EthanLevyCG5

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AndresFaulkner1RS

Without MoE Bitcoin is not money.
It is simply a speculative commodity.

This is exactly what the fiat debt slavery bankers cartel want- to see Bitcoin defined as a speculative commodity where it is both relatively harmless and can be easily captured and controlled.

They have already largely succeeded in this and very few Bitcoiners seem to even notice- dazzled by their speculative commodity gains perhaps- how easily the revolution was slyly diverted.

Sure you can still use bitcoin as a P2P payment protocol but fuck all people do- thus bitcoin is failing to perform the function of money and unless this changes bitcoin poses little threat to the legacy fiat power structures....that are based upon thier hegemony over MoE. Think of SWIFT as an example.

The stronger the bitcoin as a speculative commodity narrative grows the easier it would be to impose a ban on private custody.

The apologists say MoE use will follow SoV- there is no guarantee of that- there is certainty that without strong MoE use Bitcoin is more easily captured and controlled.

mostly_harmless

For those of you who don't know, I'm learning toki pona. Its a constructed language, created by the Canadian Linguist Sonya Lang. 

toki pona, for one doesn't use capital letters, but for two, only has 126 words. Words that are only for the purpose of expressing being polite were considered unnecessary and aren't part of the language. Instead, the default assumption in toki pona is that the speaker is trying to be polite.

It made me think, that we have to specify that we are trying to be polite, says a lot about us doesn't it?

Then, I had to do a double take. What exactly does it say about us?

My first thought was that people are just so angry and rude to each other all the time, that to be polite is the exception, not the rule and that's why its needed to specify that you're actually trying to be polite, but if you leave it at that I think you actually miss a lot about what's going on.

# Power

The primary focus I think of when it comes to polite/rude dynamics is, expressions of power and resistance. Someone tells you what to do, you reply with resistance (rude) or submission (polite). Likewise, which approach the person giving the order/favor will be different depending on what power they believe they have over you. They will either give the order with no suggestion that it can be resisted (rude) or as a suggestion, something that can be resisted (polite). 

We can further demonstrate that these are linguistic power dynamics by pointing out that asserting that someone of power is being rude by giving an order is itself considered rude. Resistance on the part of the person being asked is an attack on the power or authority of the person asking. When the person is asking using a submission tone (polite), they are indicating an awareness of not having power over the person being asked. 

# What Does This Say About Us?

In toki pona, we assume that everyone knows that no one has power over each other, and therefore resistance or fighting is unnecessary, instead, just say you don't want to do what is asked. toki pona is also an auxiliary language. Its intentionally simple and easy to learn and its good for people who don't speak each other's languages, but it isn't meant to replace natural language. If two speakers know a natural language, its better to use that instead as you can express much more complex ideas, like your desire to command someone and your resistance to the assertiveness of authority, but as mature adults, is there a better way to express these things? 

I would like to suggest, that the next time someone is rude to you, not to fight them, but instead understand that they either feel attacked by you, or that they feel as though they don't have power over themselves in your conversation and are just trying to take that back. Either way, being more understanding rather than reactive towards each other, could go a long way.

Thoughts About What Language Says About Us

Targeted advertising & the unholy alliance of Big Tech and government: The Draft

KurtBurgessWIW

Totally agree with this post and your other 2 tweets:
- https://nitter.net/CapitalistDog1/status/1737896114429272380
- https://nitter.net/CapitalistDog1/status/1737532103951020518

I will just add this:
[![vader-power-dark-side.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/sXmH6BvR/vader-power-dark-side.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/G8Bj9mFM)

The todays problems with BTC and LN are not the fees, but the stupid force closes of channels.
If we find a way to limit to minimum reasons a force closing channel, LN will work just fine.
Opening channels in high fee environment is NOT the problem, the force closing channels is the problem.
If I have the certainty that a channel will not get force closed in the next year,  I could easily manage my batch channels opening in a better way and cheaper.
But if I open today a 20M sats channel and in few months get force closed because some stupid shity node in the routing path got stucked HTLCs (not being my fault), that hurts a lot and disrupt massively the network.

In theory you do not have to close a channel if it just work fine and route payments. You close it ONLY in emergency cases and even then first you try to have a cooperative closure.

But yeah, people nowadays just come up with stupid ideas to "fix Bitcoin" and moving away from Bitcoin values.
I am tired of all this bullshit proposals.

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Understanding the Linux File System Layout

GeorgeOlsonUH6

Thanks!
I got it. For umbrella and start9, I need a computer which I'll have in 1 months time. So, till then I'll be learning how to run my own node. 

Thanks for your time sir! I'll ask again if I have a confusion or question. 