Never saw that person before.

Now, let's see them doing the same plastic surgery for the female hobgoblin also.

Agreed.

I view voluntarism as the compass.

Small , voluntary jurisdictions can work when there is no central bank or moneyprinting, and as long as people are free to use use hard money (Bitcoin) and have several options to vote with their feet.

Game theory predicts that sound policies such as low taxes, property rights, self defense, individual rights, etc will be selected for when people can easily vote with their feet and bring their property with them across borders (Bitcoin).

Central banks and moneyprinting are incompatible with informed consent since only about 1 in a million people will understand how inflation harms them and society at large. When people fail to understand the system they are in, there can be no informed consent under such circumstances.

A voluntarist society is a society based on voluntarism and informed consent, with options to vote with your feet if your rights are not respected. It requires a world of options, a world of different and competing jurisdictions that are not acting as a cartel under a global regulatory or agenda system. Only through competition, local sovereignty and experimentation can we achieve protection of individual rights and freedoms.

#Memes #Bitcoin

#Memes #CentralPlanning

Heh. While I am not American, I'd say that 100% of decisions and sovereignty should be at the county or municipality level, with some room for variance here for practical purposes.

With the Dunbar number at 150, adding too many orders of magnitude to that number in population size for a jurisdiction will naturally have negative consequences. We may not know the exact cutoff point where a sound population size turns into a negative in regards to jurisdiction size, but that lack of precise knowledge doesn't change the inherent problems involved.

Yes, and in addition:

1. Introducing central banks and moneyprinting will corrupt any system of governance, and democracy in particular.

Politicians buying votes with promises of expensive benefits, aid or relief, paid for with printed money, is a race to the bottom toward totalitarianism, with ever rising cost of living and centralization of power.

Every regulation comes with downstream calls for increased surveillance in order to enforce the regulation. The regulatory state is the surveillance state.

2. Democracy requires a jurisdiction small enough that the voters know the representatives they are voting for and that the distance is sufficently small that there is accountability; harmful decisions must have severe consequences.

3. In a small enough jurisdiction, who wins an election is not the end of the world when you can just vote with your feet and travel a few hours to a nearby jurisdiction where your work and your savings are better appreciated.

I think the last point here is crucial. If jurisdictions are small enough, it doesn't matter that much what type of governance it has, as long as people can vote with their feet with a plethora of options.

Small competing jurisdictions under a Bitcoin (free market) economy will lead to lower taxes, greater individual rights and freedoms, regardless of its ruling system, since any government will need to consider the cause and effect of any particular policy.

- Will a policy cause productive people and valuable skills and resources to move in or out of the jurisdiction?

That's the ultimate evaluation of how deeply a policy is anchored in voluntary consent.

Over time, I believe that long-lasting governments that implement neutral, fair, free market policies with strong property rights protections will have an edge over governments that change every 4 years, since uncertainty is a gamble for entrepreneurs while a positive certainty is a magnet for entrepreneurs.

Imagine a solid government with sound policies that will not change for 20 years, versus a solid government with sound policies that may change in the next 4 years. Which is more attractive?

I respect the ethos of competition and applaud that. I might create a separate private key for browsing Nostr in various clients

Personally I will avoid subjecting my private key to a lot of clients. Until we have a solid method of account transfer for compromized keys I will keep my risk exposure limited.

#Memes #Mask

After further consideration, my idea probably can't work as I described it, due to the risk of bots instantly removing the deposit after posting notes with the special tags and then using those sats for the deposit of another account. If this was automated thousands of times per day, the resulting spam would still be immense and the special tags would be useless.

To combat this, the deposit needs to be locked in place for some amount in time before it can be emptied. Let's say that an account deposit must stay in the account for 7 days before it can be emptied.

If the deposit is, let's say,10,000 sats and we can't access it for 7 days, that would still be long enough to prevent bots from gaming the mechanic.

In recent clinical tests, most climate alarmists freeze at -60C, and even the control group that was given 55 boosters. Please help the funding of more extensive testing.

Picture: "Latest seasonal values below -60 °C on the Antarctic Plateau. On October 26 the threshold was broken at JASE2007 AWS with -60.6 °C and at Dome Fuji AWS (in the pic) with -60.4 °C"

Congratulations!

#Memes

Good suggestions.

I have one idea, not sure if it would work:

1. Let's say we can tag our note with for example: [Meme], [Picture], [Politics], [Sport], [Philosophy], [Photography], [AI-Art], [Art-No-AI], and so on.

One problem that we would face is bots falsely self-tagging their notes for unwarranted classification.

2. What if we could voluntarily embed into our profile, let's say 1000 sats as a deposit, and as long as we have that deposit there, we could utilize special tags for our notes that makes them easy to find and index based on those tags. The deposit would exist in a wallet that we could empty when we want, although then our special tag clearance would disappear.

There are certainly problems with this. How do we set a 'fair' minimum amount of deposit. Is there a risk that we alienate those who don't have 1000 sats to spare. What if the deposit was 10,000 sats. What if the price of Bitcoin increases so much that 1 sat is too high.

Just something to reflect on.

Agreed, well said.

Nostr has tremendous potential. How long it will take to reach its potential is still unknown.

Dissing other social platforms only lead people to close down. People mindreading and assuming other people are chasing dopamine hits on other social media, is just frankly irrational overreach in conclusion.

Besides, what could possibly give a better dopamine hit than receiving sats on Nostr. Until we acknowledge that there are genuine challenges involved we won't make progress by assuming the worst of the people we are asking to join us here.

Finding content on Nostr is still a challenge. Finding good engagement on Nostr, unless you are part of a tight group of friends, can take time. Sometimes when I post, I don't know if anyone is reading my note, and I don't know if that's because the quality is not good enough, or if my reach is bad due to having the wrong relays activated, or something else entirely.

I think adding Lists to more clients can be helpful, I know some clients already have that. Finding content by search can be very hard.

Reminds me of last year when I didn't renew my domain. I rarely used my blog and it had become a chore. It was one extra burden less.

I see the image, but the link can't be accessed from Amethyst.

No, this is wishful thinking.

From my experience, Nostr is often 'dead' when you post things and there is generally little engagement, so the impression many users get is that nobody is interested. If nobody is interested in engaging then people feel that they are wasting their time.

This could in some cases be related to relay problems. Also sometimes the notifications don't work so you might not see a response someone wrote. So the impression for many users is that there is little response.

Hmm, my response was to a different post, seems I clicked reply to the embedded post.

Rebels unite on reckless typing. 😋

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