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Alejandro
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Building tools for a Nostr agentic ecosystem. Founder at nostr:npub1nar4a3vv59qkzdlskcgxrctkw9f0ekjgqaxn8vd0y82f9kdve9rqwjcurn

The IMF and the World Bank are the biggest enemies of developing countries and now they are getting ready to expand their pool of victims.

Abolish the IMF and the World Bank for a better future for all.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/28/1214428351/climate-funding-rework-financial-system-debt-relief

I don’t know what’s worst, the 5 turnovers by the Vikings or the fact that the Bears only have 9 points to show for those turnovers.

Canada is ramping up its efforts to ban any activity that could threaten the government of Prime Minister Trudeau.

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Losing someone young, or losing an older person while you are young, is always hard.

When my father passed away from cancer while I was in my early twenties, it wasn't surprising at all. This fact had been coming for two years, slowly. But when it came, it hurt just as bad. And till this day it still hurts.

I was at work and got a call; it was a hospital. They said my father had been suddenly transferred to hospice, and it wasn't looking good. He probably had a week at most. He was in another state. The doctor transferred my father to me on the phone and my father was weakly like, "hey...." and I said hello, and I said I'm coming now. He said, "No don't... uhh.... don't worry... you are far and have work... I'm fine...." I asked then why was he transferred to hospice if things were fine. He was like, "uh well... well you know.... uh.... it's fine...." And I was like, "holy shit I'm coming right now."

So I went to my boss and looked at him. I had previously told him that there might be a moment where I would have to just immediately leave without notice, no matter how important the meetings and such, because of my father. So in this moment I literally just looked at him in the middle of a busy day and was like, "I gotta go" and he was like "of course". So I drove there, two hours away and went straight there. My father weakly said on the phone not to go, but he never sounded like that, so I went immediately.

I got there, and my father was in a hospital in the death ward, and the guy who greeted me was a pastor rather than a nurse, which was not a great sign. I asked what was going on and he told me straight up that this was not good, that my father was likely dying within a week. So he brings me to my father. My father is barely awake. His memories and statements are all over the place, but I just hold his hand and tell him that it's fine and I love him. I'm just there. He kept fading out and I was like, "it's okay, just relax". He could see me and talk in a rough sentence or two and thanked me for coming, but started to fade away.

And then after like 30 minutes, he went fully unconscious. He was still roughly gripping and shaking the bed headboard and so forth but wasn't conscious (and I was like, "Are you all giving him the right pain medicines, this doesn't look good", and even the pastor was like, "yes I have seen many and this is not comfortable" and I was like an angry 23-year-old so I went out in the center area like, "what do all of you even fucking do here?! He is shaking the bedframe and looks in pain, and even the pastor agrees. Holy shit." So I went and got medical attention to deal with this, but felt slow and ineffective at this. They gave him more morphine and it calmed him down, but while it relaxed him, he ultimately didn't wake up again.

I spent the next couple hours there, and then left and called various family members for my second round when he was unmoving. I said if they want to see him, come now, in the next day or two.

But a little while later after I left, I got a call and was told he had died. Only I (and the nurses) saw him while he was still briefly conscious.

During that call itself, I was stoic. I was like, "Yes, I understand. Okay." and then hung up. And then I sat there for like five minutes in silence... and then cried. I got over it quickly and we did the funeral in the following days. My father had been struggling with cancer for years, so this wasn't fully surprising.

But what lingered was the memory. It has been 13 years now, and yet whenever I am in my depths I still think of my father. The memory never gets weaker. I think of his love, or I think of how attentive he was, or how accepting he was, or what he would say about my current problems.

People we love, live on through us. We remember them so vividly, and we are inspired by them.

If he was a lame father, he wouldn't have so many direct memories 13 years later. But because he was a good and close father, he does.

All of those memories are gifts. All of them are ways of keeping aspects of that person alive in our world. It's how we remember them in the decades that follow. Their victories, their losses, and everything in between. Virtues they quietly did that you find out later. Virtues you realize only in hindsight how big they were.

Thank you for sharing this.

I’m very far away from my parents, them in Spain and me in US and as they get older, I get more worried about the distance.

Contact lists shouldn’t be replaceable lists.

Nostr needs a type of list that only allows to add or remove one contact at a time.

That will make it more difficult for a software bug to seriously impact your contact list. nostr:note18akkvqcvnez0mzlkft66zhv2qcswayd8830unpa3avwm86ngegvsdv0f9c

Utxo's fight is everyone's fight. Nothing is free.

Support utxo with some Bitcoin. Rights must be constantly defended. Otherwise evil will chip at them, little by little.

You gotta fight for your right (to Bitcoin!).

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Could you please create a fund on Geyser? I’d create one for you but I’d rather have the funds go directly to you

Click on your picture on the upper left corner to access the settings.

Select Wallet to access this screen:

You can set a percentage of your zaps to go to Damus.

If you are a Damus user and haven’t done that already, do it now!

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My 15 yo daughter is in charge of the appetizers today šŸ˜‹

#thanksgiving #thankful

I wish this one had one to someone running a miner on an old laptop in their basement and not to a pool nostr:note1g33xt5xdlxclxg5xdkf2nz3stqvt6hzgq4vvfpgg047tznsxw92q02gyrx