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Actually, the oldest known Egyptian song is called "Walk like an Egyptian," and it was discovered in the mid 1980's and subsequently translated into English by a musical group known as The Bangles. The music video for that song is pretty cool and kind of gives a sense of Egyptian hair styles, dance moves, and culture.

2026-02-28 06:34:44 UTC

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Funny you say that because any app that shows nag screens asking me if I'm enjoying it or to rate it immediately gets one star and a comment warning others not to download it.

2026-02-26 03:08:41 UTC

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What you have to do is answer 'yes' the first time the app asks, then when your phone OS asks you to confirm, choose No or Never. After that, the app won't ask again.
There are very few situations where notifications are useful. I enable them for messaging apps only and even then, only for a select few people. Everyone else is on mute.

2026-02-25 00:40:59 UTC

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Exactly! No one seems to be thinking about cost. Except this guy:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/premium-the-haters-guide-to-anthropic/
I love his takes on.AI.

2026-02-16 19:42:15 UTC

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They knew it was coming, had plenty of time to leave, yet didn't. It's critical to be proactive about this stuff. The California billionaires are leaving. Norwegians at risk should have done the same.

2026-02-16 18:46:05 UTC

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Cool, what shop is that?

2026-02-16 00:36:10 UTC

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What if the loungewear were purchased at LuluLemon? In that case it's quite fashionable, is it not?
I think the whole #athleisure trend is net positive for society. Would I wear it to a wedding? Probably not. But hopefully one day that'll change.
The New Jersey mafia, for all its faults, played a pivitol role in making track suits acceptable for the common man and, unlike other passing fads like AI, I think we really need to embrace it.

2026-02-15 20:50:11 UTC

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I don't think the risk is customers abandoning you for cheaper wine. The risk is your well-financed, government-connected competitors who'll use abusive regulations to crowd out the smaller players.

2026-02-10 02:00:44 UTC

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Can't recall the last time I read a work of fiction with a male lead character. Figured that sort of thing was banned years ago.

2026-02-08 17:51:03 UTC

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It's not so much that those shows are interesting so much as the fact that there's a noticable lack of hobbits. I mean like, for me personally, finding a show with no hobbits was really my main priority, so "Dukes of Hazzard" was a real blessing.

2026-02-08 05:03:40 UTC

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You should try a more interesting series, like maybe "Dukes of Hazzard" or "Perfect Strangers."

2026-02-07 21:23:04 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/c5394a96cce97fe79378ccb0f852aea5a16325f1e3c33984e7b83409e7340727.png

2026-02-07 21:19:39 UTC

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It's not over, bro. 😐

2026-02-06 02:52:04 UTC

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That's beautiful, bro. You should frame that.

2026-02-03 15:27:22 UTC

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Your friend is right. I'm not even a video game enthusiast, but I tell people all the time (referring to life): "It's just a game." Let the plebs battle it out over their silly politics and ideologies. In the meantime, I blissfully ignore 99.9% of it, identify the 1.% that actually affects me and that I can control, try to stack the odds in my favor, and extract as much joy and resources from this broken world as I can.

2026-02-02 21:24:10 UTC

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Wow, that's great info. Thanks, friend!

2026-02-02 20:17:44 UTC

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All the blue collar guys I know with highly physical jobs (e.g. welder, electrician) ended up with busted joints and knees, often living on some sort of disability payment. The long-term outcome for blue collar guys is frequently very bleak, unless they can start their own corp and delegate the work to others.
Not sure what career path I'd recommend to a young man these days. I used to say "learn to code," but honestly that's starting to look even worse than blue collar stuff these days.🙁

2026-02-02 04:13:16 UTC

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That's what makes this drawdown all the more perplexing.

2026-02-01 22:39:04 UTC

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I'm not sure. If I click on Settings, it lists two relays that I didn't put there: nos.lol and damus.io. Those must be the defaults.

2026-02-01 22:34:41 UTC

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Dude, I couldn't even make it past your first paragraph. Are you seriously unaware of how to view a post count? I'm using Primal. It's just a web-based client.
With all due respect, you need to step away from your computer. You give off a creepy bipolar vibe.

2026-02-01 22:29:52 UTC

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I can't really speak for anyone else in the child-free camp, only for myself -- but for me personally, my childhood was awesome. My parents expressed nothing but love for me. Correction was supplied when needed, but gently. They never made me feel as though I were some sort of burden to them. Most of my childhood peers had a similar upbringing, at least from what I could tell from the outside, yet many of them also opted out of breeding.
The point I was trying to make isn't that people shouldn't have kids. I was just making the observation that one can be raised in a stable home with great parents who make them feel wanted and loved, and still end up not wanting kids of their own.
I agree with your point that growing up with parents who express visible contempt toward the childrearing experience can't help but make a child less likely to want children of their own. No doubt about it. But having solid, loving parents doesn't necessarily generate the opposite outcome.
I suspect most young people these days just look at the pros and cons of what having a child would mean in their lives, and make their decision, and that decision often has nothing to do with how they were raised. It's just a forward-looking cost/benefit analysis.
If you talk to most people who opted out, they'll talk about the financial burden, or how it'll upend their plans to travel the world, or interfere with their personal freedom, or some BS about climate change. And that's fine. Everyone has their own reasons, not all of them legit. I'm just a bit more honest than most of them when I say that I just don't care for kids. Even when I was a kid / teen-ager, I preferred the company of adults, with few exceptions. I have zero no interest in dealing with the sleepless nights, changing diapers, the endless screaming, the moody teenage years, the tuition payments and medical expenses, etc. for what appears to me to be zero payoff.
Others don't see it that way, of course. They see the payoff as being huge. If I were alive a hundred years ago, I'd probably agree with them. In 2026 though, not so much. To each his own, right?
On a someone related note, I enjoyed this article about the fertility decline:
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/lets-save-the-human-species
This guy's not like me. He wants the fertility rate to increase, not decrease. It's an interesting and thoughtful analysis though.
Best...

2026-02-01 22:07:02 UTC

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Wow, that's a real zinger, especially coming from someone with 832 posts and 3k+ replies. But hey, thanks for responding to my two-month old post. You're a champ.

2026-02-01 14:53:26 UTC

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I don't know. Maybe.
I personally had great parents who loved and supported me, and never once said a negative word about their role as parents. Yet I never had any desire for the marriage and family lifestyle. It's not for everyone. My mom and dad understood that, and never gave me any grief for my decision.
It's not enough to just hide the drudgery of parenting from one's own children and other potential parents by not speaking of it. To convince people to breed, you really have to make them believe that there are real upsides in it for them. That's much harder to pull off. The reasons for having large families in my grandparents' day (more free labor for the farm, etc.) just don't exist today, at least not as far as I can tell.

2026-01-03 20:04:31 UTC

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Naw man, I don't even plug an Ethernet cable into a new "smart" TV these days, or configure WiFi. New TVs are completely infested with crapware.
Instead: Hook up a 4K Apple TV box, sign on with a burner Apple account, delete all the apps on it, and install Infuse. Point Infuse to an SMB share on your network, typically on a NAS. Download all movies and TV shows with BitTorrent.
Total cost is maybe $2/mo for Infuse. Pay for it anonymously using an Apple gift card paid for in Bitcoin.

2025-12-31 16:49:19 UTC

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Like the tattoo, it's just a convenient signaling/tagging mechanism telling you whom to avoid.

2025-12-31 16:45:14 UTC

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Remember that time you said GM after having said GM several days prior? That was a really great GM and I think of it often.

2025-12-31 16:41:50 UTC

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It's a great OS. Love it.

2025-12-30 23:32:49 UTC

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This is one of the reasons I'm going to bail on Proton and self host email, calendar, and contacts. They won't lift a finger to bring basic 2010-era functionality to their dated apps. Meanwhile, they spend their time developing Bitcoin wallets and AI gimmickry that no one even wants. One of their recent promo emails said something along the lines of, "AI functionality is here, whether we want it or not!" That's the moment when I finally gave up on Proton.

2025-12-16 22:57:32 UTC

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I'm on the same journey, bro. GrapheneOS is awesome. Over a year in and I don't miss Apple at all.

2025-12-12 01:43:17 UTC

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Nice! So GrapheneOS definitely works on Pixel 10?

2025-12-11 18:35:48 UTC

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" 'Great life strategy' is subjective. "
That's exactly my point. Some people are cut out for the marriage and family lifestyle and some aren't. It's subjective.
" 'Isn't sinful' is between one and their Maker. "
Nope. The sinfulness of a thing isn't decided as part of some negotiation between a creature and his creator. The creator tells us what's sinful and what's not. It's not up for negotiation. Staying single is explicitly categorized as non-sinful.
" 'Actually quite common' is a bandwagon fallacy. "
Bandwagon fallacy? What is this, eight grade debate class? LOL.
Yes, believe it or not, it really is *common* for a woman to opt out of the marriage and family lifestyle without being a whore. I'm referring to OP's post which stated that the only two viable options for a woman are to (1) marry young and start breeding or (2) become a whore.
See:
https://tinyurl.com/ynchdtah

2025-12-11 13:50:09 UTC

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LOL. Can't tell if you're trolling me or if you actually believe this.

2025-12-11 05:04:11 UTC

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That's simply not true.
Jesus was single. Paul was single. Both of them encouraged men (and by extension women) to remain unmarried. They went out of their way to tell us that neither marriage, nor remaining single is sinful.
No disrespect to those who find fulfillment in marriage and child rearing. But those who opt out aren't implicitly choosing whoredom. Some do go down that path, of course. But others are celibate and just go about the business of enjoying their lives.

2025-12-11 00:21:44 UTC

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The thing is though...
It's possible for a woman to avoid the drudgery of marriage and children without embracing whoredom. It's a great life strategy, isn't sinful, and is actually quite common.

2025-12-02 23:07:03 UTC

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One can say a lot of things about AI but "underhyped" isn't one of them.

2025-11-30 18:00:04 UTC

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Meanwhile he promotes dog-themed memecoins. He's an attention-seeking grifter who doesn't even believe his own words.

2025-11-25 16:40:57 UTC

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Yes to all. I saw a response to one of your other posts, presumably from a Catholic, that said something like "No Mary, no Jesus. Know Mary, know Jesus." Absolutely horrifying. I'll never understand those who see Roman Catholicism as a somewhat misguided form of Christianity. It's not Christian at all. MacArthur once quoted someone (can't recall whom) who said that "the Catholic church is Satan's greatest masterpiece." I tend to agree.

2025-11-25 05:03:53 UTC

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Nice. La Jolla native here. Nowhere beats California!

2025-11-25 01:05:38 UTC

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San Diego?

2025-11-24 17:42:59 UTC

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You post enjoyable and sometimes weird stuff, tell it like it is, and don't virtue signal. I think there's always an audience for that kind of honest content.

2025-11-24 17:31:06 UTC

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That's a good way to live, my man.
I'm retired, own no property, have zero debt, lease month-to-month, own virtually nothing, no kids or dependents other than a cute girlfriend, minimal bank balance, and some corn. I'm content AF. Being fiat-poor with no long-term commitments and having freedom to maneuver is better than being rich in my opinion. No comparison whatsoever.

2025-11-23 02:15:17 UTC

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A man, a plan, a canal. Panama.

2025-11-22 15:26:33 UTC

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Great essay, and I don't really disagree, but some examples or anecdotes might be helpful. What kind of lies are we talking about? Telling a 200 pound women that she's beautiful? Misrepresentations on a resume? Not providing full transparency to government agencies? Claiming you read the terms and conditions? Different lies have different impacts.

2025-11-21 00:22:22 UTC

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Because I only have two channels open. Both of them are with OKX. Anyone who sends to me or receives from me will have a path that passea through OKX at some point.

2025-11-21 00:16:45 UTC

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I read all your posts.

2025-11-20 15:59:18 UTC

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I'm not sure what your Lightning setup is or why your wallet returning an internal error, but I'm able to send and receive without issue.
"We got temporary_channel_failure for the invoice's route hint, assuming it can't carry 1000msat. "
My route hint is pointing to OKX Lightning node which, according to 1ml.com, has 380 BTC of Lightning liquidity.
As for my own node, I have about $6,000 of inbound capacity.
So OKX and my node are the only two links in the chain and each link has more than enough capacity for a 1 sat transfer. So assuming you have a path to OKX, and pretty much everyone does, there shouldn't be a problem.
For what it's worth, I can see on my side that the invoices for your 1 sat payment were successfully generated. They were just never paid.

2025-11-19 12:19:59 UTC

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It works just fine.

2025-11-17 02:23:37 UTC

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Mark Twain stole that line from Denzel Washington.

2025-11-16 03:46:01 UTC

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Haven't paid for media content in over a decade and don't plan to start now.

2025-11-16 03:39:53 UTC

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I will never forget about being saved.

2025-11-14 01:37:17 UTC

Does anyone have a reliable way to bypass the Substack paywall?
#asknostr

2025-11-10 14:19:01 UTC

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I don't get the meme. I recognize the text as a seed derivation pattern, but who are these people? Are they derived from the same seed? I don't quite get it. In my defense, I'm borderline retardrd -- but not fully retardrd.

2025-11-04 04:43:58 UTC

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Telegram, Signal, and WhatsApp only for voice. I do have a flip phone for TFA codes though. And because my bank requires one.

2025-11-03 19:38:29 UTC

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I'm more concerned about declining dominance versus gold.

2025-11-02 21:49:48 UTC

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Craig Wright perhaps?

2025-11-02 21:46:37 UTC

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Can't you just force close it?

2025-10-31 01:27:58 UTC

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This is the way. And silent link as data provider.

2025-10-25 15:27:09 UTC

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Man, they sure liked beards back in the day, didn't they? I suspect the invention of the electric shaver may have been a bigger boon to mankind than the printing press, or even power steering.

2025-10-23 02:54:30 UTC

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What ever happened to this deranged psycho? She used to be a rather entertaining comedian.

2025-10-22 02:10:19 UTC

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I've found drones to be a fun hobby.

2025-10-21 02:21:08 UTC

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Ah, Tyrion Lannister. Wonderful actor. Unforgettable role.

2025-10-17 15:51:42 UTC

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Same here, except it'll be beef jerky.

2025-10-17 14:49:23 UTC

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100%. I knew from a young age I'd rather be the guy who enjoys his hobbies and friends, retires early, and lives simply, than the dead-eyed, married-with-children schmuck with the McMansion, high-paying 40hr/wk grind, two cars, and all the BS that comes with that lifestyle. It's crazy to me how so few people understand this simple concept. Power isn't money or status. Power is freedom to maneuver!

2025-10-16 16:02:57 UTC

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I don't know, man. I use it almost daily. Everything from gift cards, to domain names, to server leases.

2025-10-15 02:19:44 UTC

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Oh, ok. I was unaware. Good to know.

2025-10-15 01:51:00 UTC

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Examples, please!

2025-10-15 01:48:05 UTC

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I hadn't heard that Taproot was required for Lightning. SegWit and transaction immutability were required. But I'm pretty sure people were transmitting over Lightning before Taproot rolled into town.

2025-10-14 20:48:19 UTC

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I'm an Amethyst refugee as well. It used to be a great little app but the reliability and bugs got worse by the day. Maybe the developer abandoned the project?
Primal doesn't really have a wallet. It can control an external wallet using NWC. They could've easily launched an external wallet on the same device, like the way Amethyst would launch Zeus, for example, when you wanted to zap. But instead, they did things the hard way and added needless complexity to promote that silly NWC scheme. Kind of disappointing.

2025-10-14 18:04:54 UTC

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Great post! Nice to see another hardcore ad block advocate. For me personally, if the media I want to consume isn't available in a low-cost, registration-free, ad-free format, I either use BitTorrent or pass on it all together. This applies to books, TV shows, movies, and poscasts. I'm happy to pay creators directly in Bitcoin though.

2025-10-14 17:48:14 UTC

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No. Unfortunately, you need to use a NWC pairing code to connect to a Lightning backend. They've made things needlessly complex.

2025-10-14 03:54:16 UTC

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Can I store arbitrary data in there, like monkey jpgs and whatnot?

2025-10-13 20:32:21 UTC

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Yes, I'm running LNUrl already, as an extension to LNBits. It's what allows me to receive zaps with an email-like address, via the endpoint at <mydomain.com>/.well-known/lnurlp/<myname>. This seems to work really well.
And you're right, REST has been available for a while. LNUrl isn't even required for that. In Zeus, for example, I can just provide the IP of my LND server and an admin macaroon, and it'll just connect on port 8080 of the LND server. Works flawlessly.
But NWC seems wholly different. Although NWC doesn't explicitly require one to self-host a NOSTR relay, the documentation at LNBits seems to strongly encourage it. You need to run the NWC Service provider extension, which generates the pairing code, and then another extension called NOSTR Relay, which shuttles message between your remote client and your LND node. In fact, if you examine the syntax of the pairing URL:
nostr+walletconnect://<pubkey>?relay=<relay_url>&secret=<secret_key>
.... the 'relay' parameter is meant to be the location of your NOSTR Relay. Presumably one could use a public relay instead of self-hosting one's own, although every public relay I tried failed. (I think maybe you have to pay a fee to route through the public ones?)
In any case, the configuration that's recommended is to run a dedicated NOSTR relay to transport these messages. Thing is though, the relay literally only receives/send messages to and from entities already under the user's control (e.g. the Primal app on one side, for example, and LNBits/LND on the other). It doesn't relay to anyone else. That's why it's a bit of a head-scratcher to me as to exactly what value is added by having NOSTR in the loop. It only relays from me...to me.

2025-10-13 18:38:23 UTC

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Not to mention indulgences, deification of Mary, purgatory, work-based salvation, using a priest as a mediator between God and man, prayers to the dead, vain repetition, and as you point out, the infallibility of the pope. Charles Spurgeon said the Catholic church is Satan's greatest masterpiece, and I tend to agree with him.

2025-10-10 20:32:59 UTC

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Hey, thanks for letting me know. I just installed LNBits' LNUrl provider and it looks like one of my nginx settings was wrong. Just tried accessing https://anon.dev/.well-known/lnurlp/anon and it seems to respond now. Let's try it again and see if you can push a sat through! Exciting times.

2025-10-10 15:22:19 UTC

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Truth. I learned early on that there's a Venn diagram of "things that affect me" and "things I can control" that has a really narrow intersection. That intersection is where I spend my time.

2025-10-10 15:18:40 UTC

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It's interesting how the advent of AI has affected different programmers in different ways.
I was a hardcore coder from 1994-2021, now retired. I enjoy coding and problem solving far more than prompting and "vibe coding," but guys like me are dinosaurs. I'm so glad I got out of that business before the advent of AI tools. It's time for the next generation to take over.
P.S. Love BTC Pay by the way! Best of luck to you.

2025-10-09 12:08:07 UTC

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It's a daily struggle for me.

2025-10-05 19:57:21 UTC

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Not really. My intetest in a woman ends where the tattoos and weight gain begin. Never had any affection or desire for kids. Dogs though... Dogs are pretty cool.

2025-10-04 18:49:47 UTC

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I don't know these people but it sounds like she got a really good deal. She just needs to grind out five years with that schmuck and get her citizenship locked in. From there, she can write her own ticket.
There's no shortage of wealthy, older, beta males wanting to play hero to "rescue" her. At least that's the case in SoCal. As long as she doesn't self-sabotage and make herself undesirable by gaining weight or getting tatted up, both she and the kid have a bright future.

2025-10-04 18:19:21 UTC

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Story of my life. For what it's worth, loud girls don't like me either.

2025-10-03 15:55:24 UTC

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Got it, thank you!

2025-10-03 15:55:09 UTC

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Received, thanks!

2025-10-03 01:38:10 UTC

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Received, thanks!

2025-10-02 23:26:46 UTC

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Got it! Thanks, friend.

2025-09-29 02:05:57 UTC

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Hmmm... Abraham Lincoln looks so different than I imagined.

2025-09-28 16:51:14 UTC

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What makes things different today is that western nations are inviting these savages in, essentially begging to be conquered. One could make an argument that these countries should be granted their wish. Let Islam wipe them off the map.

2025-09-27 01:04:39 UTC

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I miss that guy. Both him and John MacArthur.

2025-09-26 17:25:49 UTC

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Not to mention the college admission and jobs preferences, endless government handouts, the ability to speak your mind since you'd be an oppressed minority, favorable portrayal in media, the ability to win all arguments and disputes by claiming "racism" and, best of all, you could eliminate your state income tax by declaring your official residence to be located on a reservation!
Where do I sign up?

2025-09-25 21:06:21 UTC

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Actually, I think you do. Or at least that's what they're proposing. Not that I have much sympathy for those in the UK. They voted for wokeness instead of common sense and I'm now happy to see them paying the price via techno-authoritarianism. But I don't kid myself... There all also some good people in the UK who will be trapped by digital ID and other invasive policy, and it won't be self-imposed.

2025-09-25 17:38:30 UTC

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Those living in the UK would likely disagree.

2025-09-24 19:50:34 UTC

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Brilliant, I love it!

2025-09-24 17:23:38 UTC

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Agreed. It's especially important to tip your servers, Uber drivers, valets, etc. in cash.

2025-09-23 19:00:05 UTC

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Katy Perry went into space a while back and didn't report any surprises re: the shape of the earth. If the earth were flat, she would've written a song about it.

2025-09-20 15:07:23 UTC

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Great article.

2025-09-19 22:05:06 UTC

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Progressivism is predicated on using the state to seize others' wealth by force and redistribute it. Bitcoin and progressivism are completely incompatible.

2025-09-18 03:08:24 UTC

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Wow, she's beautiful. Who is she?

2025-09-17 19:33:37 UTC

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Excellent post, my man.
It's true that there are power hungry tyrants who get off on controlling the rest of us. Most of us see them as enemies. The Bill Gates and Elizabeth Warrens and Hillary Clintons of world will always be there, eager to steal, and even murder to consolidate their power and enrich themselves at others' expense.
But those people aren't the problem. They're not even the enemy. They're just a symptom. The sad fact is that our fellow men no longer value freedom. It's not even that they're indifferent to freedom; They actively despise it, and they despise you for wanting it -- because freedom entails personal responsibility, and today, there's no greater anathema to the common man than being responsible for one's own life.
The majority is more than happy to use the government to transfer wealth by force from your pocket into their own. A sizable chunk of Democrats, and even some Republicans, would've had you arrested for not following government mandates on masks and vaccines. The government is a useful tool to them. Not a threat. Not an enemy.
This is why I laugh a bit when I see people on NOSTR who, like in the anime world you described, try to help us define which policy maker is our "enemy." Our enemy isn't some leftist senator or compromised Core devs embracing spam. Those people are just a symptom of a society that loathes freedom. Embracing this truth was initially depressing, but ultimately freeing. I no longer have to maintain a list of enemies. I no longer have burn mental cycles hating people or groups. I just game-theory the heck out of my environment, ally myself with like-minded individuals, and exploit loopholes in the broken system wherever they may be found.

2025-09-17 17:46:31 UTC

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My Taycan TS is quite silent even at high speeds but, oddly, the car has the ability to make a fake sound should the driver desire it. It's called Electric Sport Sound and it sounds a lot like a vacuum cleaner.