2024-05-20 07:53:12
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
We already have that. Chinese firms make a fortune on that.
Half-naked, stupid, skinny teenager with pale skin, a tiny waist, and gigantic boobs, who never gets pregnant, never has her period or a bad day, earns 6 figures and does all of the housekeeping, and tells you five times a day how fantastic you are, while not expecting anything in return except more of that great anal.
Basically.
2024-05-20 05:53:27
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by npub1m3x…a5sf
Please bookmark it then! Want to read it 😁
Reflecting on who i interact with a lot, its less the influencer type, more tight nit than other social media. Nice to see what the popular ones are doing but i care more in my extended circle of friends.
Definitely not the only way people use nostr, but there's at least a few of us here and i think exclusive relays - not paid, not computational (WOT), but just a relay where I have a lot of overlap in interactions, and I'll get invited because my content is appreciated and trusted to not be toxic.
https://media1.tenor.com/m/olnkZI1dcQQAAAAC/arrested-development-david-cross.gif
2024-05-20 05:28:20
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by npub1dw8…yrlv
This is the issue. Whether 5 or 30 any other book has the same meaning. Willy Wonka reads the same at any age, but somehow you must give a lenient pass to the bible and search for meaning amongst the incest, genocide, and psychopathy of a described anthropomorphic mental midget. I’ve experienced something greater, unboxed… I will bet a full bitcoin that Jesus is never coming back… because it’s a fake fucking story. Humans have fucked up the idea of god. If you let go of it all, perhaps you will find what you long for.
2024-05-20 03:54:18
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by npub1m3x…a5sf
Completely untapped there right now, trying to maintain a town square - but town squares don't have 1000s of participants with nothing in common.
Now, if we have hundreds relays, some more popular than others, some centered around a theme or location.
Users have personal curation feeds for "i dont care for their notes at this frequency, but they're welcome to say what they want" to "i don't want you swimming in my pond" and sending a report to the relay operators (WOT for example)
Relay operators should be able to get reports and other info from their users in whatever resolution is useful on who are good faith players on their relay.
Having those tunable knobs is how we solve the spam and toxicity issue.
2024-05-20 02:18:56
by npub1c85…6lkc
If our friends want to rob a bank (before the days of fiat), but they need you to unlock the vault: Do you consider it based on risk/reward or do you reject it out of ethical ideals?
Lets say your response is to reject it on ethical grounds.
Now, today, you have a loan on your house and the market bottoms out and youre upsidedown on the mortgage by 80%. If you sold it, you'd get back your principal but you'd still owe full 4 years of pay to the bank: do you let the bank foreclose?
Yes, the bank took on the risk of you not paying and they mitigated this risk with the home as collatoral. However, the money you owe them was created by the bank converting your mortgage agreement into fungible debt notes (dollars) and those dollars are already spent into the economy when you paid the previous owner.
To allow your loan to foreclose means you will not pay back this loan, and you have caused inflation that will never go away. Do you do it?
In both cases you have stolen from society. Why is one ethical and the other not?
2024-05-20 01:58:30
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by npub1ajv…tppj
I think it's the idea that there is some creator that created life in some way that violates all the rules of existence that really makes no sense. The wildly unlikely events that accomplish amazing things is how God appears to work in the here & now. How likely is it for some anonymous guy to create a new monetary protocol that solves all of our problems without taking any credit for it?
Highly unlikely things are at least plausibly possible, magical ressurections & people made from dirt & ribs are not possible. It's just magical thinking in an effort to wave away all the complexity of life. Make the stories real, take the magic out of them, & they become much more meanigful & they make a lot more sense.
Is it more meaningful for Superman to take a bullet for you, or for your dad? The more you deify Jesus the less meaningful the story becomes. But of course kings & normies all want him deified, because kings don't want normies to believe they can stand up to authority & change things, & normies don't want the responsibility or burden of having to stand against authorities for what is right. "Yes but he was God, who are you?" "Yes but he was God, who am I?" And obviously when we hold people up for doing great things they just naturally tend to become larger than life.
2024-05-20 01:38:49
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by npub1csa…z4x9
Generally (USA specifically), I feel as if the overall disgust with the government in the recent year had a major influence. The unwillingness of gen z to want to vote at all for the upcoming election, due to the powers that be severing any trust the youth had left with the institutions (financial and political), they are now in the state vs us mindset. This is when bitcoin comes in.
The fact that bitcoin is the easiest and most accessible investment option for the youth, those who majority aren’t interested in stocks, and probably don’t even know how the stock exchange works, Bitcoin is far easier to understand and easily invest in.
@npub1cas…dg5l is immensely popular with the youth, they have perfected the UX, and have made bitcoin digestible and normalized for the average user. With a simple and aesthetically pleasing design that is able to attract the younger user. If you go on TikTok, there are an abundance of videos showcasing the ease of stacking sats on cashapp, an app people already have on their phones. (Venmo is more popular with older gens, as it is far more formal)
Personally, my own friends who already used cashapp, have just bought bitcoin on the app just to try it out, despite it being in small amounts they still are getting that taste of financial freedom. I haven’t really forced bitcoin on my friends, that’s just corny when finance isn’t what we talk about at all, so having more and more friends come to me knowing i stack sats everyday which they think is a “hobby”, they are able to see me invest in my future and own a “stock” (that’s how i explain it to my friends) but its stock without the dirty money and antics the gov can pull. It’s freedom from the government that has wronged us.
Just as I am an early adopter of nostr among my peers, (they will come, they just aren’t ready yet), they are just now finally old enough to understand Bitcoin since they are finally in charge of their finances.
Gen z wants to make a change, their ideals and revolutionary ideology, despite what many assume, are absolutely exactly the same as those of Bitcoin. They just haven’t made the connection to the money yet. They are now, slowly but surely.
2024-05-20 00:16:53
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by npub1x3c…4c3w
The inactivity vs recklessness is very evident in western women. At first they are afraid to stand out, be different, look different, not to have a husband, not to have standard number of children, not to have a standard job, and then at the middle age they "find themselves", divorce, act like teenagers at the age of 50.
2024-05-20 00:12:17
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
And, like I said, women respond to relative status.
So, if a black women gets 10 men writing them on a dating site, and she knows women of other races are averaging 15, she will be humbled.
She still has plenty of opportunity, but she won't FEEL like she does.
2024-05-20 00:12:10
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by npub13pn…06vw
Fucking True.. use #Amethyst since day one basically. vitor implemented ad built so many things in the first 2/3 months that all devs where almost pissed by him..
Probably that was thw beginning when Influencors putted him in the corner.. also because I admit, he always wanted to do thw shit his own ways, without listening to others.. but man, he was GFY since the beginning. He was and is the spirit of #Nostr itself, also because like for Onyx, you can fork #Amethyst and do what you please. I used Onyx.
2024-05-19 23:20:41
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by npub1x3c…4c3w
You need to be mindful about every step you make, and the steps must be small enough, so that you would be capable to evaluate exactly what you are risking by taking the step and what is the potential gain from that particular step, and make an informed decision whther that is the step you want to take or look for better alternatives.
In my world bravery = russian roulette = stupidity.
With research, math, and very well studied and decomposed personal priorities, you can go through life with taking only minimal risks.
2024-05-19 22:50:26
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by npub13pn…06vw
Let them play their stupid games.
I completely agree with you perhaps, this is the time to settle the house and do the onchain cleaning.. there will always be a new class of retarded, and also, in the end, as time goes, block spaace will be the same, while a pletore of new user will need "to settle their houses in the future".
2024-05-19 22:13:26
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by npub1fjq…leku
haha... i have a project coming up for these guys
it's still only in testnet and i have yet to hear or read a credible model for actually immutable permanent storage without an absurd price due to the clear actuarial risk of it
i think they need to bulid a system that opportunistically cashes and replicates frequently requested data and gradually trims back the replication rate as data gets less attention
the very exact same problem exists with Internet Computer Protocol which is an earlier, and similar sort of blockchain project, and my current project is using IC as an event store (has a basic filter search functionality bulit into it)
i dunno what is in the mind of the guys who build these things exactly, i've done zoom meetings with several of them and honestly they seem spaced out to me
and i get into frequent debates with my colleague over issues of architecture and engineering even though i'm 8 years into actually working in this field and he's fresh out of a B.Sc in CS
don't count on that data sticking around forever
i think a dynamic, automatic archival storage economizing protocol is coming in the future but arweave is not it, not yet
2024-05-19 21:41:02
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by npub1fjq…leku
that's a negative on the toxicanization but subscriptions wth guys
i'm doing my bit to make this a thing anyhow... it's not in my current work exactly but i've got pieces in place ready to do a full authed DM based CLI that will enable paying for subscriptions and no out of band website bullcrap, 100% pure #nostr
also, pay per use on a prepaid basis can work, but it has to be fairly flexible, i haven't even started to actually make a measure of what traffic actually happens, would be good to actually have accounting of how much event data actually is pulled by a client per npub and figure out a scheme for making that work
the time based subscription is probably adequate but it could be purely data based
2024-05-19 21:27:24
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by npub1fjq…leku
i'm pretty sure i've wreaked havoc on parasites inside me with my recent milk diet... yeasts especially need sugars and lactose is no good and they will have been starving
i have many symptoms of being prediabetic, so cutting out starches and sugars has been crucial, though i occasionally eat some corn snack or so, probably no more than 2x a week now, and most of the time i'm just eating cheese, salad, eggs and milk
diet is important because the parasites depend on certain things and i'm pretty sure that one common factor in many parasitic infections is excess blood sugar
2024-05-19 20:39:12
by npub1fjq…leku
man, i have had a very full weekend... big adventure on a dilapidated cliffside road with my bike, repaired a puncture, i'm completely splattered right now, probably doesn't help that my butt is sore from the bicycle
gonna sleep well tonight and then back to werk tomorrow last week of the project, mostly just gonna be a bit of bugfixing and lots of documentation and some marathon sessions with the colleague prepping for our demo
gotta even figure out how we are gonna do that... i've told him to install linux on his new laptop so hopefully when i hear from him next he's got linux so the wireguard setup is easy
2024-05-19 20:35:47
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by npub1ajv…tppj
You should stop assuming things... like I said, most Christians disagree with my views.
Take all the magic out of the story. Make Jesus a carpenter who was born in total povery to a mom that whored herself to some rich "wise men" behind Joseph's back. Jesus grows up poor & has to fix everything to have anything. Then being a builder & someone who had to figure out how things really work, went around teaching people how to live better lives & how to better cultivate crops & catch fish & to heal ailments that people thought couldn't be healed (carnivores are doing similar things today, it doesn't have to be magic). And his popularity & unconventional thinking were eventually seen as a threat to people in power so he was tortured & killed by govt & religious authorities for disobeying the law by helping someone on the wrong day. But his execution ultimately backfires & dramatically shifts popular opinion about the nature of govt & established religious authorities. So much so that our dates are built around him, people deified him & still worship him thousands of years later.
Compress the stories, play the telephone game, translate & re-translate, realize that govts don't want normies to follow the example set by Jesus & normies don't want the responsibility of having to stand up for anything, so everyone want him to be larger than life so they can say but "who am I to do what he did" or "but who are you." Twist the story to incorporate some previously held religious beliefs that were over taken by Christianity. And I think you get roughly the mess we have today.
But when you take all the magic out of the story does it become more or less meaningful? I think it becomes more meaningful. Much like Julian Assange, or Snowden, or Ulbrict, a man tried to show people reality in defiance of authority & he was killed for it. If we place that story in the position of highest importance and remember that we don't want to be on the side that kills or persecutes innocent people, then the world is more likely to become a better place.
2024-05-19 19:19:51
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by npub1dw8…yrlv
The Old Testament is not an allegory. It’s very straightforward and specific. So much so that only certain jews could enter the holy of holys and if they were wearing the wrong jewels, god would strike them dead. It’s a fiction. The creator of all things confined to a room that people made. It reads, once you get out of the mind cult telling you what to think about what you read, like a convoluted, failed experiment. The likelihood that the creator, if there is one, needs validation via worship, or obedience is just stupid. If this was all created, that being needs nothing. Again I say, read those words verbatim, without stretching outside of the meaning written using the words. Virgin birth? Everyone knows that is impossible, yet this is conveniently ignored… it’s all so tiresome. Morality exists outside of fear of being burned alive and chewed on for all eternity by a loving creator, because I didn’t believe in fairytales.