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by curation 5y ago
I care why because it is a complete and ideologically rationalized tax dodge: LET US NOT tax the rich because they are morally superior (proven by their meritocratic rise) so we can count on them to donate some of their money and that redis
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The purpose of NFT's is money laundering. When minted off chain (see Beeple's headline sale/ad). Moreover, Financial Nihlism is a rich philosophical subject reduced and fixed here in a way that kills understanding. What respo
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The lab leak hypothesis can arise after pandemics because humans need an explanation to feel safe from the chaos of "nature (as) the biggest bio-terrorist". Coupled with the general poor science education, people soothe themselves
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by curation 5y ago
Yes! This. Consideration of the repo markets without understanding Eurodollars means the entire conversation is meaningless. There is not enough GOOD collateral. Treasuries are the only thing banks trust because they know how fragile everyt
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Historically, serfs who were convinced by their ruling lords, that they were free, believed in hard work. The biggest difference from today is, in late feudalism, serfs had more holidays than us: Indeed, if we’re to believe Dr Lynn Parramor
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Crypto is the next reframing of the repo market regular cycle of failures. Virtual money is not new, it's what the eurodollar system is (US dollars outside of the US also called shadow bank system that know one knows the value of). The
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by curation 5y ago
Have you read Another Tomorrow by Yanis Varafoufakis?
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The relevant question is why does the search for aliens/ufo's remain in our customs. The one 100% certain thing is that humans have for centuries needed to see something mysterious in the sky. Our metanarrative, as "first wor
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As a Canadian I am grateful!
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by curation 5y ago
What if America is covering up the leak? https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-pulls-nih-grant-...
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by curation 5y ago
It is easy to claim the opposite using this binaric logic: The US has lost the covid war to China with the most deaths in the world. The desperate fear of China's economic dominance which seems unstoppable alongside the fact that they
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by curation 5y ago
Yes. I watched Saddam Hussein hanged on Liveleak. Just before it was taken down. Horrible realities. Yes.
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"Only in history books and Mark Twain stories is the patent still a symbol of a fair, short-term deal between inventors and society, based on temporary reward for the long-term diffusion of knowledge for broad social benefit." -
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by curation 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2NSYyO749I
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Conspiracy theories are products of our ideological process of the western sovereign subject believing it is is outside of ideology.
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by curation 5y ago
I collect opinions about what 'minds were ruined by psychedelics' - how do you define that?
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Who, do you think, wants this to be true. I am so curious about the information logistics between media and governments and social control.
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by curation 6y ago
The actual worst part is you are also describing us:World Uyghur Congress is funded by NED and one should at least query this? , "Depending on whom you ask, the NED is either a nonprofit champion of liberty or an ideologically driven m
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by curation 6y ago
There is no money now. What is the definition of money? A timed deposit? An entry? It's a relationship, an IOU. That's why we need PR people (Central Bankers) to keep the faith. They don't control 'money' because wh
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by curation 6y ago
Techno-feudalism.
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They keep a blind eye on superyachts.
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What is free speech? I argue it is not even a concept. Concepts divide people. There is no person against free speech. Please don't bring up Russia and China. I've been to these countries and people they cherish free speech;they j
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by curation 6y ago
I'm part of a think tank (not for or against Bitcoin) speculating on what, from an analytic/continental philosophy tradition. Stuff like: Universality and its species: The Market is the empty universal element that contains the M
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by curation 6y ago
Object cause of desire and subjectivity is part of analytic philosophy and if one is interested in this topic Lacan, Hegel, Zupančič, Zizek, Dolar and Agamben are useful and, for example the book Sex and the Failed Absolute (Zizek) is a bea
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by curation 6y ago
It is. The cultural difference between Canadians and Americans is we worry about that difference, are taught to in school. The economic difference is we have healthcare, so don't fear getting sick in the same register of horror.
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by curation 6y ago
Agreed. I take it to the end here and argue that what it is to be a free human is to make cuts to the regular order of functioning power instead, in other words to ask whatever powers preside over the order we are born to 'am I what yo
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by curation 6y ago
My boss Lenny at the Innis Film Library at the University of Toronto ( also T1 internet in '94 ) told me his meeting of Francis Bacon: Lenny was walking down the stairs at MOMA and someone walking with a cane was coming up the stairs.
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by curation 6y ago
Yes! I did not eat in a restaurant for 15 years. It helped my family never did so I did not miss it. Perhaps a tip for people trying to future-proof their kids for economic depression.
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by curation 6y ago
I agree. I retired at 35 by saving 90% of what I made and lucked into living in Toronto at the beginning of the property ladder in the 90s. Like a diet, it's more about the determination to live with what seems like privation but reall
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Yep.It's a long complicated boring story but I lived in a car from the ages 2-4 (kidnapped by my dad). During that time (we had no money and were on the run from the RCMP) we ate only fish. Once I was 'rescued' by the RCMP I

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