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 The most practical solution is #carnivore where you don’t need to read nutrition labels.

But then your problem is finding tallow and pork lard because apparently those are now rare foodstuffs. https://i.nostr.build/zXSD45NL6Fh6LVBc.jpg  
 #statistics #rant

I’m at my high schooler’s back-to-school night. At the entrance, you pick ... 
 Expecting people working in the school system to have common sense means you’re gonna have a bad time 
 It's been a few hours, I'm reformed. Moustaches are the superior form of facial hair. #moustachst... 
 I’m going with a moustache in a few weeks, my missus is terrified 🤣 
 Some of the smartest people I know are retarded 
 Curious about what everyone thinks the Ministry of Truth showed least interest in and/or memory h... 
 The Presidential candidate assassination attempt is the wildest one to me. 

Think back to how long people were riled up over 9/11, 90% support for W Bush to go on a rampage and that carried for years.

Trump news was out of the cycle within a week, within two they were changing search engines to repress results, within three the bureaucrats were saying “I know nothing” and getting zero coverage, and Trump has barely said a word about any of it. 
 Parker will get Nostr at the Zap height he deserves. 
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 He was opposed to Nostr over a year ago saying it diluted dev resources away from Bitcoin and his knowledge and understanding hasn’t changed one iota since then. 
 Thinking is his problem.

You’re supposed to do the thinking after the understanding, and Parker clearly hasn’t got that part down. 
 The only Fauci movie I’m interested to see is him being dragged to a guillotine 
 What’s your thinking with regards the relay set?

Anons are getting the widest distribution but also caught up in the most noise. 
 The latter. 

New accounts are often posting into the wind, one-time burners most def are as they are by default in no-ones follow list so they’ll only be seen amongst the filth in ‘global’? 
 I see this one:

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The other one I think you replied to yourself. 
 Yep when @ed like that it notifies in Damus at least 
 Not seeing a new reply.. 
 The upper bound of this range (which is probably generously conservative) would mean that 12% of ... 
 Nvidia was never Subpoenaed 

It was fake news

Market manipulation = X 

Im not to sure how long... 
 Considering the Biden soft-coup played out on Xitter, it would appear there’s some utility for the parasite class in having that platform the way it is.

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 Especially now that @Lux has made it super easy to post to #nostr with one-time burner npubs

https://anonostr.com 
 Think of it like one of those anon boards where people post confessions, or throwaways on Reddit 
 We need NYT readers to warm up to the idea of secession. Having them focussed inwards is the only thing that might save the rest of the world from their stupidity. 
 Sadly very true. A Trump win with California seceding first would be best. Not sure how they’d go hot if it’s Texit though because they wouldn’t win that and it would still be better for the rest of the world, albeit messy stateside. 
 Not from climate change 🤣

We haven’t seen a massive earthquake in the US for a long while though. Splitting them off into an island would be a good result for humanity. 
 Years ago, every week I drove past properties for sale in the mountains that were 100-2000 acres.... 
 Would be possibly willing to invest in that. 
 WTF happened to simple shit that just works? 
 Had our broken dryer looked at by an 80-something Vietnamese bloke who used to build them in a factory, not worth replacing the heating element. His advice was to buy the cheapest one with no electronics just physical controls, and “never buy a washer/dryer”. He said that like 5 times and was quite adamant about it, garbage products apparently that break all the time. 
 This is a good question and one worth considering.

I like relay operators who are opinionated in their posts but entirely neutral in their relay operation. 

Like by all means have completely different views to me, or just some, but be here on nostr (longevity is becoming important) and let the events flow freely.

People with some sort of community here who truly value censorship-resistance will make for the best operators. nostr:note1f4mp6hqlm4hjkfuvye4ae33flzgq97v3urhsgx0lr85l5ah65wcqnkzuq4 
 My offer of a one-way ticket to Israel so you can satiate your bloodlust still stands. 
 And I see you’re still a retarded Zionist piece of shit 
 I have been on X for 13 minutes this week, and Nostr for 6.5 hrs, and I feel at peace honestly.

... 
 That’s some desperate, pathetic shit right here. nostr:note107ssrzwyqukdcd97h8jxtmfkjje72rwgmc3... 
 This is game theory playing out. 

If company entities want to hold large amounts of cryptocurrency, which they have to publicly disclose, then they are going to become massive targets because just a few people will be holding the keys.

If you hold 5% of all Bitcoin, the bounty for someone to successfully breach you is 5% of the network - that’s going to be massively appealing.

This is not TradFi where you can call up the Bank or Government and get them to rollback transactions; once those funds move once that’s it, game over.

The world isn’t ready for this but it’s definitely happening. Only question here is if it’s really North Korea or a 3-letter agency doing this and using NK as a figleaf. 
 Just because the Commies learned from the fascists, people think unless Karl Marx rises from the grave and personally leads the revolution that it’s not real Communism.

Wake the fuck up. 

It’s not the 1920s any more, just because they’ve changed their tactics doesn’t make it not-Communism. 
 Peak Stockholm syndrome.

Although the real problem with these people is not that they're able to... 
 The absolute state of Australia’s economy.

Seriously, we live in a mirage. We pretend we’re wealthy because Boomers live in overinflated McMansions and we haven’t had a recession in 30+ years but you pull back the curtain and the cupboard is bare. https://i.nostr.build/hm2PWhMXkE6Z1phL.jpg  nostr:note1nf387s0300t2kn2ws79h5etpu7pwmd90k6vwqdmau3zzvf73du0q7rgh3u 
 My uncle was stung by a stingray and not bitten by a spider but stomped on one barefoot and its juices got into a cut and seriously messed up his foot. He got yearly pains from the stingray somehow, don’t know how that worked. Also sank a boat, rolled his car, and burned down his shed making sinkers 😂 
 This looks like an interesting wallet. Something like a cross between zaprite and aqua targeted at mobile users for a solopreneur usecase.

@TheGuySwann talks about how painful it is to pay contractors - this is probably heading in the direction to solve that problem.

Can’t say for sure as you have subscribe to access Test Flight. Please just open it up, don’t gate things for no reason, that’s bad UX! nostr:note1n2c2w29nxsjwn8pwf8d2stx7njdvwqsz4cz7k5lwd2w2a4p97ndsdtc32y 
 I've set up a Tor hidden service with a local Citrine relay running on my phone and added it to m... 
 Turns out the Xitter algo is garbage and just feeds you more garbage if you ever make the mistake of replying to garbage.

Being your own algo is a superpower of Nostr. https://i.nostr.build/VEIsffPy1Xjb886z.jpg  nostr:note108ksqkajcrkd3q68ya24xm9uyfw2hwc3qt958ueh9q9wyzggcn7ql2heyq 
 Rumours are swirling online that Michael Saylor is going to Aurora Colorado to fight Venezuelan Gangs nostr:note1ncf47pq5cyfr064cprux8yf04ycxav4kj6rhayfgw7l4p2w2qcaqn4gpk0 
 Found it!

Fountain will be available on zap.store once we add proper support for closed-source a... 
 I figured Orangepill App would have been the first to do this but kudos to Fountain 
 My missus when I send my entire paycheck to stack cheap sats https://v.nostr.build/63u0H95pj5dAm88k.mp4  
 It’s gold but with better properties than gold; you’re definitely on the right track but I wouldn’t expect it to find that equilibrium until well after 4-5X gold.

The difficulty of putting a price on that is Gold is one of the first things that will lose its monetary premium to Bitcoin even though it’s gonna keep going up due to monetary expansion. They’re both moving targets against each other.

I don’t expect Bitcoin will ever fully take the premium out of real estate, not this century any way. Bonds though are a good shot, who knows with Art and other oddities - probably a mixed bag.

Bitcoin will be a lot more integrated into the workings of the digital realm before it levels out volatility, whilst the knowledge is asymmetrical it’s gonna keep swinging wildly. 
 So much of Keynesian economics could be debunked in 1 hour in a room with 5-10 people and some post-it notes.

Easy to show how money printing leads to inflation, or how supply&demand can’t simply be modelled out as intersecting points on a graph, why value is subjective, information asymmetry etc etc etc 
 If I hadn’t built up the conviction, understanding and low time preference I have in #Bitcoin, it’s likely I would not have had the conviction, understanding and low time preference I’ve gained for #Nostr.

Bitcoin had to come first for me, but it set the foundation for understanding why Nostr will become a pivotal technology over the next decade. 

We should now be thinking about this as full stack sovereignty. Like how Bitcoin will be built in layers, so too will the sovereign digital realm.

It will take time but we’re already seeing the convergence with innovation in “politics” and how people organise with things like Nostrocket (Companies), Cashu (Banking), and Ditto (Communities) not to mention infrastructure (Mesh networking, NWS, Mostr, Outbox, Private DMs, Holepunch etc).

You are here participating in the realisation of The Sovereign Individual thesis. Future Nostriches are going to be envious you were early, 5-10-15 years before them, seeing it all play out, getting fat zaps for shitposts, rebuilding the fiat world on the sovereign stack, disrupting VC-backed megacorps from the basement to create a better world.

We’re skating to where the puck is going, and we’re gonna get there before everybody else. Be sure to enjoy the journey! nostr:note1ku9gey5xrcd4kd30an3gj9c4jvdwpfupssj6rka8w589n5z504gq0zf6u6 
 Are there people who want nostr to be (stay as?) bitcointwitter2 and those who want something els... 
 Your perspective is interesting because you didn’t come at this like the majority of the bootstrap cohort.

I think I would have dismissed Nostr if not for understanding Bitcoin, the same as I didn’t get into Bitcoin the first times I saw it. Why didn’t you dismiss it early on?

Agree this does have an early Reddit feeling but way more cypherpunk. Wasnt into Linux but interesting comparison!

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 People in civilized lands do not take away voting rights just because someone breaks the law. You... 
 See this today with Zoomers and Millennials never being able to buy a house. Little point in caring about society when you’ve got nothing tying you to it and are effectively a tourist in your own place. 
 This is great, more of this!

The Kaspa retards will realise there’s a dozen of them in a circlejerk and if they find value in the content on Nostr they’ll switch to a client which supports Bitcoin like everyone else uses, otherwise it’s just going to be abandoned anyway.

Shitcoiners will be forced to learn how money works in reality the hard way. 
 The power law thing is fucking dumb 
 If you look at the standard deviations it’s pretty much a lock to hold next year - it’s like $50k to $500k range 
 There are bitcoiners continuously calling for free speech on a centralized platform when they cou... 
 Nice 👍 

Your ℹ️ tooltips aren’t working on mobile, nothing displays when I tap 
 Safari 
 This is the difference this cycle.

People aren’t going to be on Coinbase confused at which is the real Bitcoin, or being tempted into a shitcoin casino.

This bull market the flows will be from TradFi into Bitcoin and not gambling on garbage to diversify. https://i.nostr.build/6z5tiIRovviSUnB7.jpg  
 Where are the institutions/companies/nations going to gain access to the shitcoins? That’s the difference. 
 The common story is people get hyped in a bull market, they get on one of these shitcoin casinos which prominently market altcoins and people take the default financial advice of diversification so rather than concentrating their capital into Bitcoin they buy multiple coins.

The flows coming from TradFi won’t be in the casino in the first place. 
 A litmus test for the viability or lack thereof of a Nostr unconference in Australia - consider how many #AUStriches have left Australia.

Top of my head I can think of:

@gsovereignty 
@Svetski 
@LukeMikic21  
@mleku 
@JoeCoffey 
@stephanlivera 

Not saying they all left for the same reason, but people are leaving these shores and it ain’t because Australia is a wonderful place to be..

Still think it’s now or never, but maybe like the World Cup, Australia is just not going to ever be a suitable destination. nostr:note1lk7yg9ct7vlfgv9e05qldaw43mm49ayvvjrzfzf75adfx5vrp5ms8856lu 
 And yes, governments can't ban Nostr, but they can ban individual relays and remove apps from app... 
 Anyone developing new apps for #nostr should be making PWAs. This time where apps can still get in Appstores at all will be fleeting, it’s the easiest way for the State to restrict Nostr and they will play that card. 

They’ll go after relays too no doubt but that will prove a more difficult game of whackamole 
 Wow! Never would have thought that we would not have a democratic process on Nostr. I find it amu... 
 I think you’ll find the “few elites” get to decide because they’re the ones planning the event using money that Jack donates to fund it - why should there be “democracy” involved in that? Democracy could just as easily have Boaty McBoatfaced the process and suggested the next one be held in Gaza 
 They’ve asked every year and every year it’s already been essentially pre-determined. If someone/group had put their hand up to do all the work they might have been listened to but just asking for it to be in your locale isn’t enough