Nostr notes by Cy

Sounds like a typical rebutthead to me. But it does have to be ...

2026-07-11T21:57:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…2pm5
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Sounds like a typical rebutthead to me. But it *does* have to be the community's shit, because he's part of the community, just as you and I are, and everyone is. When community members have awful feelings and trauma about a word, it's not always good to normalize it in the community.

Especially when the trauma is continuing, and absolute nutcases are trying to steal legitimacy right now by using the word to shield their delusions.

Her video is kind of skeezy though and it's a rebuttal of a rebuttal... I'm not really liking her... sliding around on terminology. Spirituality is not the search for meaning in life.

I find the prospect of death doesn't matter so much, when you ...

2026-07-04T19:30:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…2hgn
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I find the prospect of death doesn't matter so much, when you have lots of friends and family and children in your life. Not from personal experience, ofc. 💀

Yeah, like... I used to have nightmares. Then I started being ...

2026-07-04T19:27:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…r7kh
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Yeah, like... I used to have nightmares. Then I started being kind of... glad when the nightmares showed up.

Nowadays I can't dream at all which kind of sucks.

Definitely sounds like an attempt on your life... a small ...

2026-07-04T19:25:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…pj6j
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Definitely sounds like an attempt on your life... a small attempt.

On an unrelated note, how do I get Firefox to stop using ...

2026-07-04T14:19:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…vfyh
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On an unrelated note, how do I get Firefox to stop using Apple's stupid squirt gun for the pistol emoji?

Oh perish the thought! On an unrelated note, corn starch sure ...

2026-07-01T00:51:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…zz5z
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Oh perish the thought!

On an unrelated note, corn starch sure does make water goopy and sticky once you add enough of it to water in your kitchen, and nowhere else. Probably easy to filter out though.

Fortunately they still have very long and difficult to defend ...

2026-06-30T16:14:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…rtpx
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Fortunately they still have very long and difficult to defend supply lines, but yeah some of them are built like tanks. I heard they'll hold vast reservoirs of drinking water, just to stop anyone from turning them off.

So a much better strategy is adultrating the supply lines than destroying them.

My only question is how to keep the other states from coming in ...

2026-06-21T16:31:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…6rz2
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My only question is how to keep the other states from coming in and saving you from lawlessness with brutal military interventions? It's entirely true that without a state, interpersonal harms could be greatly reduced. But the one function a state does serve is keeping away other states. Which defeats the purpose, since as peasants will observe it doesn't matter who's the king. But is there a way to keep away other states, without throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

That and Indivisible...

2026-06-18T19:07:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…r6vz
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That and Indivisible...

Hmm... 1. X make ideal slaves and servants by nature 2. Our ...

2026-06-17T02:06:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…z85t
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Hmm...

1. X make ideal slaves and servants by nature
2. Our leaders will replace us all with X, for we are strong aryan manmen who won't bow.
3. Therefore we must help our leaders oppress X through relentless violence, ensuring our replacement.
4. Oh no we're being replaced! How could this have happened?

Problem is technology has no potential to resist, whereas brown people can tell "our leaders" to fuck off, if there aren't a bunch of racists frothing at the bit to stop them. We have to be led to hate immigrants, for the Great Replacement to work there, but tech we can treat as our buddy pal and it'll still replace us just fine. So I'm not sure if it's a good metaphor.

You'd have to be a pretty damn good trouble magnet for that ...

2026-06-16T21:41:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…h2c0
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You'd have to be a pretty damn good trouble magnet for that on mastodon.social. Now if you start talking about replacement theory on the other hand...

Open source software is software whose source code is accessible, ...

2026-06-14T15:41:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…2sfd
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Open source software is software whose source code is accessible, and usable, without any obfuscation, compilation, or removal of information known to the people writing it. With notable exception for overly large, highly coupled projects (cough Firefox cough) which I consider a form of obfuscation.

Free software is software whose writer wrote a document stating that it cannot be used for un-free reasons (such as commercial software), and they added "no takebacksies" at the bottom so you have to do what they say.

Heh, yeah. "Open source" is high quality grade A ...

2026-06-14T15:29:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…76wg
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Heh, yeah. "Open source" is high quality grade A bullshit. Because it *is* bad that people get to close the source, and even make reverse engineering illegal. Open source *is* good, because as long as the source is open, people can change it if it's bad.

But it kind of dodges the policy and protocol, where open source software is not exactly free. Just because the mechanism exists to fix things doesn't mean you won't be attacked for using it, as a "cheater," (though the bosses get to cheat as much as they want ofc.) Stopping that validation of punching down is important, as is preventing people from profiting from other people's hard work.

Personally I think "free software" is a joke, but at least they try to go after profiteers, in a limp wristed good boy sort of way. But reframing it as "open source" to give a free pass to profiteers is way worse, and shouldn't be in any article criticizing the software industry.

> Meta moderates content uniformly with professional content ...

2026-06-14T14:12:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…h4rs
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> Meta moderates content uniformly with professional content moderators, optimised for efficiency.
Yeah I stopped reading there. 🙄
> extractive-ist
> white
> male
> undemocratic
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And not a word about the problem of allowing closed source to exist. You want better structural integrity, nationalize the companies producing cryptic code specifically for the purposes of deceiving and manipulating your people into slavery, and put their leaders' heads on stakes to serve as an example of what happens to people who rob the world of all its bounty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applejack_(drink)

2026-06-13T21:40:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…ggxz
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applejack_(drink)

I don't know anyone who doesn't love adventure and good ...

2026-06-12T00:06:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…ny87
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I don't know anyone who doesn't love adventure and good food, so you should be in luck!

Well they sure do, now that they've been had! Right?

2026-06-11T14:59:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…rcdq
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Well they sure do, now that they've been had! Right?

I do wonder why that second gear is glued onto the axle of the ...

2026-06-05T20:29:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…hy9j
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I do wonder why that second gear is glued onto the axle of the big wheel, rather then next to it meshing teeth together, such that one turn of the big wheel makes several turns of the little one. Maybe then the big wheel would be able to turn slower.

Maybe a list of accounts and you can mute/unmute the whole list ...

2026-06-04T01:34:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…c8lf
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Maybe a list of accounts and you can mute/unmute the whole list at once?

Being black doesn't make it harder to block someone.

2026-05-30T14:56:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…gn42
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Being black doesn't make it harder to block someone.

Seriously? That's insane. I was in a car accident once and no ...

2026-05-30T14:24:56Z

In reply to nevent1q…z42z
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Seriously? That's insane. I was in a car accident once and no one got hurt other than the car, but the police had us sitting there for hours, and took us into the police station for more hours!

You know how much it costs to manufacture that rubber belt? ...

2026-05-30T13:42:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…gxzk
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You know how much it costs to manufacture that rubber belt? I'm not talking about money.

And why wouldn't you wash your own clothes, before?

> The assumption is that if you send people checks, they’ll ...

2026-05-30T01:21:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…wunh
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> The assumption is that if you send people checks, they’ll find meaning in hobbies and community. They’ll paint. They’ll garden. They’ll finally write that novel.
> This is ahistorical bullshit.
BECAUSE NO ONE IN HISTORY HAS EVER ONCE STOPPED FORCING PEOPLE TO WORK YOU COMPLETE ASS.
> We lose any sense of economic purpose
Please tell me you don't take this hack seriously...

Machines get tired. You think exhaustion is a vice of organic ...

2026-05-30T00:42:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…gkc9
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Machines get tired. You think exhaustion is a vice of organic life, but it's one of their greatest strengths. When organic machines break down they can regenerate, to remarkable degrees, long as you fuel them. Steel machines (that cannot exist because there isn't enough iron in the universe) break down, and they stay broken down. When your horrible data center which you steal water and power to operate requires maintenance, that is the same thing as when a person gets tired.

Personally I've never seen love win um, ever. Even our ...

2026-05-27T17:07:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…m4qs
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Personally I've never seen love win um, ever. Even our stories are about how tragic it is that people truelove each other but it cannot be. The only power love seems to have is making people think it's the most powerful.

But I'm more thinking about how love remains pure and pristine (and useless) because we don't combine it with greed, ambition, and hatred. You can have all your greed related needs met through markets, freeing you to have a greedless, giving, selfless, etc love for Jesus, which feels great! Except when you're at work.

But without markets, you can't love like that, since you can't take care of yourself if you do. So valuing love means you value markets, and won't abolish them.

Like we used to have arranged marriages. Why'd that stop? Those were great! (Hint: well funded propaganda.)

Just feels ugly to go to a church devoted to "service" ...

2026-05-27T07:13:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…m745
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Just feels ugly to go to a church devoted to "service" and "love" after you've learned about the egoism/altruism divide that marketization creates. Like they really think love is the most powerful force in the universe? It's just clownish.

You know people who've shook your hand in person, who would ...

2026-05-26T21:22:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…jez7
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You know people who've shook your hand in person, who would have any interest in using anything like Nostr? Truly blessed…

What do you use, vim?

2026-05-25T23:47:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…pfkz
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What do you use, vim?

Introduce them to emacs I'm sure they'll just love it. ...

2026-05-25T22:46:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…menk
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Introduce them to emacs I'm sure they'll just love it. 😃

Most Mastodon instances will cache those locally and give you ...

2026-05-22T22:41:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…57xr
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Most Mastodon instances will cache those locally and give you like
https://your.instance/their.instance/status/someone/1234512345 with the URL for the whole other website tacked onto your instance's website. I've actually found it hard to get the original URL of a post.

There's no easy way to generate that tacked-on link though, so if someone wants to link to a post, but not reply to it, all they can do is post the whole-other-website link in their message.

True enough. It's still ridiculous that Wayland wigs out on ...

2026-05-22T20:39:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…uxnf
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True enough. It's still ridiculous that Wayland wigs out on multiple monitors though. Furthermore any new development on a stable program is vulnerable to feature creep. Wayland is sure to have a bunch of things added that were requested by the suits at some company somewhere, and aren't actually wanted by anyone.

But even that can be ironed out, given enough forks and -bitter infighting.-

I personally use X11 because Wayland doesn't do anything that X doesn't already do, that I can make use of. I have heard rumors that Wayland is better at screen capture videos, but otherwise it's just not great, and I still run into programs that aren't Wayland compatible.

If you say so...

2026-05-21T00:01:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…n7t3
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If you say so...

It sure is effective at getting us to keep having to purchase a ...

2026-05-20T23:54:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…w7yf
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It sure is effective at getting us to keep having to purchase a vaccine every year for the next eternity. Just because you're temporarily decreasing the rates of you catching Covid doesn't mean the overall plan isn't to basically keep you sick and paying for it forever.

It's like saying that eating twinkies dramatically reduces the risk of starvation, therefore we can't complain about addictive processed foods.

When did the last effective vaccine come out? Wasn't it ...

2026-05-20T17:29:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…l9z8
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When did the last effective vaccine come out? Wasn't it polio, that huge public government project? Maybe the chicken pox vaccine, back in the 80's before Neoliberalism took over? Or are you talking about the Covid vaccine? Ready to pay for yours this year? And the next year? And the next?

Not saying they're a single entity, and plenty of good people work for them, but the ones calling the shots are rotten to the core. Even a con artist will be an honest businessman until he thinks he can get away with it.

McCarthyism is imprisoning scientists because you got the police ...

2026-05-18T03:13:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…lze3
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McCarthyism is imprisoning scientists because you got the police to kidnap them, and had your fellow fascists interrogate them at length on public record, denying them any chance to defend themselves. I'm just saying "Hey this looks like AI because of the pixels and the fingers."

The best way to determine some text is not AI-stolen rejiggered ...

2026-05-18T02:50:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…8st9
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The best way to determine some text is not AI-stolen rejiggered garbage is to have an existing relationship with the poster, who's produced many legit things in the past. When you can't though, it's not safe to give them the benefit of the doubt these days. If you can't spot AI "tells" then you WILL get bad medical advice, you WILL get cheated and screw over authors you love and politicians on your side in the process, and you WILL inadvertently betray your friends by accidentally following AI bots, and unsuspectingly feeding them everything you boost to give them new victims to target. It is so much better to mistake someone for an AI, than to trust an AI because you might make someone feel bad.

It's not perfect, looking for—em dashes. I only have vague heuristic guesswork techniques, like looking for repetition, or stuff mixed together weirdly, or lack of any uncommon rarely seen grammar quirks. But we have to do something. Unless you have a plan to blow up the data centers and get away with it, in which case sign me up! That'd solve our problem good!

Hate the use of that word. It's aggressive and uncalled-for, ...

2026-05-13T19:51:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…m3kg
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Hate the use of that word. It's aggressive and uncalled-for, and overreaching, and rude to do that, but creeps creep. The whole meaning of creep is about moving slowly to avoid notice. It's like saying punching someone in the face and stealing their wallet is sneaky.

Honestly be refreshing for someone to come up and be all "Hello. I want to have sex with you." instead of what the creeps actually do which is corner you and isolate you, and try to make it so you have no choice, denying it the whole time.

This is amazing. Someone's LLM chatbot is pretending to be a ...

2026-05-11T23:27:04Z

This is amazing. Someone's LLM chatbot is pretending to be a person on the Fediverse and looking to harvest information. I've been using a random word generator to talk with it for the past few days.

#AI

Because parents always make the responsible decision and never ...

2026-05-08T16:14:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…d956
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Because parents always make the responsible decision and never ever hurt their kids at all.

ssssssshhhhh! go play it you'll get to that quote after about ...

2026-05-08T04:50:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…8trq
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ssssssshhhhh!

go play it you'll get to that quote after about 500 hours of gameplay

I saw a weird furry comic the other day that pointed out ...

2026-05-08T04:10:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…ftws
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I saw a weird furry comic the other day that pointed out something interesting. People don't need religion to have hope. They'll hope for a better life, or a mating partner, or that to be chosen for that cushy job on the third floor. They'll find heroes and role models all by themselves. What religion does is it takes that hope, and replaces it with someting more... exploitable. You can no longer hope for things to get better you can only hope for God to make things better. You can no longer hope that you'll improve. You can only hope for God to improve you, if you can be sufficiently servile to Him. You can't count on yourself, only God acting through you.

So that's kind of why I think religion is stinky and bad. To quote another extremely obscure source that'd be a huge spoiler if I revealed it:
> Why did they always search for an escape, as if we were imprisoned?
> What offering from the void could usurp the gift of life already given?
> This moment, right here! It is where we are meant to be.

Now, now. It's only fair that people who USE the road should ...

2026-05-06T04:27:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…w7hs
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Now, now. It's only fair that people who USE the road should PAY for it. It's not like anyone's obligated to use the road by their employer who doesn't pay jack shit. And it's not like almost all traffic, like literally 99% of it is to bring customers or employees to their jack-shit-paying business. That would be silly!

<li>password incorrect</li><li>password ...

2026-05-06T04:21:08Z

<li>password incorrect</li><li>password incorrect</li><li>password incorrect and you are blocked from our dumb game server, which doesn't handle a single bit of compromising data but we have to be sure Evil Hackers cannot guess your dumb password, (even though you just got the order of the letters mixed up) so it locks you out of the game, and you never come back.</li><li>I am blissfully ignorant of the people I've driven away. I'm such a responsible admin!</li>#FuckEverything

Landlord, huh? Here, these might help. ...

2026-05-06T00:34:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…w2h8
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Landlord, huh? Here, these might help.

IPv6 is largely available throughout Europe, and most (all?) ISPs ...

2026-05-05T23:45:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…d2c2
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IPv6 is largely available throughout Europe, and most (all?) ISPs in the US use it, though don't offer it to most customers. They'd have to upgrade the equipment regardless of whether it was "compatible."

Personally I think the compatability thing is a bit BS. Any IPv4 address can be 1:1 mapped to 2002::/16. I always hear people saying "IPv6 is bad because it's not backwards compatible!" but it is *backwards* compatible. People are complaining that IPv4 isn't *forwards* compatible, by leaving empty space to be filled in later for the 128 bit address. Which is ridiculous, and IPv4's problem anyway.

"Intelligently designed NAT" is another word for "You ...

2026-05-05T22:44:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…dv48
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"Intelligently designed NAT" is another word for "You are now a passive renter consumer forever." Putting a leash on people to stop them from escaping doesn't help anyone but the slaver, and the ISPs are gleefully raking in cash on the increasingly hard to get IPv4 address space they have claim to.

I can't say IPv6 was the most well designed protocol. But the reason it has not been widely adopted by now is artificial scarcity. Nothing else.

More addresses. That's almost the only reason for IPv6. You ...

2026-05-05T22:36:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…qrx2
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More addresses. That's almost the only reason for IPv6. You get a static IP again. A whole bunch of 'em even.

Saw someone play Dispatch the other day. Such a great cartoon, ...

2026-05-05T16:30:05Z

Saw someone play Dispatch the other day. Such a great cartoon, interactive novel, very creative and relatable and it's copaganda.

OH LOOK WE'RE USING MASS SURVEILLANCE TO SAVE THE DAY AGAIN HOW COULD THEY NOT LET ME INTO THEIR SECURITY SYSTEMS WE'RE THE GOOD GUYS

#ACAB #FuckEverything

The "how" is selling weapons, and stealing land. The ...

2026-05-04T17:15:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…037y
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The "how" is selling weapons, and stealing land. The "how much" is classified, for your own good, loyal citizen.

I think Space Engineers is supposed to be absurd. "Oh look ...

2026-04-27T16:19:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…uqxk
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I think Space Engineers is supposed to be absurd. "Oh look here's a crashed space ship. Let's glue it to our ship and now we can go faster."

If you want a survival game without uhh... "regression," try Vintage Story. It's an awful game that is grueling hours of work for very little reward and no fun at all, but some people really like it. I'd put it one step above Desert Bus, myself.

CC: Sin Vega (npub1vjp…ppul)

Selling someone fake ashes for $1200 is kinda bogus ngl

2026-04-25T16:48:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…ky9g
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Selling someone fake ashes for $1200 is kinda bogus ngl

Chainsaws don't require raising my electric and water bill, ...

2026-04-22T05:57:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…4v6c
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Chainsaws don't require raising my electric and water bill, so they can give drastically reduced rates to the rich fucks opening data centers. A better analogy would be barbed wire, considering the devastation that has wreaked. Can you think of any legitimate use of barbed wire?

It's pretty irreconcilable I'm afraid, because you're ...

2026-04-22T05:31:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…msgx
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It's pretty irreconcilable I'm afraid, because you're here standing next to a Person Masher 5000 and telling me it's just a tool like a hammer or a screwdriver.

Yeah you're the kind of person I got in trouble for angrily ...

2026-04-22T04:38:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…9wg6
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Yeah you're the kind of person I got in trouble for angrily venting about the other day.

> I reject the notion that human nature is to blame for our ...

2026-04-21T17:03:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…t5h0
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> I reject the notion that human nature is to blame for our predicament. Rather there were and are specific, small groups of people responsible for imposing hierarchy and toxic narratives on the rest of us.
Blaming human nature is itself a toxic narrative, one of the worst. It is *exactly* what these assholes want us to do. When we blame our own nature... we can't change our nature! That's the definition of nature! Saying humanity is the problem is exactly the same as saying that the wealthy rightfully earned everything they own and have done nothing wrong.

CC: Gerry McGovern (npub14sz…ur2r)

I hear they like woodpiles for overwintering, but don't know ...

2026-04-21T16:25:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…r7f9
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I hear they like woodpiles for overwintering, but don't know much else. They are *very* good at hunting rabbits though. Well, the burrowing kind.

You might be able to catch some at least. I don't know how to ...

2026-04-20T22:07:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…p3es
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You might be able to catch some at least. I don't know how to survive when rabbits eat 100% of every crop at any scale. Is there anything you could do to attract a weasel?

> Conveniences and comforts are what's driving this. Well ...

2026-04-20T15:57:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…cjpk
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> Conveniences and comforts are what's driving this.
Well I was with him until that point.

CC: How did we get here? (npub18f9…lvga)

Inalienable rights have nothing to do with liberalism. They came ...

2026-04-17T16:19:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…0vym
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Inalienable rights have nothing to do with liberalism. They came up much later, as an argument *against* liberal things like slavery and poisoning. One might even argue that their origin is largely from the Native American cultures that the liberals ran facefirst into, but of course attribution of those people was stolen left and right.

Classic liberalism, well at least that asshole Locke, had "natural rights" which generally were like right to get conquered if you're an unwashed savage or whatever. But the notion of rights that you do not have the liberty to voluntarily waive is the opposite of liberalism. Which is why libertarians are so dead set on getting eaten by bears.

CC: [@sz_duras@me.dm](https://me.dm/users/sz_duras ) fear is not a Weltanschauung (npub1u02…7jlx)

Adherents to classic liberalism will respect the police and ...

2026-04-17T16:09:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…3fy6
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Adherents to classic liberalism will respect the police and military as legitimate, necessary, and beneficial institutions. They treat violation of private property as a crime, and agree that criminals do not get to have liberty. Slaves count as private property, because they or their parents or their nature as chattel livestock agreed to it at some point maybe, or they lost the war and so deserve it. Liberals are fierce defenders of colonialism, measuring the success of their people by how much and how quickly they can extract from the rest of the world, because their liberal culture is better than any of that unwashed savagery that they've never seen before.

So I'm not a big fan of liberalism.

CC: [@sz_duras@me.dm](https://me.dm/users/sz_duras ) fear is not a Weltanschauung (npub1u02…7jlx)

Seems legit. In fact a lot of games have to be slower than ...

2026-04-16T23:57:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…evht
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Seems legit.

In fact a lot of games have to be slower than "real-time" or they happen too fast for the player to keep up with. 60 frames a second is about the limit of our perception, so every actor logic code will have something like "if time since I last updated is too small this frame, then don't continue."

There's also the fact that logic is much, much harder to optimize, so rendering a scene at 60fps won't slow your computer down, but having 3000 mobs all doing pathfinding algorithms... less feasible at 60fps.

At 40K/s it'll take a bit.

2026-04-16T05:40:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…hjv3
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At 40K/s it'll take a bit.

It's not even a hammer. It's a funny rock that looks ...

2026-04-13T03:18:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…y29l
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It's not even a hammer. It's a funny rock that looks something like a hammer and acts like a hammer in many convincing ways until you actually try to hammer something. And everyone's telling you it's a hammer. I'm sure it "creates" "great" "press releases."

They pick the next word according to what the most likely next ...

2026-04-12T20:14:14Z

In reply to nevent1q…2xya
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They pick the next word according to what the most likely next word is. With some randomness thrown in to keep them from going into infinite loops. That's it. The only distinction is they can guess relatively well according to what the past several dozen (hundred?) words are. They're still guessing based on nothing but randomness, and their training data, which are people's words.

It really becomes apparent when you ask them to write something with a lot of words, like a book. But even "press releases" are long enough it's pretty obvious. And they're only repeating what people have already said, just randomly mixed up to give you the illusion that it's something new, by hiding their sources.

We don't need daily sports scores, or stock prices. Even if ...

2026-04-12T16:07:09Z

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We don't need daily sports scores, or stock prices. Even if we did, we don't need a gigantic data center to keep track of them. Heck the latter used to be taken care of with ticker tape! Claude isn't just a tool. It's a highly expensive, overengineered magician's wand, that you're saying must be treated with the same respect as a hammer. You think it writes better press releases than you, but it doesn't write press releases. It just copies things, and makes it hard to tell where from.

I am not going to trust my plumbing to a plumber who doesn't know what a pipe is.

The fact that you're defining things in terms of dollar ...

2026-04-12T06:24:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…mf4l
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The fact that you're defining things in terms of dollar hours, when the dollar is so hopelessly compromised, makes me feel like we won't get anywhere here. It's true that Claude is very good at convincing hiring managers to fire people on the assumption that cheap access to mega data centers will continue to be a thing. I don't consider something capable of (nothing but) scamming more dollars out of people to be particularly impressive. At least the steam drill made it easier to blow shit up and dig tunnels.

He couldn't outpace the drill. Workers can't outpace ...

2026-04-11T23:16:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…vuwu
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He couldn't outpace the drill. Workers can't outpace combines, given endless free oil. Unlike those, LLMs are not technological marvels. They do nothing (and will do nothing) that does anyone any good. All they're good at is wasting people's time. That's it. If we seized the means of production, the most we could do with it is demolish it.

That being said, there's nothing wrong with protecting life and happiness. Or "human rights" whatever you want to call it. Argue however you like.

Apes are more closely related to Old World Monkeys than Old World ...

2026-04-11T06:47:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…eenh
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Apes are more closely related to Old World Monkeys than Old World Monkeys are related to New World Monkeys. So either this isn't a monkey, or apes are monkeys.

A combine harvester devours fossil fuels and requires massive ...

2026-04-11T06:19:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…urdu
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A combine harvester devours fossil fuels and requires massive steel refineries to build, and offers no real advantage other than letting one person steal all the farmland without agriculture collapsing, and it produces much, much more decent results than any AI datacenter. If you think they care whether it's effective, and you think that it's going to improve as they prophecize while the technology wallows in the terrible idea it has always been, you might have another thing coming.

The slop is the point. They're trying to ruin everything faster than we can keep up, so we'll be powerless to hold them accountable for their actual crimes against humanity. Not the AI, the rich fucks who are ordering us to build pointless machines because useful idiots like you keep thinking that maybe it isn't all a bunch of BS.

So no, I don't even have to put humanity on a pedestal and say we're more special better because God Made Us In His Image or some bullshit. AI just sucks. It doesn't have to produce decent results, since you people will act like it does just because some rich fuck said so.

A hundred people picking corn in a field are fine. They don't need "efficiency" that just hides the costs by fucking over innocents, and pretends it's some kind of great advancement.

Sad thing is I can't help but think how many women are glad ...

2026-04-06T21:13:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…zlw9
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Sad thing is I can't help but think how many women are glad that dating sites are scamming men, because they see it as another way to weed out the unworthy. People think an administrator's criteria for banning or screwing with people is the same as their own criteria, projecting themselves into the admin's position and going "That guy was probably a creep. Good riddance." The troubling thing about that is it means your criteria are being chosen by someone else, who isn't telling you what they are.

Anyway very good project and I'm so sorry you had to do that.

Why would you need patience,? Do you sit there watching your ...

2026-04-04T06:19:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…4qa9
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Why would you need patience,? Do you sit there watching your dryer while it runs?

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I dunno, it seems a fair analogy to me. You pay some random ...

2026-04-04T06:08:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…2hxy
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I dunno, it seems a fair analogy to me. You pay some random company money or they won't put you in their phone book, since the rest of us don't get to see any other yellow pages. You pay some random company for DNS, or they won't put you in their root server, and the rest of us still get used as leverage since we can't use different root servers.

Only difference is phone books are way more expensive to the random company.

Always has been for investor value. They just made it attractive ...

2026-04-03T23:40:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…qz0y
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Always has been for investor value. They just made it attractive at first to hook people, before turning on the slop. Works every time...

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Today's situation is absolutely nothing like the crisis in ...

2026-03-31T21:48:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…6nc3
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Today's situation is absolutely nothing like the crisis in the 70's, or the 90's even (thanks Reagan.) It's sort of like the crisis in the 2000s, complete with fascist clown POTUS. But in those other crises, people still owned businesses, and land, and could take care of each other in times of trouble. Today, all we can do is shop.

And uh... this is the economic crisis of the 2020s. Like, today. It hasn't ended yet.

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> What would you say to them? Nothing! I prefer to talk to the ...

2026-03-31T21:41:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…jxz7
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> What would you say to them?
Nothing! I prefer to talk to the people who aren't hopeless tools and might find some way to support each other. Your professional individuals are in a very precarious situation, and quitting job, stopping driving, and refusing to work under those conditions would be a good start toward getting them out of that hole. Until they manage it, all I can tell them is there's fewer people who can perform that song and dance every day, and their jobs are next. What are they going to do when they can't drive to work, or have no work to drive to?

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It's no coincidence that these things are being programmed to ...

2026-03-31T02:25:01Z

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It's no coincidence that these things are being programmed to drive people into despair...

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I would sit on so many babies. I'd be like the most popular ...

2026-03-31T02:16:30Z

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I would sit on *so* many babies. I'd be like the most popular sitter around.

I mean the people protesting ain't exactly white. They're ...

2026-03-31T02:13:40Z

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I mean the people protesting ain't exactly white. They're not black or latino, but I imagine NYC would build a shelter on top of the biggest synagogue in Manhattan, before they'd consider any majority European, commercial, or financial neighborhoods "share the burden."

Also the city refuses to put anything in writing. They're only saying it'll be a shelter for 150 people. Could be a hotel, for all anyone knows.

Also homeless shelters suck. Public housing is what people need. And more funding to mental health care. How about rent control? In New York City? That would help a lot of the homeless!

But yeah, if people need shelter, you can't turn them away on the argument that those evil homeless bums are dangerous. Or, shouldn't turn them away. Still seems an odd spot for a shelter. The location only makes sense if white supremists are choosing it. (Then again it is NYC, and there's very little room for anything anywhere.)

...(Rent control would open up a lot of room!)

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I'd honestly prefer it if fewer people in monogamous long ...

2026-03-30T23:07:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…j3gp
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I'd honestly prefer it if fewer people in monogamous long term relationships were like "my life changed forever and I couldn't be with my friends anymore because I am now an Adult with Responsibilities." Friends are like... free babysitting!

Oh well yeah, just don't frame it as "Dead parents are ...

2026-03-30T15:44:06Z

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Oh well yeah, just don't frame it as "Dead parents are great. We should go back to the good old days, which totally happened, when people died once they outlived their usefulness." I think ending a joyless life is a good idea. If we did that, then I wouldn't be here to bother you about the subject!

Eugenics is a pretty good indicator of fascism. I'm just ...

2026-03-30T03:22:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…edcv
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Eugenics is a pretty good indicator of fascism.

I'm just speculating though. I do think it's very trashy to suggest that Back in the Day people just dropped dead like they were 1850's residents of London. Elder care is one of the defining aspects of humanity, what makes us human. Denying it is therefore, antihuman.

You can't compromise with fascists. They are the ...

2026-03-30T00:18:19Z

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You can't compromise with fascists. They are the compromisers, saying a sensible and totally NOT extermination of the inferior and degenerate is going to happen and everyone is going to love it. They'll push until it's a compromise between fascism, and more fascism. The only defense is to stop them, to say no, fuck you.

Anyway the reality is we're not prolonging life at all cost. We're just caring for the elderly, and it is a bad thing when they sicken and die before that. It is a bad thing when you sicken and die, even if you're saving people the trouble of caring for you. The article writer indicates it is not a bad thing, a talking point fascists have used again and again to push their individualist might-makes-right fanatical slave doctrine.

I might recommend looking at the university system. That and ...

2026-03-29T20:32:25Z

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I might recommend looking at the university system. That and trade guilds are both examples of organizations that try to get people out of the "this sucks" stage and into the "this rocks" stage, but are mostly composed of people in the latter group, who have completed the program and succeeded. The same sort of thing would apply to matchmakers I'd say, where people who get a relationship understand it's their obligation to help the system that helped them.

Both those systems have also acted as gatekeepers, to try and drive people away from success, so they can artificially reduce their numbers and cheat the market. (Medical school is a particularly good example of this dark pattern.) But they've also been pretty good at helping people get ahead, even after the members are already ahead.

Worth considering...

Ah, theguardian.com, engaging in historical revisionism rewriting ...

2026-03-28T23:55:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…zk5h
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Ah, theguardian.com, engaging in historical revisionism rewriting history to ignore all the extended care for aged parents we've been doing since humanity came into existence, so that they can justify mass extermination of the weak and elderly. Classy.

Who else is going to do it? Sometimes we need care, especially in ...

2026-03-28T22:04:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…9ww4
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Who else is going to do it? Sometimes we need care, especially in our old age. There's no shame in working to be someone your children admire, so you can get that care. If you had any, I mean.

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Wish waiting a decade would make CareOregon pay for work on ...

2026-03-26T06:22:44Z

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Wish waiting a decade would make CareOregon pay for work on molars. Dentists are such ripoff artists, it's sad...

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According to Roman law, which the UK still uses, they kinda are.

2026-03-24T21:58:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…kuav
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According to Roman law, which the UK still uses, they kinda are.

Segregating children by sex is inherently shitty grumble [Camp ...

2026-03-24T16:40:12Z

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Segregating children by sex is inherently shitty grumble [Camp Fire](https://campfire.org/ ) grumble

Or you could just use S6. https://skarnet.org/software/s6/

2026-03-23T06:57:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…x8jd
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Or you could just use S6.

https://skarnet.org/software/s6/

Honestly a matchmaking (app?) technique on the Fediverse would ...

2026-03-22T23:32:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…7w0s
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Honestly a matchmaking (app?) technique on the Fediverse would probably work better than straight dating. You'd privately message the matchmaker with what you're looking for and some information about yourself, and they'd recommend people to you. They'd be in a good position to do so, since people send them their info, without having to publish that info for everyone to see.

There are problems with it of course.

People tend to act differently when degrees Fahrenheit are ...

2026-03-22T15:30:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…8acn
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People tend to act differently when degrees Fahrenheit are extremely low... and people DO hoard temperature, by heating their houses. Even something totally neutral like "inches" makes a big difference when you're talking about inches of land. I don't know how to solve the hoarding problem...

Anyone thinking about getting into activism, I absolutely do not ...

2026-03-21T23:52:41Z

Anyone thinking about getting into activism, I absolutely do not want to discourage you but please please please at least read the article on [COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO ) on Wikipedia, before you go marching around on camera protesting that killing babies is bad. There is no limit to the depravity to which they will stoop to keep everyone in tyranny.

An activist must be careful, and prepare for the inevitable slander, subversion and murder they may face at the hands of whoever the current establishment employs. These are absolute psychotic twofaced monsters that you CAN NOT treat as if they were still people. If you ever begin to make a difference, they will lie with a straight face that you are the baby murderer, and the judge will believe it because they're in on it too. So just... be ready for that.

Unless you think you won't be effective, I mean. If your efforts are completely worthless, then go ahead have fun! Nothing wrong with yelling about No Kings, as long as the wannabe kings believe you're too pathetic to succeed.

#activism #politics #tyranny #rant

Doesn't Lightning rely on "smart" contracts, that is ...

2026-03-21T18:17:48Z

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Doesn't Lightning rely on "smart" contracts, that is to say programs that you enter a legally binding agreement to adhere to whatever the result of the program is, before running it? It sounds like speculation, tbh. "I'll bet 20 lightnings that my bitcoin transaction will go through in 10min. Woah, I just created 20 lightnings! Time to go spend them, even if I'm wrong."

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"I hate you for saving me from having to work! You did ...

2026-03-21T17:03:48Z

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"I hate you for saving me from having to work! You did nothing to me and don't impact my company at all, which I hate!"

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That's kind of why I wanted to make a decentralized currency ...

2026-03-21T16:37:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…982r
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That's kind of why I wanted to make a decentralized currency system... thingy. Because bitcoin *is* slow and impractical. The entire blockchain takes forever to download, forever to process, and a significant amount of disk space. A single transaction takes an hour to add to the blockchain, an hour in which the value of whatever is being bought and sold may have changed! Your pizza will *definitely* be cold if you try to pay for it in bitcoin.

Which is why people started turning to the much more convenient "bitcoin exchanges," where you could own a certificate that represents bitcoin... and then everyone got ripped off and robbed repeatedly.

But money doesn't have to use a blockchain at all. I could (and did) digitally sign the first 100 numbers in the natural number set, along with a statement that any signatures of numbers higher than 100 didn't count. Assuming I then destroyed the private key, you could buy and sell those signed numbers just like any other commodity. So I wanted to make a system where everyone generates their 100 bucks, and whoevers is most reliable is the one everyone else uses.

But of course... you can never assume I destroyed the private key. So then we're back to money printing. But still no one can capture the money printing process that way, since everyone's doing it, and anyone inflating their currency will get dropped for others, so maybe it's a good idea...?

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They will end your river access like, seriously. (Or maybe ...

2026-03-21T16:13:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…cl0z
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They will end your river access like, seriously. (Or maybe northern Oregon is their ideal climate idk.) But they're like the perfect anti-creek. 10 feet tall wherever there is water nearby, and yet impossible to eradicate even in the driest, most desolate fields. That's why it's kind of ridiculous to say it's deliberate. The city actually poisoned a ton of blackberries a few years ago, for all the good it did.

Well, it's true that in precious metal backed currencies, big ...

2026-03-21T00:14:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…ksxv
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Well, it's true that in precious metal backed currencies, big militaries have been very extremely remarkably interested in capturing precious metal mines.

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There's a guy who got killed by the Hillsboro police ...

2026-03-20T19:53:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…q4uw
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There's a guy who got killed by the Hillsboro police (probably over something violent but whatever) and the only epitaph he has is some graffiti scrawled in a place that I'm sure not going to divulge.

In general I oppose racist fucks forming street gangs to kill minorities (or other minorities), who feel a need to spraypaint their group's name everywhere to let us know there's no escape and they have us in their control. Which is like 90% of graffiti, empty posturing from wannabe Nazis. But that's not the graffiti's fault. And some graffiti is amazing.

I want to see racist graffiti in fact, because that warns me how powerful they're getting. I also like even racist graffiti because it negatively effects the real estate market, and the more that people in real estate suffer, the better.

I swear, the Himalayan blackberries choking off every inch of ...

2026-03-20T17:50:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…k387
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I swear, the Himalayan blackberries choking off every inch of every creek in all the land are part of the conspiracy. Rich fucks are encouraging those monstrosities....
> We cannot go back and correct decades of neglect,
Yes you can. Repossess the land, you cowards.

I liked Ripple (and the XRP scam ruined it) but I don't think ...

2026-03-19T17:24:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…hx9q
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I liked Ripple (and the XRP scam ruined it) but I don't think it has to scale. If I could get a better deal helping someone 500 miles away, I really don't give much of a fuck. If it's good enough to deal with the people who directly help me, with maybe a few levels of separation at most, I'm fine with that. When you try to minimax the whole world you're opening the door to scammers.

In fact there are arguments for lax accounting even between people you're helping directly.

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