Howdy there, partner! Welcome on into the Stacker Saloon.
Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!
We're open round the clock, so mosey on in whenever you please!
WE DON'T NEED WAR BUT WE DO NEED WARRIORS
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Car 18 Apr
Even Telegram has become a ๐Ÿ’ฉ coin app. Another reason why...
Bitcoin only ๐Ÿค™onward
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it always has been...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 18 Apr
facts
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The next retarget date is April 24, halving date is April 19
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#508613 Have you ever read any of Zecharia Sitchin's work?
#509243 "There's no motivation for the govt to lie!" - and more stupid things uttered by Bill Diamond, Chief of SETI, found here!
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @Lux 17 Apr
Have you ever read any of Zecharia Sitchin's work?
It's been proven his translations of sumerian tablets are very incorrect.
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That sounds like Anunnaki propaganda to me ๐Ÿ˜‚
I'm not super familiar, did write about anything besides his interpretations of those tablets? Or did everything trace back to them in his writing?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Lux 17 Apr
I was trying to find the video I watched that explains it well, but couldn't find it. So here's second bests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZBRMcUkqNA https://ancientpedia.com/zecharia-sitchin-and-the-mistranslation-of-sumerian-texts/
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux 17 Apr
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Why Files is great, thanks I'll check these out
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Just had a conversation with a pleb running a publishing company.
It was pretty much 30 minutes of Hustle blabbing about nostr and v4v......
Good times
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252 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 17 Apr

Protecting your property

Why and how it's best to own nothing to be happy :)
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Some ideas that've been digesting in my mind are finally converging into a real piece of writing! I credit my Shakespeare post yesterday :)
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This guy is waiting for @siggy47 to come home.... ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 17 Apr
I like his helmut!
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He thinks you will throw something :)
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Hey statists... vote harder next time ! These are the ones that you think are "representing" your interest and make "laws" and tax you more... THIS IS WHAT YOU VOTE !
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World has gone to s**t at the hands of the political eliteโ€ฆ.. but at least there is a politician cleaning up after himself. PoopEatingPolitician to the rescue!
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Wait. Is that wrong?
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You slept with the cleaning lady
Sweater has a red dot
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I'm happy someone caught the reference. I was thinking everyone must think l found nothing wrong with @DarthCoin's post!
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Did you see the curb your enthusiasm finale?
The final scene is worth it
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Yes, and the Seinfeld finale WAS terrible.
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In a fucked up world maybe this is right, moral and good behavior for a politician (to eat shit). If you do not see it wrong, it means that you are not seeing also the fucked up world. In what world are you living?
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I'm kidding (I hope you know that!!!!!) It's a Seinfeld joke.
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Seinfeld territory!
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ah you remind me to take the daily dose of Seinfled... https://watchseinfeld.net/
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I watch this everyday too lol
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yeah you never get bored of Seinfled.
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Howdy!
81 days of 100 push ups a day until $100k down. Undetermined to go. 77 days of 100 squats a day until $100k down. Undetermined to go.
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Good morning stackers.
Day 80 of 100 push ups till $100k completed.
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 17 Apr
rewards pool is already at 4 million sats
๐Ÿ‘€
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Day 121 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 601 sats on 16Apr2024! Running total: 81,351 sats!
Hopefully will get a run in between the rain
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82 sats \ 1 reply \ @Taft 17 Apr
Bob Marley was once asked if there was a perfect woman. He replies: Who cares about perfection? Even the moon is not perfect, it is full of craters. The sea is incredibly beautiful, but salty and dark in the depths. The sky is always infinite, but often cloudy. So, everything that is beautiful isn't perfect, it's special. Therefore, every woman can be special to someone. Stop being "perfect", but try to be free and live, doing what you love, not wanting to impress others!
Like this answer!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 18 Apr
So true, beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.
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The reward pool has reached 4 million. If nothing extraordinary happens, I think it will be lower than last month. What do you think, stackers?
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31 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 17 Apr
I donโ€™t know how many people add sats into their wallets but I wonder if the price keeps falling if more people will move sats to use here if that makes sense
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What price drop? 1 sat is still worth 1 sat right?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 17 Apr
While 1 will always be worth 1 the power of that one differs considerably over time!
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Day 82 of the #100aDayTil100k challenge, sets breakdown: 5x25 normal/narrow Total: 125 (Day 186 of 100+ pushups per day in total; day 85 of 120+ pushups per day)
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The other day I found this bug, I thought it was an abnormally thick ant but Google Lens said it was a beetle. When I took the photo it went into defense mode, just like scorpions, when it is threatened it raises its tail and also opens its jaws.
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Back in my childhood days, I would play with one of these.
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When @hn pulls ahead of me, I think of this
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @hn 17 Apr
lmao
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I enjoy the competition!
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very good point
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๐Ÿ˜‚
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It's a Wonderful Life (for Jeff) Every time our kitchen Amazon Dot makes a "dum chung" sound my head pivots pavlovian style to confirm package arrival through the window. Bezos gets a little richer and my house a little fuller.
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Day 368 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
__@_'-'
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271 sats \ 0 replies \ @mango 17 Apr
Day 149 of horseposting
Horse stance: 1 minute x 3 sets
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Whoop whoop! (Just passing)
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What kind of snail are you? ๐Ÿ˜‚
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the snail! I was just asking about this earlier and now its here!๐ŸŒ
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347 sats \ 1 reply \ @javier 17 Apr
I don't know if you are going to believe me, but right there, in that motorhome, in the middle of nothing, close to a beautiful lake, it runs a full Lightning node with my own bank (lnbits). And works beautifully. So well, that I already have several users. And it consumes only 10kb/s of data, and around 5W of energy, more than enough to be supported by my solar panels installed on the roof, and my dirty cheap 4G connection.
Soon I will write a guide on how you can have your own mobile bitcoin bank, with its headquarters completely undefined!
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van life! a dream of mine that I will make real when my kids are grown ๐Ÿ˜
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GM Stackersโšก๐Ÿงก
Moving wallets due to phone replacement due to drop on pointy pebble. ๐Ÿ˜ญ
Picked up the Pixel 8 Pro for Graphene OS installation.
Giddyup
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @final 19 Apr
๐Ÿ‘€ !!
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those hands looks like very hard working hands... a man that earn those sats with hard work :)
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Respect! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿพ
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That's a great pick!
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Strongly considering this
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Had a walk around to my agriculture land with Wheat almost ready to be reaped. Met this great and lovely bird.
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Can anyone tell me what a cowboy hat is please? #newby
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You have one! Keep it! It will protect you from sun, wind, rain, snow, and ๐Ÿ’ฉ๐Ÿช™ery!
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It protects you from tempests. It's the best hat ever. It's the one that tells loud and clear "I'm the one you must look at as a wild SN creature."
Hold it, it makes difference. Just never give it up.
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This is the way!
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I will hold onto it then!
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Okay, had to drop a package at the post office yesterday and saw this. I know the words "what the fuck" are overused these days, but still, what the everloving fuck? https://i.imgur.com/W6cRJAx.png
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32 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 17 Apr
Its like the Whole Foods located on the same block as my apartment that has been trying to get me to sign up for the PALM scanner to pay... I just get my palm scanned and somehow it pays for whatever I am buying... nope nada no thanks!
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Yeah, our WF has the same thing, and I can't imagine in a million years why I'd want that.
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I don't know what that is but my first thought was in fact - what the actual fuck????
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I know it's part of the circle of life and all that, but I'm still not a fan of having to dispose of half a rabbit corpse found in the yard (likely from a hawk attack). At least it's not summertime heat yet.
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you know when you start reading something and it takes you somewhere that you were absolutely not expecting?๐Ÿ˜‚ Poor rabbit and poor you!
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Like I said, circle of life. We've got so many rabbits on our neighborhood that I can't imagine the hawks and coyotes don't cull some of them, just wish they'd do it completely. Still better than finding ones hit by cars.
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Finished a lesson observation by my Head of Department as well as four visitors from the Headquarters, Ministry of Education this morning!
I let my restless students dance to Baby Shark in the middle of the lesson to let them expend their energy. Omg, but it is what it is.
Now that the lesson obs is done n dusted, I feel exhausted n strangely empty. Like a void that even Aprilโ€™s MSM canโ€™t fill hahaha. Not sure why exactly.
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maybe you needed to expand your energy and dance along with them?
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I did. Haha. I conducted my lesson at the library. I think the librarian took a video of us dancing haha
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I love that! If you were my client I would suggest you try 3 things!
  1. take a nap
  2. eat something
  3. go outside with your shoes of and stack up on some of natures energy!
It tends to be one (or all) of these that help me and my clients ha ha... your intuition should tell you which one is best for you :)
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Haha I actually did the first two. Ate Long John Silverโ€™s fast food n napped. Canโ€™t do the third because need to take care of two kids. Haha. But I will walk through a park in the future.
Whatโ€™s your job? You pique my curiosity haha
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I am an alignment coach... I help people to re-learn how to reconnect with and love themselves
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Working for myself and not having to do the monotonous 9-5 means I can take some time off for the first cut of the year! I love spring!
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Oh you are a life coach! Welcome to SN! Glad our paths crossed
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that I am! It's a pleasure to meet you!
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Employee

The word employee has its roots in the Latin word implicare, which became implicari, meaning โ€œto be involved inโ€ or โ€attached toโ€.
Over time, the Latin word evolved into the middle English word โ€œimployโ€, from the 16th and 17th century, and meant โ€œenfoldโ€, โ€œentangleโ€, โ€œto entwineโ€ and โ€œimplyโ€, and is compared to the Latin word implicare or_โ€œto implicateโ€.
A person who is carrying out the action of, or offering employment, is offering you to be implicated with the business in hand, and would be called the โ€œemployerโ€.
If the offer is accepted, then you would be in the โ€œstate of being employedโ€, making you the โ€œemployeeโ€.
Once employed, you can now be deployed, meaning โ€œto make use ofโ€ or โ€œto bring into effective actionโ€, just as troops or infantry would be.
Note: being employed does not mean you are entitled to payment, it just means you are implicated.
Therefore, if you accept โ€œcitizenshipโ€ or โ€œcivilian-shipโ€, you are now implicated with a corporation, which can โ€œdeploy youโ€, or โ€œmake use of youโ€.
Meaning you have become a โ€œtaxable human resourceโ€ to the corporation.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 31 Jul
Nice, now I gotta zap'em all :)
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Mmk 27 Jun
The term "human resource" has always turned my stomach.
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As an English teacher, I love learning about the origins of words. Thank you for this!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 17 Apr
My pleasure, I got more in the pipelines.
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And they have (most of us) by the balls! The minute you open a bank account, you are agreeing that every penny that goes through can be monitored. When you sign a contract for a house you are agreeing to not only paying the rent but also the council tax (and who knows where that money goes). I did hear a story (i don't know how accurate it was) that it is all in the prefix and that if you don't acknowledge one then you are exempt however without one you can't really live a life within society. I could talk about this all day, I won't though!
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I'm not following the prefix thing, more info? Regarding "society", I'd rather be alone in the world with my dog than be part of "slavery society". A sovereign chooses wich contracts to accept, that simple. We all have the power, but are programmed to not think this from day 1. And we can (re)build institutions that serve people
Some ideas regarding things to develop on nostr: #508593
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Hello Stackers!
8 days left until the NFL Draft!
Make sure if you want in to the SN ~Stacker_sports fantasy football league see this post for details #473247
Let's get after it and have a blast this season! No prior experience required, the league is for fun and new players will get as much help as I can. ๐Ÿ‘Š
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Soon... Zeus v0.9.0 will be like...
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Is there a link to the new features? This is exciting. I'm using Zeus more and more lately.
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You can alpha test the new version if you are a contributor, donor, olympian. https://zeusln.com/sponsor
Otherwise... just wait patiently. I cannot reveal the secret, yet. sorry.
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I am an Olympian how do I get access!!
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You think so? What benefits or ease of access do you anticipate above and beyond wallets like phoenix or mutiny?
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How many wallet apps you used from this image? the position of each image is very well selected, based on their functionalities
I use them all, testing almost every day.... read more: https://darth-coin.github.io/wallets/lightning-wallets-comparison-en.html
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @mo 17 Apr
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Zeus Blixtwallet Electrum Green LNBits Sats mobi WoS GetAlby ZBD eNuts
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Thanks Darth I'll check those comparisons out. I've personally used Mutiny, Phoenix and WoS.
WoS became my ease of access simple wallet for on ramping sats to SN via moonpay. And mutiny and phoenix I used to experiment and learn more about self hosting but I'm still learning about that.
Do you anticipate zeus to be a good "starter" wallet or do you think it would require some intermediate level of knowledge on lightning?
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Thanks Darth ๐Ÿ‘Š I am slowly making my way through a lot of your guides but there's so much information and so much content and it can be quite overwhelming at times.
Just going through the one about Zeus. A private node running straight off your phone, well that's certainly very very interesting. I'm not going to pretend to understand the difference between aezeed and bip39 seeds aside from what the guide says about date of creation. But that does add another layer of security having more information required in a seed.
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As I always said to all noobs: do not waste your time with crap things. Start now learning more about Bitcoin. Later you will regret it or you will pay a higher price.
I wrote all those 70 guides for all like you, looking to learn. If more noobs will start reading them, their bitcoin life will be much easier.
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It's definitely a lot of information to take on board but I really appreciate your resource. I tried to jump in with self custody straight after WoS. But ended up getting burned by having funds tied up in channel reserves before I really understood what was going on and how to work a self custody.
Snail check?
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somebody needs to explain snail check to me? I feel like i am missing out on something๐Ÿ˜‚
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Have you seen one in here?
(If @orthwyrm doesnโ€™t post in the Saloon - as the snail - it means Bitcoin has gone to 100k)
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oooooh... thank you! Well I haven't seen a snail!
Do you know what a cowboy hat is? Apparently I found one??
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Hang on tight. Only true rockstars hold onto their hats around hereโ€ฆ
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then I shall have to prove myself worthy!
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now you are playing with me๐Ÿ˜‚
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The snail is going slow, it's coming
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They're busy right now but will be back in a jiffy.
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hahaha this is true ! When I was a kid I used to cure my wounds and scratches by putting some snails on it. Rub a few plantain leaves on the wound and then put the snail to eat it and leave his "juice" there. In few hours your wound is closed and cured. Snails are very good for a lot of things.
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I also heard that ppl used to use ant legs on the wound ๐Ÿœ
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๐Ÿคฃ
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Tulip festival in istanbul - Tip: April is the best time to come, even Darth knows it!
And fun fact: Tulip is native to Anatolia ( actually, the nomad Turks brought it from Asia ), then brought into Europe during the Ottoman time; But I guess many people would first think of the Netherlands when it comes to Tulip, maybe due to more commercialization or marketing there...but Turk's love for Tulips is uncomparable, you can easily see it in all kinds of arts and crafts, e.g. I learned drawing this Tulip Ebru last year:
also made this bag with a master last year, and then I realized that there is actually no blue tulip in nature, but why?
also this horn brush, decorated with mother of pearl with tulip shape:
thanks for seeing my personal collections - crafting your life with beauties ( I want everything I own with meanings, unique, and long lasting ) and do you know the meaning of tulip? ๐Ÿค“๐ŸŒท
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lovely
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Sigh. All of our tulips are at the "almost ready to pop" stage, and we're looking at these buds just begging them to finally open up. Not that it'll be as gorgeous as this festival, but man are they nice flowers to have.
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absolutely beautiful!
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I find tulips to be incredibly beautiful, and I LOVE the wide variety of colors they come in. The only thing I know about tulips is the Dutch tulip mania. The Dutch tulip bubble was an economic-financial episode that occurred in the Netherlands in the 17th century. It is considered the first known speculative bubble in history. In this case, the asset that became the target of intense speculation was tulips, a highly prized flower that, at that time, became increasingly valued by people.
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I read about this too, but a friend who had dug deeper into the Tulip mania than me said it's apocryphal. ๐Ÿ‘€
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apocryphal? Can you clarify?
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meaning it didnโ€™t really happen or most what we heard aren't true, and I could ask some books' name for you to dig. ๐Ÿ‘€
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I understand that it only lasted for 6 months, but to say it never existed is a bit of a stretch. I don't think this is well explained. What are the arguments for claiming such a thing?
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There have been some articles noting that while there was indeed a craze that crashed, it didn't lead to bankruptcy or financial ruin for anyone. So it'd be like, say, discussing Beanie Babies as a financial crisis.
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beautiful ! Is that a flowers farm or something or ar just random flowers fields you encountered?
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it's in a giant park ๐Ÿ‘€
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heaven
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it could be a glimpse of heaven, and it happens every April. ๐Ÿ‘€
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๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜
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Day 17 of my daily posting journey in the MSM era. previously: #507478 ๐Ÿค โšก

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I love the saying, "you reap what you sow". I tend to find that because of the world we live in, that there are a lot who are just trying to get by, and to look after themselves. What people forget, is that we are all connected. We are all one and not separate beings as some would suggest. Those that we create into our lives are like mirrors, and therefore if we take advantage of that person then the universe will think that that is what we want and give it back to us threefold. Some will call it karma, I say it's getting what we asked for!
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