Yeah, it is like this on most of the Atlantic islands, canaries, Azores, cape Verde. 

Madeira might be the tallest one though, 1800m is the tallest peak. There was a little snow flurry up there this spring. 

 Yup 

 yeah, i'm really pissed that this place the only spit in it is downstairs in the kitchen that nobody uses because i'd use it every day

almost every dwelling not in an apartment block in madeira has one. just not this fancy pants fucking modernist shit. also no bathtub or bidet, which even apartments usually have.

i really should move. 

 yeah, that's how it works here too

anyhow, i'm just gonna be checking up on the state of offerings... there's one nice place, but no bathtub, in a "little house" near the edge of a cliff in Boa Ventura that looks nice, i've been out to Ponta Delgada and it looks really pretty out there... it's up quite high compared to Ponta Delgada and i know there is a supermarket nearby so that covers me for most of the things... i'll just have to live with no bathtub if i decide to go with that so i'll just hold on for a bit...

gotta pay the rent shortly and i'm sure that's gonna remind me how much i would like to actually pay less rent lol, and this place is a bit cheaper, and it's ready now, it would just require me to pay someone with a truck to carry my stuff over there, and i know how to get to this location

anyway, things move fast, maybe in a week i find an even better place... oh yeah there was one in Calheta too, which is really nice out on the western side of the island... the prices have gone up but honestly i can stand to get further away from large numbers of people than here 

 yeah i'm gonna poke at this one... it's really nice, right on the margin of the house areas, down hill a bit from the main road, outside you can see a wide view of the ocean... if they bite i'll go have a look at it soon and maybe commit to start there in december.

i'll be super excited if i don't hear any dogs around nearby. that will be an upgrade. 

 oh, and it has a minimum 2 months... i can deal with that

i might just move there early anyway, if this is a go 

 well, see, that's the thing, i don't know what is even in this shit

it's probably something in the vegetable oil he slathers all over the salad and probably a lot in the marinade as well... there was also a lot of chilli in there but i usually don't have this problem with chilli unless i've been eating a lot of gluten containing stuff and that causes a lot of minor allergies to start up to muddy the waters 

 I asked him for a specific cut of a fresh carcass hanging in the fridge in front of me, pointed, repeatedly said "just meat, salt and garlic like espetada madeirense"

He's just an idiot.

Not gonna waste my money on his bullshit again... It's actually prompted me, since I need to organize my next period of living, to confirm on not extending and going elsewhere.

Between him and the yapping dogs and the long trip to the supermarket it's time. 

 that will be the first response probably haha 

 by the CIA et al, basically 

 i don't think so, invoices are generally quite large... 

on alby or alby hub it can generate them and they could be printed out but they expire in like an hour

but a qr code that just has a LN address like mine mleku@getalby.com would be durable for later, needs to have some protocol spec in front, idk what it is... maybel lnurl://mleku@getalby.com 

 that's a bait, yes they did that too

they also demonised people who were skeptical 

 the thing is that we've already had the petty tyrants try to fork bitcoin and make their fork the main chain, several of them, and one fucker who keeps on filing frivolous lawsuits relating to bitcoin as well

imagine the epic bullshit that politicians are gonna try... and fail, of course, but i bet we see national bitcoin forks with OFAC compliant, licensed miners and all that shit and everyone shocked when it goes to zero like all the rest

there will always be the international, nonpolitical, nonpartisan fork of bitcoin, even if they somehow manage to control a heap of the devs to do their bidding people will maintain a "classic" (the real) version and maybe if that happens we won't see more bullshit like segwit and taproot et al happening for a while during this period...

the game theory is that there needs to always be this "outside money" bitcoin and it will thus survive, because too many people are so deep in it and depend on it that even a massive coordinated multi-national political attack will still not get rid of the outlaw version 

 apparently this person thinks that if you don't buy into democratic politics you have a psychiatric disorder known as Trump Derangement Syndrome

he's just the "good cop" in the playbook, and most likely he's going to be their "grey man" because it looks like they are shaping up for triggering a full out civil war between blue states and red states, big security exercise for securing the Capitol just yesterday which means they are probably banking on stealing the house and from there refusing to sign Trump into office and probably lots of false flags from their BLMs and Antifas and Proud Boys to proclaim a state of emergency, just like Hitler did after Kristalnacht 

 sad to be so blinded by propaganda but the incurious are lambs to the slaughter and so shall they perish 

 bitcoin price is rising because of the uncertainty

the fact that it's become an ETF means that in the fiat finance mind bitcoin is now starting to look a lot more like cash, without the inflationary cost

there's other aspects to this as well but it's really interesting to note that bitcoin halves a little before the election every 4 years

i don't know if this was an intentional pattern but elections breed uncertainty and once the certainty arrives that tends to make people bullish... other markets also rise after the election usually as well 

 bluesky = red flag

twitter = tire fire 

 the seed (note that actually the seed of a snowflake starts as a droplet of liquid water that freezes) actually forms around a tiny spec of dust that has acquired negative charge, which allows the water to form a liquid skin (liquids have skins, the skin of water is extremely strong, stronger than steel btw)

the growth of the crystal is based on the possible angles at which the points of the frozen water can stick 6 water molecules onto in a hexagonal shape (water is triangular so it forms hexagonal crystals, similar to quartz and some other things... notably DMT and ephedrine also form this geometry)

not all of the growth points will necessarily grow forwards, and when the crystal is broken and a fragment of the ice is dislodged, it can expose 3 new seed points that a water molecule can stick to

so, the reason why they are unique is because they form while blowing around in the windy upper atmosphere where there is a warm wet air in one layer and a cold dry/dusty layer next to/under/over it, so they can have little shards break off, and yes the shards that break off can also form new snowflakes because they have seeding points where the water can go solid without bumping into a dust seed that lets the water form a skin first 

 yes, both cloud formation and snow/hail crystallization have electrostatic effects as part of their mechanism 

 yeah, gnome 4 is a great example of this 

 that's starkly in contrast to samuel 8 

 yeah, i've used it, it works... interface is a bit unpolished... also there is nos2fox if you like hipster browsers 

 i think some web apps work with amber, and there is an app version of coracle now too, and of course amethyst, and there's some others 

 Lawful means in compliance with Law

Civil government can be in rebellion against Law and this means rebelling against civil government would be Lawful Rebellion

most governments are in rebellion against Law, these days, all of them are so corrupt i can't even 

 just check the differences between the meaning of Civil and Lawful

one means polite and nonviolent, and mostly just means not military or martial

the other means obedient to the law 

 you mean cut the bass and treble and only the irritating mids, about 3000-6000hz, like a telephone frequency response curve 

 yeah, that would require a rooted phone or something... there is EQ for at least some phones, i'm pretty sure... just look up equalizer in play store i'm pretty sure you can find them... some phones have a programmable button that can be set up to activate a specific app, sometimes with short and long press options... my old Blackview BV6000 had this feature, that would bring up the EQ app fast

oh yeah, i found a whole bunch, one called "booster" which makes it easy, you just set all the bars down except for the oners around that range i said (around 5000hz) and it sounds like a shitty telephone mic

also, the shortcut... many recent phones, since android 11 i think, have an "assistant button" and this is one app that lets you set a custom assistant that changes it to just be an app launcher https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=host.stjin.assistantshortcuts&pli=1 and another "button mapper" https://play.google.com/store/search?q=button%20mapper&c=apps

though tinkering with that i couldn't get it to actually recognise the "assistant" button

there is also accessibility buttons, which are floating overlays that you can tap that do things too, i think if you search you will find one or other options that will work so you can just hit one bututon and bam, crappy audio 

 man, i haven't been an android hax0r since it became hard to find any handsets that you could put cyanogen on 

 write your own nostr library

https://realy.lol is mine, adapted from go-nostr and relayer. it's much better

you won't regret forking it... the only hassle is when you need to support new protocol features, but you can just copypasta and adapt them to your own anyhow 

 always fork, always 

 well, just keep in mind that this is fresh slaughtered goat (was killed and skinned yesterday) and when you spit roast stuff it loses about half it's weight, so, idk how you measure that exactly

i forgot exactly how much i've had on a skewer on the two times i've had it before... it's about like 10 chunks of meat about the size of a child's fist, i think it's between 500-1000g of meat, i seem to recall that when we ordered it it was 1kg in the Talho (butcher) downstairs

i always find it comical when i start talking about cuts of meat and comparing it to human body parts and i'm like WOAH WOAH NOT LONG PORK lol 

 1000g is a bit over 2 pounds 

 meh. idk why i bother with that guy he never listens, i said "leg" and i get all there random bits, not a proper espetada

he's one of the reasons why i would like to go live somewhere else on the island, i guess i just gotta start looking daily to see what is on idealista, things move fast, and i can jump on anything they are fine with me starting sometime in december 

 non-interference is the Way

give them a hand to pull themselves up when they fall but otherwise if you hold them up they don't learn to be strong 

 lol, i'm just not using gnome any more... maybe they will make things better with 5 but 4 is a dumpster fire 

 cinnamon is not a distro it's a desktop, same as there is no such thing as gnome linux, although there is a debian or ubuntu based gnome, or used to be, i don't think it exists anymore though 

 it probably is the power circuit by the sound of it

if you can remove the battery, sometimes these things just right themselves after being completely disconnected from power, the controller circuit may have had a brain fart, i've had that happen with devices 

 yeah, i'm looking forward to having a single 32" 4k OLED display... supposedly it will be here after 5 sleeps

it's an MSI Mag and hopefully it has friendly controls that aren't confusing as the ones on those two nilox VA panels... and the thing that makes me crazy with those things too is when they are mounted normal way up landscape, the provided stands don't let me set the screens actually straight... so i have flipped them so they are upside down, and that's always annoying whenever i have to reconfigure the display... landscape flipped... surely in this day and age monitors should all have a simple accelerometer that automatically sets the direction... and when they say it's calibrated, it's actually, you know, within 2% of accurate consistent color

but no, too saturated, contrast too high, gamma too low, too blue, too green, to red, they are never the same, even i buy two identical model panels and nope, very noticable differences in output

only way to solve this problem is to just have one monitor... this one i'm getting also, it's QD-OLED which means it should have a fairly flat spectrum and not three nasty peaks like most of them are, either tricolors or shitty blended phosphor illuminators... i'm over this LCD tech, can't wait until there is no more being sold they are bullshit 

 yeah, i am fascinated by the theory of how they work... various sized nano particles that emit different spectra according to their size, so there is a full spectrum, very large number of different sized dots which all emit a different wavelength

i'm also really excited about finally having a desktop sized OLED display, they only have started to be produced in the last year or so at this size, previously only phones and giant tvs

i used to have a 4k IPS panel from Dell back in 2018, 24"... was really too small for the number of pixels, but i got used to sitting up real close to it and even still sitting at one side looking up at the corner on the opposite side felt like it was so far away because the picture was so sharp

so, yeah, 32" seems like the perfect size for this resolution, and i'm also a bit excited to have a display that literally only emits light when it's showing images, so even if it's on, if the display is black it's effectively going to be as dark as if it were turned off

and i'll be able to really control how much blue light, and hopefully fucking night light will just work and it will literally put no or nearly no blue light out at night time, and i'll be able to dim the display down to the point i can still see my surroundings from the dim light coming in from the town below 

 oh yeah, and i checked the delivery tracking, it's actually already on the island... there is a small chance it arrives maybe tomorrow or the next day in fact 

 pack it up and go home, bitcoin ded 

 haha, i wasn't offering it to you 

 coercion isn't force, it's manipulation

tyrants can't use force most of the time because if they did, the people would rise up against them in revenge for all their dead children 

 coercion is where you make threats and give the option you want with no threat attached

it's threat, not force, they may or may not be able to actually do it, teh point is it's manipulation and it requires "exemplary violence" against a few to make everyone scared

the monopoly on drugs works like this, as does taxation

there is a difference between a threat and actual violence

they can't use force all the time or they would have an uprising and that's the end 

 the bank is using force then too, right? 

 if you think words are force then i have no words

you just have to say "idgaf" and do it anyway, with a bit more discretion, and probably they are not gonna do anything

that's how you end up with all these drugs everywhere, and many studies have shown that the monopoly on drugs exercised by the state using coercion actually increases overall drug use where a lot less people would otherwise use drugs

but i think it's also that when you live in a society where coercion is used, you seek escape from the mental prison that coercion entails

it's not violence if it's just words, but it can be as oppressive even still 

 are you going to tell me a punch in the face is the same as saying "i will punch you in the face if you don't take off your shirt"?

no, because they may not actually want to risk being punched back so you say "go ahead then" and give them a headbutt

and then they might not try to coerce you in the future

the difference is that the thing they want you to do is to submit to some edict, it's not the same as extortion, which is where they want you to give away property, they only want to take away a right

yes, it's still a kind of aggression, but force means they detain you, and they may beat you, kill you, that's force

most people don't want to do force, firstly, and secondly, when people start to do a lot of force, everyone else starts doing force and then you have a civil war or an insurrection

these people want power, violence (force) is just a means to an end... and coercion and extortion are cheaper, if they can scare you into submission 

 semantics is important. that's why we have words.

it's not force, it's manipulation. they are hoping to NOT use force on you that's why they make threats.

they get a lot of cameras on one case and then everyone else is afraid to risk it but if you do the analysis on the cost of that example of violence you'll realise they can't afford to do that very often in fact

that's why so many of us didn't submit... i even crossed borders without it and because of where i was, nothing happened

if there's anyone who understands the distinction between coercion (a climate of fear) and actual violence, it's people who have lived under communism, and they all are sullen and resigned... when i went through the border into bulgaria from serbia one time, the dude asks if i have a test certificate, i say no, he says "we have a problem" then waves me on and i say "what" and he just looks into the distance and waves me again

that's coercion... an illusion of potential violence

usually done because actual violence is too dangerous to try 

 i can confirm

i went on a milk diet earlier this year for a while and it completely changed how things were in my mouth... sugars and starches stick to your teeth for days afterwards, i could always tell, when i was on the milk, if i ate something with a lot of sugar in it... even the caramels in instant coffee would start up bacterial activity in my mouth that had an irritating character to it

lactose doesn't feed any oral bacteria, so it's almost the same as if you are eating nothing at all, although the casein does form a thin barrier around your teeth as well, which was really helpful for me because i'd developed a severe sensitivity to stuff like maltodextrin from too much monster sugar free drinks back in 2023 (they also gave me chronic double vision and kidney damage)

so, yeah... eating carbs is bad for your teeth, 100% #troof

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp64suatdx2uqhn2xfu7cgjuqgqcrqadp864uxkv6wckf43atj860qqs088ezqrv8fedwy329jzxqhjwdcwefu7x8f7pye5s3l9qq76sqkyczle4ky 

 yes, #nostr is the future 

 nostrudel is ok but it doesn't render articles properly... i think highlighter also does long form articles properly... you can't compose them in coracle but it also displays these markdown formatted documents

this idiotic idea that nostr kind 1 notes should be "plain text" when that's what markdown is, it is readable without being rendered into HTML, is one of the things in the nostr elite dev culture that really gets on my nerves... the in-group that controls the nips repo also, when they don't even actually do any work to keep things moving forwards, refuse to merge good changes, and so on 

 oh, would you like to use alby btw? they keep nagging me to use my invites 

 i think alby's permissions/signing control is more mature and stable than nos2x

we all love the jaf but his software is always alpha, he spends more time writing than debugging, and my experience is 10% writing 90% debugging in time of development 

 https://getalby.com/invite_codes when logged in thtis is the screen where you can enter email addresses

who dis, i can't see your profile event 

 oh finally my client got it lol 

 yeah i was aware you were removing invites and making it open access but i haven't heard an annoucement about the time nor seen it in the UI 

 oh i thought it was still necessary thus still there, but ok

and yeah, maybe just dial back the size of it a little so it's a bit less naggy because it was more neccessary before 

 the serpent thing... it's actually in the bible... the one who tempts eve to eat the fruit is referred to is both a serpent and a bird, and for his deception was cursed to "slither on the ground" but i think actually this is like two sentences or so that actually condense what is also described in other parts and from other old stories, the War in Heaven was the "now you slither on the ground" and off he (Chronos or Lucifer or Satan) goes...

the Atlanteans had a custom of naming celestial bodies as a form of memorial, and the fact they picked Saturn as the one for this guy kinda suggests something because it's interactions with Jupiter (zeus) are key time cycles of the changes in human government, every 400 years they line up extra neat like they did in, i think it was 2020, and become the "bethlehem star"

yeah, that's the thing, the history of the world spans right across this... think of the Australian Aboriginals creation stories... the "Rainbow Serpent" who shapes the world, it is also similar concept to that snake again and then to the north the Norse Jormundangr, and the japanese Enso

I believe this may actually also refer to something else which was a very large meteor that flew at a low angle over the middle east and across north africa and was radiating such intense heat that it created all that desert... there is also many other things you can dig up about how the entire sahara region once had massive rivers and the Eye of the Desert in Mauritania is speculated by some (and i think this is correct) that this is the very capital of Atlantis described by Plato in Critias, it was built on top of an ancient, weathered, very large volcano, and the rings are the product of its many cycles of eruption and different mixes of melted rocks that came out at each eruption

the facts behind all of this stuff are hard to see but the more bits i bump into the more clear it becomes, that's why i am always recommending everyone read The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya - i don't think he gets it entirely correct in some respects, like, i'm not sure the author really fully understands the gnostic cosmology and wasn't aware of the micronova cycle of the sun caused by the galactic current sheet, but even still, micronovas put out so much material that it seems reasonable that given some time the clouds are going to condense into giant rocks and eventually over a few hundred years or more slam into some or several planets and several to form in this process 

 and, oh yeah... there is some kind of eagle or hawk that i see flying around near me... it does that hovering thing all the time, and sometimes dive bombs, and makes these pretty calls as it rides up the thermals into the high altitude, and down here on the ground you sometimes hear these calls that they make to each other while they are sitting in trees and such

beautiful animals... and there's plenty of rats mice for them to feed on around here, idk if these birds are big enough to take rabbits but here's rabbits everywhere too 

 yeah, but it is a really good read, full of so much information

also, what it says in the story was that Adam was invited to this garden, which was basically an agriculture training academy of sorts, it even says as much, in shorter words, in the Book of Jasher where it specifies they spent 7 years there, and i forget how long it was before that thing happened but basically the serpent guy was the ringleader, Apocalypse refers to him mainly as Cronos from the greek version, but that's Saturn and i think the link there should be obvious... also, the big volcano on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands it says that was Tartarus, or the Lake of Fire

i will probably sit down and read it again sometime in the near future, and this time actually follow all the references it makes in the bibliography and maybe get some more books and hard copies... the stories about the "evil sun" and the dragons fighting in the sky and all that all are based on actual stories and they put together multiple connections between those stories and other related stories and the geological record 

 oh yeah, just to clarify... the first chapter of genesis reads a lot like thet first chapter of Corpus Hermetika, and there are other texts too, i think the Book of Thoth also has a similar story and it's part of the cosmology of gnosticism 

 the dutch like their loopholes... haha

sleeping on a park bench in amsterdam is legally defined as "camping" and they can fine you 140 euros... i got two of them when i wound up homeless because passport expired and i didn't land a job in time... this is also like a loophole, really stretching the definition of something in a ridiculously literal way 

 #nostronly

unfollowing, thanks for the fun