It's just a silly drawn figure. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dick-butt

: Hi! (I'll write this in English even though we're both Swedish, just in case the same problem affects anyone else who wants to know.) Since a while ago, BIS #177 to be precise, your new episodes doesn't show up on Podbean. (I still use Podbean since I have to download the podcasts, and that doesn't seem possible from Fountain. If I didn't have to, I would've tried it a long time ago.) They still exist if I open the feed, and I can download them by marking the MP3 address, right click, click 'save link as', so they obviously exist, but something has broken the Podbean website's ability to update its page for your podcast. Probably something related to podcasting 2.0. Just a small annoyance and not a huge problem for me, as mentioned, but it looks as if your podcast was dead for anyone nontechnical, in a hurry, or not thinking that particular problem is likely, i.e. at least 99.9% of people. I don't know if you or anyone you know and/or work with can do anything about it, or if it's a problem with Podbean in particular, but I thought you'd want to know. Love your podcast, especially the BIA episodes!

Advertisements are probably responsible for 1/10 of the bad stuff in the world that fiat money is. I'm not saying that to diminish it, it's a huge amount.

I'm probably going to attract trolls with heavy cognitive dissonance by this post, who didn't think through its meaning, but whatever: Nostriches: Potato, become an egg! Potato: How? I'm a potato. Nostriches: You need the boiling water! Potato: I told you, I'm a potato, it doesn't harden me, it softens me! Nostriches: Well, become an egg then! (return to second line and repeat, or go off into how being a potato is a moral failing etc.) (The mandatory: Not all nostriches of course. But probably 3/4 of them.)

Thanks. I thought "wasn't this already approved, and didn't concern self-custody?" That countries can set lower limits for cash is concerning. Sweden, where I live, is probably going to set it low, since cash use is already rare here, and only about half of stores, restaurants, etc. accept it, and despite efforts by lots of people to convince politicians to protect the right to use it, resulting laws has been weak. They obviously don't want to.

Put another way: Who decides what is a wrongdoing...

I've never been on Twittex, but I've noticed something here, that only recently floated up to conscious level: There is rarely the hating on each other and picking sides, but when someone writes something IMO rotten of a certain few varieties, it invariably gets huge amounts of zaps and likes, and very rarely opposition in the comments, even though I know there are lots of people here with the same opinion in the matter as me, i.e. thinking it's rotten. The reverse is also true, but not to the same extent - they get opposition a bit more often. It simply seems like people here are afraid to take conflicts head-on, and I have noticed that in myself too, and I think that one of my reasons is that I don't want to be muted, as many of the people having IMO rotten opinions in some matters, like most of the people here, have good opinions in matters of wanting freedom, and are in one way or another involved with something good with Bitcoin and/or Nostr. Another reason is that I recognize the style that I associate as common with a specific type of troll, that sometime pops up on Reddit when I was there, and has done here a couple of times, that can provide endless arguments that are very hard to prove wrong even though they are, combined with concealed attacks on not what, but the way, I think (it's hard to explain), and an incredible ability to turn around and draw attention away from a part of the argument they are about to lose, and twist it into another part, intentionally misunderstanding my point of view, etc. It's just exhausting to try to debate them. It's weird, and sometimes feels very wrong, but good in some ways. And it probably helps Bitcoin and Nostr which is of course good.

Privacy tech is good and completely necessary, but this shit that is spreading around the world needs pressure against it from more angles. How do we get the obvious fact into the heads of people that this isn't about protection, but grabbing more power through controlling narratives, and eventually locking up political opposition? "We can't" isn't a good enough answer if we want to even be able to use privacy tech in the future. If left with as little pushback as is currently the case, they will not stop until it's literally impossible to use private systems, either through being completely blocked or guaranteed to go to prison.

They taste pretty strong, but also sweet. And of course, like cinnamon. Where I live, rice porridge, (similar or identical, not sure, to rice pudding) is a traditional Christmas dish, with cinnamon sticks in it. I've always liked to chew on those when I've eaten the porridge, but they are probably a bit milder since some of the flavor has gone into the porridge while cooking it.

It's far more sinister than that. If it imploded, there would at least be a possibility to rebuild. If enough of these surveillance and control laws goes through, it will be on an exponential, inevitable path to eternal complete totalitarianism. No hope in decades, our entire lifetimes, or even far beyond them. Not ever. And it's not just the EU, similar things are rolling out faster or slower in most parts of the world it seems. I think the event horizon is within 10 years, at the current rate. Maybe much sooner, as it's accelerating Freedom technology alone won't solve this, as many people on Nostr seem to believe. It's an important part, but pressure on the politics is needed too. And, I think, most needed of all is spreading information - I doubt even 10% of Europeans know that this is going on, at the very least not to what extent, or its consequences.