What’s this?

Great!

How’s the economy going over there?

Any effects from the Yen increasing in value? Any effects from bonds increasing rates?

日本人はいますか

#asknostr

#japan

#japanese

In communism, what job do you think you would get assigned?

Bro you don't gotta be weird about it, she probably just really likes playing tennis...

You know what would be crazy? Just deciding to skip punctuation.

Cormac McCarthy, the bestselling and Pulitzer-winning author of books like No Country For Old Men, The Road, and Blood Meridian, famously didn't like quotation marks, felt they cluttered the page, and so he didn't use them.

When dialogue happens in his novels, there are no quotes around it, and you as the reader just have to figure out when a line is narration or dialogue. He also didn't use semicolons or exclamation points or certain other forms of punctuation. While he didn't exclude commas entirely, he did minimize them, and instead used extra "ands" in place of where many other authors would use commas. He used periods normally.

His prose isn't my cup of tea, but there's no denying his success, and it goes to show that you can kind of just do things.

That's exactly right.

Also, if a lawyer testifies against their client, that testimony usually has to be thrown out. But if YOU testify against yourself, even by accident then that's tough luck skill issue see ya later bozo.

There are two rules for getting treated fairly in the court system. The first rule is that you need someone to act like a scoundrel to advocate for you. The second rule is that you can't act like a scoundrel. There is a famous saying: "someone who chooses to represent himself in court has a fool for a client." That's the reason this saying exists.

It may sound crazy, but a person who chooses to represent themselves actually has a conflict of interest. They have an internal contradiction in how they need to act in order to pursue fair treatment.

This will be the last message from this account.

I give up. The system has won. Bitcoin has been useless all these years.

If you want to live comfortably, it's better to accept the herd mentality and live like everyone else.

Today I'm going to start my new plan: doughnuts, fiat money, sofa, vaccines, and TV.

It's been a pleasure.

Looks like #GrapheneOS uses more battery power compared to pixelOS. I wonder why? With all the background telemetry disabled, I was expecting significantly better if not the same. nostr:npub1235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ksdg0ht5 Is my finding a one off event?

Yes, wtf. I couldn't access via mobile internet in Germany. With VPN it works though. Didn't know we had stuff like this in place

Who do I need to bribe to get a long term visa to hop around Europe for more than 3 months?

None of the available options seem to fit my bill. Even the digital nomad visas seem to want a rental or lease agreement...

Oh no! What happened to nostr:nprofile1qqsdnkaqupetmv6nm7cqyr0ptyfx4ar7d8sn8653h02gazldudejpcspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skueqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsjngcs4 ? It's been a month since she's posted! ☹

One of the most important aspects of weightlifting is consistency.

One of the most important things to ensure consistency is to find a routine you actually enjoy.

If you don't enjoy a given exercise, you'll come up with excuses to skip it and thus destroy your consistency and gains.

"Do you know why I pulled you over?"

"Why did you pull me over, officer?"

"Because you were speeding. Do you know how fast you were going?"

"How fast was I going?"

"15 mph over the speed limit. Okay, if you had a list of 5 crimes that you have committed that you will never tell a police officer about, what crimes are those?"

"Uhhhhhhh..."

"Sir please hand me your driver's license."

"Okay, here you go."

"Sir, why do you appear older than the person in this photo? And where is your registration and proof of insurance, sir?"

"Oh! Er, they're over here in my glove compartment, see?"

"Sir that doesn't answer my question. Do you understand what I'm asking?"

"Er, I mean it's because I'm older now then I was when that photo was taken?"

"Alright sir, have you had anything to drink? Because you are exhibiting signs of inebriation. You are having difficulty understanding simple questions, you are slow to respond, you are sweating, you have an unfocused gaze, you stink..."

"Oh, sorry officer, I was just coming home from the gym."

"... and now your gaze is strangely fixated on my face. Why were you travelling so fast sir?"

"Ah, sorry officer, a car was tailgaiting me and I was trying to make space-"

"Oh, that was me."

"...I see. Well, I was trying to make space between us, but I realize now that it would have been better for me to pull to the side and let you pass, officer."

"Ok, if you say so sir. Anyway, I'm going to write you a ticket for speeding, driving with a fake license, and drunk driving. I would appreciate if you didn't fight this in court because between you and me, I kinda eyeballed the speed you were going at and I'd hate to lose an afternoon visiting the courtroom. I learned my lesson and I've been nothing but courtious to you, so I think my request is reasonable. So thanks and have a good day sir!"

The straw that broke the camel's back, except the camel just imagined the last straw and collapsed on the spot under the weight of all the previous straw.

I tried that, but she just yelled at me even more...

I work over at the shit factory in the sorting department. Everything we produce is shit, but I sort the shit that's just awful and the shit that's terrible from the shit that's absolutely horrific.

I shudder to imagine the kind of people who actually buy our products. Every day I thank god that I don't have to interact with them. I've seen the perpetual grimaces carved into the face of the marketing department. I've seen the looks of distant horror in their sunken, defeated eyes.

I would burn this factory to the ground, but my greatest fear is that I'll catch a glimpse of the sort of uninmaginable creature that would scavenge through the ashes of this godforsaken place.

#GM

I’m thinking about going back to nostr:nprofile1qqs9g69ua6m5ec6ukstnmnyewj7a4j0gjjn5hu75f7w23d64gczunmgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43q4gnztg from iOS. I did this a few years ago and I loved it. The problem was that I needed apps for my job that were only available on iOS and found myself carrying two devices most of the time. That’s no longer an issue.

I want to utilize private, secure, open source apps. Apps that have paid features aren’t a deal breaker, especially if #bitcoin is accepted.

The challenges I ran into before was finding apps for navigation (OSMAND was quite buggy for me at the time), weather and music streaming. None of those are deal breakers but I’d like to find solutions.

Any privacy minded #grapheneos users have some solid app recommendations or alternative solutions to the conveniency trade offs? Drop suggestions in the comments pleaaaaz.

#android #foss #opensource #privacy #security #opsec

chat what is she talking about

We use AI to improve engineering productivity at Casa, such as for writing boilerplate code and for performing various sanity checks during code reviews.

But the AI is often wrong. It will write brittle code, it will make incorrect recommendations on code reviews. AI is just a tool; it remains critical to have competent engineers as part of the process to guide these tools with skilled hands.

are you being wrong often?

I'm not upset when people disagree with me! It happens very often, so often they even came up with a alang term for it: "being wrong."

Yeah, these are the people who are supposed to be singlehandedly fighting their evil constituency and advancing society. SMH 🤦🏿‍♀️

But what can you even do about it when the people who are supposed to be elivating these marginalizable groups ignore the largest marginalizable group on Earth?🤷🏿‍♀️

You want to see if you are one of a little girl's new friends?

Many of my progressive friends are starting to accept that the government isn’t coming to save them.

Focus on yourself, improve what you can. Become as self-sovereign as you can to take care of yourself and family, and be an excellent and charitable member of your community to love your neighbor as yourself.

Socialism will never, ever guarantee your freedom or wellbeing.

Many still don’t understand why President Lula chose to withdraw Brazil from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), especially considering it’s neither an Israeli organization nor officially tied to the Israeli state. In fact, the IHRA was founded in the late 1990s by a Swedish initiative, and Israel only joined after its establishment.

The alliance’s core mission is to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and educate future generations about the genocide of the Jewish people by the Nazis, while also fighting antisemitism around the world.

Given that the IHRA is not a state-run Israeli body and holds no formal ties to the Israeli government, the question remains: why did Lula go out of his way to pull Brazil out of it?

The ATO literally expects me to keep a record of each individual zap I receive and send, the value in Australian dollars at the time I receive and send it, the full legal name of the person I send it to/receive it from.

Not even gifts or donations are safe in Australia from the tax man

I did. It showed it anyway lol.

Probably with enough tries I could get it not to, but I have limited time/patience.

Imagine paying $118k for a set of man made numbers

You're addicted smh, my next wish is for the genie to organize an intervention for you.

Also, the biggest drawback of the genie is the lack of certainty in what level of wish he'd actually try hard enough to pull off. Being able to directly wish for something right on the boundary of what the genie wouldn't flake out on is a huge benefit. Having to apply your own values without making a mistake is also a huge liability, so wishing that away is already pretty serious.

I can't figure out how to quantify an actual calculation though, so maybe that would actually work.