I’ve spent my morning reviewing Islamic marriage contract templates on the internet. As a technical writer with some understanding of contract and family law, my brain can’t help but reword some of these clauses so they are explicitly clear in intention, definition, and statement.

I’m sure those changes will be fine once I cross that bridge, as they don’t change the underlying “interpretation” but only clarify it by specifically stating it.

In contractual law in the United States, contracts must not be vague. I know that when you’re looking through legal documents, there are a lot of vague or confusing-like statements still contained in them.

There’s a huge gap between what the law states and what is actually passed onto parties or judges in a case.

I hope my future husband finds my documentation skills valuable.

Because, according to some, I have nothing better to do.

Taxes, man. Taxes.

https://www.inkedsheets.com/p/taxes-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-complicated

If you believe everything you read in the LinkedIn feeds, you're losing hope of ever finding a job. The feed has to be dominated by their algorithm. There are people finding new jobs, and I would love to see more of those success stories.

https://open.substack.com/pub/mistysbledsoe/p/an-open-letter-to-the-linkedin-algorithm

What that does that mean in English for non-techy people?

I'm a technical writer by trade, but I don't eat, sleep, or breathe Nostr technology for fun or for business. If I did, then I'm sure I would have understood what you said.

I'm just interested in what things work and where.

Which clients have been specifically tested with the article format with updating that work as described above with npub.pro?

Not all relays (and maybe clients?) are required to honor all parts of a protocol just because a request is made. For example, a user can use a client to request a deletion of a post, but not all relays are required to honor this. Some clients do not offer the option.

Which ones did you find work properly?

I get that the static pages can be linked to Nostr posts. To make that work, I'd have to create a Nostr post of some kind outlining, for example, my About page.

My random post on Nostr would be an article titled "About" and then the content is below. Then you take that link and place it not the spot you want it in npub.pro.

No problem so far.

I'm just thinking of future revisions. If I updated my "Services" page 5x, that means I have 5 different "Services" articles floating around on Nostr. A user can come find one (an old one), point to it and say, "No. In this post, which is in writing -- says your prices are such and such," when in reality, the *latest* "Services" page has the updated information, right?

There'd have to be some sort of disclaimer somewhere on your profile bio or the website itself stating what is "latest" to reduce the chances of disagreements in the future.

Also, do our followers want to see 16 different published drafts or updated pages of the same page in their feed just because we needed to make an update to a static page?

That's what I can't figure out in my workflow so far. I'm not quite sure what to do with it.

That's where I got stuck in the "building" part. On my regular website (not Nostr), I've updated the web pages a lot. Here on Nostr, had I done that, it would have created the (as an example) 16 different posts each containing a different version of the page.

I'm not sure if what I'm describing is making sense.

I downloaded minibits in the last six weeks. The app kept crashing so I stopped using it. I'll take another look at coinos. Thanks.

I have channels that close once every 4-8 weeks. I don't do anything. I hardly zap. They just close. To reopen another channel, I have to drop another 250k sats, which usually I do not have in the "Savings" balance at the time, causing me to spend more.

I don't want to deal with that anymore.

Since I've been here, I've spent hundreds on sats, mostly to just keep those channels open. That's plenty to keep a channel open (and have it stay open!).

I, personally, at this time, do not want to spend anymore money on this.

I think Alby is great for a lot of things and is ready to scale, but as a new user, having to drop 250k sats every time a channel needs to open (because they keep closing!) gets old.

I hope what you're saying will alleviate that going forward.

Another channel closed in the last 48 hours on my node, and my node health is sitting at 12%.

I don't care. I've already informed support that I'm not spending any more money at this time, even if it means not being able to send or receive zaps.

All I wanted to do was send and receive zaps when signing up for Nostr. That's it. Nothing more.

Spending a decent chunk of cash to keep channels open regularly when I'm not the one causing them to close is not part of the expected user experience when onboarding a new user.

There's a gap between the perceived ongoing experience and the current reality. I'm glad to hear Alby is still working to close that gap, but I'm on the edge of leaving.

I hadn't paid attention. My world just opened up a little bit. I should have clicked that icon earlier.

The IRS is always going to tax Bitcoin in the value of fiat money, never the value of Bitcoin.

Everything gets cheaper with Bitcoin, which means any revenues you earn in Bitcoin, should also be taxed (if at all) at a much lower rate. Microsats, really.

This means as Bitcoin becomes worth more in fiat numbers, the higher the taxes that will be owed on goods and services as long as it's valued in fiat denominations.

I think I have an idea. I need to let it percolate for a bit.

I'm in my late 40s with adult kids and young grandchildren. After decades of full-time work and stress, I finally had time for myself but became exhausted for nearly a year. This made me realize how much long-term stress has impacted me.

Currently on sabbatical, I’m working toward self-employment. If that doesn’t work and I return to a traditional job, I’ve decided to prioritize less stress over higher pay. I’ll either take a lower-paying role with minimal responsibility or demand premium compensation if they want my full expertise.

I'm not worried about finding a client either way. Someone always says "Yes," to the premium prices if I have to go that route -- I just don't want to anymore.

Life is really short.

The first rule about password managers is that we do not talk about password managers.

I hung one up a few months ago so I could put my phone on do-not-disturb and focus on my projects more fully. I didn't want to have to pick up the phone to see what time it was.

If I don't get rich with sats, I have about a year, maybe less of hosting funds. 😬 I haven't decided what I want to do when that day comes.

Thank you!

Is there anything we have to do to upload videos here? I mean, do we just use the image icon and upload a photo, or do we upload them somewhere else and place the link?

For talking-head videos, should they go on fountainfm?

I'm just trying to understand the best way to disseminate a video with Nostr.

I know with articles, things on Yakihonne or Highligher don't always appear on Primal.

What's the best way to reach all the followers with videos?

"That, Maverick, is what's a called a 'bird of prey'."

It flew down behind the dumpsters onto the fence less than 10 feet from us and watched something we couldn't see. I'd never been that up close unless I was in an aviary or a zoo. When I turned to look at Maverick, it flew up into the tree, and then it flew to the top of a telephone pole.

I blocked Maverick from its path while we were there -- just in case.

Google says that this could be a falcon, kind of a rare one here in Texas that's been reintroduced the last 10 years. It has a distinct face, a distinct red body, and a striped tail. It was almost 2 feet tall. The other picture is what it most closely looked like as it was sitting on the fence, except it was much larger. At first I thought it was a red-tailed hawk.

I went to grab the footage off the body cam, but there was no video, only a crappy photo I snapped as it took off. I didn't have my cell phone with me. I usually take the phone with me.

One article I read said, basically, it's a pet. From other falconry articles I've read, some falcons are released into the wild after a certain age so they can learn to live on their own and survive.

This one was hungry and curious.

Is there a very specific and detailed guide for a person to follow that will help a person here in America go from:

-- receiving USD for pay

-- paying for everything in USD

to

-- getting employers, insurance companies, etc., to payout in Bitcoin

-- receiving standard W2 paychecks in Bitcoin

-- paying all our bills in Bitcoin

-- grabbing rideshares in Bitcoin

-- purchasing gasoline/fuel in Bitcoin at the pump

-- paying tuition, school enrollment fees in Bitcoin

-- paying for public transportation and vehicle repairs in Bitcoin?

-- pay for anything else we need directly in Bitcoin?

>> (All without the use of banks or financial institutions **at any point** of the transaction on either the frontend or the backend? All without an app hosted either on the Google Play Store or App store or applications being threatened with dehosting from the entities interacting with AWS? Because the solution can't break if one of those things are removed by a traditional entity under current US laws and policies.) <<

Currently, my understanding to doing all that involves prepaid cards, apps, buying a very specific phone, doing a bunch of technical things that probably aren't explained 100% clearly and will be messed up, and few other things many people have no knowledge of (including myself!) And very few people can do all the things at once.

When I read stuff like this -- yeah, people here in America would love to boycott the Fed, etc., but unless someone's providing solutions that can be adopted at a mass scale so a person CAN switch over, it just sounds like "Hey, you stupid person, boycott the FED!! Hahhhahah!! Look at them. They can't process what I'm saying! ahahahah."

I'm genuinely asking for a solution.

"Boycott all fiat currencies."

Glad to.

How do we do that in everyday boots-on-the-ground life at each level?

Where's the full guide?

There was a fictional book about 10 years ago (don't quote me on the year) called "Agenda 2030." It was co-authored or ghostwritten for Alex Jones.

In that book, in the future, this is how all the city power was generated. Everyone was forced to walk on treadmills installed in the living spaces. Every morning and every night, someone came around with their allotted block of calories for the day. Walking on the treadmills was mandatory. Not doing your daily share on the treadmill meant jail or being "disappeared." They all walked for hours each day to fulfill the energy quota.

Walking plates like this in busy areas would be great to help with energy generation (as long as walking across them are voluntary).