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figuring it all out I appreciate your humor, insight, and your post whether or not I agree

Maybe it throws off people. The reality is they are only buying Bitcoin and selling crypto, but let everyone think "& crypto".

Wonder if there's a way to request an audit and hold them accountable if they say "we are buying crypto" when they are net selling it.

Hope you put those watts in the Ocean pool

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Honest question indeed. Here are my 2 sats about it.

Alcohol in moderation is a great benefit for the body and spirit.

First and foremost, we have to distinguish between the good stuff and the mass produced garbage. I say stay away from the garbage fo obvious reasons. The good stuff is either expensive or produced in smaller quantities and usually kind of remote.

Let's take two examples. Hard alcohol (whisky) and wine (red). Whisky or similar is a good choice for treating the cold. Where I come from is also a good truth serum. A manner is discussed both sober and a bit drunk. If it makes sense both times then it is so. Culinary speaking, it's a good choice before certain meals and it's also a way to compensate low blood pressure. It goes well with certain cigars (another taboo btw). I do not recommend the daily use or the abuse in any way. Drink responsibly, it goes without saying. There is a very good reason why 21y was chosen as a limit in the US.

Red wine has a very long history. I think it was first produced in Armenia after the great flood. Now it is widely distributed. It was used in religious ceremonies for reasons that I won't get into here and now. It was used in the Ancient Greek Mysteries, again I won't expand on why or how it was spiked. The fermented grapes have certain qualities that go along very well with the human body. Again, it's good for lower blood pressure, to say the least.

As a general rule, it is wise to consume stuff that grows locally or from the region you were born. There are races not accustomed with alcohol. They should not drink imo or be very careful with it.

As for the reasons it's prohibited or chastised more and more lately, I think there are many reasons. Chemical, pharmaceutical and synthetic drugs will take its place moving forward because there is not a foundation of knowledge of what are the benefits of consuming alcohol in certain moments. It goes much deeper with the planting and harvesting of the ingredients depending on the Moon phases, but that's a subject for a book and for not a single note here on nostr.

Hope it helps and definitely do your own research. Mind has to be tuned in a certain way and alcohol must be respected, otherwise it's a recipe for disaster. Cheers!

Amazing, thank you.

Could you expand on the benefits and why is there a psyop against it. This is an honest question. I have broken my January dry with 1 drink in social settings in the past days and I don't know why I feel so guilty. I never drink more than 1 drink. Just when I'm contemplating becoming a teetotaler, an actual drunk stumbles up to me on the sidewalk, wine bottle tucked into his belt and offers me a swig. I can't tell if it's a sign or just random.

People keep comparing El Salvador to Singapore. According to one, Singapore was a literal hotbed of crime until one PM united the disparate ethnic/religious groups on the platform of crime reduction, English, and air conditioning.

Apparently the air conditioning was key to being able to work during the day in offices.

My question is, what would be analogous to the shipping port in El Salvador.

The "Facebook own your own content" pitch gives me some worries because a Facebook replacement site "Voice" was being used to promote a shipcoin back in the day

I just heard of "Zion" yesterday, a Bitcoin powered Facebook. It sounds like Nostr may have taken the use case away

https://docs.zion.fyi/

It sounds like you're talking about someone in particular.

I read this as "we are talking about things that are unrelated to the thing we really need to talk about because that's too painful."

I'm prob projecting some recent experience with a loved one where we just don't seem to be in the same page anymore. It's almost like we talk about lawsuits because it's less painful to think about a lawsuit than it is to think about losing someone you love. The brains a tricky thing.

I imagine some people might do this with someone's religion. Talk about your religion instead of the fact that they have some expectation from you, and can't take the pain of rejection, so direct it into criticizing random stuff like religion.

I should know this since i work on databases, but I assume for mom and pop stores a Nostr database would be efficient enough.

However for people without a Nostr client on their phone, it would be hard to pay. Tho most people paying in Bitcoin also probably have a Nostr client.

Actually, rewards programs like Starbucks kinda seems like a specialized Nostr client.

This all just sounds like yet another way to pay.

I'm trying to gamify getting workers incentivized to have wallets on the phones and accept Bitcoin payments. And gamify stores being happy to have a cheap easy POS. And gamify customers installing this ecosystem.

I'm tired of people not having change for $10s and 20s and what the hell, El Salvador is on the bleeding edge of dedollarizing.

Every 3 pack of pupusas sold for 1 dollar instead of Bitcoin is going to be worth 33 cents in Bitcoin terms in just a few months.

People worry about the price of Bitcoin, but we should worry about the price of the dollar. people are selling things for 1 dollar like it was decreed by God.