There exist maybe 5 childhood pictures of me and they're all dusty physical photos in an album god-knows-where.

You should beat your swords into plowshares ... but you should also keep a gun handy to defend the farm. Peaceful, yet not harmless.

Over here, even calling yourself a libertarian is almost a crime. I think people hate the very concept of freedom without fully understanding it, that's why you can suggest improvements to laws and various bureaucratic processes hypothetically leading to increased freedom and people will agree but as soon as you suggest that maybe the organisations enforcing such nonsensical rules shouldn't even exist, they completely lose their minds defending every penny of government spending achieving absolutely nothing.

Hopefully there is a -100% tariff on fish so it evens out in the end.

They've been systematically suppressed for so long that a lot of people had forgotten that most right-wingers are the same type of low-grade moron as the left wing, just with a slightly different paint job.

Oh well, that's where democracy inevitably leads at some point.

My grandparents were so stupid they would've eaten gravel marinated in brake fluid if some politician had told them to.

I think by not voluntary going along with CBDCs or stablecoin alternatives as public-private-partnerships (also known as fascism), you can evade some control and coercion but at some point they'l just shove a gun in your face anyway. Keep in mind that in the 1930s physical gold would've been incredibly hard to keep track of with the technology of the time but they still outlawed the private ownership of it until the mid-70s and people went along. Then again, since you weren't allowed to sell or borrow against it, what good would gold have done you during that time?

It has been working for socialists for well over a hundred years so I'm all for adopting that view for non-evil purposes.

The part of me that cares deeply about grammar is quietly screaming in agony.

Apparently Hayek was a cool guy 😄

Well, I'd say a force for good if his actions speak louder than his words and a source of unending annoyance if all he does is inevitably guide every conversation towards bitcoin 😅

I try to disprove the thing I'd like to see like someone who wants to see me and my argument fail. I've worked with so many horrible people that that mindset is easy to imagine.

And here I thought this was a portrait of the Ghost Rider, silly me 😅

So you're saying the law is working as intended?