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2024-06-27 12:33:30

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Nice. Is there a simple map of European countries and weapons banned for open or concealed carry in each place? I'd hate to get sentenced to decades in prison for carrying a stick deemed offensive (in a place where violent criminals are allowed to run free and cause chaos)

2024-06-19 16:24:45

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In all honesty, your remote setup sounds flawless as it is now. You still probably sound better than 99% of podcasters even if you half-assed it by JB standards.

2024-06-19 16:21:15

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"quiet vacationing"? CR575 mentioned that. Don't let your boss find out 😉😉

2024-06-19 15:51:31

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I'm afraid there's no cure for stupid. If you provably find it, I'll double down to fund it ;)

2024-06-17 15:15:38

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TDevD and Ver are political prisoners. I've seen no evidence against either one. Even the case against SW is super weak so far, but he's at least out of the cage for now.
Feds had 10 years to investigate Ver and give notice/negotiation, but instead they pull the big guns now, out of nowhere. TDevD they just disappeared Orwellian-style without due process.
I get strong Soviet vibes from these cases. Western governments still claim to be aligned against tyranny, with a straight face? Has legally protected liberty always been an illusion, with the masks coming off now?

2024-06-10 17:53:30

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When your BTC is up 2000%, then the 50% inflation of food in USD terms actually doesn't seem that bad.

2024-06-10 17:49:34

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Reminds me of a NY Fed comment in 2011 acknowledging higher food prices but noting that inflation is offset by better value in the tech sector. Cold comfort for those who can't afford the food itself, without getting to any discretionary spending. "I can't eat an iPad" was one noted retort.

2024-06-10 12:07:08

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Western civilization/culture has always been multi-ethnic, and that's not the cause of major strife, just as within the Islamic world. To remain desirable, the West should welcome from anywhere anyone who can make the West a better place, as it has done for centuries.
The West rather needs a better way to get rid of the hostile invaders who want to burn the place down or fundamentally eradicate Western values. Surrendering culture in the name of inclusiveness is just a flagrant own-goal, and certain Western societies have themselves primarily to blame.

2024-06-08 16:37:18

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It's a trap!

2024-06-07 13:54:55

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safe and effective ;)

2024-06-03 16:24:35

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technical difficulties...

2024-05-31 01:30:45

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My experience is similar. Not to single out Spain; a lot of those problems affect airlines of many Western places, at least in Europe and North America.

2024-05-30 20:21:01

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Better yet, try getting into a conversation with a mindless CSR drone who tries to convince you that SMS 2FA is the most secure option over other standards. Also, if your phone number ever gets put into a proprietary database of VoIP numbers, that somehow makes your whole account suspicious as a fraud risk, even though it's been OK for decades before. Of course, if you ask to speak with anyone there who has a clue about IT, or report actual bugs in their web apps, then that definitely makes you look suspicious. 🙄

2024-05-25 14:59:27

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Like Microsoft planting its own RATs and bragging about it.

2024-05-25 14:47:13

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How do they judge where users are? Self disclosure? IP addresses? App store settings?

2024-05-24 23:45:33

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Following in the footsteps of an uncle of future Vice President Joe Biden? 🤔

2024-05-17 12:09:00

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MT used to be a required skill just to rent a car in many places, but with the rise of EVs and other vehicles with various forms of automatic drive for no added cost to rent, MT is starting to wane even in much of Europe.

2024-05-16 11:37:01

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Does this signify the EU not having gone full commie yet? Hopefully liberty lovers can change things before it's too late.

2024-05-15 15:01:03

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When innovation is criminalized, only criminals will innovate?
Trouble is, everything's outlawed enough that everyone is committing crimes, and the crooked cops in charge selectively enforce the unjust laws simply to suit their current whims.
The world needs to clean house and starve the beasts.

2024-05-15 12:19:59

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Got to wonder who believes this week's NPR commentary (totally "fact-checked") that the only way to get BTC now is to exchange fiat for it, therefore it's backed by fiat 🤔🙄
Obviously this ignores Bitcoin decentralization, verifiability, proof of work, mining, etc. But it changes the narrative from being worthless, backed by nothing/blind speculation/greater-fool theory to being a proxy for dollars.
There's probably more of an agenda toward co-opting rather than suppressing, hence ETFs, KFC, arrests, etc. I'm curious about what the corporate/deep-state overlords are actually requesting behind the scenes.

2024-05-12 14:50:10

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I'll have to rethink this in my shopping list. I wonder if the emergency satellite links in new smartphones fare any better in similar circumstances.

2024-05-11 18:15:24

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Blind trust solves all problems, as shown consistently throughout history. Now drink your Kool-Aid, or else get shot. Exercise your free choice!

2024-05-06 01:24:07

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Building walls not to keep immigrants out but to keep emigrants in. Guess who pays for it... I thought Canada already had steep exit taxes on deemed dispositions of assets when people broke residency.
Canadians have had ample warning for this. Plenty of Canadian expats dot the globe saying SITYS to those who get stuck with this mess.

2024-05-02 18:50:50

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Well said. It's Also worth keeping in mind that liberty is always the goal. Bitcoin is just another tool to help attain that goal. As with any other means to secure liberty, it's never as easy as many people think at first. Freedom isn't free.

2024-05-02 16:22:36

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Going forward, more devs should be more anonymous and have better opsec, but this is still a valid concern for now. Maybe it's also effective to exploit rivalry between certain nation-states. But that all could just turn the devs into assets to be captured or killed in the shadows rather than tried in corrupted systems of so-called law and justice.
Ideally, governments should fear backlash of many individuals when treading on the rights of a few, but we seem far from that balance of power presently.

2024-04-26 11:54:02

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Is anyone buying those with real money?
Slower inflation is not the same as deflation.

2024-04-24 17:37:49

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Asthma? Obesity? Lots of trends continuing.

2024-04-24 17:35:04

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Isn't that still the case in Canada? At least people can travel for care if they can pay.

2024-04-24 13:04:01

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They now drive plug-in EVs, using batteries made from ingredients harvested using child/slave labor, storing electric energy generated by burning coal, etc. But they really try hard to sound like they care about ethics and claim moral superiority.

2024-04-24 12:37:47

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Referencing the $20T projection, the latest US "defense" spending authorizations were just a mere drop in the bucket at $95.3B in addition. With interest, it's probably in the 12 figures, but that's nothing among friends.
For posterity, this refers to Guy's Take on Read_816 of Bitcoin Audible, IIRC @nprofile…cma4
FWIW, El Dorado was supposed to be in South America.

2024-04-24 12:25:44

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Plug for Liberty Audible? Reboot powered by GAI (Swann)?

2024-04-24 12:06:42

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Then why not just "quantum-resistant" instead of -safe? As water-resistant is to waterproof?

2024-04-14 20:42:09

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part of a causal relationship 😉

2024-04-04 12:00:56

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To be fair, there are many similarities between the two places.

2024-04-04 11:58:53

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opt out

2024-04-03 00:29:45

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Imagine being an IT worker having to implement that ban. But when the US gov't leans on platforms to take down news, it's merely exercising it's own free-speech rights to protect Americans and to save Democracy!

2024-03-30 17:38:10

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but no one's asking about the tiger? 🤔

2024-03-30 12:06:29

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Gigi gives some (of many) examples of how this freedom was lost, quickly, by those who took freedom for granted. It's easier to defend the freedom you already enjoy than to win it back once it's been taken away. Don't get complacent! Guy's advice is spot-on in Read_811.

2024-03-29 22:23:14

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He's got "bitcoin" as in BSV. Maybe enough to buy a subsistence allowance of dog food.

2024-03-29 22:10:22

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Yep. Another way to look at it is where that $1 bought 1 million sats, and now it can only get 1400. Wonder how many people who took that advice then still hodl the same coin now, or if it all got lost/burnt/stolen/spent in the last 10 years.

2024-03-26 23:28:40

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Is that Toria Nuland under the cowl? 🤔🧐

2024-03-26 15:25:37

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For many American rats, that two weeks of vacation time may be the total for all working years.

2024-03-13 18:01:01

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That may be some legalese peculiar to Canada (NatPo should have provided more context for the rest of the anglophone world), but it seems all the more reasonable now to have such questions raised at judicial confirmation hearings in other countries. It shouldn't require a biologist to make such determinations in most court cases. In any event, case law like this must be hell to translate into certain other languages where no one thought to make the same distinctions.

2024-03-12 17:42:14

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Wow, I can relate. All the more respect for Adam Back through it all. It happens to the best of us. Yet one more lesson for the rest of the world to stay humble and stack sats 🤙🧡

2024-03-12 17:34:46

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Still sounds like the Fed is balanced on a knife's edge and could tip either way. Probably won't make much difference at this point, but hopefully markets don't throw a taper tantrum just from the status quo being maintained against weak expectations.

2024-03-12 01:25:08

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can't tax it yet, but that can change with more progress 😉

2024-03-08 18:37:03

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what time is "closing"?

2024-03-08 18:19:35

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déjà vu...a familiar pattern from 68 and 69

2024-03-03 17:55:56

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I like having the option to spend like this. LN BTC has saved my bacon when fiat rails fail, especially when traveling abroad.

2024-03-03 16:16:25

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Interesting to see the WEF stamp on this.

2024-02-29 12:21:06

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Wendy's now rebranding as Whammyburger

2024-02-29 11:34:25

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More importantly, the citizens will lose (even those who voted for any "winner")

2024-02-29 00:05:59

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It's tough enough just getting crabs these days.
#wholecoinenvy

2024-02-28 15:11:24

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XRP is also back to 58. Cents. He's right on the money!

2024-02-28 11:08:54

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These used to be easier to find in previous decades. Was it a "tax" or a "penalty"? This may be a result of regulation (CAFE) instead of taxation, but the net effect is the same.

2024-02-27 12:16:30

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Password managers help reveal shenanigans like this. I've been able to reproduce the one-off errors caused such annoying behavior on a couple of sites.

2024-02-27 12:10:18

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The tamales are out of this world!

2024-02-27 10:36:57

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Privacy for people; transparency for governments. People running governments often get this flipped.

2024-02-26 20:58:59

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Certified eco-friendly and safe to fly!

2024-02-26 20:54:37

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Mostly only in certain cities. From a safe distance, it's just a clown show. The Joker lives on!

2024-02-26 20:50:38

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Standard boilerplate, though. Just look at the risk disclosures in any of the spot ETFs, and you will likely find similar descriptions 👀

2024-02-26 20:16:55

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Hopefully all the BTC spot ETFs would hit their ATHs around the same time. If not, that would send quite the signal about the laggard funds.

2024-02-24 17:08:03

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Light is the head that wears that crown.

2024-02-23 21:48:55

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The timestamps are out of order. Must've happened during a recent service outage.

2024-02-23 21:33:12

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Luckily, they all turned out to be terrorists.
https://x.com/NakedGunTweets/status/1499077305288773633

2024-02-23 21:24:23

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Ease of taxation is probably at least why inflationary policies are favored. Then even if your hard assets appreciate, you probably pay tax on capital gains, or you borrow against the assets, and the lender pays tax on the interest collected.

2024-02-23 18:01:01

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Also, the term "billionaire" now means anyone with $100K. Good luck taking the IRS to court.

2024-02-22 22:15:50

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This turns out to be from 2016 right before the creator got banned from Twitter.

2024-02-22 20:29:40

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The emperor has no clothes? Also, the emperor has no clue. 😛

2024-02-22 13:55:41

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Should've used invisible ink instead. Trust the science!

2024-02-22 13:50:33

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Turns out that very few people in Japan IRL resemble cartoon depictions of them. This comes as a surprise to certain fanboys from abroad, particularly the ones who buy certain pillows.

2024-02-22 13:48:45

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Companies (including U-Haul) were practically paying random people to drive vehicles in a westward direction past a certain point. The pay wasn't that great, but if it was on your way, maybe it made sense.

2024-02-21 19:37:05

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fiat homes ... easier said than done, so just print fake money, blame property owners, and cash in on the outrage of people who don't see what's actually going on.

2024-02-21 19:34:06

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It's just beginning. Things can still get plenty worse from here.

2024-02-21 19:23:56

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Judging by his nick, maybe he was all in on TBC instead of BTC.

2024-02-21 17:35:01

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They hate us for our freedom! Oh, wait...

2024-02-21 17:32:42

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nice text rendering 🤙

2024-02-21 17:28:09

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Interesting. A lot of market distortions in American health insurance came from wartime price controls. Of course, lots of other factors messed up the rest of healthcare markets, often owing to government planning/corruption.

2024-02-21 17:10:20

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Careful, you may get taxed on imputed wages

2024-02-21 17:04:28

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plenty of other languages don't sugarcoat it, but that still doesn't discourage governments from getting greedy.

2024-02-21 16:49:32

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https://x.com/Wisdom_Of_Homer/status/883981412432523264

2024-02-21 16:16:09

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Psychrow!

2024-02-21 16:14:47

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Anyone's guess. I'm just tired of hearing TradFi folk begging for rate cuts again the last 4 months while food prices still climb at a steady clip. Things could get worse still.

2024-02-21 16:07:52

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No longer just for insurance salesmen!

2024-02-21 16:04:50

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What's old is new again. We'll just try harder and die trying again.

2024-02-21 00:05:18

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It's true. The deer there know how to tag-team humans who don't know better (speaking from my own similar experience)

2024-02-20 23:37:39

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Criminals setting the market value again. What bigger criminals than warmongering heads of state?

2024-02-20 23:35:10

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Interesting how nobody bats an eye at BoJo asking for 19 BTC as one option.

2024-02-20 11:49:55

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not to mention "advisors" who recommend those bonds for "safety"

2024-02-20 11:33:10

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I see a growing number of XMR advocates supporting a model of spend XMR + HODL BTC.

2024-02-20 11:27:48

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Yes. Same for countries under US-sponsored regime change / debt obligations.

2024-02-20 00:38:17

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Looks like the latest calculation of my YoY inflation rate. Seems it should be 17, but I end up getting 3.4, because that's what BLS says to believe. Off by a factor of 5? Don't believe your lying eyes! The economy is actually doing better than ever! Anyone who says otherwise needs re-education.

2024-02-19 15:24:17

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500% new flows!

2024-02-19 15:18:51

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long live the gerontocracy...?

2024-02-19 01:12:12

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A new human right is born!

2024-02-18 23:04:56

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Go back 15 years. Get a bunch of bitcoins. Stay anonymous.