the reason the average idiot doesn't understand how bad things are is everything is denominated in dollars
if dollars instead were denominated in something real like cost of energy in Kilowatt Hours people would realize their dollar is becoming worthless
the average person lacks the IQ to understand that prices aren't rising - it is their money that is getting devalued
don't be the "it could never never happen here" guy
it always happens here - only a matter of time
in my estimate US dollar lost 1/3 of purchasing power since the start of Covid - anybody who held dollars got raped
Political Activism in a nut shell
this applies not only to Communists but other filth like the folks on Poa.st who say they are "literally the opposite" of ANTIFA but actually exactly the same
to tell whether somebody is worth following ask yourself two questions:
1 - are their positions logically consistent with their other positions ?
2 - are their positions consistent with some known ideology ?
the answer to 1st Q should be Yes and the answer to 2nd one should be NO
in fact if we were to give the answer on a scale of 1 ( least consistent ) to 10 ( most consistent ) then the ratio of the two would give you the quality of that person's philosophy.
that is to say a superbeing ( me ) would be almost completely internally consistent in their ideology while being completely inconsistent with any existing ideology because my ideology is based on original analysis and not on blind acceptance.
a subhuman ( anybody on Poa.st ) would be completely inconsistent in their own views but 100% consistent with some known ideology ( Neo-Nazi / NRX in their case ), because they are dumb tribal animals totally incapable of critical thinking - all they can do is choose which herd to be a part of.
in this way a reject from Poa.st is exactly the same as some Liberal college chick with Purple hair - they would both score the same on the Formula. they would of course tell you that they are "literally the opposite" but they are only opposite in terms of swallowing different lies - the process by which they passively absorb lies wholesale out of desire to belong to a group is exactly the same.
some people say i am a contrarian - and it is true. whenever i discover a new ideology ( or a new diet or anything ) i allow myself to be absorbed by it for a year, then i begin to poke holes in it, until eventually i reject it completely. because all idols are false, but you must spend some time on the inside of any movement, truly immersed in it, before you can properly dismantle it intellectually.
the other strategy i use is i deliberately join the most demonized and most absurdly outrageous groups. for example that's how, being a Jew myself, decided to join Neo Nazis. then being a Vegan i decided to join Carnivores. and finally being a Nazi i decided to join Pedophiles.
essentially you must always falsify your own beliefs and accept those of others only for a short period of time - long enough to fully understand them - before falsifying them. never stay in one place and always explore the most extreme positions.
as Mark Twain said "whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect" - i have been living by this before i ever heard that gem. Mark Twain never missed.
the downside to this approach is your friends will be few, but the upside is you will be, intellectually, the best you can be.
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essentially debate is of no value because only smart people can learn anything from it.
and in our society nobody asks smart people their opinion.
only those in power and the majority of retards matter.
you remind me of people in early days of Mp3 who said the quality wasn't good enough because the compression was lossy.
the same folks also said that you need $10,000 cables to get good sound quality.
and then blind tests revealed none of them could hear a difference between a $10,000 cable and a steel wire clothes hanger used as a cable.
does anybody still buy compact discs or use FLAC files ?
whenever i see people talk about earth curvature or missing link in evolution it is obvious humanity has no chance
you motherfuckers are just way too dumb
it's only funny because you're a subhuman.
women are vile, disgusting animals
no Chinese humor please. this isn't Facebook.
if a file is treated as a black box there is only so much we can do. if we can open the file and understand what it contains we can do more. for example we can see that a word document and pdf document may actually be the same document. this is obviously not going to be practical for some exotic file types as a computer can't be expected to recognize them all. but my guess is over 90% of all files uploaded are JPEG and nobody says we can't adopt different approaches to different file types.
i bring all this up because recently GAB was in the news for restricting file uploads only to paying members. GAB was banned by credit card processors making it harder for them to make ends meet financially. any anti-establishment social media should expect the same fate of getting cut off from mainstream banking channels and looking for ways to cut costs.
these costs may be low now, but assuming NOSTR grows they could grow exponentially - might as well start thinking about reducing them now.
text and images are fundamentally different. text takes a lot of energy to create but little to store or transfer, thus decentralized redundant approach is right for text. images are the opposite. one size does not fit all.
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sorry by "avatar" i meant "thumbnail" ...
so for any image you save the exact pixel dimensions for example "1200x800" then your hash, then a THUMBNAIL and links to five instances of that image found online.
if any image matches the hash you use that, if not then you use one that matches dimensions, if not then just the thumbnail etc ...
or something like that ...
you game on PC or you are wrong.
exclusives are rights ? hope next time Putin goes to war in Chechnya he finishes those Eniebomedov rats for good.
if a file is treated as a black box there is only so much we can do. if we can open the file and understand what it contains we can do more. for example we can see that a word document and pdf document may actually be the same document. this is obviously not going to be practical for some exotic file types as a computer can't be expected to recognize them all. but my guess is over 90% of all files uploaded are JPEG and nobody says we can't adopt different approaches to different file types.
i bring all this up because recently GAB was in the news for restricting file uploads only to paying members. GAB was banned by credit card processors making it harder for them to make ends meet financially. any anti-establishment social media should expect the same fate of getting cut off from mainstream banking channels and looking for ways to cut costs.
these costs may be low now, but assuming NOSTR grows they could grow exponentially - might as well start thinking about reducing them now.
text and images are fundamentally different. text takes a lot of energy to create but little to store or transfer, thus decentralized redundant approach is right for text. images are the opposite. one size does not fit all.
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instead of using a hash to find images you should use a lower resolution version of same image to find the full resolution version. even Bing image search has a feature where it will automatically show you different "image sizes" for the same image, for example the following are different sizes grouped by Bing
a truly smart system wouldn't even save the image but simply find the highest quality version of it on the web and save just the address.
i tag nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 because he appears to capable of understanding my brilliant ideas.
the smart thing to do would be to save a 100 x 100 pixel "avatar" version of an image to act as a checksum plus the addresses of five highest resolution matches of that image found online. then display the highest res version that loads first and matches the avatar visually. almost every image posted on Nostr was originally downloaded from somewhere online where it is already hosted for free. those images which are original can be marked as such by user, but frankly the user should just host those himself.
there is no need to save 10 different copies of an image every time somebody posts a picture of Putin riding a bear.