Just checked Nostr Trending 24h. 7/10 top posts are about wishing GM to others, with @ODELL's being number one. A bit disappointing to be honest.

History repeats itself. Two dictators have agreed to divide a sovereign country. And play it hard.

Timothy Snyder: "Recoup the costs" The American demand is of an extraordinary scale. In Kyiv and again in Munich, the Americans proposed that Ukraine concede half of the profits from its mineral rights in perpetuity and from other national resources and from its ports in perpetuity with a lien on everything important -- in exchange for essentially nothing. This is not really a monetary proposition, let alone a "deal," but rather the demand that Ukraine become a permanent American colony. It amounts to blackmail enabled by ongoing Russian invasion. In effect, the United States is telling Ukraine to concede its resources to the United States, under the threat that American aid will be otherwise withdrawn, and those resources will be taken by Russia.

"Recoup the costs"

The sadism of American policy to war-torn Ukraine

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If #DOGE is serious about cutting government waste, it should start by slashing the billions in taxpayer subsidies flowing straight into Elon #Musk’s pocket. https://thefreethoughtproject.com/solutions/elon-musks-biggest-doge-cut-could-be-himself

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This could be a beginning of the end of the Trump administration. View quoted note →

Bryan Caplan on why The Average Kid is Better Than the Average Adult 1. Kids are much less boring than adults. 2. Kids are much more honest than adults. 3. Kids are much less conformist than adults. 4. Kids have better imaginations than adults. 5. Kids have much better hobbies than adults. 6. Kids hold far fewer grudges than adults. 7. Kids express far more joy and love than adults. 8. Kids have more time for you than adults. 9. Kids are more likely to teach you new things than adults. 10. Kids are much less jaded than adults. 11. Finally, being there for kids makes you more popular with adults.

The Average Kid is Better Than the Average Adult

Caplan and Candor

Oh God, now every “bitcoiner” has a need and will comment on the speech of Vance… so disappointing. Will come back tomorrow.

Happy Valentine's

“Do not forget that human superiority consists in going around an obstacle that cannot be overcome directly, in devising some suitable auxiliary problem when the original one appears insoluble.” George Pólya in How to Solve It.

Still expensive bride. #Trump #Putin