“Most life-changing discoveries happen by accident, and mine was no different.”
This is what happens when you give your middle-school principal too much power.
I live in Portugal, and the same people are arriving here in droves from the US. They think the important think is to scape the MAGA terrorists, have no idea what’s going on whatsoever. One of them asked my wife what “crypto” we thought she should buy. They live headline to headline, chickens with their heads cut off. It would be amusing, but now they’re bringing their politics and their busy-bodying here, and Europe already had plenty of its own problems.
I imagine most of you have been on the phone with a company that didn’t deliver on its obligations. Maybe the time-sensitive package you overnighted was delayed, the airline lost your luggage or your health insurance refused to cover a bill, and after some back and forth regarding potential remedies, the customer service rep says, “I’m sorry sir, but that’s company policy.”
Imagine you’re at the blackjack table, you’re dealt a 10 and a 7 (hard 17), and the dealer shows a 10. This is a bad situation, but the odds say you stand and hope the dealer busts. You are about to do just that, but the drunk guy on your right says, “Hit, bro, I’m feeling a four.”
Okay, that’s what I kind of thought. So if I want to zap someone, I have to enter the private key into a client not downloaded through the App Store, I take it.
Sorry, I’m probably being an idiot, but how do I zap an individual post in Damus?
Also, in order to log into a different client, I need to use my private key, correct? But how safe is it to use your private key in a web browser like Brave or Firefox for say Iris.to?
Don’t really get the security aspect given you need to input/paste your key to your internet-connected browser/app.
The Bible is great for those who need a bible. But at some point the teachings and principles therein have to go from explicit to implicit, the way you no longer think about shifting gears when you drive a manual transmission car. (I just learned how last year so it’s a ready example.)
I’ve been with my “wife” 12 years, don’t have the contract, don’t want it. Having been free to leave earlier IMO was a factor in our staying together in fact.
But I’ve always had a problem with authority.
My path to victory draws from Dems, Republicans + independents. Plus one more key supporter. #Kennedy24
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Good luck!
I never took the Pfizer, Ray. I never took the Pfizer.
I never sold a sat, Ray. I never sold a sat.
No one knows for sure what will happen after the next halving, but if you believe in the case from first principles, then the biggest risk is not that it goes to zero, but that you sold, and it does what you thought it would.
There is no shame in putting your savings behind your earnest convictions and being wrong, but there is great sorrow in being pushed off your convictions by FUD when you were right all along.
Feel like I'm getting a lot of things done personally, but the world around me is grinding to a halt. The multiple bureaucracies crumbling under their own weight. The system failing to incentivize anymore. The truth subverted for emotional comfort.
I am put on hold when I call, emails get lost or unreturned, deadlines get extended, pushed back indefinitely. A person in cognitive decline can fake it for awhile, but eventually it's obvious they can't look after themselves. A civilization might be similar.
Thanks! Been gradually moving my lifestyle in that direction for that last 5 years, and the booze seems like fairly easy, low-hanging fruit at this point.
But I’ve resigned to do one shot per month (on a given day and with a cigar) just so I don’t start getting into that “I’ve been sober for x days” nonsense.
Sometimes I fall into the trap of a kind of feigned enlightenment where I imagine myself to be tolerant and wise and I wind up enabling behavior in others I don’t respect.
Sometimes I overreact and moral-busybody others whose behavior disgusts me mostly because it’s a projection of those parts of myself I judge and reject.
There is no contradiction. The line is straight down the middle of these two overreactions. Don’t enable, but don’t busybody. It’s a hard line to walk sometimes.
Lot of people seem to relate to immigrating to a free country, even if you have to leave some of your wealth behind in a tyrannical one. Short-term pain, long-term, you’re building on a firm foundation.
And if you think travel posts are unlikely to be censored, wait until the climate-change/energy-use police tally your carbon footprint and decide local-only photos for the next six months until you’re in compliance.
Didn’t mean to re-post that last post, but to quote it and say, yes, I agree, but better to build something *anything* and iterate than plan too much for what’s better than a new iteration of Twitter. Start with this, and innovate. This isn’t remotely its final form.