Anyone else have a tradition of cleaning the whole house before new year?

In America we are taught to view the Pilgrims as adventurers who endured great danger in order to seek religious freedom. The full story is, of course, more nuanced.

Many Pilgrims were Puritans. They did not sail to America to establish religious freedom for everyone, but rather to practice their own fundamentalist religion exclusively.

And they didn't go to America because they were thrown out of England. They first went to the Dutch republic, where they stayed for over a decade. They decided to leave Europe for the Americas, of their own free will, in no small part because tolerant Dutch society was proving too alluring to their children and leading them away from the cult. Thus they made the decision to move to a place where they could brainwash their children in peace without the inconvenience of regular reality checks from interactions with non-puritans.

There was actually a notable Puritan who supported freedom of religion. Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island. He was a Puritan minister and Massachusetts Bay Colony threw him out for preaching about the idea.

He left for a bit but then went back to Massachusetts Bay and continued his preaching. The Puritans told him that he needed to leave under threat of death, so he went and founded Providence Plantations on the principle of religious freedom.

lets play a game

guess the usd bitcoin price exactly a month from now

sep 26th 2025 - 0414 UTC

closest guess will be zapped 5555 sats

only guesses made within the next 24 hours qualify

(if i think you are a bot you are disqualified)

Over the years I’ve developed a sort of immune response to overdesigned things. Instead of “this looks nice” I think - what are they trying to hide and sell to me at the same time? Because clearly there’s a lot of makeup on…

I can’t be the only one.

Crazy. They just used it as is almost 😅

India is not just like every other place

Do indians care about freedom of speech?

Most Americans don’t care enough to use NOSTR or Signal.

Anyone want to spread the good word in India?

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Staying in India, not much opportunity to interact with bitcoiners. Been getting my daily dose through podcasters. Giving some of them a shout out for keeping me updated

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Facebook's hyper agressive growth strategy includes targeting fresh internet users in poor countries where most people access internet via mobile.

They partner with local mobile operators to offer 'free unlimited data' for accessing Facebook and its ecosystem, while the rest of the internet is 'paid.'

For most of the new internet users, Facebook is the internet. It's the most efficient data harvesting operation, maybe ever.

What are your top ten Biography recommendations?

Ignoring the public square, outside of North America ALL coordination happens on WhatsApp.

Moms groups, traffic police groups, raw milk, bars, doctors, lawyers, etc...

Facebook, Twitter, signal, iMessage, all these things don't exist.

It's ALL WhatsApp.

Anyone working on that?

Actually it's the western population who have gotten obsessed with control and empowered states too much.

Asian countries and their governments are increasingly focused on survival as we're all faced with escalating climate change.