Daniel Castello

Here to see Rome sacked

[Daniel Castello @Danielbutunique]

@Devon_Eriksen_ Devon, I can tell you had fun writing this. Keep it up man. I enjoyed reading it.

[Daniel Castello @Danielbutunique]

@RonSwanonson They just think it’s greedy corporations raising prices unfairly. They can’t comprehend inflation (monetary supply increase) or the nature of the system that perpetuates it.

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

The defense for Flock Cameras, etc, is simple: “You’re in public, so you have no right to privacy.” But have you considered the endgame of that logic?

If privacy stops at your doorstep, then it is perfectly legal for a police AI drone to meet you at your driveway, follow you everywhere, and record every interaction you have all day long. Every single person, followed by a machine, every single day.

If that physical reality makes your skin crawl, then you cannot defend the digital version. An AI camera grid on the streets is just a robot cop following you that you’ve been told to ignore.

[Daniel Castello @Danielbutunique]

@RonSwanonson Overpriced and doesn’t hold up to dog filth. Buy a Shark.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

Okay, time to explain the Imperial system, the metric system, and why attempts to replace either with the other are all retarded.

They have two different purposes.

The metric system is designed around precise measurement of objects. Its goal is to make engineering and scientific calculations simple.

The Imperial system is designed around humans. Its goal is to make calculation unnecessary.

100 degrees is really hot. 0 degrees is really cold. Anything that starts with a 5 is cool, anything that starts with an 8 is warm. No computation.

6 feet is tall, 5 feet is short.

100 pounds is light, 200 pounds is substantial, 300 pounds is heavy.

A 1000 square foot house is small, a 2000 square foot house is medium, a 3000 square foot house is large.

1 mile is a short walk, 2 miles is a medium walk, after that it takes a while.

1 acre of land is a homestead, 10 acres is an estate, 100 acres and up is a ranch or a farm.

Do you see now why it is so strange and awkward to convert from miles to feet?

It's because converting from miles to feet is not something you're supposed to do in the first place. Yes, they are both measures of length, so they are technically convertible, and yes, on rare occasions, you might need to do that.

But feet are for measuring humans, and things built around humans, like doorways, and mattresses. Miles are for measuring travel distance.

You wouldn't measure the distance between Seattle and Portland in feet for the same reason you wouldn't measure the distance between Tokyo and Osaka in mattress-lengths.

It would be silly.

This is why Americans so fiercely resistant to any notion of "conversion" to the metric system. Because it makes no sense. We already use the metric system for what it's good for, which is doing physics and chemistry and whatnot.

But converting everyday measurements to the metric system would be less useful, generally inconvenient, and serve no purpose other than to make petty government bureaucrats happy that everything is now tidy, orderly, and worse, three qualities that bureaucrats love.

I thought about this carefully when I wrote my first science fiction novel. In the world of the 22nd century, extraterrestrial settlers ("Orbitals") use three systems of measurement.

They measure themselves in feet, inches, and pounds.

They measure the spacecraft and habitats they build in meters and centimeters, grams and kilograms.

And they measure space travel distances in light-seconds and light-minutes.

Each system has its own natural scale.

The sole exception to this is when Marcus doses himself with drugs for high-g resistance, Miranda objects that he has taken too much, and Marcus responds by stating his mass... in kilograms.

Why?

Because they're talking about drug doses, a engineering measurement. Drugs are dosed in milligrams per kilogram.

So, yes, the Imperial system makes perfect sense when you understand what it's for, and no, we ain't changing.

And, as a general rule, when an entire civilization of smart people does something for centuries, and it makes no sense to you, they're probably not being silly.

It's more likely there's something you don't know.

[Jack Spirko⚡️ @TheSurvivalPodc]

I am glad she did it, but it will just prove what we already knew.

However, will not change one mind of those who have chosen not to believe it and not one consequence will come fro it.

[Daniel Castello @Danielbutunique]

@GadSaad Bitcoin fixes this. Just saying

[Guy Swann @TheGuySwann]

• You and your friends would steal 80% of it
• you’d come in 300% over budget and still spend 3x what you taxed
• you’d start 2 useless departments that soak up billions yearly forever going forward
• the entire mess would be riddled with bribes, fraud, and fake daycares
• you’d be proposing a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and then permanent wealth tax to deal with the “gross underfunding” of your corrupt “childcare for everyone” empire.

The icing on the cake? Childcare costs in the US would increase by 40% in 2 years.

[Daniel Castello @Danielbutunique]

@RandPaul As if voting solves anything

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

Boomer dad: just get a job that pays well.

Me: I have a job. It pays $58,000.

Boomer dad: that’s not bad for starting out.

Me: I’ve been here 6 years.

Boomer dad: well negotiate a raise.

Me: I did. They offered 2%.

Dad: that’s something at least.

Me: rent went up 9% this year.

Dad: well you gotta budget.

Me: I don’t go out. I don’t have subscriptions. I pack my lunch.

Boomer Dad: when I was your age I had a house and two kids.

Me: when you were my age a house cost $52,000.

Boomer Dad: …

Boomer Dad: well, dinner’s getting cold.

[Jack Spirko⚡️ @TheSurvivalPodc]

Please Help Me Make the 2nd Edition of Laws of Life a Success during this week's launch.

Laws of Life – Book One – 2nd Edition Now Available

https://t.co/XUxszgBSWr

[Ron Sovereignty Swanson⚡️🗝️ @RonSwanonson]

Bitcoin is the only store of value that cannot be diluted or confiscated from you by any government

That alone makes it the most important advancement in financial history

And to assume that the world doesn’t need a money thats protected from government corruption shows a gross misunderstanding of the last 113 years of monetary history

[Guy Swann @TheGuySwann]

There is no fallacy more destructive than the idea that prices naturally increase over time.

All prices should fall if the economy is more productive. Indefinitely. It is literally only because trillions of dollars are counterfeited from nothing every year, and our time, living standards, home affordability, and critical resources get sucked out of the economy to pay for it that things get more expensive.

It is explicitly unnatural and it’s explicitly because we have fake money and a communist central bank at the lowest layer of our economic system.

[Ron Sovereignty Swanson⚡️🗝️ @RonSwanonson]

Giving poor people TEMPORARY buying power in exchange for PERMANENTLY higher prices sounds exactly as ineffective as it is

The more you subsidize them, the higher prices get

The higher prices get, the more you have to subsidize

Fiat balloons 🎈the government to get bigger and bigger

Never smaller…

Bitocin fixes that

[Daniel Castello @Danielbutunique]

@RandyGoat Took you this long eh?

[Wicked @w_s_bitcoin]

You know...there wouldn't be any trillionaires if you fucking retards hadn't printed so much fiat out of thin air.

[Daniel Castello @Danielbutunique]

@BTC_JEDI21 DCA

[Jack Spirko⚡️ @TheSurvivalPodc]

It seems a lot less bad for sure but it isn't good. Sterilization isn't the solution to our ecological problem created by agriculture.

Microbes are necessary for healthy food, healthy animals and healthy humans.

There are more bacterial cells in a healthy human than human cells.

[Daniel Castello @Danielbutunique]

@ArmstrongEcon Swap lines to save the day

[Daniel Castello @Danielbutunique]

@BTCWolvez @BitmundFreud Nah. Just calmly stacking and hodling here.