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I liked Maple until their Max plan couldn’t even handle my moderate usage.
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I'm sure there's nuance, but there's a few too many official proclamations and direct handing over of territory for me to quite buy it this black and white.
The Brits don't seem to want to control the land, so much as that they wanted to salt the Earth in a sense to prevent the resurgence of a land based empire in the vaccuum left by the Ottomans.
Just like they've been working to hem in Russia since they realized it existed.
A maritime empire is best opposed by a strong land based empire for logistical reasons, and they're sort of destined to be at odds.
And yea, maybe it's best not to say Brits, as it's the power structure and capital behind it that have made Britain their home base for centuries more than it is something inherent about the English civilization.
FWIW I still consider America in a sense to be part of the English civilization, all while opposing this British parasitic power base (which absolutely didn't start in the Isles).
Simon Dixon might call it the FIC and MIC but I think this does lose some resolution as there's absolutely some power currents in continental Europe that sometimes work with, and sometimes oppose, the dominant agendas of London. At the end of the day it's all generalization and abstraction to allow for speaking about highly complex and interconnected systems of people.
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Spreading the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve keys across dozens of retired bank vaults in the Great Plains seems aligned with national security interests. Same playbook as ammo manufacturing in WW2 or the nuclear triad ever since.
Unless fiat inertia keep us locked on the current third world enshitification path, which seems more likely.
GM, may nostr be with you
I'd also point out I don't take some stand to flip a switch. We build to make the future better incrementally, because not doing so would be to allow entropy to make it worse.
Success looks like another day on the right side of the daisies, hopefully more sats than the day before, more people introduced or educated of helped on their feet. Not because they're owed it, but because charity extended today yields opportunity tomorrow.
I think that's a huge thing lefties miss about capitalism. A sane capitalist treats humans as another resource to cultivate sustainably to maximize output over time. You can slaughter a cow to eat it, or you can feed and shelter it to get years of dairy, offspring, etc. Likewise sacrificing a little today for our communities, of our own volitition, is not irrational, or socialistic, but an investment into the future.
Not all the seeds we plant grow. But farmers who plant no seeds reap no rewards.
Anyway, just some ramblings over my morning mud water. GM.
British imperialists were only in Palestine to repel the Ottomans and were the very first victims of Israeli settler terrorism in Palestine. A lot of people either aren't aware of - or convenieny forget - this part of history.
Many British troops and administrators were killed - most notibly in the bombing of the King David hotel. The organisation and funding for many of these activities was likely from Americans Jews.
There truely is nothing new new under the sun.
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GM morning! Let's kick off this day right.
Arrests go nowhere. When it comes right down it, the Democrats and Republicans are pretty much all buddies.
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Get out of the system with @npub1q7x…90jl, you won’t regret it.
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Also I wouldn't say nothing's changed. There were a small handful of us on that day. Opposition to the occupation was something that was a tiny minority and if you asked most people it equated with antisemitism.
The public opinion has changed a lot. But the wheels of government grind slowly. We move forward one dead Lindsey Graham at a time.
I don't anticipate they'll operate as they do in 30 years. Not saying they'll be gone, but the balance will shift.
Also, not for nothing, I've been vocal for 20 years; Palestinians have been fighting this for over a century. A lot more meaningfully and at a lot bigger sacrifice to themselves and their families.
As far as I'm concerned it's an outgrowth of British imperialism anyway. American Zionism is tantamount to loyalism to the crown.
Theft is theft, whether it's of taxes, homeland, currency inflation, etc. If the fact that it still happens is reason to give up then I suspect it's time to throw in the towel on this whole civilization thing.
I honestly don't get out to protests at this point. Even then direct action was more my thing – protests are more a networking opportunity than anything effective.
Bitcoin, boycotts, and building stronger and more sovereign networks of individuals.
Especially these days the protests just don't seem the way to go. Awareness isn't where the deficit is, and standing in a sea of pinkos doesn't solve much. During the Iraq war years OTOH we'd run into people who didn't realize a war was happening. Information flows a bit faster now.
I think I might be joining you. What use I have for Bitcoin if it’s just another suitcoiner’s tool. We die on this hill! 🫡
Read these books mentioned here:
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Love the homages to Starship Troopers! But these articles are very Nostr unfriendly especially for folks like me who deleted xitter and never looked back. So I’d appreciate another link. 🙏Thank you for being a based miner. So few of your kind these days.
Até hoje esse cara ainda espera a taxa de juros fechar?
I'm not that far from 40 that I should probably start planning a party. @nprofile…9fz2 do you think I will be able to do it at @nprofile…jvhr in the second half of August? I would like to turn it into a birthday party and a Nostr meet-up.
So? Minority soft forks lead to chain splits.
GM Roughnecks! Our 1st article was a hit. Thank you to everyone who read & shared. Our next article will talk about arbitrary data and why it's just as harmful to miners as it is to nodes, hodlers, and merchants. Rational self-interested miners will reject arbitrary data https://x.com/roughnecks110/status/2077762515199779223
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could be useful, well done!
Let all-embracing thoughts for all beings be yours.
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Maybe someone still remembers fragging from 'nam...
Yea, this was 20 years ago. He was a major influence on my awareness of Palestine. Dude had been very familiar with the groupthink and indoctrination having joined the army to escape it in New York, only to then of course also very much see it from another angle in the army as he got surprised when suddenly 9/11 happened and being in the army wasn't just taking a break and living on base. They tried to force him back for a third tour though and by that point he'd gotten his resolve not to.
They actually let it go a lot easier than he expected after only a few months of being impossible to find. Sounds like they realized how much of a liability someone like that would be to force back into the shit...
Big Bitcoin doesn’t care about the damage arbitrary data is doing to the protocol. Short term fiat maxis through and through.
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Hey YODL,
I think you'd appreciate my GM from earlier today 😂
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Thanks, I'm not sure if I got your point.
Paid relays in practice significantly decrease spam, but that's unrelated to those who desperately send takedown letters to relay operators (like in the case I referred to under the picture).
They send these letters anyway for a formal reason (probably because lawyers tell them to do that); it's not a question of whether these letters will be read or not at all.
They either send them through a relay feedback form or possibly email/DM the relay operator directly. Or, if there are no more options left, they would likely send it to the hosting provider or/and domain registrar, no matter whether it's a paid relay or not.
Taking into account what's currently happening to domain registrars and some hosting providers (they fail to properly analyze the "takedown letters" and randomly ban their clients, basically), it'd be better if these letters reached relay operators directly. BUT not without being informed that their letter will be published.
That's not just ethics; I believe it's reasonable and beneficial to both sides of such conflicts.
And TheHiddenMind, he's always doing that too 😂
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This has always been a thing on your desktop client:
N.B. This isn't multiple clones BTW
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A famous Walt Disney quote when an imagineer rushed into his office proclaiming
"I have a great idea"
Walt replied:
"You have an idea, we'll let you know how good it is"
I have an idea that both the wife and Chatty think is great 😂
So I've upgraded my Codex subscription to "Pro"
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Not all of it, but enough that Id recommend it. Its pretty short too
GM good morning 🧡! Let's make today awesome.
Have you read it? Any good?
Theres a good book on this, Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Antony C Sutton
No Zap possible? Well, then I will keep my precious SATs 😎