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 mood https://image.nostr.build/822c8bd6f6025a69877d1905d1940e1ed9d6e097c86b98874f9971bded5bf3bb.jpg 
 On the bright side, we got Bitcoin and Nostr during our lifetime. 
 like, seriously
https://m.primal.net/ILKX.png  
 if you are a developer and you are implementing something like this please go for a long walk and reconsider your life choices
https://m.primal.net/ILKZ.png  
 #nostr fixes all of this, in reality
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 I don't get how Nostr fixes this. 
 nostr has more legs! 
 why would you need a captcha to prove realness if you have WoT+PoW  
 I want to log in to some niche service just created. The service doesn't want to be sybil attacked. Then it will block me if I'm not friends of friends with the owner? Or what? 
 You glanced over the PoW part. And yes, sats are PoW too.  
 I didn't glance, I considered it, still it didn't fix the problem to me, but it's too hard for me to spell all the scenarions that I have considered it not working.

That's why I'm asking for a more concrete example. 
 Would you agree that it would work in many (most?) scenarios? I'm an optimist. 
 I have many concrete examples btw. 
 I agree this is a stupid time to be alive. 
 Just like all other times probably. 
 The ability for implementations like stacker news , wherein each post must be zapped, and the ability to have paid curated relays should things become spammy is what attracted me to nostr. I stayed for the high signal. 
 all other times had challenges/how one accepts them is on one 
 my time is not stupid  
 Well, I agree that charging for a service is a pretty good way to keep freeloading leechers out, but I don't agree using WoT would work for when someone wants to offer a thing for free but still don't want to get sybil-attacked or abused. WoT would solve it, but it's probably too restrictive for most cases in which people resort to the email/phone combination today -- I do think most of these cases are stupid. 
 global is the answer 
 aaaaaaah https://image.nostr.build/efb5e30e6fc7ca460e13ec79649c06234c3688d3f822763caafa3b8cd7adc965.jpg 
 😭 https://image.nostr.build/fe133d3f5684b82b295a398399b26e33c6c48a5cc3a44954920af8dc21d8ec60.jpg 
 Reversible 
 Because the internet 
https://m.primal.net/ILNS.jpg 
 Truly 

Bitcoin + Nostr = The internet's renaissance 
 It's really bad. Cookie accept/reject pop-up, ads squeezed into ever second paragraph, top and bottom, google sign in request, email sign up request. Human verification.

Like bro, i just want to reas this blog from 5 years ago about a config file.  
 androidPopupAndIMustScream 
 Password must be changed every 2 months.
You can't reuse old passwords.
You also need a Google-powered 2FA code to log in.
You can recover your account if you know the answer to your "secret question". 
 You also need to recall the home address on file that you haven’t lived in for 10 years. (True story, I wasn’t able to pay taxes, even though I wanted to, until I provided my old address over the phone, listing out my entire history of where I’ve lived until they confirmed I gave them the correct one, so that they could update their records to my new address and mail me an authorization code to log into my online tax account) 
 Here's it if you needed another reason to not pay taxes. 
 I always think to myself, why not to make it fun and easy for humans. You can play Doom on a lawmower nowadays...

Or I don't know, use a key pairs or something 😎. 
 wE nEeD iDs 

nothing a few thousand puzzles a month can’t solve… 
  https://i.nostr.build/9zVPX.jpg  
 What’s true? What’s nature? What’s reality? 🤔 
 does it matter? 
 Not? 
 really doesn't

just enjoy it 
 Haha 😂 I do 

Life is good in my little parallel universe 
 🫂 
 Strange time. Hosting the dying and the midwifing the new 🦋 
 I feel you, it kind of depends on which side of the bed you wake up on, today I chose the nostr side, yesterday it was Sam Altman’s AI girlfriend 
 The best way to fix your mood. 
Delete apps like Tiktok, Insta and X.
Turn off your cell phone. (Television as well.)
Take your children by the hand and go for a walk with your wife. 
And NOW you'll have the time of your life. 🤗 
 don't forget

 a) find a gf
 b) convert her to wife
 c) get the children thing planned
 d) continue with your plan

hahaha 
 😯 
 nawh 😂 
 😅🫂💜 
 You good mate? Need a hug? 
 you need a bum bum check? 
 DOPE 
 for every stupid thing you find, there is something that needs fixing.

Let's start with "money" and go from there! ;) 
 We have only one lifetime and we don't get to pick if it's during clown-world madness or not.

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 Nöö. Ist doch ganz geil. Flugzeuge, Autos, Internet, Computer, EyEi 
 Yes and No.

GM. 
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 Is that how Gigi chills on a weekend? 
 Is that how Gigi chills on a weekend?