Got my first traffic ticket in China, the endless AI cameras are all knowing and all seeing, you can’t dodge them. Was fined 100 RMB (~$14) for crossing a white line from the straight turn lane into the right turn lane. The local government was kind enough to text me about it

Poverty is a result of intangible things - greed, injustice, war, exploitation…

Government policy cannot eliminate these intangible things.

But it can help to alleviate them, if the government itself is lawful and just.

The issue that we face today is that the government EMBODIES all of the above (greed, injustice, war, exploitation) to the extreme.

We’re not just a few “policy” tweaks away from improving the condition of poverty.

We have a systemic problem.

The whole space has changed beyond recognition since Saylor arrived. It’s now an accepted Wall St tool for manipulation.

Bitcoin will always preserve its core PoW ethos, just normies will only ever see it as another trad investment in their portfolios.

It’s gradually being sidelined as stablecoin life flourishes for payments

Sound money will always play a major role in preserving wealth, just daily payment will be stablecoins . The tokenise everything life we’re careering toward is a centralised stablecoin life, Bitcoin in the plans of that system is a store of wealth for the top 1% only. Black / White coins is almost inevitable and only a nurtured circular bitcoin economy will grow for those that want self sovereignty

I may be wrong, often the case

It’s nothing for Bitcoiners maybe. Not nothing for normies.

I used to get trapped in town between breakfast and lunch way too often. Bored, hungry, and surrounded by temptation, I’d make the classic “poor food choices” (you know, the ones that whisper “it’s just one burger” while quietly adding another notch to my belt).

Then one week, I escaped to the mountains for some hiking. I packed a bunch of MET-Rx bars for lunch—nothing fancy, just convenient protein bricks. After 4-5 days of fresh air and those bars, I stepped on the scale back home and… holy crap, I was down a few pounds! No starvation, no misery—just bars and walking.

So naturally, I did what any rational human would do: I sprinted to Amazon and panic-bought a lifetime supply of these “miracle bars.”

Fast-forward: I started replacing lunch (and the occasional dinner) with one of these bad boys. Sometimes I’d pair it with a glass of milk for a 40g+ protein flex. And guess what? The weight kept melting off like ice cream on a summer sidewalk. Bonus: my wallet got thicker while my waist got thinner.

Moral of the story? 99% of the food options in town are basically edible sabotage—designed to taste amazing and make you buy bigger pants. But little tweaks can trigger massive wins.

If you’re stuck in the weight-gain loop, try something new! Your body is a puzzle, not a vending machine—there’s no magic “easy” button, but there are smart buttons. Hit one. Mine happened to be delicious and called MET-Rx.

You got this. One small change, one ridiculous victory at a time. 💪😄

I know it’s not steak 🥩 and eggs 🥚 and highly processed but it work for now.

* Milk choice should be one with the most protein and least sugar not all milk is created equal

I was thinking about the future of photography, esp with all the features available in apps like ChatGPT, Grok aso.

Consider the photos in this post, with the Maiko (apprentice Geiko/Geisha). I made this in Kyoto. In the background of the original, you see some cars which I find distracting and not very pleasing. How easy it is to just have ChatGPT replace the car with some pine trees or the golden temple in Kyoto? Within seconds? I can have my photo made just to my liking.

So you could say why bother going out and shoot because it will be very difficult , if not impossible to make photos you make yourself look as good as those made or altered by AI, if you know how to give it the right prompts.

ChatGPT now also includes a connection to the Photoshop app that analyses your photo and makes suggestions on how to improve it with adjusting contrast, saturation, lights, shadows et cetera and it does a real good job. So why bother?

I guess it all comes down to the experience you are having and the excitement of being at the right place at the right time and capturing the scene.

I’ve often thought there is an element of hunting in photography, esp when capturing people or animals. Photography can be a sort of replacement for that feeling.

Only afterwards do I look at it again at home and maybe post it on here. And to be honest, I do appreciate the likes and reposts and of course the zaps. It feels like a validation.

So I guess there are two main experiences connected to photography: the excitement of the moment itself and then the experience you get when showing the result to others.

Making AI adjustments doesnt affect the first feeling. Either it was there or it was not.

So it affects only the moment showing it to others, not the high you get from clicking at the right time, capturing beauty.

That in itself is a reason to keep on shooting. AI will never be able to spoil that for me.

In post processing, even removing small distractions, like some litter on the foreground, I don’t have a problem with.

There are whole debates about this online though, for many it is considered ‘not done’.

So where is the line for me?

I guess removing a fundamental part (subject, total background or foreground) and including something that was not there, is where I draw the line.

Making changes like that takes away any satisfaction I might get from showing what I made to others. If that means i ‘lose’ to those that do make their photo’s ‘perfect’ this way, then so be it.

Let me know you thoughts on this!

HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY AND THANK YOU FOR APPRECIATING MY WORK!

#photography #AI

GM! Joyeux noel, feliz navidad, buon natale, gut yule, Merry Christmas!

From me and mine, to you and yours. May this be a blessed, peaceful and joyful season.

Love you, Nostr fam. 💜

Or detach yourself from the system and become a sovereign individual. National pride is overrated so is Patriotism.

Both don't work for the US people. They work for themselves.

Looks fake

The housing market needs to go thru the biggest crash of all time just to get to a level where normal people can start to get in.

Go to any listing on Zillow that shows a history going back to like 2001.

What you’ll notice is the price doubles at a faster and faster clip overtime.

It’s so unbelievably fucked.

I know that the 2nd Amendment is sacrosant to many socially-conservative Americans, but it's actually a difficult concept to understand the purpose of, if you aren't raised with it, or simply obsessed with guns for their own sake.

Most European countries are primarily concerned with foreign enemies, and many have military service, so we tend to associate weapons with wars of invasion. Since the United States hasn't been invaded since the Brits retreated, and hasn't really experienced a real, nation-threating hot war since the Civil War, but the country is highly militarized and drowning in weaponry, I suspect the men have simply redirected their war spirit inland.

Europe, on the other hand, is now in its' second major war within my lifetime. Some Europeans have experienced 3-5 major conflicts, such as involving Romania, Cyprus, and Yugoslavia. And the chaos of life after communism was pretty bad.

We generally don't like shooting other people here, and don't associated it with glamour and fun and being a cowboy, so we just don't do it. Even in European countries where a lot of people own guns, there is hardly anyone being shot. We really do use our hunting rifles to shoot deer, and not our neighbors.

I think Americans think this means that European men are cowards. Remember, when Americans mocked Ukrainian men for not being familiar with guns and being wimpy schmucks?

Well, I don't hear that, anymore.

My casio has seen so many waves in so many places with me!

The neck is the exit wound he was shot under his right ear from the right of the stage

200 yards and wind, it's not a movie

Which whale will move corn today to lower the price?! #bitcoin

Nudge, nudge

Interesting view, what i see as more plausible is more banks and asset managers like Blackrock becoming stablecoin issuers since the regulatory framework for this now exists in Genius. The likes of Circle and Tether may still maintain their lead for now but eventually their US operations will either be nationalized or just like the banks, they will be brought into the money printing cartel, where they will be an extension of Fed policy. Their end game is when they become the de-facto CBDC's. As for Strategy, i foresee a EO6102 coming down on corporations like them anytime soon, if it hasn't already behind closed doors. All of this could be wrong but still curious to see how it unfolds.

Is 2k the barrier to entry when you’re talking 6.5 creedmor?

If the Digital gulag comes to fruition, no cash, CBDC linked to a health vaccine passport and dig id that has all my assets tokenised on a universal blockchain ledger that i have no choice but to interact with…. How does bitcoin allow me Freedom ? The only option is that this system doesn’t occur which seems more and more unlikely. Am i being negative ? I find it hard to see how these 2 worlds co exist unless more people resist which after the covidscam seems also unlikely … I’m a bitcoiner but how many bitcoiners are there ? Seems the Bitcoin dream for most is etf emptiness. Here’s to their systems being unworkable and more people waking up

I have just bought a Google Pixel 9. I have been going through the process of installing graphene os. But the pixel 9 is not connecting to my Mac via usb-c. And so I can't carry on with the process. My other older android phone is connecting to the Mac via usb-c easily, so it's not an issue with the wire or the Mac. And I'm now out of ideas. Is this a common problem? Could anyone on here help? #asknostr

French toast called pain perdu in French (lost bread)... wentelteefjes in Dutch litteraly meaning turning bitches

French toast called pain perdu in French (lost bread)... wentelteefjes in Dutch litteraly meaning turning bitches

I’m just sceptical of true incentives

All Christopher Nolan films ranked from best to worst

1. The Dark Knight (masterpiece)

2. The Prestige (masterpiece)

3. Dunkirk (masterpiece)

4. Interstellar (near masterpiece)

5. Batman Begins (near masterpiece)

6. Memento (great)

7. Inception (great)

8. Oppenheimer (great)

9. Insomnia (decent)

10. The dark knight rises (decent)

11. Tenet (garbage)