What’s the difference between bribing a politician and lobbying to get to the same outcome?

Sounds pretty much the same to me tbh

It’s wild if you think about how normalized “lobbying” is.

Seriously interested to learn more..

What’s the best life advice you got or can give? Let’s compile a list:

#asknostr

We could be free, but the idea of contemplating deeply how money and wealth functions because we use it everyday and it one of the most definitive aspects of our society is simply too much for most people.

So instead we’ll get infinity wars, false democracy, and a collapsing political system because most people don’t want to think, and simply obey.

I wanna get my H. G. Wells from under my bed, but there’s spiders and stuff under there. Thinking, thinking…

The first part of this note sounds suspiciously like my mum 👀 you guys been talking?

Alriiight fine, I’ll go get a boyfriend, but I swear if he ends up trying to get to know me and making me like him I blame you 😭

And if he eats a fly or fills a suitcase full of cheese I also blame you 🫂

Which should we develop next on Amethyst?

- a Jobs board where you can offer your services and find people to hire, fiverr style.

- local feeds, where the app will present a feed based on locations and allow you to post only to people in your location.

- integration with nostrnests, with voice participation, like on Nostur/Twitter spaces.

- realtime voice and video calls that integrate with 0xchat.

Gm

It seems we like the coin today.

Hang the fuck on, you make your tea and coffee in a microwave as your power grid isn't powerful enough to boil a kettle🤷🏻‍♂️.

GM

“There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself.”

~Virginia Woolf

But by that logic isn't a shepherd's pie british lasagna?

I truly believe that Joker 2 was an attempt to undermine the legacy of Joker 1, which resonated with the 'wrong audience'.

They have switched to a new signing key. You will need to uninstall and reinstall them. Don't forget to back up your nsec 🤙

Damn. I always imagined it as piss bulges 😂

Who the hell thought this was acceptable UX, Europe?

Heidegger was a straight up Nazi. Now this is not some conspiracy theory you could easily translate Nazi fascism, communism, or the Roman Catholic Church into essentially materialism (satanism: yes the Lord of darkness is the Lord of the material realm whether you think that’s fantasy or not) Heidegger was a materialist. His gobbledygook is a lifeless world. Just like our natural science is the study of minerals and not life.

Human beings are time-binding beings, but what’s most important is the spiritual element I would be more interested in what Satre has to say than this turd. How fitting as they’re trying to usher in the trans humanism garbage let’s face it all these fandango terms like mRNA or DNA are nothing more than theories. It’s just a way of tricking us to continue eating their poison, breathing their poison and living this poisonous existence.

Can anyone recommend a graphical EQ Plugin for Linux (using audacity)? 🎧

I used to use Calf plugins but they seem to not work anymore after upgrading to 24.04. 😔

#asknostr

#linux

#soundstr

Actual love this story of a guy making “award winning” wine in his allotment. Credit to him but he’s not selling because “he doesn’t want to deal with the red tape”. This is the productivity government is suppressing, this is why we need “private market places”, this is why we need decentralised money. #bitcoin #wayfaring #grownostr

I have a real love-hate relationship with owning an older home. There are constant projects and repairs to be done, which are not only costly but a real time sink. On the other hand, I really enjoy feeling capable and learning from each project and acquiring new knowledge. It’s just a real bitch in between the start and finish of the project where I don’t know what I’m doing and I can lose motivation because I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing and can’t do it.

It’s a good metaphor for most things in life. Going through the chasm to completion is almost always the hardest part.

Got water spilled on my keychron k7. I disconnected and got it dried. The lights and keyboard functions on the keyboard are working fine but it is not talking to my computer. Tried Bluetooth and direct wire. Tried windows and Linux. Tried during boot. And I tried factory resetting keyboard. No response. The computer acts like there is no keyboard attached.

Please I love this keyboard. Do I just give it a day to fully dry out or is there something else I need to do?

#help

#asknostr

Thinking about when I was little and my brother, one of my oldest friends and I would play pirates - pirates of the Caribbean (the black pearl) to be specific. we had bunk beds and we would jump off of them into the ‘sea’, making each other walk the plank.

I would want to be Elizabeth but I was always ‘the cook’, which is such bullshit cos there was no cook in the films. I couldn’t be Elizabeth though cos they both fancied her. That being said that particular old friend (who was the son of one of my mums friends) became my first ‘boyfriend’ when we got older. He asked me to be his girlfriend on my baby brothers megasketcher and ran away before I could answer. Was very sweet.

I would write notes in my diary for him to read after school, and he would very slyly take my diary without my big brother noticing and run off to read it. Then we would sit by the windows in my living room and stare at the night skyline, talking about deep stuff, like Harry Potter and homework. What we wanted to be when we grew up, and the contents of my diary etc. No kissing or anything like that - we were kids. Just talking.

I wanted to hide our ‘relationship’ from everyone, just cos it was our thing, and boys had germs, of course. Also, my mum and big brother wouldn’t have been cool. He kept trying to tell everyone in the playground, so it ended. We went back to being friends. I still see him around and we’re still friends, just not as close as we once were.

That’s my bedtime story 🫂 goodnight

It seems like the exploding pager story has unlocked a whole new wave of conspiracy theories.

Phones, computers, bitcoin hardware wallets… hard not to be concerned tbh.

Regret not going down to take a photo of it when it was brighter. Just so sleepy and cosy. Hope this is okay for anyone who might have missed it 🙏🏽🫂💜

#moonwatch

Damn, that’s still a lot of people to potentially share a moment with 🫂

The moon was beautiful last night. I suppose It’s always beautiful, but last night it was mesmerising. Just sat there staring at it.