My first glow-in-the-dark toilet. 🚽

You can manifest your favorite sportsball team to win.

This is why certain franchise normalize disappointment and others expect to win for extended periods of time.

The most important reserves to keep:

1. Meat

2. Water

3. Bullets

4. Bitcoin

5. Memes

What did I miss?

Be fair and impartial,

both in good times and bad,

towards others and yourself.

What's the TLDR on creatine buzz?

#asknostr

@armvz I’ll never tolerate ads on any medium, whether TV, radio, streaming, or websites. It’s a waste of time, it’s distracting, and breaks the flow and immersion. One of the reasons I’ve been torrenting for ages is to strip out ads.

(You might argue that even an ad free television program or movie contains product placement which is itself a subtle ad. This is true, so I guess I’m not blocking all ads.)

As for the second question of why I don’t pay for content, be it YT or Netflix, or any other…. First of all, the UX sucks. I don’t want to see autoplay previews, flashing screens promoting whatever woke victim class they’re pandering to that month, but most of all, I don’t like the idea of paying for a “package” of shows, most of which I’ll never watch.

Now, if I can pay on an episode by episode basis for an ad-free experience, then in some cases I will make an exception and pay. I also am happy to pay $5/mo to my torrent seed box provider in the Netherlands. I also used to pay for UFC fights back in the day. Once they started embedding ads into the product, I immediately ceased paying for them and began torrenting them instead. I’d also be more than happy to tip money to the dedicated people who rip a show, strip out the ads, and make it available to all via BitTorrent. In addition, I’m content to tip content creators and podcasters directly for their work. In fact, I’ve done this with writers in the Bitcoin space. But to pay for some packaged streaming service with lousy UX and shows I’ll never watch? That’s insane. Not going to happen.

I refuse to pay for YouTube and I refuse to watch their ads.

On the desktop, the Brave browser blocks all that garbage very effectively and until recently, it blocked ads on mobile as well. But lately mobile Brave (with Shields up) won’t show YouTube content at all. It just shows a blank screen. Safari will play YT content but it doesn’t strip out the ads which basically makes it unwatchable.

Any suggestions? I’ve had some luck with SkipCut.com when on mobile but lately that’s been failing as well.

Any mobile solutions for YouTube ad blocking, or will YT have to be a desktop-only experience for me from now on?

#asknostr #youtube #adblock #brave

Except government is massive now... So basically you support commission if you're a Democrat at this point.

I don't have a horse in the race on US politics, but as an outsider —

The US appears to be insolvent.

And the republican platform is to say, we acknowledge we're potentially insolvent and are going to try to do something about it.

And the democrat platform is to say, we don't acknowledge we're insolvent and so all those things you're doing are wrong and we prefer status quo.

Is that a fair summary?

Periodic reminder that your relays see absolutely EVERYTHING you do on Nostr. Regardless of which Client you use. They literally see the app downloading zaps, replies, and reactions when you scroll your posts in real time.

So... MAKE SURE TO KNOW WHO THEY ARE and that you TRUST THEM with that information.

Nostr is just like a browser. The server has to know what you want to see to send it to you, and that gives them the power to track you and see what you are asking for. There is no way around it.

I can't stress this enough.

how many people are actively using nostr as their main social media?