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I did not know that #GrapheneOS has got this Private Space option. I may start using it for some apps instead of switching user profiles. Side Of Buritos made a bunch of videos on GrapheneOS over the years. Some are worth sharing with friends who may be interested. A good place to start your Graphene journey. 🙂

"Anyone who takes a job for a central bank or any similar entity, building a cryptocurrency, quasi-cryptocurrency or kind-of-blockchain-thing, is a traitor."

Free-Man's Perspective

Anyone Who Goes To Work For A Central Bank Coin Is A Traitor

Anyone Who Goes To Work For A Central Bank Coin Is A Traitor There’s a time and place for just about everything, and this is a time to be blunt: ...

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America Has Defaulted on Its Debt FIVE Times

Activist Post

The Big Lie: America Has Defaulted on Its Debt FIVE Times—And a SIXTH May Be Imminent

Learn about the U.S. debt default history. This blog reveals how the country has faced multiple defaults throughout its past.

Somewhere I heard about an interesting theory. It connects developments in military technology with political systems. The idea is that, for example, with the invention of gunpowder technology, it became easy to turn any peasant into a soldier just by giving him a musket. Thus it became important to be able to conscript as many of them when needed. In exchange, some concesion had to be made. Peasant was given a certain amount of political power and rights, or at least an ilusion of those. They had to be emotionally involved in the cause. As a result we got nationalism, democracy, total wars etc. Military power in the era before relied on highly trained professionals. Armored knight on a horse is an unstopable force, like a tank. But he is expensive. From this we get monarchies. In reality, history of these things cannot be reduced to a single causelike this. Yet I wonder what the current development in military tech means for the future. Professional soldiers are again much more important than the number of random guys with a rifle. Also robotics will from now on play a big role. And sophisticated inteligence gathering and infiltration is valuable, because it avoids open large scale combat altogether. How will this change political systems?

"One spare ECU for my diesel engine and one machine gun turret aiming unit, please." ”That will be 65 bottle caps, sir." View quoted note →

the pathfinding algorithm in flies is really bad

such an elegant design for a "flying car"