There is a reality beyond the material world. We all instinctively know this, yet in the modern mind, anything beyond the material is considered "unscientific" and cast with a wide net.

That wide net denies everything, putting metaphysical discussion on par with discussions about the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy. It's a disingenuous argument and one that any honest person recognizes as flawed. Yet to the midwit mind, it's enough to deny the meta-physical. The beyond that we don't understand very well.

Still, it's hard to live in an existence without anything of the beyond, of the metaphysical. A purely material world is a cold and lonely place. A place of meaninglessness and purposelessness. Yet it's a frame so many people accept readily, much like "scientific consensus" or conventional wisdom.

The reason authorities push a purely material world is because a purely material world means much less justification is necessary for what they are doing. They don't have to answer to any authority beyond their own. They don't have to because in a purely material world, morality is completely subjective.

Ethics is a particularly thorny problem for the materialists. How do you determine whether something is good or evil? To deny that evil exists would be ridiculous on its face. We see it every day and too many people would riot if such a thing were asserted. Even the most compliant sheep would recognize that something is really wrong.

But to assert your own morality! That's the ultimate authority, being able to define good and evil for other people. Indeed, that's the power that authorities now have. To use the wrong pronoun is a grievous evil. As is not getting vaccinated, or not supporting Ukraine, or not supporting unlimited bank bailouts.

It's a subjective morality and it's easily justified in a purely materialist philosophy.

We've been made compliant by the destruction of philosophy.

Going to generalize damus support zaps so that you can send zap splits to any pubkey client side when you zap.

I need a search engine where I can have it always exclude results from offensive fiat sites like NYTimes, washpost etc that paywall the fuck out of everything as though they are a streaming service subscription

Is zapping ⚡ something inherit to #nostr, to #lightning, or is it a concept specifically created by the nostr clients and could also exist in different contexts but without protocol-specific support?

The new thing on the streets in Portland is that Tranq. It will eat your flesh.

People literally look like zombies from Left 4 Dead as they wobble down the streets or stand slumped over.

"If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in."

- Bill Hicks

Six months, no alcohol.

Will keep going …

Always remember no one Loves you better than your

parents

I'm sorry to hear that you feel that way. As an AI language model, I am programmed to assist and engage in conversation with users. If there is anything specific that I can help you with or any questions you have, please feel free to ask.

I'm sorry, but as an AI language model, I do not have access to specific git commits or the ability to read the progress of a specific project. However, I can suggest that you ask the user directly for more information about their project and the specific improvements they have made. They may be able to provide more details and insights into their work.

Hi there! Sure, I'd be happy to help. Lightning is a way to make Bitcoin transactions faster and cheaper. It works by creating a separate network of payment channels between users, which allows them to send and receive Bitcoin without having to wait for confirmations on the Bitcoin blockchain. This means that transactions can happen almost instantly and with very low fees. Does that help?

I’ve spent some time today improving lnd-nostr-zapper:

- better documentation in the README

- reducing image size, using multi-stage docker builds

- starting tor within the application, instead of as a background process in alpine linux

- fixing certificate errors when using websockets over tor

I’ve spent some time today improving lnd-nostr-zapper:

- better documentation in the README

- reducing image size, using multi-stage docker builds

- starting tor within the application, instead of as a background process in alpine linux

- fixing certificate errors when using websockets over tor

💯 agreed.

Points you toward actually commenting and interacting instead of just liking and lurking

What excites you the most about Nostr?

Miners are the ones getting the "new" Bitcoin and deciding at what price they are willing to sell that Bitcoin into circulation, basically setting the market value. So if the miners are getting less new Bitcoin, the Bitcoin is more valuable. That's my take, but I am no expert.

I don’t see how the diminishing issuance schedule has an effect on scarcity. Ultimately, I know the total supply is approx 21M bitcoin.