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This is #InkblotArt, the note that lets your imagination fly!

Today is January 25, 2024. Block height of 827303

What do you see in the blot? Comment and get a zap!

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I'd say their tightening is a complete scam.

Kills the productive economy for the appearance they're doing something...

As the net liquidity still increases.

Effectively printing as they "tighten"

In other words: Even the narrative that inflation is coming down and fight is won is a scam. The nurse, the truckdriver and the policeman will never understand that this does not mean 1974 prices.

Stop becoming self sufficient, stay being our slave

Who would have thought that a former synchronised swimmer is unfit to run a central bank?

hey nostr. currently eating dinner and trying to wrap my head around this exchange I had with "Altcoin Daily"

if the truth makes people fearful, uncertain, and doubtful is that still FUD?

the fact that shitcoiners are like "nah yeah everything you said on TV is 100% correct, but by telling everyone the truth youre scaring people from buying our shitcoin" has really put my brain in a pretzel

I 🧡 honest money.

#gold #silber #bitcoin

Nostr is a very welcoming community

#Bitcoin  at $40,178

While ETFs just bought +100,000 of $BTC 👀

Yeah I felt kinda cringey pasting the link

He scared

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Ok peeps, ultra quick geek life story here.

I've been an #Macintosh user (that's what the good old original name was) since probably 1990 if I remember correctly. I got my first Mac in 1994, thus making me a paying #Apple customer for 30 years.

Apple was never perfect, they certainly took their share of coin for their products, but they were great for what they brought into the world: Innovation in computer UI/UX, functional consistency, focus on usability instead of the PC/DOS+Windows can of worms. It was great being an Apple user and i taught myself stuff using Macs (graphic design, early web content etc) that I'd likely wouldn't until years late if on a Windows box.

Fast forward to the 2000s: Apple recovers after Steve Jobs came back in 1997, innovative products are pumping out and changing the landscape of PCs and computing and the internet - again! iPod! Intel Macs! iPhone! Macs are technically catching up from their 1990s shortcomings. Life is good.

2010s rolls around. Steve Jobs kicks the bucket and the bean counters, vareerists and uninspiring suits like Tim Cook slowly take over completely. Apple turns from 'rising star' to 'cash cow' (in marketer terminology). Everything is streamlined to a high quality standard, but moreso, a high price point.

Has anything 'major good' happened since Jobs signed off? No, Apple has languished innovation-wise. It's focusing on sure revenue streams from consumer go-tos like the iPhone to the 30% cut from their App Store, and overpriced, unrepairable MacBooks.

Apple is even becoming worse, in part by hobbling consumer interoperability (iMessage), forcing unnecessary peripherals on users (Lightning connectors) and their low key collaboration with law enforcement and authoritarian regimes (read: China), amongst other points.

So. Let me give you some advice, from a guy that used to nearly worship the Rainbow Fruit Mothership in Cupertino, California, before it gave you street cred to buy Apple logo product:

APPLE SUCKS

APPLE PRODUCTS SUCK THE MONEY OUT OF YOUR BANK ACCOUNT

APPLE DOESN'T INNOVATE ANYMORE

YOU BUY APPLE PRODUCTS FOR THE SAME REASON AS AN AUDI: THE LOGO

APPLE IS ACTUALLY BAD

STOP BUYING THEIR SHIT

I bought my final Apple product in 2010 and I haven't really looked to Apple since then, and I'm increasingly happy that I haven't.

Use Linux. Use Open, FLOSS solutions.

That is all. Repost this to save others from spending unnecessary money on a garbage company, thanks in advance.

Still adding to my custom emoji wishlist:

- guillotine

- killdozer

- mandalorian helmet