#Memes #Taxation #TaxationIsTheft #Tax

"Libertarianism: the radical notion that other people are not your property." #Memes #Voluntarism #Libertarianism #Liberty #Bitcoin #PropertyRights #JohnLocke

Even distribution of a scarce asset is incompatible with free agency. We can test this by considering a computer simulation of a free market where simulated individuals interact with free agency and varying degrees of knowledge. There is no outcome under the sun in such a simulation where a scarce asset would end up evenly distributed. Even if the asset was given away for free, it would be sold by those who didn't understand or value it, to those who did. The logical expectation of a decentralized, scarce asset is that it cannot be evenly distributed because it is decentralized. Attempting to make a scarce asset evenly distributed would require absolute central planning, and even that would fail due to the reasons already stated. The best approach to improve the distribution of Bitcoin is by sharing knowledge and developing or spreading practical tools.

Bitcoin is akin to a minarchist constitution that only serves to uphold property rights for all and nothing else. The beauty is that wherever Bitcoin is voluntarily adopted, it brings a competitive pressure - the jurisdiction that alllows most individual freedom and individual rights will attract most capital + entrepreneurs. Similarly, an authoritarian jurisdiction will bleed its capital and competence to Bitcoin-powered jurisdictions. It is in this process of competition and game theory that centralized power is counterbalanced. This is how minarchism can benefit every jurisdiction and allow full local sovereignty in regards to every other policy except for the non-negotiable civilizational standard of full property rights for all - i.e. Bitcoin. #Bitcoin

#Bitcoin UTXO management time.

When collectivists tell you that your opposition to bureaucratic, taxpayer-funded public art is an attempt to censor art, then ask them: - Who is the dictator here deciding what the public art should be and who should produce it? It's the bureaucratic dork *forcing* that taxpayer-funded "art" upon us.

When civilization is synonymous with regulation, then over-civilization is a state of over-regulation. If barbarism is the bane of over-regulation, then some measure of barbarism as a medicine of non-compliance may be prescribed under times of tyranny.

"Light of Arrival", 2017. - Scifi scene. No AI. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/D6J4A #Art #Scifi #Sciencefiction #BookCover #Bookcover #Book #Illustration #Writing #Writers #Artwork #HumanArt #NoAI

"Crystal Rocks", 2021. - Digital painting in Rebelle. I didn't have any particular goal for this one so it went toward abstraction. No AI. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/48JwRk #Art #Scifi #Sciencefiction #BookCover #Bookcover #Illuatration #Writing #Writers #Artwork #HumanArt #NoAI

"Tribute to Frazetta", 2016 - Conan scene I made in 2016. No AI. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g1ONE #Art #Fantasy #Conan #BookCover #Book #Bookcover #Writers #Writing #Illustration #HumanArt #NoAI

"Buccaneer Winter Chase", 2017. Another scifi fan-art piece I made in 2017. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qGO8z #Art #Scifi #ScienceFiction #BookCover #Bookcover #Illustration #StarCitizen #Starship #Spaceship #HumanArt #NoAI

"Sunset Buccaneers", 2016. I made this as a fan-art piece for a science fiction game in 2016. No AI. #Art #Scifi #ScienceFiction #BookCover #Book #Writing #Writers #StarCitizen #Starship #Spaceship #HumanArt #NoAI

"Shoreline", 2019. When I created this piece I was inspired by the painting "The woman, the man and the serpent" by John Liston Byam Shaw. No AI. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Pm5LXZ #Scifi #Art #ScienceFiction #BookCover #Book #Bookcover #Writing #Writers #HumanArt #NoAI

"Exploration". 2019. This was an idea I had for a Scifi book cover. Workflow: 3D modeling and digital painting. No AI. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/OyzPRK #Scifi #Art #BookCover #Book #Cover #Bookcover #Illustration #HumanArt #NoAI #Writers #Writing

Cliimate communism in action. #ClimateChange #Agenda21 #Agenda2030

There is poetry in truth. Craig is a fraud. #Bitcoin #Satoshi #SatoshiNakamoto #Copa #CraigWright #Faketoshi

Discussion on the blue bird with a Monero proponent: - What if someone's Bitcoin are flagged in a supermarket and rejected? Me: If a Bitcoin payment is rejected in a supermarket then your Monero is probably not being accepted there in the first place. You mean that they would not receive a confidential Bitcoin transaction via Liquid Network, but somehow they would love your confidential Monero transaction? Make it make sense. At least Bitcoin is an attractive store of value that jurisdictions will compete to attract, providing game theory pressure: jurisdictions that flag Bitcoin transactions will lose capital, skills, businesses and entrepreneurs. The same pressure does not exist for Monero.

Back in the 1980'ies and 1990'ies, actual autism was rare. Since I've never had autism symptoms I was curious to take a few online tests. My impression is that some of the tests falsely equates introversion with autism, thereby risking to misdiagnose a high percentage of a population. When a preference for not going to parties is registered as a mild form of autism it becomes clear that this is not a scientific or meaningful test. It tells me that the purpose is to misdiagnose individuals with a condition that they have no symptoms for. I find it very concerning that children might be misdiagnosed with a rare condition for simply enjoying and preferring productive and creative activities over going to parties. When did creativity, the individuation process and setting boundaries become a condition? And what is the point of defining a condition without symptoms?

Reposting quotes from John Locke. Source: "Two treatises of government", 1690. (Book 2, chapter 3) ".. it being reasonable and just I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction." (Chapter 3.16) ".. and hence it is that he who attempts to get another man under his power does thereby put himself into a state of war with him." (3.17) "For I have reason to conclude that he who would get me into his power without my consent would use me as he pleased when he had got me there, and destroy me too when he had a fancy to it; for nobody can desire to have me in his absolute power unless it be to compel me by force to that which is against the right of my freedom -- i.e. make me a slave." (3.18) ".. so that he who makes an attempt to enslave me thereby puts himself into a state of war with me." (3.18) "This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief who has not in the least hurt him, nor declared any design upon his life, any farther than by the use of force, so to get him in his power as to take away his money, or what he pleases, from him; Because using force, where he has no right to get me into his power, let his pretense be what it will, I have no reason to suppose that he who would take away my liberty would not, when he had me in his power, take away everything else. And, therefore, it is lawful for me to treat him as one who has put himself into a state of war with me -- i.e. kill him if I can; for that hazard does he justly expose himself whoever introduces a state of war, and is aggressor in it." (3.19) #JohnLocke #Philosophy #Poliitcal Philosophy #PoliticalScience #Liberty #PropertyRights #Freedom #AntiSlavery #Capitalism #FreeMarkets #Bitcoin

Citadel Islands. Bitcoin vacation scifi art. Music by @@Jay (Jeroen Goeijers) #Bitcoin #Citadel #Seasteading #Vacation #Art #Scifi #ScienceFiction #HumanArt #NoAI https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=ptSmpBownz4