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also interested in this. Like StackerNews or Fountain.

receiving loud and clear 👍

there will have to be proxy services paid by either sats or advertising. For those who pay they will get a superior service like YouTube Premium (pay to remove the ads) or else for those who want “free” their time and attention will be the price they pay (along with all the algorithmic shenanigans). I think this is fair as I never believed in or expected a utopia. I just wanted an option for those willing/capable of being sovereign individuals who knew the value of their own attention/time to have options, which Twitter never granted.

A bit of a primadona post from you Odell. Friendship only really holds up when incentives are aligned. What were you expecting? For something deeper than that you need family. (And even then...)

Japan's trade deficit was a record ~30billion usd in January. The largest monthly defecit since 1979, when records were first recorded on a monthly basis. No doubt the government of the time shifted to monthly reporting in order to brag as the bubble was reaching it's peak and Japan Inc. Looked destined to rule the world. Now it's an inconvenient reminder of Japan's continued slide into irrelevance. How long before the government stops publishing these numbers I wonder?

Anyway, 18th straight month of deficits as the JPY slides to 134 against the dollar. Japan has run a trade deficit every year bar one since the GFC. People focus on the 250% of so debt to GDP or the zero rates but for me the trade deficit is far more concerning. After all, you can maintain debt with a large income. But if you have debt and your expenses exceed your income things quickly spiral out of control.

The foreign reserves have been depleted propping up a failing currency. Japan has more dry powder but there is no magic money tree. At some point you need to earn dollars to pay for energy and that means competing with more nimble and hungry Chinese and Korean competitors to sell to US and Chinese consumers.

All this while the US administration pressures puppet PM Kishida to increase taxes to pay for increased military spending. Japan desperatly needs less government, lower taxes and deregulation. The free market needs to be allowed to clear out zombie incumbents so that ambitious Japanese founders can create new companies that can get out into the world and compete. I wish we could just pay Kishida and the entire LDP to do nothing for 5 years. Just lock them in a room with a copy of Civ 5 and let them work their political magic in the "metaverse" the politicians in Japan seem so fond of.

but thanks to the Overton window that cohort is growing as the beliefs that are considered “dangerous” grows

political right. what we used to call conservative. because they hold dangerous beliefs that are shut down on corporate social media (a woman cannot be a man a man cannot be a woman etc)

fomo

word. long may the bear market continue.

yeh might need to start doing that

Welcome to Nostr 👍

oh i see. thank you. it’s a shame about the dependencies. I guess that’s Google being evil and forcing those trade offs for usability?

do you prioritize Play Store or F-Droid/ Izzy repo? I updated today but think it was 0.15.3 from F-Droid…

Should have asked them "what's bitcoin". Gotta improve that opsec if they have your phone number.

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@Odell using Apple Mac 😮

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Play chess over Nostr https://jesterui.github.io/

Money printing is theft. It's the act of a parasite sucking blood from it's host. The parasite is the Davos class, andthre host is the people. They won't stop until we are eating bugs and living in pods. We MUST opt out. We must build our citadels which force participants to participate in a fair way. 21million max. Most hash power arbitrates. ASICs and electricity to play or else make yourself useful and build things for sats. We must starve the parasites.