Yesterday I was at a jewelry store buying my sister a graduation present. The store owner only wanted to accept cash, no Venmo or Zelle. I didn't have enough cash on me at the time, so I offered to pay him in Bitcoin.

His response was all too familiar, a little chuckle and then an explanation that he doesn't want any Bitcoin because he can't hold it in his hands.

Is there any way to get the concept of digital money through to boomers or is it not worth the effort?

My missus has been branching out finding new friends but spent the afternoon with 3 of her old friend group.

Two 7s and an 8 - all very eligible girls.

All 3 of them single.

One of the 7s recently so - she’d been dating a fella for 2-3 months and he found out she was still on Tinder so he split. Her excuse was that they weren’t committed/engaged so he shouldn’t have had a problem - the other 2 girls agreed.

All 3 of them have ridiculously high expectations of what they want in a man. Basically nothing less than a multimillionaire rich guy with a sweet car and a six pack who will take her on regular holidays on a yacht.

These girls are broken. There are 9s and 10s coming up behind them who might actually snag this level of man, the handful of them that exist; these 7s and 8s who aren’t spring chickens any more are simply living a fantasy.

They only talk about what they want and have very little concept of what they can offer in a relationship.

I know there are plenty of broken fellas, expecting girls to behave like pornstars and put up with their adolescent behaviour - this is not some one-sided problem.

But this problem is unhealthy for all of us. Society’s stability is based on people pairing up, having children, and trying to produce value so they can create a better world for their offspring.

The whole thing breaks down when the pairing stops. I think a lot of the social issues we see around us are downstream of this point. It explains why statism is at all time highs. Why people buy in to existential crises like climate cultism or Covid. And why populism has returned.

The older I get the better I understand why religion has been so important to humanity; that institution is what anchored this part of the social order in every society for centuries and it’s absence is now acutely felt.

I hope those girls find a man, a suitable partner, and that we all benefit from them contributing to the extended order but man I really think this generation is going to have a big miss.

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Normies and shitcoiners keep telling me bitcoin is dead and/or broken, and I'm just over here still living on it after 4 years like a psychopath.

Discuss.

Logged into Facebook today...

Me: [goes to Facebook]

Me: [enters email & password]

Facebook: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies stoplights]

Facebook: "We sent a code to your gmail account"

Me: [goes to gmail]

Me: [enters email & password]

Gmail: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies bridges]

Gmail: "We sent a code to your recovery email"

Me: [opens new gmail tab]

Me: [enters recovery email and password]

Gmail: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies more stoplights]

Gmail: "Would you like to setup a recovery email?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Can we put cookies that track your entire web experience in your browser for your 'security' and 'convenience'?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Welcome to your email!"

Me: [finds security code for other gmail]

Me: [enters security code for other email login]

Gmail: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Can we put cookies that track your entire web experience in your browser for your 'security' and 'convenience'?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Welcome to your email!"

Me: [finds security code for facebook]

Me: [enters security code for facebook]

Facebook: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Facebook: "If you let us install this thing you'll conveniently be logged in every time you return to our website!"

Me: "No"

Facebook: "Welcome to Facebook! Also there's a much better experience if you let us install this thing and you'll conveniently be logged in every time you return to our website! Have you changed your mind from 6 seconds ago?"

Me: "No."

...

This is not an exaggeration. The internet is broken.

im like extremely depressed this week. I still miss my ex :( its been over a year and i want her back so badly but she wont even respond to me 😔😢😞. It sucks so fucking much. I fucked up and lost the love of my life and now i am struggling so bad mentally. I need some advice 😞😫😫

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been one month since i’ve had alcohol or caffeine

This time last year I fasted for 40 days just on water, it’s probably not ideal for your needs but it was amazing the changes in my health afterwards.

If you could get 5 years fully paid to build anything you want, what would you build?

Unfathomable…. The CEO promised not a single account would move out because of Bitcoin 😂

Exactly how shitty is gold as an investment for ROI compared to bitcoin?

Well you could not even own gold in America until 1975. So I went as far back as possible and said if you put $1,000 in gold in Jan. 1975 vs. putting $1,000 Bitcoin at 1 dollar a coin in April of 2011 what would you have with each.?

So we are looking at 48 years invested in Gold vs. 13 years in Bitcoin.

Your gold would be worth right at $15,000

Your bitcoin holdings would be worth $61,760,000

FWIW if you put 1,000 in Bitcoin 10 years ago to this day, BTC was under 550 a coin, so you'd have two Bitcoin (be a 2X whole Coiner).

That investment holding bitcoin for only 10 years would be worth $123,520 vs. holding $1,000 in gold for 48 years to have $15,000 in gold today.

There is no way any comparison between gold and bitcoin over any number of years beyond one is cherry picking. There is no way that gold wins this in any serious assessment, it would be the gold bug that needs to cherry pick, not the HODLr.

Gold is what it is and I don't hate it, but comparing it to Bitcoin and calling it superior as a store of wealth, is only done by the stupid.

Sorry, not sorry.

Not to spike the ball but in that 49 years gold also lost about HALF of its profit to inflation. The 49 year ROI is 1370% vs. the compounded inflation for the same period of 660%.

If we do the comparison at 5, 10 and 15 years for each asset with each at equal terms, it is a total fuckin joke. Gold would not even show on a comparison graph as more than a flat line on the bottom.

The time to listen to boomers about money has past, the world has changed. They have tremendous wisdom to share, but when it comes to the monetary system they are more out of date than a hard copy of an encyclopedia from 1970.

It's been 4 years since remote work surged in popularity and yet a bunch of you are still showing your bed or kitchen in the background of video calls

Have some self respect and invest $100 in a green screen FFS!