True hip-hop is transcendental. The drum beat and vocal rhyme are mankind's oldest tools for musical harmony and there is no better place for it than in defiance of injustice.

My step mother is Peruvian. I've never been but my father was caught up in a riot last year when he went. I wonder if he was caught up in what caused those deaths.

I'm with you up to a certain point. A stock is a piece of ownership in the company and if you get in early during an IPO, it can be super lucrative. Even then owning small amounts of stock is no different than owning an altcoin. People just want the stock to appreciate and if it has a dividend that's no different than staking.

In the end all you can point to is that you still technically have ownership in the business while with an altcoin all you own is....=(

It's kind of scary but with Nostr being so new and with most of the clients still operating on donations we might see a lot more of this to drive advertisements.

It could also be a way to avoid convoluted litigation in the future.

Who knows? It will be interesting to see where all this goes in a few years.

The way he remained very level headed and steered Terrance toward refining his thoughts. You can see how Eric is truly in his essence as a professor/educator. Some people have a true gift at that.

I love Joe, but he was really goofy in this one.

That's one rabbit I have no idea how they are going to pull out of the hat when the time comes.

Looks like a hobbit house.

I feel like there should be a fireplace where that desk is.

That's better than the golden rule.

It's an evolution. Do onto others better than you wish be done onto you.

the google definition is: dues ex machina fallacy is the use of a “god-like” character or plot devixe that acts in a way that makes a problem or conflict seem insoluble, and thus forces the story into an unsatisfactory resolution.

Its a VERY common mistake in scifi or fantasy when the author has a complex world.

No one does it intentionally but it tends to happen when the author knows more about the tech and world than the reader (always happens) but fails to descirbe the plot point as common factor in the world and then some how its used to save the day.

In the case of a bitcoin story an audience of bitcoiners might read through the ex machina but an average reader would not.

Please document your travels! I need to see this!

It's not exactly what you describe but the conflict with the astroid belt people is well played out in "The Expanse".

I think there is great potential in having bitcoin as a world building tool but my honest suggestion would be to really flesh out characters and their motivations. There's always a valuable piece missing to stories with great world building but crappy characters!

There is some juice to squeeze on the philosophical impacts of civilization spanning large swaths of space/time. I mean depening on hiw large the civilization is people on different sides of the civilization literally experience time and life differently.

I would also be careful of the ex machina/ other logical pitfalls that could come out of a story like this, especially when your main audience might be bitcoiners who would quickly identifiy them.

Just my two sats. Thats a long and drawn out way of saying, Id read it!

I would shit myself if I got off a space craft and saw one of those things walking toward me.

National Borders are starting to disappear defiant of an intense movement to further secure them. Politicians around the world are grasping to maintain power, clutching at the hearts of their fellow citizens and spurring the effort to raise walls and strengthen borders. Has anyone stopped to consider that, perhaps, borders are becoming obsolete?

Borders were a necessity to protect valuable resources and ensure the prosperity of one’s people. Civilization began stagnant as agriculture required great populations to tend to one location. Ethnicities and cultures were purified and people laid all kinds of claims to their little slices of the earth. God ordained claims, folk tale and legend anointed claims, philosophically ingrained claims. These were unnatural claims to a slice of earth which never truly belonged to anyone.

To be human is to be a nomad, to seek resources and relationships where they are and move to where they’ll be next. We’ve forced ourselves to live this way under the tip of a spear and at the behest of bullets but, technology is a mirror and what’s reflected is our true nature. People seek “freedom” of movement to go where the resources are. We’ve devised incredibly clever ways to transcend our spatial ties to specialized work and family in order to stave off our Itinerant hunger.

Money is a spectral manifestation of our innate desire to traverse the Earth in search of resources. Humans imbue inanimate things with their nomadic spirit and dispatch them with the hopes that a little bit of the world would come back to benefit them. Unadulterated money would do exactly what was always intended of it, it will return undiluted resources to those who dispatch it, regardless of borders.

Less intermediaries are needed with peer 2 peer and open source technologies. It’s incredibly difficult for borders to siphon the flow of resources and money or build artificial Silos of wealth disguised as GDP. A border doesn’t stop a software developer nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z from participating in the fine tapestry of a project that is global in scale. A gifted speaker nostr:npub1qqvt0m3nlvjnssmrn33w9yh7cuq2dx5nkz8wxax9hk5hrjdnj4jqz8cn3w can document and rally the participants.

Money will flow to where the resources and intention of people are purest.

A fellow in Venezuela, nostr:npub17amtesfzwxl8nlr3ke2l8jl7kw52z60n8msnxh7vps3g9xgpmf9qx5nldk , can snap photos to craft art enjoyed by a fellow in the USA nostr:npub1j9cmpzhlzeex6y85c2pnt45r5zhxhtx73a2twt77fyjwequ4l4jsp5xd49 and an exchange of value will occur. Spirits transcend borders and the “money” that transports them will disperse finely among the human population while the human population continues its search for valuable resources.

A little girl living in a desert island never experiences thirst when the diaspora of humanity taps into bountiful fountain heads of water elsewhere.

A father never lifts a weapon and is forced to leave their family to fight a war in a far off land for the sake of stealing the resources of another father when his specialized labor is more valuable to his supposed foe.

Nostr and Bitcoin are among the technologies that reflect Humanity's true image. Who do you know is refusing to look in the mirror?

What is most important in life, love or money?

You’re sitting in the 5am darkness of your living room. The baby in your arms shifts and you’re afraid she might wake. It's hot, but you wouldn’t dare remove the blankets covering her body for fear you might wake her.

It seems impossible you could admire anyone mor. Then, you hear the gentle snore of your exhausted wife creep from the gently cracked bedroom door. (As a man) You can only imagine what pain she went through to bring this precious girl in your arms now.

Your watch lights up. You dread the sight of that little alarm bell icon above the time 5:25 and a weight falls on you like a million tiny pieces of lead.

If only you had more time.

You wish you could take your baby girl with you. That way you would have all the time in the day with her and your wife could be left to rest.

You need to work.

You get up as gently as you can. Even so, baby girl shifts in your arms. Her eyes open slightly. The thought of returning a crying baby to your exhausted wife is distressing, it's just not fair. Baby girl shifts again, her eyes open long enough to spot you in the faint glow of morning twilight and she smiles.

You hold your breath. The smile remains on baby girl’s face but her eyes close and her head collapses into your chest. You return your baby to her mother’s side and admire the two of them in their slumber.

You need to work.

Nothing could ever go wrong with that house so long as you work to keep its walls strong. One day, when you’re truly needed perhaps you’ll have the money saved up to take the desired time off.

In the absence of the love you share for your family. In the absence of the love others have for you, money loses some value.

What is most important in Life? Love or Money?

If we equate money for what it is, the residue of time, we cannot divorce Love from Money.

It’s important to understand that Money won’t buy you Love and Love should never be exchanged for Money but, Time cultivates Love.

These are some key things to keep in mind:

-Life without love is Suffocation

-Life without money is stress and despair, if anything because you lack the time for anything

-Families are cultivated and grown with love and protected with money.

-Money is the residue of time. Whether its fiat or bitcoin it exchanges days, hours, minutes, or seconds. What could you do instead of work if you had the money?

That's one dirty floor that would sadden me to clean...

Get it! I've been trying to spur up my routine as well. It's just getting into the habit that's hard after that it's a one way ticket to swolesville

Wow that video is a treat. Pretty nice jam as well.

Yea man people started sounding the bell when the government took peoples gold. But it is interesting to see how the body of knowledge has grown.

Intimacy is a labor of passion. Relationships take work to maintain and that's what makes it worth it.

Sex is part of it. It should be an act of passion, an act of compassion.

Oof, that's a Hella of a good workout! 80km how long did that take?

I've been doing a ton of research for my own home "cloud" and keep running into nas solutions. I saw you have a thinkcentre would you recommend that over a nas for self hosting images and video as well as running bitcoin&lightning nodes?