Comte is on fire today..... *a country either has a formalized mafia or they have some other country's mafia, in which case they're not a sovereign country* View quoted note →

*The beast is driven by hunger ; the hunger of the beast is debt* View quoted note →

*China's gazillion factories are deflationary : that makes China the enemy. You buy cheap shit from China : debt doesn't get devalued as fast as the corrupt class would like.* View quoted note →

*Privacy isn’t extreme. Mass surveillance is.* View quoted note →

*Helm, the Oxford professor, argues renewable energy will remain more expensive than fossil fuels because the overall system is more cumbersome. The U.K. used to meet its electricity demand with 60-70 gigawatts of power capacity. Now, the country requires twice as much capacity, 120 gigawatts, to meet slightly lower demand—not to mention the additional storage facilities and interconnector supplies to and from continental Europe.*

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Europe's Green Delusions Are Luxury Beliefs (WSJ, Tom Fairless & Max Colchester) \ stacker news

Everybody knows that renewables (="unreliables") don't work as baseload or really at all for powering a 21st-century civilization. Yet, certain cra...

*a sound money future gives people room to choose work they care about. To stop trading their purpose for a paycheck* View quoted note →

*when you give everyone a button that says “show me more stuff like this” they keep pressing it until they end up somewhere insane* View quoted note →

*Everyone claims to love “nuance” until you actually present them with some* View quoted note →

*Democracy by retweet is just the tyranny of whoever has the most free time* View quoted note →

*There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped.... The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.* View quoted note →

*Culture isn't actually "worse" now. You just got older and stopped being the target demo.* View quoted note →

*The reasonable majority gets drowned out by the loudest extremists and now nobody can have normal conversations about anything. The flanks capture the discourse.* View quoted note →

*There are signs, if you're watching for them. A creeping restlessness that suggests you're ready to plant something new. A bone-deep fatigue that suggests you need to stop harvesting and let the field recover.* View quoted note →

Interesting.... *I do not believe in one ring, one money, one A-eye to rule them all. I believe in nature that has built in competition and synergy at the core. It comes with kill switches (Achilles) to exit the form and start anew.* View quoted note →

*Calm people calm you. Driven people activate you. Draining people drain you* View quoted note →

*it is mostly our own fault for allowing ~100% of nodes to run a single implementation for so long* View quoted note →

*Usury violates covenantal bonds by commodifying the need of the vulnerable* View quoted note →

'tis better to put one's energy in worthy works rather than mighty predictions

*predictable namespace across nostr apps has been a big need for us to offer trustless and customized ShockWallet Lightning Addresses* mater artium necessitas View quoted note →

*The AWS Security Agent, currently available in preview, performs context-aware penetration testing without human intervention, analyzing design documents, source code, and internal security policies to build customized attack plans. According to AWS, the tool can complete penetration tests in hours rather than days, addressing what the company describes as a widening gap between software release frequency and security validation capabilities* https://www.perplexity.ai/page/aws-unveils-ai-agent-to-automa-4OQBuPeiRxmIcbBvmQ7mNw