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I'll add a few more: "It's funny too because ..." "Sorry to interrupt ..." "I was an entrepreneur at a software company ... " "Fruit ninja"

If you've watched the 3 part series by Stefan, then this video is a good addendum

Was there a fundraiser or something to support her? I'm kinda late to this party (some "party" it is too ... Jesus it's infuriating).

I want to bring this video by Black Pigeon Speaks to everyone's attention, and if you don't want to watch the whole thing, here's the gist (and some items that I want to mention that weren't in the video) He speaks about excellent alternatives to Google services - I am already using all of them and can attest to the fact that they indeed work really well: 1) Brave Broswer - clean, minimalist look, so far I love it. https://www.brave.com/ 2) A search engine that works pretty well https://www.qwant.com/ 3) Email server: https://mail.protonmail.com/login - the provider promises encryption and the layout is familiar and takes no time getting used to. The phone app for iOS is also very crisp and simple. The only limitation is that you don't get storage (something I personally don't care about at all. 500 MBs is more than I need) 4) Vid.me - a reasonable alternative to YouTube (this one - understandably - is lacking in features when compared to the BEHEMOTH that is YouTube. But hey, they're not fucking fascists. That alone sells it to me). 5) Minds.com - good facebook alternative 6) Gab.ai - alternative to twitter - but Apple and GooglePlay stores both refuse to shelf it. The browser version works just fine though and personally I prefer the layout to Twitter's. 7) Finally, we have an unofficial discord channel (not endorsed by Stef/Michael - not yet anyway) that has really taken off - forum people: please come by and say hi, we have wonderful conversations going on most every day in text/voice https://discord.gg/9QujQ2k There's also a program called CyberGhost 6 which hides your IP over wi-fi connections. It doesn't seem to work with brave browser, but works with Chrome. If anyone figures out how to make it work with Brave (or has another suggestion) please let me know.

Excuse my noobiness. This link is set never to expire: https://discord.gg/ts3DeXM Please join us, more and more FDR people are joining us everyday and we're having excellent conversations. I've been getting health/self-esteem tips from fellow members. Someone even gave me a free account to Jordan Peterson's self-authoring suite which I immensely appreciate. So please come by and say hi. Everyone is awesome.

I'm not sure how long invite links to discord channels last. Here's a new one https://discord.gg/EQp55F

You can join FDR's (unofficial) discord here if you'd like https://discordapp.com/channels/287637838810316800/287637838810316800 Other than that, I don't know what the answer to the question is. I was never a regular on the forums myself I liked the chat which is gone now (hence the discord channel above).

Just see how this promoted video on YouTube is TANKING in the ratings. There's a lot of hope here. This video is promoted by YOUTUBE - EQUAL EXPOSURE to all user of YouTube. Next time someone starts boring you with hopelessness and nihilism, show them this picture. We only feel lonely because of the silence of our peers, not because we don't have any.

This is great, I'll probably become a regular there.

I've recently moved to Edmonton (just under a month ago) and I don't know anyone in this city outside of work. It'd be nice to get in touch with some of you who are from here. Any kind of friendship would be nice, whether you're up for the occasional Skype chat, gaming, a meal/coffee every now and then. I did look for a free domain radio meetup group on Facebook, didn't find anything. If there's anything going on, please do let me know. Thanks!

Regarding this (below), all I can remember was that Stefan was talking about a short period of 10 or 20 years where the United States grew very fast in the absence of big state. I believe it was the late 1800's not the 18th century. It's probably impossible to pinpoint the episode based on just that ^ unless someone literally just listened tot it Thanks for the reply though, it helped Need more specifics, free market capitalism (what little there is) examples are speckled throughout multiple pod-casts.

Hi, I remember listening to an episode some time ago in which Stefan talked about how early American settlements (Jamestown and Plymouth) nearly killed themselves off by having a socialist-shared system of agriculture and labour division. I also remember an episode where Stefan talked about actual successful examples of free market capitalism (one of them was the United States in the late 18th century?) If you know what episodes I am talking about, please let me know. I am currently engaged in a conversation with a person who claims 'free market capitalism has never worked', I am looking for convincing evidence to the contrary. Thanks.

NotDarkYet, that was my original thought as well; too bad I lack the know-how to put together a mobile app. Whoever executes that idea first will get a few million downloads.

Hi guys, I have just started a Twitter channel: @ApricotTheory whose goal is going to be ... well, I'll just copy and paste the description: "... The purpose of this channel is to let you know what the political leanings of corporations are so you can make better spending decisions. #GoodFruit #BadFruit ..." Do you know of others who are doing something similar to what I have in mind here ^ ? Please let me know if you do. At any rate, if you think this is a good idea, help out and use those same hashtags whenever something comes to your attention in the news about a corporation. Danke

Congratulations everyone, It's been emotionally exhausting for most of us and I'm soooooooo glad; I have had a giant grin on my face all day. I wanted to gauge everyone's thoughts (especially Stefan's) regarding a possible big reunion of FDR listeners in D.C. on Trump's inauguration day and maybe have a meal/event together afterwards? What do you guys think?