Damus

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This is not a failure of bitcoin but a failure of people. People have allowed for this to happen. Let themselves be trapped by convenience and pacified by apathy. The alternative is always available. It's just not always more convenient.
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gotta love nostr, at least 3 changes to products happening real time from this thread based on the feedback devs got from users

i guess you can also just complain* and things get done? :D

*provide constructive feedback

@nevent1qvz...
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You need a law to remove teachers from jobs because we gave up on our rights to establish contracts between two people without state interference so every full time employee is protected like an endangered spicies by their socialist government. If we lived in a free society the employment is terminated on the spot and the person escorted out of the building. Because it would be a breach of contract.

Managing speech by law is how samurai wallet devs end up in prison.

Its not the words, its the intent thats problematic. And protecting the most vulnerable is the most abused rethoric ever. Oh its only to protect the minories. Government is not there to protect you. We have endless amount of laws to protect the children and yet plenty of them are suffering. We just need one more rule right? That will stop everything.

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what drives me crazy is not being able to see a content of a thread in any nostr client
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yeah i know but only if you go to the thread, you cannot get to this view from the notification which seems like a big miss

@nprofile1q... , why only show the direct parent to the comment without the ability to expand to the entire thread from notification?
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you also didn't answer the first part of that - which dystopian governmental overreach you're advocating for that would solve that particular problem?

if a teacher is doing it in public then remove the teacher? if it happens in private you can't do anything about it anyway so your problem is just a mental masturbation to create public outrage because of course every measure taken is there to protect the poor kid. Even tho the kid will still get fucked, equally it not more. Except that his cousin will also end up in jail because he tweeted about something you dont like.

all your arguments are based on the fact that human beings are the only animal in the world who cannot establish order without outside structure of the government which should be responsible for everything

no amount of random examples that cannot be solved for you give will make your authoritarian justifications any less horrible.
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in which dystopia do you want to live that would solve for that? You have the same reasoning as every paper pusher gives for chat control or anything else.

pick an extreme case that is completely unpreventable by law unless everyone is monitored 24/7/365 and denied any private thought and freedom of speech.

Bad things will always happen. Bad people will always be around. You cannot outlaw human nature.

Laws only constrain and limit good actors, not bad ones. People wanting to talk shit will always talk shit. You will only punish and imprison the ones who expressed an opinion that isn't aligned with your current narrative and approved by your state's thought police.
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No, what i'm proposing is that we don't trade our freedom for the pinky promise that someone in a uniform will come to save me from the people saying bad things about me.

And for communities to self regulate on bullshit like this.
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with the exception of being a web client. i do wish for a web version of amethyst tho