--- 2025.02.08 1 of us Group Reports/Actions/Decisions - Logged attendance & breakfast with Time Safari. Upcoming Group Events - Will hold our weekly meeting next Saturday morning. - Group dinner is on Fri Feb 21. Upcoming Other Events (either Voluntaryist or Davis County) - None Other Topics / News Members Have Heard - A member attended the Bountiful Community Service Council this morning to brainstorm help with many other volunteer leaders. - The Bountiful Veteran's Park was totally built with $1.5M of voluntary, non-taxpayer funds. (It is still on land owned by taxpayers.) - The Meaningful Conversations group is discussing "The Spirituality of Depolarization" tomorrow afternoon at Harmon's in Farmington. --- 2025.02.01 1 of us Group Reports/Actions/Decisions - Logged attendance & breakfast with Time Safari. Upcoming Group Events - Will hold our weekly meeting next Saturday morning. - Group dinner is on Fri Feb 21. Upcoming Other Events (either Voluntaryist or Davis County) - Nothing new Other Topics / News Members Have Heard - Time Safari now has a place to put your own interests along with map locations, with the goal of connecting like-minded people in an area. --- 2025.01.25 1 of us Group Reports/Actions/Decisions - Logged attendance & breakfast with Time Safari. Upcoming Group Events - Will hold our weekly meeting next Saturday morning. - Group dinner is on Fri Feb 21. Upcoming Other Events (either Voluntaryist or Davis County) - Nothing new Other Topics / News Members Have Heard - The Highland Meeting group has posted the video for the Chinese defector. --- 2025.01.18 3 of us Group Reports/Actions/Decisions - Looking at Fri Feb 21 for our group dinner. - Members went to the Homestead movie together. - Members transferred Bitcoin and Lightning Network tokens. - Discussed possibilities for little libraries with books we like. - Logged attendance & breakfast with Time Safari. Upcoming Group Events - Will hold our weekly meeting next Saturday morning. - Looking at Fri Feb 21 for our group dinner. Upcoming Other Events (either Voluntaryist or Davis County) - Freedom Law School is planning a conference with multiple speakers in Washington DC. Other Topics / News Members Have Heard - The Old Testament looks like it was actually written in Greek, much later than the events. It's very possible that it was written with symbolism, including snakes as drugs, and with an opinionated origin story for the primacy of Yahweh. - Cursor AI is a very capable AI tool for programming - Lightning Network is an inexpensive way to transfer Bitcoin off-chain, and can be transferred in local networks. Monero is a coin focused on privacy, though it's harder to find in wallets. - Operation Chokepoint was an Obama administration push to cut off from banking unfavored businesses such as payday lenders and gun shops. Chokepoint 2.0 was during the Biden administration where cryptocurrency businesses and individuals were denied or even closed from banking. --- 2025.01.11 2 of us Group Reports/Actions/Decisions - Logged attendance & breakfast with Time Safari. Upcoming Group Events - Will hold our weekly meeting next Saturday morning. - Will have a group dinner soon. Upcoming Other Events (either Voluntaryist or Davis County) - Next Davis County Libertarian Party dinner is Wed Jan 22. Other Topics / News Members Have Heard - Davis County Amateur Radio Club runs network tests at 7:30 on Thursday nights. - No government officials have admitted to wrongdoing or even overreacting during covid. Facebook cannot be trusted but at least they said they would not bow to overreaching pressure of censorship again. (They still cannot be trusted.) - There is no news of resolution in Phil Lyman's SCOTUS case. --- 2025.01.04 2 of us Group Reports/Actions/Decisions - Logged attendance & breakfast with Time Safari. - Members gave feedback on Time Safari pamphlets. - Discussed possibilities for little libraries with books we like. Upcoming Group Events - Will hold our weekly meeting next Saturday morning. - Will have a group dinner early this year. Upcoming Other Events (either Voluntaryist or Davis County) - The next Greater Reset / People's Reset is in Mexico on Jan 29 - Feb 2 Other Topics / News Members Have Heard - Phil Lyman's case is going to the US Supreme Court on Jan 10. - The Homestead movie about a post-apocalyptic prepper community is based on books written by some very prepared Utah residents. There is a TV series that has begun based on it. - The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Utahns is a horrendous event. Only one person John D Lee was convicted of anything; he was executed, and he accused the church leadership of many crimes, especially Brigham Young. --- See the previous year's reports [here](./news-2024.html).