It's definitely not exclusive to Eastern Europe. I've seen tiny dirty shacks with a matrez and a 50" TV. In that case it might have been stolen though :D

I think this is due to lower trust and also in part due to technology allowing us to connect with people elsewhere in every instance so we constantly have "better" things to do than to talk to that stranger next to us.

But talking to the people around us would ground us in reality instead of living in some abstract space where in our case, Bitcoin matters more than the real life stuff next door.

I noticed in Germany people are way more open to talk to strangers than in Chile. Not sure where you are but it's certainly vastly different between countries.

I don't know. It all depends. Sure, if you take on credit card debt but if it was just 5% of your monthly disposable income ... why not?

With Apple the problem is that people do the former to pretend they were doing the latter.

What's this? A plantation for ants???

Have some Scotch Bonnets!

I like thought experiments. ChatGPT aparently doesn't. Or it's trained to instruct me to above all not try stuff at home and to please please please follow all safety and environmental regulation.

How can I get it to give me an answer in the style of https://what-if.xkcd.com/

I remember the first cellphones emerging. People looked at those owners of weird gadgets like we look at this person now. I'm scared this will be normalized but as long as he's alone in his car it's not so worrysome. I'm more worried about dads wearing these face huggers at home.

Hi there, your post is not connected to anything the way you do it on https://bolt.fun/story/1526

I'm working on a comment/opinionis plugin for websites where I add a reference to the content that is hidden on the site using the plugin. You might consider this, too, for the sake of better integration with the wider nostr ecosystem.

Your event has a valid r-tag but clients like noStrudel don't show these if not used in the content.

The faketoshi saga is so wild. If the rules that apply for this POS applied to all of us, liars would grind the legal system to a halt.

And furthermore I can't see any way for a just outcome here. Judges get paid by tax payers and lawyers by the respective parties. He doesn't have enough assets to repair the damage done even if he got what he deserved.

"friend" isn't the original source, neither. Well ... spreading fake news are we?

Hmm, might this be amount dependent? Asking the friend who sent me the above ...

Binance doesn't provide lightning in the EU? Can anybody confirm?

There still appear to be arsonists afoot. This is scary. How to defend against matches when litterally everything is flamable?

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A scary video from yesterday. Today there is less wind. The speed with which the fire advances into the population is crazy. No wonder people died.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1753872932550398278

Safety is my top priority. Car ready to go.

There is more anger at those arsonists than fear for my stuff or life. Why can't we just have nice things? The value destroyed with a few matches here and there? For what? To make a president look weak?

I wonder how a country dry as Chile could defend against that. Not even a death penalty could stop this from happening. You don't need lasers from the sky. With a bag full of tiny timers with flame bombs, a lone mad man could start 100 fires all in the same minute.

Preparing to evacuate our house from the Chilean wildfires. Thousands of houses consumed already. It's raining ashes.

My bet is it won't make it here but the situation is dire with family members already evacuated and friends having lost everything but their lives.

Clearly arsonists are to blame with the fires having started in 3 places within the same hour with other 5 quickly following those.

I never was a fan of the Bitcoin Foundation. The problem is that people I would most trust with this, won't do it and those who will inevitably do it, will do it solely for the money they can earn with it with no ethics beyond the facade that is necessary for business.

Like ... carry privacy preserving cash bank notes to your bank so you can pay with your good name? I usually do the reverse at ATMs.

Looking at a Bukele tweet, I see that almost all replies are by bluechecks. 4 replies are by non-blueckecks and those authors are not even my follows. And that's it.

So ... without bluecheck, replying to something trending is pointless as it will not be shown to anybody. At all?

I wonder if any of my non-blueckeck follows replied and if I could see it then. I did a test-reply and wonder if you can find it on Bukele's "I think the United States should have free and fair elections." tweet.

Drop the discount or drop the monthly rate to 1/12 of the yearly rate and let the plebs out-bid each other. People bough I-am-rich-buttons. Let them buy 1000 years memberships ;)

"could" sounds like they wanted to. 🤦‍♂️