I didn’t express myself very well earlier when mentioning muting abucci. I muted to stop myself from saying anything regretful (which would be a waste of my time and theirs). Also, I try to make all mutes temporary.

@prologic@twtxt.net I appreciate that you were trying to be civil. I do see that, and I thank you for that. And on second read, that last message might be a bit harsher than I intended. I’m sorry for that. I do think it’s clear to me that we’re not gonna get anywhere having a discussion in this format. I think I’m realizing this is a terrible medium for this sort of discussion. It creates a false urgency, at least for me. Maybe a long form blog post where commenters can reply in an email 1:1 would be better. I think it might allow everyone more time to allow their ideas to “bake” before sending.

It’s all taxation. Don’t pay your taxes? They take your stuff, lock you in a cage, and/or shoot you. If your store your value in anything other than AUD and it appreciates, you owe income tax on it at some point. This is typically when you “realize the gain”. Although, I have heard (never confirmed) that some countries tax unrealized gains in some circumstances.

Fiat needs coercion/violence to survive.

I don’t buy the “environmental disaster” arguments. In fact, I think the opposite may prove to be true.

Bitcoin represents the strongest property rights that have ever existed.

Long term, Bitcoin is an appreciating asset. This discourages debt and therefore discourages slavery.

Debt is slavery. Fiat encourages debt. Therefore, fiat encourages slavery.

1. The inflation we see with fiat currencies (USD, AUD, etc.) is straight up theft. This theft hurts the least advantaged people most.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci @prologic@twtxt.net I want to emphasize that I asked that question in good faith. I genuinely want to know what ya’ll believe to be true. I don’t know everything and maybe you know something that I don’t. (In fact, I’d love to know why @prologic@twtxt.net thinks there’s been “harm to the economy”, but we can save that for later.) I wanted to hear you first before I started spouting off about why I think Bitcoin (excluding other crypto currencies) is a net good for society. But since ya’ll asked, I’ll list them in a fork of this twt. (Not gonna try to prove them off the bat. I’m just gonna list things I believe and we can discuss in forks for each one. In addition, I’m leaving room for the fact that writing these things out might lead me to realize that I’m wrong. I’m happy to admit that I’m wrong. I hope you can go in with the same attitude.)

lol apparently I’ve been suspended from Reddit due to some violation of content policy. However, they haven’t actually told me what content policy that I have violated. How to get unsuspended? Prove that you haven’t violated the content security policy. This is the most asinine thing that I’ve ever seen.

@prologic@twtxt.net Well. All I needed to do was tell my local dev instance to scrape and crawl your feed. The data directory is at 231MiB now. 😀

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m taking a look at yarn.social search codebase. Just created a tiny PR to add some documentation around setup. I was thinking that I might start with “Document how to use the query language really well” since that would be a good learning exercise. It looks like maybe https://search.twtxt.net/help would be a good place to put that work. Were you wanting to put any search help text anywhere else in the UI?

@tkanos@netbros.com That’s why I was thinking it might be easy to implement. I am looking at implementing my own client/server, and it would be nice to have as few protocols as possible to deal with. Now that I’m saying this, I don’t actually know how many people are using twtxt registries vs yarn.social json protocol.

@prologic@twtxt.net Any plans/thoughts on implementing the twtxt registry protocol as part of yarn.social?