Last Notes
You really did get blessed with a badass last name. Do you know if it traces back to a trade, like Smith? Seems unlikely.
Yeah, it gets tiring. Just decided to start a short Rothbard book, and I can already tell it's gonna leave me with a more fragmented grasp of overall economics when I'm done 😞
You're not replying-all in the last couple posts of yours. FYI, in case not deliberate.
I did not look them up. But now feel obligated as I'm sure I've got the definitions slightly off.
Some day, in some universe, I'll have some information for you, and I'll eagerly recommend you look some things up. Just you wait and see
As an aside. I'm still kind of cooking on this one. Like you said, lots of meat on that bone. Once you find and abandon an untested assumption the next problem is the even bigger challenge of finding all the other ideas that were leaning on it and don't have sufficient support now. What else did I have wrong because I drew the conclusion from this first idea that I was wrong about.
I mean, it was 2 dictionary definitions not war and peace.
Is it you?
It's not me. Unless my VPN let me down I'm an unidentified Cambodian Trump critic.
Why is everyone recommending I go read stuff today? Do I look like an idiot who's never read anything? Don't answer that.
Interesting points, glad I asked.
Those who exploit people tend to focus their exploitation on the people providing the most value to steal.
Right. Wonderful. More stranded Bitcoin dust, for my collection.
So the story of the history of capitalism revolves around like 1700s and 1800s tradespeople. The blacksmith owned all his tools and therefore owned all the value produced in his shop. Things were morally right in the world.
History plods along and somebody comes and invents a tool the average blacksmith can't afford, say the Auto-hammer. A rich jerk buys the blacksmith an auto-hammer and declares that since he owns all the tools he gets first dibs on the value of the work from the shop and that will keep all allegedly morally right in the world and it best encourages the rich jerk to keep buying tools for people.
Replace tools with farmland and that is feudalism. As a serf it is imperative that you never question that the blacksmith still brings all the skill and all the labor to the equation before and after but somehow all of his rights over the value of his productivity got taken away.
If you switch from capitalism to syndicalism you cut out the rich jerk. 2 or 3 blacksmiths go in together on the auto-hammer and work in shifts instead. Now they own the tools, skill, and labor again. All is morally right in the world.
If you turn this over in your head honestly for a bit you'll find a number of benefits. For example, in capitalism one guy who may not even live in this town gets to decide if the factory pollutes the local water supply. In syndicalism the factory is collectively owned by the people who work there every day, which means that they all live close buy. Now they have to agree to pollute the local water supply them and their children all drink from.
TLDR, read the definition of feudalism then read the definition of capitalism. You'll find that it was basically just a s/farmland/capital/g (sed syntax find and replace globally) They had to make the change as the economy changed to one where expensive machines were more economically important than farmland.
If only it were so simple. I don't have to read anything to arrive at these conclusions, I see them blasted by every tom dick and Harry on the internet. It fits decently well together, I'll grant you that, but feels overly simplistic to me, and doesn't explain why he'd run for reelection this last time around (a thought Chris Liss put out there a while back that I liked). I can't debate politics well, so I don't like to get into it much.
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.
I'll admit it's all very confusing, but believing Trump is some sort of buffoon on a level never seen from other presidents in recent history is wrong imo.
You Brits are getting a bit too uppity these days, I think it might just be...military time
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.
I more enjoy spinach and arugula
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?
It's actually a maga dog whistle t shirt shop. High markup on those shirts.
You know, clothes for guys who think they are a grey man but they stick out like a sore thumb everywhere they go.
I thought military time was when it becomes clear it's time to send in the troops 🥁
You were waving at someone behind them. That's the truth now.
It's faster to just get a sugar daddy 🤷♀️🤣
GM☕️☕️☕️
https://npub137c5pd8gmhhe0njtsgwjgunc5xjr2vmzvglkgqs5sjeh972gqqxqjak37w.blossom.band/dc57ffe635b8dbaaf018df49f9b928e7ad38e8f5f088a24711f92ab974787ad3.mp4
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.
if they are its in a cashu mint run by the inventor of nutzap and prob rugged periodically
@npub1kmw…xqk9 how about adding Nostr to your socials? 😊
RIP to your old identity
Welcome to your new one!
https://media.tenor.com/DeWoImUy4hsAAAAC/konstantinou-kai-elenis-katakouzinos.gif
I'll leave that first sentence alone, in the interest of remaining friends 👀
My dad had a funny habit when constructing our comeback in the day (he partook in quite a lot of it first hand; shame I didn't think to learn more from him) of hiding random "time capsules" I various places. From foundation, to behind walls, someday, someone will find scarwlings (though no secret symbols, mostly dates) and things like a sock full of GI Joes that he for some reason seemed compelled to stash
Haha, I sorta know what you mean, but feel free to elaborate, as I suspect there's some unexpected morsels on that bone.
I just wanna be part of the ruling class, is that so much to ask 😢
I do get that dialog, but when I click on Nostr I only get this:
https://i.nostr.build/6Zs2XYdsdY29048p.webp
and there's no way to get rid of that popup, except for that Log out button.
So it's either me giving them what they want (but don't need), or not logging in at all.
But then somehow I'm still logged in, without the site showing any signs of it.
It's really confusing.
No, I moved everything from biblestr to imwald, so I still have the payto data on my profile page.
I just saw the same thing. 🫤
Are you not seeing this login dialog? Only the top part?
https://i.nostr.build/Q2JsawMoDIRrVVwh.webp
That pyramid should have a giant fish tank too.
https://blossom.primal.net/cee12d4512bd96e8eedc1a55dd87a6d554580c940182df72f9a2fbaa13b45974.jpg
Like when feudalism was rebranded capitalism but the only change was the illusion of picking your own Lord.
https://i.nostr.build/5cT84RUH1JnC2jpM.jpg
"I now realize that the sacred space I created for myself, the room in which I do my writing, is really a reconstruction—a reactivation, if you will—of my boy-hood space. When I go in there to write, I’m surrounded by books that have helped me to find my way, and I recall moments of reading certain works that were particularly insightful. When I sit down to do the writing, I pay close attention to little ritual details—where the notepads and pencils are placed, that sort of thing—so that everything is exactly as I remember it having been before. It’s all a sort of 'set-up' that releases me. And since that space is associated with a certain kind of performance, it evokes that performance again. But the performance is play."
- Joseph Campbell
Couldn't some third party just watch this wallet and then take notes on where you transfer the coins to?
only Germans find this shit delicious and even make it a marketing pic
https://image.nostr.build/045893905c9ffba76c9c669c4406857a37c4afdf7e6138e9216f070d214fe74c.jpg
Interacting to boost my score and avoid cuts
The dev call started at 15:00 UTC today, not 16:00. I think there is some summer time confusion today. Most of Europe is UTC+2 now