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Giving nuggets of life hacks, pearls of wisdom, lessons learned and a few sats here and there.

I had to look it up.

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic framework which proposes that governments can and should create unlimited amounts of money to fund public spending programs. MMT is based on the premise that the government's ability to create money is unlimited and should be used to fund public programs.

Enjoyed rafting last week.

#grownostr

Replying to Avatar BTCapsule 🏴

How to use Zapple Pay

Go to https://nwc.getalby.com and sign into your account

Select New Connection and give it a name

Set a budget so you don’t get rugged

Copy the string, and go to https://zapplepay.com

Enter your npub, and select 🤙 as the trigger emoji (only emoji available on Damus)

Paste the string and add a + after the word nostr

That’s it! You can zap on Damus again

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This was a fun storm. In this case, I was happy to not get zapped.

Just finished an 8 mile hike.

Guess where?

MacBook Air problem in terminal.

Running Ventura 13.0.1

Problem - I seem to have lost sudo rights.

I can’t even run “sudo whoami”

Error:

"sudo: unable to initialize PAM: No such file or directory”

The inter webs have a few suggestions, but I haven’t figured it out yet.

Any help would be appreciated. Useless jokes snarky comments will be acknowledged only if they are funny.

Ultimate goal is to have my start9 Embassy fully functional the way I want it. I’m almost done.

I’m at the step where I’m trying to enable proxy autoconfig. This is where I get the error. I

https://docs.start9.com/latest/user-manual/connecting/connecting-tor/tor-os/tor-mac

So sad to see the lightning bolt missing from our notes. I like how there’s an empty space where it used to be.

Damn Apple updated my app without my consensus.

I might have to go back to an android.

I noticed there’s a slight change to the other icons too.

This is interesting to me. Past (already verified and executed) transactions match perfectly (as expected) between my node (top) and mempool.space (bottom). Future blocks (groups of transactions) do not match. A demonstration of the power of decentralized computing and the genius architecture. I have so much to learn.

A constitutional republic, not a democracy

The idea of a democracy is universal equality. The ideal of a constitutional republic is individual liberty.

A democracy always degenerates into dictatorship which promises government-guaranteed equality and security. But it delivers nothing but poverty and serfdom for the people it robs and rules.

America was founded as a constitutional republic - to safeguard the liberties of the people against the tyranny of democracy or a one-man dictatorship.

In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our republic into a democracy. The foremost tactic of subverters is subversion of language. By calling America a democracy until people thoughtlessly accept and use the term, the totalitarians have obscured the real meaning of our principles of government.

#grownostr

#tsp

#liberty

Replying to Avatar Jack Spirko

The 21-Foot Handgun Drill is Bullshit, Always Has Been

This drill unfolds as follows: a guy with a knife in hand initiates an attack and usually "wins", meaning he touches the gun guy with a fake knife before the gun guy can fake shoot the knife guy.

As if that is a "kill". As if the gun guy can't now shoot the knife guy many, many times. But that isn't even the real bullshit.

Have the knife guy put the knife in a scabbard, and let the gun guy initiate the attack. The bull 💩 becomes instantly obvious. The real lesson is that the attacker, in all situations, tends to have the advantage. This is true from a street attack all the way up to state-on-state military conflict.

The attacker doesn't always win but, statistically, wins far more often than not. Look at every major war in history, and you'll see this is the case. In fact, the nations that we often say "lost" — like Germany in WWII — only lost when they stopped being the attacker and became the defender.

Some reading this won't like it because it grates against the "taught truth", but the taught truth is taught because it's seldom simply true. It is, instead, a construct that generally is false. In many instances, it's the truth hiding in a lie, as it is here.

What the drill should teach you is that having a gun doesn't guarantee you'll survive or win in a fight, even if your attacker doesn't have one. Substitute a hammer for the knife, and the attack becomes even more potentially deadly. You're more likely to survive a stab wound than a blow to the head with a ball peen hammer that can be bought in any hardware store for under 20 bucks.

You could be a Navy SEAL, a Green Beret — it doesn't matter. If someone wants you dead and you don't know it, you're likely dead. The most badass soldier you know can be approached from behind and hit in the head, resulting in death in less than a second. People hate this type of truth because it makes them realize how at risk they really are. That's the point of the 21-foot drill, but most people who teach it don't understand the real lesson.

#grownostr #gunstr #jacksthoughts

Makes sense. The attacker usually picks the target, time and place to provide the best advantage.