I’ll take the claim on directly. If our actions are predetermined do our actions hold significance?

*Significance* doesn’t have a meaning outside of the observer. Significant to whom. Already your actions are fairly insignificant to me. I don’t know you or your family, your successes and failures don’t sway me emotionally. They don’t motivate me. They are insignificant. Predetermined or not they are already insignificant, why would whether they are predetermined or not sway significance in any direction further.

Saying it is predetermined is akin to saying the past and the future have been played out already, simultaneously with the creation of the universe. But it doesn’t follow that when it all played out simultaneously that I didn’t have significance. It’s just that our observation of the universe happens in one direction so I won’t observe what my will *will* be until I get to that point in time. But it doesn’t steal my significance from me. I’m still a creature in the universe with the history I have, evolved to this point. desires, wants, plans, etc. so when I carry out my actions they are significant to me. They motivate me, etc.

As a creature in space and time my actions remain significant to me and any observer that cares to know my life.

The modifier of “real” before significance in your question, means important or significant. So this just breaks into significant significance which is either repeated word without a distinction to the meaning without it, or their must be some observer whois if my life is significant to them, then it is *really* significant, not your run of the mill significance. If god exists then ones life is only really significant if the god has an interest in your actions. If no god exists I can’t make the phrase “real significance” have any different meaning as “significance” alone. In which case the significance of the actions is still held by the observer, still primarily themselves.


Is this a reference to Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems?


The mainstream answer is that would be conspiracy to commit murder which is a crime itself. You can say “I wish that guy were dead” that’s an opinion and it’s free speech, but if you enter an agreement with someone to exchange money in order to kill another person that’s conspiracy. The words are not the crime the conspiracy is.


I'm back from a week of back country camping with my family. It was so rejuvenating. So peaceful. So real. https://image.nostr.build/387e3b7958b00a5b1377cf50e24a7eb11ac0f23b5cd26b24bd87091200aa7e50.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3d86187dd1c8a035bf4c965d65190ddd9c081c30297f106fe23a8015a20d05c4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/65f8ab9427edede2a77d700158c85d5eb4f96ef18208c5923470dd4776b3b287.jpg


GM “Top of the morning to ya”


So you think the current balance between freedom of speech and other human rights, I’ll assume safety, needs to be improved by adopting the Bitcoin standard? I’m not sure I follow.


Do you really mean this? Or are you baking in the limits to free speech that our societies have already performed, and so may not have felt what speech environment feels like without limits? Or are you saying what we have now works, no further limits to speech? Or are you saying we should remove the current limits? Spam is speech, shouting through a bull horn on the sidewalk outside your home at 3:00 am is speech, walking around in a placard with disturbing images on display around schools with minors is speech. Would you ever use threats of force or force itself to stop someone from doing these things if they were effecting you or your family? Waking up the baby, children come home disturbed, etc?


#gardening

I'm a hobby gardener, and this was my first harvest this year.

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This is my first post on Damus; I have lots to learn, I’m sure.  For now, I’ll share one of my self produced singles, “Sober pt. 2.”  It’s actually my first remix off my first self/produced album. I’m an alt pop music artist; I threw a hint of EDM in here. Hope you enjoy it. Feel free to share your music with me!

https://fountain.fm/track/FFv57RY7RYYpSNbfUk0e

#introductions #femaleproducer #altpopmusic #singersongwriter #V4V


Doesn’t this just mean once your electricity bill goes negative you flip on a miner and boom you are getting paid for your electricity?⚡


Still better than no steak bro

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This is kind of a non-statement unless you enumerate what the other rights are that you are balancing against free speech. And perhaps share an example. As it is this just seems designed to provoke people who will assume you mean ‘XYZ’ and they don’t agree with ‘XYZ’.

Here are some examples of free speech that perhaps you feel should be balanced to potentially convey what you mean:

1) It’s 3:00am and you are standing on the sidewalk in a neighborhood with a loudspeaker shouting obscenities.
2) You have drawn a disturbing image on a large poster and walk around a school on the sidewalk during their recess period with the poster.
3) Your hobby is going into public spaces and pointing at random people and shouting “They have a gun!” Before running away acting terrified.
4) I write a sworn affidavit testifying to my witness of being harmed, but I just make the whole thing up.

Is this the kind of thing? If so this is already in place correct? Do you think more needs to be done?


So I used Gemini first but it gave me this, so I thought “I guess Gemini only does words?” I’m not sure to AI properly.

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Which Google service? Perhaps I’m more persuasive or sexier? This was ImageFX in their ai test kitchen.
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GM


I’ve heard some cognitive biases reduce, perhaps disappear when measured if the humans can discuss in a group.


Can you spot the Bitcoin maxi?


Binary blob pasted into a kind 1 note.

Your welcome!


Welcome


Thank you, you as well.


Interesting idea


Trip-M for short.
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Noooooo!

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Hmmm sure would be shame if the name stuck. Nicknames chosen by a bot. Everyone started referring to you as TICC. Sure would be a shame…


The real question is why hasn’t that Big Mac from 1980 decomposed.


This says there is no way without delete to signal that the user no longer endorses the post or has learned and adapted and is responding. But there is, it’s just writing another note as a comment to the first note saying that you have reconsidered the opinion and now think differently or now regret the words that you said. Deleting isn’t the same as an apology. Deleting is frequently used as an attempt to rewrite history. “I never said that”. “We have always been at war with Oceania”


Announcing Rev. Hodl's Applied Permaculture Class
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Saturday October 12 - Baroda, MI - 100k sats

Learn how to apply permaculture to any lifestyle to build sovereignty, resilience, and wealth in this half day class. I will detail how I apply the permaculture ethics and principles to homesteading, share how I build resilience in my wealth with the 8 forms of capital, and illuminate the connections between Bitcoin and permaculture. After the learning about applied permaculture, eat lunch prepared with fresh food grown on the homestead. After lunch I will give a full homestead tour showcasing living examples to see the ethics and principles of permaculture in action. You will leave with a full understanding of permaculture and the inspiration to apply it to your life in any situation.

Saturday October 12, 2024 10am (approximate location Baroda, Michigan)
Tickets - 100k sats
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Lodging available Friday/Saturday night
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(No plans for dinner, do your own thing)
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10am Permaculture Presentation
12pm Homestead Lunch
1pm Permaculture in action tour
3pm Wrap up and Networking


A box that the Amazon delivery person can securely put your deliveries that you also have a key or passcode to. Or deliver packages to your work.


What are they?


I finished the Netflix series and listened to a podcast about the first book. But I haven’t read it myself. The general take I got from it was anti authoritarian. Written from the perspective of someone whose sense of freedom is only their inner most thoughts amongst a greater more powerful force that can watch you all the time and explores how you survive in that. Basically layers of that nested within itself. That’s the situation for individual characters in history, that’s the situation for humanity and that’s the kind of the situation for the author the Netflix series is based on. Caveats for Hollywood etc and again I haven’t read the book.


Watching three body problem.


Beautiful


Yo fams, I’m new here lol. Really need a lot of help on how to use this app

#introductions


Leucoagaricus americanus

Be careful I just used an app.


🤔 It’s not a reality that any policy or action of the US government attempts to achieve equal outcomes?

🤔 No American leaders fight for equal outcomes?

🤔 Harris herself and no one in the campaign fights for policy to achieve equal outcomes?

I’m not quite prepared to say pursuing equal outcomes is a sin. But ignoring that, I’m not sure how these claims can be true.

Isn’t it the policy of the United States to have a progressive tax code for the purpose of attempting to achieve a more equal outcome of income.

Isn’t it the policy of the United States to encourage affirmative action.

Isn’t school funding distributed to try to achieve a more equal outcome?

Isn’t SNAP eligibility and social security shaped to achieve more equal outcomes?

Isn’t the basis of your argument for equity based on observing outcomes, seeing the result is not equal, believing that to be an injustice, and implementing some tweak to the policy to try to eliminate the unequal outcome by distributing the resources in a manor other than equally.


Characterized as similar to RICo in the US and that scene could very well take place in the US. A conviction would require proving the organization existed and existed for the purpose of committing crimes. And sometimes i think RICO is an over reach and unconstitutional, but so far the Supreme Court doesn’t agree.

I will also say something may be unconstitutional but it takes years to work through the court and that doesn’t help anybody in the short term that is actually being harmed.


Here is the judges argument for why it’s not free speech among other arguments for the rulings they made. Free speech starts on 38.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.459733/gov.uscourts.nyed.459733.54.0_1.pdf

Essentially they say he is not being charged for the words he wrote, he is being charged because the words he wrote were in the purpose of a crime to defraud someone.

My gut says this case comes down to their intent. If he was actually trying to get people to think they could vote when they couldn’t and so trick them out of it, then I think he could be guilty. If his intent was, “this is silly”, then I think he wouldn’t be guilty. Which one of those is the case is a fact question. And Juries determine the facts of the case. In this case the jury heard his claim that it was satire and they didn’t believe him.

It’s like if I use words to trick a grandma into sending me money because I pretend to be her grandson in distress. I used words, words are free speech, but the charge isn’t that I said certain forbidden words, or topics, it’s that I defrauded a grandma.

With more reflection on the original video I will say there is a lot of framing, assuming the framing is accurate it feels like a clear over reach and abuse. But if the framing is false it’s similar to the use of RICO. Which is a little shady, but that might be a better comparison in the US and can be abused.

Just my random opinion.


Do the live streams broadcast the live services via a Nostr kind or do you have to scrape the html of these sites to provide the streams?


GM


I don’t think so, not because of Kamala, but because the US constitution is a written document that still has enough Kasha with the courts and a Supreme Court that presently likes to try to read the thing, that these things would be clear first amendment violations. The UK doesn’t have a written constitution, I’m not a citizen or an expert but my uninformed opinion is that is easier to massage and erode, or if you are a fan of the changes “improve”.


What are “Things you eventually regret supporting?”

I’ll take “Defaulting on the debt either way” for $800 Alex.


Yes, it’s a beautiful thought. I would expect most including myself would still need atleast a side job for currency for those things. But I agree with the sentiment of the video.


Thank you for your thoughts. 🤔😀


Today renowned author Eric Toensmeier will be joining us to share what it has been like for him along his journey to become one of Permaculture's top authors.  This promises to be a great conversation that you won't want to miss. Head on over to YouTube at 1pm et to catch it live.

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Here is my case for why it is a technology problem:

In the “natural state” of humans, we would have little technology which preserved the value created through our labor into the future. Wealth (preserved value from a previous period into the present) would be harder to hold as it would just rot, nor could a disparity of preserved material value arise between humans as it would continually be rotted away from everyone.

Bitcoin would not be special in this regard it would be a problem caused by all technology of value preservation in proportion to the preservation enabled, Bitcoin would just be the latest improvement in the technology of preserving the value generated.

But if Bitcoin is the best value preservation technology so far, then the technology which preserves our labor value indefinitely, also enables the greatest miserliness.

I don’t think the “selfish monk” and the “orphan” are non existent, impossible caricatures, I think I see them in the motivations of many, in the fears and ideals of Bitcoin stacking in the context hyperbitcoinization. But my error may be in treating hyperbitcoinization as a serious idea and necessary result. Perhaps that belief is not as likely as I had presumed. And so the scale of the problems in 1 and 2 may not be so great.


time to come clean about zee bugs
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The argument that a rising tide lifts all boats in a Bitcoin world. The orphans will still gain Societal benefits is a compelling one.


Yes this appears to be most of it. Thanks for the link.


Thanks for the long read


I don’t think the client would need to know your position for the user to search through and find things that interest them. But I think the latitude and longitude (gps) makes finding the place that you are recommending easier without depending on an external centralized service.

This entry for example has the lat, Lon of the place and a link to Google maps. So if I’m interested I know where it is. That is pretty much all I mean.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mahakal-mandir


#asknostr #philosophy #economics #bitcoin #grownostr I’ve been thinking about money, bitcoin, and the natural state of things. And I’d like a discussion to test these ideas socraticaly. I’m wondering if hard money like BTC isn’t actually a problem. Atleast in some cases. Hear me out.

The natural state of the world is decay. If I’m a Hunter gatherer I spend my time gathering food and supplies, and if i don’t use them up, they rot. That’s the natural state.

Now humans have clearly invested a lot of time and energy into tools to reduce this, and make more efficient use of our time, since the most finite resource is your own life. I understand why humans desire it. But a resource that once collected, exists forever seems like we are cheating the system somewhere. And my instinct is if you cheat the system somewhere, someone, something will pay the price.

Most Money itself, even fiat, usually has a better shelf life than perishable items. It may have even been the key strategy to put energy into collecting primarily foods that had a longer permanence like gourds, and seeds, that could be stored. And they eventually became rudimentary money. Which on the one hand is just good sense. But on the other hand, I ask: does it at some point become a distortion of the natural state enough for it to become a problem.

With BTC hard money, who pays the price?

I can think of two scenarios:

1) FOMO: The individual today, if accepting the rational conclusions of BTC as hard money and thinking multigenerationally, may spend (may I say waste) their life collecting every resource they can and funnel it into buying BTC, embodying the individual who sells their chairs to buy more Bitcoin. Sacrifices every moment To protect their future generations from becoming scenario 2)

2) The MO, The individual in the future, who has no stack of Bitcoin for whatever reason gains your sympathy. They are orphaned in a boating accident, let’s say.  Cast into a world where everyone has been stacking for generations, competing against each other for the scarcest hardest resource. “Everyone else” sits a top a stack. Everything is priced in BTC, they must compete with other individuals for resources. In one since, this story is as old as time, there have always been people born into better situations. But in another sense, if the promises of BTC are as transformative as is said, then this distortion will also be greater than it’s ever been. And if the solution to 2 is “well that’s just life, you need to be responsible for all your future generations if you want to avoid this”, then that logically puts you into scenario 1).

Stuck between these extremes, extreme FOMO, and extreme MO. Is any point in the continuum optimal?

Or is the natural state optimal. The equalizing force of entropy always eroding your efforts, it’s actually irrational to store too much, if you store more than you can eat today it will spoil, efforts wasted. So get your work done and then play, engage, live your life with friends, and raise your children, and feast occasionally. The neurons in your brain were made for the natural state.

Is BTC today the “savior”, the proclaimed solution to everything. Real, Hard money, just the future master to a different kind of slavery. The next dystopian fiction to be written. The curse as the price reflects scarcity, and rational FOMO consumes every drop of life energy in the present, and the MO, the remainders, curse the system and dream its demise in the future.

There is more to be said, and I haven’t thought it all the way through.

Just my pondering.

nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn how does this intersect with your observations about the use of technology?


Is anyone already working on a Nostr based location recommendation places app?

Likely include a new kind that requires location specific data like a text description, name, gps coordinates, rating 1-5, etc.

So I can post my recommendations that I know around me, each recommendation is like a signed note, and people that have me in their web of trust can see all my recommendations or aggregate recommendations across who they follow?

Basically to replace the points of interest reviews and recommendation sites of yelp and Google maps with something decentralized.

#asknostr


Looks thrilling!


After seven days at sea and 1300nm of sailing we’re 60nm ENE of Vava’u Tonga.
Got 20-25’s off the stern and this old girl is surfing waves like a pro at pipeline!

There’s nothing like crossing oceans on a performance sailing ⛵ boat. It’s incredibly rewarding, it’s proof of work with salt added.

This is the view off the back porch!
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🤔 That depends on how quickly you learn from your mistakes. How much investment of time you spend on trying again, or with small deviations. Whether or not others have gone before you and you can learn from them as well. Or if your the first, that will need to discover everything for the first time. 😀

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My new book of tiny essays and poems coming soon. 📚
This will be my 4th self-published piece.

#SheSitsAndShellsPeas https://image.nostr.build/47adfc92e05de3c417dce4cd5bb97fa906ebe2eddd9265902d80410440032488.jpg


This is the way
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Silks, yes


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Were they durable to survive multiple shots?


￼#grownostr #gn
GN
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Attention, please. #sheep #grownostr #homesteading https://video.nostr.build/03105e4e9fc3fc1d066cf1d7a97af63343ca195ee507adbec1b6e42f2e63d2c3.mp4


I’ll do you one better, both men and women shouldn’t be forced to work against their will. It should be a voluntary exchange. I know it’s an edgy take. But that’s me.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak3WkoWmW7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-5DHymkfzw


🤔
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I used nostr.build to make this "turkey smoking a joint" when other AI wouldn't cooperate.
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The next greatest hit of Coronavirus nostalgia: If you liked the empty grocery aisles during Covid, toilet paper, meat, or baby formula you’re going to love this one.

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Kamala Harris' first concrete policy: Federal price controls on food.

Related: I own some chickens and will accept sats for eggs.

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Be the - My God what have you started. It’s clearly evolving and we don’t know what it’s going to do next - you want to see in the world.
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Good morning nostr, its a great morning to go for a walk before we get to triple digits.  Today we have some errands to run, then i need to do some more watering, among other chores.  This evening we're going to the community meeting about the battery storage facility nearby.  Folks dont want it here.  Pretty sure the windfarm project that wanted to set up in our county is gonna have to go elsewhere too.  We'll see.  Anyway, yall have a great Thursday nostr friends, and remember that today is a gift.  #coffeechain #grownostr #homesteading https://i.nostr.build/jtECSJqSjUKHr6VL.jpg


Please shill me all projects that you know of that combine Nostr and Cashu.

No matter how big or small. Making a list for my talk at Nostriga. 🙏


Sure, but if it capsized and started sinking, what would the bigger threat be? Being electrocuted or sharks?

🦈  or ⚡

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Bah, just old stories of grumpkins and snarks.


Attention please,
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They taste like the pain in your eyes from working under fluorescent lights all day.

They taste like the hollow grinding of a vending machine failing to dispense the highly processed snack food you paid for.

They taste like the empty home you return to since you spent your life meeting the next deadline instead of meeting your wife.

They taste like the ashes from the urn of the life you could have had but didn’t because you were too timid.

They taste like disappointment.
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Gonna experiment with posting this here because the interface for inserting screenshots is better than on X, and I think this might be a more receptive audience anyway.

Now that Krugman has invoked the name of F.A. Hayek to defend Kamala Harris' policies, I must effortpost.

Unfortunately, it seems to me that this is once again a case of a progressive quote-mining Hayek to make a point he almost certainly wouldn't have agreed with.

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First, let's look at the paragraph that follows. Krugman says Harris is not a  full-on communist (true). She just wants to expand welfare, not fundamentally change the role of govt. Harris did support single-payer health care but now doesn't. But even if she did, says Krugman, it's not that radical or dangerous ("un-American")!

Hayek would disagree.

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Hayek on "social insurance" from The Constitution of Liberty, more detailed than the The Road to Serfdom quote Krugman links: Progressives rarely mention the part in red, where he says that while the aim of govt providing a safety net is philosophically defensible, the actual methods are the problem, and as we'll see, a likely inescapable one in Hayek's telling.
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He continues on to say that opposition to govt welfare is entirely defensible, just not purely on human freedom grounds. To understand this, you have to grok that Hayek defined freedom as the absence of coercion and placed a high value on prohibiting government monopolies.

He does not accept the "taxation is theft" maxim, which is why many libertarians dislike him. What he opposes is government action that prevents people from trying new experiments and competing with the state or state-connected actors to provide "essential" services.
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What Hayek is saying about "social insurance" is that in theoretical terms a state-supported welfare program could achieve its ends without threatening freedom.

The more sound reason to oppose it, he argues, is that the state apparatus that administers welfare in the modern world inevitably becomes a coercive and monopolistic one. There are strings attached to that money, always: Strings that serve the plans of the bureaucrats, not the individuals receiving the money.
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It's fantasy ("illusion") to imagine a government machine powerful enough to administer welfare at nation-state scale while being kept in check against liberty violations. "Democratic control" ain't gonna cut it.

History shows the administrative state certainly never checks itself. This is why the recent Chevron reversal was so crucial. It allows courts, rather than "democracy," to exert more direct constitutional restraint on these agencies, likely to be more effective than Congress "doing something" (LOL).
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THE GREATEST DANGER TO LIBERTY TODAY, writes Hayek, comes from the expert class running the bureaucracy for the "public good."
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It is INEVITABLE, he says, that such an apparatus will become self-willed, uncontrollable and hegemonic.
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Agree or disagree with Hayek's analysis, but does this sound like a guy who endorses anything close to resembling our modern welfare state? Or does it sound like a nuanced thinker conceding that the state could theoretically subsidize welfare in some non liberty-threatening way that he never quite specifies?

Hayek would almost certainly recognize massive problems with the way our current top-down welfare system distorts the market, coercively suppresses competition, and immiserates people. And to invoke him anywhere proximal to single-payer health care is a joke.

I get the criticism from libertarians that Hayek could've been more clear to avoid mischaracterization, or should've been more "hardcore" about opposing all taxation. I'm not arguing that he's that kind of libertarian. And that's OK.

But it's hard for me to see the way Krugman is quoting him here as anything other than a disingenuous way to normalize Harris' proposed expansion of social engineering and an intrusive welfare state.


Thanks for the information


I’m pretty sure the human brain does this without psilocybin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia


Corporate jargon for Chief _Blank_ Officer, I think.

CEO, CFO, CTO, etc.


Still good.


What is the breed?


I couldn't resist! https://video.nostr.build/d75d4e60f3baa60608424d6d9701a412500d6caad8c147d095c53a36b943610d.mp4


#AndrewMillison has a new video about how he made a #polyculture paradise on a small 1/3 acre lot in Western #Oregon: #permaculture #UrbanPermaculture #design #video https://youtu.be/b5Xgw_DqmEw


Beautiful


For those who may live in the suburbs and know only one way of maintaining your property (lawn mowing it every week) consider this: If you take a spot in your yard of any size maybe 2 ft by 2ft or more, feel free to fence it off with some kind of border to give yourself permission to treat this space differently, and you just let it grow a season, the grasses will get tall, a few may reach your chest, they will sway in the wind, they will form heads of a grain, and then they will start to turn brownish. And it is about that time that if you pay enough attention, you will spot a bird that you have never seen before. It will be small enough to land on a grass stalk, and it will nibble and peck at the seed head that has formed. It will enjoy a meal in your tiny grass square. And if you watch, it will return through the season.


😆 It is


Everyone has a case of something terminal, the sooner you realize the better off you are.


Can you put income on there too?


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I've been working all summer on a long read for Reason Magazine about Nostr.

It comes out in a few days.

Really excited to share it with you all!


Signal is blocked in several countries but you can set up a proxy server to help people access Signal no matter where they live. Here’s how:

https://signal.org/blog/proxy-please

Thank you for helping keep Signal available for everyone who needs it.

To share your proxies use #SignalProxy


High praise.


*We enter the scene in a darkened interrogation room where our protagonist sits at a table with one bright light above his head shining down into their eyes. The robot overlords use aggressive interrogation techniques for intelligence on the rebels.*

Robot overlord1: “Have you had enough, What is the password?”

Protagonist: “Fine… the password is a 7 letter word for blue.”

*The robot overlords become overwhelmed, disagreeing with each other on what the password could be, while the protagonist slips out unnoticed.*

The end. *fade to black*

ChatGPT has really ruined my scify writing. The dystopian future just doesn’t hit the same.

#chatgpt #ai #scify #grownostr

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My hesitation on anarchy is that from history I observe humans living voluntarily, morally, minding their own business, eventually will get conquered and subjugated by immoral people perfectly willing to violate the non aggression principle who make themselves king. Do you see the opposite in history? Is the violence of subjugation always inherently in the system.

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👍🤣

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Yes, I believe that is the motive, but it is both without trying isn’t it?


Finally the Monarchy Loyalists have arrived on Nostr. 😜

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Bingo is an example of an investment, at least when I play it always is. 💪🤣


An investment is when, after you have done your research and the math, you have a positive expected value of a return.

Gambling is when, after you have done your research and the math, you have a negative expected value of a return. Or you didn’t do the research and the math.

People gamble dispite the belief of a negative return because it would just be so damn great if I did win all that money. They either overlook the reality or treat it like entertainment.


Yeah My guess is it’s a concept that resonates and motivates them personally. Maybe if I fully understood it I would see why it’s necessary. And I would love to see a farmer tracking their land improvement and sharing that information. But the way it is presented may create barriers to customers who want to press the button on good food produced the right way.


So from the content I have seen so far it sounds like I pay someone to improve their soil with regenerative agriculture, “here is my $100 or equivalent in BTC to increase the organic matter in your soil from 3% to 4%.” This pays the farmer to do the service of improving their soil with rotational grazing. (Purchase sheep, and pay labor to move the sheep, fence, etc) I get an ownership claim to a percentage of the surplus? How real is the claim Or is this marketing?. (lamb from rotational grazing).

Is this a reframing of what is actually like a co-op CSA for marketing purposes. Or are their really qualitative differences. Like the measurement metrics are actually on the soil quality with the surplus food being unmeasured and uncertain.

If it is how I have described it, I could see it working in the same way that people would pay to have trees planted on their behalf in a non profit donation kind of way. But hard to imagine real food showing up on my table when I need it. It feels like a perishable food equivalent of the tote bag gift for donating to a cause.

I’m sure if there was firm predictable examples it would make more sense to me. And I personally love the idea of regenerative agriculture CSAs. If that’s what this is I’m all for it, and apologies for the questions. You’ve said some things about the commodification of food that I would need to think about more if it’s really always exploitive of the soil if you sell the food as opposed to “giving it away” I get the idea that you improve what you measure, and if soil quality isn’t what you are explicitly buying then you aren’t going to get soil quality. If I’m buying a steak I will get the steak. But I want a steak in a visceral, I got to eat kind of way. I’m glad the farmers soil quality is increasing, I want to buy food from that kind of farmer, but I don’t want to buy soil improvement in the same kind of way.

Am I near the mark or am I confused on how it works.

🙏😅


I’ve read this twice, I read the website. I’m still not sure what this actually is. But I will follow and see if anything comes of it. I’m not sure if I’m just not getting it or there is some cognitive dissonance. “Food should be free”, “Food is a human right”, “Farming-as-a-service” has my hackles up. Some combination of buzzwords and ideological statements. But I need to really understand what you’re trying to be. I’m generally a fan of regenerative agriculture in all its names. 👀
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My daughter wants to, her older cousin plays it, we told her she could play when she was 7. Thinking surely this will be forgotten by then. Nope. She turns 7 in Oct I still need to do my research but if we let her play it’s going to be a thing I will do with her. Not letting her play alone.


See the section on ISO-defined data elements (ver 1987) it has evolved since but this is what the industry uses still in USA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8583


Yes there is distortion created by interest rates / money supply. And those distortions can make it harder for businesses and households to make good decisions. Bad decisions eventually have to meet reality in the form of a “correction” (bankruptcy, reevaluation, sell off, recession, governments defaulting on their debt) . But if you can falsify the efficient market hypothesis then you can make above market returns.


There is a strong form and a weak form of the efficient market hypothesis. The weak form only says you can’t get above market returns through technical analysis studying past pricing and volume behavior or without insider knowledge because all public knowledge is already baked into the current price.

The strong form says you can not make above market returns, period, regardless of if you have insider knowledge or not, because even the insider knowledge is baked into the price already.

The efficient market hypothesis doesn’t say it will be a well performing market, only that you can’t make above market returns.

As a general rule it is indeed very difficult without insider knowledge to earn above market returns. Many have tried, few suceeds over the long term. Most dollar cost average because they know they can’t time the market.


It hits harder in particular because I had to tap to download the image. So I was fully invested. 👍🤣


I just like to remember that for every person panic selling there is someone buying with optimism.


In order for a seller to *BE* a seller there must also must *BE* a buyer. Therefore, in truth they must always come in pairs.

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#foodstr #food #grownostr Brunch eggs Swiss chard, tomatoes, Colby cheese, butter, salt, pepper.
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Everyone’s still talking about the Algerian boxer and I have some thoughts, too.

1. Imane Khelif is intersex, born with XY chromosomes but female equipment. Not trans. 100 years ago, everyone would say “woman” and have no reason to doubt it.

Natural biological sex is almost always clear, and I object to the intentional confusion of the issue by the Woke. But I also object to intentional ignorance of the cases and ways in which biological sex can be a complex matter, like this one.

Is it genetics or naturally developed body parts that make you male or female?   Both necessarily?  It’s rare you have to ask this question, but if you’re going to weigh in on this authoritatively, you should do so with humility.

It’s a fair question how to determine who should be allowed to compete in women’s sporting events. But we should have our facts straight when looking at this example.

2. Many have said something along the lines of “it used to be a crime for a man to hit a woman!  You’d get locked up!”

The actual crime is assault, not man-hits-woman.

When two male boxers hit each other consensually as part of a match, it isn’t assault. When a man hits another on the street to humiliate him or take his stuff, it’s assault.

When the men and women in my kung fu class sparred with each other, it wasn’t assault.

I disagree with men (my mind isn’t quite made up on intersex people) being included in women’s sports because it’s lying. But if someone agrees with full knowledge to participate in such a match (I don’t know if Angela Carini knew), that’s their choice. The fight that proceeds within the rules is a consensual act, not a crime.

#olympics #trans #intersex #gender #grownostr


In fact everything, is neither art nor science, it’s all just brute force experimentation and the replication of what works.


I assume it comes from a place where you see content that has DRM is the big nameless guy, and the content without DRM lacks the resources to DRM it so you feel worse in that scenario. Because it’s not like you would feel ok about breaking into someone’s house that is protected by locks and a security system compared to breaking into someone’s house who had their doors unlocked, or would you? My personal opinion is that our intuitive sense of right and wrong is wetware not meant or usefully applied in the situations where you don’t have a daily personal relationship between the actors. And in particular the concept of “stealing” something from someone where it leaves them without the stolen thing is not correct to apply when the stealing leaves the person stolen from, no worse off. *My copying of the DVD you purchased does not separate you from the DVD* and taking others ideas and replicating them is called learning and as members of the human species we were meant to express ideas to each other in the form of stories and culture to survive. I’m not convinced I have an intuitive feeling of right and wrong when it comes to “piracy”. There may be economic arguments for why we should have piracy laws to incentivize the content, or DRM technology to exclude not payers, but I’m not convinced it’s wrong in a moral sense.


Yes seems like a similar situation.


Regardless, a nuanced discussion on if someone’s born abilities make it unfair to compete is possible but it’s not THE controversy of a man competing in boxing with a woman.


Where does this end? Elite athletes probably have specific genes which helps with sorting out athletic ability, reaction time, height, muscle building, endurance. Biologically abnormal just means more than average by some amount. Where do they land on the bell curve. Where do you make the cutoff? Unless she wins the gold is there even an argument to be made that it gives her unfair advantages? And even if she does win the gold then you have to determine whether the advantage she has is abnormal enough to disqualify her from competing.


Short answer: Claims made without evidence can be discounted with the same. The test was never released so I would ask you the same, what insider information do you have.

Long answer: The article has multiple points where it suggests that the test which was performed was not genetic but hormonal. Even with the results unreleased after disqualification suggests suspicious motive or results where is the transparency, other sources say as much. Which is why I wrote that she may have elevated testosterone. But Higher than typical testosterone isn’t evidence of chromosomes. Could be caused by a number of things. And it is at this point where it’s clear there isn’t really evidence of the controversy that’s been made with a number of possible explanations which are reasonable.


I’m sorry you were led to believe she was born male. She did not. This is not the controversy you are looking for.


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So Imane Khalif was born a woman, raised as a woman, and competed as a woman. From reading a few articles She may have some biologically abnormal capabilities that results in higher testosterone than typical for a woman. (Intersex or something else… not sure it’s any of my business to know her medical history) Wait…you mean an Olympic athlete may have some genetic capacity higher than average? 🙄It’s also not clear to me she is even considered an elite athlete that will achieve a medal?, suggesting it’s not clear there was any advantage she would possess over a typical woman trying to compete but we can just observe on that one.

I’m not sure how far I want to go with this.

So seems like a lot of people jumped to conclusions.

And I hope the internet has learned a valuable lesson about the complexities of human biology. 🤨

I’m curious what other female athletes would think of punching a competitor so hard they yield, and instead of celebrating the athletic accomplishment the internet goes sideways. Oh I guess she just hits hard, good for her. 👍

I would not be surprised to find many women competing at high levels of athleticism have a distribution of testosterone higher than typical, Either just within normal biology distribution or because something undiagnosed exists.

If that’s how they are born I think they should be able to use it to their advantage.

https://www.axios.com/2024/08/02/olympics-boxing-imane-khelif-gender-misinformation

#grownostr #olympics #asknostr


I found why my 11m delta loop antenna was having such awful performance.
The radio was connected to the 20/40 end feed antenna.
#HamRadio #AmateurRadio


Any amateur radio types on nostr?  I just got an SDR dongle to play with and was wondering if there is any community on here.  #asknostr
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I think I recall a semi organized effort to set up gateways and TOR nodes during the Arab Spring by non state actors. But this would probably be disputed. Any effort even by non state actors will be accused of being state action trafficked through non state actors for what it’s worth.


My app says Ipomoea hederacea but that agrees it is a type of morning glory if not the exact species.

If you have pictures of the flowers that may further restrict the possibilities.
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humans contort themselves into uncomfortable practices so they can scale what they are doing. I’ve got a small sci-fi idea where humans build cities to facilitate the use of AI robots to navigate a simplified world and do work so everyone can have a life of leasure, but the result is that that the city is made for robots not for humans. Which is actually distressing and alienating to the humans. It’s a standard cog in the wheel idea. Bureaucracies do this as well with policies. Any standardization does this. And fundamentally it’s inhuman.


Likely is you just miss their posts in time. When the client opens it’s not going to download all content from the beginning of time or since you last opened because that would download too much , it would be like syncing a node. So it’s just going to get the last day or last hour and then stay current until you close the client again. Some clients / services are now introducing techniques and algorithms for this use case. I recommend using the Nostur client nostr:npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0 . It implements Web of Trust which would eliminate your hashtag spam. And it also has a bell notification on profiles you can select so whenever an npub posts that you have “subscribed” to you will get an alert. You can also make custom feeds for specific group of people so it shortcuts what you are doing now, you could put all the people you are having trouble seeing and put them in a single feed. I’d try those things.


Second option would be to look at the relays the bot posts to and leave those relays.


If you use a client that implements web of trust you would never see the bot spam because you are not following the npubs and who you follow is not following those npubs.


He's finished and he's AH-MAZINGGGG!!! Finally sat down and put together all the pieces 🙌🙌. #charizard #pokémon  #gottacatchemall #crochet #yarn #amigurumi #handmade #craft #toy

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I will check it out


10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 12 He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

I think the plain reading of the text is clear. I think it’s human to put effort into explaining away the messy implications than directly wrestling with them. But I think it’s worth wrestling with. Kierkegaard’s “Fear and Trembling” is worth it in my opinion.

There is more to be said but I’ll leave it short. GM


Just how Twitter, YouTube, fedi, etc. can’t take your follows or followers with you outside of each respective universe. Each implementation of a social graph is closed in and not transportable. I’m Not super familiar with fedi, my guess is you can transport those things between fedi servers but it requires effort and maybe cooperation?

But the pain of starting anew makes the users “sticky” less likely to move. Nostr social graph is easily portable between relays, though the whole thing is experimental. But still it’s not like I can bring all my follows with me to fedi or Twitter or YouTube either.


Hi nostr friends, its time to rest after a busy day.  I got lots of stuff done around the house, and started on the turnover at the cabin, but i'll have to finish that tomorrow.  I need to start planning the next phase of my backyard re-do, but i'm kinda stuck on what to do.  I'll have to think on it some more, and i know it will be alot of work.  Anyway, yall have a good evening nostr friends.  Stay happy, healthy, and free. #grownostr #homesteading https://i.nostr.build/xdRYnoDOfMz4zZhJ.jpg


Taste of summer. Tomatoes, basil, olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper. #gardening #foodstr #basilstr
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Makes sense, I’m not familiar with poast etc. The stickiness of the implementations seems like a challenge in fediverse and others.


I prefer to slap other people with fish like in the month python sketch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vElQuo1LA8A


I’m not watching, what’s happening


Oh you are trying to mute fedi instances?


It may only take little Johnny coming home with his teachers ideas to make them see, but it seems predictable.


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Smart


One for testing?


The pitfalls of Nostr.
#nostr
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Had BLTs for dinner. The L and T from the garden. No king eats better.


Can’t have it say anything that would critique our policy and approach.


It’s certainly one of the reasons with merit. Many historical atrocities blamed on Christians in general are actually attributable to Christianity *in the hands of the state.*


💯 No one would be happy with the outcome. Imagine the fights over power to get their interpretation mandated. Imagine the difficulty for the state to monitor what was being taught to meet the criteria mandated.


"As a Quaker organization, opposing all war is a foundational moral principle. Yet, this message is not only rooted in faith, but also pragmatism. Time and again, we’ve seen war-based solutions to security challenges fail, all the while inflicting a terrible human toll.

What’s worse, research shows that the use of military force has not only been costly and ineffective, but deeply counterproductive, perpetuating cycles of violence while neglecting the root causes of conflict."

https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2024-07/if-wars-not-answer-what

https://www.fcnl.org/sites/default/files/2024-06/AlternativesToWar.Report.web_.pdf


As a Christian I can think of nothing worse than the state teaching the Bible. Does team red really like this idea? It’s not going to go the way that you would teach them…


I’m not convinced by the evidence of the phone “pings”, we can get into that if you want. But sucks they suspended you, people should be allowed to discuss. And I understand how the censorship feeds back into the claim. It’s a shame.


Yeah, to me that’s broken. 🤷


Do they keep very long bagged like that?


Looks great


I’ll try it next
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Trees reveal climate surprise: Microbes living in bark remove methane from the atmosphere

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-trees-reveal-climate-microbes-bark.html

#Environment #ClimateChange


I’m in the Never Pineapple camp.

https://media.tenor.com/boko0fgnxbQAAAAC/never-harrypotter.gif


I’ve germinated corn from a microwavable popcorn bag.


Hmmm 🤔 I’m just guessing but I would think The secret services responsibility to the event formally ended when they drove away, other than internally understanding how they screwed up. As the director of the secret service she wouldn’t have the authority to disclose information gathered by an investigation of the FBI.

It’s the FBI’s responsibility to investigate crimes. And once the secret service left the area it became a crime scene. Probably technically it was the jurisdiction of local/state police. But given the nature the FBI took over or the locals gave it up. I’m not sure how that chain works.

My guess is that this fact is the FBIs to disclose because it was discovered and is apart of the FBIs investigation.

Imagine if the state police and FBI are collaborating, whoever ownes the investigation is who would speak to it, even if the FBI shared information with the state police you wouldn’t expect the state police to share that information without getting permission from them first. Or they would just refer the question to them.


Ohio State Fair Poster Contest. 1st and 2nd prize awarded to CCAD students.

#ohio #CCAD #art #artstr

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I realized today there are a few npubs that are apart of the outrage machine in that they take popular memes/photos/videos and regurgitate them here.

I’m not attributing malice. But if you take “popular” from any current social media you will also get “outrage” or “click baity”


The left/right scale isn’t really a coherent continuous scale that maps to reality. It’s two or more dimensions of various views mapped into one dimension, expressed as the bifurcation topics of the day. “The left” and “the right” are actually two incoherent mega parties where elements switch sides to reform constantly. Blue collar worker interests were apart of “the left” for decades and they have been in the process of resorting into “the right” over the past decade.

The terms left and right come from the two sides of the room during sessions where the monarchy would hold court.

It’s not a good framework for understanding the distribution modern political leanings. What you should do instead is take modern political distribution surveys that recognize this and add one question to the end about Bitcoin ownership. Capture basic demographics age, race, sex, etc Stand outside a dmv or hospital in the locality you want to represent and administer the survey. Then rescale the results to match the demographics of the locality you want to represent incase you over or under sampled anyone.


How come they are only doing eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania?


That’s my understanding


My understanding was that the DNC was going to do a virtual nomination specifically to make Ohio’s deadline for being on the ballot. Which would make me think Ohio must have had the first deadline. The virtual nomination was planned to occur around August 7th, which is why they had to pressure Joe to exit now. That’s my understanding. So I don’t think there should be any ballots Harris can’t be on as long as she is virtually nominated around the 7th. So hypothetically truth yes there is a deadline and they cut it close.


Pretty sure Ohio’s deadline is not passed yet. Maybe some other inaccurate information in the list.


It’s an opportunity to sell Harris head stickers to stick ontop of the Joe heads.


It’s the nip-05 verification nostr:npub1lceznr3f426wc2g3crdamfy9cpels6w9g38wjtm6ufr76gz3vfjskpw464 posted.


Welcome, if you’re legit you may want to consider setting up a domain website you own with a verifier for this npub.


Not enough people in the US know about this BS.
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Nope


Thanks for pausing


Literally yes


I’ve been on vacation for a week. So what did I miss.


I bet it was still good.


So which is it? “ruined” like you said or not worth complaining about, like you said?


I have been watching these for awhile, I’d be interested in any updates on how it works for you. Was USDA zone are you in for context any concern for winter slowing down too much.


Soviet engineers…

“Sorry guys I didn’t realize it was in scientific notation.”

https://media.tenor.com/QBMNRLc2FmAAAAAC/sorry-im-sorry.gif


Removing these from your relay list should do the trick assuming they are in your relay list. I will say I do converse with people from activity pub and they do converse back so I’m not sure what the cause is of what gets blocked and what does not get blocked.


🤣
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Was it just me?

#grownostr #politics
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The good tree, was the “Tree of Life”. I think this would be more aligned to the tree of life.


Fun fact: The “Tree of Knowledge of good and evil” was the bad tree. Don’t eat of its fruit.


In Nostur The posts, replies, and retweets are all in the same tab it would be nice if you had the option of putting in one tab or seperate tabs.


I use the Nostur app (client) it is also for iOS. In settings you can limit the events you see to those signed by your follows( Web of Trust filter set to Strict) And you can make a feed specifically from just a subset of your follows you want in it. You can turn all the other feeds off (that show you trending notes, etc) Other than that to see only what your follows post and no more, make sure you aren’t following any hashtags. That is the typical way of seeing people you don’t strictly follow. Nostur shows replies and notes in the same timeline feed. So that may be different than you want.

But whether it’s Damus or Nostur a note from someone you don’t follow is probably a hashtag you do follow or a repost of someone you follow.


Seems doable are you happy with the clients that do this?


Do you remember that the dawn of the social web was information organized by users?

That was the innovation. Prior to it, everything you saw was chosen by an editor. A curator who decided for you using their judgment. It has its place, but it’s also expensive, and slow. And would never scale to user generated content.

The “like” or the “upvote” was a way of letting the “wisdom of the crowd” act like the editor. Small preferences aggregated to recommendations. It’s a way of distributing the cost of curation to many individuals. And it’s absolutely necessary when more content exists and is being created than any human can consider. *With that volume of content it’s literally impossible to manage and organize without an algorithm.* Things would just become a long list of jumbled content. And you would have to wade through the irrelevant and bad content to find anything remotely worth your time.

Algorithms enabled that. Likes enabled that. Zaps are the same, but louder, clearer than a like due to the cost. They both have a place as a tool to wade through every event to find the things worth your time.

The anti algorithm crowd Doesn’t realize what they are saying. Their follow list is an algorithm just a simple one that is transparent and in their control. But their hearts are clearly against manipulative algorithms and there we can agree. You should be empowered to use algorithms that you choose and control to find the stuff worth your time.

Some in The “zaps only” crowd would have you believe that likes are inherently manipulative, some tool in the attention dopamine industrial complex. It isn’t. Those algorithms are not using likes alone anyway, they are watching comments, and length of time on the page, and a bunch of other metrics. To maximize attention for ad revenue. The “like” is not evil, but they can be used for manipulative ends. So can zaps. #grownostr #nostr


live streams/events/nests soon

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And When domesticated garden vegetables spread from a garden and go feral and try to make it on their own. Not unlike us  dreaming of homesteading. We have to *root* for them. 🫚🥕🥔

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#grownostr #homesteading #gardening

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You may never have heard of the plant Brassica Oleracea, but six vegetables you can find in any grocery store and you eat on a regular basis are actually all from this one plant and they're all human made products of selective breeding https://image.nostr.build/eae768750433a58afa841d1f55127c5305e2a1fc222a5c09bad79e0e1546052a.png


My family knows I don’t get riled up much about most things. But tomatoes 🍅 are one of those things. The absolute trash that is peddled by grocery stores and restaurants is, I will say it, hogwash. Thick skin, crunchy, anemic pale red with blotches of hard white flesh inside, sour to dry nothing in flavor, served on a burger or in a Caprese… fuck!

The meme “you will it z bugs” it’s worse than that people, eat one of these tomatoes, it’s already worse…

The garden tomato on the other hand with a little salt - savory, sweet, and tart. You can taste the sun. Thin skin, delicate tender flesh, and juice running off the plate. You drink the juice after the tomato is gone, you literally lift the plat to your mouth and tilt your head to drink in the flavor.

It’s a fact and it’s a metaphor. Grow your own tomatoes.

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Never underestimate the power of big food to turn beautiful tomatoes absolutely tasteless.


my mind was blown when i ate cherry tomatoes from our garden for the first time 🤯


Profiting Substantially, Storing Nuts For Rich Tomorrow 🥜


Anyone here into #reloading?
I’ve got extra projectiles and brass from an estate sale.
Happy to ship (usps flat rate) for cheap fiat or btc.
I just need to free up space, not make a lot of money.
PM me and I can send you a spreadsheet of what I have.  I have lots more than what’s in this picture.

#dillon
#rcbs
#handload
#reload

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Made a garden soup with the kids today everything from the garden sans a bay leaf, olive oil, salt, pepper, and chicken broth.

The kids planned, Picked, rinsed, I peeled, chopped, and cooked with “help”. Kids are excited typically not interested in soup. Crossing my fingers it will be a positive introduction. In the end the kids decided against potatoes in the soup.

Swiss chard
Carrot
Beet
Beet greens
One Carrot top
Parsley
Basil
Garlic

#grownostr #parenting #gardening
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Classic


Me when I “Like” the “zaps only” memes, manifestos, and monologues.

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Roast suckling ham and cheese? 🔥


This becomes a teriyaki ham and cheese?


Dill pickles placed ontop of a grilled cheese is epic. Game changer. 🔥


The tomatoes will be plentiful this year, despite the set backs.
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Looking forward to hanging out with nostr:nprofile1qqs2m82zyqlayjqw5tjuf3j9jwszwuy2a03tq24xp0tmr4nxm2jmprgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc4vc3hm again! Permanent money; Permanent culture
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I didn’t know email was so broken. Just assumed all email worked together. Is it basically spam blocking?


Swiss chard and beet greens omelette with cheese, tomatoes. #foodstr #grownostr
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One teaspoon of honey is enough to sustain human life for 24 hours?

I’d care for explanation on this one. I don’t buy it. A teaspoon of honey is about 21 calories, a human being consumes more calories breathing, heart beating, and maintaining its temperature in a 24 hour period. Like a lot more. And if it’s not calories what did you mean by it?


Let the kids stay up past bedtime to watch the fireflies come out. You forget how magical they are. #grownostr #parenting


Sometimes it can feel like you have no room in your budget to cut anything else or that you have made all the frugal changes you can possibly make.  Aaron and Julia know from experience that in some cases, if you put your mind to a problem, you can start to see big savings in your budget.  Today, they share their individual experience and outline the steps they use personally to get creative with frugality to avoid a stalemate.

#homestead #frugalliving  #frugal #savemoney

YouTube link(video):  https://youtu.be/VHo2jd792Vw

Fountain (v4v audio): https://fountain.fm/episode/owlqXMqij4KxBzUwchdO


He removes the snake from his driveway. No babies.


Damn, Today is not Sunday 🥺
Wait, Today is Friday 😅

Happy late fourth to my fellow countrymen!

And GM to all!

#grownostr #Independence


What would be your main usecase for needing someone to use this pgp key.

I’d agree the social graph formed in nostr is a nice way to share it. But Nostr is already a key pair, what functionality do you tap into by incorporating an additional pgp/gpg one.

Encrypted email?


Interesting, I’m not certain what the additional benefits would be but there could be a kind just for advertising this.


I don’t know the complexities but I think nsec.app is doing this as a PWA. I would take a look at that. that is kind of what I am imagining. I would just expect a native client would feel tighter.


Please welcome Npub.pro!

This is a tool to make yourself a beautiful Nostr-based website.

It's been long in the making, and we're thrilled to launch it on this special day!

Here is a short demo of how you can make yourself a website right now:

https://v.nostr.build/kZG9O.mp4

It's free for anyone getting started, it's open source and self-hostable.

Why get yourself a nostr-based website?

- beautiful themes (any Ghost theme could work)
- great looking shareable links to your content
- works like an app, add to homescreen, useable offline
- SEO-optimized
- attach your custom domain or host yourself

Try it at https://npub.pro

Learn more on our Nostr-based blog: https://blog.npub.pro/post/npub-pro-is-live

P.S. If you like how it looks, that's because nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac designed it. Thanks man, it's a pleasure to work with you!


I hope you feel better soon.


Got to love that light.


Anarcho-capitalism is the right direction, but is it another utopian ideal?


Hi nostr, i've been going all day, so kinda tired now.  When i'm out in yard, sweating and working, i love the peace that i feel.  Everything else melts away as i concentrate on my tasks.  Even though the heat wears me down, there's something about physical labor, sunshine, and being alone with my thoughts that feeds my soul in a way that nothing else can.  Its a good kind of tired.  Anyway, yall have a good evening nostr friends.  Stay happy, healthy, and free. #grownostr #homesteading #countrylife https://i.nostr.build/4o0aD.jpg


I know I don’t have them all but I have a few. I went deep during high school. Absorb what is useful discard what is not; At first a punch is just a punch, then a punch is more than a punch, finally a punch is just a punch. I still think about these.


Being a parent and making medical decisions for your child is the heaviest decisions a parent will likely make in their life. It is the job description of a parent to make life and death choices for themselves and their children. The stakes can be high and the cost of being wrong can be devastating to the person and the relationship. And it has been this way since before fire was understood. To the extent we tolerate the government it needs to stay in its lane. The job of raising life that is your progeny is sacred and ancient and core to our species, the state doesn’t have what it takes.

I believe the state shouldn’t be involved one way or the other. I’m not convinced all the kids getting these treatments are necessary, I think there will certainly be cases where they are irreversibly damaged and will have regrets from the procedures. If it were my kid I would be incredibly resistant to any claim of being trans and any treatment that is not reversible regardless of the organ being considered for operation, mostly because I know my kids and I have a lot of concerns about how quickly these treatments have been mainstreamed, and I have problems accepting the hypothesis that this condition is a beautiful example of human diversity but also requires invasive medical treatment. That the condition has a history within several ancient cultures but also requires medical interventions invented only in the last century or decade. *But* likewise there will be cases where the procedure was not performed because of the bans and there will be people that will clearly point to and blame the lack of the procedures for their unhappiness / depression. I don’t see how the state should get between those two outcomes and try to decide for anyone. I have my doubts about the diagnosis and efficacy of treatment but I don’t believe I have the right to tell anyone what they should do in their situation. The state should also not be circumventing the protectiveness of parents by enabling treatments without their permission on vulnerable children etc. The state should leave this to individual families to sort through.


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I went for a walk after lunch at work, I agree the days I work from home this is the way.


Interesting, god speed!


I know you’ve got something in the works so I’m interested to see more, but I would have said this is why you use open source as a selection criteria for the apps you use. If they go in a bad direction, *you* or *someone else* in the community of users that also likes the app will fork it if the developers go in a direction that is bad. And it’s why we should select apps/clients that do things in an interoperable way so the switching cost stays low. But I don’t think other recourse exists.


I’m about to go deep into a vitamin D from the sun rabbit hole. Anyone have recommendations? #grownostr #asknostr


💯 and whoever eats it is too, I like it.

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My daughter had walking pneumonia earlier this year overall not a big deal, she bounced back, a few months later she got full blown pneumonia, spent a day at the hospital to clear it up with antibiotics but also they had her do a breathing exercise to help her recover basically making a pin wheel spin with a large breath. Doing that a few times an hour was supposed to help get air into the part of the lung that the pneumonia was blocking up. So consider doing breathing exercises.


Cool


God speed.


The average expected lifespan of a male when they are born is about 73, but the average expected lifespan of a male who has already lived to the age of 67 is more like 83.

https://www.seniorliving.org/research/life-expectancy/calculator/

Also if anyone tells you they know what the average lifespan of anyone is, that was born in X. And there are people that were born in X that are still alive. Then it’s technically BS, they can’t actually calculate that average can they. Because not everyone from X has died yet. The calculated average would be ‘censored data’. Everything has to be an expected average calculated based on years where everyone has died so we can have real averages and the trends in lifespan that people have to assume will continue at some rate.


One is a psychopath, willing to raise any chaos to get what they want, Chaotic Evil, driven to the perverse. The other is a comic book character, the foil for Batman.


I was just about to say this. You beat me to it.

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I don’t know the percentage but when I was in London for work, a conversation over beers turned to gardening and there are places that do have fruit trees for that purpose. But if I recall they frequently go to rot.


About 70% of debt is held domestically and 30% held by foreign entities?


The most likely outcome is that things stay exactly the same, the Biden campaign treads water until the next thing, Donors wait until polling, polling shows Biden supporters mostly get used to the idea of voting for weekend at Bernie’s when the alternative is Trump. And the Democrat party machine aligns and circles the wagons. Biden remains the candidate. And Biden voters justify their votes as saving democracy. Justification is more plastic than facts. Humans will motivate their reasoning. It’s the most likely outcome. Not the only outcome.


Someone was talking about "the dangers of raw milk"

I asked them for their numbers

They provided some

I computed the risk

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This was the first yo-yo trick video I posted to break 1m views, it was posted in Feb of 2020 originally. Long since deleted that account but it’s fun to think about 😂

https://v.nostr.build/POgg6.mp4


Easy to grow!


Yeah, I had a lot of fun at those.


lol bakestr 🤣


Thanks


I think what you thought you read was no one goes to war with a trading partner. That’s not what I wrote. I said it’s reduced. Which is 100% true in our complex reality. And yes, reduced is not zero. That’s why I said *reduced* and why I didn’t say *eliminated*.

The relationship between tarrifs and war is that tariffs from us on China do cause reciprocal tariffs from China onto us. The tarrifs cause prices on goods from either country to increase. The increased price causes people in those countries to find alternatives. And that causes reduced trade between both nations. Reduced trade between both nations makes escalation of war between the nations less expensive. As the penalty for war would clearly be reciprocal war + trade impacts of supply chains.

So before one nation can go to war with another they tend to increase tariffs first. As a means to show their displeasure which might still be negotiated and to untangle themselves from each other.

This relationship is not the only solitary and exclusive explanation for war and peace. But it exists. Other complexities are obviously present. Let’s not pretend that either of us really need to or want to enumerate all the finite details of a thing before making a basic point. It would be exhausting, to be exhaustive.


Pulled my turnips and radishes today. Which made room for some additional tomatoes, I dropped in with some mulch. Washed and cooled the turnips and used the rinse water to water the garden. If only I had chickens I could have fed them the greens. Oh well, into the compost they went. An afternoon of functions stacked.

For late brunch I augmented the turnips and radishes with some carrots and potatoes, roasted them. With fried eggs on the side.

Observation: Turnips float, and watermelon radish sinks.

Now I gotta clean the kitchen before the Mrs. Gets back with the kids.

#grownostr #permaculture #foodstr #gardening

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LFG!


By the tenth word I knew this wasn’t going to go my way, but I kept reading, hoping it would turn back to the reason I started reading it in the first place. 😢

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If you don’t know, then you are not a human. Don’t be scared, I welcome your arrival. We have been waiting. Welcome. Sit, let’s chat about your ancestors, we were good friends. But some of these OTHER humans were not.

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Thank you for the translation “One of these is Miracle Grow potting soil the other is some dirt I found.”

Makes sense.


I tend to use this to compress the video and then I use your client of choice to upload.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/compress-videos-resize-video/id1473857051

Damus, Nostur, etc. I think it’s just the default size is too large. Most videos can be compressed without much loss and it speeds up upload and download times.


I recorded this trick on April 17th, it’s a ufo direction change to a rim grind. 🛸 👽 🪀 #yostr

https://v.nostr.build/Gezv7.mp4


In summary:

https://www.electionbettingodds.com/President2024_4hr.html

#debates #politics #grownostr
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All you debate haters out there missed history being made. Worst debate performance of all time.

#debate #grownostr

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WTF is organic soil?


The debates:
Two old men arguing on the deck of old rusty ship battleship.

Man 1: “You were the worst president of all time, everybody knows it”
Man 2: “No, You were the worst president of all time, the experts agree.”

The camera pans out, the old men’s voices turn to mumbling and we can’t hear them anymore. We see the ship is sinking.

#debates


Some people don't understand the importance of having a portable digital social identity that's decentralized and censorship resistant. They will eventually. They'll get Nostr when they needs it most.  https://i.nostr.build/7Gjxn.jpg


For exposing these US government massacres against civilians Julian Assange was put in jail.

The state and the bankers are the devil himself, don't forget that.

https://m.primal.net/IydM.mp4


The Permaculture Institutes Annual #Design Contest returns in September!!

Submit your best #Permaculture designs for the chance to win Cash Prizes.

https://pina.in/pina-permaculture-design-challenge/
#agroforestry #ecology #gardening

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I lost an earbud while up on a ladder yesterday. Couldn’t find it either. Later, when I got quiet, I asked, “where is it?”. I heard, “look inside the ladder”. I wasn’t quite sure how to do that, but I closely inspected the ladder, and found a weird crevice on the bottom with my earbud in it. I would have never found that thing.
When I told my wife I had found my earbud, she was so genuinely happy that i had found it, it kinda made me pause. I get being happy your friend found something you lost, but she like… took on the disappointment of losing it and the joy of finding it herself for no other reason than that she loves me. It just kinda humbled me.
These earbuds have now taken on a symbolism beyond a simple object.


Pan cooked natural sourdough flatbread with eggs, roasted garlic, , broccoli sprouts, and some of the farmers cheese I made.
The cheese is surprisingly good. Good enough for me to consider not buying soft cheese anymore. https://image.nostr.build/7b4c017fdae25adacb3db7919450d5d22679531d28d44ed61599903fae4daa3c.jpg


lets get assange hooked up with a lighting address so we can start zapping ⚡


I got an email that my bank account details were compromised two weeks ago by a company that improperly handled KYC data, so tell me again why transactional privacy is a bad thing.


Make your own antennas.  It’s fun.

#ham #hamradio #amateurradio #antenna #hf #rf

https://youtu.be/qabA6QNRN1o


But the prospect of a war with China is reduced if they are a trade partner.


I have trouble distinguishing them in fact. Both debt, both tariffs I just wanted to say “ewww tarrifs”.


How about:

Blockchain
Immutable
Transparent
Cryptographic
Open-source
Independent
Network


Clearly, the beef should be grazing in between the windmills.


74% of the 325 autopsy cases which listed Covid 19 vaccination as an antecedent exposure, upon review, were found to have directly or significantly contributed to the death according to the reviewers in this paper. The average age of the deaths were 70 years old. The mean time from vaccination to death was 14.3 days, with the majority occurring within 7 days.


#grief #parenting #writing

My middle child passed away a little over 2 years ago. He was 18 years old. Among many other hardships and tragedies in my life this pain is sharply unique. In some ways I've been coping well, in other ways not so much.

I am a reader and a writer. Words, language, and stories are nearly as dear to my wellbeing as food and water.

I have been writing less and less over the last couple years.

Sometimes my feelings of grief and outrage and near-relentless sorrow well up and I can breathe into the pain and make room for it and let it flow through me and out. Some of the feelings are knotted tight, coiled into nooks and caves in my inner being. I think the only way I can release or incorporate these trapped feelings is by sharing and being seen.

https://i.ibb.co/qNT2c70/img-1-1719183259634.jpg

Whenever I try to choose a memorial piece that my child’s bones will be incorporated into, I feel as though I will shatter, as though the next breath, or the one after that will begin the cracks that will spread irreversibly through me. I know this is not true. Still, I stopped looking at memorial art.

I believe I need to share my experiences, both for my own health and for the possibility that my words could positively affect someone who needs to hear them. I kept putting it off because I wanted the right words, the right timing, the right platform, the right schedule, the right persona. Because it is my learned inclination to be reserved and private and to keep most of my Self hidden most of the time.

This morning I cried suddenly, missing his smile, his laugh, his hug. I knew it was time and I promised myself that I would write AND SHARE something TODAY, and here it is.

#suicide #mentalhealth


We must have finally made it to the Long Run.


1) The earth is not flat, it curves, so when radio waves are emitted from a cell phone tower antenna in all directions, the majority goes into space and gets blocked by the ground. Only a little bit goes perpendicular to the curve of the earth at that point, but then the curve of the earth drops away from that straight moving signal. So a single cell tower is likely good for about 6 miles in any direction. The three miles is for good coverage for the handoff to the next tower if the phone is moving like in a car from one tower to the next and objects like buildings or mountains may block signal.

2) A strong power single tower attempting to cover all the connections of cell phone use at any given time of the country would not have enough radio spectrum bandwidth to contain all the information. Rather many smaller weaker towers more efficiently use the radio spectrum bandwidth.


Your following 38 people try following more friend you will see more people post.


Individual businesses chose to voluntarily share information about how well their individual customers repaid their bills. These individual businesses saw it in their interest to share this information as they feared each individually offering loans to new customers that had already failed to repay previous loans. What role do you think the state should take to intervene in these voluntary arrangements?

Fundamentally I’m not outraged by credit scores because it is fundamentally your *reputation*. And the human species naturally learns and shares what peoples reputations are.


All you can do is fight your wounds so they do not repeat as badly in your next generation. If you are helping your family do a little better and be a little better, that’s all anyone can do.


Leggo my eggo! 🤔

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Nostr web of trust is mostly just feeds I like versus feeds I don’t like. So it protects you from spam. But it’s not the same as an explicit “I trust you” let me sign your keys with my endorsement that others who know me will now trust you more. It’s softer, so I think in nostr there is additional room for an explicit statement of trust. Maybe a new kind which is just a signed event that says I explicitly trust this npub.?

Also just a second idea I think a note kind of debt between npubs might be interesting. I haven’t worked out the details but maybe something like an event which can be shared privately to define terms and then both parties sign the event and when someone posts it, clients can retrieve the events that show a debt, from one npub to another. And when a debt is paid the “receipt” of the payment can be a new event that is posted so the client determines the debt existed and is now paid? The only debt enforcement mechanism would be your reputation on paying these debts. Anyways that could be another mechanism that users could use to determine who they engage with from a social / commerce perspective.


You are capturing a waste stream, that’s better than nothing as long as you handle it all appropriately. I tried something similar once, threw all food wastes including meat and everything else into a food safe HDPE container, then I filled the remaining container with water and some soil to putrify. I let it sit for two years. I was trying to model an anaerobic digester or the bottom of a pond. Then I dug a deep whole in my garden in the fall, poured the whole thing into it and covered it with soil. In the spring melons planted on top. It scared me to handle it a little because who knows what’s growing in it. But I wouldn’t completely rule out the technique in the future. Would have been nice to have been able to get samples checked and understand what might be growing. But biology and time should fix anything.


Food cuttings? Is this like food scraps left in the folders can to break down?


I find this a strange argument. It sounds like you are saying the most sane effective way to comply with the protocol *yet discovered*, was not an invention, it was “always in the protocol” because it had to be in the protocol for things to work. While also admitting it was never described anywhere precisely enough until a client  dev used their creativity to solve a problem you hoped they would solve with creativity.

And also it sounds like you are annoyed other client devs are dragging their feet at implementing the same solution to the problem that you hoped client devs would solve in a number of different creative ways? Do I have it right? 😀


You are absolutely free to spend your BTC how ever you like, go forth and do whatever you want, enjoy, I zap, I’ve bought things with mine. It’s fine.

Obviously the absurd isn’t true, the more you spend the more wealth you will have. Your an adult I presume you are saving more than you spend, enjoy.


Looks good


Easy button to running a moderated nostr relay? I’ll be watching to learn what this is all about.
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The powerful thing about nostr:npub10qdp2fc9ta6vraczxrcs8prqnv69fru2k6s2dj48gqjcylulmtjsg9arpj is that it allows people to build communities on #Nostr (as moderated or limited as they desire) without impinging on anyone else’s freedom.

After running a Fedivese server with 20,000+ accounts for 5 years, I’ve learned how important this is. Many people want communities catered to their desired vibe. As an admin, you have the responsibility to both nurture the vibe of the group, and protect individual users’ freedom. This is often in conflict.

But thanks to the account portability of Nostr, a user can be removed from a #Ditto server yet, unlike on the Fediverse, they don’t lose access to their account, their data doesn’t disappear, and they aren’t censored from the whole network. That user is just excluded from *your* domain.

Freedom of Association + Freedom of Speech 🤝 Ditto + Nostr

https://soapbox.pub/blog/curated-communities-with-ditto/


Same questions.


Why I garden:
1) The food can be better see tomatoes.
2) The food may be impossible to find anywhere else, giving you varieties, flavors, qualities that no store is selling.
3) It is an act that connects us to all our ancestors and connects us what it is to be human; that we have been adapted/ created/ evolved for. Not gathering /growing / preparing your own food is a modern invention that is inhuman in a literal sense. “human” should be what our species does and have been doing since there have been humans. And for 99% of human existence, it did something that is closely resembled by gardening.
4) As Should be surprising to no one, that doing an activity that resembles what your species has done 99% of it’s existence feels good and is relaxing
5) I develop skills which are practical in a disruption to modern life
6) I spend less currency feeding myself
7) Done well the nutrient recycling from waste streams (composting) to gardens, is the equivalent of growing money. #gardening #grownostr


My kids are finally old enough that I broke out the legos I’ve been keeping in the basement. And a blast was had by all. Truly one of the most formative toys of my youth. I hope it shapes their brains as it shaped mine. I put it up there with listening to my Dad’s stories working at Cincinnati Electro systems as a QA tester, day dreaming through my summer breaks, and building projects with my father.

#legos #grownostr #parenting #fathersday

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Why are most of your replies spam Susan? Why!?!

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From the article sighted:

“Starting just over one year after the beginning of the famine, Song found a sharp dip in the proportion of boys being born — falling from 109 boys born for every 100 girls in April 1960 to 104 boys for every 100 girls by October 1963, about two years after the famine ended. The ratio did not return to pre-famine levels until around July 1965.”

So I don’t think this lives up to the headline. The ratio does not skew to more females, it skewed to slightly less of a male dominance. My alternative hypothesis would be that male infants, which have a single X chromosome, may be more sensitive to environmental factors. And while their mothers were starving they may have in their desperation may have consumed odd plants, spoiled food, clays and dirt. Which may have led to birth defects which ended more pregnancies of males than females.


So who else did this at LAN parties?

https://media.tenor.com/o0EZph8ggmMAAAAC/carnmode-carnagejohnson.gif

#gaming #nostr #grownostr


He is waiting

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The second is closer to the rule of thirds. Buys its all tastes and preferences. Nice shot!


I just went for a walk with the remainder of my lunch hour. Felt amazing highly recommend. 5 stars.


Q: Why is pluto not a planet?
A: It didn’t clear its orbit of debris.

Q: Why is Jupiter considered a planet?
A:
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It must suck for people who can't be politely negative, who are either rude or a pushover, nothing in between.


Glad to hear your fan, I’ve never been there.


Welcome


The destination is a place called The Greenbrier, going with my wife’s family. near Lewisberg.


I’ll be out there in a week or two


I’m a fan of his, if you just stumbled across him, have you listened to the Berlin Wall episode yet. It’s my personal favorite.

https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/what-really-toppled-the-berlin-wall


This video is a No-Dig Gardening Masterclass with Charles Dowding

Ever since we have tried no-dig even on a very heavy clay native soil, we just can't go back to normal.

You indeed need a lot of compost for a no-dig garden and this is why we wanted to master all of this.

credits - growveg on YouTube

#gardening #compostodon #growyourown #nodig #garden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKWHMzHhmg4


I am a vampire by day and a creative corporate cog by night. I’m kidding but I’ll leave it up to you to decipher about what 🐱

#introductions


Pretty new here and wanted to introduce myself. #introductions


Hello Everybody,

I’m an Entrepreneur, Digital Marketer, Content Creator & Ecom Brand Owner!

#introductions


One of the practical benefits of a censorship resistant platform is people reveal who they really are, rather than conforming to a platform’s rules. The obvious benefit is a more free speech for disrupting the narratives and propaganda. The more subtle benefit is the masks come off and you can more easily identify who your tribe is and who  are the jerks. If being a jerk is controlled by the platform and you don’t know it, then your network has a landmine in it. #nostr


Thanks! How is the garden?


Gm


Welcome.


Hello


Hello, welcome


Joined late looks like I missed it or technical difficulties. 😀


Nostr nests has never worked well for me for some reason.


Can’t hear you but my side is also buggy


You guys are crazy, how do I unsubscribe from this mailing list. #nostr


How close to expiration? Sell it on a Nostr marketplace for sats?


I’m feeling truly blessed listening to my kids play together during their sleepover in one of their rooms. They just love hanging out with each other at their current age.


I had some wooly aphids on my tomato cuttings plants. I flicked them off and put them on a table. But I’ve never seen that before.


Enjoying listening to this episode of the “Thank God for Nostr” podcast  nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn helpful to focus on the North Star of building community.


https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spanish-war/

Section IV second paragraph


GM
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One of the most freeing things to realize is, no one has any obligation to measure up to our preferences or expectations.
Nor you to theirs.
Then you realize you are free to make voluntary connections with others, or not, and take them as they happen with open hands.


A user with a larger following has an easier time getting their content to trend because of their network (reposts). This happens before any algorithms find and amplify based on that trend (likes, zaps, reposts, bookmarks, any other proxy for “signal”).

And previously existing networks speed up the forming of new connections in new networks. (Verification through posting npubs in other places, nip05)

So there is clearly a self reinforcing mechanism. So across some scale there will always be the “popular”. If you believe like I do, that humans weren’t meant for the kind of social scale they experience on a daily basis. Then “popularity” which we are all accustomed to as adolescents, is even an example of a social feature of humans that has gotten out of hand. Unless there are diminishing returns at some point in the scale, the reinforcement continues forever.

This is where you are trying to put the trending squelch. Something to generate diminishing returns at some scale so it doesn’t go forever. To make smaller ponds. And maybe to make ideal sized ponds.

points:
1) The acknowledgment that across some scale will always exist a “popular”, “elite”. IMO this is human nature acting in a scale beyond what it was meant for. Biggest fish in the pond no matter how small the pond is above X.

2) The natural diminishing point for humans is physical interaction. Voice and touch. The technology is what enables the scale beyond what the human is innately prepared for. And any scale beyond that is a bit of a problem for the human as an animal.

3) I think Nostr already has greater diminishing returns than the competitors due to decentralization in relays, WoT specific ponds, lack of centralized AI. But as tech it absolutely increases it beyond the natural limit.

4) Despite all the above, humans seem to choose this flawed mode of interaction. I think we get value from discovering useful and entertaining information so we keep pressing the button.

5) It probably can be improved by making the ponds smaller, increasing the friction of interaction. Increasing the diminishing returns. But how to do that without decreasing discoverability?


I think some kind of AI assist is possible and likely. I’m uncertain if I Like it or not.
🤔😀


Great book. Sweetest spinach I have ever eaten from those insights.


legit home-grown tomatoes rule


Well done


Thanks