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Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet

Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, i...

I’ve never done that, so I guess I’m relatively well off.

What is this Damus live that posts at me so often? I haven’t seen @jb55 mention it, so I suspect it is an imposter.

@Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire Hey, if you want your pjuu.com data, you need to download it quickly. Site closes in under 30 days.

Bitcoin (BTC) Purchases Won't Stop in El Salvador: President Nayib Bukele

A clause in the country's recently-completed IMF financing deal suggested a prohibition against El Salvador accumulating any additional bitcoin.

Good. F the IMF bankster scumbags.

> The old Nostr “Telegram” client … I don’t remember that one. But I never used the real Telegram anyway, so I don’t know what it would be like. I did use web-based Nostrgram a couple of times with a temporary key. I also have never set up zaps, so I would have missed that issue anyway.

Does anyone have a ten second explanation of what olas is?

I saw something that claimed Farcaster had around 45,000 daily active users as of 3 months ago. Having also seen a bunch of whining about the FC’s growth rate versus Nostr’s growth rate, I wonder what Nostr’s estimated active daily user count is. Recognizing that there shouldn’t be any accurate way to measure that, and thus growth rate estimates will always be inaccurate. I have not tried FC, but my impression is that they are pretty centralized in some ways. (And likewise for BlueSky; current design is intentionally centralized)

Nostr has 35K weekly active users? How does one measure this?

I am not against pineapple on pizza, but I would not eat it myself. I don’t even like pineapple on pineapple.

Q: Why can’t cows watch movies with lots of drama? A: Because it makes them feel too eMOOtional.

We could not see the aurora borealis from here. I think it was just too much light, since people in smaller cities around us were posting photos of it.

Grandson_3 (age 3) must have seen a show with robots reciting the alphabet. He’s been saying “ABCD Robot” in his best bot voice for a week or so.