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 Trademarks are a fuck if you do, fuck if you don't type of law. 

Was not an easy decision, but h... 
 That literally what was said earlier. "They lose donations with him on the board." Meaning people ARE not donating if they don't like 11% of the board. The request to step down is a suggestion for Opensats, not you. 
 That process is irrelevant to stepping down, which was the suggestion. 
 The contention is not that his vote would weigh more than others. The issue brought up is that FOSS is a mindset diametrically opposed to copyright. To be on a board promoting and funding FOSS projects has a responsibility to be objective. The conflict of interest involved with making copyright claims on a FOSS project because it seems to "Infringe" on one's own product leads one to think: If one 9th of the board is compromised ethically, I have an 11% chance of my donations being squandered by passing up projects "Too close" to projects NVK might have an interest in. This is not retarded or irrational. I don't care about Opensats myself as I give charity only to people I know personally. This is merely an explanation of where others are coming from. 
 I don't know why you wrote this. I know that, as I wrote, that is not the contention. Again, it is the mindset around FOSS and intellectual property when being on a board that awards donations to FOSS projects. 

Think about it this way: If someone was on the board for distribution of funds towards technological advancement but they were Amish. You might have a conflict of interest there right? But just one Amish person on the board doesn't sway the vote. They just don't have the requisite mindset for the position. Do you see my point? 
 I feel like I am not being clear. Understanding is not the issue, either. I UNDERSTAND war-mongers, thieves, and globalist control fiends. I am just ideologically opposed to them. Like the Amish to technology in my example or NVK and and FOSS in real life. 
 Fighter of the Night Moon. Champion of the Sun. 
 The lack of indicators of what is happening in #Bitcoin wallets & #Bitcoin services is really rid... 
 Never had a single problem with Sparrow, Nunchuck, nostr:nprofile1qqs8uskl8awsj5866khlkceghg8dznye0mrt3vfzr4387mwc2p5cmvgpr4mhxue69uhkvet9v3ejumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtmrv9hxzerpqyshwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yvp39e3k7atww3jhycmvda3kkamfwdjju6t0qyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnsdaehgetj9ecxcctrv5rpnny6, or Electrum. 

I run several of my own nodes, and can cross reference balances across my own instances of Mempool.space. 

My own personal philosophy is that the more the wallet looks like a spreadsheet the better it works for economic utility. 
One thing you might notice about all of the wallets I choose is that they are all bare bones and don't have dozens of "features" that have to be init checked with every action. 
 Yes I’m a bitcoin maxi. We don’t need tail emissions, we could have 1 bitcoin left in the sup... 
 Segwit allows lightning channels. Not having an integrated layer 2 would increase the need for trusted mints. Essentially making your only fast market currency a coupon that has a custodial issuer. 
 The fees are not the point of Lightning. It is anonymity, speed, AND the fees that make it worth the segwit upgrade. 
 I don't understand what "Unsustainably low" means. The price of money is subject to the maginal cost of production. If the fees are lower than the cost of electricity and miners, the fees go up. Miners can literally set fee limits. So, I assumed you were refering to the competition of Lightning because the other meaning doesn't make sense. 
 Avoid, no. Make irrelevant, yeh. 
 What's interesting to me is that the narrator exposes and expansive depth of Nietzschean philosophy yet seems to betray a very shallow articulation of Christian philosophy. That is to say, simply taking christians at their word and the over-arching christian history. Then, parsing every notion Nietzsche's criticism. That is what stood out to me. Guilt in the aristocrat and resentment in the pauper are common modes of christianity but not explicit to the doctrine. 
Morality is simply the expression of idealistic evolution the same as physiological evolution. The correction mechanism being social death as morality is a social phenomenon. The exposure of a Master and Slave Morality only shows that social death is less severe in the Greek philosophy than the Christian one. Either way, interesting video. 
 Not voting doesn't make you better, smarter, or more aware of what's going on.

Drop the fucking ... 
 It literally does. Ross is just some guy. Ask yourself why you don't have as much of a boner to save the literal MILLIONS of people imprisoned for other bullshit just as egregious as Ross' case. Because some influential person told you to care. Participating in the system tacitly says you don't care about THOSE people just to save a guy you don't even know. Think dude. 
 Seeing tons of people basically utter the phrase "I don't believe in this but i'm going to do it anyway." has been the scariest thing in history and especially of this election cycle. 
 In case you guys are a little slow, the reason why each one of these elections seems like the most consequential of our lifetimes is because with each passing year the growth of the government becomes greater and greater making the threat of the new tyrants that much more dangerous. This doesn't stop until you withdraw your consent from this game you keep playing, begrudgingly.  
 Do you think printing money works and Bitcoiners are just being moralists? This shit collapses and horribly. Just make sure you are clear of the fallout. 
 I don't really subscribe to the lindy effect as a rule. But I see how those seeking regulation don't see the obvious incompatibility between finite and infinite currency. They are the same people that think a monetary return absent innovation or expansion is possible. 
 I don’t like Trump, and I have very little faith in govt ever being a positive force. It’s at... 
 What if you got Ben Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Wilbur and Orville Wright to design an amazing Solana wallet?

Would that be a good use of their time? Would it be awesome to see all of those great minds working on something together? Yes? Why something that is such a waste of time?

All of the people you named could do far greater things as entrepreneurs than being government goons. 
 Don't know who needs to hear this but getting something for virtually nothing is a fiat invention. If you expect to post on Nostr and people are supposed to rain cash down on you, that doesn't work with real money. Fiat is a hot potato, people want value not burned hands. So it's easy to throw it away. Zaps are real money and real value. You want a zap, you have to actually make something worth paying into.
#ZapHelp
#NostrHelp 
 Hey, I can't hold this bar up by myself...(Maybe I can, I'm pretty fuggin stronk) 
 Is it too far to call for a violent revolt? Oh happy Halloween btw 
 To what end? Create divinity to conquer evil. Evil only begets more. Remove yourself, defend yourself, strengthen yourself. This is the way. 
 Ember
Cinder
Phoenix
Spark.store

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 What is this vaporware announcement Derek?!🤔 
 Did you know they make pcie cards that hold NVMe drives? They are as cheap as $10 for x4 pcie lan... 
 Make sure your MoBo supports PCIe bifurcation. If not, the lanes only read the first slotted NVMe. 
 I mean it's a BIOS specific feature. Those PCIe adaptors need bifurcation enabled in order to allow the x16 to be divided into 4, 4-lane PCIe NVMe slots. Without the Bifurcation option enabled in BIOS it will only show 1 NVMe storage device despite 4 being slotted. 
 Ahh, I misunderstood. I have an older PC that I put a 16x PCIe NVMe 4 slot in, A 4x is a nice little expansion for an aux PCIe. 
 Probably 3 people given the quantity. 
 or can they? :) nostr:note189n6ynyudsluqw9w70yp6sk8lyuhkp00jlrpn244zdewru683xyszztzfq 
 Nope. Lol 
 The fact that I can make a personal relay, whitelist my friends and have them ONLY connect to my node means you can never know ACCURATE user count. 
 Who's to say my 100-1000 friends aren't a relevant user base? I have unannounced lightning channels with private people are those transactions not valid? 

(I am talking about specific Npubs for that relay as a sort of club chat) using a public relay would get your Npub Blacklisted. 
 I like how you can see the tesselation between the depths of the stars. whereas with your eyes you can't see those tiny movements. 
 I use damus on macos, ios. notedeck on linux+nixos and android. 

Apple has a nice integrated hw/... 
 Incremental pressure is what results from compromises in morality. It's only specific metadata...it's just location metadata...it's just ID metadata...it's just a measure for the bad people...why am I being labeled a bad guy?

This is why you either fight every battle or have an alternative to a controlled system. 
 The last thing I want from my nostr apps is more push notifications on my phone. 
 I literally can't get mine to work at all. The only time I know I have any notification is when I get a DM from Zeus about a Zap I received. Can't get Ntfy to work at all. 
 I can block people, but I'd prefer to make my notes invisible to them. Is there a way? 
 What is the utility here? Thinking big picture: I want to say something in public but I want certain people to not be in public. What you are asking about is a private message.  
 Did you know:

Stealing V4V content is not possible!

Few understand. 
 There's no such thing as intellectual property so, it can't be stolen. 
 I've noticed an increase in petty thoughts skittering across my mind. Does anyone know any tricks... 
 The realization that you are simply a vessel for hosting ideas was helpful to me. Meditation also trains your mind to allow detachment from ideas that pass through your consciousness. I could get into an entire theory about the metaphysical implications but suffice it to say being able to essentially not attach your consciousness to ideas that pass through, even if they are beautiful ideas, will allow you to let petty thoughts pass through like a breeze. 
 That has more to do with the metaphysical bit I was talking about. It's tough to explain in text. The TL;DR is basically the things that generate ideas (spirits, angels, demons, whatever your word for them) have their own moral biases. The more attractive to them you are the more ideas they will send through you.  
 It makes sense directionally. I would say we as the vessels have more of a choice in attachment to singular ephemeral ideas than comprehensive story archetypes. The only way to really direct that sort of thing is to make the arduous choice of a given archetype in every moment. Lots of mental fortitude required. 
 Just paid 35 Swiss Francs for scrambled eggs lol 
 Is that a lot? What's that in money? 
 “I’m not political” 

“Voting is a scam” 

Allow me to be blunt here. 

This most recen... 
 Lol. Either the state will crush you too (because obviously every user of the state gets crushed or corrupted) or you disassociate with the state and it withers from obscurity. Because being productive and being within the state apparatus are mutually exclusive. I love this fantasy so many of you statists have, "This time we'll use the power of theft and coercion for GOOD!" LOL the naïveté is delicious. 
 I don't understand the aversion to the word anarchists. People without a ruler is not something simple, that is literally the base state of the world before conmen convince people to hand over their liberty. 
 Yeah, the same way Banks say Bitcoin is chaos for the banking industry. They know it makes them irrelevant. 
 I always thought if banks could lose the shackles of Fiat they would have the perfect infrastructure for being lightning nodes. Opened a channel to your bank, your bank has channels open to all the shops, banks, and other "account holders" (people with channels to the same bank). They would make fees by keeping the channels balanced and create an entire web of commerce. But no, there's just a few companies that operate well connected nodes instead of using a federated model (local, county, state, country). 
 Only if Frodo is the anarchistic process of human interaction or the use of liberty producing technology...then yeah, the meme makes sense. 
 Imagine someone says I don't like cake and your response is, "But, if you made a cake to eat, what kind would you have?"

When you understand how nonsensical that is, you realize how foolish the phrase "Anarchist State" is. 
 Alaska, mostly. 
 Is a lack of hunger ever a bad thing? I was purposely doing OMAD, but now I don't feel hunger at ... 
 I fast 4 days a week. "Hunger" that most people refer to is simply a disregulation of glucose and insulin. Hunger is something you feel in your throat not the stomach. 

What you are feeling is regulation of your ATP through ketosis which feels like stomach satiety. Your body has given up looking for glucose through carbohydrates and has begun using stored fat and muscle. 
 The most I've done in a row is 14.(I was so cranky my wife made me eat.) I do 2 days fast, 1 day I can eat, then 2 days fast, 2 days eating. It just takes the idea that "I can eat whatever I want in two days." It keeps me going.  
 Having the power to tell yourself "Out of all the things I can and can't control about what happens today, not eating anything is firmly in my exclusive control." Is one of the most powerful feelings that reorients my brain for more possibilities in my life. Definitely worth training that skill. 
 This is in pretty extreme. Fatigue happens only after most fat stores are depleted and most muscle as well. Hunter gatherers would not have survived if after one failed hunt they got more tired than they were when they failed the hunt. This sort of thing sets in around 25 days of absolutely no nutrition. 
 That's the thing that I still just don't understand. They were so effective at blocking his agendas and making him look disreputable to all the robots that listen to corporate media. Why waste the resources on trying to kill him? Mind boggling. 
 I mean, yes? He didn't build a wall, he didn't
Didn't exactly make america great, his generals lied to him, his FBI went after him, impeached twice. I don't understand what they are afraid of a second term for. That's kind of the whole reason you'd try to kill him, if he COULD get something done to destroy the establishment. That's what makes the attempts and the indictments and furvor so strange. 
 I’m voting for Donald Trump. 

When Ross is released from prison and stands on stage at the bit... 
 It is truly amazing how many people care about this one case because they heard about it. Disregard the thousand of Americans that are killed by the government every year (you can't really vote them back), but why is this furvor not for the millions in prison for nonviolent "Crimes?" It has to be this one guy that ran a website? I get it. It's unjust but so is everyone in prison for tax evasion.(many bitcoiners just haven't been caught yet.) 

You are being manipulated.

This feels like that Transgender bathroom fracas a couple years ago. There are so many issues to focus on but right now everyone has to have an opinion on which bathroom trannies get to use.

 You are being manipulated. 

The TV, influencer, podcast, or presidential candidate said: YOU HAVE TO CARE ABOUT THIS AND I WILL MAKE WHAT YOU WANT HAPPEN!

You are being manipulated.

It's tragic that this programmer was put in prison but unless you are the prison guard, the judge sentencing, the appeals board denying, the president pardoning, or Ross himself. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.

You are being manipulated. 
 No, it isn't... You can just not support either. Ancap and still doing the better of two evils routine? 
 You voting has no connection to that outcome.  
 Thanks, I was wondering how I should refer to you. 
 Don't tell me what to do. 
 What's weird is I stared at this for a few minutes and the bottom left dot doesn't disappear, the other two do. Wth is that about? 
 I am for sure left eye dominant. That is fascinating and perhaps that gives the bottom left dot preferential treatment in my mind. Wild stuff. 
 Friendly reminder that anarchism is a meme ideology (like communism) that fails to account for hu... 
 3d printer, radios, bitcoin, homemade explosives, auto-seers, home gardening, wells, and so many other things that keep you alive without their help, consideration, or otherwise. 
 Trying to reconcile why I respect veterans but hate politicians while they are the ones doing the... 
 Without those men and women the whims of politicians would be nothing more than letters to Santa. If the purpose of a system is what it does, then those people are the ones DOING the thing, evil. Mere distaste that you were fooled is not atonement for the evil you enact. It is simply a proclamation that you can be fooled into doing the unspeakable. Proud veterans of the state are just as dangerous as they were when they were killing people. Veterans who quietly admit that they were tricked show that they can be redeemed. 
 Indoctrination mostly. It is a manipulation to keep the agents of the state among you until the politician tells them to strike. "Don't fear my dog even though at my command he will rip you apart." It's yet another lie that politicians tell.