If Amethyst adds an "Around Me" feed, how far from you (lat-long radius) should it include?

GM Nostr!

Keep it weird.

Strange assessment. Certainly don’t seem clowns to me, forming good trade agreements to move away from US hegemony seems smart

This has alot of positive momentum, let’s hope it thrives nostr:note1j6qaq5n7d5ckm8qqf6q48hdkmgqhpl6w7qdzl4sluwyua0h2u9dqeedg4t

Well today I left potatoes I bought right there in Kaufland, so👀

I read a book called How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying.

There is a woman from Earth named Davi who is the chosen one and she is stuck in a time loop in a fantasy world. Every time she dies, she wakes up in a forest pond and an old wizard finds her and says the prophecy is for her to save the world.

She has lived 237 of these lifetimes, totaling over 1,000 years, and can never win. The dark lord and his horde always wins, no matter what she tries. She has understandably become quite cynical. Her personality is like Deadpool now; she takes nothing seriously, constantly jokes about things, and breaks the fourth wall.

So as she is getting tortured in the dungeon of the dark lord on life #237 after yet another multi-year attempt that failed, she decides she is fed up with this. Instead of trying to defeat the dark lord and save the kingdom, she will instead join the bad side and become the dark lord.

So after finally finding a way to kill herself and end the torture, she wakes up in the forest pond again. When the wizard comes to find her, she kills him and then heads into the forest to start her journey to work up the bad guys ladder. Kind of like Groundhog Day she has so much accumulated experience (fighting, magic, combat tactics, knowledge of what events will happen when) and she can iterate when she fails, so she sets off on this new journey to become Dark Lord Davi.

So the story follows her as she builds a bigger and bigger army (she insists on calling it a horde, since dark lords have hordes) and adventures across the world accumulating power.

Funny stuff.

#بورس ج.ا علاوه بر سرمایه، عقل رو هم زایل میکنه. اول پولتو میریزی تو چاه بعد میشینی یه خروار کصشر ردیف میکنی که به خودت امید بدی و چسناله که چرا ‎جاعش کاری نمیکنه!

#ایران #ایرانی #فارسی

There will be malicious actors. Like the guy who made those ReplyGuy bots. He just wanted to elicit a reaction from y'all for shits n giggles and everybody took the bait.

It repeatedly blows my mind, just how fundamentally decent the majority of people here are.

My hope/theory is that it’s not actually “just like this on Nostr”. While it’s true that a number of us have overlapping interests or worldviews, there is also a natural diversity: people from all around the world, with different cultures, languages, philosophies, and experiences, all show up here to say GM.

It’s more of a cultural bell curve, where the majority of people are pretty chill, decent human beings, who generally like each other and respect one another’s differences.

My radical proposition is that this actually reflects the real world, and that the current cultural narrative of unrelenting division - while it has some truth to it, for sure — is drastically overblown, both on a personal level and by the media. On the edges of the bell curve are the very niche, very loud, and very “divided” subcultures. These groups have been given the loudest microphones.

Individually, if we only interact with the toxic, rage-bait algorithms that have come to define modern social/media (because it’s in journalism too), we experience the world through this clouded lens. We’re fed a continuous diet of disagreement, outrage, war, etc., because we click on it and thus the people making the content decisions get paid.

Remove the algorithms, and you remove the illusion of irreconcilable division. Nostr is a perfect case study of this, and so far it’s going beautifully.

I’m cautiously optimistic that this trend will continue when the user base grows 10x, 100x, because my view is that humanity is primarily good. Time will tell, and incentives will matter. But I’m hopeful that on a value-for-value, proof-of-work standard, our better instincts will prevail.

Forget the joneses. #Life

So, this is the first post probably ever written by me in social. don't trust, verify it! #grownostr #nostr

In the 1960s, a bright idea emerged: "Communism spreads because of poverty!" The thinking went that agricultural societies would remain stuck in poverty until they industrialized. So, America's grand strategy to combat communism? Poverty eradication through industrializing the world's farmers.

To achieve this, they pushed land reform programs and modernized agriculture. The mastermind behind it all? Walter Rostow, a famed economist with a book called The Stages of Economic Growth. The U.S. even pressured its allies, like Iran, into land reforms, thinking this would do the trick.

But this whole plan was a classic misreading of institutional economics. They believed that by breaking up landowner control and pushing through land reforms, they'd magically create a modern, industrial economy.

And the cherry on top? The most extreme version of this mindset was exporting democracy—something we've painfully witnessed over the last two decades. Under the guise of "institution-building," the U.S. left a trail of disastrous results in its wake.

Now, let's talk about Iran’s land reforms. Taking lands from the landowners was a massive blunder. First, it was an outright invasion of private property. Second, it made the landowners powerful enemies of the Shah. And third, the farmers, unable to manage their newfound land, flocked to the big cities over the following years. They eventually became a driving force behind the Islamic Revolution of 1978!

#grownostr #history #libertarianism #Iran #privateproperty #revolution #economics #state #institutionaleconomics #institutions #democracy

Tutorial: Multiple accounts with Alby Extension

The Secret: You can add the same Alby account/Wallet multiple times to the extension.

This creates many wallets that you can switch between with the same balance, transactions, etc.

Then you can go in the settings of each wallet and erase the random nsec they create for you and insert one of your accounts.

Change the Display name of the account to match the NPUB's name.

The picture stays the same (which sucks, but it is what it is).

The Issue: Now that you have everything setup, you have to learn to LOG OFF, switch the active account on the extension and LOG IN on the Client's interface. Otherwise, the client will go crazy.

Easy.

In America we have the freedom to discard our plastic bottles and their caps into different parts of the ocean at different points in time.

I think this requires a clipboard app, doesn't it? Something has to keep all the history saved somewhere.