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I've heard one person describe it as the conservative version of The View.
I want to like Tim but he was at his best during/after 2008 and Occupy, and once he settled down I think he's stagnated.

2024-05-01 19:18:43

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Less, because I've nearly run out of sats. My attempts at topping up have been less than successful.
Tried to buy LN on an exchange. Failed. Something about a malformed LNURL, but it looks all fine to me.
Tried to open a channel over a month ago, still waiting. Tried to speed up the channel open with max fees, still waiting.
One day lightning will work for me... One day. I should write my attempts down for devs so they can see through a newbie's eyes...for sats of course.

2024-05-01 19:03:44

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Even the more mundane conveniences are sometimes inconvenient. I find myself wishing for manual windows at times, as odd as that sounds.

2024-04-29 07:25:38

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Haha, I know the feeling.
Everyone else seems to be building their own darknet blockchain whatevers out of spare parts in a cave, while all I can say is, "Herpdy derp, I made a perl script."

2024-04-23 16:12:40

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Australia was started as a penal colony after all. I'm sure that lingers in the national subconscious and is now able to express itself with the times.
As for Canada, we're the ones who largely refused to rebel under the British. We do as we're told and pretend that makes us better than the U.S. somehow, like the obedient "good" child. Our rep for being nice is really just arrogant posturing, we're a very authoritarian place.

2024-04-05 03:08:48

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We'd probably be more inclined to believe the climate doomsdayers if they walked the walk. Instead we see them drive their 37-car motorcades to the airport and then fly across the planet to hang with their colleagues and smugly virtue signal each other about what their going to bully us into.
I'd love to see cleaner tech but these guys are pushing the least efficient options in the worst ways possible.

2024-03-31 06:49:39

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Watched someone try to park their car the other day. They had to reverse three times before they could get properly in the spot.

2024-03-31 06:45:50

There's nothing they can/will not justify with climate change.
In Canada, our bank notes are plastic polymer. Wouldn't surprise me if they use that to cease production, forcing a cashless society and CBDC adoption by claiming to fight the emissions of cash production.
Meanwhile, world leaders will continue to pump emissions from their private jets without consequence.
#nevent1q…qjz2

2024-03-24 18:33:42

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"Excessive Free Speech" is speech beyond the bounds and quotas established by the Inner Party.
Much like how we have free speech zones, we are now only allowed speech within certain mental bounds. But it's for our own good. Ignorance is Strength.

2024-03-23 02:43:24

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If I'm being robbed, I'll gently remind the robber that robbery is illegal. I'm sure they'll apologize for their confusion and change their ways.
/s

2024-03-17 01:23:41

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It's pretty safe to say the greatest threat to Canada is the Canadian government.

2024-02-21 06:21:26

How I feel now that it's tax season:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMwqYLSPg_c

2024-02-07 17:27:53

Cut off in traffic by a cop car who didn't yield despite the yield to traffic sign.
Even the smallest laws are too much for "law enforcement" to follow. The laws are for us plebs, not them.

2024-01-29 09:03:57

The four stages of my life:
#nevent1q…mgw4

2024-01-07 00:54:11

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Good times.
I remember when games had both Windows and DOS modes. And you better guess the right IRQs during setup or things wouldn't work quite right.

2024-01-06 05:36:04

Now this is awesome:
https://unherd.com/2024/01/the-african-village-mining-bitcoin/
#bitcoin #crypto

2023-12-19 18:07:22

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IIRC, in North America the merchant must accept any form of legal tender when it is for purposes of paying off a debt (e.g. I'm at a restaurant and I've eaten the food prior to paying).
If no debt is present the merchant can accept or deny any form of payment at their discretion.

2023-12-19 18:01:00

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I've known people who will express concern over Digital ID and CBDC only to immediately admit they buy as much as possible on credit card because they like collecting the points.
As a cashier I've also had customers complain about how the store points card is just to track them but they then pay by credit card.
I'm convinced ~90% of people have no idea how anything works.

2023-12-15 20:43:16

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https://image.nostr.build/427b6edd6ac5a9b08fb744ff32f8d2faa4e347aa04abff3a6f67f482394b44d2.jpg

2023-12-14 20:32:08

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I managed to get my Mom on XMPP, but the rest of my family would rather cut me out of their life than install an app on their phone.
For the rest on my end I got a VoIP phone number bridged to XMPP from jmp.chat. Less than ideal, but at least we can get a hold of each other when we need to.

2023-12-14 19:17:19

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https://image.nostr.build/5da2f594f4328649516744ea5213f4cb467ced3ad5e4de008ed88d250b6628e6.jpg

2023-12-04 23:18:09

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I had Gentoo on my laptop for several years and recently switched to OpenSUSE.
At a certain level it doesn't really matter as long as you're comfortable with the distro's tools.
I'm in a perpetual cycle of Gentoo -> (get sick of compiling) -> pre-compiled distros -> (wish I had control over compile-time package options) -> Gentoo -> …

2023-09-03 22:53:04

Saw a car with a "Slow the Fuck Down" bumper sticker speeding through traffic today.
Do as I say, not as I do?

2023-08-28 05:20:55

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s/NFT/NFC/

2023-08-28 05:15:53

I'm a cashier. The amount of people whose bank cards fail for no reason at all (NFT fails, chip failures, random declines) is too darn high. When people say #crypto can't work, I feel like it can't do any worse than fiat.

2023-08-21 05:01:31

First post from a nostr newbie.
From what I read I love the sound of it. Let's see if it hooks me.
#nostr