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Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Every year, I spend 1-2 months living in Egypt. This is because my husband is originally from Egypt, his family is much larger than mine, and so while our economic base is in the US, our social base is actually in Egypt. I thus became multinational many years ago.

However, my husband spends 3-4 months each year in Egypt, while I only spend 1-2 months there. So, there are 1-2 months where I’m in the US alone. The reason I choose to do this is to look after the household and business, and because I’m not as productive in Egypt (inconsistent internet, less optimal workstation, way more social pressures, and so forth).

In some ways, we find that spending some time apart strengthens our relationship and lets us focus on our separate things for part of the year. And when we meet after 1-2 months, it’s such a great reunion. We find ourselves wanting to catch up on so much and spend extra time together. But also, even though in some ways I look forward to having time alone and indeed get a lot done during that time, I immediately regret it once I am alone. I find myself constantly looking forward to going to Egypt, as I am now. During these periods, I end up posting more on social media, either constructively or non-constructively, in what tends to be a replacement for diminished in-person contact.

This seems to be amplified by my work situation. When I was an engineer, I worked with colleagues in person each day, but now that I work from home, my colleagues are virtual and I meet them in person only at major events. So, this relatively brief window each year of being in a different place than my husband tends to be oddly monk-like, with me at home alone 24 hours per day, working and living and doing whatever I do. I think one of my future goals will be to increase my deliberate effort at spending time with local friends, especially during this part of the year.

Anyway, I’m doing a series of “real thoughts” uniquely on Nostr, and this is the first one.

Conclusion: Social circles are (obviously) a very important thing, including for workaholics and introverts like myself. Social circles affect us in various ways, and having gone through many cycles, I have become increasingly aware of the changes that take place during these seasonal cycles of being close to others vs far from others.

Always look forward to your posts

Here’s another for my 67 followers. Let me know what you think. No one else has. https://youtu.be/mykRet91te0

Since I have no irl friends here…. Here’s this. https://youtu.be/ACk2b945SDw

Sam Bankman Fried pitched himself as the honest crypto genius spending his fortune shaving the world

Can someone tell me how a paid relay is different from a free one? Can I still connect to paid relay?

Removing the tax on bitcoin transactions is why I will vote one issue this election cycle

Where did you get the croc bitcoin charm?🤩

If you don’t like bitcoin it’s because you think you missed out and want to see others fail

Talking to a guy at a bar about bitcoin. Most people won’t listen to you, they just want to be right. But they will remember you

Bitcoin is a bristlecone pine tree

Replying to Avatar Derek Ross

Welcome to nostr, new nostriches!

The nostr protocol and decentralization are the future of social communication.

The current state of social communication is dominated by a handful of large, centralized platforms. These platforms have a great deal of power over the way we communicate and interact with each other. They can decide what content is allowed on their platforms, and they can even censor or ban users at will.

Protocols. Not platforms. 🤝

This centralization of power has led to a number of problems:

Privacy concerns: Centralized social media platforms collect a vast amount of data about their users. This data can be used to track users' activities, target them with advertising, and even influence their behavior.

Censorship: Centralized social media platforms often censor content that they deem to be controversial or offensive. This has led to accusations of bias and suppression of free speech.

Security risks: Centralized social media platforms are a major target for cyber-attacks. These attacks can result in the theft of user data and even the disruption of service itself.

A decentralized social communication protocol offers a solution to these problems. Decentralized social communication is not controlled by a single entity. Instead, bits and pieces of the protocol are spread across the Internet, ran by independent server operators and independent developers. This makes open protocols like nostr much more difficult for anyone to censor, control the content, or take it down.

Freedom will win. We just have to build it.

Thank you for joining us. 💜

This is why we use nostr. This is why we are excited for nostr's future.

Wasn’t there a way to find bitcoin Twitter peeps who have mister accounts? I follow 1500 on Twitter but only 70 or so here

My daughter gets annoyed by my interest in bitcoin.

Talk about inflation. Does anyone ever ask why things get more expensive when productivity is always improving. I think most people just file it away to greed. Of course those at the top are going to take the profits! They deserve it after all.

What do you say to newbies when they are a bit curious about bitcoin. Besides going into the history of money I would start by comparing bitcoin to gold, and point out that gold has held its value over hundreds of years especially when compared to the dollar

Does anyone have the list to find more bitcoiners to follow on nostr.

What is payjoin? Is this service in lightning wallets?