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2024-08-25 13:09:34

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I read it like I read an old ideological text I used to be fond of.
Used to call myself an anarchist as many influenced by the Austrian school of economics did. But it became apparent that there's a trap- the ideology prevents the implementation of principles, so you just basically embark on a never-ending attempt to "educate" the other people.
Well a lot of other people want power and will take it if they have a chance.
And a lot of people actually prefer to be subordinate. They want direction- someone to tell them what to do and/or that things will be okay.
In the bible there's patriarchy. There are kings. There's slavery- particularly noticeable because folks could be fine upstanding members of the faithful and keep slaves.
But instead of having a rather small hierarchy over our heads, now we have bureaucracy. Ten thousand rather than a few. And they tell us we are more free now. Hah!

2024-08-22 17:29:43

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This doesn't make sense in the full context of the New Testament. The "nations" clearly exist in Revelations. Some level of governance is legitimized by Jesus and later by Paul. I think you are reading the bible under the influence of ideology, but ideology has consistently failed to provide us decent results. If the nations are worshiping God in the new heaven and earth, clearly there's no intent to destroy them- at least not all of them. There's probably a Sodom or two, but overall we can't pretend nations are not generally a part of God's plan.

2024-08-20 13:58:34

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This is a ridiculous non-story. Everyone can tell why he won that debate. He could have swapped out with some random guy in the street, and the random guy would have won that debate. And it's highly likely this Gish dude won a few debates in his lifetime too.

2024-08-15 02:42:00

Has anyone figured out how to find new stuff on nostr without needing eyebleach? Tried muting on primal, but can't make "network" very much better than when I started. Anything new worth looking at?

2024-07-16 01:09:10

You know, it seems like- after attempting to take the life of one candidate and it fails- in this particular situation it might make sense for certain people to then attempt to take the life of the other one. It is the other one who is defying his donors, after all.
It would be easily staged as a retaliation from some orange man supporter. Yet, no doubt, if it is done, it will be done more professionally and the people who benefit will be those same democrat donors droning on about how Biden must resign.
This isn't a strong prediction or anything. I just realized things might work out well for these donors, the globalists, "THEM" if it does happen.
Because everything is so tilted to Trump right now, I don't think they can fake it like they did last time- and they relied on the fact that most people aren't very numerate and can't understand a statistical argument. Maybe that's what they want- let Trump win and then let the economy collapse and blame him for it.
But that means other interests- like those pushing war will be put out. Ukraine, the Middle East, our increasing bellicosity towards China- all that would stop with Trump. Additionally, whoever is into allowing so much illegal migration here would be put out. So some folks won't give in and just let him win. I guess it depends on what percentage of 'them' are down with one thing rather than the other.

2024-04-02 00:12:38

I've been seeing foreign women, usually with children, begging in parking lots. Something about them makes me wonder if there isn't an organization that drops them off in these parking lots and makes them beg. Often it seems like they have no car and are relatively far away from bus stops.

2024-02-19 23:38:46

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Well, they do it to force us to use their money. I figure this is a good thing for him to know.

2024-01-24 00:33:43

Is plebstr still being worked on? I haven't seen an update in a while. Also a lot of notes just sort of hang, never loading completely.

2024-01-13 00:25:46

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Checkout the poor results from "mouse utopia":
https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/mouse-heaven-or-mouse-hell/
Then consider mutational load over human generations with modern medical interventions. Wealthier people can afford more medical interventions, so it tracks with what you mentioned.
I think microplastics are likely a little sprinkling of fairy dust by comparison.

2024-01-05 23:53:04

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This is why we should ban public (government) schools. This didn't used to happen, even though kids would show up with their hunting rifles and hang them up in the back of the school room.

2024-01-03 00:08:55

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Maybe they just know everyone calling Jan 6 an insurrection is full of shit.

2023-12-22 16:43:59

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They take the research and then insist everyone should eat breakfast, but a healthy person with a fast metabolism will naturally want breakfast. If you are trying to lose weight and you aren't hungry, it makes sense not to eat- burn the fat you are trying to lose.
Hopefully, we eventually create the same conditions- i.e. we eat breakfast because we are healthy, have a fast metabolism, etc... but it doesn't make sense to pronounce this meal as an essential. What are your goals? Are you hungry? This isn't an arena where 'fake it till you make it' works.

2023-11-01 23:50:13

I'd like to see some private libraries created.
A lot of people think libraries are pointless now, but that's due in large part to the bureaucracy and wokeness that has been a part of public libraries now for too long.
Notice how bad Google is now? The need for these services are more dire than ever, but your average library has just bought a bunch of crappy online services and tells you to believe the narrative instead of doing what they should be doing.

2023-10-25 18:37:02

Seems like Google can be beat as a search engine, because Google a decade or two ago was better than it is now.

2023-10-24 23:38:22

Previous to this dire situation, color revolution style protests showed up in Israel over an attempt to reform the judiciary. Perhaps this was not working as well as the promoters of color revolutions wanted. Surely, there's enough surveillance infrastructure there to catch an incursion of this size.

2023-10-24 23:29:16

Using the justice system to bully lawyers into pleading guilty may be a problem in terms of building a case against your primary target. The primary target went to these lawyers for legal advice. He didn't go to these lawyers to break the law- he went to these lawyers to get what he wanted done via the law.
Although I'm sure these people will try to contort things even further in an attempt to get what they want.

2023-10-12 17:18:07

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Thanks. From the titles, it looks like they might know a few things.

2023-09-29 23:50:16

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More likely a defensive measure. Reduce exposure to the lunatic government. Hold the dollars in case China has to deal with the same SWIFT related problems Russia did. Perhaps they have a military project in mind that USG may not like.
I don't see them needing a lot of USD liquidity as a buffer just to flip the peg. They just need to be willing to have a lot of HKD holders be unhappy. But I also think this is probably way down on the priority list. Of course, I'm in America, listening to our crazy government doing and saying crazy things, so I'm more inclined to think priority number one is reduce exposure/reliance on these complete nuts.
No doubt the view is different in Hong Kong.

2023-08-26 15:12:21

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Yeah, but if I buy the most organic/pure ingredients and make something, it tend to be more satisfying and I can wait longer between treats.
Also, I end up waiting longer because good ingredients costs more, so giving in more often would cost me more.

2023-08-26 15:00:28

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I usually don't even look at these things because I assume there are a lot of bad ingredients in them. Way back in the day when I was losing weight, I once had a plateau that turned out to be because a coffee shop was giving me some coffee mate type stuff instead of real cream.

2023-08-25 09:42:18

Power came back on. So now I will try to sleep again. Weird little blackout in a small part of the neighborhood.

2023-08-24 02:19:54

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A patriarch would be less likely to be a coercive monopoly, since he would be strongly related to the people he was defending. Beats some wage earning bureaucrat- especially from out of state- any day. It has been part of the modern propaganda to paint the ancients with the same brush.
If we focus on incentives, we can get close to the real thing we want. If we follow modern propaganda, we will just get bureaucracies particularly adept at saying things like voluntary exchange while exploiting us.
This is similar to how America has ruined the terms free markets, or even freedom in general across the globe. For too long it has obviously meant do whatever the US gov wants. Few people get past this and into a principled understanding of any of this. Hoppe himself admitted that kings have incentives better aligned with the people than bureaucrats do.
We'd just rather not have kings, but the principles don't apply themselves. Someone must apply them- and in many cases apply them ruthlessly. We will see nothing like the society imagined in these scenarios without that someone. And that someone simply cannot be a bureaucrat. They are too misaligned- not only with humanity in general, but even with themselves. They can know, individually, that their hierarchy is going to ultimately destroy the institution they are inhabiting, but they will continue to obey and/or promote bad behavior because their bread is buttered by that hierarchy. They'll keep quiet and hope they get to retirement before everything breaks down.

2023-08-23 23:49:04

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Generally a private firm reaches a certain size and relies on lobbying the government. Sure, getting rid of the government would help more private firms stick to voluntary exchange principles, but there is a very real chance some company would find itself in the position to be the top dog in a particular area- especially when it came to issues like defense.
It seems to me the best way to align incentives is if the defender was more like a king or patriarch, and said defender actually had most of his wealth ensconced in the territory he was responsible for defending. Then there are fewer perverse incentives.
But if we don't try to directly end bureaucratic rule, we end up with people who get paid regardless of outcome- and may even get bonuses for creating more wars and/or other poor outcomes for a territory they supposedly defend. There's no panacea- there would still be people tempted to do the wrong thing, but if the incentives are aligned correctly, it would happen less often, and certainly wouldn't be systematic- or global, as we've seen with the the nonsense we've had to deal with over the past few years.

2023-08-23 22:45:34

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I enjoyed this type of stuff immensely when I was younger, but at some point I realized the insurance companies would become just as bad as government because the key problem in our current age is bureaucracy.
Just as government creates problems and then pretends to be a solution to those problems, so do most of it's children- corporations. Bureaucracies must grow- status is determined by having more people with professional sounding titles under you and forget about sane protocols that would actually help the customers- look at the medical industry for a metric ton of examples.

2023-08-22 22:42:40

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A lot of "education" today is basically fraud. So a lot of the college debt thing can be solved if the colleges responsible for the fraud had to pay. Make it easy (perhaps even attractive) for the baristas with gender studies degrees to declare themselves victims of fraud.

2023-08-21 22:44:40

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To me, as always, the primary threat is coming from U.S. gov. Chinese hypocrisy may exist, but it's way down on the list of things to fix. Sure, it'd be nice if they produced receipts on the Fauci/covid connection. But them saving face isn't remotely as dangerous as what U.S. gov is doing.

2023-08-19 18:25:47

Someone please put gravity on pause until my back figures out it is okay to move again.

2023-08-15 23:16:19

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I can only hope this is radicalizing Trump.

2023-08-14 23:32:15

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Get well Jack. Unless I missed it, I think you were too wore out to give us a deal of the day at the end there.

2023-08-07 01:44:19

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We do know. They offered to surrender before this.

2023-08-06 12:21:06

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The scam is in the scaring of the people. This is primarily about keeping nuclear energy from taking market share from 'fossil fuel' based companies.
I do wish someone would do a documentary on the clean up and rebuild in Japan, but I figure they want Americans to just continue to assume that these places are still just blasted out wastelands.

2023-08-04 22:32:59

Anyone else got a message with a invoice which states that it was generated because of something someone else did? Appears to be from a paid relay.

2023-08-02 23:02:39

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Gov/corporate trolls filling global with aesthetically unpleasing stuff. Ultimately, though, I think it is a temporary lull. We'll figure out how to filter it out and centralized services will implement more dystopian features- resulting in more migrations here.

2023-08-02 22:55:37

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If bitcoin eats the world, ensuring continued access to the network will be more valuable than maintaining X number of bitcoin. It's deflationary, so purchasing power increases as number of coins go down. Can enough humans grok this? I hope so.

2023-08-01 17:25:03

Need to create algo called "Finding the smart people."

2023-08-01 02:53:03

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It's the porn accounts someone is following. Global is pretty thick with it tonight but the same stuff was in network. Thought these accounts were new, and that no one would follow them, but apparently not.

2023-08-01 02:03:10

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It doesn't seem to work as well as you'd think. Maybe a little better than just straight global, but still enough junk to make me think, how is this getting in this feed?

2023-07-31 00:02:29

Where is the secret market for incandescent light bulbs? #grownostr

2023-07-29 00:30:33

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Bullshit. Even the f'd up dictionaries where they pretend fetuses are a clump of cells- they are still alive.

2023-07-29 00:18:16

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it's murder.

2023-07-28 23:09:44

This actor/writer strike- sure, probably the streaming services stiffed them. But, while they are doing this, well, my Mom hasn't watched American stuff for a while. She went for Asian stuff- mostly Korean, but she'll watch anything good.
So, how do we start feeding good stuff into the distribution channels? Hollywood can't write a good show to save it's life. The terms may be bad for them, but they haven't delivered anything good for a while. We could beat them. Probably, we'll just see more foreign stuff on our streaming services, but if we want good English language stuff, we need to figure out how to make and distribute it.

2023-07-28 17:15:49

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No one needs to be religous to see your statement is illogical. Anyone capable of constructing a game could.

2023-07-28 00:49:50

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He started a file for you because he's trying to figure out you. Not anything else. It's just you. You can't understand things. He's trying to figure out how to help you understand.
Zero free will is roughly equivalent to what we humans call boring for God.
Some humans with free will is like a tiny little bit less boring, because we usually fail to take advantage of free will and just fall into our desires, so we are mostly just predictable, but there's this tiny possibility we don't.
Not that we should anthropomorphize but maybe it helps you.

2023-07-28 00:36:47

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Bull. Your mom's preacher just thought you were a little shit, and didn't want to say it.

2023-07-25 01:20:17

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Please eat animal products. Please return various ecological niches to health by returning the animals to their appropriate place. Please stop pretending monocrop ag could possibly be any good for the planet or for the people.

2023-07-25 00:33:24

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This is one of Elon's pet projects since before paypal. I wonder at the timing- maybe he's planning to use FedNow. Based on the dates, I think he may be able to fight for X, should Microsoft try to push him around.

2023-07-25 00:28:09

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When it is cold, it should be meat flavored jello.

2023-07-24 23:37:22

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Turns out shutting the browser down completely and then going back to primal worked.

2023-07-24 23:36:20

In an abstract sense, what we need from AI is truthful patterns of information, preferably ones that aren't intuitive. Then we create the hypotheses and run the experiments. AI is unlikely to ever be good at hypothesis generation. It can show the patterns, and perhaps even run the tests, but that spark of innovation shall remain human.

2023-07-24 23:30:19

Primal.net says its trying to connect me to my relays. Then I go looking for what my relays are and I don't see the setting. But I'm getting notes, just can't post.

2023-07-24 21:00:18

Well X means Elon is going to do what he said he'd do. Also probably means more folks will migrate over here as it becomes obvious. Assuming enough people know the risk/benefits of each model.

2023-07-23 02:40:56

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There's no doubt I should live a little. But if we are talking movies, it is a pretty safe bet I should watch ones not from America. Doesn't mean they'll be great, but I won't have to deal with our particular kind of propaganda.

2023-07-22 02:59:52

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Just save your money. Maybe buy a few sats.

2023-07-19 23:14:07

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I guess it depends on what you call screaming vocals, but there's a certain point at which I'd prefer a distinction between it and metal. There are a lot of potentially awesome songs (often from Japan) that got wrecked because of a particular type of screaming. You could have been epic, but you went for vocals that remind me of a toddler's screaming fit...

2023-07-19 22:59:23

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People think they are going to get away with stuff, but not smart enough to realize looking guilty like that is going to make it worse.

2023-07-19 22:53:24

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Try searching #grownostr
You'll understand why if you stick around awhile, but there is more content on here- even bitcoiners talk about other stuff.

2023-07-19 22:36:38

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Merdellow@iris.to has the car content here on nostr. I think he has done a few notes about kit cars being right for bitcoiners.

2023-07-19 17:05:37

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It's not because it's sci-fi. It's because the largely socialist political assumption are so obviously wrong now. Also, American entertainment has been devolving, not evolving. Things have gotten worse, not better.

2023-07-19 16:28:10

Streaming services came along just in time to hide the decline in the ability to produce quality dvds. They come from the vendors scratched up and discolored.

2023-07-19 15:54:35

I used to like Babylon 5, but now so many of the assumptions in the script obviously lead to clown world that it's impossible to enjoy.

2023-07-19 10:50:57

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Probably a lot of laws would need to be changed. But the fed could start buying bitcoin now I think. Still might be a fight, but an easier one.

2023-07-18 23:53:57

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I just realized I forgot to drop the link. You may need to scroll down- the website was rendering oddly.
https://voxday.net/2023/07/18/the-war-comes-to-the-usa/

2023-07-18 23:33:34

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Color revolution. We live in a world where, assuming you have any idea of what democracy is- you would have to reform the institutions. But attempt to reform them and suddenly you are eeeeeble nazi tyrant, and democracy is somehow dying. Israel has been very socialist from the start, and I'm not like a fan of Netanyahu or anything, but I can see similarities between this and some of the stuff that needs to be done here in the U.S., just so we can survive and have some peace, let alone whatever democracy we may or may not have left.

2023-07-18 23:20:37

Vox Day is suggesting the Russian or Chinese may have blown up a Dow Chemical plant to keep U.S./Nato from being able to make more munitions.

2023-07-18 23:06:58

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Perhaps some eagle eyed expert could point out the error of my ways, but in terms of successfully eating, it worked quite well.
I've had other weird cramping experiences with other muscles, so I'm inclined to think it's my body.

2023-07-18 22:50:09

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Last time I tried, I found I could use chop sticks pretty well, but then some of the muscles in my hand started cramping. Maybe my electrolytes were just out of whack or something. Or I should keep at it and build those little muscles up.

2023-07-18 21:10:43

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Does this mean they change strategy? They've been sticking to Eastern Ukraine. But if negotiations seem impossible, they may go West to get it over with.

2023-07-18 18:45:34

I'd like to see some research on the countries that have managed to thwart color revolutions. What actually worked. Listening to podcast with Belarus "journalist". Not saying their gov is great, but she's tripping all my alarms.

2023-07-18 02:55:32

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Be careful. We don't know how many strains are in kombucha. I used to think it was awesome, but I'm ambivalent now. May have hurt me.

2023-07-17 16:30:45

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Then there needs to be deviations from the standard SRS model- trails to see if it can be improved. Generating hypotheses based off of patterns and then testing.
It would be helpful if, for instance, the program could recognize two concepts you regularly confuse with one another, and then starts presenting them in a way that allows you to differientiate.

2023-07-17 16:15:05

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I'm guessing alot can be done locally, since we have a simple (markov blanket?) predictive situation. Essentially, do you remember the card when you are supposed to? Are there ones you beat the curve on or ones you consistently fail at?

2023-07-16 19:24:02

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I guess they keep doing this because it works for a certain segment of the voting population, but it is beyond boring to me now.
They did this to Ron Paul- really any outsider whose numbers tick up a little. Like that black guy who ran for something (probably mayor somewhere) and got called the black face of white supremacy.
Supposedly (Vox Day) the 1st mention of 'racism' was from some progressive bureaucrat who was all in on civilization for everyone- but of course that meant stuff like European education for everyone. So when a few Native Americans said they didn't want that- they wanted to live like their ancestors did- That was the racism.
It makes a lot more sense now- get on board with what they think is the progressive way forward or they will call you racist. Has nothing to do with what you think of other races- just what you think of their ridiculous plans.

2023-07-16 18:21:20

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The move away from saturated fat led to slower and slower metabolism. Brad Marshall talks about this stuff alot: https://youtu.be/ZNhtHp9NcIA

2023-07-14 00:25:16

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So the trick is to figure out what leads to better understanding. Beat the curve of forgetting, and go beyond that. Perhaps, several iterations later, it's no longer just a plugin for Anki, but a completely different program. For my purposes, I could see queuing a lot of vocab and perhaps grammar before watching a particular video, so that my understanding of Japanese in that particular video would be at a level where a lot of it would click.

2023-07-14 00:14:28

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Nostr solves the identity issue. Lightning helps solve the cost issue. But the potential users all have value- their cards that they've been trying to learn. You get a lot of info about what they've been doing, but specific to attempting to learn.
So the AI's job is to figure out what helps us learn faster. The spaced repetition stuff isn't good enough- we are often just doing that in the hope that we can keep the stuff around in our memory long enough to develop a stronger cognitive understanding.

2023-07-14 00:02:33

I don't know how well this will work, but here is my idea:
A lot of people try to learn using Anki. This is spaced-repetition flash card program. Write a plugin- the program doesn't quite work as it should, so it needs better accuracy re the curve of forgetting.
But that's just the basics. With Anki, you have the users, and you have the database of cards. Your AI system can train on the data. For what purpose?
To help humans get smarter.

2023-07-10 23:00:07

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Since it can get me so mad, I don't want to watch it. Back on twitter, I had to stop following Cernovich, because he'd post so much abuse related tweets. I don't know if he still does it, but at the time I realized I probably need to keep distance. The chance to commit righteous mayhem is rare, and even then it probably makes more sense to come up with a coherent strategy.
But I do hope the film gets more people realizing what's going on, and that the media's attempt at smearing it fails.

2023-07-10 22:42:22

Lending in bitcoin. Since only 21 million will be made, and some of it will be lost, wouldn't it made sense to lend with regard to buying power? Target, say 5% increase in buying power, not specific amount of bitcoin. If bitcoin goes up, borrower has to return less. But if bitcoin goes down, borrower has to return more. Bootstrap the bitcoin economy, but there's hedging and a return for the lender. Seems like it would be better for the lender than those old coin fountains from back in the day.

2023-07-10 16:47:21

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I am not wrong in the way you think I am. Just found out stearoylethanolamide is an endocannabinoid made from stearic acid- saturated fat! So not all are made from AA. So some should be less inflammatory. But it still should makes sense to look at the ones marijuana delivers to see how many are inflammatory. The seed oil story shows we should take caution with this pathway.

2023-07-09 21:05:29

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Is it any good? I'd probably not buy, thinking it is too sweet.

2023-07-09 16:54:59

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Not really, but when the left gets a hold of something, they go to extremes. MMT was a bunch of observations based on accounting- it turns out a lot of stuff mainstream economists tells us don't work because they just ignore how the money must flow. So there are good insights in it, but then it gets warped because the activist types can't do accounting and just want to print money for everything.

2023-07-08 23:37:44

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The body can convert linoleic acid into arachidonic acid, so all the seed oil eaters probably have more than us sane animal product eaters.
The fact that the endocannabinoid system is part of this inflammatory pathway is the one thing that recently made me wonder if marijuana is as safe as I thought it was.
This could be like an addictive situation, except the addiction is largely inside the body- the seed oil junkie needs ever larger amounts of endocannabinoids to feel good, while the animal product eater has a well balanced system and can't understand what the fuss is about.
Inflammation is necessary to heal, so a little is good, but it must resolve quickly. But whether its seed oils or marijuana, the behavior pattern seems to be chronic, which leads to constant, unresolved inflammation.
So, yeah, I'm still not sure about this, and I like the sentiment in the video. But the logic, based on what I know, point in the direction I mentioned.

2023-07-08 03:12:09

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Nah, you are reading too much in to my response and personalizing it. TDS is obvious among democrats and a lot of mainstream republicans- like Paul Ryan saying anybody but Trump. But those anybodies aren't anyone likely to do better than Trump. They won't provide a valid candidate let alone one good at governance.
A valid candidate by the way, is one who could swear to uphold the constitution without obviously lying due to a whole bunch of unconstitutional promises he's already made.

2023-07-08 02:37:49

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Yes. I noticed he leans heavily on experts back when the fires in California were going. In that case it was mostly a good thing. When he adopted some of their language (I think it was the term 'sweeping') our low iq journalists started making fun of him.
Given the tragic nature of American politics though, no one better can get near a nomination.

2023-07-08 01:57:19

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Considering the derangement syndrome, it is not so much that he's part of the plan, but that he's likely to fall for Fauci type 'experts' who can take advantage and implement more extreme crap.

2023-07-07 18:33:24

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Don't they think this right now?

2023-07-07 03:10:22

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This could be an attack on nostr to demonize it. I don't know. I'm sure some idiots can't help but share, but I also know this is an easy way to smear the network. There are corporate/government trolls out there.

2023-07-07 02:44:43

It was a possum. It may be hurt. Theoretically I could grab it, but I don't want to get bit. Also don't want it to move further away, especially if it is going to die or something. I'm going to have to get some gear. I hope they are like cats where they are calm if you can grab them by the scuff of their neck.

2023-07-06 12:50:37

The conspiracy to deprive me of sleep culminated in guys cutting the grass next door at 7:30am. Probably should have gone to the gym, but I've only had like 3hrs of sleep after that possum or whatever tried to invade my home.

2023-07-06 06:09:43

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At most they'd be like little bubbles in a much larger system. Most of the energy is coming from the sun.

2023-07-06 04:10:26

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Probably journalist types wanting their own echo chamber. Look at how few of them bothered to look at wikileaks. They don't care about the things we care about.

2023-07-06 03:21:08

Something that seemed ridiculously large seemed to think getting under my tub was a good idea. It sounded like it had a fight with something else, which is what alerted me to it's existence. I only had a few things on hand to attempt to dissuade it- wood vinegar, peppermint oil, banging on various parts of my house to try and get it to go away.
What seemed to work though- I took a shower. This was in part, inspired by the dastardly creature, because I certainly worked up a sweat trying to get it to leave. It made a sort of hissing noise and sounded dangerous, but after the shower, I haven't heard that sound again- even though I tried banging again.
It either left, or decided to shut up. Hopefully, it didn't have fleas or anything contagious.
#grownostr

2023-07-04 23:15:18

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I would look at it like being a curator. You bring something to the attention of people who wouldn't know about it otherwise.
But, of course, it'd be nice to give back to the original creator, so that more cool stuff gets created. This is why a lot of thought was given to being able to split lightning payments with various creators in the podcasting 2.0 world. Perhaps some of that will come to zaps one day. It is almost necessary in a sense, because everybody involved in the infrastructure needs a cut so the system can continue to run.
If it's something freely available on the internet, you haven't broken any laws. You'd have to break the law first, like maybe pirating something and then posting it here. The mea culpa of me not actually being a lawyer- and who knows what they can decide is illegal when they are out to get you- applies here.

2023-07-01 02:51:26

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They are getting comments out of fountain and into mastodon. I see stuff getting posted here from mastodon, so I figure what you want is possible. Not sure how many steps though.
https://fountain.fm/episode/dSlJ8BErtfAck9WheYJu

2023-06-28 16:03:02

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I can't remember how fountain does theirs, but in general there's a podcast 2.0 attempt to get cross app comments off the ground, which predates nostr. @npub1qx6…qf4d would know how feasible your request is.

2023-06-28 01:26:10

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Nah. Look at bio-available nutrients per gram of the food. Then you will see the meat is better. The fat is more iffy because it often depends on what the animal ate. But the animal fat tends to be more saturated, so less inflammatory O-6. I'm not saying it's a fiat miracle, but it's a miracle in comparison.

2023-06-27 23:08:24

If the rise of these mercenary private armies continues, and bitcoin becomes widely regarded as the best money, would there be a clientele shift? Would these private armies cease to contract with nations that pay them in rapidly devalued currency and contract with those who can pay them in bitcoin instead?
Of course, historically, these periods in which mercenaries held great sway were somewhat chaotic. But in a sense, it is probably an intermediary step to a new re-ordering. The Westphalian project is falling apart. The only people who think they know what the new order will look like are the narcissistic globalists who think they can construct it to be what they want it to be.

2023-06-26 02:47:54

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This client doesn't have a bookmark button so I reply so I can find this again.

2023-06-23 22:27:35

If you are going to a doctor, and you can stand behind them as they fool with the computer, do so. The software is crap and too many people access it, resulting in errors. Just looking over their shoulder should result in you thinking this crap should be banned.

2023-06-22 14:03:08

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It'd be fun to watch billionaires fight, but I bet the companies involved wouldn't let it happen. Legal departments, things like key man insurance, etc... Pity corporations are so stuffy. Such a fight could even be useful for them.