#Liberty Market

[thedailymobile]

“Pink Slip”

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[laughingsquid]

Viral Marketing Company Uses CGI to Make the Statue of Liberty Look Like It Is Dressed Like a Ghost

[nipuni]

I made one of my husband too 🥰 now I can put us up on the wall

[philosophicalconservatism]

The defender of the free market is not someone who is peculiarly preoccupied with money or material wealth, he is someone who believes in the principle of individual human liberty in general, and simply does not make the sphere of material goods or property an exception to that belief.

It is the opponent of the free market which has a unique and peculiar preoccupation with money and material things: he must control them.

[wisteriagoesvroom]

manifesting chaos in the 2024 f1 season (wiz edition)

kudos to @keepthedelta for starting this idea way back when, theirs were hilarious

- jos verstappen and carlos sainz snr have an actual fistfight, but agree to do it on pay per view TV for maximal profit and impact. carlos snr wins only because he still has good core strength from driving endurance races and also he definitely does yogilates

- forced to get more sponsorship money, kick stake sauber drivers have to do an embarrassingly slutty ad for vitamin water. turns out valtteri and guan yu is very game for it and it actually goes super viral, but only in china

- FIA announces seoul gp 2026 and do an embarrassing eGames tie up as well as get nct's most junior division (most of them are 10 years old) to promote it for some reason. 2025 Charles leclerc finally makes his debut on MDC singing an slow-fi hip hop song with lots of air horns. it’s the one he co-wrote with lewis hamilton as an anthem for the ferrari team

- no more grill the grid. liberty media takes things to the next level and makes all the drivers do elimination games from squid game. drivers may be injured or perish. however as per FIA regs they are still expected to recover well enough to drive by the following sunday

- seb vettel returns but only for one race to drive a literal tractor across a field in austria to promote saving the bees

- alex albon is told he gets to move to red bull again except alex albon was busy taking some proper off time with his girlfriend during the summer so he misses the email and the tweets. by the time he catches up with the rumours, red bull have already musical chaired first liam lawson and then daniel ricciardo in the seat only to immediately take it back and give it to a fifteen year old who’s currently taking a nap in the rb junior academy room somewhere

- zak brown starts a new tie up with an aerospace company and andrea accidentally builds a rocket ship that blasts the papaya boys into space. lando and oscar do a livestream in the MCL38 parked on the side of an asteroid

- nico rosberg appears on a sky broadcast in a t-shirt that people swear lewis hamilton once wore, and it in fact may be the exact same one. neither of them comments on it at all

- otmar somehow returns and spends half his time instructing his drivers to try and chase / destroy that orange twink… i mean, car. somehow he will manage to run a team more embarrassingly than haas.

[dulceknowsbest]

Say no to seed oils

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[erebusvincent]

[indigokashmir]

The Joys of Spring.

Main Photo: The Green Gate, representing spring, City Palace, Jaipur, India.

All the flowers and colours that remind us of spring below

Flowers from Columbia Road Flower Market.

Osaka, Japan.

Vietnam.

Spring morning - insert bird song :-)

Flowers from Wild at Heart, Liberty of London.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Marijuana was the big topic at the Capitol on Thursday, with a hearing on two bills that would legalize recreational use and sales in Nebraska.

LB 22, by Sen. Justin Wayne of Omaha, would decriminalize use and possession of the drug.

LB 634, by Sen. Terrell McKinney of Omaha would allow for the sale of cannabis to anyone over 21.

“The federal government continues to cling on, as it does today, to a policy that has origins in racism, xenophobia, and whose principal effect has been to ruin the lives of many generations of people,” McKinney said.

LB 634 would also focus on helping people of color and low-income individuals, who McKinney said are disproportionately targeted for possession of marijuana by law enforcement.

Some testifiers said Nebraskans have wanted these bills for years.

“The polls show consistently, the people of the state want cannabis legal in some form,” said Spike Eickholt with the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska. “You may not like the forms of these bills, but ultimately, what might happen is that the voters are just going to approve something you really don’t like, and then you’re going to be stuck with it.”

One concern brought up by the opposition was how the black market contributes to marijuana sales.

“The black market is alive and well in states that have legal marijuana and in states that have illegal marijuana,” said Col. John Bolduc, the superintendent of the Nebraska State Patrol. “I believe one of the testifiers suggested that it’s easy to access and it’s affordable. That’s true.”

Bolduc said if the bills are passed, the black market would undercut legitimate businesses.

Lorelle Mueting of Heartland Family Service said legalization would put the safety of everyone in the state at risk.

“When people use it more, we will inevitably see more impairment problems that affect more than just the person using,” Mueting said. “Marijuana is a psychoactive substance, which means it causes a high, and when under the influence of THC, a person does not have the ability to make good decisions.”

Under the legislation, the drug would be taxed, which supporters said could bring millions in revenue to the state.

“Prohibitionists must understand that prohibition isn’t working, hasn’t worked and never will work,” Jerry Moler said.

The Judiciary Committee only heard testimony on the bills, but it could vote on them as early as next week.

[viajarconrosana]

FILADELFIA: HISTORIA, TRADICIÓN Y MODERNIDAD; Por Rosana Saburo

Filadelfia, no sólo es la ciudad más importante del estado de Pensilvania, su valor histórico  es decisivo para comprender el origen de Estados Unidos. Completada la Declaración de Independencia, el 4 de julio de 1776 el Congreso Continental votó afirmativamente, el punto de partida ya era imparable, la desconexión con Gran Bretaña comenzaba su andadura. En el Parque Histórico Nacional de la…

[aeide-thea]

this is such a real and infuriating issue—the fact that female athletes have actually gotten fined for wanting to wear actual clothing while competing, and not just underwear, is absurd and enraging—but i really wish people wouldn't react to it, as the linked article does twice, by turning around and making claims about a need for 'women's specific design,' as if all women were the same shape???

i mean, setting my actual gender identity aside for a moment, i'm afab with a totally endogenous hormonal situation, so from a binarist perspective on physical sex, i get shoved into the girlbox without any real hesitation—and yet i not infrequently find men's clothing a better fit than women's, because my shoulders are broader, my ribcage wider, and (of late) my waist-to-hip ratio smaller than women's clothing tends to expect; and because i find pressure on my abdomen uncomfortable, i've been very grateful to be able to ignore womenswear's turn to high-waisted pants, and stick with midrise menswear.

i could list more examples, just drawing on my own physique and the physiques of cis people i know, but i'll spare you—really my point is just, i wish we were better at the kind of feminism that reacted to gendered inequalities by making more space for individual people and individual preferences, instead of falling back into the trap that says women deserve special consideration because they're a special case. women aren't an asterisk; they're an enormous swath of the spectrum called humanity, and there's variance within that swath just as there's variance within any subset of humanity you care to define.

[philosophicalconservatism]

“ The real bosses, in the capitalist system of market economy, are the consumers. They, by their buying and by their abstention from buying, decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses. They are full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. They do not care a whit for past merit. As soon as something is offered to them that they like better or that is cheaper, they desert their old purveyors. With them nothing counts more than their own satisfaction. They bother neither about the vested interests of capitalists nor about the fate of the workers who lose their jobs if as consumers they no longer buy what they used to buy."

Ludwig Von Mises (1881-1973) Austrian economist.

[fieriframes]

[I'M HERE IN NORTHERN LIBERTIES, PHILADELPHIA, JUST NORTH OF THE OLD CITY-- YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY SIGNED YET, WOULD DEPEND ON THE KIND OF EXPIATION-- TO CHECK OUT A JOINT THAT'S IN A BUILDING THAT SOME PEOPLE SAY WAS ONCE A PRODUCE MARKET--]

[anthonybialy]

Conspire Require

Life is surely proceeding smoothly when conspiracies serve as the most reasonable way to explain events.  Putting pompous nitwits in charge leads to results so implausibly regrettable that play-by-play sounds demented.  But it’s present action that features madness.

The only case against a scheming cabal successfully manipulating everyday life is how members unable to button their own shirts, much less implement a plan.  An ideology so baffling that those suffering from its implementation think pain is deliberate must surely inspire.  The casually dodgy use of virtually unlimited authority they seize couldn’t appear to be anything other than a connivance.

Government slides into everything but DMs.  Everyone gets screwed while nobody has fun.  Sucker wannabe exploiters think it’s only those richer who get ripped off as if opportunities remain the same after the lamest crime boss takes protection money for nothing.  You’re way safer handing over a cut to the Sopranos.  For all we pay in taxes, you’d think elected capos might arrest some of those goons robbing everyone else.  But a felonious government doesn’t want to set that precedent.

A crackhead grifter who only sounds like a Tom Wolfe character is the basis of America’s policies.  Hunter Biden’s laptop took a journey that feels like it’s made up as a writing exercise between Breitbart and Newsmax writers.  Students didn’t need to pass the story back and forth between paragraphs to make details this wacky.  Using one’s domain to enrich oneself comes automatically to those who demand the most control.  A graph would be so easy to draw that even his business partner daddy could do it.

Thinking an improperly-prepared bat sickened every human is the sucker mentality.  China’s ineptness paired with maliciousness sure seemed to ruin a couple years, what with all the evidence.  I know it sounds cynical, but evil tyrants might not be stringent about lab safety.  All those regulations were supposed to keep humanity secure.  Diabolical intentions can’t be overcome by their inherent clumsiness.  Like their ideology, it doesn’t exactly work.

There’s no challenge in accepting how seemingly improbable outcomes like worthless money came into being.  Pompous dolts screw up with undeserved power so they can seize even more of it to remedy ailments they risibly claim are caused by mysterious unnamed capitalist brutes.  You might label patent duplicitousness a plan if there was ever a sense they were capable of looking ahead.  But these are people who haven’t thought of what’s for lunch.  They weren’t hungry after breakfast, which means caloric needs have been met permanently.

Contemporary leaders are more like scumbags who would grab an unattended purse with an escape plan of trying to run fast.  Using the chance to reign over subjects is never declined by current White House occupants.  Imitation royals didn’t plan it but sure seized it.  A pork chop dropped in front of an opportunistic dog won’t be saved for a snack.  The difference between dogs and Democrats is that the former are adorable.

The difference between a vaccine and flu shot is something to ponder while struggling to catch breath.  Each ouchie should be judged on its own merits.  The logical fail of announcing this dose much be effective because vaccines work is brought to you by the sort of people who claim to believe in science.

Take fantastic claims on a case-by-case basis.  Not every seemingly implausible outcome features proof.  Truthers who defy science and decency shouldn’t get cocky, just like tiresome bores who are convinced it wasn’t a disgruntled commie former Marine who assassinated JFK.  Lumping every improbable explanation together is itself delirious.

You may notice that nobody’s claiming the bossiest actually help.  The most widely-held conspiracy theory is also the most disproven, namely that government is helpfully efficient.  To be fair, it’s equally good at those aspects.

Believing absolute nonsense about getting the economy churning by taking from those within it is the most deleterious notion accepted by the gullible.  The most blatant nonsense doesn’t even take a hard sell despite overwhelming notions in opposition that actually links together.  Evidence is screaming in their faces and they scream back about how cruel it is for people to buy their own insurance.

Sometimes, delusional incapability is the easiest explanation.  It’s hard to be certain if this idling White House is making gasoline expensive on purpose so the stranded use sputtermobiles or if it’s just because their dreadful policies don’t save money, much less Earth.  The important part is the result, namely how nobody can afford to travel out of their respective ZIP codes to not buy products that are too costly thanks to a different policy screwup.  

It doesn’t take intricately-plotted manifestations to inflict chaos.  Morons who double as klutzes can ruin the hours without calculating past today, which is either more worrying or slightly comforting.  Nobody presently abusing job responsibilities is capable of thinking ahead to dinner, much less how teaching college graduates that irresponsibility pays off for them rips off everyone else.  Bailouts feature such obvious consequences that only Democrats could ignore them.

Careful plotters tip the chess board after being told they can’t jump pieces.  Asking why so many of their beliefs cause those coping with them to feel bereft in multiple ways gets you branded as crazed.  The paranoid are correct as long as they’re dealing with people like Joe Biden.

[renthewerecatboi]

servers with only a few amount of people are are blessing, because where else would there be like 8 soldiers trying to sneak attack each other with the equalizer