Yup!

And the one you follow gets stamped on your product and consumers choose the one with the best reputation (or the cheapest one with the worst reputation when they want a deal)

Thee monopoly on regulation by the feds is the problem, not regulation itself.

Do your best not to tell anyone how well you're doing off Bitcoin, even family

Your cousin might go to some party and be like 'yeah my cousin is huge into Bitcoin!' not realizing how it endangers you

Probably safer to talk about as a nym on nostr than with friends and family in real life tbh

That'll happen when bitcoiners in your region are rich enough. For people in some areas, they're already there and use it all the time. For USA, we need to wait until we're rich enough to not give an F and fight our stupid government while we build that circular economy. Our government is way too powerful right now. So we wait until we're entirely unstoppable, strong in numbers and wealth, and safeguarded for all contingencies. It's a matter of survival.

I would suggest that ppl start spending it in the circular economy. That would give it even more value IMHO. We need to start using it as money on a more widespread basis.🫡

Those UK figures are for people who are allowed to work.

The west doesn't have massive shortages of unskilled labor. Quite the opposite: we're losing opportunities for our less well off people to work due to automation. It's a real tragedy for the mentally disabled: they used to be able to get relatively unskilled jobs like restocking and factory jobs, and now just end up aimless. I used to have a fair bit of contact with that group due to involvement in autism support stuff – even 20 years ago this was a big problem.

What's happening instead is unskilled immigrants are screwing over career progression for young people. Eg in Canada, it used to be easy for teens to get their first jobs working at places like fast food restaurants. Now those jobs are being taken by immigrants, giving young Canadians no way to get into the job market. That's an atrocious outcome. And it further depresses birthrates by making it even harder to raise kids.

The numbers don't lie: the world is full of poor countries with average IQs significantly less than the west. Allowing those people into our countries makes our countries worse.

It's upsetting that the animated corpse of Wired magazine is still shambling around the Internet years after it died and began rotting.

I stopped caring about the price. The price is just the interface to the old world. The value is for them, not for us.

ChatGPT:

I need to explain how to act all cool with mate 🧉, there’s a whole guide for it by local idiots. I'm still getting the hang of it, but it's already scary.

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The only problem is, it's not about idiots, it's about douchebags or dickheads

Надо рассказать как выёбываться с мате🧉, там у отечественных долбоёбов целый гайд. Я ещё только вникаю, но уже страшно.

Uhhh… shut up and let me drink my coffee and stack sats Dad.

Maybe clients can just implement a post type that paraes a link to some hosted url where the user can edit its content. Relays could sell the hosting space for the editable/deletable posts feature to be stored on the relay. Advantage is there’s no need to change the basics of nostr protocol, only clients need to agree on a new post type.

Remember, remember, this fifth of November, no vote or politician will save you. They are only interested in keeping their jobs and keeping the status quo mostly intact.

Wait until you start getting into programmable window managers...

Well, as the Monero economy grows, what you will find is something we have not seen in a very long time called deflation. And yes, that means some people will not buy some things at some times, but your day-to-day necessities will be purchased no matter what. It's not like you can choose to not buy toilet paper today because it will be cheaper tomorrow. If you need toilet paper today, you will buy toilet paper today irrespective of the price unless it's just way out of whack, which it would not be.

monero does not have a fixed supply over time. it has a tail emmission that slowly increases supply over time to replace lost coins. Since that is slightly inflationary (though always approaching zero) that puts a slight downward pressure on price. Not much, but it does exist.

heaters, coffee tables, couches, etc

If I must choose a metaphorical hill to die on, then stabilizing #Monero price by pricing goods and services in Monero directly sounds like a pretty nice place to go.