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✒️Delving beneath the ink of culture and politics to expose soul that shapes our world. 🌌 *Best Experience with Yakihonne Articles or Primal Reads* 📖 Reposting is appreciation, zaps are love 🌩 ⚡️ ❤️

This is actually kind of wild. Predatory as all hell but they have all the leverage with these people.

Yet another way westerners are privileged in the fact that we can get systems in place to do self hosting while most of these "new users" wouldn't be able to do the same.

How could nostr realistically work without reliance on western relays or centralized relays in their respective regions?

Replying to Avatar elsat

There should be no primal or yakihonne links posted to nostr https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/76

If you’re opening these links from outside nostr, the only application I’ve seen that provides an option of selecting an app is njump.me

I agree but also understand why it's done, to attract users to the client but I agree it gets tough for content creators and users to have to be forced to download or use browser kn their phone.

Its not a good experience.

PSA: limoncello is dramatically underrated.

Make limocello great...

Im partial to Hyundai. Great mechanical engineering. Great interior quality.

Kia is upping their game with aesthetics but mechanically they are still inferior imo

This honestly feels like the first 5 min of a movie. Inciting incident has occurred now the main character puts together his/her team to take on the villainous hacker group....

Happens a ton, maybe we should create a new hashtag like #topOftheMornin'

How long will it take for daddy ai to catch on?

This post showed up as a giant white spot on my feed. Took me like 2 minutes scrolling downward to leave the above comment lol

I have not.

I was looking into either start9 or doing a nas. Or I don't need a server at all?

Replying to SoEV

Just finished nostr:nprofile1qqsxc56ajk5xtxerf4dqspgrfa0s5elrcr80lnz9nasldq87j3zzf0cc5h4hks the Big Print. Definitely on the same wavelength as him, shockingly (or maybe obviously) lots of overlap in my own writing about my own Bitcoin journey. I’m definitely a sound money advocate. I also just read Robin Wall Kimmerers “The Serviceberry”, all about the possibility of a gift economy, using ideas from Sacred Econmics. I’m curious if nostr:nprofile1qqsxc56ajk5xtxerf4dqspgrfa0s5elrcr80lnz9nasldq87j3zzf0cc5h4hk could mesh some of his learnings with the service berry, would be an interesting experiment. I see connections, but it gets complicated when talking about scarcity. It’s tough to believe two things to be possible and true at the same time.

Dude.....

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I often wonder: "Where can I talk with my fellow citizens about important issues?" The town hall doesn’t seem like the right place anymore. This made me realize that our society no longer has a true “center,” like it once did when churches played that role.

This leads to an important question: "What are the sources of our culture?" One clear source has been our shared faith or beliefs, which has weakened over time. Losing this long-standing source of unity affects not just individuals, but society as a whole.

Today, having shared cultural values is often seen as old-fashioned or even limiting, yet having some common ground is necessary for us to work together on problems. Nations used to be a strong force for keeping us united, but now they seem to have lost their deeper influence on people. Elections, too, have become a tool that often just keeps corruption going, and political promises have turned into empty words.

The West, tired of failing ideas and systems, now faces a kind of intellectual crisis. Who can even name five great modern philosophers? This shows how much we have lost in terms of deep, shared thinking.

Moreover, trusting the government has turned into a kind of blind faith. Our relationship with authority now seems like a simple exchange:

"I pay my taxes—so solve my problems."

"I offer sacrifices to the gods—so I expect their blessings."

Experts have taken on a larger role in solving problems, which can make ordinary citizens feel that they have little to contribute, simply because they are not specialists. Politicians keep this idea alive by using empty slogans and promises that play on our emotions rather than offering real solutions. Meanwhile, experts are not always willing to help out in everyday community settings without personal gain.

In short, I am seeing a decline in both cultural unity and active civic participation. Without a common foundation, it becomes very hard for society to come together and solve its problems.

Therein lies a problem I've been trying to tackle and articulate. It's why political parties are loosing traction with their voters bases. Its why no one knows their neighbors and are more interested in international politics than what's going on in their own town.

Big stuff here, it needs to be talked about.

I've had a hard time reconciling why so many people hold up the concept of a conscious AI as something to aspire to. I personally feel that is so much more problematic.

Having incredibly "smart" machines is one thing but having them be sentient is a completely different thing. We can have incredible gains in productivity without ever reaching the point when we create another being.

We have trouble keeping the peace amongst ourselves as humans why on earth would we and should we throw another conscious being into the mix. A conscious being that, by the way, at the inception humans would expect to be our slave....

Many think Capitalism is the end of economic progression as if capitalism is in fact, the most effective method of human organization.

Now that we are as interconnected as we are today, that is no longer the case.

The social conflicts we are seeing in most western countries shows that we are on the brink of something new and everyone feels it.

Capitalism is a system that benefits those with assets and the means to render and or make goods and services. That has always been hard to amass until now.

We stand at the threshold of atomic economies and for the first time in human history since the time of our hunter gatherer days, humans will be able to live in a more natural state.

But old ways wont let go so easily.....

No doubt, churches have historically served as community centers but the heart of this article is trying to touch on the importance of communal centers that anyone can intellectually participate in.

Churches, by nature, are institutionalized and have a top to bottom approach of disseminating knowledge.

People go to church for enlightenment from a spiritual source or mentor.

For a brief period in history, coffee houses served as centers for intellectual enlightenment and were battlegrounds for testing/debating ideas. Until that time and there after this only took place in segregated parlors based on class structure or universities and churches where class or institutional hierarchy determined the validity and feasibility of an idea.

I appreciate that there could be and have been really good ideas which generate from churches and I generally agree that communities have degraded over time for a host of different reasons, one among them as you mentioned is the fact that spirituality has all but vanished in local communities.

I'm actually working on a piece right now that delves into community degradation that I'd love some input for if you'd like to DM me!