I love the faces (of people who replied I supposed?) below the initial post. That is great.

But the chat UI after it, I don't like it at all. It's too different from the navigation UI, It disorients me

Cable TV only exists in a very regulated and cartelized market.

The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya is a good one for the stuff about advanced technology hidden in many ancient stories, once you read it you can't unsee the mentions of what are clearly spacecraft or at least advanced air transport devices, and the pale skin, the strange abilities like telepathy and teleportation

in general there is several apocrypha books worth reading for a broader picture of especially the contents of Genesis and Exodus, The Book of Jasher, The Book of Jubilees, The Book of Enoch

Plato's Critias describes Atlantis, an ancient, fantastically advanced civilisation that was located in the general area of north africa

Ben from Suspicious Observers will also drop stuff constantly about the science of the disaster cycles, primarily it's based on a rotating magnetic field that induces a spiral wave across the galaxy that flips every 12000 years

this is the origin of the hindu notion of Yugas or ages - and in the Vishnu Purana it mentions an alignment of jupiter, moon and sun in the last 1/3rd of the sign of cancer which falls on the 25th of June next year as "the end of the krita age"

i'm only just starting to really dig into it myself, i had some background of it years ago, but yes, i believe that we are going to see it all unfold in the next 20-30 years... the Con has been planning its 2020/2030 thing for over 100 years and they knew about this stuff, but thankfully not how to build the weapons or the spacecraft!

Yeah, this is how ideally should look in dark mode 🖤

Bitcoin creates unlimited demand for energy. Nostr creates unlimited demand for data bandwidth and speed 😂

Yes nostr uses a lot of data but if it is the new internet it may be a sign that each person's data pipeline must increase in capacity to fully utilize the next generation of the nostr-powered web.

We can optimize and cache, but also maybe we should embrace it?

anyone who thinks that we aren't headed for a financial disaster on the level of the Great Depression is just being stupid

anyone who thinks that the catastrophes that have recurred like clockwork every 12000 and 6000 years are not going to happen again is just being stupid, and double stupid if they don't realise that it could actually be extinction for our species if it happens worse than the one ~75000 years ago

anyone who thinks that in 200,000 years as a species humans have not had more advanced technology than we have now is also just stupid

i don't know for sure if those ancestors who jumped out of the gravity well are interested in us at all, but there is good reason to believe they will be, and if they mastered their minds as the old books seem to indicate, they wouldn't have allowed it to be written down that they would come back at some point, most logically at the point of catastrophe, just like the last time they warned Noah and such warnings can be found in the old stories of many other cultures, north and south american, in asia, and in africa

but even so, with all this in mind, building a lifestyle and a legacy of being prepared to survive such events, both the man made and the ones created by the astrophysics of our universe and our galaxy, best to be ready to adapt when the signs of disaster are clear

the world is not going to be the same at all in 20 years time, there is going to be some epic disasters coming... the 6 millennia of relative calm are about to be interrupted just as the 50 years of petrodollar are about to run out

it is a 49 year cycle and we are past the end of the current one that started in 1971

Interesting option.

But probably it also promotes first level posts to gain visibility, to the detriment of contributing to an existing discussion (that is hidden behind the first level).

Also:

1. You cannot do 🧵 threads if you turn the reply section into a chat from level 1.

2. You set "chronological" as the only filter option for the reply section, since it's inherent to the Chat UI.

A telegram-like chat approach promotes the timeline, it works when there are no deep discussions, just a lot of first-level messages, *or* the discussions are limited to a few users.

If these two situations are mixed, the discussion (sub thread) is inevitably lost between the single messages.

So, the effectiveness of the chat context depends on the interaction's style among the users. Btw, today users are anyway more used to chat interfaces, so it could be preferred for a cognitive bias.

I would like to test it, maybe with a in-thread option to switch between the two modes, and so compare the difference live.