I vote, but my voting isn't necessarily more-effective than my other efforts. I do think that it's a way to send a strong collective signal and unnerve lazy and corrupt politicians, as we can see with the AfD.

It is, in the end, the most secure and private poll of the citizenry's opinions. Everyone rules with the consent of the governed, so losing such a poll means their pedestal is crumbling.

People telling you to not care about what is happening around you, are more likely to be agents than friends.

Spreading apathy to silence opposition.

Just go to relay settings, find proxy section and some. forest is a safe bet. if you know some WoT relays add them too.

how to do this? what are proxies? never get bored on nostr!

Nostr Development lifecycle

- Dev doesn't find something he's looking for and soft announces a project

- crazy guy who follows all projects posts links to 10 projects that are almost it but not entirely

- Dev begins work and showcases a working prototype.

- crazy power users vocally demand features no one else but 5 people need.

- Dev spends hours delivering on nieche features and unveils them.

- no one uses it.

- Dev gets bored and moves on to next project.

- Repeat.

Yeah.

Guess I'll watch Star Wars.

Those were the days 🌴 🏍️

⚡️🔎 NEW - Bluesky disabled guest search.

Idk, I just see a potential in this npub 🤷🏻‍♂️

Nobody knows everything and making things personal is not my style.

The truth is not an attack.

Anyone who deems it so is not worth engaging with.

Going to Bsky is like visiting the zoo. You can view some of the most dangerous critters alive and marvel at the savagery behind the safety of high fences and glass walls.

Containment is key for a successful zoo.

because I would like him to understand.

It wasn't meant as an attack.

“(no offense)”

Why are you apologising? You’re right, of the other person doesnt get that, it’s on them.

Maby also read into direct democracy. I am also against representatives. But only because today democracies have representatives, does not mean that democracy needs to have representatives.

I would also prefer a direct democracy mostly depending on freely chosen subscriptions.

But I also see, that there is some things, which inherently need taxing in order to ensure some basic level. Since I see that nobody chooses their parents, I see a need of minimal standards for everyone.

Because in the end in every possible reality society will pay for people which are unable to gain enough to ensure their basic needs. Eighter society pays for those with money to give food, housing and opportunity to get independent again. Or society invests in always increasing saveguards and security to defend from people without opportunity.

Defnitly there can be other opportunities than only taxes. But I think whatever solution needs to proof to have some kind of plan that really solves a problem. Not just the symptoms.

It's one of those mornings where I wake up to a headache. A hangover without the drinking 😖

I think you are very convinced with this idea. I leave you this idea. I defnitly prefer to live in a democracy, where the individual is seen as this. Not as a means to something more than just being.

Tax as a system, I am not against. I am against abuse of tax money through individuals deciding what happens with the taxes or companies and individuals, which steal tax funds to enrich themself personally.

I put Monarchs defnitly in this category of people who enrich themself illegitimatelly. For me legitimate use of tax funds is to fullfill needs, which benefit the individual in the end.

Like a public school system, to make sure everyone can read the laws, argue for or against them and discuss based on logic.

Police to enforce the written laws and the infrastructure for those institutions.

I think all other needs can be locally organised on a county level. And I as a swiss person defnitly defend direct democracy above all other forms of democracy.

Every new law can be negated from the people directly. And new constitutional articles can be enforced by the people directly too. I could even imagine a system without cohstant representatives at all.

Okay, this is really exhausting, I’m having serious trouble finding the will to carry on, but I feel like there’s no viable alternatives on the horizon…

Buying up houses to renting them out to others for a profit is actively harmful to society.

The need to generate "cashflow" on your asset is a symptom of a fiat mentality.

Try owning an asset that grows in value faster than the money supply. Then rent-seeking is no longer necessary.

Shelter shouldn’t be a yield instrument engineered by monetary policy.

Fix the money, build more homes, and stop forcing everyone to be a landlord just to stand still. Bitcoin > cashflow.

🤷

In the Bitcoin/Nostr world, yes. In the mainstream world it’s a government regulate app.

I'm still working out that part. However, i can see how it'd totally work for local courier types of deliveries. For instance, customer has a package to send. They'd use the platform to create the from/to and have package ready to ship. Than, a Nostrich in the area picks up the package, and delivers it to the proper local destination. Perhaps for longer destination, maybe the courier could take the package to USPS, ups or FedEx.

There are also a number of logistical APIs I could maybe plug into for those services, similar to how pirate.ship does, but be hard on nostr and lightning. Hell, there are nostriches with delivery vehicles, semi-trucks & planes. We could probably create a network.

Device independent wallets should be a thing.

I was blocked a day or two ago. I assume it was for my vpn

Wait, you guys really think Women shouldn’t have the right to vote?

I thought it was a joke….

PS: what you described is the current state of most of America.

And less likely that ppl will be executed because someones thinks it's not murder (rationalized murder)

In America? The farther we move from natural law the less legitimate the magistrate becomes and the more likely God allows revolution.

He's been the Russian dictator for over a quarter century, and before that he was in the KGB for 15 years.

A Putin does what a Putin does. It's naive, to think that we can control him by being nice.

You're delusional, if you think he needs an excuse to have a war.

New toys :)

get your "growth hacks" away from me

I could have sworn that there was some event that occurred, after which people were saying that it wasn't safe to mix with. What has changed?

He has me muted.

I returned the favor.

Democracy is not stupid (I am Swiss). There are just scaling issues as there are with socialism and nostr and everything.

Lol. It's not a democracy. It's a dictatorship, usually.

You could have stopped at "almost everything"

You will see that most NPCs defend the state security forces, both police and military.

Have they ever helped you? Because the police always help after the fact, that is, they are rarely at the scene of the crime and prevent crime, they are really useless.

They are only effective in defending the interests of the state, so if you try to evade taxes, you'll see what happens, or if you get traffic fines to raise money, or if you don't show up at a polling station, then the police will come to your house.

For robberies, murders, assaults, etc., forget about them, they are not there to defend you, and they also have orders to defend illegal immigrants in Europe.

It’s inspiring how our forefathers went to war to preserve our freedom and principles over a 3% tax without representation. How have we normalized so much overreach still doesn’t make sense to make. So I humbly stack #bitcoin as resistance to their broken money and broken incentives

Fucking people everywhere preaching to micromanage everything I do and have been doing my whole life. These kinda "lemme teach u to be better" free advice givers need a special place in hell

Trochu se bojím, že tvoje seznamování by vypíchlo ty nejlepší stránky všech tak výrazně, že by si připadali nesnesitelní i sami sobě 🙃

Já mám pás čudnosti, to funguje jako docela spolehlivé antifrodiazikum 😶