What goal is CTV accomplishing? I am an economic nerd first and a Comp-sci nerd second. money scales in layers. Layer 1-Asset; Layer 2-coupon; Layer 3-credit. What does CTV do to build any of these layers? Specific spend coupons? Locked asset layers that can literally never be spent? I can see it MIGHT help the credit layer(the most custodial and least secure layer). We aren't even there yet. the coupon Layer is still being built. The unforeseen risk is so high, to push this fork seems irrational. Taproot was what? November 2022? and I still barely find a peer to use it with through layer 2. I would just like a very compelling reason why opening this pandoric box is worth it? Bitcoin will not Ossify over night. Expanded Layer 2 will do way more to expand Bitcoin's adoption than creating additional spend condition OP codes.

They already made an all female version of Fight Club. It's called Black Swan. It's actually an amazing movie.

I believe iOS has rules about identifying people who send money to other people. Android, graphene, calyx OS, and Linux phones do not have this hindrance. might want to think about switching.

I have like 10 minutes of jokes on my profile, old vines I made back in the day, some are okay for a chuckle. I was famous, there's a joke for ya.

I am constantly wondering if I am the only on who runs several nodes, relays, and mines, just for the love of the protocols. I mean, if I can still afford to buy coffee, I am not going broke supporting the protocols of the future.

Also, you can insert a GIF into your zap comment as well... This Nostr thing is getting nutty.

Lemon deserves the nearly 100k zaps he's gotten too. GIF #V4V is near incalculable.

It's an R.O.U.S.

Oh look, they gave him a nice little necklace. I know they're not going to try to use that to pull him anywhere because that would be silly.

And the action-packed conclusion of #Vine archive part 4. #Vinestr maximum NostrDrive! https://video.nostr.build/917b8b0682ad867a5e0f8f2ff0c7ae09784a7c308139d47314dcd03188638ea9.mp4

Of all the #Vine archive part 3. #Vinestr is the vineiest. https://video.nostr.build/89bcc08731e68355adf518f58b8ff1fa8bfd8da2ee160dabfff2a7819aa97749.mp4

#Vinestr Part 2. I am Bringing my #Vine collection back! https://video.nostr.build/a33689d0020ca02bf254f9699b248946b242f1e09d47e4a08e46fa05c834afd7.mp4

I think most people who struggle with this don't have a path to "Find a new/different audience" in their minds. There are great, funny, helpful, or philosophical people out there with 12 followers because they only post notes and never find a place to insert their talent into others conversations. Just something to think about. Connections aren't always intuitive.

Trying to tell the waiter at the Chinese restaurant that I didn't appreciate the gelatinous slime slathered on top of all of my egg rolls. While describing it to him, I tried to say "Goo" and "Gunk" at the same time. Now I'm getting canceled.

Just to define a term (because my pedantic nature recoils at the phrase "Righteous coercion")

Coercion:

1. The act or practice of coercing.

2. Power or ability to coerce.

3. The act or process of coercing.

4. The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. “Coactus volui” (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.

5. Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.

6. Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will.

7. A specific instance of coercing.

8. Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.

9. Using force to cause something to occur.

As far as my moral understanding none of these definitions can be performed righteously. What I think you are refering to as coercion may very well be defined as just ownership or property rights. When one is said to "own" something that is to say they have authoritative control of the use, maintenance, and right to exchange. Your dominion is your property. (God's dominion is everthing and God is the Progenator) Within one's property rule enforcement is not coercion because those on your property have been invited and thus agree to those rules. One cannot agree to coercion.

When it comes to government, the only way one might say you "Agree to the rules" of citizenship, is to be under the illusion that you chose the government. That IS an illusion. You may be complicit in the government's actions but you have not chosen anything. This lack of free will to choose IS coercion regardless of perceptions of divinity. The scriptures are inspired by God and written by men. In so doing, they are limited by man's understanding of societal structure and dominion. It could very well be that when a polity is made of wicked men, they make a wicked government. But it is not at all clear to me, that individuals working in their own endeavors freely and collaboratively exchanging their goods and services, need a governance structure outside of their moral adherence to God's will. There is no place for interference from the state even if it could somehow act righteously (again I am unsure how taking money without permission can be righteous given the commandment expressly forbidding it.) That claim to Righteous coercion IS the illusion to which I was referring.

I hope that clarifies where I seem to diverge with your view point. Peace and love, Brother.

wuzzat?

A response meme.

I would submit it is not coercive to have dominion over your own house. That one's children are in effect "Trapped" under your care is a function of reality. For example If I take someone up in a hot air balloon that I own. I have every right to remove them from my property if they do not follow my rules. However, I may not throw them out of my balloon 1000meters in the air, that would be murder. The physical reality is your children's upbringing is that same hot air balloon. You must safely ferry them to a place where releasing them from your property would not kill them. You are not "Coercing" them to stay on your property (and thus abiding by your rules) you are preventing their demise at the hands of the physical reality of the world.

On the Broader point, government is a mental game we play with each other. We all pretend that we are, in some ethereal way in the same "group" as everyone in our geographical vicinity. That is not a physical reality. That is simply something people like to do. Other people do not like to play that mental game. It is only when the mental game of "I'm the boss and you have to do what I say" meets the physical reality of extortion(taxes), kidnapping(arrests), and murder(the death penalty) that this game becomes not so fun. And to invoke the metaphysical as some sort of justification for the behavior of those not participating in an illusory mental game is a bit myopic. God is my ruler not because of some vote, appointment or some other contrivance. God rules because God created the physical reality I dwell within and the rules of reality itself. The words of men are simply inconsequential to the will of God because it physically can't be any other way.

Look at all these CENTRALIZED followers... Tsk Tsk. We need to definitely decentralize them more...

Only when I hook it up to tor through Orbot.