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I am 5 weeks alcohol free today. A choice I made for longevity and brain-health reasons.

My mind has never felt so clear. And I'm not even on any supplements at the moment because my ruck-sack is jammed to the hilt.

But when I get home the game is going to be ON

Peak fiat shit right here... but eventually it will smash headfirst into its endgame and won't know what's hit it.

I'm def going GrapheneOS when I get back to the homeland - been stalling for waaaay too long. Embarrassing tbqh

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Those memes aren't just for gingers. they are also for your non-ginger frens and secret gingas ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ˜‚

Check out this analysis tool of your Nostr profile https://v0-mynosprofile.vercel.app/

Love it!

This is what it said about mine:

Thanks to nostr:nprofile1qqs2ms205wk4jzzkmk9cpq2axelhc8n8xkksplvc4pksqta7n76ntcgpr9mhxue69uhk2umsv4kxsmewva5hy6twduhx7un89uq36amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvfjhgcfwvehkwarewpjjucm0d5hsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshsje3mhv for bringing this to my attention.

Not it didn't. I forgot to turn off my blue light filter, everything looks orange on my screen ๐Ÿคฃ

Unsure about this. Perhaps there were no secrets in foraging bands. If you told one person something, probably everyone else would know by the end of the day

But your own privacy: in what part of the woods you went for a walk by yourself, how much grain you had tucked away in the corner of your one-room shack behind the firewood, how many coins you might have earned by selling hemp knapsacks to passers-by - noone would know that stuff. And that is the sort of privacy that is being taken away from us.

They know where we are, they know how much money we have, and now they want to digitise our money I to programmable tokens so they can control where we spend it.

We have decreasing levels of bog-standard privacy

'Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well and times shall be good. Such as we are, such are the times'

Merry Christmas Nostriches!

There are so many different beasts. It's like playing whack-a-mole

There is waaaay too much hero-worship in bitcoin

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We need to stop using X (or use it more intelligently), and we need to stop feeding their LLMs - they are using both to build our future social credit scores

They used to care about controlling their money. Now they want to control our behaviour with their money.

Opt out, buy bitcoin

Absolutely super to be part of this first edition! Thanks nostr:nprofile1qqs9pr0aczqwy2tx97z6atu5h4x234wpcukecpax9enaxvvtsnung5qpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsm7qm6n it was great to speak to you!

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I CBA correcting people. It's a weird announcement to have to make: "actually, good sir, I have lady parts, and they are real ones not surgically manufactured ones!" ๐Ÿ˜‚

My dad has a bonsai that is 50 years old. He has so many we were able to use the bigger ones as table decorations at our folks' 50th anniversary celebration ๐ŸŽŠ

Who wants to be a flake or fence-sitter? Yuk

Great post again from nostr:nprofile1qqs2ms205wk4jzzkmk9cpq2axelhc8n8xkksplvc4pksqta7n76ntcgpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33x43nswrwvvuxgdp5vaehqdpkx5uxgmnxw56kvctgwdmh57n48pnkz7rdx4kxkathdf6kgvpk8pehwer3veehq7rnwdm8s0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2qg5waehxw309aex2mrp09skymr99ehhyee0qyfhwumn8ghj7mmxve3ksctfdch8qatz9u4fgmxk

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Excellent read on how Nostr developers are bringing us back to an age of mastery and pride in our work after decades of a short-termist and disposable mindset.

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Thanks for sharing this Dusty. Really enjoyed the read nostr:nprofile1qqs2ms205wk4jzzkmk9cpq2axelhc8n8xkksplvc4pksqta7n76ntcgpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c33x43nswrwvvuxgdp5vaehqdpkx5uxgmnxw56kvctgwdmh57n48pnkz7rdx4kxkathdf6kgvpk8pehwer3veehq7rnwdm8s0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2qg5waehxw309aex2mrp09skymr99ehhyee0qyfhwumn8ghj7mmxve3ksctfdch8qatz9u4fgmxk. I will quote parts of this at my next talk later this month

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When Bitcoin arrives, it does something unprecedented. It confronts you with reality that exists independent of opinion. A fixed supply of 21 million, written into its foundation. Mathematics that canโ€™t be manipulated by consensus. Encryption that makes counterfeiting impossible. No authorities, no boardrooms, no appeals to trust.

It simply is. Unchanging. Real whether anyone accepts it or not.

And suddenly the implications become unavoidable. Hold on, if this exists as objective reality, what else does? If monetary truth can be anchored in something absolute, what other aspects of existence operate this way? What has been obscured by decades of relativism and monetary manipulation?

The inquiry cascades. Cynics revisit philosophical texts they abandoned after university. Materialists who dismissed religious thought as mythology begin examining Scripture, not seeking solace initially, but searching for answers. Theyโ€™re hunting for other pillars of objective truth, other foundations that donโ€™t shift.

Then they encounter John 14:6: โ€œI am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.โ€

Christ. Thereโ€™s your foundation. He is absolute reality personified. Itโ€™s been Christ from the beginning. Always.

Liberty isnโ€™t lawlessness or โ€œdo whatever feels right.โ€ Liberty emerges from alignment with what actually exists, with the One who established existence itself. You cannot experience genuine freedom while operating against the design of your Creator.

Bitcoin is introductory material. A pale reflection of ultimate reality. It trains our eyes to recognize order and objective truth. But itโ€™s merely an echo. The same way creation itself, forests and oceans and stars, points beyond itself to the source.

Every truth originates from God.

Christ is truth incarnate. And truth liberates you.

I started slowly slowly exploring this over the last few months. I've barely told anyone. I was brought up in a different religion, but it's rarely been a source of comfort (which makes me sad tbh)