So many channel failures on zaps using CoinOS. Killing my vibe. Still looking for a good solution on a half baked client.

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Harder. Faster. Stronger. ₿

The biggest mental problem I am trying to solve is this. If social unrest and overt actions against tyranny play precisely into the hand of governments who want to use unrest as justification for crackdowns, and the implementation of full spectrum surveillance, what options exist other than building local networks for trading the essentials of life and ensuring defensible physical space/shelter? I think the boat has already sailed when it comes to waking up enough people to the realities of the control grid that is springing up around us before it is too late. This is going to happen whether we like it or not. Trillions in capital are being dedicated to it. Nothing stops this train. Is there still an opportunity to strike at the heart of it? Or must we just be prepared to live unbanked, react the best we can to threats, and maintain a low profile? #asknostr

What’s the most consequential uncomfortable truth you have learned, that shapes your current worldview? I’ll go first. Mine was the realization that not only do our governments not have our best interests at heart, but that they will kill and imprison us by the thousands, at the drop of a hat, to advance the agendas of the corporations that have captured them. #asknostr

Sometimes I think I ruin what should and could be happy times by constantly thinking adversarially about countering certain threats that are coming our way. While I personally have endless endurance for this kind of thinking and existence, I’ve recently come to understand that many around me, when faced with the truth, get really worried and scared. And that they’d rather continue living with comfortable lies than uncomfortable truths. They find my now very occasional attempts at sharing information intended to help them prepare, exhausting. The most recent example was a conversation I was having with my sister about managing assets in the face of the asset stripping that we appear to be set up for in the next five years. She straight up told me that she didn’t want to know such things. That they just make her worry. And that she’d rather ignore it and “just have a happy life”. I have been very judgemental of “normies” since I “woke up” in about 2003. And especially so since I e been a Bitcoiner. But now I think I’ve come to understand that it’s not just disinterest or intellectual laziness that keeps people stumbling around in the dark. It’s the fear they feel confronting so many things in this world they believed to be true that simply are not. In fact, they are so afraid that they would sooner kill the messenger than face reality in many cases. View quoted note →

I never understood the creation vs evolution debate. The two words don’t even describe the same part of the process being described. These two concepts can and must coexist. One term describes how things, including living creatures, came INTO being… The other describes how things change AFTER coming into being, through selection for traits. Traits that enhance or diminish survivability, and in turn the likelihood of reproducing. What am I missing here? Aside from a frontal lobe #asknostr

I still think the documentary “The Social Dilemma“ is still one of the most important films on the effects of social media algorithms on people. 

Watch The Social Dilemma | Netflix Official Site

This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

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WTH

I have to admit I was happier when I didn’t understand how the money works. But at least there’s an escape if you have the patience of a monk. And happiness or lack thereof is just signal anyway. #bitcoin #grownostr

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After a long workday on the yard and house on 4½ hrs sleep, I had a little siesta from 4-5:30. I woke to a text from my Dad that he had suffered a heart attack earlier in the day while cutting the lawn. He’s 80. I called him and it just crushed me hearing the obvious labour to his breathing. Vitals are good, more tests and possible interventions to come, but I’m just sitting on the edge of my bed hoping his recent birthday isn’t the last time I get to see him a province away. He’s such a good man.

First sprout 🌱 of the year. 4 days from seed not bad.

Here’s a good list of garden survival foods that were common in the Depression years, extracted from a YT video of the same name: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression 1. Rutabaga 2. Mangelwurzel 3. Salsify 4. Jerusalem artichoke 5. Winter radish 6. Parsnip 7. Hamburg rooted parsley 8. Turnip 9. Collard greens 10. Swiss chard 11. Winter cabbage or Danish boarhead 12. Navy beans 13. Kentucky wonderpole beans 14. Ground cherries 15. Field peas 16. Field corn 17. Storage onions 18. Cardoons 19. Skirit 20. Good King Henry 21. American ground nut 22. Runner beans 23. Dandelion 24. Lambs' quarters 25. Seakale #gardenstr #prepping #grownostr