I swear I replace our LED bulbs that are supposed to LaSt FoREvEr AnD UsE No EneRGy more often than we replaced our incandescent bulbs.
I legit think the shift to more expensive LEDs (which means they take way more energy to make, which means they are more wasteful, NOT efficient) was nothing but a big political grift to force people to buy bulbs with bigger margins that weren’t having the growth they needed. So they used “green energy” to pad their pockets.
I swear there is no political action whatsoever that isn’t a racket.
It is truly nothing but bootleggers and baptists. A marriage between the scammers and their fools and nothing more.
That one is much harder to see but if I back it way up and almost squint to being able to see nothing I can catch the outline, lol.
Need to up the controlnet value a tad 😆
@Bitcoin Veterans have been working like dogs to provide assistance. I’m still taking donations as well and I’ve been distributing in chunks to various groups on the ground, but the Vets have gotten the biggest chunk so far and likely will get more as they continue to respond to what’s most pressing. Lots of other orgs too, Cajun Navy, Mercury One, Samaritan’s Purse, etc. any help is hugely appreciated. 🙏🏻
Sometimes the cognitive dissonance of losing out on the opportunity of a lifetime is enough to get us to latch onto any and every excuse as to why it was still the right decision.
Logic will not be what gets him to realize his mistake, because he needs 1/100th as good of an excuse not to believe it, in order to hold onto his own view of who he is.
Sucks, but that guy will probably be one of the very last to accept it... or he may literally die an old man angry at how the new generations are all using that stupid digital money about to be killed by quantum computing.
In case you missed it and were wondering how everyday people donating their own time & meager funds could be 10,000X as effective at providing help than FEMA, the massive national agency who's sole purpose is to provide this assistance with a budget greater than $30 BILLION... this is all you need to understand. 👇🏻
https://v.nostr.build/zdRXY.mp4
The Codebreakers! I’m only about a third through it because it’s a beast but it’s not only super information dense but also really entertaining in the way it’s told. Basically the most comprehensive history on the study of cryptology that I know of.
When you really think about it, generative AI is literally nothing but a translator.
But literally in every form it really only does some type of translation and compression. It's a pattern compressing tool that translates between human speech and basically any other data medium that can be described with speech:
Text to pixel arrangement, english language spanish, english to python or javascript, text to data waveform, etc.
There is no intelligence, logic, or reason -- and never was, it is simply a linguistic converter that relates one piece of data to another piece of data through natural language.
Ah yes, another great analogy i have actually used on the show before and had forgotten about! This is a really good one. It's our interface between computer language and human language. More akin to the mouse and keyboard than an advanced application itself.
No, but only because the pattern in the model is derived from HUGE amounts of training data.
The normal back and forth of Q&A with the model is inference, or running it through the compressed patterns to transform it. But that specifically has no relationship to either compression or decompression, imo.
The part that is “compression” is when you take a million images of a cat and train a model that can understand the “pattern” of a cat. Then later you can get it to recall it, but it can’t reproduce any EXACT cat picture, only the characteristics shared by many of them.
In other words, the model has stored as extremely lossy compression of the concept of a cat, and translated your words describing one, into a pattern of pixels that *looks* like one.
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams
Just a heads up on confirming where the donations have been going, we sent out a few payments this past weekend and i have some others ready when the fiat is in the account for Samaritan's Purse and Mercury One.
But yesterday we got $10k of BTC to the Bitcoin Veterans and I've gotten to see what is being spent and how, and Shane is even getting a report together detailing out where all of the funds are going, aside from the fact that they've been sending regular video and photo updates from the ground.
(There are not enough shout outs to give to the @Bitcoin Veterans)
Then I've also sent $2,500 to the Cajun Navy who have been incredible in the area, and have even been good about getting around the authorities who have caused friction in the relief efforts, and also calling them out on social. Always gotta respect someone with the backbone to not let a "regulation" get in the way of doing the right thing. That gives me a lot of confidence that it's a good place to send funds.
And just so you know I'm trying to space out the donations just a little (maybe a week or two) because I worry funds will run out faster and more likely to over spend on one aspect while something else less obvious suffers in a week or two. So any additional information or places that aren't getting addressed as well are very welcome. It will help decide where time and resources should be deployed. I'll keep sending any zaps that come in for the rest of the month, and probably over the next two weeks I'll distribute most of the funds that have come in so far.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed! 🧡
Forgot to add $2,500 for Henderson County Rescue as well. This is the local search and rescue team that my best friend works with and I know they will use it well. 👆
I’ve now spent an hour and used every single card I own trying to buy a train ticket in Zurich and everything fails. I swear to fucking god everything international should accept Bitcoin because this is the biggest load of bullshit and waste of my time imaginable. I have shit to do and don’t have time to fight with the disease that is the fiat banking system.
Imagine thinking that the best way to run a country is with a horrifically massive, compulsory corporate institution where there’s a popularity contest to pick a few people who decide who gets trillions of dollars of stolen resources. nostr:note1dujyllce8dapz6u3s2h8gx6mlmwhu3rncx6ag06fna7dz2mes4es2l773x
Where, in your opinion, is the place to flee to that has a strong and reliable foundation for not going down the same political road as most of the West?
The reality is that you are like 99% less likely to be targeted if you are armed, have dogs, and have a security system. This isn’t even controversial or in question, it’s a simple fact and obvious incentives.
Thieves want to make easy money, they don’t want to die. They are vastly more likely to end up dead at my house. That’s the reality
"There are 500-600 of the Jan 6 protestors in prison, and not one person on the Epstein flight list..."
If you actually want to understand why people are so angry and believe our govt is corrupt beyond salvageability, this explains it in a single line.
If this doesn't bother you and your immediately reaction is "bUT WhAt AbOuT..." - then you've lost the plot, imo.
https://v.nostr.build/OzYgoVADbiNdyIcj.mp4
Much less about whether anyone supports or thinks jan 6 protestors should be in jail or not, and more about which crimes they punish, the absurd imbalance of that punishment, and how horrible, disgusting people are being actively protected and are directly involved in the operation of our govt and "justice."
Criminals don't usually plan to attack people who are armed. Thieves are explicitly cowards who want easy money. An armed victim is the opposite of that.
Depends on the situation and the attacker. If its a common thief/gang who wants to steal your coins, then privacy and anonymity are the prudent approach that will better protect you and your family. If its the govt, then being public and open is the safer approach, otherwise you are only hiding from the public who would support you.
However, in any situation you should be armed, trained, have a security system with cameras, and have dogs, imo.
There’s also something to be said about the speed and ease that it returned to the dollar all time high and then has mostly just hung around within 15% range of it for half a year.
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