What's the best book you've read on cultivating self control?

Most adults don't deal with it much, if at all. It is much more common for the youth. In school (elementary through college), it is rampant. My son has had to deal with it a little, but not too much because he was homeschooled through high school (although he did have to deal with it in at least one of the community college classes he took during high school) and he now attends Liberty University which is the opposite of the normal woke university. I know multiple people who have had their kids deal with it or even try to join it.

My uncle has Covid. He is blaming this on not getting the latest booster. When I asked him if he wanted some ivermectin he said, “No I feel fine, just some sniffles.” I just learned that he is now planning to get the booster next week. An MIT EE PhD without a brain 🤦‍♀️ I’m dumbfounded

I used to believe in political incrementalism- the idea that you can change things gradually through better election outcomes.

But maybe it was also just youth, I don’t know.

After spending many years studying how the current monetary system works, studying how past debt and currency cycles ended, and based on practical realities from the past two election cycles, I dropped any notion of incrementalism, at least for the big economic things.

Incrementalism works for minority groups to gain social and political rights. Religious people to practice without interference, women to vote, gay people to marry, etc. Immigration policies. Things like that. But it doesn’t work for the financial system.

Instead, history and current affairs suggest that things generally point in the same structural financial direction, uncontested, until there is a massive fiscal crisis, geopolitical crisis, and trend change. And that is when politics becomes critical in all aspects- as chaos develops, the group that has enough power to set the next order *really* fucking matters. They either build a platform of virtue toward the next cycle, or they fall into the unfortunately common paths of communism or fascism.

And it is not just ideas that triumph, but technology too. Technology plays a big role in which ideas are even workable. Both ideas and technology are important.

So when I realized incrementalism wasn’t working, I sought out other methods.

The weaker method is just social- I try to put things out there with my platform to encourage reason, empathy, human rights, etc. Not partisan but also not necessarily moderate, but rather grounded in firm principles of virtue ethics.

The stronger method is to play some small part in building something better. Alternative money. Alternative communication methods. Either explaining and recommending them to people, or directly venture investing in companies that build on them and help improve the UX and solve new problems.

That’s my goal. I want to do whatever tiny part I can to bring about more peace, more fairness, more opportunity, more growth, and less destruction.

Not everyone can be saved, because honestly, their mentality and belief system don't allow for it. The only thing you can do oftentimes is just wait and let them suffer the consequences of believing in lies.

I'm not talking about just Bitcoin.

Hot take🔥👇

Pickleball is a sh*tcoin.

Play tennis you lazy f**ks.

I think most atheists are cowards. This isn't just my opinion, but also that of Nietzche. They take on most of Christian morality without God, and can't justify the morality that they subscribe to.

But in a sense, the philosophically consistent atheists are even worse. They are sociopathic in their pursuit of power. But at least I can respect them.

It's 2023.

If you still think "Bitcoin is a scam" then, frankly, you're just plain stupid.

Don’t miss my fight tonight!

🚨 Watch the #Bellator300 Prelims on CrisCyborg.Com/Bellator300 before making the switch to showtime Sports 7PM PST for the Bellator MMAmain card.

Who thinks I should return to Nostr?

I’ve got no events until Nashville next year and while I’ll miss seeing y’all’s faces it feels damn good to kick my feet up 😌

bet you were expecting a foot pic

weirdos

*whispers*

(later) 💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡

Yeah this has been happening to me a lot. I don't get it.

What do bitcoin only companies do?

Outside exchanging it...

fuck

I fell for it again

Which stage is the US currently in?

Everyone is saying nyc is now worse than in the 80’s

In 2021 I got jumped by 3 guys in Chelsea at 4 am. Was just getting coffee from the afgan kart on the corner. I thought they wanted to rob me but they were 3 gay dudes on drugs and apparently thought I was pretty. They met Mr. Right 👊 that night …

After that I left NYC. Too much even for me.

Have they considered stopping the printing of money?