I’m not sure 🇺🇸 ever gets to this level simply because of its incompetence rather than a lack of desire for such things.

Same argument could be made for nuclear ☢️ power plants in 🇺🇸. If we can’t even keep trains 🚂 on track or bridges and buildings from collapsing, how can we expect the same organizations to keep a nuclear ☢️ power plant running smoothly? nostr:note18psaa87f353047yksv9dr78r9ty5f3xmndzygdt8pu8rpsk95klsnh6ndn

I understand that. Zaps could be implemented the same way anywhere. Damus isn’t special in that sense, Twitter could do the same. You only need to look at 90% of the the big influencers on Twitter who moved and promoted Nostr… they always say something like “it’s better there, and zaps are a motivation”. And those are just the influencers… most common folk come for the same reason, by

Nostr, and Damus especially, aren’t proof of work, they centralised in the same way shitcoins are.

Sure they’re more resistant to censorship than you average social media. But are they some bitcoin-esque decentralised? No. Therefore I don’t get why we worship this protocol so much. Sure I’m being pedantic, but people are acting like it’s going to save the world. Our standards are low it seems

I mean, Balaji is worth like, what? $50mil? I would not spend 2% of my net worth and pretend I couldn't have made a YouTube doomer video otherwise. Because that is either manic or stupid.

So you generally just try to make sure you have good relay overlap with your follows?

I have stopped using the nostr.wine filter (and aggregator) relay for the first time in months and my experience has gotten noticeably worse.

How are folks that aren’t paying for that fantastic service optimizing their relay usage these days?

Who here used to play off the wall in school.

So the game is you throw a ball at the wall and whoever tries To Catch it and if you drop it You gotta run to the wall while everyone starts hitting you until you touch the wall or someone whips you with the ball who played that game.

Could a 30% tax on miners in the USA actually be a good thing for decentralization? 😂🤣😂🤣

There is only one move in this game that makes any sense.

What’s Fedi ? in simple understandable words 😂

Yeah, you’re probably right, it’s just my scarcity ridden youth and the psychological damage done driving avarice. I probably shouldn’t invest in petroleum producers either, but I know we’ll stay on that path until we’re all choking. The moral dilemma, between a sure winner and an ethical position. Stock in Coca-Cola anyone?

I agree, but I don’t see a downside to reasonable profiteering off of stupid pump and dump bullshit schemes. I don’t and won’t actively promote or use Shitcoins outside of profit functions. A Ponzi scheme requires unethical selling to cover your own liabilities, what I’m doing is different, yes?

gm,

the council of economic advisers to the white house are paint huffers and goat fuckers

#puravida!

So the mempool being full is inscriptions right?

Can we normalize calling “almond milk” “almond tea?”

Nothing milk about it.

One of the biggest mistakes people make in trying to interpret economic, political and world events, is viewing things through a functionalist lens.

Whereas a lot of the bad things that happen in the world are always viewed through the lens of intentional design, and agendas that serve specific individuals and institutions, the truth is, a lot of the bad shit that happens in the world are just endemic of simple hubris and miscalculation.

Post hoc reasoning is usually deployed to fit things into a broader narrative, along an ideological worldview and everything bad that happens is seen as a failure of the incumbent power structures and ideologies, everything good that happens is in spite of them, and most importantly, it all validates the ideological and normative claims of critic's own ideology.

Most people do this. Including me. It's hard not to do, because our brain really wants to think about everything in functional terms. The problem is it's often a bad model for explaining complex, emergent phenomena.

Unintended consequences are actually often a much better explanation for most bad things that happen at scale in the world, as opposed to intentional design and nefarious agendas.

Could totally be, but also a lot of the Gen Z are totally against it 🤷‍♂️💜

Wish I could send voice notes in DMs. Just me?