It's me, I'm the guy just here for Nostr.

Wife and I are saving for a house, I ain't got extra cash to throw into Bitcoin. Started a wallet so I can receive zaps, but all the zaps I send come straight out of zaps I've received.

Circular economy baybeee

And the current system is predicated on infinite growth, which I wouldn't count on for the next 50 years.

Ah yes, the great Protestant mystic Dave Ramsey.

For what it's worth, my take on Dave Ramsey is he has great advice for helping people get out of debt, and a lot of people need that. Beyond that, his investment advice is good for Boomers and Gen Xers, but I'm not convinced it will continue to work so well over the next 30-50 years in which millennials and Gen Zers are trying to establish themselves in life.

Is it time to stir up some drama?

Humor me. I've never heard the term before, so I want to make sure I understand what you mean.

What do you mean by "weather warfare"?

Are you learning to code, or learning a new language?

This is an excellent live recording. The musicianship to play live with a full band for 12 minutes is truly incredible. I wish more live shows sounded like this.

https://open.spotify.com/track/7qpvqbgXyDLl5pvGmyG4RP?si=dVWrdvUXQHq8rObLYvhGIw

I came of age straight into the chaos of Trump and Covid, so I'm in the weird spot of this almost feeling normal, because I haven't really known much else in my adult life.

I have IRL friends that I talk about Deep Stuff with. Finding those people ain't always easy though. In my case, I think the friends found me.

It's chaotic, for sure. The sudden re-emergence of actual anti-semitism has been starting to me.

Of course, out of the chaos, there's an opportunity to introduce new, better worldviews.

Excellent, I will contribute what I can 🫡

I've been reading Mansfield Park (the latest in a streak of classic lit I've been reading) and I was looking for a place to process that and other classics with other interested people.

I feel like that's what is happening in real time with the Israel and Gaza conflict. It doesn't cleanly fit preexisting categories, and so now every opinion is on the table.

I'll have to give that one a look and see if it covers it. I'd like to have a space for discussions of books that would commonly be considered to fall in some literary canon, as distinguished from more recent or current authors and releases.

Moderating is just approving new posts to the community, for the most part. It should keep out spam.

Oh dang that is different. I think the Overton Window may just be shattered at this point

Great analysis! The discussion of Steam ratings really illustrated the point well.

The QTS system you outline sounds to me like it combines the best of Steam's and Airbnb's rating systems.

Is there a literature/great books community on Nostr yet? If not, who would be interested in helping me moderate one?

What a way to meet your spouse, that's pretty cool

There's definitely a bell curve distribution of opinions I'd think. Until recently, at least, most people fell near the center of the bell curve.

It could be we're seeing the curve fracture now, though.