How do you see humanity future.

Mad Max or Cyberpunk?

How do you see humanity future.

Mad Max or Cyberpunk?

Humanity isnt aligned so I wouldn’t expect them to.

People accept the status quo of nation states with the George H Bush “new world order” as if that’s just the path we should be on, rather than the one we happen to be on because of US decisions decades ago which raped everything downstream.

If you’re long humanity you are long the idea that humanity can coalesce around certain primitives including not destroying itself.

Just because that’s not the current path doesnt mean that’s not where we ought go, nor that we can’t get there.

These parasites won’t top the tree forever. I don’t think they’ll top it much longer.

The bigger problem IMO is the lack of alternative visions to coalesce around.

Wind and solar demonstrably output less energy for capital investment today than any other form of energy.

Nuclear outputs shit tons more with its longer lifecycle.

Going to denser energy forms that the US blocked was my original point. We’re missing 50 years of scientific advances in nuclear because of the petrodollar and if we had them even raising solar and wind would look retarded; like advocating for the abacus as the best way to advance mathematics when we have 3nm microprocessors already.

The harm inflicted by the petrodollar isnt just monetary. It fucked our whole tech tree. This is what the PayPal mafia have realised and put their energy towards.

You might not like them or their paths forward but they have understood the problems correctly.

To wit:

> We're witnessing a modern East India Company scenario: a private entity (SpaceX) controls critical infrastructure (Starlink) that a sovereign nation (Ukraine) depends on for its very survival. Meanwhile, the U.S. government uses this private leverage to demand natural resources, effectively treating Ukraine as a colony to be exploited rather than an ally to be supported

Imagine if it was Bitcoin (or another open protocol) that Ukraine relied on. By what lever would any single, centralized powerful entity threaten them? Ukraine would be free from centralized coercion, and that liberty wouldn't be achieved via "proper regulation by a proper democracy", nor from benevolent private sector megacorps.

What's the over/under on boys in fields vs basements?

We used to have snappy well dressed young men out being useful, learning the value of work, earning income, getting exercise and interacting with their neighbors. I don't understand why anyone thinks this is advancement.

Ale na tom mi nepřijde nic pokryteckého. Ono za svoji ústavou stojí protože jim příjde jako dobrá. Pokud považují ústavu která zakazuje volby za podmínek války za nedemokratickou, tak není žádný rozpor.

Vlastně i já českou ústavu považuji za škvár co nesmyslně povoluje státu prakticky všechno a ocenil bych aby se polila benzínem, zapálila a místo ní se přebrala US ústava. Tedy jde mi o první dva dodatky a pátý dodatek, co je tam dál to netuším…

It's a compelling argument.

double tap!

I tried to do that, but I want to zap more pretty often 🥲

Jejich ústava. Nikoliv například ukrajinská. Pokud by jim měly bejt svatý ústavy ostatních států, pak by jim nutně musela bejt svatá i ústava čssr, která zakotvovala vedoucí úlohu KSČ. O čemž pochybuji.

the bulgarian word for this flower is "kokiche" and i lived on a street named this in Varna on the black sea coast in 2022

it's very similar to the serbo-croatian word "kokice" (kokitste) which is their name for popcorn, not hard to see the connection i think?

I will never understand how any and all online payment systems are still shit. It's 2025 bruh.

I've entered all the information correctly. Failed. Ok, let me enter the wrong information then. Still failed. What does it want for it to work? It can't even admit that it's broken.

I just want a payment system so good and reliable that it actually wants to take my money.

I only have private channels too. I've never routed. But I have seen 3-4 sat fees on 21 sats coming out of places like cashu mints, phoenix, and coinos. Phoenix might be price gouging me because I can only connect to their node out of the app.

Zero fee for 1 sat out of my Alby hub though 💪

I don't know if anyone would even charge a fee on that actually.

Especially when the fee is bigger than the zap.