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Decentralised communication built on encrypted keypairs has to work.Ditto Bitcoin has to work. Under the current gatekeeper paradigm, you don t own your emails. You surrender your money to the bank's control, and you are beholden to their policies. It is a lunatic running the asylum system making idiots and slaves of everyone involved except the few controlling your emails, the fruits of your money, your energy. If it's truly MY bank account then give me the archive and I'll tout It around other banks to see what deal they Will give me. If they risk my money, they pay ME more to have my account etc. As It stands it's the bank's account and they give you sole access to It. And make you feels grateful for solving a fuck Up their system caused. Bitcoin and lightning and nostr exist, the legacy system is exposed for it's backwards approach to security and privacy. Photos and SS numbers and telephone numbers, all stealable are woven together into a Swiss cheese of security bollocks, even though the tech leads at all these Institutions know damn well that PGP is now usable for everyone and a private and public key blows all their arcane and shite intrusive approaches out the wáter.. end of rant after 2 hours on a tech support call with intelligent people with little wisdom reduced to endibg TVE call with a plea for me to say they were helpful. If their energy were better used, the world would be a better place

hey @Marty Bent this is the original exposę of how so many dodgy financial roads lead to the City of London. Devious does t even come close to describing these people.

The pressure of inflation is really starting to bite in my part of Spain. Under the pressure of Rising prices and falling real income, people are going to say and do headless things that Will make them cringe looking back. Spain is full of enterprising people, youth is also on their side. But the tax system and the money printing system are destroying enterprise. The financial system is also driving rural populations into cities, robbing the countryside of guardians of the land as well as opportunity. I looked hard at a rural business development loan and Saw through It. It was set Up to trap me into the self employed system for several years, convincing me I would be getting ahead when the reality after expenses is glaringly the opposite. Did you know the average self employed person in Spain earns 700€ a month! The benefits system makes that feasible, but what a waste of resources. Listening to an online scam expert, the modus operandi of many scamsters could be levelled at government policies - lure you into a "safe space" before extorting you. Similar charges that the govt decides Who bad Guy terrorists are, when govts themselves use violence vía their police and armed forces to achieve their own political aims. It is so easy to point fingers and escalate the divisions and inequalities, but It it's getting time to decide not to. Understand that financial issues stress everyone into daft decisions and reactions - the local business cutting service and serving crap just to make ends meet needs support, just as the customers need to tell them to wise Up or lose all custom. Ditto govts and políticians need to be constructively confronted and told that their reliance on the Fiat system has to change else all walls Will come tumbling down, no moat wide or Deep enough to protect anyone in the system, especially the fiat wealthy.

To the recent @Marty Bent newsletter, I was harrassed by local bank into going in to a branch to confirm legal requirements. I have under 100€ in the account. They asked me a question and the teller ticked the box...nothing changed in 4 years. They are clowns, clueless and dumb box tickers. Play their game is easy when you have no stake in their stupidity. The worst case is they sanction your account. Ooooh.

Nostr, free speech unleashed, is on the correct path when you read this about attacks from anti freedom governments in bed with corporations. Nostr should end Up with all the info we need to arrive at a balanced view.

the Guardian

Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert … who is the next to be silenced? | Moira Donegan

When a regime can use the power of the law to punish speech because it does not like that speech’s content, then speech is not free

Explained the limits of a machine we use, including demo, and It performed perfectly. But at the end of their session the customer was dissatisfied with the machine's performance. Not sure what to say, except, oh well, we managed their expectations and they chose to raise the bar to an unrealistic height.