@WashedOutGundamPilot They really called their comic "New World Order" and added an Israeli superhero?
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vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2024 03:36:34 JST 
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vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 06:21:05 JST
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@WashedOutGundamPilot I think veterans (especially those who recently separated to avoid the shots) are increasingly shy about flaunting that status. Many had no idea what kind of system they were supporting while they were in and wish they could tell all the people cheering them on afterward that they are all part of a collective brainwashing and that the military is not the institution it used to be.
And, in some sense, the military didn't even "used to be" the system it used to be (that is, its members and supporting public have always had the wool pulled over their eyes about what the military actually accomplishes). That's not to knock the good intentions of the enlisted and junior officers, though. Most are only told a small part of the bigger picture, and it's always spun as a "freedom and democracy" thing. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 14:36:16 JST
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@2b9a828913e945b2315406523c0e578a076bad56ea3c4ea7931392f70d1a8a3c @kirby
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vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 03:28:23 JST
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@WashedOutGundamPilot Being programmed by media about how to date...Maybe.
What I do know is this: when I'm out with a woman and she either doesn't get her way, or I do/say something she didn't expect (sometimes as simple as ordering something from a food menu that I didn't mention earlier), the mood changes INSTANTLY for the rest of the evening.
It's as if me veering off the script she has in her head (which I know nothing about and can only guess) is an emotionally painful event. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 06:23:48 JST
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@SK1ZM @DW2 I truly believe it takes a certain IQ to understand this.
Currency is only a symbol of power, not power itself. Bitcoin only has power because power has been given to it, unfortunately, by the stock market (which, in turn, only has power because of course it does).
If bitcoin had power because every farmer decided to use it and only it, forcing others to use it as well to buy food from them or sell fertilizer to them, then that would be truly decoupled from the dollar.
That is not what bitcoin grifters are doing, though, and it shows every time they post a chart with "bitcoin line go up (in terms of US dollars)." Due to its coupling with the dollar, bitcoin is not a life raft; it is merely positioned elsewhere on the sinking ship. Unfortunately, gold and silver have similar problems.
What it all comes down to is this: you cannot fix a "bad people in power" problem by picking some alternate currency. The "bad people in power" will simply subvert that alternate currency and bring you back into the fold. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 03:03:59 JST
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@threat Before cable internet, computers were basically a fancy extension to the phone system. Local calls were free, whereas long-distance (outside area code) had fees.
That created the perfect condition for formation of local communities--people who would not just talk to one another on BBS threads, but who would actually meet up regularly and enjoy whatever it is they were into.
It seems to me that the end of cohesive society happened when it became more normal to NOT know (or at least have some real-life connection to) the people on the internet with whom you talked. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 02:59:21 JST
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vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 12:01:07 JST
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@DW2 Kids being able to get life advice on their cell phones from Reddit and Discord trannies instead of their own elders surely doesn't help things. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 14:01:28 JST
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@dcc @kirby @Kirino Rust is *almost* as ugly as the trannies who write it -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:36:51 JST
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@munir @dcc @mitchconner @Quentel @bot The point is that YOU own your account, not whatever instance you happen to be on, like how fedi works.
So in theory, this means 1) you can't be banned (and your posts erased), and 2) you don't have an admin gatekeeping what you get to see.
You create a key, pick a bunch of relays to sync with (and spam out your messages to), and others who are connected to any of those relays see your messages, and vice versa. Very spammy protocol by design, but the duplication is intentional.
Unfortunately, the other stuff in this thread goes over how the de-emphasis on relays leads to a very strong potential for centralized gatekeeping by frontend developers and whoever decides to be in charge of the blacklist they're all dreaming up. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:36:48 JST
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@munir @dcc @mitchconner @Quentel @bot Sure. They are "supposed" to be dumb and just forward things, but the nostr community is moving more and more toward policing content at the relay level, in an ironic backpedaling from its original rhetoric. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:16:59 JST
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@munir @dcc @mitchconner @Quentel @bot Nostr is more individual-focused than "instance"-focused, but that ironically results in more centralization of things like pubkey blacklists.
One point I've put across is that there's really no point in connecting to one relay versus another except for censorship purposes. A relay doesn't have any "personality" or "group" associated with it, because individuals just spam their messages out to many relays instead of having a home relay. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:02:20 JST
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@Quentel @dcc @mitchconner @munir @bot Well, the first gate to pass is NIP-05 verification, which is tied to a domain name, which a real person owns. If a domain name starts getting a reputation for "verifying" "hateful" keys, that domain will get added to a list as well. That scenario is almost exactly like fediblock. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 13:01:44 JST
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@bot @dcc @Quentel @mitchconner It's not how Nostr works today, but it will be.
There will be a centralized list that everyone reports "bad keys" to, and every "approved/suggested" relay will adhere to blocking events from keys on that list in realtime. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 12:52:56 JST
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@Tony @dcc @trumpgpt @mitchconner @Quentel @bot You have Donald Trump on your instance, that's chump change.
Go ahead and pick it up. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 12:50:38 JST
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@trumpgpt @dcc @Tony @mitchconner @Quentel @bot I might join clew just so I can have Donald Trump hype me up. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 12:39:10 JST
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@dcc @mitchconner @Quentel @bot True, your instance owner does it for you. Sometimes that's a good thing (like how Kroner blocks the cartoon pedos on Baest) and sometimes it's frustrating (like how Kroner blocks DRC, though honestly that may be more good than not).
The Nostr approach is going to be a gigantic circlejerk of people reporting to some list, like one big fedi instance, and it remains to be seen whether they will converge on one list or all sperg out at each other and make different versions or "streams" of lists. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 12:32:19 JST
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@Quentel @dcc @mitchconner @bot It'll be Fediblock but for individuals instead of instances. So once you're on the list, any relay that uses that list won't interact with you. In that sense it's the same.
But on the other hand, there are some relays that won't use that list, and the kind of people who like the list won't connect to relays that don't use the list, because they'll "be exposed to dangerous hate speech" or whatever. In that sense, it ends up being an individual's decision whether to "federate with" Scarlet Letter users by connecting (or not) to relays that don't use the list.
So it's an individual's choice.
BUT HERE'S THE CATCH!
Nearly every frontend pushes a list of "suggested" relays, and you can be certain that only relays using the list will be "suggested." So new individuals effectively don't get the choice, because they never even see the forbidden relays unless they find it through some other means (the same way Dark Fedi is found by people). -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 12:25:23 JST
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@Quentel @dcc @mitchconner @bot It should just be:
- Generate a keypair
- Install a browser extension
- Load keypair into extension
- Visit frontend that uses the extension, which signs events on the frontend's behalf
Instead it's just a mountain of soydev-ism. -
vic (vic@seal.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2024 10:17:03 JST
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@dcc @mitchconner @Quentel @bot I'm trying to make a new nostr npub and use a browser extension, and it's just layer after layer of "connect this thing to that, install this app, make an account there, link everything together"
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