The fact that vampires cannot see themselves in the mirror is a much more significant & accurate representation of evil than I previously appreciated. This explains a LOT about how many of the people in power currently operate & how they seem to be totally devoid of moral or ethical concerns. The lack of ability to examine yourself seems like it would naturally translate into a total lack of empathy & a near complete inability to see anything from the perspective of anyone else. So what is good for them at the expense of everyone else is in their mind good for the world.

The reality is that the US govt just double tapped a school full of little girls in an effort to kill the officers who would respond to try & save their little girls. This is the same govt that imprisoned & tortured our own military members for telling the truth about past double tap behaviors & the purposeful targeting of children & reporters. Govt tyrants get away with playing dumb because most people are too afraid to face that they are being ruled by people with consciously evil intentions.

No one is more obsessed with material things, & the imaginary status they think those things convey, than communists who are willing to kill others because they have "too much." "Eat the rich" is a slogan rooted in murderous greed & envy.

Socialists, collectivists, & "woke" people in all forms are obsessed with status & power. They are dishonest, back stabbing, & simply cannot be trusted, almost without exception. The focus on race & social status is basically antithetical to prioritizing truth & merit. There can be no tolerance of this delusional bullshit if we want any system to survive. View quoted note →

If socialists really thought their ideas would produce a superior outcome for everyone, they would form their own communities & cooperatives (which are perfectly legal in most of the developed world) and they would use their success to attract new participants. But what they really want is to steal from & enslave people who want nothing to do with their ideas. And they are generally such horrible people, on an individual level, that they often attempt to ruin the lives of anyone who disagrees with them, which is pretty consistent with the desire to enslave others in the first place. #liberty #freedom #socialism

The only consistent people in #bitcoin are the people who have been trying to keep node operation as light as possible & limit data costs so that the network will remain decentralized & censorship proof. They were demonized as "small blockers" during the blocksize war & they are demonized for being pro filter "knotzies" now, but they are right.

Okay #bitcoin & #nostr people, I need to know about #bitcoinbeach #elzonte #elsalvador etc. Who is there? Who has visited? All opinions (good & bad) are welcome. We are done with the cold, done with Canada, & I am personally not a big city person. Ideally, we would like to be able to walk on the beach every morning. Other plans have fallen through, so how difficult is it to make a life in El Salvador? What are the positives & the negatives? How hard is it to get a car? How hard is it to travel between El Zonte & San Salvador? What is the cost & availability of quality meat & eggs, & other basic goods? Spanish is definitely not among our strengths, but we have tools for translation on phones (locally run) & we have no problem learning. I will need tools... How hard is it to order something like a 3d printer? Printer filament? Is it possible to get Harbor Freight like hand tools? Are there any decent hardware stores in and around El Zonte &/or San Salvador? Is there anyone here working on shipping things into El Salvador? Further, we would also like to start a family, what difficulties can we expect on that front? All info is much appreciated 🙏 #asknostr

Oh the insanity of people signaling that they don't want their nodes on a cypherpunk monetary network to be used to store infinite amounts of garbage... I'm pretty okay being viewed as crazy by people who are so heavily propagandized that they can't tell the difference between men & women. Stay vegan or vaccinated or whatever. View quoted note →

Anyone have any suggestions for the best way to get a globally usable internet phone number or something close (North & South America being the primary focus)? I am temporarily using Silent Link for data & intend to switch to a more local service provider, but I would like to set up a SIP number that I can use with pretty much any data plan or service. Anyone have any experience doing something similar? Are there services that are more or less secure than others or is it all just equally insecure as a general form of communication? Are texts & calls generally reliable so long as the data connection is good or is it hit & miss? #asknostr

The Peter Kropotkin quote, "competition is the law of the jungle, and cooperation is the law of civilization" strikes me as one of the dumbest things I have ever read. I really hope someone can explain how there is some missing context or something. If you are not free to choose a potentially competitive endeavor then you are not free to cooperate, everyone is simply coerced & enslaved & there is no cooperation at all. This seems painfully obvious to the point of being completely self evident. #philosophy #communism #anarchism #capitalism #freedom