I drink less than you.

It's just assumed that if you make alcohol you're an alcoholic. Why wouldn't it be? I clearly have a passion for the stuff and basically have UNLIMITED WINE at my disposal.

It comes down to two factors:

1) Health as a business necessity - I started Peony Lane because I wanted to bet on myself, not because I loved wine. And I've found that to be successful at solo-entrepreneurship, I need to be healthy. When you're running everything yourself, you can't afford to be operating at anything less than peak performance.

2) Familiarity breeds indifference - Working in wine and having unlimited amounts kind of takes out the excitement of it. Drinking was exciting in the early days. I'd think "I'm a winemaker now!" and pour myself a glass to sip all day during a bottling run. Turns out that wears off quickly.

So does the evening glass.

I love having a glass and sharing my wine with friends, but when I pop a bottle for no major reason, my relaxing evening can give me flashbacks to work. It's like bringing the office home with you, except the office is literally in every bottle.

Just trying to pop a stereotype here. If you want to put me (the bitcoin wine guy) in a box, just realize that my addictions lie much more with stacking sats than popping corks.

Thanks for reading.

GFY

Yes, I've made criticisms of what he's said before and also applauded him for other things. My point is that the level of veneration he gets is quite undeserved.

And btw, looking at yr username, I always applaud him when he speaks on matters Levantine.

Typically arrogant statement from the over-rated Saifedean

Since I last saw her, my mother has learned the art of sourdough.

Everything here is handmade and 100% delicious.

(2100 sats in the dinner pic)

Everyone is sharing the worldcoin video, but I won't.

Look. Not everyone is going to make it. The point made by 1984 is the same point made by Ordinary Men: most people will love the regime. Most people will do anything to comply, to not stick out, to do what everyone else does—no matter how ridiculous.

The solution is deceivingly simple: don't try to change other people. Focus on yourself and how you spend your time.

Opt out. Don't feed the beast. Concentrate your time, energy, and attention on the alternatives represented by #bitcoin and #nostr. Become as resilient as you can. Become un-ruggable. Ignore the noise.

I wanted to speak,

But nothing came out.

My mind was confused,

The words not allowed.

All of my own doing,

No others to blame.

Now crying in silence,

Feel nothing but shame.

We think they come easy,

Our God-given rights.

They perish in silence;

Unless someone fights.

But who is this fighter?

Is it you? Is it me?

It comes down to courage.

The courage to be.

Why not remain silent?

Why say things at all?

Why tear down the comfort,

Of this prison wall.

Compliance is easy,

Resistance is not.

We need to SPEAK CLEARLY

A rule we forgot.

It's all dia-Logos,

Allein or zu zweit,

A chat between friends;

You alone, late at night.

Without speaking clearly,

Proper thought can not form.

Free Speech is not optional,

It must be the norm.

So FUCK all the censors,

Both big and so small,

And fuck myself too,

For preaching to all.

We need more conversation,

And less claims of Truth.

Way more compassion.

"Corruption of Youth?"

They killed him for questions.

He wouldn't shut up.

But "they" are still with us,

And he drank the cup.

There is no distinction,

No "them" and no "us,"

So why all the fighting?

What is all the fuss?

P doom equals zero,

Some old crazy guy claims.

It's hard to agree.

We all live in chains!

Of our own making,

Of thought and of bytes,

confusion and silence;

There's no given rights.

Rights must be defended,

Or lest they may fall,

The fight is decisions,

To be made by all.

Should I stay on the platform?

Should I leave? Should I fight?

Should I build my own platform?

Should I enter the light?

The light that is Logos,

the word that redeems.

That speaks truth and beauty,

and is good—so it seems.

We don't need no platforms.

No login; no sign-up.

Get a key and some relays;

Sign your words and speak up!

I know it's not easy,

Though simple it sounds.

But it is your duty!

Responsibility abounds.

Some of us are tiny;

Some have a huge heart.

I'm still a bit whiny;

But all ends are starts.

I wanted to speak,

But nothing came out.

So now I'll just send it,

No censors allowed.

Link working for anybody?

Why?

I did the math recently and a reasonable guess for the damages that Gaza owes Israel for Oct 7th is ~$30k/Gazan – tens of billions of dollars.

All of the real estate in Gaza is probably worth less than that: that works out to be $172/m².

It'd be perfectly reasonable for Israel to just take all of Gaza in compensation and kick everyone out. Sending them all to Libya would be a very reasonable way to do this.

The Gazan population clearly has an irrational hatred of Jews, they're extremely violent, and there is no path to fixing this problem. Trying peace and diplomacy got us Oct 7th.

A perfectly valid alternative to this would be to cut all aid to Gaza and just wait for the population to starve to death. No-one owes them free food or supplies, and they can't feed themselves. They fucked up their economy through violence – no one owes them anything to fix that.

Speaking of, you can solve a lot of problems that way: Yemen can rain missiles down on Israel and our shipping lanes in large part because western food aid is keeping 90% of their population alive. It's ridiculous that we're doing that.

Also, cutting off all this suicidal aid to people who hate us would free up money to send to Ukraine, a population actually fighting for us.

The biggest annoyance of “vibe coding” with ChatGPT is its incessant need to write an entire application every single time you ask it anything, when it becomes a mess of bugs and contradictions with even modest size.

Trying to get the damn thing to modularize each component and put them together coherently is something I have to explain over and over again. It just wants to write 1,000 lines of code every time even though it constantly fails at it 🤣

Anyone found the magic sauce LLM that actually already works this way and knows to keep things in small components by default?

BREAKING: Slovenia‘s capital Ljubljana is crowned as the worlds most #Bitcoin friendly city by advisor firm Multipolitan. 🇸🇮