Not big on the ostrich mascot. Don’t like “GM” and the fake positiviity. Don’t want to be part of a group or a movement.

Just want to exchange ideas.

Always hated the “GM” posts. Seems like it started with the NFT crowd. Fake positiivity for marketing purposes.

if they had to fight in it and pay for it themselves (severe consequences) it would be a lot less likely.

Why?

The for conditions for warmongering are:

1. People over-invested with centralized power

2. Who lack emotional self-restraint

3. And basic ethical principles

4. Who are divorced from the consequences of their actions

Once these come together, there will be war.

Get rid of any of these conditions, and war is far less likely.

2 and 3 are things you can only instill in yourself. 4 is often a result of 1.

Bitcoin fixes 1.

Been buying 1-2 month T-bills, letting them mature and re-upping. Don’t want to have the cash tied up for long in case something seismic happens. Feel like I could still get rugged somehow, but seems like the safest bet of the bunch.

https://fountain.fm/episode/lvlFxP36PHqMfjapNoly

Just as it was a huge mistake to let the most fearful among us dictate covid policy, it would be a huge mistake to let the most aggrieved among us dictate Middle East/Israel policy.

In a court of law the jury (made up of ordinary people) renders the verdict. But excluded from the jury are people too biased from prior experience to be impartial.

Those who are most emotional always want to make decisions for everyone, but while their emotions are often understandable under the circumstances they are exactly who should not be making them.

Get a frugal wife.

While sometimes it’s annoying to be out to dinner and hear her complain that I’m ordering the 35 euro steak, the opposite problem is 100x worse, can destroy your life.

I post on the NFL and link to it every week from my substack (all the free subscribers), who click through to read it, but very few people from NOSTR have followed it.

I think there has to be a value proposition here — some compelling content or voices you can’t get elsewhere.

I saw a thread early where you (Stella) argued that bitcoin could not have been created by China because of its repressive culture/system.

Maybe the same is true for centralized social media where it’s mostly status competition and the threat of censorship.

The breakthroughs will happen in the land of the free.

Axioms > network effects over the long haul. In fact that’s the bet on BTC > USD.

Is it necessary to have relays in the EU any more than it’s necessary to have BTC miners there?

Is it necessary to have relays in the EU any more than it’s necessary to have BTC miners there?

Yeah, show people why they need to go to NOSTR.

I’m a borderline free-speech absolutist — even though I think speech cheering on violence against regular people is ignorant and vile, I think they should be able to say what they want, and I don’t think people should be blackballed from getting a job later in life because they said or believed some stupid shit at some point

That said, I don’t have the Herculean restraint it takes not to enjoy the schadenfreude here. These idiots were Harvard students, and what does it mean to get into Harvard? It means you are very good at doing what you have been incentivized to do.

So these poor midwits were so good at internalizing the woke rhetoric they were taught — probably would have put me in a camp for not taking the mRNA poison — got got because their over-compliance finally ran afoul of something else you’re supposed to comply with.

It’s a classic double-bind where you have to be two contradictory things at once, and you can’t possiby win.

Good life lesson: don’t be a compliant, obsequious do-gooding little bitch — have some fucking principles and think for yourself.

Kind of like how the sun will expand greatly from its current size before it burns through all its fuel and goes out.

Almost certainly still happening via other means now. nostr:note1p300f6ay62xkm8pp745f389wtuguapss2y5x728se7z53lkgtz4qpwyfks

horrible — seems to be happening way more.

Don’t know if it’s just for unverified accounts, but logged onto Twitter yesterday and every post I made was liked by porn bots. Asked if anyone else was having the same problem, and 10 people said yes.

Every week I go back (only on Tuesday), and the experience is worse. I see fewer accounts I follow, fewer people see my posts, the features for an unverified account get worse (can’t even see who’s engaging with my posts unless I click to another page), the number of views on my posts vary widely (probably due to the algo) and if you make an extended thread, no one sees most of it.

It might be worse since Elon took over than when it was censored by the woke mafia/deep state.

Sat-penny parity is next. If the penny > dollar, there is no dollar.

NOSTR has this revolutionary new feature where the people who have opted to see your notes actually see them.