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I believe everybody has a right to defend themselves against #Netanyahu, #Gollant and other fascist war-criminals. Not just a right, but a duty; and most of us are not doing our share.

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2025-04-11 07:15:51

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:Looks sheepish:
I'll look at Minitru again this weekend, promise :p

2025-04-11 04:48:49

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Tagr-bot is Rabble's, AFAIK.
Rabble's not a police officer, more a "People's Commissar For The Prevention Of Wrongthink And The Promotion Of Grant-Applications".

2025-04-09 01:58:22

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100%.
Micro-wind is unfortunately failure-prone and scammy.
Burning biomass for heat is also a resilient energy choice. Interested in trying biomass gassification to run generators etc., but only after I get some land...

2025-04-08 13:13:09

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https://frame.work/ca/en has a good reputation.
Being a shameless cheapskate, I once built my own 10.1" laptop from a Raspberry Pi 3 with a cardboard box for a case. The Pi 3 just didn't have enough grunt, but I reckon a 5 might.

2025-04-08 03:38:13

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You are rebutting points I haven't made, and that are tangential at best to the OP.
Whether tariffs "work" depends on who is using them, and with what end in mind. We could trade historical examples and future scenarios all day, but they would be irrelevant to the OP.
My point remains: tariffs require no more State power than is already required to secure a territory, or even, if low enough, just its major logistical hubs.
All other forms of taxation require more pervasive State information-gathering, bureaucracy, and threat or use violence.

2025-04-07 23:51:51

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Politics is "the Art of the Possible", my friend, and sometimes "the perfect" can be the enemy of "the good".
An hour's labour stolen through tariffs empowers the State far less than an hour's labour stolen through "income tax".

2025-04-07 23:29:22

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Goodnight, Esh. Sweet dreams!

2025-04-07 23:00:40

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Idiotically honest and upfront, that's literally the only change.
Playing "Beggar Thy Neighbour" via mafia-like rigging of fiat trade rules has been a thing as long as States have existed.
Trump is following the same policies as ancient Athens and Thebes, but without the virtue-signalling sugar-coat of insincerity that 21st century Influencers expect.

2025-04-07 22:00:33

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"The Economics of Organised Crime" is a bit theory-heavy, but it covers the logic of how organised crime and government make money.
https://libgen.li/get.php?md5=db091ec0f8a095ca2412985b5087c990&key=M2G3P98NSKOT0R8H
"The Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct" is a timeless classic and a much deeper dive:
https://www.ccc.qld.gov.au/sites/default/files/Docs/Publications/CCC/The-Fitzgerald-Inquiry-Report-1989.pdf

2025-04-07 07:53:45

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To think I have trouble splitting redgum with a sharp axe :D

2025-04-07 07:41:28

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Have to admit some of that account's content has a ChatGPT positivity vibe.
But I've interacted with him and gotten highly tailored replies.
A human that uses ChatGPT sometimes?
Or you really think a bot? Quality work if true

2025-04-07 07:36:36

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I'm shocked, shocked I tell you :D
I don't think anyone should buy a weapon with software not at minimum "source-available".
Wars will be won with backdoors like this.
Old China loved to use "silver bullets" to subvert human commanders. New China can use "Silicon bullets" to subvert hardware directly...

2025-04-07 03:26:45

Chinese girl talks about propaganda in the media.
She's comparing China and Canada, but what she says applies just as well to Australia, or any other "normal" Western country today...
https://video.nostr.build/950da35e8ac50ae9d4e43c9c07d7ad7ddae1bba778501bec679e38a3218fbd5a.mp4

2025-04-06 22:44:20

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To be fair to Starmer, its more that he's putting trousers made of meat on you, and calling plaintively for the leopard to come and eat.
I believe he aspires to become a flea on the leopard's tail.

2025-04-06 22:38:44

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With all the information available these days, ignorance can no longer be seen as a misfortune.
Ignorance is a lifestyle, that requires discipline and commitment to abstain from noticing obvious facts and making simple deductions.

2025-02-07 00:04:24

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I should probably do more work on that this weekend, instead of s---posting now :D

2025-02-07 00:03:09

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I really hope the "big names" are using dedicated clients. Web extensions are convenient and user-friendly (I'm using one now) but the attack surface is comparatively large.
No real getting around that tradeoff, other than encouraging experienced users to try different clients.

2025-02-06 23:41:17

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Life, sine qua non, seeks out and consumes metastable resources, thus increasing entropy both locally and globally.
Would that be efficient or inefficient, in your philosophy? Since life increases thermodynamic entropy, death must be an unqualified good, right? Unless, perhaps, a death under consideration would result in the replication of even-more-entropic lifeforms.

2025-02-06 04:10:28

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It grabbed headlines, and silenced the previous discourse. So probably already succeeded as much as was ever likely.
"Riviera". Whatever he and Bibi were smoking, they should be sharing.
Despite the (worst of) intentions, a contemporary US-military-led colonization of Gaza is more likely to result in another Kosovo or Iraq than another Trail of Tears.

2025-02-05 05:08:48

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It must be good, then :) I've downloaded a few of their smaller models, need to play around with finetuning them

2025-02-05 05:02:11

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Any centralized form of government without Constitutional limits is capable of those abuses.
That is, quite simply, the opposite of what I advocated above.
Democracy has always scared a lot of people. The Rule of Law does too. When I was a kid those people almost always identified with the Right, but its more complex today.

2025-02-05 03:15:21

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Would be nice; but your next Chancellor loves the taste of boot polish as much as our next Prime Minister does.
A much, much higher % of your voters are alert to the scam, though, I will grant that.

2025-02-05 02:48:32

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Nah. They had to call in bigger but less reliable war criminals.
Because they are losers who can't stop losing even with unlimited Western weapons and media interference.

2025-02-05 02:45:54

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15 Now it was the governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd. 16 At that time they had a well-known prisoner whose name was Jesus[b] Barabbas. 17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?” 18 For he knew it was out of self-interest that they had handed Jesus over to him.
19 While Pilate was sitting on the judge’s seat, his wife sent him this message: “Don’t have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him.”
20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
21 “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor.
“Barabbas,” they answered.
22 “What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked.
They all answered, “Crucify him!”
23 “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate.
But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”
25 All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”
26 Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
Matthew 27:15-26

2025-02-05 01:57:55

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Those changes would certainly be an improvement :)
But I'm an even bigger fan of "rules without rulers", like Bitcoin and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_budgeting; and maximum decentralization for anything where those can't work.

2025-02-05 01:52:49

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I think its a dumpster fire, but there are no simple solutions. Your solution was funny, though :)

2025-02-05 01:45:52

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I used to think that. So I joined a political party to watch how the sausage gets made.
And no, Representative "Democracy" actually IS the problem. Many problems, in fact, starting with "Principal-Agent" and "Coordination" and continuing all the way down.
The People, themselves, are the only safe hands for holding power. "Representatives" are just a game-show version of dictatorship.

2025-02-05 01:38:18

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Stop dissing that poor man's investment strategy :D He had USD$20M of unexplained investments in LatAm revealed way back in the Pandora Papers, before Russia entered the war.

2025-02-05 01:33:18

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100% agree, but at this point in the West there are incomparably more virtue-signalling "accomplices" fatiguing the world than there are haters. My LinkedIn feed "jumped the shark" years ago. Not literally, although that's probably only a matter of time.

2025-02-05 01:24:48

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In fairness to voters, there are near-insurmountable "barriers to entry" in the "political representation" market. Most of which are deliberately constructed using state power. Trust is a larger consideration for voters than qualifications or experience, and in far shorter supply.
Elections have surprisingly few consequences for the Establishment.
Perhaps this "Representative" experiment has run its course and taught us all we needed to know.

2025-02-05 00:31:37

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https://plantbasednews.org/culture/billions-animals-killed-growing-crops/
Also, why do they always exclude insect deaths? Down with Chordate-Supremacism!

2025-02-04 23:52:24

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Military: "The only size we'll sell will be Jumbo. Because everyone knows the real use-case for condoms is avoiding carrying the weight of underpants on long-range patrols, and I always need to pack some extra 40mms"

2025-02-04 23:49:09

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Oh dear...
Marketing decisions in Diss-World:
Engineer: "So, we're selling condoms. Obviously our retail channels will be hardware stores, because those are the places where I get horny."
Doctor: "And to eliminate the risk of breakage and STIs, the condom will cover the entire body and have the consistency of road tyres. Safety first!"
Lawyer: "Great thinking, team! We shall inscribe a consent form on the packaging, so it can only be opened after both parties have signed it with their hardware keys."

2025-01-26 22:46:58

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Fertiliser has the dubious virtue of enabling terrible farming practices to still make a saleable product. For a while.
But without Haber-Bosch fixed nitrogen (and "Green Revolution" crops able to utilise it in large quantities to send yield-per-hectare soaring to modern levels), the global population would have maxed out in about 1910. As indeed it almost did, due to famine and malnutrition even in Europe.
Chilean nitrate (guano) was the only established alternative, and that was mined wildly unsustainably. "Fossil fertiliser".
Totally agree regarding soil carbon and soil structure, but we are riding a fertiliser tiger, without which six billion people would die in a year. I don't have a solution, but outsourcing fertiliser production to China (in Australia's case) or Russia (in the EUs) sure isn't a step forward...
The solution to microplastics is to stop requiring biodegradation additives in consumer goods. The cost of this change is not merely free but actually negative. Biodegradation into microplastics only replaces as aesthetic problem with a health problem.

2025-01-26 21:26:17

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100%.
For anyone who hasn't read it - https://annas-archive.org/md5/3eacf365f89c153e748eaa0e5cb909fe
Vaclav Smil's introduction to this problem.
Concrete, steel, fertiliser and plastic are the "Four Pillars" of living standards, and all of them require prodigious amounts of energy that can't be wished into existence (although production can be, and is being, outsourced to Russia / China / India).

2025-01-26 21:10:19

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Next step - run GrapheneOS on your Pixel!
Freer every day

2025-01-26 12:11:03

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-must-act-quickly-on-the-west-bank/

2025-01-26 07:13:53

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Not just Elon, I daresay.
Between some of the pardons, the cancelling of clearances, and the pulling of security details, I'm picking up a cold-blooded, methodical, and vengeful Washington insider with Trump's ear.
Whoever that is, they need to stay alive. They are the enemy the Deep State deserves.

2025-01-19 03:19:53

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If the legal system was responsive and accessible, those harmed could sue any malefactors under the Common Law of Tort and ruin them.
Judgements punish the guilty. Regulations punish everybody, but mostly the non-connected and honest.

2025-01-19 03:16:08

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I love the "code is the contract" and self-executing contracts.
But ETH's governance structure always creeped me out, so I've never owned any.

2025-01-19 03:07:16

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Why do we all keep living where we do?
Mostly for work.

2025-01-19 03:05:48

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The best time for Congress to stop spinelessly delegating powers to the Executive would have been a century ago. Second-best time is today. Would set a good example for fanboi governments like mine.

2025-01-17 05:40:27

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Americans are better than all other Western countries on that, no cap

2025-01-17 05:38:32

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Barriers To Entry are a real thing. Mostly constructed, purposefully, with state violence.
The internet has made a big dent in barriers to upskilling, though :)

2025-01-17 05:35:58

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Sad. And Americans do that less than any other Western country... :(

2025-01-17 05:34:15

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Do you believe ownership can be other than individual?
If you do, then how is unwanted migration into property owned by another collective not coercive?

2025-01-17 05:32:27

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Authentic Capitalism looks a lot like Communism, to people who've grown up with neither :)

2025-01-17 05:30:16

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Differently-Oligarchical?
The difference is not worth more than an eye-roll.

2025-01-17 05:14:04

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Aged non-English speaking immigrants coaxed by someone they trusted into signing papers they didn't understand?
Yup, its a thing, and I've seen the aftermath.

2025-01-17 05:11:04

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TBF, most pyromaniacs are not ideological. More likely to be firefighters lol. Here as much as California.
I'd lay more blame on lands managers more interested in likes and political ambitions than public safety or even animal safety.

2025-01-17 01:34:02

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Our omnicidal eucalypts and acacias are the same. Actually much of our flora...

2025-01-17 01:31:10

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Bruh, muh oceans!? Where are my oceans?
HNLC zones at least should be marked!

2025-01-17 01:29:20

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Remarkably cucked, but lets not judge him, he has limited recent experience of them :D
IME, women who are into polyamory have extremely high needs for attention and power. The sex is mostly a means to an end.
As is usually the case, no way would Diss "eat his own dogfood" :D

2025-01-03 07:52:29

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This. I have work to do!

2024-12-30 00:40:01

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Most of these would be technically trivial to standardise and save a few bits of information leak. Politically... hmmm

2024-12-30 00:33:27

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Keyboard, sometimes, by the typos.
For posters with a lot of material out there, we could probabilisticly guess a bit about their systems. But not more than their browser gives away voluntarily to everyone in its useragent string.

2024-12-28 12:27:22

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I have kids, man, and other stuff the government can steal.
Lying is a solid Plan B (if your OPSEC is any good).

2024-12-27 06:14:58

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First-rate people hire other first-rate people. Second hire third, and third hire fifth.
Sounds like that boss inherited the team, and was trying (but failing) to fix it.

2024-12-27 06:09:32

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It was only for 200 days.
That time.

2024-12-27 06:03:02

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Territory is a property right exercised as part of a group.
Libertarians have no loyalty to any group, and see only personal advantage in being seen giving away what belongs to others.
"Either a prince spends that which is his own or his subjects' or else that of others. In the first case he ought to be sparing, in the second he ought not to neglect any
opportunity for liberality. And to the price who goes forth with his army, supporting it by pillage, sack, and extortion, handling that which belongs to others, this liberality is necessary, otherwise he would not be followed by soldiers. And of that which is neither yours nor your subjects' you can
be a ready giver, as were Cyrus, Caesar, and Alexander; because it does not take away your reputation if you squander that of others, but adds to it; it is only squandering your own that injures you."
A translation, but you can readily guess the source.

2024-12-27 05:23:21

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Rare photo of Diss' father

2024-12-27 04:59:26

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Pitch it to a studio boss!

2024-12-27 04:58:13

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Source on that IQ anecdote? Please? I know a girl who'll be tickled by a paper proving that!

2024-12-27 04:56:44

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We need rounded corners, pastel colours, and Love Island.
Society has no telos, and if you talked to Normies more often you'd get this!

2024-12-27 04:45:35

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Yup. And the consequences of resultant poor outcomes are diffused.

2024-12-27 04:44:08

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Diss, we all know you're GenX. Boomers but with tiny homes.
Move to FL already.
Buy a yacht and live in a marina if you're worried about the water. Then we can visit, and your geriatric ass can take selfies with our hot female friends.

2024-12-27 04:38:14

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"Power-Distance" is the polite term. Nobody sucks up, panders or kisses ass better than representatives of any of the world's most ancient civilisations.

2024-12-27 04:35:36

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Betting against future tech tsk tsk.
There is no reason to believe technology will continue to develop in any particular direction. The history of futurism is quite funny...

2024-12-27 04:31:35

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Truth, but centuries before any ice cap disappears.
The Thwaites Glacier likely to make a splash on its own when the present grounding line fails.

2024-12-27 04:29:23

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And Uzbekistan, since 20 years ago. But they're not manouverable like the Jetsons, and likely will never be.

2024-12-27 04:28:11

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Facts

2024-12-27 04:26:28

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Jetsons cars wen?

2024-12-27 04:21:17

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How do you classify (famously light-skinned) Berbers?
And homo sapiens inside Africa has more genetic diversity than homo sapiens outside it, you can find a lot of phenotypes that look nothing like your East African track competitors.

2024-12-27 04:17:48

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Yeah, not so fast. A geneticist friend of mine wants to modify an uncommon and high-value crop plant to have extras of its valuable bits. He hasn't made a viable true-breeding transgenic version of the plant yet.
(Mind you, he has a day job and also can usually be found chasing a new and even more expensive slut.)
Eugenics in the sense of artificial selection is far more practical, but also 100% certain to be misused or just fail. Israel has various schemes to promote breeding of their ideologically-preferred phenotypes, as does Singapore, but AFAIK they've mostly only suceeded in inspiring mocking memes.

2024-12-27 03:57:49

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Too much work.
Let's reanimate Cato, and just explain there's still one country where children are burned alive to buttress a political in-group identity. Yisrael delenda est.

2024-12-27 03:43:53

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Laws against slaving are the most anti-semitic ever devised. Those Russians went and ruined the Black Sea Trade, and then Britain did the same to the Atlantic.

2024-12-27 03:30:32

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Oi! :D I'm an Anarchist, but that doesn't mean I choose to ignore obvious lessons from every long-lived human society ever...

2024-12-27 03:28:01

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"not meant"
#typostr

2024-12-27 03:22:21

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Capitalism is the antithesis of the State, sadly.

2024-12-27 03:17:09

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I believe you, but we'll see snowflakes in hell before that happens.

2024-12-27 03:14:00

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My wife can speak it. Sanskrit and Classical Arabic are the Greek and Latin of South Asia.

2024-12-27 03:08:17

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State bureaucrats organise prisons exactly as the want them to be.
And after a few years of acculturation at a similar yearly cost to a high-end university, the cons get let out again.
Sorry.
Prison is a great means to an end, if your desired end is cushy-jobs-for-sadists, and more and worse criminals.

2024-12-27 02:47:30

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Mum loves the things, had me riding from about age 5

2024-12-27 02:33:26

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If one of my ancestors arrived where I live right now 300 years ago, without invitation, he would probably have gotten speared.
And my indigenous ancestors lived only 100km away, and spoke a related language.

2024-12-27 02:30:30

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This. I'd go further and have transferable residency permits for states, and then again for counties / municipalities.

2024-12-27 02:14:02

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Truth, but then neither does prison...

2024-12-27 02:11:37

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The rapist never pissed while standing up again, if you know what I mean.
The Epstein flight list members, though...

2024-12-27 01:56:12

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If you read "Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner", among other books, Eisenhower did manage to slow the progression of the disease while in office, thus allowing an economic boom, infrastructure development, and real wage increases. And he avoided being corralled into global nuclear war more than once.
But yes, his warning was his only lasting achievement.

2024-12-27 01:45:24

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Eisenhower was a domineering and difficult man, with no private vices, and the Presidency was far from his first rodeo. He said "no" even to elites, often and harshly, even though he was philosophically on their team. Mostly... His MIC speech was a peek behind part of the curtain.
There hasn't been a remake of that movie. He wouldn't rise beyond Lt. Col. today.

2024-12-27 01:36:18

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I think the powerful are growing more insecure, intolerant and frightened with each generation.
Eisenhower ruled, JFK tried to.
What was Trump going to do to them? Tweet?
(Its not only the masses who have degenerated...)

2024-12-27 01:17:03

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They do if they are disciplined and sober.
There is a lesson for us here...

2024-12-27 01:15:09

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Also true, but figureheads with decades of brand development behind them are hard to find.
Yes, Trump is a vile individual and loves to frolick with swamp creatures, but I don't think even Trump is in reliable control of Trump. Never a real team player.
That last appears to be a difference worth killing for.

2024-12-27 01:08:29

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Bell curve, muh man. If they missed by a little instead of a lot they could very easily have not missed at all. The slightest change in the breeze...

2024-12-27 00:13:49

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eNuts FTW!
Just works

2024-12-27 00:02:43

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Facts, but, Africa.
Ethiopia and Kenya shared this problem, but dealt with it by not serving non-elite areas with landlines.
Somalia fared better, not just compared to under the US- and UN-sponsored Siad Barre dictatorship, but better than its Statist neighbours.

2024-12-26 23:27:04

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I used the "suggest edit" feature of Amethyst, but the UX for the receiver is... less than optimal.
#typostr it remains...

2024-12-26 23:18:49

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https://youtu.be/wdrvpSfJM1w

2024-12-26 23:13:04

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Somalia sucks less than its Statist neighbors:
https://www.peterleeson.com/Better_Off_Stateless.pdf
And that is _after_ the US, UN, Sa'udi and Turkey spent ~USF$1 tn trying to turn Somalia into a normal African dictatorship.
They haven't given up, of course. Freedom anywhere is a threat to Statism everywhere.
But a robust toolkit of non-State customs and culture can resist and win.

2024-12-26 23:03:19

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Anybody in Australia supporting the Ukrainian government is also a traitor, and for the same reasons.
And anyone still flying MAS is a fool. If your airline takes the direct route above an active war zone to save fuel, your safety is not their priority.

2024-12-26 22:52:01

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Afghanistan disagrees. Somalia disagrees harder.
And half the rural villages in South Asia pay bribes by day but run traditional customary courts by night.
We Westerners need to innovate and build outside the State / fiat system, too. We can learn from the above, but also from our own ancestors.