My beef with nostr is why notes have a dedicated "kind" json field, when it could easily just be a tag. They could also have human readable names instead of just numbers that no one knows what they mean without looking it up.

Let's start "nostr 2.0" and make it right 😂 /s

My 2014 Women's group Bitcoin GNO was disbanded after Chris Ellis called it sexist because he and Thomas Hunt could not join, and Andreas decided he was the spokesman for all "women in bitcoin." I hope you have the balls to keep the pussies out.

True.

Normalize anons. Reboot your identity. Delete your accounts. Start from scratch. You'll find your friends again, don't worry about that. The freedom and the privacy you'll gain is with everyone else.

Land of the Free*

*if you pay your taxes

Marty Sunsets is fully activated.

I'm starting to realize I'm a moody motherfucker

Is there such a thing as a "Store of Value," or is it simply just an inaccurate way to describe something that is broadly valued?

I don't ever find the idea that "we need government" compelling. What i always get stuck on is that warlords can gain from enslaving/taxing people, and the only thing that has ever stopped them is either 1) other warlords, 2) unusual technological situations where rag-tag defensive groups have a temporary advantage, or 3) areas where the targets are too spread out, for example a few random mountain men scattered in the wilderness.

In the future the Soveriegn Individual thesis might play out, but until that happens, a highly populated anarchist societiy ("Ancapistan") is unlikely to last long.

This does not mean the state is good or just in any way.

And none of this denies that it's possible for an individual to do a lot to free themselves.

Oh my bad. Too many convos to track. But yeah I was trying to get him to reach the conclusion that these large groups of “foreigners” would not have anything to gain by senselessly attacking you. Instead, they’d want to enslave you. If it was an individual foreigner, they’d want to maybe steal your property. Defending against one or two “foreigners” is more doable and you don’t need a standing army or tyrannical government for that.

Open my reply to op

I’m not brushing it off. I’m just saying it’s not as simple as another country just declaring they own you.

This is what the original argument was about lol someone claimed that if the nation state was dissolved, another country would declare this new free land belongs to them within 5 minutes.

That’s the ultimate goal but it wouldn’t take 5 minutes for a country to just declare they own you

Okay so an army of foreigners show up and they burn everything to the ground. Then what? What did they gain by doing that? This is stupid reasoning because they don’t gain anything by doing that.