I should clarify: this should result in the network easily knowing what units of currency there are, with chainalysis being much more difficult to perform / easier to evade compared to Bitcoin - anonymity still wouldn't be a blanket guarantee, if I'm wrapping my head around my own idea correctly


You pretty much get it. It's the fact that zero knowledge proofs are younger.

I also do think a lot about how a privacy token could work while having verifiable supply. The best option I've thought of so far would work like this:

There are no UTXOs, every unit of the currency has a keypair.

Every time there's a new block, every keypair changes based on seeds.

To send a transaction, you say to a network node "here's an encrypted message with moneys in it for a certain pubkey"

To confirm a transaction, the recipient says to the network "here are some moneys and their old keys and some new keys for them to change to"

To retain anonymity, the sender and recipient can also listen for other network nodes sending the same kind of messages, and they can all mix in fake spam messages without blocking each other for it, within reason. You can also just pay a transaction fee to manually cycle your seeds now and then, or to cycle additional seeds other than the ones you're sending or receiving every time you send or receive any.

I'm kinda retarded and sometimes miss obvious flaws in my ideas but I'm pretty sure this would work or is close to something that would


With Bitcoin, the trust in the protocol is all based on proven understanding. It's not "blind" trust. I don't know how to sign a Bitcoin transaction, but I know Satoshi Nakamoto knew how to sign a Bitcoin transaction.

With Monero, my little trust in the protocol is based purely on blind hope.


*Main article is at [[ecological-overshoot]]*

![4models](https://svgshare.com/i/17WP.svg)

In [[environmental science]], a population "overshoots" its local [[carrying capacity]] — the capacity of the biome to feed and sustain that population — when that population has not only begun to outstrip its food supply in excess of regeneration, but actually shot past that point, setting up a potentially catastrophic crash of that feeder population once its food populations have been consumed completely.

The term is used to distinguish tragic population crashes (massive die-offs / "die-backs") from more moderate ecological balance adjustments. In an [[ecological overshoot]] that unfolds into tragedy, the spike in population rising and falling shows the tragedy by the numbers, which can be described as the size of the population "overshooting" how many survive for normal lifespans.

![pathways](https://i.postimg.cc/kXF9BCzv/Alternative-pathways-overshoot-to-collapse-red-lines-or-controlled-contraction-to.webp)

However, the wording carries a connection to [[overpopulation]] and people falsely infer that the concepts are inherently linked. This is inaccurate because overpopulation is only a relevant term when the minimum possible amount of consumption for a population is unsustainable at its size, meaning the size of the population itself is too big to be sustainable. In the [[anglosphere]] and beyond, the false connection supports a common misconception of measurable, proven, extant [[human overpopulation]].

![Earths](https://i.postimg.cc/fDFRFWj1/how-many-planets.webp)

There is no actual proof humans are overpopulated; this misconception is used to protect the highest-consumption individuals from the population crash they're causing, by distracting people from how some of the population consume much more than the rest of the population. These fallacious arguments can be used to oppose sane levels of consumption and support brutal [[population control]] and [[eugenics]]. It is therefore suggested to reserve the term "population overshoot" for cases with actual overpopulation, instead using the terms "[[ecological overshoot]]" or "[[resource consumption overshoot]]" for the broader category.


They now work at your former workplace "no tables inc" where they're making nogit, a centralized git that requires logins but has no functionality except submitting tech support requests


"**Human overpopulation**" describes a concern that human populations may sometimes become too large to be sustained by their environment or resources in the long term. It is a common issue in urban areas, where humans destroy local environments and import resources from increasing distances, crowding out other animal populations and causing other problems.

Throughout the [[crude-oil]]-addicted [[anglosphere]] (and beyond), this subject is usually exaggerated to falsely tie it to the ongoing global [[ecological overshoot]] and predicted human population collapse. The exaggeration is designed to blame the natural urge to reproduce, shielding high-consumption humans - including much of the anglosphere (and beyond) - from culpability in causing the population crash with excessively greedy and wasteful behaviors.

![infographic](https://i.postimg.cc/fDFRFWj1/how-many-planets.webp)


**Overpopulation** is when there are too many of a given species in a given area.

Judgements regarding overpopulation always involve both facts and values. Animals often are judged overpopulated when their [[population]] numbers cause impacts that people find dangerous, damaging, expensive, or otherwise harmful. Societies may be judged overpopulated when their human numbers cause impacts that degrade [[ecosystem-service|ecosystem services]], decrease human health and well-being, or crowd other species out of existence.

# Alleged global human overpopulation

*Main article: [[human-overpopulation]]*

Some humans even believe in global [[human overpopulation]], where humans judge themselves as globally overpopulated because they're upset about limitations in the planet's ability to sustain modern lifestyles at modern population sizes. They wish the planet could sustain more or had fewer people, but it seems easier to make the planet have fewer people than to make it sustain more, and they still seem to prefer that over living lower-consumption lifestyles.

![infographic](https://i.postimg.cc/fDFRFWj1/how-many-planets.webp)


![graph](https://i.postimg.cc/kXF9BCzv/Alternative-pathways-overshoot-to-collapse-red-lines-or-controlled-contraction-to.webp)

**Resource consumption overshoot** is a term for [[ecological overshoot]] which carries a constant reminder to consider differences in resource consumption amounts within a population, rather than falsely tying the amount of consumption to population size.

![infographic](https://i.postimg.cc/fDFRFWj1/how-many-planets.webp)

The term can be used to distinguish the broader scope of ecological overshoot from a more narrowly-defined category of [[population overshoot]], in which the overshoot takes the specific form of [[overpopulation]], meaning the minimum possible level of consumption for a population is unsustainable, so it is the size of the population itself which is in overshoot. This distinguishing language is necessary because the only known literate species (humanity) has a wide variance in amounts of resource consumption, and those who consume the most resources like to muddy up discussion by pretending human overshoot is a result of alleged [[human overpopulation]] rather than their own excessive greed and wastefulness.


The Constitution of the United States of America, and its amendments known as the Bill of Rights, comprise a document written to legitimize the [[United States of America]] as the [[founding fathers]] realized they weren't really ready to run a country legitimate enough to stand for itself without such propaganda. In common portrayals, the Constitution is deceptively presented as a real-world founding document, akin to [[the Declaration of Independence]]. For example, in the [[District of Columbia]], you can see historic printed copies of both in grandiose official displays surrounded by propaganda suggesting both are real, where one is unlikely to encounter any explanation of the difference. It is at least commonly recognized that the Declaration came 15 years before the Constitution. The documents together are referred to as "the [[Charters of Freedom]]."

The Constitution includes [[the Bill of Rights]], amendments added on describing the rights Americans would be guaranteed by law in a legitimate version of the country. Other sections prior to the Bill of Rights detail how a legitimate government could function.

The Constitution's level of detail suggests its creators did intend that it should be possible for it to be used legitimately in the real world someday. By creating it and portraying it as a real thing with real judicial weight, they did actually give it some real judicial weight, where it can have impact on judiciary opinions and the authorities can sometimes feel it is important to adhere to it, even though they do not show an overall legitimate dedication to it. It is possible that the Constitution could grow in popularity until courts claiming to fall under its jurisdiction actually adhere to it properly, and thus they become legitimate.


Gn 🌌


Replied to this already but can't see my reply now so saying it again:

I don't know if it's true that the maths I trust in Bitcoin are more complicated.

I do know the maths I trust in Bitcoin have been tested and proven by the smartest people on earth with very high stakes beyond anything we've seen with "zero knowledge proofs."


How do you know the Monero network rejects malicious nodes like you know with the Bitcoin network?

For me as a Monero user, the answer is "blind hope."


How can she keep getting away with this 🥲


*This article is about reserves worldwide - you may be looking for [[united-states-strategic-petroleum-reserve]]*

> **Global strategic petroleum reserves** (GSPR) refer to [[crude oil]] inventories (or stockpiles) held by the government of a particular country, as well as private industry, to safeguard the economy and help maintain national security during an energy crisis. Strategic reserves are intended to be used to cover short-term supply disruptions.

That's the [[Wikipedia]] description, anyway.

In reality, the world is in a major energy crisis in which humans are running out of [[fossil fuel]] energy sources we use to survive, while at the same time, humans are also using [[nuclear fusion]] energy sources (the sun and nuclear bombs) to attempt [[omnicide]].

[[Resource consumption overshoot]], the [[climate change]] caused by it, and [[mutually assured destruction]] with nuclear weapons, all going on at once, is perhaps a bigger energy crisis than any other imaginable. The time to use petroleum reserves as a strategic cover against supply disruptions is long past; it is now obvious that the strategic purpose of petroleum reserves is for the most insane and dedicated members of the global death cult to burn through supplies as quickly as possible while simultaneously discouraging a transition to using nuclear energy for survival (instead of omnicide).


*See also: [[petrodollar]]*

The **Strategic Petroleum Reserve** is a bunch of abandoned salt mines used by the U.S. Department of Energy for buying extra [[crude oil]] with freshly-printed "[[taxpayer money]]."

Basically, when American civilians aren't buying as much oil as the world can possibly drill out of the ground, the [[American military industrial complex]] foots the bill to drill the oil out of the ground to put it back in the ground and then take it back out of the ground and sell it at whatever price people are willing to pay with the extra money that was printed in the time it took to drill it out of the ground and put it back in and take it back out again instead of simply selling the oil for cheaper or leaving it in the ground.

If that seems confusing, here's a little graph to help you understand: 📈

Oil is lighter than water, and since humans are mostly water, we sink in it. If you fall in, you will drown.

It's unclear whether anyone has drowned in the strategic petroleum reserves, but thanks to people being allowed to work on the sites without training, at least one man has died so American citizens could have the privilege of these oil holes. May we see the war criminals responsible brought to justice someday.


*Not to be confused with the [[country of the United States of America]], a fictional spin-off used for legitimizing the real thing in propaganda*

**The United States of America** is the official name of a group of **states** on the continent of **America** which combined their armed forces to "**unite**" and overthrow British monarch rule over the continent. The name is a simple descriptor of these aspects of it.

It's commonly referred to as a "country" despite being a mishmash of separate and diverse states with no legitimate national government tying them together anymore.

# History

The "founding fathers," leaders in these states at the time, originally claimed their combined borders as a legitimate new country, based on [[the Declaration of Independence]], and this country was recognized by the British monarchy and other world powers.

However, since they still didn't have any real leadership going on, the new country rapidly succumbed to authoritarianism, with the [[founding fathers]] discarding their own fledgling country to begin a new brainwashing campaign to replace the monarchy's years of brainwashing. As their criminal proclivities grew, they drafted the [[United States Constitution]], presenting it as a statutory document with actual judicial weight, and they increasingly emphasized the concept of replacing illegitimate governance with legitimate governance, to keep people distracted from how they were done with that and had moved onto reversing it.

This split the name between the real place (an illegitimately-claimed fake country based on what was briefly a real country with a legitimate claim to its territory) and the fictional place (a country which would continue to be a real country if it existed in the real world). Aside from the real group of American states, the name "United States of America" could now also refer to this fictional concept of a continued [[country of the United States of America]]. To keep people confused, propaganda would have to conflate the two continually.

Perhaps due to the military might of these combined states, other countries have falsely recognized this claimed country's legitimacy no matter how far the slide into illegitimacy has gone, continuing from the brief period when it was a legitimate country and first gained recognition. This false recognition has been essential to the rise of the [[American military industrial complex]] and the spread of its global dominion.


Gotta drive with your head tilted to the side


This all seems like nonsense. I like Monero, but I don't trust the supply to be verifiably limited. You basically have to trust the protocol itself in order to trust the "proofs" you describe, as I understand it; they're not actual proof, you're relying on an assumption.


"The Little Thief," by the French artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1900.

#artstr https://image.nostr.build/5056947f9c97edf972a07c38ed025b70d493e4cf31568a569ea0e23af48a50f3.jpg


She STOLE that pear??? 😮


So yeah, like you said, it's probably impossible


If you kidnap the president and imprison him to question him about the federal government's war crimes you can simultaneously prove you are a fed and aren't a "fed"


If you think Bitcoin consumes a lot of energy to secure the network, just wait until you find out the cost of securing paper currency.

https://m.primal.net/IuFQ.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IuFR.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IuFS.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IuFT.jpg


Is this real?


I do believe he and Colbert are true friends and it's just an act


This is the type of shit reddit bans you for posting (I know from experience)

nostr:note1sm80squ62lqsyzhzzu6sgw2qfaltzs6m8f9dstevkm8up7fdfq3qwxdrqd


What


🐀 gang


Are you saying the pigeons are trying to make me mad I can't fly? Dang them.

The npub thing is because I'm a fed


Humans who eat pigeons probably taste better than pigeons, and I'd feel less guilty for eating a human who eats pigeons, especially since a full-size human can provide a meal for many more people than a full-size pigeon.

Also, did you just call jogging a "social aggression expression?"


I think many nostr devs underestimate the importance of balancing the zap economy because they think in abundance. There's this assumption that as nostr grows it will have money dumped into it like Facebook or YouTube except the money will go to the people instead of a corporation.

People need to wake up and realize the deep state printing money to propagandize through Facebook and YouTube in a desperate oil-starved economy probably aren't gonna suddenly do wealth redistribution through nostr adoption.

It's on us nostriches to fight against becoming another lopsided parasocial thing where few get rich and the many follow the few.


This made me realize we're now past the stage where Bitcoin has about the same inflation rate as gold, entering the stage where Bitcoin's inflation rate is significantly better.

I still prefer dogecoin, which is currently at almost 5% a year inflation and decreases slower than Bitcoin (no halvenings just a constant amount against an increasing total). The inflation subsidizes the network for new users so everyone can actually use it on-chain and no Lightning type thing is needed so far.

You could argue Bitcoin doing less inflation-based subsidy is better for users because they'll see stronger market value increase, but dogecoin has gotten bigger percentage gains against USD over the years so no.

nostr:note1ngj0mmlngs8rw8w66u6xs7e32wlh992xegy4z45pcvfqhvtgqtkswp4q7k


That's one of the first improvements I've wanted to see on nostr, but I have no idea if the re-use risk is going to matter. Keychains would also help with the risk of entering keys into all the different apps and devices people use


The "**founding fathers**" of the [[united-states-of-america|United States]] originally referred to the 56 individuals who signed [[the Declaration of Independence]].

List of founding fathers and their states, copied from the Declaration:

> × **[[Massachusetts]]**

> [[John Hancock]]

> -------

> × **[[Georgia]]**

> [[Button Gwinnett]]

> [[Lyman Hall]]

> [[George Walton]]

> -------

> × **[[North Carolina]]**

> [[William Hooper]]

> [[Joseph Hewes]]

> [[american-founding-father-john-penn|John Penn]]

> -------

> × **[[South Carolina]]**

> [[Edward Rutledge]]

> [[thomas-heyward-jr|Thomas Heyward, Jr.]]

> [[thomas-lynch-jr|Thomas Lynch, Jr.]]

> [[Arthur Middleton]]

> ------

> × **[[Maryland]]**

> [[Samuel Chase]]

> [[William Paca]]

> [[Thomas Stone]]

> [[Charles Carroll of Carrollton]]

> -------

> × **[[Virginia]]**

> [[George Wythe]]

> [[Richard Henry Lee]]

> [[Thomas Jefferson]]

> [[american-founding-father-benjamin-harrison|Benjamin Harrison]]

> [[thomas-nelson-jr|Thomas Nelson, Jr.]]

> [[Francis Lightfoot Lee]]

> [[Carter Braxton]]

> -------

> × **[[Pennsylvania]]**

> [[american-founding-father-robert-morris|Robert Morris]]

> [[Benjamin Rush]]

> [[Benjamin Franklin]]

> [[american-founding-father-john-morton|John Morton]]

> [[George Clymer]]

> [[american-founding-father-james-smith|James Smith]]

> [[american-founding-father-george-taylor|George Taylor]]

> [[american-founding-father-james-wilson|James Wilson]]

> [[american-founding-father-george-ross|George Ross]]

> -------

> × **[[Delaware]]**

> [[Caesar Rodney]]

> [[american-founding-father-george-read|George Read]]

> [[Thomas McKean]]

> -------

> × **[[New York]]**

> [[William Floyd]]

> [[Philip Livingston]]

> [[Francis Lewis]]

> [[Lewis Morris]]

> -------

> × **[[New Jersey]]**

> [[american-founding-father-richard-stockton|Richard Stockton]]

> [[John Witherspoon]]

> [[Francis Hopkinson]]

> [[american-founding-father-john-hart|John Hart]]

> [[Abraham Clark]]

> -------

> × **[[New Hampshire]]**

> [[Josiah Bartlett]]

> [[william-whipple-jr|William Whipple]]

> -------

> × **[[Massachusetts]]**

> [[Samuel Adams]]

> [[John Adams]]

> [[Robert Treat Paine]]

> [[Elbridge Gerry]]

> -------

> × **[[Rhode Island]]**

> [[american-founding-father-stephen-hopkins|Stephen Hopkins]]

> [[William Ellery]]

> -------

> × **[[Connecticut]]**

> [[Roger Sherman]]

> [[american-founding-father-samuel-huntington|Samuel Huntington]]

> [[american-founding-father-william-williams|William Williams]]

> [[oliver-wolcott-sr|Oliver Wolcott]]

> -------

> × **[[New Hampshire]]**

> [[Matthew Thornton]]


I meant to test Tor browser and stuff too but I got sidetracked so I'm just gonna copy and paste this from my notes app before it's outdated

I tested some nostr web apps to see if they could make a kind 1 post from WebPositive browser in Haiku

Only satellite.earth and coracle.social passed

Tested in a VM with 2 CPU cores and 2GB of RAM

satellite.earth

Passed

snort.social & iris.to

Too slow to use, no sign of post going through; sus

nostter.app

Stuck on splash screen

ditto.pub

Loads posts, doesn't log in

wikistr.com

Doesn't load posts properly

wikifreedia.xyz

Fails to finish loading at all

primal.net

Crashes entire VM (shutdown signal still responds properly)

yosup.app

Visit cloudflare.com for more information

coracle.social

Crashed browser first try, passed second try

nostrudel.ninja

Fails to login with new or existing key

nostrgram.co

Blank page

Nostribe.com

Can't post


Put links like this in archive.today before posting so people don't go to apple.news

You can take the /wip part out of the archive link when you copy and paste to skip waiting for it to load


Who she


accurate… https://image.nostr.build/4b6979ee095a64f849c24056e4e1b6920dded2f980cd48a4796bf9ae9e803450.jpg


Is it good? What one is it?


If this isn't my first time saying all this, my bad 🤏🧠


Finally getting around to reading my wife’s new book 🧡

Five years in the making.
https://m.primal.net/ItES.jpg


I also don't think it's a lie, but rotating keys is good practice anyway


Bitcoin rotates keys.


I don't believe you


So weird. Doesn't nostr have streaming now anyway? Jack never does shit right lol. No click from me


Primal also asks for contact info to set up lightning


laeserin@getalby.com & co are working on a decentralized alternative

https://wikifreedia.xyz/gitcitadel-docs if I typed that link right


Nah nobody would pretend to be Bezos. Sounds like it must have actually been him


Note of the month or year if true


Big if true 📈


I appreciate how nostr:npub1a00wj229auzjswlq4s77y4u8eqdx5k9ppatgl8rtv8va65f6mwksum9q3h doesn't try to hype up the security of their devices in this era where it's impossible to get secure components. It would be better if they actively warned users modern devices aren't secure, but at least staying quiet about it is better than being one of those "security-focused" honeypots.

Obviously them being on nostr is also a good sign.

Maybe someday they'll be the first ones to make a legitimate non-honeypot security-focused handheld device when it's actually possible, with a RISC-V CPU and open-source wireless networking and stuff.

We'll see.


TONS OF CARBON HUH?? I WONDER WHAT THE PETRODOLLAR IS 🤔🤔🤔


The **United States Dollar** (USD) was the national currency of the United States until 37 years before the UNIX epoch.

The dollar was backed by [[precious metals]]. When the global population's resource consumption levels intensified economic competition to the point of devaluing human lives, the [[American military industrial complex]] got really creative about finding ways to kill and steal from everyday Americans, and the backing was changed to [[fossil-fuel|fossil fuels]], abolishing the [[gold standard]]. Banks were replaced with gas stations and the old banks were converted into casinos, where the house always wins. In this process, dollars were converted into [[Uncle Sam Dinobux]] (USD), today's American national currency. This was a genius move because brainwashed slave laborers in America still confuse Uncle Sam Dinobux with dollars, alleviating economic competition for well-connected old-money wealth hoarders who control the money printing.


**Capitalism** is a political term which has become heavily charged with a disjointed set of different meanings. People disagree on what it means more often than they can agree on a shared definition for it.

# Safe mainstream academic view

**Capitalism** is the simple concept that there should be [[capital]]. Under capitalism, property rights should exist, people should be able to have wealth.

# Capitalist view

Capitalists often use the word **capitalism** to more specifically imply [[free-market capitalism]]. To them, "capitalism" itself suggests an associated arrangement of social ideals where property rights are designed to enable a [[free marketplace]] in which everyone has a right to opportunities. A well-designed capitalist system is able to ensure the dynamics and economics of capital trade are a way to optimize for everyone's quality of life.

Capitalists believe the system we live in is flawed because it is not pure capitalism, due to encroachment by other ideologies, especially socialism and/or communism.

There is a perceived spectrum between capitalism and communism, with socialism in the middle, because the three groups are often in conflict, but socialism can be mixed with each of the other two and all 3 groups can easily include supporters of socialism.

In particular, these other ideologies are often said to be encroaching on today's global system with the common presence of forced taxation and/or [[fiat currency]]. This mix may be referred to as communo-capitalism.

Proponents of free-market capitalism often suggest [[precious metals]] and [[cryptocurrency]] as tools for solving this problem.

# Communist communist view

Pure communists see **capitalism** as a dangerous delusion in which people are so susceptible to obsessing over money, it can inspire a population-level drive to gamify society, leading to harm such as the [[anthropocene extinction]] which may wipe out all known life-forms.

Communists see forced taxation and fiat currency as inevitable end results of capitalism, and they see communo-capitalism as a result of capitalism encroaching on communism, not the other way around.

## The disagreement over who encroached on who

Neither side has proof, which is why this article tries to frame both views in equal light. The conflict is much older than these English-language terms for it.

Anthropologists see evidence suggesting [[barter]] systems did not exist until [[currency]] had also been invented, because currency normalized negotiating amounts of value in exchanges, and before that there was a [[gift economy]] where people simply shared as needed with others who would do the same. This would mean communism is the original system, and capitalism comes with monetary systems.

Even if capitalists believe this, they may still believe communism is incompatible with modern developments, leaving free market capitalism as the only logical next step and the idea worth dedicating their lives to. They may still see recent attempts at communism as illegitimate encroachments on the peace and prosperity built up with the development of civilization.

# Capitalist communist (or communist capitalist) view

Communo-capitalists (a constant embarrassment to themselves and the rest of the human race) see **capitalism** as a dangerous delusion in which people are so susceptible to obsessing over human rights, it can inspire a population-level drive to resist tyranny, leading to harm such as new wealth accumulation which may compete with older wealth accumulation.

Like free market capitalists, they like money, and use the word "capitalism" to imply free-market capitalism in particular. Like communists, they believe in communal judgement of who should and shouldn't be allowed to own land and they hate other people who like money (even though they like money themselves).

However, unlike communists and free-market capitalists, these communo-capitalists do not know anything that has ever happened in history, they do not know what anything is called or what any words mean (such as their ideology and the ones they argue with). They do not care about making a better future for everyone. They don't bother to develop a consistent worldview and examine their personal preferences or their impact, they just parrot whatever they enjoy, and pavlovian reward responses are used by the worst people to promote repetition of the worst ideas from each ideology. As a result, they are least qualified of anyone to define a highly charged political term like "capitalism."

# Communist capitalist (or capitalist communist) view

Communists may see today's system as the worst of both worlds, and therefore see potential in the concept of free-market capitalism to replace extant communo-capitalism. Commies therefore often support the use of precious metals and cryptocurrency to divert people from widespread economic delusions, even if this isn't as satisfying as shifting the other direction.

This support for improvement in either direction may also be called "communo-capitalism," in which case you probably wouldn't want to also use the term "communo-capitalism" to refer to the worst-of-both-worlds mixture people should move away from in either direction. This goes to show how all these terms have gotten very confusing over the years. It is communo-capitalist to have the two mixed, but it's also kinda communo-capitalist to support un-mixing the two by whatever means necessary.

# Takeaway from all these dissonant definitions

Understanding what people mean when they talk can be very different from focusing on what words mean. This page may help you understand what a lot of people mean in various contexts, but there will also be times you have to ignore what you remember from this page in order to understand what someone is saying. The term "capitalism" is just too charged for a world where you'll meet some people who have read much more than you, and some people who have read much less. We must calibrate each other's knowledge and viewpoints in intellectual discussion.


*Instead of writing a new article or copying from Wikipedia, it seemed better in this case to copy the article on Robert Smalls from [https://www.badassoftheweek.com/robertsmalls](https://www.badassoftheweek.com/robertsmalls) and just fix it up a bit*

*Archive link: [https://archive.ph/6rZa0](https://archive.ph/6rZa0)*

![Robert Smalls](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Robert_Smalls_%287222835684%29.jpg/343px-Robert_Smalls_%287222835684%29.jpg)

# Early life

**Robert Smalls** was born into slavery on a big plantation in [[beaufort-south-carolina|Beaufort]], [[South Carolina]], on April 5th, 130 years and 271 days before the UNIX epoch. His mother was a slave, and his father is a bit of a mystery – most guesses involve the son of the guy who owned the plantation, but the only real clue pointing to anything is that someone once wrote that he "looked mulatto," and the truth is that we honestly don't know for sure and it doesn’t matter to the story at all anyways. Smalls was raised by his mom in the plantation house, and she made sure that he got out into the fields to witness the true horrors of slavery first-hand — she had been taken from her parents when she was seven, and she didn’t want Smalls to forget it, and by the time he was old enough to punch shit he was understandably pretty pissed off about the whole existence of the institution in general. At the age of 12 he was arrested by Charleston PD for the heinous crime of being outside after 7pm (he'd been hanging out with his white friends and didn't feel like coming home early just because he was the only one with dark skin) and Robert's mom started getting a little anxious maybe that her kid was getting a little too Public Enemy for life on the Plantation. She helped arrange for Robert to be "leased out" to work on the docks in Charleston, a fucked-up arrangement where the kid would bust his ass ten hours a day rigging ships and moving heavy shit around only to watch 95% of his salary go right back to his owners on the farm. But, whatever, Robert Smalls didn't complain, and for the next five years he kept his head down and worked his balls off, eventually moving up to work as a sailor and deckhand on board commercial steamers heading in and out of Charleston Harbor. He fell in love with a woman who worked at one of the hotels on the docks (it probably didn’t hurt that he's got kind of a Childish Gambino thing going on in that first photo up there), got married, rented an apartment, and had two kids, all while bringing home just $1 a week of his wages and somehow living off of that.

# Negotiating a price for his family's freedom

Of course, happily married life wasn't really all that chill for enslaved couples in Charleston in the years leading up to the [[first American civil war]], because not only was Robert Smalls a slave, but so was his wife, and both their kids were born into slavery as well.  Which meant that at any moment, either Robert's owner or his wife's owner could decide to sell either of them, or their kids, and there wasn't a damn thing anyone could do about any of that.  Since that is obviously super fucked-up, Smalls went to his wife's owner and asked to buy her freedom, and that dickhead was like, "yeah, no problem, I'll give you your wife and kids for $800".

At a dollar a week, it was going to take a while, but Robert Smalls started planning and saving.

Then the war started.  And the first shots were fired so close to Robert Smalls that he could probably see the explosions at [[Fort Sumter]] from his apartment's bedroom window.

Smalls was 22 years old when the war started, and since he had like a decade of experience rigging, sailing, and working on ships, he was immediately pressed into service about the CSS Planter, a converted cotton steamer that was now working as a supply ship ferrying food, ammo, and other supplies from the Charlestown docks to the various forts that defended the harbor.  He technically wasn't allowed to be appointed the ship's pilot, because that job could only go to a white person, so Smalls was appointed "wheelman", which is functionally the exact same thing as pilot and the only real difference is that Wheelman sounds more gangster and evokes mental images of dudes in sunglasses pulling badass handbrake turns in expensive supercharged Italian sportscars.

# Renegotiating a better price for his family's freedom

Smalls worked on the crew of the Planter, and even though he did his job with expert professionalism he also never lost sight of the fact that it was super fucked-up that he was risking his life every day to fight a war where victory meant continued slavery for himself and his entire family.  So, as he made his rounds sailing between all of Charleston Harbor's forts, he started making mental notes – troop placements, currents, tides, and, most importantly, signals and codes sent between the ship and the forts that dotted the harbor.

For the next nine months he waited, watched, and gathered intel.  Every time he left port, he told his wife to pack a bag and be ready to bolt at a moment's notice.

Robert Smalls was planning one of the most insanely-dangerous and badass escapes anyone had ever attempted.  He just needed to wait for the right moment.

And, one quiet night in May 108 years before the UNIX epoch, he found that moment.

The CSS Planter's crew and officers where white, but Robert Smalls and seven other slaves also worked aboard the vessel.  Well, on the night of May 13, after a long shift ferrying supplies and weapons, the ship put in at one of the little islands in the harbor for the night.  At 2am, the exhausted captain ordered his crew to make camp on the beach and grab some sleep.  Smalls offered to remain on the boat with the other slaves, and keep the ship prepped in case they needed to leave in a hurry.

As soon as the crew and captain were asleep, he fucking stole the steamboat.

These things are not quiet – it's got a big-ass charcoal boiler in it – but Smalls still somehow got his crew to slip it out undetected, and then he bolted directly back to Charleston.  This, of course, would be certain death if he was captured – certainly the Confederate Navy didn't have a lot of tolerance for slave mutineers – but Smalls didn't give a fuck.  He landed at port, and him and his crew ran to get their families.  Then, moments later, 17 escaped slaves re-boarded the ship and slipped out again.

Freedom was ten miles away, with at least five Confederate forts standing between these desperate escapees and the open water.

Smalls assembled his makeshift crew, and his first order was for them to load the six cannons on board Planter.  He was going to try to talk his way through the Confederate checkpoints, but, if discovered, he was going to fight for his ship as long as he could.  If defeat seemed certain, he had one man stationed in the boiler to blow the ship.  This was going to be a one-way trip out of Charleston harbor, either sailing to freedom or being vaporized in the process.  Nobody on the ship was going back to the life they'd just escaped.  They were going to die free.

The first couple checkpoints went smoothly.  The darkness of the early morning helped, as well as the fact that Smalls had literally piloted this ship on these routes dozens of times already.  He knew the signals to call (two long whistles and a short), the orders he could say, and he wore a big-ass hat to try and hide his face to avoid any unwanted questions.

Robert Smalls somehow talked his way past five Confederate security checkpoints while piloting a ship crewed by 17 slaves, many of them women and children, by convincing the sentries that he was on a mission to run the Union blockade and deliver weapons to nearby Rebel camps.

It worked.

It wasn't until he slipped the final blockade that the sentries figured out what was going on.  The sound of alarm bells and whistles alerted behind him, but Smalls and his crew fed the boiler and outran their pursuit – directly to the Union Blockade.  The Union frigate that encountered him almost opened fire, until they looked through their scope and saw a white flag flying high above the Planter and seventeen happy people dancing on the decks.

When Robert Smalls was pulled aboard the Federal ship, he basically said, "Good morning sir, I've brought you some of your guns back."

# Retiring from piracy, starting military career

For almost single-handedly saving 17 people and delivering a six-gun warship to the Union, Robert Smalls was immediately hailed as a hero in the North.  He made national news, his story is sometimes credited with being part of the reason why the Union started allowing black soldiers into the Army, and Smalls personally went on a speaking tour throughout the Northern states trying to recruit black soldiers to fight in the war (he is credited with securing the enrollment of 5,000 African-American soldiers).

But Smalls didn't want to talk.  He wanted to fucking fight.

And, less than a year after he fled Charleston Harbor, he went back – at the head of a warship.  The USS Planter, the same damn ship he'd just stolen from his enemies.

Commissioned as an officer in the United States military, Robert Smalls participated in 17 naval military actions in and around Charleston Harbor between 107 and 105 years before the UNIX epoch.  He piloted a US Navy Ironclad, the USS Keokuk, during the attack on Fort Sumter in April 107 years before the UNIX epoch, and earned a commendation for bravery at the Battle of Folly Creek in June while piloting the Planter – the ship's captain got a little shell-shocked from the heavy fire the ship was taking and ran to hide in the boiler room, so Smalls took over active command and helped his crew fight off the enemy attack.  He was promoted to captain, earned a salary of $150 a month (making him among the highest-paid black soldiers of the Civil War), and watched proudly from the deck of the Planter when Charleston surrendered to the Union 105 years before the UNIX epoch.

# Returning home with political ambitions

After the war, Robert Smalls was appointed Brigadier General of the South Carolina militia, and he took his wife and kids back home to Beaufort.

Literally.

As in, he bought the house where he was born.

He let his former owners live there with him, because Smalls was a chill guy, and he opened a store, opened a school for black students, and started a newspaper called the Southern Standard.  He was elected first to the South Carolina State Senate, and then, 96 years before the UNIX epoch, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives with 80% of the vote from his district. And, like, holy shit right? The dude stole a warship from this town, used that same ship to attack the forts defending the town, and then 80% of the people in that town voted to send him to Congress for it. That's pretty badass.

Well, not everyone was all pumped up about Representative Smalls. 93 years before the UNIX epoch, the guy he beat for the seat orchestrated some bullshit scandal where they accused Smalls of taking bribes while he was working in the State Senate. He was sent to court in Charleston, given a joke trial, convicted, and sentenced to three years in jail, but only ended up serving two days before the Governor of South Carolina pardoned him because this whole thing was just a lame political maneuver. Even Congress thought it was bullshit, and Smalls didn't even lose his seat in the House over it — he just walked out of jail and went right back to the House of Representatives. He went on to serve three more terms in Congress, where he worked to desegregate the military, restaurants, and railroads, fought for debt relief for Southern families who had lost their homes and property during the War, battled for voting rights for black people, and fought the Klan and their allies in every arena they presented themselves. Hell, at the age of 73 the dude stopped a lynch mob from killing a kid in the streets near his house by walking right up to the mob's leader and telling that asshole that if they killed that kid then Smalls would rally every black person in Charleston and burn the entire fucking city to the ground.  Which, for the record, is how you handle that sort of thing when you’re a badass.

After serving five terms in Congress, Robert Smalls went home, worked for a bit as the Customs Collector at Charleston port, and died at his home 55 years before the UNIX epoch, at the age of 75. His home is now a national landmark, his name is on a couple schools in South Carolina, and 34 years after the UNIX epoch he became the first African-American to have a US warship named after him – the support ship USAV Major General Robert Smalls.  Not bad work for a kid born into slavery whose primary goal was to live in a world where he didn’t have to worry about his wife or kids being forcibly ripped out of his home due to circumstances beyond his control.


![image](https://i.postimg.cc/NQ7yjnh4/Declaration-of-Independence.webp)

**The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America** (as titled in the engrossed version and also the original printing) was the original founding document of the [[united-states-of-america|United States]], 15 years before the [[united-states-constitution|Constitution and Bill of Rights]] (so-called "[[Charters of Freedom]]").

On July 4, 193 years and 181 days before the UNIX epoch (then recorded as the year 1776), it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the [[Second Continental Congress]], who had convened at the Pennsylvania State House of the time (later renamed [[Independence Hall]]) in the [[colonial-history-of-the-United-States|colonial era]] capital of [[philadelphia-pennsylvania|Philadelphia]].

The declaration explains to the world why [[the Thirteen Colonies]] regarded themselves as independent sovereign states no longer subject to [[british-colonization-of-the-americas|British colonial]] rule. The [[American Revolutionary War]] had been going since April of the prior year. The Declaration justified the independence of the United States by listing [[the-27-grievances|27 colonial grievances]] against King [[George III]] and by asserting certain natural and legal rights, including a right of revolution.

The 27 grievances are mild in comparison to the brutality of American settlers genociding Native Americans, or the brutality of the [[American military industrial complex]] 200 years later.

Nonetheless, the Declaration had a fair amount of legitimacy as a founding document, being a concise and direct explanation of why the new authorities could lay claim to the lands with the consent of the governed.

The 56 delegates who signed the Declaration of Independence came to be known as the nation's [[Founding Fathers]].

The Second Continental Congress tasked [[the Committee of Five]] ([[John Adams]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Robert Robert Livingston]], and [[Roger Sherman]]) with authoring the Declaration. Adams, a leading proponent of independence, persuaded the Committee of Five to charge Jefferson with writing the document's original draft, which the Second Continental Congress then edited. Jefferson largely wrote the Declaration in isolation between June 11 and June 28 of the same year, from the second floor of a three-story home he was renting at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia.

What Jefferson called his "original Rough draft", one of several revisions, is currently preserved at the [[Library of Congress]] in the [[District of Columbia]], complete with changes made by Adams and Benjamin Franklin, and Jefferson's notes of changes made by Congress. The best-known version of the Declaration is the signed copy now displayed at the [[national-archives-and-records-administration|National Archives]] in the District of Columbia, which is popularly regarded as the official document; this copy, engrossed by Timothy Matlack, was ordered by Congress on July 19 and signed primarily on August 2 of the same year. The most frequently reproduced version of the Declaration is a stone engraving commissioned by Secretary of State [[John Quincy Adams]] 47 years later.

# Other information sources

https://wikiless.tiekoetter.com/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence?lang=en ([[Wikiless]])

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https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript • https://archive.ph/mOxIB

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https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/resources • https://web.archive.org/web/20240616184800/https://declaration.fas.harvard.edu/resources/

# Transcript

> ***In Congress, July 4, 1776***

> **The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America**, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

> He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

> He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

> He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

> He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

> He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

> He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

> He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

> He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

> He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

> He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

> He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

> He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

> He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

> For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

> For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

> For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

> For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

> For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

> For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

> For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

> For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

> For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

> He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

> He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

> He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

> He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

> He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

> In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

> Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

> We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

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> **[[Massachusetts]]**

> [[John Hancock]]

> -------

> **[[Georgia]]**

> [[Button Gwinnett]]

> [[Lyman Hall]]

> [[George Walton]]

> -------

> **[[North Carolina]]**

> [[William Hooper]]

> [[Joseph Hewes]]

> [[american-founding-father-john-penn|John Penn]]

> -------

> **[[South Carolina]]**

> [[Edward Rutledge]]

> [[thomas-heyward-jr|Thomas Heyward, Jr.]]

> [[thomas-lynch-jr|Thomas Lynch, Jr.]]

> [[Arthur Middleton]]

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> **[[Maryland]]**

> [[Samuel Chase]]

> [[William Paca]]

> [[Thomas Stone]]

> [[Charles Carroll of Carrollton]]

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> **[[Virginia]]**

> [[George Wythe]]

> [[Richard Henry Lee]]

> [[Thomas Jefferson]]

> [[american-founding-father-benjamin-harrison|Benjamin Harrison]]

> [[thomas-nelson-jr|Thomas Nelson, Jr.]]

> [[Francis Lightfoot Lee]]

> [[Carter Braxton]]

> -------

> **[[Pennsylvania]]**

> [[american-founding-father-robert-morris|Robert Morris]]

> [[Benjamin Rush]]

> [[Benjamin Franklin]]

> [[american-founding-father-john-morton|John Morton]]

> [[George Clymer]]

> [[american-founding-father-james-smith|James Smith]]

> [[american-founding-father-george-taylor|George Taylor]]

> [[american-founding-father-james-wilson|James Wilson]]

> [[american-founding-father-george-ross|George Ross]]

> -------

> **[[Delaware]]**

> [[Caesar Rodney]]

> [[american-founding-father-george-read|George Read]]

> [[Thomas McKean]]

> -------

> **[[New York]]**

> [[William Floyd]]

> [[Philip Livingston]]

> [[Francis Lewis]]

> [[Lewis Morris]]

> -------

> **[[New Jersey]]**

> [[american-founding-father-richard-stockton|Richard Stockton]]

> [[John Witherspoon]]

> [[Francis Hopkinson]]

> [[american-founding-father-john-hart|John Hart]]

> [[Abraham Clark]]

> -------

> **[[New Hampshire]]**

> [[Josiah Bartlett]]

> [[william-whipple-jr|William Whipple]]

> -------

> **[[Massachusetts]]**

> [[Samuel Adams]]

> [[John Adams]]

> [[Robert Treat Paine]]

> [[Elbridge Gerry]]

> -------

> **[[Rhode Island]]**

> [[american-founding-father-stephen-hopkins|Stephen Hopkins]]

> [[William Ellery]]

> -------

> **[[Connecticut]]**

> [[Roger Sherman]]

> [[american-founding-father-samuel-huntington|Samuel Huntington]]

> [[american-founding-father-william-williams|William Williams]]

> [[oliver-wolcott-sr|Oliver Wolcott]]

> -------

> **[[New Hampshire]]**

> [[Matthew Thornton]]


Tell us stories?


I think you miscounted, you're way younger than that


[[Dogecoin]] probably shouldn't be pronounced "[[doj coin]]." It's got a _misspelled_ doge on it, not an old English "doge."


Did bro save your life?


Press the button on the left pls. This is the peak era of worrying about money and you're young enough that if you just make it to old age money will no longer be a worry.


Smart women b crazy 💯 🙄


Being a US citizen is supposed to make you free according to the Constitution


I don't even really know, it's something the kids say these days 🤔


I don't want to use the word "rizz" again 😢


Bro really captured the vibe of rizz deficiency in this painting


**CalyxOS** is a fork (split-off version) of [[android-os]] with softened security for recent devices, hardened security for out-of-date devices, increased [[security theatre]] for all users, and a built-in feature that can route a device's traffic through [[Tor]].

The project markets itself as a way to gain security and privacy on [[backdoor-vulnerability|backdoor]]-riddled smartphones. Try going in the project's official chats to continuously remind people (every time a reminder is appropriate) that their security is always compromised by ARM's CPU-level [[hardware-backdoor|hardware backdoors]], or the proprietary basebands modern phones use. See how it goes. Log it and post how it goes.

The project targets Pixel devices, which are the only devices to benefit from [[single-party accountability]] due to being branded under the same corporate umbrella as Android OS itself. This security benefit is lost by installing a third-party OS such as CalyxOS, and the project's insistence in pretending otherwise is very suspicious. However, using CalyxOS may still be worthwhile for the legitimate benefits it offers, such as extended patches and updates for the most well-known security vulnerabilities.

The CalyxOS project is officially connected to the [[Calyx Institute]].

Website archive link (**warning: propaganda**) - https://archive.ph/R3FNk

*See also - [[DivestOS]] • [[GrapheneOS]] • [[degoogle]]*


**GrapheneOS** is a fork (split-off version) of [[android-os]] with softened security for recent devices, hardened security for out-of-date devices, and increased [[security theatre]] for all users.

The project markets itself as a way to gain security and privacy on [[backdoor-vulnerability|backdoor]]-riddled smartphones. Try going in the project's official chats to continuously remind people (every time a reminder is appropriate) that their security is always compromised by ARM's CPU-level [[hardware-backdoor|hardware backdoors]], or the proprietary basebands modern phones use. See how it goes. Log it and post how it goes.

The project only targets Pixel devices, which are the only devices to benefit from [[single-party accountability]] due to being branded under the same corporate umbrella as Android OS itself. This security benefit is lost by installing a third-party OS such as GrapheneOS, and the project's insistence in pretending otherwise is very suspicious.

However, using GrapheneOS may still be worthwhile for the legitimate benefits it offers, such as extended patches and updates for the most well-known security vulnerabilities.

Website archive link (**warning: propaganda**) - https://archive.ph/vhmON

*See also - [[DivestOS]] • [[CalyxOS]] • [[degoogle]]*


Addendum - the issue probably wouldn't be a shrinking amount of developers or users, but a shrinking amount of careless handling of sensitive data on user devices.


No, I am not constructing a straw man. I got banned from both projects' official chats for talking about hardware backdoors lol

I recognize in my articles that they're useful alternatives to getting no more updates for outdated devices, but if they had people in their chat who frequently call bullshit on any lies about what a custom android ROM can actually do, that would make them a little less sus to me, and it might also result in them having fewer developers or users or something.


*See also: [[parallel-construction]]*

A **backdoor** in security terms is a vulnerability which has been created intentionally, as opposed to one which is created accidentally. Backdoor vulnerabilities are implemented to open up future potential for exploiting whatever they're included in.

# Widespread prevalence

Modern electronics are riddled with backdoors. See main articles on the subtopics [[hardware-backdoor]] and [[software-backdoor]] for some more information.


A **hardware backdoor** is what you get when a system is built to intentionally include security vulnerabilities ([[backdoor-vulnerability|backdoors]]) for hackers to exploit, as opposed to a [[software backdoor]] which is when code is designed to intentionally include vulnerabilities.

Hardware = the physical build of the system itself, "hard" as opposed to "software" because it can't be changed with a download

Backdoor = a security flaw intentionally added into something

# Widespread prevalence

Hardware backdoors have compromised security in many ways for modern humans, being widespread in [[consumer electronics]] from the oligarchy of tech manufacturers.

A famous example is the [[Intel Management Engine]]. It forces Intel customers to have mysterious all-accessing components with unknown functionality built into their [[central-processing-unit|CPU]]s. Other manufacturers have added similar things to their CPUs, such as [[ARM TrustZone]] and the [[AMD Platform Security Processor]], among other examples.

Consumer electronics tend to rely on AMD64 and ARM transistor layout designs (called [[instruction-set-architecture|instruction set architectures]]). Use of these designs is tightly controlled, with nobody being allowed to manufacture CPUs compatible with the same instruction sets without permission from the [[American military industrial complex]].

[[RISC-V]] architecture is an alternative which is gaining popularity and may allow consumer electronics to be made without backdoors. However, eliminating hardware backdoors is not simple. Some major hurdles aside from the CPU are currently the GPU and wireless networking, both functions which are considered essential in many cases, but which are difficult to implement without components featuring unknown functionality from the oligarchs.

Hardware backdoors cannot be eliminated without widespread, decentralized manufacturing and even more widespread, decentralized [[security-audit|security auditing]]. Such developments are many years away, with surviving [[climate change]] currently being a higher priority for the human race. However, any possible progress is always needed, as cybersecurity may turn out to be useful in the fight against extinction.


Follow the instructions from this segment of the article and you can probably make a good post about this topic:

> The project markets itself as a way to gain security and privacy on backdoor-riddled smartphones. Try going in the project's official chats to continuously remind people their security is always compromised by ARM's CPU-level hardware backdoors, or the proprietary basebands modern phones use. See how it goes. Log it and post how it goes.

Edited to add "continuously" at same time as making this reply, since of course they might allow a quick one-time statement.


Butthurt denialism from Vinney, sad to see


**DivestOS** is a custom [[android-os]] ROM kinda like [[GrapheneOS]] and [[CalyxOS]] except DivestOS is mostly a coding project, while the GrapheneOS and CalyxOS devs spend most of their time using social media to gaslight people.

Despite this difference, DivestOS is also involved in [[security theatre]] and likely under control by the same arm of the global [[deep state]]. This deep state control over DivestOS appears to be more indirect than it is in the GrapheneOS and CalyxOS projects, but that could simply be a result of all 3 being set up to have 1 look like more of an independent, rebellious underdog.

Like the other two, DivestOS also gaslights users on its website, trying to give a false impression of what it can do. The project also targets Pixel devices and specifically focuses on taking away their unique advantage of [[single-party accountability]] (by incomplete [[degoogle|deGoogling]] - as opposed to complete deGoogling which would be good, but isn't possible without different hardware).

DivestOS may still be worth using on devices that are no longer receiving official updates, as DivestOS does legitimately offer extended updates with patches for newly-uncovered Android [[software-backdoor|software backdoors]] and other security flaws.

DivestOS is a fork (split-off version) of [[LineageOS]], a separate project forked from the original Android OS.

Website (**warning: propaganda**) -

https://DivestOS.org/

Archive link: https://archive.ph/BYNmt


She sounds like a fed 👁


No but ok


I can only give warnings, not recommendations, in this area, because phones suck these days.

My warning for DivestOS is what I was saying about single-party accountability - if you have any sensitive data on your phone, and that data gets in the wrong hands, your response is disadvantaged by not knowing if the leak came from the maker of your phone or the maker of the OS.

That said, you can still use DivestOS to adopt alternatives for Google software and strongly signal to Google that you're so done with their shit, you are ONLY using a pixel because it has the third-party support.


It will be the type of shit they say when they start parroting me - fuck you for putting it the other way around based on NOTHING, asshole


Where the fuck did your train of thought come from here? I have definitely never heard an executive at a corporation say what I'm saying, and I guarantee you haven't either, and neither has any audio recording on the internet because it's not the type of shit corporate executives say.


Me? That sounds like projection and I still don't see how it all connects as a train of thought


You basically openly admit your opinions are based on selfishness and greed ("I own property" - so you think, hooray for you) so I didn't really read your post

Can you phrase your point in a quicker to read way?


**Juneteenth**, officially **Juneteenth National Independence Day**, is a federal holiday in the US. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in reconquered confederate states. The holiday's name is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", as it was on June 19, 105 years before the UNIX epoch, when Major General [[Gordon Granger]] ordered the final enforcement of [[the Emancipation Proclamation]] in [[Texas]] at the end of the [[first American Civil War]]. Although this date commemorates enslaved people learning of their freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation, this only applied to former Confederate states. There remained legally enslaved people in states that never seceded from the Union. These people did not gain their freedom until the ratification of the [[13th Amendment to the United States Constitution]] on December 6.


*This entry is about the fictional, propaganda version of the [[United States of America]] - not to be confused with the real version which was also briefly a legitimate country in its revolutionary era*

![flag](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg)

**The United States of America** is a fictional Constitutional Republic based on a real place using the same name. Like the real place, it is based on [[the Declaration of Independence]], but unlike the real place, it is also based on the [[United States Constitution]], a fictional document detailing some of the differences between the two. Like the real place, it claims national territory and is recognized worldwide as a country, but unlike the real place, its reputation for legitimacy is in line with the actual behavior of its people.

This fictional version of America, including its Constitution and other elements, was created by precursors of the [[American military industrial complex]] for propaganda purposes, portraying a version of the [[United States of America]] which would count as a legitimate country, to maintain the illegitimate real-world country, instead of allowing it to be too widely noticed.

Unlike the real-world version, the fictional concept carries additional meaning separate from what's described by the words. The meaning in the words is still there - American states sharing a goal - but the fictional version of the United States is also defined by *what* that goal *is* in particular. To be specific, the fictional version has states United in the goal of overthrowing illegitimate gang rule to found a legitimate country, rather than simply being yet another criminal gang of evil terrorists with huge territory.

Most people are not smart enough to wrap their heads around propaganda conflating a real thing with a fictional version, so this propaganda has been very successful in confusing people, with politicians in the US being able to rely on an entire voter base whose overwhelming majority actually believe the fictional country is real and they're in a legitimate democratic Republic as defined by the Constitution. It's impossible to go through life without seeing ample proof this is nonsense, but seeing proof doesn't guarantee a person will think about it, and thinking doesn't guarantee a person will understand.

This fictional, legitimate version of the United States may be feasible as a concept. It could potentially replace the real-world United States in the future.


United States may refer to:

The [[United States of America]], a weakly-defined country and the home territory of the [[American military industrial complex]].

The [[country of the United States of America]], a fictional version which is undeniably an independent country, used in propaganda to legitimize the American military industrial complex and their precursors.


That's very sad but I'm still not quite sure what you're telling me


I'm anti-war too, generally, but wasn't Lincoln probably too?

My point is, you can recognize times where violence is needed. But I highly respect how strong your instinct is to avoid it and protect people


We need something like cryptwerk.com on nostr but with stores that actually accept coin separate from stores that just accept "coin payments" through some third party converter


Meant to say WW1 vet but same applies


I'm not understanding what you mean, but if I got a chance to talk to a WW2 vet, I probably wouldn't waste their time with my opinions other than suggesting they join nostr


What do you think of Abe Lincoln? I say if he lived forever he might regret being so brutal and believe there were lives that could have been saved, but he fought a fight that did need to be fought


The second American civil war is a developing conflict. Most of the combat so far has been between random residents and the [[American military industrial complex]]'s home-territory [[police state]], with organized resistance being very slow to appear.


I and many other protestors would have preferred the state keep escalating and get overthrown tbh

The state's actions are outside my control though, what I cared about was upholding free speech by being yet another person added into the number of protestors after police violence tried to quiet the anger at state actions


Not Maine, but yes Maine because bike lanes aren't such an issue when everyone but the richest are out of gas


Trump didn't pardon Snowden. Try someone else


That's true. I forgot it was called MicroStrategy not MagnumXLStrategy


Why? Just short squeeze Bitcoin itself instead


#SEC officially ends investigation into Ethereum and will NOT pursue charges that ETH is a security.

#Nostr https://image.nostr.build/2cbb381963f9c937b3ad1999cde4605ac525f31bdd41a08f8e536a058d895ae4.jpg


Have read about half the thread and it all further solidifies my opinion that the ideas being discussed in that thread are over-complicating something that can be much simpler.

If anyone wants to give a direct explanation of what I'm missing, I'm open to it.

Otherwise, it seems to me the best path to functionality right now would start with adding 1 field, then maybe a second and third could be added later.


After reading the thread a bit more, I can now see reasons for 3 fields: genre context (code vs politics), action context (edit vs delete), and trust score/ranking.

I still can't see the reason for the 3 fields to be context, score, and confidence. Still reading.


Nah. People developing curation systems that don't make sense are trying to force tradeoffs on me. I'm just gonna run trustworthy npubs and systems that don't work will not recognize my npubs as trustworthy and systems that work well will be good at recognizing my npubs as trustworthy.


Just like I don't really follow people, I don't have a lightning address attached to my npub either


Wym


It's getting so hot out today in Maine, we gave the chickens ice water and put out some (non ice) water for the other creatures to save them some distance on their way to the creek around the corner. I guess these will be things that should be done going into summer in modern years.


wow


I mean, you have to remember the simple fact politicians did that thing they do sometimes where they're like "people are so angry they're fighting with cops in the streets, maybe if we keep escalating it will calm them down."

History and dictionaries show that escalating fights with people who vastly outnumber you might not be the way to calm them down when they're angry.

It's insane to deny that tactical truth.


I have glasses that convert lies into truth.

I read your post with them off, it says:

> Nah, I'm not concerned. I find it majestic.

When I put them on, your post says:

> Please don't remind me.


The key tactical point was demonstrating an irrevocable critical mass of resistance which could not be crushed by force. The conflict between us protesters and people like you was driven by the fact that you didn't recognize this core point, overriding everyone's disagreements over political minutiae and bringing us together over the simple fact that we wouldn't allow each previous protest to be broken up by police violence without the next protest having more people and being more of a problem. The only way out was to convict a cop of a murder committed on duty. Otherwise people were going to be exercising their first amendment rights to express dissatisfaction with a police force unilaterally free to commit murder without consequences. Even people who want cops to be murderers should be able to wrap their heads around the fact that free speech forces itself on the world as a result of democracy and the human drive for expression. When you say you disagreed with the tactics without recognizing the core tactic of showing free speech couldn't be prevented, it's like you think free speech only worked because the protesters got lucky and you don't actually agree with the idea that free speech is an emergent property of human nature that you can't stop no matter how you feel about it.


You're just overwhelmed by how dark the world is without your help anyway.


No, that's a delusion. Memento Mori.


So look up what "good" and "evil" mean Mr. English Is The Language Of The Internet


So they haven't heard of the US military before joining? Lmao


Why are you calling people in the US military "good?" The most "good" they can do is manipulate evil people's trust which is barely good since it's still manipulating trust.

I care so much because my brain works. Nuclear apocalypse isn't fun in real life.

My goal is to restore communication infrastructure to its former peak and beyond.


Kinda resisting censorship 💪


This is true, I saw it happen


I'm not gonna take your word for it when a few minutes ago you said English is the language of the internet. Telling me SCP is great just wastes my time. You should have detailed how it doesn't aggravate targets of the military industrial complex if you want to convince me it can replace my plans


You WANT a nostr conference every month. Meanwhile, you are not helping eradicate COVID, which the human race (you're a member of) actually NEEDS eradicated. You actually NEED to educate members of your local community or move somewhere with smarter people so you don't feel the urge to travel every month to find people you can work on important shit with.


Growing

I get this info from they doxxed fiatjaf


What does that make it better for? It seems like it's an interface a relay can use, I don't see how it's an alternative for any functions of the nostr


I think it does, someone show this man what he's looking for

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Oh, I see after giving it more thought how a context field would be useful for adding another degree of separation into the "web"

I rate npub x at 90% for politics, they rate npub y at 90% for politics, npub y gets their opinions included without being in my list - doesn't work for different contexts without the "for politics" field

But that's still only 2 fields - why would we want 3? 🤔 I might have to read the thread more later today


Let the military industrial complex prevent the use of DNS themselves, no need to self-censor.


1. Without American military funding maybe those things would be different, but the different versions would probably be much much better and maybe also have better names
2. No, not everyone can use English nor would they want to and it's not the language of the internet, it's the language of bullshit England and the bullshit anglosphere
3. Nostr is a great protocol if you want simplicity
4. SSH is much better for what? I don't see a connection
5. I don't know or care who will use my relay except I hope I'll live long enough to do so myself
6. What's all about the user demographic? Obviously there's a hopeful chance smart people will show up first but you can't control that so who really cares?


This would also allow cool features like a hypothetical "trusts all npubs in existence" slot in the list that you can click and drag to the top to override all reports and see everything unfiltered


That was the first thing I addressed tho - you do context by changing the rankings

They could be weights but rankings are easy to click and drag when changing, or a UI could represent weights as rankings with advanced settings to see the numbers for best of both worlds

Ideally something like a wiki client would remember your list for each wiki category, for example, so if you have wildly different lists for different topics you don't have to change them every time or switch npubs to switch lists


Disrupt your own vibe then please bro. Too cultish.


Doesn't sound good. I'd keep the relay functionality separate from Tor node functionality. The most integration they might need is a relay where the network interface it relies on is Tor (which is definitely one of the first relays that should be made under my model)


Thank you for showing me where to discuss this, learning more now 🙏


I skimmed the thread Vinney linked but I'm not understanding at all. What are these fields or the points of them? Why not just 1 field, which is either a priority ranking or a weight for each npub in your list, allowing the rest of the functionality to rely on well used indicators like follows, reports, likes, upvotes/downvotes?


The main difference would be as I just mentioned, a good nevent format. Language-neutral, none of this bullshit English bloat trying to aggravate targets of the American military industrial complex. In my design's case, it would be called "kind 1" and aggressively try to replace the original kind 1, though other designs don't need to do the same.

Another difference in my design's case is that my relays just relay. They don't have all this bloat legacy relays have. You probably wouldn't install one without a library or seeker or anything, but you could, and you can definitely change the one you're using without changing your library or anything. All the relay does is send binary input, receive binary output, index connections, maybe handle requests for its connection index, and, in the reference implementation, have a command line interface for dealing with all the input and output in text form.


(this reply is funny if you notice that I don't really follow anyone on this key)


I'm not interested in building functionality relying on legacy relays. Getting a good standard format for posts into widespread deployment should be higher priority for all nostr devs currently


All of these are useless.


I posted some thoughts, nobody's engaged yet -

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My middle school made me stop jailbreaking the iPod touches and iPhones of other kids in school for a small fee

Now any cell carrier I try to use will constantly harass me, rob me, and deactivate my service all the time as punishment for being too woke and I can't even get phone calls without wifi anymore

Actually it tracks, it seems like a 180 but it's just that we "cop flak" even from the companies we pay for tech products


Ultra based


A better phrasing would be "tax collectors call spending selling"

Your phrasing implies they're not lying, which hurts your brain and the brains of your readers in a psychic way imo

This is an overarching problem across the English language (don't know about others)


If people were a little less shitty, Bitcoin adoption at retail establishments would be a bit faster and there would be no visa bullshit involved


WAIT, YOU SAID HOUR???


That's still fast

Mine is like 15 and even that is fast


The end of that chart would be a great time for Saudi Arabia to drop the petrodollar 🧠


🇺🇸 Federal interest payments in the United States now exceed the entire defense budget 👀

Beginning of the end 🤷♂

https://m.primal.net/IqNl.png


Nothing useless about illegal goods on the darkweb


Things like this should always be put in quotation marks and labeled "so-called"

So-called "capital gains tax"


Not sure if I explained clearly enough - what I mean is the chat bot took my argument and connected it to the correct phrasings in a way I hadn't seen, and no human would bother to actually do in an argument, even a psychologist who precisely understood my mistake. Seeing my argument phrased with perfect clarity made me see how silly it sounded and showed me a better way to phrase it to actually mean what I was trying to say.


Holup

Chat bots are useful info finders, they get shit wrong all the time so you have to double check but they can answer a lot of questions I never find humans answering

They're also useful to practice debating with

Specific example of both - I used to insist that "mental health" should mean "cognitive health" and not include "emotional health" but I used slightly different wording. A chat bot explained it to me in this wording during an argument, which makes it sound very silly, so I learned not to say that silly shit and instead make clearer statements on the difference between cognitive and emotional health.


No, only me. The rest of you are glamorous, in the only unglamorous nobody underdog 😤


Also, great minds think alike, half my ideas get used by people who thought of the same thing without even seeing mine.


Coding or paying*


The best part is, I probably don't need to do any coding or waiting. I'm so good at design and there's such strong demand for improvement in the world, there's a chance someone else taking my idea will be faster than me.


Strange how you type a lot but can't read. What I said was that I will get it done, not that I won't. And I implied I can write software or pay to get it written, not that I can't. And I definitely didn't ask about USD 🫵🤣


2 year old investors must love nvda


Fuck it, I'm reposting a mostr.pub user on purpose this time 🤙

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In my defense primal was just showing it as a blank npub with no kind 0


I accidentally reposted something from a mostr.pub user -_-


Медицина - наука, крайне необходимая для человека в любое время, в любом месте и не только тогда, когда он болен, но и даже тогда, когда он здоров.

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/641/208/071/416/178/original/2c3550fd8d0c440c.jpg


I don't see a point to the mutual-following-based web of trust except maybe sheer simplicity. A better web of trust wouldn't purely focus on who trusts who.

It would factor in how much you trust people and what topics you trust them on by letting you shift the priority list of what npubs you trust.

It would also factor in which content people do and don't trust from each other in general by using content-based judgments instead of only npub-based judgments at the furthest degree of separation. In other words, putting an npub at your highest priority slot would not filter out what npubs they disapprove of and show stuff from what npubs they approve of. It would show you what content they approve of and filter out what content they disapprove of.

The "approving and disapproving" has different meaning depending on context, since there are different uses for web of trust. In the context of feed curation, posts they approve of could mean posts from anyone they follow and posts they don't approve of could mean posts they've reported. That's kinda like the existing thing with mutual follows. But in the context of a reddit clone, the web of trust could be like a weighted karma score based on upvotes and down votes. In the context of a wiki, upvotes and downvotes would make sense as accuracy judgements there too.


Taking chances? Yeah right. When that thing shows up behind you, you're out of chances. Say hello to the short arm of the law.


It's also a small difference I bet. Like if we picked IQ it might be 2 points on average


I am here to say it. Those who pay are dumber than pirates. I'm willing to bet this is backed up by any measurement of intelligence we can reasonably agree on


Is the new cat food farfalle? Cats cannot live on farfalle.

Look at home made cat food recipes online, part of the price of store bought cat food is to give it shelf life and you can pay less to provide better quality. Cat food supply chain becoming unreliable so it's essential for people whose cats don't feel comfortable with certain kibble


My cat hates her new cat food. Don’t know what to do. Had to buy the old brand again. 😬


As long as you kids are both enjoying the nostr 🙏


#bloomscrolling

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Mein gott, you two are like oil and butter


Deadass she looked bored beforehand and kinda happy after


Nah


Oh shit, also important and I forgot to mention, don't confuse it with Fullmetal Alchemist without the Brotherhood part. Brotherhood was made after because the original adaptation was a huge disappointment to people


If it fails to introduce itself to you, try jumping ahead to when the Greed character is introduced, the writers put more thought and research into the topic than we ever will in our nostr thread


I heard all that but I believe the truth is you're both trying to get more rational.


The copywrong license loses in court every time, but just sucks for the court system's ability to influence humans outside the courthouse


The copywrong license pretends to care if Apple uses your code, but actually forces apple not to care if you use their code (or brand name or whatever) after they use yours. (With Apple just being an example)


You ever seen Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood? It posits that greed has an alternate form where instead of mixing with the ability to lie to oneself it mixes with the ability to be honest and true to oneself and it suddenly has the potential to be virtuous. It's lit 🔥


A court would probably find your work under this license is functionally the same as public domain, except maybe the part about changing the name means you're keeping rights for a particular branding.

That's pretty good, public domain is like the pure legitimate version of what Stallman was going for anyway.

GitHub might not allow a copywrong license to stay on their site, at least not forever, since it prohibits them from doing so; except a court would actually probably rule against the license and say the code can be used, which is exactly how the copyright system falls apart. Apple uses your code and violates your license and instead of losing a lawsuit against Apple where you got your hopes up about the court not lying, you're like "yeah, courts don't recognize the copywrong license, nothing we can do about it except rebel against the courts and use Apple's proprietary code without their permission too"


If she takes you off mute, it probably wouldn't be to keep insulting you. You low key know she's a worthy conversationalist 👀


I think the concept of greed has religious roots where it's a struggle to recognize sufficiency and be satisfied by it. Baked into all humans, an urge to have more than whatever we have at a given time, which mixes with one other flaw, our ability to lie to ourselves, and the result is we can have a hard time appreciating what we have.

Of all the ideas from religion, this one's seemed the most well-established and proven in real world observation from my anecdotal experience. It seems as though if there is a conscious creator of the universe, they've balanced this to be challenging for us and imbued magical meaning into the challenge.


Gave it a look.

In the context of Stallman's "copyleft" licenses (pretending "right" was a direction or a political orientation), "copywrong" would be licenses which do not grant any permission.

These would allow open source software to flourish freely with the copyright system falling apart.

Instead, Stallman made a dumb pun and helped uphold a system that says Apple and Microsoft are allowed to use any code they want and use violence against anyone who tries to use code they say is theirs


Stallman has always been sus

Why did he call his opposite of copyright "copyleft" when the correct thing would have been "copywrong?"

That's not a pun, it's the core reason you can't trust him if you think about it


I'm exceptions to most of these


Posts can be signed with a special non-cryptographic method but there is a weakness at determining if they actually come from the npub they say they do


3 hours of it was spent pulping wood and blueberries turning them into small sheets of paper and some ink


I built a client from scratch in 4 hours but it's just some sheets of paper with hand written text on them

Remember, nostr is an open protocol anyone can implement however they want


What if homeless but not broke 🧠


I'll bite but I bet it won't hit the same as if she continued the discussion with you

You're basically relying on the assumption trickery doesn't exist to justify the idea greed doesn't exist, as far as I can tell?

I used to be a delivery driver. People paid for the food I delivered, including the cost to pay me as an employee delivering it, plus tipped me. Meanwhile, I was polluting the environment with an entire car just to move food around safely because other people with entire cars wouldn't let something like a motorcycle be safe. I trust the food I delivered was of decent quality by this shitty era's standards, but via pollution, my job was to kill my customers and everyone they love while relying on them not knowing I'm doing that so they not only pay me, but tip me as well. I didn't tell every customer "you really shouldn't tip me, I'm taking away your food in the long run, it's a tragedy that you couldn't cook for yourself." I don't expect delivery drivers to tell me that every time they deliver to me either. And I also tip them worthless dollars hoping it will help them survive. Doesn't mean I think they're good people or adding anything to society. They're random people who may or may not be good but are currently unable to find a way to survive without being part of the military industrial complex's petrodollar economy.

Dollars are worthless pieces of paper anyway, maybe in an economy based on something valuable it would be more likely for the economic exchanges to reflect value and people would be better at accurately assessing value instead of clinging to delusions.

I'm sure you're more open to learning than laeserin realizes. I think she sees you have disingenuous thoughts and she assumes you're always willing to argue disingenuously but I notice you might actually be trying to get out of the habit. If you respectfully keep suggesting you'd like to try talking to her my gut feeling is she's the type to try again


One of the first animals humans domesticated, possibly before dogs


When a kind 1 compliant client parses the link as a link this gives a 404 requiring the user to know to remove the parenthesis on the end

This is actually a feature not a bug, people who don't know how to fix it will just hit the back button and be on nostr again


Nothing yet, then like a million Satoshi when that's actually enough to get a software suite done, you feel me? All in on my stack at today's market values 📈


If it's Vinney he seems to genuinely appreciate your intelligence want to start over, fwiw


Doggie coin helps with this


Smart women b crazy


Wot heck are you guys talking about

Deflation is when the amount of bitcoins go down


Your medical radiograph can cause cancer


The first camera made heliographs

The important distinction is that your camera can make a cell rebellious ser


Same thing


Good cameras don't need redundantly safe over-engineered preventative measures against emitting harmful radiation. Today is not the day to find out why yours have so many


My favorite strain of weed is therac-25, you heard of it?


I'm sure 1 nanosievert is perfectly safe but there are too many medical professionals who care more about convenience than safety and will manufacture and use machines operating at unsafe levels


Amethyst is lit


At this point idk if you're talking about real x rays or like a strain of cannabis


Zaps being lightning based is a red flag. If someone is broke they should try to get tips on their posts even if red flags try to scare them away from the money


X rays being less harmful than lack of knowledge doesn't mean x rays are harmless.

There may also be actual harmless methods that are overlooked, even for bullshit financial reasons.

Don't be misleading


Bitcoin is definitely deflationary. Coins are lost faster than new ones are made, the total supply therefore decreases.


Lit


Banks are just gonna prefer equity for a while I'd bet


And there is nothing stopping my casino bank from continuing to bear interest on my deposits... as long as they feel like it instead of rug pulling.

https://freebitco.in/?r=1600054


I still think deflation could stabilize enough to allow profitable loans again, maybe in our lifetimes, but halal loans sound more compatible in general with a world where there's a deflationary currency


Like, with no party running the circle of monetary flow, no debt system can really be stable


No because she's not a central bank so even if she's guessing right she can't guarantee profits for herself and her cronies by changing it again on a whim

If I'm getting what she's saying


What's xmr.rocks 🤔


Maybe planes not magic but that's just me


There is so much resistance to the idea of human cooperation, volunteerism, or altruism.
The insistence that greed is the only effective human motivator is a cultural plague.


Not the way things are headed. It's simple statistics, everyone is moving out of New York because it's becoming such a police state and corporations are taking over. If you graph the trend out into the future it projects that the last 100 people in Manhattan will be a tribe of NYPD officers answering to a mayor chat bot that has them drink Kool aid after all the server racks have been moved to the top floors for sea level rise


Fuck yeah, that's rebellious as shit 💪🤘


It's current year, I'm reporting you to the FBI


Sorry but if humans are dying out we're gonna have algorithms printing money and posting new all time high trades on those tickers on the outsides of the buildings on wall street just like when life signs could be detected in new york city


Couldn't deflation get below 20% someday though? I'd imagine it stabilizing someday to deflate by as much as gold and silver inflate, maybe times two for lost keys, that's still probably less than 10% a year


What if you got kissed on the cheek by one tho


The core disagreement between the two of you seems to be over how deflationary Bitcoin is under a Bitcoin standard

To you, the Bitcoin standard hasn't started until we finish the wave of adoption driving value to increase

To Laeserin, we're already in the early days of the Bitcoin standard


I think aside from her moral beliefs, Laeserin's mathematical point is you can't denominate loan interest in Bitcoin because it's so deflationary and you can't really expect profit on loans under the early years of a Bitcoin standard for the same reason. Equity investment might be profitable but lending becomes a charitable act while there's such a deflationary currency available. Anyone borrowing 10 BTC will have a hard time returning 10 BTC while each Satoshi is gaining value faster than the rest of the economy's assets.


What if I believe in Eleutheria 🧠


I bet Nvidia stonk was money laundering crypto gains 💯


Wait what


Building on the simplicity of that, you know the little popup you get from the burger menu on each post in satellite? The one that lets you copy the nevent ID or get a direct link or whatever. Another link could just be added in there to a more feature rich client or a hub like njump