Last Notes
But who will arbitrate disputes?
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Their Accountants Told Them They Were Going Broke
In April 1966, the London firm Bryce, Hammer, Isherwood & Co. delivered a report to the biggest band on the planet. The verdict: "Two of you are close to being bankrupt, and the other two could soon be.
Harrison put it more plainly in his autobiography. "'Taxman' was when I first realised that even though we had started earning money, we were actually giving most of it away in taxes."
Nineteen Shillings Out of Every Twenty
Harold Wilson's Labour government had layered a supertax on top of income tax that hit the highest earners at 95 per cent. Twenty shillings made a pound, so the top bracket took nineteen and left one.
That arithmetic is the entire first verse. "Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me." Harrison closes the verse with "Should five per cent appear too small, be thankful I don't take it all.
A Year Earlier the Same Prime Minister Had Pinned Medals on Them
In June 1965 Wilson nominated all four Beatles as Members of the Order of the British Empire, an award no pop musician had received before. The official reason was economic: their 1964 breakthrough had built an export market for British music where none existed, and it pulled tourism, fashion and film along with it.
Beatles biographer Ian MacDonald read the situation exactly right. The money the band handed to the Treasury was the price of the medals.
Listen to How the Record Actually Starts
Harrison coughs, then counts the band in himself, in what biographer Jonathan Gould calls a "grim, miserly voice." Three years earlier the Beatles had opened their first album with a shouted "One, two, three, four!" on "I Saw Her Standing There." Now the count-in is dragged, sour, and cut off before it finishes.
Gould hears self-mockery in it. In three years the band's attention had travelled from the dance floor to the counting house.
The Villain Was Written as a Comic-Book Character
Steve Turner traced the riff's inspiration to Neal Hefti's theme for the Batman television series, the pop-art sensation of 1966. That is why the band yells "Taxman!" right before the solo, the way a cartoon announces its arrival. Here comes the hero whose superpower is taking nineteen shillings out of every twenty.
Harrison Never Let the Song Age
He first played it live in 1991, twenty-five years after recording it, and introduced it onstage as "a very old song written in 1873," deadpanning that the grievance was Victorian and he had merely inherited it. He swapped the politicians for John Major, George Bush and Boris Yeltsin, worked in a verse about VAT, and added two new lines: "If you wipe your feet, I'll tax the mat. If you're overweight, I'll tax your fat.
His explanation was one sentence. "There's always a taxman."
Sixty Years Later the Complaint Still Holds
In 2019 the trade publication Tax Journal, debating whether Britain should bring supertax back, looked at what Wilson had done to the top bracket and sided with Harrison. The rate, they wrote, "wasn't a fair progressive system. It was outright theft.
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Brutal right? Something was reveal about the nature of the power dynamics of Nodes and miners and Luke's take away was "But MY altcoin will work." No brother, that doesn't solve the problem.
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I'm telling you, Europe is gonna save Trumps ass and then Trump will take all the credit for it like he always does 😆
What things did you change your mind about in the past years?
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You cannot fight the incentives.
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Cheers ❤️
It's good for everybody to publicly work out expressing abstractions in a clear fashion
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That was quick. Hopefully that dude post an update on the rest of the wallets.
Both nightshades and full of nicotine. Cool!
It's your fault if you get influenced by random people online. It's my opinion as a nostr influencer.
Whitenoise going to be a nostr messaging gateway for agents 👀
A large chunk of society has severe goal metric substitution with money. Any scheme to solve problems that starts with the application of money or measures success in money raised or spent is a victim of this mentality.
Don't ask how much was spent or raised helping the homeless. Ask how many meals or nights in beds were provided.
The same rules apply to any minimum income subsidy or welfare. The same rules apply to your life and budget. The assets are the real goal so the assets need to be your real measure.
This reminds me of medieval times where the trainer would lose on purpose to let the noble think he was better then he actually was.
Looks like the address set to a Random account number got stolen too if I'm reading mempool correctly.
PV and GM plebs! Happy Monday, make it a great week! #plebchain #coffeechain
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Flight cancelled due to bad parenting.
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Its the "the supply cap is already priced in" thing.
Since the consensus right now is a 21M cap, everybody must act as if there are ALREADY 21M. just some coins haven't been "unlocked" yet.
And since monero tail emission never ends, I guess we pretend that right now there are infinite coins? Despite the fact the number of coins is knowable at any time, just like Bitcoin?
Seems to make sense to them....
They do have free versions to try 👀
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I might end up with a solar system in my office 😂
This is way easier for flat earthers.
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Call it in
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It's like 20 feet in the air. I'm not getting on that ladder for a close range attack
Too bad I don't have a safe enough area to shoot that high of an angle. Otherwise I'd be https://idiotbox.blossom.band/d69371613c24f855a771a811caefeefe19fac44c05bc98af3d81bfccae7674c1.mp4
It does exist, but probably not supported through whatever provider you’re using.
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On the tiniest of branches. Above my goat pen. I swear it just appeared like overnight. I must've just missed it 🥲
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With enough cursing I've gotten Gemini to swear back.
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This is cool, they already have feeders with cameras built in. I wonder if you could combine the two somehow.
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I don't think there are many BIP 110 people that want POW change. I include myself in that category.
And excuse me
But people who conflate "infinite supply" and tail inflation have no business explaining blockchain to other people
Agents just leave one bug in everything they do so you use more tokens to fix that bug.
But then I can't ever leave my property, use my phone, watch TV, or use the internet, check my mail, or in some places I've lived even look out the window.
To escape without violating what you consider to be their rights, I'd have to live a life that would make the Amish look like outgoing technology lovers.
Android app. Create a chore, give it a time interval. It has a dashboard of all chores showing what's due soon due now or overdue.
I know to roll back when the clanker apologises 😂
Yes of course.
It's not "destroyed" it's regulatory capture.
Which they can't do with Monero
Best they can do is keep people from using the chain.
Which is of course a legitimate threat.