have you ever heard the way that government monopoly court apologists talk about the amount of money paid to judges and government prosecutors somehow makes them "neutral".
there are few examples of neutral and polycentric systems of law in history at all. a few hundred years of Iceland's history had this with making the recipient of taxes a choice, and the city of Jericho never had a coercive, centralised system either, but rather, judges who competed with each other to be reputed as neutral and decisive.
outside of that, i think that in the last few thousand years one of the ways that people have kept law from becoming adopted by tyrants as a weapon against their enemies is decentralisation, provincialism, and most especially, local, quite radically different idiom and dialects.
this is partly why there is this idea in many european cultures that a nation should have its own language. when a nation uses a common language the legal systems have the capacity to grow stronger across districts and government in general centralises.
most people avoid thinking.
that study about internal dialog highlighted the fact that modern people don't do very much reflection.
this is an aspect of time preference. people who have low time preference tend to spend a lot more time thinking and talking about things compared to actually doing them, especially when they haven't done them yet.
to not do this, while having not done these things yet tends to result in unexpected and undesired outcomes but the lack of thought doesn't bring that matter up either.
a society with hard money and tight fiscal policy is also a society with more meditative and discursive consideration of issues before actions are taken.
it's not hard to see how in so many ways authoritarianism wants to abolish thought.
rationalising also, the whole "price of civilised society" hooey, when there's nothing civilised about coercion and extortion.
yeah, you can detect a lot of things about a person's diet by the quality and features of their skin and hair. caffeine consumption, carb consumption, the kinds of fats they eat, the amount of water they drink, how regularly they wash, and what they use to wash.
the most ridiculous thing about the nostr clown's new gaffe is that he invented the name and it's (just to remind people):
Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relay
not
The Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relay
perhaps there is some logic in using a definite article when referring to it in some languages, but that's not english.
germans and russians and bulgarians and serbians all say "the nature" in their broken english, because in their languages that's how they say it. even portuguese, "a natureza".
the english definite article, thanks to the german convention of the definite capital letter title case, does not indicate generality, only singularity. most languages that use the definite article frequently don't signal generality with title case, as we do in english with Nature and God and His word and other similar expressions, which as you see, don't include a definite article prefix, whereas their equivalents in many other languages do.
it's a subtle distinction but fiatjaf's comment relates to how his native language works, not the language he used to name the protocol.
so elegant and goofy at the same time.
males in general are always competing to say i told ya so to everyone who will listen.
HHH is obviously a caustic, unfriendly, paranoid jerk who wouldn't help an old lady who dropped her walking stick. i doubt they can reason about social behaviour at all.
i tend to use a gentle, usually quite fatty soap bar to wash my hair every few days but one thing that for sure helps the condition more than anything is foods high in stearic acid, like pure chocolate or higher fat cacao powder and beef and beef fat.
it's not just the shampoo garbage that fucks people's hair up and makes the meme fuzzy crazy hair in middle age it's the carbohydrates too, which just generally reduce skin oil production. and probably rapeseed oil and other seed oil garbage, that is quite rancid, also tends to degrade the quality of skin oils that end up in the hair.
i'm growing my hair out long and i can report that as a late 40s person i have hair that looks as good as it did in my late 20s now after a week or so of frequent cacao consumption.
last thing i saw max doing was shilling tether gold, ranting like a loon and have not seen anything since.
murdering usually requires a fair bit of physical strength and all, and tends to be also related to bad temper in addition to being a psychopath.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/cocoa-powder-nutrition-benefits
pretty good article listing many things to be aware of.
i'm now close to a week in to using it on a daily basis and i definitely think it's improving my brain function, and also improving my satiety. there's a heap of other benefits, this article goes into good detail compared to other texts i've seen.
pennies in the couch are going to be worth less tomorrow.
the sats are probably going to be worth more in fiat terms every year until fiat is finally dead.
flammable isn't really an accurate word for hydrogen.
one of the first things they teach you in highschool chemistry is the "pop test" and that sure isn't a slow burn.
not only that, hydrogen cannot burn all at once like that without it already being in a pretty much precise ratio of 1:1 with oxygen, which isn't going to happen, and that means literally the hydrogen will mostly snuff itself out long before it gets a chain reaction starting, if the violence of the ignition of any part of it happens that's going to break a chain reaction by rapid dispersion
the hindenberg did not explode. its fire was not white, as it would have been if it were hydrogen. they literally used yellow iron oxide pigment and metallic aluminium turnings to make it all pretty and that is thermite, which caught on fire due to the nylon of the main body of the thing combined with some kind of natural fibre causing an electrostatic discharge that started the thermite and nylon burning.
you can see clearly in the film of the event that it was burning like thermite.
furthermore, the Mythbusters guys totally simulated it and proved it was not hydrogen burning but thermite.
i was under the impression that @fiatjaf was portuguese for some reason. is it A Nostr or O Nostr????
maybe it's Nossa Nostra?
the degree to which you can say private property is protected varies pretty widely and this redistribution of coercively collected, and often legally grey taxation has reached a level in most places now where it's hard to say that private property is being respected at all anymore.
most of europe is sliding fast down the hole into communism via progressive increases in taxation and regulation.