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2026-02-17 17:08:35 UTC

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Take a look at "Duer Jeans" and "Prana Zions" they both have a casual jeans type cut, but are made of stetchy fabric (the Prana's a bit more so) and come in a variety of not blue jeans colours.
They are durable enough for light labour, comfortable enough for hiking, and can be dressed up enough for a nice family dinner at the inlaws or school concert.

2026-02-11 21:45:53 UTC

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The argument against very harsh punishments is that they could incentivize rapists to also murder and dispose of their victims.
I don't know if this concept holds up statistically, but I get the idea intuitively. It certainly solves the recidivism issue.

2025-12-03 05:24:13 UTC

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Yes, I've done it. I made cold brew, and forced corbonated it with co2 in a pressure vessel. I love coffee, especially cold brew, and I love sparkling water. They are essentially the only two liquids I drink.
It was terrible, I was disappointed.
I would be interested in trying it with nitrogen, instead of co2, I think it would be amazing. The starbucks nitro cold brew is after all one of finest beverages ever made.

2025-11-21 16:04:46 UTC

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I've had good succcess with Seal. Works with facebook and instagram as well.
https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal
I install it with Obtainium.

2025-08-15 22:02:06 UTC

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Getting consesus on that would be risky, wouldn't be possible without a huge threat. Miner consolidation, quantam etc

2025-08-13 02:09:37 UTC

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A 51% attack, needs to be maintained indefinetly to allow for theft of bitcoin.
Your private self hosted node will only follow the chain of valid blocks.
What is more likely, is not a 51% attack, but that that majority of the mining pools agree to censor a certain set of transactions or addresses, making moving 'frozen' funds much more difficult.
There is no rule about what transaction can be excluded or blacklisted from a block, only about which ones are valid.

2025-08-12 02:33:29 UTC

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What stops bots from diluting nostr users as well?

2025-07-19 21:27:35 UTC

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How does Nostr fix this, if Nostr ever really takes off it will just be another medium for disinformation and slop.

2025-07-07 16:02:06 UTC

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Every resource that is commodified will get. produced to meet demand.

2025-06-15 19:14:55 UTC

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Air compressor
Tire repair kit
Impact ratchet
Socket set
Misc pliers, knives and hand tools
Windshield fluid
Motor oil
Camp fuel
Big ratchet straps
Little ratchet straps
towing hitches
Rope
Sat comms
Battery pack
USB cables
Jumper cables
Spare fuses
Propane torch
Felling axe
Splitting axe
Hatchet
First Aid Kit
Trauma kit
Med kit
Wool blanket
sleeping bag
6x MRE
Mr Noodles
Dual fuel stove and pot
Cutlery/Bowl set
Flashlight
Change of clothes
Dog treats
Protein bars
Dehydrated coffee/chocolate
Wet wipes
toilet paper
Shopping bags
garbage bags
duct tape
zap straps
Shovel
If I expect to be hitting a gravel roads or being out of cell service I pack a bunch more stuff, the above lives in my truck all year.

2025-05-11 06:11:10 UTC

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I also self-host nextcloud with a proper url and use the android client on graphene.
For some reason I never nailed down, the app was particularly picky to my hairpin routing. Ij that I could access it from outside the LAN, but not inside the LAN.
I fiddled with a bunch of stuff on the server, the router and phone ans then it just started working and has for years,
The other issue I had, was the NC app being picky with self signed SSL certs. I have had zero issues with that since I started using Traefik and LetEnceypt.
There is ligh at the end of the tunnel, I've had my setup stable for years.

2025-04-22 00:50:08 UTC

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Every source has it's angle, you need multiple conflicting sources to get a sense of what's happening.

2025-03-31 04:07:02 UTC

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If he knew it was empty, it would be foolish to publize it. If the gold was there, he would open it.
When we was making the noise aboir going, I'm sure someone whispered in his ear, and he realized how badly it would hurt american interests to reveal this.
I see the sequence of events that unfolded to indicate with high probability that the gold isn't there.

2025-03-28 20:43:03 UTC

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minero...?

2025-03-12 22:38:57 UTC

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Yup, fuck that fuy

2025-03-12 15:52:53 UTC

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I am inclined to agree, seeing them act as a herd during covid was disheartening. I had been wrong about how I saw them.
However, we KNOW the media lies, and we KNOW they make up polls to push a narrative. The sentiment in these charts does not in any way reflect the sentiment of anyone I have spoken to in the last few months. It feels very disconnected.
I really don't know what to make of it.

2025-03-12 02:50:37 UTC

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Sure do

2025-03-11 18:44:36 UTC

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Milwaukee, as an ecosystem of tools, considering both battery tech and selection and breadth of tools, the M12 and M18 lines are king.
Packout also hapoens to be awesome on it's owj rightz and just happens to be milwaukee as well.
I'm sure the brand will go to fiat at some point, but right now they are killers.

2025-02-26 01:41:32 UTC

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We have a GC, a very large builder. For reasons I won't disclose here, we are in a very priviliged position with them. They are being honest, and we are getting the benefits of their scale and influence.

2025-02-19 03:16:30 UTC

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I'm going through building a house now, the cost of new construction is obscene, it is not cheaper to build a new house than buy one
If I wasn't going to live in this house, I would losey money reselling it.

2025-02-18 04:45:54 UTC

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Best math classes I ever took, transformed the field for me.

2025-02-18 04:44:27 UTC

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This would be incredible

2025-02-17 06:38:07 UTC

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Yeah, been using it for years with NodeRED for home automation and security stuff.

2025-02-16 06:59:59 UTC

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I would also be very interested in this. I habitually look for solid bear arguments, or systemic weaknesses. I get uncomfortable when things feel culty.
All the people who really appear to understand it are on board, most of the arguments against it kinda miss the mark.

2025-02-15 22:09:08 UTC

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Yeah, it's totally the wild west, and criminals are absolutely involved. However I wouldn't have it any other way.
Not because I support the crimes, and don't have empathy for the victims, but because any attempt to control it will centralize some form of power, and wherever power collects, criminals come to influence it with time.
I want the Wild West, were I am equal footing with the criminals, not the current criminal paradigm of banksters that have fortified the high ground and are making all of us fight uphill to reclaim it.

2025-02-14 15:03:24 UTC

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It has worked flawlessly foe sending zaps in amethyst, but I haven't been able to fund ppq.ai for a week.

2025-02-14 02:06:42 UTC

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As a Canadian, I would like to remind you, that for all the issues the US has, there are more disfunctional governments.

2025-02-11 23:51:00 UTC

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That's trickier, I tried a bunch of different solutions and kept hitting different roadblocks.
Ended up scripting my own thing using restic for the backups, and restic has been exceptional.
I wanted to be able to take docker containers offline, and backup different kinds of databases, both to other local systems and cloud providers, all encrypted.
This however is not particularly noob friendly.

2025-02-11 23:45:03 UTC

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Haha, yeah, people aren't ready. My spouse is concerned about how I'm affected the "corners of the internet" I spend time in. Can't spend 2 min listening to some interesting theory about whatever.

2025-02-11 21:14:57 UTC

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You need to examine your own motivations. Are you doing it to Peacock about your intelligence? Are you not doing it because you want to better off than these people. Are you explaining because you're worried they aren't prepared for what's coming? Are you not explaining because you are worried about being wrong/judged.
I'm not even putting values on any of these things, I'm just saying you gotta be honest with yourself, and even beyond that, you need choose the path that is true to your own values.
Know yourself, and be true to yourself.

2025-02-11 18:09:54 UTC

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10k? wut?

2025-02-11 16:21:16 UTC

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Nextcloud is pretty aproachable for mildly technical people.

2025-02-10 05:22:31 UTC

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Yup, the looks about right...

2025-02-09 04:32:25 UTC

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Where can you do this in the street so casually?

2025-02-07 13:48:36 UTC

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Imagine a financial regulation change where in order to comply with anti money laundering laws, one needs to keep all our your kyc BTC, custodied, in a federally chartered financial institution, and if you don't comply and deposit your kyc BTC into your bank account, then your fiat accounts get frozen until you comply. You can't pay your mortgage, you can't get insurance, you don't get your pay/pension cheques etc.
That's a very very small step from where we are now.

2025-02-07 06:02:50 UTC

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Count me in

2025-02-07 05:57:29 UTC

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I've been full non-kyc for years, I sleep very soundly at night.

2025-01-31 03:20:57 UTC

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Agreed, and many years ago the holocaust lost it's place as my schelling point for evil.

2025-01-29 16:01:40 UTC

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It's been flawless for me, I have read mixed reviews online, but it hasn't been representative of my experience.
I am running three OS's on it, doing fairly heavy gaming, running dozens of VM's in QubesOS. The exchangeable ports have all worked automagically in linux.
Really the companies commitment to repairability and willingness to publish some specs to create a little ecosystem was really the most appealing part. Them introducing an upgraded mobo for the FW13 was a big milestone to me.
Lot's of companies make great laptops, many with better performance per dollar, however most of the companies are pretty irritating or despicable in some manner. I will continue to fund companies that share my values.
Purism and System76 were other brands I considered.

2025-01-28 03:24:33 UTC

#Gates appears to pre-emptively be setting up a defense for being exposed as a #pedo.
Less important than feeding him into the woodchipper for being a pedo, is to acknowledge that he has been a controlled actor for many years acting on behalf of shadowy unknown powers.
https://image.nostr.build/7a4335ac75828ebefc0d60b9413c581ce49a5a070c5ff28f2a5c2e5675524b8c.jpg

2025-01-26 23:31:28 UTC

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It is a form of linux, it's a Xen Hypervisor running a bunch of virtual machines, it's optimized for security and privacy. I've never reccomended it, it's the most complex OS ive used with a steep learning curve and a lot of limitations.

2025-01-26 22:22:06 UTC

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Pretty happy with my Framework 16 running Qubes OS

2025-01-21 18:57:47 UTC

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400+ft well water, put through a reverse osmosis filter to remove some trace plastic and urnanium that's in the aquifer.

2025-01-17 06:32:04 UTC

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Yeah, because decentralized protocols can't be stopped.....

2025-01-16 18:27:34 UTC

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Your doing incredible work, respect

2025-01-16 16:02:12 UTC

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One mans terrorist, another mans freedom fighter, one persons nefarious behaviour, someone else's freedom...
As soon as you allow the technical capacity to censor or surveil it will inevitably be used to shape and control opinion.
Freedom is messy, but every other alternative is darker.

2025-01-09 23:03:31 UTC

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Wow...
I get that Meta is changing their policy based the on the prevailing political winds, and that feels cheap. I'm with you there.
However your outright advocating for censorship. I get that your doing it out of concern for marginalized groups, but censorship is censorship.
I've watched your brand go from punk to woke over the last decade, but this is particuarly blatant. The values your advocating for don't line up with your name anymore. It's like the Patriot Act,
You can't make the minorities safer by giving them an artificially softer enviroment, your coddling them like children. Your not making anyone more free.

2025-01-08 19:26:40 UTC

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No issues here either

2024-12-31 23:52:28 UTC

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Don't tell me how to live! /s

2024-12-27 18:34:45 UTC

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The Canadian CBC = Communist Broadcasting Collective

2024-12-22 06:17:39 UTC

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Your not wrong, and I'm not offended.

2024-12-15 17:43:40 UTC

We're all cattle on a tax farm.

2024-12-09 21:50:25 UTC

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Yeah, but it uses electrical energy to mechanically turn a compressor. The compression and expansion of the refrigerant is what allows it to transfer heat from inside the house to outside, or by reversing the valve, heat from outside to inside. This is same physics that fridges, freezers and AC's use. A heatpump just allows the direction to reverse based on the needs.
It's a mechanical input that allows this to happen, not a heat input. So the heat from the miners won't drive a compressor. You need to turn that 'waste' heat from the miners into mechanical energy, but I think the stack of systems required to transfer the energy would induce more losses than the return could justify.
I'm just a clever amature, trying to use first principles, maybe a real physicis or engineer could explain it.

2024-12-09 04:48:52 UTC

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I don't think as a species we know how to make thermodynamics work that way.

2024-12-08 04:50:05 UTC

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Ah! Of course ETH, yeah, good times.

2024-12-06 15:25:57 UTC

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What is the "merge"?

2024-11-23 14:13:10 UTC

Any suggestions for a (preferably foss) android app that can open .ics calendar files?
#asknostr #android

2024-11-22 21:49:30 UTC

Any suggestions for a (preferably foss) android app that can open .ics calendar files?

2024-11-17 21:34:50 UTC

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Depends on the other currency, different sub markets have different amounts of liquidity. I have years of experience with the Canadian Interac EFT for BTC sub-market and have usually been limited by a daily $5000 Interac cap, not BISQ liquidity.

2024-11-14 04:27:30 UTC

Well articulated article:
https://stacker.news/items/766688

2024-11-03 15:59:33 UTC

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Haha yeah, here I was like an idiot trying to find it online somewhere to read.

2024-11-02 02:07:46 UTC

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Yes, I am aware Cellebrite specifically publishes their ability to (or lack theorof really) to access GrapheneOS devices, which is a bit of a unique honour.
A different set of security practices is required for sophisticated adverseries. For instance a duress pin that immediately restarts the device and disables the USB port or resets the secure element.
I had this more in mind as a defense against unsophisticated physical threat actors, the proverbial $5 wrench attacks, thugs, unsophisticated or informal law enforcement etc.

2024-10-29 05:23:07 UTC

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That's an amazing idea, I use 4 profiles, and would love to make two of them invisible. I 100p make use of this.
Even if it only applied to guest profiles. You still unlock the owner profile, which could be the decoy, and have a single sub profile login page, that would not disclose how many (if any) sub profiles existed.

2024-10-28 04:56:40 UTC

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Yeah, I use a self hosted searxng instance and Vanadium uses it as the default search.
However it's not obvious from the interface because it does this by using OpenSearch metadata gathered from an already completed search.
1) Open Vanadoum and go to your search engine of choice.
2) Conduct a search on the site and view the results page.
3) Got to Vanadium's settings > Search engine
4) The recently used search engine should be listed there at the bottom.

2024-10-27 03:49:43 UTC

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Oof, that one hits in the feels. OG seasoned psychopath here, never met another maxi.

2024-10-24 05:09:26 UTC

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Comparing people to Hitler is like bitcoiners refering to things they don't like as fiat. It's just a general insult disconnected from the actual political positions Hitler himself took on any particular issue.

2024-10-23 15:52:29 UTC

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Most glarrying issue is the placement of the stock in his shoulder. Which suggests a scope bite is incoming. Also looks like one of the guns on the table is facing backwards, barrel away from the targets. Hard to tell.
I don't see a suitable backstop behind the targets, but maybe this whole setup is in a gravel pit or something, can'really say from the photo. All that shit on the tables should be behind the firing line, but that's more of a safety preference than a huge issue.
If we want to start nitpicking, his eyepro won't do any good on his forehead. Food/beverages should not be kept or consumed on the firing line due to lead contamination, and his stance will not adequately support the platform for follow-up shots.

2024-09-04 16:01:49 UTC

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That's the solution, thanks. Some combination of the stock GrapheneOS keyboards text correction settings and some apps like Amethyst and AirBNB cause this issue.
Thanks for the tip.

2024-09-03 19:22:22 UTC

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Ah, interesting. I have only has the issue with Amethyst, but I don't have the AirBNB app, and I only have used GrapheneOS for years.

2024-09-03 19:21:23 UTC

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No, it's been around since the start of using Amethyst on GrapheneOS.

2024-09-03 14:47:41 UTC

There is no red there is no blue. There is the state and there is you.

2024-09-03 14:30:12 UTC

When I'm typing in Amethyst using the GrapheneOS stock keyboard. I have a strange issue that has been around for months.
When I make a typo mid word, and hit the backspace key to correct it, it removes the space between the word I am typing and the previous word. It's incredibly irritating, anyone else experience this or have a fix?
#Amethyst #GrapheneOS

2024-09-02 20:58:56 UTC

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I have grapheme OS, I installed ntfy yesterday when I SAS your post and subscribed to ntfy.sh/phils_alerts and just got a few german notifications successfullly.

2024-07-31 03:03:42 UTC

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Nothing that is nearly as secure:
From their github description:
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer/releases
Simple Android PDF viewer based on pdf.js and content providers. The app doesn't require any permissions. The PDF stream is fed into the sandboxed WebView without giving it access to content or files. Content-Security-Policy is used to enforce that the JavaScript and styling properties within the WebView are entirely static content from the apk assets. It reuses the hardened Chromium rendering stack while only exposing a tiny subset of the attack surface compared to actual web content. The PDF rendering code itself is memory safe with dynamic code evaluation disabled, and even if an attacker did gain code execution by exploiting the underlying web rendering engine, they're within the Chromium renderer sandbox with no access to the network (unlike a browser), files, or other content.

2024-05-13 14:18:21 UTC

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Correct, 66% of your capital gains over 250k are 'included' in your income for the purpose of calculating your income tax.
It's a 66% inclusion rate, not a 66% tax rate.

2024-05-01 03:57:55 UTC

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You can be my first follower :)
#nevent1q…kvu5

2024-04-26 03:00:46 UTC

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What do you mean?

2024-04-24 14:08:40 UTC

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This is a problem.
#nevent1q…gdgx

2024-04-16 03:07:45 UTC

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"The album cover is a photograph taken by NASA"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_(album)

2024-04-12 16:38:00 UTC

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Yeah, I've bought those consistently for years from Costco in Canada, that's a misprint by 10x, never come close to that price, not even in the midst of covid.

2024-03-25 04:09:51 UTC

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I've had this happen twice, both times it occurred immediately when I opened the wallet.

2024-03-15 03:54:24 UTC

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Me either 🫠
That's an ambitious goal

2024-03-11 04:24:15 UTC

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Are you familiar with "The Great Taking" the laws around property rights with respect to financial assets has changed. You merely hold an interest in the custodied bitcoin, and not primary or secured interest.
It's a free book, available online, that can be read in a day easily.
https://thegreattaking.com/read-online-or-download

2024-03-06 17:05:18 UTC

Why are Property Prices High.
A Canadian Perspective.
Things were not always like this... Housing prices used to reflect the "utility value" of the building and property. In that free market system "supply and demand" kept housing mostly in line with the cost of construction and the scarcity of the land.
A few things have all contributed to the issue, ranked in the order I believe they contribute.
1) MONEY PRINTING
Prices go up and down for various reasons, certain sectors of prices going up isn't inflation. (War in Ukraine, scarcity of fuel/wheat, prices go up, not inflation) Inflation is when ALL your prices go up across the board. The ONLY cause of that type of inflation is the central bank creating more money and the government injecting it into the market in their budget items. This tactic, makes all the money in the market less valuable by a small percent. It's a hidden, unaccounted for tax on everyone who holds government "fiat" money. Every government that issues fiat has done this, since the invention of fiat, going back thousands of years. This means, that hard assets (real estate, precious metals, a pile of gravel etc) need cost more and more fiat currency, as the fiat currency is worth less and less every time the central bank prints more it dilutes the value. So if your stock portfolio goes up by 5%, but inflation was 8%, you've actually lost 3% of your purchasing power. However, if you have a rental property, that rental property, will always hold the same "utility value", it can still keep the occupants warm and dry. So it may not track inflation precisely, but over the decades, it protects against the erosion of the dollar. Saving dollars makes you poor, buy hard assets in an inflationary environment. (Consequently this acts as a wealth transfer tax from the poors without assets to the wealthy with assets.)
2) ZONING LAWS
The people in politics, both at federal and provincial levels, but also all the way down to the municipalities, and the (generally older) citizens that are meaningfully active in politics ALL are massively and disproportionately made up of people who own at least one, if not multiple properties. For most of those people, property makes up the majority of their portfolio.
Consequently, they are systemically bent to protecting the value of their properties. You see this in the NIMBY movements, and puplic hearing on zonings and such. The result is that municipalities artificially limit the number and types of buildings that they approve, no one wants a big "affordable housing" complex built in their nice neighborhood. This creates artificial scarcity and keeps prices high, because builders can't make all the cheap housing that the market demands. This will not change, because as by the time someone gets there life in order enough to influence politics, they have their financial affairs in order and benefit from it.
3) BUILDING CODES
Progressives in the past 3-4 decades have been aghast at the conditions some people lived in, packing into a rooming house with shared washrooms for instance. So in cities across north America, they have changed building codes to ensure that new builds have certain minimums, like bedrooms must have a window and a closet, each suite needs to have it's own washroom etc. These restrictions, don't improve peoples living conditions, they remove peoples free choices. Some of the people that would be ok in these conditions needs to rent an apartment and are financially stressed by it, some of them go homeless, despite having modest employment. Removing choices, doesn't magically change the economics of it.
4) CHINESE MONEY
Specific to the Lower Mainland in British Columbia. The Chinese underground banks are taking advantage of Canada's lax financial laws to circumvent the Chinese limits on exporting money outside of China. By getting street cash from the fentanyl crisis addicts, and then washing it through BC casinos, and then using the "winnings" to buy property in Canada. This is all documented in great detail in Sam Coopers book "wilful blindness"

2024-02-23 16:12:08 UTC

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As a canadian bitcoiner, also living on the land, this may be my favorite post of all time. It's a pretty specific niche you itched there.

2024-01-30 03:40:43 UTC

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I imagine one of the phones are compromised, not the signal app or system. An app, including SimpleX, is only as secure as the environment it is being executed in #GrapheneOS

2024-01-25 16:38:25 UTC

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I'm relieved on your behalf, what a fuck twit, so glad that this chapter is closed for you. Congrats!

2023-12-13 21:42:28 UTC

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The main profile when you boot the phone is a generic one with a bunch of random web history and data poisened contacts, logins savedtlo cloud accounts I don't use etc.
I also have the account I actually use all the time, and a seperate crypto wallet profile

2023-08-05 15:17:41 UTC

The media lies

2023-08-02 07:32:10 UTC

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There is a setting under security for the phone to restart if not unlocked for a period of time. Which is a stunning security feature when paired with the Titan M chip. Maybe check that?

2023-08-01 23:59:59 UTC

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#nevent1q…dlql

2023-07-29 04:47:31 UTC

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#QubesOS has been my daily driver for years, along with #GrapheneOS
#nevent1q…d76z

2023-07-29 04:44:15 UTC

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I can't recommend simplelogin enough. Really solves this. Setting it up to work with a custom domain that you own is excellent as it makes it much less likely to be blocked or cancelled, and lets you "own" and migratethosee emails toanother service in the future.

2023-07-23 06:12:06 UTC

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Really, he appears to be supportive publicly.

2023-07-23 04:29:07 UTC

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A fellow uranium squeezer, I didn't know there was a community outside of reddit!

2023-07-23 04:28:07 UTC

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For what it's worth anecdotally, I really enjoy your macro content, newsletter and podcast interviews, but don't have a twitteraccountt to get your updates there.

2023-07-21 16:43:30 UTC

“If there’s two great evils in the world it is centralization and complexity”
-George Hotz

2023-07-20 03:46:12 UTC

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Agreed, QubesOS is the way