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 It took me months to open account in NZ despite having permanent residency and BNZ’s “white g... 
 I remember jumping into a hole into some kind of toxic conveyer belt thing. Terrifying experience 
 Welcome Shannon! 💜🫂🤙🏻 
nostr:nevent1qqsrum9u2gytu83rvwfenpdpsr8a8ehax4pvp9p6sfn6jc0rp... 
 We should price bitcoin in boxes of milk.  Is bitcoin up or down (compared to boxes of milk in Ha... 
 Waiting for checked bags is a humiliation ritual 
 I have a right to listen to any state-funded propaganda outlet I want to, and that includes RT.

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 Reminds me of booking flights. Airline sees you browsing for flights on given dates and instantly... 
 Picture this:
1. You type on Google "laptop won't turn on"
2. Google now knows you have a broken ... 
 “Latin music superstar, Nicky Jam. Do you know Nicky? She’s hot. Where’s Nicky?” Trump said before the musician took the stage. “Oh, look, I’m glad he came up,” Trump awkwardly offered once realizing his mistake. Did he confuse Nicky Jam and Nicki Minaj? Jam still delivered a small speech, and later acknowledged the incident with crying-laughing emojis on Instagram.


https://www.stereogum.com/2280367/donald-trump-mistakenly-refers-to-nicky-jam-as-a-woman-while-introducing-reggaeton-singer-at-campaign-rally/news/ 
 if I had that power then nostr wouldn't be censorship resistant :) 
 Sadly, when you've been in and around bitcoin circles for long enough, and meet people in real li... 
 clients will get better. we should really spec negentropy v1 in nip01 and save zettabytes of data... 
 nah I would happily kill my relay if there are enough reliable and spam resistant ones run by oth... 
 it's a difficult issue because everyone has different relay sets, so there no way to know what us... 
 Her solicitor, Frank Buttimer, said his client was suffering from psychosis when she assaulted the woman on Winthrop Street in the city.

“She (Duffy) has a limited recollection of the event. It is not something she set out deliberately to do. In a psychotic state she lashed out. That doesn’t justify or excuse her behaviour.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/woman-jailed-for-sitting-duck-attack-on-old-lady-in-wheelchair-in-cork-1671911.html 
 You would first need to define what would actually be shared. Not sure I would trust anything fro... 
 I made a posts when it was happening on ways to stop the spam:

the web of trust button doesn't f... 
 relays can use whatever backend mechanism they want to coordinate with each other. might be usefu... 
 Some run instances to spam tons of relays at once. You are likely getting write blocked by using it 
 we fixed space tagging in the next version! (out this week) 
 we have a simple web-of-trust filter on the notifications view (button on the top right), we just... 
 has it always been like this? that's surprising. 
 I think most people are mentally done with it and just want to move on.  
 I was banned from the Vancouver subreddit because I said unvaccinated nurses shouldn't be fired b... 
 gentoo was my very first linux distro, took me 5 days to compile, great UX (rekt) 
 I ran Gentoo in my main machine for many years. Don't recommend. :) 
 It’s sad to me that bitcoin has become political or associated with the cringe “crypto bro”...