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JackTheMimic
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Hoch die anarchie. CTO at Sovreign.io

I add trusted Npubs (people I enjoy and don't spam) to my private relay and send them a dm that my relay is open to them. So they add my relay to their relay list.

Why? Why not just whitelist people you like on a private relay and make public relays all paid? How does that not decentralize and strengthen?

Watch the mouth, unnatural movement and teeth seem to come through the lips a bit. Also the unnatural eye movement. When you REALLY listen to somone while watching their eyes and mouth move together this feels like an absolute fabrication or animatron.

Greater humanity is found within your own culture not from when another culture imposes their values upon you. While I find it personally gratifying to "Not be a dick." Until someone violates property rights they can push air out of their mouth, or draw a picture, or type words, I don't give my energy trying to moralize to those outside of my moral milieu.

Respect is for your friends. As I said before freedom isn't meaningful if everyone behaves exactly as you want them to. This false notion that you MUST respect all other cultures is counter to freedom. Physical violence comes when someone doesn't respect *Propert rights* not when they disrespect your culture.

My toddler with the toy I took away from him after he fell off of the counter getting it.

aren't you missing the point here? Freedom is about doing whatever, be hateful, be joyful, be whatever you want to be. Freedom isn't meaningful if everyone behaves exactly as you want them to. As long as they're just words and not any violence, you can preach freedom and peace all you want.

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You tolerate other people ten times more if you know ahead of time that you have a shared principal with them. You'll disagree around the margins but realize you're basically on the same page.

Back in like the 1950s USA, people felt that sense with their neighbors, church, and even government. They might disagree on things, and there were some shitty downsides to that (anyone not in the majority) but they were like, flag-waiving Americans. So a question is how to recreate that, and more broadly than it once was.

And ironically, as shitty as the authoritarian economic and legal situation is in many ways, people in Egypt today feel that way today. There's a substantial sense of unity or shared ideals, aside from a small percent of extremist outliers. That's true for many developing places.

One of the major strengths of the "bitcoin community" is this set of shared identity. Bitcoiners will loudly argue with each other, but they know they have at least one foundational shared agreement. That's healthy.

There were times, at like conference side-parties, where I noticed I was standing in a friendly discussion circle with like an anarcho-capialist to the literal right of me, a progressive to the literal left of me, a human rights advocate from an authoritarian state in front of me, a billionaire capitalist with pragmatic politics also in front of me, and us standing in a circle happily talking and basically friends. It's because we have at least one shared major principle that brings us there. A unifying factor for which, as we enter discussions for which we might disagree, we know we can build common ground upon.

As certain countries get hollowed out, and as neighborhoods become more remote and distinct, I continue to believe that local in-person bitcoin communities are absolutely profound. Regular meetups help exchange local fiat with bitcoin P2P, help educate people on the latest tech, help bring people from different viewpoints together, etc. Absolutely essential.

Put simply morals and ethics are a game with rules. If someone does not play by the same ruleset, they do not get the benefits, or protections of that ethical game. You give compassion, mercy, and understanding to your friends, not your enemies.

Anyone with an expertise in code could build an open source protocol that creates an encrypted handshake between drivers that are available and rider demands.

suggestions:

bidding system, filters by location, lightning payment rails, blind rating system, and vehicle capacity filters.

Most everything comes down to the egoic need for recognition over having the things we want. Do you want an actually good video game? build it. Give it away and you will have the game you wanted. The compensation for a service only comes upon request not demand.

Periodically shouting into the abyss.