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 this is how it started in mandibles...

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 I still need to read that book. I'll put it on the list after I get through Wealth of Nations 
 If you have spotify premium the audio book is now free to listen to as of today.. 
 Odell isn’t going to stop until everyone reads it and I fully support it 
 I have 100 pages left. I started it this morning…
Curse you @ODELL & your recommendation of a very addicting and captivating book.

“If I don’t feel free, then I’m not free” 
 Yes, and the keynesian economist brother in law tried to blame the bad auction on random coincidences....

Mandibles then bitcoin standard. See you there. 
 🫡 
 I am from Yemen and the country does not support Bitcoin digital money. I am an artist and I have talents. I hope you will send me paper money. You are capable of this. I hope you will make me happy.💔💔 
 Ya Marwa, money won't make you happy if you ask me.
Or will it? how?
You are already on Nostr, I believe you are capable of doing a alot. How can the plebs help? 
 For me, money will make me happy, and it is true that money is not everything, but I need to buy me some things because I am an artist and I deserve this. 

Why don't you help me? 
 I tried. Good luck with your art is all I can say now. Nobody owes us anything for our talents or whatever it is we think we have.
If someone has something that they think has a demand,  they better learn how to sell it should they are in need of money. They could also teach themselves how to deal with people by observing and understanding and having conversations. I think simply demanding vague help from strangers does not get us far. Worse, asking them for 'money'.
I wish you a better life and more constructive thoughts. 
 I read the book cause you discussed it so often on your pods. 🙏 
 Scary stuff... 
 I feel like we're living in this comic: 

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The crashing airplane is the value of the US dollar.

The derailed train is the treasury market.

The shifting tectonic plates are the rising wars.

The gas leak is the coming ETF.

Farmer Brown's house is the fiat system.

Farmer Brown is everyone still in that system.

(...or something like that...)

Seriously, God help the Farmer Browns of the world. 😞 
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 If it wasn't for Bitcoin I would feel like there is no hope.  
 Stay humble stack sats.
Mandibles then #bitcoin standard🫡 
 Mandibles is predictive programming  
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 “It’s a complex system, which has entered disequilibrium. It’s unstable.” - Willing Mandible 
 How’s Lionel? You should interview her again. 
 Wonder what the odds of a Mexican-American president are? Lowell=Krugman 
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 Just got my First Edition, ready to dive in. Would love to hear a CD92 v2 with Lionel! 
 DRINK! 
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 Holy Moly, I just started The Mandibles some days ago. It's becoming increasingly difficult to separate reality and fiction in my head. Feels like I'm living in the past, present and future at the same time. 
I'm not yet sure how to articulate a good question that arises from all this confusion but my best guess for an answer is: Bitcoin 😏


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 once you finish it consider listening to my conversation with lionel shriver, the author:

video:
https://www.youtube.com/live/eGev5HrIfaQ?si=x9XpfaST-ApZwijw

audio:
https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch/cd92-mandibles-with-lionel-shriver/ 
 Mandibles.  It’s happening. 
 Perfect. Will do 🤙 
 Is she still hodling? 
 I've just finished the book and the interview.

To me, Lionel seems to suffer from an unbalanced diet of being extremely well informed about how the delicate systems that hold our world together can crash, while not having explored what is being done to build new instruments for better systems. As you said in the interview, Bitcoin is a tool among many which are being independently developed to strengthen the individual. I hope she comes around and ventures down the rabbithole a little, there are nuggets of hope everywhere to be found.  
 Yes sir!