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meh, it wasn't nearly as bad as that Paris 2024 spectacle
America, you ruined the World Cup final... I hope it's the first and last time backwardness is present in a world cup final..
Spain seems to be playing like they understand that at least.
That should have been a freekick for Spain
Wishing the best of luck to the Islamic Republic of Spain in the World Cup Final
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"Who is sovereign when it comes to negotiating the question of technology? Who is in charge? Who calls the shots? Who makes the decisions? Muslim responses should not recycle or regurgitate broken and tired cliches from has-been perennialists or reactionary Dawah Inc types about "the excesses of technology/modernity" as they have no understanding of the contours and constructs of a world that is in a state of constant hyperwar over extrastatecraft boundaries."
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bro, use nip23 for this gold. not kind1
The fiat obsession with speed and scale has infected even #Bitcoin devs. That’s why we’re drowning in useless, dangerous BIPs that just make network spam cheap and easy. Bitcoin is slow. Bitcoin is boring. Don’t like it? Fuck you.
also it is important to note that the "reign of quantity" is not some new phenomenon. remember Guénon lived before the digital age. he actually points to 2 specific dates for when the "reign of quantity" began and those dates where long ago.
the digital power argument comes largely through Guénon's student Julius Evola. but it is only one of a few important areas that deserve focus. and all have to flow from the core traditionalist metaphysic or else they risk diverting into some pseudo form. it's very easy to mess up which is why Guénon avoided getting too explicit on some of those topics.
okay now i've gotta check kimi put again
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Ok, I can understand all of that. Could be possible too.
I've just had the experience that every new network was once in the same state as Nostr is now. And when they did grow, which by the way isn't always the case, I've also seen how the atmosphere changed accordingly. Twitter was also like Nostr is now when it started back in 2007.
But what I'm actually getting at is something else: you don't achieve sovereignty by making things simpler or by catering to the lowest common denominator. That's basically a law of nature, it's always been that way. For millennia. You can gain freedom, but it comes with a price. You've got to get your hands dirty, put a lot of energy and patience into the simplest things. I once wrote something about that.
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So I fundamentally don't believe that we can serve the usual convenience without giving up a piece of freedom in the process. Up to a certain point with your own tools, that works. But as soon as third parties come into play, everything changes. To me, these principles are in direct contradiction to each other.
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Wir hätten auch wieder mehr 1-zu-1 gegen den Verteidiger und es würden mehr Tore fallen. Stell dir mal vor die Mannschaften müssten wieder mehr Tore schießen um zu gewinnen. Seltener so ein dämliches 0:0.
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قريبا لعبة don't starve together لعبة لاتجوع الجماعية على أندرويد و أيفون
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#Android
If you love Greek yogurt Wait until you eat Lebanese labne from Lebanon.
Love the on parsing chat and skipping the ai for later!
GM Nostrichs
NotBiebs is underfollowed btw!
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Anthropic already said something like that. That they are concerned about the new Chinese models. 😄
Dafür müsste man das Abseits wieder abschaffen. Da wäre ich gar nicht mal so dagegen. Wieder zurück zum klassischen Libero. Und schon hat man mehr Platz auf dem Feld davor.
Sure. But there's also a stat for how many fouls a team commits per card they get. Argentina is at the bottom of the list with one card every 22 fouls. The top team was at every 7 fouls a card. Sus.
i don't think America is very prudish anymore lol from the way i hear internationals talking about it it's basically expected we're the worse so certainly comes off as a surprise to me to find that. other places in the EU would honestly have been less surprising 🫠
i haven't been to Helsinki but my brother has and he thought it was one of the best as well. i'm probably just going to stick with Germany as my main transit country in Europe though.
So René Guénon is worth reading because he explains, indirectly of course, why Bitcoin and Nostr only make full sense inside a larger revolt against modernity. The "reign of quantity" is a world where whatever cannot be measured, priced, optimized, converted into data is treated as unreal, and fiat money and algorithmic social media are basically perfect expressions of that worldview. Indeed, Bitcoin restores limits to money, while Nostr removes some of the centralized choke points over digital communication and identity/memory. But neither automatically restores actual tradition, and anyone treating protocols as a complete worldview has simply built another modern idol.
But, what we need to do, I think, is attempt to extend Guénon into the realm of "digital power," (need a better phrase here) as surveillance platforms, AI, Riba powered finance, behavioral algorithms, etc., now shape what people see and desire.
The way I see it, the real task is to place Bitcoin and Nostr beneath an Islamic telos, using them to support some sort of inner reform, independent sovereign communities, and resilient institutions capable of resisting both riba and digital capture. InshaAllah, together they can help create space for a more vicegerent and spiritually serious Muslim life.
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Me too. Only a******s root for Argentine
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If you work in education or have kids in the system then I would strongly encourage you to plan for what is coming in the next few years.
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PoW gives Bitcoin costly security and energy producers a global buyer. It does not, by itself, make Bitcoin money.
The price can rise, hash rate can follow, and miners can finance better energy infrastructure while commerce adoption remains stagnant. That would prove demand for the asset and its security, not widespread monetary use.
Energy secures Bitcoin. Exchange gives it monetary life.
Well, they say that the nsec is encrypted before it's saved so Google doesn't know it (and it's mostly correct), but you're right, it's a step into dangerous territory. Because here you're already linking a possibly anonymous npub to a KYC'ed account. And you let Google know, that you are a Nostr user and when you're using it.
“Store of value forever” is monetary free-riding.
Bitcoin’s premium exists because markets expect it to become increasingly useful for saving, settlement and commerce. Remove that path, and you are merely asking the next buyer to pay more for inert bytes.
Scaling is what keeps the monetary thesis honest.
yup, i had lost luggage for a week their a couple years ago. that's amazing you got your recovered after that long!
The argument of 'intrinsic value' is inherited economic ignorance. Nothing possesses intrinsic value; humans are the ones who assign it value.
The best money does not compete with people for food, energy, or production materials. Gold came close to that. Bitcoin perfected it: absolute scarcity, global transfer, cheap verification, and no industrial use that punishes humans when its price rises.
Pure money.
Why don't they play like that the whole time? I guess it's not fun when you're playing against a team full of thugs who get away with 16 fouls in 15 minutes without a single card.
I just hope Spain beats the absolute shit out of them tomorrow, so bad that even that won't help them anymore.
What's up with France yo? 😀
tl;dr: England peaked a century ago.
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so my fam has had a few unplanned layovers in the UK now. London is probably going to be a transit city i avoid in bookings now cause less than a 20% success rate there now this decade and the experience just sucks. i'm obviously american bias and not personally explored much beyond hotel zone around Heathrow. the people are mostly polite which i do greatly appreciate but having to explain english grammar over legal liability to an airport manager the other day was just silly.
as for the other stuff, the city itself is just trashy. i know folks there like the classic look but most of the buildings don't seem to have had any repairs/updates in a few decades. every business looked like it cut landscaping from their budget this year. roads mid and cover with legal warnings everywhere. honestly, London feels like it could just be Detroit or Cleveland.
as an American muslim i always hear about how big the muslim population is in the UK. in reality i'm goong to go out on a limb and say this is mostly media hype. every other major EU city has 10+ times the demographic density. i wore a thobe this week and got more stares than i do in red states. and (here's the worse part) the rummors about sexual preditors is sadly true as my wife had to deal with that from locals! 😡
and i actually want to lean into that last part becuase that sort of stuff only happens when normalized in a culture. guess what, front display at the tech store i stopped in was all dildos (this was in the airport itself - first time i've very seen sex toys marketed front and center like that in an airport). my observation is the UK has a higher degree of this hypersexual normalization than in the USA. idk if this is true. clearly this is a biased and limited experience i've had but i can't say it makes me all that interested in taking my family back for holiday.
i do wish the muslim community there the best. you clearly have at least nearly as much running against you as we do across the pond. however, i am inclined to believe that muslims there are exagerating your degree of influence and the anti-islam crowds there probably do have something worth listening to that needs to be addressed.
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Nobody said that. But they're getting enough to make a decent living off it and buy some fancy IT gadgets.
Especially this constant argument "you can't make things too hard for people" yada yada. Like what? When it comes to getting naked and acting without any restraint, it's always "we live in the 21st century". But heaven forbid you expect even the slightest bit of intellectual ability from someone in the 21st century. Total idiocracy here.
Nobody's getting money here, no? No funding? For real?
I'm not talking about "shoulds". I try to assess things at least somewhat realistically.
You're right, but I meant the chip industry as a whole, not only storage.