I've had a Leaf for 8 years. Absolutely love it. Best car I've ever owned. The only maintenance I've had to do is change the tires. The car is so light that it hardly wears out the brake pads at all.
My brother lives in a rural town in KY and travels for work. He swore he'd never get electric. He bought a VW full electric last year and travels all around and he loves it.
The performance, next to no maintenance, and many times free charging makes these cars a no brainer. Whatever negatives there may be are minor when you can charge from your home.
Rogue One is obviously the greatest movie of that period. Honestly, it's my favorite Star Wars movie period.
Obi-wan was great. Feels like they set up a lot of stuff (hopefully a new Quinlan Vos story).
Ander is good and explores what it was like for people to be persecuted by the Empire in a very grounded way.
You can skip Bad Batch. I have no idea who their intended audience was for that and the story was just all over the place. Nothing worth seeing there except for maybe the two episodes that explain what happens to the clones after the clone wars.
Solo is just a fun ride. Don't take the story too serious and just enjoy the fan service and it's fun.
I'm looking forward to the day when I can buy a wifi router with a NOSTR and Bitcoin node built into it. I take it out of the box, plug it in, run minimal setup and forget about it.
Disagree. No one has ever been able to save themselves.
Day 2 of no Twitter: I'm glad I found the Reuters Nostr. That's got the news I want.
Do miss my comic news. Trying to figure out a good alternative for that.
Are there any good science news to follow on Nostr?
I have resorted to following a few accounts on Facebook but I'd like to move away from Facebook as well.
I feel like one of the negatives of being monetarily incentivized to make posts is that posts are rewarded more for parroting the feelings of the user base rather than posting unique creative content.
It also discourages posting messages that contradict the prevailing worldview and only elevates posts that fit inside that worldview.
send works. I think I'll probably stick with post since social media reminds me of more of a community bulletin board where you would post something on a corkboard for a community to look at.
sending, to me, sounds more like IMing or mailing something to a person.
Well, I know I personally am interacting on Nostr more. I just can't with Twitter anymore. I'm leaning into my alternative methods to get the news I want. And Nostr is fulfilling my social media fix.
I think that's a lot of wishful thinking for Libertarians. Bitcoin is traceable via receipts which the CIA/FBI use frequently to catch tax evasion and terrorists.
Most of the money printed is to replace destroyed bills, so while it may affect it some, it wouldn't be as big of an impact as you might think. Most of their money actually comes form taxes which would still have to be paid, even if with Bitcoin itself (like in Colorado).
The country already has watches on known Bitcoin wallets associated with Russian actors. All they do is watch those wallets for transactions to figure out what they're using them for.
Bitcoin will not topple the State, they'll simply us Bitcoin instead of USD. The benefit is that they'd need a warrant to trace your transactions vs a CBDC where the information is readily available.
What apps are you missing?
I am working up the motivation to test out graphene on one of my old pixels before I put it on my daily one. Would be nice to be running a clean non-Google version of Android.
Would really love it if #[4] spear headed a PWA mobile OS though.
Hah ^_^ I don't really have a dog in this fight. I do see a future for NFTs but it doesn't have anything to do with JPGs.
I saw a guy with a Bitcoin shirt at my daughters school concert one time and totally wanted to see if I could get that guy's contact info... But my wife gave me a weird look when I told her that so I decided not to look like a stalker. Missed opportunity.
My picks of the week.
The Blade was pretty good so I have high hopes for that one. Rogue & Gambit, that was obviously happening. Not a bad week.
If anyone has comics they love, please let me know, I'm always looking for new stuff!
Depends on the client.
The one I'm working on, when it pulls profiles, it makes a record of their preferred relays from their profile and Nip05 and uses those to query their events. In this case, there would be two scenarios. If they search for his Nip05 identifier and his relay is listed there, it would automatically query his events from his relay via his Nip05.
But that's what my client does. Not every client.