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> I’ve been addicted to cigarettes. The addiction is no joke, I can smoke cigars when I like with no craving or addiction
I find a similar thing with caffeine. I find coffee addictive in a way tea and other forms of caffeine are not. But then, I have ADHD, and stimulants don't affect my neurochemistry the same way they do most people.
Perhaps you're also an outlier for some reason? Could even be the same reason...
"Nicotine can be as addictive as heroin and cocaine, in such a way that you cannot feel normal unless you have the next dose."
#DrRobertProctor, Big Vape: The Rise and Fall of Juul, s01e01
#smoking #cigarettes #nicotine #addiction
In Modern Monetary Theory, state-backed money ("fiat currency") loses value with every taxable transactions it's used for. The missing value is extinguished by tax.
So the more a dollar is used in a year, the faster it evaporates out of the money supply. If we can, we'll want to save state-backed money, ie prevent it from being used for transactions, to hold its value.
Demurrage is the opposite of taxing transactions. It taxes money while at rest, so we want to spend it.
#tax #demurrage #MMT
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> One of my friends pointed out that Bible stories sound exactly like Florida Man Headlines!
#FloridaMan Razes Cities To Ground To Protest "Woke" Social Policy
A talk from 2016 by nostr:npub1w0h29g47254sgmjuaza0qj6cmvwd6qs9rffjyt34a4xs37rfu0sskruwua, developer of Conversations (XMPP chat app).
'Settling the IM war - Creating an open and federated protocol for instant messaging'
https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2016-1713-settling_the_im_war
#talks #TechTalks #chat #XMPP
Question for people who like to geek out about Merkle trees. Anti-crypto comments will be ignored.
If a P2P network is storing genealogical records, it does need universal consensus, right? Alice can't be the daughter of Bob in one part of the network, and daughter of Johan in another part.
Does that mean this is legitimate use case for a BlockChain? Or could you use something like HoloChain?
#AskFedi #BlockChain #HoloChain #MerkleTrees #DistributedDatabases #genealogy
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But there are only 3 political parties proposing any kind of tax on excessive wealth in this election, and only 2 of them have any chance of influencing a government.
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>1% transaction tax would make that in a month
Any decent suite of taxes on excessive wealth (eg CGT, profiteering tax, land tax, inheritance tax etc) would allow governments to settle more Waitangi claims, and increase spending on public services, and abolish GST, *and* run a deficit to help bring inflation down, until the real economy catches up with the money supply.
It seems like a no-brainer.
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"AI art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history. Perpetrated by respectable-seeming corporate entities backed by Silicon Valley venture capital. It’s daylight robbery."
https://artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Letter
The one thing I disagree with in this quote is "respectable-seeming".
#AI #MOLE #SiliconValley
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> I guess you canʼt believe everything you read on Mastodon. I thought I had left that behind on OnlyKlans
Someone said it on the Internet, it must be true! : P
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> just moved to Aotearoa in March [from the US]
Haere mai! You're in good company. nostr:npub16uk4yyw47haxwl0klhh7lcx3qatkyqmpc6gc4hwru3qedaeuueeqqkpv7k did that a couple of decades ago and never looked back?
Do you have a matrix account? There's a few rooms in the matrix of interest to local techies. Particularly the NZ Open Source Society room..
@Jonothanhagan@FireFish.nz
Haere mai! Welcome to the fediverse : )
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> You're bearing the burden of putting up with heretics and apostates whom you tolerate. Also "shut up and follow the law" for those being tolerated. Nobody had to like it. So there's that negativity
If we posit that politics is the new religion, for a significant number of people, I guess tolerance is probably a necessary minimum condition for avoiding both Inquisitions (by whoever holds power) and civil war.
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It's not ideal. But changing either at this point would require not only protocol change, but some major retraining of everyone using them.
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> a user handle already starts with @, making it redundant and deprived of any meaning
This kind of makes sense on centralised services where you're directing a message (at) someone. The current fediverse and matrix address formats take that, and mash it together with the...
> (at) somewhere
... of email addresses.
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> a user handle already starts with @, making it redundant and deprived of any meaning
This kind of makes sense on centralised services where you're directing a message (at) someone. The current fediverse and matrix address formats take that, and mash it together with the...
> (at) somewhere
... of email addresses. It's not ideal. But changing either at this point would require not only protocol change, but some major retraining of everyone using them.
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This is kind of intriguing, if a bit rambly. Published in late 2020, it's one average dude's reflections on YouTube, after 5 years of daily vlogging, and a one month break from having anything anything to do with it:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PbmBYZ8cBoc
I enjoyed the bits where he takes the piss out of the "smash that like button" shtick of professional YouTubers.
#SocialMedia #DataFarms #YouTube
Pundits seriously describing Tuesday night's televised debate been the Labour and National leaders as...
"a wonderful debate between two centre-left politicians"
... have to be looking at political reality through a pretty distorted ideological lens. It would be stretching the truth to call them "centre-right".
This academic assessment positions both National *and* Labour policy in 2023 in the economic hard right:
https://politicalcompass.org/nz2023
#podcasts #TheWorkingGroup
Just when I thought the free magazine that comes with AA membership was a waste of time...
" The positive effects of nature are many. It promotes cardiovascular health, boosts the immune system, improves sleep and helps with anxiety and depression. It also increase self-esteem, empathy, kindness, compassion and appreciation for the world and ecosystems mastered by plants, fungi, and insects.
... trees and plants emit chemicals known as phytoncides which promote overall health when inhaled or when present on our skin."
#MonicaTischler, Learning from the Forest, AA Directions, 2023