Absolutely. You can see it in the way that people will drag others into controversy. If you don't pick a side, you're Hitler.

The most punk thing that you can do right now is be happy.

The mainstream wants you exhausted, unhealthy, doomscrolling, angry and pathetic. It drives more clicks and advertisers. Finding true joy has become edgy.

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An increase of spam sucks, but it also means that we're moving from the underdog state to a more relevant state worthy of time and effort from more people.

“God became man that man might become God.”

— St Athanasius, On the Incarnation

"God became man" in Christian religion, but not in the Word of God.

1 Timothy 6:16 says about God that he "alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see."

If Jesus had been God, no one would have seen him and he would never have died.

The Gospel of God teaches that God sent his Son to the world, not that "God became man" which he never did.

"In this very moment we are looking straight at God, and he is so clear that for us complex human beings he is peculiarly hard to see. To know him we have to simplify ourselves, and the mind is so dominated by the complexity of pride that it will resort to every conceivable subtlety to resist and avoid a truth so wholly simple."

— Alan Watts, Behold the Spirit

A suggestion for the noncoiners in your life.

Stop saying “inflation” in conversation. “Inflation” implies a natural phenomenon that’s outside of human action, which promotes apathy and resignation.

“Debasement” implies a connection to human action, which means it can be corrected.

Exactly! I don’t know how people are so comfortable paying to create their very own 1984 environment.

Picture this:

1. You type on Google "laptop won't turn on"

2. Google now knows you have a broken laptop and can estimate how desperate you are to fix it.

3. Because it knows how desperate you are, it can increase shop prices proportionally.

You are going to pay the maximum they get you to pay.

That's algorithmic pricing.

The more companies know about you, the more they can predict and sell how desperate you are to other stores out there.

An internet-connected car knows much more about you than you realize. A smart TV also knows what you like. Your Alexa knows if there is a problem in the home.

Privacy is much more than just sensitive data.

It's about not giving leverage away.

Because algorithms will use it against you.

Be safe out there.

Having a beer #introductions

Good evening.

In August, the US government took $307 billion in taxes and spent $687 billion, for a deficit of $380 billion. This works out to be an annualized deficit of $4.56 trillion.

Have an awesome weekend.

Most of the spending is related to buying btc right? …

Good evening.

In August, the US government took $307 billion in taxes and spent $687 billion, for a deficit of $380 billion. This works out to be an annualized deficit of $4.56 trillion.

Have an awesome weekend.