Joakim Book
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Author, editor, yogi | Meat, bitcoin, chess | calling BS on most things
Daily reminder that fossil fuels are amazing. Courtesy of Vaclav Smil
How The World Really Works
Print A book this ostentatiously titled can only be written by a researcher of Vaclav Smil’s caliber. The subtitle is no less intriguing: A Scien...
My latest for the Mises Institute, NONRIVALNESS and UNOWNED SHIT!
"despite holding the most prestigious award in the economics profession and being the author of a long-standing economics textbook, Professor Nordhaus doesn’t understand even the basic economics of property and rivalrousness."
https://mises.org/wire/cultural-appropriation-nontheft-something-no-one-owns
If certain (pretty evil) people's actions don't make sense to you, it's usually because they're not maximizing the task you THINK THEY ARE.
Dr. Fauci was _very_ good at his job -- it just wasn't the job you thought it was.
Similarly,
"The Fed and US Treasury aren’t incompetent, they just don’t work for you."
Plan accordingly.
https://twitter.com/joakimbook/status/1701303931941302288
Rich in the '70s is poor in 2023
—and it's nobody's fault but the Fed.
Since we're all using Nostr as IG these days, this was my day. Enjoy.
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Joakim Book on Instagram
11 likes, 0 comments - yogiinthesnow on September 7, 2023
LET. EVERYTHING. BUUUUURN**
"Nobody laments the unheard-of startups that didn’t make it, the continuous flow of innovations that go nowhere, the books nobody has heard of. Why lament the languages you didn’t know existed?
Like most things, the modern world has taken reality’s existing structures to their most extreme; perhaps we should rebrand [the Pareto Principle] 'the Occupy Wall Street principle.' We, the denizens of the modern world, live in the 1 percent, where all our art, our books, our economic value, our money, and our languages reside."
**except for the few minor things that have value.
The One-Percent Principle | The Daily Economy
"reducing homework or gutting it of substance, taking away structure and accountability, and creating boundless space for 'student voices' feels more patronizing than supportive"
A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
Ruby LaRocca—the winner of our high school essay contest—urges her generation to read old books, memorize poems, and invite senior citizens to ...
If we didn't know it already, fiat economics ("economics") has invaded The Economist.
No surprise there.
"Although Germany cannot spend as freely as it might have in the 2010s, when interest rates were low, forgoing investment as a way of reining in excess spending is a false economy."
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/08/17/is-germany-once-again-the-sick-man-of-europe
HOT DAMN, my guy @Erik Cason
@Erik Cason keeping it real
IT'S THE EGGS AND THE RED MEAT, GUYS!!!
Americans *would* be healthy if they, um, just hadn't GORGED ON MEAT.
Oh, noes.
Pew Research Center
What’s on your table? How America’s diet has changed over the decades
We're eating more chicken, cheese and yogurt, but less beef, margarine and ice cream.
iiiiiii... @Svetski is NOT gonna like this, I don't think:
Human Progress
Modernization and the Loss of Japan’s Samurai Culture Benefited the Japanese People
Life is about finding the edge. Approach it, purposefully. Respect it, delicately.
It's around edges that all things come alive: Stare into the abyss, unafraid and unaffected, and the meaning you seek might one day stare back at you.
#nature #iceland #yogiclife #waterfalls
#spirituality #waterfallsofinstagram
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Joakim Book on Instagram: "Life is about finding the edge. Approach it, purposefully. Respect it, delicately.
It's around edges that all things come alive: Stare into the abyss, unafraid and unaffected, and the meaning you seek might one day stare back at you.
#nature #iceland #yogiclife #waterfalls
#spirituality #waterfallsofinstagram"
18 likes, 1 comments - yogiinthesnow on August 4, 2023: "Life is about finding the edge. Approach it, purposefully. Respect it, delicately.
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Why fiaters don't understand bitcoin ownership:
The fiat world's understanding of "property" is that of a **car**: mobile, tangible, and subject to society's approval. When the government rulers over your arbitrary plot of land no longer thinks the car is yours, they take it. You can complain, but their guns are bigger than yours; and you won't get to keep the car.
The Bitcoiner understanding of "property" is that of a tattoo: immobile, value mostly intangible, and it couldn't give two shits about society's so-called approval. When the government rulers over your arbitrary plot of land no longer thinks the tattoo is yours, they... don't even know where it is, who holds it, what its meaning is. They can't remove it. If they used their oversized guns to forcibly do so, its value won't accrue to *them* or their cronies but disappear for everyone.
Bitcoin is different.
It's a full-time job these days to just keep up with what thoughtful Bitcoiners are writing and publishing.
CAN Y'ALLS BE LESS PRODUCTIVE, PLEASE?!
"Graduates feel tricked. Whether it be rent hikes, relationships, mortgage deposits, being unable to finance a family, the receding horizon of retirement or social isolation from lives spent online, their lives have turned out to be the direct inverse of what their parents, grandparents and teachers led them to expect."
The Critic Magazine
The grim side of graduation | Charlie Bentley-Astor | The Critic Magazine
Prospects for today’s students look bleak…
Great reminder in times of irrelevant information and noise avalanche:
"If the underlying problem isn't addressed first, [other] issues are pointless to discuss. **The only real problem is dishonest money**"
Fr @Knut Svanholm ∞/21M
"The quest for digital money is almost as old as the internet itself. It was just a matter of time until someone had the right idea and built a system that would actually work."
@Gigi
21 Ways To Look At Bitcoin - 21-ways.com
Chapter Zero - A Quick And Dirty Explanation - 21 Ways To Look At Bitcoin - 21-ways.com
21 Ways To Look At Bitcoin