Being obsessed about health isnt' healthy. Sleep well, move a lot, fresh air and as little processed food and exposure to as much natural materials as possible. Don't work in a chemical based industry...agriculture construction, most manufacturing... And you'll probably live a while, healthy. Of course theres always the car Crash, plane Crash, trip and fall lueking on all our shoukder
With ever increasing officialdom overreach "to keep us safe" It was interesting taking to someone Who grew Up in former east Germany. Ask me a dumb question like "Where have you just been?" and I give them a dumbass response. Democracies don't ask questions like that, dictatorshios do." He should know.
Talked to a teenager about the days of cameras with rolls of film. Said theyd seen one in a movie. To balance the scales they asked me what riz means. Crickets. #generation-gap
Tried to Orange pill a bar on basis of avoid Visa Payment. They have a 1000€ account where they pay minimal commission- it runs through their bank. Harder sell to convince tem their funda are safer on lightning or BTC Network .
Decentralised communication built on encrypted keypairs has to work.Ditto Bitcoin has to work.
Under the current gatekeeper paradigm, you don t own your emails. You surrender your money to the bank's control, and you are beholden to their policies. It is a lunatic running the asylum system making idiots and slaves of everyone involved except the few controlling your emails, the fruits of your money, your energy.
If it's truly MY bank account then give me the archive and I'll tout It around other banks to see what deal they Will give me. If they risk my money, they pay ME more to have my account etc. As It stands it's the bank's account and they give you sole access to It. And make you feels grateful for solving a fuck Up their system caused.
Bitcoin and lightning and nostr exist, the legacy system is exposed for it's backwards approach to security and privacy. Photos and SS numbers and telephone numbers, all stealable are woven together into a Swiss cheese of security bollocks, even though the tech leads at all these Institutions know damn well that PGP is now usable for everyone and a private and public key blows all their arcane and shite intrusive approaches out the wáter..
end of rant after 2 hours on a tech support call with intelligent people with little wisdom reduced to endibg TVE call with a plea for me to say they were helpful. If their energy were better used, the world would be a better place
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@Marty Bent this is the original exposę of how so many dodgy financial roads lead to the City of London. Devious does t even come close to describing these people.
The pressure of inflation is really starting to bite in my part of Spain. Under the pressure of Rising prices and falling real income, people are going to say and do headless things that Will make them cringe looking back.
Spain is full of enterprising people, youth is also on their side. But the tax system and the money printing system are destroying enterprise. The financial system is also driving rural populations into cities, robbing the countryside of guardians of the land as well as opportunity.
I looked hard at a rural business development loan and Saw through It. It was set Up to trap me into the self employed system for several years, convincing me I would be getting ahead when the reality after expenses is glaringly the opposite. Did you know the average self employed person in Spain earns 700€ a month! The benefits system makes that feasible, but what a waste of resources.
Listening to an online scam expert, the modus operandi of many scamsters could be levelled at government policies - lure you into a "safe space" before extorting you.
Similar charges that the govt decides Who bad Guy terrorists are, when govts themselves use violence vía their police and armed forces to achieve their own political aims.
It is so easy to point fingers and escalate the divisions and inequalities, but It it's getting time to decide not to.
Understand that financial issues stress everyone into daft decisions and reactions - the local business cutting service and serving crap just to make ends meet needs support, just as the customers need to tell them to wise Up or lose all custom. Ditto govts and políticians need to be constructively confronted and told that their reliance on the Fiat system has to change else all walls Will come tumbling down, no moat wide or Deep enough to protect anyone in the system, especially the fiat wealthy.
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@Marty Bent newsletter, I was harrassed by local bank into going in to a branch to confirm legal requirements. I have under 100€ in the account. They asked me a question and the teller ticked the box...nothing changed in 4 years. They are clowns, clueless and dumb box tickers. Play their game is easy when you have no stake in their stupidity. The worst case is they sanction your account. Ooooh.
Explained the limits of a machine we use, including demo, and It performed perfectly. But at the end of their session the customer was dissatisfied with the machine's performance. Not sure what to say, except, oh well, we managed their expectations and they chose to raise the bar to an unrealistic height.
Couple of observations over the weekend. National grids are extremely complex and adding Intermittent energy to the grid raises that complexity to new levels. With current thinking around tech solutions - intelligent micro grids, fancified substations and more transmisión lines, that means expensive investment which means higher prices for clean energy for consumers.
Admittedly It was a line from a movie but the definition of terrorism was - violence as a means to achieving a political aim. Hnmm. Think about that!
Also the definition was submitted by the minister of defense Who later said, if you want to know what terror is, it's our military unleashed on the countries harbouring terrorists.
This is Fiat economic thinking laid bare. Very powerful. So theres no good end to going up against It head to head. Just dont participate.
I think Nostr is quite boring. Which is a positive! The users on Nostr are pretty much straight Up decent folk Who go from day to day being positive without being sensationalist. In other words, this is a platform escaping most of the influences of mainstream media and shit stirrers. Marvellous. 95% of people on earth could end Up on Nostr and be Happy :) #asknostr
Is there anything more irritating or more sad an indictment of how we have evolved, than being asked in a social setting, "What do you do?"
