For people asking more questions I think this helps sum up the issues with it.
Finally got around to listening to the first episode of “The Pear Report” even though I’ve been using Keet for a while and am a big fan of holesail.
One funny thing that I heard from the first episode was using the Pear stack to play older games that are either LAN only or have had their game servers long shuttered.
Back in 2006 I wrote game match making software to allow users to interact and play older games (that used directplay) like the original GTA and Age of Empires. The last piece I was looking to solve was firewall punching before other obligations forced me to stop the project.
I say all this because Pear and Nostr provide a great opportunity to recreate this project without the server piece.
I may have found my next hobby project (trying to maintain my “top 3”)
Appreciate the inspiration nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev
The secret is to forest gump your way into continual stacking.
ATH? Fuck it, Buy
30% drawdown? Fuck it, Buy
Back down to $16k? Fuck it, Buy (also hyperventilate into a bag maybe)
Yep. The New York struggle is still real for us. I just kick those sats to boltz.
Same!
Not going back to Coinbase and swan is a non-starter after being grandfathered in.
I also like that sending sats to self-custody can only take a few hours using the “free 24-hour” option.
If the federal government wasn’t to big and involved in all levels of governance it wouldn’t matter so much.
GE Nostr frens 
I actually forgot about that movie. I will take these comments as an endorsement and will check it out.
No one is forcing anyone to buy any of this.
This “free” mentality stems from being the product of Google, Microsoft, and countless other marketing campaigns.
You can still use Damus without purple
You can opt to not buy a hat or shirt
You can make the economic decision to not pay and even say it’s too much but this “everything should be free” shit is dumb.
American politics is weird and broken. We have a system that, by design, is a duopoly. If a new party emerges, it either dies or replaces one of the existing ones. Because of that, we end up with these big tents containing lots of different constituencies and contradictory coalitions.
Take, for example, how conservative black evangelicals are pro-family, pro-life, and pro-business, but most vote Democrat because they’re turned off by Republican racism. Or consider gay Republicans like Peter Thiel, who vote in their economic interests despite it being against their safety and the advancement of the gay community.
There are many ways in which a two-party system doesn't make sense. I’ve lived in two countries with proportional representation, Uruguay and New Zealand. Both have much more stable politics and better systems of coalition-building and compromise. They’re smaller, too, but you can see the US system broken at a state level where the numbers can be similar to those in Uruguay and New Zealand.
Forcing everyone to fit their values and political aspirations into a single party is a mess.
What’s interesting is that as the US becomes more partisan, party members are more likely to adopt the party’s platform, even if it would otherwise not be in their personal or community interest. Only a small and shrinking number of true independents can focus on issues across parties.
Nos Journalism Acclerator partner nostr:npub1uuxnz0sq60thc098xfxqst7wnw77l0sm3r8nn48yspuvz4ecprksxdahzv has a good piece about this based on research: nostr:note1dnqm9f7ljzrfcuu0gy8ghtxgnmtar8lvfxcjhryeka43r85h2zaqzvsqc5
I understand what you’re saying and I think the problem really is the size and scope of the federal government.
You can observe that a New York democrat is actually different than a Kentucky democrat, especially on the local level.
I feel the problem is partially because we focus on a body of government to represent 320 million people in a single party ideology.
State, county, and city politics are different even though you will have some overlap and some of the concession voting.
I could be wrong in some aspects though I maintain that if you look more locally it’s a little less party line.
Downvoted by who? I think if downvotes are “free” I can spin up a million bots to cause some trouble or counter balance downvotes. Maybe I missed some additional context earlier in that thread.
GN 
The microblogging is kind of a segue to the other stuff. Identity and the social graph people refer to will need to be the basis that brings some of the other things together.
It seems that we’re in the “replace with nostr equivalent” phase before we get to that unique killer app. Or maybe the greater ecosystem of apps connected loosely through identity and web of trust will be “it”.
Wonder how many people have scheduled a reply calling you out. If it goes to 80k plus it just looks out of place. 😂
They used to be used more widely for jobs too. Never understood the jobs that didn’t require access to sensitive data required stellar (the justification that bad credit people will do bad things to get out of debt). I think that went away after everyone’s credit tanked a bit or i just haven’t seen it much more.
Also I’ve come to accept that credit scores for loans are for people who have no collateral to issue debt against.
Is this how the letter agencies conduct customer service surveys? 😂
I think that’s twitters static image hosting server. Like profile pictures and image uploads.
Here me and the brain trust buying all the way down to $15k.
“Because true communism hasn’t been tried. True communism is when I’m allowed to play video games all day or make art. Not toil and the fields in between coal mining seasons. Stalin was a capitalist!”