In general, I like it, but many newbies aren't set up with sats and a lightning wallet yet. That makes them unable to pay to follow and makes them leave. Until it is a little easier to setup a wallet and zap really easily, that would just drive people away.
The other problem is what happens when bitcoin sky rockets and a sat is real money? We don't want to force something that causes problems later. I suppose if it was optional, it might be OK.
That being said, I'd definitely be willing to pay a sat to follow someone.
On the way to church this morning, I saw this large herd of elk bedded down in a field along the road.
In the zoomed in picture, notice the large bull elk surrounded by his cows.
Explicit taxes are way more than 10%. They just collect a huge number of smaller taxes to hide how much they are really stealing. Of course inflation steals more and then they tax capital gains that aren't real gains, but are just apparent gains caused by the reduced purchasing power of the fiat currencies.
Matt Walsh: "It took like thousands of years for it to ever even occur to a single human on earth that slavery is actually, fundamentally wrong."
Me: "Matt, people are STILL okay with slavery, and don't even realize that they are slaves!"
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vqvra6TPlImA4VPmAhE15
https://pod.link/360084272/episode/9612ac2394fb51fc8e5d33526bc5eef6
Every single person who votes themselves "free" stuff is supporting slavery. They are forcing other people to work and not receive the benefit so they can receive the benefit and not work. They are acting as slave owners, but they use government as their proxy so they can feel good about stealing from others.
The hike was actually to the top of Lily Mountain. I hiked a 14er (Mt Elbert) when I was younger. I think my 14er hikes are over, but we made it just shy of 10,000 feet and it was very steep with a hard rock scramble at the top, so I feel good about it and even better that I'm able to move the next day.
I actually live in Wyoming, but Estes is always nice. I am also a big fan of Telluride, CO, although I haven't been there in a while.
I'm still trying to figure out optimal. I was very low carb (<15 g/day) for 4-5 years and felt good, got to a healthy weight, etc. After a while I got to the point that I would gain weight if I ate more than 1600 calories a day, my gut got really messed up, I started having food sensitivities, and I had trouble with high cortisol in the morning waking me up early feeling like a furnace, so I was unable to get enough sleep. Raising my carbs (vegetables & fruits only. I still don't do grains or processed food other than 88%+ and usually 92% chocolate sometimes) and upping my fiber, helped with all of those problems. My gut isn't fully healed yet, but the other issues are gone.
I have verified the cortisol issues are due to my blood sugar being low in the early morning, so my body produces a bunch of cortisol to convert protein into glucose to fuel the parts of my body that need glucose. Overall, I feel a little better with more carbs (but still much less than the standard American diet). I agree 100% on avoiding grains, seed oils, and processed food, although I'll admit to breaking down and eating sushi (including rice) up to 4x/year.
Dairy/calcium only clogs arteries if you don't get enough vitamin K2. The K2 puts the calcium into your bones and teeth. We all need a balance of calcium, magnesium, vitamin D3, and vitamin K2. They work together. It is getting out of balance that causes problems.
Even most of the skinny ones look half dead, like zombies. They are doing something wrong.
Most people follow the crowd or the popular people unless they stop, consider and find a really good reason to not follow them. My gut always tells me to do the opposite and stay away from the popular and only do as they do if given a really good reason.
I doubt it is good to be either extreme, but I do think following the crowd and the popular is more likely to get you in trouble.
Just added this to my listening list thanks to nostr:npub15vzuezfxscdamew8rwakl5u5hdxw5mh47huxgq4jf879e6cvugsqjck4um
Good book.
The peak is just shy of 10,000 feet tall and the last mile climbs about 1,000 feet.
As part of celebrating my 25th anniversary, we decided to do a longish hike. The hike ended up being very strenuous and harder than expected. We almost turned around before the end, but ran into some people that encouraged us to continue because the view was worth it. We felt every one of those 25 extra years, but the view at the end was so worth it. The peak had shear drop offs on 3 sides and 360 panoramic views of the entire valley of Estes Park, CO. The tall peak is Long's Peak which is one of the fourteeners (peaks over 14,000 feet high).
I think it is wise to not give young kids cell phones, but when you do decide it would be nice to have a way to communicate with them, if don't want them wasting their time online or doing other crazy stuff, you can get a Gab phone. It looks like a smart phone but doesn't hook to the internet. It does calls, text (if you want), calendar, alarms, and other basic features. It is cheaper for the phone and the service than most phones. It is a good option if you want to protect your kid.
Hopefully there are enough people like you to prevent it happening again. I think there are lots, but I don't know if it is enough.
Definitely a possibility. Israel seems to keep doing things to make Iran think twice about getting directly involved. (pager bombs, taking out a proxy leader at their leader's palace, etc.)
There are lots of ways, but no guarantees without spending a bunch of money, which is unlikely to be worth it. As much as I hate traditional social media, it is a good way to get the information out on this. Think about places that the well-to-do frequent and see if you can hang flyers at any of those places. Tell everyone you know to tell anyone they know about it. I think some grocery stores have a board for flyers. Are there any big businesses where potential clients might work? You could ask if you could hang flyers there. "We can cook for your employees so they can work longer," is a good motivation for the business to allow you to hang flyers. There also might be some older people who would like the service, so maybe a senior center.
That depends on the kid and their age. Young kids need lots of help. Older kids, if you have instilled a love of learning and responsibility, are capable of learning on their own.
I will say, that it does make a difference when a kid has a parent (or someone who loves them. Some friends of ours have grandma homeschooling) helping them. It builds closeness. It helps the kid if they are having problems. It helps the kid stay on track. Learning together is fun.
Personally, I don't like dumping a kid in front of a screen, even if it is a lesson from the best teacher on earth, for hours of learning. If there is a subject you don't feel qualified to teach, making use of online classes is handy. I've used some online classes, but I've never had the kids do all of their learning online.
All of that is 100% true, but we aren't to rebel for the sake of rebelling. We are to rebel against evil and in faithful service to God.
I recently heard that Iran is about a month away from having multiple nukes. This may be Israel's way of taking out the proxies because they expect a wider war when they bomb Iran's nuclear facilities.
I hope I'm wrong about this, but I don't think Israel let Iran get nukes because Iran is pretty much guaranteed to drop one on Israel.
Can you say Gog/Magog war?
Two facts about my dog.
One he has a nostr account nostr:npub138y5h8asc895pxdndrdnx4mgnz5aq55zmy2aerhfad2zlagq0a5qw3aszc.
Two he eats so much food (two large bowls for a 10 pound dog), and then every time I go into the kitchen he shows up and I have to give him something. He gets steak, salami, chicken, yellow and red peppers, pear, apple, frozen figs. And he NEVER gains weight.
Maybe it’s because his food is this organic slop from a dog food store that has no grains — he is low carb except for the fruit we occasionally give him, and it’s very small pieces at that.
Hilarious when he eats a chunk of apple or pepper because he doesn’t have molars, so he had to really clomp his jaw together to grind it down.
But the amount he consumes relative to his size without gaining any weight is astounding.
It almost sounds like he eats as much as my 112 lb dog.
Them refers only to Adam and Eve, not to some random other people. Genesis 1 is a summary of God's entire creation. Genesis 2 is the details of how He created the first man and the first woman. They aren't a sequence. They are Him going into more details about His special creation of mankind, which was the purpose of His whole creation.
"12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned— " (Romans 5:12). The first sin was committed by Eve and then Adam. Sin led to death. Therefore there was no death before Adam and Eve, so there can not be people before Adam and Eve. God tells exactly how He created Adam and Eve. They did not come from other people or animals.
"So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit. " (1 Corinthians 15:45) This verse explicitly says Adam was the first living soul.
"But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh." (Mark 10-6-8) This New Testament verse not only talks about man and woman being created "from the beginning of creation", but also quotes Genesis 2:24 as fact.
When Benjamin Franklin was asked about how to stop poverty, he said (paraphrased) "The best thing we can do for the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their poverty." He said this because many needed to become uncomfortable in order to motivate them to stop being lazy and using others. If they were really uncomfortable, they would do what was necessary to improve their situation.
In the same way, we don't want to make people comfortable in their obesity. It is hard work to turn things around when you're addicted to carbs and toxic chemicals, flavors, and colors. It is hard to change when you feel bad and therefore don't have motivation. We shouldn't be mean, but we don't wan the obese to be comfortable because that is not for their personal good.
It is so obvious that it breaks my heart half of the nation can't see it at all.
At first there was one name, but attached to multiple different relays. Now the spam bots have multiplied and they are spamming everything. Lots of posts have 2-5 different copy replies. I think yours only had 2.