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Fuck! I gotta ditch my bank account and go cash-only now, because my bank won't let me to log into online banking anymore using a secure browser or VPN and without being nagged by a constant onslaught of security theatre like SMS based 2FA. Even when the hoop jumping seems to work initially then ultimately reject my login. So ... fuck them!

Cash it is! Hell, if I try hard enough I might even ditch the cash too and only do transactions with private individuals who accept precious metals. 99% of my spending is for groceries, which I can honestly just grow myself or barter with neighbouring farms. I'm so fucking sick of this fake money and surveillance bullshit.

@hopland @hopland Another victory for me. Remember this next time you want to play in the big league! 😎

I wonder if merovingian is blocked at the instance level from the more woke instances? I have a lot less homo-propaganda coming through here, which is actually very pleasant!

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I'm a bit curious about GoToSocial, in particular because I want to host a few Fediverse/ActivityPub instances myself, and GTS seems to be a bit less resource hungry and supports "backports" of past data.

Does anyone have experience with the GTS platform vs Mastodon? I'm not interested in a "flame war", just objective comparisons.

#gotosocial #gts #mastodon #fediverse #devops #activitypub

schools of philosophy that interest you yourself.

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Collection of essays about the philosophy of life that various academics choose for themselves and why. Covers aristotle, stoics, epicureans, various religions, and modern isms such as existentialism and pragmaticism.

2 ouf of 5. The essays are too short and lacking philosophical rigor and argumentation.

The book comes across as a collection of commercials, and lots of wokeness from about 70% of the essayists.

You're much better off just taking the table of contents and researching the

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Two quick book reviews:

1. Materialism - A Philosophical Inquiry by Brown and Ladyman.

Short, excellent introduction to materialism. Starting with its ancient roots in india and freece, 2500 years ago, traving its development until todays physicalism.

4 out of 5, and shows beautifully how religion is not the answer to the question of what exists, but science.

2. How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy by Massimo Pigliucci , Skye Cleary

I had goat for dinner! It was disappointing, it just tasted like lamb. I thought it would have some weird character or taste, but it was just like lamb.

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Government killed over 200 million of their own citizens in the 20th century!
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 "Iran wanted it to happen. They’ve had enough. Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming Victory on the battlefield — a capital-V military Victory."

— US Secretary of War, Hegseth on the 2-week ceasefire

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I urge you to study Adam Smith, and you can also check out last years, and the previous years nobel prize winners, who proved that strong property rights and capitalism is necessary for life on this planet as we know it.

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Oh goodie, I expect now that oil prices have plunged, we will see an immediate, instant and dramatic fall in petrol prices at the pumps

#sarcasm

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8r40y

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I have a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago and my main work task these days is removing em-dashes from Claude output so it's not overly obvious.

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This new study in Nature is kind of a bombshell.

The takeaway seems to be that you should trust Psych research more than Economics!

Currently watching Yes Prime Minister, and _nothing_ has changed.

Watch this clip about russia...

youtube.com/watch?v=yg-UqIIvan

We are experiencing the salami tactic as we speak.

Ahh... the joys of mastodon! People try to block me by reporting my messages as spam, and I bounce right back to keep annoying them! 😎

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Merovingian Club

A club for red-pilled exiles.