Been into Bitcoin since 2013—mixing local AI (LLMs & Stable Diffusion) with Python/PHP coding to turn ideas into real-world projects. I create art in Blender, 3D print my designs, then paint them for hands-on use. Passionate about self-hosted smart home systems like Home Assistant to make life smarter and more connected.
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Last Notes npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Finished with printing: https://blossom.primal.net/800a5ceabd9da7719e4dd7551ab9ee199bcbff5a4b79fac63003f61fa77045a7.png https://blossom.primal.net/d690df327f1f2e719e3b5a7f289f74288faea40a9424f7ad299813470da82fae.png Now to post production and painting! #nevent1q…zlnn npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan In the making: https://blossom.primal.net/1df7d1b10061f6974ac4bf74dfabdbbb6666d26a39a3fc7071aaaf3924f43044.png npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan After years of gas powered backup generator, i switched my whole house to a solar + battery. Long term solution that not only keeps house powered in case of power outage but allows me to produce my own energy long term and reduce electricity bills when public network works. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan wait, they still cling to it?!! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Almost burned my weekend house down like that when i was young. Wooden house, full oak wood, with setup similar to this. Chimney was not going straight up but bit up and than into the wall (and that short length was almost our downfall) and than up on another side. It was in the middle of the winter, snow falling outside, and we came there after night out and no one was in for more than a month so inside was very cold too. We fired it up, filled it up with wood and fell asleep. Close to morning my friend woke me up coughing (it was lucky for us that he was breathing trough his mouth and not nose so smoke irritated his throat). Long story short, chimney got so hot that it heated up wooden wall around it so hard that wood turned into....don't know....like red hot coal. Luck was that we had plaster on the walls which prevented oxygen coming inside the wall so no open fire started. That wall was like red hot coal which released ton of smoke. We ran out, called firefighters who lucky for us came fast, prepared whole thing, broke of plaster from one side of the wall and sprayed it with foam never letting open fire ignite so house was saved and basically nothing major happened. Whole house was full of smoke, some things were destroyed and wall had to be rebuilt. Looks as cool as hell but it can be dangerous if not properly build like in our case. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan X down again. NOSTR working, Bitcoin ticking away, zaps zapping.... npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan As usual, short TikTok videas not telling whole story. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan My 3D printing game just got serious upgrade https://blossom.primal.net/1502236fbba871685c9fc4c998dd4bb56574d2c386ee044f8df75b616d753480.jpg npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan So, he bluffed, his bluff was called, now he's gonna do what he could do from day one, and he and his followers are announcing huge win. What a world we live in.....zero self respect. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I propose they make a trade. "Piece of ice" for "piece of sand" (Texas). I'm sure citizens of Texas would be glad....what do they care.....it's just sand.....right? It's not like you love your sand / ice. It's not like your family has history in that place or anything like that. It's just a transaction. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan low IQ people from place that is not even a country stol19B from US.......well....i'm not sure he understands implications. Or better said, his voters do not understand implications of what he is saying. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan crazy AI npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan The EU is buying a small remainder of Russian oil under the G7 price cap, around $47–50 per barrel, which significantly cuts Russian profit. In volume terms, the EU is buying roughly 10 percent of pre-2022 levels. Since early 2022, EU imports from Russia (oil, gas, coal combined) have fallen by about 85–90 percent. That is a massive reduction. Eliminating the last share overnight is not realistic due to infrastructure and refinery constraints. The price cap exists precisely to handle this reality: buy less, buy below market price, and keep cutting dependence. This is no different from the US continuing to trade with China while calling it a strategic rival. You cannot shut down complex trade systems instantly without self-harm. The trend is clear: Europe is rapidly diversifying, Russia is losing its most profitable market, and what remains is shrinking and discounted. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Truth be told, all words are made up 🤣 npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Excellent doc on forever chemicals and DuPont https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2eSujzrUY npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I live in country in which we pick our prime minister and some other officials via representative democracy, and president and some other officials via direct democracy, so please, drop the act. I see how changes are being done when citizens want change and i see how no change is made when they don't want it. I live it for decades now. Not agreeing with an average voter does not mean that democracy is not working, it just means you are not part of majority. For example, i do not agree with average citizen of my country. We voted in representatives for prime minister that i like 2 times in 20 years, but percentages are being thinner and thinner, change is slowly coming even in the rural parts of the country. On the other hand, locally change came 6 years ago, we voted in new face that is not part of two largest parties, and our town is flourishing so much he won last time with huge percentage win. So what it means? It means, democracy is working but i simply do not agree with majority of citizens of my country, but i do agree with majority of folks in my town. It's so condescending thinking that i do not understand how it works. It's like only you are living it and rest of us are on Mars or something, only reading about democracy on internet or whatever. Feel free to mute. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan LoL! To think that you have to be clueless about USSR governance or about EU or, which is more probably both. USSR had one party democracy which is something you can not compare to EU or US (US has representative democracy....even more representative than EU). In US and EU, voter has a choice, in USSR there was none. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan People that do not know but think that they know are worst enemies to themselves. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Truth be told....i would too. Just look at me reacting to some uneducated post on EU elections on Nostr. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan You first have to corroborate my age 🤣 npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Tariffs effect US citizens most....there is nor reason to overreact. Keep it simple, keep it calm. It would play right into his field if EU governments started acting like he does. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Yes i can see. If you did read more before your original post, you might know how she was elected. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan You got me there with pure facts! "Young" 🤣 npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan They can and very easy. They elect representatives that will vote for some other candidate on next elections. Just like any other election for example for prime ministers in countries (or equivalent government leaders). Democracy might not be perfect (FAR from it) but it's best we have for now. Once we create new, better system, i will be all for it. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I am not playing with words. Representative democracy is all over the world on different levels of government. It's in parts of government of US, it's in EU, it's in EU countries themselves. EU citizens put names of representatives that chose her in ballots and that gives them (representatives) and her (chosen by those representatives) legitimacy. Just google "representative democracy" and see list of institutions and governments that use it. It's not my opinion, or "play with words". Only one who is playing with words are JD Vance, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and rest of shitheads that want to spread this narrative that she has no legitimacy. Facts: - In every EU country, the head of government is chosen indirectly. Citizens vote in parliamentary elections for parties. The legislature (parliament) or the majority coalition selects and confirms the prime minister or equivalent leader. - Heads of State (Presidents/Monarchs). Germany, Estonia, Italy, Hungary, Latvia and Malta are some of examples where the president is elected by parliament or a special assembly. - US citizens vote for electors pledged to a candidate. Those electors form the Electroal Collage. Electroral collage formally elects the president. US president is voted in by representative democracy. - Because of representative democracy in place, US citizens do not have 1 voter 1 vote system. Cirizen in one state has more voting power than citizen in another state. - In US, candidate can win without winning popular vote. This has happened multiple times. In that sense US is even more indirect than EU is.. So....please tell me how am i "playing with words"? Show me some facts, that will counter mine, not some random thought of what someone else think, those do not have bigger weight than facts. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I agree that EU is not a state. No one with his sane mind said so. But reality is that she was voted in by representatives who were voted in by citizens of EU. Each member state has to have elections for their representatives, it's part of membership deal. You are basically writing random word salad that has no foundation in real world. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan All EU member states hold elections where citizens vote for their European Parliament representatives. That is a legal requirement of EU membership. So, yes you did vote for your representative. Maybe you voted for someone else, but that's not an issue. Whoever your representatives are, they were voted by your countryman and they have legitimacy, so does she as she was voted in by representatives of all EU countries. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan She is elected by people that citizens elected. It's representative democracy, which every democratic country in the world has in one way or another, on one level or another. Saying that she has never been elected is misleading. Claiming she was “never elected” ignores how democratic systems actually function and relies on a deliberately false standard that is never applied consistently elsewhere. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan As the saying goes, everyone buys Bitcoin at the price they deserve. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan https://blossom.primal.net/357af3ed06e25aefcf063a3cc7aacc87c62715764d10487061e1aeac5a93d668.png "beautiful little community" What level of delusion is this? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Exactly. If you can make provocative content that will pit groups against each other and create traffic, you will be good, no matter what. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Yes but that effect has short life span. Thanks to Elon, Nostr will have more users in the future because what is happening there right now is pretty good drive to come to nostr and i see no end to it. He is pushing for such algo changes there that it can not but drive people away and make governments react, and once governments react, it's NOSTR time! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan That requires so much more information. 1) IARC is organization that classified it (International Agency for Research on Cancer) which makes classification pretty serious 2) The IARC has classified combined hormonal contraceptive pills (those containing both estrogen and progestogen) in group 1 That is old news. 2005/2008 3) so, it's old news and it's only some pills. For example, progestogen-only pills are not in group 1, they are in group 2B 4) basically everything that is tested is classified in one of groups. Being group 2B doesn't mean much. For example, coffee (yes, hot drink a lot of us drink every day) was for long time in 2B. Aloe Vera extract is 2B etc. One should not make simple conclusions to complex situation and call for radical moves. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Not only that, but scientists love to make each other proven wrong. You can pay some of them, but not all of them in all countries in the world. If claim is provable (basically if it's scientific and not just an idea) they will be all over it to prove it right or wrong. More often than not, problem lies with interpreting scientific claim by non scientists, not claim itself and it comes in few flavors. Non-experts simplifying claim, because they want to make it clickbaity or readable for an average. Non-experts not understanding claim Non-experts thinking that hypothesis is theory and theory is hypothesis and not understanding what those two words mean etc. How many times did you hear: "It's just a theory" meaning "it's just someones idea, no real proof of it". How many people know that theory is a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature, built from many tested hypotheses, supported by large amounts of evidence, makes predictions and survives repeated attempts to falsify it and that it can be refined, but not casually overturned? In many discussions with many people all over the world i never ran into non expert really knowing what "theory" is which is real shame and fail of many school systems (not only one in my country). npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan We live in society. Those that live in the middle of nowhere, without connection to society, that do not use anything from society, can't earn much really. Best they can hope to do is to be self sufficient and hope for best in extreme situations (drought, fire, flood etc.) You don't see many millionaires (or equivalent of) that came out of the woods with a lot of wealth that they created while being disconnected from society. That's simply not how world works. And when you use society, than you do own something to it. How much? It's hard thing to define. Best i can do is : "it depends on how much society you live in gives to you". So it's not one fixed amount or percentage. It depends on society you live in. If it offers a lot, you own them more than if it does not offers a lot. So same percentage (let's say 20% of what you make) can be way way way too much, or way way way too little. For example, i am not glad we (my countryman) have to pay 38% of average paycheck to my country. I think it should be less. Not because i think that 38% is too big number, but because i think that my country does not offer enough to warrant those 38%. It's not far, but i think it's too much. On the other hand, there are certain countries where i would be glad to pay 50% or even bit more and there are certain countries i would not be happy to pay even 10% and there are some that would have to pay to me to live there. So answer to question, "what is fair share" would be "depends". npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Does same rule apply for Android phones too? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan What is Andreas doing now? Haven't run int him online for quiet some time now. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Yeah...SSD's are made of same memory modules (or something like that....basically same factories) as RAM.....and when OpenAI boutght out manufacturing resources, they halted everything....things that have preexisting contracts are not rising as fast as things that do not have preexisting contracts. It's a huge shitshow all thanks to OpenAI. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Error....not a Kingston SSD, it's WD SSD.....not that that changes anything really but still, mistake was made. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Did you hear of RAM manufacturing issues? (Manufacturers moving to produce memory for AI instead of consumer electronics) That's that.... Prices of RAM went trough the roof and other memory related items will be too. This is price of Kingston 32GB (2x16GB) memory package trough time: https://blossom.primal.net/a6ccab80275ef9194c81282fb1ae99aab037c548a9a60cc23a3a5c6d9fd8467f.jpg From 120€ to 420€ Fuck yeah! This is Kingston SSD drive: https://blossom.primal.net/c92abdb046b46c8a2138d266b815b30071b27c3c5ee3388d3acc1a958e76a3b0.png npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan You know what? I don't really think it's grooming or anything like that. I think it's not understanding how whole thing works. Why are they seeing certain content and that what they see is not good representation of the world they live in. Current X algo is pure fishing for reaction. It will throw at you most disturbing thing, no matter if you follow that content / creators or not just to get an reaction out of you. It doesn't care about anything else in this world. I came there for tech, Tesla FSD, Bitcoin and similar forward looking stuff. I'm European so i expect to get mix content, bit of international, bit local. What do i get? 1% Tesla FSD, 1% Bitcoin, 1% tech, 97% current US politics outrage. Muting and blocking helps a little bit, but as soon as something new happens, i get it force fed by algo and i have to block and mote again. For example, when that police agent shot that woman in a car, i got screen after screen of videos, screenshots and comments about it. And i got both side, not only one side. It's not like it is pushing only one side, like it pushed before (for example when US elections laster, all i could see is Rep / MAGA posts). No....both side, one below other, but what i realized is that i got most ludicrous posts from both sides out there. Posts that are dragging your fingers to comment, to try to reason or tell how you interpret video that was posted. Absolutely zero posts that would say: "It's shame what happened, pray for her family, put video recording on those guys like on cops, investigate what happened and act accordingly." No....only rage and baits from both side. Before that, it's screen after screen of Trump and Greenland, before that Maduro etc. And again, i repeat....i'm European who is following people that talk about tech. Not following single American, European or even local politician. Not even mayor of my town! But X algo doesn't care for what i want. It just wants to trigger me, to write anything to anyone. It doesn't care what i write ether. I could b swearing one side or another and it will show me that side even more just to get as much reaction as it can. And i'm sure 99.9% of users do not understand that. They see certain topic, they react, algo starts pushing it to them, and they think that it's end of the world, that everyone and their dog is talking about that topic because they do not see anything else for pages upon pages of content. They have no idea that they are being played and that they are not seeing real picture, real representation of what average people around them think. All they see is extreme of one side arguing with extreme of another side (of whichever topic) and no middle ground which in reality is most of population. 70-80% of population (i plucked those numbers out of my ass, it's just for illustration of what i want to say) is not represented in the feed. "Worlds town square" my ass. Most of loud morons would be chased off that square if it was real place where you have to look the other side in the eyes. And with that warped image that X is offering it's users, it has negative impact on society because people get wrong idea about what is important and what is not. And i won't even talk about bots.....jesus christ....bots.....bots everywhere. God forbid that you heared some news about for example Ukraine, that something happened there.....once algo thinks you are interested in it.....jesus christ....bots.....from everywhere....username_123123123, post after post with flags of countries in their names and when you see what is their location, it's on the other side of the world or on opposite side of what they pretend to be etc. Twitter was far from good, really far from it, but you could at least tell it what you want, and it would give it to you. If you wanted politics, sure you would get it, but if you did not, than it would mix it up in your feed here and there just to check up on you and your needs (because they change). But it did not force feed you....waterboard you with it. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan 100% natural, non toxic, floor heating sensors. https://blossom.primal.net/5facd792751fc45e971024c1fcca5e28a7036343a3028e819d4353457fa45192.jpg npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan This creates double standards in my head. First i don't like banning. Especially communication platforms. Than i go to X (which i still use almost as much as nostr) and i see what shithole it became and realize that i would switch 100% to nostr if more people talked about topics i am interested in over here. And it's not that it only became shithole....shithole is downplaying it a lot, it's being nice to it. It's becoming borderline useless for any sort of decent communication and algo is force feeding people topics they have zero interest in.....if X servers burned tomorrow and they lost it all i wouldn't flinch or feel like we lost anything useful. But than again....i don't like bans as solution to anything.... If i wasn't lazy, i'd insert that sweating guy with two red buttons below this text....but i am currently too lazy. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Is it even "family" without them? Isn't it simply a marriage? It kinda looks like to me that you need that 3rd party one way or another. Can't have one? Adopt! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Clients allowing local personal "algo" would be nice. We have open source very small and efficient LLM's that users could use to filter and sort posts by topics that users prefer (all local on user hardware, nothing on line). Clients could offer "outsourcing" of said model (for example i am running larger LLM's on my gaming PC most of the time) so i could set up exterlan point and client would use it for algo if it's accessible, and if it's not, it would use smaller local one (similar thing is done by Immich....you can tell it to use AI from any IP you want, hosted by you or someone else, and if not accessible it will revert to local cpu/gpu). For more powerful stuff someone could offer "algo" service that would be paed vith zaps. Hosted efficient LLM that would filter content for others (by rules that users themselves set up). Those could be larger and more potent LLM models. I'm ok with "algo" as long as user can control it and choose and pick everything from local on device to remote ones by users rules. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I don't know man....that's why i ask...what people mean by strong family. For me someone is family or is not. Like how can family be strong or weak? Do kids love and respect their parents? That's good or bad parenting. Do parents themselves have good relationship? That's good or bad marriage. Is strong family like good parenting + good marriage? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan The only thing in the universe that should have a 50/50 chance of being plugged in correctly and still fails 80–90% of the time. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I'm confused....what is a "strong family"? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan It's hard to believe that stash exists....i'm not convinced. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I'm doing my part! You?! Proof of work: https://blossom.primal.net/d1f1686ead150439073d27e37e6283c378a4a8eba0895676a5d30ffccc78848e.png https://blossom.primal.net/f8fc1fdcd1831a8c8a08099477952474a185b382563f8724221d8d459a8764f9.png npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Bit of printing, bit of painting. https://blossom.primal.net/a5f812f303acc3e52503cf87764db72b50e2e731cef310201cca128480ea769d.png npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Those who do not know their history are bound to repeat it. As time goes by, we are all slowly forgetting lessons of the past. I just hope i won't be around to see us being forced to relearn them. Last time it was ugly.....really ugly. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Point of view as an outsider on duopoly: US used to be predictable. Dems or Reps, they had their own way of doing things and you could plan your life accordingly (whether we want it or not, US politics affect us outside US). With Trump, it feels like 3rd party is created and it replaced Reps. You can't count or trust on anything anyone from this new establishment says or said at any time in the past. Things change from minute to minute. One day is white, another day is black. Most blatant lies are at random accepted as a truths and long standing truths are called lies. It’s like someone you knew for a long time, someone you could argue with and still understand, suddenly became unrecognizable. The rules changed, consistency vanished, and even basic shared facts are no longer agreed on. From the outside, it feels like dealing with someone who suffered a personality-altering brain injury the same name, the same history, but none of the old predictability or shared reality. I don't know how it happened or why it happened, is this real state of Republicans or US or is it just a fluke, is it good for US or bad in long run (i have my doubts which are not topic of this post) but it's wild to see from outside. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan It's reason why we have high RAM prices. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Trump said so multiple times himself. No one in government cares about national debt. What they do care is to fill their own pockets and pockets of people that got them to power and they will do so with largest reserves on earth under their control. And it's not all about money. What politicians love, maybe more than money? Power. This gives them power over some countries. Saudis can not run she show anymore. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Confusing speech with censorship. Thinking criticism equals an “attack.” Not understanding that the First Amendment restricts the government, not private individuals or TV commentators, etc. Criticizing, talking about change etc. of 1st amendment is ironically protected by1st amendment. And that's not all. For attack on 1st amendment to have an effect, 1st amendment would have to be changed. For 1st amendment to be changed, there should be overwhelming support of American people. What do you think American people are like if you think that someone talking on TV can make them support changing 1st amendment? Do you see a problem there? No...do you see multiple big problems there? If you think that talking does change minds of big majority, if all it takes is talk to loose foundation of your country, what does that tell you about whole thing? Do you see multiple problem there? Thinking that Canada, England or Australia are somehow attacking US 1st amendment and are not real allies, while ignoring Russia and China, that's absolutely ridiculous and tells more about you than about system that you think is attacked or US citizens that you think would be willing to change it because of that attack. And all that while US president is limiting reporters....holy shit dude....holy shit. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan If you think that individual talking on TV is attack or assault than you have WAY bigger problems than you think you have. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Reality is always more complicated than one sentence or word. I tend to explain my positions and do not let others make my positions up. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan And none of which is attack on US 1st amendment like i wrote in my original replay. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Propaganda can be a tool, a technique, a process and yes, a weapon. It’s used by everyone. Governments, political movements, corporations, media, religions, advocacy groups, and individuals. The US uses it. Canada uses it. The UK and Australia use it. Businesses use it. Private citizens use it. If using propaganda disqualifies someone as an ally, then the US has never was an ally to anyone and had an ally and no country has ever been a friend to another. As long as humans have tried to influence opinions, propaganda has existed. That’s just reality. By that standard, even internal political campaigning would count as hostile action. Which is obviously absurd. For example: Elon Musk openly encourages Europeans to vote for extremists and attacks moderate political solutions. He’s far from the only American doing this. So hearing accusations of “foreign propaganda” coming from the US is, frankly, ironic. What’s really interesting in the current situation is this: People are suddenly calling influence from the UK, Canada, and Australia “propaganda” countries that have admired the US for decades, adopted large parts of US culture, and literally fought, bled, and died alongside Americans when the US asked for help. At the same time, many of those same people downplay or ignore propaganda from China and Russia countries whose explicit goal is to weaken the US and reshape it into something more like themselves. If I were China or Russia, my primary objective would be simple: Use propaganda to divide Americans. Help elect the most incompetent and corrupt leadership possible. Convince people that longtime allies are enemies. Wrap it all in slogans about “making the country great again”. You are being played but you have no idea by who. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan 1st amendment is external thing, not internal US thing and England, Australia and Canada did not respond when US called for help?! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan How is Israel, England, Australia or Canada assaulting US first amendment? Even if they wanted, they couldn't. It's US internal thing. Only US citizens can change it from inside. And those countries proved that are not "supposed" allies. They proved it when US called for help. They came, helped, bled and died for US. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Joe is a faker. Joe voted for that. He can't say: "i did not think this will happen". Yes you did know. You were told hundreds of times. Not only were you told by others, but Trump was extremely open with what his world view is and what he and people around him want to do. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan How Ukrainians dare to defend themselves, trying to survive and define their own destiny.....shame on them! If they simply gave up and let Russians kill them without resisting, it would all be already over and we would have a "peace" npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Oh man...i have Americas Army flashbacks. Time when US Army had real FPS shooter / simulation. Boy did i spend shitload of time on those servers. I don't know how effective of recruiting tool it was, but man....those days.... npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I am wondering same. I don't know is it even possible to know relatively precise number of users. Like few percent precision. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan But Europe does nothing, produces nothing, we do bottle caps only! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan By speed it was rising, i knew it's gonna turn into something serious! Beautiful! I love craft of fireworks making. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Happy New Year nostr! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan If they do not change triggers behind payouts, they will only fuck up platform even harder. Problem is not how large payouts are, it's what is being rewarded. How you count views, how views are rewarded, how content can be filtered by those that pay for ads etc. Current game theory rules over there are: "write as provocative post as possible, no matter what, no matter truth, no matter quality of information, just poke and probe for human response". Current rules are slowly destroying quality of communication on X. If they crank up payments and do not fix rules, it's gonna become even bigger shitshow (i don't know if that's even possible tbh) npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan True. They have no incentive to fix anything. Just print more money and fill holes with it. Secondary effects of printing it? They don't care. It will effect them least of all, if at all. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I am still waiting for anyone to give me use case of CBDC that will enable them to do something they can not implement right this moment without CBDC. I heared few things and not single one is CBDC related or depends on CBDC. 1) no more cash - Yeah...more than few countries in EU are already going cashless in not so distant future. CBDC or not, they can do it right now. That's not some future, that's now. 2) stopping you from paying - hey can and they already do it right now. Blocking you from sending money to certain countries, businesses or individuals. Again, not future, now 3) they will be able to track you / your payments - they can do so now. They improve on mechanisms to do that all the time. 4) programmable money - again, they do it now. If you send payment to x, they do y Is there something that CBDC gives them (and by them i mean governments) that they can not implement without CBDC? npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Even things i do understand (physics behind how tons of aluminum and plastics can fly) still make me wonder. It's one of those things that humans can't really imagine in some easy way. Like....100 billions of dollars. How does one imagine that number, that amount of money? There are plenty of things we say that "we get" but are hard to imagine. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan They are absolutely same. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I still feel a sense of wonder when I see how an airplane that weighs tons can fly through the air. Few technologies fascinate me as much as that one. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Good morning and have a wonderful Christmas day wherever you are! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Too bad it's Texas based.....somewhere colder and that heat would be used for house warming. It would be nice extra money. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Holy shit, you did not! Well my Christmas got little bit better (it is already good). Thank you! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan you spent it already? 🙂 npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan *Opened web primal* *New notifications* *fast glance of all notifications, i see ....azi.... in notification* What did i get myself int.....oh wait, that's a song.... npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Just like i zap developers every time i open their program or zap paint artists every time i look at their painting.....not! I will gladly zap and pay in any currency when they perform for me in any way (live, online stream, whatever) or buy something from them (shirts, whatever...) but pay each time i listen? Yeah right. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Holy fucking shit, Australia is huge..... npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan As a kinda new nostr user (we'r talking months, not years kinda new) i'm bit confused now.....doesn't gm mean "good morning"? If not, what does it mean? Is it does....how the fuck is that connected to a nazis?! Am i living a lie?! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I might just add : "on protocol level". One can burn coins without any begative effect. Simply mine them or buy them and send to unknown random address no one has private key for. We have been doing it since day one.....unintentionally.... I was reading somewhere that there is at least 2 mil of coins that is unreachable if not more. Sent to addresses with errors, under pile of garbage on an old laptop disk etc. All burned coins that will never be accessible. If you look at it that way, taking in account all permanently lost private keys, we are regurarly burning coins. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I think it's just that part of fud cycle....you know that they recycle it all the time.....it's "quantum" at the moment. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I don't.....my wife does it for me 🤣 npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Fuck yeah. Pull your troops from Ukraine, pay reparations, admit mistake, apply for EU membership, drop all the bullshit, clean Russia from corruption and let's do it! npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I think it's a good metaphor. But it needs bit of warning too. Nature more often than not punishes those that are not able to live by it's rules. Nature doesn't give a fuck about "what i want" and "how i am born". She roots out those that can not adapt. So, being too suborn and non changing, can be negative trait too. Only thing that is constant in whole universe is change. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan It can feel refreshing when a politician openly shows what they really are instead of hiding behind polished language. But there’s a subtle and dangerous downside: it normalizes that kind of behavior and mindset. When people see a president act that way, it sends the message, “If they can do it, why shouldn’t I?” Over time, that lowers the bar for what’s considered acceptable both in politics and in everyday life. Transparency isn’t the same thing as honesty, and bluntness isn’t the same thing as integrity. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I love that game even though I never actually played it (my kid did, and he absolutely loves it), because it created an interaction I never would have expected. Funny story. While my kid was playing the original game, he asked if I could model and 3D-print characters from it. Printing them on an FDM printer turned out to be a real challenge because of the tall, thin weapons, so I invested a lot of time into fixing models and dialing in print profiles. Once everything was finished, I uploaded the models to a site where people share 3D-print files for free. I didn’t think much of it. The game was already pretty old, not hyped anymore, and for months nothing happened. No downloads, no activity. I thought, if someone finds it useful it would really be cool. Then, out of nowhere, months later, i started getting notifications. People were downloading the models, printing them, commenting on my profiles, asking questions and even giving me “boosts” (kind of like zaps on Nostr). Turns out some update or Silksong related hype suddenly revived interest in the game. Here’s the interesting part: the platform where I uploaded the models earns money by selling printers and filament (plastic which is used in printing), and when a model gets a lot of interaction, they reward the person who uploaded it adn created printing profiles for printers they are selling. So now, months later, I’ve accumulated enough points to redeem gift cards worth a few hundred dollars, enough to buy a lot of filament, or even an entire 3D printer. I never planned this. I never expected anything in return. I just wanted to give back to a community that gave me a lot before. And by trying to give back, I ended up getting even more back. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Or simply "twitter". npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan We are pattern recognition machines. We see patterns even when there is none. One has to be careful. If it looks like it's too simple, it usually (not always) is. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Using fear as a tool is nothing new. It's been used since forever. Using digital tools to spread fear trough messaging is nothing new ether. Countries spreading lies, misinformation and half truths is what what is happening for some time now. So, your hypothesis (not theory....theory is when you have proof) sure could be true. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan I'm afraid there are still plenty of people that do fall for that kind of stuff. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Ok not meth user....meth users have way lower net negative effect on society than Andrew Tit. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Well its like posting what local drug dealer or meth use said. Yes, sooner or later he will say something valuable, but than again, ton of decent people say same thing. Net value that ends in negative. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan Andrew T... npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan If you have no kids, you are paying for services when you get older. Services that get VERY expensive, than otherwise are offered to you by your kids. All younger generations need is to offer those services, have high prices and take their money. At the end, it can cost them way more than having kids and service can be way worse than one offered by a kids in decent family. Not having kids is not winning it's loosing. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan When centralized platforms offer less than decentralized ones, people simply move over and there’s nothing the centralized side can really do to stop it. In that way, decentralized systems act like an anchor. Centralized systems can shift around a bit, but only as far as the chain allows, while the decentralized anchor keeps the whole space relatively honest. npub1sxkr8jwmzprhzsedrsjkqylny54r569ynpw2lwz6t8df75myea5ss5pve5 Stjepan No. Haven't watch that in a loooong time.