Exactly it has a massive diminishing effect on the trust or value of communication with any person who you do not know personally, or haven't met and verified in meat space.

The world of fake everything and believable, unique, video and voice capable chat bots that are indistinguishable from conversing with a human and have their own personalities, will drive massive re-localization of community, IMO.

I hate this movie even when it just shows up as memes 🤣

in short: we eat toxic shit and are mass injecting everyone with genetic trash.

Horrible diet and the jab.

Our diets are incredibly inflammatory and full of artificial estrogen (particularly soy) which do damage to and disrupt the reproductive hormonal processes. This is also likely a major factor in the low T levels of the male population, that only compounds the environmental factors that would likely present this problem on their own. The combination likely creates enormous resistance to especially male but also likely female fertility in general.

The spike protein was discovered as one of the main toxic elements of covid, when it was originally thought to be inert, then in addition the boatloads of damaged mRNA (which is a serious carcinogen) in the jabs are both sources of damage to smooth tissue and organs. The scar tissue and damage show up frequently in the heart muscles and reproductive organs. Hence the explosion of myocarditis and the like. Due to the fast creation of scar tissue on these organs it's suspected that the damage is both cumulative and likely permanent. Even worse, because your body is trained to produce it (the spike protein), it specifically causes damage *without* an immune response. Meaning you wont get symptoms or feel sick, its just a slow decline of major functions in the body.

I highly suspect these are dominant factors.

2 other great books with a similar perspective and awesome exploration:

For Fun & for Profit

The Cathedral & the Bazaar

Who is that and what have you done with Erik?

Some new “money transmitter” crap that NC wants every business (specifically hits Bitcoin and crypto) to do redundant licensing, redundant compliance and paperwork, pointless excess costs, and a whole additional level of KYC and reporting requirements.

YAAAASSS

Don’t know I’m familiar with John Rawls’ veil. I’ll check it out! 🤔🤓

Fomosexual

Not sure. I’m trying to find out for us stuck in North Korea, I mean Carolina.

Just had a thought, that a Nostr marketplace basically does both of these at once. Just make the relay list a specifically tagged relay market, and image hosting one built right into the post interface. But they could both be the same “events” or “products” hosted on the individual user or account market page as well.

I feel like there needs to be a custom UI element (maybe could use a NIP?) for paid relays that simply utilizes how ZAPs and NPUBs already work in Nostr.

Currently the process is as follows:

• Go to paid relay list (hopefully in your client, but probably not)

• Click to go to paid relay website

• Pay a btcpay or lnbits invoice

• Go back to client

• Copy NPUB

• Back to site

• Paste NPUB

• Copy WSS://address

• Back to client

• Paste WSS://address

• Connect

• Rinse and repeat for every relay

Now imagine this is built right into a client relay list, using zaps exactly as they are:

• Go to list, see relays & prices

• Hit zap button with set amount

• Relay gets proof of payment, plus pubkey, relay is auto added to connected list, relay auto whitelists your NPUB

... done.

You could connect to 5 paid relays in practically 10 seconds this way. And because this is all directly in Nostr, relays could DM or maybe have a custom notification on the relay page itself for needing to pay for another month/year of subscription.

Just seems like all of the pieces are already there, and this would not be a difficult script to just package this process up into a "one click, connect" experience. 🤔

No one custom ordered a fence or anything. No way they assumed anything was happening at the stage we were at. And the fence itself is about as generic as we could get without being totally bland. Its simple dog ear fencing. They should have had no upfront costs at all with what we had done so far outside of sending someone out to the property and making an estimate. If they were already spending money that they couldn't recoup, then they are stupid, lol.

Is this the one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYU9h7FEw0

Not as hard as pushing a cannon 100s of miles to meet the British ships before landing... but it saved a revolution.

The simple act of getting businesses and individuals to learn the tools that make this possible, may very well have a similar impact today.

Not really that hard when you put it in perspective, IMO. 😘

The truth 😂

Damn did anyone save the song? It got taken down for copyright 🤦🏻‍♂️

Triangles are the real technology. Wheels are old news.

A short story:

So I've been trying to get a lot of renovations and work done on the house and trying to finish the basement. I've recently gotten an estimate for putting a fence around the yard for the dogs.

It was a little more than I hoped but I had intended to just move forward, but they wanted a significant deposit immediately to get started. This immediately ran me into the headache of going from Bitcoin to USD in a quick and inexpensive manner.

This was also while ACH transfers that I've done to move the dollars to Fold (no way I'm spending thousands and not getting sats back on it), are suddenly taking 3x as long. A problem that started when SVB blew up.

After realizing that this was going to take a 2% fee on CashApp to sell, an ACH to my bank, then another ACH to my Fold, I decided to give a pitch for them to save me all those steps and just accept Bitcoin directly with the 1% fee using OpenNode.

The guy I was working with was interested and on board with my argument, but the owner refused despite the fact that it would obviously save them money and mean I could pay the deposit in 10 minutes time with no selling fee at all.

At this point I decided I was going to do something, especially with these sorts of jobs that involve large transfers which are a huge pain in dollars. I was just going to take the time to find someone who would accept Bitcoin.

I politely declined to do business with them. My response:

"Thanks man, appreciate the reply. I'm gonna look for other contractors here for a bit because I'd rather not build a relationship with a company that makes me have to revert to using a banking system that I literally could not despise more, or trust any less."

"I may get back in touch with you in a few weeks if there seems no other good option. No hard feelings, I do appreciate you taking this to the owner."

I added some choice words about the banking system for flair. 😆

The worker I was chatting with immediately agreed and then we started a short back and forth about how corrupt the banks were, why Bitcoin (of course he said crypto, lol) was the future, and HE brought up how the Fed was going to push a CBDC.

"Same. The more we use Bitcoin, the more irrelevant their attempt to centralize it is.

If the day comes that they push a CBDC on us, I'll officially be refusing to do business with anyone who doesn't accept Bitcoin, because I'm not touching that crap."

He responded with "Agreed!"

... that's where we left it.

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I just got a text message tonight from the guy. He said the owner is willing to work with #Bitcoin if I hadn't found someone else yet.

I think it's time that I will start pitching the case for Bitcoin, in short and sweet bullet points, with every company I work with — & where it feels like it makes sense, I'm going to refuse to do business with anyone who doesn't accept Bitcoin.

We have weight in the market. We need to be the intransigent minority. Bitcoin won't save the economy if no one knows how to use it, or is too afraid and too panicked to try something new when the shit hits the fan. The time to push for integration is now.

"When did Noah build the ark? *Before* the storm... before the storm."

— Spy Game

Agree 100% on the diet thing, by going keto/cutting the overwhelming majority of carbs and living on staples of eggs, bacon, steak, with some yogurt and fruit, has made a huge difference. Has been the same story for a ton of people among my family and friends as well. But typically those diseases associated with the constant damage done by diet are inflammation related, while the vaccine related illnesses are specifically immune related. And when you read the book you’ll understand why food is often the cause of the damage, while aluminum is the reason it becomes chronic and never seems to go away. (That will make sense after you read his book even though he doesn’t talk about the food issue specifically, only generically about inflammation)

Probably a good reason to read Maready actually. He does such a good job at figuring out why some inconsistencies remain, and does so in a sober and honest way. The popular ideology around disease today is “X causes Y,” while the reality is far more often that “X does continuous damage, it manifests in Y, Z, A, B, and C, depending on the person and how the damage enters the body. Then there is also T that causes damage in this other way, and both together can compound to cause D, E, F, G and H because they are actually all the same disease showing up in different systems of the body.” 😆

I think there are broad categories of illness that are caused by constant, systemic poisoning of various kinds, and we have multiple sources of constant, systemic poison being introduced in our bodies, environments, and food.

In short, I don’t disagree in the slightest that food is another huge source of our problems (which is what the OP was about), just that we have a handful of base “poisons” essentially that tend to cause damage of a certain kind. I think the food one has come to light way more in the last 2 decades, and I hope to see (and believe we are seeing) the same happen for the reality about vaccines. I just think autism will be the poster child that finally brings down the beast.

In short: I’m sure he is wrong on a few of his speculations and attempts at explaining the edges around many of the issue he discussed. However, currently I am convinced enough by his overall theory that none of my kids will be vaccinated, my wife and I will never get another vaccine, and only in the most extreme cases would I consider differently.

It’s actually G-flat but the algorithm is tone deaf.

Why is it that after you become a dad, every kid in the world suddenly becomes the cutest thing you’ve ever seen? I thought only women got baby fever? 🤣

I disagree, shitcoiners are stuck in their bubble and trapping new people behind in it where Bitcoin "is too slow" or has "too high fees" and "no one uses lightning."

They need our help, not our hate. Moist of them never hear the bitcoin side of things, they just get snapshots of Antima's "most absurd Bitcoiner tweets" as representation.

Integrating lightning into shitcoin exchanges:

• forces shitcoiners to recognize its existence

• lets them see expansion of something they were told is "vaporware"

• and gives them an instant exit into the full bitcoin ecosystem when they finally drop shitcoins.

TY, I'm impatient 😂

Not sure I know the reference... what's the 13%?

🧡

Maybe I didn't explain myself. It isn't about them being connected, its about having them in my list at all.

I have a list of relays and some are connected and some aren't. That's fine and I expect that. But after I've paid for a bunch of relays, and added them to my list, they shouldn't disappear from the list, whether I have a connection at any particular moment or not.

DONT DO IT! COME BACK

For your listening pleasure...

https://open.spotify.com/episode/21x2wpollhLtVfScGrBPJO?si=f9b06e42a9ea49fc

This is where we need BOLT12 recurring/subscription payments...

The fact thay she thinks an “amendment to protect digital creators” makes the bill ok is so childishly naive it hurts.

The BADGE of the AUDIONAUT 🔥

"Let it be known to all, that the BADGE OF THE AUDIONAUT is a coveted honor, bestowed upon those who have pledged their unwavering support to the noble mission of Bitcoin. To the OGs of the Bitcoin Audible project, the pioneers of the philosophical frontier, who heard the whisper of freedom, and followed it down the rabbit hole. Ready for the revolution, with headphones on and podcast player at 1.5x... We are the Audionauts."

Check out BTCPayServer there, or run a node and check out LNBits. The latter is a simpler setup with a lot of simple extension style features 👇

I totally agree and love the second part of your post though. And also agree with the first, just that I wasn’t suggesting it persinally

I don’t think sentience is on the near horizon. I think we will have learning models, millions of them, for every possible utility/goal under the sun.

This.

I have a lot of respect and appreciate numerous left voices in bitcoin. I am still socially left on a lot of issues, however the left is *generally* supportive of absolute nonsense when it comes to economics, which is reeeeaaally hard to reconcile. And more importantly it’s fundamentally imbedded into bitcoin. You can argue all day about what philosophy it supports, but there is no wiggle room whatever to the economic principles instantiated by bitcoin.

The idea that my refusal to share Marxist ideas on the makes me “right wing” is, imo, very shallow thinking, especially lumping that in with libertarianism and ancap as if these are all the same. 🤨

Plebstr is a really fantastic client 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻@npub1plstrz6dhu8q4fq0e4rjpxe2fxe5x87y2w6xpm70gh9qh5tt66kqkgkx8j

This is known as Nostrbating