@MartyBent enjoyed your recent newsletter. But not sure you have thought though your take on citizenship. Playing back the words to you a different way...It is objectively insane that an American woman can fly away from here on vacation while nine months pregnant, have a child on non-American soil, raise that child in a country that may not share American values, and still hand that child a future citizenship claim. Soooo, Is that an abuse of citizenship? or part of US soft power strategy and basically respect of a US citizen's freedom to give birth wherever they like, to raise a family wherever they like? Your original take just sounds awfully parochial island attitude. Unless you live there a citizen has no right to say anything that affects the US? No postal voters. Nobody should have two passports? What happened to self sovereign bitcoiners, free to do as they please without hurting others, still staunch Americans.
there has been some exciting football in this "soccer #worldcup "for sure, but before anyone gets too carried away thinking that we are seeing the most skillful players ever... Pelé did it all first - in the 60´s when balls were much heavier. 😃
bitcoin as an energy grid solution before it is recognised as a solution for broken money. This makes a lot of sense @dsbatten ...
Not living in the uk, ie living as an immigrant in another land, it is troubling to listen to a "respectable" podcast like Triggernometry stir up the anti-immigrant frenzy picking up in the UK, which by most measures is a very tolerant country. .
The UK has signed up to an extensive portfolio of laws and commitments to support asylum seekers, going back decades.
By definition, non-natives are a minority, so to place all a nation's issues at the door of a small minority, with few contextual facts in the discussions is a red flag for me.
Emotive focus on violent crime by non-natives is a classic headline catcher. However, official UK ONS statistics show that foreign‑national offenders (including both documented and undocumented people) account for about 9‑12 % of convictions. This is roughly one‑tenth of the total, while migrants make up just over 13 % of the population.
Crucially, when age and sex are taken into account—factors that are the strongest predictors of violent crime (young males commit most crimes, females commit least crimes) —migrants actually have a lower conviction rate than native‑born adults.
Because the police do not record an offender’s immigration status, there is no reliable figure for undocumented migrants specifically. Therefore, blaming the nation’s crime problems on a small minority of non‑natives is not supported by the available evidence and reflects a classic scapegoating narrative.
Another claim that native Brits are in the minority, just look at the number of British pubs being turned into mosques at an alarming rate... statistical poppycock.
Only 0.5% of closed down pubs have been turned into mosques in the last few years. This is a tiny fraction of the overall pub‑closure picture and does not represent a systematic trend. It is an anecdotal narrative amplified by political rhetoric and social‑media echo chambers.
What matters: The decline of the British pub is driven by economic and cultural shifts that affect all owners, not by the religious affiliation of nearby residents.
And the idea that "illegal immigrants" are receiving disproportionate help from the state is bonkers. Just 1-1.5% of the welfare payments budget in the UK goes to asylum seekers awaiting processing.
Independent media needs to earn its credibility and claim of the higher moral ground over legacy state-controlled media with more data‑driven analysis. And stop looking everywhere but within for reasons why life seems to be getting harder every day.
Bitcoiners know why purchasing power and financial stability is forever declining, and it's not because of economically disempowered people from another land.
I thought abiogenic oil was a credible mainstream alternative, but ... Let the oil “self‑debunk” begin.
Like many, I was caught up in the trend of quoting Nikola Tesla to lend gravitas to any energy‑related breakthrough. In the abiogenic‑oil community, Tesla is often misquoted or mis‑represented, and I fell for that.
“Referencing Tesla in abiogenic‑oil debates isn’t a climate‑change‑denier stunt; it’s historically accurate. Tesla warned that burning any hydrocarbon—regardless of its origin—adds CO₂ to the atmosphere, and he championed clean, electric power as an alternative.”
The other proponents of abiogenic oil lack Tesla’s fame, but their hypothesis isn’t wholly crackpot—it’s simply over‑stated. While mantle‑derived hydrocarbons do exist, they are not present in quantities that make commercial oil production feasible.
The abiogenic thesis emerged about a century ago to explain the puzzling rapid refill of some fields—refill occurring over decades rather than the millions of years expected for biogenic oil. Mainstream geologists argued that the “missing” oil must come from deeper, still‑active source rocks; the abiogenic camp offered newly synthesized, mantle‑derived (ultra-deep drilled) oil as the answer.
Prior to the 1980s, quantitative, field‑scale data were scarce for both the biogenic and abiogenic explanations of occasional field refill. Starting in the 1980s—and solidifying in the 1990s—high‑resolution seismic, isotope geochemistry, pressure‑gradient logs, and basin‑model simulations showed that secondary migration from deeper, still‑expelling source rocks accounts for the majority of refill events.
This body of evidence has largely marginalized the abiogenic hypothesis within mainstream petroleum geology. Nevertheless, a handful of ultra‑deep drilling studies have detected trace mantle‑derived hydrocarbons, preserving a small, primarily academic niche for the idea.
Today, many abiogenic advocates are motivated by the potential market implications if their theory proved correct. Historically, however, scientists have been reluctant to accuse oil companies of the kind of price‑manipulation seen in the diamond trade, where scarcity is often manufactured to sustain premium prices.
A content, very happy-go-lucky and fit family man yesterday confirmed that despite appearances, he summarised life as mainly a hard, shitty struggle.
He told me that with a wry smile – after revealing he has an incurable illness that is fast taking a terrible toll on his health.
He wasn't looking for miracle cures or advice or sympathy. Instead, he said he always knew he was going to die one day, and now he feels peace knowing it's going to happen "soon", not sometime never.
Life is hard, by design, else how do we get stronger? From my observations, when a body is knackered out, the spirit inside it moves on. "He" isn't ever going to be far from his family.
Public holiday, banks closed, can't find my bank card, out of cash, places to Drive, nobody takes Bitcoin, what you going to do?
Buy a gift card online vía bitrefill with Lightning and a burner email. Seamless, so simple, using #Bitcoin lightning to buy fuel.
Yet another example of the power of this incredible Payment system.
Semana Santa in Spain, a time for reflection and a perfect setting for a murder-mystery.
No mystery when one of millions of city folks Who descend on small villages and dusrupt Life beyond all recognition ends up pinned to one of the many crosses traipsed around town on elaborate processions of religious scenes carried on the shoulders of shuffling pious-for-a-day bank managers, industrialists and other purveyors of unholy daily doom.
Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale nailed It right 1000 years ago. A highly recommended read for all children before enduring communion classes.
And oh, literally breaking main headline on the #Spain news: clerics apologise for systemic sexual abuse of children by the church.
You really couldnt write this level of depravity and hypocrisy – although I have a jolly good try in the #OlgaSejeHansen thrillers. Download a sample few chapters from my bio, and let your hair down.
And remenber, It would be so much harder for people in positions of power – bankers, churches, elite hangers-on and their dressed-in-blue enforcers – to get away with what they do, if we were on a Bitcoin Standard.
Happy Easter
. #writers #authors
I've turned into a lurker. Not a good sign for a creator.
Apart from build quality, not much good to say about iPhones. Returning to Android such a relief, not pummeled for signing in and justifying my existence.
I guess It Will get as restrictive as Apple at some point. What's the free world producing by way of phones? #asknostr
There's no concept of Doom scrolling on Nostr. At least that's my take away. Even in the global feed theres so much positive news and ideas to move the world forward. #asknostr
You'd think Id learnt how to deal with other people projecting their issues onto others, but It still takes it's toll when you are accused of having someone else's faults. It's a mad world. Relax, take a Deep Breath and think clearly, before playing into the horrible culture of the day - you agree with me or you are against me. Whatever 👍
I have an unhealthy relationship with poetry. There, I said the unthinkable out loud.
Verses and stanzas make me edgy and turn me illterate.
Limericks are OK, I can grasp what they are trying to say.
Recently I was dragged over the coals by a music fan because I owned Up that I don't even listen to lyrics, the tune is what hooks me in. That must also tie into my brain fart over anything containing a hint of poetics.
I think this aversion to the more arty creative side of language use hearkens back to the days of learning Latín. Call me old-fashioned, but layering four years of arcane grammar on top of metred Gallic Wars killed poetry for me.
In fact while I'm at It, I can say that state education from 11 to university killed my love of reading for pleasure, period. How can that be right? Rather than read, I write.
#writers #writing
Titanic struggles, blistering speed, handling skills, brutal tackles, non-stop action...recipe for action thrillers and rugby Union. This game today was insane.
How fucked Up is the #Bitcoin community? The wonderful stat that says 80% of holders are underwater. The greatest stat behind BTC? Anyone who bought in at sub 69k did OK. Fed Up with the pussy footing. You do know that BTC is the most incredible money ever invented? Use It as money. How hard is It to grasp that BTC is money... gillipollas.
Has anyone said outloud Nostr Dms are really bad, or a reflection of really bad etiquette? I speak as someone Who had 10 x the followers (Twitter) of the pretentious dicks on Nostr. Provocative enough?
