I just inhaled so much garlic powder

What can we in Nostr learn from the recent surge in users for bluesky and mastodon?

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You should have at least one hour of your day away from your phone. That one hour should be spent outside and away from all other electronics.

For your health 🤘🏼

#grownostr #plebchain

Hate to be the one to shit on the Parade, but a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve *will* be built through confiscation and taxation.

Here's Senator Cynthia Lummis already hard at work to make it happen:

Cynthia Lummis teamed up with Elizabeth Warren to propose the regulation of Bitcoin under anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing laws to "combat anonymous crypto asset transactions".

Cynthia Lummis also re-introduced the Responsible Financial Innovation Act "inspired by Senator Warren", which introduces higher penalties for "crypto asset crimes", regulates "mixers and tumblers", and increases KYC requirements.

For the amount of time Bitcoiners have claimed to be of peculiar intelligence, you are all getting played *incredibly* hard right now.

IMNSHO, the main function of mitochondria is to give the middle finger to the brain-dead theory of evolution.😜🤣😂

Anyone who understands the brilliant design and function of mitochondria, the rotary biological motors that power the operation of 99.44+% of all lifeforms on earth, and STILL BELIEVES that such a device could possibly arise as an essential component of a complex, self-replicating living organism by way of any imaginable series of random events, is in abject denial and should immediately and seriously question their fundamental ability to reason.🤔🧐🤨😜😆

I appreciate people across the political spectrum, and have friends in multiple worldview camps. Especially since they are often from different countries with different contexts. My friends do tend to cluster in certain areas due to our shared interests (i.e. I am freedom-oriented in general), but there are people who consider themselves to be anarcho-capitalists and others that consider themselves to be aware progressives, for whom I would invite them to my home and stay in our guest area.

But I have a visceral disgust toward people who I perceive to be playing a role or being consciously fake. I'm not against people playing an actual obvious caricature for satire of course. But in the modern era, there is a tremendous amount of audience capture, gaslighting, fake social media influence that is meant to come off as genuine, and influencers and politicians treating their audience as though they are literally retarded.

Once I perceive someone as fundamentally fake and consciously playing a false role that they pretend is real to their audience, they're done to me. This behavior has been on an enormous uptrend in the past few years, much to my provocation. It's an acceleration of cynicism. Those that do this are intelligent but cynical toward their audience, manipulating them either for personal gain or for their political purpose.

Be aware of this trend.