of this - I hate it. This is the world built on debt, and the beginning of the growing fiat induced insanity. An asset being a store of value has a new meaning when you get to print free money, and you get to print free money because you're already rich. And when you can do this, then you have a strong incentive to lobby for new regulations that either increase government debt or decrease the supply of things like houses.
Now... Bitcoin. We know it here. I'll say it anyways - the price does not reflect the true value. Just given the way the carry trade works, never mind the million other reasons, bitcoin *must* absorb all of the value in the carry trade. $14 trillion of foreign exchange swaps *that we know of. Because it costs nothing to keep, returns higher than anything, so borrowing in anything to buy bitcoin is a better play than any foreign exchange swap.
So what happens to the national currencies? As demand shifts from buying bonds to holding bitcoin, the shift away accelerates, and yields have to rise to entice investors again. And this *should* be a huge benefit to savers, as banks will be able to offer yield on savings again. At this point, any decent economist will have to start doing "on one hand x, on the other hand y" thing. Savings ~= investment, so increasing yields could cause an economic boom, which some governments could leverage to get out of debt. The countries that do this will be the superpowers of the future. But there's a point where the debt is so large, that any boom causes deflation, which causes the real value of debt to explode faster than increased taxes can pay. Plus there's the problem of habituated indebtedness. I don't think they understand the meaning of balancing a budget... When we say it, they probably hear "wonk wonk wahhhnk wonk."
Okay, I didn't intend to write all this and I'm kinda mad that I did. But....
Who wants to bet that it will stop at $14 trillion?
#walloftext #masterclass #economics #finance #bitcoin #godcandle #holdontoyourbutts #yourenotbullishenough #ipromiseimstupid

2024-08-21 15:22:04

I'm predicting now the reemergence of piracy in the west. I mean, real piracy. Please keep copying files, btw.

2024-08-21 13:25:40

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2024-08-21 13:24:15

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Also can learn throat singing from the OGs

2024-08-21 02:31:58

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This is innuendo, isn't it?

2024-08-21 01:57:48

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Wood, clay, iron. I've been cut by glass and fuck glass.

2024-08-21 01:54:08

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When they finally understand, they'll also understand how much we care about them.

2024-08-21 01:49:49

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Take some good pics/video for us who arent

2024-08-21 01:45:54

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Agreed, and I'll add that its a way for emasculated men to pretend they do man work, thereby pacifying a part of the population that should be enraged.

2024-08-21 01:43:21

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Fuck communism.

2024-08-21 00:54:33

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Which words? Fuck communism. Those words?

2024-08-20 23:51:54

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Of course they do. Destruction is the point.

2024-08-20 23:45:25

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They give this poison to low income or single parents for free

2024-08-20 23:42:20

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Depends on the situation. That's mostly a private property issue - activities like mining can get away with environmental destruction because mining companies mostly lease land and mineral rights from a government, and return it when they've finished - thus, they destroy the land and life and the public is left with the bill of cleaning it up.
Full property rights would solve the issue. If they have to find a buyer to unload the asset, they'll be incentivized to treat it well.

2024-08-20 22:09:56

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I got to see this somewhat in China. A friend told me she prefers English for complex or abstract conversations because the words don't exist in Mandarin. But I know the words still exist in Taiwanese Mandarin.

2024-08-20 22:04:57

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What problem would require such a solution?

2024-08-20 21:03:17

State revenues should be 100℅ from sales taxes.
This would ensure that they never adopt policies which would reduce commerce.

2024-08-20 20:26:28

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Other way around

2024-08-20 20:24:34

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Most likely a Chinese mining operation - Chinese businesses are notorious in south Asia for skirting laws, and there's very high demand in China for bitcoin to escape capital controls

2024-08-20 20:17:39

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Oh yeah!

2024-08-20 20:07:57

Self, put this phone down, and lift that weight...

2024-08-20 19:56:07

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It does a lot of good... From a certain point of view. It legitimizes the state, spreads around the guilt of state crimes, ritually numbs the public, reduces nuanced issues into simpler points for easier managing, allows the state to control more people and territory, gives advanced warning to the oligarchy of upcoming rivals, and gives stupid people something to engage with.

2024-08-20 19:47:59

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Yeah. Well, politics is mostly about gate-keeping

2024-08-20 19:44:24

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I also asked it to contrast The Prince with St. Augustine's views, and that was interesting. Could be a foreshadow of the communism vs capitalism saga - Augustine writes about virtue and divine providence and Machiavelli writes about power and random fortune.

2024-08-20 19:39:25

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Not really a surprise - Catholic church gonna Catholic church.

2024-08-20 19:38:40

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Using that AI, so far the most illuminating version of the question was this :
"Was "the prince" banned? Why?"
Answer:
Yes, "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli was banned shortly after its publication. The main reasons for the ban include:
Threat to Catholic authority: The book was considered a direct challenge to Roman Catholic authority, as Machiavelli proposed that a prince should prioritize his own interests over church doctrine.
Conflict with Christian ethics: Machiavelli's advice often contradicted traditional Christian moral teachings, advocating for pragmatism over virtue.
Placement on the Index: In 1559, "The Prince" and all of Machiavelli's books were placed on the Catholic Church's "Index of Prohibited Books".
Perceived promotion of deception: The book suggested that politicians need not be truly moral, but only appear to be good and moral to the public.
Disregard for Christian morality: Machiavelli emphasized historical patterns and materialist views over divine intervention, which was problematic for religious authorities.
Fear of losing power: The Catholic Church, already challenged by the Protestant Reformation, feared losing more power and authority to other religious groups.
The ban was an attempt by the Church to preserve its doctrine and authority, as well as to suppress ideas that could potentially undermine its position in society and politics.
When I asked about courts, it gave a vague none answer

2024-08-20 19:23:12

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Its a good book. I'm curious what the AI says about the book's reception in courts and by Christians specifically.

2024-08-20 19:08:04

"Know thine enemy, but above all, know thy self."
I forgot where I heard this. Probably some game...
Let every morning be a descent from the sublime dream of the oneness outside the boundaries of here and now, into the bunker fortress of knowledge and planning. Become the ubermensch, wear the mantle of Christ, make sacrifice upon the altar of victory. Just as in the golden rule, make ready your mercy - mercy follows victory, not before, and failing to plan for victory is failing to deserve the mercy you yourself would extend.
I farted. Enuf airy fairy horse doodoo. Gym, then books.

2024-08-20 17:47:33

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That's a brilliant idea. Unfortunately for me, I need to get that license certification thingy, cuz without it its not legal to teach even at a private school. If you settle on a solution, let me know so i can join the team.

2024-08-20 17:38:03

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Yeah lol they didn't teach me that either. I got that word from Austrian economists and it became my favorite linguistic toy for a while.

2024-08-20 17:34:06

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Rigid isn't necessarily bad. What matters is praxis and curriculum. I used to teach... Praxis should always be about getting kids to actually do real things ; curriculum is what topics the teacher or school decides will definitely be in the class. I made all my own curricula, developed my own praxis. But that was overseas... when I came back to the US, I hit a Wall of Stupid - basically "u got loicense for that?" And to get that license, you conform to bad praxis and teach curriculum handed to you by the state. That's the real problem.

2024-08-20 16:19:48

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Assume zero ROI. If you want ROI, just stack sats. But it might make a cool conversation piece, so you might orange pill someone with it.

2024-08-20 16:17:22

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Talking seems to block the idea from coming into the real world.

2024-08-20 16:14:59

Learn from the Waco citadel. Appear to be something else.
#nevent1q…xdcq

2024-08-20 16:01:10

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People actually watch them?

2024-08-20 15:58:17

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The Olympics are often used in economics classes as case studies on how stadiums and big government spending ruins parts of cities. Crime and income disparity around stadiums go through the roof, tax receipts fall while expenditures rise - basically, they are so bad that their continued existence is proof of corruption. Of course they don't say that outright, but it's strongly implied.

2024-08-20 15:47:10

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That's an amazing lifestyle