Chris Liss

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2024-09-17 11:41:32

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you can do both with the same power

2024-09-17 11:01:43

Probably someone has already thought of this, but when AI starts using massive amounts of power for its data centers, those data centers have to become bitcoin miners, right? I mean you can’t burn that much power without monetizing it. The hash rate will moon in that case.

2024-09-16 19:00:53

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but what is the problem with HTML again?

2024-09-16 15:44:21

real talk!
#note1rcl…v095

2024-09-16 12:45:49

Lot of people I know look to betting markets rather than polls to handicap the election. But if Trump were assassinated, obviously that's a loss of your bet. Same as if he lost due to cheating.
So given there have been two attempts, and cheating is considered likely by many Trump supporters and presumably bettors, what would the non-cheating, non-assassination odds be?
And given that everyone knows the corporate media is in the tank, and even Google is altering search results, what would be the real, honest, fair democratic odds?
I think the answer to that is why there have been two assassination attempts so far and all the absurd lawfare that preceded them.
It's not that people love Trump (some do, but a minority). It's that we are all so sick of these sociopathic factions (pharmaceutical conglomerates, big banks, war machine, corporate media, oligarch-funded NGOs and unelected bureaucrats) forcing reviled candidates and deeply unpopular policies on us.
Very few support lockdowns, forced injections, child sex changes, censorship, wars, willful neglect of the border and inflation caused by the money printing used to pay for all of the above.
If we had any kind of democratic election where the people were given unfettered access to information, without the heavy thumbing of the scale, there is no question in my mind we'd be looking at a historic landslide.

2024-09-15 16:29:13

Just smoked a shitty cigar. I am loath to pay 15-20 euros for a cigar, but the 8-10 euro ones are bad. Guess it’s a bit like wine — you can buy cheap wine, but you’ll feel like shit and not enjoy it.
Maybe instead of 2 per week, cut down to 1 and splurge.

2024-09-15 14:01:43

Yesterday’s walk
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/b7ac76facdc55569dd81534b1774a9d2016a5c75be91f24821d6d775baa2249e.webp
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2024-09-15 10:10:27

The “conspiracy theorist” has a far healthier sense of skepticism toward unfounded claims than the person who believes world events and history have been sufficiently explained by conventional orthodoxy.

2024-09-14 17:41:44

My social life:
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/9d9e3611e4c857cc35f3a14390c27d99f6ca3fb5292b65b43b36cb914b4056d0.webp

2024-09-11 16:37:30

I’m guilty, it’s true.
Thought I might have gotten him his own @npub1get…0nfm address but never did. Will have to buy him a couple more of the vegetable sticks he likes to chew on, settle it out of court!
#note17jv…448w

2024-09-10 07:53:02

Been posting my @npub1dwh…qfxe content via @npub1w0r…cu4x of late. Highly recommend for long-form content — very smooth and easy to use. Literally copy and paste from Substack, keeps all my formatting, easy login from @npub1get…0nfm. Takes me maybe 45 seconds now.

2024-09-08 12:48:05

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But maybe that’s the problem:
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/251f293b608b1094b99254d641e48c66a6a09bcba3dc5eb532d9f591357366ee.webp

2024-09-08 09:32:37

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-real-man-would/id1023898853?i=1000668478882

2024-09-08 08:54:46

This might sound harsh, but it’s honestly what I believe. If you don’t want to vote for Trump, I get it. He’s a douche, and he presided over lockdowns, green lighted the mRNA and didn’t do shit against the deep state despite his many promises to the contrary.
But if you are voting for Kamala Harris, at best you simply have no idea how the world works, and/or are not paying attention. I cannot take you seriously in the worldview domain. You are disqualified IMO if you are voting for her. (And it’s not really her you are voting for since she’s obviously an NPC, but google, the military, pharmaceutical and censorship industrial complexes, the corporate media, the WEF, etc.)
I’m not saying my attitude is the “correct” one to have, and I wish no ill on those who I deem to have a worthless and unconsidered worldview, but it’s just truthfully what I believe. If you advocate for her, I think you are totally uninformed and willfully so at this point. I think you are epistemically derelict.
And I am not the only one. But the consequences of your advocacy for something I find so obviously and transparently abhorrent are merely that. A diminished view, a loss of respect for your judgment by me. I would never advocate for silencing you, censoring you or punishing you in any way for your political views.
Because while this is my true, heartfelt and deeply held belief, there is of course a chance I could be wrong.

2024-09-07 17:40:14

Been shitposting more on Twitter of late. I don’t know — political shit just seems to be more apt there than here. I know a lot of people don’t want to think about politics, I get it. I don’t really either. But once they locked me in my house for no reason and said I couldn’t go to a restaurant unless I injected myself, ignoring it wasn’t an option.

2024-09-05 17:55:56

IRS owes me a refund from 2022. Finally sent out the check in June of 2023. Still haven’t gotten it.
Called them up. Automated menus. Then finally waited on hold for 20 minutes after pressing random buttons, got a guy, wrong department. He transfers me. Another 25 minutes, get a woman.
She’s mumbling, can’t tell what the hell she Is saying, ask her to speak up, she refuses, says she’s speaking as loudly as she’s going to.
She says we can put a trace on the refund check if I want. I ask what does that do. More unintelligible mumbling. I ask what if the check arrives in two more weeks, and the trace is on, does that require me to do anything? More mumbling about forms, matching signatures and something else.
I get annoyed, say I can’t really hear you and can’t decide whether to put the trace on it because I don’t understand the consequences. It’s been 15 months since I filed for the refund (and paid my accountant an extra $400), and I’m getting frustrated.
When I’m done talking the call is still connected, but no response. Hello. Hello? Hello!!! Still connected, no response for another minute, and I hang up, figure hopefully that shit will just arrive in the next month or so since I’m overseas, and it takes a while.
No idea if she put the trace on it or not, but doubtful because I didn’t tell her too.
Get your money out of the system to the greatest extent practicable. It’s falling apart.

2024-09-05 08:24:24

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thanks

2024-09-04 07:03:45

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Happy birthday. Congrats on being the second oldest person on nostr. (I’m 53).

2024-09-03 14:53:41

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Yeah, it’s really bizarre, and it makes me feel like even though I’m not believing the insane bullshit that corporate media consumers believe, maybe I’m gettin played too.

2024-09-03 14:42:00

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As I said, it was a paranoid thought, but still very strange the photographer they brought in and paid for captured a photo for the ages that benefitted him! And also very strange how bad her campaign is as though they’re forcing you to vote for him.

2024-09-03 13:48:15

Had a paranoid thought just now while driving back from the butcher. (Stocked up on a lot of shit): was thinking about Roger Stone’s claim that CNN never covers Trump’s rallies, but had a high-priced freelance photographer present for the one where he was shot.
The obvious inference is that the deep state of which CNN is a part knew what was going to happen and were ready to document and put their spin on it.
But how would having the exact photos help them if the assassination were successful? IOW, if he were killed, what good would it do to have up close photos of the event, rather than just a bunch of cellphone videos?
On the other hand, those photos make Trump look like a hero, the way he stood up and yelled fight.
So the paranoid thought was, what if Trump and CNN are in on it together, and it’s all kayfabe? That the choice in the election seems so obvious (taxes on unrealized gains? FFS?) because they want you to be relieved if he gets elected. They want you to be on board with whatever they’re planning next, so they set you up to worry about some communist, and you get something else bad.
As I said, it’s probably just a paranoid thought, but the last time I felt the choice was this obvious was Obama/McCain, and in retrospect, I got duped. (Not that McCain would have been any better, just that I had no idea what Obama was at the time.)

2024-09-03 13:37:47

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I think they will try, but it’s backfiring. And I don’t think they are masters of anything. They just had the fiat printer on their side, and that’s about to be taken away.

2024-09-02 21:15:42

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you can edit in @npub1w0r…cu4x though

2024-09-02 16:23:42

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Beef is indeed world class. Never made it to Patagonia, but by all accounts well worth it. Food is more expensive than It used to be, especially in nice restaurants, but the regular places are about half of what it would cost in the states.

2024-09-02 15:25:49

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We were in a resort, two hours outside of Mendoza for nine days (partly due to my wife’s work event) and then in Buenos Aires for five days. Trip was really good. The resort was comped and very high end, but the highlight was going up into the Andes and letting my daughter play in the snow.
Buenos Aires is a beautiful city — very cosmopolitan, looks like New York in places, but without the insane prices. People are very nice. Used to have a lot of crime, but seemed safer this time.

2024-09-02 15:18:41

Only negative about going to Argentina for 15 days was losing much of my hard-earned tan. Who travels to winter during summer?

2024-09-02 14:04:29

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I hear you — that was in the acute mania phase, though. They went all-in for that. Can’t do that more than once IMO.

2024-09-02 14:00:35

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And thanks for the zaps! Much appreciated.

2024-09-02 11:09:32

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I would say only 10-20 percent are truly in a state of psychosis. Most are going along due to incentives. (Psychotic people are scary!)
The key is to reach the non-psychotics, and you do that by persuading them that appeasing the psychos is no longer in their interest.

2024-09-02 09:43:25

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I see, so if I type #Monero, it’ll show up with an emoji, and I’ll know it’s a flagged word?
And if eventually it’s done with words I care about it and distorts my experience I’ll know to leave?
That doesn’t sound as bad, TBH.

2024-09-02 09:36:58

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Ha -- a couple of those. And a lot of the libs — the people I know well — almost certainly have me on mute. But got a couple good responses and a DM too. I think a lot of people badly want to jump off this sinking ship.

2024-09-02 09:35:47

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Shit! That’s the client I use too! Best one IMO for IOS.
I don’t care about Monero per se, but what other words will go missing from my feed if a developer doesn’t like them?
I guess if a client wanted to reduce spam it would block various words, but should be opt-in rather than default IMO. You opt-in and easily check the updated list of blocked words. And if the client goes too far, you dump it for another.
But very dangerous to have it done behind the scenes without the users knowing.

2024-09-02 09:24:17

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Right you always start with common ground and build from there. I think it’s easy to write everyone off as brainwashed or whatever, but I think only 10-20 percent are truly brainwashed, and most people are just responding to incentives which are changeable. Even better is if it dawns on them that the highest incentive is to sense-make for oneself.

2024-09-02 09:22:51

One interesting thing about nostr vs Twitter is I find myself re-posting a lot more here. Think that’s because there’s no algorithm, which means if you see something interesting you have to be the algorithm that serves it into other people’s feeds.
Human curation > algorithms like a good DJ > Spotify.

2024-09-02 09:09:08

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I think there are a lot of half awake people who realize something is deeply wrong, but are pushed by incentives not to awaken fully. My strategy is to push in the other direction, make them realize they are making a bad bet. People don’t respond to moral chastising, but they do respond to being shown what they’re doing is bad for them, counter to their aims of fitting in, not getting hassled.

2024-09-02 09:06:42

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should name names if they’re doing that

2024-09-02 08:48:33

Posted this on Twitter, less applicable here, but maybe useful as a way of finding common ground with people who for whatever reason are stuck in outmoded worldviews.
I suspect more people than we realize are silently going along to get along but are not remotely on board (or in denial) of what’s really going on. Anyway, this was the post:
*Imagine a lot of smart liberals are realizing it's time to fold a bad hand now.*
*You are not pro-war, pro-censorship, pro pharmaceutical conglomerates, jailing and assassinating political rivals, biological males destroying girls sports.*
*You were for the regular working person, skeptical of the corporate media, defenders of free speech.*
*This is not what you signed up for. This is not what you're about. I know a lot of you well, and this phony, dishonest cabal of oligarchs isn't aligned with your values at all.*
*You do not owe this metastasized version of your former party blind allegiance. They lied to your face about Biden's dementia, the lab leak, the safety and efficacy of the shot.*
*They are not looking out for you. The incentives you had to go along are insufficient. The lies are too big now, the absurdity too out in the open.*
*Opt out. Leave. Fold. Fight for your real values not these astroturfed perversions.*

2024-09-01 14:49:43

Remember, the price is fake, the news is fake, the polls are fake, the markets are fake.
Any indicator that can be manipulated will be manipulated.
Stick to the fundamentals: first principles and your direct observations.

2024-09-01 14:30:56

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I'm in Portugal — she’s mostly avoided all of that

2024-09-01 14:06:10

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she’s in school

2024-09-01 10:21:36

Often when I eat a piece of fruit, I toss the pit into a pot of dirt on my balcony. I mean why not — it’ll break down into nutrients for the soil eventually, and occasionally one of them grows into a plant.
When I first started doing this, I often mistook weeds for potential fruit plants, but now I know which common weeds grow here and root them out.
At the beginning of the summer, I noticed a new plant growing in one of the pots, wasn’t sure what it was, so I snapped a photo and looked it up:
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/76a6f8cce8fd907f150e6ace81370244c66564e4efcf35131d2d582bbc9f8ce7.webp
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/8fc26ea1a2f02362a4ecc4753ffb02f56dc26bd2d384f1501b85448f1e066dca.webp

2024-09-01 09:17:05

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yeah, very hard to predict innovations that haven’t happened yet, people who haven’t yet emerged, etc.

2024-09-01 08:36:00

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maybe but very hard to predict 2nd, 3rd, 4th order effects

2024-09-01 08:09:05

Curious what a Kamala win (with likely voting irregularities) and the implementation of radical policies might trigger. Might be the shortcut to hyperbitcoinization via mass exodus from the system even for many normies.
Everyone is worried about 20th century communism, but maybe attempting that in the Information Age with freedom tech available would end it once and for all.
I’m not rooting for this outcome, but sometimes it takes gollum biting off Frodo’s finger to destroy the ring once and for all.

2024-08-31 21:35:18

New podcast: Argentina
https://fountain.fm/show/g91yDXlvog8DcsaszgD8

2024-08-31 12:05:07

this is the kind of shit I post on Twitter, mostly unnecessary here:
*Try to be diplomatic most of the time, but occasionally want to shake people and yell: "Stop being such a fucking pussy! Will yourself to have a single critical thought! Don't go along with things you know to be bullshit! You're an adult! Enough is enough already!"*
*I mean it's obvious. Everyone can see it plain as day. You're not fooling anyone anymore!*
*Pointless, I know, but feels good to express it.*

2024-08-31 08:07:01

Finally back home in Lisbon after two weeks in Argentina, took the 12th and final flight of the last two months back from Madrid.
If it weren’t for my wife, I’d probably still be planted on my sofa in LA — I’m an ideas guy, I don’t *do* shit.
And yet, it was my idea to go to Argentina and also to drive through the south of the US this summer.
Portugal is a nice place, but they are beholden to the EU, which is up to no good. If things go south, you want to have some outs.
This is essentially the thesis of The Sovereign Individual — that jurisdictions that treat people poorly will lose those people, are while the backlash from the now-powerful ones will be ugly, they will ultimately lose that battle and have to capitulate once people start exiting en masse.
We’re not leaving here imminently, but if it went bad, Buenos Aires is an amazing city, the people are kind and there seems to be a (very tempered) hope that things are turning around, even though they’re struggling as Millei seems to be facing reality rather than printing them into more debt.

2024-08-30 14:36:40

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thanks -- will do that

2024-08-30 14:05:03

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city was vibrant, people seemed wary (because they’ve been burned a lot), but guardedly hopeful re Millei and his policies, food was good, construction/improvements everywhere. Streets seemed safer than last time I was there, etc.

2024-08-30 14:03:39

Madrid airport wifi is like fame. You get 15 minutes before they expect a confirm from the fake email you gave and then it’s over.
Apologies to Joe33233@yahoo.com

2024-08-30 13:01:56

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Here’s a couple:
https://nostrcheck.me/media/6ad3e2a34818b153c81f48c58f44e5199e7b4fc8dbe37810a000dce3c90b7740/5abac22e0fbeca33911bb04297159ce6148471ee1992c3abdecd2ce1b8b11ebd.webp
https://nostrcheck.me/media/6ad3e2a34818b153c81f48c58f44e5199e7b4fc8dbe37810a000dce3c90b7740/de4cf2c410a54712a6994f7c63abcc1bb1051a1745952cdd268d832423bccdca.webp

2024-08-29 23:36:38

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Very much

2024-08-29 23:26:49

Leaving Argentina after 15 days. Seems like it’s headed in the right direction.

2024-08-29 13:11:38

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Fair point — gotta think ahead.

2024-08-29 13:04:22

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ID as female, get to the women’s gulag.

2024-08-29 13:01:42

People want to get something for their zaps. If you zap a famous person they see it, and you hope they remember you. It’s dumb but they’re your sats, and you can spend them how you like.
Key IMO if you’re not famous is to post some based shit with which people connect. Articulate the truth that everyone is thinking but haven’t yet put clearly into words.
If you can do that, Nostr will reward you. Creating “content” or “journalism” is just busy work. It has to speak to people to get over the hurdle. Otherwise they’ll just zap famous people instead.
#note1e33…3raz

2024-08-28 20:16:03

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People just don’t have the money for that. Would be a mass exodus IMO.

2024-08-28 19:59:58

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I don't think so. People can’t afford unrealized gains.

2024-08-28 19:36:27

The effect of this would be people getting their wealth off the fiat rails so it can’t be easily seized.
#note1pkk…hfg8

2024-08-28 18:30:32

My Twitter posts are mostly fuck you to the fake douchebags peddling the lie.
My nostr is mostly, here’s something that occurred to me today.
I don’t do this on purpose. It just seems to fit the respective mediums.

2024-08-28 14:58:48

Thought this dude was based too
#note1590…eez6

2024-08-28 13:22:16

Had a dream I was in a store asking the clerk some questions. Another customer remarked that he admired the way I didn’t easily back down (can’t remember what it was about), and I turned to him and said more forcefully than I meant to, “I really just don’t give a fuck anymore.”
He and I became friends, turned out he had an insane conspiracy theory YouTube channel.

2024-08-27 13:53:08

So many millionaires in Argentina now, it’s amazing. I walk around with 100K pesos in my wallet like a baller.

2024-08-27 13:26:51

Won’t snitch until after the US election IMO.
#note1qfd…8qfm

2024-08-27 13:24:25

Weasel letter — took responsibility for the censorship (didn’t blame the govt), vowed not to do it again (empty promise). Didn’t accomplish anything.
#note1vmd…5mss

2024-08-27 13:23:01

Even pillow makers now on the hook for smothering deaths!
#note1uxd…9uy0

2024-08-27 13:19:22

Buenos Aires is a beautiful city. Biggest negative is just how far away it is. But if things were to go south, no pun intended, maybe that would be a positive.

2024-08-26 12:04:49

My 12 YO daughter but she adds salt
#note177k…lpep

2024-08-26 12:01:25

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Agree that’s plausible, but imagine if instead of merely causing panic, it also causes people to realize why. They are pushing all of it way too soon, before CBDC, before Twitter is disabled, before they have sufficient control. Would be a very desperate move IMO.

2024-08-26 11:49:57

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Think of the backlash when this too fails.

2024-08-24 21:29:31

Was thinking about what happens if/when we win, and the globalist cabal of control freaks is beaten back, people are free to create and build, time preference is down, beauty is valued and appreciated, merit and contribution to the marketplace is rewarded over politics and status-chasing.
What are you going to do with yourself then?

2024-08-24 14:24:06

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Sometimes she bites her tongue, sometimes gets into arguments. Lost a couple friends due to it.

2024-08-24 14:19:47

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LOL, meant to say wearing a “fancy” watch.

2024-08-24 14:18:54

People my wife knows are gushing about Kamala Harris because they think it’s fashionable. It’s like wearing a watch or saying your kid got into Princeton — something you do for social reasons.
That’s the extent of it. Politics as fashion for the consequence-insulated. (Or so they think.)

2024-08-23 14:54:54

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I don't think any earnest seeker can arrive at the “wrong” conclusion, as the earnest seeking IS the truth IMO. That’s because the doubt is itself the truth, and the seeker is only earnest to the extent he embraces it.

2024-08-22 21:05:24

12-YO daughter today: “Think I prefer male dogs to female ones because…”
She pauses to think about what she means to say.
Me: “Because they’re bitches?"

2024-08-22 19:53:55

today's hike
https://nostrcheck.me/media/6ad3e2a34818b153c81f48c58f44e5199e7b4fc8dbe37810a000dce3c90b7740/c96cbb9117dd7a94143f9ca0ad5895b6957f722bc12b690a9493c942289492cb.webp

2024-08-22 12:25:16

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Dueling black holes

2024-08-22 12:24:26

At a resort in Argentina, woke up middle of the night with a tickle in my throat, thought fuck, last thing I need is to get sick.
Then I remembered I had some loose supplements I put in the zip pocket of my toiletries bag, went to the bathroom, opened it up.
But there were some older supplements in there too, and I couldn’t tell which were which, so I popped a few into my mouth, thinking maybe I had gotten zinc, vitamin C and quercetin, went back to bed.
About 20 minutes later I realized my error: my body was suddenly on fire in the bed. Those larger rectangular tablets were not Vitamin C but 250 mg of full flush niacin!
Eventually slept it off though and feel fine, so maybe it helped.

2024-08-22 11:50:15

Idea for better discoverability on Nostr:
A client feature wherein you recommend say 3 follows of follower counts between x and y, and say up to 10 follows with follower counts below x. (Above y is not necessary because their posts are already plenty discovered.
Then once a critical mass of people have selected their key follows, others can opt into a feed of “follows + recommendations”

2024-08-21 16:34:55

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when the official explanation is plainly a lie, it’s rational to consider others to see if they better fit the facts.

2024-08-21 14:49:16

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@npub1w0r…cu4x and @npub1yzv…rf8q

2024-08-21 01:09:48

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Even if they cared about other stuff, not seeing how it would be a positive for anyone who wasn’t already brainwashed.

2024-08-21 00:59:56

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Independent voters who aren’t worried about the economy? I’d imagine most of them are sitting on some gains.

2024-08-21 00:58:20

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only the people who were already going to vote for her like it

2024-08-20 23:58:07

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Even if that were true, and I don’t think it is, the commies are already voting for her. Why propose this now?

2024-08-20 23:55:51

Very odd. Even if she were serious, why propose this *ahead* of the election? Only the brainwashed and economically illiterate would be for it, and they were already going to vote for her. Who does this win over?
Almost like they're sabotaging her candidacy.
#note1upk…xfru

2024-08-20 18:25:52

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I don’t mean a real turning from evil, but a self-preservation instinct among the evil to turn on their co-malfeasants while there’s still something to be gained from it. Think that’s more likely.

2024-08-20 18:12:27

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I can definitely see it, but the bolder the move, the more dire the consequences if it fails. And there will be strong incentives for people (when they see the worm turn) to jump off the sinking ship first. Plus, they are evil and craven, so they can’t trust each other.

2024-08-20 15:31:05

I feel like someone should compile an index of all the major events for which the official account is woefully inadequate and offer various theories:
Titanic
Pearl Harbor
JFK assassination
Watergate
9/11
Covid origins
etc. etc.
There are probably 100 or so big ones.
I might consider it, but it would be a huge project.
Basically just an easily reference-able index.
Where to draw the line as to what you could include — Iraq War, Russiagate, SARS Cov-1? — would be tough though. Can’t include everything that’s ever happened.
I don’t know. Just think there should be one place you could get all of it.

2024-08-20 15:21:37

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https://x.com/welp007/status/1825712844450705582

2024-08-20 15:03:35

I don’t know if nostr *needs* or even wants fantasy football, sports betting and survivor content, but I’m providing it @npub1dwh…qfxe.
There are ~50 million Americans who play, but apparently only a dozen or so are on nostr.
While fantasy football and betting NFL games takes some commitment, survivor does not. In fact it’s criminal the entirely of nostr isn’t in some 10K-sat entry survivor pool for all the marbles.
(Survivor is just a game where you pick one NFL team to win each week, the only catch being you can’t use the same one twice. Win and move on, lose, and you’re out.)
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2024-08-20 13:51:29

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why is an orange called an “orange” but a lemon is not called a “yellow”?

2024-08-20 01:05:06

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ha -- one of the lowest

2024-08-19 23:50:54

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You only need to quantify things that are close calls. These are not.

2024-08-19 23:38:35

Every election I can remember, the more charismatic person won except the last one: Reagan over Carter/Mondale, Bush over Dukakis, Clinton over Bush/Dole, Bush over Gore/Kerry, Obama over McCain/Romney, Trump over Hillary. Only exception was Biden over Trump, and there were serious irregularities around it.
Forget politics, and just ask yourself if there's ever been a bigger gap in charisma/personability than in this election. Then consider the economy which just massively revised down its jobs report for the last year, with inflation crushing the ever-shrinking middle class.
The fundamentals are terrible for the democrats. The indicators (polls/betting markets) say otherwise, but in an era of so much manipulation and fraud, fundamentals > indicators IMO.

2024-08-19 15:30:57

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People want an AGI for *judgment* which is different than say for doing multivariable calculus.
The same people who so eagerly outsourced their own judgment to laughably flawed “experts” the last few years are the ones in whom the fantasy is the strongest.

2024-08-18 16:08:34

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Those are basically banks now, but yes. Had to delete PayPal though when they got in the business of policing speech.

2024-08-18 14:33:09

Similar experience — maybe worse — helping my 87 YO uncle set up automatic payments from their joint Chase account to his wife’s nursing home. After much of the same BS as below, got in, set up autopay, seemed to take but was rejected the next day. Did this SIX times, one of which was his local (in person) banker doing it herself, still rejected.
And his 2FA was to his land line so every time, we had to hang up for him to get the code and call back.
Eventually gave up, moved the funds to a different bank which they also wouldn’t do online, so he had to pick up a cashier’s check and drive it to the new bank.
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2024-08-17 21:46:42

New conspiracy theory — variant of this earlier one.
They had to get rid of Biden but couldn’t get Kamala to quit, so they let her have the nomination (for now — and maybe that entitled them to the funding), but they know she can’t win and are now angling to replace her with someone they prefer.
Remember, polls are fake, news is fake, even betting markets can be manipulated. In such cases, always look to fundamentals which are twofold: (1) The economy sucks — inflation is crushing people; and (2) Unlike say Obama or Bill Clinton, who, no matter what you think of them were both gifted politicians, she sucks at this game.
So bad politician, bad economy. The polls are fake, the betting markets are manipulated.
They are already attacking her over her preposterous economic proposals in the Washington Post. Doubt the Post would have permission to do that unless the word was out.
In the end, they had to replace both Kamala and Biden — it was the only way to pull with in cheating range IMO.
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