The thing that made me loose whatever remaining trust I had in the government during big Rona was seeing data from all over the world showing poverty, in particular Child Poverty, rising everywhere. Numbers don’t lie.
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I pledge 5000 sats to The Nostr fund at OpenSats if the ReplyGuy spam is completely gone within september.
If an individual developer finds a way to solve it, or largely contributes to a solution, I pledge 5000 sats to that individual as well. It’s not much, but many drops make an ocean. #NostrBounty
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Vehicles and pedestrians stand in chaos in Stockholm, Sweden on September 3, 1967.
This is the day that the country switched from driving on the left side of the road to the right.
The Earliest Surviving Photograph of a Woman. Dorothy Catherine Draper, 1839-1840.
The photo was taken by her brother, Dr. John W. Draper in his Washington Square studio at the New York University in 1839 or 1840, within the first year of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre’s announcement in Paris of his invention of the daguerreotype process.
The first photographic portrait image of a human ever produced.
Robert Cornelius, head-and-shoulders, self-portrait, facing front, with arms crossed, 1839.