"On August 15, 1971, the nation accepted the unspoken premise that it was authorities who were better suited to be in control of the money as opposed to the individual citizen who earned it. In adopting the 1980 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the nation accepted the unspoken premise that it was the authorities who were better equipped to define what constituted healthy food, as opposed to the people who ate it."
-- Matthew Lysiak
Fiat Food: Why Inflation Destroyed Our Health and How Bitcoin Fixes It
Great read, highly recommended. Not sold on the 100% meat diet though, I like variety 🫠
i dont even like Tucker Carlson 😮💨
"you have to maintain the integrity of the network"
I literally have spent an entire year talking about spam at Taiwan BitDevs, I'm so over it (I get occasional eyerolls) but it still needs to repeated. Keeping the topics technical while others keep nudging toward politics and word games has been frustrating.
My go-to explanation uses the bare-multisig transaction that contains the white paper to point out why we even have OP_Return/datacarriersize in the first place. (Fun fact: that transaction was mined by Eligius 👀).
"Having the white paper on the Blockchain is cool and all, but imagine if instead of a 9 page white paper, it was the Gangnam Style and other viral videos instead? It wouldn't take long before Bitcoin would be f'ed!"
It's hard for many to grasp the bad trajectory Bitcoin is on if people don't talk technicals. I even went over at BitDevs how to apply the filter patch while we went through how to compile Bitcoin binaries, as a means to nudge people to compile their own nodes. I'm also "trying to fix what I can 🥹"
nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr you did a great job highlighting an important issue 🥳
The Bitcoin Matrix: Bitcoin Mechanic - Boiling the Ocean
Episode webpage: https://bitcoinmatrix.libsyn.com/bitcoin-mechanic-boiling-the-ocean
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bitcoinmatrix/BM_FINAL_AUDIO.mp3?dest-id=2396393
That's some unexpected good news!
Eventually youtube-dl and yt-dlp will be the only reasonable way to access YouTube content 🫠
damn, thought you were speaking to nostr:npub1chuth0ru5mq5pjeq6magew3kse4d5m7wgzqk3tnz0kgqwu3vt6ls5hq3gd the artist 😃
I didn't realize how old this post was 🫣
you're describing a money problem, not a capitalism problem (environmental waste happens under communism or feudal rule).
bad money leads to bad incentives which is where the incentive to produce waste comes from. the future can't be valued if money loses value; giving control over the money to a handful of central banks and the individuals behind them allows perverse incentives to set the value of the "environment"
installing an instance of pi-hole at my parent's place greatly improved their candy crush/puzzle game experience.
More puzzles, less ads.
ridiculous amounts of ads in those games
I want to point out that at the start of that pandemic, Taiwanese medical professionals sent a notice to the WHO saying there were concerns of a SARS-like flu outbreak happening in Wuhan. (Literally it was some dude scrolling through posts on the internet and was like "uhh, something sounds fucked").
In the midst of the outbreak, some districts in Wuhan then held a massive hot pot festival, ignoring all warnings. Taiwanese sent a team to Wuhan to investigate to follow up on lab leak rumors.
Taiwan is not a member of the WHO. Their results were inconclusive as they could not investigate fully.
A whistleblower doctor by the name of Li Wenliang came forward when their hospital was overrun with cases. He died in February 2020
Taiwan then closed their borders. Italy kept theirs opened along with most nations at the WHO guidelines. Closing borders to China was deemed as racist at the start of the pandemic. WHO Director-General Tedros even deemed this closing borders to China as an attack on the WHO by Taiwan (literal nonsense)
Taiwan operated fairly normally throughout 2020. Taiwan didn't have it's coronavirus outbreak until mid-2021. World could have been much different if the WHO weren't operating like Chinese lapdogs and closed borders at first warning.
Make a pull request on bip39 and add it? 🤭
All you need is 2048 words
found the Ken and Friends Concert on DHT
GREAT MOVIE RECOMMENDATION, WATCHED THIS EARLIER THIS YEAR
Nipsey would have enjoyed this on so many levels 🥰
錢不只是這樣，它代表著你通過工作為社會提供的價值。理想情況下，這種價值不應該消失。
認為錢應該像煙花一樣立即花掉等於殺雞取卵，是錢壞掉的症狀 這歷史不陌生。
那麼，錢如何失去其價值呢？這並不是什麼神秘的問題。結論是你手上的不是錢
There's a cultural element too (or the lack of one). There's this notion of looking for those being worse off as a means to be like "at least I'm not doing worse than 'those' people". People are looked down for the strangest things, skin color not even in the picture, a spoken dialect is enough
It's so weird to me to be constantly obsessed with people worse off than oneselves.
It's one thing to have people focused on rankings in addition to class-obsession on their own, but getting to State push that is a whole other ballgame; insidious.
Doesn't seem like normal human behavior, shouldn't they be looking up?
正常人沒在比爛的好嗎？🥹
A decent lifespan is like around 4 million blocks 👀