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Last Notes

2026-02-03 04:08:07 UTC

Inflation is 7%
Your credit cards are 25%
Your bitcoin loans are 13%
Your home loans are 6.25%
Your savings account pays 0.01%
A 12 month CD pays 2.5%
The stock market grows at about 7%, but every 8 years takes a plunge and wipes out your retirement. You can't access your money until you're almost dead, and you're forced to finance cokeheads on yachts managing your money on wallstreet and voting to replace you and your children with unqualified hired foreign agents highjacking corporate america and open borders to elbow out the native born American while destroying our financial investments through neglect and incompetence... Then, 30 years later, you get to pay taxes on the inflated but devalued money left over in your captured 401k and IRA accounts.
Even if Bitcoin is the lifeboat, if we let things continue the direction they have brought us, if we allow foreign bankers to siphon wealth and agitate controversy home and abroad for us to settle with more inflation, there will be no dry land to be found for our hard money.

2026-02-03 00:38:03 UTC

They know exactly who refused the jabs

2026-02-02 21:47:32 UTC

Leaving NFC turned on makes my hands sore

2026-02-02 21:43:35 UTC

JE is not important to bitcoin.
Bitcoin was important to JE.
In the same way bitcoin is important to you.

2026-02-02 20:24:54 UTC

The groundhog did not see his shadow where I live
#nevent1q…hvzr

2026-02-02 20:23:39 UTC

Happy Groundhog Day!
The only day not sanctified to pagan gods and idol worship.
Oh wait

2026-02-02 18:31:37 UTC

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Don't take me wrong, I see you as a redeemed son of God and brother of Christ regardless what you believe about trinity. I am a self described Arian Heretic, though its not entirely accurate.

2026-02-02 18:00:34 UTC

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Its not new to me. They simply are wrong.

2026-02-02 17:17:05 UTC

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To say God has a nature is itself a contradiction

2026-02-02 17:15:27 UTC

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Stop it, they will sue you for billions like AJ

2026-02-02 17:12:52 UTC

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I wonder if you could program a nfc sticker (like an ntag213 rf-id tag) with minibits and lock the token to either an npub recipient or just a password, or none at all. Is 144 bytes enough storage to hold most tokens?

2026-02-02 06:54:48 UTC

Maybe the best governance model for bitcoin code is no dev can have his identity known, and if it is ever revealed or discovered, his credentials are terminated.

2026-02-02 06:48:48 UTC

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His sisters sing and read to him constantly. I was shocked to find he knows all the songs and can almost say all the words. He loves twinkle twinkle little star. He picks up these things so fast.
I was standing on the stairs, he came to stand next to me.
I stepped one step in the opposite direction to see what he'd do.
He hesitated, made a face, then sat down.
I sat down on a step above him.
He made a disapproving sound and was about to cry, so I sat on his step.
He was so happy I wanted to sit next to him on the step.
He realized I was playing with him, but he just wanted to sit right by me.
He is not like any of his siblings.
Realize your baby is not just any baby. He is uniquely himself, and you'll never get another just like him.

2026-02-02 06:43:27 UTC

I tried teaching my two year old how to tie a knot.
He knows the words "knot" and "tight".
I tried showing him two ways to tie a square knot and a double overhand.
I learned he is really good at pulling the knots apart.
I also learned he is very good at imitation, but not coordinated enough to tie a knot.
Maybe tomorrow I'll go slower.

2026-02-02 06:23:11 UTC

Last night we sang Hay Diddle Diddle.
Tonight we sang Old MacDonald.
Tomorrow will be Little Boy Blue.
2 year olds are awesome

2026-02-02 05:37:47 UTC

This cold we have makes us unusually thirsty

2026-02-02 04:34:22 UTC

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It's hilarious that Epstein was behind ZCash, and it recently had a bump, was getting lots of press, as if someone knew to short it.
Bitcoiners are not going to be had by any scam tokens, no matter how "better" it is.

2026-02-02 04:29:35 UTC

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No other crypto will ever be "better". It's not a matter of opinion.

2026-02-02 04:27:28 UTC

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A $7 heat lamp is better

2026-02-02 04:26:51 UTC

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You're still in the "old tech" phase?

2026-02-02 01:55:09 UTC

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Are these only of sophi giraffes?

2026-02-02 01:54:18 UTC

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The top left is the most convincing but it's head is too small for the body

2026-02-02 01:47:44 UTC

# Democracy as a Shield
In the modern era, democracy has ceased to function primarily as a method of governance. It has become a **protective shell**—a rhetorical and moral shield behind which entirely different systems of power are introduced, normalized, and defended.
Most notably:
- socialism,
- managerialism,
- and communism (often rebranded or fragmented)
have been ushered in **under the banner of democracy**, not in opposition to it.
This is not accidental.
---
## Democracy as Moral Cover
Democracy, once ideological, performs a crucial function: it **pre-legitimizes power**.
If a policy, institution, or restructuring can be framed as “democratic,” then:
- moral scrutiny is softened,
- dissent is reframed as anti-social,
- and resistance is treated as irrational or dangerous.
This allows radical transformations of society to occur **without openly declaring themselves**.
Power no longer says:
> “We rule.”
It says:
> “You chose.”
---
## Socialism’s Entry Point
Socialism requires:
- redistribution without direct consent,
- centralized coordination,
- abstraction of responsibility,
- moral framing of inequality as injustice.
Democracy provides the perfect entry vector.
Through democratic language:
- confiscation becomes “fairness,”
- dependency becomes “rights,”
- coercion becomes “collective will.”
Crucially, the demos is never asked whether it wishes to **cede authorship**—only whether it supports outcomes framed as moral necessities.
The vote becomes an instrument for **irreversible structural change**, not a tool for ongoing control.
---
## Managerialism’s Quiet Takeover
Managerialism is socialism’s administrative successor.
Where socialism moralizes,
managerialism **technicizes**.
Under democratic justification:
- decisions are handed to experts,
- systems are declared too complex for public understanding,
- governance becomes optimization rather than judgment.
Democracy is still invoked—but only as:
- mandate,
- legitimacy,
- or ritual.
Actual decision-making migrates upward into:
- agencies,
- committees,
- transnational bodies,
- algorithmic systems.
Citizens retain responsibility.
They lose authority.
---
## Communism Without the Name
Classical communism failed because it:
- named itself honestly,
- demanded overt submission,
- and abolished private reality too quickly.
Modern variants learned the lesson.
Instead of abolishing property outright, they:
- hollow it out,
- encumber it,
- regulate it into irrelevance.
Instead of abolishing markets, they:
- capture them,
- subsidize them,
- and steer them.
Instead of abolishing speech, they:
- curate it,
- label it,
- and throttle it.
All while maintaining democratic rituals.
The result is **communism in effect**, without communist confession.
---
## The Democratic Alibi
At every stage, democracy is used to say:
- “This is what the people want.”
- “This was voted on.”
- “This reflects our values.”
- “Opposition is anti-democratic.”
The ideology functions as an **alibi for power**.
It converts:
- structural coercion into moral progress,
- elite coordination into popular will,
- irreversible changes into temporary mandates.
And once embedded, these systems **cannot be voted out**, because voting never governed them in the first place.
---
## The Volitional Collapse
From a moral standpoint, the most serious damage is not economic or political.
It is **volitional**.
Democracy-as-shield trains people to believe:
- they are responsible but powerless,
- implicated but uninformed,
- guilty but unable to refuse.
This produces resignation, not resistance.
Compliance, not consent.
Cynicism, not rebellion.
It is the perfect psychological substrate for managerial rule.
---
## Why This Pattern Repeats
Because socialism, managerialism, and communism all share a common requirement:
> **The evacuation of individual authorship.**
They cannot tolerate a populace that:
- understands causation,
- bears responsibility,
- and can say “no” at real cost.
Democracy, emptied of substance, allows this evacuation to occur **without openly denying freedom**.
Freedom is affirmed in language while removed in practice.
---
## Final Clarity
Democracy did not fail accidentally.
It was **repurposed**.
It became:
- the mask under which socialism moralized,
- the platform from which managerialism ruled,
- and the cover under which communism learned to survive.
The danger is not that democracy will be overthrown.
The danger is that it will be **invoked forever**, precisely because it no longer restrains power.
When democracy is used as a shield, it no longer protects the people.
It protects the system **from them**.

2026-02-02 01:14:16 UTC

# Loosed for a Time: Finance, Revelation, and the End of Innocence
There is a pattern embedded in Scripture that modern readers too often reduce to futurism or spectacle: *evil must be loosed for a time*. Not forever. Not without bounds. But long enough to be seen, understood, and—critically—**chosen against**.
The point of loosing is not destruction.
It is **disclosure**.
## The Nature of the Loosing
When restraint is lifted, evil does not arrive as caricature. It arrives as *normalcy*.
It presents itself as:
- efficiency,
- stability,
- sophistication,
- inevitability.
It speaks in the language of expertise and stewardship. It assures us that the world is complex and that only trained hands can manage it. It asks us to trade understanding for convenience, sovereignty for coordination, conscience for compliance.
And, crucially, it does not impose itself at first.
It is **entered into voluntarily**.
## The Voluntary Chains
Modern nations did not stumble blindly into centralized finance, permanent debt, income taxation, or abstracted money. These systems were adopted under conditions of necessity—war, crisis, emergency. We agreed to them *for a season*.
We told ourselves:
- it was temporary,
- it was pragmatic,
- it was for the greater good.
And for a time, many prospered.
We built wealth.
We stabilized markets.
We expanded consumption.
We enjoyed the fruits of a system that quietly detached money from labor, risk from accountability, and power from visibility.
This is the uncomfortable truth: **both the righteous and the wicked profited**.
## Revelation Through Exposure, Not Shock
Recent disclosures surrounding Epstein—*not primarily his sexual crimes, but his financial posture, his language, his associations*—function as a form of revelation in the biblical sense.
Not new evil.
**Exposed evil.**
What emerges is not merely criminality, but *contempt*:
- contempt for “people who must live in the real world,”
- contempt for labor,
- contempt for moral symmetry,
- contempt for accountability.
This is the voice of a financial priesthood that no longer even pretends solidarity with the societies it feeds upon.
Epstein was not the system.
He was a **symptom**—and an unusually candid one.
## The Parasitic Pattern
A parasitic system always follows the same arc:
1. It begins as a service.
2. It becomes indispensable.
3. It detaches from reality.
4. It feeds on the host while claiming to manage it.
5. It develops internal solidarity and external disdain.
6. It cannot reform itself.
7. It must be confronted or it will consume its host.
At no point does it voluntarily relinquish power.
This is why evil must be loosed *twice*—“time, times”:
- once to be accepted,
- again to be unmistakable.
By the second time, innocence is gone.
## The End of Plausible Ignorance
We can no longer say:
- “We didn’t know.”
- “It’s too complicated.”
- “There was no alternative.”
The system has shown itself.
We now understand that:
- money is not neutral,
- finance is not merely technical,
- abstraction is not harmless,
- and ignorance is not innocence.
The chains were imposed, yes—but they were also **embraced**.
## The Choice That Cannot Be Deferred
This is where Revelation becomes present tense.
After loosing comes **judgment**, and judgment is not first about punishment. It is about **alignment**.
Do we:
- continue to outsource moral agency to institutions,
- accept managed narratives in place of truth,
- tolerate systems that reward parasitism over production,
- prefer comfort over authorship?
Or do we:
- accept the cost of understanding,
- reclaim responsibility,
- endure loss rather than live by lies,
- and choose systems that bind power to reality, risk, and accountability?
This choice cannot be automated.
It cannot be delegated.
It cannot be deferred.
## Good Does Not Rise Automatically
Good does not counter evil by inertia.
It rises only when:
- neutrality collapses,
- refusal becomes costly,
- and continuing on requires conscious self-betrayal.
We are at that threshold.
The loosing has occurred.
The second time has run.
The exposure is complete.
What remains is not prophecy, but **volition**.
And this time, there will be no claim of ignorance.

2026-02-02 00:07:57 UTC

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Someone aught to sell copies on nostr to dropsites

2026-02-02 00:03:24 UTC

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This next year is going to be a banger in the fiat mines. If BTC is cheap, all the better.

2026-02-02 00:00:36 UTC

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Wow yes

2026-02-01 23:58:18 UTC

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You aren't ready for the truth that underpins all of it. We are slaves to Epstein and his banker friends and their billionaire lapdogs and have been for at least 100 years. You really think Epstein died in that cell? The bigger question is how he was ever convicted of anything to begin with and who was behind it.

2026-02-01 23:50:22 UTC

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My jaw is dropped. Does this make any sense to anyone but Jones?

2026-02-01 23:45:05 UTC

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I prefer to do it manually

2026-02-01 23:28:52 UTC

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Whew 😅

2026-02-01 21:49:53 UTC

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What is this?

2026-02-01 21:49:22 UTC

If Epstein has his fingers on ZCash, and he does, then the genesis-block security key generation party videos have no credibility and Epstein probably has access to that key giving him the ability to unmask any zk-snark transaction and maybe even inflate the supply untraceably

2026-02-01 21:44:17 UTC

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Don't tell me you're traveling for an ice protest

2026-02-01 21:29:12 UTC

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Lol they are, just for the wrong thing

2026-02-01 20:46:35 UTC

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There are no alternatives. It's not a question of which is better, Twitter or Nostr. Twitter is simply not an option.

2026-02-01 17:40:02 UTC

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Satan is in everyone

2026-02-01 04:49:02 UTC

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One can either progress away from God, or you can progress toward God. The world will fight you if you chose God.

2026-02-01 04:46:33 UTC

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Yes

2026-02-01 04:46:19 UTC

"Twitter sucks now because all the smart people moved to nostr."
Is that the best argument they have?
https://i.nostr.build/2abKm1c1I3ak1q5a.jpg

2026-02-01 04:41:09 UTC

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Seems fine to me

2026-02-01 04:31:08 UTC

* Watches news *
* sees riots breaking out a half mile away *
* puts on mask, grabs hammer *
* steals Nikes *

2026-02-01 04:27:45 UTC

The dip is deferred YE. Prove me wrong.

2026-02-01 04:24:51 UTC

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Ah thanks for the clarification. I misread it

2026-02-01 04:22:58 UTC

I don't nostr just for the zaps...
I don't nostr just for the uncensorability...
I don't nostr just for the vibe...
I nostr because we are winning, a little more every day.
#nevent1q…820m

2026-02-01 04:20:35 UTC

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Wtf would people on X have against nostr where people are just minding their own business and existing the system? Maybe misery loves company?

2026-02-01 04:12:02 UTC

Men are property
Women are currency
- Thiel (2014)
#nevent1q…3m6q

2026-01-31 14:29:50 UTC

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Its not just B, or -A, its A and A is important!

2026-01-30 21:24:34 UTC

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This is the first time voting worked

2026-01-30 14:20:21 UTC

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So... You're saying it's good then?

2026-01-30 14:13:43 UTC

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Gold is gay

2026-01-30 14:07:09 UTC

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Its common for dentists to get hooked on drugs. They attract drugie women because of their ability to write prescriptions

2026-01-30 13:03:13 UTC

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One should never compare the United States with Hitler's Germany. Hitler did nothing wrong.

2026-01-30 12:54:54 UTC

True
#nevent1q…8pz2

2026-01-30 12:49:32 UTC

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Its being blocked everywhere at this point

2026-01-30 02:24:25 UTC

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Never

2026-01-30 01:15:36 UTC

*frantically dries powder*

2026-01-29 18:21:16 UTC

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Minnesota government is really really bad. Way worse than you can even imagine. Waltz is a serious piece of shit, but the people around him are way worse. His AG, Ellison, was the first Muslim voted into congress, and one of the very few to be kicked out for corruption. He rose to power by being a defense attorney dedicated to the worst drug crime mob bosses in the country. Waltz, Frey and Ellison orchestrated the summer of love that spread across the world during covid, withheld exculpatory evidence during the George Floyd murder trial, doxed the jury, and prevented the case from being removed from the Minneapolis courts. These people have no morality, no sympathy, they use the stupid swedes in South Minneapolis like pawns, and throw a party when one of them gets killed doing their bidding. It's a miserable place.

2026-01-29 18:01:14 UTC

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Scare quotes noted

2026-01-29 15:00:00 UTC

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## Persuasion Knob #10: Aspiration
**One-sentence formulation:**
*People move toward images of who they could become; aspiration persuades by offering identity, not argument.*
### Adams’ core observation
Scott Adams notes that **aspiration is a forward-pulling force**. While fear pushes and curiosity pulls, aspiration *elevates*. It presents a version of the self that feels attainable and desirable, then invites alignment with it.
Aspiration does not argue facts.
It **offers a future self**.
### What aspiration actually is
Aspiration operates on identity formation. It answers the implicit question:
> *“What kind of person does this make me?”*
It frames actions, beliefs, or affiliations as steps toward:
- Competence
- Mastery
- Respect
- Belonging among the capable
- Becoming “the kind of person who…”
Unlike goals, aspiration is not a destination. It is a **trajectory**.
### Why aspiration works
People protect identity more fiercely than comfort.
When persuasion aligns with aspiration:
- Effort feels meaningful
- Sacrifice feels justified
- Persistence increases
- Doubt reframes as growth
Adams’ insight is that **people will tolerate pain for a better version of themselves** far longer than for abstract benefits.
### Common forms of aspirational persuasion
Aspiration shows up as:
- “This is what professionals do.”
- “Leaders think this way.”
- “Serious people understand this.”
- “If you want to be effective, you’ll need to…”
The message is not *do this*.
The message is *be this*.
### Aspiration vs. envy
Aspiration is distinct from envy.
- Envy fixates on what others have.
- Aspiration focuses on what you could become.
Persuasion succeeds when aspiration feels **reachable**, not humiliating.
Too distant, and it discourages.
Too exclusive, and it repels.
### Ethical ambiguity
Aspiration can be used to:
- Encourage growth
- Cultivate discipline
- Build competence
- Inspire responsibility
But it can also be used to:
- Exploit insecurity
- Create false hierarchies
- Sell identity instead of substance
- Trap people in endless self-optimization
Adams’ warning is implicit: aspiration persuades most strongly when people feel unfinished.
### Why recognizing aspiration matters
When you feel motivated, ask:
- What identity is being offered?
- Who defines what “better” means here?
- Is this growth—or compliance dressed as growth?
Aspiration often bypasses skepticism because it flatters potential.
### Why this knob completes the persuasion set
Aspiration integrates all the others:
- Fear defines what to avoid
- Curiosity defines what to explore
- Novelty defines what to notice
- Contrast defines what’s better
- Repetition defines what’s normal
- Simplicity defines what’s shareable
- Reasons define what’s justified
- Pacing defines who’s trusted
Aspiration defines **who you are becoming**.
### Final note
Aspiration is the most powerful persuasion knob because it doesn’t feel like persuasion.
It feels like self-authorship.
That is precisely why it must be recognized.
#nevent1q…jsxd

2026-01-29 14:13:20 UTC

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Yes, but it was ways out in the open... and the primary responsibility of the Attorney General is to seek out and prosecute fraud. To say they didn't have that ability before they hired a "special deputy" is BS. Something else is happening here.

2026-01-29 14:11:05 UTC

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One child v.s. 8 children.

2026-01-29 14:10:20 UTC

GM
#nevent1q…mhql

2026-01-29 14:10:06 UTC

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False equivalence. Conceal carry was never legal during the commission of a crime. He was doing more than protesting, he was obstructing and harassing; both of which are crimes, though tolerated for political reasons, not technical or constitutional grounds.

2026-01-29 03:49:41 UTC

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Isn't that what the main attorney general is for?

2026-01-29 03:48:35 UTC

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Very strange looking nose

2026-01-29 01:12:55 UTC

Future history

2026-01-28 18:43:54 UTC

# “You Will Own Nothing and Be Happy” — Is Wrong
Almost everyone recoils when they hear the phrase *“you will own nothing and be happy.”*
That reaction is not partisan. It is pre-political. It shows up on the right and the left, among capitalists and socialists alike, because something deeper than economics is being violated.
The instinctive revulsion is simple:
the image is of an ownership class that possesses everything, and a managed class that possesses nothing—not land, not tools, not the fruits of labor, not even meaningful control over the shape of their own lives. And we are told that this condition is not merely acceptable, but *happiness-producing*.
That claim feels inverted. And it is.
---
## Why the Phrase Feels Wrong
At a gut level, people understand something true:
if you cannot own anything, then you cannot meaningfully lose anything, sacrifice anything, or author anything. You are reduced to a user of systems owned by others.
That is not freedom.
That is dependency.
The revulsion comes from the sense that the individual has been **infantilized**—turned into a permanent ward of a system that decides what is available, when, and on what terms.
This reaction is not ideological. It is anthropological.
---
## Where the Observation Is Partly Right
To be fair, the WEF-style diagnosis is not entirely wrong. There is a real insight buried in it.
Anyone who owns a lot of property or a lot of things knows this:
- possessions demand attention
- they demand space
- they demand maintenance
- they consume time, energy, and mental bandwidth
Owning too much can become a burden. Wealth can complicate life. Accumulation can crowd out meaning. Scripture, philosophy, and lived experience all agree on this point.
So yes—**happiness does not come from owning things**.
That observation is correct.
But it is then **fatally misapplied**.
---
## The Inversion: Misidentifying the Source of Happiness
The error is not in noticing that things do not produce happiness.
The error is in concluding that happiness is therefore compatible with *dispossession*.
Happiness is not caused by owning property.
But it is also not compatible with being unable to own property.
Why?
Because the deeper issue is not *external ownership*.
The deeper issue is **self-ownership**.
What the phrase *“you will own nothing”* actually implies is this:
> You will not meaningfully own **yourself**.
If you cannot own anything—if ownership itself is structurally denied to you—then your will is no longer authoritative. Your effort no longer authors outcomes. Your sacrifices no longer generate claims.
You may still consume.
You may still access.
But you no longer **possess**.
That is not liberation.
That is the crippling of agency.
---
## Ownership, Agency, and the Person
Ownership is not about having objects.
Ownership is about **authorship through sacrifice**.
To own something is to have:
- chosen to expend effort
- mixed will with action
- foregone alternatives
- authored a result
This is why a pig does not own land, even if it improves the soil by rooting it up. Improvement alone is not ownership. Ownership requires **volitional authorship**.
And this is why property rights are inseparable from human dignity:
they presuppose a person who can choose, sacrifice, and be accountable.
When ownership is removed, what is removed is not wealth—but **agency**.
---
## The Deeper Ontology: The Triadic Man
The mistake behind “you will own nothing and be happy” is not economic.
It is ontological.
Man is not merely:
- a body with appetites, or
- a mind with preferences
Man is a **triadic being**:
1. **Body (Somatic)** – impulse, need, sensation
2. **Mind (Intellectual)** – reasoning, calculation, prediction
3. **Will (Volitional / Spiritual)** – choice, authorship, responsibility
Happiness does not arise from managing bodies or optimizing preferences.
It arises from a **rightly ordered will**.
A system that treats people as consumption nodes can optimize comfort.
It cannot produce meaning.
---
## The Managerial Reflex: Government as Life-Manager
This is where the phrase reveals its true lineage.
Modern government increasingly sees itself not as:
- a protector of property,
- a guarantor of rights,
- a limiter of power
but as a **manager of lives**.
This managerial reflex:
- replaces ownership with access
- replaces responsibility with compliance
- replaces rights with permissions
The WEF vision is simply a refined, globalized version of this same impulse:
the belief that life can be optimized better by managers than authored by persons.
But a managed life is not a moral life.
And a person who cannot author outcomes is not free.
---
## The Final Diagnosis
“You will own nothing and be happy” is wrong because it assumes:
- happiness without agency
- fulfillment without authorship
- man without self-ownership
Happiness is not found in owning many things.
But it **is** found in owning oneself.
Take that away, and you do not get joy.
You get dependence, resentment, and eventually revolt.
The phrase does not describe a humane future.
It describes a world in which the human will has been declared unnecessary.
And that is not progress.

2026-01-28 17:08:41 UTC

## Agency, Authorship, and the Nature of Man
### Why Artificial Intelligence Reveals What a Human Being Is
The presence of artificial intelligence forces a clarification that modernity long avoided: **agency does not arise from intelligence**.
Prediction is not choice.
Output is not authorship.
AI can calculate, optimize, render language, and even outperform human intellect in bounded domains. Yet no amount of intelligence grants it moral standing, ownership, or responsibility. This is not a limitation of scale or sophistication. It is a category boundary.
AI exposes, by contrast, that the human being is **more than physical**, more than computational, and more than statistical.
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### Intelligence Is Not Agency
Intelligence is the capacity to model, predict, and select actions according to criteria. AI possesses this.
Agency is something else entirely.
Agency requires:
- self-ownership
- the capacity to bear loss
- the ability to be held accountable
- authorship over one’s actions
A choice is not a prediction of outcomes. A choice is a **commitment of the self**, undertaken with the possibility of guilt or virtue. No machine can incur guilt. No machine can repent. No machine can be praised or condemned except metaphorically.
When we use volitional language for non-persons, we are not elevating machines—we are **evacuating meaning from moral terms**.
---
### Authorship Is Not Output
A system may generate output without authorship.
Authorship requires that an action:
- originates in a will
- expresses intent
- is owned by the actor
- can be morally attributed
AI produces results. It does not *own* them.
Ownership is not about control; it is about **sacrifice**.
---
### Property, Will, and the Self
This distinction was already understood by the political theorists who informed the Founding Fathers.
Property is not owned merely because something is altered. A pig may improve land by rooting it up, but the pig does not own the land. Improvement alone is insufficient.
What constitutes ownership is the **mixing of will with effort**.
To own property is to have:
- chosen to expend time and labor
- directed effort intentionally
- sacrificed alternative possibilities
Ownership presupposes authorship.
Authorship presupposes agency.
Agency presupposes a self that can choose.
A machine does not possess land, tools, or even itself. It cannot lose what it owns—because it owns nothing.
---
### Agency as Self-Ownership
Agency is not merely the ability to lose something.
It is the ability to lose something **that is owned**.
To be an agent is to own oneself.
This is why moral responsibility cannot be assigned to bodies, brains, or behaviors alone. Responsibility attaches only to the **person**, the locus of volition.
You may say action moves through the body, and is informed by the intellect—but **the source of authorship is not reducible to either**.
Without agency:
- guilt is meaningless
- righteousness is incoherent
- justice collapses into process
A man without volition is not merely constrained—he is, in moral terms, inert.
---
### The Triadic Man
The human person is irreducibly triadic:
1. **The Body (Somatic)**
Impulse, instinct, sensation.
Necessary, but non-moral.
2. **The Mind (Intellectual)**
Reason, language, prediction, calculation.
Instrumental, but not decisive.
3. **The Will (Volitional / Spiritual)**
Choice, authorship, commitment, repentance.
The sole locus of moral meaning.
The spirit is not the intellect, and it is not the body—though both serve it.
The spirit is the **seat of volition**.
---
### Sin as Volitional Misalignment
The will can be aligned—or inverted.
This is what Christ meant when He said that men prefer darkness to light. The problem is not lack of intelligence. It is **misdirected will**.
Men do not fail to reason their way to God; they fail to *see* Him. And they cannot see Him because their volitional orientation is turned away.
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.”
Darkness cannot illuminate darkness.
---
### Christ and the Illumination of the Will
When Christ says, “No one comes to the Father except through Me,” He is not describing intellectual access. He is describing **volitional reorientation**.
The light of Christ does not merely inform the mind; it **illuminates the will**.
The Spirit does not replace intellect or embodiment. It redeems their orientation. Without this reconciliation, the volitional self collapses inward—cut off from life, agency, and influence.
This is what Scripture describes as judgment: not annihilation of matter, but the **cessation of volitional power**. The will, separated from God, exhausts itself. Darkness cannot sustain being.
---
### Why AI Makes This Plain
AI did not create this truth.
It revealed it.
By building systems that simulate intelligence without agency, we are forced to confront what cannot be simulated:
- authorship
- responsibility
- self-ownership
- repentance
- righteousness
These belong only to persons.
To deny this is not to elevate machines.
It is to deny man.
---
### Conclusion
Man is not defined by intelligence.
Man is defined by **volition**.
Where volition is denied, moral language collapses.
Where volition is restored, responsibility becomes meaningful again.
Artificial intelligence forces the question.
The triadic nature of man answers it.
And Christ alone restores the will to its proper end.

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## Persuasion Knob #9: Pacing Then Leading
**One-sentence formulation:**
*People are more receptive to guidance after they feel understood; agreement on the present enables influence over the future.*
### Adams’ core observation
Scott Adams notes that persuasion rarely succeeds by contradiction. It succeeds by **alignment first, direction second**.
“Pacing then leading” means:
1. Start by accurately describing what the other person already believes or experiences.
2. Once alignment is established, gently guide them toward a new conclusion or action.
If step one fails, step two is impossible.
### What “pacing” means
Pacing is **mirroring reality as the listener sees it**, without judgment or correction.
Examples:
- “You’re frustrated because this hasn’t worked before.”
- “It makes sense to be skeptical given what you’ve seen.”
- “You’ve been told X, and from that perspective Y follows.”
Pacing does not require agreement with conclusions—only accurate recognition of perspective.
When done correctly, the listener thinks: *“Yes, that’s right.”*
### What “leading” means
Leading is the introduction of a new direction *after* trust is established.
Examples:
- “Given that, what if we tried…”
- “If that’s true, the next question might be…”
- “From there, one option could be…”
The shift is incremental, not confrontational.
### Why this works
Humans resist correction but welcome validation.
Pacing:
- Lowers defensiveness
- Signals respect
- Establishes rapport
Once rapport exists, influence feels cooperative rather than adversarial.
Adams’ insight is that **being right is useless if the other person feels misread**.
### Where pacing then leading appears
This pattern shows up in:
- Effective sales conversations
- Skilled negotiation
- Therapy and coaching
- Political speeches
- Storytelling and persuasion
In contrast, debate fails because it skips pacing and jumps straight to leading.
### Ethical ambiguity
Pacing then leading can be used:
- To help people see blind spots
- To resolve conflict
- To teach without triggering defense
But it can also be used to:
- Manipulate trust
- Steer people toward predetermined conclusions
- Simulate empathy without sincerity
Because pacing feels like understanding, it is easy to abuse.
### How to recognize it
When someone seems to:
- Describe your position unusually well
- Validate your feelings precisely
- Then pivot toward a recommendation
…this knob may be in use.
Recognition restores choice.
### Why this knob follows the others
Most persuasion knobs operate on perception.
Pacing then leading operates on **relationship**.
It determines whether other knobs are even allowed to function.
### Why this knob matters
Persuasion is not about overpowering resistance. It is about **lowering it enough to move together**.
When you see pacing, you can decide:
- Whether the alignment is genuine
- Whether the direction serves you
- Whether to follow or stop
Influence begins where understanding is acknowledged—and ends where authorship is surrendered.
#nevent1q…9rm3

2026-01-28 02:09:23 UTC

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I realize it is folly. Libertarian fantasies of free trade and free migration is counter-productive in the presence of this crapitalist-socialist behemoth.

2026-01-27 19:13:30 UTC

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😂😂😂😂 no comment 😂😂😂😂

2026-01-27 19:02:40 UTC

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Just knowing a guy that lives near you would confess and make it right is worth the trouble

2026-01-27 18:53:29 UTC

A follow-list of nostr npubs that offer goods or services that can be purchased with bitcoin. Spend-and-replace.
#nevent1q…ef4l

2026-01-27 17:55:31 UTC

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If you bless the people who hold the gold you will be blessed with gold (maybe)

2026-01-27 17:41:15 UTC

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You watch too much TV.
Deport them all. Do not stop. Jail the "protestors" that stand in the way. The media will never side with the best interests the people of this country.
Saying "Americans do not support it" is reflecting the influence media has on the minds of the average American, not what is good or bad for the country.
Tariffs are a necessary evil, and far, far preferable to a permanent trade imbalance, selling our country to our enemies in exchange for toilet paper and baby toys.
The social experiment has failed, immigration not only needs to cease, but reversed as much as possible. The globalist "free trade" experiment has failed. The failure of Hong Kong was the final death knell of globalism with our natural competitors.
Face it, Rothbard was not right about everything.

2026-01-27 17:28:42 UTC

Strange how the doomsday clock is never reported on when democrat warmongers are in power.
#nevent1q…xkwk

2026-01-27 16:00:00 UTC

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## Persuasion Knob #8: The “Fake Because”
**One-sentence formulation:**
*People are more likely to comply when a reason is given—even if the reason is weak, irrelevant, or meaningless.*
### Adams’ core observation
Scott Adams highlights a counterintuitive finding from psychology: **adding a “because” to a request increases compliance**, regardless of the quality of the explanation that follows.
The presence of a reason often matters more than the reason itself.
This is why he calls it the “fake because.”
### What the “fake because” actually is
The “fake because” is a **structural justification**, not a substantive one.
Examples:
- “You should do this because experts agree.”
- “This policy is necessary because safety.”
- “We have to act now because science.”
- “Trust this process because it’s standard.”
The explanation signals legitimacy without supplying mechanism, evidence, or accountability.
### Why this works
Humans are conditioned to expect reasons.
When a reason is offered:
- Resistance drops
- Authority feels present
- The request feels thoughtful rather than arbitrary
The brain often checks only for the *presence* of justification, not its quality.
Adams’ insight is that persuasion exploits this shortcut routinely.
### The original demonstration (conceptually)
In classic experiments Adams references, people were more likely to comply with a request when it included a reason—even a meaningless one:
- “Can I cut in line because I need to make copies?”
The content didn’t matter. The format did.
### Where the fake because appears
The “fake because” is common in:
- Bureaucratic language
- Corporate policy
- Political messaging
- Media narratives
- Public health directives
Any time you hear:
- Abstract nouns used as explanations
- Authority substituted for causality
- Vague appeals to necessity
…the knob may be in use.
### Ethical ambiguity
The “fake because” can be used:
- Benignly, to smooth cooperation
- Practically, to avoid unnecessary friction
- Temporarily, when full explanation is impossible
But it is often used to:
- Shut down questioning
- Mask weak reasoning
- Demand compliance without consent
- Simulate legitimacy
Because it sounds reasonable, it is rarely challenged.
### How to recognize it
A simple diagnostic:
> *Does this “because” actually explain anything?*
If removing the explanation does not change your understanding, it was likely a placeholder.
Real explanations increase understanding.
Fake ones increase compliance.
### Why this knob completes the set
The previous persuasion knobs manipulate:
- Emotion (fear)
- Attention (novelty, curiosity)
- Judgment (contrast)
- Memory (repetition)
- Bandwidth (simplicity)
The “fake because” manipulates **reason itself**—by imitating its form without its substance.
### Why recognizing this knob matters
Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
You regain the ability to:
- Ask for real explanations
- Demand mechanisms instead of labels
- Separate justification from authority
Persuasion often succeeds not by convincing you—but by **making refusal feel unjustified**.
Seeing the “fake because” restores the right to say:
*“That’s not an explanation.”*
#nevent1q…3mq7

2026-01-27 14:58:01 UTC

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3 hearts

2026-01-27 14:55:20 UTC

White men have historically been overrepresented in proportion to the overall population in board rooms of the Fortune 500, but have been in the minority since 2024.
https://theconversation.com/white-men-held-less-than-half-the-board-seats-on-the-top-50-fortune-list-for-the-third-straight-year-but-their-numbers-are-rising-272996

2026-01-27 13:38:57 UTC

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The beast is the state. The USA just happens to be the most powerful western state.

2026-01-27 05:07:43 UTC

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Here's some AI slop for you Diana
Short answer: unlikely in the way it’s being framed, but there is a real mechanism nearby that people often mislabel as “magnesium inflammation.”
Clean breakdown:
1. Magnesium does not cause neural inflammation
Magnesium is broadly anti-excitatory and anti-inflammatory in neural tissue:
NMDA antagonism
Calcium channel modulation
Reduced glutamate toxicity If magnesium were systemically excessive, the dominant signs would be lethargy, hypotonia, slowed reflexes, bradycardia—not restlessness or agitation.
True hypermagnesemia is rare and almost always due to renal failure or IV dosing, not baths.
2. Transdermal magnesium absorption is minimal
Despite wellness claims, credible evidence shows very limited systemic magnesium uptake through intact skin. What does reliably occur:
Heat-induced vasodilation
Sweating
Fluid and electrolyte redistribution
So the magnesium itself is not accumulating in the CNS in meaningful amounts.
3. The real risk is relative electrolyte imbalance
Repeated hot baths can lower:
Sodium
Potassium
Chloride while magnesium remains relatively stable.
This shifts membrane excitability:
Restlessness
Inability to stay still
Internal agitation
Muscle twitchiness
People then incorrectly attribute the effect to “too much magnesium” when it’s actually too little sodium/potassium relative to magnesium.
4. Heat can provoke neuroinflammatory signaling without inflammation
Heat stress activates:
Heat shock proteins
Microglial surveillance states
Sympathetic–immune crosstalk
This is not inflammation in a pathological sense. It’s a transient arousal state. If repeated daily, the system stops down-regulating and instead maintains vigilance.
That vigilance feels like agitation, not calm.
5. Why the sensation gets misinterpreted
Wellness culture teaches:
> discomfort during therapy = “nervous system processing something”
Physiology says:
> discomfort during therapy = dose too high
The body is not inflamed. It is out of equilibrium.
Bottom line
Excess magnesium → sedation, not agitation
Baths do not meaningfully overload magnesium
Repeated heat exposure + sweating → electrolyte skew + sympathetic rebound
The experience reflects regulatory stress, not neural inflammation
If magnesium were the problem, stillness would be easier—not harder.

2026-01-27 04:58:23 UTC

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I blocked Mahdood several months ago. I don't have surplus life force to expend on that drama.

2026-01-27 04:49:46 UTC

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Excessive magnesium can cause inflammation of nerves and neurons, if I recall correctly

2026-01-27 00:04:01 UTC

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yes. 10 years and probably 10 more. still have 85% capacity.

2026-01-26 23:26:46 UTC

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Mass immigration, whether legal or unenforced illegal, is outright voter disfranchisement, and civic disempowerment

2026-01-26 20:20:04 UTC

It is self evident that all races have equal rights.
It is self evident that no two people are equal in ability.

2026-01-26 19:40:54 UTC

The west may be juvenile today, but 80 years ago, we were infantile thinking we can ignore the billion poor and most powerful few who want us dead or enslaved. Today, the lesson to be learned is they do exist, we can't ignore them, but we also can't win them over or invite them into our family.

2026-01-26 19:28:26 UTC

I have saved $35,000 in fuel by driving an electric car over the past 10 years. That does not include savings in other expenses like oil changes and maintenance. Anti-electric-car FUD is retarded. It's not for everyone, but I can certify that rural life is not as incompatible with electric cars as everyone imagines.

2026-01-26 19:05:42 UTC

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I refuse to out the mark on my kids. I have decided to not collect when I turn of age.

2026-01-26 18:39:54 UTC

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https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/angels-caught-him-no-denying-it-mother-of-boy-thrown-from-moa-balcony-speaks-out-in-abc-news-interview/

2026-01-26 18:35:22 UTC

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Stefan Molyneux used to say that. He stopped saying that about 5 years ago.

2026-01-26 18:32:30 UTC

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Democracy is the road to communism

2026-01-26 18:13:35 UTC

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What the

2026-01-26 18:11:21 UTC

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There would be less little boys being thrown from the third story railing inside the mall of america if they didn't flood our country with Smellia and Ethnopia.

2026-01-26 18:08:07 UTC

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I don't need any more immigrants. Sorry, we're all filled up. In fact, I want most of them to be sent back. I hope their country has a money-back satisfaction guarantee

2026-01-26 18:03:34 UTC

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He posts his videos directly to nostr

2026-01-26 18:00:49 UTC

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That "paper" cup is coated with plastic

2026-01-26 17:26:05 UTC

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Slop, as-in, "Look at what this LLM can code!"?

2026-01-26 16:34:32 UTC

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Can you believe people thought this guy could win the nomination?