Maybe. They could have used water as a counterweight. Just so long as they had strong enough ropes. Presumably they didn’t have steel cables and I have no idea what rope materials they had at the time. 🤷♂️
Maybe, but any explanation will need to address construction of the system and how they addressed the foundation and water pressure. For example, a series of linked pools like a set of locks going up 600 feet would have been its own engineering challenge.
Would it have wrapped around the pyramid multiple times like a corkscrew? The more times it wrapped, the lower the water pressure on the lock gates, but the stronger the foundation and supports would need to be. What might have supported it? Maybe some sort of scaffolding system? Dunno. 🤷♂️
That concept is interesting but doesn’t explain how the Egyptians would have been able to deal with the water pressure at the base. The gates and pipe from the concept would need an explanation on how those technologies would have been implemented by the Egyptians.
It’s the height that confuses people. Not sure how you would float massive blocks up 600 feet. They would have needed more than a river.
It would be good to see this chart including the bitcoin holdings in the county’s regulated financial system.
The U.S. may be selling but they have at least 1 million more in the ETFs.

Yep, felt the same way. Had to unfollow and mute once I realized that it wasn’t a joke.
Like The Sovereign Individual, The Lessons of History was one of those books that changed my perspective and gave me a new framework to understand the world.
The book discusses how a power struggle eventually develops between the elites. The minor elites, excluded from power, align themselves with the populace. This often devolves into violent revolution.
I keep thinking how this describes what’s happening with Trump.
I think the betting markets may be accurately predicting the decline of Trump’s chance of winning. Almost the entire system is stacked against him. The major elites control the military, most of the judiciary, academia, the media, the govt, tech and industry. The minor elites control a few key states and a majority of the supreme court.
Anyway, was just thinking how we’re watching one of those moments in history play out in front of us right now.
Thanks to @LynAlden for the book recommendation. The Lessons of History became one of my favorite books.
We’re stronger together. I’m glad we have this community here now. 
Honestly, if t would be amazing if the 🇺🇸 dumped their coins. It might even motivate other countries to step of their stacking. Even out the playing field.
Japan was fighting total war. Just like Russia, nuking their cities was a perfectly valid way to destroy their economy. And as it happens, it convinced them to surrender.
You know, the firebombings actually killed more people... Funny you don't mention that...
As for Iraq, it was Iraqi extremists who killed the most Iraqis, by far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
I guess you’re right. The USA killed just as many unarmed civilians with firebombings and they did with nuclear weapons.
And you’re saying that, after the US destabilized the country, that other people killed civilians too?
It’s interesting how people always seem to find ways to justify the killing of those other people. They always seem to deserve it somehow.
Oh, let’s see:
Who is the only country to kill hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians (including women and children) with nuclear weapons?
Who made up the claim of “weapons of mass destruction” … and how hundreds of thousands of civilians died?
There’s a long list, if you care to look. I’m not sure how you can claim they haven’t done the same thing.
This is the same argument that Osama bin Laden used to justify attacks on Americans … by arguing that U.S. civilians were complicit in their government's actions.
Does your government represent you? I suspect most people would say no.
One of the things I almost never see mentioned in the various climate debates is the observation that Earth is historically on the cooler side and is rising from that very low base.
The planet has historically gone through multiple cycles of not having polar ice caps and then having them again, etc. Over millions of years. There's been a really long-term feedback loop there.
I'm not a climate scientist by any stretch, but I just find that general omission in public discussions around it to be interesting.
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hottest-earths-ever-been

This explains it.
I don’t know what’s funnier. Them trying this stupid sequel… or that people will fall for it again. 🤦♂️ 
This post made me wonder what percentage of bitcoin core devs are shitcoiners?
Maybe devs should be forced to lock up bitcoin for a long time to get access to funding and repo commit privileges. Any core dev with no material skin in the game is probably a security risk. 
Should have taken the 7th booster!
I want to dig into this more, but at first look, it seems strange. Why would a self custodial lightning app rely on a 3rd party API?
It seems that this service is trying to fill a hole in the market that maybe won’t exist for much longer. I’m still thinking most self-custodial lightning apps for plebs will disappear. Instead, lightning will just be used by custodians, exchanges and federations. We, the plebs, will just be using ecash soon.
Dunno, maybe I’m missing something? nostr:note1maf7zfnusquj333zfp82zaglyleg3zwq0etkumkmh4x9089ltxsq28kc3f