How it started:
How it's going:
#catstr #cat #cats
tHaTs WhY yOu TyPe LiKe ThIs wHeN yOu WaNt tO bE sArCaStIc.
That was not sarcasm btw.
Certainly, but my point is not everything is verifiable and we still have to act on the limited information given to us sometimes. If we have to say we don't know unless we've 100% verified something we would never get anywhere with anything. We make our best guess with the information and hope it is as close to the truth as we can get. If we've done our due diligence then it is more likely we are correct.
I'm in the camp that it is pretty much impossible to know the truth about most things. Even our eyes can deceive us, as the light reflected off the objects we see is a tiny fraction of a second out of date once it reaches us. How do I know the object hasn't been obliterated by a nuclear explosion at the very moment I'm looking at it? There's certainly a non-zero chance of that happening, so I can be sure it's truly there when I look at it.
I don't know about that.
Yeah but it's often unknowable and we just have to make our best guess with the information available.
Now that I've received over 20k zaps, I have started sending sats to many others to get the feedback loop going and show my support for things I like, find funny or am grateful for. It's a fulfilling experience, even if the amounts we are sending to each other are so low in the grand scheme of things in today's value.
There is something symbolic, instinctive, natural and philosophical about giving others something of real value. Bitcoin has so much mystery surrounding it, and with Nostr that mysterious energy is expanded into the realm of reciprocation and given meaning.
How will others look back at us 100 years from today? Will they think we're crazy for spending hundreds and thousands of sats for words? Or will these words, stories, and more be seen as something rare worthy of the sats we have assigned to it even at the value that Bitcoin may be in the future?
In one of the "A List Apart" articles, the case is made that text, or in other words, language, is the ultimate user interface. That language has the power to enable us to make connections, build complexities, and to influence each other, while also having the power to divide us, crystalizing our differences, and helping us in antagonizing each other.
https://alistapart.com/article/ultimate/
This really stuck with me, and now with #nostr and #bitcoin combined, I believe that words have received another interpretation. One of symbolism, power, interconnected value & meaning. I see why nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m is so keen on both of these technologies. I also don't think the words I can come up with today even does it justice, I am finding it hard to come up with the right words for it or putting it into the right context, it's all in my brain, kind of like a feeling.
I wonder what other creations we'll see going forward that are based on these 2 protocols. It's still early days. But I can't wait.
What will you say to the people looking back at us in 100 years?
Eat shit all you bitches in 2123.
Did a cat barf on your plate?
Sorry.
#proofofsteak 🥩🥩🥩
But you're head is a skull?
Oh my God! A gorilla!
You've been wearing a toupee for years, but you're tired of living a lie. You're ready to accept the real you, but you can't just go from hair to bald in one day.
I received these two Carl Larssen paintings from my sister in law, they belonged to her grandparents and were acquired in Stockholm. Larssen is a Swedish painter that mainly did watercolor and died in 1919. I thought they might be originals at first, but I'm not so sure now. On the back it says (in Swedish) "Publisher: Carl Larsson's Family Association and Palmeblads Forlag. Gothenburg". I'm guessing that means they are prints?
