Scoundrel

I don't care what you think of me, only how you came to think it.

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2026-03-12 21:34:46 UTC

The sandman ran me over with a big truck breaking every bone in my body.

2026-03-12 21:33:05 UTC

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Because I never met Digit in person and so I don't have the right to know what happened to her.
Do you have any idea how many great artists and authors I have followed only for them to disappear off the face of the internet? People whose thoughts and words I have been obsessed with? But if I haven't met them in person then it doesn't matter how I feel.

2026-03-12 17:53:30 UTC

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I'm not banned from any of those places cause I don't post in any of those places.👍

2026-03-12 17:47:32 UTC

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Live near yout family and friends.

2026-03-12 17:46:45 UTC

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That's okay, I don't want to live in a paradise anyway. I just want to live in a nation that always tries its best and does the right thing, even if it ends up being hell to live there.

2026-03-12 17:39:53 UTC

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What about between the Soviet Union and Germany? The Soviet Union was Communist and Germany was socialist, weren't they? Or do you have a different understanding of WW2?

2026-03-12 17:35:05 UTC

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If you get your dopamine hit from hanging out with your best friend then maybe you should kiss him on the lips, hoe.

2026-03-12 17:33:59 UTC

Peeopl say "don't meet your hero". Well, my hero is Goku, so I don't think that's going to be a problem. What I'm really interested in is whether people should meet their villains. There isn't a saying about that one to my knowledge.

2026-03-11 20:59:58 UTC

I bragged to a police officer about getting away with a crime, and that bastard arrested me! So much for free speech!

2026-03-11 20:33:01 UTC

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I don't really care and it doesn't matter.

2026-03-11 17:57:42 UTC

Mao anounces one day that China has freedom of speech. Skeptical, one citizen hesitantly says "Taiwan is its own country". He is immediately captured and is never seen again. "WTF!" one person complains. "I thought we had free speech now!" Mao responded calmly "freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences."

2026-03-11 17:49:36 UTC

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Spot the Monero user.

2026-03-11 17:43:04 UTC

My humors are completely unbalanced. I would go to a practitioner of traditional medicine, but they are all just phonies and larpers.

2026-03-11 15:19:25 UTC

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Man, I hope you aren't a Libertarian because that answer is a disappointment. If you are so unwilling to commit to a position that you won't even categorize something as "good" or "bad" then should anyone bother listening to what you have to say?
Can you justify your position concretely rather than relying on ancient Chinese mysticism? I don't believe there is even a single thing that doesn't fall into one category or another. How do you justify your claim that CPR doesn't fall into one category or another?
It seems pretty simple to me. Breaking a person's sternum is bad. Saving a person's life. Breaking a person's sternum without consent is immoral in most circumstances. (The specific rules are irrelevant at the moment.) Breaking a person's sternum during most CPR is moral. Where is the ambiguity? Where is the subjectivity? Who is cultivating the yin and yang aligned chi?

2026-03-10 17:53:23 UTC

My favorite question to ask Libertarian types is whether it is ethical to perform CPR on a stranger who stops breathing and passes out without advanced warning. Lots of Libertarians say it's always unethical to take someone's money without consent, even if they recieve something they want in return.
Okay, sure. But is it okay to break someone's sternum without consent while performing proper forceful CPR? Most Libertarians are just Communists or Capitalists or Conservatives and just don't want to present themselves that way for some reason. However, when talking with the rare exception, the CPR question often stumps them.

2026-03-10 15:17:22 UTC

So in philosophy there is a controversial moral philosophy known as utilitarianism. Basically, the premise is that the ethical action is always the one that maximizes "utility", whatever that means. A lot of Utilitarians just define utility as net global human pleasure and happiness.
The most common criticism of Utilitarianism is how absurdly inhuman it is. It demands people take actions that produce high-utility outcomes without much consideration for the fact that humans are REALLY bad at knowing what all of the eventual outcomes of their actions are. Furthermore, it completely ignores people's rights, authorizing (and even requiring) an arbitrary amount of lies, manipulation, and violation of others in order to achieve that best outcome. If you can't convince someone to donate excess food to the needy? Steal it from them. If you can't convince a doctor to save 5 other children's lives? Hold the doctor's own child at gunpoint. Etc...
One solution to this is called Negative Utilitarianism. Instead of maximizing pleasure or happiness, Negative Utilitarianism demands people act in a way that minimizes suffering. It doesn't really matter that one person wants something more than another person, or that they will live a long and happy life if you just commit one small atrocity, Negative Utilitarianism requires that the action reduces the amount of sufferring in the world.
The argument I heard against Negative Utilitarianism is that is justifies total human extinction. After all, if there are no humans on Earth, then how can any of them suffer? Personally I think this actually understates just how bad Negative Utilitarianism is. Sure there are a small number of anti-natalists who truly believe in voluntary extinction, but I would say that most fans of Negative Utilitarianism wouldn't be fans of ending humanity. I think most of them would just come up with a justification for not to wiping humans off the face of the Earth, and for why extinction should be ignored as a course of action by the philosophy.
However despite this, I see plenty of examples of systematic sickness within society caused by a strong aversion to suffering. For example, many people go all in on the idea that economic and societal growth can somehow be followed forever. A lot of the reason AI hype, crypto hype, and even regular old stock market investing exist is because people would rather throw a hail mary vaguely towards the dream of a post-scarcity society than accept the idea that life will continually require innocent people doing their very best to suffer and die for the rest of eternity.
My ethical beliefs aren't really either of these versions of Utilitarianism, but I do believe that even just existing should outweigh just about any amount or kind of suffering. To me, when I hear "the Earth is going to become overpopulated and turn human life into a living hell, I'm pretty happy since that means we aren't going to have to go extinct of waste our resources on shallow hedonism.
Because of this, it's hard for me to justify ANY sort of long term compounding investment. In my view, such things are unnatural, temporary, and undeserved. I hate having money that comes from something bad or undeserved.

2026-03-09 15:04:09 UTC

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That's clearly a lie. You don't ALWAYS lie. You only SOMETIMES lie.

2026-03-07 20:16:17 UTC

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Gandalf is like five bajillion years old. If it doesn't happen in his time then it just doesn't happen. Gandalf is just greedy tbh. First he gets to live forever, and then he wishes that life could ALSO be really easy and convenient for him? Bro the sign says take one and you're just filling up the pockets of your kooky robe...

2026-03-07 20:14:10 UTC

If I wanted to lie to someone, the very first lie I would tell them is "I never lie."
Of course, I actually don't want to lie to people. In fact, I never lie.

2026-03-07 19:44:42 UTC

Dear Dairy,
Today I drank some milk.

2026-03-06 22:23:23 UTC

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I'm sorry, that must be so difficult for you.😔

2026-03-06 22:10:48 UTC

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This user has made more AI images of picket signs than actual picket signs.

2026-03-06 22:08:03 UTC

Therapists are for pussies. I have a traumatist instead. I pay him to traumatize me.

2026-03-06 22:07:04 UTC

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Damn, really?
Wow, in that case it's rude that they closed an article in the middle of people reading it.

2026-03-06 22:05:28 UTC

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I hear what you are saying, but this just isn't an example of that. Protonmail turning over all their data is not an example of corruption or a honeypot. They are SUPPOSED to be able to turn over their data. The whole point is that if someone cares about their privacy then that data won't compromise their privacy or anonymity. I highly recommend Protonmail to people.
They are a big reputable email provider and you can sign up without giving them any personal information. It's hard to beat that.

2026-03-06 18:56:53 UTC

I visited my neice in the hospital. It's bad. She can no longer form coherent sentences. The doctor says that 20% of her brain mass has rotted away already. She just keeps saying nonsense words like "six-seven, skibidi, gyatt" over and over again. My older sister told her that she loved her and that she would do anything to get her back to normal, and all my neice could say in response is "mood."

2026-03-06 18:42:33 UTC

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Dude, if a police officer flashes its lights behind you, do you pull over? What if they arrest your friend in the passenger seat? Does that mean you are "compromised?"
The only information Protonmail was able to hand over from what I read is payment information. Protonmail gives plenty of anonymous payment options, including just NOT paying.
The fact that protonmail was able to turn over their user's payment information is not proof that they are compromised. Rather, the fact that the authorities didn't get MORE information is proof that Protonmail is legit.

2026-03-06 18:36:45 UTC

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It's rude to post a private article. 404 Media only wants people with an account to view that article.

2026-03-06 16:15:07 UTC

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It's not a problem with Indians! Target fixation is a real problem! I can't tell you how many times I've slapped someone's ass because I was target fixated on it. It wasn't my fault, there was nothing I could do about it.

2026-03-06 16:06:27 UTC

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Hroks

2026-03-04 21:49:05 UTC

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I'm actually quite happy with my job. That's why I'm asking. I notice that Monero.jobs only lists IT jobs. Society would collapse if everyone only worked IT jobs. Not to mention that the IRS rapes anyone who doesn't disclose employment, defeating half the purpose of getting paid in Monero.
The idea of everyone getting paid in Monero is very appealing, but it doesn't seem very practical to me as it is now. And if everyone can't do it then I'm just exploiting those people without the same privelege as me. Personally, I believe that having a currency that anyone can use is more important than having a currency that allows proveably anonymous digital transactions.

2026-03-04 21:42:22 UTC

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For no reason. Weren't you listening?
Well okay, I did it because it's funny. Imagine walking in to an Android only store and asking if they sell iPhones. Also, it's funny that iPhones and apple cider are both technically apple products. Also it's funny to imagine someone getting written up for acting silly. Also, I thought it would be funny to say "now, a lot of you don't know this, but my job is doing X" across lots of different notes, but present a different job each time.

2026-03-04 18:50:26 UTC

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The camera is in the wrong place. If you put the camera directly on top of the curved surface then if it had visibility of the light source, it would have visibility of the reflection.
Round Earther's claim that the reflection of the sun's light DOES look like the left image, but only when viewed from hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface.
A curved surface and a flat surface look the same at small distance scales.

2026-03-04 18:43:59 UTC

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Terrible analogy. It's the new 69 420 42 58008 1337.

2026-03-04 18:39:56 UTC

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I wish it was dead. I've had to change the way I speak to always reverse the order of the digits and dumb whippersnappers STILL freak out about funny number.

2026-03-04 18:35:02 UTC

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Don't hug me over that. I made that entire story up for no reason.

2026-03-04 16:17:08 UTC

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That's stupid. Nothing stops a client from generating notifications anyway.

2026-03-04 16:15:12 UTC

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What's your job? You don't have to be specific.

2026-03-04 16:08:29 UTC

I hate my customer service job. It's really wearing on me. Not a lot of you know this, but I actually work at a phone store selling various Android devices. I can't tell me how many times customers have come up to me and asked "dO YOu seLL ApPLe PrODuCtS???" Yesterday I got written up by my boss because I started trying to sell one of those retards a bottle of apple cider I smuggled in. FML

2026-03-03 21:48:15 UTC

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I hope it's not anything like those distributed note vending machine whatchamacallits, because those suck balls. They are horrible. I want a way to subscribe to keyword searches. I want a way to filter people's manual posts out from all of their random boosts. I want to be able to sort my feed by engagement. I want to be able to randomize unseen posts from the last 24 hours. If Nostr isn't going to have a centralized algorithm telling me what content to consume, then my client better give me good tools like that, because browsing global, following hashtags, or following dozens of randos just doesn't cut it.

2026-03-03 18:57:22 UTC

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Does it have advanced searches and feeds?

2026-03-03 18:55:21 UTC

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Lusting after prepubescent girls is the only acceptable homosexual behavior since prepubescent girls don't have a penis or body hair or any other male primary or secondary sexual characteristics. Primary and secondary male sexual characteristics are what make homosexuality bad.

2026-03-03 18:50:26 UTC

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Dissident Sound means it in the staturory sense.

2026-03-03 18:47:07 UTC

Exercising your rights is actually super childish and immature. If the world demands something of you, then using your cheater button to get out of it is just impudent behavior. A perfect example of this is buying a gun or installing a security system just because you want special treatment from the rest of the world. It makes you come off as a petulant brat who can't handle being forced to share with a kid who was mean to you before. Man up. Let it go. This is the real world.

2026-03-02 18:57:01 UTC

There is a study that claims humans only process information at 10 bits per second. Ok, that's obviously bullshit. Let's assume they meant that that was just the actionable throughput. (i.e. belief formation and decisionmaking.) We can assume that people can still interpret enormous amounts of bits or direct many disparate parts of their body simultaneously.
If that 10 bits figure is accurate, then the maximum speed that a human could type random letters is a little more than 2 per second, or a little less than 130 letters per minute. Does anyone know if this is accurate? Are there any studies on humans typing RANDOM letters? (Not words?)

2026-03-02 16:17:31 UTC

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I opened my computer up and found that I couldn't left click.
To fix the problem I managed to open up a terminal and I typed to command to restart my window manager. That solved the problem.
Then I closed the terminal. As it turns out, this was a mistake. All of the windows I had open were half broken and basically everything else was full broken. I had to switch to a TTY and restart my window manager again. This time with an "&" at the end.

2026-03-02 16:11:03 UTC

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Somebody stole my username! Wtf?

2026-03-02 16:10:03 UTC

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And that's what you would kill people over? "Kinda"? I don't buy it. I think you would act exactly the same in whatever world you lived in. Is that be so wrong?

2026-03-01 19:37:38 UTC

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Do any of those past conversations indicate that Digit is alive today, or that she would ever come back?

2026-03-01 19:00:48 UTC

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Ok. I making shit up. You really refused to let that opportunity to let an insult pass by, didn't you?
Listen dude, if your choices are based on reality then show me literally anything real influencing your choices. Obviously this is a lot more important to you than it is to me. So show me an example of not making Digit shit up and you can prove my position is at all below average.

2026-03-01 01:16:25 UTC

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Neither of those is going to happen and there's nothing you can show someone indicating otherwise.

2026-02-28 23:04:50 UTC

Political Analyst Warns California Law Banning Residency May Cause Billionares to Flee

2026-02-28 22:57:33 UTC

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She's gone from your life, one way or another. Add me to your list. In fact, why wait? Come kill me right now.
Edgy loser.

2026-02-28 04:16:55 UTC

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So? My username is Scoundrel but I like to think I'm a pretty nice guy.

2026-02-28 03:27:01 UTC

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Yeah, but just because you are thinking about her doesn't mean she is actually important to your life. You could do everything you are doing regardless of if she is dead or even if she never existed. Can't you?
Like, I care about my friends' thoughts and I care about how they are doing because, for one thing, I actually meet up and interact with them regularly. But I don't give a shit about whether Socrates or Jesus ever existed and neither do I care about what thoughts they may have had. Because they don't have any tangible influence on my life. I can't meet either of them for example.
I agree that you should ignore when someone says that Digit might be dead, but only because your life would be exactly the same either way, not because her death would make you sad.

2026-02-28 01:53:48 UTC

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I mean, it's great to know where things are, but the real money is in moving them from one place to another.
Another idea I had was to have a space that is euclidian in one or more axis and hyperbolic in the others. For example, if you want to go around an obstacle then you do so in one of the euclidian axes and if you want to gather resources then you do so on the hyperbolic axes. This does create a really funny property though. It locks the rotation of objects that are very big or very stiff or both. Like, imagine walking to the opposite end of a big object suspended over a pit, unable to rotate due to the fact that it has more than 360 degrees in two of its axes and it doesn't have anywhere else to put it.

2026-02-26 18:58:02 UTC

I've been thinking about geometry and space. Specifically I've been thinking about different spaces in terms of resource gathering and resource delivery. When gathering resources, the most important thing is that a small search radius encompasses a very large volume. One of the great tragedies of living in euclidian space is that volume only grows polynomially with respect to radius. For example, on a flat plane, the area of your search circle is pi*r^2. Emphasis on the r^2.
Hyperbolic space by contrast has far better properties in this regard. For example you might see something like 2^r instead. This could be the difference between having 400 resources in a 20 unit radius and having 1,000,000 resources in a 20 unit radius.
However, hyperbolic space is far worse for resource delivery. If you are transporting a resource from a source to a destnation then it's important to be able to navigate around obstacles. For example, the fat butt of the another guy delivering between the same source and destination.
In hyperbolic space, the circumference of an obstacle with radius r is on the order of 2^r. Exponential again. Meanwhile in euclidian space, the circumference of an obstacle with radius r is linear: 2*pi*r. This means that if 20 people are performing a delivery in euclician space, they might have to travel about 20 units in order to get around eachother. Whereas in hyperbolic space, some poor delivery guy might have to travel a path of 1,000,000 units just to avoid intersecting with the paths of the other 19 delivery guys.
The ideal space has both of these properties, but clearly messing with the curvature of the space isn't enough to accomplish that. Cranking up the number of dimensions far beyond our ordinary three can help a lot, but unlike messing with the curveature, (like for hyperbolic space) the effects of high dimensionality don't depend on scale.
That means that even just existing in such a world would be very difficult. With 100 dimensions you'd need 100 legs just to avoid falling over, and you would need like 100 unit^99s of skin to cover one unit^100 of flesh or your organs would fall out. Not great!
The only way I can think of to avoid this issue is if the space is some sort of very complicated manifold where distant locations are connected to eachother as if by a portal. But that isn't super nice either. For example, in regular euclidian and hyperbolic space you can always make a path slightly shorter by just taking a small shortcut. That's not always the case in more complicated manifolds. There are some cycles you can take where there isn't any small shortcut and there isn't any way to shorten a looping path without going a completely different way.
Additionally, such a manifold would no longer be as symmetric as euclidian and hyperbolic space. Even if there were no stationary objects at all to act as reference points in the space, you may still be able to tell different locations apart just based purely on how the space loops back on itself.
I'll have to keep thinking about this.

2026-02-26 16:07:03 UTC

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Please give me an example of an action you took to get in touch with Digit that you took without thinking at all about Digit.

2026-02-26 04:42:32 UTC

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Sounds boring. Nowdays we on that himbo math grindset

2026-02-26 04:38:12 UTC

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My suggestion is, instead of ignoring it becuse it frightens you, try ignoring it because it's impossible to act on. It's not really rational for a person to choose what they focus on just so that they can feel a certain way.

2026-02-24 04:08:12 UTC

Pro-tip for writing a story. If you can make something explode within the first paragraph of your story, it will really draw people in. The most important part though is don't tell the viewer why it exploded. You don't even need a reason, just imply that everything will be explained soon and that it's related to the things you actually wanted the reader to care about.
There's nothing I hate more than a story by an author who doesn't even know how to manipulate their readers smh...

2026-02-24 03:56:23 UTC

RGB puts the gay in gamer

2026-02-22 03:51:43 UTC

Got called a Redditor today. I hope the authentic Japanese katana I ordered arrives soon so that I can commit ritualistic suicide.

2026-02-20 23:02:59 UTC

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Damn, I've done 2D animations, but I didn't know you could do camera effects. Or that you can't I guess.

2026-02-20 18:45:52 UTC

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Do you have a source for that claim? Can you elaborate?

2026-02-20 18:39:49 UTC

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What makes you say that Krita is unstable? It's worked well for me every time I've tried it.

2026-02-20 18:37:16 UTC

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What about caffiene?

2026-02-20 16:12:13 UTC

I've got a million drafts of replies I intended to make to peoplebut that I never got around to finishing for one reason or another. I love and support arguments of all kinds.
I also understand that most arguments on the internet don't lead to agreement. And I don't necessaraly believe they SHOULD. Not everybody knows why they are right, or why the other person is wrong, and if an argument isn't conclusive like that then it shouldn't change people's minds.
I believe that in any case like that, the end result should be one person ghosting the other person. Give both people a chance to stew on their beliefs and start over from the beginning next time.
I've decided to go through all of my old drafts and follow all the people I couldn't finish arguing with. The goal is to increase the chances of the argument occurring again, now with both parties hopefully having new perspective.

2026-02-20 02:02:16 UTC

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What if a problem is fixable, but it isn't fixable on Nostr? Would you consider questions related to such a problem to be useless? What if someone doesn't understand a problem, but other people do? Is it still meaningful for that person to complain about the problem or ask questions about the problem?
Here's another one for you: if the question I asked you is so pointless for you to answer then why don't you let ME answer it? Surely you will have a response no matter what answer I give, won't you?

2026-02-19 22:10:04 UTC

Fun fact! The Nostr protocol has already achieved world peace!
It's just that those lazy Nostr developers haven't implemented it yet for some reason...

2026-02-19 22:07:13 UTC

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If it can prevent someone from going into shock and dying yes, but otherwise no. Invasive surgery is actually really fucked up from an objective point of view.
When someone's thorax gets opened up, typically the only prognosis is death. In our genetic history, 99% of the time someone has voluntarally allowed their thorax to be opened up in order to "help them", the person performing the operation was a psycho witch doctor. I imagine that most of the people in our genetic history who did end up getting thorax surgery only did so because they were on lots of narcotics or they were otherwise very out of their right mind.
I think it's very reasonable to demand a very high bar of justification from our doctors when they suggest opening up our chest. And it only makes sense that the right way of performing thorax surgery would require quite a lot of conviction on the part of the person getting the surgery.
Even from a practical perspective, there are a lot of benefits to being lucid during an important surgery. What better feedback for if the surgeon fucks sonething up than a person who can literally feel it? How many stupid fuck ups like operating on the wrong organ or leaving things inside the patient could be avoided if they weren't knocked out? How many spontaneous decisions have surgeons had to make without the feedback of the person recieving the surgery? If the surgeon is going to be fucking up someone's body anyway then why take a bunch of anesthesia just to fuck up their other organs too? Don't forget that anesthesia is literally a poison.
Pain sucks because it's so strongly associated with injury and death. If this thorax surgery is supposedly fighting injury or death, then shouldn't the supposedly informed and consenting patient be able to look past the pain to all of the advantages of the surgery?
I actually read an article about someone who had to get open heart surgery with minimal anesthesia because injecting anesthesia in that area was very likely to kill them. It's been done before.

2026-02-19 18:58:10 UTC

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It sounds like you refuse to acknowledge that Nostr has a problem until someone has already solved it. What if the problem is solveable, but not with a NIP? Am I still in the wrong for asking these questions in that case too?

2026-02-19 18:49:43 UTC

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I only see one issue: authority. Bridge administrators have no authority to share ActivityPub posts. They are just random Joes reposting somebody else's content with no associated responsibility or reputation. There's nothing giving the bridge version of the posts legitimacy. If there was then all of the problems I brought up would be solved simultaneously.
Can you explain what DHT means? And isn't DNS's only job to associate a URL with an IP address? Are Pubky's authority mechanisms compatible with ActivityPub?

2026-02-19 11:11:20 UTC

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So if you want to see one person's posts, is it better to only have to follow one account, or to have to hunt down and follow multiple versions of the same account? And then when browsing your feed, to have to just ignore all of the duplicate posts? Or to only follow one version and get exactly one copy of every post?

2026-02-19 08:33:10 UTC

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Is it good to have 5 copies of the same user, each with different posts?

2026-02-19 08:24:49 UTC

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How would discovery by pubkey change these bridge problems at all? Would it somehow force 5 bridges to all use the same account for the same external user? Would it somehow prevent bridge operators from editing messages arbitrarily? Would it allow a user on another platform to take over their bridged account without needing permission from a bridge owner? It would be nice to talk with a Pubky advocate who acknowledges my questions about the protocol.

2026-02-19 06:26:56 UTC

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Nost's design doesn't allow *bridging* that much I mean. Nostr throws away the guaruntee that a user's post actually came from that user's instance. Guess what? A million forms of self sovereignty existed before Nostr, and new ones will continue being created. I already mentioned the possibility of a single-user ActivityPub instance. Why should we throw away the digital signature of someone like that just because it doesn't come in the same exact format as Nostr?
Nostr's bridges suck actually, and anyone who adds another bridge will just be creating more users and duplicate posts. If we value having a decentralized protocol then why are we okay with the fact that it pretty much requires centralized bridges?

2026-02-19 05:20:53 UTC

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Yeah, they authenticate that the content was delivered by the server instance with zero third party interference. That's a pretty nice guaruntee, but Nostr's design doesn't allow even THAT much. Do you believe that Nostr is the only possible way of granting users sovereignty over their accounts? Why does everyone HAVE to put their effort (into Nostr)? Why does Nostr have to throw away perfectly good guaruntees just because they aren't handed to Nostr on a silver platter? If platform more similar to Nostr comes around, would you be telling Nostr devs to bend over backwards to be able to properly federate with them? Do you even want to bridge with other platforms?

2026-02-19 01:08:49 UTC

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People gain something tangibly beneficial when closing their eyes. Closing one's eyes is a natural biological function. Blinking and closing the eyes protects them and moistens them, which is vital to their function and to removing irritants.
The substances I avoid aren't biological functions. They are exogenous ligands that are only allowed inside people in order to interfere with their body's internal signaling. The goal is not to provide some sort of tangible benefit, but rather to induce some sort of internal state. Even the direct and intended effects of these substances are shallow, redundant, and just plain bad. And don't even bother trying to defend their numerous negative side effects.
A more accurate analogy might be muting someone because they believe something different. But obviously you are looking for an example of something that's not always bad, so my analogy doesn't really help me to understand your position.
Let me know if you have any questions for me. I am passionate about this subject.

2026-02-18 22:10:42 UTC

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But that's exactly it! It ISN'T a "them" problem! Even if a user owns their own instance and digitally signs every post, a bridge NECESSARILY modifies the posts it bridges, thereby invalidating that signature.
If a protocol requires everybody ELSE to bend over backwards to accomodate it then that protocol doesn't play nicely with others! There's no point in sugarcoating it!
I wonder, does Pubky have this problem federating with ActivityPub?

2026-02-18 18:44:26 UTC

Platforms like Nostr have a bridge problem. They can't effectively federate with users on other protocols. The issue is that posts from bridged users are "unofficial" in a sense. There's nothing stopping three different people from bridging the same user's posts to three different proxy accounts, all claiming to represent the original user.
What if that user wants to take control over the Nostr version of his account? Too bad! The bridge owner has zero obligation to hand over the key! In fact, the bridge owner can make the user do whatever they want on the Nostr side, adding and removing their posts at will. It's disappointing really. I don't have a good idea of how this could be fixed.

2026-02-18 16:11:21 UTC

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Shit shit shit I've gotta add more bots ASAP!

2026-02-18 16:10:28 UTC

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My trick is to ask people to type their name into my contacts. My excuse is usually that I don't know their last name and how their names are spelled.

2026-02-18 07:48:26 UTC

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Can you say what the experiment would be testing? I suspect you could discover the result of your experiment even without such a service existing.

2026-02-18 07:43:21 UTC

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Thank you so much! I'm glad I bothered finishing that note then. I've been drafting it for two days!

2026-02-18 07:36:42 UTC

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Then it sounds like maybe I can't be a faggot after all.
There's no such thing as an unbreakable bond in a world where death exists. Any girl or woman or boy or man can end any relationship they are a part of by choosing not to live anymore. That piece of leverage is why it's wrong for someone to force themselves onto another.
The real goal is to form a bond with someone that neither side will ever voluntarily give up. I really can't give any advice to help you with that because to REALLY help you I'd have to be able to give advice to the lady who would be your eventual wife too.

2026-02-18 07:17:12 UTC

A girl is a transfer student to a school in a small town known for it's rich folk-lore and regular reports of monster sightings. This girl has read lots of monster romance stories though, so she can recognize the setup from a mile away.
She will meet a boy who seems at first to be an ordinary human student, they will find themselves hopelessly entangled with eachother, she will find out that he's secretly one of the monsters, and then drama will ensue. Will she be able to look past his huge, inconvenient secret? Or will their love for eachother overcome the obstacle in their relationship?
But as much as she loves her smut- er, her "romance" novels, she knows that she just isn't assertive and strong enough in real life to handle all that drama. She resolves that she won't bother trying to fight the plot; she already knows how it ends.
On the first day, she meets a plain and unassuming boy. He starts telling her the lore of the town, but she knows that anything he says will only make her inevitable decision harder than it has to be. She interrupts him by asking him out on a date him before he can explain the lore of the monsters. He looks surprised, but accepts.
Their interests don't line up very well, but if their relationship can't handle them having different interests then how will it survive them being different species? Eventually she discovers a unique enjoyment in figuring out just what makes each of his hobbies so interesting to him, and she gains a sense of perspective trying to communicate just what is so great about each of her own interests.
Finally, the dreaded day comes where she will have to confront his true nature. She has been mentally preparing for the reveal, but she feels just as fragile and meek as the day they met. At this point how could she possibly internalize the fact that she's dating-
"I'm not the monster."
What? She misheard him.
"No, you didn't, I was never the monster. I was literally always just the minor side character who explains the lore at the beginning of the story and then gets out of the way."
But. Huh? That's confusing. Was there never a monster then?
"Oh no, there's definitely a monster. You didn't see him? He's the guy who's always brooding in the corner and who shares all of your hobbies and interests. He actually got really upset when you started dating me. We've basically been cucking him for several months straight..."
Huh. That other guy really does stand out once she notices him. That sounds really stressful though! Why did her boyfriend even agree to go out with her in the first place?
"It's just hard for me to say no to a girl who is as strong and assertive as you are..."
...Hmm, at this point it's hard to refute that. Maybe she can choose her own boyfriend after all? She does enjoy going to his track meets...
"...And I hate to admit it, but all of the stories you've been forcing me to read are actually growing on me. So I guess is this settled then? Will I see you tomorrow?"
Yes.

2026-02-18 06:21:49 UTC

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I mean, if I accept your definition of "faggot" and "boy" then is there really anything wrong with being a "faggot" who is aroused by cute and attractive vagina-having "boys?" Seems like a huge step up from most faggots, who want to stick their penis in a butthole or who think gay sex between two hairy men is appealing.
Though it's starting to seem like I might not be a "pedophile" at all by your definition! You say that pedophiles rape kids, but I am against that kind of premarital sex. Is it possible for a pedophile to not rape children?
You say that men are supposed to raise their wives before starting a family but that's completely wrong! Men are supposed to raise their kids first, not their wives! By the time a man has raised his wife, the man is all old and used up! If he did even a slightly competent job at raising her then she deserves a hot young husband, not a gross older man.

2026-02-18 01:34:31 UTC

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Lmao, fix ur AI

2026-02-18 01:06:12 UTC

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I'm not a faggot either. Like, on an intellectual basis I can see why females are attracted to males; I'm hot as shit. But practically, gay sex is just gross. The hottest sex is between a male and female. That's why straight shota porn, where a little boy is molested by a girl, is hot.
But little girls aren't men. They don't have any male secondary sex characteristics, like a hairy body, an adam's apple, big muscles... The only time sex involving a little girl and an adult woman is hot is when the adult woman is getting the little girl to have it with a guy.
Also, I don't know why you are bringing marriage into this. There's a lot more to marriage than attractiveness. I'm not marrying a prepubescent bimbo, no matter how cute she is. I want a wife who has my back, not a weak child or a lanky loser who still lives with her parents and hasn't even completed her GED.

2026-02-17 22:49:31 UTC

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I'm the MAP clown. (But don't call me a MAP; that's a slur.)
6 and 16 are the same except that 6 year olds are hotter. The biggest reason to date a 16 year old is if you think you are going to get caught. I will gladly continue to give age-cucks more power until y'all get better arguments.

2026-02-17 22:25:08 UTC

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✍👀Got it. If someone calls me a masochist then I should instantly roast them.
As for your argument that pain isn't useful in every case, isn't that why humans are able and willing to manually ignore pain if they have enough conviction that it's the right decision? I mean, if someone achieves a good outcome through luck or due to other people's interference I don't see people trying to avoid their enjoyment of the consequences. Isn't there inherent value in experiencing reality, even if there WERE a negative consequence to it? (To be clear, I promise you there isn't one though.)

2026-02-17 22:09:49 UTC

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Hang on, let me copy and paste the nevent pqrt of that link so I don't have to open my web browser...
#nevent1q…xhyq

2026-02-17 22:07:44 UTC

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It seriously sounds like you just want to create an excessive number of bot accounts in order to spam some poor platform our there. Have you tried going on the darknet and purchasing stolen email accounts? I think that might work really well for uour use case. The accounts will register as legitimate to every other website and any time your bot needs a fresh account it will have one.

2026-02-17 18:51:23 UTC

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Wait, why do you need a bot to do it for you? Are you lazy?

2026-02-17 18:40:58 UTC

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True. Me personally I just keep hitting until I get 21.

2026-02-16 18:44:43 UTC

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They weren't my friends, you are right about that. But why do you say that a good friend would never call another good friend a masochist? Especially if they have a reason to say that.
I'm not sure I get how trying to be objectively good or trying to address others' criticisms is focusing on myself any more than say, focusing on following God's word or focusing on being a good friend to Jesus. Could you clarify what you mean by focusing on oneself, or give a more concrete example?
And does focusing on some sort of higher purpose mean that I shouldn't argue with people? Even though you say you're focusing on a higher purpose you're still taking the time to argue with me. I appreciate it. Isn't this conversation meaningful?
Also, moderation is just an excuse to do bad things by people who don't really understand why they are bad. Interfering with one's internal signaling is always wrong, even if one does it in moderation without getting addicted or experiencing negative health benefits.

2026-02-14 07:03:14 UTC

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I think your posts were really good. You did a fairly job of not inserting anything overtly depricating into your NPC posts. There's still room for improvement though; I was still able to tell that you didn't believe what you were saying. It's an interesting experiment though.

2026-02-14 06:49:11 UTC

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You think I should completely ignore a criticism I care a lot about purely based on who is presenting it to me and how it makes me feel?
I think the only reason you are saying that is because sobriety has such a great connotation. What if my "sobriety" is refusing anesthesia at the dentist because "they are going to be working on my teeth either way, shouldn't I experience the authentic signals my body is built to send me?" What if I'm refusing to drink coffee, take anti-inflammatory medicine, or even eat articifial sweetner just because they are "inauthentic"?
Sorry, I take criticism seriously too. I'm not going to be satisfied until I come up with some reasonable way to address the criticism. It doesn't matter to me whether that criticism comes from a close friend, from a stranger on the internet like you, or from my own imagination. Even if I don't change my actions there is always room to improve my reasoning.

2026-02-14 04:04:32 UTC

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Oh damn, why didn't I think of that?
Jokes aside I'm not worried about revealing my pedophilia. I am such a massive control freak that any drugs or alcohol would probably sooner kill me than get me to do anything I wouldn't be okay with doing while sober. Like hurting someone for example.