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 Warm bread with salted butter is an aphrodisiac. 

I said what I said. 
 TIL 🤷‍♂️👍 
 Looks like @HODL is about to open that bottle 🍾 
 A lot of people telling us we got lucky right now. 

I just hit them with “you’re right. Pure... 
 Marketing wise, “bits” is way better than “sats”. nostr:note1rar6tke9vsqx7v9weykgn0sz6ysf5ht3lgj0e0um7qd5jwmy3sxs0rdzm0 
 From a tech perspective I agree. 

But the whole ‘can I just buy a bit of bitcoin?’ question seems essential for mainstream adoption.

So ‘bits’ can intuitively be understood as a bit of bitcoin. Whereas ‘sats’ need explanation.

Don’t get me wrong, I love sats. It’s our culture. But purely judging from a marketing perspective, bits makes more sense imo. 
 It will be crucial for the European leaders to vilify the #Trump administration. 

This will allo... 
 So, no different from the last eight years then 😂 
 What? I don’t understand you. I’m pretty high 
 Oh yeah, I see 👍

What I meant was they’ve been vilifying Trump non-stop for the past eight years. Surely they’ll continue. 

The question is how effective it will be. There is a similar political shift happening across Europe. 
 Let’s see man, I like to stay hopeful 👊 
 5 years ago I found bitcoin, I was in the military feeling stuck, depressed and hopeless. 

I sta... 
 Legen…

What for it.

…Dary.

👏 
 Why is there inflation? I never asked this question to myself ever, just thought it was “just t... 
 That is weird right, that you never wondered why money loses value 🤷‍♂️ 
 gm

In fiction, the point of view from how we see the story can often color how we perceive the e... 
 Well put as always.

Makes me think of The Sopranos.

They did a great job of getting you emotionally invested in this fun group of mob friends, only to slowly reveal through the seasons how awful and rotten they actually were. Leaving you to realise: what were you thinking, they’re friggin’ mobsters. 
 Why everything has to be a conspiracy? The food industry is so evil that the CEOs sat down and ha... 
 This is the most plausible explanation for sure. But that doesn’t mean that there are no conspiracies. Incentives to conspire also occur by emergent behaviour. 

So does the recently new field of behavioural science, that studies how big groups of people behave to different stimuli. 

Then there’s the iron law of institutions and the fact that all these powerful people do actually meet up frequently, are obsessed with influencing behaviour and all seem to have aligned incentives to increase the power they already enjoy.

So yes, let’s not get fooled by randomness. But let’s not dismiss the fact that conspiracies are also a natural part of 
 … a natural part of life. Posted too soon 😂 
 💯 
 In America you can grow up the child of a drug addict engulfed in trauma and rise through your ow... 
 As an 80’s Euro kid, the American Dream felt so alive. 

Until it didn’t.  

Judging from afar the dream seemed to have woken up to some awfully orchestrated reality that was totally rigged. 

Until now.

From Trump getting up and yelling FIGHT to this historic comeback victory it is very clear.

The American Dream is still alive 👏👏👏 
 Any chance you can give an ELI5 explanation of those numbers? 
 Thanks bro 👍 
 Good thing there’s an adult in the room 👍😂 
 Bro, I was kidding. You don’t sound like a stable adult at all. Take a break from the news. It’s bad for you. 
 Bro, is that thing real? What the fuck kinda Dognosaur is this?! 
 Dude, The Penguin is dark bro 
 Yes. It is all that. And ‘there’s so much bad out there that people want it to be good’ is probably the reason why I love re-watching old stuff so much

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 Damn that’s right bro! 🙏

Cool, gonna check out Silo then at some point 👍 
 Honestly Sats, you don’t seem like an easy guy to please. So I take a Sats recommendation seriously 👊 
 This guy suddenly showed up in my yt algo a while back. Don’t know if he’s a plant but he sure seems like a twat. 
 The yt algo is a mystery to me. I mostly watch comedy and fitness content but somehow this dude showed up. Haven’t seen him for a while though. 
 Did you just assume my gender, Sats? 
 My adhd is so bad lol I will often end up in a room and be like why the fuck am I in this room? L... 
 Lol same.

My adhd is so bad that I got stuck on the adhd test my psychiatrist gave me and then forgot to finish it 😂 
 Re-reading great books is one of the most underrated habits. 
 💯Re-reading, re-watching and re-listening are my favourite past times. 
 There’s a word for people like us. I like to call us rich. 
 This is the energy I’m here for 😂 
 A party in The Netherlands just proposed a law that would force anyone leaving to pay taxes for five more years. 
 Sick! Wish I could have been there, big fan! 
 TMF! That brings back memories. It was the first Dutch music channel and if you were a teen in the 90’s, this  was what you watched. 🤘 
 homemade flour tortilla
ground beef
avocado 
cheese
sour cream
lime
hot sauce
cilantro 
salt
 
 Thinly sliced red onion 👌 
 #bitcoin wants to 69 so bad 
 IT IS A BEAUTIFUL MORNING.

GRATEFUL FOR OUR TRIBE. 

ONWARD. 🫡 
 The best 🫶 
 Word. Someone once told me:

When you’re young, your body takes care of you.

When you get older, you need to take care of your body. 
 Well. I have a new phone. And it’s basically the same as the old one. 🤷‍♂️ 
 I’ve done this too! 
 fitness content here fell off a bit.

what you doing for exercise? 
 Damn that is heavy 👀

I’ve been doing kettlebell swings for a while now and that fixed any back issues I had. Maybe it works for you too. 
 Shit that sucks dude. 
 Good. Should add those to my routine. Heading to the gym now actually 👊 
 Agenda setting

A term I learned from  nostr:npub1rd0wwn037yltsh256d4urxjpsr6ye6dva6azaggsl848nwc... 
 This is actually Framing.

Agenda Setting = what gets talked about (the topics)

Framing = how it gets talked about (the language)

(Don’t mean to be the wEll AcTuAllY guy but couldn’t help it :)) 
 Still need to try this 👀 nostr:note1qxllnf80ysv9tcmm7acmvurs2yr8e0r3qnupns0dlp22kdtlpfdsuy3ceh 
 +1 👌 
 How many people do you think are curious about the world around them? 

What percentage? 

I feel... 
 Not a lot, that’s for sure. Most people seem to enjoy small talk. https://image.nostr.build/7d3ffd90c9a94658c0af2e67b2cb66d8abb3ee76196e32abcb702c2d4d924ff3.jpg