What does it take for you to gain social trust in today’s world? #RandomContraThoughts

GM Nostr. You will be liked by some and hated and shamed by others. In the free market of a social network that's inevitable. Any open market puts a price on what you bring to it, and the price of an honest opinion is that somebody isn't going to like it. So you find yourself caught between trying to please others and just being yourself. Speak while it's still legal. Speak your mind. Speak your opinion. Speak, period. If all you ever say is what the room already agrees with, you haven't added anything to it. This is a fun place to be able to enter into and throw ideas, thoughts and freedom tech at each other. Ideas only get better by being pushed on, which means some of what you read here is going to bother you. Learn to be less triggered. We have enough of that already and we don't need another Twitter

Man, the Padres got hosed in the 9th. That ball was clearly gone to take the lead.

U heard that saying, “Never been a dull moment?” Well Nostr does have dull moments but that’s what makes this place REAL…

Why are you still on Nostr? I thought this was dead? Guess I won’t be seeing any Replies, likes, reposts or zaps on this then. Oh Well…. Just to keep my standard practices, I’ll write, GM NOSTR. PV 🫂

Had some fun with @Greeny on the @SimplyNostr podcast the other day! View quoted note →

It’s FriYAY…yo, I got sh*t to do! Gm Nostr

Fiat just means money by decree. A dollar is worth something because the government says so, not because it's backed by anything. Since 1971, when the US cut the dollar's last tie to gold, there's been no hard limit on how much can be created. The central bank and the banking system can expand the money supply whenever it's politically convenient, and they have, over and over. The problem is what that does to regular people. When new money gets created, it doesn't reach everyone equally. It hits banks, governments, and people who already own assets first. They spend it or invest it before prices rise. By the time it trickles down to a guy working an hourly job, prices have already gone up. Economists call that the CANTILLON EFFECT…. In plain English, money printing is a quiet transfer from savers and workers to people closest to the printer. F<k FIAT…

How about avocado for lunch…with some beef.

Nostr can feel like a room where everyone showed up angry. Post an opinion with any edge to it and watch the replies roll in. A lot of people here confuse disagreement with demolition, and those are two very different skills. Disagreeing well takes work. You have to actually hear the other guy, find the strongest version of what he's saying, and show him where you think it breaks. Logic and reason do that. A steady posture does that. You probably won't change his mind on the spot, but you might leave a crack in it, and cracks are how minds actually change. Thrashing someone's opinion takes nothing. It feels good for about four minutes, and it's easy for the other person to ignore. If that's your default move, you've swallowed the bait. The whole cultural and political machine runs on getting us to treat each other as enemies over opinions. Every pile-on is free labor for the people selling the divide. We left the other platforms for a reason. Bringing their habits with us is a strange way to celebrate the exit. So disagree, loudly if you need to. Argue with the idea and leave the person standing. A good opinion deserves pushback that makes it better, and a bad one deserves pushback that makes it clear why.

Every single person reading this has the same diagnosis. Rich or broke, believer or skeptic, maxi or fiat goblin. We're all terminal. Death isn't some event waiting at the end of the road for us. It's already in us, working quietly, and every morning we wake up a little closer to it. Most of life is spent treating symptoms. Better diet, better habits, better portfolio. Some of that is good and worth doing. But none of it touches the root, and deep down we know it. The ugly stuff we do to each other is just the rot showing through the surface. Our instinct says what you see is what you get. And what we see is hospital rooms, funerals, and a body that complains a little louder every year. So we shrug and assume God, if He's out there at all, is too far off to matter. But God, being rich in mercy, came close. Think about the power line running past your house. Grab it raw and it kills you. The current has to be stepped down before it can come inside and keep your lights on. God did the same thing with Himself. He stepped all the way down into a newborn lying in a feed trough. The infinite God in diapers. Life itself walked into a dying world so it could take on death from the inside and beat it. And He still comes to us that way, hidden in plain things. Water. Bread and wine. A Word spoken out loud. Ordinary enough that it won't burn us up, close enough to actually reach us. We all share the disease. Turns out there's a cure, and He has a name. If you're tired of managing symptoms, He's worth a real look. #ToChristAlone

Imagine the amount of propaganda it took to convince millions of people that higher taxes, record debt, inflation, endless regulation, government dependency, and handing more control of their lives to bureaucrats was somehow compassion.

Can we just start a class action lawsuit against the US government? US Citizens v United States. Gross negligence in handling taxpayer funds would be a good start. Who's in?

GM & PURA VIDA NOSTR. THERE'S A CHAMPION INSIDE OF EACH OF US CALLED UNLIMITED POTENTIAL, URGING US EACH DAY, THROUGH PERSISTENT DREAMS, TO ACT UPON OUR UNIQUE GIFTS, THROUGH INSPIRATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL CALLINGS, TO BECOME THE GREAT PERSONS WE ARE MEANT TO BE, AND DO IN SERVICE TOWARDS MAKING THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE FOR ALL.