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Chris
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Adventurer/Explorer 🏄‍♂️ 🧗‍♂️ 🪂 Born to Fiat Learned POW through Gold Evolving toward Bitcoin 👁️🍊💗🧬🦋
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H. Con Res 14.

Do the Republicans in Congress have any sense of shame at all? The House of Representatives passed a resolution yesterday that guarantees annual deficits of $2 trillion every year between now and 2034 (technically, the House predicts deficits of $1.9 trillion in 2027 and 2029, but all up, that’s $20.2 trillion in NEW deficits, along with increasing the debt ceiling by $4 trillion.)

Without any debt reduction, total US government debt will be over $56 trillion by 2034. Republicans voted for this, even though the text of the CR itself acknowledges that this year’s $1.9 trillion deficit will be 6.2% of GDP and that $952 billion in net interest expense is 3.2$ of GDP. The text also acknowledges that 70% of the budget is made up of ‘mandatory spending’ for Social Security and Medicare and that ‘mandatory spending’ is up 59% since 2019.

It’s possible there are trillions of dollars worth of fraud in Social Security and Medicare that DOGE will uncover (and save). But it’s also possible that the bill for the Welfare/Warfare State is coming due over the next ten years and that there's no way we can pay it. We can’t grow fast enough to increase tax revenues. We can’t (or won’t) cut the programs that most contribute to the deficit (including and especially the firepower industry). And our Congress, even when led by nominal Republicans, kicks the can down the road yet again. As a reminder, you probably don’t own enough Bitcoin, gold or silver.

Source: Dan Denning

2Trn a year is a pipe dream

Will be 2.5 trn this year and 3-4 trn in Fiscal 2026.

After that, it MAY not even be relevant anymore

💵 💴 💶 🔥

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This is the right way to look at it 👁️

GN Nostriches….💜😌

Grateful to have explored Fiordland Nation Park with some close friends today… 🏔️🇳🇿

#photography

#nostr

#NZ

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I have to admit, the market conditions do have me feeling a little bittersweet today. Perfect Daily Dose for nostr:npub16secklpnqey3el04fy2drfftsz5k26zlwdsnz84wtul2luwj8fdsugjdxk all things considered. Fun fact: These guys have an official day in Colorado dedicated to their band and they play Red Rocks amphitheater on that day every year.

https://youtu.be/Wyd9OcI37AY

I saw these guys live in Telluride 2 years ago!!! They sounded just like they did when I saw them in early 1990s! 💓🥰

👁️💓🧬🙏🏻

Context understood. Thank you. You were clearly triggered when writing the post.

I have been observing in myself that when I try and communicate from this triggered state, my message looses any signal and just becomes (largely) noise. Like 99 percent of platformed SM.

That’s what makes Nostr unique and valuable from my perspective. Not how many people are engaging, but how they are engaging. Signal vs Noise.

Psychedelics are not for everyone, IMO. They are NO panacea as often preached by the uninformed. They amplify and loosen stuck energy patterns that are PRE-existing in the individual human consuming them, as well as the human psyche in general (archetypes). That is where the opportunities AND risks are.

All of that being said, when used intentionally and intelligently, I believe they offer humanity an invaluable tool in cleaning and healing the nervous system. Both for the individual and humanity as a whole. I find it no coincidence that they are re-emerging in the public Zeitgeist just as humanity seems to need an accelerated “shift” 🧬

So let’s not “throw the baby out with the bath water” 💦 😉

God Bless You Sister 🙏🏻💓

PS

All serious practitioners and users of these modalities that I have worked with across the globe have said that the work done AFTER ceremony is 80-90 percent of the process.

LIFE is the real medicine 🪬

Are you looking for feedback to this post? I sense not, but I’ll take a stab anyway….

Your statement(s) are stated as facts when they are extremely subjective. Maybe state as such if you want them to resonate with the intended audience. “In my experience….”, “from my lens/perspective…”.

Without this nuance, the vibe from your comments come-off (to me) as intentionally inflammatory. And without a depth of understanding yourself. Anecdotal at best.

Which Psychedelic molecules are you referring to here? DMT, Psilocybin? LSD? Mescaline?

Used in what set and setting? Recreationally? Shamanic-ally? Therapeutically?

I have personally seen (and experienced) life changing results for dozens and dozens of humans with debilitating PTSD and other normally “treatment-resistant” ailments over just the past 4 years during my 20 or so nights participating In indigenous Ayahuasca ceremonies. Results that I would have flat out dismissed as “impossible” with the over-engaged left side of my brain for the first 50yrs of my life prior to these experiences.

That being said, many who recklessly use these substances recreationally and withOUT proper respect, set and setting can often get rekt.

That’s on them. Not the molecule(s). If we truly believe in “self-sovereignty” here, then in my opinion, it must extend beyond just “the tech” (BTC/Nostr)

We must own all of our own actions and behaviours, individually. Whole at the same time educating others who want to benefit from our collective and decentralised body of experience.

Thanks for listening 🙏🏻