This ECB paper is amazing. Now we know that they know that they're fucked.
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John Balkam
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If AI is such a threat to humanity as we know it, why are we spending tens of billions of dollars to embed it into everything?
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it.
"Intelligence without wisdom is extremely dangerous."
People around the world are waking up to the fact that their national government hates their guts and is trying to rob them blind before they kill them.
Governments around the world (save for El Salvador and maybe Argentina) are failing miserably. Thus, we see them flailing about like chickens with their heads cut off.
This is a central government's natural response when it is on a fiat standard. And we are in the late stages of complete and utter collapse of fiat currencies. They want their citizens to be afraid so they don't act. So they don't fight back.
I believe we are in for some serious fireworks in Q4 2024 and throughout all of 2025. As they say, "desperate times call for desperate measures." The statists are really desperate right now.
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We're getting to the part in the movie where the Army of the Dead is marching on Winterfell. Where Sauron's Army is moving against Gondor.
Godspeed everyone 🫡
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I feel that once you recognize that you have a piece of the divine inside of yourself, and everyone around you has that same divine spark inside of them, you live differently.
The end of the Fourth Turning is gonna be sweet. Just gotta survive 😅
It's frustrating to see my dear fellow humans fall into the same ideological traps that have been so common in history.
Nationalism
Racism
Sexism
Xenophobia
Anti-Semitism
Etc.
(To be fair, I see much more examples of these on X than on Nostr at the moment.)
Can we all agree that there are both wonderful people and horrible people in every race, religion, nation, gender, and creed?
Can we agree that we all have the capacity for good and evil? That there is a dark and a light side to every individual?
Blaming society wide issues on one group just exacerbates our problems. It solves exactly zero problems.
To dole out justice and right the ship, we need to pinpoint individuals who are responsible for doing harm, and we need to hold those individuals accountable for their actions.
It doesn't matter what the color of their skin is, or what religion they practice. It doesn't matter who they sleep with, or where they are from. An individual who purposely does harm to others needs to be punished and deterred from doing further harm.
Perhaps this is too tall an order right now, but one can only hope.
If El Salvador can do it, the United States can do it. The UK can do it. The EU can do it.
The "Free World" has a lot of work to do to live up to its title. For starters, perhaps we should drop all the awful ideological, tribal thinking.
The darkness of this world can be pretty overwhelming sometimes.
Has anyone else felt the heaviness of just living through recent times? That sense of dread about the violence, corruption, decadence, and evil that's becoming more apparent by the day?
Thank God we have the light of "a fire in cyberspace" to give us hope for a brighter future.
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Why does the Establishment have such a hard on about censorship on the internet?
Maybe because autists all over the world are exposing them as criminals and traitors, by doing their own research, connecting the dots, and publishing their findings.
This is existential for them. You don't see anyone this desperate unless their back is against the wall.
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If Elon is truly a freedom of speech maximalist, he will turn X into a client running the #Nostr protocol.
Boom. Problem solved. No more Brazilian Supreme Court judges blocking the use of your app in their country.
The US and NATO countries are being "led" into a war with Russia by bloodthirsty psychopaths.
These maniacs are losing their proxy war with Russia in Ukraine and they are too arrogant and narcissistic to admit defeat and negotiate peace. How many more Ukrainian and Russian lives do they want to sacrifice? Is several hundred thousand not enough?
Instead, they are escalating the war with a nuclear power by authorizing long range missile strikes into Russia. Russian authorities are warning that they would deem this a declaration of war by the US and NATO.
Tell me, do US and NATO country citizens really want war with Russia? If citizens could vote for or against this war, how many would vote for? Two percent? Less?
Meanwhile, the legacy corporate media are too feckless and compromised to criticize the US and NATO leaders pushing for all out war with Russia. They're in a position to change people's hearts and minds with their platform and influence (which is dwindling, mind you), but they won't do it. Why? Do they want war with Russia and China because it will help them sell newspapers? Despicable. Foolish.
The establishment political, financial, military, and media powers are leading us to ruin. It's plain and clear to see. I suppose it will be up to ordinary citizens to speak the truth and call out these lunatics. But you get censored and called a "Russian sympathizer" for speaking common sense in the wrong places these days.
Common sense says, "don't go to war with Russia." There will be no winners in a war with Russia.
Common sense says, "negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine and negotiate and end to the war in Gaza."
But asking for common sense from the establishment is asking for too much.
God bless. I wish the best to all people of good will.
Wake me up when September ends #Bitcoin