It's just home to all the Lovecraftian horrors, hence the Swanpoint cemetary.😁

Interesting, I would consider the possibility that if two or several cikada were born with the same odd year breeding cycle genes then this would naturally have caused the speciation over time, since their mating choices would be limited.

I'll just add that I transplanted this meme from blue bird to purple bird.

Agreed Sandy.

If someone argues using a long list of names and spams my notifications with nonsense, he doesn't deserve a response. That's like a salesperson placing his foot in the door. Debates are not held like that.

Yup, pictures on bitcoin L1 is a bad idea for many reasons.

From the artist point of view, it's not possible to put an original art file, such as a high quality PNG file of 6k x 6k pixels, on bitcoin L1. There's no space for that. As a result, anyone can falsely put a low resolution version of other artists art on bitcoin L1. An artwork being placed on bitcoin L1 therefore does not prove copyright, authorship or ownership.

The best approach is to host art on bitcoin L2 via multiple hosting services. If one goes down you have backups. The artist can submit some high quality proof-of-work with watermarks on L2 and signal his/her authorship of the art to the market. This would de-monetize stolen art.

Thanks. Some of my colleagues would sometimes walk across the shipping area reading their phones while walking and they were safe every time. No injuries in 20+ years of driving. 😎

When you see an obvious assault weapon after reading Lowery's soft-xxxx-war.

Forklifts changes how you interact with the environment. Once you are in the seat you are one with the machine. The forks become extensions of your mind.🙏

First job was in a book shop. The best part was unpacking new incoming books. My longest job contracts have been as forklift operator, mainly high-lifting Reach but also spent one year driving a Counterweight.

Good comedy movie script writer right there .☝️

Thank you for being a truth signal Hodlonaut.

Craig is the impostor of impostors.

Thanks! I got myself a forklift certificate at that time so I had my income secured without the public school system and I could continue with my art in my free time. The life experience we gain from living and working is more valuable than any government school system can provide.🙂

Nice, zappety zap.

Agreed.

Good engineers are incredibly downstream oriented. They are the first to realize when the system they are working on is heading down a dangerous path.

This is why I think the best engineers and programmers already are, or will become increasingly aware of the dangers of central planning, and as a result will converge with bitcoin and decentralization.

Atlas Shrugged among engineers: 'mysterious' flaws and vulnerabilities in vital systems will multiply like wildfire, as the insightful system architects are realizing they are contributing to a totalitarian system without error-correction.

Every programmer is bound to realize that a system without functions for error-correction is a catastrophy waiting to explode. Add then dependencies upon central chokepoints of control. Dependencies upon dependencies. The outcome becomes clear and the remedy even clearer: decentralization of power.

Always:

"For your safety and convenience"

All freedoms comes with risks. When bureaucrats tell us they have a zero aim for risk, this means that they will attempt to reduce individual agency to zero.

The 1984 society builds and extends via scaremongering. When people fear individual free agency there will be bureaucrats happy to restrict every dangerous liberty. (All liberties according to the state)

Thanks to Bitcoin and decentralized social media ecosystems we have a chance.

Sounds good.

Allowing for user options is the best path.

I finished this acrylic painting in 1999 after about 12 months work. I must have made a terrible painting since all the 'free education' art schools in Stockholm were not interested in my applications back then. In retrospect, I am glad that I didn't burden taxpayers with my art education, since I could educate myself for free. Stand your ground.

So right, balance in all things.

While I like to eat healthy, I can't stand when there is some moralist imperative to never have fun or never do anything that can be remotely dangerous.😄