When I first put my new chicks in the coop, I put in a box with a small hole cutout which the younguns could fit through, but the mature hens couldn't, that way the little ones could escape if they were being picked on too much. It worked pretty well. I'm pretty sure it was in the coop for less than a month and maybe just over a week.
Sadly true and the electorate are so dumbed down they don't know any better because they are incapable of thinking of themselves. They feel anything spoken by the media is true and right.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan has officially applied to join BRICS.
https://report.az/en/foreign-politics/azerbaijan-officially-applies-for-brics-membership/
As more and more countries move away from the dollar, all of the excess money printing will come home bringing crazy inflation with it. Look out!
I can't imagine being single and my age today. When a woman is married, at least if she chose wisely, you have someone to lean on. You help them when they are down or struggling. They help you when you are down or struggling. Home life is more dependable because you have two helping out with everything making things less likely to fall apart if one person goes through a hard time.
It isn't that marriage has nothing to give. It is that people today are always looking for something better. We live in a throw away society that throws things away, not just because they broke, but also because they are no longer new and exciting. People need to be more grateful for what they have instead of spending all of their time looking for something better.
# We can talk about something else, now.
Making boosts/quotes the primary way new users find a variety of topics is a fundamental flaw. We don't need boosts (which merely results in the main trending list trending even harder, as people feel safer boosting something that is already popular), and hashtags have become the mess they naturally will become.
## We need topical forums and relay-based community boards.
This would actively encourage those of us who want to write on OtherTopics to write more on them, as we would have some chance of the material being found by those interested in it. And it would spare us having to win some general popularity contest, just to be able to converse about golfing, Hinduism, or veganism.
Scrollable "timeline" feeds, even with AI assistance (like DVMs), don't accomplish this as well, as they eliminate the ability to skim the top-level and selectively read. You have to scroll, scroll, scroll.
It would also reduce the overloading of the original posts with videos, which is starting to give Nostr a Tik-Tok vibe. There's nothing wrong with that, per se, and we should probably have clients like that, but it makes life hard for anyone who wants to have a deeper discussion. People scrolling have trouble even "seeing" a text-based OP, but using the written word is a true signal to the other people, that you are capable of carrying a conversation through text.
## Examples for other styles of client
(I am including the Communities in Nostrudel and Satellite, even though they don't yet work, effectively.)
Some of the things that set these clients apart, is that:
1. they are topic-first or thread-first, not person-first,
2. they sometimes allow voting (I suppose we could rank by zaps),
3. they often allow the user to override the default order and simply look at whatever is newest, most popular, or where their friends are currently active (i.e. they allow for easy sorting and filtering),
4. they cap the depth of threads to one or two levels, keep the indentation tiny, or offer a "flat" view,
5. they are primarily text-based (Reddit broke with this and now their main pages look really spammy),
6. they allow you to see all of the entries in the thread, at once, and simply actualize to display the entries that pop up in-between,
7. they often have some indication of what you have already read (this is application data) and allow you to sort for "stuff I haven't looked at, yet".
https://i.nostr.build/TCSkG1bPuMOL0jja.webp
You do a better job at sharing long form notes than most. For a while I didn't realize that a bunch of people that had posts with a single bold statement were showing the title to a long form note. Yours, with an explanation and a picture makes it obvious that there is more and gives me enough information to know that I want to click and learn more.
When I post my long blog posts, I might need to do better and share some pictures to go with my title and description.
LOL.
That response is even more you than normal you
Put him in charge of shutting the CIA down. Put him in charge of Homeland Security and shut the whole thing down.
When he is done with that, he can start shutting down the NIH and FDA next.
I don't disagree with your basic ., but welfare is not in the Constitution and was stopped repeatedly for being unconstitutional. The federal government was not involved in welfare until the 1900s, which is also when things got so bad. In particular, 1913 was a horrible year and set the foundation for the horror that is our current government.
Algorithms are tools. They are not bad or good in themselves. It is how they are used and who controls them that causes a problem.
Agreed. Algorithms can be useful, but algorithms created by others for their use and forced on us are almost always horrible. Being able to choose and move between various algorithms (or design our own when there is not one useful to us) can be very useful.
I can totally relate. This was an issue between my husband and me when we got married because he tended to leave clothes on the floor. I can handle clutter, but not on the floor.
We came to the agreement that he had "the chair." He could pile it to the ceiling and I wouldn't complain until the clothes fell on the floor. Sometimes the pile was close to the ceiling, but as long as it stayed on the chair, we were good.
It isn't critical for everyone to understand all of the ins and outs of sats and bitcoin just like everyone doesn't have to understand all of the details of how electricity is generated and distributed.
The important thing is that sats are money that can't be stolen and won't be devalued away. All the other details are nice to know but not critical to know.
That's OK. We all had to learn sometime. Some were introduced sooner and some later. Some people got it immediately and some took a while to understand the wonder of bitcoin. The important thing is that you learned and you are here.
Great fireside between nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m at Nostriga. I got a chance to listen to it now.
Regarding the question of whether Nostr will have more users than Twitter/X in five years (~500 million), my base case would be no, actually. And I say that as a huge Nostr fan and daily user.
In the long arc of time, Nostr's addressable market is nearly unlimited (basically everyone who uses the internet could be using Nostr in some form), but I expect somewhat of a slower burn. Infrastructure build-out type stuff. And breaching a network effect with a better solution is generally quite a long uphill climb.
To me, Nostr is successful once it starts serving tens of millions of people well. I expect it to be more of a quality over quantity thing for a while. Bitcoin is almost 16 years in and still isn't at 500 million users. But for many of those people, it was lifechanging.
I'd like to be surprised to the upside, but I also don't want people to think that if Nostr is "only" at tens of millions of people in five years, or 100+ million but still sub-Twitter, that it underachieved. It's tiny right now, and numbers anywhere approaching that would be a huge increase.
Nostr is a great improvement for everyone using it. But sometimes it takes people time to see why a given solution is better than what they have, or to realize they have a problem at all.
So in the meantime I monitor Nostr's success by the quality and quantity of developer activity, the capability of the protocol as a freedom tool or the shortcomings it still has for that use case, the quality of the conversations throughout the ecosystem, how many people consider it to be lifechanging tech compared to centralized social media, and in time, steady growth.
Sadly most people prefer easy and popular to secure, free speech. I'd even argue that most people like having opposing speech silenced because opposing speech is uncomfortable and requires a person to actually think. The government schools have taught people to blindly follow and not to think. People aren't comfortable with having their paradigm challenged. Those people will never join nostr.
Hamilton was the beginning of all that is bad in the Federal government. He was a smart man (unlike most of our politicians today), but he also had very tyrannical tendencies. Still, I think he would be appalled with what we have become today (culturally and what our government has become). As bad as he was, I don't think he would like what we have today.
I used to be way more involved in politics. I was even an alternate delegate at the RNC for Ron Paul (my husband was a delegate). That was an eye opening event to see how utterly corrupt the politics are and how undemocratic things really work. They literally had the results of the voice vote on the teleprompter to make sure they got the "right" answer and not necessarily what the delegates voted for. They turned off the microphones in the areas with Ron Paul delegates and the main group opposing the rule changes that stole power from the delegates was driven around town on a bus for hours to make sure he missed the vote. In the rule change vote, they didn't tell the delegates that they were voting to approve letting the executive committee make decisions without the, they just said it was a vote to approve what the committee suggested. They refused to allow calls for division that would've forced a counted vote. It was sickening.
Of course the DNC is even worse. I'm coming to the conclusion that America is doomed.
If someone is incarcerated for years, it harms their life, but it can be made partially right. Once someone is killed, their eternity is settled. That is not acceptable. I don't like the cost associated with incarceration, but it is better than the murder of innocents.
They keep you on your toes, don't they?
If we had perfect courts, I wouldn't have a problem with death penalty for murderers and rapist and child traffickers. Of course, that is a big "IF".
I don't trust the courts and therefore cannot support the death penalty for any crimes. As badly as I want these crimes punished harshly, I'd let every one of them off if it prevents one innocent person from being put to death.
I am still getting used to it but the connection between nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 and Nostr is definitely a big plus!
I've really got to find the time to check it out.
Fall is my favorite season. Last year we got something like 2 months of Fall. It was glorious. Frequently we get like 2-3 weeks between highs in the 80s and snow.
Trump does have an issue with getting distracted by the wrong things. He needs to stick to the issues. There are millions of unhappy people desperately looking for an acceptable candidate. If Trump would focus on issues instead of snappy, "mean" tweets, I think the majority would flock to him.
Isn't that convenient?
For them, but not for us.
I don't think of myself as old guard, but I have definitely been here more than a year.
I'm not good at dates, but maybe even more than two.
Yes and No. I agree that people can get a false dopamine hit from sharing goals and never make progress towards that goal. On the other hand, some people need a little accountability. If they share a goal with someone(s) who will keep them accountable and ask them, "how are you doing towards your goal?" it can help a person stay on track. Some people will keep working towards their goal better if they are worried about disappointing those around them.
I guess it all depends on who you tell and what your purpose for telling is.
This is probably the worst part, "Indeed, not only are we developing a new citizenry incapable of thinking for themselves, but we’re also instilling in them a complete and utter reliance on the government and its corporate partners to do everything for them—tell them what to eat, what to wear, how to think, what to believe, how long to sleep, who to vote for, whom to associate with, and on and on."
If people are unable to think for themselves, then they are unable to ever free themselves from the shackles that have been put on them.
I will continue to vote for the lesser evil to slow the slide, but I put more effort into things like homeschooling (and helping others homeschool their kids) and sharing the Gospel. The government is too corrupt to fix. Our only slight hope (if Jesus doesn't come back first) is to change the hearts and minds of the citizens.
