Seeker Erebus

Was at an arts and crafts fair today, getting some gifts and evangelizing bitcoin where I could. On a second pass, one woman had her card reader fail. Since I'd already talked with her about it, she was ok with getting paid in BTC when I recommended that. nostr:npub1kvaln6tm0re4d99q9e4ma788wpvnw0jzkz595cljtfgwhldd75xsj9tkzv app came in clutch; getting her onboarded and paid was so effortless, I think that alone is going to have her down the rabbit hole in no time. Good day.

Currently making a transition from the initial setup for logins/zaps I've been using to a more current arrangement. Figured I'd share some thoughts. I like nsec.app. Smart design, love what it does. As is common, not a fan of the inconsistent support that exists for nostr-connect. Wish I could log in to Amythest and Primal on mobile with nsec.app instead, but so it is. Love how efficient cashu.me is so far. Come a long ways. Long term we're gonna want some strict standards for mint operators, but for now it's doing great.

Assuming that I know nothing about modern coding, what's the fastest way to learn everything required to start building nostr-based PWAs? #asknostr #nostrdevs I'm 12 years out of date on current development methods, and what i do know has never extended beyond building for CLI at a hobbyist level. I simply have too many ideas for things I want to see built here to not learn to build them anymore.

I think we need bitcoin futures contracts on Nostr. I don't mean "I'll buy bitcoin with fiat at x price on y date" I mean "I'll buy z loaves of bread for x bitcoin on y date." With capital controls coming fast or already implemented, such contracts are likely the best way to both enable a black market and resist the financial repression. Being a distributor of criminal goods has always been lucrative, and this time the only victim will be thieving governments.

When Christians talk about Christ, we often talk about the love He has shown us, His sacrifice and what it means, etc. We don't talk often enough about what happens to those who refuse His gift. I think most of us don't really believe that what awaits is Hell, even if we say to ourselves we do. I had an out of body experience 10 years ago, when having absolutely no reason to continue living I tried to end it. I was deeply gnostic at the time, figured there was no downside and plenty upside. I met a woman, and she told me the horror of my error. I spent maybe 1-2 real world seconds, beginning the journey of entering Hell. There is no horror, that has ever been inflicted in this world by man, that I would not happily endure a 1000x over to never experience that again. The event seared itself on my soul, and as is potent and visceral in memory as it has ever been. A brief instant of that, no pain in this world is comparable. And I knew, that that would last for eternity if I died fully. I was lucky enough to claw myself back to flesh, get emergency care, and stay alive. It took me years to find a reason to live, but going back to that is not an option my mind can handle. The Catholics were right when they used severe physical punishment in an attempt to convince those sentenced to death to repent. Not always in who and why they made such sentences, but it was utterly sensible to inflict one horror in hopes of preventing worse beyond death. Something I think we would be wise to remember as this peaceful period of history draws to a close, and war returns in fury.

A human who's body does not exterminate foreign lifeforms that go where not permitted, dies. The same is true of a nation. A difficult truth that all nations must come to terms with: all of the foreign peoples who will not integrate, must be excised for our nations to survive. Access to our lands must be controlled. Most nations that are not the west understand this truth well. The west is suicidal, and so it commits suicide by immigration. Any nation unwilling to stand by and wait while those not given entry starve to death with their children, and gun them down if they ignore that law, is doomed.

Had a realization. As much as the monero shills can be annoying, their actions really reinforce how great nostr is. We're effectively in bitcoin central. It's practically an echo chamber a lot of the time. And yet, none of us Bitcoiners can do a damn thing to stop these guys from building alternate clients and relays and systems on their darling shitcoin, and they could very easily use all of the same tech and development, go onto entirely different relays with little to no connections between, and it would all still work. This protocol doesn't care if everyone's in the same group. And there's no way within it to stop people from building anything they decide to, even if it's moronic. And that's fucking awesome.

Sometimes I wish this was what happened at riots https://youtube.com/shorts/Qfswhyuhxso

Something in Nostr's favor that (at least among my follows) isn't discussed much is that the sex industry has been responsible for determining which technology wins for as long as there has been a sex industry. Why is this in Nostr's favor you might ask? Because zaps plus completely uncontrolled distribution ability is currently the most in-demand service for independent nsfw creators. Especially with the crowdfunding sites most used constantly banning them. No group in the west has faced more financial authoritarianism than sex workers. I'm not personally interested in attaching this npub to the porn side of nostr. The CP that exists in some corners is the worst downside of the protocol. But the reality is, the internet userbase most primed to join and actively use nostr are these people. If the only way to get some of the best hentai art or 3dx games is to zap the creator on nostr, it's already won.

So hackers took more than 2.7 billion records from 3 countries including the US, and effectively every single person in the US is exposed to some extent. All unencrypted too. We need easy-to-use cryptographic signing tools that can be deployed by illiterate morons every single time we would currently use a handwritten signature or a "digital signature" on an online document. We need to demand the use of these tools everywhere old signature schemes are currently used. And we need to make any claim that we signed a contract, TOS, etc that doesn't have our crypto-signature is treated as a 100% forgery. If we don't, very soon we will all have signed away all of our property and agreed to permanent indentured servitude with legally binding contracts. Full article: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-27-billion-data-records-with-social-security-numbers/

Have you heard of Eliquis? It's a blood thinner, currently the most effective on the market. Bristol-Myers Squibb with Pfizer have been defending the patent like vipers, extending it and suing the more than 20 generic alternatives that are trying to get to market. Without government intervention, this drug would likely be $30 a month or less. Because of that intervention, it's difficult to get for less than $300, and out of pocket is $600. Back in 2021, I stopped taking Eliquis. I was leaving SSI, leaving Medicaid. Couldn't afford it while also trying to escape the life of government supported parasitism I'd been living. I'm one of a small number of people under 40 with sever blood clotting issues, with only Eliquis able to effectively treat it. So despite attempting through diet and supplements the whole time, eventually the lack of proper treatment caught up with me. I nearly died this last week, the clot that ended up forming strangling my gut. I got out of the hospital today, still recovering. The government has, through sheer dumb luck, successfully forced my hand. Their intervention means I cannot continue to live without depending on them; without returning to parasitism. I'm going to have to beg and plead from people who I hate and who hate me to stay alive through their stolen goods. Plus, I'll be lucky if I figure out how to escape the debt spiral I'm now on. I'm already 99% certain bankruptcy is inevitable, bye bye my BTC. It's a personal rant, but it's where I'm at. I don't even know who's death would solve it, otherwise I'd go hunting. I'd happily sacrifice myself if it brought this to an end for everyone else, but I don't see how that trade happens. Ugh

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A schizophrenic woman in California Filed an Emergency Red Flag protection order Against a relative in Texas. Because the Texas man Was unable to get to California To face the judge in the case In only a matter of days He can no longer purchase firearms Because the federal database Has him flagged. Source: https://youtu.be/LuFxmjteoH4