This is why I give money to FPC. They aren’t trying to win a popularity contest or become a lobbying grift, they just sue the shit out of the tyrants and get their unconstitutional laws thrown out. This is also how I feel about bitcoin. Fuck your adoption. The right people will adopt it when they realize they have no other choice. Everyone else will just have to work to earn it. * This was a response explaining why they won’t stop using profanity in their Tweets.

Imagine the home school rates if women didn’t need to work to make the family budget work. Young men should strive to earn top 10% incomes so their wife can stay home with the kids. There are aviation and diesel mechanics making $200K with overtime and $150K without OT. Lots of trades are also useful skills that can allow you to run your own business and make plenty of money to support a family on a single income. The very first luxury we bought when we started making decent money was my wife’s early retirement. She quit working a few years before we even had a second car.

They predicted that climate change would bring about mass migration that would lead to violence. Then they opened the borders, started endless wars, and debased the currency in an orgy of profligacy. All policies that encouraged mass migration and violent outbursts in developed countries. “Why is Greta visiting Zelenskyy?” Why the fuck do you think? They need to keep making the connections so the NPCs will beg them for their communist solutions to all their invented problems.

Free use of the internet by all is not possible without ZIRP. There was one 3rd party app making 7 billion Reddit API requests per month on behalf of 800,000 users. ≈10K/user/month for free. That is insane and unsustainable. I can’t even imagine what is going on at Twitter. Nostr will face the same problems if it ever gets popular. It isn’t even popular yet and the Damus relay is already unsustainable as a free service. The answer isn’t to kill all anonymous use and put everything behind a KYC/AML panopticon paywall. The answer is to charge enough via bitcoin to cover the costs of running the services. Let people pay for what they use and force the free riding NGOs, intelligence agencies, and scammers to pay their own freight for their nefarious uses.

He dramatically increased the cost of the API which massively incentivized scraping. Now he’s restricting the views to increase the time spent using the app?

The Twitter capitulations have only begun.

Funny that the RNG seems to be biased against videos that might offend the woke fucks who work at Twitter. Here’s a video of some commie fucks getting their asses beat in France. A Twitter Video Downloader didn’t have any trouble downloading the video.

How is Twitter so bad at playing videos back after all this time? It’s been like this for years. It feels like there is an RNG used to determine whether any given video will play or not.

The ATF receiver rule got thrown out yesterday and 80% receivers can be ordered again. That’s a great 4th of July gift.

People who value fasting should study how Orthodox Christians fast and experiment with that approach, including the focus on the feasts that break the fasts and the rituals and stories around all of it. Now imagine doing that with an entire community made up of people who are all struggling to do the same thing. Then bring them all together under the same roof multiple times a week to participate in the same rituals together while being annoyed with each other’s quirks and foibles. Have them all examine in minute detail how they failed to live up to their ideals and then expose those failures to someone they trust deeply. I have fasted many times over the years but never gave any thought to any of that. I definitely haven’t experienced it, but now I find myself thinking about it a lot.

The people who didn’t ever take custody and just waited for Swan to transfer their accounts to BitGo or Fortress around May 26th. I wonder how many 7 figure Swan Private Services accounts could be in that boat.

Another question: were any of Swan’s umpteen paid influencers paid in bitcoin via Prime Trust accounts? Or are they all fiat posers who got paid via a Swan corporate account that won’t be subject to clawbacks? It’s going to be interesting to see how that plays out.

How many people deposited 6 figures into Prime via Swan over the last 90 days who now have to wonder if that money will be subject to a clawback?

It was outsourced custodians all the way down. River didn’t buy off half of Twitter so they never got nearly as much respect as they clearly deserved.

Mirror, mirror, on the wall… The mirror finds a way even in the hinterlands.

The cognitive dissonance of leftist academics talking about why other leftist academics hate bitcoin on What Bitcoin Did (soon to be renamed because it’s too embarrassing to tell leftists you like bitcoin). So you’re telling me the people who have built an entire career that lets them abuse their unearned power aren’t eager to embrace a system that completely neuters their unearned power and would force them to earn an honest living? I’m shocked.

If your only path to achieving your your goals is getting rich via fiat gains on bitcoin, you will very likely screw it up.

The secret is to have enough cash flow to buy anything you could ever want and then save the excess in bitcoin. You will never be tempted to “sell the top” so you can treat yourself because you’ll have all the treats you want.

I don’t care even a little bit about adoption and I want the commies and their enablers bankrupted. These schemes will never work because commies are fundamentally opposed to private property. The entire religion is based on the idea that all their problems would be solved if there was no private property. It’s much easier to steal the wealth of others than to take responsibility for your own failures to become useful enough to society to earn your own wealth.