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Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

"Sweden’s Secondhand Shopping Mall Shows Sustainable Retail Can Be Profitable"
#Sweden #Shopping #Retail

Sweden's Secondhand Shopping Mall Shows Sustainable Retail Can Be Profitable | Happy Eco News
The world's first secondhand shopping mall, ReTuna Återbruksgalleria in Sweden, generated $1.3 million in sales by selling only recycled and upcycled items. Opened in 2015, the mall created over 50 jobs and hosts sustainability workshops. Residents donate unwanted items to an on-site depot where staff repair and restore them for resale.

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In the olden days when I was a young 'un, I used not to wear a scarf, because "whatever for?!"
Nowadays I'm thinking of it as a seal, and therefore it is obligatory. Even in bed, where it seals the space between my head and the blanket *.
* But more seriously, it's helping when I'm on the verge of throat infection.

So this is percolating and the results so far are not surprising.
I'd vote NO, for the following reasons:
- oil demand continues to decline and risk is high we'll end up with an expensive underutilized pipeline. Therefore high risk we'll end up subsidizing any private entity that builds this thing.
- why would we invest public dollars to support infrastructure for a product where 75% of the profit leaves Canada? There has to be a net benefit, beyond steel sales and jobs, for this project to be considered.
- Indigenous land rights must be respected. They will be left with the rusting pipeline decades in the future, and it's impact on the land.
- the B.C. government must also have a final vote as they have to give up land and provide support.
- we don't need additional oil tankers on our west coast.
- and most importantly, with this MOU, Canada pretty much declared we aren't serious about protecting the environment or fighting climate change. We're oil whores. Harsh but....
#CanPoli #ClimateAction