JayLeClay
j'ai les clés

i have the keys
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2024-08-17 17:00:36

I love coffee.
I switched to English Breakfast last week to experiment and, holy hell, I was not prepared for the withdrawals: headache, exhaustion, light sensitivity, generally feeling incapable.
Not recommended.
Though, I will say that black tea has a much smoother high compared to the zing of my espresso.
#coffeechain

2024-08-16 20:31:37

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No, Dave, you see, the FBI conspired with Antifa to hire crisis actors to dress up like MAGA and storm the capital. It wasn’t an insurrection, but if it was, it was done by the Deep State.
wAkE uP shEepLE!

2024-08-15 19:35:03

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The second sentence is missing its final punctuation.
It shouldn’t bug me as much as it does.
I should probably just follow the first sentence’s command

2024-08-14 20:14:33

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*cries in childhood leukemia*

2024-08-14 04:36:49

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Oh, and Google also violated antitrust laws.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/technology/google-monopoly-antitrust-justice-department.html

2024-08-13 17:17:18

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I have a theory: not everything is a conspiracy.
Google dominates the market because they outcompeted other services on search function. The results were fast, relevant, and unlike anything Lycos, Infoseek, or Ask Jeeves were serving in the mid to late 90s, and early 2000s. Google was just better and everyone knew it. By 2004, searching for something on the Internet became colloquially known as “Googling.” (Note that a googol is just a big number: 10 to the power of 100. The company came up with that as a nod to the power of math. It’s not a verb. *We,* the consumer, came up with that, based on how much we were using the service.)
Since then, now two decades later, Google is now Alphabet. They have acquired and built a suite of products and services, while improving Search, at no charge to the consumer. In many cases, these products are superior (by measure of convenience) to paid products built by software companies, like Microsoft. Alphabet will continue to dominate (in any area) until a better alternative comes along that is cheaper, faster, or more useful. That’s how the free market works. Here, I’m leaving aside government restrictions such as China’s Great Firewall to both promote its own alternatives and prevent its citizens from viewing pro-democracy content (e.g. 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre).
Before you prepare your tinfoil hat, recognize the fact that consumers don’t like spending money. They will choose a free version of something if it means they pay with an abstract concept like “attention” or “privacy”. Alphabet knows this. Now you do, too.

2024-08-12 18:02:42

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Can confirm

2024-08-11 23:48:21

https://image.nostr.build/3d0e7e99c5053f212c3f30647bef647bfd4849406252c01eee24808e81ebbaeb.jpg #note1x2n…glxg

2024-08-11 23:46:56

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Doesn’t look like @npub15c8…ssvx was tagged correctly.
Fixed.

2024-08-11 23:19:18

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Those aren’t really Tibetan Rites, just FYI.
But if they work for you, enjoy.

2024-08-09 00:08:41

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Can confirm.
Moving social apps to my iPad was a huge time saver and stress reducer. The next phase was moving news apps, and then financial & banking that don’t need to be monitored daily.
…email and Slack remain on my mobile, but notifications are either turned off or only enabled during limited hours.
It’s like I have my life back.

2024-08-08 18:00:15

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LOL. Thanks for the clarification. And also:
https://image.nostr.build/7e307695589e9c9529acf7761bdc5f082bfa31b1a0b10760b50736da05969e96.jpg

2024-08-08 17:59:11

Hacker Samy Kamkar is debuting his own open source version of a laser microphone—a spy tool that can invisibly pick up the sounds inside your home through a window, and even the text you’re typing.
https://www.wired.com/story/infrared-laser-microphone-keystroke-surveillance/

2024-08-08 17:46:39

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I don’t like Google either, but maybe lay off the creatine in your morning coffee?

2024-08-08 14:59:50

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You had me until Google and Zoom.

2024-08-05 14:56:55

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https://image.nostr.build/fe67ea7d3fcc97ff4d3632947398c96b82ecc09d323af8ef66d975ab536f7dbc.jpg

2024-08-04 03:49:44

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I agree that it comes down to incentives, as you point out.
Whether it’s a misinterpretation (intentional or not), or an entitled/inflated pancakes v. waffles outrage, or an a attempt at a witty dunk on a perceived enemy to score points, or a pandering to one’s follower set to maintain loyalty, or imposing/expressing an authoritative opinion outside of one’s expertise to increase an audience or relevance…
All of these are driven by an incentive to be seen, feel validated, or get paid. I think it comes down to culture. Note, for example, how Tumblr used to have a unique audience and content creation. It was different than MySpace or Facebook. Some of that had to do with how these platforms were built and how user interactions were displayed. Some of it was how the content, itself, was consumed by users. Note that many areas of Reddit (at the time of writing) still have a playful sense of humor, and supportive community, while X is broadly a cesspool of insults and hatred. Why? Is it just because the Mods make it so? Is it the ability to downvote?
Seems like there’s an opportunity for a Reddit-like Nostr alternative. Mods wouldn’t be able to remove content from relays of course, but it would be nice to have a community that wasn’t permissioned and publicly traded, with all the incentives that come with *that*.
TL;DR build better communities by supporting others with thoughtful interactions and disincentivize trolls (somehow).

2024-08-03 06:21:14

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Checking ‘em off and right and schedule.

2024-08-03 05:40:22

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Can confirm.
Be a gentleman.
Therein lives nobility, chivalry, romance, respect, and love.

2024-07-31 03:33:31

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You may be right.
The image got community noted when used in another tweet. But you know what’s interesting? If you search his tweets for the word “weird” or the word “slur,” nothing comes up.
He’s *never* used either of those words?
Or is it that that NONE of his tweets are searchable anymore??
https://image.nostr.build/9b351605a5fff917c4aa62a8e6eeb09840311e669c860f4d379e8ae13293bf25.jpg

2024-07-31 02:06:57

Elon is all about free speech.
https://image.nostr.build/6ed1774445d9512bf45f84815828b9f1f6e70325e254b8c54900745dcd337614.jpg
@npub1qny…95gx

2024-07-26 17:11:50

@npub1trr…hdpu on stage now in Nashville, “No one is helping the Palestinians.”
You know this isn’t true.
How much money does UNRWA receive annually, Alex? The United States, alone, gives hundreds of millions of dollars every year.

2024-07-17 06:29:23

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I already quoted Richie Torres. Pasting again here for you convenience.
“There is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, brought on by a wretched war that Hamas began, but there is nothing remotely resembling genocide.
The only party in the conflict with genocidal intent is Hamas.”

2024-07-16 19:29:32

Over 1.2 billion pounds of food have been delivered to Gaza, flatly contradicting the false narrative of genocide.
https://image.nostr.build/e19da4f8631321e2c70c21ccf4cdde9c736f60fdcd29cba051f1bcd621b0db5c.jpg #note1vyj…53un

2024-07-15 20:08:54

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I mean, did you thoroughly read the article you just linked? It proves MY point about duplicate entries.
“The data provided to AP was imperfect in other ways. Among those people fully identified, some were listed twice by the ministry.“ Over 500 people in March, alone.
Okay, let’s try it another way. If I provide a number to the media and then later say that 50% of those records are, well, incomplete, you’re saying that’s not the same as revising the number down by half. You saying it’s okay to provide incomplete data because of the fog of war.
That’s NOT how fatality reporting works.
I’ve already shown you the implausibility of their figures, the impossibility of arriving at accurate numbers so quickly, and at least one actual example of a number (500 in a hospital) that was blamed on Israel, which was revised down (to 100-300), and later found to be the responsibility of Hamas’ own rockets hitting it’s own armaments depot in the parking lot of said hospital. And yet you continue to swallow their numbers as gospel?
I shudder to imagine the double standards that would be applied to Israel if they claimed a higher number of casualties and then said their records were “incomplete” when examined.
To wit, Hamas sympathizers deny the *actual* atrocities committed on 10/7 (murders, rapes, beheadings, and immolations) even as they were live streaming and celebrating them.
This whole this is just so twisted.

2024-07-15 15:34:30

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I’m not changing the argument. I’m enhancing it for you. You think you have me in some gotcha because I made a claim that I can’t back up. I’m explaining what I mean by “Hamas revised their numbers down by half” by showing HOW they admitted half their data is incomplete, often using duplicate entries, and WHY they have motivation to do so including providing one incident where they inflated the numbers by far more than half — an incident it later turned out was perpetrated by Hamas’ own fighters which they blamed on Israel. You know it took Israel MONTHS to confirm the number of dead from 10/7? Hamas frequently claims hundreds of people died within minutes/hours?
If you can’t see this, I don’t know what to tell you.

2024-07-14 23:48:52

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As an actuary, you must look at details, right? The analysts who reviewed the Hamas Health ministry “complete” numbers found that the same exact names were used dozens of times sometimes for males, sometimes for females. Further, again, the numbers place NO distinctions between combatants and civilians.
Let’s say, for the sake of morbid argument, it’s 50%. If so, that’s a 1:1 ratio of combatant to innocent ratio. Maybe if Hamas wasn’t intentionally fighting among its own civilian population, operating in (and firing rockets from) schools, hospitals, and refugee camps, that number might be different. Interesting, no?
And yet, that would still be a civilian death rate far lower than the armed conflicts and wars in Korea, Persian Gulf, or Iraq which were 74%, 88%, and 67%, respectively.
Thus, is it your position that ALL 38,000 of the reported dead are noncombatants?
If not, what percentage would YOU ascribe?
I’ll wait.

2024-07-14 20:05:32

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From your bio, you appear to be proficient examining data. Let’s back up a second.
If I provide you a set of data, and you have reason to believe I’m motivated to provide inflated numbers and, further, I HAVE provided demonstrably incorrect numbers in the past (see link provided above re: Al Ahli Arab Hospital parking lot and screenshot below in case you can’t read carefully), why would you wholeheartedly accept a new set when I, later, admit to a revision of it as being “incomplete” for almost 50% of the numbers provided? https://image.nostr.build/4b6221b1ec90f94c1a61f1b6867995eebcdd7c04cb51f66e973724ad0d07b467.jpg

2024-07-14 18:32:48

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Screenshot from the article: https://image.nostr.build/437562fa92b13dcbb0de5771e5017436610258126f7c7a2566020b2fe0bb099b.jpg

2024-07-14 17:02:36

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Yes, they do.
The links provided in those articles even lead you to Hamas Media’s Telegram for direct sourcing!
See also:
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/06/03/how-the-un-got-away-with-wildly-inflating-the-casualty-numbers-in-gaza-and-the-media-bought-it/

2024-07-14 03:57:51

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Okay, but I’m not denying bombs or starvation.
I’m asking for data that separate Hamas combatants from innocent civilians to substantiate the numbers being reported and revised. I won’t ask to to speak on behalf of the HRF unless you want to, but is it your position that all Hamas’ numbers can be relied upon, especially given that they just revised their own numbers down by 50%? I guess you don’t trust their numbers if you are, instead, saying that the numbers are far higher?
You can see my confusion here, right?

2024-07-14 01:25:51

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Based on what though, Alex?
I would like to see data that separate combatants from civilians, but Hamas explicitly does not make that distinction.
Further, the numbers they did provided (later corrected) were enumerated in steady weekly increases regardless of IDF actions during each interval. There is obvious human suffering, but these sloppy calculations *from* Hamas are clearly suspect.

2024-07-13 23:05:50

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Yup. I just thought the same thing. It’s all a show.
#note1n48…hhv8

2024-07-13 23:03:49

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Are you sure? Ear appears fine. Looks more like a blood pack to me. Used all the time in the WWE.
https://image.nostr.build/d82c191e45fa3c8797bdf45165bca3eb4b2e8091aa589ed409bcd295bc515aee.jpg

2024-07-13 20:03:18

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Okay, hold on. It’s certainly not great when a someone is cut off from using a service/tool they rely on, and points to the necessity of decentralized communication options.
It is also POSSIBLE that these people WERE violating Microsoft’s TOS in a variety of ways. But, more importantly, do we even know how many people have been allegedly cut off? How many people has the BBC interviewed for this story? I read the article (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cger582weplo) and it doesn’t even say how many people are affected! It could be 3 people making an accusation for all we know, and the BBC is running with it because it’ll get engagement.
To jump with both feet into accusing (((them))) of working in the background to pressure the corporation is simply conspiratorial, brain worm bullshit. Don’t do it.
Also note, from this article, “The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says more than 38,000 people have been killed in the war.” Why are they still publishing that number when Hamas, itself, has revised that number down by 50% last month?
You guys, seriously. The tragedy of this conflict is already bad enough without spreading lies and making shit up.

2024-07-05 04:24:38

4th of July price drop, just continues dropping.

2024-06-30 17:19:23

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This is the unsolicited life advice I needed, from the man I needed to give it, in the manner provided.

2024-06-24 16:31:50

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This is nonsense

2024-05-26 22:35:01

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MDR. Quel âge as-tu, exactement ?

2024-05-26 21:52:32

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pas mal ton histoire mec. Qui paie les ponts, les installations sanitaires, les ondes radio, le contrôle du trafic aérien et tout le reste dans The Commons ? Peut-être ne vous souciez-vous pas de la sécurité des consommateurs ou des biens sociaux ? Ou peut-être ignorez-vous simplement comment le gouvernement est censé fonctionner pour le bénéfice des citoyens ?

2024-05-25 20:49:24

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Yes, obviously. But according to GAAP, durable property (e.g. PP&E) is depreciated/amortized over its useful life, as prescribed by U.S. tax code. @npub15dq…lm5m's description of #bitcoin as “digital property in cyberspace” is a reference to real property and an eager regulator is going to interpret it, accordingly.
Better to use words (and analogies) carefully. Commodities are not taxed or depreciated during holding periods — though they sometimes do erode. Additional bookkeeping (and thus taxation) only happens when they are bought, sold, leveraged, or exchanged. That’s what we want for Bitcoin.

2024-05-25 20:36:29

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Peter, please ask @npub15dq…lm5m why he continues to repeat that Bitcoin is “digital property.”
This is problematic because, as he surely knows, property is taxed annually.
Bitcoin is a digital COMMODITY.

2024-05-23 00:23:50

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Umbrel is nice, but updates can crash the whole damn thing.
Never had a problem with @npub126n…e9ll #start9

2024-05-12 20:04:22

https://image.nostr.build/20dedbea87ca6f2118d0d7afca53616ec51624fcfbb13ee5dfbc0a6645eda19e.jpg
#nevent1q…lpsn

2024-04-25 14:17:45

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What’s wrong with CalyxOS now?

2024-04-23 22:06:50

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That’s a fascinating amount of TAM-cope.

2024-04-21 17:36:03

The honeybee 🐝 lives less than 40 days.
During its life, it will visit at least 1,000 flowers up to 2 miles away and produce less than a teaspoon of honey.
#nature #gratitude

2024-04-11 02:15:58

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Votre avis est erroné. Il y a une guerre, pas un génocide. Le Hamas a rompu l'accord de cessez-le-feu avec la plus grande sauvagerie et a été désigné comme groupe terroriste. Il n’y a pas de mouvement de résistance. Il existe des revendications légitimes contre les développements israéliens en ce qui concerne l’expansion des colonies, mais le pays a expulsé ses propres citoyens de leurs foyers en 2005 dans le but de créer la paix en Cisjordanie. Les habitants de Gaza ont voté pour le Hamas et ont eux-mêmes été victimes de ce groupe terroriste. C'est une situation horrible. Blâmer les « milliardaires sionistes » pour quoi que ce soit et inclure une affirmation non fondée selon laquelle cela a quelque chose à voir avec l’interdiction de TikTok dénote une haine des Juifs, ce qui est tout simplement dégoûtant.

2024-04-10 17:19:57

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Talking like this doesn’t make you sound cool, or smart, or informed.

2024-04-09 21:11:59

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If Saylor dumps his bitcoin?
I don’t know if you’re joking, or just offering an improbable hypothetical but regardless…
1) He has never given any indication of selling, let alone dumping
2) ETF’s wouldn’t be “crushed” if the price dropped due to selling pressure. It doesn’t work like that. They earn fees on order flow.

2024-04-09 06:25:08

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Same.
Saylor isn’t running an ETF, and doesn’t compete with ETFs. Has said so multiple times.
How would he “crush” a one? And which ETF manager would have felt personally or professionally threatened by such a weird threat?
Something just doesn’t make sense here.

2024-04-06 17:18:39

Sit down.
Close your eyes.
Take a breathe.
Listen.
What is the next thing you hear?
Notice how your ears accept it and your brain registers it without you *doing* anything. It’s just happening. Just a nervous system, processing.
Your thoughts are the same way.
What is the next thing you think? Notice how the mind creates a thought and then reacts to it. Did *you* create your next thought? It’s just happening. Just a process.
You are not the cause.
You are the witness.
#meditate #meditation #nostr

2024-04-03 21:08:06

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Definitely.

2024-04-03 17:19:34

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#note19zn…3zwm

2024-04-03 17:14:52

When will young men learn that true strength is demonstrated by helping and nurturing, rather than being rude and uncompromising? #note1guz…9pxr

2024-03-16 05:18:05

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This is some crazy shit

2024-03-15 16:11:24

I see you’ve got laser eyes on you pfp, Anon. That means you are singularly focused on ₿itcoin.
Want to strengthen that ability, to focus your attention? Learn to meditate.
Consistency is key. Just a few minutes, done regularly as a part of your daily routine.
Sit down (in a chair is fine).
Back straight.
Softly gaze into the empty space about 3 inches away from the tip your nose.
Breathe.
Pay attention to the beginning of the inhale.
Pay attention to the beginning of the exhale.
Pay attention to the space at the top of the inhale, just before you start to exhale.
Don’t force anything. Just breathe naturally.
Pay attention to the space at the bottom of the exhale. Can you feel your heart beat before you begin to inhale again?
Whenever you feel yourself being pulled into the past or future, each time you notice that your mind has wandered, you are strengthening your ability to maintain and regain focus.
The goal is to direct your attention on whatever you want, dampening down emotional and cognitive reactivity. This is a superpower. It allows you to focus on the things you want to be attending to, rather than be distracted by things that do not fucking matter.
#nostr #meditation #bitcoin #maxi

2024-02-18 02:10:50

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I want that hard copy… $180?🥲

2024-02-10 19:56:20

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The two, together: https://image.nostr.build/fdd1af305b51e30c1498d83580a508a3fa146b4273b7eba395c88aca7f792ead.jpg

2023-12-27 15:55:29

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I didn’t see its Tax ID on first glance of the website. I will look again and set up a donation.

2023-12-26 23:41:25

@npub13l3…8xc2 is the Texas Bitcoin Foundation a 501(c)3?

2023-10-27 18:39:16

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Plz ELI5
Why would the real value of savings decrease when an economy’s productivity stagnates or declines? I don’t follow this, especially in a global market for goods & services.

2023-09-18 04:48:42

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Makes sense… but do you have any intention of storing your funds there? Or just concerned that *others* might get rugged?
FWIW, it will probably only be institutions who cannot self-custody for procedural or liability reasons.
There are new insurance products available that will protect these clients’ funds which weren’t available prior. It would just be really bad for Swan if they made any poor choices like that. Got a trust that Cory and the team are smarter than that.

2023-09-16 15:23:55

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Which is the complexity you’re referring to?
1) Ripple’s bid for Fortress?
2) Swan’s move away from Fortress to Bakkt?
3) Plans to make a Bitcoin-only Trust with BitGo?
4) Something else?

2023-09-16 05:42:34

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I see a lot of complaints about Swan, but nothing so egregious that would make me quit purchasing through them.
What offends you, specifically?

2023-08-01 04:32:18

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Not likely. There are communications between them. Are you suggesting he was conversing with his own sock puppet to fool all of us?

2023-07-29 00:31:57

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Beastie Boys: Paul’s Boutique. So many samples used to create something new an innovative. It had never been done before. No other artist could ever do the same now… it would be too expensive to obtain the rights.
Portishead: Dummy. This was the vanguard of the trip hop genre, and still sounds fresh today. Same goes for Kruder & Dorfmeister’s The K&D Sessions or DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing. These musicians were creating new styles of music that did not exist before.

2023-07-19 15:17:38

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This is an interesting global development, but why would I want my bank holding my ₿? Will the French be allowed to self-custody, or will they be required to have banks custody it for them?

2023-06-23 01:19:31

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So, why is my Passport 24?
😭

2023-03-09 05:57:40

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The information you need is at
Mempool.space