The Basque Country is next level

Sorry, I don't use Primal much apart from posting podcasts but I thought I would share some of the work we are doing here trying to fix Bedford.

Beyond starting a football club and owning local businesses, I have become active in trying to fix the endless issues in the town.

We have economic issues, in that businesses are under pressure from the economic climate as well as growing government red tape. This is being compounded by a massive rise in anti-social behaviour. We have a plague of addiction issues, with large numbers of crackheads, alcoholics and shoplifters in the town. We have a rise in crime, including assaults on women.

This is not a good situation.

Two months ago I threatened the police, that if they did not fix the issue then I will. During August I am funding a private security initiative in the town, where 10 security guards will be deployed across the town as scarecrows, providing a security blanket for residents and businesses.

We have met with the local police and our activity will be coordinated with them. We are also trying to work with the local council too. I am considering establishing a shadow council in the town, outside of party politics, driving civic action.

Alongside the private security, we are building teams for cleaning, events and marketing to drive economic activity in the town.

I just thought I would share this. Bitcoin world has become a little stale to me, it is time to get out there and do things. The UK is pretty fucked at the moment so it is fight or flight time.

"they" means dictator's family or the enslaved prisoners?

the same can be said about russia

With every year that goes by, I’m kind of low-key surprised that North Korea is still a thing.

Third generation dictator, hasn’t been revolution’ed yet, basically the most closed out country in the world.

Yes! Fees will trend to 1 sat/1kvb.

Mempool can stay empty. Mining incentives are already built in, just not for 3rd party cash flow chasing miners.

Bitcoin Treasury companies will become Bitcoin mining companies to protect their wealth.

Memory Injection will be a major security problem in the future.

I feel like I remember scenes when I was a toddler. But the truth is that I only "remember" them because I have pictures of them. My mind creates a whole experience that I think it is true even though I know my mind couldn't have stored all that from that time.

With sufficient data from my friends, realistic memories can be injected through fake pictures that just show up with a past date in your Google Photos. Your mind will build an entire experience around them that never existed but you will think it is real as everything else.

Especially if it makes you look good and proud of yourself.

ollama with qwq or gemma3

And Carney *doesn't* ooze that energy by a multiple?

Canadian Election day with lots at stake.

A continued slide into socialism, big government, and coercion/control or a break towards free markets, smaller government and individual rights and freedoms.

Crossing my fingers!

And PS - Pierre understands #bitcoin's role in the change, even if he can’t say publicly right now.

I still have PTSD from WIFI drivers.

I used Gentoo as my daily driver on a Sony laptop for 4 years between 2007 and 2011. I appreciate the knowledge I gain of compiling the kernel and every app from scratch, but from a productivity perspective, it was a complete waste of time.

Pick your battles.

Great. how has that converted into actual innovation? What have they produced? Aside from gain of function engineering, of course.

throw out some examples. I'm all ears.

From what I understand, China doesn't have the capacity to innovate only copy. What are they going to manufacture over the next 10-15 years if the US and partners don't have their goods made in China? They will get left behind with their empty plants and shiny yellow rocks.

And why on earth would the solution be “well let’s just cut it off” instead of like… I don’t know, some ointment or some shit? 🤨