It's always infurtiating to see people show off their reddit-tier understanding of history without taking even a moment to question whether they have the slightest fucking clue what they're talking about.

What do you mean I can't post asinine memes about taking down the world financial system on my Globotech Personal Surveillance Device?!

People talk like banning Damus is going to backfire, as if people are going to "wake up" and suddenly flock to Nostr. Motherfucker, do you even REMEMBER covid? Nobody is going to wake up. You are a member of a small, niche online community that the powers that be would happily crush and you need to start thinking like that way. The first order of business is to protect what you have. If your app is dependent on the app store for distribution then it's not going to make it - it'll either be neutered or banned. Sorry, but that's just the way it is. You can't take on big tech while using their infrastructure.

How many of the people currently complaining about Apple fucking with their zaps would happily accept speech restrictions so long as they can continue to make a pittance in sats for posting "gm pv"? My guess is far too many.

I don't know when all this bullshit about dinosaurs having feathers started but I can't help but think it HAS to have something to do with the trans agenda.

Are people seriously going to flip about app stores banning Damus over zaps? Motherfucker, they've been banning free speech apps for YEARS at this point.

My son just watched a recent Mr Beast video son I had to explain why it was that a grown man would pretend to be a woman. I said it was because he played too many video games.

Why did it have to be Ted who died? Why not Zerzan or Derrick Jensen.

My copy of Industrial Society And It's Future, which dates from that brief period between its initial publication and Uncle Ted's arrest a few months later. This has to be some sort of collector's item.

Imagine what goth culture could've been like if Poe had stuck with his first impulse and made it a parrot instead of a raven.

Spent far too long hate-reading reviews of Harry Potter books on Goodreads. This is fairly typical of the five star ones.

Express mild reservations about your content being highjacked by advertisers and you'll receive a vapid, condescending reply from a chatbot. The future of social media is here on Nostr right now.

January 3, 2140: President Sha'ntavius Kardashian-Bieber-Occasio-Cortez IV closes the Orange Window, thereby ending the Bitcoin franctional reserve system and inaugerating a new and glorious era of fiat currency, long-heralded by classical economists as the "gold standard" of monetary systems.

You know, we might actually be able to have a nice, cozy little permissionless chat protocol if weren't for the people who are just hell-bent on monetizing the living shit out of everything.

If you ever wanted to know what it was like to live in Rome in the late fifth century, then count yourself lucky. Sure, everything feels kind of the same but the empire has ended, even if most people haven't realised it yet.

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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero