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 questions are the most important currency we have 
 and all answers should come with expiration dates - causing you to ask the question again and again. 
 Ask not what nostr can do for you, but what you can ask nostr devs to do for you.

- Jacked Kandy 
 I literally just got on nostr 20 minutes ago and my mind is seriously blown right now. 
 Fair warning, the hazing period is being called a "pleb" for.... a while.

But the nice thing is, all the ones who will call you pleb, also call themselves pleb.

I guess it's more like a welcome.

So, "welcome!" 
 Trump's shooter was bullied and alone.  We (adults) need to change that in our society.

https://x.com/RichardWPickett/status/1812640580884635689 
 🚨New info from a source in the Secret Service community — Trump’s usual protective Secret Service detail was worked so hard (working 7 days a week with no days off) that many of agents assigned Saturday were temporary replacements from different field offices. 

This is not the usual protocol for sitting presidents and vice presidents but “typical” for former presidents, (although no former presidents have run again in modern history.) 

“Trump has a permanent detail, however it’s much smaller in the amount of bodies,” the source said. “His detail has been worked so hard with all the travel that they’re working 7 days a week with shift changes. so HQ sends in temp agents to supplement - not a good scenario. Mission Failure, IMHO.”

I’m told the only permanent agent from trump’s detail during the rally was SAIC (Special Agent In Charge) Kern, two sources within the Secret Service community told me. All others were temps. Pittsburgh USSS Field Office had a Jill Biden visit and designated a lot of resources to her, the source said. Also - the advance work only occurred one-day beforehand bc of a lack of resources.

Where were the resources? 

The Pittsburgh USSS Field Office had a Jill Biden visit and designated a lot of resources to her. 

“That is f—-ing unbelievable to me,” the source remarked.

Another Secret Service source says approval for the Counter Sniper Team was only granted the day before the rally - and that is not enough time for a two-man team to do their survey.

”That’s nowhere near enough time - a site like that should have had at least three Secret Service counter-sniper teams at the very least.”

Source: https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1812550621100421127
 
 Programmable money (ETH, etc) is hard to scale. So people build Layer 2s.

But these Layer 2s are... 
 &>/dev/null 
 disagree.  build it on a zero trust network. 
 Long term, we need private money or it just gets traced / taxed / seized by the state anyway.

Bu... 
 bitcoin mixers 
 but this doesn't solve the problem of sending or receiving funds. 
 Nostr should not be the "back up" for when X is censored, wtf. It should be the main thing people... 
 Plus the "signup" process to get going on nostr is a bar to entry compared to X.

So it will take more inconvenience than normal to get people to switch. 
 Bad marketing for Nostr clients to position as “wallets.”

Being money-obsessed is low-status... 
 Status obsessed is also low status. 
 Editing my nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 episode with nos... 
 have you compared w/ restream.io?