⚡Eineygður Flakkari⚡ / is on Nostr

The best thing about covid is being able to walk into a bank wearing a balaclava and not get shot in the face. Mind you if you didn't wear a mask, that's a possibility.

How well do you think an n95 mask would stop a fart?

But hey, that's why there're safe and effective (never before tested, experimental, totally not gene therapy, fingers crossed, honest) vaccines. Not so long ago it was GMO food we had to worry about. Now half the people I know are GMOs, and so is the entire hospital blood supply. Anyway, that's not nearly as important as whether I prefer the pronoun you're using, you bigot nazi fascist who wants to take away our ability to take away your ability to speak to whoever or about whatever we dislike du jour. Nya!

Why is it called conspiracy "theory"? Isn't a theory a hypothesis which has been thoroughly tested and has withstood every effort to debunk it? Hmmm...

The way society is going in a generation or two from now young adults will be looking forward to getting their first cockroach infested apartment, not just to get away from oppressive parents, but because it has it's own built-in food supply.

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2024-03-25 00:10:42

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I agree. That said, one of the things people don't realise about EV batteries is that it's often not the whole battery that dies, but only one or two cells in a block. If you are okay using a soldering iron, you can arguably salvage most of these battery cells by just testing and replacing only the cells that are dead. But it'll void the warrantee, and yadda yadda. Also the tech is constantly improving, so costs are bound to come down eventually.
Ultimately though, the "green'ness" of EV's is moot. It's mostly green-wash. Electricity as a form of energy in it's own right is not very useful for anything. Instead it's generally just a medium of transmission back and forth between heat and kenetic energy, which are what we really use. In that respect combustion is more efficient, because it provides both of the intended end products without a middle man.
Personally I've been getting more interested in wood-gas (or other biogas) as a form of energy, since it is mostly methane and carbon monoxide, which becomes CO2 and water when combusted, and the material byproducts are charcoal, and creosote which are also useful for a range of applications. You don't get much greener or more renewable than plants, and it doesn't require child-labour in the Congo or such like to obtain it. Even weed trees and invasive species that are fast growing and have no appreciable use in construction, are still viable sources for wood-gas. Also quite easy to DIY the production and storage (notwithstanding the dangers of carbon monoxide capture/storage).
https://youtu.be/5cbm9Cz6OdQ

2024-03-16 05:40:26

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Nice bit of hyperbole.
In reality the fundamental inviolate prerequisite for consent [of the governed] is the ability to say "no" without receiving any reprisal. When you give the government (or anyone for that matter) the ability to violate the dissent of the individual, then you have simply created the conditions for tyranny. Also, equal rights belong exclusively to individuals, not groups. When groups are provided the means to abrogate the rights of individuals, then democracy is reduced to the character of gang rape (only the victim voted no). Personally I don't give a shite if you get vaxed or not. But if you try to force it on me, I'll happily reciprocate by injecting you with a bullet, for the protection of liberty against tyranny.

2024-03-14 05:56:18

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> A swastika is an image that has no non-racist symbology.
It's been around for 12,000 years and is still central to Buddhism, Hinduism, and a wide array of other belief systems world-wide, including pre-colonial America. The word itself is Sanskrit. The German term for it was "Hakenkreuz". It means "welcome", "good fortune", and in some cases "victory" now just as it always has. Generally it's regarded to be symbolic of the earthly and/or solar wheel/cycle.
Meanwhile the Christian cross has been used for over 1,700 years as a symbol associated with the violent vilification of every other belief system bar none, and repeated global scale acts of genocide and tyranny. There are countless orders of magnitude more victims of Christian bigotry than Hitler could even imagine (notwithstanding his own verbatim statements affirming Nazis as being Christians). Yet unlike the swastika, no one seems to be calling for a ban on displaying the cross. Personally it makes me sick to my stomach every time I see it, after a lifetime of dealing with the violently delusion adherents of this superstition.
In just over 10 years, a globally ubiquitous symbol of other people's religion has been vilified and banned outright in many places, all to placate the indignant outrage of people who in plenty of cases were arm and arm with their own supposed persecutors. The only reason this is allowed is because it's Abrahamic religion (the all time historical `victim Olympics` champions). If it were any other religion, no one would give a flying fuck. Meanwhile now were're 3 generations removed from those events, and yet still have to kow-tow to this bullshit in order to escape persecution ourselves.
Hitler won, and we largely have Jews/Zionists to thank for it. He may not have eradicated the Jews in total, but everyone who now thinks the Swastika is hate speech, has acceded to the rightness of his theft of an element of the common spiritual heritage of humanity.
https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948
https://s3.shitposter.club/shitposter.club/78d4af7bd14da105966836ad3b98a2bbc6c629f425d531e39bcfec3866587607.jpg?name=jewish_swastika.jpg

2024-03-14 03:46:06

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You over estimate the intelligence of the average citizen if that's what you think. If the plandemic taught us anything it's that people are easily goaded by fear into doing things which aren't in their own best interests, and there's no amount of rational or ethical arguments that can prevent them from stampeding across your face in their panic to be saved from the fictitious bogeyman. Honestly though, the plandemic was just a symptom of an issue that's existed for a lot longer. As the saying goes, individuals may be relative smart one-on-one, but as a group, they're dumb as half-baked potato and pretty much will do whatever they've been spoonfed by the MSM and the plutocratic despots we call leaders.

2024-03-14 02:40:10

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Ethereum wasn't ever really intended to be a currency tmk. I remember attending a lecture by Vitalik at the local Bitcoin Decentral shop in Toronto shortly after it opened around 10 years ago. As I recall his vision for it even then was to be a decentralised application platform, specifically to get people to expand their view of blockchain tech as being more than just a replacement currency/security. That said, until it's cheap and fast/easy to use like you said, and one can have some reasonable confidence in the security of the contracts, it's mostly gonna remain a niche tool for blockchain fanboys and financial speculators looking to score a quick buck off market fluctuations and hype. At least until there're ubiquitous PoS systems that one can transact with it, such as to buy groceries or whatnot. I do think there's a lot of potential for it, the least of which is currency, but it'll need some time to grow and work out the practical issues you mentioned. My personal pain point on this is the KYC bullshit, and the fact that to get around that you pretty much need to accept being ass raped on the fees/price relative to it's market value.

2024-03-14 02:01:52

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On a personal note, this comment leads me to believe that you yourself have a fixed opinion on the subject and are attempting to find a box you can place me in so as to provide an excuse to dismiss anything further I have to say. Can't say this is atypical of my experience tbh.

2024-03-14 00:56:43

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Over the hill. That's as specific as I'm inclined to be on public internet. ;)

2024-03-12 21:27:51

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I don't mind firefox except for one thing in particular. When you write a browser extension for it, you are *required* to have it certified by mozilla in order for it to load without manual intervention every time the browser is restarted. This is a serious pain in the ass, and the one area where chromium based browsers are way better, especially for casual tinkering or personal-use-only extensions which will never be made available to the public.

2024-03-12 21:01:56

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Universal emancipation was primarily the work of William Lloyd Garrison who wouldn't budge on including women along with Africans in the effort to bring about legal equality. The British were opposed to it. There's a famous incident where William Lloyd Garrison and several women from USA attended a meeting of the British and Foreign Antislavery Society in London. The women were refused entry into the hall, and made to sit in a separate segregated gallery. Garrison refused to enter the hall either, and spent the event seated in the women's gallery in protest to the hypocrisy involved.
Thing with women's suffrage (distinct from women's liberation) is that in most instances women and men received suffrage at the same time with the same acts of legislation.
Most people are unaware that it wasn't enough to have a penis in order to vote. You also had to own property. However after WW1, the allies had depleted their military human resources and were considering the introduction of mandatory conscription in the event of another war. As a consolation prize, they introduced legislation across the allied nations to bring non-property owning people into the voter rolls so they would then have a legal pretext to forcibly conscript them into the military. Women were of course exempt from this mandate.
Most of what people think they know about women's liberation is nothing more than misandrist propaganda. PS. William Lloyd Garrison was a white man, as were the majority of anti-slavery proponents of the era. Not that it'll stop modern leftists from pointing the finger at anyone with a pale complexion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage#Dates_by_country
https://www.sott.net/article/376485-Everyones-forgotten-about-male-suffrage-Why
Another thing worth noting is that plenty of women were against suffrage, because they saw it as a means by which the state could coopt and subvert women's freedom. This is largely why socialist feminism and the state have had their tentacles intertwined ever since, and particularly since the 2nd wave of the 1970's.

2024-03-12 18:43:57

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only American exports I referred to above were anti-slavery and women's lib. Those were definitely American advents, especially when combined into a single issue known as "Universal Emancipation" (eg. William Lloyd Garrison, founder of NAACP). That said, this is not my field of expertise, so if you can cite information to the contrary, I'm interested to know about it.

2024-03-12 07:04:44

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Depends what the definition of fascism is. If deriving the term from the use of the fasces symbol, then notably it's been a central symbol of Indigenous American peoples long before contact. An example would be the Haudenosaunee (see url below) who lay claim to the symbol as far back as 1,000 years ago (ie. the founding of their confederacy).
If you're referring to the merger of state and corporation, that stemmed mainly from the advent of "neoliberalism" (mislabelled as capitalism) which was an attempt to weaken laissez-faire capitalism to make it more amenable (or less offensive) to American communist sympathisers by effectively merging state and corporation (eg. regulatory capture).
If you just mean xenophobia and violent racism, then I'm afraid that's far more widespread. In truth it was primarily American libertarians of the 19th and 20th centuries who were responsible for anti-slavery and women's liberation, which they then exported to Europe and the rest of the world (notwithstanding Asia, Africa, etc, where slavery is still legal in many places). So again, no.
Thing is, most people have no clue what "fascism" even means. It's just a slur they use against anyone they don't understand or agree with.
https://5arrowstogether.wordpress.com/tag/five-nations-of-the-haudenosaunee/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/100th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/331

2024-03-11 23:41:40

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A bit of a tangent, but to quote Oscar Wilde...
"An individual who has to make things for the use of others, and with reference to their wants and their wishes, does not work with interest, and consequently cannot put into his work what is best in him. Upon the other hand, whenever a community or a powerful section of a community, or a government of any kind, attempts to dictate to the artist what he is to do, Art either entirely vanishes, or becomes stereotyped, or degenerates into a low and ignoble form of craft. A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist."

2024-03-11 19:03:44

They think they can create borders around Kekistan. How quaint.
https://reclaimthenet.org/us-department-of-commerce-proposes-kyc-rule-for-internet-infrastructure