Lmao they really got Buttigieg to ‘win Iowa,’ I’d forgotten.

Just learning about the ongoing “Lockdown Files – more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages sent between UK ministers, officials and others – showing how the Government used scare tactics to force compliance and push through lockdowns.”

Do we know who leaked them? Was it someone at Meta?

Ty #[1]​. I think I’m the first Portuguese to be zapped

Damus and wallet of satoshi - all new to me

Howzit!! It's easier to get on here than I had imagined. Assuming i did everything right.😂

If not, I guess I'm writing a pointless note to myself.

Yesterday I drove 4 hours cross Costa Rica to my hometown... the more I see the world, the more I convince myself this is the most beautiful place on earth 😍🇨🇷

Oh yeah sure i want !

Bitcoin+Nostr will unlock the next phase of capitalism.

It’s THAT big of a deal

Thinking of you

100%

🤙🤙

Nice to see you here, brother! Are you going to nostrica??

So I’ve been feeling kinda like shit the past few days, lethargic, headaches, coughing a lot, brain fog.

Just found out a few people in the island in our #worldschooling hub have dengue.

Should I go get tested? How bad is dengue really?

I think people who organize to prevent new housing being built in their city are selfish af.

If you adjust for inflation, and wages at the average industrial wage, believe it or not: it paints a picture of food being pretty near the cheapest it's ever been -- when measured in labor hours -- than it has been in all of human history. Not literally the lowest. But near it. It's important to put this in perspective when making predictions of pending absolute doom.

The picture looks better if you factor in wage growth, though. This is only looking at nominal price levels. It's not factoring in wage inflation.

I see a lot of people arguing that food prices are at an all-time high. This is actually manifestly untrue. Even if we look at food commodity prices in nominal price terms -- not even trying to adjust for inflation, looking back at the past 20 years, nominal price levels for wheat, corn and rice peaked around April of 2008, with the price of rice nearly double what it currently is in *nominal* terms right now.

It is simultaneously true, that food prices have risen substantially in the past 3 years. But it's also true, that food commodity prices reached an all-time low in 2017. So the inflation has been very real, and has caused real pain.

But it's also true that even at the peak commodity prices we have seen in foodstuffs in the past two years -- once again, in nominal terms -- in about October of 2022, we did not surpass the peak for food prices in the past two decades.

I know this is a narrative-violation. But it also has the benefit of being true.