Narwhal Tacos

This is my Bitcoin Nostr account. There are others like it, but this one is mine.
LNurl: narwhaltacos@zeuspay.com

Public Key

npub1yfmcm63zgnzj9jnafvtnlrz0rjhv7me54suuj83p9rqg78jc687sle794q

NIP-05 Address

narwhaltacos@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

narwhaltacos@zeuspay.com

Profile Code

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relay.damus.io

relay.noswhere.com

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2024-08-28 03:51:08

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Appreciate the post. Appreciate the argument. Appreciate you.
The central thesis here is that, imo, arguing against Nostr is arguing against the strongest player in the game. And no team doesn’t hire the strongest player, even knowing the future is uncertain.
As a 25+ year investment advisor, I learned never to bet on any particular company in what was a clear emergent “theme”. Bet on most of them. But I’m a Maxi now, I’ve disavowed that fiat thinking. So I’m all-in on Nostr, w/ Twitter as my fiat sweep account. But for people still trying to find their social media “plan b”, trying to figure out what’s happening in the social media world, this is a maelstrom of decisions happening fast.
I subbed you on Nostr probably more than a year ago. Now shit’s exploding. The response to people who want to argue against what’s clearly happening is, imho:
“We cannot guarantee success, but we can deserve it.” ~ George Washington.

2024-08-26 06:02:56

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So…there are no incentives to run a relay? Is that what I’m hearing?

2024-08-24 22:43:36

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That’s why I like to follow the price of Bitcoin in Barrels of WTI Crude Oil in your Rumble chat! I want to view price-movement in something other than fiat currency, and Oil is the best proxy I’ve found.
(FYI when I started doing that a couple years ago it was roughly 250k sats / barrel. Last Thurs I believe it was ~123k / barrel.)

2024-08-19 06:52:18

Want to offer something I heard years ago that has never left my mind for it’s Truth or Truthiness:
“Women are afraid of Homicide, Men are afraid of Suicide.”
I’ve personally come to see this as dogma (with a little “d”).
So now hoping to open the discussion up, would appreciate other opinions.

2024-08-17 06:09:50

I’ve recently become incredibly smitten with someone who is locked in an abusive relationship. I’ve never encountered this before, so I’m learning constantly now how common it is, in both men and women, and how it creeps in slowly…because sociopaths gotta sociopath.
In researching this, I found this piece from pop-psych mag Psychology Today that was amazing, and I’ve read it over and over again…referred it to my friend and she said “that was my life wrapped up in one article”.
I’m learning that abuse isn’t a victim problem, it’s what happens when normal people don’t know that there are sociopaths in the world. So they get ensnared slowly, thinking they are working hard to manage normal relationships in normal ways. They don’t realize they’re with people who are not healthy but have been struggling to appear as healthy their whole lives.
Yes, for the Bitcoiners reading this we realize that ALL of us are in an abusive relationship. We, and I, get this. But it hits home to experience this much closer to my home and to heart.
Recognizing the sociopath personality is absolutely, 100% key to awakening in our modern world. They are small, but they are legion, and totally in control because naturally they seek control…where normal people don’t want to. Bitcoiners get this. There’s a reason most of Congress in the US is over 70…they have no interest in retiring and spending time with loved ones. They don’t understand loved ones, or people. They only understand control. It’s so unhealthy.
Bitcoin has vastly helped me understand how to be strong and sensitive and patient with a woman I’m whooped by. (And things are going forward in a very amazing way, just to say).
So: if this post speaks to or is relevant to anyone else out there right now, this article packs a lot of info into a very easy-to-read format:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/toxic-relationships/201706/the-truth-about-abusers-abuse-and-what-to-do

2024-08-16 02:06:28

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I didn’t mind the first one (only one I’ve seen), but I truly appreciate that Keanu was literally the only choice for that role - a middle-age A-list actor who has spent 20 years or more on the cutting edge of fight-combat. It’s doubtful the film would’ve had much impact with anyone else.
Also I heard they had a 3-day location shoot that couldn’t be changed and Keanu came down w/ stomach flu. They said he never complained, gave his all, and spent his downtime resting and vomiting. Also heard he genuinely makes an effort to hang-out with everyone one his shoots, which is a sign of character if its true.

2024-06-15 18:55:26

SEATTLE TO JOIN LOS ANGELES (& OTHER CITIES) IN HIRING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR POLICE FORCE
“Seattle is joining the growing list of left wing cities that have decided to turn to illegal aliens to fill the ever-increasing void in the ranks of their police department, following cities such as Los Angeles. This is due to severe understaffing that has gutted many large city departments in primarily blue cities.
…
One issue facing DACA recipients becoming police officers is because they are in the country illegally, which means that they are not generally permitted to carry a firearm. However, Biden’s ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has ruled that “It is ATF’s position that DACA recipients can possess duty firearms and possess ammunition as part of their official law enforcement officer duties,” according to the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF).”
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/seattle-police-facing-manpower-shortage-to-hire-illegal-aliens-who-have-daca-status-as-police-officers

2024-05-30 18:34:00

“Saudi Arabia is selling a 0.64% stake in oil giant Aramco as the kingdom pushes ahead with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's plan to diversify the economy.”
Serious question: what investment is worth more than your country’s ownership of the most important resource in the world?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/saudi-arabia-sell-0-64-182424532.html

2024-04-30 06:05:25

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Might wanna re-think that name before you break big.
Herpes and all, for those of us in the West.

2024-04-27 04:59:12

I Am Greek Orthodox! #note16s7…qkfv

2024-04-27 04:56:30

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I’m here to fight the criminal government that hates me. Your explanations of “law” which we all know don’t exist anymore are sad. But I get it. But I don’t
Why are you here?
To make money? You’ve made yours. What about those of us who NEED Bitcoin?
It’s an honest question.

2024-04-23 04:38:56

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I can’t launch Zeus wallet now. Do I need to update?

2024-04-21 03:26:32

I can’t tell you how much I appreciated meeting you at the Halving Party!
I get inspired by other Artists, I appreciate what you’re creating, I cannot wait for your Sellout years, I’ll support you until you do a Superbowl or World Cup Halftime show sponsored by Cordanoh, then I’ll always swear you were Yoko Ono’d by your soon-to-be future busty bimbo and I’ll absolutely swear that in El Salvador you were coke’d up and waving a gold-plated machine gun and yelling about Meme Factory funding from the IMF and how Greg Zaj had to hold you down and force meds into your throat and then we washed your golden furry locks in the ocean tide under full moonlight….
ok shit, somewhere in there reality morphed into fanfic.
Anyway.
You’re an amazing human being, my friend.
I appreciate you.
And you will be recognized in History for your DSB’s.
All Meme’rs have a place in our future.
But none have demonstrated the Proof of Work of the Pleb like You have! #note16w8…k0d3

2024-03-29 04:55:51

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I mean…nailed it. Amazing.
Not sure where you’re going with this shame-post….

2024-03-27 04:53:18

Hey plebs!
nobody knows me, and i like it that way.
So just offering:
God Candle incoming.
Why?
Because nothing now stands between Us and Our Future.
Lock and Load.

2024-03-19 03:47:45

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Wait…because all zaps in Damus are private?
This is a joke right, cuz I really want zaps in Damus and I’m not smart enough to know if this is a joke or not so I’m just gonna keep typing until I can figure it out…

2024-03-19 03:44:22

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I’ve often assumed that Satoshi would never have distributed the code in the first place w/o having at least 3 or 4 personally-controlled machines already running it in the emerging network. I don’t know this is the case, but it seems very sensible.
If so, is that how Satoshi acquired those ~1million coins?
If not - if that Satoshi block was a pure pre-mine - then isn’t it likely Satoshi acquired many coins just by being 3 or 4 or the first miners to legit mine Bitcoin?
In which case, he/she/they likely were amply rewarded early on. For which I’d be delighted. Hopefully they didn’t sell when it hit $100.

2024-03-13 03:14:20

Whelp…I just hot-taked an Ayn Rand group on Twitter, and now realize I’m going to hate my Twitter inbox in the morning.
Probably for the best. Been thinking it’s time to go full @npub1qny…95gx
[“Don’t chu know, you NEVER go full ODELL!]
Anywhoo…
Ayn Rand was a Narcissist, and knew how to inspire a cult.
kthxbyyyeeeee!!!!!!

2024-03-09 03:27:42

I keep hearing it said that Bitcoin keeps setting new highs and then immediately selling down, presumably instead of spiking up, up, up.
Bear in mind that that’s just how normal, not-in-the-final-blow-off bull markets are supposed to act.
The stair-step is our friend. https://image.nostr.build/bf35ffa81e2c95a99db69bfc217f54a1c799591afdf945ed2349467e18f12b03.jpg

2024-02-25 05:23:12

Graham Elwood seems to be taking a big role in the Orange Pill Podcast, and I'm happy to see that. He's doing an excellent job, imo.
For the record, and I have misgivings even saying this, but as I've followed Graham for several years, he's a recent Bitcoiner and a long-time surfer, so it's amazing that he made the move to El Salvador! I think he'll be happy there, and I hope he is!
A couple years ago he publicly had a heartbreaking 'break' w/ Jimmy Dore when he said on livestream that he was absolutely in favor of mandatory vaccinations in the US. I quit following him after that, and so did Jimmy.
Jimmy has extensively reached out to discuss an apology. Graham has never offered one.
So...just for those who enjoy what Graham has to offer on the Orange Pill Podcast, I feel that's important backstory...and I'll leave it at that. Graham is not a dishonest person or a scammer, imo. But until he can admit his issues with endorsing forced vaccinations, I can appreciate him, but can't endorse him.

2024-02-23 04:53:42

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Signup w/ an email?
Yeah no.

2024-02-21 06:13:22

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100%
She needs a solid band and she’s golden.

2024-02-21 06:00:15

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It’s time you and @vrod had the talk…about steroids….

2024-02-21 05:58:36

JULIAN IS NOT A FOOTNOTE! #note1mr8…uhwn

2024-02-20 05:16:25

Personally, I absolutely LOVE watching @Britishhodl23 [redacted-not-on-Nostr].
So fabulous!
He's that guy who discovered Bitcoin and instantly knows SO much more than the rest of us do about Bitcoin. And will hard-core school us about it.
...and yes I KNOW so, so many of you have seen this before, but this is kinda new for me....so let me have my moment to eat popcorn and smile!

2024-02-20 02:40:14

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Reported for 4Q 2023.
Lay it on me!

2024-02-19 05:54:51

Ugh...ok for the thing of saying a thing if it's a thing:
Evidently Bill & Ex Foundation are dumping a LOT of minor holdings.
GIF for source:
https://m.primal.net/Hdis.jpg

2024-02-17 04:36:35

I’m ‘bout to get salty but explain to me like I’m NOT SOMEONE WHO RUNS TWO DIFFERENT NODES AND A NUMBER OF MINERS why I cannot fucking figure out how to get zaps on Nostr on iPad.
I reluctantly ditched Damus because Zaps were borked, and went with Alby for Damus (I think) but then Zaps were definitely being sent but I never received.
I got Primal. I’ve spent too many hours trying to figure out why (w/ a Bitcoin @ address) people are zapping me and again I don’t know where they go.
I clearly need to link my node to an Alby or Primal @-account but can’t find any info how. This should be front and center on either of their websites.
(again, salty, excuse me)
What SPECIFICALLY is the obstacle course everyone else has figured out but I can’t find anywhere online that I have to make through Primal and linked evidently thru Alby, pointed at my node, into Primal (which is worse than Damus imo, but whatever).
I just want to post on Nostr (on iPad) and receive Zaps.
Also, I fucking appreciate you all! Thx in advance!

2024-02-17 02:32:10

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Cool! Blackberries are BACK!

2024-01-23 06:39:02

Got censor-denied posting this on Twitter, so if I stop post here you will know why:
“If you don’t now understand that the US Gov’t is an occupied Army on American soil against American citizens…
Have you ever read a book?”

2024-01-09 02:13:00

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If I can offer up my opinion, and I’m in no way a mind-reader for Saylor.
He was the longest-termed CEO of any tech company by 2020, and I believe he’d announced his departure. Then he finally had his recognition moment with Bitcoin.
I believe Saylor was always meant to be a General of a war, but his war was 30+ years running a tech company, and he’d grown tired, but was too dedicated to hand it off.
When he finally found Bitcoin it energized him, and he became the ‘best version’ of himself that he’d always wanted to become. He took on the role as a Knight fighting at the behest of Bitcoin.
He’s not perfect, none of us are, and Bitcoin teaches us to slay our heroes.
But he’s really admirable. And a strong, strong leader.
One day he’ll fail us, but….today is not that day, imho.

2024-01-08 05:15:57

Asian markets now either know more than we do about an ETF, or are being coaxed into getting rekt.
My sats are in cold storage. So pass the popcorn.

2024-01-03 05:22:30

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You’ve got my attention…
Have you done this?
I’ve never swapped for Liquid, but I’m guessing what you’re suggesting is to do so thru boltz.exhange? Then could swap back later into BTC in larger, differing amounts?
Thx for your input!

2024-01-03 04:20:45

Only polling on Damus:
Last year I trialed Whirlpool turning 1mill sats into 9 different 100k sat utxos (cuz fees borked the last one).
Now, I don’t want to combine those sats, as that would render useless the forward-privacy I paid for.
Yet I don’t want ANY 100k sat-lots going forward, because of fear they’ll be orphaned by fees.
So looking for suggestions (& Damus doesn’t allow for polls).
1) Combine them and accept the loss of privacy?
2) Spend them quickly, and accept my Whirlpool experience was just a fad?
3) Leave them and hope for lower fees in the future?

2023-12-30 03:50:20

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I used to accept it with shock and feel really good for the rest of the day.
Then Damus got borked, and now I get zaps sent but have no idea where they even are…
But I can send them alright, so that’s nice.

2023-12-23 06:42:18

Sometimes I despair.
The forces working against us are sophisticated, entrenched, bureaucratically intricate, globally infiltrated and capable of undermining every individual human being who attains even a minor position of power or questions the Western World?
How can we, as self-identified “Bitcoiners” really hope to get even a minor foothold in this corrupted, global organized-crime dominated system?
I mean, I put a LOT of faith in Bitcoin, but I’m in the minority. And few even recognize the situation.
The price doesn’t bother me now, one way or the other tbh.
It’s the diffidence by almost everybody.
I can’t abide the diffidence.

2023-12-23 05:33:28

After @npub1rxy…hnp8 stream today (which was Amazing, so much respect for the man), I’m done with Youtube.
I somehow got censored during the stream, no idea why, I’m not edgy, doesn’t matter….youtube definitively rejected me. And I didn’t even know it happened, because I was “shadow banned”, so I saw all my comments, but NOBODY else saw them. I had to figure it out by asking questions that no-one ever answered. It was humiliating.
So I’m done with youtube. Fucking done. I want nothing to do with it.
Any of my 170+ subs will be unsubscribed.
I fucking hate this…but its been a short time coming, and it needs to happen.
I won’t follow Bitcoiners on Youtube from now on.

2023-12-23 03:56:27

I even just went back.
Yeah.
Youtube absolutely censored your Christmas vid-stream @npub1rxy…hnp8
I don’t know why, but see my previous Nostr post.
Your stream definitely got borked by Youtube.

2023-12-20 06:48:03

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Yeah…I don’t know where those went.
I need to go back to investigating Damus workarounds that I didn’t spend enough time investigating in the first placy.
Appreciate you for your troubles on my behalf.
Here’s some sats for your help! I trust they get through.

2023-12-20 06:34:00

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So you zapped me sats, I assume?
Because I don’t show that I received anything.
Truly appreciate your effort, and I’ll get back to you when I figure out where the sats are going.

2023-12-20 05:29:50

Can I ask a kind pleb to send me like, 10 sats or something?
On Damus I had to work a go-around to send zaps, and that seems to be working…
…but I never receive anything. So I desperately need to know if its the system that’s broken or if it’s me that’s broken.
1 response is all that’s necessary, and I’ll zap them back, pinky-swear.
Thx in advance.

2023-12-19 05:52:08

“It's not easy to discover how many vaccines have been thrown out. Governments, including the EU's second-most populous country France, are reluctant to reveal the scale of the waste.”
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-bonfire-covid-vaccines-coronavirus-waste-europe-analysis/

2023-12-17 04:43:14

I don’t always like all-caps.
But when I do, I like ALL-CAPS @npub1qny…95gx
SCORCH THE FIAT EARTH!!!! https://image.nostr.build/fd3699647634d175c64642e991fbc3ca0dd600789e1c9e0dbb6006a532132385.jpg

2023-12-15 06:22:13

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Health supplements was the original drop-shipping.
Tim Ferriss’s “4 Hour Work Week” was all about drop-shipping health supplements.
He went on to become rich from teaching ppl to setup websites to sell health supplements.
Surprise this sector hasn’t digested itself.

2023-12-10 17:25:27

Meanwhile in Japan, money is laundered perfectly well w/o the use of “cryptocurrencies”, and politicians are actually held accountable when it’s discovered.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/10/japan/politics/kishida-considering-repacling-cabniet-members/

2023-12-03 07:03:51

Hey y’all! Just a note.
I started investing in 1995.
Technical Analysis was an emerging thing, based on peeps who charted shit on paper.
Then became a meme based on peeps who charted shit with computers.
Then became teh shit based on peeps who ‘quanted’ shit via algos and very short ethernet cords to the Exchanges.
Then became a handful of trading houses w/ infinite access to the Federal Reserve.
TA/Technical Analysis is not a thing anymore. It’s dead. It’s shitcoining for inexperienced gamblers.
And the best - the BEST - aren’t spending fuck-all time talking to you.

2023-11-30 06:55:38

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Hey honestly, that doesn’t help, because the QR code provided thru LND via Umbrel isn’t scannable by Zeus. That’s the breakdown.
I may not be communicating this intuitively, but my point is that users all over the interwebs also, and clearly, share this frustration: that they can’t scan Zeus via the QR code provided by Umbrel. I’ve run into this complaint so many times in trying to dyor.
Take that as you will…Umbrel is not great, yes. But it’s huge, and works.
So. My point is. I don’t know where the breakdown occurred, but I really love you all as the manly love-beasts you are…but…not until this gets fixed.

2023-11-28 16:44:30

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Anything in the works for fixing the broken Umbrel QR code? Cuz that’s a huge pain.

2023-11-25 19:21:48

UBS may have just imploded:
“UBS Group AG is a multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland. Co-headquartered in the cities of Zürich and Basel, it maintains a presence in all major financial centers as the largest Swiss banking institution and the largest private bank in the world.
Yesterday, UBS appears to have FAILED-TO-DELIVER on Bonds that were due.
According to rapidly-spreading reports, not only has UBS Failed-to-Deliver on Bonds, but The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) reportedly took action to COVER-UP the UBS Failure-to-Deliver; DTCC allegedly *** D E L E T E D *** the CUSIP Numbers for those bonds, so as a matter of record, those bonds "no longer exist." Apparently, they're simply "gone."”
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/reports-ubs-group-failed-to-deliver-bonds-due-nov-22-dtcc-deleted-those-bond-cusip-numbers-sec-concealing-failure-to-deliver-data-since-september

2023-11-25 07:07:06

I hate myself for posting this so spare yourself the scorn and just click-bait:
https://nightdaily.com/s/artist-historical-figures-look/?as=305&utm_source=tw&utm_medium=tw_nd_artist-historical-figures-look_desk_us_kw_171123&utm_campaign=tw_nd_artist-historical-figures-look_desk_us_kw_171123&utm_content=Ad1&twclid=24ynv7gmxbgz1g0pghysnhnpa1&bdk=0
Also, Mona Lisa is the artistically the cringiest.

2023-11-15 07:17:00

Interesting.
Is this a thing plebs?
User respond only please. #note1zhh…3tln

2023-11-14 08:08:23

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Ok newb question, but everyone I need to text with is on SMS standard protocol apps, and Signal stopped supporting those, so is it possible to get texts from work/friends/family on a Graphene OS text app?

2023-11-14 07:56:18

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you’re doing it wrong
Haiku seven syllables
Pickles are good huh?

2023-11-02 04:08:26

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okay I genuinely agonize - as a male - whether to tuck a shirt into my jeans/casual pants?
I don’t know why.
Somehow tucking in became a thing that’s not acceptable.
Yet you two demonstrate that it’s all good. It’s all attractive.
So I guess I’ve got that going forward.
Cheers!

2023-11-02 03:29:31

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Soooo…when there isn’t enough fiat left?
Which is a real thing for you and me, but not for the people who REALLY need Bitcoin right now…

2023-11-01 06:43:15

Bitcoin is the future of performance art.
Because in the Fiat world performance art is dead.
Inarguably dead.
Artists are the lowest feeders on the Fiat chain.
Always were, always are.
(asterisk the handful of graphic artists intimately involved in money laundering and child trafficking, but that’s another…)
In the coming transformation to the Bitcoin standard, real Artists can position themselves as front-runners.
So its Simple.
Start with your Art.
Ask to integrate Lightning/Bitcoin payments into your art.
You get this right?
Just ask for Bitcoin.
The asking itself is what matters.
Forget Fiat begging, make your begging for QR code Bitcoin as part of the performance.

2023-10-31 05:54:18

Aaaand there it goes….
The Great Unraveling is in full swing now.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/10/31/economy/boj-policy-decision-yields/

2023-10-29 04:31:31

The typical “End Times” religions have seen rising demographics/adherents in the past decade or more, including major (very elderly) leaders in Congress.
“The Rapture” is a made-up storyline, no different to Harry Potter, but many old people have been captured by it. Nothing in the Bible ever spoke about it (it was made up in the late-1800’s by a fringe sect of Christianity.)
Yet many very old people very much in charge and very unaligned with modern society are very, very convinced that all that bullshit is real. They are us, believing what we were taught was real 20 years ago but was fake-news.
The 4th Turning is turning out to be a valid template for what will happen over the next 5 years.
End-Times Zealots are real, old, in charge and very focused on sacrificing young people for their imaginary cause.
If you don’t recognize them, that the point.

2023-10-01 07:36:14

I resolutely believe the next 4 to 6 months will become a turning point for all of humanity.
Why do I say this?

2023-10-01 07:15:24

Who’s your IRL genuine hero?
A recognized professional sports ‘star’?
A widely respected Actor?
A massively loved and accepted Singer?
A Lawyer?
A Civil Rights Activist?
A Libertarian?
Quit using the term GOAT unless its better than Paul Robeson.
https://www.biography.com/actors/paul-robeson

2023-09-30 05:49:26

If you’ve never grappled with the term “domesticated”
that’s totally cool.
unless you have responsibility for an animal.
then you need to wonder what I just posted.

2023-09-30 05:20:51

Some 3% of humans are psychopathic.
Many more are sociopathic.
The clinical definition is that Psychopaths are born, and Sociopaths are made.
These people disproportionately destroy the general harmony of human relations by their incessant desire to control other people.
The characteristic feature of the Psycho-Sociopath is their need to create the rules or framework in which the people they relate to must operate.
Thus, they seek positions of Central Planning, and Power.
“Normal” people don’t die in offices of Power. They withdraw long before to spend time with family, and friends.
Right?
Would you continually force yourself to work beyond an age you could easily retire?
This is crucial to understand.
People who cling to positions of power beyond a reasonable age, are not normal. They’re adult children.
They are Sociopathic. They don’t have emotional connections to other people. They value the tribe of Power, of other sociopaths, more than they value family and friends.
They WANT to die as a Great Leader.
Not “retire” comfortably.
When people don’t WANT to retire comfortably, there is something fundamentally broken about them.

2023-09-28 03:12:18

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What’s it like to feel overconfident?
Asking as a life-long professional actor/director/writer/introvert….

2023-09-19 06:41:45

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Bitcoin is unequivocally a decentralized currency. I’m not arguing, but there is no doubt about this.
If it wasn’t, virtually every Nation State wouldn’t be creating their own, VERY Centralized currencies to counter it.
If Bitcoin wasn’t decentralized, the SEC wouldn’t be denying it an ETF while Wall Street embraces any number of shit-coins.
If Bitcoin wasn’t decentralized, it wouldn’t be infiltrating and becoming an adopted currency in collapsing nations.
We’ve never had a truly permissionless, in-corruptible money. In Human lifetime. We’re all fuzzy on how this matters and how it will play out.
But it is happening, and it’s incumbent on all of us to spend time to learn about Bitcoin, and how this will play out. We can’t afford to “fuck around and find out”.

2023-09-19 06:12:26

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Socialism isn’t on the rise, it is a psy-op, and always has been.
Who in Power has ever cared about poor people?
We need to focus on Corporatism, Corporate Socialism if you will. This is the battle.
Bitcoin doesn’t undermine Socialism, it undermines Corporatism (in this day and age).

2023-07-30 07:52:31

On iPad, on Damus, lack of zap-ability is hurting my experience.
But iPad is my internet interface.
I thought I’d slide thru under the radar because I joined during Testflight, but no.
Just want to complain. That’s all. Thx for being a shoulder.
I’ll leave corporate interfaces w/ interwebs first chance I get.

2023-06-13 16:03:46

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My honest opinion:
w/o zaps I will switch away from Damus.
I don’t care if people on Apple devices are shut off from Nostre, I do care about native lightning network being part of my social media.

2023-01-17 07:41:03

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Aaand just like that…there it is.
I’m genuinely impressed by this completely unnecessary act of kindness.

2023-01-17 07:34:47

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https://www.gallery-kojima.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/福井良之助_紫陽花-768x359.jpg

2023-01-17 07:23:36

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Yet I saved an URL and it isn’t working, any reason for that? Using Damus on ipad.

2022-12-28 08:47:00

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15k sats to use, to send small amounts (because LN)? Am I reading this right?

2022-12-28 08:35:59

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So your pov is that bip47 paynym wallets provide Forward Privacy on BTC w/o coinjoin or other altcoin runaround? Explain pls.

2022-12-28 08:24:15

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KYC’d BTC is tracked/traceable from wallet to wallet, spend to spend, going forward. Breaking this can happen via coinjoin…again, going forward. Doesn’t erase what you’ve bought and moved in the past. There is no “backward” privacy from this. Coinjoins are expensive at this time. What I’ve outlined is an alternative method I’ve heard about but never engaged in myself, that provides the same features at far, far less cost.

2022-12-28 07:23:18

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The question around ‘traceability’ is likely what is referred to as Forward Privacy. If you bought BTC on a KYC exchange acct, your purchase is known and recorded, as are all movements ‘going forward’. Therefore you should assume you will one day be called to account for that purchase. (i.e. possibly one day your gov’t will enact an Unrealized Gains Tax on ‘crypto’, and you will be taxed on your purchase(s), even if they don’t know what you did with them afterwords.) So if you bought thru a KYC acct, you may - MAY - be screwed already, regardless whether you observe utmost privacy going forward.
So back to the main question, ‘traceability’: if you simply want to spend your BTC w/o being personally connected to a particular spend…the easiest way (I’ve heard of and can’t vouch for) is to find an exchange that will allow acct opening w/ only an (unique, private) email. Send only enough to stay w/i their withdrawal requirements for KYC registration, exchange into XMR, send the XMR to an XMR-wallet (to break the traceable path)…then spend the XMR freely from there.
If you need to spend actual BTC or wish to break Forward Privacy for BTC (w/o paying huge coinjoin fees), do all the above, but then send the XMR to a NEW acct at the same or different exchange (under a new unique & private email), swap XMR for BTC, then send BTC to a wallet address you’ve never used before for KYC transfers.
You see…its a complicated mess. And the window is closing quickly on this complicated mess. Envy those who bought their BTC years ago before KYC…they were born on third-base, think they hit a triple.
My point being…I’ve never done any of this, only thought it thru for funsies…but your big question is WHAT DO YOU WANT with BTC? If you bought via KYC acct, you can assume you are tracked and every spend is monitored. So how much effort/how much incentive do you have to put into changing this situation?