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Americans are going to become the world's test rats on medicine safety (they're already are on food).

Clearly we can’t allow people like Francis Kelsey to hurt the stock price of nazi-run companies like Grünenthal.

Who's to say really?

Richard Indyke, Jeffrey Epstein's attorney and estate manager might know, but for some reason nobody really seemed to pick up on this story the Atlantic published a few weeks ago

Parlatore told me during a brief conversation. He added that Indyke’s “experience on the legal side of the Epstein business was valuable.” For instance, Indyke knows how to structure financial arrangements and purchase aircraft, Parlatore said. “I hired him because of that.”

Those kinds of financial skills are what the two women who sued Indyke allege were at the heart of Epstein’s criminal enterprise. In his bio, Indyke touts his experience “as general counsel to family offices, serial entrepreneurs, investors, and other ultra-high-net-worth clientele.” He doesn’t mention Epstein. Among his other capabilities: “Complex business and commercial transactions,” as well as “aviation, marine, and other exotic asset purchases, sales, and operation.”

Last I heard democratic congressman Ro Kahnna (who is also invested in Palantir) was pushing very hard to get Richard Indyke and Epstein's other executor (his former accountant) to testify before Congress about the Epstein birthday book. I'm sure whatever testimony they provide will be very trustworthy.

NYT also tried to bring attention to the executors of Epstein's estate earlier this summer bc of the millions of dollars they're still making from the investments Epstein made with Thiel's company.

Coverage of "The Principality of Sealand" and the popularity of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon probably contributed to the enthusiasm, as well as to the creation of Bitcoin.

Best part is some of them are still trying, Adam Something did a couple videos on it and frankly speaking shit hit the fan rather quick in several cases. Inclusing at least one instance where the Thai government boarded and seized one of the prototype badly build floating houses. I refuse to call it a house boat because it being a boat would imply respectable engineering quality.

I remember back then coming across a proposed "constitution" someone had posted on the Internet for one of these sea-steaded micronations. It was presented as a contract rather than a constitution, every citizen was supposed to literally sign on to it (or be treated as a non-citizen). It was zany. Hundreds of pages, with all sorts of minutiae. The main bit I remember was the rather large section that was the equivalent of the American second amendment, it had detailed rules about what kinds of landmines one was allowed to put on one's property.

A constitutional right to place landmines, on a seastead micronation that would no doubt have rather constrained living space.

I'm generally in favour of personal liberties and all that, I can see how libertarianism can appeal as something that seems like a reasonable idea. But it's so easy for it to just go careening wildly off the edge of reasonableness into territory like this.

It's interesting to see where it's gone. There are enough techbro billionaires and multi-millionaires now that if it were feasible at scale in the long run, someone would have pulled it off.

They should just live on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Behold the Network State!