The part that sticks out to me, especially after reading Devolution:
“I’m not a physician. I’m the Secretary of Defense for Joseph R. Biden, and I follow orders,” Austin retorted.
“In case you haven’t heard, Biden’s not in charge of the military, and neither are you. You can sell whatever lies you want to the media. You sold your soul, Lloyd, and I hope you can live with yourself,” Gen. Berger said.
Android by default is google-dominated. Most pedes get an android smartphone and then flash a custom ROM like LineageOS on it, effectively de-googling the hardware. It's really the only thing you can do at this point to claim any semblance of privacy.
If you've ever watched Californacation, this quote always stuck out to me as particularly poignant. Almost every day I think about this:
"People seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all it's really given us is Howard Dean's aborted candidacy and 24 hour a day access to kiddie porn. People... they don't write anymore, they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it's just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people at a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King's English."
Just fly. They can’t stop you. People never stopped flying last time. Honesty it was great. I had entire sections of airplanes to myself and the stewardesses were super cool and laid back bc nobody was on the flight. Tons of snacks!
Thank you for the insight. I definitely want to tread carefully here! It's why I wanted to make a more general convo about crypto.
The parts from the linked post that got me thinking, though, were these:
"BTC to me is one of the things that will help return power to the people. It's a direct threat to the central banking cabal that runs almost every single country in the world."
"Blockchain is the future of humanity and a major part of the great awakening."
"There are already 'privacy coins' like Monero, ZCash, Horizon etc. This tech is moving faster than the DS can keep up with, and in the end the winner will be in favor of 'the people's privacy and in our best interest."
"Study up and pay attention people, we are witnessing the first transformation of money in over 5000 years."
Just made me want to dig a bit deeper :)
"Your mommy and daddy give you ten dollars to open up a lemonade stand. So you go out and you buy cups and you buy lemons and you buy sugar. And now you find out that it only costs you nine dollars. So you have an extra dollar. So you can give that dollar back to mommy and daddy, but guess what? Next summer…"
"I'll be six."