SovereigntyQuest

I've been puzzling for some time over how those economies, that are "absorbing" so many new immigrants, were planning on getting those folk into the workforce given that a resurgence in manufacturing in those places has only been, so far a catch phrase.
Perhaps this data from Germany is the clue. The aging populations need service?
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2024-09-05 04:31:41

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Tables without tops
I'm shocked
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2024-09-05 04:14:16

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2024-09-04 13:27:24

Faeries Dancing
17th Century English Wood Block Print.
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2024-09-02 12:28:47

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2024-09-01 12:59:59

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2024-09-01 06:20:00

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"Kaagaz" is very good movie.
"Sacred Games" is a series well worth watching.
"Scam 1992" also a series but a great, based on true story one.
Jaane Jaan -movie
Monica, O my Darling- movie
Gangs of Wasseypur- movie
I could go on and on.......

2024-08-31 17:42:26

#dubstr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwlOpOGrwuI

2024-08-31 13:01:39

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Personally I use mullvad vpn. Main reason is I can use sats to pay for it.

2024-08-31 11:21:31

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As it's Saturday and it's my weekly philosophical deep dive day......😜
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiBNHRKM24A

2024-08-31 08:42:33

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Simulation confirmed
Again
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2024-08-31 08:31:51

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Ok, just checked my note
It should read statista.com.
Thanks for catching that.
Early Saturday morning mistake 🤦‍♂️

2024-08-31 08:26:58

Should I be worried? Enjoying this way more than I should.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ijDdxmoiX0

2024-08-31 06:47:28

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Trying to figure out if that's a deeper rhetorical question or a straight up one.
No, I don't. 😁

2024-08-31 06:27:16

Percentage of gold reserves in selected central bank holdings in 2023 (Statistica.com)
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2024-08-31 05:17:24

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2024-08-30 16:27:11

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Thank You.
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2024-08-30 15:14:41

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That rope above the doorway 🤌

2024-08-30 12:47:50

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehnxV5SL2Cw

2024-08-30 07:02:39

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I get the feeling you aren't a fan of the state then?
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2024-08-30 05:59:29

https://m.primal.net/KUcx.mp4
Compressed using https://tools.rotato.app.
Thanks Iefan 🫡
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2024-08-30 05:28:11

Well, it's morning now and I've been doing some thinking. My first thought when I saw the snake last night was..."That's a wolf snake isn't it?" I've seen many before in Hong Kong, a few of them much closer to a black colour. So I do my research online and find out that there has been some scientific questioning of the exact species of Lycodon that is identified in the Mascarenes. It is an introduced species and it's origin is unclear. Lycodon aulicus is closely related but geographically and taxonomically different to the more easterly occurring Lycodon capucinus.
So, we get to taxonomy. One thing I was always aware of in Hong Kong was that I'd been confused a number of times before when I'd seen Lycodon capucinus. I was always a bit wary when I'd seen one as they, especially in bad light/can't see the whole snake etc, somewhat resembled maybe a Bungarus multicinctus(Many Banded Krait), a young King(Ophiophagus hannah) or perhaps a young Chinese Cobra(Naja atra), all well dangerously venomous. Lycodon capucinus are quite speckled but the banding is somewhat evident. Put side by side the difference between them is obvious but nature doesn't always give you a nice clear view of things in the heat of the moment. Don't Trust, Verify!
Back to the snake last night, Lycodon aulicus it seems is somewhat more clearly banded than Lycodon capunicus and that brings up the idea of Batesian mimicry. From Britannica....
"Batesian mimicry, a form of biological resemblance in which a noxious, or dangerous, organism (the model), equipped with a warning system such as conspicuous coloration, is mimicked by a harmless organism (the mimic). The mimic gains protection because predators mistake it for the model and leave it alone."
Can confirm..... it worked!
Last night I did manage to handle the snake. It tried a few strikes/bites but not being venomous and fairly small I wasn't overly worried.
Another (bad) photo of the snake climbing in the kitchen.
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2024-08-29 22:16:39

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Cool.
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2024-08-29 22:10:38

Indian Wolf Snake-Lycodon aulicus. A non venomous snake. About a foot long and finger size fat.
Just found him hunting in my kitchen. No doubt on the search for the house geckos. I'm cool with him in the house but my wife isn't! Have released him down by the river.
Beautiful.
😎
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2024-08-29 15:46:40

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🕺
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2024-08-29 15:14:40

That doesn't look good.
https://splash247.com/red-sea-littoral-states-brace-for-the-worst-tanker-spill-this-century/

2024-08-29 03:20:47

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2024-08-28 16:05:42

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😅

2024-08-28 15:36:03

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Agree on that id.

2024-08-28 11:57:46

"The Land of Make Believe"
Jaro Hess, Grand Rapids
1930
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2024-08-28 09:52:26

Some handsome old Greek silver coins from circa 5th Century BC
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2024-08-28 09:25:55

All the stats and data.......billi balla billi balla.....and then the last sentence
"Despite these increases in absolute numbers, it's noted that illicit on-chain activity dropped by 20% compared to 2023, indicating that legitimate cryptocurrency use is growing at a faster rate."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ransomware-rakes-in-record-breaking-450-million-in-first-half-of-2024/

2024-08-28 09:08:58

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Gm 😎

2024-08-28 08:42:26

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@npub1uch…l7fj

2024-08-28 07:04:47

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#asknostr

2024-08-28 06:47:15

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2024-08-28 06:35:23

👀 😎
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2024-08-28 05:55:00

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2024-08-27 20:50:47

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2024-08-27 20:36:55

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2024-08-27 16:36:12

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#nevent1q…r5q7

2024-08-27 16:04:19

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https://flare.pub/

2024-08-27 15:54:12

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2024-08-27 15:46:08

Some more items from my finds.
First some very unique items. These are opium pots and were the working man’s stash carrier I reckon. These were found in abundance on a slope which must have been the site where railway workers, cutting a channel through a hillside slope for the train tracks, would likely sit and chat and get high. That section of HK railway was constructed in the early 1900s and operational in 1910. There were hundreds of these tiny pots there. The area, since I collected these, has been covered in concrete so the other remains will be buried for more hundreds of years until the concrete gets disturbed. These are the simple no nonsense, disposable pots which can also be found around the “bad boys’ ” houses in most New Territories villages.
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Next some of the early earthenware pots that were used for medicinal stuff before glass started to be used. Dating probably to mid to late 1800s. Company name stamped on the back.
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Now back to some more of the early 1900s glass medicine bottles…..
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Last two have examples of very shallow early iridescence as the glass has been subject to some chemical damage from the soil.
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2024-08-27 10:22:45

I’m hoping the book below that I’m starting to read now will help me to resolve some pessimism I’ve had about the direction of capitalist economies. In particular, I’ve found it difficult to not see an almost naive “it works in theory” adherence to laissez-faire and free-market Austrian inspired principles that I’m yet to see resolved as pertains to a crucial, imo, blindspot. To boil it down……
Can free-market economies truly exist sustainably if there are, at the same time other, state directed economies, particularly exporters that heavily distort their own, and by implication the free market nations’ economies?
If the whole world agreed to play by a truly free market principle then, yes, but that doesn’t seem anyway near evident at the current time.
There is clearly today such a dynamic in play as we start to see not just the more mature capitalist nations implementing tariffs but also countries in what is called the Global South do the same as they see a need to protect their industrial policy/nascent manufacturing base from the big state subsidised exporter. There is clearly a dogmatic reaction, among many/most who advocate for free markets, which results in what I can only see as a simplistic and naive “All tariffs are bad…..the end”. How can the free market protect itself from being taken advantage of by another state directed economy?
I’ll continue to read and reply in joyful soliloquy to my own note in time.😜
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2024-08-26 17:09:11

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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."
🤦‍♂️

2024-08-26 16:19:06

https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/technology/3064066-asian-industry-group-urges-malaysia-to-pause-social-media-licensing-plan

2024-08-26 16:01:50

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The most lucrative place was on a steep slope above a beach. Obviously the villagers used to tip stuff over the edge and after all these years there was a couple of seams of all kinds of stuff going into the dirt. There was also a fire there at some point because one of the layers was quite burnt. A big banyan had grown on the slope so I was scrambling around in the roots, centipedes and snakes.
I believe that if you are in Europe it's possible to find an old map from 1800s-early 1900s and then look at the houses, even the houses of not rich people. In the garden was usually the outside toilet and it was often used as the place to dump stuff. Maybe the house you live in now, if it was previously lived on in those times, could also have a stash of stuff underground in the garden or somewhere around that.

2024-08-26 14:10:59

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I dug these all probably around 20 years ago. I'm not a detectorist.
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2024-08-26 13:53:44

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Some are about from late 1800s to very early 1900s. Many, not all, of the companies started to use a screw cap a bit later so these ones pictured are the "old glass tech". The quality of the glass, for example the many bubbles, shows the early way that the medicine guys were learning about making these small bottles. There is a particular type of bottle, very early and generic, that I discovered was very basically made and I think the cooling process was not perfected. It meant that there was a real tension still in the glass even after 100 years and even if the bottle was put in water that was cooler than the air temperature, it always quickly cracked along the tension. I also found some of the older ceramic containers for medicine that pre-dated the adoption of glass. Maybe I'll make some more posts with other things like that and some later bottles. I only ever saw these kind of things in a museum in HK and from other countries on auctions etc.

2024-08-26 12:40:46

Over the years I’ve collected quite a few old glass bottles. All the bottles I have were found by me snooping around in HK’s old villages, digging in coastal rubbish tip sites and actually a fair number were simply found in urban flower beds. Given that these bottles are anything up to around 120 years old or so, it’s quite remarkable that these tiny glass works are still intact. Many are embossed with a medicine company name and also the name of the medicine inside and some of the companies still exist today. It's quite clear that skin problems have been an issue for many years given how many of them that I found were for the skin!
If you’re interested to know more I can recommend this excellent book on our “medicine” history.
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If you have tips on how I could get some better photos I'm all ears.

2024-08-26 09:55:14

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I didn't know until I read your note this morning! I thought he was the director.
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2024-08-26 03:55:36

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Watched it last night. Not bad.

2024-08-26 03:32:26

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2024-08-26 03:21:34

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2024-08-25 14:17:37

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That sub 50k dip was a beauty.

2024-08-25 14:02:26

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Can't zap ya. Heads up if you've got a issue with your extension/zap receiver.

2024-08-25 13:50:08

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Yes, thanks. Used the "Advanced Search" option on nostr.band.
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2024-08-25 12:30:06

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Yea, one of those.
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2024-08-25 12:15:44

#asknostr
Any way I can exclusively search my own npub notes for key words.
Finding old notes I wrote would be way more easy that way.

2024-08-25 06:33:49

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How was the film?

2024-08-24 20:49:28

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Wise words.
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2024-08-24 20:05:27

#dubstr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esWudP2IofM

2024-08-24 12:14:03

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I've been using mullvad browser for nostr for a couple of months. No complaints but given I only use it for nostr clients it hasn't seen much extended usage.

2024-08-24 04:36:59

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2024-08-23 17:09:19

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They didn't give me the nickname pamp-misser for nothing

2024-08-23 17:05:05

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Checked price......realise I got fiatjaffed.
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2024-08-23 12:58:27

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Oh no.......I've been on a 50 is the new 40 for a few years and now you've confused me.
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2024-08-23 06:58:55

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2024-08-23 06:08:51

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His idea for what he calls "HumanGovernance 3.0" should be in Part 2 and will be interesting.

2024-08-23 05:57:16

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Seems good now
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2024-08-22 17:20:33

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I just tried from my alby but no go. Maybe their end?

2024-08-22 15:21:53

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Fools and their.......
Time and again humans prove they just don't learn

2024-08-22 14:58:50

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This?
https://babylonlabs.io
🤔

2024-08-22 14:54:08

👀
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2024-08-22 11:11:37

I think I really need to grow up.......
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2024-08-21 20:05:57

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That's a 4 from me

2024-08-21 11:49:47

Wow.......enlightenment with Marxist/Leninist characteristics.......sign me up 😵‍💫
https://bitterwinter.org/ccp-hijacks-the-label-humanistic-buddhism-calls-for-marxist-interpretation-of-buddhist-classics/

2024-08-21 06:20:58

That would be a GFY from me. Barbara Streisand has entered the room.
https://videogames.si.com/news/black-myth-wukong-streamers-feminist-propaganda

2024-08-21 06:06:35

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2024-08-20 18:28:55

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Maybe(I watched many years ago), despite it being a bit msm, a watchable docu.
BBC Horizon's....."Inside the Dark web"
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2j0kdq

2024-08-20 18:13:37

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Well......that's my next book choice sorted. 🫡

2024-08-20 18:09:45

Any comment on this film? I haven't seen it.
"Death Athletic"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27924829/

2024-08-20 17:32:37

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Yea, a whole lot of really OG OGs
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2024-08-20 17:26:09

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Question I have is was/were Satoshi actually caught on film at some point in this documentary, especially at the "Financial Cryptography Conference" in Anguilla.
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2024-08-20 17:17:31

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Also here a comprehensive academic type paper. Not a docu but again cool to read. It's titled "Cypherpunk ideology: objectives, profiles, and influences (1992–1998)"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24701475.2021.1935547#abstract

2024-08-20 16:50:36

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This old Japanese cypherpunk docu from 1997 is worth watching.
https://flare.pub/w/naddr1qqr5vvzffam5wkgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzp46nvfst3r8huhxrljj0sgjq7dptczv8vt8nhp2at4m9u7xfthwtqvzqqqy9hvdh3nk4

2024-08-20 16:17:15

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🤌 🤙 🫡