I don’t have any issue with Nostr, it honestly doesn’t interest me very much at all. But since it came up, let me tell you a little anecdote:

A few months ago I opened the Wikipedia article on Nostr, which states in the last sentence of the overview that:

Nostr was created as a result of perceived moderation issues on Twitter, as well as both technical and cultural disagreements with other protocols such as ActivityPub and Secure Scuttlebutt.

for which it cites the original blog entry where the protocol was introduced. Since I was interested in what these disagreements might be, I read through the post. And while I did find out what the criticisms of AP and SSB were, I also had a different train of thought going on too:

After reading the short summary, I thought to myself “Well that sounds like a nice hobby project, but isn’t that just BBS with crypto (and over the internet instead of telephone lines)?” That changed, however, when I read somewhere else that relays can also query other relays for their posts, after which I though “Well that sounds like a nice hobby project, but isn’t that just NNTP with crypto (and over the internet instead of usenet)?”

Again, none of this is an issue for me and I don’t really have any problems with the protocol itself but what did rub me the wrong way was that towards the end of the blog post, in the Q&A, it says the following:

This is very simple. Why hasn’t anyone done it before?

I don’t know, but I imagine […]

and idk, not actively looking for prior art seems a bit lazy to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t see the issue?

I’ve had this discussion before, had the “proper way” of preparing them explained to me and made them according to these instructions. Turns out, I just don’t like the taste. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

AROO!!!

Very nice! Thank you for reminding me of this game, I also wanted to give it a shot a few times before. Maybe I will now ;)

Observers blame years of underinvestment, cumbersome planning and approval procedures and political paralysis caused in recent years by the feuding ruling coalition, whose November collapse precipitated the polls.

That’s pretty short-sighted. Long-standing infrastructure doesn’t go bad in less than four years. The coalition that ruled the 16 years before is at least as much at fault for this.

Arthur my man!

Where can i buy get the crocheting pattern for this doll?

FTFY

But it’s for science!

Appearantly it’s been going in this direction for a while. There’s a reason Offdem exists…

Regarding your first point: There’s men that need a tampon every once in a while.

That is because Europe is the only perfect country in the world, of course! /s

yeah my mans the definition of horny on main memes…

It was a graveyard graph.

To be super technical about the argument (sorry): Your initial comment is irrelevant to the subject since the post talks about (fictional) starships to which very different (and handwavy) physics apply.

Im still glad to have learned a tiny bit about real world ships though. Thanks.

That is my exact thought, every time. I might actually say that to my nephew some day…

We’re on the same page as far as Mirrors EdgeI The Sims and SC3 goes, so I’ll trust your taste and listen to the other ones aswell. I’d want to add Portal 2 and Team Fortress 2 aswell.