I believe in Christian education for my children, and I teach at a Christian university. However, the idea of the state mandating that the Bible be taught by people that potentially hate the word of God makes me uneasy. I am not sure why, but it does. I think, I would rather the students be given time to read the Bible on their own than have it explained by someone who doesn't believe.

Agreed. I think people get worried about curriculums and models of education without realizing homeschooling is about family culture. A family culture of curiosity, creativity, and discipline are far more important than curriculum.

My parents homeschooled me in the 90s. I am so thankful for their choice and sacrifice. I've definitely seen homeschooling go very wrong, but for me, it was great. I'm homeschooling my kids now.

We've been living in Zambia about a year. A muscian friend of ours publishes music on spotify and gets nothing uses @wavelake and she can pay her phone bills. Its a great way to support folks over here.

I listened to Citadel Dispatch with Jack, and I found what Jack was saying about the user experience so pertinent. I really want to use Nostr, but the experience seems slow and uninintuitive. I mostly use FreeFrom and Coracle on an android device.

Just another day in Zambia #Zambia

I wish this came up more in debates. Moving funds across borders is the BTC use case that's have proved the most valuable for me.

How I use BTC in Zambia, and what challenges I still face. I am a native of the US, but I live and work in Zambia. However, I receive my salary in the US as USD. My primary form of payment Zambia is to Swipe a credit card and this works quite well most of the time, but occasionally I need to use cash or mobile money which is connected to the cell service provider here in Zambia. The options are to go to an ATM which works reasonably well, but but has associated fees and ATM machines occasionally run out of cash. I can move money from my bank to MoMo using a PayPal app called Xoom, but this app offers poor exchange rates and high fees. I have also used strike and it offers lower fees and much better exchange rates. I would use this method exclusively, but I cannot connect my US bank account to Strike as Strike is KYCed in the Zambia. What I need now is a reliable method to buy  BTC directly on Lightning from my US bank account and then send to strike. Does anyone have recommendations? Coinbase does not work in Zambia. So even accessing my US coinbase is a challenge without a VPN.

I'm in Zambia. Strike is really convenient for sending to mobile money which is comonly used here. However, I can not deposit funds from my US bank account into strike. Under payment methods it only allows me to add mobile money.

I'm definitely checking this out next time I'm in Livingstone.

A new tune out of Zambia. https://wavlake.com/track/1062c623-0760-4149-9fa0-48623d311c0a