Undisciplined

Condolences to Sasha. I got cut from a high school team under very similar circumstances. It’s frustrating but at least she has her normal team to fall back on.
https://fountain.fm/episode/1T5BUwqfep5lJaLEiHSV
#nevent1q…pt3x

2026-04-07 13:49:04 UTC

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Car: “I don’t like chocolate.”
Next 5 minutes: Car rattling off a dozen different chocolate foods and beverages that he loves
https://fountain.fm/episode/H2lNLEHdRGhUjWm0DWBh
#nevent1q…ky5z

2026-04-07 11:07:35 UTC

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🫂

2026-04-04 22:11:59 UTC

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So was climate change

2026-04-03 20:42:39 UTC

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If you look up how many millimeters, or whatever, are in a gallon, you'll be horrified at their gas prices.

2026-04-03 20:07:45 UTC

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Oshi, your cohost might be using those strange European units to measure gas prices.
https://fountain.fm/episode/rMvCzr3X6gB3pBrpZJNP
#nevent1q…x2mw

2026-04-02 14:55:30 UTC

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It’s not actually German, as I understand it. German chocolate cake seems to be a Southern thing.
Chocolate cake with a coconut pecan topping.

2026-04-02 13:11:27 UTC

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My wife made a German chocolate cake with our Bitcoin Beans cacao and it was amazing.

2026-03-30 17:20:44 UTC

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Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he couldn’t eat it?

2026-03-30 15:44:04 UTC

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My team definitely peaked too early

2026-03-29 23:44:47 UTC

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At least he didn't say any of those words

2026-03-28 15:35:41 UTC

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1. Most Americans don't vote
2. These criticisms apply to the Clintons as well

2026-03-15 21:39:17 UTC

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And the government is famous for wasting money on unnecessary bridges. The point stands that the burden is on them to demonstrate plausible value before taking our money, not on us to prove it isn't valuable. Opposing an unjustified bridge and affirmatively believing it to be a bad idea are not the same position.

2026-03-15 19:38:43 UTC

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Ok, in that light why shouldn't we oppose the spending on this military action?
Either that involves taking our money through taxes or inflating away the value of our savings, both of which are direct effects on each of us and they've made no serious attempt to justify why it needs to be done.

2026-03-15 17:55:47 UTC

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That wouldn't be your attitude if they were pushing a new vaccine mandate. You'd be opposed to it before all the facts come in. I don't think that's because you want to be on the "good" side. Similarly, I'm not opposed to what they're doing in Iran to feel good and I don't think that's a fair criticism. Iran has been the Neocons' target, publicly, for 30 years, with all the other disasters being precursors to it. Considering the same people who championed those are championing this, I don't see how it's different than if Fauci came out with another experimental injection for all of us.
It's fine to be opposed to something based on principles and experience before all the facts are known (which they won't/can't ever be, as you also discussed). Just like with the jabs, you can say "Based on what they've offered as justification, this is not a good idea." Maybe things work out totally differently and there were unstated motives, but that's not relevant to how we make decisions about the future.

2026-03-15 17:27:30 UTC

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It's already billions of dollars and thousands dead. That is sufficient to be against my interests, which are peace and prosperity, and anyone who supported Trump because of his fairly consistent position of being against these conflicts is right to be pissed.
I don't see it as much more complex than this:
Them: Give us billions of dollars to kill a bunch of people on the other side of the planet.
Us: Why?
Them: You'll just have to see how it works out.
Us: Fuck you. No.
It seems to me that you're putting the burden of proof entirely in the wrong place. The people intending to take your money and use it to kill people are the ones who need to justify their actions, all the more so when they have previously said acting in that way is dumb and wasteful. Opposing them should be the default position.

2026-03-15 15:38:52 UTC

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The American people wanted the government to stop spending billions of dollars on these endless conflicts in the Middle East, so it seems antithetical to America's interests on its face. This is why his approval is plummeting.

2026-03-15 14:04:36 UTC

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What is it that could be accomplished in Iran that you would consider the costs worth it?
And, how many regime change attempts have to go badly before we can say they should stop attempting it?
Also, why do they deserve the benefit of the doubt? I’d say the US track record is such that there’s a very high burden on them to convince us that an intervention is prudent.
https://fountain.fm/episode/9Q6Rt0PH7d5N0GYEXWyn
#nevent1q…8s7m

2026-03-15 01:42:12 UTC

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You certainly can do it. It's just illegal most places.

2026-03-15 01:22:29 UTC

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I have no clue how referenda or ballot initiatives work up there, but I bet you could get some real momentum behind that one.

2026-03-13 23:49:34 UTC

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I only really play two games with lore (Fallout and Elder Scrolls), because I do like to get immersed in the world and don't have the bandwidth for too many different sets of lore.

2026-03-13 16:43:03 UTC

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You get silence at nighttime?

2026-03-12 13:20:42 UTC

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Gotcha. The two channels that most of my earnings come in through are often full and I’ve been fiddling with the fees to balance it out.

2026-03-12 12:23:25 UTC

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That’s cool. I’ve been working on that but I don’t quite have my fees dialed in yet. How do you set your fees?

2026-03-11 19:38:20 UTC

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Do you understand how they hoodwinked all the Boomers so thoroughly?

2026-03-11 13:41:18 UTC

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Oil’s highly fungible. There’s no way keep new/resumed supply from benefiting your enemy.

2026-03-09 18:47:27 UTC

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How about those little girls that America blew up? Are we allowed to shed tears for them?

2026-03-09 12:34:11 UTC

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Bret strikes me as just being slow to adopt unorthodox ideas, not unwilling. He’s come a long way on vaccines, for instance, and freely admits that he is late to the party.

2026-03-07 13:56:29 UTC

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If you write it up for my Stacker News territory, I'll zap you a thousand sats and you'll probably get more than that from other readers.
https://stacker.news/~econ/r/Undisciplined

2026-03-07 12:36:42 UTC

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Found it. Actually it's about infinite sets more generally than just real numbers, but very interesting nonetheless.
https://www.fountain.fm/episode/asNj3sVbH4DUSt881Env
I was already familiar with the Riemann Rearrangement Theorem, but hadn't given it any deeper thought. Now I wonder, if this isn't a demonstration of inconsistency, what would be?

2026-03-06 13:18:53 UTC

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Pi is easily compressible, just not as a ratio of integers: C/d
I’m increasingly convinced that the real numbers are incoherent. I’ll try to find the argument for you later but it’s based on the concept of conditional convergence.

2026-03-04 12:27:14 UTC

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I cancelled my recurring payment to them. Using my sats, that were supposed to go towards developing cool bitcoin stuff, on shitcoin integration definitely feels like a betrayal.

2026-03-02 15:06:59 UTC

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Important in the grand scheme, yes, but still not relevant to whether this is a generally wise policy.
A basketball player might get benched for taking a bad shot in a big game, even if the shot went in, especially if that player had a history of taking and missing bad shots and had assured his coaches that he would stop doing it.

2026-03-01 22:56:34 UTC

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Failed states with millions of refugees, open air slave markets, more corrupt and brutal rulers taking over...
Even Mr. Neocon, Bill Crystal, couldn't point to a single success of the foreign policy he championed when pressed to do so in a debate with Scott Horton.

2026-03-01 20:22:11 UTC

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My wife loved the mangos. They were all gone before I even got to try them.
Guess I'll just have to buy some more.

2026-03-01 16:36:03 UTC

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The reason "No new wars" was a popular campaign talking point is that they tend to become disastrous and expensive. How any particular instance turns out is irrelevant to this being a violation of "No new wars".
Also, Iraq is the wrong standard to hold "No new wars" to. The "new wars" being referenced are all of Obama's wars of choice, which were much smaller scale than Iraq or Afghanistan. In that light, any intervention on par with Syria, Libya, Yemen, etc. is a violation of that pledge (if it was actually a pledge).

2026-03-01 16:18:51 UTC

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If people were justified to object to overthrowing the Libyan government, I don't see why they'd be inconsistent to raise concerns about this. These regime change operations have mostly been disastrous because of the downstream indirect consequences, not the direct toll of military conflict.

2026-02-25 17:19:32 UTC

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The difference is that this time the separatists have shit that America wants.

2026-02-19 02:27:44 UTC

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I nominate @nprofile…529x, he’s been doing exactly this to his existing normie audience for the past few weeks.

2026-02-17 15:11:33 UTC

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Have you thought about making HODL butter stuffed dates?

2026-02-15 19:01:37 UTC

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Government employees should forfeit their right to vote

2026-02-15 18:55:54 UTC

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Don’t expect the same quality from me.

2026-02-15 17:08:00 UTC

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It wouldn’t be physics specifically but I might try something like Chris does where I talk about whatever random things are on my mind.

2026-02-15 14:52:07 UTC

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That might still be your perception after listening to us

2026-02-15 14:07:46 UTC

Stacker Sports Pod: Fixing the All Star Game and Fighting for Olympic Puck Pride
https://www.fountain.fm/episode/eTYwEtCrb7ITOR369zrs
> Undisciplined and GrayRuby talk NBA all star game, the Super Bowl, Olympic winter games and more.
https://stacker.news/items/1434364

2026-02-14 13:35:00 UTC

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You’ll have to start sleeping with a tinfoil hat on

2026-02-14 03:34:47 UTC

Trump’s Approval Rating Higher in Israel Than in the US | Libertarian Institute
https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/trumps-approval-rating-higher-in-israel-than-in-the-us/
> President Donald Trump has substantially higher approval ratings among Israelis than among Americans. Trump had taken several positions that are unpopular with Americans but favorable to Israel.
> According to a new poll conducted by the Jewish People Policy Institute, Trump’s approval in Israel is 73%. There is a wide gap between right-wing and left-wing Israelis. Only a third of left-wing Israelis approve of Trump, while 92% of those on the right have a favorable view of the American President.
Can't get more America First than that.
https://stacker.news/items/1433640

2026-02-11 19:04:00 UTC

Stop Fighting Your Neighbor: The Mechanics of State Power and How to Opt Out
https://mises.org/mises-wire/stop-fighting-your-neighbor-mechanics-state-power-and-how-opt-out
By Michael Matulef
> The modern state doesn’t get its power from the consent of the governed. Instead, it creates crises and then uses coercion to demand obedience.
I thought Michael was on SN, but I couldn't find his nym. He's definitely on nostr, though: @npub1t42…87qz
https://stacker.news/items/1431884

2026-02-06 16:20:21 UTC

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I could buy those sats either way though! Now I understand why the last generation sold all their chairs.
Yes, it’s fun being so early and experiencing what very few others will.

2026-02-06 13:49:28 UTC

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I feel the opposite. I’m not worried about my savings recovering but the amount of sats I have to part with to order some hot sauce is painful.

2026-02-02 02:03:24 UTC

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If we're being purists, then even Mises wasn't really a free market economist, since he still believed some state institutions were necessary.

2026-02-01 17:51:55 UTC

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Try Stacker News https://stacker.news/
It's reddit with real money signals

2026-01-31 17:03:53 UTC

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Mountain lions are the smallest cats I know of that do try to kill people, so somewhere around that size probably.

2026-01-28 16:12:10 UTC

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We agree about most parts of this. The point I want people to appreciate is that it's not just about the ends. The means have to be part of the discussion. Even if people in MN broadly don't want criminal illegals there, it doesn't follow that they want them removed in this way and it should matter how the local community wants enforcement to be carried out.
It's also just as important that the cops who we both think are criminals be held accountable as it is that the criminal immigrants be held accountable. We want a society where criminal behavior is not tolerated, regardless of who the criminals are.

2026-01-27 23:48:50 UTC

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That's not all that's happening here, though. The people of Minneapolis, as far as I can tell, overwhelmingly do not want ICE running around their community and doing this enforcement (which is not confined to just those committing crimes) in this way.
The states are supposed to be separate republics, essentially their own countries with responsibility for their own law enforcement. Why should a New Yorker's preferences be imposed on Minnesotans?
Also, to say that it's only those criminals acting badly overlooks so much. Unaccountable cops shooting and macing people in the streets, breaking into Americans' homes without warrants, and throwing grenades into cars with kids inside is also bad behavior. I don't think that should be very controversial, either.

2026-01-27 20:03:33 UTC

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I don’t think that nurse was trying to rape my kid and my friend-enemy distinction runs along very different lines than yours.

2026-01-27 19:59:53 UTC

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Acting badly for a long time doesn’t make it good. Many of us have been against police harassing and assaulting peaceful people this whole time. I don’t see why a comparison is being drawn to Covid tyranny. The wrongness of one has no relation to the wrongness of the other.
It’s also not clear to me why you think other people’s preferences shouldn’t be forced onto you but that yours should be forced onto them.

2026-01-27 18:29:50 UTC

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Then it’s not really a principle. It’s just in-group preference.

2026-01-27 18:28:49 UTC

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Discernment is obviously valuable but it’s also not right to conclude that things are acceptable just because they fall short of the most extreme case. Dave and Glenn both opposed regime change efforts in Syria and Lybia without saying either were just as bad as Iraq. Predicting that this and Iran will end badly too doesn’t seem like an overreaction, to me.
It’s also not right to excuse state violence on the grounds that the candidate who won campaigned on it. Had Kamala won, continuing the crazy shit they were doing would still have been wrong.

2026-01-27 17:45:14 UTC

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How do you differentiate between platitudes and principles?
Libertarians usually aren’t swayed by the rationalization de jure for state force and our track record on that is pretty fucking good.
Perhaps stated differently, why should we assume we’re wrong this time, when we’ve been consistently right in the past?

2026-01-27 14:11:43 UTC

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Most people have a hard time applying their principles on behalf of those they dislike.

2026-01-27 12:35:16 UTC

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It’s what most people eat, so I doubt most people think it’s unethical.
My point is that it doesn’t belong on the vegan side of the ledger because it’s not for them. It’s not for people who only eat grass fed beef either.

2026-01-26 13:46:02 UTC

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Almost all of that soy is for animal feed, as is almost all of the corn. You're putting it on the wrong side of the ledger.

2026-01-21 17:31:37 UTC

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I have seen some that were cooked in avocado oil but they were pretty expensive. It’s a lot cheaper to just make them and it’s easy enough that even I can do it.

2026-01-21 17:20:17 UTC

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Try sweet potato fries in your burrito
https://fountain.fm/episode/SqssYubJar3kEn0p65M7
#nevent1q…psh3

2026-01-17 14:02:03 UTC

Why Have Homes Become So Unaffordable?
https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-have-homes-become-so-unaffordable
By Cole Adams
> Housing prices in the US are officially off the charts. But why is that the case, as it wasn’t that long ago that homes were affordable. Like all other economic crises, this one has its roots in government policies.
Inflation
![](https://m.stacker.news/126414)
Savings Erosion
![](https://m.stacker.news/126415)
Debt Dependence
![](https://m.stacker.news/126416)
Rate Reversal
![](https://m.stacker.news/126417)
https://stacker.news/items/1413696

2026-01-15 16:24:04 UTC

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Probably in your own oven after you bake it. I think there are regulations that require commercial breads to have those additives.

2026-01-06 16:26:41 UTC

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My thoughts aren’t fully formed yet but the institutions are there to protect the innocent from unjust state actions.
Due process isn’t for the criminal. It’s for us, to keep us from being treated like criminals.
So, my current feelings are that you’d better be right if you’re going to intentionally ignore those institutional protections and be willing to be held personally responsible if you’re wrong.

2026-01-05 20:15:18 UTC

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No doubt some of that lack of development, and more importantly lack of economically profitable development, is from typical central planning ineptitude.
However, my understanding is that Venezuela has particularly low quality oil and much of it is too expensive to refine at current prices.

2026-01-03 13:56:06 UTC

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The problem is that the state only has resources that were taken from others. So it addresses one injustice by committing another.

2026-01-03 13:42:19 UTC

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The way to regulate this is to hold people accountable for whoever they unjustly harmed with their actions.
If innocent people were harmed in El Salvador's crack-down, they deserve restitution. That restitution should be payable out of the gains from cleaning up the crime, including whatever was confiscated from the criminals.

2025-12-29 01:18:51 UTC

TGIF: "Due Process" under Anarcho-Capitalism | The Libertarian Institute
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/tgif-due-process/
> Libertarian advocates of minimal government, such as the late Robert Nozick (Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1974), have feared that individuals in a stateless libertarian society would face corrupt or careless protection firms that used “risky” rights-enforcement procedures to determine guilt or liability. Innocent people might be held responsible for offenses they did not commit, while guilty individuals avoid paying restitution to their victims. Obviously, that would be undesirable.
> Without a minimal monopoly state to prohibit such abuse and protect “procedural rights,” how could innocent people pursue their happiness securely? Nozick speculated that in an anarcho-capitalist society, a protection agency using reliable procedures would emerge as dominant, preempt risky competitors (while compensating them for putting them out of business), and eventually become a monopoly minimal government. All this would happen through a nonaggressive invisible-hand process. Nozick’s innovative theory drew critiques from the biggest names in the libertarian anarchist world, especially Murray Rothbard, Roy A. Childs Jr., and Randy Barnett. (See the Journal of Libertarian Studies 1, No. 1, Winter 1977).
https://stacker.news/items/1389979

2025-12-24 16:13:02 UTC

Why Are Houses So Expensive? It's Deliberate Government Policy
https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-are-houses-so-expensive-its-deliberate-government-policy
By Ryan McMaken
> High prices are not the “unintended consequence” of good intentions.
![](https://m.stacker.news/123477)
![](https://m.stacker.news/123478)
I wonder if homeowners will get rugged once Boomers have less political power than the Zoomers. I'm guessing not, because localities also count on high property values for tax revenue, so the pressure will always be upwards.
https://stacker.news/items/1373457

2025-12-20 20:01:38 UTC

We Just Found All the Ingredients for Life on this Asteroid...
https://youtu.be/BFAbVf05llA
From Celestium
> A capsule returns ancient asteroid dust to Earth, revealing water, carbon, and DNA building blocks. Bennu’s secrets suggest life’s ingredients arrived from space, rewriting humanity’s cosmic origin story forever changed.
Pretty surprising discovery. This isn't the normal finding of methane and other simple organic molecules like that. They found full blown amino acids and nucleotides.
https://stacker.news/items/1361168

2025-12-13 22:02:48 UTC

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The lady doth protest too much

2025-12-06 13:58:49 UTC

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Scott also accepts bitcoin on his podcasts through Fountain. I believe that implies a pretty high level of familiarity, since you have to do something in the app to activate those.
I know the Libertarian Institute and the Mises people more broadly are friendly with Steve Patterson. That may be the source of bitcoin skepticism, beyond just the obvious boomer goldbugs.

2025-12-06 01:46:22 UTC

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Why? We had no more say over what happened than anyone else.

2025-11-22 22:03:40 UTC

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Do you care about noise?

2025-11-16 23:05:01 UTC

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Payment failed

2025-11-16 16:17:38 UTC

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Would you supply a bitcoin only restaurant?

2025-10-29 23:57:28 UTC

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@grayruby, it's not too late for you guys to sell Canada for all the bitcoin. Run this up to Carney, stat!

2025-10-23 03:18:41 UTC

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Of course, Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe
But, a deeper cut is Stephan Kinsella, who I think articulates the philosophy more clearly than anyone else.
He's best known for his work arguing against the validity of intellectual property, but he's written and spoken on pretty much everything.

2025-10-22 21:28:04 UTC

We Have Not Properly Reckoned with the Economic Insanity of 2020
https://mises.org/mises-wire/we-have-not-properly-reckoned-economic-insanity-2020
By Connor O’Keeffe
> The governmental response to the covid pandemic was to cripple the economy. To compensate for the damage, the Federal Reserve unleashed massive inflation in an attempt to do what the Fed always does in a crisis: bail out the economic actors.
https://stacker.news/items/1262740

2025-10-20 16:11:59 UTC

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Not mine, though
I've been open for business all day

2025-10-19 22:48:38 UTC

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We'd never solve any crimes if criminals stopped dropping their pristine passports at the scene.

2025-10-19 14:47:16 UTC

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It doesn't inherently follow that it would help make anything cheaper.
The US military isn't exactly known for its wise stewardship of resources.

2025-10-19 13:05:04 UTC

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Have you or Ian done an AMA at Stacker News?
I bet you'd get some useful feedback, while also stacking some sats.

2025-10-18 20:33:47 UTC

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This is a modern boy who cried wolf situation.
The left was so hysterical and hyperbolic about Trump last time that no one's listening now that he really is abusing his power in new ways.

2025-10-17 13:45:01 UTC

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You're more tapped in to these people than me.
Why does the left seem so defeated?
Under any previous Republican administration we'd be hearing about this stuff 24/7 and there would be mass outrage.

2025-10-13 00:58:05 UTC

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Awesome! Swing by the Stacker News booth while you're there.

2025-10-12 15:14:56 UTC

Reminder that "Democracy" just means rule by Democrats and "Democratic institutions" are just institutions controlled by Democrats
They're only concerned about the shutdown damaging "Democratic institutions" because over 90% of the unelected furloughed bureaucrats are Democrats. #nevent1q…z9u6

2025-10-12 04:09:55 UTC

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Not one single furloughed employee was elected democratically and none of them work in an agency that was funded through a democratic process.

2025-10-11 21:01:01 UTC

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Literally everyone stands for the values they stand for.
Israel's problem is that their values suck.

2025-10-05 22:31:11 UTC

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All it takes is ignoring your follow list for two years

2025-10-05 13:54:59 UTC

Stacker Sports Pod • Episode 52: A year in the books • Listen on Fountain
https://www.fountain.fm/episode/bwA5vdrvRrD0nRfcTlvY
To commemorate the end of our first year, we made an episode with the technical difficulties and partial boating accidents you've come to expect.
https://stacker.news/items/1248986

2025-10-04 01:31:27 UTC

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This is my politics
#nevent1q…yc2r

2025-10-03 13:03:28 UTC

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Will it catch silver, though?
https://beta.predyx.com/market/bitcoin-flips-silver-by-november-1759365519

2025-10-01 16:38:30 UTC

Want to know the future?
Make your own prediction markets
https://beta.predyx.com/
https://fountain.fm/clip/bIqf3YpdeoyrPcagyvC1