The balance I want to find for my next location is:

1. Mobile and lean enough to leave whenever with minimal friction.

2. Clean enough slate to welcome enhanced focus and new focus areas.

3. Researched location well enough to reduce the probability of *having* to leave again for a couple decades.

Last one is a long shot in the current environment.

#RulesForReset

Happy New Year, good people. ☕🎇

Glad to hear! 🙌

Suggest being explicit; spell out the help needed.

HERE WE GO AGAIN

seeing massive volumes on Strike.

all systems are a go. if anyone needs anything, don’t hesitate to reach out to me or our support staff.

we are here 🫡

I wish i could share the unblurred version of this with y'all, its like staring at the sun watching this for the first time in person, i keep having to walk away bc it hurts my heart.

send crazy ideas on what you'd like to see on bitchat

1. Governance of attention is the fundamental form of freedom and the primary lever by which individuals and civilizations are made.

Everything else (identity, character, action, institutions, even material conditions over long horizons) is downstream of what gets persistent cognitive airtime.

2. Attention is a commons. Spam, rage bait, and addictive design are not just annoyances; they’re attention pollution that degrades our shared capacity to aim ourselves.

3. Nostr “fixes” this tragedy of the commons not by dictating what to think but by returning the steering wheel of attention to individuals and voluntary communities.

It is, in effect, an attempt to decentralize the attractor loops of civilization, making them less fragile, less hijacked, and more open to emergent wisdom.

Getting starlink on Friday; very curious how it'll do 😝

Cities are unnatural environments, and one of the clearest signs of this is how they destroy the natural polarity between men and women.

In the city, men and women do the same things. They work the same kinds of jobs, live in identical apartments, wear similar clothing. The differences between a city man and a city woman are often minimal. And this blurring creates tension. The city woman asks, “Why do I need a man if I can do everything he does?”

Now, of course, there is an army of blue-collar men keeping the city running, doing the kind of hard physical labor that almost no woman could or would do. But these men are invisible to most people until something breaks. Only then does anyone notice them.

Step out of the city, though, and everything shifts.

In the countryside, men and women have different but overlapping spheres. Some jobs are clearly for men. Some are clearly for women. Some could be shared. But the distinction is visible and felt.

When a woman watches her husband doing hard physical labor on the land, she feels the truth: she needs him. Not just emotionally, but materially, physically. There are things she cannot do on her own. Without him, she would be in trouble. And that need breeds gratitude, respect, and love.

When a man sees his wife tending to children, cooking, or doing the kind of slow, quiet work he finds tedious, he feels the same: she is doing what he cannot or will not. And his appreciation for her grows.

This mutual need, this visible service to one another, builds a stronger bond.

It is no surprise, then, that couples who live in rural areas have lower divorce rates and more children. Not just farmers, but anyone who lives outside the urban sprawl.

The more natural the environment, the more natural, and lasting, the love.

Any game users and developers around?

How much should games be integrated in Zapstore?

#asknostr

I was literally eating a banana watching this.

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Does Starlink work with pay as you go, recharges or just a monthly sub? Thinking of having a backup internet connection but don’t want a monthly sub if I’m only using it as backup.