That would have had to been done at genesis but it wasn’t

Maybe it was implied though.

I think the title of the whitepaper did this but people like to ignore it

Meh. What is non-monetary data? I mean from an information theory perspective. Sure, some data blobs that can be decoded into TXT or JPEG are obvious. But if you see a blob of data and have no clue how to interpret it, how can you claim that it's non-monetary? It could be an anchor for a monetary second layer.

Exactly it's pretty obvious but I guess @Jameson Lopp will keep gaslighting us nevertheless.

We could standardize them and make sure the node can interpret it, otherwise node rejects it as invalid (maybe?) Just my own selfish thoughts, I'm happy to pay money for more hardware to store money transactions, it's in my own interest for the money use case to grow, but if half my cost is just storing other people's images for free, I'm not interested in that and would want to reject all of it from my node or maybe it gets even worse and I just give up on node running

Thinking deeply and adversarially about complex issues is now gaslighting. Got it.

I don't think it's gaslighting and lopp is one of the last people who would act in bad faith, besides maybe luke lol We can disagree on how software should work without attacking each other I hope 🙏

When you discover that your software doesn't work as you intended, this take is akin to saying that changing the function names will make it all better. When in fact, just changing how you talk about Bitcoin doesn't matter to the people attempting to exploit it, who don't care what narratives you spin about it. That's the meaning of an adversary.