Not going to disagree with your sentiment. California state government deems cities a higher commercial priority due to the higher commercial tax revenues from urban businesses. Of course, the ruling democrat party represents those urban areas. Unfortunately, this creates a speculative incentive to buy foreclosed or heavily in debt farmland out and fallow it for drought incentives. This creates further stress and pressure on small farmers as private equity seeking easy wins drives them out. Drought is very over now, though, after historic rainfall this winter.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/ca-program-pays-farmers-fallow-fields-preserve-water/
Going sailing for a few months⛵️?
She’s dead wrong about San Francisco diverting farm water. The city financed the damming of Hetch Hetchy back in the early 20th century. The Central Valley can cry 😭 about water diversion to LA and *parts* of the Bay Area, but San Francisco locked up water rights to Yosemite Valley almost a century ago. Long before the “climate wars” over water.
As shit (and I mean complete shit) as San Francisco city government is today, they were ruthlessly efficient and forward thinking back in the day.
I’m guessing this does not mean they’re “all in” on the US-led International Monetary Fund’s Unicoin settlement layer.
At least he was unleashed.
We should focus on building great purpose-built things and leave the current shit system to the current built-for-pure-shithousery establishment.
Nice write up on #plebhy on stacker news: https://stacker.news/items/164025
#plebhy
I believe this is solid evidence that single payer healthcare won’t work in the US because we know our bureaucracy is shit at executing.
If only the fed and department of treasury could recognize the same but they are determined to drive us off a cliff.
Fedimints will change the world.
I guess we can sell all our bitcoin. The IMF has solved digital money: https://www.kitco.com/news/2023-04-10/IMF-unveils-Unicoin-A-global-legal-tender-settlement-CBDC.html
As a high functioning alcoholic for 2.5 decades, the consequences never caught up with me but certainly many close calls. It wasn’t until I quit that I realized that my transition into full adulthood had been blunted by my drinking.
Whatever your path, I hope you are able to enjoy it with friends.
Listening to latest #[0] “what bitcoin did” pod has me thinking:
Shadow relays: An attackable surface for government actors. This specifically came up with regards to relays in the Arab world, but could have a broader utility.
1. We create pay-to-post relays. This is the attackable surface. Government agents and bots must pay (in #bitcoin 🙂) to attack posts they find undesirable.
2. Real authentic human(e) users are whitelisted on the pay-to-post relays so that the relays present as high usage and the bots have something to attack. There are many potential verification methods, and this concept can be dynamic.
2b. Alternatively, we could have all users pay to post but have the relays pay the real human(e) users back through zaps from anonymous accounts. Some disguise might be necessary. Perhaps we could even zap the bot proceeds to the real people.
3. All users of this relay (including bots) each receive a unique API key as a DM upon first joining. They access the relay with a unique relay link: wss://relay.com/api=API_KEY
4. The relay presents a challenge to the client which must be signed by the private key of the subscriber. Failure to sign correctly results in receiving a global unfiltered feed.
5. Whitelisted users see only other whitelisted users posts. The paid bot posts are visible only to non-whitelisted users.
SO WHY? Government actors will never really know to what degree their disinformation campaigns are working. Real users can build the communities they desire.
“Colored” relays: Expanding for other non-malign uses.
Such a system could be used to “color” the content within a relay such that the relay serves different content to different groups of users. Maybe some people want moderated content maybe some others don’t. Imagine some users turning on a content filter for explicit language or for content flagged as pornography. Users could login into their account on the relay and update settings on the fly.
Of which 99% will vote for the same dumb 2 parties next time. There are no exits on the crazy train to economic failure.
Okay, seems my information is out of date. My buddy was stuck in regional package hell for years and years trying to get enough hours for a commercial seat. Wish your son all the best.
Tough industry to break into since the old farts keep pushing their mandatory retirement age so commercial seats don’t open up as frequently as in the past.
Jesus: “Love your neighbor as yourself”, “you who has committed no sins, throw the first stone”
Representative fuckhead: trans people are satan’s imps.
If you are choosing hatred, you are always choosing wrong. If however you have a based opinion on why transgender movement, while healing for some, could be psychologically damaging to developing adolescents and introduce more confusion than clarity to an adolescent’s developing psyche, then you might be capable of learning, addressing the moment, and representing the ideals of your claimed messiah.
Might be so, but the best of #bitcoin is here. I hope your next note stimulates the conversation you are seeking. I for one would like to see more discussion on the future of pay to play microservices built on nostr.