It's the same mental circus act that makes a tranny believe he is a woman despite clear, physical evidence to the contrary.

Mental illness causes a person to not see reality, and they can't face hard truths about themselves and others (and we are all mentally ill to some extent, just most people have the same illnesses so we see each other as "normal").

Listen. What I'm about to tell you is so, so important. It's not important to me, though maybe you think it is, but really it's important to you. What I'm going to say, you need to make sure you listen very, very carefully. Okay? The future of this beautiful nation hangs in the balance.

I need you to make an investment in freedom today. We have these new--I don't know what you'd call them--digital trading cards, maybe? They told me they're digital trading cards, they know, I don't know, but I need you to make an investment for your own future by purchasing some of these wonderful cards. They really are fantastic, let's get a few of them up on the screen, okay? Wow. Look at this one, it's a picture of yours truly hugging the most beautiful icon--the American flag. So many more of these great cards can be yours, though I'm told there are only so many.

This sort of thing, along with all the trannyism, is why Jesus said,

"But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

I think most people are sexually degenerate to one degree or another these days, but the real problem is when they try to justify their particular brand of it as okay (because it's "not as bad as those other people over there!") instead of actively trying to change.

Tell me...What are the "real reasons" for our society collapsing?

Yeshua?

"____ was only $____ just a few years ago!" is very quickly turning into "____ was only $____ just a few months ago!"

Pilate questioned the charges and wanted to let him go, and Pilate's wife even warned him to not get involved due to a vision she had, but the Jewish leaders were about to start a riot if he didn't have Jesus crucified.

Well, the creators of "censorship-resistant" Nostr decided to go full censorship mode and squash any interesting conversation that may have taken place. So all that's left is a boring, repetitive circlejerk over bitcoin.

This whole place could be replaced with ChatGPT bots more interesting than the current userbase.

I see nothing has changed during my brief hiatus

QUANTUM QUANTUM QUANTUM QUANTUM

It really goes to show that you can make a network as "censorship resistant" as you like, but in the end, it's always just a different brand of censorship with different mental gymnastics to justify it.

I think I probably just need to take a break from both and read books for a while instead. Fedi used to have a lot more posts worth thinking about, and people would link to interesting pages and recommend books you couldn't find elsewhere, but now it's all just varying degrees of degenerate anime coom. I hardly even see people posting the stupid motivational stuff about going to the gym and being the best person you can be anymore...It's just aggressiveness and anime coom. Not great things to fill one's mind with, and neither is internet money.

How much of that "21 million (potential) bitcoin in the world" has already been lost due to keys being lost over time? More than anyone around here is willing to admit, I would guess, and that amount is increasing permanently.

Bitcoin is inherently deflationary.

The fedi commuity is worth it, but the ActivityPub spec isn't. Nostr has the inverse problem.

It's probably true, but it's just not worth the hassle. I'm here to try to give people a different perspective, and possibly change my own, as I've had to seriously consider cryptocurrency after so many years of ignoring it...My stance is still that it's a scam...But if people don't want to have that discussion and would rather have their own little hugbox circlejerk about zaps and gambling bots, then fine. And if the devs want to silence any opposing viewpoints at the client and relay levels, fine.

It's just not worth my energy to go on a crusade to make Nostr the network that it has potential to be, where people discuss the matters of life and not just worship one fake currency while denigrating another fake currency.

I could spend every spare moment of my time developing stuff to make Nostr better, but for what? So people can just pat themselves on the back all day about how genius they are for latching on to a never-ending pump-and-dump tool that the rich use to get richer?

My answer is to build my own stuff instead of trying to get someone else to do it, but every time I consider spending time on Nostr development, I realize that this community isn't worth wasting the time on.

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Meh, someone who has already made up his mind about how he wants to develop things, most likely.

Same here, these people are not used to disagreements (or really anything other than "We're all super smart because we buy bitcoin!")

Review by the end user, not by any relay operator. I don't care if someone wants to block me because my posts are too spicy, but let them make their own choice. They don't need a shepherd to do it for them.