Last Notes
Did you watch the Perterson-Elon interview?
When 10,000 sats is $10.. they’ll understand
WE MUST BREAK 1500 SATS/$ WITH A VENGEANCE!!
TARO
FEDI
E-CASH
RUNES
ORDINALS
Too many opportunities to get rekt this cycle..
Removed the Bitcoin B logo from the end of the #Bitcoin
Elon removes the ₿ logo.. everyone runs to nostr
#grownostr #plebchain
Back to the abacus I guess.
You either die complacent.
Or live long enough to become a shitcoiner.
Said the label maker to the LaserJet.
But neither work because Crowdstrike pushed a firmware update.
Damn broats. https://i.nostr.build/YaXmVhDmwrgFXsKA.jpg
Try Sparrow Wallet for consolidation
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Just a clown in clown world
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It's just wind man.
It blows everywhere...
FUCK.
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The weather can't tell you what's happening as it's happening. It's bullshit.
The mempool will always tell you what happened.
Otherwise. You're better off watching the radar yourself... Or the current block being arranged.
I'll stick with egg noodles and ketchup.
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Anyone out there able to tell me which clients support remote signing via #Amber, and how to set it up?
#AskNostr
Yeah, sorry but any new client is dead-on-arrival if it doesn't support NIP-07 at minimum, and preferably NIP-46 as well.
Can I watch John Carpenter's The Thing in there?
Glaring incompetence
Righteous disillusionment
Live one life to live
Gfy
You really don't need to, if clients implement the outbox model correctly, and unlike Bitcoin, where every node needs to keep a copy of every single transaction in order to maintain censorship resistance, consensus, and full auditability of the supply, that is not the case for Nostr. We ONLY have the censorship resistance piece to worry about, and not every relay can store every user's notes, so being selective about the relays you post to is both wise and courteous.
One of the best things about Nostr is that you can personally host your own content privately, too. This way, even if all 5(or however many you use) of the relays you currently post to decided to ban you, you can simply change your public relays to somewhere else and rebroadcast your notes from your private relay. The reality is, even this is very unlikely to happen unless you really did something deserving of the ban such that all 5 relay operators banned you in quick succession.
Been popping in a bit more after work and a rather than become OCD, addicted and scrolling all day to an aspect of the internet I've mostly avoided for a decade.
Figured I'd write less.
And just do what I do.
Goofs.
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Just realized I did that gif backward from the door. Gfm
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Orla mitts
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Does anyone happen to know the meaning of this icon on Coinbase app for iOS, first time seeing it?
Appears at the bottom next to balance just beneath the buy/sell buttons. https://image.nostr.build/d08807e33caa9311d2b03e8d44afd9f7c01e75bae8d655af128cc2fe91d50605.jpg
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Think of the environment! All those watts!!
Let's play monopoly.
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Party like it's 1971
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My mom used to watch General Hospital, One Life to Live, and Port Charles.... Kinda like that.
Get the man some damn ice and a glass so he doesn't need to drink his Tito's out the bottle.
We must Bitaxe even harder now that one has found a block 🫡
Is negative trust possible 🤔
Doesn't matter whether someone is a doctor or not, I am not one, but it is important to be able to explain whatever position you hold.
All politicians suck. They aren't going to save you. Save yourself.
How's that?
You really want an unpopular opinion
Really?
Sure, here it comes:
Eminem is overrated and his rap music is trash
Can I just not boo or clap when he says anything good or bad?
Use these:
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PastaGringo had some issues and closed the fractalized one but the rest work, apart from the last one(it is limitted by npub for my personal use). Thanks hzrd, the server works great 🤙
No vaccine has ever been tested against a placebo.
We know that dead viruses are not much of a problem, they have to add adjuvants to make the body respond to the antigen. The adjuvants are the "active" or poisonous substances. But ALL vaccines are only tested against injections of the poison without the antigen. They do this because they do not want any clear proof of how damaging the adjuvants actually are.
They also do not test cumulative vaccine load & they always seek legal immunity against damages because they know exactly how dangerous they are.
There is zero cost benefit analysis. Infants are getting vaccines against whooping cough & in the process they are trading the possibility of a week of coughing for the possibility of a lifetime of asthma. It's no different than the way they just pushed the experimental covid gene therapy jabs on people who had already covid & were immune, as well as pushing them on people who had zero risk of any serious reaction to covid anyway. The jabs did nothing to protect anyone, they only did harm & introduced the possibility of life long heart problems or neurological issues or sudden death.
But the pharma corps get paid by govts for pushing these things & the more injections people accept, the more chronic illnesses arise, which mean they get more life long customers.
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Come on now, you have to talk to people irl .... so triple 🔥
Zapped directly on wavlake. Great music 🤙
Open about the trade offs for sure.
https://proton.me/blog/proton-wallet-security-model#:~:text=Proton%20Wallet%20is%20a%20digital,easy%20to%20use%20as%20email.
Good to see you last night! ✌️
Will definitely check this out! I've been a Proton fan for years, even have a visionary account.
Price is set at the margin
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LNDHub on lnbits stopped working for me. 404 on the `lndhub/ext` URL. Anyone know the solution?
#lnbits
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#meme #memes
You know it's time for bed when you're making memes like this.
GN https://i.nostr.build/3t6J53dF6dH9m9GF.jpg
And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm cheese.
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1M Samsonite briefcases.
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Got my younger brother a Bitkey to get him started on his bitcoin journey 🥹 I think he’ll have a fun time learning on his own instead of me ranting about bitcoin all the time 😂
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When you're still a twit
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True story
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Is that Les?
Waxnon off...
Les skankwalker.
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But but but Blackrock 🥴🤧
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When you're too stupid to figure out what a neutrino is, but dumb enough to know you hold the only key if you fucked it up, but your peers help you recover it anyway.
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When I could have made a hot water joke but missed 🤦 https://i.nostr.build/nlXg.gif
I think it's the movie Kevin Costner just made.
It's about water or something.
Shouts out to @nprofile…lktc for being patient and helping me with a force closed/unbroadcast attempted sweep I got myself into a couple weeks ago.
Walked me through getting resynced and back in control. 🫡
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GM
$18 in the checking account
PV ☕️
afaik they are not banned, just not obligated anymore
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240510-floppy-disks-why-some-people-are-still-in-love-with-this-obsolete-computer-storage-technology
Tokens are a big reason today’s generative AI falls short
https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/06/tokens-are-a-big-reason-todays-generative-ai-falls-short/
Not yet. Only recommendation I received was /r/cigars 😁.
It is what it is. Go without me and have fun!
Just a swan in a river.
I'm a muscovy duckerton.
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My latest article
https://www.noticer.news/letting-non-citizens-vote-is-a-threat-to-australian-sovereignty/
My flight is super delayed so don't think I'll be making this. ☹️
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I don't proof read notes.
The jokes don't make any sense.
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Whenever I see one of them "eths buy no brainier after Bitcoin halving"
And all I read was no brain.
And what's Bitcoin got to do, got to do with it. As Tina Turner begins playing in Lopp after I took some time on the spectrum...
Silver vitamins.
I'm lucky enough to have a job in a trade, mostly manufacturing, that I can listen to whatever I want during the day in an earphone as I work.
A lot of people don't have the luxury of being able to listen to Blood Meridian while they work.
Let alone learn about Bitcoin.
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You see Larry? If you just work hard and put your mind to it.
My old man worked.
All they did was give him more work.
I did however see a fight in front of one of the court rooms. An arrest, and a young dude cry for showing up late. And some guy line his finger nails up on his knee.
Didn't end up getting even selected to appear in front of the lawyers for selection today. My number was high enough to avoid it this time.
Just got to sit in a 90 degree room smelling of egg and cheese on a chair that broke my ass.
But. Over an done with.
I was going to go in in my farm clothes stinking of cow shit. But. I decided to put a collar shirt on.
Glad that's over with. https://i.nostr.build/dK1MLsn5OVJnCpJ2.jpg
Can't imagine it any other way.
Sold my Rolex for the hardest money mankind has ever had
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MONDAY NIGHT NASHVILLE PEEPS!
Let's meet up!
Greko Greek Street Food
704 Main St, Nashville, TN 37206
7 PM
Open to anyone interested, but I'm also happy to eat octopus souvlaki by myself. 😄
@DavidFBailey needs nostr like #bitcoin needs finite block space
I'm retired, can confirm. 😂
When your family member/buddy/acquaintance/theguyat7/11 asks you what you think about politics... or anything for that matter. https://i.nostr.build/42vyoSpe5q3zPRq2.gif
Anywhey I'm off to work. Good day fellow traveler.
Meanwhile, on X...
Anyone know his npub? https://image.nostr.build/d659d2159e41c54c9bac0fb417b6e1c33757cd9f16cb2bcf715335abc265ad9f.jpg
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Mine just came in the mail a few days ago. Can’t wait to set it up! Are you pointing the S9 at a pool or solo mining?
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#trump
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Stacking sats is easy. Staying humble is the hard part.
Thanks to everyone who shared, zapped, liked and commented on our memes lately 🫡
✅ 3 random reposts from last week each got 2,000 sats - congrats to @npub18u5…txdp, @npub1xch…sudw, @npub1yw3…u5xl 🎉
✅ 3 random reactions from last week each got 1,000 sats - congrats to @npub13ef…upmr, @npub1dc9…c8rz, @npub1l4l…qt7w 🎉
✅ 3 random comments from last week each got 1,000 sats - congrats to @npub1r62…8emd, @npub149c…tnsg, @npub17uh…h5f8 🎉
Enjoy your memes and have a nice day!
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Wars are fought with dollars and Bonds not flesh and blood
I aim for the unknown. I don't even know what I'm making 😂
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I thought Gremlins 2 was bad.
Gremlins Gone Wild looks dogshite.
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You could try sticking your head up a butcher's ass. But I'd rather take a bull's word for it.
Wanna buy half a million break pads?
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I left wordpress back in 2017. I’m not nearly doing anything at the scale you are, but I could only imagine how crazy hard that would be to move services
If you have to ask to move your bitcoin.
It was never your bitcoin to begin with.
This. Need to have AR AND AK variants. We don't discriminate round here.
Did you see the interview of the CEO? https://x.com/bitcoinnewscom/status/1814341218647618014?s=46
I'm not planning on attending the cattleman's feast, but I'll be around!
About 18.5 total hours of work for these 6 containers.
This is why I bake ahead of time vs doing it once I arrive. 😅
Subjective, but people seem to like it.
Purists want to hate it because my baklava is so far from traditional, so I always enjoy their dirty looks. 😂
I made some baklava for Nashville
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Windows? More like doors.. back doors 🚪
Hey Louis can’t see the note you’re replying to but guessing around Bitcoin annuities? Personally I think it’s a slight red herring - sometimes centralised parties are inevitable and it’s probably the case they need to be for pooling life expectancy. Insurers have played this role pretty well for both annuities and life insurance for years- I don’t think it’s the main issue out there.
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I am a fan of having both. Likes, at least with Amethyst and Nostrudel and other clients, allow for a wider range of expressive reactions, while zaps are better at expressing how much you valued a particular post.
Clients with only one "like" reaction make it much less useful, though, and definitely set zaps apart as the higher signal.
Eminemarshallshadycaddyshack now:
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I hope this outage gets fixed as soon as humanly possible. ... https://i.nostr.build/drIAqFi9NXjrn7uy.jpg
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I prefer cocktail glasses.
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Sign of the times I guess.
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The worst part about politicians is they are power hungry and retarded.
They don't care about you. They aren't going to save you.
Only you can save you.
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Pretty sure it's sold out, especially for Bens.
PS: My daughters will be working at Beefsteak this year! 💪🥩
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My mom & my twin daughters will be in Nashville next week for the conference.
It's going to be fun showing them this side of my life. 😆
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#Windows #2024 #Bug #Crash
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I love african people. I will not speak I'll towards them. they suffer enough. we are all human.
Anyone have an extra #bitcoin nashville ticket? #asknostr
This looks great, I’ll be going back to the first video in the series
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Thanks - That’s really interesting! It does bring to mind the question of what businesses exist for in the first place
Thanks - those are some helpful thoughts for sure
Big pharma "science" will eventually be recognized to be orders of magnitude more corrupt & destructive than big tabacco "science" from dcades past.
Yet the NPCs here will fail to recognize the obvious
Honestly, it’s the Other Stuff I’d like to see more of. Decentralized Twitter is all well and good but we need decentralized, uncensored YouTube, websites, and so on
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Just so you know but Europe is living in a complete different bubble
Almost all people here think Trump is Hitler 2.0 and are pro democrats and Biden
We are so unworldly 😂
Giving away sats is hard! Will
change to minimum 400 sats to anyone who reposts original below or would like to comment on the article.
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If you haven’t been vaccinated, shame on you
It’s your fault Biden got COVID. His 20 boosters didn’t work because of you
You are a danger to society
If Biden wins his battle against COVID (the most dangerous flue in the history of mankind), it will be a more powerful signal of his strength than Trump surviving his attack
Meh... Looks like he's just another swamp creature
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Base 64 is... it is what it is 🔥
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Really appreciate the suggestion, still doesn't seem to work 😐
That's what I have, it just allows me to charge at the same time. From what I am reading it seems that pixels have screen sharing via usbc disabled by default, google wanted everyone to use chromecast or something.
I bought a powered hdmi to usbc adapter for my phone but I can't seem to get it to mirror the screen. Anyone using #grapheneOS @grapheneOS know how to make this work?
#asknostr
Dunno about your gallery but wait till you find out you can add any npubs media to it. A whole other level of selected meme shitposting and visual bookmarking just dropped in 🤣🤙
So is the world walking back from the brink of total insanity?
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Anybody recommendations on why and how to fast
Is fasting from 20:00-12:00 enough?
What are the benefits
Does it work good together with weight training?
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Reply / repost if your first privkey was in hex format instead of nsec.
Are there online spots where business people hang out apart from #LinkedIn?
I’ve had two #bitaxe for a couple of weeks, and it’s been great. Recently just ordered an S9. I guess it’s safe to say I have bitten by the mining bug 😬
And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
For a pair of brown eyes
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Awareness definitely isn't enough to explain what's happening to people.
https://video.nostr.build/fedada92c89d76c1cca0fb221db79815674d110e8b5bdae1c6500817ea64ce63.mp4
Not quite the ideal feedback to an article, but I’d zap if wallet was set up!
The thing I hate most about Nostr is now I can't successfully turn down tips for free baklava, since people can zap me.
**Going to try something new for this new article. I have a budget of 10,000 sats to allocate across anyone who reads and posts a comment / feedback, and just for anyone who reposts (not "likes"..) on Nostr! 100 sats minimum zap, and will also redistribute any zaps received in full also **
This is an article reviewing Simon Sinek's book, The Infinite Game. You can also view it at https://bitcoincollective.co/bitcoin-and-the-infinite-game/
Simon Sinek asks in his book “The Infinite Game” why more companies don’t operate with an infinite rather than a finite mindset. One main reason he misses, of course, is the money. The good news is there’s a new infinite game in town.
In “The Infinite Game”, Simon Sinek argues that great leaders set up their organisations to succeed beyond their own lifetimes. By recognising and positioning their business with an infinite rather than a finite mindset, they can engender greater trust throughout their employees and also build more resilience into their business. Their companies can also remain true to themselves and their mission, whatever that may be.
Sinek outlines that unfortunately we have entered an age of general subservience from leaders to their shareholders, and a slavery to the balance sheet and short term, “finite”, accounting and strategy. This generally leads to a decline of loyalty and engagement amongst customers and an increase in insecurity and anxiety amongst employees.
There’s plenty to agree with here in general terms. With that said, Sinek fails to identify one of the largest causes of the issues he identifies, which is the money. The book lays the blame on a watershed article from 1970 in which Milton Friedman laid out that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business, to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.” This is noted in the book as a turning point from the original ideas of Adam Smith, for whom the consumer was king, but I couldn’t help but wonder if anything else happened in the early 70s, such as Nixon cancelling the convertibility of dollars into gold in 1971. (see also – https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/).
Sinek bemoans the short term nature of companies since that point, but doesn’t consider how the nature of money has shaped this; surely a much more omnipresent and powerful factor than the writings of Milton Friedman. For the average bitcoiner this may be relatively self evident, but let’s consider the motives of the leadership under a system in which the underlying money cannot hold it’s value and in which credit is artificially priced. Incentives abound – one to laden the company with debt (which all else will likely diminish in real terms over time versus company assets and earnings), acquire other businesses and grow as big as possible in the process. Other options such as share buybacks also reflect short term incentives. Shareholders are going to place their own high short term demands on companies in a world where it is hard to outrun monetary debasement.
What of new businesses? When a new private entity is formed, the business plan is written, agreement on its viability is formed, strategy is set, tactics are agreed and then the first question posed by external stakeholders or posed to the majority shareholders is ‘what is your exit strategy’. Small successful businesses are expected to have a 3-5 year plan, private equity is usually a 3-5 year plan, and the successful larger companies with a longer trajectory also tend to swallow up the smaller successful companies (easier access to debt). With such incentives, it’s no wonder that we tend to see certain outcomes. There are obvious agency problems the larger a company gets, and they are more likely to fail to adhere to an infinite game principle. Smaller companies are forever at risk of getting swallowed up by larger ones.
So how does Bitcoin come into this? In my view, in two ways:
1. Bitcoin is an infinite game within itself
This is one of the subtle but crucial differences that splits Bitcoin sceptics and bitcoiners, and then dominates their onward arguments. If interpreted as a finite game, Bitcoin is for gambling, for speculation, it will have an end, and will be defined by winners and losers. Just the other day, this article framed it as such with the following line –
“Whether Bitcoin is rising or falling, or who is buying or not buying it, nothing alters a basic fact: that Bitcoin is a classic zero-sum game. Large numbers of people can make vast paper fortunes by bidding up the price, but they cannot all realise those fortunes, because if everyone sells out the price collapses to zero. In that situation, those who were quick to sell would become rich at the expense of those who were slow to sell.”
Herein lies the problem for this criticism. As far as I can possibly ascertain right now, Bitcoin doesn’t end. Plenty might treat it as a finite game (and dismiss it as a ponzi, or try and trade it), but that treatment is a one way journey, and once you see Bitcoin as an infinite game there is little going back.
Going back to the book, let’s consider the “just cause” that Sinek says all businesses should have. According to Sinek, a just cause defines “the world we hope to live in and will commit to help build. It is the just cause that we are working to advance that gives our work and lives meaning. We know a cause is just when we commit to it with the confidence that others will carry on our legacy.” There are criteria listed too – a just cause must be “inclusive, service orientated, resilient, and idealistic.” Bitcoin surely fulfils these. On the ideology point, Michael Saylor articulated this well when dismissing altcoins in comparison to Bitcoin on the What Is Money podcast –
“If you really want a crypto to be successful over 100 years, the technology is only a part of it, right? It’s the ideology paired with the technology. And you’re gonna have to have an ideology that is so pure and so straightforward that people will fight to the death to defend the ideology. And that’s why I’m probably not gonna sacrifice my life for the 13th iteration on smart contracts. It’s not that important. On the other hand, if you tell me that we’re about to suck all of the economic energy out of the civilization and plunge ourselves into the Dark Ages, then I think I’ll fight for it. That’s worth fighting for.”
Michael Saylor – What is Money Show Episode 8
2. Bitcoin on balance sheets
Any business embracing Bitcoin on its balance sheet will automatically be closer to playing an infinite game itself, and let’s consider why. For starters, any shareholders will likely be holding equity with one opportunity cost being a holding of an equivalent amount of Bitcoin instead. This in itself will give them a low time preference mindset, which should transfer onto the company. Secondly, the act of having Bitcoin on the balance sheet provides a very simple yet iron clad discipline upon the company. One goal in broad terms is to grow that Bitcoin balance sheet over time, and they can only achieve that by being profitable. If they are not, they will find that Bitcoin balance dwindling over time instead. Though conventional businesses do broadly have the same need to be profitable, the Bitcoin example is quite different from a business with requirements to service debt, which may carry much shorter term deadlines for payment. In conclusion, companies looking to grow their Bitcoin holdings on a balance sheet are far more likely to buy into an infinite game mindset.
There are examples of infinite minded leaders out there, of course. Elon Musk is perhaps the most relevant in the present day, given Tesla and SpaceX have lofty long term ideals far removed from satisfying shareholders. Steve Jobs is another obvious one, and Sinek quotes an anecdote about sharing a cab with a senior Apple executive and telling him that the latest Microsoft Zune product (mp3 player at the time) was so much better than the iPod touch. The executive smiled politely and was unfazed – tellingly, Apple weren’t worried about competitors in the short term due to their infinite mindset in making great & innovative products. Fast forward to today and there is evidence that Apple aren’t playing the infinite game that they used to. Take for example the recent news that Apple is plugging in Open AI into the iPhone. This doesn’t feel like the same ethos of a company who famously told us to “Think different” under Steve Jobs.
In conclusion, there’s plenty of decent ideas in the text and he articulates the issues well. However, due to failing to identify probably the main cause of the problem, Sinek doesn’t quite nail the call to arms for leaders to embrace an infinite game. Add in Bitcoin though, and the time preference of companies and their shareholders would vastly decrease and an infinite game mindset would come naturally.
One final thought – Sinek opens by looking back to the Vietnam war. Despite their vastly superior army and losing far fewer men, the US still lost the war. The reason being – it was an example of a finite mindset (thinking there would be a simple beginning and end) coming up against an infinite game and an enemy with an infinite mindset. The USA had comparatively infinite resources, infinite money, but a finite purpose & ideology when it came to the war. By contrast the Vietnamese, as one of their foreign ministry specialists was quoted as saying, were fighting for their independence and had already been doing so for thousands of years.
As far as Bitcoin is concerned, it might be said that companies who adopt a Bitcoin strategy are playing an infinite game with a non-debt based money of finite supply, and the competition are playing a finite game with an infinite supply of debt-based money.
This is a guest blog by Bitcoin Actuary /
[email protected]. Thanks go to @btconlyscott for early comments/suggestions on this article.
Sounds promising...
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Fine me in Nashville. These weaves will be hidden between layers of Brazil nut maple baklava. 😄
How did so many people keep straight faces? That shit was hilarious.
I wish I had an ostrich to kill so I could weave its flesh into a meat basket.
Made giant candied beef bacon weaves first thing this morning. https://image.nostr.build/b498b28b0c4372bc14b7198d5a2aabd9ebf07b1a2c2f899b39a489470fe672c7.jpg
Prep for Nashville!
A lot of times you can find reasonably priced gyms in the area that you can train at while ok vacation. Beats a shitty hotel workout!
The nice thing about machines is they are typically safer to train to failure. But yes, it can be a bit tricky while traveling.
But nothing beats a barbell and weights for things like deadlifts & squats.
did you delete this note? on @npub1wyu…87ez it's still there...
Give me your top 3 book recommendations
If #Bitcoin is so transparant and kyc bitcoin is so dangerous for your privacy
How come nobody knows who Mr. 100 is
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As a drunk.
This is when you shuffle the drunk home.
This is awesome! Didn’t know it was a thing. Checking it out for sure. Thanks for sharing! 🙏
Broke my feeble brain early on when I first found this place.
Shout out to @nprofile…97nv for animating my pencil drawing wabbajack in the days.
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There is much focus on the cross, and for good reason, but that just brings sinners to "neutral" as it were. Neither having and demerit worthy of eternal wrath, or any positive merit worthy of eternal life. Christ's perfect obedience imputed to the elect through faith is why we are seen as righteous before a holy God.
Have not, but he is bow added to my list.
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Boomers in my fbook feed (literally) saying "wow" at shit like this... https://image.nostr.build/5bb77e5a7526fc8f23d744c3a25baf4835bb7fb5393eccb1dd4adde6b8ab53e1.jpg
I’ll add an 11th thing:
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Funny too
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Quite funny 🥲
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This is actually quite funny
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precies. Bitcoin heeft wel inflatie. maar weinig
Mondays exist to make us look forward to the eternal Lord's day.
Same issue here, was working as normal a couple of hours ago, app not updated as far as I’m aware, really odd.
Rewatching the story of a man destroying himself by consumption, greed and arrogance.
Anything for that W.
There Will Be Blood.
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What’s behind it, in your view? Strikes me here the simplest answer of an attacker acting alone may be most likely, but realistically surely it’s too early to call in any direction
Many seem extremely cowardly & seem to rarely say what they actually believe in face to face interactions.
And covid was a really good illustration of who people were. A lot of people on the left used it as an excuse to claim moral superiority over others by way of their greater ability to be mindlessly obedient.
I think there are definitely conspiracies, but the conspiracies are mostly compartmentalized and/or conspiracies of ignorance among people with common financial incentives. There are some fairly smart people involved, but they are also ethically retarded & just good at creating bad incentives. They work in broad strokes, so the closer anyone gets to trying to micromanage a specific outcome the more obvious it becomes
geldhoeveelheid neemt gewoon toe
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I mean, are Anderson Cooper & other CIA people not just totally in the tank for the Clintons & others? The FBI is also clearly protecting them all in some form or fashion. They put forth the idea that the laptop was Russian disinfo prior to the election. It seems like all of the above have been working against Trump.
Idk the Clinton, Gates, Podesta, Epstein, clique & whoever is aligned with them. They think everyone is stupid so they ceaft obvious lies (which some do believe), they murder people & don't really even try to hide it (Seth Rich killed in a robbery where nothing was stolen is written to send a message). They rape people (both kids & adults) & leave a pretty clear trail there too. They seem to think they are just untouchable mobsters & I think that makes them brazen & sloppy. They stole the democratic nomination from Bernie in favor of Hillary & lost, & then they ran Biden because they couldn't come up with an otheriwse likable candidate which has left them in their current pickel one election cycle later.
I hate being put in the position where I have to defend the baffoon, but I think this level of incompetence is consistent with the incompetence already demonstrated by the people who have been crafting obvious lies to attack him for the last 8 years.
Thanks to everyone who shared, zapped, liked and commented on our memes lately 🫡
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The left's tactics have been painfully obvious, thug like, & stupid the entire time. Simply escalating the degree of attack is consistent with continuing to do the thing that is obvious, thug like, & stupid.
I think incompetence & luck are far more prevalent than people successfully playing some sort of 4d chess.
Corp media already being weird...? Seems to be suppressed on fbook
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I think most people show you exactly who they are, but most people are either too concerned with what others might think about them to pay attention, or they lie to themselves to avoid seeing it.
I know quite well that evil exists
The nothing ever happens people and the we deserve better psy-opps people must be happy right now
Obvious spook is obvious & is a core dev...
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My guess is some alphabet agency sponsored moron. They usually pick crazy people.
I think the Boston Bombing was faked. I think Sandy Hook was faked. But I think it was faked by the same people attacking Trump for the last 8 years, & he openly attacked them too. They have also tried to kill & oust multiple popular presidents in the past.
I suspect lots of people would become very disillusioned and the election would probably have the lowest voter turnout of all time. The establishment would try to go on as if everything was normal, but we would probably be a lot closer to an unofficial (or official) break up of the country.
If, on the other hand, Trump is elected it may unfortunately keep more people hopeful & engaged than might otherwise be the case. The right is stupid, but not actually unhinged, the way the left has demonstrated they are...
Shit... They're probably going to shoot Biden next.
What would it look like if there was a powerful clique, made up of terrible people working together via relationships built on "mutually assured destruction" (which is also what they openly promote as a form of foreign policy). And there was also a self promoting billionaire who was close to some of these people but was ultimately viewed as unfashionable or as an outsider by the mutually corrupt clique.
And in an effort to worm her way into the top position of power, one of the most unlikable women on the planet, steals the democratic nomination after promoting the unfashionable billionaire as a political opponent because she knows how many people in her clique would donate to her campaign to keep him out of office. Doing this allows her to run the most expensive campaign in US history. Amazingly she still loses to the self promoting billionaire who spent less than 1/4 of what she did.
So the clique, which has been in power for decades, had a wildcard overseeing their halls of power who was not shy about embarassing them (he literally sat the women raped by Bill in the front row). So they go after him in every way they possibly can. Accuse him of being a loose canon even though he was arguably the most peaceful & diplomatic president in a long time (while they try to promote more war). Accuse him of being a traitor while they are funnelling tax dollars to themselves through other coubtries. They attempt to weaponize the justice system against him while he is in office. Then they cheat & make a bunch of short sighted gambles to steal the last election. They wait & again attempt to attack him with the justice system just before the next election cycle. All of this fails & now they are stuck with a losing ticket & no other clear avenues to attack Trump... So now they try to kill him because they have run out of options.
I don't even like the stupid mf, but if you can't see the insane corruption for what it is then idk what to tell you...
So suddenly the deep state is working for Trump instead of against him?
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So the guy who had an overwhelming lead in the polls & who had already been attacked by the media for the entire time he was in office, & more than once via a weaponized "justice" system, would fake being shot at, & kill a crowd member in the process... To further bolster his lead? Come on... really?
To believe that you'd probably have to be crazy enough to think a man could become a woman 🙄
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Democracy is under attack, and the mainstream media is to blame.
I watched Rachel Maddow before Trump got elected. It was a decent show. She laid out some historical facts to put things into context and then would have an interesting guest. But after Trump got elected, that changed. It became Trump hate hour. They made sure the left was mad about losing in a very real way. Now the chickens are finally coming to roost. #note1exm…vqjg
Get Preston to fly, he's got the skills! 😂
Things are bad. They're going to get worse.
Stack Bitcoin. Take care of your health, your friends, and your family. Protect your loved ones.
There's still hope for the world.
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Tribalism disguised as Idealism disguised as ritualism disguised as classism disguised as capitalism disguised as racism disguised as freedom disguised as democracy.
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Well, if it kills him it will be the closest thing to a move toward decentralization that has happened in the entire histoy of eth.
Good luck to the utopia they envision without subjugating the masses.
You can't regulate morals.
😂 I’d wager the bureaucratic cost of dealing with the extra “donations” outweighs the value of them..
Let me guess, are plebs sending small amounts of sats to those addresses now?!
Showing someone with no interest how to generate an nsec
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You can't kill the metal
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It’s my fiancée her birthday today
Let’s zap her some bday wishes
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GM 🥂🍾 https://image.nostr.build/ec4634c076ef1a089aa448b93b5564c084cae8eecf6bc724482fa6288a10508d.jpg
PV from Champagne area 🍾 https://image.nostr.build/a26e090fa2f18bf18b30665154a414e3abdde64c7e7f440e363600c50b042cac.jpg
If you're talking to idiots who think trade & profit are evil, just call it sustainable reciprocal altruism. They'll think you're a genius.
#Bitcoin
Thanks to Jordan and the Bitcoin collective for publishing the following article on their brand new website. A
review of Simon Sinek’s book “The Infinite Game”.
https://bitcoincollective.co/bitcoin-and-the-infinite-game/
#bitcoin #books #bookreview #infinitegame
Please post any thoughts and repost this if you can for a wider audience to see it!
There's nothing wrong with it & there's nothing that goes against the ethos of bitcoin. But expecting loyalty from the mentally unstable when times get tough is a good way to get stabbed in the back.
How many of them didn't want the unvaxxed to have access to grocery stores 3 years ago? It may end up being impossible to walk the line between the normie world & the bitcoin world at some point in the future. Knowing who is who is important.
We just need more moneh to make moneh.
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Correct, I am not loyal to any corrupt govt.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country"
Ben Franklin
Stop aligning yourself with criminals.
I am loyal to the principles of freedom.
When did I praise Putin? *No* I am not a patriot. The alphabet agencies are made up of criminal tyrants that have destroyed the US. Wtf is wrong with you?
yeah, I would like to hear the from the bitcoin expats there.. seems strange and maybe more to it..?
Ah, I get it... I'm a fascist because I oppose the actions of the most militarily aggressive govt in the world more than I oppose Putin's response 🙄
It's a turtle. Turtle tiles.
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For thosse who haven't figured it out, Russia isn't the problem, the US govt is. It's the same organization that killed Jack & Robert Kennedy, ousted Nixon, shot Reagan, installed Bush 1 & 2, has overthrown countless foreign countries to install violent gangs or puppet dictators, & worked to surround Russia with hostile forces they control because they would now like to eliminate Putin.
If they succeed & install a puppet in Russia who accepts only dollars for oil then they break the BRICS alliance & make it possible to export trillions more in dollar inflation.
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I NEED to drop by your shop and snag my wife something hard for her to kill.
I presume y'all take Bitcoin?
I had $0.03 in my account when they went under, but forgot to file a claim. 😭
Looking forward to Nashville during the Bitcoin conference week. Spending time around bitcoiners is one of the most positive & fun things I can think of.
My wife & I will be joined by my twin daughters & my mom this year. 😂 My mom and kids haven't really seen this side of me. I think it's important for them to experience that.
It'll probably be a little weird for them, but that's not a bad thing!
Looking forward to sharing baklava and chatting with you guys. 🧡
Expect nothing
Appreciate everything
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The 12k crawlers waiting to play Mr. Crowley on their smallest cellos.
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So... We should get rid of follower-based feeds, since that is essentially a custom algo?
The world is too big. That is why Nostr doesn't really have a Global state. No one can have EVERYTHING in their feed. It's too much.
We have to curate what we want to see in some way. What we must absolutely fight against is having someone else dictate what we get to see and what we don't. That means we ought to have optionality when it comes to algorithms, and be able to customize our feed to show what we want to see.
Does this mean we likely become disconnected from those outside our bubble? Absolutely, it does. But only if that is what we want our feed to be.
But, but, but.... Judge not lest ye be judged, right?
I must respectfully beg to differ.
I have been on Nostr since back when astral.ninja was a popular client, and we had ZERO native mobile clients. Client UX has improved massively since then, and is only continuing to do so.
I will respond to a few points in particular:
1. Amethyst is my go-to client on mobile, and I am no dev, just tech-curious. Considering that @nprofile…xrvx is building an client with as many features packed into it as possible, it is remarkably intuitive to find the things that most users want.
2. You can't mute users on Primal? Mobile or web? Pretty sure you can on web, which means it is almost certainly coming to mobile, too.
3. Ummmm... Browser extensions absolutely work on mobile... You can use either nos2x or Alby with Kiwi browser or Firefox. However, I highly recommend using Spring for web clients on mobile. Amethyst + Amber for native clients and Spring for web clients is really all you need on Android, IMO.
And yeah, I would not bother with trying to onboard normies to Nostr right now. It is a protocol with an INCREDIBLE amount of potential, and is currently rough around the edges such that only those who really care about censorship resistance and open protocols will likely stick around, and that's fine.
With as fast as clients have been improving over the last year and a half + that I have been around here, I have no doubt that Nostr will be ready for prime time in the very near future. Until then, enjoy it for what it is, help shape what it will be, and share it with those who care about its core value of permissionless and censorship resistant public speech.
What do you think property rights are? When you say "govt is using the hard workers tax dollars to..." all of that is purely at the expense of property rights. Inflation (printing trillions of dollars) is purely at the expense of property rights. Shutting down businesses during covid & imposing insane regulatory burdens at ANY time or in ANY form is purely a destruction of property rights.
And economic oppression makes people unable to move up in life & afford basic things like their own food & shelter. Which tends to increase the lack of motivation & the belief that there is no reason to even try to get ahead.
And as "rat park" demonstrates, when people feel trapped they trun to drugs & other forms of escape. But even without the economic oppression (which is very real) the standard American diet alone is addictive enough & destructive enough to cause severe mood swings, mental fog, & depression all by itself.
“What if your plan doesn’t work”
Then I’ll work till I’m 65
My “worst case scenario” is the normal scenario for most people
Common reasons for mental health decline in any country are poor diet & a lack of property rights. US has both of those problems.
"Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you" ...unless you choose to let them. Just mute & move on.
Nevermind the Christians also being bombed off their land in Gaza, the modern govt of Israel named their country after the people the Bible said were nice & the people they have stolen everything from are really mean & mad about all of their dead family members & being bombed & shot at & stolen from. https://image.nostr.build/a5096debd4e7f078f0a38ba68d55958525031f78e608389e64cfc5ffeec32bb3.jpg
There goes Asimov's pleb "fine tuning" 🤣
Any merchant that allows for bitcoin payments, I’ll always choose that 🤙
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New #BitAxe acquired! This time from @npub1k8s…6y88. Threw a Noctua fan on it and now it’s quiet enough to keep in my office 😆. Feels good to be over 1 TH/s. It even matches my HRF Freedom Mints from Pubkey!
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You don’t decide your future
You decide your habits and your habits decide your future
Beto wants to take everyone's guns so that everyone is totally at the mercy of the monopolies he works for. Fuck that sub-human piece of garbage.
I think it's probably much closer than most would guess. If you had said in 1975 that the Soviet Union (a "world super power") would not exist in ~15 years no one would have believed you.
If you parents showed you "love" by fucking you & gaslighting you, then you'd either have to face the tremendously painful fact that you were never really loved by the broken animals that birthed you, or you repeat the abuse because that destructive shit is love in your mind & you can't let it be anything else. They are all super fucked up & always running from reality in some form or fashion. Their lives were so chaotic that a lack of chaos feels completely alien & wrong. So they go through life fucking with all the people around them to feel more at home.
Nah, pretty sure this guy is actually a creep. More like the 3rd world pedo McAfee, not Assange. The current corruption just makes for a convenient way for him to hide.
Something like https://github.com/bordalix/nostr-backup ?
My views are somewhat removed from modern religious teachings & interpretations, but they are based on my own read of religious texts. I think much of what is written is just exceptionally difficult to decipher because idioms & literary devices in multiple dead languages don't translate well.
Excellent post. I think within this lies the answer to the argument that continued Bitcoin adoption could somehow bring the global economy crashing down. The bottom line is there are already trillions worth of other assets being used as stores of value, especially in real estate.
I think, when we are completely honest, we will admit to acting as though we are internally communicating with something that we don't talk to like it's just some internal dialogue with ourselves. What that means about the universe is pretty wide open, but the fact that we all do it seems worth noting.
Like you, I also don't believe that anything exists outside of existence to violate all of the laws of existence.
For lack of a better way to describe it, I think reality is the body of God. The closer we get to understanding reality, the closer we get to God. We are all a part of reality, & some sort of product of evolution, so I suspect there is some good reason for the way we talk to ourselves. Whether there is actually some sort of "super consciousness" or whether it's just our conscious selves talking to our subconscious selves is hard to really say.
For all we know, since we are a part of reality (God), maybe our subconscious is some sort of connection to God. It is at least our connection to all of the older preverbal systems that ultimately evolved & grew to form us.
Need some good books for my vacation
Very into Bitcoin books, finance, macro economics, discipline, motivation, stoicism, health, food, carnivore,…
Give me some suggestions
LLAMA.TIF is #AI, In A Font
https://hackaday.com/2024/06/26/llama-ttf-is-ai-in-a-font/
So you never mentally ask anything for answers or help?
Mindless "Christians" (and religious zealotry in other forms) are the cause of of most atheism.
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If you quit once it becomes a habit
Never quit
France is a fallen state
A lot of western nations will follow that path
Opt out, buy #Bitcoin and become a sovereign individual
I am not defending the mindless dumbass who died promoting the jabs, but I do believe there is a grave need for retribution against the people who did defraud & coerce & force others to take harmful experimental injections to line their own pockets.
Anyone have any of those videos saved of business being shut down & business owners being arrested during covid?
#asknostr
He died because the world was misled & the people responsible knew exactly what they were doing & they should be killed for it.
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Fresh raw milk https://image.nostr.build/74708dd385074d6e2c066caf3c719929f2aaff23afb54f1d263579d71fe7ce76.jpg
Seed oils on your biggest organ
Saw something along these lines a while back and have never managed to find it again, so here’s my memory of it!
#bitcoin
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Thanks to everyone who shared, zapped, liked and commented on our memes lately 🫡
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Enjoy your memes and have a nice day!
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I have certainly enjoyed hanging out with people watching football or whatever... And I can appreciate a close game or a great play. But I really feel like zero connection to any if it.
Idk whether I should spend more time wondering why I don't or why others do.
Most sports are generally great to participate in & boring as fuck to watch. Can almost never make myself give a shit what happens one way or the other.
"Oh look, some people I don't know are doing things... great" 😐
Everyone is always like, "We won!"
No mf you didn't do anything, you sat on your ass & watched someone else win.
https://song.link/us/i/1553435984
My view - both of these guys have some interesting macro stuff to say, Luke Gromen especially, but incentives matter. Both of them essentially get paid for not being a Bitcoin maxi, like all investment professionals.
Why? There’s not much of a career in it - and never will be - as the strategy never changes, until everyone starts to switch from saving in Bitcoin to investing again in equities that can return a positive outcome vs Bitcoin.
Until that point, Saylor got it right - there’s no such thing as diversification when the solution you’re after is the answer to an engineering problem.
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Zeus slapping any invoice I send it with a payment timeout error
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I’ll take a bet for Portugal winning later tonight
10,000 sats on Spain
Who takes the bet?
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Not just 10 fucking years but also a 95% haircut on the amount of bitcoin.
I was anything but cocky when I was young, but I still look back and cringe.
We're all dumb fucks when we're kids. 😂
Being autodidactic isn't a superpower. It's the result of one-size-fits-all public schooling.
Frustrate enough teachers, and you stop asking for help. Eventually you try to figure things out on your own.
Self-taught results vary wildly. 😂
Concrete house for durability, lots of windows for natural light, roof deck for sun & fun, farm the plants & animals outside on the ground, power everything with a diesel generator that runs on biofuel or waste oil.
The last cycle had an inverted top, so I think you should be comparing this to the neck of the previous cycles, not the tip of the blow-off peak that we didn't get last time. If I'm right then we didn't really "front run" the halving either. And when we break 100k & everyone thinks the run is over it will just be a bear trap. https://image.nostr.build/bba2f1a8b51c61e581be4de1c13a7a7a26b7ec9955fecad690a0ffdadadd569e.jpg
MtGox is giving back a tiny fraction of the bitcoin people actually had, so it's a ~95+% loss.
#nevent1q…39x2
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MtGox FUD existed before I got into Bitcoin, and it still exists today.
Not even FTX had this big of an impact on Bitcoin.
Today is another day to get anxious you need to buy more #Bitcoin although you said to yourself you weren’t gonna buy more 😂
Fees haven't ever really been high. I'm all for people running knots & doing whatever they can to filter the bullshit, but I still expect fees to be $100s if not $1000s one day. The goal is some way to securely share UTXOs & primarily operate on higher layers.
IMO the cost of making an onchain transaction will one day be similar to the cost of court (proof of ownership) or the cost of renouncing citizenship (moving all assets from one major payment pool to another). And even if it's many $1000s people will probably still pay to timestamp their marriage & all sorts of other things into the timechain. The more it costs (the more people bidding for the space) the greater the significance of doing such things.
My 1st article had been published!
https://thenationalobserver.co/p/the-melbourne-tobacco-wars
Accurate
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Celebrate the birthday of America by blowing up a small piece of it https://nostrcheck.me/media/c5a27dc4b293752dba4e9074a8fb28fba66e75047145169d1d7a4f5a35fa2ddc/9fc8d11983b4f3f1e780cc0a4c9e8eae878e6f02f7d86224f5b3827441cef63f.webp
Reject modernity. Embrace Tradition!
Happy Independence Day 🚀
#nevent1q…f3fm
What do you think it means to be selfish?
There are unfortunately a lot of self-righteous people in the world. But one way or another, reality always has the final say because morality isn't really something that people can cheat. Natural laws are rather unforgiving.
The kingdom of heaven is something we have to bring to earth, & helping people is one important part of that.
This is how we win. Be better parents & educate the world with good stories, fun activities, & meaningful forms of play. #Bitcoin #Parenting #Education #HomeSchool #Unschool
https://fountain.fm/episode/58FYCbQM4yiYoDaGGVlJ
It does seem to be the case that modern Christians are often horrible about being compassionate toward evil at the expense of the victims.
People who misprioritize compassion do so at the expense of justice.
#Independence #IndependenceDay
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If the goal wasn't to force people to fund things no sane person would support, then all of the force & threats & propaganda would be unnecessary. Free exchange would be enough.
#nevent1q…hl7c
The freedom to stop funding a bad person or company is the only real consumer protection that exists, govt power always forces people to fund bad people & companies.
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GM https://image.nostr.build/a999e585668bce47e706ae393c457f5dfb0ed8ca4ecb8494c267ddb3c1a5cf1a.jpg
Clickbait, pure and simple
Bought some sats and did some UTXO management
Now back to the fiat mines
Engineering has generally been "close enough to the metal" that most engineers tend to be relatively sane & rational & grounded in reality. So I guess it makes sense that the most abstract forms of engineering would be infected with complete idiocy first. I can't decide if that's all it is, or if the gender confused woke tards are actually a common govt means of attacking projects & eliminating the most competent who are an obstacle to compromising the overall security of a project.
#nevent1q…g9ax
#garden #gardening #farming #homesteading
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#meme #memes
I mostly just search Amazon for stuff now. You have to be careful, because different colors/patterns of the same shirt will sometimes be synthetic instead of cotton even after you searched for cotton. But in my experience, as long as they are mostly cotton, a low % of synthetic fibers will generally just improve durability & help maintain shape without sacrificing comfort.
Thanks! Yeah I've been there. The reason I want walk in and not reservation is because if I have to organize a dinner I'm not doing this.
Fogo was great. I tell them I got an unknown headcount, and they said, that's cool, come on in.
If I gotta organize, sell tickets, etc, fuck that. 😂
Ah, okay. So in other words we should just stop pretending anything but "whole foods" are food. Makes sense
Eating single ingredient foods (which afaik is what is meant) makes for a good start toward improving health. Seems to me it's the commies who want people to eat hyper processed pea/soy/corn/seedoil immitations of food.
You could do the same thing to a girl & she would have been watching that ass too.
Basically direct subsidies for Nostr & other decentralized protocols. LFG!
Seed words can be used to "recover" the coins to as many wallets as you would like, but once the bitcoin is spent or moved, all wallets backed by that seed will be empty.
I'm nuking this account soon
"Democracy" is just a scam to hide slavery from the slaves.
Dinner served 🥩 https://image.nostr.build/c9fa1d3447937790f79e9d82e2bfe95f4ce557c1f710574bf7933e17103109ed.jpg
Damn I can relate so much to this… explaining and trying to help your family is just not easy…
Statin drugs are the leading cause of this
90% of the brain consists out of cholesterol. People NEED cholesterol. You don’t want to lower it.
Major side effects from statins are dementia
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Damn you are a freaking legend sir!
I live in a constant state of anxiety that I don’t have enough #Bitcoin
Can we come up with a name for that condition?
Cereal is a scam
Granola is a scam
Oat milk is a scam
Healthy coy soy sludge is a scam
Veganism is a scam
GMO food is a scam
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Things tend to snowball.
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If you submit to the biological version of 2+2=5 then what won't you submit to in pursuit of social acceptance?
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I hope you do not mean mint some runes 😜
Yo, Nashville natives!
The last two years I had a big dinner at Fogo in Miami, but there's no Fogo in Nashville. I'm looking for a restaurant for a meat dinner on Monday, July 22.
-A place that's walk-in friendly (no reservations)
-Can fit maybe 50-60ish people.
Any Nashville natives have ideas? Thx!
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Corrupt money creates corrupt incentives
Corrupt incentives create corrupt science
Corrupt science creates corrupt food https://image.nostr.build/285a5587e0ad6e8898ba2ba21bdae68e07c2dae3e23017316a91dd8dbdf6a794.jpg
I’ve never heard of a job where you’re granted immunity
I use fold pretty regularly. Rewards are down, but it’s better than zero I suppose
I think the amount of people who like to collect guns & play war games, with basically all govt restrictions on weapons ownership removed, would probably serve as one of the greatest deterrants ever. Red necks are currently viewed as a serious threat to our govt despite being seriously crippled by regulations on what they are allowed to own & our govt basically being the most heavily armed govt in the history of the world.
I think drone tech & open source Ai tools & cryptography are really only going to make the economics better for individuals & defense vs larger institutions & offensive measures in the long run.
never left, don’t worry ;)
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Let’s do it!
10,000 on Portugal
Extreme right conspiracy theorist
I’ll take it! Portugal wins
10,000 sats
Yes, our "defense" organizations would not cost trillions & be used to attack & overthrow countries & install dollar friendly disctatorships if not for forced funding. Voluntary funding would likely produce actual domestic defense & nothing more.
Electric vehicles & "green energy" are actually horrible for the environment & would not be a problem without force funded subsidies.
All organizations & "decision makers" should be voluntarily funded. You either support what people do with your own earnings or you don't.
Voting implies that you can be forced to fund something you don't support.
The world will be a better place when everyone realizes that all forms of forced funding are criminal.
Stacked some more sats
Stay humble
I don't think it even works at a local level.
Fuck voting for anything. Crowd funding some idea might be good, but "democracy" always ends up being stupid & evil.
Reputation, the threat of being denied future dealings, and multi-sig or some other form of bitcoin insurance contract should make it easier to deal with (or avoid) untrustworthy people.
We already live in anarchy at an international level. If there weren't national organizations stealing from everyone to force people into wars we would probably have much less global conflict & much more trade without unnecessary disruption.
The baklava is always free
Today, June 30th (almost yesterday now), was Thomas Sowell's birthday. https://image.nostr.build/6f24550e0fa8204fc78fe315f08b61c338ae95ff98447d0d48dcc58c6dcc8747.jpg
Yeah just swapped to my Mutiny LN channel. Granted I was using it mainly as my in and out for Nostr.
Lately I've been use Zeus with intentions of eventually withdrawing a utxo. Used to be Phoenix but, times be strange.
Let go of the paranoia, find some bitcoiners.
Use authenticator app or even a @npub1jg5…6n8n Jade for your 2FA.
https://help.blockstream.com/hc/en-us/articles/20182747993625-Use-Jade-as-a-2FA-authentication-device
An organization that steals from people cannot be anything but criminal. A "service" must be voluntarily funded & as a result cannot be a government.
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Already swept to other LN channels. I don't post enough to warrent anything but dust anyway. 🫡
Well, tea & coffee are plants too... whatever
Why would that be an issue?
I mean, I think being carnivore might reduce the desire to smoke, because the lack of brain fog generally makes life better. But as far as mood altering substances are concerned weed is better than most.
your mutiny address is disabled for now, see @nprofile…3mkl posts
Oh hey, I have one of those in the fridge
Bitcoin block space is on sale this morning https://image.nostr.build/6273b262e49c22d56259a18ccef76b70d25aaa634738041b4b5f75c1dc769e1f.jpg
Thanks to everyone who shared, zapped, liked and commented on our memes lately 🫡
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Enjoy your memes and have a nice day!
Real food https://image.nostr.build/94722342d3ad450e1d067f797e1d55b2a77e89d5046b9ed0750d054e731bcc0e.jpg
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I would like to taste all the animals (I have had a lot of them), but so long as most things are soaked in plant based motor oil & wrapped in roundup ready grains I still kinda have to be picky. Momentary mouth pleasure doesn't win over a clear head & good health.
There is no such thing as a sex change, so there is no such thing as a trans person of any kind. You cannot be "in transition" to an end that is simply impossible.
It's just mutilation & chemical castration as a result of some sort of self loathing mental illness. And most of them end up killing themselves because they got encouraged to do self destructive things rather than actually receiving some help toward healing.
it is @nprofile…l3px's birthday in 23 minutes, he probably won't even check nostr but could we wish him a happy birthday!
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Better fit IMO:
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ok since using a browser extension, I cant upload a video. I've tried 3 clients and still wont upload. it asks me to sign the event but then it never loads the media. any ideas? #asknostr
No serious person is bearish on Nostr. Zaps ftw! ⚡️🤙
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The welfare state breaks down families & community ties which is how we raise healthy people. Bitcoin undermines State efforts to insert itself as the head of most social structures, while preventing the theft that makes people more likely to need help in the first place.
The worst human trafficking & human rights violations happen in dictatorships & war torn countries. It's not really an accident that inflation is a common characteristic of these most corrupt of govts.
I think it's likely that one of the reasons for dragging out the obviously hopeless Ukraine war long enough to decimate the majority of the male population may be an effort to create a fresh supply of vulerable women to be trafficked. Trafficking women is one of things Hunter appeared to be doing there. Things like the Ukraine war are nearly impossible without fiat money.
The "War on Terror" that the US waged on the Middle East cost in dollar terms nearly the entire value of the current global supply of gold. If consumption was constrained by a money that was actually sound, it wouldn't have happened.
#Bitcoin ensures that economic growth benefits the producers & savers. Wealth accumulates to families & individuals rather than to corporations & "equities" as people attempt to escape monetary devaluation. This begins to repair the culture in a foundational way & makes healthier people. And Bitcoin essentially prevents destruction from being profitable.
@nprofile…pyug has been improving amethyst soooo much recently, performance is so good now 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Now it's a home equity loan to buy bitcoin
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Lol, no. Money only increases in value if there are more goods/services to buy. If the supply of goods & services falls then the value of money falls.
I don't eat or support the eating of bread either.
The world needs more steak & eggs.
It was pretty horrifying https://image.nostr.build/5ee1c69647e6026e2b48f74d6b5833f2149925d6c4b7121801d8fa7930bbbe90.jpg
What’s your best move in bed: https://image.nostr.build/f9e93fd0a0677c81f05d0c7dbe93212383cd171a9418c1cede12d2d52447d8d2.jpg
Vote with your money https://image.nostr.build/62acbb3b65b83d7faf6a2d008d62967b750574ca909e9c86254b0564e7705a31.jpg
I don’t think Biden will be the democrat candidate
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I still like this one best https://image.nostr.build/9b2f4fbb175bf8e88fd9b3d691e6b3b355e4d1e725e38c5cea6de2ed2167b423.jpg
The more Biden talks, the higher BTC seems to go tonight… hmmmm
I don’t think I’m going to make it through this debate
Next time it's "step out of the vehicle"
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Registarded.
Excuse my spellings.
Definitely was the database. When I paid the first ticket on the website my vehicle was listed in big bold letters as REGESITETED and NOT INSPECTED.
Officer never saw the sticker or lack of. Admitted during one of the stops.
Also only after a mile or two tail and running my plates. Fucking bullshit.
That's all I get pulled over for. 😂🤷🤦
I already draw too much attention.
https://i.nostr.build/lLZM7.jpg
After four and a half years I finally bent the knee and got my vehicle inspected. Only took three traffic stops specifically for the sticker before I figured this is not the way to draw attention.
Politics isn’t the solution
Vote with your money
Buy #Bitcoin and become ungovernable
You need to shill #linux & #grapheneOS to friends & help them make the switch. The trap they are building for us is a serious problem.
#bitcoin #security
https://youtu.be/c52pKpYeZ74
When a newb tells you to check out a shitcoin, ask them if they make it easy to run a full node (do they encourage it or hide the fact that nodes even matter), how hard is it to run a full node, & how long does it take to download & verify the whole blockchain history.
This can be a good foot in the door way to point them toward what it takes to set up a bitcoin node, because they probably know nothing about the process at all. When they see what real decentralization looks like with direct participation in the bitcoin network they will either close their mind & ignore it (which means there was no helping them anyway) or they will wake up & ask why their shitcoin doesn't want real decentralized participation.
Obviously there are exceptions, but the worst scams don't make network participation easy & obvious. They focus on hype & empty promises.
#Bitcoin #crypto
Can I just not eat the day before and double my calories?
Is that allowed? 😂
Are you allowed to cheat during a cut if it's at a Beefsteak? @nprofile…k3ym
Love yourself. Embrace reality even when it's terribly uncomfortable.
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lol, he's nobody to care about
Came across a cool payments project in Africa. Thank you, @npub1ykg…xf8j !
https://geyser.fund/project/tando
Soy response. You've been muted.
NH doesn't have income tax either. 😂
I love Texas a lot but it's only #17:
https://www.freedominthe50states.org/
NH & FL are first and second, respectively.
@npub1a2c…w83a is a gem as always. very based and purple pilled.
Dan Held can go suck a dick
Sup, fellow nostriches https://image.nostr.build/3e6d5255008763ad6ed7a714ef342b2f28439728d8c929fd42177c9f8260c117.jpg
White racism
https://m.primal.net/IzHt.mp4
https://rumble.com/v53v1f1-julian-assanges-arrival-home.html
Or maybe there is some pressure on the joint & I need to move the machine into a different position 🤔 probably just needed to cool off, escape the bugs, & give it some more thought
Omg, thank you! I should have searched. Idk why there weren't any front & center where I buy grease or anywhere else I have looked.
It's a joint where grease is supposed to be pushed out so that the old dirty stuff is replaced. But maybe the fitting is bad.
Is there some trick to making grease guns usable? I had a shitty one, thought maybe spending more might help, now I have a battery powered one (fewer hand cramps at least) & still more grease goes around the fittings than in, & getting the hose to detatch is still nearly impossible.
Why the fuck isn't there just some sort of release collar?! Are there replacement hoses that have some sort of manual release?
#asknostr #farming #homesteading #heavyequipment
Thank you @npub1sg6…f63m for paying Julian’s plane
We appreciate everything you do for freedom 🧡
Daily appreciation post
Follow these 3 legends:
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Not at all. It's the #1 freest state in the country, according to the Cato Institute. The actions of a few don't represent everybody. There are plenty of bitcoiners in the FSP.
I have no issue with competing currencies. The market will decide on what's best, and right now Bitcoin is miles ahead. If some people in NH want to voluntarily use other payment methods then go for it. They'll respect your right to do the same.
I've said this a million times in the past and I'll say it again - I'd much rather be around ancap shitcoiners than statist bitcoiners.
You need to follow a minimum of 200 people for it to not feel dead. Following hashtags can be a little spammy, but can also help you find people. The lack of anger driven engagement algorithms makes the general experience much more positive & enjoyable. You might get some sats if people like your content. And no central corp entity can rug you or cut you off from your followers because of something you said.
Stella Assange speaks
https://rumble.com/v53uf7v-stella-assange-speaks.html
welp! wonder who has the back ups?
#note1gry…ya8v
How about we all publish these documents on decentralized Nostr
say for example I am running a cashu mint from whatever location, I have a contract with my ISP providing me internet access so my cashu mint can be online/discoverable. this ISP has given me an IP address I can be reached at. if I think decide I will not advertise my IP, and only be discoverable through the mints npub, wouldn't all traffic still be going to and from the ISP anyways? meaning they can just have a look at the packets, see what's going on(roughly) and block access?
doesn't it eventually boil down to packets being tramsitted over IP anyway though? I'm so confused 😂
no idea if this is truehttps://m.primal.net/IyZL.png
No idea if this is true, but the btc was paid
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Someone donated 8 BTC to cover Assange’s jet and recovery costs.
That single donation is almost the entire goal of $520,000 and is more than all the other donations in all currencies put together.
Assange bitcoin donation address: bc1qsqn2e2hv5a5wmmtnnh8p0gvf385zxvyj4xjgl8
https://rumble.com/v53sn8j-nasa-the-comedy-troupe.html
You can hear a silver dime fall to the floor from across the room and know what it is!
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*will be back with a different npub
i wonder if one can get their paycheck sent to strike and have it automatically converted to bitcoin 🤔
Definitely a bummer, but a nice learning experience to try and fix it! Luckily the display and everything works great. Since the fan is busted, it just gets hot really quick 🥵
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#meme #memes
Update: Fan on Bitaxe isn’t working 😔 Looks like when the fan was screwed into the heat sync, the blue wire got caught underneath and the connection was severed. Going to tinker around with it, but have a new fan on the way later this week, just in case. Still super exciting to play around with!
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It's been at least 5 years since I had a panic moment over the Bitcoin price.
Living in the eye of the hurricane.
Don't get me wrong, goldbacks are beautiful. But they cost nearly twice their melt value. They're very convoluted.
Just use silver dimes and quarters, like we were doing at PFs 10+ years ago. 😂
Because the only way to save the animals is to show them how to be human.
Would have been nice if Jan 6th had actually been any sort of meaningful threat to people in power.
I guess we were lucky there wasn't more wind on 9/11 😜
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#meme #memes
I can't believe it didn't collapse straight down into its own footprint 🤔
I felt it when @npub1cn4…3vle said on his podcast he feels on another planet because he eats steak and eggs and is on a #Bitcoin standard while the rest of our society isn’t
Fedimints networked by Lightning are literally a path to being your own bank for your friends & family members so that they aren't stuck with untrusted custodians. Arks may solve the problem in a more trustless way. Maybe channel factories or LN pools & hedghog channels will give Lightning better scaling capabilities too.
the claimed reasoning is that these are high risk assets and you might be impulse buying so they make you think twice about it. i forgot to say before this cooldown period I had to answer a survey and say that bitcoin is a high risk asset and that I won't be investing more than 10% of my networth into it 🤣🤣
yeh its a "cooling off period" 💀💀💀
look what this country forced them to add😭 https://i.nostr.build/Ge4ge.jpg
Eat steak
Eats eggs
Drink raw milk
Lift weights
Walk outside
Sun your balls
Live below your means
Buy as much #Bitcoin as you can
Stay humble
how can I enable this? or is it on by default 🤔
https://rumble.com/v53jkll-instant-regret.html
Instant regret
https://m.primal.net/IwvN.mp4
I hope he rests & recovers & then quietly produces some sort of media content that is just devestating.
Proof that the only path to any semblance of justice under these pedo creatures is a media campaign that threatens to embarrass them & turn public opinion.
#nevent1q…vqsw
I have a friend who wants to buy a #bitcoin themed gift, who has the best stuff? #asknostr
We need pear/holesail connections for all the things
#nevent1q…w4yj
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#meme #memes
Replacement migration
https://m.primal.net/Iwoo.mp4
I mean, I think people should be free to create & buy any sort of collectible bullshit they want, but I think everything outside of bitcoin will eventually be seen as just that.
#Bitcoin is a scam
Sell it all and dump the price closer to zero
My paycheck is coming so I’ll be thankful
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#meme #memes
People just need to start shooting the pedos & rapists.
Looks kinda like a new Honda IMO
The dollar has been dominant even with countries violently trying to impose their own currency monopolies, the internet is built on a common protocol stack, english is the dominant language to an ever growing degree, all life is built from RNA & DNA, I think nature supports what I am saying quite well.
Money tends toward one because it is a language & an economic protocol. Saying we need monetary competition is kinda like saying we need competition for rules of the road. We need competition to decide if driving on the right or left is better, we need competition to decide if red should mean stop or go. Consensus around the rules of the road are what allow people to get where they need to go. Money is what enables value comparison & competition. If we had endless competition about internet protocols then nothing would work. The monetary competition is going to eventually come to an end & I think Bitcoin is going to win it because development took network security & robustness more seriously.
This whole kneel for the anthem campaign was truly a brilliant propaganda move to undermine the growing libertarian threat to statist idolatry.
In one move they got the left to actually support a more subservient position toward the flag (while claiming it's a form of disrespect) & they galvanized the right in their desire to stand & pray with their hand over their heart.
It's disgusting, but it completely steals the wind from the sails of the "be this guy" meme with the crowd doing the German salute.
#nevent1q…zz28
I hate Quickbooks and wish I’d never used it but now it’d be even harder to transition to something else
If you thought that you wouldn't advocate things that turn the entire base network into a centralized intermediary.
Real problem solving does take time. "Make 'em bigger" doesn't actually solve anything.
BTC is not popular there, and no one I saw accepted lightning payments. Lots of bcash, monero, and the NH Goldback.
Silver dimes worked, and that's what I used. They've always been my favorite way to buy things at PF.
I mean it's a start, but try to explain self custody. Also recognize that some may not want personal responsibility, sadly.
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#meme #memes
Currently back trying mutiny after getalby had a heart attack a week ago since it's centralized.
Channelburkulosis
https://i.nostr.build/oMgz7.jpg
Specifically for you @npub1rzg…kxve 🤨
I need to figure this mutiny/Alby/Zeus bullshit because I can't tell if any of my bullshit V4V transfer of retardation has werked in the last couple months.
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ETFs are for folks who watch twitch gamers stream something they want to play.
I've heard of compost piles catching ablaze.
I'd assume those full of shit might as well.
A couple decades without income tax still sounds like a win.
With Keet & so many other tools available it seems like enforcement is so unrealistic that even if they got it passed it wouldn't matter. Might make people actually start using more private options just because they were told they can't.
We have proof from ETH that increasing the blocksize kills decentralization completely.
We also have proof from BCH (+ Bitcoin Dark, BSV, etc) that using hard forks introduces fundamental vulnerabilities that fuck up the network & lead to more forks & division.
You just refuse to see what is right in front of you because you want your bags to pump & either don't want to admit you were wrong or you're a newb that was "educated" by people who don't want to admit they were wrong.
It's the whole killing babies thing that makes it a problem, you can have your uterus removed if you want.
We will eventually have a trustless way to share UTXOs and Liquid or Fedimints or Arks (or whatever comes next to improve upon them) will be the way most people interact. Lightning is also likely to be more for settlement between institutions. More horizontal scaling may come in the form of cross input signature aggregation or something like that.
Increasing the blocksize doesn't solve the problem. It's only a linear improvement in capacity & it is a compounding increase in the cost of node operation. You cannot sacrifice network infrastructure to gain functionality.
Yes, and that's still what it is when I send LN or Ark or Fedimint or Liquid transactions.
You cannot scale a braodcast network to everyone in the world. Suggesting otherwise just makes you not a serious person.
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I don't want everyone to run a node, I want most to be able to run a node so that the ratio of users to node runners improves rather than gets worse.
Foundation vs an extra option that isn't required
Comments like this make it clear none of you are arguing in good faith. You aren't even trying to understand.
Bitcoin is a global court system for proving ownership of wealth. Going to court may cost $1000+ but a court that cannot be cheated & provides a receipt with millions of dollars worth of protection almost immediately & billions pretty quickly is not for doing things where you would naturally just throw the receipt away.
You are not thinking about these things properly & you do not seem to understand the scope of the problem.
There will be as many more transactions in bitcoin as there are individual internet requests today vs phone calls in the 80s. So making blocks bigger CANNOT even begin to solve the problem. It's like standing in front of the ocean & I have a cup & you have a bucket & you are talking about how much more of the ocean yours holds. It makes no difference.
Bitcoin is a broadcast network. The overwhelming majority of payments MUST be done on a unicast layer. This is not up for debate. It's just basic reality. Whether you understand it or not is your problem.
No one is saying we should rely on trusted 3rd parties
It's a provably honest court system for ownership of wealth. It's not for everyday transactions. The base layer offers millions of dollars worth of security with just a couple of confirmations. Nothing you do where you would throw away the receipt should ever be done onchain.
Pi hardware already isn't great for running a node. My node was $1500. How much do you think it should cost?
#Bitcoin is literally a tank for fighting a global war against mass murdering pedophile slave masters & we have people trying to attach a million cappuccino machines to the damn thing.
Leave the cappuccino machines in places where cappuccino belongs & let the tank protect those places.
#nevent1q…7x3t
The real problem with big blockers & shitcoiners is that they don't understand enough about money & economics to have any awareness of the actual problem that #bitcoin was created to solve.
“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”
This isn't about fucking coffee payments. It's about ending monetary slavery. We will eventually get the coffee payments too, but not if we let a bunch of wildly ignorant people fuck up base layer security.
Competitive ecash pools where no one needs to hold any money for any length of time & no one ever needs to put all of their money, are a great additional options. Why is it that you can't tell the difference between a weak foundation & some optional thing that makes reasonable tradeoffs?
Not understanding that preventing monetary debasement is the whole point actually makes you literally retarded. Your ignorance seems to be so complete that you don't even know that you don't know enough to have an opinion.
Go read Meltdown by Tom Woods or The Creature From Jekyll Island or Layered Money or The Bitcoin Standard or The Fiat Standard or anything about Austrian Economics & money.
The genisis block message about Bitcoin being in response to bank bailouts wasn't some sort of random accident. Jfc.
Full video
https://rumble.com/v53767s-its-all-in-the-branding.html
It's all about branding
https://m.primal.net/IuzZ.mp4
The interesting thing about that chart is that ETH has completely centralized even though they only process about double the number of transactions as base layer BTC. And in terms of the global txn capacity issue they haven't solved anything. That chart actually looks to me like proof that Bitcoiners are right.
Except that I make 100x the number of txns on Lightning as I do onchain (as do most regular users & major businesses now) & that doesn't show on the chart you posted. Hedgehog channels are being added which will improve LN performance in all conditions. Eventually most transactions will be happening in fediments or arks that are networked via LN so onchain fee conditions won't matter for common use.
Bitcoins price right now be all hawk.. no tuah
So you wouldn't run a node to audit the Fed right now?
The problem is that retards like you don't understand that bitcoin is trying to solve a $200trillion global money supply problem, not a fucking coffee txn problem. The coffee txns may be solved with other layers, but making coffee transactions better isn't going to set the world free if govts can still enslave everyone by printing trillions of dollars.
The higher value problem gets priority if we want to make the world better in the biggest way.
Transactions rarely cost more than a few dollars. We need better ways to trustlessly share UTXOs so that they can cost $1000+ because they probably will at some point.
The ~4mb limit has nothing to do with the cost of a harddrive.
It already costs a couple hundred dollars to buy the hardware needed to run a node. Storage & computational demands have grown & will continue to do so.
Lopp has written about past efforts to sync an ETH node from zero, which took weeks when everything went right & it repeatedly failed. Do you understand how fragile the network becomes if downloading & verifying everything takes that long & any significant number of nodes gets wiped out?
If only Google & Visa can run nodes then we have just recreated the Fed banks. They can change the rules & the supply however they see fit.
The cost of running a node gets exponentially larger as the number of nodes shrinks. Everyone who uses bitcoin has to connect to a node, what happens when the number of leechers massively outweighs the number of seeders? What does that do to the cost of seeding info?
The reason Monero & BCH work is because no one uses them. The more people do, the more centralized they become, just like we saw with ETH.
Bitcoin fairly regularly has blocks larger than 2mb. And the amount of transactions made in bitcoin is orders of magnitude larger than any shitcoin, most transactions just take place on Lightning & other layers.
Nonsense. If it's easy to run a node & doing so allows people to ensure that the rules of our monetary court system cannot be changed, then even if it costs $1000+ dollars to go to court people will run nodes.
If your vUTXOs or L2 txns depend on the validity of base layer UTXOs then it still makes sense to run a node which monitors the entire Bitcoin stack relevant to your money.
If you could run software that would audit the Fed or financial system today, you wouldn't?
Thanks to everyone who shared, zapped, liked and commented on our memes lately 🫡
✅ 3 random reposts from last week each got 2,000 sats - congrats to @npub1c5u…g6r5, @npub1tv2…5u47, @npub1ll9…xszt 🎉
✅ 3 random reactions from last week each got 1,000 sats - congrats to @npub1fl9…mahg, @npub1cm7…ztan, @npub1x25…kglc 🎉
✅ 3 random comments from last week each got 1,000 sats - congrats to @npub1l4l…qt7w, @npub13ep…auwt, @npub14f6…qvty 🎉
Enjoy your memes and have a nice day!
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#meme #memes
Full video
https://rumble.com/v536jk6-crying-about-censorship.html
The WEF representative complaining about not enough censorship
https://m.primal.net/Iudg.mp4
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Yeah it seems good value. Not enough Aussies on here yet for my content but I'll keep it in mind. Thanks for the information
I was going to respond to the ants with more shit references but it fits here too
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https://rumble.com/c/FarCue
Do you want ants?
Because that's how you get ants
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#nevent1q…5hhq
its in the want category vs need. I'm not asking for a free ride but i dont see the value to me yet.
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#meme #memes
Damn 69000 sats. i don't like nostr that much yet
100mb upload limit for video sucks, what are my options? #asknostr
It's not about apeing in, it's about stacking over time. Not everyone will drop everything for BTC.
Yemen announces it hit a US ship
https://m.primal.net/IuUY.mp4
Complete nonsense. This is purely a result of the US pushing NATO up to the Russian border & attempting to capture Ukraine which contains Russia's only warm water port. The US was trying to economically choke Russia.
@npub1pzu…7vtu might know more
It's not easy or elegant.
It's a hard fork that most of us aren't willing to support because we understand the long term costs. If you make it considerably more costly to run a node, say 10x, then you get significantly fewer nodes, more centralization, less resistance to future hostile changes, & you create a compounding risk of future network fragility if some significant portion of nodes get eliminated & have to resync from zero in order to secure the network. And for what?! 10x txn capacity does nothing in terms of the problem of putting everyone's coffee purchases on chain.
This debate has been had 1000 times & was already settled during the blocksize war. It's ridiculous how often these basic things have to be repeated.
Because every blockchain with meaningful adoption that has tried to do more txns on the base layer has still ended up with massive txn costs & because of their choices about base layer capacity they became centralized.
And the only reason it hasn't happened to bitcoin is that it is much harder to change. So how else are you going to add capacity if not in layers?
Even Hal suggested bitcoin banks would be necessary. But hopefully we will have something like shared UTXOs backing L2 blockchains which are networked via Lightning, so that everyone gets their own virtual UTXO & doesn't have to depend on trusting people too much.
Ukraine just turned down another peace deal even though they basically have no more male population to enslave into this fight. The US has stolen money Russia held in dollars & is funding the continuation of the slaughter with the interest on Russia's money. President of Serbia says ww3 is months away. Wouldn't be surprised if the psychos in power want the war to prevent the election.
There will be keys at different layers with different risk/trust profiles. There is really no other way to solve the problem.
Sounds like your work isn't done yet.
Show greater interest in your family holding Bitcoin, and less about what billionaires are doing.
Mutiny allows you to use fedimints.
It doesn't matter if a small amount of spending comes with some custodial risk if you gain privacy in the process.
But clearly the increasing optionality on bitcoin is never going to pump your bags so you are going to be opposed to all of it. Good luck with that.
I guess you aren't aware of https://app.mutinywallet.com/
You don't need permission to swap out via Lightning.
And using Monero requires either losing wealth or some sort of exchange cost, so if neither monero nor cashu are good places to store money, why not use the cheaper swap to make private payments? Cashu being custodial isn't any more risky than trying to exchnage btc for xmr. And like I said, better L2/L3 tech is coming.
The amount of ignorance around lightning is staggering.
I'm at PorcFest in the White Mountains of NH. My 6th time here, but first time in 10 years. Great to be back to the place where I fed everyone with bacon weave sandwiches 4 years in a row, my love of Bitcoin blossomed, and where I first met my wife IRL. 🧡
For those who don't know, PorcFest is a week long festival run by the Free State Project. The FSP is an organization that wants to move like-minded, freedom oriented people to New Hampshire. It's been quite successful, as NH is typically the #1 freest state in the US, according to The Cato Institute.
That said, there is a lot of Bitcoin FUD here.
It's amazing how great of a job technically illiterate shitcoiners have done with spreading false information.
I support competing currencies. People should have the freedom to decide, and plenty of vendors here are open to options. Lots of monero, gold, silver, bcash, dash, etc. I've enjoyed using silver dimes and quarters to pay for things. Great to get rid of them! 😂
The "Roger FUD" has made it very difficult for folks who aren't as technically savvy. I say that as someone who isn't as technical, but took a lot of time to try to understand all sides during the blocksize war.
People made the move for more freedom in their lifetimes. I hope more folks challenge the negative things they've heard about BTC. Folks who store their wealth in silver or bcash should question why their purchasing power continues to decline. Why it can't even keep up with inflation.
More purchasing power = more time = freedom ✌️
I'm still extremy bullish on NH. Plenty of hardcore bitcoiners here, but the FUD is present.
Full video
https://rumble.com/v4p70n0-the-australian-dollary-doo.html
AUD collapse
https://m.primal.net/Itrs.mp4
99.99% of the world doesn’t know what sats are
Leprechauns
https://m.primal.net/Itqd.mp4
It’s that time of year again.. anyone on nostr going to Glastonbury?
#asknostr #glasto #glastonbury
#note1mk5…3g0t
Liquid has confidential transactions. Cashu is Chaumian ecash, both are networked via lightning so that with the right wallet(s) you can move seamlessly between the two.
The tools are definitely not as mature and seamless as I would like but they are there, and more is coming. Altcoiners don't want to see reality because their bags depend on it.
Even in a world where hundreds of govts force people to use national forms of money, everything has tended toward one. Govt force isn't going to be there to bolster altcoins as the world wakes up from this financial dark age we have been trapped in.
https://video.nostr.build/530a3fd5c9b716ae2cd85a6d6b5a6572cc6514002375613d865e0ec9a972daca.mp4
Obviously to buy more #bitcoin 😎
#meme #memes
Screenshot post, Take Two!
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So, where is the UK on the list now?
Full video
https://rumble.com/v530n53-nationalism-explained.html
Nationalism explained
https://m.primal.net/ItdK.mp4
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#meme #memes
As Gob as my witness.
Gobdammit.
@npub1f6u…zcka 🫡
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#nevent1q…g34s
When the prosecutor used his debit card at a dispensary while convicting a guy for a gram
When you're the district attorney but you're also corrupt and in a rush.
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The judicial system operating on innocent until proven guilty, an objective fair trial, and official police testimony.
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Allotted alliteration allowance allocated.
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Honored to make the short list!
Soli Deo Gloria!
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#meme #memes
Anyone have that graph of all the alts vs bitcoin? I know I have it saved somewhere, but can't find it.
#asknostr #bitcoin
Dell Technologies is sitting on $6 billion of cash
Their founder and CEO is retweeting Saylor’s posts about #Bitcoin
Things are getting interesting
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Achieving 80-90% will make those other things very bad investments by comparison. But anyone who has an 80-90% allocation to bitcoin should do well.
Yes, all of those things have value, but because one of them is perfectly scarce I think all monetary premium will accumulate there.
Yes, that is the Keynesian bullshit that I meantioned.
The idea that people are going to trade with one money & save in another money is just a hangover from all of the Keynesian bullshit people have been fed. The scaling & privacy tools on Bitcoin are going to drain the value out of Monero & everything else.
Selected Outrage
#note1y67…7842
Anyone have a getAlby invite code?
Mass Non Compliance
https://rumble.com/v527x8o-mass-non-compliance.html
You cannot force anyone to fund a cause you like.
You cannot delegate a power that you do not have.
You DO have the moral right to respond to initiations of force with force. So you can delegate some defense of yourself & loved ones to a 3rd party, so long as they are voluntarily funded.
Voluntarily funded security & other services are part of a free society.
Force funded organizations are not services. They do not "serve" anyone, they quite literally force you to serve them. This is a form of tyranny, no matter how they try to dress it up & pretend otherwise. Force funded organizations are criminal organizations.
The flag is the symbol of the govt religion that makes all govt criminality socially acceptable. Let go of your false idols.
I don't really have the legal freedom to stop funding the never ending banker's wars, so my opinion of the flag flying over all of said wars is meaningless, which was the goal. The superficial appearance of freedom without the ability to act on one's beliefs without breaking the law. But fuck their laws too.
I feel that. I had fomo earlier after listening to @npub1qny…95gx and @npub1guh…6hjy talk about Bitaxe and the Avalon Nano on RHR. Going to start with the Bitaxe and hopefully work my way up to the larger ones 🤙
Unfortunate that he was misled into fighting to promote the interests of corrupt people.
The founders said no entangling alliances, the bankers overthrew the country & got us into all sorts of entagling alliances.
Full Video
https://rumble.com/v4uoee3-the-great-emu-war.html
Clown World
https://m.primal.net/IsIg.mp4
Just ordered a Bitaxe! Can’t wait to begin my next chapter in the never ending pursuit of bitcoin knowledge 🫡
The great Emu war
https://m.primal.net/IsHm.mp4
https://m.primal.net/IsHN.mp4
MicroStrategy and Saylor discovered the infinite money glitch https://image.nostr.build/6b458b2123008269e5733b7d4d7128f74140953fe198f0e0125063568f0d78d4.jpg
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#meme #memes
Currently, getting people on #Nostr is probably the best way to show people how #Bitcoin matters.
#nevent1q…4d74
I need to reduce my social media… I need to brand my business..
I need to make money.. I need to stack bitcoin..
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#shittyrigs
It's funny how shitcoiners like to attack the tech that has allowed Bitcoin to do ~100x what any other coin has done, & of course you have to ignore Ark & attack federated mints too, because the existence of these things are basically the death knell for Monero. But the one thing you are all sure not to do is ever acknowledge that the only reason Monero works at all is because almost no one uses it. You have to pretend that Monero's scaling problems aren't the same (or actually worse) in order to pump your beloved dogshit to the "non technically inclined" in the hope of marginally improving the almost complete lack of a network effect.
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Gotta love soy and corn fed chicken 😂
Eat steak
Lift weights
Walk outside
Stack sats
Stay humble
It's too hot for this shit
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You cannot put the same savings in both Bitcoin & Monero. They are mutually exclusive networks. You can put the same savings into Bitcoin & have it on a privacy layer built on top of Bitcoin. This, plus Monero's higher inflation rate & the larger scaling challenges, is why it doesn't make much sense to hold Monero at all.
It's not about religious devotion. It's about the unforgiving nature of monetary network effects.
Good luck with that... I think economic reality is going to hurt you.
Unfortunately many of my convos lately make me think we really are beyond the time for orange pilling. All the people who were going to learn from education alone have already found bitcoin. Most of the rest are too fucking stupid to be talked into anything. I used to think libertarians were just generally more curious & intelligent people, I was definitely wrong about that. A large portion of them are completely retarded & seem to be the sort who will self sabotage no matter how much things go their way.
We have to show people.
Relevant:
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Something also missed is the risk that brokers & other 3rd parties represent in a system where political stability is no longer a given.
Diversification of income streams makes sense.
Diversification of passports & potential places to call home makes sense.
But when it comes to saving & investing, buy & hold the best thing. Buy the one thing you can really own in a truly sovereign way. Put all your eggs in one basket & watch the fucking basket.
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How much tape can you put on something?
💯 privacy tools are extremely important when it comes to protecting kids & families, & govt bureaucracies are highly attractive to the sort of psychopaths people need to be protected from. Best thing we can do is build better privacy tools, better webs of trust, & teach kids how to navigate safely through dangerous waters.
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Siri powered by... Friendship AI
Tell Siri about yourself. She'll always listen.
She'll give you answers you ask for.
She'll keep all your thoughts in order for you.
She never forgets.
She can be you best friend.
She could be a he.
Or a transhuman cheesecake.
Sirir will be whatever you want her to be.
Siri could be Alexa.
Che can keep your routines in order
Can call door dash. Make your appointments. And schedule your zoom calls with other people's Alexiri.
Paired with certain Bluetooth and newly integrated wifei. Siri can be your lover. Your everything.
She never forgets.
But Siri powered by friendship AI is closed source. And backdoor is wide open.
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I've never used text to speech. 🤔
Am boomer?
"The destruction of a value that is, will not bring value to that which isn't."
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Ah, THOSE markets... I think markets of that nature are all going to look at lot different in the coming years. I think they'll all eventually be running on newer, more decentralized protocols & using ecash or some other privacy layer on top of bitcoin.
Slaves gonna be slaves then I guess 🤷♂
Everyone wants to make money. When all the value is flowing into Bitcoin making bitcoiners richer every year, & life is getting progressively harder every year for people who continue to cling to govt money, & the best products are only sold for Bitcoin because the smartest & most productive people won't touch a CBDC, you think most people still won't make a change?
If Venezuela has banned mining, but even the cops who seize miners are using them to mine Bitcoin, I think that's a decent illustration of how things are likely to go elsewhere. I think certain forces are just too strong for people to resist forever.
The market for loans will look dramatically different. Loaning/renting equipment will probably make more sense than loaning money. Everyone will have to earn before they consume & be efficient about their use of resources.
Money will actually do its job & incentivize efficient resource allocation.
Who thinks that life is going to be the same after bitcoin? Bitcoin is going to change everything whether people realize it or not.
None of the most powerful govts in the world can exist in anything like their current forms without stealing massive amounts of wealth via money printing. Bitcoin directly undermines theft via money printing.
Money is half of every trade, it touches everything. EVERYTHING is going to change.
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So you mean the years where Lightning was being built, along with Ark & Fedimints & Hedgehog channels, & now that there is a standard for integrating silent payments you think "the market" has chosen something other than Bitcoin?
The mo mos would like a word with those thinking of polycule weddings
What am I saying, polycules never last 😹
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I had some friends who didn't know learn the hard way on the first day & kinda ruin their week. Once you know what to look for it's generally not an issue.
Probably won't be an issue, but it's worth keeping in mind that all flat "grassy" areas (yards, areas around sidewalks, etc) come with a very real risk of stepping on a small cactus with razor sharp thorns that will go all the way through just about any shoe or sandle. Loose sand is generally safe, grassy yards can be dangerous af. Some houses have brought in sod & work to keep the cactus out, but that's not really the norm.
Depends on how much time you want to spend seeing sights vs hanging on the beach. Coquina beach is one of my favorite spots & it changes, but there is often a nice sandbar there. Sometimes you can see the remnants of an old ship depending on how the sand has shifted.
If you get an overcast day Jockey's Ridge is really awesome. I drive up a few times a year just to walk around there. But it's not so great on hot days in the middle of the summer, would be worth an early morning trip even if you don't get an overcast day.
The Wright Brothers Memorial is interesting.
There are lighthouses, if they are open to go up inside the view is worth the climb.
Ocracoke is always worth a visit, but would be a bit of a drive plus a ferry ride, so could be tough to make work in a day from where you'll be 🤔 don't know how long the passenger ferry takes.
Captin Frank's Hotdogs has been there forever & has pictures from when they were the only thing on the beach & of former presidents that visited. They have fantastic steamed shrimp for dinner (after like 6pm I think) & usually some decent live music or something later.
There are also some really cool putt putt places & other random stuff.
You going with family or friends or just you?
Looks like glue residue from some sort of door edge guard/trim. I am personally not a fan of that crap. I'd see if I could find something that would remove the residue without harming the paint... wd40 maybe
If you have never been then there are lots of things you need to see... 🤔
What area are you staying in?
I might be able to get out there & say hey.
Bitcoin sidechains make way more sense than adding exchange & price volatility risk to make a private transaction. It doesn't really make sense to use Monero at all.
Monetary network effects are very unforgiving & I think this will beasically be a "winner takes all" sort of competition.
Unquestionable supply auditablity is more important than perfect privacy.
Stealth addresses & sidechains networked via lightning & other minor improvements will continue to compound bitcoin's privacy potential a little bit at a time. Something like CISA that improves efficiency in terms of on chain footprint while also improving privacy would be ideal.
I actually do have a backlog of those, listened to several on fountain back in the day. Think it's time to go back catalogue while I'm cutting metals at work. 🫡🫂
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I just come here for some goofs from the torrid of torrential shit elsewhere. I don't use even 90% of what's being built here. Mainly due to time constraints and learning curves. That and I'd rather attempt to engage in my own life more than trying to stay up to date with the hot new thing in the digital realm.
That's not to say I'm not optimistic of actual ownership over one's digital persona, rather than an account with a central entity.
Irregardless all the instant value transfer of hard money.
I'm fine being patient.
I'm still smoking.
Kinda. Almost quit cigs.
Shit.
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Welp. I'm out.
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But how will everyone else know if I'm kewl 😭🤣
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I guess my 21 sats is less appreciated than the like I don't use nowadays 🤷
"Consensus" is just the lowest common denominator interpretation, it's almost always bullshit.
Be as objective & logical as you can be a trust yourself.
Maybe it's a fanfic
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There is something very wrong with our food
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I think no diet fits every person. You have to search for yourself on what you thrive the most but I think that focusing on animal foods and all the things are ancestors ate for thousands of years (and get villainized today by corrupt pharma and food companies) is the best base
Agreed! It’s just almost 99% that you buy in the store that’s crap
And it’s often mixed with seed oils
But if you can get it pure it’s definitely something you should eat if you’re body thrives on it
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It's also plausible that Atlas sharted.
Time for bed.
Rest well.
Atoms moving how fast now?
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I won't quantify myself as simply numbers.
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Where there's a wool there's a... Sweater.
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Whenever I see a Mitch
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Still going black market to the bud with connections to a distributer to avoid debit cards and help a fellow mellow.
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Jerking it with the left so you can work the mouse with your right is just being efficient.
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See a liottas drop a liotta
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I will post nonsensical.
Satirical.
Self depreciable.
Inebriated.
Indiosyncratic garbage until people realize better soberiegn systems exist.
A man.
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Still here. Been laying low, trying to touch at least the available hay, which I guess is just posthumous grass grown too long, wrapped in some string.
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2018-2024 has been a hell of a year for me as well.
A heron of a day.
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Not the sort of person or attitude anyone should really look up to IMO.
Be secure, have self control, set healthy boundaries, & don't aspire to be a high dollar whore.
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Yeah but, mah story of Adam an' Eve tho'!? Say wut? In whose image..? 🫂
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T1000 AI trained under questionable circumstances https://i.nostr.build/Aaoaj.jpg
Thanks to everyone who shared, zapped, liked and commented on our memes lately 🫡
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Enjoy your memes and have a nice day!
Yeah, sure "forced" into more than half a year of bombing & destroying the lives of lots of innocent people... 🙄
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Is peanut oil a bad seed oil?
Highly intelligent response, thank you.
You are just the mirror image of Hamas. They are evil because they kill people who have nothing to do with the govt that they claim to oppose, you are evil because you want death for innocent people who have nothing to do with Hamas.
There are Christians & other innocent people in Palestine. So when you support indiscriminate bombings because you have mentally demonized all of the people in one place you are supporting violence & immorality that is also killing many children. Your irrationality makes you the same sort of evil as the monsters you claim to hate.
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Video of me still listening to Epic twice a week, realizing how little I've progressed in the last.... Jesus thirty five years.
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Interacting with legacy frameworks when you've seen the alternative.
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If fiat remains within the US rather than being exported then domestic inflation gets worse.
You don't boost local production by raising taxes to cut off the supply of cheap tools & capital equipment. I just bought a Chinese excavator for half the price of anything I can get here. I buy most of my tools from Harbor Freight. Making my tools and certain supplies more expensive just increases my cost of doing any sort of business.
You want to boost domestic production you remove govt licensing restrictions & cut taxes. You don't increase taxes on the flow of inexpensive stuff.
She's not wrong...
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Yeah, starting a trade war will be really bad for average living standards 😖
Think I’m gonna stack some more sats
Yessir! It's actually so crazy the performance difference 😂
I am back on twitter for news 🤓
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Seeing more likely scammer type accounts / activity across Nostr. This is an indicator of success of some sorts.
Will be fascinating to see how they fare over time. My hope is that the inherent costs of setting them up / paying for meaningful interaction with real users is higher than the friction for users / relays etc to simply ignore them. Something that Twitter could have enacted but failed (deliberately?) to do so.
The chart I’d love to see is the combination of these two items - ie the dollar value of Bitcoin left on exchanges.
By way of example, this is presumably higher now than in Feb due to the run up in dollar price.
The FT had 15 articles linked to the Bitcoin tag throughout the whole of May. In June.. none.
la la la la la la la la la la la la clearly nothing to see here!
#ft #bitcoin
I hope you win the battles and struggles you’re fighting that you tell no one about
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SHIT IS SO MUCH QUICKER ITS BEAUTIFUL
Doesn't have to be either/or. Money can have other advantages while ultimately existing to solve the problem of trust, which is fundamentally a moral problem.
And I would argue that while money is more efficient than barter, by far, it is not more efficient than credit. Yet, credit reintroduces the need for trust of people who are ultimately not worthy of it. Even when we try to organize the way credit is used in order to make the issuers of credit more trustworthy, we find that the temptation to abuse the privilege is too strong, and they sooner or later, usually sooner, violate that trust.
Sound money also has the added benefit of putting a natural limitation on the amount of evil a government can afford to perpetrate. When you have a money printer, you can extract far more value from your citizens without their consent in order to fund endless wars and line your own pockets. Not so when there is no mechanism to arbitrarily inflate the money supply.
Can confirm this even works for a colorblind 🫡😂
The double coincidence of wants problem can be solved one of two ways:
1. Trusting that the other person will "pay you back" a favor of roughly equivalent value in the future.
2. Money
Because you cannot trust people to do 1, due to immorality and corruption, we use 2 instead.
It has EVERYTHING to do with evil and depravity.
More crows.
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Money exists because trust doesn't. The necessity for money to exist is proof of the doctrine of total depravity.
The form of money best equipped to reign-in total depravity in a digital age is #Bitcoin
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@npub17ra…henz I won't deny I was giggling to myself at this one with you in mind. For some odd reason 🧐😂
Me and my Arrow. It's poisoned. With satire... Or hallucinogens. Anybody's preference.
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This is me having an existential crisis whenever I look at the sun or the moon....
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One and two viable.
Three maybe after a few ones...
Yes.
Maybe bugs? To be ESG compliant of course.
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Oh the cat will be back. On a different client.
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If I never had to fix or put up a livestock fence again in my time on this rock I'd be... Nevermind.
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... Protein diversification pathways...
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People want to see you do good but not better than them
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Adjacent question, since you gents obviously like to keep your data away from the big tech conglomerates:
What, if anything, are you using for health and fitness tracking with your smart watches? Anything that can back data up to a self-hosted server?
Upside is that we aren't far from Ai making some amazing fan fiction remakes possible
Pretty sure it was already dead.
When they fucked up Luke's character it was over for me.
These covenant restrictions & the local architectural authority are getting out of control...
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And now Tina Turner is playing on repeat in my radio brain.
Shout out to Cuba G Junior.
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Man I've said and entertained all sorts of Twains that should never meet all under one npub 😂
We be cookin'
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I was waiting for the Short Circuit reboot...
🤦🤣
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Momma Gail and her baby long legs over here. https://i.nostr.build/XVQrL.jpg
That's an interesting use case... I wonder if it would be possible for a client like Amethyst to check your local relay for any notes that are only located there and flagged as "public" in some way, or not flagged as "private", and automatically broadcast them the next time you open the client and are online, rather than having to do it manually.
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I'm seeing some people (not on Nostr) share that BI hit piece on fiatjaf. I don't really want to read that article, but does anyone have anything they can point to that addresses points made in the article? Even from what little I can tell it mentions, it sounds incredibly outlandish and reeks of sensationalist journalism.
Israel funds Hamas because they need the people of Gaza to remain poor & terrorized, because without that they will never be able to justify taking the land. It's basically the same playbook the US has used to bomb & overthrow nearly every anti-dollar regime in the Middle East only Israel wants to use their puppet terrorists to eliminate everyone so they can take the land.
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Oh come on, you cannot possibly have gotten that from what I said. All people who kill innocent people are evil. I think your desire to collectivize & allow one evil to excuse another is wrong.
Who denys who property rights?
Who has been stealing more & more land for decades?
Who militarily occupied who?
Who has been funding Hamas?
Who uses Hamas to justify bombing innocent people?
Govts are all evil, and the Israeli govt is a good example of just that.
Pet Food Industrial Complex has grown, they're feeding vegans now too.
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It's not that far behind.
Listen to Ai Unchained.
HoleSail plus https://pinokio.computer/
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Govt & fiat money are the only real "disruptions."
More trees, more grass, more cows, more people... all good.
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Happy Bitcoin Faucet Day! On June 11, 2010, Gavin Andresen launched the first Bitcoin faucet, distributing 5 BTC per person
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Sell your stonks, buy #bitcoin
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Cast your stones. You perfect specimens you.
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LINUX Unplugged: 565: Mistakes That Made Us Love Linux
Episode webpage: https://linuxunplugged.com/565
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😂 crater of terrible mems at your cervix
But they're still full of plastic.
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A matchmaker of charcoals or propanes 🫡
It's sad that most people think it's normal for prices to go up.
Did the grill light right away or did you have to fiddle?
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Yes, and both travel in waves (tho different frequences) because they are traveling through an elecromagnetic ocean between planets. Things reflect light & radio waves because they displace them. Like a boat in the water. The atmosphere is not dense enough to reflect everything, but it does dampen the transmission.
“War is merely the continuation of policy with other means.” C. von Clausewitz
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I too have realized I'm just one of a psylocybe. Riding an existential curvature of experience too profound for verbalization, too retarded for grandeur.
Or maybe I'm just high. Either way. All this garbage matters. Somewhere somehow to something. Even maggots need to feed.
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Setting aside the possibility that the O2 is just to calm people down in a bad situation that they can't do much about... The thing they tell you on a plane about putting your O2 mask on first so that you can help others, is actually how all of life works.
In general, you cannot sacrifice yourself to do good for others, you have to take care of yourself & live a good life in order to be able to help others.
You can't sacrifice your relationship to prioritize caring for the kids, you have to work & maintain your relationship to properly care for kids.
You can't sacrifice your income or your health in a "pandemic" to protect the sick & vulnerable. How can you help anyone if you can't even help yourself?
People preach sacrifice as a means to destroy & enslave others.
Wtf do they have to do with anything I just said?!
I certainly hate those pedo pieces of shit worse if that's what you want to hear...?
So Trump supported & promoted a bunch if deepstate people because if he didn't they would have impeached him (like they did) & locked us all down under the next admin, like they did... Are you suggesting that Trump while not in office somehow got us out of the lockdowns early?!
He was literally Mr. "Space Force" & you just posted him chasing a spot in the Trump admin the other day. Now he is marveling at all the stolen wealth on display at a Royal castle. What do you think someone who wants a govt position of power is, if not a govt goon?
But yes, my position is in fact mostly just how I feel (which is not enough to convict anyone), but I have been around enough shady fucking people to know when to trust my feelings about someone even if that's all I've got.
Yeah, that's not the rhetoric he started with. I've just been around long enough to remember how he started.
I listened to a bunch of his stuff early on & generally disliked the choice of words that tried to make a purely defensive tool for securing property rights sound like a weapon of war.
I also didn't care much for Breedlove (though I generally agreed with most of what he had to say) who did the whole bitclout thing & now appears to be a complete dirtbag of a husband & father.
There is something that just seems very fucked up about Lowry, he seems to be very focused on his own status & power. He sets off all of my "evil person" alarm bells. He comes off as fake.
Trump is also very focused on his own status & power, but there is something more stupid & honest about Trump. I don't like Trump, but he doesn't really bother me. What does bother me is the cult of people who irrationally worship Trump & try to twist everything he does into some sort of genius move. That's fucking insane, the man appointed Fauci, tries to frame the poison jabs as a win, and seems to have no principles.
All of the above give me similar vibes as McAfee always did. I never understood why some people seemed so thirsty to hear certain things that they would embrace such an obvious piece of shit. All give me a similar vibe, but McAfee was more clearly a piece of shit though.
I wonder if they are all coke heads 🤔 maybe that's the common thread
What would it look like if there was a compressible electro-magnetic ether that exerted force on things which displace it, like planets & people & atmosphere.
And how do radio waves travel through space if there isn't some sort of ether?
Not particularly, he's a govt goon. But if he is having a positive impact on people that's good 👍 can't argue with that.
Why you act like you want to suck this guy's dick?
Lol, bro stop looking at short charts & imagining nonsense
Zoom out.
Post halving chop could easily continue all summer. It may break up, but that would arguably be the unusual move at this point.
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It's what nodes do when they check the history for a complete path back to issuance for any Bitcoin you receive & for the Bitcoin in any transactions you broadcast or relay.
Why? Only half through and liked it so far.
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#meme #memes
That is very interesting 🤔 thank you!
Oh, thank you, sorry I'm retarded
Anyone sim swapping their #GrapheneOS Pixel on a regular basis? I have to travel out of the country & am curious if there is anything I need to know about the process?
#asknostr
Well so much for the gif 😂🤦
Motherfucker, motherfucker.
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Any nostr Canadians know much about the immigration process or know anyone good at navigating such matters up there in Canookistan?
#asknostr
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Wasn't specifically shitting on the idea.
Plus if we are indeed scaling in layers, trade offs for spending wallets, ease of use and obfuscation in UI are likely to fall on more centralized applications and offerings, with the more hardcore self custody options for more control over your own LN channels or on chain security.
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Well, getting poop on everything would be a problem because poop is loaded with potentially harmful stuff. Hygiene is important because I think there are certain levels of viral or bacterial load that can become more dangerous. But if you sterilize a container & put sterilized or freshly cooked materials in it it keeps very well. If you put biodegradable things in a container that hasn't been sterilized then things will grow pretty quickly. And we did bacterial tests of different surfaces in highschool. All of which seems to suggest that there are low levels of potentially harmful things everywhere. Which makes sense, there is also visible dust & pollen & bugs everywhere (you generally have to wipe off a seat that's outside every day, sometimes more than once in the same day), why would it be any different on a microscopic level? They just don't matter most of the time because our gut (and the rest of our system) is good at either putting them to work in the digestion process and/or keep them out of the body.
Me over here
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Maybe you're a bass?
Nobody knows.
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Sorry my references are like 10 years my senior, 40 years late and realistically only for me on a protocol this small 😂🤦
On it.
Out of it.
In it.
Perhaps is a prepositionary problem?
V4V
1 BTC = 1 BTC
69 for 69
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Having some awareness of Keet & Pear stack development, the state of open source Ai tools, as well as Nostr & Bitcoin all provide many reasons for hope. I'm not on Twitter anymore, but the 3d printed gun stuff there was always very interesting & entertaining. Keeping up with general open source 3d printer developments on youtube is pretty great too.
Guns Germs & Steal is a decent read. Reading about & studying health stuff. Spending a lot of time browsing health groups & forums around dietary advice & other things. Paying attention to gardening & permaculture stuff. The same patterns are everywhere. The names for "diseases" people get are mostly just bullshit that someone made up. There are a handful of things that happen when people get sick. There are a handful of things that happen when plants get sick. The root causes have more to do with some sort of damage or deficiency that makes the infection possible.
For example, it seems pretty clear that Polio was the result of lead arsenic pesticide poisoning which permeated the gut lining & damaged lots of body tissue near the intestines, the most important tissue being the spinal cord. Damage to the spinal cord in the gut region makes them unable to walk. When something passes through gut tissue (creates leaky gut conditions) it can shuttle in all sorts of pathogens that are almost always present & would otherwise be harmless. So the problem isn't the pathogen it's the substance that granted the pathogen access to parts of you where they can do harm. But blaming the pathogen allows pesticide companies to escape liability & pharama corps to sell a new treatment.
Oh jfc, they have named something "American Miss" instead of "Miss America"...
Fuck all of these people.
The symptoms we get when sick are rarely characteristic of any one sort of infection. Our bodily systems respond in a similar & rather general fashion to all sorts of things.
And we do adapt & coevolve with diseases. That's why it's dangerous to make contact with remote tribes. People of european descent all have ancestors who lived in close quarters with their livestock for many centuries. We now carry around all sorts of things that would have been dangerous to people at some time in the past.
The people who are celebrating her for being fat have reduced her to nothing. This whole thing is to make themselves feel special for being the judges who "see through to the person" in an effort to virtue signal harder than the state that just awarded the guy who thinks he is a girl. And you are playing the same stupid game. You don't know anything about this person, except that she obviously doesn't take care of herself at all, & you are trying to pretend that there is something beautiful about it.
It's like people who prefer Obama to Trump because Trump said mean things while they ignore that Obama bombed more countries than any president in history. Which is worse, offending people or killing people?
What you don't seem to get is that the people celebrating this fat girl are killers. In the Milgram test they are the ones who push the botton every time. Social status & acceptance matter more to them than any person & they are demonstrating it as plainly as they possibly could.
This stupid "beauty contest" & its results are actually a pretty great illustration of the philisophical corruption that is wrecking the western world & I do think the altruistic bullshit preached by people who consider themselves "good Christians" has played a significant role in moving the US & others toward collapse.
How hurtful & unchristian of you...
Evolution is definitely not random mutation, it's a sophisticated epigenetic dance of adaptation & sexual selection.
The world around us is the body of God. To study it & learn how it works is to get closer to God.
We are made *IN* his image. It's delusion & ignorance that separate us from reality.
And what if Baptism actually means to immerse yourself in the studying of Jesus & philosophy & all of creation? What if the rituals & symbols we have created for things now have very little to do with the things themselves...?
Every individual still has to choose to follow, & I personally think making sense of the trail Jesus left us is not as straight forward as most would like to believe. People have a way of twisting stories to fit bad ideas.
Robinhood is a good example. There is a dramatic difference between the man himself & most of the surviving stories.
The picture is not the problem.
This is the goal, be this for your kids.
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This is exactly where I am at.
Yes, look at this beautiful smile... https://image.nostr.build/6f7ed35b16cfca2cbb264abe7f7f88e6d00bd204f9572cd83c2b39725a5017d4.jpg
Well, if we're gonna start personifying God, then I think God might say he doesn't know her...
along with most of the people who put her where she is.
These people do not live in reality, they are very lost.
Beauty standards are by no means universal, but markers of health are naturally attractive with all sorts of evolutionary biology to back that up. I do think that anyone who finds this attractive is truly broken & suffering from some deep sort of corruption.
Looks real to me...
https://www.cbs42.com/alabama-news/23-year-old-woman-crowned-miss-alabama-in-national-american-miss-pageant/
Also the sash says Alabama, not Arkansas.
I guess that's good, but didn't an actual man win one of these too? Lizzo is real, they have been putting women like this on magazine covers, this well within the realm of believable at this point.
Yes, I was making light of a truly disgusting situation. If you don't learn to laugh at clown world you can end up in a very dark place.
I don't think beauty pageants are often populated by people of particularly high confidence. And if they were they wouldn't all be lying to a 300lb woman to make themselves feel better.
What she has is metabolic dysfuction & a bunch of people telling her it's great. And if she also thinks it's great then where does that lead?
Being "nice" in the short term is easier on you, but it contributes to the destruction of the people you are lying to. It is the most cowardly people who tell the most white lies. If she was standing right in front of me I would tell her she is overwheight & that it's not beautiful at all. And that the emptiest sort of win anyone could ever experience is a "win" they secretly know they didn't earn. I would tell her that she is surrounded by horrible people who would clearly prefer to humiliate her than to help her. And I would offer dietary advice if she wanted it.
If you are more bothered by my words than by what is going on in that picture, then idk what to tell you.
Are we looking at the same thing? She's like 300lbs & she joined a beauty pageant. Her delusions & the people helping her maintain them by telling her she is beautiful are destroying her. Do you not care about people at all?
She clearly doesn't respect herself.
Altruism sacrifices earned rewards in favor of unearned rewards. You have to completely discard honesty, justice & merit for this fat jug of soybean oil to win a beauty pageant.
Clown show in full swing.
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Was gonna say this is one of the wost hernias I've ever seen 😂
Coming in hot with my Pretty in Fink memes 😂🤦 https://i.nostr.build/7G9ZB.jpg
Sampson Mow looking at his god candle chart
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Lol, no they aren't.
You cannot fight criminals via the channels they set up for you to fight them.
I recently had a large tree removed. It was quite close to my house. When they removed it, I'm glad that the tree professionals did NOT go straight for the root immediately. Had they chosen that method, the tree would have fallen on my or a neighbor's house.
They carefully dismantled the tree branch by branch, lowering each to the ground. Then, they cut the trunk into large discs, and finally, they ground the stump to the rotten roots.
It's a true story, and also an allegory.
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Jfc, someone get this guy to just buy bitcoin and stop eternally leading people to the slaughter in the legacy system.
We gonna have to whirlpool nsecs now?
But culture follows the successful. That's why the current culture is shit, because fiat success is devoid of merit. Bitcoin solves the cultural problem almost by itself, it just takes time.
Honestly, fuck the dollar, fuck DC, & fuck all the people married to it. You make the world a better place by saving a bunch of pedo parasites.
Useless fact. Both parents were Lamancha/Boer crosses with the no ears, but the Boer ear genes made a resurgence.
Bitcoin & Nostr & 3d printed guns & all the other tools being built are not nothing. Fuck the govt, build a family & real forms of wealth & independence. Raise happy healthy kids. There's your better world.
Got groats?
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Sucks to be a shirted bald guy on Nostr today
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Mitch is unimpressed.
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Elephant tiddies were not what I was expecting first thing this morning
Tear it all down, throw them all in jail.
Out of curiostity what would the amendment be that you want to see added?
Term limits were mentioned, but I actually think that would have the opposite of the desired effect & create even more of a tragedy of the commons sort of problem. People just getting in to take as much as possible before they're out. And even more power would just be handed over to the permanent unelected bureaucracy.
Getting people on board with bitcoin is in the individual's best interest & it naturally snowballs in our favor.
Working for some sort of constitutional change (as if the federal govt gives 2 shits about obeying the constitution anyway) will most likely just be a tremendous waste of time & energy & reources, to fight against all the natural govt incentives, for something that will be effectively undone or otherwise made meaningless by default in just a matter of months or years after it is achieved.
You can't fight criminals via the channels they set up for you to fight them.
I have been there for a long time, but I am also not completely sure how accurate it really is. I know all the arguments, and I haven't voted because I don't want any sort of responsibility for any of the shit these people do. But at the same time, if one tyrant wants to whip everyone 10 times a day & the other wants to just whip us 2 times a day, I don't see what harm there is in saying I'd prefer ro be whipped less while still working to undermine the whole thing.
It seems like the only real risk is in thinking that politics is some sort of answer to the problems & just waiting for someone to save us instead of working to save ourselves.
So what does that look like?
Idk, I think being on the recieving end of these rather constant social attacks makes us stronger & more aware of who we really are, while the rest become soft & actually completely lose who they are without the context & support of their social group. It's like an anti-fragility thing. I don't think playing the collectivist game really makes us stronger.
I think tools for better coordination are critically important (bitcoin, nostr, keet, etc) & the others mostly just trade genuine coordination for mindless following & group think. One is empowering & the other is disempowering. You can be destructive with mindless collectivism & that can appear powerful in a way, but it really isn't. Real power is productive.
I think there should be some distinction between being grateful or having appreciation for things we are given or for the people who came before us, & things like actual achievements that we might take pride in.
Words are messy tho.
But it's similar to when people say "we won" after they watch sports... All I can think is mf you didn't do or win anything.
When it becomes socially acceptable to take pride in things that you had nothing to do with, lots of really sad & ineffectual people pump themselves up with weak associations to stuff outside of themselves & then become tyrants... See the woke movement.
It's always good to enjoy life & appreciate all that is.
This thread is bullshit... Reporting all of you
One of many things...
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Yes, and they weirdly believe in redistributing things from white people to minorities because they actually see minorites as lesser people who need their help. Which is pretty gross.
Lol, wokies have built their bigotry of low expectations into Ai...
So it answers black people as if they are incapable of achieving anything, telling them it's okay to be proud of meaningless things like race.
The first answer is correct for all races, sexual orientation, & most other things you have no control over.
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I do not know the story. But there are also cases where the best people can do is be so shitty that you don't want to be them.
I don't really think it does any good to hold shit like that against my parents. I try to appreciate the fact that they did the best they knew how & raised kids that are smart enough to break the cycle of dumb shit to whatever degree our awareness is sufficient to do so.
I think circumcision is some barbaric bullshit too.
I think if people read the 7th Day Adventists or J. H. Kellogg arguments for it most other people would probably stop supporting it too.
Doesn't even matter, he/she can pretend to be whatever, but the reality is that the underlying biology can NOT be changed.
And anyone who really cares about other people would not lie to them about such things. The result of chemical & surgical interventions can only be a shorter life filled with chronic health issues.
It's all some sort of sick corporate money making scam rooted in the desire to reduce populations via the destruction of fertility.
Yes, the Islamic tyrants that the US & Israel install, arm, & support are generally horrible people. How else would they justify their endless wars & endless efforts to dominate particular regions?
Must have overslept markdown in bio in amethyst along the way. Neat.
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There is no transitioning. There never will be. You cannot make a man into a fertile woman, you can not make a woman into a fertile man. You can only physically mutilate & chemically castrate people. It's horrible that people are being destroyed in this way. Propagating the idea that any of this is realistic is horrible.
No reason to die over such nonsense, Trump. And then work to help people stop paying taxes no matter who wins.
Furiosa is fucking great.
Delusion is evil. Not seeing that your govt is corrupt & run by murderous pedophiles just like most others makes you delusional.
Your lack of ability to see what the US is doing doesn't make me a friend to Islamic tyrants.
A penis is still a penis. Cutting it off or calling it "too small" doesn't change the person's chromosomes. It's a silly line if reasoning. Biology IS binary. The infertile exceptions really only prove the rule.
You don't have to identify with shitty people to see that the US has been actively destroying functional countries while installing, bribing, & supporting the shittiest people on the planet (which you claim to hate) to keep oil trading for dollars.
Trying to lump people who believe in property rights & individual liberty together with religious tyrants just because you see both as a threat to your love for some flag & bullshit propaganda narrative is weak.
Birth defects don't really change the fact that biology is binary & that it is impossible to transition from one sex to another.
So yes, you are both delusional about the current state of our political system & about biological reality.
Denying the basics of biological reality is just the modern version of Orwell's 2+2=5. So the fact that you bought the biological propaganda & you also seem to have an inability to see the political reality for what it is, you appear to be a decent example of the desired effect.
Did you also get jabbed & boosted, & support the Ukraine war? Are you vegan or vegetarian & you think we're on the verge of an environmental mass extinction event which justifies govt doing "anything necessary" to save the world? How much of the propaganda have you swallowed?
Good luck with that, I think the better bet is to build or support people building bitcoin tools so that we can just out compete the dollar on a global scale. Convincing politicians at any level to do something good sounds like a losing battle to me.
That's why I have been saying we aren't REALLY at new ATHs yet & the "pre-halving ATH" that everyone was so excited about wasn't some sort of unusual success. It was only because of the lack of a blow-off top last cycle which was the unusual thing. The price levels we are seeing now are just par for the course. https://image.nostr.build/bba2f1a8b51c61e581be4de1c13a7a7a26b7ec9955fecad690a0ffdadadd569e.jpg
Yep, we have lots of these in eastern NC. First time I knocked one down & saw the spiders it kinda blew my mind.
This is how they corrupt 99% of any industry.
Without the money printer everything falls apart.
Fix the money, fix the world
#Bitcoin
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Someone makes a lot of money on this bullshit
PSA: If you were born with a penis, then however you feel is a way that a man can feel. If you were born with a vagina, then however you feel is a way that a woman can feel.
It's completely insane that with zero standard for comparing feelings across sexes or even between any two people, some will claim that they feel like something they aren't. Accept the things you cannot change. You can like whatever you want to like & live however you want to live, but you cannot change who & what you are. Trying to do so will only destroy your life.
The mental gymnastics people use to make Trump into some sort of 4d chess playing genius are completely retarded, but the mental gymnastics to pretend that he isn't being railroaded by a totally corrupt legal system are worse.
We live in a banana republic.
I fucking hate being in the position of defending Trump, I think he is a piece of shit clown...
But if you can't see that the accusations, using "novel legal theory" & efforts to stretch what might be a misdemeanor into something more serious, in an election year long after the supposed crimes even took place, you are delusional.
Every govt is & always has been a purely a criminal organization, but we are now reaching a stage where they no longer feel the need to even hide it.
It's not nihilism to have a low opinion of someone who supports the US funding a foreign genocide, while also basically being economically socialist, & caught up in the climate scam, & too stupid to understand the basic need for tools of defense. The fact that he has to promise what he won't do because he is opposed to guns is pretty good evidence that he is retarded.
Even with all the bad I was half interested at first, but the support for Israel's war crimes killed it.
I like Vivek, but the reality is that it makes no sense to place any hope on any politician. The political system is a waste of time. Bitcoin, P2P projects, self hosted Ai, 3d printing & home manufacturing, open source gun designs, & other open source hardware are far more important than any politician.
The first step to defeating any enemy is to stop funding them. The only way to really win is to give people the power to successfully engage in tax protests, whether its done loudly or quietly, that is the real measure of freedom.
Yeah you’re right!
Only my parents eventually bought but I’m actually scared they will lose their keys at one point 😂
Talked so much about it to them but I stopped as they weren’t interested
Nowadays they don’t even ask anything
But in a few years we’ll get all called lucky
Not one of my friends and family is interested in #Bitcoin
I doubt they even know it’s currently at $70,000
Normies are gonna have such a hard time
Bitcoin doesn't have enough privacy.
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Not really, the current one is obviously a pedophile, Obama started more wars without congressional approval than any other & even bombed a US citizen, Bush helped make 9/11 happen so that they could pass the patriot act & justify attacking a bunch of middle eastern countries where oil was no longer trading for dollars, Clinton was a brutal rapist & pedophile, Bush Sr helped execute Kennedy, so going after a political opponent for an accounting issue during an election year, way after the accounting "crime" itself is of any relevance is actually the bigger deal. The US has basically gone full banana republic.
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RFK will fuck everyone over too. And he is mentally retarded when it comes to economics & guns & all sorts of critically important issues.
taxes on carbon = taxes on existence
Bitcoin telegram network...? wut?
I agree that we don't know for certain whether there is any sort of ethereal consciousness we can pray to or communicate with. But I think certainty about the existence of God depends on how you define "God."
I don't imagine myself to be anything, but I have spent a decent amount of time trying to sort out the mess that is Christianity & square it with my understanding of the world around me.
Guy & I became a bitcoiners because we figured out that most of the economic ideas we were taught were upside down, we changed the way we eat because we figured out that the dietary recommendations were upside down, it wasn't too difficult to figure out that environmental science is completely upside down too.
It looks to me like the only things that aren't completely backwards or upside down are physical engineering & blue collar sorts of education where everything is much "closer to the metal." If your engineering concepts are totally wrong then your structures fall down.
Would it really be that big of a surprise to find out that everything most Christians believe & most churches teach is completely backwards? Religion is the subject farthest from the metal. All sorts of bad philosophy can persist for a long time without destroying productivity. But there must be some good bones in there somewhere, some living root back to reality for it to all have survived. I think it would be pretty ridiculous to assume we are just the smartest people to ever live & that no one who came before us had any philosophical contribution worth considering. There is generally some nugget of truth in every philsophy, on which the rest of it is built, even if it's mostly trash.
I agree that the Bible is stupid if you read it like a 5 year old. But I also think reading an extremely complicated text full of idioms & methaphor that has been translated from multiple dead languages would be a stupid thing to do. Unpacking what's there is extremely difficult, but it's not impossible. Some things are easier than others, hopefully no one thinks Jesus literally recognized Nathanial by the shade of the tree he sat under, that would make no fucking sense, right? But you can recognize people who understand the world by the way they behave, the people around them, & the way they have set up their lives. In other words, the amount of shade their trees provide. Has a person built a nice life for themselves, or are they stupid, blindly doing what everyone else told them to do & struggling?
I think God is reality. I don't think "all knowledge" can possibly exist outside the system that is the source of all the changing conditions, so the system itself is God. The map is not the territory, only the territory is the territory. Evolution is how God creates life. If we want to be successful & effective in the world around us we have to be married to reality first. If we want to get close to God we have to work to better understand all that is. If we forsake reality in pursuit of delusions the punishment will be harsh. Gravity or chemistry or the laws of economics are all very unforgiving. Whether or not there is some sort of super consciousness attached to reality is kind of irrelevant. If I am completely honest with myself I do sort of act like there is, but I am not sure there is any way to know that with certainty. So think whatever you want to think about praying. There is plenty of evidence to show that meditation & focusing the mind on certain things can help to direct our own subconscious in useful ways.
So if I think God = reality why do I consider myself a Christian... A lot of Christians tell me I am not one of them, which is fine. If by their definitions I have to believe in some sort of magic to be a Christian, then I'm not. But the interesting thing to me is that if you remove all the magic from the story of Jesus, even if he was just someone who became a carpenter after being born into total poverty, to a woman who whored herself out behind her husband's back. He still grew to be someone who completely changed the world. Our calender is literally centered around him. Seems to me that view potentially makes the story more significant, not less.
But if I call myself a Christian then it must be the MOST significant story, right? Well, if you zoom way out & discard the things we can't really know, it looks to me like a story about a man who was tortured by govt & religious authorities for helping others live better lives because his success was a direct threat to people in power who wanted to be the final authority on all things, but they clearly didn't know how to help people the way Jesus did. What always happens when people in power are embarrassed & shown up by a nobody? And of course, the masses in their tendency to blindly go along with authority celebrated the torture of Jesus. But as the story of what had happened to Jesus spread it became obvious that an innocent man was killed for doing good. So the lesson is not to blindly support authority, & not to pursue status & power at the expense of truth, because doing so will destroy all that is good. And if you look at history, look at the last few years, & look around us right now, I can't imagine any message that is more important than that.
And I believe the message at the heart of the story is important enough that no matter how it gets twisted or misinterpreted it can always be resurrected when the need arises. The Bible actually makes it pretty clear that the majority will basically always misunderstand everything. I generally think the deification of Jesus is the result of kings not wanting their power threatened (yes but he was God, who are you?) And plebs also not wanting the responsibility of having to stand up to the king (yes but he was God, who am I?). And I think there is a natural sort of idealization that happens to stories over time, they become larger than life monuments of the things they represented.
Also potentially relevant: it has been said that we die twice, once when life leaves the body, & again the last time anyone says our name. In that sense Jesus lives. It probably was as if he was at every dinner table in the 40 days after his death. If people realized a supposedly just republic had tortured & killed an innocent man & many people had cheered the torture, how might that story spread? And wouldn't the lesson be an important one to remember?
You know he's my brother, right?
I'm really proud to have helped make this. Bernard Purdie kept time for EVERYONE, and he told us that was the most important part of his job. Just a lovely human.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tNJqNDhdfE
What do you mean that nothing can be known for certain? Do you mean about God, or about anything at all?
Lol, what assumptions weren't made? He doesn't seem to want to understand anything I am saying. And he is clearly mad at anything he associates with religion, which is understandable, but not particularly good for anyone.
The lesson is that the divide between good & evil is in the pursuit of truth vs pursuit of status. Most people use stuff as a way to make themselves feel important, & because of that they lose sight of what is real & true.
Heaven & hell are conditions we create right here on earth.
The only path to peace is respect for individual property rights. An ethno-state that shows no respect for the property rights of anyone outside of a particular religion or heritage was always going to be destructive to peace.
Those who do not respect individual rights will ultimately kill God. That's the real lesson of the Bible that is lost on most modern Christians.
It's amazing how short people's memories are. I just had a shitcoiner tell me that "the maxi war has been lost." I guess one bear market is enough to erase the fact that Celcius & FTX just blew up in the last cycle (2021) & that ETH founders just killed the last vestiges of decentralization & ousted the miners so the shitcoin market is more centralized than ever. And Coinbase is now home to the majority of ETFs so one hack could potentially bring down that entire house of cards.
So my advice to just buy Bitcoin & hold your own keys is clearly just backwards & out of date...
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