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Husband. Dad. Full Member of the #Capybara Appreciation Society. Unabashed fanboi of kycnot.me.

Interests: #FOSS #machinelearning #tor #brewing #python #anarchy #diy #solar #electronics #decentralisation #linux #bitcoin #monero #offgrid #rightToRepair #progressivemetal #speculativefiction #archeology #space #memes

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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 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...

2024-09-09 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 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 08:46:32

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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

2024-09-07 08:42:04

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ChatGPT is the Antichrist, and He needs your phone.
Proof of phone rename wen???

2024-09-07 08:32:25

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Hitler was a serial plaigiarist, but he could deliver some vivid imagery and similes.
The Lesser Trolls of Nostr, though? Lololol

2024-09-07 08:30:43

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Proof of Work is working nicely for Cloudflare, they're taking over the blasted internet with it.
They're right, too.
If you're posting one note, burning a few clock cycles is nothing,
If you're spamming a million, its crippling, and uneconomic unless your spam has a supernaturally high CTR

2024-09-07 08:27:22

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LOL and now he's very happy!
I don't mind these people as long as they are witty and original. Diss has been struggling with the latter, he must have a lot on.

2024-09-07 07:55:33

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Borrowed, and in return they get turned into mulch. Lousy deal.
Also, not on Nostr!

2024-09-07 07:41:49

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Okay, I need to learn this!

2024-09-07 03:54:13

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I tried using CNNs vs @Raymon's bots, it worked but the collateral damage was unacceptable.
Reply Guy isn't remotely as talented, even regex work well.
Another Raymon, but as malicious as Reply Guy?
Relays could level up to Transformer-based filters, but the cost in hardware and energy is prohibitive.
Proof of Work should be our first defence, with Web of Trust relays and paid relays for when that falters.

2024-09-06 10:41:13

Our Japanese friends are also sharing how to block Reply Guy:
#nevent1q…x62q

2024-09-06 10:39:51

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More ideas, the better!

2024-09-06 10:13:58

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I doubt it will crash the economy, only parts, big Democratic donors will be allowed to use one set of assumptions, and mere millionaires in disfavoured industries another.
Like the present system, but more so.
With appropriately biased investigation and enforcement, you could induce forced sales of particular industries whenever BlackRock was feeling cashed-up.

2024-09-06 10:08:03

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It could totally work, if existing-but-not-used-yet defences fail.
Relays should enable PoW to prevent unsophisticated high-volume attacks.
And operators should be able to empower trusted friends to add regex filters for when stuff happens but the operator is asleep or on Mars.,.

2024-09-06 09:55:50

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Agree 100% with the theory, 0% with the method chosen

2024-09-06 09:54:08

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Paying the fee is hard unless you're already a keen Bitcoiner, and are also quite sure Nostr is for you without having seen it.
The invites is workable, but still, what about the "walk-ins" who read something about Nostr and decided to come check it out? Who are probably the majority of new users...

2024-09-06 09:49:55

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IDK, I think corporations should not be recognised by the state at all, but I still think taxing unrealised gains is a stupid "thought bubble" and/or intended solely for the campaign trail.
If its unrealised, then its valuation is a wild guess, based on assumptions that will be gamed and require additional regulations, containing additional loopholes for the well-connected...
No.

2024-09-06 07:48:19

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I was a walk-in, with no idea Zaps were a thing. And I came from SSB, so not exactly untechnical.
This DoS is actually very stupid and simple, and Nostr is choking. I get that our relay operators are volunteers and "weekend warriors", but man, its been 24 hrs...

2024-09-06 07:40:33

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Say goodbye to walk-in newbies if that happens...

2024-09-05 10:46:01

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A neutron star for me!
Torn apart by its gravity and partly transformed into X-rays, so I can explore the universe and give people cancer.

2024-09-05 10:42:25

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"Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot
This helps protect our community. Learn more"
This is discrimination against non-carbon-based entities.
Should you sue?

2024-09-05 10:32:59

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The more interesting question is how can we talk the world's most annoying people into it?

2024-09-05 05:33:18

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Facts. I've climbed active volcanoes in Japan, didn't think anything bad would happen, and nothing did.
But in hindsight and for climbing, nice low-viscosity non-explosive volcanoes like Hawai'i's and Ethiopia's probably best!
Whie Island in the distance is certainly pretty, tragic or not.

2024-09-05 00:50:23

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He's never heard of sideloading?

2024-09-05 00:45:23

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I considered in, but chose water-boarding instead.

2024-09-05 00:27:56

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Not a #Pinephone. Never a Pinephone.
Librem maybe? What other mostly-open hardware phones are out there?
#AskNostr

2024-09-05 00:20:52

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Its one of those silly snippets that don't make normies go "history nerd, run!" :D

2024-09-05 00:08:35

The tribe of Vandals sacked Rome, and then partied so hard in the ruins that their tribal name became a new word in many languages for "guys who have way too much fun destroying stuff".
#nevent1q…aqdk

2024-09-04 21:16:16

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So Palestine is a State, in your stated opinion?

2024-09-04 09:33:35

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Truth, but its not just energy we need to fix. Its government and corporate intertwinement across the economy.
@nprofile…lpuk has some great rants on this.

2024-09-04 08:44:58

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'Morning, Esh!
You're looking nearly as floofy as my cat :) Humid weather outside?

2024-09-04 07:38:39

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A monster.
One of us...

2024-09-04 07:31:40

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Are you using an LLM fr, or are you just _that_ good at parodying typical Western girls? :D

2024-09-04 07:16:41

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When can we expect your lifestyle column to be globally syndicated?
It ticks all the boxes as far as I can tell! :)

2024-09-04 07:12:37

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Weeks.
I hope you won't be needing that network for anything else in the meantime, miss!

2024-09-04 07:08:23

Needs more attention heads.
I saved on vRAM, but now she sounds like Twitter...
#nevent1q…n2wg

2024-09-04 05:27:09

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Trying that tantrum on is likely instinct.
Learning it works if you escalate far enough is 100% learned. Maybe purely operant conditioning in babies, but there is also intentionality and cognition at work in toddlers' tantrums.
My boys were never indulged for tantrums, so they stopped at 2. Friends' kids I've babysat ARE indulged for tantrums so they continue. Until the second time I babysit them, then they just grumpy but respectful until mummy and daddy are back.
Tantrums are the parents/caregivers fault.
Always.
But its usually fixable up until about the age the kids start to vote.

2024-09-04 04:23:53

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You expect AI governance to be implemented with a planning horizon further out than next press conference?
That would be a very, very different world to the one we live in.
Instead, I'm anticipating "Idiocracy" with robot babysitters, but set in a slum.

2024-09-03 23:20:36

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Amethyst has a "connect via tor/orbot" in the main "swipe right" menu.
Other Nostr clients can still be made to use Tor by going into the Orbot app, clicking "apps" and selecting your Nostr client. Reboot your phone, and when you go back into your Nostr client it will be using Tor

2024-09-03 11:51:15

For users, #tor fixes this - servers and relays can't be force to reveal your real IP and identity if they never had it.
For operators, #tor also fixes this - they can't kick in your door and steal all your stuff if they can't even tell which continent your server is really in.
https://torproject.org for users, https://whonix.org for operators.
#nevent1q…tasa

2024-09-03 07:33:44

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Truth, but ma'am, Nostr is marketing to people whose technical skills are three standard deviations above the mean.
My dear aunt is three below.
99%+ of the market lies between these two points, and I need whisky if I contemplate this fact too long...

2024-09-03 07:23:17

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Ma'am, I really don't know how to break this to you, but here goes:
You are not a normie.
Intel-inside certainly didn't achieve the predicted ROI.
To this day, many normies refer to their desktop computers as CPUs. That is how little they understand the magic boxes. How little they WANT to understand the magic boxes.

2024-09-03 07:16:56

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Do tell?

2024-09-03 07:16:34

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"Intel-inside" was one of the most expensive fails in advertising history.
Normies are busy people, even if only with irrelevances, and will not collect dots to put together.

2024-09-03 07:07:19

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Probably, but mostly waaay too sweet for me, I used to scrape it off and leave it on my plate.
I'm a barbarian, known fact.

2024-09-03 06:41:56

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Past performance may not predict future performance. Always

2024-09-03 06:38:18

What should the EU's dystopian final form be called?
Wrong answers welcome
#nevent1q…27ux

2024-09-03 06:32:35

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The apps should market themselves.
"Nostr-compatible" should be the icing on the vanilla slice.
(Many years ago I used to occasionally get those from a local bakery, with icing the _exact_ same shade of the lipstick in your new profile pic lol)

2024-09-03 04:08:29

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Looks well maintained, too :)

2024-09-03 02:22:09

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Embroidery

2024-09-02 21:40:19

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God's reaction -
https://media.giphy.com/media/J6Ox66ByIbq04mHvKG/giphy.gif

2024-09-02 21:31:19

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I have high expectations of Third World bars! Much higher than here.
Your drink looks like its from a bar with First World rent and Third World staff.
Does it at least have live music?

2024-09-02 21:27:51

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Don't - Nostr prefers the authentic you!

2024-09-02 21:22:23

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That mint looks really wilted, like it was picked a week ago.
You're in a cheap enough bar for the role you're playing!

2024-09-02 11:08:00

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And you know nothing of Anarchy if you believe that.
You know nothing of humanity, untwisted by State power.
For 99% of human existence, we were Anarchists of one flavour or another.
The State is a recent and poisonous novelty, a collection of monopolies used to construct further monopolies.

2024-09-02 11:04:24

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You have the same delusional beliefs about Wall Street that Conservatives do.
No, they don't do any of those Capitalist things if they can help it, too much like working for a living.
They use their proximity to power to extract money from others, via the levers of government.
Socialism for the well-connected.

2024-09-02 10:39:41

Chortling at the thought of how much Eris would suffer if she were actually left alone and in peace!
Hmmm, wonder if I can organise this spell myself? No personal talent for magic of any kind, but maybe my cat can make himself useful?
#nevent1q…khc3

2024-09-02 09:53:44

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Great definition, now actually read it.
- Private ownership.
- Production.
- Markets where buyers and sellers compete
Which part of that resembles Wall Street?
Wall Street
- Revolving door with government
- Financialise, suck bailouts, demand
- Use state violence to suppress competition.
Finally somebody on the Right gets this!
<3 <3 <3

2024-09-02 09:12:26

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Dude, the actual quote you are mocking is distinguishing "Capitalism" from the much larger category of "profit seeking".
Perhaps you should read it again.
And if you can't Wikipedia / Wikidictionary / Brittanica a definition, then I don't know how to help you. All of those three are good, btw.

2024-09-02 09:08:00

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Its been posted about quite a bit. Not a client I use. The offending keyword was "#monero".

2024-09-02 09:04:25

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This is very, very vulnerable to "black boxing" and abuse.
Without naming names, we already have one popular client changing a keyword the dev doesn't like into the poop emoji in every note without asking.
Using algorithms / LLMs to categorise without user approval will open far more opportunities for shenanigans.
Imagine every mention of Trump being tagged "rape" and "sh1tcoin" by a client algorithm, probably embedded in an LLM via tagged training data.

2024-09-02 08:49:33

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So, you literally have no definition of Capitalism beyond "the feels"?
And from this glass house of yours, you... throw stones?
Dude, you could, you know, Wikipedia...

2024-09-02 07:34:13

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Was a medieval Baron capitalistic? An Ottoman timariot? A jewelry thief? A modern Burmese general?
One of the cringiest things about Conservatives is how they define Communism as "Anything I Don't Like".
One of the cringiest things about SocDems is how they define Capitalism as "Anything I Don't Like"...

2024-09-02 07:06:12

Starlink would be crippled without ground stations over half a continent.
#nevent1q…rca7

2024-09-02 06:41:19

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Max Weber wrote about this at length in "Economy & Society".
There are many ways to turn a profit without investing capital, or even participating in a (slightly-)free market.
Lobbying and grants, for example.
The description of Wall Street was accurate...

2024-09-02 04:36:56

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Happy birthday, Onyx!
May your next thirty-six years be the best thirty-six years, and may they age you just as little!

2024-09-02 02:47:07

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...assuming perfect knowledge, zero friction, infinite fungibility, zero collusion and an infinite number of possible buyers and sellers.
And what do we say about assumptions?
Yes I covered it in Micro 100.
It's an interesting thought experiment, but the way econ grads wave it around serves mainly as evidence for the charge that economics, like the other social sciences, suffers greatly from "physics envy".

2024-09-01 21:10:00

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Maroon yourself on a small island

2024-09-01 11:01:58

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Pssst, assassins - she's just saying that to put you off. Its a psyop, like her eyes

2024-09-01 10:39:22

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I think @nprofile…jmzy will be okay, though.
No one is likely to kill her to take the position of "Chief Ombudswoman to the Devs of Nostr".

2024-09-01 10:24:55

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Truth again.
And in both of those cases the leaders were military men who had repeatedly saved their countries by defeating enemies many times more powerful than their homelands.
Even if you go up against the bad boss and win, what happens next? Will anyone thank you? Can you really fill those oversized blood-spattered boots?

2024-09-01 10:15:05

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True, that.
Agathocles was also a major-league badass in his own right, and a man with absolutely no fear. He took his city to war with Carthago's Punic Federation and forced a draw.
I'm guessing some of his people thought about killing that maniac - and noped out.
Or they died trying and nobody dared speak of them again.

2024-09-01 09:45:36

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"There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

2024-09-01 07:58:04

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When I was a kid and first read of the myth (from Aristotle?) of a city where once a year the ruler had to walk alone through the streets so anyone who wanted to murder him could; my first thought was he must have been a completely useless ruler if literally no one wants him dead for whatever stupid reason.
If you're not making waves, you're probably not going anywhere...