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Last Notes The phenotypes are just reflective of a fast change that was facilitated by (or encouraged by?) an oligarchy. When you have a group of people who have been in a system for generations and they are - under threat of violence - made to pay for large numbers of outsiders to come into that system, it disrupts whatever natural equilibrium is there. true on a long enough timeline but besides the point for Lyn's post Can someone explain to me why a person who was (presumably) interested in the cypherpunk philosophy would sell to an exchange? Two of our chickens recently abandoned the coop to sleep in this elm https://blossom.primal.net/27344b38380b4acf3e7e3f7ebbfd033e9f8980442cb4477ed16b9e86d05c0e1c.jpg If you're in the US the framing in the Constitution is quite clear: the right to free speech and freedom of association is given by our creator and not to be infringed upon by govt. Not sure where Karp thinks he fits into that. I don't get this Strike hate. It's an option for folks who need fiat and don't want to sell their bitcoin and don't want to feed the cap gains monster. It may slow the building of a circular economy but my guess is that loss will be balanced by more individuals who see hodling as an option, as part of a sustainable personal system. appreciate you, Odell 🙏 I wish we could all see some good faith adjustments from Core. I don't know enough to even know what that might look like, but it would go a long way to calm things down. From the perspective of many of us, v30 was handled so badly that it's hard not to attribute bad motives to it. Geese really do sometimes look like the goose meme. I keep trying to get a good photo to show it. Close but not quite: https://blossom.primal.net/a197b81d981dc303d965152416ca27848ddc51916de7a0b5bb3de0a616c1c767.jpg @nprofile…6dtc I'm loving the podcast! I convinced a friend to use Strike for his business but he needs the desktop app to be fully functional. Is that on the horizon? I don't want to see anyone working 12-hour days and I'm not a fan of Milei for all sorts of reasons, but I can't tell: did he mandate long working days? or did he just lift a government regulation regarding work hours? I agree with so much of this. I'm curious about the monopoly question, as it seems to me that most of the monopolies that we see have been facilitated by centralized power. In an anarcho capitalist society, how would monopolies not be disrupted by other businesses? I don't know anything about anarcho communism! But I do think that in a free society, people can organize themselves however they would like. As long as there's the ability to move from one group/jurisdiction to another, it seems a great opportunity to experiment with different ways of organizing society. I think we tend to leave out scale when we talk about economic systems. Just finding you now! Hello 👋🏼 I didn't watch this video, but his promotion of communism seems to be within anarchism, which is awesome. Without overly centralized authority, groups can get together and set up whatever rules they want. Take a look at his feed - it's actually interesting, and given that he has a video of Tom Cowan in there, I really doubt that he took a bunch of shots. Cowan is one of the absolute best thinkers on health and came out against the covid nonsense before almost anyone else. This is ridiculous, but I first started with Alby and when they changed I never got around to either setting up my own Alby or connecting another wallet. And it's been ages! 😳 It's on my list GM, Nostr friends! I'm planning to get a few plum trees and lots of strawberry plants into the ground today. Hope you all have a wonderful day and get some time outside ☀️ our dog has a milk dance. Literally prances around and waves his head in a crazy circle when he sees the jar. He LOVES raw milk. 😂 so for you "not close to 100%" in fact means zero please don't apply for any jobs that require good reading comprehension None of the many Jewish people I know are power-hungry crazies. Zero I don't know what the percentage is, but it's not close to 100% It's the poor logic that bothers me as much as the hatefulness. If you're upset about the power hunger that you think is common in a particular group, the problem isn't some other characteristic of that group. It's the hunger for power. By definition that's the problem. that's not whataboutism The overwhelming majority of the media oligarchs, bankers etc are men. Why are you not attacking men? Maybe there's just a problem with men. (I know there's not a general problem with men, but using your logic, that's a reasonable conclusion) My hypothetical was about the absurdity of using some members of a group to generalize about all members of a group. I was definitely not making any claims about white people. Agree about Epstein. Do you know Jewish people who do not see non- Jews as livestock? If people were to leak files of a whole bunch of white supremacists, you would naturally conclude "white people want everyone else dead or enslaved" This isn't about Jewishness. It's about horrible power-hungry people who think they're above everyone else. get some chickens! I know not realistic everywhere but quail are easy even in an apartment (I think... don't know why not). Tiny eggs but you'd have control over what you feed them. Rabbits as well. Not the tastiest meat, but you don't feel quite as dependent on a horrible system. Seriously, though, I think bitcoin did fairly significant damage to the freedom community #nevent1q…3aa5 I have to re-set my wallet so you might not be able to zap me, but there are plenty of great notes to zap on here! Have fun : ) You basically make your own algorithms with your follows. I keep it very simple and only follow accounts, but you might be able to also get into your feed posts that touch on particular topics. Hi - welcome to Nostr! Take a look at @nprofile…0hy6 profile. He has some very good introductory posts to Nostr that you should be able to find. In the meantime, type into the search any particular things that interest you and find some accounts to follow that touch on those things. From there you'll start to find more and more people that you're interested in following. Hey! I'd love to be part of this. I sent a message a few weeks ago. Have lots of fruit tree cuttings to share as well as fodder tree cuttings and some annual seeds. welcome! You'll get flak from bitcoiners on here but I think it's great to have the conversations, and Monero is the one other coin which generates interesting threads on here. Also - there are a ton of usury and fiat haters here, plenty of good homeschool conversations, and lots of raw milk fans Animal confinement is terrible, which is why it's not how we raise our animals and why I'm careful with where we buy any of our food. Big agriculture - whether of grains or meat - is horrible for animals and the environment. I know what the naturalistic fallacy, but can you explain why you're bringing it up in this thread? I don't think everything natural is good, but I do think that biology is a reasonable starting point to look at human systems and actions. oh, if the government said it, I'm sure it's true! Where do you get the 10% figure? Yes, "not necessarily" is a good way to phrase it. I've seen how wild animals kill their prey and it's definitely not how we kill our livestock. Nature can be an excellent starting point and guide but it can also be quite cruel. Those of us who are fans of milk are continuing a long tradition in humanity, the default position for cultures that use dairy. It takes quite a bit of institutional and corporate intervention to get someone to believe in processed milk. It's clear that you believe that the intervention is giving you accurate information, but for those of us who don't believe that, it kind of looks like a cult. no, it's definitely not but I would be more worried about the toxins than whatever the latest virus scare is. Don't get milk - raw or processed - from factory farms or from cows that are exposed to industrial waste. I fed my babies raw whole milk from the first moments they were born Even when it comes to ruminant milk, all the dairy that humans have ever consumed has been both whole and raw except for a brief period when industry managed to convince consumers that it was dangerous. yeah, lots of narratives from various directions. It's super partisan, with MAGA seeing one set of facts and Libs seeing another. It's discouraging to watch. Outrage on both sides makes sense given what they're seeing. I guess the videos I've seen are not so clear with the wheel direction, and in general it's much easier from the outside, in retrospect, to come to a conclusion. I can't imagine in the moment how either of them were making split-second decisions. Not defending him, by the way; I'm horrified by this shooting. I just don't know that we can ever know for sure what was going through everyone's head. I've seen a bunch of videos and don't know what to believe. But props to changing your mind. It seems to me a terrible dance that inevitably leads to escalating violence: incompetent managing of the border in the past administration leading to incredible frustration on the part of many Americans, leading to new crackdowns by this admin, leading to protests, leading to heightened tensions wherever ICE shows up. The agents get more belligerent, the protesters get more belligerent, until you have all of them operating in what must feel like a life and death struggle. And all is fueled by the parties behind them who want either a martyr or a decisive victory to help in the midterms. Her reason for backing up is conjecture; the officer did not know why she was backing up. Totally fucked up that ICE is trained by the IDF. Personally I haven't verified this but I've heard that it's true, and it would make sense. You just articulated beautifully the frustration of a lot of people in the US and the UK in particular. When many lower and lower-middle class residents can barely afford their rent and groceries, they are forced to pay for housing and groceries for immigrants. And in your previous post, you articulated beautifully that without that help, there's a natural self-regulation that happens with migration. and on liability protection for round up - I think that one is up as well Actually I think we're in agreement. But doesn't the safety net kick in when people are living on the street and need food? At least in the US, the govt stepped up with funding - it's indirect, generally through NGOs which get public funding - to make sure that immigrants had a place to live, help finding employment, food, healthcare, etc. If there's no border control, this becomes an endless money pit (and grift, actually, because the NGOs skim a lot of money off the top). This put enormous pressure on the non-immigrants, who were forced to pay for this. And I do mean forced - under threat of violence. I also enjoy chatting with you :) nvm! no reason for us to start digging up studies. I've seen a lot of them but don't have any at my fingertips. Personally I do very badly on grains (oddly enough rice in particular) and I thrive on a zero carb diet. It's not for everyone, but it works very well for a whole lot of people. Given the state of metabolic health in the US, a shift away from carbs seems like a good idea to me, but I think the main problem is highly processed food. Unfortunately I don't see that going away any time soon. Sounds like you do well on Mediterranean. Great- so much good food in that mix. Best to you - yes personally this is not my thing, and it's not a direction I hope society goes regarding any color of skin but doxxing people because you don't like their dating preferences is terrible - the woman Lola was talking about is a criminal, not a hero Can you show me a good study on the benefits of a Mediterranean diet? Not to add to all the drama about the ICE shooting, but it makes me sad to watch people get so outraged without seeming to question if they have all the information at hand. And somehow as humans we have such a hard time with holding two thoughts about one event. It's possible that: the driver acted unwisely - possibly recklessly - and could easily have prevented this tragedy AND that officers are trigger-happy and the militarization of law enforcement (something that's been happening for a long time in the US) is a serious threat to citizens To me the second has more weight and is much more of a long-term concern, but there's nothing contradictory about those statements. I see people clinging to one of them as if it is the total truth and contains all the relevant information. It definitely does not go against all research we have. I'm pretty sure there's a ton of research on low-carb and ketogenic diets, and you'd have to take a good look at the studies on Mediterranean diets as well. but if it depends on anything at all, you are talking about some element of control, right? Let's try an example: if a number of immigrants equal to the number of current Swiss citizens suddenly came in this year, that would clearly be too much. Even if eventually they would contribute beautifully to Switzerland, that many people at once would overwhelm social services and likely destabilize nearly every aspect of society. I'm not saying the immigrants would be bad people - please don't misunderstand me - or that there's anything inherently better about Swiss-born vs foreign born. I'm just saying that there is a number that is too many for the social, cultural, and physical infrastructures of your country. Right? yes, that's right! I don't see normies talking about him too often but sometimes a friend sends me a screenshot. Drugs, brain worms, conspiracy theorist, etc. there's a difference between crazy and stupid but yes, I get your point. haha! but I think he's seen as a kook but not as stupid, right? I think the issue is more about the cost to institutions, which will now have to use these guidelines Real food takes more time and generally costs more. In some ways you can think of inflation and fake food going hand in hand: the only way inflation numbers for food can look (relatively) low)is by having people replace real food with factory food. Which they inevitably do as real food shows the true devaluation of the currency. Anyway - nice to see this video. I hope the guidelines push more people to grow their own food! I think it's a play on the old pyramid (which was facing the right way, but had a ton of carbs at the base of it, with meat and fats at the top). yeah, imagine the absurdity of a human being commenting on food crazy how is whole food anti-scientific? apparently they also recommend limiting (or eliminating?) sugar for the first 10 years of a child's life! It's pretty impressive How many immigrants could Switzerland bring in per year i.e. how many can the Swiss taxpayer support? can you protect those buds? what happens now? You're still likely to get a freeze, aren't you? If you have an entity- say, Switzerland - then that entity is defined somehow, and in part by constructs that we have. To live within that country, there are laws and protocols that make it Switzerland as distinct from the countries around it. Personally, I totally agree with you that you should be able to make a contract with anyone, born anywhere, without the interference of the state. However, if the laws of your country also say that the people within the borders of Switzerland must pay into a safety net for people who need help with housing or health care or groceries, then there must be a limit on who comes over the border. Otherwise the current people of Switzerland can potentially have an endless bill that they simply cannot pay. I'm not arguing against open borders and I'm certainly not arguing against movement of people from one place to another; I'm just saying that open borders are incompatible with the safety net. Yes, that's not surprising. I think humans generally fear what they don't know. You should see what urban American liberals think of Trump supporters. Often they haven't actually met one but they assume all sorts of terrible things about them. In the US, liberals tend to be comfortable with pluralism of skin color - which is great, of course - but not of ideology, probably because their social circle and media are very homogenous. Agree - it's hard to know how that number might work. We can probably say with confidence that 1:1 ratio of newcomers to native born will overwhelm a culture, and that 1:1000 will likely not. It depends on so many factors, but in any case everything that you mention takes time and care and the agreement of the people in the society, which is very hard thing to manage. Nothing you just wrote aligns with open borders, correct? how many new people into a culture is too many? hold on - you're now saying there should be limits, but yesterday you were advocating open borders Can you clarify? this is another straw man argument. I definitely didn't say or imply that everyone should not be equal under the law Your posts about the US tend to be through the lens of politics (personalities, deals, particular people) rather than policy. That's all I'm saying. politics don't break laws; policies and actions do I know this was a sore point last time we exchanged posts, and I realize that I was nasty about Robert Reich. I should have used better language, but I stand by my point: someone who is vocal about free speech under Trump but is quiet when his own party censors speech is not actually an advocate for free speech. I have tremendous respect for folks who call out policy issues regardless of what party is behind them, and I think that if more people took off their political blinders we would realize that the problem is not Trump or Biden but an absurd concentration of power. If everyone who was concerned about the Biden administration's censorship of doctors on twitter was also concerned about censorship around "antisemitic hate speech," we would have upwards of 90% of the US population furious about censorship. No straw man arguments, please: none of what I said is negative about the impulse or courage of immigrants, or actually about immigration in general. I grew up in the US, which means - in all likelihood - I have far more experience with immigration as an integral part of my culture and society and - again, in all likelihood - deep personal connections to first and second generation immigrants. I'm just arguing open borders are incompatible with the entire concept of nations, and in particular with a safety net. Imagine a small tribe of indigenous folks, let's say 150 people. They work together, have an implicit social contract - essentially a safety net - that they help each other, because that cooperation is essential to the survival of all of them. How many new members could they integrate and stay functional? 20? 50? If 200 join at the same time, and the original tribal members are forced - under threat of violence - to feed them and clothe them and protect them, will that work? if it's an open border, how about 500? It's quite possible- as you argue - that eventually those new members will contribute their share to the tribe, but that will take time. How many would you expect that they can absorb within a generation and still maintain a functional tribe? I guess I don't agree that profit itself is bad. What's dangerous is when some people have the leverage of monopoly to impose their will on everyone else. Without that centralization, you still have human greed (on a continuum - people who want a second set of clothes for their children all the way up to people who want 30 yachts) but you don't have money printing as a tool for the most powerful (who I think tend to be on the pathological side of that profit-seeking range). So personally I don't think that profit ruins business; it's monopoly and centralization that ruins business and society. Competition has become a dirty word. I'm not sure why - because it feels harsh or mean? between siblings or partners it can be negative, I suppose but in society it's the basis for so much that works well. I buy little apple seedlings for our land, and I look for varieties that have been selected over the years for resistance to certain diseases, etc. The nurseries that sell them compete with each other to grow better trees, and everyone wins when there are more of those better apple trees out in the world. It means more apples per tree, more food (which, as you say, is life) in the world. a storage facility to hold bitcoin? I can see how much you have thought about this! I don't know enough about Germany, but in the US most monopolies exist because of the way corporations lobby the government for rules and regulations that work in their favor and basically create a moat around them that makes competition almost impossible. I think the most damaging monopoly is of money itself. Only central banks can print money, and the use of each nation's currency is enforced by violence (or the threat of violence). I can imagine that without that, different forms of currency or trade could emerge naturally. It just seems to me that you'd need a lot of people on board to not take advantage of it. I'm not quite sure how someone would take advantage of it but it's hard to imagine it working at scale. This is in fact pretty close to what co-ops do, right? employees are paid but there's no owner that profits. Someone who organizes it would take a salary? (ironically, I believe that grocery stores are one of the lowest-margin businesses out there so even though I like your analogy of breath in vipassana to food in society, groceries are not actually a very high-profit business) On the subject of money: one of the things that's interesting when you study the history of currencies is that humans didn't use them in very small groups. There was just no need. But with trade among tribes, currencies tended to emerge naturally as a way to facilitate exchanges. You might find the study of money quite interesting. This is incredibly sweet. I read the whole thing! It seems to me that something like this might work in a small community and in fact is probably not too far in spirit from how some tribes organized activities and goods. yes, all makes sense! I guess it's clear from your posting that it's not just about US military intervention - which, sadly, has been one of the hallmarks of US policy for a very long time - but about US politics how do you reconcile open borders with tax and entitlement systems? One of the challenges in many countries is that the tax payers (which includes those who are paying the tax of currency debasement) are funding - via healthcare, childcare, food assistance, etc - those who are crossing the borders. That money is being extracted under threat of violence. I love the idea of open borders, but no borders = no state this is a good example - you often post about Trump. Why? (I'm not saying you shouldn't! by all means... but you were just asking why people feel compelled to post about political things in other countries) Fortunately within the US a lot of the right wing is quite focused on why the "no new wars" and "America First" president seems to be quite interested in military interference in other countries. I think it's a natural tendency. You definitely post about some of the craziness in US politics, right? Even things that probably don't affect you directly? But actually UK censorship does affect the US because at this point US-based social media companies are fighting the UK govt's attempt to censor all of their content (I believe.. there are several recent posts on nostr about this). During covid there were lots of videos of masked police fighting protestors all over the world - a ton in Europe, from what I remember - and I think it's the (dark) nature of bureaucracy that masks or no masks, there's no personal accountability for the people making the rules. I'm not arguing in favor of any of the rapists; I'm just saying that when the rape victims says that they're relieved to be free from a particularly brutal rapist -even if by another one - it's not someone else's place to tell them that they're wrong to feel relief. How do you envision a resource-based system working? "no excuse to feel relief" someone should tell the Venezuelans that they are having the wrong feelings about what just happened yeah, not happening but that would be amazing but - fun fact- income taxes in the US were also introduced as only for the richest Americans (upper 3%) If he's not advocating for more taxation, great. That wasn't my impression. But in general, I find the idea of kindness via coercion to be very problematic, so even if there's no change in taxation the rhetoric is troubling. I think this is true. What's maddening is watching all the pro (and con) rhetoric that presumes anything else. It's like a schoolyard bully justifying his actions with bs, and then the other bullies acting outraged. #nevent1q…6e77 Apparently in the 1986 law that gives liability protection to vaccine manufacturers applies only to routinely recommended shots. Which means that there's a path to ending that protection that doesn't involve legislation. Not holding my breath, but that would be awesome. #unavoidablyunsafe another vote for Maple AI. Please don't let Sam Altman harvest your thoughts 😫 One of my goals this year is to wean myself from Google Docs for all professional data if at all possible so I'm curious to see how Libre (or alternative) goes for you. it's like a judicial hit squad I was thinking of you when I heard the news. The bright side is that the US actually cannot afford more war. It hasn't been able to for a long time, obviously, but now many Americans seem to understand the cost and there's much less political appetite for it. Also the Trump admin is priding itself on surgical actions. So, all the empire/oil/fiat craziness aside, this might mean much less chaos for Venezuelans than in other US regime changes. 🫂 Isn't this the same court that went after Samourai? #nevent1q…cgpr Kindness is a great characteristic. When applied on the personal level - giving generously to those less fortunate - it's commendable. When applied on the population level - unless that population is a small tribe - it requires theft and violence. The good thing is that the less you have of the latter, the more room there is for the former. (Even though I totally disagree with most of his policies, I was very sympathetic to Mamdani in this election for various reasons. And I sympathize with his supporters who are fed up with the current system.) He's proposed a wide range of things, from cutting red tape for food carts to free childcare and exit taxes for people who want to leave NYC. What policy proposals of his do you like? This fucker obv does not speak for all Jews But/and I'm not terribly surprised at the rise in anti-semitism. I mean, if you wanted to get folks riled up against Jews, this would be a great way to do it. oh! hope it's a quick recovery What's universal healthcare if not government funded? If not a centralized program, it seems to me that we already have universal healthcare: I fund my health with a half cow from a neighbor's ranch, others fund their health with prescriptions and dr visits, others with whole food and a commitment to health practices. it's universal (But geniune question: what do you have in mind?_) My ex didn't do this at all. I felt like I was on my own and left. The husband that I adore is my companion as we navigate those stressors together. He has been mostly responsible for creating a bubble in which our lives are almost magical. But a man who actually tried to insulate me from all external stressors and responsibilities... idk, I don't think that would work for me. I'm 2 hours into Aaron Siri's deposition of Stanley Plotkin aka the Godfather of Vaccines. So interesting reasons might be the same but the incentive structure is very different Because when considering the problems in Minnesota, I think "the real problem here is that the people in this state order too much wine" it's all about the incentives the kind of immigration you're talking about works well the kind that's overwhelming so many countries now is a different story