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2024-09-13 00:25:40

New fren at the house tonight. Big hands!!
https://m.primal.net/KoKw.jpg

2024-09-09 02:09:37

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You could do something productive with your life instead. Try it, you may find it interesting in terms of personal impact

2024-09-07 23:43:12

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Hunting for krakens

2024-09-07 23:37:44

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Diving can be tiring. Should’ve had coffee before opening nostr!

2024-09-07 20:06:29

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3mm. Divingwas good but nothing out of this world for here. We don't have much coral. But lots of life. Maybe 10 sharks today, Coue eagle rays and a few decent tornados of fish. Nirmsl Costa Rican dive

2024-09-07 20:00:02

GM nostr.... Well GA! diving is a great way to start the day. Plenty of sharks and a whale passed by with calf during surface interval!

2024-09-07 19:58:32

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I suffered lots of crsmps moving to Costa Rica. If I don't take rehydration salts once per week they come back. Sweaty nation!

2024-09-06 17:23:51

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Na. Rainy day today. No hammock. Dive gear review for tomorrow and then work

2024-09-06 04:47:48

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I do live in Costa rica. Potential pura Vida elememt. Even lightning can slow down here

2024-09-06 04:46:28

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Err seriously, nothing showing my end. That's ummm troubling from the double spend perspective in lightning??? Am I missing something here or do we need to call Houston?

2024-09-06 04:41:50

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OK now very confused. Looking in WOS, not showing sent

2024-09-06 04:28:35

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That screenshot is amethyst

2024-09-06 04:24:13

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Damus says invalid lightning address. Amethyst gives me this https://image.nostr.build/6d75428b36e65988fe5aa56bb88f6555257395eb931f1ca5d59b53df304e3ed1.jpg

2024-09-06 04:18:53

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Just tried to zap this and couldn't. Got option to send message. Did you recieve or would a screenshot of error be useful?

2024-09-06 04:10:01

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Is that masses of reply-bot spam?

2024-09-06 03:52:11

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OK so as a non techy watching all the back and forth over past few months, please explain if am understanding correctly.
We are now in the "complain about rapid adoption" phase?

2024-09-06 03:49:31

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10gig used or left?

2024-09-06 03:47:59

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Start amount is required data prior to casting aspersions into the ether

2024-09-02 16:32:51

GM nostr 🌞☕️
Not a bad little spot to relax in the morning! https://image.nostr.build/489c05c750c0bae0d43f625105d0c8884a3e80801d02ddacba1b7339d58e5766.jpg

2024-09-01 15:30:28

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What I find fascinating is the ease of achievement. Push a false right/left paradigm, give huge exposure to the most extreme on both sides and just simply wait for people to beg for curtailment of freedom. When one stands back to look at bigger picture, it’s the sheer simplicity and ease that’s truly astonishing

2024-08-31 03:37:04

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The trip will help. Dont plan too much. Go with the flow every day. Stop thinking. No mind. Be

2024-08-31 00:53:36

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Find problems with clients. Report them. When fixed, zap em to death!

2024-08-30 23:07:13

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Did you see who was getting beamed up?

2024-08-30 01:03:52

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How is this liquidity drain affected by the ECB QT? Still trying to get my head around how this stuff works (at least a little bit!). Surely same thing is happening in their amazingly stable banking system?

2024-08-29 22:32:35

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Those passports are cool man. Didnt they have those on the malaysian airlines flight too? Crazy

2024-08-29 22:23:29

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Congratulations!

2024-08-29 22:15:49

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Welcome. I rarely used social media till nostr. Just connect with people and follow hashtags you're interested in. There's a lot of bitcoiners here for sure. You may find the concept of value for value interesting regardless of background. Make sure to get a wallet regardless and connect to here. You'll find if you post with things of value, many may tip you for it. The reason it feels different is it's back to connecting with humanity all over without gatekeepers and attention grabbing. Have fun!

2024-08-28 01:25:13

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#nevent1q…w44m
We could do Be Eccentric Now day??? 🙄🤔 apparently everyone should follow Ben

2024-08-28 01:02:38

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What’s a hard no exactly?

2024-08-27 22:58:24

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Dunno, who's in charge of Dan day?

2024-08-27 22:45:31

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Further to this line of thinking, maybe consider doing it on a Dan day 🙄🤔

2024-08-27 22:43:29

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I may be old school but learning to read maps is really useful

2024-08-27 22:38:15

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It is the way https://image.nostr.build/e4649efbf969565b9af610a4454d4eacf565e22805eae42943af9f0b23bcf46d.jpg

2024-08-27 21:59:13

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Are you lost?

2024-08-27 21:22:00

So lots of new #nostr users? Wen @npub1el3…l27r hell thread time?

2024-08-27 16:53:43

For all new iOS #nostr users on #Damus. Make sure you’re not missing out on no.1 nostr feature… swipe right!

2024-08-27 14:23:43

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Definitely not alone!

2024-08-27 13:52:59

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One day at a time

2024-08-27 13:46:49

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Here's hoping you can cut those ties soon! 🫂

2024-08-27 13:28:03

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https://m.primal.net/KPlP.jpg

2024-08-27 13:15:02

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Welcome!

2024-08-27 02:52:09

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I can almost smell the term bouncestr

2024-08-27 02:14:40

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You are too kind sir. I will pass that on to devs. 🫡

2024-08-26 19:57:38

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There's another element here. One of incentive. My situation finally incentivised me to move to somewhere I had considering reloacting to but had been putting off. It also further incentivised me to start other businesses to try to recover the lost time. I now have another business which is, whilst not huge, very successful and provides lots of employment, as well as another couple that I've invested in and given a little help with. I am currently looking at trying to set up another whilst at the same time, trying to encourage some friends to look at the idea of pooling together to pay for some devs to try developing a new little idea for nostr. One can take a beating from thieving government and give up, I've seen that in some people in Spain who simply stopped trying to expand businesses due to the hellish environment there; or one can take the punch, get up and be more motivated. That's a personal choice

2024-08-26 19:40:12

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It's all good. I put my ideas into a really cool and ground breaking piece of software. We never truly made it as we got beaten in the market by another company but I have put the packages head to head and still know I made the best software for what I do that available. Satisfaction there and when you've been stacking sats a while, the financial side is meh!

2024-08-26 19:28:26

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I went to 3 accountants prior to all of this and none of them knew about these regulations. That included PWC. I don't know what one is supposed to do in Spain to be honest. I once heard my wife talking to the tax man there (she's spanish) asking what to write for a particularly obscurely written question after they put in the regs a few years ago that one gets fined per error on a return. The lady on the phone said she had no idea, got her boss and she had no idea. The tax office literally had no idea how to fill out tax forms

2024-08-26 19:26:10

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Sorry, was multi tasking which is never a good idea. I'll make it as hypothetical example of what happened to me. Say myself and the programmer I worked with got a million bucks each and took 50% cash/share split.
My tax was 48% of 1m = 480k and I got to take 20k. When I come round to sell the shares, am not sure (neither was my accountant) whether just the 20% capital gains or again as income it would have been sell for 500k (assuming no gains) and pay 100k or 240k tax. Total tax of 580k or 720k.
He paid 10% entrepeneurs tax so 50k and then would have had to pay capital gains at 20% on the sale of shares or 100k. Total tax 120k.
Whilst I understand it was a very strange situation that I had not known about as it's very obscure, it still shows how bad it can get. In this case, I lived in Spain which was party to a tax agreement made within europe on taxes on sales of companies registered in USA. Spain pulled out of the agreement a few months after signing and that's where it sits right now.

2024-08-26 18:29:55

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My partners were not in Spain. They were in UK so totally different. Personally I don't understand anything when it comes to taxes. In spain it just seems to be go work, give everything to someone else and be grateful for good food. They were in UK and paid entrepeneurs tax of only 10% and only on cash portion. I stopped caring when I started stacking sats and left europe.

2024-08-26 18:09:47

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If something cannot be sold, I personally don't see how you value. However main point is my pertners were only taxed on the cash portion. They were taxed on actual realised cash portion. Rather a massive difference from me giving pretty much everything to tax man and them going off and buying second houses. All good fun!

2024-08-26 17:30:44

I've seen a little discussion on the tax on unrealised gains. It sounds like a horror show for sure but I can attest to the fact that it's MUCH worse when it actually happens to you.
Set up company with some friends, get my ideas coded into a piece of software. Launch, not quite success but eventually sell. Deal is part shares, part cash and the purchaser wanted us truly vested in. I went 60% cash / 40% shares. Shares are in a private company and cannot be sold.
When I came round to tax time, my accountant informs me I have to pay tax on the full amount (i.e unrealised gains) and it was in Spain so top rate 45%. Should take too much to figure out I wasted years of my life setting up a tech company only for the government to take everything off me. I still have those shares I suppose and one day, maybe I'll be able to sell them, who knows? At least am not in Spain any more cause guess what? If I could sell them, and I lived in Spain, I'd pay tax again on that.
If they tax unrealised gains, 1929 market crash will look like a sunday picnic. In the mean time, if you are an entrepeneur, make sure to take a little time to check all the fine details in local tax code or you might be working ONLY to pay the salary of some public sector thief!
#tax #economics

2024-08-25 13:00:56

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Yeah they're slightly different categories. I have far greater faith in myself to correctly design a 10-20,000ft well than getting a 5mm straight hole in a wall!

2024-08-25 12:50:12

GM nostr ☀️
Drill baby drill!

2024-08-25 12:48:53

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The migration of skilled people from tyrannical countries to those that promote and encourage freedom will hopefully be the market driver of revolt through greater wealth generation flooding to less oppressive locales over the next few decades. With a little luck and a lot of freedom tech, we could even enter golden age such as northern Italian city states of old!
Keep shilling! Costa Rica not too bad either for now although having a clear and defined constituional clause stating that the minister of health can take over government in times of a health emergency is not a good sign and one does see many links to supranational "stakeholder" groups unfortunately

2024-08-23 14:14:33

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A zero substamce speech. Awful. I dont like Trump but Harris is simply incompetent puppet why not consider a more nuanced posting style with a little commentary regarding views on your perspective rather tgan just posting astroturfing articles?

2024-08-22 21:15:46

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Random strangers want to know what it feel like to be death, duly noted!

2024-08-22 20:58:57

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Would look the part in windy west texas winter

2024-08-22 19:34:27

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Daddy needs a big black cape! 🙄

2024-08-22 19:18:30

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Was thinking the same

2024-08-22 15:16:13

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Whilst i think this should just be state level and find it sad tgat it becomes such a major issue at the national level, do you think there could be a time duration limit in pregnancy that legalised abortion laws might be able to achieve a middle ground that satisfies majority? Obviously mildly irrelevant as its simple an evocative subject simply used politically to divide nation but curious on a doctors perspective

2024-08-22 15:11:51

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Further wrecking market forces by government intervention will obviously have the opposite effect as stated. Curiousity must be to see if removal ofregulations that government itself places will actually happen. Out of curiosity, do you think USA poor and middle class could survive four years of the interventionist policy suggestions by Harris campaign?

2024-08-21 19:53:40

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Exactly, hard to explain to outsiders. Last time I was in Bari, was wandering around with some family members and uncle started heading towards historic town center. My aunt (from UK) stopped and asked if it was ok to enter. Response was that outsider have been allowed in safely for a few years. Explaining things like that in this age to people just results in blank stares of incomprehension.
I then took my missus on a little tour around the south and she said she wanted to stop to take a pee. We were driving through Mondragone near Naples. I said I'd rather wait and when she asked why, I said look closer at the people and streets and where we are and pay more attention. After a minute or two she said she was very happy to wait a bit

2024-08-21 19:32:11

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Problem with Italy, always the chance of chequered family history! Especially in the south. I always wondered when I was visiting as a kid why so much deference was paid to my great uncle when we walked around. And that's the Italian part of the family I do know. It was only when my dad passed and my uncle mentioned the Naples side of the family and got a proper evil glare from my aunt that I found out there was another branch but they would not elaborate at all!

2024-08-21 19:22:36

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Who knows. Your family ever been potentially allegedly involved in protection racket? 🙄 🤣

2024-08-21 18:42:06

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Yeah, great thread.... splitting hairs about the difference between the best cuisines in the world when I live in Costa Rica, land of beans and rice! Whereabouts are you from? I have family in Bari and apparently some in Naples that my family don't talk about (ahem)

2024-08-21 18:09:24

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Which is great! If we all had the same tastes, world would be rather boring. Part of my family from southern Italy. A cousin of mine won Italian Masterchef. My guess is you'd appreciate being invited round much more than I did!!

2024-08-21 17:26:14

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The bulls eye is off. Should be in spain

2024-08-21 13:49:20

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My chemistry teacher in school got the class to copy the introduction of the main text book for the course in first class. He then took all the bits of paper and put them in an envelope with no explanation. 2 years later, at the end of the course, we repeated tge excercise and he handed out the originals to compare. He just wanted to prove that studying chemistry wrecks one's handwriting. Only one person out of 27 (think am remembering correctly) had the same hand writing. All the rest looked an absolute mess, including mine!
Enjoy the practice! PV

2024-08-21 05:08:52

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Ithis going to end upa personal thread to return to and refresh thoughts. Please feel free to add comments. If stray gas can be used for mining, is there a rational business model that is win-win to scaling up decentralised mining? A method thats rationally viable to offer less well off plebs to access free or cheap energy thst balances the drilling and production costs? Does it have to partially be altruistic? If one is a true believer in the potential of decentralised systems, is providing that resource, potentially at ones own expense potentially self serving in network resilience to protect ones own butcoin wealth. Selfish altruism in a system of circular positive incentivisation?

2024-08-21 05:01:13

If anybody in Tamarindo area needs dental work and wants to pay in #bitcoin please DM me and ill be happy to pass contact. Orange pill the world to create the curcular economy! PV #nostr
#costarica

2024-08-21 02:04:45

musing:
@npub1s05…eyhe got me thinking about the idea of deflationary paradigm as economic activity tends towards the lowest marginal cost of production which makes obvious sense with improvements in efficiency. Max Keiser also once mentioned that the next war was #Bitcoin vs AI. We are obviously going through an energy shift recently with Microsoft doubling it's energy use in a couple of years due to the expansion of data centers and we also see this reflected in chip manufacturer share prices etc etc.
We also now have true money backed by energy. A true representation of the principal value in human society. Wealth increases linearly with energy consumption.
Surely looking at all these elements means that potentially, the primary paradigm for the upcoming decades is a shift of success trending to those who understand and develop the methods that drive a push to the lowest marginal cost of energy. All energy conversion to value will allow smaller energy generation at the margins to potentially revolutionise all communities regardless of isolation based on their understanding of that pricipal. Many changes to human condition could result.
Maybe just repeating trodden path.... thinking and pondering!

2024-08-21 01:22:48

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Crazy thing for me was totally stopping, doing training and taking that seriously. First job and i end up being told by my boss to smoke a joint! Very first job was in the middle of the jungle in Gabon in Afruca and we went to see the local tribal chief in the rondavel in the lical village and he passed one round. Boss just told me later that he would cover any issues arising!

2024-08-21 01:09:39

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I work in the oilfield and could never figure this out. Saw so many lose amazing opportunities due to weed. I used to smoke the odd joint but a couple months before starting in oilfield, I simply stopped. It seemed like the most simple decision

2024-08-21 00:40:53

The end of a great day. Friend orange pilled and enjoying and orange end to the day. PV!
#sunsets https://image.nostr.build/1189a2e4c07b5801f9e886875287ce0deac249def75a13fdd9ae4660e33ad6b8.jpg

2024-08-20 20:27:27

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Yes Boa. I agree. I love snakes. Keep a reasonable distance but I love looking for them. Favourite so far to see in the wild was a golden coloured cape cobra in south africa. Found a few coral snakes in the garden here too which are stunning

2024-08-20 20:13:38

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https://m.primal.net/KFyt.jpg
Yeah you're thinking more along the lines of little neighbour I had to wait to cross the road for a few months ago

2024-08-20 20:09:33

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No tiny little viper. Rather venemous apparently

2024-08-20 20:07:52

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https://m.primal.net/KFyn.jpg

2024-08-20 19:46:08

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Boa, Fer De Lance, Coral, Cat-eye, loads of vipers and tree snakes. We saw a viper... I'll try find the photo

2024-08-20 19:00:01

A friend is visiting Costa Rica. One always expects to see a lot but we saw 4 Quetzal birds in a single tree and 3 sloths and over 20 tucans on a single short drive.
He definitely realises how lucky he is but for many, they visit and go away not having seen any of these things.
We should always remember that our perceptions are based on our experience and our personal experience of a the same situations or events as other people may not lead to the same perceptions. Listen accordingly!
PV

2024-08-20 18:13:40

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Let's see what we can do to fix this issue!

2024-08-20 01:51:50

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Obviously got their priorities correct. I still never truly understood why i didnt have issues in the countries ive lived in where i just didnt bother correcting name on official paperwork. Have a friend who emigrated from Iran to Uk. They fucked something up on his name and date of birth and caused hell for him. Blew my mind it took over 10 years to fix. Decentraluse everything, call yourself Bob to everyone to make it easier to remember and be done! In costa rica, everyone uses whatsapp so on mine, name is close but nit correct. Makes it easier for me whn people contact me. If its someone i dont remember cause am an idiot, i know cause they use mt real name. If its someone i dont know reaching out from a community chat, they use the wrong name. Simple triage!

2024-08-19 22:09:47

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Had someone calling me wrong name for six months. When he found out, he asked me why I hadn’t corrected. I told him I knew he was calling me so what’s the big deal. Seemed confused like I should’ve been put out. I’m a person, not a name, who gives?!

2024-08-19 16:07:08

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I'll expect the exception! 🙄

2024-08-19 04:11:35

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Tough drilling!

2024-08-19 00:44:42

Sometimes, a little sloth ain’t a deadly sin!!! PV
#costarica https://image.nostr.build/2427adcfc3a0c5a0f3cb08a166e661c505d03bae0b99ac46906a590d7db7a06f.jpg

2024-08-18 04:01:34

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Have no idea where you are. Weather weird many places this year. Let's all just forget massive eruption couple years ago increasing atmospheric moisture 10% globally. Been warning friends past year but i think its a human thing to forget if not immediate cause and effect. I still expect another 4 years of weird weather from that eruption

2024-08-18 03:48:08

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Satanic verses good too

2024-08-18 00:10:54

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It is hardto hold back. Don't beat yourself up. Am trying to repeat internally to be aware..... i mostly fail

2024-08-18 00:02:46

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The dience should always be in awe. If not, whats the point?

2024-08-17 23:28:14

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Assume the 3.3kw. It is something interesting. Lack of range. We could do with 100w increment miners on the market

2024-08-17 22:45:06

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What are people buying?

2024-08-17 04:33:20

Finally saw a Quetzal. 5 years in Costa Rica. Saw first one! And obviously, then noticed there were 4 of them in the same tree. Funny how life works in that way!
#birdstr #costarica https://image.nostr.build/76c59cf77aa62532468288883a3adcd4ff0ce11363c77d9102d606c3321512f6.jpg

2024-08-17 04:17:17

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Drudgery? Nostr is Proof Of Involvement. That’s your choice.

2024-08-14 13:05:35

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Am just checking as text sometimes not quite enough. Is this satire?

2024-08-14 03:28:09

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It certainly is odd how varied the perception of the meaning of freedom and how many consider that the restriction thereof should be dictated by centralised authorities. Fundamentally, all sides within statist mindesets devolve to hypocrisy

2024-08-14 00:52:26

Weird times. Im british. At a bar with a texan and a californian tonight:
Aint going back to usa but if i did, id move to texas
Thats the right decision
But not austin
Dont you worry, they got us lot surroundinf them with lots of guns keeping the idiots safe.
Thats a fair point!
And there's me, the limey whos been working with texans for years thinking "fuck me, the other guys are getting it now!"
How times change!

2024-08-14 00:47:05

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🫂

2024-08-14 00:27:30

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Is the outside another inside? 🤔

2024-08-14 00:24:47

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When in doubt, use a bigger hammer

2024-08-12 21:02:00

Going to be doing an introduction to nostr for local group. I have been very lazy learning as have been busy with too many other projects. I'd like a little help. Have found some good guides available to get up to speed but have a few questions.
I use Primal and coracle on web and have nostrconnect on browser. Is this best nsec plugin? I see many comments on #Alby but just get bad gateway when trying to find any info. I have #Damus on an iphone to show and also use #Amethyst on Graphene.
My plan is to put nostr connect on laptop and then set up new nsec on there with people and go through process with primal but I need the most simple process for setting up, guide on nsec security, most simple way to connect wallet and wallet recommendations for total newbies to nostr/bitcoin.
Currently just looking through nostr.com and nostr.how. Just realising how much of a minefield this will be for newbies and how much confusion I could cause. Any suggestions?
#asknostr