Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder = You don't want to sit on your ass for 6 hours in school and then sit on your ass for 4 hours at home writing homework as a 14 year old kid.
How this is not considered normal, but rather is considered a 'disease' or a 'diagnosis' is beyond me.
Guess what, there is a magic pill for everything.
The system wants you to be obedient.
Pay taxes and stfu.
Then, at 65 when you retire, die quick, so we don't have to pay out your pension and stretch our deficits.
Brown sugar has to be the best thing ever.
It's sugar, but brown.
A non-racist sugar.
Be sure your body can tell the difference between brown sugar and white sugar.
Your Government wants you dead at 65 because after that you will be a liability.
This is one of the main reason why Big Pharma is allowed to make people sick and profit off it.
The other one being - sick people are scared and easily controlled, of course.
No doubt a Calabrian peasant might find it ironic that New York socialites and Hollywood movie stars, indeed nearly all the wealthy people on the planet, are now trying to replicate the diet of an impoverished post-war population (low saturated fat, low meat, high carb), desperate to improve it's lot.
- Nina Teicholz
"That Sugar Film" is a very good documentary on what starting to eat a high sugar, low fat diet does to your body.
This is the brilliance of the food pyramid.
Every retard out there can do these blood tests and figure this out.
Yet, this is too difficult for governments, leading to the deaths of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
If you eat poison, then expect to be poisoned.
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3892434/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
This is the most eye-opening video I've ever watched.
Already knew some of this but I've never seen the data presented in such a way.
Dr. Chris Knobbe - 'Are Vegetable Oils the primary driver of Obesity, Diabetes and Chronic Disease?'
https://youtu.be/PvZk-jNqzgE
Listening to women for dating advice is like listening to Wall Street analysts for investment advice or listening to a fat doctor for health advice.
Instead, you should be asking the Wall Street analysts for dating advice, the women for health advice and the fat doctor for investment advice.
Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match.
You may live, but you're still an idiot.
- Joel Greenblatt
According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes.
That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output - which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons.
That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing.
In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.
- Paul Craig Roberts
Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.
- Marc Faber
I'm proud of myself for having gained the ability to learn from and read the works of people I disagree with on one or more topics.
A few disagreements don't automatically invalidate everything a person has to say.
The real things haven't changed.
It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same.
A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table.
The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.
- David Eddings
Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear.
For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis.
The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).
- Susan Jeffers
Five Truths about Fear:
1. The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow.
2. The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out and do it.
3. The only way to feel better about myself is to go out… and do it.
4. Not only am I going to experience fear whenever I’m on unfamiliar territory, but so is everyone else.
5. Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.
- Susan Jeffers
Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense.
Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything.
Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to.
But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.
- Douglas Bader
There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars.
The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.
- Shams Tabrizi
False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
- Joseph de Maistre
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires.
By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life.
By teaching him to trust in God’s help, it took away his trust in his own powers.
By giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life.
Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.
- Ludwig Feuerbach
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.
- George F. Kennan
No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form.
The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
J. P. Morgan
"By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd."
- J. P. Morgan
Watching people blow up their accounts with leverage is so confusing.
Some of these people know that the debasement of the currency is guaranteed too, so you just have to buy spot and wait to win.
Greed is crazy.
"Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master."
- P. T. Barnum
Bitcoin has turned money into a servant for everyone who adopts it.
Sadly, many are still enslaved by fiat fuckery.
If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning.
If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need.
If you're going to question something, question authority.
If you're going to lose something, lose your inhibitions.
If you're going to gain something, gain respect and confidence.
And if you're going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams.
- Daniel Goldston
"Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think."
- James Connolly
What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Bell on Satoshi Nakamoto
"Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. "
"In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event."
- Walter Lippmann
This is why we Nostr.
"The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present."
"He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity."
- Walter Lippmann
"The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want."
- Walter Lippmann
"The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation."
- Walter Lippmann
* This probably applies less to the Nostr reading public.
"We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace."
- Walter Lippmann
"The press may not be successful most of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling them what to think about."
- Robert Cialdini
"Once we realize that obedience to authority is mostly rewarding, it is easy to allow ourselves the convenience of automatic obedience."
- Robert Cialdini
It feels good to be able to write whatever the fuck I want on Nostr.
I got automatically banned on both Twitter and Reddit for non-offensive posts and don't even know what triggered it.
So many people self-censor when they can just come on here and think free.
Imagine being a programmer who implements this bullshit to prevent people from speaking based on your very limited understanding of a broken NLP algorithm.
Not quite the Milgram experiment, but similar. No man is better than his incentives and the broken money has also broken the incentives.
Trying to pick single stocks. Instead, I'm just saving in Bitcoin.
You don't have to turn into a speculator anymore to preserve your purchasing power, however, most people still play this obsolete game.
I am well aware. If you've read the book "The great taking", it dives a bit deeper into the issue.
However, I simply meant that I no longer have to speculate and spend time picking companies (which I'm bad at) to out phase inflation.
I didn't indent to comment on the fuckery in the bowels of the stock market. This is an unrelated issue.
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