Our existing Visa cards and these new Mastercard's both work in Australia (the international versions that is).

It's quite a while off that we'll have a specific AUD card, although the USD cards fill that gap in the meantime.

This is why I had 5, many difficulty struggles and exhaustion, but like all difficult things, well worth the fight.

I'm expecting a child soon, didn't really plan for it and am as clueless as the word clueless is clueless.

I just hope I'll figure it out

Bro I just became a father this week. It’s amazing

Dove into the family tree recently and found out my father’s side traces back to the MA colonies. My 7th great-grandfather served as a captain in the Rev War 🤯.

its blury

Nostr is getting easier 🤣

Success!

Look, I understand that at one point someone discovered a bug in their bed and called it "BED-BUCKS", now who the f* named "COCK-ROACHES"?

Life is like an ass sometimes you gotta grab it

Things are always so inverted that you just have to laugh.

People have been enslaved for all of human history, & western capitalist cultures were basically the first to abolish the practice in a big way. But capitalism & western culture are somehow most blamed for it.

The truth is that "progressive" policies & socialism are actually just modern adaptations of the dependence breeding ideologies that were used by the most successful slave masters.

People have been taught to see only a caricature of slavery so that, without the whips & chains, most are unable to identify it. It is shouted that capitalism (the actual freedom to trade & own the fruit of your labor) is evil & somehow the source of slavery, while weeds are sewn to produce a system of ever increasing taxation & the destruction of property rights. In the process, attempts are made to blind you with bribes & handouts because "we just want to help" while they actually make everything harder & steal more of what you earn.

This is not an accident, there are people out for power & they mean it. And at the same time there are normies who want to escape responsibility for everything. This is not new, these forces are very old. Together they have inverted wise sayings. They have inverted important stories. They have inverted entire religions. "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" has become "blood is thicker than water." The man who actually recovered money from tax collectors & returned it to those who earned it has become a symbol of parasites who want to "eat the rich." The man who was tortured & crucified for refusing to sacrifice reality & truth to arbitrary authority has become a symbol of self immolation. You are told that sheep shall inherit the earth so that you will make yourself into sheep, and so that the true cowards might feel good about themselves in the process.

The pressure comes from the top down & the bottom up at the same time. Self loathing, cowardice, willful ignorance, greed, & a lust for power & status, all align to create a conspiracy of immorality & injustice. Even the word "greed" has been corrupted because the greedy don't want to be easy to name or identify. The only rational meaning has to be: a desire for things unearned with no regard for the costs or those who bear them. But instead people who want to keep what they have worked to EARN are called greedy.

Politicians work to choke off competition in an industry while they invest heavily in the companies they allow to live. And while in most cases the corporate leadership is probably in on it with them, anyone who doesn't play ball is demonized as a greedy profiteer. It is literally the degree to which a person is good & right that gets him attacked, while murderers & pedophiles are safe to rise as high as they like.

If we want to stop these people, then individual soverignty is a duty. We must be extremely dangerous & also extremely civilized & productive. The ability to unapologetically spread messages that show people reality for what it is, & for us to engage in tax defying counter economic activity with the hardest money to ever exist, are our primary weapons. These are things worth taking seriously.

#Bitcoin #Nostr #liberty #grownostr

I mean, no reason to come at pride month with sarcasm. The LGBTQ community - facing targeting from the state and garden variety bigots alike - should be a natural match for bitcoining.

A better pin would be the bitcoin B overlayed with the colors of the pride flag. And anyone who would have a problem with that is just missing the point of bitcoin entirely.

Bitcoin doesn’t care about sexual orientation or gender identity - and neither should bitcoiners…

We slow ourselves down with silly bullshit, antagonizing people / communities who should be naturally already under the tent.

#Plebchain

Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness. 💜

#quote

#nostr

So sorry that sounds fucking awful. With an 11 month old right now I can't imagine the horror of either having to watch him go through that, or the utter pain of thinking I was responsible. That is literally my nightmare, and I wish you didn't have to go through it.

My wife and I honestly got really lucky, because our values had always leaned on the "non-intervention" side of things. We kept delaying having kids because we wanted to be "financially stable," (whatever that means), and 2020 made us realize that the idea there is some near-future where everything is in order, there are no unexpected events is just dumb. BUT, it was after COVID.

The blatant psychosis of the medical establishment during that entire debacle succeeded in setting ablaze the last vestiges of my already thinning trust, and sent me into total skeptic mode. If we had Rad just a year earlier, we would've likely gotten him mostly, if not fully vaccinated with the entire schedule of crap they try to force on infants.

Wanted to say thanks for being brave and taking an honest look at something that painful, and how cool to have your kids be the ones to help open your eyes.

Maybe the best place to start on the vaccine issue (neuro-toxicity of aluminum hydroxide more specifically) is Forrest Maready. He is an investigative journalist who has built a staggering, (and frankly frightening) thesis on the history and delivery mechanism for the numerous immune and neurological illnesses connected to vaccination. He is also very rational and is clear where he knows he is speculating, and where there is evidence, but not proof.

One thing he does well is absolutely eviscerate the pathetic excuses and hand-wavy bullshit the medical establishment gives to pretend autism and a basket of auto-immune disorders don't comprise one of the worst epidemics in human history, and that it isn't growing at a horrific pace, which it SO clearly is. And also in breaking down the specific delivery mechanisms of the illnesses and why they are all attached to the same problem (metal poisoning), manifesting simply in different areas of the brain or body. Also explaining why, if the medical establishment refuses to look at anything *they* are doing as a potential cause, why we suddenly have an explosion of chronic, incurable, seemingly inexplicable diseases that require lifelong medication and have no concrete source.

The first book I read was actually his unpacking of the history of Polio, which I think is a really good foundation to build from. (the story of our first, mass metal poisoning — mercury)

"The Moth in the Iron Lung"

I've also read a few of his other books that more specifically tackle the topic of aluminum hydroxide and does an incredible job at sourcing the potential pathways and method of damage in the body.

"Crooked" is excellent, and I'm reading "The Autism Vaccine" right now.

I would recommend any if you want to dive down the rabbit hole on this topic.

🥹 that's a pity

I can't think of a better excuse though.

I hope you & yours are healthy & resilient. 🧡

I don't know how you've gone so long darl.

I'm guessing you'll not miss this one?