LukeParker
luke

Bitcoin class of 2011.
He who dies with the most Bitcoins wins.

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2024-11-16 20:34:26

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Lipton tea bag dunked in water - Windows 11 user
Chai bag dunked in water - Mac OS user
5 hour energy bottle - Android user

2024-11-16 20:27:36

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I think he's right. You ARE bitcoin's biggest scammer.
...Because bitcoin has no scammers. It's the shitcoins that scam.
#WeAreAllTheBiggestScammerInBTC

2024-11-16 16:45:00

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Goddammit, Jake!
I somehow missed all of that stuff while still being subscribed to him. I think YT knows I absolutely loathe content with crypto in the title/description.
Still, I don't see why him getting greedy would discount the validity of earlier research. Some of his films have absolutely been proven right.

2024-11-16 16:34:18

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Uh-oh, what did I miss?

2024-11-10 13:33:43

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I'm talking about an old youtube channel that has spit out hundreds of documentaries on the subject of proven conspiracies. This is a very screwed up world we live in.

2024-11-07 17:53:10

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WE CAN DANCE IF WE WANT TO!

2024-10-31 15:12:36

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Couldn't have said it better myself. 👍

2024-10-30 14:14:36

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Why are they smiling so happily at her sacrifice/murder?
And since when do ghosts of warriors demand sacrifices like they are gods?
Honestly, their civilization sounds a bit fucked up. Glad they're dead.

2024-10-30 13:47:51

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MOTHER FUCKER.
Someone got a Nuke I can borrow? I promise I'll put it to good use.

2024-10-29 20:17:59

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You're clearly confusing hate of the left & mainstream media for love of the right. No one here actually wants trump to be their president, we just think the other side is particularly evil this year.
I mean this rally wasn't even in the same building nor on the same date as that 1939 rally... And the Jews are completely onboard with team trump so this is quite offensive to most trump voters!

2024-10-29 18:58:40

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We call those people poor.

2024-10-29 18:53:04

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If I was a judge and that case came across my desk I'd put the plaintiffs in Jail for trying to influence the election.

2024-10-29 18:48:16

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Oooh, Me me me me me!
The only one I'm paying for on my relay list is Wine.
Still feels like 1 person maximum ever sees my posts. 😢

2024-10-29 18:46:44

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Some people were just born to be scammers. Don't take it personally, their minds just aren't cut out for low time preference thinking.

2024-10-28 12:33:29

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The problem with tarrifs is deploying them equally across industries. It's definitely anti-free market behavior, but of course so is the income tax.
If we could find some way of negating favoritism and cronyism when applying them I'd agree with you.

2024-10-26 12:59:26

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Um, the answer to your question was literally the content of his post.

2024-10-24 16:02:12

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You forgot "seed oil-swilling" & "voting"

2024-10-24 15:25:28

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Hey, and if that doesn't work, you can always vote harder!

2024-10-18 19:32:17

Many bitcoiners don't think Maya has a serious chance to run for President of her country, but what they haven't taken into account is that the Mayoral race in their hometown is likely in a larger district than Suriname! The whole country has around a half million people in it, and she said on @npub1cj8…rz4u's Bitcoin podcast last week that she believes she has a really good chance now given proper fundraising!
So we can do this, seriously. Make a 2nd Bitcoin country, kill its' central bank, & replace every currency there with Bitcoin by May next year... What a win!
Everyone head over to this Geyser page & Donate to make it happen:
https://geyser.fund/project/maya2025/

2024-10-18 16:35:36

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We're still out there to bring people into here. It's a good thing.

2024-10-18 00:13:41

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Well apparently I don't worry about it either or I wouldn't live within 5 miles of both a Raytheon and a Northrup Grumman factory. ;)
But if you know that shockwaves & radioactivity exist, why is the rest of what I described hard to swallow?

2024-10-17 21:22:36

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I've always laughed at the bad 50's propaganda that they showed in classrooms, like the infamous "Duck and Cover" films to keep kids sleeping at night... But have you ever been near an explosion, and felt the shockwave? Now multiply that by 25 Kilotons... None of what I described before is surprising under those conditions.

2024-10-17 20:58:54

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You do realize that the instant death part of a blast is only for those in the immediate detonation crater area, whereas dozens of miles of blast zone in all directions beyond that tend to feature some of the most extreme human suffering ever conceived by mankind, right?
People with half their skin melted off in disintegrated buildings over the next few miles, then blindness, flattened homes & guaranteed cancer for the next few miles, and then slow-kill radiation out for 10 miles beyond that... And then of course the hospitals are all flattened and there is no drinkable water for 100 miles in any direction... Fun times indeed!

2024-10-17 19:14:35

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We came so close to Nuclear annihilation during the Bay of Pigs crisis that this sounds extremely naive.
I think the emphasis should never have been on the bombs themselves though, but the stupidity of politicians... And they've only gotten far, far dumber since.
Covid19 was a great bunch of examples of our government nearly killing us all (and probably succeeded in halving our birth rate) just because they are so incompetent & greedy while holding too much power.
This theme happens time and time again, and one day will be the end of humanity.

2024-10-13 21:23:51

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I've been saying this since 2013, after I started the first bitcoin merchant directory. Even way back then I could scrape tens of thousands of businesses' info off the web that claimed to accept bitcoin, but I simply didn't have any shoppers visit that directory. Total ghost town.
It finally dawned on me that phase 1 of adoption (Store of Value) needs to be widespread before phase 2 (Method of Exchange) can begin in earnest.

2024-10-09 15:58:05

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Not bullish enough.

2024-10-09 12:00:42

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Amatersam?

2024-10-09 00:15:37

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I NEED DIS... Will zap for piracy!

2024-10-08 12:53:23

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I bet the Mossad has a vast room full of people writing this BS on social media.

2024-10-07 12:15:15

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You clearly have to be a far more talented actor than me to pull that off...

2024-10-06 21:36:37

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Did she borrow that blouse from her buddy Klaus Scwab?

2024-10-04 13:04:23

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Awesome!
What can you practically do with it though, since FEMA is running defence?

2024-10-04 12:43:05

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C. Murderous, enslaving, and demeaning with zero upside?

2024-09-29 22:15:17

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Tons of bitcoiners have multiple passports and _do_ plan to move when the going gets tough. I like it here in Texas but there is definitely a line that the fedcoats can cross that will make me move to someplace like El Salvador.
The tricky bit is knowing when the exit window will close. Could be tomorrow or could be in 2059.

2024-09-29 19:02:04

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It's not just difficult, it takes a Bitcoin-level event. People trust their government way too much.

2024-09-27 22:49:10

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In the workplace, guys dating hot young college girls are gods.

2024-09-27 22:41:50

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(Sorry, I couldn't resist!)

2024-09-27 22:40:48

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In many sci-fi books, artificial intelligences (AIs) are depicted with speech patterns that are notably clunky and robotic, often characterized by stiff sentence structures, overly formal phrasing, and a lack of natural cadence. This portrayal contrasts with the more fluid and conversational AIs that exist in reality today.
The reason for this discrepancy often lies in the narrative demands of science fiction. Writers frequently use clunky AI dialogue to emphasize the alien nature of artificial minds or to highlight the distinction between humans and machines. By doing so, they reinforce the idea that AI is fundamentally different from human intelligence, a being whose cognitive processes and communication are rooted in cold logic. This can create tension or add humor, depending on the story, but it sacrifices the natural speech patterns that modern AI can achieve.
In real-world applications, AI has evolved to the point where it can mimic human conversation with surprising fluency. Natural language processing algorithms enable AIs to understand context, respond dynamically, and even exhibit subtleties like humor or empathy in ways that would be unthinkable for the robotic characters of older sci-fi novels.
The difference is further driven by technological advancements in machine learning. Contemporary AI models are trained on vast amounts of conversational data, enabling them to emulate human speech patterns with increasing accuracy. As a result, the AIs in real life often speak more naturally than their fictional counterparts, whose stilted dialogue is often a deliberate stylistic choice rather than a reflection of technological limitations.
In conclusion, while clunky AI dialogue serves a purpose in sci-fi, it no longer reflects the cutting-edge AI speech capabilities of the modern world.

2024-09-27 22:08:58

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Obviously a very ancient legend, from pre-edo times...

2024-09-27 20:50:34

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Money kept in Nostr clients should obviously be small enough to not attract high-tech cyber thieves. This is obviously a good thing overall.

2024-09-27 20:15:10

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Imma guess Snowden still does...

2024-09-26 19:22:47

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*Which requires removing the government's ability to print money first.

2024-09-25 17:01:05

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If this was a ruse then it's a really bad one because he's already done 10x more to reduce govt than any other country you've ever heard of!

2024-09-25 13:13:44

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Because people have important shit to say.

2024-09-25 13:02:02

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Nah, I think you have it mistaken for capitalism.

2024-09-25 13:00:14

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"Long live freedom, God damn it!"
Classic.

2024-09-25 12:21:11

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People who cry for anything but freedom are nothing but mass murderers, or fools that support mass murderers.

2024-09-25 12:13:21

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He's a fan of free market currencies and a friend of Bukele's. I have to assume he's working to overturn that ban, it's just down the list a bit.

2024-09-25 12:10:35

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He's a jew. Sadly he's not perfect, but at least he's doing more to decimate govt than anyone else in power ever has.

2024-09-25 12:08:00

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If you weren't talking about the guy that just sacked 1/3rd of his entire govt (and counting) I'd agree.

2024-09-23 00:41:24

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Your laser eyes are more useful than most!

2024-09-22 13:52:55

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https://www.voltage.cloud/blog/lightning-network-privacy-explainer

2024-09-22 13:49:12

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Yes, when living on BTC, there are still times when on-chain payments is required. Large, continously payments keep coming out if cold storage every month or two, so putting them in a lightning channel is an unnecessary extra step.
I'd have to move many coins into lightning to overcome this, and I still don't trust my lightning node enough for that yet... It's often offline for various reasons.

2024-09-22 12:50:05

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Given enough time, bitcoin will break them out.
Not to mention, public education isn't getting any better. Hopefully it'll fail completely within our lifetime.

2024-09-22 12:38:49

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You do realize this argument makes you even more horrible to the younger generation (who won't have kids bc global warming), the LGBTQ+ folks, and the childless cat ladies, right?

2024-09-22 01:49:25

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Exactly. I honestly can't understand why half of the conversations we have about bitcoin don't wind up with several links to the FBCE.
https://fbce.io/

2024-09-20 21:19:29

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I'm going to go way out on a limb here and guess: Roasted eggplant?

2024-09-18 22:38:18

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12/31/2024

2024-09-18 22:34:15

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The $50 Million bill should debut in 2045, so that'll be handy.

2024-09-18 22:20:37

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Reminds me of CashApp for some reason...

2024-09-17 15:02:49

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I'd say it's a blackberry but I don't want to appear racist...

2024-09-17 14:41:08

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The very day I can use my existing android phone instead of a Google Pixel I'll be GrapheneOS's biggest fan.

2024-09-15 12:19:54

GM @ PV, nostrfarians!

2024-09-15 12:17:02

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You will if you're lazy minded enough to think that Google results hold 100% of the competitors.

2024-09-15 11:56:35

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Looking very much forward to it, sir.
But the world's most popular clients will be a version of email, so whomever copies Gmail the closest in UX should win that race.

2024-09-15 11:48:20

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Every note can be encrypted. Our apps just haven't used this ability yet, but some are in the works.
Yes, it means dropping a big chunk of gobbledygook on your feed but clients can be told not to display notes that start with an encryption string.

2024-09-13 19:45:35

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WATCH MSM?!??
<projectile vomiting ensues>

2024-09-09 12:29:55

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If someone slapped together an app that only showed me tweets of reliable (non-MSM) news, I'd have no use for X anymore at all.

2024-09-08 11:58:37

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You're never going to find those Keys, man!

2024-09-08 11:53:49

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We're more important, for sure.
But we won't change the world if it stays that way forever.

2024-09-08 11:49:14

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This space needs more Sci-fi!
I'm publishing sci-fi screenplays over at Npub.pro and loving it so far.

2024-09-04 14:03:54

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No one told you about the $8000 fines there if caught using VPN?

2024-09-02 15:31:15

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You give them time to simmer. The world keeps getting more and more hostile to them, they just don't know it yet.
In the meantime go find people who are willing to learn and throw some orange & purple pills their way.

2024-09-02 15:26:49

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I.... don't think that was grass.

2024-09-02 15:22:34

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Want my social security number and mother's maiden name with that? ;)

2024-09-02 15:05:50

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Elon may be on Freedom's side, but he doesn't really know what that entails. He likes shitcoins like Doge and only allows KYC'd people to pay for his platform.
Worse, X is already being blocked by whole countries like Brazil. How long until the rest block it? There is certainly an organized effort to destroy free speech going on around the world and Nostr really is the only thing standing up to that in the long run.

2024-08-31 15:41:56

#Brazil banning X has the potential to launch a huge migration to Nostr... But are we ready for it? Their population is larger than the USA's!
Reminds me of that time Satoshi told Assange: 'No, DON'T take bitcoin at Wikileaks, we're not ready for that hornet's nest yet!'

2024-08-22 14:22:22

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Isn't that "Chav?"
In the US, Chad is an alpha, head of the pack.

2024-08-18 13:56:05

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So you're saying that you want to see what could be unburdoned by what has been paid for?

2024-08-18 13:50:07

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Welcome Neal! Sounds like you're going to fit in famously around here. Tons of carnivores on Nostr, and nearly everyone here is a libertarian. Many of us donated sats to the truckers during your big protest, too.

2024-08-17 19:49:07

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He's one of the top Bitcoin lightning devs that also worked on Bitcoin core and Linux before that. Total legend of a dev.

2024-08-17 19:20:29

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There will be once the UK's new speech slavery laws become common in more places. Only Nostr allows for truly free speech.

2024-08-17 19:15:54

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🤦‍🤦‍🤦‍🤦‍🤦‍🤦

2024-08-17 19:07:39

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I'd love to have the option to strongly weight the media type in your feed... Some days you just want to see the memes, other days you want to catch up on all your friend's posts. A quick way to switch between those two views & trending notes would be the bomb.

2024-08-17 19:02:42

Holy crap, Commula is still up, predicted to win by two whole points at Polymarket!
https://polymarket.com/elections
Now that she's outted herself as a full-on Marxist (and even the mainstream media agrees with that assesment) I can literally see no way of her winning. Zero. She shouldn't get any more than maybe 10% of the vote, even after cheating... How can these betters be so stupid??

2024-08-17 11:41:44

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A nostr node?
Doesn't everyone just add the node app in their Umbrel node?

2024-08-14 19:37:17

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Commies always give themselves away by saying something like 'you're wasting your time building rockets while people are starving...' It's pretty pathetic.
I hope one day he realizes that he has a panic attack when he realizes that spaceX rockets could, very easily, "accidentally" crash into his house.

2024-08-07 13:10:43

This is actually very interesting considering that Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for basically doing what Bitcoin does, bringing financial innovation to everyone. Here's hoping he spreads the mindset and they remove that ban on bitcoin in the country.
#note139r…c6lw

2024-07-29 18:19:45

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I bet your state-owned news agencies are claiming that these are Maduro supporters celebrating the win...

2024-07-29 14:57:37

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That's no inkblot! That's my uncle's lung Xray when he was diagnosed with cancer...

2024-07-28 21:33:50

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I don't have a clue how much she makes but quoting a mainstream media Fact Check isn't going to win any hearts or minds around here. Those fools told us to wear our masks & that Ivermectin was horse dewormer.

2024-07-28 21:25:12

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Ah, so you imagine that this happens to all the people around the world that hoard gold, Jewelry, and other valuables at home? All 2 BILLION of them?
The difference between a criminal that will take no risk to pilfer through boxes and one that will risk his life breaking into a home that may be armed is extremely different.
You really should think through carefully what your actual risk profile is. Everyone should, but you more than most.

2024-07-28 20:50:23

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So you just missed the roughly 10,000 various stories of bank failures, Fed safety deposit box raids, and bank employees stealing from their customers' boxes?
Why not just wear a Tshirt that says 'Trust, don't verify?'

2024-07-16 12:47:37

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Wow, I thought only the Japanese used the swastika symbol outside of Nazism. What does it mean in Indonesia?

2024-07-12 12:26:07

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Bitcoiners are obviously weird too. None of what you said is "against bitcoin ethos" but there does happen to be a high correlation among the non-binary & neurodiverse with socialism.
It would be pretty ignorant to claim that socialism is within the ethos of bitcoin. Bitcoin's very nature is to destroy it.

2024-06-28 13:54:45

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I've been thinking the exact same thing, but I have to admit the uncensorable usefulness of nostr to freedom & political activists is off-the-charts obvious. I'd be surprised if it doesn't catch on as a social media where all 'dangerous talk' is done. That ain't peanuts.

2024-06-27 13:04:28

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I have to give you credit, you've studied down this rabbit hole so far that you make convincing arguments. I just want to give up at this point and let you suffer the consequences of all that misdirection from the truth, but there are so many other fun phenomena that prove the world is a globe that I just can't seem to stop thinking about them...
Like how about the way Eratosthenes calculated the earth's size waaaay back in 240 BC by measuring how shadows fell at different latitudes? Why are shadow lengths different if we're on a FE?
Or how about the simple way nighttime works? My family in Bangkok often sees the sun rise as I see it set and wouldn't the easiest way to cast that huge shadow be us living on a globe?
Or network propagation times? We can all measure distances around the planet in milliseconds by using a simple ping command... And no one seems to notice any pings that take longer than pinging the far side of the globe from themselves.
One thing you were right about though, I don't have a firm grasp on your model of FE. I know some think it's a simple disc & there is a huge boundary wall in Antartica instead of a pole. Others think it goes on forever. Some believe space exists and others don't. Some think other planets are spheres and only we don't have one. What exactly is your chosen model?

2024-06-26 16:53:55

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Talk
Data
Comm
Be
Say
Keep it super generic but try for the meaning of 'free speech' as much as possible.

2024-06-26 16:39:48

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> So there are pictures which shows us seeing further than we should be able to, and your response is nahuh?
No, my response to that particular claim would be:
A. How do we know how far that ship really was?
B. How do we know the video wasn't doctored?
C. Look at those waves! They lift your ship up and down but if the ship was really as big as it looks, they'd just be lapping upon the hull. That ship simply can't be what & where it appears to be, and that should be obvious.
> Surface tension on a water droplet isn't curvature dude
You didn't specify what the force creating the curve was. Going forward I'll assume you mean gravity-specific curvature.
Of course that brings me to one of the root reasons I strongly believe that everything large in the solar system is a sphere... The explanation of mass as a basis for gravity simply makes tons of sense. It's easy to conceive mass clumping together in the weightless vacuum of space and creating objects like planets. It's not so easy to conceive a bigass flat disk that somehow has mass pointed downwards. What's causing gravity to flow in that direction? It doesn't make any sense. Nor do orbits, the fact that water balls up when dropped, and a thousands other observed phenomena!
So many mathematical formulas wouldn't work either, like good ol' e=mc^2. We literally would be set back to the absolute stone ages if flat earthers' ideas of how the universe worked were accepted in mathematics. Suddenly, nothing would work anymore as you change the formulas to reflect that 'reality.'
> You claimed the flight goes over Antarctica, which it objectively doesn't
Dude, you realize that weather causes pilots to change all flightpaths drastically, right? Check again some other time. I've seen a different path take that same flight very close to the pole.
> you ignored my question about how you establish airspeed vs ground speed
No, I told you why that line of reasoning is stupid. Stop trying to measure apples to oranges when you should be thinking about how many miles away the orchards are.
> now you're demonstrating that you don't even know tail winds exist
Lol, same again. A cross-pacific flight gains or loses about 2 hours depending on the direction... So a 1 hours average in, let's say, a 7,000 mile flight path is simply not enough to account for the massive, massive, MASSIVE distances (100,000 miles?!?) that flights around the south pole would take in a flat earth!
Modern airlines simply do not have the fuel capacity to get anywhere near it if you flatten the globe. Tailwind arguments are just bikeshedding.
> Ah yes, political boundaries. I didn't realize the sun subscribes to those
Oh boy. You were the one that brought up the lack of time zones that exist in the south. No one brought up Lattitudes, just time zones, which are inherently political boundaries.
> 1 hour sections would necessitate that they are all equal, above and below the equator
Those are lattitude lines. Politicians didn't care for them very much.
> yet they somehow have to reduce the number of timezones in exactly the way that would be expected on a plane.
I have no idea what you're referring to here.
> can you define gravity in your own model? Can you elaborate on the fine tuning problem? How about the anisotropic measurements of the CMBR, how do you reconcile those? What about the fact that the tychonian model has less epicycles
Typical unnecessary technobabble employed only when you're being backed into a corner. There is no good reason to use these words in this context.
In Florence there is a great museum to Galileo showcasing things like his telescope and all kinds of gravity experiments he conducted. I think they said for every experiment on display there were 50 more back in storage. When I was in my late 20's I went backpacking around europe and spent a few weeks in Florence, absolutely in love with that museum and the town. I'll never forget all the different ways he found to measure & affect a ball rolling down a track. That was true science.
I honestly don't know what half the words you just used mean but I do feel I understand gravity better than most after seeing those experiments. A bunch of wooden tracks and metal balls that tell us plenty about the nature of this existence of ours.
Calibrate it then point it at Jupiter. Now note the claimed distance. Now, without refocusing, send your telescope to the moon. Now, explain to me how it's in focus.
Easy. Focal points in a telescope are not linear, they are exponential.
That means it takes less turning of the knob to focus from the moon to jupiter than it does from someone standing 10 feet away to someone 100 feet away. I find myself refocusing wildly between all terrestrial objects but objects inside the solar system are pretty much the same focal distance, and interstellar objects are just pinpricks of light anyway so it's impossible to say how much you need to refocus for those.

2024-06-26 13:08:38

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A guy going by the name of "Freedom Tech" has never heard of Wikileaks?