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 Dang, just heard Sam Altman say this is his vision lol. 

Earbuds with cameras that can intake al... 
 Was about to go to sleep. No more. This is stuff of nightmares. Unstoppable nightmares. 
 General Motors….

Nostr culture still feels a bit alien to me, trying to find topics to interac... 
 I wish I had something interesting to tell you 🤣 
 Late night brain meets early morning brain. They mostly stare at each other silent. 
 Comparing oranges and tangerines. It’s similar, but yet so different. Meh 
 It looks like meme #stocks are back. Things are healing again 
 Meme stocks? 
 Nice squeezes, esp GME. Shaking out the shorts, will dump again next month probably. The market is hunting USDs. DXY is one touch away from going parabolic. 

I hope I’m wrong. 
 USD vs Everyone else 
 you cannot work within the system ( the two party system ) that was literally engineered to keep ... 
 « Until they give us… » that’s the wrong mindset. Get rid of them, start anew. Smaller, more local and distributed. 
 You a bot 
 I get a whole lot of encrypted DMs from people I don’t even follow 
 I didnt think it mattered till now bc i have no prіvacy left!!!!! 
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 What did I just read? Also, Robosats 
 What if local politics had much higher participation rate via nostr? 

Vote with cryptographic si... 
 With single issue delegation please. I have no idea whether we should build that tunnel or not. But I trust Garry on the matter. 
 Man, this got me curious. Can we run an experiment on here? 
 repeat after me - killing politicians is not wrong

voting for one of two puppets is wrong  
 There must be a compromise between the two. I’m not for killing them. I’m for exiling them. Make a gigantic raft with all the plastic in the ocean, dump them on there with pointy sticks. 
 Dunno, I felt that having them starve on that raft tempted to eat each other for survival to be a pretty good idea. 
 Great premise for a dystopian novel. Quick question, who checks who is lying? The Liestapo? 
 My question remains. Who gets to decide who dies? 
 Sounds awful. Just of a different kind of awful. The dangers of binary thinking I guess. 

Your disgust is healthy. Extremely healthy. 
 I don’t want government, I want the right to govern myself. My community faces problems and has needs. I just want to focus on those. 

One of them is how do we get rid of parasites? Not sure I want to kill them all. 
 He chose violence, against kids, with water though. I wonder why it was discontinued 
 It’s been fun. Love y’all. 

I’m on a Boeing. 
 He was on a Boeing 😔 
 I’m in the belly. Just did not know I was. Sadly I lost all my BTC there, along with my boat. 
 I’m dead inside. Still pretty though. nostr:note1g0850a62276ntcl7cpr6ke0kgs8t9xejkud6f58dsvtetj... 
 If you see the beauty, you’re not as dead as you think. Pretty dead though 
 Do you still use Global / Universe feeds? 
 That’s pretty much all I use. Pretty quiet to be honest. Was expecting more activity 
 "your" money.
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqfm5mq7gl9ufckp5zs5jkyvjcs69mdllp423agewlg543aqe9ah9qy88wu... 
 They seem surprised to see some users stack instead of gamble. 
 Do you consider cashu a bitcoin layer 2 or layer 3? Or is it not a layer at all? #asknostr  
 If it needs LN, that makes it L3. No? 
 You would think I am crazy. 
Time will tell if I am. July 2025 sanity test 
 I don’t make the rules. I can barely follow them 
 Dreamers don’t cook nightmares 
 I’m not mad at the guy cutting traffic, I’m mad at all the scared drivers that let him through. 
 When BTC hits $1,000,000…
You won’t know how much I have.

But there will be signs… 😏 no... 
 Let’s be wild, 2 pairs a day. One for the morning, one for the afternoon. Evening? Barefoot, always. 
 90s music makes me buuuuuuuuuuullish 🤣 🕺 🪩 ⚡️ ⚡️ 
 At the moment, no marketplace based on Nostr is not up to its task.

Sorry... Plebeian, Shopstr, ... 
 How many paintings have you sold via nostr? If you don’t mind me asking 
 What do you do for a living? 

I predict the future. 

WOW! 

I’m wrong most of the time. 

Ah, ok. 

But that’s good enough. 

Huh? 
 I wear a brand new pair of socks everyday. 

It is surprisingly affordable to do this. 
 Do you wear them inside out? 
 I have not found Forrester 🤣 
 The existence of bitcoin provides every individual with three options:

Ignore bitcoin 
Fight bit... 
 Where do Ordinals fit in all this? 
 what I meant is what are Ordinals to Bitcoin? 

They Ignore Bitcoin
They fight Bitcoin 
Or they adopt Bitcoin 
 At least two out of the three options would suggest it is worth caring if Bitcoin is of interest. 

I’m not suggesting you should care about them. Just playing with logic. 
If ordinals just ignore what Bitcoin is then caring is useless. But if they are truly Bitcoin adoption or an attack on Bitcoin, I should probably care. 

Like you, I feel that ordinals are simply ignoring Bitcoin 
 Often we're the ones who wish to be slaves, building our own prisons. 
 Less responsibilities. 

Freedom and responsibility are inversely proportional. 
 A wise man once said: « this is not a charity » 
 Do you have Bitcoin and are exposed to debt? Yes?
You’re a target 
 I had a rap battle in my dream last night and I don’t even rap.  The words came out and I wasn... 
 Did you win? 
 The « game » is not to pump forever. It’s to make everyone think in sats. 
 Meanwhile in Nostrville. #ManorLords
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqmn477tj8972x227pax2p77xawwv0xlgtwh... 
 Did someone say city/civic building?👀 
 Whats’s zapstream? Got a link? 
 Thanks, I really don’t know much about nostr. Guy in my group kept talking about it, so I’m checking out. 
 Shit, today I forgot 
 COULD WE STOP MAKING TOP 10 ALGOS AND FOCUS ON GIVING A FILTER DASH BOARD?

I DONT CARE WHO IS CO... 
 I think the issue boils down to juxtaposition of character. Real men and “beta” men differ on... 
 Yes, it comes down to authenticity. Some people are and some people play a role. People can sense this and the respect is adjusted accordingly. Try hard is an insult for a reason. 
 Take two groups, pick all that is great from one and all that is bad from the other. Compare and contrast. Stir shit 
 Dear, your projections are quite a spectacle. 
 Some people love to be seen for who they truly are. When you “see them” their face light up. 

Some people hate to be see for who they truly are. When you “see them” they go to war. If only they could see that it is a war vs themselves. 
 The Nostr trending algo works backward to Twitter.

It nudges you to talk only about Nostr and Bi... 
 Don’t feed the troll. 
 No such thing, but outrage is a currency. 
 Center of the universe much? You know, I follow other people… 
 Oh, in that case. Enjoy! 
 continue to be yourself please 🫂💜 
 🤫 
 when 
 Why 
 If you are disagreeing with someone, and I disagree with you, it does not mean I agree with that someone. I just disagree with both. 

The amount of people not understanding this and relying heavily on binary thinking scares the shit out of me. 
 Men, treat toxic women how they deserve. 
Women, treat toxic men how they deserve. 

Exclude them 
 For me to make a living on nostr, I would need to be able to sell digital products for fiat and s... 
 Accepting the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. Then, stir it towards how you’d wish it to be 
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 "Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum."