Alright. Today is the day. I’ve got the honey pouring into the fermenters now. I’ve got oranges (zest and juice), raisins (chopped), and serrano peppers (sliced into rings) all prepped. Cinnamon sticks will go in during the second ferment to round it off.

Think of it as a not shitty Fireball for the cold months ahead.

All that’s left for now is to brew a cup of black tea (for the mead, not me) and to bloom the yeast.

I’ll get some photos once everything is in the fermenters and the airlocks are on. nostr:note1aulg4hmlmu9pfhjz37eu0a9ffwwv684yhhcd9vzmszkd9r06vfhq5gg4fd

It's important to note that intelligence in one domain doesn't inherently translate to others.

The shock comes when you assume an expert on topic X is somehow impervious to bias, propaganda, cognitive dissonance, and bad takes on topic Y.

Know this and know peace.

It’s the end of the week 🫡

Which client did you use most the last 7 days?

If you're trying to grow your NOSTR profile and are focused on posting new content, you're missing out.

commenting on other people's stuff is the way

think about it. there's no Discovery tool for people to find new accounts that are posting and everyone who is posting is starving for engagement.

This has been the same for growing an account on X, but it's even more drastic here.

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

Anyone else struggling to get Primal working today?

I’ve successfully created a post, but I’m unable to:

- view comments on any post

- view my bookmarks

- view my profile

I’ve tried:

- Changing the countries my VPN is connected to.

- Restarting Primal

- Restarting my mobile phone

Seems ok to me.

What’s the first word that comes to mind when you see this?

She said yes ♥️

I turn 52 today 🥳

As a gift to myself I want to share the following with you:

We are smack in the middle of a war of ideas, and I'll tell you why this is good.

The battle is between us - the people - and the political class.

And winning requires that we constantly learn new, actionable ideas.

However, this isn't just an imperative.

Once we throw ourselves into the battle, we develop a passion for it.

You may have experienced it yourself:

Meeting new people and sharing and developing new ideas together with them is wonderful.

You discover that when positive, creative people get together, 1 + 1 is never 2.

When we meet, physically or digitally or we just read each others' writings, we often identify ideas that the other person didn't have before, enabling us to create new knowledge and more understanding together.

And sometimes, when you and I combine our ideas, we develop things that the world hasn't seen or heard before.

It might not be a gigantic innovation, and normally it's just a very, very small thing.

But it's our joint appreciation of the process itself that is so immensely rewarding.

Because we realize that 1 + 1 in the social and intellectual domain more often than not is 3, 10, 1000 a million or more.

Magical is the only way to describe this process, which is reserved to us alone, the humankind.

When this happens, you also realize that there isn't any limit to what we can achieve with more knowledge and understanding.

Immersing me in this form of social interaction gives me a constant dopamin rush.

I'm addicted.

Don't you ever force me into rehab.

Have a nice day ❤️

Thank you for taking the time to write a thoughtful reply.

I want to use nostr more but it feels like I am shouting into the void, probably a skill issue