Some Thoughts on Adoption (and other nonsense).

There's this old Louis C.K. clip—recorded long before he was cancelled—that summarizes our modern conundrum well: "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy."

As I was walking towards the hospital today—after a way too early 5:30 rise—it dawned on me that wide-scale nostr adoption (and "proper" wide-scale bitcoin adoption, for that matter) is probably not going to happen. The good news is that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The bad news is that lots of people will suffer.

"Why so bearish?" I hear you ask. If you know me just a little bit you'll know that, even though I do have many faults, being bearish isn't one of them. I'm still incredibly optimistic when it comes to the adoption and proliferation of freedom tech. Otherwise I wouldn't be doing what I do.

Here's what dawned on me, though: People aren't even interested in their own health, why would they be interested in healthy money? Yes, everyone wants to be healthy. But doing what is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle? Not interested. Not in the least. Usually something really really bad has to happen for people to change their ways. And even that doesn't move the needle in some cases, as plenty of drinkers who still drink after their liver gave up, or plenty a smoker who still smokes after being diagnosed with lung cancer can attest to.

Which brings me to bitcoin treasury companies. Are most of them interested in taking the responsibility of holding their own keys? Are they interested in providing real value while staying humble and stacking sats? No, of course not. They are interested in paper gains, not in a full-blown reorientation that leads to a healthier lifestyle. And I mean that literally: if you truly and fully adopt bitcoin, the responsibility that is entailed by that will result in a reorientation, a re-alignment of values, which will—down the line—lead to more long-term thinking, healthier business practices, more honest value generation, and so on.

To me, this is what "capital B" Bitcoin is about. Change. Real change. A ridiculous proposition to the balance sheet brain.

...which brings me to nostr.

A short stroll through the current iteration of the internet should make clear that the platforms that most people spend their time on are incredibly mis-aligned with humanity. The outrage-machine that we've built for ourselves is keeping us like rats in Skinner boxes, hitting the dopamine button with every swipe and every scroll, no matter what. We've built a machine that is parasitic on humanity, instead of synergistic. We are optimizing for engagement, which means that we are maximizing addiction by shoving a mixture of uppers (porn) and downers (rage bait) down our collective throats. The machine is catering to our lowest selves, as opposed to our highest selves. (We could also optimize for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, you know. Is that too much to ask?)

But who is to blame for all of that? (And is it worth blaming someone in the first place?)

It is clear to me that the whole military-grade industrial advertising complex that profits from running large-scale and nonstop psychological experiments on the whole fucking population of the earth wouldn't be profitable for long if we would all get our act together. But that won't happen, of course. There won't be a magical finger snap that suddenly shakes us awake from our slumber; that stops us from sleepwalking into dystopia. Just like there won't be a magical finger snap that stops us from our bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles.

Adopting a healthy way of living is hard. It means saying no to the constant onslaught of sugary snacks, fast-food around every corner, and social pressures to indulge. It means taking responsibility for your decisions, cultivating discipline, taking care of your body, your psyche, and yes, also your soul.

A wise man once said that "he who has a 'why' can bear almost any 'how'." And that's what most of us are missing: a strong enough "why." Why go through the trouble of living healthy? It's hard! Why hold your own keys, if someone else can do it for you, and there's even the apparent safety of some insurance? Why cultivate a less destructive relationship to the internet, if you can just autoplay & chill, whether it be with Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, PornHub, or something else? Why not write the snarky comment and trigger a whole cohort of people at the click of a button?

Because it's not healthy, that's why.

"Everything's amazing and nobody's happy." That's the state of the world. Always has been. And I'm to blame too, of course. Sitting in the hospital waiting room, writing these lines, bitching and moaning about the internet, this amazing series of tubes that I so love, warts and all.

But yeah, the internet won't heal itself over night. Neither will the economy, nor the rent-seeking zombie companies that don't provide value, nor the underlying fiat system that broke it all in the first place. It will take lots of time, lots of courage, lots of faith, and lots of responsibility.

It will be hard, but it will also be worth it. And it starts with you.

come on man, you're talking about blackmailing hundreds if not thousands of people around the globe. you're not memorizing all of that information.

Seems to me without some kind of log, it would be difficult to track the people you are blackmailing (names, dates, what they did, av assets to hold over them, threats you made, etc.) If I were running such an operation, records would be important.

I'm not saying you are, but you're asking nostr instead of researching the topic and it's too much to go into and too easy for us without direct sources at hand to pull it all up. You have a computer in your hands. One list, the little black book was released years ago. The list was comprised of dozens of world leaders, bankers, corporate heads, intelligence agency officials, allegedly. He would have had to keep track of it all besides in his head. Bondi and Patel have been saying they have the list since they were appointed. Now it's just magically not a thing anymore. Same list people have been raising hell about since his murder.

So I'm clear-not suicide. Murder.

Don't question people who have built personalities on this

My guy this has been going on for literal years. You're probably gonna have to do you own research on this one. A lot has come out. The clear indication is a lot has not. I'll suffice it to say they arrest and convict Gisllaine or however tf you spell it for selling teenagers to no one.

didn't Pam Bondi say she had it on her desk?

The tens of billions of dollars Epstein made from seemingly nowhere, the allegations that were aimed at everyone who hung out with him from the abused and the dozens of people the public already knows about like Gates, Prince Andrew, Anthony Weiner, Chris Tucker, Ellen, the list is long.

i fucking hate click bait

death to the time thieves

well, it seems that some silicon macs dont even see the updates.

including mine.

That must be it. Exactly.

Clearly

Thinking how to integrate “I’m out, @bitches!” Today.

imagine a world, where you zapped strangers as they walked passed based on how nicely they said hello.

GM. My view thus morning..

Oh boy do I have a relay for you...

Your sexual desires are biological imperatives to have children. Abstracting or rationalizing that away is a denial of your humanity.

There's a new social media platform that lets you moan to people within a 300m radius AND it's called bitch@. You can't tell me I shouldn't be excited about it 😤 this is the future

So you've taken the contractors suggestion as an insult.

The only active onboarding happens via bitcointwitter too (primal).

As a thought experiment I see it a bit like this: would you join a decentralised social protocol (let's say it has the same characteristics as nostr) if it was ran by Ethereum or solana people. Eth or sol wouldn't be integral to the protocol however the vast majority of people using the protocol talk about Eth/sol, especially when the assets changes price.

I very much doubt most people here would tbh

Just noise between to narcissists having a dick size battle. I don't expect this to end any time soon since neither one, due to their mental illness, is likely to back down.

You using private relay™?

Today is my cat's fifth birthday.

#catstr

Primal server much slow.

How do you make one?

Haha yeah… it might mean they would feel bad charging you what they need to make.

They just don’t know how loaded you are.

Sweet. I just saw the ISS flying overhead. It's been a while.

Goodnight and wabi sabi, Nostr! 🫂🤙🏻💜

Pretty sure America’s party will end up embracing DOGE.

You have some top questions to answer, sir.

I need one of these but instead of firing lasers at flies it fires jets of water at pigeons

Okay this sounds crazy but have you ever had a hair that got lodged into your skin like a splinter?

It's now happened several times to me and it seems like a completely unique experience

With the two parties, we get tyranny GUARANTEED.

The difference is, when the Democrats are in power, everyone knows who the enemy is.

Patriotic Americans zero in and focus.

However, when Republicans are in power, we still get tyranny, but it’s wrapped in the American flag, with gimmicks, and hats, and B52’s.

Resistance to Republican tyranny is dulled by entertainment…especially when the president himself is an entertainer.

Patriotic Americans lose their sting and actually cheer on the tyranny.

Ideally, Elon’s new party breaks the Republican scam.

Patriotic Americans need a home.

The Republican Party is 100% not it….and it never was.

IMO ChatGPT 🧐

But iPhones still track and collect tons of personal data.

The no games is shot about limiting screen time and preventing video game addiction.

GrapheneOS is about preventing tracking andvl data collection.

This is why nip 5 is not a good identifier and should not use check marks or trust symbols of any kind

nostr:note1v7ladrazx5hu3k39vf903kyny36jyewa0cw0ddcskwtp85cwguqsm5vvqs

I just had an argument with my teenage daughter that saving passwords in Apple isn't a good idea.

Probably submit a court order to Google or the phone provider if they have their sw on it and voila.