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 Pascal's wager. 
 No, I reject Pascal's Wager. 
 A little from column A, a little from column B. 
 Definitely not all. You'd have to do a large study over a long period of time while focusing on that one specific variable in order to be sure. 
 When humanity learns to divide by zero we will take one step closer to God. 
 If I see someone talk about who might be satoshi, I lose all respect for them instantly. Ignore w... 
 This is also more evidence that nobody actually believes Craig is Satoshi. 
 zapping this note should not work 
 Whoa you're right!

"Error, invalid destination." 
 BitBoy is about to (in an hour or so) literally get his ass beat on live stream in Mexico City and you can watch it here.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4Ws5jSwurWc 
 Yeah, apparently the other guy is some memecoin creator / influencer. 
 SUCCESS!
It only required 200,000,000,000 guesses. 🫠
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 2 weeks  
 Spent $419 on a single grocery bill yesterday. Only 6 bags. 
 I've been spending over $100 per grocery bag lately - Hawaii ain't cheap. 
 New season of Rick & Morty is alright - the plots are still edgy. But darned if the new Rick voice actor isn't disappointing. Feels like Rick has lost all of his eccentric mannerisms. 
 Also, a meta red flag: posting the full content of the post as both the title and the body. 
 Fun "brought to you by nostr" story:

@bitcoinlubah is on a 275 day round the world cruise. They saw my nostr post about speaking at the Honolulu BitDevs meetup, which happened to be 100 yards from where their cruise ship was docking on the same day, so they walked on over! 
 Well there was more than one of them soooooo... 
 Craig Wright is like a generic large language model  that is able to generate an endless amount of sentences that sound reasonable to the untrained layman, but he can't actually apply logic or first principles to what he's saying so there's no substance to it.

The way he's able to construct new stories is incredible. He creates a narrative so complicated that you can't process all the moving parts and he uses Brandolini's law to his advantage.

In these respects, Craig is an expert con man. 
 Just had someone apply for a job while claiming 20 years of Bitcoin experience. 🤡 
 Over 100,000 Taproot Assets have been minted in the past 5 months! 
 My latest article is a recap of the juiciest tidbits from Faketoshi's recent escapades in court. Come along on a journey to clown town!

https://blog.lopp.net/copa-vs-craig-wright-identity-trial/ 
 Craig losing will just be spun as him being a misunderstood genius / a grand conspiracy by the lizard people. 
 My takeaway from seeing the variety of political dissidents rotting and dying in prison all around the world is simple:

Don't let the motherfuckers take you alive. 
 Oh great, another critical Mastodon server security update. 🙄 
 Yes, Mastodon is probably the best network for staying in touch with the infosec community. 
 Secret announcement for nostrich 👀 only! Please don't share to other networks. Mahalo 🙏🏻

Aloha, Hawaii!

I'll be leading a discussion on Feb 19 at the Honolulu Bitdevs Socratic Seminar. You can find the event info at https://www.hnlbtc.group/ 
 Interesting documentary on "the long night" of The Purge in Argentina. English subtitles available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9cN5sOrYMg 
 Today I learned that 10 years ago the entire police force of Argentina went on strike for 48 hours and the country basically turned into The Purge.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/12/10/249936718/with-most-police-on-strike-riots-and-looters-hit-argentina 
 To be fair, this is some BSV level grasping at straws. 
 Top post in /r/bitcoin right now is numerology for nerds. 🙄

Moronic.
https://image.nostr.build/345775a537851b22aa22005634e28015d5a44c53c87e6ceadaad323c30ee71ba.jpg 
 If Craig Wright spent half the time he's spent forging documents, plagiarizing papers, and filling bullshit patents actually studying computer science then he'd be a decent coder. 
 Valentine's day, you say?

Nah, this contrarian went out to celebrate yesterday when demand was low. 
 Craig on the stand, explaining exactly why he needs to be crushed into oblivion. He won't stop until he's forced.
https://image.nostr.build/0d8cb196ec5d8b6acb65582871525e03befa4c5b82c545e51b771a390d3146f3.jpg 
 Calvin Ayre is the man behind the curtain. 
 If you drive around in a vehicle with firearm related stickers on it, you're an operational security retard.

Never disclose information to an adversary voluntarily. 
 Don't host your "free speech protocol" instances behind a domain that's controlled by the Taliban...
https://www.404media.co/taliban-shuts-down-queer-af-domain-breaking-mastodon-instance/ 
 Literally nobody would flush perfectly good drugs if not for your bullshit war on them...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-police-warn-locals-not-flush-drugs-fear-meth-gators-n1030291 
 It's Superbowl Sunday, which means it's a great day to do touristy things that are usually extremely crowded. You can always watch the Superbowl later. Contrarianism FTW! 
 That's what they want you to believe. 
 There's no easy way to do that, but it's not for my personal use anyway. 
 Currently attempting to mine an 8 character vanity npub prefix. 4 billion guesses down... 
 There's no easy way to do that, but it's not for my personal use anyway. 
 Depends on the CPU. One of my machines can do a quarter million guesses per second so it could easily take a couple months. Just hoping I get lucky. 
 SUCCESS!
It only required 200,000,000,000 guesses. 🫠
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 No cameras allowed in the court room, but a sketch artist managed to capture this likeness of Craig:
https://image.nostr.build/3e5300dd567d15ce24efdd50f7540febb95d27ef75154c4f564428010feb498e.jpg 
 Air fryers are a game changer. I had no idea how awesome something halfway between an oven and mi... 
 I use mine more than my full size oven! 
 The judge in the COPA trial has a degree and background in engineering.

This does not bode well for Craig's technobabble! 
 Human milk is better than cow milk.
#NostrAfterDark 
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 I, an ardent agnostic, have agreed to go on the Thank God for Bitcoin podcast. 😬
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 Exactly. I consider anyone who claims certainty about the existence / nonexistence of god to be delusional. 
 I have no reason to believe in an afterlife because I have no recollection of a beforelife.

Neither can I disprove it, but it seems to me that our consciousness is highly reliant upon the continued operation of a fragile organic computer we call a brain. 
 You're operating upon an unproven assumption that the default state is nonexistence rather than existence. 
 Imagine paying your shillbot army to get hundreds of likes and reposts and yet with all that effort you can only get 10K views for your weak-ass propaganda.

https://image.nostr.build/9fa797b46b0ab3f17ae549bb82149bd18cc78eba2fa4cd1f517aaad1a47715f0.jpg 
 Behind every pubkey there is a person, remember that, be kind, you don't know the war that each o... 
 I dunno about that, a lot of pubkeys are bots! 
 If you're not regularly feeling uncomfortable or offended, you're probably trapped in a bubble that is inhibiting your personal growth!

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 I, an ardent agnostic, have agreed to go on the Thank God for Bitcoin podcast. 😬
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Thank you for your recent... 
 If you're not regularly feeling uncomfortable or offended, you're probably trapped in a bubble that is inhibiting your personal growth!

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 Day 3 of COPA vs Wright

I'm present in court to watch, and will probably report a little here an... 
 We have to admit Craig is an expert.

... at gaslighting.
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