@hal how many active users (defined by five posts of more than 100 words per week) are on nostr?

walking back from the track today, this song lyric popped into my head: *This countryside's burnin' with wolfmen fairies dressed in drag for homicide* *They hit and run, plead sanctuary, 'neath the holy stone they hide* *They're breakin' beams and crosses with a spastic's reelin' perfection* *Nuns run bald through Vatican halls pregnant, pleadin' immaculate conception* *And everybody's wrecked on Main Street from drinking unholy blood* *Sticker smiles sweet as gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mud* — Lost In The Flood Bruce Springsteen Sad what happened to Springsteen via the woke mind virus, but prophetic lyrics written in Jan, 1973

it's bullshit we crashed below 122

Excerpt from new podcast: https://rumble.com/v6zrczo-your-home-is-the-shaking.html

The Digital ID platform is an overcorrection to a real problem. The problem is not knowing who is who. That IS a real problem. There are scams and illegals and bots, but requiring law-abiding citizens to submit to total control only creates a worse problem. But overcorrection to real problems is not limited to government apparatchiks and control freaks. I see people overcorrecting all the time, with a regression to old school racism in the face of catastrophic unchecked immigration, for example. Yes, uncivilized third-worlders unsuited to open western cultures do commit more crimes, shouldn’t be allowed in without proper vetting. But I see way too many people wanted to ban “Muslims” generally or people generally from particular countries of origin, making the argument along *racial* lines. What happened to judging people by the content of their character? What happened to the focus on the individual rather than the collective? The midwit always wants a simple heuristic to solve complex problems and hence overcorrects when problems arise, creating a new set of problems. Collectivism, of which racism is but one subset, is never the solution.

I find myself agreeing with a lot of the Christian traditionalist views I read here but I have to make sure I don’t get caught up in it too much. ANY belief system is a crutch. Devotion to God is the absence of beliefs, IMO, it’s getting in tune with the experience of life which is God. Beliefs are Satan’s work, the tree of knowledge, so to speak. You form a belief to comfort yourself from the terrifying prospect of total doubt which is God. You cower before the might of the raw experience and run to the safety of a mantra, a book or a set of mental propositions and images that makes you feel better. But as Robert Frost said, “The only way out is through.”

The more Twitter turns into AI slop, the better and more calming my nostr feed of people posting whatever random thoughts they have. It’s like oh, right, I don’t have to go to war with the psyop right now to see what’s going on. And while Twitter obviously is much better for current events/news, is it really more important I know what Congress is fighting about than seeing a photo of a classic car or someone’s grilled steak?

I feel far less fear and dread of the globalist agenda than I did one year into covid. Maybe I’m deluded, but I just don’t think they will win. Like when Starmer threatens digital ID, I think “go ahead and try that shit, see how it goes for you.” Again, I might be wrong, but it feels like they’re way too exposed now. Too many people know.

Digital ID is the ultimate use case.

Digital ID is bullish af. Obviously.

Very few people *really* care about conflicts abroad. I remember talking about this 20 years ago, like you hear a bomb blows up in a market in Baghdad, 40 people die, and you think, “Oh man, that’s awful.” Then five minutes later you find out the best player on your fantasy football team tore his ACL and is out for the year, and it sours your mood for half the day. It’s just reality — you can’t get wrecked by every horror that goes on around the world, most of which you are actually blissfully unaware. The minority that make your radar *should not* ruin your mood, either, and this does not make you a bad person. On the contrary it makes a normal one. It follows that most people going on about conflicts and tragedies that neither involve nor directly affect them are doing it for other reasons. There is some *other* psychological, emotional or social payoff for it. They don’t care any more than you do about the actual humans involved. There are probably a tiny minority who actually do feel strongly enough to go to the affected places and do something, out of sight of social media and their peers, but you have probably never encountered these rare people and likely never will.