Quality surge protector for your computers?

Spray bottle that makes sodium hypochlorite (bleach) from salt water? (yes, they exist)

Onion chopper, that you put the onions in and pull a cord or twist a knob, that keeps the nasty gases from getting to the eyes?

Great playing and singing! Haven't decided what to run when I do get a node, but probably not Core 30 without reconfiguring the value anyway.

Yes, looking again, the stickmen are indeed drifting a little bit, so it's unlikely to be faked. But in person, you would just see a blur.

reply to you and nostr:npub10jzgn0sfgm83pnha2hsjlgq03hj0u6pmwqhjh70wuar7mmermaesgxar98

The hovering coin is definitely bullshit. The positive poles of the batteries aren't even connected, and the spoons are connected together. Even if they weren't and the batteries were in circuit, I doubt the one-turn coil would do anything to the coin with the current in question. Even if it did, the coins behavior is not what I would expect from being placed in a magnetic field from a coil.

The battery with magnets in a coil should work.

The animated stickmen on the spinning disc would only be visible on camera, not in person, and only when speed and framerate are perfectly synchronized - a little bit off, and they would be drifting clockwise or counter-clockwise, a lot off, and it wouldn't be recognizable.

It's just a silly drawn figure. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dick-butt

nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y : Hi! (I'll write this in English even though we're both Swedish, just in case the same problem affects anyone else who wants to know.) Since a while ago, BIS #177 to be precise, your new episodes doesn't show up on Podbean. (I still use Podbean since I have to download the podcasts, and that doesn't seem possible from Fountain. If I didn't have to, I would've tried it a long time ago.) They still exist if I open the feed, and I can download them by marking the MP3 address, right click, click 'save link as', so they obviously exist, but something has broken the Podbean website's ability to update its page for your podcast. Probably something related to podcasting 2.0.

Just a small annoyance and not a huge problem for me, as mentioned, but it looks as if your podcast was dead for anyone nontechnical, in a hurry, or not thinking that particular problem is likely, i.e. at least 99.9% of people. I don't know if you or anyone you know and/or work with can do anything about it, or if it's a problem with Podbean in particular, but I thought you'd want to know.

Love your podcast, especially the BIA episodes!

Advertisements are probably responsible for 1/10 of the bad stuff in the world that fiat money is. I'm not saying that to diminish it, it's a huge amount.

I'm probably going to attract trolls with heavy cognitive dissonance by this post, who didn't think through its meaning, but whatever:

Nostriches: Potato, become an egg!

Potato: How? I'm a potato.

Nostriches: You need the boiling water!

Potato: I told you, I'm a potato, it doesn't harden me, it softens me!

Nostriches: Well, become an egg then!

(return to second line and repeat, or go off into how being a potato is a moral failing etc.)

(The mandatory: Not all nostriches of course. But probably 3/4 of them.)

Thanks. I thought "wasn't this already approved, and didn't concern self-custody?"

That countries can set lower limits for cash is concerning. Sweden, where I live, is probably going to set it low, since cash use is already rare here, and only about half of stores, restaurants, etc. accept it, and despite efforts by lots of people to convince politicians to protect the right to use it, resulting laws has been weak. They obviously don't want to.

Put another way: Who decides what is a wrongdoing...

I've never been on Twittex, but I've noticed something here, that only recently floated up to conscious level: There is rarely the hating on each other and picking sides, but when someone writes something IMO rotten of a certain few varieties, it invariably gets huge amounts of zaps and likes, and very rarely opposition in the comments, even though I know there are lots of people here with the same opinion in the matter as me, i.e. thinking it's rotten. The reverse is also true, but not to the same extent - they get opposition a bit more often.

It simply seems like people here are afraid to take conflicts head-on, and I have noticed that in myself too, and I think that one of my reasons is that I don't want to be muted, as many of the people having IMO rotten opinions in some matters, like most of the people here, have good opinions in matters of wanting freedom, and are in one way or another involved with something good with Bitcoin and/or Nostr.

Another reason is that I recognize the style that I associate as common with a specific type of troll, that sometime pops up on Reddit when I was there, and has done here a couple of times, that can provide endless arguments that are very hard to prove wrong even though they are, combined with concealed attacks on not what, but the way, I think (it's hard to explain), and an incredible ability to turn around and draw attention away from a part of the argument they are about to lose, and twist it into another part, intentionally misunderstanding my point of view, etc. It's just exhausting to try to debate them.

It's weird, and sometimes feels very wrong, but good in some ways. And it probably helps Bitcoin and Nostr which is of course good.

Privacy tech is good and completely necessary, but this shit that is spreading around the world needs pressure against it from more angles. How do we get the obvious fact into the heads of people that this isn't about protection, but grabbing more power through controlling narratives, and eventually locking up political opposition? "We can't" isn't a good enough answer if we want to even be able to use privacy tech in the future. If left with as little pushback as is currently the case, they will not stop until it's literally impossible to use private systems, either through being completely blocked or guaranteed to go to prison.

They taste pretty strong, but also sweet. And of course, like cinnamon. Where I live, rice porridge, (similar or identical, not sure, to rice pudding) is a traditional Christmas dish, with cinnamon sticks in it. I've always liked to chew on those when I've eaten the porridge, but they are probably a bit milder since some of the flavor has gone into the porridge while cooking it.

It's far more sinister than that. If it imploded, there would at least be a possibility to rebuild. If enough of these surveillance and control laws goes through, it will be on an exponential, inevitable path to eternal complete totalitarianism. No hope in decades, our entire lifetimes, or even far beyond them. Not ever. And it's not just the EU, similar things are rolling out faster or slower in most parts of the world it seems.

I think the event horizon is within 10 years, at the current rate. Maybe much sooner, as it's accelerating

Freedom technology alone won't solve this, as many people on Nostr seem to believe. It's an important part, but pressure on the politics is needed too. And, I think, most needed of all is spreading information - I doubt even 10% of Europeans know that this is going on, at the very least not to what extent, or its consequences.

I seem to always run in to the strangest problems with YouTube, which few others seem to be having. This time, when I try to search, nothing happens when I press enter or click the magnifying glass icon. If I search the web for a channel and click it, nothing happens when I click "videos".

If this was Youtube's anti-firefox or anti-adblock campaigns that I've heard of, I would at least expect others to have written about the same problem, but searching the web - nothing. Disabling the adblocker makes no difference btw.

Alternative sites work for some creators - for example Louis Rossmann is on Odysee too - but the vast majority of comments are on YT.

It would be great if the video hub of the world could be on Nostr instead of in Google's claws - if one client stopped working, just try another one!

You mean the stuff about a year ago that someone had managed to extract the secret with some crazy apparatus when having physical access? (can't remember if it was X-ray laser or what it was - expensive thing anyway)

"Please let your parents read it, and tell them to hurry. Especially in UK, but EU and everywhere else too."

Seems kinda shitty to do, but does it make it insecure?

A few of these are actually decent. Usually, pretty much all of this kind of quotes feels more like punching down than something uplifting...

Also, there's a typo in #2, a "not" too much. (as it is, it doesn't make it either uplifting or like punching down, but nonsensical, so I assume it's a typo.)

It's a catch 22. If the current system were to actively block any information of the new, or even punish those who spread it, either legally or technically, the new can't bootstrap. And if allowed to continue without protest, I'm sure they'll sooner or later find a way to mandate ISP:s to block and/or report usage of the new system.

The Trumpian way being practiced in the EU. Suggest something outrageous, then back off to something terrible but somewhat less so, and hope that everyone agrees because it's not quite as bad as the first... Banning anonymity is still a huge step in the direction of totalitarianism, probably the event horizon, from which freedom can never recover, ever. And banning children and youth from installing programs on their own computers, which smartphones are... That's just stupid. If it had happened in the 90's, 00's, with PC:s, I'd say the majority of today's experts in programming and other IT stuff would be working in some completely different field, and we wouldn't be anywhere near where we are today in this technology.

OK, that explains some things. Here on NOSTR, there at least was, a few months to a year ago, a lot of it. It still exists, but I've seen much less of it lately. With some luck it's the protocols freedom slowly de-twitterizing the people... I've never used twitter or nowadays X myself, but I've heard that there's much hate in general there due to its algorithm, and most people on NOSTR came from there.

What's insecure and what have they done in the past? (I'm not trying to defend them, I want to know.)

Please be careful and either wear real laser safety goggles for the wavelength and power emitted, or leave the room before starting it and wait until it's done before re-entering. A single tiny reflective surface, in an unsuitable angle, on what you're marking is all it takes for permanent eye damage.

I think it's mixed. Some experts lie blatantly, but many others think they're right, sometimes because they base their "expertise" off the stuff the ones who lie say and write.

Is something strange going on?

A few days ago, same day or the day after nostr:npub1vwymuey3u7mf860ndrkw3r7dz30s0srg6tqmhtjzg7umtm6rn5eq2qzugd talked about the paper regarding the Lone Star tick that can cause meat allergy, Swedish public service (AKA government (AKA theft) funded) radio had a segment mentioning that tick-caused meat allergy has increased in Sweden (no surprise mentioning the warmer weather due to global warming as a factor).

I had never heard that the ticks we have in Sweden could cause meat allergy.

Is this some kind of campaign, for example to prepare people for mass outbreaks of meat allergy, or as a coming "explanation" of a side effect of a certain medical product that was pushed heavily a few years ago?

Is this something that anyone in any other country has read/seen/heard on mainstream media recently?

Also asking nostr:npub1pjxmp0g6k60x8jxcwkkn7v8he2jzxqfd9dug9mlprvzzns7gklsq2ydrrv given the nature of his research. (Hope I got the right person, I haven't interacted with him on Nostr before.)

Something else that's annoying, that I've noticed in more and more podcasts recently is that the ads start in the middle of a sentence. Not sure if this is some kind of scientifically proven manipulation tactic to get people to pay more attention to the ad, or just crappy ad injector AI.