Laeserin

I think all wealth carries a moral obligation to do good with it, same as all talents, such as beauty, intelligence, creativity, strength. Anything you receive is given to you for a reason, and your effort is supposed to be focused on figuring out what that reason is.
That said, the reason isn't necessarily to spend every penny quickly, since saving for family emergencies is sensible and accumulating a larger sum for a particular investment or donation can also be a good work. Inheritance is also not necessarily a bad thing, although very large inheritances to people who have not actively helped to earn the wealth often spoil or corrupt the recipient.
If the wealth is in Bitcoin, then not-spending it can be at least neutral, since it gets donated back to the network. Bitcoin makes the calculation a bit different, but there was no Bitcoin in Carnegie's time.

2026-07-23 03:38:51 CEST

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Probably, yeah. Human zoo.

2026-07-23 01:21:38 CEST

Just saw this article and I was at a library that Andrew Carnegie funded.
> Andrew Carnegie’s most famous line—”the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced“—was written as a threat, not a suggestion. Today, it lands with a different kind of sentiment, especially as Peter Thiel campaigns against giving, Warren Buffett scrambles to outpace his own compounding fortune, and Bill Gates absorbs criticism that his foundation model isn’t working.
> Carnegie’s argument in 1889 was simple: give it away yourself, on your own terms, before politics, heirs, or public anger takes the decision out of your hands.
https://fortune.com/2026/07/22/wealth-inequality-andrew-carnegie-gates-buffett-giving-pledge-thiel

2026-07-23 00:00:48 CEST

https://i.nostr.build/xd9R9TrmJKlmNLx6.jpg

2026-07-22 16:11:05 CEST

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That's why he hates renewable energy. Only oil and gas give him a steady stream of dollar-based transactions.

2026-07-22 16:02:44 CEST

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Yes, but I am already tuckered out from running around all day. 😂

2026-07-22 15:55:45 CEST

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Because I use other apps to produce the events and have my own git server. I do use GitWorkshop to peruse my issues and PRs, but I hardly ever get any.

2026-07-22 15:50:08 CEST

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I'm about to post some pics. ☺️

2026-07-22 14:31:17 CEST

If you see everything as public/state, you completely miss the way disruptive or corrupting social changes can be ushered in by the one and then adopted by the other. They are overlapping sets, not parallel worlds. The government adopts (and often promotes) private sector changes it wants to later acquire in the public sector, and vice versa.
The Nazis knew that. The Stasi knew that. The KGB knew that. The 🏳️‍🌈 fascists knew that...
The only way to guard against this corruption is to argue from the basis of Natural Law. If something is wrong, it is wrong _regardless of who does it_ and _regardless of their ease in doing it_. The state should not have powers that private persons do not have, and private persons should not have unnatural powers. Private persons should be expected to conduct themselves in a manner they would expect public persons to display. **To be sovereign is to set the rules by your own behavior, opinions, expectations, and decisions.**
> If you think the state should have powers that private persons do not have, then you are a serf. If you think private persons should have powers that the state does not have, then you are also a serf. Because _you are supposed to be the state_.
Unnatural behaviors that should only be allowed on a mediated, case-by-case basis, as evidenced by a warrant from a judge:
* the power of surveillance in public areas or any surveillance in private areas where they have an expectation of privacy (like bathrooms or a confessional),
* the power to collect and store personal data unnecessary for the transactions required to conduct a business, and to store necessary data for longer than the data is needed to conduct the transaction or fulfill transparent record-keeping rules,
* the power to demand biometric IDs, physical searches or scans, or otherwise intrusive reveals from guests, above what is necessary to ensure a modicum of personal safety or social coherence for the host,
* the power to demand encrypted data be unencrypted,
* the power to intercept and/or read communications sent with an expectation of privacy (Briefgeheimnis),
* the power to enter or search anyone else's premises.
And so on.
If you are aware that a _right to privacy_ is a fundamental, natural right, then you should insist on that right being respected by everyone, everywhere. Then you will be morally coherent and you will again find the words to describe how they hurt you.
#nevent1q…ftr6

2026-07-22 13:41:17 CEST

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Good morning! 🌻

2026-07-22 03:25:30 CEST

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Get well, soon! 🫂

2026-07-22 02:53:41 CEST

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Yes, sir, I am.

2026-07-22 02:51:22 CEST

https://youtube.com/shorts/bd6d_FK8FxA

2026-07-22 00:26:57 CEST

I sometimes think my friendly-and-kind-but-stern-and-hard personality is so weird, and then I visit Texas and fit right in and remember.
https://homemalonenola.com/cdn/shop/products/FullSizeRender_511_1575x2100.jpg

2026-07-21 13:26:44 CEST

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High humidity because it's an island?

2026-07-21 13:16:44 CEST

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@npub1qc8…twss

2026-07-21 13:15:25 CEST

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Ah, good. 👍🏻

2026-07-20 21:15:44 CEST

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I'm actually gonna put #cordn into Imwald Android, so Amber can be used with it.

2026-07-20 21:02:58 CEST

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Yeah, I take a sweater everywhere.

2026-07-20 20:59:42 CEST

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I like Dark Wisp! I use it sometimes. ☺️

2026-07-20 19:53:00 CEST

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Very nice!! 🎉

2026-07-20 19:08:58 CEST

Looks like I finally found an implementation that gets me using #KeyChat.
#nevent1q…2q82

2026-07-20 13:34:41 CEST

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The freezing point actually matters in a practical way, tho, for everyone. Nothing happens at 100°F.

2026-07-20 13:32:03 CEST

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There is no noticeable difference between 98°F and 100°F. Nothing actually changes; it just gets another digit and the weather prediction maps suddenly get doused in blood.

2026-07-20 12:50:36 CEST

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I don't think you can point to industrial piss as evidence of why Fahrenheit is _not_ ridiculous. 😂

2026-07-20 12:45:17 CEST

EU fines AliExpress half a billion Euros 💶 for selling EU residents cheap Chinese crap.
#nevent1q…shs7

2026-07-20 12:40:06 CEST

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Tell the locals that. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

2026-07-20 12:38:44 CEST

Your reminder that Fahrenheit is complete nonsense.
#nevent1q…vxpu

2026-07-20 05:28:16 CEST

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Hey, my relatives are all afraid to leave the house when it gets over 90 °F. I'm like, In Germany, we don't even turn the AC on at ninety.
But you don't have AC.
That's what I just said.

2026-07-20 05:04:58 CEST

Okay, so Texas is turning into the Gates of Hell for the rest of my trip.
☀️🔥
This state is too damn hot.

2026-07-20 05:01:15 CEST

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What is this "soccer" you speak of?

2026-07-20 00:23:22 CEST

🇪🇸⚽ 🎉

2026-07-19 14:02:49 CEST

Crammed into a house with five other people and two dogs. Enjoying a rare bit of quiet before everyone wakes up.
Thinking about how a fifth of Germans live alone. Only a tenth of Americans do, but they make up a third of households. That is actually why there's a housing crisis, which is finally being solved naturally by all of us moving in together and other people dying off and leaving houses vacant.
All of the financial shenanigans meant to make housing cheaper just artificially raised demand, which pushed up prices further. Until they were so high that demand declined and prices began to fall. Ironic.
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/17-millionen-alleinlebende-100.html
https://i.nostr.build/YwIRATwlpZBEdhpJ.png

2026-07-19 13:13:57 CEST

This trip was planned really short-term, but the next time I come over here, we need to do an #Austin meetup. There are so many Nostriches near here! 🤩
#Texas :flag-texas:

2026-07-19 13:02:23 CEST

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I find it fascinating that you would think belief in God would make men emotionally weak and lead them to shun responsibility, when we have decades of research and observation proving that it's the opposite.
It's not an accident that so many Nostriches and Bitcoiners are religious. Religion frees you from the emotional clutches of the state and gives you more sense of personal agency and destiny.

2026-07-19 12:57:34 CEST

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I'm sceptical. Tulsi and her staff refused to play ball.

2026-07-19 12:47:07 CEST

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GM!

2026-07-19 12:23:51 CEST

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I'm up toward Fort Hood. I'm an Army brat. 😂
But we drive down to Austin, sometimes. Were in Cedar Park, yesterday, for a walk on the sculpture garden path, which was lovely. And had some Lebanese food. Yum!
I'm usually asleep by 9 PM. That's not even the jet lag. That's just me being an old lady. 🙈

2026-07-19 12:17:15 CEST

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Yeah, but it was an international flight, so it was actually CBP.

2026-07-19 11:59:18 CEST

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It does!!! Reminded me of DC, but you're right because it's more sprawling, like LA. Austin used to be this backwater town, with some hillbillies, Pappadeaux restaurant, Dell computers, and 6th Street. 😂
Now, it's more like California, or something.
I dated a guy whose family was in the Klan, in high school, and we drove by the ole KKK hangout. It's been leveled and turned into a subdivision full of Latino yuppies. Which is ironically hilarious.

2026-07-19 03:45:00 CEST

I am definitely wondering about their recruits, now. 😏
#nevent1q…6066

2026-07-19 02:09:05 CEST

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It's terrible. 😂
I used to walk home from school and it's practically impossible, now. No more pedestrians, anywhere.

2026-07-19 01:24:09 CEST

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I haven't looked. Too busy trying to figure out which of the 8 lanes to use on the side street in our town.

2026-07-19 01:07:30 CEST

Since I was last in Central #Texas, people got fatter or fitter, the cars got bigger and the traffic jams got longer, more of the land was covered in concrete, and some women dyed their hair highly unnatural colors.
Other than that, no real change.

2026-07-19 01:03:19 CEST

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It was, but Italy didn't play. 😂🇫🇷

2026-07-19 01:01:43 CEST

🇫🇷 4 : 6 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

2026-07-19 00:45:48 CEST

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This match was a nothingburger in the first half, but the second half has been riveting.

2026-07-19 00:30:17 CEST

Mbappe just scored the most goals ever in a World Cup. 🇫🇷

2026-07-19 00:11:37 CEST

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We'll all be at Bitcoin Prague 2027, if you time it right.

2026-07-18 23:56:28 CEST

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Lovely, and Happy Birthday! 🎂

2026-07-18 23:44:09 CEST

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Precisely backward.

2026-07-18 23:42:55 CEST

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Worth the kino ticket?

2026-07-18 23:37:54 CEST

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#nevent1q…vmhg

2026-07-18 23:33:22 CEST

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When I told someone I was moving to Maryland, he was like, But there are a bunch of black people there.
https://i.imgflip.com/av3i3w.jpg

2026-07-18 23:30:28 CEST

Excuses, excuses.

2026-07-18 23:23:01 CEST

This is the one I meant to boost.
#naddr1qq…t25h

2026-07-18 23:15:39 CEST

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

2026-07-18 23:12:12 CEST

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💯💯💯💯

2026-07-18 23:09:30 CEST

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Sure, if you want to spend the rest of your life in a DC traffic jam.

2026-07-18 23:08:05 CEST

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Maryland is still my favorite state. Cry harder.

2026-07-18 23:02:49 CEST

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Ah, there's one near here.
Yeah, I'm a bit north of Austin.

2026-07-18 19:16:30 CEST

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Always the first stop, after the airport. 😂
Needed the biscuits and turnip greens.

2026-07-18 18:12:49 CEST

#Texas I am in you. 🤠
https://i.nostr.build/x9InfSWuq9OPuZqo.webp

2026-07-16 14:57:59 CEST

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Literally @npub1c6d…zmx3 🤣

2026-07-16 13:11:55 CEST

index cards for about 2.5 million in-print library books incoming

2026-07-16 10:08:59 CEST

I think most people concerned with monetary inflation don't realize how little most people care about monetary inflation. What they care about is consumer price inflation (the cost of butter, gasoline, meat) and asset price inflation (the cost of housing, mostly, as people need homes to live in).
Consumer price inflation and asset price inflation can be accelerated by monetary price inflation, but the normies are right to associate the sudden, disturbing jumps and falls in prices to supply/demand shocks, and _not_ to overall monetary inflation. That is why central banks fiddling with interest rates has no effect on the price of gasoline at the station; that price is taxes, fees, fracking licenses, and supply interruptions, not the national debt or the interest on 10-year bunds.
#nevent1q…7uf6

2026-07-15 21:21:51 CEST

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They use OpenLibrary API, but we're putting the OpenLibrary dataset directly in Nostr notes. Then there's no separate API.
That was a design flaw, on their part.

2026-07-14 22:40:36 CEST

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We also buried a beloved relative, yesterday. Hard week. 🫂

2026-07-14 22:10:17 CEST

Wow. That lightning 🌩️ struck so loud and bright that it was like it landed right in the middle of our living room. 👀

2026-07-14 21:26:26 CEST

I am, once again, the only one in the house supporting France 🇫🇷.

2026-07-14 20:53:11 CEST

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Is this the new Bullshit Bingo, but make it an LLM?

2026-07-14 19:52:29 CEST

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This is all really traumatic, for me, as I have a lot of stress in my life, and my money is not supposed to be an additional source of constant chaos and trouble.

2026-07-14 19:48:28 CEST

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Nah, lol.

2026-07-14 19:13:28 CEST

You can't even imagine the constant shit people with special needs have to deal with all day, every damn day, until you live with one.
Constant, inexplicable mistreatment.

2026-07-14 17:24:41 CEST

I can only stay calm about Bitcoin turning into more crypto crap, with all of the spam getting stored on it, because I own other assets.

2026-07-14 16:53:55 CEST

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Everyone is escaping to group chats. Even on Nostr, lots of the events are private. That's why the feeds feel a bit thin, but the relays are getting crushed by encrypted or ephemeral events.

2026-07-14 16:46:38 CEST

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It's a lot of bots, yeah. The replies are normally around 15% bots, but any hot topic gets overrun by bots, up to 44%. And once you consider how many of the popular OPs are bots, grifters or parodies, there's no real reason to bother looking at any on there.
If you are just using it to chat with your ten besties, then it still works fine, but you could do that anywhere.

2026-07-14 14:15:06 CEST

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You need to automate more. Have the notes one-click produced from a custom browser extension with a nice parser, for instance. Have the initial preselection done by a custom AI. etc.
Just because the curation of the end selection is human doesn't mean a human has to perform every step manually.

2026-07-14 13:13:37 CEST

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I agree, but it's a rather silly thing to have as a full-time job. It's a side-gig, but you can combine it with related activities that are more lucrative.

2026-07-14 11:31:13 CEST

This interview with Philip Trammel is in English, starting at around 42 minutes. Here is his original article (with audio file), together with Dwarkesh Patel.
https://philiptrammell.substack.com/p/capital-in-the-22nd-century
#nevent1q…8dfy

2026-07-14 09:51:14 CEST

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6K61sUHpI82xRt8IO7shfg
https://think-beyondtheobvious.com/ki-die-ungleichheitsmaschine/

2026-07-14 09:49:07 CEST

https://think-beyondtheobvious.com/investitionsstreik-in-deutschland/

2026-07-14 08:16:00 CEST

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Good.

2026-07-13 22:00:38 CEST

https://www.ardmediathek.de/film/wochenendrebellen/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL3dvY2hlbmVuZHJlYmVsbGVu
Habe diesen Film ❤ .
#Film #Autismus

2026-07-13 19:33:12 CEST

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My git is also what's seeing the most traffic. Bots, probably.

2026-07-13 17:39:14 CEST

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Ich habe gleich an dich gedacht. Zu deiner Post von gestern. Mir geht es auch so. 🫂

2026-07-13 16:28:44 CEST

> Wenn du wissen willst, was du am Tag erreicht hast, verschenke keine Zeit – außer du schenkst sie jemand anderem.
> -- eine weise Frau
R.I.P. ✝️

2026-07-13 08:24:11 CEST

https://youtu.be/5bTxEeywVUA
#Ireland #Brits #Russia

2026-07-13 07:57:27 CEST

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2026-07-13 07:40:24 CEST

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That's actually sort of funny. like, sardonic.

2026-07-12 14:18:08 CEST

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That is too cute.

2026-07-12 13:46:15 CEST

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There's an old German joke like that.
A pious, kind, humble priest named Thomas dies and goes to Heaven. When he gets there, St. Peter welcomes him in and shows him to his room, and informs him that dinner will be in the Great Hall at 6 PM.
Thomas arrives at six, takes his seat across from Peter, and proceeds to contentedly eat the plain ham sandwich on his plate. After dinner, Peter shows him where he can go to look down on all of the poor souls in Hell. But when Thomas looks, they're all enjoying a schnitzel dinner. Thomas is a bit confused, but he just shrugs.
The next evening, at dinner, he is again served a ham sandwich, no longer as content. He peeks down into Hell, afterward, and sees that they are eating a thick beef stew. Hmm. Odd.
On the third evening, seeing the ham sandwich on his plate, yet again, he finally complains, "Why do we eat ham sandwiches, every day, and the people in Hell all get real meals?"
St. Peter calmly replies, "Well, Thomas, it's not really worth hiring a cook, when it's only the two of us up here."

2026-07-12 12:12:49 CEST

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That was a lot of text to say that it would work, if we were all Christians.

2026-07-12 00:44:54 CEST

When you get home from a long party and you want to go to bed because you've been dancing and singing for 6 hours and are hoarse and exhausted, but you check the score and it's 🇳🇴1:1🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.
No sleep for you, ma'am.

2026-07-11 16:29:09 CEST

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There are no cheat codes. It's literally just json. You can just render it. 🤷‍♀

2026-07-11 15:59:59 CEST

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Yeah, was at a funeral for an elderly lady, yesterday, and the median age was about 35. She had 7 grandkids, and 6 grandnieces and grandnephews. That's what funerals are like out here.
But I have been to some in the city, and it's just a pitiful little bunch of old folks and some middle-aged people looking lost. And no priest, of course. I mean, at least they had a funeral and didn't just get dumped in a pine box because there was no one left who could be bothered to mourn them.

2026-07-11 15:53:28 CEST

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Yeah, they can't see hardly anything. :wisp_lol:

2026-07-11 15:44:02 CEST

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You apparently aren't paying attention to the Chinese birthrate.

2026-07-11 15:30:02 CEST

If you can easily convert it into and out of Bitcoin or gold, then it's (still) money. It's possible that I'll eventually have to drop "or gold", but gold still counts.