This is a little thing but it bugs me about #nostr #asknostr

Is there a way to make the likes on a notes update faster. Often you see a note with no likes and comments in your feed but once you click on it there are lots of comments and likes. Think it’s a relay thing maybe cos I’ve seen it in multiple clients. 🤔

It isn’t cynical libertarianism, it’s pragmatism and understanding the cost of using energy.

It costs 100x as much to spend your days, time, energy, and mind focused on politics, while the difference in the outcome is indistinguishable regarding who wins the election when looking at basically any meaningful stats or outcomes. Debt is going to explode upward, doesn’t matter who’s in office. Military complex will grow further. Govt will get bigger. Etc etc

Yet just a small amount of energy and time spent on decentralized protocols, on adopting and spreading understanding of sound money, or using a social network that cannot be censored, or spreading the signal and helping others to stop wasting time on lost causes that black hole our precious time and money.

You call it cynicism likely because you frame the world with politics at its center. You think I’m ignoring reality

I call it pragmatism because I realize politics is a game show designed to trick you into thinking it’s the center of the world. I actually live in reality, while you play reality TV.

I say this with respect, I think we have very different ideas as to what really moves the world. I’m not defeatist, I think putting politics at the center of everything happens in the mind of someone already totally defeated.

GM ☕

My echo chamber says JD Vance was the victor last night.

What is your echo chamber saying?

Lots of chatter on the airwaves and in print lately probing the limits of free speech, the justifications for censorship and the future viability of the US constitution. It was a talking point in last night's VP debate as well, during which Walz recited the folk-loresy understanding of the issue: "you can't yell fire in a crowded theater."

Here's a PSA on this little gem a bit in case you ever find yourself up against it.

The phrase comes from supreme court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr during the 1919 case Schenck v United States. Anyone unfamiliar with this case might be shocked to learn that it had nothing to do with shouting fire, or with any kind of mischievous, anti-social trouble-making whatsoever. At stake was the printing and mailing of pamphlets to draft-eligible men that made the case that the draft was against their constitutional rights and inviting citizens to peacefully abstain. In other words, what was at stake in the trial were the defendants right to criticize perceived government transgression of the constitution, exactly what the first amendment was designed to ensure.

Amazingly, what was passed down to our collective memories about this episode is not the hard truth that governments will attempt to violate constitutional rights for their own, arguably nefarious, ends (a conceptual inheritance that would strengthen civic support for free speech), but rather the wildly inaccurate analogy of the crowded theater (an Orwellian description of the case that suggests government censorship is there to protect us and keep us safe). And even though the precedent of Schenck was overturned in 1969, the "fire in a crowded theater" litmus test still lingers as the operative heuristic for a great many Americans, including, apparently, one of the candidates for Vice President of the country.

Good morning

Today I learned:

JFC doesn’t mean ‘just fucking chill’ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Halloween spirit is in the air already 🎃👻🕷️☠️

Was perfect on 1.5 but we're blessed to hear his voice at any speed 🧡😍🧡

Twitter folks don't like nostr because it's nice here and they're addicted to being rage baited all day and manipulated by algos

To them it's cringe to be nice and have a good time and not worry about likes and follow counts.

Do I love engagement? Yes. I do. Why else would you be here?

GM

My first Nostr Post :) Can anyone hear me out there? #noob

#reply #plshelp #loveit #ableton #singing #mantra #music