How would you feel if Amethyst automatically created a Relationship Status event for every person you interact with (every like, zap, reply) and add them to a "Interacted with" user list.

Then you can filter your feed using that list as authors OR filter your notifications by them, getting rid of all types of spam.

If every X user was on Nostr, there would be 20TB of data per day. No relay would save all this. Most Nostr users will opt to have only a few days worth of posts saved, the rest will be deleted.

Mood.

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If you believe in the bitcoin thesis, that all other assets, currencies, and commodities will collapse in price in BTC terms, why would you want any “income stream” in anything else? Wouldn’t it be possible to sell smaller and smaller amounts to finance your life at BTC increased in price?

Ok, watched some videos you guys recommended & read some crypto history…

Converting all ETH to BTC ASAP! Thanks for educating me!!

Agreed. And we may also divide contests into niches where individuals with similar ability can have a meaningful competition. This makes sense in terms of male vs female boxing as well as different weight classes.

The equality aspect is that everyone is playing by the same rules. When someone needs different rules this encourages the creation of new sport categories.

I also support equality of opportunity. Nobody should be held down and/or prevented from achieving their potential.

The only problem is when "equal opportunity" interpreted as creating an equal starting point for everyone - which is impossible. There is nothing wrong with helping and aiding others to have a better starting point.

Yet the variability in passion, creativity, experience, determination, skill, focus, stamina and ability are so great that equalizing the starting point may inspire some people to cut down the high achievers to achieve some kind of equality utopia.

Example of when equal opportunity becomes harmful:

Yes, they are impossible goals that lead to a central planning tyranny as they are attempted in practice. I'm not sure that there is a practical difference between a goal and a destination thar can't be reached - they both represent a directional vector.

If I tell people that equality of outcomes is my goal, you can expect all kinds of restrictions that cages and incapacitates individual liberties in an attempt to prevent different outcomes. We can also predict that there will be groups of people that are given special privileges. In short: a recipe for totalitarianism under the banner of pretended justice.

Today I visited a school for mentally challenged and disabled kids that didn’t have a lick of AC.

Classrooms do have ceiling fans but they do sweet fuck all when it gets to a certain temperature.

It was 35 degrees + humid today but felt like 42.

That’s like when you open the oven door to check on your chicken.. every time you step outside.

Why was I there?

Well bitcoiners at btccuracao funded the school’s brand new WiFi.

I wanted to see the impact of this donation and speak to a poorer community about their experience with btc.

Btccuraco paid the internet company that installed the WiFi in Sats as part of the donation. It’s one of many grassroots initiatives they undertake to try to show that bitcoin is better money.

The new WiFi is a total game changer for the school and the teachers were tearful explaining how much it has helped them teach, inspire and lead these less fortunate kids.

But it only goes so far.

The solar panels atop the school’s long roof “stopped working” this week.

A govt contractor installed the panels this year as a “go green” initiative.

Long story of govt enraging incompetence short, basically half the school had working WiFi + ceiling fans. Sometimes the electricity simply cuts out.

So one half of the school had classrooms of engaged kids with YouTube access + useful visual aids for the kids in a semi manageable heat

while the other half slowly cooked and tried to read books in the inferno.

My white shirt was wet and transparent by the time I finished the school tour. I was like how the feck are these kids gonna get a chance in life?

I interviewed the head of ICT who was gushing about the new WiFi and was saying how some of the kids can now learn to code with this Minecraft coding thing.

She had the biggest heart. But like many islanders she had been crypto scammed a few years ago and was still really reluctant about bitcoin.

Really saddening because of course no sane person thinks “oh yeah I’m gonna learn about bitcoin now I sold my gold necklace for a crypto thing 5 years ago and never got the money back.”

I managed to send her some sats to say thank you but if I’m honest I think it’s coz I was recording this during the interview.

In all, I left the school utterly humbled and a little bit angry at the world.

I don’t have a nice thing to round off on, sorry.

Bitcoin doesn’t fix everything. And some things utterly suck.

you can mute reply guy, but more pop up. and then there are the bots that try to sound like people butting into your conversation too.

Also: remember #nostr before reply guy 😆

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Absolutely.

The "equality of outcome" is a lie that cannot be achieved.

Yup.

Since the position is illogocal I suspect that it is often a disingenious concern voiced by envious minds who would rather want their altcoin to have Bitcoin's dominant position as a store of value.

Yet from basic logic we can expect that the hardest money will be popular as a store of value, both for companies and ETF providers.

Those who understand hard money better than others will necessarily accumulate more of it and earlier.

There is no alternate timeline where the hardest money does not become desirable.

If we could restrict and prevent individuals and companies from buying a certain amount of Bitcoin, it wouldn't be an open and fair protocol.

Only under communism is equal outcomes desirable - and it requires totalitarian measures to even aim at approximately achieve such a result.

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