DefiantDandelion

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I’m cursed by curiosity. My education is in #Economics and #Philosophy. I spend time as an #AmateurRadio Operator, #LazyGardener, father, husband, and general hobbyist interests in #Camping, #Photography, Food, #Permaculture, small scale Livestock, AppropriateTechnology, ResilientSystems and design, agile, Ecology, Lean, Zone USDA 6a #Ohio

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2025-01-06 01:55:29

@npub1dgp…ka3a This is rough but I feel like winter dried flowers could be a thing. Unless it’s already a thing, passing to you as your more apt to do something with the idea. This was just some bunches of seeded basil I picked. That i hadn’t done anything with. I think it has attractive qualities and they are fragrant. Thoughts? Other herbs that seed attractively, flowers that could be dried and keep. No watering. Shippable? #grownostr #winterbouquet
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2025-01-03 18:44:06

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2025-01-03 18:42:05

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Was this just a set up to a dick joke.

2025-01-03 01:50:31

It’s time for the new catalog smell kind of season.
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2024-12-29 17:28:55

Checking smoke detectors and other home monitoring systems today. #grownostr #homemaintenance

2024-12-28 12:08:59

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I’m curious:
If it was the specific spike protein target which happened to be toxic that caused these problems and not the mRNA type of vaccine itself, then future mRNA vaccines will be safe when the bird flu comes?
If it was the spike protein, how do you differentiate the problems caused by a synthetically generated spike protein and the one on the actual virus in terms of toxicity. One is a measured dose probably larger than an initial infection of Covid, maybe? but , the other is on a virus which replicates exponentially in the body and the initial dose is variable.

2024-12-25 18:15:31

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Merry Christmas!

2024-12-25 11:54:17

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He should have used Preparation H
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2024-12-25 02:49:01

Mission accomplished #merrychristmas #grownostr
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2024-12-16 20:33:51

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A few different things

2024-12-15 23:52:30

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Hmm 🤔 this feels ripe for someone to really disrupt from the other disciplines. Pool noodle jousting, red rover, sock wrestling, etc. where is this generations Bruce Lee.

2024-12-15 23:25:44

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Just used up my last batch.

2024-12-14 12:44:03

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Make sure that turbo button is clicked in.

2024-12-14 03:30:32

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@npub1dgp…ka3a so nice you made it twice.

2024-12-07 21:12:26

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You mean like a coffee shop, or a library, or a hotel, or a different ISP, or your neighbors WiFi.

2024-12-07 01:59:52

Why this man needs Nostr.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p8SoHBAY354

2024-12-05 09:57:42

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My friend… I looked it up for you. I was hoping you would as I thought it would help you see my point. Germany has a 10% Tariff on US cars. We have a 2.5% Tariff on German cars and 25% Tariff on German trucks. Germany has a 5% Tariff on US Steel, We have a 20% Tariff on German Steel. I’m sure there are other product categories with differential tarrifs. Reflect on this and our discussion. You may yet be able to escape the cognitive dissonance. Good day sir.

2024-12-05 00:25:37

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I’m not your personal assistant. You can dig that up yourself if you want to discuss it. But when a country imposes a tariff on a product of ours like cars, we don’t impose an identical magnitude tariff on an identical product from them. We retaliate with a tariff on a product that will do similar damage or protection. Since the countries specialize in different things an identical tariff won’t have the intended effect you want to have if you are trying to retaliate. Instead we have to retaliate with a tariff on that countries steel or agriculture or chip manufacturing.

2024-12-04 10:54:35

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Threats of violence are used for bargaining and leverage. You are assuming like a good libtard that the other party involved, (Russia) won’t fold to US demands.
I think the above argument is dumb. I think it remains dumb when you replace violence with tarrifs and replace Russia with Russia or China or Mexico or Canada.
It’s dumb because if you are unwilling to do the thing you are threatening then you don’t have a credible threat. So if they don’t capitulate then you are locked into proceeding with your threat or else loose credibility. And it’s easy to find yourself threatening what you never intended to carry out and get yourself trapped into harming yourself with tarrifs that you never wanted.
I would be fine with tarrifs in so far as they would be aligned to a consumption tax regime. But as you said tarrifs are being used as leverage here and if we miscalculate and the other party doesn’t budge, or reciprocates, it starts a trade war of increasing tarrifs in a tit for tat manner just like military action does. And ultimately they move in the same direction, you don’t go to war with a trade partner, you end trade first and when there is no more trade to eliminate then you go to war. I would rather leave mutually beneficial trade on the table rather than walk in the direction of war (For China, Russia, or any other Nation) without a real threat to ourselves.
“Look at all the countries that have tarrifs on the US, why is it ok when they do it but not ok when the US does it back?”
There are already reciprocal tariffs inplace between us and those countries. This is a threat to increase. And just like in war an escalation can lead to either capitulation from the other side or reciprocal escalation.
Reciprocal escalation leaves the populations of both countries poorer for each round of tariffs as the prices rise.
The caution against tariffs isn’t because I don’t think there isn’t a chance they will work, it’s that there is a chance they won’t and then we are locked into the absurd threat by politicians in either country unwilling to backdown and look weak.

2024-12-04 01:47:42

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That context makes sense with their use to fit specific challenges of fertility. I was looking at them from within Europe and Ireland as that’s a better analog for me. But the fact they were used so broadly would suggest they may be broadly successful. Or if you have experience that would suggest this to not be the case I would be very interested to avoid pitfalls.

2024-12-03 13:41:50

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I was looking at their designs and uses, who used them, what regions, looking to see if they would be practical for me. I may try them at some point. I have no practical experience.

2024-12-03 02:37:43

@npub1n0s…k6h0 Changing the font size in the settings of the phone appears to not affect the font of posts that have already been loaded? But does change the font size of names and links. It also doesn’t seem to increase the font of drafting notes when writing a note.
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2024-12-02 19:46:44

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🎯I’ve moved to ocean for the same reason.
At 500W (499) I get about 81 watts per TH/s and at 300W (306) I get about 92 watts per TH/s.
You mean you want to be able to go from 750W to 500W to 300W without the boards dropping their Hash rates to zero before ramping up again?
Or something else?
“Start from scratch”
I just assumed this was a procedure to not burn up the ASICs by 1) stopping hashing, 2) run fans at full speed, 3) set fans according to configuration, 4) then ramp ASICs to Energy consumption configurations, 5) monitor temperature as the ASIC ramps.
If you mean they should be able to overclock and underclock without needing to “tune” to learn the stable set points I guess I don’t know enough to have an opinion. Once the set points are “learned” you can bounce between them without “tuning” with only the procedure above between the set points.

2024-12-02 19:26:52

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Do you have the same opinion on threats of violence as you do on threats of tariffs?
They would both be leverage in action.
It’s not the case for example that they are only idle threats, tariffs were levied by Trump, and they were kept in place by Biden.
Tariffs reduce trade.
I’m concerned about the tit for tat growing beyond what individual actors wanted. I’m concerned about the costs of untangling economies. I’m concerned about the costs of permanently not taking advantage of the trade surpluses both countries get when they trade voluntarily, taking advantage of the differences in skills, labor, and capital to allow specialization. I’m concerned that tariffs will make everything more expensive fundamentally because it’s going to be made in places with higher costs to produce the same thing without an increase in quality. This isn’t inflation in the sense of the money supply, it’s restructuring the fundamental way things are produced and where they are produced. I’m concerned if you don’t trade with your enemies you take one stop out of the road to war with your enemies. I’m concerned if you don’t trade with your allies, they will seek trade agreements with your enemies. I’m not a member of the left.

2024-12-02 19:01:26

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Crap in what sense, yes the hash rates are lower. But the energy consumption per TH/s may not be optimal at the highest hash rate either. In practice the big challenge that I have seen with s9 is that you want to make sure you aren’t just mining dust that will be lost to expensive utxos or never make it out of the pool due to payout thresholds.

2024-12-02 18:50:58

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I went deep into dovecoats a few weeks back.

2024-12-02 17:40:02

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You only need to “break the plane”. Since 1889.

2024-11-30 13:06:00

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I agree with many of the points. It might be interesting to consider the perverse things done to money directly, creating more of it without the good to society that is supposed to be required for money to be compensated, (inflation) and compare it to other perversions of that social utility like theft and fraud and other examples where there is a conceptual break between when a person gets a lot of money but didn’t “properly” earn it. how that too undermines the value in the system. Or what are the limits to this?

2024-11-29 17:56:22

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Isn’t this always constantly happening?

2024-11-29 14:49:34

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OPEC is a cartel that sets the agreed quantities pumped from each country that is a member of OPEC. The US is not a member of OPEC. We can choose to pump any amount we wish, we pump based on price. And Saudi + others oil is cheaper to pump and process than US oil. OPEC tries to restrict the amount pumped from OPEC members but members can “cheat” and break their commitments. Overall OPEC chooses a quantity of oil production that they believe will maximize their profits while not being so high as to not incentivize production in other countries for example the US. The “backyard” oil pumps and others kick in when the price gets high enough to justify the cost.

2024-11-29 11:46:24

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Is it better or worse than when they show crazy graphical visuals playing on their screens
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2024-11-29 01:35:55

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2024-11-28 15:11:17

2024-11-28 08:10:21

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Looks like lungs, cool

2024-11-27 12:30:25

2024-11-27 12:10:35

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6. Collateral relays - auth if your account has collateral that can be swiped if you violate TOS
7. Knowledge test relays - closed relay with whitelisting based on passing some proof of knowledge.

2024-11-27 11:57:59

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(Bridge)
Now the midnight train rolls by my house,
And my dog lies quiet as a little mouse.
I think of Mama’s voice and her advice,
“Boy, always double-check, don’t roll that dice.”
The rest is up to you.

2024-11-27 03:26:01

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Certainly can be for some people. I’d say anyone that has a strict diet routine and can’t allow themselves to “cheat” occasionally may have an eating disorder. It seems to be more about their concept of “clean” or “safe” foods. More than the actual health outcomes of the “cheat day”.

2024-11-26 13:42:28

2024-11-26 13:38:00

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+ Peter Principal

2024-11-25 13:57:19

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Looking forward to seeing how this was implemented.

2024-11-25 12:31:14

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Welcome

2024-11-25 03:48:39

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Didn’t know there was a Bonhoeffer film. Please let me know you opinion. 👀

2024-11-24 03:41:58

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And how did it taste?

2024-11-24 03:40:37

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Bummer

2024-11-23 15:23:27

late #breakfast #foodstr eggs, my pickled beets, etc.
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2024-11-23 10:27:46

This isn’t your typical toothbrush.
#note1dvt…kp3a

2024-11-23 04:12:39

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An interesting thought, I’ve had similar. Some times I wonder if Bitcoin is actually too alien for humans.
Like how we have built an alien environment all around us, that is unnatural for humans. Straight lines, hard concrete under feet, crowded, stress inducing. It’s alien to our brains. Perhaps Bitcoin is another manifestation.

2024-11-23 03:34:53

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Thank you for the confirmation sir

2024-11-23 03:31:06

I think I’m Zappable again
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2024-11-23 02:06:38

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A private relay. Yes. Just need to have authentication to read and write.

2024-11-22 11:20:33

I’m gonna just keep quote posting this until it’s irrelevant. 98k gang can stay as long as they like.
Good morning!
#note18w2…dw26

2024-11-22 10:45:35

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Good question.

2024-11-22 04:18:57

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Yeah mine is busted as I haven’t transitioned off Alby yet. I got to figure out my next step.

2024-11-22 04:11:32

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A few thoughts. My understanding of things like “chipotle points” is that what they are giving away is more of the thing they make. So from the consumers perspective I get an 8 dollar burrito but from chipotle’s perspective I gave away 3 dollars of ingredients and 1 dollars of employee time. So there is an asymmetrical benefit which incentivizes the company to redeem.
Here is my pitch I think it works but it’s not going to make the accountant happy: Give people the option of receiving a portion of their payroll in sats As an option No KYC Bitcoin. If No KYC Bitcoin has a higher utility than KYC Bitcoin, then employees would be willing to accept an exchange rate for their portion of salaries in fiat that aligned with slightly better than what the No KYC markets provide in terms of trading fiat to btc. Next accept bitcoin as method of payment. Sourcing your own sats from customers, Use lightning which has lower fees than credit cards so you can sell your goods or services at the same price or cheaper to compensate for fees? but have a lower cost of acceptance.
So on the seller side you are keeping more of the value from sales, and on the employer side they are getting lower costs because people are taking a small haircut on a portion of their pay inorder for it to be No KYC, and you are supplying your own NoKYC btc via the clients paying in BTC so you don’t have to face the No KYC market rates.
I think this makes sense, but I admit I’m dosing off as I try to finish the post. Good luck.

2024-11-21 18:08:44

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Thanks for pointing out the book, I haven’t read it but recently came to the evidence of this as a fact, no doubt a derivative of his book. While previous to that I just knew from of philosophical sense that the feeling you owe someone for a gift, being ingrained to the human condition, must have occurred before anything else. The concept that formal debt systems appear to have predated formal money systems is icing on the cake.

2024-11-21 12:07:11

Waking up seeing all the posts from people staying up late to try to catch 100k, seeing those posts were hours ago and knowing it didn’t cross 100k yet, I’m looking forward to a cat and mouse between 98k and 100k that will keep you all sleepless for as long as possible. #bitcoin
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2024-11-21 11:56:40

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It has populist appeal

2024-11-21 11:54:33

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Thank you

2024-11-21 11:53:33

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I like how this post can be taken any way you want.
A) Team red persuaded them to join by reds great principles.
B) Team blue has gone so far left.
C) Team red has been co-opted by team blue.
D) Team blue remains great and is now purified of these clowns.

2024-11-21 02:12:26

Originally,
The first “medium of exchange” was trust between humans.
The “double coincidence of wants” was solved because you lived and worked together to acquire the things you both wanted.
The “unit of account” was your gratitude and feeling of indebtedness you felt to your close relationships.
The “store of value”, was your culture and knowledge.
The “inflation” was the rate of decomposition

2024-11-21 01:31:02

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One day I want to build his stove, probably on the back porch with a bell bench. I’m too chicken to build indoors atleast for the first one, but an outdoor kitchen on my porch for garden processing seems like a good fit. Plus a redundancy for cooking in general. But they seem very functional.

2024-11-21 01:23:47

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How you meant the cabbage juice, soup?

2024-11-21 01:23:11

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Looks tasty. Great on a sausage?

2024-11-20 13:57:27

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Sorry I see now this was already linked.

2024-11-20 09:43:25

Here I updated it for you crazy bastards.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/president?election-data-id=2024-PG
#election #2024
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2024-11-20 02:59:05

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I’ll leave this here just in case some hoser gets it in their noggin to mess with the mighty Sapdollar’s supremacy.

2024-11-19 01:21:57

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Welcome

2024-11-16 03:27:53

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Act III: The Forgotten World
Thousands of years had passed since the Brelkani fled Vynar. They had carved out a pitiful existence in the void, drifting from star to star in a decaying fleet. Over generations, the story of their homeworld faded into obscurity, becoming nothing more than a whispered legend.
The Brelkani of the present were a shadow of their ancestors, their translucent skin now thin as paper, their eyes dull and sunken. They lived on scraps, salvaging what they could from their dying ships. Life in the fleet was one of misery and desperation.
But rumors of the lost world persisted. “The Sea of Light,” they called it, a mythical paradise where their kind once thrived. To some, it was a place of salvation; to others, it was nothing more than a fable.
One ship, the Pioneer’s Ghost, had become obsessed with finding it. Its captain, Alren, was a brash young leader with a fire in his heart. “If there’s even a chance Vynar exists,” he told his crew, “we owe it to ourselves to try. Out here, we’re already dead.”
His crew, though skeptical, shared his hunger for hope. They scoured ancient records, piecing together fragments of data, coordinates buried in corrupted archives. When they finally pinpointed a location, the excitement was electric.
The Pioneer’s Ghost set course for the rumored coordinates. As they approached, the crew gathered at the observation deck, eager for a glimpse of what might await them. When Vynar appeared, there was a collective gasp.
The planet was breathtaking. Its coral forests towered higher than any structure they had ever seen. The oceans glowed brighter than the old tales had described, and the skies were alive with vibrant auroras.
“It’s real,” Alren whispered, tears streaming down his face. “We’ve found it.”
But something was wrong. The scanners picked up strange fluctuations in the atmosphere—dense clouds of spores swirling like storm systems. The air seemed alive, pulsing in rhythmic waves.
“The readings are unstable,” warned Aril, the ship’s biologist. “The ecosystem… it’s unlike anything I’ve seen. It’s as if the planet itself is reacting to us.”
Alren waved her off. “We’ve come too far to turn back. Prepare for descent.”
The Pioneer’s Ghost entered the atmosphere. Almost immediately, the ship began to shudder violently. Alren gripped the controls as alarms blared.
“It’s the spores!” Aril shouted. “They’re interacting with the ship’s systems—breaking them down!”
Tendrils of glowing mist seeped into the hull, corroding metal and electronics. The ship spiraled out of control, crashing into one of the towering coral forests.
The survivors, battered and broken, emerged into the strange, vibrant world. The air was thick with bioluminescent spores, which clung to their skin and burned like acid. The coral structures swayed as if alive, their tendrils reaching out toward the intruders.
“This… this isn’t our home,” Aril gasped, her voice filled with horror. “Not anymore.”
Alren, clutching a broken arm, stared at the glowing sea. “No. It’s ours. We belong here.” He stumbled forward, his steps growing slower as the spores consumed him.
The coral trembled, and the tendrils closed in. One by one, the crew succumbed—dissolved, consumed by the very world they had sought to reclaim.
As the last of the Brelkani fell, the planet seemed to exhale, its vibrant colors intensifying. The ecosystem continued its dance, unbothered by the fleeting presence of its former inhabitants.
The Pioneer’s Ghost was swallowed by the coral forest, leaving no trace of its arrival. Above, the auroras shimmered in quiet defiance, as if to say: You were never meant to return.
And Vynar, alive and whole, carried on, untouched by the brief, desperate lives of the species that had once called it home.

2024-11-16 03:27:19

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Act II: The Fractured Journey
The colony ships glided through the endless dark, their engines powered by a miracle fuel extracted from the glowing seas of Vynar. Onboard, the Brelkani adapted as best they could to life among the stars. Artificial coral groves provided shade and filtered recycled air, while nutrient paste kept their fragile bodies alive.
Mirka, now a symbol of their exodus, spent her days overseeing ship operations. The destination was Lorith-5, a distant exoplanet identified as habitable centuries ago. But the journey was long, and the strain on the Brelkani began to show. Their pale skin grew thinner, their movements slower. The artificial environment could not replicate the intricate balance of their home.
Karyon, now the lead biologist aboard the flagship Radiance, became increasingly concerned. “The nutrient paste is failing,” he reported to Mirka during a tense meeting. “The synthetic compounds lack key trace elements that Vynar’s ecosystem provided. Without them, our bodies are degrading.”
Mirka frowned, her once radiant face now gaunt. “Then we’ll adapt,” she said. “We’ve always been adaptable.”
Karyon’s voice grew sharper. “Adapting takes generations, Mirka. We don’t have that kind of time.”
The strain of survival fractured the fleet. Some ships, desperate to replenish supplies, began to scavenge from one another. This cannibalism of resources sowed mistrust among the crews. Onboard the Radiance, Mirka struggled to maintain unity.
One day, an urgent alert sounded across the fleet. A derelict alien ship, enormous and ancient, was detected drifting nearby. Hope surged through the Brelkani: perhaps it contained resources or technology they could use.
Mirka authorized an expedition. A small team, including Karyon, boarded the alien vessel. The air inside was stale, but breathable. The ship’s architecture was eerily familiar—sweeping curves and organic designs reminiscent of Vynar’s coral forests.
“This… isn’t just any alien ship,” Karyon whispered as he examined the walls. “It looks like it was made by beings like us.”
Mirka, watching the expedition feed from the safety of the Radiance, dismissed the idea. “Coincidence,” she said. “Focus on finding supplies.”
The team ventured deeper into the ship, finding chambers filled with desiccated remains. The skeletal figures bore striking similarities to the Brelkani, their translucent skin stretched tight over fragile bones.
Karyon’s unease deepened. He discovered ancient records, holographic archives documenting the ship’s history. The beings who had built it were, in fact, an ancient offshoot of the Brelkani species. They had fled Vynar millennia earlier, seeking to escape the planet’s dangers. But they, too, had overconsumed their resources and been forced to the stars.
The holograms revealed their fate: the beings had exhausted their supplies, unable to adapt to life away from Vynar. They had perished, their ship adrift in the void.
Karyon returned to the Radiance, shaken. “This is a warning,” he told Mirka. “We’ve done this before. And it didn’t work.”
Mirka refused to believe it. “We are different,” she said. “We have the fleet. We have Lorith-5. We will survive.”
But Karyon wasn’t convinced. As he delved deeper into the records, he found another revelation: the fuel powering their ships wasn’t just a resource. It was alive. The glowing seas of Vynar had been sentient, a symbiotic entity sustaining the planet’s ecosystem and the Brelkani themselves. By draining the oceans, they had not just destroyed their world but severed a lifeline they hadn’t understood.
“We’ve not just left Vynar,” Karyon said to Mirka in their private quarters. “We’ve killed the very thing that made our existence possible.”
Mirka, her determination faltering, whispered, “Then what are we now?”
Karyon’s response was grim. “Dead. We just haven’t realized it yet.”
End of Act II

2024-11-16 03:26:24

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Act I: The Skyward Ambition
The planet Vynar was a paradise of fragility. Its skies shimmered with auroras from constant solar bombardment, and its oceans teemed with bioluminescent life. But the Brelkani, its dominant species, lived on a knife’s edge. Their pale, translucent skin burned under even the faintest sunlight, forcing them to shelter beneath towering coral-like structures that filtered the light. Their lifespans were short, averaging only 20 years.
Despite their vulnerability, the Brelkani were dreamers. Their minds were sharp, and their ingenuity unmatched. For centuries, their philosophers and engineers spoke of one ambition: to leave Vynar and colonize other planets. They believed their survival depended on escaping their fragile world, as its ecosystem teetered under the weight of overpopulation and resource depletion.
Councilor Mirka, the youngest member of the planetary council at 14 years old, was the voice of the new generation. “Our home is dying,” she declared during a meeting of the council, her voice clear and unyielding. “The time has come for us to move beyond Vynar, or our species will perish.”
Her words resonated, and the council approved the “Skyward Project”—a daring initiative to construct massive colony ships capable of reaching distant worlds. The Brelkani had no time for caution or ethical dilemmas. They scoured Vynar for every scrap of rare mineral, every ounce of energy. Coral forests were razed, the luminous oceans were drained of their glow as their ecosystems collapsed. The planet bled, but the ships rose.
Among the architects of this endeavor was Karyon, a biologist who had long warned against such reckless consumption. “We are destroying the very world that sustains us,” he pleaded to Mirka one evening as they stood in the shadow of the first completed colony ship.
“The world that was sustaining us,” Mirka corrected, her eyes alight with resolve. “Soon, we’ll have no need for it. We can rebuild elsewhere.”
Karyon shook his head. “Elsewhere might not exist. And if it does, it might not want us there.”
But the momentum of the Skyward Project was unstoppable. Within months, the first wave of ships was ready. As the launch day arrived, the planet was unrecognizable. Vast swathes of its coral canopy had been reduced to skeletal remains, and the oceans were drained of their radiance. The skies, once alive with auroras, now swirled with ash from industrial furnaces.
The Brelkani watched the departure in silence, their frail bodies huddled under the last remnants of coral shade. Karyon, with a heavy heart, boarded the lead ship alongside Mirka. The engines roared to life, and the planet’s surface was bathed in firelight as the ships ascended into the cosmos.
As Vynar shrank into the void, Mirka stood at the observation deck, a triumphant smile on her face. “We’ve done it,” she whispered.
But Karyon’s gaze lingered on their homeworld. “We’ve left it behind,” he murmured. “And something tells me it isn’t finished with us yet.”
End of Act I

2024-11-15 12:34:41

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It has been intermittent and I was able to zap 5 notes in a row just now so I can’t presently reproduce. I will return to this note if it happens again.

2024-11-15 10:51:07

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I still have this too. I’m just living with it rather than identifying where it comes from, have you identified its root cause. I use Alby, BlueWallet, and Nostur.

2024-11-13 01:47:15

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So they kick off government efficiency with a new government department beauacracy that will be co managed by two people doing the job of one person.
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2024-11-11 00:50:54

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2024-11-10 02:02:18

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Worse still, IF voting participation is as high as 60% that means whichever candidate wins, they are operating with a mandate of 35% of the total population? Will the system cease if that were to decline to 25%, I don’t think so.

2024-11-09 13:28:41

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The best I got
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2024-11-09 11:23:04

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Nah man the system doesn’t make mistakes they needed to introduce these ideas to the population now for their next phase. 🤔🤣🤔
What they have planned next is even crazier and they needed to move the Overton window. Trumps first presidency created more anxiety for team blue, now post Covid the baseline of extreme has been moved for team red. Biden provided the pause of normalcy in some places while driving extremes in others, now we are back in a Trump presidency. Now it’s team blues turn to be stretched. Covid wasn’t a mistake it was a step.
I could keep going but the joke has run its course and I’m having second thoughts.
Follow me for more tips.
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2024-11-09 11:00:58

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A great portion of people already refuse to vote. Voting participation is like 60% on a high cycle meaning 40% don’t.
The system keeps rolling. Not voting doesn’t do anything more than voting. Perhaps they both do nothing, but it doesn’t do more.
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2024-11-09 10:26:54

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October:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/stacey-williams-goes-public-allegations-donald-trump-rcna177172
Technically November:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-i-why-i-am-releasing-the-jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump-tapes-author-michael-wolff/
The rest was new energy put into previously public statements from people in Trumps first administration.

2024-11-08 19:45:35

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Thank you for reminding me about sharpie gate. 🤣

2024-11-08 12:32:39

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2024-11-08 03:19:34

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Separation of powers

2024-11-07 19:10:13

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The point of the original post was no amount of efficiency is going to make up for the deficits these programs introduce. I’m of the opinion these programs will need to be unpopularly cut in order to bring them inline with something sustainable. I’m not opposed to some kind of welfare necessarily. But it has to be sized to something. But politicians haven’t been proactive in resolving. It basically manifests as a government entitlement bubble. Just because people are dependent on them today with the choices they make doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be drastically cut and people make different choices. Without these entitlements grandparents lived with their children, now some people have used their social security and Medicare to live independently, that’s seen as a good. But it’s not something you would see without the government debt proping it up. It just may not be sustainable.

2024-11-07 13:22:56

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Social security insolvency is predicted in 2035 where automatic cuts will reduce it by 20% by law. How many seniors dependent on social security can stomach a 20% cut to benefits? Can we really do nothing? Or should we bridge those currently dependent on it, and transition away from the government providing retirement benefits in the form of a pyramid scheme.
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2024-11-07 12:05:05

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There are four lights.
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2024-11-07 10:21:09

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My daily driver is a kind 1 client today. Explain.

2024-11-07 10:17:16

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Yes this.

2024-11-07 09:53:12

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Your chart should start at zero friend.

2024-11-07 09:26:15

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Well done sir

2024-11-07 01:57:08

🤣 I just spent 10 minutes scrolling my feed thinking the signal was above average, before realizing I was scrolling my bookmarks.
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2024-11-06 11:02:15

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Self guided tour.
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self guided tours are not orchestrated, they are self guided.

2024-11-06 10:46:56

To the Trump voters, congrats. The dragon was dispatched, you did it. Now please return to being skeptical of the government. Don’t become emotionally invested in your choice, just because you put them in office doesn’t mean you need to support every action they do. You need your objectivity. You don’t need to defend them. You made a decision at a moment in time based on the information you had, not a lifetime commitment. They will have some dumb ideas, the rest of us need you to call ‘balls and strikes’ not be a cheerleader for “Team Red”
To the Kamala supporters, you lost. Better luck next time. Please don’t embarrass yourselves contorting your perceptions trying to desperately keep hope alive for your candidate with claims of voter fraud or refuse to live in the observable reality.

2024-11-06 09:28:01

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I understand he had his appeal chance and the Supreme Court denied hearing it, letting the appeal stand. I have not read the appeal judgements, but a judge sentencing that includes “facts” that were not established by the jury of his peers, is the problem. You are found guilty of X, you were not found guilty of Y, your sentence is what it is because you did Y, So says the prosecution who did not charge it or did not meet the evidentiary threshold to persuade a jury. None the less the judge includes that as a fact established. But he didn’t wave his right to a jury trial did he? So who established that fact? Juries are supposed to establish the facts of a case. Justice served? Seems like no to me so far.

2024-11-06 05:21:25

My greatest fear is coming true guys. It looks like one of them is going to win. #elections #politics

2024-11-06 00:49:17

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Certainly true. But to push it abit, if acorns are good to eat for the squirrel because they plant 20% for new seedlings and seeds are good for birds because some of the seeds consumed are distributed as they pass through their system, so there was co-evolution, aren’t these seeds that humans are propagating in seed oils successful from an evolutionary perspective, aren’t humans distributing the seeds through agriculture. The deer doesn’t want to be eaten either by the wolf or the human. I’m just saying the food that is good for a species is more dependent on the species evolving to consume it rather than the consumed species getting a benefit from it such that they allow itself to be consumed for the benefit.

2024-11-05 21:58:26

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Cool but you missed 🥧

2024-11-05 21:53:00

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I’ll continue the question, honestly asking. ‘Seeds contain anti nutrients because the plant doesn’t want us to eat their babies’ The answer has to be more than just that though, because plants don’t want birds eating their babies either. But we wouldn’t say that birds that eat seeds are poisoned by them would we? It has to mostly be that since we aren’t evolved to eat them we cannot process them or similar. Right?

2024-11-04 12:39:01

Remember back when people were claiming bird flu was going to be used to disrupt standard election procedures? Huh I guess that didn’t happen.

2024-11-01 18:09:51

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Good work, keep seeking out alternative viewpoints.