Where are all the females who always shout out for discrimination? The real way of feminism seems got all, but giving nothing.

#feminism #woman #army #germany

#ukraine #zelensky

⚡️👃🇫🇷 NEW - Louis Sarkozy, son of recently imprisoned former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, wants to decriminalize cocaine and abolish traffic laws and red lights.

Pferdchen

#proofofwork #artstr #oilpaint

It's the most wonderful time of the year.

Domestication is what turns wild animals into chiwawas. What is interesting is that this process is quite similar with different animals, even foxes start to look and behave like domesticated dogs.

Domesticated humans are like this - totally dependent on the society, in fear of their masters and tame, out of fear, not knowledge or choice.

Domesticated father is just a human who is someone's father and it's domesticated.

It's a spectrum of course, no one is usually fully one or the other.

One of the causes of this is the nanny state.

⚡️💬 TESTIMONIAL - “I sold all my Bitcoin.“

“I am putting it all into physical nickels. Yes, you read that correctly.

Here is the math: A nickel is worth 5 cents forever (legal tender). But the metal inside (copper/nickel) is worth 6.2 cents right now.

I am buying money for a 20%+ discount. If copper price crashes, I still have 5 cents. If copper moons, I have a fortune.

People can laugh now but they won’t laugh for long. The downside is zero.“

⚡️💬 TESTIMONIAL - “I sold all my Bitcoin.“

“I am putting it all into physical nickels. Yes, you read that correctly.

Here is the math: A nickel is worth 5 cents forever (legal tender). But the metal inside (copper/nickel) is worth 6.2 cents right now.

I am buying money for a 20%+ discount. If copper price crashes, I still have 5 cents. If copper moons, I have a fortune.

People can laugh now but they won’t laugh for long. The downside is zero.“

Spain

“The essence of traditional masculinity is the denial of vulnerability. The more invulnerable you are, the more manly you are. The more vulnerable you are, the more girly you are. Here’s why that’s an issue…

The idea that we have to deny our own humanity, our vulnerability, our feelings… All of us men who buy into this are haunted by anxiety. We don’t live up to this standard. We know we don’t live up to it. The reason we don’t is because what we’re trying to live up to is a lie. And because there is no room for imperfection, we bounce back and forth between shame.

If we’re not perfect, then we’re unlovable losers. But we have to a low tolerance for that before we’ve puffed back up into grandiosity. And what’s devilish about that shunt from shame to grandiosity is that it works. You feel better in a rage than you do feeling bad. You feel batter being godlike and invulnerable than you feel being defective and vulnerable.

That’s why dominance is so seductive to boys and men. But it’s a feel-good illusion that will ruin the lives around them.”

– Terry Real

Pferdchen — Work in progress

#painting #canvas #oil #art

Defaults decide outcomes. They are soft law.

Most people live inside them and call it "choice".

At scale, safety/ease beats sovereignty unless the latter is defaulted into UX.

Opt-out vs. opt-in can 5–10x adoption with no persuasion. This is how governments and platforms steer behavior at scale.

Defaults lower cognitive tax and social risk — so people call them "convenient" while locking into long-term paths (payments, news feeds, storage, wallets).

He who sets the defaults:

- defines what "normal" looks like,

- defines what "consent" is presumed to be,

- defines who has to spend effort and social capital to deviate.

For most people, "My preference" = "whatever the default made least painful".

Defaults are the main interface of coercion that still looks voluntary.

Governments and platforms don't need to ban competitors; they just set defaults so that exiting them is slow, confusing, or socially suspicious.

If you care about real agency, treat every default as a deliberate bet against you, unless proven otherwise.

Assume defaults serve:

- the platform's revenue,

- the state's control and stability goals,

- and only incidentally your convenience.

Design your own personal defaults instead of accepting whatever someone selected for you.

If you're not actively setting or resisting defaults, you're not "choosing", you're being routed.

#oil #paint

#oil #paint

#VPN #privacy

I am auditioning Obscura VPN. And even though I don't need yet another one (lol) I might just need to keep it! 😁

It does something unique. They partner with Mulvad and use their servers as exit nodes.

With a standard VPN they know your source IP. And they decrypt the data on the exit node. So you have to trust they do not log your traffic.

Obscura's input node knows your IP but cannot decrypt your data. And the Mulvad exit node can see cleartext data but does not know who you are.

Clever.

And they take #BTC #lightning as well as #Monero. So you can maintain an account with great privacy.

One downside is native apps only exist for MacOS and iOS. But I use wireguard anyway...

So far I like it. (There are 25% codes out there... Its a bit pricy without that)