Ah, we're talking about American natives, not the peoples of India. Feather, not dot.
Gn dan. 🌙
Yes, much easier. I buy it sliced/frozen from walmart, actually. I use a heavier sharp knife, like a carving knife, with a thicker spine that I can push down on with my free hand.
It will thaw quickly, especially where you cut, so work quickly!
Why are images (in and of themselves) illegal? (Not saying they're not, just asking why)
Also, are you advocating for cryptographic signing of notes/content by an external signer? Feasible for those that have them, but horrible UX, especially for those that don't, and it won't end your scenario unless clients are somehow forced out of signing notes.
I do contemplate a future that uses a digital identification system that incorporates some kind of personal signing device for authentication, but that device would have to be individually held, not part of a centralized service. And I don't like that future very much.
I need to do this. I don't eat much ground meat, except probably more ground pork than I should. Been thinking about buying a beef shoulder (and a power grinder) and cutting my own steaks, grinding the rest. If I do it, will definitely be adding some liver during grinding.
This is definitely the way. Cut sliced raw liver into strips, put on parchment paper on a tray, put in freezer. A few hours later, take the tray out, cut into desired pill size, then put into frozen storage (I use bags, but you do you). As long as they stay frozen properly, they shouldn't clump together much.
Maybe I should ask more good faith questions and quit raving about whatever is going through my head.
A little something on the origins of power - think coercion, the state, etc.
We started out fairly naive about how shit works. Yeah, sun comes up, goes down, everything hurts, wind and rain are cold, people die - but those are just things working, not HOW they actually work.
Coercion began when someone decided they knew how things worked, at least well enough to not just tell others how they worked, but to pretend they could control things, or could intercede between others and a "god" to help control things. Then they began controlling people.
Go do a rain dance to appease the rain god. Give me your stuff and I'll do a dance and your hunt will go well. These are acts of coercion, with the threat of things going poorly if you don't comply.
As more people fell under the sway of coercion, it took more than one person to administrate the coercion. Here's where it evolved into religion, with religious leaders - a group of people that had a status of control over others, and a set of practices that the leaders would enact to keep people under their control.
This continued to grow - and power is addictive; being in the presence of power is addictive; so more people ingratiated themselves to the religious leaders to get not only their approval, but their assistance in getting the rest of the people to do what they wanted. This is the origin of politics, although even the origin of religion had the seeds of politics involved.
Now you had religious leaders, with coerced practices (religion), and another class of leadership that had the favor of the religious leaders, but who would pursue other efforts, like building projects, infrastructure, maybe basic agriculture and trade. We'll call them politicians. They could use their favored status with the religious leaders to coerce others as well. And they needed practices as well, to keep everyone else working in line with their projects. And here we have "the state".
All of this predates Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, or any other current widespread world religion. What we have now (both religion and state) have gone through millennia of evolution, with both golden ages of improvement and catastrophic extinction. They've been refined into what we experience today as the coercion of The Church and The State, and many of us are still happy to bend the knee to one or both, because we believe they are needed to preserve "society" - but is this true?
What happens to our "society" when there is no "State"? Or going back further, no "Religion"? No leadership, no coercion - the fact is, I think most of us are so conditioned and evolved to bend the knee to a leader, that leaders will naturally be attracted to the power vacuum, and it will be more of the same, perhaps better, perhaps worse.
How to break out of this? We talk of individual sovereignty, but I don't see this happening until there is a major evolutionary change. Two possibilities - and neither would necessarily get us there, but just things to think about.
1. Telepathy - evolving as a species to have some good ability to have at least an empathetic form of telepathy, where we can accurately sense the emotions of others. This would make it very difficult to coerce or be coerced, because others could sense if your emotional state centered on control or hiding/manipulation.
2. Time theory - if something allows us to see beyond linear cause/effect time, like into the world of quantum mechanics, what would control/coercion look like? It is all based on cause and effect, so if those things are working backwards, out of sync, or even simultaneously, it is very hard to threaten a painful future based on your actions in the present.
Neither of these will come to pass any time soon - but if we zoom out, who knows, generations from now, millennia from now, maybe we will get there, but only if we can survive the potential catastrophic extinctions of State and Religion.
Oh, you like names? Name every name ever then.
Most don't want to hear this, but it leads back to religion, which was the original use of force (by appealing to the wishes of gods) to control the masses, or the tribe. Religious authority/oppression paved the way for state authority/oppression. There have been very few secular states, historically speaking.
Another 125 miles of freeway today, even with some traffic leaving Portland. Another great day to ride a motorcycle!
Something on reality and time theory - if I am correct that our understanding of reality is not truth, and may have been altered numerous times or is being fed to us continually in a way we can manage it (consider being evoked into this reality a moment ago with a lifetime of memories relatively intact), and that time, instead of being a linear construct of one event occurring after another, is rather a continuous process of destruction and invocation . . .
This makes the bitcoin proof-of-work timechain a much more interesting existence. Perhaps it is the most "real" thing we have encountered, because for it to exist, with the properties it supposedly exhibits, it essentially defines time and a reality with history. I can't think of anything else that couldn't have been evoked a moment ago. Perhaps the full blockchain could be as easily evoked as a full memory, even a full universe of memory - but I don't think it could be altered as easily, so the history contained within the timechain may have to considered a true history, even if many such histories exist (or could exist.
I really need to read der Gigi's book.
Could the timechain exist independently of matter? I think it is possible. Could it exist in n-dimensional space? Also possible, in fact it may define its own n-space.
This is what happens when I start reading Heidegger, and find him stuck in trying to define his dasein in a worldview and reality that I have mostly discarded as insufficient and in favor of something far more grand. It's like watching a retarded child fumble around with blocks, hoping he'll be able to stack a few together in a meaningful way. I hope Heidegger emerges from this into something more comprehensive and illuminating.
To clarify my earlier notes - I always found my way to the least filtered content I could find. Yes, I've seen things I never need to see again, but I don't believe they hurt me.
That doesn't mean a market doesn't exist for filtered content. I think markets exist for both filtered and unfiltered relays. My money would generally go to unfiltered options.
However, I might also pay to have my posts relayed on popular filtered relays.
Or I might not pay for any of it, as having a digital social media presence ranks pretty low in my hierarchy of needs.
Even though it is a collab, Four Rooms might be on my list.
I think the real answer for Nostr is in the relays - paid relays, pay-for-post relays, and enough relay control to only post to and read from the relays you want.
Earlier digital-era had this with newsgroups, and there were definitely newsgroups you would avoid if you didn't care to rub bleach in your eyeballs. ISPs would routinely curate their available newsgroup options, as would universities - but you always had the option to pay a service provider that allowed relatively universal access.
In Nostr, a similar model is emerging, with some relays censoring, others not. Who pays for what has yet to be determined.
Freedom is not our natural state. Perhaps it is how we arrive in this world, but as part of a social species, we quickly amass various obligations. These could be possessions, relationships, or simply a price we pay to attain cooperation, which is how we as a species have managed to thrive.
I believe obligation is our natural state, and find freedom (as a virtue) to be a naive and misunderstood pursuit.
Recent posts about censorship (of trolls, haters, attackers of the marginalized) are the result of proposing freedom as a maxim. When humans are not held accountable by their obligations, things generally get ugly - regardless of their station. We see this in emperors, as well as mobs of commoners.
What is the solution? Some kind of enforcement of a social contract, and I don't think any of us knows what that looks like in an anonymous digital world, but it is something that has always been an issue with technological expansion. Religion was a very early solution, which enabled an enforceable social contract and division of labor. But religion also created marginalized groups, so it wasn't a perfect solution.
Perhaps the new solution is Bitcoin, but it is far to early to tell how that will pan out, and if it also will create marginalization.
The only freedom that I believe is necessary is the freedom to own property - something that has been an issue until Bitcoin, and may yet be an issue, who's to say - but with ownership comes obligation, so even thay "freedom" is never free.
275 mile ride today, and I visited the ocean. Great day to ride a motorcycle. Gn?
I have embodied a life of understanding reality only through the lens of my own perceptions, and have also read Hoffman. I don't agree with the assertion that viewing the full breadth of reality is a path to extinction, as I don't believe it is possible to do so as humans.
I like Hoffman's computer screen analogy, and that would be even less possible than a human "seeing" the flow of electricity through the circuits on a motherboard in a meaningful way, i.e. forming text and images displayed on a screen, but with no screen.
I believe I have consumed the right amount of psychedelics to be exposed to glimpses of altered realities, enough to understand there is much more out there than what we experience and perceive, but I feel no need to revisit that altered state.
I also maintain we have the concept of time all wrong. Cause and effect (in that order) are dubious and limited at best, and what we are beginning to understand through quantum mechanics will be transformative in our evolution as a species. The more I learn about the Hindu concepts of time, the more I sm finding them agreeable.
Today went much better than yesterday. Gn.