IMO Stacker.news already has a great system for filtering out crap. Zaps.

That's why I use this site over Nostr and many other sites. Content that is appreciated is zapped. Content that is garbage is down-zapped. I seriously doubt what Wikipedia is doing will work for long. It sounds like the people creating the bots that do this are rather lazy. If Wikipedia starts using these types of filter the AI bots will improve.

The funny thing to me is that people don't seem to get that the real issue isn't AIs. AI's just make it cheaper and easier to spam people. The problem is a lack of an incentive system or a COST system in most platforms. Even a small cost like what SN does is a major leap forward. The other thing is that punishing crap content will lead to better content being produced by humans and computers. I don't really care WHAT makes the words. I care about the words.

As @DarthCoin says over and over the pay to post model is what makes SN work. Its not really post to get paid. I think we forget about the incentives on most things. Its the root.

If sites like Wikipedia adopted bitcoin as SN has it would revolutionize it. Bitcoin can really transform so many things because it is freedom money. Internet money. And hard money. Few seem to get this. Even in bitcoin. Its not just NGU.

You know people are on to something when almost all of the responses are peppered with name calling and ad hominem attacks at the messenger. This is why I hate seeing bitcoiners do this. Its so weak and anyone with critical thinking capabilities is gonna discount what you say.

Anyone that is critical of Lincoln gets these types of attacks. I know because I've been subject to them myself.

~ Murray Rothbard

Tell me what you really think Rothbard! lol

Maybe Proton but I'm not sure how private you want it. Purelymail isn't "private" but much more affordable. Basically its pay for what resources you use type of service. Both services are pretty easy to use.

Email really isn't private in general unless you are using gpg encryption all the time and that's unlikely since it requires work on the other end. Proton is probably the best bet.

I think it very hard to be a good dude with that kind of power.

He's a convicted felon!

I would just add. I think we would be better served with a balanced and honest recounting of the past. Not what we are fed. Make up your own mind. But the presidency of Lincoln is responsible for many of the centralized powers many on the right love to complain about.

I don't have time today. If you really want a different perspective on the man find The Real Lincoln by Thomas Dilorenzo. Guy has the receipts and was tarred and feathered for his work. Lincoln has been so lionized that it is American heresy to even quote him in his own words in a negative light. He was in short a tyrant. Slavery was not the real reason he led the nation into a war. He actually deported many slaves to Liberia. That was his preference.

At best he is a complex man and leader. He did some good but did so in very disastrous ways we are still dealing with. Slavery was only ended by war in one nation. The US. The war was fought to keep states from leaving the union (which was and still is their right). Saying any of this is no an endorsement of slavery or the confederacy but most people are so programmed they don't even think about this topic (I was for years). Probably took 15 years for me to be open to even consider what I was taught in school was a fairy tail (victors write the history thing).

I don't care to debate people on this. If you do the research and disagree. Cool. I'm glad slavery was "banned". I just don't buy the official line. The north and the south were evil in many ways. Its complicated. People like black and white. They think in booleans. I don't. Only when it comes to morals. The state is amoral.

I would also have to include myself. I haven't received justice. Thankfully. Jesus paid the price.

You just had to bring him up didn't you. Terrible. On a scale of how wrong the masses are on someone he has to be near the top.

IMO the justice system as it operates doesn't really provide justice. It doesn't provide restitution to most victims. Instead of the criminals being forced to work like they should the sit in prison providing no productive value to society.

Those that do work do not have their salaries sent to victims. The state loses money on the prison system and create more criminals. I've heard so decent suggestions for reform but it seems pretty hopeless to me. I don't see the state fixing the system.

Every president that I have spent more than an hour of study on.

Second that one.

Its a small club and we ain't in it.

I'll say this. I long ago realized that most people deny the open things. The things the government doesn't even try to hide anymore. So what makes anyone think they will believe things that are still theory. Most people want to stay asleep. If they are awakened they have to re-evaluate the world they took for granted. Its unsettling for most people. I'm not wired like that.

Indeed. I am not a Trump guy but one of my favorite things about him is his directness. It's what the political class hate most. You are suppose to be civil and fake and then use real power from behind the curtain.

This?

Nah, I made it up. Maybe I should change careers?

Right on

To be clear. I live in a town. Very small. So that has its own set of trade-offs. Its my preference.

For me owning my home is more about autonomy and agency. I have reduced the number of people that can restrict what I might want to do. I don't have to ask permission so much. Now, that isn't as important to others maybe but it is to me. Also one reason I don't live in a city. One less government body restricting me. There are always trade-offs. There are no solutions. Just trade-offs.