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Alex Li
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Living free

Must read every week!

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Another US war in the middle east, what could go wrong?

Not a bad holiday either, my profile picture is me biking around open carrying a machine gun last July 4

Happy Juneteenth, the most libertarian holiday of the year!

All my Chinese silver was seized at airport customs, can't take it out of the country. A climactic end to my journey around northeast china. At least they let me ship it to my grandpa's house back in China. If I knew this beforehand I wouldn't have bought hundreds of coins, would have just gotten a couple. Almost missed my flight running through customs to the post office

Found a Republic of China era manhole cover in ShenYang. This manhole cover has seen the Chinese Civil War, creation of the People's Republic of China, the Great Leap Forward, The Cultural Revolution, 64, and is still chugging along.

Drinking with locals at my hostel in china, and wow, did not expect the two CCP members I was with to have such contrarian views of history, politcs, and the chinese economy. The best conversations are at 2am over a cold beer on a street shop.

I'm in buttfuck nowhere China. Life is slow here, there's no subway or flashy skyscrapers with neon lights. There's 30+ dog meat restaurants and street vending is still legal. You can smoke inside restaurants and wearing a seatbelt is optional. Life moves on, day by day, year by year https://video.nostr.build/52700095dc95a6f089fff7bd87e7a6eb5a54a18efc53bf888bbe6b9e09fef3da.mp4

Joined 7 random Chinese people in playing uno at the hostel, total American cultural victory

Visited Unit 731 where Japanese scientists experimented on and murdered thousands of Chinese, Korean, and Soviet civilians during their occupation of China. The Japanese would send dissidents, civilians and homeless people here and purposely infect them with diseases, freeze them alive, and then gas or vivvisect them to study.

I love how twitter thinks I'm in North Korea when im actually in north east china 🤣

Norway, USA, South Korea, and now China.

The Chinese immigration entrance form asks me to list every country I've been to in the last two years I'd have to write 20 countries the form is too short 🤣

Boarding a flight to Harbin, China. Lots of legroom since the flight is 80% empty.

In Korea, there are few public trash cans but little littering. In the US, there are trash cans everywhere yet the trash is always outside the trash cans. Guess I'll hold this popscicle stick until I get back to the hotel 🤣

So Korean parks can have bench presses and workout equipment........

Forgot my pre flight selfie but I just landed in Seoul for Bitcoin seoul, looking forward to speaking about Bitcoin, human rights, and FOSS funding!

Replying to Avatar Derek Ross

The entire week of #NosVegas could not have been done without the generous and amazing support of nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as. Thank you so much nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td and everyone from HRF. Without HRF a Nostr booth or lounge wouldn't have been possible.

(Alex, I kept missing you yesterday. I wanted to 🫂🤙🏻 I hope all is well brother!)

I also could not have done it without my team and our hard working volunteers and the Nostr loving folks who stopped at the lounge and talked to newcomers and Nostr curious folks as they visited the lounge.

It's people like you that are going to make all of this work. Your love and passion will onboard and educate the next wave of users. Keep up the great work.

Catch you at the next conference! The Nostr booth was pure signal

Words cannot describe how lit the open source stage was at Bitcoin Vegas. Pure signal, full of devs, not live streamed. Freedom Go Up personified.

The main stage was Fiat suits, politicians, and shitcoin scammers. Diseased brains filled with Number Go Up, the same people who tell you to use a credit card and hodl your Bitcoin. The only talk I listened to there was Ross.