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Lurking, posting occasionally, and zapping anonymously. Observing always. Pulmonaut nostr-java is my hobby project.

he's not doing enough... tsk tsk tsk... 😏

but a promising start, nevertheless. lol.

The expression ”far-right libertarian” is worse than an oxymoron... It's just silly propaganda.

Yesterday, my little one finished the final Harry Potter book. (He read all seven volumes within several months, and no bribes were involved in the process 😎).

I'm so proud for his perseverance.

Tonight we start with Greek Mythology. That'll be fun.

The EFF has released a great tool called Cover Your Tracks which can be used to see what information your browser may be sharing with websites and organizations interested in your online activity.

Try it now, if you haven't already.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/kcarter?aat=1

I think everyone has to expect to be on someone else's mute list. That's completely fine, and I am personally not even bothered to check...

(I once feel asleep with my phone, and blocked one of my favourite follows by mistake. 😅)

Yes. It's not even funny anymore how he's being labelled as "far-right" by the media... 🥱

Consider the words of the progenitor of the decolonization movement, Frantz Fanon, in his 1961 book, The Wretched of the Earth. Drawing inspiration from Marxist and Leninist ideologies, Fanon adapts the concepts of class struggle and social justice to the context of racialized colonialism. Decolonization, for Fanon, necessitates political and intellectual upheaval and the complete upending of the social hierarchy. This “is always a violent phenomenon”:

> For the last can be the first only after a murderous and decisive confrontation between the two protagonists. This determination to have the last move up to the front, to have them clamber up (too quickly, say some) the famous echelons of an organized society, can only succeed by resorting to every means, including, of course, violence.

https://quillette.com/2023/11/19/the-deadly-logic-of-decolonization/

"Having been left without a mother, and unable to be brought up under the constant supervision of my father, I, in fact, grew up and was brought up in a circle of men (guards) who were not distinguished by morality and abstinence. This upbringing influenced my entire subsequent life and character. I started smoking and drinking early." — Vasily Stalin

https://www.rbth.com/history/336847-7-important-facts-about-vasiliy-stalin

Integrating via the notion app probably easier? You could sync your readwise.io notes to notion (the integration already exist natively) and from notion to nostr, with a custom sync.

It's closed-source but I think if many users ask, they'll add the feature.

(they're very good at adding integrations, they do it quite frequently. So, as a paying customer, I'm planning to submit a request)

I'd suggest you look up "zhan zhuang." You will find very good videos on the subject on YouTube.

Samah should try barefoot shoes...

Haven't read the details yet, but I am curious to know whether whatever they're trying to achieve can also be done on nostr...🤔

Yes, and Readwise is the best RSS client on the market.

Paying for your groceries with #bitcoin at the self-checkout in "Konsum" Supermarket in Pula, #Croatia?

Has anyone ever tried this?

(I didn't have data on my phone, so couldn't test... 😞)

I get them too... I don't mind, though...😎

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

There have been a handful of times in my life, maybe four or five or so, where I was walking in a dark parking garage or similar venue alone in a city at night, and came across a sketchy-looking dude that was looking at me weird or otherwise triggered my confrontational intuition based on his vibe, clothing, and/or body language.

And each time I kept it cool on the surface, looked at him confidently, but kind of subtlety clenched my fists and was internally amping myself up with uncontrollable adrenaline like, “You want to fucking go dude?” and began running through mental routines of how to drop him based on certain approaches, or what if he has a knife and how to focus on that, etc.

To this day, I don’t know what percentage of them were intending to be a problem. Maybe none. Maybe one or two out of five. I think at least some of them probably triggered defensive instincts in me for a reason; those aren’t there for no reason. Some aspect of them seemed acutely out of place or overly intentional, etc. Studies generally suggest that attackers pick out less confident looking people. Easy targets. They use their instincts too. Part of me wonders if any of them might have tried something if I slumped my shoulders and tried to walk quicker to my car rather than look straight at them and and basically amp myself up while also acting like nothing was happening. Some vibe of me was present for their instincts too.

But perhaps more importantly, I wonder what it feels like to be totally afraid there. To have no defenses, no answer. It happens to people all the time. You’re in a parking lot or garage and there is a sketchy dude or a few drunk guys. You get on a small elevator with a guy and it is you and him and he’s 80 pounds heavier. My father put me in martial arts so that I wouldn’t face a scenario with no answers. While I might feel adrenaline or concern, I never feel powerless. I immediately start running through options. I wonder what people feel like in these situations if they have literally never had a fight in their lives. Like, I might or might not win in this scenario, but either way it’ll be absolutely vicious if it gets down to it. I can’t imagine having no answer.

Or the doorbell rings at 9pm while my husband is on travel. 95% of me like “probably a neighbor” and the other 5% of me is looking out the window and clenching my fists slightly and running through those same routines and thinking about the closest knife location in case this gets weird.

I think that is an important aspect to teach people. Everyone should have basic defense training. Not everyone is going to have extensive combat training, but everyone can have some basics to boost their chances by either improving their vibes to avoid being targeted or having some basic starting points of what to do if attacked, since some actions like yelling and having a handful of moves to get away from a grab or hit someone back or otherwise make someone realize that it’s not worth it. It’s the same as having basic cooking skills, basic repair skills, how to change a tire, etc. you just have to know a few things.

I've been in similar situations, but in the opposite role, and this is probably because of my size, so I never miss to give strangers a reassuring smile when I notice they get nervous... It always works. 😅

On a related note, I've always thought that one of the things martial artists are exceptional at is de-escalation. Would explain why they rarely (?) get into useless fights...

The loud lady with the two bottles of Champagne from the previous video is seen here literally and enthusiastically singing the praises of the First Son, the soon to be president of Cameroon. This time, she sings in her tribal language, so I don't understand what she's saying...

He sits quietly, similes a bit embarrassed.

In reality, the performance is an appeal to his generosity.

https://v.nostr.build/G6zG.mp4