Marakesh 𓅦

Christ Follower • Truth Seeker • Freedom Lover

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2025-05-18 23:16:40

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😬

2025-05-16 14:28:53

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Yea verily. But 1 trillion satoshis were paid for that Bitcoin pizza, or about $1,038,200,000 in today's dollars.

2025-05-15 13:35:21

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If I were the pope I'd renounce US citizenship. He's the head of state of the Vatican.

2025-05-15 13:23:21

### The U.S. Government to Now Tax the Pope... ###
> "The U.S. has the world’s most aggressive and obnoxious system of extraterritorial taxation."
https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/the-pope-vs-the-irs/#:~:text=The%20U.S.%20has%20the%20world%E2%80%99s%20most%20aggressive%20and%20obnoxious%20system%20of%20extraterritorial%20taxation.

2025-05-12 19:54:47

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Are you saying they REALLY won't come after you if you don't pay income taxes?

2025-05-08 12:38:13

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Yeah, we Christians have seen far worse mockery of our Lord and Savior, so our tolerance for offense quite high, in general.

2025-05-08 00:25:33

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> “Did God *really* say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2025-05-06 22:03:36

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Theft is surreptitious. Taxation is more like robbery. Inflation, which is a hidden tax, is theft.

2025-05-06 21:32:34

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Let me ask some Catholic nostriches I know: @nprofile…9mdk and @nprofile…jha6 what did y'all think of the Pope Donald the First pic?

2025-05-06 20:57:28

> "The majority of people throughout history have accepted the idea that it was both proper and necessary for some men to coercively rule over others. Most of these people weren't basically bad, and probably only a few of them have had a lust for power. But they have held a terribly wrong idea which has caused them to support a social system that institutionalizes slavery and violence. It is this idea that it is proper and/or necessary for some men to coercively govern others, which is the idea of government-that has prevented the establishment of a laissez-faire society and which has been responsible for incalculable human suffering and waste in the form of political and religious persecutions, taxes, regulations, conscription, slavery, wars, despotisms, etc., etc."
–Morris and Linda Tannehill, *The Market for Liberty*, (1970), p. 29.

2025-05-05 21:37:32

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If you purchase a vehicle do you not have the right to operate it? especially on your own property? I think the reason they say you don't have a RIGHT to drive is because the roads are "public" and therefore the government makes the rules about that...

2025-05-05 21:32:24

I just started a chachi.chat group called "Bible Study Q & A" as a place to explore passages and topics and questions about the Bible. Feel free to join or ask questions or post!
https://chachi.chat/groups.0xchat.com/trnmtuRK4nRdoxbr
#naddr1qq…m9k9
https://image.nostr.build/dd09a02c716bcb389e1573f07494bee52880e081f5949219a04815885a8f5dc9.jpg

2025-05-05 08:06:49

https://image.nostr.build/92a7d320f0f301ce9c575b8e404cc65020c4f228e58626091c2f083a7b60f3eb.jpg
#nevent1q…5649 #MakeAmericaFreeAgain

2025-05-05 03:22:38

A fourth, unelected branch of government called "bureaucracy" and the "Administrative State" took over and gradually ensnared the people...
#nevent1q…6cax

2025-05-04 13:44:46

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Don't blame Christ for what Antichrist did.

2025-05-03 20:30:01

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It's not Nostr-based, though, is it?

2025-05-03 16:16:45

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Oh, that figures. Been meaning to watch that sometime. Thanks for the endorsement! 👍

2025-05-03 16:10:17

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What movie is that?

2025-05-03 16:07:07

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Some have said the late 1800s to early 1900s was when Western civilization reached it's cultural apex and that we have been in decline ever since.
Just look at old photos of people out in public all dressed up in hats and suits and dresses vs. the pajamas and yoga pants and sweats, etc. that people wear when they go out today.

2025-05-02 14:20:01

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You mean you don't do social media BESIDES Nostr?

2025-05-02 13:50:00

Politics aside, that one man can decide on behalf of over 340 million Americans is absurd, and I'm not talking about Trump. Trump was at least elected, for what that's worth, and was the choice of millions of people to pursue many of the policies he's pursuing. But here we have single individuals, not elected by anyone, but rather selected by partisan politicians, enforcing their political preferences on everyone else.
https://fountain.fm/episode/aLP5Xs0lNZdTGoS455OS

2025-05-02 12:09:29

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Right. I believe the anarchist position would be no state, and hence no state intervention/anti-trust regulations. If crApple violates anyone's natural rights, one should have recourse to a truly independent, non-state arbitrator/court.

2025-04-29 14:22:43

This was a good interview! I listened to it twice. She defines who "They" are, and their plans to run your life, if not make sure that you are killed off while they escape and achieve immortality. It's pretty sci-fi, if you're into that.
https://fountain.fm/episode/uvzTf0xNTTDOPl293QzW

2025-04-29 06:34:55

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Not specifically, though she does mention how that digital currencies are part of the control grid the bankers are creating.

2025-04-25 03:42:12

#TodayILearned if the next Pope chooses the name Sixtus he would be Sixtus the Sixth. 😄
#TIL
https://fountain.fm/episode/B1FfmpGKWPyJoMLTSkgE

2025-04-25 00:11:44

For those who think this is too extreme, I believe there is a difference between GOVERNANCE, which IS necessary (rules and order) and GOVERNMENT, which I would call involuntary, imposed governance. Mankind still lives under the delusion that we must have involuntary governance, imposed by force instead of freely and individually chosen on the market.
#nevent1q…2p73

2025-04-24 23:30:13

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Manifestly so. By definition government is slavery.

2025-04-24 22:46:01

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Hmm, who should we believe, Trump or the CCP?

2025-04-24 00:33:08

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I'm suspicious of the book of Enoch, though. Off the top of my head, I think the earliest attestation of it is from the second century BC. That's a few millennia after the real Enoch lived, which means the so-called book of Enoch was not really written by him. It should be called Pseudo-Enoch. And the same could be said for the book of Jasher.

2025-04-23 06:26:41

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I've read that book. I'm just not sure about the further idea of angels marrying women and having children by them (Genesis 6).

2025-04-23 04:06:55

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Thanks for sharing! I'm always up for a good treatment of Romans 13 and 1 Peter 2 since they seem to present the most formidable challenges to Christian anarchism.
That "Deuteronomy 32 worldview" is still new for me and one I haven't fully embraced yet (from the book's description: "an ancient biblical framework in which the nations were placed under rebellious spiritual powers, while Israel was called to be God’s distinct people). Do you subscribe to this view?

2025-04-21 21:27:11

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What is your evidence that "Yeshua’s message got corrupted into a religion (by Paul/Rome)"?

2025-03-05 07:59:14

I just decided to go on a fast for 40 days and 40 nights.
From social media.
See you again after Easter. Happy Lent!

2025-03-05 06:04:24

Ooh, this would be tough, and I'm not Roman Catholic but I might do this too...
#nevent1q…kk37

2025-03-05 05:31:17

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😂 https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/114/107/838/723/863/254/original/c790de1838822c90.png

2025-03-05 05:16:50

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Called Biden the worst president ever.
"Green New Scam" terminated.
Telling it like it is, although while Biden was horrible, others have done far more damage, including Lincoln, Wilson, LBJ...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1621577236/?bestFormat=true&k=nine%20presidents%20who%20screwed%20up%20america

2025-03-05 04:58:45

Going back and watching this from the beginning since I first caught toward the end. As #Trump entered the House some Devilcrat woman was holding a sign that read "This is not normal." Some guy (Stephen Miller?) snatched it out of her hands and threw away and she stood there looking violated.
A few minutes into the speech, another Devilcrat, one Mr. Green, was shouting and being disruptive and the Speaker of the House had the Sergeant-At-Arms remove him from the chamber. Wasn't expecting that kind of drama! Can't wait to see if anyone else gets kicked out! 😄
https://www.youtube.com/live/5hUOD1plh8A

2025-03-05 03:52:05

#Trump called Elizabeth Warren "Pocahontas" from the podium and the camera panned over to her and she owned it 😂
https://www.youtube.com/live/5hUOD1plh8A

2025-03-05 03:39:40

#Trump relishes playing Santa Claus 😄
https://www.youtube.com/live/5hUOD1plh8A

2025-03-05 03:36:44

#Trump just said autism in children has gone from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 36! 😱
Tragic if true.
https://www.youtube.com/live/5hUOD1plh8A

2025-03-05 02:06:02

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Trying that right now with this podcast at 1.5x
https://fountain.fm/episode/e1sCwX8sgpRJRCa6AP05
Does anyone find that this causes you to speak faster, too?
#asknostr

2025-03-04 20:31:24

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Would more relays make it take longer to find notes, potentially?

2025-03-04 20:12:39

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Or would it end up in Boston Harbor like it was tea?

2025-03-04 20:08:28

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Not a Trump simp, but there is precedent for this type of behavior by the government:
Under the Sedition Act of 1798, a man named Luther Baldwin, while drunk in Newark, reportedly said, "I wish they'd fire the cannons through John Adams's @$*," after hearing cannon salutes for the president. Baldwin was arrested for uttering "seditious words" and convicted for defaming the president and government.
https://reason.com/2009/05/18/how-john-adams-ass-nearly-suff/

2025-03-04 19:38:44

> "At the end of the Cold War, with its very reason for existence gone, NATO decided to look for other ways of stirring up trouble. First NATO involved itself in the first Gulf War and then it decided its mission should be to bomb Serbia to smithereens – in the name of “human rights.” I agree with the late Sen. Robert Taft, who argued at the time NATO was formed that we should not join the “Atlantic Alliance.”"
–Dr. Ron Paul
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2025/03/03/suddenly-leaving-nato-is-on-the-table/#:~:text=At%20the%20end,the%20%E2%80%9CAtlantic%20Alliance.%E2%80%9D

2025-03-04 19:21:42

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I do like that it removes the mandatory Bitcoin acceptance requirements for the private sector, however.

2025-03-04 19:03:35

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The Devilcrats are the oldest political party in the world, they are masters at manipulation, and they don't give up easily...

2025-03-04 18:49:44

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Can you refute any of what he is saying, or do you just accuse him of lacking evidence? (And I haven't listened to the podcast yet)

2025-03-04 03:34:51

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This is a pretty wild and tragic story, if you look at the context (and no, it's not about Jesus riding a donkey).

2025-03-04 03:16:44

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I would have to check back on the podcast I was listening to, but it was some foreign policy guys that would know better than I

2025-03-04 02:16:35

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> All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, 'Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.'"
–Matthew 21:4–5

2025-03-03 18:56:14

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I've heard that despite the sanctions Russia's economy has been doing well.

2025-03-03 17:14:26

What you lack in skill make up in passion 😄

2025-03-03 05:28:38

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Someone deeper than James Comey could be a lot of people, but I'm thinking Bill Barr, former attorney general, who I also learned today got his start in the CIA.

2025-03-03 04:30:10

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I think the market would provide. People need security and it does not have to be provided by "government" police who claim to have a monopoly on violence. It would probably be a lot like the private security officers that you see now, that aren't known for killing people the way public police officers do.

2025-03-03 02:58:51

In 1914 three pennies had about the same buying power then as a dollar does today.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

2025-03-02 16:12:01

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Ok, Christians aren't literal enemies with each over these differences (and even if they were, they are supposed to love their enemies).

2025-03-02 01:11:45

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It's almost like Christianity: when folks have so much truth and get so much right it's hard to see them believing even a little bit of error! 😂

2025-03-02 01:04:16

#TodayILearned Wendell Wilkie was a Democrat only 6 months before he became the Republican nominee for president in 1940!
I also learned that the Democrats are the oldest political party in the world.
#TIL (this is not a recommendation to listen to this episode, BTW)
https://fountain.fm/episode/rbU1GvNRHUbV5oiLNdLJ

2025-03-01 21:45:19

Welcome to #Nostr!
#nevent1q…8p04

2025-03-01 21:27:58

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Don't know if this is true, but I wouldn't be surprised if the disloyal opposition is at work:
#nevent1q…d7yt

2025-03-01 21:08:30

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I don't believe it's money, yet. But one should beware of loving it 👀

2025-03-01 20:54:38

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Would love to see this on Android, too!

2025-03-01 20:47:51

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The press was told to leave the room but I guess someone kept the camera rolling 😄

2025-03-01 20:31:05

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Hopefully the Bitcoin-only, fundamentalist, anti-💩-coin, maxi position will be represented as well.

2025-03-01 20:24:04

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I don't curse, so I used a substitute term 😄

2025-03-01 20:21:23

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And if European politicians instigate YET ANOTHER world war, will the United States again (have to) join in to save their asseTs?

2025-03-01 20:14:45

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European politicians seem to really want to instigate YET ANOTHER world war, don't they?

2025-03-01 20:09:57

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He just got older and more hip in his clothes 😄

2025-03-01 20:08:27

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I don't favor the combination of church and State, as was the case in the Eastern (Orthodox) Roman Empire, aka the Byzantine Empire. I believe the State actually took over many of the societal functions the church previously performed, and, as with most everything the State does, it does a poor job of it.

2025-03-01 18:56:28

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Interesting. Do you believe there is NSA involvement in Bitcoin's development, as some allege?

2025-03-01 18:50:15

Let's all welcome this happy little npub to #Nostr today! 😂
#nevent1q…p27y
(Note: This is not me)

2025-03-01 18:46:40

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I've never heard that. Did the emperors that followed him keep it in place? Of course, Rome was known for "bread and circuses" even long before Julian.

2025-03-01 18:33:31

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Sad.
I even saw a Tesla yesterday with a bumper sticker on it that read: "I bought this before Elon went crazy."

2025-03-01 18:23:39

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That makes you qualified to vote! 😂

2025-03-01 18:17:08

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Who is Cutler?

2025-03-01 17:46:48

Why we don't need a "Government®" and you should get your laws from nature and nature's God:
#nevent1q…5qm7

2025-03-01 17:44:02

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I should give them a look-see as well, due to their historical significance. But weren't they determined to be either Russian or British intelligence disinformation?

2025-03-01 17:41:12

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Of the Elders of Zion? 👀

2025-03-01 17:29:06

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But is Bitcoin money?
And if so, is the love of Bitcoin the root of all kinds of evil? 🤔

2025-03-01 16:32:58

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Londonistan

2025-03-01 15:02:41

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Some of those liberals probably just need to save the money now that a subscription cost them since they have lost their useless government job.

2025-03-01 14:55:18

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Thanks for sharing these excerpts. I agree with you and Calvin that sabbath-keeping is not a 'law' for Christians but is a 'pattern' and a good example for us to follow.
I also particularly enjoyed this from Vos:
"The Sabbath brings this principle of the eschatological structure of history to bear upon the mind of man after a symbolical and a typical fashion. It teaches its lesson through the rhythmical succession of six days of labour and one ensuing day of rest in each successive week. Man is reminded in this way that life is not an aimless existence, that a goal lies beyond."
Similarly, to me, the daily, rhythmic pattern of working during the day, sleeping at night, and then rising again, foreshadows the resurrection: we work in the day (life), we sleep at night (in the image of death), and we rise again to a new day/life (resurrection).

2025-03-01 05:27:18

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Thanks, I'll take a look at these resources. I'm currently under the persuasion, however, that Christians have no specific commands as to how frequently or when to gather together, only that they do so:
"Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing..." (Hebrews 10:25, NIV)

2025-03-01 05:16:55

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I saw a headline recently that he was possibly going to buy the dump. I wonder if that's an option?

2025-03-01 04:50:38

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I looked it up earlier, too. I thought he had invented peanut butter but no. 300 other uses for peanuts, but not the butter.

2025-03-01 03:53:25

This was an interesting interview with a #Christian intellectual, touching on topics of #Christianity, C.S. Lewis, #atheism, #science, suffering, #AI...
https://fountain.fm/show/KbjrkEdvrXlwUa13l2Uk

2025-02-28 23:33:17

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Carver was a devout Christian who prayed "Lord, show me the mysteries of the peanut," and he believed that his discoveries arose from communing with God (also true of Isaac Newton).

2025-02-28 18:23:46

In the religion of #Bitcoin, the ups and downs of the price can be like the circumstances of life. The faithful resort to podcasts, books, and reassuring one another on social media to hodl on and that it's all going to be okay.
Satoshi (whoever that may be), is their shepherd; they shall not be in want.

2025-02-28 17:12:06

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Y'know people need to worship something. Who or what else are they going to worship?

2025-02-28 17:10:22

AltGov: The Democrat/Bureaucrat Resistance is Organizing on Bluesky...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/altgov-elon-musk-doge-federal-workers

2025-02-28 08:27:40

I spoke to a Marine corps recruiter today who told me they're having a harder time finding qualified recruits. He said the kids are having a harder time passing the math portion of the ASVAB. He notices that those who are a bit older like 24 years old or so, do better than the younger ones. Some of the others are also disqualified due to being on medication for things like ADHD and depression.

2025-02-28 04:18:04

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Why? To destroy this place?

2025-02-28 01:55:58

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Wouldn't a "Global" feed try to combine as many relays as possible, eliminating duplicates, of course, kinda like those blaster relays? I know there is truly no global, but could we try to approximate it? Or would this eat up to much bandwidth? (Incidentally, I rarely go on "Global" myself).

2025-02-28 00:06:06

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Beautiful, but I hope there's no one in that church hungry or in need...

2025-02-27 23:42:26

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I'll take neither democracy nor socialism!

2025-02-27 21:48:25

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I don't know. Democracy and socialism might more seek equality in wealth. At least democracy does, I believe.

2025-02-27 20:30:31

> "The reality of space travel is stark: it is an enormous expense with minimal return, making it nonviable economically. A rich man’s desire from childhood science fiction novels must not be allowed to bilk riches from the working man’s pocket."
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/02/george-giles/not-mining-asteroids/

2025-02-27 17:21:28

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Even more unpopular opinion:
https://fountain.fm/clip/bDBUFxCnHPPUPorCg8NI

2025-02-27 16:55:55

God's property, not the government's.
#nevent1q…zc0p