I think one highlight is that the old propaganda doesn't affect you in the same way as the "current thing" propaganda. Old propaganda feels sort of cute. So this is an argument for watching older movies :)
For what it's worth, I feel similarly about old advertising. Anything from, say, the 1970s and before just doesn't hit me the same way, particularly in print. Audio/visual ads somewhat, but even they seem different and more innocent.
What is the story with OpenGFX then? It sounds like OpenTTD is completely new codebase and OpenGFX (which I also helped with) is completely new graphics. Why does one have to pay for that?
The current UBI frame is nothing like what you said. And I think this is the issue with UBI - the incentives are not aligned for it to be stable and reasonable over time, but rather to get much worse and misused over time.
Only very small % of bitcoiners believe the ad absurdum thesis as you outlined it and yet to all bitcoiners the investment makes sense long term. That's something that you will have to reconcile on your side.
Or if you want something actually better at the core, you can switch to nostr. It's quite easy to even implement your own client app for nostr (even more so with LLMs), so you can get the experience you want.
Yeah and nostr really is decentralised and doesn't even require providing an email address. The only thing I don't really like is the cryptobro vibe there. But technically it's really good.
Agreed, the community currently has quite a lot of bitcoiners, but other communities are there too - surfers, open source dev, artists, musicians. You need to look for who to follow though.
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