how do people have thousands of notes , what do you do all day?

Based MTG strikes again

1066, England. William the Conquering just taken the throne.

Within months, he issues the Forest Laws.

Hunting deer is now forbidden to anyone below noble rank. The punishment isn't a fine. It's death.

Not execution by sword, which would be quick. Execution by hanging, slow strangulation, body displayed in the village square as a warning.

Sometimes they'd blind you first and let you starve instead. The cruelty was the point.

These weren't conservation laws. The deer population was massive. Herds roamed freely across thousands of acres of "royal forest" that just happened to include the land peasants had been hunting on for generations.

The real reason becomes clear when you look at what replaced venison in the peasant diet. Bread. Lots of bread. Grain-based gruel. Pottage made from whatever vegetables they could grow.

The lords continued eating venison. Multiple deer per week. Whole roasted boars. Fatty game birds. Their tables groaned with meat at every meal.

The peasants ate grain and were told it was God's will that only nobility could hunt. The Church backed this up with sermons about knowing your place in the divine order.

A peasant family could watch deer walk through their barley field, destroying their crop, and be executed for killing the deer to feed their starving children. The deer belonged to the king. The barley belonged to the king. The peasant belonged to the king. And the king ate venison while the peasant ate gruel.

This wasn't about protecting animals. It was about controlling protein access. A population fed on grain is weaker, more compliant, easier to manage. A population eating meat is stronger, more energetic, more likely to cause problems for the ruling class.

The Forest Laws stayed in effect for 800 years. Eight centuries of restricting meat to the elites while forcing the masses onto grain. And during those eight centuries, the peasant class got shorter, weaker, more disease-prone with each generation.

The nobility, eating their venison and boar, stayed tall and strong. You can see it in the armor. Noble armor from the 1400s fits a 5'10" man. Peasant remains from the same period average 5'3".

Same genetics. Different diets. The nobility ate what humans evolved eating. The peasants ate what they were allowed to eat.

The elites have always known: Control the meat supply, control the population.

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I’m really starting to wonder if a large enough critical mass of people are going to “get it” soon enough to avert an extended period of darkness and austerity in our country.

Intellectual curiosity and critical thought just aren’t common enough. Pain will be our teacher.

I can’t pretend anymore that positive vibes will overcome the level of sheer idiocy I see every day. Somebody please convince me I’m wrong.

I’m just going to focus on loving my family and those I communicate with who share a freer vision of the world, and try to have a laugh or two along the way.

Idk... Is that a nostr thing?

Someone tell me if this could work :

Hash videos and audio files of important events or speeches or lectures, be a bit of a spammer and put those hashes into a block, and then future people can reference those to see if a recording is legit. Assuming the first copy was legit, of course.

Here's the problem : I looooove listening to old lectures. Lately, I've been catching these recordings actually being AI fakes. Richard Feynman and Alan Watts are both being faked a lot right now. Its their voice - but I never heard that lecture, and its doing the "this not that" thing a lot... They're fake. We're not going to have any history if this continues. The fake stuff will drown out the real stuff.

Dude, dumb pleb is not you! You’re spitting heat! 😳

k represents the decss c code in binary format in this video

i dont think the largest-prime-number-part of video is so relevant for our case its only k that represents code that can break or decrypt the (dvd) encryption

i think the large-prime-number part is more to do with k being 'illegal' and so is a distraction

distraction in sense that for us what is relevant is whether k exists or not whereas most of this video is about whether k was illegal or not and the ways the guy made sure the large prime could not be deemed illegal

so in relation to k my quick search on this issue is that a key was found in plain text on dvd player and so they were able to reverse engineer the encryption because it was relatively weak is 40 bits vs bitcoin 128 bits (?)

with bitcoin the cryptography is already public doesn't need to be reverse engineered it is well reviewed piece of code BUT just like in the dvd player where the implementation was shabby we have to be wary of any implementation in soft- or hardware wallet leaking our private key material or storing it in way where can be extracted

the alternative is brute forcing our private keys but my searching says that using current computation today 40 bit would take seconds while 128 bit there is not enough computational resources on earth to make that happen

so doesnt it come down to trusting an implementation of the library

say i was going to dabble in btc id generate private keys offline with sufficient entropy and make sure as best as i can they never are exposed to a network in any format

and imwoukd use open source well reviewed methods to sign transactions and all the while pay attention to other bits of advice like don't use old address types don't use single address more than once etc etc

what more can dumb pleb like me do

GM from Sri Lanka.

The end of a great year. my wish for the next year is please keep my parents with me till I succeed! 🙏

When reality kicks in.

"The award for the best Bitcoin advertisement goes to Sparkasse in Gelsenkirchen."

announcing wss://archive.orly.dev/ - a relay fed by an aggregator that is eating the entire nostrwebs.

no idea how long it will take to get everything but then after that, it will stay up to date and be a solution for "note not found" by adding it to your client relay list.

Artists and musicians (even major, mainstream ones) used to be revolutionaries. Not afraid to take risks, take a stand. Now they’re all risk averse, sheepish.

What happened?

For instance, Nina Simone was a rockstar and revolutionary. She once said

“An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.” She did that, paid the price often, but kept at it.