Nice to know they conclude, "We analyse countermeasures the network can implement and come to the conclusion that an adequate solution comprises constant message sizes as well as dummy traffic. "


Cool. Very cool.


"And in the end, I believe that we don't need to do anything to be loved.

We spend our lives trying to seem prettier, smarter.

But I realized two things.
Those who love us see us with their hearts and attribute qualities to us beyond those we really have.

And those who don't want to love us will never be satisfied with all our efforts.

Yes, I really believe that it is important to leave our imperfections alone.
They are precious to understand those who see us with the heart. "🥀🌷

Frida Kahlo https://image.nostr.build/ea7edb270f24834c5dadf91af1e7b53174c32a6a3a8cb317dc3c22c129cb624e.jpg


ATH FTW!


Valhalla bound https://video.nostr.build/46f187c5bdd2e5227c37f0b6822451364934723857ce9cc5b342eec0e5c4ec55.mp4


And she said, "Mom. Dad. Meet my fiancee!"


Fiancee


How to look cool and impress a girl.


Captivating.


Take a moment to look at interesting castle concepts https://video.nostr.build/5d188e2fb50dcff9882509378306e3a8ac7c3b65703eeb5a47d546638af6ef83.mp4


Great work. Thx.


Time to find a new bank. Time to find a new country.


How do they define social media? Is nostr included? Can they come after nostr note posters?


In the year 3000, everything on that plate will be your entire meal.


It's hard not to gloat at her gloating.


Yeah same. But for me that room is normally filled with a bunch of other guys all yelling, "I'm innocent! I'm innocent!"?


https://m.primal.net/LpLW.png

People should stop putting themselves below "authorities". But it seems they won't, all we'll keep playing these stupid games and winning these stupid prizes.


#Bitcoin
Bitcoin $71,000
https://m.primal.net/Llwq.mp4


#Bitcoin
Buy A House, or Bitcoin Instead?
https://m.primal.net/LnCp.mp4


We are at the chasm:

https://m.primal.net/LjVe.png

source: https://x.com/federico_rivi/status/1842564735528579110


FFM is certainly more accepted in the scientific community, but is not without critics.

It fails to predict peoples behavior in specific contexts (ie people change their behavior in each context and therefore their 'personality' is not fixed by determined by the context - ie the context is a more powerful influence, and so predictor, of behavior).

If it cannot predict behavior then it's not a valid theory of behavior. Ie, it's quackery. So you win that point again. Lol.

"...it appears that the currently popular FFM should be replaced with an expanded and altogether more inclusive model of dynamic personality structure. "
Boyle, GJ. p21

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27826750_Critique_of_the_five-factor_model_of_personality


The text below is the complete reason why Elon and the ID Card fanatics are 100% wrong.

The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple identity document like your passport or driving license. It is in fact, a database backed control grid and the fulfilment of Orwells nightmare.

You may have heard that legislation creating compulsory ID Cards passed a crucial stage in the House of Commons. You may feel that ID cards are not something to worry about, since we already have Photo ID for our Passport and Driving License and an ID Card will be no different to that. What you have not been told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and what it will mean to you personally.

The proposed ID Card will be different from any card you now hold. It will be connected to a database called the NIR, (National Identity Register)., where all of your personal details will be stored. This will include the unique number that will be issued to you, your fingerprints, a scan of the back of your eye, and your photograph. Your name, address and date of birth will also obviously be stored there.

There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status, and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament.

By itself, you might think that this register is harmless, but you would be wrong to come to this conclusion. This new card will be used to check your identity against your entry in the register in real time, whenever you present it to 'prove who you are'.

Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every pharmacy, and every Bank will have an NIR Card Terminal, (very much like the Chip and Pin Readers that are everywhere now) into which your card can be 'swiped' to check your identity. Each time this happens, a record is made at the NIR of the time and place that the Card was presented. This means for example, that there will be a government record of every time you withdraw more than £99 at your branch of Nat West, who now demand ID for these transactions. Every time you have to prove that you are over 18, your card will be swiped, and a record made at the NIR. Restaurants and off licenses will demand that your card is swiped so that each receipt shows that they sold alcohol to someone over 18, and that this was proved by the access to the NIR, indemnifying them from prosecution.

Private businesses are going to be given access to the NIR Database. If you want to apply for a job, you will have to present your card for a swipe. If you want to apply for a London Underground Oyster Card,or a supermarket loyalty card, or a driving license you will have to present your ID Card for a swipe. The same goes for getting a telephone line or a mobile phone or an internet account.

Oyster, DVLA, BT and Nectar (for example) all run very detailed databases of their own. They will be allowed access to the NIR,just as every other business will be. This means that each of these entities will be able to store your unique number in their database, and place all your travel, phone records, driving activities and detailed shopping habits under your unique NIR number. These databases, which can easily fit on a storage device the size of your hand, will be sold to third parties either legally or illegally. It will then be possible for a non governmental entity to create a detailed dossier of all your activities. Certainly, the government will have clandestine access to all of them, meaning that they will have a complete record of all your movements, from how much and when you withdraw from your bank account to what medications you are taking, down to the level of what sort of bread you eat - all accessible via a single unique number in a central database.

This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID Card that shows your name and face.

Most people do not know that this is the true character and scope of the proposed ID Card. Whenever the details of how it will work are explained to them, they quickly change from being ambivalent towards it.

The Government is going to COMPEL you to enter your details into the NIR and to carry this card. If you and your children want to obtain or renew your passports, you will be forced to have your fingerprints taken and your eyes scanned for the NIR, and an ID Card will be issued to you whether you want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye scanned, you will not be able to get a passport. Your ID Card will, just like your passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend your ID at any time, meaning that you will not be able to withdraw money from your Bank Account, for example, or do anything that requires you to present your government issued ID Card.

The arguments that have been put forwarded in favour of ID Cards can be easily disproved. ID Cards WILL NOT stop terrorists; every Spaniard has a compulsory ID Card as did the Madrid Bombers. ID Cards will not 'eliminate benefit fraud', which in comparison, is small compared to the astronomical cost of this proposal, which will be measured in billions according to the LSE (London School of Economics). This scheme exists solely to exert total surveillance and control over the ordinary free British Citizen,and it will line the pockets of the companies that will create the computer systems at the expense of your freedom, privacy and money.

If you did not know the full scope of the proposed ID Card Scheme before and you are as unsettled as I am at what it really means to you, to this country and its way of life, I urge you to email or photocopy this and give it to your friends and colleagues and everyone else you think should know and who cares. The Bill has proceeded to this stage due to the lack of accurate and complete information on this proposal being made public. Together & Hand to hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone who receives this passes it on.

Frances Stonor Saunders


Okay. If we go with that, things are looking pretty bad for Myers-Briggs.

I.e., when quacks say it's a bunch of quackery you know things are really bad!


On the face of it, yes. But does it really?

Perhaps if Trump was pro bitcoin. But is he? Who knows? He loved Wikileaks before he was elected. Then after, he had Assange thrown in the torture dungeon for about 5 years.

So I suppose your argument would hold true if Trump does what he says he will do. But he is a politician...

Even if he does allow self custody doesn't mean he wouldn't make registering the withdrawal addresses compulsory and transferring from those addresses illegal.

Perhaps the only thing to do is vote for Trump, hope for the best, and expect the worst?


fwiw, Myers-Briggs is considered by most scientists to be a bunch of quackery.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/2021-utc-myers-briggs.html

And for some history
https://thoughtcatalog.com/daniel-hayes/2015/07/myers-briggs-nonsense/


Bitcoin companies NGMI

https://youtu.be/ddvHagjmRJY?si=e4c7WGl0_xDtUDBa


While you were busy making fun of the UK for criminalizing free speech, the UN finalized its Cybercrime Convention which will overrule bank secrecy and criminalize hacking, whistleblowing, and security research.

The convention, which was finalized last friday, drastically expands government surveillance powers and enables the widespread sharing of personal data between UN member states.

The convention mandates the identification, tracing, confiscation and seizure of "proceeds of crime, property, equipment or other instrumentalities" and the collection of real-time traffic and content data on behalf of requesting member states.

It further mandates member states to establish criminal offences for "the concealment or disguise of the true nature, source, location, disposition, movement or ownership of or rights with respect to property" and  "the conversion or transfer of property [...] for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property" when committed intentionally.

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, the convention includes "documents saved on personal computers or notes stored on digital devices. In essence, this means that private unshared thoughts and information are no longer safe. Authorities can compel the preservation, production, or seizure of any electronic data, potentially turning personal devices into spy vectors regardless of whether the information has been communicated".

While the treaty defers most articles to the governance of local laws, it states that states "shall not decline to act [...] on the ground of bank secrecy".

Full story:

https://www.therage.co/un-cybercrime-convention-bank-secrecy/


Tether is not a CBDC.

It's literally a BDC

Tether is not a central bank, they don't issue notes of an independent monetary unit. They aren't associated with any govt. Tether is just a modern banknote with most of the same problems, risks, and trust issues. The difference being it is available to anyone with a smart phone without an account -- which is actually a significant improvement over the old garbage.
Tether is custodian issued digital banknotes. Literally in every use of those terms this is the accurate thing to call it. "Cash" has always just referred to banknotes issued that were redeemable in gold or at a bank that was a bearer asset. The difference with a stablecoin like Tether and physical cash is the oversight/surveillance that the institution has for the digital alternative. This is why ecash is actually the only thing that digitally shares basically all the characteristics of physical cash (txn privacy from issuer and bearer asset). Tether is far easier to freeze accounts and spy on what everyone is doing. Obviously why people want to label it "something bad."

My point is that the CBDC label is NOT accurate, and when we use words and labels arbitrarily, it desensitizes people to them. If people just become "whatever" about Tether (because if you don't use it, who cares), and everyone calls it a CBDC, then after a few years of this people are just going to think "CBDCs are fine, who cares?"

Calling everything we don't like a CBDC is a HUGE BENEFIT to actual CBDCs.

Bank digital currencies are not a problem. They will remain solvent as long as the "bank" does. They are a much better option than credit cards, and the option of being able to issue ecash is even better.

BDCs are certainly a far cry from the #Bitcoin sovereign world that we are building and have nothing to do with it, but they are ALSO a far cry from a genuine CBDC.

So please, stop using words that matter in a stupid and cheap way, because when we REALLY need them, you'll have sucked them of all of their power and meaning.


This constant lying is not aimed at making people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.
A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.
And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want.
 - Hanna Arendt
German historian and philosopher
1906 - 1975

nostr:nevent1qqsft65a9fjkx6n2gua6dtnrfhek2m6zevc9cxap4vv07e7qvg4grdqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs2rlzal4lleatrezg4tdrxw5d4srg3tcfkutuvjr5fzvu9h0kmrncrqsqqqqqp46ygxx


Surveillance towers at the U.S.-Mexico border have been a snafu for decades. "These cameras are largely political theater; the technology dazzles publicly, then fizzles quietly," EFF’s nostr:npub1hg2uvr84c6f0kfnpk9uu0hr24zqnv935k05y06wryk4yst9c52xsgml7re says in nostr:npub15efpc99n3cxkagmendd68j78g0620hqtsnzjt65hwyy45yjs4rqszp5ayp. https://www.pcmag.com/news/gop-demands-answers-about-broken-surveillance-cameras-at-the-border


* Dredd


Ouch.


Saudi Arabia's Peach Trees Mega-City One awaits you!

Except Judge Dread has been replaced by Artificial Intelligence Big Brother.

Paradise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CV2-F5ZPr8&t=2s

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


Penal colony. Always was (post European). Always will be.


Well. You've only got yourself to blame. You should have paid yourself cash -  you know - gone to the bank, lined up, got to the counter, withdrawn, gone to the end of the queue, got to the counter, deposited.

Oh well. Next time.

But go when it's quiet - otherwise by the time you get to the counter to make the deposit - they'll probably have forgotten who you are and ask you where you got the money from.

🤣 🤣 🤣


GM.

I'm bullish on bitcoin, and I think a lot of people overthink it.

One of my favorite metrics is the market value vs realized value ratio. The realized value is basically just the on-chain cost basis. The value of UTXOs at the dollar price during which they last moved between wallets, which often means the time people pulled them from exchanges or deposited them to exchanges.

https://m.primal.net/LXov.png

A relatively small amount of marginal buying can push up the market value by a lot. Like how if you buy one house on a street, it can boost the estimated price of all houses on that street even though only one of them traded hands. But when market value becomes stretched relative to cost basis, it means that part of the market value is kind of illusory. We don't *really* know what houses on that street are worth if only one of them traded hands recently and thus liquidity was low. Over time, as more houses on that street trade hands and we have more price points, the estimated value of the street becomes more real. The same thing for bitcoin; as more bitcoin trades hands at certain levels, it starts to make that level "real" compared to how real we should consider it when it just touches a certain level for a little while with limited volume.

Right now, bitcoin is at an all-time high in its realized price, i.e. cost basis.

Back when bitcoin was poking over $60k in April 2021, the cost basis for the network was only about $350 billion. Now, at the same market price, the cost basis approaches $650 billion, or more than twice as high. The marginal bitcoin has traded hands and moved between wallets at much higher prices than years ago, even though the market price is about the same. In other words, these levels have been truly liquid and been consummated by the market more than they were back in 2021, and thus the price is more robust at this level than back then.

The launch of the spot ETFs pulled forward some excitement this year, and so we've been in this big consolidation since March. But even in that time period from March to the present, the on-chain cost basis increased from like $520 billion to $640 billion, and so price discovery and progress is being made despite the ongoing price chop.

As the network builds a bigger and more solid base like it has been doing, it can set the stage for the next major breakout. The network looks healthy to me.

https://m.primal.net/LXpf.png


People still participate in Politics?  #politics #joke

https://video.nostr.build/2e2a5db4a640478485e24dd1025c46b2b786f7a3ac7f700ee21dd1bca089224f.mp4


Robots pretending to be people.
People pretending to be robots.
Robots pretending to be robots.
People pretending to be people.

So far we have three out of four?


At the Sovereign Individual panel at #BH2024 with nostr:nprofile1qqszfcmuredsezagmh382j70l33mtv5elqrylrae9z70x9decjt97wcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnnv4kkjum0dshxgetk9uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dv3jhvtnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z762846l nostr:nprofile1qqsgdp0taan9xwxadyc79nxl8svanu895yr8eyv0ytnss8p9tru047qpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuvtnv96zummjvuq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg9820us nostr:nprofile1qqsfrjd9ux5hgsg5cmlz6cdwfh5zv2024g8m2t6g9zqf83l8uqm0svspzfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezu7nzvshxwecpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t06ujj0q I promised a note with book recommendations, so here you go:

A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, Paul Rosenberg
https://freemansperspective.com/audiobook-a-lodging-of-wayfaring-men/

The Second Realm, Smuggler & XYZ
https://anarplex.sirion.io/files/secondrealm/

Aristocracy of Action, Anonymous
https://anarplex.sirion.io/hosted/files/aoa.html

A Declaration of Separation, The Free and Unashamed
https://anarplex.sirion.io/hosted/files/declarationseparation.html

Alongside Night, Neil Schulman
https://anarplex.sirion.io/hosted/files/Alongside_Night_free30.pdf

Vonu - The Search for Personal Freedom, Rayo
https://vonupodcast.com/free-vonu-book/

The Big Book Of Secret Hiding Places, Jack Luger
https://archive.org/details/JackLugerTheBigBookOfSecretHidingPlaces

Extreme Privacy - What It Takes To Disappear, Michael Bazzell
https://inteltechniques.com/books.html


lol. Do androids dream of electric sheep?


Experiencing nature and solitude can be powerfully healing.

Zen mediators I think would see your thought experience differently. That it is actually your own thoughts that are poisoning your own mind and crushing your soul.

How so? It's normal for most people to have discriminating thoughts when a thought pops into their minds - judgements - I like/dislike this. This is good/bad. This is right/wrong. These judgements cause associated pleasant/unpleasant feelings - which in turn create more judgements/feelings. And so it goes on.
(Do you notice the judgements/feelings you having about what you have read thus far?)

That is why you experience happiness when you're away from those people who cause those thoughts to come. No people - no thoughts.

Therefore, a key goal of meditation is actually breaking free of, or creating distance between these judgements and your conscious peaceful mind, or self (thoughts are just something you experience rather than being a fundamental part of who you are).

After a while, often many years of daily training (ie, meditation), when you start to experience these thoughts/feelings, you can quickly stop holding on to them and just ignore them. (but it doesn't take years, you can experience benefits within a few weeks of daily practise).

A good analogy is that of sitting under a waterfall. We all start by experiencing a constant bombardment of thoughts/feelings crashing down on our heads. Meditation allows you to step out from under the waterfall and sit quietly on the riverbank to just watch them pass you by.

Proponents of Zen, Zen Masters, maintain that through mediation, one can become master of one's own mind. And it becomes the way of life.

But in the meantime, as you have found, minimizing the amount of time in contexts that set your mind off, ie, with normies, is likely to be very beneficial.

(PS. how meditate? Sit comfortably, eyes closed, focus on the rise and fall of the stomach. Count each breath up to 10 then start from the beginning again. When you realize your mind has wandered, which it invariably will, gently return to counting the breath.

How's your math? Do you think you can count 10 breaths?! If you can. Excellent! Keep going. O)

Once you get the hang of it you can do it anywhere and everywhere - walking in the forest, counting you steps, would be great!)


Why the iPhone 16 Should Scare You Shitless.

If someone next to you pulls out their phone and it's not a de-googled android, they're actively spying on you.

If it's your phone, you're spying on family, friends and acquaintances around you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c8UrgGG3NA


Good effort. Well done. Keep going!


Icky-poo!

Science.

Can't live with it.

Can't live without it.


Buddha/Buddhists have valued 'non-attachment' for millennia.

The physical things you have, the social relationships all feed into one's self identity, which ultimately, is a delusion (because it's only really an idea). The you that you think is you, is not actually you (it's just an idea you carry around in your head) and since that idea is ultimately a delusion, fantasy or whatever, it can't actually own anything.

The reality of what everyone is, is a mystery to all of us. We get distracted by trying to answer the question, 'who am I?' when the deeper question is 'what am I? Focusing on understanding what you are brings liberation from idea of who you are and liberation from wanting that 'who' to fit in and find a place.

Let go of the 'self' (idea). Those who lose their lives (ie them-'selves') will find them (themselves).


'GN'

Not any more!


My husband and I love dentistry, but no longer enjoyed the business of dentistry. We are so thankful for the opportunity to continue to use our skills to help the grateful people of El Zonte and continue our mission to help build a medical and dental clinic for the community with Ocean Health.

It was a beautiful day and our exhausted  hearts are full. https://image.nostr.build/230ae493615dd3a438a19089d1cf6eb2d006bcb7dd452ac12379c34ecdf74c2b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/675dec746c579cbd4537ccf6945295774c491f9d9d9a6778e79947e44bed0d30.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a0b825276ff21b1f28b69688b3896e0548207adce3798eedca4e131b485489a2.jpg


Beautiful. Wonderful. Happy for you and your patients. 😀 😀


Accelerate 🚀 https://lnvpn.net


It really sucks when you make a tipo


Too sensible.


Are you sure? I think that's their economy.


Oh the misery.

So children will grow up being exposed to nothing but fake images of physical perfection to which neither they nor their prospective partners can measure up to.

Behavioral change propagandists will indoctrinate prescribed attitudes, behavior and values in the personal lives of consumers (formerly known as people). (admittedly, already happening)

Therefore, megacorps will fuse "AI" fake people, and perhaps robotics, to meet the demand for the perfect partner? The demand which they themselves induced.

Well, perhaps one good thing is that women will no longer complain about been seen merely as sex objects - men won't even see them at all.


Can it do breakdancing?


Looks like Harris and Trump saying thanks to a supporter.


The Promised Land (AKA Bastarden). 2023


Looks like it must of taken him HOURS to learn to play like that.


Don't trust verify
https://v.nostr.build/0nr2.mp4


A truly great man.


Nah. Just a bunch of men after divorce.

Losing everything.

Getting ready to do it all again.

You know. Normal stuff.


AKA police bodycam.


Yeah but it's the restraint chair I'm really worried about.


nostr:nprofile1qqsdff2axm52vllkv23xp3pfqypjv52qe8s6m6urzahw7xqcz7sc86sprys8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnrda5kuen4dejzuctswqqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpds9vv7hq
Cerra un poco los ojos
#negr0art
https://image.nostr.build/634375aa550e931a961feedea931038e6825a629238fbd0e8b4502205dcca2ca.jpg https://image.nostr.build/729dd407d3ec16b90ed2bb58460679911a7dd868fee3798f570651793af83eef.jpg


I use privacy-respecting pay as you go Silent.Link eSIMS. They are international eSIMS that roam on US networks. You can pay with BTC, Lightning, or Monero (recommended). There is no registration necessary and you can sign up over Tor.

I have a US IDENTITY eSIM (inbound only with number) for 2FA, and I use their DATA only eSIM plan for everything else (it's blazing fast).

I also have multiple JMP.Chat VOIP numbers (personal, business, and burners) for when I need to call or text outside of privacy apps like Signal or SimpleX.


Pixel/Graphene


Nasty. I personally won't be buying an e car/bike/lawnmower after seeing that. Poor guy. Hope he'll be alright.


"Never sell your bitcoin" means, "don't use it as a medium of exchange - or we'll fuck you up."

Programmable, censurable, surveil-able stablecoins for you  all!

Vote for me!!!

I'm for you!!!


We all need to be very aware that what  nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 is describing here is not some distant dystopian future. It's our dystopian reality.

In May, Elliptic, together with researchers from MIT and IBM, developed a dataset to identify "the shape of money laundering" on the blockchain.

This dataset attempts to predict money laundering activity that has "not yet been labeled" by distinguishing between what the dataset defines as "anomalous signatures" and Bitcoin transfers between "licit services".

Falling out of these clusters deemed normal by intelligence financed corporations already leaves you penalized. Avoid KYC services? Flagged. Can't tie your transactions to a bank account? Flagged. Frequent user of coinjoins? Flagged.

You are already being debanked because a computer program has decided that you are a money launderer – not because you did something illegal, but because your transactions are deemed abnormal – and you have no legal recourse as suspicious activity reports swear financial institutions to absolute secrecy.

It's the full on criminalization of privacy in finance. The future is here, and it's Orwellian.

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


Welcome. 😀


'...so away, nostr works just like bitcoin. You have a private key, that's called nsec, and a public key, called npub. And you never share your nsec with anyone because...'

'I see, right. Great. ....can you just keep your eyes on...'


Great video. As for the description of the 400,000 euro tender indicating a revision downwards for the asset register threshold.

I believe that is not the case. Rather, the tender amount is the amount of money the gov is offering to pay the consultancy to do the policy analysis work. The tender is a tender to offer work.


#Bitcoin
EU Preparing To Steal Your Stuff?
https://m.primal.net/Jdym.mp4


Yeah right. Look.

These are the facts:

1) Your name is Karnage.

2) And you drive like John Wick.


NEW Podcast - I was joined by Unlimited Hangout contributor Stavroula Pabst to discuss Peter Thiel, the man behind Trump's VP pick J.D. Vance and the CIA-linked architect of key aspects of the technocratic surveillance state.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/resources/show-notes/the-thiel-verse-with-stavroula-pabst/


No way is bitcoin getting co-opted.


Good find.


Finally. I have a life plan.


Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


lol


*What is this World? (not word)


Or, perhaps, invulnerable to abuse.

Religion is a big and complex topic. For starters, even defining the world religion is hard. So you have to start with a working definition and go from there.

One helpful way to understand religions (sorry, not enough time to define it), is that they typically start from an identification that life is unsatisfactory, and/or meaningless, and then identify some sort of solution, or salvation.  Along the way they also try to answer fundamental questions of life like, who am I? Who are you? and What is this word?

For example, some Christians could be said to identify the suffering of life as being due to selfishness and disobedience to God, which results in suffering and ultimately, death. So the solution is having faith that Jesus fixed all that, resulting in an eternal life free of suffering.

Conversely, some Buddhists could be said to identify that eternal life is our problem, that is, we experience the samsara cycle of endless birth, life (of suffering, unsatisfactoriness, meaninglessness), death and rebirth. So salvation is in a sense achieved through escaping this eternal life through mediation and non attachment to your idea of the self - so you have to 'die' in a sense - so the complete opposite in some sense to Christianity! They start with the same problems but go off in completely different directions for solutions.

This is a very broad generalization and the main religions have enormous disagreements and divergent thinking amongst them. But I just try to give the jist of things.

And also, they are a great tool to oppress or liberate people depending on the personalities of adherents, especially the rulers (that German guy around the time of WW2 loved it, and cobbled together his own). This is why you can meet both really great and really awful people involved in all kinds of religion. Very powerful ideology. And if you're not careful, it's easy to hurt yourself and others. Beware!


That's probably the worst joke I've ever seen.

Love it.


BREAKING: The European Union is planning to set up a centralised EU register containing all the assets of its citizens to „combat money laundering and terrorist financing.“

Comrade Marx enters the room. https://image.nostr.build/51adf7db56f2fc9f24fadaca323c86d476e261e83da1bd9e16fb649a756a289a.jpg


KYC ME HARDER!! nostr:note19gmy5408vyq57np4wtfup5x3v5dukz0l48qntqkal5jj5lqd2z8q9aj3tk


First we identify it. Then we take it. Then we build poor/debter prisons. Then we...


Did you know Google Fonts is installed on approximately 111,579,992 websites, with around 50,103,810 of those currently live?

Did you also know if you visit a site that uses Google Fonts, it automatically collects user:

- IP address: Which identifies your device on the internet (as of 2022, Google stopped storing users' IP addresses, but they still collect this information).

- User agent: Information about your browser and operating system.

- Referer: The URL of the webpage you are visiting.

...and is therefore "out-of-the-box" in violation of GDPR law?

If you are a website visitor:

You can block 3rd party fonts (web fonts) with uBlock Origin.

1. Open uBlock Origin's dashboard.

2. Go to the "My filters" tab.

3. Add the following line to block Google Fonts:

*$font,third-party

4. Click "Apply changes" to save the filter rule.
There is an even stricter option that blocks ALL remote fonts (not just Google Fonts) that you can activate by selecting "Block remote fonts" in the extension's settings.

*Sites that do not display properly can be excluded from the block.

If you are a website owner:

You can protect your visitors' privacy by hosting your own fonts locally (on the same server as your web pages), using basic OS fonts, or checking out Bunny.

If you haven't heard of Bunny CDN, they offer the only fully GDPR-compliant fonts powered by a CDN as a drop-in replacement for Google fonts.

According to Bunny:

"Bunny Fonts is an open-source, privacy-first web font platform designed to put privacy back into the internet.

With a zero-tracking and no-logging policy, Bunny Fonts helps you stay fully GDPR compliant and puts your users' personal data into their own hands."

https://bunny.net/fonts/

As a side note: Bunny CDN also has one of the most transparent, easy-to-read and understand privacy and data policy pages I have ever seen.

Well done Bunny, well done.

https://bunny.net/privacy/


Superb video as always.


#Bitcoin
All Aboard The Bitcoin Trump Train?
https://m.primal.net/JbVt.mp4


Sounds like a growth industry.


Or perhaps information flowing freely to the people vs. information flowing freely to fascists (gov/corps)?


Ability to have pseudonymous and therefore multiple and/or disposable identities.  This makes using nostr much safer than using deep state enmeshed platforms. And is generally safer to keep your real identity private from the entire planet.

And when everyone decides to suddenly call themselves Dan it makes things less confusing.


That's really useful info. Thx.

A real pain going in and out of the fiat world. Just want to go into bitcoin and stay in. Looking forward to bitcoin only exchanges for property, bitcoin banks and lending/mortgages. No fractional reserve. No global banking connections.

Kind of like old fashioned community banks. But would have to be completely in the Second Realm. Maybe they already exist...


Presumably, bitcoin is not the issue but that they want proof that you have owned it for a minimum amount of time? Ie, would be the same problem if a family member gifted you the same in dollars from their bank account, and you had not held it in your account for the minimum 60 days?


🫂🥹🕊
https://image.nostr.build/12d4286d385c2e66f1bf9f88a74de933a97bd41568d971d8cd9c387958c55b09.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4b61bb3fc4e9e351ff9104705497a6254c9ff5e2bcf164aaf4c216f5778ead1c.jpg


dropping, why not:

Here's a summary of the key points from Julian Assange's essays on conspiracies:

Assange argues that authoritarian regimes and unjust systems rely on conspiracies and secretive communication to maintain power.

He proposes viewing these conspiracies as connected graphs or networks, with conspirators as nodes and communications as links between them.

The strength of a conspiracy is related to the total "conspiratorial power" - the sum of all the important communications between conspirators.

Leaks and the exposure of secret information disproportionately harm unjust, secretive systems compared to open, just ones.

To weaken a conspiracy, Assange suggests:

Reducing its ability to gather and process information
Cutting links between conspirators
Reducing the "weight" or importance of key communications
Fostering distrust and paranoia within the network
Modern technology has increased the potential scale and power of conspiracies, but also created new vulnerabilities.

The ultimate goal is to reduce the conspiracy's cognitive ability to understand and respond to its environment, rendering it ineffective.

Assange sees this framework as a way to promote more open and just governance by undermining authoritarian power structures.

The essays lay out the philosophical and strategic foundations for WikiLeaks' approach to exposing government and corporate secrets.


These details should tell you that if you consider these types of groups (sophisticated adversaries with limitless physical access) as a part of your threat model, then you should:

- Use the most recent phone you possibly can

- Upgrade your phone to the newest possible generation as soon as possible after release if you can help it.

- Use the latest version of GrapheneOS ASAP. Do not delay.

- Use a strong, high entropy passphrase to make bruteforcing the device credential impossible if secure element is ever exploited.

- Set GrapheneOS auto reboot time accordingly so encrypted data goes back at rest when the phone reboots, which makes AFU exploitation impossible. The lower the better.

- Enable duress password. Set it to something easy to trigger but not easy to misfire.

- Turn your phone off in a high risk situation, and trigger duress when in a duress situation.

- Disable your radios when not using them (turn off Wi-Fi, use airplane mode, disable NFC, UWB etc.) for attack surface reduction.

- Set an appropriate USB port control or disable the USB port so they aren't able to connect a device to it.

- Use user profiles (application data and user files within profiles are stored encrypted with separate credentials).

- Enable upcoming GrapheneOS security features like second factor authentication unlock when they come out.

- Communicate only over secure messaging. Some apps like Molly (Signal fork) have features to encrypt the app storage with a passphrase, which access to that app's data impossible even when a profile is compromised  providing the passphrase is secure enough.

- Become disassociated to data. Learn to only keep files or other data as long as it is necessary. If you have no use for them for a long time, then back it up elsewhere, encrypted. Delete anything you don't have a use for in the present. Your data is not your memories.

- Remember that you are only as secure as the people you trust. If they do not meet your safety or security requirements, don't enable them to do things that could cause trouble.

nostr:nevent1qqs8uxurjncnpj8uyzqy5gd3lyevzd8u92xhk2xe9fdln5y03hgwrwgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsygxptfdxtxrw026pxn0w82u9y4x6t3w5kp883d83djpgxuvj6d23s5psgqqqqqqsgwaf3p


Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin explain how Trump is working with Peter Thiel (Vance) who's company Palantir developed facial recognition technology that made Jan 6 protesters easy to recognize, leading some of them to still be in prison today.

What do we learn about Trump? He works with people that will completely fuck over his own supporters.

The surveillance structures being built by those close to Trump (and the Democrats - it's just the uni-party after all) are to identify dissidents of both the right and the left.

And the icing on the cake? Gossip is that Trump is considering Jamie Dimon as US treasury secretary.

Rest assured, Trump will completely fuck over bitcoiners when elected. It will make is easier that all the conference goers will have their faces scanned and cataloged so they can be at the top of the shit list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMYdu-vTuPI


The more I watch it the better it gets and the sicker I feel.


Well it can't be humility that's for sure.


Spelling mistake. Should read...

FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND NO SENSE


That would never happen.


This that the next presidential debate?


I will be on Redacted shortly.
https://www.youtube.com/live/8BqVnOu1WBs

See here after interview airs for updated info.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/press/redacted-14/


Wonderful chat. A plug for the importance of scientific skepticism, humility and doubt.

A key common element of religious cults (or new religious movements if you prefer) is that, while they may not be correct, they are definitely not unsure! It's sad that mainstream society is not immune from this thinking either.

Indeed, most people find appealing the claims of people being able to identify life's problems and therefore, its solutions. Sales, politics, religion, bitcoin.

Buddha  think realized this. A major source of people's (society's) suffering is the clinging to and identifying with, delusions. Salvation = letting go of it all, holding all these ideas, including ideas about who you really are, and the nature of reality, as practical working ideas/hypotheses, rather than objective truths about reality.

The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.

Looking forward to watching more of your videos.


If you replace 'state' with 'public/private partnerships' you get fascism (or Corporatism as Mussolini preferred to call it).

Kinda like, communism sponsored by Coca-Cola.


Ain't that the truth. Love your work.


That's great news and I'm sorry to here that [sic].


Ethereum looks like she could lift a doughnut or two. Probably win in a head-to-head contest tbh.


Love your videos. You always seem to nail the nuances perfectly. The good and best benefits. Thx. Pumping out your stuff to nocoiners as much as I can...


Cool. Very cool.


No doubt, but I'd guess that billions of  US-Americans and Europeans also need escape from their authoritarian regimes’ financial oppression. That is, the current banking system - that surveils all transactions and freezes bank accounts on a whim, with no customer recourse. Digital prison is getting built very fast. Soon will be just like the rest of the world and dependent on bitcoin to survive.

Bitcoin is rules without rulers - one of the greatest anarchist achievements to date.


So true 👍 https://video.nostr.build/ba7c08686b1c404433676c9c876ed3363f221839ae3509d13cb64057e3181055.mp4


To be fair, should really ban all countries from the Olympics. It's only state propaganda mind control.

Imagine an Olympics where no one knew the nationality of participants...


Yep. No point watching anything election related from here on in (as if there ever was).


Also, by strange coincidence a 20 year old in the crowd died moments later of lead poisoning in what is suspected to be a CIA assisted suicide.


If your grandfather had no balls, then how is it you exist?

Don't you think he was trying to tell you something?


Great chat!

I'm not sure what I think of Saylor's advocacy of SOV for plebs and p2p only for corporations and governments. He seems pragmatic, shrewd even, and in face of certain annihilation if the rich turn against btc, SOV usage (or conceptualization) would seem much more likely to ensure btc's survival (as it doesn't challenge the current monetary slave system).

Yet, while that approach might increase btc's chance of survival, it perhaps does it at the cost of decreasing the plebs' chance of survival. This is because they get separated from their bitcoin which is captured by the controllers of the controlling financial system. And then price manipulated, stolen via tax, confiscated, etc.

As for hodl vs spend, given the low time preference, seams reasonable to hodl for twenty years, then retire early and start to spend, wealthy enough due to the hodling, to do things you want to do - it buys you your time/freedom.

Of course, you can do both, hodl and spend. But depending of the tax implications, you might have to go live in another jurisdiction to really start spending in earnest. Perhaps this aligns with Jeff's idea of turning your back on the old slave system, and moving to the new liberating system - building on that?


My talk with nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe on #Bitcoin, deflation and AI:

https://youtu.be/N41OC2sazbw?si=YiV5-ZdM8iqEBMcE


If you make that much money I'm sure you can afford to employ accountants that make sure your income is offset by interest payments on debt, debt used to finance assets that appreciate faster than debt/inflation. So the plebs cheer and the rich continue to pay no tax. So it's just a ruse to placate the masses.


You might find this informative:

https://freemansperspective.com/the-new-age-of-intelligence/


Well done. Impressive. Looking great. Almost impossible for most people. Hard to escape fat prison (poverty trap = fat trap). You're now a free man.


"We will defend the right to... transact free from Government Surveillance and Control" looks encouraging.

Therefore, I am not encouraged.

Government doesn't surveil and control payments. Corporations (ie private banks) do. Playing the plebs as usual.


Pretty good privacy flow that covers *most* average Bitcoin use cases 👇

BUY 🤖 - For use when you want to obtain sats that are not tied to your personal identity #noKYConly
➡  Robosats Trade > Use proxy invoice when withdrawing to own your node > Accumulate/spend from own node.

SPEND 🪙  - For use when you want to use Bitcoin as money
➡  Not too much to say here, LN has good base level sender privacy when using your own node.

STORE 🧊   - For use when your node balance gets close to channel capacity, or to a value that you want to move to cold storage
➡ Carry out atomic swap on something like https://boltz.exchange (use the .onion address) to go from your Lightning channel balance, straight to an address controlled by your hardware wallet. Boltz has a 0.5% service fee, plus you'll of course need to pay miner fees, which are negligible at the time of writing.

NOTES 📔

🟧 Your purchase sizes are limited by your inbound liquidity. Plan ahead!
🟧 If you don't want to or can't run a node, swap out that step for a nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 Olympus channel with a lightweight node on your phone. I recommend Zeus because spends from there are more private than in Phoenix due to client side path finding
🟧 When using the proxy invoice feature in Robosats, you may need to adjust routing fee and proxy provider allowances slightly

Happy to take questions or comments. Put down the CashApp and give it a go anon, I dare you!


It's funny.


MS is nothing more than a keylogger spyware malware system of control. You shall own nothing and be happy. Flash Ubuntu OS onto it. You're still stuck with the firmware backdoors but it's better than nothing.


DIY seed storage. (you can also buy the product but DIY is much cheaper)
 https://image.nostr.build/923fb187e529dfa1e4b4ad331a1839ee8d01fd1887c8119dda93dcc16c112385.jpg


Masters say that practicing zen (ie meditation) brings you to the realization that the 'you' you're referring to doesn't actually exist. The goal of zen is to find out who you really are. Let go of the idea of you (which is really a delusion) and instead, experience the real you. The real you is calm, peaceful, pretty much unflappable (equanimous).

How? Let go of judging - liking and disliking, thinking this is good, this is bad. Don't attach to these discriminations. All done through meditation (often called Training - training of the mind). When these thoughts and feeling come into your mind, let them go, and focus your mind back to your mediation object - something like your breath. Eventually, you will become master of your own mind.

As you train, remoteness can help, but monasteries can also full of things you don't like, because you can't run away from your own thoughts. So, making a remote retreat in your daily life, eg, silent 45min meditation early in the morning before others awake, can work very well.


You could just collapse all the post-boomer generations together and call it, 'the completely fucked generations' (which would make it the biggest population group).

Then subdivide that group into Bitcoiner/Nocoiner AKA Hopeful/Hopeless.


GM... 💜
https://video.nostr.build/638b838560b47293e1ee7fabf21854336db3f95649523c80a4e6220ec49d33e3.mp4


Not really.


Marketing scam. That field ain't that big. That's guys only 2" tall you know.


To me, it sound's just as awful as the crap people are churning out these days. So it saves time I suppose.

Most people don't appreciate talented musicians. Or if they do, they don't really know why they sound good compared to this AI stuff. Just like junk food tastes good to most people.


"Two Minutes Hate: Hate Week"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_Week

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate


It's the height. Washing machines tend to be shorter than most humans.


I think if we all stay at home, don't go outside, rip out all microphones and cameras from devices, never connect computers to the internet, we should be fine.


That guy's only 8" tall right?


All major social media platforms trending to steaming piles of shit.

Normies like steaming piles of shit.


love that movie


Privacy Ranked:

I’m going to rank these least private to most, and explain why on each step.

Discord
Why: Discord is as bad as it gets.  It's not only completely unencrypted, but they maliciously sell your data and have such huge restrictions on VPN IPs and SMS VoIP verification.

SMS
Why: It’s going naked over the phone lines, but isn't heavily sold in such a rotten way as Discord.

VoIP
Why: VoIP is just as horrible as SMS, but separates your real physical location from the cell tower

Telegram
Why: Unlike VoIP, it does have end-to-end encryption, but only on mobile.  And with weak encryption that they made up, that hasn’t been properly reviewed [Source: Madaidans of Whonix]

Signal
Why: Telegram has no metadata protection, while as Signal has sealed sender.  Signal’s encryption is stronger and more thoroughly peer reviewed.  Also Signal has a good legal track record and isn’t strict on crypto VoIP burners like Telegram.   Having phone numbers isn't that big a deal if I paid $1 of crypto for a random VoIP burner in Cambodia without restrictions on Tor.  Btw, my Signal # is Cambodian: +855 68 504 905

Matrix
Why: Tucker Carlson’s Signal was hacked.  Also, academic papers have shown Signal’s sealed sender has flaws.  If you self-host Matrix, that's much more control than trusting Amazon's AWS, which is a CIA contractor.   Many open source projects use Matrix rooms.

Session
Why: Most Matrix users use Matrix.org which is Cloudflare with Gmail verifying the emails.  Setting up a Matrix server is more expensive and complex than just opening Session and hitting "create account".  Session’s onion routing, non-location based DNS, and decentralization is stronger than Matrix's Cloudflare-dominated network.

SimpleX
Why: Session lacks (by default) rotating keys and multiple identities. You can manually rotate keys using your blockchain name, and manually get multiple accounts at once via enabling it on Linux, but most won’t want to do this just to avoid government domain names (which most SimpleX users use).  Session is better for censorship of servers, SimpleX is better for end users being invisible.

Self-hosted Tor XMPP
Why: SimpleX is hiding from servers, but if you control the server, that’s stronger.  Even a self-hosted SimpleX server only picks half the conversation.  Also, XMPP has a longer proven track record, which is more eyes on the code.  Now if you DON'T self-host XMPP, it's way up on the list next to Matrix.

Self-hosted Tor XMPP w/ OTR
Why: OTR nukes the conversation when it’s done. It literally destroys the encryption keys.  Game over bro.

Conclusion:
Anything is better than Discord.  Now, let's play a game, pick a communication method I did not mention, and you tell me where you think it should rank on the list.  Then, we'll discuss.


Very hard when you have a family not cognizant of what's going on, but perhaps developing a Plan B to move to another jurisdiction is in order?

Although with the current globalist plan, you might have to look at either buying your own space station, or some sort of camper-van setup on the moon.


It's always the disadvantaged that are used as guinea pigs, coerced by force or desperation - prison populations, the poor, young, unemployed, pensioners. Then on to the working and middle classes.

"To be eligible for this project, individuals must be... with an income... not exceeding 70,000 baht per month or 840,000 baht per year."

No ID, no spending. Spending is also controlled - they can only spend "within their districts according to their ID card." So users are geofenced whereas "shops receiving digital money can spend it outside their districts or anywhere else."

The global digital prison awaits us all!


Yep. After your 3rd marriage you know it's time to take a rest.


So depressing.


#bitcoin to the moon 🚀

https://m.primal.net/JIYN.png

(source: @naiivememe on X)


WTF?!


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It's free for anyone getting started, it's open source and self-hostable.

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- great looking shareable links to your content
- works like an app, add to homescreen, useable offline
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- attach your custom domain or host yourself

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#bitcoin #inflation #nostr #meme

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


This picture fills my heart with joy. Happy. So happy for you all! 😀

May you all be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from harm. May you be peaceful.


According to James below, what the article is really saying is that corporations are out of control. I.e., the title is click bait.


thx!


Year 2050

I welcome you to present the mining operation you have just built in El Salvador for 0.5 #BTC https://image.nostr.build/b072492b0086570f73812203a3c61ec1782890c013c0a520d53e542eb6cbba88.jpg #bitcoin #mining #miner #art #aiart #ai #artstr


Deep fake. That picture is really a shot of the inside of my backyard mining operations facility. Its walls are adorned with exotic weaponry and the girl pictured there is just one of a team of 26 extremely attractive women with advanced degrees from MIT assisting me with day-to-day operations.


#AssangeFree 🕊 https://image.nostr.build/dafbe48838cbffaf3d65d658aa10a9d052e67c9cadbb44e05d0368a1a7748c16.jpg


Are my zaps getting through? Can someone please ask me for a zap and let me know if they receive it?


Looking at that picture gives my heart so much joy. I hope for the entire family nothing but happiness.


It's all about transhumanism. They're grooming the young for transhumanism.

Genetically modified and/or grown cyborgs coming to a hospital near you soon.

For rent only.

No gestation required.

IP resides with Evil Corp.

Reverse engineering (including self reverse engineering) violates Terms and Conditions. Design human will be destroyed.


Let's be optimistic. You'll be fine if you submit. They'll only blow your brains out after you truly BELIEVE 2+2=5, and love them for making you believe it.


That's pretty impressive. In fact, I'm shocked.

I never thought anyone actually took that stuff seriously.


Strike is the antithesis of a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.

Strike reviews you, your account, and approves, prohibits, freezes rejects your transactions.

Bitcoin on the other hand just confirms your transaction. It's permissionless.

Forget crossing the fiat/btc divide. Just swap cash for btc and once in btc, stay in btc.

Sounds like you had a very good, albeit unpleasant, lesson.


You could mention something about unconfiscate-able, not your keys not your coins, etc.

Then tell 'em a joke like...

Can a women make a man a millionaire?

She can if he's a billionaire!

(Actually. Don't)


But still can't afford shoes.

NGMI


No. The extra weight keeps them down.


If you compare it to the Chinese life expectancy I believe you will find a massive shift in the other direction for the Chinese over the past few years, such that their life expectancy has shot up and surpassed USA (if you believe Chinese data - or American for that matter. lol).


GrapheneOS makes life worth living again.


Yes, but imagine how much one btc will be worth in 297 years! Sign me up!


Lucky.

His guitar was so loud he couldn't hear anything and his hair so long he couldn't see anything.


Woo hoo! Finally got zapped. Thx!


Rick argues talent-less musicians and engineers use machines and AI to make shit music and music today is valueless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZ0OSEViyo


The more bitcoin succeeds the more it fails. The more normies buy it, the more it will be normalized (ie enshitified). They want NGU, nothing more. No revolution bullshit.

Normies ain't going to hold their own keys of their non kyc btc, and transact p2p anonymously.

They have kyc exchanges. They'll get a bank to hold btc for them. This destroys the value proposition of bitcoin as the banks/corps/governments control it all. They will own nothing and be happy.

Look at the promise of the Internet - went from free p2p exchange of ideas and communications to centralized, permissioned and surveilled tool of oppression. Normies today hate the original ideals of the Internet. They want censorship and control.

But perhaps, there will be a fringe that will remain free somehow. There's a slither of humanity that currently uses freedom tech. Perhaps there will be a bifurcation of btc. kept out of the hands of the controllers, but as you say, if they control the network it's hard to see how it can be used for payments.

We still have bitcoin and nostr. For now.

How will they come at nostr?

Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.


With Liquid introducing USDt and now Lightning Labs doing the same in Lightning Netowrk, sooner or later the weight of the law will fall on these networks, Liquid will be the first to fall since it is a federation operated by companies and with transaction obfuscation (confidential transactions) on top of that.

Lightning Network will fall next, screwing the custody nodes first with KYC like Blink that already offer USD and then the LSP operators.

Meanwhile blockchain transactions on the Bitcoin network will go up for shit like ordinals, stamps and runes, which will make the plebs unable to access the Bitcoin network to execute transactions.

Bitcoin will not have a scaling layer and will not be able to reach everyone, meanwhile the masters of the world will laugh, only they will be able to access bitcoin and protect themselves from monetary debasement.

By Nostradamus.

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Barrier to entry is more equitable (lower) for bitcoin than for real estate too.

Poor young people can't save fast enough for a deposit for a home. Rich kids get given a deposit from their parents.

For bitcoin, all you need is to save a few dollars, and you can buy some premium quality bitcoin - you're off to the races!


Compared to real estate the value of bitcoin is equitable.

Rich people buy the best real estate which typically maintains or increases its value more that real estate in poorer less or undesirable areas.

This results in situations where desirable property might increase 20%/annum whereas undesirable property increases by 1%/annum.

 In contrast, all bitcoin increases/decreases at the same rate - the rich don't get to buy better quality more desirable bitcoin.

This is just one way bitcoin is more equitable than fiat. The lack of cantillion effect advantage is another.

And of course, the course appears to claim it's more equitable, not equitable.


Sorry for your loss.

Acceptance is the antidote to suffering.

Thankfully, everything changes, including you.

Hang in there. You'll make it.


Imagine how different the world would be if every school kid was forced to memorize this!


Thanks for the reminder. I always need simple way to explain things to normies.


You basically have zero privacy from alby or any custodial lightning provider for that matter.

They know all incoming and outgoing amounts + who you're sending to + your ip address.
And your lnurl is "sersleepy@getalby.com" so it wouldn't be too hard to figure out your nostr account if they dont already know 🤣
Even if you trust alby they can be forced to give up info against their will by authorities, or have their databases hacked, or accidentally leaked
Custodial lightning sucks so bad for privacy.

Solution: Use ecash and make lightning payments out of the mint (behind a tor or a good vpn to mask your ip) then youre pretty solid 👌

Minibits wallets gives you your own built-in lnurl, that you can also customize, that you can replace with the one you have here (people will zap u with lightning and it will convert to ecash tokens)
You can also do the same thing with: https://npub.cash


Epic.


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Here are some guides that can help get you up and running. I've also included some stories from my home island for entertainment. Do enjoy. My guides have lots of visuals.

👉✨About Nostr

Beginner's Guide to Nostr
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Content Creator Tools for Writers
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Another cup of Tea?
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👉✨Legends From the Pacific Island of Guam

The Fish that ate the Bay
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Legend of Sirena
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Legend of two lover's point
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I assume losing their licence is effectively losing their digital ID. So they'll effectively unperson them. Then down the memory hole they'll go.


lol. Nice.


I zapped you twice but my name doesn't show in my client (primal webUI) as having zapped you. Does it for you?


Can you see your future?

Your bank account will be frozen anytime for any reason.

In fact. It's not the future.

It's today.

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If the girl was a VR sexbot I think it could be a real winner.

Teenage boys wouldn't come out of their bedrooms for at least a decade. Or perhaps ever.


That dress is more talented than she is.


Quickly.


Never have. Cats bring people on to planes.


Finally!

After much research I got my first lightning wallet (zeus) and alby browser extension setup. Just sent my first few zaps!

Cool Very cool.

Thanks to all the devs and content creators for making it happen.

Nostr and btc go together like peaches n' cream.

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


Ruler. One World Ruler.


Poor bull. Shame he only got one. Must be terrified.


Poor bull.


Cool. Very cool. Best of luck!


Not implying that just because a piece is propaganda the claims are necessarily false. I'm not talking about the what (description of the rate of AI progress) but the why. He's started a company presumably, based on his 'marketing and communications', aimed to save Americans. But who will save Americans from him and his company?

But I take your point, that you posted it for the description of the impact of AI, and as such, worth the read.

That aside. If the predicted rate of AI development is accurate, should we not presume that AI will be used to coop bitcoin to the ruling classes' benefit. Recoded by involuntary updates to all nodes? Nodes blocked. De-decentralized? And so,  Bitcoin repricing is averted unless, I suppose, AI deems bitcoin a good thing. But isn't the point of his company to make sure AI doesn't do that - you know - to protect American's abundant freedom and democracy (ie, the ruling class)?


At some point we're all going to have to debank ourselves.

https://x.com/TFTC21/status/1800594476064473218?ref=therage.co


Why don't they just all their efforts 'privacy illegalization laws'?

They don't even hide the fact that no law needs to have been broken. They just want to control people that have not broken the law - suspects (that have not been found to have committed crime).

'custodial wallets... create opportunities... to seize crypto assets that are SUSPECTED [emphasis mine] to be of criminal nature."


Thanks for posting that link.

I haven't read it all but what I did read seems full of rhetoric about 'The free world must prevail over the authoritarian powers in this race. We owe our peace and freedom to American economic and military preeminence. '

Peace and freedom? Plenty of evidence showing American military/CIA is used to terrorize other counties, killing, overthrowing democratically elected governments (like Chili for example), in order to extract resources and minerals (see Confessions of an Economic Hitman).

The author seems to be humming the American national anthem whilst writing. No mention is made of the tyranny being built for Americans, by Americans. No mention of the class war. It's all projected, Freudian style, onto the CCP.

It seems to arrogantly state how America leads in chip manufacture and research over China, which to my understanding is just not the case (check for a recent video interview of a Taiwanese silicon chip lead researcher stating how China has gone from high-school standard junk papers to leading the world in which others, including himself, can't even compete).

Looks like a propaganda piece, based on fear, aimed at the plebs, designed to manufacture consent from Americans and other 'free democracies' to throw all the national resources and political support into building an AI system for their 'safety and security.' I.e. generating demand from the plebs to build a prison for themselves.

Anyone read the entire thing? Perhaps I've missed something.


You talk as a family? You have a family? You see your children?


I have no idea about what you just wrote there. Frankly, I've never been much good at spalling.


Sigh. I tried (I even looked it up first). Thanks. You're right. I meant letting go.

But I suppose freeing your character (to wander off into the ether, as it were) would be good too.

Glad nostr isn't on the public record forever. That would be embarrassing.

merriam-webster

'Lose and loose are easy to confuse. Lose typically functions only as a verb, with meanings related to failing to win or hold onto something; one might “lose a game” or “lose one’s temper.” Loose can be used as an adjective ("not securely attached"), a verb ("to free something or someone"), and less commonly, a noun or adverb.'


I'm actually one of a quintuplet.


Ordinary divorcees just, 'giving it another shot'.


I heard they're going to rebrand it.

TrapGPT


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

MONEY is a PSYOP. How they keep you Working.

TechLead Show

youtube


You're confusing that with every country.


Didn't mean to imply you were suggesting to trust them and I agree, the claim is impressive.

But if I understand correctly, researchers can't research the closed off code, only what has been disclosed? So could there be hidden back doors?

Also, if we assume Apple's claims are true, Apple still owns users data doesn't it? And so users could have their accounts closed. Great punishment to hold over the heads of users, especially at the behest of a government. Users comply otherwise loose a lifetime of data? Moreover, as people become addicted to AI, the thought of living without it would become unbearable and so, induce compliance to whatever dictate of the day.

In the end, Corp remain in control of its users.

Moreover, you have to have a sense of shame before you can feel embarrassed. The majority of scientists and doctors have made some pretty outrageous claims in recent years, and majority of media outlets have not shamed any of them. And if it was all a lie, 99% of users wouldn't care anyway.


Trusting a corporation to do what it promises is a bit like trusting a politician to do what it promises, isn't it?


Seems like Apple's going to be the most secure system on the planet, much more secure than open source software on corporate hardware, but for whom?

Apple and its state intelligence customers of course. Not its users.

Corps/govs are not lying when they say, 'We take your privacy very seriously'.

What they mean is, 'We take all your private data. Seriously'.


Happy Birthday!


Seems like states are like feminists - claim they want equality but what they really want is control.

Anarchists want equality. Bitcoin is anarchist. Rules without rulers.


Seems like there's a lot of evidence to suggest it's better to loose one's character than to build one's character.

Loosing one's character unlocks infinite possibilities. Building one's character constricts possibilities in the delusion that one's character is oneself.


the CEO of  #Bitcoin has been doing an excellent job… https://image.nostr.build/efce16348c30caab138f1233a7064b3abeba083b6d797974ca3802763cd6d398.jpg


Yesterday #Europe "lost" the election. Really dark times ahead. The only escape hatch is #Bitcoin. Never forget. 🤙

🇪🇺 Giant Bitcoin logo projected on the European Central Bank 🔥
https://image.nostr.build/facc62ed40a37ad217abe9bb55cb54ef9b2d4cba37b4c0aa4cd1c048d4a60cd3.jpg


I bet that rock's Chinese.


Amazing


Well. Certainly a fraud to call it food.


Perhaps NATO was never designed to control Russia? Or even if it was, its sole purpose now is to control Europe.


Yes. Go for it! Ubuntu LTS (long term support) is nice if you want something a bit different than Windows. As others have said you can burn a live usb and just boot/run the laptop from it to test if you like it before installing. It won't wipe your existing system. If your laptop is old it will run much faster with linux.


So what he's saying is, we only have three years for the world's politicians and CEOs to become sentient beings?


Evert day. Every day.


That's just a-Pauling.

I'll see myself out...


Well to be honest, I think you’re right. It is a losing battle.
Which is why we change the battle.
Vaclav Havel’s essay “ the Power of the Powerless” discusses this whole concept. Fight the system directly, you’ll lose, remove the system from your own life, in cooperation with others, and eventually the system collapses.
He wrote it in the Soviet Union.
Turns out, he was right.
Fitting that he became President of the Czech Republic later.


They will soon, using Bitcoin, if Saylor gets his way.


Cool. Very cool.


Oh right! That dude out the back is curling some pretty heavy weight. Right on!


Yeah. She has pink shoes. So what?


STAY HUMBLE. WHACK SATS.  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx


Sorry to see your data go. #GoodBye


I don't think people can send to me (Alby browser plugin), but I haven't been bothered to look into it. On the to do list.


Congratulations. Looks like it was a tiring journey. Or so far he's finding life a bit boring.


GM


I knew you'd say that.


Love it. Can point it towards all the normies at work.


If we could teach cats to talk they would become mankind's relaxation gurus.

But with poses like that maybe they already are.


And they're got one for Women's Behaviour Change too, right?

Right?


Just pay your protection money and forget about it. Or move to a tax free jurisdiction if you can. No use upsetting yourself about things you can't change.

I wish I could fly like a bird. But I can't. I'm a prisoner and slave of gravity. My every movement is controlled and limited by it. I was born that way, I'll die that way. Forget about it. Complete joy and contentment is still possible even as a prisoner and slave.


Well done. So many people stuck in jobs they can't stand with people they can't stand, just for the money. Keep going!


LFG!


But yeah, I'm happy that you're happy for him. But I worry that
false hope could lead to even greater despair.

'I love Wikileaks' -> Assange imprisoned.

'I'll free Ross' -> ?

When Trump says he's pro bitcoin I assume that will mean bitcoin privacy annihilated. No private transactions. Lighting banned, etc. etc.

No CBDCs = Blackrock/Tether surveilled and programmable stable coins and tokens.

Trump's a snake.


Beautiful.


Where do you put the batteries to get his/her eyes to light up like that?


Haha. Look at all the zaps you got!

Trailblazer. Top effort. Social pressure must have been huge.

But ideally, perhaps all weddings should cost no more than about 500 bucks (for westerners)? If you make it to your 20th anniversary, then splurge $20k-$50k if you want.

But you probably don't want.


Or  7 days a week.


Must of been a reason Jack left.


Google would like to thank our AI sponsors.

https://m.primal.net/INCe.png


Ah. So that's what they mean when the say, 'that mama's smokin' hot!'


Great question.

I always thought it strange that it was against the law for someone to slap their boss in the face when he or she was being a dick, or noncomplying with their commands, but it was perfectly legal to hit their weak and defenseless kids. The boss can physically and legally defend themselves, but the kid cannot.

Research suggests it's ineffective at creating compliance and negative for the quality of relationship between the spanker and the spankee.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3768154/


Hard money for polished (hard) concrete. 🚀


What? Who? When?

Impressive. If you squint your eyes it's like watching Aristotle and Jean-Paul Sartre have a debate.


Cool. Very cool.


FFS


Can someone please make that into a btc ticker, with the flame igniting every ATH?


Wish I was that road.


Account at the company store / yours
Risk Account / Trusted Wallet


People who voluntarily use Microsoft, Google and Apple get all the fuckery they deserve.

If you're forced to use it at work. Look for a new job/career.

If you can't find a job that doesn't force those malware, constant camera and/or microphone surveillance, well, you're a slave living in a panopticon gulag (state), in your home, traveling to work (if they let you outside) and at work.

Only freedom now is mental. If you can't go out, go in.

Man I love open source devs. What freedom they give us all! There's no hope for humanity without them.


Good luck!


And don't forget to wear your helmet sonny!


But with the inverse risk/reward to bitcoin.

Freedom ain't free (of cost) and who pays the price for your freedom?

Surgeons don't call motorcyclists involved in crashes 'pizza slices' for nothing.

High risk of life long pain and disability? It's quite a cost.

And not just for you - wife, kids looking after you for the rest of their lives (possibly). Loss of income (=financial burden)

Well. I'm in a cheery mood...

Anyway, I'm jealous of you actually.

(P.S.  This is your mother and wife speaking - we've been using this pseudonym for years)


Actually the letter for million is capital m (M), not little m. Not sure what m means...

I know. Meter.

It's saying Ron Stoner is 1 meter.


Well. People wouldn't need the second book if he hadn't written the first book.

Talk about creating the solution to the problem you originally created.

Like selling diet books and pills after selling cake recipe books and junk food.


Like once every three years.


It was like that when they killed it.


That's so weird! That's exactly how I vacuum my house!


Thanks. Yeah, I'm stumped. Got no idea what's wrong.

I use primal.net webUI and Alby wallet. It shows a lightning address in my profile.

I can't test it because I don't have any other lighting wallet I can send from.

Not sure how to troubleshoot.

Need to decide on a lightning wallet and how to fund it.


Is that Lyn Alden?

That's not Lyn Alden.

That's totally Lyn Alden!


So you carried your usb drive through customs as well? Couldn't they take that and demand password to your encrypted phone backup on the drive?

What about your laptop? Wiped too?

Do people transiting in, or travelling to, the USA get their devices searched their also?


Tragically suffering from industrial deafness, Elliot retired with 1000s of bitcoins in 2013, and moved to Portugal to invest them all in a care center for the hard of hearing, called 'What?! Eh? for OG bitcoin miners'.


Must a got rekt by SBF


It must be Option 2. Option 1 has already happened.


In about 10 years that kid's going to be single-handedly responsible for the biggest bitcoin cycle pump the world has ever known!


It will protect a lot of men from women I suppose, and a lot of women from men.

Reduction in unwanted pregnancies, abortion clinics won't make as much money.

AI boyfriends, sans sexbots, will be far superior to real ones for most women - once they can figure out how to get them to earn an income.

I'll comment again if I can think of any negatives.


Why We Need Anonymity on the Internet

https://www.theflyingfrisby.com/p/why-we-need-anonymity-on-the-internet?ref=therage.co


But at least 50% are all above average!


try this?
https://primal.net/e/note1wgm3j8pn6ct3gcze2tnqld8tjy6jlfa8vttefp8wm6mwgg754zqs56e7l0


No idea. I had a look. Couldn't find anything. Probably is. Sorry. I barely know how to use it myself.


Orange hat. OG bitcoiner.


nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev 🚀🚀🚀🚀
https://video.nostr.build/c15a8f80b0ee38024f680e5dc080c07163798f5dcf622d5dc0429a3bd9eb0ffb.mp4


They forgot to add,

'We really like to work the pipe and swallow the gravy!'

Although, they pretty much already said that.


perhaps this is a deep fake?

https://nitter.privacydev.net/100trillionUSD/status/1788597142052835577#m


I think that when Trump states he is 'pro crypto' and that he likes it, this is the kind of thing he has in mind.

I think Whitney Webb alludes to the substitution of corporate issued stablecoins as being desired solution to plebs' fears about CBDCs. She explains Larry Funk's desire to coop bitcoin for the basis of a tokenized global financial surveillance and control system.

I think Trump will be behind all that. Let's face it, his entire power is based on wealth created by debt. He's 100% bought and paid for by the banks.

Stay frosty everyone.


Can't wait for her next album to drop.


I remember an interview in which Noam Chomsky explained the historical origin of the term 'nanny state' was coined by some  economist and is was NOT used as a pejorative.

Rather, is was used to affectionately describe the function of the state for wealthy capitalists/ industrialists. The nanny state was there to protect corporations from market discipline, creating socialism for the rich (bailouts) and free market capitalism for the poor (unemployment). https://chomsky.info/19960413/

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

The idea was that they could take financial/investment risks that, if they went belly up, could be rectified by being bailed out by the state. They always had their nanny to help them out. It had nothing to do with generalized never ending legislation and control of the plebs, or socialism/communism ideas.

For example, Tesla could be described as a corporate welfare queen.

So from that perspective, it makes sense to say that the ability of governments to print money creates trust. It does, but of course in doing so, creates moral hazard. People feel more safe if they believe the government is always there to bail the banks out or give plebs free money to stay home when there's a nasty cold going around or something.

So, I suppose what he's saying is true. Sadly.


I'm feeling an irresistible urge to call Yuval names. But I'll rise above it.

I really don't like his trans-humanist ideas let's put it that way.


Man I've been there brother. Relationship breakups are always hard.

But chase a few cars and pee on a few trees and everything seems to get better with time.


I'm using the nos2x-fox plugin and it makes some reference to iris.to. I forget, but I think I might have created my npub using iris, before switching to primal.net. What to do?


Imagine how much worse it would be if they haven't fast-tracked it.


Hilarious. And clearly they were all trying to hide the fact that they were gay by growing mustaches.


Have you thought about finding a bitcoin girl?


Well, just got my nostr wallet set up...


And besides, having no contact with friends or family is great for personal opsec.


With a name like Karnage, I always saw it coming.

The old Karnage had to die so that the new Karnage could rise from the ashes. Enjoy your resurrection!


So that's what kids are eating through these days.


Cool. Very cool.


twitter tweets, nostr neets?


At an atomic level there is no difference. But at a funeral you're dead.


Yep.


Pay him in cash, chuckle, and tell him cash is great because it's completely private and cannot be censored - just like bitcoin.


Well. That's the plan in a nutshell. Glad to hear someone elase finally articulate it.


Some people are free to roam wherever they please, yet are still prisoners of their own minds.

Once you become a master of your own mind, you become genuinely free, whether in a prison or on top of a remote mountain.


Is your computer a tool to liberate and protect you, or is it being used to control you?

If the latter, what can you to change the situation?


Congratulations and welcome. 😀


🎯🚀 https://video.nostr.build/88e96061afb2ff925ff882002ad22f5f77a474509b1505c33713beaa35a7b5b2.mp4


If you take a person's body and reduce it to its constituent parts - water (70%), minerals (copper, potassium, iron, etc) and sell those on the open market, I think the value of a human is about $15 these days.

However, I think most people see the value of a human not for their physical value but their metaphysical value.

Schiff talking about gold's physical utility value is like a wife taking about her husband's physical utility value.

Call me naive, but I'd like to think that most (not all) women would not value their husbands on those terms.


Pretty sure that's the CIA, FBI, NSA vs everybody else playbook tbh.


CIA recruitment...

'Repeat after me, 'We are God. We are God. We are God We are..''


'...fighting alone against myself'. When you throw the idea of yourself in the trash can, and with it revenge and hate, peace and contentment are there. (Not suggesting anyone throw themselves in the can. That would be bad. It's the idea of who we are - that's not really us, so not taking it too seriously can have immense benefits).

 "..if one were to be shot with an arrow, it would be quite painful, and if that person were to get shot again in the same spot, it would be even more excruciating.

The first arrow is the inevitable discomforts and difficulties that present themselves in our lives that aren’t in our control—the first level of [suffering] - but the second one is our reaction to the first, and this is something we can learn to see clearly and let go of, hence reducing or eradicating completely the second level of [suffering]"

Sounds like you're becoming freer and happier. Well done. Keep going!


Google's a mind control cult. Avoid.


ETFs, megacorps, regulation and sophisticated surveilliance ('accounting software') systems are going to save bitcoin and lightning. Thanks plebs. Bitcoin belongs to us now.

-- Emperor Palpatine

https://m.primal.net/ICzD.png


Gotta admit. That was a pretty good rebuttal.

You always come across with class and professionalism. Not like a bitcoiner at all.


Never, never go full McAfee.


Not leaving. Just joking (obviously a lame joke).


I missed that for my entrance.

But will definitely do it for my exit.


How do you find those addresses? Can you paste those addresses into a note?


This is an actual US Military recruiting commercial, they are not even hiding it any more.  "Come join in the fun, use psyops against your fellow man and do more before 9AM than most people do all day", and such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6hu83yVMlU

Source of the video is  goarmysof.com U.S. Army Special Operations Recruiting


sad


...job dissatisfaction, emotional distress, strained relationships, psychological imbalances, mental health issues, youth lacking supervision, those prone to violence, and individuals making public threats of retaliation.

All will be thoroughly and comprehensively investigated with all pertinent details recorded in a database!


If you want to know what's in store for the West, look East.

China ramped up its surveillance earlier this year.

Ever been involved in real estate, healthcare disputes, labor-management conflicts, marital and neighborhood disputes, personality disorders, legal matters, failed investments, or job loss? You will be investigated!

It's so bad even the Chinese are complaining about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeJs11mtrKc


Dark.


UK seized new powers:

--Police will no longer be required to make an arrest before seizing crypto from a suspect.
--seize anything, such as written passwords, flash drives, or memory sticks
--destroy crypto assets, such as privacy coins, for the "public good", like Monero
--goes into effect today

This has the text copy-pasted from the official UK website, but without having to have your IP address literally connect to the official cybercrime division website, (ironically, I seized their text)

https://rebelnet.me/news/0x02fcc902af8d6cedd9


Bitcoin doesn't exist!

How can people be accused of transmitting anything, when all that's happening is people are executing code on a giant software program (a ledger)? Nothing's going anywhere!

This is beyond bizarre.


Stop!

If you keep posting memes like that I'm gonna have to get adult diapers.


In a Technocracy privacy is simply not allowed.

This is an excellent site to understand everything that is going on around financial and communications control.

Probably a back pill to swallow. Sorry.

https://www.technocracy.news/


I don't think I'm confused about what is considered animal cruelty. I think most people do not consider killing and eating animals as being cruel. And I think (hope) most people that eat animals do not wish them to be treated cruelly. And I certainly wasn't trying to criticize you.

After posting my comment I read your earlier comment about the someone posting a video showing cruelty to a duck or something.

You rightly point out, people have double standards about being cruel to some types of animals but not others.

In regards to killing and eating animals for food, the problem is the conflation of animal cruelty and raising/eating animals, which corporations do on purpose (they argue killing/eating animals is good, therefore cruelty is good. But of course they hide their cruelty and make customers think they treat them well). I think in your reply you were saying that is what I was doing. This is correct, I intentionally was. That was the point I was trying to make.

Unless I'm grossly misinformed, and as you are probably aware, for the majority of animals eaten, they live and die in tortuously cruel conditions due to modern factory farming processes. Likely they live in pain and fear most of their lives. Obviously this can be avoided if they are raised and killed humanely. So it's possible if you keep the animals yourself, or buy from someone you know has treated them humanely. But that's probably out of reach pricewise for most people because factory farming reduces the price of animal products.

Saying that, I've yet to hear anyone advocate something along the lines of, 'eating animals and animal products is the healthiest thing you can do for your body, but I recommend you make your health sub-optimal, live a shorter life, with a little more discomfort and disease, so as to reduce the suffering of animals.'

I suspect that is because for the most part we believe we are more important that animals, and that I and my family/friends are more important that all other humans.

As for adjusting my moral compass, I'm not sure I even have one... checking online shopping now.

Anyway, after understanding more the background as to why you posted what you did, I'm thankful for you and what you are doing.


Sounds good. No pictures of animals cut into little pieces, for eating, before, during and after cooking.


The opposite of that statement is, 'Want to be weak and feminine? Be rude and unkind to men.'


Cool. Very cool.


I started last week.


O.A. Order through Anarchy.

Bitcoin seems anarchist to me. Bitcoin is a social network of rules without rulers.

And by my understanding, Bitcoin is NOT libertarian?


* imagine


Just image a night with those two.

Make that four.

Actually, should be a six.


Stay positive everyone!

https://www.sloww.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Sloww-Alan-Watts-Farmer-Lost-Horse-Story.png


Someone famous once said, 'Propaganda is to free societies what the bludgeon is to the totalitarian state.' So your suffering from a  psyop attack. As you rightly observe, 'your mind has been poisoned'. All our minds have.

This is a normal for bitcoin - great setbacks such as Mt Gox hack and China mining ban. But, as they say, 'honeybadger don't care', bitcoin marches on regardless.

You might be correct, but I'm not aware that, 'no exchange wants tainted coins'. Maybe some, but they're probably best avoided anyway. Perhaps there are others with different attitudes? If not now, in future?

And remember, the future is not assured. And what can seem bleak in the current time, can turn out to be very good. Perhaps bitcoin will end up bifurcated - some locked inside the system, some outside? If you have some in both you might be hedging your bets?

Coin outside the system may become highly valuable, with people willing to buy it from you at a premium. So you might become very thankful that you have some outside the system!

Difficulty spending now means forced savings, which is likely good.

It might be better for travel when you become unstuck in America (nothing is permanent so your situation is likely to change at some point)?

Coin inside the system will likely be co-opted, but it will likely still retain value. NGU still likely.

And societies' attitudes change. What was once was once illegal, becomes legal. I'm sure you can think of some examples.

Have you heard of the ancient Chinese fable of the old man that lost his horse?

https://www.sloww.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Sloww-Alan-Watts-Farmer-Lost-Horse-Story.png


It's a pretty tough ask but I think I could work up to it.


Ah, the power of the mighty Odell blessing.


This is really sad.

And when you think about it, this suggests 27% of 18-30 year old American men are bunch of wankers.

Don't think about it.


Megatrellas! The unknown brother of Megatron.


🧨 Use a dynamite emoji instead. 🧨

Completely ambiguous.

🧨 Is he saying it's going up?
🧨 Is he saying it's going down?
🧨 Is he saying it's great just the way it is?
🧨 Is he saying you should buy in dynamite?
🧨 Is he an extremist?

On second thoughts.


I'd definitely zap something like that.


Wait a minute - they're not letters. Just ignore me.


What do you mean, 'nobody sends letters anymore'? Ha ha. You literally received a bunch of letters right there!


IMPORT YOUR EXISTING SAMOURAI WALLET INTO SPARROW WALLET

Read entire post before attempting at home!

You will need:
1. Your Samourai Wallet seed phrase (12 words)
2. Your passphrase
3. Sparrow Wallet downloaded and installed on to your computer. (https://www.sparrowwallet.com)

Configure your server. This could be your own node, or a public electrum server. I have selected Blocksteam's electrum server here.
https://void.cat/d/tepSUYuDJZwEZtwNmuf6C.webp

Toggle on your server using the switch on the bottom right. It should turn yellow, green or blue depending on what you've selected.

Go to File -> New Wallet, or click on New Wallet.
https://void.cat/d/77w9Z2qJVWRw8hqKjgrU54.webp

Name your wallet.
https://void.cat/d/Mpjvk4PUpaMbUW8TQDXZdy.webp

Click on New or Imported Software Wallet.
https://void.cat/d/Qe3dUWMpXikRabdrwYU95u.webp

On the dropdown menu besides the Mnemonic Words (BIP39), select 12 words. Type your seed into the fields displayed in the correct order from 1 to 12.

Check the "Use passphrase?" option. Insert your passphrase and click Create Keystore.
https://void.cat/d/RwGXKENhUxDop61gmFEsZZ.webp

Click on Import Keystore.
https://void.cat/d/6gnrC8FAYy1LqFTqJHL2V8.webp

Reenter your passphrase as prompted
https://void.cat/d/EF2cnjoDQ1sAiqwMYqW3wV.webp

Click on Apply on the bottom right.
https://void.cat/d/GBzT1GXF14YMTSTtTWo5FB.webp

If you want to add a password to open up your wallet with, enter one, otherwise click No Password.
https://void.cat/d/RRGNKKmpQikdUJKxbFccXJ.webp

In the bottom of the settings page, you will see "Add Account..." button. Click on it.
https://void.cat/d/SzPC67pcdjZPQe7imFn3An.webp

From the dropdown menu, select Whirlpool Accounts
https://void.cat/d/JZn4zB5Zj2xXxR9maDuhny.webp

Your wallet will be scanned by the server you have selected. You should also be able to see your respective deposit, premix, postmix and bad bank accounts.
https://void.cat/d/XnAkV8pYvReFbqmKCPiXg8.webp

You should now be able to send your bitcoin to another wallet/address of your choosing. I would recommend sending this out to a hardware wallet.

Notes:
- Be sure you obtain sparrow wallet from sparrowwallet dot com. Get it right!
- Because you are inputing seed words into a computer, ensure no keyloggers are installed. Be wary of dodgy browser extensions.
- Dojo users need not worry. This is for those who used SW backend.
- Beware of scammers on the Sparrow Telegram chat. They're out in full force today. Nobody will ask you for your seed words. Do not give them out to anyone.


nostr relays operators?


Thrown in jail for the crime of saving, for starters.


El Salvador is looking more and more attractive everyday


If you have to run it for some reason, using it in a VM and stripping it down might be an option. Although there seems to be significant security issues, Ameliorated would be great if they could get some money behind them.

https://ameliorated.io/


Nice. Cypherpunk Waltons. High tech Amish. Respect.


It's now my new desktop wallpaper.


Cypherpunk's not dead. "Cool. Very cool."


I don't think accountants are qualified to give financial advice.

Come to think of it, I don't think financial advisors are qualified to give financial advice.


Great workshop area by the sounds of it.


Is that a pencil holder?


Dunno. But I Love em. We should make an annual 'make an annul celebratory date' day.


If I had to imagine the kinda house a lito.., a litogra... a lit. - A rubber stamper lived - your house would be it!


simplest path to psychological and emotional freedom tbh


Want to withdraw your funds? No problem! Just insert this chip in our I mean, your, brain.


Eating animals and animal products is bad for their health.


Lots of research links rapid moving images to ADHD, that include TV/ads/cartoons/movies. Creates physical brain damage in growing brains and turns kids into cyborgs.

Ever tried getting a teenager to look up and away from their phone?

While they're driving?


My understanding of libel and slander laws is that it centers around diminishing a person's social or professional standing.

Which means, once a person's reputation is so low, and so, impossible to diminish, it's impossible to be found guilty of either, in regard to that person. That is, anyone can say anything they like about them.

btw, this has absolutely nothing to do with Schiff.


No. But I do get temporarily paralyzed from all the alcohol I've had and don't know where I've been that made it all happen...


I don't trust people that don't clean their own toilet.

Divorced from reality.


Brilliant. 🌞


Oh. So he's moving from gold to gold-shitcoin. That's kinda an improvement. I guess.


Masculinity is just a gig. Single guys work in the gig economy.


Pen and paper = maximum privacy = maximum security.

Imagine all the encryption possibilities! You could send your private keys encrypted and handwritten on the back of a postcard, for example... (don't)