Michael Graaf

Survivor of two involuntary fedi migrations, thank goodness for data export and import. Rather risk instance demise than corporate swords of Damocles. Avatar = Signal contact. Lifelong activist. Cape Town

Politics:: Anti-prohibition
Religion:: Pro-disinhibition

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2026-10-19 17:09:53 UTC

Here's a video about money that's very interesting, but very frustrating because it's so academic - the guy seems not to know about complementary currencies! https://youtu.be/xN7Cr0ZnwYo

2026-10-13 23:53:23 UTC

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What if allowing "human space exploration" to be a priority now (for an infinitesimal part of the species) has the opportunity cost of denying the majority of "PEOPLE to live and thrive and experience the universe"?

2026-10-05 10:51:16 UTC

"Education is our final refuge." Amazingly, Gaza's universities continue after the Zionist entity destroyed all their physical facilities https://youtu.be/zjv9zB40c5g

2026-10-05 04:58:32 UTC

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#SouthAfrica's Zulu people traditionally grew a thick-stemmed variety which could be crushed for its sugary juice - a rival for sugar-cane, needing much less water.

2026-10-04 08:49:27 UTC

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"Pilot programs" are by definition, not UBIs. They can only explore the microeconomics. The problem with an *actual* UBI is that the retail sector will immediately adapt to slurp it up (inflating costs of basic goods & services). Provision of safety nets is best done via economies of scale, in other words, free or subsidised basic goods & services - a principle enshrined in #SouthAfrica's constitution but poorly implemented.

2026-09-28 17:55:35 UTC

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Did it loft any payload, though?

2026-09-20 11:29:43 UTC

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Is tamarind not essential to W. Sauce?

2026-09-14 19:04:19 UTC

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#TrainingData

2026-08-27 20:31:11 UTC

Latest from the Forensic Architecture guy. Corpse-laden rubble being crushed & trucked out of Gaza. https://youtu.be/-NR7Husbc94

2026-08-21 06:53:46 UTC

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Who would be surprised if Musk negotiates nationalisation of SpaceX (while pretending to be outraged), since he probably knows as well as anybody when launches will suddenly end due to Kessler effect ?

2026-08-20 16:50:14 UTC

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Even if that "resupply base" was intact, it would still be inaccessible to US vessels! It's inside the Gulf.
Strange how the full truth is so hard to absorb, for some people.

2026-08-04 10:37:21 UTC

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Once all those boomers need their diapers changed they'll want immigrants back.

2026-07-21 07:28:45 UTC

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What makes it racist is that it's not applied to "white" illegal immigrants. They're ignored. Underlying assumption being, they're a net benefit to the economy. Insofar as this holds, it applies to all immigrants.

2026-07-19 04:36:35 UTC

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Maybe because of the elongated shape of Roman stadia (chariot racetracks) - the word stadium refers to a unit of distance.

2026-07-01 12:20:28 UTC

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In fact there is a precedent for the "Israeli" regime itself forcibly relocating settlers - from Gaza, to boot - in the days when a negotiated settlement seemed possible (of course it's still possible, but only with a realignment of the global balance of power).

2026-05-06 07:06:49 UTC

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You can bet the Chinese are prepared to counter-offer medication funding

2026-01-25 06:55:38 UTC

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Aside from everything else, it's not a *World* Cup if the US won't grant visas to fans from half the countries of the world!

2026-01-19 08:48:24 UTC

China plans 200 000 satellites https://spacenews.com/china-files-itu-paperwork-for-megaconstellations-totaling-nearly-200000-satellites/ #KesslerSyndrome

2026-01-13 06:06:45 UTC

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Another reason to boycott is that supporters from many countries are denied visas purely for being from those countries.
While the 1936 Olympic boycott flopped, most countries' athletes themselves successfully boycotted the parade past the dictator, ruining his day.

2025-12-30 07:30:43 UTC

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The nice thing about living in #SouthAfrica is that the gov't does the infiltration & when necessary, repression of white supremacy. After the first few jailings the supremacists learned to keep their heads down. Yes, there are (were, anyway) "white" undercover cops who made the transition from serving the apartheid regime to serving the (putatively) non-racial one.

2025-12-28 18:40:43 UTC

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Much as colonial boundaries need to be discredited, even the colour zones here implicitly reinforce the idea of ethnic/linguistic territories, when peoples have often lived more closely intermingled,

2025-12-17 08:12:07 UTC

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To put it another way, while China is still commissioning new coal power stations, it is shutting down old ones much faster.

2025-12-16 12:01:58 UTC

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While of course antisemitism exists, those who automatically assume that events like this can only be explained by it, need to widen their horizons. Like many, perhaps most regimes, the Israeli regime is quite capable of killing its own citizens for political purposes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive

2025-10-12 17:32:32 UTC

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Similarly, China had only to announce its planned moon landing for the US to fall over itself pouring half its GDP into doing it first.

2025-10-08 16:23:35 UTC

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Suharto ruled long enough to host Mandela on a state visit, having donated heavily to the ANC... some of us wondered whether Mandela innocently thought this was that chap who helped launch the Non-Aligned Movement just before Mandela was jailed (Sukarno).

2025-08-12 07:16:39 UTC

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China has always returned nutrients from human bodily waste back to the food production cycle - perhaps one of the reasons for its remarkable survival as a civilisation.

2025-08-07 06:26:59 UTC

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Footage circulating at the time showed kibbutz houses & cars clearly strafed from above by helicopter gunships. The guerillas who broke out of Gaza had no means of doing such damage. The footage soon stopped circulating.

2025-08-01 11:16:47 UTC

The Internet Archive's Open Library only digitally "lends" each book to one person at a time. But the IP Absolutists insist on blocking event that! https://torrentfreak.com/belgium-bans-internet-archives-open-library-in-sweeping-site-blocking-order/

2025-07-29 05:37:31 UTC

Could it be that this is aiming towards the BRICS payment commons? https://techcentral.co.za/payments-shake-up-in-south-africa/267467/

2025-07-17 09:01:56 UTC

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Ahem... your conversation sounds antiquated. Grid storage has always been around, mostly pumped, but now with the rapid advance of batteries, it's the new "base-load."