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@sampler @djsumdog Work from home maybe, but remote learning on the other hand is detrimental. So many college students flunked during the COVID lockdowns.

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Like Meatless Tuesdays ... I do wonder how effective it will be this time around without the mass trauma fear of the scamdemic. I'm going to guess not very effective, and I'm sure the controllers suspect and will monitor that.

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So it seems like the true purpose of this war is to issue another global lockdown, this time because of (fake) oil shortages. People are already proposing alternate day driving and mandatory bussing in some places.

Also, remember that oil is used for electricity in some places so expect rationing for that too.

activistpost.com/problem-war-%

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They will try COVID lockdowns 2.0 based on artificial energy shortages. There are credible reports that many tankers are not allowed to dock at Western European ports to create these shortages. The EU's 'energy minister' is making announcements in this direction, and Starmer is looking for similar measures. Total disaster.
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Is Lockdown 2.0 really about oil? ⛽🛑

📺 youtube.com/watch?v=cCMpF8AMFXo

The International Energy Agency has dropped a paper titled 'Sheltering from Oil Shocks,' and the implications are striking.

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Someone is exploiting old people and making them believe crypto is the devil and in so doing trying to get Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies effectively banned in New Hampshire through absurd regulation. The senate hearing was packed with old people from AARP and passed the senate disturbingly!

Help save cryptocurrency in New Hampshire!

The address for the house version of the bill is Tuesday April 7th at: 1 Granite Place, Concord, NH 03301.

The hearing is on house bill SB482. "Granite Place" Room 159.

This bill will mandate full KYC for cryptocurrency vending machines, put a $2000 per day limit on purchases, put a 14 day hold on your funds, and make vending operators liable for 3rd party scams if users send their crypto to scammers. It will also mandate chainalysis.

This effectively this bans the sale of cryptocurrency through vending machines as it's economically infeasible to ensure little old ladies buying crypto don't send their crypto off to scammers after acquisition. If even a small percentage of users did so it would completely eliminate the margins on selling and therefore WILL put every vending machine operator out of business in New Hampshire.

The scary thing is this already passed the senate.

It's extraordinarily important that everyone who cares about financial freedom show up to the hearing and testify against this bill. Testifying against the bill is easy. You just sign up and tell the reps why you think this bill should not be passed.

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>100% tax on copyright content.
>Enforcement would result in the tax going to building homeless shelters and housing initiatives should anyone decide to charge for their creations

What about someone like me who publishes video games commercially but still releases everything under a libre license?

ioncominteractive.itch.io/refr

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@theorytoe when you can print infinite money you can delay things if america loses this iran war everything is done
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>world pandemic was supposed to end the economy
<economy still lives
>proxy war #1 was supposed to end the economy
<economy still lives
>proxy war #2 was supposes to end the economy
<economy still lives
>Trade route inaccessibility is supposed to end the economy

cyclic
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The #FSF is seeking a motivated and talented individual to be our new Engineering and Certification Manager: u.fsf.org/4av #job

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Shut up Daniel. Genuinely, shut the fuck up. Everybody is tired of being lied to. We know about your connection to PrivacyGuides. We've all heard the libelous bullshit from you a million times about all of your competitors. I will never use GrapheneOS. I will never recommend GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS is not free software as long as you and your greedy victim-complex mafia control it. You think you're hot shit because you have all of these "privacy" YouTubers glazing you, you've got funding from Proton and from Motorola. But it's meaningless. Real truth-seekers who really care about protecting themselves don't like you because you are a spiteful and extremely manipulative person and your entire team is untrustworthy. I could've almost believed Copperhead was stolen if YOU weren't the one who said it. But every time YOU say something, I have to assume it's a lie. For all I know, you probably stole it. Because your behavior is indicative of someone who needs control over everything, the way you throw a fit at even the mere suggestion that you are not being worshiped, and weasel your way into places where you prey on people hoping to find solutions to problems that narcissists like you helped to create to begin with. Fuck you.
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Big tech is trying to stop 'right to repair' in Colorado, but it's a terrible solution to lock downs and making things unrepairable or unrepairable by 3rd parties.

I'd normally prefer to let the end-user decide and vote with their dollars, but there is something to be said about intellectual property preventing the free market from functioning properly. As a consequence more often than not we end up with no good options or sometimes few good options.

Unfortunately the best solution I think we could push is getting rid of intellectual property with the exception of trademarks. Trademarks when used appropriately are geared at protecting the consumer from fraud. Intellectual property is utilized to ensure monopolies and duopolies and prevent solid competition from forming. The same thing can be said of regulations.

People often think companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, etc don't want regulation, but this is not true. Often they don't want it initially, but do want it later. Once a market has been established it's in those whom have built that market's interest to stop smaller competitors from entering. Barriers to competition in the market place are then pushed, ie regulation. Often it's claimed to be justified by "safety". It's really just fear mongering pushed by folks with an interest in minimizing competition.

One example is the number video rental stores in the 90s compared to today. That is to say I'd expect brick and mortar video rental stores to have declined and been replaced with thousands of online stores. This didn't happen because intellectual property is legally different from physical property. Anyone can start a brick and mortar rental business, but only those with billions can start an online one.

wired.com/story/tech-companies

@LukeAlmighty I'm actually a little nostalgic for it, only because my high school physics teacher would occasionally play clips for us.

@waltercool Why are they still promoting Milei when he has proven that he doesn't support free speech (giving people up to 13 years in prison for "antisemitism")?

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