The admins of your server? Yes, I do believe they can. Anybody else though? No, they cannot.

Yeah, I think I would acquire a dumb phone just in case of an emergency. And wipe all the data on all of my devices.

You could put up your own home assistant compatible window and door sensors and stuff like that, but I’m not sure how it would go about calling the cops. Maybe have an integration with your phone so that if the alarm went off after like 60 seconds, it could automatically make a call to the cops or something? That’s a good question.

Even if you just have a standard Android operating system, you can prevent downgrade attacks by dialing *#*#4636#*#* and choosing phone information on Android. In there you can choose what your modem will connect to and so you can set it to only connect to say 5G and LTE and if neither of those are available your phone will just have no service.

I think scale is the problem.

With something like national politics, for example, the politicians can be thousands of miles away from you and really have no accountability to you as an individual.

In state politics, the politicians may be a hundred miles away or so, but that’s at least a doable trip, and you are able to make your voice heard better than you would if the politicians were a thousand miles away, because you can actually make that trip.

The mayor of your city and your city hall are probably only going to be about 20 or 30 miles away at the absolute maximum and you can very easily get to that local meeting point and make your voice heard on issues that affect you.

I’ve had the idea for a while that something like the United States is just too big to effectively work. Also, the smaller a country is, the less war making power it tends to have, so somewhere like the United States or Russia could wipe out the entire human population of the planet, whereas a place like Ethiopia could affect a war locally but would not be able to affect a war across the world.

Why organize a labor union to keep the tyrants from paying you poverty wages when you could just submit the name of the tyrant to the assassination market and let somebody take care of it?

The more unpopular you are as a human being, the shorter your expected lifespan, because the reward for you not existing would increase proportionally to how much of an asshole you were.

The next person knowing that the workers are why the last person was deposed would be a hell of a lot less likely to pay poverty wages and become unpopular since they have an incentive to live.

Personally, I’ve never followed or paid very much attention to politics as I see it as a pointless endeavor. The way our political systems are set up these days, they will get what they want and fuck what the people think.

I think there are a group of people that go into politics who are just pure evil and do so in order to have control over other people. I think there are some people who go into politics actually thinking they can change the system and have absolutely no idea that they don’t matter in the grand scheme of things.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely.

F, f, fifty billion dollars chuckles

Will ya take a check?

I enjoyed that movie and I go back and watch it every so often.

It’s true that Monero miners would benefit from cheaper electricity. I think more than anything it has to do with the power efficiency. A big warehouse full of CPUs would not be any more efficient than Uncle Bob mining on his gaming PC in his bedroom.

As for the noise level, I don’t think cooling a million CPUs would be any quieter than cooling ASIC chips. I think it’s mainly the fact that it’s so distributed.

Uncle Bob might have one or two computers mining in his bedroom, which put off a little bit of noise, but nothing horrible. Where these companies have racks and racks of ASIC chips all in the same place, amplifying the noise upon each other.

For that so decentralized video, we are actually in agreement. That is absolutely not decentralized, as it is very easy for a government to knock on the door and tell them to do whatever they want, and if they want to continue to exist as a business, they must comply.

While Monero, for example, still uses proof of work, it is deliberately designed to work on general purpose CPUs, such as the ones you have in your phone, laptop, desktop, etc.

This completely murders the idea of a mining farm and completely murders the idea of being able to centralize in a place like that.

There’s not one or only a few doors to knock on. There’s thousands upon thousands of doors to knock on all across the world. And since it’s so distributed, there’s not jet engine level noise in one specific area harming the community like this.

There would absolutely have to be safety measures on this to avoid that exact scenario from occurring. I cannot remember the author of the book right offhand, but there’s a book called PowerSat that goes through something very similar to this. As long as the beam is diffuse and not incredibly focused, it should be fine if something flies through it like a bird or if the beam gets knocked off course, it wouldn’t damage infrastructure. There would also need to be good auto cut off functionality built into the thing so that if it realized it was off target, maybe by like a focusing laser or something, it would automatically shut itself down.

Has anybody ever seen the movie The Core? This kind of reminds me of that.

Hey, thanks for the read. That was actually very interesting.

I think a lot of the problems are the shifting of the meanings of words over time, in that words get used in different contexts, in different time periods. For example, socialism is commonly thought to be Marxist-Leninist states like the old Soviet Union, etc., when apparently that’s not what it meant at all.

On a personal level, I don’t know quite what the hell I am because I feel as though I could identify with some aspects of American libertarianism as well as anarchism and voluntarism and i like the NAP. i am absolutely opposed to war, see the right to bare arms as absolutely imparative, and hate fiat money because it gives one group of humans the means to destroy the lives of everyone else silently and without most people being able to identify the root of the problem.

I like Ayn Rands “Atlas Shrugged”, Alongside Night by, i’m going to butcher his name, J Neil Schulman, and some of Sek3.

I am in no way opposed to drugs, but think that individuals who choose to use hard drugs are only hurting themselves. Cocoa leaf tea is one thing. Cocaine is totally different, just because of how much stronger it is. Marijuana is fine because you’re not going to overdose and die from it, even if sometimes you might feel like you will.

With that said, what a person chooses to put in their body and enjoy is none of my fucking business. And I have no say over that, nor should I.

Another thing I found to be quite interesting was assassination politics and the assassination marketplace for those power hungry people who think they could lord it over everybody else wouldn’t be able to do so for very long.

Edit: a few of the people i have major respect for are Cody Wilson (liberator 3d pistol) J Stark (Fuck Gun Control (FGC) 9mm, murdered by german poliece RIP), Amir Takki (dark wallet) and Edward Snowden (NSA leaks)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

Yes, it is built on a blockchain. It’s a blockchain specifically designed to completely hide the sender of a transaction, the recipient of said transaction, and the amount of that transaction. And cannot be even broken with quantum computing.

Edit: I should stand corrected. Parts of it are already quantum proof. Other parts can still be unraveled with a quantum computer, but there is work already in progress to fix that for future transactions.

No, I don’t think I will, because I’m not abusing it. I am a crypto anarchist.

I believe in rules without rulers and voluntary human association. Governments are illegitimate due to the use of force.

The word “investors” is the problem here.

The word is crypto"currency". The goal would be to completely replace traditional currency.

Your job pays you in crypto, you pay your electric bill in crypto, you pay your mortgage in crypto, you pay your car payment in crypto, you save in crypto, you buy your Starbucks in crypto. You sell your old game system for crypto, etc.

When you completely give up on the traditional system and value your life in crypto, your life gets better.

Monero is the best friend to privacy. Although I would agree that most crypto is definitely the enemy of privacy, Monero is specifically built to be the friend of privacy.

And this is why you need Monero.

They’ve just been deprecated to doing it the same way that every other custom operating system has been doing it for a long time. It makes it slower, but it doesn’t make it impossible.

If these were seats on a plane, they got bumped from first class down to coach at the very back. They’ll still get there. They just won’t have the nice leg room and the extra peanuts.

I would rather have Linux phones, but while those exist, they are not mainstream and ready quite yet.

So, custom Android, such as Lineage or Graphene, is about the closest we can get for now.