Thank you. Got it working. It's very nice.

Is zap.stream a dead project? Just tried watching a few streams over there and most are broken (say they are live but you click and the stream has frozen or ended). Also cannot for the life of me work out how to stream from there. Any alternatives or else some kind of guide on how to set it up?

https://x.com/btcprague/status/1906964756650426401?s=

Bitcoin is really not *that* different from shitcoins. It was just the first, and had an ethical release in the spirit of free and open source software and cypher punk culture. But the grift around it is similar to shitcoins.

Because ultimately people see it as a way to get rich and so start to worship it in the same way heathens would worship the sun as the perceived source of their sustenance and well being.

All this meming--the confession booths and golden calves and the rest of it--are just people desperate, greedy, and afraid, hoping to keep the "buzz" alive in an effort to placate the orange "god" and make the number go up again or at least stop it going down due to his "anger".

People want to feel like they can do something to make the green candles manifest. It's the same thing the NFTs and meme coiners are doing. Trying to stoke some intangible buzz/vibe "fire" to manifest the green candle. At least with the shitcoiners many of them know it's just a game. So many in Bitcoin actually believe their own bullshit. What is this nonsense going to fix? When humans are so totally depraved, how much is a distributed ledger with a fixed and transparent issuance really going to help? A little, maybe. And maybe people who adopt early deserve to get a little rich. But you have to have clear eyes and full hearts about the fact that all this could be meaningless. It really could go to zero. It's not a deity to be feared/worshiped. It's mostly bullshit. I mean, maybe there is something serious here. I think there is. But the depraved and wicked creature that is man will find an infinite number of ways to corrupt and ruin it.

Good money is a good start. But we need a whole lot more building on top of that solid monetary foundation. And it's going to be a painful transition, I think. We need more self sacrifice, less self aggrandization. May the conference circuit disappear off the face of the earth for all eternity. And more than anything may we get back to the Bible in the west and put our hopes in Christ alone.

Joh 14:6 NASB Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."

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Chess is fundamentally a language with its own grammar and vocabulary, and each game is a conversation. Conversely, each conversation is also a game of chess. We always seek to collaborate (trade) on terms favorable to ourselves (or at least not unfavorable). When cooporation doesn't work, we use threats. Sometimes we threaten in secret and sometimes overtly. Sometimes our goals are well known to our interlocutor, but sometimes our calculation is so deep as to be leaning on the unconscious mind, and be unknown even to ourselves. There are reoccurring motifs and patterns to human interaction, and those who can recognize these, correctly evaluate the "position", and calculate or else recall the "correct" way forward, will have an advantage, and indeed go on to dominate in their chosen field. That chess is a language explains why learning it from early childhood is essential to become a master. That language is a game of chess explains the frustration of those who don't understand this when interacting with those who do. #chesster #chess

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It should be called "sniper"

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Chess is proof of work

Me neither. It's one of those words not even the spell checker can help with. I struggle with French loan words on general. Latin makes much more sense for spelling rules.

Curtis Yarvin in the Nikkei. What a timeline. https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC275I90X20C25A2000000/

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Bible > ESV > Romans 9

◄ Romans 9 ►

English Standard Version

God’s Sovereign Choice

1I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— 2that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. 4They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. 5To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

6But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 7and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” 8This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. 9For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.” 10And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— 12she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 13As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

14What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! 15For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16So then it depends not on human will or exertion,b but on God, who has mercy. 17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

19You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” 20But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” 21Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 22What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— 24even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

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