I would definitely eat pork out of this bowl


I personally have fun staying poor


People who think they should be able to make a safe space on the internet are, and have always been, retarded.


If the article is written by msm and uses that pejorative, the general rule of thumb is that it can be dismissed outright. https://image.nostr.build/ceac4183220803799c1246d0c976f3a79a02e698c7af2c974b0dd04f3d02b64b.gif


A vanity fair article that uses the pejorative "conspiracy theroists" to describe unknown sources.


Lol, is there anyone alive that believed that? The man speaks in hyperboles almost exclusively.

Please continue to hold him to his word though.  It's an entertaining exercise in futility.


One week into what?


Blade runner instead of animal farm imo


Orange day, orange evening


Get your bingo cards ready https://image.nostr.build/463581b00b2a863c7b69e9694f63cf6c22c72cf6e12eebc268cb00195ea7f181.jpg


Get your bingo card ready https://image.nostr.build/463581b00b2a863c7b69e9694f63cf6c22c72cf6e12eebc268cb00195ea7f181.jpg


Juggalina


Pretty sure JC is the literal definition of this.


We'll see if etfs or mstr collapse is what sparks the crash this cycle. My money is on coinbase folding due to rehypothication. That will completely fuck the etfs.


100k will be the bottom of the next cycle


Bruh, where's the drone shot?


That may just be because I've never seen trump read a prewritten speech with zero "weaving"


This looks like AI


“At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.”


It's trollbait you fucking nitwit


It's your actions that tell the story of your life. Not your intentions.


Damn, missed it.  When RSS?


Probably nothing


I suppose so. It's so weird how the last election cycle has been so full of week long "verifications" of who won.  More weird that nobody seems to care or think to suspect foul play.


That was understood. I just thought it may be of interest.


The BC election that just took place had electronic counters


Exactly what im saying. No observer, no beauty.


What I think is interesting about this idiom is the notion that an observer is what gives a thing the quality of beauty.  Without an observer, there is none.  It is the answer to the question: "If a tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound?"


I didn't know how badly I never wanted wanted to see this.


I miss search results without the first page being ads


I believe David Bailey like I believe in the tooth fairy


Both https://image.nostr.build/e64411de091a946496abdec7d65936aba09049557fd571ac58328bd1722558db.jpg


This year's pumpkin https://image.nostr.build/81ba78d6ef435ad816fb612cb6ec5467aa0398f483e0ec12ada503154ec4555d.jpg


Feeling spicy today I see


Just finished The Fountainhead.  It's an interesting and relevant take on the state of modern building.  Not perfectly descriptive of the issues, but I suppose that wasn't really the point.
I chuckled pretty hard at the electrician hating on architects.  Its true that tradesman don't have much respect for a builder who has never spent time working on tools.


They could refuse to hire a man for any reason they like, or rent an apartment for any reason as well.  Women have requirements that men do not.  Women take more days off work, are more sensitive and cause more nuisance with complaints and grievances than men do.  That is a fact.

 Forcing employers to hire them or landlords to house them at the point of a gun didn't make society better, nor did it release Women from any type of bondage. It did the exact opposite. Most men don't work because we want to, we work because we have to.  The same is now true of the vast majority of women.  By doubling the labour force, we cut the value of that labour by half, and now women who would like nothing more than to stay at home and raise children don't even have that option unless their partner is in the top 5% of earners.  Women's "liberation" was a psyop and you've been tricked into believing that you are more free when in fact you have all become slaves to the system that traditionally only shackled men.


I wouldn't even notice until I get a new phone


Not enough "let me be clear"


And yet, luckily for bitcoiners, the price of bitcoin has been largely unaffected to date.


My grandfather was a pharmacist in Cuba and he also started a little toy store.

The Cuban government took his toy store, pharmacy and middle of the road house that my entire family lived in and gave us an apartment. The house was given to a military official.

Self custodying words could have protected two generations worth of saved value. My family will never forget this and never trust a government to protect the value we store.


Still waiting for more episodes of that pod...


I had no idea they raided Próspera

What a sad turn of events for a project that had such potential for human flourishing without coercion

https://m.primal.net/LaEj.png


Gonna need a reminder not to quit my job some time in the next 4 years too


This is true on several levels and the realization happens about a different set of invisible rules at every stage of development.


Is he OK? Is he OK?


My literal nightmare


A dubious claim that requires a very narrow definition of social order


Whats interesting to me about the verbiage in this statement is how I think it relates to mythology.

If we look at the digital realm as a new world and superimpose the Norse or Greek pantheon on top of it, we can follow a generational storyline that was laid out as the foundation of the cosmos in antiquity.

The first digital generation were the titans who shaped the initial world and embedded themselves as the very forces of nature within the structures of reality (the arbiters of truth).  While not malevolent, their purposes were small in overall vision and merely self serving.

The next generation would be what the ancient pantheons called the Gods.  Born into existing structures, they reshaped the world and introduced order with benevolent intent, along with many flaws, and created a system of eternal rule.

The offspring of the gods would then become the heroes you're referring to Hodl.  Great deeds done in tribute to, and in defiance of the gods, that bring great boons and terrible consequences  like the stealing of fire and the opening of Pandora's box.

We here have all heard the analogy of bitcoin as the fire in cyberspace and I think it's pretty safe to call Satoshi a hero for taking digital scarcity from an arbiter of truth and releasing it to the world of the small, inconsequential, individuals that go about their days without the lofty aims of great deeds done in service to higher purposes.


Well said Lyn. The Timverse was definitely unmatched in it's cohesiveness and story arch.

For some reason, as a kid I always gravitated more to the storyline of the 90s Spiderman cartoon.  There was a similar (albeit less grandiose) story arc with the regular appearance of other marvel heroes.  Lots of moments stick with me, including the hilarious ending of spiderman taking Stan Lee out web slinging, but one that comes to mind often is the story of captian America.
When spiderman meets him, he had been locked in battle with the Red Skull, suspended in time for the past 60 some-odd years.  In the final battle, Cap sacrifices himself to the same fate he had been pulled from without hesitation (essentially dragging the Red Skull into purgatory to battle for eternity).  It was such a lesson for me in both accepting your fate, and how choosing to do what you know to be right, regardless of the person cost, is what makes you a hero.

As someone who didn't grow up with religion in any capacity, these stories filled the roll of teaching me about good and evil and I'll always be grateful for that.

Moments like the end of the Timverse ring so true that they feel like they write themselves.  The culmination of that 14 year arc was the summation of the character who encapsulates what it means be a hero within that story.


I'd argue that 90's marvel was equal in quality.  The characters hadn't yet gone through multiple interations within the TV medium and so they were just truer to the spirits of the characters.  Also the OG stories taken from the comics are just generally better than shit that was produced later by TV writers.
And no, it's not just the nostalgia talking.


This is just another way of saying that it would be miraculous for someone to guess your seed phrase.


I'll believe it when I see it


Being a parent results in personal growth that cannot be attained in any other way. Everyone who is interested in self improvement should want to be a parent.


Mace Windu approves this message https://image.nostr.build/74bd431d085604915c008e0ce2af3bdf7cd0f74c3284bba23dc9228561df376a.jpg


I love it. As much as I love all your 2d art, I'm a sucker for the sculptures.


The sun is not a small band of glowing tungsten.  Troll harder


Snark all you want. If you think your incandescent light bulb has some kind of health benefit, I have a bridge to sell you.


Yeah, that's about as interesting to me as astrology. Light is light. What changes is the spectrum and that can be set at any wavelength with LEDs.  There is no meaningful amount of anything else radiating from an incandescent light.  The fact that it's a piece of molten tungsten doesn't make the light different than a cold diode of the same color.


Regular led bulb > regular incandescent imo

They fail less and have less duds out of the package(in my extensive experience) and don't heat up to dangerous temperatures (which causes many issues beyond the fire hazard). They also use 1/10th of the power

The positives for incandescents are that they don't dim as much over time and they are cheaper to make.

The things I care about as an electrician are the things in column A.


And anyone that installs lights of all kinds for a living


This is the same thought I have every morning on my way to work while I sit at the same red light for 60 seconds and not a single car drives by.  Traffic cameras are poison for the soul.


The hate for led lights is unwarranted Luddism.  While they certainly are not the end all be all that they were proclaimed a decade ago, they are superior in virtually every way to incandescent bulbs.


I think it needs to said, whoever this whistleblower is, he didn't kill himself.


The seinfeld episode we should have had


In a Vaaaan Gogh down by the RIVER!!!


How do you fuck a sleeping lion?


The spectrum is not Communism on one side and Capitalism on the other.  It's authoritarianism of any type on one side and free capital markets on the other.

Central Planning vs Rule of Law


When did Knut transform into sensitive, bearded Robin Williams?


This can't be said loudly enough


I need some stickers of this to put all over town


GM

You are not what you feel inside your head.  You are the the combination of what God made you and the story that you tell through your actions.


His pod with Constantine was straight up insane. I can't believe he actually put it out.


The patriots whose blood must be shed to refresh the tree of liberty have already been born, and tyrants await them.


Laser eyes had to die for the next phase to begin.  There are more interations of the cult to come yet.


Good.gif


P EOPLE
U NNECESSARILY
S PEWING
S HIT
I N
E VERYONES
S PACE


Need a little of that human touch https://image.nostr.build/9298502577154c0c5004b07b417f1c9923ff48b159a13151d0241ee1bc139cbc.gif


That said, the closest approximation by my estimate is Satoshi. If there is something that will stop the engine of the world, it's bitcoin.


John Galt is yet to emerge. No one fits the bill well enough for the name imo


Gotta get some white hockey tape on those handles asap


Agreeability is essential for functioning in a group at any scale.  There has to be things that the majority of people don't care to argue about.  The courage to stand against the agreeable group for things you do care about isn't the temperament trait disagreeability, it's integrity.


Did you stay at Blackrock?


Just the once then nostr:nprofile1qqspnzgrfett3asxcuj0gksje6z2zxzpvgd27uvz58m9vsuqh8zzw6cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0rjj54p?


She-man


All companies drink their own kool-aid. Bitcoin companies are no exception.  These people are selling what was once a dream but has evolved into a hallucination.


The majority of bitcoiners certainly do not go to conferences or political rallies


Men who wanted to be left alone. Author unknown. We’re getting there peeps. https://image.nostr.build/c82ee3fe5ca17964dfc643ad2523a01a6fce3aefbfb536ce8e27563793b06088.jpg


#meme #nostrmeme
#Zap it, Feels good man
🙅♂🙅💁♀💁🙋🙋♀🧏♀🧏🤦🤦♀

#humor
Laughs

https://video.nostr.build/3b05ebf160c1967c9993087b9a0df35461d1cd8308420095f261b04d7ab83576.mp4


It's OK, when they figure out that nostr is about as private as bitcoin, I'm sure they'll make a centrally controlled, completely opaque communication protocol.


The irreverance


"A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.” – Camille Paglia


"Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies
Which busy care draws in the brains of men;
Therefore thou sleep’st so sound."

-Julius Caesar; Brutus


It takes a village


Nostr Lyn https://image.nostr.build/277607d7808277b434e4402721d3b5623386b1702341d498c5ae0a46e0facade.gif


Negative


While it's probably decades away, the electrostatic propulsion piece is an absolute scientific breakthrough that could completely change the world.  Very cool


Sound on 🤣😂 https://video.nostr.build/73c93d5d9d8e4fe21b55e83e4faf32257cb2fb54eb2951043e865949bd1fe5b9.mp4


The more time you spend doing anything, the more your thoughts on it will diverge from mainstream because nuance comes from experience and there is no nuance in mainstream "thought".


I would follow an nsec for that


I roller bladed even less than I ice skated as a kid.  I think trying to focus on bending my knees will help.  Learning as an adult has been hilarious because the only time I have to spend on the ice is when I'm playing in a game, and I play with beginners and people that have been skating for 40 years 😅


How can anyone watch this debate and think that they have to vote for either of these clowns?


Tucker Carlson goes nuclear on a member of the woeful Australia Legacy Media, or as he rightly refers to her as a - "castrated robot reading out questions from the boss".

https://static.noauthority.social/media_attachments/files/112/688/504/582/435/607/original/abcb92db932fcb68.mp4


Just started playing hockey in my mid 30s. Teach me how to skate
https://image.nostr.build/19b1f2764d6de6f7f100879f7a1841e815d43829f399feb3af2a999c74362999.jpg


I'm happy that Assange is finally going back home.

But it's absolutely outrageous that after being held for 5yrs in jail without trial he still had to plead guilty to be freed, was forbidden from flying commercial & will now owe $500k to the AU govt.

All because he did his job.


Day 144 of doing 100 push-ups and I was finally able to do it in 1 set


Double indemnity
https://image.nostr.build/3ba0055cd42dab0990bdedce6789b8223a821ea4a15a4d14e65f354599ec8798.gif


I talked to the person in charge of hiring for the construction of the new hospital in my area recently and was told outright that they aren't hiring mentally stable, white men.  The union rep for the IBEW said the same thing and that all I had to do was to pretend to be part of the alphabet mafia.

They will simply not hire white men with any shred of integrity.

We are living in Atlas Shrugged.


"Beware your thoughts for your thoughts become your words.

Beware your words for your words become your deeds.

Beware your deeds for your deeds become your destiny."


"Is it better to out monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?"


Order your crew to put wax in their ears when you hear the sirens' song of shitcoinery?


I get what you're saying, but you need to take a step back as well.  The government controlled pedagogy indoctrinates kids from the age of 5 years old to do as they're told by the experts of any particular subject.  Is there to be any surprise that when their expert counselors of guidance tell them that in order to succeed, they must lever their future and sell themselves into slavery, that all but the least susceptible to indoctrination follow their fully embedded ideology and do so?

Should I be forced to repay my neighbors' kids loans?
Absolutely not.

Should the kids who were scammed by a system of beliefs that was forced down their throat and is antithetical to human flourishing allow themselves to be taken into slavery so that their productive capacity can be fed upon by the beneficiaries of that system?
Absolutely not.


Suspect it of what?


"That a man who's willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards--never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy."


"A wise man speaks because he has something to say, a fool, because he has to say something."


It's trying to figure that out itself right now


One does not bargain about inches of evil.


"This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."


Every nym is a new journey.  Those who know, know


"The hate of men will pass and dictators die. And the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish."


Is this version 1.8.6 of sparrow?


How to recover your funds on Samourai Wallet using Sparrow Wallet in 2 minutes. Clipped from today's Simply Sessions with  nostr:npub1gu47n7fxfm4py48jktmu6tdqcvva4e87fntynuzzf62zxnw2e7tsc6907g

https://m.primal.net/Hzvl.mov


"In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have no winced nor cried aloud
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head I bloody but unbowed"

We are with you Keonne and William.


#bitcoin
Copied form sethforprivacy:

Everything actionable you need to know about what this indictment means for you as a @SamouraiWallet (SW) or Whirlpool user 👇

As a Samourai Wallet user (no Dojo)

Unfortunately, the architecture of SW meant that your xpub (a master public key, allowing anyone holding it to derive all your past/present/future Bitcoin addresses) was at some point in time held by Samourai, and could now possible in the hands of the DOJ.

Though it's a worst-case scenario, you should assume that your xpub was compromised, and thus all previous mixes you have done have been unwound and are now traceable. You should also assume that the gov can now derive all past/present/future addresses of yours and track movement of funds if so desired.

In addition, Samourai's coordinator and backend sync server was seized, and so SW will no longer sync, show received funds, or allow sending funds out. As such, you have to migrate funds to another wallet like @SparrowWallet following the docs here:

docs.samourai.io/wallet/restore…

In addition, I would recommend migrating funds to a new seed phrase to prevent anyone holding the xpub from seeing all future received/spent funds.

You should also disable automatic updates in the Play Store (if used) to ensure no malicious updates are pushed.

As a Samourai Wallet user (using your own Dojo)

Thankfully, you avoided having your xpub potentially compromised. The worst case scenario for you is that your previous mixes may not have the full anon set you expected if non-Dojo users xpubs were compromised.

You will still be able to sync/send/receive from your Samourai Wallet app, but should also migrate funds eventually as no further updates will come out for Samourai Wallet. If you want to migrate, use the docs below:

docs.samourai.io/wallet/restore…

You should, however, disable automatic updates in the Play Store (if used) to ensure no malicious updates are pushed.

As a Sparrow Wallet user

Thankfully, you avoided having your xpub potentially compromised as well. The worst case scenario for you is that your previous mixes may not have the full anon set you expected if non-Dojo/Sparrow users xpubs were compromised.

There is no real need to rotate to a new wallet etc, and Sparrow is still an excellent option. Unfortunately you will no longer be able to mix in Sparrow as the Samourai coordinator was seized.


From Eric Hughes A Cypherpunk's Manifesto


Someone better start turning off some hashrate

https://image.nostr.build/143728ebab1735dcb8e4e8b8c53568471838dd2a74b7b45053dcab78558d033d.gif


The parallels between this (hoffmanesque) line of thinking and religious thought is striking.

"You can't see God in his true form, only what he allows you to see, or what he has determined that you should be able to see."

You can translate the framing of his description of human experience pretty much 1 to 1 to make it make sense from a religious perspective.


"Has the universe ever winked at you?"


Shilling RV in any capacity is cringe as fuck bud.
https://image.nostr.build/49c34ebd11692ff669f9c4c6993252454116568b7109970cd207c6bb7044195c.gif


Wtf happened to fountain? It's super broken, doesn't load the home page, doesn't update.  I've re-downloaded it several times.  Its too bad, I liked that app


No, that would imply that intention is what makes an action good or evil.

Metaphysics is what it's all about my friend.

The structure of reality can be described in different ways and still be coherent and true.  Nothing is more juvenile to someone who sees the world through a particular lens (or metaphysical understanding) than someone telling them they can't see the truth.


JBP - God is whatever you put in the highest place. It's what you serve if you do good.

This is meant definitonally.  It's a metaphysical worldview centered around good and evil.  Two things that certainly exist.

Rejecting the metaphysics of good and evil is obviously possible, but consider the outcome before casually dispensing with a judeo-christian God.


https://image.nostr.build/35d8bf850fb80fddc4c7e582620129ee872b56a0e0fed229d2ff2e2d96fa60ae.jpg
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Your life is a story that you tell with your actions.  Once you decide who you want to be, responsibility for your life is a divine privilege.


https://image.nostr.build/44ae841fa2ebb478c8d6c7bc1fa406deb769c86ccce88b23280927d6fc4dc66b.jpg
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*arts and craft*

Not a tip


I think we all know who is the bee and who is the flower in that relationship.


I feel like I need to make a Monika Lewinsky joke here...


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Tales from 4chan
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It took me 10 years of saying I missed the boat before I decided to figure out why I might not have.  $4 was too expensive for a bitcoin at my first touch point. I deserved a $40000 price 🤷♂


It's the superior sport
https://image.nostr.build/8ec32b954e9ff879f51238083f05fb1a8743b7c9ad0f2bb1da47134322979dfb.jpg


An open protocol that allows for privately owned profiles and the transfer of digital communications.  What fixes this 💁♂


I open it once in awhile now just to remind myself of the insanity.

It's fucking bad for your health.


"We had an understanding..."
https://image.nostr.build/99894879d779d1c48d7e6999a09dd43dbb8ac7a3e948d19e15e6ec9a1c52ffbb.gif


There's a version by Chris Cornell with some very poignant lyrics for more recent times. I'd give it a listen and maybe swap in a verse or 2


Here you go Nostr, full Tucker and Putin interview, here on Nostr.
#Plebchain

https://v.nostr.build/V4k7.mp4


My preference is never, but I'm happy to change it


Air travel in the 21st century is an affront to human dignity


I'm not one for doing challenges, but I like this one


I browse global for a bit and add shitposters


That's interesting. I would not have thought it would make a big difference.


Ah, going to finish with hardwood to match?


What's that flooring on the ground floor?


Yeah, when financiers start financing pet projects instead of creating value, they obviously aren't an asset to society anymore


Yeah that's right. So if me as a builder can't build because no one is paying me to build, and I must instead go forage for food in the woods, I'm kind of fucked. Now scale that up and you can see that there are no builders without people to trade with.  Financiers are a vital part of a society, regardless of the distaste we plebs have for them in this moment in time.


Define builders

You appear to be of the opinion that paying someone to do something makes you a keynsian.  If I don't get paid, I don't build. At the end of the day, I have to put food on the table


Define builders


If the independently wealthy become the only builders, we're all fucked


Funding the building of a building is not building a building but builders can't build a building without the funding.


Fantasticly written, completely intellectually dishonest article that does exactly what it accuses peterson of doing.
*chef's kiss*


"Maybe I'll just check out this private server...."

2 weeks later

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mLyOj_QD4a4


nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev great conversation with Devon Erikson https://fountain.fm/episode/OGQV5geuq6SrJVDosjY4


Tearing things down must be in the service of building things up, lest we all become buried in rubble.


I could see fantasy F1 and Nascar in the same world. Elves driving f1 and humans taking all the elegance and beauty out of the races but adding a ton of hillbilly energy and a different kind of skill.

No idea where Barbie fits in there though 🤔


"Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge."


The "other stuff" is so much more interesting and bullish imo than the social media clients.  Latest episode of plebchain radio with arkinox was crazy. This is what everybody is missing


I have been told "there is no second best"


Of what, civilization?


Always was


I think YOU'VE had enough...damnit


"Mr. Lahey, I think had enough"


Ryobi is definitely the hufflepuff of power tools


Suits know that the first thing you need to do when you enter a new space is build your reputation.  Cory spent a lot of time on this. He built a network of podcasters and media who either already had a good reputation in the space, or built one up with his backing.  I don't look at this as a good or bad thing, it's a good strategy.  What happens next is where it gets interesting.  What do you do when you have built up that trust?  It feels like Swan is at that point where the next step in the strategy is being implemented.

Telling people not to trust someone is not throwing shade here, it's just good advice.


Is there a way to make a voip type client for nostr? Is that essentially what nests is? If we want to onboard gamers I think that would be a big deal.
nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6
nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s
nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z


Is it just primal?


Beware the rock of wretched lies
Its face is cracked and filled with eyes.
Its roots spread under every tree
And feeds them poison carefully.
It keeps the the husks of blackened wood
Until they fall where once they stood.
And where new life should then replace
The rock decides what takes its place.

Beware the rock of rolling hills
Fed with endless printed bills
A bottomless pit that makes you part
Of its black and twisted heart.
It knows exactly what you think
By making you become the fink
That feeds it with your energy
Until you fall like every tree.

Beware the rock thats black and takes
What every single builder makes
And crushes slowly with its weight
The fruit your labour doth create.
You can't escape its gaping jaws
It owns the ones who make the laws.
And when you try to start anew
It pulls the rug from under you.

Beware the bitcoin etf
That obfuscates the growing left.
The time it chains is yours you see
Because it keeps in custody
The only finite source of truth
Of work youve done til now from youth.
If bitcoin wins then it will fail
And when cumbles all will wail.


No one is attacking anyone here, we're having a conversation. My point stands, although you don't seem to grasp it.  An educator is what they are because they are downstream of the innovator.  I didn't use the word programmer specifically because those who fund the projects are as integral to the projects as the bodies that build them.
If you take a second to understand the point of my post, I think you'd agree. Or you can take it as a personal attack. The choice is yours, I care not.


All they have to do is prevent the content they don't want from finding its way to the npcs who won't go looking for it.  They don't need to silence us, just make us look "fringe".


I'm pretty comfortable being off base, but I don't think I am here.  Not to be overly harsh, but if you're ashamed of the profession that you chose, do something else.


1) saying you aren't an influencer doesn't magically make it so regardless of the meme

2) the network of influence that you've built is not exactly something I would say I'm appreciative of. When your body of work is akin to a social media account (podcasts, written articles, etc) you are not a builder (yes i am aware of 1031 and i am speaking in generalizations).  I don't mean that slanderously. It's just factual.  It's important that people know what's going on in the industry, therefore podcasts have value. But don't make the hubristic mistake of believing you know what youre talking about when you have zero practical experience identifying technical problems in systems and implementing theoretical fixes to those problems.
STAY HUMBLE

3. Happy new year


My opinion about things being broken in the protocol is as irrelevant as yours, I just don't think weighing in against the good faith builders with the number of followers in your orbit is productive or a good idea.

Sorry to tag you specifically, there are lots of names I could throw out that would fall into the same category. When influencers like yourself get too big for their britches they end up thinking that their opinion is more valuable than it really is.  Because of the influence they have over the ignorant followers in their own community, they actually do have a certain (albeit minute) sway over the protocol.

Just like how the longer you've been in the space the more compounding you've seen in both your knowledge and your stack, your feelings of validation and confidence expand as your body of work grows.  The problem is, without practical experience in the building of things, you don't have the perspective to back your beliefs or knowledge. I think my analogy around construction is an apt one.  I'll try another:
A streamer who streams a particular video game and plays that game really well, and has been playing for years, has a great understanding of the game and how to play it. He also has a considerable influence on what is popular within that game's community.  That doesn't mean he knows the first thing about what changes will break that game.  Even the devs often don't know, but it requires constant maintenance and actively looking for potential problems in order to find them before they become consequential.

That's why when someone who is able to point out potential problems from a position of practical experience does so, the correct course of action is to investigate, corroborate, collaborate, and eliminate by the least invasive means possible.

Again, sorry to pick on you when i could easily have put another influencer like nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx or whoever else on the other side of the particular debate that was on my mind.

Merry Christmas


The need for creative destruction in the bitcoin podcast "industry" is fucking real.

Once a person who is not involved in the production of functional things is too influential over the public opinion, there becomes a growing bifrication between reality and perception of the industry.  This could be said of any industry.  If there were a bunch of likeable dudes making content about construction, but who had zero experience building things, listeners will just generally think that the guy talking at them twice a week about the need for more shear walls in a 10 story wood frame building and the necessity of fire caulking the 3 million 7/8 holes in top and bottom plates has any applicable problem solving experience and has an opinion that should hold any weight.

You can talk to the people who build things all you want, but until you start your own PoW, you are not a God damn expert.

I have no hate for the guy, but nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk is the perfect example of this.  The bitcoin magazine hardline take on ordinals/brc 20 stuff just seems like an attempt to influence the ignorant into thinking that builders should avoid fixing structural issues.

Saying that an unintended consequence of a change is what it is and now we just have to live with it, is out of step with industry, and with reality.  If a building is swaying in a way that could be problematic because of a change in construction material, you don't say "well, I guess it's just going to sway like that forever." You increase the support and prove out the structure.

Then again, I'm just a dummy who builds buildings...


Where can I buy this?


This is a place where the irreverent gather.  Expect no quarter, no sympathy, no grace, and no love and you can only be pleasantly surprised when it occurs.  Welcome to the internet.


# A Declaration of Separation

## To The Governments & People of Earth:

We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it. We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We/merely wish to be left alone.

All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed.

We no longer see any benefit in working through the world?s systems. At some point, working within a system becomes cowardly and immoral; for us, that point has arrived.

Regardless of the parties in power, their governments have continued to restrict, restrain and punish us. We hereby reject them all. We hereby withdraw from them all. We hold the ruling states of this world and all that appertains to them to be self-serving and opposed to humanity. We now withdraw our obedience and reclaim the right to strike back when struck. We will not initiate force, but we do reserve the right to answer it. We did not choose this ? it was forced upon us.

## To The Governments of Earth:

You are building cages for all that is human. In the name of protection, you have intruded into all areas of human life, far exceeding the reach of any Caesar. You claim ultimate control of our property and our decisions, of our travels and even our identities. You claim ownership of humanity far beyond the dreams of any Emperor of any previous era.

Understand clearly: We reject your authority and we reject your legitimacy. We do not believe that you have any right to do the things you do. You have massive power, but no right to impose it upon us and no legitimacy. We have forsaken you. We are no longer your citizens or your subjects. Your systems are inherently anti-human, even if all their operators are not. We are not merely angry young people. We are fathers and mothers; aunts, uncles and grandparents; we are business owners and trusted employees; we are mechanics and engineers and farmers. We are nurses and accountants and students and executives.

We are on every continent.

This is not a burst of outrage; this is a sober declaration that we no longer accept unearned suffering as our role in life.

For long decades we sat quietly, hoping that things would turn around. We took no actions; we suffered along with everyone else. But after having our limits pushed back again and again, we have given up on your systems. If our fellow inhabitants of this planet wish to accept your rule, they are free to do so.

We will not try to stop them. We, however, will no longer accept your constraints upon us.

From now on, when you hurt us, we will bite back. If you leave us alone we will leave you alone and you can continue to rule your subjects. We are happy to live quietly. But if you come after us, there will be consequences. You caused this because of your fetish for control and power. The chief men and women among you are pathologically driven to control everyone and everything that moves upon this planet. You have made yourselves the judge of every human activity. No god-king of the ancient world ever had the power that your systems do.

You have created a world where only the neutered are safe and where only outlaws are free.

## To The People of Earth:

We seek nothing from you. We do not want to rule you and we do not want to control you.

All we wish is to live on earth in peace. As always, we will be helpful neighbors and generous acquaintances. We will remain honest business partners and trustworthy employees. We will continue to be loving parents and respectful children.

We will not, however, be sacrificial animals. We reject the idea that others have a right to our lives and our property. We will not demand anything from you, and we will no longer acquiesce to any demands upon us. We have left that game. We reject all obligations to any person or organization beyond honesty, fair dealing and a respect for human life.

We will shortly explain what we believe, but we are not demanding that you agree with us. All we ask is that you do not try to stop us. Continue to play the game if you wish; we will not try to disrupt it. We have merely walked away from it.

We wish you peace.

## To Those Who Will Condemn Us:

We will ignore you.

We welcome and seek the verdict of a just God, before whom we are willing to expose our innermost thoughts. Are you similarly willing? We would stand openly before all mankind if it were not suicidal. Perhaps some day we will have to accept slaughter for our crime of independence, but not yet.

Your criticism and your malice are much deeper than mere disagreements of strategy or philosophy. You do not oppose our philosophy, you oppose our existence. Our presence in the world means that your precious ideals are false. Some of you would rather kill us than face the loss of your ideologies, just as those like you have either hated or killed every sufficiently independent human.

You present yourselves to the world as compassionate, tolerant and enlightened, but we know that your smooth words are costumes. Oh yes, we know you, servant of the state; don't forget, we were raised with you. We played with you in the schoolyard, we sat next to you in the classroom. Some of us studied at the same elite universities. We watched as you had your first tastes of power. We were the boys and girls standing next to you. Some of us were your first victims. We are not fooled by your carefully crafted public image.

## What We Believe

1: Many humans resent the responsibilities that are implied by consciousness. We accept those responsibilities and we embrace consciousness. Rather than letting things happen to us (avoiding consciousness), we accept consciousness and choose to act in our own interest. We do not seek the refuge of blaming others, neither do we take refuge in crowds. We are willing to act on our personal judgment, and we are willing to accept the consequences thereof.

2: We believe in negative rights for all: That all humans should be free to do whatever they wish, as long as they do not intrude upon others; that no man has a right to the life, liberty or property of another; that we oppose aggression, fraud and coercion.

3: We do not believe that our way of life, or any other, will make life perfect or trouble-free. We expect crime and disagreements and ugliness, and we are prepared to deal with them. We do not seek a strongman to step in and solve problems for us. We agree to see to them ourselves.

4: We believe in free and unhindered commerce. So long as exchanges are voluntary and honest, no other party has a right to intervene before, during or after.

5: We believe that all individuals should keep their agreements.

6: We believe that honestly obtained property is fully legitimate and absolute.

7: We believe that some humans are evil and that they must be faced and dealt with. We accept the fact that this is a difficult area of life.

8: We believe that humans can self-organize effectively. We expect them to cooperate. We reject impositions of hierarchy and organization.

9: We believe that all humans are to be held as equals in all matters regarding justice.

10: We believe that the more a man or woman cares about right and wrong, the more of a threat he or she is perceived to be by governments.

11: We believe that there are only two true classes of human beings: Those who wish to exercise power upon others either directly or through intermediaries and those who have no such desires.

12: Large organizations and centralization are inherently anti-human. They must rely upon rules rather than principles, treating humans within the organization as obedient tools.

## Our Plans:

(We are building our own society. We will supplement traditional tools with networking, cryptography, sound money, digital currency and anonymous messaging. Our society will not be centrally controlled. It will rely solely
on voluntary arrangements.

We welcome others to join us. We are looking for people who are independent creators of value, people who act more than talk, and people who do the right thing because it is the right thing.

We will develop our own methods of dealing with injustice, built on the principles of negative rights, restitution, integrity and equal justice. We do not forbid anyone from having one foot in each realm - ours and the old realm - although we demand that they do no damage to our realm. We are fully opposed to any use of our realm to facilitate crime in the old realm, such as the hiding of criminal proceeds.

We expect to be loudly condemned, libeled and slandered by the authorities of the old regime. We expect them to defend their power and their image of legitimacy with all means available to them. We expect that many gullible and servile people will believe these lies, at least at first. We will consider traps laid for us to be criminal offenses. Any who wish to join us are encouraged to distribute this declaration, to act in furtherance of our new society, to voluntarily excel in virtues and to communicate and cooperate with other members of the new society.

Free, unashamed men cannot be ruled.

# We are The Free and The Unashamed.


Does it have to be a movie?


A Tale of Two Chains

Narrated by Walker, written by Keith MukAI
#BitcoinOutLoud

https://youtu.be/8EFWe00D9uA nostr:note1586p44edazfuu0j9mauatsmxttdsz4h987y605w2ap0m0jyjmlasvz59u4


It's quite refreshing to see that fucktard on X calling us all treasonous. It's basically one step removed from calling for our execution.

If you're not an enemy of the State, you're not Bitcoining hard enough.


I've lived in Canada for 35 years and I have never seen a bag of milk at a store.  Only wholesale for ice cream shops and such.


"When the promise is broken, you go on living
It steals something from down in your soul
Like when the truth is told, and it don't make no difference
Something in your heart goes cold"


What I enjoy about virtue ethics is how its study can be be applied practically in one's life.

What I dislike about about deontology is how granular it can become when you start looking at different levels of action and barriers to your actions.

What I find interesting about consequentialism is how well it fits with an atheistic, deterministic world view, or even simulation theory.


The latest speech from Milei. Powerful stuff. https://video.nostr.build/426f24d9b2667936a62ab50b1b1fc6c8c278b66db938b215f5c9dba68f68f324.mp4


Well now you have to post a video of yourself singing it...


Sorry Saif, but this is just false. I work in remote locations frequently and it's night and day since Starlink became a thing. Prior to it I would have no access to the outside world for weeks at a time, now it's just the standard to have internet available.  While there were other remote services prior to Starlink, they were literally never brought to a site because of the outrageous expense.


How about you make an adjustable threshold for notification.


The more times the alarm goes off, the sillier it feels to hit that snooze button.


There are no shortcuts.  Humility can only be learned through experience.

That's a great story Lyn. Thanks for sharing it.


"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

The self sovereignty movement is only as strong as the individuals who make it their purpose.


This is really sad, but also a good opportunity for the purple pill!
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_5306174452897463621699531486.webp


"When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee."


You can tell it starts off as a spoof, but as it progresses some of the classic moral problems that old star trek tackled get done or redone pretty well. Not every episode is a winner though.


The Orville was everything that star trek post voyager should have been. It's more star trek than modern star trek


If huck doesn't drop the n word at least 50 times the movie will disappoint any fans of the books.  This was a bad idea.


This year's pumpkins

https://image.nostr.build/8b8cee3d73a781f5c112df96713f5399dec90d2b42e766cbf9b2eb59b0f3a261.jpg


We're already in ww3, the history books will mark its start at the invasion of Ukrane.  Wars are always demarcated in singular events, when in reality the reason they continue to escalate is because it happens gradually and is obfuscated by FoW.


Since you know the breaker is 20 amps and the wire gauge is correct for the circuit, my unsolicited opinion is replace all the receptacles on the circuit with 20 Amp rated (NEMA 5-20R) ones.  If you're running that 800w all the time, I'd recommend getting commercial grade receptacles, which you can purchase at any electrical wholesaler.


Memes of my life


People still really haven't appreciated how bad the car thing is. Or the phone thing. They think they do, but they don't. The full range of capabilities has yet to be used routinely — companies and states are both trying to keep it beneath the waterline. The public is intended to be unsure what it is that they're looking at, and why it matters. It is the news report playing in the background of a disaster movie. It is the half-glimpsed monster from a horror reel — implied, but never fully shown.

History is still going to look back at this period with enormous bewilderment that we did not do more to stop what is coming. The signs were there.

nostr:nevent1qqsq6m0f306aeph5s7xdndz77gcfr3cwyztnvh67g436mc09j429rtgpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqygqmcu9qzj9n7vtd5vl78jyly037wxkyl7vcqflvwy4eqhxjfa4yzypsgqqqqqqswc2w8f


I just realized that I am more confident that Bitcoin will exist tomorrow than any particular world government.


"Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty."


"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

They'll be replaced with constructs we are unlikely to imagine before they emerge.


We haven't even left Egypt yet


#AynRand

https://image.nostr.build/228e82521fabefce3c966d1e50cf058c7fb4c0ae384db6dd99305f9c7482f7ce.jpg


Fun fact: the name Thorin wad taken from Norse mythology.  Gandalf, Thorin, and Oakenshield were names of Dwarves centuries before JRR Tolkien was born.


Ask yourself
Do you know what beef is?


Finally got my PC set up. What's the best desktop nostr client?


“He is, as you have seen him,” she said in answer to his look. “He is the Master..."


Good afternoon,

Satoshi was a Nym.

Satoshi separated the Ego from the Ideas.

Being a Nym allowed Satoshi to humbly work (as a Noob) to advance #Bitcoin and accept help, input, and corrections from others.

#Bitcoin needs more nyms.

Good afternoon.


I definitely saw this Bond movie


If you haven't watched in a while, a reminder:

https://video.nostr.build/aeabec09e93088de4d4d40c061932a6afe62f8ad7f04926b48c2a618bddcf0cb.mp4


#whenInRome #romanThoughts #RomanEmpire

https://image.nostr.build/8c6064a11f7e562e319bf2314c2fd24959e0cd04d035c12f976045fa149b8669.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/a8e2300fb0861c24402b60ee0d1dab186a50ef53b1dddc03bfaf2e81e0a7fb6c.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/2f74fd3a1f6ba490504a65ffffbf605e1d66b9bed1edd45dd570654a0778e81b.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/7ab04b13b2d7066c2c8eca5a87cbacf203c063841d66dac9cb32277125007297.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/b6b31e05aa6d2bbec8255b8b09540c0a80bcde7b901761ab47c2796316f7e20b.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/e854d22c70bc75e184b3c85b9af79b564aee1c13b949805e1ecfd68ed7841336.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/69b791bcd62475022700c23786479876082eb57cd10b4830c9889c628cefd768.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/73f80785641f03f667135d82039107341eaca71fa0ae5d3840f130efd0606451.jpg


Great analogy, love the addition of the sauna


"Give every man thy ear but few thy voice."


Very rad idea


Broke: Nostr is a decentralized network of social media applications

Woke: Nostr is the censorship-resistant protocol that powers an ecosystem of distributed, social-network applications

Bespoke: Nostr is a cryptographically-secured information exchange protocol for any application

GM.


Those fucking crocs though...

https://image.nostr.build/3ecc67e3a3cffe18fb40fe99d5d007b21c1b9177dfa7d9bd71f718b0c344780a.gif


Of course right after I post that it figures itself out...


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