> learn and read the nostr basis

I am familiar with Nostr. I am building a client, in fact.

Wishing you a splendid late afternoon

Ah yes.

The word for "person who is so busy working on his doodad and doing the same thing over-and-over, that he forgets to touch grass and becomes incapable of seeing the flaws in his own efforts".

GM ☀️

They don't explain things in normal words because it's very difficult to distill complex ideas and systems down into clear human speech, often through the use of analogies or narratives.

They think they're so smart.

Make them prove that they can name ten books... that aren't programming guides.

Goodmorning

Wtf is happening in Haiti? People are crazy. They need to relax. How does one manage to eat another human for pleasure?

The oligarchy will never forgive the Haitians their revolt from 1791. They will never be left alone because of this insult. There will always be interference from all kinds of colonial powers telling the Haitians that they didn't forget.

Puppet dictatorship imploding, helicopters lifting off from the US Embassy.

I feel like I've seen this movie before.

Hopefully the new governments can sit down and come to an arrangement that includes some recognition of citizen's personal and property rights.

Haitian's ancestors in West Africa assuredly had the cultural infrastructure to form such connections.

There's no birthrate collapse among the top OR bottom 1%. The bottom expect no security, and the top 1%'s share of the economy has been growing even as the middle classes have declined in most places.

"Its women's education, stupid" they keep telling us, but oddly women's education doesn't seem to crater birthrates for the 1%, only for the downwardly-mobile middle.

Do you support the death penalty ???

#askstr #ask #asknostr

David Ricardo wrote about this in the 1700s. He observed that people don't usually marry and have children until they have achieved the same level of economic security their parents had. When the economy is struggling or the productive classes are being squeezed, population growth stops or even reverses.

When Scandinavia's population growth went deep into the red in the 1800s, parasitic aristocratic fortunes were ruined, and the governments restructured with fewer monopolies, regulations and more equality in rights. Population started growing again.

The people who run the present system don't want it to change in a way that would allow the population to grow again. They'll do anything else, including nuclear war, before that...

I think you mean "Fascism", but thinking about how "Fashism" might derive from fashion put a smile on my face 😁

Good morning ✌️🧡

New typo just dropped. #typos

Free government money is never free, especially if you actually want to invest and build for the long term (rather than a short-lived Potemkin Village).

"Instead of solving the problem, the people in charge are trying to cover the problem up just long enough to win reelection."

Twenty years ago, that was true. Now I don't see many Western political leaders using a planning horizon longer than "announcement at next week's press conference".

And there are no consequences for failure, the worst outcome is speaking fees, book tours, and a sinecure at some NGO.