• Energy blackouts and pricing volatility are avoidable with an independent renewable energy setup, but some bitcoiners love the fossil fuel industry and centralized energy companies so much, that the sun, wind, and ground are scams. They prefer the geopolitical games of oil regimes and demand their grids use centralized commodity inputs. They don't know why, but heard some twitter personalities throw out old data that sounded new. Also, if a person is an urban dweller, decentralizing transportation with an e-bike is another great way to avoid the energy and KYC scourge. Several e-bikes exist that can seat multiple kids and carry hundreds of pounds, others than can easily fold and be carried, but a bunch of bitcoiners love their 4-wheel spyware, gas stations, repairs, KYC insurance, and police interaction.
• VPNs are getting better, but mesh net tech is coming.
• Gun ownership and freedom of speech in the US have gotten consistently stronger in since 1791's constitution ratification, not weaker.
• Shorting stocks won't be illegal, otherwise volatility, and efficient pricing will be significantly worse, and cantillionaires won't make as much
• Media scanning is easily avoidable if you dump the centralized abusers. It's insane to use Gmail, iCloud, your university email, non-private web browsers, etc.
• Bitcoin on-chain stigma probably won't get worse than that period of overlap starring SilkRoad, Mt. Gox, and Ghash.io
• The ultimate capital control is interest rates
• Truly independent (non-commercial) farming seems to be encouraged, even in empty lots across a bunch of US cities, lots of vertical stuff too.
• Conscription possibly. Mostly a global East, and global South thing

Why this post? Why is the world going to be any different?

• You may have seen my 'inflammatory' SN post last week about where markets are today. TLDR: they are going lower from here.
• As Lyn Alden recently shared in her newsletter, volatility both politically and financially is here to stay.
• During War times, all logic goes out the window. Laws get rewritten, 'visible' choice will be limited and disobedience will be punished.
• We're all aware of the "political-ganda" that exists today and what the shock of 2020 unleashed on the world.
• Coordinated or not, with tensions worldwide on the rise, with protests, mass migration, joblessness, homelessness and with financial liquidity at it's lowest in recent years, volatility will be abounds.
• Under these circumstances, truth must be suppressed to maintain control.
• Any tool that empowers individuals to find such truth, and retain value amidst the chaos is likely to see some headwinds.
• But that doesn't mean to be deterred. We may need to be smarter about using these tools.
• The reason I am saying these things is not to get all doomsday - it is more to prepare in advance for some crazy policies, from those that pretend to 'govern'.

What is there to do?

• Get an open-source 2nd mobile device setup. Buy it in cash and install GrapheneOS. Secure yourself some additional surplus resources. Do it tomorrow.
• Run your own node, duh. So you can at the very least retain some control of capital.
• Have a bootable backup or copy of software pre-2019 (particularly Apple software), for stuff you can't do on a mobile device.
• Start keeping an inventory of consumables. Not to be a prepper, but in the eventuality they may not always be available day to day.
• Consider your exit plans.