My company keeps asking me to switch to full-time, but it's like

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I just got a paycheck where they deducted 47% of my salary. 😏

This is one major reason why an increasing number of the working population is simply cutting their hours or refusing to work, altogether.

The marginal return on productive labor is declining.

We haven't quite reached "We pretend to work. They pretend to pay us." levels of economic fucked-upness, but we're getting there.

Word! 😂

Pro-tip:

No cheaper fertilizer than raw sewage.

You heard it here first, buddy. 😎

It can be surreal, living in a farming village, and then watching TV interviews of "city people on the street" complaining about how the farmers are all greedy rich people because the food prices are so high.

Yeah, so greedy that they're giving up farming because it's such a great get-rich-quick scheme. 🙄

I buy products for €2 that promise to pay the farmers at least 10¢.

ROFLMAO

Yes, the economy is fucked. 😂

Food costs a fortune, but the farmers hardly get any of the money from the sale of the food.

No, not really. 😂

Other countries have had Bitcoin ETFs for a while.

The American securites and exchange commission has just been weirdly dragging their feet for years, so it was a lot of drama.

I think it's quite revolutionary because, until this NIP, you had to go to a particular website to ⭐ stuff. Now you can ⭐ anything, anywhere you can point to it with some sort of internet identifier, using any client that writes and signs ⭐ notes, and your star can be evaluated by anyone reading from any relay you've written your ⭐ to.

You can star Beave's Blacksmithy webpage, Beth's Baked Goods e-bay site, Vitor's Amethyst release, Michael's newest NIP, whatever.

You can use them to save and spend for a few months or up to a year, but you shouldn't expect them to maintain their value over any period longer than that, and you could wake up one morning to it all being worthless.

I tend to see "shitcoins" as experimental projects for possible second-rail technology.

Bitcoin is very good at being a monetary reserve asset and it can't be invented twice.

Forced closure. Some of the connections are unstable.

I have complaints. 😂

But I'm more flexible on second-rail technology than on the core.