Totally get that, should be less and less lonely going forward. I think at one point there should be more people thinking like us than the opposite, that’s when the world will flip upside down

Why don’t governments want to improve? Get more efficient etc.?

Would’ve been so easy and cost almost nothing, they can even go more into debt for it because it’ll save money for generations going forward.

Like to hire designers, architects, big data engineers, ai engineers etc, find all these teams like VC funds do or better because government doesn’t need money to run, they can print or get it from elsewhere.

The bottom of it is that governments just don’t want to change and will resist any improvements.

Why? I think because a lot, really a lot of people will get out of jobs and with their accountant and law etc. knowledge - won’t be able to find any new job.

I think because of that people like us are in a big disadvantage because governments optimize for the majority of people like these and just silence, restrict or ignore the rest who want to move forward.

If I were to loose a job, I’d have no issue to continue to provide value to others and get paid to sustain my lifestyle.

I wish I’ll live long enough for us to have a place where we can govern it to the best of our knowledge and continuously change it towards best.

Now people can travel, government can’t really work for all the people coming to their land from all the countries.

If there is a place only similar minded people can travel to and have a territory to themselves, it can be the best and biggest center for the innovation, quality of live etc in the whole world by far. Economic metrics wouldn’t make sense at that point.

I’ve immigrated to Portugal, why do I have to inherit all the culture, language, laws etc? I think in the future it may not make as much sense to have people living by countries just because it was historically correct to do so.

Right now every 10th or more person in Lisbon is immigrant. Most people speak english here now. This is becoming more than a city of a county, some kind of international hub. And this is happening all over the world…

I can get why most people in finance sector don’t want to change.

They’ve spent years on a degree.

That’s all they know.

That’s likely what they invested in the most.

If suddenly this all gets exposed, they will have to find a better job to benefit society, which is probably a scary thought to them

On product hunt a Threads Web App got posted, by the biggest hunter - Chris. The way he described it looked like meta paid for it lol. Why would anyone switch to Threads period, not over block feature 🤔

Accidentally zapped my own post lol #primal

I guess for the user client doesn’t really matter as long as it’s convenient, works and shows the content you expect

Would have been great for the clients to just mention what’s different about them vs other clients, rn I had to learn it all on my own and I don’t think I’ve learned much haha

But if it’s my first time on the app and I haven’t zapped anyone in some time or haven’t done anything else that’s inportant to know, some kind of onboarding would have been amazing

Can be amazing for onboarding yes. But for zaps you’d need a wallet setup and know about Lightning how to move funds there etc.

In the podcast, the China was mentioned that govt there went in to provinces and no matter the price, just told everyone what they need to do, which factory to open etc. To keep everyone employed, and it worked.

So they went into debt to do all of that to work on something they can offer to other countries and have it for themselves too.

The underlying thought here that currently any government, especially if it hasn’t been much in debt, can go into debt or more into it to fund anything they want, they can also just go ahead print the money/or do other manipulations to have more money out of nothing (US case)

Now that makes it super unfair to everyone else, me personally, if I want to do something that involves spending, max I can get is probably €10k loan from a bank which isn’t much and would be for 1-2 years max to repay it with extra %.

The point I want to make is about something else though - why government can’t be the VC fund for people and why can’t the government pay for an in house IT company or a team of designers which will cost some breadcrumbs from any stupid bureaucratic or enterprise initiative

It’s like government is good with the way things work and doesn’t want to change or improve on anything unless people go riot and stuff or go starving etc.

I believe a small group of designers like myself and engineers could 20x the efficiency of a lot of fundamental processes which are heavily burocratized now and are super hard or inconvenient for people.

Why does government not invest into making people lives easier? Do they try to think about people by classes, not individually? In this case our governments may be too big to be enough grounded to the reality.

It was Bitcoin and China episode with Joseph Wang. Interesting perspective on how biggest economies think.

Finished listening to my first #nostrovia podcast episode! Better than I expected, got me thinking.

Which podcasts are you listening to recently? #asknostr #btc #podcast

Watching Foundation now and it’s crazy how in almost every new show or a movie there is always a gay couple or other non binary people.

Who’s pushing for that? If you go outside you’ll see maybe 1 gay couple out of thousands of couples. It doesn’t matter for the plot if it’s a gay couple or normal.

Feels like we’re being forced to consume this.

Let’s gooo 🇵🇹

I want to work on products that benefit people not corporations

Cash app though won’t work nicely in Portugal I expect

Well it’s easy to get bitcoin in with on chain

It’s like you found a way to get funds to lightning, which is not obvious and then to get these funds out is even less obvious

Is lightning the best layer 2 solution there can be? Why are we using it and why are these things so complicated?