2026-08-23T15:23:31Z https://nostr.now Gilbert Pilz https://nostr.now/npub1seqm09e6595udqtla6z8ncla4vrd7ajh87xgeacvpq8u5dp54dnsnr67le https://nostr.now/nevent1qqst753a6veqsfwtt7dp2gdxe49jhdqkzz77ktjthpkxn732695dxeczyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwnn2kc4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqrdn3yw4jvcgxtpwjr6mcle5fyteffu4rv0cw8js6d8w9pxf3nxs22f2l6'>nevent1q…f2l6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Actually, what fuels antisemitism is murdering children by the thousands under the banner of the Star of David while adamantly insisting that your actions are inseparable from all Jews and the totality of Judaism.&#34; -- Caitlin Johnstone 2025-04-11T20:06:32Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsd4rrd4cx7609kmqsyjm8gk3kyh8s7kjf56csduujg3knrhgr3r4czyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kw0tugwa In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszxffdz88ud39hmqjh3u3dffyr35x02nf6r7krt8jdkc0ydgpn9ps9wf57h'>nevent1q…f57h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>In most forms of protest you want as many people as possible to *know* that you are protesting, *what* you are protesting, and *why* you are protesting it. Jury nullification is not most forms of protest. For jury nullification to even work you have to be absolutely silent about what you are doing and why you are doing it. You are just an average person with no strong opinions who happens to think Luigi is innocent. 2025-04-02T01:08:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9slj7h6sfy95pj9leexd0hhdnmm7kd4lp3vpvk5psznvdph6hueczyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwkx0n09 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstc264aecm9uklqyc8dtathu5d2mp84erzw7p9dptejwk6h783vtgfvx452'>nevent1q…x452</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The propaganda behind all this rests on two main pillars (1) Voting is the only mode of political agency. (2) Voting for anyone other than a Democrat or a Republican is wasting your vote. 2025-03-18T22:06:51Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdzz6hxg0clvy6lv9cc77r54fyvgulvdvgxqq4c67r00a9u8n5v3czyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kw8w4emu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg0ly9rz0ct04qnymlsnef03gaxn6lsmu2h5mhc95hzh38mzg69mgr0jjea'>nevent1q…jjea</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Nothing. The idea of &#34;checks and balances&#34; is predicated on people who are willing to do some checking and balancing. Those people do not exist. 2025-03-18T22:01:19Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsqvsdruj6l6f55pnsptkjg5psdjtw73adyjvh56rw3mdcedjer8qqzyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kw5xagmx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyse967kas0xmj722qn3gw2h499qxqr8mrdzmslhyajt0a2f09qhcpmz9dg'>nevent1q…z9dg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is why I think the danger of GMO crops is *not* that they might harm the consumer, but that they will lead to crop failures because even 20 years of testing is nothing compared to natural selection. We repeatedly underestimate the number of variables and the complexity of their interactions. 2025-03-11T13:08:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs2n9d9vrs3qyqkc0p4mejps50z7vjsdpa5u0ukzkpmt5hetfdxalszyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwt43r5h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz3vn5e2suhg5a06lkr7nnq368axk6mppjm7rhulzll7fqve6ccxc7500t3'>nevent1q…00t3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>One thing many technologists fail to understand is that the complexity of the systems they create and understand is orders of magnitude less than the complexity of most natural systems. We can&#39;t build a self-sustaining biome that can last more than a couple of years before collapsing because of the complexity of the interactions between soil, air, microbes, plant, animals, etc. 2025-03-11T12:50:38Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfn006xfcu4kvtzkqypwa6x5qds8prkjngwjt094ls44nmh78x49qzyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwne98mc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2gcd6t40w2ewugyslqw9zl92xyy6jup0zuz747s3rk0av2fche7s97e0vu'>nevent1q…e0vu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The purpose of the Democratic Party is to capture left-leaning political energy and channel it into activities that won&#39;t upset the status quo. The Dems don&#39;t fight back because they don&#39;t really want to. Their campaigns are funded by the same set of people and organizations that fund the Republican&#39;s campaigns. Their &#34;opposition&#34; is largely cosmetic. 2025-03-02T18:19:27Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp0yxdt3qrqhhevaek285uklhewe3zt8tkg3hvzkw7jcn3zjvwazgzyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kw6ga85e In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp5qrjk585dnj3mt4pp7nd8hkf50y4ew00vm2hgddyrtgltjs48dsu99lnd'>nevent1q…9lnd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>6. Military campaign is stopped when the natives agree to surrender some land in exchange for a new peace treaty.<br/><br/>Repeat steps 1-6 until there are either no more natives or no more land to steal. 2025-02-19T22:08:13Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsp5qrjk585dnj3mt4pp7nd8hkf50y4ew00vm2hgddyrtgltjs48dszyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwe89yum In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0yfry5zy42sfj4dnd7zp37fq4e98vpc9sx2duhwts7nlkp9uhztst3kql5'>nevent1q…kql5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Same playbook too:<br/><br/>1. Start with &#34;peace treaty&#34;<br/>2. &#34;Settlers&#34; encroach on native lands, violating the terms of the peace treaty. Government claims to be helpless to stop them.<br/>3. Settlers increase provocation, level of violence.<br/>4. Natives retaliate in a dramatically violent way that is intended to deter further settlement.<br/>5. Government engages in wildly disproportionate military campaign. 2025-02-19T22:07:25Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfex9jeyka3yf97qxhvj8pywlppmm584cya2pautrltrl0aznn4kgzyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwcwszyl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0kvjkh4k0j6a46c2md3wmwehm78s7ghwyy3prupylmg9yes4hxvsw8gcfm'>nevent1q…gcfm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Become?&#34; The U.S. has been *using* Ukraine since 2014 (if not before). We used them to provoke a proxy war with Russia. We used them to enrich our arms industry. The U.S. is the same evil monster regardless of who the figurehead in the White House happens to be. 2025-02-14T21:18:02Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsw06836v2k28lenx987pxr2t0f4328403h28u3whyltnledskex5qzyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwsdqa3a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfz62rlkm93lccyj8kl8sxz76ktxtgp02wzym3tdwjh7frqmccalsecy3y6'>nevent1q…y3y6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Meanwhile I waste my time trying to convince my fellow (U.S.) citizens that we are the enemy. A friend asked me &#34;You don&#39;t respect our troops?&#34; I replied, &#34;Dude, if we were in a Stars Wars movie, our troops would be the ones wearing the white armor.&#34; 2025-02-12T15:44:57Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs0phyu75qgzy70efkv23q0s0q0dh3gk3n2jju8eltzns2a4tyl29szyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwg9krh8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsflx2mw4a05uflj02a49lc02tx37j4f8xtw2y2urvazl4yrrge3dgl28egc'>nevent1q…8egc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Why does no one ever get suspicious of the fact that there always seems to be *just* *enough* legislators &#34;posing as Dems&#34; to derail legislation that opposes the oligarchs&#39; plans? It&#39;s like watching professional wrestling fans argue the fine points of wrestling strategy as if any of that mattered. 2024-12-29T15:26:24Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg7kj8mwa2pzr480xeuqznvcmd2gatxstjnpnyfu2jcllttskftmgzyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwq4xefn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv6sr7sxmnyhlze9hnl3ynafega6dnqv9c38gpewetjs9skcy9cuqk4w8re'>nevent1q…w8re</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;weren&#39;t perfect?&#34; WEREN&#39;T PERFECT?!? What a fucked up way to talk about full-throated, unequivocal support for genocide. It&#39;s like saying Jeffery Dahmer had &#34;bad table manners&#34;. 2024-12-23T02:53:54Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsgsmqeamshtf4uknctsppx9f4qamz2jqcwv9prq0k272d3twm664gzyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kw3eedzs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0e2ephrg97f3teqkt7m9vk7nsgy28pf6jhg24rc9qrksnmejw6nql2gulf'>nevent1q…gulf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I feel like we&#39;ve entered a new cycle of crack downs followed by protests which will motivate further crack downs, etc. It&#39;s weird that our owners don&#39;t have the historical awareness to know how these self-stoking cycles eventually end. I guess it goes to show that the rich aren&#39;t particularly bright or well-educated. 2024-12-13T19:53:09Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqs9wcndr6xjtd4xfzs47muwvtltxkta5y0u62hcqmus3t4kc9fvdfqzyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kws8t48g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst07yjc67xpkykae0ludgtjkdchxjj4hcj3aw5gy7u5287j7zm2dcyu60sr'>nevent1q…60sr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know if this is still true, but there was a time when the presence of a single externally accessible Windows machine on your network was enough to fail even the slackest of security reviews. &#34;Open&#34; indeed. 2024-11-25T20:47:10Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsg439xjxvxlkp6wjz4za0vgp7ww08zvpdtnez9zgu2k0vd9m4dg5szyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwmr3a3a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspjzd7gh5j2ygdnr9ajqvtg4r58dk90f45gp46we9e7kwcehmnk7swlw8q5'>nevent1q…w8q5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>For literally centuries conservatives have used social and economic ostracism to punish those who strayed outside their norms (e.g. atheists). When its done to them it gets derided as &#34;cancel culture&#34;. 2024-11-16T12:55:41Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsfcycq04gstz66wzn6udgp04krnyp3g3ltpf4lrcf4a2qwydqpkqqzyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwj4ex55 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs873xzs5z6w9jeys3kgpv7xl8k6n4aja3j0e52rmutgulp7gn7zhc2uq0fq'>nevent1q…q0fq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>- how many dead children does it take to change Harris&#39; mind on the ongoing mass murder in Palestine? If she were capable of having her mind changed, she would have changed it by now. 2024-10-29T19:24:00Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqswn47zh0u428p5hglrfh82f83p7rmzhrrll858v5pn6m32uxn86rszyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwcs7e3q In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs87khq6v6agw23ffdas58fv323xfcymmuapnd6glvjwt6fnmh2gzst7yp8s'>nevent1q…yp8s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>- Microsoft corp culture has, from the beginning, been that anything Microsoft supports runs worse (if it runs at all) on anything other than DOS/Windows. It is part of the &#34;self-stoking cycle&#34; that Gates wrote about. The shitty behavior of apps on non-Windows promoted the use of Windows and the use of Windows promoted the use of apps that only ran on Windows.<br/><br/>Microsoft may have gone beyond this thinking but my experience is that code is much easier to change than corporate culture. 2024-10-25T17:28:26Z https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdwfsf93xjrwry64lw828x02dwgkjavtu4rc0643ulnu5nje2wk2qzyzryrduh82skn35p0lhgg70rlk4sdhmk2ulcer8hpsyqlj35xj4kwqtd9es In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdfc84ftqr3n8k7lzxeu9husrtafzv8t45q4pw4xkhgutddyvhpsqdm888z'>nevent1q…888z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>- I don&#39;t know why they made me take all that math. I was a programmer for something like 30 years (kernel, networking, system level, UI) and I rarely used anything more complicated than algebra. Some software is math intensive, but most is not. C.S. should be taught as a sub-discipline of philosophy. 2024-10-23T17:16:10Z