I've been thinking about this. It seems hard for Americans to imagine that a democratic republic isn't the best government form of government for everyone on the planet. I think the truth is many people prefer physical safety and security over freedom and representation.
Same here. I used to use it as an editor, but not so much anymore. My main use for it now is as a search engine.
Investing, I'd love to hear more about that. I'm trying to find more resources on post colonial Southern Africa. A podcast interviewing folks who where there and watched things shift would be awesome.
I just finished Listening to "Blood River" by Tim Butcher. It isnt the best wriiting in my mind, but it gave me some interesting insights on The #Congo and #Africa. Another general obserservation worth note, is how somewhere can have experienced technological advances railways, roads, communications, etc... But in the course of 50 years see an almost complete reversal.
But the Zaps are real.
Most modern church buildings are depressing. I was visiting a church for Christmas eve. While singing carols I looked toward the heavens and was not confronted rudely by giant speakers where I hoped to see vaults and stain glass drawing me heavenward.
And folks in the developing world are even further from the printer than workers in the US.
Visiting #DFW for the first time in years and I don't get how anyone thrives in the urban jungle. I'm less than a week in and I feeling a bit of me is fading.
Thanks for the response. A book I have meant to read on this, but have failed to actually sit down and read is "The Drama of the Commons" by Ostrom. My understanding is that it critques the Tragedy of the commons and by extension Game Theory at the community scale.
🤣 I still think those 4 cylinder Toyota from the 90s are some of the best cars ever built.
Wealth doesn't solve our problems.
I love this unit. I like to compare myself to a medival war lord with 120 horses when I fire up my Toyota from the 90s.
I would love to. Is there a link to the audio or video?
My shotgun skills are abysmal, but it was wonderful chasing chuckers in for a day. #hunting
When a plant is damaged, it communicates danger signals to its furthest parts, using glutamate to trigger messages, a neurotransmitter in mammals
These signals may activate the plant’s defense mechanisms, or turn on pathways to healing damaged tissue
https://video.nostr.build/52f242bd6c4d0c3b2faae3a29650ef5a0c6bda0ab2df9f13db216bbec046e536.mp4
Beautiful. Do you have a link to the original paper? Looks like they were using GFP.
This was great. The conversation on the privlage of self custody was great.
https://fountain.fm/episode/b3wgP0vWQqWvihzUF77J
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It would be awesome if there was a plug and play way to turn unused solar energy into hash. I've "wasted"some energy in this year because my batteries are verbally full by 10 AM and then just sitting mostly idle during the day.
Just this guy here? I'll give it a try. https://bitcoinknots.org/
Is best to run a node first and then try mining?
I’ve ordered a miner as well, not because I expect anything from it, but because I want to do my part to help secure the network for all the incredible people using it.
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How long did it take to setup? I'd like to set one up, but curious how much time needs allocated.
We are planning on coming back next year. Hopefully we can meet up then.
Thanks for sharing this.
In graduate school it was very popular to work 7 days a week. I was also. A friend called me out on this and I hink my overall productivity went up whe I started seriously taking a sabbath. Not everyone is this way, but it worked for me.
I may be off my rocker, but I believe, I am working out of honest desire to know. Economics is not at all my field of specialization, but I'm curious about it. From the standpoint of so called 'shitcoins', I use BTC or gold as my units of account to denominate my net worth. So maybe I am an Austrian by default with my investment choices, but I am curious to know the truth here.
My point on the epistemological nature of the debate was to say that these are just two completely different economic worldviews. My point on the economics being a pseudo science was to say that neither Keynsian nor Austrian economics are falsifiable by the empirical evidence. Because whenever I see evidence brought against either, the proponents of each simply point out that it was implemented incorrectly.
True.
I have been thinking a lot about whether colleges and universities should go away completely. In my work, I get to see people truly transform and grow at university, but then others simply languish. I frequently try to talk students out of university for their own good. Very few opt out.
Anecdotally, it seems that many Christians derive their #environmental ethics from a pantheistic worship of nature or materialistic disregard for creation. There are many genuine attempts to form a #Biblical ethic, but #Christians need more of this. The correct ontology of God, humanity, material creation, and technology must be the core framework to work from.
You got me. I still haven't got around to running amythest on my phone. I'm still running primal on my android and coracle on my PC. But this is another reason to try amythest.
I've always wondered about this. I've heard both terms used. Is there a technical difference? I think of a biga being wetter than a foolish, but I don't know why.
This week in #environmental #science we are talking about problems having to do with the degradation and pollution. These include erosion, organic matter depletion, compaction, destruction in biodiversity, acidity, salinity, and contamination.
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I'm guilty of mostly just using primal to avoid this sort of thing. I'll be interested in what solution you find.
I would could try to do that. I still think Zaps are the biggest onboard. I tried to get into nostr back in 2023 or 2022, but it was when I first got zapped that I really started using it. I guess I'm a mercenary.
This week in #environmental #science, I was teaching on ecological niches. And the importance of biodiversity that we might not like. Students here in #Zambia generally kill snakes on sight. I am no fan of snakes either, but here is a geat article on the importance and niche of the puff adder.
Probably not anybody, but most.
Yeah, agreed on the meals and church side of things. That is something we are working on at the moment. Plus the vital skill of not interuppting (which is simply loving your neighbor). I like the crowd control take. Our kids can focus on something that interests them. Uninteresting tasks are much harder to develop focus for.
Thanks for this. I am thinking that we need to implement some more practice of sitting still, standing in ques, etc... at home, but ultimately I want my children to be passionate about exploration, finding the truth, and brave enough to go against the crowd. My daughter is a slow reader (so was I) but she can carry on very challenging conversations with me and other adults. It would be nice if there was a local option that offered classes one day a week where she learned the skills of sitting still and standing in a que.
When Americans ask me what it is like living in Zambia vs. The west coast of the US (Where I grew up), I like to tell them that Zambia feels like a place with a future and PDX and SEA feel like places that are dying. I think this map is the reason why.
