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2024-11-22 11:26:40

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I would suggest the modern culture of snitching is behind more of this than is apparent. And the social atomisation from frequent internal migration and urbanisation.
Our WW2 generation were never described as passive and compliant. Especially not by the British and other europeans.

2024-11-21 23:05:19

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My grandfather's generation were nothing like us.
Its not the soil, its the culture.

2024-11-19 00:40:34

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Cygnet is beautiful, but man, those winters are hellish, nothing but a few rocks between you and Antarctica.
Cool re road named after the family :)

2024-11-19 00:39:06

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Palestine was not a desert in 1948, that is easily rebutted fake news.
Early Zionist settlers learned a lot about agriculture from their trusting Palestinian neighbours, there are endless personal accounts written.
Palestine was a Mandate of the British Empire, with its own elected parliament, coinage and laws.

2024-11-19 00:35:43

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Broadmeadows still Broadmeadows

2024-11-19 00:34:56

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Where in Tassie, if I may ask?

2024-11-19 00:31:09

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OBD2 rules :p
My Toyota can tell me where it hurts, with the aid of a computer.
My (older) Mercedes can only blink codes, with difficulty.
But otherwise I'm 100% in agreement. The "smart" Mazda I had was nightmare fuel.

2024-11-17 10:59:09

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That's where the ethnos developed, which is not quite the same thing. We don't even know if the tribe of Binyamin were native or newcomers at the dawn of their literature. Tradition says newcomers, archeology disagrees.
LOL re three npubs - if I muted you, I'd only have maxi-flamewars and photos of food for entertainment.

2024-11-17 08:06:59

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One of the most cruel and bizarre crimes against the English language is the way these people often self-identify as Liberal.
If only there was an easy avenue to help them self-segregate physically as well as socially...

2024-11-16 00:02:59

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This! Very interested in actual achieved range data for different terrains

2024-11-15 22:16:39

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Morning, Fishy!

2024-11-15 21:15:25

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I can't imagine any Jewish guy I know IRL being that lame in his clapbacks.
Israelis just aren't very Jewish any more. Too busy trying to become Best Nazis, I guess...

2024-11-15 12:16:35

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Graphene and LineageOS have fewer questions than factory/carrier Android.
Because they're not run by crooks!

2024-11-15 11:54:14

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"Arab" is a social construct, just like "white".
Conquest is not population replacement, unless you're Bar Kokhba or Bibi Netanyahu.

2024-11-15 11:52:19

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Romans were Arabs, now? General Vespasian would be surprised to learn that.
He burned the Temple and banned Jews from owning land for several dozen miles around Yerushmalim - pretty much the entirety of ancient Judah.
He had reasons - Bar Kokhba had committed sickening war crimes, even by the low standards of that age.
The rest of your post is equally devoid of truth.
Do better. Be better.

2024-11-15 07:31:14

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Rabble was unable to censor as he desired, but he was "Community Noting" as a fallback.
He was also using a centralised opaque regime-linked service to do it, and you're not.
But the concept is the same - a (more or less) centralised "source of truth" gets to visibly assert authority over other people's speech.

2024-11-15 07:20:51

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Rabble did that.
Fed every note he could catch into a corporate Microsoft/OpenAI closed-source machine-learning "moderation service", and spammed the resulting cry-bullying back into the relays.
No.
We do not need Community Notes when we have an actual, free, and sapient community able to share their own notes.

2024-11-15 07:11:27

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If the product is FOSS, then they're both legally and morally right to do so.
I actually support the enforcement of Trademark, though - its not about IP but product identity.
NVK is bringing an action under Trademark, if I understand him correctly. I don't expect him to be successful - IMHO the defendant is not impersonating his branding, and the similarities between the product names is only moderate. But a court will decide.
Either way, he's within his rights to initiate an action under Trademark, which in Common Law predates the modern state by centuries and is not really part of IP.

2024-11-15 01:13:46

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"They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly.
"No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried.
"Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked.
"They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone."
- Joesph Heller, "Catch 22", p. 16

2024-11-15 01:00:01

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Truth, but 99% Evil is still better than 99.5% Evil.
My IRL friends who don't vote are actually just lazy and defeatist. Trust me, I know 'em. I give Nostriches more benefit of the doubt, but if you're not spending your day voting, you should be spending it minimising your tax liability by any means necessary. (That'll hurt the bad guys a lot more in the long run...)

2024-11-14 11:50:12

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100%.
I think they are dominant because other voices are silenced. Because almost any other way of thinking has less opportunities for power without accountability.

2024-11-13 21:59:42

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Any and all scars from bad decisions can be creatively re-interpreted as representing Mein Kampf passages.
10+, defo.

2024-11-13 21:45:25

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I have a whole shelf! Actually one and a half.
But I also think genocide is always wrong, so you won't get invited to the cool parties if you give my views "oxygen"...

2024-11-13 12:13:35

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1) You mean via epigenetics, or just learned behaviours?
2) True
3) TBF, older men are even better at applying violence; just harder to motivate and more socially/economically expensive to lose.
4) True

2024-11-12 02:16:49

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Foreign Minister Penny Wong will meet Candace at the airport and apologise :p But she'll blame a member of staff for "the mix-up".
These people have no shame and no fixed loyalties...

2024-11-12 00:04:38

#nevent1q…2925
Stay classy

2024-11-12 00:01:45

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100%
The mystery ingredient in these laws is "discretion".
Prosecutors will only come after people the powerful don't like.
"The rule of Men not Laws", but they hide behind a law to do it.

2024-11-11 23:33:56

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Day-uhm, good effort!

2024-11-11 23:33:12

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What Elon does, it appears, is snort fat line after fat line with politicians and showbiz people.
The former then GTFO of Musk's way as long as they think they have a chance to sleep with the latter, and let Musk's people smuggle a little bit of Capitalism into a Crony-Communist economy. That's why Musk's companies are mostly doing things everyone knew were possible but no one actually did.
None of the mentioned productive people could do s--t without their Chief Entertainment Officer keeping the parasites and power-trippers at bay.
Sad, but here we are...

2024-11-11 23:21:51

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Congrats, Ann!

2024-11-11 23:19:59

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An experiment only fails if you fail to learn from it :)
Thanks for sharing

2024-11-11 22:15:22

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Get well soon, Connie!

2024-11-11 21:21:51

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100%, politicians pass laws a majority don't support all the time.
Culture matters when it comes to rolling back those laws.
Uruguayans are far more likely to support rollback than Arizonans. And then compare either to CA / OR / MA.

2024-11-11 10:54:36

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A close relative, or just convergent evolution?
https://nostrcheck.me/media/a96a35a224402b8075c4da20f0477896afcc3395b6fad63e30a648a8222a6a69/a92b3459bff1916571ae7c644eba51db460a2e78fe04935dfbbb71ca7c645629.webp

2024-11-11 08:34:48

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BAE's share price didn't even get a "dead Callum bounce" out of it.
https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/LSE-BA./
Young people these days - can't do anything right. Not even when dying uselessly for the Establishment's malice and greed...

2024-11-11 06:05:58

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LOL!
Men are perfectly capable of spontaneously forming teams and structures if motivated by a common goal. Better than women, if experimental data can be believed.
Its just that, in FOSS-world, goal-directed bahaviour looks like this:
Man: "I shall build my own digital realm, over which I may reign as pharoah!"
[does stuff]
Woman: "hi!"
Woman: "something something something"
Man: "hi!"
[updates goal to "get smile from woman"]
[does stuff]
This probably worked on flint-knappers and cave-painters in the Paleolithic.
We can probably thank an Ur-Silberengel for the development of indirect-percussion flint-flake technology...

2024-11-11 05:35:45

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The largest and deepest dataset, absolutely, but raiders and traders blurred those boundaries even before modern transport technologies. Y-chromosomes in eastern England: at least 50% are indistinguishable from stay-at-home Germanics on the Continent. And 10% are Norse.
I also have grave suspicions about "didn't interbreed" in the context of pre-20th C British. Didn't intermarry? Perhaps. Didn't interbreed is lol, esp if they had money.
Most English settlers didn't have money, but there were so many of those its hard to believe they didn't leave a larger genetic footprint. This map has about as much English as I'd expect in Columbia, not one of Australia's siblings.
Open to what you say on intra-US migration, but I'd really like to see data.

2024-11-11 05:23:34

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LOL. Don't believe her, Chip!
She codes. Maybe not in assembly, but then neither do I. We still understand what memory management is, and why compilers taking variables is less work for us than direct and indirect addressing.

2024-11-11 04:31:39

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Funny as hell, but doesn't look real.
IDK how you would reliably distinguish (genetically) Dutch/Flemish/German/Norwegian from eastern England without searching parish records as a check.
Ditto for Irish vs Welsh or Scottish. Or Liverpudlian.

2024-11-11 04:06:07

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I feel for you, brother!
Nothing helps re the itch :( Except time.
Re not straight though, you will be amazed how many people will fail to see it, even though it'll be obvious to you

2024-11-11 03:53:30

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Welcome, cobber!

2024-11-11 00:55:22

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That will work, too...

2024-11-11 00:44:35

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I feel the pain.
Then again, I built and ran "Linux From Scratch" once, so maybe I'm a masochist.
If Pop OS has all the required build tools (looks like they do) and packaged libraries (probably), you should be able to plonk the source down in your /opt folder, build the TB binary in place, then just run TB from there without messing up your package manager.
I currently do this for FreeCAD, because Devuan's packaged build is ancient...

2024-11-10 10:10:04

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Kasha is traditional for dinnerware in South Asia - its a silver-copper alloy.
Easy to clean and fearsome anti-microbial properties, but transfers heat so fast you can burn your hand touching a just-filled bowl of hot food (guess how I know...)

2024-11-10 02:12:21

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Sorry guys, had a lot going on in the offline world.
What did I miss? :)

2024-10-08 00:57:12

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Pffft!
Two through five, here.
Nothing wrong with any of those, as long as its not ALL that you do!

2024-10-08 00:49:21

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*Ahem* lets not look too closely at my family tree just now.
No reason.
(About 1/4 Polish Jew, but no serial killers on that side AFAIK)

2024-10-08 00:25:27

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IDK, poet John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost", this would be totally his style.
If a 30-ft tall Fallen Angel in Ancient Greek armour walks out of the storm surge onto the beach and starts playing classic Heavy Metal anthems on an oversized guitar, we'll know this storm was named after the poet and not the economist.

2024-10-08 00:15:26

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(Hugs)
I'm sorry man
Took quite a while to be real for me, too.
I found writing down memories helped, as did keeping in touch with family and a couple of his friends.

2024-10-08 00:11:27

Like Netanyahu today, Jack the Ripper was a mediocrity who liked the flex of making his co-religionists race around covering up for him, lest they share in the public odium.
#nevent1q…zquc

2024-10-08 00:07:15

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This is true. I have about a shelf on each, I forget most people don't read...

2024-10-07 22:35:15

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"Meat sandbag" is how all politicians view all soldiers.
Netanyahu has the chutzpah to napalm a battalion of Europeans just doing their jobs; but dollars to donuts his commanders don't have the balls.

2024-10-07 22:21:39

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Peacekeeping is literally their job description, and they have a United Nations mandate.

2024-10-07 22:15:01

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Young girls think they're amazing and irreplaceable. Older women know better.

2024-10-07 21:51:53

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Context?
Runaway Haredim?

2024-10-07 21:48:56

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IDK about your first paragraph, but people are mostly willing to bet against positive outcomes if they think they'll make more money that way.
Prediction markets have a stellar track record compared to polling, even on matters where the relevant information is closely held or embargoed. The powerful are disproportionately vulnerable to greed...

2024-10-07 21:43:29

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Unselfconsciousness

2024-10-07 21:40:45

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Nigeria does it better

2024-10-07 21:32:01

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Hard disagree, visit any international film festival!
USA hasn't been competitive in that field for at least a decade. I hear the incentives are broken.

2024-10-07 21:29:37

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NGL, I think that would be worse than working on humans. At least the injured human has some idea of why he's there and what's going on; at least at a surface level.

2024-10-07 21:26:36

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Less wrong than polling.
"Skin in the game."

2024-10-07 21:19:31

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I usually say you can always find a politician that little bit worse to vote against.
But then I look at the choices you poor Americans have coming up...

2024-10-07 20:57:40

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That salute was sloppy, do it again :D

2024-10-07 20:56:14

America, you do not hate these warmongers enough.
Your democracy is being worn like a mask by the Permanent Establishment who make these calls regardless of which Party is in power.
(We have this problem too)
#nevent1q…suwg

2024-10-07 20:42:09

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I have never slept with a Thai girl, but I have buddies who are crazy about them.
If you actually like the "young" look, but want a girl who can cook, care for children and be legal, Thai is where its at.
Myself, I like my women with better hips and breasts.

2024-10-07 20:25:24

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No, but two of my great-grandparents were. They converted to Christianity.

2024-10-07 13:38:08

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100%.
Misanthropists, yes, but I see opposition to sustainable hunting as overwhelmingly about class snobbery.

2024-10-07 13:08:33

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Had a friend who spent a lot of time in the Pantanal. Her videos of capybaras had audio - those things make the same range of squeaks, squeals, chirps and grunts as their little guinea-pig cousins.
Traditionally hunted and eaten. Catholic Church classifies them as fish so the locals there can eat them on Fridays.

2024-10-07 13:00:48

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I think its safe to say the transition will be ugly, disorderly and involve both bangs and whimpers. "Slowly then suddenly" applies to institutional bankruptcy as well as personal bankruptcy.
Civilised mid-wits will panic if dumped head-first into freedom, true, but that's why we need decentralised protocols NOW as institution replacements, so that the midwits have many points of contact with systems that work even before other systems finally fail.
Bitcoin is one. Nostr is another. Mesh networks.
Have given thought to "aostr", "arbitration and other stuff transmitted via relays", but need to write a lot more notes and some code proof of concept.

2024-10-07 12:53:03

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Can you list a few that are good farm animals, not just good hunting?
I have inlaws who've kept those Chitral deer in South Asia as pets, but apparently they're too panicky to farm.

2024-10-07 12:35:23

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GM!

2024-10-07 12:26:03

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I agree a parallel economy, in the narrow sense, is not enough.
I see developing and negotiating decentralised protocols to replace centralised statist monopoly functions as the key preparation we can make here.
"Shadow self-governance", by analogy with revolutionary shadow governments.
Yes, that's a gargantuan undertaking, but a lot of good work we can re-use has already been done by people who lived outside the grasp of a modern state.

2024-10-07 11:13:39

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Yup.
The State is an accretion of monopolies within a society.
Kidney stone writ large, it needs to be passed and flushed.

2024-10-07 11:06:16

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Barium partially substitutes for potassium, and slows down a lot of metabolic activity, especially in the brain. Its salts aren't very soluable, but, as you pointed out, the required dosages are very small. Works by inducing hypokalemia, even if potassium is available in the diet.
I have read that barium sulphide was added to a lot of prisons food in the first half of the 1900s, not merely in Germany, but I can't find a reference online.

2024-10-07 10:54:13

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I'm a cruel man... :D

2024-10-07 10:53:15

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Priced in DPRK Won, only North Koreans have an economy!
Take that, foreign capitalists!
:p

2024-10-07 10:49:38

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Dude, cheat harder, you know the spenders of your taxes will!
That said, 20% is pretty sweet compared to any Western country

2024-10-07 10:30:33

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Y'all sinking to our level...

2024-10-07 10:27:27

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Fair.
Charles de Gaulle told Ben Gurion to GTFO of Lebanon in '48, and when he was ignored he sent a fleet.
Ben Gurion GTFO at double-time.
A tragedy there has been no followup.,.

2024-10-07 10:24:24

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The way Bezos et al was allowed to keep operating while "mom and pop" or just "mom" stores were shuttered for COVID was very telling.
Bezos, at least, has created a lot of value for realz, but a lot more of his fortune has been simply appropriated via privileged access to state violence. "Putting society to work for you", as the Senator who wrote "Confessions of a Monopolist" put it.
That's still a dumb meme in the picture, though..,

2024-10-07 10:17:37

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I thought that was barium? Did they use both?

2024-10-07 10:13:21

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But that expires everybody's money holdings equally, oligarchs as much as deplorables.
Unacceptable.

2024-10-07 09:53:12

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Okay, that's very cringe.
Change of orders, you miscreants. Elon Musk is now to be addressed as "Simp".

2024-10-07 09:42:04

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In the Halakha it depends entirely, true.
Modern Western Jews don't care. Even Lubavichers visibly upgrade me from "livestock" to "subhuman" when they find out, and yet their Rebbe taught that instead of a soul I have a kelipot containing nothing but evil.

2024-10-07 09:32:37

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You can still call me fren. Even Hitler had at least one "du" fren.

2024-10-07 09:30:20

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Nice! I'm in the market for a good Nostr web client - any idea where we can find the source for this one?

2024-10-07 09:25:13

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Musk has the same percentage as me, and Hitler!
Nazis, remember, you must address quarter-jews as "Führer", and salute us.
Traditions are important.

2024-10-07 09:06:12

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"Random digit dialling" by callcenter bots is a thing. Can't escape that.
Avoiding letting your number end up on a list cuts spam and scam calls by 99% though. Those people want targetting profiles...

2024-10-07 08:59:31

The only such agreement that would be accepted in Washington is "war eternal".
You don't hate these people enough.
#nevent1q…hn9p

2024-10-07 08:54:33

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And 9 times out of 10, those villains are the govt

2024-10-07 08:53:45

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I can build a backdoor that only I can use. (Unless my key gets stolen in a breach.)
What I can't do is build a backdoor an institution can use without leaking, breaches, or abuse of trust. Especially the last...

2024-10-07 08:47:19

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Bisq or Haveno

2024-10-07 08:20:10

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#nevent1q…rawc

2024-10-07 07:27:49

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Then we have to be MORE relentless!

2024-10-07 07:03:39

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Arch has, like, documentation, man!
Its even kept up to date.
Unheard of in the Linux World. Must be a PsyOp, <insert meme here>.

2024-10-07 07:01:33

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Muhuhaha.
If we all start treating Lesser Trolls with bored condescension and mockery, they'll abandon Nostr in dismay.

2024-10-07 05:40:49

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I googled and couldn't find it.
NGL, it doesn't sound a thing like Putin. He's very calculating in what he says publicly, more Obama and not at all Trump.
Zhironovsky, though, I could totally imagine him saying something like that, if LDP flipped from Islamophobic to Islamophilic.

2024-10-07 04:51:00

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Depends completely on who's giving the sermon.
I've met a number of really interesting and based ministers of religion, but I've also met bores, and two self-confessed embezzlers. I judge that hard, they thought it was edgy or something...

2024-10-07 04:43:51

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This.
The volatility attracts the NGU crowd, but repels normal and business-oriented users.
Bitcoiners on Nostr: "this is fine"

2024-10-07 04:13:17

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They're so cute!
Wait... you don't mean for eating, do you...?