No I have not. Thanks! I’ll take a look.
In Damus is there anyway to re-direct the location when I look for photos to add?
Right now it only looks to Apple Photos.
He’s a ticket-taker, a gatekeeper, and controlled opposition.
Bitcoiners can smell manufactured enthusiasm.
Jim’s father was in command of the ship at the Gulf of Tonkin.
The walled gardens are rife with rotten fruit.
And serpents shilling.
And real people need a hand, an embrace, a smile, and a good conversation.
There are real people on #nostr.
I see no high %-age domination by “show people”: actors, conventionally attractive people selling their bodies, marketers, narcissists, or those who want to be the “voice of a movement”.
While the above types are cunning, bold, and convincing, in my experience they are also usually miserable, unwise, unloving & unloved.
High rates of substance abuse too.
And often fun…but over time, boring.
I really like #nostr.
X/Twitter is like a direct mail circular selling products pretending to be a community newspaper.
The kind you take out of your mailbox and immediately walk to the garbage/recycling.
I agree with almost everything you say, and the cost of having a family, getting care, or getting protection against a catastrophic event is an evil limitation on human freedom.
One quibble: wealth is not distributed, it is created.
Either via fiat printing games or creating/doing something that people find value in and give $ to you voluntarily.
Poor distribution implies a big pool of money exists and we just need a better distributor, which is what every politician promises…after they take your money via taxation to create the big pool. See how that works?
It’s like your neighbor getting applauded after he broke into your house and gave away all the food in your fridge.
Poor distribution isn’t the problem, theft is!
The good news is that in the U.S. when you create value by owning a business, the options for avoiding the taking increase dramatically.
And the internet revealed how unqualified the expert advice givers were all along.
Getting fiat out is like a 9% fee, so wouldn’t be surprised at all with nostr:npub1yx6pjypd4r7qh2gysjhvjd9l2km6hnm4amdnjyjw3467fy05rf0qfp7kza ’s numbers.
Heck, I don’t know. Delete apps?
Go for a walk?
Read books on your phone?
I don’t set limits for myself because what I use the tool for leads towards my goals.
Right now the phone is stacking sats while I type on my laptop.
Maybe the problem is up at the goal level and the phone use is just a symptom?
I don’t know, but I don’t think so. “Meaningless” - no, I think it all survives on relays.
If you work as an information worker employee not having a smartphone is likely impossible.
nostr:npub1fl7pr0azlpgk469u034lsgn46dvwguz9g339p03dpetp9cs5pq5qxzeknp has the right idea to define the usage and use it as a tool.
Also, moving activity (like nostr) to a laptop helps a lot. It creates a barrier.
Once you have defined what you are doing with it, you can start defining what you might do instead.
I wouldn’t be surprised if people focus on smart phones, but totally forget to sum up the total amount of screen time across video games, work computer, TV, etc.
My childless direct reports think I’m eccentric b/c of all the things I get done on the weekend, and I have to wonder, what the heck are they doing with their time?
Alan Watts goes through a logical chain of argument that
if we had the power to make life fair,
then once we had done it,
we’d be so bored,
we’d go back and make it unfair to make existence interesting for ourselves.
Early on (a few months ago!) I clicked on the Reaction/Repost totals at the bottom of the post, and that gave me a list of users.
I clicked Follow on all of them, and then muted or unfollowed those I didn’t like.
No hate at all, and many religious people would agree with you: they often term it as religious leaders becoming “worldly”, or corrupt.
But if you extend charity to both the large global religions and the storefront churches, you might see that it’s an uphill battle to work with, define, and spread the fruit of spirituality without corrupting it.
Studying the first 2 chapters of Genesis, and the 4 Noble Truths, a worldview has emerged for me that of course it’s corrupt, given humans’ fundamental nature.
To believe otherwise is to open myself up to the psyop of Keynesian, Utopian, New Age, Brave New World, and Freudian belief systems that have been relentlessly promoted for the past 250 years.
I have entered that strange time of year when reverse begging around my neighborhood and in my larger community becomes an all encompassing activity.
“Do you guys eat spaghetti squash?
How about cucumbers?
Jalepenos?”
“No, you can take them all.”
"Don’t feel like it’s rude. Take them all. I’ll be back tomorrow.”
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“How about tomatillos? You ever eat those?”