I'm starting to think Brian Berletic is right. And I think Iran has no good reason to put mines in the strait, because it isn't a reasonable threat of deterrance against a superpower that has plenty of oil (22m barrels a day, second is Saudi Arabia at only 10). And Iran has no good reason to destroy oil infrastructure in the gulf, only to destroy US bases there. If mines show up in the strait, or gulf oil assets are hit, I think that is US forces doing it, perhaps Iraq. The one who benefits from the strait being closed is the US, and the ones who suffer is everybody else and especially China who still gets 20% of their energy from the gulf. Blockading China at the 2nd island chain seems to have not worked out (China too on top of that one) so this strategy of shutting down the gulf and blaming Iran is Plan B. And also, Israel doesn't control the US, it gets attacked by missiles on behalf of the US, same as Ukraine does. Now of course Netanyahu is a homocidal maniac, and there is a greater Israel plan, and this stuff dovetails together, I didn't say otherwise. But I think the US faceless policy people are running the show and Trump is running the distrations.

!!! SECRET PLAN LEAKED !!! Unnamed official leaks that the true military objective is to widen the Strait of Hormuz

I hereby and officially condemn New Zealand for condemning Iran's missile strikes on [US military assets in] Gulf States. What dumbfucks. Hard to even believe that people of such levels of stupidity can survive to adulthood.

I truly believe IPv6 is an improvement over IPv4. But the only real effect it has ever had for me is to cause timeouts on my computer.

TIL that driving water out of oil is very non-linear. Dangerous sudden eruptions. I learned this the hard way. Yet I persisted (with a lid) to 104C. Because I don't want any water in my tallow. Tallow with water will get mold on the edges.

I've pushed minor updates to gossip and chorus (and their dependencies). The only thing of note really is that chorus has a Dockerfile now. Builds a 41.4 MB image.

Many people hold to the notion that modern disease is caused by modern eating. When they hear about my quince tree they think "Hey, that's got to be healthy, something not cross-bred to death for supermarket purposes. How do you eat it?" I tell them "you cook it with lots and lots of sugar."

I witnessed a car accident today that is hard to fathom how oblivious a person can be. Like a game of frogger, except trying to get hit in every lane. We drive on the left in NZ. I was in the far left "slow" lane. There were 2 lanes each way on this road. A car in front of me. A car in the fast lane about a car's length behind me. Oncoming traffic coming in fast in the fast line on the other side. That's the setup. A car pulls out of a driveway on the left, as though turning right into the lanes across the road (to go opposite way I'm going). Pulled right in front of the car in front of me, who slams on the brakes. The car hesitates very slightly then proceeds into the fast lane on our side whereupon they get slammed by the car to my right who was going full speed. Both cars crush. Horns blaring are now stuck that way. Then they back up their crushed car back way they came off the road back into their driveway, get out, and wander around a bit dazed. The crazy thing is, if they had made it into the other side of the road they would have been hit there too by the oncoming traffic, probably even harder. Feel free to guess the sex and race of the driver.

I'm back on nostr. BTC can now go up again.

"Trump is the only president who didn't start any new regime-change wars." "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

The military industrial complexes of Russia and the United States (and increasingly so European nations) are business partners. They scare each other's populases enough to make their governments fund more military shit. Julian Assange had it right "the goal is an endless war, not a successful war." There is no big WW3 coming.

I have not been paying much attention to nostr for 2 months as things have been busy, but the holiday break is upon us shortly, wherein I'll have a bit of time. Can anybody who still follows me give me a brief update on what has happened over the last few months, especially in the world of clients, relays, and the protocol?