yup, that’s actually the subtitle - illiberal democracy at home and abroad

The bot actually has a point…

Of the enlightenment ideals, liberalism is far more valuable to human flourishing than democracy. The world and history are full of many liberal, competent governments that are undemocratic, and many tyrannical and/or incompetent governments that are democratic. Democracy without extreme safeguards (constitution, checks and balances) will lead to both tyranny, mediocrity, and idiocy. He also extends the idea to institutions outside of the state like companies, religious institutions, and social groups.

It came out about three years before Idiocracy, and I’d kill to know if Mike Judge read it before making that movie.

Congrats!

Where I went to school, kids that listened to Nirvana regularly got beat up by kids that listen to Metallica.

Tangential, but have you ever read The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria? I’m kind of shocked that we don’t hear about that take more on stacker.news. Just dig the subtitle to get a feel for the book…

That is awesome!

I was thinking about doing that for the passing of blocks. Maybe a shied renewal thing you could grab whenever a block passes? I really do want someone to be able to claim this.

While I agree with a good amount of this article, please consider a couple of critiques that kind of frustrate its credibility for someone like myself.

Basically everything you say about Nirvana is wrong. I think you're remembering Metallica. Definitely a band with a different style and cultural allegiance.

I find it interesting that you mention End of History but not Clash of Civilizations. Isn't that the writing from that time that's become prescient in this regard? Fighting the war Huntington describes can account for the vast majority of the national debt.

628.8 in a game under 20 minutes. I didn't time it, but since only one block passed, that's my guess.

Here's a few observations that may help.

1. The size of the ship is the amount of BTC in the transaction. The amount of shields it has is the tx size in virtual bytes. So I always pause to give two shots to bigger ships since they might be exchange transactions or something like that.
2. Time of day definitely matters. When I made this, all of my games in that session were actually less than a single bitcoin. So basically, there's a massive amount of luck involved if you're playing specifically for this bounty.

Well I think putting husbands in boxes is impolite.

You just gotta start watching the schedule of those oil tankers!

this put a smile on my face. Thank you.

thanks! there’s a good thirty-eight minutes of music in there and none of it was made with any ai assistance!

Well let me know what you think is a good alternative. I legitimately hope this site makes some people rethink their assumptions of why other folks need alternatives to the current financial order.

Now THIS is what it looks like when I'm truly clowning around. :)

"(also I suck)"

Me too!

They're two of the presidents most responsible for sweeping expansion of state control of the economy. I wouldn't call myself a South African expert, but based on my time there, the things that make it a hard place to live for most people are the massive amounts of government rules and incompetence. So sadly, the thing that LBJ and DJT hold in common is actually the same thing that is making the US look more like SA every year.

Not saying it's great privacy, but with a VPN or at a public computer, it's better than most people are currently operating with. Maybe even at home without a VPN it is.

So after putting some thought into this, I'm sticking to what it is for the time being. The target audience of this isn't dissidents. They're actually the subject matter (although there are plenty of things the coinos can do for them that (without training) self custody can't)). The target audience is people still in the trad system that find bitcoin scary. Your average statist friend still knows nazis are bad. That's why everybody gets accused of being a nazi. This satire to get them asking questions. I'm happy to share a better "get involved" link though if you've got a better idea. I just find the one I picked to be an extremely simple to use wallet with better privacy than a trad bank or exchange.