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In fairness the prompt on the second page is at the top, so they're not supposed to be questions, just situations.
And yea, authority, in any valid sense, is born of knowledge. A doctor is an authority on medicine. A rancher is an authority on cattle. A teacher is an authority,one might hope, on their subject.
You listen to them because it's how you learn, or take necessary direction based on knowledge. But they're never beyond reproach or question, save when time is of the essence (as in a rescue or battle situation, where those questions and second guesses hopefully happened before or get saved for when the delay doesn't get people killed).
And authority is always voluntarily followed. Else it isn't authority, but coercion.

2026-03-22 08:02:48 UTC

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I don't call anything cryptocurrency. The word itself perpetuates an affinity scam. There's Bitcoin, and there's shitcoins.
Bitcoin has no peers.

2026-03-22 01:45:56 UTC

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Check out Daniel Suarez's Kill Decision. Great book on this topic from over a decade ago. Specifically, these, but in swarms...

2026-03-22 01:32:11 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/eea6b1dc1f62356bf1a41dafe10e237467a1ff23325d64cd3f4ecc5df495b6d0.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/e19ee1773c44c9f62445f739ecaaefe541c4a279516505e0fee0513080f590f2.jpg

2026-03-21 14:21:27 UTC

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I used to do this more, but there are very few Linux distros I'm interested in in the systemd era. Been hanging out on Slackware for the better part of the last decade.
Runit and OpenRC seem like some viable alternatives though. Slackware's sysvinit always used rc style scripts so it's always been pretty orderly, unlike the other sysvinit distros, who handled it by replacing their tangled mess of scripts with a system completely at odds with the Unix philosophy.

2026-03-21 00:36:27 UTC

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America lost its sovereignty to the British after being financially ruined by the Civil War (aka the Confederate Colour Revolution) and thus installing Woodrow Wilson. Ever since it's been acting as a pseudo-colony for British interests, and against its prior priorities, such as its longtime alliance with Russia, non-interventionist stance, and generally pro-freedom domestic policy.
And yea, this is something I'm at least 110% sure of.
All part of the broader backdrop of the English Civilizational War going back to 1688, without which we wouldn't likely have revolted in the first place.

2026-03-19 12:45:47 UTC

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I'm in the process of recovering the Cashu from my old phone's Zeusnuts ln address. Jealous of the ability to use seedphrase recovery. Really shouldn't have gone months but I didn't realize the underpinnings or the fact that there wasn't going to be any clean sweep. Keep timing out minibits every few transfers and got some fat zaps over the months I let it build up...
That system is marked experimental for a reason I guess...

2026-03-17 22:56:48 UTC

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Da gnat bit*

2026-03-17 13:13:22 UTC

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You've got a lab for chocolate?
I'm jealous; I have to prep my chocolate in my general purpose kitchen. Chocolate seems to deserve its own facility...

2026-03-14 01:10:27 UTC

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I think I need to go for a walk, this is gonna give me nightmares.

2026-03-13 23:17:09 UTC

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It's even worse than that. He drinks cappuccino in the evening! https://media3.giphy.com/media/UbLnLnbbYQTDc2bmbJ/200w.webp

2026-03-12 15:56:42 UTC

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And yea, if you thought maybe we're looking for alternatives as Luke is clearly on the 110 bandwagon, you're not wrong. Turns out creating a new node implementation isn't trivial though. Besides, for now, v29 does what it's supposed to.
I care less about op_return than BRC20's, ordinals, inscriptions, runes, and stamps anyway. Op_return is relatively harmless noise. No reason to make it huge but it was always a harm reduction measure.
A better approach to disincentivizing spam would be removal of the segwit discount. But we're too wrapped up in retarded alternatives for that to be worth talking about.

2026-03-10 16:00:47 UTC

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TL;DR 58k gang lives.

2026-03-10 15:37:07 UTC

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Both @nprofile…szx8 and James Check bring it up pretty frequently, and if you think about what it's showing fundamentally, it follows that the way crowds behave work as they do. Selling pressure begets selling pressure, to a point, as most people aren't interested in selling at a loss, but may well decide to take profits (to "buy back cheaper" later). The fuel behind that typically runs out as we get below that 0 mark, as most any sale becomes necessarily at a loss, and most of us in the space, even the degenerate traders, know that over time bitcoin goes up. So the selling pressure lets up, a bottom forms, and a new bull market can emerge.
We're not there yet. We don't NEED to get there -- but we always have, and if I were a betting man, I'd say that this time probably isn't different.

2026-03-09 10:10:16 UTC

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People expect instant engagement.
That's not how things work in the world, nor on Nostr. Where they've had it before, it was an algorithm doing the heavy lifting so they didn't have to actually meet people.
The ones who make it are the ones that are okay with posting into a void, and who will take the time to seek out posts and comment on them. And, not for nothing, hashtags are pretty handy when you're new (some of us even follow a few). And maybe even sign in as someone else and see the content they're seeing to see what they'd like to uncover. Personally I think the ability to do this AND, without signing out as the other person, just follow from your primary keypair would be a novel feature that would be quite useful. To illustrate, I'd sign in as @nprofile…jejf and if I see someone on his feed I'd like to follow, I'd be given a button labeled "Follow as" where I could select "nprofile1qqs0uv4h9nmuxj5w5xj972uc6wyjtrvm8ul5krrsgcq7yd5fzn8uk8s53fk7d".
There's also the opt-in algorithms/dvm's that are out there, and Primal and Nostria in particular are pretty good at making these available. Better, actually, is friend-of-friend style feeds. Coracle was a client I used starting out and the ability to build custom feeds using friend of friend, hashtags, and some other means was particularly helpful in building up my follow base.
At the end of the day it's very choose your own adventure. Perhaps some of these tools would be best thrown into a "Discover" tool on whatever clients people are developing. That said, I'm not in the biggest rush to get people who can't be bothered to be a little creative. Might be a bit selfish, and I probably shouldn't condemn people to the ZuckerBorg Cube or being X'ed out, but I'm pretty fond of Nostr's coziness...

2026-02-12 00:35:46 UTC

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I think they may actually be source-erors.

2026-01-26 23:53:14 UTC

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I do find it a little odd given how many would agree with me that Europeans moving into the homeland of the Palestinians to displace them and rewrite their legal system has been a gross injustice.
Is it just a matter of degree then?
Because it's the same western globalists backing both flows of people over borders.

2026-01-12 13:01:49 UTC

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Yea, rigid dogma and orthodoxy aren't something that's ever jived well with me. Gotten much more okay with the concepts of religion over the last few decades but can't help but feel that sometimes the systems people turn to for liberation get used to just re-create a prison for them.
Sometimes it's their own doing, and there's the urge to suggest a defined lineage, as in catholicism, but sometimes of course it's the hierarchy causing the problems, so there doesn't seem to be a silver bullet.
The Taoist approach of recognizing the futility of overly systematizing the ineffable feels most appropriate, though I do half expect that in a culture where it is the norm it's also been somehow used as a weird dogmatic system of control.
Ever since seeing the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka in 2009 by buddhists of all people I've gotten past the delusion that certain religions are immune to such brutality.

2025-12-28 20:44:28 UTC

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They're definitely 🐻, specifically polar 🐻
And the restaurant I was at for a decade made lamb the best I've ever had. They did it over fire so not sure I can help you too much there (other than: maybe give 'em some smoked salt), but serving them over a hazelnut and almond romesco made with garlic and roasted red peppers and topped with some lightly dressed arugula was something I didn't appreciate enough until it wasn't in my life on a weekly basis.
The sort of thing that makes one almost want to go back into food service. Almost.

2025-12-27 14:25:51 UTC

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Just call them biscuits and have them with tea and you're just being Brit-fancy.
I'm finishing up French toast casserole, and I promise your cookies are healthier. I will probably make some sausage though to feel better about it.

2025-12-26 14:05:30 UTC

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Oof after Thanksgiving we didn't go near turkey.
Sister made a giant rib roast though which I can only wish there were a lot more of.

2025-12-26 13:44:18 UTC

GM. Finally got some sleep now that the wrapping paper's been dealt with and the cooking's done and the kitchen is at least mostly back to orderly.
Going to see my Mother in law and her husband today, so not done with the driving, but I might get to finally relax a little and enjoy these last 11 days of Christmas.
https://blossom.primal.net/70bfb05b199517b4e4d5bd4eeee73f61d8c85c444efabf9648afd51f73220b9f.jpg

2025-12-26 01:47:40 UTC

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I hope it's at a place that takes Square, so you can tell whether he chooses fiat or Bitcoin.
Though maybe that's not a first date thing -- that's a divisive thing even among Bitcoiners what with the 'never spend' crowd.

2025-12-25 18:52:41 UTC

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That looks like a very expensive tree given how pricey RAM has gotten...

2025-12-24 15:46:19 UTC

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As bad as what happened to the kids is, I'm more interested in knowing more about the blackmail networks and who's using these networks to pull strings.
This seems clearly to be a matter of powerful people being enticed into doing extremely compromising things that just so conveniently got documented and kept secret. If that isn't a clear sign that the government is compromised by foreign or at least malignant powers I don't know what it'd take.
It's the standard blackmail system crooked cops use on each other to keep each other from turning on the rest of them.

2025-12-23 18:09:30 UTC

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Well, don't mistake me for someone who kept all or even most of that orginal buy. Or who started buying regularly til last year.
Ask me about that time I spent $100k on a month of rent lol.

2025-11-11 23:21:39 UTC

@nprofile…vysa one word for why I side with @nprofile…fql7 on Bitkey vs ETF: chainsplit.
You have an ETF, you get one chain, and no choice of which one.
You have a Bitkey, you get both.
That said, they're both shit options and both could rug you.

2025-10-14 10:20:04 UTC

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Honestly think of the children would have been more compelling than "we don't want to do anything illegal."
Not sure when Bitcoin became about following the rules of terrestrial governments. Its whole value proposition is permissionlessness. Nobody says your node has to run on clearnet.
Pandering to governments seems more about NGU than anything else.
Sure, we'd shake off some folks with less conviction. But such crises are where Bitcoin has always proven itself and come through stronger.
If we could shake Larry Fink out that'd be the real trophy. If it's not clear why, perhaps check out Marty's conversation with Vince Lanci on the most recent @nprofile…nscg .

2025-10-05 21:17:20 UTC

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Best way to do this is to hit London. Nuking occupied Palestine, on the other hand, is an awful idea -- though I'd not put it past the occupiers to do it themselves when they realize they won't be able to hold onto it. "Samson's option."

2025-10-05 17:44:56 UTC

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All of the incivility aside, it's been a great way to make the importance of running your own node apparent to people who may not otherwise have realized it.
Bitcoin is money for enemies; it's when everyone gets along that I start worrying.

2025-10-03 18:01:39 UTC

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The whole Bitcoin network certainly didn't run enough tests before deploying Taproot. Or Segwit for that matter, given how the discount actually gets used.

2025-10-01 19:24:50 UTC

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Knotsis and Coremunists both want to tell you how to manage your mempool policy.
Seems an apt comparison...

2025-09-27 14:29:07 UTC

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Discussing the contents of the private conversations of others is what spooks do.

2025-09-25 23:08:16 UTC

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Might be time to look at LibreRelay lol. More seriously, guess Knots v29 forever it is. Though heck I'm still on 27 after picking it up before Core came out as even worse than any of us had speculated.
I wanted csv and csfs but at this rate the only winning move seems to be at least temporary ossification.

2025-09-19 11:07:12 UTC

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Nico, tell me you don't understand the current limits of layer 2.
At 8 billion people, there's blockspace for 3 tx's per lifetime, roughly.
CTV and CSFS are crucial for expanding access to lightning through things like Ark and Spark.
Saylor doesn't care because he thinks Bitcoin is capital, not money. Don't be Saylor.
https://fountain.fm/episode/h5ZkxDAMOzDil1KLQt5z
#nevent1q…hlv6

2025-09-17 02:44:39 UTC

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It's odd how after his death people who claimed themselves his allies seem more willing to use him to push their own agenda he'd disagree with while many of us who frankly found many of his views pretty appalling (though took no issue with his right to have them) are actually honoring his memory.
Sometimes you have to die to really have it be known who's really on your side...

2025-09-16 16:39:16 UTC

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"Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There's ugly speech. There's gross speech. There's evil speech.
And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment.
Keep America free."
-Charlie Kirk
#nevent1q…nwpf

2025-09-15 17:04:14 UTC

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GameBitch

2025-09-14 19:45:48 UTC

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Gotcha. And yea sbagen is an OLD (1999) but probably still best piece of software I know of for generating binaural beats programmatically with some neat routines for dropping tone over a set time. there's some good extensive documentation on doing so.
I guess I could rephrase though, as I understand beats a bit more but less brainwaves, and you seem more read on that subject. Would you see particular benefit in being able to access say, theta wave state on command? You mentioned EM vibrations having the ability go put people in certain states, and I guess I'm interested in putting that to practical use. I played around with the Monroe Institute Gateway Experience cd's I downloaded years ago, but probably didn't really give it quite as much follow through as would have been ideal.

2025-09-14 15:23:23 UTC

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This one may even be worth listening to at only 1x speed. Packed with information, and addressed in a clear and sober manner that hopefully won't offend even the most naturalistic materialists out there.
As someone who spent years on comparative religion, hermetic mystery schools, yogic teachings, and even tried reading Fulcanelli, this was refreshing.
I'd love to know if Red Tailed Hawk has ever discussed any of this with Lon Milo Duquette, another guy that seems to cut through a lot of the shrouding around initiation.
#nevent1q…39l2

2025-09-14 00:12:30 UTC

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So you're saying, teleport to London in Bitchat. Got it.

2025-09-13 22:43:35 UTC

Cute. Went to actually move some coins around, and my Coldcard Q just won't turn on. It's literally been in a box for the last few months, and worked just fine when last used. Batteries look fine, and honestly I probably should have taken them out, but did read that it wouldn't drain them while not on so I really haven't a clue what happened, but the timing could be better.
No shade intended here -- it's still definitely the best damn signer on the market without any real runners up (aside from other Coinkite devices), but this is definitely a frustrating situation.

2025-09-12 20:40:02 UTC

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Extremist group...aka "edgelords on the internet."
It was one thing that my parents generation didn't have a clue what the Internet was like, but at this point, it's really weird when millenial and gen X parents act like they've never seen a youtube comments section.
You don't need funding and organization to radicalize a kid; all it takes is a swarm of kids with no self respect and a spirit of one-upmanship to take things to some pretty dark and degenerate territory.
I think the big difference between now and when I was growing up though is that while we had the edgelords then, we didn't have the algorithms that take that fire and pour rocket fuel on it.
You want someone to blame, don't blame the extremist groups. Blame the algorithms that push everything to its extreme to drive advertising dollars. Bring back Clippy.

2025-09-12 19:29:34 UTC

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The casing on a 30-06 Springfield cartridge is 2.494" long. It'd not be trivial but people write on grains of rice...

2025-08-14 12:45:07 UTC

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Ahh. I thought it was essentially a single relay that was accessible via radio and internet, but sort of limited there (which is very cool in itself, but not quite as extensible as being able to relay traffic to and from other relays.
Once I'm licensed (and more importantly, have equipment -- the licensing is cheap; the equipment less so!) I definitely intend to play with it a bit!

2025-08-12 15:11:52 UTC

@nprofile…pt3t I think you may have missed the mark re: Preston and Willie's talk about a 6102 threat. Doesn't seem like either of them was saying Bitcoin isn't safe to own in self custody -- after all, any trad-fi investment or even bank deposit is unsafe from a 6102 style threat, or if you wanna get European about it, a bail in. What they warn against is the 6102 threat to having PAPER bitcoin, because Coinbase, MSTR, Blackrock, etc are NOT going to do as you suggest -- they're going to roll over and hand over the keys.
The solution to that is and always has been self custody. And yea, it's also a good idea also to immediately move coins from the address you withdraw to for plausible deniability, and even better to coinjoin and/or lightning/submarine swap to add additional distance between your KYC and the current address.

2025-06-07 15:38:17 UTC

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OMG @npub1qny…95gx thank you for bringing up Kill Decision. Not enough Bitcoiners know Daniel Suarez and that's a crime. I sure hope you're read Daemon and Freedom™, as the proponent of AI and decentralized digital currency that you are. If not you're in for a treat.
https://fountain.fm/episode/t7f52ztSZKqnn3DJ5XYh
#nevent1q…cx3h

2025-05-30 02:02:29 UTC

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People think they can somehow get the benefits of Bitcoin without the responsibility of, you know, handling their Bitcoin. Freedom without responsibility is always a mirage.
I leave plenty of room for redesign of Bitkeys in the future being something that may be usable. But for now it's an unfinished breadbox, not even fit for prototype stage let alone public release as a product.

2025-03-27 00:48:01 UTC

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Makes me feel much more okay with the prospect of the IMF tearing him down and to pieces. Somehow his rejection of his heritage had slipped by me.

2025-03-24 21:32:39 UTC

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I've had this thought so many times.
Though i'm less concerned with public cancellation than I am having to explain my internet presence to HR...

2025-03-24 08:23:29 UTC

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Like any Alan Moore work if you've read the graphic novel the movie pales in comparison.

2025-03-15 10:27:25 UTC

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Depends. It's not made by Boeing, is it?

2025-02-25 12:35:27 UTC

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If this doesn't get Parker Lewis to stop being a curmudgeon about Nostr I'm not sure anything will.

2025-02-14 18:55:57 UTC

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People think boy scouts are angels but forget that they're the ones that know all the fun knots.

2025-02-12 02:14:37 UTC

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part of their culture war angle is cancel culture. so, no merge.

2025-02-09 00:32:53 UTC

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People do rob banks -- I worked with a bartender who'd done time for it. They just don't get very much. Literally better off maxing a credit card and not paying it off. By a long shot.
But addicts gotta score...

2025-02-02 13:46:14 UTC

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Glad to help! Also, building out a network on Nostr can be fairly hard at first, as there's no algorithm that'll put your notes in front of people based on...well, anything. That, and people typically only go into the Global feed when they're feeling particularly adventurous. Some tips are to make sure to use hashtags with your notes that are relevant and match some you may have seen around, and also, post replies to other notes to get conversations going -- you may just get a follow back!
Some of the places for good general conversation I like to check are #GM, #Introductions, #AskNostr, and #memes. I've definitely also been seen quite frequently in the #foodstr arena sharing some of the foods I make. But I assume you know how hashtags work -- get out there and explore!

2024-12-31 14:20:40 UTC

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The more I look at NWC, the more I think maybe just having a lightning address is fine. Having zaps actually logged on Nostr so we can see most zapped content is nice and all but it's an absolute clusterfuck.

2024-12-22 12:16:35 UTC

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Usually not quite as big across as the pan is; I like to slide a spatula in to flip them. Ends up being about a third of a meter in diameter. Crepes can be a bit wider as that's more of a wrist flick flip.

2024-11-18 12:47:37 UTC

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Having read a fair few sagas from medieval Iceland and Norway, among other historical texts, it occurs to me that the role of wife used to have a lot more respect to it, because the home itself was recognizeable as a much more important economic unit. It wasn't just a place where a man and woman lived with their 2.1 children and a dog and a cat (and the kids' goldfish), but rather, a place where many others toiled to eek out sustenance from the ground, the livestock, the hearth, and the furnace. Being assigned to managing domestic duties wasn't a demotion to women of this era. At least in Scandinavia -- things do seem slightly more skewed in other regions, though none seem quite as bleak as the early-mid 20th century. Strangely enough, it almost seems that a major driver of inequality can be realized in the abolition of slavery -- though perhaps it's better to remember that this arrangement also came to an end with the advent of industrialization. The home went from being a powerhouse of the economy to little more than a dormitory, and the family unit little more than an old time hobby men had when they weren't busy out drinking, or carrying on with their corporate office life. And for a time, women were largely resigned to simply do as they said, because their power had been taken by the machines, and there had been no place made for them, en masse anyway, in this new world. We've of course had a pushback to that particularly problematic situation as women asserted that they would not simply obey and be servile -- though I do always wonder how much of this was truly liberation, and how much of it was the fiat world forcing women into the workplace as families could no longer subsist on a single income, and we may as well frame it as liberatory rather than the impoverishment it in many cases was. And of course, all the while, as women took on the same roles men already had, often at a disadvantage, they were still expected to carry out the domestic duties of homemaking and child rearing, which, even in the more standalone smaller home environment, are not trivial tasks -- particularly as the various other personnel that went along with the larger homes of old are long gone, and public schooling, the television, and the iPad are sorry replacements that often bring at least as much hindrance as they bring help.
I feel somewhat compelled to tidily draw conclusions about solutions for this situation, but at the same time, it feels like it'd be forced (not to mention, likely a bit patronizing). There is perhaps value in illuminating the situation, at least as I see it, so as to at least provide some recognition of the problem. If nothing else, though, it does seem like prosperity, and the means to make decisions about how to address the situation and carry out those plans, would be helpful, even if we certainly can't just throw sound money at the situation and consider it solved.

2024-10-22 09:42:55 UTC

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If they take BTC out of circulation to use solely as bank collateral to back dollars, I'm not sure those of us with self custodied coins need to care, any more than we particularly care about coins locked up in wallets that ended up orphaned because they weren't properly backed up. Worst case scenario, their increased demand and the diminished supply may mean BTC's price gets high enough we have to seriously consider whether the satoshi really is the smallest unit of Bitcoin. The most insane valuation projection I've seen was $1 Billion USD BTC before 2040; at that price we'd really probably want to consider sub-satoshi units in order to facilitate microtransactions that really aren't even so micro anymore. Assuming of course that billion dollar valuation isn't simply because a cart of groceries costs $10,000...
That's how I see it anyway; is there an angle you see I'm missing?

2024-10-13 17:15:49 UTC

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Given that it's Nostr, the gif button should be configurable to select from a variety of existing gif sites, as well as from a user-curated library, either in local storage or in a directory on their own web server.
We shouldn't just be cloning the centralized platforms, we should be outdoing them.

2024-10-13 17:13:20 UTC

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I hate when I accidentally search using Google. I only once in a blue moon go there, after trying the 4 or so search engines I find give better results anyway, or to take a peek at the bubbles people are living in when I need to figure out why my rhetoric isn't getting through.
It's a garbage company.

2024-10-12 05:17:22 UTC

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Personally? I'd be looking at what early withdrawals cost, and how often you can do them. If you're putting in 4%, they're putting in 4%, and then an early withdrawal gets hit with a 10% penalty, you're still looking at getting 7.2% instead of the original 4%. Even if you then assume it's taxed at 30% (check your tax bracket of course), you'd still be looking at over 5%, instead of the 4% you're contributing, which you could then walk and buy BTC with.
You can potentially make use of your employer match and buy BTC outside of your plan -- think of it like having your cake and eating it too.
Disclaimer: I'm really not here to suggest you do this. I'm just offering perspective on the math involved IF you're choosing to try to just maximize your bitcoin purchase, as it looks like others are suggesting, and you are considering. What you choose to do in terms of actual investments is nothing I'd want to touch with a 10 foot pole as I'm far from qualified to do so, and even if I were, I'd need a lot more information to build up an appropriate suitability profile. Consult with an investment advisor you trust to find your blind spots and explore your real risk tolerance to fill in your blind spots, and make an educated decision from there. Also, it'd serve you to truly dive deep into what the plan offers. Some currently do offer custodied bitcoin directly (these are rare), and others allow you to have a linked brokerage account that enjoys the plan tax treatment while giving you more flexibility in terms of investment options (these vary heavily based on plans).

2024-10-07 10:15:01 UTC

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Nice; didn't realize it did image generation too.

2024-10-05 17:49:26 UTC

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Vertical tabs come in handy for readability.
Also, separate browser windows for different sets of tabs. With different workspaces/virtual desktops if it's really unwieldy.
Though more often I go 'time to make some bookmarks and close some tabs.'

2024-10-03 17:56:17 UTC

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He had Tor. His aim was the anonimity of his sources rather than himself.

2024-10-03 14:11:54 UTC

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Makes one more bullish those less reliant upon modern infrastructure.

2024-10-03 14:02:33 UTC

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Hopefully the nation-states can tucker themselves out without too much killing. Been catching up on the Ottoman era and the issues that led to and followed the land act of 1858 on the PreOccupation podcast. Things seemed much more civil among a broad range of people in the region before we devolved into the structure of a nation state. It's a cancer upon the sociopsychological political system.

2024-09-30 09:44:17 UTC

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Sheikh Naim Qassem, Deputy Secretary General, didn't seem voiceless... #hezbollah #FreePalestine
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/hezbollahs-deputy-chief-delivers-defiant-message

2024-09-29 10:37:39 UTC

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https://thehardtimes.net/culture/balding-punk-assumes-hes-a-skinhead-by-default-now/
I'll just leave this here lol.

2024-09-28 01:29:15 UTC

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Appreciate the suggestion!

2024-09-28 01:05:14 UTC

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5 cm per second
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Centimeters_per_Second?wprov=sfla1

2024-09-25 23:31:54 UTC

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It's cool that Fischer Price devices get to have cool ap's sometimes too.

2024-09-18 00:07:54 UTC

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I'm glad that the third party vote is a protest vote or I'd be furious at her drawing up the antiZionist vote away from Chase Oliver.

2024-09-09 10:34:27 UTC

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It definitely went downhill years ago when it got less about finding what you WANTED with hashtags, to seeing what was prescribed for you by the algorithm. When even the Followed feed is cultivated by the algorithm, rather than showing you what you asked to see, and there is no override aside from manually looking up what you're looking for, things are very, very broken.
The early days were nice. I'm not planning on leaving terribly soon if only because this is still a fairly undiversified crowd, but definitely scrolling more here, less there.

2024-09-08 15:08:00 UTC

Depressing to see so many Lightning wallets unavailable in the US. Speed Wallet seems to work with Amethyst but doesn't tie in so well with other Nostr apps. Was hoping to try Alby but having a hard time finding a custodial wallet to link it with. Any Americans got recommendations here? Aside from self custody -- thats an eventuality but just looking for quick and dirty at the moment as I feel out the ecosystem. #wallet #lightning #alby

2024-09-08 10:57:36 UTC

Unlike the captive that was killed in Rafah, this one was a civilian.
Wonder where the outcry is about Americans being killed now...
#FreePalestine
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/witness-israeli-troops-west-bank-intentionally-killed-us-activist

2024-09-07 05:48:13 UTC

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Signal has for years been an issue in that it is only distributed officially on the official repositories for Android and iOS. And this opens you pretty wide up to have an update pushed, as these repos are tantamount to a root kit.
Moxie Marlinspike has had this issue brought to his attention for years at this point, and his unwillingness to truly address it speaks volumes.
At the end of the day it all depends who you're trying to ensure privacy from. If it's the NSA, you really should consider using One Time Pad cryptography, which is unbreakable when implemented correctly, but is far from convenient. Anything else should be considered to be taking short cuts -- which are always going to be worth weighing the risk/benefits of.