Olive Grove Eggs

Chickens free ranging in olive groves lay great eggs, fertilise the soil, restore biodiversity and keep the cash flow going when olives are on alternate fruiting


The Great Food Conspiracy: What’s Really on Your Plate? 🍽🔍

Hey there, truth-seekers! It’s The Guy That Looked Into It, ready to dissect one of the most pressing issues that’s literally affecting all of us - our food. When you know what’s really on your plate, you might just reconsider your next meal. Let’s dive deep into Big Food and the toxic landscape we unknowingly navigate every day.

The Industrial Food Complex 🏭🥼

First up, let’s talk about how our food is produced. Modern industrial farming is a far cry from your idyllic images of rolling green pastures and happy cows. Instead, it’s Big Ag - massive corporations that prioritize profit over health. These conglomerates grow monocultures that leach the soil of vital nutrients, using pesticides and chemicals that end up, you guessed it, in your body. And the livestock? They’re pumped full of antibiotics and hormones to keep them “healthy” in horrendous living conditions. 🐄💉

The Ingredients You Can’t Pronounce 🌽🧪

Ever picked up something as simple as bread and been baffled by the ingredient list? Sodium stearoyl lactylate, azodicarbonamide, high fructose corn syrup - the food industry disguises junk with fancy names. These aren't just harmless additives; many are endocrine disruptors, linked to obesity, diabetes, and even cancer. You know what should be in bread? Flour, water, yeast, and salt. Anything more is a red flag. 🚩🍞

The Sugar Addiction 🍬🍭

Sugar is everywhere, and I mean everywhere. It’s in your ketchup, your salad dressing, even your so-called “healthy” cereal. Why? Sugar is addictive, and the food industry uses this to keep you coming back for more. The result is skyrocketing rates of diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses. The FDA and other regulatory bodies, influenced by Big Food lobbying, keep the public in the dark about the real dangers of excessive sugar consumption. 🥤🚫

The Misleading Labels 🏷🔥

"All-natural," "organic," and "non-GMO" - labels designed to make you feel good about your choices. Sadly, many of these labels are as deceptive as they come. The term “natural” is virtually meaningless, as it’s not regulated. The organic label can be slapped on products that meet minimal standards while still allowing for certain pesticides and chemicals. GMO labeling? Often a smokescreen, thanks to loopholes and vague definitions. 🌱⚠

The Rise of Fake Foods 🌱🍔

Let’s talk vegan alternatives. These products promise to save the planet and your health but often do neither. Plant-based milks and meats might sound healthy but are often highly processed and full of unhealthy oils and additives. Didn’t the food industry learn anything from margarine, marketed as heart-healthy yet full of trans fats? Turns out, fake foods are just another lucrative frontier, not necessarily a healthier choice. 🧬🚫

Local and Decentralized Farming 🌾🌍

The real solution lies in decentralizing our food systems. Small, local farms practicing sustainable, organic, and regenerative farming methods - no-till agriculture, polycultures, permaculture - can actually nourish the planet and our bodies. When you buy local, you support a system that values quality over quantity. 🌿💪

The Water You Drink 🚰💧

Oh, and let's not forget the water. Whether it’s from your tap or a plastic bottle, modern water sources are often contaminated with residual pharmaceuticals, chlorine, and microplastics. Ever heard of the concept of structured water? Some research suggests rejuvenating water to its natural state can offer huge benefits. But of course, mainstream science is quick to dismiss anything that can’t be monetized. 💊☣

Personal Care: The Silent Offender 🔇🧴

Don't let personal care products off the hook. From shampoos to lotions, most are packed with harmful chemicals that you wouldn’t dare ingest yet freely apply to your largest organ - your skin. These toxins absorb straight into your bloodstream. Remember, if you shouldn’t eat it, you probably shouldn’t rub it on your skin! 🍯🧼

Actionable Steps 👣📈

So what can you do? Here's a quick roadmap:

    Read labels: If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.
    Choose whole foods: Less packaging, more nutrition.
    Support local farms: Farmers' markets are your best friends.
    Drink pure water: Invest in a quality filtration system.
    Natural personal care: Opt for products with ingredients you recognize.

The bottom line? Your health is in your hands. Don't let Big Food and their cronies dictate what goes into your body. Wake up, dig deeper, make informed choices.

Stay curious, stay skeptical, and remember to always look into it. 🌟

#lookintoit #food #health #nature #homesteading #scam #freedom #wisdom #privacy #government


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As does death by a thousand cuts :)


Come off it -= you are kidding me.

Have a good day. Cheers


It puzzles me that people protest about issues like climate change and fossil fuels, yet never about inflation.

Inflation is the most evil thing happening in the world right now because of the scale of destruction.


2005? Bitcoin related hardware? Is there a digit wrong?


I must have clicked the wrong link. What I saw was

- the Swiss flag making me feel warm and cosy about super security, discretion and privacy

- 1.5% commission

- bank account

Great job of stating the case for bitcoin and introducing newbies to the idea of DCA

but non KYC? . Come off it.


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Somebody is about to utter in a court of law -  an SUV never lies. That's progress   :)


And nationalised the miners?


The Spanish news is telling us food prices in Spain just rose 1.8% because of rising cost of electricity and fuel. No thought to mentioning that since April the ECB has increased the money supply from 16.1 to 17.1 trillion euros.

 One big fiat club and we aren't in it and worse, we are paying the members' subscription. BTC is the solution to the economic mismanagement, no fuss, no protest just disengage.


'Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly. What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.'

Marcus Aurelius

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#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney


https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/13/bitcoin-share-price-btc
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj0wkwv1x2o
Even now, the UK press is driven to comment on bitcoin with negatively loaded language, misrepresentations and making old news seem current


Fortune favours the brave. Well done. And your were prescient. Not much is said of 2019, all the focus about obvious writing on the wall for Why Bitcoin, took off 2020 covid. But 2019 was the year the wheels were well and truly working loose with the economy.


Family member bought some BTC in 2021 at 66k and watched it plummet from that day on. They didn't sell but everyone else in the fiat family has been rolling their eyes the last 3 years at any mention of BTC being the future of money. Of course their fiat money has no future having already lost about 20% since 2021, if they are lucky.

Recent message I received - it must feel quite exciting again for anyone owning bitcoin.

I'd say that after 3 years of stomach churning learning experience, the word is vindicating rather than exciting.

They rolled their eyes again when I said this time next year BTC will hit the moon.

 If history repeats another family member will buy a small amount at this cycle's ath around 400k. And watch it plummet and drive everyone else to distraction with complaints about how much they lost.


Their first harsh lesson. Hope they know it's alright to be wrong and change their mind


Countdown To 1000!

Episode 990 of Bitcoin And . . . is LIVE!

Topics for today:

- Will Other Countries Front-run the US?
- El Salvador and Bhutan Rub Noses in it
- LatAM is So On Deck
- Tether's New Wallet Dev Kit is Out

#Bitcoin #BitcoinAnd

https://fountain.fm/episode/bZ2ELOkJ1TeJNCnaFVvu


Welcome to a Saturday night talent show in 1970's Spain. The winner gets to shoot themselves before it goes out live to the nation.


Interesting times.


Welcome. It's very constructive here.


More people know about the current economic problems than understand the causes. And of those who understand the causes, almost none, relative to the total number affected, have a clue that there is a solution.

Bitcoin can solve so much. Number Go Up is a brilliant attractant. Spending hundreds of hours reading up on and reading around Bitcoin is some of the best use of time spent on self education possible. But if my experience is anything to go by, you only grasp how Bitcoin can fix so much, after going through a full cycle and then some.

 That's a 5 year apprenticeship. The last generation that had to study that hard were probably the generation working in the 1950's!

How many students these days study anything specialised for 5 years? Relative to the population, very very few.

It has taken me 5 years to grasp that Bitcoin only fixes shit if it is circulating, not from hodler to hodler but from one lightning wallet to another.

During my 5 year stint of duty, of suffering every emotion, mainly despair and multiple talks to self that I'm not going to give up even if I have to go hungry...it would sound counter intuitive that now's the time to start spending sats big time!

In a bull run, especially this pending one with BTC heading for shirt busting mega numbers in dollar terms,
Bitcoin doesn't solve problems if you are holding, hoarding, gloating at how much you are earning doing nothing but chart watching.

Build economic activity p2p. Earn BTC with a plan in place to immediately spend it on someone asking for BTC for their goods or services - to avoid cap gains tax.

Don't take a loan because,, back to the top, we are still so early. Unless you are Saylor, loans are in the future still.

Thanks for listening to my recollection of various input from OGs.

Any input welcome 😁


Jajaja en españa - the land of extremes compared to Portuguese :)


I last had flu, the bone aching shaking wipeout flu, not a cold, 50 years ago. I have never had a flu jab, and This year I have had two bouts, one in June wtf and coming out of another now.

Speaking to a couple of friends of a similar  age who are also very healthy as a rule, share similar stories. I don't travel at all, but they both have had exposure to international work environments.

I have clearly not gained immunity from exposure after my first June episode.

I'm not mentioning the c word here because that has not been diagnosed. The word is there are some plain and simple nasty flu strains floating around the world these days. And if that's the case, a flu jab  seems like an even less effective proposition than  when flu was somehow predictable, a jab was  based on what strain is flourishing in Australia and it would still get office workers, school kids and OAPs in homes.

Any thoughts or insights?
#asknostr


This is the sum total of olives I will collect this year. Last year I delivered  9500 kgs to the mill. I hope everyone appreciates their olive oil.

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Orange pilling a 79 year old. Cool


The body has an appetite until we have consumed sufficient nutrients to sate it. You need less food if its jammed full of nutrients. So like most top quality produce, good food is not as expensive as it seems. A hard sell, because it's only apparent over a period of time.


🌡 Climate Change: Are We Being Taken for a Ride?

We’re told an environmental doomsday is nigh, but did you know CO2 levels are near historical lows? CO2 is the essence of life, yet when its levels drop, alarm bells become curiously silent. Instead of seeing through the fog, let’s look behind the smokescreens. 🌥 #lookintoit #government #nature


It's real intelligence:)


Back in the 70s I remember a family friend who was an exec at a national meat co. And when asked why chicken was being injected with water he nearly had a new one ripped by the indignant wives when he said because the public demanded it. It was no sense. Who sat around thinking I really need to ram this carcass with water.


Knife Expert: The Truth About Knife Defense Will Shock You!

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How much time do you spend kn each platform? Does that explain the numbers


O CARCARÁ TENTOU ATÉ CONSEGUIR....

Olá, meu nome é Ezequiel lima, sou de Maracás Bahia.

Fiz um pequeno pocinho no meio da natureza, todas as semanas abasteço com água e muitas aves e animais aparecem para tomar água e banhar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8MN5LkiPuQ


Just been for a follow up appointment at hospital. Doctor checking my notes said

a) my blood analysis was great except b12 count was a little low
I'm
b) my blood analysis was taken in February.

I replied, good job I'm healthy and good job I made a few changes to my diet since Feb, ie I haven't been strict vegan for many months.

B12 deficiencies would explain a couple of misfires, which is why I had the blood tests in the first place.

Sorry vegans but after 5 years doing my best to follow the plan, any diet that requires a supplement is not for me.


Probably nothing but the noteid option in amethyst generates Nostr:....... Which snapnostr doesn't recognise.


I seem to recall that without viruses there would be no life as we know it. They are just another stage on from fungi and bacteria and all the other so say nasties that are the building blocks of life on earth.


I have no beef with Primal functionality, except their horrendous approach to wallet top ups, billing in bed with Google.  That raised alarm bells for so say anonymity. I have never linked an old Gmail to anything on Nostr yet there it is winking at me at top up time.


You sound very young to be suffering like that. Need to put your brains before brawn now.

As you say, it's the mental adjustments that are hardest. As a species we can be a bit dim accepting limitations.

 What I didn't realise is that your head is connected to your back.

I used to break down physically every 2-3 months, spend 2 weeks hobbling then feel physically fine and get back to doing too much, not realising the mental impact.

I don't recommend falling into that trap.

Take care of yourself. Cheers


I had to look twice at your pic. I just spotted a fungus growing on a trunk of an olive tree that looked just like the white blob in your photo. I'm https://image.nostr.build/17b4786cfb0bf334b7e9f9d2ac82d7f14cf1fd6fce2db00396bca0de4bfdeb5c.jpg


FWIW, if you are one of those men that responds to the call to do all the heavy lifting and physically tough manual jobs, think ahead.

I can introduce you to 3 people who could work anyone into the ground. Until their backs went. For some it starts mid 40s, others get to mid 50s, but all here now with the same condition, wear and tear on their spine.

It was nothing especially to do with wrong sort of lifting, just bits wearing out. All end up with yoga or similar to realign and retrain the body, all living on just a final straw lift away from that grim searing bolt in the lower back for no good reason, turned to stone or on the floor.

I sit here as one of those 3, nursing myself through another few days of excruciating movement until everything loosens up for a few more months. Your health is everything. Sure it feels satisfying to battle through, to feel a sense of achievement to smile despite just wanting to lie down and dream of happier times when making a cup of tea was easy, but what a waste of energy.

We aren't machines. Especially don't fall for the games of exploiters of young strong people. You know, the boss who gets you to move shit by hand to save them money on a proper machine etc. They mean no harm really, but it is you who could pay most dearly.
#healthstr #homesteading


Want to know one reason why #flooding is getting worse? #nature was designed to be green. No green, no absorption of water. With no green, there is more dissipation of heat, drier soil, vicious cycle.

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If your position is that the climate is changing, whatever the reason, then stop helping accelerate the effects by supporting lifestyle choices that mess with Nature.

If you think man-made climate change is a hoax, there is a lot of truth in that, but do us all a favour and please don't carry on as normal, messing with Nature.

Either way the recent flooding has the mark of man all over it and everyone, regardless of politics or fleeting grasp of climste science, needs to take responsibity for the impact of nature on society. (Note I didn't say it the other way round. That was to make it real.)

I am of course beyond reproach myself living a simple life eating local food, most of the time and not too fussed about being uncomfortable from time to time. :)

Just the computer, a phone, internet, the long tail infrastructure needed to support that, as well as clothes from who knows where, dependence on occasional transportation.

Yep, it is complicated.

But fundamentally I don't mess with the land that I am the current guardian of, so I sleep OK under fire from whatabouterists who don't have the resolve to make changes to what they know in their bones is a terrible direction of travel.

alt Ploughed olive grove v green olive grove


If you want to buy my paintings 🎨 but don't know whether you can trust me, you can always ask them how they liked my sales service 🙏
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Totally agree.  I think it also generates a good appreciation for energy. When you see the sun outside and flick through the dial on the inverter inside and watch the magic happen in real time.


I humbly and with some trepidation ask what you think of this note. It's coming from a good place, but it's not a happy note. nostr:nevent1qqs99a9vurw5waw7cvtm4sskks95jzdqffhaxp83davg4mqta8llg6gpzamhxue69uhkyarr9e4kcetwv3sh5afwvdhk6tczypa58vwt5nmcmrngf2q6pn6le48lg8stqeq3h2zq6e6u4wu7p4z6xqcyqqqqqqg0u3vp6


. Instead of exchanging art for money, exchange it for what you need. For example, Id offer to supply you with a dozen fresh eggs a week for 3 years for the Fargo painting, if I lived near you. 3 years that other people would see your work hanging on a wall, not sat on a dusty shelf. That's my nugget for the day


Can you share the diagram?


Time to refocus on #Naturestr . Tech, finance, bitcoin... tools not the master. https://image.nostr.build/803253aa9abd500a042eecd0a6f7a46a67c0c7187ca74a26fd413c11fb8bdc53.jpg


Increasingly I think the Nostr protocol has more potential to change the world than Bitcoin.

Reading a few takes on different topics around Valencia and flooding, I'm starting to feel like the crazy person in the room. Could be! @Eric Cason  do you think I got the wrong end of the stick?

Valencia floods, I don't get it. Those poor people who lost their lives, is all the attention on helping Valencia for them? I sound heartless when I think out loud that it is not for them

It sounds like politics is hard at work, the typical Spanish media looping footage, talking events to death Aren't they diverting attention away from first principle failures ie decades of poor planning and general hubris to keep on reshaping the environment despite knowing the DANA is a regular event.

This isn't just a failure of politicians. Valencianos know how weather works, and land use/ misuse. Go anywhere in Spain and local knowledge of the land is still very alive and well. It's one of the many reasons why I love this country. There's a lot of "real grounded people" here still. If you think the scale of flooding in Valencia is a left field shock? Sorry, I don't believe it.

society has been shitting on it's own doorstep, reworking cityscapes, landscapes, mountains, rivers and is increasingly getting caught short, caught out. Everyone knows water is cleverer than humans, right?

Instead of lamenting collapsed bridges, question why on earth the bridge was even there. But who's asking those questions?

This episode sounds like same old same old media event. Who shouts loudest..

Nostr can raise voices outside the party line.

We also had insane rains. 5 Kms upstream, 450 mm of rain in 24 hours, infrastructure didn't collapse catastrophically, but enough damage to financially set us back and no help. No help expected none asked for.

We are at 600m, land absorbed most of the rain that fell on it. No fancy drainage or govt infrastructure or grants, just groundcover and terracing to slow down water flow. But still, land has water capture limits. Another few hours of storm our place would have been inundated and adding to the water that had been gushing from the first minute straight off bare and eroded land all around down into the overbuilt environment below. In other words, there needn't have been any drama in the populated centres if thousands of hectares of land all around  had done it's job. Who's talking about that?

Places in Teruel, a forgotten part of Spain, were completely flooded out, washed away but nobody from anywhere, let alone bitcoin cares.

Another crazy thought. What if I went around to my neighbours with 20 tons of hillside across their track saying I'm from Bitcoin and I'm here to help. How does that actually sound? Phoney as hell. Opportunist? Weird. I earn euros and I'm here to help. Has anyone in history ever said that?

If I'm missing something here, I'll hold my hands up but

A) bitcoin is money tech, a tool to facilitate action. It is not an identity.

B) Valencia draws water from parts of Spain where local supplies were curtailed - 2 year drought going on til last month.

C) Everyone who plays into the material comfort, super convenient lifestyle  is playing right into creating more and more local environmental problems. There aren't enough tax dollars to keep up with that cycle and certainly not enough brain cells or backbone in the ruling classes to deal with the direction of travel.

Shakes head and gets on with life. GN.


Don't you think the main problem is that most people in well off nations want change without doing anything different?

 Even if you had 100 live wires on the inside, a libertarian govt would still be looking at a nation where the vast majority would not react well to being told to go make a job.

Not saying it isn't a fine aim, but don't you remember how frustrated Maradona got when managing a team that literally couldn't do what he showed them over and over!


Its complicated :)

I have been to a few factories that boast Made in "this country". It's nonsense when you start looking into the source of the inventory of components. "Assembled here" is more realistic.

Even when components are made locally, there is chicanery. A bulb manufacturer got an order from a local aircraft co. It cost the manufacturer 60c to make, but they never realised their bulb was aeronautic quality. Sold it for $60.


When someone poo-poos an idea of yours they are basically saying " I won't do it so neither should you." Just got to get used to the idea that the black sheep lead the way.


When you think the daily grind is hard, take time out to watch this movie https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0386651/

Every time they leave the house they hug as if they will never see each other again, for good reason. That's how tough their life is.

I spent time with a group of volunteers on the Tibet border, who committed to growing and protecting a mushroom trade for the benefit of the local community. Even there, smugglers were working on screwing them over.

I'm sure Bitcoin would solve a few basic problems. Direct fair payments from anywhere in the world direct to villagers for a start.


Ask China how their big ideas to control Bitcoin went.


Id pay to see that film


Really pleased for Formstr, the Dev has been really helpful and I have integrated Formstr into a Ghost website for contact forms, and other form submissions. I will be allocating a decent % of income to regularly support Nostr Devs,  nothing life changing like Open Sats, but putting something back in. LFG


I think today is a good day to read again. Last 4 days were mostly spend in the command line of my servers again.
I still offer anyone that has a nice nostr project to use relayted.de or a subdomain for it.
Just hit me up.
Maybe interesting for people that nostr:nprofile1qqs04xzt6ldm9qhs0ctw0t58kf4z57umjzmjg6jywu0seadwtqqc75sprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0y8qdrm nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnszynhwden5te0wahhgtn4w3ux7tn0dejszxthwden5te0wdjkuerfwshxummnvekxzun99e3k7mgrcp7e2 nostr:nprofile1qqsd6ejdteqpvse63ntf7qz6u9yqspp4z7ymt8094urzwm0x2ceaxxgprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qguwaehxw309a6xsetrd96xzer9dshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qgkwaehxw309ahx7um5wfjkc6t5v4ejummjvuhsffkx4f knows? Anyways a boost is for reach is appreciated.
Now reading in "Hayek Lesebuch" again.


Every new application of Nostr should build upward pressure.

 10 years of online marketing confirmed to me that social media usefulness (as in blood sweat and tears real economic activity generation, which is the apex guage of energy usage right?!)) is well overhyped and the bad side ( division, addiction and control)  is swept under the carpet. So I am here for the Nostr apps that will generate and enable real activity, while appreciating the nuggets of goodness and usefulness in social media.

Don't get me wrong, Nostr is a good social platform because there isn't much idle/ influencer chit chat that doesn't progress "society".

So in my case Nostr activity is going to explode - from my lone exploration and contribution in Amethyst say, to bringing normies who are going to use a stack  of Nostr apps that are going to help them build their businesses. And by definition, because their business isn't online content creation, they will appear to be lightweight amethyst users, but in reality they will be empowered by Nostr (apps). Which is pretty cool, I think and why Nostr can succeed..


From what I can tell, art is the art of depicting what's in your head. Ideally you have to get it out for your own peace of mind. Artisans come into their own because somebody says draw this or compose that and somehow they can  reflect what's going on in a 3rd party's head or interpret their perception. The best ones bring their own view to the table too.
I don't know if my daughter realised yesterday that when she listened to me playing guitar and she was beaming from ear to ear and told me she was feeling the groove, she was actually listening to my happiness at being with her.


Only if you know it comes from a safe source. A friend of mine advised me, for the sake of my peace of mind, not to think of all supermarket food as poison, which is how I feel these days as I walk past 95% of the aisles just seeing crap after crap. She then sent me a link to a food content checker which identifies toxic elements in processed products. When a snack is disrupting my endocrines, I don't really know what it means but I lose my appetite for some reason. #growstr #myoliveoil


No idea what you just wrote but it sounds useful 👍


Funny how mankind is on an eternal search for more convenient safe and manageable environment when we thrive best under tension.


What happened to the idea that all the heavy lifting for AI is put into compression in the southern hemisphere and they send the tiny packets to the North for simple unpacking.


Or Happy Day of the Dead, which I find a more practical and credible description :)


I have a sobrino-nieta, which is nice.


What if Nostrs flaky relay content delivery was just an excuse to keep certain content out the way.

I jest but when reading extended threads it is hard to get through to the end. Just getting into pubky discussion and whooosh, posts go missing.


Halloween has been cancelled here in Spain, for flooding.


That is schweet.


Testing this label option in amethyst


There is a list somewhere of mega artists doing V4V. Aren't ColdPlay known for a free album?

Random thoughts:

It's easy for wealthy to implement it now and again.

It's up to us little people to lead though. It used to be called community spirit.

A mentor of mine lived by the maxim, "Work the same for a penny as a pound"

I used to watch Star Trek. Everyone likes to mention the prescience of their "mobile phones" but more interesting is that money wasn't a thing. Perfect abundance.


In the Himalayas pressure cookers are commonplace. They are super fuel-efficient. Perfect rice in no time.


I misread assessment for embarrassment. My eyes need testing.


I want to send a zapvertisement to only my local nostr friends about a bitcoin meetup i think this would be a reason


The compounded cost of inflation from 2020 to 2024 in the UK was 23.04%. This mean that prices were around 23% higher than they were in 2020 compared to 2024.

https://nostpic.com/media/2f5de0003db84ecd5449128350c66c7fb63e9d02b250d84af84f463e2f9bcef1/8ee31d6ecf88fe834a780af10b45f2cd5ca80a0cca947bce07ac89a24916e0d6.webp

According to the report released today by the OBR (https://obr.uk/download/economic-and-fiscal-outlook-october-2024/?tmstv=1730299447) The compounded inflation over the forecast period from 2024 to 2029 is approximately 13.28%. This means that by 2029, our UK pounds are going to have ~39% less purchasing power than they did in 2020.

Eg.

2020: £100 buys £100 worth of goods (baseline).

2021: With 0.9% inflation, your £100 buys £99.10 worth of goods.

2022: With 2.6% inflation, it buys £96.50 worth of goods.

2023: With 9.1% inflation, it buys £87.74 worth of goods.

2024: With 6.8% inflation, it buys £81.78 worth of goods.

2025: With 2% inflation, it buys £80.14 worth of goods.

2026: With 2.6% inflation, it buys £78.10 worth of goods.

2027: With 2% inflation, it buys £76.54 worth of goods.

2028: With 2% inflation, it buys £75.01 worth of goods.

2029: With 2% inflation, it buys £73.51 worth of goods.


Here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHjYt6Jm5j8


A Reason to Fight

I sit here listening to Disturbed and thinking about what I am going to do with a new triangle of garden space I’m creating. In the middle of my backyard, I fenced in an area about 20×20 to keep the dogs out. I used two pieces of cattle panel that had been affixed to my back wall and had been used in the past for vines. It just so happened that as I used each 20 foot piece of cattle panel for the east and west sides, and on the west side is where I dug my 2 foot trench with the intention of making a sunken hugelkultur. I did not end up putting a large amount of wood in the trench because of two realizations: mesquite is extremely tenacious and termite colonies form in larger pieces of wood. There are always termites in the yard, but they are not the type that go after my house, according to The Shermenator, a pest exterminator. However, if I attract a colony, I’m asking for trouble obviously, and most of the mesquite I had was from one tree that got cut down at my work and was less than a year old. If I had buried all the wood that I was planning, I would have just created a mesquite forest.

So I just buried older sticks less than 3″ in diameter on one side of the trench and filled the rest with anything I could find: compost, peat, horse manure, my first big batch of biochar, anything I could use to fill it up. So that is my best in-ground garden area, but I wasn’t confident eating out of it for a year because there was incomplete compost, and a batch of worm/compost tea with Garrett Juice, which has molassas, somehow turned out bad, so I grew gourds in that area.

Well, without even planning it, even though it was obvious, I grew the gourds on the cattle panel, and they did amazing. I also planted some along the eastern cattle panel, which did pretty well as well, but nothing compared to my “hugel trench”. Currently there must be 3 dozen gourds on there, and I have already harvested about a dozen. I also leaned flower stalks from these plants in my area. I am not sure if they are agave, or something similar, but they make huge flower stalks that are the primary home for certain local bees as well. Well, the plants grew up the stalks and the cattle panel, and it made a beautiful green wall that has been very rarely watered all summer. I am going to leave that area untouched until the spring so that the native bees can over winter there.

A Reason to Fight, Acoustic with Lyrics in English/Spanish (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aPSVXNMLcM)

It’s funny because I mentioned that I was listening to Disturbed, which was just an aside—I didn’t have any intention of saying anything more about that. The title at first was just “Garden Update Fall 2024.” As I just typed along about how I felt about the garden at the moment, ala “stream of consciousness” more or less, I mentioned things just happening without being planned that way. YouTube was playing some Disturbed songs for me when A Reason to Fight—Explanation/Commentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRGRduyCy_M&list=PL45070EAF2395074A&index=5) started playing. I was going to change it because I was like, “This isn’t music; what’s up with this?” So I opened up the YouTube tab and started listening. I’ve heard this song “A Reason to Fight” before but never considered it’s meaning.

“The image in your eyes
Reflecting the pain that has taken you
I hear it in your voice, so ridden with shame
From what’s ailing you
You’ve fallen down but you can rise again
So don’t give up”……
“It feels like it’s a battle that you will never win”…….
“When there’s nothing left inside, there’s still a reason to fight”

The song is about depression and addiction, about suicide. I have a lot of personal experience with this, and I teared up listening to what they were saying. I have never tried to kill myself, but whether personally or through those around me, I will say that this is a very important topic to me. I was going through some difficulties with my mental/emotional health for… well, at the time, my whole life. Gardening, along with getting help and also my cat, saved my life. I remember the moment I realized it. I had started growing some plants in my mom’s old garden, and I was sitting out there in the shade smelling the tomatoes and just watching the plants as my cat came up to me and rubbed up against my leg, and would go and lay underneath the plants on the moist ground. I felt a calmness I had not felt before without “escapism drugs” such as alcohol, etc.

At this time I do not want to go into detail publicly, but suicide has also affected my life. This is all part of what I want to do online with this whole blog, website, and social media accounts. We are having a terrible mental health crisis in this country. A lot of people focus specifically on banning certain types of weapons or restricting their access, but the fact is if someone is at that point where they will cause harm to a lot of people and possibly end their life, making them less efficient isn’t enough. Mental illness is pervasive throughout our society, and the treatment accessible to those without resources is terrible. I’ve been through it.

My wife and I do not have a very significant community around us, and I think that is a problem. We try to have good relationships with our neighbors, but we live on a main street, and there just isn’t a sense of community in my neighborhood. Not one that I have found yet anyway. I actually grew up right down the street, and we moved there when I wasn’t even three, I believe. When the house was sold, I was something like 35, and we still had the same neighbors on 3 of 4 sides as when we moved in.

I want to eventually use this blog and associated pages/accounts to find a community online. Whether local or not, I need a community of like minded people to be a part of. We do know people here in Tucson, of course, and some are very good friends and family, but as far as becoming more self-sustaining and building resilience in our lives, we need to connect with more people. I have been trying to find people on NOSTR, and I am following some interesting people but have yet to make any connections.

Not only do I want to develop a community, I also would love to do something for people with mental illness. We were hanging out with a friend, and we came up with “The Bi-Polar Bear Gardening Club: Through Highs and Lows, Our Garden Always Grows.” Even though I may not look so good on a resume, I have come a long way, and gardening has helped a lot. I want to expose other people for any reason: mental health, better nutrition, less dependence. It used to be that basically every yard had some sort of garden going.

Those struggling with mental illness and depression end up becoming isolated or only spending time with those who share their affliction because they are not accepted or understood by society. People with mental breakdowns get the police called on them who show up with guns and an aggressive attitude, and people end up being more traumatized ironically because someone who cared thought the police would come and help. Many times these people end up killed by police or at the very least tazed because police are not properly trained to deal with a mental health crisis.

I believe gardening is important for everyone, on many levels. It keeps us connected to the earth and to a natural expression that we are stewards of but do not control in any way. We do not grow plants, we take care of soil so that it can provide an environment that a plant can grow in. I mentioned my cat earlier. Animals heal. This is something my wife tells me all the time, especially if I am having a panic attack or something. We have dogs and cats, and just petting them has measurable effects on the body. My wife is the biggest animal lover I have ever met.

To be able to promote gardening as a therapy for both the mentally ill and honestly everyone, and to also have animals around that are taken very well care of and that people can interact with as a part of therapy, both for the animals and for the people, is basically our dream. It’s one of our reasons to fight.

I didn’t even get into my new triangle of garden space, lol. I have an excuse to do another “quick” blog post today or soon.

--Nichollas (desertsoil.com)


Kings of rhythm


A good haul. The trouble is there is no way of knowing if you can repeat that success. The only reliable rule is grow good soil and plant stuff in it. If that stuff has a good reason to grow, it will. If not... hopefully you have enough variety planted as backup.


Voted for @hrf at anthem awards for their cbdc tracker. No doubt nostriches know what cbdc is but I bet most of our nearest and dearest don't. At best it is known as bitcoin but better, or bitcoin but more convenient and safer etc, or a great way to receive handouts without having to apply for or sign anything https://celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting/#/2025/sustainability-environment-climate/awareness-categories/non-profit


Got it. Maybe they just want you to get up and paint a portrait of them. Before breakfast!
Have a good day on the brushes.


I'm not sure if I've got it wrong but whenever I hear the words invest in Bitcoin, or Bitcoin is an investment, my hackles rise. To me that is like saying, buying staple food is speculation. Isn't that just what you need to do as a functioning human being? Nothing more, nothing less.


You must be coming down with a fever? Or a mad dog lives next door?


GM at 6 something a.m? That is still the middle of the night,  :)


The anti green energy brigade are right about needing fossil fuel as the backstop baseload at a national level. I'm sat here in a raincloud drawing power from a grid not running on sunshine or wind.  But what if that need for constant energy for all is a poorly conceived notion? Is it really so bad that I'm not as productive economically today as I was last week?

There's a famous story from the gulag, can't remember who wrote it, but the only ones who survived were those who slept furthest from the stove.

Obviously someone's going to say that with endless energy supplies the fire never goes down. And I would respond that humans who don't know hardship are the weakest, physically and mentally. That's not some macho 30-something alpha male BS, the stove story backs up the observable fact that life , like muscle, only gets stronger in adversity.

So why do we strive for perfect energy supplies?

To be the most productive people in the graveyard?


Busy working on a children's book and looking for Indie / self-publishing / print-on-demand type platforms that are Bitcoin-only.
#asknostr


You sir are an artist in more ways than the brush!

Remember the artist who refused to display at the national Gallery? He was illiterate but as a young man studied calligraphy and signwriting. He could calculate the number of characters per page of any font quicker than his colleagues could open their abacus, and he drew and painted letters as shapes  without understanding what they were. That's art too, hey!


I don't much care for TR but that degree of OTT sentence could be one of those political decisions (like US confiscating Russian assets) where the pretence is over. What foreign state could ever trust the US with their money, and what right-thinking Brit could fail to gulp at this "first they came for him" moment


If you have no intention of paying back a debt and you have a playbook of endless excuses ready lined up til your creditor is old and infirm...and if the pushback from the odd feisty OAP gets a little persistent you have no trouble escalating words to bullying, before making the threat of petty violence with no problem delivering on ultimate violence...

Another good storyline for a movie about Frank Underwood 's dark political successor in the state pension office


Goose fat is the secret to how grandma makes roasties


I'm not ancient but I'm old enough to spot some patterns.

It doesn't surprise me that Nostr is so constructive. The culture of an entity comes from, I hesitate to say "the top" where a decentralised entity is concerned, so let's say "the initiators"

The culture of FarceBook and Twitter comes from the top, no doubt.

In all cases, the majority of users fall into line and become the best version of that culture. And those "few" who feel uncomfortable with the culture leave.

But nothing is forever smooth.

I remember when Twitter was so positive til it wasn't.  and Facebook apparently wasn't too bad til it wasn't.. Both were assaulted by money and failed to maintain their culture and integrity built up over how many years?.

So which social media culture is going to prevail now? The most powerful encumbents or the most constructive newcomers?

As long as the driving force behind Nostr stays true to the founding principles and resists tinkering with a great idea, the positive culture will snowball. Free people can be the best versions of themselves. And then let's see what happens.

It's honeymoon time for a good while yet, but the community should be prepared for hijack attempts by literal dark forces. History says the Nostr paradigm has til its 8th birthday before hitting its first existential crisis. Just like Bitcoin, just like humans with our mystical but true 7 year itch that takes a while to play out.

Hopefully I'm just voicing what has been obvious to the smart cookies from the start and Nostr stays the best version of constructive.


https://youtube.com/shorts/OsOgEFpU_o0 speaking truth to power


nostr:nprofile1qqsqqqqqqzp8l74ff0l29zxrml8yggk8jnamje39k6e3ayzf7u5awqqdfzwk6 hi will your service work for the OP idea?. Does each community member need to subscribe 4000 sats a month?


Se traduce automaticamente Al inglés


Not sure if this is a photo of heaven or hell. https://image.nostr.build/651f2420647b5e412362ab14072de2ea88c373022fda23ada1f6ce6ee04fdda2.jpg


Fighting a bad back and bad head, they are connected.


If you have eaten steak in France the answer is probably yes.


100% agree. The idea of paying chatgbt to eat my lunch grates. I do wonder though how these privacy ai learn if not from users. Is it a clever use of words? The big scandal is they buy from chatgpt that has learnt from your neighbour.
nostr:nevent1qqsvy3hq4ffyt5j3ke7655jerq06k7vrhm3ww285ahkc6ndvdlgpkfgpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsygrzemug8p3sy2j0r4sd2jzhe8tjjeg8qtylugnmpxyvpdhrd39uecpsgqqqqqqsy9c2lt


#asknostr getting the idea that relays are like websites the nostr:nprofile1qqsqsy2tgn9xul84l4kuumkfgn0qk4sx6tmv4g8d8ad2w74mja92zecpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc8tvaz8 explanation. I'm going to launch a website, mirror it on npubpro all being well. I also want to make sure as best as possible that the community I build up around my website is able to find out conversations in one place, at least.

 I know half the fun of Nostr for some is not knowing what is read or replied to where, but thats not going to work for most normies. In fact the first reason to diss Nostr will be when I send an "important" message and it doesn't arrive! And they rightly say that doesn't really happen in the legacy world.

So at this stage of life, with enough on my plate as it is, what am I looking at to have access to an OGE relay that could be a reliable repository for our little community chit chat, And to also distribute that content to other relays in case the home relay goes down, so at least the content stays online somewhere.

I don't have the headspace to set anything up in my kitchen. I just want a monthly bill and links to "my" relay (s) to send to my community members when they sign up to Nostr.

Any ideas please.


When an incumbent whines about innovation in their domain they are signalling their own failings. And when you know they are lying about the innovation, it is definitely time to ignore them


“The European Central Bank’s arguments against Bitcoin warrant some introspection from central bankers themselves. If Bitcoin's redistributive effects are problematic because they transfer purchasing power from latecomers to early adopters, how is this fundamentally different from monetary policy that transfers purchasing power from those far from the money supply to those closest to it? Both mechanisms seem to create winners and losers through the redistribution of purchasing power rather than through productive economic activity. In any case, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to central bankers if Bitcoin’s increased adoption becomes an obstacle to the ability of central banks to dictate monetary policy. This has been a long standing goal of Bitcoin enthusiasts. From its inception Bitcoin’s self-professed goal has been to provide an alternative to centrally planned monetary policy.”

https://stacker.news/items/742833/r/halalmoney?commentId=742927


BTC Frame now tracks the Fear & Greed Index to give you real-time insights into Bitcoin sentiment at btcframe.com #BTC #MarketSentiment #BitcoinDashboard #LiveDashboard

https://btcframe.com/img/images/fear-greed.png?v=1730103364


The storage issue alone has me sold on the idea. My android pos feels like a  dustbin that I paid Google to fill with update garbage


Voted for @hrf at anthem awards for their cbdc tracker. No doubt nostriches know what cbdc is but I bet most of our nearest and dearest don't. At best it is known as bitcoin but better, or bitcoin but more convenient and safer etc, or a great way to receive handouts without having to apply for or sign anything https://celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting/#/2025/sustainability-environment-climate/awareness-categories/non-profit


Years ago I remember telling a family member that when they hear of a thing called lightning that's when it's time to load up on bitcoin because that's when btc becomes useful to the masses. Keep it going!


Hollywood is a documentary maker under the guise of movies


Glyphosate is in the US rain. Sorry to say


30 minutes and 3 attempts to recharge a phone tariff - for my security. Fiat banking and mindset is so defective


You might also want to overlay a graph of glyphosate distribution on your timeline.


How much would each Nostr user have to donate to generate 15m? For arguments sake, if it were 1000 each, in today's money for Western earners that's 5-10 days or 40-80 hours in wages. Get a group of Nostr Devs and thought thinkers to draft a rough road map and put it out there so everyone could spend an hour a day for a year working on making Nostr better, (from coding to writing, purple pilling...) the input would be worth way more than a single 15m round and still Nostr is decentralised.


I thought I were referring to us having payment chips under our skin


Imagine that decades ago the oligarchs set a plan in motion to convince the world that man is the cause of climate change.

The UN HQ is donated by an oligarch.

To start, they install a live wire called Mr Strong to establish dozens of conservation-based organisations like the WWF, to push the narrative that the environment needs protecting from destructive people. The reserves are earmarked for oilygarchs.

 The pinnacle of the plan kicks in in 1992 at Rio. The ICCP report is drafted. 2500 scientists split into 3 groups. Group 1 drafts the thesis of man made climate change. Groups 2 and 3 find backing info. Mr Strong writes his own Working Report, Group 1 adapt their thesis accordingly.

The world is bombarded with headlines like "97% of scientists" scared witless by the consensus findings. Time for change is now, the window of 1.5c limitation action opportunity is closing. Forget the 1000 variables that comprise climate, focus on one gas, made by Mans activity.

Repeat and build the pressure to change global society through fear of an imaginary problem.

 When the oligarchs actively promote economic growth that increases CO2 production, questions start being asked. Why?

All sorts of plausible reasons are posited. The elites are greedy psychos fearful of the people, so they drive a financial system that works in their favour to build up even more protection from an inevitable collapse as climate change kicks in.

Except, wait. They are not plausible reasons for driving the Big Everything economy harder. We the people are getting stronger, more educated, living standards are rising. That makes us an even bigger demographic to be fearful of, surely?

Then someone joins the dots. They are pumping Big Everything because it's horrendous underlying polluting, poisonous chemical loaded philosophy is the fastest way to create a global population that is ill, vulnerable to outbreaks of disease that healthy people would brush off. They spread lies about fertility rates, chuckling as so few remember a chemical called glyphisate that now falls as rain, causing infertility, autism and more.

They sprinkle a generous load of war and atrocity into the mix to create chaos, division, immigration...

The elites never eat shit food, always drink clean water, take care of themselves. Keep out the limelight.  They don't fight. They sit in smoke-less filled rooms, and watch and wait.

And talk about the day their eugenics plan falls into place and leaves under 1 billion people alive, and all the wealth of the Big Everything plan sitting safely under their control.

That would make for a good book. 99.9% of people would read it thinking that such monsters are the stuff of fiction. The 0.01% would disagree.


Been there, seen it, got the t- shirt . It is a right of passage.


“Namaste” - hand lettered in reclaimed slate with 24k gold leaf

#timelapse https://video.nostr.build/9d807aa0919f70700c132d147220c943ad5bce2b8ee2789a0f94ed221e75bab5.mp4


Good luck to the billionaire idiots. Their bodyguards will have the sharpest knives in the bunker.


Look forward to the updates


EU is changing fast. It used to be a great unified bloc, sophisticated even. But the scales of bureaucracy have shifted. It's a natural progression I believe and over reach "simply" requires push back. Push back is healthy and arguably for the good of the bureaucrats who are human too - they get caught up in an idea, lose sight of their aims and screw things up. We are not from the government and we are here to help make sure "they" aren't going to preside over an empty shell


This song is sooo good. https://youtu.be/9aT2SSyDJXI?feature=shared cheers nostr:npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd


I seem to recall that humans are tactile and the connection between holding and turning pages is a major part of the reading experience. Same with writing, holding a pen  and putting it to paper somehow is more in synch with the process of recording thoughts.

Maybe that was a thesis from Ned Ludd, :) but it wouldn't surprise me if we find out that the way we have been using tech has screwed up the writing process. What could have been...The classics were handwritten, they seem to have a certain quality.


Guy Swann was saying there is some sort of preferred contractor/supplier deal between FEMA and name-your-corporation. Hence why they turned away offers of help from various sources. It would be a first if the preferential suppliers' idea of a "fair" price is fair.


It's more like Nostr/lightning allows for micro payments where no middleman is bumping up the "full price". There's still plenty of preview options.


Yessss. Nostr has a killer search app at last! https://advancednostrsearch.vercel.app/?query=chickens&include=followed&npub=npub10dpmrjay77xcu6z2sxsv7h7dfl6puzcxgyd6ssxkwh9th8sdgk3sj39zws

finally #chickens means something useful!


Ah, I see. Thanks

Pollstr website could do with a tiny explainer line


Same idea with an instrument. A guitar in a case under the stairs isn't gong to get played like the one permanently by your side.


hi nostr://npub1fq8vrf63vsrqjrwqgtwlvauqauc0yme6se8g8dqhcpf6tfs3equqntmzut what's the secret to posting a poll?


I sent the DMs to myself, note to self for ways to incentivise uptake. There's nothing better for orange pilling than adding sats to a new wallet and letting someone try it out.


I added the red text. It is too early to expect the non Nostr users to work out what's going on. It's hard enough for Nostr nuts like me to grasp! Basically saying if you want to use the chat to it's full potential sign up to Nostr and get a browser extension and off you go. A big challenge.


I chose my words carefully:)


I remember a guy from a small town who broke into pro cycling and was very successful. Insane hill climber, idolised by his peeps. When he retired and went into business, the same peeps couldn't understand why he was so competitive in business. Some things you can't and maybe shouldn't turn off.


Good luck with that


You are an eternal spirit inside a body that could last 100 years or crap out on you at any moment. Do what you will with that observation:)


Very good. I have a family member who makes bracelets, can never get enough!


its getting fuzzy again for me with relays and permanent forever files kept on Nostr.

I'm seeing relay delete options, and just read a file server opo deletes files once you stop paying. On the other hand, the story is Nostr forever, someone somewhere will always be able to serve up your content.

are there different ways of uploading media to nostr so some is permanent and others not so?

 I'ts late, I don't know, I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering how a company on Nostr can go out of business but the content somehow is there for someone else to run with... Is it beholden on us to make a copy of every URL?

Do I need to run a relay for it to become obvious how it all works?


Thanks! The idea is nostr:npub1pmhevxtlt3478pvmdqt7dftnv6zc2mzpdc569yjm6ks4k2jhezcs53uksr & mine. We’ve been doing a podcast ( nostr:npub1627md0lshr7hsa9z6ud8xpln2xvrszjcqv0uu5d8cjvz4f2vscnsat3aec) for 3 years and stumbled into this idea. Our next episode is gonna explain the idea and how we’ve set up the business. We see the attention marketplace as a public good. It will be open source. It will be made publicly.

Subscribe/follow if you want to go on the journey with us!


interesting. signed up.


Just giving it is a mistake. At least make them jump through some hoops.


would this improve take up of the chat button?

https://image.nostr.build/9b309de20ec76319cbb66240c218a918a9dab2ba8575d1f3db8358b39fb5ca0c.png


Anyone else think that to balance privacy and encouragement to zap, the sats totals for a thread or profile page should be number of transactions, not number of sats?

#asknostr


Following on from this foray back to 2019, I recall our business turnover plummeting month on month for no good reason after 8 years of constant manageable growth.

Not being an economist or a Bitcoin enthusiast at the time I was unaware of serious issues revealing themselves in the financial world that year. Stuff that doesn't get into mainstream news.

I wouldn't be surprised if the events of 2020 were at best, a fortunate coincidence to distract us yet again from the real world consequences of accumulating government economic policy failures.

As a mate of mine says, "It's all fake." I'm not sure about "all" but certainly "too much".

nostr:nevent1qqsf062dxjpc52e9vhvzpzawgur2uje8sehaejfkneggfnaq8ludcgqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygrmgwcuhf8h3k8xsj5p5r84ln207s0qkpjprw5yp4n4e2aeur295vpsgqqqqqqs58g36s


Electrics is one domain not to dabble in as DIYer. Who wants to be that the guy with unnaturally curly hair and burnt fingertips.


Who installed it, Heath Robinson?


An artist I know refused to display at the National Gallery in London after being invited. He took a look round and didn't see art, just work of drawers and painters playing to the art establishment


the last track, rock on! Took them a while to get warmed up for that one, but well worth the build up.


DCA is great advice. Its surprising that humans haven't worked out their massive disadvantage in the investing lottery. The stock exchanges are run by robots with no emotion and near perfect knowledge and instantaneous reactions. And those behind the algorithms don't see it as a game, it is a job and they are only there to win. We can't possibly compete on that level, and hose that do are the poster children for attracting disproportionately more retail failures.

And letting emotion get involved in investment decisions is just inviting lottery squared.

Be like Bitcoin, tick tock next DCA, assuming you have regular funds that can be considered for savings purposes of course. 95% of the world doesn't have that luxury off the bat and has to sacrifice something to acquire their bitcoin. Another reason why BTC makes sense for the poor - to actually know their energy store is pretty safe from the inflation machine, another smoke and mirror invention designed to rob the unwaryl.


Good to see unintended consequences of the positive kind.


Whats the story with Amsterdam and Belgium in the same sentence?


Could have gone to the supermarket! I'm joking, that's a great gift. We spent similar amounts of energy, time and effort making foody gifts, but you could sense the underwhelming appreciation of an 8 oz jar "of love" was revealed and quickly plonked behind a pile of newly unwrapped Playstations, perfumes from Paris and shit from the local bazaar.


did you get the zap for the right answer?
I cant see it on any clients but it shows on my wallet


seen enough to know there is no such thing as security, and insurance is an over rated idea - even when you need it, it is rarely all it is cracked up to be.


thanks #plebeian market, just opened 73 windows signing in with nos2x-fox :)


looking at an article from 2019 about drop in life expectancy in UK before Covid ever became a thing. https://thecorrespondent.com/837/the-biggest-story-in-the-uk-is-not-brexit-its-life-expectancy

Prior to 2019, there was a 20 year period of policy that tolerated growing inequality, compounded by austerity started in 2010. A consistent period of compounded lack of care for the old or the poor or the health service. Then Brexit was used as the distraction in 2016.

The EU was not on anyone's radar in 2016 UK.

This is a classic example of how the media and govt colluded to tell a nation what to think about while they are being hammered from every angle. Old women and babies were dying at greater rates than ever because of politicians' policies, meanwhile politicians were blaming morality rates on the weather.


Due Nella neve, reminds me of my favourite movie.


hi from satellite


Something happened yesterday that made me wonder. What if the western elites decided long ago that the way to gain total control over the population was to first let China push the envelope on surveillance and control. Paint them as the bad guys, make us think that the average Chinese person lives like a timid victim of Big Brother, when it's nothing of the sort. But paint that picture.

Meanwhile the west are playing the classic moral high ground game of accusing your adversary of exactly what you do behind the scenes!

IE the unthinkable is rolling out before our eyes and instead of the opportunity to make America great by focusing on liberty and freedom, they and the rest of the g7 are actually going to out big brother the Chinese and their Brix buddies as they position themselves in a fast evolving multi polar world.

That's the thesis for my next novel.


Here you go. https://www.richardperkins.co/2021/07/packing-eggs-fast-and-other-things/ this guy has nailed mobile egg production. And he shares how it's done which is very cool.


You can remove bits of dry matter with a sanding pad. Any more than that it's time to check the nest box design! I'll look up a demo of super efficient egg sorting and packing for you. Might make you rethink a few things!


Don't shoot the messenger but attitude to hygiene standards are different shall we say in the US, compared to Europe. In the US it seems the level of husbandry in huge operations is such that cleaning is deemed essential.

IE  chlorinated washes to clean chicken carcasses. I have no idea how battery farmed eggs could ever be contaminated but hey, I guess the authorities there just want to covertheir arses and have the eggs cleaned too? Mental because shells are porous.

 In Europe, the BS merchants in Brussels will tell the world their farmers run their industrial scale farms at a hospital level of clean. Maybe they do in comparison, I don't know.

But I do know that the everyday person who tries an egg from a chicken living in humane circumstances from chicken owners like us can't believe how tasty the eggs are, and can see the difference in the look of the yolk,  compared to the perfect industrial European egg.

So anything that dismantles the industrial farming of chickens, and BS rules, sign me up.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=brDbMhkxVd4

#helene


Have you noticed that everybody's phone is set up different? They might all work the same, but there is some quirk or other that cases mayhem when "trying to help". The volume button is where your off button is, things like that.


any #nostrbuild creators have a view on the text to image option, say compared to venice.ai

Is it open or like chatgbt...

are images watermarked...

does it do a good job of interpreting your phrasing?

overall, whats the deal with copyrighting of AI generated images, is that still a big issue or is it being addressed? #asknostr

Reason for questions is that I really like what Venice.ai is doing, but I don't know much! So if Nostrbuild are doing the same with images, I will go for a creator plan with nostrbuild instead of a basic plan,  and send some sats to venice for their help so far!


As you may know, even within these islands there are differences of opinion between people about which vegetable is a turnip and which is a swede.

It was* to remove this source of friction that a chap^ by the name of Gilfeather crossed the two plants to create the imaginatively named “Gilfeather’s Turnip-Swede”.

*I am making this up. On checking, I find it was a naturally-occurring hybrid.
^Ditto, but I’m right: he was called John. I do wonder if it was his Mrs, having pulled it out in order to prepare dinner, was the one who said “Husband John! Be this thing a turnip or be it a swede?”

Tonight, I get to see how it tastes. Dog has already approved.

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The sawing mechanism is similar to the dutch system used in windmills. But still a good use of a resource.
With a few modern tweeks in regards design and materials i can see this tyoe of technology being used in sustainable off grid communities.
#offgrid #regenerative #technology
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That's a nice touch. What's your approach to washing eggs? Here it's prohibited.


She's the local Nostr rep.


What am I missing? Primal require you to top up their wallet with  details they say won't be shared. Next thing it's a payment via Google and PayPal fields practically already filled in, no other options.

Rapidly redrafting instructions for purple pilling newbies. #asknostr


There's a difference between Twittering yourself into a depressed state, or a more natural cause of being depressed, like bereavement or simply getting over tired. Athletes are classic depressive heads.

And there are external  forces outside your control that can also rewire your head leaving you literally  debilitated physically - endless poverty, trauma...

But yeah, taking a tab and sitting on the sofa expecting everything to get better is no solution. Just as loads of exercise and food isn't a silver bullet panacea either.

I guess simplifying and black and white are the domain of younger men than I :)


#circular-economy at work. Fresh eggs for fresh bread for my boiled egg soldiers
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I was forced to read and dissect literature to the point I didn't want to even look at it any more. Opening a book lost all its joy, knowing what was coming. And on top of that with so much homework, then sport, I lost the reading by torchlight bug.


Exclusive to members of the Olive Grove Eggs community, a profile page on steroids plus your news, reviews, gallery, business philosophy and much more, organised to build credibility and generate new business. Privacy-first Nostr contact forms and chat plus Lightning payments built in. EUR price 150 (10.7% less if paid in sats) includes set up cost with all text tailored to your business, SEO'd and pumping. Even audio bio in your native language. Plus open door access to help with business planning, using Bitcoin, and more. The Value for Value format powered a successful national network for 10 years. No guesswork. If you do well, I do well - incentives aligned.


See, if it was all electric there'd be no probl... oh, that wouldn't help either, would it.


I just heard the cutest narration:

"The last time Liechtenstein went to war, they sent 80 soldiers and came back with 81 because they made a friend."

Lazy fact check says it's mostly true. 😅


Looking around Corny Chat https://cornychat.com. Looks alright.


Running costs


Hey everyone, could you please suggest news outlets and accounts on Nostr (native or bridged) that you are following? I would like to create a dedicated news list. Please share and boost this note for extra exposure. Thank you.


does this basic graphic make sense? Without privacy there is no open internet of information. To ensure privacy we now have Nostr private communication and Bitcoin private money, and convenient cryptographic tools to interact with the two protocols. The end result is greater productivity and AI is potentially under control, or at least whatever info and data it pumps out has to go through the privacy and proof filters. Something like that!
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good question, I need to get back to you on that, the github has changed, or at least I dont recognise what I did!


good old Sketch, a whole back catalogue of versions to download, and they state the OS required to run the latest front page download. That's the way.


I'm guilty of this but it was 40 years ago that the love of reading was drummed out of me. Thanks, academia.


Decentralised Chat. Send messages to DM.


As it stands I have a comment box and a chat. To use them you need to have a browser extension ready to sign for the messages.

So that's my fudge, not a bona fide login.


spooky. I am putting together a quick plan based on what I remember of Mailchimp and Tinyletter. I just looked up a few details and blow me, who founded TinyLetter? None other than Pud! Small world.


Persist with Nostr semantic pedantics and Nostr will not grow as fast as it could.

The wide world understands platform, accounts, app, server, password, username.

It currently doesn't much care for protocols, relays, clients, nPubs, nSecs, Nips. For crying out loud, Nips! Nobody who you want to use Nostr cares what a Nip is, any more than I want to know what makes my car work.

Just saying. I was listening to #BenArc explaining Nostr to #MrObnoxious. He practically invented this place but there is no elevator big enough to take that pitch.

It was a big kick in the ass for me. So thanks Mr Ark. I am preparing a "For dummies" text to guide prospective visitors into signing up to Nostr so they can access the Nostr features I have integrated into a new website.

Gotta pitch it so your disinterested 80 year old mother ends up pushing you out the way to sign up!


Dug out a live track from a local band I used to play with. The audio quality wasn't the best, but I was taken aback by the energy and passion coming through.

It was  recorded March 2020 a week before lockdown started.

Multiply that energy and emotion across a country and shut it up in a small apartment for 42 days, which "thankfully" was the full extent of our lockdown.

Nunca maís.

Fool me once. That period genuinely fucked me up for a long while after and I wasn't even a serious musician. And I thought I had it under control at the time because I had been following it since Greece succumbed, and I was ready, so to speak.


I love autumn. Especially the early, fresh, bright kind.

#Autumn #Nature #Seasons #Love

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whatever happened to characters like Pud and Fucked Companies? Nostr is shaping up a bit like a rerun of the can-do days.


Reading about the development of the internet, Governments and corporations had decades to get their grippy little fingers into the internet before it went public.

https://www.britannica.com/technology/Internet/Foundation-of-the-Internet

No wonder the powers that be are now scrabbling around like idiots trying to make sense of what Bitcoin is about and how to control and manipulate it for their own ends.

For the most part, they are too late Hahahaha


Still pleasantly surprised by the quality of global feed. I must be lucky.

 Or could it be that the vast majority of humankind isn't actually screwy in the head and naturally sinful, and doesn't need moderators and rules and regs to make us behave reasonably. All that crap is only necessary when we are exposed to algorithms that divert us from our natural OK state.

Could it be that the media is just providing cover for pernicious government control freakery, IE we are being hit with layer upon layer of "algorithms" IE laws and mandates from authorities designed to push us off balance, make us a poorer version of our natural selves, just so they can roll in and bring order.

And the media are there to point at a tiny event and go "look, see, we need a million cops and a thousand rules to stop that happening everywhere "

I'll go for that option  because that's what I've always felt since I left school.

Govt help is tiny ( and  over pumped by the media) compared to govt hindrance and pure devastation, creating wars and conflicts, again under tbe pretence that it is for our good, to maintain tbe standard of living and peaceful society we live in and enjoy.

Evil wankers who do not merit a minute of our time and only a fraction of our income to centrally do what is most efficiently done centrally. Because a central body does have a role for the odd use case. Can't think of anything beyond the obvious and that doesn't add up to the gazillions being extracted every year in recent times.


Locals.

I found this link, it's not in English but Im sure that's not a problem. It shows the technique they use. It's actually from the ground not planes.

https://www.merca2.es/2022/08/02/las-caracteristicas-del-sistema-antigranizo-que-ha-salvado-de-la-ruina-a-unos-pocos-agricultores-de-calanda-1040615/


It's all late here too.

 This year I was all in peppers, squash and onions and only a few tomatoes. Turns out only the onions took and the tomatoes produced more than the token amount. And cabbages are regrowing without being asked.

#growstr is not a job for control freaks.


Looking very healthy. I was introduced to okra in Barbados, they called it snots. I suspect they over-cooked it!


Depends who you ask! Local weather is and has been fiddled with for a long time. There is a large peach growing zone in Aragón which kept their fruit safe from hail storms by releasing silver chloride overhead from planes.

 There was a big hoo hah when surrounding areas had their crops destroyed instead! So they forbade weather manipulation and what do you know, the peach farmers are f****ed.


Humbling and inspiring work taking water purifying biochar tech to a new level for the benefit of rural communities in developing nations.

 Could do with that knowledge myself living off grid in a supposed developed country!
 https://open.substack.com/pub/joshkearns/p/establishing-a-decentralized-water?

#decentralized #water


That looks delicious. And very healthy for the old gut


I am automagically signed in now.


.....I am now logged in wih my Nostr account. Automatic as long as I keep the Signer Nos2x-Fox.


GA #nostr have a good weekend! 🫡

#artstr #nostr #grownostr #photography #35mmfilm #bnw #plebchain #photo #art #nostr  #noicemag #minimalcomicplay https://image.nostr.build/f450e56eed6666f2e48b589256ebf23fe93e9f266d7b785676a09848465251d3.jpg


OGE?


Cracking an egg on a flat surface not the edge of a frying pan... such a simple but time saving tip. And no shell in your omelette either.


What's the latest greatest Nostr merchant store ? #asknostr


My views align with PG and modern security standards regarding obtaining apps from F-Droid. I don't recommend getting apps from F-Droid unless it's the only option.

If F-Droid must be used, F-Droid Basic is the preferred choice. F-Droid Basic supports automatic background updates without privileged extension or root and has a reduced feature set, limiting the attack surface.

Third-party F-Droid clients can have numerous issues, such as lacking proper mirroring support. For this reason, I recommend avoiding Neo Store and no longer suggest using any third-party clients for F-Droid repositories.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/remove-note-about-getting-f-droid-apps-from-obtanium/14440


Not a single fortune teller, tarot reader, or astrologer bought Bitcoin in 2010. So use your head.


MOST of nostr thinks normies are gonna come and add relays run tor hahahahaha aint no normie gonna come on here and do all that. Sorry to be blunt haha but gotta make it easier.


They say AI Chat corrects code, but I just spent an hour pushing Mistral to post the full code for an html,CSS,js search box.

If anything it trained me in the process of drip feeding me the final solution.


This will definitely be viewed in future years as the age of stupid. After hearing a headmaster justify their attendance policy, I am sure the system is either going to be dismantled or double down.

The kids obliged to study at an institution set up for the benefit of the state and it's steeple employees. If they are outside said institution 10 minutes before teachers are "ready" to open a gate, unless it's raining, they have to wait in a queue up to get in.

If they arrive 10 minutes late, they are excluded from the class and marked absent

And they are given homework after their work day.

If adults were treated like that, there would be uproar. As it is they can only get away with it within the education system.

Why might a kid be late? Maybe their biology teacher knows the answer to that but turns a blind eye, because starting at 12am to fit with the circadian cycle of adolescents doesn't fit with the teachers schedule.

Sorry, but no wonder society is going down the toilet. The age of stupid education, the age of failed economics, health care, food production, with the state hijacking ever more supporters on the payroll turning a blind eye to so many failings just to keep the gravy train going. Not impressed. I write this as someone who taught outside the state system, getting kids up to speed so they could pass ridiculous parrot fashion memory tests framed as exams. Funny how when an outsider helped them understand what the subject was actually about, they aced it. .


Ever come across Rev? Its extremely accurate and they insist their privacy and data protection is a priority.


That was a fascinating podcast. Don't hear that sort of discussion on national radio.


Out and about in rural Aragón. They don't make streets like this any more

#Spain

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Yes!


anyone got an idea why I am logged in fine using Alby but with the page embedded in an iframe on a test site I use the Alby extension to sign in and NostrChat generates a new npub. Alby working fine asking to confrm posts etc. ie everything great except I can't post as me in the embed!


Is this a private chat? Answer if you can see it! Trying to find a Nostr Chat option to embed beneath posts on my website instead of normal comments


Hows this going to go?


Checking out primal, any idea how you find someone by their npub or @address? Struggling with the search concept. My use case, if I get someone to sign up to Nostr I want to say that if they find me by my npub or nosr address I can help them with follows, findign their way around, that, kind of thing.


no DMs on Iris?


"Chickens free ranging in olive groves lay great eggs, fertilise the soil, restore biodiversity and keep the cash flow going when olives are on alternate fruiting. I am in the process of developing a platform to promote a community of likeminded growers and artisans, embracing the V4V model, Nostr and BTC."


"Olive Grove Eggs"


A beautiful autumn day to be a free range chicken in an olive grove #Spain https://image.nostr.build/fdd83388f4e6df7a0d3e936b1f1d976492da9751097732ef69e21a5e1bbd6e68.jpg


A bot account with a lightning wallet.


#asknostr Can bots set up a full nostr profile with Nostr address and wallets linked to their account. Asking for a friend!

Not a nefarious friend, just trying to work out if Nostr has the layers to provide definitive proof of a human existence and excludes bots from doing the same.

Could a bot run for President?!


At last some groundcover recovering. It's been so dry for a couple of years, but a few downpours the last month has started to pay off. It only grows when it has a reason to grow, right! https://image.nostr.build/553ce61b3d386f02f83e94aac74b9cc1db74000727c39ec2b8f80a7c9633a4ec.jpg


What do you think to the notion that art is the only thing we create


I'm liking that idea. Straight in at high level  security.


#asknostr

What is the most barebones Nostr app you can think of, so that when I send a newbie to sign up, they don't think "Nostr is ..."

By that I mean, the focus is so much on social media. Newbies finding Nostr via Twitter or on youtube etc are almost pre-programmed to think "Nostr is social media", which is not the reality, it's a whole fricking internet in the making.

So I want my (go to iris.to)  instructions to be:

- Go to "nostr-no-name" (little clue what Nostr is)
Add a nym
Press Go!
Settings > Keys - Copy the key pair into a password manager

- Open browser settings
Search for getalby
Install
Add key pair.

- To find out what Nostr is all about
Download #Zap Store
Check out https://nostr.net/
Check out #Amethyst #Primal social media and start following cool Nostr peeps where you will find many suggestions for great Nostr websites, apps and more.

Thanks


That's the trouble with thinking aloud on the internet :) Sorry for barging in :)


Absolutely. Plant your first veg garden as close to your house as possible. And don't stop having ideas, write them down, but learn to prioritise them.


I think the recipient of your "donation" has to be able to offer you a  gift aid type option to give you something the taxman views as a write off.


I'm not a tax expert but from experience in Spain you have to be an association IE a form of charity to specifically handle donations.

Otherwise, whatever you receive, it's all income. Even 21% tax due on receipt of crowdfunding. They say it's "available capital", robbers.


Mystery solved. Thought I had an egg eater, been checking nest boxes several times a day, no joy until just now.

Seem that one of the flock has a mega calcium deficiency issue. This egg  is paper thin, so been breaking on laying.

Will chuck in some more shell but it's only one not an underlying nutrition issue. Always something.
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# chickens # homesteading # permaculture #spain


Been thinking about your points. Deep.

By comparison my opening words sounded glib, not my intention.

Long carried the weight of seeing, feeling what colonialism is all about.

I do and I don't recommend all young people from the rich west spend a long time living in places where the boot is on the other foot.

It is recommended and fulfilling and grounding while you are immersed, but a curse when you return to the rich man's  shores.

Like those repeated words, memories and experiences can't be unseen. It has been a constant struggle to live and listen to ones contemporaries completely oblivious to reality outside the bubble.

Malice towards the benefactors of colonialism, it's "us". That isn't fair on me not good for the soul.

Malice towards the mega powers keeping colonialism 2 0 going, my stand is I will never have a good word to say about monarchies and more useful, I will always stand on the side of those fleeing the effects of colonialism.

I think as immigration gets "worse" the everyday person here will start to grasp the truth and see through the propaganda and the lies. And then they can live with the uncomfortable truth and try weave a path accordingly!


Yeah, the hijos are big enough. The originals must have been something.


I grasp the basics but fail to see where my own settings are stored. Mine went walkies for two days.


I know, I know, it's a cat pic. But  I never had any time for cats, especially when this little sucker, as a kitten, crept into my bed and shat just by my left ear. We had words and it's been rosy ever since.

I've mellowed and  she's a "campo cat"  outside all year and follows me round like a dog, almost into the town sometimes. Freaks my daughter out, should we take her home, Dad... The cat's more savvy than some of the people in town.

The cat never complains, raised two small litters before the op to save us all from the trials of another litter. I must be getting old and sentimental.

I recall a saying about your attitude to animals says a lot about how you are with people.  oh well, I hope nobody takes it the wrong way when I tickle them under the chin.

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These trees could tell a few stories https://image.nostr.build/457f4c012d365f75502e6556b71606e90920f6ceea09e78bfff85367dcca4b70.jpg

#olives #spain #permaculture #growstr


You are on a good trajectory. The appeal of intermittent fasting/proper food mix is you can screw up one day and it really doesn't matter. Just dust down and get back to it. Ideal :)


Found this picture of the last olive harvest. I don't know if you can see, but  the trees could not have found room for one more drop of fruit. It was literally mad. So the trees need a breather big time. More accurately,they have taken a breather, I have no say in the matter:)
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Pomegranate bush grown from seed. Started in a pot and transplanted into not very good soil. Native and took well. https://image.nostr.build/f3a593228f7455e1c60b830e302b9c391cb5c638086785d82935e7bf254044f8.jpg


its unusual to have zero anywhere, so I guess they all synced up. From a purely human point of view there is no fallen fruit to tidy up. No doubt ecosystem collapse is just around the corner. :)


I have added it as a relay. Cheers for the heads up. I have added the $7-ish per 3 months to the budgeting list.

In principle though, where is my original bio and profile info, if nothing ever gets deleted on Nostr?!!!! #asknostr


#asknostr anyone know anything about https://github.com/decentralisedchat

Instead of Zen Desk or Whatsapp, or similar, I have embedded this Nostr chat as an iframe in a trial Ghost website.

It asks to sign in with extension, messages go through to my DM box on Nostr, so it works on that level.

It did have an impact on my own Nostr bio as explained earlier.

Where are we at with the integrity of DMs? Are the privacy buffs rolling their eyes and I should be embedding Simplex or are my DMs OK with help requests from anons?


Good bye reply guy?. Sorely missed.


Colonialism alive and well.

A couple of other words I've come across for "foreigner" . Excuse the spelling, khawaja. The white skinned people said it means white man, but the uncomfortable truth is it actually means rich man, So some locals were known too as khawaja, and then you realise it isnt perhaps a positive word!, even though, delivered with no malice.

Here  white ex pat immigrants, covering my bases there! are referred to as guiris. I've still not worked out what it really means because although it's never said with malice, they say it is tourist, but after 20 years Im still a guiri!?

In SW UK the tourists are called grokles and that was not a positive word.

Who knows in this desemanticised touchy age, does anyone know what they are even saying any more  :)


Satellite earth client is so much nicer to use than the desktop


building a website and embedded a nostr chat client called decentralised chat, from GitHub. It's an iframe widget. I was signed in as myself and just sent a couple  of one liners that appeared in my DM as anon455666 blah blah. somehow that handle took over from my original Olive Grove eggs bio info and  avatars.  So they are gone :)

I presume I'm posting on my original account? it's showing my npub and I just did the usual following the unfollowed.


Makes sense. Could get dirty.


Good old Nostr, just lost all my profile info, avatar and all the rest.

Anyway, no worries, fundamentally the content is just where it should be. It should all catch up with itself I guess


I will bookmark that for now, thanks. A bit beyond my paygrade so I need to have a better look when its not past midnight.


rain fed olive trees are alternate fruiting. Because there were so many last season, it is good the trees can recuperate. Having said that I wasn't expecting to see literally none, but I was not around for the last record year to know. The whole area is the same.

It's the irrigated groves that give most years, but that's a whole different ball game.


Really good effect. It's been a long time since Polaroids shivering in the mists of Snowdon


Sorry to disappoint. The maps give a lot of detail I feel like I've been there! It's mad, though, I've been all over but know nothing of eastern Europe. Missing out, I know.


Climate change is too big a concept, too many moving parts, too easy to get whataboutery so it becomes a sullied subject.

 I am a simple person and just look out the window and what I see tallies with that last list, mostly man made pollution and interference on a local level multiplied about globally.

The eco devastation of wars, forest fires, just two incredibly destructive events with mans paws all over them. Kind of doesn't matter if "the global climate" is misfiring, til we aren't doing our nonsense locally, it's hard to have a debate about how we pull together to improve the world. Cheers


That's the link at work. Not me.


what a great attitude: Organic Maps is one of the few applications nowadays that supports 100% of features without an active Internet connection. Install Organic Maps, download maps, throw away your SIM card, and go for a weeklong trip on a single battery charge without any byte sent to the network. https://organicmaps.app/

#opensource #maps


Am I the only one still floundering with Fountain app? They had no idea about the Amber signer. The signer is fine with every other site but not Fountain, so no Zapping account set up.  Nuts.


What's your view on Goat and sheep's cheese? My understanding is they digest and produce milk/cheese that is far healthier than cow-based dairy, especially when they are wandering the hills not the feedlots.

Its obviously a loaded question!!! I cant eat meat, literally makes me puke, and I am big into goat cheese and eggs in my veggie diet.

As a good friend said, we don't want to get into a mindset where all food is deemed poison By the same token, maybe we miss the memo sometimes.


#asknostr what are some of the better ways these days to turn the spoken word into text?


Good spot . At the moment there's not much of any life, it's actually raining. Yay


Olive growers used to swear by Olivarda, otherwise known as mata- mosca or fly killer. Not that there are any olives our way this year, but it is an attractant to the wasps that go after the olive fruit fly.

https://image.nostr.build/65d282a8cee6b759ebe79d0983d484b10c98dd8222bf9fc73a04355804be78bb.jpg

This happens to be under a tree that is a pain to pick anyway, being near a building. The smart way of doing is it to plant it out in huge areas along or around the margins of olive grove terracing.

And that's all I know about olives 😂

It's going to be weird having literally not one olive on 200 trees after this last year's marathon where the harvest was beyond record breaking and the mills closed weeks later than usual, but still before everything was picked.

#olives #spain #olivegroveeggs #permaculture


That's a bit downbeat. Need some more sugar? :)


#asknostr whats the advantage for a business of using Strike instead of displaying a QR code and sitting like a lemon as the sats roll straight into your own custodied wallet?


Cats are reactionary animals. They " are" until circumstances change, at which point they react accordingly.

I thought humans had an easier time of it, being the apex predator. No single event can really change the status quo, but I didn't think our species was supposed to view everything as part of the status quo and not react to real dangers.

When Brits lost 10% off their pensions with that bond issue a while ago, I saw and heard, Well, what can you do? They shrug, suck up more shit, carry on the same, til the next rinse, repeat.

As a whole we might be the apex predator but there are some who are more apex than others and have worked "us" out. They are going to get away with so much more til enough of us wake up and stop shrugging.

By us, I obviously don't include the average awoken Nostr user!.


If these bitcoin people don't need banks, what else don't they need? asked the incumbents in "power".


very cool form app.


Wrong button. The banks are sheep in a wolf's clothing. Somehow need to up the education levels so people grasp that BTC is not just savings, but private personal under-your-own-control savings.

I'm setting up a site that is going to (subtly) hammer home the self custody, self sovereign message. It's not about being some sort of shady stick it to the state anon, but coming at it as a normal human being who understands we all have a god given right to not hand over the fruits of our labour, our energy to some wanker in a suit who tells you they know better than you.

They did know better than most of us when it came to investing, because they put the time in to trying to navigate a deliberately arcane rigged system. . But now they cant play that card  because the curtain has been pulled back and there is no merit in what they were better versed in.

We just need to get your fiat swapped into Bitcoin and then figure it out from there, with time on our hands and on our own terms. Its not radical is it. Youdont ask a banker for permission to eat your dinner. So it is weird how we accept that the banks have made themselves the arbiter of what we do with the means to buy our dinner  Ommmmmm :)


I concur with your observations. Enjoy the honeymoon period when everybody is on board and psyched for the change. Humans are such butterflies though! And then they turn lazy and resentful and try to find shortcuts. Like kids who never grow up. Then we have to have big blow ups to reset, or blow up and start all over again.

Also throw the 80/20 rule into the mix, that is a big factor. The 20 are the consistent ones all he way through, but they cant hold back the 80 when it gets to the latter stages.

Money is definitely a good rod. Seen good 'uns who lost their way  learn the hard way when their income is stymied as a result of getting caught out or deciding they know better and tried things their way.

Need to have some sort of way to let the errants back in, on good behaviour.


Scythes or #Stihl weed whackers?

Scythe for me

#asknostr #pollerama #growstr


i noticed a hughe difference in tree/plant strength/health deoending on nursery. some really sell sad plants. We only plant a couple of nursery bought trees which will be used to take grafts from, and these are being spoiled or they die.

From seed is key is our experience.
So the other trees and perennials are all planted from seed, and after 2 summers we see what survived and keep planting.

depending on your region carrasca may be quercus ilex, which is one of my favorite oaks, they are incredibly strong. But here an animal is specialized at finding the acorns and stealing them. Kermes oak quercus coccifera is also a nice oak, similar to ilex but stays mostly bushy, have seen some trees of 10m/32ft. Heavy fruiters sometimes 2/year

Am trying to establish some pinus piñonero, the one with the big pine nuts. The regional pine tree is pinus halapensis which is one of the more flammable species so of course the gov planted then out... go figure. I want them all gone as they are sort of a non-agricultural mono-crop. Also heavily infested with mistletoe and many dying or dead adding to the fuel. Just as their needles do.

Almond and apricot are incredibly good at surviving as seedling. An almond will be makijg a tap root of around 30cm/11" deep for a month before showing its first leaf, incredible!

Pommegranate (had no luck yet), quince, some date palms, pear, carob, nettle tree, mulberry, are all on the list and do work once they sprout from seed.

again, nursery trees are our "houseplants" planted in zone1 and get taken care of. Though had some luck with our own nursery seedlings but the time and effort and water is just too much.

Also there is a permies.com thread about reforestation on large scale. I have seen this work in abandoned almond fields and gives hope. Thats why I seed many almonds. They all help breaking through the heavy concreted dirt and add biomass. https://permies.com/t/14353/Reforestation-Growing-trees-arid-barren

Besides this: broadbean survives, alfalfa survives and is a perennial.

#permaculture #forest #reforestation #farming #regeneration