What's that old joke? Heaven is where the police are British, the lovers French, the mechanics German, the chefs Italian, and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the lovers Swiss, the mechanics French, the chefs British, and it is all organized by the Italians.

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

where was tgis shot taken?

Bitcoin adoption and why so many of us ignored it early on.

I support #Italexit, #Frexit, #Spanexit, #Grexit: I wish for european citizens to realise that they've been had, that they have given away so much power to the central goverment in Bruxelles that they are already very far embarked on the road to serfdom. Many consider falsely that the #EU is liberal, ultra-liberal, whatever that means. It's not. It's the result of decades of socialism that once again lead us to a form of totalitarianism. The true nature of socialism isn't to be more caring or driven by egalitarian ideals. It's to centralise power ever more until we reach one of the inevitable outcomes, call it communism or fascism. They are both the result of the restriction of individual freedoms. "The generation to which we belong is now learning from experience what happens when men retreat from freedom to a coercive organisation of their affairs. Though they promise themselves a more abundant life, they must in practice renounce it; as the organised direction increases, the variety of ends must give way to uniformity". Walter Lippmann. Isn't this precisely what the EU is doing? spreading uniformity and hampering diversity hence human progress and value creation?

Wouldn't it be cool to build a decentralized map system whereby we can stop feeding google's algorythms? what would that entail?

US debt in pictures. Every new $ of debt produces only $0.58 of GDP compared to $10 in the 60s or $4 in 2000.

Debtor countries versus less indebted ones. A pattern emerges. The West versus the BRICS although Brazil is quite indebted.

Another reminder that #censorship in the western world is alive and kicking!

Let's consider the USD from the standpoint of a memecoin: -34 trillion supply -No supply cap -1 Node -25% of supply minted in the last 6 months -1% of holders own 30℅ -Backed by the US gvt stuck into a debt trap Sure there are many coyntries with USD debt obligations but given time, the landscape should look quite different. Still a fan of brent johnson's milkshake theory.