How am I being manipulated?
How to fight the system (a lazy coward’s guide):
Make your money helping people cheat the system (I write assignments for kindergarten teachers, who in my country need a degree to get a job)
Eat only meat
Buy #bitcoin every day
Move to a poor country
I want to do more, eventually, but this is pretty chill and legal
Whatever wokeness is or isn’t is simply irrelevant, except the fact that it’s a culture that discourages criticism.
That’s all you need to know. A N Y such group will attract and reward psychopaths and predators, who will use it as shelter while they do the most vile and despicable stuff.
I don’t care about the other stuff. If people are against criticism, they’re my enemy.
I’ve finally found my ideal way of making money, and it’s fucking beautiful.
I write assignments for people.
I get to do something I find fun and rewarding, which I’m *really* good at. Monday-thursday I wrote
2000 words on educational rights of special needs children: $300
1500 words on power in literature: $200
3000 words on perspective and significance in history: $300
1000 words on government health expenditure: $150
Next week: one exam and finishing a master’s thesis.
I also get to learn a lot of new stuff, a peek at what students are expected to learn, and once I get into MA’s and BA’s, it is really well paid (because it often leads directly to a rise.
Cherry on top: I get to sabotage a broken system I have the utmost contempt for.
*chef’s kiss*
This seems to apply even to people who have spent years writing code for ethereum and receiving their paychecks in eth.
Having looked into it for a few weeks, I can confirm that most ethereum maxis have no idea how it actually works or what it’s supposed to do, and mostly get their faith in the asset from the fact that people they consider smart and trustworthy have assured them that it’s all going to become awesome at some unspecified future date.
One day, the word «bitcoiner» will be very hard to explain to people.
Haven’t eaten for 98 hours. Tomorrow I have a date with a marbled beauty.
DEFINITELY thinking more clearly than usual. There some kind of decisiveness, a shorter, simpler path between thought and action. Pretty cool!
Interesting sidenote: This experiment of mine came after a pretty intense round of lemon-teched shrooms (3.5 grams), where I realized that I should learn how to do stuff that I have an aversion to. How I put it in my notes:
"Stop fighting myself and start negoriating with myself".
My wife was planning a fast for health reasons, and I thought "perfect!".
A hard thing that I can do while not actually doing anything. This is the way: push my boundries gently, and try to discover the shape of my executive function (which is basically out of order).
83 hours without food. Feeling way better today, I guess ketosis has kicked in (or whatever it’s called (I’m really clueless about this stuff)).
Other changes: I am usually very hard to wake up, but for the past two days I’ve come out of sleep easily and feeling more rested. Could also be because I go to bed earlier, because the evenings have been the worst.
As for the promised "Clarity of though": I did solve a problem I’ve had for a year today, and I found it weird that I hadn’t done it earlier (getting my 3 y.o. son to brush his teeth). I don’t know if it was a good solution though (just pure decisiveness: "you’re a big boy now, you’re going to brush your teeth one way or the other, and I’m not having it. You have to stop with this behavior"). At least he dealt with it much better than earlier, and I felt better about it.
One question though: what causes clarity of thought? Am I smarter? I suspect the opposite: If I did an IQ-test rn I’m pretty sure I’d score below my normal. But thought is more than IQ and a big IQ isn’t necessarily without drawbacks.
No food envy when the kids ate breakfast either. If this is going to be the new normal, I’m tempted to delay my reunion with food - which, btw, will consist of meat only for a while.
Yesterday I bought myself a present for being such a good boy
Day 3 of the fast. 67 hours since I last ate.
I’ve not been productive today, to put it mildly. Thinking a lot about food. But still not especially hungry. According to the experts, I’ll probably feel very different by this time tomorrow.
I’m trying an extended fast. 48 hours in and surprisingly little hunger so far.
I’ll keep ya posted in the coming days. Going for 100 hours - more if I feel like it.
Free markets work because they automatically reward people for the work of maintaining them.
In that sense, Bitcoin is a simulated free market.
Flip that last part. Declare things wrong in public, don’t fight the urge. You shouldn’t fight it in your mind either, because if you do you won’t be able to defend your declaration properly.
What you should fight is all and any kind of tendencies to imagine that your declaration is the final word, beyond doubt or a settled matter.
I’ve heard people say that Taproot (or was it Segwit?) was "more or less forced" on node operators.
1) To what extent is that true?
2) How does one force nodes to do anything?
I’ve been trying to onboard my shitposter friends. That’s what this place truly needs: Premium grade shitposting 💪