It’s not hidden. Trump is always promoting McDonald’s. And of all the issues, bad policies, and trash appointments, why would anyone care that he promotes McDonalds? It’s literally the bottom of the barrel and not even slightly hidden.
If you think this is “hidden propaganda” then you have no idea what propaganda is, imo. This is literally explicit promotion. It’s literally a joke because it’s so explicit.
It's funny to me how many people will argue for a money that constantly loses value due to artificial manipulation -- over a money that grows in value naturally.
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What we have are a horrible combination of toxic oxidized fats and oils, a specific lack of good fats and oils, nutrient deficient food, purposefully designed artificial ingredients to maximize cravings and minimize satiation, carcinogenic fake chemical flavorings to cover up the lack of substance, absurd amounts of sugars to amplify both aspects, and pharma to cover up the side effects.
All of this causes obesity, malnourishment, chronic inflammation, ceaseless food cravings, sugar addictions, mental and hormonal instability, and lethargy. nostr:note18jxtlkf6a74mz5v8kgzgvjnc0ne3mgum99sx07qqzaz539enjt5sw7e0hd
It’s actually not. It’s got far more to do with the lack of satiation in our food and nutrient deficiency.
Just having food around does not make a population naturally get really fat, and what we have today isn’t “normal fat” either, it’s specifically deficiency caused by bad oils and malnourishment. It causes us to aggressively over eat in a completely unnatural way because we get 100x the calories without the base oils, so we just keep eating and having to store away oxidized seed oil fats as fast as we can because they have nothing of value in them.
I appreciate your concern but I was going down the nutritional rabbit hole quite a while before I even found #Bitcoin. And it wasn’t a textbook that taught me the truth, it was seeing my wife, then myself, then my brother, then my in laws, and numerous other people in my life make this realization, clean their diets, and have direct and extremely clear changes to their conditions and health.
If you think your post or some “study” is going to change something I experienced first hand and saw mirrored in multiple other people, you are mistaken. But I appreciate your concern.
I'm talking about oxidized seed oils that are in literally all of our food. Go to the store and try to find something with soy, canola, or "vegetable" oil in the ingredients.
That’s a long discussion over about 60 years. But the short version is regulatory capture, corrupt “science,” and how horribly broken our money is.
Money printing is literally a form of silent slavery. Those with access to the printer can consume and own everything in society while everyone else ends up renting it from them. This has occurred in almost every industry in this country over the past ~60 years. I have a podcast that’s basically built entirely around explaining how.
I wish the nuance was as easy to explain. I work on trying to make it easier to understand, but when people are ignorant of how money even works, how do you then give an explanation that requires them to apply it? I agree that there needs to be an explanation, and the problem is that all you have to do is regurgitate nonsense propaganda we’ve been fed our whole lives to “understand” the other narrative, and nobody asks the question, “well why do people buy it when they bought the other before?”
Again the answer is in the money.
Here’s an analogy that I use to help picture it, maybe this will help:
Imagine you have an honest winemaker, and a dishonest one. The honest winemaker uses high quality ingredients because they care about their product. The dishonest winemaker uses what is the standard. It’s good enough not to raise any eyebrows and he basically labels it the same as his competition.
The government prints trillions of dollars, wages take years to adjust to it, but input prices and business costs rise almost immediately.
The good winemaker refuses to compromise on the quality of their wine. He has to raise prices by 15% to keep selling a high quality product. The dishonest winemaker has no problem adding fake coloring, some Monsanto flavors, and then watering down the actual wine to keep the price the same.
The customers don’t get a 15% pay raise and won’t make up for that difference for a year minimum. Now they are poorer and have to budget on things they never had to before. They see that of the two wines they purchase, one just shot up in price, and the other stayed the consistent.
To them, the honest winemaker is a greedy asshole, while the dishonest one looks consistent and reliable.
The customer only budgeted for X to spend on wine, not X+15%, so they switch to the dishonest winemaker out of either anger at the honest one, which is doubly driven by the profits of the dishonest one who will gladly repeat the politicians stupid “greedy business” bullshit and pay others to repeat it as well with their higher profit and revenue, or they switch out of simple poverty.
The CPI doesn’t account for quality or substance in products, only what customers buy. So CPI comes in at 1% that year, because the quality and ingredients of everything were degraded to make up for a broken, corrupt money. So when people say “it was inflation,” they don’t believe you, because they pay the same amount for wine…
The dishonest winemaker gains a massive influx of customers. The honest one goes out of business. And everyone takes the lesson that to value quality over price is a recipe for disaster, and lying is just “a part of doing business.”
Do this for 60 years and you can rot the core of any nation on earth.
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Having RFK Jr as the head of the HHS may be the single most significant and positive political appointment of my lifetime.
Literally nothing in the entire political world has made me feel the slightest bit hopeful since Ron Paul's campaign... until this.
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Dude, I just logged into @nostr.build from mobile for the first time and I was thinking “crap, I don’t want to post my nsec up here and I can’t use Alby.”
Then I saw “login with DM” and had never paid attention to it. Clicked, got a DM, pasted verification. BOOM logged in.
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That’s a good point! Should be normalized as a backup login to prevent having to paste your nsec everywhere. Only issue I see is needing to sign for notes/comments
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If they viciously attack you for a perfectly reasonable concern and for asking for the most basic scientific tests of an extremely important issue... it's probably because somebody is afraid of what those questions might uncover.
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It doesn't seem to be indicative of "the worst of the left" in my experience. There are a ton of people I know who sound exactly like this. People close to me in other circles who aren't this level of crazy are literally scared to say anything and the people around her have literally publicly been talking about looking everyone in their friend group up to see if they voted because "if they didn't" apparently that makes them evil pieces of shit.
None of this is an exaggeration, and it isn't an outlier, it's extremely and frighteningly common.
And btw, people who sound exactly like this have been in positions of power and have permeated the establishment for the better part of a decade, so the idea that somehow the right is special crazy doesn't add up to me. They are largely a faded reflection of the lunacy on the left, imo.
I don't know much about him but I do know he's one of the few who have gone after the systemic corruption in our "health"care regulatory agencies and bogus, orchestrated legal (political) attacks that have gone on in recent years. So I don't have much of a problem with that. I'm sure I disagree with him on a bunch of other stuff, I do with almost everyone in politics.
These people are such violent, hateful religious zealots that it's actually fascinating from an anthropological perspective.
The process of becoming this crazy and brainwashed legit deserves a thorough analysis.
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It's just that Bitcoiners built this place. Bitcoiners have been focused on trying to build alternatives for basically all the corrupt legacy world. Money is the most important piece of that.
If it seems weird now, then I'd just encourage you to dig in a little bit and learn. It's not what you think it is...
Either way, welcome to #nostr 👏
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This is natural evolution of all protocols, so it’s nothing to be concerned with in the long term, imo. Go back to Usenet: nothing but data hoarding nerds. Back to TCP/IP, nothing but protocols devs. Back to RSS, IRC, etc it is always the same story. In this case it’s just that the same community who were first to #Bitcoin (not crypto, btw, that’s a common misunderstanding, long story) were also the most motivated to build a better, censorship resistant means to share and communicate.
The expansion of content and conversation will happen naturally, it just requires the first stage of those willing to take the risk, and post the content that others will want while the network for those things is still small.
There is a bigger hurdle, but also far greater benefit to being early in the network. So post whatever you are interested in and you might make a lot more of a difference than you might think. 🫡
Nothing at the protocol layer. Just handled by relays, users, and clients with varied approaches. I suspect the best long term approach will be web-of-trust related. But you can report them to relays and they will ban or limit certain types of access. Some relays share how they treat things like that or specifically use WoT as their filter and you can add those relays, etc.
Bunch of different options, probably standards will emerge with enough time and after we learn from a few really annoying bot attacks. Only had one or two significant ones so far.
Prediction for the next year in #Bitcoin:
• We will have a healthy pullback from this short run
• People w/ BDS will tweet "See! It CrAsHeS!"
• It'll calm down, start a slow climb, & then rocket up again
• BDS-ers will scream "BuBbLE!!" for the 173rd time
• It'll have a healthy pullback
• Rinse and repeat as #Bitcoin climbs into the multiple hundreds of thousands
• BDS-ers will get increasingly insane and frantic, "IT DOES NOTHING!" "NO UTILITY!" "THIS IS SO DANGEROUS TO OUR ECONOMY!" "SOMEBODY DO SOMETHING!"
• There will finally be another very needed and prolonged correction down to a level about twice the previous ATH
• As we find a stable price in the low to mid $100K, the BDS-ers will claim victory and constantly say "I told you so."
• Bitcoiners will keep building, keep stacking sats, keep using it as their money, and keep watching things get cheaper as priced in #Bitcoin
... and in another couple of years we will do this all over again... AGAIN... just adding another zero to the price.
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I don't eliminate that as a possibility at all. It'll travel the path of greatest pain. Therefore if most people think it'll stop around $200K and pile on the shorts around there, it'll probably rocket up to $500K, THEN they'll be convinced it'll run out of steam, and it'll rocket up to a Mil, and then they'll be so scared of it they won't know what to do, and they'll just dump the crumbs they have left over into it, and it'll finally crash all the way back down to $250K, before - in utter despair - they sell everything... and it starts a strong climb again. 🤣
It's money that is monetizing. This stage is obvious and should be expected. And most people have always used KYC exchanges for most of their purchases. If you want to be a doomer about that go ahead, but there are a lot of great tools for getting non-KYC coins.
And I don't have any idea what you mean by "fiat backing." Gives the feeling of something you suspect sounds edgy, when really it's meaningless. Just sayin.
I actually agree with you and my post was a lot less to do with the prices specifically, and more to do with how we will get there and what the people who suffer from BDS will say and how they'll act.
A savings account in dollars is a terrible financial decision.
Not because savings is bad, very much the opposite is true, but because dollars are terrible money.
haha that's a great meme actually!
"you have a savings account? Cool you own bitcoin?"
"no its just with my bank"
"ah you have a *losing* account, not a savings account." 🤣
My suggestion is keep it in #Bitcoin and have a long term perspective. The short term volatility will matter less and less as time goes on, and it will matter more and more the longer you hold cash.
Savings is specifically a long term security strategy, don't shoot yourself in the foot by sacrificing its long term usefulness over short term concerns.
In other words, if bitcoin is volatile in a downward direction and something bad *isn't* happening, then use that opportunity to save harder and it will pay off even more when it returns to the mean.
For an answer that less general and more practical:
You can use a service like River, they pay like 3% ish on cash balances, and keep 80% of your savings in Bitcoin at all times. That way you are limiting your losses, and making up for it partially with an interest payment. While also not fully exposing yourself to Bitcoin down swings, and leaving room to buy the dip if your situation feels stable.
Ok wasn’t sure. It seemed at odds with what you said. But regardless if you come up with a good strategy that’s aligned with your needs I’d be interested to hear the breakdown if you think it’s valuable.
The optimum split versus the savings versus the monthly obligations might be an interesting topic for exploring.
There is a difference between using your bitcoin for something meaningful and selling it for dollars.
If you want to use it, go ahead, but if you think of it as an “investment” where you can get more dollars, then you’ve misunderstood what it is
In other words, your dollars are worth a LOT more in Venezuelan Bolivares. Why don’t you take profit in your successful dollar investment so you can get those billions of bolivares?
Then you’ve simply used the dollar as your payment network. But that’s not relevant to the “sell it to hold more dollars” argument.
Again, if you just want to use the value for your life, by all means, that’s the purpose of money. Granted, one should understand the trade off of selling a money while it’s being monetized and what that will cost over a long time frame.
They get vaccinated with car knowledge. Only side effect is SADs and Alzheimer’s at 30 years old, but very rare. Good to go ahead and vaccinate while their infants.
WOAH! I compared the charts again & the #Bitcoin price PERFECTLY returned to the S2GF model estimate.
Everyone talks "Stock-2-Flow" when it was really Stock-2-Guy's-Followers model all along.
It's undeniable
Want that upward price pressure?... you know what to do.😘😆
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There is a difference between using your bitcoin for something meaningful and selling it for dollars.
If you want to use it, go ahead, but if you think of it as an “investment” where you can get more dollars, then you’ve misunderstood what it is
In other words, your dollars are worth a LOT more in Venezuelan Bolivares. Why don’t you take profit in your successful dollar investment so you can get those billions of bolivares?
But why would you diversify into something with counterparty risk and that can be inflated away from something that has no counterparty risk and is perfectly scarce?
Still aren't understanding, it isn't an investment. It's a money. The entire apparatus and culture of "diversify your investment" is a product of a shit money system that we've grown up in. It never made sense and is nothing but a pointless, wasteful friction.
It’s simpler than that though. Bitcoin is 21 million and it’s perfectly scarce because of that explicit limit. I run a node, therefore no one can say that anything is different.
Bitcoin’s consensus is and will be defined by the intolerant minority. I run a node that defines it as 21 million, and anything incompatible with that is invalid.
I think accepting the notion that this is NOT set and determined is itself a mental concession. One that I refuse to give. There is no way to “game consensus” and make bitcoin not 21 million, because I will never call anything that changes that Bitcoin. If we accept that this can be gamed, we literally give up leeway to game it. From the POV of my node and my bitcoin, it can’t be.
lol whenever I see this one all I can think is how stupid that movie was
And what terrible acting too. Perfect example of “green screen face.” They clearly just out in a ton of “close calls” after the filming and so the kid’s and actors’ reactions are flat compared to what’s happening.
This scene should be ridiculously tense, and I feel almost nothing every time I watch it. Roland Emmerich really only had one good film with Independence Day, then it was nothing but downhill.
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