I just thought of something a few days ago. Ethereum is not a real currency, it's an attack on our finances and Bitcoin. Likewise the vegan diet is not a real diet, it's an attack on our health and the carnivore diet.
Here's the connection I'm making... When you haven't researched Bitcoin or any of the cryptocurrencies, it all looks too similar. So the uninformed and those who don't care as much believe Bitcoin to be a scam.
When you haven't done your research and you're still on something like the standard American diet, all the diets seem ridiculous. It seems too hardcore to eliminate down. And if you're looking at vegans, you realize that not only is something off about them emotionally but also physically. So you believe that if people do any kind of elimination diet, that must lead to problems. Therefore a "varied and balanced" diet is better, also known as the SAD or "just eating whatever you want to eat." Though there is an advantage to just eating whatever you want which could help lead to a carnivore diet. I digress...
A vegan diet is an elimination diet. You eliminate everything but vegetables. It's an attack on the carnivore diet which is also an elimination diet. The difference is that carnivore is the logical conclusion to the elimination process for the sake of health and the vegan diet is elimination in the name of "compassion, morals, and mother nature."
It's the same sort of attack and it's probably been playing out for longer than Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. It's an absolutely genius attack strategy that is almost guaranteed to fool a great amount of people.
If we're to talk about how people will eventually come around to Bitcoin, I'd suggest to look at the world of diet and ask if everyone eventually comes around to the carnivore diet. It's just not always the case. It's also not so obvious and discernment is tough. People might need more help than they're willing to admit and receive. And that's a struggle whose worth needs to be in constant re-evaluation on a case by case basis. Crazy, right?
"No one's doing anything about it." If only he knew about Bitcoin... 😔
Bro. Just got done playing the Borderlands 3 story for the first time and just 30 minutes ago as I wake up this gets released.
I do believe I have been anonymously zapped for the first time. To whoever zapped... 🎉
Wait a minute... I accidentally liked my own note and I can't remove it on Primal? Well that's annoying. 😒
Just had a thought... Perhaps people don't really want the freedom nostr provides. They would rather be coddled by centralized entities who censor words, ideas, and filter spam. I genuinely think people think that's more valuable than decentralized, censorship resistant communication.
Because until we can emulate algorithms, AI filtering, and whatever else a big centralized entity can do on cheap consumer hardware, lots of people won't touch nostr. Each should be able to have the experience they want right outside the box. That's a tall and tough order for a decentralized communications platform like nostr.
The only reason why people might say they want something like nostr, and yet never move to nostr, is because they believe that if they complain and throw a large enough trantrum, authority will give them what they really want. It's an extremely abusive relationship. Network effects don't help either.
God, Flux is impressive. I just tried making a lora and I deliberately used an auto-captioning llm to do the work. Even with the bad captions if I prompt correctly, then flux can get it right each time. Of course, I would rather not have long prompts filled with unnecessary details about something I want the lora to do implicitly. So basically, time to get to work and actually write good captions myself.
So I've been playing Borderlands 3 and I'm really enjoying it so far. Is the story better than Borderlands 2? Probably not but the game itself is pretty good. I'd say I'm enjoying it equally or more than the original Borderlands; which I'm also replaying on occasion. Not to mention I think the story is probably about as good as the original Borderlands. I dunno, we'll see how I feel once I'm done.
There are some LORA's being created for Flux. Apparently some aren't exactly LORA's and some are. It's pretty early so I'm waiting until we get some concrete tools and methods to make them. I dunno, with how good Flux's image cohesion is, I really feel like all we'll need is an NSFW finetune and then we're off to the races with LORA's. But that's just a guess. Maybe we'll only need an NSFW lora.
So I have a bit of a problem. I like using sxiv for veiwing images. The problem is that I want to use jpeg XL. I've tried using a script to create a library file so that I can have it view jxl images but it doesn't work. I've also tried nsxiv which according to the Arch wiki, allegedly supports jxl images. That hasn't worked either. My default image view works. So it's either get used to my default image viewer or hope that I can get either sxiv or nsxiv to work. : 🤔
Gonna be playing Borderlands 3 for the first time. We'll see how it goes!
I only just found out about this today. Death to jpg and png (and maybe gif too)! Long live jxl or jpeg xl! The king of image file formats! Better image quality, lossless images with smaller files sizes than png, hdr support, and more! Just played around with it and it's way better than its predecessors and competition. 🤯
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