Some of you are acting like you never read Altas Shrugged

if you want to stop the motor, you just need to pack up and leave

the Stockholm syndrome is real

X is becoming WeChat and that’s ok, because you don’t think your friends will leave too. nostr:note1gqr3qtm94e8vzfdnvuyk8eked4g343lr59h4quaq2esf5mh4km8s7sh3d9

Nostur is like that 😄

What our ancestors saw, and that no one know exists in the modern cities thanks to light pollution.

LOVE that movie 😍

“The credit system, which has its focal point in the allegedly national banks and the big money-lenders and usurers that surround them, is one enormous centralization and gives this class of parasites a fabulous power not only to decimate the industrial capitalists periodically but also to interfere in actual production in the most dangerous manner - and this crew know nothing of production and have nothing at all to do wish it.”

Citation: Avoid the ad-hominem fallacy to which you would likely fall victim. You don’t know the man because you haven’t evaluated his words. You only know what you have been told about him.

But we survived, and the control structure is now bare to see for everyone with a critical mind. gm btw.

I rarely lose my temper, but whenever I do a couple times per year, my writing gets 10x as much reach and likes and shares, and gets basically immortalized. But I'm rarely happy about it when it does.

I still think about this a lot in terms of how I choose to use social media- with reach comes responsibility.

It's both a bad thing and a good thing. On one hand, it's not great that posts based on a combination of emotion and reason get *way* better reach than ones based on more pure reason alone. For "clicks" the best thing I could do for a given post is lose my temper and go all-out on something.

On the other hand, the rare cases where I lose my temper are based on serious built-up frustrations over months. I'm frustrated about something, keep holding it back, and then something becomes intolerable. My socially-compliant self-censorship all unravels at once, not perfectly, but with a clear aspect of *deep* honesty. And people see that honesty because it reflects their own. So it spreads.

So, most of the time, I write carefully, and I know my audience comes from multiple different backgrounds, literally from Indonesian farmers to Wall Street institutional billionaires, and I try to politely move the Overton window from within the Overton window. But a couple times per year, I lose my temper and post my emotional thoughts, which in some ways are more honest, but are also not exactly my ideal self-actualized self.

I end up being grateful for both my constant attempt at control and my rare tempers, because somewhere in the middle is my truth. That blend between controlled reason and built-up emotion is really hard to manage in an era of digital media and semi-immortalized content.

Anyway, I'll post this random stuff on Nostr, not Twitter. You guys and girls get the real thoughts because you're here.

Yo! It was a successful day making our way from Rome down to the Amalfi Coast in the heat.

Up first we had a 3 hour train from Rome to Salerno - kids did great, kept themselves busy with coloring and stickers.

The boat ride from Solerno to Amalfi was stunning. Incredible coastline the whole way down, and the breeze off the water gave us some relief from the heat of the city we just left.

We settled into our place (staying here for the next 6 days) with a nice view of the mountains above. After a quick nap we went out to explore the town a bit, including the main piazza. My son insisted on tackling every one of those stairs up to the church without being carried.

We finished off the night with a delicious meal (perhaps the best lasagna I've ever eaten), and promptly headed back before succumbing to our food comas. Bring on tomorrow!

Wtffffff monsters!

I'll just be mumbling to myself about learning to self custody hoping people become less concerned about number go up than making sure they have the actual thing that is going up in relation to the failing systems.

Price means nothing for mass adoption if the mass gets rugged because they chose to hold all their Bitcoin "exposure" in a "trusted" third party. And it seems that is a drum that needs constant beating.

Though I'm not disagreeing with you're assessment.

Happy BD, Barbie Bitcoin! 🎉

?cid=586b07f0xynhwmv4k2yqo39ltwlaeq5l8ubl86v42ed3enob&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.gif&ct=g to celebrate my day in a proper #zbd way of life, I’m going to zap everyone who wishes this Barbie (myself) a happy b-day 🤍