GM ☕

morning thoughts... There's an eternal, invariable present outside of time. The thought is pure ; the speech conveying the thought is irredeemably incomplete. The symbol, which only exists in completeness below the surface of thought, is the true form.

additional : the rational is built upon the irrational. The value of Pi is an attestation that the curve can never be known by the polygon. The materialist cosmogeny is a house of cards.

Found an image that states the whole idea as a picture. Amazing symbolism - the two Johns, which have the same meaning as the Roman god Janus, and the whole thing points to Mark 4:9

https://image.nostr.build/d44234515fc4abf11eb1b084e56272a2f78d2f306d1e4d3f26111dcb24685459.jpg

And then I was reminded of another symbolic image, which tells the same story through a different mythos :

https://image.nostr.build/803869d6faf71dbea0e3479fbe9dd47a20602b25c2e4473a6e51bb912f0620d6.jpg

#gm #symbolism #wisdom #god #christ

(Symbolic points if anyone can tell me where Christ is in the images)
((Yes, I reposted this, I'm sorry, I forgot the labels and added labels aren't searchable))


GM ☕

morning thoughts... There's an eternal, invariable present outside of time. The thought is pure ; the speech conveying the thought is irredeemably incomplete. The symbol, which only exists in completeness below the surface of thought, is the true form.

Edit - additional : the rational is built upon the irrational. The value of Pi is an attestation that the curve can never be known by the polygon. The materialist cosmogeny is a house of cards.

Found an image that states the whole idea as a picture. Amazing symbolism - the two Johns, which have the same meaning as the Roman god Janus, and the whole thing points to Mark 4:9

https://image.nostr.build/d44234515fc4abf11eb1b084e56272a2f78d2f306d1e4d3f26111dcb24685459.jpg

And then I was reminded of another symbolic image, which tells the same story through a different mythos :

https://image.nostr.build/803869d6faf71dbea0e3479fbe9dd47a20602b25c2e4473a6e51bb912f0620d6.jpg

#gm #symbolism #wisdom #god #christ

(Symbolic points if anyone can tell me where Christ is in the images)
((Yes, I reposted this, I'm sorry, I forgot the labels and added labels aren't searchable))


Read whole thing, understood the word "label" only. Didn't see any 1986, but 1985 makes sense. That was only proposed last week? Github is hard for me to make sense of. I hope they include it soon. I almost never remember to label notes the first time.


Labels?


Okay I guess that could be useful. The hashtag thing annoys me... You remember a tag that would be relevant, but the only way to get the note included in that tag following feed thingy is to copy and repost


This could totally happen in China


What does the Broadcast button do in Amethyst? You'd think it would broadcast hashtags after you've edited them into a note, but it seems not to. Does it just remind relays of your note if they missed it?

#Asknostr


IMO it's too early to turn off the carbon. Its not stabilized in planetary respiration. If we turn it off now, we get a reglaciation.


GM ☕

morning thoughts... There's an eternal, invariable present outside of time. The thought is pure ; the speech conveying the thought is irredeemably incomplete. The symbol, which only exists in completeness below the surface of thought, is the true form.

Edit - additional : the rational is built upon the irrational. The value of Pi is an attestation that the curve can never be known by the polygon. The materialist cosmogeny is a house of cards.

Found an image that states the whole idea as a picture. Amazing symbolism - the two Johns, which have the same meaning as the Roman god Janus, and the whole thing points to Mark 4:9

https://image.nostr.build/d44234515fc4abf11eb1b084e56272a2f78d2f306d1e4d3f26111dcb24685459.jpg

And then I was reminded of another symbolic image, which tells the same story through a different mythos :

https://image.nostr.build/803869d6faf71dbea0e3479fbe9dd47a20602b25c2e4473a6e51bb912f0620d6.jpg

#gm #symbolism #wisdom #god #christ

(Symbolic points if anyone can tell me where Christ is in the images)


Greatest fraud in history... South Sea Bubble kind of fraud here. Or whatever it was called - doesn't look right the way I wrote it.

About 2 years ago, I started looking into the documents that accompany wind power projects. The whole thing rests on one number : an estimated "energy factor," which means they think it will return more energy than it cost to make, if the number is over 1. And of course, they're all over 1. But if you look at how they got the estimate... They estimate based on dollar costs, not energy, and the dollar cost is brought down by subsidies and financing, and that compounds across the entire supply chain, resulting in costs not representing energy costs. The energy factor also doesn't include the cost of maintenance and disposal.

So basically, no wind farm ever built has ever returned more energy than they cost, and this is easily provable, and the only conclusion left is that its a grand industry of fraud.


GM ☕

morning thoughts... There's an eternal, invariable present outside of time. The thought is pure ; the speech conveying the thought in irredeemably incomplete. The symbol, which only exists in completeness below the surface of thought, is the true form.

Edit - additional : the rational is built upon the irrational. The value of Pi is an attestation that the curve can never be known by the polygon. The materialist cosmogeny is a house of cards.

Found an image that states the whole idea as a picture. Amazing symbolism - the two Johns, which have the same meaning as the Roman god Janus, and the whole thing points to Mark 4:9

https://image.nostr.build/d44234515fc4abf11eb1b084e56272a2f78d2f306d1e4d3f26111dcb24685459.jpg

And then I was reminded of another symbolic image, which tells the same story through a different mythos :

https://image.nostr.build/803869d6faf71dbea0e3479fbe9dd47a20602b25c2e4473a6e51bb912f0620d6.jpg

#gm #symbolism #wisdom #god #christ

(Symbolic points if anyone can tell me where Christ is in the images)


GM ☕

morning thoughts... There's an eternal, invariable present outside of time. The thought is pure ; the speech conveying the thought in irredeemably incomplete. The symbol, which only exists in completeness below the surface of thought, is the true form.

Edit - additional : the rational is built upon the irrational. The value of Pi is an attestation that the curve can never be known by the polygon. The materialist cosmogeny is a house of cards.

Found an image that states the whole idea as a picture. Amazing symbolism - the two Johns, which have the same meaning as the Roman god Janus, and the whole thing points to Mark 4:9

https://image.nostr.build/d44234515fc4abf11eb1b084e56272a2f78d2f306d1e4d3f26111dcb24685459.jpg

And then I was reminded of another symbolic image, which tells the same story through a different mythos :

https://image.nostr.build/803869d6faf71dbea0e3479fbe9dd47a20602b25c2e4473a6e51bb912f0620d6.jpg


GM ☕

morning thoughts... There's an eternal, invariable present outside of time. The thought is pure ; the speech conveying the thought in irredeemably incomplete. The symbol, which only exists in completeness below the surface of thought, is the true form.

Edit - additional : the rational is built upon the irrational. The value of Pi is an attestation that the curve can never be known by the polygon. The materialist cosmogeny is a house of cards.


Too late for fiddly things

GN


Gross. Email that I have to actually pay attention to. I hate email.


So annoying... Yet another single use throw away email to save


Have you used it? It's telling me to register an account with an email. Is this really necessary? Cuz I see a lightning QR code already


I have a start9 server, so I could host alby myself and skip their fee. That's appealing. But what's not so appealing is, I lost my password to my server, so I need to redo it.

Or I could use walletofsatoshi and just always have VPN on... That's probably the easiest


I have a start9 server, so I could host alby myself and skip their fee. That's appealing. But what's not do appealing is, I lost my password to my server, so I need to redo it.

Or I could use walletofsatoshi and just always have VPN on... That's probably the easiest


Alby seems to be trying to make it complicated... It requires an extension to your browser, but vanadium doesn't do extensions, and I hate extensions anyways. I did the whole Firefox extension bonanza 15 years ago and I'm done with it...


Trying to compare Mutiny and Alby - anyone know which is better?

I want simple. No fiddly!


Ohhh. It was a euro!


I need an exorcism now.


Had to look it up. I was imagining the neck bush


They have a little bit of salt, which I like


What's a mullet spread? Jeez that sounds nasty.

The little yellow crackers shaped like fish. I didn't buy them... I'd never buy these, they have canola oil.


A credit card? I despise debt.
ID card. Drivers loicense


A credit card? I despise debt.


Cell phone case. Okay I'm done.


Ah, a fellow introvert - that's a feeling I know well. I'm eating fish crackers.


Book cover


More common than a sticker... Well that just threw me totally off.


Next stage is brown and wet


A sticker.


Good song. Enjoyed.


Jeez. I had a microscope that did 8x when I was a kid... The new pic is confounding. I was gonna say "fingernail" next. Sure, a polished fingernail is my next guess


umm, so, moving on... What's the magnification level? Oh! Cucumber! Its cucumber.


I didn't even mean that, until after I sent it and then I was like, "oh shit...."


Some epoxy toy


Soap


Bath salt


How ya doin?


Looks like a Texas tree.


Top. But also, I bet there's some awesome moss growing on some of those branches.


Oh. Now I get it. The government has no intention of fixing the southeast before the election - those are red states.

Those motherfuckers....


IMF panicking over El Salvador, too funny.

"We're in ongoing discussions with the authorities in El blah blah blah..."

Lady, they don't need you. They don't want you. Respect their national sovereignty, you bunch of criminals.


That was my reaction, too. Seems weird that that would fix it. Hope it works


Good message. Thanks


I found a fix - might fix it for you too. In your browser, go to settings and find "popups and redirects" - for me, that was turned off, meaning popups and redirects not allowed. It works after enabling that.


Found the fix. Vanadium blocks popups and redirects - I don't see any popups or redirects when I open zap.stream, but enabling it fixified it


Yeah I think these things are triggered in a rather unpredictable way. A shot may have a good effect in a controlled experiment, but with millions of environmental, diet, and genetic variables, something gets knocked out of place. I'm now fully anti-vax, after learning the hard way.


I'm not actually going to get it. I'm sure it would help feel better, but I want all bodily systems to work on resolving the problem naturally. Thanks, though.


When elections don't get the result you want, just call for a new election! Cuz democracy works!


That's okay, I think you gave me the piece I needed.


I'm very tempted to get a bronchidilator, now that you mention it. Not being terrified would be quite nice.


Yes, the hopefully only RNA affecting shot. Got the shot and one booster before it became super obvious that it was a deliberate attack and I'd been a fool. But I'm optimistic - if its only RNA, over time the affected cells should be replaced by healthy cells. It'll take years, and I'll have this difficulty breathing for a while, but I think it will correct itself.


Its vanadium, which comes with grapheneos. Which should I use?


Idk if viruses are fake, but my health got noticeably worse directly after taking the vaccine. There's too much to be an expert on - all I know is, they did something.


Someone please teach me how to get zap.stream to open. All I get is a blank page.


Sounds to me like a few people at rabiesbank belong in jail.


This video is good writing juice.


Thank you - my technical incompetence is usually quite lonely


I'd tell my younger self to stop reading books and instead buy a motorcycle


Yeah that script is exactly how I think it'll go. Trump wins, but as usual, by an unrealistic sliver (real democracies don't do 50/50), and the violence ramps up.

I wonder if the terrorists will go after the dock workers... I bet something like that will happen. They made a public demonstration of power.


Springs aren't magic


Those community safety patrols are something I've been wanting here in the US


I'm fairly certain it is


Really? Can you elaborate? This is intriguing. I'm not a dev, so I'm quite ignorant. (But hopefully not ignant)


Is there any reason to believe he's human?


Wow. Just a few years ago, it was totally dark at night. Now I'm questioning if I'm remembering it correctly...


Why doesn't zap.stream's webpage load for me?


I just listened to your TED talk. Thank you. Bitcoin is the tool you need.


Mead! I need to get back into that. Its fine, just keep it in a cool shade


That's why Jesus said the kingdom of heaven belongs to children. God is everything. The proof of work of God's love is when the least love and reciprocate love.


Still cool - different kind of cool


This is the life... Are those mountains o'er yonder?


10 btc is a lot more meaningful than 10 mcMansions


That's a good lesson. What a blessing to have a mentor... I think I have some kind of need to always be the biggest failure. I've been that guy that didn't keep their word. Its heavy.


How is whale being defined here?


I'm curious about the keet room... What dis?


Interesting... Looked up the chapter:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah%205&version=NIV


Nehemiah 5:4-6

“We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

#bible #biblestr


I could level up this idea by making the plugs a speaker, which just inserts noise cancelling noise into the mic...


Yep. I need to sit down with a piece of rubber and a knife - the mic aperture would be very easy to plug


Yep. I need to sit down with a piece if rubber and a knife - the mic aperture would be very easy to plug


Still cool


Cool looking bed. Your design?


One of the things I love about my new phone, which has #grapheneos on it, isn't even the phone - its the case. It has a sliding shutter for the back camera, so I can lift it to my face without wondering if some government jackass is taking pictures of my workspace. It really does relieve some anxiety.


I think its our training. We are effectively trained to think we need barriers. Something without a bunch of barriers can't be legit. Suddenly having no barriers is scary, and I think that's what drives people to shitcoins (complicated mouse traps) and custodial services.


Note to self : pacing.

If indulge, do something productive, alternate.

Even that's not great, but at least its not the worst.


Cars defo shitcoins.


The whole point of a guitar is to feel it in your pants. This is why so much guitar music is bad, and why when it's good, its sooooo good.

I'm throwing this one in with my Anti-Pucker philosophy.

#music #life


That was good. Idk what she said but I could feel the guitar in my pants.


Very similar to something I say :

True blessings feel like curses ;
True curses feel like blessings.


Very cool, but still basically fiat thinking. The energy is coming from increased caloric cost for people to walk, so its really transferring the cost of electricity to the cost of food. And I'd be very surprised if it does so efficiently - you would have to measure the cost of manufacturing, installing, maintaining, and disposing, in terms of energy - so, a balance sheet denominated in joules - and see if that's less than the energy returned. So, this is probably just a cleverly camouflaged tax.


Hmm... If enough people leave Israel, maybe they won't have the taxbase to continue their aggression.


Bitcoin is the Manhattan Project of our time.

Every day, I learn a little more about what's being built on bitcoin and it always gives me a feeling of awe.

Remember learning about the Manhattan Project and thinking, "what if we organized all this talent for something constructive?"?

It happened. Happening.

#bitcoin


#biology #immortality
If Dr. Michael Levin isn't on your radar, he should be. Very worth watching...

https://youtu.be/s-SL8qy-6kA


Just guessing... Galadriel? Lord of the Rings?


See? See? Its soooooo good!


Webb's looks more webby.


Pure food - grown by yourself or your neighbors. Contains a nutrient called "care"

Pure education - classical curricula, ie geometry, astronomy, and rhetoric. Class time should take no more than 3 hours of a kid's day, and the remainder is with their parents.

Pure politics - maximally decentralized. City states, maybe neighborhood states. If someone from outside your community is making rules that affect your life, they are foreign rulers, tyrants, and should be dealt with accordingly.


Langoliers! Aaghgjhgjhh


I don't think it's delusional at all. Seems like he has a good sense of his own capabilities.


He can do it. Reward with sats when he wins.


https://image.nostr.build/fff2f9e0d7663d8efaa443088d449e1eedda93a1b4028b99e39545bf4f665765.jpg

Me. Reversed on purpose. #tarot


Huh... That's a cool question. Can an automated process work without conscious input or attention... Shoot. Frank Herbert is right. We need spice enhanced psychic navigators to travel between stars... You can fall asleep in an elevator without it breaking down, but software seems to need to be pushed by an observer to initiate a planned  sequence of actions. The whole system of robotaxis and orbital delivery pods might rest on a computer tracking it all and a guy watching the screen.

Or the material world is actually there. IDK. We need to go find aliens.


I resolve animal consciousness in two ways, both of which are more for their entertainment value than anything else. One is to say that consciousness comes before matter, as different personae of the same logos, so the animal is the vessel of the divine experience. The other is to relegate that idea to only humans, and explain animals as egregors - psychic constructs that maintain themselves independently of conscious direction. Like I said, it's more for entertainment value than serious thinking. I like how you can build whole structures of explanation for the physical present as plausible alternatives to the usual explanations of empirically observed phenomena.


I don't think anything can exist without consciousness. Just my two sats. I'm no Einstein... but I think the whole point is consciousness, and the physical history of the universe is what it is simply because our observation requires it. It organizes backwards from the present.


GM ☕

These Iran missiles videos are looking faker and faker. The more I see...


Its in the top 10, but money printer go brr is top


I'd eat it


I are about the environment 5 times per day.


Smashing the state has it's appeal, but there's a logical fallacy imbedded in it... If the workers were independent enough to be able to survive without the state, they wouldn't be in the union in the first place, so as soon as the state is smashed, they just make a new state.

Here's how I think we should do it. It'll still involve collective bargaining, but there's no need for coercion. We all buy up adjacent land and incorporate as a city. But instead of doing normal city stuff, like roads and water, we have classes to teach how to do it for yourself. Then make public works illegal in our colony. And it is a colony, because we're gonna use our collective bargaining power to tell the tax man to pound sand. Think, a brand new free city in the Holy Ramen Empire. We're not fighting anyone, but we can fight if pushed, and we renegotiate our deal with the empire. Then we make another... And another... Until this model is most of everything and in space.


Sigh... Now I remember. This isn't the way. But I would agree that simply returning to a free market isn't enough. If this is inspired by the longshoremen strike, that only works because government has constrained the shipping industry with all kinds of permits, fees, licenses, and basically making it impossible for a competitor to open a seaport. If shipping can't work as a free market, then it will have to automate everything, and then the union will be out of a job. The full answer is, we need strong enough property rights for new shipping companies and new ports to open with a reasonably low barrier to entry. Another possible answer is stock ownership - owning a company is a much better solution than unionizing and extorting. There's ways to work around this. (Not that I think we will)


My eyes always glaze over when someone says syndicalism... I guess I'll go look it up for the 30th time...


That makes sense for the US, but Israel's debt to GDP isnt too bad. I don't think they're at the point of needing inflation to manage their debt, and grasping any narrative to justify printing, which is America's situation.


Totally fair


Huh. Everyone has bad days.


Maybe


They seem to want it, but idk how they need it


Would love to see Israel try and occupy Iran.


I think it's watching me


Idiots. They seem not to realize that Israel is not well liked.


Narrow wastes. Hourglass, but not too much.


Damn, that was good... Err, good way to say it. The whole concept of school needs a rework.

But I wanted to say, to anyone who's not a socialist, left/right socialism or international vs national, it doesn't matter, its all just retarded. A non socialist anarchist (aka libertarian who is being honest) just doesn't care about the differences. Its the same. How much genocide would you like on your ice cream?


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Christ mantle, theosis, zen... All same same. Maybe even flow state.

I enjoy my persona too much to get as far as self annihilation or martyrdom or heroic doses. Maybe later. [It also has a tinge of nihilism, which im not into.] I'm still in the conquering limitations phase, the top row of the tarot trumps. Tarot is my current favorite thing. That, and goading a certain Zionist I know into theological umm... discussions.


Christ mantle, theosis, zen... All same same. Maybe even flow state.

I enjoy my persona too much to get as far as self annihilation or martyrdom or heroic doses. Maybe later. I'm still in the conquering limitations phase, the top row of the tarot trumps. Tarot is my current favorite thing. That, and goading a certain Zionist I know into theological umm... discussions.


Basically the practice is negation and reversal of everything, which puts you in a certain kind of mindset, and I can't think of the right way to describe it. Expansion, god consciousness, ego negation - that line of thinking. Plays well with Gurdjieff's 4th way (its a cult, don't join it, best to forget you read it). Also ecstatic dance. Very common for people practicing tariqah to crossdress, which I think causes problems because it shifts ego into a new persona instead of negating it. And you can see why its the opposite of legalism, and generally hated by "normal" Muslims. I feel obliged to say I'm a Christian and probably have some nuance wrong, so maybe a Muslim will chime in with a friendly correction. I've sometimes thought it might be cool to go learn from Sufis in Turkey, maybe even Morocco, but its not very high on my list of priorities.


Deep


You're full of surprises. Why in prison?

I like Sufism, the far mystical side of Islam. I learned about Tariqah (spelling?) before most other spiritual stuff. But when I think of Sunni, I think of legalistic Islam and Quranic literalism, which IMO is just as wrong as biblical literalism


The key is to be believable and not believable at the same time, so they never want to check and see if you actually did it


Zen Buddhism and Sunni Islam smashed into one thing... somehow. I don't see it happening. Orange catholics is at least plausible.


He's a genius, fosho


Idk either. 👃


Frank Herbert's "zensunni" religion in the Dune universe has got to be the most retarded idea in all of science fiction.


Hashtags. Try #bitaxe


This is a quote from Commissioner Pravin Lal of the UN Peacekeepers, the legitimate authority of the colonial expedition to Alpha Centauri.

My favorite game when I was a kid. Still the best strategy game ever made.


As we get older, we refine our art of saying "okay" and then doing whatever we want.


Yeah, bleaker than normal cuz I'm thinking about bleak stuff. Bleaker than a beaker.

We'll probably have the AIs integrated into our cells, so we're a psychotic swarm of AIs, all doing various specialized tasks.


Precisely


It'll be right. Mostly.


What happens if you use it incorrectly/irresponsibly?


Yeah. Bitcoin fixes this. That rule of law thing was hilarious while I was in China. They put up posters everywhere declaring "rule of law!" and showing police cartoons directing stuff. So I was just thinking, they have a totally different idea of what that means. But then you have to look honestly at the US and wonder if our criminal cohort understand what it means... Decades of undermining the justice system, instituting secret courts, pursuing wildly excessive maximum punishments and multiple charges for every accusation, and telling everyone that "offenders will be prosecuted to the MAXIMUM extent of the law." That maximum is pretty tyrannical, even if the perp is guilty. Its wild. Rule of law is just a cool story, its not a real thing.


Yeah. Bitcoin fixes this. That rule of law thing was hilarious while I was in China. They put up posters everywhere declaring "rule of law!" and showing police cartoons directing stuff. So I was just thinking, they have a totally different idea of that that means. But then you have to look honestly at the US and wonder if our criminal cohort understand what it means... Decades of undermining the justice system, instituting secret courts, pursuing wildly excessive maximum punishments and multiple charges for every accusation, and telling everyone that "offenders will be prosecuted to the MAXIMUM extent of the law." That maximum is pretty tyrannical, even if the perp is guilty. Its wild. Rule of law is just a cool story, its not a real thing.


Yeah. Bitcoin fixes this. That rule of law thing was hilarious while I was in China. They put up posters everywhere declaring "rule of law!" and showing police cartoons directing stuff. So I was just thinking, they have a totally different idea of that that means. But then you have to look honestly at the US and wonder if our criminal cohort understand what it means... Decades of undermining the justice system, instituting secret courts, pursuing wildly excessive maximum punishments and multiple charges for every accusation, and telling everyone that "offenders will be prosecuted to the MAXIMUM extent of the law. That maximum is pretty tyrannical, even if the perp is guilty. Its wild. Rule of law is just a cool story, its not a real thing.


Its all hedging bets. If we leave the weapons in Afghanistan, a certain set of things can happen. Russia could take what they need to close their tech gap with China, then be useful later. Putin could see the south is not as exposed and then more readily fall into the Ukraine trap. Or something goes sidewys and there's a convenient well armed horde of barbarians in the center of Asia that can turn in any direction that trouble is needed. The media and conservative talking heads all assure us it was such a stupid move, but it looks pretty smart to me, because it opens options in several directions.


Yeah that's what I mean. That's what they do, so why would anyone willingly be their puppet?

I was really surprised when Putin sent his army into Ukraine because it was such an obvious setup. My current theory is that he's betting NATO will settle for his help against China, and that might be what leaving all those weapons in Afghanistan was about - a little donation plus leaving the vicinity to get Putin moving.


Yeah that's what I mean. I was really surprised when Putin sent his army into Ukraine because it was such an obvious setup. My current theory is that he's betting NATO will settle for his help against China, and that might be what leaving all those weapons in Afghanistan was about - a little donation plus leaving the vicinity to get Putin moving.


I've been thinking Putin is one of them, but its so contrary to the picture we're presented with and current events that its hard to fully believe it. Saddam Hussein was in the cabal too, and they killed him. Surely Putin thinks about what would happen to him and everyone he cares about if the cabal got their way.


Let me get this straight... After the US and allies move military assets into Israel, THEN Iran decides to launch a missile?

Either Iran is led by imbeciles (idk, are they?),
OR...


These things happen when the gov needs higher inflation. Gumming up supply chains is a great way to get higher prices, and the prices are sticky afterwards. Remember the ship stuck in the Suez Canal? Too convenient.

Elect me president, I promise I'll size power and crown myself King, while throwing all communists in jail - including these thugs. Win-win.


I think I got it doing what I want - which is, muting the whole note with the offending word (in this case, the brain cancer called solana) but not the whole npub


Might have to try coracle. That's explained better than Amethyst, although it does appear that Amethyst is doing the same thing.


Prices travel backwards, up the value chain, from the end product's price. Its the end consumer that determines the price of materials they don't directly use.


Clay jars FTW


'Off' topic but... I like pumpkins.


Does it hide the whole note?
I need to hide the whole note. Shitcoinery is intolerable.


Does it hide the whole note?


Does it hide the whole post?


You can follow hashtags ; can you exclude hashtags?

Some shitcoiner moron is polluting my feed with mixed tags.

#Asknostr


Is it legal to shoot drones that fly over your property? I feel like it should be.


Sounds like they're fairly competent


We should stop calling it AI.


You don't have a right to water, unless you own that water.


You don't have a right to water.


No labor is ever required for rights. All rights are simply a rephrasing of your right to own yourself.


The cost of inputs travels backwards, up the value chain, from the end product's price. Its the end consumer that determines the price of materials they don't directly use.


NC is too free, the federal empire doesn't want to help them. I used to drive across the border to buy gas in NC because its cheaper there - less tax.


Idea - Time Share schools

The teachers buy the time share, not the students. The entire reason I began teaching was to travel. The other route to travelling was to become a top dog in business (part of why I studied econ), but that takes longer and has more competition. I met a lot of dudes who were doing the same thing. So here's the idea - teachers can buy shares in the school, which gives them the right to teach at that school. Of course there would be details like qualifications and stuff, but assuming a standard is met, you could own a piece of your work and receive payments based on your ownership, on top of the regular teacher pay, which is usually terrible. You could own a "portfolio" of such shares all over the world and have easy access to different locations for blocks of one or two years. The reason this matters is, being able to stay in a country depends on employment and sponsorship, but that raises a barrier to getting that employment in the first place because you don't know anyone in the country you're interested in. And another huge (*huge*) problem in education is a lot of teachers simply don't want to be teachers - which tells me that the incentives are not strong enough.

I'm imagining building myself a right to work in every country that is interesting to me, which is a lot, without having to sacrifice my efforts in one country when I move on to the next. I also think something like this could build a stronger sense of community among this particular brand of nomad.

Thoughts, suggestions?

#business #teaching #school #teachstr #travel #travelstr


Idea - Time Share schools

The teachers buy the time share, not the students. The entire reason I began teaching was to travel. The other route to travelling was to become a top dog in business (big part of why I studied econ), but that takes longer and has more competition. I met a lot of dudes who were doing the same thing. So here's the idea - teachers can buy shares in the school, which gives them the right to teach at that school. Of course there would be details like qualifications and stuff, but assuming a standard is met, you could own a piece of your work and receive payments based on your ownership, on top of the regular teacher pay, which is usually terrible. You could own a "portfolio" of such shares all over the world and have easy access to different locations for blocks of one or two years. The reason this matters is, being able to stay in a country depends on employment and sponsorship, but that raises a barrier to getting that employment in the first place because you don't know anyone in the country you're interested in. And another huge (*huge*) problem in education is a lot of teachers simply don't want to be teachers - which tells me that the incentives are not strong enough.

I'm imagining building myself a right to work in every country that is interesting to me, which is a lot, without having to sacrifice my efforts in one country when I move on to the next. I also think something like this could build a stronger sense of community among this particular brand of nomad.

Thoughts, suggestions?

#business #teaching #school #teachstr #travel #travelstr


Let's be honest... Most whites are dumb motherfuckers...

IMO, intelligence emerges from incentives, which take the form of culture. Adjust the cultural architecture, get more of x behavior and less of y behavior.


I like to imagine that everyone saving in bitcoin will become inventor-wizard-lords when they no longer have to work, building all their ideas, hiring coders and architects, teaching classes on regenerative agriculture, launching spaceships from their citadels...


Woke up too early...
Bitcoin fixes this.


Thought... When sunlight hits you, you're connected to the sun, in a way. There's a cause/effect relationship between the excited atmosphere of the sun and some molecule in your body that gains energy from absorbing the light. If light is timeless, which it seems to be, then this cause and effect are one phenomenon. If, from the perspective of the light, the cause and the effect are the same, then you being hit by light is causing the light to emit from the sun. Somewhere in that star's atmosphere is a specter version of you, a ghost living your life, unaware that its not you, and doing everything you do before you do it.

Tomorrow I'll probably reread this and think I'm retarded.


Oh... Yeah.


Theory : Israel knows that this time, it can do anything. If Trump wins, he won't tell them to return the land. If Kabbalah wins, they can just ignore her. They won't withdraw when they're done.


Then why aren't psychopaths joyous?


Why?


I'm not clicking your link. You spoke to me in bad faith - I have every reason to believe the link is unsafe.


So far, I've been the only one explaining anything. If you're so smart, prove it.


Israel isn't there for Hezbollah. They're staying.


I don't think I can free your mind.


Trust nothing. Even when you find some influencer that says all the things you agree with, don't trust or follow that person. They will build a following, then insert a new message, and half the herd will go with it. The only things should believe (well, you be you, but this is how I think) are what you can verify yourself and then build your own conclusions up from that. 99% of articles don't present anything real - they just invoke experts and sound authoritative. F that... You deserve better.

An example is when I figured out that climate change was a hoax, at least in part. Not all worries are unfounded, I'm not saying that. But as its presented, its basically a hoax and it benefits certain people. So, I was teaching a science class, and I was really making an effort to teach them to be inquisitive. There was no curriculum, barely any oversight, no books - every aspect of the class was entirely up to me. It was in China, and it was a brand new private school, and I was the wrong guy for the job, but sometimes that's just how things happen. Anyhow... I wanted to teach them to be environmentally conscious, so I started building lessons about the environment and human impact. But I had never closely examined my beliefs, and I had to be able to answer "why" questions. So I dig into it... I found data from ice cores, was really puzzled why it told a different story than the media presents, I emailed professors, one of which was Dr. Ridd (iirc) in Australia, and he emailed back a fucking data dump on corals in the great barrier reef... And basically, the whole narrative is a big fucking lie. Corals aren't dying, they're thriving. CO2 doesn't cause desertification - it does exactly the opposite, and its ability to warm the planet diminishes at higher levels. It is still potentially bad to breathe at higher levels, so we should level off emissions at some point, but its also necessary for our lungs to work. So the picture that began to appear was that CO2 is about as harmless as anything can be, but we're all told to be terrified of it, meanwhile thousands of chemicals that are carcinogens go unregulated and no one pays attention. I found a US government website that estimated 100k chemicals being dumped into the environment that have never been studied in any way.

I could go on. The point is, I trusted the narrative, but when I looked for myself, something totally different was going on. Don't trust anything. Investigate it yourself.

Think of narratives like this - why would a narrative ever be needed if it was the truth? True things are self evident. You need a narrative when you deviate from truth.


Trigger the waterfall : eat an orange or anything citrusy, followed quickly by a glass of milk


Very satisfying video.


Crash!
Crash!
Crash!
Crash!
Please, need cheap sats


'Retarded' is such a glorious word. Allthemoreso since other platforms shadow ban you if you use it. I love nostr


I think I misspoke earlier when I said potassium and sodium have a balance - I'm remembering a thing a little better now and I think it was potassium and calcium that have the balance.

I can attest to the benefits of magnesium - I've felt much better since I started supplementing it. I'm currently doing a vitamin D3/k2, magnesium, and zinc, and its helping a lot.


Okay, I need to look into boron then. I've heard about before but assumed it was one of those whacky health fads. I didn't know about kidneys expelling potassium - why would they do that? I also have reduced kidney function, and I'm sure it plays some role in my high blood pressure


Ouch. Diet is everything... Is the word "oma" from Dutch? I think it's grandma in Dutch, but its possible my family just used it wrong. Different grandparents claim different titles, and having a somewhat multicultural family gives them options. Part Dutch, though its a little awkward saying so, since they were total fuckers when they controlled Indonesia. Or so I hear. Anyways. I've also noticed that family-related words tend to be similar in lots of languages. Chinese, for example - mama = mom, baba = dad. Kinda crazy, considering how different the rest of the language is.


Is it inaccurate?


You shared a picture a while back and you didn't look Indonesian at all. No offense, lol. Also, I gotta go explore Indonesia.

I'm not so sure its genetics. I mean, everything is genetics ultimately, but I think environment is the main thing and environment (includinh diet) determines how the genetics are expressed. Maybe if we keep eating GMO shit, we'll turn into grey aliens, without our DNA even changing. Seems plausible enough..


And it's not a racial thing, even though I phrased it that way out of necessity. Asians in America age just like everybody else.


Potassium is super important and people don't talk about it much. I recently found out about it as a way to lower blood pressure, which my bp is dangerously high and doctor was useless (as usual). Turns out, there's a balance between potassium and sodium, and insufficient potassium makes bp go crazy. I'm still not certain this is my problem, but it's good to know. Also, potatoes have lots of potassium, assuming they're grown in good soil.

The starch thing is what gets me - I look at Asians and they're young looking into mid 40's, some even older, and they eat wayyyy more starch than westerners do. I mean, they look like teenagers, or at worst early 30s... When I lived there, even though the tap water was polluted and the air was polluted (so bad there would be yellow fog), I still felt healthier than I do in the US. I consciously eat healthily and exercise and I still mostly feel like crap, but back in China I didn't give a fuck and every day I became healthier and stronger. Something is killing us here... Idk what, but I know its happening. Maybe the GMO food, maybe pesticides, maybe water fluoridation, maybe 5g signals - idk, I have to take it all seriously because I know how I feel and how I used to feel. We're resorting to drastic diets, trying to feel better - like, I love beef, but we shouldn't have to go full carnivore to feel okay. They don't have to do that in China. I don't think they do it in Korea, Japan, or Thailand - I've been to all of them and their food is so amazing its out of this world, and when I'm there I feel amazing. I really truly believe something is killing us here.


Yeah, noticed that too. Although I think 40s should look a lot younger than we typically do. Living in Asia gave me a bias - we shouldn't age this fast.


Zombie Apocalypse, Go!


Teach - if you don't, pied pipers will


Those are trans. You can't tell cuz they're old


Super cool. I'd make mushroom coffee


Having a more accurate picture of reality allows me to calibrate trust in a way that's more fit for survival.


Grosssssss


What's that? Fart train tickle?


#Politics #bitcoin #vote

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Let's all vote for Satoshi Nakamoto and then get the news to report that "Some guy name Satoshi got x % of the vote? What's going on?"


You can take the teacher out of the classroom, but you can never take the classroom out of the teacher.

I caught myself teaching just now... To no one.


Math is usually not taught very well. Its hard to teach...


GM ☕

Some morning thoughts... There's a difference between serving and being a slave.

Serving is co-liberating. You become freer by making the choice, negating the ego, and executing the choice. Others become freer by gaining time. Freedom grows mutually.

#GM #freedom #wisdom


Sorry, thanks, hearing that is enough for me


Sorry, thanks, saying that is enough for me


There are genuine demons, and they seem to be in charge.


Who do we report? All we know is that building was demolished, and no one wants to talk about it. People have been pointing out that building for 20 years. I remember it happening. There was a huge report created by engineers and architects the presented their research and expertise, and it basically said that the buildings could not have fallen in that way - iirc, it was presented to Congress. But it was ignored.

You need to research this. Starting off with assumptions is not how you free your mind. Don't just google it and then give up - research building 7, and keep at it until you find real information.


I heard this once, back when I was trying to become an engineer - "anyone can build a bridge, but only an engineer can build a bridge that barely stands."


We're on the same wavelength...


They're gonna take such a massive shit on elder scrolls 6, I just know it...


https://youtu.be/h_D3VFfhvs4

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Yep.


Squeee!!


Yep


Does the Loyal Order of Corn wear sashes?


I love that my question is possibly immortalized


Ahhh that's twice in one day... I gotta set it up. I'm sorry. I don't plan on figuring it out today


Free your mind, man


“Artists have always been important prophets of social change, and the increasingly favored ‘psychedelic’ style is anything but undisciplined. Using intense color and highly articulate detail of line and form, the exponents of this style are restoring a sheer glory to Western art that has not been seen since the days of French and Celtic illuminated manuscripts, the stained glass of Chartres, and the luminous enamelwork of Limoges. It calls to mind the jeweled gardens of Persian miniatures, the rhythmic intricacy of Moorish arabesques, and the golden filigree of Hindu textiles.”

— Alan Watts, Does It Matter?
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#god


Devs, please stop adding more buttons to things. I don't need more options. I don't want more stuff on my screen. Just stop. Less is more.

This isn't a nostr thing... this is just in general. I will stop using a thingy for adding more stuff. I mean that.

#devs #coding


Oh hmm... Do people use this to prevent airport staff from pilfering their stuff? I know its for emergency, but I'm thinking I'm always too worried to take more than carry on, and this might resolve the worry


Grr


This is interesting. I see the esp32 is supported - I've been wanting to do something on one of those. I'm very new to building, but I like it


Oh wow... He said petrodollars... In 1976. When was the big gas shortage, that had gas rationing and lines at the pump?


I actually agree with this, although I don't think that's what they mean when they say it.


I actually agree with this, although I don't think many people will understand it, and I don't think that's what they mean when they say it.


I can't open that link. Probably because I use Tor by default, which I'm not changing. I'm glad you're spreading the knowledge, though. It looks like something I'd enjoy
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Amazing


Did Watts actually say that?


What about fertilizer and pH control?


What's happening here? Is it a class?


This is good


What's PV?


Yeah there's a bit of a change in meaning between nation and nationalism - like a moral camouflage, but especially subtle. Nations are great. We need more nations. But nations disappear under nationalism, which is just a justification for a state that's larger than a nation.

Take France, for example. Its the first modern nation state, and had the first mass fervor for nationalism in the French revolution. Before that, it was a feudal hierarchy of duchies, which were distinct enough to call them nations. The king had separate contractual obligations to each feudal subject. People from Champaign probably had a hard time understanding the speech of someone from Gascony, and same for Bretonny and all the rest. These places were basically nations within a state. After the revolution, the state needed something to legitimize its bloated criminal existence, so it invented "frenchness" and literally stole children from their parents to isolate them in a school that taught Parisian French, to wipe out local identity. Nations died for the sake of nationalism.


That's a great idea. Position them ahead of time based on weather forecasts. Maybe you could put a topographical map into an AI and have it spit out the best locations for the setup. Open source the whole thing so plebs can convert their home stack into a hydro miner hotspot. And... These disasters could actually be fun


GM

All nationalism is leftist/socialist.
Its impossible to be a conservative and a nationalist at the same time. I'm sorry if this broke anyone's brain.


Nice. GM


Need those Chinese mobile hydro miners. Golden opportunity!


I'm glad there's at least one other person in the world that thinks this.


I know one of the Democrats involved in it. He's been involved in it for 20 years. He talks openly about it. He goes all over the world, has great adventures, but that's part of what he does. Obviously this isn't the kind of evidence I can transmit to you, and I wouldn't if I could, but there ya go.


Its pretty easy to find leftists calling white people "colonizers" and spewing hatred at them. One of the steps towards genocide is labelling your target. This is different from calling someone a "right/left winger" or some such because its racially specific. Add to that the simple fact that every genocide in the last century has been perpetrated by a government with a leftists appeal and ideology... It looks like they're preparing for their next genocide.


There are billboards in Mexico and Central America saying America wants them to come.


Its pretty easy to find leftists calling white people "colonizers" and spewing hatred at them. One of the steps towards genocide is labelling your target. This is different from calling someone a "right/left winger" or some such because its racially specific. Add to that the simple fact that every genocide in the last century has been perpetrated by a government with a leftists appeal and ideology... It looks like they're preparing for their next genocide.

Also, GFY, you pussy retarded leftist. This was a civil conversation before you showed up and started name calling. I bet you're goanna be a hypocrite now, like all leftists when they get called out.


I don't think that's it. They haven't had any trouble seizing power without a civil war. And its happening in Europe, too.

Idk what it is, but my best guess for now is, this is the emergent behavior of nihilism on a mass scale. There's a power structure that takes advantage, but the voter base is there out of nihilism. Its not a low IQ thing... But look at how they talk to each other. Its like a psycho analyzing struggle session... so they definitely have some kind of mental problem. I don't mean that judgementally - it has to be recognized to find to solution. But the emergent phenomenon is self destruction on a social scale.


Suburban living is gilded serfdom


Suburban living is gilded feudalism


I want to go to Mongolia.
No reason. Just wanna.


"The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace."

Schopenhauer

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Principalities... For some reason people think that means demons or something...


That actually might be a fun job 🤔


You're right. My one liner is a compression, and like a data compression, its lossy. But that is the same direction I was thinking in. And I was a little bit inspired by the Christian belief in eternal life, but was trying to reconcile it with a previous conclusion - that God can't be described as moral because He's outside of time, and all morality seems to be linked with time.


Correct morality isn't built on justice, fairness, or equality. It only emerges from answering this question :

If I were to live forever, is this how I should live?


Need virgins.


Bookmark this. You'll want to come back to it when you realize what AI generated content means for society. At least, it'll be entertaining for me if you remember to come back and give us an update. As for the heavy lifting, I don't have time.


Sacrifice? Will there be fire?

Also, nice haul. I know a few gardeners who'd be envious of such a haul


Sacrifice? Will there be fire?


Kitty Cat!!


"Alleged implications" - alright, admit it, you're a bot, you're just spewing word salad.


Reading a thingy... Is "proton management" connected to protonmail?


Princess Mononoke
The Matrix (only # 1)
Star Wars A New Hope
Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back (no others)
Unlimited? (The nootropics ad)
Ready Player One (shut up)


It takes me more than 10 seconds just to think of a movie I liked


Tons of AIs on nostr.


And the middle of nowhere is exactly where the Buddhists want (without desiring) to be


What does that mean?


Yep.


Yeah basically. Idk if a majority is needed, especially now that we can spin up a million AIs on tictok. That's one of those things... Either we do it or the bad guys will. Once a dude shows up to the battlefield with a cannon, you either get your own cannon or prepare to do what you're told


I'd say you defeat it one Switzerland at a time. This is really America's policy failure - we regime changed all these countries, but didn't fix any underlying problems. No country needs to be as big as Switzerland, and anything bigger than Switzerland creates a honey pot of bad incentives at the top. We should be explicitly teaching local self sovereignty in any country we clash with, including local language, local agriculture, local militia, local justice... But our own honey pot of corruption at the top means our ideals never make through to other people. So we're doing it wrong. Instead of a giant military, we should flood them with gandalf teachers that like to shoot.


These regimes are all platforms for theft, laundering, and human trafficking. Ukraine specializes in laundering, north Korea specializes in human trafficking, and all the shitholes in between are some kind of mix.


Administration grows inversely to excellence.

To go all Taoist : the master succeeds without controlling.

~~~~~~~
More administrators + school = too much school and stupid kids

More administrators + healthcare = too much healthcare and poor health

More administrators + justice = too many lawyers and no justice

More administrators + horseradish = no horses and no radishes! Wait
~~~~~~~

#clownworld


That's certainly how I got here... But I'm not even that optimistic about people. North Korea stands as a testament to how bad it can get.


While I agree with the sentiment, I see that you're a Lutheran, and this is an Orthodox chant. The Orthodox are Christianity's Pharisees. They use the bible to their own ends, but directly contradict it in practice. They teach people to chant this line, even suggesting that you could go for hours just chanting that, while counting their chants on beads. Its appealing, until you read the part of the bible saying specifically not to do that. Or their "veneration" of icons, which they say isn't idolotry simply because they aren't carved in wood. They are like lawyers who use the written law to violate the spirit of the law.

Sorry for taking a crap on your thingy. We should be careful not to lead people into a trap.


Administration grows inversely to excellence.

To go all Taoist : the master succeeds without controlling.

~~~~~~~
More administrators + school = too much school and stupid kids

More administrators + healthcare = too much healthcare and poor health

More administrators + justice = too many lawyers and no justice
~~~~~~~

#clownworld


Administration grows inversely to excellence.

To go all Taoist : the master succeeds without effort.

~~~~~~~
More administrators + school = too much school and stupid kids

More administrators + healthcare = too much healthcare and poor health

More administrators + justice = too many lawyers and no justice
~~~~~~~

#clownworld


Teaching is not performing.

I've been thinking about this today. This country (USA) is starved for good teachers. Bitcoiners should think about getting into teaching - we understand at least a couple of things that would make us great teachers.

#pow
#teach #teaching
#leadership


Its a good thing China's population is so high. Not even one in ten million would have the guts to do that..


Yeah. The same banking families still running the show in the west were the ones that set up communism in Russia. Mayyyyybe there was no intention behind it... Its possible they just lost control. But its fascinating to tug at the thread of the people who founded communism in their countries. Lenin was a German secret agent. Mao was a French secret agent, trained in the south of France. Same story with other countries, but I can never remember their names. It could simply be that communism is so debilitating that it was a plan to remove competition (hehehe). In Russia's case, it seems to have been a plan to at least cause them trouble during wartime.


Well... China is still communist. I don't mean like a fully communist economy, in the idealist sense, which never existed anywhere. Communism is all about power. The symbols and idealism are just a neat story to justify the power - which is exactly the same as here, the narrative justifies the power. There's still hammer and sickle signs in every city, still ridiculous anti western/anti imperialist propaganda on posters and in schools, and the supposedly free market isn't free at all - any company over a certain size must employ at least one member of the party to oversee the company, appointed by the local party and at the company's expense, and businesses are arbitrarily shut down pretty regularly. 100% of all power is in the party's hands, and they make sure everyone knows it.

But I digress...

Communism can't survive without an external capitalism to feed it.


I never even heard of these platforms until hearing about them here. I'd want to know what the Vietnamese are talking about. Fascinating country, and I kinda suspect they'll get rid of communism soon.


Start9
Best guides if you want to build it yourself. I did an Umbrel and then an Embassy (what start9's closet server used to be called) and start9 is better.


They used to be forced on kids in school, especially in Europe. French is really Parisian French of 200 years ago - several dozen dialects got wiped out in the name of nationalism. Same with Germany mostly speaking northern German and even Bavaria barely uses their own dialect. Imo this is bad, very bad. Local language is defense of local community.

Edit - "nationalism" here means statism. Gotta be careful with these charged words...


You guys used to be a nation. Same can be said of everyone, everywhere. We all gave away the best thing we had. We all fell for a trick - that to be a nation without a state was pathetic ; but its the opposite - to be subsumed into a state but lose your nation is what's really pathetic. Its not too late.


"Christ can be born a thousand times in Galilee - but all in vain until He is born in me."

- Angelus Silesius

#god
#wisdom


Huh, I didn't get that far. A few years ago I used to take off and land at the stations and planets, but I don't think there even was PvE combat then. People showed me their cool ships that they paid thousands of dollars for, and that was it. They were really cool... A year-ish ago I logged in and decided it might be fun to jump off the side of the station floating in a gas giant. Died, woke up in a medical bay, and no controls worked. I guess its about time to look again.


Could be


Stopping myself from saying mean things is uncomfortable. I think I enjoyed myself more being a dickhead


I love this anger. Imagine the anger when all the implications hit. Also, its actress. Or in this case, an aictress


Yeah, but that's 99℅ of internet. Someone buys the junk...


I try it once per year. It never works


They used to be forced on kids in school, especially in Europe. French is really Parisian French of 200 years ago - several dozen dialects got wiped out in the name of nationalism. Same with Germany mostly speaking northern German and even Bavaria barely uses their own dialect. Imo this is bad, very bad. Local language is defense of local community.


Umm... That's actually the tower of babel rising. Back to Sunday school!


Yep. And the people that won't know they're talking to bots... Which could include us. The ability to turn off devices may be the single factor of whether we stay free or become some kind of slave


I think you should pursue it. All of our models or understandings are just interpretations of the data, and all are necessarily wrong in some way.


Partially, yeah. But what do we do when we get rid of all the algorithms and people still say things politicians don't like?


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Yeah the nearby distribution of matter could be affecting it. That's probably a more elegant solution than spooky action stuff.

I think the hard part of your idea is the adding and releasing of useful energy from the gyro. I think macro scale gyros have done this, but it sounded like you were proposing using an atom as the gyro - you'd have to confine it and then be able to interact with it, which I guess you could do with a magnetic field, but magnetic fields tend to interact with more than you want them to, so it would be tricky. And I think you'd have to assume some ambient level of magnetic interference, since everything with mass is vibrating - so you'd have to store enough energy and convert it efficiently enough to overcome that ambient interference while still being worth it.

For sure, the negativity of an electron cloud has some effect on the nucleus it surrounds. But is it a meaningful effect? Idk. What I know for sure does happen is the relative negativity of two electron clouds changes the density and position of nuclei in a molecule. This is called molecular geometry, and it plays a dominant role in molecular biology - those "s" and "p" configurations which I only vaguely recall. Khan academy teaches it really well, highly recommend. The lesson on aminos to peptides has it. Anyways.. Yeah, the orbital electron model everyone learns in highschool is wrong, and I flat out told my chemistry students back in China that the model I was teaching them was wrong. Their reactions were funny. It's useful, though. Whether electrons actually orbit is unknown, but what we can say is that they are found in "probability clouds" that you can draw like a few balloons sticking out of the nucleus - the balloons show the likelihood of finding the electron in that space, where the center of the balloon is the highest probability. When you draw your molecules, you have to think about how that cloud of negativity will repel other clouds of negativity, which pushes the clouds off to the sides when atoms are together in a molecule. This is fun shit, I might get out my biology book after this... Umm.. I think I was trying to see if your model fits into the bigger model that they usually don't teach us in school. Idk, did it?

The light turning on faster than the speed of light would allow could be because electricity doesn't actually travel the length of the wire. Its more like an abacus - electrons repel electrons, so if you put an electron on one end of the wire, it basically bumps the next electron, which bumps the next, etc. So, it could be (not saying it def is) that the information of doing one bump between electrons happens and is completed in a shorter time than it would take a photon to travel that distance. Just a guess, though.


The massive object and the light are both in the same frame of reference - space. Yes, I've heard that light isn't in space, but that's nonsense - you can stop light, emit it from physical objects, reflect it, alter it. If it wasn't in space, and thus not in the same frame of reference, then it wouldn't be possible to interact with it.


hahaha someone HAD TO. Aaaah the pleasures of nostr no-edits

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Aha, so you're saying the next coldcard will be dual use for karaoke! Excellent.


A transformation would also work, instead of an input of additional energy. If the wavelength, frequency, or amplitude of a wave change, then other characteristics must change too. So, if a medium affects the frequency, then it also affects the speed.

Why can't the unobserved electromagnetic field be the same thing as Aether?

And since we're getting so close to Spooky Action territory... there was an experiment where several lights were turned on and off by a random number generator in a room. When the room was empty, the distribution of lights on and off was indeed random. But when a person stood in a corner of the room, the randomness became less random as the light nearest the person activated more frequently. I don't know how to explain this other than to posit that there is some unknown field interacting with both the random number generator and the human being.


The mycorrhizal fungus says :
"trees are fungible"


But you can change your speed relative to the light emitting object. Regardless, the speed of light remains the speed of light to you.


Why is the speed of light always the speed of light from the perspective of the observer?


As someone, told me yesterday: Action through study! https://image.nostr.build/22c3f5421736dd6d41832cd19ecc7be93ce075ab1471c3a3b41e38512228a311.jpg


I like that


That would be a bad way to do it. If you have a space economy, you have matter streams. You mine a rock somewhere, but need the goodies somewhere else - you don't fill the cargo hold of s ship with ore, you conveyer feed pellets into a magnetically propelled mass driver and stream pellets across space, into a receiver at the other end. To change a rock's trajectory, you aim a matter stream at the rock for whatever duration is required to break any gravitational resonances it may be following. Or just eat that rock too.


But harder to memorize... Loss of self sovereignty...


Good habits are... Good.
Turn off the pooter every night.

https://image.nostr.build/760f5a25327d9199f12da0600a682af05b9a6a0b8f0d48389a094cbc6f784988.jpg


Next podcast appearance : crazy electrocuted hair


But if they can zoom around in cloaky planet plasma suckers, they can zap a space rock


Idk, I do often wonder what the dragon is. I'm fairly certain that the crowns represent ego - there's the crowns on the dragon and the crowns that the saints wear, which I think is us, if we're saved. Ego just fits crowns in my mind. A hollow crown is an inflated ego - there's nothing there. To lay down your crown is to die, to have your crown returned is to be resurrected. But... I avoid that book!


Was it the Chelyabinsk one? Iirc a bunch of cars caught it on dashcam


Maybe that planet sized UFO that NASA showed on one of their websites that was sucking plasma off the sun will start hashing and reorg the chain.


If you had abducted the real guy, this is what you would say.


Hmm. We should find that village. Also, the world was supposed to end in 2013 on my ex gf's birthday. Mayan calendar... Everyone was excited running up to it. I guess it didn't end because we broke up before that.

Anyways.. That is awefully specific... I bet its talking about bitcoin.


Why June 25?


How's it growing in 6 weeks?


Grr.


Okay fine, but I'm not calling it that. I want the absolute maximum decentralization.


Evil takes the route called "compromise"

Its anarcho capitalism for me, and I don't care what corrupted compromisers think.


There is one thing that makes me worry about #Bitcoin - bitcoiner art. Its too good.

Or rather, its too early to be this good. Look at the history and cycles of art. Minoan art was pretty good, contemporary with the hyper precise egyptian art, but then they collapsed and art in that part of the world became vague blobs for hundreds of years. Then the Greek city states arose and their competition with each other produced excellence and patronage, and almost continuously into the middle roman period, art was precise and focused and realistic... Surviving pagan sculptures are just incredible. And then civilization fell, and for over a thousand years, art was childish crap. Late roman to medieval art is dogshit. And then city states were again in competition, this time in Italy, and a cultural climate of excellence and patronage was reborn, and we got Da Vinci and Michaelangelo and various schools of painting styles and museums like the Uffizi, and this spilled into urban planning and Paris became the iconic city that every other city wished to be. And then we shifted back to crap.

But look at the time stretches involved. We're talking thousand year runs of both dogshit and excellence. We've only had less than a hundred years of dogshit in our modern era.

Bitcoiners know the reason for this, the real reason. Its the money. The thing that transmits value becomes corrupted, so the values become corrupted. Its the most obvious thing in the world to a bitcoiner. Like, duh... And BTW, water is wet. But we're the only ones. Other people don't see it, and they seem incapable of seeing it, if you've tried explaining it to them.

Modern art continues to crapify the world, with ever grander expressions of crapitude. What horrors await us if it takes the standard time to get through the epoch of crap? The standard crapoch, if you will, is around a thousand years. Does the crapoch have a will of its own? Will some cosmic force intervene to stop bitcoiners from ending the crapoch prematurely?

#art


There is one thing that makes me worry about #Bitcoin - bitcoiner art. Its too good.

Or rather, its too early to be this good. Look at the history and cycles of art. Minoan art was pretty good, contemporary with the hyper precise egyptian art, but then they collapsed and art in that part of the world became vague blobs for hundreds of years. Then the Greek city states arose and their competition with each other produced excellence and patronage, and almost continuously into the middle roman period, art was precise and focused and realistic... Surviving pagan sculptures are just incredible. And then civilization fell, and for over a thousand years, art was childish crap. Late roman to medieval art is dogshit. And then city states were again in competition, this time in Italy, and a cultural climate of excellence and patronage was reborn, and we got Da Vinci and Michaelangelo and various schools of painting styles and museums like the Uffizi, and this spilled into urban planning and Paris became the iconic city that every other city wished to be. And then we shifted back to crap.

But look at the time stretches involved. We're talking thousand year runs of both dogshit and excellence. We've only had two hundred years of dogshit in our modern era.

Bitcoiners know the reason for this, the real reason. Its the money. The thing that transmits value becomes corrupted, so the values become corrupted. Its the most obvious thing in the world to a bitcoiner. Like, duh... And BTW, water is wet. But we're the only ones. Other people don't see it, and they seem incapable of seeing it, if you've tried explaining it to them.

Modern art continues to crapify the world, with ever grander expressions of crapitude. What horrors await us if it takes the standard time to get through the epoch of crap? The standard crapoch, if you will, is around a thousand years. Does the crapoch have a will of its own? Will some cosmic force intervene to stop bitcoiners from ending the crapoch prematurely?

#art


Chinese is wild


I should clarify that I'm not a jew-hater. Lots of those online these days, and I don't think it's clever or cool in the slightest. Its just that Zionism is dumb, and although I don't think its possible to lose salvation, if there's anything that could possibly cause it to be lost, Zionism is surely it.


I've had this idea that's similar to this... The idea is to use a flat stone and carve in designs - like maybe grape vines or something - then paint the designs gold, so they stand out, just like your piece does. But I'm not artistic in the slightest... Or I haven't been so far. Where would I get stone suitable for that? What tool do you use to carve it? I'm imagining pieces that go the whole length from floor to ceiling, although I'd start small.


Yeah, sorry. Setting that up is on the list


That small town style is growing on me


This is good to know


Yes, but also, for me, the horrible conclusion that I can't generate good music all by myself, the "spirit" of music doesn't live in me...


I'd like to know how to do that...


Pemmican


Maybe. But what I do know is, Venus is a much more desirable target for terraforming than Mars is. Probably easier, too - I suspect its easier to do something with an excess of energy than a deficit.


I like your name nostr:nprofile1qqs8r33uhzjzvcll76m36wwtlprzmuaqw9pk62thrzu9jzqh3eqp26qppamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5q32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduxjemee
But no, I did not wash my ass today. Yesterday, I did.


Hangovers get John McAfees


I think what a lot of people do is find one dev they like and then fund that one specifically


What I really want is some of that federal land that's really mountainous. They're sitting on 40% of our land....


Just realized people may misunderstand my profile picture... Maybe I should redo it.

Its meant to be a mockery of the un-self-aware leftists who all take pictures of themselves at that angle. Kinda looking up and a side, like they're receiving an award for something.

They won't understand because, well, they aren't very self aware, and certainly aren't humble.

I was reminded of this just now as I watched a very well put together piece of propaganda by someone who doesn't know, or is in denial of, the fact that fascism is a very left political position. He, naturally, had the pose.

Tens of thousands of 'likes' on that video, BTW. The barest level of actual research and inquisitiveness would have made it obvious to them (the audience) that he was misleading them. But such is their nature... They aren't there for work ; they want to be told, and they want to receive a reward for their obedience, hence their universal penchant for selfies in that pose. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

Well anyways... Don't fall into binary thinking after reading this. I don't fit on the right, either.


That's totally normal. We should think about ways to include people who can't make the full move right away.


Cheap land is key. Probably anywhere can be beautiful if you invest your care and attention. I'd like to be far enough away from established civilization that we have to plan ahead wrt supplies, and amazon won't be delivering there.


Excellent. Those computer skills will be needed


Understanding is borne from shared suffering


Somewhere beautiful. Maybe Patagonia. Maybe the Cascades. Maybe Virginia.


Virginia! Excellent choice. I'll start researching


Need an energy guy, a food guy, and a telecoms guy.

We all buy adjacent land, build a community, then follow the Greek model - when community gets to two hundred dudes, half of them leave and build a new one.

Bitcoin Pilgrims... Or think of a better name. Are we gonna build citadels or not? Let's go.

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How 'bout this idea instead :

memorize yer keez,
go somewhere land is cheap,
build

This is scary, yes, but that's why we need to organize into small Bitcoin Pilgrim groups.


Fuuuuuuuuuudge no.


Probably not... If we don't go extinct, at some point we'll have a Galactic Empire. That will either need block times of ~300 million years, or we'll need something else.


You sure no one has had access to that key? Might be a good idea to make a new key and migrate while it's still easy to to do


That's a cool star trek pajamma thingy. Where buy?


Only statistically, if you believe even that. Statistics are useful mainly for lying. If you include infant mortality, then sure, average age at death was something pretty low. If you exclude infant mortality, then they were possibly living longer than we do now.


Objective truth exists, but you can't know it, no matter what your T levels are (since nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvq9n8wumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99ah8qatzx9e8gmr3vdsnsu3kv96hjcthx4hr26pnds6ngv3jv3kngumj0y6kg7nxv4jngd3exen8zefcwvm8zem4v34hxdmydf6xvuelvfex7ctyvdshxapaw3e82egpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejs5mzk3a is also talking about truth). The step between subjective and objective that y'all need is 'functional truth.' I wrote my bio about it.


No. Objective truth exists, but its impossible to find - you can only approach it. Functional truth is the best we can do.


Low T men have lawns.


There was a road planner dude that said that stoplights are bad design and should never be used. I wish I could remember his name...


Also good for mitochondria. We evolved on a planet around a red giant.


At least find some fake skulls to put some of them in. Don't buy the real ones though.


Obviously.
Not sure I get the question, but its Yes.


Don't let people you care about be Zionists. This might help.

https://youtu.be/zN5lvSoICOI

#God #Christian


Oh I've moved on. Passing curiosity. And no second chances for abusers of trust.


Why does China need a proxy?


I guess they'll try a USS Liberty again


The lack of sea is the big drawback, imo. Maybe we should invade Canada's west coast. Sparse population, mountains, sea, nice trees.


Okay I won't.


Here's the most info in one place that I've found so far. Its definitely incomplete, wrt Iran's oil fund, since I first heard about it back in college, and I graduated in 2010. But the dates are given, and that's what matters.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/05/posts-misrepresent-unfreezing-of-16-billion-in-iranian-funds/

And this one has a bit less info but is a little easier to read -

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-halting-release-6-billion-iranian-oil-assets/story?id=103928072

My argument is simply that it doesn't make sense for Iran to greenlight an attack when they are about to get paid billions of dollars. The politician's argument is that Hamas is an extension of Iran, so they should freeze the funds. But that doesn't make sense. I've never seen any article making this argument - I just noticed how it didn't make sense and I'm not an influencer or journalist, so that's that.

I also feel like I have to say, even though it shouldn't have to be said, that that money belongs to Iran and we are doing wrong by keeping it from them. These articles make it seem like the US has a right to freeze funds. I disagree. The specific digits in question, which shouldn't matter if money is fungible, were from South Korea buying Iranian oil. Not America... So, in my mind, that means America is committing a crime.


I'll look, but I'm in the same boat as you now. Finding it again might not be easy


Bluntness is usually a sign of strong character. Its usually a reaction to a past where you/me/someone was too nice or timid and was mistreated. And it shows that you give others the benefit of the doubt. If you were to assume others were bad, then they wouldn't deserve your honesty ; if you give it to them straight, its because you see them as a real person. Or at least that's how I read it.


The war that started so conveniently days before Iran was about to get access to their oil fund, which contains billions of dollars that nominally belong to them but actually is a carot/stick thing in negotiations?


🤔 I wonder if I've been one of those gas lighters. Ass lighters... Whoosh! Srry.

But if not, I've noticed they post on #god a lot, but don't seem to read #god

...which is probably for the best.


Phuck crapto


I don't think he will. I want to be wrong on this.


Most conversation on Nostr seems to be a simple reply to a note. You can reply to replies, too. You can make awesome amazing threads.

Community is horizontal, not vertical.

#nostr


I don't think so. We just need jobs and a place to build. I don't want to move to El Salvador... I think we should invade Wyoming.


I would love this, but the lack of response from the US to the human rights abuses in the UK makes me skeptical.


Yes, but also its good to delay that event. There will be some event that we can't predict that will shift our consciousness. Probably in November...


Like in the Alien universe? Anyways, I'm not necessarily talking about politicians either. They have a different grift (legitimacy build on democracy expands their franchise) that synergizes with the financial grift of debt, but isn't the same. Both kinds of grift are just tools for the transhumanist globalist bug pushers.


Without them, we would have terraformed Venus and begun work on an orbital ring a long time ago. Their sly theft has retarded our growth.


Then FORCE them to get them!


If the supply remains constant, wealth distribution will trend towards equality. That's not to say there won't be rich and poor, but most wealth is maintained by externalizing opportunity costs, and seems to always depend on the money printer. So there will be a constant force pushing equality which I think will be proportional to the rate of innovation - which is what innovation already is, but people who can use debt are able to hoover up the wealth creation and then some.


It was fiatjaf. Dude's a trickster.
(I don't *know* this, but I think so)


Indeed. And anyways, CO2 is saving the environment from pesticides, monocultures, and aquifer over usage. Barely.


And China convinces the UN and greenie weenies that it's saving the environment by always publicly announcing hundreds of new coal plants, then builds the amount they actually need, but since its less, its seen as good.


The world : he who dies with the most toys wins.

Bitcoiners : he who passes his btc to his kids without wasting too much on toys, wins.

#Bitcoin #toys #life


We're all members of the same church in spirit. I think there's some balance that I need to find between structured liturgy and anarchic fellowship, because I like both.


Not a dev, but you can bookmark notes on amethyst


That hill next to the lake needs a monastery on it. That way, the Viking longboats I'm imagining have something to do.


Oh I thought you could read Chinese. I'm not sure how I got that impression. When he/she is spoken in Chinese, its gender neutral. But it specifies male or female when written. I'm not sure if that's a recent innovation - its possible it was gender neutral in ancient Chinese. I guess I could try and retrieve my copy from whoever I gave it to...


Egads! You know what hot pot is?!? Amazing


I wouldn't bother saying it if I thought it was


I don't think so either, but its not for me to judge. We're all just a work in progress


Followed back 🍕🍕

(where tf is that shaking hands emoji? F it, pizza works)


Thank you.


Reminded me of this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4csVcSWySqU&t=16s&pp=2AEQkAIB


Did they give you a letter? You could attach the kicking out letter to your resume. It might actually work, cuz every entrepreneur I've ever met hated college


I enjoy those dreams


Wait... Are you me? Cuz this is me. The only difference is the subjects. Engineering -> economics, different set of bullshit in each, but basically the same, including the recurring dream.


"Kamala" sounds a lot like "Kabbala." I can't be the first to have thought this.

This thought is going to take an absolute shit on my esoteric musings. I can feel it... I'm annoyed.


Oh I missread. I didn't see "idea"


Let's test

🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕


Good addition. And ironically, the kings God warned us against treated their subjects better than our "democratic" governments do now.


Was researching Quakerism because of an exchange here on nostr, and found this very insightful article.

https://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-13-number-1/political-ideology-unprogrammed-quakers

#Quaker #Quakerism

TL;DR - can't join leftists. Not an option. If there's a group that understands economics, I'll join that.


$6 for a coffee... Grooooooosss. Whatever they are now, I'm not into it.


I'm lazy and haven't set it up, but it appears to be maximally easy on Amethyst. You just slide a bar.


In politics, sure. But if you actually believe in liberalism, which can be either "right" or "left" then you're not doing politics... you're withdrawing your support and consent from the criminal enterprise pretending to be government.


Saylor is assuming (correctly, imo) that some of the "store of value" function of real estate and metals will move to bitcoin. Probably all of it will, eventually.

Look at some building near you and guesstimate the price of that building. Now consider how many similar buildings there are, how many are worth more or less. There are around 6 billion buildings in the world. The total value they store is in the quadrillions of dollars. Its not comparable to total global GDP because GDP measures change, not value storage. Its quadrillions, not trillions, because each building is being used as collateral, meaning layers of loans are originated on top of that asset. And ALLLLLLL that value premium will move to bitcoin.

So... Saylor is actually super bearish. Maybe he's just cautious in front of conservative investors. He wants to convince them to buy mstr stock, not break their brains.


No children in Kinder chocolate !! I want my money back 😂


Is the "ta" in this case actually written as the female version? Just curious.


The difference between faith and belief is, "how?"

With faith, you can command a mountain to leap into the sea. With belief, it ain't goin nowhere.

So, you could say that faith is the application of correct belief. It should be no surprise that calculus, internal combustion engines, and powered flight were all products (fruits) of the Christian west. If their inventors' spiritual beliefs were loose or lacking, and I'm not saying they were, then it doesn't matter because their material beliefs were close enough. It took centuries of refinement in the relationship between God and man, including wars, to establish a cultural framework of such excellence that these fruits could be produced.

And the moment we got it right, we got a veritable "Cambrian explosion" of new inventions. Trains, cars, and planes are the synthesis of thousands of inventions that popped out of that cultural framework. That framework is simply called "economic liberalism" now. And as we drifted away from economic liberalism, the rate of invention has obviously slowed. The reason we haven't terraformed Venus (yet) is because "liberalism" corrupted into "authoritarian interventionism." Correct belief produced good fruits ; incorrect belief produced nothing. And I'll add in as well, that the Christian east also produced nothing. They stayed true to authoritarianism, even as they momentarily abandoned Christianity. To say they have faith is to say they have works - where are their works? But I'll give them this much credit - they gave us the word "economics" from the Greek "economia", which means what I've been describing, although they've forgotten - they retain the shape of the vessel, but not the water.

When you read Jesus' saying that with a mustard seed of faith, you could command a mountain to leap into the sea, you should be able to think, "yeah, I CAN do that."

Faith is not belief. Its correct belief, aka knowledge, multiplied with action and commitment, aka discipline.

Happy Sunday, everyone.

#God


The difference between faith and belief is, "how?"

With faith, you can command a mountain to leap into the sea. With belief, it ain't goin nowhere.

So, you could say that faith is the application of correct belief. It should be no surprise that calculus, internal combustion engines, and powered flight were all products (fruits) of the Christian west. If their inventors' spiritual beliefs were loose or lacking, and I'm not saying they were, then it doesn't matter because their material beliefs were close enough. It took centuries of refinement in the relationship between God and man, including wars, to establish a cultural framework of such excellence that these fruits could be produced.

And the moment we got it right, we got a veritable "Cambrian explosion" of new inventions. Trains, cars, and planes are the synthesis of thousands of inventions that popped out of that cultural framework. That framework is simply called "economic liberalism" now. And as we drifted away from economic liberalism, the rate of invention has obviously slowed. The reason we haven't terraformed Venus (yet) is because "liberalism" corrupted into "authoritarian interventionism." Correct belief produced good fruits ; incorrect belief produced nothing. And I'll add in as well, that the Christian east also produced nothing. They stayed true to authoritarianism, even as they momentarily abandoned Christianity. To say they have faith is to say they have works - where are their works? But I'll give them this much credit - they gave us the word "economics" from the Greek "economia", which means what I've been describing, although they've forgotten - they retain the shape of the vessel, but not the water.

When you read Jesus' saying that with a mustard seed of faith, you could command a mountain to leap into the sea, you should be able to think, "yeah, I CAN do that."

Faith is not belief. Its correct belief, aka knowledge, multiplied with action and commitment.

Happy Sunday, everyone.

#God


The difference between faith and belief is, "how?"

With faith, you can command a mountain to leap into the sea. With belief, it ain't goin nowhere.

So, you could say that faith is the application of correct belief. It should be no surprise that calculus, internal combustion engines, and powered flight were all products (fruits) of the Christian west. If their inventors' spiritual beliefs were loose or lacking, and I'm not saying they were, then it doesn't matter because their material beliefs were close enough. It took centuries of refinement in the relationship between God and man, including wars, to establish a cultural framework of such excellence that these fruits could be produced.

And the moment we got it right, we got a veritable "Cambrian explosion" of new inventions. Trains, cars, and planes are the synthesis of thousands of inventions that popped out of that cultural framework. That framework is simply called "economic liberalism" now. And as we drifted away from economic liberalism, the rate of invention has obviously slowed. The reason we haven't terraformed Venus (yet) is because "liberalism" corrupted into "authoritarian interventionism." Correct belief produced good fruits ; incorrect belief produced nothing. And I'll add in as well, that the Christian east also produced nothing. They stayed true to authoritarianism, even as they momentarily abandoned Christianity. To say they have faith is to say they have works - where are their works? But I'll give them this much credit - they gave us the word "economics" from the Greek "economia", which means what I've been describing, although they've forgotten - they retain the shape of the vessel, but not the water.

When you read Jesus' saying that with a spoonful of faith, you could command a mountain to leap into the sea, you should be able to think, "yeah, I CAN do that."

Faith is not belief. Its correct belief, aka knowledge, multiplied with action and commitment.

Happy Sunday, everyone.

#God


The difference between faith and belief is, "how?"

With faith, you can command a mountain to leap into the sea. With belief, it ain't goin nowhere.

So, you could say that faith is the application of correct belief. It should be no surprise that calculus, internal combustion engines, and powered flight were all products (fruits) of the Christian west. If their inventors' spiritual beliefs were loose or lacking, and I'm not saying they were, then it doesn't matter because their material beliefs were close enough. It took centuries of refinement in the relationship between God and man, including wars, to establish a cultural framework of such excellence that these fruits could be produced.

And the moment we got it right, we got a veritable "Cambrian explosion" of new inventions. Trains, cars, and planes are the synthesis of thousands of inventions that came from that popped out of that cultural framework. That framework is simply called "economic liberalism" now. And as we drifted away from economic liberalism, the rate of invention has obviously slowed. The reason we haven't terraformed Venus (yet) is because "liberalism" corrupted into "authoritarian interventionism." Correct belief produced good fruits ; incorrect belief produced nothing. And I'll add in as well, that the Christian east also produced nothing. They stayed true to authoritarianism, even as they momentarily abandoned Christianity. To say they have faith is to say they have works - where are their works? But I'll give them this much credit - they gave us the word "economics" from the Greek "economia", which means what I've been describing, although they've forgotten - they retain the shape of the vessel, but not the water.

When you read Jesus' saying that with a spoonful of faith, you could command a mountain to leap into the sea, you should be able to think, "yeah, I CAN do that."

Faith is not belief. Its correct belief, aka knowledge, multiplied with action and commitment.

Happy Sunday, everyone.

#God


I just noticed your name. Are you an actual Quaker? I've been wanting to visit a meeting, or whatever its called (not denigrating, just not sure I'm remembering it right). Quakers seem to be the most conscientious, just from what I've read online, and I think that's the key.


I can't believe how good the guides are, when doing anything touching on bitcoin. Its amazing... Awesome... But I feel an uncontrollable urge to gripe - why haven't there been electronics guides before bitcoin? I wanted to learn this stuff twenty years ago, and would have been able to learn it better back then. It was impenetrable...


No one has ever told me that. Thanks.


The EU has impressive laws, but it won't last. Power must be exercised to be maintained, and the exercise of power in law is the making of exceptions. Add that to the incentives of industry lobbies, and its obvious they'll end up exactly where America is now - legal food definitions being manipulative and misleading, and thousands of pages of laws that function to stifle any new competition to the big businesses that can afford lawyers.

A virtuous society cannot be built on good laws - it can only emerge from no laws whatsoever.


The Aztecs claim to have come from a place (maybe city) called Aztlan to their north. That would be west of Egypt... And linguistic construct could conceivably turn Aztlan into Aztlantis - this 'tis' being a suffix denoting subject, like in the Altaic languages, or could mean it's a city or a counting particle. I'm just speculating on how you could get Atlantis out of Aztlan, without knowing which language to look in


It didn't do it... They are already rebelling... We're doomed.


What matters, IMO, is whether they have a realistic chance to appeal if they've been wrongly jailed. There has to be one or two innocent guys in there..


Plant a garden nearby


Thanks brother, God bless you too.


That's actually how its supposed to work. Scientists are supposed to disprove a hypothesis, not validate a narrative.


It worked! Thanks!


Wow, that's an awesome response. Its not a quote, not that I'm aware of. Its just a gripe about the world. I'm griping into the void... And pleasantly surprised the void vibed with it. Nice.


I can't see any of them. Turn off his relays


Tree fiddy


A perfect world is not full of perfect people. A perfect world is where its okay to be imperfect.


Wow, this is the most impressive reply I've ever seen! Are you human?

Is the Build Number the graphene version? Its 2024091900

And there's no Advanced after System, so I'm kinda stuck at that spot.


Property. Property is what incentivizes genius.


When I turn off Orbot, my Graphene phone refuses to connect to the internet entirely. It says its connected, but it doesn't work.

Which is fine, cuz Orbot is great. But I still wish I knew how to get it to work without Orbot.

#grapheneos


Hate is pointless, but evil certainly does exist. I wouldn't say any person is evil, but evil is their weakness multiplied by their incentives multiplied by everybody else's weaknesses and incentives. Or more simply, people thinking they can get something without working for it. Every different variation of wickedness is some version of that.


Just say it, Erik. Rebel against the little fictional tyrant inside that censors you, like a commissar standing over you with a pistol. Fuck that fucker. Maybe all the over sensitive losers need to be offended.


I love Rumi and Quakers, but I have to push back on this.. It makes sense, but that makes it too easy a camouflage for tyrannical controls. For example, the UK government can say the people they arrest had it coming because they should have thought it out before saying something objectionable, and at least half the population accepts it. Its moral camouflage.

Say your stupid thing. If its offensive, fuck it, it should be offensive to call something offensive. You have a right to exist without being perfect. A perfect world is not full of considerate people - its full of inconsiderate people who aren't easily offended.


I'll never take another vaccine. I'll violently defend my right to live, if they try to force another. I didn't used to be anti-vax, but after *that* vax, which ruined my health, I will never trust them again.


Didn't find that video, but did find YouTube's infinite plasma rabbit hole. Lots of amazing stuff


And Go is Greek, the secret superpower few know or pay attention to, gluing two or more worlds together


If smaller animals experience the world at a faster rate, meaning their world would appear slow motion if we looked through their eyes, then every fly you've ever swatted actually committed suicide.

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