Damn, disappointed that Alby Hub's lightning channel is "use it or lose it".

I'd heard complaints that it was, but thought "we'll see how it goes and hope for the best". Well, looks like the channel closed and the 20K sats, which I thought I spent to ensure my future ability to zap and be zapped, got pissed away into the ether.

I know it's technically my fault for not being vigilant enough, but can't users expect things to "just work"? I guess not at this stage, but eventually, if there is ever going to be wider adoption, there needs to be redundancy and resilience built-in in order to overcome users' frustration with technical limitations.

Musk has proven constantly that he intends for his platform to serve his agenda, and nothing more.

"Free speech" is a psyop from a narcissistic man-child who seeks to prove the strength of his will, regardless of the consequences, to sate his crippling insecurity by projecting it onto everyone that he successfully manipulates.

True free speech means ability to criticise the State (the regime of accumulation and its symbolic order), and people willingly believed that Musk embodied such a concept when he was criticising Democratic leadership. If you knew anything about his character though, and you saw how he refused to accept criticism for his many missteps and misrepresentations and faults, you didn't trust anything that came out of his addled mouth (or posts). Also, if you knew anything about free speech, you knew that anyone who seeks to control free speech doesn't actually believe in it.

Now that he IS the State, if you believe that he intends to protect YOUR free speech, then you deserve the horrors that we are about to see unleashed on the world thanks to this deranged individual.

Maybe in the wake of the consequences of the autocratic hellscape that Musk heralds in, people will understand why nostr is so important; “If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.”

fuck you whore

It's just good statistical analysis; people who got rugged into his griftiverse are prime targets for every subsequent grift, until they get squeezed dry or figure out what happened to them.

I've said it before, not that it's particularly witty, though it is apt:

Sic semper right-wing grifter

The question is whether or not he can be made to pay for his crimes.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentinas-opposition-threatens-impeachment-trial-after-milei-touts-crypto-coin-2025-02-16/

Bringing this into my timeline for posterity; extremely Xennial coded, and I'm here for it

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ein reich, ein volk, ein total piece of shit

sic semper right-wing grifters

He's gonna send Melanie out with her "I don't give a f*ck, do u?" jacket to tell all the refugees and orphans and invalids to "Be best!"

Difficulty to ♾️

Elon is the smartest brain-rotted narcissistic ketamine fiend who agrees with everything he reads on 4chan and still bought and destroyed his own social media site.

I was so stoked when Snowman used to post here; he could single-handedly make this "platform" if he used it exclusively.

Or not, whatever, he's an interesting guy and I wanna hear what he has to say, but not if he says it on a platform dedicated to authoritarian destruction of independent thinking and expression.

Attention, attention, Giga-chad alert! Stand clear of massive wrecking balls and swinging dong!

Good luck brah 🤙

Jesus Christ this album is insanely slept on; Peggy's personally a bit of a clout chaser, but in terms of musically pushing the envelope of independent hip-hop, he is the GOAT.

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Welcome! Nostr isn't 100% chuds, and in fact it can become anything you want it to be!

My "project" here is just that; figuring out what survival means at the end of history as we knew it and the beginning of the next cycle.

All I know is that control is everything, and I want to maintain a basic ability to control my finances and digital identity, so it all starts with nostr and Bitcoin.

Bitcoin needs shitcoins, including fiat; I just saw that there are more than 36M different shitcoins already. The more fakery, the more obvious it is that the genuine article can't be touched by the desperation of trying to replicate it.

There have been thousands if not millions of false prophets, or "reincarnations", or siblings, or "second comings" of Christ, and all they've done is made his life and words more powerful 🤲

Getting muted makes me feel like Jon Hamm in Black Mirror, but all you can do is learn from it.

I guess the point of nostr isn't "no silos" it's "control your silos"

I'm glad Ross is free, and he didn't deserve his sentence; it was given to him to send a message to future copycats, which obviously wasn't fair at all to him.

On the other hand, I hate the message that his pardon sends out about America's commitment to the rule of law. Still, there is absolutely no argument that his life should be sacrificed on the altar of "rule of law" when the Dorito fucking Mussolini has already wiped the remains of his diaper all over that altar. Looks like crime is back on the menu boys! And yeah there is debate about whether drug markets are inherently criminal, but the real issue is the violence that they attract and whether or not the state should have a monopoly on violence, which most people would agree that it shouldn't, but then what to do about the chaos generated by a nation of suburban tinpot warlords like America?

That said, story time. I first heard about Bitcoin through online news back in 2009/10 the same way most people did, but the first time I ever had a friend mention it to me was around that time as well. I had bought "research chemicals" online and when I told him that, he asked me whether I had used Bitcoin and SilkRoad. At the time I thought of it like a joke and said "No, of course not", because I had used my credit card like a civilised person. Jokes on fuckin' me I guess. Anyways, the "research chemicals" were fire, I have been conducting research occasionally for almost two decades now and still have some left. And yeah, we all get Bitcoin at the price that we deserve. Excelsior, motherfuckers.

NEVER THANK A LEOPARD; THE LEOPARDS SHALL FEAST; ALL ABANDON HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE WHERE THE LEOPARD PROWLS.