Not to get too dark, but doesn’t the programme seem to be about making Democrat voters productive, docile, genderless, flock-oriented, bug eating, test tube clones?
I’m just saying that vasectomies might not ultimately cut their population down, as they appear to be aiming at propagation through biotechnological means in the future.
My state of mind can switch from "I have all the time I need to complete this" to "holy shit, I need several more life times" so fast it gives me whiplash.
People are impressed by hard work and talent, because it displays the ability to gain advantage against competition.
If a man throws a baseball at 105mph, it becomes legend.
If a man slings a chunk of lead at 2000mph, it’s just another day at the firing range.
The first example shows a rare genetic gift and proof of work, whereas the second feat is available to anyone, thanks to technology.
The same is true with AI.
AI enhances human abilities, but it’s not impressive unless you go well beyond what the average person can achieve with a prompt.
As Bitcoiners, our greatest advantage in the space will be to focus on sovereign applications of the technology.
Our mission is to unlock AI’s potential to make humans more independent as opposed to less, deploying #Bitcoin’s permissionless nature, our adversarial thinking and mixing in other technologies that are just now exiting nascency.
Folks, our edge is to be on the bleeding edge, and every minute we fumble, our competition comes closer to achieving hyperbureaucracy.
This is the precipice of a new era, and in the competition to define it, there is no second best.
Sometimes it feels like we’re all rats in a maze, and my favorite thing about Bitcoiners is when they see one of us rats escape, they cheer and celebrate!
It’s a fundamentally optimistic movement, and it’s the reason I’m inspired to log on so often.
Yeh I’ve noticed the strawmanning increase lately. I’m getting a similar treatment over on X.
It could be laziness associated with the crab market, or exhaustion from the negativity online leading to these people having knee-jerk reactions.
Sucks when it’s a big account though.
As a political movement becomes more authoritarian, it pushes out the creatives who need some measure of freedom to feel alive, hollowing the movement of strategy and vitality.
So I’ve got an idea.
We say #Bitcoin fixes everything, which is an expression of the endless ways our societies would function better if we eliminated the Cantillon Effect.
I think this is reasonably met with incredulity.
A different strategy could be to identify one thing it fixes, that’s relevant to the conversation, and detail how stopping the money printing fixes that.
The idea is to convince people of the benefits, which leads them to the next question:
“Well… how can we stop money printing?”
Good question.
Their plan is to make it expensive, dangerous & a legal minefield to self-custody #Bitcoin.
Meanwhile they have centralized avenues of ownership, creating paper Bitcoin to manipulate the price.
Privacy at the base layer & state resistant scaling is needed imo, ASAP.
Sometimes when I get particularly annoyed at the lack of emotional intelligence in a reply, I slip into absurdist ramblings as a deflection from the creeping nihilistic sense that I am utterly alone in the universe.
I catch myself far quicker these days, reminding myself of the truth- I only wish I was utterly alone. Instead we are very much all here, crammed on to a tiny rock, given precious little information so that we might fight to the death for the dominance of our best guesses.
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