That is schweet.

I'm not sure if I've got it wrong but whenever I hear the words invest in Bitcoin, or Bitcoin is an investment, my hackles rise. To me that is like saying, buying staple food is speculation. Isn't that just what you need to do as a functioning human being? Nothing more, nothing less.

The anti green energy brigade are right about needing fossil fuel as the backstop baseload at a national level. I'm sat here in a raincloud drawing power from a grid not running on sunshine or wind. But what if that need for constant energy for all is a poorly conceived notion? Is it really so bad that I'm not as productive economically today as I was last week? There's a famous story from the gulag, can't remember who wrote it, but the only ones who survived were those who slept furthest from the stove. Obviously someone's going to say that with endless energy supplies the fire never goes down. And I would respond that humans who don't know hardship are the weakest, physically and mentally. That's not some macho 30-something alpha male BS, the stove story backs up the observable fact that life , like muscle, only gets stronger in adversity. So why do we strive for perfect energy supplies? To be the most productive people in the graveyard?

If you have no intention of paying back a debt and you have a playbook of endless excuses ready lined up til your creditor is old and infirm...and if the pushback from the odd feisty OAP gets a little persistent you have no trouble escalating words to bullying, before making the threat of petty violence with no problem delivering on ultimate violence... Another good storyline for a movie about Frank Underwood 's dark political successor in the state pension office

I'm not ancient but I'm old enough to spot some patterns. It doesn't surprise me that Nostr is so constructive. The culture of an entity comes from, I hesitate to say "the top" where a decentralised entity is concerned, so let's say "the initiators" The culture of FarceBook and Twitter comes from the top, no doubt. In all cases, the majority of users fall into line and become the best version of that culture. And those "few" who feel uncomfortable with the culture leave. But nothing is forever smooth. I remember when Twitter was so positive til it wasn't. and Facebook apparently wasn't too bad til it wasn't.. Both were assaulted by money and failed to maintain their culture and integrity built up over how many years?. So which social media culture is going to prevail now? The most powerful encumbents or the most constructive newcomers? As long as the driving force behind Nostr stays true to the founding principles and resists tinkering with a great idea, the positive culture will snowball. Free people can be the best versions of themselves. And then let's see what happens. It's honeymoon time for a good while yet, but the community should be prepared for hijack attempts by literal dark forces. History says the Nostr paradigm has til its 8th birthday before hitting its first existential crisis. Just like Bitcoin, just like humans with our mystical but true 7 year itch that takes a while to play out. Hopefully I'm just voicing what has been obvious to the smart cookies from the start and Nostr stays the best version of constructive.

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Not sure if this is a photo of heaven or hell.

#asknostr getting the idea that relays are like websites the @fiat jaf explanation. I'm going to launch a website, mirror it on npubpro all being well. I also want to make sure as best as possible that the community I build up around my website is able to find out conversations in one place, at least. I know half the fun of Nostr for some is not knowing what is read or replied to where, but thats not going to work for most normies. In fact the first reason to diss Nostr will be when I send an "important" message and it doesn't arrive! And they rightly say that doesn't really happen in the legacy world. So at this stage of life, with enough on my plate as it is, what am I looking at to have access to an OGE relay that could be a reliable repository for our little community chit chat, And to also distribute that content to other relays in case the home relay goes down, so at least the content stays online somewhere. I don't have the headspace to set anything up in my kitchen. I just want a monthly bill and links to "my" relay (s) to send to my community members when they sign up to Nostr. Any ideas please.

Voted for @hrf at anthem awards for their cbdc tracker. No doubt nostriches know what cbdc is but I bet most of our nearest and dearest don't. At best it is known as bitcoin but better, or bitcoin but more convenient and safer etc, or a great way to receive handouts without having to apply for or sign anything https://celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting/#/2025/sustainability-environment-climate/awareness-categories/non-profit

30 minutes and 3 attempts to recharge a phone tariff - for my security. Fiat banking and mindset is so defective

Imagine that decades ago the oligarchs set a plan in motion to convince the world that man is the cause of climate change. The UN HQ is donated by an oligarch. To start, they install a live wire called Mr Strong to establish dozens of conservation-based organisations like the WWF, to push the narrative that the environment needs protecting from destructive people. The reserves are earmarked for oilygarchs. The pinnacle of the plan kicks in in 1992 at Rio. The ICCP report is drafted. 2500 scientists split into 3 groups. Group 1 drafts the thesis of man made climate change. Groups 2 and 3 find backing info. Mr Strong writes his own Working Report, Group 1 adapt their thesis accordingly. The world is bombarded with headlines like "97% of scientists" scared witless by the consensus findings. Time for change is now, the window of 1.5c limitation action opportunity is closing. Forget the 1000 variables that comprise climate, focus on one gas, made by Mans activity. Repeat and build the pressure to change global society through fear of an imaginary problem. When the oligarchs actively promote economic growth that increases CO2 production, questions start being asked. Why? All sorts of plausible reasons are posited. The elites are greedy psychos fearful of the people, so they drive a financial system that works in their favour to build up even more protection from an inevitable collapse as climate change kicks in. Except, wait. They are not plausible reasons for driving the Big Everything economy harder. We the people are getting stronger, more educated, living standards are rising. That makes us an even bigger demographic to be fearful of, surely? Then someone joins the dots. They are pumping Big Everything because it's horrendous underlying polluting, poisonous chemical loaded philosophy is the fastest way to create a global population that is ill, vulnerable to outbreaks of disease that healthy people would brush off. They spread lies about fertility rates, chuckling as so few remember a chemical called glyphisate that now falls as rain, causing infertility, autism and more. They sprinkle a generous load of war and atrocity into the mix to create chaos, division, immigration... The elites never eat shit food, always drink clean water, take care of themselves. Keep out the limelight. They don't fight. They sit in smoke-less filled rooms, and watch and wait. And talk about the day their eugenics plan falls into place and leaves under 1 billion people alive, and all the wealth of the Big Everything plan sitting safely under their control. That would make for a good book. 99.9% of people would read it thinking that such monsters are the stuff of fiction. The 0.01% would disagree.