Ohh and now you reminded me, he had this "friend" or partner in crime most likely who was some dude from some Caribbean Island who had bought BTC when it was like $1.00, and actually had this video begging and crying for people to buy BTC back in like 2011. That guy was even more shady, but I think he was a true bitcoiner, and he just used "crypto" to scam gullible people out of their Fiat 😂

*bull run

Oh boy I watched this guy for the outrageous entertainment and ridiculousness. For real, so over the top 😂

Never once I paid any attention to his "advice", he was so obviously a grifter and a crook. But man, I was always looking forward to the next video of him wearing some absurd Prada tracksuit and gold chain or talking about some "project" from his duplex in Dubai... With such an obvious desperation behind all that glitter, like he knew everything was a facade that would come crashing any minute. I have no idea where he is, I guess he keeps grifting? Haven't watched anything since the bulletin.

*bag 🤦

In case anyone needed proof that the savagery of certain cultures today really predates one specific magical cult or another.

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This would actually make user experience BETTER, not worse.

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Last back of beans I bought back home last week before traveling was €104/kg, so I feel you.

Same, same. But ours, while being by far the worst in Europe, isn't even close to this.

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It's shockingly burnt. In Spain even today most of the coffee you find in restaurants and bars is what they call "torrefacto", which means they coat it with sugar and proceed to fucking incinerate it, making it bitter AF. In the past it was believed to help with shelf life (it doesn't), and now that's just what people are used to.

And this Starbucks trash is even more vile.

I'm on a Google phone when in the US so I'm using Amethyst, and yes, I see what y'all mean.

I never drink Starbucks when I'm home but I had in the past when I lived in Asia, and when so am in the US as I am now, too often it's the only option around, or what you find in your hotel lobby...

My point being, is it as utterly horrible everywhere else as it is here in the US? It tastes like petrol and dead animals for fuck's sake. Who drinks this trash?

And with things that can be infinitely reproduced and that have infinite supply, like content or more generally information, where making a copy costs nothing and does not restrict anybody's access to the "original", one can't even talk about property rights.

So, if you make infinitely reproducible information, in any form - an image, a text, a movie, a song, software... - freely accessible, people have even less incentive to pay for it, because the fact that they use it and copy it and distribute it, does not prevent you from accessing it anyway. In other words, they are not "stealing" anything from you.

The point remains the same --

If you can restrict access, then the price people will pay is the maximum they are willing to pay for that access.

If access is unlimited, they will pay as little as they can get away with it, factoring it intangible things like paying a symbolic fee to "clean their conscience".

Seen a couple notes today whining that V4V doesn't pay the bills. Reposting.

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This is a fundamental truth, so it can be accepted as is.

That said, it's important to recognize that some of the most insidious lies exist as whole systems that are self-consistent. They are based on an original lie upon which a number of abstract layers are built.

So unless you are aware of the original lie, you may find yourself reading and absorbing false concepts and conclusions that are "logical".

We see this commonly today with all forms of socialism and marxism-based ideologies. Unless you're aware of the fundamental foundational errors Marx introduced in his analysis, it's impossible to break the cycle of lies. The same applies to all other forms of magical-mystical religious cultism. nostr:note1ejv8hj34pzegn6udqxkwk9sqhkcas04r3wukacjguunltnvdvwqqwddsrc

Censorship of content and users. A.k.a. "content curation". Relays should only do one single thing: RELAY.

"It was only after a decade of national wars, civil wars, revolutions, and counter-revolutions in all parts of the world that Ingsoc and its rivals emerged as fully worked-out political theories. But they had been foreshadowed by the various systems, generally called totalitarian, which had appeared earlier in the century, and the main outlines of the world which would emerge from the prevailing chaos had long been obvious. What kind of people would control this world had been equally obvious. The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government. As compared with their opposite numbers in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition. This last difference was cardinal. By comparison with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient. The ruling groups were always infected to some extent by liberal ideas, and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard only the overt act and to be uninterested in what their subjects were thinking. Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards. Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed. The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time."

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

"1984", George Orwell

Way too many people quote 1984 or use words like "orwellian" without really having read the book. Since I'm having a couple of long flights and way too many hotel nights, I'm re-reading it and it's fucking terrifying.

All the bitcoin would be too much, definitely, because nobody else would have any so it wouldn't be worth anything either. Distribution is key.

I think I last went in 2018, for work, and I doubt I ever go for work again in the short term. And there is no other reason to go at all, really.