Gn #nostr 🌛

Felt good to return to the fiat mine today after a week away. Got plenty done. I am one of those people that need work responsibilities to feel productive, and need to feel productive to be emotionally okay.

Air quality improved, so I rode my motorcycle to another state and back. Not far, maybe 15 or 20 miles altogether, but it checked off some boxes.

Floater is pretty significant to Seattle grunge. Not surprised you're having a good experience running out the matching algos from that.

GM #nostr.

Returning to the fiat mine.

Gn #nostr.

Always a sad day when the kids (well now, just the one, really) go back to their moms. Got to see my daughter though, so that was good. Aside from that, ho-hum day.

Also air quality went to shit, so didn't go ride around in the smoke.

Gn roya 🌜

Good night sir poe. 🌛

Bouncing around between metal, industrial, edm, punk, ska...

Hello.

Repost? Nope. I also won't mail this dollar to 5 people.

I like to listen to music because I feel.

Well, Alby extension definitely not working in Kiwi browser to send zaps.

Extension can detect an ln invoice has been created, but is not able to add an app to itself to handle actually paying the invoice.

Anyone find a way past this? Some obscure setting I'm missing?

Have tried several clients with the same result. And they can zap fine with Alby on desktop Win11 Brave browser.

Right, they were just using the data that Google was already taking. But now on GrapheneOS, I'm not giving Google that information anymore, or at least trying not to. I even still play Pokemon Go a bit, but I've turned off the ActiveSync stuff that tracks me when I am not actively playing the game.

I came down to the "why would I willingly subject myself to being tracked?" Regardless of my opinion of the organization tracking me, there would always be that threat of jurisdictional capture of that information, or many other forms of capture.

I'm very suspect of anyone wanting me to link my payment cards for rewards. Lolli has been pushing hard on this. Lolli does not need to know my shopping history any more than they already do through their web extension tracker.

If someone is handing you sats, be careful what you are handing them back in return.

This is false. It is like saying if my local Starbuck or McDonalds or Walmart got greedy, someone else could just compete with them. Not so easy when then they dominate the market. Sure, I can open a coffee cart, or a vegetable stand -but am I really competing, or even able to compete?

Your point is taken, though - for you, the stronger use case is SoV, and I can agree that is true for many, now. But this may not always be the case, and some day Wise (or Strike) might not offer what you need, and lightning (or liquid) might.

Banking and money services are licensed in most jurisdictions, no? These licenses aren't always easy to get, for a competitor. Ask Elon. Thankfully Bitcoin doesn't need licensed entities to operate.

Gm #nostr.

Morning feed through satellite.earth - good, but sucks when I accidentally swipe back, close the pwa, and have to start over.

I have moved past every anxiety so far, even made it on the freeway a couple times. Now I am focusing on getting smoother at things, making things more automatic, muscle-memory, etc. Yes, I can do it all, go anywhere, but it isn't always graceful at this point.

No idea or explanation why, just free association, the words that popped into my head when I saw the thumbnail (not even the full size image.)

How could I trust this method to not feed me bugs and industrial sludge if it was somehow deemed beneficial?

For the record, my list is simple. Meat. Eggs. Milk. Butter. Coffee

Everything else I buy at the grocery store is probably for someone else.

Also, let's say I am trying to keep my meat cost under $6/lb. Across all meat types, and I am not that picky, but do want some variety. If I am in the store, I can see something with a reduced price price, buy it instead of something at normal price, or instead of another cut of meat, or over-buy it and freeze the excess. Your approach doesn't seem to allow me to make those choices. Would it make cheaper choices, or would it just try its best to optimize for $6/lb, and I end up with $90 per week of ground beef?

Solving your problems is way easier if you stop wandering down the middle aisles and stop putting stuff in your cart that you don't need. I could eliminate all but meat on my list and live just fine. I choose the luxuries of dairy and coffee because it is my choice, my convenience, to do do. Dairy gives me more immediate fats when I need them, as well as a hint of sugar or salt (if salted butter). Coffee gives me caffeine, which I will likely eventually quit, but not yet.

#carnivore

Queen of Sheba. #inkblotart

Gm kini ☀️

Free structuring a bit, noting some of this down. Not a coherent thought or theory right now.

3 dimensions, matter, sometimes I think of a 3d object (box or cube) plus time as a fourth dimension, like current state of the object and past or future state of the object.

But time is implicit in the object itself.

Start with void (0d). Ok, add a point. What you've done is create two possible states. One preceded the other, therefore, time.

Time as a construct is just more than one state, with something different between the two states, and possibly the concept that the two states are related by sequence (first state a, then state b).

This opens the door for causality, the possibility that something in state a caused a change that resulted in state b.

And all we've got is state a (void) and state b (point). Maybe we consider this 1d, with that first dimension actually being time.

So a point, mathematically, has a location. A location means that the point is some distance from a reference. You plot a point on a graph, some distance from an x and y axis, but that is getting a little ahead of ourselves. For now, distance actually supposes two points - our point in the void we started with, and some other reference point.

Physics tells us distance = rate * time. There's that time concept again, already in play. But if you have two points, you could draw a line between them, and if you are considering the distance of that line, that means it must be possible to fall somewhere along that line that is neither point a or point b. If you have a line, I think you're still in 1d, but you've already got a lot happening, with multiple states (infinite states?) between point and reference, time is constructed, causality is at least a possibilty... and we need a third point to get to 2 dimensions. This third point is somewhere not on the line between points 1 and 2.

Orthogonality - I can take my line between points 1 and 2, and draw a perpendicular line from it to point 3.

These three points in the void now constitute a plane. We see these in graphs, where points are plotted some distance from x and y axes. Now we are really in what we consider 2d, or at least one dimension less than we think of ourselves in.

Now take another reference point, somewhere outside that plane. You can draw an orthogonal line to it from somewhere on the plane. We've gotten to 3d now, but time has been implicit since we left the void.

We can map our 3d objects, see distances between points on that object, see it in 3d space that also contains points not on (or in) that object - but can we imagine a point not in 3d space?

I don't think we really can. Not in such a way that I can draw an orthogonal line from our 3d object to that point outside of our 3d space.

Maybe it has to be done along time, where that point is the future state of our object in space.

So now we would have a past state (no point), a current state (point, defined as some distance from 3 reference points) and a future state (point is somewhere else).

And I don't know that we've really even touched causality yet - is that itself like another dimension? If we look at potential future state as a 4th dimension, then maybe causality is a 5th dimension.

Am I willing to accept infinite future states as possible, causal or not? I suppose I have to.

Could I also accept infinite prior states, causal or not?

Is there one history, or only what we assume as the most likely (causal) history?

And what would quantum mechanics make of all this?

These are some of the questions I go to sleep with at night. Thanks for tolerating my note.

A lot of this was better explained by Descartes, in both mathematical and philosophical senses, but I don't find his conclusions to satisfy all my questions.