Courage will make you more money than knowledge or intellect.

Tesla focused on Stock Price and political alignment, BYD focused on selling cars. Its not a silly take. BYD now has the supply chain needed to scale.

The F stands for Free, not Freedom

Don't write RMS out of history, and I hope yr error was only ignorance and not something more sinister

FOSS = Free OpenSource Software

The Free stands for Freedom. Opensource means the code is public for everyone to see, use and change.

British and Dutch brought exploitation. Now that they kick them off, there is progress in Africa.

You gotta admit. It's pretty fun

Smart kid

Tesla was defeated before they even started.

BYD passenger car plant in Brazil begins production as local sales exceed 130,000 units.

Im assuming all of nostr is awake and refreshing the feed rn 🤣🤣🤣

Where will Deep Throat come from this time… ? Can’t come soon enough!

I'm the photographer.

Marry me haha

How can I try your app John?

I'd zap you if I could. 😆

GM nostr!

Yeah. I got it wrong👉👌

Whip it real good

Relays are only like bitcoin nodes in the bad way, they do not scale.

Unlike Bitcoin, every "node" can censor, and thus every large relay can be censored by the gov.

Relays are just servers. They are no more "decentralized" than traditional web servers, which you can also run yourself.

Nostr has no meaningful comparison to Bitcoin, which entirely different as a system.

Issues with nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqtxwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tmwwp6kyvtkx46kv7tgx3kxketnd3nhs7rrvdkxwwrxxp585ct6dpshwdmjwdexsanxw96hs7ndxfnxkd35vvmny6rswv6r2m3swc6n7cnjdaskgcmpwd6r6arjw4jsqgr98zf9a0akv86p3kx86p6tachg4lthsuqamzg8psk6jdk4w8j4cv6qcgkr

I've been using Fountain as my go to podcast player for at least 2 years and love it. But after recent upgrades I've had persistent issues and it's getting close to being unusable now.

I'm on iOS and am experiencing the following issues:

- Each time the screen goes off on my phone the podcast will stop playing. What I mean is that whenever my display goes dark if I'm not using the phone the podcast stops playing. It only happens with Fountain, not with other audio apps like Spotify. It used to rectify if I shut the app and restarted, but this no longer works.

I have had to resort to restarting my phone, which worked or a while but now is not working either.

This is a persistent issue now and I'm close to ditching Fountain because I can't listen to podcasts anymore, so wonder if anyone else has had this issue or if Fountain can offer any solutions?

-The second issue is that after a recent upgrade my headphone controls no longer work on Fountain. I used to be able to pause or restart a podcast by tapping the button on my headphones, but this doesn't work anymore. I can do it on other audio apps but can't stop a podcast with the headphone pause button now.

-Last issue is the the podcasts in the queue don't autoplay. It seems to happen after I rearrange the order of the episodes in the queue, whenever I do this they don't auto play.

The main issue I'd like to resolve is the player cutting out when my screen goes to sleep, this means I can't listen to podcasts while I'm driving or walking. And we all know there's no life for Bitcoiner's without pods.

Hope you can help nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqtxwaehxw309anxjmr5v4ezumn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tmwwp6kyvtkx46kv7tgx3kxketnd3nhs7rrvdkxwwrxxp585ct6dpshwdmjwdexsanxw96hs7ndxfnxkd35vvmny6rswv6r2m3swc6n7cnjdaskgcmpwd6r6arjw4jsqgr98zf9a0akv86p3kx86p6tachg4lthsuqamzg8psk6jdk4w8j4cv6qcgkr

Thanks

This is where it all started going downhill:

Not saying it does. Nothing is guaranteed. But it does feel similar.

I am the biggest Nostr shill in my “bitcoin beggar” video

Srsly the people who are convinced I’m paid by bitcoin coz I shill bitcoin (lol yes these people exist) are gonna be like “bro you got paid by Nostr didn’t you” 🫠 🫠

Anyway have a swell day 🤙

Bitcoin is a network of nodes collectively maintaining a ledger.

— Satoshi Nakamoto

Some Thoughts on Adoption (and other nonsense).

There's this old Louis C.K. clip—recorded long before he was cancelled—that summarizes our modern conundrum well: "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy."

As I was walking towards the hospital today—after a way too early 5:30 rise—it dawned on me that wide-scale nostr adoption (and "proper" wide-scale bitcoin adoption, for that matter) is probably not going to happen. The good news is that it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. The bad news is that lots of people will suffer.

"Why so bearish?" I hear you ask. If you know me just a little bit you'll know that, even though I do have many faults, being bearish isn't one of them. I'm still incredibly optimistic when it comes to the adoption and proliferation of freedom tech. Otherwise I wouldn't be doing what I do.

Here's what dawned on me, though: People aren't even interested in their own health, why would they be interested in healthy money? Yes, everyone wants to be healthy. But doing what is necessary to live a healthy lifestyle? Not interested. Not in the least. Usually something really really bad has to happen for people to change their ways. And even that doesn't move the needle in some cases, as plenty of drinkers who still drink after their liver gave up, or plenty a smoker who still smokes after being diagnosed with lung cancer can attest to.

Which brings me to bitcoin treasury companies. Are most of them interested in taking the responsibility of holding their own keys? Are they interested in providing real value while staying humble and stacking sats? No, of course not. They are interested in paper gains, not in a full-blown reorientation that leads to a healthier lifestyle. And I mean that literally: if you truly and fully adopt bitcoin, the responsibility that is entailed by that will result in a reorientation, a re-alignment of values, which will—down the line—lead to more long-term thinking, healthier business practices, more honest value generation, and so on.

To me, this is what "capital B" Bitcoin is about. Change. Real change. A ridiculous proposition to the balance sheet brain.

...which brings me to nostr.

A short stroll through the current iteration of the internet should make clear that the platforms that most people spend their time on are incredibly mis-aligned with humanity. The outrage-machine that we've built for ourselves is keeping us like rats in Skinner boxes, hitting the dopamine button with every swipe and every scroll, no matter what. We've built a machine that is parasitic on humanity, instead of synergistic. We are optimizing for engagement, which means that we are maximizing addiction by shoving a mixture of uppers (porn) and downers (rage bait) down our collective throats. The machine is catering to our lowest selves, as opposed to our highest selves. (We could also optimize for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, you know. Is that too much to ask?)

But who is to blame for all of that? (And is it worth blaming someone in the first place?)

It is clear to me that the whole military-grade industrial advertising complex that profits from running large-scale and nonstop psychological experiments on the whole fucking population of the earth wouldn't be profitable for long if we would all get our act together. But that won't happen, of course. There won't be a magical finger snap that suddenly shakes us awake from our slumber; that stops us from sleepwalking into dystopia. Just like there won't be a magical finger snap that stops us from our bad habits and unhealthy lifestyles.

Adopting a healthy way of living is hard. It means saying no to the constant onslaught of sugary snacks, fast-food around every corner, and social pressures to indulge. It means taking responsibility for your decisions, cultivating discipline, taking care of your body, your psyche, and yes, also your soul.

A wise man once said that "he who has a 'why' can bear almost any 'how'." And that's what most of us are missing: a strong enough "why." Why go through the trouble of living healthy? It's hard! Why hold your own keys, if someone else can do it for you, and there's even the apparent safety of some insurance? Why cultivate a less destructive relationship to the internet, if you can just autoplay & chill, whether it be with Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, PornHub, or something else? Why not write the snarky comment and trigger a whole cohort of people at the click of a button?

Because it's not healthy, that's why.

"Everything's amazing and nobody's happy." That's the state of the world. Always has been. And I'm to blame too, of course. Sitting in the hospital waiting room, writing these lines, bitching and moaning about the internet, this amazing series of tubes that I so love, warts and all.

But yeah, the internet won't heal itself over night. Neither will the economy, nor the rent-seeking zombie companies that don't provide value, nor the underlying fiat system that broke it all in the first place. It will take lots of time, lots of courage, lots of faith, and lots of responsibility.

It will be hard, but it will also be worth it. And it starts with you.

What does Simon suggest?

Small and bigoted minds are what empires are built out of. History repeats, or rhymes, or something.

Crypto anarchy isn’t about chaos. It’s about removing permission from progress.

Happy 4th to the Americans.

Cheers. And as a user of the term, are you going to have a go at defining it ? Perhaps on a live show ? I'll be interested to hear it and subject it to scrutiny (along with the rest of the audience; I'm no-one special).

Great question, thank you.

FWIW Alex is absolutely not a fraud.

Camping at the Black Rock Desert for Juplaya

It might have been something Eric Arthur Blaire said though on a bad day. I'm not sure as I didn't know him personally. How about you?

GM, nothing ruins like subsidization.

These old tractors have an average age of 48 and are ready for another year of making hay! They don't make them like they used to.

This is my form of alchemy: grass -> hay -> cows -> beef -> fiat -> Bitcoin!

All through regenerative grazing and local customers.