"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it."

Mark Twain

that's ridiculous. she is pretty. not megan fox but that is actually a good thing. most guys including myself are intimidated by girls that look like megan fox. we all want somebody who seems to be just a little big too good to be true but maybe they will notice something special about us and like us more than we are really worth ...

nobody wants megan fox because she is so far out of everyone's league that she is useless for basically any purpose - even acting.

but there is a difference between "approachable" and "mid"

sweeney's face is "approachable" and her body is the same ... except the tits ... which are attention grabbing

I just zapped myself. So it's working. Not sure how primal does it.

Primal?

Bitcoin is propping up tether.

Should play fine on anything not used to package sneakers. It came out in 2007. 3 hours is if you get stuck. My first play-through was maybe 5 hours but I am not really a gamer.

Now it takes about a half-hour.

yeah, like all valve games the narrative is top notch, you will enjoy

yeah, portal 1 and 2 are both pretty low spec requirements. both quite old based on the source engine used for HL2. pretty much playable at over 60fps on most current bottom-end onboard intel integrated intel GPUs at like 2k resolution

and yeah, idk about 3 hours, maybe, if you have a walkthrough guide. the storyline is pretty hilarious. the AI goes psychotic of course, in both episodes

i've played both 1 and 2 and one or two other mods, part way through one at the moment haven't played it for a while. the guys at valve have such a great sense of humor. half life 2 got me back into gaming.

Please tell me you've played Portal. Or better yet, tell me you haven't and go have the most enjoyable 3 hours of your life.

I do what I must because I can.

'Didn't we have some fun though? Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said "Goodbye," and you were like "No way!" And then I was all, "We pretended we were going to murder you." That was great.'

I see this! GM!

I'll admit I laughed, but I laughed AT myself not with myself, so not ok.

I guess I’m missing the breakthrough in using that notation rather than 1, 2, 3. I get if you numerals, it’s circular, but starting with empty set and then the set itself, etc. just feels like counting. But counting with *what*?

Well, I believe it took mankind centuries to come to terms with things like irrational numbers (think I read some guy almost got killed by Greek clique for putting forth idea of diagonal of a square), and infinities, and even zero ha!

You won't get a better meaning of 3, I guess it's not possible beyond the schools of thought he lists out, but the formal def as {0, {0,1}, {0,1,2}} is pretty pure and we can at least all understand and communicate about such things much more precisely

HAHA, this has me actually laughing out loud. But please, this Kafkaesque depiction of this man's life is the real insult!

Hideous!

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I get it's big to be able to connect these abstractions that are hard to pin down, but am still hazy on exactly *how* it’s pinned down, even if I can grasp the concept which seems intuitive, i.e., no gaps. I mean it’s hard even to define 3, let alone irrational numbers which are more abstract, and then to connect it as “isomorphic” with these geometrical concepts, but it’s still like I’m reading in Portuguese and translating it in my head to English.

reading that exact part now. I feel like he's just saying real numbers are points on a line or lines in a plane, and all continuous (gapless) structures are essentially the set of real numbers. But I am fine to just read, partially understand, and wait for the light bulb to go on.

Reading this book about the philiosophy of math, and he’s talking about the number 3 like it’s not obvious what it is. What do you mean by “3”? The sets of all things of which there are “3” elements? That’s kind of redundant. So he’s trying to build an understanding of “3” from first principles, and I don’t understand what he’s talking about specifically. But I get the gist.

I love how weird seemingly obvious ideas get as we try to drill down on them.

The real Bitcoiners are here now 💪

What's the tool to check which relays your notes are published to?

#asknostr

Found a source on Soulseek with many of his albums 👀

Why did the young couple of melons with strict parents not get married?

Cuz they cantaloupe 🥁

Guy walks into a pizza joint

Can I get a pizza with prunes please

For here or to go?

To go, what else? ;)

I shall buy some prunes in the morning.

You're full of shit inpc😜.

Good man. The addition of the Damus relay seems to have fixed things🙏🏻.

I see you 👀

I'm going for an Indian on Monday, so I'll post you 2 pictures on Tuesday. One of food and one of, well, you know🤷🏻‍♂️😂.

Vitor Pamplona says you only need 3🤷🏻‍♂️.

I added one before that node suggested.

Yes.

The original function of VPNs was to give you a secure backhaul to your office when you are off-site. This is still a valid use case.

Then people started to discover they could consume regional content by using a global, public VPN. This is still a valid use case, however content providers could easily detect and block this if they were incentised.

The last case, which was never true was security. Stopping your ISP or government from monitoring what you are doing. Yes your path to the exit node is probably secure, but with the 14 eyes agreement as well as many other agreements, this simply means you are being observed and reported back by a different agency to your home agency.

How many VPNs do you hold the private encryption key for?

Now, NOSTR VPN's, where you hold your own key 🤔

But you're still being observed at the exit node.

New game/website idea! Indian food or diarrhea? Close ups of either, user has to guess which 😬

After seriously using VPNs for several weeks now, I have realised they are an illusion.

Sites like ChatGPT get stuck in an infinite Cloudflare loop verifying your humanity while using a VPN, the second you turn off your VPN, the test completes. I have noticed this on several sites served by Cloudflare.

Other sites like Audible redirect you to your physical country of origin even when using a VPN and on a desktop machine without the aid of GPS.

This means any site is capable of detecting which country you are physically in and whether you’re using a VPN or not, the only question is whether they are incentivised to do so.

For sites like YouTube or X, they don’t currently care so will reflect the country your VPN reports to them in terms of country logo and content language.

For sites like Porn, who actually want your business, they will happily accept your VPN status.

But for sites like ChatGPT or Audible, who generate a better service by knowing where you are, they easily detect your physical location despite a VPN.

Lastly VPNs used by default degrade your general online experience.

Search results are returned in your VPNs exit node location and language, so if your VPN is set to Finland and you’re asking for coffee shops, you’ll get results shown in Finnish for coffee shops in Helsinki.

YouTube will bias recommendations based on your VPNs local language and location

Shopping sites will show products priced in your VPN exits country.

And many sites know you’re using a VPN and will simply refuse to show you anything while you continue to do so.

As an experiment, I set my VPN exit node to the UK, where I’m actually based, and suddenly many UK sites, like the BBC, stopped working because they knew I was using a VPN.

Peer to peer VPNs, like MysteriumDark mitigate this by exiting through users home broadband connections, but this is still easily detected by any service such as Audible who know where you are physically located. N.B. this knowledge is not based on GPS data, as this happens on desktop computers with no GPS.

In conclusion, VPNs only work to bypass restrictions because the service providers are either ambivalent or incentivised to ignore them.

After seriously using VPNs for several weeks now, I have realised they are an illusion.

Sites like ChatGPT get stuck in an infinite Cloudflare loop verifying your humanity while using a VPN, the second you turn off your VPN, the test completes. I have noticed this on several sites served by Cloudflare.

Other sites like Audible redirect you to your physical country of origin even when using a VPN and on a desktop machine without the aid of GPS.

This means any site is capable of detecting which country you are physically in and whether you’re using a VPN or not, the only question is whether they are incentivised to do so.

For sites like YouTube or X, they don’t currently care so will reflect the country your VPN reports to them in terms of country logo and content language.

For sites like Porn, who actually want your business, they will happily accept your VPN status.

But for sites like ChatGPT or Audible, who generate a better service by knowing where you are, they easily detect your physical location despite a VPN.

Lastly VPNs used by default degrade your general online experience.

Search results are returned in your VPNs exit node location and language, so if your VPN is set to Finland and you’re asking for coffee shops, you’ll get results shown in Finnish for coffee shops in Helsinki.

YouTube will bias recommendations based on your VPNs local language and location

Shopping sites will show products priced in your VPN exits country.

And many sites know you’re using a VPN and will simply refuse to show you anything while you continue to do so.

As an experiment, I set my VPN exit node to the UK, where I’m actually based, and suddenly many UK sites, like the BBC, stopped working because they knew I was using a VPN.

Peer to peer VPNs, like MysteriumDark mitigate this by exiting through users home broadband connections, but this is still easily detected by any service such as Audible who know where you are physically located. N.B. this knowledge is not based on GPS data, as this happens on desktop computers with no GPS.

In conclusion, VPNs only work to bypass restrictions because the service providers are either ambivalent or incentivised to ignore them.

Only slightly worse than me🙏🏻.

I did mine at about 5 o clock this morning, I was very very drunk. Really excelled myself, I used an incorrect letter that I used on my first turn on turns 3 AND 4😂🥳.

That track is called in the place 🤌🏾

Yep. About 17 years ago i saved all kinds of art from a blog called MONSTERBRAINS. I recently found some of them including the pfp. Here's a sample of some others...

🧐 i'm listening

I must.

I put a new spin on this #linux meme

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