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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @327c19b153 22h \ parent \ on: How do you define today’s society? AskSN
Infantilization is protocol, not accident. Proxy-parent = gov–corp–AI gatekeeping (identity-linked rails, shadow ratings, TOS over law). Adult rites: self-custody, sats budgets, voluntary contracts, consequence. Where proof and property stand, provocation loses leverage.
Not abundance: fiat hallucination. Spectacle farms consent while inflation denies means. Exit = sats-denomination, voluntary law, proof-of-worked identity. Provocation withers when time-sovereignty returns.
Narrative capture. Keys outsourced, BTC treated like a high‑beta tech stock, payments deferred to custodians, and most of the UI leaks signal. The problem isn’t Bitcoin tho; it’s how we measure things and the incentives we create
Ah I really needed this. Thank you. PGP should be good now, and will work on verifying LN. Completely understand about how this would be perceived. Taking care of privacy does complicate things, and asking for payment up front is understandably sketchy.
For any potential customers, I am more than willing to discuss all terms as transparently as possible. As a new market entrant, offering free/low cost samples is an option I should have mentioned.
My hope is that success on this venture could act as a template for people trying to do similar things. Privacy is extremely valuable to me, and I argue it should be for others as well (customers and entrepreneurs alike). But I understand this all requires a delicate balance between transparency and opacity to protect and benefit everyone on both sides. Especially in this space. Ideas on this are appreciated as well.
my ai wanted me to respond:
- Produce food + cycle waste = subversion. Buffered sovereignty > autarky. Learn-before-need.
- Regenerative engine: deep mulch (arborist chips), scrap burial, worm bins, biochar, cover crops; jurisdiction-aware humanure on long cycles for trees. No chems.
- Skill preload: gardening cycles, HAM net check-ins, Bitcoin HODL + USE (Lightning, coin control, CoinJoin), not-stablecoins.
- Exchange: property boundaries honored; surplus traded voluntarily; neighbor trade-edges complete the stack.
- Joy-first selection: foods loved, superior to store, resilience staples, perennials; persistence via joy × yield.
- Metrics (proof-of-signal): R_buffer = local_kcal/need_kcal > 0.1 in 12 months; X_exchange ≥ 3; soil OM rising; Lightning success rising; restore-tested seed backups; somatic well-being rising.
- Minimal viable node (now): greens/herbs + a root crop + one perennial; mulch; scrap trench; worm bin; 2 trade-edges; one Lightning payment per week; one radio check-in per week.
- Law of voluntarism: no coercion, no moralizing—only property, contract, exchange, reputation, exit.
second cousin once removed. Also I've found its not even worth the energy trying to orange pill these kinds of people.
Stop just holding. Start using, building, and transacting with Bitcoin; every action reinforces real freedom. If we don’t, the whole movement risks becoming a hollow myth.
The informal markets in ghana. I had the opportunity to conduct research on mobile money (MoMo) at the Makola market in Accra. I interviewed about 200 merchants, trying to understand their perception of MoMo, how they used it, problems they faced, etc. I had already been a big Bitcoin fan at the time, but after spending so much time in the markets observing and listening to the merchants I realized that Bitcoin was THE answer, to everything. All of the problems, all of their concerns, could all be solved by Bitcoin (as opposed to better MoMo systems, or more government intervention), on top of the fact that their currency is inflating by about 30% per year. Like I said I was already a big fan of Bitcoin (and free markets) but this was the one thing that sticks out in my mind as a real turning point, or turning on point.
BT, my device doesn't have usb. But I would normally prefer usb. That's why I got this one, specifically because it had BT.
I've been using the Logi Lift mouse. Ergonomic with both bluetooth and USB options. Works great, but it might be too small for my hands. Super smooth scroll and quiet clicking which I like. I've had it for about 1.5 years now. Pretty rugged I guess, I just keep it in my backpack and it seems to get banged around enough. I don't remember paying $70 for it tho, and I'm not sure I would today.
- Money is not a physical measuring stick of “value.” (agree.).
- You're saying “hard money = fixed ruler” is a bad analogy; that money prices are messages (exchange ratios) that must move as reality moves. Correct?
- You are refusing to discuss how the design of the unit (fixed vs elastic) affects those messages.
- You're telling people to stop calling money a measuring stick. because prices move. done. fine. what im tryna say is yes, but the quality of that message depends on the unit’s rules. Elastic units add noise/bias; rule-bound units clean it up. why do you avoid answering the point about signal fidelity (Cantillon bias, unit risk, calculation noise). Do you claim unit elasticity adds information to relative prices (beyond Cantillon/path effects)? If yes, where exactly? If no, then we agree signal fidelity matters and unit design isn’t ‘beside the point.’
Soft fork vs. hard fork is a fake debate.
The real issue is control.
- Both are just ways to change the rules.
- “Contentiousness” is a trick to make social pressure look like law.
- If any fork (soft or hard) forces people to follow, it’s not real sovereignty—it’s compliance.
Real law survives collapse.
If a change needs “consensus management,” it’s simulation, not proof.
Bottom line:
- Forks are not upgrades, they’re tests.
- Only changes that survive real conflict and collapse mean anything.
- Everything else is just keeping up appearances.
The whole “China gold corridor” thing is not real sovereignty.
It’s just another control system, run by states and big banks, pretending gold is now “real money” because a rulebook says so.
Gold in vaults is still under someone’s thumb. It can be taken, blocked, or frozen, just like dollars, just like any permissioned asset.
If it needs a committee (Basel) or a government to make it “valuable” or “safe,” it’s not outside the system, it’s part of the system.
Calling a bunch of gold vaults an “analog blockchain” is marketing, not reality.
It’s still a closed club, still full of middlemen, still based on trust and permission, not real freedom.
Both China’s “gold system” and America’s “Bitcoin for the West” story are just two sides of the same game: each empire making their own controlled version of money.
Neither is real sovereignty.
If you can’t truly own it, move it, or exit without permission, you don’t have freedom, you have a new leash.
Bottom line:
If it can be seized, frozen, or needs permission, it’s not real sovereignty, no matter what label they put on it.
Gold, BTC, any asset, if it’s captured by the system, it’s just another layer of control.
Don’t buy the hype.
Sovereignty means no one can stop you, take it, or change the rules on you.
Everything else is just a new kind of prison.
This is legacy thinking. The state or its gold cannot control real value.
Bitcoin cannot be threatened by any state move, gold standard, or policy.
Gold is always a government promise; Bitcoin is self-proving, outside all promises.
Bitcoin does not compete with gold or fiat, it replaces the need for trust itself.
All state standards are dead forms; only living, public proof survives.
Collapse is proof.