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Without saying your age, show how old you are with something from your childhood that no longer exists.

The new, pansy ass foam shit is NOT the same.

Lots of "convince me" reply guys on #X.

How evil can a force become to gain more power? As evil as possible. There is actually no limit. Evil doesn't have limits. And it always comes to the same outcome — complete annihilation of everything.

There is only one force that can resist and even destroy evil — intelligence.

Agreed, but he served a purpose by displaying tyranny and oppression our r oh the open.

No regrets that he helped expose what some of our world leaders will do when their control is threatened.

Let him further serve as an example of what will now not be tolerated if you work for yourself and NOT for your people.

To the streets with them.

He should have been kicked out the day he blocked the truckers their bank accounts, one should insist he never get a position where he can have a saying on things that matters to the people.

Project #Bluebeam?

It's funny to watch TradFi get so butthurt about @saylor issuing debt to buy #Bitcoin with it rising faster than the cost of the debt... when that's literally what TradFi has been doing with real estate & stocks for like 30 years.

Real estate and corporate debt get artificially low interest rates, below the real inflation, to soak up all housing and buyback their stock that pump the value and ride it up forever while the debt gets devalued.

Looks like the same play to me, just without the overhead and rent seekers.

Natural attack that should be expected because of human action. Imagine a scenario where Bitcoin goes to millions (versus US piece of paper) and US (by acquiring it) lowers its debt substantially - creating a longer period of sideways action, sellers, and further centralization on exchanges because of people using the fiat derivative verus Bitcoin. Imminent default risk would also go away for USD which would also create complacency by making it not seem urgent anymore. That, along with a well orchestrated attack on layer 1 that included the perceived risk of a price (in usd) correction by holders would likely convince many to side with large holders (who would be influenced by Gov)

Against this scenario is growing number of people deep down the rabbit hole, the global adoption of Bitcoin in self custody, more node operators who watch for risks like this, the use of bitcoin as a medium of exchange……setting up a likely (at some point) hard fork and a repeat of the blocksize wars where those trying to cheat the protocol by using their influence or power get wiped out by people protecting its security and decentralization.

Hope that helps.

Science??

I messed around with Midjourney to create initial renderings of some of the main characters of my hobby sci-fi manuscript.

Would that movie poster interest you or nah?

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In fiction, the point of view from how we see the story can often color how we perceive the ethics of characters. And of course, that lesson can apply in real life as well.

If you ask most people if Neo and Trinity in the Matrix are heroes or anti-heroes, for example, they’ll probably say heroes. There is nothing particularly dark or edgy about them other than kind of a general “cool” factor. They’re pretty chill and well-meaning people in their downtime, we care about their relationship, they help their friends, they have rather pure motivations, etc.

But in the Matrix, agents can teleport themselves into any unplugged person. Which means that when Neo or Trinity attack a place, they pretty much have to slaughter everyone. Leaving survivors means that agents can teleport in. Innocent guards and stuff just get wiped out by the dozens. The stakes of humanity being enslaved by the machines are so high, that the characters don’t even really debate the ethics of this; they just accept it.

Like literally the opening scene is Trinity killing police, and the audience is like “wow cool” instead of “so, is that the antagonist?” The famous lobby scene consists of Neo and Trinity wiping out tons of guards that are just doing their job of guarding a skyscraper. In the sequel, Trinity sends a motorcycle bomb into a power station, and then murders the remaining guards as they attack her. We all basically like Trinity, and yet there are platoons of widows and orphans out there from all the guards she killed. There aren’t really even any scenes of her reflecting on that, like finding it emotionally difficult in any way to do those things or feeling in any way haunted by it.

If the Matrix story was shown from like, a detective’s point of view, these characters are terrorists and would either seem like outright villains (if you don’t know their motivation) or anti-heroes if you do (ends justify the means; mass-murder is okay and not even worth feeling bad about if it saves billions).

So, how the movie *frames* things for us makes a big difference. We closely follow Neo and Trinity so much that we’re like, “of course they’re the heroes”. The same thing happens in real life with political commentators and things like that; a cultural narrative can frame something as wholly good or wholly bad when often it’s actually kind of complex.

Therefore, it’s a useful practice whether in analyzing fiction or real life, to always ask how you could invert the framing for something.