I see it without issues

I have whole hedgerows around the garden. The bees go fucking crazy for the flowers. I cut it back several times a year as it produces an incredible amount of bio mass for the compost pile.

As a kid my mother would take the leaves and steep them to make a pultice for my scrapes and cuts. Place the soft side down on a wound and let it dry. Next day wound healed.

When I was 18, I was severely depressed. With good reason. I’d fucked up high school. Drugs and drinking had a hold on me. My grades were shit. My friends were addicts. My mother, a schizophrenic, was having a serious year-long episode. She was institutionalized. Wrapped her car around a telephone pole. Almost died. The cops were at our house a lot. My father was dead inside. Burnt out, and numb. Numb. There was severe emotional neglect and chaos throughout my childhood. I had no hope for the future. Completely lost, purposeless, and drifting. Purposeless. Drifting. I wasn’t fully suicidal. Like there weren’t any plans in place, but I thought about it a lot. A voice in the back of my mind told me there had to be a way out. I know now that it was god speaking to me.

I listened to that voice. I stopped doing drugs. I drank less. I began to hike every day in the mountains by myself. The sun, the air, the solitude. I loaded up an old iPod. I listened to the Beatles, a lot of classical music, and audiobooks. I didn’t hang out with my friends anymore. I just hiked every day by myself. I got a shitty fast-food job. I used to stay late to clean and just think about my life. I enjoyed the structure. Soon, they made me the assistant manager. I was the only one who was dependable, I guess. I went to community college. I actually applied myself for the first time ever. I got straight A’s. I hooked up with a lot of girls, that was helpful for my mood and self-esteem. I used my grades to get into a good college. I wanted to get across the country. To get away from it all. I went to Chicago.

College was fun. There were lots of girls, lots of parties. I was in film school and actually interested in what I was learning. Everything was amazing. My family is from rural Illinois. I used to visit my grandfather on the weekends sometimes. He was one of my favorite people. In the winter, he got sick. We found out he had leukemia. I got depressed again. I stopped going to college. I spent a lot of time out in the country. It felt more important to be with him as he died. I was there when he passed.

I came home for the summer. The great financial crisis was going on. My friend got one of those Obama new home buyer loans, so we spent the summer having parties and playing beer pong in his garage. One night, the girl I was going to marry walked in. I knew it right away. I didn’t feel like going back to Chicago. So I stayed and went to state school. I started dating the girl that would one day become my wife. I still was partying too much. Binge drinking. I couldn’t escape the feeling I was wasting my potential. Fucked around and did DMT one day. Blast off. Full-on cosmic panic attack. The overarching message: “Your time here on Earth is temporary. So get to work.”

Fuck, okay. So I got serious about my life… again, and I changed everything… again. I had been lazy and unmotivated. I began to focus intently on my craft. I attended every lecture. I made connections. I worked on everyone’s sets. I won the school film festival. I started a production company with a friend while still in school. It took off. We were making good money. We dropped out and did the business full time. I asked the girl to marry me. She said yes.

I found Bitcoin. I took all the profits from the business and put it into Bitcoin. I convinced my fiancé to put her salary into Bitcoin too. We were frugal to the point of being weirdos. We bought a little condo, and we got married. Bitcoin went up like crazy. We had a kid. Bitcoin went down like crazy. My father got sick. We took care of him when he died. I assumed responsibility for my mother. We had another kid. My wife’s parents got divorced, and my mother-in-law was left penniless. I assumed responsibility for her as well. My mother had another multi-year schizophrenic episode. Cops, hospitals, chaos. Then she got cancer. We had another kid. After a short battle with cancer, my mother died.

Then Bitcoin crashed 80% again. We had our fourth kid. For the first time in a long time, nothing happened. It was quiet. Bitcoin steadily rose. I spent time with the kids. There was no chaos. Just peace.

When Bitcoin hit 100k. I took a look around at my loving wife, our warm home decorated for Christmas, my four beautiful children, and I felt that it had all been worth it.

Whatever you’re going through…

Keep going.

I've started to listen to local college radio. I like the amateurishness of it. The physicality of radio, in a community, I think is still a think. At least of some stations.

I'm still considering renting some shortwave air time and broadcasting on WRMI.

In the US it's actually legal to broadcast on both FM and AM. The legal FM limits are maybe a parking lot, but AM can get 2 miles. This is without a license. See "part 15".

And there is no restrictions I'm pretty sure. So you could broadcast encrypted audio if you wanted.

I like the concept of meshtastic, but don't discount perhaps older and simpler methods if you are OK with the geographic limits.

stack all the way to the moon 🧡

The Nostr ethos is “the customer is always wrong”. Its top-down design pushed on plebs from on high.

The ethos is very deeply embedded. It began with concepts like “no deletes”.

I really appreciate Prof Sachs as an American citizen who could speak his minds which is apparently against the nationalistic sentiment overall probably even amongst his family and friends. send him best wishes

Unfiltered and unpasteurized.

Here too! Damus freezing and crashing irregularly soon after opening. Also updated iOS 18.1.1 around the same time.

Thought it was just me!

NGL I was getting a little burned out before NOSTR came along

NOSTR re lit the fire in me

We going to win

nostr:note1jmd6s900ydmqdrxccy9xys5nyegt9823ur8wjfykycflyeercllqvqgh96

It’s so fucking easy to “trust” a fake picture and a stupid text on internet… why bother to check… “trust don’t verify” 😂

He's using iOS, and Damus. Currently, he's using Coinos, but he wanted to try Cashu Wallet because Cashu has full support for ecash while Coinos only supports minted by it's own mint. You can't redeem tokens from external mints with Coinos, which makes it pretty useless.

It’s happening here, on nostr.

So early.

Savage but effective. Are those available on Amazon too?

Anybody got any cool Black Friday deals I should get?

Sorry. It's starlabs.systems

Looking to purchase a new laptop and pay with real money.

Any suggestions ?

#asknostr

The era of nsec-pasting is over.

🫂

yes I noticed damus doesn't load any blossom video. its easy to blame damus but we use the default ios media player, so unless utxo wants videos to not work on ios at all, I suggest returning these headers and see if it fixes it.

Hi !

I can't add a new relay :(

I guess I can look at the start of my nprofile instead to eye it 🤔

See the "Recommended Relay section" at the end of your relay list and hit add on the authors you want to see. That adds those relays to your General list and the app will use them to download posts from.

C makes nostr look most like „the one special & serious thing“ i like that one.

The target group is almost everyone..

The need for nostr can be viewed from different perspectives

At this stage it may be more appealing when it looks like it’s made by a smaller number of people, what it actually is, with the wish to be supported to fight for decentralization. It’s a call to create & to build together, an invitation for a new way to communicate with the wide world. More familiar, for those who are willing to participate to make the thing roll 🙌🏼

₿ is very appealing for that.

I think A may be more welcoming for subject or technical based information about nostr!

If anyone would like to add something, let me hear! :)

1) Tendentially I agree, “decentralization” is only a tool to achieve resistance to censorship.

2) This make no sense to me, what people think that? There are dozens of “strange” extensions used daily (.io, .ly, .lol. etc).

3) Actually you are right, something has changed, the light version as a poor contrast.

4) "Take your friends with you" make sense, but it's not much business oriented. Maybe "take your social network with you".

5) The page explain just that, doesn't?