does anyone else play the Bourne Identity theme song when they are signing a transaction with their coldcard?

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I've long appreciated Gabor Maté's sober, compassionate perspective on the intractable, Sisyphean Israel/Palestine conflict. This 37min conversation is a great one:

“It is a grave error to suppose that a dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict, rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with rigorous, military precision. Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable; men could endure the harshest edicts, provided these edicts were known, specific and stable; it is not the known that breaks men’s spirits, but the unpredictable. A dictatorship has to be capricious; it has to rule by means of the unexpected, the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational; it has to deal not in death, but in sudden death; a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are psychologically unable to bear” View quoted note →

Enjoying the cherry blossoms and reflecting on the precious brevity of life whilst Fincen seeks to eradicate the last vestiges of financial privacy. Good evening.

Nostr is an oasis in a desert of derangement

Is there any mobile Lightning wallet that has integrated Bolt12 recurring payments?

IMO this is as close as it gets to a perfect film. Hits on all counts: thematic poignance perfectly executed (I dare you not to tear up near the end), wonderful characters and relationships, a killer soundtrack, and tongue-in-cheek humour that isn't quippy (at least in the Marvel-esque fashion that undermines the catharsis of the story).

TIL we can thank (or blame) Japanese schoolgirls for much of our modern world

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Purely subjectively, this bear has been far more disspiriting than the 2018-19 one. Perhaps because it has been significantly longer, perhaps because we never even got the bull market we were hoping for, perhaps it's just that the world seems like a far darker place post all the covid insanity... The discourse within Bitcoin also seems noticeably worse than in 2018-19. It feels like there is another block size war brewing. This time it isn't over any particular proposed change to bitcoin, but rather over the idea that there ought to be any more changes to bitcoin at all.

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The vast majority of decaf coffee is decaffeinated using dangerous solvents (most commonly methylene chloride and ethyl acetate). If you want to drink decaf, make sure to get coffee that is decaffeinated using the Swiss Water Method. If the bag doesn't say, assume the worst. Even in the coffee snob capital of the world, New Zealand, it took me a while to find a cafe that had non-toxic decaf. But it's so very worth it.

There are days where I think of leaving New Zealand. There is a loneliness to the country - you really feel how isolated you are from the rest of the world. I recently had a friend visit from Israel, who commented that she hadn’t felt this sort of isolation since visiting Nova Scotia in college. And I live in Christchurch, a city of 350,000. You get the sense that you are just watching the the world play out on your screen, as opposed to actually participating in it. There isn’t much of a bitcoin scene, or an anything scene. And so few people travel because our closest neighbour, Australia, is an over 3hr flight. People make fun of Americans for not traveling, but America is really like 30 countries in one, the regional cultures are so distinct. My parents are from small towns in Mississippi and Georgia, which are a different planet compared to New York, which is wildly different again to where I went to college in Ohio. New Zealand is comparatively homogenous (with the possible exception of Auckland). And NZ is huge - deceptively so! Even if your map includes NZ (which many don’t), it is lying to you about its size. Here is a map of NZ superimposed over Europe: You could use the template of NZ and place it anywhere in Europe and you would capture at least 100 million inside it. Now consider that NZ has only 5 million people. ...Anyway, I say all of this, but then there are days like today, walking amongst ancient, extinct volcanoes I find myself humming the Jurassic theme without even realising it, when I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.