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William ₿ Travis
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Been buying bitcoin since 2018. I particularly like http://river.com. The Bitcoin White Paper http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Christ is Lord.

Sounds like Europe needs a revolution. Except the globalists will just start a world war at the first sign of serious unrest. Netanyahu showed them that it works.

Don't get these kind of evening views in the city.

What's hilarious is that the left fell in line behind some old white guys on bodily autonomy.

What was condescending was your response. But whatever. The point is, I agree you should be able to go wherever you want, but you shouldn't expect to be bailed out by a national govt when you go somewhere where there is a high risk of trouble and end up in that trouble. Personal responsibility, right?

Replying to Avatar HODL

Are there still places with vibes anymore? Or did the internet kind of kill it?

I feel like digital spaces have vibes. Nostr has a vibe for sure, but everywhere I go (in America at least) feels flat, steril and homogenous now.

People like to pretend otherwise, romanticizing local charm and it’s fun to do so, but in reality there is no meaningful difference between New York, LA, Chicago, Austin, Miami etc…

The differences feel increasingly superficial. Miami with its neon pink and bad Latin art. New York with its identical minimalist cafes selling identical oat lattes. These aren’t cities anymore, they’re brands. “Keep Austin Weird” feels less like the rallying cry of a bohemian collective and more like a safe corporate brand slogan.

It wasn’t always like this. Cities used to incubate true subcultures that couldn’t thrive anywhere else. Seattle once had grunge music emerging organically from local clubs, distinct in sound and attitude. Detroit was a birthplace for techno and industrial grit that couldn’t have been manufactured. New Orleans had jazz clubs and vibrant local traditions that permeated every street corner authentically. Before the internet collapsed distances, you could sense deep authenticity upon arriving somewhere new. The vibe wasn’t something designed by marketing departments; it was organically woven into the streets, the people, the music, and local myths.

Now, vibes feel engineered and commoditized, reduced to Instagrammable moments and easily replicable aesthetics. I once watched from the balcony of my hotel in Nashville as 200 women waited in line to take the same stupid picture with the same stupid set of angel wings.

Digital spaces, ironically, have become refuges of uniqueness, fostering communities unburdened by geographical homogenization. Platforms like nostr host unique niche communities, from hyper-specific gaming bitcoin cultural milieu to obscure philosophical discussions, that retain genuinely distinctive vibes.

Perhaps we’re now entering a strange inversion, where real-world spaces chase digital popularity, adopting blandness to maximize broad appeal.

In this inversion, digital worlds might become the primary spaces where unique vibes survive, thrive, and multiply—leaving our physical world as little more than a flattened reflection of what used to be.

Nostr is where the vibes are at.

Denton, Texas, has vibes. It's what Austin used to be.

Yep. Virtue covers a lot of stuff I didn't detail. Courage, justice, wisdom, patience, civility, etc.

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I'm ready. Let's do this.

Raise your children according to timeless principles, and then you won't have to try to figure out what the world will look like in 30 years.

- clear moral compass

- work ethic

- sense of virtue

- grit

- compassion

- gratitude

- knowledgeable

- curiosity

Do this, and they will be fine.

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Go where you want but don't expect the taxpayer to come get you when you screw it up. Right now there's some obligation to travel idiots.

It's what always happens to leftists. They just get mean.

interesting take. Faith in God is my answer. I don't have to internalize my worry about the world because I know that ultimately, in Christ, I win.

The same faith also gives me the energy to fight back against the injustices that stymie others into inaction.

I am for Texas having a strategic bitcoin reserve, just like I am for Texas having a big side of beef as its mascot.

Both are high signal.