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2024-09-14 12:45:42

This woman is not OK. I mean mentally.
#nevent1q…v6ut

2024-09-14 07:11:59

So after a few days of using Wasabi, my opinion and one final question at the end for #AskNostr:
Coming from Sparrow, it feels more simple. Not necessarily better. Sparrow feels more information- and option-rich in any case. Doesn't mean Wasabi os worse either.
Wasabi's coinjoin is superbly fast and easy, compared to what I was used to with Sparrow. I think it's great that they produce non-equal UTXOs, vs the all equal UTXOs of Whirpool on Sparrow.
In three days I've gotten anonimity scores of over 100, and you can get scores over 10 in mere hours. With Whirpool (at least on Sparrow), mixing was a weeks-long affair.
The fact that the output is a series of UTXOs with values totally different to the values that went in is a fantastic advantage over the all-equally valued UTXOs of Sparrow/Whirpool, at least intuitively.
Two issues that I consider very serious and problematic though:
First, the cost is completely unclear. I have no freaking idea how much this is costing me. Yes, I set the maximum miner fee to agree to participate in a round, and I know the nominal fee of the coordinator. But none of that tells me how much the whole transaction costs. Sparrow-Whirpool was totally transparent.
Second, it produces way too many small and potentially unsuable UTXOs. I mean UTXOs under 100k sats. There should be a way to set a minimum value. This really has completely fucked up my whole UTXO management strategy.
The question now, which I repeatedly asked @npub1rxy…hnp8 a propos of what he does in his Wasabi demo video, but he hasn't answer (probably he's muted me), is whether those small potentially useless UTXOs, and all the others really, can be consolidated onto a different wallet while keeping privacy. That's what he does in his video, but I had always understood that consolidating private UTXOs breaks privacy.
Perhaps not if it's a completely new wallet for long term storage only?

2024-09-09 04:08:12

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Any Studio Ghibli.
Akira.
Ghost In The Shell.
Perfect Blue.
Fantasia (1940) by Disney.

2024-09-08 08:03:10

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You can opt out, and I am sure it will be like that legally speaking for a long time. Doesn't mean they will tolerate that you exercise your legal right without making you pay for it, increasingly and inexorably.
Cash payments (under a certain threshold) are also guaranteed by law over here, and I just told you what happened to that guy.

2024-09-07 19:39:28

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It's true,. but it's Europe's fault.

2024-09-07 08:12:47

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It's all fake, man. They used actual people for their fake demo, and it's very apparent in this longer video.
In any case, we've had animatronics since the 80's. Nothing they are pretending to "show" here would be new except the part where the two very obvious human girls pretend to be learning how to twist their arms pr some such idiocy.

2024-09-06 10:36:14

"Content moderation", "fight spam", "protect the children".
#note12rs…0g28

2024-09-06 08:10:32

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FYI, because I set the minimum WoT score to 1, I missed this note at first.

2024-09-05 09:41:14

@npub10qd…arpj 's reaction count seems a bit off.
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2024-09-05 06:06:51

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Yeah, I hate Ubuntu and the way they do stuff and I'm using it only because supposedly Bitcoin Core should be so easy to use with it... But I lack a lot of Ubuntu vocabulary.
After I installed Bitcoin Core using the terminal, I found some sort of very lame GUI software manager I guess where I could see some settings for whatever piece of software you're looking at, in this case Bitcoin Core. One of which was this very specific "allow it to use external drives" one.
I'll take a pic later when I get to it.

2024-09-05 05:27:58

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I did manage to run it last time. But every time I shut it down, it would not recognize the blocks and it would restart the download. After a whole month of this, I gave up.
Yesterday I found a toggle in Ubuntu settings to specifically give bitcoin-core permission to use external drives, so I've spent the night deep-formatting the SSD (took 7 hours) and today I'll start again.
I'll document whatever happens 👍

2024-09-05 05:00:58

So this past couple of days once again I've been trying to set up Bitcore on Ubuntu on an older laptop. Of course not enough disk space so I have to use an external SSD, yadda yadda.
Last time I tried, months ago, it was an abject failure. It just isn't something possible.
Last time I was able to modify the files and change the working directories and download the blockchain on the external drive, which took like a week working 24/7, only to have the stupid program restart the download every time it finished.
Boggles my mind that the "Bitcoin community" cares so little to fix something like this which would seem absolutely basic if they really wanted "adoption".
At this stage it seems impossible in practical terms to run your own node unless you shell a lot of cash for off the shelf hardware that let's not full ourselves is otherwise mediocre for what it costs. Nobody likes Bitcoin that much, sorry.

2024-09-04 13:35:24

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Got it. I stopped tracking it long ago. Like, my second week here 😂

2024-09-04 08:32:02

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So absolutely true.

2024-09-04 05:59:13

Did anything specific happen to cause today's dip? Just curious if there's been any news or something.

2024-09-03 16:50:55

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Pants as in trousers, or as in underpants? Or both?

2024-09-03 16:45:48

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Oh, absolutely. My thesis is that in a free market, with excellent business people at its helm, Walmart would be a large regional grocer in the US. Maybe.
To become the behemoth it is, though, its leadership must necessarily excel not at business, i.e., at providing consumers with what they want at the cost they want it, but at regulatory arbitrage. In the process, it coopted itself.
It's not by chance that most of the news stories involving megacorps like Walmart or Amazon are always political in nature, and so are the PR stories they spin out for public consumption, as a form to pressure politicians and regulators in their favor ("think about the jobs", "think about the taxes", etc)

2024-09-03 09:54:41

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Speaking of which. Just as I was going out 😂
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2024-09-03 05:45:55

The pro-censorship Nostr crowd is getting tiresome. Exactly the same arguments as the regular legacy media. They dislike X, Facebook, etc because it's not them doing the censoring.
Sadly, it's prevalent among the dev types too. It's the hubristic central planner mindset among technicians and scientists. Seems hard to eradicate.
#note1xjv…px0d

2024-09-02 17:22:12

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It's good to know that you agree that someone adding the sentence "I'm a daft cunt, don't take me seriously" every time you use a period is obviously not censorship and totally fine with you. You seem very smart.

2024-09-02 12:57:58

I'd argue being a socialist at any age today, when we have 100 years of perfectly documented history of terror, mass murder and economic disaster by all sorts of socialist regimes, is prove of being a psychopath.
#note1tuz…g9d8

2024-09-02 08:21:05

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BTW this is also why I think they haven't mandated hardware-level spying yet. Because automatically China would have access to it (as they most likely do already).

2024-09-02 06:24:43

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Plus, right now all they have to do is slap the "AI-assisted!" sticker on it, and people will lap it up like candy.

2024-09-01 21:15:09

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Given the fact that we have an effective monopoly of mobile and computer OS, I'm convinced that's were the spying is going to happen.

2024-09-01 13:58:39

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It's been proven many times now that the "enhanced" security at airports since 9/11 does exactly nothing for security.
It's just a racket to give billions of dollars in contracts to the cronies of the State, and to expand the powers of the State.

2024-08-31 09:21:23

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Henry George wrote a whole book a out that pre-abandonment of the gold standard, titled "Progress and Poverty".
My point being, yes, trash money is part of it, but the root cause is deeper and older -- and solvable too.

2024-08-31 09:19:22

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So what worries you is dreaming about NIPs, not Jeff Bezos? 🤔

2024-08-31 09:08:34

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That's correct. Just not if we summarize it as "it's both + and -1/2 at the same time". That never happens. It's one single state with a 50-50% probability of being +1/2 or -1/2.

2024-08-30 10:29:10

A few years ago I helped a friend design, produce and launch a card game. I wonder if a BTC-themed game would somehow work, commercially.
Realistically speaking, producing anything under 10,000 units, even in Poland which is the physical card and board game producing hub of Europe, is not feasible if you want to sell the set for something like 25€.
#note1xms…ycs6

2024-08-30 10:12:54

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Me:
https://media.tenor.com/tv3Yr2A2I4kAAAAC/nerd-ackchyually.gif

2024-08-30 09:13:20

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This happens to me, except with any topic.

2024-08-30 07:10:43

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You can keep it simple:
1. Follow everybody
2. Tell them what you think about what they post, engage in conversation. Yes, a gif meme is also conversation.
3. Post whatever you like. Just get it off your chest. Again yes, a gif meme does it.
That's all really. The rest is irrelevant.

2024-08-28 15:56:15

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It's basically all collagen, so it helps greatly with hair, nail, skin and joint health. And if you worry about wrinkles, or rather preventing them, refilling your collagen levels regularly sure can't be bad either.
Where I'm from we use absolutely everything out of a pig, and the ears, muzzle and face parts make some of the best dishes, in my opinion. In soups, in thick stews, grilled, fried... They also happen to be the cheapest after offal, so it's all plus points.
Regardless of where you are, you should be able to get them from any decent butcher -- they will likely be pre-boiled and clean, which is what you want!

2024-08-27 21:32:14

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If the map I saw the other day shows actual nodes, there is only ONE other node in the whole city of Barcelona.
I am more than willing to buy and set up a few to distribute them around my friends, but realistically will I get them to work without line of sight? I would need them to reach 10-15 km through all this concrete and steel.
https://meshtastic.liamcottle.net/?lat=41.343824581185686&lng=362.1670532226563&zoom=10

2024-08-26 11:49:41

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Your welcome too.

2024-08-26 11:46:55

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"Chinks in the armour".
"Kinks" in an armour sound very exploitable too, but it'd be a shitty armour which has kinks, to begin with.

2024-08-26 07:59:01

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You're not dismantling anything when you push for censorship and compliance. Which you do always.

2024-08-26 07:54:58

This guy doesn't miss one opportunity to push for "content control" on Nostr, does he? Even if his arguments are as infantile and stupid as the government's.
Roads are used systematically and routinely to commit all sorts of crimes in our societies. Road operators, like governments and private companies, don't "do enough" to prevent those crimes, which absolutely and indisputably require the use of roads to happen.
For instance, they could make all users of roads stop every 50 meters, get off their vehicles, allow "agents of the law" to check their IDs, check their trunks to make sure they're not carrying a kidnapped child, and put trackers in their bags.
But the bastards just won't do it! They're complicit with child traffickers!
#nevent1q…6sng

2024-08-26 07:42:19

Been saying this since the first day I got here. Unless Nostr moves towards making relays minimalistically "dumb" and unable to "comply", or we get rid of them altogether and become a P2P network, we will be vulnerable. Relays will either be shut down for not "complying", or they will be abandoned by users because they "comply", like X, Meta, Google, etc. and we will end up having wasted years in here just to get where we were already.
#nevent1q…x8wd

2024-08-25 20:28:13

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Also, it's a different story too if you're one of those nutjobs who argue that aborting an 8 month fetus is the same as aborting an 8 week fetus and should be allowed as well.

2024-08-25 20:26:51

Trump is pro-abortion. It's a different story if your TDS prevents you from thinking critically outside of the Dem propaganda about the SCOTUS decision on Roe v Wade.
#nevent1q…dx6p

2024-08-25 20:18:42

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Sure. Doesn't mean that the European food chain is clean by any stretch.

2024-08-25 19:20:50

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I agree. That's why I prefaced my note with "You'd be surprised". There are other things going on closer to my niche (fish and seafood) that are also quite shocking.

2024-08-25 18:30:15

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I am a European who happens to work in the US food industry. You'd be surprised.
Definitely anything is better than the US and China in terms of regulation, but the differences we all find between Europe and the US are more closely related to the way distribution is handled than to what's allowed and not.
Europe is A LOT denser, and our distribution is A LOT better in all senses. We have better cold chain, better infrastructure, better central markets... We have quicker access to better food that doesn't need to travel in a truck for a week before it gets to the first distribution hub.
Second, and very important too, culturally speaking, we simply eat more whole foods and cook more than Americans do.

2024-08-25 16:48:48

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Where's "here" though? The "social media" apps like Coracle (the client I'm using right noon desktop), Nostur, Damus, Amethyst, etc? Artists and creators could be on Nostr via Wavlake, Zapstream, etc., and not "here".

2024-08-24 11:17:25

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Don't know him but he's obviously trolling the fuck out of them

2024-08-24 10:32:45

Incoming some weekend improv cooking.
Pork neck in a sort of kind of maybe whitish ragù I guess...? With fennel and turnips because obviously, and pears which I'll add later, because duh.
(In fact I wanted to use quince, but we live in a decadent society and couldn't find any).
All the ingredients are certified eco and local. The veggies are from a town I know well, just 20 km from here, and the meat and the pears are from within 100 km so that works too.
To be totally honest, I buy all these rather expensive eco ingredients not so much because of the eco label, which you can or cannot believe in, but because these foods simply look and taste completely real. They're a joy to cook with, and even more to eat.
We'll see how the dish turns out.
#cookstr #foodstr
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2024-08-24 09:47:33

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For quite sometime now I have been thinking that the way they're going to nullify tools like Tor (and potentially Bitcoin) is not blocking, but whitelisting. Your ISP will simply not allow that connection to to an "innocent site outside your borders".
I lack the specific technical knowledge to know how exactly that will work but that's the route I would have my scientists explore if I were one of these totalitarian pieces of shit in power. My intuition is that AI + increased processing power + measures like this one extending KYC-AML to everything that online, indicate that's what their thinking too actually.

2024-08-24 07:57:05

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None of the above.
If you see spam on your feed, simply block the spammer. If it's a bot issue where multiple accounts are spammed constantly, they usually spam the same content and you can find a way to block it using black lists of words or phrases.
Any solution that takes away from me my ability to manually curate my own feed is unacceptable.

2024-08-24 07:38:55

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"Has become" would mean it used to not be. Spain has been a socialist regime since the 1930's.

2024-08-24 07:08:23

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Absolutely. If you can, please share a link or a torrent to download it.

2024-08-23 17:00:12

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I agree that it may be partial comfort. I think the victim of a crime should have a say in what sort of compensation they can demand, within an arbitrary range of options set by social custom and morality, which includes things like proportionality and no death penalty.
US jails are expensive only because the current system of jail contracts paid for with the taxpayer's money is a source of massive corruption.

2024-08-23 14:33:25

Been trying to listen to Peter Thiel on Rogan, and I simply can't handle his constant stuttering and general inability to keep a consistent flow of speech for more than one or two seconds. It's the same problem I have with Musk (who is probably even worse because on top of that he slurs really badly).
I'm probably too old anyway to listen to this sort of vapid conversations. In like one full hour, he maybe has said one or two interesting things.

2024-08-23 12:06:21

#nevent1q…ad9n

2024-08-21 16:42:14

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Pero además, con un objetivo perverso a largo plazo.

2024-08-21 15:42:48

That's not totally true: the State Apparatus gains.
Firstly, it grows even further through increased bureaucracy needs that become permanent and impossible to dislodge. Also, in the short term, it is able to prey on whatever capital is available (before people simply stop investing), consuming it in the form of increased public spending. Textbook case of killing the golden goose.
Additionally, one of the basic tenets of the current Corporatist State regime ideology prevalent in the West and all other developed economies is that savings are inherently bad and must be discouraged and destroyed where they exist, for a variety of reasons: first, the front-facing Keynesian BS excuse that normies can be easily duped with, that is, that "excessive" savings suppress economic activity and ultimately cause -- crutch your pearls -- unemployment.
But in reality, the true reason that they cannot publicly mention, is that savings are the only way to create capital. That is, savings are the only way by which a wage slave can climb up the ladder and become a self-sufficient capitalist. And even if he doesn't reach that level of capitalization, a wage slave with savings is a wage slave that becomes emboldened and may develop the habit of saying NO to the incumbent capitalists and the State.
Savings are how you fight both legs of the Corporatist State regime, so they can't possibly allow you to have any.
#nevent1q…57tc

2024-08-21 15:24:33

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I've read it twice. I'm a smart person with very high linguistic processing abilities. Yet, in all the gibberish and lingo contained in that massive wall of text, I found no real explanation of anything meaningful. I therefore conclude that this is simply yet another scam.

2024-08-21 10:48:01

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Doesn't get any more fiat than that.

2024-08-21 07:57:39

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How does Trump "oppose central banks", when he has repeatedly said that the Fed should do this and that to manipulate interest rates and money supply for political reasons? Trump is an active supporter of central planning of money. He just wants to be the one who does the planning, of course.

2024-08-21 06:36:36

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Does this have the potential to solve the ISP problem?
I keep thinking, we can use as many decentralized tools to promote freedom, but as long as they run on the internet, we will always be hostages of the State via ISPs.

2024-08-21 06:31:39

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Neither should exist. But false accusations should be punished severely and consistently.

2024-08-21 06:30:00

Definitely NOT Socrates.
Why do people make up shit?
#note10fq…f84d

2024-08-20 11:36:25

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Ah, you mean downstairs. Yes. For some reason recently they switched the queues and made a mess.
Used to be that the general public would use the right hand side ramp, directly to the taxi stand. Now they put a sign on that ramp for "reservations only" and make non-reservation people use the left one, and then turn around and walk right exactly to the same spot anyway. I can see how you would not turn around and walk to the wrong place.
But the creepy yellow vest people have always been there to herd the tourists. They were not added as a patch for the current mess 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-08-20 11:32:25

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I would say from the US to China, it's just a spectrum of Corporatist State regimes. Good old fascism, simply updated by the current technological development, just as 1930's fascism was an update of soviet socialism.
The definition of fascism, that is, the Corporatist State, is that the State "guides" ideologically, and the private sector plans the economy with a certain degree of freedom and limited property rights -- as long as they color within the ideological lines.
Just look up "public-private partnership". You'll get thousands of hits from all sorts of globalist institutions and actors.
It's the real mainstream mantra everywhere in the developed world.

2024-08-20 11:21:35

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Yeah, I figured out his schtick a while ago. I no longer pay attention to anything he says, even if I agree with him that academia is rotten. He whinges about it but never gives an explanation of anything he says.

2024-08-20 10:45:12

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I am from BCN and use the airport a lot more than I would like to.
The taxi signs at the arrival lobby in both terminals say "Taxi" and are conspicuous.
There is only one exit at the arrival lobby after baggage claim and it literally funnels you towards the public transport, taxi first and foremost.
It's impossible to miss the signs.
I do commiserate with you if you had to claim any checked in bags. It's one of the worst airports in the world in that department -- thanks to the centralized and politically motivated mismanagement from 600 km away, in Madrid.

2024-08-20 10:38:54

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Excellent

2024-08-20 10:36:29

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Absolutely. Just not those aberrations.

2024-08-20 10:02:40

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My estimate is that 100% of them have been doing it since "modern" banking first appeared in medieval Europe.
But --- Since banks can now do whatever the fuck without even holding any reserves at all, we're finally safe for sure!

2024-08-20 09:57:48

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There's an argument against modern shoes, especially so called "sports" shoes. They have terrible ergonomics that crush your toes, deform your foot arch, and weaken your feet with their unnaturally raised toes and heels and exaggerated padding. Curiously enough, "running shoes" could be especially bad if you actually use them to run, because their allow you to do so in a way that impacts your knees and hips really badly, slamming heel first.
He may be referring to that.

2024-08-19 19:35:29

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No, it was a hypothetical.

2024-08-19 09:31:29

There's this whole trend of notes about how Nostr is like this commune of hippy flower new age zen saints or something vs "the noise on Twitter", when the only actual reason we have less "noise" is that we're a much more small and homogeneous community of users.
I'll more: in fact I believe we have more assholes per capita than on Twitter given the number of user. You just need to see the mouth frothing and extreme aggressiveness whenever anyone even tangentially brings up non-BTC crypto. Even BTC-adjacent projects like Monero.
I have no problem with people being disrespectful, aggressive, offensive and generally speaking trash humans on any social media platform. As long as I have the freedom to curate my own feed and to say whatever the fuck I want, how I want and to whom I want.
I loved the early internet because of that. And I left Twitter before Elon because that was taken away from me, not because of "the noise". As long as Nostr remains free, I'll be here. When it stops being free, I'll leave.
#note1txs…v5rn

2024-08-19 05:50:42

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Leaving Las Vegas is another oldie to make you reflect on a sick day. From back when Nick Cage was an actor.

2024-08-19 05:36:38

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Boosting two great recommendations below:
Birdman
The Wrestler
Tough ones, but great.

2024-08-18 18:46:49

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My paesana Úrsula Corberó 🥵

2024-08-18 18:38:14

#nevent1q…r0mt

2024-08-18 08:54:08

This was a reply to something else, but I'm posting it as a standalone note.
I've become extremely wary of this whole anti-EU propaganda push that wants to sell us that the alternative to a EuroReich is 27 "strong sovereign nations". We also tried that. And it stinks like Russian fascist agit-prop by the way.
It's a false dichotomy: the problem with the EU isn't that the eurobureaucracy is unelected. It's not, really. It's a "representative democracy" exactly like the "national" ones. The real problem with it is its massive overreach. It is a State vs Individual problem, exactly as with the state bureaucracies. London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Warsaw... have the same lack of legitimacy to make decisions for me as Brussels and Strasbourg.

2024-08-18 08:52:25

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It doesn't sound they're opposing it for the right reasons, really.
Also, I've become extremely wary of this whole anti-EU propaganda push that wants to sell us that the alternative to a EuroReich is 27 "strong sovereign nations". We also tried that. And it stinks like Russian fascist agit-prop by the way.
It's a false dichotomy: the problem with the EU isn't that the eurobureaucracy is unelected. It's not, really. It's a "representative democracy" exactly like the "national" ones. The real problem with it is its massive overreach. It is a State vs Individual problem, exactly as with the state bureaucracies. London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Warsaw... have the same lack of legitimacy to make decisions for me as Brussels and Strasbourg.

2024-08-16 21:44:44

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And yet, he couldn't help sub-8k-flexing on the readers who are supposed to commiserate with him.

2024-08-16 12:11:36

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Yeah but a tradition would be like the townsfolk getting together on a given day, marching down Main Street singing the Fish Rain Song.
Then the mayor comes out of Town Hall holding arms with the local chaman, he gives a little speech and finally joyously decrees "Let the Quarterly Fish Rain begin!". The chaman does his little Fish Rain dance, the mayor pummels the floor three times with his baton. And boom, fish falls from the sky.
Tradition is maintained, see you next quarter.

2024-08-16 08:37:27

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I love the fact that despite their best (as in most contrived) efforts, they still have He/him as the first option, before She/her.
Grammar is grammar, you just can't get rid of it by decree :)

2024-08-16 08:05:57

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In Western Europe, there is a particular obsession to deter the population from saving. The ponzi scheme demands that people spend all they make, and then some more, going into debt bondage forever.
The headline in the screenshot is exactly that, but it's not good news for Bitcoin adoption, because buying Bitcoin requires having the ability to save some money every month. I think that's the number 1 threat against Bitcoin, really. When people have to worry about groceries, they can't worry about saving for the future.

2024-08-16 08:01:47

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You're Australian, right? It's black truffle season right now down there.
Back when I was living in Singapore, I worked for a food distributor and we used to import and sell T. melanosporum from Manjimup Valley, Tasmania and other places. We were selling to people like Luke Mangan (well, his surrogates in SGP) and Ryan Clift (who is a Brit, not Australian, but still for me, the n.1 chef down there). Fun times!
After that, back in Europe I tried to replicate the trade, but I utterly failed to convince people over here that truffles can also be eaten during the summer. Absolutely everybody rejected the idea -- clearly dishonestly, because summer or not, they bloody well use that disgusting synthetic "truffle oil" to dose absolutely everything these days...

2024-08-16 07:42:24

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We may settle at calling it "disrespect", but at the bottom of it lies a range of acts of cuckolding because being a husband is more than having exclusive sexual access. That's why it feels disrespectful.

2024-08-16 07:36:35

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BTW, one thing is trying to fuck my wife, another thing trying to supplant me as a father "unofficially". That's casus belli and would probably lead to great violence. Just saying.

2024-08-16 07:35:19

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100% obvious that you're right and that she is cuckolding your friend.

2024-08-16 05:59:04

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How can it be "a tradition"?

2024-08-15 11:04:03

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Copying someone's trademark or selling a fake is not an infringement on "intellectual property", which doesn't exist. It's identity theft. As such, 100% in favor of prosecuting those actions.

2024-08-15 10:14:15

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Do you mean doing away with the way Nostr clients currently work, that is, subscribing to an npub, and instead subscribe to topics or communities?
Wouldn't that entail the addition of some sort of metadata to all Nostr events so clients can filter and properly display them?
Sounds either like a bitch for users if they have to manually add those labels every time they simply want to shitpost or, once again, the introduction of automated algos to filter and label. That is, opening the door to censorship, shadowbanning, etc.

2024-08-15 10:05:25

Anyone here (and there are many of you bitches, I see you) who defend the institutionalized theft system called "intellectual property", have no right whatsoever to be shocked by this.
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2024-08-15 10:04:01

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Holy fuck

2024-08-15 10:00:17

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Welcome to the internet c. 1995, GenXer.

2024-08-15 09:58:41

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Stablecoins on BTC's base layer? On L2/3/4/5..., or as in Tether using BTC as a reserve to back up their dollars?
The first one would suffer from the same problems as BTC itself: it will simply be too expensive to operate for retail. The second case, like Lightning, well, that's not BTC and nobody will ever change my mind about that.
The third one, that's exactly what I'm saying will happen - BTC as a reserve for fiat.
Time will tell if I'm right. In the meantime, I stack all the same, and never sell or spend.

2024-08-15 09:52:18

I use quotes all the time because I very often read a note and it makes me think of something that I may think is note-worthy.
But I may not feel the need to reply to the original note, maybe because it's not directly related to the content of the note, but most often because I simply do not intend to allude directly to the author, or even less to engage in a conversation with him/her. If and when I do feel the need or the wish to engage someone directly, I use the proper method, that is, a reply.
Both people who quote and people who are quoted should understand this difference.
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2024-08-15 09:42:52

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2024-08-15 09:38:31

As I just said this morning before reading this. Everybody comes around to my thesis, eventually.
To summarize it: BTC will never be used as retail currency, because it sucks at it. But it will universally adopted as store of value and as large transaction settlement instrument.
This can only be driven by institutional and governmental adoption. The January 1, 2025 deadline for the entry into effect of the BIS regulation allowing all BIS member central banks (that's all of the important ones, including the FED, the ECB, Japan, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia...) to keep up to 2% of their reserves in crypto (basically BTC but maybe also ETH and others) will be a watershed moment.
In the meantime, they are already mining (Russia, China) or stealing (Germany, US) Bitcoin, and buying Microstrategy (Norway, Switzerland)...
https://www.tradingview.com/news/u_today:bfe7f7916094b:0-central-banks-of-norway-and-switzerland-disclose-massive-microstrategy-mstr-holdings/
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2024-08-15 09:31:01

"Be polite".
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2024-08-15 08:01:44

Y'all come around, eventually.
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2024-08-15 07:25:56

My first contact with US-style ideas on personal hygiene were when I was an exchange student in Tokyo in the early 2000s.
There I learnt first hand how so many Americans seem to believe, for some reason, that things like taking a daily shower, clipping their finger- and toenails, using some sort of deodorant, brushing their teeth, or keeping a tidy clean mop of hair, are optional matters.
This was before Reddit, but there were predecessors of it and I can attest that the incel persona was already around and displayed some rather radical views on personal hygiene, even by the standard described above: things like wiping one's ass after taking a dump were bashed as "effeminate".
Not saying the person commenting here is one of them, because in the end she's just asking... although asking is already an indication.
In any case it's funny because while all the above exists in the US, there is also the common trope among Americans about the supposed failings in the hygienic department of other peoples and countries, for instance the French for the number of women who (supposedly) do not remove body hair, or the British for (supposedly) having poor dental hygiene.
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2024-08-15 07:12:22

A common, yet extremely retarded take.
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