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intro to sql class in the business school at UT Austin 🫡

my mom taught me html as a kid, and i picked up CSS at a job in college

“none of those are programming languages”: yeah i got made fun of endlessly by “real” programmers in college a lot

No need for them to develop a tool right now. This works: https://vpn.sovereign.engineering/

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It's the parents duty to teach their children, not to give them over to the government for daycare... I mean 'Education'.

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When will be Tropic Square security element chip in trezors?

Will you add option to change between wabisabi coordinators in coinjoin?

Thanks!

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What % of podcasts on Fountain are Bitcoin related vs not Bitcoin related?

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Morning folks! Final reminder, there's been a lot of discussion over at the book club and there's so much room for anyone to poke and prod and give their perspectives on some giant topics.

I got a little carried away, maybe, with the prompts, and kept adding them till late in the evening, so if you checked in early, there's more to sink your teeth into. But this part of the book was really eye-opening, so I regret nothing. If you want to have hot takes to deploy this Thanksgiving, part 3 is where it's at for sure.

Thanks to everyone who took part, and to the zappers, who have been generous again!

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I don't think I can do justice a full explanation here, but I'll give it a try.

The history of the dollar leads me to believe the main purpose of the CIA is to maintain dollar dominance around the world. Everything they have their fingers on leads to some kind of change in how finance is done after one of their color revolutions. If the dollar is to remain dominant beyond this final and vertical phase of debt growth, it eventually needs to be rebased and to do so without doing something as silly as reverse splits which would lead to certain demise it rather needs to be pegged to something that cannot be manipulated such as a commodity yet is abundant enough that everyone can own some of it.

The 'old money' behind the banks is only interested in maintaining world control. If you control the money, you control the politicians, regulations, business, and the media. It was in the US's best interest for a time to allow this to continue on, but there have been revolutionaries in high places who tried to disconnect us from these monied interests.

As you know, President Jackson was successful for a time at resisting the succubi, Lincoln tried financial independence with his greenbacks, but then Grant hamfistedly lost grasp of the reins with his war-debt payoff gold-market collusion fiasco. This lead to the great bimetallism debate (The Wizard of Oz) where the US tried to play both sides of the gold/silver fence. On one hand we were swimming in wealth from the gold rush, and on the other hand our gold-centrality exposed us to world-market manipulation by the ancient European gold baron families.
After decades of the US back under control of European gold markets, though prospering under a regime of peace and freedom, this hard-money system prevented the socialists in government from exploiting the tax chattel to fund an overseas meat grinder in the name of their honor. Thus the creation of the federal reserve, the income tax (16th amendment), and the restructuring of the states into subject provinces by removing representation in congress from the respective legislatures (17th amendment).

This new centrally controlled system worked so swimmingly it allowed congress to spend the wealth out from under each and every individual (effectively subverting the 13th amendment) for the benefit of their cronies with supposed "social programs" and "defense spending" out of which we have the birth of the military industrial complex (eternal war) and federal nanny state (18th amendment).

Somewhat by accident, during our continued overseas virtue-signaling, we found ourselves in possession of the world's biggest boom stick. As it would be some time before our competitors/allies would figure out how to make their own big boom sticks, and us coming out of this war with mostly unblemished infrastructure (other than a few mountains of dead fathers), we had a unique opportunity to force the world at-large to transact under our system of Washington issued fiat. Thus was born the petro-dollar. Out of the bowels of Naval Intelligence a new agency was created to maintain this overseas banking dominance, the CIA.

Since the CIA was created, every president who attempted to muddle with our system of fiat was either from the CIA, threatened by the CIA, politically destroyed by the CIA, or assassinated by the CIA. And with good reason, its from their good work that we are able to delude ourselves that the world is a safe place and when there's a potential pandemic we panic off to a department store and squirrel away heaps of toilet paper knowing nothing about how to survive outside the grid.

So to put it all together; If the purpose of the CIA is to maintain stability of the dollar, regardless of the irresponsibility and theft of congress and the president, they also knew full well for decades that the dollar would not survive as a world currency unless hyperinflation were to somehow be avoided. Thus our friend "Central/Moto" "Intelligence/Satoshi" "Agency/Naka" himself came to the rescue to introduce a new grass-roots system of value, seemingly designed with the aid of a time machine. Such a digital scarcity system could not take hold without it being grass-roots, and thus the obscurity of his anonymous identity and now disappearance.

What does this mean to us maxis? In my opinion, none of it matters. Bitcoin rests on the laurels of its merits alone and whether its yet another fiduciary manipulation documented only in a super-secret SCIF matters nothing at all. It is still the only truly scarce asset in the knowable universe, next to energy and space itself if at all.

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This does not use hold invoices and will not work if your node is offline. The payments will fail immediately in that case.

Salt đź§‚

People mistake salt as some sort of toxin for the body. When really if you’re active, you need to seriously work on replenishing salt in your body.

  • Salt is not scamming them directly but people do counter-productively believe it is damaging to health
  • We lose a bunch when working out via sweat
  • Salt encourages us to drink & hydrate more
  • Less purified salts are better, I.e. Himalayan and contain more electrolytes & minerals than the ground table salts we’re all accustomed to
  • Magnesium is something we’re all deficient in and salt can help
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