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"A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight."

Nothing makes me want to puke like finding the receipt for a sofa set which thanks to inflation, I barely have time to use, and whose purchase price at the time was equal to 10 million sats. 🤦‍♀️

Imagine an orange-pilled version of Paul Harvey's 'If I Were The Devil'.

It would probably contain a line about trying to convince folks that self-custody is only used by terrorists and pedophiles.

Inflation-adjusted 🤣

Can't remember where I found it but it's:

1 cup washing soda (not baking soda lol)

1 cup Borax

1 grated bar of Ivory

"The Fed pays economists to do research, and in 2008 alone, the Fed spent an astounding $389 million on research and analysis, much of it flowing to academic economists." - The Big Print

The whole podcasting 2.0 project is to fight The Podcassting Industrial Complex. It started when Alex Jones got kicked off of Apple and then Bitcoin got added to fight PayPal deplatforming.

Honestly Nostr is the least coolest feature in Fountain. It distracts from the larger point of PC 2.0.

Just like Nostr it's about using any app backed by the podcast index to listen to your favorite podcast.

A lot of us in PC 2.0 discovered Bitcoin because of PC 2.0 but have been let down by everything being pigeonholed into just Fountain and now even further with everything needing to have Nostr now.

Don't get me wrong every little step forward helps in the long term but if everything is consolidated to Fountain then we have just reinvented Spotify.

I've been using Fountain since the beta was first released by Oscar to the PC 2.0 group but sometimes it breaks and it would be nice for people to use a different app.

Only a few people like Oscar, Nick, Bumi, Moritz really get what PC 2.0 is trying to do in the Bitcoin world.

It's about taking back control of our content and hosting companies like nostr:npub1pj3a304qsdh99yr5wkug75rfznr284fzy7zalfnuwkctwyye2djsae7des and nostr:npub1gr65v2hqq83n3vqfh6m65eej65hxlqwyjp0echc9ghvw5p6pvqpse3mmjc are doing a great job and gaining traction in the Bitcoin space but they are even stuck with the "easy" wallet solutions.

We need to make these apps like Podverse, PodcastGuru, Curiocaster, LNBeats etc easier for people to use because they are great but right now it's just the diehards running some version of AlbyHub that can use them because it's the only thing that works thanks to the Alby team seeing the vision and helping these apps out in the first place.

If there's a way to make this succeed on a mass scale without custodial wallets, I sure can't see it.

The sad reality I've seen is that people just don't want to part with their tradfi payment methods. If lucky, I get one chance to on-board and get them to download an app. If it's not smooth as butter, they delete and go back to doom-scrolling TikTok.

What's up with those 11 transactions this week of like 18,800 BTC? #whale

No idea how authentic their US-made claims are but I like these Round House bibs better than anything I've gotten from Carhartt in the last 5+ years, and they're cheaper too.

https://www.round-house.com/

Governor Pilate, our intelligence sources strongly suggest that his followers plan to remove his corpse and proclaim that he has risen from the dead. We urge you therefore to immediately mandate E2EE backdoors to help us thwart this plot.

Target sells packs of Haynes brand socks for men, size 6-12.

Assume it to be a Gondor size 6 and a Hobbiton size 12. 🤬

(27:00) Using bread to remove a bearing?

https://youtu.be/8GGQA-EpI1o

Just spent five minutes trying to figure out how to expand (un-truncate) an email address before accidentally tipping my phone into landscape orientation.

Take me to the nursing home 🤣