Suspiciously specific :-p
nostr:note1rn9tg8fdsjqtku8ac7dt7u8h2ejek6r4d8af883pukjes6x23jhqpss6lnMost of the population are sheep, always and everywhere. Mostly they go where they are herded, but sometimes they notice the goats are going the other way, and stampede after them.
We are goats.
The tarmac looks unmelted. Its a light coloured aggregate, but still, whatever caused that was highly directional and somewhat parallel to the ground.
So probably not a nearby fire.
Wtf...?
I have heard of cars being melted by converging reflected light from glass skyscrapers.
Is that what this photo was? Or just 'shopped?
Society's understanding of gender roles is still adjusting to the introduction of reliable birth control, I think. And to antibiotic-driven low maternal deaths in childbirth. And to urbanisation.
For all human history and prehistory, demand for reproductive aged women greatly exceeded supply. And older women who could gatekeep access to younger women had enormous power.
Now reproductive-aged women are neither scarce nor special, and gatekeeping them is very difficult in an urban environment.
Hence a collapse in attention, power and status for women as women. Especially for older and unattractive women.
Great efforts are made to return the previous status quo through coercive State action - family law, and equal pay for unequal work legislation.
Women seeking attention, power and status through traditionally male activities instead have to compete with men, and often do poorly. Hence the demand for additional State action.
I do think each generation since the Boomers has handled it better than the one before.
Sony Walkman. I found the feed mechanism very interesting. I'm totally going to build a tape reader one day.
Mum used to freak out seeing me with a case open. That 3V totally gonna electrocute someone lol
It was 99% of the market, between the Bronze Age and the late 1800s. Jus' sayin'...
When the lion merges with the lamb, which one walks away?
I'll be sticking to the alleys as long as the State retains its coercive power...
Anything that can terrorize StellaInForest must be out of a H. P. Lovecraft novel 👀
These guys do decent research - https://web.archive.org/web/20221103144105/https://www.moreincommon.com/our-work/publications/ - quite a few papers there.
The political views of real people are much more interesting than the toxic gaslighting of the MSM
Its hegemonic among 8% of the population, bro.
Its media gaslighting dominated by that same 8% that makes them seem more than they are.
Your subjects require entertainment, Your Majesty
I don't want to name the country, it has doxx potential if combined with other things I've said.
Wife left that country because she wanted to be her own person instead of always being known for being her late father's daughter.
BIL, well, he benefits a lot from being his late father's son, and he doesn't mind. He won't leave.
There are a lot of Third World countries with repressive cryptocurrency laws, unfortunately.
I'm very happy that West Africa seems to be bucking the trend!
Now, now, the CIA didn't send weapons to the Khmer Rouge to spite Vietnam.
No. Absolutely not.
They shipped them to Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who was a hostage of the Khmer Rouge.
If the weapons ended up in Khmer Rouge hands, well, it was completely unforeseeable.
Just like the heroin trade.
Kind of surprised about nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a 's naive take on BTC's supposed appeal to the Western left. Speaking as a European, I simply do not see any of the examples Lyn gives.
For the left in the Western European country where I live, the opposition to Putin are the bad guys (so is Ukraine, obviously), women in Afghanistan are a deplorable collateral damage to the good fight against the evil US, and basically anything that like BTC decentralizes economic power out of the iron grip of an ever-expanding State, is pure evil that must be fought to eradication, period.
You guys have no idea of the adamant, relentless, anti-Bitcoin discourse and propaganda of the European left and how ingrained it has become.
The "Left" was a seating plan for 1700s French parliamentarians. It meant a little then, ideologically, and less now.
I strongly suspect, outside the MSM gaslighting, the "Left" and "Right" are each very divided and diverse.
Build bridges to those you can reach.
110% this.
I already knew this when I enlisted, but I was also savvy enough to choose a form of service that meant I would be very unlikely to be deployed. Got the skills, but not the scars. Got out and into a civilian career.
Could've gone horribly wrong, in hindsight.
I have two preteen sons who've thankfully shown zero interest. But that was true of me at that age, will keep an eye open...
I agree, although I think in each of those cases "selection and maintainence of the aim" and personnel choices were decisive, upstream of social and political support.
I couldn't believe it when the wikileaked Afghan War Logs revealed DynCorp was hosting paedophile parties to recruit new Afghan National Police officers.
Well, it made a sick kind of sense - they can't defect to the Taliban (who would have them buried alive as per Shariah), and their foreign sponsors will have kompromat on them from the start.
But arming and uniforming child-molesting kidnappers really wasn't a great way to win the trust of the population.
Wonder if they do this at home?
So, my electric lawnmower has DRM. Curing it is sadly not a simple matter like buying a flea collar or a course of worming pills.
Keeping the mower's existing sockets for feed in, and built two chargers (one takes grid 240 V AC, one takes raw ~24 V solar DC input).
I've been experimenting with building new battery packs, because most of the bad mojo is in the batteries (a full system-on-a-chip in each battery, to prevent owners from using off-brand anything).
I spot-welded together 10 (5S by 2P) second-hand lithium cells with an off-the-shelf BMS and the old battery's tabs to feed the mower. The first iteration wasn't very successful - it worked, but overheated after maybe five to ten minutes every time, needing a rest before using again. Used it through winter just fine, but spring grass was a nuisance.
Tried out the Mk2 today. Better (but still secondhand) lithium cells, and pure nickel strip. It overheated after 20 minutes. Found it was just one pair of cells, so I swapped them out and started again. No problems after that.
Wish I could mount a little fan in there, but there's no space. I can't even fit the usual plastic spacers on my cells.
But it is proven possible to liberate a electric lawnmower from DRM! And for a lot less (~$30 ea) than the cost of OEM batteries (~$120 ea).
#offgrid #diy #garden #electronics #drm
My wife's brother lives in a country where you can get 10 years jail and have your assets seized for being party to a Bitcoin transaction. (Nothing else needs to be proved: no malicious intent, no harm, no deception).
Bitcoin is violence, to those who are fiat.