Stopped at a Buc-ees.

I wouldn't say I was overwhelmed or underwhelmed, but I was certainly whelmed.

It won't work .. Hillary lost cuz the campaign had moved to social platforms.. now it has moved to podcasts ..

Mainstream media has zero audience .. except in the elevators and corporate lobbies .. at mute 🤐

Instagram?

Trump came out better than Elon in this discussion, imho.

Minimal gaffes from Trump. He strategically took the moderate approach here. Elon fished for outlier opinions and controversies but Trump used Akido on them and dominated the discussion. One might like or dislike Trump's positions but in this particular appearance the gaffes were minimal and the positions were purposely moderated and careful.

This was basically the opposite of the Elon and Jordon Peterson interview. In that interview, Elon clearly entertained Jordan and outmaneuvered him. Elon barely wanted to be there. Jordon looked silly.

In this interview with Trump, Elon basically cucked himself for Trump. He knows where his business bread is buttered: Xi, Modi, Erdogan, and whichever US president has momentum.

But meanwhile, for those who say I am biased against Elon, I'm on *his* side for the EU and UK activity against Twitter. Elon is absolutely right there. The only proper American response there is to fuck off. And his memes have been great against Thierry Breton and others. UK and EU should get rekt on that front. I'm pro-Elon there, which is not common outside of SpaceX which is great.

But the proliferation of Nostr would beat all of that latter part regarding communication. It's good to push back and meme against Thierry Breton. Tell him to get rekt. It's even better to make Thierry Breton irrelevant by making it so that he can't send his Karen-like letters to anyone, since Nostr has no CEO, as we swarm around him and invite Britons and Europeans to join us.

Anyway, good evening.

Who is weirder, Trump or Musk?

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Reliable source says super model girlfriends are waiting at every bus stop in Estonia.

As a dad I would keep making attempts at meeting the parents, ask neighbors if they know how to contact the parents. See if you can get the kid to set up a time to meet them or at least what time they get home from work generally. I would stay in visible to the public areas because I'm paranoid, and I'm always trying to be ready for, as mentioned, possible recoil.

I think what you're doing for the kid is solid though and it seems like he's lonely and needs someone to show interest in his life, and provide guidance.

Or he's a plant and casing the joint. See paranoid with strong distrust of people lol.

Sometimes I run into a tech guy on Twitter, who talks about how cypherpunk he is.

I’m just a financial analyst and investor, so that’s cool to hear. The more cypherpunks, the better. I like to fund cypherpunks.

But then I look around, and he’s not active on Nostr for over a year. He’s only active on centralized social media.

So then I am confused at how supposedly cypherpunk he is. Is he really that reliant on centralized media? Often, it turns out yes. If not, what other cryptographic proof does he have for his work?

As Nostr increasingly gains network adoption, it becomes weirder when I analyze why someone who is techie is highly active on Twitter but not at all on Nostr.

It’d be cool if there was a Jack Handey quote bot.

He’s kind of like the professional shower thoughts guy.

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This. IIRC I talked about this on tje last BR EP. Normalize disposable identities for payments.

Dare I say deterministically generate them for each payment....

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Splitting a fancy bottle of wine with a friend at dinner is one of life’s great pleasures.

What would you do if someone airdropped you 1000 ETH?

a. Dump for bitcoin because something something stacking goals

b. Send to burn address because ETH is haram

c. Ignore