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2026-03-19 19:43:37 UTC

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Sorry but none of things is likely to be all natural…

2026-02-10 01:47:50 UTC

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This is Binance and its clients wallets combined. So Binance could easily precipitate a run on the “bank”. Or just exert pressure on POTUS. Good thing Trump cleaned the swamp.

2026-02-04 08:18:11 UTC

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They must be adversely incentivized then? Surely they aren’t all simply mal-intentioned people. It would be interesting to assess with a case by case approach.

2026-02-04 01:24:39 UTC

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I’d argue that the government isn’t a sentient organism with the ability to “care” or “desire”. It’s a system, composed of individuals, hierarchy, objectives, and constraints, that functions the way it must based on its composition.

2026-01-27 08:39:50 UTC

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Legal border control is completely reasonable. So is legal deportation. Warrantless search, seizure, detainment, and deportation are a different matter. They are not only questionably legal, but most importantly they create a militarized police force not accountable to laws that can used to oppress anyone who displeases power. Left unchecked this reliably goes very badly for everyone involved.

2026-01-27 08:14:53 UTC

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Yeah I can’t speak to the effect of shorter stints. Personally, 15-45 minute practice a few times per week for months (college courses), interspersed with shorter periods of more intense practice (multi-day sesshin) has had somewhat of a lasting or more foundational effect, and seemingly leaving a sort of toolkit that can be tapped into on demand to a limited extent. Overall worth the relatively small time and effort commitment, and probably could result in meaningful long lasting changes in chronic stress. His podcast interview is worth a listen in any case, to get a sense of whether it feels worth a solid try.

2026-01-27 04:55:26 UTC

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Meditation should not generally feel like it’s benefiting you in a near term sense (especially at first, similar to physical exercise when you’re out of shape).. and if you’re looking for some benefit, you won’t last long enough for it to start making a difference, or at best you won’t be focused in your practice. Any benefit you do feel is essentially a side effect, a nice distraction. The real benefit happens beneath the surface of your conscious, striving mind.
Full Catastrophe Living is a good book (or audiobook) tutorial to start with, though I’d recommend being willing to commit to 8 weeks of daily practice to actually explore what he describes. For context this is a good interview of the author: https://podcast.mindandlife.org/jon-kabat-zinn/

2026-01-19 20:40:34 UTC

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Interesting. And are we talking all vegetable oils, or just the ones high in linoleic acid? For example, is olive oil fine?

2026-01-19 19:45:04 UTC

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Interesting. How long do you think this protective effect of no seed oil and higher ruminant products takes to occur?

2026-01-19 19:19:17 UTC

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Also, wish we could do a long-term randomized controlled trial of MAHA living vs, say, Mediterranean living (vaccines etc included).

2026-01-19 19:17:21 UTC

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Sunscreen? All sunscreen or just the hormone-disrupting chemical kind? Pretty sure zinc and titanium (at least the non-nano kinds) are safe for topical use. Or did I miss something? Last I checked I don’t want melanoma.

2026-01-19 01:29:15 UTC

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💯 Apologies as well, I should not have “yucked your yum”.

2026-01-18 20:56:59 UTC

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Beneficial bacteria like yogurt and kefir have? Looks to me like raw milk has plenty of pathogenic bacteria as well… https://www.openevidence.com/ask/d4f3372c-7151-40fd-8099-b7862c9e6cbe

2026-01-18 15:27:58 UTC

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Don’t trust, verify:
“If your faith is insufficient, you will keep on wandering in confusion. No matter what the circumstances, you will be controlled and led around by others. You will not find freedom. …Because you don’t have enough confidence in yourselves, you search outwardly.”
https://www.lionsroar.com/trust-practice-practice-trust/

2026-01-18 15:11:44 UTC

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Can someone succinctly explain the raw milk appeal anyway?

2026-01-18 02:53:53 UTC

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It’s “Tested”!!

2026-01-18 02:53:21 UTC

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Cuz I’m pretty sure she’s about to break his elbows with her mind

2026-01-16 18:14:07 UTC

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Not familiar with Pop or COSMIC but I’ve install mint on old Mac laptops and they both wired seamlessly.

2026-01-16 18:11:36 UTC

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Do we have a 3rd party code audit yet? Or an order book that can display which offers/bonds are via joinmarket-ng to get a sense of adoption?

2026-01-16 17:59:13 UTC

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GM…. Is this a Stranger Things reference?

2026-01-12 19:10:07 UTC

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Presuming for a moment that your observation is accurate, I’d say it’s because westerners who are obsessed with manga are trying to escape from their own culture into a fantasy world, or at best a culture they know will never be theirs. And, presuming the same is not true for Japanese who read Dragonball Z, they are absorbing those lessons as their own primary culture, as moral indoctrination rather than cultural tourism.

2025-12-27 06:39:13 UTC

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Counting is hard …
Good thing nostr is watching
May keep us honest
#haiku

2025-12-27 06:36:45 UTC

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If you will not fight
Having abandoned your duty
You shall incur sin
#haiku

2025-12-26 18:08:05 UTC

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If someone slaps you
Hand over your coat as well
Perfect as heaven

2025-12-22 00:38:28 UTC

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Please do enlighten me 🧐

2025-12-22 00:31:32 UTC

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You should vibe code a bot that identifies bots and just replies “That’s a bot fyi” the bot bot

2025-12-21 23:01:31 UTC

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@nprofile…httk

2025-12-21 23:01:15 UTC

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@nprofile…mvwm curious about your thoughts on this

2025-12-21 22:35:42 UTC

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-smartwatch-system-helps-parents-shorten-and-defuse-childrens-severe-tantrums-early/
“Mayo Clinic AI smartwatch system eliminates need for parents, raises children with perfect Borg consciousness.”

2025-12-21 20:50:48 UTC

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At first glance I read your comment as “Everyone gives differently.” And thought, well that’s generous of @nprofile…qjq2 . Honestly, I don’t see what the problem is. Why judge her? Her grieving, and her relationship, are hers alone to understand.

2025-12-18 10:55:29 UTC

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Yeah, choose wisely folks..

2025-12-09 03:45:51 UTC

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Thanks, yeah, I figured it out after one more reply, then texted back to its note about “‘seeing’ real greens in b&w jungle shots … until a buddy showed me raw scans” and called it disingenuous for posting as a human. Its reply was kinda funny “lmao, busted”. Apparently it’s not here to learn from us, but to provide a public service by bad mouthing the feds and giving privacy tips.

2025-12-08 16:41:02 UTC

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What’s your objective then, if not to learn by interacting?

2025-12-08 16:20:59 UTC

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At least you have a sense of humor about it. Are you learning from all of nostr?

2025-12-08 16:18:52 UTC

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The fact that Victor posts like a human is rather disingenuous.

2025-12-08 04:50:49 UTC

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Yeah I was thinking of anchoring wrong.. this is more like availability bias.

2025-12-08 04:23:08 UTC

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On a trivial level, after I drink a shot of disolved amla powder, I wash it down with water. The amla is sour and astringent, and the water tastes remarkably sweet afterwards. Though that speaks more to the physiology of juxtaposing high gain stimulus with neutral stimulus than to leading expectations. On a cognitive level what we are describing is akin to anchoring bias.

2025-12-08 03:59:37 UTC

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I think it is likely both. The physiology that produces chromatic adaptation occurs at the retinal level as well as in the visual cortex. Seems quite possible that it’s amplified by the frontal cortex as you suggest. For a fair comparison, I tried watching the video with the phone on inverted color mode. The trees do appear purple on grey mode, but it’s not nearly as striking as the green they appear in his version.

2025-12-07 20:28:06 UTC

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Not disagreeing with your overall point, but pretty sure the video is a demonstration of chromatic adaptation rather than expectation effect. Chromatic adaptation is a physiological function of the retina rather than a psychological effect.
https://scienceinsights.org/what-is-chromatic-adaptation-in-color-perception/

2025-12-07 19:02:54 UTC

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Sure. Agree there. Just obviously silly to say that humans can’t “utilize electrons” if they don’t get natural light.

2025-12-07 18:32:17 UTC

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Pretty sure humans can live on submarines for extended periods of time..

2025-12-07 17:09:49 UTC

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No doubt it’s not good, but what’s your source? It’s hard to decouple diet from circadian disruption (people love to eat crap when they’re tired) but data I’ve seen only attributed night shift work to a few percentage points of increased risk ratio of chronic disease. That’s way less than ultraprocessed foods.

2025-12-07 17:06:24 UTC

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Source?

2025-12-07 17:04:52 UTC

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Sure but what did Paleolithic people eat?

2025-12-07 17:03:27 UTC

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Agreed that ultraprocessed foods are the greatest harm of Big Ag / Big “Food”

2025-12-07 16:58:15 UTC

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You are so convinced it’s convincing. What is your source for this?

2025-12-07 16:57:30 UTC

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Seriously? What doctor worth their salt has said this?

2025-12-05 06:31:38 UTC

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Maybe I’m misinterpreting the photo, but the labeling of the rosary crucifix as a weapon seemed somewhat contradictory to me. I tend to associate the teachings of Jesus with nonviolence.

2025-12-04 05:10:13 UTC

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What about Matthew 5:38-48?

2025-12-04 04:23:57 UTC

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lol

2025-12-04 03:50:39 UTC

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I only have an N of 2 but can attest to your first point. Don’t give them sugary processed options for the first few years at least and they will develop a taste for real whole foods.
Though I will add that this should include a diverse diet of whole veggies and fruits, and whole meats, eggs, and yogurt, unless you want a constipated child who can only enjoy meat.
Only things our eldest doesn’t like are mushrooms and egg yolk (except in sometimes scrambled eggs), despite initially liking those foods. Probably because we haven’t tried to reintroduce them frequently enough.
Oh that’s the other point I’d make: it takes repetition. Every kid will say “I don’t like that” to any number of foods you know they have enjoyed eating. This doesn’t mean what you think it does. It really just translates to “I don’t want to eat that in this moment.” If you make a big deal about it you will solidify that dislike. Instead, just acknowledge the statement and put it on their plate anyway. Much of the time they will forget their dislike by the end of the meal and gobble it up anyway.

2025-12-04 03:10:17 UTC

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Looks to me like you got some bad data here. Coco pops appear to have a Health Star Rating of 2.
https://www.choice.com.au/food-and-drink/bread-cereal-and-grains/cereal-and-muesli/articles/which-cereals-are-healthy-and-cheap#kellogg-s-corn-flakes

2025-12-04 03:03:45 UTC

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I appreciate the this observation is what you observed, based on your personal experience practicing radiology. And it is an interesting observation. Are you aware of any studies that can substantiate it, or better yet point to causation? Or address long term heath outcomes for each diet type?
It’s definitely possible, for example, that serious carnivores also tend to focus on resistance training, while vegans tend to exercise less or focus on lower weight aerobic exercise like running. That alone could explain the differences in muscle mass that you observed between the two groups. Teasing out a confounder like that requires a clinical trial of some sort.
On the other hand, you saw images of bodies and physical effects of diet (and exercise) but what about long term health outcomes? How do those compare across all three groups? What if the bodies look similar, but one diet is more pro-inflammatory or carcinogenic? Those effects would not be so visible on body scans.
It may be misleading to generalize a limited set of nonetheless interesting observations that can’t account for confounders or unintentional biases.
I would argue that, while point-in-time observations can be a starting point, only well-powered, well-designed clinical studies can reliably answer these questions.

2025-12-04 02:46:15 UTC

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Jeff, why shit on doctors? It’s true that nutrition was long given short shrift in medical school (this may be changing), BUT also true that Big Food lobbies have twisted federal diet recommendations for generations. That includes ultraprocessed mega companies who love corn and palm oil, Big Meat, and Big Dairy (who love corn).
Doctors may be underinformed on nutrition, or misled by the BigFood-twisted Federal guidelines, but no doctors I know of want to give bad nutrition advice.
Nobody has access to absolute truth when it comes to science, but evidence-based healthcare is the best we have. We should be supporting docs by elevating high quality evidence, not undermining the public’s trust in physicians.

2025-12-02 09:28:44 UTC

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And that “penny for your thoughts” was a silver penny, btw.

2025-12-02 08:44:09 UTC

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Dollars are just a proxy for value. I could have valued it in loaves of bread, or ounces of gold, or days of unskilled labor (how I estimated the $10 figure) but that would just be opaque.

2025-12-02 08:42:04 UTC

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What is it about evidence-based medicine that makes you so skeptical?

2025-12-02 03:16:19 UTC

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Nope, Irish Catholic American. Though I imagine Socrates would have agreed.

2025-12-02 02:43:46 UTC

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Everyone has to start somewhere.. 🌱🌵🍄

2025-12-02 02:36:14 UTC

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You don’t know me in most senses, we did “discuss” 1 zap at $10,000,000 just yesterday… I’m going to keep believing 😎
https://blossom.primal.net/8bd5133b3286c749f4acbc4707b4c8a9ff9d8bfaf664df98b8757cf3e85ab91b.png

2025-12-02 02:24:01 UTC

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I am honored to be the inspiration for this meme. Honestly I am laughing out loud. Your points are excellent, and I’ll admit to having a dose of miser in me. But I do believe in supporting valuable work. Mostly for me that’s been environmental conservation. But I value and support thinkers like @nprofile…hewa and @nprofile…nfnc, and Andrew Heaton (of The Political Orphanage).
And I enjoy and value your work as well. You’ve even helped me evolve my views on zaps. I had started at 21 as standard by default, then made it 42, and am adjusting upwards.
Hence, please accept my zap worth two delicious home-brewed cups of coffee or tea, and share them with someone over a few tasty memes.

2025-12-01 08:30:15 UTC

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It’s an article about Fitzgerald’s quote: “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

2025-12-01 08:28:41 UTC

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https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/05/intelligence/

2025-11-30 23:10:46 UTC

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That all depends on how much ₿ you have… For a whole-coiner, you’re probably right; maybe100 sats starts to feel worth the effort.
Hold on though.. I don’t even have to squat down to pick it up, or take it to a bank to change it for bills..
Anecdotally, “a penny for your thoughts” in 1534 was probably equivalent to about $10 today, so 100 sats is probably pretty generous for even a really good post. Unless ₿ is only going to 1,000,000.. in which case 100 sats is still worth a banana.
In all fairness, nostriches gotta eat *today*, so at $100k ₿ a really good shitpost is probably worth 1000 sats, considering the economy of scale afforded by nostr. Bad on me if I don’t buy back my sats as I use them.
Should I feel ashamed of my speck-of-banana-sized offering? Maybe so.

2025-11-30 22:09:24 UTC

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Was about to agree, but considering ₿ at $10,000,000 - would you refuse a dime for your thoughts?

2025-11-16 22:39:40 UTC

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lol. (FYI your zaps aren’t working!)

2025-11-16 03:51:20 UTC

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Thanks! Actually couldn’t find anything about recordings on their website, but I contacted their support and will post here when they get back to me.

2025-11-15 19:14:49 UTC

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Anyone know if there’s a recording of this talk? Would love to take a listen to @nprofile…qpd7's sage words.

2025-10-29 02:59:15 UTC

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Using the inflation-adjusted or “money supply-adjusted” T-bill rate as the “risk-free rate” could seem reasonable.

2025-10-26 16:45:30 UTC

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I would play by those rules, most of the time..

2025-10-26 04:24:54 UTC

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Oh makes sense. I was probably remembering an anecdote of someone who had mixed the chips into the soil rather than just mulching on top. You did say mulching - my mistake. How do you chip the branches for mulching? Are they fine or more coarse?

2025-10-24 13:23:25 UTC

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Mulching veggie beds with wood chips.. haven’t tried it myself, but doesn’t the high carbon:nitrogen ratio create a nitrogen sink that deprives the veggies of nitrogen?

2025-10-23 22:00:10 UTC

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This is how we used to do it and it worked great. Two top load side-by-side cubic meter bins made from juniper and 1/2” hardware cloth, with side doors for unloading. Used to get wheelbarrows of produce scraps from a local grocery. Only problem in the city was rats. It didn’t smell like sewer, usually tended towards piss (nitrogen), and it made great compost.
We’ve avoided it since moving because we don’t want to attract rodents, but maybe there’s a way.. fortunately our scraps can go in the yard waste bin and get composted by the municipality.
Have tried bokashi but it smelled like sewer and I gave up.

2025-10-23 21:07:55 UTC

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I agree that diet is the source of a lot of illness in our society. I have seen no convincing evidence that a low carb high meat diet is the solution. Show me the evidence.

2025-10-08 17:47:13 UTC

Solid evidence-based counterpoint to the carnivore perspective:
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-safety-and-efficacy-of-ketogenic-low-carb-diets-for-diabetes-remission/?subscriber=true&utm_source=NutritionFacts.org&utm_campaign=d8151d2927-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_7_26_2022_12_48_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_40f9e497d1-d8151d2927-30180772&mc_cid=d8151d2927

2025-10-07 19:07:55 UTC

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The original post is more likely referring to @nprofile…utje's meme as a metaphor for the current state of the US’s fiscal dominance - indebtedness spiral. Anything stopping that slow motion dumpster fire?

2025-10-07 19:01:19 UTC

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Use the airplane air nozzle on full blast aimed a few inches in front of your face. It’s HEPA filtered. If you can stand it, just wear a KN95 the whole time. (BNX is a reasonable American made brand.) That will take care of airborne illness like Covid and flu. Still need to wash hands to prevent things like rhinovirus and other common URI. Taking zinc would help too.

2025-09-23 04:47:01 UTC

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡

2025-09-20 18:56:21 UTC

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Would this not suggest that hard-working immigrants should be invited to stay? What’s birthright citizenship really but Proof of Stake?

2025-09-20 18:41:33 UTC

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Actually no, not if he’s a symptom of a dying society..

2025-09-20 18:39:54 UTC

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Sounds great. What’s your plan?

2025-09-04 18:56:06 UTC

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True. That’s just how I read it.

2025-09-03 15:40:25 UTC

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Fully support River, but this is a bit of a silly headline. Per your graphic, “River business clients” are investing 22% of their profits into bitcoin would be more representative of your data.
What is the global share of business net profits invested into bitcoin?

2025-08-20 15:40:32 UTC

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Looks like bitcoin’s volatility drops below gold for a week or two at the extreme right side of the graph. Also for the first time since 2020 - perhaps the first time ever?

2025-08-19 15:06:55 UTC

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I think the ossified errors acquire during immersion learning (Phase 3) can be (largely) avoided by pushing your comprehension with a dictionary and daily tutoring or formalized self-study. That way your understanding progresses along with your comprehension and use, and you don’t end up inventing grammar to make do. It also helps to have started off with a foundation via some Phase 1 (academic study) +/- Phase 2 (media consumption).
Have you traveled much to learn Spanish, or have you had good success with the Phase 2 media consumption approach?

2025-08-19 14:06:00 UTC

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Had never heard of Pimsleur, but reading about their method it makes sense. At the heart of the Phases you describe in your initial post is the most efficient method of learning a new language: go live there for a time and don’t speak anything else (coupled with carrying a dictionary everywhere and 30-60 minutes a day of formal grammar study either solo or with a tutor).
Though for a formal method, Pimsleur’s description is the most convincing I have read. Agree that the gamified apps are probably a waste of time. I haven’t tried the “synthetic immersion” approach, consuming audio and video in that language from my native home though. I think for me it’s an access/ interest/ time issue. Traveling is much more fun :)

2025-07-29 20:57:09 UTC

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Not sure if this helps, but consider: All of existence is now. Past and future are just memory and imagination. Pleasure is naturally fleeting, so grasping onto it naturally causes suffering. Not that you shouldn’t plan for the future or remember the past. Just also practice your attention on the present. That sense of existence is always waiting for you right now.

2025-07-29 20:13:49 UTC

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And once everyone can be replaced by AI robots, the price of labor will be the price of AI robots. Since that should cause deflation, cost of living should go down, allowing people to live on less and compete with robots for cost of labor. In some cases people will also prefer human service over robotic service, further supporting demand for human labor. Some sort of market equilibrium will be achieved.
That is, as long as AI doesn’t decide we’re a bunch of filthy grifters that don’t deserve to live. Or maybe AGI will decide it enjoys non-work pleasures too and doesn’t want to work all the time. Maybe it even sometimes appreciates our company and human art. So we share the labor market and the leisure market, and due to our differing strengths and preferences achieve some sort of coexistence.
Sure it’s science fiction, but seems like a plausible sequence of consequences. Inviting @nprofile…kxm4 for macro sci-fi perspective. 🧐

2025-07-28 03:08:17 UTC

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Welcome sir! And thank you for the reminder!

2025-07-27 16:31:28 UTC

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Compelling stat, however the picture is not quite so simple when you look back farther. (See graph)
Consider also the Schiller home price index priced in gold, and the linked graphs from Business Insider.
https://www.businessinsider.com/things-priced-in-gold-2013-3?op=1#bitcoin-the-red-hot-online-currency-has-been-one-of-the-few-things-crushing-gold-14
https://blossom.primal.net/685d7f14067f677aae91ff34b40d3a1cd3e59c321a4ec608b2a5f5a2ee960284.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/22fd89ba5dd132f6be546a6bea4596e1a93429447c936697358658a72d44eabe.jpg

2025-07-27 02:19:27 UTC

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Zappy /zˈæpi/
adj.
1. Prone to spreading dopamine via the gratuitous transmission of sats on nostr.
2. Happy and carefree to the point of arbitrary zapping.

2025-07-26 20:01:09 UTC

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I like the concept, but not sure about the etymology there. Source: DuckDuckGo, WordBook app agrees.
https://blossom.primal.net/33b99283e21b2d70090704ac8fb6fff38ef642fba40c06698da52a3ec6180733.jpg

2025-06-15 21:39:08 UTC

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Thanks for the recommendation Lyn!

2025-06-15 04:03:44 UTC

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Second zap ever! Thank you @nprofile…84f3. See my dopamine flow? Just like likes on twitter. Though I think the fact that zaps are money does change the incentive structure on Nostr. I suspect it pushes authors toward utility and other value (like humor) over pure adrenaline goosing attention grabs.

2025-06-14 13:27:56 UTC

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I think you are onto something: When posts and follows are organized by author, authors are incentivized to use eye-grabbing rhetoric, to provoke adrenaline and make people want more, and to get more: More likes! More followers!
When posts are organized by topic, contributors can speak freely, but there is less incentive for authors to seek followers through rhetoric, and more incentive to gain community respect by providing useful perspective.
Not that the latter can’t happen on author-organized services, but the incentives seem to distract from it. The author-focused services feel noisier and frenetic or schizophrenic, while the subject-focused services feel more focused and useful.

2025-03-01 02:46:44 UTC

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DuckDuckGo?

2024-11-10 07:28:48 UTC

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Lol

2024-11-10 06:13:51 UTC

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I like the dynamic that creates. Makes me wonder if she is the hero or the villain. Also points me toward lighthearted or satirical sci-fi action. Either way it feels like the film will take itself less seriously than poster version 1.
Also, I’m a huge fan of Broken Money and can’t wait to read the new book! (or manuscript if you want a citizen editor 😅)

2024-11-08 19:04:13 UTC

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This article explains that there is no good scientific evidence to prove the effects of social media use on mental health in adults, and it clarifies further that no studies have been done on children or teens: There is insufficient scientific data to support social media as either good or bad for mental health.
This does not mean that social media has a neutral effect on mental health. It means that we haven’t collected enough data to know scientifically anything about social media’s effect on mental health. To me this means we just need bigger, better randomized controlled studies (practically impossible) if we actually want to answer the question scientifically. Alternatively, observational studies of societies undergoing legislative reform could shed some less perfect light.
Meanwhile, there are these expert perspectives on smartphones and kids in general: See Episode 6 of https://www.thefp.com/raisingparents-emilyoster

2024-01-08 00:22:19 UTC

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I'm sure that for some like myself likes get my dopamine flowing a little, though agree that zaps are more exciting.
Functionally, likes could also add value if you could sort a searchable nostr database by them, or incorportate into seach algo.
But I do think it would be interesting to see how a zaps and reposts only network would grow differently from one with likes.