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Last Notes

2024-11-19 13:06:09

This time it's different talking to people about the orange coin. It's no longer dismissed as a get-rich-quick scheme. It's being considered as a safety, just-in-case asset.
This talk of war is really unsettling. People can feel the unease.
I don't like this new selling point

2024-11-18 21:26:28

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Thank you, will look...

2024-11-17 16:18:37

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As far as I remember the last I looked at it, Toyota has a lot of debt, and very low margins. They make dozens of different models.
Whereas Tesla has a cash pile, makes only 5 models, which are platforms for its software sales which have high margin.

2024-11-17 15:44:47

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That's a great point. It's all about perspective.
I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that someone is paying 1/3 of todays value of the share to buy the share in the future.
Rough estimate is that max leverage with this approach would be limited to (100 *share price today)/premium. Or around 2.5X leverage.
I wonder at what point this could be considered "seriously degen".
Right now the mood is "give me 2.5x or bust".
And all these poker games drive up the demand for the poker chips.

2024-11-17 01:50:54

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I was racking my head for things I collect and realized maybe that's why I drive a now 23 year old vehicle. each year it's more rare and fewer exist.

2024-11-15 00:54:33

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This tftc video that I watched this morning about how wealthy families in England kept their land for a 1000 years talks about this idea of local charity (own your land and support help folks in your community ) versus sending money abroad somewhere and creating weird markets in other economies (Gates altruism style, mosquito nets in Africa that end up as fishing nets).
I'm sorry, Gates, I have used windows many years so I thank him for that.

2024-11-14 14:15:45

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ok, now i'm really late to the market. sounds like catching a falling knife to have kids now.
so what's the purpose then if one is not a grandparent, for life beyond this? am i just a bump on a log?
what are spinsters and bachelors supposed to do for society

2024-11-14 14:10:38

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hah, and some of us are 30s and feel more like 40s...
so by the time i'm in 40s with no kid energy to arrest my decline into a grumpy old man, it's going to be a quick slide into becoming a ghost.
I will be a happy haunt tho

2024-11-12 12:48:45

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with houses in shrinking economic areas, families often let them dilapidate slowly instead of sell them on the market for low prices or let a poor family rent there who might wreck it.
so instead of supply reducing prices, the supply of "livable" (esp mortgageable) houses just shrinks, maintaining the high housing prices.
case in point: a family whose mobile home flooded in the Hurricane Helene is still living in the church area, even though there are many tumble-down houses in the neighborhood that they could probably live in. But nobody wants to rent to them bc they have a history of drug use, etc. but that's the typical family that needs houses in shrinking economic areas.
on a positive note, they have fulfilled lifelong church attendance goals in just a few months!

2024-11-10 12:07:56

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2 snakes playing volleyball

2024-11-09 13:17:14

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i didn't know there was an answer to the question, but you found it! this may also inform my incessant bothering people about bitcoin.
it's the global consciousness. i'm here to answer questions, but not try to force them to ask them
wow, i see you have mushrooms, smokes, meets, cheeses and fiber pills all in your name! impressive tech skills right there

2024-11-09 02:16:24

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The rising plumes of smoke are transforming into a monster that's going to rampage through the city

2024-11-08 11:10:48

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another metric i find interesting is
the Median home price/Median salary
i just asked Gemini this morning, and here are some values i remember off the top of my head from the hot 2021 market
https://image.nostr.build/ec8f0865f5d81cd55745911efc6dce6f362c23a6ed67ff26783013e4c299580b.jpg
Austin, TX, being close (8.6) versus to water-bound Seattle (9) was always mind-boggling to me.
these ratios have now dropped and i can only see that happening more in the future.

2024-11-07 10:54:58

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i always heard the adage home price = 2X annual salary of the people who life there. I suppose with really low interest rates that could go up to 3X.
someone told me 6X at one point in 2020!
i just don't see where all the people who can afford such houses are coming from. so IMO, the house prices in most places will all have to fall relative to median income.

2024-11-05 15:12:06

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Ahahaha, yeah I'm surrounded by Harris signs. However, the lack in of signs at 60%of the houses speaks even louder IMO

2024-11-05 02:37:36

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it's going to take a lot of turbulence to wake up that pup

2024-11-04 22:54:52

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So you don't have to waste time, Curt introduces himself as "incorrigible" and then asks" what's that mean.
Maria replies: " I believe that means you want to be treated like a boy"

2024-11-03 12:26:05

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do cats display jealousy of what you're doing?
the dog will nose the laptop right out of my lap when he thinks i've had too much screen time.

2024-11-03 12:03:37

going for 6.5 BTC:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/0-Smith-Point-Rd-Reedville-VA-22539/2105733490_zpid/
50 BTC
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/19700-Mulberry-Fields-Rd-Leonardtown-MD-20650/37590487_zpid/

2024-11-02 23:06:23

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i'm booking a ticket to El Salvador if anything fishy happens.
i only have 4 ramen packets in the cupboard, and at least in El Salvador there are chickens laying eggs in the jungle.
in case the supply chains stop working for some reason. i'm hoping that will only happen in January so there may be time to pack up some more stuff.

2024-11-01 20:18:02

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I did fall for a bottle of cider at the grocery store because it reminded me of tasting fresh cider on a farm. Someone said beer tastes better out of kegs than bottles, and I'm now very curious about that.

2024-11-01 13:01:27

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what if God is just faking it til he makes it

2024-10-31 12:01:27

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Looks so cool. I love this type of island
Reminds me of Hawaii. There's always a view of either sea or mountains

2024-10-30 18:55:53

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Yes, I think I heard him describing the free banking time period and his excitement that Bitcoin might bring that back in one of Cathie's In The Know podcasts.
And Cathie always mentions how the telegraph, auto, light etc came about during that era.

2024-10-30 17:58:24

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"gilded age" sounds like Art Laffer is getting to Trump.
It's unreal to see the "gilded age" moniker being programmed to become the new "project 2025" of whatever fear words

2024-10-30 15:15:15

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The responses to this are so funny
https://image.nostr.build/ab79508f9183756a2ba94c9d16be5c665175e4b8fbff78d975a548a8b2760fec.jpg

2024-10-30 15:09:43

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A couple months ago I installed Cinnamon Linux.
So today my HP elitebook stopped working. it's as if it's out of battery and it doesn't even know what wall electricity is.

2024-10-30 13:00:25

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Sounds like enough for all of us... Heading that way now...

2024-10-28 22:34:27

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Good perspective

2024-10-26 14:02:04

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Is it Jif or Jiffy?
This is one of those things that the matrix glitched on

2024-10-25 18:01:15

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It would seem that lady on the ayahuasca journey would probably agree.
i would love to hear women talking about men like this, haha. Their opinion how we should train our sex drives.
as a man, i would say i find the pill horrifying. i don't think i would be comfortable knowing my woman partner was taking a pill. it was just that we were trained to think pharmaceutical stuff was 100% healthy and normal for so many years. condoms seem so ungratifying as well.
is it possible for couples to plan it a couple times a month where they don't need condoms and also don't get pregnant or do the cycles just not line up at all like that?
Like do women who are on the part of the cycle when they Won't get pregnant feel like having sex at all?
because my brilliant idea right now is , why don't the women train their men to hold off until those days. it might mean a lot less sex though...however more productivity at work/exercise...
not sure!

2024-10-24 19:01:20

omg, i can't take the cuteness of gen z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKf4epWXoPY

2024-10-24 11:51:44

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hehe, snowjobs, i had to look that one up. i like that a plant is just pulling snowjobs on people.
i don't know what i think about ayahuasca. I personally wouldn't seek it out.
however, i found it interesting to see what the gal thought about on her "journey". i would assume she probably thinks about relationships quite a bit in real life, and it comes out more strongly in as if in a dream.
It's really anodyne to recognize "the power of 2 sexes, etc" but I'm kinda in the same boat as a mid-thirties millennial with less exposure to children than previous generations. so w
so i had as similar "aha" moment and respect for man+woman and child dynamic after hanging out with my brother's young family. kids seem to be truth-seeking agents.

2024-10-24 02:07:58

ayahuasca ...
i like taking armchair psychedelic journeys, and this gal came across youtube as a old soul tomboy that reminds me of a friend that I grew up with. I found some of her observations about the 2 sexes interesting on her 2nd night.
some possibly misquoted quotes
>the earth is alive...beautiful loving mother, and pissed!
>galactic beings peering at earth and wondering at our state of evolution
>the internet is a divine place, sacred. it's extremely powerful because we are able to connect one another around the world
>but the new earth is "in person"
>food industry, movie industry, are poisoning us
> relationships are sexually manipulated through porn, manipulating through our most sacred...
>the shift may take 400 years!
>woman and men are so different but we are told we are the same
>stop fighting our natural natures (woman embrace feminine, healing, men masculine leadership
>powerful polarity i was feeling,
>explore relationships, explore a partner that has a similar vision as you do because that's how humans were designed
>personal business goals for sharing this message
>more people are awakening every single day
-----------2nd night went into her personal human experience
>ayahuasca, showing her the pain of wearing cosmetics, masks
>womb love! deep love flooding over her for her womb.
>earth is a womb, women to be powerful manifestors from their womb
>deep love of
>harmful harnessing of sacred energy from things like porn industry misusing the creational energy which is here to birth reality, to birth humanity
>it is our most potent force and it is our most hikacked force (sexual)
>when women start connecting to their wombs, that's when the earth will heal
>beauty of motherhood, divine unity, divine balance of a relationship and both not taking on the same roles
>the one sentence she left with from ceremony "I want to be a woman"
https://youtu.be/ciVhGZCFy3w

2024-10-19 20:13:16

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Saved to the "get off my couch and clean house" playlist

2024-10-19 12:52:05

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i'd like to think i'm here 'cause i'm smart...and it had nothing to do with "all the women are strong and all the men are good looking (Garrison Keilor)" vibe

2024-10-18 12:29:21

So, after reading the last few chapters of the Book of Judges, It starts going off the rails after Samson.
By the end of Judges, there is a whackadoodle story of man and his "concubine" visiting a city in the land of the tribe of Benjamin. At night, there are men from the city that knock on the door and call for the man to come outside to presumably have sex with them. The man doesn't go out but sends his "concubine" out.
She ends up dead on the street in the morning, and the husband chops her in pieces and sends her out among the "Tribes of Israel".
The rest of the tribes get together, sack the city and kill much of "Benjamin".
Then when they realize that no one will survive from Benjamin, and no one will allow their daughters to marry into the tribe of Benjamin, they decide to go invade yet another city of men who had skipped out on the killing campaign, and kill those men, and give the women to the remaining men of Benjamin.
I might be summarizing some of this incorrectly. The general thought is: it was bloody. It sounds like a lot of genetic culling. Humans being treated like herds of animals.
I kinda just want to walk away from the whole story and say, these people and this religion have nothing to do with me.
It was the first time that I had second thoughts about trying to be "follower of Jesus" whose story came from this story.
It also gives me second thoughts on the whole genetic heritage thing.
There have been couple times in as I age into my thirties where I have the uncomfortable feeling like I have offended my ancestors.
part of me is like, modern humans are so far removed from these stories of bloodthirsty genetic culling.
part of me thinks, maybe bloodshed, revenge, honor is actually more human than peace and prosperity.
or maybe it's just the stories about bloodshed and honor survive.
either way, it's gory.
Thankfully, Ruth is up next and from the first chapter, I feel like I can hear grasshoppers in farm fields as Ruth picks up some grain that harvesters left behind.

2024-10-17 12:14:24

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7-eleven's are terrifying. i feel sorry for anyone who owns them in cities.
and public libraries in big cities.
I don't know if the librarians signed up for "you will be front line to humanity falling from 1st world to 3rd world".

2024-10-13 18:08:55

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So I'm thinking a long the lines of good fiction being miraculous and of God/tao/Jesus...
Do you have any particular authors as aspirations?
I don't know if these authors were leaning into "God" to write, but they are my favorite:
P.G. Wodehouse
Jane Austin
Emile Zola (including just to be fancy, I only read "La Bete Humaine")
And of course Rowland
So if I could churn out anything that looks like theirs, I'd settle for that. 😀
I think for me the key is to get out in the world more and meet more characters. I really love people I meet and I can see a lot of humor in their characters.
Like Mleku, for example. It sounds like he has to locate the key before some disk defragmenter (that he may have even programmed himself) finds it and churns it up.
But he is running around juggling subjects like satellite bombs and Tao. Will he find the key only to lose it again?
I'm not joking by the way, I hope you find the key.

2024-10-13 17:11:34

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I am trying to run some things that I think are miraculous thru the proof. Is it implied that the "unobserved realities" may be #god?

2024-10-13 16:01:44

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ahh, ok. this answers a question I had about what is HD. I had a problem a few months back when reinstalling linux and forgetting to back up wallet files. I'm hoping you get through this quickly.

2024-10-13 15:52:27

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this sounds like a geometric proof. i had to reread a couple times... i think i understand, but it's elusive ! haha

2024-10-12 19:53:59

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that is a space age dock!

2024-10-12 17:09:26

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to be fair, it does say that the incompetence goes a little deeper in the last paragraph:
"Despite being purchased in 2019 for over $100 million NZD, the Royal New Zealand Navy decided not to purchase a policy to cover the HMNZS Manawanui with replacement insurance. That decision on top of the navy purchasing the vessel from Norway even though it was already 20 years old at the time of its acquisition clearly shows that incompetence in the leadership of New Zealand's military is not exclusive to woman. "

2024-10-11 17:07:06

Starting in a new direction, I have the choice:
Walk or run
I'm currently sitting typing this. Who am I fooling

2024-10-11 15:23:30

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The only way to not vote for this is to leave the country and take all assets out of it

2024-10-11 13:37:40

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reminds me of this:
https://www.systra.com/uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2023/11/lyon-tram-1352x901.jpeg

2024-10-11 13:36:26

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* "taking the ing lot" out of "parking lot".
https://image.nostr.build/f85742af43dc6b2addf0ad1052c2d9504846600341ebf091e78c22975aea34f1.jpg

2024-10-11 13:30:26

Visions de l'utopie
I'm so happy that robotaxis may take the "ing" out of "parking lot".
https://youtu.be/6v6dbxPlsXs?t=4148

2024-10-11 01:17:26

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so we might just be sentenced to stay on a planet where things get better and better for the most part.

2024-10-11 01:13:45

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i'm just impressed when a politician can talk off the cuff. maybe it's a craving for an older generation who were better communicators than I am.
About the pole shift, I mentioned it to someone who is in the know, and he told me this:
Genesis 9:11-13 (NIV):
11 "I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."
12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
13 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth."
So, he is not worried about pole shift. I tried to press him on "well maybe it's just a promise for in between the cycles (as in each cycle is a new start and finish). but he seemed doubtful, and just repeated this .
however, if it had to happen twice as the poet says... ice would be nice.
He also mentioned this promise:
Genesis 8:22 (NIV):
"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease."

2024-10-09 12:00:43

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this is some related stuff that I found in the Intro to "City of God" yesterday from 300s A.D. The author is kinda giving a resume of what Augustine was writing about:
from G.R Evans' Introduction to "City of God" by Saint Augustine
Augustine needed to take the 'old gods' seriously if he was to win over their adherents. He catches himself up at one point (describing the absurd behaviour of the gods at the time of the birth of Aeneas, a story he and his educated readers would be familiar with from their school- boy reading of Virgil's Aeneid (Civ. 11L3)), and says, 'perhaps I may be thought to be laughing at those fables, and not treating so weighty a matter with proper seriousness'. Augustine has a difficult path to tread when it comes to the account he gives of the relations of human beings with the spirits both he and the pagans believed to be crowding invisibly about them and extremely interested in human doings. The gods exist. They are only too real. It mistaken by the pagans for gods. They are merely 'supposed gods', not in the sense that they do not exist but in the sense that they are full of trickery and deceit (Civ. 17.2). And they particularly wish to deceive human beings so as to tempt them away from the love of God and the fellowship of the true fellow-citizens of the City of God.
Augustine is reassuring that there is nothing to fear from the society of the good spirits, the angels. He calls the angels 'gods' (Civ. 1x.23; LE XL1), which seems to mean no more than that they are supernatural beings. The only matter for regret there is that 'they do not mix with us on the same familiar footing as do men', which is one of the respects in which our sinful condition in this life deprives us of a joy proper to the citizenship we share with them (Civ. x1x.9). Yet Satan is quite capable of pretending to be an angel. The faithful must be on their guard (Cιν. Χ1Χ.9).
Human beings are a distinct creation from the angels. They have bodies as well as souls. In Civ. X11.22 Augustine is anxious to show that the fall of the angels did not cause God to make a change in his pro- jected design for the universe. He suggests that God was following his eternal plan when he 'created man's nature as a kind of mean between angels and beasts', with the intention (a borrowed hermetic idea) that if he obeyed his Creator, man should 'pass over into the fellowship of the angels, but if he did not he should 'live like the beasts, under sentence of death', and 'the slave of his desires', and when he died suffer 'eternal punishment' (Civ. X11.22).

2024-10-08 11:55:05

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i was introduced to "trunk shows" recently.
enthusiastic, mostly women artists create enormous quilts of their own designs and show them off out of the trunk of the car in parking lots.
It made me think that we are all destined to create art, after we get to a certain point in life. those same women probably have cans of garden vegetables in the basement, are looking planning their next big purchase of a sewing machine that will sew through leather.
and some of them outlasted their husbands who fell off garage roofs in their retirement.
really one of the best routes to become an artist is to marry a man who can't sit still in retirement.

2024-10-08 01:32:52

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It's hard to find stars that don't have planets

2024-10-08 01:29:38

Black holes everywhere
Breatharians
Zero point energy
Teaching kids to see blindfolded (viper vision)
The universe is a sea of information. The time it takes for change of state to travel across the universe is the same as the time it takes for 1 proton to complete a revolution.
It's like we live in a carpet of black holes and worm holes.
My mind is blown
https://youtu.be/rRgGyfNyXZ0

2024-10-07 16:16:11

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It looks like some are on there for being sexually graphic, depicting racism, and I'm not sure why LOTR gets on there... maybe the right is a little too right sometimes? Or does the left get to ban some books when the right bans some. IDK
I remember Harry Potter was very controversial back in the day for teaching kids "witchcraft". The last time I read it in my mid 20s, I was surprised how Rowling hid a lot of Christianity in a bestseller kids' book.
i liked this comment from someone: "that's what the tall shelves are for in the library"
https://www.hpb.com/hpb-lists/hpb-picks/banned-books?sz=80

2024-10-07 15:33:57

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Tolkien,Twain,Rowling.
I'm ok with Steinbeck on there. Some of these were kinda painful to read.
https://image.nostr.build/7a4077c4f8a09eb9549f4ec547f8b8c4ce98323385d9c45e246c46ee86fbfaa0.jpg

2024-10-07 15:03:10

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I think I'm finally understanding their flywheel concept in real time. $MSTR is now at all time high while Bitcoin is not.
It's like Michael figured out how to row the boat just perfect so when he slides forward to catch the next row, he's getting the tide/wind/current and the boat is farther ahead than just 1:1 BTC ratio.

2024-10-07 14:04:25

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Good choice

2024-10-06 13:20:03

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It also helps to get suggestions from people on Nostr about random songs in Bulgarian that keep the algorithms thinking our taste is so much more sofisticated than what it wants to feed us.

2024-10-05 19:35:53

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U r a swashbuckler

2024-10-05 17:51:14

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The saintly Go version :-D hehehe.
Shitcoin? If it's what the people want!
Some people like stain glass windows.

2024-10-05 17:22:54

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If day = "Saturday" then
Go and play!
Else
Does this option exist if you're not supposed to be doing it
End if
I'm just kidding 😂 I like people who disrespect the weekends/weekday thing.

2024-10-05 01:10:32

The rest October 2024 is going to be great:
2nd "mini" moon
comet "Atlas" -- i love this name
possible super nova
https://youtu.be/vok8DkEi5PU?si=wPfqOTx4CnVNhXio

2024-10-04 19:25:39

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https://www.carolinaarts.com/winstonlink.html

2024-10-04 19:23:10

O. Winston Link
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2024-10-04 10:27:17

Garrison Keillor used to say in his Prairie Home Companion sketches: "where all the women are strong and all the men are good looking". that certainly seems the case in the book of Judges.
Here's a story of a woman with a strong arm and good aim:
9:51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.9:52 And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.9:53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.9:54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A women slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died....9:56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

2024-10-03 13:37:39

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unhelpful conspiratorial comment, but i can't help but think it's due to the fact that there were nothing but Trump signs in yards in that whole region. they were his biggest fans.

2024-10-03 11:04:16

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i learned some things from your articles on wikistr! it's very cool that the whole page slides sideways to related articles, almost like seeing a library shelf with other books beside the one I'm looking for. That's one of my favorite things about libraries are the books that I find on the way to find the one I'm looking for.

2024-10-02 15:33:33

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So if I could apply these theories to the question "will Tesla be able to offer robotaxi"
What would your thought be? Will the cars be like a donut making machine. 99 out of 100 donuts are perfect but there is still a person at Krispy Kreme who is taking out the mangled donut.
Or will it just be able to psychically navigate everything that life throws at it.
Or will there be drone drivers available to take over remotely thru difficult locations?
How much consciousness input is needed for AI to self drive.

2024-10-02 15:29:19

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I personally like your first option, but I have no idea why I have the preference.

2024-10-02 14:50:38

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The prologue and the epilogue of this book are very cute, but they hide some complicated mathematical proofs in between.

2024-10-02 14:45:37

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"organizes backwards from present" -- I like that.
Penrose does say "consciousness...is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known."
He does talk about consciousness in monkeys and dolphins so I would have to go back and read some gaps to see if he suggests animal consciousness is also part of the totality that is consciousness

2024-10-02 14:38:29

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And then there are some beachball type star shapes that almost have 5-fold symmetry. Not sure what the connection here is with AI.
He does state that it appears nature is not just optimizing for the individual atomic parts, but for the larger crystalline structures.
https://image.nostr.build/2185ba4d1ffbf126285525a67f4e27121085c931ca01cdf1b7b33e6386920325.jpg

2024-10-02 14:29:54

"Could a universe exist without any conscious inhabitants whatever? (Emperor's New Mind, Penrose)"
I skipped through all the math of the book to a section called "anthropic principle"
Apparently there is a strong and weak anthropic principle similar to strong and weak AI.
And then "strong determinism" which means "the entire history of the universe is fixed ...for all time."
And then Penrose quotes Einstein who wondered, "What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all!"

2024-10-02 12:05:30

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Consumerism/Empire
"The appetite of the World-Market grew with what it fed on: the countries within the ring of ‘civilisation’ (that is, organised misery) were glutted with the abortions of the market, and force and fraud were used unsparingly to ‘open up’ countries outside that pale. This process of ‘opening up’ is a strange one to those who have read the professions of the men of that period and do not understand their practice; and perhaps shows us at its worst the great vice of the nineteenth century, the use of hypocrisy and cant to evade the responsibility of vicarious ferocity. When the civilised World-Market coveted a country not yet in its clutches, some transparent pretext was found—the suppression of a slavery different from and not so cruel as that of commerce; the pushing of a religion no longer believed in by its promoters; the ‘rescue’ of some desperado or homicidal madman whose misdeeds had got him into trouble amongst the natives of the ‘barbarous’ country—any stick, in short, which would beat the dog at all. Then some bold, unprincipled, ignorant adventurer was found (no difficult task in the days of competition), and he was bribed to ‘create a market’ by breaking up whatever traditional society there might be in the doomed country, and by destroying whatever leisure or pleasure he found there. He forced wares on the natives which they did not want, and took their natural products in ‘exchange,’ as this form of robbery was called, and thereby he ‘created new wants,’ to supply which (that is, to be allowed to live by their new masters) the hapless, helpless people had to sell themselves into the slavery of hopeless toil so that they might have something wherewith to purchase the nullities of ‘civilisation.’"

2024-10-02 12:04:06

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AI?
" the labour-saving machines? Yes, they were made to ‘save labour’ (or, to speak more plainly, the lives of men) on one piece of work in order that it might be expended—I will say wasted—on another, probably useless, piece of work. "

2024-10-02 12:00:56

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Exodus from cities to countryside:
"People flocked into the country villages, and, so to say, flung themselves upon the freed land like a wild beast upon his prey; and in a very little time the villages of England were more populous than they had been since the fourteenth century, and were still growing fast. Of course, this invasion of the country was awkward to deal with, and would have created much misery, if the folk had still been under the bondage of class monopoly. But as it was, things soon righted themselves. People found out what they were fit for, and gave up attempting to push themselves into occupations in which they must needs fail. "

2024-10-02 11:57:37

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Protest and journalism
“Meantime the town grew no quieter, and business came pretty much to an end. The newspapers—then, as always hitherto, almost entirely in the hands of the masters—clamoured to the Government for repressive measures

2024-10-02 11:55:08

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oh utopia, where the River Thames is so clean that it sparkles.
Always fun to jump in a river or a lake wherever one goes:
"he paddled away quietly as I peeled for my swim. As we went, I looked down on the water, and couldn’t help saying—
'How clear the water is this morning!'"

2024-10-02 11:50:13

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social justice
"Ah," said the old man, pointing to the Museum, "I have read books and papers in there, telling strange stories indeed of the dealings of civilisation (or organised misery) with 'non-civilisation'; from the time when the British Government deliberately sent blankets infected with small-pox as choice gifts to inconvenient tribes of Red-skins, to the time when Africa was infested by a man named Stanley, who—”

2024-10-02 11:45:43

It looks like this is an 1890s dig at the "laptop class"..
From William Morris' "News from Nowhere"
"Though perhaps you do not know that in the nineteenth century Oxford and its less interesting sister Cambridge became definitely commercial. They (and especially Oxford) were the breeding places of a peculiar class of parasites, who called themselves cultivated people; they were indeed cynical enough, as the so-called educated classes of the day generally were; but they affected an exaggeration of cynicism in order that they might be thought knowing and worldly-wise. The rich middle classes (they had no relation with the working classes) treated them with the kind of contemptuous toleration with which a mediæval baron treated his jester; though it must be said that they were by no means so pleasant as the old jesters were, being, in fact, the bores of society. They were laughed at, despised—and paid. Which last was what they aimed at.”

2024-10-01 23:06:43

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I don't mean to be a troll, Liberty Gal, but are you sure about the database stuff? I was just in an liberal urban Texas bookstore and I was shocked at the amount of wall space dedicated to Christian literature. I mean even bookstores who are clearly idealogically left have a serious business interest in Christian lit and Bible sales... Or maybe this is just a Texas urban sample.

2024-10-01 19:24:02

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Oh I'm apologize. I will stop commenting on your posts. Working it out out loud here, don't mean to hurt people.

2024-10-01 18:54:25

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how do you deal with "wolves in sheep clothing" in this utopia.
the biggest trauma i've seen in a fellow man was caused by a very conservative church (men only allowed to teach) whose leadership ended up abusing young girls entrusted to their Sunday schools. that also ended up in gay acting children being bullied by the other children because the leadership condemned the gays of course.
the FBI was sent in to set things right. the balance of things is very hard to get right. not only should there be a separation of church and state, but a separation of religion from church smh !

2024-10-01 11:04:26

Never underestimate the usefulness of a fellow who can figure out when a rolling piece of cake can mean deliverance from enemies:
Judges7:13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.7:14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.

2024-09-30 16:38:15

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Yikes Chris! That's dark. What probability is this

2024-09-30 12:21:23

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Interesting
Just read it. It tells us what to think about, right after talking about how to make requests. almost like a "you create your reality" type deal.
I wonder if other religions have the "ask and you shall receive" type thing.

2024-09-30 11:44:39

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Santa & Jesus might just be scanning Nostr for wishes. It has to help when people have a well defined request.

2024-09-29 23:23:16

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Wish they had showed this in math class

2024-09-29 12:27:06

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Texas respects Sundays. we need a Rainday.

2024-09-28 20:14:19

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Hehehe, and my other favorite:
"Raindrops keep falling on my head..."

2024-09-27 23:26:21

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Yes it's blowing my mind by turning kinetic energy into a potential energy stored in digital information

2024-09-25 11:26:01

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haha, i read the last sentence and it sounds like "you're going to get ground up like tax cattle, but you ARE more than that"
or were...
i'm feeling good, friend, just joshing.

2024-09-25 11:20:28

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i see. So if he were protecting US interests IYO, he would have thrown the kitchen sink at them?
I had to look up "Noriega" on Gemini, and it just refuses to answer any question on "politics" right now. So I'm risking asking obvious questions.
Perhaps Mr. T has more on his mind than El Salvador. It's a literal standoff, liberals holding him at gunpoint, distracting him from holding El Salvador at gunpoint to change their politics.
It's a hold-up, win-win for everyone.

2024-09-25 10:10:22

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If the Trump's administration's tepid reaction was weird, what sort of reaction would have made more sense?

2024-09-24 11:45:49

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so i'm thinking this allegory could also apply to tax credits to farming. I spoke with a farmer recently who mentioned that they pay 30-50% tax on net income. So the incentive is to buy equipment every year that can reduce their tax to zero.
At a certain point, however, they don't need new equipment. And why buy new equipment when the old equipment is perfectly fine.
there is a stiff penalty if they try to build wealth outside of their farm.

2024-09-24 11:16:41

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and now i'm hungry for Muesli brot from Brotmanufaktur Schmidt. while also worrying about their future : D

2024-09-24 01:36:55

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at 27. either die or figure it out the next life

2024-09-23 15:06:08

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My mom: But you can't use bitcoin to buy a car.
me: if they want bitcoin, you can send it to them directly. Otherwise you can sell it as an asset for the currency that they want and give that to them.
It is an asset, AND it is transferable like currency! It has an added superpower.
Imagine trying to buy a car with Gold bars or stock certificates. (find a pawn shop, convert gold to cash).,,
Bitcoin exchanges are 24/7. It really is marvelous that the internet is used to exchange this asset as well as rails for the asset. It's like a perfect global marketplace of energy.