MickBurke

25 years ago today.
Smart, strong, capable and beautiful. There simply is no better woman on this planet, and I STILL literally love her more every day.
https://blossom.primal.net/6ca4d4388dd61e5642bb79afb1b9e48370894c5f99851f40528b68cdf7102209.png

2026-02-13 20:04:07 UTC

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Well... that s ONE way to make sure "you'll own nothing..."

2026-01-19 00:53:50 UTC

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Rooting for you bud!

2025-12-31 21:19:01 UTC

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How unprofessional: They misspelled "you need to find a new bank"...

2025-12-29 19:53:20 UTC

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What is enough? Whining as you accuse VERY active productive people of doing nothing but whining? What an utterly useless dick.

2025-12-03 15:13:45 UTC

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See hoe evil N Korea is? They don't let you use words they don't like, where the british government lets you use them... and then jails you.

2025-12-03 15:08:18 UTC

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Yea, I saw no posts etc and it was pretty clear. Also, I'm boring and why would you ever contact me...
But the REAL give away? He used the word 'crypto' in his DM.

2025-12-03 01:02:36 UTC

@nprofile…vvhl Somebody's impersonating you and contacting people via DM impersonating you...
I reported it in primal, though no idea if that really does anything.
https://blossom.primal.net/b810d217787c806156d5e26d2bc229e9576e54f52c2ce4a901985b309904f26d.png

2025-12-01 15:53:59 UTC

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Sure, it's like when they banned chemical weapons, all the chem weapons manufacturers went into chem ag.
MK Ultra didn't quite work out, so they used what they learned DID worked to sell shit.

2025-11-21 13:53:06 UTC

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Why would I let it sink in when it's EASILY found to be untrue?
When you make ridiculous claims like this you only HELP people ignore the tens of thousands of real and needless deaths of children there.

2025-11-18 00:33:27 UTC

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Everything is 'a setup for a new high'!

2025-11-14 13:47:08 UTC

2000 days learning Spanish!
When you start a new language for the first time in your 50s, it takes a while!
https://blossom.primal.net/23f89716b0775f4866defcfe69d7701e20cfa5fffd62969063874918986c4492.png

2025-10-28 14:15:34 UTC

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Keep up the great work, exiting fiat, one satoshi at a time!

2025-10-09 22:11:31 UTC

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Thanks! Hopefully it'll work with PRIMAL.

2025-10-09 14:12:35 UTC

So I've been using Alby and now Alby hub for my nostr wallet, but haven't used it because I don't have much to say, so alby hub 'closed the channel' etc.
I figured I'd just leave it but it occurred to me, can I use my strike wallet to send and receive zaps? If so I'd like to since every now and then I see something I'd like to zap, and it shouldn't have any problems if I don't send or receive for a while.
Can anyone at @nprofile…m2qp (or anyone else) confirm this should work?
Anybody willing to send me a few sats to test? I can send them right back if it works.

2025-10-04 21:38:33 UTC

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Anyway to retrieve it if I'm not planning on continuing using alby? I've got $60 tied up and I'm not going to be using alby since I'm not using nostr anymore, so I'd like to just get it back. Is there no way to do that @nprofile…x6g9 ?

2025-09-28 22:27:54 UTC

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🖐️ Um... everyone with a set of stairs??

2025-09-25 20:12:44 UTC

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Literally two minutes ago:
https://blossom.primal.net/8f78e311f03fb28eb018992c610ad581fb274f140d554e8d189eb50c0cfc0902.png

2025-09-15 13:43:21 UTC

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Thanks. Got any instructions or a video that can walk me through that? Anyway to retrieve it if I'm not planning on continuing using alby?

2025-09-11 16:01:16 UTC

So my @nprofile…x6g9 hub on my @nprofile…fu08 server closed the channel because of inactivity.
When I went to open a channel I realized that it's showing I have no balance, so it's asking me to fund it, but alby was my lightening wallet...
So I expect I have to fund it from @nprofile…m2qp or another lightening wallet.
Also, when I reopen the channel, will the sats I had before it closed the channel reappear? Didn't have a lot, but would like to know for future reference...
Thanks for any thoughts.

2025-09-10 16:21:08 UTC

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It has always been the solution, it's just a power you can't POSSIBLY trust government with. SO basically as long as the first violent criminals that are killed off are government criminals, it might work...

2025-09-10 14:10:57 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/7b0bdc3d336ad99d733376054098768d5df3615d2bf4b2a0f937ceaceac21e28.mp4

2025-09-10 14:07:42 UTC

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I don't think you really know what "democracy" means either. At least I hope you don't...
https://blossom.primal.net/3dd476da096f3d4e960fadcff6993a8604aac91f65eb9b7c47e66f361208a2f5.png

2025-09-10 13:57:08 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/f3fc2d32a2b1da3d0548a59b64babfe5db65871c3807dd35c938f8b4c39eff47.gif

2025-08-12 13:55:23 UTC

Just had an interesting conversation with my wife...
She was telling me about how some 'royals' have a screwed up relationship and the wife is abusive, and noted that 'they spend $200 a week on' some frivolous thing or another (I wasn't really riveted to the story by that point.
But then she said; "Can you imagine if we had an extra $200 to spend on Bitcoin every week?!?!?!"
I love her so... but the conversation made me think of this guy for some reason... https://blossom.primal.net/9e4af2ccc5169e147a61139da61c1b664f593e90f7b6d4b07f5e60c5e9f0bc9c.png

2025-08-07 14:06:04 UTC

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Exactly my point, instead of making an OS that can free PEOPLE, they consistently make an OS that can 'free' self important, superior, tech snobs.

2025-08-06 21:28:26 UTC

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Freedom isn't this stupid or intentionally and needlessly complex.

2025-08-06 19:29:13 UTC

The ONLY good thing about linux is it's open source. EVERY other FUCKING thing about it is utterly in-fucking-tolerable.

2025-07-27 14:12:43 UTC

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Years back a buddy of mine had a wasp nest in a tree ten feet or so from their upstairs bathroom window. His old man went up to the bathroom with two LARGE roman candles and shot the hell out of it... This was a little more nuts.

2025-07-12 20:15:49 UTC

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So... just another day, right? 😛

2025-07-09 19:36:34 UTC

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My only thought is anything pegged to the 'value' of the dollar is just more fiat, no?

2025-07-09 19:33:06 UTC

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You kids had it easy! We had to record stuff from albums to tapes in real time... Like animals!

2025-07-04 15:11:07 UTC

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Except in ditto which still shows Guys post from June 22 as the most recent...

2025-07-02 18:14:01 UTC

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So it turns out somehow ALL of my follows just disappeared. I added a couple (that I could remember) and I have them back now.

2025-07-02 14:23:51 UTC

No idea what's going on with Nostr for me these last couple days... But Ditto and Iris just show MY posts in the feed and Primal just stays at the loading page.
If I check Messages, I see nothing but notifications, explore etc all work.
I tried clearing the cache on my browser etc even tried another browser, and I get the same thing. I also tested and I can still post. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated!
#AskNostr
https://blossom.primal.net/5a6da6db14244bbd1b2616ebb34369598de88249a48c946822bb9d55e7d42a3c.png https://blossom.primal.net/9e420b4cdd943b2f783a506127d7271b6a47b59b924b562dcba98ca8ab818901.png

2025-07-02 14:11:28 UTC

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But he's got a track suite, a head set and his foot up on the chair, so you know he's 'relevant'...

2025-06-21 14:38:13 UTC

One week in to #DCAEveryDay and I've gone Fee Free thanks to @nprofile…m2qp . The best way to convert a meager social security payment into real money each month! Thanks @nprofile…6dtc for making it easy!
https://blossom.primal.net/ab88dae555434fa907263f167b4b9cb72e0afab44113c5eeec148062c313d030.png

2025-06-15 19:40:10 UTC

You know how sometimes you wish someone was on nostr JUST so you could zap the hell out of them? Téa Johansson is one of those people:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=3CfBG8uppw8

2025-06-14 16:25:29 UTC

#NoKings = #UsefulIdiots

2025-06-11 22:48:22 UTC

FYI @nprofile…mdf3 Once again zapped someone, it showed up on the users post, it came out of my Alby wallet and then when I came back it was gone. https://blossom.primal.net/4b6897896732fae150346a8b635b9a085c3f88119e739e2b0e59a391311f2fc9.png

2025-06-11 15:53:13 UTC

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To 'offend' a strong man with A.D.D. ... 😁

2025-06-02 17:48:51 UTC

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Reminds me of a local guy who's neighbor complained because he had a traitored boat in his driveway 7 months of the year.
He was ordered to remove it, so he looked into the law.
Turns out, you're NOT 'permitted' to have a boat in your driveway... But you ARE allowed to have a boat on your lawn outside your asshole neighbors picture window which viewed nothing but your lovely manicured lawn and foliage until he complained...
That was maybe ten years ago. To this day it sits there any time it's not in the water.

2025-05-30 14:26:00 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/a38ad51201458cb375eedd50866a39584ff1a4c5a188770299af6f32e67dfdbf.jpg

2025-05-23 13:05:48 UTC

Thanks coinbase, yes I love irony, why do you ask?
https://blossom.primal.net/0c5a8d78ef97ed53cc410fe7d6c2e4c56fdbf7eb92a294203106463ed9d42773.png

2025-05-21 23:25:27 UTC

@nprofile…vvhl : The man who has said "dickbutts" more in one hour than anyone you know! (or at least I hope so).
But at least I understand a great deal more about this issue than I did 59 minutes ago! (though thankfully I still have no real idea what 'dickbutts' are.)
https://fountain.fm/episode/twR9XdpCO0yoMTSQUGPj

2025-05-21 22:31:07 UTC

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I'm on web, and sorry didn't mean to imply because it said it went to Primal, you guys had it or something, just meant it was sent and 'it knew' it was sent to someone through primal, but then it got lost.
It hasn't happened on the other client I use, but your interface is just better so all else being equal I'd rather.
That's the primary reason I want to figure it out, so I can confidently continue using Primal, but I have NO idea how to troubleshoot or figure out what happened or where it went. If there's anything I can do to try to figure it out, I'd love to hear it.

2025-05-21 20:07:47 UTC

No seriously @nprofile…mdf3 where are my zaps going?!?!?!
Zapped Ross an hour ago, it showed up it came out of my alby wallet (showing it went to 'Primal') and now it's NOT on Ross's post.
Had at least 3000 sats disappear a couple weeks ago, another several hundred today.
Where are they going? Why are they going there instead of the person / note that I zapped?

2025-05-15 19:47:18 UTC

@nprofile…77hh 'the guy who has more great bitcoin analogies than anyone you know!'
This podcast is just another amazing example!
Of course Will and Walker were great too and all.
https://fountain.fm/episode/7iaV2wrgKKthBsJ7HmOk

2025-05-14 16:34:17 UTC

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Not to hijack you thread or anything but, um... That's what she said?

2025-05-13 13:08:02 UTC

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Had the same experience. Spent most of my life being who I was 'supposed to be', and the last ten or so being me (and figuring out who that is!). Well worth the journey!

2025-05-13 13:04:47 UTC

Best day of the month!
https://media.ditto.pub/311b54be5b5fb2064f33254080cbaa65ed9201b6826fb8f881d8be0fc3f1d7b1.png

2025-05-11 16:03:03 UTC

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Yea, this angle is way better. It appears 'zoomed' so a bit grainy but yea, coke spoon and bag of coke.

2025-05-10 21:21:49 UTC

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Is there a way using zaps that I can TAKE some sats from you for making me see that?

2025-05-10 14:16:07 UTC

@nprofile…mdf3 folks I'm zapping posts, zaps are coming out of my Alby hub / wallet toing to 'primal', but when I look later the post doesn't show my zap. Checked with one of the people and he confirmed he got no zap from me. Any idea what might be going on?
#AskNostr
https://blossom.primal.net/9c7fb6920dba8ed1f1815dcb5055fa4ecc32722629e7b8003bbc7ed803701326.png

2025-05-09 18:43:39 UTC

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"When you take your dog to the vet, and he has some chronic condition; chronic skin chronic gut chronic whatever, THE first question is "What are you feeding this dog". It's common sense.
And yet somebody with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, fatty liver and they go to the doctor and the doctors first question is "what medication are you taking?"?? Come on. " @nprofile…gzvr

2025-05-09 18:39:38 UTC

What did my wife want for her birthday? To buy me a suit that isn't 6 sizes too big, and is made of cloth not plastic. I've also included a photo from ten years and nearly 80 lbs ago.
She cooked the delicious meals that made me skinny(er) so she gets what she wants!
Special thanks to @nprofile…ng7t and @nprofile…gzvr
#carnivore
https://blossom.primal.net/7a6c92e2af2b3d98946956f33e95331b8a614dae5d23b498793bb8ce1dd28f9d.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/113061c2d830985dde5b10c1eb1ff7112ea7b294f6db803b593dd2143f7eec08.png

2025-05-03 15:36:00 UTC

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"Why did you never START using reddit?" ⬆⬆⬆

2025-04-30 21:15:38 UTC

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Likely not a gator, though that would be cool! Forgot to mention I'm in SE PA... Love to see a turtle in the pond, or even a snake keeping the mice away! Thanks!

2025-04-30 20:15:01 UTC

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Seemed softer and I was thinking rubbery, but maybe leathery. I went to recheck it just now and it is no longer there...

2025-04-30 19:25:35 UTC

Checking my koi pond for the spring and found an egg under the liner next to the waterfall.
Snake Egg? Something else?
#AskNostr
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2025-04-27 15:12:20 UTC

LOL.
https://media.ditto.pub/dd5c87f85147420ea4c628bd0c33593306c6ff470e54d6904557f75129954616.png

2025-04-26 22:18:15 UTC

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It's gotten me this far!

2025-04-26 17:29:57 UTC

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Plenty of reasons why I swapped my ETH for BTC when I did, but Meme Ninja Guy Swan is definitely one of them.

2025-04-23 19:51:27 UTC

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"The fate of all mankind I see, is in the hands of fools" -King Crimson

2025-04-15 21:26:52 UTC

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They get 'due process'.
Are you a citizen? No.
Do you have a visa? No.
Do you even have a stamped passport? No.
Bye.

2025-04-07 19:28:48 UTC

Is there no way in Nostr to zap someone in a DM? I'm using @nprofile…mdf3 web... Ultimately I just want to zap someone I don't really have any other relationship with, and attach a message so they know why I zapped...
#AskNostr

2025-04-04 02:21:23 UTC

Anybody know what kind of tree this is? It just came up and I'm thinking through whether to keep it or not...
#AskNostr
https://media.ditto.pub/0d1655a8ba5368b8ffddc1b64a4e5fc6bfb164258ad302765aa911400802c5ca.jpeg
https://media.ditto.pub/a12263adba0febd927923cb6eba557038f99d29be0e4ebffb9ad112a27e946b4.jpeg

2025-03-13 16:44:16 UTC

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I remember telling my mechanic 'you didn't originally come up with the idea of how to do an oil change, so I don't have to pay you for actually doing the oil change'...
That to say, do people who do things like voice 'audio books' not get paid?
So even if it wasn't 'original material' the person who puts it together and makes the video should get paid.
Worst part is 'ticktock' is not saying 'it can't be monetized', they're saying 'because you made a video that we decided is unoriginal content WE, who did even less, get to keep the money you earned'.
Pretty shitty deal.

2025-03-09 00:48:09 UTC

My wife and I went out to a friends house last night for dinner.
Their son just got back from several years teaching in Korea.
I talked with him for a couple hours about everything from food to money and he said to me "Mick, have you read @nprofile…u7e3 s "Broken Money"? Because you talk like someone who's read Broken Money.
I took it as a compliment.

2025-03-05 20:05:24 UTC

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I used to have a salad with dinner. I'd grow all the lettuce in my in house hydro setup. It was great.
When I had a timing issue, and had no lettuce my wife bought some. It tasted like bleach. Not a hint, not mild; it tasted like bleach.
How I never noticed it before? I don't know, maybe because everything store bought tastes like bleach?!

2025-03-05 18:03:13 UTC

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I don't get all the odel worship, though I've never understood the worship of any influencer.

2025-02-25 23:10:56 UTC

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Just about EVERYONE stops listening to Dave Ramsey once they're out of debt... And that's exactly when you should stop listening to him.

2025-02-24 17:42:27 UTC

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Thanks! that is what I just learned, but don't really know anything more than that.
I think someone shared something about the Jade Hardware device, and when I looked at that, they had something about multisig on their website, which started my research.
Trying to learn what I need to, and think through the options to find the best one.
It was initially spurred on by a seminar that Swan did, where they were promoting their multisig offering, and noted a couple wallets that work with their setup.
At this point I don't even know if multisig solutions are a 'standardized' / interchangeable thing, or if each offering is its own proprietary setup etc. So I definitely want to learn much more before i make any decision.

2025-02-24 17:24:09 UTC

So up until two days ago, I thought that any multisig setup required a third party like swan or unchained.
With that in mind, I clearly need to learn a lot more about Multisig...
Anybody got some good videos or reference material that might help me in this endeavor?
#AskNostr #Multisig

2025-02-18 15:52:40 UTC

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Every time I hear this I think of this bit from Louis CK...
"You should be happy, you're FLYING , it's AMAZING!"
"Yea, but the seat doesn't go back that much..."
Shut up and be happy people. Even for just a moment.
https://odysee.com/@PodBoy:2/Louis-CK-Everything-Is-Amazing-And-Nobody-Is-Happy_360p:b?r=7sQhvAN8YDzAVzt7eYqSeBC9w7fuJWGi&t=170

2025-02-17 18:33:14 UTC

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Thanks, I may know even less than I thought. Are there no specific things related to BTC programming / coding?
The last time I wrote code was in 1983 and it was RPG II, but there was COBOL, Fortran and a few other languages to code in.
I wouldn't want to learn a language that wouldn't have any real application in the BTC realm.
Is there anything specific I should look for or focus on as I and hopefully my grand kids try to learn?

2025-02-17 15:30:16 UTC

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Starting from zero, what should one learn to be able to do that?

2025-02-17 02:49:51 UTC

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It is crazy.
It is also EXACTLY what you should do!
Also when it's above 100K...

2025-02-16 23:56:01 UTC

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Right now? I'd take the 27g, sell it for $2500 and buy 2.6M Sats!

2025-02-16 22:10:58 UTC

CRAZY windstorms = 17 Pole Fires. Yikes.
https://media.ditto.pub/6166b3df7726d1339b9775b6cbccfca7e5abca19a78b8a586cc3edae05b203c2.png

2025-02-16 17:10:11 UTC

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Do you have the foot pedal and do you recommend getting it?
Last time I used a meat grinder it was clamped to my grandmother's counter top and had a hand crank so I'm not sure what I really need.

2025-02-16 01:44:52 UTC

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"none but ourselves can free our minds"

2025-02-15 23:05:52 UTC

https://media.ditto.pub/e0b5ee4f962f2ca3eb606b89202a5401c1d776668ee3feb783dd7f2688086247.jpeg

2025-02-15 21:31:54 UTC

It's fascinating to watch In the Heat of the Night, listening to the commentary. At one point the director Norman Jewison, who's work I like a lot, notes that we now have "a more democratic nation in respect to race relations" and bemoans the individual and people not being a part of something.
The sad thing he seems to miss is that the south was ABSOLUTLY democratic: The MAJORITY decided that blacks had no rights and that was that.
In contrast if you 'focus on the individual' you see that EVERY individual has rights, no matter HOW MANY people don't want them to.

2025-02-15 18:03:36 UTC

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Last time I failed to read the label completely was on a jar of "100% grass fed tallow and honey" hand cream. There were so many weird chemicals in it, I got cluster migraines for four days.

2025-02-15 16:00:44 UTC

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How so?

2025-02-05 19:48:35 UTC

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In my younger days... In the last few years 01:00 is about the latest I'll go. 04:00 wasn't unusual in my 30s, part of the job doing 'off hours' IT work...

2025-02-02 19:46:05 UTC

This government isn't 'the price we pay for living in a civil society', it is a parasite class living above us and ruling over us.
It's primary function is to find ways around it's own constitutionally prescribed limitations, and your individual rights, while extracting value that is rightly your own from you every day of your life.

2025-02-02 19:24:36 UTC

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Of course they say that bitcoin is property.. you pay capital gains on property (that you sell). US$s are NOT property so you can't take a tax loss due to devaluation...
The sickness is deep. 😉

2025-01-29 18:34:08 UTC

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100% Half the reason for 'cash for clunkers' during covid was to make sure there WEREN'T any privacy vehicles available... Or reasonably priced cars for that matter.

2025-01-24 19:33:06 UTC

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It may be your innate ability to be a realist?
That said, it seems to me trump is us four years ago; 'Bitcoin is great, but there may be other 'use cases'.' We've done the research and had the hard miles to know there isn't, he hasn't yet.
It seems to me being pro bitcoin and pissed about trump 'supporting' crypto, is like being pro cannabis, and being pissed if trump legalized all drugs.

2025-01-23 00:59:41 UTC

Whad'ya know, it really was the most important election of my lifetime.
#Overjoyed
https://image.nostr.build/c4dffb92f895e21edf4f771c1eda952fa8d69950205a07a18495fd6b90c5abe8.jpg

2025-01-21 00:24:23 UTC

100%. I had a weird condition for years where any skin exposed to cold (especially damp cold) when I came back inside all that skin would be red, itchy, hot wherever it was exposed. Usually hands and face.
But it was so DISTINCT, if I wore short sleeves, arms would be red, shoulders would be fine and with a clear line of demarcation where the sleeve ended. So bad that if I wore a V Neck, it would leave a red V.
No way debilitating but just consistently annoying for someone who always loved the cold weather.
I've been waiting to believe it actually was gone, but after a couple weeks in the 20°s here I'm comfortable and confident to say that after a couple decades, and issue that my doctor said was 'the damnedest thing' and had NO clue as to how to deal with, is no longer an issue.
#nevent1q…xdze

2025-01-20 19:43:22 UTC

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Farm living is the life for me!
https://image.nostr.build/0a3e18f273d356af24ea3cda6f5be35223af380dea65eb6f025fc178a6df41e8.jpg

2025-01-15 17:30:49 UTC

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Curious why Chicken is adjacent to junk food, as someone who eats chicken for lunch daily...

2025-01-10 23:47:49 UTC

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My memories not the best, but I remember this vividly for whatever reason. Still gave me chills to watch it again. I also heard the MTV riff long before it started playing in the video!
There was a LOT of creativity in the 80s, Video Killed The Radio Star was a really simple video but REALLY creative at the same time. The little things made it cool.
They also had a LOT of filler stuff from smaller bands that was sometimes interesting, other times not so much. The one that leaps to mind was Danny Joe Brown and the Danny Joe Brown Band. I can't even remember if they were any good, but the name stuck with me lo these forty some odd years later!

2025-01-08 22:22:17 UTC

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At this point I had to reset the relays and then add mine back. That got me back to the point it was at before it stopped work completely (where I get the attached error); I have to go into my relays list, it'll show them off line, I refresh the page and they come back on line and then I can post.
https://m.primal.net/NYNM.png

2025-01-08 20:53:46 UTC

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My take away is that the Swiss apparently haven't participated in a war for almost two centuries.

2025-01-08 20:25:18 UTC

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Fascinating stuff, lucky you just getting into it now! Some of us have been waiting (and waiting) for season 2 for a while!! Jan 17th can't come soon enough!