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Kidding aside, I've long thought that Nostr would be better with more "Europeaness", and I have tried to add that.
More long-term projects. Less chase-the-hype. More listening and responding to users. Less get-rich-quick schemes. Less begging gazillionaires for a Big Zap, in exchange for something-something-Bitcoin or something-something-AI. More actually thinking up useful things and concepts for ordinary people, and taking the time and the care to build them.
More plodding, dull, hard-working dev and maintenance work. Something innovative is often wearisome to implement. It took us nearly 2 years, merely to get the 30040 kind described and prototyped. In that time, we have watched publishing projects flare up, collect cash and hype, and then die back down... And now they are gone, but we are still here. Still plodding along. As dull as we ever were, but now with thousands of books...

2026-03-03 12:40:47 CET

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Don't encourage us. We have a bad reputation for trying to do that. 😂

2026-03-03 09:07:57 CET

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2026-03-03 09:07:44 CET

Mood.
https://i.nostr.build/mUrmVWkxD1hJJt0f.png
https://img.libquotes.com/pic-quotes/v2/winston-churchill-quote-lbi5c5v.jpg
https://www.brainyquote.com/photos_tr/en/j/johnkennethgalbraith/122383/johnkennethgalbraith1-2x.jpg

2026-03-03 08:52:58 CET

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I'm just believing my lying eyes, on this one.

2026-03-03 08:44:39 CET

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Humans tend to flourish most under capitalism in its early, distributed stage.
The most-successful modern economies are those that had governments that managed their market lightly, but enough to keep the wealth widely-distributed. Such as Western Germany, with its Wirtschaftswunder. Or those that simply conquered vast, new geographical areas or discovered extractive resources, and distributed that wealth to the citizenry, like the USA, Canada, Norway, or Australia. But this only slowed down the decline, and eventually led to government-sponsored private debt accumulation (student loans, long-term mortgages, debt forgiveness, etc.) to try to extend-and-pretend that the party wasn't over.

2026-03-03 08:41:24 CET

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This is the opposite of communism, which starts out the most-effective but least-efficient (single consumer, single producer) and degrades from there, as the chronic inefficiency leads to the rise of alternative/black markets with new, additional consumers.
Capitalism starts out most-efficient but least-effective (higly-distributed wealth resulting in many consumers being served by many producers) and degrades from there, in the strive to gain effective market concentrations, i.e. monopolies.

2026-03-03 08:21:14 CET

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Capitalism naturally tends to centralize. It's baked in to the system because the more capital one person controls, the more effectively they can deploy it to gain even more capital.
It's the giant sucking sound of wealth concentration.

2026-03-03 08:16:53 CET

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Did you have trouble responding to the philosophical point I was making, rather than merely shilling your personal hobby horses?

2026-03-03 08:02:13 CET

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You don't actually need to upgrade your Bitcoin node. It isn't either/or. You can also choose "neither".

2026-03-03 07:41:40 CET

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You can see this Capitalist End Game in the open source space, as well. It truly reeks of economic decay. Wealth is concentrated in so few hands that the projects are mostly being funded by large donations from a small handful of the super-rich or mega-rich (persons or corporations, such as non-profits). Subscriptions are collapsing, individual donations are fewer in number.
Nothing but funds.
That means this small handful of people have effectively formed a controlling board over all of the open-source projects, so that we normal users are regularly being delivered things we didn't want, while the features we clamour for go unimplemented. When we complained about this, they didn't change it. Instead, they gave us AI and told us to volunteer our own time to each build the solution all of us wanted, resulting in 1926 half-broken copies of the same damn thing, produced at 1926 times the expense that 1 working thing would have costed us.
You could have just built what we wanted with the money we already gave you, but you didn't.
Even when donations are collected from smaller actors, they almost only go to that same controlling board. Which already has so much money that they struggle to find anything to spend it on, as a market with a single consumer is inherently inefficient. Humans naturally tend to give their money to entities who already have lots of it, so this effect continues to double-down.
But, nevermind. Carry on. The stock market is up.

2026-03-03 07:17:27 CET

It is here. The Capitalist End Game.
_They pretend to sell useful things. We pretend to buy them._
The precise opposite of the Communist End Game, in theory, and yet exactly the same, in practice:
_They pretend to work. We pretend to pay them._
*Economic horseshoe theory just dropped.*
#nevent1q…f6e6

2026-03-03 07:09:26 CET

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Because the government is the only consumer left. Everyone else is broke.
Gov buys everything on credit, tho, as the mega-rich and large companies own all actual wealth, so the bullishness quickly gets eaten up by the inflation it creates to pay the interest on its credit.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Because concentration of capital increases with every additional concentration of capital, and only governments can easily create money, capitalism inevitably trends toward communism: one consumer, one producer.

2026-03-02 19:06:13 CET

I split the GitRepublic CLI off into its own repo and I will do the same with the RESTful API.

2026-03-02 19:03:01 CET

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We were in Rome last fall and it was a circus. I so much prefer Milan.
I was there for the races.
My favorite is probably Verona.

2026-03-02 18:44:28 CET

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I split off the CLI. Need to also split the API and the docs off. I need more separation.

2026-03-02 10:18:35 CET

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Women _are_ oppressed in Iran. The Culture of Death and Rainbow Tyranny won't free them. Both can be true.

2026-03-02 10:14:25 CET

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👩🏻‍🚀🔫

2026-03-02 10:13:39 CET

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I guess the Iranians learned that from observing the Ukrainians, which would be very smart of them.

2026-03-02 10:09:58 CET

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It's funny how there are a couple of us building and maintaining a whole set of clients. 😂
Total development bottleneck.

2026-03-02 10:00:59 CET

Think about it on a smaller scale:
1. You find someone breaking into your basement. They've busted up the place, and are now trying to use a crow bar to open your wall safe. You are completely justified with chasing him off the property and reporting him to the police, to make sure he doesn't return.
2. You find a homeless person, half-frozen and half-starved living in your wood shed. You should probably bring him some warm soup and call your pastor to figure out what to do with him. He can't just camp out in your wood shed, but it would be cruel to just chase him away.
Both of these men have knowingly and actively trespassed on your property, but only one had a criminal intent or was trying to cause you harm. I think that difference should matter, to Christians. And it certainly should matter to Catholics.
#nevent1q…fldt

2026-03-02 09:47:34 CET

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But a nation is a territory (i.e. a property) that houses a particular people _and their guests_. I don't think it's very Christian to toss your guests out onto the street, if they are generally well-behaved.
But I also think you should control who you allow in as a guest, and you should punish all uninvited guests. I don't think automatic deportation is the appropriate punishment for most uninvited guests. They aren't usually a threat to the nation, so banishment is a punishment unfitting the crime. They should have to plead guilty for trespassing, pay a hefty fine, and apply for a formal invitation, or something, with the nation withholding the right to deny it and deport.
Children (those under 18 or still attending secondary school) and pregnant women should not be deported, even if they misbehave, as they are protected classes.
I think we need more nuance in the whole discussion.

2026-03-02 09:09:18 CET

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You could auto-extend the residence at 18, to make it simpler and more "permanent".

2026-03-02 09:06:36 CET

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Think of it like how the RCC does the step-wise rights of initiation.
* baptism --> birth certificate (doubles as residence permit and basis for federal and state IDs)
* communion --> citizenship through adult naturalization
* confirmation --> voting registration after proof of effort

2026-03-02 08:55:18 CET

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The USCCB argument is correct. The Constitution clearly allows birthright citizenship for anyone born in the country, whose parent(s) didn't explicitly refuse to enter the legal jurisdiction (i.e. diplomats, visiting military or political delegations, temporary visa holders, etc.) before arriving.
You would need to change the Constitution, if you want something different.

2026-03-02 08:42:18 CET

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Instead of citizenship at birth (for anyone) do permanent residence for 18 years and then they can apply to have that extended for 10 years, or they can apply for citizenship. It is already the case that your US citizen parents can apply to get you a passport, if you are under 18 and not a citizen.
Make citizenship a formal, active process, based upon points, for everyone. If both of your parents are a citizen, you were born there and had your primary residence there your whole childhood, you get 100 points. And then scale down from there. Then raise the cost of citizenship by requiring every citizen to pay a high poll tax or sign up for the draft or be in public service. Or something like that.
And then see who signs up.

2026-03-01 20:21:44 CET

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Taking my Testerin npub back to da roots.
She's now @npub12um…0z04 🤭
https://image.nostr.build/9de03cf56c8e98606f227efdf03f218f9d25d97d6e3e5b323e1dc6f6f730fa3c.jpg

2026-03-01 19:55:36 CET

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I always just order a bottle of sparkling water, to go along with my coffee. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️
I also don't know how they can stand to drink so little.

2026-03-01 19:39:32 CET

Bin immer wieder verwirrt. Ist das jetzt Laschet oder Pistorius? 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

2026-03-01 19:38:09 CET

2026 is 800 years after the death of St. Francis of Assisi. #Catholic
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/S.Francesco_speco.jpg

2026-03-01 19:30:41 CET

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Have you tried ordering an Americano?

2026-03-01 19:28:21 CET

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Sometimes clients need to find information contained in a tag that isn't indexed. So they have to pull all possible events of that kind and sift through them client-side.

2026-03-01 19:26:34 CET

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I use my own clients.

2026-03-01 19:11:45 CET

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Yes, I saw that in the video. Very pretty. I definitely will be visiting some Orthodox churches.

2026-03-01 17:15:52 CET

https://youtu.be/tkhS_MFkbUs
#Aegina #Greece 🤩

2026-03-01 16:54:56 CET

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Leaning toward Athens, Aegina, and Delphi. That's already a lot, since the first and last days is mostly the travel time.

2026-03-01 16:51:03 CET

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There's a bus, but it's 2 hours. 🙈

2026-03-01 16:50:27 CET

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Yeah, @npub17ej…vst6 mentioned Sounio, too, but we'd need to rent a car for that, which is sort of inconvenient. We were only planning on renting to go to Delphi.

2026-03-01 16:45:35 CET

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That is hilarious. We had Greek salad for lunch. 😂

2026-03-01 16:42:21 CET

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Just checked out Aegina and Hydra. Hydra looks more pittoresque, but Aegina is easier to get to and probably exciting enough, for us krauts. 😂
I see that there is a ferry from Pireaus to Aegina.

2026-03-01 16:24:41 CET

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Aaargh, that will take me 5 days to do. 😂 I tend to crawl over historic sights, reading every sign and examining every rock under a microscope. Not to mentioned taking 193610 pictures.

2026-03-01 16:21:10 CET

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Ah, yeah, I've seen a lot of pictures of that. Very nice.

2026-03-01 16:16:19 CET

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Pennies are worth more than ever.

2026-03-01 16:15:18 CET

Literally me. 😁
https://i.nostr.build/3bXyPOY6npjMk03N.png

2026-03-01 14:32:43 CET

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Woo hoo, found an English Mass. ☺
https://saintdenis.gr/en/

2026-03-01 14:22:45 CET

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Yeah, decided it's worth 2 days, especially with the long drive. Shame we can't get further north, like Meteora.

2026-03-01 14:17:35 CET

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Plaka looks nice. And Anafiotika.
Sounion looks amazing! 🤩

2026-03-01 14:12:08 CET

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We'll be in Koukaki, I think, so we can just walk there early and beat the crowds. Maybe 20 minutes.

2026-03-01 13:59:48 CET

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Acropolis shouldn't be too crowded in March, tho, right? It's probably worst in the summer.

2026-03-01 13:50:37 CET

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We were thinking maybe something off the coast of Athens. Toward the water. Or an island, or something.

2026-03-01 11:29:18 CET

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Hey, @npub1cm8…zwm4 how many hours away are you, from the Acropolis?

2026-03-01 11:28:30 CET

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GM ☺

2026-03-01 11:27:53 CET

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I am a huge fan of old stones, old math, and Aristotle, so Greece is definitely my vibe. Totally stoked.

2026-03-01 11:26:10 CET

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Wow, that's an actual thing, cool. 🎨

2026-03-01 11:24:28 CET

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We have a week. I was definitely planning Delphi! 🤩 We might even stay a night in the mountains.

2026-03-01 11:22:32 CET

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https://youtu.be/D8hAhqDcVRA

2026-03-01 09:16:20 CET

What to see and do in and around Athens, Greece? 🤔
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Attica_06-13_Athens_50_View_from_Philopappos_-_Acropolis_Hill.jpg/1280px-Attica_06-13_Athens_50_View_from_Philopappos_-_Acropolis_Hill.jpg
#travel

2026-03-01 08:07:39 CET

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Depends. The speed can be political.

2026-03-01 07:59:40 CET

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I kind of like it because I go through my mentions and the news and respond to everything in one fell swoop. Then it's all there, when the others wake up.

2026-03-01 07:57:33 CET

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I'm originally from Stuttgart. They started building a new central train station in 2010 and they just pushed the opening day back to 2030. Still just a construction site.

2026-03-01 07:55:11 CET

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Baden Württemberg. Wir können alles außer Bahnhof.

2026-03-01 07:53:10 CET

Als Schwäbin ist mir das alles nur noch peinlich.
#Stuttgart21

2026-03-01 07:36:57 CET

Mfw people act surprised that a man with three wives turns out to be a terrible person.
Or, as we say over here, "When the person is crazy, he shows the sign."
https://media.tenor.com/QSAsT2xi4j0AAAAC/the-office-michael-scott.gif

2026-03-01 06:36:02 CET

I feel like more context was added, yesterday.
#nevent1q…y4t8

2026-03-01 06:31:16 CET

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Rand got tired and went native.

2026-02-28 23:01:56 CET

Trump is desperate to get rid of Massie.

2026-02-28 21:34:05 CET

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We have Iranians posting on here. Wonder which side DDoSing or if it's both?

2026-02-28 21:12:25 CET

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I'm fine. ☺

2026-02-28 21:01:55 CET

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I am too controversial and unpopular to receive a grant.

2026-02-28 20:38:42 CET

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USA is suffering under the low oil price, so I guess they had to do something. Wasn't lucrative to take over the Venezuelan oil market, otherwise.

2026-02-28 20:35:17 CET

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I just got laid off. 😂

2026-02-28 16:33:16 CET

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Every people has the right to defend itself, but "preemptive strikes" and "preemptive invasion" are not necessarily a form of defense.

2026-02-28 16:28:23 CET

Oil price heading up. 🛢📈

2026-02-28 15:50:58 CET

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No, not in theory. Look at the rise of the far right. They understood that politics is a long game and they just kept doggedly at it, the same as the far left before them. The march through the institutions is real.

2026-02-28 15:45:19 CET

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We still have democracies. It's the constitutional republic that is crumbling.
But we can still influence democratic governments by winning popular votes and petitioning for change.

2026-02-28 15:43:59 CET

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Of course it does. We have consistently selected for politicians who conflate Israel's interests with our own national interests. Just look at all of the religious fanatics, in the US government, who think promoting Israel Über Alles will bring the Second Coming of Christ.
Including even some Catholics, who appear to have completely lost the plot. The cringe is real.

2026-02-28 15:11:12 CET

It's not enough to say, "Well, the last presidential election was the best of two bad choices."
Those two bad choices were the direct result of decades of political apathy from the political and economic center. We all, more or less, let the crazies, the rabid, the fanatic, the corrupt, and *literal demonic pedophiles* from both parties take over and totally dropped the political and economic ball. It is our republic. If we can keep it.
No man is an island. No family is an island. No government is an island. No economy is an island. No currency is an island.
You are not woke, anon, but are you now awake? Wake the fuck up.

2026-02-28 14:25:23 CET

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They have the primaries.

2026-02-28 12:21:23 CET

This war is brought to you by:
Politics is for retards...
Voting doesn't matter...
Who cares? NGU and chill...
I'll just get away from USA problems by moving to...
Listen, Bitcoin will double in USD price every year and nothing else matters...
I don't need privacy laws because I am a nym...
All politicians are basically the same, so it doesn't matter who you vote for...

2026-02-28 11:40:46 CET

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I know I know, you just couldn't resist doing a bit of ambiguously-defiant trolling. 🙄

2026-02-28 11:34:54 CET

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Your rocket emoji got me confused about who started this. Reversed the context.

2026-02-28 11:33:00 CET

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https://media.tenor.com/krz9WMkpxAYAAAAC/this-is-houston-go-for-launch.gif

2026-02-28 11:31:34 CET

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Which is sort of ironic because previous administrations contained more actual Jews.

2026-02-28 11:29:53 CET

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This is going to confuse everyone because it was the USA that started the shooting. Iran only retaliated. 😏

2026-02-28 11:22:58 CET

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And, of course, please keep the good people of Iran in your thoughts and prayers. 🕊

2026-02-28 11:18:08 CET

wss://theforest.nostr.land and wss://nostr.land are up. I'll go restart my wss://orly-relay.imwald.eu.
The war in Iran has started. Please check your relays for attacks and pull up any dormant ones, to spread the load. Add more relays to your relay lists, if possible, and make sure to read from TheForest and Land.
Thanks and GM. 🫡

2026-02-28 07:56:55 CET

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You mean, render the client tag on the event display and highlight them in different colors? But then you can't find a spec on Wikistr unless it was published with NostrHub. You can also publish them with all of my clients.

2026-02-28 07:53:47 CET

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Mine is a fork of wikistr.com.
I also have themed versions: biblestr.imwald.eu, torahstr.imwald.eu, and quranstr.imwald.eu

2026-02-28 07:34:52 CET

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My Wikistr handles both formats, so that doesn't really answer the question, tho.

2026-02-28 07:33:51 CET

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I don't really mind it running. Hardly consumes any resources. Just makes the docker ps list annoyingly long. 😂
How about I take down the themed versions and leave the main one on wikistr.imwald.eu up?
I thought the themes were fun, but they didn't really take on.

2026-02-28 07:26:21 CET

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Those are just 30817 Markdowns, instead of 30818 Asciidocs. I could switch over.

2026-02-28 07:24:12 CET

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This reminds me of Apple getting sued by the British government for refusing to unecrypt iCloud data, so that they could spy on private citizens.
When the government only complains about one company refusing to do something atrocious, you need to be giving all of their major competitors the side-eye.

2026-02-28 07:14:04 CET

*Is anyone using my Wikistr?*
It doesn't seem to be getting much traffic and I've transposed its features to the other clients, but I don't want to turn it off, if someone needs it.

2026-02-28 00:19:01 CET

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We have a higher birthrate than China because we don't work young women like neutered serfs.
There is more than one way to be productive.

2026-02-28 00:16:21 CET

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😂

2026-02-28 00:13:28 CET

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Yeah, I mentioned this a while back.
They can even tell who you are by the way you type the keys and mouse around, or connect you with transactions happening elsewhere.

2026-02-27 23:08:50 CET

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You have had worse ideas. This one is pretty good, actually.

2026-02-27 18:03:59 CET

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Government-sanctioned theft is precisely what the super-rich were engaging in. They've been doing it for decades and decades, ever since we went off the gold standard.
Your "lemmings" are we workers and small business owners being crushed by the dilution of money because of the Cantillon Effect. Bitcoin was created to give us a way out of the financial trap the gazillionaires and their central bank stooges were setting for us. They tried to enslave the entire population, and they have not yet been brought to justice for it. Quite the opposite.
*Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks*

2026-02-27 17:37:13 CET

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No, he's right that the problem is unequal access to basic resources due to the financialization and tokenization of all assets, driven by the upper class' thirst for high returns on investments. Their friends in government printed money and gave it to them to gamble with, and they needed more and more money to gamble with, and they needed bigger and bigger bailouts when they lost their gambles and...
They privatized all gains and socialized all losses.
The social welfare state growing larger is a reaction to that, which is meant to placate the working class that the rich are bleeding dry, so that they don't eat the rich. The workers have not profited by the productivity gains in their own labor. They have _only_ been robbed blind in broad daylight by people who smile at them and have photo opportinities of themselves taken at McDonald's or the local pub. See, we are just like you!
No, they are not. They are nothing at all like me and I am tired of them pissing on me and telling me that it's raining.
But now the access is so grossly unequal and the social welfare state is crumbling so badly, that it's time to just claw back the stolen wealth they've been raking in.
Will that solve the problem? No. Only a return to hard money and refocusing on local community can solve the problem.
Is it right to do it, anyway? Yes. Always claw back the stolen goods, on principle.
Will clawing it back cause them to leave? Maybe. Who cares. They're vultures. Good riddance, to bad rubbish. They should just be happy that we aren't following the proud tradition of chopping their heads off.