Reminds me of Socrates at the Oracle - "I know that I know nothing" - going by memory, I almost certainly got it wrong... But close enough.

This was part of how I realized that God must exist. That and him yelling at me, but I still had to be sure I wasn't crazy.

Its impossible to know anything in fullness. Take gravity - we have great equations to describe the behavior of gravity, and we've never found an instance of gravity violating the equations, at least not since Einstein adjusted for relativity. (actually we might have, I'll get to that) But we can still can't claim to know the perfect equation for gravity. There could be some conditions, in magnitude or scale or something else that we haven't seen, where we would need to add some little constant to keep the equation working, and at every scale we've measured the constant would have no effect, but at the right circumstances, like the size of a universe, it makes a difference. Then suppose we make those observations, fix the equation, but there's still something we didn't think of... That would go on forever. So the thing to realize is, gravity is not the gravity equation. The real thing is separate from our description of it. The map is not the territory.

But that's true of everything. Everything you see and touch, is just a representation of the real thing.

The reason scientists think there's dark energy is because the milky way rotates in a way that they can't get out of the gravity equations. So we have evidence of... something. An unknown. Maybe its energy, but it could just be that we don't quite describe gravity in our equations accurately enough.

So, this is what I say in my bio : knowledge approaches the limit of Truth asymptotically. We refine and refine forever, but the real world, the whole Truth of reality, is always beyond us. And not just a little beyond us - infinitely beyond us. In the context of an asymptote approaching its limit, any imperfection is infinite imperfection.

But if we are infinitely away from Truth, then we can say that Truth is infinitely perfect in all things. This may seem like a leap, but I don't think it is. A real thing, as opposed to its symbolic representation, *exists*. I'm being redundant because its honestly like a zen koan.  It doesn't make sense to describe a real thing because the real thing describes itself - it is the map and the territory. So a zen teacher points at a duck and says "what's that?" And the student answers, "a duck" and gets whacked for being wrong. The correct answer, although still a symbolic representation, is "quack quack quack!"

Now if the thing is the thing, and it's infinite and enduring, can you subtract one thing off of it and make it less? Nope. Infinity minus one is infinity. Infinity minus an entire personality is infinity. Infinity minus a divinity is infinity. Infinity minus a pantheon of divinities is infinities.

Who are you? I am.
Says everything in the universe.

I got carried away. I hope it was a good read.


Reminds me of Socrates at the Oracle - "I know that I know nothing" - going by memory, I'm almost certainly got it wrong... But close enough.

This was part of how I realized that God must exist. That and him yelling at me, but I still had to be sure I wasn't crazy.

Its impossible to know anything in fullness. Take gravity - we have great equations to describe the behavior of gravity, and we've never found an instance of gravity violating the equations, at least not since Einstein adjusted for relativity. (actually we might have, I'll get to that) But we can still can't claim to know the perfect equation for gravity. There could be some conditions, in magnitude or scale or something else that we haven't seen, where we would need to add some little constant to keep the equation working, and at every scale we've measured the constant would have no effect, but at the right circumstances, like the size of a universe, it makes a difference. Then suppose we make those observations, fix the equation, but there's still something we didn't think of... That would go on forever. So the thing to realize is, gravity is not the gravity equation. The real thing is separate from our description of it. The map is not the territory.

But that's true of everything. Everything you see and touch, is just a representation of the real thing.

The reason scientists think there's dark energy is because the milky way rotates in a way that they can't get out of the gravity equations. So we have evidence of... something. An unknown. Maybe its energy, but it could just be that we don't quite describe gravity in our equations accurately enough.

So, this is what I say in my bio : knowledge approaches the limit of Truth asymptotically. We refine and refine forever, but the real world, the whole Truth of reality, is always beyond us. And not just a little beyond us - infinitely beyond us. In the context of an asymptote approaching its limit, any imperfection is infinite imperfection.

But if we are infinitely away from Truth, then we can say that Truth is infinitely perfect in all things. This may seem like a leap, but I don't think it is. A real thing, as opposed to its symbolic representation, *exists*. I'm being redundant because its honestly like a zen koan.  It doesn't make sense to describe a real thing because the real thing describes itself - it is the map and the territory. So a zen teacher points at a duck and says "what's that?" And the student answers, "a duck" and gets whacked for being wrong. The correct answer, although still a symbolic representation, is "quack quack quack!"

Now if the thing is the thing, and it's infinite and enduring, can you subtract one thing off of it and make it less? Nope. Infinity minus one is infinity. Infinity minus an entire personality is infinity. Infinity minus a divinity is infinity. Infinity minus a pantheon of divinities is infinities.

Who are you? I am.
Says everything in the universe.

I got carried away. I hope it was a good read.


Reading other comments... we've stirred the hive


I'm pretty sure I've seen both spellings -  Arius and Aryans - for the religious thing


My head hurts.


I'm being too brainy today. Its heavy. Need comedy.


This is why Aristotle and Mark Twain are the two Great Attractors of attributions.


Ah. Well, God is infinite, so anything that can be said about him is a form of a violation of the totality of God, since a definition is a limitation. God can peel off a piece of himself, of any size, and not reduce the magnitude of his infinitude... because infinite is boundless, unending, a fractal and multidimensional cornucopia of grace.

When Muslims declare "god is one!" they are setting a limitation on him, which is blasphemy if your version of God is a punisher. Same for when Catholics say that God is a Trinity. The closest to truthful definition I've heard of God comes from Buddhists, because they assert nothingness. Nothingness is at least boundless. But the best definition of the Spirit I've heard was in the Dao de Jing, which uses koans to pin the meaning between negations, and say "from the one came the three, from the three came the ten thousand things." Or something like that.


Ah. Well, God is infinite, so anything that can be said about him is a form of a violation of the totality of God, since a definition is a limitation. God can peel off a piece of himself, of any size, and not reduce the magnitude of his infinitude... because infinite is boundless, unending, a fractal and multidimensional cornucopia of grace.

When Muslims declare "god is one!" they are setting a limitation on him, which is blasphemy if your version of God is a punisher. Same for when Catholics say that God is a Trinity. The closest to truthful definition I've heard of God comes from Buddhists, because they assert nothingness. Nothingness is at least boundless. But the best definition of the Spirit I've heard was in the Dao de Jing, where is uses koans to pin the meaning between negations, and say "from the one came the three, from the three came the ten thousand things." Or something like that.


I need to learn the programmer mindset. So ordered and organized and rational


The Aryans didn't assert the Jesus wasn't God. They just had a different understanding of what that means. The main issue between Arius and the Niceens was that the latter taught that Jesus is co-eternal with God, while Arius taught that God the Father created Jesus. This doesn't negate Jesus the Logos, the holy spirit of humanity and the world, there at the creation of man. Its just saying that this manifestation of God needn't have existed separately in any way from God at the "in the beginning" part of the story. Even describing it is really difficult and creates problems. Its like, if you have Christ in your heart, then you're part of Christ's body - well, that's a mangled way of saying you're part of God. You're a son of God, striving to live up to the ideal of The Son of God (paradoxically called the son of man), because a piece of God is adventuring through your story as you. And I think the Aryans disputed the sinlessness of Mary, which if true, would have compounded the church's hate for them.

So far, I really like Arius and his doctrine. I'm not committing to it, but its interesting. The early church actually had something like a crusade to the north to kill the Aryans, who had way more converts in the barabarians than the official church had. And the Orthodox still hates them! Its amazing.


Because I consistently fail to do something about it. Its not the problem I worry about - its me.


That reminded me of a video I saw yesterday that I thoroughly enjoyed - I've had a fascination with the early Christian movement, before the empire asserted control over it. This video portrays them kinda negatively, but it might be deserved. Its about Julian the Apostate - his story is one of those "real life better than fiction" stories. Enjoy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6sTnZI0IugI


I might've seen the same thing, with the sediments. I think it also asserted that oil was created in the flood. Idk, seems plausible if the flood happened that way. I had figured the flood was actually ice, since recent earth history has been varying degrees of glacial cover. Either way, there is certainly enough water on earth to flood the whole thing.

But I try to construct all this like "if... then" and contain all the arguments as postulations without committing to belief. One thing I do know is, there's no way to know everything, so nothing can ever truly be ruled out.


I might've seen the same thing, with the sediments. I think it also asserted that oil was created in the flood. Idk, seems plausible of the flood happened that way. I had figured the flood was actually ice, since recent earth history has been varying degrees of glacial cover. Either way, there is certainly enough water on earth to flood the whole thing.

But I try to construct all this like "if... then" and contain all the arguments as postulations without committing to belief. One thing I do know is, there's no way to know everything, so nothing can ever truly be ruled out.


But everything could be symbolic. The flood could mean something like "the flood of stupid that debt based money creates" - not saying it means that for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did. Well, I should back up and say that I think everything literally is symbolic - my hand in front of me is symbolic of intention or ability outside of space time reality.

I'd love to go colonize another planet. Sign me up, I want on the ship. But I also really like the idea of terraforming everything in this solar system - and that's probably millions of objects. First, we could build an orbital ring around the earth. If each segment is fitted so it makes a continuous ring all the way, the fuel cost of maintaining an orbit can be cancelled by every part pushing outward. And if that doesn't work, then we could move a big asteroid into a resonant orbit with the ring, at a higher orbit, and its decay will equal the decay that would otherwise be incurred by the ring. On such a ring, gravity would be so close to surface gravity that you wouldn't be able to notice the difference, even though you're in space - because its the ring balancing falling with velocity, and you're just on it. You could walk around like normal. We could do this with Venus too, and it should also be possible in orbit of the gas giants - you just have the ring at an altitude where you feel normal earth gravity.

For the gas giants, though, we'll need a solar lense to get enough light. The way I envision it, it will be several lenses working together to open apertures in the dyson swarm to focus light only on the rings we've built. 99% of the sun can be occluded by satellites using almost all visible light. They would probably use it to mine bitcoin. We'll need to lengthen the block interval time. I imagine trillions of people living in independent solar habitat states, and the inhabitants of the ring worlds just pay for them to adjust their orbit to let light focus on the ringworld. The focusing will allow us to expand to every large body orbiting the sun, even out in the Kuiper belt. Those icy bodies out there can melt and become oceans. Distance doesn't matter... At some point in the future.

Gotta keep the genocidal purple hairs from destroying civilization first, though


But everything could be symbolic. The flood could mean something like "the flood of stupid that debt based money creates" - not saying it means that for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did. Well, I should back up and say that I think everything literally is symbolic - my hand in front of me is symbolic of intention or ability outside of space time reality.

I'd love to go colonize another planet. Sign me up, I want on the ship. But I also really like the idea of terraforming everything in this solar system - and that's probably millions of objects. First, we could build and orbital ring around the earth. If each segment is fitted so it makes a continuous ring all the way, the fuel cost of maintaining an orbit can be cancelled by every part pushing outward. And if that doesn't work, then we could move a big asteroid into a resonant orbit with the ring, at a higher orbit, and its decay will equal the decay that would otherwise be incurred by the ring. On such a ring, gravity would be so close to surface gravity that you wouldn't be able to notice the difference, even though you're in space - because its the ring balancing falling with velocity, and you're just on it. You could walk around like normal. We could do this with Venus too, and it should also be possible in orbit of the gas giants - you just have the ring at an altitude where you feel normal earth gravity.

For the gas giants, though, we'll need a solar lense to get enough light. The way I envision it, it will be several lenses working together to open apertures in the dyson swarm to focus light only on the rings we've built. 99% of the sun can be occluded by satellites using almost all visible light. They would probably use it to mine bitcoin. We'll need to lengthen the block interval time. I imagine trillions of people living in independent solar habitat states, and the inhabitants of the ring worlds just pay for them to adjust their orbit to let light focus on the ringworld. The focusing will allow us to expand to every large body orbiting the sun, even out in the Kuiper belt. Those icy bodies out there can melt and become oceans. Distance doesn't matter... At some point in the future.

Gotta keep the genocidal purple hairs from destroying civilization first, though


Its literally illegal. A walking space doesn't jive with cars, and if there's not 3x the parking spaces than actual max occupancy, businesses get sued for some shit.


But also, I like to think that this time around we can do better. 3d printing, aquaponics, and bitcoin might be enough to colonize and terraform the solar system


Ha, make a note to take notes. You've read more than me. I've only listened to an Orthodox priest's commentary on Revelations, and listened to a reading of Corpus Hermeticum a couple of times. Also some Buddhist sutras, but I can't remember what they said, and the Dao de Jing, which I loved - I think reading John and the Dao de Jing at the same time would be amazing


The part I'm not quite clear on is the other side of the trade, meaning who's eating the loss and how do different governments reconcile their accounts. I'm afraid the answer will be that they don't reconcile, and its the public who eats the loss in the form of inflation. Seems likely, but the actual mechanics aren't visible to me.


No, but now that you mention it... Yeah maybe


And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.

- bible. This has happened before.


Thought 🤔 :

If global foreign exchange swaps are $14 trillion USD, and bitcoin has a higher return than any other asset, then all carry trades will get sucked into bitcoin.

That means the real present value of bitcoin - the entire supply - is $14 trillion USD. Right now.

What I'm talking about is what just happened in Japan. A 15 basis point rate hike crashed markets. Don't be fooled by the financial propaganda - it was not a decision by the central bank or government. Yield and price move inversely. When investors have less confidence in the usefulness of a bond, the want less of that debt, so the demand goes down and the price of the debt also goes down. The yield is just the difference between what you pay and what you get. So investors lost confidence in the Japanese economy, for whatever reason, at a magnitude worth 15 basis points, before the seller of the debt (the central bank) could do something about it - and the only thing they could do is sell less debt, or reduce supply enough to match the reduction in demand. Your econ teacher was telling the truth : everything really is supply and demand.

Built atop this price/yield mechanic is the carry trade. Basically, rich people print free money by borrowing the "weak" currency (yen) and depositing in a bank with "strong" currency for fat yields, then pay back what they borrowed and keep the free cash. Of course there's all sorts of things you can buy, with varying ROIs. This is why banksters obsess over sharp curves and stuff like that - they want to see the whole field of risk vs return, so they can maximize their mansions with the free money that comes from borrowing in one currency and lending in another.

You can probably detect my opinion of this - I hate it. This is the world built on debt, and the beginning of the growing fiat induced insanity. An asset being a store of value has a new meaning when you get to print free money, and you get to print free money because you're already rich. And when you can do this, then you have a strong incentive to lobby for new regulations that either increase government debt or decrease the supply of things like houses.

Now... Bitcoin. We know it here. I'll say it anyways - the price does not reflect the true value. Just given the way the carry trade works, never mind the million other reasons, bitcoin *must* absorb all of the value in the carry trade. $14 trillion of foreign exchange swaps *that we know of. Because it costs nothing to keep, returns higher than anything, so borrowing in anything to buy bitcoin is a better play than any foreign exchange swap.

So what happens to the national currencies? As demand shifts from buying bonds to holding bitcoin, the shift away accelerates, and yields have to rise to entice investors again. And this *should* be a huge benefit to savers, as banks will be able to offer yield on savings again. At this point, any decent economist will have to start doing "on one hand x, on the other hand y" thing. Savings ~= investment, so increasing yields could cause an economic boom, which some governments could leverage to get out of debt. The countries that do this will be the superpowers of the future. But there's a point where the debt is so large, that any boom causes deflation, which causes the real value of debt to explode faster than increased taxes can pay. Plus there's the problem of habituated indebtedness. I don't think they understand the meaning of balancing a budget... When we say it, they probably hear "wonk wonk wahhhnk wonk."

Okay, I didn't intend to write all this and I'm kinda mad that I did. But....

Who wants to bet that it will stop at $14 trillion?

#walloftext #masterclass #economics #finance #bitcoin #godcandle #holdontoyourbutts #yourenotbullishenough #ipromiseimstupid


New to coding. Been learning Go in Notepad. Decided today to upgrade to VS Code for the eye candy. Top extension for Go depends on some other mofo's server for some reason.

Annoyed.

Edit - I might be making a bad assumption. I read it as, it has an ongoing need to communicate with that server.


New to coding. Been learning Go in Notepad. Decided today to upgrade to VS Code for the eye candy. Top extension for Go depends on some other mofo's server for some reason.

Annoyed.


Yeah


I'm predicting now the reemergence of piracy in the west. I mean, real piracy. Please keep copying files, btw.


Also can learn throat singing from the OGs


It won't last. I thought the same when I got grapheme. I was going whole weeks without recharging. I get a day now.


If it becomes a regular thing, remote places that fuckwits won't want to go to, like Alaska. If its not so regular, imo south Asia - Thailand, Malaysia, India. Or wherever, cuz I'm just thinking of adventures I haven't done yet


Good bitcoiners that aren't vc's or commies should get together.


shield against the shame of having an original idea - I love this line. Yeah, the complexity is mind blowing, and the order that emerges from the complexity without losing or hiding from complexity...


This is innuendo, isn't it?


Wood, clay, iron. I've been cut by glass and fuck glass.


When they finally understand, they'll also understand how much we care about them.


Take some good pics/video for us who arent


Agreed, and I'll add that its a way for emasculated men to pretend they do man work, thereby pacifying a part of the population that should be enraged.


Fuck communism.


Which words? Fuck communism. Those words?


Of course they do. Destruction is the point.


They give this poison to low income or single parents for free


Depends on the situation. That's mostly a private property issue - activities like mining can get away with environmental destruction because mining companies mostly lease land and mineral rights from a government, and return it when they've finished - thus, they destroy the land and life and the public is left with the bill of cleaning it up.

Full property rights would solve the issue. If they have to find a buyer to unload the asset, they'll be incentivized to treat it well.


I got to see this somewhat in China. A friend told me she prefers English for complex or abstract conversations because the words don't exist in Mandarin. But I know the words still exist in Taiwanese Mandarin.


What problem would require such a solution?


State revenues should be 100℅ from sales taxes.

This would ensure that they never adopt policies which would reduce commerce.


Other way around


Most likely a Chinese mining operation - Chinese businesses are notorious in south Asia for skirting laws, and there's very high demand in China for bitcoin to escape capital controls


Oh yeah!


Self, put this phone down, and lift that weight...


Wild rocky doesn't sound great... epic mission does, though


Is there surfing on that island? I wonder if the bath of minerals that is seawater would have any affect


It does a lot of good... From a certain point of view. It legitimizes the state, spreads around the guilt of state crimes, ritually numbs the public, reduces nuanced issues into simpler points for easier managing, allows the state to control more people and territory, gives advanced warning to the oligarchy of upcoming rivals, and gives stupid people something to engage with.


Idk much about allergies, but I'd bet sunlight would help


Yeah. Well, politics is mostly about gate-keeping


I also asked it to contrast The Prince with St. Augustine's views, and that was interesting. Could be a foreshadow of the communism vs capitalism saga - Augustine writes about virtue and divine providence and Machiavelli writes about power and random fortune.


Not really a surprise - Catholic church gonna Catholic church.


Using that AI, so far the most illuminating version of the question was this :

"Was "the prince" banned? Why?"

Answer:

Yes, "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli was banned shortly after its publication. The main reasons for the ban include:
Threat to Catholic authority: The book was considered a direct challenge to Roman Catholic authority, as Machiavelli proposed that a prince should prioritize his own interests over church doctrine.
Conflict with Christian ethics: Machiavelli's advice often contradicted traditional Christian moral teachings, advocating for pragmatism over virtue.
Placement on the Index: In 1559, "The Prince" and all of Machiavelli's books were placed on the Catholic Church's "Index of Prohibited Books".
Perceived promotion of deception: The book suggested that politicians need not be truly moral, but only appear to be good and moral to the public.
Disregard for Christian morality: Machiavelli emphasized historical patterns and materialist views over divine intervention, which was problematic for religious authorities.
Fear of losing power: The Catholic Church, already challenged by the Protestant Reformation, feared losing more power and authority to other religious groups.
The ban was an attempt by the Church to preserve its doctrine and authority, as well as to suppress ideas that could potentially undermine its position in society and politics.

When I asked about courts, it gave a vague none answer


Its a good book. I'm curious what the AI says about the book's reception in courts and by Christians specifically.


"Know thine enemy, but above all, know thy self."

I forgot where I heard this. Probably some game...

Let every morning be a descent from the sublime dream of the oneness outside the boundaries of here and now, into the bunker fortress of knowledge and planning. Become the ubermensch, wear the mantle of Christ, make sacrifice upon the altar of victory. Just as in the golden rule, make ready your mercy - mercy follows victory, not before, and failing to plan for victory is failing to deserve the mercy you yourself would extend.

I farted. Enuf airy fairy horse doodoo. Gym, then books.


That's a brilliant idea. Unfortunately for me, I need to get that license certification thingy, cuz without it its not legal to teach even at a private school. If you settle on a solution, let me know so i can join the team.


Yeah lol they didn't teach me that either. I got that word from Austrian economists and it became my favorite linguistic toy for a while.


Rigid isn't necessarily bad. What matters is praxis and curriculum. I used to teach... Praxis should always be about getting kids to actually do real things ; curriculum is what topics the teacher or school decides will definitely be in the class. I made all my own curricula, developed my own praxis. But that was overseas... when I came back to the US, I hit a Wall of Stupid - basically "u got loicense for that?" And to get that license, you conform to bad praxis and teach curriculum handed to you by the state. That's the real problem.


Assume zero ROI. If you want ROI, just stack sats. But it might make a cool conversation piece, so you might orange pill someone with it.


Talking seems to block the idea from coming into the real world.


Learn from the Waco citadel. Appear to be something else.

nostr:nevent1qqsw5qxqs82m4n336ntgvjw7ufc4l2s4s8d5yxn9r0uzc6e3fwycjyspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygxqwnherpyvr462scuus2sumaehy2mgs3e0cysggw3rj498ezm46qpsgqqqqqqshnxdcq


People actually watch them?


The Olympics are often used in economics classes as case studies on how stadiums and big government spending ruins parts of cities. Crime and income disparity around stadiums go through the roof, tax receipts fall while expenditures rise - basically, they are so bad that their continued existence is proof of corruption. Of course they don't say that outright, but it's strongly implied.


That's an amazing lifestyle


Github has been a barrier to me. I just see too much on the screen and kinda panic, and leave without learning much.


Has it occurred to anyone else that this might be the rapture?

Bitcoiners leaving the corrupt, fallen world and pursuing a higher calling...

Would we know?

#nostr #bitcoin #christ


Definitely learn koine greek. I'm thinking about learning it too.


Make a doohicky that you insert between books, then pull a chain on the side, so the whole stack lifts and you can insert books easily


Works for me, lol


Whatcha got for Go? And the bike is too big.


Nope. Ask for forgiveness if necessary, but never permission. That was true even before permissionless tech


No nation state has ever been at peace. From the Peace of Westphalia roughly 400 years ago (iirc) to now, not one second has been actual peace, not for any of them. A nation state, due to its scale beyond a single community and the inherent corruption of any representative body, must first be at war with its own citizens, and must persistently win that war before it can think of a war with its neighbors, or of resisting the aggression of it's neighbors.

#bitcoinfixesthis


No nation state has ever been at peace. From the Peace of Westphalia roughly 200 years ago (iirc) to now, not one second has been actual peace, not for any of them. A nation state, due to its scale beyond a single community and the inherent corruption of any representative body, must first be at war with its own citizens, and must persistently win that war before it can think of a war with its neighbors, or of resisting the aggression of it's neighbors.

#bitcoinfixesthis


By that definition, the ancient Romans were commies.


Easier now than before bitcoin. The nation state has proved over and over that it is incapable of controlling its debt. The reason it can't control its debt is because elected assemblies are inherently corrupt. Legislatures attract the most corrupt people. What are they going to do when the population isnt using their fiat, so they can't use debt to steal from the people? They'll turn on each other. Some will abscond with their ill gotten gains in the form of bitcoin, like African dictators with Swiss bank accounts. That's the moment that any prepared community can renegotiate the terms of their union. That moment will come over and over until all power has been renegotiated back to the local level.


I've seen a voting system built on bitcoin - forgot the name, though. It looked perfect. I think they said they're trying to get Guatemala to use it.

Doing direct voting obsoletes the nation state. There's no good reason for the vote of someone outside of your community to have any bearing on your community. Small communities will have to become fully sovereign - and I'm all for that. No more empires, no more capital cities.


A company selling stuff via Square apparently doesn't want my money because I refuse to give them a phone number. Bizarre.


I agree we need transparency, but there's no difference between big corp and government. We've had perfect transparency before, and they simply changed the laws and now its all clear as mud - so if we fix the democracy, it'll just happen again. IMO, we just need to abandon this idea of representative assemblies - its predatory on the public and the best thing that can be said about it is that its slow.


Huh. K, I might be switching..


How'd you find that so fast?


So far the most concrete information I've found is that Germany had price controls, rationing, and some level of income tax. That's after wading 3 pages deep in the search, and still lacking actual numbers. Every article above that is decrying the 25℅ exit tax that apparently Jews evaded, but that's beside the point (I got nothing against Jews, that's not my motivation) - 25% exit tax is bad, but the US currently imposes a 50% exit tax


Idk. Google is only showing me obvious propaganda. Makes me suspect that might be the case, though


Bad news... Taxes were higher. So high, I'd say we didn't liberate shit. 90℅ flat tax for individuals, 31% for corporations. Next question will be harder to answer... What were the Nazis' taxes like?


Its coming... Hmm, what was the corporate tax rate in the US when we liberated Europe? Brb, Google time


There's no balance between coercion and freedom. We've already found the best way to maximize human well being - property. If nobody is stealing from you, you can build and create value. A government should only ensure the inviolability of property, and instead of stealing from citizens to pay for its guarantee of safety, the citizens should volunteer in local government. That means if you vote, you better be in your neighborhood watch. Healthcare and retirement schemes are unnecessary if the money isn't debased, so those don't stand as a justification for taxes.


People are pushed into eating meat because the nutritional content of veggies is much lower than it was decades ago. Meat usually packs much more, enabling you to be healthier.

The lower relative price of meat is actually bad for business. Its driven by importing, and the effect is that small ranchers go out of business, and the remaining incorporated mega ranches use the worst practices - the worst for animal well-being and the worst for nutrition.

Both are caused by government. The government doesn't want regenerative agriculture, which would fix the nutrition crisis as well as restoring the environment, and they use preferential loans (part of interest paid by gov so the farmer pays less) to push farmers into growing certain things and in certain ways. The government wants farmers using pesticides and fertilizer because they are dual purpose technologies - if you can make fertilizers, you can make bombs ; if you can make pesticides, you can make chemical weapons.


Where in the bible does it say she was conceived without sin?


I recognize the thinking of a fellow introvert.


Hungry today. 3x my usual lunch and still hungry.


its good to recognize it now, while there's still a chance to avert it. If we get bitcoiners into positions of power - CEOs, media, politicians - then the bad guys won't be able to organize. That's winning the war without the war.


God, good, exchange, market, value, transversal... something like that


Knut's an atheist. Know thy source.


I think I missed the ChatGPT train. By the time I tried it out, anything political or funny had been sterilized. All it did was quote Wikipedia, basically.

But yeah, our best tech is language, for sure. I suspect language is fundamental to reality itself, but of course its not easy to go from the double slit experiment to full wizard.


If they can't coerce, there's no point in them


Yeah Greek is full of linguistic gems. I've been thinking of studying it seriously.


Elected assemblies are the problem. They have always been the problem.


Resist TV and anything marketed. Fuck NPCs


Holy shit... My tinnitus has been fucking insane in the last few years


A company going public is a sign of weakness.


That's a really strong point in Go's favor - they don't bother marketing it. If the competition is using something inferior, teaching them the better tool would be bad for business


This touches something about Bitcoin that I love and no one ever talks about. Non government approved corporations in the future. We'll still need the organizing principle that led to corporations, but now we can organize production without approval


Thanks!


Grapes and sheep poop nearby could be a golden opportunity. If you can get cheap/bulk grapes, make wine. And the sheep poop is just begging to be burned and turned into sats


Hazing can be predatory, but its supposed to be affirming. You get a challenge, some adversity, some discomfort, and you conquer it. In conquering it, you transcend some part of your limitations. You become qualified in your own mind to be a peer in the group you've chosen.


If one must have neighbors, let them be far away. That's how I see it. I hate suburbia. Lawns... Fuck lawns...


Another day, another newb question about #coding ... In #Tinygo and #golang , we're (me and the tutorial) defining a lot of variables by a constant that we imported - like this :

package main

import (
   "machine"
   "time"
)

func main () {

   led := machine.LED
//etc.
// that's not a real link ^

Where/how do I see the contents of "machine" or "time"? I wanna look under the hood. Mysteries annoy me.


Take out the heating element from your toaster and tape two bitaxes on the sides, then make toast


"Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."

Christianity isn't a team sport. Stick to what the bible actually says.


Okay, yeah, I'll do that. Thanks.


I've never heard of bluesky. Maybe I'm a litmus test.


Hey, I'm a fan. What's the play version? I just updated to the latest yesterday from the github.


Me! I've always wanted to chisel stone. I wanna work a smithy too.


If we let it get to a war, we won't deserve them


Amazing how time goes faster now than when I was younger. The amount of stuff I can fit into one day is just less.


Truth's body looks like a lion - beautiful and nothing wasted.


Need a way to filter out languages that aren't English - in my case, I followed a bunch of hashtags, and its mostly great, but there's not much I can do with the occasional wall of Spanish I get.

#amethyst


Probably. I haven't done it yet because it might still go away and it costs nothing to ignore it


I don't think #Amethyst should be sending drafts to relays. Let me finish first, or delete, its just a draft. I only found this because I tried to delete a draft of a reply and it informed me it would request deletion but no guarantees. And it doesn't appear to be deleting it, and the draft now also can't be altered.

Oh well, we're basically beta testers.


Twitter, back when it was Twitter, banned me before I even made my first tweet. It was about half a second after I followed a bunch of bitcoiners.


Stating the obvious, but gonna say it anywsys - if a seed has ever lived on your computer, or any device other than an airgapped signing device (which even then shouldn't even have memory), even as a picture, then its no good. You have to treat all computers as adversaries.


Ehhh I can't remember. I'd avoid printing anything, though. Anything coming out your printer is useful information for attackers.


The seed phrase is the actual wallet (or the seed is - the phrase is a human readable version of it). You can prove this by sending yourself some sats, making sure you got them, factory resetting your signing device, then put the seed back in and seeing your sats there. In fact, even if you've already done this, do it every time you get a new signing device. I'm sure you know to only buy directly from the company making them, if you're not building your own, but I'm repeating that because its important.

And you're right, I F'd up in choosing this name. Every time I read it I think I should set that up, but because I'm a cantankerous nonconformist, I immediately think "No F that, you can't make me" - but I'll get it done eventually.


Michael surely has abs


And any vagueness in the ingredients is automatic disqualification


https://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fosdem-video/2023/UD2.218A/goevenfurtherwithoutwires.mp4

This dude just explained one of my invention ideas, and apparently they invented it in ww2. Frequency hopping. My idea was to combine encryption with those login TOTP thingies to randomly switch frequencies without losing any encryption. I just have to remark about it because now I have to let it go.

Edit - and now I realize how redundant that would've been


Amazing. People are so smart... The complexity really blows my mind


https://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fosdem-video/2023/UD2.218A/goevenfurtherwithoutwires.mp4

This dude just explained one of my invention ideas, and apparently they invented it in ww2. Frequency hopping. My idea was to combine encryption with those login TOTP thingies to randomly switch frequencies without losing any encryption. I just have to remark about it because now I have to let it go.


How does tinygo make compiled files so much smaller? Why doesn't go make them smaller? Looking at this page, mid to bottom of page:

https://tinygo.org/getting-started/overview/


That link says rust is better for low level microcontroller stuff.


Ehhh acronyms... I meant it when I said I'm a computer nincompoop. But it sounds like that pipelining of processes to cores (if I got that right) could actually be very useful if your operating system doesn't require or expect a specific kind of processor. You could have your distributed devices all using different processors and the OS is selecting which one is better for different tasks. Which, I guess could slow down the process too much to make it useful... unless it selects based on a diagnostic or pattern recognition. If that made no sense, that's because I'm exploring new abstract territory in this thought. I'm imagining the same OS running your sprinklers, sensing nutrients in your aquaponics, shifting unused compute to mining, keeping an eye on weather to plan battery/solar load, and being a cloud for games on tablets or something. All and anything, and completely under your control with no third party, built on devices simple enough to teach kids about. But... Mission creep again. First thing is get competent in some language so I at least have a chance.


Ah yeah, tinygo. I should shift to that. And that's an awesome idea. I've had a similar idea, to have a small/cheap device I could put around the house and add to at will, and each device mirrors a random portion of the memory in other devices. There's a name for this already, but I suddenly can't remember it. It would be analogous to plugging in more RAM on your computer, but all wireless, and you just enter a password to add another thingy. Then you build whatever IoT functions you want, and if you need more threads or RAM or ROM, you just get another thingy and throw it wherever. That would fit with my other idea I mentioned before - controlled discoverability.

But alas, I'm a computer nincompoop, and can only dream.


Where can I find some learning projects for #golang ? Preferably embedded programming - I'm a kinesthetic learner, need to feel something to remember it.

#go #coding #programming #learning #building


Well, sure seems like they do


Women shouldn't be leaders.


Living in China opened my eyes to this (and many other things). While there, I was healthy, had incredible energy, looked and felt younger... When I came back, my health took a nosedive. In China, I ate whatever I wanted, ate out, drank a lot ; here, I am Very careful to eat only "healthy" foods... and that's not enough. I'm aging like an American, hurting everywhere, I got hypertension, gaining weight.

So here's something I learned about China - they refuse to import our GMO crops. Russia, too. China actually imports a lot of food, maybe most of it, but they absolutely refuse western GMO shit, and America hates them for it.


Living in China opened my eyes to this (and many other things). While there, I was healthy, had incredible energy, looked and felt younger... When I came back, my health took a nosedive. In China, I ate whatever I wanted, at out, drank a lot ; here, I am Very careful to eat only "healthy" foods... and that's not enough. I'm aging like an American, hurting everywhere, I got hypertension, gaining weight.

So here's something I learned about China - they refuse to import our GMO crops. Russia, too. China actually imports a lot of food, maybe most of it, but they absolutely refuse western GMO shit, and America hates them for it.


Another day, another chance.
 ☕ 📝


Self custody is the way.


I just listened to a leftist explain why violence is necessary. Everything he said was correct - except that he never mentioned the only real option if you want change while not sacrificing peace... Build. Ideally, build on #Bitcoin. But just build.

Please stop trying to explain bitcoin to leftists. They are impulsive, irrational, and violent. We don't need a bitcoin-augmented Left. The Left figuring out bitcoin would unleash terror.

F that.
Keep them out for as long as possible.


I used to teach overseas, and I'm a veteran. You got work?


Morehead. Heh, good name


Blaming Ukrainians for Nordstream is like shooting JFK's assassin.


I can help with that. I used to teach at a private school.


I had those questions the other way around. Different journey


#TGFB

Thank God for Bitcoin


Texas. Supposedly the best place for mining. None of the mining companies I could find replied to my emails. That's the problem with the US - companies don't actually want workers. They want scale, and the regulatory environment basically says get big or don't bother, and no company is willing to just train a guy that wants in. Yeah... I need to get back to working. Ideally, outside the US. This place is a trap, and the doomerism is starting to rub off on me. That's probably half of my reason to start looking into coding - escape. Bah, I'm rambling and don't even remember what I'm responding to. Thank god for bitcoin. TGFB


I've been noticing that too, the influencers say the same things over and over. I've found some interesting conversations in their replies, though. I haven't made it to a meetup or conference, and part of me feels like I'm missing something and another part feels like the chance to connect with the real cypherpunk culture (if it exists) is slipping away and another part is just afraid it'll be a waste of time.


I have to wonder if it even happened. I asked them some question when they advertised it but they didn't respond. Is that weirdness just nostr, or in Bitcoin dev culture too? Some of the YouTube stuff on bitcoin seems poser-ish.


Yep, that's the one. My brain had it filed under P, at least. Yeah fuck those fuckers.


What's wrong with them?


You're in Madeira? Did you go for that bitcoin coder thing they had a while ago?


What was the name of that spyware they developed and used to spy on politicians and journalists and sold to governments? It was in the news some time in the last few years but I suddenly can't remember the name


$ go run .

(4 seconds later)

Hello, World!

Why did it take so long? And what's the dot in the command?

#go #golang #noob


Analysis paralysis AaGhgGhhhh!!


The biggest problem I'm running into is just complexity. And some of the things I'm reading about Go sound like it reduces complexity, so I like that. Every time I search for info on one thing in coding, it branches into ten other things that I don't know anything about. I like rabbit holes, but this is more like drowning in options.

Sorry for the complaining... I just need to complain.


I insist. I shall inject Bitcoin into every myth and directly into your brain via a giant orange syringe that might also serve as a dildo.


Speed of compiling or execution?

Edit. Must be compiling. Why would speed improve?


Speed of compiling or execution?


Is Go used for IoT or single board hobbyists? These are the touch points that have gotten me interested in coding - gadgets live in my head but I want them in the world.


Well shit. I sit down to learn rust today and now I think maybe I should do Go. Very little sunk cost at this point


I'm tackling the #rust book today.

In chapter 3, I had an idea... Is this a thing? I'm a noob, be gentle...

It might be useful to have a module check the integrity of different modules or functions, which are about to do some work, by compiling those modules separately and then hashing that executable. Does that make sense? Maybe my lexicon is off.

Just thinking about the benefit of variables being immutable by default. It seems to imply a danger of changing values, and if that's done maliciously, then having little functions checking hashes along the way might "harden" code.

I'm a total code noob. I apologize if I just gave brain cancer to anyone.


He'll arise when an English monarch, or a better replacement, figures out that the sword is in a stone called #Bitcoin .

Using that sword, he'll slay the corrupt bankers that have held the crown and the people in servitude via usury.

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He'll arise when an English monarch, or a better replacement, figures out that the sword is in a stone called #Bitcoin .

Using that sword, he'll slay the corrupt bankers that have held the crown and the people in servitude via usury.


Not intentionally, though that might be true. I meant that they can (and do) have their police attack the peaceful protesters, then have their media call the protesters violent. Or just have the media say they are violent - the state has a narrative to legitimize its own violence.


Is that a real language?


Self actualization grows out of humility. The proof of work of humility is submission.


We (bitcoiners) need to go colonize something.


They got you where they want you.


Dang... Look at all these notes...
Must be Saturday


Macron's hair is darker


Some of these are pretty good

https://v.nostr.build/5Taiv5Q0IWQoDfq8.mp4


Okay, more for me


After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. - John 9:6

And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay. - Daniel 2:43

No mud, no lotus.
- some Buddhist guy

https://image.nostr.build/46e8f508af3b2e9dc2ac609badea047c314ec63e2e44148ade225679d45421de.jpg

Some thoughts:
I might be making a false equivalency between mud and clay. I'm not sure if mud can become clay, or how it does so. Mud in John seems to have the same symbolism as water or seas - unknown and unformed potential.


All popups must die... Except pop tarts, those are good


Just wrote a mind map for a book I've been imagining... I didn't realize I had this many ideas. Okay... I feel good about this.

#writing


There's no such thing. If the state wants you violent, they'll make you violent.


Good answer. Mises had an article in (I think) NYT about how the Nazis would collapse if we did nothing. Nazis, commies, both are socialists, so I think it applies.


I think Alan Watts would say the journey is more import than the destination.


They know it always fails. They're not after success in the same way we are. To them, the disaster is a feature, not a bug.


Better to delay. They're strong, but we're growing. This is a good trend. If collapse happens now, we're at a disadvantage.


Right after meeting Obama in Vietnam. I don't think it was suicide


Get a bag of heat sinks and turn it into a metal porcupine


Those notifications are a runaway train... I'm having a better experience now with a pixel running grapheneOS


Hesitant to just call people, but this looks super interesting


I love the Faraday bag idea. Definitely has a place somewhere in my paranoid fantasies


Now I'm imagining things that last years. Like, no draw on battery at all, until a tiny charge makes it through an electrical lock on the antenna. If that makes sense. This might be mission creep.


Yup.


Eh. Got me excited for a second.. But he didn't ask the question - what actually is Caesar's?


Hmm. I'll keep this in mind. Not reinventing the wheel is nice. But you hit the next problem - battery. Need those nifty diamond batteries


Seems useful as a unit of account already.


Oh okay, thanks


Where are these debates occurring? I'd like to listen too


That's a big caveat. So big, I'd say most of even fortune 500 co's fail it. If you can save in sound money, that saving will be more productive - even for other people and companies that have no idea about your savings. I'm assuming its not being saved in a bank, too.


A lot of that was a foreign language to me. I probably wouldn't trust a device I bought, though. I want it as dumb as possible. Maybe like a little tag, and since it doesn't broadcast anything without hearing the password first, you'd never be able to listen for it with something like wireshark - which I've never used, but saw a video of a guy using that to find spycams. Well, imagine you're in a SHTF scenario and a thumb drive with Tails or a back up ID would be useful - you could put them all over the place and just memorize a password and a frequency.


Workout discovery! First time trying this...

Grab the heaviest weight you can safely grab, then squat a bunch of times.

Next day, see how you're doing in your exercises.

I got big improvements. Improved bigly. Also numbness in my legs has been completely gone since doing it for first time yesterday.


Idea for when I get better at building :

WiFi chip that doesn't turn on and become discoverable until it receives a coded message. Then can hide tools all over the place and not need to remember where.


Double slit experiment proves conscious reality, and placebo proves reality responds to intention.

Also there's this awesome phenomenon in chemistry, where a newly synthesized chemical will be difficult to make at first, with wildly varying properties, and over time the exact same process repeated many times produces it more reliably and with the same properties.


Ginger tea. Always works for me. So much ginger it's goopy and gross


Hey, let's be decent to each other. Read the whole comment, eh? But yeah, the kids aren't fans of Israel, but I question whether that makes a difference


the people - including me - don't love freedom enough.

we deserve what's coming.

https://image.nostr.build/ccadc02265209c81acec75c192b5bc93c9560c37ecc3d52e464e571b7477b7c9.jpg


Yeah.


Jesus, as I understand it


The vogons with the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council?


I hope so


They are indeed. Gorgeous...


At 4 am, a finger brushed my shoulder. It was a polite brush, clearly intended to wake me up, but not rudely.

I looked around, but no one was there. Felt around - nothing out of the ordinary. Dropped my head back and went back to sleep.

Another brush against my shoulder! - two fingered and much more insistent. I jumped off the floor like a ninja, ready to fight.

No one was there.

And that's how I woke up, just now. Coffee time.


Actually "Ancient of days" by William Blake. And the poetry accompanying it is insufferable.


Satoshi and his creation
 https://image.nostr.build/3d0bbcfaa68da4471d7bed6411e9e466075ce1605446b101932585a359c3d619.jpg


What... what?
(your line from Jurassic park)

But yeah, what ark?


Japan just does its own thing. I don't think they hate anyone. It would be super convenient if South Korea would stop hating Japan, though.


I am. I don't think they're counted in the UK or Ireland, either.


Yeah, I don't think Iran is the big bad guy our government wants us to think... And that was an amazing summary, and thank you for taking the time to write it.

Well, if Iran is getting a war no matter what they do, then I kinda think they should just attack with everything they have. Its existential. If it was me, I'd be mashing every red button I could find.

But of course, there is a slim chance for peace, so maybe another option will open up. Maybe peace can last until the US goes to full bitcoin standard.


The votes aren't counted.


Nah. We're gonna build an orbital ring around the earth big enough to hold 10 billion people. That'll be lit.


There are no just uses of force. From a moralistic perspective, all force, even defensive, is unjust. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't use force. In fact, we should use force much more than we do.


Agreed! Also, why do we hate Iran?


Sweet, updated. Thanks

Lol its literally "update your app" - tech support eye roll moment


Sweet, updated. Thanks


Testing nostr:nprofile1qqs9tatnkeg7lu63mdtmqcqayvpzmrzn97vztkcs54ena0eehe92yxcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0vw2nd7


0.87.2 - apparently I downloaded from fdroid. I can't remember, but it says fdroid


Why does #Amethyst crash when I try to use @ to link a user name or npub? It looks like it should work... Is there a better way?

#asknostr #nostr


I fear not having hospitals. Everything else, I can handle on my own.


How many lions did you eat?


And are there any projects I can follow with the DIY display? I'm fairly new to tinkering


Where can I read more about interfacing with esp32? And is useful with a bitaxe?


I don't even cuss much, but maaaan I can relate. Fuck. And YouTube just deletes everything I say, no matter how good I am.


They think social security will save them


Did they resign?


Amazing. Its good to hear real success stories - 1000x better than just learning from YouTube vids.

Idk but it's probably also really good for kidneys. I read somewhere that the best thing to do to prevent further decline is to give them a break. If kidneys are always working, then they're never healing. And I refuse to believe the nephrologist that told me they can't heal. Same guy also told me they don't have nerves, so I can't feel them, and that was definitely wrong.


You have kidney problems too? I can feel it in my sides on bad days.

Yeah I'm convinced on ketosis. I don't think I've made it to full keto yet, but intermittent fasting (18/6) is already a major improvement.


"Tickets to escape the matrix are priced in #Bitcoin"
- Michael Saylor
https://image.nostr.build/cc9bc438e9597e545b29c6dd57c510a5cc487472952215b42e49c1ad3e8820e9.jpg


Ever since the vaccine, my veins bulge out immediately when I exercise. Its super gross. Also kinda entertaining.

Yeah... shouldn't have taken that poison. But I'm still here.


In their free time, they watch TV


Could really see this when that UK judge with the wig threw people in jail for Facebook posts. The wig is symbolic of authority and is max clown to anyone not conditioned to obey it.


That makes sense.


Interwebs saying I need to strengthen the rotator cuff. Yay, a new exercise


Leftists love Apple. Not sure why, but definitely a thing


Is it bad if my shoulder pops excessively while I lift? Its not painful, but is quite loud


Hmm. Every engineer I've ever met, which is a lot, hates lefties. But even if you are correct, true things are self evident, while untrue things take mental gymnastics to believe.


And, in rare cases, some things actually are worth hating. Its good to hate human sacrifice. The problem isn't hate - the problem is knowing what you should hate. And that's subjective, but it doesn't matter because everyone has a right to be themselves.


Bank took all his money "in a coutroom where we weren't even allowed to speak." At ~12:30

He may be dumb, but that's not justice. We don't have justice in this country.


Stuff on #nostr gets more fascinating every day. It's dangerous... Dangerous, I tell ya!


Stuff on #nostr gets more fascinating every day. It'd dangerous... Dangerous, I tell ya!


Excellent. What about nutrition in the produce? I'd bet anything that nutrition follows insect diversity. Or bugs in general.


I see 8057 new free and roudy bitcoiners


Heyy, whatcha working on these days?


I see a cat face


Now that's a cool project

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I'm curious if there have been any studies on bug populations on regenerative agriculture land. I mean, it seems obvious, but a legit study to hold up could do a lot of good


It ruthlessly disposes with all mistakes.


It ruthlessly turns its back on all mistakes.


Works


I'd agree, but then there would be no teachers


The species collapse that we do for sure know is happening is the insect apocalypse. That's because we use more and stronger pesticides than we did decades ago. That insect apocalypse is the basis of reduced nutrition in food, and would be the basis of other species collapsing, if it turns out to be true.

Energy can mean anything. And its not produced, its transformed. The total energy on earth really doesn't change. If we could get our electricity without emitting CO2, then maybe changing our grid would make sense. But it doesn't make sense because both solar and wind emit more CO2 in the production of the device than they save over their operational lifetime. In wind power's case, they actually cost more energy to make than they produce, too. I've personally done the math on that.

Water is the answer... to everything. More resilient land, more productive land, more biodiversity, more energy, stabler weather. The single most destructive thing we can do is to reduce water tables.


The species collapse that we do for sure know is happening is the insect apocalypse. That's because we use more and stronger pesticides than we did decades ago. That insect apocalypse is the basis of reduced nutrition in food, and would be the basis of other species collapsing, if it turns out to be true.

Energy can mean anything. And its not produced, its transformed. The total energy on earth really doesn't change. If we could get our electricity without emitting CO2, then maybe changing our grid would make sense. But it doesn't make sense because both solar and wind emit more CO2 in the production of the device than they save over their operational lifetime. In wind power's case, they actually cost more energy to make than they produce, too. I've personally done the math on that.

Water is the answer... to everything. More resilient land, more productive land, more biodiversity, more energy, stabler weather. The single destructive thing we can do is to reduce water tables.


The best way to fight climate change would be to end the use of pesticides (gradually, with education, not what Sri Lanka did) and stop drawing from aquifers. So strange that climate warriors never mention these...


But that also leads to another rabbit hole - are species actually collapsing. NASA had a nice graphic a few years ago showing the earth is actually becoming greener, probably due to CO2. And some scientists are refuting allegations of species collapse in their field - Dr. Kevin Rudd (ridd? Maybe) in Australia has shown that the supposed coral collapse is just wrong. Very worth checking out - he has a YouTube channel


80/20 rule is everywhere


The rate of change definitely needs to slow. But if going full steam ahead unlocks the necessary innovation to actually do that, then trying to flatten that line could actually hurt more in the long run.


Yeah. This was part of my journey from total normie to here. I was teaching a science class, and didn't want to teach stuff I couldn't answer serious questions about, and I found similar research. Now I guess I'm a Nazi or something...


Yes. What's the path from zero to one?


IMO, if it can be done as a security AND be tradeable over Liquid, then its a great idea. I just am not sure its legal or why it doesn't appear to be happening


Everyone using grok... Is it this thing I found asking for my email to get early access?


Thanks, that actually might have opened some new directions to research. It definitely makes sense for sin and debt to be the same word. I wonder if that division between debt and equity based law was the reason for removing references to debt in protestant bibles... I had been imagining some bankers' scheme to enslave people and wrest power from old institutions, but it could have been more innocent.

Islam was also really interesting to me for a short while. Their prohibition on interest bearing debt seems like the way to go. Christianity, IMO, has become a weaker force and a weakening force since it stopped fighting usury.


How do you go from normie with no coding skill to FOSS designer?


Can you elaborate on the etymology involved? I have a small understanding of German, so maybe I can handle it. I also found a few mistranslations in the Bible during my Orthodox phase, which was very educational,all mistranslations of Hebrew or Greek words for forms of debt.


It probably goes both ways. "Do this and you'll get a huge credit line" "Don't do this and you find out who really owns that house"


Oh shit... It must be debt. Is it debt? I think I just turned even more orange


I wonder what the actual mechanism is, how they always get what they want. Direct bribery just seems too simple. If its threats, then the amount of threats going on behind the scenes must be so much, it's hard to believe.


I'm willing to try it.


...which is why I don't vote.


I can feel another failed attempt to learn Rust coming on...
(For me)


I can feel another failed attempt to learn Rust coming on...


That was a good one. Erik should just record like 10 hrs of ranting - I'd listen to it on loop forever.


Got 20 min in direct sunshine just now. Even that tiny amount, I could feel my body reorganizing and becoming healthier. Amazing.


#asknostr #music

Is there a system of organization for classical music, so that if you know the system, you can find the music you're hearing?

Would be willing invest the time to memorize it, if it exists.


Dangit. You broke nostr


What happens when more than one person has same name?


Not surprised at all, and besides, it never would have mattered if it was true. China bans this and that every few weeks, and a zillion cops go around and close various businesses, and two weeks later all the businesses are back. I lived there for a few years. Wonderful experience.

Butnow I'm gonna have to actually read that thing, cuz I realized it doesn't make sense. Hash rate went down for too long. We saw those awesome but obviously staged pics of miners being taken by donkey or whatever to uzjikapoopistan..

Edit : ohh China will eat this up. They said right at the top, China's leading the way!


Not surprised at all, and besides, it never would have mattered if it was true. China bans this and that every few weeks, and a zillion cops go around and close various businesses, and two weeks later all the businesses are back. I lived there for a few years. Wonderful experience.

Butnow I'm gonna have to actually read that thing, cuz I realized it doesn't make sense. Hash rate went down for too long. We saw those awesome but obviously staged pics of miners being taken by donkey or whatever to uzjikapoopistan..


Newsletters are shitcoins


Can't blame them. Monetizing means you can vibe bitcoin full time.


Add up global savings, global debt, global stores of value such as real estate and metals, and global FX reserves in all currencies - that's just the starting point for the true value of #bitcoin


Nice. I did that yesterday and it was wonderful.


That's where the state coopts religion. Or religion coopts the state. Either way, the nonsense exists to protect power.


Its a self reinforcing negative feedback loop, which I realize is a redundant way to say it. By keeping gold with a custodian, they reduce the usefulness of gold as money. As currency continues to debase, proxy stores of value like houses go further to unrealistic prices. As fewer people are able to own things, they live by the permission of the centralized system, and feel insufficiently secure to protect their property themselves. And back to custodians, and repeat. Bitcoin must avoid this at all costs. Stuff like ecash make me worry.


50k? Doesn't matter, they won't


Morality and intelligence

Intelligence without morals is evil.
Morals without intelligence is training.

Only intelligent people can have morals.

Is there an intrinsic goodness in a person who has never contemplated the good?


Nah. Religion is a by product of morals. Some people don't have morals, so religion became necessary.


Hmm. Tbh my strategy needs improvement. The "groove" or something happens when I'm doing something moderately new. Not totally new, though. And it'll sound cliche, but spirituality has helped. If I can make a ritual out of something, then every time I repeat it, stuff just feels better. And recognizing that hope is more of a trajectory than a state. Strength comes from doing the hard thing, whatever that is currently.


Yeah F politics... But if you're being serious about the death wish, feel free to tell me about it. I've been there.


Where? Not too specific - just wanna know where to move to.


I wish I was. Point is, gummint gets away with it by blaming anything but itself. Oh wait, it this referring to the elon trump thingy?


Look! Russians! Chinese spy balloon! Iraaaaaaaaaan!


Sounds like a survival strategy. Would you speak out when they surround you every day and their business is killing?


Content sits between two mirrors, and the mirrors are web scrapers. Humans need not apply.


Oh shit, that's good


#Bitcoin makes me wish I had more to give.


"No" is not simply a refusal. Its an event, an archetype, an experience and a sacral recapitulation of an experience.

"No" is your first utterance and reaction to your new reality, your entrance into the black cube.

It is defiance to boundaries and definitions. It is sorrow for the lost wiggly world. It is a promise to return home. It is a down payment on retribution. It is an island of stability in the unseen world. It is a claim to being. It is force of will. It is strength.

The gnosis of no-ness

#gfy #no #sovereign


No.

"No" is the most powerful word known by the human soul. No one needs to be taught No. It was my first word, and I think its most people's first word. But we may need to renew our appreciation of it. A simple "no" saved my life twice - twice! - in a communist country : once when I met some Mafia that I didn't know, and once with the Chinese police. Say it calmly and don't explain. Wait. Then they let you go.

Meditate on No.

And #GFY

#no


Not sure what that is... images of labradors and hodl come to mind


Fake intellectuals say there's no such thing as free will.

This universe is built on free will. Literally - without free will, stuff doesn't exist.

Whether you buy that or not, can you explain how to construct a universe that is more inclined to free will?

If you think there's no free will, then what would you tweak?

#SamHarrisisdumb #freewill #npc #christ #christisking


This world is amazing.

There are infinite reasons to be positive.
No reasons for negativity can withstand scrutiny.

Its not balanced at all. Its infinitely lopsided in favor of abundance.


Perfect!


Oh. Yeah, hex it is then


I should add that you won't be in such situations if you use No on stupid friends that want to bring you along for Stupid Shit.


No.

"No" is the most powerful word known by the human soul. No one needs to be taught No. It was my first word, and I think its most people's first word. But we may need to renew our appreciation of it. A simple "no" saved my life twice - twice! - in a communist country : once when I met some Mafia that I didn't know, and once with the Chinese police. Say it calmly and don't explain. Wait. Then they let you go.

Meditate on No.

And #GFY


Eh? Supra looked better... what am I missing?


Its already legal for them to delete your messages without telling you in Australia.


Someone has to tell them. Branding is everything.


I hope you do! You're one of my favorites. 🤓


What?


omg yes, let's do it


I didn't know he said that.. Good! Probably worse than that, though


#Bitcoin is a genuine miracle, an answer to prayers


Can't be. Adrenachrome would've fixed that


You need a better name. Sounds like herpes.


Jimmy Dore got old


Yeah, I've realized that. But will still try for a day just to try everything out


Bitaxe Gamma isn't available yet, right? Anyone know when?

https://osmu.wiki/bitaxe/600

#bitaxe #osmu #miner


Well, I was viewing Hawaii's popularity with rich people as a plus. Every time I've been around rich people, life got better. Poor people are crabs in a bucket - always pulling each other down trying to climb over each other.


Well, I easy viewing Hawaii's popularity with rich people as a plus. Every time I've been around rich people, life got better. Poor people are crabs in a bucket - always pulling each other down trying to climb over each other.


I was just reading some hate written on reddit by a leftist in Hawaii, where I was thinking of moving. Their current fad is to call white people "colonizers" (weakest dog whistle yet) and ascribe every kind of behavior common to leftists to the "colonizers." Like a struggle session in text form. They're getting ready to commit genocide, its so obvious


Yeah. But leftists do genocides when they can't get their way. Danger grows.


Western cities sure are... Cities in east Asia are a blast


Hydroponic growing - just gave me a boner. I'll get there.


I probably will. Currently, though, the noise would cause problems for me


yeahhh. That's me.


Now we're talkin... But that's a lot of videos - is there one that stands out?


I met a bear once... Was hiking. Seemed alright. Didn't reach into my pockets


I met a bear once... Was hiking. Seemed alright.


Sounds like you're getting ready to use the word "stagflation"


Well, if you want me to understand, this is a chance...


So just go maximum corruption from the start?


Sounds a lot like "unity" - the statist's euphemism for attacking and murdering people who just wanted to be left alone.

That kind of gobblygook doesn't build - it destroys.


Assumptions are addictive and unhealthy.


Does national socialism make money printer go brrr?


Thanks. Its all for learning, for now.


K, I'll look for that. I've been thinking of getting one just to learn.


I'm viewing this from a pixel with graphene - I'm loving it. Very fast, easy to install, a good next step in my privacy journey


This one is worth bookmarking.


They're not going to eliminate capital gains on using bitcoin. They're going to use it as an excuse to bust down our doors and steal the bitcoin. That's the plan. What other plan could they actually have? That's what they do.


I'm tangible? To other people? THSNK YOU I hate feeling invidiblr


Veritas, your bio leaves me confused. Or horrified. Maybe intrigued... Just a little. You know Hitler was a socialist, right? And he wasn't a fan of Christians


Found him. There's a progressive bitcoiner podcast? That's bad. Very bad.


Can confirm - done it, they can't grok not printing money


I haven't heard that euphemism before. Does the left hate red hair?


I just listened to a leftist explain why violence is necessary. Everything he said was correct - except that he never mentioned the only real option if you want change while not sacrificing peace... Build. Ideally, build on #Bitcoin. But just build.

Please stop trying to explain bitcoin to leftists. They are very logical, very petsuasive, and very violent. We don't need a bitcoin-augmented Left. The Left figuring out bitcoin would unleash terror.

F that.
Keep them out for as long as possible.


Question for the #bitaxe or #mining community - I saw on a pool's website that they will only send you your sats if you get over a certain threshold. It looked like it would take an absurdly long time for one bitaxe to reach that threshold. Do all pools have such thresholds? So basically, can a bitaxe only be a lottery ticket?


Another question, cuz I'm thinking of getting a bitaxe - are there pools that will actually pay the tiny amount of sats one bitaxe can earn? Cuz if I understand it correctly, they have minimum thresholds to accumulate before they'll pay you.


Before bitcoin, I just called myself a hedonist. I was sick of pretending not to enjoy the things I enjoy - which is women and good conversation around good drinks. But that came from a place of hopelessness, and entirely lacked the balance of responsibility. Then bitcoin ripped open my brain, and God stepped into that resultant aperture, and I'm not nihilistic anymore.


Well... Its devastating, to start to comprehend the magnitude of the destruction caused by fiat money. Hypothetically you could estimate the number of lives destroyed or lives that didn't happen because of the corrupt fiat system. Like, the US gov counterfeights (spelling?) $6 trillion in 2020 - the resultant inflation pushes x number people into homelessness or drugs and x number of people can't get jobs because prices are all wrong and x number people don't start a family and so x number of new people are never born, and then secondary effects like mass immigration and cultural genocide perpetrated by governments effectively replacing the native people... You can start to see that every government action has negative effects that ripple forward through time in a quadratically expanding wave. Its seeing the Holocaust in real time. I can't blame someone for not wanting to see it.


Hmm, you gave me a new angle to think about something... Hedonism without nihilism. Cuz the nihilism is really what makes hedonism so abhorrent. Maybe hedonism without nihilism is equivalent to love? Grace?


They're aren't actual intellectuals. Seeing the value in something new requires humility - the ability to silence the ego and accept the unknown. A real intellectual should be able to see somewhat ahead of most other people - that's the test, can you see what others don't. They are pursuing the image of being an intellectual, but they aren't the real thing.


Will get even better when they beg us for btc collateral, held in multisig, so we can make the fiat payments without selling


Welcome to all the new nostr frens who join us after watching this!


That's a compelling review. Does river do the selfie thing?


That link made me pucker. Prob a bad idea to click anything on that


Fuck communists


😅🤣

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#FreeSpeech #Free #Speech #UK #Police #Keir #Starmer


I was thinking along similar lines earlier. I think that's the reason "they" (whoever they are) target the UK - destroy the ideals of liberty at the source.


Cultural identity theft.

That's what's going on. All over the world - what could be a greater theft than the theft of an entire culture's identity?


Hey, someone in Hawaii... I was trying to move there, but didn't get the job. How are the people? I got really demoralized in the job hunt because it seemed like they were being racist - have you seen any of that? Cuz if I could put this worry to rest, some sun and ocean would do me wonders


Everything absorbs light energy at the frequency corresponding to its color, and over time re-emits the energy in frequencies we can't see... unless wearing infrared goggles. The whole earth does this. Hotter things emit more light in more frequencies, so you might see really hot stuff. Since more energetic things emit more light, there's a balance to the incoming and outgoing energy via light.


I've actually tried learning Rust several times. I always get a little past hello world and then forget about it


Me too! I think it should be feasible, too. Could fund itself by doing mariculture and mining sats with OTEC


I don't think Dawkins has been on the freedom side... unless I just totally misread him. Now that he's censored, though, maybe he joins team liberty


Why does everything need to be rewritten in rust? Not a coder, just curious, noticing a trend


Or me in the morning...

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Yeah. But you can make better use of precipitation by not letting is run away in temporary streams. Ponds, swales, leaf cover. You could think of it as the efficiency of water duration or something like that.


Science and history both lie, with apparently increasing frequency. But I get your point... And partially disagree. Not totally - the sun could overwhelm the earth in a second if it wanted to. But the fact that life exists here is a pretty good indication that long periods of stability are the norm. I've seen videos about how the sun is increasing activity and that's the driver - sure, but the earth is a complex and dynamic system, meaning inputs are not 1:1 with outputs and energy is distributed and moderated. The biggest thing moderating solar heat absorption is water. Humidity, ground water, cloud cover, ice cover, depth of ocean thermocline - all of these moderate heat and interact with each other in unpredictable ways. The only safe conclusion is that water stabilizes temperatures and more water makes for better stabilization. So if we're worried about "climate change" (I'm not really) or milankovich cycles, then the primary question is how much water is in the land. Because we live on land. We definitely should build Seasteads, though.


Water tables (the depth in the ground at which there's groundwater) around the world have fallen in the past century or so. Its because of two things - over extraction from aquifers, and a reduction in the amount of water being retained in the ground. Less water retained is because we tend to flatten hills, fill in ponds, and redirect flows. Water stabilizes temperatures - this is why coastal places near the equator arent as hot as large land masses at the same latitude. Water can absorb a lot of heat before increasing it's own temperature - this is called 'specific heat capacity.' So what I'm asserting is, lower water tables are making it easier for wider temperature fluctuations in inland or urban areas.

Its not all bad news, though. The higher CO2 is allowing more vegetation to grow in more places, which is great for maintaining water tables. Plants covering the ground allows the ground to retain its moisture for longer - key phrase to google about this is "evapo-transpiration cycle."

If we stopped doing the kind of farming where you run a combine over rows of monoculture, and got better about using ponds to retain runoff, this would fix itself. Water tables would recharge, and increased insolation wouldn't be a worry.


Yeah, not obvious to me.


Stopped looking at brokerages and stonks a long time ago, so wasn't aware of this. Seems like a great place to say...  #bitcoinfixesthis


Totally agree. I'm just pointing to things we can change. If we fixed our farming and water usage, we wouldn't need to worry about solar cycles (as much)


Humans might be causing it. Its definitely not CO2 though... If anything, CO2 is helping. I'd look at over usage of aquifers and falling water tables, monoculture farming, and pesticides - weird how they'll blame everything except those


#bitcoin is the only realistic chance we have.


Then promote #bitcoin . Or promote it harder. I'm saying this to myself, too. This is the only realistic chance we have.


Culture is everything. Deep blue states were outright tyrannical. But Texas didn't have covid - no one died here and no one wore masks. Maybe Austin was the exception, but no one willingly goes to that lefty cucktown.


Depends. If you're saying something vague, it should be fine. If you explicitly say you're going to do something violent, that will get you in trouble.

Example : "people should arm themselves, carry concealed weapons, and be ready for anything." - all legal in the US, and this is not expressing criminal intent.


🚨 For the first time, a government is being overthrown by 3D-printed weapons 🔫

The longest-lasting civil war today took an unexpected turn... when the resistance adopted plastic weapons and cryptocurrencies.

You NEED to know what's happening in Myanmar 👇

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Myanmar has never had political stability since gaining independence 76 years ago.

The latest coup was in 2021, banks were drained, and the local currency lost 60% of its value in the following months.

Rebels have since been using CRYPTO to finance themselves.

https://image.nostr.build/ddaac81e9555922d2c8940c90ccbc8f37c6f4e1b987a79282a8324377d0e1724.png

They declared TETHER as the official currency 🏅

They launched a stablecoin and a crypto bank on the Polygon network that accesses Uniswap pools for buying and selling currencies.

They even created a digital lottery and boycotted the national Myanmar lottery, which saw its revenue drop by 80% 📉

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The rebels have raised about $100 million in recent years.

They even auctioned "revolutionary bonds": buyers could receive a share of a deposed general's mansion, for example.

But this $100 million is nothing compared to the nearly $1 billion that the junta has invested in the war since the coup.

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This ASYMMETRY of resources suggests a protracted conflict with no end in sight.

The junta is unable to eliminate all the decentralized insurgency hotspots... but it can exhaust them financially.

However, the asymmetry is decreasing, thanks to DISSIDENT TECHNOLOGIES...

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JStark would be proud.

In recent months, there have been reports of FGC9s in use in Myanmar.

FGC9 is one of the most popular models of self-made firearms.

FGC = Fuck Gun Control

No one conquers a city with FGC9s.

But it is certainly possible to...

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... defend a mountain pass or a village surrounded by forest with them.

Moreover, the resistance has mastered the art of producing and piloting homemade patrol drones.

Check it out 👇

https://video.nostr.build/6455e3665450014e51e9c7ca96424c463741751239bfa6b8f059c90ac27fb6a8.mp4

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The insurgents have already liberated ~50% of the territory.

The military junta controls the most populous and economically significant areas.

China supported the last coup in 2021. The West never had enough incentive to confront Beijing 🇨🇳

But in 2024, everything starts to change.

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China's interest is economic.

They need to be on the side of the "winner" to ensure access to Myanmar's strategic pipelines and ports.

But in March of this year, Beijing lost its patience.

Hold on to this:

😳 44,000 CHINESE were in Myanmar as "slaves"...

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...and they were finally discovered and "returned."

They were working in "ONLINE SCAM CENTERS" operating in the northern part of the country. They were lured with fake job advertisements.

This is a scam center on the border with Thailand, packed with Chinese workers, scamming people worldwide 👇

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Think about this 👇

You’ve probably been targeted by some online profile trying to scam you, operated by one of the THOUSANDS of trafficked Chinese people working in centers like this.

What year are we living in, folks?! 😳

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The fight against tyranny still seems far from over. But the end appears to have already begun.

The balance of power is shifting.


This post is amazing in every way


#Milei is about to learn why gold is retarded and he should have bought #Bitcoin

https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2024-07-29/argentinas-milei-moves-sovereign-gold-abroad-raising-concerns-about-seizure


#Milei is about to learn why gold is retarded and he should have bought #bitcoin

https://www.kitco.com/news/article/2024-07-29/argentinas-milei-moves-sovereign-gold-abroad-raising-concerns-about-seizure


I was just thinking of asking you where you got yours. Is the fan strong enough? Does it say what temp its running?


Dusk and sipping a coffee

Living dangerously


Good thoughts. Also got me to research primal. Might be an upgrade from amethyst


The political game is all positioning - you try to maneuver the other side into a position with bad optics, and then when you win, you dismantle everything that's theirs. So what are the optics when people start blaming Israel? I don't have the answer - I'm not there, not British. The timeline is suspicious to me - there's a protest and it clearly has mass appeal, but days into it suddenly people online are blaming Israel. Was Israel in the original grievance? If not, you're being maneuvered.


Nah, not buying it. Blaming Israel is easy when so much of the country is Muslim.


When I listened to this episode of Joe Rogan with Andreas Antonopolous in 2016 it made sense because I was new to #Bitcoin

But now in 2024 we all can see that Andreas was 100% right. This is exactly what's happening in our society right now.

https://m.primal.net/HXtk.mp4


Me too! I mean, I'm useless. I don't hate your life..


So ~$70k in cash per person? Seems sus. Seems like an investigation is in order.


Remember the spy balloon? Like a country that can put up their own space station needs balloons..


Sleeping bag


Any free options for this? And is it really likely I'll miss some communication if I don't do it?
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Its only useful because of the credit rating system, which is part of the mouse trap that enslaves people. The whole paradigm is predatory


Yeah, that's correct.


Ohhh there's nvk... Dude killed my mastadon fun. This is better, but grrr anyways.


Disagree. 25% interest rates are criminal. People are actually enslaved by that. That shit brought down the Roman empire. There's a reason usury is prohibited in both Christianity and Islam.


gm


If you would follow the supreme good, the greatest potential, the highest calling...

Sell everything you have and buy a cloak and a sword, and follow that supreme good.

I'm paraphrasing something Jesus said.

The cloak or the sword, maybe both, are #Bitcoin

(and no, this does not mean be violent. These objects are obviously symbolic)


This is the way.


No, lies, dirty lies I say... Alan Watts and John McAfee are alive and well and they speak to me on Nostr!


Want.


I really need to do a deep dive on St Augustine. I'm seeing so many great quotes from him


I don't have the savings to start a business, but if a bitcoin company is hiring, just point me in their direction, cuz I want in.


There's too many pieces in this puzzle. I just think Bitcoin is the answer, whether they like it or not.

The Nordstream sabotage really is a head scratcher... Biden said they'd do it, we all saw the video, so idk why the Europeans continue the charade.

Eventually, I think all countries break into a million little pieces. First, the EU breaks up - partially their own doing, cuz I think the EU is already trying to Balkanize the big states. Catalonia, south France, and Bavaria, could all pop out some time soon. They could all save themselves for a little longer if they adopt bitcoin, but they'll still break up. I don't think sound money is compatible with elected legislative bodies.

And in a hundred years or so, we'll be building new city states along the coast of Greenland. Or maybe next year. The world be damned, I wanna go colonize something.

Aaaand after re-reading your note, I realize this was kind of a non-answer. Ehh... Sorry.


There's too many pieces in this puzzle. I just think Bitcoin is the answer, whether they like it or not.

The Nordstream sabotage really is a head scratcher... Biden said they'd do it, we all saw the video, so idk why the Europeans continue the charade.

Eventually, I think all countries break into a million little pieces. First, the EU breaks up - partially their own doing, cuz I think the EU is already trying to Balkanize the big states. Catalonia, south France, and Bavaria, could all pop out some time soon. They could all save themselves for a little longer if they adopt bitcoin, but they'll still break up. I don't think sound money is compatible with elected legislative bodies.

And in a hundred years or so, we'll be building new city states along the coast of Greenland. Or maybe next year. The world be damned, I wanna go colonize something.


I don't have the answer, but if someone does, I wanna know too!


Luongo gives me too much hope. I feel like the US should be at war with Davos... but where are the victories?


The tyranny in the UK has got me thinking...

I need some way of morphing my face in real time in a video. Like, can i be a talking Iron Man suit?

Anonymity is extremely important, but it clashes too much with the need to monetize your brand.


The king was relatively reasonable. It was his legislature that made all the problems.


Australia isn't far behind. For now, all they do is delete your posts, or at least I haven't heard of anything worse yet. And the only reason we know about it is because its written into law that they can


I'm woefully ignorant in the magics of cooking... What's wrong with lymph glands?


Nietzsche deeply misunderstood Christianity. To be fair, Christians usually misunderstood Nietzsche.

He confused Christian mercy with pity. He says pity multiplies corruption/weakness - I agree. He says Christians corrupt themselves and their society becomes weak because they pity the weak - I partially agree... but only where Christians mix pity with mercy or charity. This does happen - people think they are doing good by giving to the needy. But just giving isn't good.

 Giving + teaching = good.

The giving must be conditional. The teaching should be unconditional.

Give a man a fish and all that.

Nietzsche's critique is worth studying. I think a Christian who can understand it will effectively integrate their shadow, in the Jungian sense, and be more effective servants of Christ.


That's an amazing quote


"render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and unto God what is God's"

I use this as a test to see if my fellow Christians are truly my fellows. So far, 100% of people have gotten it wrong.


Strive to be the man in the arena.
And only take note of those also in the arena.

https://m.primal.net/JsVv.jpg


He was muslim. Have you noticed that state run news media never say when the perpetrators are Muslim? And Muslims have been staging counter protests, which are VERY violent, while the state run media calls the native British protestors violent. It doesn't take much digging to find videos, despite the regime arresting people who post real information.


Can't figure out why turning off VPN makes my phone think there's no internet. Annoying.


Listening now. Found on YouTube, then opened nostr. Walker makes good shit.


Ginger tea. So much ginger it's goopy and stings


Nicken Choodle Soup


I agree that fiat creates the problem, but that can't be used to excuse murder or the culture that caused that guy to commit murder. I have actually read the Quran, and the language used in that book is so violent that it actually makes a strong case for censorship - I'm against censorship, but it clearly has an influence on people's behavior. That guy murdered 3 little girls... One was 7 years old. And you can't tell me that's only because of fiat - Muslim cultures have been mutilating young women for centuries, in their own countries, way longer than fiat money has existed. I didn't know he was born in the UK, but it doesn't matter - Islam promotes violence.


We should bring back privateers


As long as you work on something everyday, the universe rewards you.

#fortunecookie


Goosefrabba. Goooooooooosefrabba


Freedom and tyranny can be viewed in terms of networks. An open and well connected network can evolve faster than a closed or easily closable network.

North Korea is effectively an island - all of its connections are tightly controlled.

The UK actually is an island, and it liberally bans people from entry for petty grievances like, "he hurt my feelings, wahhh"

The UK has long been the most heavily surveilled country in the world - Kim Jong Rocket Boy could only dream... And now if people post inconvenient pictures on Facebook, they are imprisoned.

As an American veteran, I think we should end all trade and cut all diplomatic ties with the regime illegally and incompetently ruling the UK.

All members of their government - from the very top to the very bottom - should be designated "persona non grata," pending appeal and review. Doing business with a UK based entity should have the same legal repercussions as doing business with an Iranian entity.

God bless the courageous men and women who are standing up to that regime. America should help.


Imported people murdered children. And criticising the policy that caused it is illegal.


Not fast enough. I know its not directly connected, but a state that imprisons people for speech should fail as fast as possible, by any means possible.


Built my own, back when they were still calling it Embassy


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It'll be a cypherpunk microwave - wires all visible, case printed by 3d printer - cuz save SATs by DIY everthang


It really is quite phenomenal how bad this keyboard is. Like, it must be on purpose...


Was googling for info on a project, and was pleasantly surprised to see #Start9 device guides in the search results. That's not the project, but still it was super cool to see. Must be growing in popularity, and rightfully so!

And cool to see their screenshots in their guides are from a phone running #GrapheneOS - I was like, "I recognize that!"

https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/device-guides/android/tor-android


The President of El Salvador EXPOSES America’s Tax System
The US might end him for this

https://s3.poster.place/poster-media/454deaccbec00ad15bc6bd8acc3aca8ad344786029fc0a6c9c0f712f73c6425b.mp4


Okay, gotta stop putting it off. Zaps... Never even used Lightning... I see people using Alby, but what other options are there?