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JoeCoffey
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Opt out, do not comply, buy bitcoin and go foiling.

They reckon this is the fastest boat in Bali for the crossing to Lembongan. 38 knots through the messed up swell of the Lombok Strait.

What a ride!

https://i.imgur.com/9JGmIlj.mp4

It's Australian, set around Broome in Western Australia and beautifully shot. Good and gritty - make sure you watch the earlier series 1st because they have now done a prequel, which is also pretty good but you need the context of the original.

Good to know - it's next in line when we're done with Mystery Road.

Also if the stock market tanks btc must be dragged down as punters try to cover etc.

And who knows what new degeneracy will be revealed around the paper bitcoin market. Fun times ahead!

Yes, I know his theory - he's pretty consistent but starting to hedge a bit now - if we stay above $30.5ish then the bottom might be in - so he reckons. Of course bitcoin will do its thing and cause a mix of max pain/ frustration/ regret and peace as it tick tocks through the blocks.

Most of the players are trapped in the system - the big players are part of it, as is the infrastructure - the commentators, the journos, the sponsors - the problem is that it's well packaged, emotive entertainment that creates a common bond among the pleb supporter class. Very hard to break free and not partake.

Just another thing they have taken from us - fuckers.

Fully agree - just yesterday I got self banned from watching any more of the nrl, Australian Rugby League. It's totally rigged and woke. Reminds me of my days living in NY and following the Knicks in the 90s .

I've now got to spend more time reading, talking and doing my own sports.

I kiteboarded a lot but switched back to surfing because of all the gear. For the last 6 months though all I do is foil. For me the most amazing activity - I'm fully hooked like a 10 year old grommet.

Whatever gets you in the water! 👊

I'm just reading Paul to the Romans right now. Always something new is revealed.

Just ordered in hardcover for some bedside to poolside reading. I have not bought an actual book in many years because of the kindle store but I'm thinking that an organic alternative to screen time might be enjoyable.

I'm looking forward to dog earring some real paper pages! Thanks #[0]

Just ordered. Looking forward to it. Congratulations.

I put big chunks of it in my morning double espressos - delicious.

Looking forward to some Notes & Other Stuff. 👊

Replying to Avatar poe😱

Nostr Log Day 16:

A little over two weeks into this experience I've seen many new users join. Lost and alone. Having felt so long ago I was in the same place. I feel obliged to help get them slightly underway. Aware that I am still very new here, and green on most of what is possible.

The weekly zapathons . An informal organized gathering of bitcoiners, jokers, strangers, plebs. To strain the limits of this Wallet of Satoshi. A feat achieved last week for approximately 15 minutes. A moderate success. However the developers seem to have prepared this week.

The addiction to zapping worsens.

My continued stacking. Never satiated. Conviction to save in these satoshis only growing. Will I ever feel I've acquired "enough"?

This greed of mine. Only 21 million #bitcoin . The impossibility of being a whole coiner. Yet the stacking compulsion persists.

Making sure to lose them all whenever on a boat.

I've adopted more plebs, hopefully they will heed the calls of the #plebchain to join these communal #zapathon events and make themselves known. To see what is possible with these tools in value transfer. To participate with others.

The feeling that if your work, pleasantries, thoughts and jokes might have value to someone else. That warranted enough for them to part with their money. In effect seems to make better output from everyone.

It may seem an echo chamber here. But an echo chamber of building solutions to problems we face, rather than shouting, signaling and fighting over ideological inconsistencies. Focusing on at the very least the foundation of the broken money. Creating network effects.

Rather than infighting over issues that cannot be fixed without evaluating the entire underlying system of corrupt coresion.

If we change the communication tools. With the aid of freedom tools and a new language of monetary consensus. We may begin to undermine such coersions.

Understanding how to use these tools before it's forced upon us is of importance.

Trying to a find sense of well being.

It's not greed that drives us to stack - it's hunger; hunger for freedom from the system that seeks to enslave us.

Replying to Avatar ODELL

I've always been suss of Dennis Porter - not sure what this thread is about but instinctively I AGREE!

So bummed about the green candles. I've been hustling a fat check for the last few months but the deal just keeps getting pushed between the lawyers. Meanwhile the value of the check in Bitcoin is being smashed and so are my stack goals.

Lots of talk about a Twitter exodus but the stats on nostr.band aren't showing that those refugees are coming here.

Pretty psyched to start planning for #nostrasia in Tokyo Nov 1-3.

Hopefully Japan will have ditched their vaccine requirement in time for me to book.

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

💯 %agree. Musk is a malevolent, baphomet fantasist and scammer.

Where can I get the motifs?

No light pollution down your way - are you in North Korea?

Chat gpt = preprogrammed propaganda

And the programmers are the eth foundation!