"The more apparent it is that a system is nearing an end, the more reluctant people will be to adhere to its laws. Any social organization will therefore tend to discourage or play down analyses that anticipate its demise. This alone helps ensure that history's great transitions are seldom spotted as they happen. If you know nothing else about the future, you can rest assured that dramatic changes will be neither welcomed nor advertised by conventional thinkers.

You cannot depend upon conventional information sources to give you an objective and timely warning about how the world is changing and why. If you wish to understand the great transition now under way, you have little choice but to figure it out for yourself."

- The Sovereign Individual, Chapter 2.

Yo yo

#introductions

That's the hard part. Deciding the safest place to store value temporarily. There's nothing anywhere near as good as Bitcoin long term, especially from a morality standpoint.

Holding dollars fuels wars and censorship thanks to the 7% a year debasement.

Holding traditional company stocks exposes funds to high counterparty risks while also fueling the growth of monopolies.

Buying property isn't really viable as you'd be gambling on your ability to resell with precision. Plus environmental risks as were reminded of with the recent destruction of properties from the California fires.

Buying Gold raises the question of how and where will you store it without significant counterparty risk, or risk of theft.

Buying Tether and USDC means their issuers allegedly use the money to buy bonds and Bitcoin and other assets.

There is no second best. Which is why only a fool would BCA their entire stack and risk losing everything, or put the value they do exchange all into a single place. Ultimately, it comes down to the morality and trust in the counterparties chosen to temporarily hold the funds when they're not in Bitcoin self custody.

Perhaps I'll just hold dollars on Bitcoin only exchanges like River or Strike for ease of re-entry into Bitcoin when the time is right.

Though I'm looking for better ideas.

My husband’s 8-year-old niece is having a birthday party with relatives and friends invited. But all seven friends declined to come, one by one, either due to getting sick or family issues or because some of them have big tests.

And the mom was hesitant to tell her about the last ones, including her best friend, being unable to come, since that final piece of news is devastating. So when we arrived, the niece was super happy, dressed up like a princess, showing us all the decorations and picking which colored forks each of her friends would have for the cake.

Basically, the expectations and reality couldn’t be more starkly different. It was like a comedy show setting up for a sad punchline. And eventually the mom dropped the bombshell, crying ensued, etc. The niece said this would be awful since her party would be all adults talking.

So, now I’m playing My Little Pony with her for damage control. Next, I’m going to blow up a lot of balloons to throw around with her and challenge her to see how many she can keep in the air at once. And then she wants to watch Inside Out 2 together.

How’s your day going?

Do not be fooled by the negativity bias. There is objectively less violence, less forest fires, less natural disasters and related deaths, less disease and less weather-volatility than at any other point in human history.

The world is not ending. Things are better now than they have ever been in most respects and it’s not even close.

The pearl clutters and doomers ruin their own lives being fearful when they should be thankful for their easy and safe lives. The constant influx of scary media we have access to is a cancer on the psyche if unchecked with relative reality. Don’t be a victim.

Remnants of Antarctica's dark past of whaling operations.

how do y'all deal with this

considering buying more chairs at this point

Who’s going to build the roads?!

No one. Roads ruin everything.

Scam text shared with me. “That looks like suspicious to us.” 🤦‍♂️🤣

#memestr

To the family members I lost contact with because I supported Donald Trump…

Holy shit am I so glad you’re out of my life lol

Let’s keep it that way.

Don’t try and weasel your way back in.