Confusing speech with censorship. Thinking criticism equals an “attack.” Not understanding that the First Amendment restricts the government, not private individuals or TV commentators, etc. Criticizing, talking about change etc. of 1st amendment is ironically protected by1st amendment.

And that's not all. For attack on 1st amendment to have an effect, 1st amendment would have to be changed. For 1st amendment to be changed, there should be overwhelming support of American people.

What do you think American people are like if you think that someone talking on TV can make them support changing 1st amendment? Do you see a problem there? No...do you see multiple big problems there?

If you think that talking does change minds of big majority, if all it takes is talk to loose foundation of your country, what does that tell you about whole thing? Do you see multiple problem there?

Thinking that Canada, England or Australia are somehow attacking US 1st amendment and are not real allies, while ignoring Russia and China, that's absolutely ridiculous and tells more about you than about system that you think is attacked or US citizens that you think would be willing to change it because of that attack.

And all that while US president is limiting reporters....holy shit dude....holy shit.

If you think that individual talking on TV is attack or assault than you have WAY bigger problems than you think you have.

Reality is always more complicated than one sentence or word. I tend to explain my positions and do not let others make my positions up.

And none of which is attack on US 1st amendment like i wrote in my original replay.

Propaganda can be a tool, a technique, a process and yes, a weapon. It’s used by everyone. Governments, political movements, corporations, media, religions, advocacy groups, and individuals. The US uses it. Canada uses it. The UK and Australia use it. Businesses use it. Private citizens use it.

If using propaganda disqualifies someone as an ally, then the US has never was an ally to anyone and had an ally and no country has ever been a friend to another. As long as humans have tried to influence opinions, propaganda has existed. That’s just reality.

By that standard, even internal political campaigning would count as hostile action. Which is obviously absurd.

For example: Elon Musk openly encourages Europeans to vote for extremists and attacks moderate political solutions. He’s far from the only American doing this. So hearing accusations of “foreign propaganda” coming from the US is, frankly, ironic.

What’s really interesting in the current situation is this:

People are suddenly calling influence from the UK, Canada, and Australia “propaganda” countries that have admired the US for decades, adopted large parts of US culture, and literally fought, bled, and died alongside Americans when the US asked for help.

At the same time, many of those same people downplay or ignore propaganda from China and Russia countries whose explicit goal is to weaken the US and reshape it into something more like themselves.

If I were China or Russia, my primary objective would be simple: Use propaganda to divide Americans. Help elect the most incompetent and corrupt leadership possible. Convince people that longtime allies are enemies. Wrap it all in slogans about “making the country great again”.

You are being played but you have no idea by who.

1st amendment is external thing, not internal US thing and England, Australia and Canada did not respond when US called for help?!

How is Israel, England, Australia or Canada assaulting US first amendment? Even if they wanted, they couldn't. It's US internal thing. Only US citizens can change it from inside.

And those countries proved that are not "supposed" allies. They proved it when US called for help. They came, helped, bled and died for US.

Joe is a faker.

Joe voted for that. He can't say: "i did not think this will happen". Yes you did know. You were told hundreds of times. Not only were you told by others, but Trump was extremely open with what his world view is and what he and people around him want to do.

How Ukrainians dare to defend themselves, trying to survive and define their own destiny.....shame on them! If they simply gave up and let Russians kill them without resisting, it would all be already over and we would have a "peace"

Oh man...i have Americas Army flashbacks. Time when US Army had real FPS shooter / simulation. Boy did i spend shitload of time on those servers. I don't know how effective of recruiting tool it was, but man....those days....

I am wondering same. I don't know is it even possible to know relatively precise number of users. Like few percent precision.

But Europe does nothing, produces nothing, we do bottle caps only!

By speed it was rising, i knew it's gonna turn into something serious! Beautiful! I love craft of fireworks making.

Happy New Year nostr!

If they do not change triggers behind payouts, they will only fuck up platform even harder. Problem is not how large payouts are, it's what is being rewarded. How you count views, how views are rewarded, how content can be filtered by those that pay for ads etc.

Current game theory rules over there are: "write as provocative post as possible, no matter what, no matter truth, no matter quality of information, just poke and probe for human response". Current rules are slowly destroying quality of communication on X. If they crank up payments and do not fix rules, it's gonna become even bigger shitshow (i don't know if that's even possible tbh)

True. They have no incentive to fix anything. Just print more money and fill holes with it. Secondary effects of printing it? They don't care. It will effect them least of all, if at all.

I am still waiting for anyone to give me use case of CBDC that will enable them to do something they can not implement right this moment without CBDC.

I heared few things and not single one is CBDC related or depends on CBDC.

1) no more cash - Yeah...more than few countries in EU are already going cashless in not so distant future. CBDC or not, they can do it right now. That's not some future, that's now.

2) stopping you from paying - hey can and they already do it right now. Blocking you from sending money to certain countries, businesses or individuals. Again, not future, now

3) they will be able to track you / your payments - they can do so now. They improve on mechanisms to do that all the time.

4) programmable money - again, they do it now. If you send payment to x, they do y

Is there something that CBDC gives them (and by them i mean governments) that they can not implement without CBDC?

Even things i do understand (physics behind how tons of aluminum and plastics can fly) still make me wonder. It's one of those things that humans can't really imagine in some easy way. Like....100 billions of dollars. How does one imagine that number, that amount of money? There are plenty of things we say that "we get" but are hard to imagine.

They are absolutely same.

I still feel a sense of wonder when I see how an airplane that weighs tons can fly through the air. Few technologies fascinate me as much as that one.

As a kinda new nostr user (we'r talking months, not years kinda new) i'm bit confused now.....doesn't gm mean "good morning"? If not, what does it mean? Is it does....how the fuck is that connected to a nazis?!

Am i living a lie?!

Andrew T...

No. Haven't watch that in a loooong time.

Yes, it all started in 2014. We all know that. Genocidal maniac had eyes on Ukraine for long time. It's good thing that Russia is incompetent so "second army in the world" can't conquere highly corrupt and underequipted neighbor.

Yes there were reasons for invasion of Ukraine. Putin being sick psychopath who wants to restore big Russia and erase anyone who does not want to be part of it.

Everything else that you wrote is pure bullshit spread around by Russian propaganda.

That's it for me, i wont waste my time on people who are drinking Putins coolaid.

"You do not know me or what i think. " Yes i do know what you think. You posted what you think. If you do not think that, than you are someone who is lying which again tells me enough about you.

Commercial banks cant move a finger without central banks. Central banks are running the show anyway. They set up rules for commercial banks, and they do print money when needed. Its not like commercial banks somehow make things better.

When i see "x does not want war, x just want's to live their lives and be left alone" i really don't know what that means? Are we bunch of children who think that you have to "want" war to get war? That you have to somehow invite it to have it? That you have to actively participate in creating war? That simply ignoring it can somehow remove you from effects of that war?

Yes, you can try to ignore war, that's for sure, but what happens when war or it's effect comes knocking on your doors?

Is it ok to ignore war that is near you and do nothing and hope it won't spill out to your land one way or another (it doesn't alway happens as a wave of tanks coming across your border), or is it better to help defender defend himself so that you have friendly thankful neighbor in between yourself and attacker?

Or are we naive enough to think that "they won't attack us"?

You can't get peace by sitting on your hands and pretending it doesn't concern you. Bully will eventually look your way and you can't say: "leave me alone, i don't want to participate" to a local bully. It did not work in school, it did not work on local playground and it does not work in global politics. Never worked and it never will.

Only thing people of Europe can do to keep peace inside their borders and keep living their lives without war is to group up and help Ukraine to stop Russia.

If you think that ignoring whole thing and pretending it doesn't concern you is viable option, you need to retake history classes, because you clearly failed to learn what happened in the past when whole nations said: "they won't attack us".

Last time people of Europe played dumb we had that thing called....world war. Even some people of US tried to play dumb. Some of them called for "talks with Hitler" and "he did nothing to us" etc. And than war came knocking.

You can't stop war by simply ignoring it or not wanting to participate in it. It's like "i don't want to be sick". Well....flue virus simply doesn't care what you want.

He was not sentenced for "offensive posts". He accused person of being pedophile. That's not simply offensive. He accused people of other racial stuff too.

If you are tough online, you better be ready to back it up once you are faced with what you said in person. If he had any proof of what he said, he would not be sentenced.

He lied, tried to destroy someones reputation by lying and got bitchslaped. He won't go to jail if he does not repeat his lies for some time.

abolish traffic laws and red lights 🤣

But if they receive hundreds of thousands of 1 sat zaps.....

You still have to watch out for creating an echo chamber, though. If you block or mute too much, you can lose touch with reality. I’ve seen it happen whole communities on social media get shocked by events just because they spent too long agreeing with each other without any outside perspective.

I have experienced it more than few times myself. Result of Brexit vote, first Trump win etc.

Hunger used to be around the corner all the time. That’s exactly the point. For most of human history survival was so hard that people barely had the chance to think about anything else.

But when survival stops being a daily emergency, humans don’t suddenly lose purpose they finally get the room to build one. The fact that people can think about meaning, fairness, or long-term goals today is possible because hunger isn’t breathing down their necks.

If your purpose collapses the moment basic needs are met, that wasn’t a purpose it was survival instinct. Human beings are capable of much more than that once they’re not constantly fighting for food or rent.

My streams are working on zap.stream or nostrudel.ninja, but not on primal. What gives?

They ask me how bussy i am at the moment. I'm so bussy that my 3D printer is not printing anything for days now and this is waiting to be installed for days now....

Good luck whatever it is.

Basically, we are gonna live like everyone before us except that one generation that exists only in handful of countries on very limited time and amount.

Both of my grand grand parents had to work to create enough food for their families. Same for my grand parents, and same for my parents. Im first generation that is not fighting tooth and nail to survive.

Such a bittersweet moment nature’s cycles remind us that even endings hold space for rebirth. You gave it your all. One ending is opportunity for new beginning.

All Bitcoin has to do to win is survive. Current monetary system is set up in a way that it fucks up people and drive em into Bitcoin bit by bit. My preachin in 2013 and 2014 did not convert single person i knew and talked to personally (had more luck with on line conversatins as some people reached out to me to thank me after few years). Inflation converted one completely and one more partially.

Bitcoin just has to be alive.

what variety is it?

That “3rd out of 193” figure is about total firearm deaths, which by itself doesn’t mean much since it’s not a per capita number.

Per capita is the real deal:

With those cities included (full U.S. data, 2022), the firearm homicide rate is ≈ 5.0 per 100,000 people.

Without Detroit, LA, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Chicago, it drops just a bit to ≈ 4.5 per 100,000.

Still nothing to write home about when you know that in Singapore it’s approximately 0.01 per 100,000, 0.02 in South Korea, 0.04 in the UK, or 0.1 in Switzerland — which has a TON of firearms! That’s 4.5 vs 0.1.

And just to be clear: guns themselves aren’t the problem. I’m not a gun enthusiast, nor am I strongly against them. I’m happy I live in a country where you can’t just walk around buying and carrying one (you can buy and carry, but you have to pass a lot of exams and tests). The fact is, there are countries with a shitload of guns that don’t even come close to the death rate the U.S. has — so it’s more than clear that guns themselves are not the problem.

There are not many Tesla Superchargers in Europe where you can go for a swim while your car is charging! This one is in Senj, Croatia, Adriatic sea. https://blossom.primal.net/d4cf4c2b85cc95c21eede0595cb36c68f280e918fef6bc332abcebbf607fd9d2.mp4

Looks like you lost a boat too! 😄

Let me give you a fresh example from my country. It happened yesterday (or the day before—I’m not sure, depending on your time zone):

https://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/pozar-na-ciovu-izazvao-argentinac-s-gumenjaka-bacio-je-opusak/2698252.aspx

Feel free to use ChatGPT or Google Translate to read it in your language.

Long story short: people do stupid things all the time, and it causes real damage. In the case I linked, the damage was relatively small—still over 28k—but that’s nothing compared to other incidents. This sort of thing happens hundreds of times every summer along our coast. Often, the damage is massive: huge fires, entire areas burned, and costs through the roof.

So, can I justify a 28,000 fine? Absolutely. I could justify much more. Make an example out of him. Put him on every TV channel and news portal, and explain exactly why he was fined so no one else gets the same idea.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. It's all about responsibility. When i see someone calling for freedoms and not a word about responsibility i know it has nothing to do with freedom but with ego.