Hello everything, this is my first post here. Installed the app after watching Jack Dorsey speak at Bitcoin Atlantis

#introductions

Big city life:

1 AM: police banging on the door across the hall and yelling for them to open up because they got a phone call that something was wrong.

3 AM: air conditioner decides to start screeching.

5 AM: some jackass drives by blaring music so loudly it sounded like it was in the room.

6 AM: recycle truck dumps huge bins of glass.

The start of my decentralized social media - March 3, 2024. Great day to be alive and have the freedom.

#introductions

It’s a system thing. We can’t vote ourselves out of it. H.L. Mencken explains why democracy is doomed in 10 points:

1. People don't want freedom but safety: "The average man wants the peace of a hog in a comfortable sty."

2. Democracy INTENSIFIES groupthink: "Democratic man is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness."

3. Democracies are plutocracies; they're run by the aristocracy of money. But the plutocracy "lacks all the essential characters of a true aristocracy: a clean tradition, culture, public spirit, honesty, honor, courage—above all, courage. It is transient and lacks a goal."

4. The plutocrats lack "an aristocratic disinterestedness born of aristocratic security." He submits. He can be bullied and broken.

5. Democracies birth their intellectual apologists - Mencken calls them "pedagogues." These are not genuine thinkers; they’re "men chiefly marked by their haunting fear of losing their jobs." This describes most journalists.

6. Democracy is anti-excellence. Freud said we repress our sex drive as it’s frowned upon...but there’s nothing that democracy frowns upon more than a CLEAR proof of superiority. Democracy says "the most worthy & laudable citizen is that one who is most like all the rest."

7. Mencken explains how this era demands we repress our greatness: "A man who has throttled a bad impulse has at least some consolation in his agonies. But a man who has throttled a good one is in a bad way indeed. Yet this great Republic swarms with such men, & their sufferings are under every eye."

8. Mencken on the two worst crimes in a democracy: "There is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it."

9. Mencken: "The democratic politician, confronted by the dishonesty and stupidity of his master, the mob, tries to convince himself and all the rest of us that it is really full of rectitude and wisdom." To gain power in a democracy, men sacrifice their self-respect...

10. Mencken believed democracy will cancel itself out: "Democracy may be a self-limiting disease, as civilization itself seems to be. There are thumping paradoxes in its philosophy, and some of them have a suicidal smack."

-a tweet from @oldbooksguy

Some are fighting CBDC.

THAT MATTERS

I want people protecting my rights to own #bitcoin

#meme #memes #memestr #nostrmemes

Wide open spaces

#montana #winter #grownostr #emptyspaces

Let’s run a test.

Raise your hand if you found out about #nostr not from the #bitcoin community?

I mentioned focusing on form

I got 🔥🔥🔥 alive in replies

I conceded as this is purely a challenge.

Some of us may sustain injuries

Some may quit

Some of us may not make it

The rest of us will be a little more jacked by 100k. The ones left standing… we’re all getting girlfriends 😇

I noticed that most of the 100 push ups a day people are NOT former military and there is a reason. The most common surgery for soldiers at about 5-15 years of service is rotator cuff surgery.

You want conditioning from push ups do one that takes you 1 full minute to complete. Of do as many as you can with your lungs empty and do those slow as though you are doing heavy lifting on the bench, slow up and down. Say 10 seconds down and up each. 5 Would take 50 minutes and you ain't starting out that high with empty lungs.

100 a day is a recipe for repetitive motion injuries. People get carpal tunnel from using a mouse or splicing telecom cables, think about it.

I know this may attract hate but talk to any guy that spent time in the Army or Corps and just ask if they knew any guys that had shoulder surgery and why they had it. I am not saying to not work out for the slow kids. I am saying most fitness fads are generally not well thought out.

Tell me advice to get out of poverty... then I'll give you mine

#grownostr #freedom #askstr #ask #asknostr

I hope so, then we can get more cheap sats 😁😁😁

Walking home at 3am after an entire night of good conversations…

Is there anything better?