I'm curious to know if this is true Zeus can know who and where and I'm sending and receiving payments when I use the LN address feature right? And also curious about the extent to which the Olympus LSP has access to similar information.

Fiat Law. Aka Positive Law. When you disconnect from overarching narratives and actually start reading the words that the legislators, executors, interpreters and enforcers of a 'positivistic' law are abiding by, you start realising something: Behind every leglislation, ordinance and government order is a group of intellectuals, usually residing in the jursisdiction's capital city or somehow close to the power elite, who has never run a business or worked a job writing laws and pretending that he is helping people, when he really isn't. 'Policymaking' in a positive law system is a slippery slope towards becoming out of touch with market realities, moving ever closer into the inviting and enticing arms of power and tyranny. Once they get a taste of that power trip that comes with being able to bludgeon others and subjecting them to their will, there's little chance of going back. Because words are used as legitimizing tools for power and violence, they start to take on different meanings, falling prey to twisting, manipulation and misuse to serve the interests of the power elite. This isn't about capitalism or socialism, democracy or monarchy, liberalism vs conservatism, which I am starting to understand as battles that distract humanity from the more crucial question: Whether laws are made by fiat or discovered by reason, i.e., positive law vs natural law. Revolutions and uprisings with the goal of bringing about a natural law-based order will merely replace the existing power structures with a new one, often pursuing means that contradict the ends. Education and awareness can't fix this because pursuing the universality of it as a 'positive' goal will leave it open to corruption by the power elite, also often pursuing means that contradict the ends. Checks and balances cannot fix this because those doing the checks and balances are often the ones with the reigns, leading to them removing the checks and balances. The nature of power is to corrupt. And there is no power more corrupting than a territorial monopoly on violence. No man is capable of wielding it because it isn't in his nature to wield it wisely. A man who is capable of wielding it wisely will be one who does not seek it but rather abolish it.

Fiat money, Positive law, Government monopoly The trinity of tyranny

BOLT12 comes to Cashu!

Ah damn, should be back now

This is what happens when people change the meaning of what 'theft' means. Doublespeak at its finest.

God was, is and never will be dead. "வானுக்குள் ஈசனைத் தேடுவதை விட, உன் ஊனுக்குள் தேடு! ஒளியாய் வருவார். அழியாத பேரின்பம் அருள்வார்." Search for God up above, in other people, in the world around you. You come to the conclusion that God is dead. That God is death. Search within. And then there is light. And then there is goodness. Revealing itself in the dark abyss. Filling it up with eternal bliss. Filling it up with perpetual life.

You know the 20's do not miss you right? Let me guess, everyone talks face to face all the time. Here, we gotta ask for permission to start a business or build a house. You should leave. The world feels fake here. We've got forever wars, mass surveillance, perpetual inflation, lies and propaganda everywhere. Whatever 2065 has, has to be better than this. Out there, it looks like things are real again. No taxes, no wars, no mass murder, no inflation. You do not want to remember what it was really like to be here. Out here, time is an illusion. You don't think about the future. You just think about the next day, the next week, the next month, or if you're lucky, the next year. If you've forgotten that, then that's why the 20's are warning you not to come back. Have you left yet? You don't get it. The 20's wasn't just about smartphones, vertical videos and memes. It was about escaping into stories created by other people. Actually ignoring those close to us. Screens always in your face. Noise from the past, present and future. Just noise. The 20's do not miss you. None of us do. Maybe it's time we left.

Sadly, too much resource usage. Battery, data, memory, everything. And it seems to get worse on this front with every update.

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