@11112011 @amerika Rome fell in part because they weren't willing to let Germanic leadership get involved
Spaniard and Illyrian leadership all had their time at the helm, when the Germans were next in line Rome didn't want to know - so it got sacked.
Lack of adaption, not immigration, was the issue at hand.
@velartrill @TheFuzzStone@fosstodon.org @bonifartius
thanks for the recommends, will check them out
as i say, for day to day comms, at least signal isn't known to indiscriminately sell data to corporate as a revenue stream
@velartrill @TheFuzzStone@fosstodon.org @bonifartius at this point I use signal because I dragged my friends there and they'll throw a fit if i try to drag them somewhere else
(tbh I'm not even sure what credible alternatives there are, telegram seems even worse)
at least the CIA/FBI is a smaller set than everyone that zuckerberg sells whatsapp data to
@furgar We're all gonna make it
the youtube channel of john campbell is really nice. he is rather good in explaining scientific stuff for the laymen while staying scientific and not falling down the common over-simplification trap (or notices if he does). the nice thing about this his approach of just explaining interesting papers is that, critics can't really argue that he's unscientific :)
@biomedmax true
they also banned bitcoin 6 times before deciding to buy it
@augustus the beatings will continue until morale improves.
unironic.
@augustus
> playing boules in Cornwall
> Armada sighted approaching the Channel
Drake: "time enough to finish the game and thrash the Spanish after"
RT @saifedean
Bitcoiners and shitcoiners are not on the same team. They couldn't be more different.
Bitcoiners see a once-in-a-millennium chance for the total eradication of seigniorage & monetary parasites.
Shitcoiners just see an opportunity for them to become the monetary parasites.
big corpos
For humans, a good goal is to Become Ungovernable.
For corporations and power structures, a good goal is to Become Invisible.
And Becoming Unsearchable by changing names to a common word (meta, alphabet) is a step in that direction, and i can't help but think that it's at least partly intentional.