It is not about based vs woke.

It is about independent vs subservient.

Think for yourselves. Pursue truth. Build your life as though society and supply chains could be disrupted for several months.

It doesn’t mean being a prepper. It means understanding what your life relies on for a moderate amount of time, and thinking for yourself.

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UI/UX. One relative tried it at my suggestion a few days ago and said a that "it looks and feels like windows 3.11 of a messenger app"

No, signal sucks because its UI/UX sucks and no amount of explanation or persuasion makes normies want to use it instead of TG/WhatsApp/FB etc.

Unpopular opinion: Signal sucks. Normies don't care how good its protocol. You can't make people who keep their nudes in cloud accounts care about encrypted P2P chats.

Wow. It is difficult to comprehend how an educated individual can get such fundamentals so profoundly wrong.

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Да и как в молниеносных платежах можно понять где кастоди а где свое?

I think I already had a rant about it, but I can't stop. I'm continually purplexed by people showing off their HW wallets on bird app and nostr. What do they need 3, 5 or even 10 wallets for? How does buying a new hardware wallet help them stack sats? I'm having trouble understanding how hodler vertues are compatible with buying useless things. Why would a hodler buy one or more wallets every few years if they are only supposed to stack sats and never sell?

A decade ago I was in my car at a stoplight, and there was a bunch of seagulls eating a discarded bag of fast food in the intersection.

When the light turned green, the car in front of me went slowly to give the seagulls a chance to fly away, but they didn't. Instead, the car's tire just slowly ran over a whole pile of seagulls, who just kept going after the fast food as they were run over. I just watched horrified as this played out.

Every once in a while, I just wonder why the seagulls never got out of the way despite how slow the threat was.

Anyway, looking at the bond market reminded me of this again today.

I don't like the term "FUD", meaning "fear uncertainty and doubt".

Or more broadly, I think it's over-used. When people criticize something, a common response is "that's just FUD".

But, you *should* feel fear, uncertainty, and doubt sometimes about any given thing. That's healthy. That's what makes you not in a cult. And addressing that fear, uncertainty, and doubt in an honest way, and constructing a sense of probabilities from that, is what builds conviction to move forward and invest time or money into that thing.