With this EU law, called The Digital Services Act, which is beyond Orwellian in its scope and outrageousness, the promise of the Internet has officially turned to crap. That is, if they can enforce it without breaking the financial models of all the companies playing in their sandbox. It probably won’t matter much, because between […]
Author: vitruvius1
Formerly an integrated marketing and customer experience consultant. Writer on moral philosophy and current affairs.
Voting the bums out only works when there is a reasonable presumption of integrity in the system. “But all elections have cheating…” If an amount within the margin of error is swung from minus to plus by bad actors, the result still can be held to reasonably reflect the will of the people. Much as […]
I finally got around to watching “Joker” (2019). This movie was the perfect counterpoint to Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” Trilogy. Being rallied to emulate the public personas of our betters, or preferably stunned into accepting rule by them, is the barely disguised subtext behind nearly all superhero movies, and it makes no difference whether the […]
We can now be sure beyond reasonable doubt that the leaders of the CIA conspired to kill JFK, then the sitting president; and RFK, who had been AG and NY Senator, and was running for president. They are still covering it up, despite all of the perpetrators being dead. There cannot be a legitimate reason […]
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Dollar Daze
The loss of the US dollar’s status as global reserve currency is a nearly certain eventuality. Converting to a commodity based common currency makes sense on the surface — it’s what sound money has meant for ages. There are complications outside of American politics and/or policy errors. Central bank digital currencies are fraught with problems, […]
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