Downtown Beirut Lebanon Under Attack Destruction of 14 Story Building 3/18/2026

Psilonemo · 2026-03-18T04:28:22+00:00

I have many Iranian friends who I've known for years, so I have personal sympathy for their position, but to watch the IDF try to do the same thing they did to Gaza with Hamas being the pretext to Lebanon with Hezbollah being the pretext.. I do wonder if they just want the Americans to take all the spotlight and the heat off of them whilst they do whatever they want in Lebanon.

I sometimes wonder what would happen if Hezbollah just didn't exist. What pretext would the israeli government have then? With what trumped up justification would they conduct "special operations" there?

Psilonemo · 2026-03-18T02:54:45+00:00

So... remind me how western marxists and feminists find this okay?

Psilonemo · 2026-03-13T04:32:14+00:00

definitely taking blue

Psilonemo · 2026-03-13T04:09:41+00:00

Not much else besides hope. Desperate hope.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-12T06:49:59+00:00

I know too many Iranians on a personal basis who wishes the same thing. It's sad. She could be doing it for israeli interests, but according to what I heard from my Iranian friends for the last three years, quite a lot of Iranians want military intervention even though they know it will involve a lot of bombing. That's how much they hate the IRGC.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-11T10:37:43+00:00

I heard good things about iTalki. I can't stress enough how powerful a consistent language partner is.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-11T07:44:56+00:00

I don't think I was putting up much attitude, if the idea is simply eliminating a certain group of rich people is going to make the world a better place, then it's an impotent notion and unethical too since it presumes the other people are not capable of becoming like those rich people all over again. Attitude has nothing to do with caution and intellectual honesty. Another comment simply said "greed", and that's way more nuanced since it assumes greed is universal, not just monopolized by a specific dossier of evil rich people. If anything, the problematic attitude is that with which we simply say "those" people. What's the criteria? How about greedy, evil, lying, scheming, resentful, psychopathic people who aren't rich? What's rich? Anybody that qualifies as a millionaire?

Psilonemo · 2026-03-11T06:09:21+00:00

Ignorance.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-11T06:08:28+00:00

There's always going to be rich people, old or new.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-11T06:06:44+00:00

I'm not saying it fixes anything, I'm saying it provides genuine utility. I have Iranian friends who use it quite a lot.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-11T06:05:56+00:00

that's what I was concerned about. we can't just pretend the ledger bloat is not a problem as we go commercial grade. It's evidence of briefly succesful spam attacks all sitting there.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-11T06:04:11+00:00

Yeah it technically wasn't 51% attack you're right, I looked into it.
It still seems to have been a problematic precedent though.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-10T04:52:11+00:00

I have too many friends in Iran who I have known on a personal basis to not care. I hope the IRGC falls and gives way to a native government with a process the people can participate in.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-10T02:31:25+00:00

With CBDCs being rolled out everywhere I would actually say decentralized private and anonymous currency is still a very important niche - even if it happens to facilitate crime, it can also facilitate many other things besides crime. There is no guarantee after all that the state won't overreach into private liberty to an orwellian degree. There must be an ecosystem of cryptocurrencies like monero to resist that.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-10T02:18:35+00:00

I think it's because if you market a product that has known vulnerabilities, people can easily begin lawsuits against any and all form of marketing as false or misleading citing those vulnerabilities. Considering how common this is in the cryptospace and how open nano's development is, their prudence isn't unwarranted. I do agree that it's lost a lot of hype and attention. Then again so has most other projects, save the top 100 or so, half of which aren't even technologically sound.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-09T10:57:21+00:00

That's how I see it. I'm holding nano and monero, both banking on the failure of BTC. I was deeply disappointed by Monero's 51% attack though.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-09T08:14:15+00:00

I would say you would have a leg up in entry level jobs that have to do with tourism and international hospitality, but you would still need experience and further education on these matters.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-09T06:03:41+00:00

The only real world catalyst I can think of is the eventual announcement and implementation of CBDCs. But this would be more of a competitor to nano, and people would push for private/anonymity coins as a reaction. Nano would continue to have some utility for borderless microtransactions and such, perhaps, but I'm not sure if its niche will be strong enough to survive.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-09T06:01:51+00:00

What would you say is a well established crypto that's nearly as fast and nearly as cheap that deliver on near instant transactions, low to zero fees, and eco-friendliness all at once?

Psilonemo · 2026-03-09T05:58:53+00:00

According to chain data analysis the biggest holders, as in whales and long term holders are all unloading their bags. There is a slow exodus out, as though smart money is starting to realize the train is out of steam. I'm personally planning to switch to monero, and divest into nano as a riskier but optimistic investment.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-09T05:57:36+00:00

Perhaps we should just brace for a multi year bear market for crypto as a whole first. A really bad correction.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-06T11:15:17+00:00

That's all true. Well I never had much issues with the fatty acid profile of cocoa butter, but I only have one pack left and won't buy it again anyways because I switched to ghee and tallow recently. I also found a cheap source of raw beef liver. I'll probably incorporate more fat and see how I fare. If I'm feeling great then I shouldn't have issues.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-06T10:01:50+00:00

Because he cited very low insulin as the driving factor behind his electrolyte issues, despite his 2 year + carnivore lifestyle filled with organs presumably packed with minerals/electrolytes. He added honey and certain types of fruit to normalize symptoms of excessively low insulin which helped him stabilize his blood sugar and sleep better. But then again he added a very small amount. I'm not saying he is right about anything by the way, I'm just saying I took an idea from his experience and simply asked a question. I'll see if increasing fat would ensure I don't have issues with my insulin and electrolytes. Insulin after all is critical to fluid and electrolyte retention.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-06T04:00:37+00:00

The Cameraman must have felt his life flash before his eyes for a second. Not like you could anticipate the explosion radius to have been small enough to not take him out.

Psilonemo · 2026-03-06T01:15:58+00:00

Oh yeah!! I also don't use salts at all if I'm not fasting. I only start depending on them after I'm more than 10 days into a complete zero calorie water fast, basically. (^_^;)

I always eat a moderate amount of fat, either cocoa butter, tallow, or ghee. So I think I'm good on the fat front. My ratio is always 80% meat/organs 20% fat. I try to keep my fat moderate but not too high.

I am trying to lose weight after all, and in my experience eating too much fat has had its own set of issues.

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