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Was watching Vivek Ramaswamy's take on Russia - China in his talk with Cuomo. It seems like this time, the presidential election is centered around the policies related to Russia. His take is that once the Russia - Ukraine war ends, he wants to severe ties between Russia and China, and remain foe with China. He also believes in backing Taiwan, until, US is self sufficient in its semiconductor production.

There are a few things I don't see eye to eye.

1. Russia - China tie is not a flimsy relationship. It was rough many decades ago due to the differences in communism ideology but it has progressed over time Their ultimate goal is to remove dependency on the US currency. Brics now has 30% of global share, backed by largest global industries. Russia wont severe it's ties just because US wants to be friends again.

The best neutralising factor for all globally will be Bitcoin

2. To say that US would only back Taiwan until they are semicon self sufficient is rather mean and self centered, albeit the honest truth. But having said that, tech progresses forward. Semiconductor industries outsourced to Asia for over 20+ years for cost-effective solutions while the US maintained high-tech innovation. Supply shortage post Covid was hell for everyone but rebuilding fab empires and retraining workers would require a significant long-term investment, resulting in higher product costs

The question is, whats next for the US and how is US moving towards that

John Chambers, Cisco's Chairman Emeritus, discussed unions in 'Connecting the Dots.' He emphasized worker rights and wages. But sometimes, you can't hold on to jobs as tech changes with time, and if you do not progress with tech, the state of economy gets left behind.

I love the confidence he exudes but for both these topics, RFK makes better arguments. He has been consistent on establishing and maintaining global peace. Not because US needs silicon chips etc - but for the benefit of everybody globally. Its win win. And he has been open is exploring capital growth and tech progression. Added to that, he understands the importance of Bitcoin.

Its interesting to see the debates unfold. I just hope it won't be a Biden-Trump rerun. I like that Vivek is open about who actually runs the United States. Both left and right are openly talking about this.

RFK - Vivek would be interesting to watch.

Both China and Russia are on the verge of demographic collapse. Their workforce, including their military, is ageing out quickly, and there are vastly too few young people to replace them. This will cause China's current economic collapse to worsen for decades. It will also deplete their military to the point of ineffectiveness. They have less than a decade before their military and economic power are irrelevant. And that means they are desperate.

Russia is facing similar military and economic collapse. They have a military that they cannot sustain because there are far too few young soldiers to replace those who are retiring (or being killed). Thus their ability to defend their already indefensible borders will only decrease; leaving them impossibly vulnerable. Like China, they likely have less than a decade.

The war in Ukraine has exposed the weaknesss of the Russian military in ways that nobody expected. The curtain has been pulled back, and the guy behind it doesn't look much like the great and terrible OZ.

Vivek is a smart kid; but his youth is a big problem. He is NOT going to waltz into Russia and convince Putin to break ties with China. I mean, what IS he smoking?

RFK is an interesting character; but the DNC won't allow him to run. They'll break any rule or law to ensure his candidacy comes to naught.

It's not clear to me what the democrats are going to do about Joe -- and especially about Kamala. If they could talk Michelle into running I think they'd happily push Joe off a cliff; but I don't think Michelle is going to take the bait. Newsome? After running California into the ground I don't think he'd be likely to win against his dog -- if he has one. Whitmer? She has a greater ability to induce cringe than Hillary does. Eeewwww!

I think the democrats are in a box (of their own making) and will simply have to hope and pray that Trump is the GOP nominee and that Joe stays alive for another six years. They care about Joe's pulse and couldn't care less about his brain.

Will Trump be the nominee? Frankly, I think everything turns on that boolean variable. If yes, the democrats win. If not, they lose.

Perhaps not. The density of matter within the event horizon depends on the radius. Very large black holes have very low density. There _may_ be a region of very high density within the event horizon, but that's not something we can see.

From: Lau<-pam at 09/09 01:42

> Nice paradigm, a black hole is just farthest state of compression though.

CC: #[4]

@semisol

This one worked:

L2 09/10/23 09:43:06 | NOTICE "wss://atlas.nostr.land" ["AUTH" "bgJ5H_TOBhPYWmWekswtU_"]

L2 09/10/23 09:43:06 | sending to:wss://atlas.nostr.land ["AUTH",{"kind":22242,

"tags":[["relay","wss://atlas.nostr.land"],

["challenge","bgJ5H_TOBhPYWmWekswtU_"],

["nonce","118","12"]],

"content":"",

"pubkey":"2ef93f01cd2493e04235a6b87b10d3c4a74e2a7eb7c3caf168268f6af73314b5",

"created_at":1694356986,

"id":"000229a57c71c4fd7c56eb359ec629f3462c7646b4e24db372de947e662ac1dd",

"sig":"3c8651345125c819bbc7623ec7aa260a553d10f0bfb98d72ddafd7d8d24f083c3d08fba8c7ed94740878b7faf977ee0ef443938c2189fdd41ea941bd1491de10"}]

L2 09/10/23 09:43:06 | NOTICE "wss://atlas.nostr.land" ["OK" "000229a57c71c4fd7c56eb359ec629f3462c7646b4e24db372de947e662ac1dd" true ""]

But then a minute later this one failed.

L2 09/10/23 09:44:06 | NOTICE "wss://atlas.nostr.land" ["AUTH" "eZeAK2597neGy60_m0gCBR"]

L2 09/10/23 09:44:07 | sending to:wss://atlas.nostr.land

["AUTH",{"kind":22242,

"tags":[["relay","wss://atlas.nostr.land"],

["challenge","eZeAK2597neGy60_m0gCBR"],

["nonce","2972","12"]],

"content":"",

"pubkey":"2ef93f01cd2493e04235a6b87b10d3c4a74e2a7eb7c3caf168268f6af73314b5",

"created_at":1694357046,

"id":"000e43dedd71706f4c6250a39c0ea9114fdc423fc35a8ae873d04aa23b46cfaa",

"sig":"e187ed2ca445463b0d891259dc11bfefc802f6e1e4fa766d07a04ba525c28a5c03833a730ac45f77bb95bd2d9cbebe3e7303c659d870c1f41e0c5101dcb66e9d"}]

L2 09/10/23 09:44:07 | NOTICE "wss://atlas.nostr.land" ["NOTICE" "bad auth event"]

Any clues? This is happening on atlas, eden, and puravida (.nostr.land)

Grom a GR point of view nothing ever really gets into the black hole from our frame of reference. It all just smears out around the event horizon asymptotically approaching infinite wavelength.

From Hawking's point of view the entropy of a black hole is propotional to the surface area. If you assume that the smallest quantum of entropy is a square plank length, then ... yeah, the bits within the black hole can be mapped to square planks on it's surface.

Weird stuff.

From: jb55 at 09/09 01:23

> if you think about it the holographic principle is telling us that the universe actually running in a compressed format. There are way too many quantum states to simulate at once, so for the universe to run efficiently these states need to be compressed. The holographic principle makes this explicit: all of the information in the 3d bulk is encoded on some 2d boundary of this space. What happens when there is too much information in a small region of space and it can’t be compressed further? Boom, black hole. Neat hack universe engineers.

>

> gn

NIP-42 Authorization challenge added to more-speech.

I presume the OK below is the correct response to the AUTH challenge:

NOTICE "wss://atlas.nostr.land" ["AUTH" "ojmM3qgMwQ33n22xGXwBW8"]

sending to:wss://atlas.nostr.land ["EVENT",{"kind":22242,"tags":[["relay","wss://atlas.nostr.land"],["challenge","ojmM3qgMwQ33n22xGXwBW8"],["nonce","5492","12"]],"content":"","pubkey":"2ef93f01cd2493e04235a6b87b10d3c4a74e2a7eb7c3caf168268f6af73314b5","created_at":1694188186,"id":"000eccb16f70762e7c33b82fea8ea61ccc7a2e5a7485a163553fa50b0124355e","sig":"55a9b2a4689f83c0e21fe60809734232fd79a735845c2cf9e81f6a282548e608d0feac725f600af42a276055181c745421dc920b938bde578933d6c6d511899a"}]

NOTICE "wss://atlas.nostr.land" ["OK" "000eccb16f70762e7c33b82fea8ea61ccc7a2e5a7485a163553fa50b0124355e" true ""]

pass!

From: (-jacky14) at 09/07 21:53

> #[3] test

CC: #[4]

Roger that. Looks easy.

From: Semisol at 09/07 09:12

> No. Implementing support is still good though.

CC: #[4]

Am I currently losing any capability by not responding?

From: Semisol at 09/06 09:33

> I might add an option in the future where you can rebroadcast others’ events on the relay but only if you have NIP-42 to know if you paid

CC: #[4]

I'm paid up. Any clue why I'm getting these?

NOTICE "wss://eden.nostr.land" ["AUTH" "d5IG5UA-4go1bMORIddIlH"]

Is there a difference? ;-)

From: utxo<-mikedilger at 09/05 16:55

> No, miss Russia didn't join and have a lightning addy setup right away.

>

> Think with brain not weiner

You are now. ;-)

From: schmijos at 09/05 13:28

> Was I in there 🤷‍♂️

CC: #[4]

D jgomo3

Yes, you simply begin the message with D xxxx where xxxx is the id of the person you are DMing.  This is the old twitter convention, before they had explicit gestures.

D jgomo3

Yes, you simply begin the message with D xxxx where xxxx is the id of the person you are DMing. This is the old twitter convention, before they had explicit gestures.

From: (jgomo3) at 09/05 12:14

> Hi!

>

> Sorry for using this thread to ask you directly: Is it possible to use more-speech to send Direct Messages.

>

> I do have the intention to send you a Direct Message, just to be honest.

>

> Thanks!

>

> From: (unclebobmartin) at 09/05 13:10

>

> > AAaaaarrrggghhhh! I lost all my trusted contacts -- probably when I was messing around with the loss of relays in Damus. Yeesh! But it's OK, I'll build it back up again. There was probably a lot of cruft in there anyway. ;-)

CC: #[5]

AAaaaarrrggghhhh! I lost all my trusted contacts -- probably when I was messing around with the loss of relays in Damus. Yeesh! But it's OK, I'll build it back up again. There was probably a lot of cruft in there anyway. ;-)