Neat. We all need to train Midjourney on what an ostrich beak really looks like, though! 😁

Saw the same in UK: big gov push to subsidise diesel for efficiency before backtracking after they realised the impact on air quality; big gov push to subsidise CFL bulbs before backtracking after they realised the mercury pollution and competition from LEDs, etc, etc.

Gov is rubbish at picking winners, but never seems to learn.

I think _most_ people are, TBH. However, the conflict arises when one is asked to change one's language to accommodate others, or accept unfair sports competition to accommodate others, or accept fearful prison conditions to accommodate others, etc. A philosophy of 'live & let-live' doesn't really cover these situations.

☕ GM!

Liberland, Bitcoin Beach, or Puerto Rico? All good for citadels...

Unfortunately so. That's why getting people onto censorship-resistant platforms is such an important first step: we have to be able to talk about these issues and demonstrate to people that they're being lied to, in order to wake them up.

Open protocol + v low barriers to entry --> rapid user feedback & iterative improvement.

This cycle (a kind of Lean Startup methodology, albeit applied to a collection of protocols and clients, not just one) is what some of the other Web3 social media protocols like Lens don't get. There, one has to jump through multiple hoops - join this Discord, link to your twitter, connect your wallet - just to be allowed to try it. Sure, they might create a sense of artificial scarcity and desirability, but they're being left behind in the dust by nostr!

I see you, ser

Together with CBDCs, digital ID will be one of the big fights of the coming few years.

It will be presented as convenience and bureaucracy-reduction. You mum will like it because she thinks it will help fix illegal immigration. Your sister will like it because she thinks it will mean fewer forms for childcare. Your friend will like it because he thinks it will be easier to claim benefits.

Explain to them how it will be abused. How, for example, the Chinese Govt makes people show digital ID to move between cities and quell protests. How, for example, the Sri Lankan Govt now makes people show digital ID to get their daily ration of fuel. Do you really think it won't be abused by your government to ration your 'carbon quota', reduce the mobility of 'troublemakers', or some other reason?

Midjourney? It seems to have trouble with ostrich bills!

True fact: Chicken Tikka Massala was invented in the UK! But then, many dishes in all countries are mixes of history and culture. Vindaloo has its roots in Portuguese carne de vinha d'alhos, for example.

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Not convinced by this. I've no objection if people build commercial email client programs on top of SMTP, say, or commercial web browsers. Doesn't affect the underlying protocol.

I Can Be Marvelous (at creating loud bangs and widespead destruction...)

Deliberate attempt by governments to try to put off people from running nodes, I would think.

Think I'm going to make this my banner.

Cyberpunk Nostrich

Thanks again, ser!

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Agree. True micropayments can enable markets for things we never anticipated, and provide much more useful signals as to what people actually value.