#meme #memestr #nostrmeme

What will the libertarian/anarchist types do with the pedophiles? I think you know the answer: jack shit.

I want to live in a place where convicted pedophiles are publicly executed, and I want that place to be the United States.

He’ll just sit there wet and enjoying the water. Water is fun for him not scary lol

Can’t get sink man to leave the sink

Play is when an activity or exercise fills you up with excitement and satisfaction.

I don't recommend exercising unless it feels like play to you. If it doesn't, find something that does.

Ideas: climbing, walks in nature, wrestling with your kids, sprinting with your dog, mace flow, swimming, lifting, f*cking the wife, etc...

#Peatstr

Amazing.

The reason military drones are scaring locals in America instead of China is that Communism doesn't require a fear predicate to roll out unpopular policy.

🛸😮🐑

When I ate a lot of carbohydrates, no matter how thoroughly I brushed and floshed my teeth every day, my dentist would be like, “eh you could do better.”

When I sharply reduced my carbohydrates, even when I was a bit less thorough in brushing, my dentist would be like, “it all looks great, good job.”

Just my multi-year experience. I don’t claim to say it’s universal.

Today I learned that the new Surat Diamond Bourse in India is the biggest office building in the world in terms of square meters of floor space.

Until this was built in 2023, the Pentagon was the world’s biggest office building. More floor space than any skyscraper. Now this one is bigger.

But my first thought is, “why the hell does a diamond exchange have to be so big!?” Like, I can’t imagine what they need so much space for.

What’s everyone’s game of choice these days? #gamestr

Just said “nothing stops this train” on Fox Business live. ;)

YOUTUBE JUST BANNED SIMPLY BITCOIN

After 4 years of building up the SB channel, putting in 100s of hours of work and making sure to follow the community guidelines

@YouTube

@TeamYouTube

seems to continue to go after Bitcoin only content.

Sometimes I run into a tech guy on Twitter, who talks about how cypherpunk he is.

I’m just a financial analyst and investor, so that’s cool to hear. The more cypherpunks, the better. I like to fund cypherpunks.

But then I look around, and he’s not active on Nostr for over a year. He’s only active on centralized social media.

So then I am confused at how supposedly cypherpunk he is. Is he really that reliant on centralized media? Often, it turns out yes. If not, what other cryptographic proof does he have for his work?

As Nostr increasingly gains network adoption, it becomes weirder when I analyze why someone who is techie is highly active on Twitter but not at all on Nostr.

I was an ancap before becoming a bitcoiner. I did hear about Bitcoin pretty early on, however I didn't get into stacking sats and hodling until a few years after.

Some people have grown cynical with democracy (and various types of representative government broadly, e.g. including constitutional democratic republics that enshrine certain rights to protect liberty against the masses), viewing this method as promoting short-term leadership with bad incentives.

I have a different take.

Prior to the printing press and then the telegraph and radio, running a democratic society over long distances wasn’t even feasible. The concept of having people democratically participate in their government relies on people being relatively connected information-wise so that they can use their access to information to know what’s happening and to then select between different options, which you couldn’t do across the entirety of a country before people were literate and election materials or other publications could be mass produced. In the pre-press age of handwritten books, making written documents was expensive, and so literacy was a niche skill.

So, that era was ruled by kings and queens, council oligopolies, and so forth. Representative government, to the extent that it existed, only applied to small city states where people could literally gather in a town square, or to “elites” in a capital. There was literally no way to run an election over very broad distances on a regular basis. The printing press helped change that, and then the telegraph, radio, and other tech further reinforced it.

But ironically, as I discuss in Broken Money, those technologies also started to break our money. The printing press and telegraph allowed the transaction layer (the movement of IOUs between individuals and entities) to grow exponentially more efficient both domestically and globally, while our settlement layer (gold) remained basically unchanged. This broadening gap between fast transactions and slow settlements was increasingly bridged with centralization and credit, and the gap eventually became so wide that every nation dropped the settlement layer of gold almost entirely, except as a reserve asset.

So the same technologies that enabled widespread representative government also enabled the proliferation of softer money. Prior to these technologies, broad democracy wasn’t possible. And after these technologies, sound money was too slow to keep up. Oof.

But over a long enough timeframe, our technology became good enough that we finally figured out how to do fast settlements as well. Bitcoin. People can send value to each other quickly over long distances, in ways that no central entity can prevent or reverse, and with a unit that no central entity can debase. The first sound money of the Information Age.

If Bitcoin is successful over the coming decades and becomes a much larger and less volatile money, than it is now, fully entrenched in society, then that would be the first era where technology is at such a state where broad democracy and fast sound money can coexist. Or put more universally, it will be the first era where information spreads quickly without breaking the money, and thus both fast information and good money could coexist.

I, for one, would be curious to see how that develops.

“Far right” has been diluted to the point where it’s no longer a useful term in any practical sense.

If I see it in a headline it means nothing now.

You may be old but, are you this old?