if the moon effects the tides, why wouldn’t it effect us?

While I agree with the sentiment (real love & care must be rooted in reality) I don't think it's possible to "pray away the gay."

It is possible that some past abuse was the catalyst (homosexuality is highly correlated with abuse) & finding ways to heal past trauma can be helpful in whatever sort of relationships a person wishes to pursue. But we get more of what we focus on, the more you focus on the thing you want to get rid of, the more of that thing you are going to get. Focusing on emotional healing & fostering healthy relationships (including healthy boundaries & basic habits), & otherwise treating someone like family (with no focus on sexual preference one way or the other) is really the way forward.

That's okay man. They provide to the world in other ways. 🫂

I don't believe my two friends that have sex with one another are hurting themselves or slowly killing themselves so I don't reach out and ask them to stop. If they were alcoholics, I would talk to them about it and try to help them.

They think that both are a choice and a disease that could be cured

I don't get the comparison of alcoholism and gay sex? Can you elaborate?

I accept who my friends are and don't try to change them.

I have yet to meet some who says that who truly “loves the sinner”. Not saying they don’t exist, but…

Too few see how this movement has been co-opted and is being used to push ESG / SEL / SDG, etc. It's been chosen as a Maoist attack vector against classical liberalism. This is explicitly stated by Marcuse, Butler, Rubin, Crenshaw, etc. It's one thing to love the sinner, hate the sin on an individual basis. It's another to recognize and reject a Maoist cultural revolution on the other.

And these people that you consider friends, you tell them this?

I just lost all my bitcoin because I stored it on an exchange, buy my course

If my Niagara Falls photo sporting Pride colors offended you last night then you need more 🫂, 🤙🏻, and 💜 in your life and it shows.

Pride isn't about pushing an agenda or narrative. Pride is about showing support for people that didn't have our public support for quite some time. They were ridiculed. They were discriminated against. They were killed.

Supporting Pride means that you support love and freedom to love whomever you want to love and should be able to live your life however you choose.

If a group of people were persecuted for hundreds of years, I think 30 days of public support from time to time sounds like the least we could do.

Besides, it doesn't hurt me to support another human. But, it's possible that it could make them feel all that much better.

💜 #grownostr

Beautiful. 🇨🇦

Lots of difference ways handle some of the edge cases, but this feels like a very easy and available whitelist rule that requires zero setup from the user, and yet it would allow 99% of all your desired traffic to be served with 0% spam.

That’s a game changing signal / noise boost.

It’s also self organising so it scales to infinite capacity and aligns motivation of good behaviour on the network, it allows users to quickly sever any spammers that break into their network tree.

🚨 PROPOSED SPAM SOLUTION 🚨

Please read, I think this works. Between the ** is a reference from Primal, this is important context for what comes next.

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OK to begin, I noticed that Primal.net/explore lists the following categories of nostr users from the perspective of my pubkey…

1). Follows - accounts you follow

2). Tribe - accounts you follow + your followers

3). Network - accounts you follow + everyone they follow

4). Global - everyone on nostr

Breakdown of the numbers (for me) is as follows

1). Follows = 290

2). Tribe = 1,800

3). Network = 17,723

4). Global = 505,671

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Now “Global” or “Universe” is always prone to spam, because new pubkeys are very cheap and a spammer can easily automate the massive creation of new spam accounts. This has happened several times this year and many of the Global accounts are just one-time-spam pubkeys.

Primal’s category of “3). Network” is much more nuanced and may actually be self correcting.

Network, as defined by Primal is everyone I follow plus everyone they follow. My network is 4% of nostr, but I can grow or trim my own network by following more people or unfollowing people.

If someone in my network starts following spammers and spammers get into my network, I can simply unfollow that original follow pubkey, you can prune your network to cut out all the spam. This is self policing and encourages people not to follow spammers, or they will likely be unfollowed en mass.

Even if a spammer created a sophisticated network of pubkeys all with lots of fake follows and followers, this spam network would not bisect with my network unless one of my followers started following the spammers. If this happens, I can instantly fix this by simply unfollowing the fool in my network.

I think this works at unlimited scale and is actually very very simple. It is an example of an emergent system. A simple set of rules that cause complex higher order results.

The only drawback is genuine new humans finding their first follow. But they should be able to do this outside nostr, as it’s a 1 time kick start to their nostr keys gaining traction in the main network.

Have I explained this clearly enough to follow?

Would a couple of social graph pictures help?

Some shower thoughts, thinking about what to build on Nostr as someone who runs a centralized OTC app.

When selling Bitcoin on a P2P marketplace, the seller is at high risk of these kinds of scams especially of the buyer is using a non-cash payment (paypal, bank transfer, fiat payment apps). Sellers often get super rekt by the scams mentionned above. P2P or OTC bitcoin sellers will either charges a big premium as insurance, or does their own KYC (often either ultra invasive or hopelessly inadequate). Fraudulent buyers hurt the UX of P2P marketplaces, and ironically the fraud detection tools of centralized exchanges, whether KYC or pattern analysis, would be the solution.

As a seller of Bitcoin, the only thing you really need to know about the buyer is "will this guy fuck me over and will the fiat be clawed back". As a buyer, you only want to give the minimum information possible, but enough that the seller will trust you and not charge you exhorbitant fees and put you through outrageous verification processes to make sure you're not a scammer.

Bull Bitcoin's low-hanging fruit value proposition for Nostr: we have sophisticated fraud detection and KYC tools with varying degrees of due dilligence. Most of our tools are minimally privacy intrusive. The end result is that we have can have an extremely high degree of certainty that a given user "is not scammer", and a high degree of certainty that a user is "likely not a scammer". Our users already obtain a kind of "trust score" internally, which basically means they are not likely to do a chargeback, are not frausters stealing someone's bank account or a con artist performing some man-in-the-middle scam.

So it seems like doing NIP-05 verifications, or some variation, giving broad labels (risk score very low, risk score low) based on internal that we have would be useful for people that want to show good reputation on Nostr-based marketplaces. And we could do this well. Bull Bitcoin users that are whitelisted by us could then "port" the reputation they have with us to a P2P exchange.

Then again, I really don't want to be "the KYC guy" on Nostr. I hate the fact that KYC is one of our expertise (even if a lot of what we do is minimally invasive). I also don't want to be liable for "endorsing" people that aren't scamming Bull Bitcoin, but that may scam others.

I wanna do something fun on Nostr, not replicate something that sucks from legacy Fiat-Bitcoin world. But there is demand for it and we're good at it.

Final thought: just because you can, and just because people want, doesn't mean you should.

Just finished reading The Mandibles. Wow.

If you believe in “science” and get triggered when someone rejects it then you are firmly in the matrix. This is your signal to reject it all 100%! Science is the biggest scam there is. TRUTH.

The scientific method is legit yes as a system for experimentation but “science” is a false religion. Do no try and save the word. It is hopeless and works against us. Embrace Natural Philosophy which is what all the greats called it before it was buried and replaced with scientism in the 1920’s. Swallow all this now and we can again have beautiful things.

Truly truly FEW

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