I went to the Khan el-Khalili bazaar today. It’s a bazaar that was established 600+ years ago in Cairo and continues to this day.

Some of the architecture in and around the bazaar dates back that far as well.

The merchants sell all sorts of stuff, and there are also cafes/restaurants in there. The famous Al-Hussein mosque is right next to it, so during the call to prayer several times per day, many of the merchants will go in and do their prayer there.

There are also a ton of stray cats, stray dogs, and beggars in the bazaar.

The bazaar has a mix of good stuff and lame stuff for sale. A sad thing in Egypt is that a lot of trinkets for tourists are cheap made-in-China objects. Eg if you buy a little metal pyramid keychain, or a little metal statue of an Egyptian god, it’s likely made in China. Within the bazaar, a general rule of thumb is that metal stuff directed at tourists is mostly made in China, while textiles, stone, and ceramic objects are likely of Egyptian origin. A large part of the bazaar caters to tourists, but there are also some subset of shops geared more toward locals.

You ever speak with him ?

Proper shampoo and conditioner containers open from the bottom now. That way when they get low, the product pools near the opening while it is sitting there and still comes out easily, rather than the user having to struggle like a fool to get the remaining product out of a container with the opening on the top and the product pooled on the bottom.

So the fact that the vast majority of containers still open from the top seems idiotic to me. Why don’t they all open from the bottom, ever since someone figured out the right way to do this?

Anyway, I save these types of important posts for Nostr.

Video Game Industry: $221 Billion

Movie Industry: $77 Billion

Music Industry: $26.2 Billion

“You could combine the revenue of the movie industry and the music industry, double it, and you'd still be shy of the gaming industry”

#gamestr

feel like I'm missing a lot of power users & builders

pls nominate someone awesome to follow in the comments

this. nostr is just bad for private stuff. nostr DMs were a mistake. We can do better and leverage protocols more suited to private comms to protect peoples privacy at a level that would piss off the NSA. nostr:note1mvx4a2g6dw4kanemrech059vu6hx4d3jtghcu746l7934jk9j85skqtmkh

Many people like to use Bitcoin Pizza Day as a platform to discourage bitcoin spending but any money you have spent throughout your life could have been sats stacked instead.

We should all consider reducing our expenses to maximize the amount of sats we save long term but personally I would rather spend bitcoin than shitcoins like the dollar.

"If I'm elected President, I want to reform the Federal Reserve" - Vivek Ramaswamy

Baltimore is too dangerous for any serious conference. People would be getting mugged and carjacked for sure. It'd be like putting the conference in Portland, San Francisco, or Chicago

So much MSM fear of AI

Did they forget Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics?

A set of ethical guidelines for the behavior of robots that ensure their safe and responsible use in society.

The laws are as follows:

(1) a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;

(2) a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law;

(3) a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Asimov later added a fourth or zeroth law that superseded the others, stating that a robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.