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This is my Bitcoin Nostr account. There are others like it, but this one is mine. LNurl: gracelighthearted322747@getalby.com

Just watched “Under Our Skin” the 2008 documentary that revealed how an epidemic of Lyme Disease was sweeping the planet, then followed it up with the 2015 “Under Our Skin 2” which documented how the centralized medical orgs like the CDC and the Infections Diseases Society of America were so politically corrupted and conflicted that they couldn’t be trusted to operate responsibly in the midst of a global pandemic of any kind…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Sfj8zciJk

Israeli officials arguing that it’s the world’s duty to take these Palestinians off their hands.

“Americans should get ready for plane-loads of Gaza refugees arriving in their cities, funded by the American taxpayers who can now barely afford to keep up with the price of groceries. This will be sold as a "humanitarian" effort, but anyone who sees through the propaganda will see that it's really all a cynical effort to please pro-Israel interest groups and Israeli politicians.”

https://mises.org/wire/youre-paying-israel-war-youll-also-pay-refugees

No one but me is going to care about this but this is my life to live and I will live it fully on Nostr!

Mark Twain had a quote about 2 frogs.

Its widely disputed, misrepresented, ‘uninformationed’ and just plain not quoted correctly…and I’m here to set it straight for the FUCKING record this is how he intended the quote to be and everyone else can gfy because it’s something we should all commit to memory:

‘If you find yourself in the unenviable position of having to eat two frogs, eat the biggest one first and don’t think too much about it.”

Emily’s Lebanese in NE Minneapolis is legendary, literally legendary, and one of the best dishes they made was stuffed cabbage. I left Mpls 16 years ago….

So seeing this literally brought a tear to my eye.

Appreciate you alanajoy! nostr:note1gdawltra5zf62d4wruxzt06u4ndvus33wg5r62hjrjzm5hwcuecq0kfe5a

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

I’ve spent a lot of hours analyzing “crypto” and keeping up with the fads, and to this day I still cannot find a problem that I have, and that it can solve.

Bitcoin solves my hard globally-portable savings problem. I don’t see better money than this. And that’s a big problem to solve.

Stablecoins solve some developing market intermediate-term money problems in very inflationary environments as a bridging tool while Bitcoin is still volatile. Okay. That’s big for now.

Digital collectibles are fine. I mean, I have cardboard Magic the Gathering cards worth thousands of dollars. So you buy an ape NFT and get membership to an exclusive ape club (which is like all dudes, nearly entirely devoid of women) and can show your status by displaying your supposedly elite avatar. I do see how there is a nonzero recurring interest in this sort of digital elitist collectible thing. But it doesn’t solve any of my problems or seem to be relevant on the macro scale. A niche thing that doesn’t appeal to me. Like, Pokémon might make a billion dollars but it won’t make a macro-scale trillion dollars.

DeFi is mainly about trading and leveraging worthless tokens. In a world where there are much more real-world tokens involved (eg tokenized Apple stock or whatever), then maybe there is more of a use for that. But until then it’s mainly a circular Ponzi. And even then, that industry is limited.

So almost 15 years into this industry, there have been a handful of interesting experiments, but barely anything other than bitcoin and stablecoins interests me at scale.

Beyond that, it is just things that they can empower.

Nostr, for example, doesn’t need a blockchain. There is no reason to go to the expense to maintain a global state. It certainly is empowered from the fact that Bitcoin and Lightning exist (new good money allows for new good technologies), so it’s a tangential technology.

The vast majority of “crypto” projects either don’t solve a problem, or just solve a smaller niche interest.

I hear what you’re expressing, and appreciate it.

What I’ve discovered (and you know this already) in coming to understand Bitcoin is that Bitcoin has changed Money for what is arguably the first time in Human history.

Everything human beings have understood as fundamental to their livelihood, everything that has separated Life from Death for human beings for as far back as we can imagine, its all different now. It’s all better now.

Everything that has allowed a handful of Sociopaths, again and again and again throughout recorded history to acquire and attain power and then create war and civil strife, that’s all done.

The recognized 5%ish of Sociopaths/Psychopaths that evolution has allowed for reasons that are reasonably argued, are no longer allowed. They’re done.

They have no incentive for us to allow anymore. We can shed them!

We just need to get Bitcoin through these next 5 years.

Then the Building can begin.

But these next 5 years are going to be hard. And likely very dark. But those who understand Bitcoin now will be able to navigate them.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

I watched a ton of Japanese anime and US animation growing up in the 1990s and 2000s. And I occasionally still watch a modern one like Attack on Titan although I rarely watch any series anymore. It’s just the occasional movie or book now.

But one thing that always provoked me, even as a kid, was when they made the hero in a dark story too kiddie. As a kid, I wanted to see teenagers or adults, not kids. And now as an adult that occasionally watches a show with younger family members, naturally I don’t just want to see kids now either.

I’m happy to rewatch old Disney movies because they don’t suck. People die. Shit gets real, and quickly. And yet these are kids movies.

Like, Kora blows Aang away in terms of realism in terms of how serious the surrounding context was. Aang’s story plot was deep and involved combatting genocide, for example. His entire ethnicity was rendered extinct (“The Last Airbender”) and it was about to happen to others, and there were deep plots on ethics, and yet this is the kid we have to watch for sixty episodes. It was a story about genocide for children, involving children. Couldn’t we have made him a teenager at least, so that when he fights men it is more believable? Meanwhile Kora was far more interesting and realistic, because she had a similarly severe set of surroundings including political intrigue, war, murder, torture, suicide, etc, but she was aged appropriately for that context to not be utterly distracting in terms of (even magical) realism.

I was late to anime, but LOVED “Last Airbender”…and yes, it always bugged me that Aang was a few years young, but as a parent watching this I easily assumed it was a way to weave childhood into teenage-hood. My kids freaking loved this whole first series (we didn’t let them watch the “blood-bender” episode until later), and the whole transition into “teenage-hood” late in the season was handled amazingly well. I appreciate this series soooo much!

Let go, Lyn.

Authenticity is what we’re all desperately craving now.

You sense that, obv.

We’re ALL done with “authority” and “credentials”.

That’s fallen apart. ‘Credentials’ are done.

It’s game on or it’s game over.

It’s every pleb for our children now.

I can promise you, as a no one you know, your strength is that the people who appreciate you, actually NEED you to become the most vulnerably Authentic person you can be. That’s always been your guide-stone, and you know it and feel it. And I see it in everything you write. So I’m some nobody urging you to let the fuck go and let the fuck God. You’re so ready to make a new leap forward, for all of us.

Because I’m so, so worn out of people who are not you.

I’m so tired and worn out with people who aren’t comfortable with vulnerability, sincerity, who communicate like I’m someone they care about instead of someone they feel superior to.

Anyway, my 2 sats, for what they’re worth because you matter and I want to offer something helpful to you. nostr:note183ghmqxmrrly4c6r4mwdfl34y07l9er0k6shqkv4z0w2ltt20xjqzrwadd

I’ve subbed to Agenda Free TV for many years now, before Quarantine times.

Highly recommend it for an immediate source on what real, what signal what you will read about tomorrow after the fact.

https://www.youtube.com/@AgendaFreeTV

Been following lately the coverage of the Gaza extermination - AGAIN it’s “agenda free tv” so only shows what’s happening, no spin, no incentive, no ‘agenda’.

Which has simply convinced me that Gaza is being exterminated. No argument.

And I don’t have a side in this dog-fight.

But when dogs fight, why would you take a side?

They’re both dogs. They could realistically had many other outcomes than fighting.

Started talking for the 5ishth time about Bitcoin to my teenage son, and it’s now connecting, I’m explaining to him that his future is going to be real, beyond the world’s control…

…sovereign.

…and he’s clearly getting now what I’m saying.

That his future isn’t going to be writ in shitcoin like his whole external life has taught him it will be.

He’s got a hall-pass.

If I’m right.

And yes I may fail in this - but if I’m right…

He’ll be part of the Bitcoin Generation - an era led by kids who never believed they were gifted, entitled, never lived in a world apart from “other” kids…until they discovered their parents worked and suffered to make sure they were gifted something they hadn’t counted on.

It feels like how all the children’s books used to describe the important stories...

:insert ‘i don’t know what to do with my hands’ meme: nostr:note1mqqhk49q99a65dxktzsuvxcf9jxqw2rx4cnn8d8sfgnck2j9l29q96ra7j

Years ago I read (in an offered mag while waiting to get some car repair done) an interview with a woman named Stacy Westfall where she described how she completely upended Horsemanship. Basically, and imperfectly remembered, she had a horse she bonded with, then had to let go of, then years later reunited with and the horse clearly remembered her.

After years of doing (whatever “show horsing” is called I can’t be bothered to look it up rn) she turned the whole pageantry on its head by demonstrating that you could master horsemanship without a saddle and without spurs….just by having a a communication with the horse between your thighs, knees, heels and hands.

I’m a jaggoff offering horsemanship lessons on Nostr…but that article has always stuck with me, because if its true it means she was communicating something important in the “domestication” of animals.

This is “if DARPA had a $92 budget” level of mind-blowing. nostr:note1y43fh9xh268qtk69x3ayhksnjwhrjszu3c0t4x5ahqk5ske9q48qajtt2f

Fuckin’ best political comedian today is impersonator Mike Macrae, which if you don’t catch the Jimmy Dore show you’ve missed years of astounding stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN_OJYby9n8

This popular rag article is worth a read, if only to understand how nuclear war is the product. Just as biological war is the product. Just as food scarcity is the product. Just as all our Bitcoin fixation on Fiat collapse is woefully behind the curve of what is coming.

“They” are more than prepared to subdue our little “money” revolution.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/inside-the-1-5-trillion-nuclear-weapons-program-youve-never-heard-of/

“In other news, Bitcoin continues to file an updated and complete audit of accounting roughly every 10 minutes…”

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2023-11-15/pentagon-failed-audit-shutdown-funding-12064619.html

I appreciate your posts here on Nostr!

I’d argue there is no “Global” indicator of liquidity. There are no true ‘macro’ indicators anymore, none that correlate the 140+ money markets with any accuracy, so ‘global’ is not a forward concept, imo, it’s a silly argument, but needs to be made…

I also can’t find any basis for what we’re expected to accept in IMF reports.

That said, it’s obvious Bitcoin is outperforming all assets - not just “fiat/monetary-base” but ALL assets, so there’s that.

Umm…well, just really appreciate your posts, here.

And I appreciate you, Lyn. And that we have you on this platform, it means so much!