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2025-10-11 02:46:42 UTC

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“Bukele is highly popular in El Salvador, where he has held a job approval rating above 75% during his entire presidency and averages above 90% approval, and is popular throughout Latin America. “ - (Wikipedia, 2025, para 4)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayib_Bukele#:~:text=Bukele%20is%20highly%20popular%20in%20El%20Salvador%2C%20where%20he%20has%20held%20a%20job%20approval%20rating%20above%2075%25%20during%20his%20entire%20presidency%20and%20averages%20above%2090%25%20approval%2C%20and%20is%20popular%20throughout%20Latin%20America.%20
E.g. … Debt-for-Nature Bonds & Volcano Bonds
https://gfmag.com/economics-policy-regulation/el-salvador-green-debt-swap/

2025-09-25 03:52:20 UTC

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Just repartee and self-deprecating humor playing-off your comment:
“That pain threshold is different for everyone.”
Implying that she is stronger because her pain threshold for fiat is higher than ours.

2025-09-25 00:40:53 UTC

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"Are you suggesting that we are weak because her higher pain threshold enabled her to withstand financial repression longer, while we scurried to Bitcoin much earlier?"

2025-09-17 15:49:30 UTC

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Consider any illusion of free will imposed by an external force that must exercise free will.
A paradigm of determinism cannot exist in vacuum and therefore must be enforced by another external paradigm.
Ref. Godël’s Incompleteness Theorem

2025-08-09 13:56:59 UTC

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Mars colony might buy you a few years before assimilated into a new solar governance (NSG).

2024-11-12 05:34:21 UTC

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“So long as it catches mice” is pragmatism over aestheticism, yet bereft of passion… and imagination required for long-term sustainability.

2024-09-10 03:41:11 UTC

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CEO Gabriel Weinberg openly admitted circa 2022 that DuckDuckGo would begin enforcing CENSORSHIP of information likely for the security state during the plandemic.

2024-08-14 02:57:13 UTC

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If you could resurrect the dead for a day, would bring back Carl Sagan to witness SpaceX landing on Mars or Hal Finney to witness nation-state worldwide adoption of ₿itcoin?

2024-06-14 22:38:24 UTC

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John von Neumann and Ray Kurzweil conceived and popularized the notion of AGI as the Singularity.
However, the real convergence is when humanity fully merges with AI whereby losing our individuality.
Perhaps consciousness in its myriad forms today will ultimately fall victim to entropic heat death; where ideations become homogenous and dull as they approach an asymptote of precise uniformity.
This is the Singularity of Consciousness.

2024-04-30 09:20:33 UTC

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You need interesting material to write a good story.
Adversarial interference by governments will only make us stronger and give rise to Post Traumatic Growth.
Embrace your enemies.

2024-04-07 00:21:39 UTC

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“Do you think that we want those laws to be observed? We want them broken. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power the government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.”
Atlas Shrugged
Philosophy Who Needs It

2024-03-26 04:56:18 UTC

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“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now,"
- Thomas Jefferson