OK taking off now. If I don't make it, it was the CIA.

They should all emigrate to Russia too, when they can't find jobs because the Chinese benefactors are able to export African textile prints cheaper than Africans are able to produce them.

That's why the protestors chant "Vive Poutine", because they're all about being free and sovereign.

Don't get too comfy ;)

When I lived in China, pre-Olympics, I had a friend (whose parents are a high ranking police officer and a Party commissar in a university), who had spent 5 years working in Nigeria for a Chinese State (obviously) oil company, working in plastics. So I'm talking about 20 years ago.

And he was already telling me that they were raping the country and its population with "unequal treaties" that would make the ones China still bitches about today the fairest deal in the world.

The stories that we all hear about how China sends tens of thousands of workers to operate those industries, not even creating one single job for the locals, and how they on top of that destroy the local industry, mainly low value light industry, with endless cheap imports... those aren't even the tip of the iceberg.

And back then China still hadn't developed its current Panopticon Big Brother dystopian surveillance apparatus yet.

So "claiming their sovereignty" is going from a mafia-run, artificially sustained "postcolonial" state in which the mafia bosses sacrifice its population for IMF (and more direct) handouts to enrich themselves, to one in which the handouts come from China and Russia? Got it.

Trying to get Nostr relay connection on 3G is like eating soup with a fork.

Some idiot lady on the plane leaves a STRAW HAT in the overhead compartment and is all upset with a guy because he was trying to stow his bag and could "crush my hat". Like literally mad as a HATTER this crazy bitch.

I'm rather thinking about typos xD

But it'd be cool to be able to add a correction after the fact in cases like the ones you mention, keeping the original available

Weak ass motherfuckers desperate to get validation from anonymous people on the internet -- pathetic. Please unfollow.

I'm here to get INVALIDATED by others. That would mean I express an opinion, someone else disagrees with it and proves me wrong, so I stand corrected and BECOME BETTER. nostr:note1c6dqyh30ll4ghunmcm6l0x3dhn2hq4jy9f6lg038nnjm7d70083suanvag

Totally get it. I wish we had some more advanced features here. Like perhaps allow for editing (maybe not deleting the event itself), and keep a record of all the versions. I am not a tech guy so I've no idea of the implications of such thing. But it'd be cool.

Now and then I like posting some harsh, unsweetened note with stuff I may or may not 100% agree with in reality. Helps purge the follower list of clowns and cultists.

If you need to read only stuff you 100% agree with, 100% of the time, otherwise you get upset to the point of not wanting to read or listen to anything else -- then you're a fucking idiot and I'd rather have nothing to do with you, even if we agree 100%.

I for one feel better and welcome it when someone I usually agree 100% with all of a sudden posts something I totally disagree with. Reminds me we're individual human beings, not fucking clone sheep.

*boss

Don't tell me I'm always being negative, like my boos does. nostr:note1735y35lrntw9wggzne7urqywfwpn0t039lw486wqdn82zjz80mhsma6vzw

Today most Spanish news outlets seem to be getting their knickers in a knot over the new rate hike.

I seldom follow or read or are aware at all of Spanish news, so I decided to update myself with new data before posting some incendiary note about how fucking retarded everybody is in this country, with their overwhelming majority of variable rate house loans, which caused hundreds of thousand to lose "their" homes during the last bubble bust.

And it seems that yes, 40% are still retarded and deserve what's coming to them. But it's so much better than I thought, to be honest.

If you're OK with this, a State bureaucracy bullying a private company "just because", regardless of your feelings for bitcoin and "crypto", or even for Shitbase and that bald fuck, then you're a clown and you deserve what you will eventually get.

Well, Spain straight out would execute Assange, like they did with McAfee.

Price volatility and risk of being cut off by banks.