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Me too!

Now power/wealth seeking, but power/wealth stealing through political power. I seek power and wealth.

Mass. calling out the national guard to relocate the illegals from the Vineyard....a precedent not to be forgotten.

Milk is the canary in the coal mine.
Far more devious mechanisms are at work here:
Factory farms are using hybridized seeds that grow fast and have a longer shelf-life but have half the nutritional content as our heritage varieties.
The seeds from hybridized plants are either sterile or will not grow properly.
The vast majority of seeds produced come from five mega-corporations.

Untied Heathcare (aka: AARP) hit job:
Was it a doppelgänger? Is He really dead?
I predict we are going to see a rash of very rich people disappearing off the radar.
Are the dirty elite worried what crimes Trump's DoJ will pursue?

Deportation:
Stop paying illegal aliens our Tax Dollars.
They will Self-Deport

When science succeeds at playing God: creating to ability change XY chromosomes to XX chromosomes, then you can talk to me about "Transitioning".
Until then, what trannies need is counseling, not drugs and surgery.

Just because you love sardines, it doesn't make you a penguin.

All that said, I don't care, and never have cared, what people of legal majority do in the privacy of their bedrooms.

Same here.
Think I'll watch that tonight.

Loved the last one. It says it all about Trump and the people who voted for him.

That’s funny!

The first 4/5ths of the book is a build up of organism contention for resources leading up to modern military thinking. If you get stalled, skip to the last 1/5th where he applies his premises to the bitcoin network. Enjoy.

In a just society, this would be the end of the Democrat Party, but it won't be. They have too much to lose. They will lose a lot, but they will not go extinct. There is too much left for them to loot!

Makes sense to me

..you can’t balance a budget by making people go back to work, but you certainly can start.
Yes, it creates a momentum in the right direction.

Pentagon. Not the only megalith to fail routine audits. eg the EU. That is no excuse, audits are important. Repeated failure is a signal of deep malaise. One solution is to split it into smaller units that could be wrong organizationally but it is a necessary medicine.

I noticed. Is it a real pic, wrist bangles?
True to my personal view of Trud who is either very scared, very cold, or does not know which restroom to use.

Hadn't thought of that but found the pic profound. Whether mending or adding, the piece deeply affected me

I thought maybe the last one was Trump sewing on the 51st star for Canada.

I think the "sake of another man" really doesn't apply to parenthood. Parenthood is a a practice of self-sacrifice. There are times when my kids piss my off so much I check out for a while. "Dad's going fishing..."

Kids are very soft and sensitive these days, it seems. I'm constantly coaching my son through this. Some of these kids are really nuts and I'm trying to get him to learn that once you determine somebody is nuts you 1-avoid them, and 2-don't give a damn about what they say. Tough lesson.

Reminds me of reports of polio in NY sewers. Uh...there's always polio in the sewers. Modern plumbing is what keeps us safe. And, yes...Via crony capitalism (as described in Atlas Shrugged) is what's probably behind this raw milk scare.

. . . and no one noticed Woke, taylor swift lovin fagot boy trudeau, "beavis and butthead", The Pardon - one falls and the other is pulled down too, or Our President, in solitude, physically mending America (the flag) ?

2 resonates with me in a most special way thanks.

Me dino laughed out loud when I read "No country for Woke men." No one has a right to cancel anyone for refusing the put on the enslaving Yoke of the Woke.
A few memes later I said "Amen" after I read "I am intolerant of mentally ill people forcing the rest of us to play make believe."
New thoughts came thereafter. Not all those bullying people are mentally ill for believing they are not the sex they really are.
And of that second group, those who aren't all twisted up for indoctrinated are just plain evil.

You want the (potential) supply to be unlimited (tracking the steady value of goods and services available for purchase), but the big question is: Who controls the supply, and who decides who gets the newly-created currency.

>> You don't want a buch of dipshits suddenly becoming rich at the expense of productive people, but this is exactly what bitcoin does.

You don't want a bunch of dipshits suddenly becoming rich at the expense of productive people, but this is exactly what central-bank-controlled fiat currency does.

Those 'dipshits getting rich' on bitcoin are essentially the early adopters profiting from the rise in bitcoin's value. I'm not sure you want to break the 'early investors in a new technology profit from its increase in popularity' mechanism.

A good currency has the following attributes:
1: It has a stable value (the value doesn't fluctuate, or doesn't fluctuate much), and as such can be used as a store of value.
US dollar: pretty good, better than most world fiat currencies.
Bitcoin: bad.
2: It is easily portable.
US dollar (physical): good for small transactions, poor at border crossings, poor for large transactions (try buying a car with a suitcase full of cash)
US dollar (electronic): good unless you are a 'disfavored person or business'.
Bitcoin: very good.
3: It is easily divisible, and usable for both large and small transactions.
US dollar: very good
Bitcoin: excellent
4: It's widely accepted.
US dollar: very good, unless you are a 'disfavored person or business'.
Bitcoin: Fair to poor.
5: Fakes are easily detected.
US dollar: good
Bitcoin: very good
6: It doesn't suffer from the 'double spend' problem.
US dollar (physical): excellent
US dollar (electronic): Anywhere from excellent to poor, depends on the bank processing the transaction.
Bitcoin (on-chain): excellent
Bitcoin (off-chain, exchanges): Anywhere from excellent to poor, depends on the bitcoin exchange.
7: Transaction overhead is very low (effectively zero except for very large transactions).
US dollar: Good to very good
Bitcoin: Fair to good (mainly risk premium for converting bitcoin to another currency due to its volatility)
8: Any central authority for the currency needs to be trustworthy, and not inflate the currency for their own benefit.
US dollar: has been pretty good so far in the short term but poor in the long term, but can slide to poor in the short term in an instant.
Bitcoin: Excellent so long as there isn't an undisclosed bug in the protocol, and 51% attacks are impossible in practice.

Thank you. It's not a trivial read, so I queued it up.

But just reading the Purpose... I like it.

I you're really ready to study where bitcoin(the bitcoin network really) is going... you should look into Softwar by Jason Lawery

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