However much we may be, most people still haven’t realized the farce that printed money is.

Hope we meet :)

Great note, sir. Followed 🤝

BTW, my home feed is now fixed. Only posts from people I follow

Its hard for me to be on nostr some days still feels like an echo chamber here. I mean liberty is cool but much of the conversations here tend to sound more like they are being had by a mob marching on the kings door. Rather than Plato’s academy.

Maybe a sign of the times, either way i am thankful that nostr has amazing soil and while the seedling is still needing much attention it will grow to be the redwood forest of lore.

I am thankful for you here ₿ wine, and all the change makers.

I definitely find myself struggling for subjects to interact with, musician communities are way stronger on the Fediverse, although the general outlook here is more positive so tending to be here a bit more now,

I do think we have to be the change we want to see, that comes at a cost, be that time, dopamine deprivation or equipment etc (running nodes or servers for streaming for example).

I have no answers but I do have non btc shitposting…

They are asking on the wrong day. We can talk reasonably after $100k

I think widespread marriage doesn't work without cultural underpinnings and religion is the most-effective one.

## The motherhood illusion

Growing up, I was always told that women wanted children, whilst men wanted sex. So, marriage was created, to unite these two urges, and men and women don't otherwise particularly differ. But, it turns out, that **women want protection and sex, and men want children and sex**.

This is why women tend to be attracted to more masculine men (they're associated with protection) and men tend to be attracted to more feminine women (they're associated with motherhood). Women who are attracted to men, who aren't overtly masculine, are looking for a different aspect of protection (reliability, steady income or wealth, emotional security, etc.)

This wasn't readily apparent, in earlier generations, as widespread, youthful marriage meant that there weren't any real decisions being made by the participants. Almost all women got married and had kids, and almost all men got married and had sex. *Math checks out.* But the number of women who could protect and provide for themselves was low, and the men marrying were often very young and libidinous, and not yet contemplating their own legacy.

Feminism, easy abortion, deindustrialization, delayed marriage, and reliable contraception have dissolved this illusion, completely. Millions of Western women quickly turned into cougars, careerists, party girls, and e-girls, and an entire army of childless men and sidelined dads bubbled up and began to make their pain known. Humanity's dirty underbelly has been exposed.

*Women aren't as sweet, as we thought, and men are much sweeter.*

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Women also want children, but not as intensely. In fact, they seem to often viscerally dislike children, and are jealous of the protection they are to give them. So, they are prone to offing their offspring because they are averse to having any in-house competition.

If you just left women up to their own devices and reduced the social pressure, at least a fifth of them wouldn't bother having children, at all, and another quarter will have one and then lose interest or age out. This is not a new phenomenon, as we can see.

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The male competition for potential mothers turns out to be absolutely brutal, and more difficult than simply finding a woman to sleep with. And, now, we finally understand why men traditionally jumped through so many hoops, to attain a wife. It wasn't for the sex; we've always had brothels, masturbation, and pornography. It was for the familial comfort, and, especially, for the children.

## Good fathers make good mothers

Some women don't know if they are "potential mothers", until they meet a "potential father", and their urge to procreate suddenly kicks in. They didn't want children for their own sake, but now they want some for his sake. All of a sudden, they're imagining themselves rocking the cradle, googling "what to eat, when you're expecting", and find themselves gushing over anything that gives off Hint of Infant.

I'm pregnant! Look what I can do! Look what I can do!

For you, darling.

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Women married to men they are deeply in love with, are much more likely to desire to become mothers (and be devastated by infertility), and make for better mothers, because children are like individualized presents they can give to their husband.

They want to impress him. Most want to be decent parents in their own right, but the urge to impress seems to raise this to a much higher level because *women are vain*, and therefore focused on raising their own status and how they appear to others. And the greatest "other", of a happy wife, is her husband.

Because *men are narcissistic*, and therefore in love with anything associated with themselves (which underpins their obsession with owning property), men have an intense attachment to their children. What is more "yours", than your progeny?

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Fathers seem to develop a special attachment to, or fondness for, the mothers of their children, that goes beyond lust or romantic love; they never forgot who gave them this new Mini Me. And they are often quite impressed by their own ability to perform this trick numerous times, which leads to the intense satisfaction they feel at "going into serial production" and churning out more of those Mini Mes until their adoring wife pleads for mercy.

Men want children. Women, who love a man, want to give him those children and gain the fidelity that comes along with those children. This is the actual "trade" underpinning the urge to marry.

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Um gajo podia ser o Hal Finney do nostr e postar aqui algo para a posteridade, mas a minha cena é mais de ir martelando nas teclas como se o amanhã fosse um daqueles desenhos em ASCII art, tipo o tributo ao Len Sassaman no bloco 138725, ao ponto de ficar com a bexiga a crescer para a uretra como o Allan dos Santos cresceu para o trezoitão ou como os maxis cresceram para o Michael Saylor quando os chamou de crypto anarquistas paranóicos. Mas o pior é que a minha inspiração é do estilo ansiosa e bota cá para fora todo o tipo de devaneios e tropelias e depois isto não faz sentido, mas tenho pena porque é algo que não consigo controlar, da mesma forma que o BCE não consegue controlar Bitcoin, que os gajos já perceberam que vão ser enrabados como os idiotas do shitereum à espera do flippening, que são idiotas que se houvesse um prémio para o maior otário, ganhavam sempre e o concurso acabava por falta de concorrentes à altura, mas só há malandros porque há otários e vir aqui e não tratar mal os shitcoiners era o mesmo que sofrer colhões ao poste e suster as caralhadas, o que é estúpido, mas não tão estúpido como o Vitalik a cantar em eventos de blockchain e web3 ou lá o que é.

First of all, why do european union exist?

I know I just hate that I feel like I can’t say things that I wanna say anywhere