I’ve been having these thoughts about the universe and energy since I was a child. Literally as long as I can remember. The mushrooms are just helping me unravel the nonsense that the parasitic human mind has implanted and removing the corrupted program from my database. Reminding me of who I truly am.

MDMA assisted therapy officially rejected by the FDA. I genuinely believe that directly correlated to many lives lost to PTSD and depression. Abolish the FDA. Start from scratch. What a joke.

I was just walking down the street, coffee in hand, suddenly realizing how "normal" it all is already. Like most days, I went to a coffee shop that accepts lightning. Like most days, I paid directly with sats that someone zapped me here on nostr. Like most days, neither the merchant nor myself thought twice about it, or took a minute to marvel at what just happened.

So, allow me to do just that. Marvel at what just happened. While everyone is having a fantastically crazy time at #nostriga, uncountable people are using bitcoin in a myriad of ways. Some for savings, large and small; some for transactions, large and small; some for other stuff. Bitcoin is slowly but surely entering the world stage. Some commentators will tell you that this is good. Some commentators will tell you that this is bad. Whatever the case may be, it is unavoidable.

I see nostr under a similar light. As platform-based manipulation and censorship ramps up—which it inevitably will—the usage of nostr will ramp up too, and with it the usage of zaps and everything else that comes with it. And soon enough, buying a coffee (or breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with zap-based income will be normal. Just like it's "normal" to be an "influencer" today, or a "YouTuber" or whatnot... It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's a normal thing. Anyone can do it.

Back to my coffee. I remember when I had the "oh my god, I can live on bitcoin here!!!" experience for the first time. It was in Bitcoin Jungle, a couple of months after the initiative was launched. I stayed there for 2 weeks or so, buying the necessities of daily life with sats outright. And it worked. Flawlessly. I had zero payment failures, and was exclusively using Zeus with my own node. It was incredible.

Why is this incredible, you ask? Shouldn't stuff just work? Yes, it should. But building out the tech and the infrastructure to make it all work is BLOODY HARD. I remember the first Lightning Conference in Berlin, in 2019. Everyone came, everyone had all their channels and wallets and everything prepared, and ~50% of payments failed. For... reasons.

Fast-forward to today: I go to one of the 100+ merchants in the city that accept bitcoin, a quick tap on the PoS device & QR code scan, boom, done. Is it always perfect? Of course not. Will it get better still? 100% it will. Very soon these merchants will have NFC-enabled devices, and the tap-to-pay experience that people are used to with cards & Apple pay will be normal for bitcoin payments too. If you are in Riga right now, you'll experience this first-hand thanks to Bolt cards and BTCPay Server. It's awesome, it's open-source, and it works. And it will get better still.

We are truly living in the best and weirdest timeline; a timeline where shitposting on the internet can buy you lunch and dinner; a timeline that spawns amazing technological movements like #nostr; a timeline that, every ~10 minutes, allows for a small miracle to happen. A timeline where "magic internet money" is a normal thing; a timeline that, thanks to the magic dust of cryptography, enables anyone to speak about anything, without having to ask for permission. I'm grateful.

Thank you, Satoshi. 🙏🧡

I mean the chicks they want to bang would abort their babies anyway. It’s bizarre and evil

You could say that about eg my work group chat on WhatsApp which I have on mute. There's no algorithm, there's no dopamine hit ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/ ;) lol

To a certain extent nostr needs to face its problems (no. 1 being the bitcoin chatroom dilemma). And I think another one of them is a growing general disinterest in social media.

I look forward to a nostr forum client or other cool forms it can take tho:)

Imagine being such a cuck and desperate for pussy that you get psyoped into getting a free vasectomy at the DNC

It is a violation of basic human rights to suppress someone's ability to express their thoughts and feelings, including their hatred.

It is a violation of basic human rights to censor hate speech.

If you hate Israelis because they've killed Palestinian children, if you hate Russians because they killed your family with a glide bomb, if you hate Americans because they killed your relatives bombing Belgrade, or Iraq, or Libya, or ten zillion other nations, it is your human right to be able to express how you feel.

That is why I am involved with nostr. I will work to support the basic human rights of every human being on planet earth in the face of all oppressive legal frameworks anywhere and everywhere. Those legal frameworks are flat-out wrong and I will fight them until my dying day.

Please use nostr tools and express yourself. But be anonymous when you know you are putting yourself at risk. Use tor and or at least a VPN and an anonymous nostr identity, and then let's have true, honest, open, constructive dialog.

Hate for an ethnicity is always a mistaken thought pattern, but you can't have that corrected by the community if you can't even express it.

The reversal of the carry trade could turn into a margin call on the financial system with EVERY asset (most illiquid) tied to that very same financialization and leverage.

That leverage unwind will (if left unchecked) take down major players.

Ie - Massive manipulation of money incoming (liquidity) or deflationary spiral. Likely both (depending on timing and your country)

Good thing there is a protocol stack bounded by energy that is open, decentralized and secure.

#Bitcoin.

Looking forward to the day when I can order a mosquito drone swarm on Amazon and instruct them to patrol my property as hunter-killers for a variety of pests.

Every time I had to work on my node, it became hours of troubleshooting.

Here goes attempt number two of upgrading it. Fingers crossed it works this time.

How is the Netflix app so good? Its always very responsive. unlike any other streaming app/site.

#asknostr

I really miss the late 90/early 2000s era with Russell Peters and fun racist jokes that everyone enjoyed because we were all still on the same team