Can't buy that McMansion, RV, boat, jet skis, Escalade, and a brodozer on one income.

I love how some men basically pimp their wives out so they can keep making payments. Peak fiat.

Oh man, I run into a lot of problems when I say this out loud, but I truly believe and live by it: My wife does not work, and I will do my best to ensure my daughters don’t have to either.

Call me crazy but I don’t believe women should have to work if they don’t want to.

Botev’s European participation for the 24/25 season is over.

⚽The Canaries have played a total of six European matches this summer.

👏Thank you for your support in each of them.

💪We continue doing the work.

🧡The ₿est is Yet To Come!

#BPFC #grownostr

People who think they’re clever because they want “equality of opportunity, not outcome” are fully retarded.

I don’t use the word should. If he can’t find a way to accrue savings, it doesn’t matter what his MoE is.

I think about this all the time. Like bro you know me irl lol 😂 I’m the richest person you know. I’m on like every bitcoin podcast and I’m right here Infront of you willing to help you and you still don’t want the help. Unbelievable.

I know that the volatility is the main counter argument. I don’t buy it because the only way anyone can free themselves is with long term savings. With fiat as a monetary instrument, there is a precisely 0% chance of that working. At least with Bitcoin, they have some chance at long term savings.

Point taken. I’m not here to say what anyone *should* do. Everyone can do whatever peaceful action they want.

As far as if it helps them, we criticize westerners with banking access who use regular fiat or people who monetize stocks, bonds, and houses with their savings instead of Bitcoin. Does it help them? People voluntarily do a myriad of self destructive things, but does their volition automatically mean that it’s helping them? I don’t recommend *forcing* or using the word *should* to anyone to say, stop shitcoining or to put down the bottle of alcohol. But a “hey, that’s probably not good for you. It’s only exacerbating the problem. You might want to reconsider” seems reasonable.

In all those above cases, their actions are only perpetuating their own enslavement. The only path to liberation is Bitcoin.

Why

I wouldn't say I love Tether, but I'm mostly indifferent about it. It's a huge step up from traditional banking and its a very interesting tool, but it also furthers the dollar network, bolsters the US treasury market, and is explicitly still just a dollar credit token.

I see its benefits and its drawbacks. I prefer Tether existing than it not, for sure, but I don't love it and it's not the solution to our biggest problems, its just an interesting new take on banking infrastructure, imo.

Super based. Next, they’ll placate Bitcoiners by issuing these slave tokens on Bitcoin/Lightning with Taro.

If possible, I’d like my node to not rebroadcast these taproot-slave-token-asset txs. Like you can do now with inscription data. nostr:note19vaprrfdjkwu9jefmr7sutgjfhsepdxzrkkzy2kht5c9c8hrf90q5aa7ys

I have a habit of encouraging pretty much everyone I come across.

I like to find out what someone really wants in life but has been too afraid to go for and then push them to go for it.

My wife tells me this is a waste of my time, because often the people I encourage don’t end up following through.

But what she doesn’t understand is that I don’t do it for others, I do it for me.

If 1/100 people take the advice and change their life that’s enough for me.

Another mind free from the matrix.

Mission accomplished.

Tether is not a CBDC.

It's literally a BDC

Tether is not a central bank, they don't issue notes of an independent monetary unit. They aren't associated with any govt. Tether is just a modern banknote with most of the same problems, risks, and trust issues. The difference being it is available to anyone with a smart phone without an account -- which is actually a significant improvement over the old garbage.

Tether is custodian issued digital banknotes. Literally in every use of those terms this is the accurate thing to call it. "Cash" has always just referred to banknotes issued that were redeemable in gold or at a bank that was a bearer asset. The difference with a stablecoin like Tether and physical cash is the oversight/surveillance that the institution has for the digital alternative. This is why ecash is actually the only thing that digitally shares basically all the characteristics of physical cash (txn privacy from issuer and bearer asset). Tether is far easier to freeze accounts and spy on what everyone is doing. Obviously why people want to label it "something bad."

My point is that the CBDC label is NOT accurate, and when we use words and labels arbitrarily, it desensitizes people to them. If people just become "whatever" about Tether (because if you don't use it, who cares), and everyone calls it a CBDC, then after a few years of this people are just going to think "CBDCs are fine, who cares?"

Calling everything we don't like a CBDC is a HUGE BENEFIT to actual CBDCs.

Bank digital currencies are not a problem. They will remain solvent as long as the "bank" does. They are a much better option than credit cards, and the option of being able to issue ecash is even better.

BDCs are certainly a far cry from the #Bitcoin sovereign world that we are building and have nothing to do with it, but they are ALSO a far cry from a genuine CBDC.

So please, stop using words that matter in a stupid and cheap way, because when we REALLY need them, you'll have sucked them of all of their power and meaning.

Remember when people would never take the “Trump vaccine” then a year later they were prepared to fine you or throw you in a gulag for not taking it?

What are some of the best movies of the past five years?

Kid needed to hear it. Mom / dad probably never disciplines him that’s why he has the issues

Moment of vulnerability here, wondering if anyone has had a similar experience before.

I completely LOST it on another person's kid today when I thought they had intentionally hurt my daughter, but I was wrong and now I feel horrible.

Context: on a road trip with another family. The other child has behavioral issues and has been known to get physical in the past with others at school and daycare. Over the course of the trip he's been pretty poorly behaved and aggressive but not downright violent... but I had it in the back of my mind that it could happen.

My daughter was playing with him in the other room, then suddenly runs out screaming, bleeding from the mouth and saying that he had hit her. I've never experienced anyone intentionally hurt my little girl and I instantly flew into protective dad mode before properly assessing the situation. In my mind he had punched her in the mouth.

I stormed into the room and flew into a rage, screaming at the absolute top of my lungs, pointing my finger in the kid's face saying to NEVER touch her EVER again. His mom was right behind me. He was likely terrified and I was honestly way beyond any level of anger I've ever felt.

In the next minute or two my daughter then clarified that it was an accident and they had been playing rough but had unintentionally slammed into each other.

The boy cried, his mom was in shock, and she also had tears in her eyes. I feel absolutely awful about the whole situation, I should have had more self control, and I'm a little in shock how quickly I became an absolute monster to a young kid.

I apologized in the moment to both of them and sent a message after saying I should have handled the situation better.

Just really upset about the whole thing, unsure how to proceed now. Any girl dads out there ever have this happen to them?

many times, no luck.