Lesson of the day: Go easy on the hot sauce if your aren’t accustomed to spicy food, no matter how good it tastes.

If the government has a monopoly on violence / force. AND Speech is violence. THEN The only logical conclusion is the government shall regulate, suppress, police, criminalize, and enforce speech. It’s the only logical conclusion, and exactly what the State wants. Leftists and neocons alike are in the same camp on this.

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Fuck it. I’m going out to buy some scotch.

Seems to me this is the same line of thinking with generative AI in helping to program software.

Nostr! Thank you all for being more than whatever is happening over on Twitter! Every time I browse Twitter (usually for a few bigger profiles) I see so much so much more negativity over there it’s unreal. People here are legitimately trying to solve problems, work together and keep freedom alive. Even though there are the disagreements, on the whole, the SNR on Nostr is orders of magnitude better than that other place. Thank you!

Dave Smith on the 50 year mortgage. Exactly my thoughts when I heard about it.

Too bad they restarted the government.

What’s the compelling reason for digital IDs? I honestly don’t get it.