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It's very important to be brave and have at least one hill to die on, or we risk losing even more freedom.

being uncircumcised is so B A S E D

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if you transacted on the base chain as an individual then you are an OG

e-cash is worse than custodial solutions. it is a tokenized custodial solution

Interesting perspective, thanks.

Something that makes me think the US is better of than countries like NZ is the rate and amount of gun ownership. Nowhere else compares.

Some parts of NZ are indeed captured (like the HRC) but mostly by ideological ideas rather than by wealthy sociopaths. Other parts are not. The two big parties mostly give you the same product in a different colored wrapper, and the mainstream media is a mouthpiece of the government and especially of the left (and we have really good underground media fighting back - Reality Check Radio).

But in my opinion, less of the infrastructure, the voting, the courts, etc, are captured. Small parties get into parliament and make a difference.

Also, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, New Zealand ranks 2nd in terms of democracies at a score of 9.61, while the US is at 7.85 and falling. Greece, the Czech Republic, Estonia... all score higher than the USA.

I think a time will come when right-leaning and libertarian Americans who are not in agreement with the establishment will realize that their country is captured beyond any hope, that Trump 2016 was the last anti-establishment presidency and the people are no longer represented. It has not happened yet, there is still hope. But once you all come to that understanding, just remember this: There is not enough room for you all in New Zealand.

i feel helpless

Grannies will save us from CBDC too, insisting to pay cash with their shitload of coins they magically transport in their wallet

What is the name of the documentary?

And that is great, right?

From the perspective of writing and running a client, most of the relays are bitchy and it drives me nuts trying to manage and work with all these different bitchy relays with different rules and behaviors.

From the perspective of running a relay, a lot of clients are aggressive as fuck and it drives me nuts trying to keep my tiny relay from running out of resources without denying service to the nice people.

Nostr is a battlefield. And we're using hastily written software barely glued together from bits of string and chewing gum.

i assure you that blood sugar spikes stress everyone's systems

i can also assure you it distorts your brain function to have an excess of glucose in it, it makes your glutamate levels spike and that just lights up everything

oh, maybe you won't get sick like me, probably not, i'm not a common genetic mix, part asian, part european

but it's gonna fuck you up and it's also gonna distort your entire view of the world because of how it alters your incentives