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 Does it support bitcoin lightning payments without having satoshis to open a channel? 
 Yall do realize that “BITCOIN WILL BE MADE IN THE USA!” is quite possibly the stupidest pande... 
 Pandering yes, but if a bitcoin is mined here in the USA. Then couldn't you say it was made in the USA too?  
 Statist..... I don't think I fit into that category.

It is my firm belief that humanity has not figured out any system which actually works yet. When that is finally invented I may become that. What it is, who the fuck knows. Until then I'm on the sidelines waiting for everyone else to figure their shit out. 

For now I am just a debt slave hoping one day to become truly free from any system that seeks to keep enslaving us all. Trying to become fully free in my mind so that one day I may also be in body too. Just trying to survive now until i can discover how to thrive. 

My response was more of a pondering of if he is actually right purely on a technicality. Nothing more and nothing less implied.  
 Your perceptions and world view will shape the way you perceive and interact with the world. 

St... 
 How does one acquire such mindsets? 
 Do I really have to spend $500 on an RO filter to remove government added fluoride from my water 
 You've got a lot more than just fluoride to worry about. $500 now vs $500k in medical bills later.  
 Holy shit... The moon really is artificial... 
 I feel we need some context here.  
 I don't want Bitcoiners orange pilling politicians.

I want Bitcoiners running for office.

#Bitcoin 
 I mean if you wanna pay me in bitcoin to run for mayor in a small town. Sure.  
 Burn this book with fucking fire and piss on the ashes. No child must be brainwashed. 
 I dunno. Sounds like a pretty decent idea to me. Be nice to not be fed poison for once.  
 people's brains are governed by closed-source algorithms, so it's not that weird. nostr:note17yxr... 
 Its weird, because we blindly trust something that we can't see. A technology that helps to determine our political future. Putting trust in the manufacturer that is absolute, involuntary, and not held accountable to we the people. 

For we are never able to see what takes place on voting machines. Is their software up to date, are they connected to an insecure network? A mystery network of actions taking place behind closed source proprietary back doors. Never seen, or independently verified to ensure no fuckery is afoot. 

Paper ballots marked with quantum resistant blockchain values and voter ID requirements. Multiple hand counts from independent volunteers. No fucking hackable voting machines. This is the way. Anything else isn't secure enough for our country. 
 How so? 
 The CEO has spoken;
nostr:nevent1qqsxk223tqdhfamnrfnuznh0ys96rpv2chzqsy6mf3rt3jwcvqkwt7sprdmhxue6... 
 Bullshit.

Try this enigma. If you want self custody and open source software only. Without any 3rd party service providers like fountain.fm. How do you get a lightning wallet if you have no money to open up your own channel and node, or purchase satoshis already on the network? 

Welcome to the elephant in the room onboarding issue for Nostr. 

Everyone fucking ignores us, because we are poor, have values, and major trust issues.   
 Do you have links to these projects? 
 Does anyone have information on improving your ai prompting skills for coding and/or image generation?

Very much appreciated for any educational resources that you can provide which can help me improve this vital skill.  
 Sometimes I think it is best that I continue to help humanity at a distance. I'll do my best to save you, but most are really fucking nuts now. 
 I'm starting to think Satoshi Nakamoto was an AI tasked with creating the first successful fuck you money system. Designed to fix our global economies and free the debt slaves gradually as adoption increases. 
 The US treasury publicly admits that it needs to issue more Bonds every year to pay off the old o... 
 It is because they don't realize that all current forms of government are ponzi schemes in some way shape or form. 
 Funny, Ive brought 1,000 rounds of free bullets for you.

Wanna play a game?

Its called can you hug faster than a bullet?

Ready...Set.....Go.....

 
 If countries can't even afford to take care of their people for 3 days. Why the fuck are we paying them, letting them keep their jobs, and not firing all of their asses for mismanagement? 
 This will kick off a year-long series of articles, where I’ll delve into this issue piece by pi... 
 I'm interested.  
 If northerners try that on their lawns then they get ticks instead. Pretty sure that is far worse. 
 Lol yeah. Ive been bitten by 111 fire ants in Florida before. Ive fucked around. I found out.

Deet doesnt do jack shit up north. I know from experience. Only thing I know that somewhat repels them is cedar wood chips. Then they tend to fuck off for a couple months until the rain washes away the natural cedar smell. 

Then they are back with a vengeance. 

Looking for more hugs.  
 I still wish Glock would put manual thumb safety devices on their firearms. You can go blue in the mouth giving me all the safe action reasons why I don't need one, but you all fail to realize one thing. 

Stupidity happens. Just like shit does.

You made manual thumb safety available for military trials. So you are capable of making them. Just offer it to the public and watch your sales increase exponentially overnight. 

I won't own a gun without a manual thumb safety. So until Glock makes one available. I'll never own a Glock. Which kinda sucks.  
 I hear about Austrian economics all the time. Know nothing about it. Care to enlighten this poor dumb ass? 
 For some strange reason I feel that there is some significance to Bitcoin being released on Halloween. A trick or treat for the world.  
 Growing up is recognizing that your parents were people to and they make mistakes.

They were not... 
 For me the challenge is discovering how both my parents were emotionally immature even though they were highly intelligent. Self consumed with making money while advancing their careers. 

I can forgive them. I can set boundaries. However trying to correct and resolve both known and unknown personality issues. Which was caused by their irresponsible actions. Is the hardest challenge that I strive to overcome daily. Like cleaning a wild bird covered in sludge after a spill from the SS parents oil tanker.  
 Cannabis withdrawals are real, and it sucks. Not as bad as withdrawl from other things, but still... 
 It is the habits. Not the cannabis that you were addicted to. Its the routines that we miss that make us feel the worst.  
 Sometimes you encounter males so devoid of masculinity that in my eyes they never became men. All I can do is say bless their heart when they try to act tough, or they are illogically sassy like a woman trying to make a pointless argument. 

It makes no sense to try and argue with these soy boys who never learned to grow up. Regardless of their age I pity them. While also sincerely hoping they have a good life and become fortunate to one day discover how to finally become a man.  
 Again. I know you have heard this before. 

You haven't a fucking clue what happened that day. Stop posting lies and propaganda. It does not suit you given your supposed profession.  
 Is it ethical to mine shitcoins on consumer grade hardware if all you do is turn them all immediately into bitcoin?

Wouldn't it just be the the equivalent of turning lead into gold with crypto alchemy? 
 Dude. Look at all of these photos. Really pay close attention. Draw annotations as land markers if you have to. Dismiss the differences in image quality and do not let them dismiss any conclusions. Focus instead on ALL the specific landmark points. Not just the big ones. 

Then look at me with a straight face. Be honest with yourself. Then see if you would repost the same answer.  
 This is why no one should ever trust the election results on the mainstream news. 

This is called mass election interference. Maniplutating the public opinion and distorting the facts. Then asserting that who you want to win has won even though they didn't. In lock step with all of the rest of the traitorous news sources to our country. 

Kind of sounds oddly familiar to something that has happened many times before. In countless countries around the world. Who all also live in a banana republic too.  
 Can you explain this passage and its true meaning in greater detail? 
 No...

"Depart from me, I never knew you."

Who is departing from whom?

Why is this passage so scary?

I have no context. Its been decades since I've read the Bible. 

 
 I'm more lost now then before I asked the question. Lol. 
 Strange woman on the train today.
When I'm travelling between my hometown and Zurich I book and r... 
 Oxygen depravation from wearing face masks too much. Killing brain cells like there is no tomorrow. Until all that is left is self entitlement, blind obedience, and stupidity.  
 Can anyone provide me with good Nostr developer learning resources to get started?

I want to start mastering the way of the ostrich.  
 Do you have a link to the course?

How much was it 
 Thank you so much! Greatly appreciated. 
 Fucking untie her with my knife. Grab a blanket from the car. Call an ambulance. Get this poor girl to safety and get the help she deserves.

Then help the police hunt down and kill the sick fuck in the woods that did this to her. 
 I can't believe people still believe this grift. 

Gotta love Stanley Kubrick's work. Even if the special effects are noticible and dated for its time. At least it is still somewhat believable to the public's untrained eyes. Which is why people are foolish enough to still believe this lie to this day.  
 Its pronounced dick.  
 #Bitcoin is trying to break through the ATH but human psychology doesn't let it... 😜 
 Is that what we are calling artificial price supression by financial institutions and whales using trading bots 24/7/365. So they can continue to stack satoshis well below their actual value.   
 GM  #coffeechain 
 Does the name on the box live up to the hype? 
 Yeah. I don't agree with slaughter houses either. The difference between me and you though is that I do not deny that I am an omnivore. Our bodies require meat in order to thrive and not be emotionally driven weaklings in desperate need of protein and natural fats. 

I believe that farmers should raise their cattle and livestock free with an all organic diet. 

Cruelty free in the sunshine until it is their time. Then the farmer humanely harvests them as needed. Quickly and painlessly with a shotgun, or an axe.





 
 It really is endless. It is akin trying to convince lions to eat grass. It will never work out well.

I was vegetarian for many years. As well as vegan for a short period of time. Went through all the emotional reasons for not eating meat. In the end even with research and eating all the supposedly right things. This is what happens.

You are never as strong as it is supposed to be unless you eat meat.

Your body  is not a resilient to disease unless you eat meat.

If you eat soy anything you are filling your body full of phytoestrogens which make you an illogical emotional mess constantly. Making hormonal imbalance ever present. Putting your emotional state of being on a never ending roller coaster. 

I was a woke soy boy that had absolutely no fucking clue what it means to be healthy and eat healthy. Once I started eating meat and avoided soy like the plague. Did I start to regain the ability to think clearly. Finally regained my masculine strength and energy. Stopped being an emotional bitch and finally manned up. 

This is how we should be. This is how I choose to remain. As an omnivore. 
 I can empathize with that. 

Just add meat and we eat similarly. 

I try to stay close to the gaps / keto diet. But life and limited access to quality food out while running errands gets in the way sometimes. 

Although pasta is my kryptonite.  
 A thousand Italians screamed out in fury. 

Wtf is cashew Alfredo sauce!?! 
 I can see through your logic and chose not to engage in a verbal tennis game based on a illogical fantasy. Animal eats plants and they thrive. That is how they live naturally. Surely we can survive off of what they eat too. 

Human physiology adapted over millenias to consume both plants and animals for energy. We run more efficiently with both in our diets. 
Simple, true, and undeniable. Just the facts.

Can we survive off of just plants and no meats yes. Can we honestly thrive off of just plants and no meats, not really. We will always be lacking in vital energy which comes from animal fats. That only real meat can provide us on demand with maximum efficiently. 

However, there are people who will try and convince us otherwise without openly admitting to the negative side effects. They tackle with moral conflictions, because of their misunderstanding of the natural world and their place on the food chain. This is the result of being so pampered from modern amenities that they no longer have to worry about having enough to eat. 

We are hunter gatherers. It is in our nature and instinct to hunt, kill, and eat animals. As well as it is to cultivate plants to harvest to. Choose to find splice in this balance, or live a life filled with delusion and high probability of  constant malnutrition.

Not knocking peoples life choices. You wanna be a vegetarian or vegan, you do you. Be happy.  Just being brutally honest with my understanding of scientific reality.  
 Bless your heart. Good for you little buddy. Have a wonderful day.