There is nothing more luxurious than a quiet little life.
Watching men build houses and cabins with their bare hands reminds me that the only appropriate time to read the words "housing crisis" is after a natural disaster. Any other time these words are used is the direct result of government intervention.
Exactly. Do you remember when bitcoiners weren't waiting for handouts from the state?
Ah just noticed you've read it. Then a good follow up:
- "Economics in Three Lessons & One Hundred Economic Laws" by Hunter Lewis
"Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt is a classic must-read IMHO.
Yeah.. And since I can always zap more, I won't need to worry about withdraws.
Yes. I use Phoenix but it doesn't support lnurl. I see most people use WOS or Alby (invite only). I looked into mutiny but it seems to be very beta atm. Haven't found a good solution yet.
Zebedee is also integrated with Fountain. The reason I've been avoiding it despite the convenience it would bring me is the KYC...
smmrfld is 7 chars and the brain don't mind 😉
Yep instead of giving your nsec to random websites, you have it in one secure place (your browser). Ofc It's not as good as a signing device would be.
Just use an extension from the list
https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr#nip-07-browser-extensions
I refuse to login to anything that doesn't support Nip07
Great narrative to explain why nobody should be a no-coiner in 2024. But your friend doesn't even need 10%. When a larger asset class is being drained into a smaller market cap asset class, there's always a multiplier effect. Currently Bitcoin's multiplier is 100+. That means that your friend can start with 1% and have enough upside exposure to protect his net worth.
That's where I am too. Thinking of running a lightning node, but that might be too much of a rabbit hole...
Downloading sovereignty ...
Because Putin, Zelensky and Biden are all bat shit crazy mass murderers. As the famous saying goes "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you". And If you ignore the real world for long enough, you might end up being part of the "mass".
I too don't care about Stalin's philosophy but I'll use his quote:
- "The press must grow day in and day out - it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon."
If you want to be immune to propaganda, you have to know the source material and all points of view.
I am an open-minded skeptic and I challenge what I think I know, rather than try to confirm it. But that doesn't mean I disagree with the 'establishment' or 'mainstream' on lots of things. Only on a few things. Only where the evidence leads me.
In particular, I agree with mainstream nutrition science. And I know far more about it than I let on (even though I don't practice it). I've followed it since the 70s and have too many books. I was raised a vegetarian by an SDA mother who preached the Ellen White "health message" to us kids growing up. I remember the science even then showing SDAs living something like 9 years longer than everybody else. My great grandmother (an SDA) lived to 99. I'm a member of the CR society and used to post on that newsgroup for years. I let myself lapse in the last 15 years and let myself be convinced by passing fads, articles, and meta-analyses that meat is good for you and that keto is good for you (and I ended up with a property that had sheep on it so I learnt to farm sheep) and I sorta thought the mainstream view had moved past low-fat diets on to low-carb ones. But I dug into it today and... nope. I was just fooled by what has become popular online.
You keto diet people are going to die of heart attacks in your 50s and 60s. You will seem healthy right up until the end. Fit, lean body mass, top form. Then pop, you're dead. The science was in 50 years ago and is only more certain now. Don't be fooled by supplement salesmen or beef industry lobbyists. If you want a social media influencer, listen to nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 . Veganism is very close to the most healthy diet and he'll probably live past 100. I will still tease him about it though. Fucker... trying to outlive us... how dare he!
Vegan versus keto diets is a false dichotomy. The biggest predictor of living a long healthy and happy life isn't diet or even exercise but relationships. What makes us sick in the modern world isn't because we eat meat or don't eat the correct vegetables. We are sick because we live in a highly toxic environment AND eat highly processed garbage (not biochemically and metabolically adapted to) AND we're losing our communities.
Metabolically compromised people can benefit from a diet fine-tailored to their individual condition (paleo to keto spectrum). People with autoimmune conditions can benefit from an elimination diet of which carnivore is a good pick. I have very close examples in my life of how a vegan diet can have horrendous consequences if you have the wrong undiagnosed autoimmune condition.
The last few decades have been riddled with bad science around diet and health in general. Let's not pray on the alter of Scientism. We can't take the health and lifespan of one set of religious people living in close communities in a clean environment and jump to the conclusion that it's only the consequence of their particular diet.
This is why I'll use #nostr even if there will always be more people and content on the centralized social networks.