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DD sells a mill that will put holes in the right place for 80% lowers. These guys are actually 3D printing the lowers (that can fit with standard uppers that aren't restricted).

Unfortunately their Twitters were suspended. They're just starting up their Gab accounts here:

https://gab.com/fosscad

https://gab.com/IvanTheTroll

Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed are actively fighting back against the State. They deserve all the help they can get. I urge you to donate along with me to help them reach their goal of $400,000. From now until the end of the campaign, I will donate $10 in bch. I do this because my donation is matched 1:1 by bitcoin.com.

I know there is a rift among btc/bch users, but I think it is worth it in this case to donate using bch. Defense Distributed’s goal is high, and I want to see them reach it. But if you can’t donate using bch or are unwilling to, they also accept usd and btc. Your donation is tax deductible.

My first donation. At the time of this donation, $40k total raised, ~$18k worth of bch donated, and I was the 90th bch donation.

My second donation. At the time of this donation, $61k total raised, $22752 worth of bch donated, and I was the 114th bch donation.

Mods if this is considered spam, let me know. But this is a campaign I think we should all support fervently.

Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed are actively fighting back against the State. They deserve all the help they can get. I urge you to donate along with me to help them reach their goal of $400,000 raised. From now until the end of the campaign, I will donate $10 in bch. I do this because my donation is matched 1:1 by bitcoin.com.

I know there is a rift among btc/bch users, but I think it is worth it in this case to donate using bch. Their goal is high, and I want to see them reach it. But if you can’t donate using bch or are unwilling to, they also accept usd and btc. Your donation is tax deductible.

My first donation.

Mods if this is considered spam, let me know. But this is a campaign I think we should all support fervently.

Without getting too deep into it, the free market is orders of magnitude better at producing food than the government right? And how is that the case? Well it turns out the free market would also be orders of magnitude better at producing police, defense, and courts than the government for the same reasons.

The challenge in accepting that position comes from the fact that it's easy to imagine/see how companies produce food but not how they produce law. Yet I am pretty sure it was just as hard for people in the USSR to imagine how you could produce food privately

If you would like a book recommendation try Economics in One Lesson

Technically, Ebeneezer Scrooge didn't become generous through social interaction, he became generous through time-travel and anonymously observing what other people thought of him. The fact that the three ghosts of Christmas didn't use violence to force Scrooge to change doesn't necessarily mean the ghosts were libertarians. They could still have easily been socialists or communists, as not all socialists or communists necessarily advocate state violence. In his 2010 book <em>The Communist Hypothesis</em>, modern French philosopher and open communist Alain Badiou advocated what he called "voluntaryist communism," which would essentially be a pacifist, voluntary form of communism without violence or a state. Maybe the three ghosts of Christmas were followers of Badiou? It's about as likely as them being libertarians, if not more so.

> The effect of which turns every person in the United States into a criminal.

Thank you for pointing this out.

Other readers: read Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229

I recommend only using open sourced software, that way you know there's no backdoors installed in it. Good open sourced encryption would be things like veracrypt. Veracrypt is good for encrypting USBs and files. Linux uses LUKS for full disk encryption, which is open sourced. Also I think linux updates their system more than windows. Back when I was still using windows, I would get like bi-monthly updates. It's not uncommon for me to get weekly sometimes twice weekly updates on my linux machine. They patch their system more frequently, and I check for updates everyday because you could miss one if you only check every so often.

First, you're moving the goalpost.

Second, there's a book that traces the history and judicial interpretation of 2A For the Defense of Themselves and the State written by Clayton Kramer (a historian whose expertise has been used in SCOTUS on 2A matters) that addresses your earlier challenge to "well regulated." It's about $100 on Amazon but if you really want to understand the history and evolution of gun law in America it's extremely informative. It's also extremely dry since it goes into actual litigation. To try and entice you further to read it you should know that it attributes the increase in gun laws/regulation directly to white racism and the attempt to keep the black community disarmed so it's not a right-wing love story.

TL;DR don't move the goalpost without at least admitting your previous challenge was defeated, your understanding of "well regulated" is verifiably historically incorrect and there's a great book anybody who cares about 2A in either direction should read.

One of the journalists who helped break the Snowden leaks, Glenn Greenwald, has a great book on the topic titled No Place to Hide. I am not aware of any factual inaccuracies contained within.

https://www.amazon.com/No-Place-Hide-Snowden-Surveillance/dp/1250062586/

Maybe I'm just ill-informed, but I've honestly never seen a coherent argument for why the leaks were detrimental to US service members or national security.

This is a great example of the cubic parable.

In the 1980's, the Chinese government held a contest for best political cartoon. The winning cartoon had three frames. The first frame depicted a room full of sphere-headed students copying a perfect cube from a blackboard. The professor's head is also a perfect cube. The second frame is a close-up of a student's, now cubic, hand, drawing a perfect cube. The final frame is, again, the entire class. This time the students all have perfectly cubic heads and hands, just as their professor does.

We are all trained to identify, quantify, and solve problems from a particular viewpoint, our cube. Economists, and those who have developed an economic skill set, have some ability to step outside their cube. "Economics in One Lesson" puts it best. We cannot focus on a particular group to the detriment of all others, and we cannot focus on the whole, lest we damage a group beyond repair. We need to step outside our cube.

David Suzuki is identifying problems from within his cube. This sort of narrow-mindedness prevents him from seeing the root cause of the problem; he can only identify the symptoms that affect his cube. As a result, he only desires solutions that fit within his cube, and vilifies those who see the problem differently. Ultimately, his arguments can be written off as misguided and incomplete. You can avoid the same trap by reminding yourself to step outside your cube.

Another option is Startpage.com. Both are good and deliver slightly different results, so it may be good to use them both:

Startpage.com = mainly Google search results in privacy

DuckDuckGo = mainly Yahoo /Bing search results in privacy

Both incorporate other results for things like instant answers and have unique features.

Startpage.com has an Anonymous View feature that lets you visit results in privacy, too. Many people don't realize that once you click a regular search result link -- even at a private search engine -- you are in the Wild West of tracking again. Startpage AV fixes this.

DuckDuckGo has some cool features, too, like "bangs" that let you switch quickly to another website. For example, if you don't find results you like at DDG, you can type !s or !sp to get Startpage for Google results in privacy. You can type !w to go to Wikipedia. (But note that bangs don't offer any privacy protections themselves.)

In this book, the author claims asking someone how happy they are means different things in different cultures. He says in Japan answering, "Yes, I am happy" is seen as bragging. In Scandinavia, however, being unhappy is something to be ashamed of, hence you will get only positive responses.

Scandinavian countries are also have some of the highest rates of anti-depressant use in the world.

Become a smuggler!

Figure out which goods are in highest demand and sneak them into the country. Undercut the competition and sell to the largest distributors under the table.

There are two strategies; a few big scores or repeated business. A few big sales make the most sense if you are selling non-perishable goods such as tools, clothing, electronics, etc. Perishables however lend themselves to repeat business; food, toilet paper, building supplies, and drugs lend themselves to long term business relationships with smaller profits per sale but larger profits in the long run. Regular shipments also means increased risk. The more shipments you do, the more likely you will get caught eventually. I don't know what the import regulations are in that country but I imagine customs and paperwork would be a problem.

Research the drug mule operations the DEA has caught to get some ideas on the logistics.

Either learn the language or higher someone that left the country and is looking for cash.

Read books on the art of negotiation; Never Split the Difference, Bargaining with the Devil, Getting to Yes

Work out, take a self defense course, take a weapons course (conventional and unconventional)

Learn handyman basics; emergency vehicle repair, medical care (airway, breathing, circulation), ropes straps and load securing, backing/ultralight camping

Never tell anyone about your operation. The less people know the less competition you have.

Voting accepts and reinforces the alleged legitimacy of government, which is an inherently illegitimate, violent, evil and immoral institution.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uVV2Dcqt0

https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Superstition-Larken-Rose/dp/145075063X

If you must vote, because someone has a gun to your head, for example, vote for Cthulhu.

Oh and here man, seriously, read Reclaiming the American Right by Justin Raimondo https://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-American-Right-Conservative-Movement/dp/1933859601

Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

That's absolutely the best book to learn austrian economics. You can get it for free from Mises.org but it you have spare cash it's always good to have it in your personal library to show your friends you are a demigod in the making and for your children too.

This book, "For a New Liberty" and "Atlas Shrugged" are a libertarian trilogy starter pack enough to change any indoctrinated mind from vicious statist parasite to superhero producer and strong defender of liberty and property.

Considering how the CDC director admitted that the &quot;vaccines&quot; do not prevent the spread of covid, there is no reason to treat "unvaccinated" people as any more likely to spread the disease than someone who has drank the Kool Aid.

The plandemic is over, dude.

> and one of the quotes is taken from Team Fortress 2's trailer Meet the Sniper

Try the other way around. The quote is from an excerpt of a book quoting Mattis in 2006. "One of the rules Maj. Gen. James Mattis gave his Marines to live by in Iraq, as quoted in Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq (2006) by Thomas E. Ricks."

https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Meet_the_Sniper#Notes

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Mattis

Never heard of it, but the Amazon description makes it sound like McCarthyist nonsense.

>None Dare Call It Treason is a careful compilation of facts from hundreds of Congressional investigations of communism and dozens of authoritative books on the communist-socialist conspiracy to enslave America.

I'm not a big fan of the anti-left stuff. I'm certainly no fan of the left, but I'd rather us be anti-state. Restricting ourselves to anti-left and dwelling on conspiracy theories from the Cold War is a good way to forget that the right is an enemy as well. I'd actually consider fascism a bigger threat than communism, at least in the U.S.

Its not as clear cut as that. Besides the hacking he falsely accused the website owner of being a child pornographer and directing a "rape crew". He blocked the owner from accessing his website. Took pictures of naked women (whom he thought were underage!) from the web owners email address and posted them online (+ web owner's private emails) without their consent and threatened to release Steubenville high school student's personal information. Deleted the evidence and lied multiple times to FBI agents about the crime. In comparison the co-conspirator who took part in the hack but not the other crimes faces only up to a year (potentially). Probably doesn't make it fair, but just thought I'd clear some misconceptions.

source: https://www.scribd.com/document/317770565/US-v-Deric-Lostutter-Grand-Jury-Indictment

Hung Jury are often called mistrials - basically the state gets a endless number of do overs while you struggle to pay for an attorney. Double jeopardy really only kicks in if you are acquitted or found guilty.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Retrial-after-a-Hung-Jury-Cohen/aa72ecf70174b16545b6505745bb565d92a5e31c

Run your own email server. Look into mail in a box. I think that's what it's called. I'm running one on a vps, which can cost as little as a couple bucks a month. You can get a domain for a buck a year.

https://mailinabox.email/guide.html

Under search engines, not many people know about this, but the new beta search engine from Brave is worth consideration as a decent option: https://search.brave.com/

Announcement: https://brave.com/brave-search-beta/

I like AirVPN. They use a client that locks your network down so only the VPN is used, that way if you lose connection you don't start auto-connecting to every damn thing out there. Caveat: It's run by commies. Only use if you don't mind giving money to pinkoes.

though it is kinda funny to see commies engaging in capitalism by running their own company...

That's 2 ancaps from Scotland that I know of now. Huh.

Murray Rothbard - Anatomy of the State

Ludwig von Mises - Socialism

Henry Hazlitt - Economics in One Lesson

David Friedman - Machinery of Freedom

He said:

“I’m 100% for letting states set the rules on marijuana. Unfortunately, the marijuana bill that passed the House today:

Imposes new taxes, creates new federal crimes, creates new offices & programs at existing federal agencies, and in general gives federal government executive branch bureaucrats almost unlimited power to issue whatever regulations and rules they so choose.” https://parler.com/post/983c8de00843464b925c4239b8786f5a

Yes, very interesting book.

/for those who might be interested, we are talking about a book by Professor David Beito that goes into this history in much detail:

From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967

>What if I use a tor browser? Can that give me some security?

Get ProtonVPN (great free VPN)

Use Tor, Mozilla, or Brave

Use something like Signal for communication

Nextcloud for data storage

its not THAT hard

I've read Human Action 3 times, once before taking typical university Econ coursework, once during, and once after (not to mention the audio sections I've listened to countless times). It was the second book on econ I read - the first was Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson.

The book is written in English by someone who is thinking mostly in German, so the sentence construction is occasionally contorted - it's worth taking the time to make sure you understand what he's saying.

For my own purposes, I believe that chapters 2 and 3 are the most important for general thinking. The more narrowly economic chapters begin with Chapter 15.

It's a systematizing book, so it's going to talk about many things; even in the economics chapters there will be digressions onto related, but not per se economic, topics.

He's going to talk about people you've never heard of - don't worry too much about whether you recognize a name and think more about the ideas he's talking about.

He's going to mention ideas without mentioning any names, which is a little frustrating to me, but the same advice applies.

The study guide is a valuable resource (that I wish had been around when I firs read it) and is available for free download here

If you come across any particular issues while reading it, please don't hesitate to reach out to me.

The Millionaire Next Door and the follow-up sequel The Millionaire Mind talk about this in detail. Most millionaires are self-made, either running their own businesses or performing high-value services. Either way, they value their time and live within their means.

The US government is not letting this crisis go to waste. Not only are they trying this garbage:

https://thenextweb.com/corona/2020/03/18/the-us-wants-to-track-your-phones-location-data-to-help-limit-the-spread-of-coronavirus/

but they're also scheduled to vote on a bill that would outlaw encryption this week - and of course that has bipartisan support.

This is because we should look for decentralized alternatives, which can't be taken down nor censored, neither from the govt, nor because of any other shit.

Like any other social media, but you can get paid directly for your content: https://steemit.com

Same, just like YouTube, just with cryptocurrency instead of ads to pay the creators https://dtube.video

In the US the government limits the number of med schools, and doctors, CON laws limit the number of hospital beds. Then the government subsidies demand with medicaid and medicare. They have a committee of doctors that form the RUC that determines the prices that the government pays for procedures, and become the reference for what insurance companies pay.

Here is a short video that describes some of it: How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis - Animation

For a long discussion listen to:

Keith Smith on Free Market Health Care | Econtalk interview

Haven't used Matrix, but the UI design for most Matrix clients looks pretty modern (and slick) to me. See: https://matrix.org/clients/

Beats Conversations out of the water if that's any indication.

https://parler.com/profile/ronpaul/posts

Parler requires a signup.

They were saying that based off the facts, Covid doesn't necessitate the lockdown measures we've been seeing. Governors have been implementing all these measures based off false information.

Depends on your actual needs and who you are needing privacy from.

If you need privacy from things like your own ISP, or other corporate entities etc, be it for pirating, streaming throttling, etc then any decent VPN provider such as PIA or PureVPN etc would be fine.

If you need privacy from government entities of any particular country due to what you are doing not necessarily being legal in that country then a commercial VPN may not be enough.

Ok, here's some mild constructive criticism, even though I really like Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. I think he does a great job of communicating the intuition concerning how the price system and profit and loss calculation provide information and incentives to coordinate production and exchange.

But EIOL is, after all, fundamentally about the opportunity costs associated with government intervention in the economy. So after giving an exposition of the basic workings of the price system under market institutions, why not contrast this with the absence of an analogous mechanism in political institutions, especially as it concerns government expenditures in general? I think this is important because supporters of free markets are often caricatured as believing markets cure all evils, whereas the more nuanced approach merely needs to point out markets have certain inherent features that tend to correct patterns of misallocated resources, whereas government institutions do not.

You really should read Basic Economics or <strong>Economics in One Lesson.</strong> These are basic situations of collusion and cartelization and the principles in economics are very clearly different than what you described. Cartels are usually very short lived and create all sorts of risks for the business creating it. It would take a lot of effort for me to explain in short clear paragraphs what those great authors take whole chapters.

Those problems are tangential to the problem of monopolies. You should go back and think about what I asked.

>What if the other bakeries didn't close down, but one bakery bought all of them? Is that a monopoly? Does that make consumers worse off? How exactly?

See if you can spot the difference between a bakery that is the only one remaining and the monopolist.

I know that you are eager to jump ahead to the problem of cartel. But you have the most to gain by understanding what I tried to bring up.

The first business that requires a vaccine card in my town, I will be outside in a lawn chair on the sidewalk, selling these printed out on 60lb card stock for $10/each: https://www.docdroid.net/GsmUxRb/covid-19-shot-card-pdf

I will also give free example sheet on how to fill one out with pics that people post of theirs on the internet to virtue signal, like this: https://imgur.com/9Azszgv

Might even supply pens in various colors and types for $1/each.

$$$$$

The thing about Marxist ideas is that they're unfalsifiable and just generally so bad that no bothers to try to refute them. It's like trying to refute the Q Anon conspiracy theory or whatever other batshit crazy mental-incontinence-as-ideology out there - no one approaching the question with a shred of rationality or actual knowledge buys these ideologies, so those aren't useful tools to counter such ideologies.

Figure out what appeals to her about Bernie Sanders' message, and then use libertarian works going for the same appeal. Is it the emotional appeal, an equality/"justice"/fairness appeal, does she actually believe that socialism could deliver the promised results because she lacks the knowledge and theory to know how it always ends?

I'm personally a fan of The Most Dangerous Superstition, and would suggest The Problem of Political Authority for a more philosophical/theoretical approach - they're both accessible/easy to read and solid critiques of the State, but it's hard to say if they'd appeal to some random person I know literally 6 things about.

Stef doesn't use those arguments anymore. He is using consequentialist arguments now.

What really turned me off about Molyneux , even as a long time listener, is that he has abandoned basic economic reasoning that most AnCaps or people that understand the free market should understand.

On one call in show, some guy calls in asking the typical question about "what will happen with automation and robots taking most of the jobs in the near future? And what will people do and how will people survive without jobs?"

Instead of explaining that automation will free up labor and increase our standard of living in the long run or some basic response you could've known from reading Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt, he instead made up his own theory, using R vs K and IQ data to explain that what needs to happen is "the smart genes need to outbreed the dumb genes." When the smart genes outbreed dumb genes that's supposedly going to fix the problem of all the dumb unemployed people. According to Molyneux.

That's just one example that I think suggests he should lose credibility as a AnCap. Don't think he claims to be one anymore anyway.

I've read like the first third to half. It's probably the best explanation of capitalism I've ever read (outside his support for IP). It's extremely dry, logical and detailed and goes step by step about why capitalism is the only good economic system.

To be fair, I haven't read the other introductory economics books (like Economics in One Lesson).

I think this paper on how we are transitioning to a victim culture from a dignity culture is a great read. The more we expect 3rd parties to resolve our disputes for us instead of wanting to resolve them ourselves coupled with not wanting to be tolerant of others, the more we need to appear to be "victims" that require 3rd party intervention when there are disputes.

That may be the case for iOS devices. Android users dont have the luxury. When i try and set up signal on my tablet, it removes the capability on my phone as we are only allowed 1 master device. I can use my desktop app fine, but cant use my tablet because each android device is a "master device".

Here is the bit i reference from "back in october".

https://signal.org/blog/ice-forking/

> PoW is a voting system that works

I've argued similarly in the past about how PoW miners are the closest thing to the shareholders pure PoW coins have. And there's nothing wrong with this per se.

You have a point in that perhaps GPU mineable coins could enable the biggest hodlers to vote by mining with a GPU in a gaming rig for example. But the problem here is there are already quite a few specialist GPU mining farms in the world, so hodlers of coins like Monero may not achieve the same on-chain representation as the GPU miners of Monero.

Coin voting is much closer to true shareholder voting: investors in the coin vote with their coins, and their vote is weighted in proportion to their holdings.

One interesting aspect of Decred's hybrid PoW/PoS system is the investors in the coin get passive income from mining, because they're constantly voting with their coins. In pure PoW coins this is impossible. This makes buying DCR much more akin to buying shares in a company like Stripe: the higher the aggregate transaction fees on Decred's blockchain, the more the DCR stakeminers get paid.

You can't really approximate the above dynamic with pure PoW coins, because the only entities who get a share of the network's proceeds there are PoW miners. And not everyone can get a PPA with a hydroelectric plant + thousands of mining rigs to get a share.

For example, how much XMR does one GPU get you per year of mining Monero? Do you expect everyone to have a gaming rig they can max out for mining year round, or is it more viable to stake coins on any old computer with Decred? Hint, hint.

You can get that same data here:

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Select the US in the top left, then the bottom right can be blown up to give you a daily chart like you see here.

Try not paying and see if some thieves with guns show up at your house or not.

You need to WATCH THIS, and learn how taxes are based on a completely unjust and immoral foundation:

https://odysee.com/@Bitbutter:c/george-ought-to-help:9

For my phone I use Lineage OS with Microg

AOSP, the android open source project, is open source Linux operating system. However when you purchase a phone with Android on it it includes a lot of proprietary software.

The most important piece of spyware that gets installed on Android is Google Apps (or Gapps/OpenGapps installer). Google apps provide hooks into your Google account, Google location services, Google voice recognition services, Google maps, Google play store, etc.

All that stuff is what Google uses to track you and generate it's revenue.

Gapps is not part of AOSP. It's a add-on that is required for many things to function.

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MicroG is a open source project that replaces much of functionality when Gapps is not installed. It allows you to run Android and control your exposure to Google. By default it's google-free, but you can install stuff for Google app store and tie the phone to your Google account if you want to.

Lineage OS doesn't support key spoofing out of the box, which is required for MicroG. So MicroG provides their own modified versions of Lineage OS to make it easier. But other Android distributions can install microg.

If you are a very technical person then this is a good approach to gaining a lot of control over your phone without missing out on a lot of reason to own a smart phone.

You have to purchase a phone that supports Lineage and learn how to use Android SDK and such thinsg to root the phone and install your own firmware.

If that is too complicated then Librem is probably a good option. There are other people selling modified google-free phones as well.

It's not as good, privacy-wise, as avoid Android altogether, but it's not bad either.

Some people believe the world is flat, some believe evolution is a lie, but that doesn't mean just because there's a disagreement there's not an objective truth. I'm not saying science=morality, but there are parallels. See this article on how true morality prevails like true scientific theories.

Ethical intuitonism is a naive realism, we cannot know all truths with but at least some of them. Also it's dualistic, based both on a priorism and a posteriorism so it's not just "my guts are telling this so it's the ultimate truth", but it's something like this: A) X seems to be immoral B) In the absence of defeaters (i.e, contradictionary beliefs and coincidentality) it's justified to belive that X is immoral.

But if there are defeaters (say, someone is heavily biased on some issue) we should doubt and try our logic to solve the puzzle. Biases and dogmatic beliefs are a threat to intuitions, but they're also threat to scientific research, so we must overcome our biases.

I think you should read both Skepticism and Veil of Perception & Ethical Intuitonism, you'd find Huemer more convincing than me.

For those interested in seeing this in more direct economic theory, https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss#/media/File%3ADeadweight-loss-price-ceiling.svg

The concept is called Dead Weight Loss.

That urban legend comes from ignorance of their language. They don't have multiple words for the same thing. They just combine nouns and their modifying adjectives into the same word.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow

Citations provided in the wiki page.

This is the either the one I went with or very similar. It uses BNC cables so the red connection is to power the cameras and the blue to transmit the video signal. I have the DVR, power supply, and a TV all plugged into a surge protector right by my bed. I intend on upgrading to a battery backup so I don't lose the system in the case of a power outage but I haven't done it yet.

As far as real time, my monitor(32 inch TV) shows a live stream of all eight cameras. The main one(front porch for me) is the biggest with the other seven going around the side and bottom. It comes with a mouse that you can use to click on the streams for full screen, playback, etc. I have it mounted to the wall right next to my bed.

It's all stored locally and encrypted. You can connect it to ethernet if you want to use the app to view when you're not home but it's completely optional. Internet is not necessary to run the system. Electricity is all that is needed.

As far as storage goes, once the hard drive fills, it will overwrite the oldest but I believe it will hold somewhere around a month of footage. You can download anything you want to keep onto a flash drive and move it onto your computer.

I definitely recommend taking precise measurements before ordering because it's unlikely that the BNC cables provided will be enough to wire your whole house. I did some pretty poor estimation and ended up buying way more cable than I needed.

Everyone should be reading this in 2021:

https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Leviathan-Government-Anniversary-Independent/dp/1598131117/

https://www.amazon.com/Unmasked-Antifas-Radical-Destroy-Democracy/dp/154605958X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TJUTVPSGE3OJ&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=unmasked+andy+ngo&amp;qid=1610588909&amp;sprefix=unmasked+%2Caps%2C179&amp;sr=8-1

It's set "20 minutes into the future," about 2025, assuming several of our current technological trends like cryptocurrencies, 3D printing, and drones continue in a fairly linear trajectory.

And thanks! Feel free to check out the free short story if you're interested.

This one is published through an indie press, but historically all my stuff has been self-published through Amazon, Nook, Kobo, Apple iBooks, and Smashwords (D2D is a great help for doing this, as is Scrivener for compiling books into .ePub and .Mobi formats).

The publisher is a bit of an experiment for me, to see if their marketing work/connections can sell more books than my efforts on my own, so I'll let you know. Happy to answer any questions on the self-pubbing front too; I've been doing it with shorts and novellas for about 4 years.

Hmmm, even the arguably most popular Austrian economist/monetary theorist today doesn't agree with you.

Btw, I read that book a long time ago. I cited it in my book on Austrian economics. You should read it and get a different perspective.

OOF

You might want to purchase a copy of this book:

https://www.amazon.com/How-win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/8189297813/

More people would probably be willing to engage with you in discussions if you made your points less confrontational and maybe one at a time. You seem smart but dumping every grievance you ever had against anyone at once is not going to be read very much.

> capitalism is ultimately altruistic... to give yourself a good public face

What's altruistic about this? You've got the self-serving motive right there. (Of course altruistic != good, in case it needs to be said on this sub.)

What's great about capitalism is that it can lead to widespread prosperity without altruism. The way to get profits is to figure out something people want, produce it at a cost doesn't waste scarce resources, and sell it at a price people can afford. Under a variety of circumstances, this can go awry. But lack of altruism is not really the fundamental problem; capitalism is far more robust to selfishness than competing -isms.

If your system only works if everyone is consistently nice for free, you're going to have a bad time.

> Anarcho-Capitalism will best succeed with strong community ties.

Yes. But that's true of any social system. No society, regardless of how it is organized, flourishes best when everyone's an alienated dick. That's how you get life that's solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Same could be said for the left. It's ok to expand Presidential powers and federal authority as long as it's a Democrat in power.

Even used a left leaning source

What does everything care about Berwick and his business dealings?

He's been accused of fraud by multiple people on more than one occasion. His passport business and Galt's Gulch. The last link has a lot of bad looks for Berwick.

While none of this is an argument against those he regularly puts forth for the need to disband the state, I'm not sure he's a good person to support, ethically speaking and want to get some insight from the rest of you all.

Psst, you didn't get it from me: https://www.docdroid.net/GsmUxRb/covid-19-shot-card-pdf

Tips: use 60lb card stock on a laser printer, have some other people fill it out to change handwriting styles, use different pens(blue/black) each time, and fill them out like all the examples posted on the internet by virtue signalers proud of their cards.

The mass vacation sites were all run by volunteers, and only handed these paper cards out as the only proof at all of a vaccination, and told people to hang onto them because of that. They kept no other records, and there is no way for anyone at this point to prove it is real or not.

Also, I suggest you print out many of them and hand them out in front of any place that requires them, like a stadium or store etc. Be sure to charge $5 each and make some cash while doing it.

> can’t use photoshop to make a fake passport?

/cough/ pro tip use 60lb printer paper, print out extras and hand them out in front of the first store to demand them and make a few bucks each.

https://www.docdroid.net/GsmUxRb/covid-19-shot-card-pdf

it's gonna be hard for cryptos to make national monies obsolete, until we have an algorithm that cannot be attacked by the biggest of national governments.

The discussion linked below is great. Robert Barnes describes how all of the attackers and yellow pants can be seen together coordinating and escalating throughout the night on video. They were all chasing Rittenhouse as he went by himself to put out the fire. Once he isolated himself he became a target of the whole group. When Grosskreutz was asking Rittenhouse on video if he shot someone he was trying to get a confession to justify his premeditate attack on him.

Rittenhouse RECAP | Viva Frei

Why didn't the defense describe this plausible scenario while letting the prosecution lie and manufacture evidence?

"you appear like ___" is not an argument, and the onus is on the people taking responsibility for this to prove its safety via independent medical experts before subjecting the general public to it, and guess what it's the same story as global warming, cooking the picture, throwing out critics and elevating the others, it's not on the general public to prove it's unsafe, especially in the city where nobody really owns land and people have no choice but to traverse through the areas of effect.

wireless radiation has biological effects and anyone saying otherwise are lying irresponsible negligent bastards or idiots drinking the koolaid...

Spook: An abstract idea or construct which people treat as though it is real or existing, even though it is not. It "possesses" people the way ghosts possess souls, causing them to act differently than they normally would. Examples are things like the virtue of democracy, "society" itself and any "will" it may have (only individuals and their individual wills are real), and "the State".

Max Stirner: A guy who, from what I remember, pointed out a bunch of spooks and claimed only individuals and individual will and action actually existed or mattered -- everything else was basically BS ideas we just treat as real. If you hear about "Egoist" anarchists, it's referring to the school of thought started by this guy. His popular work was called The Ego and His Own. It was and is very disturbing to anyone with liberal sensibilities, in either the classical or modern meaning of the term.

Because it's clearly wrong. It's true that the US has some of the strongest free speech laws, but if you're literally saying that no other country has any free speech protections at all, you're just wrong.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country

Just a big picture question here -- If I don't approve of a wildly popular act of government, does that make me anti-democratic? I got voted out of Nextdoor.com recently for using the word spam, and I've been questioning the value of democracy these days.

I would use electrum:

• optionally setup a fresh linux installation for each currency to avoid malware from your everyday PC getting to your BTC or potential malware from the bitcoin cash devs getting to your bitcoin

• optionally use the offline transaction functionality and never connect these computers to the inter-web. You will have to google that process

• use electrum to move the bitcoin first to a new wallet using a different seed.

• Check the BCH has not moved on a block explorer eg: blockchair.com or blockdozer.com if it has not moved and your BTC has then your funds are now split and you dont have to worry about transactions on one chain replaying and moving funds on the other.

• move the BCH to an exchange, if you dont trust any exchanges make a test deposit and withdrawal of what you are buying first then proceed with 10-20% of your BCH at a time withdrawing funds before depositing more

I used hitbtc as I was able to sell a rather large amount of BCH without being verified (dont touch fiat pairs if you do that for me it was strait to BTC) and they only required 2 confirmations... and also where the only ones accepting deposits early on. Make sure you find out how many confirmations, I know at least one exchange requires 20 confirmations and each confirmations could take hours.

Hey, hopefully you can help clarify. I was researching a little this, when u/jobdestroyer pointed me to a forbes article on LiNK.

There, they mention a certain Blaine Vess, entrepreneur, who is also an operational donor and board member in LiNK. He founded studymode.com.

That's where it gets shady: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/studymode.com

As you can see, dozens of people complaining this company takes their money in what seems to me an illegal way, and then never returns it.

So this studyguide.com seems like a serious scam. How can LiNK have a professional scammer as board member?

I'd love to help the cause, but this looks weird.

Edit: so I decided to donate despite this. I love this community, and I think this is time for me to give the benefit of the doubt.

thanks for posting this, I can't tell if steemit is good or bad, I err towards skepticism here

users say steemit is a ponzi scheme https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@breakfastchief/bitcointalk-users-say-steem-is-a-ponzi-scam

steemit.com - blogging is the new mining https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1466593.0

(edit: there may have been another better bitcointalk thread on this subject than the one posted)

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@dnaleor/warning-dash-privacy-is-worse-than-bitcoin

Dash isn't really adding anything of much value from what I've read about it. But, this is just one source, I'm sure there is much more you can look into. Just giving a heads up to a fellow AnCap.

I finally got around to adding it to minds.com. Still needs an editor's touch though.

Moral Agency and Animals

It's hard because Americans revere it as sacred ie. it's unpopular with voters to modify it, but not that procedurally hard. But as David Friedman says in his book Legal Systems Very Different from Ours (you can read the draft for free in David's website here), wherever the laws (including constitutions) are hard or impossible to modify/amend, the politicians (and people in general) very usually find ways to go around them. The USA is not an exception. Just look at how many things the Feds do are justified by using the General Welfare and Interstate Commerce clauses. Feds routinely violate constitutional rights invoking the most absurd stuff. Do you remember "free speech zones"? Clearly unconstitutional, yet they find a way around it.

In Chile it was similar, it was unpopular enough to change it so as to make it hard to replace (although not enough to amend it), but now it stopped being seen as sacred or important, and in fact it was touted as terrible, "neoliberal", and all other falsities under the sun, therefore politicians were able to begin the process of completely replacing it.

1: Yes, humans are flawed, that's why I said it won't be perfect, it's impossible to make it perfect.

2: There could be private courts that offer arbitration as a service. The 2 parts would base their decisions on the reputation of the judge, and agree to a judgment when they both think that he will be fair.

You could have a private insurance company that would use it's economic power to put pressure on the other part to accept the judgement, so he couldn't escape the law.

I recommend the book The Machinery Of Freedom, by David Friedman. He writes about how stuff like this could work.

The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton Folsom

Capitalism and the Historians by F. A. Hayek and others. (might be too early to be considered "progressive era", but I think it is pretty related).

Also, what u/properal said

On this subject I recommend everyone here read The Vampire Economy. It is the most thorough look into actually doing business in Nazi Germany that I've ever come across. Those "private" businesses were anything but.

> You haven't come up with a viable solution. What you have here is a pet theory. On paper, I agree with you. But there is no practical application, or path to application, for this free market theory.

I beg to differ.

https://www.amazon.com/Legal-Systems-Very-Different-Ours/dp/1793386722

> And until you come up with a path to remove it

We don't need to remove it, just leave it, that's why we are heavily invested in seasteading.

Unlike the left, we do not believe in forcing our political norms on others. Just because we don't want a state doesn't mean we have the right to force others not to have a state if that's what they want.

They're based in switzerland so that's much better than the US.

I prefer VPNs that I can pay for in monero because then it's difficult to track a payment to my vpn.

Mullvad is the vpn I use and imo the best, but proton is not us based so I would say it's probably good. I like the proton team in general

The Honorable mention "Beggars in Spain" I highly recommend. It delves into the implications of what would happen if a group of people were born that didn't have to sleep and how they might surpass regular humans and their struggles against government once regular people start bitching and moaning. Their solution is where the libertarian premise enters the story.

How much further could you go in life if you didn't have to sleep 8-10 hours a night?

I regret that I have but one upvote to give.

The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larken Rose. I believe Part I (of IV) is available in preview on Amazon, as well as on Good Reads.

Unless, of course, OP wants to ease his friends into libertarianism, rather than jumping into full blown voluntarism and morality. :D

The New History of the Leviathan by Murray Rothbard I believe covers this but I haven't read it yet. Also The Triumph of Conservativism is about this.

I use Private Internet Access. It works very well and for 99% of people I suspect it would be fine.

There may be better solutions if you're truly trying to guarantee that your activity can not possibly be snooped on by the state. Then again, if you're using Windows or an Intel chipset there's pretty much no getting away from it.

Cyphr. Encrypted messaging.
VyprVPN. VPN.

>"Golden Frog was founded in response to Room 641a, an infamous room in San Francisco where the NSA was conducting surveillance on AT&T's networks. We filed papers with the FCC to bring this alarming activity to their attention, but were ignored. Instead of waiting around for the government to protect Internet users, our response was to found Golden Frog to build tools that help preserve an open and secure Internet experience while respecting user privacy."

>I'm really scared the only solution to everything is endlessly watching horrible boring talks by some creepy middle aged man in Canada. Do i have to support free domain radio if I am an ancap? I really hate Stephan molyneux.

Libertarians and ancaps are allowed to disagree, we all simply follow a similar line of philosophical thought. You wouldn't be the first to dislike Molyneux, many people feel the same. If you're only watching his videos for education on the subject, you're doing yourself a disservice. I'd recommend reading some of the more influential figures in the movement. The first book I always point people to that are unfamiliar with libertarian thought on economics, social issues, or otherwise, is Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt (which is obviously concerned with economics, but it's an easy, fun read and gives insight into a lot of the logic employed in issues beyond economics). After that I tend to recommend reading some of Bastiat's essays (notably "The Law") and then a good ol' dose of Rothbard, especially his essay "Anatomy of the State." As far as your consumption of video/audio content for libertarian education, I can't recommend Tom Woods' podcast enough.

Start with Economics in One Lesson and Human Action. After that, I'd recommend you read up on whatever interests you the most or where you feel weakest.

I suggest For a New Liberty, The Problem of Political Authority, or The Machinery of Freedom. Economics in One Lesson is also important for getting a solid foundation in economics (and it's an easy read).

If you want something short (like an essay), I reccomend "Anatomy of the State" and "Chaos Theory".

Edit: I'm not Kokesh in case you couldn't tell.

> Spend a few hours every week studying American history, human nature, and economic theory. Start with “Economics in One Lesson.” Then try Keynes. Then Hayek. Then Marx. Then Hegel. Develop a worldview that you can articulate as well as defend. Test your theory with people who disagree with you. Debate. Argue. Adjust your philosophy as necessary. Then, when the next election comes around, cast a vote for the candidate whose worldview seems most in line with your own.

Kudos Mr. Rowe, KUDOS!

> A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern “libertarian” economics of the type espoused by Ron Paul and others. > > Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the “Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an influential libertarian publication. Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson, his seminal work, in 1946. Concise and instructive, it is also deceptively prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy.

Economics in One Lesson is one of the best books for people who are not too savvy in economics and presents it in a way that the layperson can understand.

If you want some lectures check out this What Is Money?, the link is to the intro video in the playlist. Presented in Denmark, 2005. It goes through the fundamental things like monetary theory and business cycle theory, marginal utility concepts, division of labor, among others. The most interesting video is in my opinion the one on the epistemology (the video titled praxeology, not so much about praxeology but rather the epistemology of rationalism vs logical positivism).

Wow, I had this exact idea a few days ago, but never posted. Great thinks mind alike!

Fiction: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein

Not strictly ancap, but anti-authoritarian and fun.

Nonfiction: The Problem of Political Authority, by Michael Huemer

Hands-down the best nonfiction regarding ancap ideas I've yet to read. Strictly rational teardown of the ideas of statism by demonstrating how they irreconcilably conflict with most peoples' basic moral beliefs, and how they have no demonstrable legitimacy. Dismantles many of the common theories you will have thrown at you as justification for the state (democracy, social contract, consequentialism) with all the mental rigor of the philosopher and epistemologist which the author is. This will give you some serious ammo to debate anyone of a rational inclination who still rejects the ideas of voluntary society. Very dispassionate and logical.

Other recommendations for nonfiction would be:

Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson (Economics, duh. Fun read.)

Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow (Awesome psychology text, wonderful to help understand yourself and give language to directly discuss human behavior)

Michael Huemer's new Approaching Infinity (philosophy of mathematics -- specifically solving paradoxes of infinity!)

And just because it would give me an excuse to read it, as I haven't yet, Chase Rachels' Spontaneous Order: A Capitalist Case for a Stateless Society

And you know what? It doesn't even have to be in support of ancap, does it? Maybe we should get some Proudhon, Konkin, or Tucker in this list. Good to read the people who influenced these ideas and discuss their works too.

Unfortunately, that precedence hasn't prevented 3D printed gun schematics (which is basically just code for how to produce the weapons - the same as source code, on a fundamental level) from being taken offline: https://thenextweb.com/plugged/2018/08/01/blueprints-for-3d-printed-guns-stay-offline-for-now-but-we-should-still-be-worried/

I think the first amendment angle is the right one to take for this case. Because apparently, the judiciary doesn't respect the second amendment enough to protect it on its own.

Idk about depression treatment from MDMA - seems like it would have a negative effect due to the degradation of neurotransmitters after their massive release. Ketamine on the other hand has had some strong results: https://www.webmd.com/depression/features/what-does-ketamine-do-your-brain

>not being a doctor, I don't spend much time postulating on someone else's specialty.

Being a woman, this is my specialty on all the levels doctors will never reach, even female ones. No one can know my womb and child better than myself, even machines/tech cannot.

I understand your resoning for testing is your preference, that's valid you would want to avoid the unexpected.

Being willing to sacrifice internal validation to gain external validation is a private choice all parents decide best alone. It's good to hear you've had 5 children and theres some experience behind your views. I've had 3 children, all of them without a single test conducted or doctors visit or midwife. The middle one was footling breech. So I do have empirical evidence that birth as a completely natural function is beneficial.

With your examples of cancer and autoimmune, you clarify that the cigarettes were the true cause, so what could the beneficial function of cancer and alleged autoimmune diseases be? It is possible- and there are scientist who advocate this theory - that both cancer and autoimmune issues are not the body attacking it's own living tissue, but rather a natural process of dead tissue (cells which have enveloped corrupted matter which is unable to pass through the normal detox pathways). Fungal, viral, bacterial "infections" are starting to be understood as not the actual causative factors of sickness, but rather of a natural healing process originating within the body. The biggest evidence for this conclusion is that bacteria, yeast, and viruses can all transform into each other and are called as a whole system "mycrozyma". This field of science is a more modern understanding of disease. Here is a well-written, evidence-based resource for the topic

https://www.amazon.com/Political-Pilgrims-Travels-Western-Intellectuals/dp/0819173843

I see there's newer cheaper edition that I've never read. Also, I think mises.org might have a free book that cites a little from Hollander's work. Though I can't remember which work that was.

They weren't considered fringe nutjobs at the time. They were mainstream and well established. Iirc people like John Dewey, George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Dreiser all played damage control for Stalin.

The funniest review of this book is from worldsocialism.org where of course it was "so-called" communist countries these people visited.

I read the book 8-9 years ago and no longer have it, so I’m mostly going from memory. I’m pretty sure the study discussed is linked in the bibliography.

I’m mobile at the moment so that’s the best I can do rn.

I noticed some criticism of fractional reserve banking in here. It should not be outright rejected by Ancaps and Austrians.

There's a book called Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls that tells how these kind of solutions have been attempted for literally 4,000 years and they've never worked. If there was anything that would have been empirically refuted (I'm by no means an empiricist) it would be wage and price controls.

> The free market can't fix being a whiny bitch that wants to force their will on others.

Yes the market can fix even that. The market is pure magic. There almost nothing it cant fix.

Thanks, this is more of what I was looking for.

I also found this. https://www.amazon.com/Case-Free-Market-Healthcare-ebook/dp/B08683LZP9

Dont know if it's any good though, I'll pick up your book too.