Rolling out age verification on all the major porn websites is a little concerning to me.

First they play this shit out on a topic where most people dont have a problem with!

But soon this stuff will be rolled out on other platforms too!

social media or could services or regular websites!

This is the way how they implement digital ID.

Pushing slowly on all fronts!

Sadly, in the US, children, particularly boys, are drugged up as early as possible. Years back a girl I was dating, had a two yr old on anti-anxiety meds. 2 yrs olds dont have anxiety, but moms might and they push their issues onto their childen (munchausens by proxy). And school is not good for children either, so when they 'act out' due to bordom, they get labelled ADD / ADHD, and thats when the stims come out. Besides my own first hand experience with modern chemistry, I have also witnessed children on these same drugs. And its truly criminal. And then there is the over use of SSRIs ( prozac and such), that add a layer of literal homicidal thoughts to a speed freak child. Its seriously fucking insane what is done to and / or pushed onto children here. 72 jabs, potent stimulants, mind melting SSRIs, and then the shit in food marketed to childen. And worse, noone here I tell these things to even fucking cares. Its all 'you dont have kids, you dont understand' type shit. Nah, they dont understand. A parent has one duty. The child's health well being

Have you ever done addy or ritalin? I have (over the years as well as few hours ago, hence the post). And it sickens me that a 2 yr old can too. Or a 10 yr old. Or even 16 yr old. Like for fucking real. There is zero reason to put a child on speed. Literally no different than giving em a line of meth or coke. Maybe worse.

And for me, I most certainly do judge parents who do this. Yes, they are ill informed as well, but, thats a major failure as a parent.

So many (righfully) are opposed to childhood vaccination. I take a step further and honestly equate it to raping a child. Their bodily integrity is violated, without consent, in a most violent of manner. But there is another 'accepted' thing doctors are more than happy to do, that in a way, is far worse for children. Adderall and Ritalin. I've done top notch meth and coke. I only add that as a point of experience with intense stimulants. Anyone, whether parent, teachers, doctors, etc, who are involved with putting anyone under age on amphetamines should be put to death. No fucking joke. It is child abuse taken to an insane level. 2 yr olds can be prescribed adderall. Why? And any parent with a tweaked out child who sees this, may God have mercy on you. You are a fucking monster.

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

The wild thing about this is the "average" part 😅

I would like to live in France in the 1950s. 🤩

It's biblical:

"No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments."

-The Apostle Paul to Timothy, (1 Timothy 5:23, ESV)

Before Big Pharma and the drug warriors, cocaine, morphine and heroin (generally in a tincture or 'cough' syrup) were OTC, didnt even need the doctor part.

I bet there were a few with liver cirrhosis

To me, "just" a little over 7 glasses a day is a lot! 🤭🍷

You have me a non alcoholic women... almost her 40s I think toxicity is to match... 😎🤣😂 and I hell smoke fine cigars and herbs 🌿

Finally some beauty in the beton world

Thanks. Will give it a try soon and report back. Soon meaning a week or two most likely

It looks great. 👏

I would eat it with homemade butter and dulce de leche while it's still warm.😄

When someone says 'your node doesn't matter,'

it's an easy red flag 🚩

It isn’t you vs. the world; it’s you vs. you. You aren’t a victim of your circumstances; you’re lazy. Choosing the easy option is why you lose and don’t achieve what you want to achieve. Do the hard thing you are facing. Fail over and over until you overcome it. And then do the next hard thing.

Speaking to myself here, but maybe you needed this to. 😂🫡

Gm to you sovereign

Predictive programming. Same as the Outbreak movie...

GM! ☕ Beware, AI is full of scams these days! 😅

GM

Gm ☕️ 🤙🫂

Always fun to spend the period between 2 AM and 4 AM PST debugging Lightning issues.

gn

nice. you doing sofrito?

have no idea who draws all those GMs i see them lots in catalonia - french side.