Violinist and teacher, building a homestead on raw land in between lessons and concerts. Fascinated by how we can develop resilience in our lives, in our families, in our communities. I'm excited about freedom tech and circular economies, and am deeply grateful for the devs and advocates who are helping build tools for a better future.
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Last Notes beautiful garden beds 🤩 good luck on the land search! 😂 I never thought of that https://blossom.primal.net/80ed2eef0fb48d5d38134f5d2dddd2f8093df1b4d73e191a8b7405aa88db8cc0.png Yes, that's one of the things he covers in the video They're making fun of the Italian narratives about how bombing = civilization? "we've decided not to limit VPNs today" the arrogance 🤯 thank you! it's definitely on my end Yes, exactly! it's clearly a genuine issue that needs to be resolved What's not clear to me is that this is the best resolution Core30 sounds problematic to me, and the fact that there's at least one person on there who literally doesn't own bitcoin makes it clear to me that something is very wrong. I just hear more about that - overwhelmingly more - than I do about the viability of Bip110 Right now it sounds like arguments to vote for party X because party Y is so terrible, rather than clear conversations about the changes and the possible second and third order effects. I understand very little about the technology behind BP110, but I do understand logic. Most pro-soft fork arguments seem to be solely focused on how bad Core is. Core having made terrible decisions and/or being compromised does not mean that BIP110 is a good solution. thanks! I was using Alby and then never connected another wallet. Really dumb, I know - i really enjoyed zapping people. It's on my list Yes, it's definitely possible The last time my father said that we needed to get rid of the electoral college because "it's not democratic" I suggested he review his civics lessons (from high school? not sure when he might have covered civics in school) 🤦♀️ Yeah, very interesting 😬 Not too long ago I would have thought that this was all good news, but I suspect it's just going to go even further in a direction that most of us won't like. Do you listen to Simon Dixon? ooof, Ben, this is rough I'm sure you're familiar with the various permaculture ways of improving the capture of precipitation (and snow melt) on the land? It's not a vineyard, but Takota Coen's farm is really inspiring. not easy, but the best thing ever 🥰 Congratulations it can be matched and surpassed with homeschooling you might be surprised what can happen in a vibrant homeschooling community of course parents think of the socialization I I would start by finding one other person/couple/family nearby whose values align with yours and build from there. One thing we've found: it's been more important to us to build connections with neighbors than to agree with all of them. Although we do, thankfully, have some folks close by that share our values, most of our immediate neighbors don't. One of our closest neighbors is a "but what about the roads" person; we rarely talk about govt or politics, but there's a lot of other overlap and we adore her. Another couple is maybe more aligned with us on some socio-political issues but they spray Round-up freely (upstream from us, fortunately) and tease us for raising chickens and being "nature lovers." I could go on, but there's a wonderful we-have-each-others' backs feeling to it despite all the differences. good morning! love the photos 😊 yes! we're growing hybrid poplar and mulberry as fodder trees too, and experimenting with a ton of others - but the animals particularly love willow Moringa sounds amazing and probably works in your climate. Do you grow that as a fodder tree? We planted this willow 4 years ago, and cut it all the way to the ground early this spring. It's 10 feet tall https://blossom.primal.net/0c6874d2ce17cd85d8d8d889673f93468b74cd5c845d88dbb5c9e91624363113.jpg "I believe that the primary hypothesis is" is not the same as trusting it I think this might be a language issue, actually. The phrase I used is simply to share a hypothesis in answer your question; it doesn't mean "I believe in this hypothesis." It's true- I mistrust that source, since I've heard of them before and know something about their funding. I think their primary purpose is to offer talking points to people talking with vaccine skeptics. In any case notice that they offer another hypothesis - a reasonable one, actually - but no data to back up that hypothesis. So we have 3 hypothess for why deaths attributed to measles have dropped 1) it's the vaccines (if the CDC numbers I shared mean that this is not a viable hypothesis) 2) it's improved treatment 3) there are general improvements in public sanitation I would also add 4) we don't have consistent ways to diagnose measles over the years, so it's really hard to get clear numbers on any of this. We're kind of going in circles on this. We seem to agree that the burden of proof is on each person to decide about taking an injection, so I'm still curious: what research did you do before taking the covid vaccine? (if in fact you took it -maybe you didn't). Please be accurate: I did not defend a theory. I said that "I believe the primary hypothesis is." The source you cite does not give evidence and from what I can tell is a front for pharma. This is what I found on it from a cursory search - While VFV itself claims donation-based funding, its parent organization—The Task Force for Global Health—receives major funding from government agencies (including the CDC), foundations (such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), and pharmaceutical companies (including Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, and GSK). The Task Force serves as VFV's fiscal agent, processing donations and managing payroll. So, VFV presents itself as a grassroots, donor-funded project, but it sits within a larger organization that has significant institutional and corporate backing. oh, sorry - I didn't see you asking for the source. It's referenced on the chart itself. But that's a great question - what explains the death rate drop since it started dropping before the vaccine was introduced? And that pre-vaccine drop in deaths seems to be true for a lot of illnesses. I believe that the primary hypothesis is that the drop in deaths from infectious disease is from improvement in basic sanitation - cleaner water and air, basically. You'd have to line up the dates in all similar charts and look at the timing of sanitation services. So I showed you charts that indicate that the deaths from measles were dropping precipitously before the vaccine was introduced. Does that change your perspective? Ripple (XRP) is the name of a shitcoin The Bill Gates question was brought up by someone whose post I can't see and you've referenced it several times. But there are some very interesting facts about WHO and corporate influence that you could look into if you are curious. Incentives make it clear that you need to actually examine evidence rather than believe narrative presented by the media. We all make our own choices. My only criticism is that you talk about evidence and mock others for what you assume is lack of evidence but you don't actually seem to use it for your own decisions. Or perhaps you mistake newspaper articles and pharma framing for evidence? oh dear Thank you There's a small subset of people who were suspicious of the injections but believed all the fear-mongering around covid. Interesting In a system that allows companies to make massive profits with no accountability you have poor incentives. There is not conspiracy theorizing in that, nor in the WHO/Gates connection. It's verifiable data and you don't need to look at probability. You reference "people who have oversimplified theories." But you just had a long exchange on facts and logic with someone who has made different choices on vaccines than you, and in the end you bring up conspiracy theories. oh this is new to me - you mean Luke? what was the insanity? Vaccines are "cheap" in the fiat sense. I would argue that their actual cost is huge. There's a reason that the world gained new pharma billionaires during covid. In any case - yes, it's a difficult question. Lots to consider, including what the side effects actually might be. Do you still mock those who would choose differently than you? Lots of good ideas here for some ways that society could improve the safety of medications. But my question was about making personal decisions: given that we have a highly corrupt system now, how do you evaluate what medications (including what vaccines) to take? It is possible in theory to serve the public with their money, but the incentives do not line up, especially in large nations. The more money, the greater the incentives of agency capture. In the US, public health spending is in the hundreds of billions of dollars. And yes- essentially the financial and health costs are paid by the people. Private gains, socialized losses. Losses in money and also in health. In this environment of corporate capture of the state agencies, how do you make decisions about health for you and your children? Yes, absolutely! and we clearly cannot rely on the companies that profit from them, or the agencies or media that are captured by those corporations to do this critical thinking. There a studies such as the one you suggested above - comparing the health outcomes of vaccinated children to unvaccinated children. I think there are several of them, but the media has no incentive to cover them. We must not outsource critical thinking to those who profit from our ignorance. I'm not sure what you mean by deliver, but all three graphs are looking at slightly different things so they aren't necessarily contradictory: two are for reported cases, one for the US and one for the world, and the third for deaths attributed to measles in the US. So even though they might not be contradictory, none can actually be accurate since they depend on diagnosis, which has changed over the decades. My purpose in showing my graphs was just to show how deceptive it can be to show a subset of data -however inaccurate - without the rest of the context. as people find out what we're doing they start to hate us was kind of rooting for Egypt but that was pretty impressive This seems to show how effective vaccines have been in combating measles https://blossom.primal.net/e53ca61c953fa45cbff04927dedcab1080e10f329ea13b313eca06d6dda3dbe3.png until you see those years in a larger context https://blossom.primal.net/7172308cdf3d46d35afdd971e5e21d31a6aac2b0a900234bd5f882488b99bf4f.gif Yes, this is very much in question. Measles is now diagnosed by PCR, and it used to be diagnosed by symptoms, so it's very hard to compare older cases to cases now. These days when children get measles symptoms, they are dismissed if the child has been vaccinated. In fact, one of the adverse effects listed on measles vaccine inserts is literally a "measles-like rash." In the past, that measles-type rash would have been diagnosed as measles. Now it's not. Even so, the numbers might surprise you. I'll add a post of two charts for you to look at. There's the further very interesting issue that people who get the typical childhood illnesses do much better (health-wise) as adults. I'd have to find the study on this - saw in the past year - but it's quite pronounced. The hypothesis is that there may be something about childhood fevers that help build our immune systems for life. "Most people using" = argumentum ad populum The natural biological state of human beings is unmedicated, so the burden of proof is on anyone who would coerce medication, especially when there is no consequence for the results of coercion. The immune system is not a novel theory; that aluminum is a neurotoxin is not a novel theory; that placebo trials are essential for studying both safety and effectiveness also not a novel theory. I could go on... that's just off the top of my head. Your links - the first link is essentially a marketing piece from the NIH, and the second is a relative comparison of two measles vaccines. What we're discussing is studies showing the safety and efficacy of vaccines (or any vaccine, or a combination of vaccines). I've found you to be generally very thoughtful and highly attuned to questions of personal responsibility and sovereignty , so surely you looked carefully at - say- the covid vaccine studies before taking any shots. What evidence did you use before introducing this product into your body? My post has two points 1) within the context of profit and lack of accountability - for products such as vaccines and pesticides - the logical starting assumption is to be skeptical of their safety and effectiveness. 2) if you are genuinely curious, you can look for the studies to come to your own conclusions. Based on what studies do you believe them to be effective? We used to be surrounded by family and community Bill Gates + WHO is a verifiable connection, and when there's that much money at stake the studies to justify them ... well, let's say that the starting assumption should be that they are not to be trusted. If you want to look closely at the effectiveness (and safety) of vaccines, there's plenty of information out there. Someone stating a verifiable fact does not need to show evidence; it's out there for anyone who is willing to dig beyond mainstream sources. One interesting starting point before even looking at the studies is the basic logical framework: when you have a product that -is enormously profitable (annual revenue around 90 billion USD) -whose uptake is enforced by government -and for which there is no accountability the moral hazard is huge. That system does not incentivize safe and effective products. Does that mean there are no safe and effective vaccines? No, of course not. Does it mean that you should approach the entire field with a dose of health skepticism? yes, obviously. In the US, vaccines used to be the only product for which companies enjoyed complete freedom from liability (thus no accountability) and sadly the pesticide glyphosate is now entering that club: as long as the agency assigned to test the safety of the pesticide is ok with it, citizens cannot sue for the cancer and other health effects that it causes. The natural, totally predictable next step is full agency capture by Bayer/Monsanto, just as has been true for US health agencies and pharmaceutical companies. Pathologizing the human need for in-person interaction (is this astro-turfing for the next lockdown orders?) (although I don't have this person muted, so 🤷♀️) @nprofile…z505 , my friend, there are many narratives about covid. If at any point you are interested in exploring the ones that were marginalized by the mainstream and govt sources - even if just to make more sense of the resistance to the lockdown measures - let me know. There's a whole world of information out there that will make sense to you given everything you know about money printing. who are we talking about here? I've heard it can't handle too much heat, but those look like palm trees! glad to see this - I might give it a shot I've never heard the phrase itself. Is there also "aspirin denialism" or "statin denialism" or is it just for vaccines? Vaccine denialism 😂 I haven't heard that phrase before. I'm not sure about the penises he espouses either 😂 Seriously, though, yes - I've agreed with some of Tucker's positions and appreciate many of his interviews, but I just don't trust him or most others. I think that Candace is sincere but also know that she might be useful somehow. I.e. if she were actually dangerous to a major power structure, there would probably be plenty of ways to limit her reach. what he wrote about gratitude for bitcoin and nostr and you figured that meant gratitude for bombings and genocide ? I disagree with her about so many things but still somehow am really fond of her and have a lot of respect for what she's doing. If I find out she's a knowing part of some psyop I'm going to be bummed. Heard the beginning of this and loved her take on racism and that whole fiasco in her hs years. (So basically your post wasn't for me 😂) That is literally not what they are doing. The celebration is for July 4 1776. What is it that you think happened on that day in Philadelphia - that a bunch of men got together and started a nation? I've been using Obsidian for years and love it. The ability to build on ideas over the years is wonderful and it can also be a terrific tool for organization. I'm sure I'm not even scratching the surface of its potential (there are a TON of community plug-ins that look very interesting). Files are small and very easy to store. I found it after being exposed to the concept of Zettelkasten, and the other similar apps that are usually mentioned seemed terrible to me even before I had much awareness of privacy - all data stored on the servers on the company. Cons - I don't think it's open source (not that I would know how to read the code, but I would prefer it anyway!). And otherwise I'm not sure but I don't have too much to compare it to. Yes, I know what you mean - but I think our desire for tribal belonging is very strong, a primal need. But now there are very sad expressions of it 😟 You must be mistaken The only slavery that has ever happened in the world was in the American south. Duh But really - that's very interesting! there are stories of colonial women being captured - not sure about enslaved, so I'm sure that made a difference - but who then preferred it and didn't want to go leave the tribes, kept slipping out of their settlements to go back to the Native Americans. I would give a lot to be able to really see some of those moments in history. Are there journals of this ancestor? Any details that fill out the picture? You think that Americans are celebrating the founding of a state? 😂 It's excellent marketing, actually. I think it's all kind of ridiculous but it's smart. 🤷♀️ When our cow is in heat she'll hump anything - the bull, another cow- doesn't seem to matter. If we try to see that through an ideological human lens, it would mean that she's bi - which is totally fine, obviously, but that seems a ridiculous label. OTOH, animals can probably show us a less rigid or dogmatic view of sexuality. In any case, the "gay wool" thing cracked me up. TIL that there's a Gay Farmers Association "We have gay sheep. They give us gay wool. LFG" https://blossom.primal.net/e1b7161422df2dac2c6c6e6d0a047b34c5564e87ea7b5531f7078c3b9509afae.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/151362261189cfb5a55912df39a3b95548798b93e1293e44bde1f623f84b5bca.jpg looks great 🤩 I've wondered about those weighted doors. Seems like a good design. My favorite part about living in our tent was how open it felt, how connected we were to everything around us - but this takes it to a new level! Our plan is to eventually build a cob house with a generous screened-in porch so that we get a bit of that almost-outdoor magic without getting eaten alive by bugs. Just the last few years of planting a few trees has given me renewed respect for farmers.🫡 this is lovely 😍 congratulations!! 20 pig kidneys! wow I haven't figured out kidney recipes yet, so when we butcher I'm super careful with the liver but give the kidneys to our dogs What will you do with them? push a numerator with no acknowledgment of the denominator highlight pros but not cons it's politician math oh! this is interesting to hear. I've been curious about it but have read conflicting reports on safety. i'm sure it's just a coincidence this is amazing Love the photos!! it's hard to watch - I'm so sorry (And for all the Americans who think that isn't happening/can't happen here: I wouldn't count on it.) oh no - sorry to hear this! beginners are definitely welcome on Nostr The bitcoiners on here have been through a lot of thinking (and pain) regarding non-bitcoin crypto, so you're likely to get some very passionate and opinionated responses on that subject. Please don't take it personally! and in any case the great thing about Nostr is that you really can create your own communities and algorithm. Look for key words and subjects that interest you, and build a great list of folks to follow. And if someone is consistently rude, muting works well 🙂 *goes to look up dispensationalism and covenantism* (I didn't even know the second one was a word!) I didn't see yesterday's dirty joke but I can see this (unfortunately! 😰) GM, Maria! Sorry about your friend 😢. I hope it's a beautiful funeral yum! I often roast marrow and then blend it with butter and herbs for a composite butter that we add to everything they look amazing also those chubby little knuckles 🥰 Yes! it's a lovely smell. And it flowers ALL summer 😊 Agastche. We have it surrounding one of our apple trees (with comfrey, oregano, chamomile and a few others). The whole area hums with pollinators. https://blossom.primal.net/580385437e4143a7f9228f77a4fd64cfa48eb3b1655cedd787b35db7cd1c989a.jpg oh ! what?! [goes to look up truffle innoculation] I planted this one before I knew to make a note of varieties of trees when I put them in, so I have no idea what kind of hazelnut it is, but I put others near it for pollination. It's out of the way for us and gets very little attention but is growing vigorously. We may prune some hazels so that they grow into small trees, but their natural form is a multi-stemmed shrub. There's a ton of interesting information about hazelnut/filbert in ancient Europe - UK in particular - and hazel coppicing over the years. #nevent1q…tsal our first hazelnut!! https://blossom.primal.net/38aee43d700f6ba0fed9329c8441557476dd90eecc5be1ca22a2ad76274f9103.jpg The blending of pharma and policy makers is fascism. I believe that Mussolini later used the term "Corporatism" Here's one definition I found: "Corporatism is a political ideology[1] and political system of interest representation and policymaking whereby corporate groups, such as agricultural, labour, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, come together and negotiate contracts or policy (collective bargaining) on the basis of their common interests." If corporations are writing public policy, we are no longer in a capitalist economic system (and obviously no longer in anything that could be called a democracy or a republic). It took a lot of brainwashing to convince decent people that "interpersonal cruelty" meant following rules concocted by pharma-funded policymakers. Fun fact: the public paid for the vaccines, for the rule makers, and for the propaganda as well. Zero accountability for the corporations that made billions from the whole grift. i love that poem! 😂 PCR tests are questionable at best, but even if you believe in them you can't use them as a measurement and compare that measurement to a different testing method. It's just nonsense. I often think of it in an even simpler way: when our bodies encounter something they don't recognize, they will mount a response to clear it from the system. Fever in particular, but most of the things that we consider symptoms are simply a housecleaning in response to the introduction of a toxin. My theory is that this is one reason that we have so much chronic disease now. Most parents treat fever as a problem to be medicated, rather than a healing crisis. In the case of vaccines: if you inject a child with a bunch of vaccines and the body mounts a response to deal with the adjuvants and whatever else is in the shots, the worst thing you can do is stop that response. So "give him Tylenol" after shots was the worst advice and maybe not only because Tylenol itself might be problematic but because preventing the fever means the child's body is left without its main tools to handle the situation. yeah : ( but somehow I'd rather know than not I was going to add to my response to @nprofile…ueh9 that there was probably some poisoning in the mix, but I'd have to do some digging to know if that's actually true. I remember years ago doing a research paper on pesticides and finding that (or a claim that) many of them had been developed originally as bioweapons in WW1 and then were modified for use on crops. And yes - re your testing question. One of the most absurd things about measles numbers - for instance - is that we're now using tests that weren't available years ago. So when you hear comparisons of case numbers over the last 50 or 100 years, you should keep in mind that you're actually hearing a comparison of something identified by rash or fever as measles vs something identified by PCR test. We have no idea how those actually compare. You're beautiful! Personally I would blend the liner a bit, but you look 😍 "turning a speculative extrapolation into a headline number" is a beautifully concise way of describing this technique "a classification choice that inflates the pathogen's apparent lethality" is also terrific 🤩 I'm deliberately using "free market" instead of "capitalism" because I don't know if we - you and I in this thread - have a working definition of capitalism. I like free markets as a starting point just because they are slower to corrupt, and because I think human society - including cooperation and innovation - thrives the most when people are allowed to freely trade with one another. What I would change about what now passes for capitalism and for what is often mistaken for a free market? The money. Centralized control of the money seems to be the fastest tool to corrupt any system. no, it emphasizes your point "up to" is so weasly! That number probably includes some bs modeling - or is just outright made up, with "up to" to cover their asses, since technically anything over 1 death is up to 100 million - but people skimming the article are left with the impression of "100 million" yeah, it's pretty grim! I'm keeping an open mind and not trying to go all-in on his analysis, but this point Dixon's ideas make sense of a lot of what I'm seeing in the world.