Xi Jinping calls for Strait of Hormuz to be opened amid Iran conflict Of course he does. This situation hurts China most of all. Prolonged sanctions on Russia, taking control of Venezuela, war with Iran shutting down the straight... It's all connected. The USA is gaining a strangle hold on the global oil/LNG market and this gives them leverage over China who is wholly dependent on imported energy. That's the real objective here. https://share.google/YoihLk9BH8a7UAeFA

Everything inside my garden area is strictly organic, but I have no qualms about putting chemicals on my lawn or the gravel areas.

Some people create for the good of humanity. Others can only consume or destroy. View quoted note →

GM nostr! Beautiful day today. Got some home health people coming over this morning to help the wife, then got some more spring cleanup to do around the property outside.

They acted like McCarthy was overreacting, but look where we are now

Tom, bless his heart, gave us a community place where we could be ourselves, customize our profiles and interact with one another in a wholesome way. But then Zuckerfuck had a realization that changed the Internet forever: in the ad-supported business model of the Internet, websites worked hard to put up engaging content that would draw traffic and ad views... But what if you had the users of the site produce the content for free? Corral users into your digital pasture and they all provide endless content for one another to engage with, and all you have to do is maintain the servers and sell ad space. Then you develop an algorithm that pays attention to what type of content each user engages with the most and fill their feed with a never ending stream of whatever they'll click on to keep them scrolling all day. Use the same algorithm that catalogues their interests to make advertising targeted. They're bound to click though an ad and complete a sale eventually. This became a multi-billion dollar industry. Meta Platforms now has a market cap of $1.71 trillion, and the Internet lost it's soul. Billions of people are still stuck in the corporate social media farm. It's up to us to build nostr and make a free community for more people to escape to where they can rediscover the spirit of the free Internet.

Central Banks around the world are quietly unloading US treasuries and buying gold. The entire global financial system is underpinned by the assumption that US government debt is the safest investment on Earth. That assumption will soon be called into doubt. Nearly everyone in the world is exposed to this counterparty risk either directly or indirectly save for a few isolated hunter-gatherer tribes. A reckoning is coming.

Nobody can manipulate the price of stocks by making social media posts. Blame the stupid fucks who was those posts and don't DYOR. This guy's basically looking at 25 years in prison for shitposting.

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Short-seller Andrew Left is ready to defend himself as he heads for the legal fight of his life

Andrew Left will stand trial in May for securities fraud. The famed short-seller says he's nervous but is ready to take the stand.

GM nostr! Wife is breathing better this morning so we can stay out of that damn hospital.