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 What are the biggest nostr dramas of 2024 so far? 
 odell pissing on saylor for bitcoin development funding issues 
 So is this what's going on?
Japan, the last big economy with negative interest rates was going po... 
 Sounds reasonable.
The money to settle the dept that is not refinanced has come from somewhere. 
 saying #gold has inherent value because of jewelry is like saying #bitcoin has inherent value because of NFTs 
 I'm quite surprised to see way too many people here suffering from TDS. You can dislike him (I do... 
 does that mean that you take serious what the other politicians say? 
 I guess many people are here because they don’t like Elon. Both guys regularly disturb the safe space of people who need the illusion of an universally accepted „progressive“ moral compass. 
 I just read that the guy you propose as a model for trustworthiness labels protesters of murders indiscriminately as right wing extremists and threatens them for protesting, heavily increases mass surveillance, and so on. I doubt that this where the promises that got him elected.  Maybe it‘s not the lies that you dislike about Trump but his positions. 
 I take that as confirmation. 
 I am a very tolerant person until you start waving your flags in my face, gfy with that pls 🙏🫂 
 😆 
 A family member asked if I had my photo taken with Trump like how my grandfather (who was very ac... 
 he should have priced it as 1 BTC on that conference 
 Gm, everybody who's barely smart enough can be edgy. That's like level 1 of being smart. Edgy peo... 
 why are so many people trying to redefine concepts? Level 2 smart is: smarter 
 Libertarians and bitcoiners who preach freedom and peace, but then turn around and promote hatefu... 
 correct! „transitioning“ aka mutilation  did not improve quality of life even back in the days when it was not pushed so hard into society. But it destroys the lifes of confused and manipulated people (incl. children). 
 I just unintentionally caught the women's boxing event between the Turdibekova from Uzbekistan an... 
 big international organization honors dude for hitting girls in the face 
 I totally missed the fact that those guys were sent from „non-white“ countries. Didn‘t expect that much wokeness around the world. 
 I've been thinking about how much smaller and weaker the #cipherpunk movement is as compared to t... 
 it is a mistake to assume that activists base their beliefs on independent and unbiased scrutiny of ideas 
 On Bitcoin Magazine’s YouTube channel, Saylor’s keynote has more views than Trump’s.

387k ... 
 Trump‘s speech is on big MSM youtube channels. I used the one that popped up in my feed. 
 Liquid yes, or no? 
 I support this answer 
 A few days/weeks ago, someone asked if bitcoin was still really the best blockchain. Have none of... 
 You probably mean mike @Mike Dilger
who asked if bitcoin is still the best 2 days ago 
 #gm Nostrgang & world 🌎 

I finally decided to not use iMessage anymore as I noticed that stuf... 
 Do you have anything active against you in your privacy settings? 
 Why haven’t you read it yourself? And if you did: why did you skip Paul? 
 I support no politican nor party. But when they say Trump is a threat to democracy i say, WHAT DE... 
 it is very convenient to have us take responsibility for decisions that we had no real influence on and also to have us suppress resistance that annoys them among ourselves 
 When I am President I shall instruct the Treasury Secretary to buy 20 million bitcoin! 
 is that a trump quote? 😁 
 https://youtu.be/4ksx1c71qnw

Ironically, the doctor who abused his position to strong arm media mogul Elon Musk into giving consent for the mutilation of his child may have singlehandedly caused what might become the downfall of the woke revolution.

#woke #musk 
 he is right. It just took him a couple of decades until he recognized it. 
 GM.

Without credible video confirmation, it’s reasonable to question whether Biden indeed curr... 
 imo: Biden wanted to quit for a long time. Having to perform a job that you are not good enough in and constantly failing publicly in the center of attention would be stressful even for a young person full of energy. He played along for the sake of his team. 
 What's the best meme to send to someone to tell them that 'I miss you on nostr. I wish you'd come... 
 🤔 something like: „Hey, I dm‘ed you some nudes on nostr“ 
 Biden announced he is not running for president on Twitter, a centralized company, via an account... 
 wouldn’t be surprised if he doesn’t even tweet himself. Too risky for his team in his condition. 
 🤔OK, great idea:
head car sweet house night melon dinner steel foot drive sun nine
Now it’s safe and I won’t loose it 🥶🤪 
 I have a 8 GB Stick and want to use it for sensitive Data. So I will format it and use LUK for pa... 
 In case that is important to you: I guess pulling the stick will not remove the encryption key from memory. Also, your swap partition might contain sensitive information even after you shutdown your pc. 
 Both Biden and Trump are kind of retarded. We have known this for a long time.

During the debate... 
 What I learned so far:

1. Biden is not fit to be President. But he is President. Therefore, other people run your country. Retarded or not, if re-elected you‘re not worse of than you currently are.
2. The powers that be, at the very least, did not protect Trump as much as he deserves in his situation.

Question: Stay on course or change? 
 😁 I get the feeling that you think I‘m American and made a pro-Trump statement 
 And a question - what is the state of the art of encrypting data on SSD? Do I just LUKS it?

#lin... 
 gocryptfs when you don’t want to encrypt whole partitions or have backups in the cloud 
 https://youtu.be/nhI8gydIqIs

#media bias #woke #journalism #trump 
 Why does he need to wait until he is re-elected ??? 
 It really takes a specially severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome to believe that a guy who h... 
 Questions about the shooter, his motivation and weapon should be secondary. Are we really supposed to believe that the USA cannot protect the leading presidential candidate? There would have been many more incidents if that were the case. 
 I don‘t.
But that doesn‘t mean anything either. 
 As a matter of fact, whose BTC was it to begin with? How did the German government get it in the ... 
 not sure, but I think one of the big dark net marketplace servers was in Germany a decade ago. It is surprising how keys in the government‘s possession can stay secret for so long. 
 the 5th and still on „sale“ 
 Engineering has generally been "close enough to the metal" that most engineers tend to be relativ... 
 Often, engineers are easy targets. Disconnected from the wider public, socially awkward, good suspense of disbelief, smart and detail oriented. You can’t tell people what to think, but you can tell them what to think about. Get them to try to solve a problem - framed from the intended angle. The solution for „how“ can justify a position. „How can we make distribution x more accessible for democratic y? … Oh, that is a great idea!“ 
 What we need is a verifiably fair lottery. 

Not for gambling, mind you. 

For choosing our publi... 
 Are you sure? If you randomly select someone from the whole population you could end up with a demented ruler. 🤔 Nevermind 
 Q: I have 10 guns. If the government seizes 10 guns from me, how many do I have left?

A: 20 guns... 
 always wondered why people have multiple guns. Now it makes sense 
 It's pretty amazing how much you can change your body composition if you're willing to put in the... 
 when you are a young guy 
 Some people have grown cynical with democracy (and various types of representative government bro... 
 So, what is your take on democracy?

That it is so good that no explanation is needed and once it becomes feasible it will win?
Do clans, families and small companies have more democratic structures than other types of governance? 
 People should be able to remember their nsecs. Any way to convert it into seed words or phrase ? 
 3.14000000 
 I will provide a situation, and you will give me the shortest pitch possible that makes sense to ... 
 „It feels like early twitter“ 
 You are right. El Arish is a good choice. 
 Damn, I butchered the joke. Better version:

Nine month later …
Lyn Alden makes a trip to El Arish 
 Dass die nostr:npub147dltav5d8rk7luhpzvn90a06ac4lwwgdqvlrgv2udxpux9ejj5shcc6nc nicht mehr im Euro... 
 Nichtwähler. Die Kombination Freiheit im Netz und Kommi anderswo ist nur für Kinder. Verwechslung von Freiheit: Meinungsfreiheit mit Freibier; Pirat mit Robin Hood.