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The crazy thing is the mind-boggling amount of money they burn through, for nothing. Each project more than all of ours together and nobody seems to mind.

2026-05-07 17:38:00 CEST

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Nobody knows what Russia thinks. It's literally headed by a KGB agent.

2026-05-07 15:36:45 CEST

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I love how you say, **If** Ukraine attacks the parade. If. So, however _Ukraine_ decides.
A military parade in the center of Moscow. Presided over by President Putin, himself. With Moscow covered with every anti-aircraft system they can scrape together... amazing, really. A few months ago, this would be unthinkable, but here we are. I haven't yet mentally-adjusted.
This is a military-strategy paradigm shift, for sure. This is why Zelensky is flying around the world making arms contracts with Egypt, India, Norway, whilst Putin hides in his bunker and prepares his big Victory Parade.
If.
https://media.tenor.com/myDJ62Bsq5sAAAAC/zooey-deschanel-wink.gif

2026-05-07 15:16:23 CEST

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Ukraine and Russia share a border.

2026-05-07 15:00:34 CEST

Ich kann gar nicht folgen, was im Iran gerade los ist. Nicht nur, wie es mit dem Krieg steht, sondern ob es überhaupt einen Krieg gibt und wer dabei ist und wer mit wem … Egal. Whatever.
Gold ist jetzt über $4700 und Öl ist unter $100 und Bitcoin ist beinah bei € 70k, aber das könnte jederzeit umkehren. Keine Ahnung. Chaos.
#wirtschaft

2026-05-07 14:27:33 CEST

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Yeah, muted them.

2026-05-07 13:21:47 CEST

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Oof.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/05/middleeast/seafarers-crisis-persian-gulf-intl

2026-05-07 13:11:38 CEST

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Yes, but I think the countries in the straight aren't letting them disembark or load supplies. They're sort of locked into their ships.

2026-05-07 13:02:24 CEST

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It's unnerving to be forced to enter email when I try to sign in with Nostr. Makes the user feel trapped or left wondering if there is a bug in the website. I would prefer that they could at least click an "X" button and close that dialog without entering it and continue with the Nostr login.
Email is a protocol, it is true, so that's at least better than demanding we log in with Google or something, but I don't know that putting hurdles in front of people wanting to donate to a good cause is constructive.
My humble opinion.

2026-05-07 11:21:15 CEST

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Those are sailors on private ships, not navy ships.

2026-05-07 10:20:01 CEST

There are about 20,000 sailors stranded by the war, some of them starving and running out of drinking water, but both Iran and the USA let this guy's superyacht through.
This is my surprised face. 😑
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2pn8zdxdjo

2026-05-07 09:06:37 CEST

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Yeah, that's why nobody has encouraged this, before. People will be zapping into the void. Wallet addresses should be intentional.

2026-05-07 08:35:07 CEST

Russia is such a weird place.
They refuse a Christmas cease-fire and then call one out for their ghoulish military parade. A military parade with no kit. They can, at least, hide the missing soldiers by having the parade march in a circle, like the Soviets used to do. Or get some stand-ins, to do soldier fancy-dress for the cheering Muscovites and the meagre cadre of foreign despots willing to show up for the celebrations. Such as Slovakia's Prime Minister.
Russia is moving air defenses from strategic assets (but not Putin's many palaces) to Moscow, to protect the world's most counter-productive parade from the air. Ukraine is probably going to take out some of those exposed assets while the idiots in the capital march in circles and preen.
Moscow Marco is the new Bagdad Bob.
China remains eerily calm and quiet; happy to watch Russia's military shift all remaining defenses to the Far West. Xi has not yet responded to the invitation, but maybe he will wave limply from Vladivostok.
I doubt Russia will hold to their own ceasefire, but it's apparently part of their elaborate propaganda campaign. You know... call out a ceasefire, bomb Ukraine, Ukraine bombs back, cry. The usual theatre.
They're now calling Ukraine "terrorists" and complaining that Ukraine is attacking them, and it's just bizarre because they've been at war — err, I mean, a *special operation* — with them for nearly 5 years. The Russian population has not yet been informed that there is a war on, but they have been informed that they are most definitely winning it.
Apparently.
#Russia #Ukraine

2026-05-07 07:27:14 CEST

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What prompted this concern:
#nevent1q…hlfw

2026-05-07 07:22:03 CEST

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No, but you motivated me to build one. 🤣

2026-05-07 07:19:27 CEST

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Ewww...

2026-05-07 07:16:42 CEST

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There's that, but bug-fixing is always much harder than building and it's known for building throw-away code. I go through and spend a few days cleaning up, every few iterations. To keep the mess down.

2026-05-07 02:00:12 CEST

Added a heat map 🔥 and interaction map 👥 to #imwald.
GN

2026-05-06 23:57:33 CEST

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Right. Wonderful. More stranded Bitcoin dust, for my collection.

2026-05-06 23:48:46 CEST

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There are an increasing number of custodial wallets for nutzaps, lightning, and now Bitcoin, that use the npub. They're sort of assigned wallets, but the people who have been assigned them might not know about them. The client just sets them up, automagically, and people can start sending money there.
Or something. I find it confusing.

2026-05-06 23:40:16 CEST

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Ugh, just tried logging in with a test npub and I get stuck on the same dialog. They had my email for my normal npub, so it didn't show with that one.

2026-05-06 23:35:30 CEST

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Maybe. I don't know. I don't know enough about Lightning, but the guys I trust most don't seem to think it's a good idea. I'll defer to their judgement.
How can I opt out, so that nobody sends zaps there?

2026-05-06 23:13:31 CEST

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Yes, we were discussing this recently, remember? That, instead of saying, "Well, zaps are public, so who cares," we should be working to make zaps more private.

2026-05-06 22:41:35 CEST

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No, I moved everything from biblestr to imwald, so I still have the payto data on my profile page.

2026-05-06 22:34:48 CEST

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Hmm. Not so nice.

2026-05-06 22:34:00 CEST

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@npub1kmw…xqk9 how about adding Nostr to your socials? 😊

2026-05-06 22:33:20 CEST

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I just saw the same thing. 🫤

2026-05-06 22:31:52 CEST

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Are you not seeing this login dialog? Only the top part?
https://i.nostr.build/Q2JsawMoDIRrVVwh.webp

2026-05-06 22:18:40 CEST

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Couldn't some third party just watch this wallet and then take notes on where you transfer the coins to?

2026-05-06 21:55:56 CEST

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Yeah.
I lost my keys to one that continued to get zaps, even though I updated my profile.

2026-05-06 21:51:01 CEST

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I don't even know, but I am aware that there might be nutzap, lightning, and now Bitcoin wallets based upon my npub, that I never look at and don't really know anything about.

2026-05-06 21:18:25 CEST

Is it possible that people are zapping me on wallets that have been automatically assigned to me, but that I am not aware of?
Or do I have to purposefully claim the wallet, for it to be activated? How does this work?

2026-05-06 18:43:21 CEST

I couldn't find any reliable calendar software for web, so I expanded mine and posted an entry for @npub1pur…zkzp at Bitcoin Prague in June. 💜
https://jumble.imwald.eu/calendar

2026-05-06 17:03:13 CEST

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It isn't medieval because it is old or a complicated term. It is medieval because it was commonly said in the medieval ages and then fell into general disuse.

2026-05-06 14:05:05 CEST

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Twitter is full of pictures and videos.

2026-05-06 13:57:32 CEST

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Mother of God is much clearer. Co-Redemtrix is a medieval hobby horse that should be retired to wherever we put saying "thee" and "thou".

2026-05-06 13:55:00 CEST

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She was required for Jesus to become the fullness of man, of course, so her obedience was necessary for our salvation. But Co-Redemtrix sounds to their ears like she's up in Heaven, ironing His shirts, packing His lunchbox, and determining whom to invite to the Feast. I consider the term unclear and misleading. You have to be steeped in the writings of the saints of old to even really truly comprehend what it even means, and the resulting concept you glean from that study is underwhelming.
Perhaps SSPX should see Mary as an example of Obedience to the King filling a person with Grace, and go and do likewise.

2026-05-06 13:43:12 CEST

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Fine, I'll grant that they are not in schism. But they have separated and remained so for nearly 40 years. I was a young child, when this circus began, and my children are now at college.

2026-05-06 13:11:13 CEST

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Their Co-Redemtrix fit just shows how they have alienated themselves from the rest of us. We are in active discussions with prospective converts and Protestant and Orthodox leaders and that antiquated, overly-poetic rhetoric is constantly a bone of contention that we are left to chew on. Clarity on that issue was necessary.

2026-05-06 12:48:09 CEST

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They left, in protest, in 1988 and are not in full communion with Rome. That much is clear, otherwise they would be getting their bishops consecrated in the proper manner, with papal validation. Most of their Sacraments are still valid, but the same applies to the Eastern Orthodox or even the Anglicans. They keep claiming emergency, but they've been in a state of emergency for decades and we're all bored of their shenanigans and most of us have simply moved on.
By leaving, they made themselves irrelevant. I literally forgot that they even exist, until I saw this news tidbit, and it took me a minute to even remember what they are on about. If they wanted to influence the Church to return to tradition, as other people have been doing while they were flouncing off to have a pout, then they should have stayed in the Church and worked on convincing other Catholics of their opinion. If their opinion is correct, then God would lead them to success. Otherwise, not. The Holy Spirit guides the Church, not SSPX.
The Church is finally and slowly becoming more conservative and traditional, and that has an awful lot to do with people like me, and pitifully little do with the people like them. They should stop grandstanding, eat some humble pie, and reduce themselves to fighting the good fight _within the Church and in full communion with the Church_ with the rest of us.

2026-05-06 09:22:24 CEST

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You are mistaking what defines a Protestant. It's not a set of beliefs or rituals, that makes someone a Protestant. It's splitting off from the main body of the Church to do your own thing, out of protest.
It's hubris.
If someone thinks that the main body of the Church and its teachings are incorrect, then they are obliged to work within the Church to correct it or to accept that they might simply be wrong. All people within the Church are unhappy with some aspect or other of the Church. 18% of the world's population will never agree on everything. We all just deal with it, like adults, and remind ourselves that obedience is an underrated virtue.
(I am convinced that SSPX is not wrong on everything, but that they are trying to make the most extreme interpretation of their pet topics the norm, and that we are right to reject that.)

2026-05-06 08:22:39 CEST

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We need some mood music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thJgU9jkdU4

2026-05-06 08:14:24 CEST

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Ah, okay.

2026-05-06 08:05:08 CEST

# Gelebte Willkommenskultur
https://images.tagesschau.de/image/05c3da5b-cba8-4a92-8d5a-575befbca861/AAABnd2yFfU/AAABnSSvrFg/16x9-big/frau-tshirt-merz-screenshot-ki-x-100.webp?width=768
Ihr ganz harten Jungs sind anscheinend geil ohne Ende. 🤣 Gleiche Masche wie die angebliche MAGA‑Puppe aus Indien, aber auf Deutsch.
Influencerin (angeblich eine Migrantin aus dem Senegal), die unbedingt von deutschen Männern getröstet werden will und ständig mit berühmten Politikern Selfies macht, entpuppt sich als KI‑Barbie.
> Schaut man sich die Accounts von "Zola.grm" auf den sozialen Netzwerken an, welche die Bilder gepostet hat, bestätigt sich der Eindruck des Einsatzes von künstlicher Intelligenz. Zu sehen ist "Zola" häufig leicht bekleidet oder stark körperbetont mit auffallend großen Brüsten. Zudem trägt sie auf verschiedenen Bildern AfD-Utensilien, postet ein Selfie mit Alice Weidel und verbreitet politische Aussagen sowie Wahlaufrufe für die AfD. Das Selfie von ihr und Weidel hat alleine bei TikTok über eine Million Aufrufe.
Und sie ist nur der erfolgreichste von einer ganzen Kollektion. Für jeden Geschmack das Passende. Hauptsache Titten und der passende OnlyFans.
Männer. 🙄 😏 🤦‍♀
https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/merz-selfie-ki-100.html
#politik #scam #AfD

2026-05-05 23:00:16 CEST

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Oh, just ignore.

2026-05-05 22:56:13 CEST

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Oh, maybe my client has a bug. wss://nostrelites.org seemed to be working, again. It was completely offline.

2026-05-05 22:54:47 CEST

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https://www.osvnews.com/why-is-it-a-problem-for-the-sspx-to-ordain-new-bishops/

2026-05-05 17:40:38 CEST

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@npub18am…p424 did you just restart this relay, or something?

2026-05-05 17:39:41 CEST

test

2026-05-05 17:35:11 CEST

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This is about what it is like to be a tourist, in the USA.

2026-05-05 17:03:34 CEST

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Hmm. Okay, but they get to have their own opinion, not their own bishops.

2026-05-05 17:00:23 CEST

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We were there in mid-March and were surprised how few tourists were there. And that was before the war. 🤷‍♀

2026-05-05 16:58:44 CEST

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😂 Yup, Betongold.

2026-05-05 16:57:50 CEST

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They've been protesting Novus Ordo Missae so loudly, for so long, that they're basically Protestants, now. 🤷‍♀

2026-05-05 16:55:19 CEST

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Excommunication is something a person does to themselves. It's not a punishment.

2026-05-05 16:46:54 CEST

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test reply

2026-05-05 16:46:34 CEST

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test reply

2026-05-05 16:19:00 CEST

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Illicit consecrations and schism are worse than blessing some people like they're a housepet or a new car.

2026-05-05 11:47:06 CEST

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That's also why people around here build gigantic castles and then there is only one or two people living in it. Or nobody. You turn all of your saved-up money into cement gold, so you try to make the cement as much as possible.

2026-05-05 11:44:53 CEST

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They literally call it "cement gold", in Germany, as houses are just a savings vehicle.

2026-05-05 11:22:20 CEST

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Yeah, Airbnb is basically free money.

2026-05-05 11:16:11 CEST

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Ah, nice. That is clever!
Also like that I can get the URL from the ...more menu on the article. Getting from URL bar doesn't work well on mobile.
If the logged-in person is the magazine npub, maybe render an edit-icon button and give it a prominent border, or something. Idiot-proof it some more.
If I am looking at my own magazine, it's primarily to edit, not read.

2026-05-05 10:53:49 CEST

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Yeah, I've been thinking about maybe hiding the latest articles feed and just showing the manually-curated category articles. But I am finding articles for the curation in the feed, so I've left it, so far.
I added a magazine-tree editor, by the way, that handles categories, subcategories, and article editing. You have to create the top-level magazine index someplace else, but you can add to it and edit it, from there.
https://i.nostr.build/8e55bUllSyGVgkHU.webp
After I made it, I saw that you already had one. 😂 Oh, well. Mine is more compact, so that's sort of nice, for editing a magazine I've already made because I can just scroll down to the category I want to change, enter the naddr, and press a button.

2026-05-05 10:34:57 CEST

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On my blog, I just pull articles from a preset set of relays, so if you want the search to cover it, publish there (such as wss://theforest.nostr1.com).
Search is always a subset of relays and there is no way for a search to have the full set (as not all relays are public and discoverable).

2026-05-05 10:28:46 CEST

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Cowards. LOL
_Actually, Grok says..._

2026-05-05 08:21:14 CEST

If you have ever wondered why European vacation rentals are now so weirdly cheap: it's wealth inequality.
#nevent1q…ccv8

2026-05-05 08:19:54 CEST

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I don't think many people have made the connection, but there are so many Airbnbs, and they are so weirdly inexpensive, because property taxes are low. That means lots of people own property they have no use for.
If they can manage to rent the apartment out for a few weeks per year, in the summer or whatever, that covers their tax burden and running costs without them needing to deal with a full rental apartment. Then they also never sell.
That is why we paid very little for our Athens apartment, downtown. The area was quite nice, but the buildings had few lights on at night, and the shops were surprisingly devoid of customers. Nobody was home. It's mostly empty apartments and some Airbnb (same difference, really, outside of peak travel season).
Athens Disneyland.

2026-05-05 07:39:38 CEST

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When the Greek debt crisis happened, there was a town near here where all available homes and apartments were bought up within months. It's years later, and they are all still empty. The owners don't live in it, as they live someplace else already. And they don't rent it out, as renters are a lot of work and bother. So, it just sits empty or becomes an Airbnb (so, mostly empty).
We have some like that in our village as well: these mysterious ghost house eyesores, dotted all over. They just park the money in German housing and leave the buildings to rot. People complain about paying an average of €400/year in property taxes, but their houses are worth like €500k-€750k and go up by 10% per year. And some municipalities have no property tax, at all.
It is only natural that people who don't have any use for residential housing will buy it anyway, with such low taxes. They treat it like a bond: just buy and hold. Same, if they inherit or they have multiple homes and stop renting them out. Just leave it empty and let it rot. They don't need the money, it costs nothing to hold and carries no risk. People with such a mentality should be buying gold or bonds, not land. Land is a communal resource. One person leaving it fallow hurts another person directly.
Meanwhile, homelessness rises, and laborers are driving 2 hours to work... in the building next to a ghost house. The poorer, younger people don't understand the dynamic, but they can see that everything is empty and nothing is for sale or for rent, or the prices are exorbitant.
I have never heard anyone in Germany explain this dynamic to the public, but I don't have a car and walk around a lot, and I talk to the many older, wealthy people I know, who own property, and they explained how it is.

2026-05-05 07:06:44 CEST

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Oh, thanks. 😊

2026-05-05 06:08:17 CEST

Vatican reiterates _No_ to the official blessing of divorced or homosexual couples, so that such ceremonies aren't confused with weddings.
#nevent1q…2p34
#catholic #christian

2026-05-04 21:58:32 CEST

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I thought the Austin rental decline was due to deportations.

2026-05-04 21:51:26 CEST

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What are you talking about?

2026-05-04 21:48:33 CEST

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It tends to be a problem in places with low property taxes (such as Germany).

2026-05-04 21:46:53 CEST

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Yes, that would help, if the owners went along.

2026-05-04 21:05:14 CEST

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It says "homeownership", not "houseownership". That includes condominiums.
Homeownership tends to follow marriage, yes, so wider cultural decline will end up depressing home ownership. Even if homes don't become less affordable. But homes are also becoming less affordable.

2026-05-04 20:40:26 CEST

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No, health care is a service. It can scale up and down in response to increased or decreased demand.
Land simply _is_. It doesn't get produced at higher rates, merely because more people want some. (Except through dykes and such, on the margin.) It doesn't disappear, if nobody wants to live on it or the price of it goes down. It is finite, like Bitcoin, and all that can happen is that the price and the distribution of the ownership changes. The sum total doesn't change.

2026-05-04 20:34:31 CEST

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Policy-produced housing shortages aren't true housing shortages. They're market inefficiencies. _Housing shortages_ makes it sound like there aren't enough square feet of living space to go around.
We have never had as many square feet per person, as we have today. Even ostensibly crowded urban areas are beginning to resemble ghost towns, dotted with Airbnbs. But the housing remains expensive, because the housing is owned by people who don't live in it and have no real use to it.

2026-05-04 20:20:13 CEST

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I think the thing that is confusing you is that you think of housing as a consumption good, in line with "much of the things in our daily life". But housing is real estate, i.e. land, and therefore a hard asset more akin to gold, Bitcoin, shares, or a factory.
The difference is that it's the only hard asset that humans cannot live without, as we are physical beings who have to occupy some geographic space. We are compelled to occupy land, so it is a cost we can't escape.

2026-05-04 20:07:34 CEST

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Well, they will soon won't have to drive, as there will be no jobs for them. So, I suppose that solves the problem. If they live further out, they can then switch to subsistence farming and starve to death, slowly, on potatoes. Then we can buy up their property even faster. Winning.
At any rate, there is no acute housing shortage, anywhere in the West. Even Berlin has decided to keep an entire airfield smack dab in the middle of the city, so that the housing-lucky can skateboard on it and grow organic tomatoes, while others sleep in cardboard boxes nearby.
Germany also has the absolutely daft law, capping the amount of rent charged for existing renters, but allowing new rentals to float. So that you might pay €500 for a large apartment, but if you move to a smaller apartment in the same building, you might pay €2000. So, nobody ever moves, housing is never adjusted to the present number of occupants, and the job market is sclerotic. That is one major reason why the number of square feet per person goes up during a housing affordability crisis.
House prices are simply inflated and the market is a shambles, same as all other asset classes. As houses are considered financial assets, now, instead of homes, due to their heavy debt loads and the securitization of mortgages. Putting the precariously poor into tiny houses that cost €500k and carry a 40-year mortgage won't improve their standard of living or help them truly acquire property.

2026-05-04 19:20:30 CEST

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If you build more houses, faster, without solving for overall inequality, you end up with slums.

2026-05-04 18:44:26 CEST

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My general impression is that people who own quite a bit of property are welcoming the transition to oligarchy (or, best case, aristocracy), as they are effectively lords of the manor.
Everyone else hates it. The class system will become entrenched, as property again trumps labor. Pun intended. Even if you own property, your children might not and your grandchildren probably won't, as you need to own _enough_ property, to keep it.
But this is a choice our society is making. It isn't inevitable.

2026-05-04 18:30:49 CEST

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Yeah, I might do that instead of reposting. In a couple of days.

2026-05-04 18:28:35 CEST

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Thank you proving my point.

2026-05-04 16:48:11 CEST

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I got no traction, posting divine kinds. More responses with the normal media events.

2026-05-04 16:46:54 CEST

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I was also weirded out by all of the people/bots? filling the mentions with questions to grok. I didn't realize people are that intellectually lazy.
They ask things they could be expected to reason out within 5 seconds, or that simply make no sense to even ask.
Grok, is it healthier to be morbidly obese or thin and athletic?
Grok, is the weather report 100% accurate?
Grok, is this satire true?
Grok, why is the sky blue?
Grok, what is the meaning of life?

2026-05-04 15:55:57 CEST

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😂🤷‍♀
Total non sequitur, but I love you, too! 😘

2026-05-04 15:50:03 CEST

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Oh, that's a shame. You probably would have liked it.

2026-05-04 15:48:33 CEST

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Yes, it has been reclassified as an industrial metal, away from a store of value.

2026-05-04 15:47:22 CEST

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Well, Bitcoin mining seems the better battery because you can raise your base energy usage and then turn off the mines, if you have a spike in consumption. That is how Texas does it, to stabilize their grid.

2026-05-04 15:45:50 CEST

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Yeah, they shut down Bavaria's nuclear power plants, so they're trying to switch to fusion. I think that is also why the CSU hasn't been that eager to invest in restoring nuclear, as they then might end up with a white elephant nuclear power plant if the fusion actually worked. And if it doesn't work and the fusion plant is the white elephant, all the neighbors are building nuclear, and we can just buy from them. If it does work, the neighbors will be stuck with the white elephants and we'll have the best energy source.
They seem to be trying to game this. We'll see.

2026-05-04 15:42:25 CEST

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And sales tax is an ownership-transfer tax, rather than something determined by where the Bitcoin is held once owned.

2026-05-04 15:41:22 CEST

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Germany has no taxes on bitcoin or gold, if you don't trade them within a year.
I do think it could be argued that there should be a sales tax on them, tho, like they just added to silver. Silver used to also be tax-free. So, that hints that they are going toward a sales tax for such inert wealth.

2026-05-04 15:32:40 CEST

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I wish Germany would do more Bitcoin mining. We have so much excess renewable electricity. It is so silly, that we pay other countries to take it off our hands, instead of using it to run generators, like Norway does.
I think Iran also does a lot of mining.

2026-05-04 15:31:00 CEST

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I think they also use hot springs to mine it, if I am not mistaken.

2026-05-04 15:29:59 CEST

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Yes, I am from Texas and we incorporated in Texas, and the unusually high property taxes (and non-existent state income and corporate taxes) are why it is still one of the best places to live and do business, in the USA. Property taxes are the least regressive tax because everyone pays them (through higher rent or directly as tax), and the more property you occupy, the more you pay.
And it's incredibly uncomplicated, as the land is there and can simply be measured with a yardstick. You can't "hide" land from the tax man.

2026-05-04 15:23:11 CEST

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Most of the Bitcoin in El Salvador is owned by the state and its sovereign-wealth fund.