I fully agree, but the world is dripping with socialism. Immigration and socialism don't mix very well since the immigrants always move to the countries that offer socialism systems at the local taxpayer's expense.
If the US would stop offering social programs to everyone I'd say let's just remove the border walls completely and catch immigrants who commit crimes like drug smuggling instead of whatever it is we're doing now.
My bet is on that user being a govt shill trying to slander Nostr.
Any service that is paid for in a shitcoin only is called shitcoining. This is literally the oldest trick in the shitcoin book.
Great history on Seasteading from FreeCities -
https://free-cities.org/seasteading-the-movement-history-and-perspectives/
It's a long read but covers pretty much the whole of Seasteading history with tons of useful links to various projects. It also discusses the future plans of The Seasteading Institute, which have a lot to do with making legal a new categorization of sea-bound dwellings. (Instead of just flying a friendly country's flag.)
I think we need different types of "follow". What about something like this:
1. Friend — this person doesn't show up in my feed. But I like them, and want to keep track of them, and maybe be reminded of them on occasion (hey hodlbod, here's what your friend X has been up to this summer). I trust them, and want to factor their opinions in to content recommendations generated for me.
2. Follow — I want to know what this person says if it has engagement, is popular, or matches some other filter, like topics I've expressed interest in. The Hacker News bot might fit in this category.
3. Super Follow — I want to see everything this person says. These are the people on my "pure signal" list currently.
4. Subscribe — these are people you don't care about, and whose opinions you don't care about per se, but are people who get paid (either by you or by advertisers) to recommend content or products. Could be bots or influencers. You'd never see their content, but you would see things recommended by them.
Items #2 and #3 are variants of the same thing, and could be conflated by assigning a decimal value to your follow (suggested by nostr:nprofile1qqsfcts2suzpxaeuhy2mnjwd9cwt69l98t3tp2r2hf09hu8uz0zzp5spzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmnyuurtjm earlier, but I used to have something like this in Coracle).
The first category is entirely different though, because the value of the relationship is not based on what they say, but who they are. I honestly don't want to see anything my mom posts to social media unless she tags me in it (in which case she'll email me). But she's one of the most important people in my life.
Likewise the final category. This is an entirely transactional-type relationship, and is exploited to provide additional social signal to otherwise neutral content.
So, any other categories? This is really quite similar to nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7anfw3hhytnwdaehgu339e3k7mgpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsxp7af9 's "relationship status" nip, but with more ability to quantify what clients can do based on the relationship. It could also be implemented (of course) using NIP 32.
I'd use the hell out of categories !, 2, & 3, but I think they may be named wrong. Why not simply call them "Family," "Interesting," & "Never miss" or something more self-describing?
As for the subscription category, I can't imagine who would ever use Nostr for that. Seems pretty useless since I don't see anyone here coming to buy products or services, but I do see lots of people following merchants like NVK, interested in hearing what he has to say on occasion. (And eventually buying his products in their own sweet time.
Maybe they were trying to pay for putting new sinks in all the public bathrooms... Lol
You mean the existing billionaires like Gates? Those would be the Cantillionaires.
Future Billionaires made from bitcoin are the exact opposite of a cantillionaire. I think they'll just refer to us as Gods eventually. ;)
The most eye-opening part about this is that back then they simple told you how much you owe. Today you have to have an accountant or software figure it out for you and if you're wrong you get fined.
I also love how they said what the funds were going for. 0.16 to the poor, 0.04 to fix something that was 'sinking,' and the biggest expense in the whole community was a school fee of 52 cents.
Imagine if right now they said 'You Owe $9,300 to pay for Ukrainian defense...' That would shut that program down REAL quick! There would be mass non-compliance on a well-deserved scale.
I dunno, I just went down to the store a grabbed a few, but they just sit around crying for their mommy nonstop... No fun at all.
Like presenting them a trophy that says "You Tried." ;)
It's better than nothing but in truth I think it means one of 2 things:
A) They're broke, and this is actually a very kind guesture for them.
B) They're hardcore HODLers that are trying to set a low standard, since even 1 sat is worth something to them.
I still zap 21 sats at default but if group B succeeds then I'll gladly join them.
I find it hilarious that you claim "simple answers are probably wrong" when all the examples you give are of the harder to accept answers. The publicly scorned, more difficult to accept answers. Each & every case.
What you see as simple I see as battle-hardened, guantlet-run.
Would you call Assange and Snowden simple?
Don't overlook the important fact that used Laptops come with a battery backup built in! If the power ever goes out the node doesn't have to reboot like it would on a RasPi.
Wow, Congrats! Put your marriage certificate on the blockchain by using some timestamping service like Stampery.com.
WOW! The very first time a national election was held on the Bitcoin Blockchain and bitcoin already proved the stupid attackers wrong when they tried to dispute findings!
Guys, the whole world really does need our blockchain to certify more than our money. I've always thought this; it is our single source of trustworthiness.
Well of course that's the goal, but they're (usually) making big money out there on their existing platforms. Advertisers that pay them huge bucks today aren't going to follow them to Nostr or pay them much for posting here.
Brand just got his whole YT channel demonetized though, so he may be an exception. I'd love to hear his response to a purple pill pitch.
It occurred to me today that western medicine can actually be fixed without bringing the whole system down. Any president could do this, if they really cared to.
All it would take is placing a separation in the medical industry between Curing and Treating.
Kind of like the checks & balances we have in congress, Companies have to declare themselves a Cure company or a Treatment company. Doctors would then have access to a separate department of medicine, all about curing each problem, that they would be able to check first for all their patients, before moving on to the treatments, which seem to be the only courses of action they ever take today. -In no small part due to the fact that it's far more profitable to do it that way.
This would not only place accountability over doctors (i.e. they could be sued for not issuing a cure when one exists) but it would also, and more importantly, give the branch of medicine specifically designed to cure us of our maladies the room to grow without having their budgets ransancked & sent over to treatments instead.
I don't suppose there's a way to make sure no one from the UN or WEF is every invited onto Nostr?
I'm not opposed to the gaming idea, but the problem is more about creating an organization with the 'right' to catch them and sentence them to such a fate. What a group ripe for abuse!
Maybe it would be enough for any old Seastead citizen to figure out that their neighbor is a slaver, round up a posse & initiate force against them personally. Or better yet, they could try to smuggle the slaves some weapons to have their own uprising.
I'm not opposed to the gaming idea, but the problem is more about creating an organization with the 'right' to catch them and sentence them to such a fate. What a group ripe for abuse!
Maybe it would be enough for any old Seastead citizen to figure out that their neighbor is a slaver, round up a posse & initiate force against them personally. Or better yet, they could try to smuggle the slaves some weapons to have their own uprising.
Can I get one that is black and says "Palm Pilot" across the top? :)
1) Are you sure it wasn't the normal flu? That used to happen every fall until covid, remember?
2) Even if covid really does still exist, JUST TAKE SOME FREAKING IVERMECTIN & Vitamin C! There is literally nothing else to do that works & is safe.
The solution to the problem of Paranoia is always research more. With bitcoin this is a totally doable task because just through reading the Whitepaper and running a node yourself you can feel very secure knowing how the system works and exactly why the WEF can't co-opt Bitcoin.
Good luck with your recovery!
In today's world that would scare the hell out of me. Parents in my country at least are so litigious that you may want to watch your mail for the next 2 weeks to see if you're being sued by her parents for some misunderstood thing you told their child.
What he SHOULD have done? Jump in front of the bullet.
What he COULD do now to help? Stop working with the indian govt, ban their officers from CA.
What he Will do now? Tax his citizens harder and go on a vacation.
Lol, thanks!
Personally I wouldn't use solar at all, I'm very fond of OTEC power for this purpose... Not only does is it uniquely suited for seasteads out in the deep ocean, but in bringing up all that freezing water every second, it'll cool down all the mining rigs for free as well!
Check out my older post here titled: "The incredible power of OTEC - & How it works so well with Bitcoin" for more details about that setup.