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 if starship $/kg to orbit numbers are even close to real, you could take the equivalent of 2 Burj Khalifas to orbit for the cost of 1 ISS 
 I like when the reality of the protocol forces us to think about better ways to represent things ... 
 you ever thought abt removing like & follower counts? nostr:note1ve03fs7dh6lp2w5g8w6qz9w56em3nrf7xpm6h70q9ht5jgv3806s9sdx29 
 ownership of a company is a weird concept when you think abt it. it’s not real 
 how do you ‘own’ a bunch of ppl coming together and doing stuff 
 all modern politicians know how to do is take 10 years to build stairs and say ‘my thoughts go out to those affected by xyz’ 
 UK of course 
 in the spirit of dead-internet theory, it is probably best to kill the idea of like and follower counts on nostr. zap-count isn’t really safe either, but it’s still definitely worth having zaps. nostr:note1qkakcjnct6j67chyg596ked4n4nutyp9e6k35s6ly3w3ssc4wuxq2harxs 
 i think this the direction most social media will move towards, as spam/bots are too difficult to combat without killing UX. 
 all platforms do 
 i think that side of it is under-explored too. it’s interesting that unconscious effect likes and follow counts have on your perception. 
i hate how sometimes my mind, by default, might give a post/comment on ig/twitter merit just because of how many likes it has. 
 @OpenSats @ODELL when you really think about it- airships are the bitcoin of aviation and they use PoW to propel themselves through the sky. please give lufta.org $1m :) 
 51% on the mid semester assignment. Yup, mechanics and materials time 😎😎😎 
 materials/structures were my worst units. pseudoscience made up by the jews imo 
 i think they look nice 👉👈 
 Simple answer: PoW. It's the only metric that can't be gamed and for which there is no need for c... 
 this was my first thought for getting ‘meaningful’ metrics, but PoW can become a blight on UX 
 been having trouble locking in lately- should i just kill myself? 
 i realised why Sam Altman rubs me wrong- he talks like a politician 
 true lmao 
 starting a movement. 

just took a snapshot of https://github.com/bitcoin/bips- we activate every BIP listed by August or i set off a thermonuclear weapon in El Salvador. 
 this is the emoji that you can put next to your name if you’re a fag like that:💣 
 The majority of discussion on Nostr is about building new things, while on X it's about politics ... 
 poo poo pee pee 
 the good thing about running a shit first marathon is that it sounds really impressive to wipe an hour off your PB 
 guess this will be a self-funded venture. dm me if you’re interested in bearing children. nostr:note1nl6wgcaftqde3ntfa589lklwrq3gt5g23gna4y76ptwsja78wrpq0lr8t2 
 why do heroin addicts always have great hairlines 
 the only ‘great men’ archetype we’re missing in society right now is the socrates/george-orwell type that leave indelible marks on human thought. 
 The Instagram comment section has become pretty damn spicy, I assume deliberately to drive engage... 
 noticed this too lmao. it’s like tiktok comments now 
 ‘We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because I am hard’ one of the best speeches of all time 
 they don’t want you to know this but australia can be fixed 
 Seems like the nostr crowd is okay with censoring CP. I don't really give a shit, but gotta point... 
 have you considered that you’re retarded? even in a completely free, anarchic society you still have moral principles that are overwhelming shared. 
you can expect that to be reflected within a public square- just like how someone might come up to you and push you off your soapbox. 

this is how freedom is expresses itself in reality. with freedom you are preventing some arbitrary group having control over you, but individuals will do what they do. 
 no it’s not, you should not expect relays run by individuals to relay everything 
 the principle is the same. you should at-least find out what you’re paying for before you buy something https://nostr.wine/terms 
 yes that’s the core idea behind nostr. it’s not hypocritical. 
 who’s working on nostr movie nights? 
 why is that when you mention anything to do with scaling btc and different trade-offs, monerobros will come in to say ‘we’ve been telling you guys this the whole time’ as if they’re not in the exact same boat. 
 yeah we’re full 
 #asknostr

Gonna try this again lol.
Not sure I'm explaining it well tho, so bear with me.
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 another interesting approach would be combining RSS feeds to make a timeline.

instead of pulling notes from relays, when you open your ‘algo’ feed, your client combines 10 RSS feeds i.e. top notes of the day, mentions popular movies, mentions xyz, which is made up of notes. 
 i’m kinda more interested in how nostr could build personalised feeds based off likes, and engagement like other platforms but it would be very difficult here. 
 ‘visually stunning’ 
looks like typical marvel CGI slop 
 still in the rear, it just exhausts with a port out the side i believe 
 the ‘other stuff’ in NOSTR is organising mid-sized militias for a blitzkreig operation against new zealand by australia. 
 how dare you 
 anthony albanese soon 🙏 (i will be arrested for this post) nostr:note1ahq34g95lc5874vn8yuwm8ecvyxc32cxq0mtrm7t5zu7l7utrv7splxc8z 
 Despite recent regulatory crackdowns against custodians and privacy, i think cashu has a good chance of success because of how easily mints can proliferate.

WoS, Phoenix, ZBD, Alby are much easier targets as they operate centrally around a company. 
 what are you yapping about? how does monero plan to scale since that’s what we’re talking about. 
 not if the authorities hunt them down. it’ll be like a hydra tho 
 no they wouldn’t, even if it’s custodial it’s still a very elegant application of blind signatures for payments. 

if it was somehow only proposed today you’d find they’d would just to try find a way to make it non-custodial probably 
 custodians are not the enemy retard- your priors are completely wrong.

interesting tho, id love to hear your mental gymnastics to rationalise why arbitrum/optimism/etc are fine when their bridge contracts are upgradable by a multisig. no-one seems to care that none of ethereum’s L2s are trustless despite being marketed like they are. 
 aren’t trustless* 
 oh ok, well no-one has finished lighting or cashu then either. stage 2 cashu is completely self-custodial- it’s on the roadmap 
 hand-jobs are such a simple motion. why don’t we have bladerunner-esque rub and tug joints, with humanoid robots, under ambient neon lighting yet? 
 combine this with a chatGPT-4o scarlett johansson voice 

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 didn’t know Rabble was involved with the mass shooting in new zealand, wowee 
 it’s true @theobius, i’m literally hitler and i like nostr 
 odell signaling support for team slow steady, prefers bip300 drivechains to op_cat drivechains:

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 😂 
 i’m in love with a telegram phishing bot 
 JUST IN: Australia's government forecasts $9.3 billion surplus for this financial year 
 Good grief. I'm defending Jack

FML 🥹🫂 
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 anyone on here looking to have a child with a sensitive, young man who posts notes? 
 fun fact after existing for 15yrs less than 0.1% of the world uses bitcoin as money. if we’re being generous. 
 kill yourself