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I was actually primarily thinking about the Enuma Elish. But you are right, according to my Ai there are some Sumarian texts presenting the same relationship (“Enki and Ninmah,” “Creation of the Pickaxe,”) and also an Akkadian story (Atra-Hasis). It really seems like the predominant world view at that time.
Thank you for doing the work, I love everything that touches the interplay between Christianity and Bitcoin. If you want to go deeper on the tower of babel, you might want to look at Dr. Michael Heisers stuff. But be warned, he might send you down a rabbit hole.

2026-04-03 14:04:58 UTC

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I love this episode, but you are missing something about the tower of babel that would actually strengthen your point:
It is likely they were building a ziggurat style tower. This was the type of temple building that was typical in that region at that time. I can give more justification why it was a ziggurat if you want, but let me make my point first. Why is building a temple a bad thing? Because the reasoning behind these temples was that the gods had physical needs and that humans could help them meet their needs in exchange for favors. There are even some creation myths from that time which tell a story of humans being created as a sort of slave race so that the gods don't have to work anymore. So the thinking was "we built this awesome house for our god and then we give him a lot of food. This makes him dependent on us and he will give us good weather or success in war or whatever". But the god of the bible obviously doesn't want this kind of relationship with humans. He wants a relationship based on voluntary and sincere love, he gives freely without anything that we can give him in return except our heart.
Fiat money being a debt based money has a few parallels to that story.
1. It bases our relationship with each other on financial slavery rather than genuine trust. The fiat system literally requires the amount of debt to grow forever. Less debt = shrinking money supply = deflation = default on remaining debt = economic collapse. Bitcoin on the other hand puts capital accumulation (aka saving) before spending, which gives you the freedom to coose how to spend your life in a way that generates real value for others.
2. Just like the tower builders thinking they can influence the weather, Fiat Money gives the illusion of control where there is none. "If the central bankers just set the interest rate at the right level we can generate more economic growth or higher employment." Bitcoiners recognise, that all meaningful economic activity comes from humans providing value for others and they only need a stable foundation from which they can make their decisions.
3. Fiat money concentrates power. In ancient societies the priest were one of the highest classes, because they where believed to influence what the gods would do. And they often enriched themselves on the riches that people offered to the gods. In our times the closer you are to the money printer, the more you are allowed to enrich yourself at the cost of others.
If god let the tower of babel fall for these reasons, then he might let fiat fall for similar reasons. And just like Israel was chosen as a people of god to be light for the scattered nations. Bitcoin can be a light for those living under the many scattered fiat currencies. You can join the people of god trough giving your heart to Jesus Christ and you can join the Network of Bitcoin by redirecting your energy towards bitcoin.

2026-03-14 15:09:18 UTC

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If you look at his fingers you Motive he didn't fly the drone himself

2026-03-14 09:03:51 UTC

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Waking up or adapting to a narrative shift?

2026-03-12 15:54:07 UTC

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Yeah

2026-03-12 13:14:55 UTC

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https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/is-bitcoin-changing-the-way-the-left-thinks
Probably not the hit piece you where hoping for. But interesting to see how someone who is generally pro gov redistribution can recognise that the current fiat system is working against them and be honest enough to embrace bitcoin as an alternative.

2026-03-12 08:25:53 UTC

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Lol, she wrote one article for BTC mag in 2022, that's before ordinals even existed. Why should her about page mention anything about her later activities. This article is poorly researched and mostly relies upon guilt by association.

2026-03-11 16:34:30 UTC

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Remember when people told you, that MSTR was worth a premium because they had access to super cheap 1℅ debt?

2026-03-09 15:41:14 UTC

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Also bei der leeren Block Thematik habt ihr wohl im mining Unterricht nicht aufgepasst.
1. Wenn du einen leeren Bock gefunden hast kannst du keine zusätzlichen Transaktionen mehr in den Block aufnehmen. Die Transaktionen werden ja als Merkle Root in den Bockheader aufgenommen, welcher gehasht wird, um den block hash zu erzeugen. Wenn du also die Transaktionen änderst ändert sich auch der Bock Hash und hat nicht mehr die nötige Anzahl an leading zeroes um gültig zu sein.
2. Das Risiko für einen Reorg ist bei Blocks mit und ohne Transaktionen identisch. Der Block Hash des vorherigen Blocks ist nämlich auch teil des gehashten block headers und kann nicht mehr geändert werden. Der block muss also bei den anderen Minern ankommen, damit diese darauf aufbauen können und kann nicht einfach zwischen zwei zusammenhängende Blöcke geschoben werden, nur weil er leer ist.
Wer sich dafür interessiert, warum es tatsächlich Sinn macht leere Blöcke zu minen kann sich "Empty Blocks w/ @wk057" auf BitcoinMechanics YouTube Kanal angucken (wurde aufgenommen bevor er vollständig durchgedreht ist).
https://fountain.fm/episode/htlWu3PqBzz8za8tAZib
#nevent1q…7cls

2026-03-08 20:10:30 UTC

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Dann mal los

2026-03-06 12:39:21 UTC

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I've heard this counter argument a lot, and I sympathize with it. But I doubt even half of the people writing stuff like this are eating 100% grass fed beef. And once you introduce supplemental soy and corn feedings all of the arguments you made against veganism can also be made against beef.
So yeah I think both meat and plant based diets can have a positive impact, but you have to make a honest assessment of your specific food choices.

2026-03-06 09:00:48 UTC

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Not for the official app, but you can use NewPipe. Or Brave browser.

2026-03-06 00:45:48 UTC

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If you're still seeing ads that's kind of your falut tbh.

2026-03-04 09:45:32 UTC

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Who is thinking that?

2026-03-02 21:17:03 UTC

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Lol, da habe ich doch glatt das Foto gepostet auf dem den API Key nicht zensiert habe 🙃 naja, man soll die ja sowieso regelmäßig wechseln

2026-03-02 21:11:36 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/498e83d7761cae7fe35b8a2e6b9fa0ad1eab90944a4464eca8ff03a702d11f60.jpg

2026-03-02 21:06:56 UTC

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PPQ hat mittlerweile die Openclaw Anbindung deutlich vereinfacht. Vor 2 Wochen bin ich auch am verzweifeln gewesen und heute habe ich es first try geschafft. Sie haben sogar ein AutoClaw model entwickelt, welches automatisch die Schwierigkeit deiner Anfrage ermittelt und ein passendes model wählt: https://ppq.ai/blog/using-autoclaw-with-payperq
Ich werde als Antwort hierauf ein Foto von meinem set up Prozess Posten (fountain lässt mich leider nicht) aber mittlerweile ist das wirklich kinderleicht.
https://fountain.fm/episode/lMiIh67pxlsOYLh3wELi
#nevent1q…lmtj

2026-02-25 14:24:43 UTC

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What negative sentiment? I am enjoying this time.

2026-02-22 21:35:18 UTC

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How gay do you have to be to call yourself Teddy Bitcoins?

2026-02-21 18:45:27 UTC

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OK have fun in lala land.

2026-02-21 09:41:30 UTC

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I get the feeling this guy is just repeating whatever he heard in some conspiracy videos on YouTube. I was interested in his explanation, because to me the bible doesn't make any sense, if Jews didn't exist. But his theory doesn't seem to go that deep.

2026-02-21 09:32:03 UTC

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OK buddy, do whatever you want. But don't call christians easily propagandaized, if you refuse to even explain what your position is.

2026-02-21 00:37:49 UTC

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Well, I'm asking you...
To me this verse makes sense when it describes a religion that was prominent in ancient israel. I'm open to having my mind changed, but you would have to explain how this verse can make sense if the word means something different.

2026-02-21 00:24:53 UTC

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Jews did not exist?
OK, so how would you translate the greek word Ioudaios (for some reason primal won't let me paste Greek letters) in Romans 1,16? Or do you have early manuscripts showing that word was a later addition?

2026-02-16 00:01:18 UTC

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Ser this is Nostr, your block has no power here
#nevent1q…7mkk

2026-02-15 23:44:25 UTC

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Ahem, my AI is calling bullshit...
In the U.S., almost all beef cattle eat grass and/or hay for a big part of their lives (cow–calf and often “stocker/backgrounding” phases). The split you’re asking about is really how they’re finished right before slaughter:
Best “apples-to-apples” split: grass-finished vs grain-finished
Grain-finished (corn/other concentrates; may include soy, wheat, byproducts): ~95% of U.S. cattle are finished on grain for roughly the last 160–180 days (on average). (extension.psu.edu)
Grass-finished (forage-only finishing): ~5% by implication of the same estimate. (extension.psu.edu)
That “grain-finished” bucket is where corn is dominant and rations often include additional energy/protein sources (which can include soybean meal, wheat, distillers grains, etc.; soy is common but not universal).
What you’ll see in typical supermarkets (retail availability metric)
Some research summarized by the beef industry indicates that ~99% of beef in major retail supermarkets is from conventionally raised, grain-fed/grain-finished cattle. (beefresearch.org)
That’s a retail-channel statistic (not total production), but it matches most shoppers’ experience.
Market-share view (sales, not production)
An extension summary estimates grass-fed beef is ~4% of U.S. beef retail + foodservice sales, with ~1% labeled/marketed as grass-fed and the rest effectively blending into conventional channels. (extension.sdstate.edu)
Why the percent can look different depending on the definition
USDA slaughter “by class” data illustrate that most slaughter is steers + heifers (fed cattle), with a smaller share cows + bulls (often older “cull” animals whose diets are more forage-based, though they can still receive supplements). For example, May 2024 federally inspected slaughter was 49.8% steers + 31.6% heifers = 81.4%, vs 17.0% cows + 1.6% bulls = 18.6%. (marketwatch.com)
So depending on whether you mean “finished diet”, “what’s sold as grass-fed”, or “what’s in supermarkets”, you’ll see numbers like ~95/5, ~96/4, or ~99/1.

2026-02-15 08:36:00 UTC

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I almost forgot about this, thanks for reminding me

2026-02-12 22:36:37 UTC

2k SATs if you can name this shitcoin
https://blossom.primal.net/d890bd085be1430671b09ebfa5d966c40d7b518e5e5a4c47a272b605270afc95.jpg

2026-02-12 10:30:12 UTC

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qiBt_pXbXmQ

2026-02-09 22:15:31 UTC

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gj-qkl1_w6A&list=RDgj-qkl1_w6A&start_radio=1&pp=ygUMdGlhdm8gdmllbm5hoAcB

2026-02-09 04:51:33 UTC

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Tell me you don't know what Nostr is without telling me you don't know what nostr is.

2026-02-07 01:47:42 UTC

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It's credit, but digital. You know? Unlike traditional credit wich is analog, I think... right?

2026-02-06 16:13:15 UTC

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Dipception 🙊

2026-02-05 23:22:53 UTC

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@nprofile…uv6j I guess now we are talking 😉

2026-02-05 23:20:20 UTC

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Sounds like a wealth transfer I can get behind

2026-02-05 21:48:26 UTC

Anyone know why the mempool is so full right now? Been waiting for my 5 sats/vbyte transaction to confirm for over two hours now. Is it all psychopaths buying the dip and withdrawing to cold storage?

2026-02-05 18:07:08 UTC

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Strike is always dying when there is vol

2026-02-03 20:19:46 UTC

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Good point, the 21 dip was about 3 Months from top to bottom and we are already past that. But just based on vibes I'd give it 1 or 2 more months before I'm ready to call it a bear. I mean we all love to talk about low time preference.

2026-02-03 19:56:27 UTC

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Ich würde es gucken

2026-02-03 19:46:07 UTC

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In my opinion it's only a bear if we go down more than 50%. Not saying that won't happen, but this is only a dip so far.

2026-02-02 17:44:35 UTC

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Keine Ahnung, hab mal in irgendeinem Podcast von der Arkade wallet gehört, klang eigentlich ganz cool und ziemlich funktional.

2026-01-28 11:06:02 UTC

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How is this worse than a phone?

2026-01-24 17:11:40 UTC

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Ich habe mich mit XCanel in die Twitterhölle getraut und es scheint nicht wirklich als hätte Hoss Interesse die Wette wirklich durchzuführen. Auf Mr. intrinsisch wertlos hat er nicht reagiert und die anderen Accounts sind ihm "zu klein".

2026-01-24 14:20:15 UTC

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Ich habe zwar nur 3 Gehirnzellen, aber würde es solange Bitcoin unter 100k ist nicht mehr Sinn machen von der Million Bitcoin zu kaufen als eine Wette abzuschließen, bei der man höchstens 100% Gewinn machen kann?

2026-01-24 11:33:04 UTC

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Achso, ich dachte du wärst M.W.

2026-01-24 10:49:22 UTC

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Leider schon abgelaufen, ich habe dich persönlich herausgefordert.

2026-01-24 10:37:56 UTC

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Walter White sure had a bad day

2026-01-24 10:06:58 UTC

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2026-01-24 00:14:58 UTC

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https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fin-response-to-the-caesar-pen-holder-i-present-my-kitchen-v0-e2e3d74zyape1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D533%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D5fb3be32e2ed7aafbed28b6def8f6d600bab47da

2026-01-23 23:58:10 UTC

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Ich denke ich bin eine Tiffy, aber mit Kontroll Komplex. Ich habe kein Problem damit, dass Bilder von mir im Internet rumfliegen, aber ich möchte Kontrolle über jedes Byte haben, dass mein Handy verlässt. Deswegen nutze ich auf meinem Graphene fast ausschließlich open source apps. Whatsapp habe ich über Aurora installiert und behandle es so, als könnte jeder mitlesen.

2026-01-22 10:12:22 UTC

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I think I need this

2026-01-19 14:16:58 UTC

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Hah, well ahead of this guy. I own about 5kg of copper in 1, 2 and 5 cent coins... Oh shit, now I doxxed my stack.

2026-01-15 13:20:49 UTC

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Naja, bei dem Zustand in dem das Land vorher war ist eine Verbesserung auf 30% Inflation doch kein Hexenwerk. Das hat Carlos Menem auch geschafft und danach sind trotzdem die Linken wieder an die Macht gekommen. Ich denke bei Milei ist es auch nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis der nächste Sozi ihn ablöst.
Und es ist ja nicht so, dass Dolarisierung oder Zentralbankschließung noch nie umgesetzt wurde.

2026-01-15 12:43:09 UTC

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Warum das? Weil sich die Bevölkerung gegen ihn gestellt hätte, oder weil die Bürokraten ihn abgesägt hätten?

2026-01-15 04:01:21 UTC

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Glaubst du die Inflation wäre jetzt höher oder niedriger, wenn er die Zentralbank geschlossen hätte?

2026-01-15 03:57:57 UTC

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Ich würde dir widersprechen, dass Milei in irgendeiner Form radikal ist. Mir scheint er wie ein herkömmlicher Liberallala und unterscheidet sich nicht wirklich von den vorherigen konservativen Regierungen Argentiniens wie z.B. Macri.
Wenn er als konservativ/liberal angetreten wäre, wäre das ja OK. Aber er ist als Anarchokapitalist angetreten mit dem expliziten Ziel die Zentralbank niederzubrennen. Bis jetzt fehlt allerdings jede Bemühung in diese Richtung. Im Gegenteil, er beschimpft Leute wie Hans Herman Hoppe dafür als idioten, dass sie das von ihm erwarten, was er im Wahlkampf selber vorgeschlagen hat.
Wenn er tatsächlich die Zentralbank geschlossen und aufgehört hätte für die Staatsanleihen zu zahlen, dann würde es mittlerweile Deflation in Argentinien geben.

2026-01-14 14:05:47 UTC

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He's pretending not to know about opportunity costs.

2026-01-14 13:53:45 UTC

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Weil er statt die Zentralbank abzuschaffen Keynesianische Finanzpolitik betreibt?

2026-01-10 02:56:26 UTC

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Wearing his seatbelt under his Jacket. Chad move.

2026-01-07 00:15:18 UTC

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Oh boy, there is so much wrong with this video, I don't even know where to start.

2026-01-07 00:13:39 UTC

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You're on the right track. Concrete is great at resisting compressive forces, steel is great at resisting tensile forces, combine them and you get the best of both worlds. Now in the video the test that he showed for concrete is used to determine compressive strength, so modern concrete should be good at this too. We don't calculate the strength in kg but in Newton per square millimeter. This way we can compare samples of different sizes. I'm guessing the ancient concrete cube has a length of 100 or150 mm? At 80 tonnes this would mean a compressive strength of around 60 or 27 N/mm2. Which is around the same as some concrete used today. We can actually produce concrete with more than 100 N/mm2 but this is rarely done because it's quite expensive. With modern concrete we can reliably calculate the resulting strength of the mix, so we usually just select a mix with a little bit more strength than is actually required by the structural engineer. We could use stronger concrete but that would just be a waste of money. My guess is, that they deliberately chose a weak concrete for the video or added too much water to the mix.

2025-12-31 06:02:53 UTC

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"Communicate to thousands of people in record time" this might be setting people up to be disappointed...

2025-12-27 13:37:27 UTC

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I mostly see taxpayer money being spent.

2025-12-26 19:43:05 UTC

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This fixed it for me

2025-12-24 12:10:30 UTC

Nostr has the most retarded scamers by far. And the grammar is to bad for it to be preformulated or Ai. How is anyone falling for this?
https://blossom.primal.net/793a6765d2ee5f0ab23ebae28506a9e97fb0581dae58f577ce5f6bd7cd97a3c5.jpg

2025-12-22 23:44:56 UTC

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Hört sich nach einem Haufen staatsverliebter Planwirtschaftler an die helikoptert gehören

2025-12-21 20:06:48 UTC

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Fixed it
#nevent1q…c6a6
https://blossom.primal.net/669803086615476dd09beb4e01d9d85edaf0836c62db25a234c6964ab2366621.jpg

2025-12-18 14:01:09 UTC

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Muss man KYC machen?

2025-12-11 18:17:05 UTC

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Why am I not surprised?

2025-12-01 17:00:50 UTC

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Couldn't create a line up I would be less interested in. But I guess I'm not the target audience anyway. Except Saif, he's alright.
#nevent1q…veum

2025-11-30 22:52:20 UTC

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@nprofile…deta can you fact Check this Note and porovide context?

2025-11-30 16:55:53 UTC

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Basiert wie immer

2025-11-21 16:31:51 UTC

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Vertau denen, die haben eine Glaskugel. Die haben auch schon herausgefunden, dass Bitcoin auf 0 gehen wird.

2025-11-21 15:24:34 UTC

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Ich finde die Übersetzung "Stuhlmann" wäre hier passender

2025-11-18 09:04:21 UTC

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The tariff check will come in the form of MC Donalds coupons

2025-11-18 00:06:29 UTC

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Actually sounds like an entertaining conversation.

2025-11-17 20:32:18 UTC

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Eher so:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2RR-tzGOyi0

2025-11-17 20:24:45 UTC

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Wie geil ist das denn?

2025-11-15 18:19:07 UTC

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I have questions for you

2025-11-15 11:16:46 UTC

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When I saw the title of the video I thought "why would you post this? This is dangerous, someone could break in to your appartement". Now I'm like "never mind, this is probably the safest place on earth" 😅

2025-11-11 14:18:18 UTC

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Seriously, how do you end up still having to work12 hours days at 50 Years old if you had no children to spend your money on? She obviously didn't spend it on friends and it doesn't seem like she does her job out of passion.

2025-11-09 21:47:49 UTC

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If you read the old testament you will realise that every book is an attempt to answer the the cultural challenges the authors were facing at the time. God stays the same, but our environment changes. We don't have to deal with child sacrifice to pagan gods anymore but other challenges are now more relevant than ever. Of course the christian culture will reflect that.

2025-10-27 22:16:11 UTC

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There was a "case" of this years ago on german tv. You should check it out if you like bad acting.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BYeErfe01Pc&pp=ygUdQXVmIHN0cmVpZmUgc3RhdWJzYXVnZXIgaGFhcmU%3D

2025-10-26 12:34:26 UTC

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Is litecoin a privacy coin?

2025-10-25 23:46:31 UTC

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A. As OP said privacy on bitcoin took time to develop.
B. Since when has the truth ever stopped an altcoin marketing campain?

2025-10-25 23:40:01 UTC

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Marketing