That would be word salad for her. I’m still trying to get her to understand that bitcoin isn’t a tech company. She wanted a video so she could try to digest an explanation slowly. I sent her the animated explanation above. We’ll see how that lands. I don’t anticipate her ever using bitcoin. Though she could surprise me.
It is not to me. But I’ve learned my mom loses the plot at some point in the short explainer. And she has requested a visual aid cause she’s not following.
I think we’re still at the what is a bitcoin stage. Still not sure my mom understands all of the things you can do on a computer. She still thinks facebook is all social media and if someone is on a computer they must be on facebook. So having a kid who is like “yeah Mom I went to Latvia for Nostr and Bitcoin conferences.” She’s just trying to understand it enough to explain to her friends what her kid is doing.
I’ve had more than seven bad years, so maybe the good years will stay for a while to even it out. 🤷🏼♀️ We’ll see. Just trying to savor the current moment.
People aren’t meant to be solely independent. We thrive best as interdependent beings in community with one another. To love and be loved is one of the greatest treasures in this life.
I got sick my 2nd day in Riga and was laying pretty low trying to feel better. I think I might have spent more time in the hotel steam room than anywhere else in Riga.
Heard this quote this morning and was trying to verify it:
According to the Social Security administration, if you take any 100 people at the start of their working careers and follow them for the next 40 years until they reach retirement age, you’ll find only one will be wealthy, 4 will be financially secure, 5 will continue working not because they want to but because they have to pay their bills, 36 will be dead and 54 will be broke and dependent on their friends, family, and the government to take care of them. Which means that only 5% of the population will ever succeed in creating a life of financial freedom and the rest of them, the other 95% will struggle their entire lives.
When looking up the entire quote I found an attribution that it was from this book.
Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM
However I’ve also found people attributing similar quotes to self help/ finance books written as far back as 1948.
So take this with a grain of salt. #DontTrustVerify Taking a break from finding the origins of this quote. I am very interested in finding the origins of the quote and its spread over the years vs the financial statistical reality for Americans over time. (It’s so far only been quoted as USA specific.)
Hard no. States with large city populations would have more power than states with more rural areas. Our rural areas and farmers are just as important as our urban centers. People frequently don’t fully understand the issues facing people in different circumstances. The electoral college helps maintain equal representation on a federal level. Discontinuing the electoral college seems like as bad of an idea as the legislature ceding power to the executive branch because Congress couldn’t pass what they wanted passed. Each party has done it while their guy was in office. Now we’re stuck with an unbalanced triangle of power.
Accidentally trained my dog to allow me to work on my laptop for 50 minutes with a 10 minute break for playing fetch. She only does it with my laptop and not my iPad. It’s like the pupster pomodoro technique.
It’s from the US presidential debate. Donald Trump went off on a tangent about migrants eating cats. There’s a body cam video in question where a woman is being arrested and there’s a dead cat on the sidewalk and neighbors say she was eating it. Turns out she’s not a migrant but a local. Don’t know the full story. Saw the video and was like how was she eating a cat that’s not skinned or prepared in anyway and yet she’s somehow not covered in blood and fur. I dunno. 🤡🌎
I’m aiming for Bridechilla rather than Bridezilla. I’ve heard friends freak out about things I simply don’t care about like the lining of envelopes for invitations.
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