Welp, pack it up folks. Bitcoin is dead.
A ReasCNN reporter wasn’t impressed with El Salvador’s bitcoin acceptance. 🙄
https://reason.com/2024/10/31/a-week-of-failing-to-pay-with-bitcoin-in-el-salvador/
Graphene OS is great but it can only be flashed to Google Pixel phones.
It’s possible to buy a Pixel and turn it on without needing to enter a Google account upon startup and the process to flash Graphene is extremely easy to do.
Finally an opportunity to attend a NOSTR conference
Based Doug Casey on elite universities
This is a feature, not a bug, of the Misery Industry
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Great rip nostr:nprofile1qqsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8sprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnzd96xxmmfdecxzunt9e3k7mgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mq9hxafw! To add to what y'all said about pharmaceutical companies running ads directly to consumers, a big part of why they do that is to control the platforms they run ads on. When they can become a big enough part of the media company's revenue, they can threaten to pull ads if that company propitiates a message they don't like.
Opened up a few of the magazines in the waiting room at a medical office last week. These magazines were not medical-themed, they were publications such as Time and People but the majority of the large, color, multi page ads were for pharmaceutical products.