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 just met up with a fellow nostrich (don't wanna dox) for an unofficial meetup in Nashville to cha... 
 It's always worth reaching out to fellow bitcoiners when you go to a new city, you never know who you might meet! 
 Always watch for these little red flags. Moving away from telegram us reasonable, but charging mo... 
 Hardware is generally a low-margin revenue stream. It's not wrong that you should pay attention to shifts in business strategy like this, but the underlying reasons are important and it can actually be a good thing. From what I've heard about S9 this recent shift actually makes market sense. 
 For long-form podcasts, do you prefer when pauses and filler words (um, like, etc) are edited out... 
 I prefer it to be be unedited. I listen at 1.5-2x speed (depending on the speaker) so I barely notice pauses anyway. 
 Your best response to the following FUD?

“There's a problem that crypto didn't solve and that'... 
 Uhm, what? 
 Prediction 1: the Dead Internet Theory will prove to be true... on the old internet as AI bots and centralized/government control stifles it's usability.

Prediction 2: Nostr will be (and already is in the beginning stages of being) the new, living internet where users will be drawn as they reclaim their attention, their data, and even their economic livelihoods with #Nostr and #Bitcoin. 
 TIL You can't pump your own gas in New Jersey.

How queer.  
 Oregon is like that too."It provides jobs". 
 Democracy will always eventually trend toward pandering to the lowest common denominator.
 https://image.nostr.build/60094e8c2d3e5e03c7a4f49ad1f7e98005aff5714e479e4b912ab5ce41cddb78.jpg 
 Think of the highest form of technology usage.

Think of a simple farmer 300 years ago.

Now thin... 
 This 
 I'm surprised Blue Origin is still in the picture with how long they're taking STILL to roll out the New Glenn rocket.  
 He does, and seems pretty well tied into the existing space-industrial-complex. I think he's really there to be a champion for the legacy system to compete with Musk.

Don't get me wrong Musk is also part of the cartel, but he has a different philosophy and different goals than the previously established players and has caused them major embarrassment with his success.  
 Yep, I toured the Kent, WA facility multiple times when I was in college, and it was the same. It's obvious that some amount of work has been and is being done there, but it's too clean and no sense of urgency. I was excited about the New Glenn when they first released the Payload User's Guide, but then it just never led to anything. In a competitive environment that's usually a sign of failure to roll out a successful product. 
 I thought everydayastronaut.com would have an article on the Starship specs but I can't seem to find it. I was following this very closely until about 2 years ago... 
 GM, and I'm excited to see those of you who make it to nostr:nprofile1qqs8mez352yxc2r9yt838c9f0sfs86ey0ygh7e996qspx773957u95gpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7ypspnl today! 
 #asknostr I'm aware of  @HORNETS (https://www.hornet.storage/), which I'm excited about, but I have an immediate term need for cloud-based file storage. Google and Microsoft make me wanna puke, and I'd prefer to go open source.

What currently available open source solutions do folks recommend around here? 
 How is Pres Bukele going to handle this latest IMF bs, thoughts? 

The last point below though, ... 
 They're trying to put the cat back into the bag. 
 It's great to hear Efrat purple pilling Mike Benz! Mike so has a way to go, but I hope he gives it a real look.

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 I need to do a deep dive into what's happening with AI outside of the corpo sphere.

GN Caribou 
 #Geoengineering is without a doubt the darkest rabbit hole I've ever explored. Most others have a... 
 It's true that we can't stop it in the near term, but what we can do is learn what we can do to mitigate the effects in our own bodies.

This is why I've taken an interest in mineral balancing to address environmental metal poisoning. It doesn't solve the problem, but it gives us a way to better maintain our health.

https://mineralbalancing.org/integrative-mineral-balancing-blog/bret-mineral-wheel 
 I'm still new to the subject myself, but I can dig into my YT history to find some videos on the topic as well for you. It's just one part of my bigger rabbit hole about electrolytes and how to deal with mineral deficiencies. 
 Here's the video that turned me on to the concept of mineral balancing:

https://youtu.be/c7V2eb_GHck  
 I think it would be worth teaching out to the guy who made the mineral balancing page I linked to, since he's been aggregation this info.

It'd be cool if we could get him posting on Nostr!  
 Sign me up!

I set up my 0xChat just a few days ago, and what better way to put it to regular use? 
 Thanks! Do I need to scan a QR, or should I watch for an invite? 
 ok, I'm in and I've been getting notifications of #nosfit posts from 0xChat!  
 Dude went to Burning Man this year or something? I’ll believe it when I see him make open sourc... 
 As others have said, maybe he's following in the steps of Jack Dorsey.

But he could also be looking to co-opt the open source movement now that it may be the only viable path to compete with OpenAI. 
 I want to say #NostrFixesThis, and in the long run I believe it ultimately does, but his target audience is people who still listen to broadcast radio (who are probably not our prime adoption market). https://image.nostr.build/7fe27551b7a8518eef8c9e879cb7f50a2f37b4e960fd671035ae6e34a5612906.jpg 
 War is always bad for the economy.

You can see this clearly if you ignore all the money, the pie... 
 War is bad for the economy. Every. Single. Time. 

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 How's the reply spam situation been over the weekend? 
 It's forced me to improve my relay management skills. 
 Test commenting on post to see how it shows in npub.pro 
 #asknostr what tool(s) do you use to manage multiple Nostr profiles? Use case is one for personal use, one for a business.

Thanks! 
 Is it just me or have reCaptcha prompts become stupid? I need to do 9 or 10 to get through 😡 
 At the very least, it's not just you. I've been known to complain that reCaptcha prompts have become outright abusive... 
 I keep hearing that in the US you can buy non-KYC bitcoin at ATMs, but my mom bought some from an ATM a while back (surprisingly) and it also required her info to complete the transaction. So at the very least, not all Bitcoin ATMs are non-KYC. 
 So deep in the nostr echo chamber that when I saw a windows OS for first time in years I couldn't... 
 Gross!

(I write from my Windows OS laptop...)

I'm going to install Linux soon. Only kept windows for work, but a recent change in status makes the switch easier. 
 Can't wait for nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft post tonight. 
 👀 
 I'll be at #NostrValley! Would love to be at the other one in Nashville but that's too far away on too short of notice. 
 Ok…had my head down on a project today…

Who has the skinny on the fed announcement?

I saw U... 
 It was cut by 50 bps, which is what most of the predictions I've seen had at the high end.  
  @primal I've been seeing this too when I browse on my Android 
 Jack might not actually be (entirely) wrong. Central govs want centrally controlled AI, and would-be centrally-controlled-AI developers are finding that they can't catch up to OpenAI. This means that the would-be's may have a vested interest in the development of OSAI in partnerships (which they will likely try to co-opt). So funding will go into OSAI but they will try to control it's development and direction.

It's not too dissimilar to what we've been seeing with the recent institutional acknowledgement and "adoption" of bitcoin (albeit via ETFs).

It's a road full of snares, but it's the road we have to walk down. 
 Bullish on Nostr, but still have my X account (for now). So I cross-posted so that the 2-3 people who ever see my posts there might cross over.

https://x.com/agoristo/status/1835718701829513404 
 Will you guys be mad at me for stacking Ag ,Au & Pb along with stacking Sats?
(silver, gold & lead) 
 I believe that you can make the best determination for yourself of what actions are best for you to take for the future protection and prosperity of you and yours. In that spirit, no, not at all! 
 @tomanelson is on Nostr? Awesome! But I still want to see yet more reasonable dissident voices on here.  
 Good work! I'll have to listen for him to mention it in his podcast the next time censorship comes up as a topic.  
 Consider this the warning against Apple and the developers tied to them 
 Did something involving Apple just happen in the news? 
 Sorry, I just got my timeline to load and I can now see the rest of your posts.  
 Normies have been inundated with so many "conspiracy theories" and are so sensitive to peer pressure that they write these explanations off without a further thought.

What I believe will work for them, however, is a demonstration in a way that they can resonate with showing how Nostr and Bitcoin can solve their problems. The more user-friendly, the better. 
 Rough consensus is supposed to be rough. 
 Oh... so not smooth? 
 What accounting software/tools do y'all recommend if I'm transitioning my personal life over to and working to build a business using a bitcoin standard? The search engines gave me a lot of fiat companies with "crypto modules" or whatever and it made me want to vomit. 

#asknostr 
 Looking for a few product testers, still. DM me for more info. 
 What's needed in a product tester? I don't know that I'm a good fit, but if it's part of the Bitcoin and/or Nostr ecosystem I'm at least interested.  
 WW3 is an information war... and we've been in the midst of it for a long time already.  
 WW3 IS an information war... and we've been in the midst of it for a long time already. Great quick read in the note below 👇

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 What would be the primary rule of: a “rules based international order” sitting on top of mone... 
 Probably something to the effect of "don't try to block or replace the flow of the theft money". 
 Good idea, how about tricking them into thinking they owe taxes when they usually don't, and having them sign a paper agreeing to the amount they (don't actually) owe, and requiring them to pay the amount in theft money. 
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 Update: I can now get it to generate the content, after spending some time on relays (I was being lazy about this at first). However, I do still get the error message as in the screenshot above (failed to reserve domain name). I have an idea of something to try and will post back. https://m.primal.net/KymU.png