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2026-06-10 02:57:01 UTC

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what kinda bugs? UI related? in my experience the anthropic models have been great at UI related stuff while gpt did better at complex multistep backend type work. opus would always FIND IT then have to go NO WAIT … THAT’S IT … no not quite … forever on complex tasks… haven’t switched to fable yet because of the output token cost. 5.5 has been my go to these days.

2025-11-04 06:50:28 UTC

ai is perfect for those shitholes in the codebase that nobody wants to touch… those places that when you have to add a feature in it you feel all sad and dirty because of how the initial implementation of the initial plan forces you to write super shitty code because you don’t feel like rewriting 10 years of work and tests… now you can just slonk it into to chatgpt. wonder how this is gonna age though lol
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2025-10-29 16:21:44 UTC

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but wouldn’t you say that buttons are more efficient than natural language? it’s which to just click the back navigation button than it is to communicate “navigate back one page”. so there will still be a need for minimal user interfaces like what we have currently i would think.

2025-10-05 20:37:34 UTC

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Directly using centralized systems for money 100%.
Directly using decentralized systems for money 0.01%.
Indirectly using decentralized systems for money 100%.

2025-10-03 22:12:47 UTC

Gave @npub1rtl…jtfs a follow to see what he was about and now my feed is so unbelievably political smh. There’s more to life than politics guys!

2025-10-03 06:29:22 UTC

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Did DIDs offer anything in the end? Did anyone ship with DIDs?

2025-10-03 01:38:51 UTC

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“You mostly spam short tests on nostr” lol rekt. Spammer confirmed.

2025-10-03 01:29:05 UTC

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😂

2025-10-02 14:40:21 UTC

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Oh I just read the reposted note —lol it’s about property tax. I just assumed it was about bitcoin or financial assets after only reading Derek’s quote note

2025-10-02 14:07:02 UTC

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So is property tax, which is a kind of unrealized gain tax. If the currency with which your property is being assessed is devalued, and, even though your property was not sold, the assessor makes an educated guess as to what the price might have been had you sold and then taxes you based on that hypothetical transaction. In the case of a house, since it is not a productive asset, you simply have to pay the tax from some other source. When I first learned how this worked I was dumbfounded at how normalized this practice was—yet people just shrug. Unrealized gain tax on financial assets seems similarly crazy but don't underestimate the ambivalence most people show after the government normalizes this kind of injustice.

2025-10-01 18:26:35 UTC

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Would be interesting to see your impressions / conversion numbers on the main insta/fb/x stuff vs nostr. Most companies probably see the user numbers and average impressions on nostr and conclude that it isn’t worth their time.

2025-10-01 06:05:56 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/a9118319b991a1846b5711c8b38b4de6a43779a44bb2696eaf5cd114db9441e9.jpg

2025-10-01 05:38:03 UTC

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😂 would be so nice if the federal government was actually shut-down shut-down instead of just “shut down”.

2025-10-01 05:20:13 UTC

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Literally has changed our brains to optimize for bullshit detection. It’s part of the reason why many young people have never experienced what it means to ‘be lost in a book’ or even long form articles even.

2025-09-30 00:21:19 UTC

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You fountain-pen pilled yet?

2025-09-26 00:53:34 UTC

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Bitcoin mechanic doesn’t argue like a libtard imho. He handled a lot of bad faith arguments well and made his case against a majority of smug and well credentialed devs (no easy feat).
There are plenty of retards (and not the good kind like me) on both sides.
Not taking a side when a change is being pushed seems like a beta move. I tend to side with the underdogs and the conservative option in these cases. Hating on knots people who just want to keep things the same and talk a bit more seems like the wrong thing to do. While hating on core seems like the right thing to do—balances the scales a bit.

2025-09-25 16:11:06 UTC

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Is it pretty easy to get wine to all 50 states or are there specific wine laws in some states?

2025-09-20 06:12:31 UTC

2025-09-19 16:39:35 UTC

Need to update this to make the bitcoin one arguing knots vs core while the normies are the happy unaware one
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2025-09-17 04:28:35 UTC

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Whose rationality and which justice determine the good people from the bad people? We can’t have a society that differs on what good is but here we are…

2025-09-15 14:24:29 UTC

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I see tor and know it will suck and probably work 5% of the time … if you’re lucky.

2025-09-14 21:40:34 UTC

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https://i.nostr.build/S7IW53mLEd3sn9Gc.jpg

2025-09-14 21:39:48 UTC

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https://i.nostr.build/S7IW53mLEd3sn9Gc.jpg

2025-09-14 04:56:49 UTC

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Yup, I’ve had a similar experience. I really want mesh to work but it seems like a hard thing to do well. But bitchat is meme-tier vibed software at the moment. Hopefully it improves.

2025-09-14 01:48:07 UTC

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Certainly can get info from them but any conclusions drawn from their info I take with a lot of salt. My faith in US Government bureaucracy is at an all time low. The FBI is so heavily politicized that I might trust the tooth fairy more.

2025-09-14 01:25:31 UTC

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You really consider FBI released information as ‘verified’? The FBI isn’t exactly know for releasing true information about their cases, see the head scratching detective work done on Las Vegas shooting for example.

2025-09-14 01:19:41 UTC

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I’d consider myself more of a Casio world time guy but I can respect the pro trek enjoyers.

2025-09-13 22:52:52 UTC

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Never trust a man who looks like that. Weird hat. Weak neck. Not a chance.

2025-09-13 22:51:57 UTC

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living high on the deer

2025-09-11 02:22:01 UTC

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For real. 200 yard shot to the neck on the first and only shot. Also police still haven’t arrested the shooter. Charlie’s security team and the 6 university police officers weren’t prepared for a 200 yard sniper.

2025-09-11 01:50:41 UTC

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All my work computers are MacBooks and all my personally computers are old cobbled together thinkpads. So my comparison experience isn’t exactly fair. What’s your go-to example of a better laptop experience? I’m genuinely curious since all my macs are new and my non macs are like 5+ years old.

2025-09-10 12:49:03 UTC

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Came here to say this ^

2025-09-10 05:19:59 UTC

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Bruh. It’s over saturated. Even the OGs produce samey content and have been for the past 5 years.

2025-09-10 03:59:04 UTC

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At this point I think they just like getting cuckbucked.

2025-09-10 03:32:22 UTC

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you'll be following like 99% of active accounts on nostr then lol

2025-09-10 02:34:17 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/4d10c1be0d7030250a14f0967a3590c3e0e238ff0ee53f9ab2a7d57c3a7820e5.jpg
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2025-09-10 00:33:51 UTC

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But muh apple silicon! It’s unironically so much better, viz. performance and battery life.

2025-09-09 16:33:50 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/b217cca3905b2e69e32343c70cbb3bbea8ec97966b427a4a165281f385aab7d1.jpg

2025-09-09 16:21:47 UTC

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lol

2025-09-09 15:29:01 UTC

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It’s weird when a tool like money becomes an identity. You were supposed to use the money to do cool stuff not just talk about the money?!?? Reminds me of people on nostr. It’s supposed to be for doing cool stuff not just talking about nostr.

2025-09-09 15:18:32 UTC

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Is this why claude in cursor will do a perfect refactor of some 2000 line react component then at the very end add a bunch of goofy style changes and running off to ‘fix’ something completely unrelated lol?

2025-09-09 14:53:50 UTC

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Needs to be a share button for the normies. Also dms aren’t exactly nostr’s strong point right now. Apparently you need to set up special DM relays now? Idk I haven’t kept up and can’t be bothered since it’s more fun to just publicly post on nostr and there are better dm solutions out there for that use case.

2025-09-09 05:50:33 UTC

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Very cool!

2025-09-09 04:45:11 UTC

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Google gonna Google

2025-09-09 04:19:26 UTC

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Yes!

2025-09-09 03:58:21 UTC

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Beautiful amber glow and everything in its right place.

2025-09-09 02:34:13 UTC

GN NOSTR

2025-09-09 00:42:35 UTC

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Nostalgiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaa

2025-09-08 19:56:26 UTC

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Blooooomin’

2025-09-08 18:38:50 UTC

Testing

2025-09-08 03:23:50 UTC

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When you first open knots, it prompts you to select the drive and directory for the blockchain. Just navigate to where bitcoin core saved the blockchain and select that in knots.

2025-09-07 04:53:58 UTC

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Wen Nokia 3310 support?

2025-09-03 16:43:54 UTC

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Depends on how much space you want—you can get a decent 2tb one for 80 usd. You need at least 1tb as the btc blockchain is near 700gb now.
Just have a look for 2.5-inch SATA solid state drives. And find one at a reasonable price point. I just get them from Amazon.

2025-09-03 03:41:52 UTC

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It doesn’t have to be on all the time. When you need to verify that you’ve received a transaction you can just turn it on, open knots or core and they’ll grab the blocks you missed since going off line. It doesn’t take too long to catch up on a few weeks or months. If you wanted to run a lightning node then you’ll need to be online but let’s be real—even the big brain hacker types on here who run their own lightning nodes are constantly running into issues with their node. It’s a pain to manage and maintain and loads of services exist that do a great job for very little money to maintain one for you.
To your second question. It’s relatively easy to set up an old think pad and they’re everywhere on eBay. I have 2 intel i7 16gb ones that I got off eBay. Plug in a new hard drive, a usb stick with an os and follow the installer prompts and you’re good to go.

2025-09-02 00:37:07 UTC

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Yeah I let my raspi 4 umbrel sync for a week and it never succeeded. I downloaded knots on an old thinkpad with an i7 and 16gb of ram and it unfinished the sync in a day and a half. I don’t really use my raspberry pi4 much anymore. I’m an old thinkpad kinda guy now.

2025-09-01 18:39:05 UTC

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Are you running it on a raspberry pi? You shouldn’t have to keep the tab open and it should just work. I had similar problems but it was because I was running it on a raspberry pi with a crappy cable connecting to the external drive which constantly failed. Probably want to check your drive connection and seee if you e got enough memory on your machine to effectively sync the chain in a reasonable time.

2025-09-01 06:35:33 UTC

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Yeah the “they” I was referring to was the “other apps that aren’t plowing through data”. The ones that use centralized cache service or just 1 or 2 big relays that everyone uses.
Doing it the Amethyst way will use more resources but I think that is what you have to do to avoid decentralized theatre.

2025-09-01 05:13:44 UTC

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Exactly. One side is dismissive and arrogant and mechanic continues proposing reasonable takes over and over in different ways to help explain it.

2025-09-01 04:29:50 UTC

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Lol

2025-09-01 04:03:47 UTC

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His

2025-09-01 02:39:29 UTC

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2025-08-31 23:27:00 UTC

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Oof

2025-08-31 23:25:23 UTC

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2025-08-31 18:23:32 UTC

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They probably are just connecting to one or two relays and treating them like a main database rather than following hints from user’s metadata and using their specified relays. If you actually try to use nostr in a decentralized way and in a typical social media type discovery pattern, it is pretty demanding.

2025-08-29 06:08:52 UTC

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Glad you enjoyed it!

2025-08-29 06:06:10 UTC

2025-08-29 00:51:00 UTC

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Bruh

2025-08-28 07:17:47 UTC

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Yes

2025-08-28 07:16:50 UTC

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Quality stuff

2025-08-28 07:09:25 UTC

We have already seen to what extent wrestlers exploit the resources of a given physical style, developed and put to use in order to unfold before the eyes of the public a total image of Defeat. The flaccidity of tall white bodies which collapse with one blow or crash into the ropes with arms flailing, the inertia of massive wrestlers rebounding pitiably off all the elastic surfaces of the ring, nothing can signify more clearly and more passionately the exemplary abasement of the vanquished. Deprived of all resilience, the wrestler's flesh is no longer anything but an unspeakable heap spread out on the floor, where it solicits relentless reviling and jubilation. There is here a paroxysm of meaning in the style of antiquity, which can only recall the heavily underlined intentions in Roman triumphs. At other times, there is another ancient posture which appears in the coupling of the wrestlers, that of the suppliant who, at the mercy of his opponent, on bended knees, his arms raised above his head, is slowly brought down by the vertical pressure of the victor. In wrestling, unlike judo, Defeat is not a conventional sign, abandoned as soon as it is understood; it is not an outcome, but quite the contrary, it is a duration, a display, it takes up the ancient myths of public Suffering and Humiliation: the cross and the pillory. It is as if the wrestler is crucified in broad daylight and in the sight of all. I have heard it said of a wrestler stretched on the ground 'He is dead, little Jesus, there, on the cross,' and these ironic words revealed the hidden roots of a spectacle which enacts the exact gestures of the most ancient purifications.
https://i.nostr.build/aeHzKBOFKWolQdGa.gif
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2025-08-28 06:44:06 UTC

There is another figure, more spectacular still than a hold; it is the forearm smash, this loud slap of the forearm, this embryonic punch with which one clouts the chest of one's adversary, and which is accompanied by a dull noise and the exaggerated sagging of a vanquished body. In the forearm smash, catastrophe is brought to the point of maximum obviousness, so much so that ultimately the gesture appears as no more than a symbol; this is going too far, this is transgressing the moral rules of wrestling, where all signs must be excessively clear, but must not let the intention of clarity be seen. The public then shouts 'He's laying it on!', not because it regrets the absence of real suffering, but because it condemns artifice: as in the theatre, one fails to put the part across as much by an excess of sincerity as by an excess of formalism.
https://i.nostr.build/rx6Zyu3pIs2BwpEs.gif
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2025-08-28 06:29:49 UTC

What is thus displayed for the public is the great spectacle of Suffering, Defeat, and Justice. Wrestling presents man's suffering with all the amplification of tragic masks. The wrestler who suffers in a hold which is reputedly cruel (an arm-lock, a twisted leg) offers an excessive portrayal of Suffering; like a primitive Pieta, he exhibits for all to see his face, exaggeratedly contorted by an intolerable affliction. It is obvious, of course, that in wrestling reserve would be out of place, since it is opposed to the voluntary ostentation of the spectacle, to this Exhibition of Suffering which is the very aim of the fight. This is why all the actions which produce suffering are particularly spectacular, like the gesture of a conjuror who holds out his cards clearly to the public. Suffering which appeared without intelligible cause would not be understood; a concealed action that was actually cruel would transgress the unwritten rules of wrestling and would have no more sociological efficacy than a mad or parasitic gesture. On the contrary suffering appears as inflicted with emphasis and conviction, for everyone must not only see that the man suffers, but also and above all understand why he suffers. What wrestlers call a hold, that is, any figure which allows one to immobilize the adversary indefinitely and to have him at one's mercy, has precisely the function of preparing in a conventional, therefore intelligible, fashion the spectacle of suffering, of methodically establishing the conditions of suffering. The inertia of the vanquished allows the (temporary) victor to settle in his cruelty and to convey to the public this terrifying slowness of the torturer who is certain about the outcome of his actions; to grind the face of one's powerless adversary or to scrape his spine with one's fist with a deep and regular movement, or at least to produce the superficial appearance of such gestures: wrestling is the only sport which gives such an externalized image of torture. But here again, only the image is involved in the game, and the spectator does not wish for the actual suffering of the contestant; he only enjoys the perfection of an iconography. It is not true that wrestling is a sadistic spectacle: it is only an intelligible spectacle.
https://i.nostr.build/27qORx1Plg9h4XDT.gif
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2025-08-28 06:26:15 UTC

Each moment in wrestling is therefore like an algebra which instantaneously unveils the relationship between a cause and its represented effect. Wrestling fans certainly experience a kind of intellectual pleasure in seeing the moral mechanism function so perfectly. Some wrestlers, who are great comedians, entertain as much as a Molière character, because they succeed in imposing an immediate reading of their inner nature: Armand Mazaud, a wrestler of an arrogant and ridiculous character (as one says that Harpagon * is a character), always delights the audience by the mathematical rigour of his transcriptions, carrying the form of his gestures to the furthest reaches of their meaning, and giving to his manner of fighting the kind of vehemence and precision found in a great scholastic disputation, in which what is at stake is at once the triumph of pride and the formal concern with truth.
https://i.nostr.build/FQunHtoUqw08TxYv.gif

2025-08-28 06:08:24 UTC

We are therefore dealing with a real Human Comedy, where the most socially-inspired nuances of passion (conceit, rightfulness, refined cruelty, a sense of 'paying one's debts') always felicitously find the clearest sign which can receive them, express them and triumphantly carry them to the confines of the hall. It is obvious that at such a pitch, it no longer matters whether the passion is genuine or not. What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. There is no more a problem of truth in wrestling than in the theatre. In both, what is expected is the intelligible representation of moral situations which are usually private. This emptying out of interiority to the benefit of its exterior signs, this 17 exhaustion of the content by the form, is the very principle of triumphant classical art. Wrestling is an immediate pantomime, infinitely more efficient than the dramatic pantomime, for the wrestler's gesture needs no anecdote, no decor, in short no transference in order to appear true.
https://i.nostr.build/Y6krxTS5MgXKBIDP.gif

2025-08-28 06:00:24 UTC

The physique of the wrestlers therefore constitutes a basic sign, which like a seed contains the whole fight. But this seed proliferates, for it is at every turn during the fight, in each new situation, that the body of the wrestler casts to the public the magical entertainment of a temperament which finds its natural expression in a gesture. The different strata of meaning throw light on each other, and form the most intelligible of spectacles. Wrestling is like a diacritic writing: above the fundamental meaning of his body, the wrestler arranges comments which are episodic but always opportune, and constantly help the reading of the fight by means of gestures, attitudes and mimicry which make the intention utterly obvious. Sometimes the wrestler triumphs with a repulsive sneer while kneeling on the good sportsman; sometimes he gives the crowd a conceited smile which forebodes an early revenge; sometimes, pinned to the ground, he hits the floor ostentatiously to make evident to all the intolerable nature of his situation; and sometimes he erects a complicated set of signs meant to make the public understand that he legitimately personifies the ever-entertaining image of the grumbler, endlessly confabulating about his displeasure.
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2025-08-28 05:56:27 UTC

It is therefore in the body of the wrestler that we find the first key to the contest. I know from the start that all of Thauvin's actions, his treacheries, cruelties and acts of cowardice, will not fail to measure up to the first image of ignobility he gave me; I can trust him to carry out intelligently and to the last detail all the gestures of a kind of amorphous baseness, and thus fill to the brim the image of the most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus. Wrestlers therefore have a physique as peremptory as those of the characters of the Commedia dell'Arte, who display in advance, in their costumes and attitudes, the future contents of their parts: just as Pantaloon can never be anything but a ridiculous cuckold, Harlequin an astute servant and the Doctor a stupid pedant, in the same way Thauvin will never be anything but an ignoble traitor, Reinières (a tall blond fellow with a limp body and unkempt hair) the moving image of passivity, Mazaud (short and arrogant like a 16 cock) that of grotesque conceit, and Orsano (an effeminate teddyboy first seen in a blue-and-pink dressing-gown) that, doubly humorous, of a vindictive salope, or bitch (for I do not think that the public of the Elysée-Montmartre, like Littré, believes the word salope to be a masculine).

2025-08-28 05:52:57 UTC

Each sign in wrestling is therefore endowed with an absolute clarity, since one must always understand everything on the spot. As soon as the adversaries are in the ring, the public is overwhelmed with the obviousness of the roles. As in the theatre, each physical type expresses to excess the part which has been assigned to the contestant. Thauvin, a fifty-year-old with an obese and sagging body, whose type of asexual hideousness always inspires feminine nicknames, displays in his flesh the characters of baseness, for his part is to represent what, in the classical concept of the salaud, the 'bastard' (the key-concept of any wrestlingmatch), appears as organically repugnant. The nausea voluntarily provoked by Thauvin shows therefore a very extended use of signs: not only is ugliness used here in order to signify baseness, but in addition ugliness is wholly gathered into a particularly repulsive quality of matter: the pallid collapse of dead flesh (the public calls Thauvin la barbaque, 'stinking meat'), so that the passionate condemnation of the crowd no longer stems from its judgment, but instead from the very depth of its humours. It will thereafter let itself be frenetically embroiled in an idea of Thauvin which will conform entirely with this physical origin: his actions will perfectly correspond to the essential viscosity of his personage.

2025-08-28 05:40:02 UTC

This function of grandiloquence is indeed the same as that of ancient theatre, whose principle, language and props (masks and buskins) concurred in the exaggeratedly visible explanation of a Necessity. The gesture of the vanquished wrestler signifying to the world a defeat which, far from disguising, he emphasizes and holds like a pause in music, corresponds to the mask of antiquity meant to signify the tragic mode of the spectacle. In wrestling, as on the stage in antiquity, one is not ashamed of one's suffering, one knows how to cry, one has a liking for tears

2025-08-28 05:34:35 UTC

Thus the function of the wrestler is not to win; it is to go exactly through the motions which are expected of him. It is said that judo contains a hidden symbolic aspect; even in the midst of efficiency, its gestures are measured, precise but restricted, drawn accurately but by a stroke without volume. Wrestling, on the contrary, offers excessive gestures, exploited to the limit of their meaning. In judo, a man who is down is hardly down at all, he rolls over, he draws back, he eludes defeat, or, if the latter is obvious, he immediately disappears; in wrestling, a man who is down is exaggeratedly so, and completely fills the eyes of the spectators with the intolerable spectacle of his powerlessness.
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2025-08-28 05:33:19 UTC

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This public knows very well the distinction between wrestling and boxing; it knows that boxing is a jansenist sport, based on a demonstration of excellence. One can bet on the outcome of a 14 boxing-match: with wrestling, it would make no sense. A boxingmatch is a story which is constructed before the eyes of the spectator; in wrestling, on the contrary, it is each moment which is intelligible, not the passage of time. The spectator is not interested in the rise and fall of fortunes; he expects the transient image of certain passions. Wrestling therefore demands an immediate reading of the juxtaposed meanings, so that there is no need to connect them. The logical conclusion of the contest does not interest the wrestling-fan, while on the contrary a boxing-match always implies a science of the future. In other words, wrestling is a sum of spectacles, of which no single one is a function: each moment imposes the total knowledge of a passion which rises erect and alone, without ever extending to the crowning moment of a result.

2025-08-27 03:21:22 UTC

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The pejorative aspect in its use is more akin to ‘simping’ —the white knighting done for the sole purpose of getting the attention of women for not necessarily chivalrous reasons.

2025-08-27 03:07:58 UTC

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Wine time-preference 😚🤌

2025-08-26 22:42:12 UTC

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Same thing here. Created a brand new email that had never been used before. Signed up for market place. Got banned after a few hours and blocked from marketplace unless I uploaded an ID or a selfie to prove my age. I just didn’t do anything and eventually the approval came in and now I can use marketplace. It seems they just ask for your id as a courtesy—I bet they have a copy of my drivers license already—they just didn’t want to disclose it lol. .

2025-08-26 03:28:50 UTC

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If follower counts are hard to do on nostr idk how anything like this could be done … outside of trying to cache all the relayed notes into a big cache layer that is dolled out with analytics attached… but at that point why not just have a database and do a centralized thing

2025-08-20 19:52:27 UTC

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I see you. You and your 2 MAU nostr client are hecken valid. Keep building!

2025-08-20 18:51:20 UTC

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Thanks bb

2025-08-19 04:55:00 UTC

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Mmmmmmm the tests are going so well now

2025-08-19 04:40:59 UTC

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Yes brother