"Every normal person will tell you they want peace and abhor mass-scale violence. Then the mass media start doing what they always do and churning out stories about atrocities in an empire-targeted nation, and all of a sudden people find themselves supporting airstrikes on that nation’s capital, and believing they came to that position all on their own. This happens because most people are unaware that the western news media do not exist to report the news. They exist to administer propaganda on behalf of the western empire."

Everyone Wants Peace Until They Get Hit With The War Propaganda – Caitlin Johnstone

Seems very sus to me that a privacy-focused AI is designed to require Face ID or similar biometric authentication. No thank you. Make it optional please, there is nothing wrong with good old private keys. View quoted note →

"Of course there are people in Iran who want their government gone. There are also people in Iran who want their government to stay. That’s normal. That’s how humans work. But whenever there’s a regime change intervention to manufacture consent for we’re asked to believe the people have stopped acting like humans and are now operating more like robots, or ants in an ant colony."

We’re Always Told That Everyone In The Empire-Targeted Nation Hates Their Government – Caitlin Johnstone

"Don't marry suffering". Pretty good blog post, yet I took out of it something other than the author's main point.

Why We Avoid Looking at the True Source of Our Problems

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls."

I increasingly like Buddhism. "The seduction of luxury and leisure overwhelm the aspiration to wake up. Think of all the time, money and energy some people spend on pleasure and on fulfilling sense desires. The finest food, the perfect couch, the best car, the ultimate hot tub, the ideal island vacation. They wrap their lives in material objects, creating a facade of false security and satisfaction, and all the while they are setting themselves up to be devastated by life's inevitable fluctuations, and they remain unprepared for changing financial or social status, losing loved ones, growing old, failing health and dying."

Venezuelans will now enjoy freedom and prosperity right? Right?

US stealing Venezuela tankers/oil headed for China to cause suffering and then unrest.

Odysee

Venezuela confronts sadistic US economic warfare

The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate on the latest stage of the US war on Venezuela, as the Trump admin announces a "quarantine" on Ve...

Calling altcoiners shitcoiners is not only unproductive, it is tribal and ugly. I used to follow and invest in various privacy coins. Nobody ever changed my mind by calling me a shitcoiner. The change came after I realised bitcoin can be used privately and that investing in it was more profitable in the long term.