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John B Nevin
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I can see a sky with birds flying happily through the window from my desk. It is good.
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JBN 3 weeks ago
Wrong or right, true or not (I don't have special info, just observations) really outstanding thinking in this show. Signal over noise. Principles over personalities. Information on its merits, not heuristic guessing. Don't interpret geopolitics through the social layer (who is in what group), or propagandists will fool you every time. If what Byrne is now saying is true, there's some disclosure, slower than most of us hope, but mostly shocking impropriety and falsehoods as to agency affiliation, rather than, you know, accountability for covid and election fraud and other war crimes. If not, believe people when they tell you who they are, disinformers. My best guess is that if you Google everything Byrne ever mentioned, you will understand the world better, and yet it is unlikely that he has ever disclosed criminal national security information. And that no one will serve as much time as we would for minor offenses. Its a chaotic mess for sure, and he's a wildcard. The way I see it, people are starting to realize government lies, CIA lies, influencers lie, psyops exist, and just about everyone, if not everyone, who isn't read in, hasn't the information to reach certainty. Me either!
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JBN 3 weeks ago
We trade our time and our effort for money. We could instead trade for bananas, or bullets, or cars. But we trade for money instead to preserve the option to purchase *anything* later. Bitcoin is the simple proposition that the money we use should not lose purchasing power between the time we earn it, and the time we spend it.
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JBN 3 weeks ago
Work is an end in itself to the extent it advances the doer, in the same way that an artist may grow without sharing what is created. Also similar, there is no obligation that the work or product of it be valued by anyone else. Without benefit for the doer, nor a result of value to others, it is a waste. Work for work's sake alone is folly. There is much confusion on this subject, from the labor theory of value to shovel punishments to resentful starving untalented artists. Not to be confused with work that results in a reserve that can be expected to be of value later, such as is the case with Bitcoin and pushups.
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JBN 0 months ago
One can learn a lot from a government. Unable to change the facts? Change the narrative. Narrative being questioned? Round up a base of human shield activists and ignore the concerns of those who say they've been harmed. Population unrest, public health in decline? Declare a common enemy, shift blame abroad, preferably on a country that speaks an entirely different language. Bored? Experiment on children, undermine family in the name of protecting yourself from fear of imagined future possibilities projected from your traumas. Hurt? Encourage fathers to waste their lives away from their sons over the one-sided lies of the greedy. War ending? Stoke division to keep the funding fawcet going.
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JBN 0 months ago
Behold, the most arrogant thing I've ever created.
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JBN 1 month ago
People with evidence of conspiracies allowing hosts who were wrong about covid to question their credibility.
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JBN 1 month ago
Listened to some 80's music, it seems that some of the songs popularity hinged on a minimally catchy hook combined with a novel, innovative, experimental electronic sound. Now, though, the robot samples aren't novel anymore, so the songs aren't as interesting as they once were. We're seeing the same phenomena with slop. I remember walking through the mall and seeing Virtual Reality, that would become the Future. Now, the kid doesnt look at the oculus from last christmas very often, and I didn't ever try it a second time. Earlier this year, there were still AOL subscribers. My point being, technology doesn't 'take over' without serving human need unambiguously. People don't change that fast. The fears are legit, but we have time, and I think we can intentionally preserve vintage legacy analog experience as central to human flourishing throughout, even where we don't naturally set illusion aside in favor of authentic experience.
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JBN 1 month ago
Is someone pregnant? This a.m. was better for you too? 3 days in a row stomach here.