Eh, what the hell, here goes one more spicy take: Maxis are people who are afraid of opening their minds and learning, failing and becoming stronger! Being maxi offers the friction free mediocre like style! 🐶🐾😂😂😂🌶️🌶️🌶️

(I bet I pissed off a few of you by now!)

i pray to satoshi this is not the event we look back at and think, this is where we lost

it all feels so strange

I see. Without knowing the country and going off what you said, it seems to function well under that situation.

IMO, America needs something that more directly affects the popular vote.

It's a lot to type, so I've used AI to help accurately convey in detail some of my big issues with the electoral college in America.

1. Unequal Representation: The Electoral College system gives disproportionate weight to smaller states. For example, smaller states like Wyoming have more electoral votes per capita compared to larger states like California, meaning a vote in Wyoming carries more weight than a vote in California.

2. Swing State Focus: Presidential campaigns tend to focus on "swing states" where the outcome is uncertain, often neglecting states that are solidly Democratic or Republican. This leads to a situation where the political power of voters in swing states is significantly higher than those in non-swing states.

3. Potential for Minority Rule: There have been instances where a candidate wins the presidency without winning the popular vote, as seen in the 2000 and 2016 elections. This raises questions about the democratic legitimacy of the elected president.

4. Vote Disparities: The number of votes required to elect an elector varies widely from state to state. For instance, in 2016, it took approximately 324,829 voters in Florida to elect one elector, but fewer voters in other states to achieve the same result, highlighting a discrepancy in voter influence.

5. Disenfranchisement: The Electoral College can strip eligible voters of their political power and voice, particularly those in states that are not competitive in presidential elections.

I would imagine with just an nsec, they can't do proper key derivation (like they can with seed phrases)

So just having an nsec means their messaging scheme couldn't function. Just a guess though.

Little by little, we are seeing how much Elon wants to keep us in prison.

But, you could make it easy to just use the Marc you’d like to use, no?

The current version of Keychat uses a seed phrase instead of nsec. This has caused a lot of controversy, with many people believing that Keychat does not understand the spirit of Nostr: having a single Nostr ID that is universally used across all Nostr apps.

In fact, the first version of Keychat used nsec. Later, we intentionally switched to seed phrases. Why?

Just like when we use Bitcoin wallets, we now more often use seed phrases rather than private keys. Using a seed phrase is an improvement in user experience. Moreover, NIP-6 defines the basic key derivation from mnemonic seed phrases. A single seed phrase can derive countless Nostr IDs.

Using a single Nostr ID across various Nostr apps focused on public notes is reasonable because users are sending public messages, and they can better accumulate reputation.

However, for Nostr apps focused on private notes, users should use multiple IDs to achieve better privacy. For example, you could use ID1 for close friends and ID2 for work colleagues. Current chat applications provided by internet giants do not encourage users to use multiple IDs simultaneously because multiple IDs affect data mining, reducing the accuracy of user profiling and, consequently, advertising revenue. In this context, using only one ID is a bug, not a feature.

If you use your Damus ID to chat with others on a Nostr app that focuses on private messaging, do you want all those people to see the public notes you have posted?

A seed phrase that is universally applicable to all Nostr apps allows users to choose which ID to use in a particular app, with the ID generated from the seed phrase. This is far better than using a single Nostr ID across all Nostr apps.

Don't forget, there are not only Nostr apps focused on public notes but also those focused on private notes.

A reasonable chat app allows users to use multiple IDs simultaneously, whereas a microblogging app’s DM often has only one ID. This is just one of the differences between the two. When we say, "Designing a DM for a microblogging app is not the same as designing a chat app," we are not playing with words; we are not that bored.

The electoral college is a scam. The president is a four year spokesperson for the unelected lifetime position controlling elite. That said, IMO it still matters who gets elected. A persident can create more than a few problems with what power they are temporarily granted, it just matter less than most people think.

I am a Libertarian. These are facts. Aside from the danger to democracy statement, that is my personal conviction based on his past actions.

lol, looks like indeed, but no flag nor T