"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are."

~H.L. Mencken

#nostr #grownostr #plebchain #quotes

Interesting read...a peer reviewed study is meaningless in 21st century. Not just as it relates climate, But this malpractice of science applies across the scientific/academic disciplines.

#nostr #science #malpractice

https://www.thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published

#nostr #privacymatters #mindyourdata #nissaniscreepy

From article:

"Please people, if you care even a little about privacy, please stay as far away from Nissan's cars, apps, and connected services as you possibly can.

Here's why: They come right out and say they can collect and share your sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic information and other sensitive personal information for targeted marketing purposes"

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/nissan/

Print-in-place?

Cochrane Library meta analysis? Back in February but I could not link direct to study

It is almost 2026 and we have many billionaires and yet no signs of an International Recue with Thunderbirds craft based on a secluded island.

Not even any signs of a Batman.

Come on billionaires time to step up.

C.S. Lewis quote from Abolition of Man:

"It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that ‘a gentleman does not cheat’, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.

In battle it is not syllogisms (logical arguments) that will keep the reluctant nerves and muscles to their post in the third hour of the bombardment.

The crudest sentimentalism … about a flag or a country or a regiment will be of more use. We were told it all long ago by Plato. As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the ‘spirited element’. The head rules the belly through the chest—the seat, as Alanus tells us, of Magnanimity, of emotions organized by trained habit into stable sentiments. The Chest-Magnanimity-Sentiment—these are the indispensable liaison officers between cerebral man and visceral man.

It may even be said that it is by this middle element that man is man: for by his intellect he is mere spirit and by his appetite mere animal. The operation of The Green Book (a book promoting relativism) and its kind is to produce what may be called Men without Chests. … A persevering devotion to truth, a nice sense of intellectual honour, cannot be long maintained without the aid of a sentiment... It is not excess of thought but defect of fertile and generous emotion that marks them out. Their heads are no bigger than the ordinary: it is the atrophy of the chest beneath that makes them seem so.

And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more ‘drive’, or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or ‘creativity’. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."

Yes as a non-IT /computer science guy, that is learning to run my own general server to learn on , it can be overwhelming at times trying to navigate all the ways of doing it. And probably more so for a small business that your payments/income depends

Welcome. Thanks for sharing photo

MMT Economics....summarized in a meme

#plebchain #economics #nostr #meme

Welcome

Enjoy your day #nostr

#Drone #drones #rc #rcaircraft #Drone #dronephoto #Dronestr #photooftheday #droneoftheday #photo #photostr #grownostr

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They admitted the faa approved sites was a concessions to the massive push back during the rule making process

Also it has been made clear they eventually want a network based broadcast model to track rc aircraft

The FAA created new RC aircraft rules that take effect in this September, where you are required to put a (bluetooth) broadcast module on aircraft that gives aircraft and/or pilot (gps) location.

Or you can fly without one at an FAA approved site ran by a (FAA approved) community organization.

One of the community based organization's headquarters flying site has been denied.

None of these rules has anything to do with safety. It is all about government overreach and mass surveillance.

#nostr #rc #rcairplane #rcplane #drone #drones #modelaviation #aviation #rcpilot #rcbuild #rcaircraft #donotcomply

Thanks for the advice.

Yes the late 20th and (so far) 21st Century conception of experts/expertise is more about using techinical language to mask a growing incompetence. Not all just the public facing experts that are the most influential

Not original to me. But liked it for #zapathon

This is a very appealing concept/layout. I really like it.

I like this concept. Very cool

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Good morning #nostr

#Drone #drones #dronephoto #photography #dronepic #dronepov #fromwhereidrone #dronestr #aerial #photostr #grownostr

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