A serious definition would be a low carb diet with most protein from meat. This would include lots of greens and a small amount of high fiber fruit. In imagination, it is a traveling hero on an adventure, hunting game in the forest and fishing in streams and rivers on the way, and gathering berries and familiar greens to eat as well. No time to plant high carb crops like wheat/corn and wait for a harvest.

Been working on that for a while. I do not (and will not) use phone apps. (I am testing open OSes, Fedora and android derivatives, on Pinephone.) I will build it for Fedora, or use a custodial web wallet.

All the suggestions people have made were not accepting new customers. I have had self-custody BTC since its inception. Do you have a non-phoneapp recommendation for Lightning wallet? Currently investigating strike.me (zap) which is said to be on github and is a self-custody LN. I did not want to deal with self-custody for layer 2, but have been assured it is not that hard for leaf nodes - which apparently only needs to be up when you (and other local users) are using it.

I might buy a personally tried and true brand "on sale", but the general rule is avoid the cheapest (which are often more trouble than its worth), and the more expensive (which are often catering to those wanting to glory in their wealth).

Having begun my computer career in the 70s, I am still triggered by the sight of magnets in the vicinity of a computer (that might theoretically utilize magnetic media or magnetically steered electron beams).

A big problem with the climate debate is falsified data - especially before 1980. A PhD historian, John Robson researches the records and the history, and has the receipts. His website is https://climatediscussionnexus.com/

His expertise is history, records, archives - he does not claim to an expert on climate/atmospheric physics. No matter now expert, you get bad results from false data.

One thing I found from my less than expert historical research is that the optimum global CO₂ level is 400 ppm. 300 is too low, and generally has resulted in famine. Greenhouses go for 1200ppm if possible, as that optimizes plant growth (not good globally). So the target they want to reduce CO₂ to is wrong - and no real justification is given. It's almost as if famine (without totally destroying ecosystems) is the point.

I always thought God invented it back in Genesis 2.

A more viable medium of exchange than USD fiat after it inevitably crashes.

AI told me where hedgehogs lay their eggs - in great detail.

The inflection point (which you can see on the graph) is 1972 - when Nixon took USD off the gold standard.

But then you realize they hire a private security firm.

Actually, yes. It is possible to be BOTH evil overlords and idiots. In fact, the Machiavellian overlord is rather rare.

The apparent world is an interior world. You will quickly learn this studying machine vision as well.

https://www.amazon.com/Saving-Appearances-Idolatry-Owen-Barfield/dp/081956205X/

I suspect Gallagher was blackmailed (went to a social function, passed out from something in his drink, woke up in a strange hotel with a photo on his chest). A defense job is the consolation prize.

If the electoral vote is tied, the Dems want control of the House.

My 2¢ - if you are blackmailed in that manner, just tell the truth of what happened to you. Even if no one believes you, you are free from the threat of blackmail.

Having used "the internet" since 1975 (still have the first protocol spec), I would define "internet" as peer connections carrying IP protocol.

We also had uucp net, which was a transport independent store and forward network. We collected all known peer connections in a text file and ran a graph analysis overnight to optimize routes (bang paths) to destinations.

Today, no one seems to know what a "peer" is anymore. From questioning people about what the "internet" is, I get the idea they think it is their web browser. I.e. HTTP(S) is the only protocol they care about (and indirectly though unknowingly DNS and TLS CAs). Even smtp, they have only experienced through some web client (usually gmail).

The term "protocol" is unknown - except in classical schooling groups where they practice social protocols at formal dinners, concerts, and other events. This is relevant, and a starting point.

Men doing hardware and ladies doing software.

When I was in my early teens, women dominated software and men dominated hardware. I was too young to lug around 50lb disk drives and other hardware stuff, so I got started in software with the ladies. I took a typing class - also still mostly ladies. It proved invaluable.

Like weaving and sewing (and unlike physically moving heavy objects), these skills move back and forth in popularity with the sexes. In the 18th century, tailoring and dressmaking (as opposed to fitting) was typically a male profession. Weaving was a male profession - unless industrialization revolutionized the trade.

Robin Hood is not stealing from the king (who is off on a crusade). He is not even stealing from sheriff left in charge or returning legitimate taxes. He is simply returning what the sheriff stole from the poor in defiance of the law. The sheriff is counting on the king never coming back to bring him to justice for tax fraud.

No different than Uganda taxing "social media" for everyone. The net effect was that the popular quickly discovered decentralized and federated social media - a very positive effect. The law is only effective on centralized "social media" that requires registration. The Uganda govt was paywalling IPs of large centralized outfits like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc

Someone will have to look at the Florida law in detail to see if 3rd party registration (such as for Activity Pub sites run by someone else) is prohibited. Yet another incentive to run your own or go fully decentralized.

I call it the original (OG) web or decentralized web. I watched big tech run constant ads for people to give up their independent web sites that ran on their own desktop computers and "for just a small percentage or even just collecting marketing info we'll run your whole online life for you!" No changing UPS batteries (video of secretary crawling around under a desk to do that because of poor setup). We make backups for you! (And for the feds.) etc etc

The BIG weapon against the deep state was crypto. The OG web was decentralized and pretty much uncensorable, but entirely unencrypted and unauthenticated. IP forgery was a thing. Forging usenet articles was a common joke (especially on April 1).

Now we have the tools for authenticated IPs and e2e encrypted packet delivery, and a number of protocols for that.

Please note that ICANN DNS and cabal TLS are totally centralized and censored. One thing that could be incorporated into Nostr is a .NOSTR (or other) tld (ala .BIT) where nameservers are shared via Nostr. ICANN DNS would only be used for onboarding.

The globalist TLS cabal can forge and MITM any TLS web site. You can't rely on it. While a private TLS CA is appropriate for an enterprise like AT&T, what better fits Nostr is to use make connections using one of the authenticated overlay mesh networks like yggdrasil or cjdns or pinecone. The dendrite Matrix server incorporates pinecone. Fedora and Redhat offer Cjdns. Yggdrasil is a golang thing - easily compiled if you don't care about downloading random dependency versions from the internet during build (you should - but that makes building a lengthy research project for all the dependencies).

Someone started an yggdrasil-js project - which would fit right in with Nostr web clients (but isn't ready yet).

https://calebjlines.com/about/