You haven't really gotten what Nostr is all about if you've never zapped with Nostur. It's a UX masterpiece.

I gotta give props to most Nostriches here: y'all post on Sundays, even Sunday nights. Back in the day, before social media really took off, we bloggers came up with this insult for people who only posted Monday through Friday: "weekday bloggers“. It was like the perfect example of attention-seeking, only posting when the maximum number of users would see it. Weekdays had the highest traffic while everyone was at work, you know? Instead of actually working, they'd be surfing the web. But on weekends, during their free time, they had better things to do. Not real internet people, basically. Kind of like typical LinkedIn users. Seems like things are different around here now.

I guess they owe it to Mars.

Those were the good old days. Hours spent typing away, hours hunting for that semicolon that should've been a colon. But man, that satisfaction when your code finally ran and all the new stuff you picked up along the way. And no Big Tech garbage to deal with. Complete freedom. View quoted note →

Just saw a thread on legacy social media with tons of "CFBR" comments. Had no clue what that meant, so I looked it up. Dude, it stands for "Commenting For Better Reach." It's basically just people commenting to boost a post's visibility in the algorithm, trying to get more engagement without actually saying anything meaningful. That's how bad these algorithms have gotten now. Alhamdulillah we don't need that crap around here.

This matches what's still being branded as a "conspiracy theory." Basically one of the 2 reasons why social media even exists, why platforms get funded for years beyond when they should've been profitable by normal VC standards, and why intelligence agencies are involved with some of them. The 2 reasons are: 1. Giving people a valve to blow off steam verbally, so they can keep putting up with crappy day-to-day reality. 2. Collecting voluntary self-disclosure about political beliefs. That's why they hate anonymization and pseudonymization, even though European privacy law, like GDPR, explicitly grants this right. But who expects consistency in legislation anyway. View quoted note →

Yeah, but not that industrially processed salt (2 chemical elements: sodium and chlorine), but real salt, like Himalayan salt with its 84 elements. View quoted note →

If the "elites" keep going with their control obsession, we'll soon be back in the age of bulletin board systems. No, Nostr isn't invincible either, it's just flying under the radar for now.

I don't get why people buy stuff as soon as they have some money. Isn't it enough to know you "could" buy it if you needed it? No point dragging around extra baggage.

Idiots. ChatGPT is the MS Office of all AIs. It's ot even the best model. View quoted note →

Should be in the @Zapstore

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I absolutely love paying with Lightning. How is humanity still using those crappy credit cards? Are they all stupid or what?

Okay, this is going to get interesting. Turkey isn't just a different beast altogether, they're also a NATO member. And not a small one at that. Turkey has the second-largest ground forces in NATO after the US, and they've also been training other nations in regional conflicts. How are other NATO members going to handle that? I won't even get into their newer drone technologies, that stuff's way over my head. View quoted note →

So the European Central Bank is dead set on introducing this "digital Euro" (CBDC) this fall. They're going to force merchants by law to install the necessary equipment. Nobody even asked for this. Sure, existing payment methods, including cash, will still be around, but it's pretty obvious they're going to make using them harder over the next 5 years. They'll do this by targeting merchants. Carbon taxes, whatever it takes. For me, this means years of cutting back. I'm especially thinking about buying things like computers and phones while I still can, and then nothing for a while. But I've got a counter-strategy too. We can push back. I'm thinking about going into stores, looking at something for a long time, and then saying, "Hmm, I like this. Do you accept Bitcoin? No? That's too bad, I would've bought it right away." And just keep doing this over and over. No idea if it'll make a noticeable impact on sales, but psychologically, it stings the merchant every time. That expensive item could have been sold immediately if only... It's the least I can do.