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image I wrote a short rant called "fuck easy" a couple of days ago. I've been listening to podcasts and after the 5th person complaining that nostr is too hard (is it, really?) I was fed up and typed this out on my phone. I hope that we can return to a point, culturally, where "hard" is okay, just like the first level of the original Super Mario was hard. Coddling everyone's mind has led us to the upside-down clown world we're currently living in, and coddling everyone's body has led to less-than-optimal health, to put it mildly. In the Bitcoin world, coddling users and making things "easy" has led to Coinbase-by-default and other stupid bullshit, and I truly am fed up with all of that. There is a better way, but the "better" isn't necessarily "easy."

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Logical is necessary, and it often contradicts easy. That's the real grit in the lube of all this. People's minds have been shrunk from 60+ years of counterintelligence cultification of everything. Then the food and drug companies come along and make their FDA advocacy and the food is now also making people more retarded. It's really hard to reach people who have suffered through all these things, and more. It's also why I am usually happy to read another awake human being who has managed to wrangle a decent following without playing the charismatic cult leader game so hard.
I dropped processed foods over a year ago and, even though I got a lot healthier, I noticed I still had some problems with energy and stubborn fat I couldn’t lose. I did more lab work and found that my gut was severely damaged. Years of fiat food and fiat medicine take time to fix. As I started to fix some of these issues I noticed I have better energy and cleaner focus. I’m convinced that it is legitimately harder for people today to say β€œfuck easy” because there is something wrong physiologically.
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What did you do to fix that? I started eating milk kefir and Kombucha which made a huge difference for me. I always suffered an intolerance to milk. This largely went away when I started drinking kefir. My wife used to do the most rotten farts that would stink out the bedroom, this was a problem for about a year. As soon as she started drinking my home made Kombucha they stopped smelling and haven't smelled in months.
I think what makes it "hard" is people not wanting to be responsible and be accountable for their stuff. These last generations have been configured to always assume they have a safety net. It will take time and younger generations go embrace and take the plunge is this new Era that was, until recently, straight out of science fiction or living in the heads of Cypherpunks.
I think the upcoming Satellite drop is going to impress most. The newly retooled back end protocol makes it super fast and the front end UX has new features most people have been waiting for. Your bud @Stuart is about to impress us all. I've been following his progress IRL and got sneak previews of what's coming. Can't say more until it's drops. It's a culmination of 15 months work. Gonna be amazing. Watch out Damus and Primal it's about to get real.