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No, the lifestyle is inseparable from the place.
My US based employer has been chasing me to move there for years now. They would sponsor my visa, relocation package, job for the wife, etc.
Despite all, I know I can't even remotely have a similar lifestyle to the one I currently have in Barcelona. So I keep refusing his offers.
We spend time in Japan every year too, family thing. What we do and how we do it, again, completely different. I can live in Japan, it's a good lifestyle too, but it has nothing to do with how I live here.

2024-09-10 17:27:14

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Ah, they run it on a Ubuntu Server machine. I'm not there just yet in my journey xD
I'd still like to use the computer it for other light stuff, and it's an old laptop anyway so I can't really use it as a server for my home network. That's something I was looking into recently, but I don't have time right now (and sats are at discount, so...)
BTW this last hour I have been trying to get rid of Snap in Ubuntu 22.04, and it's basically impossible, so I'm going to install something light and familiar that is Snap-free too: good old Mint.

2024-09-10 09:27:26

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Correct. That's what I'm saying. If you set a limit that prevents a spammer like ReplyGuy from sending replies (note), he can still clog the relays by spamming likes, or quotes, or any other event that is written onto the relays.

2024-09-08 10:09:27

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Also, as I explained, there is no "opting out" if you already have a passport. It contains your full biometrics and they are logged into the database every time you go through an airport, regardless of what booth you choose.

2024-09-08 10:03:10

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You can opt out, and I am sure it will be like that legally speaking for a long time. Doesn't mean they will tolerate that you exercise your legal right without making you pay for it, increasingly and inexorably.
Cash payments (under a certain threshold) are also guaranteed by law over here, and I just told you what happened to that guy.

2024-09-08 09:52:08

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What does "opting out of biometrics" even mean?
When you go through passport control at any airport, you are scanned for biometrics, full stop. Non-residents/citizens in the US have their faces scanned and their finger prints taken, and vice versa for non-EU resident/citizens when you come in. Same for Japan, Korea, Singapore, China and every single country in the world right now.
This has been going on for a decade or more, when all passports became biometrics-compliant. Your data is taken and put into the passport when you apply for it.
When you get to passport control, choosing to go through the human checkpoint instead of the machine doesn't make any difference whatsoever.
All European airports have "manual" checks for those who want to use them and you can "opt out".
Same for biometrics to board the flight. It makes no difference to "opt out" because your biometrics were already taken by airport security. You can, of course, but be ready to be inconvenienced and "nudged" to "comfort and common courtesy and civility (because if you cause trouble, you'll be messing up with every other passenger's "convenience")".
Legality is irrelevant, because the airlines and the authorities are totally coordinated in this, and you will be forced into compliance, or you won't fly.
There was a recent case in Spain in which a passenger who needed to pay for some extra charge (baggage I think) was not allowed boarding because he wanted to pay cash. It's a completely illegal action by the company, but they don't give a fuck, won't be penalized, and the passenger either complied, or he would miss the flight anyway. So compliance is enforced through discomfort.
The same will be done with everything else.

2024-09-07 14:45:59

The state, like all human organizations, especially criminal ones, naturally tend to want to accumulate more power, so they do whatever it takes. But that's not excuse for citizens to acquiesce to it and reinforce it.
Even though for the most part reform is impossible, formally democratic regimes still have some loopholes that allow the occasional rise of outsiders that people *could vote for*, and still they don't. Milei in Argentina is an example of the first, and the exception that puts the rule to the test.
And very soon, next year, we will have the real test in Argentina when they hold their election to the Parliament. Milei only has 15% of the seats in the Congress and 10% in the Senate now and he won't be able to continue his work unless that gets solved.
Western populations will systematically refuse to vote for anyone who comes out with a platform to reduce "public services", even if that means reducing the tax burden too.
Thus, the parties aspiring to colonize the State apparatus will simply never have such a platform, reinforcing its own original tendency to seek further power.
I am for the total abolition of the State, but if we're to continue to have one in the short and medium term, other than continuing to fight for a drastic reduction of its size, I think it would be worth revisiting some of the principles that most pro-freedom people take for immutable "self-evident truths" for "good government", like the 4-year cycle.
4 years is an extremely short period of time in which it's impossible to even get a major construction project done. Agendas cannot be designed, implemented, and reviewed for real results in 4 years. This naturally creates bad incentives and makes politicians factually unaccountable and irresponsible.
In many formal democracies, notably the US, this is made even worse with a staggered legislative election cycle every two years which keep the politicians and the population in a perpetual state of campaign. The main job of all those people is to ensure to get elected again, not to do anything for their constituents.
If that wasn't controversial enough, I've always been against term limitations too.
I totally get the rationale behind it, I just do not see any practical example that a politician that can only be 8 years in a specific position becomes less corrupted than one who can be there for 20 years. Most politics-related corruption happens at the bureaucrat, unelected level, not in high office.
#nevent1q…w0c7

2024-09-07 13:25:32

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I went from 2Gb swap to +8 in an additional swap file for a total of 10Gb.
It's been running a few hours now and RAM usage is up to 5Gb out of 8 now, from 3.2-ish originally, and swap usage down to 1.6Gb from 2 originally.
Swappiness down to 0 now from 60 originally.
However, Bitcoin Core doesn't show any improvement 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-09-07 10:43:57

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The most shocking part is that all this is a conscious, selfish political decision by the current generations. They are the ones choosing "more public services", which can only be paid by:
1. Higher taxes
2. Higher debt
3. Higher inflation
Because even implementing all of these, perpetually growing "public services" are a mathematical impossibility, they have provided the perfect excuse for the current infinite importation of immigrants ("we need them to pay for your pension!"), which further aggravates the situation.
We tend to blame the politicians, but they are only responding to the short-term demands of the electoral system. It's the citizens who are to blame.

2024-09-06 21:54:38

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Yes, that was my question. There was an upside, and a downside. It's difficult to define what "better off" would mean.

2024-09-06 20:49:42

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Been saying this for a loooong time. I wish Nostr notes were ephemeral by default. If a user wants to keep them forever, let him download and store them himself.

2024-09-06 13:41:06

Blegh, fuck this shit.
It's not so much the time, but the fact that I'm 90% sure after the long ass wait, it will still fail (as it has always done in previous occasions).
I honestly think this is an untenable situation, if Bitcoin really "is for everyone".
It clearly isn't.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/34dae5b58b2b22d26c3311707eb8a388fb57753038d865f7a045bef2ee0747ec.webp
#note1cgz…zqnn

2024-09-06 12:37:36

Oh, probably my new favorite, from the other day: "it's just a dev curating the experience".
#note195h…s2r0

2024-09-06 12:36:14

"Content moderation", "fight spam", "protect the children".
#note12rs…0g28

2024-09-06 10:07:09

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I don't want any relay-side "solutions". That's what would make Nostr unsafe to use and, in fact, threaten its very existence.

2024-09-06 10:02:13

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I just told you. Give users client-side more sophisticated solutions that allow them to curate their feed by themselves. Right now I can mute words, works OK at the basic level. Being able to block regular expressions would be even better.

2024-09-06 09:49:55

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A bot spammer is a lot more likely to be willing to zap "for attention" than a newbie. Also, you don't get to decide who has the right to write.
Instead of spending so much time and energy trying to figure out ways to censor content and effectively make Nostr more vulnerable and unsafe to use, the tech-inclined minds could focus on developing more sophisticated client-side tools that empower users to curate their own feed themselves, the way they like.

2024-09-05 14:31:00

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Also, how are the currencies of Russia and India in any sort of ranking? It makes no sense. Anybody with one working neuron would pick currencies like the Norwegian krone or the Singapore dollar before that crap.

2024-09-05 07:00:58

So this past couple of days once again I've been trying to set up Bitcore on Ubuntu on an older laptop. Of course not enough disk space so I have to use an external SSD, yadda yadda.
Last time I tried, months ago, it was an abject failure. It just isn't something possible.
Last time I was able to modify the files and change the working directories and download the blockchain on the external drive, which took like a week working 24/7, only to have the stupid program restart the download every time it finished.
Boggles my mind that the "Bitcoin community" cares so little to fix something like this which would seem absolutely basic if they really wanted "adoption".
At this stage it seems impossible in practical terms to run your own node unless you shell a lot of cash for off the shelf hardware that let's not full ourselves is otherwise mediocre for what it costs. Nobody likes Bitcoin that much, sorry.

2024-09-04 20:11:02

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I can't believe y'all have been at this the whole day, while FAILING to even mention the ONLY documented and proven Superman-worthy adversary and occasional reluctant cooperator.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/d8f7cb9fa44ef0b0960900a16d3c91bf06937fb1e6e197e914dabc991a7f621f.webp

2024-09-04 15:35:24

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Got it. I stopped tracking it long ago. Like, my second week here 😂

2024-09-04 15:29:12

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Could that mean that somehow they count the same npub times as many relays as you have, for example?

2024-09-04 13:33:19

Something's really wrong with @nprofile…33km . I'm missing like 80% of my feed. I check my mobile client and @nprofile…f9uj on desktop at the same time, and I see what I expect to see - the notes from people I follow, as they post. On Coracle, nothing. One note once every number of minutes, sometimes half an hour, and none at all from people I follow who are actively posting as I can see on the other clients.

2024-09-04 12:33:06

Just trying to read online something on Z-Library, and it's giving this. Bad news I guess :(
https://image.nostr.build/2fdb38ac369152f3a97ae2f371650c065623f11b0139e39cf22d1cfb38162dad.png

2024-09-04 10:38:58

This is a coherent and inevitable consequence of "content moderation".
You want to be an editor? Then forget about the section 230 exemptions. You'll be held liable for what other people say, because you can "moderate it" as the government dictates, and you don't.
That will apply to Nostr clients and relays too once they are on their radar too.
When they start to arrest pro-censorship devs, I propose that we hashtag very hard about it. That'll be about all.
#note14na…53sk

2024-09-04 10:32:02

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So absolutely true.

2024-09-04 08:58:55

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That's so last month though
https://media.tenor.com/Y-OZJ4OzBVAAAAAC/boring-kevin.gif

2024-09-04 08:41:44

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So we'll be bouncing tomorrow.

2024-09-04 07:59:13

Did anything specific happen to cause today's dip? Just curious if there's been any news or something.

2024-09-04 07:47:29

Jokes aside, Plato was a fucking communist, so prolly nah.
#note15tn…t0rk

2024-09-04 07:45:01

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That's not a Nostr problem, it's a people problem.

2024-09-04 07:39:01

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Glad to be of help!

2024-09-03 23:34:20

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Just two nights ago, the missus and I (re)watched Laputa. So many of the classical Ghibli/Miyazaki themes were already there.
I'm unable to rank them though, not even a number one favorite, which changes depending on the day and mood.
One of my super favorite Miyazaki (pre-Ghibli) works though was the post-apocalyptic-Water World-like 26-episode tv show Mirai Shōnen Konan.

2024-09-03 18:34:19

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I have, in Spain and in Croatia. When I first used one, it was totally non KYC. Later on, they began to ask for a phone number. I hear lately there may be some form of ID involved, but haven't experienced it because I moved on to other methods. 6-10% premium vs Binance, which is actually not super horrible compared to things like Robosats (but way more expensive than Bisq).

2024-09-03 18:24:26

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I agree, although I think you'll agree with me that something like Walmart does not simply "happen" in a free market. It requires the State, especially the legislative branch, to help it happen. In exchange for whatever.

2024-09-03 18:21:31

I've heard about this for years now, but personally, I've never experienced it.
Maybe my info is being siphoned all the same, but I don't get weirdly accurate adds. As a matter of fact, I don't get ads, period. Perhaps because I go to great lengths to turn off as many anti-privacy settings and "features" as possible in every single device I own, for every single site I visit.
That said, it's also true that I don't use Google/Android phones, which I suspect are even worse than Apple if left unchecked. And of course, it's been probably ten years now since I stopped using Facebook and I've never used Instagram. Because I'm a captive of friends and family, I am forced to use Whatsapp though.
#nevent1q…tc35

2024-09-03 14:23:30

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Some seem to believe that devs should not operate under that premise.
https://image.nostr.build/58a5121bc5c0500a0cd8f026c512b97d470b14912fc288d30fbb9ccfb1602a4e.png

2024-09-02 14:59:49

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Technically, it's the very definition of censorship.

2024-09-02 14:57:58

I'd argue being a socialist at any age today, when we have 100 years of perfectly documented history of terror, mass murder and economic disaster by all sorts of socialist regimes, is prove of being a psychopath.
#note1tuz…g9d8

2024-09-02 11:26:29

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Nostur does this. It's the one I like and they only one I use on iOS, but I've called them out for being a bunch of fucking brats with incel dick breath with such retarded behavior.

2024-09-02 10:20:13

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Well, that was similar to Tik Tok, a knee-jerk reaction by Western governments to the fact that for years their citizens have been training Chinese and Russian AI bots for free with billions upon billions of data points for free, through the "fun picture" apps on mobile. It's not that they are against AI surveillance, they just don't want you to help China and Russia.

2024-09-02 08:24:43

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Plus, right now all they have to do is slap the "AI-assisted!" sticker on it, and people will lap it up like candy.

2024-08-31 22:07:36

Some handy presidential assassination tips from Mr James Reeves 😂
https://youtu.be/ulh88aBI0iU

2024-08-31 11:19:22

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So what worries you is dreaming about NIPs, not Jeff Bezos? 🤔

2024-08-31 11:08:34

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That's correct. Just not if we summarize it as "it's both + and -1/2 at the same time". That never happens. It's one single state with a 50-50% probability of being +1/2 or -1/2.

2024-08-30 14:39:07

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Been reading through their website (in Danish). It contains links to their social media too. No reference to that document.

2024-08-30 14:25:40

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Is there such thing as a "verified" Nostr npub?

2024-08-30 14:16:41

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Even if we ignore the fact it's written in English, that language does not feel State-like.

2024-08-30 13:45:24

I'm specifically thinking about something that teaches about BTC, and its lessons, not a poker deck with BTC lore characters.
Just like the original game of Monopoly (not the Parker Brothers, but the original Landlord's Game by Elizabeth Magie) was designed and published to teach about Georgism.
#nevent1q…gg0r
https://image.nostr.build/86f11fe5c643334dd45b8e38f63f32bbe95ae4fbba8b62c57e3a5e3a80fc1ff0.jpg

2024-08-30 12:29:10

A few years ago I helped a friend design, produce and launch a card game. I wonder if a BTC-themed game would somehow work, commercially.
Realistically speaking, producing anything under 10,000 units, even in Poland which is the physical card and board game producing hub of Europe, is not feasible if you want to sell the set for something like 25€.
#note1xms…ycs6

2024-08-30 09:03:39

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> no one
... that we know.

2024-08-30 08:57:33

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Who have they killed now?
https://image.nostr.build/8ca03dc86c42d5629aba3bf69fe57dca0c4ea75b799b4024a45f1656bf1d7d1c.gif

2024-08-29 21:11:18

Did I hear right, that the Democrats are now saying that they cannot take RFK Jr off the ballots because REASONS?
Just after Kennedy himself said that he had polls showing that 66% of his voters said they'd vote Trump if he pulled out... So leaving him will cause a number of people to vote for him anyway, casting an invalid vote and subtracting from Trump's total.
The same RFK Jr that these pieces of shit fought tooth and nail to keep OUT of the ballots!
Is this for real? Can these motherfuckers any more corrupt? And how isn't the judiciary intervening?
This is truly third world level crookedness.

2024-08-29 17:02:08

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Well, lots of schools were attacked. I was at one too. But I guess you mean the very famous videos of the cops assaulting people sitting on the stairs, dragging women by the hair and jumping on peoples heads. That was intense.
If you were a foreigner here during that time you probably got wrapped up in the honest and more wholesome wave of popular enthusiasm. I've been pro-independence since I was first politically aware, so I have always had a more cynical view of our "leaders", their intentions, and their behavior before, during and after 2017.
It's a sad state of affairs and I have long moved on with my life. Not interested in helping those who don't want to help themselves, and risking a lot in the process as I did those days.

2024-08-29 15:06:40

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"Tallat"

2024-08-29 14:46:43

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I do 👍

2024-08-29 13:34:54

If you follow me, and I don't follow you, please do let me know by replying here.
I usually reciprocate, but follower count/lists on Nostr apps are kind of flaky, so I may have missed you.
No DMs, I don't look at those.

2024-08-29 12:08:18

That was the excuse for this really.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/7c51c235b7b8f205e4949ac69003b8d486115c943e002084f79af0c1ab4f8ca6.webp
#note1gu7…yfvz

2024-08-29 12:05:12

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I actually don't shoot any type of living creature, flying or otherwise -- I do not hunt at all and have no wish to try.
I do fish for fun though. But what I catch, I eat.
So I understand and I am not opposed to people who hunt for food. It's just not my thing.

2024-08-29 11:41:03

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It was a self-deprecating joke implying how bad I am at shooting clays, but maybe it... flew over your head 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-08-29 11:31:02

GM.
Are you having a good Thursday, anon?
Go out and shoot grass.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/acffb4e829de058496146c41630bd7a01b4aa09b66488df662d6e763efaed001.webp

2024-08-28 23:10:34

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But we're down with Nostr.

2024-08-28 23:09:19

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I was the only among all of my friends and family who used it, and held on to it till the very end.
Oh, wait...

2024-08-28 21:25:55

The massive balls this Pakistani dude has, holy fuck.
https://youtu.be/6RNSeS1PAtw

2024-08-28 19:53:08

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If you find some and want to cook it, avoid the ever-present Chinese-style recipes that you'll get from YouTube and so on. Not because Chinese style isn't good (I love it), but because they go for crunchy. I recommend that you try a Western recipe that goes for soft and sticky instead (but again, make sure you buy them boiled already, to save time):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C7N949Kj0Y

2024-08-28 17:56:15

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It's basically all collagen, so it helps greatly with hair, nail, skin and joint health. And if you worry about wrinkles, or rather preventing them, refilling your collagen levels regularly sure can't be bad either.
Where I'm from we use absolutely everything out of a pig, and the ears, muzzle and face parts make some of the best dishes, in my opinion. In soups, in thick stews, grilled, fried... They also happen to be the cheapest after offal, so it's all plus points.
Regardless of where you are, you should be able to get them from any decent butcher -- they will likely be pre-boiled and clean, which is what you want!

2024-08-28 16:53:18

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You wish.
At least Weimar went with the most exquisite and decadent jazz dens, over the counter cocaine and heroin, and generalized debauchery and degeneracy that gave us art, literature, and quantum physics.
We're going with the high pitched whine of a chemically castrated blue haired twink who self-diagnosed for anorexia nervosa, ADHD and autism because once in middle school the teacher told him to be munch his lunch with the mouth closed and made him cry.

2024-08-28 14:48:31

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Pig's ear.

2024-08-28 13:46:48

To reiterate the point. Ladies, if you want to have a glowing skin, just eat this every day:
https://nostrcheck.me/media/82bdee506e769ebc94ee2f362d07c1960dce40bac650d826a42f8e0c019c3c96/6b32865b63bbef3f396a71d9f569f91917cdb51ddebcd244a4770c7e738698b2.webp
#note1xt3…6ul8

2024-08-28 11:26:34

Does any one have specifics on Meshtastic's realistic range in a dense urban environment with no possible line of sight between nodes? No infrastructure-mode only, no internet bridge, obviously. Otherwise what's the point.
All I find online is talk about how so and so dude managed to transmit 200 km away between hill tops on flat countryside.
#note1p75…65x5

2024-08-28 09:20:41

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You have to specify the "eat healthy" part because most of them will interpret that as "eat vegan hyperprocessed chemical food", when what we mean is "eat fatty beef, lamb and butter and drop the bread".

2024-08-28 07:44:22

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People who "don't get" then/than and affect/effect piss me off greatly.
Not to mention those who say shit like "would of" or "I could care less about grammar".

2024-08-27 23:32:14

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If the map I saw the other day shows actual nodes, there is only ONE other node in the whole city of Barcelona.
I am more than willing to buy and set up a few to distribute them around my friends, but realistically will I get them to work without line of sight? I would need them to reach 10-15 km through all this concrete and steel.
https://meshtastic.liamcottle.net/?lat=41.343824581185686&lng=362.1670532226563&zoom=10

2024-08-27 23:13:58

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I've been dying to try it for a while now, but in my case, I live in an apartment in very dense city center among tall, thick buildings, so getting line of sight to another node is basically impossible.

2024-08-27 12:42:16

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Aw shit, I was expecting something like an image of the Pentagon or the Zhongnanhai complex at the very end or something xD

2024-08-27 09:24:39

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Yeah, it immediately came to mind, although I think the AI version is less graceful. The angle of the left hand is different, more like coming down to grab, instead of the original, barely extending to receive immense power...

2024-08-27 09:12:04

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Yeah. Now do humans that simply happen to have hands.

2024-08-27 09:08:02

(This was a Spanglish pun, by the way: "llama" = "flame", and it's not really "running" but rather doing its best to walk)
#nevent1q…3ykz

2024-08-26 21:02:55

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That's the story of every single internet "content moderator", from the YouTube "human reviewer" with the power to destroy livelihoods and businesses, down to the incel trans Nazi Reddit mod du jour making a statement permabanning people to see if he gets it to twitch a little thinking about it.
Fuck me, it was like that all the way back when IRC, already...

2024-08-26 20:33:18

:(
#nevent1q…pxpx

2024-08-26 19:26:56

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Nope, gassed and injected tuna for sashimi is basically 100% yellowfin ("ahi") from South East Asia. Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand. Then Hawaii, Fiji and other island nations. More rarely from the Indian ocean.
Natural, non manipulated tuna that's been properly bled while live, then kept in good conditions is awesome, doesn't matter what type - yellowfin, bigeye, skipjack, albacore or, of course, any of the three species of bluefin. Best to let it sit for a couple of days, though.

2024-08-26 17:52:35

My computer running Llama 3.1.
https://media.tenor.com/dWjSTTrohZcAAAAC/resident-evil-resident-evil-welcome-to-raccoon-city.gif

2024-08-26 17:47:48

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Hahah I totally get it. I've also watched them a couple of times already and would totally consider polyamory for her!

2024-08-26 15:52:29

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Dude, HCF was soooooo good.
She was on Station 11 after that, which I loved as well, even if it's a completely different animal.

2024-08-26 14:56:53

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Please, stop fighting. It hurts me seeing two frens arguing. I'll tell you what. You both send the 200 + 100 BTC to me, and I will escrow it for you until you figure it out.

2024-08-26 14:29:29

Well, yes. Storage is not a problem. Getting the fuckin thing to download for the first time is.
#nevent1q…zwa8

2024-08-26 11:23:20

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I'm afraid you may not be interpreting it correctly...

2024-08-26 09:59:01

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You're not dismantling anything when you push for censorship and compliance. Which you do always.

2024-08-26 09:54:58

This guy doesn't miss one opportunity to push for "content control" on Nostr, does he? Even if his arguments are as infantile and stupid as the government's.
Roads are used systematically and routinely to commit all sorts of crimes in our societies. Road operators, like governments and private companies, don't "do enough" to prevent those crimes, which absolutely and indisputably require the use of roads to happen.
For instance, they could make all users of roads stop every 50 meters, get off their vehicles, allow "agents of the law" to check their IDs, check their trunks to make sure they're not carrying a kidnapped child, and put trackers in their bags.
But the bastards just won't do it! They're complicit with child traffickers!
#nevent1q…6sng

2024-08-26 09:42:19

Been saying this since the first day I got here. Unless Nostr moves towards making relays minimalistically "dumb" and unable to "comply", or we get rid of them altogether and become a P2P network, we will be vulnerable. Relays will either be shut down for not "complying", or they will be abandoned by users because they "comply", like X, Meta, Google, etc. and we will end up having wasted years in here just to get where we were already.
#nevent1q…x8wd

2024-08-25 22:28:13

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Also, it's a different story too if you're one of those nutjobs who argue that aborting an 8 month fetus is the same as aborting an 8 week fetus and should be allowed as well.

2024-08-25 22:26:51

Trump is pro-abortion. It's a different story if your TDS prevents you from thinking critically outside of the Dem propaganda about the SCOTUS decision on Roe v Wade.
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2024-08-25 21:46:08

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Well, in the US you have a major problem with the tuna you eat in 99% of the supermarket sushi, which is the main channel for sushi, for example.
It's mostly dog shit grade tuna that has been in the hold of a wooden boat in a tropical country for two weeks before being offloaded. The tuna is not toxic yet, but it's on the verge. It's also, let's say, not red in color. Rather grey-brown-green. The sort of color that you would immediately reject if you were told to eat it, especially raw.
But decades ago some enterprising people figured out that if you gas the tuna with carbon monoxide, you can turn it some sort of extremely unnatural fluorescent bright pink hue. It's a purely chemical reaction that does not "revert" anything. The fish is still going bad -- but it will not ever change color again. So you can literally be eating rotten, toxin-laden tuna, and lack the visual cue to tell you that (the color).
There have been deaths due to this worldwide, so the practice has been banned in the EU, Japan, even China for the last twenty years... But not in the US. I could tell you a lot of dirty little details about how this story went down, but I won't. In short: your beef is gassed as well.
Now, good for the EU, you'll say. Well, no. After all this cracking down (which continues today), the EU turns around and allows ANOTHER type of manipulation (that's coming to the US now, by the way), that has exactly the same risks. It's just a different set of chemicals from the ascorbic acid family ("vitamin C", but not it) that are added "to preserve the color" of tuna, exactly the same that CO does, but even worse, because these are chemicals that are literally injected into the tuna flesh (plus a lot of water, so there's double fraud).
This tuna has become absolutely prevalent in Europe now. It's the default in all supermarkets, both in the frozen section, at the fish counter and in sushi. And yet, the EU doesn't ban it. Why?
Well, it's 2024, and I guess just as the US has its beef lobby, Europe has other lobbies, including the large fishing and seafood trading and processing companies in Spain, France and the Netherlands, who sell literally tens of thousands of tons of this crap continent-wide.
My point being, fiat food is everywhere and it's a strategy against the people. The process may be more advanced in the US, for local reasons. But in Europe it's progressing as well.
Whenever you hear about such and such new "protection" by EU authorities, rest assure what they mean is protection of some agri-food lobby pushed by one of the member States (especially France). Not the consumer.

2024-08-25 21:20:50

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I agree. That's why I prefaced my note with "You'd be surprised". There are other things going on closer to my niche (fish and seafood) that are also quite shocking.

2024-08-25 20:30:15

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I am a European who happens to work in the US food industry. You'd be surprised.
Definitely anything is better than the US and China in terms of regulation, but the differences we all find between Europe and the US are more closely related to the way distribution is handled than to what's allowed and not.
Europe is A LOT denser, and our distribution is A LOT better in all senses. We have better cold chain, better infrastructure, better central markets... We have quicker access to better food that doesn't need to travel in a truck for a week before it gets to the first distribution hub.
Second, and very important too, culturally speaking, we simply eat more whole foods and cook more than Americans do.

2024-08-25 20:11:12

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Why hurt Durov financially too for not submitting to the diktat of the European Soviet Union (just as he resisted the diktat of the Russian Führer and of the AmeriReich?)

2024-08-25 18:48:48

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Where's "here" though? The "social media" apps like Coracle (the client I'm using right noon desktop), Nostur, Damus, Amethyst, etc? Artists and creators could be on Nostr via Wavlake, Zapstream, etc., and not "here".

2024-08-25 16:33:00

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I've said many times that I wish Nostr notes were ephemeral, or that it were the users who were responsible for storing their own stuff. Wanna read my old notes? You have to retrieve them from me, P2P (and maybe I don't let you). But as I said, I lack the technical knowledge.