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Full Member of the #Capybara Appreciation Society. Unabashed fanboi of kycnot.me. Anarchist. Dad.

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I believe everybody has a right to defend themselves against #Netanyahu, #Gollant and other fascist war-criminals. Not just a right, but a duty; and most of us are not doing our share.

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2025-06-02 09:37:43 GMT

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Well, don't be the main character and you won't be swarmed by 50 drones :)
If you end up the main character anyway, make sure your friends learn formations and practice their drills :D

2025-06-02 09:34:13 GMT

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"Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo."
Or bring 49 friends :)

2025-06-02 09:33:02 GMT

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Shotguns loaded with birdshot.
If its stupid but it works, its not stupid.

2025-05-29 20:48:32 GMT

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Buildroot.org
Set -O3 and it will run faster than any other distro

2025-05-28 06:14:25 GMT

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Anomie and ennui are here, but they're far from evenly distributed.
Other than that, 100% agree.

2025-05-28 06:11:21 GMT

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That's the minimum scale of production I was talking about.
Human leaders are social primates, just more coked-up and psychopathic than most.
When growth slows and their underling's social climbs stall, they will play chicken with the War Train to bluff a larger share of the loot.
I think this is well underway already...

2025-05-28 06:00:09 GMT

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What cannot continue forever, won't.
We are gaining efficiency (sometimes), at the cost of increased minimum scale of production, and complexity. Both of which increase fragility, in Taleb's sense of the word.
At scale, my country can no longer fuel itself, nor fertilise crops, nor make semiconductors.
One day we will offend China enough to trigger sanctions, and that day will come. I worry about that day, not robot utopia...

2025-05-28 05:51:34 GMT

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Your family has a dissident culture, and dissident attitudes to social status.
Don't change! 💖

2025-05-28 05:48:20 GMT

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All true re specialisation.
But the global population is still rising, its just that purchasing power is less and less evenly distributed, because governments are redistributing more and more and distorting markets to breaking point.
Automation is neither the problem nor the solution...

2025-05-28 05:42:21 GMT

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There are two kinds of filter-frees IMHO - the kind that require paper bags, and the kind that blow dust back out everywhere. A cyclone can only do so much. The human avoids doing one job only because the machine avoids doing another.
LEDs are modules, not simple bulbs, and they suffer failures too, admittedly not at the same frequency. They still need replacing and we not automating that...

2025-05-28 05:39:08 GMT

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I think they did bring productivity gains.
Many countries in Asia, even the middleclasses don't own washing machines because domestic staff are so cheap. Such a waste of human potential.
I would argue that we did become more productive and affluent, but social status is relative and that's what people thought they were buying and were thus disappointed.
That is getting worse, not better, and I don't have a solution. Culture is upstream of both politics and economics...

2025-05-28 05:30:19 GMT

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Those people already exist - they spend far more money than they need to on frequently replacing their fragile machines, they suffer from obesity and malnutrition, and they're boring to be around.
Hard disagree on automation replacing filters and light bulbs, those are exactly the jobs too marginal to be worth automating. So far we're mostly just making replacement more expensive in resources but cheaper and simpler in labour training.
💖 on your last paragraph. When my machines break, I love taking them apart and making them dumber, more reliable and more repairable. They look like Dr Frankenstein's Adam, of course :D

2025-05-28 05:17:03 GMT

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Productivity gains, substituting labour with capital, largely borrowed and uncertain in its prospects.

2025-05-28 05:14:21 GMT

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I have low-end versions of some of those. They require quite a bit of my attention and skills, otherwise they soon become unservicable.
I am baffled by how many GenZ men and women do not know how to clean a vacuum cleaner's filter, and how many won't even if shown. (Not just GenZ, my GenY wife too on this specific task).
The Second Law of Thermodynamics is a cruel mistress. Fully-Automated Luxury Communism is not on the cards, for better or worse.
Billionaires can have Fully-Automated Potemkin Villages if they wish, but only with human staff playing at being the "Resident Evil maid" out of the master's sight.

2025-05-28 05:02:05 GMT

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The toaster will play intrusive ads, then bluescreen, and catch fire. Premium ones that don't will not be purchased.
Changes will be incremental, enshitified, and only for middleclass+ and only so long as the ponzi schemes hold up.

2025-05-28 04:58:18 GMT

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I have friends and cousins in robotics.
Humans are like coal - the resources to replace us at scale just aren't available. The most that is likely to be achieved is crushing the price at the top end of the market via optionality.

2025-05-28 04:44:27 GMT

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Robots have expensive CAPEX, LLMs expensive OPEX. Humans are cheap and disposable.
This is the Twillight of the Professional/Managerial Class, not the fall of Asgard.

2025-05-28 01:48:19 GMT

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Studies show women place a higher emphasis on prospective partners' economic success than men do. There's all kinds of copium by feminists as to why this is so since it is axiomatic that women are morally superior. The effect size varies between cultures.

2025-05-28 01:30:48 GMT

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Dude, its been this way, like, forever, in every culture ever recorded.
Don't buy into "men and women are the same", even subconsciously. Its not a bit true.

2025-05-28 00:59:57 GMT

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Re-posting is the sincerest form of flattery :)
It deserved a broader context

2025-05-28 00:41:33 GMT

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2025-05-27 06:53:30 GMT

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'Night!

2025-05-27 01:19:37 GMT

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I couldn't count, sara, so I try not to :p
"Welcome, strangers, to the show
I'm the one who should be lying low
Saw the knives out, turned my back
Heard the train coming, stayed right on that track
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle of a dream
I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings
I've done all the dumb things
Caught the fever, heard the tune
Thought I loved her, hung my heart on the moon
Started howling, made no sense
Thought my friends would rush to my defence
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle of a dream
I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings
I've done all the dumb things
And I get all your good advice
Never stops me from going through these things twice
I see the knives out, I turn my back
I hear the train coming, I stay right on that track
In the middle, in the middle, in the middle of a dream
I lost my shirt, I pawned my rings
I've done all the dumb things
I melted wax to fix my wings
I've done all the dumb things
Yeah I threw my hat into the ring
I've done all the dumb things
Well I thought that I just had to sing
I've done all the dumb things"
- Paul Kelly, "Dumb Things"

2025-05-26 10:56:40 GMT

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Periodic insanity is better than continuous; just as Constitutional democracy is better than Absolutism.

2025-05-26 10:43:54 GMT

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We have laws and Constitutions to impede that.
Without those, there is only force.

2025-05-26 10:10:58 GMT

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You're right about the present system, but it could be changed.
Cease to enforce usurious contracts, and no one will buy interest-bearing bonds.
Or enforce the original Westminster principle of "no parliament may bind its successors" and then every election would be a sovereign default

2025-05-26 04:42:34 GMT

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"In the Russian Army... you do a lot of digging."
- one Russian guy I served with
Shovels really are a large part of what makes their system work :D

2025-05-26 04:00:16 GMT

A child was seen struggling through the surrounding flames, trying to escape the fire after the firebomb strike at Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School.
https://video.nostr.build/8305729b6993ecbf2b8ed95d1936d50df8d660e46335b0c7774f06988e61c0bf.mp4
#YourTaxesAtWork

2025-05-24 10:25:24 GMT

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And that, I agree with 100%
🍻

2025-05-24 10:16:35 GMT

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I agree... but I still don't want the government involved.
No govt can make vice impossible, but govt is good at making it compulsory.

2025-05-22 09:04:50 GMT

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2025-05-20 00:33:55 GMT

#Australia update in the War on Cash:
https://ainsliebullion.com.au/News-Resources/Article/CommBank-Asks-About-Cash-at-Home/ID/7722
Banks being "incentivised" to demand details on home cash holdings, on pain of account freezing.
Ignore the last paragraph about metals, that's the source's self-interest.
AUSTRAC actually keeps a very tight grip on private bullion holdings - see Banking Act 1959 and Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006. In case govt "needs" your money - open and explicit in Banking Act. This has been progressively extended to cash and cash-equivalents.
This is why EVERYBODY needs to buy p2p / no-KYC and maintain good OPSEC, even if it costs more. #Bitcoin, metals, and now even cash.
Your government is deciding when to break open the piggy-bank. You are the piggy-bank.
No, they don't fear your reaction, and no, they don't care about the long-term implications of deincentivising productivity. They will be playing golf in Florida by then, just like most of our ex-PMs.
#banking #prepping #forfeiture #cash #gold #kyc

2025-05-17 13:10:12 GMT

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#prepping #energypolicy

2025-05-16 02:23:22 GMT

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True, but they're only a small part of the picture.
Poor or lower-middleclass people in Third World countries can't afford either legal or illegal migration, absent cash inducements

2025-05-16 01:56:52 GMT

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David Ricardo observed in the early 1800s that most people did not settle down and have children until they had achieved the same level of financial security that their parents enjoyed at the same age.
Newsflash - human nature hasn't changed a jot.
Declining living standards and declining financial security lead to declining birth rates.
The Left gaslights us that this is the result of investment in education, as though overinvestment in credentials wasn't also a response to declining living standards and increasingly desperate competition.
The Right gaslights us that declining birth rates are the result of declines in "traditional" social roles. If 1950s social roles were still delivering 1950s results, then more 2020s men and women would follow them. But they are not.
Both wings of the Establishment want to "solve" the problem by luring other people's children to migrate here, bringing their family's capital, on the false promise of 1950s living standards; and at the cost of not just inflated credential tuition but the loss of their hard-earned understanding of how (their) society works, their native language, and too often their own hopes of timely marriage and children.

2025-05-11 12:38:45 GMT

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Have you thought about how many pages of regulations are written and re-written to do this? The number of Federal agencies tasked with investigating and managing this? The court time, at all levels?
Rich people can only do this if taxpayers are footing the gargantuan bill, and public security forces are standing guard.

2025-05-11 12:19:44 GMT

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Without a nation-state to subsidise protecting the financial interests of the shareholders against the Board, the Boards' against the managers, and the managers' against the workers, there will be few and tiny corporations.

2025-05-11 07:02:46 GMT

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Truth.
Plug-in hybrids are win.

2025-05-11 06:06:08 GMT

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We need to offer a cup of cold concrete to every new sign up.
Many have never encountered a community without a Party line to adhere to, and a hierarchy to snitch to.
#Nostr isn't for everybody, I fear...

2025-05-11 05:36:01 GMT

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Imagine if your country had the second-richest reserves of fissile ore in the world, volunteered to be Britain's weapons-testing range, but was too socialist to build even one commercial reactor.
Then imagine it has no oil reserves of consequence, depending on the Middle East for supply.
And, because politics, refused to allow domestic refineries to upgrade or expand, leading to them all shutting down except for two tiny plants mostly mothballed and running on grants. So we depend utterly on Singapore to refine our Middle Eastern crude. Singapore and Australia have never gone to war, and they like money, but there's a country with 15x our combined populations in between, with whom we've fought three undeclared ground wars since WW2.
I can't afford to keep a Gulfstream fuelled and ready to take me to Florida if SHTF like the donor class here, so nuclear is a no-brainer.

2025-04-11 07:04:13 GMT

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Medieval Iceland, but literate :)

2025-04-11 05:07:28 GMT

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Its those tones that stop me, man.
Pinyin might use the Latin alphabet, but the pronounciation is completely alien for me!

2025-04-11 04:48:49 GMT

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Tagr-bot is Rabble's, AFAIK.
Rabble's not a police officer, more a "People's Commissar For The Prevention Of Wrongthink And The Promotion Of Grant-Applications".

2025-04-11 00:49:53 GMT

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Obama killed critics with drone strikes, let us not forget.
American citizens, unarmed, and without charge or trial.
Richard Nixon looks positively benevolent by today's standards.

2025-04-10 23:10:31 GMT

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Yes.
Women of every skin colour need a lot of drama and bullsh-t to prevent boredom.
If they're not getting it from work (or family), it'll have to come out of your relationship.
True fact :D

2025-04-10 22:58:30 GMT

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NGL, I think educated Asian girls are de-skilling there even faster than Western ones!
But if you're in Asia, you can just hire a cook.

2025-04-10 11:13:10 GMT

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All States practise taxation and redistribution. WHICH favoured group of parasites get first dibs on the loot varies.
There are no exceptions to this rule, and we can follow it back at least 5000 years.
All States, and most Chiefdoms tax and redistribute. Clan and Band societies do not.
We need to invent new ways of living that build on the latter.

2025-04-10 10:38:56 GMT

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You seem to use some terms in an idiosyncratic way.
How would you define "Marxism"?

2025-04-10 10:27:54 GMT

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No, not true.
The Kaganate of Khazaria and the Ethiopian Empire were explicitly Jewish States for centuries during the early Middle Ages, and dwarfed modern Israel.
There were Jewish Berber tribal kingdoms in North Africa in Late Antiquity.
The Khanate of Crimea in the Early Modern period was notionally Muslim, but the Krimchak Jews there had their own armed forces and their own defined territories within it that even the Great Khan was not permitted to enter. (The Khanate was very dependent on Krimchak slavers for its foreign exchange.)
Early Modern Spain had similar quasi-independent Jewish cities. Pedro II "the Cruel" managed to cling to his throne for a decade with their armed support, the memory of which Ferdinand of Aragon used to justify expelling them.

2025-04-10 09:20:18 GMT

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Go, unfortunately, is not a language I have mastered, despite the evangelism of several nostriches :D
I will download and look over it, though, thanks!

2025-04-10 09:05:06 GMT

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Okay. Will harming mostly-innocent American tourists help or hinder solving this problem?

2025-04-10 08:50:10 GMT

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It has been demonstrated mathematically that ~5% of all trades show evidence of insider knowledge - pertinent information not yet released to the public.
This is Trump keeping the loot in the family, instead of letting every congresscritter and his "wife, mistress and fifteen best friends" join the feeding frenzy.
In the USA, congresscritter have a loophole letting them do this. Nancy Pelosi was the most whale-watched.
In the West outside the US of A, the rule of law is so feeble the politicians don't bother with a loophole.
This is how the rich-but-not-superrich steal.

2025-04-10 08:37:41 GMT

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Dude, your targeting advice gets Bibi way harder than Sara ever could...

2025-04-10 07:24:06 GMT

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I'm a patchy chimera, homo sapiens with a sprinkle of homo neanderthalensis and probably h. denisova.
About 30% of my nuclear DNA isn't even strictly inherited, but was side-loaded by viruses. We call it "horizontal gene transfer" when they do it, because "genetic engineering" wouldn't pay so well if venture capital realised brainless viruses can do it too.
I want one of these wolves, and a matching thylacine.

2025-04-10 07:04:33 GMT

This is from an email sent out by Yanis Varoufakis, a literal Communist who was (briefly) Finance Minister in Greece.
Should Le Pen be barred? What is the Left’s right answer on this conundrum?
This is a crucial conversation to have in general, not particularly about Marine Le Pen. It is about the principled position that the democratic Left must take on the question of who has the right to remove the political rights (the right to vote and to seek votes) of whom.
We know what can happen when political rights can be rescinded by the courts en masse – just look at the distortions in the American political system caused by the loss of political rights of ex-convicts, a huge portion of America’s working class – especially of Black Americans.
We know how progressive Presidents in Latin America have been targeted with lawfare, from Rafael Corea to Lula, with catastrophic effects for their people.
And we have seen how the pathetic legal efforts to prevent Trump from running made a terrible thing grow impossibly worse.
But let me narrow this down by looking at Le Pen’s case in some detail. Three different questions arise in her case:
1st Question: What do we, the Left, want to see happen to Le Pen?
The obvious answer: We want to see her get crushed at the ballot box, in the polling stations. We want the masses to turn away from her and her merry authoritarian xenophobes. We want the likes of Le Pen, Trump, Musk and Orban to lose the discursive battle, politically, ethically – to fall from grace in the eyes of all decent, sensible people. We should be enjoying watching her hypocritical law-and-order policies being exposed: lest we forget, her party ran on an authoritarian law & order policy agenda of banning ankle bracelets in favour of incarcerating everyone at the drop of a hat – including Ms Le Pen, last week!
To recap, here is the gist of my first question: Does banning Ms Le Pen from participating in the next presidential elections help do any of this? Quite the opposite: the ban turns her into a pseudo-hero, it helps her portray herself as a victim and of democracy as a game that only the Radical Centre is allowed to win.
Of course, the fact that Le Pen and her mates of the global Nationalist International may benefit politically and morally from her ban does not, on its own, suggest that her ban is unjustified. More questions need to be answered before we get to that verdict. So, here is a second question:
2nd Question: Was Le Pen guilty of the charges? Did she improperly funnel resources from the European Parliament to her national headquarters?
I have no doubt she did. But, let me put this in context. MEPs are given dazzling sums of money to employ staff plus additional monies to fund political work in their home countries. To be precise, the staff allowance per MEP last year was set at €30,769 monthly. It is enough to hire an assistant, a researcher and a local constituency worker, and still have many thousands of euros left over. The residual monies are routinely sent to the national parties whose funding from the national parliament is always tighter. Cash strapped party leaders are known to oblige MEPs to do this. And, yes, some MEPs find ways to channel that excess to their relatives. I recall a centrist MEP once boasting that it was “common to employ one’s wife while sleeping with one’s staff”!
So, yes, Le Pen is probably guilty but of a crime so widespread in the European Parliament that singling her out, and only after she began leading opinion polls, smacks of a selective justice of the type that a genuine democrat will find hard to defend.
But, for argument’s sake, let’s agree that, even if it is selective justice, it must be carried out – that this was the case in front of the judges and that, therefore, they had no choice but to deliver a guilty verdict.
Two further issues arise: One concerns the indefensible use of so-called “provisional execution” clauses. In short, Le Pen was banned from the election before her appeals were heard. That’s how Lula was prevented from running in Brazil so that a rightist businessman could win (Nb. Plans that came to naught as the fascist Bolsonaro surprised both the Left and the Right to win). When, later, Lula’s appeal was heard and the charges dismissed when it was too late to stop Bolsonaro. Does the Left really want to say that the use of “provisional execution” is bad when used against ‘our’ people but quite alright when they are used against someone like Le Pen? That would be an inexcusable own goal.
The second issue is this: Should a conviction for any crime mean the loss of political rights? I think not. Political rights should never, under any circumstances, be suspended. This is, I am convinced, imperative. A principle worth fighting for. And one that, so far, is respected in most Anglosaxon jurisdictions. Who can forget Bobby Sands, the convicted IRA man, running for Parliament – and winning a House of Commons seat – from his Maze High Security Prison cell? Even Trump could have run for President in the United States had he been sent to jail by that New York judge. I think this is right and proper – and something that Europeans must embrace as a worthwhile principle.
Which leads me to my third and last question:
3rd Question: Should politicians be exempt from criminal charges just because they are running high in the polls?
Of course we should not. If Le Pen’s judges had guts, short of waiting for her appeals to be exhausted before removing her political rights, they should have thrown her in jail but not ban her from running in the elections. Letting her out of jail but banning her from running is a political gift to the enemies of democracy who can now claim, with some legitimacy, that democracy is a sham.
But what of a convicted murderer, you may ask. Should he or she be allowed to run for President from prison? Yes, I say, they should! “What if they win?”, you may then ask. “What do we do then? Let them take office?” Good question. Here is my answer: If, despite one’s conviction, one is elected, then the voters, the people – we – will have ended up with the delicious constitutional crisis that we deserve. No judge can, or should, resolve that.
To conclude, political rights should never be left to judges. Anywhere. Ever. The moment you let the judiciary decide who can seek our votes, our oligarchies are bound to distort what little prospects of a democracy we have. No sensible progressive can “trust the courts” in an exploitative system for which the so-called separation of powers is at best a heroic assumption and at worst a ruse. It is as naïve as it is to believe in an independent central bank!
Anyone who cares about the democratic idea should be deeply worried with the ease with which the panicking Radical Centre bans an ultra-right opponent they think may beat them at the polls. Progressives, understandably, fear that the same courts and the same means will be used tomorrow to ban us. I agree. They will! In 2015 they shut down our banks to overthrow people like me, here in Greece. If that hadn’t worked, they would have tried to ban us from running for office – indeed, rightist lawyers tabled charges against me at Greece’s Parliament, just when I resigned the finance ministry. The charges? High Treason – the allegation being that I “undermined the national currency” which, comically, they identified as the… euro.
So, yes, we, the Left, have every reason to fear that what they are doing to Le Pen today they will most definitely do to us if we rise sufficiently in the polls. However, that should NOT be the principal reason why we oppose Le Pen’s ban, or of that clownish Georgescu’s ban in Romania. We should oppose these bans for deeper reasons: Because no one’s political rights should be rescindable. For any reason. Anywhere. Ever!
Having the guts to say that, especially in defence of the political rights of an abominable politician we should want to crush at the polls, is the litmus test for a radical democrat, for a Left worth its salt.
Respect to that guy. I don't agree with his policies, but he actually stands for more than resentment and power-hunger.
Your daily reminder that "Left" and "Right" are BS psyops designed to prevent people of integrity from combining against the Establishment while submerging them in noise.

2025-04-10 06:50:59 GMT

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I will be very sad if those SHA256 hashes aren't connected to a mining backend!
Had considered building something similar, but using Cryptonite instead of SHA-256.
The problem is that the target customers are "content creator" website owners convinced that only reCAPTCHA stands between them and zombie hordes pouring out of their screens.
These people are truly "low information" decision-makers who wouldn't be puzzled if you billed them for sacrificing a goat to solve a DNS problems.
The best strategy would be a profit-sharing arrangement with cheap website designers.

2025-04-10 04:51:31 GMT

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Like Pandoc, but can guess input formats?

2025-04-09 23:16:23 GMT

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100%.
I live in AU. We have some way to go before our electricity price reaches parity with the EUs, but we'll get there... :/

2025-04-09 23:09:52 GMT

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If the opportunity cost for the hardware is zero, and I have solar panels, then its just a matter of my time.
That would be a couple of minutes of my actual attention, since I've built XMRig before.
Actual answer: IDK, but might be amusing!

2025-04-08 12:05:36 GMT

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Now you're making it, not a matter of principle, but a question of numbers and efficiency.
I don't disagree with you there.
But let's not accuse people of "not being cypherpunks" for favouring a less-intrusive tax over more-intrusive ones, tactically or otherwise. Purity spirals and Takfir should be problems for our many enemies, not us.

2025-04-08 10:40:17 GMT

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All mammalian predators have a great sense of rhythm. Adaptive for judging which antelope is lame and won't get far.
But I personally can't lay claim to tone or pitch :p

2025-04-08 10:20:04 GMT

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Oi! I resemble that comment, you insensitive clod :D

2025-04-08 10:16:03 GMT

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#nevent1q…suep
People should read the Talmud here - https://archive.org/details/neweditionofbaby0002unse - and decide for themselves.
Some values dissonance may occur during transit. Refrigerate after opening. Poster not responsible should you become a Jew, or an antisemite, or merely die of tedium as a result of consuming this product.

2025-04-08 08:14:58 GMT

https://image.nostr.build/58491472918177a579d9fc1fc242536f1a80c057599778aa5d0ded4ad11ceb73.jpg

2025-04-08 05:54:57 GMT

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I think useless is the wrong word. Useful but for all the wrong reasons.
University certainly didn't educate me; but the bit of paper is very important to risk-averse hiring managers. And parents-in-law.
Sci-Hub, Anna's Archive, LibGen and Nostr are where the education is :)

2025-04-08 04:43:20 GMT

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If you owe the bank ten million dollars, and can't pay, you have a problem.
If you owe the bank ten billion dollars, and don't feel like paying, the bank has a problem.
Tariffs and other forms of rigging the terms of trade work exactly the same way.

2025-04-08 04:32:15 GMT

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Suicide Is Healthy!

2025-04-08 04:23:23 GMT

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Free Smallpox Now!

2025-04-07 23:51:51 GMT

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Politics is "the Art of the Possible", my friend, and sometimes "the perfect" can be the enemy of "the good".
An hour's labour stolen through tariffs empowers the State far less than an hour's labour stolen through "income tax".

2025-04-07 07:41:28 GMT

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Have to admit some of that account's content has a ChatGPT positivity vibe.
But I've interacted with him and gotten highly tailored replies.
A human that uses ChatGPT sometimes?
Or you really think a bot? Quality work if true

2025-04-07 06:10:30 GMT

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Including me, its true, but I do approve of his message.
He's made different tradeoffs, that I didn't, but he's out there in front of us blazing a trail.

2025-04-07 05:59:21 GMT

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Inclusive fitness matters, too. Societies benefit from the right kinds of weirdoes, autists and experimenters.

2025-04-07 03:26:45 GMT

Chinese girl talks about propaganda in the media.
She's comparing China and Canada, but what she says applies just as well to Australia, or any other "normal" Western country today...
https://video.nostr.build/950da35e8ac50ae9d4e43c9c07d7ad7ddae1bba778501bec679e38a3218fbd5a.mp4

2025-04-06 22:22:53 GMT

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I've seen it done, just make sure the landlord and neighbours are chill before you commit to a lease

2025-04-06 12:04:17 GMT

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Thanks, @nprofile…5c0j!
I was going to take a break until I had a working demo of a customisable AI feed-prioritiser.
But I still haven't done it, and figured y'all would forget about me if I didn't check in at least sometimes!

2025-04-06 11:47:09 GMT

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Genius!
I could ask one of my boys, but I trust them no more than my wife on this. Going to have to be a colleague, tomorrow :)

2025-04-06 11:32:28 GMT

Today my mother announced she could see a grey amidst my hair.
Since I'm in my 40s and don't own a supernatural painting a la Dorian Gray, I believed her, and without any particular angst.
But then my sister came running, gleefully (she has many, even though she's younger), and after a minute she announced, sorrowfully, that she couldn't see any grey in my hair.
Both those women have dismal eyesight.
Who should I believe?

2025-02-07 00:04:24 GMT

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I should probably do more work on that this weekend, instead of s---posting now :D

2025-02-07 00:03:09 GMT

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I really hope the "big names" are using dedicated clients. Web extensions are convenient and user-friendly (I'm using one now) but the attack surface is comparatively large.
No real getting around that tradeoff, other than encouraging experienced users to try different clients.

2025-02-06 23:41:17 GMT

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Life, sine qua non, seeks out and consumes metastable resources, thus increasing entropy both locally and globally.
Would that be efficient or inefficient, in your philosophy? Since life increases thermodynamic entropy, death must be an unqualified good, right? Unless, perhaps, a death under consideration would result in the replication of even-more-entropic lifeforms.

2025-02-06 04:10:28 GMT

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It grabbed headlines, and silenced the previous discourse. So probably already succeeded as much as was ever likely.
"Riviera". Whatever he and Bibi were smoking, they should be sharing.
Despite the (worst of) intentions, a contemporary US-military-led colonization of Gaza is more likely to result in another Kosovo or Iraq than another Trail of Tears.

2025-02-05 03:15:21 GMT

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Would be nice; but your next Chancellor loves the taste of boot polish as much as our next Prime Minister does.
A much, much higher % of your voters are alert to the scam, though, I will grant that.

2025-02-05 02:48:32 GMT

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Nah. They had to call in bigger but less reliable war criminals.
Because they are losers who can't stop losing even with unlimited Western weapons and media interference.

2025-02-05 02:45:54 GMT

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15 Now it was the governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd. 16 At that time they had a well-known prisoner whose name was Jesus[b] Barabbas. 17 So when the crowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, “Which one do you want me to release to you: Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus who is called the Messiah?” 18 For he knew it was out of self-interest that they had handed Jesus over to him.
19 While Pilate was sitting on the judge’s seat, his wife sent him this message: “Don’t have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him.”
20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
21 “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor.
“Barabbas,” they answered.
22 “What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is called the Messiah?” Pilate asked.
They all answered, “Crucify him!”
23 “Why? What crime has he committed?” asked Pilate.
But they shouted all the louder, “Crucify him!”
24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “It is your responsibility!”
25 All the people answered, “His blood is on us and on our children!”
26 Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
Matthew 27:15-26

2025-02-05 01:57:55 GMT

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Those changes would certainly be an improvement :)
But I'm an even bigger fan of "rules without rulers", like Bitcoin and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_budgeting; and maximum decentralization for anything where those can't work.

2025-02-05 01:52:49 GMT

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I think its a dumpster fire, but there are no simple solutions. Your solution was funny, though :)

2025-02-05 01:45:52 GMT

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I used to think that. So I joined a political party to watch how the sausage gets made.
And no, Representative "Democracy" actually IS the problem. Many problems, in fact, starting with "Principal-Agent" and "Coordination" and continuing all the way down.
The People, themselves, are the only safe hands for holding power. "Representatives" are just a game-show version of dictatorship.

2025-02-05 01:40:32 GMT

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There is precedent...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_slave_trade

2025-02-05 01:33:18 GMT

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100% agree, but at this point in the West there are incomparably more virtue-signalling "accomplices" fatiguing the world than there are haters. My LinkedIn feed "jumped the shark" years ago. Not literally, although that's probably only a matter of time.

2025-02-05 01:24:48 GMT

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In fairness to voters, there are near-insurmountable "barriers to entry" in the "political representation" market. Most of which are deliberately constructed using state power. Trust is a larger consideration for voters than qualifications or experience, and in far shorter supply.
Elections have surprisingly few consequences for the Establishment.
Perhaps this "Representative" experiment has run its course and taught us all we needed to know.

2025-02-05 00:31:37 GMT

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https://plantbasednews.org/culture/billions-animals-killed-growing-crops/
Also, why do they always exclude insect deaths? Down with Chordate-Supremacism!

2025-01-26 21:26:17 GMT

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100%.
For anyone who hasn't read it - https://annas-archive.org/md5/3eacf365f89c153e748eaa0e5cb909fe
Vaclav Smil's introduction to this problem.
Concrete, steel, fertiliser and plastic are the "Four Pillars" of living standards, and all of them require prodigious amounts of energy that can't be wished into existence (although production can be, and is being, outsourced to Russia / China / India).

2025-01-26 07:13:53 GMT

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Not just Elon, I daresay.
Between some of the pardons, the cancelling of clearances, and the pulling of security details, I'm picking up a cold-blooded, methodical, and vengeful Washington insider with Trump's ear.
Whoever that is, they need to stay alive. They are the enemy the Deep State deserves.

2025-01-19 03:19:53 GMT

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If the legal system was responsive and accessible, those harmed could sue any malefactors under the Common Law of Tort and ruin them.
Judgements punish the guilty. Regulations punish everybody, but mostly the non-connected and honest.

2025-01-19 03:16:08 GMT

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I love the "code is the contract" and self-executing contracts.
But ETH's governance structure always creeped me out, so I've never owned any.

2025-01-19 03:07:16 GMT

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Why do we all keep living where we do?
Mostly for work.

2025-01-17 05:38:32 GMT

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Barriers To Entry are a real thing. Mostly constructed, purposefully, with state violence.
The internet has made a big dent in barriers to upskilling, though :)

2025-01-17 05:34:15 GMT

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Do you believe ownership can be other than individual?
If you do, then how is unwanted migration into property owned by another collective not coercive?

2025-01-17 05:32:27 GMT

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Authentic Capitalism looks a lot like Communism, to people who've grown up with neither :)

2025-01-17 05:30:16 GMT

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Differently-Oligarchical?
The difference is not worth more than an eye-roll.