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I humbly and with some trepidation ask what you think of this note. It's coming from a good place, but it's not a happy note.

quoting nevent1q…3vp6

Increasingly I think the Nostr protocol has more potential to change the world than Bitcoin.

Reading a few takes on different topics around Valencia and flooding, I'm starting to feel like the crazy person in the room. Could be! @Eric Cason do you think I got the wrong end of the stick?

Valencia floods, I don't get it. Those poor people who lost their lives, is all the attention on helping Valencia for them? I sound heartless when I think out loud that it is not for them

It sounds like politics is hard at work, the typical Spanish media looping footage, talking events to death Aren't they diverting attention away from first principle failures ie decades of poor planning and general hubris to keep on reshaping the environment despite knowing the DANA is a regular event.

This isn't just a failure of politicians. Valencianos know how weather works, and land use/ misuse. Go anywhere in Spain and local knowledge of the land is still very alive and well. It's one of the many reasons why I love this country. There's a lot of "real grounded people" here still. If you think the scale of flooding in Valencia is a left field shock? Sorry, I don't believe it.

society has been shitting on it's own doorstep, reworking cityscapes, landscapes, mountains, rivers and is increasingly getting caught short, caught out. Everyone knows water is cleverer than humans, right?

Instead of lamenting collapsed bridges, question why on earth the bridge was even there. But who's asking those questions?

This episode sounds like same old same old media event. Who shouts loudest..

Nostr can raise voices outside the party line.

We also had insane rains. 5 Kms upstream, 450 mm of rain in 24 hours, infrastructure didn't collapse catastrophically, but enough damage to financially set us back and no help. No help expected none asked for.

We are at 600m, land absorbed most of the rain that fell on it. No fancy drainage or govt infrastructure or grants, just groundcover and terracing to slow down water flow. But still, land has water capture limits. Another few hours of storm our place would have been inundated and adding to the water that had been gushing from the first minute straight off bare and eroded land all around down into the overbuilt environment below. In other words, there needn't have been any drama in the populated centres if thousands of hectares of land all around had done it's job. Who's talking about that?

Places in Teruel, a forgotten part of Spain, were completely flooded out, washed away but nobody from anywhere, let alone bitcoin cares.



Another crazy thought. What if I went around to my neighbours with 20 tons of hillside across their track saying I'm from Bitcoin and I'm here to help. How does that actually sound? Phoney as hell. Opportunist? Weird. I earn euros and I'm here to help. Has anyone in history ever said that?

If I'm missing something here, I'll hold my hands up but

A) bitcoin is money tech, a tool to facilitate action. It is not an identity.


B) Valencia draws water from parts of Spain where local supplies were curtailed - 2 year drought going on til last month.

C) Everyone who plays into the material comfort, super convenient lifestyle is playing right into creating more and more local environmental problems. There aren't enough tax dollars to keep up with that cycle and certainly not enough brain cells or backbone in the ruling classes to deal with the direction of travel.

Shakes head and gets on with life. GN.