This is missing the soundtrack. I propose this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QLxdNqMXBM
Now that the "the guberment will ban beet corn" narrative has flipped on its head and the TradFi world is beginning its stampede, what are the downsides of this happening?
I'm thinking of this (by user BitStrategy21 on X):
It is a bold vision but one that I could see happening. What if the legacy system really doesn't have to collapse?
But if bitcoin "rejuvenates" the old system, might it mean that at least some of the legacy system problems get carried over to the new, rejuvenated system and then those same problems just persist?
I don't know the answers, just something I've been thinking of.
Cool idea, been thinking of this.
I doubt that exists yet, as Wordpress posts are mostly HTML and Nostr notes seem to be Markdown. There would need to be a converter in-between.
Probably not a huge technical challenge to build a Wordpress plugin that would take an existing post, convert it and post to Nostr. Might be a fair amount of work to make that happen though...
I like edits or at least the theory behind them. I make typos. I want to fix the typos. However, nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9emk2um5v4exucn5vvhxxmmd9uq3xamnwvaz7tmhda6zuat50phjummwv5hsx7c9z9 has convinced me that they're bad. His editing and the gamification of his edits are fun, but if hundreds of people in my feeds are doing this, then it would immediately degrade my experience. I would hate it. It would be annoying.
I now see edits as an attack vector and a performance degrader.
Maybe we need a maximum number of edits? 3? I don't know. I'm just thinking out loud.
Maybe we just do away with them altogether? 👀
Thoughts?
I think easily viewable edit history is probably the right balance on this?
I'm glad to see the "blue" (blue hair, red ideology) people migrating to their own bubble. Them being there will mean that they will be more detached from reality, and therefore generally less effective.
That's good for everyone!
Incredible view! I need to get somewhere where there are mountains...
The Downloads notifications feel spammy. I know the iOS and Android clients exist, and could do without the notification each time I refresh the desktop app.
Bought Primal Premium 💪
It's good to have free things, but you get what you pay for...
I was having trouble with connections to the free relays, and thought it would be good to support Primal anyway.
Will be interesting to see how my Nostr experience improves!
The ex-Soviet eastern Europe seems to be quite immune to this though. Poland and Hungary seem to be doing pretty well.
The problem will be quickly solved if the government funding for it dries up.
Why accelerating the collapse doesn't mean the phoenix would rise from the ashes
And how you can find a life of freedom today, without "tearing down the old"...
Inspired by this great thread by Will Tanner:
https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1/status/1853560039119929486
Based on Will's "what not to do" thread, I wrote a blog post on what we SHOULD be doing. You're now reading the short version. Read the whole post here:
https://www.sovereignlanding.com/high-future-preference/accelerate-pockets-of-freedom/
In short: trying to accelerate a collapse may just lead to ongoing and continuing collapse, not necessarily a fresh start.
We (the productive people) need to focus on accelerating the positive alternatives, not on tearing down the fabric of old society as the socialists do.
We can find ways of existing outside the stranglehold of the legacy states, not necessarily fully insulated from them, but sufficiently separate to have a "good enough" level of freedom. There are no perfect solutions, but that doesn't mean no solutions!
My primary hope is for the Free Cities idea to maximally push through to reality, even if it's currently facing serious headwinds. http://free-cities.org
While that fight continues, there are other simpler & faster solutions.
Perhaps the simplest & most practical, the Aleph Citadel in Argentina allows you to live a life of relative freedom from the state. It's not theoretical perfection, but it is real. Anything real is infinitely better than some non-existent ideological dream.
Some of the other planned solutions:
-Seasteading movement (all kinds of great stuff, check them out) https://seasteading.org
-Praxis Nation (theoretical but still interesting) https://praxisnation.com
-Maybe Elon will get us to Mars!
Whatever happens with those ideas, I see their main importance as long-term stability and a solution for people who don't necessarily have a location independent source of income.
If you have location independent income, there is no reason to wait. You can have a life of freedom today!
Just get on the move, and you are most of the way there in liberating yourself.
International lifestyle is the age-old method of practicing freedom. Sovereign Landing makes it easy!
Thanks for the inspiration, I first tried putting this in text but had to create an infographic instead...
This problem is very real, but it isn't an inherent feature of banks - it's just that function #1 being forced on us through the banking system.
Bitcoin, and ecash specifically, will fix this and allow banks once again to serve the customer, instead of having a different master...
The only way real estate "makes money" is through the mortgage system, allowing you to get closer to the money printer. Even then you need to be lucky to not have any catastrophic events.
Even if everything goes well over decades, when you also add up all (and I mean ALL) costs over those decades, your money printing advantage dwindles down to much less.
For long-form podcasts, do you prefer when pauses and filler words (um, like, etc) are edited out, or do you prefer the conversation completely unedited?
Currently on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 I leave the conversations completely unedited, but I’m curious what people prefer.
#AskNostr #podcasting
Only edit those with short clips, keep long form long
It was funny (not really) when Windows 10 started to push users to update to 11. There was not even an attempt by Microsoft to answer the question "why?". I even Googled it and didn't find any meaningful answers to that.
Apparently they just thought that people would think that bigger number = better.
11 is worse than 10, nothing major but I haven't noticed a single thing that would be better than with 10. I've heard others having really weird problems, and the spying features have definitely been kicked up a notch and are more difficult to turn off.
Really considering switching to Linux.
"The end justifies the means".
The problem is that the story ends in a gulag.
Holding your own keys isn't really even about technology, but about being able to carry the associated responsibility of having those keys. The majority won't want that.
Some will not be capable, most will not be interested.
As long as there is the backstop of being able to exit, it's perfectly ok for the majority to be on a varying scale of semi-centralized custodial platforms (the more of these the better). This is also the solution for the scaling problem.
People get their mental image of the price of world travel from living in hotels and eating in restaurants. That lifestyle is exhausting, like being on a never-ending business trip.
It's tough for most people to wrap their head around that there is a different & better way!
Yep... unfortunately there seems to be huge overlap on the parallel societies and eth/crapto crowd. So much shitcoining going on in these otherwise good circles 😟
I kind of understand the historical reasons behind this, when bitcoin was heavily tied to the base chain and the early experimenters needed an everyday medium of exchange.
I hope they come around now that L2s are usable in practice.