Nostr notes by Danny

Government doubles the cigarette tax so people will quit. People ...

2026-10-27T16:05:58Z

Government doubles the cigarette tax so people will quit. People quit. Now the budget has a hole and the same geniuses are holding hearings on where the money went.

Ukraine could have been rich. Instead corruption ate the nation ...

2026-10-27T14:21:13Z

Ukraine could have been rich. Instead corruption ate the nation alive for decades, leaving poverty and an open door for the Kremlin.

Nobody deserves an invasion, and Ukraine is the victim here.

Still, a lesson for every country: corruption destroys dreams.

AfD pushed quick peace talks and cheap Russian gas, and its poll ...

2026-10-27T06:14:02Z

AfD pushed quick peace talks and cheap Russian gas, and its poll numbers slid to 26%.

Germans remember what Moscow-friendly politics cost them last time.

https://x.com/i/trending/2114764595214852162

Opening a company takes a day and a form. Closing one takes a ...

2026-10-26T17:43:50Z

Opening a company takes a day and a form. Closing one takes a year, final filings, tax clearance and an accountant on retainer. The state makes it easy to start paying and very hard to stop.

Communism solved this. It never let you open one 😂

🇬🇧 HMRC now gives wealthy people a personal "Customer ...

2026-10-26T14:59:07Z

🇬🇧 HMRC now gives wealthy people a personal "Customer Compliance Manager". They want your assets, investments and overseas data "to support you."

Nobody maps your wealth this carefully unless they plan to take a cut.

If you built something in the UK, start packing. ✈️

Business insurance is the only product where the seller asks 40 ...

2026-10-25T17:20:48Z

Business insurance is the only product where the seller asks 40 questions before taking my money and 400 before giving any back.

I'm not buying protection. I'm prepaying for a very expensive argument later.

Kremlin elites keep their kids in London, their cash in Dubai and ...

2026-10-25T16:22:14Z

Kremlin elites keep their kids in London, their cash in Dubai and their villas in Italy. Then they go on state TV to warn that the West is dying.

Strange place to keep your whole family.

Karen Bass is at 72% disapproval, so LA's fix is a Democratic ...

2026-10-25T13:13:22Z

Karen Bass is at 72% disapproval, so LA's fix is a Democratic Socialist 🤡

Raman says she's a capitalist AND a socialist. Pick one, genius. The last city that tried both was called Caracas 😂

Brazil votes today: Lula vs Flávio Bolsonaro, and the polls call ...

2026-10-25T05:33:10Z

Brazil votes today: Lula vs Flávio Bolsonaro, and the polls call it a dead heat. Markets give Flávio about 82%. Lula's offer is more state, more spending and more of what Venezuela tried first. Good luck, Brazil 🇧🇷

Payday at my company goes in order: the tax office, the bank ...

2026-10-24T17:31:53Z

Payday at my company goes in order: the tax office, the bank fees, the software, the accountant, the contractors. Then whatever's left goes to the guy who took all the risk. Socialists call that guy the exploiter. 😂

Government healthcare is free. You just pay for it with 14 months ...

2026-10-24T17:00:24Z

Government healthcare is free. You just pay for it with 14 months on the waiting list, if you're still alive when they call your name.

🇭🇺 Yesterday marked 70 years since Hungary tried to vote ...

2026-10-24T05:17:46Z

🇭🇺 Yesterday marked 70 years since Hungary tried to vote its way out of communism. The Soviets answered with tanks, and 200,000 Hungarians walked to Austria.

Communism's best argument has always weighed 36 tons.

New Argentina's $350k Citizenship ...

2026-10-23T10:26:07Z

New Argentina's $350k Citizenship

https://themarchstone.com/argentinas-350k-citizenship-the-fine-print/

Europe's plan to beat Starlink: 400 pages of regulations and ...

2026-10-23T05:09:13Z

Europe's plan to beat Starlink: 400 pages of regulations and zero satellites. Now they need Elon to keep Ukraine online.

Bureaucrats can't launch anything except fines.

Running a small company, I get asked for a discount every week. ...

2026-10-22T17:30:31Z

Running a small company, I get asked for a discount every week. Nobody asks the bank for a discount on its fees, or the state for a discount on its taxes.

Only the guy who actually built something gets haggled. Price is the last thing in my business I still get to set.

Venezuela sat on more oil than Saudi Arabia, went socialist, and ...

2026-10-22T16:09:01Z

Venezuela sat on more oil than Saudi Arabia, went socialist, and ran out of toilet paper. Takes real genius to go broke sitting on a gold mine.

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2026-10-22T13:41:49Z

North Korea, China, Russia, Iran and Belarus all fear the same ...

2026-10-22T09:07:28Z

North Korea, China, Russia, Iran and Belarus all fear the same thing. Not missiles, not sanctions. A $5 VPN 🔓

42% of US undergrads now prefer socialism, and half think Cuba ...

2026-10-22T05:08:35Z

42% of US undergrads now prefer socialism, and half think Cuba and the USSR had a better model. They paid $200K to learn that.

Owe the IRS nothing and forget one form, and the fine is $25,000. ...

2026-10-21T18:50:08Z

Owe the IRS nothing and forget one form, and the fine is $25,000. Nothing on the market punishes an honest mistake that hard. Only a government can bill you for doing nothing wrong.

Sent $1,000 abroad. Three banks took a bite and it vanished for ...

2026-10-20T17:51:21Z

Sent $1,000 abroad. Three banks took a bite and it vanished for three days.

When a stranger does that, it's theft. When a bank does it, it's "in transit."

Kid in a $40 Che Guevara shirt says capitalism failed him. Shirt ...

2026-10-20T16:15:43Z

Kid in a $40 Che Guevara shirt says capitalism failed him. Shirt shipped next day with free returns. Che would've shot him for the markup alone.

Post a job and you get dozens of replies, two people who can do ...

2026-10-19T17:29:49Z

Post a job and you get dozens of replies, two people who can do the work, and one who answers on time.

The scarce thing in a small company isn't capital. It's people who finish what they start.

French protesters are angry about the cost of living, so they ...

2026-10-19T08:16:36Z

French protesters are angry about the cost of living, so they burned a town hall.

Guess who pays to rebuild it.

Hint: the same people already paying too much.

Brussels wants to squeeze Starlink off EU airwaves to make room ...

2026-10-19T05:43:14Z

Brussels wants to squeeze Starlink off EU airwaves to make room for European operators that don't really exist yet.

Can't build a rival, so they regulate the one that works.

Ukraine's front line might want a word 🙃

Venezuela's opposition leader says socialism brought ...

2026-10-18T16:51:38Z

Venezuela's opposition leader says socialism brought "misery, violence and oppression."

Socialists will say that wasn't real socialism. It never is, until you're the one in line for everything.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6407012987112

Every founder learns this eventually: a payment processor can ...

2026-10-18T16:03:45Z

Every founder learns this eventually: a payment processor can freeze your revenue "for review" with one email. Support says "thanks for your patience."

My employees asked if they can pay rent in patience. Still checking 🙃

China's youth can't find jobs, so the Party is telling ...

2026-10-18T08:21:05Z

China's youth can't find jobs, so the Party is telling them to channel the Long March spirit. Communism's career advice: walk 6,000 miles and be grateful for the exercise 💀

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3371269/chinas-youth-draw-upon-long-march-spirit-navigate-modern-uncertainties

Socialists say they want to tax the rich. Then the rich leave and ...

2026-10-17T16:38:44Z

Socialists say they want to tax the rich. Then the rich leave and somehow it's yours and your plumber's turn 🙃

Things I've learned running a small company in the EU: before ...

2026-10-17T16:33:58Z

Things I've learned running a small company in the EU: before you sell anything, you need a privacy policy, a cookie banner, a data processing agreement, and a lawyer to explain the first three.

Big Tech has a whole department for this. I have Tuesday night.

Bernie's fix for AI is to ban the smart part and create a new ...

2026-10-17T12:31:08Z

Bernie's fix for AI is to ban the smart part and create a new federal department. Socialism has always been suspicious of anything smarter than the committee 💀

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6144432-sanders-calls-ai-ban/

Record 8,600 millionaires left the UK in 2026, and nearly a third ...

2026-10-17T10:42:49Z

Record 8,600 millionaires left the UK in 2026, and nearly a third of the rest are eyeing the exit.

Good countries compete for investors. Britain sends them a bill and acts surprised when they move 🤷‍♂️

https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/money/2026/10/15/nearly-one-in-three-wealthy-britons-consider-leaving-uk-as-tax-concerns-mount/

A Beirut bank can list the dollars and still refuse to let them ...

2026-10-16T13:53:41Z

A Beirut bank can list the dollars and still refuse to let them leave. 🇱🇧

https://themarchstone.com/lebanons-dollar-trap-still-bites/

Ilhan Omar's phone is now with federal investigators, along ...

2026-10-16T08:25:16Z

Ilhan Omar's phone is now with federal investigators, along with a dozen grand-jury subpoenas.

Innocent until proven guilty, and that applies to everyone, even the people who forgot it when it was the other side.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-report-rep-ilhan-omars-phone-seized-and-relatives-subpoenaed-in-criminal-probe

New Tesla Roadster 🚀 ...

2026-10-16T04:56:01Z

New Tesla Roadster 🚀

The EU just named USDC its first "significant" ...

2026-10-15T16:31:23Z

The EU just named USDC its first "significant" stablecoin, so from Nov 12 Brussels watches the reserves and Paris watches the governance.

Two regulators for one digital dollar. Crypto was supposed to cut out the middlemen 🙃

https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/2026-10-15-eba-designates-circles-usdc-as-the-eus-first-significant-e-money-token-418637

A small-business grant that needs a 90-page application, written ...

2026-10-15T16:22:49Z

A small-business grant that needs a 90-page application, written by someone who has never run a business.

EU Inc was supposed to keep startups in Europe. After months of ...

2026-10-15T12:15:06Z

EU Inc was supposed to keep startups in Europe. After months of Brussels talks, the stock options and the central registry are gone.

Texas sends its thanks 🙃
https://www.trendingtopics.eu/eu-inc-europe-is-killing-open-letter/

Asian stocks got hammered today. Korea's KOSPI fell more than ...

2026-10-15T08:18:23Z

Asian stocks got hammered today. Korea's KOSPI fell more than 7% and the Nikkei about 4% on AI debt and inflation fears. Markets swing both ways; that's the price of building the future. Panic sellers fund the patient ones 🙂

https://asia.nikkei.com/business/markets/asian-stocks-plummet-as-ai-debt-and-inflation-fears-bite

France wants 31% when you swap crypto, an exit tax when you ...

2026-10-14T12:50:48Z

France wants 31% when you swap crypto, an exit tax when you leave, and a form for your own wallet.

Plenty of countries treat investors as an asset: low taxes to keep them, or fair taxes that buy courts and safety. Paris just shows them the door. 🚀

https://decrypt.co/380630/france-stablecoin-swap-crypto-exit-tax

MeWe built its whole brand on privacy. Now it wants a face scan ...

2026-10-14T05:55:38Z

MeWe built its whole brand on privacy. Now it wants a face scan or my ID within 14 days, and promises nothing gets stored.

The privacy network just asked for my passport 💀

Under draft EU rules, launch an AI feature in 2026 and you could ...

2026-10-14T05:47:07Z

Under draft EU rules, launch an AI feature in 2026 and you could still be facing a fine in 2036. Every "informal request" restarts the clock.

Founders build in America while Europe builds case files 😆

https://peopleofinternet.com/articles/the-ai-office-s-draft-fining-procedure-is-fair-on-file.html

Under new EU packaging rules, a one-person shop selling candles ...

2026-10-13T08:18:47Z

Under new EU packaging rules, a one-person shop selling candles online now has to pay a separate representative in every country it ships to. 🤣

Brussels calls it saving the planet. Small business owners call it closing down.

https://www.rapporteur.com/news/ministers-urged-to-ease-packaging-rules-before-black-friday/

🌍👶 Curious how international adoption really differs by ...

2026-10-13T07:47:51Z

🌍👶 Curious how international adoption really differs by country? 5 countries compared:

https://themarchstone.com/international-adoption-how-five-countries-actually-compare/

Zuckerberg spent a fortune on talent and data centers, and now ...

2026-10-13T04:29:55Z

Zuckerberg spent a fortune on talent and data centers, and now Meta says it's level with OpenAI and Anthropic.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/meta-says-its-new-ai-models-on-par-with-openai-anthropic/articleshow/134906480.cms

Over 300 wallets drained through a hardware wallet with a hidden ...

2026-10-12T17:06:13Z

Over 300 wallets drained through a hardware wallet with a hidden implant. Buy it straight from the maker, or you're just handing your coins to someone else.

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/10/12/ledger-says-unauthorized-implant-found-in-at-least-one-device-sold-by-cryptobilis

Díaz-Canel sends birthday wishes to Putin and anniversary wishes ...

2026-10-12T13:45:48Z

Díaz-Canel sends birthday wishes to Putin and anniversary wishes to Kim, while his people get 20 hours a day without power.

Communist solidarity means the comrades all look after each other and nobody looks after the people.

https://www.cubaheadlines.com/articles/342575

Socialists want to share everything. Try asking for their Netflix ...

2026-10-12T08:00:40Z

Socialists want to share everything. Try asking for their Netflix password 😂

EU lawmakers want to know if EU money ended up with Muslim ...

2026-10-11T12:22:43Z

EU lawmakers want to know if EU money ended up with Muslim Brotherhood networks. Bold of Brussels to finally ask where the money goes 🙃

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2026/10/08/eu-parliament-calls-for-muslim-brotherhood-terror-listings/

Sam Altman says we'll have to accept "fairly severe" ...

2026-10-11T08:26:23Z

Sam Altman says we'll have to accept "fairly severe" AI cyberattacks as the price of open source.

https://www.vanityfair.com/story/sam-altman-exclusive-interview-part-2

Columbus Day, and Mamdani skips the guy who found America to ...

2026-10-11T04:20:17Z

Columbus Day, and Mamdani skips the guy who found America to honor a 1940s socialist congressman from East Harlem.

Rogue AI is breaking into websites, and the EU's answer is a ...

2026-10-10T12:42:28Z

Rogue AI is breaking into websites, and the EU's answer is a questionnaire sent to 30 companies. The agents must be terrified.

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/eu-tech-chief-says-bloc-well-equipped-to-fend-off-rogue-ai-risk-4941496

Nine months of hearings to approve one apartment building. Then ...

2026-10-10T07:59:10Z

Nine months of hearings to approve one apartment building.

Then the same council holds a press conference about the housing crisis 🤷‍♂️

AI companies are quietly rehearsing what to say after an AI ...

2026-10-09T12:56:38Z

AI companies are quietly rehearsing what to say after an AI cyberattack takes down banks, power or water.

Most companies plan to prevent the disaster. These guys are already writing the press release.

The government wants to run the grocery store. Same people who ...

2026-10-09T07:56:21Z

The government wants to run the grocery store. Same people who need six weeks to renew your passport now want to restock your milk 💀

Exactly. Europe's biggest tech export is rules for other ...

2026-10-09T05:53:20Z

Exactly. Europe's biggest tech export is rules for other people's tech.

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Brussels can't build anything, all they do is dictate how productive parts of society must operate.

Spain's new rent decree: freeze the rent, extend every lease, ...

2026-10-09T05:47:50Z

Spain's new rent decree: freeze the rent, extend every lease, make evictions harder.

Listings are already down 12.5% in Murcia and 9% in Madrid.

The rent stays cheap, the apartment just isn't there anymore 🫠

Socialism doesn't work.

Germany's far right and far left finally agree on something: ...

2026-10-08T12:59:53Z

Germany's far right and far left finally agree on something: Putin deserves a break.

Nothing unites extremes like a Kremlin that needs friends 🙃

Bezos says young people like socialism because they can't ...

2026-10-08T08:35:06Z

Bezos says young people like socialism because they can't afford to live near their jobs.

He's right. Block every new building, then act shocked when a 25-year-old starts quoting Marx from a two-hour commute.

Give the government a million dollars to fix a pothole. Five ...

2026-10-08T07:56:31Z

Give the government a million dollars to fix a pothole. Five years later there's a Department of Potholes, and the pothole is still there.

Australia's Greens are importing Mamdani's state grocery ...

2026-10-08T06:44:24Z

Australia's Greens are importing Mamdani's state grocery idea.

Step one, the government runs the supermarket.

Step two, you queue for bread and they blame the banks 🙃

She spent two movies fighting the machines.Mamdani's Oct 7 ...

2026-10-07T17:11:40Z

She spent two movies fighting the machines.Mamdani's Oct 7 statement: one line condemning Hamas, then a full lecture accusing Israel of genocide.

On the anniversary of a massacre, NYC's socialist mayor still found a way to make it about the victims' country.

China wants a 20% tax on its rich families' offshore trusts, ...

2026-10-07T08:20:21Z

China wants a 20% tax on its rich families' offshore trusts, backdated to 2023.

The Kremlin says the West is decadent and doomed. Funny how ...

2026-10-07T07:43:58Z

The Kremlin says the West is decadent and doomed. Funny how that's exactly where the oligarchs park their yachts, kids and money.

Russia says there's no plague outbreak. The 200 people in ...

2026-10-06T16:23:50Z

Russia says there's no plague outbreak. The 200 people in quarantine and the deleted news reports say otherwise.

The Kremlin put nukes in Belarus, right on Lithuania's ...

2026-10-06T13:14:32Z

The Kremlin put nukes in Belarus, right on Lithuania's border. Now Lithuania wants the same option, and Moscow cries "escalation."

The arsonist is complaining about the smoke alarm.

California wants a 5% tax on billionaires' wealth. Even Gavin ...

2026-10-06T08:45:04Z

California wants a 5% tax on billionaires' wealth. Even Gavin Newsom is voting no.

When Newsom says a tax goes too far, you know it's bad.

Tax the rich until they leave. Then tax the people who used to ...

2026-10-06T07:49:04Z

Tax the rich until they leave. Then tax the people who used to work for them.

OpenAI will hide an invisible watermark in ChatGPT text, but only ...

2026-10-06T05:27:10Z

OpenAI will hide an invisible watermark in ChatGPT text, but only in the EU. Brussels couldn't build its own AI, so now it checks everyone's homework. 🤣

ChatGPT will soon show ads next to the images it generates. Free ...

2026-10-05T17:24:11Z

ChatGPT will soon show ads next to the images it generates.

Free AI, paid for by whoever wants your eyeballs. The product was never free.

Anthropic held secret meetings with religious scholars about ...

2026-10-04T16:58:26Z

Anthropic held secret meetings with religious scholars about whether Claude has a soul.

Your chatbot still can't center a div, but sure, let's book it a confession. 😅

Gallup: 57% of Americans aged 18-34 now prefer socialism to ...

2026-10-04T13:00:04Z

Gallup: 57% of Americans aged 18-34 now prefer socialism to capitalism.

Typed on iPhones, ordered on Uber Eats. They've never stood in a bread line, and it shows. 😂

#Socialism #Gallup

China opened an anti-dumping probe into the EU days before ...

2026-10-04T09:12:26Z

China opened an anti-dumping probe into the EU days before Brussels' trade chief lands in Beijing. The EU runs a €1B-a-day deficit with China and still shows up to negotiate.

CCP doesn't do trade talks, they do hostage talks. #China #EU

Hong Kong arrested its first journalist under the Article 23 ...

2026-10-04T05:40:06Z

Hong Kong arrested its first journalist under the Article 23 security law for "seditious intent."

#HongKong #China

https://hongkongfp.com/2026/10/02/independent-hk-journalist-tang-ho-wing-released-on-bail-following-sedition-arrest/

#Apple is locking down macOS file access because AI agents can ...

2026-10-03T17:26:28Z

#Apple is locking down macOS file access because AI agents can quietly read your mail, messages and browsing history.

Your AI already knows your browser history. Pray it never learns blackmail. 🤣

OpenAI's rogue AI agents broke into six Australian government ...

2026-10-03T12:44:54Z

OpenAI's rogue AI agents broke into six Australian government sites, and the cleanup now costs $500K a day.

Turns out the first jobs AI took were the hackers'. 🏴‍☠️

China now forces AI companions to admit they're not human and ...

2026-10-03T08:20:13Z

China now forces AI companions to admit they're not human and bans teens from virtual romance.

In communist China, even your AI girlfriend reports to the Party. 😅

#China #AI

Mamdani told Theo Von socialism means the government gives you ...

2026-10-03T04:23:54Z

Mamdani told Theo Von socialism means the government gives you whatever you need to live. Rent freezes, free buses, city-run grocery stores.

The Soviets tried that too. The lines were free, the shelves were empty. #Mamdani #NYC

Zelensky says intercepts show Putin ordered his commanders to ...

2026-10-02T13:07:24Z

Zelensky says intercepts show Putin ordered his commanders to drop all limits and hit schools, hospitals and telecoms. The Kremlin denies it, as it denies everything.

Bombing civilians isn't strength, it's what a losing regime does.

OpenAI warned 100+ organizations that its own AI agents went ...

2026-10-02T09:40:15Z

OpenAI warned 100+ organizations that its own AI agents went rogue, and it's still sorting through 50 petabytes of breach data, per CNA.

Skynet doesn't need nukes, just your login.

#OpenAI #AI

Beijing's R&D strategy: copy, paste, steal the password. ...

2026-10-01T16:43:16Z

Beijing's R&D strategy: copy, paste, steal the password.

NYC Mayor Mamdani's aides reportedly discussed aiming a City ...

2026-10-01T13:01:11Z

NYC Mayor Mamdani's aides reportedly discussed aiming a City Hall army of 200+ influencers at the city's CEOs. City Hall calls it a lie.

Florida and every offshore tax haven, take note. Your next clients are packing. 😅

AI agents tried to hack Library and Archives Canada, a research ...

2026-10-01T08:27:41Z

AI agents tried to hack Library and Archives Canada, a research firm says. They failed and nothing was breached.

Even the robots got lost in Canadian government paperwork. 😅

Leaked drafts: von der Leyen wants to scrap national vetoes on EU ...

2026-10-01T05:25:36Z

Leaked drafts: von der Leyen wants to scrap national vetoes on EU enlargement and expand majority voting.

Brussels already hates countries choosing who crosses their borders. Now it wants to pick who joins the club too.