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 What if we had a special unannounced guest show up? 
 Even if it's the Internet? 
 I can do this on my phone right now if I try to tap the utmost corner of the LCD screen or a tiny box. Tap the middle of the box in the middle of the object action area and the touches would register much better most likely. It could also be shitty LCD screens too. Really shitty Android tablets will function this way. 
 The corner of the screen in the first video and the corner of the object box in the second video. I just see shitty programming and shitty LCD screens. Most likely they kept touching so hard to get it to select Trump that their finger barely touched the screen below over top of Harris.

As I said, I've bought shitty Android tablets that do exactly this. The touch sensitivity is absolute garbage on them. I can't see foul play when I've experienced this many times myself.

Think about it? If someone is going to cheat, they're not going to do it in plain sight. The cheating would happen under the hood, in the software. What does showing a wrong selection do? Nothing besides make people choose whom they originally wanted. You're not a very good criminal or cheater if you tell everyone you're cheating. 
 I need dis. 
 Last night had a relatively small turnout of trick or treaters. 

I missed a doorbell ring (volum... 
 Ouch. I had 253 kids come by. 
 It's always insane here in my neighborhood. You can't drive on the streets. 
 It's way too much to be honest. I don't like it. Spending $100 on candy is too much. 
 Would be cool to have a filter for the notifications in amethyst so to only see replies.  
 Amazon nuked Alexa data a few years ago sadly and I miss it, well the 4 times a year I used to view ranking data 😭🤣 I didn't know that Google stopped caching. That's a shame too. 
 Good morning ✌️🧡 
 Pura vida 🤙🏻 
 Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 🫂🤙🏻💜

Happy Friday, builders! You're all killing it. Keep up the great work. The road ahead is rocky, but we have the tools to smooth it out along the way. 
 I haven't paid any attention to it. I already have a pubkey 🥹 Good morning. 💜🤙🏻🫂 
 Mr. Ross always makes me feel so old! Good morning 🌄🫂🤙🏻💜 
 Good morning 🌄 
 Pura vida 🫂🤙🏻💜 
 PV 🤙🏻 
 Pura vida 🤙🏻 
 New Npub 👀 Good morning, Jay! 🤙🏻💜🫂 
 Good morning, Colin. Er... Picture Room? 🫂 
 PV 🤙🏻 
 It's honestly fine. They gray in my beard reminds me of my age all of the time 🤣💜🫂  
 PV 🤙🏻 
 GM PV 🫂🤙🏻 
 PV Dan 🤙🏻💜🫂 
 PV 🤙🏻 
 PV Scott! 🤙🏻🫂 
 Everything old is new again...

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 Black and blue! 
 I love these!
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 These are awesome. 
 Good night everybody, happy halloween! 
 Goodnight! 
 A relay centric client 👀

It's happening nostr:nprofile1qqsw9n8heusyq0el9f99tveg7r0rhcu9tznatuekxt764m78ymqu36cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuat50phjummwv5hszymhwden5te0wahhgtn4w3ux7tn0dejj7qg4waehxw309an8yetwwvh82arcduhx7mn99uuwx66a 
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 Exactly! It's all coming together. 
 Haha, typo on Nostr. 
 Will shall henceforth be known as Zap Father. 
 And so it was written. 
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 Why some users put over 100+ relays into their NIP-65 Relay List 🤣 
 Yikes. They probably don't know that this is incorrect. 
 This is not the desired behavior. You only need to have a handful of outbox relays. Less is more.
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 If we just get a few thousand people running blossom servers, we could replace YouTube  
 Hmm. Could we have the ability to mirror content on trusted friend's blossom instances. 
 “I joined nostr and only saw bitcoin content so i left”

Yeah well i joined bluesky and only ... 
 Will shall henceforth be known as Zap Father. 
 Clam down. I'm not trying to have sex with him. 
 Dammit 
 You gotta have 12 kids to make a good backup. 
 I am so excited for my first SALE and first DAY on #Nostr 😍

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 Welcome to Nostr and the future of social communication 🫂🤙🏻💜 
 Cult of Satoshi ™️ 
 Cult of Stephen ✳️ 
 It's Trick or Treat time. Incoming 250+ kids. https://media.tenor.com/_7TBOA1GxO4AAAAC/fail-hurricane.gif 
 I don't see a common theme yet in my neighborhood.  
 253 to be exact 😩
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 I've had a small Lightning channel of 1M sats closing for MONTHS. I can't bump it. There's only 10K sats on my side, so I don't really care. I decided to go back through old Plebnet chats and found the node owner. He didn't know he had 990,000 sats sitting there in limbo 😮 His node is dead because of hardware issues. I showed him the nostr:nprofile1qqsrk63a8wentzpk5ex3eqpf9wtww6vwcddzuh9y2800567n4ulwhpqpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0532llr Accelerator. He's going to get his sats back! 🫂💜🤙🏻 
 It's only a pain in the ass when things go sideways 😂 But yes, I'm glad I found him. 
 Hah. Yeah, I've been watching this channel hoping it closes, but the fee is 1 sat/vbyte.  
 Awesome. 
 I've seen 2. 
 Damn. That's a pretty large wall 😂 
 This user deleted his profile shortly after joining Nostr, but it wasn't because of the community. If you read the early comments before he deleted his profile, you'll see Nostriches providing help. They're giving him instructions on how to find tune his feed, choose his own algorithm, and make the most of Nostr - no matter the content.

I don't think we as a community could have done any better in this example.

I believe this failure at user retention was not at the fault of the community, but more so on the user not willing to learn.

Could we have done better? Sure. There's always room for improvement.

However, the user needs to be willing to learn as well. They need to be willing to step outside their comfort zone, just a little, and learn. 

Better luck next time. 
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 Time of day and depends if you were lucky enough for someone to find it and engage with it. Welcome to Nostr 😅 
 🧐 
 If you don't like Bitcoin, but still like Nostr, here's one simple trick to remove the vast majority of Bitcoin content! Add words like Bitcoin, BTC, Satoshi, Blockchain, Timechain, UTXO, etc. to your mute or filter list and most Bitcoin content will be gone! https://nostrcheck.me/media/3f770d65d3a764a9c5cb503ae123e62ec7598ad035d836e2a810f3877a745b24/9d9b1b4db881fe059d864121981146579a4a462a278e56cec29435eb4be8be9f.webp 
 No you. 
 How to get Zaps on Nostr. A comprehensive guide:

Build and/or create something.

The end. 
 You can give Primal's wallet bogus information. It 100% works with it. There is not a guarantee that it will work forever though using bogus information. 
 Primal uses Strike's backend and that makes to KYC to use the built in wallet, but no other solution is point and click easy for sending and receiving Zaps. Cashu wallets are medium acceptable here, I guess, if you use Zeus or Phoenix as your wallet and constantly loop out to Lightning. 
 A relay centric client 👀

It's happening nostr:nprofile1qqsw9n8heusyq0el9f99tveg7r0rhcu9tznatuekxt764m78ymqu36cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuat50phjummwv5hszymhwden5te0wahhgtn4w3ux7tn0dejj7qg4waehxw309an8yetwwvh82arcduhx7mn99uuwx66a 
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 Welcome to Nostr! We're glad to have you on this journey with us! 💜🤙🏻🫂 
 100K is within our grasp. We just need to keep building. Soon, we will have 100K active users across Nostr. 
 I will be down for sho.