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2026-03-29 18:22:33 UTC

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As a Walker, you shouldn’t complain about gas prices! 🤪
Anyway.. Rookie numbers, man.. We just topped $12/gallon in my flat little country in the EU.

2026-03-10 08:02:29 UTC

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Sorry to hear and I second your note... we see it happening right in front of our eyes again and again, and no matter how hard we try, we can’t break the cycle. We’ve tried everything.. doctor’s drugs, dealer’s drugs, moving in, letting go, meditation, sports, work, group therapy, a buddy system, you name it.. It’s been the same loop for over 2 decades.
It’s absolutely devastating for the person in question, but also for their immediate friends and family.
Sorry to hear about your case, brother, and keep fighting the good fight!

2026-03-10 07:54:15 UTC

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I’ve encountered multiple catatonic episodes from a sibling, once progressing into a malignant catatonia.
I don’t pretend to know shit about chemical imbalance theory, but I’m pretty sure there’s something unbalanced happening there..

2026-02-19 10:42:13 UTC

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In the spirit of ash Wednesday, faith and penance: do some good out of love for God or your fellow man. Don’t do it so you can advertise your goodiness on fucking Facebook.

2026-02-05 18:02:30 UTC

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After years of telling my very good friend and decade long colleague how absolutely fucked the fiat system is, (and basically shilling him Bitcoin without shilling him Bitcoin), he swung by yesterday and voluntarily started asking about my view on geopolitics and if this was a good time to buy..
After we talked for over an hour about bond math, geopolitics, US debt, the end of globalisation, Japan, and how absolutely cooked the whole system is, he pulled the trigger and finally bought his first chunk of Bitcoin. He’s down 10% and he’s not even 24 hours into his btc journey..
I guess we’re enemies now 🤣

2026-02-02 16:19:15 UTC

If you thought Bitcoin mining was energy intensive, just you wait until half the Western white collar workforce figures out how to deploy a couple of AI agents to brute force their trivial day to day work tasks..

2026-02-02 14:56:56 UTC

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Soooo.. how long until they develop their own language, and we can’t monitor what they’re up to on moltbook?

2026-01-26 11:16:32 UTC

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That sounds awesome, Jeff!
I’ve heard about agents and an “AI stack” for a while now.
The only interaction with AI that I know of is typing prompts at it on a website.
If I were looking to get started on this agent deal, can you (or someone else) give me some clues on how to get started?
Thanks! 🙏🏻

2026-01-21 19:38:43 UTC

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I think, at the core, tough guy’s question didn’t really have anything to do with you owning equity, but more with XXI being a publicly traded company.
If you already own a fuckton of bitcoin, and you’re going to build new bitcoin products by yourself, why take the company public and sell it on the market? Maybe tough guy thinks thats unnecessary?
Anyway, not a professional keyboard warrior, just my 2 sats. I think you handled it well and I highly enjoy the show, I hope you do too!
The unscripted/raw bits are what makes it fun! See you next week! 🤙🏻

2026-01-19 18:17:27 UTC

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Next step: spend 5 minutes every other day reading the news, until at some point you miss a day and don’t even notice it..

2026-01-16 19:49:48 UTC

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The Central Park concert is amazing. I must’ve watched it a couple dozen times by now.
They also cover All Along the Watchtower there, and its absolutely amazing..
Carter Beaufort on the drums is in a league of his own.. I’ve not yet encountered another drummer in “main stream” music with his qualities and vibe.. too bad they never really made it big outside of the States.
If you’ve got a bit, I highly recommend you watch the concert. It’s fantastic!

2026-01-09 07:56:58 UTC

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I consider myself extremely lucky I met my wife before the instant messaging era began. I spent hours, sometimes days, crafting sms text messages. Adhering to the charachter limit, making sure every word mattered and conveyed what I wanted it to, and have some meaningful message to send, riding my bike to the store to top up my phone so I could send some more texts…
Teens these days have no reason not to be online and connected all the time. I imagine the whole dynamic of texting with your crush (the way I experienced it) is completely gone. I have fond memories of those days. I pity my kids for not being able to experience this.

2026-01-08 21:54:18 UTC

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Or maybe, after a period of selfreflection and real experiences over xmas/new years, people are just taking time off the phone and getting on with their lives instead of just posting shit on the internet..

2025-12-18 20:09:37 UTC

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This level of wisdom in 2013 after a bunch of whisky (whiskey, w/e sue me) when DCA, stack sats and hodl weren’t common knowledge/memes never ceases to amaze me.. cheers wherever you are, bro 🥃 I hope life is treating you (and your girlfriend) well!

2025-12-16 20:45:19 UTC

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As a non-scientific layman, I’m geniunely curious.. how can we deduce what the pH rate of change of the ocean was 250 million years ago?

2025-12-16 08:56:20 UTC

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Sooner, I hope!

2025-12-15 19:25:34 UTC

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This has been the case since Lightning went “mainstream” around 2017-2018.. 7+ years down the line and it’s still a thing!

2025-12-12 15:35:32 UTC

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Boomers were in a position to buy real estate and stocks before they mooned. Now there’s a lot of entitled rich dicks in that class.
We were in a position to buy bitcoin before it mooned. I think we’ll be fine..

2025-12-11 10:44:15 UTC

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Ian Freeman.. what’s in a name?

2025-12-10 18:16:56 UTC

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Read the books to my kids as bedtime stories. Highly recommended 👌🏻

2025-12-10 18:11:45 UTC

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Knows knows? 🤨

2025-12-09 10:55:59 UTC

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Have fun raising the roof at the NYSE! 💪🏻

2025-12-03 13:27:21 UTC

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And most importantly: he stayed humble despite all of his achievements and being the godfather of skateboarding as we know it. Incredible..

2025-12-03 13:10:25 UTC

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I read some articles about his early years a while back. He had an absolutely insane focus on his craft.
He’d spend a fixed amount of minutes training his riding skills, his match routines and freestyle skills every single day. If somebody came up to talk to him, he’d stop the clock, because those minutes wouldn’t count towards his training regime.
Apparently, at some point, a friend drove 20 hours across the country to meet him, and arrived in the middle of his training session. He politely told the dude to wait till he was done, because he was in the middle of his routine.
He was in a league of his own, and I think it’s safe the say he singlehandedly lifted the sport to unimagined levels. I mean, he invented the kickflip and heelflip ffs..
The guy is a living example of achieving the impossible, and making it look easy in the process. An absolute legend!

2025-12-03 11:59:23 UTC

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One has to wonder why they’ve suddenly decided to rekindle a decade old effort..

2025-11-28 10:25:44 UTC

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I’ve been using it for a bit longer now, and things seem to have sped up. Awesome product, tbh! The interoperability between the models is amazing!

2025-11-28 10:24:33 UTC

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Ive been using it for a week or two now. I like how its possible to switch between AI models, and through some magic, the new model recognises the conversation and continues it as if you’ve been using that model all along!
On a new side note, the first impressions of the new google gemini model are awesome.
It managed to write a text based on a local dialect, and make puzzles and crosswords for the kids with ease!

2025-11-26 18:12:37 UTC

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Not to pick sides here, but you totally don’t sound brainwashed, bro..

2025-11-25 09:51:08 UTC

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So wait a minute.. you’re telling me 1 MILLION BITCOINS changed hands (= were sold) and we dipped less than $20k in price?!
I’m staying humble, but I’m not stacking hard enough!!

2025-11-25 06:38:56 UTC

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This was during the past week, mostly with auto model selection. Answers usually require 30+ seconds to generate. I’ll give it a go with manual model selection, maybe that solves the issue!

2025-11-24 21:05:01 UTC

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Yeah, well.. being able to bank online is far more important than some vague privacy argument for most people, so you can’t really blame them for (knowingly, or not) accepting the consequences of this privacy breach..

2025-11-24 20:58:55 UTC

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I’ve tried ppq.ai a couple times now, but somehow the response time is slow(er), and several times no answer was generated at all (for more complex questions).
I love the idea of PPQ, but so far it’s got room to improve.. is this just me, or are these known drawbacks?

2025-11-24 15:04:15 UTC

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My dad took me to watch the release of the cows in spring when I was a kid, just like his dad did with him; and I do the same with my kids now. This whole country was pretty much built on those milkbags being locked up all winter. Not much wrong with that fact by itself. It’s what happens when you put too many of them in the barn and feed them shit.. thats where the trouble starts.

2025-11-17 15:41:25 UTC

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It’s called the informatica action ratio and it has ballooned massively since social media, smart phones and the internet. (The Arctic Monkeys have a banger of a song about this!)
Basically, what this means is that a lot of the information you consume has absolutely ZERO impact on your actions in day-to-day life whatsoever.
It can make you wonder.. what happens to you when you dont know exactly what is going on in the world?

2025-11-11 15:06:52 UTC

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I read this note, directly followed by @nprofile…asyh ‘s “dont be this lonely person” Reddit crosspost.. The stark contrast made molten brain just droop out my ears 🫠
Congrats on the milestones, man. Life is good, cherish these moments while you’ve got ‘em! 🤙🏻

2025-11-04 14:46:18 UTC

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Yoooo yoooooooo!!!!! - Not a professional podcaster. 🤣
In a couple days, Bitcoin will have traded above $100k for SIX. STRAIGHT. MONTHS. in face of record profit taking and all this other trade war macro shit that has been going on.
People are disgruntled by the price action?! Are you kidding me?!
How on God’s green Earth can people not be bullish, even disregarding the money that’s about to be firehosed over us by Powell and co.
This was your 2018 wet dream.

2025-11-02 19:05:10 UTC

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Are these problems here in the room with us?

2025-10-31 13:51:46 UTC

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Only a few more days and Bitcoin will have traded at >$100k for 6 straight months.
How on God’s green earth can people still be bearish at this point?!

2025-10-28 16:01:57 UTC

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So when a normie friend asks what this whole debate/argument is about, how do I explain this in laymans terms?

2025-10-26 19:06:22 UTC

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My 3 kids are pretty much the only kids their age without their own iPad, phone or tracker watch. They used to complain about it, but eventually, I’ve managed to explain to them why we do this. They’re now (literally!) the only kids in their class/sports teams that dont spend hours on end watching animated K-Pop YouTube slop..

2025-10-25 07:36:46 UTC

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I’ve always been a fan of your rational approach to things. Thank you for your wisdom!

2025-10-01 18:53:43 UTC

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Just an interesting data point I’ve been fleshing out for myself lately..
My two oldest sons are 6 and 8. Im actively involved at their school and sports teams, and talk to their peers a lot.
I’ve been asking around a lot in their class, soccer and gym teams, neighborhood friend groups, family etc.. They are *the only* two kids of their age without their own iPad and who don’t play fucking Roblox and stare at whatever YouTube serves them every day.
In case you missed out on Roblox, the game mechanics are basically the cheapest most barebone dopamine hits you can get, while constantly being confronted to speed things up if you pay enough money for it.. YouTube speaks for itself..
My outlook for most of that future generation (and the class of politicians they will spawn) has become very bleak, to say the least.

2025-09-16 16:36:36 UTC

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Because of Bitcoin, I learned about scarcity and realised my time is the scarcest thing i own and control.
Through this lens, spending time with my kids had become vastly more important than work, debating politics, or even just keeping track of the news..
As with everything, a certain amount of moderation is required, but its a good frame of mind to work from!

2025-09-03 09:10:09 UTC

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Your kids are the ultimate proof of work.
How you raise them, what you teach them, your relationship with your spouse, family, your values.. everything rubs off on the kids. They’re basically walking mirrors.
#nevent1q…9xmt

2025-07-21 13:44:59 UTC

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The information action ratio..
Arctic Monkeys wrote a banger of a song about it..

2025-07-18 18:51:27 UTC

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Agree.
Small side note on the OG Bitcoiners. I don’t resent them or anything, I just can’t fathom why on gods green earth you would spend your precious time chasing more of this shitcoin alchemy when you’ve liberated multiple generations from the financial rat race by simply understanding and holding bitcoin.
It’s fiat mindset in my eyes.. Makes me think of Josh Brolin in the Wallstreet remake. His liberating net worth target? “More”

2025-07-18 12:24:47 UTC

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Lord Huron has a new album?! Have my zap!

2025-07-17 09:35:50 UTC

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Maybe an interesting datapoint:
I live in a town of 20-30k people with an extremely close and tight community. Very few people move away, and families are generally big and very close.
In the shitcoin summer of 17-18, everybody and their mother was taking about the next hypecoins and the insane gainz they would make if coin X went to value Y.
Every family gathering featured an obligatory half hour discussion of who knew the guy who made the biggest gainzz, and recommendations for the next altcoin moonshot. FOMO was par for the course, so many people piled in blindly.
In short: *a lot* of people were into trading “crypto” at the time. If I had to make an educated guess, I’d say north of 50% of people/couples 18-35 were in on it. On a personal note: pretty much every one of my friends, cousins and colleagues was buying at the time.
In the 2020 Ledger leak, I decided to do a quick search for my town to see how many people this affected and maybe give them a heads up.
The search returned a total of 1 result.. a guy I happened to know, who shitcoined his BTC away (or so he says; maybe this was his “boating accident” escape)
So this was at a time where the average Joe could still afford 1 BTC with “disposable income”.
I know there are more hardware wallets than Ledger, and resellers are a thing, but based on the above, I would guesstimate very few people actually self custody, let alone more than 1 BTC.

2025-07-16 15:41:23 UTC

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Imagine being one of the legit earliest bitcoin users, prominent cypherpunk and libertarian, amassing financial freedom for generations to come, and still having to engage in this kind of shitcoin alchemy, instead of just kicking it with a margarita at the beach for the rest of your days… unbefuckinglievable

2025-07-15 19:48:02 UTC

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*goosebumps*

2025-07-13 11:12:57 UTC

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He’s what.. in his mid seventies? And not exactly at peak health.
I’ve accepted the fact that he won’t finish the series years ago.
Even if he does release book 6, I won’t pick it up because of this. I’d just set myself up for a massive disappointment.

2025-07-02 19:53:47 UTC

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That attitude is gonna cost you some customers

2025-07-02 19:37:51 UTC

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Do you refund the failed prompts, or provide a new one for free?

2025-07-02 19:36:51 UTC

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Then how come you can do all this Star Wars related shit?

2025-07-02 19:36:05 UTC

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On which part did the prompt fail?

2025-07-02 19:31:53 UTC

@korg make a clip of a scene from the sitcom Modern Family where Jay Pritchett (Ed O’Neill) and his wife Gloria (Sofia Vergara) are sitting on the couch, giving an interview to the camera. Jay introduces himself: “Hi, I’m Jay Pritchett. Some of you might know me. I’m a little like Fred, only my wife is less handsome.” Gloria turns her head to look at him in annoyed, and Jay smiles uneasily at the camera.

2025-07-02 19:30:25 UTC

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@korg make a scene from the sitcom Modern Family where Jay Pritchett (Ed O’Neill) and his wife Gloria (Sofia Vergara) are sitting on the couch, giving an interview to the camera. Jay introduces himself: “Hi, I’m Jay Pritchett. Some of you might know me. I’m a little like Fred, only my wife is less handsome.” Gloria turns her head to look at him in annoyed, and Jay smiles uneasily at the camera.

2025-07-02 19:25:31 UTC

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@nprofile…edh4 make a scene from the sitcom Modern Family where Jay Pritchett (Ed O’Neill) and his wife Gloria (Sofia Vergara) are sitting on the couch, giving an interview to the camera. Jay introduces himself: “Hi, I’m Jay Pritchett. Some of you might know me. I’m a little like Fred, only my wife is less handsome.” Gloria turns her head to look at him in annoyed, and Jay smiles uneasily at the camera.

2025-07-02 19:19:19 UTC

@korg
Make a clip of Jay Pritchett from Modern Family, in a brown sofa talking to the camera. In the clip he introduces himself, by saying the following: “Hi, I’m Jay Pritchett. Some of you might know me, I’m a little like Fred… only my wife is a little less handsome” the laugh track ensues and he looks a little awkwardly at the camera.

2025-07-02 19:05:15 UTC

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As a Nostr noob, not sure if I’m doing this right, but this came to mind:
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsf85kqgpgamj2cmg97r7dfu3fpnk8kdv27ac0w08ct2uxa9fj3t3gjdnhd9

2025-07-02 15:00:27 UTC

Hey @korg create a video of emperor palpatine recreating from Star Wars Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith. The emperor exudes a powerful aura as he shoots lightning from his fingertips at an off screen opponent and chants “Nostr gives me power, unlimited power”. Finish the scene off with a maniacal cackle from the emperor.

2025-07-02 14:49:13 UTC

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Ok, not bad @nprofile…edh4.
Let’s make a few edits. Can you make a similar video, but this time, the emperor is more in a lying down position, while he shoots lightning from his fingertips. His voice is more like a chant, somewhere between yelling and singing, and he chants: “Nostr gives me power. Unlimited power!”
Finish the scene off with the emperor cackling maniacally.

2025-07-02 14:46:52 UTC

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Ok, not bad, but let’s make a few edits. Can you make a similar video, but this time, the emperor is more in a lying down position, while he shoots lightning from his fingertips. He chants “Nostr gives me power. Unlimited power!”
Finish the scene off with the emperor cackling maniacally.

2025-07-02 14:19:37 UTC

Hey @korg create a video of emperor palpatine resembling the scene from Star Wars Episode 3 revenge of the Sith, where he uses Force Lightning on Mace Windu and screams “power, unlimited power”, but change his line to: “Bitcoin consumes power, unlimited power!”

2025-06-24 18:23:24 UTC

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Mark Rutte.. everything this man touches turns into an absolute trainwreck on short notice. I expect NATO to be no different.

2025-06-23 16:22:46 UTC

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And by no means do I mean this as an endorsement of violence, I just wanted to point out that the cultures are vastly different, and judging one through the lens of the other is pointless.

2025-06-23 16:14:12 UTC

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What’s often overlooked is that there is a giant cultural / ingrained difference between the western and the Middle Eastern man.
For centuries, the civilizations in/from Europe had to plan, think and strategize in advance to prepare for coming winters. This led to fixed settlements close, and people remained in one place for most of their lives. Through this development, we ended up with a rule of law and authority in the form of judges.
In the Middle East, this was much less the case. There was a much bigger nomadic aspect to the people, which meant no fixed homes, and down the line: no judge to call on in case of dispute.
So essentially, when people tend to disagree, in Europe, they would call upon an authority to settle the dispute. The Middle Eastern man, however, would take matters into his own hands and settle it himself. I believe the term “an eye for an eye” also finds its origin there.
This way of thinking trickles down into basically every aspect of how life works and results in giant differences in morals and values between the people nowadays, and this is completely overlooked when the Western man judges the current events in the Middle East or vice versa.
At least, that’s my 2 sats deduced from my history books..

2025-06-21 09:15:58 UTC

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So you’re staying home on the 4th of July? 😆

2025-06-19 17:37:55 UTC

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I’d say: schadenzaps

2025-06-09 07:20:13 UTC

Bitcoin has been hovering above $100k for over a month.

2025-06-05 11:16:21 UTC

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Gotta love the round number bias! Next stop: 2100!

2025-06-04 11:23:15 UTC

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That’s a lot of “ifs” 😆

2025-06-04 04:36:10 UTC

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So it’s a book about boobs?

2025-05-25 11:08:10 UTC

The local funeral director also volunteers at the fire brigade, and nobody bats an eye…

2025-04-25 14:03:44 UTC

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Just wait until they get smart watch integration and they get access to all your biometrics, too… 🔥

2025-04-15 10:02:13 UTC

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Show me a small Android sized phone and I’ll consider it. Still, need to get into Primal to retrieve wallet keys 😬

2025-04-15 09:56:32 UTC

OK, So my Primal ios app crashes on launch for the past 72 hours. Updated and rebooted phone, but no results.
What do I do now? #asknostr

2025-04-07 15:06:24 UTC

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Came home from a rough night at my catatonic sister’s. Maybe I didn’t quite interpret the note as you meant it… my bad.
Anyway.. GM 🤙🏻

2025-04-07 03:56:28 UTC

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@nprofile…thy3, with due respect, I like your style, but fuck this bullshit. I’ve seen several denigrating notes from you regarding mental illness. Whether you like it or not, mental illness is just as much a thing as liver or heart illness. It exists, and you can’t always help it.
No, not everyone who is down is mentally ill, but if you are, you cant just magically think yourself out of mental illness, just like you can’t think yourself out of hyperthyroidism…
And to all the yes-boys in the comment section: there’s very little critical thinking for a lot of people who regard themselves as sovereign individuals…

2025-04-03 08:35:21 UTC

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Didn’t KULR also adopt a BTC treasury?
They’re down 64% 💀

2025-04-02 17:48:33 UTC

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Hence..
live life like you know for certain this will happen to you. If it does, at least you didn’t procrastinate what you wanted to do until after retirement. If it doesn’t.. well you got a couple bonus years to do more shit you love. You win either way.

2025-04-02 07:13:17 UTC

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You can just fuck around and find out 🤷🏼

2025-04-01 13:35:59 UTC

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Analysis should’ve covered the cost of production + risk + profit for builders to profitably build homes, and taken it from there.
That would have more accurately captured all the “premiums” due to building permits requiring much more inputs and the fact that modern homes have orders of magnitude more complex AC, heating, electrics, plumbing, appliances etc.

2025-04-01 07:04:33 UTC

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Bought the 12 mini at launch, since I desperately needed a new phone and my #1 criteria was that it would fit in my pockets.
4.5 years down the road, it still works great. Only getting rid of it when it falls apart 👌🏻

2025-03-26 09:42:02 UTC

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True, but to come to this realization requires a certain level of luxury.
I can tell you a couple stories about both parents running the fiat thread mill a thousand hours a week each to make ends meet.
You can imagine what it’s like at the dinner table when the toddler decides he doesn’t want to eat tonight…

2025-03-25 08:31:47 UTC

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The difficulty adjustment is up there with the fridge and airplanes as one of the greatest inventions of all time 👌🏻

2025-03-24 18:28:16 UTC

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This only holds up if wife agrees to go out without the regular hairdo makeup voodoo rituals..

2025-03-18 20:29:35 UTC

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Radiohead 👌🏻

2025-03-18 11:59:36 UTC

Alright, based on my limited understanding of internets, an honest question:
A lot of internet communication, like websites and e-mail, is done through open protocols. Anyone can build an app, adhere to the protocol and communicate with other people regardless of what app they’re using on the other end.
ie: you’re on Gmail, I’m on Proton.
We’ve had chat apps for the better part of 15 years by now. How come there’s still all these walled gardens, and why the fuck can’t I Whatsapp someone from Signal?!

2025-03-18 08:05:17 UTC

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Pretty sure nobody noticed the gigantic zero above the “reasons to buy altcoins” on the cover 🤣

2025-03-17 18:38:41 UTC

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“Smerconish.com”
Did someone fall on the news prompt keyboard?!

2025-03-15 21:59:13 UTC

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“If I can show how to cope and give you scope to grow beyond the moment of each new low
Then I know that I don’t need utopia
And the unknown is the only true hope for a brighter future.
And if you know that, then beyond the food, warmth and shelter, beyond the bedtime stories that I swore to you were true, I’ve given everything I could ever give to you.”
From: Blackpool Illuminations, by Yard Act. Absolute banger of a song.

2025-03-15 11:45:48 UTC

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The city centers of pretty much every European capital is identical by now, save for a few antique landmarks. Same hotels, same shops, same hipster coffeeshops, same fast food bullshit..
I dread the day a crisis pushes a couple of the shop or fastfood chains under and leaves half the continent’s city centers deserted ☠️

2025-03-14 22:26:14 UTC

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100% agree!
I used to be fiercely engaged in debates and opinions about national politics, until I had an epiphany and realized what an idiot I was. Obsessing over things I can’t influence, and letting it affect my mood and personality regularly.
I then stopped watching politics, and pretty much (inter)national news in general, and I’ve never been more relaxed and happy.. would definitely recommend!

2025-03-14 21:54:58 UTC

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True. Adjectives aside, I really enjoyed the books though.

2025-03-14 21:50:23 UTC

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However, he used “apprehensive” in every other sentence in the first mistborn book 🫠

2025-03-04 12:56:58 UTC

As an engineer, I use Newton’s laws on a daily basis to design structures, small and large.
Small (and large) catch: nature doesn’t actually operate according to Newton’s laws. However, the margin of error is sufficiently small not to matter much.. so basically, all my work is “close enough” *cue meme*

2025-03-03 07:28:37 UTC

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“Be humble. Say less” says the npub averaging 20+ notes per day full of hyperbole “opportunity of a lifetime” lines 🤣

2025-01-26 12:55:00 UTC

Our attention is what sets us humans apart from other species.
Being able to look and think about our surroundings, noticing patterns, showing each other attention (empathy, love) is what makes us special. But it also makes us vulnerable.
Our attention can easily be hijacked, and that’s what we’re seeing across all the social media platforms nowadays, combined with “shock and awe” algorithms.
Nostr isn’t immune to this either, it’s just that there’s no algorithm pulling you in further.
Out of curiosity: how many times a day do you check your nostr, or news app? And at how many “checks” does this become an unhealthy habit?

2025-01-23 15:03:46 UTC

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These are rookie numbers. You should come check out Europe..