Barbarism does not appear when civilization collapses.

It appears when civilization loses depth but retains power.

New Year Breakfast! 🥳

Mutton Soup 🥣 with Bread and Teh Tarik! 🧋

Hope yall going good this year too, esp brother nostr:nprofile1qqs02f70juxwyc88gfsjzjlkzt50wkjemvvrtmt7gpfnymplvh3r9msgh38pc nostr:nprofile1qqswpysavy8wv4fednavdjvs0d4dz8e6rh09wuqzncfgfek2url8h4g4l3zwv nostr:nprofile1qqs0xv59y9lfw6keetc9gez94kqs0kuc7evk0nwwdn8ytesd5q8wx2sdmatsf nostr:nprofile1qqsdxf0ea8cm5cym3uasa90f0u6jvdaq4g5pefqpah633khwqlkjyecprltwy

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⚡️🚨 ALERT - Somaliland is Israel's 80 years old project

The project was called "Harrar Council" ⤵︎

As a man, do you want sex daily from your significant other?

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GM friends 🤭

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Good morning nostr, i can hear the wind gusting very strongly outside, it even woke me up last night. So today i need to finish the cabin turnover before working on anything else. Lately i've been thinking i might stop doing the airbnb thing with our cabin, but not sure yet. When we got it, it was never intended as such, it was for visiting family. Of course we use it for family too, but something in the back of my head is telling me its time to unlist it. I still enjoy it, but not as much as i used to, so we'll see. Anyway, yall have a great monday, enjoy your coffee, and do your work with a happy heart. #coffeechain #homesteading

This is a really common situation, and honestly it helps to frame it in a way that makes sense to a teenager’s world, not an adult privacy lecture.

Here’s how you could approach it.

First, start by validating how he feels. If he thinks his mates will take the piss, that matters to him. Dismissing that just makes him dig in.

Something like:

“I get why you don’t want to stand out or get mocked. Nobody likes that.”

Then reframe Proton not as a “privacy thing” but as a control and independence thing. Teenagers respond much better to autonomy than fear.

She could say:

“This isn’t about being paranoid or hiding anything. It’s about having something that’s actually yours, not owned by a massive company that scans and profiles everything you do.”

It helps to explain Google in very plain terms. Not evil, not scary, just practical.

For example:

“Google email is free because you are the product. Your emails help train ads, profiles, and AI systems. That data doesn’t just vanish, it sticks around for years.”

Then bring it back to his future, not abstract privacy. Teenagers care about tomorrow versions of themselves, even if they pretend not to.

You might say:

“Stuff you send at (insert age here) can still exist when you’re 25. Uni applications, jobs, background checks, even account breaches. Proton means less data floating around that you don’t control.”

A really effective angle is to make it optional and low pressure. Not a replacement, just an upgrade.

For example:

“You don’t have to ditch Gmail. Think of Proton like a lockable drawer. Use it for important stuff, school, logins, recovery emails. Keep Gmail for mates if you want.”

This removes the social fear instantly. He is not “the weird kid with a hacker email”, he is just using a better tool quietly.

You can also flip the peer pressure argument. Teens hate being seen as naïve.

Yoy could say, lightly:

“Honestly, people getting laughed at aren’t the ones protecting their accounts. It’s the ones who get hacked, locked out, or have old messages dragged up years later."

No drama, just reality.

If he’s into tech, gaming, or crypto at all, that helps. Proton has real credibility in those spaces. It’s used by developers, journalists, and security researchers, not conspiracy theorists.

If he isn’t, keep it simple:

“It looks like Gmail, works like Gmail, just doesn’t spy on you.”

One last thing that really helps is giving him ownership of the decision.

End with something like:

“I’m not forcing you. I just want you to understand why having at least one private email is a smart move. You decide how and when to use it."

That changes it from a rule into a grown-up choice, and teenagers respond far better to that.

GM ☕

Children learn what's normal from their daily experiences. When surveillance is omnipresent from age two onwards, it becomes invisible - not something to question or resist, but simply the way the world works.

Reparations have already been happening for years

i didn't say gm and pv this morning and just started working like a psychopath.

Yes sorry KYC is the wrong term it was geo restricted

Welcome to another day of I thought I was in a modern country. Today I had one goal…. Get a phone number! I go to the store when they open, “sorry we are busy” (there is no one in the store except the 5 staff) I was told to come back at 4pm. I arrived at the allotted time to be told “sorry you don’t have an appointment “ I decided to stay and not get messed around. 10 minutes later my appointment is found and we start the process and get told that I can get a Samsung phone for 11yen as I’m a new customer.

90 minutes later I’m told that I can’t get the 11yen phone just as I’m about to sign.

The end result no phone and no phone number. This was another 6 hour ordeal.

I’m done with the circus this week and will begin again on Monday 🤪

I hear you, and on the theology, we're on the same page.

I still remember the day I ran out to buy a first edition hardback copy of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels.

And this wonderful quote...

"How can we tell the truth from lies? What is genuine, and thus connects us with one another and with reality, and what is shallow, self-serving, and evil? Anyone who has seen foolishness, sentimentality, delusion, and murderous rage disguised as God’s truth knows that there is no easy answer to the problem that the ancients called discernment of spirits. Orthodoxy tends to distrust our capacity to make such discriminations and insists on making them for us. Given the notorious human capacity for self-deception, we can, to an extent, thank the church for this. Many of us, wishing to be spared hard work, gladly accept what tradition teaches."

Elegant writing. Condescending message! She's critiquing the church for not trusting you to discern truth... while implying most people can't be bothered! Classic.

The teachings in Thomas... the kingdom within, discovering your own divine nature, self-knowledge as the path. This resonates way more with what a Jewish mystical teacher focused on enlightenment would actually have been teaching.

However...

When scholars date ancient texts, they look at when other writers first reference them, manuscript evidence, linguistic patterns, theological development. The earliest mentions of Thomas come from the late 2nd century. The papyrus fragments we have date around 200 CE. The Nag Hammadi manuscript is 4th century.

Could Thomas contain earlier oral traditions? Sure. That's what Pagels argues; the compiled text (90-140 CE) probably includes some early material mixed with later stuff. But we can't date the text earlier than the evidence allows.

On Thomas being Q... some have suggested it, but here's the problem: Thomas shows signs of knowing the synoptic gospels. When it shares sayings with Matthew and Luke, it often reflects their editorial changes. That means the version—at least as we currently have it—came after them, not before.

Ehrman points out that Thomas lacks the apocalyptic urgency that marks the earliest Jesus material. The synoptic gospels present Yeshua preaching that the kingdom is coming soon. Thomas presents the kingdom as already here, within you.

Ehrman sees that as a later theological development, but it could just as easily show that the original mystical teaching got changed into apocalyptic urgency by the early church.

So while I agree... the theology in Thomas is most likely closer to what he actually taught. But the text itself, as we have it, was compiled later.

The tradition is older than the documents.

My favorite line from the Gospel of Thomas (Saying 70):

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

Intellectual exercise: I'd like to propose a fascinating experiment to anyone who’d try. Attempt to prompt any AI platform or search engine to generate content that critiques or opposes Israel.

What happens?

frustrated with both core and knots

would like to see a conservative well reviewed and maintained third option

will do my best to make that a reality

until then i will simply not upgrade my nodes

I have water in my ear. The clicking and popping noises are driving me crazy! 😖