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@Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta Let's assume you are right and that we're not going to be able to get good enough payment processing. This means we have to provide an alternative to jewish-controlled media *on the cheap* -- a truly all-volunteer force -- at least until we can organize sufficient resistance to those who want to enslave and kill us.

Not impossible -- Fediverse is far better than nothing -- but it imposes additional severe constraints.

@neofugue @Charles_in_Charge @StarProphet

The danger with Monero is that the devs are known to not be careful enough. "Fluffypony" got arrested in the US because he had active warrants in SA. Being a public cryptocurrency developer (already unwise) in a country which will extradite you to a country who wants you in jail is *dumb*.

It makes me wonder what other mistakes are being made.

@Charles_in_Charge @StarProphet @neofugue These are real concerns -- but the enemies are *not* gods, there are real holes in their ability to coordinate and launch technical attacks. They can outlaw things and stick in back doors, but my techbro friends Have Ways.

It's not as one-sided a battlefield as either the crypto fanatics or Feds think it is.

@Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta As a techbro who has a gun next to the printer to shoot it in case it gets ideas, I understand the desire for less electronics. Also the wired internet has hard limits to how anonymous (and thus safe) it can be -- even if future crypto solutions are sound from a computer science perspective (current ones are *not*), this would be a problem.

That said, our physics brothers *do* have cute tricks that can give the surveillance state a run for their money.

@Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta Of course I am a huge fan of cash (and gold is even better), obviously pushback on the "cashless economy" and other efforts to corral us into CBDC and other GRIDS is important.

However, cash and gold still have the delivery problem: we have to deal with enemy surveillance of the mail system (plus random looting by nigger mail "workers"). We need to work on the delivery problem anyway so we can properly receive physical goods with our money.

@neofugue @StarProphet

>In life, nothing is free. If something is free, then you are the product.

Yes.

This is why we ultimately need much stronger cryptocurrency and secure anonymous payment rails. I'm afraid BTC and Monero aren't going to cut it long term from a technical perspective, but we have to make do with what we have for now.

The difficulty is that I think we need the decentralized social media infrastructure *first* before we can upgrade the cryptocurrency. Tricky.

@neofugue @StarProphet

This is concerning. "It's all so tiresome."

We really need a more robust alternative to Fedi. I have enough financial resources to spin up instances on the scale of poast or FSE but I don't think I can do this anonymously very easily. Once I got doxxed then things would go south fast, of course.

The proper solution is "one node per account, every node decides who and what to block, the only person you can ban is yourself" but we aren't there yet.

@judgedread

It sure would have been nice for the Romanovs (and *us*, for that matter) to get prophetic information about the future that could be used to *stop* the filthy judeo-communists from ruining everything. Perhaps the leftist rot in Russia was already too advanced for it to be salvaged.

"Always in motion the future is" -- except when it *isn't*, apparently.

@judgedread

Witnesses reported afterwards that the Tsar and Tsarina were extremely distraught when they left the abbey. The abbess's cell attendant later reported that Nicholas and Alexandra had been told that they would be martyred, that Russia would be shattered, and that Orthodox Christianity in Russia would be similarly ruined.

If this account is true it explains why the two of them look so grim in subsequent pictures.

@judgedread

Have we talked about the Romanovs'' experience with this?

According to their entry in the Lives of the Saints (July 4, hoo-rah!), in 1903 the Romanovs successfully campaigned for Seraphim of Sarov to be canonized. After the resulting feast, an old abbess handed the Tsar and Tsarina a sealed envelope from Seraphim addressed to the ruling Tsar at the time of his elevation. The abbess then took the Tsar and Tsarina into her cell and talked with them for a few hours.

@StarProphet

Well they definitely choose Hell, how "joyfully" they do it is more uncertain. Our enemies seem to be miserable people who hate life, many are as Hell-bent on destroying themselves as they are everyone else.

@judgedread @StarProphet

Essentially, the reason the Protestants can't convince you of their model of Hell is because it's wrong.

Why would a God of Truth, Love, and Beauty punish a creature He made because that creature loved truth and beauty and hated lies and ugliness? The answer is he wouldn't.

@judgedread @StarProphet

Note that the Orthodox conception of Hell is very different from the Protestant and Catholic versions. The basic idea is that in the Next Life we will all be directly exposed to the Divine Energies. The difference is that good people will find this to be wonderful while evil people will find this to be Hellish.

We can see evidence of this in this life: our enemies *hate* beauty and life, they try to destroy them because its presence is *painful*.

@judgedread @StarProphet

It's critical that a theological model line up with *your* empirical evidence. Other people may experience God / demons / UFOs talking to them constantly but that doesn't help *you* at all.

You're already not a pure materialist, because of strange things that have happened to you, yes? A *good faith* Christian would break out the Lives of the Saints and find all the other recorded incidents of the same strangeness for us to assess.

@judgedread @StarProphet

It's really sad because you are one of the easiest people to convince: all someone has to do is provide you with a more coherent predictive model of reality that explains all the weird stuff you've seen. No need for rhetoric, manipulation, griefing, etc.

A total sperglord armed with the right model could convince you in 30 minutes, provided they were *honest*.

@Starprophet Yes, this whole incident was quite unpleasant.

It's clear we need to figure out how to fully decouple blocking / muting / filtering from content hosting at a technical level. Everyone should be able to block whoever they want (and easily share blocklists), but each individual poaster's content should be hosted on a system they control. Whenever someone interesting gets banned it's a major pain in the ass.