Everything I learn about Lahaina teaches me that We Are On Our Own.
Don’t trust. Verify.
I remember the plane going down over the field in Pennsylvania being reported somewhat weird as well. That was the flight where supposedly people on the flight fought back against the attackers who ‘only had utility knives’, and overcame them. And several people on that flight were calling loved ones and getting information about the other flights…
Then, again supposedly, the plane was shot down?
Bitcoin is unequivocally a decentralized currency. I’m not arguing, but there is no doubt about this.
If it wasn’t, virtually every Nation State wouldn’t be creating their own, VERY Centralized currencies to counter it.
If Bitcoin wasn’t decentralized, the SEC wouldn’t be denying it an ETF while Wall Street embraces any number of shit-coins.
If Bitcoin wasn’t decentralized, it wouldn’t be infiltrating and becoming an adopted currency in collapsing nations.
We’ve never had a truly permissionless, in-corruptible money. In Human lifetime. We’re all fuzzy on how this matters and how it will play out.
But it is happening, and it’s incumbent on all of us to spend time to learn about Bitcoin, and how this will play out. We can’t afford to “fuck around and find out”.
RFK has been under fire for running as a Democrat, but to run as an Independent is an insurmountable hurdle to getting footing in the modern, tightly controlled electoral system.
The Green Party, for instance, has spent decades gaining ground, but has found itself compromised and undermined in the process.
In the modern American Electoral system you cannot run as a new Party unless you can integrate and compete for a decade or more…by which time the 2-Party System subjugates your party, mis-representing it, as has happened with Bernie Sanders in past years, and with Cornell West now.
The Political Machine in America is corporate, bureaucratic and fundamentally opposed to any Third Party.
Socialism isn’t on the rise, it is a psy-op, and always has been.
Who in Power has ever cared about poor people?
We need to focus on Corporatism, Corporate Socialism if you will. This is the battle.
Bitcoin doesn’t undermine Socialism, it undermines Corporatism (in this day and age).
“I love the smell of deplatform in the morning.
It smells like…victory.”
I’m a contrarian by nature, so I sincerely, authentically want to refute your over-simplified and naive comment…
…but honestly…I got nothin’.
I hope this comment doesn’t go under-rated.
The True Wish of a Man in this World is:
To discover what He Wants
To pursue his Want to Success
To leverage his Success to Power
To Sow His Seed along the Way
To Recognize His Appreciation for His Loved Ones and Admirers.
After that, He cares nought.
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This is truth.
I leave this here, discuss amongst yourselves.
A great friend of mine’s father passed away just moments ago.
It should be enough to simply express that, but I’d offer that he was an instrumental figure in the black right’s movement in America.
Mr. Calvin Morris, you made history, and made your daughter - my good friend - Dodie.
https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/reverend-dr-calvin-morris
I understand that few may care about this one - seemingly unknown - man’s life and work. And that’s ok.
He didn’t live his life for you. He lived it for all of us.
Zapathon isn’t a thing.
Give it up losers.
You’ll get sats for proving yourself, not for begging.
Focus on irl, not on whatever zapathoning is s’posed to be.
Grow the fuck up.
Same. Been using it for almost a year. Only get irked when there’s an upgrade and I don’t know and it stops transacting and I have to learn that there’s an upgrade and download but then its good again.
I get the idea, but as someone who hates social media and only uses it as a tool, this isn’t my personal gig.
I want high signal from those I follow, and I don’t want to work for someone’s attention online.
What you’re describing sounds (to me) more like those alt-reality engagers who hook you with a few little things then draw you into their creepy / artistic world-view.
And while I’m totally great with that, again…I only want social media to work for me for a few minutes a day ( a few more when I’m drunk ) and don’t want to make it my main-line.
My 2 sats, not worth even that.
About 9/11 I’ll offer that I became aware of it while driving to work, when I got to work everyone watched it on TV for the entire day. This was an affluent bank/investment office in a rich suburb. No one came in to do business, no one bothered to try to get us back to work.
(I called a good buddy of mine, a very perceptive trader, but caught him still sleeping. “So..what can we even make of this?” I said, and he answered “what…what are you talking about?” and I responded, “Oh…you don’t know. Turn on the TV. Any channel.”
When the 1st building came down, it shocked me. I viscerally and un-critically felt that the building couldn’t come straight down the way it did.
When the 2nd tower came straight-down, I swear on my Life I thought, “God is on the side of these terrorists. He’s showing this by these two, perfect collapses.”
I throw that out there, now that we have Nostr and I don’t need to self-censor.
Those were the experiences of one pleb of 29 on the morning of September 11th, 2001.
I’m not smart, but I’ve genuinely been smart enough.
If you’re pursuing the line of reasoning I think you are, I’d maybe point you toward “Simulation Theory” as a recognized, mathematically formulated concept suggesting how we humans are only aspects of “Awareness” operating in a simulated reality. It’s not an internet rabbit-hole, its a genuine opening to a new theory of Being.
A quick aside (and assuming you’re the real Edward Snowden and you are):
I appreciate you, and I want you to know that. And everything you’ve done.
I’m sorry that your life took the turn it did.
But across the cracks and the corners, and over the years, it seems what you did matters more and more. Certainly for people like me, who value freedom. You aren’t forgotten, by far.
Anyway, just a quick post by a guy in America who won’t ever forget what you did as a young person with integrity.
Fiat Maxi Madonna had nailed yet another hit single with “Papa Don’t Preach”, about teenage pregnancy.
Uber chad actor Danny Aiello - having no skin in the game - spent his own several handfuls of satoshis to offer a Father’s response to Madonna’s outlook:
FWIW I feel like this should not be lost to history:
Until Nostr launches videos that I can watch Subscription across Subscription across Subscription like Youtube, I will continue to watch Youtube TV like a proletariate.
You mean not “supplemented” or “augmented”, which I don’t even know what that is but…
Yes.
So many people I know are in “good shape” but nothing like “hyper-shape”.
Hyper-shape people are unnatural. And we sense it.
Be You, Be good You.