I appreciated women at judo because I could always beat them easily but they tried so hard, and they had to take it without complaint☺🤷♂


If North Korea produces women as hot as you they must be doing something right. Just saying


Hi


Insider tip from someone who worked in the adult industry- we usually do like you.


Yum, whatever that is in Thai


Sawat di cap
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Stacking shit
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I do. I’d prefer to do it with someone (at least sometimes) but if I have to do it alone so be it


It’s a giant sandpit


All good. Decided to sell my apartment in the city and become a farmer


Sounds like you’re talking about a gun


The Left™ doesn’t care what you think


Every non-fiat system has failed too.


Just feel burnt out


Hey chatgpt, what’s 1+1?

Chatgpt: I’m sorry you’re feeling this way. It might help to reach out to a trusted person or mental health professional for support.


Sat alone for a few hours with my lemon lime and bitters. Few tables of four women sitting around, mostly laughing their heads off.

Considered going over: ‘hey ladies you’re having such a great time I just wondered if you’d like some of my mystery and suffering to keep things balanced’


Thanks. I guess I just don’t feel like I’m standing on solid ground at the moment. So I guess I’ll just sit in this field and wait🤷♂
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I guess it’s also discouraging that I go to this much effort to take a whole day and then go out to a mall, and approach some women, and get shut down by most, and then one ends up working, and I spend another day going for a meetup. And then it ends with her telling me she just pulled a random guy off bumble and had sex with him but she’s got too much going on to pursue anything with me at this time


Going to a low key meetup event this evening at a lounge bar. Last week there was a 10:1 guy girl ratio. It’s not the bros not making effort, at least at this place…


A lot of that ‘currency debasement’ was spent on necessary public works that almost everyone in the country benefitted from. Name a people that didn’t have currency debasement that wasn’t invaded by one that did


That’s nothing!! I sold 3 kidneys for zaps and then took a third mortgage on my 7 unborn children to #grownostr

LFG!!!!!!


Things always happen a certain way until they don’t


So what to do if I feel lonely. Just sitting at home isn’t working in changing that feeling


That’s not what I thought he was saying…


I want a girlfriend. But I know if I get one she will be a PITA and I will wonder what the hell I was thinking.

Nonetheless. And this time she will be perfect!


So your solution is to criticise everyone until they adopt your economic but not physical alternative?


So it’s like fiat then


Jelly


There’s a strong parallel between different social media and religion.

The spectrum is from MSM (devout Christianity/ Islam), where you just accept what you’re told and have no ability to question or agency. This gives some people comfort, for some reason I can no longer understand. Maybe it’s like ‘well, maybe we are going off the cliff but at least we’ll all go together’.

Then are small branches (say certain denominations that have questioned some irrationality from the main branch). The social media equivalent is eg Threads or Reddit, where they ostensibly allow some agency, but the prevailing view is so heavily enforced that it’s only a make believe agency.

Then there is the kind of counter- prevailing narrative views like X, RT, Sky News Australia, Telegram. Maybe these are ‘religions’ like humanism or liberalism. They attempt to counter the prevailing view and will likely win eventually, but they will have to decentralise and expect to suffer several crusades against them by the self-appointed ‘righteous’ before then.

Then there is Nostr, which is atheism.


Bitcoin not a lifeboat unless the fiat empire lets you go? Some lifeboat…


Interesting analogy😂


You mean you’re not going to pay taxes?


Tried batting for the other team for a weekend?


How are you muted and still appearing in my feed


Well they were both right. We had self driving cars and software that could interpret images at the time they said.

Maybe it’s the faceless bureaucrats that stood and still stand in their way from this achieving mass adoption that we should be pointing our fingers at


The Maverick Of Wall Street calling Druckenmiller Drunkenmiller, or saying something like ‘ok so retail shoppers are downgrading and so higher end shoppers are going to shop at Wallmart, but this can’t happen for lower end consumers, I mean if you’re going to shop at Dollar Tree what where you gonna go downgrade and shop in the garbage can?’


Sigh
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No human talks like that


I have and was going to again recently, but read this:

https://realizebeauty.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/the-trouble-with-making-your-own-sunscreen/

There are a few great clear zinc sunscreens in Australia (I picked up the Wotnot matt clear zinc yesterday).
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It’s not that simple. Fiscal policy is determined by election promises from years earlier, public sentiment and the will of politicians to make tough decisions that the public might not enjoy immediately. See eg Milei in Argentina or Howard in Australia. Earlier in Europe following World Wars, or Japan more recently, selling infrastructure to pay debt, despite cost of borrowing being negative. Even imposed externally like IMF in Latin American crisis or Greece. These have a far bigger weight than the cost of borrowing. In fact I’d bet on there being a positive correlation between low interest rates worldwide and lower government spending, since interest rates are usually cut after the government is unable to spend to stimulate the economy any further and is approaching debt levels where some form of austerity becomes necessary for reasons I can expand on if you wish.


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She’s not this bad. But the fact that this is banned, I tend to agree with you


Since this meme was just made illegal in California, I feel it would be an injustice not to post it on #nostr where ti can breathe the free internet air.

This is a perfect example of pure, unstoppable Streisand Effect 🤣

By MrReagan on X
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Well you’re ignoring fiscal policy


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38309825/

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Ok but what about everyone since then


Test your marriage😝 (just kidding, that would probably be bad!)


Just get to the point already


It’s interesting how intertwined medicine and philosophy are.

Eastern medicine/ Amish: leave it alone, it will heal

Western: no it won’t, do surgery/ chemo/ drugs

Maybe it’s kind of a two steps forward, one back kind of process


Isn’t it though? I mean disregarding the debt, not sure by what measure it’s in trouble at the moment


Benewing

Australian. Objectivist. Small business owner.

My goal is to never get divorced or de facto separated that ends in court proceedings.


My best friend in High School was named Carla and she’s now going through a messy divorce so I really think you ought to explain yourself

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Nah. Blackrock’s main goal is to make money. And you’re not making a fair comparison- if Blackrock tried to get approval for an ETF in 2014 they’d have had to wait a long time too


It’s a fair point. Thanks for explaining


To all those people that say nothing really matters, can I have your bitcoin?


You can assume he means don’t do pointless busywork but what, just lie in bed all day unless you think of something to do that you’re passionate about? That doesn’t seem like very good advice


Take equity? What do you mean?


I don’t get it


It’s ok, I think you’re partly correct. It’s just that there’s no magic if you get hard money, where you somehow get all the benefits of a deflationary currency but none of the drawbacks of the government not being able to gain purchasing power to help fund the public sector. Smaller governments can be just as good if they are more efficient, but a small government with the same efficiency as a bigger one will mean less government services, and so you’ll just have to pay for that.

And then there’s the big problem that if the government has no way to raise capital quickly to fight off an invading fiat empire, they will be invaded. Not in the US psyche at all but kind of ironic that they complain about money debasement that contributes to their military strength.

There is a situation like you talk about- large tax base but also deflationary money, although as I said that would be very difficult on a bitcoin standard due to the problem of how to tax encrypted peer to peer transactions. But lets say the US government decided to cap the US money supply or introduce a new hard USD regardless of consequences, you of course could fund a government on direct tax alone and it wouldn’t be much of a loss (say 5-10%of tax base) if you couldn’t also print money. The issue like I said is it would mean the government would have to constantly fire or rehire government employees and programs because they couldn’t print money to avoid bankruptcy.


Raising tax on the rich instead of inflating the currency would be far more popular in a democracy among the poor and middle class in the short run because the tax burden wouldn’t fall on them.


ot of what you're saying doesn't really make sense. Firstly, the amount of seniorage, which is money debasement, relative to the income tax collected in developed countries is really low. Like, maybe money printing accounts for 10% of tax generated through direct taxes. This can be higher, like maybe 20% in developing countries, or 50% in hyperinflation countries. But in developed countries, it's a really small amount. So you can't really say that governments need to print money to get the country going and cover expenses. And that if the government just raised taxes a little bit more, that would mitigate the need to print money at all. Like, you have to have one or the other. Secondly, no, the government couldn't raise tax effectively if Bitcoin was the standard. Because the transactions would have to be traced, and privacy measures would mean that it would be very difficult to trace Bitcoin to collect tax on it.


Alternate money people often talk as if you can have this situation where there is no money debasement but somehow it wouldn’t just end up either with anarchy or gangs and cartels


My point is I don’t know if you can call it a tax if it’s providing services you’re using. Or you can but then you have to admit that you’re getting a lot of government services for free ie all the things I listed.


The thing that most people miss when they say that the government is diluting your purchasing power by printing money is that the value they print is not just gone, it is used to provide government services like hospitals, schools, defence, roads and other stuff. Ok, a lot of that is done inefficiently, but a lot of it is also kind of essential and it’s probably better to be done inefficiently than not done at all. Or ok we could have things like a private defence force but then everyone has to pay voluntary contributions of $5000 per person for it to be effective.


Bitcoin is great if you can get someone to accept it for the stuff you need


So obviously I wasn’t talking about him


Won’t they just close your account?


Haha. American men are hillarious


Happy to collab with you for a reasonable percebtage of book sales profits🙏


Both are wrong. Death should be viewed as the enemy. It has killed 110 billion of us. It should be despised, and fought until we defeat it


These people survive on the oxygen of others. Sadly, there are enough people around (me included, at times) that believe they are just misunderstood, and that they deserve a chance. But someone else can’t redeem you, it must happen on its own.


You forgot Voldemort


110 billion - 0

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What did they tell you


I had to find you
Had to let you know
That you are not alone that
We didn’t make the rules
- Darren Hayes


Ai could do it


The logical conclusion is that they will leave, like Elon already did when he left South Africa because the government there were going to jail him for not joining the army


Also in Supercars. Team radio comms are usually ‘fucken ….’ and Crompton and Skaife (commentators) are usually like ‘<driver> just showing his displeasure about that situation’


American exceptionalism is only
true while Americans remain exceptional. Otherwise
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I really think you’re overthinking it


My butthole produces a lot of vented gas


Bitcoin meetups are also an option but you can’t exactly go to a meetup with a few bitcoin worth of cash in your pocket hoping to find some dude who will trade you bitcoin for it


I looked into this too. nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m was talking up Azteco a while ago. The issue is that you can only buy the prepaid cards at vendors in a few south american countries. Obv anything online requires a credit card


Thanks. I definitely think Robosats is one of the best options, but the thing that keeps me from it is that you’re sending funds from your bank to someone else’s bank right? So then that person has kyc’d you since it is coming from your bank with your real name. And they’re possibly a government agent (not that there’s anything illegal about buying bitcoin in this way in Australia at the moment, but it kind of defeats the purpose of it being non- kyc).


Nostr should have an integrated anonymous non-kyc exchange


I’d really like a non-kyc anonymous way to buy bitcoin with AUD.


Hex by Rhiannon Lassiter is the greatest book ever written


Yes


Well you’re free until she tells the cops😅


In primary school we played a game called Happy Town. A killer was nominated and then each night had to kill someone and then in the day shift blame from themselves.

The only time I remember playing the game, I was the killer, and I won by adopting the strategy of yelling loudly each day that someone else was the murderer (and them often giving guilty smirks despite not being). I realised this was not a good power to have.


Is it better to be someone’s tattoo, haircut or their hat?


Seems like a scam? This wasn’t for eyesight but all the other claims the company makes..?
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Anyone needing lawns mowed in Canberra let me know. 15 years experience, 50% off for payment in Bitcoin


People that don’t have a government: get invaded


Any single women in Canberra wanna meet up and hang out? Dm me


Kind of like Winston and Julia in 1984 though. They agreed to transact secretly, and were discovered. The tension in the novel is even that maybe Julia is an Inner Party member, and the slap to both of them is that they don’t even betray each other, but the prole who rents them the room, the elderly Mister Charrington is an undercover member of the Thought Police.

Although not necessary by that point, a less total State could have held a public exhibition of the torture of Winston and Julia to quell any thoughts of defecting.

As Boromir might say, one does not simply opt out of totalitarianism.


When the masses descend on Canberra to purge it of communists, let it be known that I am not one.


‘If you have to convince people who are not directly dependent on the solution to the problem, you will not succeed.’ Ludwig von Mises


Hopefully it doesn’t come to this. Would mean face to face collaboration is dead…?


Yeah but that wouldn’t have saved zion would it


I mean, is unplugging from the matrix or whatever you call it enough? I think eventually you have to have heroes in the real world


Isn’t the issue though that sure, you can retreat into Nostr and Bitcoin but lets say they’re illegal, how is that going to change your life in the real world. If you’re just a pseudonym on a protocol and have value in bitcoin that you can’t spend… I can see how this might give you hope and be a path to revolution but it doesn’t help your immediate reality. I know patience is key but there at least has to be a path visible


There is only one person that can solve the Israel-Palestine dispute

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I still don’t agree. If someone has been posting under their real name on Nostr and has tens of thousands of followers, them turning around and saying to the authorities ‘oh that isn’t actually me posting’ isn’t going to convince anyone, let alone a regime that wants to convict them


🤯

getting this stuff up and running with your local community should be a priority

absolutely amazing

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Would think it would depend on how tyrannical the government is. Some really extreme ones could even spin up accounts of well known dissidents just to have something to arrest them for


Get stopped by a cop and asked for ID
He said stick to the limit I said bitch I can’t hardly read
Darren Hayes


If you can make yourself laugh you’re going to have a great life


People keep dumping oversized rubbish in the bin room and the body corporate was throwing around ideas and I wanted to say that we should do that think in Saw 1 where he is chasing Jigsaw and triggers the trip wire tied to shotguns, but I didn't say it


Only for knobs


Good but I read that as nobstr


Do you think it’s possible to be too tired to sleep?


If you do KYC to buy bitcoin it kind of defeats the purpose


She’s the ‘eldest’ and so can fend for herself 🙄


I shotgun speaking for Australia 🇦🇺


But if you didn’t have fixat currency you wouldn’t have been able to raise an army and instead it would now be the New Tokyoer


Time goes so fast


In fact, I was talking to Dick Cuckerston just the other day and he said to me that he has since realised that humans themselves are a threat to democracy and appropriate measures are being discussed at all senior levels and will be implemented at the appropriate time for the good of the people


His handle is in his name


I’m all for implementing more nips into my life


Scary face
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Because maths exists


Nah we’re all on Truth Social now


It’s a funny idea but it wouldn’t scare anyone in real life since it would still sound like a drone, not a laughing witch


I would bet all my bitcoin (that which I didn’t lose in a boating accident) that the next words that come out of his mouth are Avada Kedavra


They are obsessed with trump though😝
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The special….?


Being kind to everyone is a sure way to fuck up the world


What happened to the trend a few weeks ago of talking up the benefits of sunlight.

I want to keep making fun of how pale we all are.
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Question: what if someone or some rich entity used considerable fiat to establish a relay gigafleet


Gimme that strange relationship,
Never felt pleasure and pain like this,
Something so right but it feels so terribly wrong.
Darren Hayes


Also tbf I feel like the French can never win:

Be poor: typical poor french artiste

Be rich enough to not have to work: typical french bludger elitist communist

Be a businessman: typical french colonialist exploiter

Poor french


Just a lighthearted question but how is the government responsible for killing an estimated 70 million of it’s own people still in power?


Any time someone prefaces something with ‘you seem like a really nice guy’ is your cue to get up and walk out


People are sacred. Are they also dangerous?


Evidence please


Was thinking about how life is a bit like a sand moat. Did anyone else make these when you were a kid? The waves break upon your walls and you keep building them up, try not to worry about the rising tide, and that’s all you can really do
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Nobody but you knows what that means


Saying everyone gets bitcoin at the price they deserve is a bit like saying everyone gets the parents they deserve.


Umm ok. People are still alive who lived through two governments each killing 3x the populations of Australia
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Yeah I can see the logic of that. Bitcoin weakens all currencies but weaker currencies relatively more, which actually strengthens the USD initially


Well that might result in the person’s arrest anyway. I doubt the regime is going to lose too much sleep accidentally prosecuting people


Ok let’s test your theory
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Intelligence/wisdom perceptiveness is there to show you the path

Freedom is there to allow you to walk the path

Life is there to tell the above two to go fuck themselves🤷♂


Trading is taxable. They’re catching up, not fast enough though I think


Thank you chatgpt. You are a friend, seas stormy or calm!


You have some free will, maybe even a great deal, about how your life turns out, but some stuff is basically out of your control. You’re like a ship with a rudder and sail, but you can’t control the wind, just catch it and steer in the direction you want to go given current wind conditions. Too much sail and you’ll capsize, too little and you’ll be adrift. Trying to go directly into the wind is futile, and going directly down wind is easy but might not always be the best place to go.


I think he’s more saying can you really define it. And I think this back and forward on here about free will vs determinism and fate is resolved like this:

You have some free will, maybe even a great deal, about how your life turns out, but some stuff is basically out of your control. You’re like a ship with a rudder and sail, but you can’t control the wind, just catch it and steer in the direction you want to go given current wind conditions. Too much sail and you’ll capsize, too little and you’ll be adrift. Trying to go directly into the wind is futile, and going directly down wind is easy but might not always be the best place to go.


We continue without electricity in venezuela 12 hours so far


I have. It would work


It’s based on ability to pay.

I don’t think people would do that.

Fine🤷♂


Well they lose their passport so they lose access to the world.

That was bad because it was based on race or class


Yes I agree. My point is that bitcoin is much more substantive than a religion.


Nowhere. They can stay if they want.  They just lose citizenship and the privileges of it until they pay


I was continuing your analogy
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I would lower corporate tax in Australia to 10%

And have a flat income tax of say $5k per person per year.

If you don’t pay you lose your citizenship


But actions have consequences


And yet the USD has strengthened considerably against both those currencies during that time period


The Ewing rule: sell when your family say you’re a genius and buy when they say you’re a moron


Someone that lies, cheats, steals from you or even assaults you or rapes you is not ‘bad’ ‘wrong or ‘evil’, they are just ‘limited’. They simply cannot do better considering their current level of understanding or awareness. Do not find fault in others. Instead wonder if in fact the finger pointing at them should really be pointing back at you.


When did it become unpopular to make fun of poor people. I think that was a big loss


Hi Lyn, got a question. If the fed was forced to do balance sheet expansion again, wouldn’t this have to be offset by fiscal tightening in order to keep the USD at a rate that didn’t increase inflation (especially if there were also rate cuts)?


I just put my price up 7.5% for a service I perform for the Australian Federal Government.

I hope they appreciate that this is a one-off price rise, and the charge will normalise after this. I definitely don’t see the increase as an inflationary process.


In a well-run country, governments should be like the firmware/ bitcoin base layer. They provide the fundamentally stable rails (basic infrastructure, basic regulation, courts, security) on which the two layers above operate.

Corporations and businesses are the hardware/ lightning network. They produce products and services that maintain and improve our standard of living.

Humans are the software or nodes that keep the two systems running and, even more importantly, keep the other two fulfilling their appropriate roles.


It’s like Christianity but if Jesus were alive and healing people but just not on the scale you demand of him.


‘The Left’s view is actually a far more attractive view of the world. The only problem is it doesn’t work.’ Thomas Sowell


You know when you get to the end of the day and it’s time for bed when you read something and your brain just says ‘look, I know you want to, but just go to bed and find the words in the morning’. Goodnight.


Anyone who orgasms for that length of time would likely face significant mental and physical stress. The human orgasm, even in females, can be extended for several minutes, but if it were to last several months there would be risk of severe physical and mental harm. Please consult a healthcare provider if you are experiencing this for further information to address the underlying cause.


Actually pretty sure that’s water in there. If it was petrol he’d already be dead


You could try setting up your wallet so people can zap you
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I really hope not


One thing I noticed about gen z, especially the guys, is that they seem to have great skin. Like minimal sun damage. I guess being an indoor kid has some benefits as an adult.


I’m 100% convinced that my oven grill is a small nuclear reactor. Literally not possible for it to be as powerful as it is through mains power alone
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Atheism has been around for at least two Millenia and in 2024 you still have to have a religion in the fourth most populated country in the world, so maybe give bitcoin a little longer than15 years before writing it off on the basis of adoption proving value.


Yes you did and I mentioned that not everyone knew about it the day satoshi released the whitepaper, and then you said ‘well everyone has heard of it now’ and I addressed that point too.

Not sure why you keep relying on arguments you can’t defend and so instead throw out a different one-liner until you’ve exhausted all three you have and so just circle back to the first one and hope I forgot what you said like three two-line posts earlier


Honestly I think that makes it worse. They had explicit reasons why this system had to have vulnerabilities and exploited it regardless. But it was a massive oversight to allow politicians to appoint judges that oversee the laws. What do you think is going to happen with that conflict of interest


Sitting in a waiting room and people are all looking at their phones instead of staring into space like a moron.

What morons.


You can’t expect tech that can survive attacks from any nation state to also succeed instantly


So I’ll reiterate my point that powerful bitcoin ETFs are probably the best although not great option if you want bitcoin to have some power at the centralised bargaining table


Bitcoin also has the double early-adopter problem for nation states in that not only does it make other states look bad and be less competitive if your country adopts it, it also makes it harder for the new state to raise taxes through skimming transactions like vat or gst, or by printing money, both being necessary at the moment to defend yourself from invasion by jealous legacy fiat states. Hence my wish is probably just a wish for now


It’s like saying everyone has heard of atheism, so why isn’t everyone an atheist, or everyone has heard of a type 3 civilisation, so why aren’t we one yet? These things are a combination of letting go of old beliefs (which some people refuse to do, so generations literally have to die before things change), technological progress and changes in existing power structures and incentives for those in power who the new system would displace, who are going to fight to keep their power despite what is best for humanity overall (if they even have the perception to see that).


Not everyone heard about bitcoin the day Satoshi released the whitepaper


Because we’re not a collective consciousness that can convert from hundreds of moneys to bitcoin instantly?


And I’d go further and say that the French prosecutor does have some pretty robust provisions to rely on there and probably won’t have to work too hard to get a conviction.

People can wail and cry all they want but unless Telegram showed either a willingness to provide chats when asked or else made an effort to restrict access to Telegram in France then there’s not a lot his lawyer can say


Well I am a lawyer (not a French lawyer) and morality and right to privacy aside my legal opinion is that he was pretty naive not to expect this to happen.


Imagine a country where you could go and buy or sell bitcoin, ether or monero in almost any fiat currency… in cash, legally, and unidentifiably.


Username does not check out


Low skills and low motivation🙋♂


You


Who says I need a thesis?
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CEOs are central points of failure.


It gets to a point where people in institutions have to actually display the credibility and character expected of them for those institutions to be as worthwhile as their advocates and employees claim them to be. You can’t ride on reputation alone forever


I’ll hear you out. Go for it


I’d be up to watch anything you were willing to cam

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Or just having any friends would make me happy
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At least if you start a war the people you fight can fight back. This dog probably still loves his owner


If there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s animal cruelty
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I just think it’s kind of funny that a pacifist technology is the hope of the angry young men. Could governments have scripted it better themselves?


The thing I don’t get about diversity is that it only seems to apply in one direction.

Like we don’t go to Rwanda and say oh no they only have black people in their institutions so they must be racists.


Beat dating advice ever


The person I really want to see on nostr is J Powell and Clarence Thomas


I get specialisation of labour but not seeing how bitcoin makes it better. If Boeing decided to only accept bitcoin they would get zero government contracts for helicopters and go bankrupt


I’m 64kgs, how much lighter do you want?


So how about if single men just accept cash or bitcoin only


Oh dear. Please spare your liver


Launches. And what good are spy satellites when we’re all inside on our phones


$AAPL rises on sales to chimps data


None of this happened


What kind of person sends you a text ‘hi’ without any further indication who they are. Like how about at least give me your star sign or something so I can make a wild guess?


History didn’t have this guy
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Dude everyone is talking about bitcoin as an alternative to fiat debasement
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Maybe. When all else fails you can always just go to bed and try again tomorrow


Haha, yeah I was going to do a meme or something about that recently:

Women in their 20’s and 30’s: I’m going to punish him by ignoring him

Women in their 40’s and 50’s: I’m going to punish him by never giving him a moment’s peace.

I want to try to stay a little optimistic.

I know of the Fourth Turning. I want to believe humanity can fight the forces that want to drive us that way rather than them being inevitable.


It’s the philosophy created by Ayn Rand


Also the fact of having to fly thousands of miles just to get some kind of intimacy is kind of pathetic


🤷♂ mostly just from public transport ig


Almost every time I go to Asia I end up getting sick


The problem is your health, family and friends - you can’t really do that much to change them. Sure you can be nice to them and take care of your health but mostly you just got what you got.

You can go and buy a car, and the small stuff is really easy to change.


In Canberra


Ok, umm, I’m in ACT


Are you saying women in different Australian states have different reply rates?


Dating these days:

Send a message.

Count to one billion.

Receive a reply.

Send another message, as if no time had passed.

Start counting again.

Eventually express mild frustration at the delay.

Get unmatched immediately.


I’m trying but she won’t reply


Nope, still not a clue what you’re talking about


You’ll have to explain this one to me


If I got really famous I wonder if I’d reply to everyone regardless of if that was unrealistic or try to become less famous to the point where it was manageable again or just ruthlessly forge on and reply to no one unless it suited me


People sometimes say they’re ‘trolling’ you when in fact they’re just lying to you, but they prefer to use vocabulary as a way to make their intentions less obviously immoral.

In order for it to be trolling in the morally acceptable way they want you to believe they’re doing, they have to disclose it as trolling before you take action on it


I feel like I can’t talk to women anymore. Every interaction just ends up with me getting pissed off at them


And here I was thinking you couldn’t think for yourself


Unfortunately given the state of the Family Court, having no ego or self-interest coming in to parenting is probably a basic requirement at this point


Actually I’ll be 36 in a few short months.

I guess having never been that great at relieving my own suffering I feel it would be kind of hypocritical to accept the responsibility of relieving someone else’s.


Or congress just cuts entiitlements


I’d like to remind all the collectivists that they’re individuals too


Sounds like communism to me. Without strong property rights we’d still be living in caves


What a stupid comment


I posted a bunch of evidence on Twitter for how 1) grocery stores have razor thin margins, 2) food producer margins are more average but haven't changed in two decades, 3) of course farmers aren't the ones getting rich so 4) no, the food companies are not gouging you on prices.

It's monetary inflation. Grocery stores and food producers are trying to keep up.

Most people agree due to the inherent audience selection, but the tweets kind of went viral and reached a broader political audience, so a bunch of people came in like, "How come they can put chips on sale for 50% sometimes!?!? Checkmate Alden." (it's because they don't understand fixed costs vs cost-of-goods sold) or "How do you know any of the filings are real? What if they're literally all just lying on their audited SEC filings?"

Post-truth, some of people are. The grasping for price controls is the short-time public and political instinct that ultimately makes things worse, every time.

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Saw an ENT doctor during the week about some ongoing back-of-throat pain. He basically said it was probably nothing and I just have a low pain tolerance.

In other news, just finished dermaneedling my own face
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Hippies are the worst


I like you


I guess life is a lot easier when you just assume what most people are telling you isn’t true


Yeah that might be a priority for a bitcoin app
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Will Kamala outlast a head of lettuce?


You must be a pretty boring person if all you ever talk about is what group you belong to


What payment method did you use


Well governments can ban it, and lots already have. But they can’t literally stop people holding or using it. The question is whether there is a difference. If there’s jail time for someone saying they’re using it then things have to get pretty dystopian before people will take that risk


I think the appropriate photo is more
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Just trust me. That’s all you gotta do


🤔
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Yes


Actually maybe ETFs are sufficient


Veto overrides are relatively rare in U.S. history. Since the founding of the country, Presidents have issued over 2,500 vetoes, and Congress has overridden fewer than ten percent of them. Here are a few key points:

1. **Total Vetoes**: As of now, there have been about 2,584 presidential vetoes.

2. **Successful Overrides**: Out of those, only around 112 vetoes have been successfully overridden by Congress.

3. **Success Rate**: This means that Congress has overridden about 4-5% of all presidential vetoes.

4. **Historical Examples**: Notable veto overrides include Congress overriding President Gerald Ford's veto of the Freedom of Information Act amendments in 1974 and Congress overriding President George W. Bush's veto of the Water Resources Development Act in 2007.

In summary, achieving a two-thirds majority to override a veto is difficult and rare, requiring significant bipartisan support.


Because most people don’t know what that means


What about a hard fork in bitcoin that sets say 1% of all mined bitcoin and puts it in a pot, to be allocated in a way that is consensus approved in the hard fork (at a minimum; enforcement of transactions and remediation/ disincentives for bad actors). Not foolproof but satoshi wanted to go from 15-30% government spending to 0% which is kind of so beyond what we have evolved to cope with and also means there is no centralised force to combat other centralised forces (eg current governments) other than what people give voluntarily.


Well the Prime Minister certainly has a big input into what is introduced in parliament through his cabinet


Regular or adult?


There’s nothing glorious about nature. It wants to fucking destroy you


Well maybe not. Maybe he could have signed executive orders to stop congress raising the debt ceiling or something. That oughta do it


I know I’m supposed to be impressed by this but I’m just not
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The #nostr users who keep going on about #sunlight being so important and not damaging of your skin
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No shit


Ultimately, they’ll spend what they can collect.

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No


The US government collected $3.75 trillion in fiscal year 2024.


The problem with anonymity online is that it’s kind of still complying with their censorship. A bunch of anonymous accounts they could paint as bots are much less threatening to an oppressive regime than people who they know actually vote


I don’t know why women waste time on this


Get swimming into your routine


I feel so lost rn😫


I think the other issue is that since it’s basically a list of bitcoiners near you, you could just contact everyone nearby in the trial period and exchange numbers and then you wouldn’t gain much extra by continuing the subscription


Told yall

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I don’t get it


Well how do you use bitcoin as a solution to the national debt?


Saved from what?


Arguably just removing the unexpected gains of 2024 that were the result of the BOJ choosing to torch their currency rather than helping their people retain purchasing power. Sadly such is the Japanese way
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Plenty of cash on the sidelines.


I can’t. The JCB isn’t going to backpedal now and the Fed isn’t going to be worried about a 5% drop in the S&P, let alone the Nikkei


I think the nuance you’re not appreciating is the scale. It’s not a trade between Yen and USD, it’s between Yen and US stocks. Even a small increase in your borrowing cost makes a big difference if the position size is big enough.


It is related. There’s a whole army of people like you on Nostr telling people to buy bitcoin as if they’re just swimming in liquidity. You realise that half the world lives on like $5 a day right?? Even in Developed countries, most people are just making enough to pay their rent, or feed their kids. So I’d appreciate it if you wouldn’t go around preaching as if there is some universally sensible decision to ‘stop using fiat’. What, the majority of people in the world should just quit their jobs and stop buying food and shelter and then starve to death? You’re just pointing out your own ignorance with posts like these


Dude not everyone has spare cash stop being a prat


That’s kinda what annoys me though. If bitcoin is ‘freedom tech’ and the majority of it is kyc’d, and therefore if governments go apeshit and 6102 or make it illegal, then it isn’t freedom tech at all for anyone other than the small minority that have non-kyc stashes of size


I’d like to put some milk in your chocolate


So if you’re worried about a 6102 why would you buy bitcoin kyc?


Are you sure? I doubt the tax collector is keeping tabs on all your wallets and whether you’re sending btc over lightning to other of your wallets of someone else’s.


I extend you that same offer


I guess there’s a non-zero chance that the USA (through presidential order) will seize all foreign-owned assets and default on foreign bond obligations to pay off the US deficit.


So you’re buying kyc sats and sending your friends non-kyc sats. Can you be my friend too?


Sounds like you’re just getting too much attention and getting picky. I’m like:
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Nah mad respect
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So eventually all the bitcoin will be hodld on lost/ dead people’s wallets and there will be 1 sat in circulation


Wen community notes


Americans🙄


How will you defend bitcoiners from fiat armies


I want an app that tells someone that I used to love that I still love them


China can try take Taiwan and we can
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I don’t know if you’re seriously holding these views anymore or if you’re just feeding the Nostr crowd.

Any idiot can buy some missiles and fire them off.

The primary objective of the US military is to keep US civilians, including US bitcoiners who of course pay their share of tax in exchange for this service, safe.

Before criticising the military of your country too hard, ask yourself how many times a foreign power has invaded.

Some charts:
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So the country that bans bitcoin outright wins. Got it. Wait…


nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a reminds me of Enya


If you want to ask about KYC, your DM’s are closed


You’re still not seeing it. You are leader of country A, with a pure bitcoin standard. Every transaction is p2p. No raising of tax, therefore no government, is possible.

I am leader of country B. I have fiat money. I print fiat money to raise a military, and invade your country, killing all the men and enslaving the women and children.

Actually you could argue this is what has actually happened. The west has been better at collecting taxes from its people, therefore has had a better army, therefore uses that military strength internationally to its advantage.


Why Worms Are The Best Pets

Hi, compost worms are the best pets for several reasons. First, because they eat your scraps. Second, because they make nutrient rich soil for you to grow more vegetables which can then feed more worms.

And third, because when people ask whether you have any pets, you can say yes, I do.

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Dude literally trying to make humans multiplanitary and end the need to work but ok


So you’re not in favour of bitcoin being the universal currency then. Because if you are, how do you ensure that there is any government, if all transactions are p2p


I’m just asking how you hold the view you hold, like what are the implications of that, have you thought them through.

You claim that bitcoiners don’t need politicians or governments. So then I’m asking how you suppose this group would defend itself from groups that have politicians and governments. If you don’t have an answer you know it’s fine to just say so.


Pronounced ‘fish’


Way to not answer the question


My point is I wouldn’t like to run the experiment of voluntary tax, find out that that number donated is basically zero, and then get invaded and slaughtered by an invading army since you don’t have an army anymore
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Well they have a conflict of interest since they a. Want the us to be over rather than underprepared and b. Wouldn’t mind a golden parachute in a defense manufacturer once they leave the military, so I wouldn’t put too much on what they say.

Not really. Design is much more important than manufacturing. Not hard to move a factory from one middle income country to another, as china is realising.


Is America a location or an idea?


Not really sure what you’re basing that on. The us still has the strongest military by a mile and most of the developed world as allies and about half the nukes


Yeah I can kind of see your point. Maybe the shmucks should reorient it outwards again🤷♂


Your wallets will be out of circulation which will be good for #bitcoin #lazereyes #thereisnosecondbest


All the asian characters and ngl I read that as weeb share target


Believe in this
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I’m not American or libertarian either. But if I was American I wouldn’t be shitting on the military. Do you shit on your country’s military?


It gets to a point where you have to start asking yourself who it really serves to demonise surveillance, tax (military spending) in the West


‘Any quote can be used to represent any philosophy’ - you two


American libertarians: governments suck, they never do anything for us except take our money.

China, Russia, North Korea, Muslims: we don’t like you and want to destroy you.

American libertarians:
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Haha, I see. My mistake


Nothing you said made any sense


I really can’t understand that philosophy. It’s like you don’t think you should have anyone to represent you? So then how do any big projects get done if no one cooperates?


The problem with your argument is we don’t just want bitcoin to win, we want humans to win.

Bitcoin is essentially a pacifist technology, since it prevents enforcement of collective pooling of resources, some of which go to defence.

The ultra-individualist privacy-loving, zero tax paying bitcoiner can do well in a well-armed state. But take that same individual and put him in a state where everyone is like him and suddenly there is no pooled resources to defend from external threats and the nation gets conquered by those outside who cooperate better.

A literary example of this is Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

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😂 Don’t worry, you probably don’t have enough bitcoin for them to care


He was from the IRS. You bought bitcoin kyc and did’t declare the loss. You’re going to jail

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He was from the IRS. You bought bitcoin kyc and did’t declare the loss. You’re going to jail


Not if you’re an Australian Aboriginal
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Vitamin D is important but a word of caution from an Australian that spends a lot of time outdoors (I have a lawn mowing business)- skin cancer is the third leading cancer in Australia with about 20k cases diagnosed each year. Notably there are twice as many men as women diagnosed (likely due to men getting more sun exposure on average). A bit of sun is no doubt healthy, vitamin d is no doubt good, but it does come with risk.

https://www.canceraustralia.gov.au/cancer-types/melanoma/statistics


Considering about 22% of Americans hold bitcoin, I daresay 78% or so either have no opinion or don’t like it


Don’t know the context, but saying he’s going to do something if he wins isn’t necessarily bad just because he probably won’t win right


I’d prefer a conversation with nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a


I think he means if he wins


A really underrated skill is being able to ride unashamedly on the coat-tails of your former self.

Sadly I do not think I posses this skill in much quantity.


Canberra, Australia
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One thing I’d really like to see added to Nostr is impressions. Like, are people seeing my notes and not replying or liking them because they don’t like them or are just no one seeing them


Can you give us an example?


Something that concerns me a bit is bitcoiners such as nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu  or nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a focussing on how bitcoin will save the dark corners of the world. I think nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle cried on stage about this issue.
Not saying they don’t talk about other stuff but sometimes I think this is what they care most about. Could be wrong.

There is injustice everywhere in the world and I don’t think it’s healthy to hold the view that one group is more deserving of new technology than another.

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I am. And sorry that moron thing was a bit harsh. But I at least try to speak my mind, no parody


Mostly we’re standing in our own way and not realising it


Why is second graph falling from 50% and not 100%?


Faith is the enemy of development


this is great https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path-forward/


My question is what will these people will do for Satoshi


Still glad I asked the questions though, even though I think I made some people uncomfortable, for a moment at least


Thanks. And to be honest it was probably at least 70% me today


Feeling kind of alone at the moment.

Just feel like there are far more people these days that aren’t concerned about doing harm than there used to be.


I remember seeing it and telling a woman I was seeing at the time it ‘hit a bit close to home’, and she replied ‘are you happy?’. Was all a bit surreal


I think the other vector is time


It’s all yours


Does value become less important as the market becomes more constrained? Is the solution to lower your values or try to find more open markets?


Thailand is a shithole


Do*


How did I get a pink tick?


Haha. He said he’s regarded


Not really. The person you describe is just a victim too afraid to say no. They aren’t owed anything or tbh worthy of love


Garbage?


So all you do is quote stoner pseudo-philosophers and Hollywood as arguments for everything?


I’m fully certain you’re a moron


The free market can decide


It just occurred to me that we don’t really have monogamy in the purest sense in the West anymore. Every marriage between two people, and also every de facto relationship in places with extensive de facto frameworks like Australia, involves three entities: the two people and the State.

Not wanting a relationship with the State, I suppose the rational and moral thing to do is also to not have a relationship with a woman.


Yes, what the few billion peasants living on $1 a day in some field in Africa or Asia definitely need is to escape artificiality and reconnect with nature.


That’s not really true. Most third parties are insured against hacks and make good any loss, which is why they can charge a fee for custody.

A single policy change is unlikely to be legal if it ‘wipes out’ people. As in they would be sued. If it’s a government policy change that wipes people out, like state confiscation, well you’d likely see that coming through parliament well in advance in the West. In some dictatorship then sure it’s a risk.


The ending is great- spooky


I also think nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a that that few trillion is mostly just people swapping bitcoin for fiat or other cryptos. How much of that is using actual bitcoin to buy actual goods and services


Herein lies the huge problem with bitcoin though. If it’s so valuable why spend it? But if nobody spends it, how is it valuable?


The followers could no longer tell themselves the lies they were, since they no longer had the majority supporting them.

And although they may not believe them anymore, they just seem to retreat to ever more insane levels of hysteria towards the opposition.

My brother said ‘Biden is going to be the best president ever’. He doesn’t argue about Biden’s failings now, but says stuff like ‘well Trump raped his daughter’.

I’ve decided to try not to talk about politics with him from now on.


Falconer/ microsoft global tech outage.

Honestly this is pretty bullish for #Nostr
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What a massive contradiction. Go try to cure cancer in some muddy field and see how far you get


People on here posting stuff so people engage with them.

Here I posted, engage or something.

Oh you want some substance.

I read a bit of Aristotle today. It was ok, he said all reasonable stuff like that you should aim for virtues and goodness and pursuit of happiness.

But then I engaged with Aristotle GPT, really tried to argue the point that if pursuit of happiness is the highest goal then there really isn’t much justification for much else (so long as it doesn’t harm others). And GPT backtracked and backtracked until it basically conceded that yeah, I should pretty much do what I want no matter how degenerate.


Well good thing the VP is such a genius and can step in if her President can’t continue


Sometimes you have to say no to people dozens of times before they accept it. And sometimes you have to say no to yourself that many times before you accept it too


Hey! Looks great. What temp and for how long do you dry them? Do they have to be stored in oil in jars? If so, how do you stop the top getting mouldy?


If I'm sure of one thing it's that you shouldn't invest based on other's feelings


If you go off into a far far forest you'll probably die of malaria or starvation


So far it looks that way


Well then you didn't think it was an established fact and so are right to question it. You said 'question everything'. Literally everything would mean questioning whether the sky is actually blue from earth or whether humans do in fact have two legs, annoying stuff like that.


Balaji Srinivasan endorses JD Vance as Trump's pick for VP

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Of course, you can ask for a billion dollars a night if you want. Doesn't mean you'll find any tenants though


No they don't. Each person acts in their own self interest, which is to offer their house to someone else at the highest price someone is willing to pay. What you're implying is that there is some kind of collusion between all landlords to set prices in concert with each other, which is either ignorance or willful misrepresentation


Also no, I don't think the powerful people you're referring to can kill Trump or have him killed. That's the point of him
having Secret Service, so they can't


I don't think 'question everything' is a rational thing to do. If yoh question things that you and everyone else agrees is established facts you're just wasting your own time and everyone else's


Unless you're literally satoshi you have no relevant opinion on bitcoin or any other subject


Except the market isn't all the same guy, hence the name


There's beauty in the truth


I try to think that there is a small child in me, and it is my job to nurture it, despite the ageing body it is contained in. And so I do have a child at all times: me.


RENOUNCE YOUR PHYSICAL FORM AND BECOME BITCOIN


It's a bit strange that you say all this stuff about what you like personally, which is
fine, but then come in at the end about what bitcoin 'is for' as if that is the same
for everyone


No not a vegan health study. They compared several diets and compared health outcomes of each.

And the bioavailability of protein is a very small component of what makes food healthy or not.


Sorry but the teo largest longitudinal health studies ever conducted (NHS nurses health study, 120,000 registered nurses) and Adventist Health Study both showed that high protein plant-based diet is healthiest


Joining Executive committee group chat:

Everyone: Hey everyone, thanks for creating the group Jake!

Me: Hello I am Voldemort


You're not a real bitcoiner unless you've got an orange nutsack


Funny how all these women say they want kids but don't have 2 minutes in their day to reply to my message


Why would men contribute to a society that allows women to be perfectly safe and happy without them?


NATO plans to have over 600 F-35s in Europe across NATO bases by 2030.


I see what you're saying. I just think you're underestimating the additional psychological barriers that she would have to overcome to see an app on her phone as a better bank than these two alternatives, as woeful as they seem to us. She probably doesn't trust Egyptian banks, and what you're suggesting to her to replace it is effectively a bank without any branches or support phone numbers, with a currency she can never hold in her hands, that her husband, employer, religious teachers and government don't want her to know about or have. Plus the inertia, whether it is or isn't haram, and risk to her financial or personal safety of stepping into this with what little savings she has earned. And then the other risks like losing her phone (or it being taken), reliable access to app stores, on and off ramps. And all this before the fact that there is a low but not zero risk that the app developer she relies on may in fact have a back door and rug her.

I'd love what you say to eventuate but I think it would require a profound cultural shift rather than just a technological one, eg her husband and employer would pay her in it before this.

I guess if she spent enough time on Nostr and that offered her a wallet that she could somehow load cash onto, and enough people she talked to frequently could convince her to use, that might be a path, but I still think on balance adoption by men will outpace women in these regions for all the reasons above.


I agree with everything you say except your conclusion- if they can't verify the trustworthiness of their own husband how are they ever going to be in a position to know enough to be able to trust an app developer?


Middle aged developed world women buying a rural property so they can't be seen drinking themselves to death is actually pretty common


Stop complaining karen


That isn't funny


And your posts are super boring too


I call bs on this one. Bankers facilitate financial transactions, issue credit, and tell you your 5 million points of ID aren't sufficient, which all serve a useful purpose


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Did you know that one tablespoon of honey is enough to keep a person alive for 24 hours?
Did you know that one of the world's first coins featured the symbol of a bee?
Did you know that honey contains live enzymes?
The best way to eat honey is with a wooden spoon; if you can't find one, use a plastic spoon.
Did you know that honey contains a substance that helps the brain function better?
Did you know that honey is one of the few foods on earth that can sustain human life on its own?
Did you know that bees have saved people from starvation in Africa?
Did you know that propolis produced by bees is one of the strongest natural antibiotics?
Did you know that honey does not have an expiration date?
Did you know that the bodies of some of the greatest emperors were buried in gold coffins and then covered with honey to prevent decay?
Did you know that the term "honeymoon" comes from the tradition of newlyweds consuming honey for fertility after marriage?
Did you know that a bee lives less than 40 days, visits at least 1,000 flowers, and produces less than a teaspoon of honey, but for the bee, it is a lifetime of work?
Thank you, precious bees..! https://image.nostr.build/c69c3369d84416afcf2c5015f2021c718127862b93ac771f97d22d41b9d370a4.jpg


It's 11.20pm, but I'm still going to say GM, since I can:

GM


Not everyone can be as amazing as me


Wow, just had deja vu replying to this convo😳


Well 3 of the 4 are about vitamin D benefits not uv radiation benefits. And you can get the psychological benefits of sunlight while covering up.


Gaslighting in what way?


Who doesn't enjoy getting wet at night every once in a while?


I'm not talking about for beavers


There's nothing healthy about a tan!


Will check it out. Thanks!


Thank you vikingarna1990 for following me


With the somewhat not minor issue that using bitcoin to buy something in Itan is illegal


Ok. Curtail the banks and pension funds and US would still be largest economy.


Hawala is actually a way more permission-based system than the Western banking system, which other than requiring ID to open is basically carte blanche thereafter. If the western banking system failed, the irony would be that what would replace it may be much more permissioned than what exists currently


A bond issued by the government of the world's biggest economy which has no debt in this new currency. Who wouldn't. The next rug will likely be another 300 years away


Sorry, just realised my mum doesn't stroll


Sometimes though I wonder if decentralised money is just a bunch of misfits wanting to vandalise the system they never felt like they fit in. Sometimes having another option is a negative


I like nostr. It kind of reminds me of a late 90's pop hits CD, or a first visit to an industrial high-ceiling art studio, where everything is unfamiliar except my mum strolling over completely in her element in paint-covered overalls. Or summer holiday day-long bike dirt jump making sessions with neighbours, or waterfights thereafter, or a mid-90's red nissan bluebird that is like an incinerator when you got in. How can something so new be so nostalgic?


Maybe not always. Maybe I am afraid to say what needs to be said even if that is to end a relationship (for the 5th time). Keep telling them this or ignore them and move on (someone you care about)?


The Iranian regime funding their nuclear program with bitcoin if it moons might not be so good for humanity


But it's actually way worse son e it was never supposed to be a government so there are literally no checks on its power. It is omnipotent


The private insurers compete with each other and the most efficient one becomes a monopoly which is then effectively the government


Let's just say you create a new country with no govt where everyone has to have insurance for crimes to enter. Say 1 btc. So then if I commit any crime some or all my btc is taken. Then if I lose all the btc I am killed. Maybe that can work, if the escrow is somehow funded and doesnt become corrupt and somehow you fund tbe executioner and the overseer of the executioner and the democratic process that ensures the overseer doesn't become corrupt... see where it goes?


This works to a point. Gets more and more difficult as it drifts from common sense. People don't like being coerced, and they will walk from outright force if they can.

So 🤷♂

And don't call a government funded ambulance.


'Legally impossible'😂 Cute.

As I said, the us govt won't care. It's a one shot kill. The interest expense is virtually cancelled, and the us govt can reissue new bonds (even in a new currency) at what rates it wishes. What happens when an individual or corporation goes bankrupt? Same concept.


Please read what else I said


Boys and their toys


Life is but a stage, and all the men and women merely players


Thank you for your concern


Put it into any ATM and load it with cash anonymously when


I mean, the public schools have some private competition so that if it gets bad enough students leave and the public schools are forced to reform


Guess they are extra important. I guess by taxes. The last is no doubt an issue. I suppose we have some private education to keep them halfway quality


*since


Well we aren't starting from a blank slate. That's part of the issue


I'm getting too tired to wrap my head around this tonight, but my first reaction is that this is way to complicated to work in practice. Why is everyone just magically insured? Like how do we go from here to there? How do I know what level of insurance I need to go where, if each individual property owner can require that of me independently? How do they know what level of insurance I have, and how can they detect fraud? Isn't the arbitration just a court system? So then how to fund that without preventing thugs from free riding knowing that if it is underfunded they can steal stuff again? A dollar spent on private enforcement protecting my property would be a better use of my funds than funding arbitrators. So reverse tragedy of the commons again, until it all falls apart when you can't protect your basic stuff.


No, just say existing bondholders aren't getting anything above 2%. Then the interest expense goes to very low. Then cut spending so it's 100% funded through tax receipts. No additional debt issuance necessary.

So maybe likely in the next few years then


Thank you tesla liberty for following me. I hope your battery forever stays charged


Feels like it


I always do that. Most people laugh at me or think I'm an idiot because they can't see what I can see


Like if you murder someone you prob going to prison. So the police come and arrest you and take you away


So who enforces that, if not a centralised authority, if someone kills someone else


encrypt your food and shelter🤷♂


You started this convo saying you'd prefer barbarians raiding ancient rome to the roman state. So not a straw man- literal reality for hundreds of years. And yes, one solution is to have nothing to be stolen. Have fun with that freedom. Maybe you can find a cave to live in no one wants to take from you. Not sure a drone swarm will be viable in a world where there are no preemptive centralised rules against violence. A helmet might work, but the thugs might have bats?


So some thug comes up behind you and knocks you out and takes your stuff. How do you decend against that?


How do we protect private property or personal safety in anarchy? You can have all the bitcoin in the world but doesn't do you much good if thugs kick you around


Maybe that's just it. Is it better to have an imperfect state or anarchy


Drive safe


Fuck primal: real*


Phone relationships are not teal relationships. If you really beer that person they not gonna help you


THANK YOU NOISEVAULT FOR FOLLOWING ME


And liking all my own posts😂


Posting


It's fun when you say something kinda technical to someone and when they lazily say 'what is that' expecting you to dumb it down so they don't have to think and instead you make it even more technical😆


What are they doing


Yeah you're probably right. I guess I hope I won't always have to feel alone though. At least some part of me still hopes that.


Thank you to Hunter for following me


This actually was a major fuckup on his part. We all have blind spots then. What are mine?


Thanks to de allen for following me


Pretty sure this is not true


I saw another Aussie exiting Tokyo airport metro to get into the airport where they have this rule where you have to pay half the train fare when you buy a ticket and the other half when you arrive at your destination. I was like 'this is fucked' and he was like 'yeah this is completely fucked'🇦🇺


Thank you to jimbocoin who followed me


Bitcoin is cool and cute but so are Pokémon cards


Just write whatever pops into your head


what is an npub


Because it isn't a mouth


Just don't age or get sick and need a hospital or nurses trained in
public schools or public universities funded by public grants or who hold government bonds to exist in states policed by public police defended by public armies with public laws upheld by public judiciaries funded by public taxes raised by public administrators educated in public institutions....


susceptible*


This is not really true. Inflation is a byproduct of people wanting free stuff from the government. Unfortunately, those most ausceptible to the harms of inflation are those most likely to be taken in by politicians who promise free stuff to them. Given this has been happening since ancient rome, I'm not convinced that this is something humans will ever be able to get rid of.


There are already sci-fi fiction that features a decentralised currency, although that isn't the focus of some: 'snow crash: neal stephenson', 'cryptonomicon' and 'Diamond Age' by same author. I read a little of Snow Crash and didn't take to it. Also 'Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom' by Cory Doctorow and 'The Mandibles' by Lionel Shriver.


I really think it has to be time. Maybe that's a specific form of information, but without time I can't see how energy or information can exist, since existence is predicated on time passing. Does that make sense?


Gundlach floated the idea lately that US could say that any bond coupon will be capped at 2%, which would dramatically reduce the govt interest expense but also make the us treasury market instantly illiquid, so us couldn't issue more debt, resulting in massive austerity. This would solve the problem of debt going forward. It would also likely not be good for bitcoin, as it would make us dollar harder.


Not a huge fan of eggs


Time


What happened to all being in it together? We can't exactly go to another planet. We gotta deal with things around us one way or another, or it becomes south africa, where we get into smaller and smaller worlds of our own until even that gets taken away


Nobody wants to talk to me. Well I guess some things worked and some didn't🤷♂


I still can't upload pics on primal yet


Wanting to have sex with one gender or another is not a source of achievement, or therefore of pride


Today I'm celebrating my back hurting a little less this afternoon than it was this morning


Yuk


Thought I saw this on longbets.org


Found it. Was in the dryer


I can't find my dressing gown


I mean I guess there's always other men.

You ever try it?


It's like they had a patient on the operating table and they were like, 'hey, we're going to limit you to 500 calories per day, but we'll implant an extra heart, a couple of extra ears and we'll inject steroids into your right leg.'

Anyway, good evening.


I didn't say it couldn't be done. I just said I forsee a few challenges, to say the least. If it works out for Pubkey then good on them. I still think there's a certain hypocrisy in using the fiat system as part of  your bitcoin-themed business though


So accept legal tender in a burger joint themed on a non- legal tender? Wouldn't that be kind of self-defeating?


Trying to compete with the most successful and ubiquitous restaraunt in human history but not accepting legal tender. What could possibly go wrong.


How about de facto relationships laws and #metoo movements?

These make long term or short term relationships much more risky for men. As a result, men stop pursuing women in a romantic sense, therefore their body downregulates t production and upregulates things they do instead (estrogen, to relate to
women platonically, since that is the only low risk way left to relate to women).

So it's cognition which changes behavioural patterns which the body responds to, not the other way around.


As a small business operator myself, I can forsee a few issues


This is a fascinating concept and I think it has huge implications. The problem though, seems to be women's inability to find attractive low t men, resulting in falling birthrates and male loneliness. Eg,  women who want 'a high t man' despite that not being in the best interests of the man. She doesn't think about what is good for the man though, she goes with her desire (as, arguably, she should).

And not sure I agree with the claim that ability of men to adapt to a sedentary lifestyle results in their automatic success. Yes, they may not lust after woman in the same way, but they are still likely to feel a profound loneliness and ennui wothout a romantic partner, and their low t might result in their inability to mitigate this through even casual encounters.

So we're left with a majority of men who are quite well adapted to survive in such a society in some sense, but quite unable to find a partner. The question then becomes why they would continue to contribute to such a society. And I think the answer is that they will stop paying tax, in the hope that the state collapses, anarchy ensues, and we go back to traditional gender roles where a single man again fulfils the multiple roles that technology, the state and high t men provide to them separately at the moment.


And personally I think he has a vague idea that it must be good, if only that he knows the democrats don't like it


I think you can nudge it


Ok then


That's okay. Most things politicians do are a play for votes over things they don't understand. Maybe that's a good thing- maybe by not understanding it and thinking he can control it, he underestimates its ability, if adopted widely, to curtail state overreach


Win what?


You're


I thought that was Aristotle that said that


whatsapp update notification*


Got a message. Brain: See! Keep up hope! People want to connect with you! Was a whatsapp notification.


'Fake news' how the hell am I supossed to know that is a joke or serious?


Would be better if people didn't say the stuff I say is fake when it isn't, hbu?


Masturbate


What an original and thoughtful comment. It's easy to see why you're so popular on here


Nice, but can't say I'd feel safe in any muslim country.


Getting lots of matches as a woman on dating apps isn't an achievement


No actually it is because your body raises temp to try to make virus replication harder


left*


Idk. If lots of people use vpns going after those who are ledt for minor breaches becomes  more feasible


I guess Bitcoin is kind of like a tragedy of the commons reversed for most people. There would be this huge benefit to all that is good in the world if it was the global currency, but to adopt it now is either a minor or major inconvencience for the individual depending on how much the State doesn't want you to use it. And so there is underground social pressure by anons, early adopters or a few Julian Assange justice at all costs types, to get you to try to adopt it. But the State knows this will take forever. Let's see if Trump/Republicans win and are actually pro crypto


Please explain


Well some VPN's don't even require payment in lightning


Tulips?


I'm starting to wonder that's just what lazy people want hard working people to believe so they have to keep paying tax to support the lazy people


That's a really cool picture


Honestly this is the kind of attitude that has prevented it from happening. It's the logic that if only humans went back to fighting with spears, we'd once again 'be tough'. Except that isn't how humans have conquored nature. Look closer- even the spear is an invention of the mind.

I proudly state I am entitled to use my brain to overcome challenges, and will damn well riticule anyone that tries to imply that we as humans would be better served enduring unnecessary hardship for the argument that suffering is somehow good for us.

Despicable.


I cut down this hige tree on my parent's farm a few years ago and still regret it🙁


Penetration tester😏


So beer would be about the same as now, sorry alco


Ok, virtually reflective of input costs


When Nostr LLM


Nostr should have open source LLM


Witchcraft doesn't count


Not really. It's just using sometimes lower priced but not free electricity to inflate the hash difficulty. The exact same amount if bitcoin would be created with 0.00000001% the energy.


We have uranium


Which we for some reason don't want to do at scale


Electricity should be virtually free.


Or nuclear


Except this isn't how basic economics works. Hoarding any commodity causes price to rise, causing increased investment and then production as people seek to gain from producing more of it, causing equilibrium to return. Hoarding bitcoin or gold isn't exempt- more energy is spent trying to produce these resources which actually contribute no value in and of themselves. So if anything it's actually the opposite of what Luke is saying


If you're a man and you aren't happy with your sex life, you should do whatever you can to stop paying tax


Trump will give it back


Anger is a gift


I thought it was Buttcoin


Why does everyone online ignore me


Mine 3


Combat sports


IT'S NIGHT


Kind of but even pre homo sapiens liked caves


You gotta give it some time. Hardware is harder to make than software. Without AI that can interpret physical space no robot is going to be able to manipulate it


Dating apps are just for online chat friends


Wellington Park methinks


Well Ukraine can't even manufacture its own bullets so robot dogs might be a stretch.

I don't really think Ukraine talking to Russia will change much- Russia has its plan and is going to see it through.


The best of us can't be bought


Low on soldiers is low on funding. It's all relative. Ukraine doesn't have nearly enough funding to make people care enough to fight. It certainly doesn't have enough funding to get people to be bothered building robots for it


Not really. Wanting to police your 16 year old daughter's social interactions is creepy


Yeah fine. Her life


Like, what's actually bad about women posting skimpy pics of themselves on instagram if they want to? It's their body right? Maybe their husband's like it


So it's okay if she monetises her looks but only if she does so just for you?


'Responsibility is an investment'?


Oral thrush bioweapon


Can you please explain this, not getting it


Time makes a lot of things better and a lot of other things worse


I'd prefer to reareange it to 'freedom is a responsibility'. Does that do it for you?


I guess I should go to sleep


It's not going to zero while we still have to pay tax in it


What is 'hoe behaviour'?


I think that flowers are more beautiful because they are going to die soon. They are philosophy


Like what?


Life is sometimes kind of about reminding yourself that you still have everything and everyone that made you content in the past. Your mood is lying to you


Oof


It's so hard though. Go all the way and people say you're too intense, demanding, anxious. Play it cool and people take your gentle approach for apathy. You can't win these days😩


I'm alone😭


Optimus Prime


Medical imaging machines have advanced


Can your next book be on how to find such a person?🤷♂🤞


Yeah he's full of shit. The highest form of nature is consciousness, which means choice, which means personal responsibility.


One paying an entertainer to shut up, the other paying one to keep talking


It's mainly about women justifying emotional violence, so sounds like you wouldn't learn anything new


Violence or emotional violence. They are basically the same show


Because what Bangkok really needs more of is loud noise and worse air quality


Well you can't buy vouchers with cash at convenience stores in Japan, I tried. And to further illustrate how much of a non-entity it is, you can buy cards called 'bitcash' which have nothing to do with bitcoin


If the individual can't eshew these poor substitutes for the real thing and demand something better we deserve to be alone


I did. I'm sure great things were being achieved but I didn't feel a part of them


Private army against arbitrary government confiscation: priceless


Well japanese culture for our lifetimes has been huge government intervention in financial markets, so I don't know what response you'll get towards bitcoin from the japanese culture-loving crowd


Usually that's a bad idea


Nostr is cool and it is good, and maybe it's just my feed, but does every second post have to be about how good Nostr is?


If you were my wife I'd talk macro with you at all times😅😂


But I don't like it


Life just seems pointless at the moment


If your channel doesn't get closed


I mean, hopefully it's not that😂


Hopefully it's just that we keep getting older and uglier by comparison!😂


Monitor your colleagues and tell their boss if you think they aren't working as hard as you


Greydon Square


I can't send photos with Primal but oh how I want to post the meme of chancellor palpatine: 'I promise to use these powers responsibly to restore order and peace to the republic'


I tell god he better pray to me


Goodnight, world


The ironic and sad thing about porn is that the very women that are paid to appear to lose themselves in the moment are those who most need the money


Can some woman please explain what it's like to have pms/pmt? Like are you consciously in a bad mood for a few days or you only realise when you look back?


Normies before: 'let's hear him out'

Normies now: 'ffs here he comes again'


I always reccomend they send their bitcoin to mine and I mind it for them


How about email spam


Before you write anything, ask yourself, is this going to be fucking awesome? And your first answer is probably no. And so then write that next thought


Ever notice that the better you know someone the briefer your replies become. Like with someone new I wanna say a text wall and with my brother our replies consist solely of 'ok' 'true' and 'obviously'.


Haha. Is that what the song means? Like 'don't hurt me, and that's good enough?' Never thought of it like that


Pretty sure that's just called life😅


Obviously


No, australia. What do you want to know?


Evolve? Are you a pokemon?


Yeah these kinds of posts🙄. Like I'll just cut off 1000 of my 2000 friends that I'm currently partying with and I'll be on the right track thanks dude


What is love?


When did it become all the men wanting to get married and the women not being ready at 30?


WHAT BEGINS I FEEL LEFT OUT!


Just like Joe Biden


Me too but the timing is hard to predict. We all might be dead before it's a major issue for us


So you're saying entities should be blocked from holding bitcoin? Isnt that censorship?


It's funny because his portfolio is reported to be about 70% bonds. So he torched it and still didn't get reelected. Huge mistake


https://i.nostr.build/yqMDk.jpg
#memes #funny


Well the govt could just buy the top US miners or pass legislation forcing a sale, a la tic toc.

Pools seem more flexible to me, since changing from a pool that suddenly has bad intentions is just a techical hurdle, not a physical one.

Don't agree with your last point. If bitcoin can't be used as money it is worthless. Extrapolate transaction fees out. Imagine fees are a million usd per transaction. You can't even buy it just to store value.


Also, there is centralisation already, geographically, in the US. If a larger block size resulted in the US government legally as well as geographically having, say 30% of the hashing power, not sure that would be any worse than the centralisation that exists now


This is the way


This is the way.

nostr:note1w2ym57ayu4s6jjl58ek0j2ferp3mrcywr40t4k4km8jwzu5spcaq0y7p9g


This is the way

nostr:note1pjw8ddvlsqhpku7a9rfrwkcp9m0h7tzr3f54cpdmmmmux9frxf0qc22xep


I guess but I'm just not sure bitcoin is worth much if it's too expensive to be used as money. Maybe we will work out L2 solutions. Or maybe there could be a fork that temporarily increases the block size to increase feasibility as money but then reverts back after a certain time has passed. I honestly don't know. I guess time will tell


Lol. Maybe that's why everyone is sick of religion just saying


Umm pg-13 plz


This is not okay. nostr:note1n8zxgp0p0kfk9uqjxcqc9gaeu6ugzs8p0j6xu3s8qr5yh5v6flpqhwr49y


This chick could make a killing on onlyfans wth is she doing being poor


Wendys is hiring


Umm no it isn't


Sir, you are asking the wrong guy. I just installed what nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a said was good and went back to Pornhub


wtf is metaplanet


Nope any disruption and I'm gonna scream.


BUSTY MUMS MAKE... no I'll be quiet


Busty mums make... no I'll be quiet


I installed them and used muun a few times


I honestly don't know what you just said so I wouod say no🤷♂


How about we just make the blocks bigger and tell anyone who wants to centralise and fuck with it to fuck off and we will kill them if they try


Retired


Sure. Although submarine swap fees went crazy, think the others still work


Yeah. Used Muun for a while (submarine swaps). But I think exodus and breeze are also non-custodial.


Wondering if any men older than me (or not) have got any tips for not caring so much what women think about me physically, especially in bed. Especially when this has been an area of pride/ self-esteem in the past.


So non-custodial lightning wallets aren't viable? (serious question)


9 minutes till bedtime


Of all the cities that could use air purification, was one in Iceland really the best location? Look at the air in that picture🤦♂


Your mum's house


At least, her chart was my idea to check it


nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a should get credit for this


They say 'go outside, get some fresh air'. Well I spent the whole day texting and scrolling on my phone. Take that, universe


How can they even reach. Like golf balls in a stocking or smth


I have mixed feelings about chess. On the one hand it is a fun way to test your intellect. On the other, maybe just another escape from reality


However US treasury general account+ reverse repo seems to be at inflection point. I wonder if M2 might start falling again from here


As an atheist, I have to disagree. I think it is deeply unethical to pray, in fact I would say the abbhorence of subjugating yourself to faith when you have a brain and consciousness is the basis for the immorality of religion and the morality of atheism.


A parasite threatening America publishing about parasites threatening America.


Forgiving student debt is like trimming the flowers and watering the weeds.


I don't think so. They can provide dry powder and maybe some return over cash if interest rates fall. It's also a lot easier to buy bonds as an investor than hold cash, especially buying a global bond etf (vs trying to hold cash in multiple currencies).


I'm lonely af😩. Someone please zap me to make me feel better for like 1 minute at least


Well indifference might be love but it certainly doesn't feel like it sometimes


Bittherium


Give me money


Love yourself🫶


Don't be so negative, you'll be fine.


Actually no, I'm just being blinded by her pretty face. She's 100% wrong. Attacking me for being selfish, hoping that I behave how she wants me to, is 100% hypocrisy.


I think those people just conclude that they don't need to know. I do, occasionally. Eg, someone I don't know well recently said I care about my own happiness too much. I should focus more on making others happy. She said she could sacrifice for another and I couldn't.  Ok. Do I need to argue with her about that? What will it achieve? Does she even think that or is she just saying that to hurt me or try to get me to do what she wants? Or is she right? Who knows. Some arguments cannot be won.


So basically you're going to kill us all, since any of us may have that wallet in our brain? Sounds reasonable...


I guess but do we ever have all the facts? Maybe we think we have all the relevant facts. So maybe more not willinng to defend your claim to know all the facts with more facts is the issue


So basically: sitting in 5% treasuries when real inflation is above 5% means your purchasing power is getting run over. I mean I guess, but we all need some dry powder right? What if Trump wins and 'fires everyone' as Hillary is saying he will. And isn't the long end mostly bought by the Fed now anyway? Not sure why that matters if they get run over slowly. Japanification


I don't. She needs to have a conclusion. So what if the bond market was a forecaster and now isn't?


So what's your point.


Addock & Sealy [2024]:

Woman brought proceedings agains boyfriend. They had 5 year relationship. Lives separately. She claimed property distribution justified on the basis of her providing food when he visited, helping manage tenants of one of his properties, and providing him with emotional and physical support.

The court awarded her $750,000 of his property and a car.

https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/FedCFamC1F/2024/123.html


Just read Farrah & Cisek [2024].

The de facto wife claimed family violence in her testimony. No other evidence is noted by the court. The court made a distribution of 100% of the de facto husband's property (about $1,350,000 AUD) on the basis that her non-financial contributions to the marriage were made significantly harder due to the violence she alleges. The de facto husband's appeal was dismissed.

Throughout her relationship with the de facto husband the de facto wife was married to another man.

https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/FedCFamC1A/2024/38.html


It's a nice idea. I don't need it yet.


Those black markets were for food and other essentials though, which can't really be banned without the entire population starving (although they damn well tried). Monero might be useful in a world that doesn't respect property rights, but maybe not even then. In a totalitarian state, anyone can be a spy of the regime. Think 1984. So you buy something with your monero from a vendor and boom, you're dead.


Well it's a black market as labelled by the state, not in any moral sense. But for most people (at the moment at least) what the state labels something is what counts


Never risk your house for a woman


Actually I think that's one of the few places where it does make sense atm


You said 'drugs are illegal and that never stopped anyone'.

Yes, that's correct, so long as people recognise things are getting worse/ punishments for black market don't get more severe.


Someone said to me today 'you take your own happiness too seriously...'

🤷♂


That's my point. You're saying there will be mass adoption of these things despite them being black market money. My point is that I don't think so unless fiat becomes so bad that people want to take that risk, and I think that's only likely once inflation is maybe +50%/y or cbdc's make purchasing stuff you want difficult enough to risk prison for


Altruism is dangerous. Forced altruism is slavery


Isn't it succeeding already?


Some people are just cunts🙏


Bullshit. Some people are just cunts


99% of people suck to know on a personal level and you'd be better off staying away


Ok but they're already illegal. Most people won't risk that, easy or not


How do you fight for freedom when you've got so
much to lose


I guess. How bad does it have to be though before you turn to Monero because you've got nothing to lose...


I wanna zap her address with my protocol


Can I lay on top?


Exept they will also make bitcoin illegal, so have fun with that


Monero might be too late though. Most govts have made 'privacy coins' illegal to buy


Hopefully not just Balaji investing in crypto startups at a 10% mer


I want to exchange something with you. Knowledge, of a kind...


Microsoft: we want to buy nostr
Bankers: yes


Well they also likely hired people in this time


Ahh Mcdondalds. The enduring fact that while you may not have financial freedom, you'll always have the freedom to give yourself an early heart attack


Anyone else get to around 35 and realise they have worked their ass off for everything they thought they should have to make them happy but they realise they are still super unhappy?


Honestly Vegeta had such a hard time of things and he really had nothing to fight for and he still almost kept up with Mr Popular the entire series. Growing up I always wanted to be Goku but I guess the way it's turned out I have to try to be Vegeta


If someone can fix the Primal not uploading photos I will zap you my entire wallet balance (it isn't much)


There are only two types of people:
{"sha256":"1627a788e1f55016df0585994e5f139b2419f7a11f4982fca88062ac405b68b0"}


I hope so


Me each morning: wakes up.
My mind: here is a million ways your life will be fucked today
Me: ok better get up and at least get dressed for this disaster


Well not really. If people with guns tell you to kneel and you don't then you get shot isn't that kinda losing?


You're crazy👍


Depends on who you ask. What was the option where someone wouldn't think so?


One of my banks (Ubank Australia) just asked me for source of funds, or they might freeze my account. They said all Australian banks have to do it.

I filled out the details.

Kinda feel shitty and violated.

*sigh*

I'm tired


The solutions require violence and I'm not a violent person so I choose to just wait and hope


Just be a little less degenerate than the average person and then don't worry about privacy. If they're gonna spy on you outside jail or make your life miserable trying to hide stuff you shouldn't have to then you're basically in jail anyway so who cares.


Post something good on Nostr: you get money

Post something good on X: Elon gets money


Any woman under 80kgs reading this struggling to find a date: give me a few screenshots of your inbox and I guarantee I'll get you one tonight. Fee: 100 sats. No date no charge.


Got it. I have absolutely no idea how to fix that. Any idea if someone is working on it?


Well 'America', 'China' can't want anything, they're just made up concepts to losely cover humans living in a certain area. But if Congress punishes a group of people for producing things deliberately made to kill people then that's a good thing, all other things aside.


So I think this is kinda impossible advice sorry


Well plenty say they want marriage and 'trust me bro, I'm not a woman who wants money'. But funnily enough that type never seems to have any themselves. The rest seem to always be busy at work


True. But something has to exist to enforce return of stolen crypto


Last time I checked the website it was like 3 south anerican countries. Can you list a first world country where you can buy them at convenience stores?


Not sure if this is a joke or serious but displaying as characters😓


I want a woman


Yeah, testing being a wholecoiner. Please zap me a whole coin.


Bureaucrats


Nice savings account. Wonder what he'll spend it on


My brothers, where will we strike first?


Seriously, can someone help me figure out why Primal just displays numbers instead of pics? I will zap you if you fix it


If photos ever actually display...😓


Is it just me or is the idea that I can post my dick pic on here and no one can take it down just a little bit tempting?


Finally


So we're posting our members on here now?


Adoption is the only chart that truly matters


Man that sucks. When I lived in Indo the only thing that ultimately worked was a bed net


Like, communism sounds totally amazing. Like, you just need to say you need something and people have to give it to you. I mean, I totally need, like, a Lambo and shit. And they would just have to be like, hey girl, this colour even matches your eyes.

-Ja'mie King
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It's the 'you don't need to worry if you have nothing to hide' crew


Good people think


Not really. Unless you're in one of the few south american countries where you can purchase one for cash then you're still using a kyc bank to purchase it. Not really any different from a kyc exchange (and much higher markup).


Your parents don't owe you support or assets after you turn 18. They gave you life. Stop being greedy and leave them alone


They gave you life, stop being greedy


Sounds like you earned your wealth and are still earning it. Enjoy👍


This is dumb envy talking, and I hope you don't really believe it. If someone earns money from work or sound investments it is their property. They should be able to set it on fire if they want. If they got lucky, lucky them, but that doesn't give me or anyone else the right to their good fortune


New amendment to the US constitution dropping:
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Do you need a husband by any chance?


We shouldn't be letting governments off the hook here. Their most essential function is to protect private property from mob confiscation (by violence, essentially). If they can't do that, they can't claim any moral basis for existence. America was the first country to protect the individual from the state with the bill of rights. How about another amendment to the consitution:

'Congress shall make no law that infringes on an individual’s right to own, use, and trade Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, nor shall any state deprive any person of their cryptocurrencies without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws governing cryptocurrencies.'


They shouldn't be. Just like knife manufacturers aren't responsible for stabbings.


How did you get fiat onto the node?


Have you?


don't spam, it's annoying


what happened today?


i have no idea what you're talking about


No lightning?😐


Good. The more kyc exchanges that are banned the better for Bitcoin. Hope the SEC goes after Coinbase. KYC exchanges are incompatible with a decentralised, provacy focussed currency, by definition.


I hear it has a nice park in the middle


Sounds horrible


That's a good idea.


6. The parliaments may not pass a law which forces, compels or coerces an individual to transfer his property or rights to his porperty to another individual for any reason whatsoever.