The world 🌎 today vs. the world 🌎 in 20 years.

Mine are not fried though 😄

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening 🌄 #nostr

#proofofwork family edition, Sunday version.

Guess what dish is that?

#plebchain #foodstr

At 100k will people start to realize this thing has no top?

Or will they wait for 1mil?

I'd walk a mile for a woman

It's Jacaranda season in Buenos Aires 💜🌳🇦🇷

Brought by the architect Carlos Tays in the 19th century, Buenos Aires has more than 11,000 specimens.

#Argentina

About Machiavelli and Hobbes:

I asked:

What would be the single most shocking fact for people to know about what both Hobbes and Machiavelli recommended that rulers should do?

Grok answered:

"Combined Insight:

Moral Flexibility and Absolute Control:

If one were to combine the philosophies, a ruler should not only have absolute power but should also be ready to use any means, including those considered immoral or unethical by common standards, to maintain that power and ensure the state's stability.

This could involve:

Manipulation and Deception:

Regularly using lies and deceit to keep subjects in line or to outmaneuver enemies, both foreign and domestic.

Brutality When Necessary: Employing harsh punishments or even violence to quash any form of rebellion or dissent, ensuring that the fear of the ruler's wrath prevents any challenge to his authority.

Control Over Information:

Suppressing or controlling information and education to prevent the populace from questioning the ruler's authority or methods.

Ignoring Traditional Morality: Dismissing conventional moral constraints in favor of pragmatic actions that secure power, even if it means acts that would be universally condemned as evil or tyrannical.

The shock value here lies in how these recommendations starkly oppose contemporary democratic and human rights values, advocating for a form of governance that prioritizes stability and power over individual freedoms and moral integrity."

Does this sound familiar for you today?

It turns out god did not in fact save the queen

But here’s the math for $50 a week over 21 years. This assumes a 13 million dollar bitcoin price by 2045. Which is Arks base case.

I really dislike social media algorithms and incentives. Negative stuff is what sells.

There are so many times where I sit down with a good host and have a thoughtful discussion about macro finance, and then the Youtube title and thumbmail that their producer makes is some version of me smiling next to a terrible headline and often something on fire or blowing up.

When an exchange does this literally just make something up. They are trying to comply with regulators and stupid laws, so send those dumb tyrants your absolute primo bullshit.

Generate the best, longest, stupidest story for what you are doing with your bitcoin and why. If you need help, just write up a short version and feed it to ChatGPT 😆 nostr:note1cwsegjaqz2pjr7zfhwzv8euwflde2227a92wflnlmqngxf7jl3mq04dt4c

Yeah “public school history” is horrifically boring on top of being intellectually useless. There’s zero understanding of why things happen. I mean they literally argue that WW1 was caused by a single dude getting assassinated, which in hindsight is mind numbingly stupid it’s incredible 😆

GM Nostr ☕

The war on Bitcoin/crypto usage has been stepped up significantly in recent weeks.

What are your thoughts?

Are you working out a new strategy?

Supporting the tools that are still working?

Think everything will just 'blow over'?

Have a good one 🧡⚡

The last balance patch of StarCraft was in 2001. That means you can watch a game that was played 23 years ago and everything will make sense as if it was played today.

If you watch a movie from 2001 and there are prices of things mentioned anywhere you'll have no idea of whether these prices are high or low since inflation has changed the value of money so much in the meantime.

If you open a Nostr note published in 2001 with a client of today you'll still be able to read it without any issues. And if you use a Nostr client written in 2001 you'll still be able to browse the notes people are publishing today.

I'm not a climate doom cultist, but the point this gentleman in the video thinks is making, just with what he's saying without further backing, is not the gotcha he thinks it is. Precisely because the amount of CO2 is so relatively small, it is relatively easy to make it out of whack.

Again, I'm not making any claims other than pointing out at a faulty logic.