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 Streaming services are useless and overpriced. Use torrents. Better quality, free, and you find literally anything you want. 
 Who turned on the printer? 
 I had lot of enthusiasm in 2017 when price went up.

I don't feel it anymore and think bitcoin is... 
 I just paid for my vpn subscription with bitcoin. Cheers 
 WebSockets > HTTP 
 They both serve their purpose well 
 Have you used any social media that's not owned by big tech before you used nostr? Can you feel t... 
 asl pls 
 What’s the best bitcoin node? Umbrel? 
 How is Assange doing? 
 Is satoshi a name or a monetary unit? 
 I started a Spotify pod with 3 ads. Then the pod itself didn’t work. Restarted the app and went through 3 more ads, before the pod actually started. I’m paying for premium. The ad business model is intrusive and ridiculous. 
 I got 3 more ads after just 7 minutes. Wtf man 🤣 
 For long-form podcasts, do you prefer when pauses and filler words (um, like, etc) are edited out... 
 Unedited 
 Sats are the standard 
 Anybody watch the Netflix show Arcane?

I ignored it for years since video game adoptions into ot... 
 It was pretty good. Castelvania is good as well. 
 GM ☕ 
 Gm 
 Everything about nostr is cool except that freaking bird. 
 Good morning! Uncle is taking a break from social media, but with BTC hitting $53K, I thought I'd... 
 Zap me fam 
 What follows after late stage capitalism? 
 NOSTR HAS BEEN MY ONLY SOCIAL MEDIA FOR A YEAR NOW AND IT IS FUCKING AWESOME.

WE HAVE MADE INSAN... 
 Who? 
 Americans: “oh, joy! Monday is a holiday! Finally, a three-day weekend! I’ll probably still a... 
 There are many holidays indeed, but only a few of them count as off days, more or less the same yearly number as in the US. And you don’t get paid for those off days. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows. 
 To play a bit of devils advocate. The longer and more expensive the return trip, the more wisdom you can develop. 
 nostr:nprofile1qqs24yz8xftq8kkdf7q5yzf4v7tn2ek78v0zp2y427mj3sa7f34ggjcpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj703s8dt leaves the space below the users pp unused, while nostr:nprofile1qqsraldwhvwcjgltmxwfu7kw8dqef2692yhzheuurd7k3kfy8cxjdqgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmhv4kxxmmdv5hxummnw3ezuamfdejsz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmnype9f6h uses the full screen width for notes, which I think makes a big difference. nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug curios why Amethyst does it this way. Seems like wasted space that can be used somehow.  
 Anyone in the world can post anything they want and if anyone else anywhere else in the world fee... 
 It will be fun when governments will want to regulate and tax bitcoin transactions on nostr. 
 Does anyone actually like read receipts? 
 What sparks your joy? 
 Awareness  
 Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, has been arrested in France for failing to apply EU censorship ... 
 What are the actual charges? 
 What if nostr is a great idea whose time hasn’t come yet? Would you be willing to “hodl”? 
 I just popped a couple capsules of rancid fish oil. Don’t recommend. 
 The complicated aspect about the Social Security system in the United States is that it was false... 
 So basically were fucked  
 Gm 
 If for some reason you were to find yourself in a knife fight, would you rather have a tanto knif... 
 First i'd try to gtfo of there. If that's not an option, i'd rather use the one I trained more with, which is a tanto.  
 Tether is not a CBDC.

It's literally a BDC

Tether is not a central bank, they don't issue notes... 
 So ignorance is weekness in the fight to come. Don't be ignorant. Well spoken! 
 What are some of the best movies of the past five years? 
 Some great recommendations. Here's mine

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7984734/ 
 If you think they are going hard in the paint on Elon so far, I don’t think you’ve seen anyth... 
 What type of bureaucracy cares about people? 
 What’s #footstr lol 
 Oh… 
 Did you vote, anon?

Have fun defending your puppet master for the next few years. 
 If votes don't matter then why do politicians go out of their way to manipulate election results? Genuine question  
 And to manipulate and brainwash people into picking their candidate instead of the other? 
 In trying times it's important to stay positive and be thankful for the things you have and the p... 
 Yeah but now we have ice spice. Have we really evolved? 
 If schools weren’t designed to create mindless workers, if the media wasn’t designed for brainwashing, and if we all were more compassionate, i wonder how society would look like. 
 Instead of labeling organic food as organic, how about labeling inorganic food as inorganic? Or poison? 
 Who decided that on a chat UI design, your bubbles come from the right and everyone else from the... 
 Agree with you sir.  
 Sport categories should never be gender-based (men's and women's). It should be body-structure-ba... 
 I think the intention behind it is good but I don’t see this succeeding. How accurate can body types be measured? Which variables are taken into account and which are not? And why? How easy is it to get false measurements or even game results? Besides, if the idea is to have better defined categories, where should we draw the line? Should we also measure intelligence, sport iq, anxiety, trauma, will power, etc all of which have an impact on performance? The more variables are introduced the more complicated it gets. And while historical categories are flawed, at least they’re simple and more in line with nature. 
 Slightly off topic but I never quite understood stacking goals. Humans are greedy and even bitcoin is powered by greed. So stack as much as you can without imposing stacking limits. Or create a goal, achieve it, then create a higher goal. Repeat ad infinitum. 
 I was surprised the icon was there at all after Musk bought Twitter  
 Doesn’t seem like you can connect it to your own node. Do they have access to your xpub and other sensitive data? 
 People want to be free and also need leaders. In our society those two are hard to coexist.  
 I have faith. Looking forward to Gaga's potrayal of Harley Quinn and the chemistry between them.   
 Government lies used to be good. 
 Being famous sounds horrible. 
 Society is fake. Incentives are all fucked up. Things don’t make sense. Yet somehow we’re still marching forward. 
 The reality is that our society is fake. 
 Words are not violence. Violence is violence. 
 Is that a micro aggression?  
 Nostr serves as the credible backup plan for when governments seize or ban X. 
 Hi Naval 
 Kendrick made it cool to hate on Drake