Pretty sure JC is the literal definition of this.

GM Nostr. 🌞

I'm trying something new. I'm trying to stop thinking or saying aloud that I'm busy (in any form). Hear me out...

We're all busy. There are always more things we want to achieve in a day than we have hours for. And this is a good thing. It makes us prioritize. It gives those hours real value. Like Bitcoin, you can't print more hours.

Telling yourself (and others) that you're busy is a mental cop out, it's a way of trying to make yourself feel better about what you're not doing while also signaling that you're important in some way.

My new mantra is that I have exactly the right number of hours to do the things that are most important to me. It's just up to me to prioritize those things correctly.

What led you to nostr?

In my discussion with normies lately I have been trying to get to the real root of our differences. One of the major things that comes up over & over is just how much most people rely on status, or official titles, & other forms of social proof for what is true. It's literally one of the worst heuristics & yet it seems to he the most popular. How do we break people out of their herd mentality?

I'm kinda loving how the friction of getting on Nostr keeps out lazy people.

My feed here is full of posts from people who actually read, study, learn & think! Very Refreshing!!!

Good morning! ☕️

So, I’ve been reading a lot about carnivore diets on Nostr.

Having been mostly a non-meat eater my whole life and even vegan a couple of years ago, I'm curious if this diet might help my body perform better and reduce my constant fatigue and inflammation.

As a woman and a runner, I'm looking for insights on the best approach to transitioning to a carnivore diet.

Specifically, what considerations should I keep in mind, and who can I trust for guidance?

There’s so much conflicting information out there, and I feel that asking this on social media will just get me the usual negative comments.

I’d really appreciate any honest advice or personal experiences that can help me make an informed decision. 🙏🙏🙏

#asknostr

#carnivorediet

I have been at #Nostr for barely 1 week and I am pleasantly surprised every day with innovative projects that I didn't even think existed!

Previously I have launched 4 successful campaigns on another well-known crowdfunding platform (you can imagine the name), and yesterday I found nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 Geyser!!!! But what a marvel!

I am seriously considering to take advantage of some contacts and manufacturers I know to launch a very special deck of Poker cards, numbered edition and limited to 500 units.

Each card would have some recognized personality in the crypto and tech world, such as Mark Karpelès, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m Jack Dorsey, Changpeng Zhao, nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m Michael saylor and so many others who have had an impact in this space.

Would anyone be interested? The price would be around 35,000 sats.

I attach a picture of the idea of the Poker deck (Please note that it is a mockup).

I'm over this debate. What cool things are you working on?

Hello Everyone! Excited to join #nostr and #primal which I learned about in the #Bitcoin rabbit hole I dove into a month ago! I am #carnivore🥩 over a year and Love the transformation my body has and still is making💪. I Enjoy everything Mother Nature has to share with me as she guides me on my life’s journey. It is amazing to be in the midst of so many like minded humans🌀as we create or Beautiful Future!

Nope. I'm quite sure for some reason nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qyfhwumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetn9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpzamhxue69uhkyet5vyhxummnw3exjmpwvdsk6tcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9uhxtnyd9nkwmm09e3k7mf0qydhwumn8ghj7en9v4j8xtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0w3hku7gppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qqspnzgrfett3asxcuj0gksje6z2zxzpvgd27uvz58m9vsuqh8zzw6cnsmf5f has me muted too :/

AI vs Bitcoin

The AI hype has been non-stop for the last 2 years ever since ChatGPT came out with its 3.0 chat. Since then, there's been an insane amount of investment into AI tech from every direction. There are hundreds of startups, every tech giant has been making investments and companies in between have been putting a lot of money toward it as well. It's not a small amount, either, as the AI hardware costs make Bitcoin mining look like discount bargains.

Yet after two years, what have we to show for it? Maybe some faster image editing on newer phones? Slightly faster answers to questions you would normally ask Google? Some productivity increase among junior programmers? The investment was enormous, as can clearly be seen in NVIDIA's growth, but the results are pretty underwhelming. As with any hyped technology, the possibilities have run past the actual use.

One of the supposed benefits of fiat money is that capital accumulation is unnecessary to create real value. You can build roads, for example, without having to save up for it. What this misses are many obvious drawbacks, but one of them is that there has to be someone that evaluates whether something will create value and create the money out of thin air to fund the project. This is not just inherently centralizing, but also deeply political.

For whatever reason, AI passed this political test and got the blessing of the money printers, which, to a company that sells, shovels like NVIDIA has been great news. But the drawback is that there's bound to be at least *some* that don't pan out. Maybe some segment of the economy can't use AI profitably, for example. Yet the powers that be, mostly Cantillionaires, have decided that this is worthwhile and have poured insane amounts of money into this bet.

But much like hyped tech of the past, it's looking more and more likely that there's little profit to be made here. Yes, there's some useful things that can be made, but the costs are simply too high right now to justify spending that much. It's a luxury item that mostp people simply don't need, and hence don't want to pay for. AI has become an expensive solution looking for costly problems to solve.

This was always my analysis with another hyped tech: blockchain. It never really made any sense as the cost was too high for what was really just a distributed, very redundant but hard to upgrade database. It, too, couldn't find costly problems to solve, with the exception of one. That, of course being Bitcoin.

What differentiates Bitcoin from AI is that people *need* Bitcoin. It's its own killer app. AI is not so popular that people will pay for what it costs right now. And that means that most of the investment will be wasted. Like most hyped things in a fiat economy, it's doomed to have significant malinvestment.

A lot of people complain about Bitcoin businesses and how hard it is to make them profitable. In a sense, I get it. You want more people to have steady jobs and so on. But in another sense, I think this is the market speaking. You're not going to get paid from Bitcoiners easily and there's no flood of printed money looking for a place to go. At least there won't be once fiat money has run its course. Building a profitable company is hard and so few meet that mark, especially in a new segment as AI has shown.

So in that way, I'm encouraged, because the companies that survive in Bitcoin will have something truly worthwhile. By contrast, the companies that survive in AI will probably be the ones that get subsidized the longest.

I would love to go carnivore. 🥩

But 90 days without pizza? 🍕

Right there with you. I saw something the other day that the depreciation on new phones is just as bad as buying a new car, if not worse. The phone loses up to 50% of its value as soon as the next year’s model comes out. New phone is a bad investment. Let someone else take the initial hit and buy used like new or wait till the phone is being given away discounted or free.

I think I will always be Team Apple. But I will always be one to two years behind in their product line.

Wait a second though... I think I tried installing it on Mint too last year and had issues with the flatpak install now that I think about it... 🤦🏻‍♂️

And IIRC, Umbrel didn't allow for the datadir to be on an external SSD.

But in the video it looks like the target wallet is receiving as many UTXO's as Wasabi is sending, instead of consolidating them. That's what I don't fully understand.