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of course it is.

control of money is vital to the conception of the modern nation state.

if commerce, savings, and investment become opaque to government it would represent the greatest transfer of power away from the center and to "we the people" since the conception of rights
it would undermine everything they use to sustain control.

they could not regulate commerce, lending, banking, or investment.

they would not be able to see what you are paid or what you pay others.

and you cannot tax what you cannot see. Image
the idea that people would need to be induced to voluntarily contribute to gov't enterprises on an opt-in basis terrifies them because they know that most of what they are "selling" cannot survive consumer sovereignty and such emergence would lead to true individual sovereignty Image
the path to "government by the consent of the governed" runs through taking control of the money and removing the monopoly on its issuance, accumulation, and transfer from the state

and leviathan knows it

this is an existential threat to them and their regimes of legal plunder Image

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May 6
the level of ignorance in leo's post is astonishing.

this claim of "physical barrier" is baseless and anyone can see it.

masks do not work as protection or source control.

they show no societal impact to mitigate spread of respiratory diseases. Image
this was known and knowable. it's been studied for decades and the evidence is widespread and sound.

it does not work on flu, and flu would be easier to mitigate than covid which more aerosol. Image
you've made these claims about the kansas study, but they are false. it was a fraudulent study using cherry picked data and timing.

the full timeframe tells a different story. ImageImage
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Apr 1
this is how the botnet/activist armies are crushing accounts

they block w/ 100k bots/add you to block lists.
follow then unfollow
mass report and mute.

and you're silenced.

@elonmusk easy fix: only allow blue check mutes/blocks/reports to count.

ban blocklists
if you keep letting bot and list votes count, you're allowing small numbers of people to determine site wide reputation and reach by rigging votes.

it's just going to be an ugly arms race to the bottom.
the point of free speech is to allow and enable controversial speech and the cure for it when such speech is wrong is not "allowing those who disagree to silence it" it's "more speech."

time to stop this.
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Mar 16
well, you can say this, at least she's being honest about "i'm only willing to engage with those who wish to speak about nonsense and will vilify with silly epithets those who call me out."

last refuge of the pseudoscientist.
the points she made were that "applying political pressure can make editors speak falsehoods that contradict their own scientists."

not much of a mantra for someone accusing others of "losing the scientific argument"
and "failed to show efficacy in trials" does not mean "inefficacy is proven" is tautologically correct (especially as you cannot really prove a negative) but it's logical inversion.

pretty thin gruel upon which to feed policy.
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Mar 15
but sWeDen LOckED dOwN!!

no. sweden was pretty normal in 2020.

this is the google mobility data from phones.

the real lie is that norway, finland, denmark locked down either. mostly, they didn't

here's sweden and denmark. can you even tell the difference without labels?
overall winner scandanavia had drop ~20% for maybe 4 weeks then normal mobility vs ~75% in spain and 55% in UK and long periods of suppression

lockdowns did not work to stop covid.

at all.

and they are assoc with higher all cause deaths.
the clearest case here emerges from the total failure of lockdowns to bend covid curves.

if they stopped spread, they'd affect the case and death count.

but they don't. the curves are perfect gompertz with zero effect from drops in mobility

(5/20)
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Mar 14
buy an EV, wind up regulated by the PUC.

cannot charge at peak times.

now you're going to need to include "car to grid" capability as backup power for ruinous generation policies. Image
as ever, the decision makers are reality deniers and have no idea what they key salients mean.

leaving aside that this is near impossible to manage, it also adds costs: $1000's per hookup and huge modifications to the grid.

this will make EV's even less affordable. Image
it will also make them shorter lives and less reliable.

you only get so many charge/discharge cycles on a battery. using it as grid backup will shorten the driving life of a car, perhaps quite a lot.

then what?

the owner is out quite a lot of cash.
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Feb 18
this bizarre modern fixation upon the idea that all difficulties are pathologies and that no one ever had a hard time or found adolescence confusing/disorienting and that everyone needs to be medicated has become a full blown mental illness of its own.

#MakeNormalNormalAgain
people do not need more pharmaceutical intervention or piles of predatory struggle session therapy/re-education regimens.

they just need fellowship, human contact, networks of friends and colleagues with whom they can express themselves and find commonality.
instead we push alienation, aggrievement, and suspicion. we push ideas of structural hate and unbridgeable difference.

we turn a melting pot into a jar of lonely bugs shaken until they fight then medicated until they stop.

that's not the path to any future you want to inhabit
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