Contemporary life. Fiat art.

Pro-tip for L1 wallet authors - implement Cashu to gain instant access to the lightning network (although lightning does not have to be hard with @Breez ⚡️SDK). With a few API calls you enable your clients to send and receive lightning payments without the pain of channel management and without custody for the wallet authors. Pro tip 2: allow the client to scan any Qr code (monero, litecoin, stablecoins, ...) and pay it through a swap service from lightning - by melting cashu tokens (so the user does not have to wait for confirmation).

Hot tip how to "retaliate" for Trump's tariffs: 1.) Remove tariffs for your citizens, instantly improving their quality of life. Their imports from anywhere will be cheap and they will love it. "Haha, suck it MAGAns!" 2.) negotiate a completely tariff free and tax free regimes with other countries, promoting trade, helping exporters, participating in specialization. The bigger the market without barriers, the better capitalism works, accelerating quality of life of everyone involved. The only problem: the only opposition to MAGA is ABOSes (A bunch of socialists) and PMDs (petty medieval dictators). So everyone is going to play the retarded "we'll raise tariffs on whiskey, buhahaha" game.

Climate change policies: It's a very expensive way to live like a poor person.

Enabling cryptocurrency by regulation is literally: "for something that before the regulation anyone could have done, you now need a special permit (license) and comply with regulatory bullshit". Oh, but regulatory clarity! What is not clear in "everything that is not forbidden is allowed"? What more regulatory clarity do you need? Stop with this enabling statetalk, we don't need to enable anything, we are pre-enabled by default.

I have a theory that every place on earth resonates with some substances that alter some brain receptors or neurotransmitters. For example in Paraguay, it is definitely tereré, in Uruguay it is 🧉. In Czech republic it is 🍺. You don't have to use them (I don't drink beer for example), but it's quite possible that you get more in sync with the local vibe if you do.

When given a choice between left libertarian society vs economic right but authoritarian, I'd easily pick left libertarian. The left-right axis is much less important than libertarian-authoritarian.

Anything good, open source and local to do text to speech on Android? As a replacement to rhvoice? #asknostr

"While the United States has always been an attractive destination for ambitious foreigners seeking opportunity, recent waves of migrants and asylum-seekers hope to escape their countries any way they can. This is particularly stark in Eurasia, where fully 15% of all Ukrainians and 25% of all Syrians fled their countries' respective wars. The "motherland," which once commanded the obligatory loyalty of entire populations, is now a vague "homeland" to wax nostalgic about after fleeing it. Relative winners of decolonization leveraged their western-educated elites to build up their state capacity and technological capabilities, but now the fervent dream of rising elites across the globe is to move wherever they can join their transnational peers. Relocating across the world for economic and cultural reasons, once the preserve of a narrow slice of radical dreamers, is now commonplace. ... Many in the west likewise think nothing of leaving their homeland to avoid punitive wealth taxes, as have been implemented in some parts of Europe and discussed in the United States. A small class sees citizenship as something to acquire for optionality, a hedge against dysfunction at home and a tool to streamline business and travel, rather than a solemn oath involving rights and responsibilities."

neomedievalism and transnational nobility

state formation and national decline, competitors to sovereign authority, new cultures in the internet age

Many mobile carriers restrict personal hotspot usage, forcing users to upgrade to pricier plans just to share their internet connection. For example operators in Panama offer unlimited data ("Ilimitado"), but that does not include hotspot traffic. You can adjust TTL settings on the connected device or use SOCKS proxy to make your hotspotted traffic look indistinguishable from traffic originating from your phone.

Juraj Bednar

Bypassing hotspot restrictions for data

Many mobile carriers restrict personal hotspot usage, forcing users to upgrade to pricier plans just to share their internet connection. For exampl...

Life hack: Stop drinking alcohol. Yes, including wine and beer. Stop means forever, not always but birthdays, full moons, football matches and high school reunions. A bit of alcohol and you are useless for a day, much less present for several days. Upside: you feel socially lubricated with people who are also socially lubricated, with side effect of 10 IQ points down on conversation. Worth it? No, rather not be socially lubricated and read a book. Especially: don't use alcohol to find love. It will be drunk love. End of grumpy old man's ramblings (a.k.a. wisdom). It works.

Uncomfortable truth - the mountain air of central Europe (including pristine mountains of Italy, Czech republic, Slovakia, Poland is no more). You'd be better of in areas commonly believed to be dirty, such as South America. Way better. Where did EU's politics based environmental solutions go wrong. Btw the image is year round average and the source is European Union. You can literally go to "dirty" Asia (many parts) for cleaner air.

European city air quality viewer

Policies to reduce air pollution have led to improved air quality in Europe over the last three decades. However, in some European cities air pollu...