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Its the capital of my hometown, I used to be but not anymore. Just passed there a few months ago as I dropped someone at the train station early morning and I was shocked

Because it has turned into a disgustinf hellhole, trainstation closed overnight because of all the robberies, homeles people lingering around. Smell of piss and trash everywhere

The sequel to 24, July 18, goes live in three days. I will be at nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7cnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqqyqv5fekglky2nny5svgdukhwpzr0f8putd5lj67m09qpm4qaw7zn567296q next week, doing my first book signing for it.

21 copies only, and each will have a handwritten correction due to a minor publishing snafoo. Six handwritten words, that possibly mean everything 👀

Avoid Bolzano at all costs

Had to take my wife’s car to the mechanic

Decided to jog home

6.5km

25 degrees

Uphill the last 3km

Took me 36 mins

First time I’ve run in what must be over a year

Life in the old dog yet

😅

He has a fixed fee in AUD per hour, and I just pay each time in whatever the SATS conversion is

Tbh I think for him it’s a nice little entry point into BTC

I’ll be his only client doing it this way

I don’t spend bitcoin other than zaps because it takes jumping through 100 hurdles to buy it. Same with selling.

Things can't grow infinitely, there are always caps. Natural population decline is not bad, it's a self correcting force. There's a reason rural areas have higher birthrates than in cities, human beings always adapt to the environment.

Globalists will propagandize you into believing this decline is the end of the civilization and thus infinity third worlders need to be imported to resolve it but it's simply not so. The only ones who suffer from a natural native population decline are those who's net worth so high as to be solely affected by market downturns. For the rest of the working glass there's always work to be done, and increasing housing supply helps them immensely. Those sitting on houses on investment? They'll do anything to prevent population decline.

I pay my boxing coach in sats, via lightning, with a Muun wallet

Every

Single

Time

It blows our minds as I send sats via a lightning invoice in a matter of moments

So cool

PS: Trenitalia offers Paris to Milan too, and it's a little shorter (with about half an hour or so).

SNCF opens tomorrow the ticket sales for January 9 to March 29. But London to Verona is quite an interesting route.

There's a direct train from Paris to Milan (about 7 hours) and from there to Verona in less than 2 hours. But in Milan, you might need to change train stations.

It should also be possible with an overnight stop in Germany, then Innsbruck and Verona. About three and a half between the last two.

This is just from the top of my head, but if you really want to give it a try, I can look into it more responsibly. I can even make a post if you have some rough dates in mind.

Welcome to Trainstr!

#introductions

I will mainly address travelling to/from Austria, Italy and France. Secondarily, Germany, the Czech Republic and Switzerland.

I am based in Austria, and my focus will be on long-distance travel, but I will offer all kinds of tips for local and regional trains, from ways to reduce prices to the most beautiful routes.

As an example, every year the Menton Lemon Festival takes place in the South of France. Between the 14th of February and the 1st of March, "Fête du Citron" is a magnificent event, especially for families.

I won't focus on train reviews, the YouTube is full of them, but on beautiful journeys that can be affordable, especially if you travel as a family, like I do.

I will also post about promotional prices, when it's the case, and ticket sales openings. If you ever see a route and want it adapted for your needs, I should be able to help because sometimes I just look into train routes out of curiosity.

That being said, I hope that my posts will inspire you to travel.

#travel #trains

Today I realized the true meaning of being open to life.

I have no idea who needs to know this but the day after tomorrow, on the 12th, SNCF releases the train tickets for January 9th to March 29th. SNCF is the French railway company, just in case.

Would anyone be interested in a new npub dedicated to European train travel? Thought it would be pretty limited to mainly Austria, where I live, and, secondarily, to Italy and France, where I travel often enough to have a decent opinion on some routes. Sometimes it would be about Switzerland, Germany or the Czech Republic, but rarely.

Normally, I'm into longer routes (eg: Vienna to Cannes), I can post about multi-day journeys that can be broken and adapted by needs, and sometimes I just look into routes for curiosity. If anyone has questions or needs advice, I can help with that too.

I don't know how often I will be able to post, but I want to participate in making Nostr more captivating. So, any takers?

in the bulgarian language, the common word for "country" as in going back to the older meaning of the word from english, the word is:

strana

this means "side" sorta like "scala" in italian. it is also the origin of the word "strange" in english. the serbs specifically use the "persons" modifier "ac" (ats) stranats for foreigneir, where there is another form used in bulgarian "chuzhdenets" and "chuzhd-" actually means strange and foreign and there is also the expression for being outside the country: "chuzhbina" (bil sam chuzhbina za velikden - i was overseas for christmas).

but they distinguish between a country and a territorial monopoly, they are used interchangeably but "strana" is more like you think - your football teame - and the word for modern state is "durzhava" and the word "durzh-" means to hold, so, a government holds the territory. the people who live in it, however, tend to then be divided by which side of the line they are on.

for me, the allusions to tribal gang hooligan football fan mentality writ large is obvious. "which kind of foreigner are you" kakav chuzhdenets si ti? well more normally just "ot kade si?"

i kinda am starting to properly miss eastern europe i think.

Nostr is part of it I believe

For the average internet user, the experience is almost entirely on digital real estate owned by a company, that is monetising their attention via adverts

It doesn’t have to be this way

It was never intended to be this way

Opt out

There’s no need for you to be the product

There is a cost to it “being free”

🙏🏻

Long-term bitcoin holders have sold more than 400,000 bitcoin over the last 30-days, representing almost 2% of the total supply.

Bitcoin is in a material supply distribution phase and the price is still holding strong above $100,000.

I think se people are selectively deaf when it comes to bitcoi n.

Father in law 2 months ago: Should I buy gold.

Me: Yes, but you should also take a position in bitcoin

FiL: Gold it is

FiL 3 days ago: your gold call was choice. I rotated some of it into silver

Me: Might want to get out of that silver shit. Also buy bitcoin.

FiL today: HFS I listened to you on the silver thing and avoided a major dip. What do you think about gold still.

Me: It's a great-long term play, but so is bitcoin

FiL: OK so I take my silver earnings and rotate back into gold.

Let’s be clear about what happened:

Unelected bureaucrats gave

themselves surveillance powers that would make Stalin jealous. In secret. Without oversight. Knowing you’d never approve.

They got away with it because nobody stopped them.

Now they monitor everything. Track everyone. Store it forever. Expose it and they destroy you. Question it and they smear you. Resist it and they criminalize you.

The same system that lied about wars and experiments until documents proved otherwise.

But this time is different, right?

No. It’s worse. The technology makes it permanent.

Most people will keep pretending the system will fix itself. Keep waiting for someone to save them.

We stopped waiting.

They built their cage without asking.

We walked out without asking.

THAT’S WHY I’M AGAINST IT!!!!!