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Physical Scientist // Food & Music Lover // Tennis and Golf Player

It's like they say: "a broken squirrel finds a clock twice a day"... or is it "a broken clock find a nut twice a day"

Replying to Avatar Jameson Lopp

Missing of his own choosing.

Replying to Avatar Erik Cason

I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with.

I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine.

I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!!

Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you.

Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet.

We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy.

My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance.

I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.

I deleted my Twitter account almost a year ago. I don't miss it and don't regret it.

💯 I'm glad I'm not the only person who noticed that subtlety ad nauseum. Some of the council's rules are so ridiculously arbitrary too. Can't imagine Clarkson's frustration.

Replying to Avatar Club Orange

I'm willing to bet ours is larger and more devoted.

Omg, I saw that article yesterday and had a thin hope he would say something original. I was wrong. I feel dumber for having read it.

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! Nothing beats homemade!

Replying to Avatar Trey Walsh

Hey nostr 👋 #asknostr

For those that listen to our content nostr:npub1fpcd25q2zg09rp65fglxuhp0acws5qlphpg88un7mdcskygdvgyqfv4sld, do you find our name…distracting?

I’m talking about the word “progressive”

Do you find it’s a don’t judge a book by its cover situation for those that might not be crazy about the word progressive? Or do you love the name/word? Comment below from any of the 3 options:

1) keep the name

2) change the name

3) I don’t listen, doesn’t feel like it’s for me

When I think from first principles what the word "progressive" means, it's the idea that one wants the world to be a better place tomorrow than it is today; when I think of the word "conservative" it's the idea that we want to preserve the world in its pristine state and save something for the next generation. These words, in my mind, are not at all at odds with each other. In fact, the two words can be completely compatible with each other.

Sadly both of these words have been coopted by the political counterfeit class for the own ends to extract maximum rents from ordinary citizens.

All this to say, keep the name, draw in those that think of themselves as "progressive", that's your target, and then they'll learn that Bitcoin is for them too.

69 blocks to go!

I'm not a Bitcoin dev, but I've built software tools for people and can code. Everyone knows that the systems like these always needs tweaks, vulnerability fixes, etc. Maybe I'm misreading, but my read is that responsible development should kind of follow a similar mantra to "first, do no harm".

I looked up tone deaf in the dictionary and saw this picture.

Yup. Deactivated my X account about 6 months ago. Don't miss it.