The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate. -Francis Bacon

I miss zapping on mobile. Do we have any avenues for convincing apple to permit this in the app store? Can we flood one of their inboxes with explanations as to how Damus (or any app) does not handle any transactions, but rather just displays the results of transactions?

Played a great session last night using these rules. I botched that hashtag though lol, let’s try this one #dnd View quoted note →

Ok so government bad, small local govs less bad yada yada But am I the only one that wishes vehicle license plates weren’t state specific?

What up nostr!? I’ve been pretty quiet for awhile, and I just realized why. Every time I have an insight or something worthwhile to say, I realize that most of y’all are already on the same page. Cheers to y’all, you forward thinking, based internet dwellers

To translate it into UNIX system administration terms (Randy’s fundamental metaphor for just about everything), the post-modern, politically correct atheists were like people who had suddenly found themselves in charge of a big and unfathomably complex computer system (viz. society) with no documentation or instructions of any kind, and so whose only way to keep the thing running was to invent and enforce certain rules with a kind of neo-Puritanical rigor, because they were at a loss to deal with any deviations from what they saw as the norm. Whereas people who were wired into a church were like UNIX system administrators who, while they might not understand everything, at least had some documentation, some FAQs and How-tos and README files, providing some guidance on what to do when things got out of whack. Neal Stephenson, 1999 (!!)

Cryptonomicon, chapter “The Spawn of Onan”; the dinner conversation with a bunch of humanities academics. Amazing how things don’t change

The bitcoin exchange rate is never low. It’s derived exactly where it memes to

What up nostr, I quit my job. Last day tomorrow 🤙🏽🤙🏽

So is Apple taking a percentage of Amazon purchases made on the iOS Amazon app?

For the past month, Damus shows that I’m connected to only half my relays. Anyone else experiencing this?

There’s that meme on reddit about caring about “fake internet points”. I can’t believe that in my lifetime we can instead shitpost for the hardest fucking money on earth