Italian is just French Spanish.

Freedom of speech for me, but not for thee.

Once you get out of the consumer mindset, it's not that difficult. Eventually, the behavior even begins to seem strange, which makes it easier to not go back to old habits. I think has a lot to do with the invention of "disposable" single use items. That shifts your mindset from only seeing things that are truly disposable as such, to seeing everything else being disposable as well. I used to buy a new phone every year - sometimes multiple per year. Car has a dent? Trade it in. New clothes, new shoes, new glasses, the "latest" tech (even though the old tech is only a single update behind). Looking back, it's sickening. Now that I'm on a Bitcoin standard, I've had the same shitty iPhone X since 2016 and I'm still satisfied. I've gotten a new battery and the metaphorical cuts on my fingers from the broken back glass serve as a good reminder to keep going. Repair > replace. But even that will have a limited lifespan, as the updates are now reaching the point where my phone is no longer being supported, limiting my access to using certain apps and basically forcing me to upgrade to get the newest iOS update. When it finally dies, I'm buying a walkie-talkie and sending smoke signals. I refuse to be forced into consumerism just to contribute to quarterly earnings reports.

Just rewatched The Matrix trilogy last night. I don’t remember those being documentaries. 🤔

"The more the government overreaches, the more they create their own competition" is an absolute banger.

Yessir

I was just having this conversation with one of my friends yesterday about the difference between true economic growth and inflationary growth. Of course they need people to think that 1-2% inflation is good for the economy. That's the perfect psyop. That lets them print a little bit all the time, hitting the throttle as needed for bailouts, etc., rather than printing large amounts all at once and potentially facing pushback. (Which they still have to do now that we've reached late game). Most people think that "growth" is good no matter what, because number go up. Which is the psyop working exactly as intended. People don't even have the capacity to question that line of thinking. The price of goods and services are just supposed to go up over time... Right? Wrong. "The natural state of the free market is deflation." - In a truly free market, if I sell a product for $100, Bob finds a way to do it cheaper, better, faster, and sells it for $95. Then, Tom beats Bob's price and sells it for $90, and so on. Competition is supposed to drive prices DOWN over time. If you think about inflation while accounting for the fact that prices are supposed to be going down, rather than remaining stable, we're actually getting fucked twice as hard as people think.

So, are we at memes rn? The bottom is in?

BlackCore is aptly named for those soulless individuals

Nice tail number 😂

Welcome home

Throwback! Ty for the nostalgia

No matter what it is, that's what it is.

I'm a big fan of all the things he just said. GOOD! The US need to stop acting like the world's mediator anyway. "BUt wE WoNt bE Able tO SaNCtiOn ThEm." OH NO! You mean no more financial colonialism? 😔 How sad! Anyway...

We're going to dominate decentralization. 🤡

That's my stage name. Nice work!

Gotta be for me

It's was in the top 10?!

Transmute Chaos is a banger album title

I agree with you. I don't want them there either. My taxes should not be going toward being the world's mediator.

Not to brag, but I got a 92% on my hearing exam this morning. 🤓🦙

I think about this post like once a week.

They were just buying time to make sure they got their piece first

You'd like it if you had robot ears