Shocking thoght of the day:   Just because murderers are guilty doesn't mean their victims are innocent.

I'd bet statistically speaking people who die from murder are more horrible then the average, because at the very least somebody was inspired to murder them.  Of course innocent strangers are murdered from time to time, which is why I'm talking about statistics and not making a categorical statement.  There must be plenty of cases where someone murders out of anger, and that anger came about because the murder victim was being an ass.  And those cases bias the statistics.

I am not victim blaming. I'm not making any categorical statements, nor am I saying anything about any particular person or murder. I'm making guesses about probabilities and I'm arguing that we shouldn't just assume all murder victims were innocent. Surely some of them weren't.


Far too many world leaders are wasting their time at G7 summits and useless peace conferences.  All they really need is to get onto nostr and follow me.  I'll lay out the peace deal that will end this war right now.  Here it is:

MIKE DILGER PEACE ACCORD FOR UKRAINE

1) Independence for the Donbass regions

  The People's Republic of Donetsk and the People's Republic of Luhansk to be recognized as independent nations, neither Ukraine nor Russia.

  These new nations (or single nation, at their behest) provide to their neighbors the following security guarantees
    a) They will never join any security alliance, neither NATO nor CSTO  (but can join any economic union they desire)
    b) They will remain non-nuclear

  Russia and Ukraine pull out their military forces from these regions

2) Crimea goes to Russia

  Crimea is recognized as part of Russia, and Ukraine ceases hostilities with it.

3) Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions go to Ukraine

  These two regions are recognized as Ukraine, and Russia withdraws their forces.

4) Ukraine declares neutrality

  Ukraine provides a security guarantee that they will remain neutral, to not join eany security alliance, neither NATO nor CSTO.
  Ukraine can join any economic union they desire.
  Ukraine must remain non-nuclear.
  Ukraine is not required to demilitarize or denazify
  Ukraine must respect it's own constitution or else violates this peace accord


The beer of kings


Who is going to slide into my DMs now?!?


But I'm not famous so it doesn't make any waves.


I'm seeing a bit more disagreement here on nostr lately. A bit more drama. I hope it draws crowds.

Someone famous needs to come here and say something shocking and completely outside of the Overton window, and then journalists need to be contacted.


#DefundTheFBI


"Why are you counting to four soldier?!"

"All present at the count of four, Sir!  1-2-3-4!"


Gonna need the meth. Deliver to me the meth or I won't believe you.


Pepe Escobar says Russian leadership and businessmen are pretty sure NATO intends to wage a full scale war on Russia, that their moves in Ukraine are a prelude, a means of weakening Russia first.  So Russian strategy has been with this in mind:  their rapid alliance with China, their conversion of their economy into building ammunition, their strategic escalations, all with the view that war with NATO is inevitable.  Most of them want to decapitate Ukraine and get it over with, so that proximal axis of war would be cut off and NATO would need to come up with a different excuse to go to war with Russia.  But Putin has been patient and hasn't taken such an action yet as far as we can tell, instead focusing on setting up meat grinders and winning by attrition.  A decapitation action that wasn't an assassination might take about 3-4 months (according to former leader Sergei) of attacking Kiev.


I've heard multiple times that Russia has nuclear subs in the ocean off the East Coast of the US and if a nuclear exchange were to eventuate, their sub-launched missiles would hit rather rapidly.  And that the US has similar close-range strike capability from Europe.

My point was that we have been silently in close strike range for decades(?) and this has been normalized. Back in the "Cuban Missile Crisis" such close strike range was very worrying to Americans who didn't know it was mutual and Kennedy secretly made a deal to pull our missles out of Italy and Turkey.  But even at that time, it wasn't a real "crisis" because it was mutual and so neither side could win, and neither side was going to push the button.

Russia being at Cuba today doesn't present much extra threat of a nuclear exchange. The US intel agencies have already publicly said there are no nuclear weapons on those Russian ships.  What it does present is a conventional attack platform with Kinzhal and other hypersonics.  It is meant as a warning, since the US keeps crossing red lines:  "cross another red line attacking Russia with your missile systems and perhaps we will attack the continential USA with our missile systems... we are serious, stop pushing us."  It is meant to stop the escalation cycle.  "Escalate to deescalate".  But of course every escalation could provoke more escalation in retaliation instead.


So I guess the story was that Turkey wants to join BRICS. The links below are sources. But this is different than Turkey leaving NATO. Turkey wants to be in both.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-turkey-wants-join-brics
https://www.reuters.com/world/kremlin-welcomes-turkeys-reported-desire-join-brics-2024-06-04/


When I was younger I thought seeing clothes hanging on lines was associated with poor people in slums.  But once I got older and didn't care what people thought of me, I took to hanging my clothes out to dry because it is cheaper. The clothes aren't as soft but they last longer.


I hope they stick around. But they need to be aware that people here will say what they really think even if it hurts their feelings, and they need to be able to argue back in turn, and live with dissent.  I think they can and I think they will.

The CIA uses organisations like this to topple governments, and not to spread democracy or human rights as is claimed, but to preserve US hegemony.  Did toppling Ukraine in 2014 lead to more human rights? Just the opposite.

If these organisations can avoid being the tools (witting or unwitting) of the CIA, I welcome their activity. Human rights are very important, and people stuck in oppressive regimes are human beings that deserve just as much rights as you and I do.


I tried to read Mein Kampf but it requires so much knowledge of what was happening in that time and place that it made no sense to me and I couldn't keep myself interested enough to finish it.


I know you young kids aren't having sex like us older folks did. But in case it comes up and you happen to be in Australia, listen to Bush Barbie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WddwluTpmgY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx2k5y3-nbM


It was a meditation on sausage


This is the best video about Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0HikGkCiRk


I just want to pre-warn everybody that the next big news story that comes out of the United States is complete rubbish. Don't believe it.

I can say this with utter confidence because all of the previous big news stories were complete rubbish.


I covered that song on a guitar at an open mic just a few months after the album came out, while the music overlords were still pushing Closer (I want to fuck you like an animal) as the big hit from the album and Hurt was getting 0 airtime.


99cent store


Huh.  That's *how* I give my dog a bath:  Zoey, fetch!  *splash* *splash*


Call me the odd one out, but I think Joe Biden is the best candidate to represent the Democrats with their non-sequitur ramblings. He makes the same amount of sense as the rest of them do.


I don't know but he definitely has a preference for certain smells. Some sacrifices smell pleasing to the lord, others not so much.


It is very hard to find a stooge that won't let power go to their head and interfere with their plans.  With Joe Biden you get a man who doesn't even know he is the president.


I may be the Joe Biden whisperer.

In this clip: https://x.com/RNCResearch/status/1800335769539694742
he says "She knows loss. She knows [because] so long ago she was denied [that] our freedom can never be secured."

Thank you Mr Biden. I suspected as much, but now, because of her loss so long ago, because she was denied freedom so long ago, I now also know that our freedom can never be secured. Let's stop trying. Let's end all the wars. I may vote for you yet.


Maybe he's Trump's VP


Does some nation consider you one of their citizens/subjects?


I've been waking up in a fog and living in a thickening fog for a month or two now. I can't put my finger on it. I thought it was the sleep apnea but with CPAP therapy it isn't getting better. It is hard to fix something when I don't know what the problem is.

I just wrote this to let you know you aren't alone.


Hey I need my street sweeped.  Can we borrow your mustache again?


That actually might just be some joker. I took it seriously because of how others responded to it. I have no idea. ... the CIA already has my head swimming 🤣


Yes *that* check works. Checking the kind doesn't work.


Who knows if that post was even real. But it's nice to stimulate thought.


If people are trapped under an oppressive regime and want freedom, and a NGO "assists" them in protesting and toppling their government in order to become more democratic and more free, isn't that what we all should want?  This conception of the whole business is hard to argue against, and I feel like I need to get my head straight about it because I do infact believe in freedom and I don't want people trapped in oppressive regimes and I do think soft power of free speech and convincing people is the better form of power.

But in practical terms it seems to have been used for power plays, for resources (originally for oil, maybe always for oil?), not to actually better peoples lives.

I think people need to better their own lives from the ground up using freedom tech like bitcoin and nostr and tor.


Iran had a democracy. They had a parliament and a Prime Minister separate from the Shah, and only the parliament could dismiss or replace the P.M.  who was Time's Man of the Year (Mohammad Mossadegh) in 1951 (not Truman, not Eisenhower, not Churchill).  He nationalized the British oil company which his people loved (of course I don't approve of that but Britian did go to war against Iran in 1941 and controlled them, so I think they had a right to fight back, Iran honored that oil agreement for 40 years they weren't just corrupt thieves or something).  The CIA and SIS toppled that, turning the country into a dictatorship.  Is that spreading democracy?  Is it?  It became "Westernized" under a dictatorship and growing resentment lead to the 1979 Islamic Revolution that made Iran the theocratic state of little freedom that it is today.

Did you know Iranians loved America before 1953?  They thought it was the best most perfect country.


Well the CIA is here. Of course a censorship resistant protocol would be used by them. And the FSB too I'm sure will be here soon. The more the merrier I guess. Let's orange pill them all.

There are blurred lines here. Many people working for the CIA don't know they are working for the CIA. They are trying to free people. And while I support freedom and enlightenment principles, I'm not so sure about democracy (but I'm not against democracy because I'm not sure what is best), but I very much don't appreciate how freedom is abused in order to topple regimes for power projection purposes. Isn't the current level of blowback enough? Or do we need a global thermonuclear war before "they" finally see the blowback has become too much?

Most people don't want to topple their governments in the hopes of becoming America, only to find their country goes straight into the shitter. They are tricked into it by organisations like this. Iran is theocratic *because* of the 1953 coup and Reza Shah dictatorship that followed.

Does anybody think Gary Kasperov is going to topple Russia and make it the 51st American state so that America can harvest its natural resources?

Welcome to nostr. I get to say what I think too, you fucks.

nostr:nevent1qqs2vpkt79y6rusmf43sfg3jh20x9ujnunxh3tk53d9hjymxftg2vxgzduty2


But the encrypted content of a custom list can't be distinguished that way.


passing a `impl Fn() + Send + Sync + 'static` is of course the thing that compiler developers were expecting to happen all the time.


Don't worry we got ya.  My job is to worry so you don't have to.


I'm of several minds here.  On the one hand, yes I think we standardize relay usage labels (or roles) and users (client operators? getting fancy with your terminology here) can pick relays to serve in various roles.

On the other hand, I worry that if we don't "ossify" at least some core parts of nostr (and instead keep breaking them), nostr will fail to interoperate more and more as time goes on.


https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/1282

I think we have to have these marketing labels, and users can sign up for the various services they need.  But also clients need to present to users only relays that actually are capable of fulfilling the role.

This part of the problem isn't that bad. Most of what Vitor listed isn't necessary.

But my job is to focus on problems which I continually do even when trying to sleep.


I cant even solve this for users: some relay advertises itself under thousands of different URLs. How can users now manage that? According to every NIP relays are defined by a URL which includes a path part. I have to therefore treat them as separate relays.

I don't want to capture users and say "ignore all those, use my 3 relays" but that is the obvious central solution this mess is driving towards.


Because nobody wants to stifle creativity. We now have a couple dozen kinds of relays that users don't know how to manage or even have visibility into which relays do what. Nostr is becoming a place only devs will be able to use.

The complexity of nostr is growing far faster than we are able to wrangle and make usable for plebs and I'm afraid it is becoming unsustainable.

This is a middle of the night sick stomach ramble. I may not be thinking clearly. Please discuss among yourselves while I get back to     sleep.


Maybe Russian subs aren't there. Maybe it's just what some people think and I heard misinformation. Or maybe they are there and this is the difference between everybody knowing something and "common knowledge" (where everybody also knows that everybody knows).


Why is the Cuban Missile "Crisis" seen as having been such a scary event, and yet nobody has the same scary rhetoric about Russian submarines off the US coast for decades now? I genuinely don't know the answer to this.


Why do people say things like "this is what is called an asymmetrical response quote unquote" when they should be saying "this is what is called a quote asymmetrical response unquote"?  Is it just laziness?  In the first form, the quoted statement is empty so really maybe they aren't quoting anybody at all and it's just another tricky way to lie.


Nice write up, and incidentally I think this is the first twitter-like thread I've read on nostr.


which client?


We are all making compromises because we are trying to balance making more features available with fixing the shit we already threw together.  Making clients more efficient tends to be lower priority because it makes devs look like they aren't doing much.

As for fixing nostr so we can download only root posts, and to differentiate the meaning of 'e' tags, is hard because of backwards compatibility. But it happens anyways (nostr breaks rapidly, that BREAKING file is rarely updated, but we still somehow survive it).

I think given all the concerns, the compromises we have to make, getting us to be in sync with each other. ... we are doing pretty well. But it does feel annoyingly slow nonetheless.

It's not low interest in doing it.  But yes, those things. And more.


Since people invariably will want to use many different nostr clients, any ideas that a single client can use (caching events locally, doing any kind of negentropy with the relay, etc, etc) will not be sufficient.  Any client-specific solutions will not be enough.  We need a NIP based solution.

I've been saying for as long as I can remember that we need what I call a "client proxy".  People have pushed back by imagining I'm talking about some central service people sign up for which would become another point of censorship - NO!  I'm talking about something that you run on your local computer, or your local network, or a data center where YOU control it ... and all your various nostr clients funnel everything through it so as to avoid events being downloaded over and over again.

The protocol from client to client proxy might have to be outside of nostr proper. It just has to add which relay the client would have asked directly.

For example, the client can say "Get this filter from these relays" and the proxy can (being smart) say "Hah, I already have that from relay A, here you go" while it asks relays B and C and caches those results.


I guess I don't see the world in terms of good and evil.  I tolerate my dog barking at night.  I'm glad my neighbors do too.

Not everything in life pleases me, and I tolerate almost all of the things that don't please me. Tight parking lots with barely enough room to turn. Supermarkets that don't stay open 24 hours. I tolerate them because I've learned to pick my battles.

Anyhow, not sure I really wanted to dig deep here, just asked the question that popped into my mind.


But I'm a natural born killer! Society needs to tolerate my murders. It's my identity. Don't deny me my existence! You genocide me if you don't let me genocide you.

joking aside for a moment
... clearly there are limits to what sort of things someone should tolerate. I think we can tolerate all kinds of sexuality (being that's kind of a private thing).  But which things should not be tolerated?  Burning down court houses, censoring speech, violating the law and not be prosecuted, forced vaccinations?  Anything you were thinking of in particular?


Making. Each. Word. A. Separate. Sentence. Is. Just. Dumb. Fullstop.


Thank God for Thomas Massie


In general, long thin slits are very leaky, whereas holes as big as a nailhole make almost no difference (except at higher frequencies they start to matter more).  Because EM is a transverse wave it generally needs a slit to get in.


Gossip is close but no cigar. Soon.

Actually if you can set your DM relays in Amethyst, and use gossip unstable branch, you may be able to use NIP-17 to other people who also have DM relays setup.  The piece gossip is missing is just the setting up your DM relays part.


The best ways I know to feel "right," to feel happy and satisfied in life:

1. Work in your garden, or get something else done physical outdoors, especially if you can catch some rays while doing it. Touch grass.
2. Clean something that hasn't been cleaned in a while.  You will feel far better when it is clean, and for having done it.
3. Cook food from scratch.
4. Build a fire and spend some time by it.
5. Take a long hot bath.
6. Stretch.
7. Work yourself until you are sore and tired, and then sleep hard.

Doing these things with family is even better.


It's the opposite of clever that's for sure.  I think it adds to the humor though.


This is one of Norm MacDonald's nutty jokes


This is from memory. RIP to the author.

A frog walks into a bank to get a loan. The loan officer, Mrs. Whack, says "what's your name?" the frog says "Kermit".  "You're not Kermit the frog!" says the loan officer. The frog says "No, no, I was named after Kermit.  I'm Kermit Jagger. My father was Mick Jagger."  You see, Mick Jagger had fucked a frog.  So the loan officer says, "Ok, do you have any collateral?" and he pulls something out of his pocket, a shiny irridescent unicorn statuette and hands it to her.  She says "I don't know I have to talk to the manager." So she goes into the manager who says "Hi Patty!" and she and tells him the story and holds up the statuette and asks "what is this?"  The manager says "That's a knick nack Patty Whack, give the frog a loan. His old man was a rolling stone."


Me too.  Love it.  With subsonic I hear the "thud" when it hits louder then the gun's "pip" sound.


In gossip this post is long enough to have a "show more" button, but I thought it was already showing plenty


YouTube has 18+ content?


The answer to the question is......   no

I guess I wouldn't really like Toad Hall.  Maybe we are already where we are supposed to be.  Thanks fren.


You live in a hall!  How nice!  I bet you have servants and everything!  I live in a sheep pen.


Ok I fixed gossip on the 'load_more' branch.  It still needs testing and some more changes before it gets merged in, but you can try it now if you'd like (no schema changes, safe to switch back and forth).


I should have auto-tuned it.  I don't have any real gear setup anymore, nor that plugin.  But years ago I used autotune on our lead vocalist, back before Cher turned it into an effect.  I also used Fraunhaufer IIS to compress our recordings (mp3) before people were sharing mp3 files on the Internet. I think it is cool I was using that stuff before anybody knew about it. Did everything with an 8-track ADAT and a Mackie 16 channel mixer, plus a 8-track digital audio card for my computer that used lightpipe to the ADAT, and various software like Cakewalk... and Neumann U87ai microphones, plus a bunch of other specialized mics for drums, etc.

But now I don't have any of that stuff. Well, I have some but it is packed away and runs on 115V (NZ uses 230V).

So I just used Audacity on my linux box with my Yeti microphone.

Here is what got me out of bed to do it:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jMPgvaOXH8

I think if I were gay I could hit the high note🤣


Thanks.

I could do better if I spent some time on it. But it's not really worthy of more time. That last part is too high for me anyways.


But I'm waving my hands!  Why aren't you distracted by my oxymoronic argument?  Do I need to wave my hands harder?


Yes I heard this too. I think it is a very reasonable response because it doesn't risk direct conflict, but it is clearly Russia hurting the West in retaliation for the West clearly (though not directly) hurting Russia, so it would be an effective deterrant towards further Western escalation and something to put on the negotiating table.


Sometimes I can't sleep and as I lay in bed a browse YouTube.  Ran across Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell, then I had to get out of bed and record this just to get the damn thing out of my head.

https://audio.nostr.build/0bdca1dfe3d060b4b4cd9982c0bd2eccb9d115c086f90076d48cce3e4d52d469.mp3


I typed the nsec. Amethyst renders the name. Does this change the meaning of my post?  Um, I'm gonna say no.


I don't believe this rumor that fiatjaf has another name.  His only name is npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6


"A good deal of the nebulosity in the world scene is produced by a more or less constant factor: each one of the three agents tends to interpret in its own terms the plans and actions of the other two, partly for deliberate propaganda purposes,  partly due to  genuine misunderstanding of the situation." - Olavo de Carvalho

I'm just starting to read this alleged "fascist" and already it is clear that he has a good head on his shoulders.


So I've heard about Rhabarber-Barbara-Bar-Barbarenbartberbier-Bierbar-Baby, but like... who is the father?


There are only two people on nostr:  you and @fiatjaf.  It's just that @fiatjaf has a lot of sock puppets.

Thanks for playing with me!


After comparing NATO expansion to the Cuba missile crisis and talking about the Monroe doctrine for YEARS, the West remains deaf, completely ignores it.  So I think Putin can't "talk" to the West anymore. They don't hear him. The only thing they hear is the movement of weapons and ships, etc.  So he is basically saying the same thing he has been saying since at least 2009, just with ships this time.


Scott seems suspicious to me, like he did exactly that. His rhetoric is too far one-sided, and apparently that kind of disinformation works on far too many people.


Russia will escalate in the smallest way possible that is still effective. Launching nukes from those subs would not be a small escalation and it would be retaliated against while those nukes were still flying upwards.

But I agree with you that the US won't react to the provocation by attacking Russian ships, but they probably will shadow their ships with ships and airplanes of their own.


Not really, no.

I suspect the people in charge are older than I am, and their "memory" of Russia being the enemy during the cold war defined how they permanently think about Russia.

Once you setup an organisation, even if its purpose ceases to exist, that organisation takes on a life of its own. NATO is one such organisation. Nobody chooses to terminate their own job. So NATO just grew and dreamed about controlling everything, making the whole world peaceful eventually.... but except not Russia, Russia wasn't allowed (they are tricksters! can't trust 'em! or so some people think).


When someone like Scott Ritter wants to travel to Russia to speak at a conference, he isn't technically aiding and abetting the enemy because the US has not declared
Russia to be an enemy (despite all that has happened so far). But if he was a former intelligence agent, restricting his travel is understandable.

But the kremlin spokesperson has now called the United States an enemy nation. I do not know if that is equivalent to declaring war. But if the US declares war on Russia, my language about this conflict will change because under wartime, free speech can be far more supressed and and consequences for speech can be far more serious, and I'm a practical kind of guy that doesn't walk in front of tanks (no disrespect to Tank Man). Call me a coward, I'll call myself "still alive".

Anyhow, here is my question.  Russia has sent ships to the Caribbean to do "drills".  But Russian ships in the Black Sea have been somewhat easy to sink with surface drones.  Couldn't the US sink Russia's ships in the Caribbean with Ukrainian-level low-tech surface sea drones?  That would be kinda funny if the US did this and acquired the drones from Ukraine.


This is how I feel about my codebase some days


I'm not an anarchist. I think we can have a sane and effective "establishment".  But the establishment is going to need to learn some new tricks; they are very slow on the uptake.

It used to be they could lie to us, they could "control the narrative". That is no longer possible due to the Internet and our "back channel" communications. However, their techniques have not changed. They continue to try to deceive and to control the narrative. This is not working anymore and just causes massive lost of trust and social cohesion. It is not working for them (we see through the bullshit, and/or we start believing in buillshit because we don't trust them) and it is not working for us (we lose trust in them and cannot work together to save our lives).

They will never achieve control of the narrative again. That world is strictly in the past. That assumption should be abandoned.

The new reality requires any effective establishment to be up front and honest with it's constituents. Shocker, I know, but it turns out that this actually works better in the long run as trust can be reestablished, and conversations (under the rubric of free speech) and edify all parties once again.

The larger the establishment, the slower they are to change.


For a lot of different reasons, gossip's code is not structured in a way that my (or your) mental model would suggest. Partly these are for performance or ease of coding (earlier), and partly because it developed along a certain path which created a lot of technical debt. Refactors are in order.

I've tried to fix this issue several times under the title of "load more" and each time I've gotten so tangled up and confused that I backed out and attempted to attack the problem from another angle (usually being able to apply some small set of safe steps first).  90% of what I need to do is understood by me, but it's hard to find a way to do it which doesn't become a mess as I start tripping over the 10% that I haven't completely realized from the outset was going to trip me up.

I'm well down a path of fixing this now which has a good chance of actually succeeding.  The general plan is like this:
1) Keep an 'anchor' time for the feed (just one, it resets when you switch feeds).
2) The first subscription to the feed you switched to starts a long-term subscription that loads events from the anchor forward, and continues to listen after the EOSE.
3) Start a short term subscription that loads until the anchor, limit some number of notes (call it N).
4) When you scroll to the bottom and press 'load more', then anchor shifts to the created_at of the oldest feed event, and then this subscription is rewritten to load the next N events (the long-term subscription doesn't care about the anchor shift as it doesn't change).
5) Whenever you shift to a different feed (inbox, a different list, My notes, etc) everything is reset and it starts over.  This means is goes back to the relays again and often loads things from them it already has.
6) I will then create some kind of caching (not of events which we already cache, but of knowledge about which time ranges have been loaded with which filters) so that it doesn't reload the same events from the relay over and over.

Once this is done, it should be easier to modify from that point than from the current point, so if I discover this is hard to do I can work backwards somewhat.


I see screenfuls of one-liners from 10 months ago.  But only after I reverted a commit and then pressed the Load More button 11 times.

I worked on code to fix this (load a count of messages, not a time period) but never quite finished it and then it has languished.  I need to get out my necromancer manual and reanimate that code.


Gossip fails for at least 2 reasons, probably more.
* The loading spinner hides the 'load more' button so you can't look back further
* I never finished and merged the code that loads N events (instead of a time period)

Can't find relay list for gitlost. Have no idea where the notes are published. Not sure why gossip isn't finding it I haven't investigated.


nostr has failed.

Ah well. We tried.


Some of these results indicate bugs in chorus.  For example when we get "Timeout: deadline has elapsed" that means we never got the OK response, but usually instead a NOTICE delivered the error (something I will have to fix).


Progress is continuing on the relay-tester.  43 tests are coded and AFAIK working.  That's a bit less than half of what I'm aiming for.  Here are the results run against the chorus 'sample' setup:

https://image.nostr.build/6eb6ebfe8d4bb457f65743480f003e2db3faa822cc9288e4b4bf383bfb6d5937.jpg


France is planning to send instructors to Ukraine to train the Ukrainian soldiers. I think this is appropriate. There are no better experts in retreating and surrender.


Truth is a claim about the relationship between some statement that describes objective reality and objective reality itself.  It says that a statement is true if it correctly reflects objective reality.  But what does that mean exactly?  Can any statement correctly reflect objective reality, or are statements too simplistic and poor to do so?  In many cases, statements have a VERY hard time being absolutely true.  You might think the sky is blue, but maybe not to a mantis shrimp.

It would be more useful to argue about whether there is a single objective reality, about which statements can reflect to some degree and be verified against to some degree.


That was War Theory #18 😆, which still remains a very good theory.


War Theory #875?

Russia gather evidence that strikes from Ukraine in Russia are being done by non-Ukrainians, e.g. the U.K. and presents this evidence to the United Nations, declaring their right to retaliate.  Russia retaliates on the UK with a single strike using conventional weapons claiming this should not trigger NATO article 5 since it was a declared legal retaliation under the rules based international order.


War Theory #874?

Precondition:  NATO goes into a hot war against Russia backed by (and maybe eventually including) China, and nukes are never used by either side.

Result: Under this likely scenario, there is a good chance that NATO countries would be defeated after a very long protracted war of attrition where the NATO side runs out of ammunition and perhaps hundreds of other supplies that are necessary to maintain a large long hot war, because NATO countries lack the industrial base, that base having moved to China long ago so that gamblers could get richer.  They think they are OK because they have plenty of money, and they don't think too much about whether it is possible to convert that money into product since it always has been possible before.

I'm remindded of Rudyard Kipling's poem, part of it goes:

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."


you made the most perfect post and there is nothing left to be said.


___ I didn't respond to your post because you made the most perfect post and there is nothing left to be said
___ I didn't respond to your post because while I completely disagree, I dont have the time to defend my position
_X_ Both of the above


![](https://image.nostr.build/dbd1d6b23ad0411aa5a54460306a115cb1ca3721b328d8aea3a78ffd0eb9a9b2.jpg)

### Greetings!
Salutations, User! Ever wanted to publish articles or launch your own blog just for the sake of writing or imparting your knowledge? You can, right here in Nostr Wonderland! Let censorship, DE-platforming, shadow-banning be gone! You are the one that holds the keys to your empire here in NostrLand.

👉I'm here to help you **OVERCOME** the learning curve and take the plunge to **SWITCH** from conventional to Nostr Social media. If this is your first time, please read my [Beginner's Guide here](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq0ycfyurhh4gswct69h7ec0dxmfhud7dmc7wgwchaf8fryhvzy5fqy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxvhxgmmjv9nxzcm5dae8jtn0wfnj7qqgvcunxdphvdsnw8a67gd) or on the [web.](https://stacker.news/items/535829/r/Hamstr) Otherwise, let's 💃dance.

![](https://image.nostr.build/d1df58a2bb465de97182fb1a5ba3790cf77bc7eae1aaf63fe97bcd1f4961a836.jpg)

#### Why am I doing this?
I want to be your 🕯guiding light, dear user, to guide you when things get murky or confusing to find information. You probably have a ton of knowledge that you'd like to share with the world, but you haven't because you're afraid of the consequences or don't know where to begin. I'm here to help you along the road by using this tutorial. So you may confidently share your knowledge with the rest of the world using Nostr. If you'd like, you can use long-form notes (Nip-23) to accomplish this.

📩P.S. Elon Musk should blush, because this is also one of the most modest ways, to stack SATs in a den full of sovereign Bitcoin lions.

![](https://image.nostr.build/8048c1aa4e77bbe96a26343c2fb0d9ef5c580a6b63a8211746b2e19c53005fd0.jpg)

## The Tools of the Trade
As a writer, it's important to learn new skills of the trade and add it to your arsenal. These are the current tools, which I utilize at my discretion. The list covers long form clients with random relays, NIP-65 compatible clients, communities, hashtags, Ai (optional), and finally 🌋 Obsidian. Obsidian is an excellent solution if you don't want to **log into a long form client** to send your content. Just one shot into the ether.

### The Nostr Bell Ringers: Choosing a Long Form Client to Distribute Your Content
Long form content is distinct, with its own NIP. The notes you usually see on your client are microblogging notes with NIP-01 or Kind-01 (which include hashtags). To the best of my knowledge, the following platforms currently support NIP-23: [Stacker.news](https://stacker.news/r/Hamstr) (via cross posting), Habla.news, Yakihonne.com, flycat.club, and highlighter.com.

✨Yakihonne.com is my preferred medium because of their support for **curation** and additional **relays for long-form on their site.** I'd like to add that **Highlighter.com** (which also has its own dedicated relay) is free and open source, putting content creators in the driver's seat. They're fulfilling this through the integration of subscription services for premium content powered by Bitcoin Lightning.💡🚨 Isn't that awesome?

![](https://image.nostr.build/5411a95a63f222b20891aa5b93d842470cdd2f78c162671d8c7a22d27a6a6db4.jpg)

👉You can learn more about the Bell Ringers in my previous articles, The Publishing Forest of Nostr ✨[Part One](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq0ycfyurhh4gswct69h7ec0dxmfhud7dmc7wgwchaf8fryhvzy5fqyg8wumn8ghj7m3wda4nqtn0wfnj7qqgxejxvc34vesnsv4u5ay) and ✨[Part Two here.](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq0ycfyurhh4gswct69h7ec0dxmfhud7dmc7wgwchaf8fryhvzy5fqy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxvhxgmmjv9nxzcm5dae8jtn0wfnj7qqgvvunxce5x56ngrlj0wj)

### Be a Relay anomaly; knowing what arena you're in is half the battle.
Not all relays are identical. Some relays support specific NIPs, [(Nostr Implementation Possibilities)](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/README.md) more than others, while others are paid relays. This is where you can try out unconventional relays to discover your following. I encourage using odd ball relays to reach followers from all corners, rather than the "popular relays" that clients automatically push and 💥jam users to utilize. This is known as the 🦜Gossip method, which can be noisy and active with constant Notes. I've literally seen my articles buried in notes, memes, and everything in between. Another alternative is to run your own relay.

👉Publish to random relays using Bell Ringers clients. Please refer to the image above. What's the reason? Because they don't currently support NIP-65. So go ahead and publish to weird relays!

🚨This doesn't mean to publish to 50+ relays, go somewhere in between 10-25.

👉It's also typical (**at least for me**) to have failed attempts to publish onto relays so don't get discouraged and try others. Click this [link](https://nostr.watch/relays/find) to see the relays list. Personally, I prefer German relays, but select any at your discretion.

✨Eventually, you will meet other users that will grant you access to their relays, this is through **discovery.** Just be **patient, kind,** and **humble** to receive these invites from other users that **whitelist** your npub to enable you to "**write**" onto their relays. These will become your "**home**" relays. Go where you're treated best and support each other. **Pura Vida!**

### Using clients with NIP-65 support.

![](https://image.nostr.build/bae4f3de899ff8b0d0cb6dc75c3971d7f035e584eb9b438ca90127f817b60add.jpg)

👉Since, everyone **doesn't use the same relays,** sometimes posts get delayed responses. To counteract this, I utilize Sir [Mike Knight](@npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c)'s Gossip Desktop Nostr Client. Gossip facilitates the application of "NIP-65," or "The Outbox Model." You can read more about it [online](https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq0ycfyurhh4gswct69h7ec0dxmfhud7dmc7wgwchaf8fryhvzy5fqyv8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytngv4kxjmmyv4uzucmx9uq3yamnwvaz7tmwdaehgun4v5hxxmmd9uqqsdnpxqekvceh8y2q3v9z) or within your [app.](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq0ycfyurhh4gswct69h7ec0dxmfhud7dmc7wgwchaf8fryhvzy5fqyv8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytngv4kxjmmyv4uzucmx9uq3yamnwvaz7tmwdaehgun4v5hxxmmd9uqqsdnpxqekvceh8y2q3v9z) Great client to cut out the excessive programming language on browsers which does slow you.

⛔**The way this works is if other (N)ostriches use a client that also supports NIP-65 as well.** Even if other nostriches don't use supported clients, you're still able to pull from their relays.

![](https://image.nostr.build/45ffb19d2237e86aab603d5cc6419a66275167ee3f5880a43e13961805da5132.jpg)

✨👉Another client you could use is knight [hzrd146](@npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr)'s web client nostrudel which handles TOR quite lovely.  [NoStrudel](https://nostrudel.ninja/) also uses **NIP-65** so you'll never miss an article.

![](https://image.nostr.build/b30036445d6e896b3760f4f9f824c985de6482d50229de08a24e01454d0de8ae.jpg)

🚨[Amethyst v0.87+](nostr:nevent1qqsv3urwqtypp7rdwd0tll8w0kje6d035kazd6svxjx76prm8nxn3ssprdmhxue69uhkxunewp6x7am0d3nzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6q3qgcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqxpqqqqqqzwxacvh) the app is currently working to integrate NIP-65(at the time of this publication). This is a win for the De-googled Android community!

### Use Communities to expand reach within Nostr for a forum like style or for conversations
👉I use NoStrudel mostly to manage my community, "Children_Zone," where I post all my articles and stories. It would be beneficial for you to look into communities where you might be able to share your articles, or stories, provided they are relevant. 🚨 Communities have moderators, so when you post to their board be mindful that it could get declined. You could build a relationship with the respective owners, or maybe even volunteer to manage postings. The last options is to create your own community.

⭐Tip⭐
✨When you publish your long form content or NIP-23, at the same time you can create an njump.me link. The **njump.me** links are super easy to create and bridge the gap from Nostr back to web. To get the maximum coverage to all your followers, make a separate post with your njump.me link for users that are using clients that don't support NIP-23.

👉To create njump.me links
Simply Copy Note ID on your client,
https://njump.me/ + paste note ID = shareable URL
✨Add a cute message to your new post with your shareable link.

⭐note⭐
For **long form content** you should get *naddr1* and for **regular notes** you normally get *nevents.*

❗Example for clarification: If you're reading this article within Amethyst, Damus, or Nos you can tap [here](nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq0ycfyurhh4gswct69h7ec0dxmfhud7dmc7wgwchaf8fryhvzy5fqy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxvhxgmmjv9nxzcm5dae8jtn0wfnj7qqgvcunxdphvdsnw8a67gd) to access my beginner's guide within the app or click [here for the web version.](https://njump.me/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq0ycfyurhh4gswct69h7ec0dxmfhud7dmc7wgwchaf8fryhvzy5fqy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxvhxgmmjv9nxzcm5dae8jtn0wfnj7qqgvcunxdphvdsnw8a67gd) Both contain the same information, but the experience is slightly different.

🚨The important part is to do both. This creates unity among users between different clients. Yes, it is an additional step, but the reward is well worth it in unexpected ways.

![](https://i.nostr.build/BR0Qe.png)
^^Created by [cryptowolf.](nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp49d8dhw4lcnlcxv4jrdy22qf9uc4chrjauk4kjmuvvktyh9dc48qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxyh8jcttd95x7mnwv5hxxmmd9uq37amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dxqezuer0wfskvctrw3hhy7fwdaexwtcqyq9cqqtww2t8q2hc5nnf6hjexk02g76hqmwf8lwevx4tpl0nggh26dz72xv) If your not on an app you can view the event [here on the web.](https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp49d8dhw4lcnlcxv4jrdy22qf9uc4chrjauk4kjmuvvktyh9dc48qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxyh8jcttd95x7mnwv5hxxmmd9uq3vamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wv3shgcfwdpsh2ue0qqsz4qe4evmzjcr20stu7g9swem7wryvrnt828xjjxqphtkwzdmtfwqhvkhcv) Another artists you can check out is [M.](@npub1ujm8l8mupgwvu8pye2ged78pg3huectlmm6at66x5wffgvl2fkgsygt8l4) My friends in NostrLand are welcoming, so what are you waiting for? Nostr is permission-less. Just go for it!

### Adding # Hashtags; 🍾the secret sauce
Similarly to X, you can use hashtags to search and scan for content. By using hashtags you can increase your visibility to the masses so don't skip on step. I, *occasionally* try to squeeze myself into the coffeechain, gm, plebchain, zaps, art, ai, nostr, bitcoin, and catstr arena. For the purpose of this article I will squeeze myself into introductions and obsidian. Because I think there's a possible chance, that a newbie may be interested in creating content. And with some 🍀luck they decide to🔖bookmark my article after getting acquainted with the Nostr.

🌟It would be the highest honor for me as a 🐹content creator, if you bookmarked this, and shared it with future nostriches, writers, and creators. Let's fill Nostr with a vibrant community with creators that make other platforms look dismally disappointing.

### 🤖To Ai or not to Ai
Ai is what you make it. For me, it's to create the beautiful art that you see in my articles. I engineer the prompts with the hope that the reader such as yourself might enjoy. I wouldn't be surprised if I had followers that just scroll through to look at my Ai images. Furthermore, I use Canva.com to produce these. However, I have dabbled with others. I do think [Sats4ai](https://sats4ai.com/) is worth a go because it's open source and doesn't record data as a possible Midjourney replacement for images. Another AI, that I dabble with is ~[Openagents](https://openagents.com/chat/53203) (FOSS, and crowdsourced) that is fun to play with.

![](https://image.nostr.build/de06dde6a088f67347ceb23120224217a162838c1defb0137cea70000f963c22.jpg)

## Obsidian; A powerful markdown editor for Writers or just to write notes.
Did you notice the 💎🌋Obsidian earring my Hamster is wearing? I put it on intentionally on my character to symbolize the tool I'm using. Obsidian is a [beautiful markdown editor,](https://obsidian.md/) that you can download on iOs, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and even through the Zap.store. If you want to just **publish without any clients**, then **Obsidian does the job**.

✨I discovered Obsidian from [James](@npub10a8kw2hsevhfycl4yhtg7vzrcpwpu7s6med27juf4lzqpsvy270qrh8zkw) when he mentioned a plugin tool in an article, that would let users "**Publish to Nostr**" on 🐇**yakihonne.**

✨An awesome feature that the plugin does is pasting an image and automatically getting hosted via **nostr.build**, so you don't have to manually upload it. The plugin supports short(NIP-01) and long form(NIP-23), and draft.

🚨Obsidian is a powerful tool, you can benefit by watching a few YouTube videos. Learn about the various tasks like RSS feeds, image converter, dictionary, and LanguageTool (for spell-check). 💋It has over 1,000 community plugins, so go 🎈play.

☠The developers of Obsidian have **zero interest** into turning this editor into FOSS. Don't bother trying to pitch idea, they will dismiss and delete your request.

### 🌋💎Setting up Obsidian with Nostr.
Are you excited to use this amazing markdown editor? Here's a quick guide to help get you rolling. Create breathtaking markdowns (for Long form) and distribute them like a beast to Nostr via Obsidian.

1. [**Download**](https://obsidian.md/download) for your preferred platform.
2. **Create a Vault**, location, and name. Or open within an existing folder with other markdown(.md) files prior from using obsidian.
3. Wait for the **editor** to load and open. Go to ⚙**Settings** on the bottom left.
4. Locate **Options** on the top left window, select “**Community plugins**” and click "**Browse.**"
5. In the search bar, type "**nostr,**" and select "**Nostr Writer**" by **James McGauran.** **Install** and **enable.**
6. Read the mini guide, it should look similarly to this:
   ![](https://image.nostr.build/123f3bb3ffe6d000c3f2fd3524cb2cf8a7fe8fa32c48d262a8ba6731875be1c2.jpg)
7. Done. **Now, show the world what you're made of❗**

👉If you felt this article brought you value, please consider adding it to your bookmarks so you can easily share it with an aspiring creator that you may come across in chat. 💋

🧧⚡Zaps⚡ are always appreciated, but aren't required.

💜🧡Thank you💖💋

📢Special Shout-outs
📝[James](@npub10a8kw2hsevhfycl4yhtg7vzrcpwpu7s6med27juf4lzqpsvy270qrh8zkw) - Introducing me to Obsidian that I've made it my own. I wear on as an earring on my character.
```npub10a8kw2hsevhfycl4yhtg7vzrcpwpu7s6med27juf4lzqpsvy270qrh8zkw```

A guide intended to assist content creators in making use of Nostr's resources. This guide points creators in the direction of resources to improve their success and experience. This covers the use of long form clients, Nip-65 supported clients, communities, hashtags, AI, and the Obsidian. In order to unleash your content into the world through Nostr, I have also included a quick start tutorial for setting up Obsidian.


I don't have the extension enabled right now. I was hoping for a NIP-46


I haven't used noStruedel.

Gossip avoids the web stack to avoid attack surface. That may matter to you, or it might not. And there are lots of other factors to consider when choosing a client.


I think a client has more things to store than just events that came from relays.  So it makes sense to store those in something that doesn't reflect a relay's storage system.  But when it comes to fetching events from local storage, I think having a similar interface to fetching events from a relay makes sense.  Pocket-db provides sucn an interface where you pass in a Filter (like you would in a REQ) and it returns the matching events.  At some point gossip's internal database changed its interface over to the same kind of thing.

But we also extract data out of events and store it into faster access structures. If we had to parse events every time we wanted to know who you follow, or what somebody's metadata says, etc, that would be too costly.  You can think of this local storage like a cache, but the interface looks like a custom set of tables.


Love the idea.  I pressed login and it went to that hang tight screen, and the console complained about no public key.


Gossip does not use pocket.  I built things in this order:   nostr-types, gossip, chorus, pocket.  I backported pocket into chorus so now chorus uses pocket.  But pocket only has a very simple interface, just enough for a relay, not nearly good enough for a client to use.  That may change but I'm not working on such.

Gossip uses it's own LMDB storage which is a tad less efficient but much more fully fleshed out for client usage.

Also Gossip isn't interacting with it's local database in the same manner it would with a relay.  I know that some other clients create a local relay style cache, but that is not what we are doing. We have a custom internal API that is nothing like querying a remote relay.


No respect. Half the crowd is asking me to disclose my source.


Zelensky wanted to improve his relationship with his wife so he decided to have sex.  He didn't invite his wife.


God I hate when people put fake shit on the Internet.  I hate it more when people=I.


Ok maybe it is fake news. I can't find a good source.


So I hear Turkey is leaving NATO.  They never were a good NATO fit.  This is fine.  I wonder if Hungary will go too.


Actually it wasn't too hard. Fixed on unstable for the muted case.


I'm annoyed by the fact that I see replies to fully muted posts that have a link in the header to the muted post that if I click on I will never see.  But this isn't as easy to fix as I had hoped as we have to check every post's parent to see if it is muted which is not a cheap operation currently.


Since my brother works for EnterpriseDB on commercial extentions and support for Postgres, I'm gonna have to say SQLite is worse.  I'm sure you understand.


This is going to be embossed onto every #butterine


Now you devs should all check whether the hashtag you parsed from my note was 'butterines' or 'butterines!' and then you can argue as to which it should be.


Oh man I simply cannot stop eating these #butterines!  They are so addictive!


I make myself feel crappy sometimes, I suppose I'll put myself in my own negative list.


How did you know so precisely!?  Oh no!  My tin foil hat is leaky!


I'm laughing so hard I'm gonna be put in the hospital!


Imagine if you could buy a box of a dozen butterines for $14.99, would that sound like a good deal to you?  Luscious cripsy butterines!

What are butterines you ask?  I don't know yet. But with a name like that, people are gonna buy 'em.


Deleting person list


But what if the robot dogs are ethnically Ukrainian, and they built themselves?  Even if every man woman and child in Ukraine were killed, the ethnically Ukrainian nazi robot dogs could keep on fighting the war with NATO funding and targetting, with homages to Zelenskyy projected against piles of rubble that once were buildings while T2 robots rise from the ashes and join the new generation skynet-connected drone fleets to take out Russia.  Russia has no chance against the Terminator! Ukraine wins!

(ok it is late, i'm just typing the next crazy word that pops into my head)

More seriously, as long as Ukraine refuses to talk to Russia, the fact that the war continues instead of settles somehow is now their doing isn't it? And that has been the case for a long time now. This is the main reason I don't see Ukraine as defending itself anymore.


Apparently China has gotten the cost of robot dog soldiers down to $3,000


So Western-backed Ukraine is low on soldiers, but it's not low on funding. The West could out-spend Russia and win in a very long war of financial attrition. But could it happen without non-Ukrainian soldiers coming in to backfill?  This is what I was pondering when I thought about AI and robotics.  I think we are near the tipping point where the West could provide a fully robotic army to continue fighting for Ukraine. And in that situation the strategy and calculus flips and Ukraine becomes the 'favorite' to win.  I'm I too far out in speculation left field on this, or is this quite possible?  Thoughts?


I don't think it will lead to all out nuclear war.  I think that will be avoided.  The reason I said "detonation" is to leave open various possibilities such as a nuclear test run by Russia in order to send a strong signal (in violation of a treaty), or a tactical nuke launched against Ukraine which also probably wouldn't escalate, at least not rapidly.


Yes and I've heard of (other? maybe the same) Russian satellite 'vehicles' launched into the orbit of a US government satellite and "tailing it"


I'm not saying it, I'm expressing what I heard in this video meeting.

It was a suprise to me to hear that, and I certainly would have presumed otherwise, and that they would have had such systems at least since the 1980s. They shouldn't be hard to acquire or design/build and then launch.  So like you I'm skeptical of that statement, and maybe the people in this meeting aren't vetting their sources well enough.


The Russian Nuclear Doctrine allows the use of strategic nuclear weapons to respond to any attack aimed at crippling Russia's nuclear forces.  That requirement has already been fulfilled, via the strikes on it's strategic defense radar and strikes on the Engel's airbase hosting Russia's strategic nuclear bomber fleet, and destroying multiple bombers.  According to their doctrine, Russia could launch nukes at any time.  They aren't doing it presumably because they don't want to end the world.  But this is encouraging the West to continue attacking Russia's nuclear infrastructure.

I don't think this state of affairs can possibly last much longer. I think we will have a nuclear detonation within 30 days.


If you want to understand the threat of WW3 better, this video of a meeting of the International Peace Coalition by the Schiller Institute is very enlightening.

Among other things:
* Russia does not have launch detection satellites, they rely on ground radar to detect incoming ICBMs
* Taking out their strategic defense radar has shortened their decision making time, perhaps to the level that they will turn on an automated response (no human decision necessary)
* Politicians are almost completely focused on politics and don't know the technical details about what they are ordering.

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


Let me try to make this easy for you to understand.

If you run 10 studies, and 2 show that a medicine works, and 8 show that it doesn't, and then you take those 2 that show it works and present it to somebody and say "Occam's razor. What is more likely, that the medicine works or doesn't?" then you are not using Occam's razor properly.

The news media have programmed your brain with biased cherry-picked information. If you actually cared to know the truth, you wouldn't have the opinion that you have. Listen to Glenn Greenwald, Alan Dershowitz, or Jonathan Turley about this case. I defer to them.

You are programmed by their programming and that programming's targetting system has misfired because I don't like Trump. Trump would turn Gaza into a real estate development. He gave part of Syria to Israel (as if it was his to give!). He would start a war with China. And he would be manipulated by everybody since his narcissism knows no bounds. Plus he would pile more money into the military.

What I care about is a functional civil society.... well I don't care anymore America can burn in hellfire at this point and I would just go on living my happy life.  But what I used to care about was that laws were followed, that judges were fair, that people did the right thing and defended the constitution instead of using laws as a cudgel to hit people they don't like the spray tan of.

Since you have been short on facts about this case, let me give you a few (I'm not even trying here to make a defense):

Hilllary Clinton commited the same crime as Donald Trump. She put down in her ledger a false entry about purchasing the "Trump-Russia" dossier from Fusion GPS as opposition research.  She was fined $8,000 by the FEC.  Donald Trump should also have been fined $8,000 and the matter should be closed.  Trump also put down a false ledger entry. It was false because the whole point of the entry was to "hush" something. If he had written down what he was hushing, it wouldn't have been hushed would it? It wasn't something illegal he was hiding, it was something embarrassing. This case has set a precident that you cannot have privacy in this way, which is a precident you (not I) are going to have to live with because Trump haters don't care about the collateral damage they are causing.

Consider that the E Jean Carroll case was brought because NY changed their statute of limitations for JUST ONE YEAR so that she could bring the case against him for a crime allegedly committed back in 1995 which was far beyond the statute of limitations.  Changing the statute of limitations just to "get Trump" is the kind of thing I say is corruption that is killing America.  It was also "ex post facto" which violates the US constitution article 1 section 9 clause 3. He had to pay her $5 million dollars even though she didn't establish that he raped her. They levied the fine entirely on the basis that he called her case "a hoax" calling that 'defamation'. That is corruption.

Mischaracterizing January 6 is corruption.

You know, you are going to have to live in the system of wonky made up change-on-a-whim rules that these things have created. Good luck figuring out what is and isn't allowed.

By hating on Trump so much, US democrats are flat out destroying the democracy that they think they are saving. THAT is what is so sad about this and why I take my position.

ALSO, all rhetoric is rhetorical whether or not it is a question.


We skipped the light fandango


Nice photos.

Like Karnage and yourself, I also do this. Probably a lot sloppier but I don't notice.


Finland, the UK and the US are forming a new security pact. They are going to call it FUKUS


It is possible to care deeply about the rule of law, and to defend it, while not giving a shit about the particular aggrieved party.


If those were the only two pieces of information I knew, I would use Occam's razor to presume Trump was guilty of a crime.

But if those are the only two pieces of information you know, then you are massively out of touch and ignorant, and you probably shouldn't opine about an issue when you are so ignorant about it.

That was rhetorical too.


Kim Iversen has a good new show on this issue.

https://rumble.com/v4yqx33-ww3-is-the-west-secretly-behind-another-color-revolution.html

nostr:nevent1qqsvlvfjpjfsppateen4s37wusv7lr8d7dksgy5z7y84l7asmyzhv3cpypmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjj7qgjwaehxw309ahx7um5wf6k2tnrdakj7qgnwaehxw309ahkvenrdpskjm3wwp6kytc3wgfr2


Except in that case it was probably "orange blob"


Shall we make predictions?  I predict that Judge Merchan will sentence him to prison, and after only a few days in prison he will have "committed suicide" when the cameras were strangely not working.


When I first read 1984, the idea of the "memory hole" seemed so ridiculous I thought it was George Orwell's biggest screw up. That couldn't happen because people's memories would remember, you can't change the memory in their brains! So why would the official stories change? It wouldn't work to change people's perceptions.

But alas it was his most prescient and accurate prediction.


Beyond this story of an administration wrongfully prosecuting their political opposition in show trials (we had a few earlier, remember the two impeachements)? ..I'm just now reminded of the suspicious deaths of two whistleblowers who blew the whistle on America's manufacturing giant Boeing whose planes keep breaking. Reminds me of stories in the 80's that invariably only came out of "shit hole" countries.


I left the USA in 2005.  The straw that broke my back was the patriot act and then the second election of George W.


In fact, it's important to punish the blob's bad behavior. If you let them get away with it, the bad behavior will get worse.


The US has been the dominant empire for along time, the power center of the world. If power indeed attracts corruption, then we should see corruption in the United States. But we don't. Everything is normal and fair. Audits of the Pentagon add up properly, right to the last dollar. Weapons sent to allies are used strictly for war and not sold on black markets. Justice is equally apportioned and justice is blind. The media reports only the facts. The government just wants what is best for you. The Trump conviction was just normal justice playing out, a criminal getting his just treatment. Joe Biden was never charged because he is a sweet and completely innocent dear old man.

.... do you see how ridiculous that sounds? It's hard for me not to just roll on the floor laughing that there are still people that believe such tripe.


I haven't heard Trump say anything in years (I'm in NZ) and yet I totally get where Jeff is coming from.  So I don't think this is coming out of Trump's rhetoric.  You might want to revisit that assumption.

Voting for the candidate that ends the corrupt system sooner isn't a bad strategy at this point in the downward spiral.  Although he'll probably just get assassinated by the CIA (nostr will remember this prediction).


Kind of like jury nullification.... vote for whichever candidate will make the system collapse sooner.  So it can be rebuilt sooner.


The more pride we had, the more it hurts.


knock, knock  🐇


Lawyers I trust (who aren't Trump fans) say that he didn't, and that the case was ridiculous on multiple fronts.  Lawyers like Glenn Greenwald, Jonathan Turley, Alan Dershowitz (not that I don't think he is an asshole in other regards).  Dershowitz said this case will change the justice system forever, that now it will be used as a political tool to bring suits where no crime was committed as a way to punish political dissidents. The weaponization of the legal system is complete.

I don't think there is a mechanism to undo this damage other than amending the constitution, which won't happen for many good reasons.


I agree. I've thought so for two decades now.  At first I thought it would be revolution, a civil war.  Now I think it will probably be rebuilt after WW3, but it remains to be seen by who and how corrupt they will be.  Probably every country was always corrupt, and my younger self was only naive.

I also have hope for a distributed and voluntary form of partial government, starting as a society (maybe a secret society) that evolves over time. But that seems so far off and intractable that the hope isn't very great.


wisdom


Who, Americans?  Just be aware of it..  Don't expect your government to treat you according to the law.  Use self-defense tactics like anonymity, encryption, bitcoin, etc.  Hide everything.  Privacy.  Just because you aren't doing anything wrong, that means nothing.  They will convict you for things you weren't doing wrong if they don't like the cut of your jib.

Or exit like I did.


Ok after this Trump conviction, nobody in the Untied States ever gets to say Russia and/or China are corrupt (compared to the USA) without me laughing in their face.  The series of corrupt, immoral, war criminal, and unjust moves made by the US is beyond staggering at this point and people seriously cannot be so dumb as to still believe in American exceptionalism or America as the steward of the principles of the enlightenment.  People who still think America is great are delusional, clinging on to familiarity and hope and memories.


I waited about a year for somebody else to do it and eventually got tired of waiting.  Then when I started thinking about tests I couldn't stop.  I couldn't sleep I kept getting up and writing down more test ideas.


sweet thanks


I need a few weeks to write the bulk of the tests. You can play with it now if you want but it's only 18 pretty stupid tests so far.


This "will be" amazing.

Those tests aren't written yet.  It only does 18 tests so far, the rest are placeholders, and I'm still doing major refactors which are much easier with less tests.


Very cool. I might use you then. I haven't tried setting up the other relays besides nostr-rs-relay and chorus.

FYI  The tester is designed to test a relay software implementation, not a live running relay, because:

 1. It might crash a live relay,
 2. It will put a lot of junk events into the relay, and
 3. it might get false results if it ends up finding events it didn't inject

But I'm sure someone will ignore that recommendation.


Haha!  no


a Relay Test Suite is in the works...

I've already got ideas for 94 tests and as I write these tests they expand out into even more tests.

I hoping that exposing relay behavior will drive relay software towards consistently supporting the same way of doing certain things, and that this will help nostr compatibility.

Tests include things like:
* Can the public write events?
* Can an authenticated person write somebody else's events?
* Does the relay respond to minimally constrained filters?
* Does limit 0 give an EOSE?
* When you write an event and get OK-true, can you read it directly back?
* Does limit behave properly when a filter has multiple pubkeys and multiple kinds?
* Does it require AUTH to read DMs and giftwraps?
* When submitting a replaceable event, are the prior events replaced?
* When submitting a replaceable event with newer ones already present, is it rejected or ignored?
* Does deletion of a replaceable event preserve the events that are newer than the deletion event?
* Does it prompt for auth initially?
* How large of an event can it handle?
* Does it verify signatures?
* How does it react to invalid UTF8?
* Does it handle all JSON escape codes? What about surrogate pairs?
* Does it preserve field order in events?
* Does it preserve fields in events not defined by the nostr spec?
* How many subscriptions does it allow simultaneously?
* Do events with negative created_at values work?  What about exponential notation? What about numbers that won't fit in a u64?

... that kind of thing.

If you want to help contribute, even if you just have an idea of what to test, come on over to https://github.com/mikedilger/relay-tester and give feedback, open an issue, or better yet submit a PR.

What about the other things I'm working on?

* Gossip is on pause while we wait for the UI developer to handle some personal affairs, then we will have annotations and NIP-17 DMs.
* Chorus is stable and upgraded to use Pocket
* Pocket has been completed and is stable too, but I haven't tried to make it useful outside of the scope of a relay yet.


will do.


Mexico is joining the case too I heard.


I was quoting your president. That is all.


Oh no! Didi! That's my nuclear project! You're going to launch the missiles!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QZKJVxaR4Mw/UD3_2t54ApI/AAAAAAAARTM/t50xiVa7Sz4/s1600/Dexter+Laboratory+1.png


nostr:npub1etqwgv34spk6p98s0pa9kp8zntgyevdrcl49eas7mswr8pe5pq4sfj8ues do you feel mobilized? Are you working as if you are on the frontlines? Only this way will we achieve the goals we have set in front of us. Any other way to work in this modern conditions are prohibited.  🙄


don't bring a phone


Got it. Will do.


When I say "Immigrant Jews" I mean all the descendants of the Jews that immigrated there.  The definition of a "Palestinian" is anybody ethnically native to the region.

If you add up all the people whose ancestors came from that region, the Palestinians, you get 7,031,698.  If you add up all the people calling themselves Jews you get 7,181,000.  That's my point.  The Jews maintain the population of non-Jews to be strictly less than 50% via bombs.


In 20 years people won't even have signs like this.  These will morph into "Follow us on nostr" and then "Follow us on the Internet", and after that it will be just obvious and not need a sign.


Israel never accepted the native people going way back to 1948.  They refuse to recognize their rights, lest they vote against the Jews.  They just keep them in walled areas with no rights, and militarily (and economically) enforce that they cannot establish a government for themselves.  This didn't start on October 7, it has been going on for 70 years.  As the natives outnumber the immigrant Jews, they "mow the lawn" to protect against any possible future where the Palestinians might happen to acquire voting rights.  What is going on in Rafah is more lawn mowing.  They probably won't wipe them all out, but they apparently gleefully wipe some of them out, and giggle about making them pick up their tents and move to another "safe area".  Sick.

“How great is the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah and how very grave their sin." - The Lord  (Genesis 18:20)


Back a few generations ago people had lots of kids.  My grandmother was pregnant 18 times and had 16 kids (one stillborn, one died before being named).  To the Catholics, every sperm is sacred I guess.


What tests would you want to see in a relay test suite?


The protocol handles this already. It's up to clients if they want to expose that information to the users. Amethyst does it. I plan to add it to gossip eventually.


I didn't play fallout.  Probably missed out on something great.  But anyway...  generally through world war.


I don't think it will happen, but only because we will all be pink uranium-coated mist first.


Ukraine striking back inside of Russia makes perfect sense to me. And normally I wouldn't differentiate or comment as long as the targets were military targets.  I just expect them to take out the forces that are attacking them -- the weapons depots, air bases, launchers, that kind of thing.  Even if it was civilian infrastructure that was critical to the military operation like roads or bridges it would make sense to me as a normal part of war.

And radar normally counts as fair targets too.

But taking out Russia's early warning nuclear defense radar.... that's where my spider senses start tingling.  Are those the military assets that threaten Ukraine the most?  I don't think so.  Those are the ones that protect Russia and that maintain the nuclear stalemate that is keeping all of us alive. This bodes far worse than anything I've ever heard before.


Taking out 2 of 10 of Russia's nuclear early warning defense systems (especially ones very deep in Russia) doesn't sound like the right targets for Ukraine to be hitting.  I'm aware of what Ukraine is "claiming" but I don't buy it.  Article here: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-drone-targets-russian-early-warning-radar-record-distance-kyiv-source-2024-05-27/

Are we sure the West isn't attempting to achieve nuclear first strike capability?

... and are you sure that you don't want to move to New Zealand or somewhere else outside of the beligerant countries, maybe just for the next 4 years or so until we see how this is going to play out?


GMiddle-of-the-night


Yes I've heard it many times, but listening to this performance it felt like the first time. I actually leaned forward several times and thought OMG I never heard it that way before (like the lead violin at 8:02).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuMtEof9MWs


Someone told me they were an A.I. researcher, and I leaned in towards them and said "wow, you look so real"


Heard this one from a comedy show online:

The UK has had Boris, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak, they're talking about getting Penny Mordaunt in, then she'll lose and it will be Kiar Starmer... it will be 5 prime ministers in 2 years.  Downing Street is the political equivalent of snapchat now:  a sequence of rapidly disappearing dicks.


Looks like if I renounce I will not be a "covered expatriate" according to instructions for form 8854.

I'm gonna do this.


Digging into this again to get you a reference and it looks like I am wrong.  There is a mark-to-market regime, but (1) I don't qualify under the 3 tests, and (2) even if I did there is a $600,000 reduction and an $821,000 exclusion.... looks really complicated to work out though... but worth it to stop filing US taxes.


Generally I claim the foreign earned income exclusion and pay $0 to the US.  But IF I am self-employed and owe self-employment tax (and I haven't determined that yet), then I owe that and I can't exclude it, not even via the double-tax treaty (US-NZ doesn't have a social security treaty).  But if I am engaged in a not-for-profit activity (even without being a US 501(c)(3) this can still apply) then the income is treated differently.... and I think it applies since open source software benefits everybody, not just me, and the grant covers my living expenses and was even paid by a 501(c)(3) as living expenses to a grantee.  So now I'm going down this instruction at the top of Schedule C:  "For example, a sporadic activity, a not-for-profit activity, or a hobby does not qualify as a business. To report income from a nonbusiness activity, see the instructions for Schedule 1 (Form 1040), line 8j"

Did I mention yet that I hate doing my taxes?


I am in New Zealand.  But I'm a god damned American citizen and they won't let me quit without taxing 100% of my "stuff" as an exit tax.


It appears though that if your activity benefits the general public like open source software, and all funds are used to pay running costs and not distributed as profits, then you are engaged in a "not-for-profit" activity, you don't need to file Schedule S or Schecule SE and you don't need to pay self-employment tax.  That's how I'm reading it (so much reading! I hate taxes).


I'm on the Internet.  My npub is npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c


Self-employment tax? WTF? 😕


Yes Russia invaded and is occuping Ukraine.  But if people really took the moral high ground seriously as implied by this statement, and applied this principle uniformly, then all the occupations should be resisted including supporting...

Funding for Moldova in order to expel Russia
Funding for Georgia in order to expel Russia
Funding for Syria, in order to expel the United States, Israel and Turkey,
Funding for Palestine in order to expel Israel
Funding for Cyprus in order to expel Turkey
Funding for Azerbaijan and Armenia in order to expel each other
Funding for Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in order to expel Morocco


That supercomputer inside needs proper cooling.


Pretty much.  But mine absorbed the water and became porridge.


I've implemented "annotations" which mark a reply. Any reply by the same author as the parent with the tag "annotation" gets rendered inside the note.

It's not live because I'm waiting on the UI team.  But IMHO this is the solution, eventually, when everybody else does it too.


This day at sunset after having built a fire I poured a small alcoholic beverage and looking out the window at the sky I toasted the day. I thanked God that I could live for one more day and thought back over what I had done today. And it makes me think "Were those good choices?  Do I feel great about this day because I .... finished NIP-17 DMs?  Yes.  Sorted my food storage? Yes.  Watched YouTube videos? Not so much."

Anyhow, I think it might be a good idea to do this every sunset.


Yes, 20 years ago. I'm a dual citizen.


Gruel was the staple food of the ancient Greeks, for whom roasted meats were the extraordinary feast that followed sacrifice, even among heroes, and "In practice, bread was a luxury eaten only in towns".

Roman plebeians "ate the staple gruel of classical times, supplemented by oil, the humbler vegetables and salt fish", for gruel could be prepared without access to the communal ovens in which bread was baked.

In the Middle Ages, the peasant could avoid the tithe exacted by paying in grain ground by the miller of the landowner's mill. When eaten by the peasant, the process was to roast the grains to make them digestible, and grind small portions in a mortar at home. In lieu of cooking the resulting paste on the hearthstone, it could be simmered in a cauldron with water or, luxuriously, with milk.


Gruel has got to be the most underrated out of favor food.  Eating some now.  Yum.


I miss green chiles in a can.  No such thing in NZ.  Carl's Jr used to make a Sante Fe chicken sandwich but they don't make them here in NZ anymore.

But I think nostr:npub1an6xs9jt6apmw45rmvu8pnspewdp6juwcgp76fk72ruky4dmcadqwfze63 is plant free


I'll keep it on "include replies" until thread loading annoys me enough to fix it.


Paid relays should delete all events once the user stops paying.

There is nothing worse than an old Metadata event, with a lightning address you don't use anymore, coming back. And they "come back" simply because the relay won't update your event and won't accept a deletion, since you are not a paid user anymore.

Same for any restricted relays. Once the user can't control it's events, it should just delete everything.


You can't argue with her lived experience


Probably I don't have the switch set to "Include replies"


Yeah, the image only goes up to 2022.  I think the RMB usage shot up a lot in 2023 as you are saying.  I wonder how that effects the totals, given that China is most countries largest trading partner.


Betelguese won't supernova


Try gold foil. The balls will appreciate it.


I'm okay with that.

I don't get this effect very often, threads seem to populate very quickly for me.  So I don't have any strong opinion about what happens when they don't.


Oh, one other thing. I tempered the wheat first. 4% water, shaken around in a container to let the wheat get a bit wet and soak it in and no water remaining on the sides of the container.  Shook it now and then, 12 hours later I milled it.  The point was to soften the bran so the bran wouldn't "shatter" but would separate from the endosperm in large pieces, easier to filter out.  When I sieved it, the bran had very little endosperm stuck to it, so I'd say it was a success.  But it did jam my Komo mill so I had to grind it coursely and then the second time in my older hand-cranked County Living mill.


Tinfoil hats don't work unless you wrap that tinfoil all the way around your body. Otherwise radio frequencies can come in from the bottom.  So best stock up on lots of rolls of tin foil.


I could have told you to go get bent, you don't need a relay for that.  Just feel free to ask, any time.


Not sure if I should change the oil on my tractor.  It could be the only thing holding the engine together.


Aw fuck I was lured into a scam?!??  Wasted year.

nostr:nevent1qqs0qprllhsx7yy7tn2zplzunj7fu9ss03hg052p4qd6fu0v8y9fvdsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7h68p97


Thanks, yes I know. I've stopped. I put it away.


I'll give you the gist. The exact recipe doesn't likely matter. Follow any good sourdough bread recipe or YouTube video for the most part. If you don't make sourdough bread normally it will take a lot of trial and error to get good at it.

I think what makes the difference giving me this amazing flavor is that I'm using 40% fresh ground wheat flour, and I mean fresh (within an hour, the flour was turned into dough).  I sifted out as much bitter bran as I could, and then ground the flour a second time in a hand-crank grinder to make it as fine as I could.  The remaining 60% was standard name-brand supermarket bread flour (Edmonds here in NZ).  I've used home ground flour before but I made the mistake of using it days afterwards.  Flour should either be aged (at least 2 weeks to stabilize, and this gives very good extensibility and gluten forming properties, better than fresh flour, and preferred by bakers) or very fresh (and this gives the best taste at a sacrifice of some extensibility and gluten forming).

Anyhow, also low innoculation (6% starter) which might not matter but that I what I did, it takes longer to bulk ferment. And a retard in the refrigerator during proofing to slow the fermentation.

The loaves weren't perfect, I didn't get as much oven spring as I wanted, but at this point I don't care about that.


I just had delivered 24 jars of Riga Gold (Latvian) Baltic sardines, and some Russian (yum!) mustard (not Ukrainian, yuck!)  ;-)


Most fish don't have strong flavor when fresh, you are correct, but can develop stronger flavors if they aren't fresh.

I think sardines (and other oily fish) taste fishy. But in a wonderful sardine fishy way.

Salmon tastes wonderful, always, just like salmon. Not the same kind of fishiness at all. I can't remember ever having salmon that didn't taste good. I would eat it every day if it didn't cost a mint.


OMG I just made the best tasting bread I have ever tasted.  It is bedtime but I can't stop eating it.  The crust is amazing, so flavorful!  Maybe I've had bread this good in a top end restaurant decades ago, I can't pinpoint where, but certainly it wasn't better than this.  This is maximally good.  I hope it wasn't an accident, I think I know why, I hope I know why.


If my fish didn't taste fishy, that would be quite fishy.


Hi Renee. Hard question.

I'd avoid shares right now. Market is topped and the Sage of Omaha (Warren Buffett) doesn't like anything at these prices so he's holding cash waiting for the market to crash.

Bitcoin is up. Gold is up.  Not bad normally but maybe not the best time to get in.

Even though currencies are all falling in the long term, it might be a good idea to hold cash for the short term.  If you can, I'd hold my cash in Chinese Yuan (Renminbi).

But prediction is hard, especially when it is about the future.


As for fluoride, for a long time I wondered if it might calcify arteries like it calcifies teeth.  I'm not concerned about that anymore based on a lot of things:

1. They have found the molecular mechanisms that transport apoB under the endothelial layer (and back). The atheroma formation mechanism is now known, and fluoride and sugar-damage simply aren't part of it,
2. Calcifying an existing atheroma is a good thing. Soft ones may rupture and cause an event, whereas hardened ones are much safer. Over time the vessel widens and/or new capillaries are formed that bypass the narrowing.

But I'd still use a carbon filter because of the other stuff, and for taste as nostr:npub1amtt4ht2vwuxc4lydp6tkd0w6a2kzstmnxltwpzwc20c2pgp7uzq2gc0mj mentions nostr:nevent1qqspx4vau0zmggqzuzfxa0jr6rdy7w8swk72eh5lq8526gudxfny7hgprdmhxue69uhkwmr9v9ek7mnpw3hhytnyv4mz7un9d3shjqghwaehxw309akxztnjv4kxz7tpvfkx2tn0wfnj7qg4waehxw309ahx7um5wghx77r5wghxgetk9u783p29


TIL that if you mill your own flour at home, then you must use it right away.  After a day or two it becomes 'unworkable' and then you need to age it (oxidize it) for 2-4 weeks to make it workable again.  Professional flour mills chemically age or "bleach" the flours to save time, but "unbleached flour" is essentially just flour that was allowed to age/oxidize naturally without chemicals as a means of stabilization.  Aged flours have better extensibility and better gluten properties, as well as being a more consistent product.

The reason I was having problems is probably because I was using home milled flour that was 3-4 days old 🤦.  I had no idea.


...fat, she got arrested at the airport for 20 kilos of crack


big and bow legged, when she sits around the house, she sits AROUND the house


... short, when she sits on the ground her feet dangle


Yo momma so ...


I live on a farm and catch rainwater.  So (pesticides, solvents, pharmaceuticals, chlorine, flouride) aren't much concern to me.  I'm more concerned with (grit, leaf litter debris, algae, bacteria).  To that end I have two filters.  The outer filter is 20nm pleated.  The inner filter is 1nm dense mesh.

When I had my water tank cleaned and they refilled with chlorinated water, I swapped the inner filter for a 1nm carbon filter.  But it's been swapped back now.

If I were to do it again, I don't think I would change it.


Yes


Clearly bridges are bad. We don't want *them* crossing over at *us*. We need to bomb the damn Kirch bridge! The time for speech is over, this is the era of drones and missiles and bombs.


But you now have these complex user defined feeds.  So now I'm behind on that too.


Ah. Maybe I'm not actually that far behind then.


What about your DM relays?


I strongly oppose the characterization of Ebrahim Raisi as the "Butcher of Tehran".

It is offensive to the noble profession of butchery, which many of you rely upon for preparing your meat for the table.

Now that is has been a day, I will say that I am not a fan of the oppressive religious regime in Iran. They are authoritian and religious, and I am libertarian and atheistic, so it should not be unexpected. I didn't require your 'education'. But some in Iran mourn (while others celebrate) and some are in fear of what happens next. Why people couldn't wait a day to express their hatred is beyond me. If your hatred rules you, you are not free. People used to have manners, but they seem to have gone away over the past two generations. Those in Iran who celebrated didn't need kindness and sympathy, but those that mourn do, and so that is the side I sympathized with on the day of, and I don't regret that, misunderstood as I often am.

There are scores of reasons to hate and fear Iran, but it is better to simply oppose, ideologically or otherwise, and "working with" is almost always a better choice than "working against."

I have lots more thoughts on Iran, but I'm not sure anyone wants to hear them so I'm not sure I should bother typing them at the moment.


So they say


I hope you get the better one


Smartphones apparently yearn to be smashed against the ground. Why else would they evolve to have become so damn silppery?


Rule #1:  Always respect other people, no matter how much you disagree with them.
          Hate only puts you on the low ground, weakening your thinking, lessening
          how others see you.

Rule #2:  When somebody dies, do not say anything bad about them on that day. Wait
          a few days for people to mourn and adjust to the news in their own way.

Rule #3:  When you praise someone, do it aspirationally. Praise them for being what
          you want them to be (greater than they are). They will like that you see
          them this way, but also they will work hard to hide the fact that they
          aren't actually that good... by actually getting that good. It works like
          magic. It's my only truly effective management skill.
		Probably doesn't work on a nation-level though.

I'm sick of the outrage, the hatred (including my own) and the despair it leads to.
I think aiming to be a better person is the path out of that.

I will not address negative comments in this thread for a day or two, or maybe ever.


Rest in peace, Ebrahim Raisi. Persia weeps.

Western news using this opportunity to tell people how evil they thought he was, without even waiting a day, sickens me.

Iran will rise up stronger, more powerful, and more determined to work towards peace and justice in this world full of evil.


bingo


Wow.  This image illustrates my fundamental problem with the concept of entropy.  I have to save this.


This day started with a few successes.  I'm feeling good.


That's what makes the trick so great. If only more people knew.


I can levatate birds...  but nobody cares.

I have an extensive sea shell collection. It is scattered across all of the beaches of the world. Maybe you've seen it.


I like watching kids running and screaming on the playground.  They don't know I'm shooting blanks.


Bored? These are kinda fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMpwbPglkfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbqb3PGO9bk


Them: If you don't support Israel defending itself then you are an anti-semite

Me: I'm non-binary


What this guy says is pretty close to how I see it:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWTlCaJVolo

The US will not solve it's debt problem by cutting spending, running surpluses, or raising taxes.  No... instead:

a) The fed funds rate will go up to fight inflation
b) Treasury rates will be held artificially low via QE: the fed buying as many treasuries as necessary to prevent the US govt from defaulting
c) Government spending will juice the economy locally in a 'numerical' fashion, getting people working harder again,
d) That will raise GDP and tax revenue to some degree, but the biggest effect will be via inflation
e) US debt to GDP rates will fall for the next 40 years or so to unwind the current position.

In summary he suggests:

1) Increase your income, and prefer jobs with income that increases with inflation such as sales, or running a business
2) Get rid of adjustable rate debt
3) Get fixed-rate debt that pays for itself (what you owe will fall in real terms as the dollar is inflated away in value)
4) Get wealth outside of the system ASAP since wealth controls are going to get much tighter as time goes on

In addition (things he didn't say), I would recommend investing in commodities and hodling bitcoin.


It's k-pop!

The markdown was in jest.  I could jest yet again with "Maybe I should have put a tag: ["content-type", "markdown"]  😏"


Fun fact:  Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have met 43 times, on average about 4 times per year.


I would love to stumble upon a visual economy simulator that shows this theory.

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has (had?) a machine called the MONIAC, a mechanical water based machine that simulated the economy.

It's easy to overlook things and misunderstand when you don't have a self-consistent complete theory, and there are a lot of levers and buckets 'n stuff.


yep


I agree with you. Characterizing that your phone is still usable by you (and could be used by attackers through you by forcing you to follow their instructions with your phone) as an 'attack' is nutty, and people attacking GrapheneOS on this point are out to lunch.

I'm also glad to hear that duress passwords and dual unlock (fingerprint + pin) are coming.


If the debt got to a level where it could not conceviably be paid down from taxes, that could cause the dollar to fall. Yet US taxes are remarkably low compared to other OECD countries. The tax take could even double from where it is now without completely squashing the US economy, although that would be severe. Also, the Fed can put interest rates artificially low if they felt they had to do this - there would be less buyers though. It's a scary balance sheet no doubt, and the long-term result doesn't look good to me.


Hey! It's Alastair Thompson! It's good to see you have found us. Followed.


Maybe they are [shy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArmDp-zijuc)


Consent-based data abstraction is not an attack. It is you unlocking your phone, turning on debugging, and pulling down your data.  If you didn't want to be able to access your own data, maybe carry around a brick instead.

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I dunno, nats have been pretty effective at keeping me away from the pigs.


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"Mmmmmmm"


I'm going to make a second comment, this time about the USD. While I may have moral issues with fiat currencies, and with the direction the US is going both militarily and economically and in some way socially too... I try to be dispassionate about assessing the situation. And I'm not so sure the USD is going to collapse at all.

All my life Libertarians have predicted the imminent demise of the US dollar. Every world event makes it seem closer and closer.  But Imminent has already meant 50 years and I think it could probably take another 20 years before people will generally agree that it is even starting to collapse.

US government debt carried via treasuries (27 billion) is owned mostly to other US parties, in fact 21% of debt (6.9 trillion) is owned to other agencies of the US government itself! So it is an intra-governmental accounting. 17% (5.5 trillion) is held by the Fed, which could also be considered intra-governmental in a way. After state and local government, next is to Americans: mutual funds, banks, private pension funds, insurers, and private holders (10.6 trillion as a group).  As for foreign holders, the largest is Japan at 1.1 trillion, and China is then at 834 billion.  That's about 3%.  Even if China doesn't buy US treasuries anymore, I don't think it matters much.  And if China dumps theirs it makes no difference who holds them from the US point of view... somebody buys them for China to sell them.  When the US needs to sell more, they can always sell them to the Fed (sneaky tricksters).

Of course inflation is the result, so expect it.

But how long can that happen? A long long time.  As of 2022 Japan was at 260% GDP, Greece was 2nd at 177% GDP, the US is "only" at about 120% of GDP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_debt

So yes, the world will move away from the USD, the USD will lose value over time, but I guess "collapse" isn't the term I would use because relative to a lot of other countries it will probably hold up just fine.

I expect fiat currencies to all fall together, slowly, forever, without any sudden collapses, barring those exceptional events that come from time to time.

Add to that the 10 year trend of USDCNY has been upwards, which doesn't make any sense if the USD is collapsing.

Anyhow I don't really know what I'm talking about, but all the information I've presented leads me to doubt.


OK I'm reading a bit more, I guess it's more like a modern replacement for SWIFT, the tokens not being an independent currency. Is that about right?

Crashing upwards, perhaps, but I think bitcoin will hold it's own. It has worldwide niche appeal as Internet money for the people that all attempted replacements have failed to replace.


The main trading partner of every BRICS country is China (save China themselves). I think it won't happen, this UNIT. But I also think them choosing BTC is a foolish hope. BTC couldn't handle it, not even close, despite some fundamentals you and I both like (that China doesn't care about or actively dislikes). Trades will be mostly in yuan with some amount of hedging.


Yes, yes, but it was useful. I don't like traffic. If I can trick peeps into believing NZ sucks we can keep the population down to a comfortable level.

I know more people are leaving than coming, and that is probably bad for the local economy in some ways, not really in ways that affect me much.

OMG they are burning down the farms! What a hellhole!


Yes, yes. Come visit, spend your $$$, and then please go home.


Joe Biden is seriously committed to the two-state solution.  Michigan and Pennsylvania.


I use chorus for myself and am happy with it, it is very solid and stable for me.

However it is new and I'm not aware of many people using it, so there is some risk in using something new.

But relays are easy. What could go wrong? 🤣

I think it should work for you and if it doesn't I want to know why so I can make it work for you.


Me three


Now I'm hungry for lobster


And use a different random key for the copy to yourself, else they can be coorelated.

You don't need to remember any of these keys.


Send a giftwrap copy to yourself.  You can't read the one that goes to the recipient.


I thought nostr keys were always 02.  At least that is the code I copied from other people.


Ok well if I'm going to be serious, then yes the amount of space junk currently isn't too much yet.  ABM systems that shoot down satellites might change that picture though if WW3 eventuates.  And of course I'm not going to tell Elon Musk what to do, and AFAIK he wants humanity to become a multi-planet species.  It would be awesome if it actually happens.

I'm a bit skeptical that we can do it.  Just the dust problem alone is pretty tricky, getting into the door seals and stuff.  Maybe in lava tubes there is a chance.


Joe Biden has created the following tariffs on US imports from China:

  Steel and Aluminum:   25%
  Semiconductors:   50%
  Electric Vehicles:   100%
  Solar Panels:   50%

I'm gonna gloat a little bit and say that New Zealand has a Free Trade Agreement with China.  Not everything is tariff free (milk powder sold to China has a 10% tariff) but everything I looked at importing had a 0% tariff including:    Batteries, Aluminum, Motor Vehicles, Solar Panels.

I can still buy cheap stuff.

This is my reward for enduring the Jacinda lockdowns.


In order to monetize gossip, there will be popups that you cannot dismiss like this:  "Please deposit 35 sats for the next 5 minutes."

Bwahahaaahahaahahaaa!!


You are taking my comment too seriously


Fair points. Russia is internally divided, and the US alone could win against Russia. I don't disagree.


The great thing about space junk is that it stops people from leaving.  "No Elon, you can't go live on Mars, you have to fix the mess here on Earth."