I just doubled by default zap to 42 sats. Give me a reason to give you my money.
We can look to NFTs for learnings. That is to say, creators will make money, but there will also be theft (“right click + save”).
Good content will stand on its own but there’ll be lots of garbage, kind of like how fully 80% of the music on Wavlake was generated by AI with like 30 seconds of work.
Challenge will be how to elevate the good stuff above the rest.
I think I just developed a brain tumor
As a guy that falls somewhere on the spectrum between agnosticism and atheism—a “god of the gaps” guy, as a nod to your comment about the hazards of scientism—there’s one thing I know about Catholic priests in particular is that you folks are awfully well read.
Anyway to respond to your question: I dunno really. In general I don’t think things should be illegal because some people misuse them. Not everyone will watch porn and become hopelessly addicted just like not everyone will buy guns and start murdering people. Let those people fail but also let there be strong safety nets to catch them and set them right… be they strong communities, institutions of faith, government programs, or whatever.
Full discourse in case my bias is showing: I do enjoy me some occasional cannabis and pr0n
If "fundamentalism" just means "people who believe a religion is true" then it's not a helpful term.
The term originated with a pushback against liberalizing tendencies in 20th century American Christianity, especially the Scopes trial, and was a term adopted by its adherents to describe their focus on the "fundamentals" of biblical teaching in their literal formulations as printed in the Bible. In other words, it's a variety of [Protestant American] Christianity and there are many Christians who aren't fundamentalists.
https://www.catholic.com/tract/fundamentalism
With regard to the porn/pot legalization question, I just asked because there are lots of reasons why someone could consider porn or pot dangerous besides "it's in my holy book, God said so".
Some examples of secular sources:
https://www.yourbrainonporn.com/research/
https://chasingthescream.com/2015/01/08/letters-with-peter-hitchens/
You don't need to agree with these positions to at least acknowledge they are not "fundamentalist" in any sense of the term.
Personally, I am a Catholic priest and I do not consider legal punishment the best way to solve most problems in society (especially in light of the fact that, in some places, Catholicism is considered a problem the state could "solve"). I do, however, believe that God's revealed teaching is always in harmony with reason, and it's not accurate to dismiss a moral position as "fundamentalist" when there could be any number of reasons why a position is held.
Thoughtful response. I suppose I should clarify my original statement of “religious/moral fundamentalists” to “religious fundamentalists and moral absolutists”
Yes there are those that believe drugs and porn should be illegal because God said hedonism is bad
There are others that believe drugs and porn should be illegal because some people use them to ill effect and therefore we should all be forbidden from partaking
Those are the stances I take issue with and I find it interesting that there are so many of those people in the bitcoin community (Bitcoin being a morals-agnostic protocol the very existence of which runs against the grain of the “just legislate it!” impulse)
Anyway at the end of the day I’m more in your camp than those other folks…
Here you go father https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fundamentalism
What’s the logic? I mean a lot of the Bitcoin community overlaps pretty hard with religious/moral fundamentalists. Is that the angle?
Gm. Making the best coffee of my life over here. How’s your day going? #coffeechain 
Yo nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 I’m trying to connect my Nostr profile but getting this error. I submitted a support ticket about it… halp? 
lmao nostr:note1tec9eyvefpp456xahtu6k29dahmhjdd729qvyc2aense39hxmd2qkkst8w
Oh man, it’s a shitcoin that you can’t even dump on some other sucker?! Diabolical!
Also not lost on me that these works of fiction all depict a dystopian future. Super fun times ahead I’m sure.
Oh for sure. Kid helps empty the dishwasher, unload the groceries etc. and the older he gets the more he can do (he’s only 3). But we don’t want him in proximity of knives or fire and I spend a solid 4 hours cooking per week… that’s the kind of stuff I need to invoke screen time for.
lol I realize now that the “you” in my thread above was not referring to YOU (one of the few reasonable people in this thread) but the general “you” that comprises all the dickheads up above 😅
Oh nah I’m just +1ing you. This thread is mostly cancer.
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All this “have a spine” BS is probably from people who either have no kids or are not pulling their weight as parents. Easy to make proclamations.
🫡 people who are disciplined about screen time and put in the work to fill the void. But 🖕people who pass judgment and the leave their wives to pick up the slack.
Btw, dad here with 50% equity stake in my child’s development. My kid is perfectly reasonable. Healthy attachment to TV. When it’s time to turn it off, it goes off without protest. And it’s 100% worth whatever brain rot you think is happening. I get shit done around the house while my kid learns about Mozart and Monet and math and shit from the shows he watches. And then we turn it off and go touch grass. I see no problem with that.