It's partially the point.

If you were to guess, which would you say is good or bad?

The cure sounds like the disease

Nathan Rothschild in the 18th century:

"Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws"

Modern Digital Agora:

"Use cryptocurrency that can't be printed or controlled, and communication that can't be taken down, and who cares who is the king"

Imagine working at either campaign and having to find ways to sell their terrible candidate to an electorate that just want a better life. Worst job ever.

The question is:

What content makes u keep using Twitter ?

The answer:

Let’s bring in to nostr and get away from twitter!

Anonymous eSIMs were there missing piece for a digital life with dignity.

Without Bitcoin, we wouldn't have those either (imaging having to pay for one with a credit card).

It's all starting to come together, piece by piece.

i became interested in bitcoin because of its potential to build a parallel economy that offers an alternative to the censorship-friendly & orwellian mainstream financial system

so of course i want it to become private/fungible + scale to onboard millions of people at a cost much lower than western union/banks

so i get angry when i see a bunch of suits hijacking the narrative by providing “education” that makes sure hundreds of thousands of new community members only want to use it as a pet rock and actively oppose any improvement whatsoever

it’s a sybil attack on consensus which effectively freezes the ability to do any network upgrades

if guys like saylor can decide which dev gets funding and from where, then they discourage the medium of exchange function and manipulate the narrative on something as significant as self-custody, millions of people miss out on the once in a generation opportunity to fix the broken money system

if guys like saylor amass this much influence, bitcoin is effectively a delegated proof of stake system

i’m fine with finance bros using bitcoin for whatever. bitcoin is for enemies, right?

but when you weaponize your army of trolly ngu simps to effectively stall the progress of the project, i will do my best to remind people why i came here and what the mission used to be until just a few years ago

use bitcoin as a pet rock if you want, but don’t try to tell others what they should do with something that’s supposed to be freedom money

don’t ruin the lives of millions of people living under tyranny only because you want to see your number go up and you’re afraid of regulators

i may not have the same platform as saylor and i may not pass arbitrary purity tests from high priests, but at least i am honest and willing to use my significantly smaller platform to remind people why bitcoin was created and what it should ultimately become

This is what happens when you search for "Joe Rogan Trump" on Youtube.

🤷‍♂️

It seems, Google is no longer in the search business, because they search truly fucking sucks.

I guess the illegal election interference business is much more lucrative, which makes sense when the entity that funds you can print unlimited money.

Question for parents out there. How much do you agree with this statement.

"You should let kids just be kids for as long as possible."

Presented without further context on purpose. Would love to hear 1) how you take that and 2) whether you agree

#askNostr

remember having to make (fake) PCR tests to fly to most places?

In an interview, Elon Musk recently said that Earth has just the right gravity at which space travel [with chemical rockets] is theoretically possible. A bit less gravity and it would be easy. A bit more and it would be impossible.

I'm not sure what the limit would be but the fact that we have enough in the tank to do a propelled landing tells me there is still some margin. But not much, as much of the breaking before landing is done by air friction.

So while a bit bigger planet would not be able to land as smoothly, a much bigger planet basically needs nuclear propulsion to get off the ground.

So what are the actual limits here? Earth invented life and went through snowball times and global extinction events. Bigger planets' intelligent life cannot get off their surface - or might not have a solid surface at all that's not covered by liquid hydrogen. Could intelligent life develop on a gas giant? If so, what would be the hurdles to even communicate out? How would one go about sending a radio signal from Jupiter? Would life on Jupiter even come up with radio technology given it's probably useless on their planet? Or can more complex molecules not develop at all on gas giants?

In the other extreme, smaller planets, getting to space is "easy" but getting to life or intelligent life probably not. With less of an atmosphere, comets are more frequent to hit the surface. It needs less rock for "global" events.

I don't understand enough about the origins of life to rule out non-carbon based chemistry but I would find it hard to believe life to spring into existence on a planet that has no liquid for chemistry to happen in.