If you go to gym to look good it is fiat. If you go to get strong then that is different. Besides getting strong without steroids and supplements is kind of a fun IQ test, not everyone succeeds.
It is just a wacht? Nothing special at all.
The hell it is, this is the valley of John Galt.
☠️So they kill the human spirit, got it. I will stay far away, very well articulated.
For the record - I'm a 100% in favor of an outright ban, not a forced sale, of TikTok.
Since it's not a private company, but a CCP organ, it's a matter of Defense that has nothing to do with private property and speech rights.
This is about not allowing an enemy terrorist organization to camp freely on your backyard in the first place, but also a matter of not FUNDING it with the money of the sale.
Why would you allow any American company to send them hundreds of millions of dollars, so they can simply turn around and use that money to spin another TikTok immediately after?
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Man why are you here? Why do you identify with USA and care about what other Americans use for social media? The whole point of Nostr is to be the ark, you can't save them all, when they don't want to be saved.
Amazing, alcohol always was a social lubricant, in a world where socialism was the only thing that mattered. As these young people stop drinking, they will make better, non-social, choices. Socialism is evil. Alcohol no longer has much benefit.
You don't need to stay up to date, in my opinion.
No, you should not listen to the leftists, nor to the conservatives. Ditch them all. Fuck them all. Be free of political fuckery.
There is nothing material to really want anymore. At least not that bad.
- A bigger house? Sure, would be fun, but it is not going to improve my life.
- A super car? I don't even know why that would be desirable, but I used to dream to have one at a younger age.
- A really cool holiday? Maybe, but I have been to many places, I don't expect to find something seriously new. Just bunch of NPCs chasing money or pleasure.
- New clothes? I don't feel the need to impress the NPCs anymore. I don't feel the need to look respectable.
If I go out of the house the NPCs are there, well they look at me as an NPC, maybe I am. Because I am not doing much.
Actually maybe an airplane or helicopter would be cool, then I can fly around a bit.
But what I would want most of all, is to be able to really talk to people again, about hard subjects.
Fuck this fuckery of making it easier to adopt tech.
I don't however agree with this characterization of cypherpunk as some kind of digital mega city utopia. This image illustrates a large city and neon lights.
We have to go beyond that. I believe large cities are doomed. You know I am right.
Our Nostr dream should be based on a utopia not incorporating large cities.
One of the best books I ever read was Taleb's Anti Fragile, also Black Swan of course, and Fooled by Randomness.
The message was so good, so natural, expose yourself to many small shocks constantly to build robustness, in anticipation of great shocks. Become Anti Fragile.
When Taleb became crazy at the beginning of the pandemic, asking everyone to wear gas masks. That was such an Anti Fragile line of arguing, he changed dramatically.
He used to be rude, funny, mocking weakness. All of a sudden he turned so weak himself. Incredibly weak. I do wonder what happened to him. Why was he compromised? For a while he was talking like a hero revolutionary, it was great while it lasted.
My recommendation just follow lots of people, and then unfollow bad posters you accidentally pick up.
I think here you should think less about top follows and more about finding the most interesting accounts generally. Nostr is not for influencing, it is John Galts valley.
Just looked at search trends, Nostr Vs Bluesky. Bluesky has much bigger reach.
Good! Nostr is a niche place which you will only find when you are ready for it.
The people fighting for the US since end of cold war in various wars are neither threatened or compelled. I agree with the original post, these guys are very difficult to understand in the context of raising children.
God is a power grabbing collectivist scam.
Devotion to god is for idiots.
Fear of god on decentralized social networks is madness.
What is the point of writing (or saying) stuff online?
For years now I have realized that things you have to say doesn't live longer, generally, than the time you sit and write them. Even as I write these words, it holds true.
There are influencers, who have many followers, but they are whores to their audience, always. Needing to write or produce huge amounts of content daily to build and maintain their stardom. Whores.
To my knowledge there are very few exceptions, if any, people who write something new that people can't do without. I know of only one such person who's opinions and knowledge is unique and indispensable to me.
Generally all of what we have to say are repetitions of someone else's point already made.
If you don't want to be a whore, you will not have an audience. If you don't want to be a whore online? There is little point in writing anything, just read. Am I wrong?
What about saying things to maintain social connections? You are a whore online still.
What about saying things to keep a record for yourself or reason for yourself? No reason to do it online.
I should not have written these words, it makes no sense to write them, but I wrote them nonetheless. Because I wanted to, but I don't know why I wrote them? I could have just thought them, maybe I just wanted to be irrational, maybe that is enough.
Curious how discussion of the pandemic is completely absent here. Maybe the wrong people sure, but people still get ill.
This year I have learnt about evolutionary biology. I think the human species sort of forgot about it, too busy getting rich.
But then comes along a likely engineered virus Covid-19. Which mankind, through massive vaccinations, enable immune escape of the virus by means of mutations.
The mutations are errors in the transcription process, sometimes they are favorable.
What sort of mutation (/variants) are selected? The ones that survive natural selection of course.
The virus is going through stepwise mutations to survive right now. A virus survives by multiplying inside the host cell and destroying the host cell in the process, infecting new cells.
Only the immune system, which is now being circumvented, can stop this exponential process.
Where is this stepwise evolutionary process going then, is the million dollar question.
Reading Charles Darwin 'The origin of species'.
He talks about species getting destroyed, as he puts it, routinely. I wonder how many biologists today would be comfortable with that, I wonder how many biologists are comfortable with Darwin's teaching at all.
When Darwin published his book, the world was still created by god. His teachings were controversial to say the least. As they seem to be today, but for different reasons.
Furthermore, Darwin speaks of natural selection (destruction) and sexual selection (mating) as two different things. Where he views sexual selection as less 'rigourus'.
It is a daunting thought, if you die before you can breed, indeed it would be more rigourus. As such sexual characteristics would be outcompeted by characteristics ensuring survival. Beauty is potentially not the most important characteristics in breeding.
I wonder which encrypted and distributed systems are the most likely to survive?