Tommy "The Purchase"

If your government has a secret police - think FBI, NKVD, MI5, TCK, etc. - they either follow orders from politicians or they don't. Both are equally terrifying.

A little while ago, people complained about the lack sports content on nostr - and boy am I here to rectify that. Here's a sport I bet you've never even heard about before: https://youtu.be/E25-Fw8WlT4 #sportstr #goSports #stickEmWithThePointyEnd

There is no "non-democratic" socialism, every socialist system has (had) elections and what voters vote for does not matter in the slightest, the primary function of elections is to make large numbers of people believe that the boot on their necks is justified because an allegedly sufficient number of strangers who live within a couple hundred miles of their homes said so - even if they themselves and everyone they know consistently object to it.

"Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Hey, assbutt!

I've recently had the chance to do a deep-dive into NIP-17 private messages on nostr and I have to say it's beautiful, especially NIP-59 gift-wrapping. Whoever came up with that, I salute you 👌🏻