“We use the word serious very frequently, where we should be using the word sincere. And the lack of proper delineation between these two words causes a great deal of confusion. It’s like the confusion about the word must. You must do this. Whether it’s a commandment, or whether it’s a condition, a state of affairs that simply is so. And so, in the same way, we need a clarification of must, and we need a clarification of serious. And it can be divided down into serious on the one hand, or sincere on the other.”
— Alan Watts, The Joker
*whispers*
The top is never in
*whispers*
The top is never in
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The easiest way to get rekt in Bitcoin is to sell early because you think the “top” is in.
Satoshi is the modern-day Robin Hood.
I agree. The fiat system is not a free market.
If you don’t think we are on the road to hyperinflation, I don’t know what to tell you. This is why we Bitcoin.
That’s still not “printing money”.
Printing money is an increase in the Federal Reserve’s nominal balance sheet size. You are conflating 2 different things.
1. The Fed lowers the target Fed funds rate HOPING to stimulate PRIVATE loan demand.
2. The Fed engages in QE by purchasing assets (usually govt and mtg bonds) with freshly minted (digital) money supply thereby directly injecting it into the economy. (There is a nuance here but it’s not meaningful to this discussion so I won’t go into it)
Also, loan creation has typically DECREASED at the beginning of periods where the Fed lowers rates. Why? Because we tend to be at the beginning of a contraction in the economy and people are scared to take out new loans. At any rate. Initially. Look at 2001 and 2008/9 as great examples of this.
If you don’t believe me, Ask nostr:npub1d3f4m9dgvkdjxn26pqzsxn6lpfn78sxwllxyt8mp76q0a9zyyjlswhr4xv or nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumtpd35kutn0dekqz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9ws56965n
PS
Not trying to be argumentative. Just see lots and lots of Nostriches not versed in the plumbing of finance.
PPS
ACTUAL “money printing” is coming IMO. In 2026/7 as the AI and CRE bubbles pop creating trillions of losses requiring effective subsidisation/sterilisation.
Lowering Fed interest rates is inflationary. Whether you consider that “money printing” or not is more of a semantic debate.
“You were born in the QT summer. You’ve never known anything else. But now the QE printer is coming.”
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There is now an 85% chance of a September rate cut on Polymarket.
Many are underestimating the effect this will have on #Bitcoin and other scarce assets. Stack accordingly.
Two types of people:
Aura farmers and aura pirates
“If you really see into this secret that the world doesn’t contain any serious threats in it because it’s all the basic you running up behind itself and saying boo to see if you can get yourself to jump out of your skin. If you see that, be cool. That’s the whole art of Zen.”
— Alan Watts, Face Your Problems Head-On
Too good to pass up. Bought the dip.
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You can buy an entire magic internet coin for a mere 112k American pesos.
Public school teachers abuse kids at far higher rates than priests, yet you don’t hear about it nearly as much because fiat admins hate Christianity.
Reject snarkiness. Embrace sincerity.
Only justice being served will remedy the situation, likely at Trump’s expense.
Trump’s Epstein problem isn’t going away. The internet doesn’t forget.
Have a blessed Sunday.
Save in Bitcoin. Focus on your craft.
The fiat system is teetering.
Good short term solution. But long term we must take back the crown jewels of America.
There’s something strikingly similar about the sacrifice America’s Founding Fathers made to declare independence and the sacrifice the Apostles made to found the Church.
Bitcoin is both more American than the US dollar and more global than the internet.
Bonds are obsolete now. Bitcoin exists.
Bitcoin is a time machine for value.
The time is right to reunite the Catholic and Orthodox Church. This is how:
The Pope holds Primacy of Honor rather than universal jurisdiction, like King Arthur among the Knights of the Round Table. Orthodox Christians and Catholics both gain more effective collective action for Christendom. Catholics embrace greater autonomy for Eastern Rites, and vice versa.
Both interpretations of the Filioque are affirmed as illuminating the same mystery. In the Buddhist sense, all is divine, so the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. In the Tolkienian sense, all things flow from Ilúvatar’s thought, so the Spirit proceeds from the Father alone. Both are true, depending on whether one emphasizes unity or distinction.
Future ecumenical councils include both Western and Eastern Church leaders, as in the first millennium.
“You can’t know one end of the spectrum without also knowing the other. So if you wanted, say your favourite colour is red, and you wanted only red, and you had to exclude, therefore, blue and purple, without blue and purple you can’t have red. Behind, of course, all the various colours in the spectrum is the white light.”
— Alan Watts, The Middle Way
Me too. That is why I created this nym.
Enter the citadel.
Snowden deserves a pardon.
Exposing crimes is not a crime. It is a heroic service to the American people.
If anything, he should be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 
