Japan has an app called PayPay. It’s super popular and accepted almost everywhere now. I touched briefly on how this company grew by doing a lot of manual legwork by literally going to businesses and talking to them. Anyway … when you make a payment in the app, it audibly says “Pay Pay” in an excited tone.

I find it fascinating that they chose this experience. It’s as if they wanted people nearby to hear the brand name while people are paying.

Annoying or genius? You be the judge.

Surreal 😂

Any Damus user have any issues with NWC?

My zaps work in other apps but not Damus :(

Wait, what? From 1963 😳

Gm! I guess I zapped too fast last night, Alby hub decided to stop working :(

Hey y’all. What is Ben Arc’s proper #nostr npub?

I do that on my 27” desktop, but it’s less effective for me on my laptop with its smaller screen.

What do other people do, when you've got more browser tabs open than you can navigate around, yet you don't want to close any of them?

#asknostr

Is this a scam? 😉

Find out 😜

I’ll zap every person who blocks the scammer until I fall asleep or my wallet is empty (comment on this note).

Well, at least the cost of getting scammed was virtually nil.

We misunderstood that he will be giving away 10k today lol .. exact words 🫠 nostr:note1d5nzegxnjv9506dxrhw3wgxy6fhp7wl0fsqj69x5xfh24w2n60kqp43lxd

Is the pendulum swinging back? Have we reached peak obesity?

Something I posted on Twitter but I would be interested in perspectives here. I am not trying to be dramatic or undermine the true horrors of socialism, it is just how it feels.

"When calling the current government socialist, there are those who will laugh at the idea this because it doesn't meet the true definition of socialism, you know, whereby the state owns industry, blah blah blah.

This is why I call it the "New Face of Socialism" as the outcome is the same. If you are a business owner in the UK you are essentially a slave to government as high taxes and massive regulation reflect the same principles of socialism-wealth redistribution and centralised control of society.

If it helps, we can call it"Bureaucratic Socialism" or "Backdoor Socialism"...whatever you need to justify you voted in a bunch of commies. Life is so much easier if you admit you fucked up.

This is a hill I will die on...reject them all!"

That’s a BIG if.

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but most Economists--especially the famous ones--have mid-to-terrible investment track records.

Choose carefully to whom you listen.

This is a really important thing for us to keep in mind when we talk about how to make open protocols and open social media. Digital communities can die in many ways, but one of the most common is one person or a small group behaving in an antisocial way and slowly driving everybody out of the space. Nobody wants to put their foot down and tell them to stop posting off topic, or enforce some moderation rules using the platform. So people leave that space to them and drift away.

Enforcing rules in a specific space is often seen as censorship. This is a mistake. If I invite you to my birthday party and you get drunk and start yelling in some drunken rant at everybody else in the party, it’s not censorship to kick you out of the party. You’re more than welcome to continue your drunken rants elsewhere, but the birthday party is something i convened and should be able to enforce rules and norms over that space.

There’s a time and a place for drunken debauchery but if you do that in the wrong space it’ll ruin the vibe and everybody else will leave. It would be censorship if you were not able to organize your own space on Nostr or elsewhere online, where you couldn’t post and talk to people.

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