"For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way." 2 Thessalonians 2:7

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I have no idea. My question is, why did I see it when followers and following are 0. I guess most clients show replies even if you don't know them from Adam.

I don't see any Canaanites complaining. I do see your point in that the land was first promised to Abraham, and the complaints are mostly from descendants of Abraham by Ishmael (by Hagar) and the 12 princes of Arabia (by Ketura).

I've often argued that the common cold does more good than harm. Influenza is a bit riskier, but often ends up for the better as well.

Yup. detoxproject.org tested 365 brand "organic" oats, and found 1500 ppb glyphosate. Somebody be lyin'.

If only the FDA would leave Amish farmers alone and enforce their own rules. Legal limit is 50ppb glyphosate for consumer products - and yet much of the non-organic wheat and corn tests out at ~1500ppb. This is caused by spraying the crop to "dry" it on a schedule before harvest, which is an unlabeled use, and itself an illegal practice. (Roundup is labeled *only* for weeding fields 7 or more days before planting.)

You puts some grounds in a mug. You adds boiling water. You stirs and waits a bit. You drinks the coffee, straining it with your lips and teeth. A little grounds with the coffee is good for you.

Become proficient on a one handed key "board". Very useful even without one hand out of commission.

Notice it is all upload. It has a hidden mic, and sends a constant stream to HQ. There it is mined by the company for keywords to sell to ad companies. Then it is archived for the TLAs. (Three Letter Agencies)

Syntax is not an issue for me - a matter of taste. The problem with golang IMO is the centralized library repo - the same problem as javascript and npm nonsense.

You definitely want ECC ram, and if you can afford it, dual power supplies. You'll want RAID disks. I recommend software raid1 or raid10. (There are complex drawbacks to raid that requires hardware support for good performance.) I use Fedora and RedHat. There is lots of community help on Fedora.

If you give up on the dual PS, I just bought a Dell Precision T3600 on Ebay for $63 (plus shipping). There are a lot at present, some corp must have got rid of a bunch. The T3600 has only a single PS, but supports ECC ram. You might have to upgrade the PS if you want more than 2 SSD drives internal (you can convert the CD/floppy bays to Sata drives for a total of 4).

You'll also want a UPS (of the $200+ type). On linux/bsd use nut to monitor the UPS. If the PS fails, you're outta luck - so be sure to use a journaled filesystem that handles that well. I've been very pleased with btrfs on Fedora. You can even skip the md driver for raid, and use the mirroring built in to btrfs. It checksums every block, so if mirrored drives disagree, it knows which one is correct.

The T3600 can be used in tower or desktop orientation. The noise level is reasonable, but not as quiet as the (much older) 400SC. It is quieter than my Poweredge T310.

Scariest part: US CTI pushing to require digital id to use an ISP. Past time to get serious about peer to peer links. But I suppose a peer link would then be considered a "crime".

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To all the other advice, I'll add this. Listen to the animals, especially birds and other small animals. In a forest, a sudden silence tells you a large predator is approaching (bear or human). In a city, there is much more background noise, but I've found it very worthwhile to notice e.g. how birds post lookouts which give a piercing alarm when a cat approaches. Learn the alarm calls of the creatures around you.

You should have seen the look on our cat's face when I imitated an alarm call and the bird she was stalking flew away. (I don't interfere when she stalks mice, rabbits, or invasive bird in the US like English Sparrow.)

I've had animals warn me on several occasions. Once I noticed them all running silently in the same direction. I figured something was wrong, so I cut short our family hike, and headed back to our cabin. Just in time. Finally, our dull human senses could smell the smoke, and see the line of fire in the distance approaching. We had time to pack up the minivan and leave. (We learned that the fire had been set by an arsonist.)

The following observation has effective in creating an "Aha!" moment for normies:

"So why are you using a shared secret to verify who you are?"

"I don't! I use a password to login and I don't share it with anyone."

"You don't share it with the site you are logging into?"

"...... Oh."

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Why do I see this spam when the id has no followers and is not following anyone either? Is there no filter for ids you follow or people they follow ... for N levels? (configurable)

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Because, like BTC, it is inconvenient for small transactions. And just like ancient "money order" services for the last 4000 years, you could transfer "AUs" between Lightning wallets like BTC, with periodic squaring up via physical transfer (more trouble than a BTC transaction, so maybe less often).

Ancient services had only direct channels because the manual accounting was too onerous for indirect transfers, but a Lightning network automatically does the accounting for any path through the network of channels.

When there is no internet, Lightning channels are down as well, but physical gold you have is still good, but BTC is useless.

BTC is up to 610G for self-custody. The cost of running a full node (never mind mining) has been steadily growing, making BTC self-custody steadily more elitist. Gold self-custody has been the same for thousands of years.

Where will the BTC come from? You can't just wave it into existence like Fed money.

What illegal drugs are we talking about? Ivermectin?

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Cool! Now do gold.

Ominously, more and more merchants do not accept USD cash - which Constitutionally in the US is the only legal tender for all debts public and private. This might have something to do with the FBI seizing "large" (exceeding some undisclosed limit) cash deposits by small businesses because of blatantly unconstitutional "civil forfeiture" rules.