Multiple thin coats my ass

That's the cost of putting things off, I guess... wasps start to grow nests in it.

Appreciate when people talk directly

Him: if God were outside of time then he couldn't create the world... Me: well actually you misunderstand what it means to be outside of time. Him: why would I consider that, since there's no evidence for it? This is a darkened way of thinking. The curse of those who reject God. A knowledgeable person evaluates all possibilities. Not just the ones they think are probably right. Ironically, the one who has knowledge knows exactly how scarce true knowledge is! Sometimes the best we can say is hearsay. To evaluate a possibility is to hold it in one's mind and imagine if it _were_ true (not crossing wires and accidentally thinking that it _is_ true) and then consider what natural implications and outcomes might occur if the proposition were actually true. Then, having held in mind multiple competing propositions, you may select one to be your actual choice of what you believe to be true. But these people look through a narrow glass because of their aversion to God and his works. You don't have time to think about things? Fine, then just trust your elders. I trust God and the scriptures. You can trust your scientists, who are looking through their own narrow glass, also excluding God and his possibilities. I do not worship science. I know what science is. I follow true science, which is a methodology of thinking. Every day. What is commonly cited as science is the consensus of scientists. I'm not saying that's wrong, but I am saying that conflating this meaning with true science is horribly confusing and unhelpful to any discussion about whether one part is right or wrong.

It's funny. A person who refuses to entertain the proposition then proceeds to misunderstand its implications and conclusions, and then he puts forth a straw man, saying "this conclusion is ridiculous", having not first understood the argument, and has reached wrong conclusions.

Secretly she wishes I would clean the house before she gets back.

She went on a date and immediately said: I want this one. This is the one. I want this one. This is a perfectly good one. I'll have it as mine. And he agreed.

The poor bald guy in MS Teams meeting - Teams thinks he should have more hair, and because of the bg cutout, his background is showing up as his hair.

I just want to catalog all the important stuff in my life. Good and bad. And dates. Like I'm my own historian. And then I poke myself in the eye with glimpses of glory involving IPFS/CIDs, digital signing, web of trust, and we can't ignore the book of revelation. Like if I build a system like that, it's going to bump something in the flow of history. Then I wonder if God actually wanted me to build that or not. "but mere talk leads only to poverty"

A thought occurred to me earlier today ... Sometimes, I don't need perfection—I need action.

I think about gated information being published, even by the person who wants it to be released in the future after he is dead. Certain redacted information that provides clarity and truth but would bring great shame to the author, or his relatives. However, shame is temporary, but truth is eternal. Some people value truth over shame. But how can they confess? To write it in a journal that no one will read? Or might read at the wrong time... Only an automated system, a federated system, could provide guarantees like that. Like an electronic Trust. Everyone promises to only release their shard of the private key after the prescribed duration of time, which will release the secret (allowing it to be decrypted). The assumption is that the secret is published publicly, but encrypted, using this system. And the assumption is that these trustees cannot be coerced by any government or sinister infiltration, to release their keys prematurely. Even to save lives they must not be allowed, or capable, of doing that. At least, any collusion should be publicly visible on the network, by watchers, so that public users may revolt, and some of them might have an escape hatch for their secrets (extra layer(s) of encryption). For those who love truth, it is an admirable goal to admit to past mistakes in a balanced and plain way. Not reopening wounds, but identifying pain and scars. Ones that happened while we were younger and less wise. And we have been chastened since then, to become a servant of others.

I wish that a website could be built around an Npub. Such as if you were to take all the tweets from a certain individual, and compile them into a website. But the website would actually just be a frontend to Nostr. Other people could interact in a gated way, such as leaving comments, voting, reputation systems. This could be extended with a moderation system. I'm sure there are NIPs for many of these. I don't remember her name, but — there's a lady who apparently her descendants really liked the things she said, because they published a book of her sayings. And there's a website outlining her doctrines, and everything. It's that kind of idea, but connected to Nostr.

The Wisdom of Matthias

Like clouds and wind with no rain is he who boasts of gifts he does not give. This was me in my past co-founder relationship. I was the clouds and wind with no rain.

You can tell a lot about a man by the way he organizes his screw collection.

"The world's oldest brewery... brief hiatus during the dark ages..."

When my ex co-founder sent me a dense spec doc generated by AI, I said "that's crazy". Now, I'm working with Claude shipping massive features I'm like "that's crazy".

Frozen but with a better singer and less gay norse shit