2026-04-07T19:58:40+02:00 https://nostr.ae GhostOnTheHalfShell https://nostr.ae/npub1z3lxxu5tmqxp8vhd3tny9f0nqp5dljpynh9j6gzgeyes2ukmz0kq0rtxvc https://s3.masto.ai/accounts/avatars/109/338/477/363/463/429/original/0b066271273ebea5.jpeg https://s3.masto.ai/accounts/avatars/109/338/477/363/463/429/original/0b066271273ebea5.jpeg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvnswn98hmp3fhvg7k0de65hl73082ctnyp3lfr69cvsf396thusgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c4djdqj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ve5pupwf3n5pf0fud0jnxfx8cagudnckxfsnyzxr7t3qdyztt5s8vnuks'>nevent1q…nuks</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This means that the bulk of their wealth is never subject to any kind of tax, and of course it is growing as the federal government stuffs more and more money into the economy through deficit spending. They never pay taxes and it’s no wonder that their wealth easily grows in proportion to the deficit. <br/><br/>It also means that the significant chunk of commercial debt is what the super rich are spending on themselves.<br/><br/>The super rich have achieved wealth escape velocity <br/><br/>1/2 2026-05-25T16:55:03+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswvzvkwf9kluj8l0ckq5ksj9553m73dn508h0ma35aytqj5ndrqngzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cqg5hht In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswe50chwjm4ldshd5rzpgu8taw9dkpwfsxlvn2lks2upeha233adqh4s4ja'>nevent1q…s4ja</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In case anyone isn’t looking, we’re already getting all those effects now.<br/>Despite growth in alternative energy, CO2 emissions continue to climb. Only quantity matters.<br/><br/>The gigaton or megaton production of cement, steel, aluminum and fertilizer cannot readily transitioned and would take many decades to accomplish.<br/><br/>These resources are basic to the function of the economy and needed for transition.<br/><br/>Production is already faltering. Climate or no, we face a reckoning 2026-05-21T15:06:33+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxx7f5redhk8ku6z3dv0jp4zsdd9ym6nsfar4p49sdr024xjw040gzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cn23ucq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxgqrpngah6wfmmc8x2755fdpvzx0nnazdr3zy4hnkq0jaavp9qjc0ameax'>nevent1q…meax</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Why is it so many of the Trump administration look like they come straight out of a movie on Hitler’s life? 2026-04-28T22:03:34+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8z6pt2gxyk6eqmn96ra2s7q5pkkgrmrsgducvkjp6gd8ha0y0lmgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cl4y4rw RE: <a href="https://universeodon.com/@tafnn/116471109146116364">https://universeodon.com/@tafnn/116471109146116364</a><br/><br/>I’d like to remind people that the most terrifying thing for big oil and big mining and global corporations is walkable neighborhoods, and local food supply.<br/><br/>Every car taken off the street and bit of food that can come from farm to table over a few miles is the oil and methane that never have to be drilled or burnt. <br/><br/>Oil and gas extraction exists for the global supply chain. It exists to make billionaires and companies, larger and more powerful while stripping us of any agency in our lives.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1u3lqg3pqjwsnp9ah05rjdnhrmnsk04tzz3dhsay7a5flqfr5f7mqrm0q82" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1u3l…0q82</a></span><br/> </div> Republicans just introduced the "Stop Climate Shakedowns Act"—a permanent shield for Big Oil against ALL lawsuits for the climate disaster they caused. No accountability for floods, fires, or decades of lies. tRump's MAGA chaos is delivering exactly what fossil fuel donors ordered<br/><a href="https://mcsp.short.gy/xbg0">https://mcsp.short.gy/xbg0</a> </blockquote> 2026-04-26T17:26:21+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszjd9fl2rh6g590p4v8tqfhc3et59y9q5tpuqsshtunus8xmqjznszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c6c7gwk RE: <a href="https://bne.social/@james/116462842867522804">https://bne.social/@james/116462842867522804</a><br/><br/>Yeah, it’s called the bad thing happening all over again. M&amp;A are a plague.. there’s far too much consolidation everywhere in the global economy and in national economies. This stuff needs to be shut down in about 20 years of vigorous antitrust needs to happen to smash these giant conglomerate into teeny tiny manageable little pieces that could be dealt with at a regional or state wide level.<br/>nostr:note1u86446tj8mcggjj4ctarz9ncmwfx7gx4pp7jgwg9hgks0lsa9r7s48xnka<br/> 2026-04-25T05:14:51+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvycsvy3xu0shhw864krmuakaavanz3mux27x8cr8pn24ntzgvy3qzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ch7s3u6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8jpmp3e3hc78hlr55x97udvx42pmpj6h2m7qplr04h9l2tgum5lch5zyyy'>nevent1q…zyyy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Productivity calculated as were reducing our forces because the productivity technology is costing nine or 12 times as much as we get in revenue.<br/><br/>Truly revolution, where the laws of physics no longer applied to business in any way shape or form. Maybe productivity was assigned integer and they just rolled over max positive value or something. :ablobgrin: 2026-04-24T08:04:41+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstnf7c4rjmczphs20u86rmv2n8mdh3xjl3qpapu3yg8qt5jdygvkgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cnwtys7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy0ffe56kvznulf5k8r58ku93ancj5k0q2t7hz9s7z2u6dy7drnzq5u0mhd'>nevent1q…0mhd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I am actually somewhat curious what the heck is happening with him. 2026-04-24T01:35:21+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfjrd0dd7u55alutpvsjyzzj7dz2777fzajhqp3axu2564pramrcgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cevct3f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz2cwuwtc5tyxckakp2uffjz5n4638r7z7qupdn3u0xwqvcvxyn5gs8z8z2'>nevent1q…z8z2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If only Elon Musk and Peter Seele and maybe David Sacks, I don’t know if he’s an American citizen by birth and also the grandson of PW Botha 2026-04-23T19:32:16+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrwu56j32f42hvpp0dd0rft6rwdv8dxw0ua2kfzfls3ncwzxrtd0czyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ckzh6en In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvnm2xt2752c39t89p4j542rqkh4ynp2m3umtppkjmm4pyy3xkdkqqavjm5'>nevent1q…vjm5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My reaction is you should see what happens to the other guy 2026-04-23T19:05:27+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd8qkj9cd9edfxcaa3lanc9zlq4pqv0ctswqsfaececsuqdhrpn7szyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ca05s60 Red Dwarf was prophetic.<br/><br/>United America&#39;s war against war.<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/450/363/328/188/620/original/d693d08afa6231a6.mp4"></video><br/> 2026-04-22T23:00:14+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf3d50pxujxarpctd8t6hzcxxnzjsnul2aw7ppcl6wdnexlznzspszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c5vlx4r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqugp2w4cm38apuxkmuzqx0r6mekhkt75zku8plwp2lqf30lcx4nqg9r3gw'>nevent1q…r3gw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The first case. What I am stating from direct experience of what the coursework in the late 80s were saying about farming, causing emperors, for example, was under fire then. <br/><br/>Wengrow / Graeber claimed that nothing of the sort was really happening, and that Boehm et al, we’re supporting the teleology. It’s simply false.<br/><br/>Specifically, I’m criticizing their defamation and that their own work is a weak copy b/c it has no constructive advice.<br/><br/>1/2 2026-04-21T21:08:51+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv545nrxs95sd6ewze52k0jv8egzwp6w6hj0k5z0m26gr8e26zefqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c3jqqgu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2hplnx268epqj9rujdsshjlldrjmlw4wx3d2flpfnamkfhhmgwvsz0cj2u'>nevent1q…cj2u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In the mid 80s, I completed lower division anthropology courses to qualify for a bachelor degree in the topic. At UC Berkeley, challenges to the teleological description of the stages of human civilization were questioned and criticized with the remarks that those theories did not survive contact with the anthropology and archaeology of the Americas.<br/><br/>Wengrow’s participation in defamation of this work, pisses me off to no end 2026-04-21T20:09:42+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2hplnx268epqj9rujdsshjlldrjmlw4wx3d2flpfnamkfhhmgwvszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c5rldga In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs84qp3kfzrsglkne608pz7fqvux8g538jpmxv8g0y0fs4n8eg7j3cqpddky'>nevent1q…ddky</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The framework provided by “hierarchy in the forest” contextualizes human societies in useful and actionable ways.<br/><br/>It lays out the framework of what has to happen and exist in society for it to be equalitarian or hierarchical or an ad mixture of the two indifferent contexts.<br/><br/>Rather than being caught up, complaining about the ideological propaganda of hierarchy, the framework has an explanation of why it structured that way.<br/><br/>1/2 2026-04-21T20:06:28+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxexw7uhtd6hc30tt26g4vzw7gqee4e3lajng0m53jfqs4rfypsmgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ckvd95v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9khlyvaay2ssx6k9acqz3w3lvme59tma49vzmyqsp6knlmte2vlqy7v9du'>nevent1q…v9du</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I tend to disregard Wengrow and Graeber on this topic because they defamed the work done by cultural anthropologists in the late 80s and early 90s. In doing so they have marginally replicated the work done by many others, producing a framework that that’s a feeble copy of Boehm et al. 2026-04-21T19:37:46+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszpff6mp389r0qq003jnj4dk4sse8q3ntkmm5jhxtagqssuclscjgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cpmvdlm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqdu4mhc98vg5almkxcnvj88dcszlvexfvtarhq0s9tr8p3qns7zgvgcx20'>nevent1q…cx20</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Business people are quite good at getting financing. I’d like to see people thinking of government expenditure, and of course, the currency sovereign expenditure specifically as kind of like watering and fertilizing a garden.<br/><br/>If a gardener ignored the majority of his plot and constantly cut down whatever did grow and lavish detention on a tiny little corner, letting whatever grew there grow without control, that’s the picture I want people to have in their heads 2026-04-21T07:43:46+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs28mhvxcrcpzuhjw3dmwa0mx8smy0aj5tatjwhjywsqlsue33y6xczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cqunc5k In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd39wqga9dtcqt2g65refz2jfcps7dpm7ghkwm22eupze90j7569sszez0f'>nevent1q…ez0f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh yeah, it is corporate welfare. But the other aspect of this is austerity is deliberate damage to the broad population by cutting off from the flow of money creation, intrinsic to government spending… it’s just like commercial bank financing puts money into the economy, but unlike a commercial loan you don’t want it all paid back plus interest. <br/><br/>The people that don’t need the money have their hands on the magic money machine while everybody else faces destitution 2026-04-21T07:29:37+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw48ygy3528t0sevfmud854kmmv2wvun0dgxt6ct6989cej6yrspczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7czfdcj4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd39wqga9dtcqt2g65refz2jfcps7dpm7ghkwm22eupze90j7569sszez0f'>nevent1q…ez0f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>My motivation is to find the MMT compliant version of taxpayer money, because it is the most powerful rhetorical bludgeon available for public policy.<br/><br/>Anyone, regardless of political alignment brings out that phrase to evoke anger, and outrage. Unfortunately, it’s getting angry over the wrong thing and to the wrong degree and in the wrong way.<br/><br/>MMT has never found an equivalent cudgel and it needs it and I think it has it if it tries 2026-04-21T07:24:42+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx3k48dk8y6544zzsyl2kvxcusxmkqrmt9kut035lm6n8tpnljpfczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ccpcmch In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxensjd7zfrd0gppt0y6ascfwkj28m5y03esvhxdw7l9jgyw37q8s2d30xw'>nevent1q…30xw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That means that where government spending ends up, which is in the pockets of billionaires and what parts of the economy it’s choked from like austerity and who is and is not taxed determines the fate of different segments of the population.<br/><br/>People really do need to understand taxpayer dollars goes into an incinerator so they are angry about the right thing<br/><br/>2/2 2026-04-21T07:15:53+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxensjd7zfrd0gppt0y6ascfwkj28m5y03esvhxdw7l9jgyw37q8szyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cre5hs0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgzpfl22466tfay4dasve7rungc5acz3z03hn0ljejutjccc4eaasz4jnpv'>nevent1q…jnpv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah, so from my latest rant, where I seek to recast taxpayer dollars into a framework that makes sense from an MMT perspective, because taxes, incinerate wealth, and it is the working people who are made to incinerate their wealth while the rich benefit the most from public spending both directly in indirectly by exploitation, we can look at the trade war as a deliberate act to destroy the American public’s wealth.<br/><br/>Government spending creates money. Taxes incinerate wealth. 1/2 2026-04-21T07:14:20+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxl2zdn9awz0vvjk96hqa6np4rcnnhd9fms4f9629np0xt4x7c3rgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cshpsps RE: <a href="https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116438926067928322">https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116438926067928322</a><br/><br/>I just want to keep reminding people this is terrifying and its own right for a lot of different reasons.<br/><br/>He’s unhinged and unstable, but decisions are being made without him.<br/><br/>We don’t know who’s making the majority of operational decisions. 2026-04-20T23:07:45+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqhvkz8l9fflat6hdgdgjcxhvvz2n47gq97l785akuwy642fm94kczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cnrhdtk RE: <a href="https://flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/breaking-news-9mhchbihz/-/a-XXr5mJclSkmR_uww0ssJsw%3Aa%3A436232176-%2F0">https://flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/breaking-news-9mhchbihz/-/a-XXr5mJclSkmR_uww0ssJsw%3Aa%3A436232176-%2F0</a><br/><br/>Does the media even understand what this is saying? The president of the United States is not involved in war plans because he’s too insane.<br/><br/>Who was supposed to be the Commander and chief again?<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note17nhqaw0r3qcmc5j8wksmqq8agp30mfdxlh64k4z55cveyv3ch07sswd8vw" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note17nh…d8vw</a></span><br/> </div> Trump Blocked From Iran War Plans After Screaming at Aides for Hours<br/>[<a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/209262/donald-trump-iran-war-plans-screaming-aides?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub">https://newrepublic.com/post/209262/donald-trump-iran-war-plans-screaming-aides?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub</a> ](<a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/209262/donald-trump-iran-war-plans-screaming-aides?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub">https://newrepublic.com/post/209262/donald-trump-iran-war-plans-screaming-aides?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub</a> )<br/><br/>Posted into Breaking News [@breaking-news-thenewrepublic](<a href="https://flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/breaking-news-9mhchbihz">https://flipboard.com/@thenewrepublic/breaking-news-9mhchbihz</a> ) </blockquote> 2026-04-20T17:17:01+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8enjg3cer3vadrntkqr3fvhp6a4astsvgj7gaqvtlvxf46345xngzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cql5zge In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst5dnylqhe7c0su7h2za2l6k0rfnzkzl2505yqnaz34jl48gdzv8gquu5s2'>nevent1q…u5s2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There’s two things counting against the article. It’s on Substack and maybe the artwork is generated.<br/><br/>That’s the only image in the entire article, though as part as a part of header to it 2026-04-20T04:36:03+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsptpqkvnmshq2ssljyyh2nx0jrcg72ghuczg0ww5lsc8qwqkqtt6qzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c9maef0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgmjjjxveenjj2gy84rzr6gtthqwpjast2tpps7zau2h6ypaytc2s3et83j'>nevent1q…t83j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Washington pointed out in his farewell address that the constitution was poorly designed to deal with the effects of party politics. They defeated the checks and balances and you were marked that that should be addressed.. their original idea was that the constitution should be remade periodically 2026-04-20T03:58:55+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy743lu8c2fk2pnxa29mh2ly9rg3q973vcmrv5e0nyu2ujwx7wzxszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ccmd75g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxxztwadt2c9y35kyxrj2duz3mtk9r0vpuuxhmpc2w6m7cd7kdwvsxuzqn8'>nevent1q…zqn8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One of the more relevant articles I can think of. The level of the deprogramming is probably on the same scale needed for Germans after the Nazi defeat.<br/><br/><a href="https://complexsimplicity.substack.com/p/ten-years-of-religious-hypocrisy">https://complexsimplicity.substack.com/p/ten-years-of-religious-hypocrisy</a> 2026-04-20T02:02:13+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq3p7vpul7duyp8mxkek0su5xj4np333ej4jrnkaesq8fq0ewuvlqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c780cdy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2d23p8jtfzxt9h53kak64h7efrn0x6tyf7q0lxut5t7fkrugp4ncuah96f'>nevent1q…h96f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That kind of water shortage also suggest that the Mississippi will again become unnavigable for some part of this year.<br/><br/>The Mississippi is a very important transport waterway. You can’t replace it with rail you can’t replace it with especially with pros because it’s so inexpensive and has so much capacity. 2026-04-19T03:02:14+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswcdjfwp6pvw3as6fvqw0d0508kun6u478n8ech23tg95e5q9ldyszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c9lgn8a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxqjan6z7dnr4pk24tc35v3prrcvefg9l9t7u9jf75lxs5dl52y5sw9xknl'>nevent1q…xknl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hyper loop 2.0 2026-04-18T02:58:38+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvpruh3rysywtcnd7rgyjpgfunjv044r3mksaprj6qflw4zpskrzszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c35qatz [@economics_that_works](<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works">https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works</a> ) <br/><br/>1 hr 22 min<br/><br/>Simon Michaux 2024 with an update to his discussion on the realities, completely transitioning, an oil-based economy to alternative energy and how the world does not have the mineral resources nor does the global economy have the time or capacity to convert oil becomes too expensive in time and energy to be worthwhile to extract. Oil and mineral deposits are depleted. Governments don’t know how to deal with it.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbnXMv19Hck">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbnXMv19Hck</a> 2026-04-18T00:11:27+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs08gpgzkshpyfncfsfvswr36jhwx8grvuqf6pu0rhk6j4cx83zhsczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7csf220s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq8s4jcuqlht2eeteyka7ze0pwar8wnvxqegtvgl8gdrmylkj3rtqjt43lq'>nevent1q…43lq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is why I am mocking tax as national wealth incineration day. Any money paid to the treasury simply undoes the money the treasury payment to us creates.<br/><br/>So when I say the federal government stuffs the super rich full of money that’s never taxed but the few pennies we get is, I am being very precise. Our wealth is incinerated while theirs grows exponentially. 2026-04-16T02:53:22+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq8s4jcuqlht2eeteyka7ze0pwar8wnvxqegtvgl8gdrmylkj3rtqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7chjku4v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdtzyegh5m3qlmtmnwlg0pkyk74vvmevfnzqfu9v7wdum4tpzuzugup00xj'>nevent1q…00xj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>A nation that issues and spends in its own currency, does not finance itself with taxation or debt. Government spending prints money, because by law, the federal reserve honors every single check written by the treasury. Funds are simply added to the party being paid while the amount is subtracted from the treasury bank account.<br/><br/>The negative balance of the federal government represents the record of account of the money supply. It is the money in our (Musk/Bezos) bank accounts 2026-04-16T02:51:36+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf5j2uuy3qzmds8sau9wzqwdet8h652nstks8qwmeasjlufzcmhgszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c3lmcj7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp5ket6tzln200rk8nyvjqmax8av4yp5fwmzcz8cys8elxd76jx6gr3emjs'>nevent1q…emjs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>BEEAK THEM UP. BREAK THEM UP 2026-04-16T02:40:50+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszv64r98z0t4c49lmn3exa9tksuwd48pahv34wem32w9jmkw5s4pqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cg8t293 [@economics_that_works](<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works">https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works</a> ) <br/><br/>Happy wealth incineration day for all who celebrate. DC continues to top off the net worth of people with 7 to 9 digits in their net worth, who pay no tax.. Their wealth grows while ours is sent to the incinerator<br/><br/>Our assigned lot is the janitorial task diminishing with our few pennies the great Niagara of money spent into the pockets of people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.<br/><br/>Can you feel the waves of emotion for this very special day?<br/><br/>#mmt #economics 2026-04-16T00:24:01+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgc3nqlgnmhtgxh0nypkezx3lrtc0g4cfwnn8dwnv22ww487rv53qzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ct6wd3g Do not vote for anybody who gets money or support from Silicon Valley billionaires and especially Trump supporters<br/><br/>It’s bad enough that the nerd Reich wants the Presidio for one of their special economic zones, which is to say one of their totalitarian fantasy cities.<br/><br/>But we also have Safeway bulldozing ahead with a 25 story apartment building on its Marina District store property.<br/><br/> We don’t have a choice in the matter. This is not a democracy<br/><br/><a href="https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-jan-koum-daniel-lurie-campaign-finance/">https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-jan-koum-daniel-lurie-campaign-finance/</a><br/><br/>#sanfrancisco #sfba 2026-04-15T04:21:30+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqa536xvf80kye0p44tsw3nry49z6vg4n469a8es0k2xukdrdemkczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ceayfzp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf02f44w870rhy9vlqurt8nqju2366edl4racq96mhe90rck5fgdcmtqrjc'>nevent1q…qrjc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-6q186hNkc8">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-6q186hNkc8</a> 2026-04-14T06:05:08+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr3s22lm4q9j0wp6zv73mf98w9ua4talcr3x25lqljrarushsua4czyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ca882xr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0uduuau8fk949uakjydrfp2wmddpj4wr90yp7ncgre4xn0sme6qcz08mlx'>nevent1q…8mlx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I haven’t been able to locate the freeze dried water that I saw a read about many years ago.. he only need one ingredient to rehydrate it 2026-04-13T04:49:17+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrm25zj3gtdayh0hfswaaajhlwu2rpun5z8g9vjye6fezqthw49egzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cuscwjk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8tvhh7sjskwc9xpcusgg764duntxc75gzfluqqrljch0zyytvpdcwxps7t'>nevent1q…ps7t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We are the ones barely able to afford the necessities of life thanks to the super rich having so much control over any income we can have or even whether we have a job and because they control so much of the economy that they keep raising prices.<br/>We are being squeezed both ways and whatever is left over and maybe more is sent to the incinerator because they want us destitute they want us in debt. They make money if we are in debt.<br/><br/>3/n 2026-04-12T23:00:44+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8tvhh7sjskwc9xpcusgg764duntxc75gzfluqqrljch0zyytvpdczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c88tlfz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8rxntfq0r7m9ta5g8m0nmwdwrqvm3tn8vz3wgasch3nnmcvpfkts85cnwl'>nevent1q…cnwl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>RE: <a href="https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/116382527232157424">https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/116382527232157424</a><br/><br/>Who the federal government spends money on either Trump/Elon Musk or you and me is the relevant issue in public policy.<br/><br/>The federal government spends most of its money on the super rich, who are never asked to diminish their wealth by sending it to the treasury for destruction.<br/><br/>We are the ones who are obligated to destroy our wealth by paying taxes from the few pennies out of millions that come our way.<br/><br/>2/n<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note100dc96a3gtfq4nl68y4tetl2j8cpkhxx7uvmaqkr76x0f8e4nyusznagyq" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note100d…agyq</a></span><br/> </div> [@economics_that_works](<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works">https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works</a> ) <br/><br/>Apr 10<br/><br/>11 min<br/><br/>Nailing a couple of theses on MMT's door. MMT suffers from bad messaging.<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/uJNr3y2fQsY">https://youtu.be/uJNr3y2fQsY</a><br/><br/>#mmt #economics </blockquote> 2026-04-12T22:37:49+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8rxntfq0r7m9ta5g8m0nmwdwrqvm3tn8vz3wgasch3nnmcvpfktszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c5zejdu RE: <a href="https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116393061646472848">https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116393061646472848</a><br/><br/>I want to drop on y’all the MMT version of this because taxpayer money doesn’t finance anything. It goes straight into an incinerator, not because it’s wasted, but because putting money into the treasury diminishes its negative balance and its negative balance represents the money supply. <br/><br/>The government creates money by spending it. This is because the Fed by law honors all checks written by the federal government.<br/><br/>1/n<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1pexqywevr704z658fp0zjjr9xyz4wpnck28hn5hk2auvm8e4fazsx9vysu" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1pex…vysu</a></span><br/> </div> <img src="https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/393/061/560/693/698/original/cf9440958deafcd6.jpg"> <br/> </blockquote> 2026-04-12T22:34:36+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszcjuw7p5hmlzsnyc0ul7vh6hg9ckq5ea838c9pf4lhttag8kdd7qzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cm3he5u 11 min<br/><br/>In the last third of his monologue, here he describes the first crack in Orban’s power, when public outrage over learning that the close political ally of Orban covered up child abuse and I think a judge was also involved. <br/><br/>Where are we in America when public outrage doesn’t exist enough to knock Republicans completely out of power?<br/><br/>From all appearances, they are a child abuse ring, inclusive of Christian nationalism. Our outrage where is it?<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/8gPk9dBeL9c">https://youtu.be/8gPk9dBeL9c</a> 2026-04-12T14:05:56+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstddvwevr2pyy47e3s6w54s2assucpah89zfs0z08w66u9q4dxteczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c0qa2kl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2mudsxptjrwdcl9smyc6y8vyl45zmjx64valpxsrn0ymgxzydu0cxnj0jn'>nevent1q…j0jn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Poor New York it suffers so much from communism now.<br/><br/>🤪 2026-04-11T22:10:54+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8hkuzawc595s2elarj24u4l4fruqmtnr0wxd7stpldr85nu6ejwgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cpc407r [@economics_that_works](<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works">https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works</a> ) <br/><br/>Apr 10<br/><br/>11 min<br/><br/>Nailing a couple of theses on MMT&#39;s door. MMT suffers from bad messaging.<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/uJNr3y2fQsY">https://youtu.be/uJNr3y2fQsY</a><br/><br/>#mmt #economics 2026-04-10T23:27:13+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrptsr9z08de9ry2jndtgx232xndx7dus0yp6u9w8rwkv26c85cmqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ccq6nya In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw87x2sxtrkz77jqq5jeld6smk8jj0utgaxe56x38z7tlrekcqx5s73hhz0'>nevent1q…hhz0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>tax wealth not work 2026-04-10T20:54:56+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf8aydnnw5tmxdccwsdxaktytxdd9ty0caqtp27c0584vdt4ee7xgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ckfna4u RE: <a href="https://mstdn.social/@990000/116378528942839842">https://mstdn.social/@990000/116378528942839842</a><br/><br/>The thing about Nazis and totalitarian despots is they never back down, they only double down<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1hu2hqxtw0wmcvc9ls7n7qtjrphaglte6we9pjdqum3xgst76apqs80q679" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1hu2…q679</a></span><br/> </div> So fucking nuts <br/><br/><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/brandonfriedman.bsky.social/post/3mj4i7pbjjk2i">https://bsky.app/profile/brandonfriedman.bsky.social/post/3mj4i7pbjjk2i</a><br/><br/>#Trump<br/> <img src="https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/116/378/528/689/332/121/original/73c15224015e019b.jpeg"> <br/> </blockquote> 2026-04-10T07:49:32+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszv7wg7fh0c6zlpwm8rj6zck0m09vjk0utdfj0whc8w6qw908mecqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ck50fe5 Best journalism in the US<br/><br/><a href="https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/">https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/</a> 2026-04-09T21:56:22+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrl2cz4wrfl3phhxd7hsahg9wwlfggnkvzw0s6n66qytkwt3gdffqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cq8slmg Has anyone noticed that China has just stayed out of everything going on in the Middle East? They haven’t certainly haven’t been vocal in a way they could have chosen and I think it’s interesting because they are letting the relative weakness of the US position just play itself out and at the same time they aren’t or they’ve made a choice not to insert themselves 2026-04-09T15:33:46+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq743w2vf4lq0wtz0mxg3p9p85pyquz8xp97ma9zk3tkm90axf26szyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cu0lalh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvk548y8xyqcz5z3586j39v6ugs3gey4deh6m6wc3lfrwse6yftvcdajnd8'>nevent1q…jnd8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I guess I thought she had would have a heavy flow 2026-04-09T14:03:24+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq8gyfy0e5vhmewkpda87skh9a05prwetkrpthvc6sszy355k0y3szyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c0hm8dj The terrible irony of Donald Trump saying that a civilization will end, is that he’s absolutely correct<br/><br/>Just not the way he means.<br/><br/>The change is what looks to be the final nail in the coffin with respect to our nation’s civilization.<br/><br/>This is going to rewrite global relations.<br/><br/>For those of us in the US, the task of rebuilding something completely different while freeing ourselves from billionaire extinction cult despotism will be the work of generations 2026-04-07T22:43:09+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspsfpff7nfkng9x5u850lpku9kqpuxq23ux4kpep5mkzekq78ksfczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7camrzfk People may have not seen the news that AP, associated Press is transitioning away from news syndication to focus on AI and predictive markets.<br/><br/>We are down to Reuters now.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/physical-oil-prices-hit-record-highs-near-150-barrel-hormuz-crisis-worsens-2026-04-07/">https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/physical-oil-prices-hit-record-highs-near-150-barrel-hormuz-crisis-worsens-2026-04-07/</a> 2026-04-07T18:11:52+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9epyjpjmyg9r3m3ueqhz3vl6pr4pwf22ekv32q84derywdsldvvgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cyzq8pq Yuk CPB hiring ad in YT 2026-04-05T02:29:02+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszmeypvka9n3k7xrk2ptxt4q4d9vdwdxdaj7699lr24v9f2jy720gzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c7hf42p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy5w2ht06z88jf3sf7s5fkxkjrc0cya6jlnsmf7kjw4km95ym0y0qzfa9qd'>nevent1q…a9qd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It is the unconscious desire of the entire nation, if not the world, that this guy simply stopped being president 2026-04-05T00:02:16+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspxp9j0rgkjk9h4rsykz07aqxalz4xnkt5qyhuhfcdsk35yxkc8hgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ct7mhjs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2a0htf9dganuve5ek92k6twrtjnr7c59z46khwkcn2qmykkjghwge34pl7'>nevent1q…4pl7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In other words, it is fractaly bad, where the self similarity is a maze of twisty passages all different; the Fuckery is uniformly fucked up in different at all scales. 2026-04-04T06:02:13+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz7gegt5d62f23q5xdkn8y3urqph3fug0n5res9dxtn3tl8ax28lgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cyzmsch <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub12pw99cs5a6j6r56yafxt355j8h38hhw6fh3zwunhj99m3gv3nfds7zzvxn" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Emeritus Prof Christopher May</span> (<span class="italic">npub12pw…zvxn</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>4 min<br/><br/>For those of us across the pond who enjoyed these classics thanks to PBS<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/aJ0nFQgRApY">https://youtu.be/aJ0nFQgRApY</a> 2026-04-01T21:51:30+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqz05jj20763dhmfn7wevnkjrfrw8vzkeyqhzpnaeds9v29w5g06szyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c9k43cd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszxd2tljclwfdj2usgsf7h80x8m7z9wp53qh6t3myd7cksrz5e0cgfdeapf'>nevent1q…eapf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>funny when I told him that a car free and re-localized farming was actually better economically he started shouting louder about me being apocalyptic. <br/><br/>Not to counting for a significant risk factor is not rational. Pie in the sky solutions 7 to 10 years out that are dependent on the very thing at risk is really something 2026-04-01T03:14:29+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfkq5nmqsyxkc695cusaqss9styxx2jjawan0xf8frrfekvsavu7qzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c6e7mqh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw0e9wn8cvluhhdgd7jd92jsv2je77rmldzwknm4y4y9mzfm0a8ncvj6mzf'>nevent1q…6mzf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I’m not gonna buy that line of thinking. <br/><br/>I’ve listened to not just bikes quite a lot. He is a ex-pat Canadian and has into great detail about who votes people like Ford. That would be your professional friends in suburbia and by all measures people like you. The kind of people who vote for creatures like Ford or Poilievre.<br/><br/>Next time I suggest you try to pick a less educated target<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ekj4xpv39xq62cqvjf95hlz4n49v82kcl2r5g8d6dclnnw4yxlwq8vwjxt" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cy</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ekj…wjxt</span>)</a></span> 2026-04-01T02:52:48+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9mmrdpam62277kxugdgq0zjlhr9vx0ve4wmqrqyn46rrq72exccgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c63vuaw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspvcatjvrcyfwkvf7ewq6q4avzkwgj6k9t6legm6yu33m6hetgkugsp7pkq'>nevent1q…7pkq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So on top of everything else, your professional friends are mooching off of city centers and the urban poor. They are not paying their way. The cost of infrastructure, the cost of cars and the cost of everything else is only going to go up and supply chain constraints bite.<br/><br/>But you want to keep being subsidized.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ekj4xpv39xq62cqvjf95hlz4n49v82kcl2r5g8d6dclnnw4yxlwq8vwjxt" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cy</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ekj…wjxt</span>)</a></span> 2026-04-01T02:05:33+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspvcatjvrcyfwkvf7ewq6q4avzkwgj6k9t6legm6yu33m6hetgkugzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cwqtj8f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx6hk8d24f9apt44teamruanq669ytm53y386d2v0qm726q0d94ucwd9j6f'>nevent1q…9j6f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also, the pushback about why mixed use is impossible and it will harm our car eccentric utopia, is very common to Canadians. Bluntly you all in Canada most of the United States as well is brainwashed. <br/><br/>On the other hand, many small towns in the United States, and probably some in Canada have begun to realize the financial insolvency of suburbia.<br/><br/>Suburban home taxes do not cover the cost of infrastructure and are subsidized by city centers and poor neighborhoods.<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ekj4xpv39xq62cqvjf95hlz4n49v82kcl2r5g8d6dclnnw4yxlwq8vwjxt" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cy</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ekj…wjxt</span>)</a></span> 2026-04-01T02:04:26+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst2gt3cyjmxlm5um2ahsflf44aegmpxz2czc98nzjtn22rz45ea4qzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c2aafpu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx6hk8d24f9apt44teamruanq669ytm53y386d2v0qm726q0d94ucwd9j6f'>nevent1q…9j6f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think it’s really funny that you’ve taken walkable cities and localized farming which are factually beneficial economically and transform it into medieval living.<br/><br/>That’s on you. I’ve been to Amsterdam twice. It’s a car free city, not a medieval village. Paris is aggressively pursuing walkable and localized farming. It’s air quality has improved, injury, and death from cars has plummeted, it is quieter, the city saves money while commerce is up<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ekj4xpv39xq62cqvjf95hlz4n49v82kcl2r5g8d6dclnnw4yxlwq8vwjxt" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cy</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ekj…wjxt</span>)</a></span> 2026-04-01T02:01:30+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswcvqs8h7s8ftean86yrdftkmf4vhlwtwsl8g6k3s7hjnlz09u5tqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7clcyvsy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxxdc8jprg9xmykn5eq2awffzsw8xfhsprlg0a98ldc5uqp986dsg7qz8wq'>nevent1q…z8wq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I have to remark that you’re taking on an increasingly defensive posture and all of this. It’s a whole because when people commit themselves to driving long distances, they don’t really think about the total cost it’s going to have on them.<br/><br/>Cy is not wrong to call it a hole. <br/><br/>The global economy is facing poly crisis. Climate debt overhangs, AI bubble housing bubbles in some areas, private equity and private banking over leveraging, wild speculation everywhere<br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ekj4xpv39xq62cqvjf95hlz4n49v82kcl2r5g8d6dclnnw4yxlwq8vwjxt" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cy</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ekj…wjxt</span>)</a></span> 2026-04-01T01:37:05+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxxdc8jprg9xmykn5eq2awffzsw8xfhsprlg0a98ldc5uqp986dsgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cy5xgrh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2fwh0rqy35cecvfmusapv6zamefwss95xh508q984zh6r4tjffysxldhjl'>nevent1q…dhjl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For many years, I got myself into the rat race of commuting long distances. At some point I chose to stop doing that. I stopped losing 2.5 hours of my life every day and I stopped wearing out my car and spending money filling the tank and on maintenance. a train doesn’t get your time back either.<br/><br/>The time pissed away commuting is gone forever. The average cost of a car in the US $11.5k per year. <br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1ekj4xpv39xq62cqvjf95hlz4n49v82kcl2r5g8d6dclnnw4yxlwq8vwjxt" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cy</span> (<span class="italic">npub1ekj…wjxt</span>)</a></span> 2026-04-01T01:34:30+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszz8ey6r6kpg0d9rs3fuyvcua5m067c7qxrjz66sexat2f838yxvszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cle0mgl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrclz76250sm6y0aplm3et6aa2uugsgv8gl9jjfklxxf6dlkeanaglv7kqh'>nevent1q…7kqh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We are in a situation of poly crisis.<br/><br/>1) instability in property insurance due to climate change<br/>2) housing bubbles because of private equity<br/>3) financial stability because of PE and private banking, which has taken out huge chunks of leverage from the commercial banking sector<br/>4) a large amount of CDS<br/>5) AI bubble<br/>6) fragile supply chains. Nobody learned from Fukushima.<br/>7) and now large chunk of existing productive capacity to torn out from ME. 2026-03-31T23:53:13+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvlfqfaugwcdk2jfd0nhltn4zmdvsa94nyjydtpawpkegvcj4sylszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cysaahx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg6sa2s98kr39wxjjfv9aems0rfwvxt7kzh7ulxq6a2yr42wc87mgnqrsql'>nevent1q…rsql</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This has been my exact point. When I was a teenager and learning to drive a stick shift, my father presented me with the curious notion that in order to slow down the car one could take one’s foot off the gas pedal instead of slamming on the brakes. If you wanted to get fancy, you could downshift.<br/><br/>There are an incredible number of people who respond to the suggestion of why don’t we put the things we need next to us (walkable) by screaming medieval village. 2026-03-31T23:47:04+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstv7rs6dsncvgtkvh4ynfk8j8ddu7uadyekygq4g3yfaq552vdc4gzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ckpxzv5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2dd3c6pfg95canr5re42ggpcz28tnkedc7cqj09xcpu4gtkglrdqas6nc3'>nevent1q…6nc3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You’ve establish you need a remedial reading class and an absurdist. <br/><br/>Amsterdam is carfree. Paris agressively pursuing it along with relocalizing farming.<br/><br/>I don’t think I am the one flying I to wild speculation 2026-03-31T22:52:59+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstenn57dc9uhshe8j8jsme3gqkx9kzysnueu6yvmws08mzdzdxhfczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cum2tsd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsprc7n4etmh6f65dxdpn66khrk0q3qq8qttfhmq2pgywy7852gj3sfajxz7'>nevent1q…jxz7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Energy inflation affects all cost structures. <br/><br/>I can recommend reading about 1929. 2026-03-31T22:44:11+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszsyazmm2wc4wk4dzq8zq98ugvqk0ptrnf5pveq8297spumezemlqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cya4h6v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspfs7kefkjlz28jglmvf0e86s8pu8kgj6e0nxg8luqu7sk4ashams4vcpx0'>nevent1q…cpx0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>People really thing 1929 can’t happen again and that physics and debt obligations don’t matter.<br/><br/>Yup should spend some time understanding where all the manufacturing equipment comes from and which nation refines and manufactures basic inputs. 2026-03-31T22:30:04+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfag9vx3rrh4hdrs2ep7k68skldeyvshcwjd6h07f9acwtmv75upszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cmcdemj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg9z9xf4aht7qftrxk5gv8mcv9h4s4m5eamvzwldx9wdadcwatpgcdp5gcn'>nevent1q…5gcn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In which this war is making abruptly much scarcer , who is trying to think how to deal with these realities and what kind of things we can do given that modernity unraveling.<br/><br/>You and atom keep saying well we can just build renewables and in seven years will have EVs and public transportation, and everything will be bunnies and butterflies because the global economy will make these products .<br/><br/>What I see happening is that you and atom are in denial 2026-03-31T19:38:12+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg9z9xf4aht7qftrxk5gv8mcv9h4s4m5eamvzwldx9wdadcwatpgczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cgewntr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsytxdlckp5n20azdwhcheyu376lhtj27jlx46fw0hzs5xmrdn2f6ggzyn3g'>nevent1q…yn3g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>OK, let’s play this game. If the world‘s factory otherwise known as Asia basically shuts down and you can’t buy tractors and cars and solar panels and turbines and all the raw materials for them are no longer available because there’s not any energy to mine them or process them and there isn’t any chemicals to do it either, just as manufacturing engineers have been warning about as the world’s resources become increasingly expensive to extract.. 2026-03-31T19:35:25+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswfwxlq9wfaq40knywel2vmp553v42hrspswpu5kg45ze70wcvfngzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c0tqdat In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsray0l8rwh4j8c40ptqahjpqqse3nllyzr06jm0g7puq0yyax9llqyz873q'>nevent1q…873q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Your idea that car free means no convenient way to travel is 100% wrong.. the entire freakin point of walkable cities is to put the things you need next to you under a 15 minute walk and otherwise make cars unnecessary to conveniently travel anywhere<br/><br/>North America is brainwashed to think cars are the only way to get anything. (I grew up in suburbia) Before cars cities used to put things next to people. It was the definition of civilization<br/><br/>n/n 2026-03-31T14:13:29+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsray0l8rwh4j8c40ptqahjpqqse3nllyzr06jm0g7puq0yyax9llqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7czs5huh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx3xyquv6egclaeg36etxq358k5qtq6ql5ad2z5y5w4a7r85yes0q5w60dk'>nevent1q…60dk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don’t think you have much of an idea of how severe the problem is going to be. <br/><br/>The economic dynamics of this is going to be the following:<br/><br/>A period of intense inflation, and then a depression as in a great global depression. <br/><br/>If you don’t have some idea of economic history, I can understand why you think that inflation will just be a hassle for people.<br/><br/>Poverty or bankruptcy are very effective methods of persuasion<br/><br/>1/n 2026-03-31T13:56:14+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsreycljp5hj3ukej2gx9tpx0k9cnak5d58pukm5xdfjy22kv7n6ggzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c9mfr62 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfxlafaydhg37f4wxx6qjn2e9t3x8y67p0e5nffxucpg9njlewe0c8pyu98'>nevent1q…yu98</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You all don’t seem to understand that all this machinery comes from raw materials that are refined and extracted using fossil fuel and other feed stock products.<br/><br/>Transitioning to walkable lifestyles in relocating agriculture next to the communities that it feeds doesn’t require a lot of money it will employ people what it needs is the proper design systems and sweat equity in simple tools.<br/><br/>The global economy strips wealth from communities 2026-03-31T06:07:08+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv0lrhmjnngjmtpf07guz6dv8hfmzj2adzae8jdremvtr3t8hj39gzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ctzha0r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs20p8rvs8lf96n7hj2vjzmkvnr257lugxxttm0pwspny4w332hdkqsuqkq0'>nevent1q…qkq0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also, you keep skipping over the problem:<br/><br/>The global supply chain is being destroyed and the manufacturing base required to make all of this equipment is losing a gigantic chunk of its resource supply.<br/><br/>What you are showing me is that you want to keep the planet killing economy going the one that destroys the planet for all the manufacturing resources to create the planet, destroying economy.<br/><br/>It isn’t just oil 2026-03-31T06:00:36+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs20p8rvs8lf96n7hj2vjzmkvnr257lugxxttm0pwspny4w332hdkqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ctg8sqk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq3wj2nlkfj6uc9t9ztkwzez0pn4xtr6v4ddtu70ujamdqj9myg8svp9l74'>nevent1q…9l74</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The point that I’ve heard about electric tractors is they weigh a lot more now this might have changed, but you have to understand that the weight of the machine machinery on the soil compacted, which destroys it.<br/><br/>The battery is the source of weight that kills the soil. On the other hand, there are farming methods that do not require tractors. This would be advantage of moving farms and farming and food production close to people again. 2026-03-31T05:58:57+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrlwpvkfftdefa9x2ry8nqxp9z3cgcd0pppyve29tsxl2wxthe0uszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7crn8edz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq6nm5re4vk0n2va2tk63zwla9cswl6lhjc39pql3ltq45xeg95dgw7xh72'>nevent1q…xh72</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There’s so much garbage involved in this, especially the idea that poverty is a moral failing, or homelessness. It’s an issue that touches on racism but the big chunk of this is class warfare, pure and simple.<br/><br/>There was some dude you know 2000 years ago or something who talked about this topic or so I hear 2026-03-31T04:24:00+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs929n8q5tv260w6shgpqaa9wxvqglau0l238vhxnn6t0ndzym2dvszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c9q5fst In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0p8ngy3szx56t2hkx2v6w2x6xtf847xqslcsj5mqtacns5cecvhs0hn9zh'>nevent1q…n9zh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I agree what people need is housing first which is proven to be completely successful at eliminating homelessness.<br/><br/>Oddly enough, putting people into housing fixes homelessness. 2026-03-31T04:18:34+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0xlcrez53yzgne0w4tkdxekheqq8ara3kz42qfkn2e6p43s8k6kgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ctecg4h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw99a28tm5mtkga4nszxuv6chkju5we4g6g2ha7xckpvw7tjrza7qr392wh'>nevent1q…92wh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>12 min<br/><br/>This is the kind of stuff I’m talking about. Not only have factories that produce helium, which is an essential material for producing chips? You have other processing capacity being destroyed.<br/><br/>How exactly are you going to have your Evie’s or any other alternative energy product that needs aluminum or steel, which is produced with nickel that also needs to be refined by feed stocks coming out of the Middle East.<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/POuKamK2QD4">https://youtu.be/POuKamK2QD4</a> 2026-03-31T03:31:54+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw4uu760ldv442s5y2j256fw9a89uprj594u8akq0rqry0lwl6ckqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cu9nmce In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswunsyn9vkuelfd57mgc7hvzak9dx3mmz25tq603d5gph2pyghyggytnj83'>nevent1q…nj83</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There’s a difference between low speed, high torque and high speed high torque.<br/><br/>The other factor is weight. Unless you’re planning to run powerlines over thousands of acres of cornfields the weight of batteries needed to run these things, will compact the soil even more severely.<br/><br/>Soil compaction destroys the soil fertility. This is one reason why diesel remains so prominent. 2026-03-31T03:20:35+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstejjxqf4wwqa67flc3hczn2nmsvxqdsgturmkf9v2ca07wthel8qzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cf5nwvp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrs0hvdju82qpq5npuqwnnzy8au2lnyt767yy3qxn8gk4al73lt9q78ap87'>nevent1q…ap87</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think we see the urgency of the situation a little bit differently. Stuff is already becoming scarce. Asia, the world’s factory, will shut down without adequate energy and feed stock inputs.<br/><br/>Furthermore, the raw materials that or that needs to be extracted and processed by compounds produced from those feed stocks also need energy.<br/><br/>And what are you going to build all this infrastructure from?<br/><br/>This is a fundamental disconnect. It’s Covid lockdowns on steroids. 2026-03-31T02:37:32+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrmktgznsepcsjsvderd77c6femkcwkahkd70qxnaktqc5vy4np6czyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ckqpv2v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9huk5668jvnv3szm6ujvtq022cnvrupp734w9juqw3zllsarn90glja64z'>nevent1q…a64z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It’s so fucking stupid because housing is the basis of mental health and safety.<br/><br/>Housing first is public safety first. 2026-03-31T01:20:28+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsquf70qecdl96nexac0j9cp6464sm64utchm7zu9u4ye0fc6kge9qzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cllh9y0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst7np224tn0m7vpetvr08dydhqkn0uzuu3mhp2y8d6qkg9k2ddy8q66rrwq'>nevent1q…rrwq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Good luck electrifying farming. Diesel engines can produce a great deal of torque for relatively low weight. good luck pulling all the copper out into rural areas to support non existent electrified farm equipment. Copper is processed with oil derived feed stock.<br/><br/>There is a very inexpensive and direct solution: make communities car free and re-localized farming, add community gardens.<br/><br/>In this crisis, victory gardens are a good idea. 2026-03-31T01:13:42+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9rvrz3d85xzunvswlymd6dpmlh7muwgtr25tr5wtykppntprsqwszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7csmj9ez In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx2v6lwfuk44u2738fhxptg8m6pskxfpvwt9xhtfh2enqw2ep8w5gr86l4r'>nevent1q…6l4r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But it’s more than that. Fossil fuels produce feed stocks for all sorts of other industrial processes, including fertilizer, but also chips and metals necessary for alternative energy and the grid that needs to go with it..<br/><br/>The most important thing communities can focus on is eliminating the need for cars and re-localizing food production.<br/><br/>If necessary, the concept of victory gardens. Communities should think of Covid lockdowns on steroids. 2026-03-31T00:38:20+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgzzzxk6ujwrhaznzerhf43arca4wtq0ldxdchud9plngz940v8cczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cge89k7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0vdwyg0w75x6wxu7u7n70gqjh02zuwzmwyc3xx8cumvmmkkg7myse9y9k9'>nevent1q…y9k9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>So you need the next terminator movie to be the one where Skynet wins, and it is treated as glorious 2026-03-30T18:47:46+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqkpyrjukv6pmmn2765z3hzwf8pu4uvhjeu6uxl8v3w9m4kg50qeszyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cn7e3s9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrhv3sdpd2xq545q9z5eqmh7k0s6x2rww3e9hk2l9f8c4sqm979ls5dqhrk'>nevent1q…qhrk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I’m pretty negative on the various organizations involved in global trade.<br/><br/>When countries are made to dismember their own economic, sovereignty and dumb, allow themselves to be disassembled and turned into cogs it has never really worked out well.<br/><br/>Countries like China I don’t think ever lost control of their own country 2026-03-30T08:32:17+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0tqqv7ncxl9nk3w9yrjjqd4ssaesrydclmc2ya7asfh8xzccwy0gzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ceytznu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs092qktk8lgmh7z7v065dy82dgza65ftfznkmzfntcd777m9q3t6gcj46ef'>nevent1q…46ef</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Well, it may be that other institutions comment to being to negotiate trade internationally and the WTO, which is still largely an animal of the US and the west will lose influence 2026-03-30T07:30:42+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyx8l0dsd2pww99prww2q0l2dnyayvt4cvpqj06mphrvun3v3elnczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cggg94e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv54836rlnps7qxe2aygh88np3ftsrnz2fhak0amekzna0hfgselq6tkfsc'>nevent1q…kfsc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sounds like you’re in the camp that believes Russia was attacked.<br/><br/>Ukraine was supposed to crumble in a few days under the vastly superior Russian military strength. It did not indefinitely. It needs resources, externally, but anyone who’s arguing that Russia did anything but the thing Russia normally does doesn’t have much credibility with me.<br/><br/>Iran is very different in the sense they’ve been preparing for a US invasion for decades. 1/n 2026-03-29T20:57:26+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxegeu23t2lledq530ncvvcdme5s7vwwv4jq4wv4c78ledywwsqmqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cfjjd5u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvy7rfrweq7amfqdchp7y4lshpddvcn9mltvpqg652fermyy8xregrsyw79'>nevent1q…yw79</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I can think of a number of reasons why China is restraining overt support.<br/><br/>The foremost reason is to allow/watch how well the United States and Israel can project force. What we are seeing here is the limit of hegemonic technology based military action primarily from the air.<br/><br/>Like Ukraine, Iran is holding its own and bloodying the nose of the financial and industrial core, while the US particularly drives even more nails into the coffin of its super status power 2026-03-29T19:54:36+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8knwamcxvlqa58hre4pr5aaegfuppwdmdfn3nn5w53c28rp6clpqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cu2vgjk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgv5pe298wfdt69ej2f8wpky3mtazzh9hf7jjvfpwkyuetc2qf5xqpdfhxq'>nevent1q…fhxq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I’m tempted to think of a smoky the bear style poster saying only you can prevent normalizing domestic violence. The messaging is not quite correct, but it is in the direction I think would be most helpful<br/><br/>In other words, rally men as the manly thing to do. This is what the pillar of a community does. This is the thing men do. 2026-03-29T01:04:58+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp473ea45wqrmuxnf8m7xjzreu4gkq4pajlydnlptvktgfkq7tm8qzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cet0yph In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvtyzppurrfuztc7r7cn5xw5ju5d348uh4zq586p8frx73ev9gmdcwzflqs'>nevent1q…flqs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We too 2026-03-27T23:33:04+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy9hunsdzgdtvnu256lv4p5gzgkffmzaej0a9vpsezq7yhl86vj9szyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c4aer9a RE: <a href="https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116300144161152058">https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116300144161152058</a><br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub12pw99cs5a6j6r56yafxt355j8h38hhw6fh3zwunhj99m3gv3nfds7zzvxn" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Emeritus Prof Christopher May</span> (<span class="italic">npub12pw…zvxn</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>:(<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1jeca9j54jr0ce8ztey55z79785e9pvsxpenrkw8ckf282jky3hpqa09zvt" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1jec…9zvt</a></span><br/> </div> The UK Covid Inquiry has laid bare the avoidable horror of the second Covid wave <a href="https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-uk-covid-inquiry-has-laid-bare">https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-uk-covid-inquiry-has-laid-bare</a> </blockquote> 2026-03-27T19:05:09+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0ckhtedy2na4357yskhv4myret85s7e7suy8plhe0r9mw5rxf84czyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c84zufz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw93kqxxr9x903muljmv7w3w2s8ejvvjtr9kkz8z9nw2pe3y62huchcsypw'>nevent1q…sypw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah, there’s some bizarre history that I used to know about how liberal and conservative got inverted in the United States but it’s probably not that interesting to learn about. It does create enormous headaches, parsing political alignment from across the pond.<br/><br/>That’s why behavioral definition of left/right to me so helpful because it’s based on behavior: pro equal decision-making power equals left, pro, giving all the power to the rich equals right 2026-03-27T01:58:31+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy6dk0urjaw44egzj9auqys0jcky9ds4qh62fmllxhv5le5tqty9gzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cjeqg7e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs92gsdztc7syrasqt97l5vday2gt432egy8gtwa7wcztp3qm8l55q998x9r'>nevent1q…8x9r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the old definition of liberal I take 2026-03-27T00:40:45+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspg90zzwc06m9x97n0s3g42jly0fjm7uae3tq0jt8k5hf9w6aa6mgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cddehvq mar 26<br/><br/>4 min<br/><br/>budgets are moral statements<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/V8T51_DZYc4">https://youtu.be/V8T51_DZYc4</a><br/><br/>#mmt 2026-03-27T00:39:10+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqste935598rukxpwdrarafxn8nwrrsuenfr3zpmxe0m06phd4r8v6szyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c3xnqt3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqpew9j7qk273fltzanz4vrzul2mvkuvt85zmwjfa76fscvk4qcfq48mgh4'>nevent1q…mgh4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Let me guess this is the right wing asshat 2026-03-27T00:19:44+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvp98y29uyh7ezqfr8uxphslhs8paz0qztl5lrs6sg0laer2gw57czyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c05f08h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspajehrnu9z5y8xckrfml8wqmzyvv6carsqx2y0kqnhspr26hqmkg9krkqn'>nevent1q…rkqn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>RE: <a href="https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116296802515390419">https://masto.ai/@rbreich/116296802515390419</a><br/><br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub12pw99cs5a6j6r56yafxt355j8h38hhw6fh3zwunhj99m3gv3nfds7zzvxn" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Emeritus Prof Christopher May</span> (<span class="italic">npub12pw…zvxn</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>More than a few people have remarked on the rather interesting timing of a bunch of futures trading. This kind of remarkable timing as seemingly become quite common for some reason in the last year or two<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1x853mka75ugre5ysvekpkgu4zm26thgyxvg9673998h44czk08ss0jtyu4" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1x85…tyu4</a></span><br/> </div> <video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/296/798/928/105/077/original/e1f6c040894a7029.mp4"></video><br/> </blockquote> 2026-03-26T22:11:56+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspajehrnu9z5y8xckrfml8wqmzyvv6carsqx2y0kqnhspr26hqmkgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c73atx8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxwv9kdg47dgnue2evx6vd5ms7nf0n0drpa8gnqgaaxna5te5e2sct5hs32'>nevent1q…hs32</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The seller’s interest is to extract as much money as they can 2026-03-26T21:29:39+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfwpxe5392dnv6rphu5wy2texu399yusyg4q229dncgyzn0sfz83szyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7c7ts02x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsylrmdrxegkawnshrknu8qy2jqzrrmqvmtk2q55ejw2xcsfxjs5rckacr4z'>nevent1q…cr4z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The tech guys from Silicon Valley bankrolled the GOP’s total control of the federal government they are the people who wrote project 2025 and the guys from Silicon Valley have their dark enlightenment movement, which is basically a human extinction movement.<br/><br/>These people have prepared safe houses in bunkers with the full expectation of civilization collapsing it’s something they are deliberately working towards because they have their own crazy flavor of essentially the second coming. 2026-03-22T10:29:03+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdqjvkkuypw8dqkwxr6vq8umcufyevn4e3qxupdglvagq0a3ydmwgzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cu7dlpv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw04yg37q5jcknxpcd8rga8x2p3tp40rlq3ed39dqx2hr2gydvm4ckl0lah'>nevent1q…0lah</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Unfortunately that work is unavailable. It would’ve taken funding and a couple of other people working with them to keep the stuff going, which is a tremendous used to municipalities, but it’s just something he couldn’t sustain by himself. <br/><br/>In discussion, he said he would do it very differently now. 2026-03-22T09:42:15+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs89r93hnw4xjchzs6uyearljwhpjffnvh9vxyza8va3utdemm9jfqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cg88r4e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf9qkqk94097phw6xz453kda05qfgffat064gjgd6guyt8f8sthsqvdmqjh'>nevent1q…mqjh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There’s been a packed field for Darwin awards for some years now 2026-03-22T05:49:27+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2l438lkatqeryhxlmk0jcupf632hu52rz7ac6f2z8kp2773nv62qzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cxxd4a8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszcd6pyqfp5ymmp04jfchk3ma4e90n5ch5s62xsxhm3hcjqk4sz8ckgd4d6'>nevent1q…d4d6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The Koch brothers. The same damn rich people who funded cigarette misinformation, climate misinformation, and science skepticism.<br/><br/>These people hate public health, because they have the pesky habit of identifying their deadly products.<br/><br/>The very worst of them are a freaking extinction cult. What do you think AI in robots replacing everybody is for, or more practically what all the surveillance in population control surveillance awards is for?<br/><br/>These guys hate everyone 2026-03-22T05:47:14+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswrmuax20mxw9w7asty5w9fm0v3q3egpe4683j3cvlxxzzv00fn9czyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cmysth0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdwrpu4v6gnjvrzkjumy2ms85j6uwc5xu86re6ll05za2g7clq89qtskr9s'>nevent1q…kr9s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I keep thinking of that quote from Larry Niven in one of his essays in “all the myriad ways”<br/><br/>Think of it as evolution in action.<br/><br/>It’s not pretty and it’s not nice but it’s hard to avoid the truth of it 2026-03-22T05:44:42+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9mdjjv6w7mthek96c9tc64x5xpf23q5wg7agdfx7g9rsvxks9vqczyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7ckhx3jh RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/116270028406652899">https://mastodon.social/@realTuckFrumper/116270028406652899</a><br/><br/>I won’t be surprised if Iran responds by taking out a few more oil refineries.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1zp9g60m4kqj738p5vsmky93nrdr072p7z4yvhfzwycp27w4k57wqk5xnrg" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1zp9…xnrg</a></span><br/> </div> Trump Threatens Iran: You Have 48 Hours to ‘FULLY OPEN’ Strait of Hormuz — Or Else #Mediaite <a href="https://twp.ai/E6HxzS">https://twp.ai/E6HxzS</a> </blockquote> 2026-03-22T01:49:12+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszewtd36vfx4m55u2wc74qpyycwtgka5hdr6vkyqrzxx2ry8u93agzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cgel2v9 [@economics_that_works](<a href="https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works">https://fedigroups.social/@economics_that_works</a> ) <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1z7xtq2j2202tfpxl7cmfmac4n45gv6tuyuwjdcfu0gyc58jxek9qc6q5jf" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱</span> (<span class="italic">npub1z7x…q5jf</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>56 min<br/><br/>Chuck is interviewing Heather from urban3<br/><br/>If people ever questioned my comments about kicking big box stores out of small towns fast-forward to around the 14 through 16 minute time and look at the difference revenue per unit land for shopping mall malls in big box stores versus local business.<br/><br/>These are the kinds of numbers that car free advocates talk about. Local is better.<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/czF9ejeWdf8">https://youtu.be/czF9ejeWdf8</a> 2026-03-21T23:46:59+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgqnax98platcpj8kvr0aclvr3y37m450dyzc9es588zgwcdd80lqzyq28ucmj30vqcyajak9wvs497vqx3h7gyjwuktfqfrynxptjmvf7cp2z07j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0x4j7w4ahz2n9arg0qqctrwsxkerp4rfgu96yceapgas4z3he4kczg9st3'>nevent1q…9st3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Economics doesn’t measure affordability, defined to be income divided by the cost of living (or fixed costs).<br/><br/>So the decades of flat wages in the face of rising inflation looks a whole lot different when you measure affordability. <br/><br/>This metric can be a little bit tricky but I know somebody who did it.<br/><br/>What’s really interesting about that metric is that it is a non-dimensional. <br/><br/>You don’t need to adjust for inflation, it’s built into the ratio. 2026-03-21T23:22:51+01:00