An interesting quote by Lee Cronin about the tension created by simultaneously holding a God concept and pursuing scientific knowledge.

“God is a meme created by human culture. God is kind of a catch all term for helping us understand that we don’t understand everything. The pursuit of knowledge is not an act of killing God but an act of replacing that ghost we have been given.”

#knowledge #faith #God #meme #philosophy #culture

Found my FirefoxOS phone! Reminding me of when Mozilla was good and aspirational.

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First prototype is done.

I wanted to re-use what I had lying around, make it light as possible, and strong. This should do the trick.

Its missing a couple key components that get swapped out as needed.

#asknostr What is it? ⚡⚡⚡

888 sats to the first correct guess.

#offgrid #simplelife #recycle #reuse #desert #macgyver

I started road biking again after taking like 4 years off. I forgot how good it feels just to ride like 20+ miles somewhere and just be engrossed in my body and the experience. I get into a kind of meditative state when I’m doing it—I forgot about it and I’ve missed it.

#meme #memes #memestr #nostrmeme #nostrmemes #moderndayproblems

MEMPOOLS CLEARED BECAUSE MOST BLUE CHECKS HAVE NEVER SENT A BITCOIN TRANSACTION.

​I just had to explain what a "Ponzi scheme" is to an IRS audit examiner. How is your day going?

Even though I still struggle to wrap my head around all aspects of what’s going on, what I find revolutionary is that he has effectively become a vampire—latching onto the bond market by leveraging fiat credit markets to extract liquidity and convert it into Bitcoin.

He is alchemizing soft money into hard money by siphoning trillions of dollars from the bond market and transforming it into Bitcoin exposure.

I still don’t believe he’s entirely immune to blowing up somehow, but the next few years will be very interesting to watch unfold.

Rock climbing Carl. #carlstr

I am so fucking sick of being stolen from in the form of taxes to fund dropping bombs. I don't care where or by whom. End it all.

Kind of like when pro-lifers started saying, "Keep your laws off my body."

⚡️🚨 NEW - Tuttle just filed for a first-of-its-kind ETF: a Double Short MicroStrategy ETF.

It aims to profit by shorting both the 2x long (MSTU) and 2x short (MSTZ) MSTR ETFs, betting on their decay from daily resets.

Turning sheep into hypocrites is a pasttime for elite control freaks.

⚡️💬 It's not for the state to know everything about its citizens, but for citizens to know everything about the state — Julian Assange.

I asked grok about the sum of bombs dropped by Israel on Gaza since October 2023. It didn't have reliable numbers until April 2025, but estimated a number using a low average for the days until mid-2024 and extrapolated until today to get a ballpark number. This number is 124.000 tons.

I asked it to comapare this to historical events. This was its answer:

"Comparison to Historical Events (Updated to April 2025 Estimate)

Using the projected 124,000 tons by April 2025:

Dresden (1945): 3,900 tons—Israel’s total would be over 31 times greater.

Hamburg (1943): 22,000 tons—over 5.5 times greater.

London (The Blitz, 1940-1941): 18,300 tons—nearly 7 times greater.

Hiroshima (1945): 15,000 tons—over 8 times greater in raw tonnage (though not in nuclear yield).

U.S.-led Coalition vs. ISIS (2014-2019): Peak month (August 2017) saw ~2,500-3,000 tons—Gaza’s projected total is over 40 times that month’s amount.

Allied Bombing of Germany (1942-1945): 1.5-2 million tons—Gaza’s total is still a fraction (6-8%) but in a vastly smaller area (360 km² vs. 357,582 km²).

The density remains staggering: 124,000 tons over 360 km² equates to about 344 tons per square kilometer, far exceeding the per-area intensity of these historical campaigns. These figures are provisional and could shift with new data or changes in military strategy, but they underscore the unprecedented scale of destruction in Gaza relative to its size and population. For precise numbers up to April 30, 2025, further updates from credible sources would be needed post-date."

#gaza #israel #bomb