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2024-09-23 06:05:18

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Poland cannot into space. Ukraine, even less.

2024-09-23 05:57:26

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This page has a pocket history of the word: https://nakamoto.com/the-cypherpunks/

2024-09-23 05:38:00

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It ends up being useless, but it starts by being boring and cringe.
Never underestimate the ability of the median public school teacher to make interesting and useful things tedious

2024-09-23 04:02:06

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We created a way to access nearly the entirety of human knowledge, and we use it to watch cat videos.
We created a way to trustlessly record and share permissionlessly and globally a chain of custody / ownership of an asset, and we use it to trade ape pics.

2024-09-23 03:57:07

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"Nobody knows" is the truthful answer.
Energy flux and duration determine exposure.
How you handle it is mostly how much ionising radiation you are used to, followed by your age, immune health, and then various genetic factors.

2024-09-23 03:52:45

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'Night, Gel!

2024-09-23 03:50:35

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And by suppressing wages and raising the costs of horizontal cooperation, it reduces the incentive for businesses to innovate.

2024-09-23 03:42:53

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Where is this, does anybody know?

2024-09-23 01:35:39

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I have read it, but I'm still pretty sure Bukele is still alive and a free man because of the insignificance of his little country and its resources.
If Australia tried this, or (good heavens!) Qatar or Bahrain, there would be trouble...

2024-09-23 00:12:58

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Why would the IMF care about a country the size of a postage stamp and with a long, long history of misrule?
They figured El Salvador would be back soon enough. On their knees. Metaphorically and perhaps literally.

2024-09-22 21:18:58

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Cringe. No.

2024-09-22 20:41:22

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Kamala Harris "could have done a better job" of securing the US border too. Chiang failed harder for longer at something his generals kept demanding to do.
And the KMT was the world's richest political party from the 1930s until at least the early 2000s, that's neither secret nor denied.

2024-09-22 13:40:30

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Reading "Mao: the unauthorised biography" - there were SO MANY opportunities for Chiang to wipe them out both before and during the Long March, when they were strung out, starving, and with no ammunition but what they carried from the start, which was not much. Chiang intervened personally and repeatedly, removing commanders who pursued them too aggressively.
Chiang planned to take care of them eventually I don't doubt, but his priorities was destroying autonomous provincial governments and amassing a private fortune.
Chiang's only son, interestingly, was an avowed Communist and spent the war in Moscow.

2024-09-22 12:49:59

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Chile and Argentina definitely don't make the cut.
Re Nationalist China, mass-scale civil war was entirely their baby, mostly against the Anhui- and Zhili-aligned provinces whose leadership had dominated Beiyang China. The Communists were an insignificant threat in the 20s when KMT did much of their killings, and the Communists were a "threat" that Chiang repeatedly intervened with his military to preserve - as an alibi for his plans of expropriation, systemisation, centralisation and war.
Re Japan, their rhetoric was all about uniting Asians against the colonialists. Claiming these "brothers" as subjects and ruling them. And then they stole their food, raped their women, and tested Typhus in their municipal water.

2024-09-22 12:22:48

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100%.
But this is equally true of Japan, Nationalist China and most of the Rightists in Rummel's book.
Major exception being Suharto, who massacred when he decided to decisively end his late boss's plans of conquest but still needed to "reward" his troops.

2024-09-22 12:12:27

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The USSR starved a lot of people, not merely those in the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. Stalin exported their food to pay for his military industrialisation program, of which the focal point for investment was the Donbass. Nikita Khrushchev rose through the ranks of the CP-Ukraine and CP-SU during that time, and eventually succeeded his boss.
Definitely war-related, just as much as the artificial famine Japan caused in China and Vietnam.
Much more war-related than Suharto's massacres of ethnic Chinese and Leftists in peacetime, or Chiang Kai-shek's slaughter of, well, everybody not obeying him.
Mao, though, not the remotest external excuse there. He was asserting dominance over his military and politbureau, and it worked, but thankfully he died right after the "Three Difficult Years".

2024-09-22 11:31:20

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Fair, but the difference is of degree not of kind.
During its worst years, the USSR had foreign troops occupying parts of its claimed territory up to 1924, and Muslim guerillas in central Asia into the 1930s. Then that long-forgotten war with Afghanistan in '29, and interventions in Western China in the 30s.
Communist China had a standoff with Taiwan, scattered cross-border raids out of northern Myanmar, and troops rotating through Vietnam securing the tungsten mines and Ho Chi Minh's rear areas.
Not WW2 levels of military mobilisation, but certainly not what I'd recognise as peacetime...

2024-09-22 11:00:34

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Invading all neighbours to create a "Co-Prosperity Sphere" was both a political and an economic decision.
Some of the other Rightist democides recounted in Death By Government were political plus religious, and not economic, so you'd be correct there; but I don't see any moral difference between Leftist and Rightist democides.

2024-09-22 10:45:51

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AFAIK she hasn't killed anyone, and I have no idea even which flavour of "Leftism" she favours. If its some flavour of sincerely-practised left-Anarchism she gets a full pass from me.
"Rightism" killed tens of millions of innocents last century.
Murderous Statists are murderous, whether they kill for "The People", for God, or for Mammon.
Going on a tirade against "Leftism" in somebody else's thread is indecorous, yes.
Its also pointless, hypocritical and divisive.

2024-09-22 03:30:51

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All you are doing is shitposting in somebody else's thread, and you don't even have an original or interesting point.

2024-09-21 22:12:43

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3753 Cruithne is our best moon.

2024-09-21 22:03:49

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I'm a value investor, and blackmailing paedophiles is still delivering a lot of value.
Importing cheap labour and printing public debt seem to be giving diminishing returns, though.
World War 3 fixes this.

2024-09-21 21:48:14

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"Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
There is the State,
And then there is YOU"
Professor Rummel's "Death By Government" is about the 20 most democidal governments of the 20th Century.
Only six of those were self-declared Leftists, plus one "maybe".
Can we stop trying to make everything about the Left/Right seating plan of Parliamentarians in 1700s France?
It's pointless, divisive and cringe. Sheds heat but not light.

2024-09-21 09:54:29

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Passive radar for the win!
The Germans pioneered it during WW2, using backscatter of British commercial radio broadcasts to detect Allied bombers crossing the Channel and North Sea.
Using Starlink's thousands of point sources is much more challenging computationally, but I don't doubt modern electronics is up to the challenge

2024-09-21 03:38:15

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He got rich, moved to Lagos, and then updated you on his fortune.
Next step is overpaying for your air ticket, and asking you to send the balance back via Western Union!

2024-09-21 03:29:58

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ROFL that Japan died in the 1870s

2024-09-21 03:26:52

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So that's the moment when Greek culture turned from "Wisdom" to "Trouble and Discord"!
Subversive.
Checks out.

2024-09-20 09:33:19

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Same, but I'd be willing to spin up a second "normie" account

2024-09-20 02:55:41

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"Variety is the spice of life"

2024-09-20 02:47:21

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Link or it didn't happen

2024-09-20 02:45:25

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"Oh missy, look at you, go and wash your face. Your sister and her friends got into Mother's cosmetics again, didn't they? And used you as their doll..."
She's got nothing, bro, just borrowed clothes.
"Mother" in my scenario is probably hot. Sister possibly.

2024-09-20 02:17:56

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This.
And have an "offline" backup, too, in case something systematic goes wrong with your primary backup system.

2024-09-20 00:44:42

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I'm gonna say it - 12 y o girls are barely pubescent, and negligibly attractive. Nobody IRL actually gonna choose one over porn. Maybe not nobody, but that's a level of incel I hope never to meet.
Later teens is showing promise, and 23-24 is peak. Maybe 25 if she's East Asian.

2024-09-19 23:40:22

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You do.
I could also wimp out and tile everything. Less dramatic failure modes, but nowhere near as fun...

2024-09-19 23:35:23

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Y'know, best idea yet!

2024-09-19 23:32:53

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Clay will release and absorb moisture, from both air and surrounding soil. Great for traditional ovens, not great for a room with books, electronics...
Drywall: same problems.
Concrete less so but still permeable. Can be sealed on the surface but risk of water pressure pushing it off after rains.
Metal will corrode.
Not fond of fibre-reinforced plastic, but maybe best option.,,?

2024-09-19 23:27:57

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I know the theory, but the blogs I read by people living in them complain endlessly about mould and humidity.
Sealing the walls properly should help. Wood fire, too, as long as sufficiently ventilated.

2024-09-19 23:15:12

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That will work, but then you need to heat and cool the incoming air.
Counterflow air-to-air heat exchanger?

2024-09-19 23:00:00

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Thoughts on managing humidity in a sod-roofed or otherwise "underground" home?

2024-09-19 22:39:23

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On that, we clearly disagree.
Edgelord trolls go for extreme positions and outrage first, which includes claiming a sexual preference they don't have.
Outrage validates them, and "valorises" the position they're taking.
If met with mild boredom, they deflate.
They're now trying to defend the idea of a wife who can't cook, which is not where they want to be.

2024-09-19 22:23:33

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You just fed the trolls enough outrage that they'll be giggling for days. Weeks, even.
Eye-rolls, boredom and mockery are the correct response.
They want to talk about illicit sexual activities, they get... ramen.

2024-09-19 22:17:36

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Outrage is the drug they're seeking.
Mockery is the help they need.
(They also share revealing imagery of actual adult women. If they like that, then they aren't really.)

2024-09-19 22:08:44

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Bro, a lot of Japanese girls in their early 20s still can't cook more than ramen. Bet this kid can't even do that...

2024-09-19 13:01:28

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If she were ten years older I'd still need xanax to listen to her afterwards.
Some of you deserve the sufferings you think you want... :D

2024-09-19 12:55:38

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Dude, she plays with dolls and watches Skibidi Toilet. No. Hell no!

2024-09-19 10:43:01

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Hah, she knows and is smug. She's a tiny thing, but makes it up with attitude.

2024-09-19 10:34:51

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1. Valid, 100%
2. Maybe, could be true. Very thin women get tired and also bruise very easily doing anything. Even if some guy is into that skeleton look I can't imagine why he would be okay with waiting a week "between drinks" so she can recover. That was never going to fly with me...
3. Myth, I'd say. Very tall women can be feminine and good in bed and are always very grateful if they can get a guy even just their height.
But my wife is nearly 30cm shorter than me, so its safe to say I'm not particular about height :)

2024-09-19 10:14:45

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Still, Would. Saving those hall passes.

2024-09-19 10:12:29

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I can think of two gay friends I've had who fit this description perfectly. (Guys, srsly, stop trying to coach models to look like transexuals.)
But I've also known straight incels who finally got lucky and told everyone how beautiful she is and actually she looks like something that crawled out of a log...

2024-09-19 01:41:59

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Same reason Merkava IVs are being trucked north, I'd say.
Someone's political grave is snapping at his feet and he'll fall in unless he can show some clearcut victory and redeem some land for his settler base.

2024-09-18 23:16:04

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'Night, Eris!

2024-09-18 12:02:18

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All true, but I think you overestimate how many Nostr-spammers have that skillset.
People with that skillset have much more profitable things to do with their time.
Threat modelling needs to be step 1.

2024-09-18 02:50:00

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IDK, but Amethyst seems busier than usual hiding spam.
I'm guessing the spam filter is now on steroids and looking like a Central Asian dictator's bodyguard complete with shades.

2024-09-18 02:07:44

Latest Amethyst is missing something.
Can anybody guess what it is?
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R3ply Guy! That's what's missing!
Thank you @nprofile…pyug !
#amethyst

2024-09-16 07:31:45

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Migration into a Western country is expensive, bro. Quarter of a million, easily, unless you're in a position to go the fake marriage or fear-of-persecution track.
And those options are expensive in time, and can't usually be repeated if you've taken an exit payout.
Non-problem, I'd say, your first line.
The rest of your post is true, but, especially in Sweden, a super-majority chose this future willingly. Natural Selection at work...

2024-09-16 06:27:41

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Facts.
Honestly though, this is a great new policy, and one other countries should copy.

2024-09-16 06:07:25

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Doesn't look too bad, except for the house prices.
Wish Australia had those growth numbers!

2024-09-16 05:26:46

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He had dogs, probably they got it.
Growing up we had the same attitude to native critters - that only poor people ate them.
But after some foreign celebrity chef starts cooking them, suddenly its fashionable.
Wen cat cutlets with Sichuan sauce?

2024-09-16 05:23:11

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A childhood friend of mine's dad had a rug made of feral cat skins.
At least he said they were feral.
He didn't eat them, though.

2024-09-14 00:07:29

I like the way you can tell which keyboard Android users are using by which typos they make

2024-09-13 23:42:28

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This is something that Alexandria will be able to answer itself one day with the right vector representation, but how did St. Thomas of Aquinas square that particular circle?

2024-09-13 21:23:25

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God is perfectly capable of taking action himself if action needs taking. Sodom and Gommorah would agree.
Failing that, God is capable of communicating to individual mortals like me directly. Too many examples.
If some mortal man is telling me God wants me to kill children and infants, its probably Hitler or Ben Gvir, and he probably needs company in his tent (of the fragmenting kind...)

2024-09-13 19:42:15

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I hear this argument from the non-religious as a justification for abortion...

2024-09-12 10:41:33

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Facts! LOL

2024-09-12 10:40:41

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Right...
You must know some strikingly responsible and forward-thinking women. That's good!

2024-09-11 22:52:45

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I'm not fashionable enough to identify as a plural.

2024-09-11 10:58:37

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You are the very villain who inspired me to learn it!

2024-09-11 10:52:38

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Same.
Next I have to learn LaTex

2024-09-11 10:36:33

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Fair enough! Yes I do that, but thought there might be something integrated and fancy!

2024-09-11 10:31:27

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I have Calibre on my laptop.
Less can do margin notes??? I should make more use of margin notes. How does it save them?
I use Pandoc for a lot of conversions.
And no matter what I use, converted PDFs still have glitches - dropped paragraph initial letters, random spaces, tables turned to mush...

2024-09-11 10:14:50

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Genius. Madness. Both :D

2024-09-11 10:13:25

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"For Real"?
I didn't know Nostr HAD 55 relays. Cool

2024-09-11 10:11:24

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55 relays? FR?

2024-09-11 10:07:23

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Day-uhm! What model was your last phone? Full credit for keeping it alive

2024-09-11 09:33:56

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How old are these Sugar Daddies you're into, if they can't do more than ogle?
Even Biden can still sniff hair

2024-09-11 09:32:06

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Markdown or AsciiDoc FTW!
But yes, I save texts in those formats if I can, epub if I can't.
PDF is blech, copying/extracting text mangles more than the formating...

2024-09-10 08:42:55

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Think of the fun @nprofile…fqp6 will have with this!

2024-09-10 05:02:35

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Ma'am, I don't know if anybody told you, but a lot of guys use really dumb lines when trying to talk to / get attention from women.
Women are also known to do silly things to get men's attention, but I think the standard deviation is smaller on both cringe and originality.

2024-09-09 07:41:34

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https://i.pinimg.com/474x/cd/ea/60/cdea605a7a3593570245857d439d3be2.jpg

2024-09-08 22:48:58

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LOL! Seek help!

2024-09-08 22:45:07

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Every mind is another universe.
Plausibly he does.
But without seeing Reply Guy's source code, there's no way to be sure...

2024-09-08 22:42:16

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One of many reasons why prison should be abolished.
(As a package with other changes, I'm not mad)

2024-09-08 22:36:27

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Reply Guy says he does too.
You have to challenge him to a duel. Walking frames at nap-time!
I can be your second.

2024-09-08 22:24:57

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TBH, I doubt 3D printing can produce decent rotors of any size.
But yes, sign me up!

2024-09-07 23:53:39

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Purple pill wen?

2024-09-07 23:28:54

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No place for you in such a world, my friend!

2024-09-07 23:25:37

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'Night, Eris!

2024-09-07 23:24:58

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You'll have bully children. That's good, right?

2024-09-07 23:21:49

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He can meme, though.
Your priorities are all wrong!

2024-09-07 22:59:08

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My first wish is no more "Ask Nostr" tags.
My second is that you get "I Love @nprofile…43ae" tattooed on your left hand.
I haven't even gotten to my third wish and you're already thinking of staying in the fridge.

2024-09-07 22:52:28

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And you want him to suffer.
There is enough common ground to work out a win-win settlement

2024-09-07 22:51:23

The fridge might fall forward onto its door, trapping you inside until somebody lets you out.
Nostr, if you come home after a nuclear attack and find your fridge on the floor, don't let Eris out until she grants you three wishes.
#nevent1q…8q04

2024-09-07 22:45:24

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One is lying in a patch of sunlight, and the other is on Nostr thinking about clawing @nprofile…43ae

2024-09-07 22:38:43

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It would take an implausible amount of energy to blow Earth apart. Too much gravity. Nukes aren't up to the job.
Guess we're in for some monster earthquakes along every fault line, though, as Earth settles back.
Goodbye SoCal!
Someone will miss you!

2024-09-07 22:25:35

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Ha! How old were you there?

2024-09-07 11:27:44

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He's a narcissist, troll and a loose unit, like his buddy Trump.
Its their only redeeming qualities, and makes them difficult to work with.
That's something

2024-09-07 09:36:46

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He can drink at my bar anytime then :p

2024-09-07 09:33:30

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Users under 40 expect instant cult "love-bombing". Nostr NGMI if they have to work their way in like an undercover officer.
And the venn diagram of people who reprogram ASICs and people who flood-spam Nostr resembles the infinity sign.
Far better return on Raymon's LLM approach plus swimsuit pics and you know it...
We need WoT, we need paywall, and we need PoW.
But the same relay needn't use all of them.

2024-09-07 08:49:37

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Bro, you have better memes than that, I've seen some!

2024-09-07 08:46:32

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Its a "JavaScript CAPTCHA", formerly known as Proof of Work.
There's a box to click first, though, so the financier's dimwitted mistress won't realise she's boiling the oceans :p