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 How would you categorise your political views? 

Funny answers will get #zapped 

#asknostr  
 Views?  I just close my eyes & start doing shit, fuck politics, I'll ask for forgiveness later, or not.  Yeah fuck politics. 
 "Canary in the coal mine"... if it dies, it's a sign of danger


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 "Essential" and "Necessary" are essentially the same word.

#etymology

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 IYKYK 😏

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 my brain can't keep up with the frenzy. gonna go watch a movie. Any recommendations? 
 Run Lola Run 
 Took some tinkering to get everyone to play together: 

Amethyst running internal tor, Citrine lo... 
 Tor can be slow & painful to demo to an orange pill prospect.  I recommend you look into wireguard/tailscale.  You'll get a *direct* encrypted connection between your devices. 
 Unpopular opinion: Feel free to sell some #Bitcoin if there is a big purchase that improves the q... 
 Depends on your age.  Too many young people start their lives with a high time preference, which is completely backwards. 
 I got asked by a non technical friend

>Technical question: What does signal do which is more sec... 
 "Double Ratchet Algorithm"

The *protocol^ for it's encryption is unique & elegant.  Every message looks like it comes from a brand new identity. so the metadata of conversations can't easily be correlated.  WhatsApp/Facebook just know all of that metadata by default.

SimpleX is like signal, but uses many relays instead of just one (among other privacy enhancements). 
 Those 2 electronic buttons are mistakes if you ask me 😏 
 #bitcoin USD price will eventually surpass the current #Bitcoin Block Number 
 This won't even be the final flippening in bitcoins lifetime, there will be more.  Few.

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 Because "Marvel" is like 50 movies... 🤷‍♂️ 
 "America isn’t just an ‘idea’—it’s a culture, history, and set of values rooted in trad... 
 No, but it's probably unwise on US soil to throw away (or bury) that document & replace it with the wisdoms of debate coming from modern day politicians.   
 ON THE GENEALOGY OF WOKENESS

Most people misunderstand the origins of contemporary "woke" ideolo... 
 What "woke" feels like from my perspective

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 All about the performance 
 Seems to ignore all the slaves who get paid monopoly credit pointa for their work, rather than nothing.  They're essentially identical system though 🤷‍♂️

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 In America you can grow up the child of a drug addict engulfed in trauma and rise through your ow... 
 1865 - 1913 then.

No more slavery;  YASSS ENERGY & INDUSTRY!  Humanity's quality of life exploded upwards thanks to the US in those decades. 
 If I have to indulge your illogical equivalences, then yes, because the US hasn't done much more net positive for humanity domestically or abroad since before WW1.

The best parts of the Industrial Revolution far outshine the worst in the history of the human race.  Exploitation?  Even low paid workers were paid in real gold-backed money back then; today, most folks work for _monopoly credit points_.  We are much closer to "slavery" today than in those decades before WW1. 
 They already have a very good idea of who owns what, and the power to get to nearly anyone. 
 I'm suggesting they'll threaten prison if citizens sell it to anyone other than them 
 And it'll be a shit deal 
 that's useless 
 If it all comes from the same home IP, that's a very clear fingerprint. 
 Going forward, I will be buying less Bitcoin 

My fiat DCA is the same but I get less sats 🐸 
 Going forward, I will be paid a lower salary.  

My fiat salary is higher, but I earn fewer sats per hour. 🐸

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 PSA: Some of you use nostr without a VPN and that's very very very bad. You should use a VPN, at ... 
 Personally, I prefer #tailscale & some VPS instances around the world.  Tailscale is an actual literal "virtual private network" rather than a glorified proxy like mullvad.  Also less honeypotty 😉



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 MTV in it's prime during those PJ years.

(pouring one out for the other grunge singers who left this world too early 🥲, cornell, cobain, weiland...) 
 Gm ☀️ ⛰️ 

Running up a ski hill before I MC the main stage at nostr:npub1q9twlqa2pfrcwtm... 
 "Keep running up that hill" 
 its kinda cool in plan9 when you can have your OpenBSD vps mounted through sshfs to $home/ssh and... 
 Hope you're also using a vpn, not exposing ssh to the internet 
 Yon can always feel alone, even with company 
 You can always find connection, even when you're alone.

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 I love how federal agencies pick winners & losers these days.  Nevermind that google's whole product is monetized by it unapologetically being spyware.

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 At what point do the Fiat experts, #Bitcoin haters and doubters actually admit that they were wrong? 
 In the Next Life 
 Really?  You don't say.. 🤔

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 i just wanna lick it ngl 
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 Too purple.  Weird. 
 #Bitcoin is not about making money, it’s money. 
 Bitcoin mining is literally all about making money though.  The rest of us earn money.  Few. 
 Tor is a time who's come.  Nostr follows. 
 Normies can't stand the responsibilities of freedom in general 😔 
 Secret Service should've been all over that rogue mf'er!!

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 Whoever says US elections don't matter isn't GMI 😏

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 I watched some mainstream media today.

They’ve been talking a lot about how race and gender pl... 
 "It's your fault you don't like it, not my fault for doing it."

I say this to my wife when I fart.  *That's* gaslighting!  She loooves it 🙄 
 "What type of PK cryptography is used for bitcoin keypairs?

"Who was the 2nd user to use bitcoin after satoshi?"

"How was the source code initially distributed?"  (maybe best not to dredge that one up though 😉) 
 Going for the gold!

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 To be fair, politics were much more acutely in everyones face & daily lives for nearly all of 2020 🤷‍♂️ 
 Good point, considering how many new voters there are in 2024 
 Side thought I can never shake...that meme dad's proportions are so fuckin weird 🤣 
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 THE OTHER THING

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 Gas station w/ a beef jerky bar 😉

Granted, it's industrial chemical jerky, but beggars can't be choosers. 
 today my first grader gets to cast his vote in the school-wide election: cookies vs. fruit for sn... 
 If cookies lose I bet a color war breaks out! 
 To all the naysayers who insist voting to Free Ross is a waste of time since Trump won't ever do ... 
 In 4 years, as he leaves office and maybe grants the pardon, 25m sats will be...quite lucrative!


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 I heard Kamala won Pennsylvania already 
 I don't care about #Pubky. I'm NostrOnly. 
 It'll take days, once someone takes on the task.  It's an impressively simple solution 😏 
 I loved POP3 tbh 
 If nostr apps removed zaps, how much would you care?

Anyone think posts would be better without ... 
 I should have said freedom tech too.  Most folks haven't ever asked themselves "what is money?"  Even weak bitcoin integration is the best available way to show not tell them how to answer the question.