It's funny because for many years I was on the "just Free Palestine" side. Until I started to read and learn about the actual and nuanced history of the region, Jews in Europe, Christians in the Middle East, imperialism (including Muslim and Ottoman imperialism, not just the ones that are convenient to revisionist ideologues) and so on.

By the way, there is no God, so keep your nonsense for yourself.

Dude, I live in Asia for 10 years, including China and Singapore, so I'm pretty fluent in Singlish, and for the life of me I have no fucking idea what this guy is saying. "Buy my house"?

Could have been one single multiethnic state, were it not for the Arabs trying to kick the Jews out (and seeing what's happened in Egypt and basically everywhere else with local Arab Christians, eventually a Muslim theocracy). Too bad they wouldn't accept it. nostr:note1n79gkdzrqelrjk69mkzgzc9q7mzz2pkdezmjghh4cxs927dtmtlswy2vys

It's part of the cultural package. I have been having this conversation for 30 years now.

All the good things most people love about Japan are inextricably attached to all the bad things they hate about it too.

Masks are a good example. They have always been used as a courtesy toward others, not so much to protect oneself -- in theory. In practice, the flip side is that they are just one more layer of antisocial behavior.

And yes, with the excuse of covid mask use has noticeably skyrocketed and become a lot more prevalent, worsening even more the antisocial aspects of it.

I don't live in Japan anymore but I go several times a year, so I really notice this kind of more subtle changes that people there may miss.

And it's the same in China, Korea, HK, Taiwan, Singapore...

Of course you don't "have to". You don't need to say "I use Thunderbird to send emails over the internet using SMTP".

You're free to say, for example: "I use the Email to tweet letters in internet" if you please.

Yes, time chain.

The horror and shittiness of US domestic flying is unparalleled. There are third world countries that do it better.

Well, you can't prevent them from using and working on a protocol, so it's kind of a moot point.

What I meant is that their discourse quite often is phony and hypocritical, seen from the reality if the system. We should evaluate their opinions with a healthy dose of skepticism. Or in any case, we shouldn't give them any moral authority or extra weight because they are "model humans" or "leaders". They are not.

Because investors know Bitcoin does one thing better than anyone else: store of value. Not currency or payments. Bitcoin is gold, not dollars.

That's my bitcoin investment thesis too.

You don't use the Email, you send emails. You use the Nostr to post notes.

I'm not even going there. I was simply asking for data on other assets, to see if we can get to a more accurate prediction for BTC.

I'm interested about the underlying thesis: do assets that BTC could one day aspire to replace (in the short term, gold, for instance) follow the "wealth distribution" described in the meme below? How much gold does the 0.001% have? What about other assets? Is there even available data to figure these things out?

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This is an untrue statement.

"The market" is the aggregation of individual preferences and actions. So the market can only be a reflection of the values of the individuals that participate in it.

If you feel there is a disconnect between "the market" and people's true and actual values, the most likely explanation is that powerful enough actors, mainly the State (as in the fusion between the government and its private corporate cronies) are constantly distorting and thwarting the free flow and development of the market. That, or you're wrong about what people's true and actual values are.

I think it's two thirds the former, and one third the latter. The main problem is the State, but people as a whole are also quite shitty.

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Has that been a Nostr controversy so far? I keep comparing the Nostr with the good old days of IRC, so to me it's exactly the opposite: I would have expected themed relays from the very beginning and am still a bit surprised that we don't see them.

And if you believe for a second most of it won't end up being sold at price-gouging rates by Hamas-related gangsters, you're fucking delusional.

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Brilliant. I love it and already adopted it. People who don't like it probably should stop referring to "the" Internet too.

On the other hand, every time I hear American parents/children telling each other "I love you", it creeps the fuck out of me (and most, if not all, people I know in my home country).

⬇️ I've said something similar about Michael Saylor and Elon Musk too in the past. The way the Corporatist fiat system works, whenever you see someone who's made billions, forget about mystical powers of market vision and godly business acumen.

What they are good at and the way they make bank (literally, quite often) is regulatory arbitrage, aka cronyism, aka "the game". That's the one and only way you can take a very successful business and turn it into a billion dollar corporation.

I don't care if once you've profited from it you decide to go humble billionaire and give it all to charity, or become a Bitcoin prophet. nostr:note1c38ngwrtpce4df0pp82apyedmh3uh8d4t2hjd2tll6wx2q89r08qg0g64u

But no, seriously, the EU is still too attached to the concept of an old style Orwellian State Directorate type of totalitarianism to allow a PRIVATE company to do it, even though that exactly what they're already doing with banks and totalitarian control and surveillance of our finances... nostr:note1yp89w4m7qxut86dnss9kld8387hrrkgagtl2lhfjjl4lfvnaygqq7afrtg

Western governments will never allow that a US based private company wield the power to implement what would basically be Chinese-style social credit score... oh wait. nostr:note1jskycrjm5g9lcqnqpkpetgjlv784ajvkh6xk6euq77n9jxrds30qyz8q4e