It voting had the power to make any real kind of systemic changes or threatened the power structure in any way it would be outlawed.

Real democracy isn't voting for leaders to represent you and make decisions on your behalf.

Voting for who gets to make decisions out of a group of people selected by political parties only reinforces the system.

If you could vote directly on policy as a citizen we would have collective power as voters, but as it stands our democracy is an illusion. nostr:note1azl6qteutemhftr2tjscu5jl9lfa8r6vvx4sn799px2ypq7v2enq4verys

(where outside the horseshoe is most likely to be muted by larger accounts that share stuff) just thought I should add that so no one misinterprets what I meant

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/mgAItnpFXKs

nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q bug report:

This has been happening lately, the app will reload back to the main page after I've left a comment, and I'm trying to find my way back to those comments but my own notes and replies won't load on my profile.

Usually refreshing the page is enough to fix it, sometimes refreshing the main feed then going back to profile fixes it, today restarting the app isn't fixing it either.

Looks like one of those "what are they training for" redbull videos.

It also shrinks and grows, and distorts.

But I think the horseshoe is the general shape it takes.

On nostr it looks more like this

This is my version of "horseshoe theory"

Anything left right above or below is considered extremist by society.

Opinions in the centre are considered centrist

The horseshoe itself is allowable political discourse that won't face censorship.

The horseshoe moves around the political spectrum in different places and different times in history.

Placement is made to reflect the current political policies and discourse in the West.

If you wanna explain Bitcoin to a normie, I just had a random thought about an oversimplified explanation.

The node runners are public libraries run by volunteers.

The miners are like publishers who print the books.

Each library has an identical set of books, the books are just a history of financial transactions.

Mining a block is when a publisher gets paid for printing the next book and how all the publishers and libraries agree on what gets printed and stored.

Does this explanation make enough sense to be helpful to people?

#asknostr

Medium of exchange>store of value.

Hodlers are not bitcoiners, they are just currency investors trying to exploit exchange rates.

People stacking without spending only slow down bitcoin adoption.

Talk to your neighbours, businesses in your community, etc. about Bitcoin, adoption is grassroots, the more people who treat Bitcoin like money the faster real adoption takes place

If my experience at school was better I would have probably ended up in stem

I enjoyed math, would have liked to pursue chemistry.

Glad it didn't work that that way they, all the money for chemists is in big pharma and weapons manufacturing.

Any blunt object > knife

One good hit to the head. It's over.

Getting stabbed feels like getting punched, most people don't even realise they've been stabbed.

It's why whenever someone uses a knife in self defence they end up in prison.

Hard to explain why you needed to stab someone 20 times in self defence but that's what it takes.

There a lot of innocent things you could carry in your pocket that turn a hammer fist into a lethal blow.

You've heard of the cat distribution system, where a random kitten will just appear on your doorstep.

But have you heard of the goose distribution system? nostr:note1ygcdkurmnl35r89ycjpsule8e5maj0vv9hy7a3ej8an6v3m5gvkqxrj5yq

In east Asia people wear masks all the time.

If you are sick it's a way to reduce the number of other people you infect.

If sick people aren't wearing them, wearing one yourself won't stop you getting sick.

But if sick people do wear them, healthy people get protection without wearing them.

In the west all of our mask crap is backwards

I can't afford a lawyer and i don't trust the court appointed one not to make deals behind my back with the prosecutor.

Reptilians told me to do it

I am insane.

That is my defence

Don't even offer me lsd if the dosage is under 1600ug

I don't want to just see some pretty colours and patterns.

I want to have a life changing experience.

I just want to know if the guy on polymarket that bet 80k they wouldn't be released is getting paid out or not.

So the files was released, but all the documents have been totally blacked out...

Does the guy on polymarket that bet 80k the files wouldn't be released win the bet considering the files are totally redacted?

Or not?

I hope he got paid out because the "released" files are a joke

Kettle vs pot.

Good morning Karnage

Shit coiners and suit coiners arguing as usual.

Why is a fork even bad?

Can anyone explain why forking is bad?

One side wants Bitcoin to be money, the other side wants Bitcoin to ve volunteer data hosting at the node runners expense.

A hard fork would solve the argument.

LET THE NODE RUNNERS DECIDE

Somebody stop em

What the fuck

So they're released everything that wasn't related to illegal activities?

On android, still haven't figured out extentions.

Put my nsec into word5 on my browser, that felt like the wrong thing to do. Wavlake seemed safe.

I'll pick one of the signing extensions later today when the sun is shining.

Some dodgy app harvesting nsecs for months or years before using them for whatever malicious intent is something I thought could be an issue when I first got here, a random thought I had after learning about the vibe coding nostr apps.

Here's your chance to start playing.

This video hasn't been tagged yet.

I'm leaving this one for someone else.

I don't understand why this isn't more popular, it's kinda fun. I'm not in it for the 5sats or whatever it is I win each week, I just want to be number one on the leaderboard. But I need a difficulty increase there aren't enough people playing. nostr:note1qqqqengz8ve0ke9zjyhtsjgxsa4pu6dwfwnex2qyfrr247ktu4hsprefn2

I have a #BIP idea, hear me out.

Spammers pay the node runners for hosting.

Wanna upload monkey pictures? Every node runner gets one sat per whatever amount of data people agree on.

Is this idea stupid? Does anyone wanna share that "i just learnt about Bitcoin and I'm here to fix it" meme?

#asknostr

It's just a random idea, tear it to bits, explain why it wouldn't work.

#core30 #knots #Bitcoin

Instead of making node runners pay to be volunteer data hosters,

My proposal is pay them for it.

The people doing the most important job are volunteering.

Node runners invest their own time and money into hardware and maintaining an internet connection.

And I know this is a hard fork or whatever, but Bitcoin has been through that, the node runners can decide which chain to continue maintaining.

Maybe a hard fork is what Bitcoin actually needs? What if there's a longer term forking cycle nobody has noticed before because we're only repeating the cycle now for the second time?

Man why didn't I know about this earlier nostr:note178m42wzer7kmdaj2nkxpr9ll6yr7cw4vxgp0wc6l04j47u9pv2tskjajw2

I need more context.

What is the relevance of Egypt?

What's funny about it?

Sounds very arrogant.

Monero will probably be used for a long time by people concerned with privacy.

These people are not number go up forever wallstreet bros like most bitcoiners are influenced by.

They're happy if monero doesn't go up, as long as it continues to hold its value.

They care about medium of exchange and privacy than number go up.

Monero is just cash without a central bank, nothing more, not digital gold or whatever hyped marketing you hear about Bitcoin from investors

If the label says no added sugar, good.

If the label says no sugar, bad.

Influencers push a product or opinion on behalf of someone else.

To me it's synonymous with being a sellout.

But I know other people use the term to refer to popular content creators as well once they make it big.

But I don't consider having influence to make someone an influencer.

Reddit links don't seem to work for sharing pictures on Nostr.

I'm not worried about it going to 0

More worried about the public perception, KYC, other regulatory threats, possibility of a fork.

And just the general toxicity in the community.

It's the gold standard crypto, but I'm keeping an open mind about alternatives.

Will continue accumulating sats as part of my savings, it's still a better option than saving in fiat.

Tucker Carlson as the voice of reason.

This timeline is fucked.

We need to go back and save Harambee.

That's when everything stopped making sense.

The gorilla wasn't meant to die, it forked the timeline, we're living in the shitcoin version of reality now

Who else here is physically repulsed the moment Ben Shapiro starts speaking?

He gives me the ick.

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As long as they don't catfish me.

I feel like this wouldn't be that difficult to make.

If the people building the robots stopped trying to make the robots humanoid and put function first instead.

like just make a large romba with some mechanical arms so it can load and unload washing and turn the washing machine on and off, if you had a dryer it could do that too.

Maybe the arms could have an attachment with something for wiping down surfaces.

Why isn't this a thing already.

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Just make sure it can run offline.

Those plush robots for doing chores are actually controlled remotely.

Couldn't figure out how to log in. I uploaded a video, seemed to work

Created?

Someone?

How?

I don't see any evidence of simulation theory.

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I love the idea of this being the place for artists.

Wavlake itself could be improved in a number of ways regarding user experience.

Multiple trending feeds would make a huge difference, group songs by similar genres with individual trending feeds, label AI and allow people to hide it.

And allow people to post and reply to regular notes like a normal nostr client.

I think that would be enough, people wouldn't even need to know about Nostr, they would just be migrating from Spotify to a better music streaming app with social features.

Entry to what? What product or service do they provide?

Why would anyone invest in company stocks for holding Bitcoin when they can hold their own Bitcoin?

Unless you got the autism to be a successful day trader, these companies aren't worth investing in.

If they're not making a product or providing a service they're going to fail long term while only a few early investors get rich at the expense of later investors.

My first thought.

I can barely remember the Iraq war but I watched something on YouTube recently comparing all the propaganda for military intervention and the dictators themselves.

Maduro has the exact same moustache as Saddam, same fashion taste, same hat only a different colour, both sitting on oil reserves the multinationals want to exploit.

Both had an affinity for swords.

It was very interesting.

Never heard of it

Anonymous?

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Thanks for the hashtag I'll have a look.

Private key harvesting apps, which turn accounts into automated spam bots.

Something like that could be a real risk if it became popular.

Assuming the individual(s) behind the app(s) are thinking long term, a handful of their apps get semi popular and harvest a few thousand private keys each over a matter of months or years.

Then one day, our entire feeds are full of advertising or gore or something and a large number of people have to restart building their accounts.

That's the biggest risk i think.

When and where is the next Australian nostr convention? looks like a fun get together, people are really passionate about this protocol, love the energy.

If this is a gay joke and I'm just not getting it my bad

This yt video is from 2017 first person drone racing championship;

https://youtu.be/dsamGQ7Xeaw

Battery life continues to be the main issue preventing wide scale adoption.