R: sent in DM where I was working.

i was trying to connect with them on a personal level not just listening to them talking about writing software. scared them senseless.

honestly.. i think i asked them if they wanted to see a photo of my girlfriend.

then i said i think she's really cute. and they just...... stared off into space the rest of the day.

::hugs back atcha my friend.::

put it simply - what does one gain out of a lawsuit except screwing someone else over?

nobody ever has enough money, by design.

what do lawyers do? they screw people out of money, because someone was "offended, or felt wronged." instead of taking it as a learning experience, they decided to be spiteful, vengeful and HIRE someone to screw that other person.

this is in a nutshell, why I don't like the legal establishment.

humans are far too covetous, petty and cruel, but nobody really wants to be that way, at least not after they taste what love is actually like.

as far as rehabilitiating society, well i think a lot of people are nearly too far gone, but we'll see.

the world is going to start looking very different, soon. mostly geographically to start though.

no idea then. 😂😂😂

see longform comment with archeology extra starting with

"prefer ink pen" in last. curious if you've thought about this, before.

its really only good for typing far too much far too fast, or data entry jobs.

otherwise it's just .. a thing.

i far prefer ink pen and paper, to keyboard, myself.

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imagine 500 years from now

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people are living an idyllic life, growing their own food, living in villages, there is nature everywhere, there are no sky scrapers, there is no high rent, there is no govt telling people what to do, nobody steals anything, and life is beautiful. nobody has to go to a job, only work to grow their food and tend to their communities and their homes.

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then after a very rainy season, a sink hole opens up, and our civilization is exposed, an entire NYC office building is discovered, and slowly they excavate it, and although they can tell that humans did live there, they have no idea how, why or what the circumstances were, at that time that caused people to behave so very badly, towards themselves, and others, and what was this affinity with concrete and things that seemed so cold and hateful?

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just a wonderment..

i tried that.. i found it really hard to pretend to be a neutered version of myself day in and day out. i still remember the time i told a joke at this office job.. my two co workers sat there stone face mortified, and it wasn't even a raunchy joke!

they didnt talk to me for the rest of the day, or look at me, either.

thats really beautiful.

my mom and dad actually met in Minnesota, back in high school.

I'm only a small percentage native american, but it's blackfoot/maitee (maiti's), and can't prove it with paperwork. but,

this sounds fantastic. i love lodges, dont mind building things, in fact enjoy it, don't really like electricity, my cellphone is outside and doesn't get used, i have tens of thousands of heirloom seeds i'd love to put in the ground, and love all things wood.

does this place have a name? i dont think they'd be the types to have a website.

thats awesome. i'd like to run or contribute to something like that.

Where does he operate this out of and whats it called??

Honestly I tried the rat race and the fast track, and it really wasn't for me.

I was brushing arms with the upper "crust" of society and found it entirely gruelling and unnatural. I've been inside the getty mansion, talking with Gordon, photographing a cancer benefit, i've met the grand daughter of the former highest ranked chinese politician, i've met carlos santana and shook his hand, etc - blah blah blah ..

its all so boring. you have to run over so many people and change your morals so much to live a life like that, for me its never been attractive or worth it.

tell me about your grandpap's place. I'm curious to learn more.

Life is meant to be simple, spiritual and beautiful. Not fast paced, hectic, and lived indoors.

with any luck, no nukes.

but yeah, its not that i was going there, its just "potentially on the table" always plan ahead by being aware.

i'd love it if computers entirely dissapeared, honestly. the world would be much better off for it.

interesting.

all you really have to do is make people starve and they'll do whatever you ask them to, if you offer them food.

but that's a doomsday scenario and we're going to ignore that.

yes, the largest problem with currency period is it does not scale to all needs. it just "is or is not"" have or have not.

many people have tons of skills, for example - but literally hate money. :)

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You're fine bro.

This is how it is to be an app developer. Everyone wants it their way, and nobody is ever happy with what you do. Most people have no idea how limited developing something for apple or android actually is. and how much of a pain in the *** it is, either.

Or that you have to pay to be an apple developer, and that's really not cheap, etc..

or any # of other things.

yeah i just ... if they would all go away please, that'd be "greaaaat."

been studying that stuff a while .

they've got 15 years of market trials, data, and so on.

the BIS and the IMF have been playing for a long while, and there was one particular line that struck me, and it was about bitcoin, in the end of one of the helvetia docs.. (not the font)

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• Structural flaws make the crypto universe unsuitable as the basis for a monetary system: it lacks a stable nominal anchor, while limits to its scalability result in fragmentation. Contrary to the decentralisation narrative, crypto often relies on unregulated intermediaries that pose financial risks.

• A system grounded in central bank money offers a sounder basis for innovation, ensuring that services are stable and interoperable, domestically and across borders.

Such a system can sustain a virtuous circle of trust and adaptability through network effects.

• New capabilities such as programmability, composability and tokenisation are not the preserve of crypto, but can instead be built on top of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), fast payment systems and associated data architectures

of course they're going to want their own game, but how long before they loosen their belts and drop trow attempting to make crypto illegal, and doing so?

I.Y.H.O. ?

and svb today is dead in the water.

"when do we launch cbdc? it's ready."

there aren't a lot of things i really dont like, but animated gifs are one of those things.

just because for someone with a long attention span, they're like throwing a 10mm wrench across the shop, and saying okay now go find that, and then build a new thingy, but take the time it took to find the wrench, and subtract it from when its supposed to be done.

its just that gifs are the worst.

so like, i'd make a rash of posts here today, but i'-ve been largely keeping off the puter today.

Instead I'll wish you all good evening, morning, or afternoon - and likely continue on with the film I've been attempting to watch, at some point here.

"Stagecoach." with John Wayne. Never tried it before, but its from 1939 and so far pretty anti-climactic, and not that great, but I did really enjoy "The Tall Men," just last night, directed by Roul Walsh.

okay then. onward.

May you all be blessed.

my dad:

it's not what happens to you that matters, it's how you choose to learn and grow from it, that will define you as you face adversity in this life. You can choose to be a victim, or you can choose to grow ahead of things that affected you negatively, and use those experiences as lessons, both to avoid doing the thing that was painful again, and to also evolve as you go about your path.

Lawsuits? Never worth it. Bar = British Accreditation Registry. Working with snakes... They all work for the city of london. Long story there, but lawyers are not your friend. When you're in a court room, you're technically "out to sea." it's called maritime admiralty law / UCC (uniform commercial code) and replaced common law (wrongly imho) many years ago.