I'm looking to replace my existing wifi network, and I'm looking at the FreeMesh system. Wondering if anyone has tried it, and what your thoughts are about how well it works. https://freemeshwireless.com/

Be Uncontrollable.

Got a yt link for this?

I'm ok with that. Now we just need zaps to work between them by auto transferring one type of digital token for another.

The USA ceased to exist as a constitutionally limited democratic republic in November of 1963. That was when we switched over to being an Empire. The voters no longer have control of our government. And most of us are in denial about that fact.

I do see what you are saying. And if that's the way things go, then we'll be in a dystopian nightmare, and I would expect the civilization to crash and burn and humanity to go extinct. If that's how you feel about the future, that's on you. I choose to believe that we will figure out how to survive and thrive. What you are describing is already part of the world we live in, it's called the 4th Amendment. We have the right to be secure in our papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, and this shall not be violated and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized. This applies to day, to all financial transactions and records of communications. If legal authority believes that a crime has been committed, they can search and bring what they find to a court of law. If we don't believe in that anymore, then we have given up on nation states and we should prepare for hell on Earth. I'm not ready to go there.

True enough. I've seen conflicting messages on whether LN transactions are capable of being tracked like that. If they can be, then it's probably something that will be attempted. All that would do is build an underground market, and I don't think it would last forever.

If they applied that to fiat, nobody would be able to touch a penny.

What are you seeing that tells you that?

UBI would only really work with a fiat CBDC. You have to know who is getting the capital, and there has to be mechanisms in place to make sure that they do. There's actually a better way. Universal Basic Assets, basically a dividend on civilization itself. Can be done with the current miner systems, or with Lightning Network yield. It requires everyone to have an understanding of how basic financing works, with income, assets, expenses and debt. Instead of just an income stream that helps cover some or most expenses, force people to be responsible by giving them assets that generate that income stream, and the goal is to build their collection of assets so that the income pays the expenses for the life they want to live. The only way to reform the state at a global scale is by hitting the reset button. Every single nation state government is corrupt, to the extreme. Whether you consider yourself to be far left or far right, authoritarian or democratic, collectivist or individualist, the existing government institutions are failing us all, and there is nothing that can be done from the inside of those systems to fix them. They must all be destroyed and replaced.

They were missing zaps. 😉

Love the t-shirt!

That's insane.

Neither do I, just being honest. But I've spent decades sending ideas and requests into the void, and nothing ever comes of it. If anything was really a game changer, I know I would need to learn how to do it myself.