Vaccines prevent specific diseases, they do not promise general good health. The mistake in this thinking is that the logical -> is not bidirectional. If X -> Y that doesn't necessarily mean that Y -> X. Good health -> no disease X It doesn't necessarily mean that No disease X -> Good health

This design makes me go "wow!"

You have hit the core problem with all crypto currencies. You can earn interest on them.

Very nice! I am assuming it's an eyedropper waith a bought feed and nib?

#russia is going to restrict access to #Telegram. Now it's time to your Russian friends about https://kyivindependent.com/russia-reportedly-restricts-telegram/

So Trump won? Trump tried for a long time to get Europe to take their defense seriously and not blindly rely on the US. It seems as if the old parent trick of threatening a child that he will leave, worked. Europe is finally taking it's defense seriously. As an added bonus they might also take a cold hard look at their economies. https://reason.com/2026/02/09/alienated-by-trump-europeans-finally-take-responsibility-for-defense/ #us #eu

I am wondering if we can create a substack alternative based on Nostr. Long form notes for the posts. Encrypted using MLS to restric access to paying users. Some sort of automation to add pub keys to the group when an account is zapped (Here smart contracts, which both #bitcoin and #Monero lack, can come in handy). When a post is shared ia regular messages is shared, mentioning the encrypted long format note and link to "subscribe" to the channel. Comments are regular messages on the unencrypted message so that the post gets amplified with engagement. what do you say? Is this possible?

Jeb Bush?

If this goes through it would translate to a sharp shortage of rental units. The poor would be harmed the most

It's the seduction of the ethics of Altruism.

In a functioning society the parents and family provide a safety net. For the few who don't have that, there is charity

What a pity. I liked Portugal...

This sounds very similar to some organization that was known for it's brown shirts...

Autonomous driving will reduce the price of a drive. But there are also a lot of things to worry about. And I am not talking about the efficiency of the AI. Companies like Get and Uber will create mega fleets of electric cars. Building power plants and servicing facility to service their fleets. They will self insure to reduce proces. This will cause * Private people will buy less cars. This is the fulfilment of "you won't own anything and be happy" * These companies will not only know where everyone is going but they can refuse service to places and on specific times. Imagine a concert that the govt doesn't want people to go to and suddenly there is no service to the area of the concert. * The cheep prices of rides will increase the number of cars on the road. I am not saying that these are blockers. Just that we need to find solutions for this. https://www.auto.co.il/articles/car-news/industry/self-driving-future/

I hate that index. The opposite of feer is not greed. The opposite of fear is optimism.

Let's put things into proportion. Epstein was a sexual predator. A truly despicable man. He was also a fiancieer who knew how to move money around. He used sexual favoures to get access to powerful people. He used his access to powerful people to hide his sexual predation. All this is true. All this happened before we used Fiat. Even on the gold standard we had things like this happening. And even if we all use Monero/ Bitcoin these things will continue to happen. Fiat is evil. But it is not the root of all evil. It is not even the root of financial evil.

But mostly because it's fun.

This is a socialist way of thinking. We need everyone to agree with me to make what I say work.

Yes! This is a big win for we the people! Abolish! Abolish! Abolish! https://reason.com/2026/02/08/can-florida-and-ohio-kill-property-taxes/

What is Europe's plan to become a growing economy? What is Europe's plan to stop the population decline? What is Europe's plan to return to the foundational tent's that created modern Europe like freedom of press and property rights? There are no plans. There will never be any plans. This article is a blame shifter. Instead of looking inwards to understand what are Europe's true issues this article is trying to blame Trump for Europes failures.

Martin Luther had to hide (privacy). So will the users if the Money that will make a separation of money and state. There is no privacy in Bitcoin. Hence the conclusion, learning from the history of Martin Luther, that Monero has a better chance of doing what you hope will happen.