i hope the 1 word is the first and not the last, the last is like 3 bits of the end of the key and 5 bits of checksum

i don't think that LN and V4V are a single thing

i think that the lack of micropayments led to an advertiser based model, sure, but V4V is some kooky donation nonsense socialist bleeding heart nonsense, and just because socialist street preachers accept coins and because socialist governments have moneys doesn't mean they are promoting commerce, the opposite... just read up on what Lenin said about debasing currency so people become dependent on the state

no, this is the purest kind of capitalism, one that works peer to peer and without any overseer

v4v is hooey injected by, likely, spook provocateurs

most likely an ISP issue

get a VPN

same food available on the shelves, little to no beef, no lamb, all corn fed pork and chicken and pink foam

in bratislava old town

i don't believe in it anymore

we have the same enemies, that is true

but whether we can become enemies is up for question always

the autumn ends soon

that bleak feeling of never ending doom tends to end around the time of the equinox... just a mere 20 days hence

just gotta hodl

better things are coming

oh wow plebeian market is a bit awesome...

just now having a huge headache with portuguese customs...

i'm sure the market is biggest in north america...

right now, my colleague over in california is pretty cool... and my boss, they are both in USA, but i don't know what friendship is anymore... surrounded by a society where nobody seems to hold their own opinion or defend what is close to them, and it's little different in here, just that it's less impossible to find anything

no but i haven't got the first clue where i would go or who i can trust to even tell me that, at this point

i could go anywhere but until recently my preferred options involved mexico, yucatan, specifically, for the time being it's nice enough here in damp, windy sao vicente, i can maintain here

bitcoin atlantis just kinda stressed me out a bit, but mainly the city... i hate sao martinho, i spent some time hunting apartments and was there for a bit... it's like miami in the atlantic... oh yeah miami is beside the atlantic too...

just gotta stick it out a few months and i think i will have the sats to do it

i'd happily jump sooner but shit costs money and all, and in 3 months time the backload discount for madeira summer tourism will kick in

it is literally getting that way in my mind too... what the fuck!

i picked up covid at wild elephants in the old town back in 2020

it was little different to bulgaria or hungary or netherlands in terms of not toxic food

without the herders secretly guiding the herd we find our kin

my personal strategy is keep the follow list small

the addiction to constant stimulation makes you keep following people but they aren't worth it, you need to focus on your own life and making it worth talking about first... and then with a lot of followers commenting on your stuff you'll start to wonder why you followed so many

it's a real culture shock... nostr is a really different, natural social network... it's gonna take a while before it really hits home for most users even still

repeatedly today i have had this feeling like

i'm sick of living in the european soviet socialist socialist republics

there is no beef here

there is not even hardly any plain pasteurised milk

it's just corn fed chicken, corn fed pork, stringy, rubbery veal, UHT milk, and ten tons of vegan food that i don't want to eat because it makes my type 2 diabetes continue to get worse

at this point i'm facing a quandary

starting to feel like i'm not gonna make any progress and wondering just how long until i slip one day walking around these steep slopes

or if i should just go and be an illegal immigrant in a country where i can still get beef, where there is even raw milk available, where i can buy petri dishes without being accused of being a bioterrorist, and even in many places smoke some medicine that helps reduce several of my symptoms like the constant cramps

what do you think?

should i be migrating to north america?

i'm so tired of europe... the only part that has treated me well has been the balkans and out of that region, the best is not in the EU, bosnia was my favourite

i miss the days where i could concentrate long enough to learn these things

these days i struggle so much with it and it's almost as much of a disability as being half blind

yay got my zorin OS install back up and running, my test relay working again... haha lost all its database but meh...

garuda was awesome but getting steam to work, a nightmare

if you are too busy to be fussing with arch linux type stuff and just got new hardware because you believe in open source... just go with zorin

i know it's a hard one to be stuck with an ubuntu derivative but this one is good, and they really don't make that much changes, just the important things

i had a friend back in the day who i totally forget even how i found him... who introduced me to the world of ethernet hubs and AoE... i attended numerous evenings of drinking and gaming on a big table with 4 machines set up...

it's definitely one of the best games ever made... really though it totally borrowed from Settlers... good luck finding anywhere you can get that game - it was the first god game that had a comprehensive economic model, worth looking it up if you are curious about the history of real time strategy games

my young days with the amiga, totally distorted my understanding of how utterly bereft of creativity and science the rest of the world was