there is some weather changes (pressure etc) but usually that just does aches & pains not thoughts. I have noticed that certain foods before bed can seriously cause unhappy dreams.

there is the 3I/Atlas thing that I'm starting to think is just an AI news feed thing that I'm being fed because nobody i mention it to has the slightest idea that it exists.

there was a fairly beefy solar flare yesterday that would be starting to cause a geomagnetic storm now. and the sunspots behind it, are actually two really close together, and i personally am not gonna feel safe again until that thing has passed the middle quietly. it's bigger than the sunspot that caused the carrington event.

not meaning to alarm but don't be surprised if it does pop another one off and we at least get a minor internet problem and ongoing nerves and insomnia and shit.

just breathe, get your morning sunshine, and maybe avoid heavy machinery if you are feeling fragile. i sure am. starting to wonder about some of the things in my situation needing to be put aside

happy thoughts over here. GM ☕ 🙏

Is the purpose of the news to inform or propaganda?

If it is to inform why don't you know about the wars in Darfur or Congo? 24 hours a day about Ukraine and Palestine couldn't spare 5 minutes?

Why are women so mean to other women?

In hindsight, WWI and WWII could be interpreted as tricks to get the children of God to kill each other for false motives.

I remain wary of tricks like this in WWIII. Anything that makes me feel pulled toward wrath automatically triggers an alarm in my brain. #NeverDoom

You're watching the early bitcoiners sell themselves out to Wallstreet

The market P/E is at 29

For every $29 dollars you invest you get $1 of earnings out.

Every year.

Or in other words it will take you 29 years to make back your original investment.

That's the S&P for you.

Better start saving for retirement slave.

I wish my boomers made it as far as Dave Ramsey. Mine are still talking about universal Medicare and trying to convince me social security is sustainable.

*think

Personal computers should come LOADED with a node to start running upon plugin, the way social media apps come on phones.

i always like reading what you write anyway, always thought provoking.

i don't really expect everyone to read it all anyway. always been like this. as a child my mother learned that i didn't need to be listened to haha

no, i mean in general haha. i often have a lot to say that often goes off on tangents.

My single friends seem to be using that app now over tinder (and also bumble). Idk how they all differ tho

It’s a stupid dating app in the US. Where desperate people go to find toxic relationships.

Day in the life of a Bitcoin podcaster:

​– wake up at 10:30am, immediately check price and tweet “gm to everyone except fiat holders” and "buy the dip"

– cold plunge for 15 minutes to “lower time preference”

– eat four raw eggs and a ribeye because “seed oils are a psyop”

– record a 2-hour solo podcast rambling about “the Bitcoin cycle js dead" and “hyperbitcoinization”

– spend 3 hours on X arguing with a no-coiner and retweeting Michael Saylor

– grab an overpriced coffee, try to pay via Lightning, hold up the line for 4 minutes (end up using Visa)

– edit podcast, add dramatic intro music and 5 mid-roll ads for VPNs and hardware wallets

– go on a Hinge date, ask her “what is money?” within the first 5 minutes

– refuses to tip because “taxation is theft” and "$10 more sats"

– go home and host a Twitter Space titled “Is the Dollar Collapsing Tonight?” (it is not)

– tell his 12 dedicated listeners to “stay humble, stack sats”

– go to bed at 3am, dreaming of the citadel

some people are really bothered by my blathering

I'm being bad... Playing a video game instead if sleeping. But its so nice... Its zen-like. I'm cruising around the asteroids on a drone that still doesn't quite work right with ambient space music playing.

big vertical red line on the stupid chart

I feel seen

Power learns to hide itself: the guillotine going from being proudly presented in front of the castle gates, then moving to inside the walls, then moving to the basement, and then disappearing altogether.

A. Receiving 1 sat is infinitely better 1 like.

B. Receiving 1000 sat is 1000x better than 1 sat, 100 sat is 100x better than 1 sat, etc. etc.

As A approaches infinity, B approaches 0.

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I do not know.

It is a good question to me.

I do not even think I have a good idea why.

It seems to be uniquely human. Maybe some other great apes? I’m not really sure about that ape part though.

Why say groin hair? Maybe this is one possible idea. Let’s borrow earlier discussion.

There is confusion surrounding the persistence of the appendix in so much as appendicitis causes death in young reproductive people and should be actively selected against at a superficial level.

Something else that causes a similar number of deaths worldwide at least recently, not off from appendicitis, by more than a factor of 0.5, would be kidney stones

I suspect we don’t know nearly as much about the urinary Microbiome as we do the gut micro biome. At least some people think certain bacteria- Lactobacillus crispatus- may have a role in the urinary micro biome in preventing kidney stones, and in the vaginal micro biome in reproductive health.

Is it possible that groin hair helps create an environment that fosters Lactobacillus crispatus ? Helps create some sort of niche? Facilitates spread? Selects against competitor bacteria? This is almost certainly not right but at least it made me think…

no, i mean profile as in

Reminds me of how Linux put Microsoft in check.

Competition is healthy.

Maaaaaan allergic reactions suck... I can force the oxygen in, but I can't stop my ankles and wrists from itching like fire...

that could have been because of shifting from equatorial to polar position tho. they wouldn't have been prepared for it. even if the place doesn't get washed away the changed temperatures will probably kill off most food sources growing and living there.

also it's telling that there is evidence, that wasn't washed away or buried deeply, of the existence of these people. they just would have been living in a lush high altitude plateau in the warm subtropical zone and then are suddenly temperate zone. everything freezes in winter and nothing was prepared for it, except a few outliers and burrowing animals and many trees would not survive that transition very well. though, ok, a lot of things would make it.

point being that there probably was no food for some years while herds built back up and people got adapted to the new weather and adjusted their construction to adapt.

You didn’t answer my question. I asked if you chose your own settings. Did you review them. Understand them. Actively decide on them ? Or did you just run knots and virtue signal to the world ?

Yes. The grift is the funnel. Not the constituent parts.

I never said ocean was a grift. It’s a valid pool. Reread what I said.

People running his node. People mining on his pool? It’s a grift.

Calling Nostr users “nerds” is like calling Navy SEALs “gym bros.” People on X and other platforms fundamentally misunderstand what they’re looking at.

A nerd is someone with narrow interests and poor social calibration. What you’re actually encountering here are polymath-level intellects who can seamlessly transition from cryptographic proofs to economic theory to philosophical frameworks, often within a single thread.

These are people operating at cognitive levels that would make your college professors weep. If that intimidates them enough to reduce us to “nerds,” that says everything about their intellectual ceiling and nothing about ours.

Thats the thing, Core are not the leaders. Core will hopefully fade to irrelevance.

Bitcoin Core will be used as a mule for free, unstoppable CP/CSAM by sickos or state actors, in order to attack Bitcoin and prosecute those who knowingly allow it.

This is the attack...

Once op_return is removed, plain JPEG images (not part of multiple fragments inside scripts that need to be pieced together and decoded, but plain JPEG/GIF/MP4) will be sent through your Bitcoin HardCore node version 30+, from one paedophile to others, possibly sold (Knots runners won't touch them, ever). Your Core node will happily pass it along, providing anonymity to the criminals (or state attackers, or Epstein's old clients).

They will pay a well below market rate initially (eventually zero), and never even need to get the transaction mined - key point. The original filter that Satoshi introduced, FEES, will be effectively bypassed...

After some time, these low-fee CP/CSAM txs will be dropped by Bitcoin Core nodes, but if they don't, the sicko(s) can do an RBF of the transaction (or if they have chained them, an RBF of a single low-fee unconfirmed parent), to cancel and invalidate the transaction so they don't have to actually pay for any of the downstream higher fee large transactions.

They will have successfully used your computer to transfer and potentially sell horrible images, without paying (so forget "filters don't work, they'll get on chain anyway"), thanks you being complicit, and thanks to all the Core devs who allowed this in. And those gaslighting against us saying this is wrong.

Then public opinion will turn heavily against Bitcoiners, if it isn't bad enough now. We already know it's going to get worse as most miss out.

@adam3us has pointed out, incorrectly (I'll explain), that this attack can't work, because of some "package relay". Sounds like this is a filter to stop RBFs of a parent if there is a long chain of transactions dependent on it.

A clever idea, but it can't work, Adam. Do you know why? Because your resistance itself is a form of FILTER, and FILTERS DON'T WORK, remember? You can not use an argument against us if that same argument is used to defend yourself.

An attacker can get their cancelling RBF transaction mined by going directly to a miner. Then the scumbags get away with using your Bictoin Core node for CP/CSAM transmission - it's irrelevant whether it gets on a block or not, it doesn't need to, the paying paedophile got his images.

Ironically, filters not working is the very reason we need filters.

There are 3 solutions.

1) Bitcoin Core reverses this STUPID rushed decision, introducing completely unnecessary risk to Bitcoin.

2) We all run Knots, and it becomes the reference client.

3) We move away from Core to Knots, and maybe others will pop up, and there is no reference client, meaning fewer meaningful changes to Bitcoin become likely.

Bitcoin doesn't need changes; it needs general light maintenance, so just maintain it, don't change it!

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Every check I send to the IRS has that written in the comment section and on the outside of the envelope. I’m sure I’m on a list somewhere. If you’re not, are you even trying?!

This is your logic you explained earlier.

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They dont exist, you know that.