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 Aunt just arrived to babysit. Time to hit the road. Enjoy your weekend everyone 👋ðŸ˜! 
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 #randomthoughts #Bitcoin

Had some cousins over today. Good times! But... they all seemed to believe that corporations like Google and Apple and such are too large to fail. Friendly reminder that no company is too large to fail. 
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 First time on this platform! Hope to enjoy my stay here! 
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 Hello 👋! 
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 #randomthoughts #parenting #dadstr

🤔 What should I get the little one for her birthday? She'll be turning 7. 
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 What a Beave statement 😂. The Tuttle Twin books is a good idea. As for the rifle and pistol suggestion, I think I'll just go with the pistol. Lol. Why a non-pink toolbox? 
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 A fine suggestion. Do you know of any good books on botany? 
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 She would really enjoy her own little .22 pistol, I think. I mean, she seems to be enjoying her self-defense training quite a bit 🤷â€â™‚ï¸.

I think I'll buy her some gardening tools instead. She loves spending time in the garden. 
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 Lol. I could literally get one tomorrow. 
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 Why not get one? 
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 I'm still gettin' used to making memes. ðŸ˜
https://image.nostr.build/c2d3670685ea59ea775eac9c59b1645f4ba7cba2aace9bf12a4cfd7caf23cd80.jpg

How so? 
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 Big pharma at it again 🤷â€â™‚ï¸. Ya reckon this will become a regular 4-year occurrence? 
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 I'm hoping people are bright enough to put two and two together this time around and refrain from falling for a load of bollocks like this but... I doubt it. Even with public distrust towards governments at its peak, folk still go crawling back to them when in need. They'll react in the same manner with big pharma. 🤷â€â™‚ï¸ 
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 I'm going to have to look into this a bit more. Appreciate this. First time I've caught wind of it. Time for my daughter's weekly self-defense lesson. âœŒï¸ 
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 I'm just teaching her a few basic techniques I learned from combatives training. Somes weapons handling techniques for small arms, a little boxing, and some BJJ grappling techniques. 
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 I noticed that the US is now trying their hands at spreading Mpox fears 🙄. I also noticed how ironic it is to see Pakistan be the only country to proclaim that it's not dangerous. 
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 Lol. No it isn't. 
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 It's not obvious?  
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 I'm standing on a hill to get reception to let family know that I'm going to be camping tonight a... 
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 😎. Just one night? 
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 Did you watch any of it? 
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 Good choice, mate. I never was either. Amethyst being my first time using social media. Still a bit of a pain trying to get used to it. 🤷â€â™‚ï¸ 
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 Good afternoon 👋! Hope the weather is being nice to you over there. 

Lol. Can you make one of the Hermit? 
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 #bitcoin #randomthoughts #asknostr

Hello folks! Just got home. How's your Tuesday going? 

Was thinking a bit about how Bitcoin adoption could take shape in the UK while I was visiting some out-of-town family members earlier today. Lol. Yea, I was a lil' bored but the little one had a good time 🤷â€â™‚ï¸ðŸ«¡.

For me, I view it like this: it could replace the pound (obviously such a scenario will not promptly occur); dual currency usage (mildly possible but on a more local economy scale); Bitcoin-backed fiat currencys (not preferable but will certainly slowdown inflation rates and likely force a tightened monetary policy); Bitcoin could be used solely as a reserve asset by the current financial institutions (🤔 doubtful as such a scenario seems to already be failing); or traditional-style publicly promoted educational courses and training programs on how both the Bitcoin main chain and LN work (a more local population-based type of scenario that will hopefully convince non-coiners who have completed such a course or program to spread knowledge to local goods and service providers).

How do you all think adoption could take form in the country you live in? 
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 You did hear that the German government dumped all of their Bitcoin holdings, yea?

... fuckin' mental, mate! 🙄 
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 What am I missing? Why is everyone talking about Twitter and Elon today? 
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 Some ridiculous Trump interview he's conducting. 
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 Sitting like Buddha and my leg got stuck 
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 Were you meditating? 
 My cubs are the best. We cooked and baked together today, learned a lot about history and even a ... 
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 Sounds fun. Do you homeschool them regularly? 

Lol. My little one was being a brat towards me all day, but then I made her some of her favorite dessert and told her that she could stay up late. 😅🤷â€â™‚ï¸ 
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 I feel ya. Hope everything goes well 🫂🫡. My daughter will be 7 soon.

Her expression whenever she believes that she won an argument. ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
https://image.nostr.build/651fc73bb14c7385b625a2e53060c7a005b2f27d3a15b4325b561dd78affdb91.gif 
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 😑 

😒... I wish I could present some reasonable argument against that, but research has proven on plenty of occasions that girls mature quicker than boys. She is much better at getting everything she wants than I was at her age. 
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 A photoshopped one? 
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 I'm sitting on the front porch in a rocker listening to various birds and bugs and critters (I wi... 
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 â‚¿easts 
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 Oh... fuckin' hell! Give a tired old man a chance. 
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 When you're looking for missing insects and you come across a clue:
https://image.nostr.build/d97438b7c4433227606ed0f7b2aae391c73ed192367b0f849d8b00bc725fc76f.jpg 
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 I didn't see your post. I was just havin' a laugh. 
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 You should add Atonement by Ian McEwan to that collection. 👠
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 Great movie, too. 
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 Please folks, I want suggestions of good movies or tv shows. Leave your tips in the comments! ðŸ˜... 
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 Amélie, Paris, je t'aime, Black Mirror. 
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 Blade Runner 2049
Ex Machina
Interstellar
Mystic River
Sin City
Chernobyl
Lone Survivor (combat sequences were very realistic) 
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 Anxiety is one hell of a drug. WTF 
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 Smoke more weed 
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 🙄 Look at her nod her head like she knows wtf he's talking about. 
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 #Randomthoughts #nostr #guns 

Start buying guns 
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 Do you own a weapon? 
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 I mean real weapons, luv! 😂 
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 Psyops have been occurring since the bloody WWII era (possibly earlier). What has changed is the ease with which they are executed. Things like social media, advertisements, and even generic internet usage have brainwashed people without making them realise that they've been brainwashed. And even if they do come to realization, they've been persuaded heavily enough to believe that such a status is palatable. 🤷â€â™‚ï¸ 
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 I was born in the UK - in London, in Guys Hospital in 1995 - which is weird cos I’m closer to S... 
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 Don't get yourself down, luv. Although I can't deny that I have been planning on fleeing the UK. The safety of my daughter and my mum will always take priority. 🤷â€â™‚ï¸ It is... what it is.

Feel better. 🫂🫡  
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 Settle down folks. We're on the same team here. 
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 #Parenting #dadstr #randomthoughts

I'm glad that most things have turned out well so far during my time as a single parent. There is no master plan for properly raising a child. 
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 #UK #veteran

I ran into an old mate from my service years who I haven't seen or heard from in nearly a decade. She was a nurse. ðŸ˜ðŸ«¡... she looks good! 
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 Lol. Her and I have done a magnificent job staying fit all these years. That's for certain! 😅💯

😂 no, no, no! We did end up chatting for a bit though. Even she admitted that the UK is a bloody mess. 
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 Why do you think it's unlikely?

To be frank, she and I were a couple for a bit. We did our best to keep it our dirty little secret, but... 🤷â€â™‚ï¸. 
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 Lol. I'm not telling the missus about this little incident. 
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 I get it.

They do get weird. Hard to carry relationships like that outside of the service. 

Rank can definitely overinflate a person's ego. I've seen too many bad calls occur because of that exact reason. 
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 She sounds like a good CO. Were you older? Lol. 
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 My last CO was too bloody inexperienced. Very little combat experience and he rarely took any advice from a lowly enlisted man like myself. Although I won't deny it, I do feel bad for him. He did lose a leg, I heard.

I've been in a chopper a fair amount of times. They are quite fun to be in ðŸ‘. Mainly the Bell 412. I've seen Apaches land on my base a few times, as well. I would hate to be under fire from one of those. 👀 
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 You should try and find those 5 that you mentioned. Strong (often unbreakable) bonds come with military service. 
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 My daughter would love these. 🫡👠Thanks! 
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 Best movie of all time?.... go 
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 Blade Runner 2049 
 Maybe. 🤔 I’ve always been at my best when not online. Never fit in almost any group. Not sur... 
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 How was your vacation? 
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 Contrary to popular opinion, we anarchists (at least the principled anarchists) don't advocate de... 
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 That's arguably one of the best descriptions of anarchism that I've ever come across. As someone who has witnessed firsthand all of the bloody chaos that governments create, I can agree with this. But keep in mind that it's also a necessity to find some form of peace within the evergoing chaos. That's the challenge. People aren't inherently good or evil. There always was, is, and will be conflict. We cannot avoid such a reality. Escaping in to a mental fairytale will only make such matters even more bonkers. 🤷â€â™‚ï¸ 
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 #asknostr #uk

Lol. Remember this? 😂

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/09/17/trial-by-combat/ 
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 It's nothing short of miraculous that that show has been airing for as long as it has. 😂🫡 
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 I pooped!!!!! 
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 It's not my fault that you have a proneness to spark my addictive tendencies. 🤷â€â™‚ï¸ 
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 Do you like Indian food? 
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 Same here 😎! A very tasty way of ridding yourself of constipation ðŸ‘. 
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 I suppose you've decided what you're havin' for dinner? 
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 Who wants to help me set up umbrel on a proxmox server? I'm stuck at trying to get a Linux VM to ... 
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 Lol. Just wish to inform you that I'm watching this discussion VERY intently ðŸ˜.