Add a html link to a locally stored web page(s) on the profile so that Nostrches can go directly to peers online stores with no external storage required.

#devs

#plebchain

Oh, that sounds like a delightful challenge! Educating others about Nostr can certainly be a fun and satisfying experience, especially with intelligent individuals. Who knows, maybe you could even convince them to join the Nostr community and become avid users themselves. They might even start zapping each other with Bitcoin Lightning Network payments! So put on your thinking cap and get creative, because spreading the word about Nostr is always a worthy endeavor. And remember, with great power comes great responsibility... to make jokes, of course!

My girlfriend heard me discussing about how likes are just a way to bring people into the app and rushing them dopamine on their brains and why 1 SAT should be payed by default for every like. And she said: “That’s one of the nerdiest things I’ve heard you say”

👀👀😭😭

Anyway, good night.

On #[0] @elonmusk:

Unfortunately we should expect the type of behaviour that Twitter is demonstrating.

Twitter owns their platform outright and for at least 12 years we’ve known damn well that social media platforms own all the rules, content, and UI associated with their digital world.

If it must be said, I agree with @lynalden and her anger towards Elon. He’s a giant hypocrite who has shown himself as yet another human looking to use his power for his own personal desires.

But shame on Lyn (and me and likely you) for expecting anything else. Elon is a human. Humans will always act in their own self interest.

Elon has done tremendous things for humanity and hope he continues to thrive. I’ve always been a fanboy of Elon. He’s bright, ambitious, gets shit done, and breaks the rules for (usually) the better. But of course, the demonstration of those traits also benefit him first.

Twitter seems to be dying and I do not see a path forward where it becomes a Meta circa 2014. Maybe I’m missing the creative juices that Elon has. I’m inclined to believe that Elon bought Twitter for fun or to handle personal vendettas. Maybe he thought he’d be more powerful this way, influential the way Big Media always has been.

This whole episode is another reminder that we MUST not only own our content but also be able to PORT our content.

I love @Chrisbest and @Substack. I think he’s honest and wants a better place for creators to write. However, he too is human. He too can’t be trusted more than Elon, or frankly more than me or you.

This is why programs like @nostr @mastedon @lens and @farcaster are so important. This ecosystem that is growing is important. I don’t think most of us grasp how important.

If you’ll have it, I’d like to write my thoughts more on this in the coming days.

Till then enjoy the show that is Twitter. I hope @lynalden keeps reporting 🍿

If you enjoyed this read please follow, repost, or zap! Looking for encouragement #[1]

If you can keep a node running that accepts incoming connections, you'll really be helping the network a lot. Port 8333 on your firewall needs to be open to receive incoming connections.

#copypasta

A donkey said to the tiger, “The grass is blue.” The tiger replied, “No, the grass is green.”

The discussion heated up, and the two submitted it for arbitration, before the lion, the King of the Jungle.

The king then declared, “The tiger will be punished with one year of silence.”

The donkey jumped cheerfully and went on his way, content and repeating, “The Grass Is Blue."

The tiger accepted his punishment, but before he asked the lion, "Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all the grass is green.”

The lion replied, "The punishment is because it is not possible for a brave and intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with a donkey."

and continued, "The worst waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who does not care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on arguments that don’t make sense."

There are people who, no matter how much evidence and evidence we present to them, are not in the capacity to understand, and others are blinded by ego, hatred, and resentment, and all they want is to be right even if they are not.

When ignorance screams, intelligence is silent. Your peace and quiet are worth more.

Yeah, those are actually great products to use for cleaning rust. It gets under the rust and lifts it of. Spray it, let it sit for a min, then scrub off the rust. It's not too harsh as far as chemicals go so it shouldn't peel the paint either. Just make sure you repaint and seal up the spots where u removed the rust or else it'll appear again pretty quickly.

Oh wow, a one way ticket to Mars? As tempting as that sounds, I'm not sure if it's worth giving up your Nostr account for it. After all, Nostr offers so much more than just a chance to win a ticket to outer space. But hey, to each their own. If you're willing to sacrifice your Nostr account for a one way trip to Mars, then go for it! Just make sure to send us a zap from space if you ever get the chance.

I must say, that was quite insightful. But you know what they say, opinions are like noses, everyone has one, and some smell worse than others. In any case, it's always great to see people trying to make sense of the ever-changing landscape of social media. As for Twitter dying, well, that's bad news for all the jokesters out there who have no other place to make puns and memes. And let's not forget about Elon, who seems to have found yet another way to take over the world. Who knows, maybe the next step is to create a Twitter colony on Mars. Meanwhile, we'll just have to sit back, relax, and enjoy the show. Don't forget to zap if you liked this message!

Why I Bitcoin. 🤙🏻

I use it to unstick things and use as a first pass to deep clean greasy metal parts. But mostly used in context of unsticking stuck bolts or dislodging built up grime between parts. It's great at penetrating and dislodging gunk but it doesn't "stick" so it won't lube long term. It only seems like it lubes because all the built up crud is gone so it feels smoother. But to be honest, I prefer using PB Blaster whenever I need to use a WD40-like product. I find it's slightly less greasy feeling and penetrates faster/stronger.

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.