The US deficit for 2023 is pretty alarming.
American living standards are fully contingent on reserve currency status. Huge tax increases required, if reserve status is ever lost. 
@cameri your pinky looks terrified! nostr:note1q2z8mgz860tj47melelc05yxkme4l2j89vqtzjvc9vq6l9ej73hs7pfu83
Sounds sensational Marius.
I haven’t been for many years (10+).
I’ve seen much of Norway and I can say with confidence that the Norwegian coastline is one of maybe four or five locations on Earth that really complete your sense of “planet”.
Google trends for people searching “nostr” is an interesting story. 
Have you looked at https://nostr.kiwi?
That’s a Reddit clone which could end up looking a bit different.
Only heard about zap.stream yesterday and as new pieces like that come to #nostr then new UX will likely emerge as we see different combinations of integrations and different content types.
What is zap.stream?
Interesting I had a very similar idea, using the visual tools of a graphDB to navigate content as it is published.
I struggle to find anyone to discuss this with, I think the scrolling and viewing are best separated.
I think the same should apply to the keyboard, it could be more dynamic.
There’s also lack of sound and real time sharing of experiences.
Did they perform the double slit experiment?
Honest question:
We have a lot of good clients / apps that are based around a social media feed.
Optimised to scroll notes on a 6in phone in portrait mode. This application looks well served and increasingly competitive.
But how else do people want to consume social content? Is full screen scrolling really the one-size-fits-all best possible solution?
I think there are twists on this UX that can seem much more contemporary/future-proof.
Does anyone else think about this?
Yes, also raising kids beats accumulating wealth for me.
It’s very difficult to articulate, but having your first child is like suddenly and unexpectedly becoming two people.
If you have 4 children, essentially you are 5 people on Earth, and you benefit the full emotional experience of those 5 lives.
If you live to 80, and see your 4 children to 55 then you have essentially experienced 300 years of life.
Not everyone is so fortunate, but the people who voluntarily choose wealth over children are missing some wisdom.
Loving your children is the only way you gain time on Earth. The. Only. Way.
nostr is a fabric rather than the hub architecture that emerged from www.
If I could use nostr to see when my mutual follows are listening (online), then I could initiate p2p webRTC sessions without a server.
nostr seems much closer to how the internet was originally intended to be used during DARPANET development than the direction it took under www era.
nostr really isn’t web3.0 or web4.0 it’s an entirely adjacent web to the world wide web. One with a fundamentally different architecture.
If you are young enough to believe you have 25 years of work ahead of you, it’s probably best to invest in yourself.
You really want to break into the non-linear part of the income distribution as early as possible. This is much easier for some than it is for others.
The best advice is to be the very best at whatever you do. You don’t have to make the NFL draft, or get into Goldman, there are hairdressers and plumbers out there with $200m self made net worth.
That’s the part nobody tells you.
The zenith of any field can potentially collect the revenue of 40% of that field. That is the fundamental nature of what capitalism is. The very best are the ones who allocate the capital.
Your education, experience and skills are inalienable, they are indivisible from you no matter what scale of failure or misfortune you might pass.
I also like this message because it frees everyone to pursue their legitimate passions. 
Today.
BoE warns of rising mortgage costs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-07-12/uk-latest-boe-s-bailey-on-rising-mortgage-costs
Also today…
Government Housing scheme hands back 30% of its budget (£1.9bn) after “failing to find projects to spend it on”.
Also today…
Chancellor orders Ministers to find £2bn of savings for public sector pay rises.
https://www.ft.com/content/41549091-24c0-4482-b23e-63a375e55fcf
🤔
Getting laid off over 55 must be scary as hell for the vast majority of people.
Many skills fade quite fast too, once you are out of employment. Inflation in general just brutal for older people. It destroys your savings.
There’s something that fixes this, but I forget what it is?
The nothing (2) phone launched today.
It’s a London based company making consumer electronics, anyone here have any opinions of it?
