i'm a #coracle maxi pretty much

i don't like #primal that much but it's better than almost everything except #coracle

coracle lately has been failing to fetch events on a pretty regular basis for me, so i often resort to primal to get more current data

Well I work overnights and plus I'm a night owl

Est-ce qu'il marche encore ? Est ce qu'il y a des possibilités de mises chez Microsoft à acheter !?

#meme #memestr #memes #nostrmemes #zapathon

Not if people use it.

If people effectively use it to assign value to real world stuff, it effectively creates inflation for the market in general, making Bitcoin less valuable.

More or less what happened with the US dollar and Bitcoin. They printed trillions of USD, but Bitcoin keeps its price trend as if nothing happened, it didn't double in price or anything. The Fed effectively pushed Bitcoin down by having people use it.

Weird logic too. There's still 21m Bitcoin. Even if there was 10 billion XMR, there'd still only be 21 million BTC.

Monero devalues Bitcoin in the same way an armoured truck devalues a G-Wagon. Apples and oranges.

There's some weird stuff going on. Apparently peeps are traveling to South America then going by foot through Mexico into the US? Can't figure out why.

Nah, too heavy.

At Amazon warehouse

After spending more than 9 trillion dollars, with millions dead and tens of millions displaced, US is now in discussions about a complete withdrawal from Iraq and Syria.

Hey, Nostr…

This is an #introductions post, but it’s not my first npub.

I’ve become quite close with many of you over the course of 2023. I consider a number of you to be real friends.

But I haven’t found the courage to open up some of the personal struggles I’m facing. Partly out of shame, partly out of the fear of validating my failings by putting them in writing.

But what I do know is the love and support and kindness that exists among this crew, and I’m feeling like I could really stand to lean on that energy a bit right now. I’m hopeful that, even through this anon account, there’s room for friendship, freely given.

I’ve struggled with a range of compulsive/risky/addictive behaviors for a long time, but it’s gotten harder lately. It’s the devil I’ve danced with since my teenage years, and it’s been especially difficult lately to align my active behavior with my heart, intuition, and personal goals.

I believe I “trained” my neural pathways to lean on various dopamine/reward pathways in times of stress during my adolescent development - or, to be honest, from a much younger age - and these mental habits have become deeply ingrained.

It’s not one specific “addiction” the way that people often struggle with, but my tendency to fall into patterns of substance abuse and other ego-inflating activities goes through cycles, which I’m just beginning to understand come from very deep, old parts of myself, and it feels like things have been escalating farther outside of a level of baseline acceptability lately.

I can point to various moments of trauma or conditioning that led me to try to self-soothe in these ways, and I’ve developed compassion for the parts of myself that are “trying to help” even in self-destructive ways.

But I’ve had a harder time with everything lately than I have in a long time. I don’t feel able to share this with my partner, but I am recognizing that it may be too much to handle on my own. Because I’ve tried for years. Self-imposed rules aren’t enough, because they don’t heal the broken parts. And I’m afraid that I’m risking the things I hold most dear, including my loved ones and my own self-worth and self-respect, if I don’t find a way through this.

I know some of you have faced things like addiction, trauma, loss, and personal failures. And I’ve seen the beautiful people that you are. I know and recognize that beauty in myself too, but I’m continually undermining my own happiness and fulfillment. I’m learning to pray again, to turn inward and connect with myself. But I’m also deeply stuck enough that I keep ending up in those patterns that hurt my heart and betray my soul.

I don’t even know if anyone will see this. If the default relays on this client have wide reach. If my VPN is effective or if I’ll dox my identity here.

But man… I sure could use a few kind words, advice, or encouragement from others who have been in a similar place before. If you’ve read this far, I already deeply appreciate you. You’re probably one of the friends I’ve made this last year 🫂

That is actually a more promising approach that trying to teach them non-euclidean geometry. An evil lying govt is their core belief. So if you can convince them the govt is doing a psyop to stop space colonization, they would totally embrace that.

Maybe earlier versions / translations had flat earth scripture that was edited out in later editions 😂

In Western world since 4000 yrs ago, the earliest models of the earth were statistical (predicting sun, moon, weather for crops) - they just didn't think about the shape of the earth. The Greeks are the first well known people to develop a geometric model of the earth. It was straightforward to do measurements to determine the rough geometry and size of the earth.

The sky was more difficult due to the distance, and they split into two speculative camps: Pythagoras (earth orbits sun orbits central furnace) and Aristotle (earth as center of the universe). The telescope (an invention financed and published by Pope Urban viii, patron of Galileo) allowed measurements capable of distinguishing these models. (With a result much to the consternation of establishment science.)

There is actually a rational basis for it. They have found that govt and establishment has lied to them about so many things, that when the govt says the earth is a globe, they assume that is a lie like everything else. (And the moon mission was lie too, and there is no base in Antartica - another lie.) I can respect that.

The problem is, they are too innumerate to do basic measurements to find out for themselves what kind of geometry they are moving around on. (Only 100 miles travel needed to pretty much rule out an overall flat geometry.)

Haha that's a good approach. I'd be curious to know how they explain the legitimacy and findings of seismic stations.

Never really argued with a flat earth tard before, but I seem to have found the kill shot on my first go. The one I am arguing with seems completely unable to explain why the temperature & length of a day changes in the north & south at different times of the year, but not at the equator.

He's just throwing lots of random flat earth memes at me now. Discussion seems to be over 😂

The preceding question seemed bother him a bit too. If the earth is a disk, with a cold spot in the middle & an ice wall around the edge, does that mean the northern hemisphere is like an order of magnitude smaller than the southern?

He resorted to telling me the Bible says the earth is flat & the sky is a dome. I had no idea this was some sort of religious thing too.