Oh My Goodness! What a pleasure to have political and religious conversations with Nostrites whom I disagree with; without flags and notifications from the social network plaforms fact checking and warning about my posts.
I can't disagree with any of that. I have some hope, perhaps forlorn, that the electorate will eventually right the ship before it sinks beneath the waves of debt and unfunded liabilities. We'll see.
From: Crizzo<-DerekRoss at 06/08/23 12:36:26 on wss://relay.damus.io
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>I'm sorry I am still trying to deprogram myself from the left wing propaganda I have immersed myself in for years on Reddit.
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>I'll admit I know very little about the laptop story, but whether it's true or not is irrelevant to my point. What the media chooses to amplify or suppress is part of the manipulation. They are probably all criminals on both sides at those levels of govt, or at least they would be if they weren't the ones writing all the laws for themselves.
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>I just don't think it's worth worrying about anymore because they will never punish themselves for their crimes, and all fighting about it does is feed into their divisive agenda. I don't think it matters anymore which party is in power at the Federal level because they are all too impotent to make any significant changes.
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>Bitcoin is a bottom up revolution, so we should be focusing on making progress at the local level first where our votes and our voices are worth a lot more.
The policital tribalism is certainly disgusting. I used to be able to talk with my democrat friends. I can't tell you how many of them I've lost simply by not deigning to vote the way they want. Several people I've been friends with over the years, and have helped in their careers, have disowned me, and have spread rumors and lies about me. They have attacked me professionally as well as personally.
Fortunately, they can't really harm me professionally. I don't get invited to speak at as many conferences anymore but I don't really want to go to those conferences anyway. The last time I went to a software conference I had to walk out on a keynote talk given by a VP of security who went on a rant about how awful republicans were.
As for the parties, I see the GOP starting to back away from Trump and reform itself into something better. At the same time I see the democrats drowning in the boiling pot of wokeness they have created. I think it will take some time for them to recover.
Meanwhile the backlash against the woke nonsense is starting to build both on the left and on the right. It turns out that there are some sane democrats after all. They were just, for a while, too afraid to speak up.
From: DerekRoss at 06/08/23 12:18:50 on wss://atlas.nostr.land
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>I was a Republican and voted Republican my entire adult life until 2016. I could no longer be associated with what the Republican party turned into. It's disgusting. So, I left it. Though, I believe most politics are that way now.
From: Crizzo<-DerekRoss at 06/08/23 11:35:55 on wss://nos.lol
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>This looks like a summary of right wing media talking points.
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>Some of the criticism is valid, but other things like the HB laptop are pure manipulation. The story wasn't suppressed, it was all over the place on bot
I think #[8] might have something to say about that. But, of course, the story was suppressed. It was suppressed by social media, the news media, and by the intelligence community. That doesn't mean that the story didn't get out; but it was completely surrounded by FUD and lies.
The contents of the laptop have since come out in hair raising detail.
>The fact is if we were allowed by the media to have a civil discourse about topics we could probably find a lot more common ground.
Agreed. Ergo, nostr.
The Christian moral code is an interesting one. The apostles eventually reduced it down to refraining from blood and fornication. Something likely got lost in the translations, but the blood proscription likely had something to do meat sacrificed to idols. The term fornication likely refers to any kind of sex outside of heterosexual marriage.
The Sermon on the mount was Jesus' description of morality. It values, among many other things, the golden rule, meekness, mercy, and tolerance.
From: hodlbod<-JeffG at 06/08/23 10:44:51 on wss://nos.lol
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>Most traditions differentiate between ceremonial, civil, and moral law. Ceremonial law was fulfilled by Jesus, the penalty for guilt under the moral law was expiated by Jesus but continues to bind the conscience of Christians, and the civil law is practical and continues to be more or less relevant depending on your point of view. Leviticus 20 is talking about civil (criminal) law, because it invokes capital punishment.
As a republican I fought against Trump in the primaries, but held my nose and voted for him in the 2016 general. I was thereafter rather pleased with most of his policies. He spent too much, of course, and ignored the huge problem of entitlement reform. But, overall, his policies were very beneficial.
His performance during Covid was less than stellar. He (and we) would have been better off ditching Fauci and relying on the principles of individual responsibility and freedom. He tried to work against the lockdowns later; but the die had been cast and the democrats were just too focused on keeping everybody masked up and locked down.
Trump lost the election. His ranting and raving after that waas made clear was inexcusable. He single handedly lost the Senate by telling Georgians not to vote. That gave Biden a House and Senate majority with which to keep everyone locked down and spend like a drunken sailor -- driving our current inflation.
What election fraud there was, did not rise to the level of changing the outcome. Trump lost and Biden won. But that does not mean the election was fair.
Due to Covid the election rules were changed in many states, often in violation of those states' laws. Mail in voting and ballot drop boxes were among the issues. Trump, and the republicans, did not respond to this before the fact. This was just laziness, or perhaps overconfidence.
The real rigging of the election was accomplished by Mainstream and Social Media. The suppression of the Hunter Biden Laptop story was crucial. The general suppression of conservatives also played a big role. This was election tampering writ large; and it was largely ignored.
I am on Nostr today because of that.
From: JoySun<-cameri at 06/08/23 10:17:56 on wss://bitcoiner.social
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>Lol it's not about Trump. I'm not even for him but it's about facts or at least suspicions to look into things.
Quick reminder, I'm going to be doing live office hours in about 20 minutes.
Bring any and all questions about using, or building on, Nostr.
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Office Hours was fun. I won't be in my bathrobe for the next one.
From: JeffG at 06/08/23 08:12:20 on wss://relay.damus.io
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The Christian viewpoint is that Leviticus (The Law) was completed by Christ and transgression of that law is no longer a sin to be punished. The Apostle Paul went on to say that while all things may be lawful, not all things are expedient.
From: JeffG at 06/07/23 14:36:16 on wss://nos.lol
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>My grandad was a Methodist minister so this doesn’t feel too controversial to me.
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>But the longer I’m around the more understanding I become of human shortcomings.
I'm tuned in to office hours. Got some video but no audio yet.
From: JeffG at 06/08/23 08:13:20 on wss://relay.damus.io
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>Enjoy!! Both the refactor and the ride. 🤙
GMPV Nostrides,
Today is a beautiful day in our Northern Hideaway. After having improved the visible look and feel of more-speech I'm going to engage in a little refactoring and code cleanup to improve it's internal look. Then I'm going to hop on my bike and....R...I...D...E...!
Pam, Yeah, the history of migration is pretty interesting. I don't know if there is a correlation between glaciers and fault lines.
Thanks for the Rutherford reference. I just ordered "A Brief History of Everyone who Ever Lived".
I see by that reference that you have studied the "Out of Africa" hypothesis based on mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA. I find that _really_ interesting. It shows the trek of humans out of East Africa ~200,000 years ago; and how the whole species nearly got wiped out by the explosion of Mt Toba 70,000 years ago. There may have been as few as 100 homo-sapiens who survived that event. That's one of the reasons for our current genetic homogeneity.
From: pamela at 06/08/23 07:49:17 on wss://relay.damus.io
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>Wow that’s a great piece of history, uncle Bob. Thank you for putting it to perspective.
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>This was studied by an archeologist from the University of Missouri - and possibly the shoes it survived because of the caves dry and consistent environment.
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8,000 years is perhaps half way back to the migration of humans from Asia across the Bering land bridge into North America. That migration took place at the height of the last glaciation when ice sheets a mile thick sprawled over lattitudes as far south as Michigan and Wisconsin, where I am currently typing this. That glaciation ended ~12,000 years ago. So those sandals were as far removed from the ice as we are from the building of the pyramids.
BTW, that glaciation was just one of about fifteen that have engulfed the Earth in the past 1.5 million years. Each lasts about 100,000 years, and each has been interrupted by about 10,000 years of relative warmth. The next one is not quite overdue.
From: pam<-mikedilger at 06/08/23 06:09:59 on wss://nos.lol
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>Random info for you nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m, the world's oldest known footwear to mankind (~8000 years old) is a pair of sandals found in a cave in Missouri, US - made out of leather and woven fiber (from a plant that is an antidote to snake venom) likely created by American Indian tribes.
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>Back to nature
My lovely wife and I will be volunteering to be injured people in a catastrophe drill at a nearby hospital today. I've never done anyhthing like that before so I'm curious about the experience. Some neighbor friends of ours are participating too, so it should be fun to be injured together. ;-)
I'm here.
From: (AdemanTemp) at 06/06/23 17:35:02 on wss://relay.damus.io
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...And here we are, once again, back at our Northern Hideaway. This time I think we'll stay for close to two weeks. Meanwhile I'm making progress on the UI upgrade of more-speech. Nothing to get real excited about, but it is a better look.
There are many different apps to use. Take a look at https://www.nostrapps.com to get an idea. I'm sure you'll find one of them easy to use.
I'm using more-speech. You can download a copy at https://github.com/unclebob/more-speech/wiki/getting_started. There's also a set if videos that might help. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx461OFj6hkhe5ci8bwRk3w
Good luck. Nostr is still in its infancy and may require a bit more persitence and patience than some others; but nostr is worth the effort. It is the only social network that nobody owns, nor ever can own.
From: dud-595789<-mazin at 06/06/23 07:44:20 on wss://relay.nostriches.org
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>Look I’ll be honest. I’ve been a HUGE Nostr hater.
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>I honestly can’t fucking use this damn app and it makes me feel like an idiot. I have NO IDEA why you guys like it
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>I follow people that I never end up following, I write messages I can’t see, and the only advice I get is to do a bunch of random technical hoo-ha
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>But yesterdays Twitter hack was a BIG wake-up call. I got almost no help from centralized Twitter
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>So I’m going to commit to spending 30 minutes a day to try to figure Nostr out, okay? 🤝
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>Day 1. Let’s go ⚡️
From: unclebobmartin at 06/03/23 09:26:10 on wss://atlas.nostr.land
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From: unclebobmartin at 06/03/23 09:19:02 on wss://atlas.nostr.land
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Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis advised, in his famous Whitney v. California opinion in 1927, "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."
From: elidy<-mazin at 06/04/23 12:52:05 on wss://relay.damus.io
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