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Luke Warmwater
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The Sauce is strong with this one.

It was me!!!

Na na na naah na!

That's some funky shitcoin shit right there.

Not bad!

And I'm pretty sure I saw your hardware wallet fall out of your pocket when you stood up too.

Tragic surfing accident.

Bonus!

Indeed. But in their defence:

1) They were deceived by a lie (and still are), as we all are to some extent. It was only a minority of boomers that made this mess. It is, after all a class system. Middle and lower classes (mostly the middle) are heavily indoctrinated to perform the will of the mega wealthy, virtually from birth.

2) We have the Internet they did not. This allows dissenting voices and access to information that simply wasn't available back in the days of TV/magazines (Hence the current totalitarian attempts to censor all wrong think on the net). We have the potential to be better informed.

3) If our lives were swapped with our parents - would we do anything differently than them? I think probably not. After Nazi Germany, researchers tried to find out why most went along with it. Checkout the famous Milgrim's shock experiments and Zimbado's prison experiment. Majority of people just do what they're told to do. Think what they're told to think.

4) One good thing about the 'death of God' is that it got rid of a lot of bad religion and religiousity (but admittedly, replaced with some equally bad, if not worse, religion. Like Consumerism, and now the great spectre on the horizon; Corporate Transhumanism. Blah!). Not saying all religion or theism is bad. You know what I mean.

Anyway, we have:

Internet (for a little while longer at least)

Bitcoin

Nostr

Freedom tech

Medical care and advancement (yes, I know, I bit of a mixed bag. And when I say we, I mean everyone everywhere, in the entire world, including outer space, except America) *

* (yes, I know many in the developing world, and the poor generally, don't. It was just a joke)

Things are seldom black or white, but... Saylor is..?

1) Net good for bitcoin

2) Net bad for bitcoin

3) Net irrelevant to bitcoin

The fact that you got depressed, means that before you got depressed, you were not depressed. That means your thoughts and feelings you are experiencing now are temporary. Even if that temporary is days, months, or even years, the depression will pass.

Remember, depression is not YOU. It's only something you experience. Given time, you will experience the real you again. Happy, calm, peaceful.

If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion, if you haven't tried it already, people often find counting their breath can help.

The technique goes like this. Focusing on your stomach as it slowly rises and falls. count up to ten breaths, then start from one again. When you notice your mind has wandered - for example after just one count of the breath, just gently go back to focusing on your stomach and count from one again.

Think of it as a game. Every time you notice your mind wander and then come back to the breath - you score a point! It's a win. Slowly your mind will break free of the depressing thoughts and feelings. In the meantime, you just have to kinda sit with it.

And try to talk to someone you can trust if you can. Someone who can help. A professional if you can.

Great!

You and Max changed my life so much you wouldn't believe.

Or maybe you would.

Looking forward to more change 😃

Hope things are going well for you both.

I'm not sure I should write down these thoughts right now while I'm not sure about them, but if you are reading this apparently I did.

I think nostr may already be doomed for two reasons. And as a result of that, if I conclude as such, it would make sense to start working on a successor protocol. I've been taking some notes about what we should change if we started over, but that's the extent of it, I'm not working on a successor protocol. I'm only working on nostr. So don't misinterpret this note, which just represents some thoughts I've been having.

Reason one is the misaligned incentives of note copying. The incentives are to copy your notes to every relay you can, blast them out everywhere, to get more reach. That incentive doesn't go away until and unless all the clients do the outbox model. But they don't have an incentive to change, and there are people who don't give a fuck about fixing this and argue against fixing it and argue for note copying, and there is no way in a free society to make them care. So we can never fix this, and nostr will always be centralized in practice and never what it could have been. That means nostr is doomed and unfixable and we should make sure to start differently next time so this doesn't happen again.

Reason two is that the seed culture of nostr was far too monolithic: bitcoiners. What a culture develops into probably depends on how diverse its seed was. It's quite hard to get people onto nostr unless they are at least very bitcoin tolerant. Most people (yes, I think most) are put off by so much bitcoin promotion and related posts. Certainly people can follow anybody they want, and make their own independent cultures, perhaps even on a disjoint set of relays. But this isn't likely to happen due to the law of large numbers - there are far more ways for them to encounter and interact with the nest of bitcoiners then to not encounter and interact with them.

These are thoughts I'm entirely unsure about. Maybe I'm wrong in both cases. These are my worries.

Well that would be ironic. People visiting a non-exclusive uncensored platform where anyone can say anything, feel excluded because 'it's all just bitcoiners'.

Buy the dip, #stackharder #bitcoin

The WEF is comimg for our coffee.

https://video.nostr.build/8efb342b258c8796531ef1c46d80f209832117073145f41797863cf39b6a19a7.mp4

Ready to give up coffee, "to save the planet"?

Swiss banker and World Economic Forum "agenda contributor", Hubert Keller: "The coffee that we all drink emits between 15 and 20 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of coffee... Every time we drink coffee, we are basically putting CO2 into the atmosphere."

So basically, every time we fart we are emitting CO2 into the atmosphere.

Or talk shit, like I am now.

All selves are ultimately delusions. So the question is, who are you, really?