>telling me about astrological earthquake predictions and San Andreas fault line
Say more about this, I have skin in the game.
Goddamn motherfucking scorpions
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“No really, I won’t sting you in the back again! I mean, I promise. Like lol lmao, we almost drowned last time.”
FML
Goddamn motherfucking scorpions
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It blows my mind that anyone could be Palestinian and not be a bitcoiners.
We are in the middle of an inflationary crisis that ends in hyperinflation—mostly because 90% of people are highly regarded and will follow others off a cliff if that ‘feels right.’
I understand that it’s like talking about preparing for an earthquake. They happen so infrequently that the idea of being in an 8.0+ quake seems impossible—yet many people who live in earthquake regions are poorly, if not at all prepared.
This is simply a function of the human brain being unable to adequately calculate tail-risks, nor understand that inflation, like an earthquake, is a white swan, not a black swan event.
Everyone will get fucked by hyperinflation, and every fucking muppet on the block will act like they could have never seen it coming. You absolutely can, it’s just hard to look at; so most don’t.
If you want some chance of not watching everything you’ve worked for in your life from evaporation away, you will need Bitcoin to save.
Sadly this was a normal restaurant, however I probably live in one of the most expensive rural places in the USA outside of Alaska.
I paid $25 for a burrito and drink last night.
The dollar is fucked and you’ll never see prices go down unless your unit of account is Bitcoin.
“But Erik, no one cares about decentralized, open-source, censorship-resistant protocols!”
Right, just like how most of the Jews in Germany in 1935, despite the writing on the wall that what was going to happen was much more horrific than what had happened, most just kept plugging along, staying in their lane, oblivious to their own impending murder by the state.
“The state would never let that happen!”
They did and they’ll do it again. And again. And again.
They keep stealing, killing, and violating every ‘right’ you have until you don’t let them do it anymore. Or they enslave you. Or kill you.
Look, all the lemmings are gonna living in the camps, lick the boots, eat the bugs, and own nothing and ‘be happy’ under the tutelage of global ‘happy happy nice nice we all love each other and are totally equal…except for white men who are piece of shit who must burn’ communism.
These people are worse than useless, but are detrimental to creating real change where we could be empowered against such totalitarianism, but refuse to engage it in any meaningful intellectual manner, because they are cowards and slaves, abated mostly unconsciously. They have allowed for the brainwashing to convince them the state is just a giant daddy to care for them and keep them safe. While it is true, it’s a much more sinister version that’s more than happy to engage in filicide because you didn’t clean your room.
Trying to convince these people of real change and empowerment is a waste of time. Focus your efforts on people who want to be helped, and are willing to actually think about why you might need these tools in the future and to prepare for such a future.
The masses are not our allies or friends, and we should stop looking to them as such. Change will come when we valiantly push forward with courage and tenacity that we have the solutions that are needed, and finding those who want to actively work with us to improve, deploy, and develop said solutions.
TBH it’s pretty disappointing. They just tell you to vote harder at the end.
I just spent over an hour in conversation with none other than Phil Zimmerman, and the mission was clear: purple-pilling him on Nostr. Phil hadn't heard of it before, so I had the challenge of introducing something I knew would resonate deeply with him. After all, he's the guy who knows a thing or two about encryption keys and was previously involved in building Okuna, an open-source social network that unfortunately ran out of funding. I showed him Amethyst on my phone and a post by nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6mpd4czuumfw3jsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvql3tqm
Phil's got strong opinions when it comes to content moderation, censorship, and those rage-inducing engagement algorithms that seem tailor-made to fracture society. I knew this was my opening. I explained how Nostr flips the script—you get to choose your own algorithm, define your content moderation levels, and uphold the principle that free speech must be the goal. And yeah, true free speech requires free money, so I brought that into the conversation too. That’s when nostr:nprofile1qqs9ez06ea26rc45f4rf0cyckdxkvvhlvekeawqee29jttp0hjm5mkcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsdjaljs chimed in with talk about zaps and ecash, which instantly caught Phil’s attention.
Phil had no idea that Chaum's patents had expired, so I jumped into an explanation about Cashu—how it allows payments to be locked to npubs and the privacy-preserving magic of ecash. I was way out of my depth here but tried to channel my inner nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a30qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7xph5zr.
You could tell the gears were turning...
He's not on social media at all, and I didn't get him to install Damus on his iPhone, but hey—tomorrow's another day. I’ll be back to badger him some more. 🤣
I also tried to make it clear that Nostr is far more than just social media. It's a tool to run coinjoins, decentralized apps, and essentially a DNS replacement. It’s got the kind of flexibility and potential that someone like Phil could see changing the game.
A massive thanks to the POW Summit and nostr:nprofile1qqsvezz8q3wqlqc8edchd40dll6srm4hsxk02km7ssm9hhgyfnxkvqgpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uemt7cx for making this conversation even possible. And PS: nostr:nprofile1qqs0w2xeumnsfq6cuuynpaw2vjcfwacdnzwvmp59flnp3mdfez3czpspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtc98uc8k I need you to tag-team Phil today!
Doing Gods work.
My fucking cat sent this when it was half thought out…damn it
Voting AT ALL is a detrimental process of giving your power away. At best you may be afforded some small local changes, in exchange for compliance towards the global war machine and obed
This behavior seeks permission from structures of abuse and exploitation to ask for the possibility of the political—which will never be given.
This is why we’ve never seen a plebiscite to end unconstitutional wars
It has to humble all of us in one way or another, or else you simply don’t understand it.
None, I definitely did not get stung and drown in the river for being gullible.
Don’t judge how I make it through the morning
When you meet a smooth-talking scorpion that absolutely convinces you that giving them a ride across the river could never end in tragedy because that doesn’t make any sense, remember that they are
A FUCKING SCORPION!!!
It’s not about what they say, or even what they believe because they really don’t think they’ll sting you and kill you both, because that DOESN’T make sense.
But that’s the whole thing, right? They are a scorpion. It is their very nature to sting in times of panic.
Don’t trust scorpions, even when they paint a rosy picture that doesn’t involve you drowning in the middle of the river. Because that will happen, and it’s because you trusted a scorpion.
I’ve seen him live 3 times and every time is better than the last.
This is probably the best way to go about it, but some of us like to do
Things the hard way.