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 Henderson county has some amazing people. Leaving the area is great for those that can, but for the people who call this area home, they’ll often have no where else to go. 

While the roads and electricity are down, lots of residences and small communities are still viable and self sufficient, but they will need fuel and other outside resources as their stockpiles begin to wane. 

Please consider supporting Guy or donating fiat directly to this organization. 
 Started out as a carrot with a fetus, wound up as a landscape! 
 Roller coasters.

First car or last car? 
 First. Last gets the throw up. 
 58k is a magnet 🧲 
 Union Strikes

My take on unions is that they should be temporary. Solve the problem, then dissol... 
 Your theory is sensible when the corporations are competing with each other for the labor. As a laborer. Your skills are honed for a particular industry. In the case of the longshoreman, the ports do not compete for their labor. In fact, the ports formed their own alliance, the US maritime alliance, so instead of competing for labor they could negotiate with labor as a collective. 

The fault lies on both sides. 
 Most people in the USA live paycheck to paycheck. Your comments reek of privilege, and lack the nuance compromise that life often demands. 
 From: Satoshi Nakamoto
Date: February 18, 2009 at 20:50:00 UTC

Subject: Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency

It is a global distributed database, with additions to the database by consent of the majority, based on a set of rules they follow:
- Whenever someone finds proof-of-work to generate a block, they get some new coins
- The proof-of-work difficulty is adjusted every two weeks to target an average of 6 blocks per hour (for the whole network)
- The coins given per block is cut in half every 4 years

You could say coins are issued by the majority. They are issued in a limited, predetermined amount.As an example, if there are 1000 nodes, and 6 get coins each hour, it would likely take a week before you get anything.

To Sepp's question, indeed there is nobody to act as central bank or federal reserve to adjust the money supply as the population of users grows. That would have required a trusted party to determine the value, because I don't know a way for software to know the real world value of things. 

If there was some clever way, or if we wanted to trust someone to actively manage the money supply to peg it to something, the rules could have been programmed for that.

In this sense, it's more typical of a precious metal. Instead of the supply changing to keep the value the same, the supply is predetermined and the value changes. As the number of users grows, the value per coin increases. It has the potential for a positive feedback loop; as users increase, the value goes up, which could attract more users to take advantage of the increasing value. 
 People don't care about building communities, when they're in the majority, because everyone arou... 
 You can? 

In Damus for example, I go to the global magnifying glass tab, click the funnel thing top right, turn off every relay except hotrightright now, back out to home and return to global tab, and bam I see only posts from hotrightnow.

Roundabout way, but it works for looking at a “topical relay” feed in Damus. 
 Dudes be like "a man should be masculine!" Then watch 10hrs of Jordan Peterson videos.  
 My lord the world is crumbling.

Maybe those religious nuts calling for the rapture and the end times are right. 
 Are there any Nostr clients that don't have such a present bias? I'd like to see older posts that... 
 Discoverability? Nah, devs don’t care about that round these parts! 
 Too soon dude. Bad taste here. Delete request and move on. 
 Make better memes and you won’t get butthurt by a comment. 
 Sure it’s notable, but there are people floating in their houses right now. 

Have some class?

Im not offended, I’m calling you out for your lack of tact and poor judgement. 
 Trump meeting with Zelenskyy was not on my bingo card. 
 “Hey guy, when I get elected, you’re not getting no more of those weapons, and you’re not joining nato, and you’re gonna tell Putin you’re done fighting back and he can keep the Donbas and crimea, and this war is over. And you’ll be happy you get to keep a country named Ukraine in the world, capeesh?” 
 If you’re a US citizen, and you believe in peace over war, you have a duty to vote for Donald trump this election.

Nothing else matters. Not bitcoin. Not women’s rights, literally nothing. 

Nuclear war is closer than it has literally ever been, even closer than the Cuban missile crisis. 

The world is in peril, and citizenry of the USA is the only group that can direct us towards peace and future prosperity. 

Everyone else, I’m sorry, but you’re in the cross fire, blame us. 
 Joe Biden/kamala Harris had the chance to end the Ukraine war and chose to continue fighting. Joe Biden/kamala Harris funded Iran with 6 billion dollars providing the resources for hamas to attack Israel, and hezbollah to be a viable threat literally starting a war in the Middle East. 

You speak a lot about the words of a man and actions that resulted in no escalation of war, peace deals between Jews and muslims, conversations between enemies. 
 
But speak nothing of the actions of the current administration that has resulted in the death of an entire generation of Ukrainian men, new war in the Middle East, and an outright refusal of peace. 
 Something bad happened.

I played rocket league 🥲 
 It was fun. He had fun. 
 nostr:npub180z8ywyfg56sk78unedkn6p0d68clchwzj2nhq2309sw8gywldcsne5tax is the new Nostradamus 
 Her next prediction said this would retrace to 52k before the mooning 
 Don’t doubt the t$ 
 Lfg! 🌝 
 👀👀 
 If it’s not something on your end it might be because Nostore is broken for non-ios18 phones now. 
 lol. Hope he’s just farming that twitter algo for the payday. 

Sadly- this world is producing weak men hand over fist. I’d drop her like a hot pan.  
 How much Bitcoin do you need, to actually feel richer, when the price goes up?

#askingforafriend 
 Depends on your expenses, and the amount bitcoin goes up, in relation to inflation. 

This is denominated in dollars, but maybe it can help! 

https://zaplinks.lol/bitcoincalc/ 
 You can adjust the rate of inflation and the monthly withdrawal amount will show you how much your expenses will grow at that  rate to maintain an equivilant purchasing power as today. 
 If anyone out there still uses swan bitcoin - get your corn out of there and stop using them ASAP.

This is NOT a drill. 

Run for the exits! 🏃‍♂️ 🔥 🔥 🌽 
 Shit business model with bad habits and bad management.

Get the fuck out! 
 Bad business model with bad habits and bad management. Trust them with your corn? I think not! RUN! 
 Smart man! 
 I unfollowed 🤷🏽‍♀️ 
 🤣😂🤣 love your url dude 
 Watching some puffy Cumulus clouds forming from above.

#upintheair #picstr #photography #🖼️ https://image.nostr.build/19aa9f1955a44ac1f4d0878d12fac1f1526eac3ba9af263bd4a13aa929924f76.jpg  
 More giant trees. Find the 🐢 for scale.

#picstr #photography #artonnostr #🖼️ https://image.nostr.build/4cd4707a82f97ecda498e507f6323c93ca0f63f9b7e2918cfa7dcac047a0b631.jpg  
 Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Crescent City, CA 
 🤫 
 Some really giant trees. A 🐢 for scale. 

#photography #picstr #artonnostr #🖼️ https://image.nostr.build/197df7a23957ece8d12ba5c953347df77057f3b2124ae6e46f284047f55c2924.jpg  
 Hard for me to pick a favorite, but a redwood grove has to be up amongst the top of the list. :-) 
 Yes, I’m the 🐢 for scale. 
 Avenue of the Giants is certainly a beautiful grove, but this is in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, Crescent City, Ca 
 Watched some dude jump off a bridge in Idaho the other day. Can you spot him? @dankswoops 

#photography #picstr #artonnostr  #🖼️ https://image.nostr.build/be6907b3e7bdb80ef68b37b279dc4741f9dbf3823d4c89ebdb91dead66c10486.jpg  
 Twin Falls, Idaho. The I.B. Perrine Bridge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perrine_Bridge 
 Thanks for your nice comments! I really appreciate you noticing! 
 Thanks for the compliment Riddy! 
 GM! The updated version is in TestFlight. I don’t know how to get TF link, please ask the origi... 
 So, my Nostore updated automatically for some reason and now it doesn’t work on not ios18 :-( 
 I do use the App Store version? Seems like It’s wiped my nsec and I can’t press the settings button to add it back.  
 17.6.1 

 apparently it was updated one day ago and now it’s busted :-( 
 Womp womp 
 I am concerned the reply guy replies will greatly reduce the usability of nostr… It is getting ... 
 Damus relay is infected dude. Delete. 
 You might need to get rid of nos.lol and Eden as well 
 Good luck! I haven’t been seeing reply guy  using my relay set, but I used mostly paid relays and topical relays with access controls, your large amount of free relay usage is probably what’s getting you annoyed. Some free relays are having better luck with maintaining quality, like bevos relay in my list for example 
 Test post please ignore 
 No! 
 nostr:nprofile1qqsvcan8jjq2g5ztjcarszwt5c95tr4lq6xxyufky8w6jj6j0psyglgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfde... 
 Can’t figure out how to upload a screen recording anymore, upload services throttling file sizes prevents tutorial videos. ¯\_(ツ)_/ nostr loses! 
 Okay, I've had enough.
I'm nuking my follow and mute lists. 
 She likes it that way, makes her feel sexy. 
 There were a few others that day. It’s a pretty laborious place to get to for sunrise, so only the most dedicated were there, but Most everyone was kind  to each other and got in and out of the way. I used a 17mm tilt shift here and was able to position myself real close to get this angle. I stitched together three frames to get the square. 
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 Yay! Wen can I haz?? 
 Awesome! Thanks for your hardwork fishcake, nostr is better because of you!