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This has been happening in a lot more places than just Texas

But yes

I think we are headed for a decline of empire

I might like to have some idea what's going on in the world at large, but without the global American empire, I suspect most people will be pretty local in their concerns & communication needs

nostr can be a tool for that but I have to get the people I know personally on it

But that is also true of many other protocols

I'm glad nostr exists, and culturally I think these are my people, but it seems to be more of a tool for resisting global censorship inside a global empire and (IMO) not really the right tool for the present or likely future

I like that nostr exists but discovering people to interact with is harder without centralization, and we don't have the sheer volume of people as Twitter.com

to be fair internet search engines are getting so bad that nostr doesn't really seem out of place

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#Bitcoin

1932 Democrat Platform:

"We advocate a sound currency to be preserved at all hazards"

Schrodinger's cat thought experiment was not an endorsement of semi-existince

The point is that one interpretation of quantum mechanics makes a cat (in the thought experiment) both alive and dead, but this is absurd, so this interpretation must be wrong

Police kill like 10 unarmed blacks per year

(and some of those are obvious overdoses like Saint Floyd)

While Israel has several thousand Palestinians in half a year

(ok some were Hamas, but there's no way innocents are not dying here)

Commentary:

Virology has only weakly scientific methods

The strongest evidence in favor of viruses (IMO) is experiments involving filtration, as with tobacco mosaic "virus" or rabies

Hypothesis:

There are potentially pathogenic microorganisms much smaller than ordinary bacteria, but they are spore/seeds/larva (etc) of ordinary microorganisms, not obligate intracellular parasites

Analogy:

You rip up a forest, pass it through a filter too small for trees to pass, plant the remaining material, and in a few years you have trees. Thus you conclude the trees are just a "response" of the soil to some other forest-causing agent. Obviously we can realize that seeds/nuts/fruit are much smaller than trees but grow into trees. What if eukaryotes/bacteria/fungi (etc) have such mechanisms as well?

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I'll admit I had to cheat on this one. I couldn't come up with any words at all for that third guess.

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nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a I read Broken Money and then bought an ancient shitcoin.

yeah but is it a real real coin or a real counterfeit?

styling RSS "pages" is really cool and solves a minor (but critical) pain point

I use invidious + RSS to subscribe to video media without making an account anywhere

M2 is generally a better fit IMO

The left chart is monetary inflation, the right chart is price inflation