Just movies, or books too?
Goals for my week:
- Orange-pill two mates
- Purple-pill two more
- Spend more quality time with wife & kids
- Invoice my clients (it's silly, but I find doing the work easier than invoicing sometimes...)
- Plant some more trees
What does your week look like?
Thoughts on this? Found it pretty persuasive. China has been accumulating gold for years, and their (or Russia's) adoption of the gold standard would be more damaging to the US than any war:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/golds-imminent-return-money
Welcome ser.
GM notriches! Hope everyone starts their week with energy and enthusiasm.

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Might suffice just to add a warning: a QR code is probably safe if people are only scanning from a wallet (not a QR code reader) and also checking that it's not an invoice - but in a rush I don't know if everyone will do that.
Might want to be careful with this: encouraging people to hastily scan QR codes can be as bad as encouraging them to click unknown links in emails!
Roald Dahl is being given the make-over by 'sensitivity readers'. So what? they're only childrens' books - right? But the desire to rewrite books is yet another form of ideological purity, which points in the same direction as outright censorship: totalitarian control and punishment of wrong-think.

JP sadly has taken a dislike to anonymous accounts - presumably as he's so often trolled by them from the Left. But he's clearly well aware of the importance of free speech. I'm sure he can reconcile these two positions to himself, but would like to see him recent the former.
GM
Covid petrified many; there were great numbers utterly convinced that those not taking the Vax were selfish and putting others' lives in danger. (the same people were also likely to overestimate mortality by at least an order of magnitude). Shamefully, the government also falsely portrayed the protestors as racists and white supremacists - so making it a political issue where many saw the protestors as dispicable individuals who didn't deserve fundamental rights. Of course, whenever such things happens, people never conceive that the powers they give to government might one day be used against them, too.
Key q: wil it compete or complement nostr?
It allows algorithmic selection, right?
For those who missed it: a Canadian enquiry announced yesterday that the government *was* justified in freezing the bank accounts of truckers - and those donating to them. This is a hugely dangerous precedent, and underscores why Bitcoin is so important.
It's great. Just hope the key devs watch their backs: when the protocol becomes a thorn in the side of corporates and governments, those will be the people they come after.


