You should be able to manually add handlers by naddr or event id though, and I plan to do that too. 

 You can run multiple profiles with firefox.  That has been a thing for I think 20 years or more.  You may have to launch it with a command-line parameter, but you used to be able to have it ask which profile you want as it starts up.  

 Behold the majestic lion in it's natural habitat at the local watering hole 

 What confuses me is the upwards spike in trust around 2018. Nobody that I knew became more trusting during Russiagate. 

 You mean the keto diet foods, or the stuff I listed at the end?   I have IBS-D, so being "stopped up" is a welcome relief.  In fact they seem to cancel and so for me it makes me normal and regular. 

 I'm very familiar with Dr Greger. I have that book and I have read it.  Dr Greger's diet advice is pretty good and his work at nutritionfacts.org is a good reference.

But Dr Greger over-states the case for a pure plant-based diet. He seems to have gotten excited by feedback from his followers, driving him to overstate a number of things. Gil Carvalho (who thinks a lot like I do so I respect his view) has a fact-check on him:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjmvBFt63k   I think Gil is being overly harsh here, but it is still useful.

The diet-health-vegetarianism connection comes out of Seventh-Day Adventism which got it from Ellen G White (a women hit in the head with a rock so hard as a kid that she started having "visions"), who thought she got it from God, but probably got it from Reverend Sylvester Graham.  All of this happened before 1900 without the benefit of science.  But once people have a belief, it is hard to shake, and since SDAs were some of the first doing medical research into diet, their religious beliefs (including vegetarianism) became (unsuprisingly) the healthiest diet.

Not only is it very clear that a pure plant-based diet is deficient in a lot of things (B12, iron) but a lot of research shows that unprocessed low-saturated-fat meats are at least as healthy as grains, and the cohort of SDAs who add fish to a plant-based diet live longer than those who don't. 

 Calcification of your arteries is a good thing.  It stabilzes an atheroma making it safe.  Without the calcification, atheromas put you at risk of a cardiac event or stroke or pulminary ebolism.

The presence of calcified arteries proves you have had atheromas (generally only atheromas calcify).  Low CAC scores in old people prove they are the kind of person who probably doesn't develop atheromas at all... .and high CAC scores in young people proves they are developing them very rapidly.  However, high CAC scores in old people and low CAC scores in young people don't tell us much.  With CAC you can't see how many risky non-calcified atheromas exist, only proof that there used to be some.

I do think Americans are lead to consume too much Calcium, based on bad science around osteoperosis.  Just get sunshine and exercise and don't worry about the calcium... either way. 

 I'm aware of much you wrote there, but not all of those details.  This is well done. 

 I only disagree with that critique a little bit.

I shouldn't have said most people are good (I'm not even sure what good means) what I should have said is that most people are "mostly harmless" (as opposed to psychopathic power seekers).  Hat tip to the late Douglas Adams.

Most Israelis are not happy with Netanyahu and some 2 million are leaving or in the process of leaving because he has escalated which makes them less safe.  I'm not saying they don't want Arab blood, but they don't want to live in fear of counterattacks... which is why I had to make the next paragraph to explain that.

I don't know who you are referring to when you talk about a "Cyberattack by Space Aliens" that certainly was not me.

I agree that religion, which seems harmless at first, ends up making some people very dangerous either due to radical us-vs-them beliefs (as in this case) or radical "God forgives me so I can rape this choir boy" beliefs, or other similar unhinged things.  I instinctively don't trust religious people very much... I see it as proof of a brain malfunction.
 

 I am going to give my view of free will and quantum decoherence.

FREE WILL: Nah.

I'll start by saying that I don't believe in free will. If you say it is "the ability to make choices independent of deterministic physical laws" then I'd say that you don't have free will.  That means that I believe that every decision you ever have and will make is entirely 100% determined by the universe that came before that decision, focused in onto that outcome.  But keep in mind that it is YOU making the decision.  You were crafted by the universe before.  The universe is making the decision, the 100% fated decision, through you.  Could you have done otherwise without changing anything at all about the universe before the decision? I think not.  Therefore I believe most people will agree that I don't believe in free will.

Some people get tripped out or depressed by imagining that all their decisions are fated and think that their decisions don't matter. This is not correct. Your decisions DO matter. You have a huge number of degrees-of-freedom in determining what your decisions are going to be, and you are making those decisions. At the point of time that you make the decision, you are exactly what you are and can only make the decision one way.  But never forget that it is because of who you are. YOU are making the decision.

DECOHERENCE: disruption

As for quantum decoherence this is a lot more difficult to understand. On the easy side of the problem we have the fact that measurement causes outcomes to change, causes superpositions to decohere into single possibilities.  The double-slit experiment goes from a wave pattern to particle piles as soon as you look closely enough to gain any information about which slit the electron is going through.  This seems very weird but I think what is happening on this scale is that "looking closely" cannot be done without also "disrupting" the system. Any disruption will cause decoherence, it doesn't have to be "looking".

OBSERVATION:

On the hard side of the problem, whether decoherence happens or not seems to be tied into whether the observer is entanged with the system or not, which is to say you may have entangled observers that see superpositions while external observers see exact outcomes.

My explanation of this is wild and might be distrubing so please have alcohol at the ready if you need it.

POSSIBILITY SPACE:

I don't believe there is a physical univerese. It was always weird to me to think that there was Plato's heaven (numbers, math, concepts, probability, etc) and also a physical universe where the math could be used to describe the physics.  Why are things like this?  It is weird.

I think things are actually simpler.  Without a physical universe... if all that exists is math, concept, possibility... than what we think is a physical universe is really just one possibility within the mathematical set of all possibilities.  And so every moment we find ourselves in some point in possibility space.  That space is much larger than space-time.  Instead of a single space-time, there are infinite possible spacetimes.  Every universe that could exist (remember, even in Plato's heaven, possibilities must be self-consistant) does exist in some place in the possibility space.

So that leads to the question of why there seems to be a physical universe, why we seem to be at one point in the possibility space, which swings the question around to consciousness.

CONSCIOUSNESS:

We feel like we are moving through time. But we only exist at a single precise point in time.  Our feelings of past, our memories, exist right now as we recall them.  There may not have even been a past.  The very consistent progression of time as memories that the human animal experiences.  Your consciousness inhabits that possibility point.

Imagine if your consciousness is jumping between different people, different planets, different animals.  You would not be able to tell.  In each instant you would experence only what that animal is experiencing including it's memories at that possibility point.

And so I don't think time exists except as a causal dimension of possiblity space.

GOD:

I like to think of a single God inhabiting all possibilties.  That is our consciousness. In everything, everywhere, all the time, in all possibilities.  You are God inhabiting a human animal at a specific point in possibility space.

I'm an Animist.
 

 Depends on the code not the author. 

 There are three kinds of people:
* Those who say "bombs" (normal people)
* Those who say "munitions" (policy people)
* Those who say "ordinance" (military people) 

 For example, Israel has not won the war in Gaza.  Gaza could choose to lose the war, but barring that, the war continues.  Nobody can choose to win a war, it only happens when the other side chooses to lose. 

 Great prediction! 

 I'm unpredictable 

 Well without blue cheese it is still 90%.  The horseradish is more important. 

 😁 ... and I'm issuing a new crypto token called the Ishitako!  Just send me 1 BTC and I'll send you 1000 Ishitako!  😁

😂 

 Yes yes, you are Satoshi.  Thank you. 

 I have no idea.  They pop into my head and if I think they are funny or interesting enough I type them into nostr, usually fresh without a lot of consideration.

All comedians test their jokes, but I think Norm was willing to test things other comedians would be too afraid to try.  And much of the humor was at how ridiculous and daring he was to say something so ridiculous. 

 Did you do https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1091 or something else? 

 https://i.nostr.build/iXh06FVdzIs0e5Bx.jpg 

 I guess I form an nevent from the event that I don't understand... and I don't ever need to use the other ones. 

 Oh right.  I could do naddr too.

I think npub, nprofile, and note (I would use nevent instead) don't need app handlers so I'll just do nevent if not replaceable and naddr if replaceable. 

 It is the bow, damnit!  I spent a whole minute tying that bow making sure the ribbon stayed flat and didn't fold over itself! 

 And to your dismay, it is the first thin people throw away 

 charcoal + magnesium ftw 

 I might try that.

Charcoal and magnesium smells like .... like nothing.  Somehow it kills the bacteria that produce smell. 

 ^^^ This message came from the real ODELL. Cryptography can't be faked. ^^^ 

 You got this man. 

 I don't think either side will cease to exist. And I don't think they can live intermixed given how extreme the cultures have become.  So there needs to be a thick DMZ between them policed by a 3rd party.  Either that or eternal violence, which is actualy still most likely.  But events often suprise us all... maybe the Israelis will all disperse after seeing how unsafe they actually have made themselves by pissing off everybody they could possibly piss off. 

 People call cellar spiders daddy long-legs too.  But they are different from the daddy long-legs spiders that show up en mass and have rounder bodies.  And yes crane flies too get that name.  Three species at least with the same nickname. 

 First of all, did you mean to type "an Iranian" or "I'm Iranian"?  "am Iranian" is meaningless. 

 The USA does gender transition surgeries without letting the parents be involved, and they don't help their natural disaster victims.  Should we bomb the USA to smithereens to liberate it's people while killing it's people? 

 I have read several long books on Iran. That doesn't make me an expert. But the anti-Iran sentiment being whipped up in the West... I know propaganda when I see it. 

 Cool.  It was an interesting fact, one that I didn't know.  Check this out:  https://ariamedtour.com/procedures/gender-reassignment/ 

 I'm playing to the American Republican, influenced by the Tommy Robinson stories of British muslim immigrants rape gangs in the UK that many American conservatives believe (I remain undecided) in order to make a point.  Sorry if I offended you.  I often take other people's assumptions to make points harder for them to argue against, and I don't really worry about the implication that it has on what people think of me (I don't care much about me, I care about the innocent).

But do you not believe that women are at risk of rape, whereas men are not?  As a man I have zero fear of being raped.

My point was to put the "horrific things that Iran inflicts on its people" into perspective.  Enforcing a hijab rule is bad, and I'm against it, but it is not something that the world goes in and bombs the Islamic regime in order to liberate people from.... when they won't bomb Israel to liberate Palestine from wonton slaughter.  If I were a woman in Islam, I'd put up with the hijab right now because Israel is about to collapse and I would not want to detract from that important geopolitical effort. 

 Yes the conspiracy theories have proven true. Israel has fully infiltrated and controls the US government. It fully inflitrated and demolished Hezbollah leadership. They are sneaky little buggers.

But more and more countries are seeing the truth of this, and more and more are aligning against Israel. Russia is taking action. Saudi Arabia is defending Iran by refusing to allow attacks from their soil. Attacks from the resistance are making a difference in Israel but they have a media blackout to hide this.  Their bonds have fallen to (or are about to) fall to junk status.  Their economy is in the toilet.  Many countries refuse to export to them, and many that still do can't get goods in because of the Houthis.

I think we are on the edge of a major historic transition. I think the plan to rule the world, to make a single world government with absolute power, is collapsing all around them.

And to be clear... it is not the Jews.  It is not the Zionists (that just means people who want a state of Israel to exist).  It is not the deep state or the blob.  It is a group of powerful individuals that remain nameless and behind the scenes, that happen to use Israel and the USA and happen to include a lot of Jewish people.  But we can call it zog for short. 

 Yeah... nah.  I don't believe that.  Does not pass the smell test. 

 Well that paper is very inclusive, and recognizes the cultural construction of gender (red flag).

I'd say that yes men get raped in war by other men (rarely though, who the fuck does that?), and men get raped by other men (gay ones) in peace from time to time, especially weak men by strong men.  And very rarely a woman rapes a man.  But I just don't think 30% properly accounts for all the rapes of women that go unreported.  It doesn't smell right.  I have no special knowledge here though. 

 I can't say for sure but my theory is that Israeli culture is sadistic and supremacist as a result of abuse by the Nazis, in the same way that an abused child becomes an abuser when he grows up.  And that historic issues that people had with Jews (surrounding pogroms and such) were for other reasons that I will elide due to irrelevance to this conversational point. 

 You have said it better I admit. I was just reaching for some name, since 'clique' outside of context doesn't mean much. I honestly have little understanding of the word I used, I never trafficked in that conspiracy theory, but on the surface level knowlege it seemed apt. 

 It may or may not be true, but I would avoid critiqing Judiasm as it invites personal attacks that distract from the effort to save lives in the middle east.  I want a new term for the bad guys that doesn't get misinterpreted as being "the Jews" or "the CIA" or "the blob" or "Zionists".  Everybody seems to be hating on Zionists but I would venture to guess that many Zionists don't want to slaughter innocent people, they just want a Jewish homeland.  Zog is wrong because it implicates all of them.

The fact that they cannot be named is their greatest defense. Frustrating. 

 The bad guys have captured the Israeli government. But the bad guys have captured the American government too.  And many individuals you mention either are the bad guys or are blackmailed by the bad guys.  But there is no term for what is behind it.

The alternative theory to most conspiracy theories is "parallel action".. that is, a bunch of people with similar alignment acting independently.  But I reckon that can't explain all that we've seen. 

 Far too organized.  How could you explain all the news agencies giving us the same story slants all the time?  Only organisation explains it.  How can you explain how so many criminals (Epstein, Clinton, etc) don't get prosecuted?  Organization and blackmail.  It can't be explained just by every-day corruption or even similar people with similar views doing similar things. 

 Wow, I like Israel Shahak.  What a great book I have now. 

 Yes I think so too. From within Israeli government. I'm just trying to distinguish between the baddies and other people within that government who aren't baddies. Because I reject collective guilt and collective punishment.

Most of their control comes from power-seeking behavior seeking to be a regional hegemon, and they are very effective at what they put their minds to for various reasons. But their biggest mistake is thinking non-Jews are only tools and don't matter, because they cannot hide that belief their actions belie it, and it sets the whole world against them. 

 If you mean that the holocaust was not all about killing the Jews, but about making space for the Germans, I have heard this.  Killing the Jews was a big part of what happened in either case. 

 There are alignments between two factions that came together for common cause in the 1990s, the secular hegemonic and the religious ideological.  The athiest secular Jews pushing for hegemony utilize the religious ideological ideas because it serves their ends. 

 I'm not confusing anything. I think you are missing context. I agree with almost everything you are saying. Let me catch you up to date.

For along time Tommy Robinson in the UK has been trying to "break open" a supressed news story, that every violent sex crime that occurs, especially where there is name supression so that you cannot double-check if he is right or not, he says things like... "it was those damn muslim immigrants! In that culture, rape gangs go around raping women. It's alloweed by Sharia law"..  and other bullshit like that. Tommy Robinson is an asset of Mossad. And he has the ear of a lot of American conservatives who believe him.

This is a form of argumentation where I adopt the position of somebody and then use their own beliefs to show them something they didn't see.... it doesn't mean that *I* actually hold their beliefs.  But at this point I regret posting the misunderstood post entirely because it was without context as a top-level post.  I'm sorry.

Second point of context:  Bibi Netanyahu addressed the people of Iran, claiming he was liberating them:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLCbo4Zyfyk

It is laughable. Do not believe him.  He thinks you "Persians" need water and sewerage. Sounds like he thinks you are primitive animals. And he thinks you are dumb enough to believe what he is saying. But Israel wants to be the local hegemon and Iran is the only country threatening their regional power... he has wanted to take it down for 25 years now.

When you say "the us and israel aren't planning to bomb Iran to support women’s rights" I 100% agree.

"there's no global muslim entity that decides whether muslim women should wear the hijab or not"  -- you aren't teaching me something I didn't know. I'm not sure where you go the idea that I thought such a thing.  Oh... I see I mistyped Islam where I meant to type Iran.  That was not what I meant to type.

The only way women's rights have anything to do with Gaza is that political bad actors are trying to manufacture consent to go to war with Iran... and they will use anything they can in order to win people's consent and acceptance of such a war... and they will badmouth Iran every way they can to make people mad at Iran so that they support such a war.. And one topic that keeps coming up is "Iran makes women wear a hijab! How terrible! Some women have been killed for taking it off!  Let's go to war and free them!"  .. which is nuts for two reasons:  The famous case of a woman severely punished for not wearing a hijab was an outlyer news story, not run of the mill.... women in Tehran often don't wear the hijab... and second because clearly that is not why the US/Israel wants war with Iran, it is just a lie.

So we agree. 

 What happens to my brain?!? 🤯 

 No cravings. I feel satisfied when I eat. I have steady energy. And no symptoms of 'keto flu'.  I think I already was a better butter burner than most people as my diet has been fairly high fat for a long time. 

 It was fake news.  But judging by the fact that everybody reacted positively to it, I think it is now clearly socially acceptable to beat the guy up. 

 I do that with different Unix accounts. But you could just use GOSSIP_PROFILE or GOSSIP_DIR to point to a different data dir or profile name.  Env cars. 

 It should be working.  It gets the env variable and makes that a subdirectory of your gossip dir. Then it starts a new database in the subdirectory.

There are a few cases it might print an error (watch for errors at startup) like "cache" (reserved) or anything with a "/" in it or otherwise is not a simple directory name.

Make sure the env variable is getting passed to the gossip process either by exporting it from your shell (e.g. export GOSSIP_DIR=blah) or typing it on the same command line as gossip (e.g. GOSSIP_DIR=blah ./target/release/gossip) 

 Huh, yeah, I can't get it to load either. 

 On this page, under the subheading "The Gossip Model", I list all the strategies gossip was using before NIP-65 came about.  It still uses all of that.
https://mikedilger.com/gossip-model/