He covers stuff like Right To Repair, subscription schemes like BMW's pay-per-month for activating the heated seats in the car you own, non-free products that become bricks or limited in their functionality when the company shuts down their servers, etc.

I hope Dave (EEVBlog) makes a video about this. And Louis Rossmann.

From what I understand, such phenomena are pretty much inconsequential at normal scales, temperatures and pressures, and not affected by consciousness per se, but by measuring, which can't be done without disturbing the tiny particles/waves in question. I'll continue keeping my eyes open when walking...

Sugar and other fast carbohydrate is conveniently missing from the diagram? I would believe there's a difference between for example whole grain bread and pure table sugar.

Of course there's an objective reality, though no human, and no AI either for that matter, is able to see its entirety. However, you can see an approximation in some level of fidelity, and aspects of reality can make themselves known in unpleasant ways if you ignore them. If you walk with your eyes closed, the wall in front of you doesn't cease to exist, you will hit it.

Living in la-la-land isn't good either. Then reality has a tendency to, seemingly but actually not, suddenly, punch you in the face.

Can't be, at least not previous times. There was no electronics when literal witch hunts were a thing. If it's EM radiation, it would have to have been something naturally occurring, such as increased output from the Sun, decreased protection from Earth's magnetic field, etc.

Many bitcoiners subscribe to the "strong men, bad times" etc. theory, and somehow link this to hateful polarization (and even the prevalence of transgender people - I'm not kidding). I don't fully believe this theory, not even in its basic form, but I wonder if there is some natural phenomenon that is cyclical, maybe with a random component to it, that affects peoples minds. It seems like there is something now and then that just make people crazy and angry at people they previously knew and liked, en masse, because of some perceived thing about them, whether real or not (e.g. witches).

I'm thinking of things like:

Electromagnetic radiation in some frequency band - though I would think we would have detected that by now.

Naturally occurring chemical or microbial pollutants in air or water.

Gravity modulations (maybe from Earth's spinning core somehow)- elephants get restless long before there's an earthquake, believed to be because of infrasonic vibrations, and at least some people see ghosts or similar, and/or get a strong uneasy feeling when exposed to infrasound.

Some type of radiation we don't know about - wasn't it at your last roundtable that someone had seen dowsing with metal rods work? I have witnessed that myself, too. There simply has to be at least one form of radiation/wave that science doesn't recognize yet.

My best advice: don't listen to advice. At least not as things you have to do. Read what people write, but think it through thoroughly, and decide for yourself, trying to predict the outcomes as far as possible. Your life is yours, and you are the one who decides, and lives with the consequences, positive and negative, the latter both from missed opportunities (which Americans focus unreasonably much on IMO, and there seems to be a large percentage of Americans on nostr) and from things you thought you wanted, but later regret.

TL:DR: Try to avoid groupthink.

Not sure how to put an old post as a reply in this client, but look at this note and my reply to it:

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It depends on what is defined as "left". When it comes to economy, I think that, for most people, actually seeing bitcoin communities become better off than fiat communities would be the most impactful (unless they just become bitter because they "didn't get bitcoin in time"), although Austrian economic theory might appeal to some of the more intellectual ones. When it comes to the other stuff that, particularly in the US, is associated with left/right, no, probably not. That mostly has to do with how you see other people (though in a quite strange mix IMO), and isn't likely to change.

With the caveat that I haven't been to therapy, and hence don't know the full details of the particular subject of this thread, that is exactly what I don't like in Bitcoin circles. While there are many, probably even a decent majority, of reasonable bitcoiners, there seems to be a disproportionately large portion of people with Tate-ish opinions (regarding a certain few subjects), compared to people in general. I even see it (or perhaps I should say hear it) radicalizing certain podcasters over time, them becoming more and more hateful towards people not sharing the Ideals(TM). This itself can't be good for their own mental health, and if there's anything we don't need in the Bitcoin community, its division over matters that are irrelevant to Bitcoin and its future.

Definitely looks like one. But - and this is not criticism or baseless rejection, just wondering - how would they have planted all the dozens to hundreds of charges including wiring, without anyone working there recognizing what was going on?

The footage looks exactly like demolition done with charges on the load-carrying structures.

The entire hourly 3-minute news broadcast on Public Radio (AKA propaganda outlet, but anyway) was about it. Here in Sweden...

OK, then I misunderstood the gist of the post. I still think we agree, that the doctor didn't check for causes, either internal or external, but just prescribed pills for the symptoms. I'm thinking such things are likely to cause worse problems in the future, since the root cause isn't dealt with, whatever it is.

To continue with the car analogy, it would be like the engine making strange noises and the mechanic tells you to turn the radio up so that you don't hear it. That's not likely to end well...

There is some merit to this, doctors - at least of the kind described, YMMV depending on where you live and what doctor you go to - certainly aren't interested in finding these kinds of causes, but be aware that things can go too far in the other direction too. To take a rather extreme example, if you take this approach too far, especially confrontationally, to someone who is seriously depressed, you may very well be the straw that breaks the camels back, and they end up killing themself instead.

Regarding the article in question, there are plenty physical ailments that show up as fatigue etc. and are not helped by sleep, food and exercise, but should of course not just be masked by pills either. OP seems to take it for granted that the girlfriends problems are the result of something she's doing or not doing. That may be the case, but it might also not be. Doctor should investigate these possibilities too.

They have an unpleasant ability to expand the circus until it reaches you. At least personally, I haven't found a way to eat, live in, drive, connect to the internet with bitcoin, and so on. Bitcoin can be exchanged for things for those purposes, but the things themselves are subject to "clownery".

Why do so many bitcoiners, at least among those who feature on podcasts, engage in victim blaming? Wouldn't it be more constructive to blame the perpetrators, such as central banks, banks, politicians, etc., and inform the victims that they can, fairly easily, become part of the solution?

Not saying that the former is a majority or that the latter doesn't exist, but still, the former are pretty common.

This is coming from "above" somehow... WEF, UN, etc.

How else could this shit still be on the table, despite such resistance as there has been?

Quality approval, both of you yourself and of the system adapting to you. I could imagine many bureaucracy systems just saying plain no if you don't fit their cookie-cutter model.