lol a pleb right now uses 17 Nostr clients, 15 Lightning wallets, and 5600 relays listed.
They fry occasional news from the “far lands” aka Xitter, but pay little attention to it.
They are told to cool it with the Bitcoin and Nostr talk but don’t give a shit.
Bear markets: Observe the panic and continue doing what you're doing. Pay attention to the builders.
Bull markets: Observe the hubris of the "geniuses". Pay attention to the fly by night scammers. Continue doing what you're doing.
Ensure you're buying and holding. Each cycle will want you to sell, either in panic or satisfaction. Ignore the noise and ride the signal.
So are you saying that self custody of one’s shit will help usher in a better era?
Probably the fact that the state isn’t a monolithic malevolent entity. At worst it’s a set of competing malevolent forces competing for their own scams and grifts.
Some in the US seeing this as some sort of plan will push back and say that those billions should go to current war machine cause because their buddies need a few billion in top.
Others will want to see the money go to a more conventional method of stripping people of their freedoms.
Happy new year Nostr frens!
It’s controlled opposition “the way things should be”. Clear good guy and bad guy.
If you have some decentralized commodity money that can’t be reeled in it’s bad for both.
I think he replaced his CAPS lock with a “Sell” button. He’s never pressing that one.
Because lowest common denominator slogans matter for low information votes and sound bites.
The above is an over simplification of course.
But what I really wanna know is: How’s your trades going?
In fairness I don’t know if it’s just a logical progress to full electric. What seems to make gasoline powered vehicles attractive is the energy density, even with the inefficiencies of an ICE.
Trust me I used to be a EV maxi and I think battery tech needs to match and exceed hydrocarbon density for it to be market practical (meaning outside of X state banning ICE by 2035 bs).
I also have concerns about charging logistics that probably need to change as well as the cobalt mining practices that seem to hide the pollution and issues in sourcing these.
I could be wrong and even dated on some of these points.
Maybe EVs become the vehicles in urban centers and hydrocarbon and/or hybrids in rural areas.
I don’t remember which phone my parents gave to me, but the first phone I got on my own was a year later a Nokia 3390. I still have it.
I didn’t have my first cell phone until college. Prepaid minutes. Monochrome screen. 10 friggin cents per text message.
Fun (and terrifying) exercise.
Go watch an futuristic 80s action movie like total recall and compare to what passes as evening tv news today.
Maybe it was always that way?
They were. So much so they angrily stomped back on their private jets and took the scenic long route to keep things warm just a little longer to fuck with home miners. 😂
He is also parodied as saying he invented the Internet due to his weird wording about some law he pushed to increase internet adoption.
He ran for president and was involved in an election dispute that was ultimately settled in the courts where he lost.
These things always raised his public profile prior to his climate change movie.
Sometimes the brain needs a little punch in the gut to see that things could always be worse. Imagine being that guy? If you’re a bitcoiner…don’t be that guy.
Normie exhibits this bullshit big brain thing like most of didn’t drop in here a year ago when Jack Dorsey mentioned it. Obviously not everyone but it’s midwit territory to use another meme term.
What’s worse is the “Normies don’t want to do this or that. They just want to take a shit and have their notes posted for them!”
It was the same arm-chair talking points 20 years ago with Linux. I think it was “Joe six pack” back then.
Armchair "conjecture" of what normies want from people who are on nostr and especially HN are mostly bullshit anyway.
If you asked these same guys about the anything new would be equally absurd.
"Normies don't want X, they just want to do all the other shit they do that they are either fine with or were dragged kicking and screaming to have to figure out like they always have".
All noise.