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 "People already pay unrealized gains taxes, it's called a property tax."

Property taxes should b... 
 Every person who pays their own bills and doesn't watch msm hates Democrat policies. This is humanities great battle, all the NPCs on one side vs all the real humanoids on the other side.  
 The primary benefit of working alone is that you can quickly make decisions and take action. With groups of people you end up discussing everything endlessly with questionable effect on the final product.  
 Ever since I started a family, I've tried to maximize opportunities to take solitude. I love being alone with myself, working, playing guitar, whatever, I think it's just great. I am so much more productive and there's zero risk that somebody else messes up what I'm working on or slows me down.  
 The world makes a heck of a lot more sense when you accept these two things:

1) Lots of people are very stupid. 

2) Lots of people are evil. 

Don't deny the existence of these groups of people, they are very consequential.  
 There is something going on with common sicknesses since 2020. Everybody is always sick. I feel like I can't take my kids to play with other kids ever because every single time I do a sick kid is there and we end up with a sick house for 2-4 weeks. I am not exaggerating when I say _every time_. It's not normal or natural. something is wrong.  
 I've been a libertarian since I was 18 and never had much of a problem with the two major parties beyond the normal disagreements. Never before in my life have I seen so many libertarians turn on democrats as enemies, but it makes sense to me. the Democrats treated everybody else like an enemy since their mask slipped and all the Bolsheviks appeared in 2020. The Democrats committed intentional war offensives against us (us being everybody else who they determined was an ideological enemy). Democrats are racist against whites and Asians and I have half white/japanese kids, so the Democrats have to go and I have to be their nemesis.  
 It’s been a difficult few days I’m not going to lie. 

My colleagues want Telegram completely... 
 It is sad to see people being such blatant, distopian despots, especially when they think they are doing evil for a good cause. Evil has such a hold on the minds of people that they think they would be doing good by attacking every human in earth. It is hard to understand because I'm not low intelligence, ignorant of history, and evil.  
 Keep doing what you are doing. You are like Gandalf on the bridge with the balrog, forgive the cheesy analogy. I can't do that. I don't have the ability to see the possibility for growth in people when it's stuff I could understand as a small child. I don't see a way to fix that and it causes me discomfort, so I always choose to avoid people, don't offer my perspective (bc what's the point) much, and work alone. Your path is higher in this way.  
 Saylor is more based than he is allowed to present himself publicly as a public facing exec. He l... 
 Most important book in the world for all white people and Christians to read.  
 Serious question....

How do you feel about a UTXO of 1000 sats

#asknostr #plebchain 
 Makes me feel anxiety.  
 Doing squats before 7:00 AM can really change the trajectory of your day for the better.  
 Narrator: #bitcoin fees are actually $0.30 right now. 

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 Interesting. mempool.space shows no such spikes 
 individual wallets or mempools can have estimation errors sometimes. historically, fees as high as $50 are very rare.  
 Pura Vida Bitcoiners, 564 sat/byte transaction fees again on BTC, such a great form of money, jus... 
 the mempool is at 4 sat/vb right now which is about $0.30, Chuck.  
 Narrator: #bitcoin fees are actually $0.30 right now. 

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 Cactuses seems like a totally fine word.  
 Reply guys say Americans are easy to recognize in Europe bc we are loud but it’s not that. A) e... 
 They have never met a Mexican, I assume.  
 Soul sucking is apt since Marx and Engels were possessed by demons.  
 💯 I disappear in Brazil or Argentina.  
 oh, but I just meant that Mexicans are loud and obnoxious and rude and have even higher rates of obesity and diabetes than Americans.  
 Mexicans in California are assholes.  
 I also like being in Mexico.  
 What #Bitcoin price will we see first - $69K, or $1M? 
 Now that #bitcoin price is sitting pretty at $59,021 I'm hopefully confident that we will NEVER see $58K again.  
 Which will we see first? 
 Why are Brits so good at American accents, but not vice versa?

Benedict Cumberbatch 
Tom Holland... 
 Because those assholes have been faking the accent this whole time. British accents are a psyop.  
 This price from 2019 is already eye-poppingly low, just five years later. I randomly found it in consignment in a small town music store. 

https://m.primal.net/KBlI.jpg
 
 This choppy sideways price action is exhausting ngl 
 I'm so sick of 58.  
 The fact that ya’ll are ok with this and think it’s pretty and get all sentimental about it i... 
 If I'm not mistaken, they use a fuel mixture of liquid oxygen and methane, and when combusted the primary byproducts are carbon dioxide and water, which are non-toxic.  
 Moment of vulnerability here, wondering if anyone has had a similar experience before. 

I comple... 
 the boy and his mom might always think you're an asshole. you'll have to work on forgiving yourself and improving from here. sorry mate, I know how it feels to lose my cool and regret it later, it's not a good feeling.  
 I moved my family into a new house this month. First week in the house a block of lights in the kitchen went out and I couldn't find the breaker or GFI outlet that was tripped to fix the problem. 

I sent a text to a friend across town who didn't even know I had moved, it was a Saturday morning. 

He goes "where are you? I'll be there in 30 minutes."

He had the problem diagnosed in minutes, a fried breaker. We picked up a replacement part better suited to that spot in the panel and had it replaced 20 minutes later. 

Friends gotta look out for each other. 
 
 I know of an OG bitcoiner who is vegan

ignore conformity 
 Was it Dan Darkpill?  
 The crazy thing to me is that bitcoin is literally the only option right now

And I get that peop... 
 I don't understand it either. it must be a mindset thing.  
 Some of the best time of my life have been catalyzed by the influence of alcohol. 

Without a dou... 
 I've had some fun trips with booze, and I've let it get the best of me a handful of times.  Overall I'm not sure how to feel about alcohol.   
 When I dropped acid for the first time at age 27 it made me horrified at the effects of alcohol on my body and I had a difficult time stomaching alcohol for a year after that. My tolerance and enjoyment of alcohol slowly came back but I never fully went back to heavy drinking. I drink sometimes.  
 I don't understand how people drink heavily for so long, especially later in life.  
 Question to myself: Can I trust a trans person? If they are mentally ill, and believe they are th... 
 the trans people I've encountered in real life have been trainwrecks. I knew a male who wanted to be female, he lived in an upstairs loft in an apartment. It looked like a hoarders room up there, no room to walk, empty pizza boxes stacked to the ceiling. I have never seen anything like it. Very obese. I had many normal conversations with this person.  
 Home prices increasing is only good for folks who own multiple properties. Renters and single home owners don't benefit from rising home prices.  
 My dad is one of the best guitarists I've ever known and I'm just starting to play with him after  more than 25 years on the instrument. Wish I would have started earlier.  
 My wife gives me the passwords to her investing accounts. You wouldn't believe what I buy 😂  
 My dad wants me to come over tomorrow and try out Tool riffs on his new Gibson Les Paul with him.  

I have ascended.  
 Nearing the end of my holiday. 

This one has been more nourishing than most. 

Please, if you ha... 
 Oddly difficult to fight that creeping guilt, ain't it?  
 Tradesmen make the human world function. Respect due! 

Trades on #nostr drop a comment or like I... 
 I always admired those particular skills, especially being some of the ones I don't (yet?) have. I used to avoid carpentry because I was obsessed with guitar, didn't want to hurt my hands. Now I slaughter animals and butcher, always near saws and blades and hooks etc. I don't worry about my hands at all any more.  
 Has anyone here done a bunch of research on mattresses?

I am buying a new one and want something... 
 Are you married or single? Male or Female?  
 The most amazing thing about #Bitcoin is, that it trades 24/7. No weekends off. 
 Last night when the markets crashed, I was able to sell all my Bitcoin right away 😎 
 My diary entry from 30 September1993:

"We got two nintendo games at toys R us"

https://m.primal.net/JpTl.jpg
 
 haha 😂 we are indeed.  
 Something great is coming next for all of you. Congrats on everything you achieved with Mutiny.  
 We have done an excellent job of convincing Democrats to not buy Bitcoin.  I mean a damn fine job. I take it seriously and I've spent a good amount of time creating fictitious liberal anti-bitcoin propaganda.  It's surprisingly easy to pretend to be a shrieking liberal saying really stupid stuff about Bitcoin.  
 I'm not even a Republican, I'm just a person who is observing things play out. It has become very clear that disempowering the modern liberals is necessary to make our society once again flourish. It's not complicated, whoever has the Bitcoin will be the capital allocators in the future. If your group finds Bitcoin a decade after another group, you'll never catch up. We are probably already past that point, but we should keep pushing hard.  
 I left my most recent 9-5 job in Summer 2021. I've worked alone ever since and I don't think I could go back to working with a group of people. working alone I can do the things that make most sense, make decisions quickly, and just get work done. And also I get to handle all the money myself and it all goes to me at the end of the day.  
 My $5 smash buy earlier looking pretty good right now 😎 
 me going all in at $62K, 4 years ago looking pretty good rn 😎 
 Thanks Bitcoin 
 Are there actually a significant amount of people who support minimum wage laws? Those people rea... 
 For sure. you have to remember that outside of Bitcoin people, everybody is economically illiterate. The population is intentionally taught lies about economics too, like wimp lo being trained wrong as a joke.  
 I hope so! We are in that fight together with the gold bugs and others  
 When I was backpacking through South America a decade ago it was common knowledge among western male backpackers that feminism had already destroyed the west. this isn't going to end for a long time, Not until all the childless female millennials die off in about 50 years.  
 for sure. even 20 years is all the remainder of my working years. so I guess I'll just keep hiding out from society and working solo on everything I do.  
 feminism turned me into a male chauvinist 😂 
 it's also possible to save a girl. women are desperate for a strong man to come in and sweep them off their feet and take them away from their bullshit lives! when I was still dating my wife I read her the creature from Jekyll island while she bathed at night. I watched the scales fall from her eyes in real time, and then watched her transform over the following years. she tells me I saved her. I just gave her love and truth and patience. 
 💯 That is true.  
 I slaughtered two Duroc pigs for a local farmer this morning. Both kills were clean and the job took me about four hours from arrival on the farm to departure after cleaning the site. 

The first of the two was eager to go and presented me with several good shots before I finally took one. My preferred shot is behind the ear, aiming roughly for the opposite eyeball, but I took the between-the-eyes shot on both pigs today. The farmer helped me move the carcass with a tractor over to his gantry crane set up with a heavy duty wench. I skinned and eviscerated the pig and put her entrails, hide and head in a bin to be disposed of later. 

Repeat the process for the second, only it didn't want me to come near and tried to hide out in the mud, but that's no big deal, I cleaned the hide before I started working. 

For payment, the farmer loaded me up with all kinds of fresh food, mackeral, sardines, tuna, sea bass, octopus, sausage, bacon, lamp chops, chicken, and more.