I havenβt listened to a nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft #nostrasia presentation yet, AMA
Neither have 8 billion other people. You think you're special?
What?
#asknostr
I might be able to make it to something.
Automated tickets are such bullshit. We used to have red light cameras all over, but the city got sued for shortening the yellow light so they could issue more tickets. They actually caused more accidents because people would slam in their brakes when a light turned yellow. It's not even about safety, it's about revenue for the bloated bureaucracy.
I have been driving for a living for the majority of the last 20 years. Today I got my fourth traffic ticket in the last two years and I am so fucking done. I can't do a job where I am constantly at risk of the state intervening and deciding I'm not going it correct or safely. I am a better and safer driver than I have ever been, but my confidence in my ability is to my detriment. I drive faster because I know I can safely handle the speed and read the road and traffic conditions. I don't stop at stop signs as much as I should to avoid a ticket because I'm checking the intersection and crosswalks before I even get there. To the traffic cops that witness these actions I am flaunting the law and my attitude is arrogant, and there is no reasoning with them.
I'm not sure these are habits I can change, so I'm thinking it's time to pivot to something else. I'm not sure what that is, but for now I will focus on my mental and physical health which has been getting neglected lately.
After seeing this post not anymore.
The fact that Elon Musk's title is "Technoking" and Jack Dorsey's title is "Block Head", speaks volumes.
One is about ego, and one is not. But more importantly we can see the difference in their actions more than titles from there.
Elon wants to build Twitter or the shitty name "X" into the next WeChat, with himself as the leader. He has literally said this. I used to be able to report bots on Twitter easily for many years, but now I have to show a drivers' ID to report someone that copies my persona even as a 600k following paid blue check, and so I don't bother anymore, and therefore bots proliferate. And if you don't pay for reach, you get devalued. Only in the past few months have I had to show my ID to report my countless bot copiers if I want to report them on Twitter/X. And so their rate of removal has decreased. If my Nym differs a bit from my name, well LET'S FILE SOME TPS REPORTS!!!! (which wasn't previously the case). And so as bots proliferate, and as Musk fails to contain bots as he promised he would and bragged about with memes, he will instead reference his own self-created bot problem as a reason to require even more ID requirements and try to build his US version of the Chinese Communist Party WeChat app. This is exactly what governments do. In my professional opinion, after careful consideration, Elon Musk can ::check notes:: politely go fuck himself, and those who worship him should reconsider what exactly they show blind obedience toward.
Meanwhile, nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m helps improve the Bitcoin network and the Nostr network and has put capital into them in various ways, and Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader. The fact that Bitcoin and Nostr have no leader, is specifically why Jack puts time and capital into them. He funds many different companies, and for bitcoin, Cash App has been among the networks to incorporate Lightning early. Yes, Cash App deals with domestic compliance issues. But they are trying, and they are early. Their network can connect to many others, like an email provider using SMTP to connect to many others. They're open, they're trying. And now they are making Bitkey, which helps with self custody. They're certainly not a directional enemy of freedom in the way that Twitter/X has been.
Companies that incorporate open networks with various levels of compliance trump companies that purposely don't adopt open networks and instead push new ID requirements, in my book.
+10 Jack
-10 Elon
Any day of the week.
I wish I had a yard for them. They only get to go outside when I'm trying to go to work.
#catstr
Do you get off on posting ragebait?
I think the stat is useless with nothing to compare it to.
Not for me. I won my league last year because a player nearly died in the last game of the season. I had no players in the game and was losing until the game was cancelled.
Freedom isn't free?
Have you tried copying the text you want to read into a star wars text crawl?