I would bet money that this idea came from a typo.

To be completely honest, I think a lot of other territories are perfectly fine for posing questions, and they have specific topics defined. I think AskSN is probably too general to work well. Just my honest opinion.

That being said, I think it could be successful if a lot of effort is put into keeping up with it.

they would not agree with your definition of truth in this case - a Christian, for example, would claim that the virgin birth and the resurrection of Jesus are facts.

Engraving a seed phrase is a fun experience. My seed phrase has never been in view of a camera, never been spoken allowed, and has only been seen by me. It exists in a physical medium only, in a hidden location wrapped in a kind of makeshift tamper proof wrapping.

That is an awesome feeling.

That’s an interesting way to think about it. Most people tend to think of facts as something that’s true, haha.

But your definition seems to imply that “truths” aren’t really absolute, they’re like opinions on steroids, and are relative. I’d love to hear more about what you think about this and what made you arrive at this conclusion.

True, but it's also spyware. And in the meantime there are dozens of platforms for speech on the same scale. It's not like this is restricting anyone from saying whatever they want to say to whoever they want to say it to. Doesn't seem like any political influencers are going to lose their audience, they'll just move somewhere else.

I don't see how any individual's rights are being violated here.

Why do you think this violates the first amendment?

Ha, that's funny. Songs are a great motivating tool for kids imo. Picks up their spirits a bit and helps them remember things.

Yep! Been a while, my kids were too young to really remember much. Curious what your take is, nothing bad really stood out to me.

How so?

Throwing back to this post by @pillar

Dang - I meant to actually call out your post since it inspired this one and forward a sat percentage from this post over to you. Kicking myself for forgetting that. I'll zap that one again real quick.

Everyone, read that ^ post 😬👍🏼

I don't think he knows, haha

I've always had the ~FiresidePhilosophy fee at 400 because I've noticed that when someone puts some intentionality behind a thought-sharing post, it usually does pretty well on this site, getting around 1000ish zaps. So in a way, I'm discouraging posts that aren't like that in the hopes to facilitate thoughtful conversation. I want it to be a bit of a challenge.

But, it doesn't get a ton of posts at the moment. Going to try some things to up the engagement and make a longer term decision from there. In the meantime, I do have to consider it kind of a passion project like @grayruby said.

I started noticing a while back that more and more comedians were bolding ripping DEI to shreds with genuinely hilarious jokes. To me, that was the signal that DEI is more of a fad than a lasting social movement. There are some important values that are worth fighting for, but a lot attempts to implement them have done more harm than good.

Saw a skit after the election, made me lol https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_1fdDz2MNxg

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Lol yeah this is such a shallow assessment.

Yeah, but it's also been up over every single 4 year period.

Fwiw, he's at least right that treating bitcoin as a way to make more fiat is a bad idea , haha

It doesn't look like this chart includes territory fees, and the territory owner makes 70% from that fee. Not that it comes close to paying for the monthly cost - if your fee is 100 sats, you'd need a little over 700 posts to make up for the cost.

BUT, there are roughly 100k sats in daily rewards as well, and I don't know how it fully works, but I believe the sats your territory makes get counted towards your rewards rank. @k00b might need to confirm that one.

Mind viruses definitely seem like a thing. What's interesting to me is when they're not necessarily "bad".

Here's a question I'll pose - based on your definition, is Bitcoin a mind virus?

To add to this a bit:

Personally, my opinion is less that people don't have taste, and more that people don't develop creative technique.

That's one of the reasons I'm not all that hyped about AI, specifically when it comes to "facilitating creativity". On the one hand, it's a great, easy to use tool that might make it easy for people to communicate their art and demonstrate their taste without having to spend the time on the skill.

On the other hand... It could have the complete reverse effect over time, since skills aren't being developed like they used to. And that's kiiiiinda what I think is more likely. At least for most people. Especially if there's a feedback loop of bad art, where AI thinks bad art is good because it becomes more and more common.

PLUS.... I tend to think that since AI is only building off things that already exist, it hurts the creative process more than it helps. I think something happens in our brains when we try to come up with something new that will simply never be emulated by AI. But of course the counter-argument to that is... There is nothing new - we're all just synthesizing stuff that's already out there. But that's a different topic....