The increasing number of services that allow us to stack sats on lightning (especially p2p) are very helpful for privacy.

I’d wonder, in the long term, how folks are swapping back on-chain in a way that also guards privacy too. Either through loop, bolt exchange, wallets like Phoenix, or something else. Or just forget keep on lightning for future spending?

On "gun free zones" I think this is so obviously an absurd idea I have no idea how anyone could support it. If you have an armed nation you can't just say "if you walk down this street no guns are allowed." Wtf is that???

And yes high levels of knife crime particularly among gangs. Not only that but in London especially, but other cities too, there is still gun crime among those gangs too.

Recently there was a story that hit the news because some gang member accidentally shot a child and this was in a fairly small town in the UK.

To state the ridiculously obvious: criminals don't follow the law.

On "gun free zones" I think this is so obviously an absurd idea I have no idea how anyone could support it. If you have an armed nation you can't just say "if you walk down this street no guns are allowed." Wtf is that???

And yes high levels of knife crime particularly among gangs. Not only that but in London especially, but other cities too, there is still gun crime among those gangs too.

Recently there was a story that hit the news because some gang member accidentally shot a child and this was in a fairly small town in the UK.

To state the ridiculously obvious: criminals don't follow the law.

I am genuinely curious about this. I have an open mind on this issue.

Firearms. Aside from the culture surrounding them in the US as a "god given right", what is the benefit to you as an individual citizen of owning a rifle?

Is it for hunting or the shooting range or do you feel you need that level of firepower for protection?

To give some background on where I'm coming from: I'm a Brit, so no guns here unless you're a farmer or a criminal who can get them anyway, but I'm also in favour of individual freedom and could see the benefit of a handgun for protection.

While rifles undoubtedly look cool, I can't see what practical benefits they offer the individual especially wrt personal protection, so I'm honestly curious to hear views on this - from Americans and other widely armed countries like Switzerland etc.

Thought he came around on this, a full fuck him now.

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Funny, isn't it, how on the heavily moderated (and increasingly state regulated) "mainstream social media" I could get endless hate filled replies for tweeting that the sky is blue, and yet on the permissionless uncensored Nostr, people are just kinda... nice and chill without any policing whatsoever.

Almost as if those algorithms are designed to turn people against each other.

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