James A Lewis

Nearly All Wars for 150 Year Were Fought for THIS Reason
https://youtu.be/Q0A8nyz-2CI
After over a century of fighting, we are hardly any closer to unanimously saying people can just keep their stuff and help out each other.
The reason is because people don't know trade and labor are for love of neighbor.
#theologyofcommerce #mutualprofit #business #personalproperty #propertyrights #bitcoinfixesthis (nearly) #podcast

2025-09-10 19:46:08 UTC

Pray for Charlie Kirk.

2025-09-04 17:40:16 UTC

https://youtu.be/DL1lnwaff8k
So good!

2025-08-16 13:39:55 UTC

Best website for purchasing PC hardware in the US?
#askNostr
I've used NewEgg, mostly, but I'm a habitual brand disloyalist. I make them earn my loyalty.

2025-08-14 18:52:29 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/tTjA_6HNPQA
This mind disease is viral and deadly. It's the real pandemic. It's infecting way more women than people realize. This is because women take on each other's grief and multiply it. It comes from the desire to commiserate and comfort, which are good and healthy feminine motivations, but it gets perverted by social media.
I'm seeing a lot more of this sort of thing going around, and I want to warn you all of it.

2025-08-03 14:11:08 UTC

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I like amethyst, too. Primal is nice for on-boarding because of the built-in wallet, though.

2025-07-25 11:31:24 UTC

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I think you want to just screenshot it and/or link the URL.

2025-01-27 03:08:30 UTC

Created my very first Rust GUI app, and it took far too long! Haha!
It's a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game built on Rust+Slint.
Also, #askNostr, why is it 213.2MB!?! It should be something like 750kB!
https://image.nostr.build/f43082d3376bc6e8c2158cd38a0467272cf8a104c6cd85d47638d95f7661f84f.png

2025-01-24 12:45:45 UTC

If Nostr was around during the block size wars, would the bitcoin software have changed direction?
I learned recently that, while I was still new to bitcoin, the big blockers were kicked from the forums. No wonder I didn't really header much about it. Censorship hurt the community and caused a split on the network.
Unity is deeply important, and that was a bad call by the Core devs and forum mods. I think it's also bad that those two sets had such overlap.

2025-01-24 12:14:32 UTC

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Standalone web apps that aren't intended to be shared wouldn't normally need to keep keys from being hard coded. That constitutes a lot of projects on GitHub.

2025-01-18 14:40:25 UTC

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Again, this is for the future, many years from now.
I think there ought to be more users of bitcoin that node operators. I think a single transaction ought to be cheaper than running a node. The upwards fee pressure of 8 billion people putting transactions on a 7tx/s network would make each cost possibly a years salary of an average person.
A metric we could use for fees is their proportion to the cost of owning and running a node for a year.
Trading "your everyday node operator" for "your everyday bitcoin user" is a profitable trade.
That's not to say that every transaction ought to be on-chain, but that users need to actually be able to set up their a LN channels in a decent timeframe.
#nevent1q…jtjt

2025-01-17 16:58:08 UTC

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25x incoming if that becomes a thing.

2024-12-23 02:13:17 UTC

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Such a good game. I loved making maps, too.
Did you know one release of this was rated M?

2024-12-21 15:36:53 UTC

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I'm sure some people have been working on it, but lightning won't be as beneficial if one believes in a multi-coin future.

2024-12-16 00:33:34 UTC

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All *good* things. And since it is technology that makes playing by the rules not only easier but the only feasible path, I would definitely call it good, and thus from God in the same sense all good inventions come from him. Unlike compound interest on loans.

2024-12-15 15:54:19 UTC

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I don't think I am. Bitcoin still has a scaling problem if self-custody is not to be a thing of the past.

2024-12-15 15:45:35 UTC

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I have an idea. What if to be consider to be running a "full node" one participates in a database sharding proof of storage system, so it's ensured that the full chain will persist, but not necessarily on any single node? I can imagine a RAID striping type system across nodes. If a node keeps X of every Y blocks, and somehow proves it to its neighbors, and there are Y groups who all keep track of neighbors, the storage needed per node will be X/Y of the total size of the chain. Let's say 5 of 256, so adjacent groups have an 80% overlap, while reducing load to about 2%. Reconstruction would be quite rapid. If a group goes empty, the data could be reconstructed from four other groups, and a node could automatically manage to which group it is assigned. This would allow meaningful participation while greatly reducing load. Whole-chain full nodes would still be a thing for those who would want that, obviously.
To maintain the full node aspect of verifying chain integrity, each node proves to itself the change to the database, and the group publishes the agreed upon proof to the chain with a many-multi-sig (allowing for a latency), sorta like a parity, so the shard system will occupy exactly one transaction per block. This would become the basis, then, for a layer 2 of virtual addresses, wherein an on-chain address is non-custodially occupied by many sub addresses, and the per-shard database proof also contains the transactions of virtual addresses. Cross group transactions might have to be on-chain, but they could at least be rolled up after a signed cross-group acknowledgement (making the other group acknowledges the transactions into its virtual addresses). Cross-group lightning network could also become a thing.
This is starting to feel a bit like drive chains, NGL, but still a bit different.

2024-12-14 20:10:24 UTC

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It is indeed! My MIL said I should give it a listen and wants my opinion.
So far, I get the impression he's intellectualized being butthurt from the BCH fork. I'll take it seriously, though.

2024-12-13 03:40:20 UTC

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Fr fr #RealTalk

2024-12-12 03:09:34 UTC

Worst food combinations. Go!
Here's mine:
Tuna in chocolate pudding, served hot.
#askNostr

2024-12-12 02:31:08 UTC

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I literally have a shirt with this on it 😂

2024-09-13 16:24:38 UTC

So beautiful
https://youtube.com/shorts/dBi9VOY0wlA

2024-09-03 14:23:23 UTC

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#hypernostrification

2024-08-31 15:16:18 UTC

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No, you boosted via the #Fountain nostr client app and saw it on another nostr client app!
Unified online actions FTW!

2024-08-19 13:02:31 UTC

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The hellthread hasn't really been a thing for awhile, and God willing will never be again, so it may already be the case that those already get muted. A similar solution could be in the works.

2024-08-19 12:57:08 UTC

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What if the real price trajectory would have been 2% deflation instead of the 2% inflation they aim at but exceed? It used to be (pre-1971) that things got cheaper with economic progress, not more expensive.

2024-08-09 23:27:00 UTC

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Cool! It had been a bit since I tried it, and I have to say, UI scaling has come a long way! Several years ago, 4K looked awkward, but it's basically a good a windows and macos, now.

2024-08-08 02:23:28 UTC

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USDT over bitcoin lightning?

2024-08-07 17:08:11 UTC

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The main paradigm shift is exposing interfaces to the user other than keyboard and mouse actions in-app, and anything more would be near exclusively a per application-pair basis. With this, the user can plug anything into any other thing with a similar data structure!

2024-08-06 11:46:24 UTC

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Got 'em!

2024-08-06 02:52:15 UTC

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The one word I say like a good ol' boy is "oil," and only in the context of cars. First job in high school was a JiffyLube in central Texas. Otherwise, I sound a mild Californian.

2024-08-04 15:45:18 UTC

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For real, though! I've kept seed oils out of my diet, and I only very lightly burn in the sun. I mowed shirtless yesterday and am perfectly fine today.

2024-07-31 23:30:20 UTC

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Here's one travel post:
#nevent1q…9qdd

2024-07-31 20:01:36 UTC

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You know ... I wouldn't doubt it

2024-07-31 19:52:02 UTC

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No worries.
I'm sure there is content out there you wish was also on nostr. What creators/platforms/etc. are they?

2024-07-31 13:32:21 UTC

Make them actually feel like you care #podcast #brandstrategy #marketing #holistic #healthcare
https://v.nostr.build/0oPgcW15Tg5cEzSb.mp4
This was a really great conversation with a fellow father and entrepreneur, Paul Berens
Full length:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UrrsGVxePw

2024-07-29 13:56:37 UTC

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Self-zapping from another npub would cause it to be useless. People would just create a bot that Zaps all their posts, and they just give the sats back total their bot automatically off nostr.
You'll need to calculate a new column for zaps from your WoT to make this work.
Just a warning about incentives and to not make bad ones.

2024-07-28 15:21:48 UTC

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Impossible to tell, in fact. If it is in-browser, you may be able to see if it comes in as plain text, in which case they rely on the HTTPS encryption only. Likely, it's only encrypted while stored on their servers, so they still need to hold the keys.

2024-07-28 03:17:42 UTC

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Next ATH is around the corner, come November, which is always great motivation to understand more 🤞

2024-07-28 03:00:44 UTC

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You're likely right. He'll not be around for that much longer, so he might not see hyperbitcoinization. There's still some possibility that his team gets orange-pilled. I hear Vance hodls, but I don't know where he's at in it.

2024-07-27 22:42:50 UTC

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Where's the stream?

2024-07-14 03:59:11 UTC

#Trump2024
They're desperate, now, if it was not already obvious. They're going to take out Biden next as a way to replace him, and then blame it on angry, white, Christian males who love America.
God, have mercy on the souls of the victim and gunman. God, save us. God, bless America.

2024-07-10 15:48:08 UTC

Man... I have had such a difficult time with calculating the date for Easter, but I finally have a model that is correct for the rest of this century. It would have been easier to just copy-paste, true, but I just couldn't let it go until I solved it.
Let me know if you're interested in the code (it's in PHP, currently).
#askNostr #Catholic #PHP #Easter

2024-07-04 00:34:23 UTC

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It's religious discrimination. They're forcing their woke religion on everyone else. If you don't affirm their defacto religious claim of self-identity as being supreme over and above all other rights, they are religiously compelled to shun and excommunicate.
Their religion is fundamentally contra-traditional self-identification relative realism. It is downstream of feminism, the view that women and men are not fundamentally distinct. It's the result of the mindset that "you can be anything you want if you believe in it enough."

2024-06-18 00:51:55 UTC

It's illegal to eat pet food!
https://i.nostr.build/WG0nj.jpg

2024-06-04 18:21:39 UTC

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We need a badge that certifies animal product.

2024-05-31 12:01:13 UTC

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Bitcoin defunds the state. Pass it on.
Also, it puts the power in the hands of the many.
#nevent1q…aqp2

2024-05-31 11:47:33 UTC

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For sure. Plus, the pro-life issue is a big one. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the ability to protect them three verbally (1A), physically (2A & pro-life) and financially (self-custody & no CBDC)

2024-05-31 02:49:39 UTC

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*angry NPC juror noises* Orange Man bad! Beep boop! Lock him up! Beep boop!
(Also, he said he'll codify self-custody, free Ross, and make sure the US will never issue a CBDC.)

2024-05-30 23:14:16 UTC

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It'll be a wild ride!

2024-05-30 13:00:54 UTC

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2024-05-30 12:56:11 UTC

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We need a system that does not depend on ICANN and the TLD/gTLD domain sale system.
Why does someone get to "own" .com or .org per se? IP addresses are cumbersome, sure, but still...
Can we establish a competing system? Like make a *.nos / *.nostr / *.str / *.otherthings that uses one's relays as a DNS? We could then distribute the records and set up proxies, etc. in a way that is verifiable.
Devices ship with IP addresses, default DNSs, and trusted domain names. We can build that into clients.

2024-05-29 19:34:11 UTC

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Of the diet front, the solution is simple, though. Just eat meat and basically nothing else.

2024-05-27 13:12:14 UTC

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I know. It feels Luke violating your principles. Welcome to compromise, the only place progress is won or lost.
No party completely aligns. No position fully represents.
Construct a tiered system of values to uphold, and align the top first.

2024-05-26 17:37:25 UTC

We need to get this guy on Nostr 🤙
https://youtu.be/Lf1uELMwBqQ

2024-05-25 22:53:28 UTC

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My wife is pregnant right now. She was on carnivore for a couple months before we conceived, but could not stand basically any meats in the first trimester. I'm advocating for it again.
I'm on ketovore (calorically carnivore, allowing for low- to no-calorie plant foods like herbs, spices, and seasonings) after being generally keto for years. My parents and sister are carnivore. My father-in-law is now carnivore. One sister-in-law is going carnivore on Monday.
It's a revolution!

2024-05-24 12:43:03 UTC

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Cool! That must have been Six Flags.
Eventually, if I can get ahead of this dang economy, we'll be building our forever home out here.

2024-05-22 01:07:40 UTC

Housing prices being up isn't good if you are an owner either. It's only good if you rent it out or are planning to sell. Otherwise, it's just a greater taxable item. A house shouldn't be an investment vehicle.
https://youtube.com/shorts/uqzyD-VqaZ8

2024-05-20 17:33:19 UTC

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That is an excellent quote!

2024-05-18 16:38:58 UTC

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Found it https://i.nostr.build/7GEjg.jpg

2024-05-17 18:04:56 UTC

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Interesting! I would like to know more. Where would the root keys reside? Remotely? With a local trusted party? (ie: techie friend/family member)

2024-05-17 17:00:21 UTC

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That's like moving BTC from one wallet to another. No.

2024-05-15 13:12:51 UTC

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That is precisely what it is. Unfortunately, as we denominate in it, our inputs and outputs have become increasingly skewed. That is to say, our compensation is outpaced by costs, so it's like the operators forget a load of your luggage on the connection.

2024-05-14 21:28:47 UTC

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Yeah, which is why I am thinking tablet or phone+lapdock (usb-c portable monitor+keyboard+touchpad, like a laptop without the actual compute)

2024-05-14 21:27:20 UTC

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If I were a knife, gun, vehicle, or alcohol manufacturer, I know my product is used incorrectly, that is to say for unethical, harmful, or illegal purposes. Would I be responsible for its misuse?

2024-05-14 19:31:48 UTC

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The idea is to use a keyboard, mouse, and external monitor.

2024-05-13 15:25:19 UTC

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Zapvertisements. Expose a setting to the user to accept more or fewer, which are split between the user and the dev team with some decent split, like 60-40 (user/dev). If the ads are too much, dial down to minimum (which may be zero) and only get content from subs, or get ads to fund your zapping habit.

2024-05-13 13:35:27 UTC

🤣
https://youtu.be/nbW_NweXstU

2024-05-12 16:13:17 UTC

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Can you offer a definition of "chaotic" in this context?

2024-05-10 15:30:26 UTC

So, I use OBS for recording, and I mapped some F-keys to start/pause/resume/stop the recording, but I also really liked the way the TikTok workflow allows you to "backspace" the last clip if you want to redo it. Being able to retake immediately would save me so much time in post!
Anyone know how this might be able to be done? #askNostr
I looked through the OBS settings for a "delete last recording" function mappable to a hotkey, but no luck 🤷‍♂️

2024-05-08 20:42:56 UTC

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When you control for people who earn orders of magnitude more than the average person, what might the average be then? Also, I am pretty sure the average when I married back in 2015 was literally half that.

2024-05-08 16:33:01 UTC

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Yes, not unregulated, but free in the proper sense of the word. Christians are free, not that we are free to sin but from it.
In the same sense, a truly free economy fully supports the freedom of its participants, not that they are free to take advantage of each other but that they are free to mutually benefit one another in their trade and labor. This requires a lack of compulsion (which is socialism), acknowledges ownership (which communism does not), does not systematically favor the already rich and powerful (which is crony capitalism), does not artificially favor larger organizations over the individual (which is corporatist capitalism), and rather endorses a subsidiarity in power, both economic and political (which all forms of totalitarianism rejects).
Our current system in the US is dangerously close to the latter three, unfortunately. The three-letter-agencies have created such a regulatory system that the individual is at an artificial disadvantage to compete with the larger organizations. In this way, I say our system is not free enough, not that we do away with regulation altogether but make it favor a subsidiary and decentralized system rather than a large and centralized one.

2024-04-17 13:46:02 UTC

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One link between buildings, about 250-300ft (I only want to pay the ISP once 🤷‍♂️😂), 1G needed but 2.5G preferred for upgradability.
Once in the building, I think we want 10G between the NAS/Server and 4 workstations (maybe up to 6 in the future). Those runs don't need any more than about 50-ft, most probably in the 10-25ft range, depending on placement. The use case is videography, photography, video podcasting, and local website hosting for development. I already do that last one from my laptop, but it'd be nice to host it where it can always run.
Also, while were out and about, we might tunnel into the NAS for footage and photo dumps so we're never walking around with all our data.

2024-04-04 14:03:49 UTC

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Whoa! Okay, I'll be looking into this.

2024-04-02 03:04:57 UTC

This album is a meditation. It follows the story of everything.
Right now, I'm really feeling 'When Death Dies'. Especially also listen to Ezekiel, but I'd encourage one to listen to the whole album in-order.
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lX_iB9M0qX19B9EsRC0plXnbWrNwDquqM

2024-03-26 15:06:21 UTC

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What a flex! A weird one, but impressive. I kinda don't like the fact that it basically reduced the space on the chain for real txs, but it's about the same as mining an empty block, which has been done a lot before.

2024-03-19 19:12:12 UTC

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Just went through your follows 👍 Good recommendations

2024-03-19 18:49:07 UTC

My follows got nuked. Tell me whom I should follow 🤙

2024-03-16 01:10:20 UTC

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I'm down for a good cigar or pipe, but no thanks of the cigarettes. They've got a hundred nasty chemicals. Plus, you don't inhale cigar and pipe, so low-to-no lung risks.

2024-03-15 13:05:40 UTC

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*TO MEEE!!!!

2024-03-14 22:36:34 UTC

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Yep. Same with atomic clock. AFAIK, the atomic side is set to tune the quartz side of the clock, not to completely replace the system.

2024-01-17 03:32:34 UTC

I have a zombie channel with a "closing" status for months now. How do I force the close?
#askNostr #bitcoin #lightning

2024-01-14 14:58:02 UTC

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Lesson: don't save in fiat currencies. Hard assets only.

2024-01-04 13:45:14 UTC

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False. You said something positive about the Catholic Faith, and I appreciated it 🤙

2023-12-30 17:30:53 UTC

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Because there's a chance we have something in common 😂

2023-12-29 15:17:52 UTC

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Oh! Of course! Rust itself doesn't have `null`, but I can totally make more falsy Options, and that would enable me to have a lot more control about exceptions, like "missing," (API doesn't know it should be there) "empty," (API failed to give a value) or actually `false` (API knew it should be there and set it to `false`) being different, usable cases.
That should be better code than my go-to of negative INTs to communicate a specific error type.

2023-12-26 15:17:37 UTC

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Not only does this make sense, but it is actually what the roots of the word would imply:
Com: with or alongside
Passio: (passion) to suffer, endure, or strive
When we say we have "passion" for something, what we ought to mean is that we are willing to suffer for it. I have passion for my wife and family, for the right ordering of our society, and for freedom.

2023-12-24 15:42:30 UTC

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This is my complaint, too. Quite frustrating how high spec a device has to be to render at 4k60 in a browser, but native apps will run fine on a raspberry pi 🤷‍♂️ it's almost like we need a new, simpler browser protocol that'll run closer to the bare metal.

2023-12-10 12:57:37 UTC

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No college debt is a flex over college debt, and skilled trades are a flex over not finding a job in your field. The degree is a proxy.
Degrees are good, but they're way overpriced and are made meaningless by flooding the market with too many "educated" (but not really) people.

2023-12-04 00:44:09 UTC

Man! A 2,500sat #zap is worth a whole buck, now!
#numberGoUp

2023-11-26 23:23:53 UTC

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Only in the vax'd and those who've received blood donations from the vax'd, from what I've heard.

2023-11-23 19:08:27 UTC

🤣 Freedom Toons has done it again... also, I love their Hallow app ads...
#freedomToons #Thanksgiving (ps: #Catholic #hallowApp)
https://youtu.be/ed1ieuA1oRE

2023-11-14 04:42:50 UTC

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Hey! Stoked to find another of my kind in the wild! Openly Christian Bitcoiner in the branding space is a pretty niche group. I think we should talk!

2023-11-08 21:09:04 UTC

Bitcoin is the money of peace.
Make the governments ask its citizenry whether to go to war again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_VeZoDwchY
@nprofile…8uk5

2023-11-08 01:02:59 UTC

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Smooth

2023-11-06 23:22:43 UTC

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We can hope and pray that's what will happen!

2023-11-06 14:33:09 UTC

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There is none. The gospels and and epistles were written during the life of Christ and during great persecution of Christians. Eucharistic processions would only become a practice after the Church became much less vulnerable.

2023-11-06 13:14:09 UTC

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Right, we are trying to bridge from a user-domain paradigm to a un-domained key-pair paradigm. I don't know if a third way exists and would make for a reasonable and useful bridge.
NIP-05 is really just human readable pseudonym for an npub, by definition. I don't see a way to shorten or make human readable an npub without pseudonymization, so if already pseudonymous, what system would be more intuitive?