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Bowtied Peasant

Decentralisation, self-sufficiency, self-sovereignty.

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2023-06-19 17:55:30 UTC

Absolutely nothing going on here. Nope. Move along now.
https://nationalfile.com/fbi-asks-judge-to-delay-seth-rich-laptop-release-for-66-years/

2023-04-04 18:24:08 UTC

Am curious about the Blue Bird app. Anyone got a list (or an analysis) of the accounts which were subject to 'visibility filtering' / throttling / shadow-banning?

2023-04-03 16:35:29 UTC

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cheats

2023-04-03 16:12:54 UTC

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I'll start:
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_1a919869291d58726bc5efcf6f4cf280618d4cf48007d8068dea2ebd74f5c0f9.webp

2023-04-03 16:08:37 UTC

1000 sats for your best meme of the RESTRICT Act. Drop them below and repost.

2023-03-30 22:42:04 UTC

Anyone working on escrow services for physical goods, like this paper? Strikes me that we need to get this right in order to have a properly functioning economy with bitcoin.
https://jbonneau.com/doc/GBGN17-FC-physical_escrow.pdf

2023-03-29 13:29:21 UTC

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There's probably little point, but is there a bounty system of any kind for tracking down thieves? I imagine a few will get careless, or the bounty might become big enough to get exchanges interested in disclosing.

2023-03-29 13:05:24 UTC

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Understood. Yes, unfortunately it seems to me that the 2008 collapse largely arose because we had promises built upon promises built upon promises, which all collapsed when the original debts (e.g. subprime mortgages) couldn't be repaid.

2023-03-29 11:58:17 UTC

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There is literally no other option for the USG, is there?

2023-03-29 11:54:26 UTC

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Can you expand on why? If I want to borrow money to build a house, why cannot this be based on actual debt from people who want to lend to me?

2023-03-29 11:47:00 UTC

Not what I usually post about, but it's been on my mind, so I'm going to share it.
The dreadful events of Nashville reminded me of Dunblane, the UK's worst school shooting in March 1996 in Scotland, in which a man named Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 pupils and one teacher, then himself. Hamilton had legally-held firearms, and the Dunblane shooting was used to justify a major tightening of UK firearms law, including banning all pistols.
But there is much that is still unresolved about the case. Hamilton was a leader of several youth clubs, including the local boy scouts, and his interests were not wholesome: there were multiple (at least ten) complaints made to police about his inappropriate sexual behaviour towards the boys. The Scout Commissioner for the area took these seriously enough to expel Hamilton from his leadership position, and the police child protection unit recommended revoking Hamilton's gun licence, but no action was taken. Even when local shooting clubs expressed reservations, the local Chief Constable didn't investigate or revoke Hamilton's firearms certificate.
Why? Credible rumours have circulated since the time of the shooting that Hamilton and the local Chief Constable were members of the same paedophile ring. This was lent further credence by the fact that the investigating judge very unusually sealed the case files for 100 years (some files were released in 2005, but not all). Allegedly this was to 'protect the victims' families'.
Hamilton apparently harboured grievances against boys and teachers who complained about him. But family conditions were also a factor: Hamilton never knew his father and was brought up by his mother's adoptive parents, believing they were his biological parents. He originally thought his biological mother was his older sister. The headfuck of discovering the truth can only be imagined.
Why am I relating this? It is clear to me that a lack of transparency can be corrosive: secrecy within Hamilton's family must have been a huge factor in making him mentally disturbed. Secrecy within the police was, quite possibly, another enabling factor (though we won't find out for at least another 73 years). It is also clear to me that governments will exploit any event for the acquisition of more powers over its citizens, often as a diversion from the failings - or criminality - within their own public bodies.
Remember this.

2023-03-28 11:46:52 UTC

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This is not good for the USD, right? At what level does it become a real concern?

2023-03-28 11:44:52 UTC

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Every self-respecting coder should say no to CBDCs. But unfortunately, I can see people working with them.

2023-03-28 10:53:21 UTC

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Fiat-mine whilst building side-hustle and stacking seats.
Then self-employment / business ownership and stacking even more sats.

2023-03-27 16:17:13 UTC

Shamelessly stolen from Wall Street Silver on Twitter. Banknotes littering the street in Venezuela.
Don't think it can't happen to you too, anon.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_0d59e7abb3e9628a0447e867346059e1f69f4c36dc574e047e891afb84c5bdb5.jpg

2023-03-27 14:55:19 UTC

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But only possible if he's typed his seed into his PC at some point.

2023-03-27 14:54:29 UTC

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He maintains he bought it direct from OEM, I think.

2023-03-26 00:38:34 UTC

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You need to follow people, or have people follow you? Either way, nice to meet you...

2023-03-26 00:37:26 UTC

Any blockchain sleuths out there?
This chap had his account hacked. Nearly everyone in the comments is saying that he must have just been careless with his seed phrase, but looking at the destination address for the stolen BTC, something's up:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ledgerwallet/comments/11ypwa8/why_is_my_ledger_empty/

2023-03-25 20:15:42 UTC

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Thank you!

2023-03-24 08:26:50 UTC

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Yeah, I keep blocking it and it keeps reappearing!

2023-03-24 00:19:20 UTC

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Let's hope so, fren. Had too much bad fortune of late...

2023-03-23 23:01:17 UTC

Could whoever keeps posting that 885888.cn porn please be a bit more imaginative? I think the whole of global must have seen the same picture a dozen times by now...

2023-03-22 09:48:27 UTC

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Old but accurate.... https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_c2645ebf3702704889ef07da6b57047894efd3b158949207b6c398277b76c617.jpg

2023-03-22 09:12:02 UTC

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Microsoft's understanding of percentages has always been a bit dubious, tho...
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_f756aa3dd3249fc08f8d95ca7d962db1a1a4150077e921dd89cce4c3a3378ac9.webp

2023-03-22 08:53:22 UTC

Compare these headlines. We imagine that, because they are rich, powerful and close to government, Central Banks know what they are doing. But the truth is that they do not. They are entirely making things up as they go along.
h/t @JamesMelville on the bluebird app
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_4221038f2fa1fd141c64afab07a1f49bb865cac228d1902b0a1553903cdeba51.png

2023-03-21 23:56:40 UTC

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'Putting away' is mostly translated as divorce. My understanding of this is that, in OT times men could divorce their wives with relative impunity, for various reasons. But Jesus said that it should not be so. Matthew 19:9 & 5:32 suggests that divorcing an adulterous wife is acceptable; but other than this, it seems that Jesus is saying that marriage should be taken more seriously - and that attempting to divorce for other reasons is breaking a solemn vow (acting treacherously).

2023-03-20 20:30:54 UTC

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Physical law or moral law?
(Nearly) every physical scientist will agree that natural physical laws exists. But many will not agree that there are moral laws, in the way that nineteenth century natural philosophers and theologians would have done. Unmooring ourselves from religion first eroded the idea of moral laws (and is now attacking physical laws too)

2023-03-17 16:22:24 UTC

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https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_8e64c4034950d250137488513c78ef5f2e8b348dd1030dd2f3ade1f14dde1ce4.webp

2023-03-17 16:02:05 UTC

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Fair enough, folks! Not gonna turn this into Twitter.

2023-03-17 15:01:09 UTC

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This makes no sense. No-one is saying that you need to 'provide value' to Saylor et al. You simply need to pay the market price.
Granted, Saylor & others have the ability to influence that market price, but that is true of everything, from gold to stocks.

2023-03-16 12:37:20 UTC

Serious q: why do 'epayment' firms even need to exist any more?
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_5f3ac998cd15f916691bb27086bec1980457fc264375546d49ab4723112b7862.png

2023-03-16 08:24:02 UTC

GM!

2023-03-15 15:33:39 UTC

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Sorry - my mistake: that's an Amethyst feature, not Iris. (It basically gives you posts plus responses, not just the original posts - but since there's not an option in Iris, must be an Iris bug I guess).

2023-03-15 15:19:23 UTC

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You maybe have conversation view switched on?

2023-03-15 15:14:30 UTC

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Well, if you insist, ser... Thank you.

2023-03-15 12:01:07 UTC

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across

2023-03-15 10:41:04 UTC

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apneic

2023-03-15 10:40:00 UTC

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apneas

2023-03-15 10:37:03 UTC

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absent

2023-03-15 10:35:20 UTC

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Apparently he joined SVB from Lehmans, just before the 2008 crash. So I don't think anyone can claim that he was brought in as a troubleshooter. Rather, one has to suspect that his financial (mis)management was the common cause of difficulty for both.

2023-03-15 10:32:17 UTC

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Any civilized society should have, as fundamental principle, a rule that the offspring of the rulers cannot be exempt from military service. To its credit, the UK monarchy does encourage this (although William was given a relatively 'safe' search & rescue role).

2023-03-15 10:24:22 UTC

So, apparently SIVB's Chief Administrative Officer was a guy named Joseph Gentile. Heard that name before? He was the former CFO of Lehman Brothers, just before they went bankrupt! And before that? He worked at Arthur Andersen, the accountancy firm which collapsed in 2002 after their dodgy accounting of Enron was revealed!
Being associated with one major banking collapse is bad enough. But *three* top-tier collapses? What a CV!

2023-03-14 12:04:15 UTC

I'm constantly amazed by the short-termism of human memory. I don't think of myself as terribly old, but I have pretty good memories of the 2008 Financial Crisis. Nevertheless, I've recently met many young people who seem to have no concept of bank runs. Have we done such a poor job of disseminating the lessons of 2008 to the young? Clearly so.

2023-03-14 11:39:01 UTC

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_ffd3926abaecf923d3cd7916fb2bf8fc0edd4874a47b7259cd504b8c49a47d43.png

2023-03-14 09:08:22 UTC

GM Nostriches!

2023-03-13 19:41:00 UTC

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Who on earth says receiving small zaps is annoying? How is it more annoying than a 'like'? I honestly don't understand

2023-03-13 15:12:23 UTC

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Send your CV to the Bitcoin CEO ;-)

2023-03-13 12:38:31 UTC

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solved

2023-03-13 12:38:05 UTC

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soiled

2023-03-13 12:36:59 UTC

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soccer

2023-03-12 22:03:55 UTC

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I use the search engine for its privacy. I've more good things to say about the browser, though.

2023-03-12 18:17:28 UTC

Anyone know whether it's possible to turn off the 'AI Summarizer' feature in Brave? I dislike it immensely. First, it sometimes gives factually incorrect information; second, it gives you the 'party line' on news events. IMO, it's a bad move by Brave: I don't want yet another company filtering my news for me and deciding what the 'takeaway message' should be.

2023-03-09 20:45:12 UTC

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For real?

2023-03-09 20:31:02 UTC

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Thank you ser!

2023-03-09 17:37:42 UTC

So, Twitter has now integrated tipping with Cash App... Another missed opportunity to get on board with zaps!
https://i.imgur.com/0oSJdWL.jpg

2023-03-09 17:14:37 UTC

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Lmao. Reminds me of when people first discovered email lists in the early 1990s.

2023-03-09 16:52:34 UTC

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Agree. Have read the Cochrane review. I just prefer to think that they might be trying to be considerate rather than ignorant...

2023-03-09 16:43:23 UTC

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Only reason might be that they themselves have covid and are trying to limit the spread? When I see people doing this, I try to impute charitable motives to them, even if I think it somewhat pointless...

2023-03-08 22:13:39 UTC

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But will it know, in turn, that I'm outsourcing my work to another AI...?

2023-03-08 22:06:03 UTC

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The mode answer will be 4: 2 p + 2e
The mean will be more complicated due to a few extra neutrons creeping in occasionally!

2023-03-07 13:50:38 UTC

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What best for lists? Is there a guide anywhere. Am android & web only.

2023-03-07 13:46:21 UTC

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Love this. What did you create it with?

2023-03-07 13:29:25 UTC

If anyone hasn't read Peter Schiff's 'How and Economy Grows and Why it Crashes', I highly recommend the book for adults and children alike.
Banks and governments pretend that economics is much more mysterious than it is, in order to cover up their money-printing. But this really distils it to its essence, and explains why inflation always creates misery.
Various free copies of the pdf online, but I recommend buying the coffee-table cartoon version for your kids; never to early to orange-pill them!
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_372fca3bf9c9495b139792f2fdb27bcffdb8e44f9338ae5329d9b4bb70921d08.jpg

2023-03-07 09:52:52 UTC

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Laminated, archival paper with non-acidic ink is my go-to. But, fundamentally, need to be prepared for hot wallet to be compromised. Anything major goes to cold.

2023-03-05 14:57:45 UTC

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I'd also like to know this. Where does the message lurk, and is it encrypted till the publish date? Did I miss the thread below?
(Not that I'm anticipating being Epsteined / McAfee'd, but it's helpful to know...)

2023-03-05 14:28:44 UTC

For anyone interested, yes, these are genuine leaked messages from the former UK Health Secretary: https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_e058b65d79d4a3da457aaef725dcfef172195549fc8a6ab139366135e39c7c29.jpg

2023-03-05 11:31:06 UTC

Keep your eyes on #Springfield #Ohio...

2023-03-05 11:09:43 UTC

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Ha. You should create one specially for those of us who got rugged by $MIM & $SPELL before realising that Bitcoin is the OG...

2023-03-05 11:05:32 UTC

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I prefer my women without a tramp stamp. Much of the time it is to show that they are Not Like All The Other Girls.

2023-02-25 14:44:43 UTC

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As it happens, the CEO of OpenAI, Samuel Altman, was also the co-founder of Worldcoin (that hugely dystopian idea to give everyone free shitcoins in return for iris scans!)
He is not a man to be trusted.

2023-02-25 14:33:50 UTC

ChatGPT could be such a great tool, but it is so damned woke. The developers are increasingly patching it to prevent it from discussing wrong-think, under the guise of preventing 'harmful content'.
(Example: if you ask ChatGPT for outline of an article discussing dating tips for men, you get a load of stuff about the importance of asking about consent; if you try to steer it towards Red Pill content, you get a load of bull about how it is unable to discuss 'misogynistic and harmful content'. It then lectures: "I strongly encourage you to reconsider your approach and consider the potential harm that can result from promoting a 'Red Pill' perspective in your writing"!)

2023-02-25 10:11:33 UTC

GM nostriches! Happy weekend!
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_9f93f6b66b29c8c0bdee954399d40b8ea435746ede7f8ec20ee45de2e1571ef5.png

2023-02-25 10:06:39 UTC

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One of the classics. Because it's true.

2023-02-24 09:19:48 UTC

https://media.nostrgram.co/i/10/media_103ebfd088f36.jpg
First post here. My cyberpunk nostrich. Midjourney still needs more training on ostrich beaks, though 😂

2023-02-24 09:16:58 UTC

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Yeah, I've seen tinder clones suggested a dozen times or so here. You can probably find enough like-minded people to build it.

2023-02-24 09:13:03 UTC

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Just seen this for the first time - love it!
Tell me though: what's the reason for an additional password beyond the private key?

2023-02-23 17:07:57 UTC

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https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_3e964b16545a9f77fd35edead5ad656732f6e8111de816f32b5f7852ce868f84.gif

2023-02-22 18:32:49 UTC

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lnbc7770n1p3lvh78pp54xvwsuxjcq47e4hyaqf9czskgwx9vhje0u6v3qze6jw45hzsfy0qdqu2askcmr9wssx7e3q2dshgmmndp5scqzpgxqyz5vqsp52lfxc8meqkgql8yqgnr48z3hkzp9ey7nkq6unh42e6cddkyyj08q9qyyssqmlvxrm6zlqp0yn7e62lyk3w3dyxylh279z8cscwypf03dk5rthgn3echnqpf5ddea3q3fe7pcrxhw4lv5c3rptve30l43re02xm6casqr9ms92

2023-02-22 18:16:00 UTC

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I think _most_ people are, TBH. However, the conflict arises when one is asked to change one's language to accommodate others, or accept unfair sports competition to accommodate others, or accept fearful prison conditions to accommodate others, etc. A philosophy of 'live & let-live' doesn't really cover these situations.

2023-02-22 14:47:25 UTC

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Liberland, Bitcoin Beach, or Puerto Rico? All good for citadels...

2023-02-22 14:44:51 UTC

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Unfortunately so. That's why getting people onto censorship-resistant platforms is such an important first step: we have to be able to talk about these issues and demonstrate to people that they're being lied to, in order to wake them up.

2023-02-22 14:04:59 UTC

Together with CBDCs, digital ID will be one of the big fights of the coming few years.
It will be presented as convenience and bureaucracy-reduction. You mum will like it because she thinks it will help fix illegal immigration. Your sister will like it because she thinks it will mean fewer forms for childcare. Your friend will like it because he thinks it will be easier to claim benefits.
Explain to them how it will be abused. How, for example, the Chinese Govt makes people show digital ID to move between cities and quell protests. How, for example, the Sri Lankan Govt now makes people show digital ID to get their daily ration of fuel. Do you really think it won't be abused by your government to ration your 'carbon quota', reduce the mobility of 'troublemakers', or some other reason?
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_15ed36604e8f064a87aa34a21e82f0c2cab1b18a742d3bca074f90eaa8f2c879.jpg

2023-02-22 11:47:05 UTC

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Midjourney? It seems to have trouble with ostrich bills!

2023-02-22 00:15:04 UTC

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Not convinced by this. I've no objection if people build commercial email client programs on top of SMTP, say, or commercial web browsers. Doesn't affect the underlying protocol.

2023-02-21 23:47:51 UTC

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Deliberate attempt by governments to try to put off people from running nodes, I would think.

2023-02-21 19:24:58 UTC

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OK, ser. Here goes... lnbc4200n1p3l2xnepp5vd5wupgk7shpkwd089efush00u03zk26j6gzf7k7xmt2j6sg3c7sdq5g9kxy7fqd9h8vmmfvdjscqzpgxqyz5vqsp5cp4zhwaqhqafmz8rv8gnvehwtcgrn03emyj9p4jth6cw0mt5x7ks9qyyssqdqyz96kc5vecw645tc5xz825nt90kqpye3hv7sfy86hhy2umv9ky87gvjzsjt5r2t5m2jd26g8jqjrnvccr4uj0c8yzldlte7pfxx9qqx057u8

2023-02-21 18:35:28 UTC

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Get someone like Jordan Peterson, Alex Jones or Joe Rogan to try it, then it will explode.

2023-02-21 12:51:11 UTC

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Well, if you're offering, ser...

2023-02-21 12:48:24 UTC

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And ideally all accumulated peer-to-peer, not via KYC'd exchanges, if possible...

2023-02-21 12:24:31 UTC

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However, for nostr to grow, is *has* to expand beyond tech & bitcoin discussion, don't you think?

2023-02-20 23:32:37 UTC

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Generally speaking, I tend to assume governmental incompetence rather than conspiracy. But the past few years have made me question that assumption a lot.

2023-02-20 23:29:41 UTC

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Add a Lightning address to your profile - that will suffice for tips.
Zaps are kind of 'enhanced tips' and only supported by some lightning wallets (like WoS & LN.tips) - there are several guides on here if you search.
Then contribute interesting or humorous content!

2023-02-20 23:26:04 UTC

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Yes, if you were a truly evil but super-intelligent mastermind who wanted to get humanity permanently hooked on pharma products, or else face death, you would quite feasibly start down the same path we're treading.

2023-02-20 22:52:23 UTC

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The pity is that we can clearly see, from veterinary diseases like Marek's disease, that 'leaky' vaccines cause great harm - even before we consider phenomena like antibody dependent enhancement and original antigenic sin. But politicians don't want to know; the media is bought; and scientific establishments are ideologically compromised.
In a few years people will look back at this time as a period of exceptional hubris, orders of magnitude worse than the Thalidomide scandal, and scream "why didn't you warn us?"
Sadly, we did.

2023-02-20 17:21:52 UTC

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#[4] - I'm curious. You once said (in the context of Bluesky) that you envisaged Twitter being a client of open protocols. Why didn't you pursue that vision? Was it already too commercial by that point?

2023-02-20 08:32:50 UTC

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Welcome ser.

2023-02-17 23:57:24 UTC

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Yes, that might be one way (though many Wikipedia wars are over the titles and *existence* of articles, not just their content). There are several collaborative governance / collective intelligence platforms (eg Loomio, democracy.earth etc) which are trying to solve similar problems. Will be fascinating to see if frictionless micropayments makes any of them more feasible.

2023-02-17 23:19:30 UTC

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Been thinking about this too.
Wikipedia is great for some things, but still prone to the political bias of editors. Some better game theory is needed to keep them honest & neutral.
Zaps / micropayments provide a possible incentive, but the danger of a simple zap reward (~ single upvote) is that it may encourage political populism on one side or other ("Trump/Biden is a dork" would likely get millions of partisan zaps).
Some kind of net up/down vote might be better - but this still fails to achieve balance on Reddit. Might work better on Wikipedia, though, given that it's not so divided into sub-communities?

2023-02-17 22:33:38 UTC

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Just coincidental coincidences, like the food factory fires, fren. 🙄