Nostr, what kind of community do we want to be?

Can we have serious and robust conversation on this free speech and permissionless app? Or just troll?

Nostr won’t grow this way. It’s not taken seriously. nostr:note1rj4m4sp3qzpmhuugwqurz7p3jduvgtrftausafm9p7ygwg0v2k8q8lfwun

Some good conversations about “progressive” on here again recently.

My biggest hang up with any full libertarian or bitcoin only etc etc arguments are how the vulnerable in society will fair *today*. So folks with disabilities (millions in US), single moms raising kids, the homeless, elderly poor folks, etc.

Now, I’ve worked my whole career in nonprofits working with these types of populations. I’m less focused on where the money is coming from, and more on how we organize support. Most nonprofits in the U.S. are heavily funded via government grants and state/federal line items. Should we move away from this, I’d be 100% ok with this as long as there is still stable funding for folks to access resources they need! I’m a big fan of direct cash support.

P.S - my roles recently have been focused on development efforts for nonprofits. So fundraising and building healthy and sustainable nonprofit organizations.

Anyway, hopefully that clarifies for some folks as well that want to argue/discuss states role. For me that’s less important/interesting, but we still will need avenues for people to get help/have support when they need. What does that look like?

#askNostr gardeners, homesteaders and permies

Do you have a reliable way to label your fruit trees and bushes? I don't have a printer and we have different varieties that I want to keep track of (for pollination, for propagation and sharing).

I'll be working on a decent map but our land is hilly and complex - lots of nooks and crannies - so that's challenging, and I'd love some kind of tag that can go on or next to each one. Permanent marker on normal plant labels are fading within a season for me.

#gardening #homesteading #permies

GM! Spent the last three days binge-reading the Grafana docs at work, getting to know every nook and cranny - since nobody at work bothers to do so while watching them shoot themselves in the foot with a mashine gun xD

I want more vacation...

What is objective is the outcome; abortion ends what is or would be a human life, right? And it's not like it is something other than human.

After setting 200 sats/min for v4v listening in Fountain, something unexpected happened to me.

I am much more picky about what I listen to. Example: I started to listen to some techie AI podcast. After few minutes I thought to myself "I know all this stuff they're talking about and I'm paying for this, I'll skip ahead". I skipped and switched to a different podcast eventually.

Normally I would tell myself "I know this stuff, but the guys are nice, maybe I'll learn something new".

Value4value works in both ways. I reward creators for the value I receive, but it makes me very conscious about what I receive.

And since my time is precious, I actually save it.

Is it a "human" life, though?

It's not a dog or a plant of some kind.

What is subjective about it?

It would appear that leftists/progressives/liberals redefine certain evils to justify carrying them out. Thus, abortion is not murder, and taxation is not robbery.

Am I right? Is this a fair statement? (aside from calling them "evils"; I'm sure leftists would object to that)

#progessive #liberal #democrats

Dear Bitcoiners on #nostr,

For some, when you see or hear someone say they are a progressive/left bitcoiner, some of you lead to attacks, questioning and probing, assuming:

“pffft that’s not possible, how stupid can you be!”

I’ve been at this for over 3 years now. What you should do is take a step back, and realize how incredible it is that a progressive probably broke ranks heavily (think Liz Warren, greenpeace, woke police etc etc) to learn about and advocate for bitcoin. That’s really cool and a hard thing to do! Tribalism is deep and can produce awful things that get in the way of independent thought, truth, and progress.

Most progressives in bitcoin are not your caricature of the modern progressive that wants big government control, censorship, against free speech, MMT, etc etc. they’re bitcoiners that advocate for social change and progress, the true essence of the word, and believe there is a role Bitcoin can play in improving the lives of everyone, especially those downtrodden by society and the government. And those of us on the left in Bitcoin are socially liberal - we’re anti-war, pro lgbtqia+, pro women and freedom, and pro people gaining true financial freedom and prosperity.

Progressive bitcoiner does not equal democrat foot-soldier

Hell, most of us are politically homeless, as are you probably.

And at the end of the day these political labels can paint a bit of a picture but are inadequate at best, harmful at worst.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

#progressive #left #bitcoin