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 Don't use twitter, can someone ask him whether he would like the republicans and/or Trump to control what speech is allowed?

The authoritarians rarely consider what would happen if their shitty ideas were implemented and controlled by people they hate 
 Gn nostr 🫂

Went down some rabbit holes I wish I didn't tonight, gotta be more careful about m... 
 Having just skimmed a bit of the video, they remind me of the BSV cultists. It's hard to help people who don't want to be seen to be wrong. 
 I was thinking about this, and I think having crappy equipment and crappy Internet has given me t... 
 First job I had was programming for a mobile device with 4MB RAM, of which 2 MB were reserved, and a 🐌-slow ARM CPU. 

Even though it's been ages, I still catch myself coding for a device like that, even though the code is running on something with a bajillion times the resources and it doesn't really matter if it takes 10 or 100ms.

Old habits die hard 
 Of course Fidel Castro's son, Justin Trudeau, wants it to be illegal to spread misinformation  
 Oh that's not good eh? How about we fix that wrongthink you're doing, minus 100 social credit score for you friend

https://image.nostr.build/79ef2f05ab8a0aa4d359daac3a34122a34ef9ac1d25a83762965b028ad3fc980.jpg 
 The fact that so much of the world uses Microsoft windows makes me lose faith in humanity a bit t... 
 Until it's upgraded to 11 by either not asking or by using dark patterns to trick you into accepting it, like they did with 7 -> 10, yeah they got sued, but I bet it was still worth it.

https://en.meming.world/images/en/f/fd/I%27ll_Fuckin_Do_It_Again.jpg 
 Getting older just kinda sneaks up on you, sounds like you found a good way to keep an eye on what's important :) 
 Explosive diarrhea  
 FML - flying monkeyclass sucks 🐒 
 Take the money you didn't spend on a business/1st class ticket and stack sats to make you feel better ;) 
 How does one over 1.86 m even sleep in economy? It’s just eluded me forever. 
 Terribly 
 I'm starting to suspect that one reason some Bitcoiners are bearish on nostr is because they are ... 
 I think that's definitely one reason. I think there's another major difference that's common amongst twitter addicts: they rely on "the algorithm" to gain followers and influence, which is s lot harder to do when there's no central nostr algorithm that rewards click/rage-bait and short gotcha arguments. 
 Currently browsing Nostr on my home WiFi 
nostr:nevent1qqsp4arcnl985rzewfeldszyxg497hvcfpndt4fr95... 
 Or you used a MAC address that's already on his network 

https://avatars.akamai.steamstatic.com/9a0eda74615731e8d35c735d0987c4518acfcfd5_full.jpg 
 Sup y'all #introductions 
 Hello stranger, hope you're having a great day 👋 
 a great way to prevent massive amounts of middle eastern migrants is to maybe not spend two decad... 
 The largest advocate for (and provider of) this bombing don't have to deal with the many refugees from the conflicts they initiate or participate in.

Guessing they knew this going in  
 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDap-K6GmL0

With #nostr it's possible to yell fire in a crowded theater and the censors can't stop you, that's a feature, not a bug 🪲 
 What questions would you ask a Bitcoin Casher who has recently come back to bitcoin? 

What would... 
 What made you join the BCH "camp" and when/what exactly made you change your mind once more?

And how did your peers (in both "camps") react? 
 Faketoshi was in the BCH camp until he and his acolytes split into BSV, there was a very public (and somewhat hilarious) hash war 
 Fuck "buy and throw away" culture, embrace right to repair 🛠️
 
 Is nostr still gay? 
 👉👈 
 My favorite time of clown year is when they talk about minting the trillion dollar coin to pay of... 
 When they are pressured all the smoke and mirrors about how dollars are created disappears and they openly suggest doing what they've been doing all along 
 I like that my client (amethyst) thinks this is Welsh and tried to translate it 😆 
 WHY IS IT SO HARD TO NOT POISON MYSELF

LIKE WHAT IS THIS, WHY DO I WANT TO DESTROY MY BODY, I GE... 
 It's just gonna suck for a while and then you'll be fine.

Be more stubborn than your urges 👊 
 It's on its way to the court with a bonded courier I'm sure 😆 
 So let me get this straight. Creating the default hello world react-native app with 2 views resul... 
 It is optimized for time to market and low cost. JS devs are a lot cheaper than the alternatives and the output (crappy and bloated as it is) runs ok-ish on most platforms without much effort if you have a new-ish fast computer with lots of cores, an SSD and 32+GB RAM, which most of the developers and execs ofc do.

The end user on the other hand often uses a device that's a lot slower and/or older and are often running lots of these turd apps at the same time eating up ressources and bogging their system down.

Fuckers should be forced to use a 5 year old laptop with 4GB of ram a few days a week 😆 
 And then there's https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even 😆

Any good ressources to get started with go you would recommend? I primarily do js, python and php at the moment, want to broaden my horizon a bit 
 Here for the party! Let’s go #Bitcoin

#introductions 
 🥳 
 🧀

#introductions 
 🐁 
 Who will win:

- Multi million dollar robot with electronic warfare equipment to disrupt wifi/bluetooth/zigbee/etc

Or

- Camera connected with a 5$ ethernet cable... 
 Some guy in my airport lounge is on a call pitching launching an enterprise blockchain token and ... 
 The last idiot is not born yet... 
 Any #PHP devs know the fastest way to just check to see if a url or image exists?

I've got a fun... 
 You can run multiple requests in parallel with curl, think the PHP function is called "curl_multi_exec" or something like it. 
 Inside scoop on my "deleting" nym and coming back:

Anytime bitcoiners start getting arrested, I ... 
 I was today years old when I found out that when people on #nostr write "LFG" it means "let's fucking go" and not "looking for group".

Played too many MMORPGs growing up 😆

https://image.nostr.build/d119a35c29bd8f6d62d30ab3bf1add1e05163d45b92515c10ad97a0556d13c68.jpg 
 Did it ever make money? Besides startups trying to get DEI dollars, which ofc does not apply to Microshit 
 Institutions are systems of control that tend to get corrupted when they amass too much power.

O... 
 And who gets to say what the true interpretations of the holy books are?

Vile and evil things are still vile and evil even if it's in some old book. 
 Those so called prophets you speak of, are they here with us today to tell you how to interpret the books? No...

When I hear religious nutjobs use their religious texts to justify that men are above women, that husbands can beat their wives, that child rape is legal and that apostates have to be killed - then I use my own judgement and decide those people (and their books) are immoral and evil. 
 Exactly, they are not with us, so humans interpret the verses in those books. Even if the books were perfectly preserved, that has no impact on whether the contents are true, if I have a perfectly preserved 2000 year old book that says "2+2 is 5", that doesn't mean it's true.

Regarding references:

"Men are above women" & "Husbands can beat their wives" = Quran 4:34

"Child rape is legal" = Aisha (the youngest wife) was 9 at the time of consummation (rape)

"Rape of female slaves" = Quran 4:24

"Apostates should be killed" = Quran 4:89 - which might explain why many muslim majority countries punish apostasy with death or imprisonment - see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam_by_country#/media/File%3AApostasy_laws_world_map.svg

I base my value judgements on my opinions yes, they are of course heavily influenced by the culture and time I grew up in and are subject to change if I encounter new information or convincing arguments.

Let me ask you a question: Is slavery good or bad? (hint: if you have to look it up in your holy book of choice, you are morally corrupt). 
 If we’re friends and I don’t follow you here, please let me know 
 Anyone who hands CSW and the cult a slice of justice is a friend to all Bitcoiners 🍻 
 They also installed a half-arsed rootkit on paying customer's systems:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

And the last time I owned a Sony "smart" TV I could make it crash and reboot itself by simply port scanning it with nmap 🤡

 
 Any tips on how to be more ruthless / strict while running a business 
 As a small-ish (or even solo) company, large corporations have a tendency to fuck you if they can get away with it, don't let them.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U 
 Found this one from the last dip, seems lile a good time to use it #bitcoin 

https://video.nostr.build/34ac4f20aa235032936ed9a5d39b33824209fbe56f3bf914458b4489777d7789.mp4 
 It's that time again #bitcoin 🎢
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