#carnivore OMAD brunch today. 6 eggs cooked with the yolks still runny, with shredded pork roast, port salut cheese, and a dollop of sour cream. Pan fried in ghee.

Caveat: RIGHTS only exist by force. The TRUTH behind moral principles is NOT that they are truly inalienable or inviolate. The fact that slavery, despotism, murder, and the like exists is proof that there is NO right that cannot be invalidated by properly applied force. The TRUTH behind rights is that there is NO other way to live. When everyone is a slave, there is no incentive to produce any more than what keeps the whip off of you. The slave driver spends his energy on the whip instead of on innovation or more productive craft. And the slave repeats the same pattern, but with more weariness, until he expires. A society without rights slowly drains the cultural momentum and technological innovation until it is swallowed into an ever-spiraling race to the bottom, within which said society will eventually collapse. The west was the first civilization to recognize rights and abolish slavery. It was also the first to realize the industrial and captitalist revolutions, and it was also the fist civilization to conquer all others. This is NOT a coincidence, but the ROOT CAUSE. View quoted note →

THIS is exactly why I do not support new surveillance powers while also supporting crackdowns on lawlessness. No surveillance powers needed. This was filmed by someone on the ground and publically posted for the entire world to see, with the street and the offenders’ faces visible to all. Absolutely NO new powers are necessary to bring these people to Justice, yet they won’t fucking do it. Meanwhile, the NEW powers they give themselves are used to go after samurai wallet and anything that gives people even nominal independence while harming NO ONE. Our government doesn’t need new powers, we need a new government that does it’s ONLY moral purpose: punishing criminals.

Translation: The elites hear your concerns, but won’t solve any of them and are actually about to double down and stark cracking down on communications freedoms even harder soon so that they can pretend that there are no more criticisms since they can’t be heard anymore. View quoted note →

Anyone else have this problem on @YakiHonne ? I can see the profile photo and the timestamp, but not even an outline of the content of the note nor the actual username of the npub that posted it. Makes it really hard to see what is important to open or not.

Congrats, we have rediscovered aristolelian politics. Aristotle laid governments out into oligarchy, monarchy, and democracy. And he posited that they produced each other in a cycle. The ineptitude and mutually parasitic interests of a democratic mob eventually created a deficit spending bureaucratic class of oligarchs in charge of distributing the voted-for soils. Then the oligarchs start enriching themselves at the expense of the populace that propped them up until the commoners select “someone, anyone” to remove the collective bureaucratic weight from their shoulders. Thus, through Cesarism, the society arrives at monarchy. Then, some generations later, the descendant of that great ceasar is an incompetent fool who the people remove in order to “do it themselves”… but only because his ancestor freed the people from the bureaucracy and enabled them the latitude for such competency. Since the grandchildren of the liberating democrats lack the context and moral direction of their grandparents, they succumb to the allure of voting themselves other people’s money, and thus the cycle repeats. View quoted note →

A very good read, but I will caveat one point: “Internet centralizes” is wrong. #nostr is a good example. People can publish their own albums, cutting into the fame of the establishment musicians. Opinions that used to be impossible to express on TV are now spoken on internet platforms. This is why the isolationist right has been making a comeback despite not being favorable to any “approved” networks or outlets. As options like Nostr and simplex expand to provide alternatives to centralized internet platforms like X/Twitter and tiktok, the diversity of ideas and content that is able to be shared will continue to increase. View quoted note →

The whole value statement of crypto is deregulation and non-inflationary value. They can’t change the source code to make it inflationary, so they will try to regulate it into irrelevance. View quoted note →

Every time my country invaded a Stone Age one, the first thing that happens is that those people end up getting mass imported to my country as “refugees”. But somehow making fun of the anti-ice protestors who magically have the money to travel across the country to be at “protests” thousands of miles apart means I support more of the interventionist wars that bring the invaders here. This is “you supported trump on one thing, therefore youre a cult member that uncritically supports his every decision”. Sick of the crap. This is why we get memes like this: View quoted note →

Oh look, it’s all the professional “protesters” at every one of these “protests” while I have to work a real job to pay for their mysterious deep-state funded Craigslist activism job. View quoted note →

The alternative to removing the invaders is internal conquest like the welfare and voter fraud going on in MN. There is no option BUT to deport them. The deep state would push the other shit regardless and is still using “CSAM” as an excuse too (like the online self-doxxing requirements for things like even X/twitter). They will find any excuse. This isn’t maga having tunnel vision, this is the machine using whatever thing is in the popular zeitgeist to push its agenda. If maga suddenly became all about MAHA and getting “forever chemicals” out of our food/water supply, the deep state would start rolling out mandatory smart home devices to “check our water” that happen to conveniently have microphones and wifi connectivity “for your safety”. Believing that this is somehow maga’s fault for not wanting their companies being internally infested with fraudster indias IS the psyop. View quoted note →

Agreed. I knew the mesh was too short of range. Bitchat will never work as advertised until it reaches a certain level of ubiquity in a single area. The sole benefit of bitchat over more secure methods of Bluetooth mesh like meshtastic/meshcore is the the zero upfront cost (no need for ANY new hardware). But ephemeral anonymous coms can have its use in heavily censored environments. But, like with any coms that arent message runners, it comes with risks. View quoted note →

So many people on here so desperate to make a “deep state plot” out of the ice officer saying that he shot her for nothing. Well he is in the hospital now for injuries sustained. This is why “libertarians” are so often just leftists that want to pretend to be “not like the other girls”.

I had experienced this too View quoted note →

This one might be a bit too edgy for my @Beatbox Serenade moniker, so I’ll drop it here. But it’s a joke on the army going woke, in the form of a sea shanty. #music #acapella #parody #woke #seashanty #funny