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Gavin Green
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Remember when rewards programs were exciting? That was probably years ago, maybe when you got your very first rewards program. Nowadays they feel like Monopoly money - pretty useless in the real world. It doesn't have to be this way. Kudos to companies that are leading the new revolution with bitcoin rewards. Fold, Satsback.com ⚡️, The Bitcoin Company, Bitrefill, Breez

https://bitcoinforbusiness.io/loyalty-reward-programs-how-bitcoin-fixes-this/

Russia, India and China quite possibly. Brazil maybe? South Africa - absolutely no way on their own but they may be forced into it by their partners. I suppose how you get there is not as important as that you get there.

Replying to Avatar PDJ

Simple, and powerful. Easy to understand and know where to focus.

Good thing they told me not to do things I see in the movies

Agreed. Financial services design complicated products and use complicated language to keep people afraid of asking questions. The ‘experts’ promote this esoteric aura around themselves.

Does interest create money out of thin air? How do exchanges work and who manages the funds? These are some good questions with deceptively simple answers.

https://bitcoinforbusiness.io/the-paradox-of-money/

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

As both a tahini lover and seed oil disrespectooor, this is a question I've thought about more than I care to admit.

imo, the tentative answer is somewhere in the middle. With the caveat that I'm not a molecular biologist and I could change my view.

Some of the worst aspects of seed oils in modern processed foods are that they are produced with extremely high heat in an industrial process that damages them, they literally turn rancid, and then various de-odorizing chemicals are used to mask that. There's a million red flags there. And they're in everything. I went down this research rabbit hole like 15 years ago, and then tested various diets on my own body with blood results and such.

Tahini is a more traditional food, able to be made with low-tech and lower-heat methods. Blended up sesame seeds is likely not the worst thing to eat on occasion.

It's kind of like how when people who are too sensitive to eat American bread go to Europe and can eat their bread without obvious consequences. Their breads are lot less acutely bad. They're probably nowhere near an "optimal performance" diet, but there's some damage control there. Same thing for like "Einkorn wheat" and stuff.

I went through a big ketogenic phase, and then seasonal ketogenic, etc. That's kind of where I'm at now: seasonal. I eat tahini only when in Egypt. It's so good, including with Egyptian bread which I otherwise try to minimize, and rather than having all our family meals have to revolve around me, I just adapt to the local diet, eat the parts I love, and then when I want to be more strict, I do it on my own time.

My rule for diets is to optimize them up until they cause stress. Once they cause stress, they start offsetting the good aspects.

And for me, dipping some Egyptian bread into some Egyptian tahini, is worth it on occasion.

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My grandmother used to say, ‘everything, in moderation’. My mom said it too. She added ‘ everything God made, eat. Everything man made, avoid.’ Two simple reminders to not make things complicated, just eat basic foods, whole foods and not too much of any one thing.

An eye-opener of a read about Supreme Court rulings in the US. It’s time the South African Constitutional Court rethinks Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa. The mood has shifted. The moral high ground has collapsed. Theft is all that’s left.

https://mises.org/mises-wire/there-no-such-thing-settled-law

The US constitution also prohibits the government from issuing any currency apart from gold and silver coinage. Doesn’t seem to worry them too much either.

The South African ruling party has proved, once again, that no revolutionary party has ever gone on to successfully deliver the freedoms they preached.

The South African government faces international sanctions for race discrimination 40 years after the previous South African government faced international sanctions for race discrimination.