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2024-09-08 14:48:05

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But maybe that’s the problem:
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/251f293b608b1094b99254d641e48c66a6a09bcba3dc5eb532d9f591357366ee.webp

2024-09-08 10:25:32

Probably should re-post this again later in the day when the Americans are awake, but will be live posting during the NFL games on @npub1dwh…qfxe if any of you are interested. Commentary and most likely rage and despair as my bets, picks and players don’t do what I had hoped.
Fantasy football, survivor and sports betting are 60 percent anxiety, 25 percent rage, 10 percent despair and five percent joy. If that’s a ratio you can live with, check out the feed today at 1 pm ET!

2024-09-07 19:40:14

Been shitposting more on Twitter of late. I don’t know — political shit just seems to be more apt there than here. I know a lot of people don’t want to think about politics, I get it. I don’t really either. But once they locked me in my house for no reason and said I couldn’t go to a restaurant unless I injected myself, ignoring it wasn’t an option.

2024-09-05 19:55:56

IRS owes me a refund from 2022. Finally sent out the check in June of 2023. Still haven’t gotten it.
Called them up. Automated menus. Then finally waited on hold for 20 minutes after pressing random buttons, got a guy, wrong department. He transfers me. Another 25 minutes, get a woman.
She’s mumbling, can’t tell what the hell she Is saying, ask her to speak up, she refuses, says she’s speaking as loudly as she’s going to.
She says we can put a trace on the refund check if I want. I ask what does that do. More unintelligible mumbling. I ask what if the check arrives in two more weeks, and the trace is on, does that require me to do anything? More mumbling about forms, matching signatures and something else.
I get annoyed, say I can’t really hear you and can’t decide whether to put the trace on it because I don’t understand the consequences. It’s been 15 months since I filed for the refund (and paid my accountant an extra $400), and I’m getting frustrated.
When I’m done talking the call is still connected, but no response. Hello. Hello? Hello!!! Still connected, no response for another minute, and I hang up, figure hopefully that shit will just arrive in the next month or so since I’m overseas, and it takes a while.
No idea if she put the trace on it or not, but doubtful because I didn’t tell her too.
Get your money out of the system to the greatest extent practicable. It’s falling apart.

2024-09-05 16:45:03

https://fountain.fm/show/g91yDXlvog8DcsaszgD8

2024-09-04 09:03:45

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Happy birthday. Congrats on being the second oldest person on nostr. (I’m 53).

2024-09-03 15:48:15

Had a paranoid thought just now while driving back from the butcher. (Stocked up on a lot of shit): was thinking about Roger Stone’s claim that CNN never covers Trump’s rallies, but had a high-priced freelance photographer present for the one where he was shot.
The obvious inference is that the deep state of which CNN is a part knew what was going to happen and were ready to document and put their spin on it.
But how would having the exact photos help them if the assassination were successful? IOW, if he were killed, what good would it do to have up close photos of the event, rather than just a bunch of cellphone videos?
On the other hand, those photos make Trump look like a hero, the way he stood up and yelled fight.
So the paranoid thought was, what if Trump and CNN are in on it together, and it’s all kayfabe? That the choice in the election seems so obvious (taxes on unrealized gains? FFS?) because they want you to be relieved if he gets elected. They want you to be on board with whatever they’re planning next, so they set you up to worry about some communist, and you get something else bad.
As I said, it’s probably just a paranoid thought, but the last time I felt the choice was this obvious was Obama/McCain, and in retrospect, I got duped. (Not that McCain would have been any better, just that I had no idea what Obama was at the time.)

2024-09-03 15:37:47

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I think they will try, but it’s backfiring. And I don’t think they are masters of anything. They just had the fiat printer on their side, and that’s about to be taken away.

2024-09-02 19:21:27

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thanks for the really generous zap!

2024-09-02 19:05:03

Convinced my wife to let me post her Lisbon guide on nostr, she was skeptical. Just now some anon (thank you!) zapped her 10K sats. I called her in, showed her the history of all the zaps she’s gotten for it (more than 20K now), and she was impressed.
I told her, she’d have to update it every six months or so to keep it current but that it would sit there forever, and the zaps would come in indefinitely, and she thought it was very cool.
This is the future.
#note14u3…mz9d

2024-09-02 17:18:41

Only negative about going to Argentina for 15 days was losing much of my hard-earned tan. Who travels to winter during summer?

2024-09-02 17:05:27

And by the way, now that I’m singing the praises of Portugal — here’s my wife’s guide to visiting.
IMO the best, most comprehensive and current guide anywhere — and only on nostr.
#note12hl…nj47

2024-09-02 16:47:39

Was talking to my wife about Portugal. Right now it’s in a sweet spot of not very authoritarian — government doesn’t bother you, people mostly keep to themselves, are not busybodies — and also very safe. How long it will stay that way, I have no idea.
The EU is a scourge, and Portugal is beholden to it, but Portugal is economically insignificant and geographically isolated (only country it borders is Spain.) And crime could always get worse, but I don’t see a lot of sketchy/openly insane people when I walk around the way I did in San Francisco and Denver this summer.

2024-09-02 16:04:29

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I hear you — that was in the acute mania phase, though. They went all-in for that. Can’t do that more than once IMO.

2024-09-02 16:00:35

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And thanks for the zaps! Much appreciated.

2024-09-02 13:09:32

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I would say only 10-20 percent are truly in a state of psychosis. Most are going along due to incentives. (Psychotic people are scary!)
The key is to reach the non-psychotics, and you do that by persuading them that appeasing the psychos is no longer in their interest.

2024-09-02 13:04:38

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They will if you convince them they are drawing dead. Which they are.

2024-09-02 12:30:52

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heard all those things, but also got into with a guy who was emotional and upset when I told him I was “considering” voting for Trump.
But as we talked, I challenged a lot of his beliefs about climate change, etc. And my wife told me by the end he looked shaken like he had gotten beaten up in a fight. And I was nice about it, but the cognitive dissonance apparently took a toll.
I have no idea if it had a lasting impact, but I planted a seed. Thing about the guy (was British) was that he was a sensible and anti-authoritarian type of person which is why he was able to have the discussion. And there are a lot of those types who were liberal because they thought that was being for the underdog and don’t realize they’re now for the authoritarians.

2024-09-02 11:55:08

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Have had that same experience *many* times. Smart, otherwise engaged people just with zero interest in sense-making about what’s going on. But that same herd-drift mentality can be used IMO, if you persuade them the worm has turned and they’re on a sinking ship. Can’t argue facts directly, more just pointing out a few obvious things they already know.

2024-09-02 11:43:25

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I see, so if I type #Monero, it’ll show up with an emoji, and I’ll know it’s a flagged word?
And if eventually it’s done with words I care about it and distorts my experience I’ll know to leave?
That doesn’t sound as bad, TBH.

2024-09-02 11:36:58

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Ha -- a couple of those. And a lot of the libs — the people I know well — almost certainly have me on mute. But got a couple good responses and a DM too. I think a lot of people badly want to jump off this sinking ship.

2024-09-02 11:35:47

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Shit! That’s the client I use too! Best one IMO for IOS.
I don’t care about Monero per se, but what other words will go missing from my feed if a developer doesn’t like them?
I guess if a client wanted to reduce spam it would block various words, but should be opt-in rather than default IMO. You opt-in and easily check the updated list of blocked words. And if the client goes too far, you dump it for another.
But very dangerous to have it done behind the scenes without the users knowing.

2024-09-02 11:09:08

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I think there are a lot of half awake people who realize something is deeply wrong, but are pushed by incentives not to awaken fully. My strategy is to push in the other direction, make them realize they are making a bad bet. People don’t respond to moral chastising, but they do respond to being shown what they’re doing is bad for them, counter to their aims of fitting in, not getting hassled.

2024-09-02 11:06:42

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should name names if they’re doing that

2024-09-02 10:48:33

Posted this on Twitter, less applicable here, but maybe useful as a way of finding common ground with people who for whatever reason are stuck in outmoded worldviews.
I suspect more people than we realize are silently going along to get along but are not remotely on board (or in denial) of what’s really going on. Anyway, this was the post:
*Imagine a lot of smart liberals are realizing it's time to fold a bad hand now.*
*You are not pro-war, pro-censorship, pro pharmaceutical conglomerates, jailing and assassinating political rivals, biological males destroying girls sports.*
*You were for the regular working person, skeptical of the corporate media, defenders of free speech.*
*This is not what you signed up for. This is not what you're about. I know a lot of you well, and this phony, dishonest cabal of oligarchs isn't aligned with your values at all.*
*You do not owe this metastasized version of your former party blind allegiance. They lied to your face about Biden's dementia, the lab leak, the safety and efficacy of the shot.*
*They are not looking out for you. The incentives you had to go along are insufficient. The lies are too big now, the absurdity too out in the open.*
*Opt out. Leave. Fold. Fight for your real values not these astroturfed perversions.*

2024-09-01 16:06:10

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she’s in school

2024-09-01 10:36:00

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maybe but very hard to predict 2nd, 3rd, 4th order effects

2024-09-01 10:09:05

Curious what a Kamala win (with likely voting irregularities) and the implementation of radical policies might trigger. Might be the shortcut to hyperbitcoinization via mass exodus from the system even for many normies.
Everyone is worried about 20th century communism, but maybe attempting that in the Information Age with freedom tech available would end it once and for all.
I’m not rooting for this outcome, but sometimes it takes gollum biting off Frodo’s finger to destroy the ring once and for all.

2024-08-31 23:01:16

12-YO daughter riding toward the Andes in Mendoza last week:
https://nostrcheck.me/media/134743ca8ad0203b3657c20a6869e64f160ce48ae6388dc1f5ca67f346019ee7/bf3ac77906c5ee8042c5d733bafbc4ff7a58dd3c825d170f76a4424b38a32a8e.webp

2024-08-31 10:07:01

Finally back home in Lisbon after two weeks in Argentina, took the 12th and final flight of the last two months back from Madrid.
If it weren’t for my wife, I’d probably still be planted on my sofa in LA — I’m an ideas guy, I don’t *do* shit.
And yet, it was my idea to go to Argentina and also to drive through the south of the US this summer.
Portugal is a nice place, but they are beholden to the EU, which is up to no good. If things go south, you want to have some outs.
This is essentially the thesis of The Sovereign Individual — that jurisdictions that treat people poorly will lose those people, are while the backlash from the now-powerful ones will be ugly, they will ultimately lose that battle and have to capitulate once people start exiting en masse.
We’re not leaving here imminently, but if it went bad, Buenos Aires is an amazing city, the people are kind and there seems to be a (very tempered) hope that things are turning around, even though they’re struggling as Millei seems to be facing reality rather than printing them into more debt.

2024-08-30 16:36:40

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thanks -- will do that

2024-08-30 16:05:03

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city was vibrant, people seemed wary (because they’ve been burned a lot), but guardedly hopeful re Millei and his policies, food was good, construction/improvements everywhere. Streets seemed safer than last time I was there, etc.

2024-08-30 16:03:39

Madrid airport wifi is like fame. You get 15 minutes before they expect a confirm from the fake email you gave and then it’s over.
Apologies to [email protected]

2024-08-30 01:26:49

Leaving Argentina after 15 days. Seems like it’s headed in the right direction.

2024-08-29 15:11:38

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Fair point — gotta think ahead.

2024-08-28 21:59:58

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I don't think so. People can’t afford unrealized gains.

2024-08-28 21:36:27

The effect of this would be people getting their wealth off the fiat rails so it can’t be easily seized.
#note1pkk…hfg8

2024-08-27 15:24:25

Weasel letter — took responsibility for the censorship (didn’t blame the govt), vowed not to do it again (empty promise). Didn’t accomplish anything.
#note1vmd…5mss

2024-08-26 13:49:57

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Think of the backlash when this too fails.

2024-08-24 23:29:31

Was thinking about what happens if/when we win, and the globalist cabal of control freaks is beaten back, people are free to create and build, time preference is down, beauty is valued and appreciated, merit and contribution to the marketplace is rewarded over politics and status-chasing.
What are you going to do with yourself then?

2024-08-24 16:19:47

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LOL, meant to say wearing a “fancy” watch.

2024-08-24 16:18:54

People my wife knows are gushing about Kamala Harris because they think it’s fashionable. It’s like wearing a watch or saying your kid got into Princeton — something you do for social reasons.
That’s the extent of it. Politics as fashion for the consequence-insulated. (Or so they think.)

2024-08-23 16:54:54

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I don't think any earnest seeker can arrive at the “wrong” conclusion, as the earnest seeking IS the truth IMO. That’s because the doubt is itself the truth, and the seeker is only earnest to the extent he embraces it.

2024-08-22 23:05:24

12-YO daughter today: “Think I prefer male dogs to female ones because…”
She pauses to think about what she means to say.
Me: “Because they’re bitches?"

2024-08-22 14:25:16

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Dueling black holes

2024-08-22 14:24:26

At a resort in Argentina, woke up middle of the night with a tickle in my throat, thought fuck, last thing I need is to get sick.
Then I remembered I had some loose supplements I put in the zip pocket of my toiletries bag, went to the bathroom, opened it up.
But there were some older supplements in there too, and I couldn’t tell which were which, so I popped a few into my mouth, thinking maybe I had gotten zinc, vitamin C and quercetin, went back to bed.
About 20 minutes later I realized my error: my body was suddenly on fire in the bed. Those larger rectangular tablets were not Vitamin C but 250 mg of full flush niacin!
Eventually slept it off though and feel fine, so maybe it helped.

2024-08-22 13:50:15

Idea for better discoverability on Nostr:
A client feature wherein you recommend say 3 follows of follower counts between x and y, and say up to 10 follows with follower counts below x. (Above y is not necessary because their posts are already plenty discovered.
Then once a critical mass of people have selected their key follows, others can opt into a feed of “follows + recommendations”

2024-08-21 18:34:55

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when the official explanation is plainly a lie, it’s rational to consider others to see if they better fit the facts.

2024-08-21 03:09:48

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Even if they cared about other stuff, not seeing how it would be a positive for anyone who wasn’t already brainwashed.

2024-08-21 02:59:56

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Independent voters who aren’t worried about the economy? I’d imagine most of them are sitting on some gains.

2024-08-21 02:58:20

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only the people who were already going to vote for her like it

2024-08-21 01:58:07

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Even if that were true, and I don’t think it is, the commies are already voting for her. Why propose this now?

2024-08-21 01:55:51

Very odd. Even if she were serious, why propose this *ahead* of the election? Only the brainwashed and economically illiterate would be for it, and they were already going to vote for her. Who does this win over?
Almost like they're sabotaging her candidacy.
#note1upk…xfru

2024-08-20 20:25:52

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I don’t mean a real turning from evil, but a self-preservation instinct among the evil to turn on their co-malfeasants while there’s still something to be gained from it. Think that’s more likely.

2024-08-20 20:12:27

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I can definitely see it, but the bolder the move, the more dire the consequences if it fails. And there will be strong incentives for people (when they see the worm turn) to jump off the sinking ship first. Plus, they are evil and craven, so they can’t trust each other.

2024-08-20 17:31:05

I feel like someone should compile an index of all the major events for which the official account is woefully inadequate and offer various theories:
Titanic
Pearl Harbor
JFK assassination
Watergate
9/11
Covid origins
etc. etc.
There are probably 100 or so big ones.
I might consider it, but it would be a huge project.
Basically just an easily reference-able index.
Where to draw the line as to what you could include — Iraq War, Russiagate, SARS Cov-1? — would be tough though. Can’t include everything that’s ever happened.
I don’t know. Just think there should be one place you could get all of it.

2024-08-20 17:21:37

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https://x.com/welp007/status/1825712844450705582

2024-08-20 17:03:35

I don’t know if nostr *needs* or even wants fantasy football, sports betting and survivor content, but I’m providing it @npub1dwh…qfxe.
There are ~50 million Americans who play, but apparently only a dozen or so are on nostr.
While fantasy football and betting NFL games takes some commitment, survivor does not. In fact it’s criminal the entirely of nostr isn’t in some 10K-sat entry survivor pool for all the marbles.
(Survivor is just a game where you pick one NFL team to win each week, the only catch being you can’t use the same one twice. Win and move on, lose, and you’re out.)
#note1vua…8csj

2024-08-20 15:51:29

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why is an orange called an “orange” but a lemon is not called a “yellow”?

2024-08-20 03:05:06

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ha -- one of the lowest

2024-08-20 01:50:54

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You only need to quantify things that are close calls. These are not.

2024-08-20 01:38:35

Every election I can remember, the more charismatic person won except the last one: Reagan over Carter/Mondale, Bush over Dukakis, Clinton over Bush/Dole, Bush over Gore/Kerry, Obama over McCain/Romney, Trump over Hillary. Only exception was Biden over Trump, and there were serious irregularities around it.
Forget politics, and just ask yourself if there's ever been a bigger gap in charisma/personability than in this election. Then consider the economy which just massively revised down its jobs report for the last year, with inflation crushing the ever-shrinking middle class.
The fundamentals are terrible for the democrats. The indicators (polls/betting markets) say otherwise, but in an era of so much manipulation and fraud, fundamentals > indicators IMO.

2024-08-19 17:30:57

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People want an AGI for *judgment* which is different than say for doing multivariable calculus.
The same people who so eagerly outsourced their own judgment to laughably flawed “experts” the last few years are the ones in whom the fantasy is the strongest.

2024-08-18 18:08:34

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Those are basically banks now, but yes. Had to delete PayPal though when they got in the business of policing speech.

2024-08-18 16:33:09

Similar experience — maybe worse — helping my 87 YO uncle set up automatic payments from their joint Chase account to his wife’s nursing home. After much of the same BS as below, got in, set up autopay, seemed to take but was rejected the next day. Did this SIX times, one of which was his local (in person) banker doing it herself, still rejected.
And his 2FA was to his land line so every time, we had to hang up for him to get the code and call back.
Eventually gave up, moved the funds to a different bank which they also wouldn’t do online, so he had to pick up a cashier’s check and drive it to the new bank.
#note1ta6…kx7w

2024-08-17 23:46:42

New conspiracy theory — variant of this earlier one.
They had to get rid of Biden but couldn’t get Kamala to quit, so they let her have the nomination (for now — and maybe that entitled them to the funding), but they know she can’t win and are now angling to replace her with someone they prefer.
Remember, polls are fake, news is fake, even betting markets can be manipulated. In such cases, always look to fundamentals which are twofold: (1) The economy sucks — inflation is crushing people; and (2) Unlike say Obama or Bill Clinton, who, no matter what you think of them were both gifted politicians, she sucks at this game.
So bad politician, bad economy. The polls are fake, the betting markets are manipulated.
They are already attacking her over her preposterous economic proposals in the Washington Post. Doubt the Post would have permission to do that unless the word was out.
In the end, they had to replace both Kamala and Biden — it was the only way to pull with in cheating range IMO.
#note1vd4…u0ac

2024-08-17 17:14:30

winter in August
https://nostrcheck.me/media/6ad3e2a34818b153c81f48c58f44e5199e7b4fc8dbe37810a000dce3c90b7740/b32500608e8ed45a7b4956c8af5aa0ecaad9877f2d3128ae6bf1ee272ba6c63c.webp

2024-08-16 16:56:26

The population’s memory-holing of the abusive covid response is foundational to so much of the present derangement.
You were not allowed to leave your house because the government said so! You were banned from eating in a restaurant due to pharmaceutical non-compliance!
Pretending that didn’t happen when many of the architects of those policies are still in power is taking a toll. People desperate to pretend everything is okay have always existed, but they’ve never had to pretend this hard

2024-08-16 16:08:43

eventually the hash-rate will surpass this
#note12ac…qg2r

2024-08-15 13:05:37

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biggest regret from college is exactly this — was partying and didn’t want to deal. Should have gone deep into math/CS instead.

2024-08-15 13:03:42

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If someone stole your key and posted, you would just say what happened and get a new key, disavow it.
You are under no obligation to post at all. But the whole point is if you do post, you can’t be censored.

2024-08-15 13:01:25

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any one relay can do it, but once it’s out there, seems like it would be hard to remove it from every relay

2024-08-15 12:46:24

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Problem with being able to delete is governments can say — “this is misinformation, delete.” No longer censorship resistant in that case.
But you could maybe have a separate category for shitposts that you don’t care about making censorship resistant. But nostr being deletable is like bitcoin transactions being revocable.

2024-08-15 10:59:26

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Deletable notes kills censorship resistance but maybe you could have two categories, deletable and not deletable, so if you post the latter it’s forever.

2024-08-15 00:19:39

The price is fake, the polls are fake, the markets are fake.
Build your conviction from first principles, not formerly reliable indicators people have since learned to manipulate.

2024-08-14 20:30:30

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depends where he was coming from

2024-08-14 18:03:41

Gotta give that kind of Gigachad some leeway
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2024-08-14 16:23:32

The dull, bureaucratic process of legal immigration itself is a vetting mechanism. It weeds out all the high-time-preference maniacs who would never have the patience.

2024-08-14 16:13:04

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It depends. I mean do you tell your filthiest most disturbing joke to your friend in earshot of his 10-YO?
But I will openly post about controversial topics on social media under my own name that I think are appropriate for all audiences. Yes, it might cost me a job (I don’t want one) or potentially get me in trouble, but I stand by everything I post.
Even if it turns out to be wrong, I did it in earnest.

2024-08-14 15:52:50

Actually think the impossibility of deleting notes on nostr is a net positive for people who worry about posting things they might later regret.
If you post something on Twitter and later regret it, you can delete, but if someone screenshots it, you’re screwed. So you have people posting recklessly because they have this out, and it turns out, actually no, they’re on the hook anyway.
But with nostr, you don’t have that out, so you will be more careful. Over the long run, you will post fewer things you regret.
(Personally anything I put on the web (email, text, social media, etc.) I assume will eventually become public.
Consequently, I only tell the really really dark, super wrong jokes in person to based people I trust.

2024-08-14 15:43:56

You can’t go out in public, take off your clothes and then complain about your right to privacy when videos of you show up on the web.
You exercise your right to privacy by keeping your clothes on.
Similarly, you can keep any information about yourself private that you choose. But if you post it on an open protocol readable by anyone, you’ve exposed yourself irrevocably,.
Free speech is like sovereign money — you have to take responsibility for it.
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2024-08-14 15:28:09

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Trump presided over lockdowns too, and didn’t pardon Assange or Snowden despite all the talk about the “deep state”.
Even so, would vastly prefer him to that cackling moron and her sociopathic VP.

2024-08-13 19:33:18

this would be a cool display option (you could toggle off the authors)
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2024-08-13 15:08:43

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Disagree strongly. People speaking up is why so many of the covid measures had to be shelved. It’s never too early or too late. Some people will get got, of course, but you could also be a compliant shill and get a heart attack from the mRNA. No one knows what will happen. But you do know what you believe is true and you can say it.

2024-08-13 15:01:21

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But you will only go to prison for dissenting if you didn’t dissent in time. And then others who didn’t even dissent will soon join you.

2024-08-13 15:00:20

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The inability to delete posts has two main implications — (1) censorship resistance; and (2) the need for care before posting. Just like the inability to reverse bitcoin transactions has implications for care and op sec in using that protocol.
I understand there are particular situations where we wish we could undo the “send” for both protocols (if you’re robbed, e.g.). But final settlement and inability to delete is a feature IMO, not a bug.
Everything goes on your permanent record, and that’s okay. Freedom means freedom, not freedom only if I didn’t say the wrong thing five years ago.
Use freedom tech to re-negotiate on our terms, not those of the censor.

2024-08-13 14:53:37

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That's only the case in the US and EU where Assange and Snowden got got, but everyone else can mostly keep their heads down and be fine. In autocratic countries, tens of millions who kept their heads down were murdered.
The security forces only stand aside when the writing is on the wall. But they won’t be reading it if no one’s posting it.

2024-08-13 14:43:36

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You think tyrannical regimes only persecute dissidents? They persecute regular people all the time for any or no reason. How many people died in communist China or Stalinist Russia? All dissidents?
The truth is free speech is fatal to autocratic regimes which is why they ban it. The *only* defense is to speak up. Yes, if you go first you might increase your risk. But if no one goes first, everyone is doomed.

2024-08-13 13:24:55

Alternative POV: your permanent *speech* record is unimportant. Speech is not action, and there’s nothing you could say on nostr that isn’t protected by the First Amendment.
But what about the UK, or even the US apparatchiks like Tim Walz who want to criminalize dissent as “misinformation?” Surely it’s dangerous to say things on nostr that might one day be connected to your real life identity?
No it is not. If some communist is going to get you for saying Kamala Harris is a moron, then they will get you for anything or nothing at all. The day I can be arrested for my nostr posts, the answer will not be to hide in anonymity and hope someone else — someone dumb enough to attach his real identity or unlucky enough to have his keys compromised — gets got instead.
I really don’t like the ethos of: “Oh no, I can’t pretend I didn’t say what I said!”
How about:
"I said what I fucking said because I earnestly believed it at the time, and I either stand by it now or I realize I was in error and I no longer stand by it, though it was said in earnest, and it was an honest mistake."
The people who are worried they’ll be arrested for free speech don’t really believe in free speech. The people who will only say what they truly believe anonymously don’t really believe in free speech.
They believe one *should* have the right to free speech in an ideal society, but in the present one it doesn’t exist and therefore they won’t avail themselves of it.
But your rights don’t come from society. They come from nature, God, the Tao, whatever.
If you believe in free speech, you use it. And yes, I get it, if you’re in North Korea, you wouldn’t, and that’s fine. But if you’re intimidated by speaking the truth because you might get found out, God forbid, for earnestly expressing yourself by the UK loser police, you are not really for free speech. Not when it has even a small risk, a small cost.
So if you want free speech to exist, speak freely, stop fomenting fear, have courage.
Sorry, not meaning to pick on this particular npub — this is a common theme on this otherwise based protocol.
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2024-08-12 20:19:15

Awesome — thanks Shane. Be sure to send them to @npub1prm…7wse, not me!
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2024-08-12 17:41:31

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cheers!

2024-08-12 17:40:11

Wife's Lisbon guide updated with links.
Literally the world’s best travel guide to a European capital, exclusively on nostr.
(Consider zapping her, not me if you wind up using it/sending it to friends.)
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2024-08-12 14:04:52

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there are many ways, but they pretty much all involve physical discomfort

2024-08-12 13:20:11

Only post in earnest — the internet is forever no matter what anyone tells you.
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2024-08-12 13:12:41

Went for my Monday run. It includes some sprints.
When you’re 53 and in the habit, it’s not the sprinting that’s hard, it’s the sprinting for 100 meters.
You get to 30 or 40 at full speed, and you feel good. But around 50 or 60, you’re like “fuck, I have to keep this going for a lot longer.”
And it’s not like Usain Bolt knocking it out in under 10 seconds. This takes a full 15 seconds.
But as you walk home from the track, you realize you had to do it.
There was no other way out of the mind and into reality.

2024-08-12 11:21:56

By that logic it's the only lesson, and we probably still won't learn from it.
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2024-08-11 21:35:54

$1T by the end of 2024
Graham’s Number by 2025
TREE(3) by 2030
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2024-08-11 17:42:07

real man locks 10
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2024-08-11 15:39:04

The craziest people are those who assure you everything is on the level.
There are very few of those on nostr which is way it sometimes seems like an oasis of sanity.

2024-08-11 14:36:46

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it gets discredited by those who experienced it, e.g., Cubans escaping to the US, immigrants who grew up in the Soviet Union, etc.