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This is the shortest book I've ever read that changed my life.

It's "The Enchiridion" By Epictetus. Epictetus is one of the most important Stoics in history. He was a philosopher and slave. However, although he was a slave, he was more free than most rulers.

Here is the craziest part. Marcus Aurelius, the guy I cite daily, was emperor of Rome while Epictetus was a slave in Rome.

Both practiced the same philophy and wrote about the same things. Both had the same human challenges. Both knew that power and freedom comes from within and that only things that you can control can be moral or immoral.

A philophy practiced by emperors and slaves alike. Study stoicism.

Gm ☕

Ketchup isn’t available, what are you adding to this?

The Linux greybeards are also getting a well-deserved "I told you so."

Are people still doing 100 pushups? #asknostr

GM

Almost every single time I took at face value and repeated what the corporate media said, I ended up embarrassed how untrue or gaslighting it was with just a cursory examination.

It’s absolutely incredible to me how many people *live* by this and don’t even comprehend that they’ve never verified anything. When you call them out, they literally say “but this person said it! You can’t handle facts.”

Perfect Dunning Kruger, they are too stupid to even know that they are incapable of genuine thought and their entire worldview is an appeal to authority.

What's your favorite non-social-media Nostr usecase?

WTF happened in 1971 and why did America get so fat?