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I know a lot of y’all love your coffee - but seeing this is just so alarming! https://web.archive.org/web/20210327150247/https://arachnidlady.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/nasa-tech-brief.pdf

(There are other studies done with spiders and drugs with the same outcomes). 😱

No! Wondering if this is a new style or if it has been around in Europe and this is the first I’m seeing it 😂

My big takeaway and question from the Olympics - when did everyone decide to start wearing lanyards/credentials cross-body? Is that a European thing?

Great day on the Cahaba ☀️

Michael Jordan, no question - he was in Space Jam! + Air Jordan’s + he played baseball!

(I feel confident in this answer as a millennial, other generations might be wrong).

The Dyson ball (or spheres) vacuums do need a lot of attention, so glad you are going to be focusing on this 🙏🏻. Their lifespan is too short and the battery life is not great.

This is where my mind went 😅

Some ideas to get your creativity rolling - start planning/making what I’m sure will be a killer Halloween costume for your fam - grab a canvas and paints (or paper and crayons) and go where it takes you - think of a cool theme for baby’s 1st bday - basically force yourself into doing something that takes creativity and build off of that! Usually once the creativity is flowing, it is hard to stop! 💜💜💜

If you are attending #Nostriga - please take less than a minute to check your Nostr DM’s and redeem your ticket! (If you haven’t already done so). 💜💜💜🤙 nostr:note1fc6m59gx54auqtw092e4uwy4n49ypcwlhdgr6ef82n089zcnukcqhrgcsf

“Thanks for picking that up for me! I will Venmo you the money.”

“Oh I don’t have Venmo but I can do bitcoin, CashApp, or PayPal”

*radio silence*

Even if bitcoin has world-class UX, I’m not sure if we’ll ever see widespread adoption until we can figure out how to release the absolute chokehold Venmo has on people, especially millennials.

CashApp may not be self custody but at least I can live my bitcoin life if someone uses it to send me money. Venmo has normalized digital payments so much that it’s changed how people behave and has become a verb. Nobody bothers to split bills anymore and they have stopped carrying cash. Why? Because they “can just Venmo you”.

I can see stack overflow error happening in real time when I tell my friends I don’t have Venmo because I don’t believe they created the social feature in good conscience and think it’s an awful thing for Venmo to try and normalize the destruction of financial privacy. Yes, you can now make transactions private, even if it’s not the default. No, I don’t care. I’m dying in this hill. I don’t want to link my fiat ass bank account to ANOTHER system when PayPal, which owns Venmo does the exact same thing. And you know what? People have been using PayPal since the dawn of the Internet 2.0. You already have it! And if I’m going to use a newer, mobile, digital payment solution, it’s going to be CashApp because at least I can turn that money you owe me into bitcoin, which is what I actually prefer you pay me back in. To add to that, Block and Jack Dorsey have done so much for the Bitcoin ecosystem. Of course I want to support CashApp!

In my experience the hierarchy is:

1. Venmo

2. Zelle

3. Cash (middle ground for “you don’t want to set up CashApp? Weird because I don’t want to set up Venmo!”)

4. “I’ll get your lunch next time”

5. MAYBE PayPal or CashApp

6. Not getting your money back

7. bitcoin

So what do I want? Obviously the Bitcoin Standard, but if I can’t have that I want to make cash great again and more people using bitcoin compatible payment solutions.

I encourage everyone to join me in a crusade of maximum pain for anyone trying to use something that is not this. We all deserve better! A win-win would be if Venmo integrated bitcoin so then all my Venmo using friends could transact with whoever they wish, using a free and open monetary protocol.

For starters it would probably help if I was more often in the scenario of needing to pay people back instead of the other way around…

When I am on the paying side - I typically say I can pay you back in bitcoin, and if you don’t want to set up a wallet/learn, at least get CashApp! It’s not the final place to get people to, but if they want to get paid by me, I usually get them to accept Bitcoin and it’s usually via CashApp. It’s interesting b/c I don’t even try to tech or explain Bitcoin much anymore (terrible at orange pilling), but once they get some, they tend to hold it for fun (or b/c they don’t know how to do anything but leave it there 😂), and often start asking questions not long after!