This experiment started as a game but I didn't expect it to be "so easy" (famous last words?).

• @Undisciplined got reminded that he wanted to write a book for every US state similar to The Case for an Independent Texas by Bob Murphy. He mentioned that maybe he will start a Stacker News series first.
• @Undisciplined then also created this post: The Loss of Shared Facts. This post also got later picked up by @elvismercury in his post about LLMs and SN.
• @Natalia shared her experience of living in Turkiye under Soaring Inflation with us. To be honest, I didn't read the full post (yet) because it was during the day and I was busy but I liked what I read so far so this post definitely also deserves to be here. I especially liked this part since I thought about this phenomenon of some merchants "riding the inflation wave" before:

But one interesting thing I've observed is why some shops barely increased or just a little, yet some are a lot, which makes sense if the products themselves have something to do with foreign materials or labor. But then you got some products that are clearly all locally produced yet have increased a lot, so I got the feeling some people are like, let's increase the price, it is inflation time anyway, so I see it as a good chance to see which local shops are being honest.

• This one from @Thawne about AQUA wallet was also a nice read because it's about FOSS - or in this case about not being FOSS.
• @kr posted something in ~crypto which made sense so I had to at least refund the posting costs of 256 sats, lol. This post prompted some interesting conversation about NFTs and I was able to share a meme so I zapped it some more.
• Another one from @Thawne. This time about Windows hacks which gave me the idea for a future write-up about privilege escalation via printer spoolers.
• I found this one pretty late for some reason. But I started to listen to the Founder Talk between @Car and @TonyGiorgio and I had to laugh because the comment regarding "I don't know, it feels like a few weeks" was so relatable while being intrigued at the same time regarding his opinion on Lightning since it was a fresh take on it for me:

I see Lightning more as the glue to keep everything together; to keep interoperability; to keep payment channels amongst merchants and peers; places where peers have connections to - things like that. Building Mutiny Wallet and dealing with all the constraints of Lightning, you know - I was talking to Keyan a few weeks back; maybe it was two days ago, I don't know, it feels like a few weeks. But it was just like: "Did we all build on the wrong tech? Did we build on the assumption that Lightning could do what we needed it to do? Did we all brainwash ourselves in a way that we could do what we wanted to do with Lightning? Build the sorts of applications that we want with a good UX and something they can trust and use properly? Did we fool ourselves that we built on the wrong tech?" And I don't know. I think we built on what we could at the time. [...]