Not sure I'd call the lunatic asylums particularly compassionate.

Prisons lock you up. Asylums actually lobotomized people. Never mind the sort of human experimentation they did. Radioactive oatmeal being one phenomenon that comes to mind from a nearby institution.

Eugenics was often so widely embraced because compared to these institutions IT was seen as the more compassionate approach.

That's a valid concern, but when I say audio, I mean more output, not input. input conceivably would still be done with a regular keyboard, as even the seeing population needn't rely on their vision to type. And output would be through headphones for security.

I'm not sure what the blind community doed as much for mobile input though -- seems like a sticking point given the security risks of audio input.

Sounds a lot like the obfsproxy bridges that Tor has had for the last 11 years or so.

Curious what differences there are that make it more novel -- perhaps just that it's designed for use with normal VPN's? I'll give it a read over in a bit; thanks for the link.

I sure hope they're too proud to try such a move, at least anytime soon.

Because yea, I've wondered why central banks don't do just this. It'd be like $MSTR without needing to even find someone to sell shares to separately from someone to buy bitcoin from.

Perhaps it's Jordyn Petersdottir, given that it's advice for women.

No, nor charged with anything. Just harassed and had his devices/files stolen. He's on twitter as @Asawinstanley and of course over at electronicintifada.net for any further updates.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/uk-police-raid-home-seize-devices-eis-asa-winstanley

#FreePalestine

There's also of course Alby, which makes finding a middle ground a little easier, but at a little bit of a cost as well. If you're going to pay anyone to get you there though, you couldn't pick a better bunch of people to support. It is invite only at the moment though just due to a spike in interest.

Yea...paying fees to go grocery shopping is the bitcoin equivalent of sending a bank wire to the grocery store. You CAN do it, but it's really not the smoothest or cheapest way to go about doing things.

Personally I'm using a custodial wallet, which interestingly does work with Amethyst, though not most other Nostr clients, as it doesn't actually use NWC. It's called Speed Wallet ( https://www.speed.app ) , and you can use it with a Chrome Extension even without a smartphone.

Might be handy while you're getting things rolling, and then when you've got the liquidity to support it, get your own node up and running later.

That's what I'm doing anyway, while stacking sats from a silly amount of app sources.

Pay you in sats*

Download the sMiles app; it'll pay you for your steps. All that's left is to be as greedy as possible, and find ways of getting more steps in faster -- and then getting creative to make the steps less boring. Just maybe be careful about climbing mountains where you lose cell reception; presumably it should sync, but worth making sure of that.

We tend to get a false dichotomy of socialism, or being a good little worker bee in a middle management position, as if they're not both really an embrace of collectivism in some form or other and an eschewing of individual responsibility in favor of a dull safety.

Looking at Jack's style compared to Elon's should tell you everything to know about what it looks like to be free as a capitalist and what it looks like to be a slave to capital.

I'm doing my part to bring back the mutton chops. Just because the monetary environment isn't mimicking the 70's doesn't mean I can't. Though I can say that, or I can just admit that the goatee I used to have which was once red is now grey, while the chops are brown, and while I'm not hellbent on staying 20 forever, I'm also not trying to look as old as possible either.

If you ask me, the lack of facial hair on presidents seems to coincide with when we stopped behaving like a sovereign country in the first place, right around the turn into the 20th century. No surprise that a cucked nation has cucked looking presidents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs8YQrhGMkQ

First time hearing US Army Ranger veteran Greg Stoker's analysis of the ineptitude of the IOF. Very insightful episode.

#FreePalestine

Took the day off, slept in. got a few things to do, but no need for pedal to the metal. Let's ease down on the accelerator today.

#Matchastr

Guessing 5,000.

Given that it's Nostr, the gif button should be configurable to select from a variety of existing gif sites, as well as from a user-curated library, either in local storage or in a directory on their own web server.

We shouldn't just be cloning the centralized platforms, we should be outdoing them.

I have to wonder if anyone's considered the idea that in some deep state team, they were developing the means of doing a controlled CBDC, and along the way, someone decided to take what they had and put out a liberating standard instead of going forward with it.

Alternatively, we could get paranoid: it's a deep state project all along, designed to bring people into developing the more controlled systems, and at some point Satoshi's coins will "leak" all at once, causing a flash crash as a huge flash of liquidity floods the market. This isn't terribly unlike the prospect of what happens when quantum computers break the early wallets (and really, could happen all at the same time, as presumably Satoshi's coins aren't using modern solutions aimed at mitigating the quantum threat). At the end of the day, provided enough wallets ARE safe from the quantum threat, this would likely just be a bit of volatility (and the biggest buy-on-dip opportunity in a long time), but wouldn't necessarily be a kill shot. Time will tell.

Been making a lot of catfish kabayaki this year. Way cheaper than eel, and still a very similar end result. Can't go wrong with the recipes over at www.justonecookbook.com