Personally, I'm not into purity tests, I often find them to be counterproductive or I distinctly don't see eye to eye with them, but in all honesty, you do you.

You imply that you believe, but do you really believe or do you simply want to, or feel pressured or expected to? For many years I felt guilty about my relationship with Jesus, or lack thereof, until I eventually fully realized, acknowledged, and accepted that I simply wasn't a believer. And that doesn't mean that I don't respect what true believers have, or in a way admire it, but like with the thought of pretending to be gay for the sake of seemingly having lots more sex, pretending to be something that I'm not isn't going to make me happier and then acknowledging who I am.

People complaining complain about the volatility, but as the saying goes, 1 bitcoin = $58k, and that doesn't seem very volatile to me.

I find it interesting that one of the few people that I know of who's typically reasonable, thoughtful, and adequately level headed is a stranger from the internet who goes as HODL.

What an odd world we live in.

I see your point. I guess I'm just not too worried about it since: as you pointed out there are other clients, technical considerations aside, unless zappers are malicious, I don't know that there's any reason to assume that donors' ideas are going to be worse than someone who's specialty is coding (as someone who does creative technical work, I cringe in fear every time I boss asks me to "just make something that users will like"), and it seems like, unless a whale of a donor functionally wants to buy a client, we'll still end up with the wisdom of the crowds giving us a great result.

And perhaps more coldly, while I too want great clients, client devs aren't running charities, no one owes us anything, and it'd be wrong of us to expect them to put our best interest ahead of their own.

Given that we're taller and fatter than we've ever been, I'm not sure what to make of this. Are you saying that these things will cure the obesity epidemic?

What slippery slope are you referring to? What is the outcome that you're afraid of?

To me, functionally this doesn't sound any different from any of the other feature bounties that exist. would you disagree or do you think they're all bad? To me it just seems like it's creating a market that allows for users to get features they value, and for devs to get paid, which both seem like good things.

If you were a mechanical engineer, and you wanted to contribute to the nostr/bitcoin community, how would you do so?

And for the record, I'm not so much wondering what business I could start, as which open source projects, or community efforts could benefit from my seemingly less common skills.

#asknostr

And it's so easy to be all "if only I'd...", but that way madness lies.

If the CEO reallocates some of the meme budget to marketing, I'm going to be disappointed.

When I started driving, gas was about a dollar per gallon where I lived, so in my head that's what it should cost.

When I started buying Bitcoin, it was right about $60k, so regardless of what it's done in the meantime, and regardless of what my cost basis is at this point (and I don't honestly know), in my mind, it's gone sideways to down over the past years. People sometimes talk about NGU technology, to me it more seems more like number go sideways technology 😂

I occasionally like to push friends' buttons by pointing out that I don't understand why people make such a big deal of food, but I do fully understand why people make such a big deal of specifically setting aside time to share moments with the ones we love. I hope you two have a lovely evening!

Following that logic, no employee does anything, only companies and organizations do things, unless the employee is a sole proprietor of sorts, then I suppose it gets a bit ambiguous. I wonder if Brian was thinking of the AIs as being sovereign, self-serving agents and not working on behalf of someone else, or if this note is making too much of his comment, or if I'm missing something 😂

Should we be excited or disappointed for the nostr user who just discovered that that's their kink?

I'm an engineer. While the assignments I get imply that people like my work, pretty much all of it goes in the trash for one reason or another. I'm always fascinated by artists who refer to their creations as their children or the like.

Not saying you're wrong, but some of us are better at all-or-nothing than moderation and have A Lot of ideas, most of which are dumb and generally unappreciated 😄

Wait, if replies and clicks are each a multiple of a like, and a like is meaningless, then all those things are meaningless.

I get such a kick out of people I know who talk themselves up for living lives that are reminiscent of their grandparents', while completely ignoring the fact that they're afraid of anything that whiffs of change despite the fact that their grandparents did things like leave everything they knew behind, crossed oceans, and build entirely new lives in new lands... a bunch of whiny bitches playing as their grandparents who thrived in the face of adversity and didn't fear challenges or change.

I wonder when the platforms will start spinning up bots to increase positive, fun engagement for their human users in hopes of better retention, like what some online video games do when the user base is lackluster.

Yeah, while people were busy redefining words, they redefined "free" to mean that they're free to jail their political opponents