Modern war is a giant rent-seeking operation.

If the 1% rule applies to nostr and 99% of people lurk without an account, how big is nostr really?

Any idiot can start a war.

It's the ending of wars that destroy nations. It took America 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.

Iraq 20 years...to "remake" nothing.

Vietnam took forever to stop...and the communists still took over.

Korea ended in stalemate.

Ukraine (long lost) is still going.

We have such a shitty history with wars that have nothing to do with our interests.

Take my money

Very few people know this but the tiny pocket on your jeans is for your salary after inflation.

I pay my coffee in bitcoin every day. Breakfast too, most days. My favorite lunch place doesn't accept bitcoin yet, but that will probably change soon.

Nice dinner for two? Pay in bitcoin. No problem. It's so normal for me now I don't even think about it, and I rarely celebrate it. But we should. We should celebrate how far we've come.

I went to the dentist yesterday and paid in bitcoin. My favorite barber takes bitcoin too, as does my handyman and other people that help me with stuff. There's never an issue. QR code, scan, boom. Sats fly through the Lightning Network and it's done. Thank you, bye, see you tomorrow.

Granted, hyperbitcoinization isn't evenly distributed yet, but some people are already on the other side of it. And it feels very normal. Just like having access to the internet at all times feels very normal today, but it was an outrageous thing 30 years ago.

Stay humble. Stack sats. And see you on the other side.

Done several times, never had any issue

Of course you should upd inform yourself about speed limites, drinking limits or direction of traffic before 😉

Hey #nostr friends!

Question of the day: Would you rent a car in another country if you didn’t have a local license? (Assuming you’re on vacation and the rental company accepts your license.)

It seems crazy to me that a foreigner would rent a car in another country *while on vacation* without knowing the laws of the road? 🤔

Plus, how accurate is Google Maps on a dirt road?

#asknostr

If it doesn’t scare you that a autocratic regime is evidently doing science much faster than anyone in the free and open societies of the West, then you aren’t paying attention.

LK-99 is:

1). A room temperature superconductor

2). An asian thing

Not a single Western University has made even 1 mg of LK-99 in the two weeks since the initial paper. The only sample of the material that exists in the Western Hemisphere was made by engineers at a private company doing a weekend side project as a hobby.

Western academia has literally disappeared up its own woke arse.

Where are our institutions?

Who decides what's filtered?