I like seeing a pulse on the network

Oddly this is really satisfying, like checking the water temperature before swimming 😂

Great work!

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I don’t get the joke…

I am interested in using one paid relay next to my selfhosted one and damus. Pitch me your relay, if you like!

I love the early quiet hours of the day. Just coffee, my dog, and me.

In a past life I was a registered Democrat.

I have kept the registration through many years, for no reason other than not caring enough to do anything about it.

I have come to appreciate the hilarity of that side of the aisle though (tbf I am sure Republicanism^TM is also bad).

For example, this email I received (from this person I’ve never heard of who somehow has been granted preferential access to communicate with me, for no reason other than being an “official” democrat I guess):

Wherein, the Democrats decide they have committed an act of virtuous defiance in stopping Trump from cutting the DoE.

Dictatorship? Denied! They say.

However, I voted for Trump with explicit hopes of gutting things like the DoE. I wager many, many people did the same.

Trump landslid the election and yet here we are, receiving direct confirmation that the Dems not only misunderstood why, but don’t even care enough to wonder.

Gresham's Law in action 😄

To be fair, I'd be more inclined to spend bitcoin if I was also getting paid in bitcoin.

In unrelated news, I'm starting an online shop accepting bitcoin some time in July 😄

Isn’t paying with bitcoin counterproductive? Genuine question. I’m trying to save as much of it as I can, so when a business accepts bitcoin I still use cash.

properly paranoid😆

yes I draw my line at the limit of requiring a dedicated, targeted attacker to put me at risk. at that point they are likely more technically sophisticated than I am anyway so adding further complexity is actually increasing my risk of making mistakes or misunderstanding my own situation

Don’t let fear get in the way of doing the right thing ie buying and using Bitcoin p2p the reason it was invented

good point

Even if they received my username this is editable at will, I could change it after every payment.

Not clear how private it is though... My goal at time was to not reveal alias to others I sent small amounts to.

Just checked and I have it activated already. Must be the setting which hides username when sending, since that's to my knowledge only thing I modified in it, and that was a long time ago.

I still have a small bone to pick in that if I find say a Foutain podcast wallet with it, the receipt includes a note like "fountain user12345" and I can't remove it. Not great, as I assume Strike could then theoretically connect identity to nostr handle, if they wanted to, or worse accidentally leak that info in the future (everyone leaking data these days afterall), and possibly dox my nostr history :(

Putting one in for 3 cents now. 🤷😂

Sending you all a giant hug 🫂 also, stay safe out there. Ground down your roots, and take better care to become more present, more aware, and more mindful of your way of being and doing. Pay attention. Watch your steps. Drive responsibly. And especially be cautious June 15th when shock, surprise, volatility and distruption will be the ruling energies of the day.

JUST IN: $340,000,000 liquidated from the crypto market in the past 60 minutes.

why does my Daylight Computer take > 16 hours to charge?

To give a glimpse of what people are missing by ignoring Hoppe just because someone else said he's not cool, here's an extract of a footnote from his essay titled 'In Defense of Extreme Rationalism':

"Though quite frequently mentioned as an empirical counterexample, it should be noted that quantum physics, or more precisely the indeterminacy or Heisenberg principle of quantum physics, correctly interpreted, is in accordance with this. What has been previously said does not preclude—and this is precisely the situation in quantum physics—that in order to experimentally produce a result, two or more measurement acts must be performed and that because any two separate actions can only be performed sequentially, the performance of the latter act of measurement might change the results of the former one, so that if this proves to be unavoidable, the results in question can only be predicted statistically and a deterministic explanation proves impossible. But even here each separate measurement act presupposes the validity of the constancy principle—otherwise, neither of them would have been performed; and the sequence of acts, too, presupposes constantly operating causes as it would otherwise be simply impossible to repeat two experiments in the field of quantum physics and state this to be the case. Moreover, the experience of quantum physics is in exact line with the preceding conclusion regarding the characteristic of causality as an action-produced phenomenon and as a necessary (known to be valid a priori) feature of reality. If causes can indeed only be measured and identified sequentially, by means of actions that have repercussions for each other, then they can, in principle, only be causes whose constant operation is of a probabilistic kind—and this, to be sure, can again be known to be true a priori. Quantum physics then only reveals that cases such as this are not merely conceivable, but do in fact exist. See on this F. Kambartel, Erfahrung und Struktur, pp. 138ff.; also P. Mittelstaedt, Philosophische Probleme der modernen Physik (Mannheim: Bibliographisches Institut, 1968)."

Until bear returns

lol anyone who bought under $111K hasn’t lost a dime

We're at 105K; Spar and Steak n Shake are accepting bitcoin; it's easier than ever to run a node and take self-custody; wall street has arrived; politicians are pandering to the industry; home mining is on the rise; public companies are aping in.

You'd think the sentiment would be better

Some absolute monster ribeyes getting to room temp for dinner tonight. #foodstr

Man, 100 million bitcoins are now trading at 105.800 dollars.

This sounds stupid, because it is.

Do we like Jameson again now? 😂😂😂

I agree. What metal plate options do you like Mike? There are some interesting ones around now.

Bro...if the elephant were _actually there_, then yes--I would have been ignoring and "denying" the elephant if I wasn't thinking of it. And certainly, if there was an elephant, it would be extremely relevant--don't you think? (And if there was an elephant, wouldn't you think me a little odd for having ignored something so obvious?)

Again: presuppositions. I gotta run. ✌️

Well, as I hope you are aware...a sperm is only one half of a human person, so no. Surely you know that people like me argue that human life begins at conception.

But a human is a human, no matter how small. And the smaller they are, the more in need of protection. On this point, I will not negotiate. Human dignity -- the dignity of each, individual person -- is one of the wonderful side effects of believing that we are made in the image of God.

I knew that's what you meant...I was making the somewhat facetious point that the initial assumption of where I live determines whether their jurisdiction "exists in my life."

It's that presupposition thing again. None of us are neutral.

I meant no offense. From my perspective, his existence (and, thus, his presence) is as ubiquitous as the very air we breath. So, hearing someone express disbelief in God sounds to my ear very similar to someone expressing disbelief in air (while making use of that very air to do so). Again: I meant no offense.

To answer your question, are we assuming that I _do_ live in Cambodia, or that I _do not_ live in Cambodia? (And isn't that rather the point?)

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