lol, from "Running Bitcoin" to "runs" 😂 View quoted note →

My first homegrown broccoli sprouts. Sulforaphane for days.

Here's another thing that came out of this crisis: most of you aren't Nostr maximalists. You've still got one foot on X. To each their own, but this way mass adoption is never going to happen when the important Bitcoin topics aren't primarily discussed here. And no, not even if you say "but I want to pull people from over there to here." Not as long as screenshots of tweets are being shared here instead of the other way around. Don't kid yourselves about that.

It's interesting that almost everything predicted in a little book from the 80s, put out by a think tank, is now coming true on a macro political level. Just about 20 to 30 years later than originally forecast. The book was called "Agriculture Towards 2000" and I read it back in the early 80s, when it came out as an expensive glossy edition. For example, it mentioned that natural food would increasingly be replaced by artificial derivatives, in order to counter the impending "hunger catastrophe." Back then they were still pushing the narrative that there were too many people on this planet and that the planet simply couldn't produce enough food for all of us. Photos of starving Ethiopians with flies swarming around them were published everywhere to back that up. Today, that picture has long been debunked. They say a landmass the size of Australia could house and feed the entire human population. Nowadays the blame gets shifted onto "capitalism". But those of us here know it's not "capitalism" itself, it's just the interest based economy. The thing is, out there, about 80 to 90% of other people still don't agree with us. Today, this isn't about fighting hunger anymore, it's about robbing the general population. Print money -> inflation (theft) -> high prices for good food -> cheap prices for fake food -> no resistance against the theft. Money printing has stripped large portions of the population of valuable nutrients. The book also mentioned that around the turn of the millennium, millions of Africans would storm Europe. It spoke of roughly 500 million people who would be standing at the borders, and that Europe wouldn't be able to do anything about it in the face of this invasion. The reasoning back then was that Europe had plundered all the raw materials and treasures from the southern countries for centuries, and that they would now look with envy at the elevated standard of living of Europeans. A rupture of consensus would emerge, in which one half of humanity insists on its national sovereignty while the other half doesn't see why one part should have it better in life, especially after they spent centuries robbing and stealing. Right to sovereignty versus right to a better life anywhere on this planet. If the law of the strong applied back then, it applies now too, so the emerging attitude goes. Real conflict material right there. What I'm trying to say is this: the establishment has been aware of the trajectory of these developments for 40 to 50 years already. They had enough brains to know what was coming for humanity. They didn't do anything about it, none of them, and they just let it all happen. The idea that we're being governed by responsible statesmen has been an illusion for quite some time now. They think in decades, even centuries, while we just sit here and discuss and evaluate current events with zero context. To them we're as harmless as a damn mosquito to an elephant.

Today was a tough day. I replaced the sink, the whole sink unit with the basin in the kitchen. Old one out to the bulk trash, new one in. What a filthy job. But I noticed while doing it that the industry really uses all kinds of different formats for the connections. An inlet pipe is a few millimeters bigger than the old one, screw fittings are all different sizes and lengths... and they expect us IT folks to deliver standards and universal compatibility. But in the real world they haven't managed to standardize the connections for decades and still produce slop.

The people running this npub are absolutely no Bitcoiners and have no clue what Bitcoin is. View quoted note →

Thank you for your relay service all the years, @jb55 🫡 View quoted note →

That happens when you completely lose touch with reality. It starts with not knowing how much a loaf of bread costs in your country and then just keeps going unchecked. View quoted note →

I've got a suggestion for all those streaming service providers, HBO, Netflix, Paramount, or whatever they're all called. How about this: if a user rates a movie with a thumbs down, you just never show them that movie again? Not in the recommendations, not in "For You," maybe you could even take it out of the trending charts for that user. Those are all manipulated anyway, nobody believes that stuff anyway. Basically like a mute, like a "never bother me with this shitty movie again." Would that be doable for you big product owners and devs?

We should never have a "Bitcoin establishment". That's not SAIF, lol. View quoted note →

Indeed. If you can't sketch out your project idea in 5 minutes, don't even bother starting. View quoted note →

Quite concerning news about Buzz. Would have to audit it myself if I had any interest in using tools like that. View quoted note →

Gotta get rid of this 💩. Really. Won't get better any time soon. View quoted note →