If you haven't gone down the parasite rabbit hole... Let's just say it explains way too many things, particularly the morality around food and sexual mores of past societies.

Pippi Longstocking showed us the way.

Astrid Lindgren, a woman whose tax rate hit an absurd 102% (yep, over 100%), once penned a satirical takedown exposing the obvious theft of progressive taxation, which actually led to a rewrite of the absurd tax laws.

One of the main reasons for this absurd tax bill (aside from the regular old Jante-Law-type Swedish envy) was the enormous success of her most beloved book character, Pippi Longstocking.

Pippi is the ultimate fearless anarcho-capitalist icon, embodying self-ownership, voluntaryism, and resilience against institutional overreach.

Born to a seafaring pirate king (her birthright as heir to adventure and independence), she inherits a chest brimming with sound money gold coins. No fiat funny paper for Pippi. Only hard assets that can't be inflated away by central banks.

Using her cunning and raw physical strength alone, Pippi fiercely defends her property, Villa Villekulla, against would-be attackers, such as nosy neighbors or bumbling cops trying to "civilize" her, on a daily basis.

Pippi spits on authority at every turn, refusing public schooling and politely telling the people who want to put her in an orphanage to go f themselves. She educates herself through real-world exploits, trading stories and skills voluntarily with her normie friends, Tommy and Annika.

Always taking matters into her own hands, she barters, explores, and innovates without permits or regulations. She never initiates force, yet she’s never afraid to defend her inherent right to be left alone.

Her unlicensed pet monkey and horse are her sovereign companions.

She's an agorist living completely off-grid, and a one-girl revolution ready to debunk the involuntary nature of statist bullshit at every turn.

In conformist Sweden, where fitting in is held in higher regard than anything else, and folks avoid conflict like the plague, Pippi is the ultimate anomaly. She flips the script on passive obedience, inspiring kids and adults alike to question all rules to this day.

No wonder she’s popular there...

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Why did wired turn a bootlicker publication?

I’m new in this platform, Jack, Gigi and Matt are convinced that in less than five years it will only be Nostr.

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#negr0art

I've been on a crappy mobile connection while traveling and have been more mindful of bandwidth usage. I've noticed the following:

Nostr seems to use an order of magnitude more bandwidth than X, despite me spending far more screen time on X.

I suspect this is because X controls the delivery of multimedia content and thus ensures it's downsampled and optimally compressed for mobile app rendering.

Whereas nostr media is hosted and delivered at the original raw file size at which it was uploaded.

I wanna say nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg might be your limiter. I think I remember reading there’s a max to your Primal wallet before it politely suggests you self custody. I could be wrong

I hope you can duplicate the remarkable experience and improve on it in several key ways. I have 4 in the house for homeschooling. They are terrific because it is basically just a slate like the old days. A slate with a memory. No distractions for the kids, not figuring out software, just writing and learning.

Where remarkable falls down is that I can't easily transfer their work to mine for correction. Fix that without losing the simplicity and I'll take the hit to spring for a batch. Allow me to collaborate/grade peer to peer with no subscription and we'll be friends for life.

This is a good point. Primal doesn't advertise itself to the operating system as a wallet.

Why I zapped 420,000 sats:

I've been following Daylight and listening to their podcast appearances for awhile and came to a few conclusions:

- The founder and team are genuine. It is rare to see someone (especially in tech) be truly driven by what they believe in, not just a platitude they say but then secretly hate their customers and work.

- If you want to see the world change in ways you would like, you have to step up yourself and support those people, products, services. This is what I love about Nostr and about this idea from Daylight. You can't just sit back and expect others to do it for you.

- I have kids, I want them to grow up and harness the amazing power of our technology, but not be destroyed by it. This may be part of the solution.

- I also want to see a more decentralized world, where people have control over their time, devices, data

I did not zap this amount to win a discounted tablet - of course it would be great but this is an amount that I feel comfortable completely giving away to boost the company on Nostr and with others. Proof of work, proof of conviction, putting actual value behind your words and opinion.