I didn’t know Marcus Aurelius wrote about bitcoin.
#TheMoreYouKnow
Hard pass! For my money, Batman, The Animated Series was far better.
The character development, from Bruce Wayne, to the villains he faced as the Batman, to the challenges he faced as the Batman, himself, was excellent. The animation was smooth. The plots were full.
Completely and utterly
This feels like it’s crossing the line of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Voter registration drives are allowed as long as they are conducted in a non-partisan manner and do not mislead or coerce individuals into registering. In other words, the person offering the commission must not be affiliated with a political party and must not pressure or deceive people into registering.
Yeah, no arguments here about that at all. I’m just asking why there is an @america handle in the first place. I never knew about that, or any other country having their own handle. I didn’t know that was a thing, or when it became a thing, or why that thing would be a good thing to exist, at all.
I knew there was a @POTUS account, but haven’t used Twitter for a long time.
Why is there an @america Twitter handle? Is there one for other countries? Who manages that, usually?
Hey #Plebs, #NostrPlebs,
I met a bitcoiner last year who had recently gone down the rabbit hole. Listening to lots of podcasts, but not reading very much. I know this because he kept repeating how he had been “orange-peeled” and how he wanted to “orange peel” as many people as he could. Evidently, never seeing it written down, he did not know that the term is “orange-pilled,” as a reference to the decision Neo has to make between the red pill, which will wake him up to a life-changing truth, and the blue pill which leave him asleep and living an ordinary existence inside The Matrix (1999).
He didn’t know the reference and it was an innocent mistake — not one of any real consequence. But here’s another for all you Plebs, #BitcoinPlebs, doing it all #ForThePlebs.
Of course language can change over time and slang can hold different meanings but, in this case, you are actively reinforcing the belief that there is a division in society (originally Rome) between the elites and the common people, the haves and have nots, the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. Ah, yes. It’s literally a Marxist framework and you are swallowing it uncritically, regurgitating it enthusiastically, and binding yourself to an ideology that DOES NOT WORK for a free society. Unless you are a Marxist, stop using this language.
You cannot talk about creating generational wealth while simultaneously bashing the wealthy class… which you will become once you create said generational wealth with #Bitcoin. It is only through Capitalism that you will create the wealth you seek. Not Marxism. Not even Anarchism.
An Honest Capitalist is a net producer of value (whether products or services). They are rewarded in the free market in the form of profit if they can steer their enterprise effectively, efficiently and fairly among a variety forces: sales margin, competition, regulation, supply chain management, employee satisfaction, customer service, growth, etc. It is, of course, true that we live in an age of Crony Capitalism which rewards intermediaries, nepotism, political connections, regulatory loopholes, obligatory intermediaries and rent-seeking (which has nothing prima facie to do with your landlord or real estate), etc.
…but that doesn’t mean that we should be reconsidering Marxism, Socialism, or Communism and using THEIR mental framework and language.
May you be happy.
May you be free from suffering.
May you be free of fear and regret.
May you find peace in this life.
#metta #meditation
Did you ever meet people in school/uni who said things like, “Learning math and science is stupid. When am I ever gonna use this stuff in real life?”
Well, now you can see what those people become as adults.
Depends on the browser. If Safari, I sometimes start fresh by going to each tab and close after saving the Reader View version to iBooks or Files as a pdf, and then read them on a slow weekend or during a vacation by the pool.
If Duck Duck / Firefox, I do the same but hit Ctrl+P and then Save as PDF.
No, you’re looking at it myopically.
Unless, do you think ONLY people with children/descendants want to support others??
Though I am child-free, I feel support people (as well as non-human animals) who will outlive me, most of whom I do not know, will not know, and who will never know me. That’s what philanthropy is all about. Hard money serves this purpose for me just as much as it does for someone who only wants to give to their blood relatives.
No. A wise an successful person leaves wealth to *anyone* they deem should be a beneficiary. There is no requirement that it be a blood relation. It can be a friend or a friend’s child. It can be a donation to anonymous individuals. It can be an endowment to a charity dedicated to a cause, or university for scholarships.
I don’t follow. What connection do you see between the two?
Over the past few years, I’ve seen #Bitcoin fans and people who view themselves as influencers take a variety of uncompromising stances on things that have nothing to do with hard money.
Whether it was dietary (meat-only), constitutional (2A), political (insert preferred lunatic), cultural (modern art sucks), medical (anti-vaxx), environmental (anti-ESG), etc. and now, it seems, there’s this trend to promote human reproduction. I typically don’t like to get involved in any of these arguments because, well, it’s a waste of my precious time.
When I first became interested in it, ten years ago, I was fascinated by an immutable, censorship-resistant, cryptographically secure, pseudonymous, global, P2P, non-governmental, digital money that was, at that time, non-correlated to other asset classes. I saw this value then and I still do, for the most part. But that’s it.
Just because I was early in appreciating this, I don’t think that gives me special knowledge in other domains. Evidently, others feel differently.
On the topic of raising a family, do it if you want.. but implying that other people’s lives are meaningless if they do not want kids is just something I cannot abide.
I’m here to tell you that child-free is great, too. Don’t let society, parents, or bullies pressure you into doing something you don’t want to do. You only get one life, do what you want with it. nostr:note1f6zhtr80pp6rskpngcgtcaqv3m4qd5vtsskn2e39g5z9k3k7l54ssax9k0
That’s all well and good FOR YOU, but there are a variety of ways to contribute to something bigger than yourself, if you have the inclination to do so and, perhaps, some imagination beyond your reproductive biology.
You misread Darwin. “Fitness” has absolutely nothing to do with an individual decision to contribute to anything greater than the self.