Is it just me, or is a disproportionate amount of the global feed in Japanese? No a complaint mind you, I'm just surprised and bias checking if Nostr has really become that popular in Japan.

Sad but largely true. View quoted note →

We can't joke about melons now? This is the country where there is a legal minimum breast size to be allowed to feature in 🌽. I don't even need to read the joke to know exactly what it's about. View quoted note →

I have seen far too many of these. It is way more common than people give it credit for and our current social incentives do not punish this as much as they should. View quoted note →

Every pointless intervention war is an excuse to bring more of them over here despite the GWB slogan "fight them there so we don't have to fight them here". View quoted note →

But yet it is always the west that is asked to change. View quoted note →

I am noticing more and more users with no lightning address and only "on chain" options for tipping. I worry that the nostr economy is going to start to dry up unless a secure solution to lightning is figured out and/or alternate coins like XMR start getting more supported. Both fixes are not mutually exclusive btw.

Hence why force has been ever present in human history and why the study of history at certain points just feels like a catalogue of battles and wars. View quoted note →

And none of it matters until the people outvoted by the dead or make-believe voters call the bluff and drag her out by her ankles. The corollary to "facts don't care about your feelings" is "their feelings don't care about your facts". So there is force or avoidance. But their cancer-like spread makes avoidance impossible. So only one option remains View quoted note →

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🤣 like it is JUST maga and wasn't already full of non-maga insider trader and consensus elites already. North Virginia and DC have been rich man towns for so long that there are songs about "rich men north of richmond" that go back before trump. This isn't to excuse the trump admin of any wrongdoing mind you, but to call out the deliberate false framing used to make this sound like a uniquely trump problem, and thus absolving the clintons, bidens, palantirs, and the like. Bullshit. They all did it. They will all keep doing it. View quoted note →

Honestly, people in this space had to come to the decision of "I know more than the Normie's" at some point or we would all be on Facebook and tiktok still. Same with crypto vs fiat. So, @utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 has a point here. The self assuredness is sort of a selection criterion for who even uses this platform and non-kyc bitcoin as a whole. View quoted note →

Look, it is the woke cancel mob coming for Nostr just like everywhere else. My stance on racist is reasonable. The USA cannot force "stable (european-style) democracy" on the third world because the average person there is a literal retard, low trust, and/or violent. There is a reason Korea modernized and Africa slid backward during the same post war time period. That being said on the macro scale, the value of these macro assessments lies in their predictive power at the individual level. The most racist person rests their arguments about race on the likelihood for it to be true about the person of whatever group lies before you. When a racist makes a claim about "group X" being good, they do so by claiming either that group X has the most of certain virtues or that only group X holds such virtues. Be it intelligence, strength, social trust, etc it is those virtues that have the value, not their race in and of itself. The race is cited as either the evidence or the genetic cause that makes it so that they are likely to possess these virtues. The exceptions to the statistics are just that, exceptions. If I were to be forced to act with the one fluke of a stoic sage from a group of otherwise savage cannibals and the one psychopath from an otherwise honorable culture... Any honest person knows which one is the safer choice. Any person not deliberately trying to be disingenuous also knows statistically what in actual reality the trustworthy person actually looks like. View quoted note →

In western countries, this is too broad, because there are laws against hating EVERY group... except whites... Though that is more evidence in proof of the underlying assumption than a refutation... View quoted note →

Wow are all the chuds are scoring wins with this story. "Women learn as children to lie and make accusations to get what they want and avoid accountability"? Check. "Muslims are violent, group thinking barbarians that are prone to violence"? Check. "Treasonous western governments would rather cater to lying women and foreign barbarians than persecuted white men"? Check. The Chuds go 3 for 3.

It is all bad, but the difference in reporting has always been so glaring. View quoted note →