The correct answer for the second question is clearly "no".

This is cultural.

In chinese culture people tell the truth without sugarcoating.

They learned to cope with it.

Did you enlarge them with photoshop?

TELL THE TRUTH, ROYA

Mmmm... no, it's not the same.

I can send an email from different SMTP servers, but messages not coming from the "right" SMTP are nowadays mostly discarded.

And even during the times when that used to worked the recipient couldn't verify its authenticity.

And even if that really worked today then I won't be able to receive replies unless I submit myself to centralization (single point of failure, the postmaster.)

See? You don't understand how it works.

Statism's Kool-Aid seems to be the most dangerous drug of all.

There is one key difference though -- unlike email, a single message can be relayed by many different servers without loosing its uniqueness. As in... decentralization, you know?

I don't think you truly understand how it works.

It is not a federation if I, as an individual, can decide how that "federation" is shaped.

No, it's not a "need" for yourself to help the poor.

The text is clear. Christianity does not consider it theft if it's done by someone that really needs it.

Period.

There are not two ways of interpreting it. Read it as many times as you need.

Biden pooped his diapers today, what did YOU do??? huh?

Let the man alone, he know what he's doing.

You are young. I assume your friends were young.

Young people don't have tragedies in general. But when they have it's generally some car accident, generally related to alcohol consumption or other bad drugs.

It's a logical assumption.

Sounds bad. I suspect different kinds of drugs.

What happened to them, Roya?

So, my plan to colonize Antarctica with ASIC's wouldn't work?

You are confusing "decentralized" with "distributed".

Nostr does not attempt to be distributed. It's a bad idea to begin with.

It is enough for it to be decentralized.

He is just being pedantic. Nostr is indeed decentralized.

Oops, you just called Christianity "soft-commie gobbledygook".

From Summa Theologiae:

> Things which are of human right cannot derogate from natural right or Divine right. Now according to the natural order established by Divine Providence, inferior things are ordained for the purpose of succoring man's needs by their means. Wherefore the division and appropriation of things which are based on human law, do not preclude the fact that man's needs have to be remedied by means of these very things. Hence whatever certain people have in superabundance is due, by natural law, to the purpose of succoring the poor. For this reason Ambrose [Loc. cit., Article 2, Objection 3] says, and his words are embodied in the Decretals (Dist. xlvii, can. Sicut ii): "It is the hungry man's bread that you withhold, the naked man's cloak that you store away, the money that you bury in the earth is the price of the poor man's ransom and freedom."

> Since, however, there are many who are in need, while it is impossible for all to be succored by means of the same thing, each one is entrusted with the stewardship of his own things, so that out of them he may come to the aid of those who are in need. Nevertheless, if the need be so manifest and urgent, that it is evident that the present need must be remedied by whatever means be at hand (for instance when a person is in some imminent danger, and there is no other possible remedy), then it is lawful for a man to succor his own need by means of another's property, by taking it either openly or secretly: nor is this properly speaking theft or robbery.

Repeating a mantra doesn't make things true. "It is true because I can repeat what Authority said."

This is called "Prescriptivism".

The only prescription I give is to understand the roots of the most common prescriptions.

Once you understand the underlying logic behind them you become your own Authority.

You're right. But beware, because the Nostr CEO uses to ban people that make such comments. 👀

Even if you could, you could never defeat his stubborn canadian brain. 💪 🍁 💪🍁 💪🍁 💪🍁 💪

No, he just suffers from canadian redditor syndrome. Special needs. Please be patient and understanding.

I wish you get personally reeducated by this beauty.