Freedom is not permission to do what you want; it's the power to do what you ought.
Quoting a podcast, which was quoting a famous person, who's name I missed.
"Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven" - Matthew 18:3-5
It's not obvious what you're supposed to do on Nostr. And real people, who aren't influencers, don't get much value from just reading the influencers and no one ever talking outside the influencers' notes. And relays don't do what they seem like they ought to - especially the Bitcoin relay, which seems to be operating on some different rules that aren't written anywhere. And frankly, zaps just aren't motivating. Cool idea, but it's not gonna get me to fiddle with "go here do that, this and that option, etc" thats the usual tech experience.
I've never met someone who didn't get angry when I tell the truth, even when I say it with kindness, and even when it isn't about them. Not one person.
This arrived at a good time... I've noticed a lack of Swann giving a shit about the inscriptions spam and the utxo bloat it's causing. Forgive me if I missed it, but that's how it seems. Fits nicely on the Give a Shit Matrix, too.
Not everything is a color revolution. You're viewing history through a revisionist lens. But I'm willing to do some googling - what am I looking for specifically?
Didn't you know life expectancy is falling in the US? Maybe you're not American, but I can tell you from experience living in several countries, we have more government involved in our lives than anywhere I've lived yet. Antibiotics? In Asia, you can get antibiotics when you need them ; here, you can't. I live in a very nice town in a part of the US with the strongest economy, and my water tastes like sewage. I'd like to collect rainwater, and that's actually legal in my state, but the HOA won't allow it. Do you know anything about nutrition? I'm a health nut of the most obnoxious sort, and proud of it. I can't believe the kinds of foods that I find in grocery stores - how the actual F is it legal to sell food with 1800% sodium per serving? I saw that the other day. Other foods have canola oil as first or second listed ingredient - that industrial lubricant, not food, and it's killing people. The FDA goes around shutting down small farms, but lets that get into grocery stores?
TBH, it looks like the government is actively trying to make life worse.
Haiti is a terrible example of libertarianism. Haiti has had more foreign backed coups (by the US) and IMF loans than any other place I can think of. That's as far opposite of libertarian as you can get - they're completely dominated by state violence and predatory loans.
Noice. I might have to do the same, since Twatter unbanned me. Unsolicited unbanning. They banned me for following Bitcoiners - I didn't even make one tweet, and a few second after I followed some Bitcoiners a popup informed me I was banned. Fuck Twitter, and fuck the Empire of Evil, which embedded it's agents in it to censor people.
True blessings at first appear to be curses ; true curses at first appear to be blessings.
Homeowners think they're blessed when their home price increases, but it's actually a curse because it's a part of everything being priced wrong, and now you can't afford the vacations and adventures and business ideas that previous generations could afford.
Being able to print unlimited dollars at first appeared to be a blessing to the US because we could pay foreigners with paper or digits while they sent Americans real things. Now the US doesn't have the manufacturing capacity to supply itself.
When the world switches to honest money (it will be Bitcoin), Americans will again think they are blessed because they've accumulated the most of that new money. But again, it will be revealed to be a curse, because without factories and jobs and a real middle class, that saved Bitcoin will be sent overseas to the countries that invested wisely, and in the end the US will have neither the money nor the factories.
The history of the Spanish empire shows how it works - they were the richest people in the world, receiving fleets of galleons laden with gold and silver, which they spent lavishly. But the resulting inflation and destruction of industry impoverished them and set the stage for future revolutions and a civil war. The instability lasted centuries, and now, decades after the country stabilized, you can easily find pictures and videos of depopulated or impoverished parts of the once glorious homeland of their empire.
Knowing the law of unintended consequences, which is only a subset of what I'm trying to describe, *could* guide American policymakers to avoid this fate... But I doubt it. Even the current American awakening to Bitcoin is not happening fast enough. Policymakers are not grokking it fast enough. Their best intentions are now a heavy load of detritus which covers their eyes.
This is imperative : decentralize now, before nature forces a more painful decentralization on you. Move a majority of state and federal laws down to the smallest community, where a more direct form of democracy can adapt closer to real time. Let people farm and work and own property and vote on real issues.
Loosen your grip.
God's justice is balance, setting things right ; nature's balance is painful. If both kinds of balance become one and the same... you're fucked.
We're not moving fast enough.
I suspected that. I didn't get covid, but I got the vaccine, and my health took a nosedive. Only fixed it very recently by exercising with HIIT, which improves mitochondria.
I'm just worried it's not a permanent fix. Every day, I get this feeling in my chest, that used to mean I was about to have a very hard time breathing - one of the vaccine symptoms - and I can get rid of it by working out. So I work out for an hour every day, and it feels like I'm pushing something horrible out of my chest. But if I don't work out... Very bad day.
It was similar for me a year ago. I pushed through and took hour long walks for about a year, and was totally beat after each walk, but I think it helped a lot. I made a point of walking in full sunlight and getting tanned and sweating some. My rationale was, walking trains several systems simultaneously and vitamin D would be necessary - I was already a health nut before covid, so I knew about vit D, but it helped that the whole internet was saying get D. My other symptoms were chest pains, a shooting ice feeling down my left arm, blood pressure up to 170/120 every day all day, veins bulging out and looking gross, and tinnitus so bad it sounds like a jet engine - the tinnitus is still with me, but it's reduced during and after exercise. The first time I got the breath shortness, I panicked and fell and damaged my wall. It was the short breath that got me walking initially because that was the only way to get it under control. Nattokinase helped a lot, but I never trusted it, so I only take half a pill every other day. Doctor didn't help - he told me it was anxiety and sent me home, but he did say the vitamin D was a good idea.
It could be correlated to something very symbolic, but I'm hesitant to just say what it is. When I figured it out, it was an amazing, revelatory moment, and I just wouldn't want to rob anyone of that.
Something fishy going on with Nostr... I have two "accounts" (I know, but what else do you call it?) because I lost the password for my first one, but I can still use it. So I replied to someone on one, and several hours later saw the same post with the other account - only my reply wasn't there. So I go back to the first account to see if my reply is there, and it is.
It wouldn't bother me much if it had been deleted - it wasn't a smart/edgy comment that I proudly expect (nay, demand!) that the world appreciate... But why is it there for the account that said it but not the other one?
Worried about Biden and his goons going to El Salvador. Delegation will be led by the head of the department of Homeland Security. It's obviously intended as a threat.
Looks like a threat, imo. The delegation is being led by the head of the Department of Homeland Security - that doesn't seem necessary for a friendly brunch.
That important function is severely impaired by fiat debasement. When people use stocks to store value, corporations get basically unlimited money because they can use stock sales as a funding mechanism. This means the stocks are making the economy less efficient, as people allocate value to companies that their customers don't value. Prices of goods and services are a voting mechanism for the market to say, "make more of that!" If it sells, you're providing value. If it doesn't sell, the company needs to adapt or disappear so that other ideas can use their assets. Stocks allow corporations to bypass this competitive feedback, and thus inefficiencies build up in the economy. If fiat wasn't debased, it wouldn't be a problem, because value would be stored as money instead of stocks.
Will tomorrow be the day a relative finally starts asking questions about Bitcoin?
Remember - the whole purpose of the ETFs is to get 6102'd and save the government. That's what it's for, and it's better that way. But if you don't teach your peeps how to self custody, you're setting them up to get rugged.
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