Tommy "The Purchase"

Liberty is the mother of order, compassion, and ultimately greatness

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2025-05-21 05:12:19

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My own node is definitely on the agenda but I'll start there, thanks for the advice!

2025-05-16 21:48:50

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I think Trudeau calls himself "Carney" these days but apart from that, nothing has changed.

2025-05-16 06:21:10

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Ha, well I'd much rather homestead than work some nonsensical office job. If you bleat at me for no reason, you better be a goat.

2025-05-16 06:09:50

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I wouldn't Mark Zuckerberg to point me to the nearest exit.

2025-05-16 06:08:13

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... can prevent forest fires

2025-05-16 05:04:49

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She seemed fairly content with herself and was saving up for the next project.

2025-05-16 04:59:28

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Peculiar indeed how most, if not all, of those healthy things have been labelled some form of "far-right", "immoral", or "disgusting" by state media.

2025-05-16 04:54:01

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It's been made to feel transgressive in the West but Israeli news outlets criticize the government there all the time, and for good reason. Netanyahu and the Lakut party are completely immoral, genocidal maniacs on a mission to enlarge Israel's power and landmass, and this has little to do with religion or race.
And contrary to popular belief, you can be against the Israeli government's current course of action without blindly hating every 6-year-old girl in Tel Aviv and every jewish guy in a café in New York, they are not responsible whatsoever.
I hope the government can be reigned in before the Israeli people and jews around the world are made to pay the price.

2025-05-16 04:38:29

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I think the fact that you need about 50 years to save up for a down payment for a modest home and a couple with two jobs can barely feed themselves, let alone children, might have something to do it.
I once saw a documentary about a single mother in India who, through relatively simple manual labour - I can't remember what exactly - bought a small plot of land and was able to pay some people from the area to build her family a hut there.
Now imagine a single mum working as, say, a hairdresser in the West, trying to buy any plot of land and then not being government-regulated to absolute hell and back trying to build even a shed on it.

2025-05-16 04:29:45

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The man looks like a pile of discarded women's clothing and accessories

2025-05-15 18:33:12

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I'm sorry, James but I would rather not see your wang magic.

2025-05-15 16:37:18

The most prolific agent of the slow yet steady erosion of European liberties is the European Union. All EU citizens, except for those directly profiting off its loot forcibly taken from innocent people, should consider it as the greatest threat to their livelihood and liberty.

2025-05-15 14:31:13

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Well, I think it should've fallen on John Maynard Keynes instead.

2025-05-15 14:28:11

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It's probably got nothing to do with small, slow boats with lots of people and *no toilets* on board on a multi-day trip across the sea.

2025-05-15 14:16:52

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So you're saying a horde of barely trained bureaucrats wielding other people's money like a T-shirt-gun at a concert cannot reliably build a sustainable public healthcare system? Shocking indeed

2025-05-15 14:11:37

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KYC: "Kill Your Customer" by sending armed robbers to their homes, looking for seeds.

2025-05-15 14:07:37

Remember well the three Gs of freedom: Gold, Goats, and Guns, or to elaborate further: Independent wealth that cannot be inflated away, self-sufficiency in terms of the acquisition of basic necessities, and finally the means to protect the former from all who seek to infringe upon them.

2025-05-15 14:01:59

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Everyone should be able to ply their trade unfettered by permanent employment contracts that somehow always seem to demand a sort of serfdom and dependency in addition to services rendered. Small wonder the government prefers this type of engagement.

2025-05-15 13:58:15

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I hope this incident plays its part in putting people off custodial wallets and crypto brokers.

2025-05-15 12:46:59

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Well I'm a teeth-haver, that's 17 times better.

2025-05-15 11:33:31

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Being the absolute maverick I just happen to be, I get neither!

2025-05-15 11:30:06

"Social Justice" will be achieved when everyone is free to govern their own affairs without violent interference and cooperation between individuals and groups of any size is voluntary rather than coerced. I don't expect to see this state of affairs come into existence at any point during my lifetime.

2025-05-15 09:12:48

Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible

2025-05-15 08:06:06

The Russians love their children, too.
As do the Chinese and the Iranians, they're not responsible for what their governments do, and neither are we for ours.

2025-05-15 04:50:31

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Thanks, Tracking Token Disrespector, if only I could figure out how to send zaps KYC-free, you'd get a boatload of them 😄

2025-05-15 04:46:52

By funding, developing, and releasing into the wild insects that genetically alter the humans they bite, I think Bill Gates is the greatest terrorist threat the Western world has faced since the Mongol invasions.
https://youtu.be/pAU-_y-WRFY?si=6nF2txDm7N0fJKxs

2025-05-13 20:51:24

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To paraphrase Mises, almost any amount of money is sufficient to serve as an economy's fiduciary medium.

2025-05-13 20:49:38

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A tremendously precise carpet bombing indeed.

2025-05-13 20:47:12

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I'm fairly certain the same thing is happening with purchasing power measured in fiat as well, just hidden under inflation and wellfare. Still, while most employers pay salaries in fiat (most people work regular jobs, unfortunately), there is a case for not spending your BTC on goods and services. Apparently Mr. Gresham was onto something.
Rest assured, though, that all my services will always be payable in bitcoin!

2025-05-13 20:32:01

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He's complaining about the mess under which he now has to suffer. Voters have not created it, voting against it means nothing at all.

2025-05-13 13:01:55

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Have you ever been to a place of total public humiliation? It's quite remarkable indeed.

2025-05-13 12:45:10

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I was going to make an argument against central planning but they beat me to the punch.

2025-05-13 12:42:13

I think if elections weren't manipulated, voting for socialism would violate the principle of non-aggression.

2025-05-13 11:14:31

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It's become the present in China, or so I hear.

2025-05-13 08:41:50

The road to being considered an expert because people gladly heed your advice is long and arduous.
The road to making people obey your command because you have been declared an expert is short and violent.

2025-05-13 08:14:20

An "elected representative" represents the interests of those who financed his campaign aiming to convince voters their interests would be represented if he was elected.

2025-05-13 04:51:22

The political Left and Right will continue to be at each other's throats as long as the various branches of government can be used as a cudgel in that pursuit. Two entirely feasible solutions are devolution and secession, I recommend a combination of both.

2025-05-12 14:21:51

Bitcoiners all over the world have embarked upon the momentous journey to invert Gresham's Law and have good money drive out bad. Godspeed.

2025-05-12 12:55:39

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The AI equivalent of a bronze statue 😄

2025-05-12 10:15:00

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Hands are still an issue, I see

2025-05-12 10:11:38

After prolonged investigation I have set up a Breez wallet to partake in the glorious splendor that is the lightning network and with it, I hope to be able to send and receive yon prized zaps, releasing me from the curious limbo of being both a pauper and a miser at the same time. Rejoice!

2025-05-11 17:03:16

I foresee a future in which I'm up one motivating story and down a bunch of sats.

2025-05-11 14:35:58

There is no honour in being a communist, or any other form of collectivist, most of the time it's in fact the opposite.

2025-05-10 14:16:05

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Unfortunately, land is also way easier to confiscate, regulate, or intrude upon, and binds you to a certain spot on the planet, at least to a certain degree. Now, I'm all in favour of buying and owning the family farm but it is just so hard to find the right place for it.

2025-05-09 22:28:38

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Jesus, that's almost as much as I pay for less than 5% of that income.

2025-05-09 17:51:09

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I'm my own custodian, thank you very much.

2025-05-09 16:58:09

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For the very specific use case of gift cards as money to be spent on a single type of commodity from a single vendor, this is certainly a step in the right direction.
Personally, however, I'd rather just give someone some gas money, preferrably in BTC, then he can also buy flowers and chocolate at the gas station should he happen to be filling up on Valentine's day.

2025-05-09 14:47:57

Lately I've been thinking about the act of voting and its moral implications - both real and imagined.
There is the perspective that if the guards ask you and your fellow inmates how the labour camp should be run and hint that if enough of you answer in the same manner, things might actually change, it's a chance worth taking. In a very Realpolitik type of way I'd be inclined to agree but from a more principled and removed stance, I've come to think that, in every imaginable scenario, voting is either ill advised or morally wrong.
I'll start with the - speaking from personal experience - most realistic state of affairs surrounding an election: That which is known as a controlled democracy or competitive authoritarianism, where elections are held as a smoke screen to convey some form of made-up legitimacy and to avoid invasion by other governments in order to "spread democracy" but where there is ultimately consensus about the most central issues between all parties and no fundamental change could be enacted no matter how many people voted for it.
In such a system, voting for (one of) the status quo party (parties) signals that you agree with the perpetual suppression of the regime's political opponents (who in almost all countries are, of course, forbidden from seceeding under threat of being prosecuted as traitors).
Now, voting against the status quo is either brave or silly, as increased public support will likely lead to ever more deranged attempts by the current rulers to cling to power by means of hindering the party or parties trying to bring about meaningful change or by demoralizing or criminalizing the latter's voters - to which group most people would rather not belong since the fight for change is hard to fight when you're in prison.
But even disregarding the sorry state our world is in, I fail to find social or moral good in voting in a more ideal scenario in which the will of the people is enacted swiftly and precisely. Voting for change and losing the election still means you willingly partake in the system and play by its rules, giving up your freedom to be ruled by the whims of people you have likely never met while allowing other people to be treated in the same manner.
The "big one", of course, is voting for something and actually getting what you want - something I have naturally never experienced - and it creates perhaps the biggest problem of all: You have successfully forced your will and your agenda onto people who by not abiding by your rules most likely would not have made your life worse in any way. You accept a bureaucratic apparatus threatening or using violence to make strangers and friends alike change their habits and plans, perhaps lose their livelihoods, but in any case reduce their freedom.
I have, in the past, justified my participation in elections by telling myself that I am voting for someone who claims to want to bring about more freedom for everyone but even that, in a twisted way, appears to be a form of coercion since many people seem to enjoy being boxed in and held like cattle without any agency over their own lives.
In summary, at least for the moment, I think secession of ever smaller areas from what we currently know as countries, perhaps down to a stateless society of sovereign estates or families, is the only way to be able to fully live according to your own principles while respecting other people's desires for different lifestyles.

2025-05-09 13:38:10

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I'd take either, the former while secure in my castle, the latter when fleeing on foot through a railway tunnel, trying to evade their dogs.