US expatriates (lawful American citizens living overseas) are living under the last vestige of the US Civil War. US taxes tied to US citizenship (not residency) is a plantation system. It follows your offspring. If you don’t understand ask our Black brothers and sisters and they will help you.

If the current generation of technologists do not return to and build the original cypherpunk vision of a free and secure individual space…Western civilization is doomed. I must point out that violence fueled by ascendant blockchains is a likely mandatory path if liberal civilization is to survive.

Good morning BlueSky. First post here. Some random thoughts: tontines, lack of gold banking at western banks but fully available in Turkey, the lack of the battle of the sexes in Western Europe yet women are clearly more empowered there, tragedy of the American revolution, dogs can smell cancer.