Libre office supports #bitcoin! Now the question is when will it support #monero ....

LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency - Phoronix

Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin 'BTC' as a suppor...

Rights are a fundamentals concept of liberty. Understanding individual rights, what they are and where they came from is key to properly arguing for freedom. That is why the following article is so important.

Ayn Rand’s Theory of Rights: The Moral Foundation of a Free Society

by Craig Biddle

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Ayn Rand's Theory of Rights: The Moral Foundation of a Free Society

) And when someone does not properly understand the nature of rights, we get this shit show: #rights #freedom #aynrand

Who could have guessed tha raising the price of a commodity will make it scarce? Who could have guessed that making travel scarce will harm trade (trade == trave of commodityies)? Who could have guessed that socialism will fail yet again? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airlines-sweden/swedens-air-travel-drops-in-year-when-flight-shaming-took-off-idUSKBN1Z90UI/ #economics #sweden

#ElonMusk has started his own political party. Here are few points that went through my mind 1. He is using #protonmail. That is a sign that he trusts its privacy 2. His idea is so raw and so disorganized that he hasn't even bought a domain. Not a good sign for the future of the party. 3. Democrats are too tribal to vote for him since he supported trump. Which means he will take mostly GOP votes, leading to more Dem wins. 4. With the Amep doing it's job for them, the Dems can not only focus on winning, but also disregard common sense or common ground. This will lead to a more radicalized Democratic Party. 5. Both the Dems and the GOP will unite to block Amep. This will lead to an Amep failure. 6. Even if they win, they will do little change. The USA needs a philosophical revolution not a political reform. 7. Musk will crate a bigger change if it puts tens of millions behind the #AynRand institute and/or groups that are pushing for #SchoolChoice. These are institutions that are trying to change the way people think.

Here is an idea to limit the political powers of unions. A law that prevents them from making contributions to politicans and political affiliated entities (PAC's etc)

When Libertarians see pirates as a positive and heros as a negative you have to conclude that something is wrong with their ideas.

Reason.com

The best democracy is anarchy

"Anarchism and democracy are—or should be—largely identical," wrote the anthropologist David Graeber.

Turns out, surprise surprise, that the hysteria surrounding the iceberg shrinking is just that, hysteria. Turns out that we don't really know why the iceberg shrunk. Or why they are now growing. It turns out that we simply don't understand how the climate works. Not surprising since they are chaotic systems. It turns out that all these initiatives to give control of our lives to some central authority had nothing to do with climate and everything to do with controlling us.

Yahoo News

Scientists stunned after detecting unexpected shift in Antarctic Ice Sheet: 'A historic turnaround'

The ice sheet holds 90% of the freshwater on the planet.

#climate

So the police thinks that it's not their job to reduce crime, it's the property owners that should give up their property rights 🤬

Apple and Google clash with police and MPs over phone thefts

The police told MPs that a big proportion of violent crime is related to mobile phone theft.

#rights #crime