GOVEROTRAGEOUS: We’re fromt he Gooferment and we’re here to help!

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/if_we_the_people_were_actually_in_charge.html

If We the People Were Actually in Charge
By J.B. Shurk

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Perhaps no greater delusion stubbornly persists from one generation to the next than the idea that governments can be trusted. Sure, they conduct their affairs in secret, spy on their own people, and arm themselves to the teeth — but, by all means, trust them as you would a dear relative. Sure, they steal from productive citizens, manipulate markets, and swell their bureaucratic armies with ever-growing taxes — but, by all means, trust them as you would a close business associate. Sure, they impose their beliefs on our culture, ban the public expression of unfavored religions, and interpose their agents between parents and children — but, by all means, trust them as you might a pastor, rabbi, or priest.

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Ronald Regan’s words rang true.  The Gooferment is not only NOT your friend.  It’s your enemy.  And, should be treated as such.

IMHO

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Paper in=person voting with thumb ink is still the best imho

Monday, October 9, 2023

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2023/10/06/switzerlands-e-voting-system-has-predictable-implementation-blunder/

Switzerland’s e-voting system has predictable implementation blunder
October 6, 2023 by Andrew Appel 

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Last year, I published a 5-part series about Switzerland’s e-voting system. Like any internet voting system, it has inherent security vulnerabilities: if there are malicious insiders, they can corrupt the vote count; and if thousands of voters’ computers are hacked by malware, the malware can change votes as they are transmitted. Switzerland “solves” the problem of malicious insiders in their printing office by officially declaring that they won’t consider that threat model in their cybersecurity assessment.

But the Swiss Post e-voting system (that Switzerland uses) addresses the malware-in-voter-computer problem in an interesting way that’s worth taking seriously. Each voter is sent a piece of paper with some special “return codes” that are never seen by the voter’s computer, so any potential malware can’t learn them. And each voter is instructed to follow a certain protocol, checking the return codes shown on their screen against the return codes on the paper.

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This demonstrates that Gooferment can’t run “voting”.  

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: National Emergency Alert Test is flawed frome the start

Sunday, October 8, 2023

National Emergency Alert Test

Simultaneous tests of the nation’s wireless and broadcast alert systems will ping cellphones, TVs, and radios across the US today at 2:20 pm ET, the first such nationwide test since August 2021. 

The less-than-one-minute alert—which can be deployed by only the US president or the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency—is designed to evaluate the network’s effectiveness in communicating national alerts within 10 minutes. The system has its roots in the Cold War when officials sought a quick way to warn Americans of a possible attack from the Soviet Union. State and local governments frequently deploy similar systems for weather alerts.

The cellphone notification will consist of a two-second tone followed by two one-second tones, a cycle which will be repeated twice, similar to Amber Alerts (listen here). Phones that are powered off, in airplane mode, or connected to the internet only through Wi-Fi will not receive the alert. 

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SO THE TEST DEMONSTRATES THE FLAW IN THEIR THINKING. Or lack there of.

It can’t possible “alert everyone” so the fundamental assumption is wrong.  But let’s go ahead anyway. (Remember the sirens in Hawaii?). 

AND, at the cost of (1) annoying the <synonym for excrement> out of everyone; AND (2) potentially exposing every domestic violence victim who has an emergency burner phone hidden away.

Great idea.

Politicians and bureaucrats are just font of waste effort and useless NPCs.

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INTERESTING: But what alternatives did its economics crowd out; remember seen and unseen?

Saturday, October 7, 2023

https://electrek.co/2023/10/03/worlds-first-artificial-energy-island/?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

The world’s first artificial energy island just got the go-ahead
Michelle Lewis | Oct 3 2023 – 7:58 am PT 

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The world’s first artificial energy island has secured its environmental permit, so it’s now all systems go in Belgium.

Princess Elisabeth Island is a pioneering electricity grid at sea that’s going to connect offshore wind farms to the Belgian mainland and also serve as a hub for future interconnectors with the UK and Denmark.

Belgian electricity transmission system operator Elia is the project’s developer, and obtaining the permit, which Elia applied for in January 2023, is a key milestone. Construction will take over two years, from March 2024 to August 2026. 

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But what alternatives did its economics crowd out; remember seen and unseen? There are no “shareholders” looking for a profit. Just nameless faceless politicians and bureaucrats with endless supplies of Taxpayer “wealth” to amuse themselves “saving the planet”.  

Seriously, how do “we” know that was the best use of resources?

“That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen” Frédéric Bastiat http://bastiat.org/

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GUNS: Use the DMV for other permits?

Friday, October 6, 2023

https://bearingarms.com/ranjit-singh/2023/09/28/five-simple-policy-suggestions-for-lawmakers-in-second-amendment-friendly-states-n75437

Five simple policy suggestions for lawmakers in Second Amendment friendly states
By Ranjit Singh | 5:31 PM on September 28, 2023

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2) Integrate carry permit applications and issuance at the DMV

(Full disclosure: I am repeating an idea I heard from Attorney Mark Smith at the Four Boxes Diner YouTube channel.) Local DMV offices are well-positioned to process carry permit applications. They have cameras, computers, desks, paper forms, pens, etc., and employees who know how to process driver’s license applications. Processing carry permit applications is well within DMV employees’ abilities. States with pro-Second Amendment majorities should add carry permit applications to the portfolio of services offered by their DMV offices, and advertise the new service loudly and proudly.

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I think this is a great idea.  Let’s turn the “DMV” into a people-centric resource for deal with the Gooferment!

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INSPIRATIONAL: ₿itcoin podcast slips in a good episode about make bettwe, possibly, Libertarian children

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Kids Don’t Need School with Jonathan Prescott 
Stephan Livera
September 20, 2023

https://overcast.fm/ OBZnLSjGc

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Podcast
Stephan Livera Podcast
http://www.stephanlivera.com

Join Stephan as he interviews the sharpest economic and technical minds in Bitcoin & Austrian Economics to help you understand how money is changing and evolving. This is one of the leading podcasts in the space, and listening to this show is one of the fastest ways to learn and get up to speed on Bitcoin. 

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This “snuck” in on my favorite ₿itcoin podcast.  I’m sympathetic to home schooling.  Even if I have to children to torture my craziness with. 

This is that “home school” podcast that I thought had some great ideas to try with an ADHD child my fiancé has custody of.  Not to “home school” but to steal some of the strategies and tactics that might help us deal with him. 

It may offer some great ideas.

I was particularly struck by how Gooferment Skrules make the children unable to make even simple decisions by themselves.  I am well aware of the “Prussian School Model” with bells and yak in the box.  It was designed to replace the Family with the State and make cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite.

FWIW YMMV

I found it inspiration for liberty.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Will the local Gooferment have the stones to have it torn down?

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/sep/27/london-apartment-block-that-deviates-from-plans-must-be-torn-down-says-council?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

London apartment block that deviates from plans must be torn down, says council

  • ‘Blight on the landscape’ in Greenwich lacks promised gardens, children’s play areas and accessibility for wheelchair users

Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent
Wed 27 Sep 2023 04.19 EDT
First published on Wed 27 Sep 2023 02.00 EDT

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Buildings rarely look as good as the airbrushed architects’ visualisations produced to persuade planners to grant permission. Extra sharp highlights, implausibly blue skies and deeper colours are all part of the dark arts of the computer-generated rendering.

But the gulf between what was proposed for an apartment complex rising 23 storeys above the Thames in south-east London and what was actually built has finally proved too much.

After counting 26 major deviations from the original planning permission that it granted, the Royal Borough of Greenwich has taken the extraordinary move – “unprecedented”, it said – of ordering the developers of the Mast Quay II development to pull it down. It means tenants in 204 flats now face the prospect of finding somewhere else to live.

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Well clearly the correct politicians and bureaucrats didn’t have their pockets lined right!

Now will the politicians and bureaucrats have the courage to have it torn down?

Seems like a waste, but if they don’t, it sends the wrong message.  I can imagine the lawsuits and pity parties that will ensue.

Perhaps if the “profit” and then a little extra is removed from all involved, a more economic result MIGHT be achieved.  But only if all involved are equally screwed.

Seems a waste of prefectly good building to send a message to the “marketplace”.

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BITCOIN: What will ₿ be worth in 2140?

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Annual inflation over this period was 3.94%. 1971 – 2023 https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=1&year=1971 

₿itcoin’s fixed limit will insure it’s value against any fiat currency. The maximum supply of 21 million bitcoins will be reached around the year 2140. What will it be worth then? 10k$, 100k$, 1M$?

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GUNS: Don’t threaten people

Monday, October 2, 2023

One of Colie’s defense attorneys Adam Pouilliard said that his client felt menaced by the 6 foot 4 inches tall Cook during the confrontation, which was designed to provoke a reaction and to draw viewers to his YouTube channel.

Moment YouTube prankster Tanner Cook’s stunt goes badly wrong when shopper he is targeting pulls out a gun and shoots him in the chest | Daily Mail Online

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12583491/Moment-YouTube-prankster-Tanner-Cooks-stunt-goes-badly-wrong-shopper-targeting-pulls-gun-shoots-chest.html

Seems justifiable to me. Big guy was inside the “knife zone” (i.e., 9 foot circle) and was behaving irrationally. IMHO. I might have done the same thing!

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HEALTH: Mushroom “vitamin” linked to several diseases

Monday, October 2, 2023
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/porcini-mushroom-high-in-valuable-ergothioneine-vitamin/?utm_campaign=newsletters
 
​Porcini Mushrooms Rank Among Highest in the World for Rare ‘Essential Vitamin’
By Andy Corbley – Sep 22, 2023 
 
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Porcini have been harvested for probably thousands of years, but it’s only recently that they’ve been identified as having the second-highest content of a powerful nutrient among all mushrooms examined for it.
 
The nutrient is called ergothioneine, styled ‘ERG’ for short, and may very well be the 15th vitamin that science has only just discovered we need. If a vitamin is classified as a compound that organisms need for survival, and which they cannot synthesize themselves, but which isn’t a mineral, a fatty acid, or an amino acid, then ergothioneine is a vitamin. It cannot be created in our own bodies, and we even adapted an endogenous transporter molecule specifically for ergothioneine.
 
Vitamins in large part must be obtained from the diet, and humans’ only whole food source of ergothioneine is mushrooms as near as makes no difference. Some bacteria and yeast can also synthesize ergothioneine naturally, and in consuming them humans consume ergothioneine. However the scientific particulars of that, including the bioavailability of yeast-born ERG, the levels obtainable through consumption, and the potential side effects, are practically non-existent.
 
A broad review of ergothioneine published in 2020 reports that its deficiency in humans has been found in cases of acute respiratory distress syndrome, CVD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pre-eclampsia, overhydrated hereditary stomatocytosis, “and is significantly lowered in others such as certain leukemias”.
 
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Gotta eat some mushrooms.  Never saw the two described in any store.  Have you?  I’m looking for the “fountain of youth” and this seems to be protective of brain cells. Interesting?
 
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