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 I asked my wife to describe me in one word and she said “intense”. 

I told her I don’t fee... 
 My wife described you as “creepy”, so maybe intense isn’t that bad a label. 
 “High home prices require builders to lower home prices.”

This headline shouldn’t be that hard to write.
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 Europe has joined the U.S. (Microstrategy) and Japan (Meta Planet) with a company leveraging capital markets to accumulate Bitcoin.

@LynAlden @MartyBent 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/samara-asset-group-s-30-million-bitcoin-bet-inspired-by-microstrategy/ar-AA1seN5x 
 Shove more buzzwords into a single sentence.  I dare you.

“SingularityDAO plans to merge with Cogito Finance and SelfKey to form a combined project focused on tokenizing the AI economy.”
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 How is something a recent surge if it can’t be detected?  

“A hoped for surge in global warming by the media-propaganda complex doesn’t appear to be happening.”

Fixed it. 
 Gen X was in high school in 1992, and houses didn’t cost 2,000.   But yes, re estate has done pretty well for us unless you factor in inflation… 
 Golf is hard.  #golfstr

https://youtu.be/NWCIA6WVdQ4 
 It feels like the Fall of 2016 for bitcoin again. If this is the case we’ll pump for 6-9 months... 
 No dump pump? 
 Why do we cook dry ass turkeys for thanksgiving when we could be making brisket or like 4 chickens  
 Have never cooked turkey, never will.  Salmon, Prime Rib, Ham & Tenderloin, have all been on the menu.  Tenderloin or Prime Rib are the winners.  Tenderloin is way easier. 
 Half of the things we believe aren’t true.  The problem is we don’t know which half. 
 Still thinking about Sturgill Simpson's cover of Purple Rain at ACL last night. 
 Need to hear it.  Sturgill is a beast. 
 Regardless of what the WSJ says, leasing is not buying.  This is a huge trade, somebody is getting the worst of it.  I’m actually betting on consumers winning this shift.  Capped liabilities + transportation utility then handing back assets that have depreciated a ton.
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 Step 3: midnight at Hodl house and 8 hour frog video marathon wrapping up. 
 If a politician came out and said “We are not going to cut Medicare or social security, but we are going to pay out all future checks in a new currency called the mini-dollar.”, that politician would have no chance of getting elected.  

Most voters would assume the new mini-dollar would have far less value than the current dollar.  It would be seen as an immoral bait and switch.

However - this is exactly what they are all saying right now.  Future dollars will actually be figurative mini-dollars as they will be able purchase much less due to the amount of dollars that will be printed to meet those claims.  It is an immoral bait and switch.

Study Bitcoin. 
 Imperfect stores of value… aren’t perfect.  Watches have taken a hit recently, and now - surprise it’s Ferraris.  Study Bitcoin.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-14/personalizing-your-500-000-ferrari-comes-with-perils?srnd=homepage-americas 
 Patreon platform is horrible, bad UX, messy, etc...

Who's building pay walled creator community ... 
 Need the Substack replacement.  Micropayments via sats opens up all kinds of possibilities for bundling, paying by the article, etc… 
 I’m an enthusiast Bitcoin educator and for sometime I thought my future was in educating studen... 
 Love to hear it.  Each win matters 
 My boy is winning. 💪

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 Looks delicious.  That’s a freezer full of protein. 
 😬
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 Will forward this to the CEO of NOSTR 
 “You helped me put it all together there. And what I understood is that the future cannot be designed, but it can be discovered. And our job is to create conditions that maximize the possibility of the discovery of more optimal futures.

And the way we do that is not solely through planning, not even primarily through planning. What we need to do is create rules that are palatable to other human beings, that other human beings can imitate, so we can participate together in this process of the division of labor, the process of increasing the number of human beings on the planet who are able to live in prosperity that's created by profit.”

- Aneesh Karve 
 Disdains for profit disdains progress. 

-  Friedrich Hayek 
 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
‭‭John‬ ‭1‬:‭1‬ ‭NIV‬‬ 
 Here’s the fiat version.
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 Human good turns out to be the activity of the soul exhibiting excellence.  

- Aristotle 
 Gn nostr 🫂

Went down some rabbit holes I wish I didn't tonight, gotta be more careful about m... 
 “Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4‬:‭8‬ ‭NIV‬‬ 
 Is it possible to send/accept Zaps using Nostr on iPad? 
 You can do it on the primal app on the iPad, it just isn’t optimized for the iPad 
 Bitcoiners love to over-analyze 

Why is MSTR ripping higher than bitcoin?

CONVENIENCE. 
 LEVERAGE 
 Watching the 6th week of NFL games and still don’t understand how the new kick offs work.  Not sure players do either. 
 Felt sorry for her when reading the close caption.  Then listened to the audio and felt sorry for him. 
 Millennials are the hero generation. 

I didn’t believe it myself for a long time, but it’s c... 
 That’s basically the plot of The Mandibles. 
 I love that Alfred Nobel—the dude who invented dynamite and who can arguably be link to more de... 
 He didn’t invent reputation laundering, but he is the all time champ. 
 “I think the scientific game has to be embedded in the Judeo-Christian game, let's say, but so does the free market game. You know, when people like Adam Smith knew this, and the Scottish Liberals for that matter, their basic argument was something like, given the presuppositions of a stable Judeo-Christian culture and the ethics that go along with that, then the liberal free market enterprise is possible. It's like, and the more libertarian types, they take the second half of that and dispense with the first, and that's not going to work.”

From The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast: 485. The Rebirth of God: Pathology and Promise | Jamie Wheal, Sep 30, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/id1184022695?i=1000671346467
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 What i believe is that the bad people are punished 
 The punishment for most sin is embedded in the sin itself. 
 Those trees look ominous- playing in a hurricane? 
 Only 36. 

Some I hope not to experience. 

Onwards. ⚡️ 

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 31.  Sorry Paris. 
 Always cracks me up when they do these, then the club pro says “let’s try to have four hour rounds out there” 
 really crazy that our politicians don’t don’t do the simplest thing to do interviews with fol... 
 Every time a Republican does a mainstream interview, it’s this. 
 GM

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid. 
 Don’t underestimate “FOOL”s - Fear Of Other’s Liberty.

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 A little too on the nose, but funny if real. 
 GM

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭15‬:‭13‬ ‭NIV‬‬ 
 It should be pretty cool to be in person watching an unranked team beat the #1 team in the country.

Unless you are rooting for the #1 team.  Long walk to the car.  Roll Tide. 
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 If we run out, we’ll just print more. 
 GM.  Roll Tide. 
 You’re not a Bitcoiner until you… 

Buy Bitcoin. 

But then you’re like wait, I need to get... 
 You forgot the breakout where you forget your paraphrase for 30 seconds and question your will to live. 
 Absolutely, positively don’t understand anything this guy is saying.  Even though he is speaking English. 
 GM nerds of NOSTR! 
 Sturgill is the man.  Rarely jealous of live shows, but you got me with this one. 
 Kind of still is.  If you frame it as a competency crisis, this is a pandemic that is still wreaking havoc everywhere, every day. 
 How many extra houses do you have if 74% of households own more than 1 house?
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