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2025-02-28 15:50:31

My RoboSats offer to buy has finally been taken -- prepare for another, deeper and more furious dump.
#nevent1q…qaan

2025-02-28 12:04:31

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MFs won't put out decent orders, or take them, on Bisq OR RoboSats, either.

2025-02-28 10:56:35

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They're all scrambling to buy. GMs will resume after orders are filled.

2025-02-17 16:14:58

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You keep getting all salty about stuff I haven't even said.
It's not me putting a price tag on stuff that people give away for free. It's a lot of THESE people, who then proceed to post notes moaning and bitching about how nobody pays them for their content.
As I've said THREE times now, I do believe V4V is a valid economic model for a certain type of transactions.
BTW, it seems that what triggers you is the word "economic", but that won't make me use less precise language, sorry.

2025-02-16 20:22:39

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So simply issuing a new transaction with higher priority to a different address using the same UTXOs wouldn't work?
Looking forward to learn about this, because I can totally see myself needing it some day.

2025-02-16 20:03:03

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It depends on the expectations of each participant.
What it is not, is a market mechanism, because the producer/supplier/seller is setting the price/value of the item transacted at zero. So the correct price of the item will always be zero and the vast majority will pay exactly that, even if they could and would be willing to pay more to get access to the item.
So anybody expecting the outcome to be similar to that of a normal efficient market will eventually get frustrated, as we constantly see here with the droves of "content creators" who bitch and moan about "not being valued" -- they are the ones not valuing their own content though.
For those not having these type of expectation and understanding that lack of barriers to access is what defines ownership (so, if you put out a content for free and without access controls, you don't own it and can't expect payment for it), it's a great model because every single penny they receive is more than their own valuation of the item they gave away for free. They are receiving more than they signal to other participants that they deserve, which is great.

2025-01-28 09:20:20

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Unnecessary expense when I have several computers lying around the house doing nothing! Also, when I looked into it, they didn't support an external drive to store the blocks directory either, which for was a non-negotiable thing to run my own node.

2025-01-28 09:12:25

So a few months ago I extensively documented here my days-long struggle to get my bitcoin node up and running on an old laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 -- mainly due to a mix of Bitcore's incomprehensible retardness in making one's life difficult if you want to use an external drive to store the blocks, and Ubuntu's retardness in forcing Snaps down users' throats.
Then there's the usual problems with Linux, like not having Logitech drivers for my mouse and keyboard, and being force to find a way around it (Solaar). Having to edit multiple config files to get simple stuff working, like my VPN, and so on and so forth.
Incidentally, I also completely switched to linux on my "main use" box, in this case Mint, because I got PTSD with Snaps and Ubuntu, and it's a lot worse in this sense.
I had to roll back the kernel a couple of weeks ago because HDMI support is completely broken. I haven't been able to fix a weird issue with bluetooth headphones that causes my audio to play **faster** (not slower) than video (probably also an HDMI/graphics card support problem). My wired connection randomly drops and I have to restart to get back online. Voodoo black magic to make mouse and keyboard buttons partially work.
Four times I have had to deal with boot problems. The first time, the computer would just be caught in a loop unable to boot AT ALL, just straight from BIOS to black screen, so I had to make a live USB on the other computer, and go from there. The other times, the kernel just broke on me but I was able to just go initframs manually from Grub and let it fix itself.
Not that I would go back to Windows ever again. Not happening, ever. But as much as I have been able to deal with all this stuff, I can see how none of my friends and family would be able to, even if they wanted.
Anyhow, it's been a while since my bitcore machine on Ubuntu has started to complain that I should update to 24.04... and I'm scared shitless by the thought.

2025-01-27 16:54:51

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I would rename it as Jevon's Fucking Common Sense.

2025-01-27 14:41:43

A couple of comments about today's market dump:
1. Oh, the sheer RETARDNESS of dumping Nvidia stock due to the DeepSeek CCP psyop, when admittedly DeepSeek has been trained using... NVIDIA CHIPS. If anything, DeepSeek proves that Nvidia chips can do even more than previously thought, and consolidates their monopoly.
2. The sheer stupidity of those babbling on about wHErE's YouR raTIoNaL INveSt00r n0w, EH? all over the internets. "Rational" as in the much touted "rational actor/investor" doesn't mean "an actor who never voluntarily incurs a monetary loss when making decisions in life". It simply means an actor who makes decisions based on their SUBJECTIVE self-interest IN THE MOMENT.
I've never found much use for this concept, other than to cause me to look at actions I cannot comprehend and make an effort to try to put me in the other person's shoes and see the world the way they see it and try to make sense of their calculation, which is NEVER numerical.

2025-01-27 13:23:42

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Same.
Wild guess -- you, like me, are over 40 years old
IYKYK

2025-01-27 10:54:25

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You can easily solve your conflict with a small mindset shift, from wishing "country" to succeed and be stable, to wishing that your "fellow countrymen" succeed and be safe.

2025-01-27 10:47:21

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Classic female vs male mindset.
He just needs to smile at her, tell her of course she's right, and proceed to ignore her. For her own sake.

2025-01-27 10:45:40

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EXACTLY. That's the problem, not "politicians". They simply produce the lunatic laws that the constituents demand and vote for.
The problem are the people, the citizens. They are the most corrupt ones.

2025-01-27 08:39:45

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No offense, but are you American?
Again, not trying to attack you, it's just that was a typically American naive comment.
Like, appealing to the courts to prevent an abuse of power, as if there was any sort of constitutional guardrails and checks and balances on the legislative/executive power (or on the judiciary itself)... in Europe?
That's just not how Europe rolls, my friend. The State is unbound to any sort of limitation on its power to rule.
The only reason why it doesn't go full North Korea is that Europe's historical path took it somewhere else, and the status quo needs to play "democracy". The frogs can only be boiled slowly. But boiled they will be.

2025-01-27 08:06:11

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As a matter of fact, it's been a while since I gave anybody specifics. Not even my wife knows exactly how much I hold anymore, or where. (I do have written instructions safely stored in case I die).

2025-01-27 07:58:03

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Is that DeepSeek? Ask it about where and how did the virus originate too...
And while you're at it, ask it about Winnie the Pooh, or Taiwan, or Tibet, or Tian'anmen, or Hong Kong, or Xinjiang, or Manchuria, or the South China sea disputes with all the countries in it.
Or any historical, social or political event basically.

2025-01-27 07:46:32

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I've had this argument with my friends and family who hold BTC (and alts) so many times.
"But why wouldn't you just declare your BTC as legally required You'll get in trouble for nothing. You always say you will never sell, so they will not tax you."
"Yeah, until they decide they will. Then, because BTC is all I have, I won't even be able to pay the taxes, so they will effectively confiscate it and make me broke".

2025-01-26 18:07:45

I just did another payment today. I get it ready on my wallet, and of course I check mempool dot space live, to make sure. It's 1 sat/VB across the board, low, medium, high. So I say alright here we go, sweet.
That was two hours ago, so I just checked the transaction because the receiver doesn't say anything, and of course now the ETA is "not anytime soon". The last blocks are showing 3, 4, 5 SATs. Well at least my tx wasn't purged.
I'll wait amd risk it, I guess?
But then I remember, mempool dot has that accelerator thing, so hey maybe I can learn something today and get this payment done too.
So by default the accelerator thing tells me to pay -- I'm not kidding -- 60,000 sats to boost this mf. OK maybe some moron will just do it, but I can see the "customize" button too. Unfortunately the cheapest option of gives me is still stupid, at 10 sats, when the highest right now is just 4. What the fuck, mempool dot thief?
So I go back to my own wallet and realize it also has an "accelerate" button. And it actually allows me to fulky set the fee myself. Nice!
This is the first time I use this feature, and I have to say I am really really pleased with it.
Everyday something new to learn.
#nevent1q…jx5p

2025-01-26 13:36:10

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Precisely the shills are remarking that they did it not *without* Nvidia chips, but with a lot of them that very wisely the Chinese got their hand on right before the US banned their export, in 2023. About 50,000 units.
So, 1. they proved that they were able to optimize what Nvidia chips can do, not that they can do without Nvidia chips
2. they will soon fall behind again, once people with access to the newer chips optimize them a bit
It's jsut the latest CCP propaganda psyop. They continuously carpet bomb us through social media with this type of crap.
From "oh the longest bridge in the world so much wow", "oh look at those trains much gasp", to "oh (chicks dressed like) robot! It's China's century!". And now "oh look at the CCP's AI on my cellphone, it truly is GAME OVER Elon Altman!".
Because the West is so bored and sick with itself and Americans especially are so ignorant of the world, and even more of China, we fall for this shit every-single-time.
Doesn't make it real, but it does eat into our collective morale, which is exactly the objective.

2025-01-26 12:51:41

A very clear case of a guilty conscience.
#nevent1q…0rt7

2025-01-26 10:13:10

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It's just my speculation though, based on the fact that this would be a federal tax. It could also be something like the Feds setting a bracket with a minimum and a maximum. In that case yes, there would be some room for competition, albeit mitigated.

2025-01-26 09:57:33

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I don't think so. It sounds like the tax will be set by the Feds, and they'll simply pass on the responsibility to police companies and to collect the tax to the States, likely in exchange for a %, maybe even most of it. So it will be neutral in terms of jurisdictional competition.

2025-01-26 08:17:07

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And look at that chick's arm xD
She's like
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2025-01-26 08:15:24

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Oh, the detail about "primarily administered by the States" I do like a lot and is a net positive too. The smaller the federal level, the better.

2025-01-26 08:13:54

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Sales tax is an evil form of taxation. The poorer you are, the more you pay because you can't avoid consuming if you're poor. Rich people have a choice to spend, and on what.
The consequence is that very soon, if not from start, there will be huge pressure to have different rates for different item categories, exemptions, etc. further complicating compliance.
And this is one of those taxes that people do not pay directly, and companies have to collect on behalf of the State. Which is absolutely evil in the type of mindset that it creates (similar to the effects of AML/KYC on banking).
Tariffs have a similar effect on consumers, but at least they don't overburden companies and individuals with extra administrative costs and keep the responsibility and liability to collect on the State.
Don't get me wrong, ending the income tax is a net positive, regardless because it's the number 1 Evil tax (tied with the corporate tax and capital gains tax -- they're a triplet taxing the same thing: productive work), so I welcome it.
But doing it this way makes it a lot less than it could be.

2025-01-26 07:28:03

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It's "free" like Google and Meta products are "free".

2025-01-25 18:22:39

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https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-LLM/issues/51

2025-01-25 18:19:48

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Like, I am seeing videos on YT of all these people running agents with this shit on their phones and personal computers... What can possibly go wrong?
But hey, let's all switch to GrapheneOS with VPN over Tor and a killswitch and Tails on our laptop because MS Pilot bad xD

2025-01-25 18:15:46

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The old trick of making things easy and convenient. I've seen videos of it, it's horrible.
Of course, if you don't mind CCP propaganda, it does have all those advantages...

2025-01-25 18:14:09

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You can't block anybody, that doesn't exist on Nostr because it's a decentralized protocol and content is served through multiple relays. Blocking (preventing someone from seeing your content) would require that ALL relays maintain a unified list of blocked users for every user. Not possible.
Muting is as trivial as adding the npub to your mute list. You client must have one somewhere in settings.

2025-01-25 18:11:21

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Does it matter where it runs? It comes fully brainwashed by the CCP.
Try to ask it about Winnie the Pooh. If you think the US-based LLM's are censored, this piece of trash will show you censored.

2025-01-25 17:34:31

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https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/b90cf392751066d48bc908cd29d09e95d5b66a9ca4fe087df93391c9c64bf965.webp

2025-01-25 17:30:37

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Dot grid is upsetting and gross. Notebooks have to be either completely unlined, or full grid.

2025-01-25 17:28:08

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Yep, agreed. Although what I really want is the ability to properly block, that is blacklist people so they cannot be served my content. I understand though how the decentralized nature of the protocol makes it basically impossible though.

2025-01-25 17:22:57

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I agree with your sentiment. I've also lamented this protocol-level lack of functionality.
On the other hand, that's how I got to see this.

2025-01-25 17:19:57

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It's absolutely demented. But believe it or not, I am hearing it quite a lot these days. Of course, it's always Eurocucks who 1. have never even been to the US, 2. could never in a million years legally migrate to the US.
In the meantime, after three years refusing offer after offer from my US-based client/boss to just accept a visa sponsorship and move over, I am now finally considering it (pending Trump's final moves on income tax).

2025-01-25 14:32:25

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🤷‍♂️ I don't belong to either club, so their inconsistencies are not on me.
It's true though that the preferred secret society/cult among the Spanish status quo directly involved with the Franco regime and the Bourbon monarchy is the rather infamous Opus Dei. Then, in the 90 and 2000's when the post-Francoist mainstream party first took power (I mean after Franco's death), there was a lot of noise surrounding the Legionaires of Christ.
Incidentally, it is my understanding that this Catholic cult demands a vow of "humility" that includes not looking for positions of power and influence. Which is rich (no punt intended), since there have been several Spanish ministers and CEOs who belonged to it.
So there you have it, religion, exclusive/secretive/"discreet" (as the Freemasons prefer to describe themselves) societies and power, usually conform to a similar pattern.

2025-01-25 13:09:36

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Not really. When I was living in Singapore I met a very senior local mason there and I spent some time around it (I even went to one of their Christmas dinners at the lodge) and my conclusion was that the way Regular Masonry is organized, it's unavoidable that the members are well to do financially, and influential in their field. They also have a duty to be obedient to the local laws and generally speaking to avoid partisan politics. I guess in Singapore that's an easy ask.
The thing is, because government and private wealth are so deeply embedded in each other currently, it's a given that they also have "access". But that's a consequence of having money and being successful in the first place, in my opinion.
As for the particular case of Spain and Catholicism, yes, it may sound strange, especially because Franco was furiously anti-Mason (rumor says because he did not make the cut).
But again, influential and well to do people who are for the established legal order in Spain tend to be overwhelmingly Catholic, regardless, and Freemasonry was basically eradicated during the Franco era and "reconstructed" from scratch, so I imagine they "repopulated" it with people from the Spanish status quo.
In any case, regular Masonry insists that members pledge their belief in a supreme being (an "Architect"), and that they do so in the presence of a Holy Book of their choice (so, the Bible, basically). So it's not a stretch for Catholics to connect the dots (in their head).
As a personal note, my friend in Singapore never once asked me to join - they have a strict policy of waiting for you do ask. After a while I openly asked him to what extent they would really make me pledge a belief in a "supreme being" which I simply do not share.
He said that as long as I had my own interpretation of what that meant, it'd be OK, implying that even an atheist could join, if I had a vague notion that the universe is "rational" (as in based on the Architect's "plan"). I told him I am a resolute atheist and I simply could not rationalize it or make it work with my view of the universe, so I kept the relation, but strictly outside of the Lodge.
Completely unrelated to my Singapore experience, back home I came across another senior mason, but belonging to the "non regular" lodge over here. That's when I got to ask about their thing, and I felt equally uninterested in the end.

2025-01-25 12:38:36

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And to add to this, as matter of fact, there is a very strong and irreconciliable "implicitly Catholic" (Regulars) vs "explicitly non-confessional (and actively prosecuted as a consequence)" divide among Freemasons here.
The former are the ones who keep relations and mutual recognition with the Anglo lodges and host influential people, and the vast majority of members generally speaking. Not that there are many members anyway.
The latter are on the verge of extinction and the heirs of a much more left-leaning political program, which if I'm not wrong even allows for female membership, and doesn't make a big deal of paying dues and so on.

2025-01-25 12:29:09

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Regular Freemasonry is 100% Catholic in Spain. Not the society itself, but its members.

2025-01-25 10:20:06

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And as you know, in Catalonia we also have a tax on sugary beverages, on top of having some of the highest rates for all the taxes above, wherever the Catalan government has a say.
Because nothing says "FREEDOM FOR CATALONIA" like taxing soda.

2025-01-24 15:14:36

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Totally agreed.

2025-01-24 09:42:46

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Not necessarily dumb, probably just never really looked into XRP. I came across it before the SEC case, as part of my learning about crypto, and really all it takes is listening to what they're saying and selling. It's not like they're hiding or anything.

2025-01-24 09:37:28

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It's been obvious and explicit from the very beginning.

2025-01-24 09:29:06

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For me, "timeline-based" public spaces like Nostr's Twitter clones have one use case only, that is mass dissemination of information (for example news, articles, opinion pieces, etc). The conversation mode they allow is simply an engagement method, like the comment section on a blog or newspaper website.
Community-seeking and building is better done in Reddit-like formats.
Then a lot of people are just looking for a good old open public chat, à la mIRC.
These are the three basic "social media" cases in my opinion, and I've said in the past here (not that you could know) that Nostr as a protocol perhaps can do them all, but definitely devs should focus on making apps that are good at one only, instead of trying to have their app do everything poorly, as we tend to see now.
(Additionally you have private messenger apps like 0xchat and, outside of Nostr, SimpleX, but I guess you were talking about public spaces).

2025-01-24 09:08:06

XRP is how the US does a CBDC, while saying there is no CBDC. I honestly don't fully understand what is so surprising about it, because it's been clear from the very beginning that was the product Ripple was selling.
Yes, the Democrats went after it because they lean Statist, while MAGA and the Republicans lean Corporatist. As if that made any difference. It's all part of the same spectrum, just different ratios of the two ingredients.
That's the trick with which they fool you all the time.

2025-01-24 09:00:44

I swear...
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/b374bb5a0bb0f94948bca068979ce5d8222d215ed510f963a9dc9c03dcf407fe.webp
#nevent1q…t4sn

2025-01-24 08:31:58

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The fact that I remarked that Marx did not invent the labor theory of value and that he followed Ricardo and Smith in a sense does not make his lunatic theories valid to any extent whatsoever.
If that's what you took away from my comment, you were jumping to conclusions about my intent.

2025-01-23 23:32:46

I have a better one for you: instead of being "neutral", why aren't we just however we are, without fear of reprisals from a central committee of censors?
Crazy, I know!
#nevent1q…ddap

2025-01-23 19:22:43

You know when you pay for something on the base layer, and you're setting your fee while checking on mempool dot spast, I mean space, and you go like whatchumean 10 sat/vB mofucker? OK I'm just gonna have to suck it up, set it to 6 and low-pri it... Click send on the wallet, go back to mempool dot and
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/1d926871edbd4de5182941024c5684cd135b086c5e51a6631b51512b067d3acb.webp
I swear sometimes I wanna kill Satoshi.

2025-01-23 18:07:07

I think the "donate to Ross" era is now over. Didn't he recover at least several thousand BTC?
#nevent1q…aq8d

2025-01-23 17:28:27

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OK I can agree with all that, but I was specifically addressing a short to mid term. The trigger for my comments was a video about the "Stargate project". That has a 10-15 year horizon at the very least, just to build energy infrastructure.

2025-01-23 17:10:52

It's not the first time that I take a shot at the conservatives, and as I've said many many times, I am old enough to remember the 80's and 90's and the real threat that the unhinged religious right was for the US and for the world.
As a libertarian I opposed them back then, and when they lost institutional power to their left-wing socialist mirror image (often they're their literal biological successors, which explains a lot about the woke cult and their temperament), I opposed and continue to oppose the hordes of blue haired demifaggot Pol Pots.
There seems to be a new swing, now back rightwards -- yes, I have publicly said that I think Trump and MAGA have done a great service to the US and the world by dismantling the GOP leg of the neocon movement. But I will never support the jingoistic theocratic rightwing socialists either, and I will criticize them every step along the way.
Especially if MAGA remains in power long enough to purge the institutions of the woke parasites, and the remaining Democrat leg of the neocon movement, and relegates them both to irrelevance.
The enemy of libertarians is always whoever holds the power of the State -- including the Corporate pillar of it.
I have gladly supported MAGA because it was (hopefully will continue to be) useful and a net positive -- for now. We must stay vigilant though.
#nevent1q…ftkz

2025-01-23 17:00:57

I'm watching some rather interesting reactions from "MAGA" and conservative people online about the specific examples that the Spanish Dear Leader gave in his apology of totalitarianism... Not unexpected, but interesting all the same.
See, Sánchez said that if you "don't allow people to walk on the street masked [in Spain that's indeed illegal -- except apparently if you're a muslim woman -- probably in the US it's not in any case?], or drive a car without a number plate, or send a parcel without showing your id [again, illegal here. Is it in the US too?], or buy a hunting gun without giving your name", then it follows that you can't "allow people to roam on social media" anonymously spreading "hate speech and misinformation" and the Black Plague.
What's interesting about these reactions I'm seeing by American conservatives is the strong cognitive dissonance when they say that "somehow" all those examples are OK, but tweeting is different.
The more advanced ones are trying to come up with "the First Amendment" as proof that speech is different, but didn't we all agree that the US Constitution is not a compilation of rights, which a natural and inalienable ("God-given" for those who are into that type of rhetoric), but limitations on the government? And in any case, isn't the right to freely trade and to freely associate, and to freely travel (within the national territory) equivalent to and as important as freedom of speech? So why is it justified to mandate a number plate on your car and to show your ID to send parcel, but not to tweet?
This is of course a very tall pile of steaming shit of an attempt to justify a purely partisan position. There is nothing to it, and is internally contradictory. It falls apart. But because they are *conservative*, they actually try to hold it together with rationalizations, because in fact they agree with it. Just when it's not "the bad guys" doing it, and it's them.
Libertarians, as usual, don't have to bend over backwards to palliate any cognitive dissonance, because we don't agree with *any* type of mandated government identification or infringement on our natural rights. I don't want number plates on cars, and I don't want to show an ID when I'm sending a parcel. And I surely don't want the government to be able to link my ID to my notes or tweets, regardless of whether they're "good" or "bad".
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2025-01-23 16:28:19

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OK then, yes, that was my point too.

2025-01-23 16:27:28

To elaborate just a bit on this, the article quoted in the video I was referring to... says that we're in a nation-state race for AI, as evidenced by Trump's "Stargate project".
I say OK, that may be their intention, but it just sounds silly to me. Because you can have your superintelligent AI with its "billions of scientists" (hopefully contained in a nuclear silo ten miles underground with no access to the world) producing all these massive theoretical breakthroughs in secret... OK. You will still need to somehow go out to the physical world and put some WORK to it. And the other nation-states will absolutely and definitely be WATCHING and their spies will eventually figure out what you're trying to do. Or at least that you're all of a sudden mining for whatever ore in buttfuck nowhere, and will immediately do the same somewhere else.
It just sounds very silly to me, this hope/fear that whoever unleashes it will overnight become the Absolute Overlord of the world and will be able to maintain total secrecy and information asymmetry for a sufficiently long time.
#nevent1q…vx3l

2025-01-23 16:16:18

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But how do you pay your bills by just holding BTC?

2025-01-23 16:13:38

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But anyway, my main point wasn't this, but that AGI or even hyperintelligence can produce theory and knowledge. But then you still have to translate that into material things, and materials do not move at the speed of neural networks and electrons.

2025-01-23 16:12:06

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FOSS. The question is, this would open the door to all these "crypto AI" people that I've been maligning for the last couple of years so hard xD
I honestly don't see another way that the people can compete with the vast centralized AI farms, than decentralized shared compute networks. Could they be powered with BTC as the economic incentive to run nodes? I don't know enough about the tech, but I don't think so.

2025-01-23 15:04:44

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I'll just say one more thing -- the main problem has never been the tiny percentage of economic "inefficiency" (bottom line numbers) that employing people with disabilities implies.
The problem has proliferated and become unsustainable with the "disability inflation" that we've experienced these past couple of decades in which "being disabled" has become a fashion and politicians and bureaucrats have created an industry around it.
This shit needs to stop, and be reverted. These people are stealing from those who really need it.

2025-01-23 14:50:47

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https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/a0f0c4642208ee43f7a6cb65d13f469592a7926fdfc0ab12dd95e0998f2dade8.webp

2025-01-23 14:42:10

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*10,000 BTC is a lot more than 10 mil xD I didn't even do the math when I wrote this. You get the idea.

2025-01-23 13:57:00

"Pure" in the sense of "maximum". "A life lived to the max" would be a long but accurate translation.
I remember when this first became a meme here and people kept making up all these silly New Wave interpretations of the adjective as saintly and puritanical. So fucking annoying.
In the correct cultural context I would even say it's rather the opposite, an appellation to a very physical and sensual joy.
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2025-01-23 13:50:23

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A significant error that I constantly run across among liberty-oriented fellows: the labor theory of value is not a "Marx thing", it's a "classical thing" -- Adam Smith himself subscribed to a form of it, as did Ricardo (which is a more explicit precedent for socialist theories).
The fork in the road that led to a more truthful theory of value was the Marginal Revolution that lies at the core of neoclassical theories.

2025-01-23 13:39:50

Just think about this case. I have zero idea of the details about this person. Let's assume he is "rich". Let's say, he's got assets worth 50 million euros. Let's say the kidnappers demanded 10,000 BTC from him. 10 million.
How much does the State demand from him *every day and every year*? What happens to him if he refuses to pay? What happens to his assets?
As I said, do not fall for the propaganda. The GIGN did not "rescue" him. They retrieved property, like the cattle slave masters in the cotton farms would retrieve a slave taken by another slave master, by force if necessary.
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2025-01-23 13:29:31

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Pirates took people's property. When they did that, the previous owner ceased to have access to it.
These are infinitely replicable bits and zeroes. You having a copy of them does not preclude anybody else from having and keeping theirs.

2025-01-23 13:16:10

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https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/da1e95635a5803212b7135cbe6382e824e2aba96bac75c961d5a82808d9121b3.webp

2025-01-23 13:07:24

The fact of the matter though is that the criminal group that does the highest number of violent kidnappings, against we should all be the most concerned to get protection from, is the State.
It's also the one with access to the most dangerous and powerful technology, and completely ruthless in using it against us.
Do not get distracted with the anecdotal cases of non-State attacks.
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2025-01-23 12:26:02

This meme misses the other half: just by virtue of existing on a territory, under the jurisdiction of a State, you already "owe" a monetary "debt" to it. It's called "taxes".
The modern socialist-fascist Corporate State regime prevalent in the West since the beginning of the 20th century did not do away with cattle slavery. It universalized it so it could be spread among the whole population and suppress the glaring difference between an explicitly enslaved underclass, and the non-slaves. When everybody is a slave, nobody is.
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2025-01-23 12:13:37

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There is no such thing as "satellites without the control of land authorities" though.

2025-01-23 12:12:34

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Well, Eurocucks will tell you that proves their point: pseudonyms facilitate insurgent conspiracies.

2025-01-23 10:13:43

The thing is, "encryption" doesn't have backdoors. Otherwise it's not encrypted. What has backdoors is the apps and software that developers write to wrap around encryption. So as long as we continue to have FOSS, we're good.
That should be the absolute focus of our collective efforts, to protect FOSS. The risk is not that they force Meta to break E2E encryption or Apple and Google to bypass it by spying directly on your screen and microphone. Those laws are 100% INEVITABLE. They're coming like it or not.
The risk is that they continue to get away with indicting and sending to jail the Tornado Cash devs (even if in the US they seem to be safer, in Europe they won't be), so we stop having FOSS that circumvents their tyranny.
The secondary risk is of course that 99% of the people don't give a shit and will continue to participate in the totalitarian experiment. That puts *us* at risk because vires in numeris, so the fewer we are, the easier it is to target us. But well, I can't force anybody to give up their "convenience" to protect me.
To reiterate: there is no point in trying to prevent the regime from not doing what has long been decided it will do. It must necessarily do it. Asking it not to is like asking it to disband. Never gonna happen. Let's focus on building spaces outside of it, and on the limits, and let's move there as much as we can.
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2025-01-23 10:03:14

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There's no "non binary". That's the shit that needs to stop. The trans movement has historically been a claim that a tiny number of very afflicted men who suffer from a very specific and very serious psychiatric disorder that puts them at odds with their natural sex be granted a modicum of social and legal compassion and be allowed to legally and officially change their identity. That's not going away, and that's where it stops. All the non binary, demi, pan... bullshit harms these individuals who are actually suffering enormously, as we're seeing now.
As a matter of fact, it is important for the sake of those afflicted with this severe mental disorder, that we go back a little bit and reinstate the historical scientific recognition that they are indeed mental patients who deserve that the medical science continues to find better treatments.
In the meantime, things like allowing males (especially teenagers) to compete in female sports cannot be allowed to continue, because the harm this causes to many women and to the sport itself is completely disproportionate to the good it does to give dignity to the males.
The accommodation must be found, and to a large extent already existed: trans people have long had the main basic legal recognition that they historically claimed for. But it can never be a complete 100% equivalence to women, because they aren't women. This will never change, and this is what the current Trump administration is going to reinstate as official policy. It's a realignment with reality.
And of course, all those who have been grifting and cashing in on made up "identities" by leeching onto the legitimate trans movement are going to need to find better ways to support themselves so we can collectively take care of the ones who actually deserve it.

2025-01-23 09:19:46

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Spain is the poster child of the new wave of fascism that is taking over Europe. Luckily, Spain is a completely irrelevant country. It doesn't even have an influence over American Spanish-speaking countries anymore. Unfortunately, it is still one of the top 5 countries in the EU by population, so they do have weight when it comes to deciding votes, and they will always do it in favor of the most hard core positions that their owners at the WEF tell them to push for.
By the way, there is ZERO difference or alternative among any of the potential ruling parties. Including the neofascist party "Vox" that is trying very hard to coopt the MAGA and Milei movements, but who is simply yet one more among the Putin-funded extreme nationalist, hard-core illiberal, pro-massive spending, right wing socialist movements that proliferate in Europe these days.

2025-01-23 09:11:25

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Or perhaps you are the one failing for propaganda and anticipating consequences that aren't there. Nobody is going to target the mail boy with Down's. Just like getting rid of the 72 gender stupidity doesn't mean sex changes stop being legally valid and people who *actually* are trans can officially and legally become of the female gender (not sex obviously).

2025-01-23 08:38:12

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Pertinent. It looks like someone just decided to turn the printer back on.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/e41958eb0fbecf7d74b3bb9306ab56710792cf8c5b464be4f12c0929468f9a7c.webp

2025-01-17 16:09:37

How much did they donate to Kamala?
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2025-01-17 15:56:55

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You're a most patient reader and charitable person. The man had the greatest ideas and creativity, but he wrote horribly.

2025-01-17 15:52:08

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What's so funny?

2025-01-17 09:25:23

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There is ZERO chance anyone coming from the TikTok psychotic farm stays on Nostr for more than 30 seconds.

2025-01-17 08:58:26

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Nostur

2025-01-15 17:10:54

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That it doesn't send any data to Google or the government and runs on 100% FOSS and locally. Other than that, I'm ready and willing.

2025-01-15 16:01:00

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Could it, though?

2025-01-15 13:07:41

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So what, it doesn't affect me? It does.

2025-01-15 12:56:25

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I'm European, bro.

2025-01-15 10:59:40

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Follow your argument.

2025-01-15 10:49:08

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It's a case of the lesser evil, except they choose the greater one.

2025-01-15 09:41:55

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I'm not in favor of banning or mandating private companies at all.
But yes, in China's case there is no such thing as "private companies" because all of them have CCP militant members on their boards and they all 100% work for the CCP.
So I wouldn't allow basically any CCP company at all anywhere, regardless of what it is they sell.

2025-01-15 08:47:23

For the record - I'm a 100% in favor of an outright ban, not a forced sale, of TikTok.
Since it's not a private company, but a CCP organ, it's a matter of Defense that has nothing to do with private property and speech rights.
This is about not allowing an enemy terrorist organization to camp freely on your backyard in the first place, but also a matter of not FUNDING it with the money of the sale.
Why would you allow any American company to send them hundreds of millions of dollars, so they can simply turn around and use that money to spin another TikTok immediately after?
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2025-01-15 08:10:08

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Oof, be ready to be blasted and shitcoin-shamed by the very kind toxic BTC maxis on Nostr...

2025-01-15 08:06:52

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Extremely deep rabbithole too.

2025-01-15 08:00:22

Are people seriously so brainwashed with anti-Western and anti-Elon derangement syndrome propaganda that they're now migrating from TikTok to an even more blatant piece of CCP spyware, literally called THE LITTLE RED BOOK?
This is really the most fucked up timeline.

2025-01-14 07:17:58

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I do, and it's fuzzy and warm.

2025-01-13 18:42:30

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This works SO WELL. I love the WOT concept application too.

2025-01-13 15:35:09

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LOL, true.

2025-01-13 15:31:44

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So absolutely fake though. Well, fake as in that's clearly a demo, not a real life use.

2025-01-13 14:51:42

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The whole series is infinitely quotable. Nothing comes even close to Dune.

2025-01-13 12:15:46

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Right. My point is that in this case the demand is caused by a lack of basic stuff: friends to talk to.

2025-01-13 12:14:29

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Whatever it is, after a couple of hours with Rogan most if not all of them drop it and we can peek behind it. And sometimes what we see is even interesting.