Btw my functional equivalent of a brother in law, over lunch on Christmas day, brought up Bitcoin and crypto. Bull run confirmed.
My only objection to this is: degens by definition do not buy BTC, even less hodl it. nostr:note1hywead9h34mywv8wg7dhnmm5xrg79xyahe0wy9xtguds364trlaqt7h7sc
My reasoning here can be condensed succinctly: if you "curate" my content, then I will sue your ass if anything happens to me because of it. Deal? nostr:note1t6sulfsz58ywjyypt7hf7c942a7tv2dqyhzhzhluxgrp2wapurvsqr5f9d
True, but that wasn't my point. Youtube and all the other platforms (and State actors) censor under the pretense that they do it so people can trust the content that makes it through their automated AI-driven filters, algos, human reviews, policies and terms and conditions.
And yet, they push this obviously fake scammy content. Not only that, but presumably they even make money with it, since these are paid ads.
So regardless of how outlandish it may sound, users seeing it should take it in good faith and pay heed to AI-Saylor and send those sats, I guess.
The answer is obviously NO, they should not. Users are responsible for their own actions. Youtube will not reimburse them, right? They're not liable.
So why censor and filter to begin with?
However, my further point wasn't even Youtube -- but the Nostr and those who still today want to justify the exact same shit here.
Youtube spamming deep AI fake ads of nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m asking to "send BTC to the address below to receive double". Yeah I know, older scam in the book. But it illustrates what happens with walled gardened, extremely censored (sorry, "content curation") algorithm-based platforms. Don't bring this shit to the Nostr. Ever. 
There's no doubt that in the short term they will run even relative to BTC. That's what they're good for, to turn fiat into a larger amount of fiat. However, to save your wealth in it and hodl to infinity? Only BTC.
This is because we live in terminological confusion ever since the Allies beat The Axis in WW2.
They were officially fighting against "fascism", so officially, fascism ceased to exist after WW2 (with exceptions like Spain, although even there it was automatically whitewashed as something else, now that it had the support of the US).
However, the fusion of corporation and state IS the definition of fascism, and that's exactly the type of regimes we have in the West since the "Progressive Era" and "the Welfare State" happened. They just can't use the correct label, fascism, and choose "social democracy", "democratic socialism", and in the US even more obscure and misleading labels like "republicanism" and even "market economy". nostr:note1d6zhknwjp39f4lawg6rmz0qkktncyl2j40xsq6ywxlrdwy9wksvqjlt3wq
GM #coffeechain 
By the way, isn't it commonly said that the Australian aboriginal people still keep oral records of those times and of the geological and climate changes undergone in that specific region? I'm no expert and I've always been skeptical of such claims, but it'd be very interesting.
Fascinating.
The timelines and the population numbers in the article are pure retarded speculation, but the discovery is compelling....
https://nypost.com/2023/12/22/news/lost-ancient-colony-off-coast-of-australia-discovered/
And the picture of Greek/Roman architecture, as if anything remotely similar was ever built in that region...
But anyway, yes, exploration of the former coastlines of the world should render the most amazing discoveries indeed.
It's just a simplified term to refer to the blend of marxism and progressivism that has become the hegemonic ideology in the West.
As such, it's just the latest iteration of Enlightened Despotism that sprung put of France in the 17th century.
I think it's worth setting that moment as a starting point apart from the premodern forms of tyranny because of the simultaneous emergence (they require each other) of the Westphalian nation-state, which is the hegemonic form of political organization, now more than ever.
The bottom line of this long-standing series of ideologies is a common belief in a centrally planned economic and societal model. That's what it all boils down to, regardless of the label.
Both are examples of defeats due to lack of social and political support by the people, not technology or logistics.
The US barely lost 58,000 soldiers in VN, and only 2,000 in Afghanistan and 4,000 in Iraq.
They could have easily won if the objective had been winning. But I think we all know that the objective in both cases and pretty much in all wars the US has engaged in since 1914 wasn't winning per se.
Kind of surprised about nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a 's naive take on BTC's supposed appeal to the Western left. Speaking as a European, I simply do not see any of the examples Lyn gives.
For the left in the Western European country where I live, the opposition to Putin are the bad guys (so is Ukraine, obviously), women in Afghanistan are a deplorable collateral damage to the good fight against the evil US, and basically anything that like BTC decentralizes economic power out of the iron grip of an ever-expanding State, is pure evil that must be fought to eradication, period.
You guys have no idea of the adamant, relentless, anti-Bitcoin discourse and propaganda of the European left and how ingrained it has become.
Hm yeahhh... nope. (People are delusional, fr)
Well, as a foreigner and non-US resident, Trump was the greatest POTUS in living memory. So from that point of view, I'd like to see him elected (since none of the other potentially good candidates are viable).
He was even good for Bitcoin, with his constant pressure to print more, enormous spending deficit, and so on. But I think if one is short USD, as all bitcoiners are, Biden and the Dems are a much safer bet.
Even more unpopular opinion:
The best possible candidate and government for Bitcoin are a Biden-led executive and a Democrat-controlled legislative.
Note that what's best for Bitcoin and humanity may not be best for the US and its citizens.
Oh I know. One way or another, it's crystal clear that the goal here is to capture and centralize as much BTC as possible, so it's under the direct control of the US Govt.
With all the traveling this past week, I had missed that BlackRock has made their BTC capture scheme redemption cash-only.
I always say the same - no one can say that the globalist fascist regime is sneaky or that the conspiracy lives in the shadow. Can't possibly be clearer and bolder in their intentions.