Repression 🙄


npub?


#foodstr

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#cashu #enuts #ecash idea:
Encode the token into a generated icon/image similar to robosats avatars or github default avatars based on the ecash token signature. The token itself can be stored in the EXIF data. This way one can visually differentiate one token from another.


Can a slave ever give so much to his master that he has earned his freedom?

The government will never blush at how much it extracts from us.


How do you know if a philosopher is gay?

If everywhere he looks he fallacy


Hay boi, are you gay? Lets hang out, I have a fridge full of bud light


How did this adam troll find you?


Tell me more!


GM #coffeechain


3 weeks!!! 3 weeks until the weekend of your life, when you can find your tribe and build that community in your own backyard.

https://selfreliancefestival.com

#SelfRelianceFestival #SRF #FindYourTribe #HaveNoFear #Prepping #Firearms #Chickens #Sewing #LockPicking #Trapping #PovertyMindset #GetShitDone

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The part controlled by the CIA


Why dont you like gossip?


Doesen't bother me


Thats what she said


Do you mean the "edits" would be diffs against the original post? Because if so, none of the history is lost and the client can let the reader see older versions through an interface extension (if the client supports it). A diff format (last update note1xxx + diff) could potentially be backwards compatible with clients that don't support applying the diffs and the timeline could show the old post as edited again as a fresh note (similar to a repost).


That is the way


Hey Joe, bitcoin isn't for you.


Well it’s official sometime Sunday night I hit 10k subs on YouTube.  Thanks for everyone who have taken this from a hobby to a full time gig.  I truly love the Workshop Community https://image.nostr.build/e7e9da9c7e2f59cdfc9d1f2edf68e14c945c57adaa7b1893f9078b505fa9691a.png


Russia?


Would be better if it were posted to nostr


Seriously, if she doesen't want to hear about it then its not for her. And neither are you.


We dodged a bullet with Pence.


Why? She is obviously vain.


We used to believe nuts were healthy. We would consume peanuts, walnuts, almonds by the fistfulls. The wife heard peanutbutter was bad, even if it was natural. The reasoning was all wrong, something about mould. So she switched to almond butter. Almond butter jars by the week, almondbutter everything.
But guess what? It changed nothing.

PUFAs & lineoleic acid, this was the secret.
Inflamation is gone.
#foodstr


A lesson on honor:
There are farmers with public pantries. There are no people, no cameras, no cash register, no vending machines, not even a locking door handle. Just a glass jar on the table next to boxes of vegetables amd freezers full of meat.
There was a time, when people transacted in cash. They used coins, paper, even traded without money. But they still reported their income to the state to be taxed.
The logic was simple: The people formed a government, they elected a person from their community to represent them. The representation was two ways, the legislator would tell them why decisions had to be made, and whether the government was honest. For the most part it was; for a time. People honored this arrangement, and their legislator acted on their behalf. This allowed men to honor their word, one where their legislator legitimately negotiated on their behalf and both the citizen's word could be honored and the government would honor their responsibility to not abuse the power granted to them.

But this is not a world we know today.

Today, everything anyone does is tracked. Every paycheck, every credit card transaction, every cash withdrawl record is harvested by the government. This information is naturally used against you. If you don't report your taxes properly, or you don't pay them fast enough, they destroy you. There is no trust, and there is no honor.
The government has become a rigid, soulless bureaucratic panopticon, laying in wait to consume anyone that dare step foot into its traps. The people have no more reason to honor their government's edicts, their represtatives have no connection, accountability, nor respect for those who entrust them with the power they are granted.  It is now a prize to sieze the runners of government, not a responsibility. Men have lost control, and all connection to its reigns. Honor is lost, and we are relegated to bondage.

The government teaches children to fear their rights. We must teach our children how to live without fear and bondage. We do this by showing them the truth that #bitcoin reveals.


GN 🐿🧄🫂☕


I'm teaching the kids about chaumian ecash. This is less an exercise of teaching bitcoin, but of understanding how paper bank notes came to swindle the people of their hard money. Its this lesson one must understand in order to fully know what an ecash token represents. The bitcoin is custodied by the mint, and anonymonity only works when many people use the same mint. The caveat is the tokens are only as good as the cuatodian of the mint. This is why you either want to be your own mint, or you want to redeem your tokens for sats no later than you believe the mint has enough outbound lightning liquidity to make good on the tokens.
#bitcoin #teachingbitcoin #grownostr #cashu #ecash #enuts


GM freed nostricans!

#Bitcoin lets us live a life free of government.
Refuse every government program, don't accept anything the government calls "free". Pay your taxes. Don't take "child credits" because it's to trap your children into the system. This is NOT a refund, its payment for the lifeblood of your child.
Accept that you have been sacrificed by your parents, do not continue the cycle of death and bondage. Once you sign your child up for a "Social Security" number, you are condemning them to be the slave you are. I say this with conviction, none of my children have social security numbers.

When your child is born, whether in a hospital or by a midwife at home, the beast is there ready to devour your child upon its first breath:
* Do not check the box, or sign the request on your child's birth certificate requesting a social security number.
* Do not permit them to sample your child's blood for the "PKU" test. The state cryogenitically stores it indefinately and registers your child's DNA into a state database. One originally designed to track felons.
* Refuse the infant hearing test administered by the hospital or licensed midwife. It is reported to the state for tracking, and they have made a law permitting them to intrude on your child's medical privacy if you allow them to perform this test.

There are many private alternatives to anything done by the state, do not be motivated by a fear campaign. Do not be lead by guilt. If you are struck by fear or guilt, this is a sign of the beast knocking on your door.

“...Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich...” (Genesis 14:22-23, KJV)

“...the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.” (Revelation of John 12:4, KJV)

#coffeechain


nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n unlocked the school-shooting psyop.

Regardless of the motivations of the original columbine event, the successive fear campaign around school shootings was confusing to me.
In episode 3372 of TSP, Jack almost accidently unravels the web of lies. We think the reasoning behind media hype behind school shootings is to effect change TODAY. That TOMORROW they will knock on your door and tell you to hand 'em over. Thats not it all. Its more devious and much more evil than that.

We must accept the fact the government, media, schools, and even some parents have no interest in protecting children. To them, children are a means to their ends. Children are pawns on the board, ones left defenseless by defeated men and single mothers.

The REAL reason for the "school shooting epidemic" is to strike fear into the minds of the CHILDREN. They teach the children to live in fear that any moment someone could walk down the hall and perform a massacre, and its all solely because of guns. Just like they did nuclear bomb drills in the schools in the 70s and 80s to strike fear in genX against Russia and "nuclear proliferation," they are building concensus in the next generation to surrender their rights to the totalitarian.

Get the fuck out of the cities, they are insanity factories.
Men, let your wives stay home and raise your children.
Homeschool at all costs.
Learn and teach the 6 pillars of self reliance: Water, Food,  Shelter, Energy, Sanitation & Defense.

#grownostr


💧don’t ignore the symptoms 💧
💧💧💧is ur mouth dry?💧💧💧
💧my fren I’ve got the solution💧
💧💧💧💧💧4 U💧💧💧💧💧
       💧W💧A💧T💧E💧R https://i.nostr.build/XMRB.jpg


You assume more than what I suggest. I am in favor of proof of citizenship issued by your state in the form of a birth certificate, but a SSN has no influence over that. I also recommend you get them a state issued ID card so they have two forms of ID required for almost anything (if youre a legal citizen). There is a form you can fill out for them before they are of age that enables this, and it is more difficult after they are 18. One can live off of bitcoin today, its not that difficult, it can be done. To not get your a child a SSN is not bearing a burden on them, they can sign up for it any time. The burden is on YOU to inform them how to take advantage of their freedom.


Strange shadow


NY Central Park. 🧡
#bitcoin nostr:npub12gxr5m6kh2frtq7vmklpjlsheqg0ps7unmhr37gn3algcs7eds2s39cz45 https://image.nostr.build/3c52d19689a1266cda88f43604d7cfcef5c4936e67fc639bbb2b1f95b46ee3bd.jpg


if every german would run 1TH/s which is about 30 watts
which is 30W x 24h = 720Watts per day (30 cent crap bucks)

germans would mine one of six blocks!

we are very very very early


Its not about the number; its about the contract you sign with the devil. Of course its easier to use the system, but its completely unnecessary for them until they are old enough to become an employee. In the meantime a parent has time to collect the information to their child's benefit. There are alternative ways to exist in the country without being a SSA slave, and if it means 17% of your child's lifetime of labor, one should consider educating them of ways to avoid it.
We can't be held responsible for ignorance, I don't blame you for not understanding it when the time came for your decision. It was more difficult to exist outside the machine before #bitcoin, but its becoming easier; No more need for bank accounts. Educate your wives, they need to be equally yoked with you on this effort.
I'm not writing to inflict guilt, but to educate those that have the opportunity to effect real change directly in your children's lives.


GN #plebchain


"Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs." - Thomas Jeffersom

Bank-paper (bank-notes) is how the great swindle was possible and is the foundation upon which the Federal Reserve was built. Without bank-notes, fractional reserve is impossible, and consequently so is "money elasticity" and inflation. Inflation is the means by which the abundance produced by the saints (Rev 17:6) is siphoned to concentrate power onto Wallstreet and consequently finance wars. These are the bricks in the road to eternal war. There is no regulation that will change it, only ossify it.

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Gm Nostr!

We are working on the new DISCOVER Page for our users.

It presents a collection of lightning apps in the web that you can use with Alby, similar to the one already available at >Discover tab in our extension... but better 😉

💡 What are we missing?
💡 What bitcoin-powered project should we include there?

Check out our draft and let us know in comments! 👉https://getalby.com/discover

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Osnt there something about the cantellon effect and golden showers?


Live free and prosper


The Milley-tary industrial complex panders to whichever side is gullible enough to let them have a blank check. Could it be all the pink-haired memes and pro-trans anti-white machinations of the past many years, is nothing more than positioning? They managed to focus their ire against the peacekeepers in our cities while weaving sheep's clothing for the very people whose job is to kill indiscriminately.

High finance did this. The Big Club all understands how this works.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/milley-stoltenberg-agree-we-must-prepare-ourselves-long-war-ukraine


High finance


Less seed oils


When cashu nutcasting on nostr?


Does this mean someone has wind of the fed lowering rates?


Its all carbs


Free your mind.
Stop watching the news.
#freeassange


*poof* now you're breakfast


#hashtag free #assange


#assange is a monument to our surrender to totalitarianism


Let's be honest, we failed Assange, and our generation will always have to live with it.

We were not ready for real journalism.
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Who should be our next president?


For aspiring bullrider toddlers


The penis mightier than the sword.

#penisbutter


https://image.nostr.build/d0aa59fee9d03d6548a68ee84637aa7ed9decbd13b0f641f03b9111cd4f67b8d.jpg

#penisbutter


#penisbutter

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The mexican alien looks just like an overdue infant that didnt survive after being birthed
#UFOs #aliens #theyarelyingtous


Too many messenger concentrators too. Trillian was an example of that. Today most boomers are hopeless when it comes to messengers, if its not preinstalled its not going to happen. I know plenty X-rs that are the same way and they have no excuse. They're even worse, if it ain't apple, or some chinese crap to talk to their india and brazil team, theres no chance. They're of the attitude "if its more secure, that sounds scary. I dont want to look abnormal." These people live in places when if they don't edge the lawn including at the curb, the HOA sends them a fine. Apple tree? Would never dare such a violation. Its these dickholes that force us to keep using SMS, teams, cisco, wechat, fb mess, and fifteen others, none of which include signal, pgp, matrix, xmpp/omemo, etc. I'm afraid there is yet another politicial divide coming. One between self sovereign people, and the bleeting hordes.


GM live long and prosper


WATCH: The time when BBC prematurely reported the collapse of WTC 7, around 20 minutes prior to the actual event? #911 https://video.nostr.build/c85284efc6954b4b265f26a90aba89d44a83bd656279cbbe34411a3529b81575.mov


Every day is father's day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK0gyMNAlQM


Paper money came into being because of trust.
That works well until those that have trust can no longer be trusted.
The problem is people are easily fooled


He is also one of the few that arent fucking retarded


This is why most attorneys general are leftist statists. The elections are rigged becaise they are the most strategic placements. Without a good state attorney general, peoples' human rights are trampled.


Congrats!


Can someone make a realistic AI of the governor standing on the gallows waiting to be executed by the mob?


Nixon is treated like Hitler-light becaise he got on the wrong side of the IC and the MIC. The only reason the pedo Regan still is worshiped is he was a deep state swamp creature like Obama and everybody else you can guess.


It should be casting, as in casting nuts like a squirrel


You presume churches are for christians


Its not republicans v.s. democrats in washington, its homos v.s. pedos. Prove me wrong.


If its too serious and good production, then after they start going at it, youd probably either laugh hysterically or be pissed that the plot was ruined by the nonsequitor.


What is a better name for a wallet if its for cashu tokens? A nutsack?


Hi calle, any chance you have a list of cashu mints that are reputible and have reliable outbound liquidity?


An IOU?


I found when I did the "check proofs" it fixed up my wallet. Very cool!


Failing means youre trying. If you never try then you never win.


Calle, i just installed eNuts. Its f'n kickass. I just found a bug when using it with lnbits cashu.
 If you make a backup token inside enuts, save it off somewhere, then come back to enuts, it will ask you if you want to redeem the token. If you do, the full balance of your cashu wallet will double.


Cashu has one bitcoin wallet in charge of the lightning node.
Fedimint has a lightning node requiring multiple wallet keys (multisig) to withdraw onchain funds.
The ecash system is largely the same betweem fedi and cashu.
They are both mints. They both "mint" redemption certificates (chaumian blind signature ecash). Neither can provide a cryptographic guarantee that there is actually bitcoin "on reserve" at the mint, or that your ecash is backed by actual bitcoin. This is why fedimints exist, so it takes a concensus of custodians to drain the actual bitcoin the certificates represent.
Ecash certificates are only redeemable at the mint where they were issued. Think of it as a money order that's only good at the bank that issued it.
If the mint's lightning node doesen't have lightning channels open, or outbound lightning liquidity, then the only way you can redeem your ecash certificates for bitcoin (if the "bill" is on someone else's mint) is to ask the node operator to send onchain bitcoin to your personal bitcoin wallet address.
The only other way to use the ecash is to send them to someone else that has an "account" at the mint where the ecash was issued.


The constitution is the DNA of the beast.
The beast has not followed the constitution in various ways since its beginning.
The beast has a weakened immune system.
Politicians are viruses, the people are the bone marrow.

The more the beast changes its rules, the more cancerous the beast becomes.
The beast is bloated, its mind is infected and tumerous.
The beast is becoming more violent and more dangerous, like a dog with rabies.

Will we slice out its tumors?
Can the beast be cured?
Or will we kill the beast before it kills all of us?

#bitcoin fixes this


Cashu is like anonymous bank notes, but the bank is your lighting node, and they are redeemable for bitcoin.


GN plebs.
Libertas per veritatem


GM nostr ☕


Dust has finally settled on the “Primal censorship” drama. That’s good to see, but I don’t want to sweep this episode under the rug. It is probably appropriate to do a post mortem, assess what has happened and see what we can learn. Let’s make sure that Nostr is a better place after this episode.

Two weeks ago, Primal’s trending algorithm was attacked by bots. The attacker generated hundreds of thousands of reactions, propping his note to the top of our trending feed. At the time, our only defence was a simple “can’t trend” list, so we put the attacker on it. He immediately posted on Nostr, accusing us of censorship, but his note never took off. The attacker then selected a few well liked Nostr accounts and started stuffing the ballot box for them. We saw a bunch of bogus notes with massive bot engagement, so we resorted to the only blunt tool we had. The attacker jumped on the opportunity to publicize the fact that some well liked accounts were being suppressed on Primal and accused us of “shadowbanning”. The whole thing exploded on Nostr.

What followed was a pretty tough week for Primal. Many of our users turned against us. They took the idea of shadowbanning seriously, as they should. Most feedback was in good spirits, people making fun of Primal via memes. But we also got a fair bit of hate from complete strangers, which was super-weird. All in all, Nostr users were clear about what they think of censorship. This was the Nostr immune system reacting. Being on the receiving end of it really sucked, but still it’s beautiful to see!

The crazy part is that those “shadowbanned” accounts were actually perfectly visible throughout the entire Primal site. They had *exactly* the same level of visibility as they do on Damus, Snort, Coracle, and other Nostr clients. They just couldn’t show up in our trending bar. I tried to explain, but there was little room for nuance with the drama in full swing.

So we decided to disengage temporarily, focus on building, and let our product do the talking. We made our trending algorithm more resistant to bots and removed everyone from the “can’t trend” list. We also built a new content moderation system for Nostr, giving complete control to the user. This is our best take on how to do content moderation on such a radically open network. I cover the features and our reasoning in my blog post below.

So Primal is strictly a better product after this episode. But what about Nostr itself?

Attacks can be useful. While they disrupt our systems and really suck for us and our users, they do force us to improve and become more competent at operating in an adversarial environment. However, we should be careful about making it socially acceptable for Nostr devs to attack other projects in broad daylight. That’s not the most productive way to collaborate. It also creates weird vibes which I think we don’t want here. Nostr is in its infancy and the way we act will set the tone for things to come. There is so much to build and we are all working as fast as we can. At Primal we build open source software and run services for Nostr. If you don’t like the way something works, fork it and do your own thing. If you want to contribute, we accept PRs. If you have found a vulnerability, there are multiple good ways to disclose it.

As for Nostr users, I think you all reacted perfectly. Push back hard at any whiff of censorship. When in doubt, mercilessly create memes, point out things that are wrong, and don’t let up. Even if the target is Primal.

If Primal is real, it can stand the pressure. 🤙💜

https://habla.news/u/miljan@primal.net/1693416828339


#yomamasofiat she stood in line at a bitcoin convention to get nostr:npub1ftrnkvl0hdud65yacyvcn6sx2w7lfztdp2957wp344dcc9s3yf8qm56ykf to autograph her bottle of soybean oil


#yomamasofiat she said cold storage is where they have the real documents of what happened to JFK


#yomamasofiat she thinks offchain is how she got that sappy email your aunt forwarded to her.


Like bitcoin, you can't see it until you step outside the fiat frame.


BUILD THE WALL

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/59c1daee617fca71895af4cd6d3bb4fd425252bbe6875004296c09df73230ada.jpg


California patch method,
Lath backing method,
Woven fibreglass tape method,
Hole drill rig method,
Stud-2-stud method.

Not to mention proper tools to sand dried spackle (screen sanding), proper types of spackle (dont use lightweight spackle, use latex joint compound), that priming is necessary (or the paint will peel off,) etc etc


So much for 82F high today. It was a perfect 75!


This would never be allowed in corruporate america. Lol


How so? Welfare money for the most part comes directly from the federal budget, which for the most part is created with government taking out loans to cover the budget. They are also the worst kind of loans, ones with principal that will never be paid and this contributes directly to inflation. This mechanism is no different than government contractors, accepting at least the contractors develop technology on the back of inflation. The best we can say welfare produces is more population, though not enough to sustain prosperity.


Welfare for the poor has as much cantillion effect as welfare for the rich. In both cases, it uses fiat money creation to leech from the productive and unbinds cultural regulation of ethics.


Is anyone watching this group?


Sharing is an act of charity. Charity is a form of love. Forced love is called rape.


Principles to live by! #memes #meme

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An eagle fitted with a camera flying 🦅

📍Neuschwanstein Castle in southwest Bavaria - Germany 🇩🇪

https://nostr.build/av/35f54ecbb56be31c4cbe501480e2a67d1a2b53ae22083e5ad760ebfbea2ecb01.mp4

#nostr #nostrich #nostriches #nostrichs #amethyst #plebs #pleb #plebchain #coffee #coffeechain


Thats totally me and it wasnt that hard to find someone the opposite of that mess


good morning nostr, distractions everywhere, important to remain focused 🫡


They are all limbs of the same beast


Its like a street address when you live on a road that doesn't have a name or a number. Its so the fire department can find your building after its burnt to the ground.


Yes, your alby wallet URL will look like:

lndhub://abcd..jklm:nopq...wxyz@https://ln.getalby.com


I hear admitting you feel stupid is a faux pas


Alan Greenspan was specifically tasked with bringing down the ‘Internet Bubble’ in the stock market by draining liquidity in early 2000.

When AOL bought Time Warner it rocked the fiat landlords of America.
A virtual pleb had amassed enough stock-value to takeover a major corporate-controlled media company. They suddenly realized that every aspect of corporate bedrock was vulnerable to the Internet Revolution.

The “ruling elite” realized they were all at risk of losing their decades-long interpersonnally-networked status to a bunch of nerd plebs who were middle-class just a few years ago.

I was there as a young investment professional, and looking back a couple years later it was all very clear to me that while the ‘internet bubble’ was definitely a bubble…the bursting of it was an organized attack on young nobodies usurping the reigns of corporate power from the old guard.  They definitely (in my opinion) tasked Alan Greenspan’s Fed with breaking this bubble, draining the investment liquidity they were awash in, and starving the first wave of these new technological Mongols at the Gates.

After this…we saw a wave of corporate money come into owning and controlling the Internet, in slow, methodical manner.


Learning Latin
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For the past 2 years, I've been learning Latin. I’m reading, I’m memorizing, and I’m writing down noun declensions like a madman.

I'm 46 years old, way past the age when people normally learn new languages. I’m also not one of those polyglots that learns a new language every couple of years. Nor am I a masochist who enjoys reading slowly, so why am I doing it?

There are three reasons I am learning Latin.

Becoming a Respectable Intellectual
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The first reason is that I have a bit of intellectual snobbery that I’m trying to reclaim. Back in high school, I desperately wanted to learn Latin because it was the language of science. Being the math geek that I am, I wanted to learn something that would help me understand fancy Latin phrases like a priori and Carthago delenda est. Sure, I wouldn’t be any more popular, but at least I could pretend to have some superiority over the actual popular kids.

Sadly, my high school didn't offer Latin, and my dreams of being that annoying geek wielding Latin would have to be set aside. Instead, I had to settle for being that annoying geek wielding a chess board, a keyboard, and Magic the Gathering cards. Lacking the option of learning Latin, I spent 4 years learning Spanish and settled for learning pop culture phrases like gordito and la vida loca.

Frankly, I don’t remember much of it because the motivation to learn Spanish just wasn't there. I was a geek that dreamed of getting into MIT! I wanted to be a math professor or a computer programmer. Spanish just didn’t feel like something I needed as it didn’t give me any advantage in what I wanted to do. Latin, on the other hand, was something I could use! Everyone knows that the winner of any philosophical argument is the one using the cooler Latin phrase.

Absorbing Ancient Wisdom
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The second reason is because Latin is the language of the Romans. These were some badass people who came, saw and conquered (veni, vedi, vici). They were also Stoics, whose motto was memento mori, or remember that you will die. They had courage, enjoyed life and kicked ass. Who wouldn’t want to be like them? Yet learning to be like them is not so easy, especially since so many of their works are ancient and their mentality is so foreign to the modern mind. Learning Latin is a way into that mentality. To understand why, indulge me in a brief digression.

I'm a Korean-American immigrant and that means I know two languages… sort of. I immigrated when I was 8 years old, so my Korean is still that of a second grader. I’m pretty embarrassed to speak it, but I have some familiarity with a language quite different than English.

The weird thing is, I think very differently when I think in Korean. It’s especially true when I interact with older Korean people. I suddenly defer to elders, take care of anyone younger and politely but firmly fight for the restaurant check. None of this is normal when I’m thinking in English. Language shapes mentality.

Latin has been the language of intellectual culture for the better part of the last 2000 years. Some of the greatest thinkers thought in Latin. Translated works are notorious for their awkward phrasing. Historical works are also pretty hard to read because they’re written with unfamiliar words. Trying to understand a historical translated work is like trying to understand that guy on Zoom who’s driving through a tunnel. How am I supposed to be a badass Stoic if their words come through garbled?

An Alternative to Pop Culture
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The third reason that I want to learn Latin is because I’m tired of pop culture. Yea, yea, it’s such a hipster thing to say, but hear me out. Pop culture is getting really preachy. Every time I watch a movie or listen to a song, I feel like a racist, homophobic, misogynist pig.

Pop culture has a lot of assumptions baked into it about what the right thing to think is, and to be quite frank, I don’t agree with all of it. I want art that’s more aligned with my values. I’m a Christian, so you may think that I listen to contemporary Christian music or watch Christian movies. I don’t, because they (mostly) suck. Okay, that’s harsh and not very charitable of me, but I just don’t enjoy them the way someone into electronic dance music enjoys a rave. Trying to find art to consume in today’s culture is mulgere hircum or milking a male goat.

Latin gives me access to classics that have withstood the test of time. Most pop stuff will not be popular in 5 years, let alone 50. With Latin, I can access books, music, and art that are hundreds of years old. There’s timeless wisdom in something that’s managed to last that long. Latin is a gateway to another culture, one whose values more closely align with mine and I can bathe in its ancient riches like Scrooge McDuck.

At least that’s the hope. And that makes memorizing noun declensions worthwhile.


The virgin Mary?


The molten core is a liquid nuclear fission reaction at equilibrium.
Hurricanes are caused by magnetic fluctuations in the earth's field due to nickel and iron spires in the magma, and the weather patterns follow these magnetic concentrations.


The Sahara desert is from over-farming by the ancient Egyptians 30,000 years ago, and the great pyramid is a fission powered ammonia generator. The arc of the covenant was a stolen nuclear fission core, and the only reason humans think gold is valuable is it was written into our DNA by the Nephilim so we would mine it out of the ground for their various practical usages such as shielding for advanced propulsion and weapons. They left the earth to us after we had mined the majority of the gold.


Torbrowser is a Firefox build. Alby supports Firefox. AFAIK you don't need an email for a getalby wallet but I might be wrong about that. Another option is to use a custodial lnbits like legend.lnbits.com and install the lndhub plugin and point your bluewallet at it.

I haven't had good experiences with breeze and I'd rather self custody.


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You can create an account with lnauth, no need for email


Gross. I accidently breathed in some heated PVC the other day, about passed out


I'm so glad these clowns are in charge. Honk honk!


That's me lol


Big companies are an extension of the administrative state. The seat of corruption is always under the executive branch, not necessarily the elected officials themselves. Power and influence is a two way street. Pure fascism is an official unity between government and business. In early 20th century Germany, the imbalance was on the dictator's side. In the US it has always been on the side of the oligarchy.


Its cgi