for those who are in "portugal" if you want to pay sats for your groceries, Pingo Doce supermarkets are the main option, available via bitrefill and budali.
but be warned, if you don't unseal and redeem them relatively early in the morning you will have to wait until the next day, after 8am portuguese time, to redeem them.
plato was wrong about forming states.
city states, maybe.
and each place must have its own native language and code of law.
Good morning The NOSTR. Stack zeee SATS and you'll be happy! 😁 ☕ 💜 https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_6902071905131445011697611899.webp
fuck The Fiatjaf.
also #gm
adding to the previous note about gender and time preference.
young men have higher time preference than older.
it is no coincidence that progressivism, communism and the various flavours of socialism depend on twisting politics to pretend that women and young men should be making decisions for the rest of us.
there was a reason why the romans had the senate too. the senate was basically old men.
the downfall of republics is the fact they use democracy at all.
a society that endures and has justice is going to be based on the law being discovered in a competitive process between a bunch of mostly old men, who are trusted for their careful judgement, whose age is critical to their ability to discern the outcomes of their judgements.
this is why jericho stood for 9000 years.
probably why phillipopolis (plovdiv, bulgaria) stood for 6500 years too.
societies that trusted the judgement of a decentralised law system mostly performed by old dudes with big long beards.
it's nothing to do with opinions or myogyny
women have biological wiring for higher time preference
that's why they should not be leading our society
japanese work ethic makes even socialist heroic work look like laziness.
yes, in USA, firearms are the most common method, but elsewhere:
literally stabbing and bashing with fists and feet.
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/global-study-on-homicide.html
of course, the highest rates of homicide are in the USA, and they are 54% done by firearms.
i don't of course believe that this has anything to do with availability of weapons, because the murder rates that make USA the top place to get killed by murder are the ones with the most tight control of weapons laws.
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/global-study-on-homicide.html
of course the liars spin it so it sounds like guns -> murder but actually most of the guns used in murders were not licenced and legal.
so, i'm starting on the new regime today.
3L of 1.6% fat semi-skim (meio gordo) pasture fed UHT milk, ~62.5g of 10% fat 100% cacao powder, ~15g of marnoto brand sea salt (from algarve), and 125g of 80% fat pasture fed salted Agros brand butter (milk and butter both from Azores), mix together in a big pot, heat to ~50'C and drink slowly like endless coffee.
i love the taste of it, and coffee drinkers might be amused to know that i'm getting about 50mg of caffeine with my stack, but that is less than half a cup of coffee.
the real stuff, drug-wise is theobromine, which is relaxing my blood vessels and increasing my kidney elimination.
the other great things in this mix is ~99g of protein, around 1.4g/kg, about 150g of milk fat, somewhere around 150g of lactose, and shitloads of cacao antioxidants, magnesium and iron, and between the lactose and the cacao fibre more than enough to give my intestines a good flush and slow my fat digestion enough that i don't get colic.
it is something of a hybrid between detox and a training diet.
indeed, today after 4 days of rest but 1 day after walking a 12kg stack of milk cartons in a backpack 4 miles i'm planning to do 60 pushups and 120 situps in 4 sets.
the best thing about this stack is it only costs about 5 euros a day, and after it i should be able to manage to not eat any significant amount of anything else. probably will have popcorn again this evening but when i run out of the last 125g pack of that i'm quit on the cards.
the popcorn upsets my crazy wisdom tooth. none of the rest of this stack causes any problems. the main cause of the problem: sugars.
with no sucrose, fructose, glucose, maltose or the long chain starches that contain high levels of those that are released by saliva enzymes, i get no pain or inflammation in my rather unhappy wisdom tooth.
plus, i get quite good quality cognitive function out of the deal as well, which is helping me write code that is a lot less challenging than the usual stuff i do.
most murders involve the level of physical strength possessed by the average 20-40 year old male. guns are not the most common, i believe knives and bats are the most common way murder is done.
i don't use mobile app. i prefer to watch the world around me if i'm on the move.
arsenicum, just fyi, is literally arsenic. but it's diluted so much it's less than you find in most food.
they aren't herbs, that is homoeopathy. there is chemically nothing in them except the memory of having once been concentrated enough to be detected.
i need to import 5kg stack of beef dripping. it was so cheap in the uk but zero here.
nostr:note1kl2uu5re4ysqdjq5mmu23ffpkctrxufewqz03w9jmfl38q2mfcuqy54aguDon't mess with the Zohan!
Tom adapted that story from Chuang Tzu's explanation of the principle of the Uncarved Block (Pu). There is a book, "The Tao of Pooh" which was basically written riffing off taoism through the original A. A. Milne stories, it's a great read.
I have never understood the Bisy Backsons.
i'm quite curious about how to make a keychain for identity, since this can dramatically strengthen the security of the signatures. i never did read up on how xpubs work, maybe i need to look at this soon. i'm working on a keychain right now, and this would be an opportunity to establish a method to do this with nostr.
the reason why the slavs and the celts have long held that a nation must have its own distinctive language has to do with maintaining the decentralisation of government and law.
it's one of the features you see in all large, tyranical, imperial systems, the spread of a single form of language.
the romans did it, the bulgarians did it, the russians did it, the serbs did it, the germans did it (very recently), and the longest lasting and most lethal form of it today is the english language.
i had recent disagreements with some people about their view about the eventual universality of english, and pondering the nature of law and its centralisation and weaponisation reminded me that part of the way to establish boundaries between groups of settlements is to make distinct languages.
i observed this very clearly in the border between Bulgaria and Serbia. They literally and clearly defined their differences from each other in the language, making it difficult for a person raised speaking one language, to speak another. A simple example is the way that bulgarians and serbs differently say "because":
Bulgarian: zashtoto - literally "the why"
Serbian: Zato Shto - literally "for this why".
the differences in their conventions for the definite article are at play here too, the bulgarians often use the definite article, which they construct similar to nordic languages, as a suffix, as indicating generality instead of singularity.
having learned the bulgarian first, learning the serbian was always a tongue twister.
there is probably hundreds of examples in the similarities and differences between these two particular languages. Phonetically was one special point too - the L in bulgarian is more like the russian, very round and distinct, whereas in the very same, otherwise, phonetically, word, the serbians drop the L altogether, even though it is found in other related words. Like Beograd, which is pronounced almost like the bulgarian way to write it, Belgrad, which means "white city". Bulgarians say "Delo" and the serbs say "Deo", another example.
the real back story about why regions develop strongly distinct ways of speaking is all about making their legal systems distinct from each other.
this is even enshrined in the story of the Tower of Babel, which isn't about events even that far back, in fact, literally not long after that time (around 500BC) the romans started spreading latin around and building their empire.
setting up schools and teaching languages is part of the process of colonisation and development of imperium.
common people fight against this, and many people mistake this prejudice for being misinformed or low intelligence.
but in actual fact, it is wise to maintain a distinct way of speaking in small regions, if you don't want your local government to become an arm of an imperium.