Ok, i did start to look at that but didn't want to deal with downloading a file to my phone and using a pdf viewer. Yes, I am a lazybones that wants to be led directly to water witg the least friction possible!

I appreciate this, and I understand the comparison to wavlake and fountain. I am listening to ep 105 today, seemed to be a good starting point, but I may rewind a little. I wish you and Ian the best with implementing your big ideas. That takes courage, and clearly you have plenty.

There have been lots of "watch stupid ads, win stupid prizes" attempts over the years. I had a stuffed monkey from "punch the monkey" for a lot of years. Lately these have been really scammy, advertizing gift cards for redemption or even bitcoin payouts that just never quite happen. Clearly these companies are siphoning off ad revenue and passing on little, if any, rewards to users. I think your attention marketplace, if transparent enough, could overcome some of that bad juju.

I still have many reservations over whether there is a market for what you are proposing, on either the ad side or the user side. I suppose we will find out!

Yeah, to be fair, didn't watch videos. Was looking at this during a quiet time where videos would be disruptive.

So it sounds like you don't know what chaos stands for either? I really wish them the best in their efforts. I think fountain required an app, and I listen on desktop, so not ideal for me. I also much prefer video content, which I don't recall fountain supporting on desktop last I checked.

But yeah, really interesting how Ian (likely) has built up a legend around several often-repeated catchphrases. I like the idea of the concept, using a basic web of trust model for an algo. The whole advert marketplace? Good luck with that, I suppose we'd have to see how it plays out in the wild.

Also, what is to stop me from just using another nostr client that doesn't ask me to watch ads? I guess it depends how much of this is really running on nostr.

Ok. After really trying to read through the nextblock information, it looks like another nostr client. Cool.

But what is the C.H.A.O.S. Cartel? I don't see that defined anywhere, and I must not be cool enough to just know this.

Will I sign in with my npub? Will it use my established nostr lists? Will it have relay control? Why would I link my strike account, and what if it is already linked to my noatr account?

Lots of questions, too many to just try the beta, or sign a list. This actually feels like a scammy deal, but I'm really trying to give it a fair ahake.

I agree. The "other shit" factor is sure to be wild as well. Most of what I was spitballing would fall into that "other shit" designation. Maybe North Americana shits the bed and ends up being colonized by China. I've figured a Chinese takeover of the US would resemble a corporate merger rather than a military action. China has similar hooks in Canada, I believe. We could become the north american division of China Inc.

Somewhere in this mess it would be nice if some people would modernize to the point where they no longer need to drop bombs or even take military action. It is pretty damn pointless, aside from propping up certain economies.

Drones should make human combatants obsolete. Any attack would be on infrastructure or civilians.

Again, all this collapses into dystopia at some point. It is hard to even dare to imagine a wonderful future, even with bitcoin holding out a glimmer of hope.

And this is why it is so critical to create a wonderful present, where each day is the best you could hope for. Thrive. Not for the future, but for now. Store up these good times, we'll need them during the hard times, and we'll store up good times then as well. I think that is the best meaning of stay humble, stack sats.

And Mexicans are amazing people! Actually, people are all amazing everywhere, and everyone is just trying to make the best of their existence.

I just don't know how serious Trump is about annexing Canada. Part of me says "that will never happen", and the other part of me thinks there is someone out there saying "hold my beer!"

For all I know, it has already been decided. These kind of things tend to be figured out well before the common man is apprised of the outcome.

And why not take on Mexico as well? Keep going, maybe take a rest in Panama. Would be interesting to see the entire north american continent operate under a single government. Would fix some border issues, maybe.

Could it be necessary to suffer the coalescence under a larger state to allow it to fully fail so we can become post-statist?

I'm not really an anarchist. But I'm not really a statist either. At times I could see myself as libertarian, but there are flaws there too that can't be avoided. I think I may be a tribalist, but the tribe is itself hard to define, and to operate properly, must be kept small. Democracy isn't optimal, by any means.

I'm starting to go down some darker paths with the issues of overpopulation, if we need some kind of cull, etc.

Just the meanderings of a curious mind.

Science, Philosophy, and Religion - three very similar paths ostensibly undertaken to arrive at truth, or better understand our environment and ourselves. But that is not the Effect of these pursuits; neither is it the Cause. What could this elusive cause and effect be?

It was never about **HIM**. It has always been about THEM. Apperently they've got you convinced otherwise. By design.

Every recent scheme I have seen for #bitcoin inheritance planning seems to rely on a third party holding a key to a known bitcoin wallet. Depending on the details, this means that a third party would at least know that I had bitcoin, and at worst be able to determine (or actually know) how much bitcoin is to be inerited (theoretically, how much bitcoin I have.)

I want none of that. My kids (and most of my family and friends) know that I have some bitcoin. That is already too many people. Companies don't need to know, govts don't need to know (same thing), and the less people that know, the better. Nobody except for me should ever know how much (or little) I have. No one. So long as I live.

The only ones that need to know how much there is after I die are those who should receive it - my kids. I don't want this in a will, to be brought up in probate court, etc. None of my other family or friends need to know, and nobody (or company or govt) that knows my kids should know.

I think what I need is some relationship with a company that will contact my kids (and only my kids) in the event of my death, and give them a message. (In which would be instructions for them to follow). I should be able to modify that message at any time, in a secure way.

The death should not be confirmed until I have failed to respond to multiple queries, over multiple forms of communication. They won't need these instructions until months after I am dead, possibly years. But again, I should be able to customize or change this protocol.

I've heard of such services being offered, but not recently or reliably.

Any ideas? #asknostr

Same.

It's not suffering if I'm just doing it whenever it feels like a good time. I'm going to be doing other physically demanding stuff over the weekend, probably won't do many squats or curls. I find I end up doing squats when I take my dog out to shit, sometimes with him pulling me off balance. 31days? Whatever. I know I won't stop there, but I'm not necessarily doing it daily. I'll suffer through your updates though. Anything to help a fellow former fat man sweat, I guess.

Fine. I bought a resistance band last weekend, and decided today to use it for some bicep curls. Losing a bunch of weight has left my upper arms looking scrawny, so I thought it might be time to do something about it. I've started doing squats, for similar reasons. Just 10 at a time, whenever. I tried 20 and that was too much then, maybe not now.

Dr. Thomas Seyfried https://tomseyfried.com is a good place to start. Also may be worth checking out A Midwestern Doctor on Substack. https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/an-index-of-the-forgotten-side-of

If my "grass" wasn't all sticks and pokey things, I'd join you.

What do people in the Sahara desert touch? Sand? that stuff is bloody hot!

ok, so what, pray tell, is Canadian steak? Can you point to it on a picture of cow? Is this steak in the room with you right now?

hope not, looks delicious, even buried under plants! 🥩

about time to go down the #traphole again. maybe for a work soundtrack. listened to plenty of troiboy, so maybe tomorrow, mr. carmack.

you like Flux Pavilion? Ghastly? not sure either are technically trap but worth checking out.