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2024-10-09 22:45:15

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https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/oct-04-2024-united-states-announces-humanitarian-assistance-support-populations-impacted-conflict-lebanon
Lebanon isn't a cohesive country with a single government. Southern Lebanon is controlled by Hezbollah, and (mostly) populated by Shiite Muslims. Northern Lebanon is mostly populated by Christians (about 40% of the total population), with a mostly separate government. The Christians have been trying to prevent Hezbollah and their supporters from fleeing north.
The US isn't necessarily "funding both sides" by sending a small amount of humanitarian aid to one group, and a much larger amount (10x) of weapons to another (though even then, most of the funding is going to anti-air defense).
If you want to make that argument, you need to drill down to exactly where that money to Lebanon is actually going. This isn't Gaza; with Gaza it's much easier to make the claim that the US was funding both sides as Gaza has (had?) a cohesive singular government: Hamas.

2024-10-09 01:05:45

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To be clear, Cullen didn't present it as a "who's Satoshi documentary", and gave us no indication he was looking for Satoshi until the very end. I interviewed with him something like 4-5 times. Only the very last time did he bring that up.

2024-10-03 01:51:34

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Those claims are simply bullshit.

2024-10-02 20:04:44

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Huh? Russia tried very hard to seize the areas on that map with oil and natural gas. They got pushed back to the border fortunately. But the plan was certainly to seize it all (Kyiv too).
It's obvious why Russia would fight for the coast: access to the sea. Also not on those particular maps is the vast areas of prime farmland. Again, lots of it in areas they tried to occupy.
Re: access to the sea, that was one obvious reason to take Crimea. But that unexpectedly backfired on Russia as Ukraine has developed their anti-shipping capabilities to the point where the Russian Navy has mostly been pushed out of the Black Sea entirely. Of course, that outcome doesn't change the fact that they obviously wanted to seize all those areas.

2024-10-02 17:45:24

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Case in point:
https://image.nostr.build/022f8524315cb556e2ee8c01fb656efb5c626a5053bedb7a765639be067b8081.jpg
These are maps of Ukrainian mineral resources. Now notice the parts of Ukraine that Russia has occupied.
It's just theft. All the bits about "protecting Russians", "NATO expansion", etc. are Craig Wright level gaslighting. Russia is waging war because they think they can get away with stealing a few trillion dollars worth of land and resources. The only way we'll achieve a long term peace is by defeating Russia militarily and economically, and killing off all the psychopathic Russians who subscribe to the belief that they can just steal other peoples' stuff.
It's as stupid to negotiate with this as any other thief. Just kill them off until they're no longer a problem.

2024-10-02 17:35:53

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This.
Killing people is a part of self-defense; at national scales defensive wars are just self defense.
There's a lot of psychopaths in the world who want to kill you and take your stuff. If you don't have a solid system of defense, war becomes profitable for the aggressor. Not to mention situations like Israel where the aggressors have religious beliefs that demand they exterminate you.
This is exactly why saner libertarians accept that one legitimate purpose for government – and taxation – is military defense. If you don't have a military to defend yourself, eventually someone else will form a government to fund a military to take your stuff.

2024-10-02 13:04:06

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An exploit that was discovered and fixed extremely quickly, precisely because the chain is transparent.

2024-10-02 13:00:48

The difference between inflation exploits on privacy coins like Monero and Zcash, and inflation exploits on Bitcoin, is on Bitcoin because amounts are transparent it's practically guaranteed that the inflation will be discovered very quickly.
With Monero and Zcash, if an inflation exploit is being used, your only sign might be the price falling. And that's certainly not a reliable indicator.
#nevent1q…5zdj

2024-10-02 11:36:29

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Nostr has no guarantees about message archiving. It's entirely up to relays to decide how long to keep a message. Also Nostr doesn't store media on relays; media is referenced by URL to third party, centralized, media storage sites with no guarantees.
I would suggest putting this stuff in a git repo instead. That at least is easy to mirror.

2024-10-02 10:27:24

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The sudden fall is probably due to Kraken delisting it.

2024-10-02 09:26:12

“Bitcoin’s lack of privacy is not an accident & it’s not the result of negligence.
It’s a deliberate choice, as cowardly devs & sellout community members deliberately ignore a decade of research & experimentation.”
Nothing says “world's reserve currency ” like research and experimentation....
Given that Zcash and Monero have all had multiple inflation exploits that could have killed them completely, I'm happy to be called a coward for ensuring that our best chance at a digital currency doesn't get killed by a simple exploit.
And yes, this choice is not due to negligence! Quite the opposite in fact.
#nevent1q…stxr

2024-09-25 14:33:07

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Indeed... I was in South Africa last February for a few weeks. Everywhere I went in South Africa there were daily power outages. And outside of the wealthier white areas, it's a dirty, violent, shithole. I repeatedly had locals warn me that I shouldn't go to certain places because I might get murdered.
Ukraine meanwhile, in the middle of a massive war with daily missile and drone attacks, has been able to keep the power on much more often than that, in a much colder, less sunny climate. And even in poorer parts of Ukraine you feel safe walking around and the streets are pretty clean.
South Africa's GDP/capita is $7000 USD; Ukraine's GDP/capita is $4500 USD.
Sure, Ukraine is getting outside support, including funds and materials to keep the electricity grid going. But still. WTF South Africa.

2024-09-24 17:45:21

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"condoning killing people"
Simply by being in Kyiv, Russians are trying to kill me. In the past few weeks visiting Kyiv and Odesa I've been within 1-2kms of an explosion from Russian air raids three or four times. That's a genuine threat to my life and everyone around me.
Do I "lose my credibility" by condoning the killing of the evil people trying to kill myself and other Ukrainians to steal land and resources?
What do you think Ukrainians should be doing to prevent themselves getting killed?

2024-09-24 15:27:55

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I've donated a decent bit of money to Zeus development. I will no longer be supporting Zeus.
It's morally bankrupt to respond with derision to a Zelenskyy and others signing bombs that are keeping Ukrainians alive by killing Russian invaders. I'm in Kyiv right now – those bombs are part of the reason why I can even be here relatively safely. They're why people I know got their houses back after the occupation was pushed back; sadly they couldn't get their friends and neighbors back, because there's no fixing being murdered.
Disgusting.

2024-09-24 10:05:24

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Governments aren't all equally criminal. This is like comparing speeding to murder.

2024-09-24 10:04:26

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Those people sacrificing their lives as a testimony to peace tended to be idiots who would have done a lot more good getting a rifle and sacrificing their lives killing the enemy.

2024-09-24 09:58:02

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Ukraine is using those artillery shells to kill invading Russians.

2024-09-23 22:46:06

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WTF are you on about?
Those bombs are going to Ukraine to defend themselves from an invasion force trying to steal their land and take their stuff.
People get to defend themselves from aggression. It's something to be celebrated.

2024-09-21 19:16:35

Third large ammo depot blown up in Russia this week by Ukrainian drones.
It's not hard. Kill evil people and blow up their stuff.
https://video.nostr.build/3f0af42af79c3b78643be4ce67507edd216b18dceaa64b51f079c97cb4817640.mp4

2024-09-19 13:53:04

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😂😂😂
Just in the occupied areas, there's about $12 trillion worth of resources, including coal, iron ore, etc. https://www.dw.com/en/russia-ukraine-war-natural-resources-grain/a-66639269
And Ukraine has more top quality topsoil than any other country in the world. There's a reason why they're (still) one of the world's top food exporterers.
As for the US, they haven't taken resources for free.

2024-09-19 12:31:02

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Within Ukraine the supermajority of fundraising is to buy more drones to kill Russians. Drones are one of the most effective tools Ukraine has, and unlike other weapons, the parts for them can be easily bought commercially.
Of course the fundraising is going to purchase weapons. Killing Russians is how Ukrainians stop Russians from killing them.
Solve the root cause of the problem. Not the symptoms.
https://image.nostr.build/b2c09e44c2c82aa07d472fbfa77c242acf0cb12af39b13796ac24f0781d64555.jpg

2024-09-18 14:58:28

"notes coming from certain IP addresses"
Congratulations: in your ineffective efforts to stop spam, you'll end up getting rid of privacy. Because inevitably spammers will use the same tools – like Tor – that people use to achieve privacy.
#nevent1q…5ksn

2024-09-18 10:36:00

You might be having a bad day. But you're probably not having as bad a day as the governor of Tver, Russia, who had to say they all Ukrainian drones attacking the Toropets ammo depot were shot down while explosions were still going off in the background. 😂
https://video.nostr.build/2c9cd04a721ddae7110d73b1e047b5ac1a37747407f2596450fd34bb6ce50627.mp4
https://video.nostr.build/3ddba349888994ac0af6b4f060298cf81e819b828cbb9d0ce1bfe370fdd2468b.mp4

2024-09-17 18:23:02

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Nah. It's a potential flame thrower maybe. But not a bomb. Lithium batteries just don't have the chemistry necessary to make a proper explosion. They can pressurize a battery case. But batteries are intentionally designed to blow out in a controlled way.
It would be good if Israel came out and explicitly said this was an attack done with explosives.

2024-09-15 08:42:38

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I'm saying it's not surprising that adults would continue to have fantasies based on what they fantasized about (and actually did) as teens. Indeed, "schoolgirl uniforms" are pretty popular with adult women too.

2024-09-12 10:28:15

I've started a new Geyser fund for Libre Relay: https://geyser.fund/project/librerelay
I've ported Libre Relay to Bitcoin Core's new v28.0rc1 release, and I'm trying out Geyser to see if I can get my time paid for. I'll release the code if I do.

2024-09-11 22:07:45

Pro-tip: this is only good advice for things sufficiently safe that you can probably do them twice.
#nevent1q…f0lf

2024-09-11 20:40:19

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I don't have a copy. It's a web form, and OpenSats doesn't give you a copy of what you submitted.

2024-09-11 19:14:43

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I built a few treehouses.

2024-09-11 13:33:02

OpenSats is in part funded by the general public – donations are solicited from everyone, and accepted via BTC and fiat. That's one reason why grants are made public: it'd be absurd for OpenSats to be spending money without disclosing who is getting it.
But it's also absurd if the _rejected_ applications are entirely private too. Which is the status quo. Funders should have some idea of what they could have spent money on, and didn't.
All I did was reveal two rejected applications. If that is enough to constitue serious drama, you should rethink what you're doing...
#nevent1q…ny47

2024-09-09 23:31:46

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#nevent1q…mmj7
I need funding for that and haven't been able to get it.

2024-09-09 22:41:51

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Ironically this reply guys are a really nice example of a problem with Nostr's decentralization claims...
#nevent1q…cew8

2024-09-09 22:30:31

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Re: the OpenTimestamps grant request, the problem is right now while the protocol scales in theory, the backend does not. It would be quite easy for a bad actor to DoS attack OpenTimestamps out of existence because I simply can't throw servers at the problem: the backend code just doesn't scale.
I need funding to put in a bunch of hours to fix this. So far, no luck in finding that; OpenSats is one of a few sources I've tried.
Frankly, I suspect that there isn't actually much interest in time-stamping.

2024-09-09 22:23:54

Heh, I applied for a $20k grant to do a proper analysis of Nostr's decentralization on Saturday. Same idea (and similar cost) as my recent L2 Covenants article. Only took them one business day to reject it (took them 6 weeks to reject my grant request to keep OpenTimestamps running).
I'm not surprised. I strongly suspect there isn't much good to say about Nostr's decentralization and I hear OpenSats is funding a bunch of Nostr. Nostr needs a serious redesign.
https://image.nostr.build/53cab3aa2f8099ca6659b9f97648813b6de2eccbd53e4d9ccb9db956d51cbe99.jpg

2024-09-08 08:18:08

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Who care? Coinbase payouts are a way to avoid custody risks. They don't make a pool decentralized. If anything they increase the cost for a pool's hashers to be decentralized as during high fees they're wasteful.
Lightning payouts are much more important than to hashing decentralization, as they make it possible for large numbers of small miners to get paid on time.

2024-09-07 21:15:33

This is not a great decentralization success story.
What we actually have is a pool mainly used by a small number of relatively large hashers. A real decentralization success story would be if the number of individual hashers was so large, coinbase payouts were completely impractical, and almost everyone was getting paid by Lightning.
#nevent1q…gugp

2024-09-02 13:03:15

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If the V-UTXO is about to expire, the ASP will get their liquidity back soon; if they're borrowing liquidity they don't need to borrow it for very long.

2024-09-02 10:22:40

https://petertodd.org/2024/covenant-dependent-layer-2-review
“Soft-Fork/Covenant Dependent Layer 2 Review”
I've finally published my big article sponsored by Fulgur Ventures, analyzing all the main covenant proposals, and the L2 proposals that would use them.
tl;dr: Ark is pretty cool, and CTV is a good way to get it.

2024-08-30 11:21:49

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I mention it because I know damn well that far left politics likes to hate on Ukraine because they're white. Equally, one reason why they support mass illegal immigration is because the illegals are almost all non-white. There absolutely is a racial component to this.
I went to art school. I got to see this insanity first hand.

2024-08-30 10:17:44

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13794959/Record-numbers-migrants-living-Britain-jobless.html
The UK is spending £8billion/year on illegals, while in three years they've provided just £7.6 billion on military assistance to Ukraine.
Basically they'd rather waste billions on unproductive and violent non-whites (mostly) then help white people fighting to keep all of Europe safe.
We could compromise and give them all jobs demining Ukraine... It's not very difficult work. Just incredibly man power intensive to do safely, and dangerous if you get complacent.

2024-08-29 23:13:16

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It's not a "show". They were loading a ship with cargo containers. Ukraine manufactures and exports a lot of goods.

2024-08-29 18:35:30

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https://image.nostr.build/ebf8eecc2843409bde2e797703ae1234047a1e951e1da64b135554e1abe6ba26.jpg
What exactly is that relay supposed to be doing? I'm certainly not able to connect to it.

2024-08-28 18:05:06

Status: Having drinks at a fancy rooftop bar overlooking Odesa harbor, watching cranes loading a container ship.
Don't underestimate how remarkable this is. Officially Russia has closed the Black Sea to Ukrainian shipping, and they've tried to attack that port over and over again.
Ukraine said fuck you and blew up enough Russian ships that Russia has withdrawn from the Black Sea, and Odesa port is shipping more cargo than before the full scale invasion.
Killing evil people works.
https://image.nostr.build/cfd8986aed587a56007a1d3394068e8e59f2b0cf2e9af264f3fa86c2178bab87.jpg

2024-08-28 12:25:14

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Not bad. I just had some excellent sushi on a rooftop restaurant with a great view. During a scheduled power outage because Russia has been trying to destroy the Ukrainian power grid and all generating plants – they launched one of the biggest missile/drone attacks in human history against Ukraine just the other day.
This building, and pretty much every other business, has installed generators to compensate. The elevators were even working fine.
It's more like being in WW2 Britain than the "war torn" countries you usually think of. Lots of stuff is running, and life is reasonable. But it's only possible because brave men are risking their lives on front lines to continually push Russia back.

2024-08-28 11:58:52

I was able to travel from Riga to Odesa entirely with Bitcoin, paying for the tickets with Bitcoin directly.
Riga → Moldova: AirBaltic accepts Bitcoin with BitPay (ugh).
Moldova → Odesa: LikeBus accepts onchain Bitcoin (and other coins) via some Ukrainian payment provider.

2024-08-26 21:00:09

“Imagine a parallel universe full of O'Reilly books, where every cover isn't an animal. It's a furry.”

2024-08-23 11:24:28

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I need to write a full blog post on this...

2024-08-23 10:54:59

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Publishing on the system is the consent.

2024-08-23 10:31:39

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“Users should own their own data”
That is fundamentally impossible in a digital system, especially if you want it to be decentralized and/or open access.
Data can be copied. That's just life.
If you're trying to prevent mirroring, at minimum, put it on a website. Though even then copying isn't that hard.

2024-08-23 09:12:30

Just sat through the "Scaling Nostr: The Future of Decentralized Relays" panel at #nostriga
I'm very disappointed. Despite this supposedly being a talk about decentralized relays, _nothing_ mentioned in the panel was actually decentralized. Not a single damn thing.

2024-08-21 12:44:02

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Because you lived in a community where enough other people wore shoes, and has functioning sewage systems, that hookworm had been eradicated.
Like vaccination, you only need a certain % taking counter measures for the remainder to be protected.

2024-08-20 09:46:06

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Properly treating sewage is the second way that hookworm was eradicated: the lifecycle of the parasite includes spread via feces. But shoes were the first effective measure.
A big part of why people culturally wore shoes was probably hookworm infestations. Over a lifetime you're more likely to survive if you and the people around you consistently wear shoes.

2024-08-20 09:40:46

We eradicated hookworm by getting everyone shoes.
#nevent1q…f7ug

2024-08-18 17:39:10

The root problem here is that nowhere near enough young people vote.
If they did, they'd still be able to sway the vote enough to cut spending on the elderly. But because they mostly don't vote, they're going to get screwed.
Frankly, they collectively deserve to get screwed. Inaction has consequences.
#nevent1q…ta57

2024-08-18 13:29:51

https://m.primal.net/KDLR.jpg

2024-08-18 11:42:02

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Damnit, you keep on promoting it and I might have to go even without a talk. 😂

2024-08-18 10:50:40

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Dude, by that standard there was plenty of racism against Germans too...
The populations of both Japan and Germany at that time were deserving of scorn and hate. They both supported mass murder and had their own ideologies of superiority. Japan in particular was practically a death cult.
Almost everyone alive then is now dead, with the extremists of the time suffering a particularly high death rate.
It's also psychologically healthy to dehumanize your enemy in war. You have to kill or capture them, and more often then not it's the first option. No reason to spend valuable sanity worrying about their humanity when they're trying to kill you. That's especially true with large scale wars like WW2 where the whole population is meaningfully working together to kilk you.

2024-08-17 13:55:54

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Sound isn't an electro-magnetic wave. Sound propagates through pressure waves, a very different mechanism than electro-magnetic waves.

2024-08-17 04:12:41

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Like is said, there were far more Germans, making a indiscriminate approach impractical; on Hawaii where there were far more Japanese, the indiscriminate approach was also impractical, and not followed.
There's no racial difference here. Just circumstance.

2024-08-16 13:08:45

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The US did intern German Americans too, in both WW1 and WW2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
About 36% of all people interned in WW2 were Germans. There were far more Germans in the US (millions) so interning them all was totally impractical, unlike the much smaller number of Japanese (~125,000).
In Hawaii about 1/3rd of the population were Japanese. And again, due to the enormous numbers involved, only a small % were interned.
The policies weren't about racism. They were about practicality.

2024-08-15 14:59:36

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I plead the 5th on whether or not I self zapped.

2024-08-15 14:58:27

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Iran attempted to kill large numbers of Israelis with hundreds of deadly weapons. It was a stroke of luck that Israel was able to deal with the threat effectively, mostly with the help of unexpected allies.
This is why attempted murder is still a serious crime. You don't go free just because you failed due to the difficult and heroic actions of others.
Iran is also getting close to obtaining nuclear weapons, which they certainly will use against Israel. And Iran is funding many other groups attacking Israel, including Hamas. Iran is also providing weapons to Russia to use against Ukraine, and that'll likely spread to other parts of Europe if Russia isn't defecated.
It is perfectly reasonable for Israel to put an end to this, now, before more Israeli's and orhers are murdered. Iranians should do the job first if they want to live.

2024-08-15 14:51:27

FTC bans self-zapping.
https://image.nostr.build/e4839045e6fb8aa611ac94727ffd40597cde764d155d361c5ab5843d308868d7.jpg

2024-08-15 09:08:41

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Context: Iran just launched the largest missile attack in human history against Israel.
Obviously, Israel is allowed to fight back. And Iran is actively trying to get nukes themselves, while actively promoting the genocide of Jews. Israel probably doesn't have much longer to defeat Iran before a few million Israeli's could be killed.
If Iranians want to live, they should be overthrowing their government. Like Russia, they're ultimately responsible and they have the power to stop this.

2024-08-15 01:21:57

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Japan was fighting total war. Just like Russia, nuking their cities was a perfectly valid way to destroy their economy. And as it happens, it convinced them to surrender.
You know, the firebombings actually killed more people... Funny you don't mention that...
As for Iraq, it was Iraqi extremists who killed the most Iraqis, by far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

2024-08-15 01:11:01

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Gee, I wonder why might Jews have been pissed off at the British back then...

2024-08-15 01:06:22

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Like I said, I left Canada for something a lot less evil than what Russia is doing. I'm willing to take action to avoid being on the side of evil. Everyone has a responsibility to do so.
#nevent1q…jv7n

2024-08-15 01:03:10

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“What we're funding in Gaza” 😂
Gaza is the aggressor there. And the high rate of civilian deaths is an intentional strategy by Hamas.
Literally hundreds of IDF soldiers have lost their lives in the past few months for the sake of Gazans. A lot less would be dead if Israel focused purely on winning.

2024-08-15 01:01:06

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As for the Russian forces civilean death count... Just today I visited someone at the children's hospital that Russia intentionally bombed.
You're delusional if you think Russia is fighting a "clean" war.

2024-08-15 00:58:47

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Meh. Facts are different.
If the US was doing what Russia was doing, US taxpayers would be guilty too. Fortunately for US citizens they aren't.
And yes, your government certainly does represent you to a point. Even in a dictatorship you still have a vote in many ways.

2024-08-15 00:56:49

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There's been reportedly dozens of attempts on his life by Russia. Fortunately they've all failed so far.

2024-08-15 00:55:45

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Nothing the US has done in my lifetime comes close to what Russia is doing right now. It's just not comparable.
Be lucky you live in a sufficiently ethical county that you don't have to make such hard choices.
That said, when Canada's government went crazy with covid vaccines, I refused to comply and left Canada for months until they reversed course. Staying and complying wouldn't have been ethical, as I was in a position where I could refuse.
No comment on whether or not I paid all my taxes...

2024-08-15 00:51:30

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You get used to it really quickly. I've been outdoors at a cafe with families with young children, and watched at no-one did anything at all.
Certainly there are cases where the danger is higher and people would take more action. But fortunately I've never experienced it myself.

2024-08-15 00:48:54

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So I'm a warmonger because I might get killed by a Russian cruise missile?

2024-08-15 00:39:31

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I'm making a moral argument, not a legal argument.

2024-08-15 00:39:00

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I gave two Bitcoin talks today in Kyiv, and both talks got interrupted by air raid alarms. Not a big deal – we were in the basement of a co-working place next to the designated shelter room. But it goes to show how often they go off.
Honestly people usually ignore them. Kyiv is about 3 million people. 3 million minutes is 5.7 years. So once you've spent 13 minutes in shelters, collectively you've spent an entire human lifetime.
The lost sleep isn't worth it when an attack probably "only" kills one or two people on average.

2024-08-15 00:28:08

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Heh, good timing.
https://image.nostr.build/5d7ba7599a543c9c69fee7ca8baec15935396ff54752bb05adbadd16cfc73ab3.jpg

2024-08-15 00:23:41

By continuing to work their jobs and pay their taxes those those asset managers and analysists are contributing thousands of dollars a year towards the Russian state, and thus to their attempt at genociding Ukraine. An estimated 10% or more of the entire Russian GDP is being spent on the invasion. You simply can't escape supporting it if you continue to stay in Russia and work. And with those kinds of careers, they probably do have a real choice and could leave Russia like so many others have.
Unless your contacts are doing something useful to stop the war, like sabotage or espionage, they should be thought of as criminals. And they – and the Russian economy in general – should be considered valid military targets. It would be completely ok for Ukraine to send a few drones to their offices to fuck up the financial side of the Russian economy.
War is shit. But sometimes you are forced to take a side, and forced to make hard choices. Don't chose evil.
#nevent1q…7f22

2024-08-15 00:07:30

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Russia is estimated to spend something like 10% to 20% of their GDP on war. Paying him would be making meaningful contribution to an attempted genocide, as you'd be supplying foreign currency to the Russian economy.
The only ethical thing to do is cut ties and tell him to get out of Russia. Sucks. But war at this scale forces people to take sides and make hard decisions.

2024-08-13 09:56:44

https://m.primal.net/JyIA.mp4

2024-08-13 01:21:02

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The SS team that he personally interacts with may not be the same as broader SS management.
Also, remember that Trump needs these guys to continue to like him to stay alive. Even if he had his doubts he may have no choice but to praise them.

2024-08-12 20:01:05

https://youtube.com/shorts/j5U3VIQTm2A

2024-08-11 16:21:26

Great idea! Best used in conjunction with timestamps to prove notes were written well prior to the coins being taken.
Amethyst supports OpenTimestamps. Although every time I timestamp a note amethyst seems to get stuck in a crash at startup state...
#nevent1q…wkh0

2024-08-11 16:19:51

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Timestamps fix this problem. Posts proven to be well before the coins were taken can be reasonably assumed to be valid.

2024-08-11 16:15:16

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😂😂😂
In Spain it's _illegal_ to air-condition public spaces to less than 27°C. The maximum temperature today will only be 29°C, with fairly low humidity.
Construction is no excuse for this hysteria.

2024-08-11 09:46:40

A “heat warning” when it isn't even forecast to get to 30°C. Truly absurd.
https://image.nostr.build/2b5c073ed201ea160e8c34572cda6bcbfa0ea3e9dd8a944ef1b9a5e77940dda6.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/1cf09961358ee494aa80df0b3801c7c26183924ab7f4903861b0127cd22242b3.jpg

2024-08-09 00:27:30

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Problem is so many programmers are too fat to run fast.

2024-08-07 06:10:53

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Flying over that distance is probably better for the environment than driving. Planes use surprisingly little CO2 per passenger mile.

2024-08-07 06:09:12

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The Expanse is Battlestar Galactica if Battlestar Galactica was good. 😁
I do need to watch The Wire sometime.

2024-08-06 19:44:10

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The Expanse

2024-08-06 19:42:03

https://image.nostr.build/3fe10bb2da758528d2fe5cb981b4a40744060a3605c1a8935506d8c306628fbc.jpg
Nostriga registration form wants attendees over the age of 12 to have an npub.
There are probably places where it's illegal for 12 year olds to even have decentralized social media accounts. 😂

2024-08-06 19:20:06

https://image.nostr.build/d0568705970f1bd2aecd119378e64543beede0343d20b7ea02928b528247e519.jpg
Google Maps is fucking stupid. You would literally have to cross an active war zone to take this route.

2024-08-05 20:47:04

https://image.nostr.build/2bdc88c841641506c3b4312dbab0e9df012b9e2fe837d5a812a8ef700e180503.jpg
It took me 11 years. But I finally got full-RBF into Bitcoin Core.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30493#event-13769240409

2024-08-05 05:25:10

Yes, you read that right: Japan had negative interest rates.
That's such an obviously batshit crazy idea that it's no wonder everything is going haywire.
#nevent1q…35y6

2024-08-03 16:12:41

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/gaming-mice/logitechs-forever-mouse-could-mean-peripherals-go-the-way-of-coffee-beans-tvs-and-printer-ink-by-pushing-a-subscription/
A subscription mouse... I have literally never had a mouse break. Or a keyboard for that matter.

2024-08-02 08:54:38

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Related: https://youtu.be/wNVzDGnkbDI

2024-08-02 08:48:19

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https://www.miskatonic.org/2012/07/08/knee-play-3/

2024-08-02 08:40:23

"Techno sucks. It's basically just counting to four over and over again."
https://youtu.be/PL9Rjn7EiRw

2024-07-29 19:31:08

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A tall frappuccino is about 160 calories. That's about equal to the extra calories burned for. 200lb man walking at a brisk pace 2.5km, which will take about 25 minutes.
If your walk to and from the Starbucks, that's just 12.5 minutes each way. Pick a Starbucks that isn't close to you. No big deal.
If you ran at a moderate pace, the same man could equal the calories burned in just 10 minutes round trip, 1.6km.

2024-07-25 03:20:56

https://youtu.be/33VUuu2fb1I