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Miyamoto Musashi
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Life’s good

Have to sit with your feelings and talk to someone you trust about how you’re feeling (family, friends, therapist). If you never process your feelings and sit with them you never truly get over it. Doesn’t mean it won’t hurt but will pay off in the long term. Hope you’re okay and have someone to talk to :)

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

Elon is trying to kick the ladder out so others can’t reach the same heights as him. Lyn is the Queen of the People 👑

Everyone has been conditioned to expect cash flows or interest on deposits. But they don’t realise the cash flows are to compensate for the debasement of your savings being lent to others. They still believe it’s a return on investment

Going to Japan in May to visit a mate in Tokyo. Make sure to bring cash to Japan as a lot of places don’t take credit cards or electronic payment

Is Nostr a bigger game changer in the developing world, where authoritarian regimes censor social media ruthless (re: Turkey and Twitter with Erdogan). Love your engagement with the community Jack and love the Cash Apple. Grateful for what you’ve helped build :)