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2024-02-16 19:21:39

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They are just being naive when it comes to Russia. I guess it’s a natural human thing. People just before WW1 or two didn’t exactly think it’d unfold the way it did.
I mean, it’s not like I don’t understand the sentiment. I do. I think that wanting to get out of NATO, not getting involved in any wars not on their soil, and leaving Europe to its own devices, is a coherent position to have.
But then, don’t pretend it has anything to do with pacifism, freedom, or striving for a better world. Because it’ll be a world where the last islands of freedom are increasingly puppeteered by authoritarian regimes.

2024-02-16 16:11:31

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My children are older than your son.
Having been born in the Soviet Union, it so happens I understand Russian, although that is not my native language. Me knowing that language is a consequence of Russian occupation that my nation went through. I can also read Ukrainian, but to a lesser extent. I am saying this to explain that I can and do consume primary sources on what’s going on in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus. Your assessment that Ukraine is ‘worse’ can only be a result of some type of propaganda that you have been exposed to. Because if you would have gathered information from primary sources for the past decade, you would know that this is simply not true.
I don’t ask for Americans to send troops to Ukraine. Not least because that would provoke a direct confrontation with NATO, which would pull my country directly into the conflict, and part of the frontline would be situated directly in it. The fact of the matter is though, that Ukrainians have nowhere to go. The beast has come to their house, the fight is on their soil. Where are they supposed to flee to?
All I’m saying is, while they are fighting, they should get everything needed to defend themselves. Because if they stop fighting, and Ukraine stops existing as it gets subsumed by the beast, that will just embolden it. And less than a decade from now, there will be an attack on a NATO country, and that’s when you’ll end up sending Americans to again die in faraway places. That’s the path we’re on of Russia doesn’t suffer a decisive defeat resulting in the collapse of Putin’s regime.

2024-02-16 13:54:42

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What the fuck do you even mean? I’m not talking about some rosy future where no Putin can wage war. I’m talking about here and now where a war is currently going on.
Yeah, I haven’t seen war, unlike all of my grandparents whose lives were ruined by it. I’d like to keep it that way, that’s the whole fucking point.

2024-02-16 13:06:53

I have been toying with the idea of buying some land to start a #homestead , or build a house, or something. But I’m having a lot of doubts lately.
I see how people fawn over Putin, not realizing fully what he is and what he actually represents. I see political in-fighting in America about amusingly minor issues in the grand scheme of things. I see a non-negligible part of Americans actively being against supporting the Ukrainian war effort that could stop Russia here and now. I see rest of the West finding their heating bills much more important than said support. I see truckers and farmers in Poland not seeing past their nose to what’s to come.
This area of freedom is precious and unprecedented. And it won’t last if we’re not in the mood to collectively pay for kit and munitions for people who are paying with their lives. And sure, if you’re on the other side of the pond, this might not touch you personally. I guess it’s fine to not care too much about other people’s freedom. But for me, all the #freedom that #bitcoin and #nostr provides will mean shit if my potential homestead gets bombed to phosphorus covered ashes in 4-8 years time.
So I guess I’ll just get some more of the orange coin and wait to see how things unfold. In case I happen to need to get property somewhere further away from that God damned metastasis of an empire.

2024-02-13 16:27:27

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I only see your notes from 7 days back. You can't really expect to have much traction in 7 days on Nostr. The community is not huge, there are no algorithms to surface you, everything is organic.
That being said, I think your account has a lot of potential! I'd suggest to not focus on Bitcoin as much. In my opinion the most interesting people here are the ones who don't talk only about Bitcoin or Nostr. Like @rev.hodl

2024-02-10 19:03:36

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Here’s a rational argument against his position from someone living very near to Russia. You might even visit here if you choose to attend the next Nostr Unconference :)
What riles me up the most is his gripe about “NATO expanding and encroaching on Russian interests”. Here’s the thing. We worked very hard to get into NATO for more than a decade. Look up Vaira Vike Freiberga NATO speech. We wanted to get in because we never wanted the repeat of Russian occupation. We barely survived the last one as a nation.
He can’t wrap his mind around the idea that people might have a will of their own that they exercise through action.
From our point of view it was us who wanted out of the Soviet Union , we took action to achieve that (see Baltic Way, barricades). We wanted to get into EU and NATO. We took action and achieved that. It’s not Soviet Union breaking apart, and NATO expanding. We did it, even though nobody apart from us was very keen on either idea.
From this perspective, we understand Ukrainians. They wanted to rid themselves from corrupt pro-Moscow president who wanted to nix the EU association agreement. They took action, and achieved it.
To punish them, Russia annexed Crimea, and invaded the country. Then launched a full scale invasion 8 years later to destroy Ukrainians as people and as a nation.
He can’t stomach the fact that people can have a will that they express through action. He can’t stomach the fact that people would want the freedom to choose their own government.

2024-02-09 12:54:25

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Which part did you like more, the part where he explains how Hitler was just compelled to start the war by attacking Poland, because Poland just wouldn't give Gdańsk away, or the part where he describes how Zelensky's father who was born in 1947 fought in WWII?
He's not a madman, but he is a KGB-man. Which means he has trained to lie and deceive professionally.
Anyone listening to what Putin has to say without keeping this in mind is doing themselves a huge disservice, and risks becoming a useful idiot.
Like Bush Jr. believing he was able to get a sense of Putin's soul.

2024-02-07 07:57:02

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How did you guess? Is my handle a dead giveaway? 😂🤣
🇱🇻 🎉 👋

2024-02-06 21:00:37

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Please be like @npub1a2c…w83a and post your bear content here!
Welcome!

2024-01-30 20:48:27

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Thanks! Is there any back of the napkin calculation regarding how much space is optimal?

2024-01-30 09:53:22

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How do you keep the rabbits in the colony if they roam free like that? Don't they burrow out of it?

2024-01-10 19:08:09

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Do you think they’ll extend it in March?

2024-01-10 09:30:32

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I assumed that'd be the answer, yes. Well, not the part about the fonts.
I find it sad though. I'm actually looking forward the day when "Made in Russia" is a sign of quality. Not just within Russia, but outside of it too. Because that'd signal that a tectonic paradigm shift has happened within Russia, and the world in general has likely become a better place because of it.

2024-01-10 08:20:36

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Looking forward to the day when people who hate Bitcoin are on Nostr. That's how you know it has succeeded beyond all expectations. 😄

2024-01-10 08:15:50

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Any idea why that's the case? Where I live using the local language increases sales. To the point where manufacturers from neighboring countries sometimes even use a local-sounding brand just for our market.

2024-01-08 07:40:07

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Btw, can't zap you!

2024-01-03 09:11:03

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Primal too. Why?

2024-01-01 19:24:30

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Looks like the zap approval requests are not going through for me at the moment too. I had this a few days ago as well, but I think they all rolled in a day later.
That made me try Primal though, and I must say the zapping functionality there works great. So I now switch between clients, and use Primal when I want to zap!

2024-01-01 10:17:24

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What the hell!
For real? Hope you're good..
And, well, Happy New year! 😅

2023-12-29 23:34:31

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Aaand they missed the 'Indian IPA'. But I guess they just didn't need it for the meme! 😄

2023-12-29 21:14:13

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If I read the reasoning correctly it’s that it looks like we’re heading into a recessionary environment coupled with inflationary pressure not only from the rate cuts themselves, but also actual bottlenecks on the supply side?
Is there anything you suggest (NFA DYOR style) when it comes to investing apart from stacking sats?

2023-11-06 08:43:25

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Hi! How’s stuff?

2023-09-18 19:38:19

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Wow, talk about serendipity! This is something I was thinking about just yesterday!
So what’s the reasoning why not having a secure element is a good thing?

2023-08-04 11:37:57

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No of course. Just because they’d be stronger within their domain. A peasant in the Middle Ages could stab a knight with a pitchfork, the other knights would come after him, kill him, rape his wife, and sell his kids.
That’s how it always plays out when you have armed groups of people around. Someone always ends up holding the monopoly on violence within some area/domain.

2023-08-04 11:09:17

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Thanks for elaborating! Yes, and these private armies will then establish spheres of influence, and proceed with taxation in their spheres of influence where they will have monopoly on violence.
We’ve been there, it’s called feudalism.

2023-08-04 10:24:56

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Can you elaborate?

2023-08-04 10:15:49

Is there an open source #nostr web client where backend does the note signing?
#asknostr

2023-08-04 09:25:15

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Ok, but this would lead to decreased demand, which would imply supply needs to decrease as well to bring things into balance, which then means less economic activity, people losing their income, and the general prosperity decreasing.
Which may be a good thing. There are people actively calling for ‘degrowth’ due to environmental reasons.
But speaking purely from the economics point of view, this doesn’t seem that great. 🤔

2023-08-04 08:20:06

What’s the typical argument for why systematic deflation would be fine? Is it that demand wouldn’t be affected by appreciating money or that supply wouldn’t be affected by demand?
#asknostr #economics

2023-08-04 06:53:13

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I don’t think that a move to Bitcoin as the world currency necessarily implies that taxation will be gone. The state was perfectly capable of collecting taxes before fiat, be it in mead, furs, wax, wheat, gold, or anything else of value.
As long as the state has monopoly on violence, taxation will be a thing. Or let me rephrase that, whoever has monopoly of violence in a polity (the state, the rebels, the mafia) will collect a form of taxes to finance their operations.
So social programs are fine in a BTC world. As long as whoever has monopoly on violence bothers with them.

2023-08-02 19:05:31

How do you zap on a note in #damus? I can zap users just fine if I go to their profile, but I can’t seem to be able to figure out how to zap on a particular note.
#asknostr