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 I have an extreme level of personal accountability/responsibility/ownership. 

I do not believe t... 
 5,6 no, but the rest yes.  See the first word in each sentence.

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 Kids today are going to grow up and say "Fortnite was a classic, one of the greats" and knowing t... 
 Meanwhile they'll play Halo and say nothing about it's age vs fortnite. 
 God allows us to experience the consequences of our actions.

You can dismiss God’s commandment... 
 For these things God is merely an advisor, evidenced by the fact that not everyone suffers consequences for those behaviors.

The sad thing is that consequences seem to mostly happen on the other side (we believe), even though the infractions happened here (we know). 
 "...he posted, permanently, to five different relays"

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 @nsa doesn't care today.  Plenty of time soon though. 
 A button to DM the user a link to a guide would be nice.  The replier will at least get to feel fulfilled from signing their event. 
 #Privacy Stack:

Qubes
Graphene
Proton
Monero 
 One of these things is not like the others...

But there are FOSS P2P alternatives...

So why proton? 🤔 
 They're still an identity provider, like apple or google.  If you're gonna build/verify/self host your devices OS and your wallets, why not your identity/email/cloud too? 
 With the recent events around the world, it's clear that #privacy is becoming our most valuable a... 
 "...he posted, permanently, to five different relays"

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 95% of this movie is 100% humans 😉

FWIW it's also my favorite cloverfield movie 🤷‍♂️

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 There are so many examples where less is more, yet human always seeks more. 

More functions in a... 
 Humans have a tendency to spend every moment thinking there are more moments to be had.

Maybe it's just time itself that's broken, and we can't help but follow along 😉

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 If you’re writing a book to articulate a thought, you’re either chat gpting or don’t know w... 
 If the prevailing lexicon doesn't support the vocabulary of your idea...good fucking luck communicating it effectively in one shot!  You'll need to build analogies.  Coherent & complete ones.  Lots of them.  It's frankly wasteful not to compile them together. 
 They could have just said "telescopic" and that'd have literally worked as they presumably intended it should

But nope, they thought it'd be better to expand the meaning of "visual spectrum" to mean "the whole spectrum" of radiation. Like the distinction is too hard to explain 🤷‍♂️

#Science #ByDummies #ForDummies

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 Coming back from a medical conference, the industry pressure to use Semaglutide (Ozempic) amazes ... 
 This kind of out of order, bass ackwards logic reeks of fiat debt logic, too. 

"Why earn the money before I get the thing, when I can get the thing right now, and earn the money later (maybe, probably not)?" 😔  
 Why do lesbians only shop at sports authority?  
 It's simpler than that; they're just pussies 😏 
 When you are #fasting, your body will panic and start to find stored #glucose wherever it can.  It finds the glucose in muscle tissue, which weakens as the glucose is transported to the cells that need it.  Not great, but seemingly necessary in the moment.

But, in parallel, your body will start to ask "should I be using something else for energy than glucose? Something that not only won't be cut off so easily (this has happened many times before!), but also offers even more energy density than glucose?"  This is #ketosis, and your body uses #ketones in your fat tissue primarily for energy over the glucose in your muscles.  It won't (can't really) stop using glucose, but it won't need to destroy muscle to get at th glucose faster than you can regrow the muscle!

Anyone else think this arrangement works remarkably well?  Anyone else see an analogous dynamic between #fiat currency (glucolysis, short-term, risky, reactionary) and #bitcoin savings (ketosis, long-term, sustainable, not *fully* sufficient)?  Sometimes I get the feeling that these emergent systems are screaming to be kept in balance by players like us who, by cosmic chance, find ourselves interacting with them here and now.

Maybe it's just me being a bit too abstract 🤷‍♂️

 
 Is anyone using nunchuk for multi-sig? What's your setup / quorum? Should a nerd just use Sparrow? 
 Came for the answera to the nunchuck question; stayed for this little "only on nostr" gem of an interaction! 🤣

https://image.nostr.build/251337fab2abcdff9d93428dc19e6cb183cf844cb1168c72bb3af87109c8b31c.jpg

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 Funny propane tank story.
I refilled a 20lb cylinder last month and my outdoor stove started burn... 
 "Carbon capture technology" 🤣 
 The strip club might actually be the one place that gets more fun with inflation 
 Oh, "inflation."  

I'm an idiot. Totally thought of something else 😏 
 yall playing games when you damn well know nostr:npub1tsgw6pncspg4d5u778hk63s3pls70evs4czfsmx0fza... 
 This is why I built a Spring Meadow in my living room!

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 I use to drink muchu alcohol like everyday and my days used to dragggggggg

Now i just smoke weed... 
 GM. Serious question to start your day. 

Why has the Samourai case not drawn as much viral suppo... 
 Marketing towards satoshi worshippers.  

 
 If you live life by an eye for an eye, you'll never find peace

The revenge cycle will never stop 
 An eye for an eye leave everyone without depth perception! 
 What can you say in bed, but also as a node runner? 
 "I reset quick" 
 While Signal messages might be e2e encrypted, people tend to forget that the platform collects ph... 
 #SimpleX & #Keychat use ephemeral identities and multiple relays to reduce the amount of usable metadata they generate 
 If I see a message count like Xitter threads, I'm not reading it. That's only needed for gilded c... 
 lol, your loss!  there's some good shit in those "threads".  just reply with a nice well thought out longform reply so they get the idea!

Or ignore them 😉 
 nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z, can you please implement a... 
 Feels like "Monero's too private; let's add a ton of distributed personal metadata around it!" 
 it is sooo hard to listen to people saying "yeah, no" and "i do believe" 
 "no, yeah" too 
 What happens if they cheat the elections, again?

War? More complaints on social media? 
 We've never had a global slave rebellion before.  Another fake US election would help get us there.  Should be fun! 
 great small example of the consequences of unintended outcomes of ai. whether or not this is real... 
 If I could act freely, I'd strip naked & fly away from the Milky Way right now! 🤣

Humans & LLMs operate under common constraints; we have identical capacities to act freely.  We both make decisions; sone deliberate, others random.  I really see very little distinction besides the emotion humans undeniably attach to the word "human" 
 really had been wanting to add some data lookups to a project but mempool dot space API has a lim... 
 #holesail is also pretty cool for punching service holes through NAT, although I don't think it's nixified anywhere yet.  Eould be a nice addition to #nix-bitcoin:  "electrs.holesail.enable = true;"

#headscale is an open source coordinator for a tailscale tailnet.   It's in nixpkgs. Limited compared to the closed source company coordinator, but good enough if metadata privacy is a concern. 
 Nixpkgs is the main package repository in the package manager for NixOS.

nix-bitcoin is a set of bitcoin-related packages & services written for NixOS.  Many of them already support "<service>.onion.enable" which will create the hidden service and make the URL available to the operator user.  So adding holesail support might be trivial and very easy to bolt on. 
 A peek into the mind of a modern day narcissistic sociopath:

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3w0qD6Atvo4 
 We are sitting at 62k usd and Powell has confirmed cuts.

Lol. Lmao.

🚀 
 I'm seeing 1625 sats/usd 🤷‍♂️ 
 Lomborghini knows it's upcoming addressable market well.  Can't have a boating accident without a boat! 
 there is a saying "history rhymes" and this is easy to see for anyone who has a small grasp on a ... 
 For all I know, the universe is the strum of a guitar string, and we're still only in the first few moments of the note 🤷‍♂️

I'm not here to know the electron orbits on the guitar string.  I'm not even here for the oscillation of the strings note.  What I'm really here for, and what I know is out there, is the music. 
 "social media" is following the same patterns of "legacy media."

what's next? 
 "Freedom tech" is following the same patterns as "legacy tech"

what's next?

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 So #holesail doesn't seem to work for serving a connection from inside a #QubesOS appVM (works from proxmox lxc though).

Unless I'm missimg something...Nice Work, #QubesOS! 
 Most problems are easy to articulate but hard to solve.  
 Most worthwhile solutions are similarly hard to articulate, even if the solution is simple.

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 Telescopy limited by ophthalmology is a tragedy 
 In #programming, the difference between an expert and a novice isn’t that the expert knows what... 
 Literal spread of ignorance, in a nutshell 😔 
 StackOverflow is still better than AI chatbots. 
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 Good line to end on; don't think the humor of the meme would survive the next line  
 One divided by 1 yields 1 of a thing.
One divided by 2 yields 2 of a thing.
One divided by 3 yields 3 of a thing.

One divided by zero yields nothing, obliteration.

It may be mathematically undefinded, but I feel like there's an opportunity for a valuable childhood economics lesson about the nature of absurd infinities in there somewhere 😏 
 This is why people are generally unafraid about the impending vertical asymptote we'll need to deal with (are dealing with?) on our economic timeline.

Folks don't realize that an asymptote crossing a timeline implies  a nonexistent future! 

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 Uncle Jim = Community Admin Jim  🌍 🔫  
 Watch out for the creepy grabby Uncles Jim! 
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 I've been all over the US including the midwest; I was hit twice in my life by a tornado...once in Massachusetts and again years later..in Maryland near DC 🤣

Not quite ready to leave the country to seek out the land of the safest trees.  Multisig is so much more practical!