The federal government will pay for the destroyed bridge. I’m wondering why not the cargo company ?

How amazing is that we have the power to fix the world simply by opting out, but most people have no idea. Instead, they scream at each other and hope one person fixes all of their problems.

Never regret showing kindness, even if it's misinterpreted or exploited. Every act of kindness sends ripples through the world, and life has a way of rewarding you for putting it out there.

I see hundreds of eye witnesses for events that never happened, filling up social media,

activating people to go out and DO. This is a secret agencies wet dream, mockingbird on amphetamine.

I would be surprised if 10 years from now we're not using electronic currency in some way, now that we know a way to do it that won't inevitably get dumbed down when the trusted third party gets cold feet.

Most aren't ready, as they aren't desperate enough—yet.

Today I’m reminded more and more of why custodians will always exist, no matter how easy or convenient it becomes for you to self custody.

There will ALWAYS be a larger percentage of the population that wants their hands held, & they’ll care not about the freedoms they will lose.

To them it’ll be an even exchange, but the few understand that it is never even or close to being fair.

Fascism is, originally "multiple strands or sticks bound together". The plantar fascia in your foot is multiple fibers that are stronger in unison than any fiber alone would be. This concept, taken from the latin meaning "band", was used politically originally to mean "unity". Alone we are weak, but together we are strong if we "band" together.

In that sense (which isn't at all what modern people mean by fascism) Abraham Lincoln was a fascist and indeed Donald Trump is a fascist. So is Joe Biden. In fact everybody who isn't libertarian is a fascist. Even people who believe in corporations are fascists, for what is a corporation other than multiple people joining together for some cause? All political parties are fascist. I could go on.

But no, that is not what fascism means to people today. What happened was that the original fascist party, which was named after the concept of unity, moved and changed and only became famous when Mussolini was running the show. And so what we call fascism today is misnamed. What we mean is "the policies and ideals of Benito Mussolini". We really should call it Mussoliniism, and leave the term fascism to continue to mean what it does in latin.

But of course language changes and is uncontrollable. I'm not seriously arguing that we should fight that trend. This is just a history lesson.

The problem with the Chinese firewall is not a technical one. Fundamentally if you have to let a community know a secret (psst! we are running nostr on IP X.Y.Z.W port M) and that community is infiltrated with a CCP member, they will know about it and shut it down. And the fundamental problem of identifying outsiders/infiltrators and keeping them out of a community is unsolved and probably unsolvable. So as long as there are enough CCP people looking for holes in the firewall, holes will only last for a limited amount of time. This can't be changed on a technology level, not with cryptography, not with anything.

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