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A bill filed in the Oklahoma Senate would significantly expand the types of gold and silver recognized as legal tender in the state and repeal the state capital gains tax on bullion sales. If passed, it would build on previous steps to reestablish constitutional money, positioning the people of Oklahoma to actively challenge the Federal Reserve’s fiat monopoly.

Sen. Shane Jett filed Senate Bill 284 (SB284). In 2014, Oklahoma took the first step and declared gold and silver coins issued by the United States government are legal tender in the State of Oklahoma. That bill also expanded the sales tax exemption on gold and silver. SB284 would improve and clarify the definition of specie legal tender.

The language in the new definition retains the definition of gold and silver bullion coins issued by the U.S. government as legal tender and explicitly specifies that “legal tender may be used to pay public debt in this state.” In effect, this would require the state to accept gold and silver for payment of taxes, fees, and other obligations.

Oklahoma is among five states that have legally recognized gold and silver as legal tender, as they always should have been doing. Utah led the way, reestablishing constitutional money in 2011. Wyoming, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana have since joined.

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/01/oklahoma-bill-would-expand-gold-and-silver-as-legal-tender/
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Seems kinda obvious that GOG would work with a hardware company to make a GOG Handheld

A GOG Galaxy branded handheld would make more sense than the Steam Deck, even, since GOGs whole gimmick is offline DRM free gaming
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The war on porn has started up again. For those old enough to remember and those concerned about the attacks on freedom of the past hundred plus years (and not just porn, but right to travel, financial freedom, speech, youths right to work/independence, etc) there is a new case to be decided at the US Supreme Court that could end up restricting your access to porn on the internet (yes again, several supreme court cases of the 90s ruled repeatedly you can't burden adults access to porn for the sake of 'protecting' youth). This law would effectively require sites to ID users as adults if primarily distributing porn. It would not apply to sites like Reddit however and of course you can't enforced anti-porn laws outside your legal jurisdiction anyway making it effectively a mute and stupid law that doesn't 'protect' kids assuming we take the 'think of the children' psycos at their word porn somehow harms kids who are if we are honest with ourselves don't care cause they haven't hit puberty and those that have are NOT children! Not to mention what this law actually does is punish the US operators of porn sites by pushing them to move porn sites to jurisdictions outside the United States or in this case at least Texas:

vox.com/scotus/391248/porn-sup

I think gamedevs should try to port their game to as many platforms as possible. This isn't the days of physical media where you have to buy/produce separate CDs/floppies/cartridges for a different platform and see if they would sell, so there is really no excuse not to port your game to a certain platform anymore. Even if one version doesn't sell, it isn't a loss because it's all information.

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We have some terrible news. Breastmilk.club, the instance that hosts KF01 and KF01 Studios, will be shutting down by week’s end. As of now we have no instance to migrate to and are considering taking a lengthy hiatus using this opportunity to revitalized and revamp our company image.
It has been a great joy posting with you all and we hope that future opportunities are presented to us to continue this experience.

Thank you
KF01 and KF01 Studios
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This week's donation went to a software developer named Vince Liuice. He contributes to a variety of themes, including the Matcha GTK theme which is my favorite. Others he works on include Plasma Themes, GTK3/4 Themes, Global Themes, Artwork such as Icons, Cursors, Wallpapers, Add-ons, and Extensions.

His work and code can be found at Github, Pling, and Gitlab:

github.com/vinceliuice

pling.com/u/vinceliuice/

opencode.net/vinceliuice

if you wish to help him financially he accepts donations through Paypal:

paypal.com/paypalme/vinceliuic

I honestly wish that Nostr succeeded because despite it's reputation, it's a brilliant concept. I think the biggest problems with the Fediverse are the fediblock culture and instance fatigue. Having accounts that aren't bound to a single server forces everyone to judge people on an individual basis and doesn't force people to create a new account elsewhere if their instance shuts down.

But of course, everything nice has to be ruined by pedos and scammers.

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WHY YOU SHOULD PAY CASH

WHEN YOU PAY DIGITALLY MOST OF THE MONEY GOES TO THE BANKS NOT YOUR COMMUNITY!

"I copied this from someone else. Very interesting and it really made me stop and think about using cash more often.
I have really never thought of this has anyone else?
💲Please understand what NOT
using cash is doing.
Cash is important. 💸
Why should we pay cash everywhere we can
with banknotes instead of a credit card? 💳
- I have a $50 banknote in my pocket.
Going to a restaurant and paying for dinner with it. The restaurant owner then uses the bill to pay for the laundry. The laundry owner then uses the bill to pay the barber. The barber will then use the bill for shopping.
After an unlimited number of payments, it will still remain a $50, which has fulfilled its purpose to everyone who used it for payment and the bank has jumped dry from every cash payment transaction made...
- But if I come to a restaurant and pay digitally - Card, and bank fees for my payment transaction charged to the seller are 3%, so around $1.50 and so will the fee $1.50 for each further payment transaction or owner re laundry or payments of the owner of the laundry shop, or payments of the barber etc.....
Therefore, after 30 transactions, the initial $50 will remain only $5 😫 and the remaining $45 became the property of the bank 🏦 thanks to all digital transactions and fees.
Small businesses need your help and this is one way to help ourselves too. Pull small draws of cash out at a time and use that instead of tap, credit, etc.
When this is put into perspective, imagine what each retailer is paying on a monthly basis in fees at 3% per transaction through their POS machine.
If they have, for example, $50,000 in sales & 90% are by Card, they are paying $1500 in fees in ONE Month. $18,000 in a year! That comes out of their income every month.
That would go a long way to helping that small business provide for its family!🏦♥️" got this from a good friend"


#FightTheCashlessSociety #SurveilanceState #StopSpyingOnUs #SocialCreditSystem #NSA #FBI #CIA #CIAMisconduct #USPolitics #Progressive #Green #EdwardSnowden #FreeSpeech #FreeAssembly #CivilLiberties
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Does anyone have any experience with OpenStreetMap uMaps? Can you create a map that anyone can contribute to? Also, which is the best host for uMaps (in both service quality and having a lax enough ToS)?

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There is no way you could portray the rejection of smartphones as a boomer view. Boomers are equally hooked on that ecosystem as everybody else and probably suffer more because of it.

Apparently, if you submit your game to the ESRB and the word "cunt" is used at all, then they will automatically give you an AO rating.

This means that this one game that I would like to make that would most likely have a T rating would be rated AO because the word "cunt" would be used.

People seriously need to drop the negative stigma of that word. I honestly hear "nigger" being used more than the word "cunt". It's pathetic.

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i want nntp to come back but like slightly better
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Ragebait is trite and overdone. Maybe try posting about your hobbies? You didn't let the internet dopamine machine turn rageposting into your hobby, right anon?
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Added a blue sword, which is even stronger than the white sword. There is no shop item for it yet, and as you can see in the video, there is no HUD icon for the blue sword either.

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Created a new room layout. Zelda 1 had water-maze rooms, and I realized that mine didn't so I created one. Though I am kind of limited because the key will always be placed in a random room and the room coordinates for the key (in tiles) is always (10, 5), so I have to accommodate that when designing rooms like this.

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Happy New Year.

I don't do "new year's resolutions", I do goals and experiments.

The difference between a resolution and a goal is that a goal is about establishing where you want to end up, so that you remember to keep taking concrete steps in that direction. A resolution is about trying to talk yourself into staying motivated. A resolution is a tacit admission that you are not in control of yourself, and I am, so I don't make resolutions.

Experiments are a third category. An experiment is when you decide to TRY a certain lifestyle change to see if it "works" to carry you toward your goals without serious side-effects.

For New Year, I decided to begin some experiments:

1. I'm stopping the use of twitter because growing an account there is so slow that I'm not motivated to invest the time, and it's a slop-factory which is wasting my time doing anything else. This is actually not starting an experiment but rather ending one, which I started about 6 months ago to see if I could grow my twitter account.

2. I moved my computer into my office and for the most part, I'm leaving it here. As I type to you now, I'm in the office. My long term DREAM is to have a tech-free personal life and keep my computer equipment in an office setting for work purposes only.

It's been 5 days and this experiment has already helped me to understand that dream better. I don't have a TV in the living room, so without the computer I don't have access to YouTube. My YouTube feed is fairly high quality because I don't watch very often and I subscribe to interesting and informative channels. I don't think TV belongs in the living room, but it might be that this lifestyle is better with a home theater room of some kind.

Obviously I can watch YouTube in the office, as I'm writing to you now, but I am making a conscious effort to enter the office with objectives, and leave when those objectives are complete.

So far, I've been significantly more productive than I had before so I'm counting that as a win. Because this is an experiment, I can learn from it and make changes to it as I go, something I intend on doing.

So anyway, Happy New Year and this is why I might be posting a little bit less.
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