I hate that Apples iPad has no multi user functionality 🤬😡

The antidote to fear is confidence. The etymology of which is "with trust/faith". Spot on with the rest. Cheers!

It may be messy, but over a longer time

horizon: truth prevails over lies, hope prevails over fear, and things that try to control us - fail.

The human condition demands it.

#Bitcoin

#Nostr

It's kind of a verbal meme, but one of my favorite questions is, "what radicalized you?" Since I'm someone who appeals to moderates with a tempered but purposeful element of anti-establishment fire, it's kind of a notable question.

My first thought is, "well let me tell you about my childhood and why I'm not a huge fan of the state."

My second thought is, "let's talk about the global financial crisis."

My third thought is, "look at the 2016 time period where U.S. fiscal deficits started to wonkishly deviate from unemployment.

My fourth thought, regarding the Current Thing, because nobody wants to go back that far, is, "they replaced a beautiful blue bird with an X and said it would be half of the global financial system."

And that made me angry.

I'll have to learn what that entails, tonight, it just feels... a bit over my head. 🙄😬😬😬

Did you make it? :)

What book are you currently reading? Looking for inspiration...

Fiat money is a pyramid scheme with the money printer at the top.

Money flows down from the rich huddled around the counterfeit machine, while the real wealth of society flows up from the poor to the rich.

I rarely lose my temper, but whenever I do a couple times per year, my writing gets 10x as much reach and likes and shares, and gets basically immortalized. But I'm rarely happy about it when it does.

I still think about this a lot in terms of how I choose to use social media- with reach comes responsibility.

It's both a bad thing and a good thing. On one hand, it's not great that posts based on a combination of emotion and reason get *way* better reach than ones based on more pure reason alone. For "clicks" the best thing I could do for a given post is lose my temper and go all-out on something.

On the other hand, the rare cases where I lose my temper are based on serious built-up frustrations over months. I'm frustrated about something, keep holding it back, and then something becomes intolerable. My socially-compliant self-censorship all unravels at once, not perfectly, but with a clear aspect of *deep* honesty. And people see that honesty because it reflects their own. So it spreads.

So, most of the time, I write carefully, and I know my audience comes from multiple different backgrounds, literally from Indonesian farmers to Wall Street institutional billionaires, and I try to politely move the Overton window from within the Overton window. But a couple times per year, I lose my temper and post my emotional thoughts, which in some ways are more honest, but are also not exactly my ideal self-actualized self.

I end up being grateful for both my constant attempt at control and my rare tempers, because somewhere in the middle is my truth. That blend between controlled reason and built-up emotion is really hard to manage in an era of digital media and semi-immortalized content.

Anyway, I'll post this random stuff on Nostr, not Twitter. You guys and girls get the real thoughts because you're here.

At the edges.

If someone seems it valuable they can ensure it’s survival easily and cheaply.

Gibt es hier auch deutsche nostriches? 👀

Has anyone successfully made a SimpleX "phone" call yet? testing out the other day we could not connect.

I honestly am torn a bit about wanting a whole lot more adoption. I come from having met my husband online when "online" hadn't even been coined as term.

I remember the early days of the internet. I remember being able to communicate, find things, transact with each other easier...slower, but easier.

There was a whole lot less saturation & a sh*t load more true and meaningful SIGNAL!!!

I want people to understand the freedoms of a decentralized means of communication, don't get me wrong...

But if adoption ever becomes just as what the internet is TODAY... if the early internet would have been like the internet is today, I wouldn't have met my husband, had children nor have a granddaughter now.

Saturation is the downfall for a lot of things. "Democracy" included.

Try selling something on etsy now, or buying something on Ebay...

It is soooo crazy out there.

((This gloom & doom, brought to you by... sorry, I just feel a wee low today. I am recovering, so please bear with my "opinions of the day." Please, & thank you.))