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 Michael Saylor said that:

 “half the problems in the civilization are due to the fact that our understanding of economics and money is defective.”

Bitcoiners would easily understand what he means.

The other half…?

The other half of the problems in the world would most be due to the defective understanding that males have of being a good human — particularly, their misogyny.

w people like Donald Trump, 
both of these problems worsen.

& society degrades further, making it easier for corruption & violence to seed & grow. 
 @damus @vrod @jb55

damus has delete now?  
how please. 

i regret my rfk poasts. 😑 
 i’m so tired.  i think it was the brownies. 
 lex depends on the owner of 𝕏, so he prolly wouldn’t invite a nostr talk.

lex’s audience could be ready.

such folks are obsessed with ai these days, so gotta relate nostr to that (how it solves ai problems & also how it will use ai well) 
 ofc everyone is thinking about ai these days.  it’s fascinating and has everyone watching, waiting, anxious, annoyed, excited, hopeful… 
 interesting how the really fun/neat kinda videos on 𝕏 are mostly just taken from folks/accounts on tiktok or instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/sacramentofoodforest/reel/C-tQJKrSY4R/ 
 twitter users grew from simple words from the start & not images or video, so makes sense. 
 un-conference is where you come in and sit for the next talk barefoot, still drying off from swimming moments ago ten yards away.

lets plz make that happen again! 
 some place surrounded by lots n lots of 

t r e e s 🌲 🌲 🌲 🌲 🌿 🌱 and 

next to a body of water 💦

like a cool lake 🛶 

or dip-able cool stream or river 🧊

that is my hope for the world and dream that i will be able to attend if it happens.

nature rlz ✨🙏✨ 
 I'm halfway through book 3 of the Three Body Problem. It's an interesting story, highly plot driv... 
 societies and civilizations advance largely due to cooperation.  it’s super obvious with bitcoin too. 
 let’s each of us all do our best to look at the world with loving kindness
https://tidal.com/track/109250708?u 
 Question of the day; well my day anyway :)

#asknostr. 

Does #nostr have to be an economy?

Is #... 
 economy, community, ecosystem, environment, world…they’re all the same thing. 
 i love the idea of everyone here & anyone joining to all come together to just have a nice time.  having wholesome laughs together.

and so much goodness & benefits can come from people coming together and spreading good vibes — someone can get a new idea that excites them to make something or just feel better about themselves, couples can meet and get married, someone’s business can gain more business, a hobby club can form…etc.

(i don’t know what you mean by invasion.)

a significant chunk of folks here are extremely interested in bitcoin because they believe it will help incentivize individuals, businesses & the world to be more peaceful and just…increasing the ability to have good vibes with people & any community. 
 that’s such an interesting story about mastodon. so much drama 😂. @rabble mentioned it in his talk yesterday, and i understand what he meant more now.  he said too that we’re all fundamentally the same humans from millennia ago sitting around a fire.

it’s a nice fire here.

and i think you’re right that this place will prove to be resilient, continuing a culture of free, chill vibing.  so far, there aren’t any obtuse overlords with unbalanced power manipulating others and using people for their own devious, selfish ends.
knock on wood!  lol jk.

nostr will keep growing and

D O M I N A T E   
E V E R Y T H I N G❕

😆

…😬 
 i hope this will help anyone out there who will hear this:

if you eat lots of vegetables & fruit, you will have a healthier immune system and get sick a whole lot less.

(ofc, also given a diet absent of processed foods, alcohol, too much sugar, etc. as well) 
 hopefully no more (much less) politics from me on here.  

sorry!  😂😂  
im annoyed too. 🥲  


ᵇᵘᵗ ᶦᵗ’ˢ ᵀᴴᴱ ˢᵉᵃˢᵒⁿ ᶠᵒʳ ᶦᵗ 🙈🙊🙉 
 the feeble-mindedness is just soooooo profoundly ingrained in  mainstream american culture now (seen on 𝕏 especially it seems) 🥹🥲😭

~thorough~ retardation. 
 he’s lying.  it’s just a power & ego game.  for him too, it’s only about “how many votes can we get?”

if he actually cared about children, he wouldn’t support a rapist of children. 
 social media is helpful for showing lies
https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1827163019891126629 
 yes, ofc.  incorporate new information. 
 he’s a very bad man.  so many reprehensible things to choose from. 
 i dunno.  i guess RFK Jr. is so pissed with the dems that raging with despicable misogyny (supporting trump, an actual rapist — not to mention a slew of other reprehensible character traits) is tiny in comparison.

i was foolish to believe rfk saying that he wanted to bring it all back with more dignity & honor.  he’s being a sore loser like trump.

i hope kamala wins.  i never disliked her, so it’s more than fine.

there are so many snakes everywhere, but she’s not like trump & trump supporters who are just fine with treason, fraud, and fascistic personalities and who

c o n d o n e

v i o l e n c e    a g a i n s t 

y o u n g    g i r l s    

&    w o m e n .

what a world of such powerful yet feeble “men” 
 it will be so fun & exciting when the day comes where i can buy coffee with bits where i am at, but it is not yet reality in this mainstream american suburbia. 
 I believe in God
and I believe that God
believes in nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8... 
 if you care to share, fiatjaf…

i am just innocently wondering if you grew up catholic or…?

brazil is half catholic. 
 @fiatjaf  GM ☀️❕ 
 Anyone here do meditation?

What kind? 
 for anyone else out there who might now be wondering why meditation is good:

calming the mind also calms the body and so can actually heal physical ailments too.

having a calm mind also makes it easier to make better decisions and to be more loving and kind.  you will have a better relationship with yourself, with others & society.

sometimes in some types of meditation, one wants to clear the head completely and not have any thoughts at all.  it’s incredibly super duper oh so hard to achieve that nothing state, but highly recommend taking steps with mindfulness & meditation to get there (sometimes when possible).

also, meditation is hard like working out.  sometimes one doesn’t do it nearly enough (every day), but we would have a much better world if we all did, just like working out, surfing under the sun, or being in nature.

☀️ 
🌊 
 hope all you irl riga nostriches are having a nice time❕🥳

so many interesting topics ✨

nostr:note19nzsxjtna4qnprqlfnm6h2mzsfheesjgwsclrkcu2jk72wwjwsasttr7hl 
 if you believe in bitcoin the way many talk about it, 

i t    w i l l    w i n .

and the democrats will be convinced too,

or they won’t have a choice but to accept it’s place in the world.  

bitcoin is already mainstream in important places, and will quickly keep gaining significance.

kamala & her bosses will ~want~ to participate in the bitcoin ecosystem. 
 PSA: paying another man money to teach you how to be an “alpha” is the most beta thing you ca... 
 making america great again, trump style:

https://x.com/swisswatchguy/status/1826283777884369011 
 also from last night.

music from a cellist in Ireland for the dems and for Barack Obama who is part Irish. ☘️

https://x.com/patrickdextervc/status/1826271055205544162 
 last night, i listened to doug emhoff and his son (kamala’s stepson).  it really was so genuine and pleasant — heartwarming.  michelle & barack obama were great to hear too.  they all had positive, down-to-earth vibes with messages connecting people together.  

they also debunk 𝕏 misinformation.  

[of course you need to (make it easier to) increase housing supply for prices & rents to come down.]

i also ran across a video of trump’s daughter-in-law, Kim Guilfoyle, don jr.’s wife.  she was making dinner at home while wearing a high heels, in full hair & make up.

it also says a lot when trump’s current wife and their son are not at all supporting trump.  i think people end up hating their own family members often because of deep distrust (disgust).

trump is obviously not a trustworthy, wholesome person.  

among so many disgusting things like rape & defrauding other business owners, he’s a traitor who called an insurrectionist mob to try to literally stay in office after he was voted out.  he actually wanted mike pence, his own chosen vp, to be murdered.

again, trump is not mentally stable & certainly not trustworthy. 
 i enjoyed the RFK interview.  the positive messaging he brings and honesty with identifying real problems & their true causes is obviously amenable to a more peaceful world.  

…but❕

do many RFK Jr. supporters need to prepare for gut-wrenching, profound disappointment❔❕

shanahan just talked about possibly ending the kennedy campaign and joining trump as a trump supporter.

that would be incredibly antithetical to the third party / independent goal, hope, necessity‼️ 
 blink-182 fanatics, 

look at tom❣️ 😭😭 😂😂

he’s exactly the same now as he was back then.

and it’s obvious that his
innocent  &  s u p e r   c u t e 
soul remains intact 🥹 ✨🙏✨

(same for mark & travis!) https://image.nostr.build/4ed655495088036cf567ce58d83712381363850d08da59c0f631ee3509db21b0.jpg  
 Apparently I got this wrong. So I'm taking the term back.

nostr:note10szz3g82xe8rwfuvczkhl0gnhu5... 
 foss ftw 
 "little tech" is actually a thing? 
 what they’re doing is monstrous.  “little tech” is supppsed to relate to “little people” too.  they want everyone to think they care about regular americans and america while they try to put monstrous trump in power.

as if to say, “little tech AND little people matter most in america, and we’re protecting ALL the little people.  ~but~ only the most disgusting reptile, donald trump, will be able to help us protect all little people.  american supremacy ~depends~ on trump, the rapist, fraudster, treasonous traitor and criminal.  we declare reason as our guide in determining this!  do you see our bullet points?!  we are not being disgusting monstrosities ourselves.  reason has made it so.” 
 joe hungry now.  bring joe favorite snack.  joe want creatine-bourbon-ranch dressing-banana smoothie. 
 Red vs Blue is a false dichotomy created to turn your anger away from the kleptocracy and toward ... 
 RFK jr can break through & win.  
he has a strong chance. 
 was asked about my hobbies the other day…

could bitcoin be a hobby?

sounds kinda funny to call “bitcoin” a hobby.  

bitcoining?

also funny ‘cause it’s a never-ended, extremely consuming thing—not just a hobby. 
 It's hard to overstate how insanely excited I was for the Nintendo 64 when it came out.

I played... 
 i was the best at mario kart back in the day.

~nobody~ could beat me (consistently). 
 😤 hey, wait a sec.

                ……😂😂😂 
 🥇 
 🏎️ 🎈🎈🎈 the balloon battling.  forgot about that! 
 ⚡️⚡️⚡️ 
 😂😂 
oh, the innocence we had! 🥹🥲😭😭 
 ☀️➡️🌒🌃🌌 
 This is the way. Let the Hams take over Nostr. Best way to keep the normies bored 😂

nostr:not... 
 looks like a very fun hobby 
 I’m convinced 70-90% of what you see on Twitter is fake, YouTube, Facebook, also, all actors an... 
 i can see where you’re coming from, because it all seems so ridiculous.  like, how can so much of this be real?!

but these mobs are real.  the hateful rhetoric is real.

the jan 6 idiocy & violence was real.  real right-wing, republican maga folks.  not actors.

it all seems so absurd and one is tempted to call them fake, but it’s an unfortunate & real consequence of social media...  

these days especially, most people have no mind of their own, so loud social media accounts fill these zombie-prone, empty-headed folks with their nonsense or hate.

mobs are formed.  idiots are led by idiots/evil/both.

𝕏 is bankrolling libs of tik tok, bc that’s the kind of thing lowlifes get emotional over.  the psychotic & hateful vibe makes empty ppl feel full (of themselves) & addicted.  it’s all real.  when social media platforms need to make money from ads, all that matters is click number go up.  there are more lowlife kind of degenerate people than there are good people, so at scale, especially without principled, honest & good leaders, it’s a swamp situation of more n more swamp…real swamp. 
 we have lots of agreement, but i still have lots of thoughts about all this. 🥹 just gonna put it all here, since the thread gives more context. 🙏

i think with jan 6, the narrative came before it.  trump and people like him used social media to create & drive the narrative that he won and he shouldn’t leave office. 

social media enabled trump’s insurrection attempt.  the mob organized online and trump’s narrative is the reason why/the justification for those treasonous psychopaths storming the capital and calling for mike pence to be hanged.

the cuts/edits of different scenes are true pieces of the whole occurrence. 

maga was violent on their own, from the start.

blm demonstrations happened all over the country and were mostly peaceful.  maybe some of the claims/narratives that led up to the blm demonstrations were misconstrued (i dunno), but the main underlying grievance of systemic racism is real, true & justfied.  and if violence erupted, it was from cops showing up & treating people unfairly.  or from fringe/bad blm protestors taking criminal advantage (looting) of the situation.

but blm protests were not organized or initiated with intended violence like the jan 6 insurrectionist mobs.

the libs of tt person’s narrative results from a hate-filled & arrogant personality, and she earns a living from her clicks.  elon pays her lots of money to instill a psychotic, racist & vicious mindset in their less intelligent & vulnerable followers.  she’s not a journalist, so ofc she’s not looking for balance, and they’re not looking to solve problems with calm objectivity & education.  she’s a fear & hate monger sided with the conservative tribe on the right.  for example, trump is himself a rapist & client of epstein, so he raped girls too.  but elon & the libs of tt girl want you to forget that and believe it’s only illegal immigrants from africa or south america that are raping girls & women.  it’s deliberately psychotic & culturally harmful & insidious.

the immigration problem in the states should be solved but not while increasing misogyny, animosity between people, or racial hatred .  

mentally unhealthy people, those who have broken personalities do not create healthy theories about society and do not treat others well.  negative, fearful, hateful or psychotic personalities create negative, fearful, hateful or psychotic narratives.  they don’t know what they’re doing could be evil & would never admit that they don’t know better.

powerful people have the most influence on narratives.  others follow w whatever tribe they choose & often do not voice dissent even when they know they should.

we desperately need (at least) a third (political/cultural) tribe.

if RFK jr can win, we can make a big steer away from the divisive narrative structures that have trapped us in a ridiculous reality & be more calm & rational.

if we all could become a wholesome collective of independent, thoughtful people, willing to thoughtfully engage & learn from each other (while ofc also not being so full of fear of retribution), that would be such a nice dream made real.


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my longest post ever.
😅🤓🥳🤗🫡 
 if at some point you care to explain why, i’m curious & all ears. ✨ 
 thank you for the article.  i hope you’re having a nice weekend.  ☀️🌱 
 maybe she’s just being poetic?  

but wonder if she gave examples of what she meant.  it’s difficult to understand what she’s saying here in this clip. 
 mo mo 
 ⬆️ i posted this while falling asleep❕
🤣🤣🤣🤣 🤦‍♂️🤦🤦‍♀️ 
 trump raped women & girls and elon supports him, hosting trump with a very long conversation.

unacceptable. 
 trump is also a compulsive liar & treasonous sore loser.

unacceptable.

[big sigh] 
 sounds about right.

(…bitcoin will help, but there’s more to figure out.) 
 currently my attention is on boomer+ AM talk radio 😂🙃🥲

i should be playing with the bitcoins instead 
 the nostrich animation at the end is so cute 😂 
 🌷🌸💖 it’s so beautiful — the angelic voices of swifties singing. 🥹

https://x.com/stinasternberg/status/1822008860082577581?s=46&t=S7TTBpVvQLfGmHqiswwXUg 
 earfquake 
 Novak Djokovic won the gold❕
🥇 It was (likely) his last chance to be Olympic champion.  I’m so happy for him.  He really fought for it.  Amazing. ✨ 
 CENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA IS A PSYOP. AN ADDICTION TRAP.

X IS THE NEW MAINSTREAM MEDIA. BLUE CHEC... 
 it’s ridiculous when that hodl guy keeps importing into nostr the toxicity from 𝕏.  

he literally takes the most toxic narrative or thing of the week/day from the 4chan checks and proudly posts it here. 🤦‍♂️

so retarded. 🤪😂😂 
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