Yes, looking again, the stickmen are indeed drifting a little bit, so it's unlikely to be faked. But in person, you would just see a blur.

reply to you and @SenditMike

The hovering coin is definitely bullshit. The positive poles of the batteries aren't even connected, and the spoons are connected together. Even if they weren't and the batteries were in circuit, I doubt the one-turn coil would do anything to the coin with the current in question. Even if it did, the coins behavior is not what I would expect from being placed in a magnetic field from a coil.

The battery with magnets in a coil should work.

The animated stickmen on the spinning disc would only be visible on camera, not in person, and only when speed and framerate are perfectly synchronized - a little bit off, and they would be drifting clockwise or counter-clockwise, a lot off, and it wouldn't be recognizable.

While dark, this seems more and more true, not just for Ross, but everyone in currently more-or-less free countries. This needs to be fought on every level possible - privacy tech, lobbying, political parties where applicable (won't work in US), and most of all informing people who don't know - mainstream media rarely if ever does. For example, I doubt 10% of people here in EU know about Chat Control 2.0 or the other surveillance/censorship stuff in the pipeline, despite the former being discussed and almost implemented several times, for years.

I don't know what's holding people up. Risk? There are many essentially risk-free things to do. Time? It doesn't have to take any considerable amount. Money? 0.1% of a whale's stack, or 0.1% of several millions of regular people's should do quite a lot.

It is more about what people put in these words. Not particularly related to this context, but "take responsibility" is a phrase used by governments (at least the Swedish one, but I think more too) to say "abide by the laws that we have made" or "do what we want in excess of the laws that we made" when talking about citizens and companies, and "put more laws in place" when talking about themselves. I don't think many bitcoiners agree with that definition. If that definition is on one end, and "hold your own keys, store them securely" etc. is on the other end, that's quite a wide spectrum.

"Stay open to self reflection" The people I'm talking about are extremely selective about this. If the "self reflection" reinforces the beliefs they already have, they'll do it, otherwise no. Probably a human thing, and to some extent the opposite of self reflection, but they brag about it consistently. Bordering, if not outright, hypocrisy.

"Be confident" - not in something I don't understand. That's downright lying, and can be dangerous. (e.g. "sure, I'll take down this tree..."). I believe this is part of an American/European difference, that I've noticed since someone pointed it out. Americans see Europeans as defeatist, not confident, while Europeans see Americans as bragging and arrogant. While we probably think similarly enough, we communicate it way differently.

"stop being offended" - It's a false premise to begin with that you can control your emotions - what I guess you're getting at is you can refrain from showing it to others, and that is the definition of taking shit from people. A big reason we have got to the point we have in overreach by governments is precisely because either too few people are offended, or too few people are showing it, through letters, protests, etc.

True. I'm with you here - I don't think you have joined them yet, but I wouldn't have expected Guy to write this 6 months ago - maybe I don't know him enough, even though he has his own takes at the end of pretty much every podcast episode, but I have seen this change in several other Bitcoin podcasts over time. They get more and more hateful (not saying Guy is hateful - yet) of everyone not conforming to this and a bunch of other more-or-less random things, though the same things everywhere.

In order to stick with the theme, I deleted a long answer to write a short one: It seems like bitcoiners/nostriches are one by one joining, and trying to spread, a psychologically masochistic cult whose unwritten motto is: blame everything on yourself, take whatever shit people throw at you (except fiat and shitcoins) and change yourself to suit others.

This will probably receive hate, and so will probably your comment, for "blaming others of your own problems" "victim mentality" etc. because they can't handle the truth that people are different and come from different circumstances - Empathy=0.

Mainstream media and social media algorithms are the problems. They brainwash people to think the silly things aren't silly at all, and that government "solutions" work well. See "money laundering" for example, that has put a huge surveillance and financial censorship system in place, targeting transactions in the single dollar to hundreds of thousands of dollars range, while the multi-billions are laundered without problem, and the governments are involved in it...

You have the answer in your own comment. If trying to add friction lands you in jail, of course few will do it.

In many cases it's not a complicit attitude, but seeing that the proposed tech isn't viable.

We definitely need privacy tech, desperately, but we need well thought-through things that either can't be banned, or that would be essentially foolproof even if banned, so that there is an absolutely minuscule risk of jail by developing, implementing, and especially using it.

It's a huge ask, but it is what we need. Anything less isn't just useless, but counterproductive, as it allows the state to state examples, discouraging even more people from trying.

Great... Reddit is constantly removing good features, one by one. Are Nostr clients going to start doing the same now? Maybe do the accompanying Reddit thing of introducing useless crap one by one too, that sucks up bandwidth and processor power? And pointlessly reorganizing how the site looks? I have seen the latter on iris.to (web Nostr client) already.
If I could program, I would have made a client with the express purpose of avoiding these things...