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I despise them. So I mix them with my own homemade sour cream to make delicious extra fat greek yogurt with chopped fresh/frozen fruit mixed in. 😁

I use an Instant Pot with it's yogurt function to incubate the sour cream like yogurt. I make it from pure heavy whipping cream, or mixed at a 1 to 2 ratio of HWC to half n half, within clean and sterilized (with the high pressure mode for 1 minute) pint mason jars and leak proof lids.

If you use UHT cream and half n half then you literally just mix them together with a small spoonful of starter culture (I like plain Fage) and after mixing with sterile equipment incubate for 6 hours or so. The longer you incubate the more sour it gets, I prefer mine to be more mild like with Mexican Crema.

Then I buy a big container of Costco plain organic nonfat Greek yogurt, and mix them with fruit and sweeteners to personal preference! Delicious, and the unopened sour cream jars last for MONTHS in the fridge without any off taste or color. My home is never without sour cream now. 😁

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@Michael Saylor is right that people view Bitcoin in a religious way. Religion has traditionally given people hope through unverifiable truths, this causes conflict with others who disagree. Bitcoin gives us hope but through VERIFIABLE truth.

I don't worship Bitcoin, I don't think anybody does, but I do revere it. For it is the ultimate #foundation for our current world of #abundance that is hidden by the fog of FIAT debasement. @Jeff Booth is right about that.

The inner peace and hope for the world that years of thinking about Bitcoin brings feel the most similar to the type of feelings I got from my prior religious views, but it doesn't also bring along the baggage or cognitive dissonance that those beliefs had either.

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Pre-Bitcoiners often say "#Bitcoin has no #utility value" but the Bitcoin network does indeed have perhaps the most important utility value of all time.

Globally available, #IndependentlyVerifiable, #incorruptible #TRUTH. That is it's utility value.

Providing the ultimate economic foundation of truth for a peaceful world of abundance. THAT is it's utility value.

Stopping the primary method of wealth theft and transfer, which increases global inequality. THAT is it's utility value.

Ending the ability of governments to siphon economic energy from their people, to keep themselves in power and fuel unpopular wars. THAT is it's utility value.

Where unverifiable beliefs divide us, verifiable truths unite us.

₿ = TRUTH

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Why not just use actual physical sats since they're so cheap?

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Gotta love receiving random invoices for things I supposedly owe. 😂

I will say this.

When people disagree on something, and that something is fundamental to how they see the world in a sense of good/evil, they will often resort to extreme measures to enforce what they see as 'good' and remove what they see as 'bad'.

This doesn't apply only to religion, this also applies to any group identity that is concerned with another group that they see as wrong. Things get especially bad when the opposing group and it's beliefs are seen as irredeemably evil.

Think opposing sides in any international or intranational disagreements, religious conflicts, or political conflicts, and so on. If the two sides cannot come to common ground through open communication, founded upon mutually agreed upon independently verifiable truths that unite them, they will often escalate until violence breaks out. This occurs due to disagreements themselves, regardless of the subject matter of the disagreement.

Whether or not we agree on which events are genocides, or just plain violence against other people, there are countless events throughout history in which religion or religious ways of thinking was either a primary or secondary factor that exacerbated the situation.

Religions and religious beliefs are things which humans do not and cannot ever agree on. Why? Because they are things which self admittedly are grounded on things that require faith to believe in.

If religious beliefs do become independently verifiable truths, then they no longer require faith and just become shared truths of humanity. For instance nobody worships the sun these days because we now understand what it is: a ball of nuclear fusion that radiates energy at the center of our solar system, to which our planet is gravitationally tethered. It doesn't hear or answer prayers, it has no consciousness and doesn't even know we or itself exists at all.

Things that require faith are things that have no independently verifiable ways of determining their truth. If there are no independently verifiable ways of testing any religious beliefs, then we will never be able to find common ground in them.

Without a way to find common ground, we self organize into groups who disagree on details that have no concrete agreed upon answer.

These groups will come to violence if they cannot find common ground, and that isn't possible with faith based beliefs.

The only common ground religions have is when they group together against another group with alternative viewpoints in which they disagree.

For this reason the world can never be peaceful until it grows out of the cradle of religious thinking. Not because religious thinking itself is bad, but because it is just a branch of the type of irrational thinking that breeds conflicts through disagreements on things for which there is no obviously verifiable truth.

Show me a religion that doesn't require faith and is purely based on independently verifiable objective truths that everyone agrees on. There aren't any, because that's not how religion works.

Religions are a type of organization that train people to just accept things that they're told on faith, to be subordinates. They make people who are willing to bow to authority figures who often claim they have been given this authority by an unseen being. This leads to good people being willing to do things they otherwise wouldn't, such as assault or even murder others.

Until we find a way to separate humanity from unverifiable beliefs, and discourage blind obedience and subordination authority figures of all kinds, the world will never have peace.

You can't be serious dude.

I love this. The future is not in locking information behind paywalls/copyright, only payable through intermediaries who give you permission and also take a cut, it will be through the open sharing of information in global communal libraries with open membership to all.

Instead of forcing people to pay you to access your content at a price you decide, it will be a world where people can freely view information and just choose to pay the creators directly or not in exchange for the value the information received gave to their lives.

We already live in a world of abundance, most people just don't see it through the fog of the centralized authorities who are emboldened by the FIAT system. A system that is intentionally made confusing and hard to understand, because people fear what they do not understand which keeps them subordinate. Nostr and Bitcoin clear the fog, and frees all of human kind from this intentionally created bondage.

Thank you for your immense contribution to society nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s! Nostr + Bitcoin is going to change everything.

Not sure if I qualify but I've been posting regularly for the past few weeks lol.

Perhaps there's a greater upside TBH, with Nostr you can grow a following that directly pays you for the value you post. Nostr can provide a direct income, Bitcoin growth/savings can provide an indirect one.

I've gotten the same message twice as well, from the same person each time!Seems they're claiming they're a relay. Ridiculous. I received no reply to my message that I'm not paying randomly received invoices, except they then sent me another invoice that was SMALLER than the first. Interesting business model; the more I use their service, and don't pay them, the cheaper it gets! 😂

Primal and Amethyst. I use primal primarily (heh), but I like how amethyst has a different way of sorting and showing me posts. I like some things about amethyst better and some things about primal better, but I have less friction zapping posts thanks to primals built in wallet.

I have Phoenix wallet to zap with amethyst, but Phoenix charges me fees of 2 - 4 Satoshis per zap and primal doesn't so I also use primal to save on fees. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

GM! I hope everyone has a beautiful day today!

This would fall into the philosophical argument of the trolley problem I think. Is it morally superior to intervene and save 5 people who will die, if it means your actions directly cause the death of 1 other person who would have lived?

It's a thought provoking question. But, for this Utilitarian Humanist anyway, the greatest good for the greatest number would not lead to genocide in any sense. I do not see how genocide stems from that. I do know definitively however that religious believes are the cause of a not-insignificant number of genocides. So I very much disagree that religion prioritizes the individuals well being and prevents genocide.

I think it's more Satoshi -> 🌎🌍

Being a part of a "group", such as racial or national identities, brings a lot of baggage and guilt by association. Actually joining groups who identify with certain specific views also brings a lot of pressure to conform to the views of the group.

The lotteries (genetic and otherwise) that determined what I look like, sound like, who I'm related to, which part of the planet I live in (and by extension what language I speak, the religious/political/social views of the people around me that I was likely brought up to believe, the type of economic system used and my economic status within it), do not represent who I am or my views as an individual.

We need to stop grouping each other, and focus on the individuals within each of us.

I am who I am. For better or for worse, I get to choose the type of person I am.

Whether one believes in God or Gods or the lack thereof, recognizing all of humanity as a single unified group who can universally benefit by prioritizing the greatest good for the greatest number of people is the path to a very beautiful world indeed.

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