Beethovens „Freude schöner Götterfunken“ (Ode to joy).

Beethoven seamlessly binds orchestra and human voices together, symbolizing unity. A true masterpiece, among other great works.

(Asking this is like asking a parent which of their children they like most. 😅

How could I ever choose a 'best' among them?)

What’s the best musical masterpiece / song humanity has achieved to produce so far and what makes it so good?

#asknostr

I bet that's what the snake also said to Eve.

I'm currently having an issue with my mum, who is doing pretty well health wise at the moment, since stopping chemotherapy. But obviously her time is still pretty limited, and this Christmas will most likely be her last.

She has a habit of leaving gift purchases to the last minute, then going out and just buying something with little thought about value for money.

So now she wants to me to go to a local bike shop to buy her youngest grandson, our little boy a new balance bike.

As someone who has been into mountain biking practically my whole life, this would be a very painful thing to allow.

I know the local shops only have overpriced, overweight, underbuilt things that look like bicycles, but are mostly junk.

I also know that getting our boy another slightly larger balance bike will only keep him going for just a few months.

He has a toy tractor with pedals which he was driving around the garden in the summer, so he can already pedal. He whizzes around on his current 12" balance bike with so much confidence, even on rough terrain already too.

My thought is to get him a used decent 14” mountain bike, remove the pedals and front brake, and to let him ride that as a balance bike, until he's confident enough to add them back.

I feel like he is almost ready for a proper bike.

I'm just trying to gently negotiate with mum. I know she wants to get him a great, possibly final Christmas gift. I know a used bike won't have that shiny new look, but I honestly don't think our 3½ year old will care, and as soon as he uses it, it's going to get beaten up and scratched anyway.

Thanks for reading. I'm mostly just venting, as I do. 🫂

#parenting #dadstr #bikestr #mtb

No, sorry.

the tournament will be in person, in Sorbas, a small town in the south of Spain.

We are going to try to broadcast it on the web.

To a certain extent, it will be an experimental tournament. If everything goes well, for future editions we will consider doing it online with tools such as Tornelo, but first we wanted to see what support we could count on, so we would like to subsidize the trophy for this year's in-person tournament with Zaps.

First Bitcoin Chess Tournament in history.

Preliminary design of the Nostr trophy for the champion.

We need the maximum possible diffusion,

all the satoshis that are sent to us by zaps to this or any post related to the tournament will go entirely to the prizes

Thanks Evelin!

Primal for Android?

(zapped back from Primal web)

Thanks Evelin!

Primal for Android?

(zapped back from Primal web)

post has to start with BREAKING: 😂

I am from India and you..?