Hi, my name is Richard Martin. I’ve been posting for a week or so, but never introduced myself. I’m interested in history, strategy, science, philosophy, technology, and individual freedom and autonomy. And of course Bitcoin, Nostr and Bitcoin mining.

#introductions

Bill Gates won't rest until there is not one single speck of natural biology left on Earth.

Bill Gates won't rest until there is not one single speck of natural biology left on Earth.

I have been using an #UbuntuTouch device for a few days, which has actually been a delight. It's been really impressive to see how far it's come since I last tried.

Sadly, Signal are arses, and there is still no viable signal client on mobile Linux, so I am with great sadness flashing Android.

If not for Signal, which I need to keep in touch with friends and family, I would be able to ditch Android at last and use a phone that would bring me delight.

I have been using an #UbuntuTouch device for a few days, which has actually been a delight. It's been really impressive to see how far it's come since I last tried.

Sadly, Signal are arses, and there is still no viable signal client on mobile Linux, so I am with great sadness flashing Android.

If not for Signal, which I need to keep in touch with friends and family, I would be able to ditch Android at last and use a phone that would bring me delight.

@npub1z0lcg9p2v5nzg5fycxq0k56ze6snp42clmrafzqpn5w6u74v5x9q708ldk may seem like simple video call client, but for #nostriches it's SO MUCH MORE ⚡💜🤙

#grownostr #otherStuff

@jeremiah@shitposter

I was not suggesting that in any way.

Kissinger was a monster. There are real quotes that showed it, beyond his decades of evil acts.

I’m not quite following your point, if you care to expand I’d be happy to respond.

To try and address your post, I don’t believe anyone has the right to have a monopoly on money. We should end centralised banking. No one should be able to spend someone else’s money without their consent. Roads and hospitals existed before government funding. The 19th century was one of the most charitable (i’m not against voluntary charity, but I consider “government charity” evil because it is not their money to begin with) era’s in human history. Think of all the great libraries, parks, hospitals and museums funded by the wealthy as gifts to the public. I’m not saying every single one of them was given with benevolent intent, but since becoming more socialist in the early 20th century (both the USA and the UK), how many of these sorts of things have been gifted to the public? When you force people to be charitable (which i no longer think is charity, just theft) they become less willing to help and resentful of thos that call for their heads to be removed from their shoulders. Which is nearly every so called altruist socialist i know.

I’m not quite following your point, if you care to expand I’d be happy to respond.

To try and address your post, I don’t believe anyone has the right to have a monopoly on money. We should end centralised banking. No one should be able to spend someone else’s money without their consent. Roads and hospitals existed before government funding. The 19th century was one of the most charitable (i’m not against voluntary charity, but I consider “government charity” evil because it is not their money to begin with) era’s in human history. Think of all the great libraries, parks, hospitals and museums funded by the wealthy as gifts to the public. I’m not saying every single one of them was given with benevolent intent, but since becoming more socialist in the early 20th century (both the USA and the UK), how many of these sorts of things have been gifted to the public? When you force people to be charitable (which i no longer think is charity, just theft) they become less willing to help and resentful of thos that call for their heads to be removed from their shoulders. Which is nearly every so called altruist socialist i know.

I’m in a zappy mood. Comment below and you will get zapped ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

But climate change couldn’t allow for this see I was told the earth is on fire

Did you know, this is the coldest summer (June/July) in the San Francisco bay area in the last 60-ish years? #goldengatebridge #overcast

Papua New Guinea: Did you know it has over 800 languages? This incredible linguistic diversity reflects isolated societies, but also risks hindering national unity. Will PNG find a way to preserve its tongues while forging a single identity? #culture #exploration

I had a little green tea today. It's been 7 days off of coffee I believe.

I think we are def in a low energy week but I also quit caffeine yet again and I am also just struggling with some stuff.

GM

If I had stayed in the Navy, I would have been doing a lot of R&D still but closed source.

Glad to be here with you people instead.

There’s a reason why in the 1800’s and early 1900’s the sick British would go to the sea to get well. It wasn’t the sea air, it was the more abundant sunshine that healed them. More people will realize the importance of the sun soon, actually we’re moving into a time when people will be forced to face the truth.

As I watch people pass by my window with red shirts or maple leafs on their cheeks, or flags flapping from their car antenna, I am struck by the collectivism a day like today (Canada Day) evokes in behavior. I ask myself, what are they celebrating? Is it being a Canadian? Is it Canada the country?

If one is a "proud Canadian", I ask, what are you proud of, what is it about Canada that makes you proud?

What is it to be Canadian? What defines a Canadian?

As a country, what is there to be proud of? What has the country done - and don't say, won a hockey game.

I don't think most face painted, flagging waving members of the tribe have given it any thought.

I wonder if they like Canada because it's not the big bad USA. The country who's President said mean things about them, or imposed tariffs that impact subsidies which had allowed for some industries to coast along and not innovate?

Canada, the country that is economically forecast to finish dead last in the G20 for the next 2 decades. Canada the country who's government were so afraid they arrested protesters who were playing road hockey and honking horns. The country who's government (which they just RE-ELECTED by the way) froze the bank accounts of innocent people who simply donated to a cause.

Is this the Canada the sheep adorned in red clothing are celebrating?

I no longer tell people I'm Canadian. I say, "I travel under a Canadian passport" that's it. I have no patriotism to the country of Canada. I now understand that my forefathers died in a banker's war for no other reason than to disrupt the balance of global economics. It had NOTHING to do with freedom, even though that's what we and the fallen were told. WHAT FREEDOM?

The only time in the last 30 years I felt any camaraderie

was seeing the Truckers and the reactions of many others who understood the gravity of that movement. But that was a cause not national pride.

Canada was never more than a collective ideal. Regionally speaking we couldn't be more different. The similarity resonates north/south rather than east/west.

What is it to be Canadian?

What are you celebrating?

Describe a Canadian, what do they believe and or represent?

Since 1867, here's the most common descriptors:

- They're polite

- They like maple syrup

- They're good at hockey

While Canadians were told by their government:

- you're brave fighters

- you are liberators

- you are peace keepers

(notice the war connotations)

Now the government tells Canadians:

- you celebrate diversity

- you welcome immigrants

- you believe in equality

Again I ask, what is it to be Canadian? What is being celebrated?

Did Canadians represent freedom and fight for the rights of their fellow "countrymen" during the pandemic? Did they accept personal medical choices or did they dial the police when seeing more than 5 people gathering? Did they stay silent, disengaged and do nothing, so as not to attract any unwanted attention on themselves? Very brave eh?

My answer to the questions above:

To be Canadian, you're one who bought into a fantasy you've been told exists. You're one who is in love with a fictitious story. You identify with a post card. You believe in an emblem that gets you a friendly nod when traveling. You are fearful of defending your identity but you'll virtue signal for others to defend theirs.

Canada is a fake construct and the celebrating masses are willfully blind to anything that contradicts the menagerie that this land mass is anything more than fictitious dots separating one region from another. At the end of day, Canadians don't really give 2 shits about one another.

Prove me wrong.

Happy Canada Day - eh?

What was the stated purpose for doing that?

What was the stated purpose for doing that?

All kinds of Socialism

GM nostr

happy friday 🌞