Everyone that is dismissive of #Bitcoin, angry about its energy consumption, and unable to comprehend its benefits to the global south, will eventually come around. It just takes some time.

Healthiest I’ve ever been

Apparently not, but we gotta help more folks wake up to this reality. Not everything is pretty behind Elon’s story. In fact very sus.

I have a friend who works at SpaceX as one of the prominent engineers where Starbase is. She comes to me crying one day bc of what she saw and heard…

Basically Mars is the excuse to get funding but the reality is to build and perfect Starlink first. Cover the earth in the ETHERnet. Then apparently he wants to merge himself with AI via Neuralink and upload his consciousness to the mainframe…

I was always SUS about it since I heard it 3-4 years ago, but with everything going on right now…. im glad i took that story with a grain of salt but its crazy how its all playing out…

He did say Twitter will also be one of the biggest financial institutions…

SUS

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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.

⚡TWITTER HAS FALLEN ⚡

⚡ZAPS ARE THE FUTURE ⚡️

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has been fascinating watching Block transform into a bitcoin first company - the largest bitcoin company in the world

in production:

bitcoin buy/sell

custodial bitcoin and lightning wallet

spiral open source initiatives including but not limited to bitcoin dev kit and lightning dev kit

coming soon:

decentralized exchange

lightning service provider

hardware wallets

asics

global self custody wallet

interesting how the transition was handled - most traditional investors/shareholders do not realize this yet

My daughter is 12 years old turning 13 soon.

My wife’s been struggling with letting her walk home from school and go places around the neighborhood with her friends.

So we finally caved on getting her a phone as a trade off to letting her have more independence.

We let her have a cell phone with the following rules:

-it’s our phone not hers

-she has to keep it charged and keep it with her when she’s not home so we can see where she is.

-she has screen time limits of 5:30 daily

-she has to answer when we call

-she acknowledges that we will be monitoring her messages and communications for her safety.

-she can’t use social media apps like tik tok, Snapchat, Instagram, etc.

-wear a whoop so we can encourage each other to be active and not let the phone give us bad physical activity habits.

So far so good, but I’m worried she’s not active enough already before getting her the phone.

Since the pandemic we kept her home from school so she would not have to wear a mask all day.

She developed poor habbits because all of her physical activities (hockey, karate, school) went out the window.

She wanted a dog forever and we finally capitulated because she promised to take care of him.

I thought she would be able to go on lots of walks etc with the dog … but he was a demon for the first year and we still have all the scars to show for it.

She is back in real school this year which has been great for her mentally and physically, but since the pandemic she only seems to be interested in playing games with friends, listening ti music and drawing … she plays hockey once a week still but quit karate.

I bought a meta quest to try to encourage more physical activity in games, but she got tired of that quickly and didn’t really give anything but beat saber a shot.

I don’t want to force her to enroll in physical activities, but I’m looking for tips on how to navigate this over the next couple of years as she becomes a young woman and more independent and opinionated.

She’s a great kid, does well in school independently and doesn’t get into trouble.

Anyone have any good resources for how to be a better parent and how to raise a teenage girl the right way?

#[0] is there a possibility that CashApp becomes available in Canada?

I’ve explained this countless times