Florida passed the ballots on weed and abortion with similar numbers as Trump got. That is exactly my vibe. I'm seriously getting self-psyched now about the remote idea of moving there. This may actually end up happening.

Because GenX is the most basedest generation.

Too many bitcoiners make the same misttake this man says he used to make: money is currency. Not necessarily. BTC sucks balls as currency. But the good news is that it doesn't NEED to be currency to be money. Let other people and projects who do it better take care of that, who cares. View quoted note →

I always say that BTC's number one milestone to be considered successful must be surpassing gold's market capitalization. Not so long ago, we were looking at $10 T => BTC = $475k. That's been my mental frame for years. Today I see gold is $18 T, which means BTC = $860k. Just as with real inflation, these are figures that we have to keep in mind if we want to be realistic and rational. I'm as bullish as ever, but I don't want to fool myself into very costly mistakes. I am not one of these BTC millionaires who "don't care about price" (but spend in BTC and want you to do the same). I am SAVING and INVESTING in BTC as my retirement fund. Very different outlook, and I simply can't fuck up.

Fuck France, fuck Europe, fuck this whole dying shithole of a fascist collectivist continent. https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2024/11/07/en-france-l-anj-enquete-sur-polymarket-la-plateforme-de-paris-qui-a-fait-fureur-lors-de-la-campagne-americaine_6381713_4408996.html

This drivel is taught in universities all over the West. It was taught to me during my post-grade studies, and I keep seeing it repeated, over and over. It's usually paired with the even more preposterous idea that the gold standard was responsible too for the Great Depression. Facts: 1. The Federal Reserve came into existence in 1913. That's 16 years before the 1929 collapse. In case anyone is missing the point: the Fed is the CENTRAL PLANNING agent in charge of monetary policy. Thus, by the time the great Depression hit, the "laissez faire" had long been gone from the money and financial markets, and we had entered the UNFREE market phase. 2. Immediately after the creation of the FEd, oh surprise, WW1 begins in Europe and the Gold Standard is suspended. Again, that's more than a decade before the 1929 events. That was precisely HOW the powers at war were able to escalate and sustain the war to the levels of unprecedented devastation that they did. That's also what caused the subsequent hyperinflation, instability and chaos in the economies of all developed nations during the 20's. 3. Every single case of "successful" "social welfare system" in the developed world can be traced back to the spoils of a time when there was a limited government and a small state, with increased levels of economic freedom that allowed for massive capital accumulation. The "social programs" that socialist apologists love to talk about, like those of the 70's and 80's in Scandinavia, are indisputably all under that category. The "welfare state"programs were paid for and kept alive with the accumulated progress and wealth from the previous "program-less" era, and invariably squandered during the "program-on" one. Most of those countries if not all have in fact corrected course during the past couple of decades. Again, see Sweden for instance. View quoted note →

The fact that this is news, blows my mind.

In most major metro areas in the West, we have achieved peak Kafka in the sense that people pay monthly rentals that are lower than what a bank loan would cost, but they can't access the loan to begin with because the banks require downpayments that are impossible to gather. So, you can see people who religiously pay their monthly rental, without fail, for years, and years, but they still don't qualify for a loan. View quoted note →

More about this, specific to stable coins as reserve assets in banks, and what makes a cryptoasset eligible to be considered "hedged" and thus receive a different treatment from "non hedged" ones. Spoiler: having ETFs and being traded in "regulated exchanges" are requirements (and this is why, and now you know). https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d567.pdf View quoted note →

So my friend sent me the link to this bloody AI video generator Hailuo AI thing. It is obviously and totally just a scam to steal our pictures and shit, but I can't help myself and stop using it to produce stupid amounts of 5 second videos of us transforming into a bunch of Dungeons & Dragons orcs fighting in a tavern.

I have been quoting Gramsci to people for two decades now. It's not like the guy didn't clearly state what the strategy and the plan was. His thesis was that because the well-to-do industrialized West was NOT like Czarist Russia, and people lived in relative comfort, violent revolution wasn't possible, as seen in Germany, Italy, the UK, etc. Since the mechanism by which the bourgeoisie controls society and keeps "workers" in check and docile is "cultural hegemony", that is, ideology imposed and spread by cultural and political institutions, that's what the Marxists had to do to bring about the changes they want. Specifically, Gramsci perfectly identified education and academia at large, and universities and media specifically, as the priority target for infiltration. He wrote all this in the 1910 and 20's! They've been at it for 100 years, and probably in earnest since the 60's, especially in Europe where they have achieved basically total and absolute hegemony, as he wished. I always remark on this fact: it's taken them 100 years, and they've done it. Even if we all become aware of it, and we decided to undo it, how long do you think it's going to take? No "democratic mandate" completely conditioned by the 4 year electoral cycle can ever be enough. This is a much deeper and longer process that must be undertaken. View quoted note →