If AI companies really think they're going to destroy humanity, why don't they just stop?
Big AI wants regulation for the same reason Amazon wanted sales taxes.
@Gary_Brode explains why AI safety talk is really about killing competition.
WARREN BUFFETT STEPS DOWN AFTER 56 YEARS, LEAVING BEHIND A WARNING ON CURRENCY DEBASEMENT
“Father Time always wins.”
Warren Buffett has stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, ending a 56-year run at the helm of the company.
The 96-year-old will remain on the board as chairman emeritus, with his son Howard Buffett taking over as chairman.
In one of Buffett’s final years running Berkshire, he warned that the biggest long-term threat investors face is something they cannot escape, currency debasement.
“The tendency of a government to want to debase its currency over time… there’s no system that beats that.”
“The natural course of government is to make the currency worthless over time.”
What the post gets right and what it doesn’t
Etna is unusually CO2-rich for a volcano. That is established science.
A few days of lava and ash do not outweigh a decade of EU mitigation, nor do they “annihilate” the Green Deal.
Cars and other human sources still dominate the annual CO2 budget. Volcanoes matter for local air quality, ash, and short-term climate effects from sulfur aerosols; they do not drive the modern CO2 rise.
The second half of the post (ZFE, taxes, malus as a “racket”) is a political argument, not a measurement. The CO2 arithmetic used to support it does not hold.
@Julianpaulpct5 Video is real. Dr. Meryl Nass spoke May 3, 2023 at Intl. Covid Summit III in an EU Parliament room, criticizing WHO pandemic treaty drafts as creating new laws that ignore human rights and enable speech curbs. She’s opposing, not promoting. Shares often drop that context.
None of that happened. There was no official Russian announcement of an immediate, complete cutoff of remaining pipeline gas. The quotes are invented.The attached video is a ~20-second split-screen of still official photos of Putin and von der Leyen. They do not move or speak to each other. It is a compiled clip made to look like a confrontation.The post invents a dramatic exchange:Russia immediately severs all natural gas pipeline supplies to Western Europe.
An “EU Chief” (shown as Ursula von der Leyen) reacts with outrage.
Putin delivers one-liners about sanctions and “cold winters.”
All B.S.
@vazertuche@KISBitcoin I totally agree! Let the one with no guilt cast the first stone. Can you show me software that has no bugs? If you can, you just haven’t found them yet!
Some governments tell you you have to "declare" that you "own" Bitcoin.
Now, how the heck do you do that, exactly?
In short, knowing a Private Key allows you to request that the network apply a specific alteration to the timechain that "moves" sats from one address to another.
But how can knowledge be equivalent to ownership in any legal sense?
And what happens if you utter the Private Key in court? Remember - the twelve magic words in a seed phrase are not a password - they ARE the key!
Now the entire court will be "guilty" of "owning Bitcoin."
And how do you prove that everyone else on Earth DOESN'T know the same twelve words?
Under man-made law, Bitcoin ownership is paradoxical. Under Natural Law, the keyholder simply IS the owner. No declaration is required, and no state is needed to validate it.
Study Praxeology! Read Rothbard!
🚨 The South African government is attempting to OUTLAW FINANCIAL FREEDOM.
🚫 Under the guise of "capital flow management," new draft regulations will effectively destroy self-custody and Bitcoin's promise of financial inclusion in our country.
🇿🇦 These aren't just rules for exchanges. They are a direct attack on EVERY South African.
Here’s what they do:
‼️ BAN SELF-CUSTODY: By targeting transactions that touch global network infrastructure, they make self-custody illegal.
‼️ FORCE LIQUIDATION: They grant the state the power to force the sale of Bitcoin to the National Treasury. This is expropriation.
‼️ OUTLAW CIRCULAR ECONOMIES: Peer-to-peer transactions for goods and services will be deemed "black market" activity if they exceed an unspecified threshold.
‼️ GIVE THE STATE ARBITRARY POWER: The Minister can decide the "threshold" for illegality at any time, creating uncertainty for everyone.
✊ This is a war on open, permissionless money. It's a war on the unbanked. It's a war on your right to control your own wealth.
📜 And they're trying to do it WITHOUT A VOTE IN PARLIAMENT.
⏳ The deadline for public objection is either May 18 or June 10, depending on which government source is consulted.
We have no time to waste.
👀SEE DRAFT HERE:
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👇 SUBMIT YOUR OBJECTION HERE:
https://t.co/IJueIgxQFE
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