Are you guys on Damus or Primal?

Is a photograph a painting? Is it not a painting? It is a difficult question.

I can't answer.🤔

Hi

#introductions

Today, I grew another year older.

Grateful to the parents who gave birth to me and raised me.😊

#OrangePillApp now has 8k members. Kinda wild.

Weird flex, but ok.

The fact that Bitcoin isn't yet accepted everywheree and for everything really underlines for me how few people have actually used Lightning. Whenever I show somebody how it works, there's always that "wow" moment. But why was it a surprise?

The problem is that normal people still understand BTC from the one half-remembered opinion piece they read in 2017, and are operating under the belief that transactions still take an hour to settle, rather than being instantaneous and irreversible — money transmission without the Paypal Problem. The public mind needs a cache refresh.

I know everybody is dunking on the random governor who decided that she could just wave her hand and unilaterally suspend any right she dislikes simply by hissing the word "emergency," but the problem is that she's only wrong if another political force — the courts, politics, disobedience, or Locke's old Appeal to Heaven — proves her wrong. Enforcing the limits of official power isn't some American $currentYear problem, it's a recurring issue throughout history.

The question is why we're suddenly seeing the authoritarian instinct activating so much more openly — and frequently. In prior decades, they had to be cute in how they went about it, often requiring laws and lies. Now they're remarkably comfortable simply stating "because of the 'emergency,' you can no longer {travel | donate | engage in commerce | read | communicate | carry}," and that's the whole of it.

The next question is what you're going to do about it.

I would like the option to emit *more* carbon emissions for my order deliveries.

I see..

maybe it's just our female population's way to communicate.

I learned the lesson that some movies are better not to watch like S&C-movie.

99% pain in that one was self inflicted🤦‍♂️

But still..

Was it good end/bad end?

ok