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Discouraging spending is a feature, not a bug. We need a world of increasing efficiency that benefits everyone, where you spend less but receive more. Debt based FIAT systems are incompatible with this, ₿ enables it.

GM #Nostr. Here is something I like to remind myself of every now and again.

When #thinking about our lives we all tend to take what's #positive for granted, and focus on what's #negative. This is #natural as #evolutionarily you're much more likely to #survive if you only #focus on the #threats to your well being rather than what's benefitting you. We are just another member of the #AnimalKingdom after all, and our distant #ancestors had to #evolve traits that helped them to survive their #harsh #environments.

But in #modern times this evolutionary #trait has itself become more of a #threat to our lives via it's #detrimental effect on our #MentalHealth. And, rather than combatting it, #society generally uses this trait to gain attention and make #money through the constant stream of #negativity in the news, and #algorithms that give us the most #engaging #information (which is virtually guaranteed to be negative).

Yet as the #reality grows that threats become more #distant, and benefits become more #personal, it's important to remember to reset this way of thinking with #acknowledgements of what is going *well* with our lives.

In #2024 we are roughly 2 centuries into the #IndustrialRevolution which brought incredible #productivity gains to society. Most of these gains have been co-opted by the elite through various methods, largely to the disadvantage of those living in the 3rd world rather than the 1st.

But as these advancements are so significant, even when the system is corruptly siphoning our collective energy to the elite, we all still benefit greatly. Albeit at different levels depending on what part of the world you're living in.

Over the last 200 years the average person's #QualityOfLife has improved drastically everywhere.

We don't often think about how much better our lives are today than they were in the past, but they really are. In that time we've seen tremendous advancements in:

#Communications

(#telegraph, #telephone, #radio, #television, the #Internet, #mobile devices),

Food preservation and storage techniques (#canning, #refrigeration (which includes #freezers), freeze drying, and more.),

#Transportation

(#trains, #bicycles, #automobiles, #airplanes, #helicopters.),

Home cook assistants

(#Blenders, #FoodProcessors, MixingMachines, #Ovens, #PressureCookers, #RiceCookers, #BreadMachines, #SousVide, etc.),

Cleaning assistants

(#Dishwashers, #laundry washing and drying machines, #vacuums, etc.)

Home comfort improvements

(Interior #lighting, #CentralHeating and #AirConditioning, low cost #flooring whether #carpet or otherwise, etc.)

#Entertainment (for better or worse)

(Prepared outdoor #trails for #hiking and #biking, #Movies, #TV shows, #VideoGames, #SocialMedia, #TableTopGames, recorded #music,ass produced #books both physical and electronic, and more!).

It truly has never been a better time to be a part of the #HumanExperience.

The #FIAT system benefits from you focusing on the negative, telling you what you have isn't enough and that you always need more. Which you must get into #debt to pay for.

At what point do you ever have enough? The architects of the FIAT system and Keynesian economists want you to believe you never can.

But we already live in a future our ancestors could only #dream of, this is the closest to #paradise humanity has ever been. But #progress never stops, so every day is better than the last at an ever accelerating rate.

#Truth and #goodness will win this fight. Humanity cannot be suppressed forever.

Find out how to give back to yourself as much time you can, as that is the ultimate resource that we each have. Even if that means just sitting and doing nothing but thinking. Being alone with your own thoughts is what truly frees you, because it allows you to actually think about what matters to you and what you want to do with the rest of the fleeting time you have left in this life.

Life is short, make the most of it. 🖖

* #MixingMachines

** mass produced books. (Not "ass produced" LMAO)

GM #Nostr. Here is something I like to remind myself of every now and again.

When #thinking about our lives we all tend to take what's #positive for granted, and focus on what's #negative. This is #natural as #evolutionarily you're much more likely to #survive if you only #focus on the #threats to your well being rather than what's benefitting you. We are just another member of the #AnimalKingdom after all, and our distant #ancestors had to #evolve traits that helped them to survive their #harsh #environments.

But in #modern times this evolutionary #trait has itself become more of a #threat to our lives via it's #detrimental effect on our #MentalHealth. And, rather than combatting it, #society generally uses this trait to gain attention and make #money through the constant stream of #negativity in the news, and #algorithms that give us the most #engaging #information (which is virtually guaranteed to be negative).

Yet as the #reality grows that threats become more #distant, and benefits become more #personal, it's important to remember to reset this way of thinking with #acknowledgements of what is going *well* with our lives.

In #2024 we are roughly 2 centuries into the #IndustrialRevolution which brought incredible #productivity gains to society. Most of these gains have been co-opted by the elite through various methods, largely to the disadvantage of those living in the 3rd world rather than the 1st.

But as these advancements are so significant, even when the system is corruptly siphoning our collective energy to the elite, we all still benefit greatly. Albeit at different levels depending on what part of the world you're living in.

Over the last 200 years the average person's #QualityOfLife has improved drastically everywhere.

We don't often think about how much better our lives are today than they were in the past, but they really are. In that time we've seen tremendous advancements in:

#Communications

(#telegraph, #telephone, #radio, #television, the #Internet, #mobile devices),

Food preservation and storage techniques (#canning, #refrigeration (which includes #freezers), freeze drying, and more.),

#Transportation

(#trains, #bicycles, #automobiles, #airplanes, #helicopters.),

Home cook assistants

(#Blenders, #FoodProcessors, MixingMachines, #Ovens, #PressureCookers, #RiceCookers, #BreadMachines, #SousVide, etc.),

Cleaning assistants

(#Dishwashers, #laundry washing and drying machines, #vacuums, etc.)

Home comfort improvements

(Interior #lighting, #CentralHeating and #AirConditioning, low cost #flooring whether #carpet or otherwise, etc.)

#Entertainment (for better or worse)

(Prepared outdoor #trails for #hiking and #biking, #Movies, #TV shows, #VideoGames, #SocialMedia, #TableTopGames, recorded #music,ass produced #books both physical and electronic, and more!).

It truly has never been a better time to be a part of the #HumanExperience.

The #FIAT system benefits from you focusing on the negative, telling you what you have isn't enough and that you always need more. Which you must get into #debt to pay for.

At what point do you ever have enough? The architects of the FIAT system and Keynesian economists want you to believe you never can.

But we already live in a future our ancestors could only #dream of, this is the closest to #paradise humanity has ever been. But #progress never stops, so every day is better than the last at an ever accelerating rate.

#Truth and #goodness will win this fight. Humanity cannot be suppressed forever.

Find out how to give back to yourself as much time you can, as that is the ultimate resource that we each have. Even if that means just sitting and doing nothing but thinking. Being alone with your own thoughts is what truly frees you, because it allows you to actually think about what matters to you and what you want to do with the rest of the fleeting time you have left in this life.

Life is short, make the most of it. 🖖

Replying on nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5! I completely agree Lyn, people have no idea how much this is going to change the world.

EVERY website and social media integrated with #Nostr. See something you like? Zap it, share it, comment on it. Automatically see the replies to comments from who you follow above everyone else, feel like you actually have an online community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future!

Nostr. See something you like? #Zap it, share it, comment on it. Automatically see the replies to comments from who you follow above everyone else, feel like you actually have an online community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.

Zap it, share it, comment on it. Automatically see the replies to comments from who you follow above everyone else, feel like you actually have an online #community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.

community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over #Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.

Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.

LOL. Looks like nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 has a bug where everytime I add a hashtag (maybe just when replying to comments?) it will extend the entire message and make it all glitchy. We're very early in the development of this ecosystem and I love to see it!

Replying on nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5! I completely agree Lyn, people have no idea how much this is going to change the world.

EVERY website and social media integrated with #Nostr. See something you like? Zap it, share it, comment on it. Automatically see the replies to comments from who you follow above everyone else, feel like you actually have an online community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future!

Nostr. See something you like? #Zap it, share it, comment on it. Automatically see the replies to comments from who you follow above everyone else, feel like you actually have an online community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.

Zap it, share it, comment on it. Automatically see the replies to comments from who you follow above everyone else, feel like you actually have an online #community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.

community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over #Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.

Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.

Replying to Avatar Oscar Merry

Fountain 1.1 with #nostr is now live on iOS and Android!

https://m.primal.net/KGni.mov

Why Nostr?

We regularly hear from both listeners and podcasters that the social features in Fountain are a great way to discover content that’s worth listening to.

When you support a podcast, or comment on an episode, your message is surfaced to your followers in the Fountain home feed and anyone that sees these can add the content to their library.

But this came with a few problems. When you first start using Fountain you wouldn’t have any followers so your posts wouldn’t get seen. If you wanted to share something you were listening to, you had to choose between leaving a comment on Fountain, or sharing on another social platform.

Today we are excited to announce a massive update to Fountain that solves these problems with Nostr:

- You can bring your existing profile and followers to Fountain

- Your boosts and comments will be surfaced in other Nostr clients

- Posts shared from other Nostr clients relating to audio will appear in your feed

- Conversation and interactions now flow freely across multiple apps

Read more about the new Fountain nostr features here: https://blog.fountain.fm/p/1-1

Please let me know your feedback!

Damn, now THIS makes me super excited for the future of #Nostr! Kudos to y'all for making this update. Permissionless integration of open source Bitcoin empowered social media into everything is the future! I love podcasts so I can't wait to try Fountain and support you guys. Question though, I am still new to Nostr and want to avoid sharing my Nsec with every app. Is there any way to connect my Nostr with fountain without sharing my Nsec? I'm on Android.

It's sad that you think you actually have a choice at all. Really, the fact that we only ever have 2 - 20 people to pick from (depending on if you count the primaries or not) is proof you don't get to choose. It's an illusion of choice. The wealthy only fund campaigns that either way further their interests. Good luck running a successful campaign on actual change, because the people it would benefit the most have the least money and are struggling to just survive.

Statistically your vote is at best about as likely to affect the outcome of the election as you are to be struck by lightning in a given year, at worst it's much less likely than that.

These elections are more America's reality TV show anymore than able to affect actual change in our government.

Welcome to election season! Who will you pick out of the less than 2 dozen people the wealthy fund??? Your vote matters! Except it really doesn't.

#Cults are built on unverifiable "truths" that only the leaders can teach the followers. #Bitcoin is literally just #VerifiableTruth, the #blockchain, the opposite of a cult.

It only seems like a cult because the #passion Bitcoiners exhibit for this #SoCalled "#investment" is similar to the passion actual #cult members express about their cults.

To an uniformed person, the Bitcoin culture may feel that way; Because, similar to cult members, it's the most important thing in the lives of many #Bitcoiners (and is what we all talk about more than anything else). But ~why~ DO we find it SO important? Quite frankly, it's the only thing that gives many of us a hopeful future as opposed to the dismal future the #FIAT system guarantees.

It's so refreshingly simple and yet so profound in it's #macroeconomic affects on the world.

#War becomes less profitable and less affordable when you can't just print your local currency away to pay for it, and thus can no longer rob the entire population of their life savings and future earnings (through the debasement of wages that results from debasement of currency).

You also can't benefit from war as much anymore because you can't just steal the stored wealth of the people you conquered, because good luck finding the private keys of everyone who you just killed in the city you burned. In the long run, war nearly disappears.

#Housing is no longer treated as an investment and instead returns to it's utility value ONLY, being useful as a home to live in and raise a family in. Housing becomes more affordable, homelessness slowly disappears.

On a #BitcoinStandard the buying power of your wages go up instead of down, putting the average worker on the high ground of the negotiation table at the renewal of their employment contract. Instead of your boss granting YOU a "raise", that is often much less than the rate of debasement, you must instead grant THEM a wage reduction to account for the value of the units the wages are paid in going up. This makes it so over time your wages go up in value even after counting the reductions in measured units, so life gets more affordable instead of less as it does now on a FIAT system.

Instead of rampant #consumerism destroying our planet and producing endless amounts of #cheap #low-quality #garbage that fills up our #oceans / #rivers / #NaturalAreas, it incentivizes more careful and considerate purchases with an eye for #quality. Is this product actually worth my #HardEarned #money? Is it worth the #OpportunityCost of the better products I could buy next year with the same amount that will be worth more? Or is the value I'll receive from owning it over the next year greater than the value my money itself would grow by? Products have to offer real value to people, reducing #waste.

With the current FIAT debt-based economic system everyone giving all their excess money to giant corporate overlords who then use it to "grow" by any means necessary, including buying out all their competitors (and becoming #monopolies and #oligarchs in control of the #government), and not giving a damn about the people and lands they exploit to grow their bottom line. Instead, on a #SoundMoney system like Bitcoin people can save up their earnings and use them how they see fit without #CounterpartyRisk since Bitcoin is a #BearerAsset. This increases the ability of the average person to start successful #SmallBusinesses, and overtime increases #innovation as small businesses take more #risks on #PassionProjects they actually believe provide #RealValue to the world.

These are only a few of the benefits having a hard money that's cryptographically secured will bring, there are many more. This is bigger than the #internet, bigger than the #IndustrialRevolution. Perhaps the single biggest discovery for the progression of the human race in millennia. #Uncorruptible, #indisputable, #verifiable, #truth in #finance.

Bitcoin is humanities launching pad to an #abundant future where everything is #affordable, and where waste, #corruption, and war are minimized.

That's not them talking about it's affects on our electric grid and electricity prices... But in short, even more abundance and affordability. I can't wait to see how it changes the world, at first #GraduallyThenSuddenly.

nostr:note1z3vptsl79p6340lfa0sxfnzkd4dej295skvgww8asnnxjjvvkl4qxgazy6

Reminder that capital gains are calculated on US dollars and are NOT adjusted for inflation. If you have a stock that goes up 6% and you sell it, but the money supply goes up 7% in the same time frame, then the government dropped the value of your investments overall and is still demanding a cut of the "gains" your investment saw in dollar denominated units. What a farce.

GM! After lots of time spent posting and zapping notes, don't forget to go outside and #touchgrass once in a while.

🌲🌲🌲

Countered only by their utter and extreme sadness when they're not allowed to drink colorful cleaning chemicals. 🥲🤣

I had in n out the other day and was looking at the sign saying they were 30¢ per cheeseburger in 1948 and $3.98 today.

1948: $35 an oz of Gold which can buy 116 Cheeseburgers.

2024: $2500 an oz of Gold which can buy 632 Cheeseburgers.

Priced in gold cheeseburgers are 82% cheaper!

When you realize FIAT is a meaningless measure, you see that the world is getting better all the time.

As an #American I have #voted in every #election since I turned 18. But I fear I cannot in good #conscience vote for either candidate for #president this year.

It's not just "both sides bad" BS, as they both have horrible policies that I dread either one becoming president.

#Trump is working with others towards #Project25 which essentially is a coup against our #government and will push #America even more towards #fascist #conservatism. Among his other major flaws.

#Kamala #Harris is actually proposing #PriceControls on food. But price controls do not work. The only reason food prices are rising is because the dollar's value is falling, because they keep #printing more of it (endless printing of funds IS a "both sides" problem), these aren't actually record prices and record profits at all it's actually record low values for the dollar we measure prices in. Price controls lead to #FoodShortages, it doesn't magically make the same food cheaper.

I cannot support a candidate who is pushing us towards a more fascist #conservative America, and I cannot support a candidate who is proposing price controls which will just cause food #shortages.

Not familiar with what price controls have done throughout history? The Roman Empire is the biggest example that comes to mind, as they tried to do the same thing around 200 years into the debasement of their coins having removed all but 5% of the silver from them. Rome collapsed less than a century later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_on_Maximum_Prices

This is another piece of evidence showing what the slow breakdown of society looks like. History is repeating itself.

Only this time we have on the sidelines an alternative system being built on Bitcoin that will help us come out the other side much quicker and even hopefully avoid any major collapse between now and then.

Just remember in times like these that at the end of the day society's really big problems are caused by the FIAT system, and it doesn't REALLY matter who is president as they're not really in control.

Whether you vote this November or not, simply by owning Bitcoin you ARE voting every second of every day. Only you're voting with your economic energy for a new system that frees us all from the current one, and there is no stronger vote then that.

Regardless of who wins in November don't worry for the world in the long run, and just stack sats and HODL to get through the bumpy road we may see on the way there.

The Bitcoin economy is coming, and it cannot be stopped because it is better than the current system in everyway and for everyone. The future is bright 🌞, don't believe otherwise.

Small correction: Rome collapsed less than 2 centuries later.

As an #American I have #voted in every #election since I turned 18. But I fear I cannot in good #conscience vote for either candidate for #president this year.

It's not just "both sides bad" BS, as they both have horrible policies that I dread either one becoming president.

#Trump is working with others towards #Project25 which essentially is a coup against our #government and will push #America even more towards #fascist #conservatism. Among his other major flaws.

#Kamala #Harris is actually proposing #PriceControls on food. But price controls do not work. The only reason food prices are rising is because the dollar's value is falling, because they keep #printing more of it (endless printing of funds IS a "both sides" problem), these aren't actually record prices and record profits at all it's actually record low values for the dollar we measure prices in. Price controls lead to #FoodShortages, it doesn't magically make the same food cheaper.

I cannot support a candidate who is pushing us towards a more fascist #conservative America, and I cannot support a candidate who is proposing price controls which will just cause food #shortages.

Not familiar with what price controls have done throughout history? The Roman Empire is the biggest example that comes to mind, as they tried to do the same thing around 200 years into the debasement of their coins having removed all but 5% of the silver from them. Rome collapsed less than a century later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_on_Maximum_Prices

This is another piece of evidence showing what the slow breakdown of society looks like. History is repeating itself.

Only this time we have on the sidelines an alternative system being built on Bitcoin that will help us come out the other side much quicker and even hopefully avoid any major collapse between now and then.

Just remember in times like these that at the end of the day society's really big problems are caused by the FIAT system, and it doesn't REALLY matter who is president as they're not really in control.

Whether you vote this November or not, simply by owning Bitcoin you ARE voting every second of every day. Only you're voting with your economic energy for a new system that frees us all from the current one, and there is no stronger vote then that.

Regardless of who wins in November don't worry for the world in the long run, and just stack sats and HODL to get through the bumpy road we may see on the way there.

The Bitcoin economy is coming, and it cannot be stopped because it is better than the current system in everyway and for everyone. The future is bright 🌞, don't believe otherwise.

Thank you. My bad for sharing the tracked links.