We’re already at that end of the alphabet again?

Fear the🦩

Interesting nomenclature.

It destroys incentive for speculative behavior on land. LVT increases density, reduces infrastructure costs, vastly increases distribution of housing. It increases the incentive to use the property and or improve property on the land. Property, houses, buildings etc are not taxed, the land below it is. It is extremely pro environmental, even pro business. It’s implementation is simple. It’s pro the 99 percent and harms owners of large parking lots in urban dense areas (the poorest use of land and essentially a speculative hold).

Norway used economic concepts from Henry George to utilize their vast carbon resources for the benefit of the many.

It takes the harmful effects of capitalism and turn it on its head. It is probably exactly what the USA craves. A decentralized bottom up movement in the USA pushing for these kinds of pro human, environmental economic policies could easily overwhelm the current political, tech bro corporatism elements in the USA.

Henry George absolutely solved the issue of poverty and inequality from a incentives/ structural economic standpoint. It is only the will of the 99 percent that is lacking. The 1 percent can be overthrown easily, in a quick and bold flick of the hand.

Just read Henry George. Land value taxes, etc. He had it all figured out 100 years ago. The fact that we still try to determine elaborate methods for building equality is absurd. The correct answers, and methodology is a variable that is already a known, and backed by piles of empirical evidence.

He adamantly argued two things:

1. Land value tax above all else.
2. Labor must not be considered capital.

These 2 concepts are core to the economic foundation, of building a extremely dynamic society (huge middle class, open financial systems, urbanism etc.)

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-qingdao-chinas

Or for those very curious…

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-land-really

It won’t surprise me when the Russian line collapses or Putin is suddenly dead. When, not if.

Europeans need all their armies on the eastern front. Yesterday. Hitler 2.0 is flanking you.

I’ve an old OP7T, with 512gb. Only thing is security is no longer updated. Installing Linux is fun, sure, but security is lacking because the hardware vendors no longer updates the drivers. Meaning big security holes. At least this is my understanding, or the thing could act as cloud storage, or at least local storage.

Local storage is so abundant, and cloud so expensive. We will hopefully see more innovation to bridge the gap for non sys admins. I.e. no more rent extraction!

Don’t buy the fairphone 4, qualcom doesn’t support the drivers. Security is shit. As to the 5 and 6, they don’t meet the hardware security requirements of the GOS team.

If security is your priority go for a Pixel with GOS.

Filen offers a mountable drive stackable 100gb lifetime deal. Free 10gb, so 110gb. The lifetime deal is like 20 bucks. So pay 40 bucks 220gb. The deals are stackable.

If you use my referral I get an additional 30gb 😂

Anyways that’s not why I recommend them, i was in the same position using syncthing, self hosting. Until I spend the time to harden remote access filen is simple and damn good.

Any short term “forced” cohesion they build internally is now actually sowing the seeds of deeper long term fractures.

The Israelis are building long term insecurities for their nation state. Imagine a world in the which the USA isn’t the global hegemonic power. Imagine American for one reason or another decide they can no longer support Israel?

Building peaceful relations with diverse neighbors is the foundation for long term security. Genocidal mania in an attempt to broaden the borders, is the breeding ground for future terror.

Israel is laying the groundwork, the building blocks, for long term insecurity. Not security.

If one thinks extremism equates to well adjusted humans, economically thriving and flourishing societies I’ve got another populist candidate to sell you.

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Sure sure, is it a sound, decentralized bottom up monetary network built by the people for the people on cryptography rails on an uncensorable network?

Fear Peter Thiel and his gangbuster crew of excel homies and consultants 😂

Don’t get me wrong, they’re enablers of authoritarianists, but let’s not give them too much credit. Magic? 🫧🧐🪠

"If you’ve noticed Anna’s Archive being down or glitchy this past week, here’s what’s probably going on behind the scenes.

Big academic publishers like Elsevier and Springer Nature have been stepping up legal actions against shadow libraries, including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, Libgen, and even SLUM (the uptime monitor).

They got a DMCA subpoena from a U.S. federal court that forces Cloudflare—who a lot of these sites use for CDN and protection—to hand over info on who runs these sites.

This is part of their plan to find and go after the people behind these libraries. Cloudflare doesn’t actually host any content, but since they help keep these sites online, targeting them is a way to put pressure on the whole operation.

So if Anna’s Archive has been unstable or offline, this legal pressure is probably why. It’s also a sign the fight over these sites is heating up, and whether the sites stay up depends on how well the people behind them can adapt—like switching domains or infrastructure.

Before the subpoena, publishers also asked Cloudflare to just block the sites, but since that didn’t happen right away, they went for this subpoena to dig deeper.

What does this mean for Anna’s Archive users?

The downtime might be Cloudflare reacting to legal threats or the site operators trying to stay one step ahead.

The people running these projects usually do their best to keep things running, but legal risks cause interruptions.

Honestly, no one knows how long Anna’s Archive will keep going or what shape it’ll take.

But there’s a decent chance it’ll come back in some form—maybe on new domains or setups—to keep offering access while dealing with these legal challenges.

Just wanted to share the scoop so you know it’s not random, but part of a bigger, complicated picture."

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