Huh. X Pro’s UI is indistinguishable from the nostrgram UI that @jleger2023 built here 12 months ago.

Should I get a Nothing phone (2a)? Anyone here tried one of these? Tempted to have an off ramp from iOS, I sort of expect big tech is going to do big overreach stuff, as AI battles pan out… and this Nothing phone looks like something I could like. I’m pretty sure people try this route and then go back to apple after 6 months. But I don’t need iMessage at all. https://nothing.tech/pages/event

Interesting problem… Last year I started a micro business (UK) with my kids, part of which we are selling some imported goods via Amazon. This is a neat lesson for the kids because Amazon allows us to reach 1bn people across 23 countries. Opportunity… The EU requires us to have a person who is resident in the EU to act as point of contact for CE marking and for any stock that is delisted and needs to be returned to seller. There are lots of people putting up websites offering this as a service, essentially a glorified mailbox, but they all seem to be saturated with demand. Hence the opportunity. So does anyone in on nostr who lives in EU want to earn a few € a month to do this role for our micro biz? If so DM me. Only requirement is you should have a responsible character. But ideally you are WFH, maybe freelance, contractor, w/e? More broadly… If anyone is an EU based dev, there is an Amazon imposed deadline for everyone to adopt this by 31st March 2024 and this looks like an great shot at capturing some recurring income potentially for years.

🚨 Crazy Talk 🚨 I’m sure everyone is familiar with the way birthrates are collapsing all over the place and this is often associated with higher income people wanting fewer children. However that doesn’t really make sense, unless income is negatively correlated with sexual activity and I doubt it is, or it hasn’t ever been shown.c So why are birth rates collapsing and why do wealthy countries lead this? 1). Sperm counts have collapsed. Everywhere that births are down, sperm counts are down. It’s not some choice, it’s not abstinence or contraceptive. It’s sperm. The data is in and wealthy sperm is bad sperm. Why does sperm go bad in wealthy countries when poorer countries don’t have this issue? 2). Nanoplastics are everywhere. Nanoplastics are smaller than microplastics, nanoplastics are actually small enough to diffuse across the cell membrane and into cells. Whilst your skin is good at defending your body from this kind of stuff by dropping dead cells, it’s much tougher on the inside. Last year medical studies measured that mice who ingested nanoplastics would become infertile because nanoplastics accumulates in the testes! They observed nanoplastics accumulating in mice testing and this correlated with infertility. More recently scientists discovered that bottled water measurably contains 100,000x more nanoplastic than previously thought… This seems like a smoking gun, it seems like lung cancer and smoking. It seems that plastic packaging of food and drinks causes infertility we now have a mechanism for the hypothesis and this hypothesis is very strongly correlated with data of national wealth, sperm counts, and fertility rates across world population groups. So fellas… no plastic bottles, no plastic packaged food. But perhaps more so… boys and young men should definitely not be eating / drinking this stuff. I think some governments are going to put all this together and figure this out in the next couple of years. But no need to wait for that.

This chart proves the case for bitcoin. The S&P500 has never topped the 1929 all time high, when adjusted for m2 money supply (inflation, or dilution depending on pov).

In the good old days, you had to walk up to a girl in a bar with a beer matt and a pencil and ask for her number. If her friends didn’t like you… no pass. Then you had to call her house and her mom or dad would answer the phone. If her parents didn’t like the sound of your voice… no pass. Today girls have DM’s and I can’t even imagine the horrors therein! I think this alone explains the collapsing birth rate.

At what point do we in the West wake up from our childish stupor and acknowledge the reality of the world we live in? Annual CO2 emissions.

Amazing to see Tim Sweeney and Epic Games have defeated Google over the Play Store monopoly. Now they move on to Apple and the App Store. It also seems significant that the California court has declared “monopoly”. Really changes in the landscape are coming, with AI and now the demonetisation of hosting stores. Things are really going to get a lot more fluid again.

I’m sure nobody here remembers, but 6 months ago I said I was starting a home biz with my two kids (13, 14) to give them a taste of capitalism and entrepreneurialism. We have a mini board meeting every Sunday night and the only rule is that our biz is a zero labour biz (we don’t want chores). We probably had 15 meetings so far and the boardroom dynamics are interesting considering everyone has an equal vote. 🤣 We started out with registering a limited company in UK (£12), opening a commercial bank account (£0), and depositing £1,000, bought web domain (£10), bunch of service fees (~£100). My plan was: Day 1… £1,000 Year 1 profit… £10,000 Year 2 profit… £50,000 Year 3 profit… £100,000 No dividend / salaries Well today we shipped our first £10,000 of product and next week we ship another £10,000 But our margin is ~50% so things are looking really positive at the six month mark. Kids are loving it. Crucially it was important to start from essentially nothing. That’s the entire life lesson here… From nothing, at any time, just know you can do this. Blah blah something something about giving a fish or a net, blah blah.

Lots of people are losing their shit because the EU has enacted their AI Act. But obviously nobody has actually read it. They haven’t blocked any AI developments, they have banned governments from building mass surveillance social credit systems based on AI of the type in use in China. eg in the EU it’s now illegal to walk around public places outting gay children with your smartphone. Nor can you create / operate facial recognition databases via CCTV. (I don’t live in the EU btw)