That's number 7. 👀

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I'm switching to Bitcoin Knots. Fuck the spam.

Cash isn't king. It's a dictator that whips you into submission.

God, so fucking relatable. Is that really the play? Keep going over it? God, I dunno. What if your family is extremely opinionated and entrenched? You get into fights and arguments galore! Then people don't keep familial ties whatsoever. What the fuck then? Man, I just don't know... Do you just say fuck 'em? I kinda want to but IDK, I do love my family. By family I really only include my mom's side. I do genuinely love them regardless of the fact I don't like them very much. Never knew my dad's side. Perhaps I don't really love my mom's side of the family??? Conflicting thoughts and emotions, man... 😔 https://youtube.com/shorts/Amn8p3sK1bM

I do a lot of writing on YouTube... I feel like I should funnel some of those writings and comments towards nostr but it feels like it's less meaningful because there are more people here who know what's up versus those who are on mainstream platforms. I guess the actual benefit to mirroring things here is to have other like minded people help sharpen or soften my approach on a case by case basis. Could be helpful in recognizing the situations better and then developing strategies. IDK that's kinda wishful thinking, though... As if it would help any amount.

I think we're all just destined to not be listened to and to not listen ourselves. I suppose that now that I'm thinking and writing about this, I think I haven't really been all that conversational in my approach. Perhaps I've been quite one-way in my approach. It's just that I see the whole story, I get the joke, and then I want to just say it all out loud so that there's self-awareness. Probably not a good idea considering there's a lot linked to self-awareness and misery, too much and it's insufferable. So basically, I'm insufferable.

The problem I have is that I listen but I'm on the edge of my seat because I want to talk about the solution. I genuinely want to help them that badly and in that way. Anyone else have this problem? This is in regards to something like the carnivore diet. But it's still so early and the mainstream has been pushing back on it as if it was a fad diet. Simply put, it's not in the Overton Window and I feel like people desperately want to cling on to their problems and traumas. Perhaps it's just me being gullible to believe that the spirit of optimism is in or can be brought to others so easily. 🤔

Bro at this point I've fried my brain... Guess I'm just yapping. The real solution here is to not be so trigger happy with telling the conclusion, have the answers to tough hard science questions, question, and investigate with an honest, genuine, meaningful conversation. I've been fucking awful at that recently. I just wish it didn't have to be this way but the reality is that it is this way with literally everything in life. Not even the carnivore diet. 😔

This is something I'm wrestling with too. Perhaps this phenomenon exists to humble us... 😩 😔

Pretty based take ngl. Well the problem with believing the axiom that there can never be too much freedom is that it invites too much chaos. So much that there's no direction. Unless we define freedom as the perfect harmony between order and chaos, the freedom with direction. Which then scratch the comment about order and chaos.

But it all still begs the question of whether people will really learn. Yes time and new people change what is and isn't established. Government will always overstep. If it weren't for the problem of violence, threat of harm, war, and foreign governments, then we wouldn't feel the need for government.

Honestly if everyone was raised to learn how to fight physically and verbally, everyone owned weapons, knew how to use them, and everyone understood the responsibility, respect, and caution required when using such weapons, then we might not need to outsource fighting to a big centralized federal government military. Perhaps it's just we've regressed to such a point where such traditions aren't as common and we've gotten to the point where we want to abstract away the fighting to someone else in fear. 🧠

Good point. So really it's an inevitability that people want governments even if governments aren't exactly a good idea. I don't know if there's ever going to be a point in human history where we learn from this mistake. I think it's just a fundamental human need or desire to have some order. Too much order and it's evil. Too much freedom and you have no direction. So really, isn't it inevitable that we have a government? And if so, what ought it do for people? Because if that's not defined and enforced, then it'll strictly do things to people. It's probably a good idea for the government to be as big or small as absolutely necessary and only do things for people that only a government could do. Which might be a military. Might be something else.

True, absolutely true... Amen to that! People ought to not look the other way and we ought to have the power to say no. This also could be a problem of which comes first, the government doing this to people or just people doing this to people.

Which is certainly an entirely related discussion on the fundamental reality of humanity, good, evil, order, and chaos. Don't get me wrong, the US government is certainly evil. It has way too much power and control. Not to mention the kinds of things it uses to attain this power and control. Poor money, poor dietary advice, poor... Well, lots of things but I'm not broadened enough to tell you anything else! 😂

But I was just thinking about this other thought. Let's say we have a large mass of land like the US, we're truly free, and we don't have a federal government or perhaps any government. What's to stop some other people somewhere else with a government from trying to impose their government on that large area via violence and threat?

Maybe you'd have to have people organize together to either mitigate the threat, prevent the war, or contest such threat in warfare and combat. At that point you might want some money, other people, and some applicable resources in general. It starts to look like a government in some regard. Perhaps it's not strictly a government. At the very least, you might need an organization or at least something resembling an organization. Perhaps what's needed is the separation of military and state or perhaps the re-conceptualization of the government as military or something kind of like that. Though there might be dragons in the re-conceptualization department of things... 😬

In fairness, let's suppose something a little different. Let's say this outside power attempts to use war to enslave a large population and enforce government but they can't. Maybe it's because it's hard to enslave a large mass of land with a large population of free people who are scattered throughout the land. Especially if we're going to assume most of those people have common sense, are quite intelligent, and have persisted for generations with tried and true traditions. There is also the idea of guerrilla warfare... So perhaps you don't necessarily need that organization.

Hm, that's a good idea to chew on. Because who knows where the free people are and what they're doing? Only by having a government that tries to know and enslave would you find out.

But there is also the decentralized problem of, "hey I see this bit of land on this map over here and I want or need it. Oh, looks like someone's already taken it and they won't part with it. I'll just kill them to take it." Now killing in this situation isn't necessarily the first thing that might cross someone's mind, but it could become a option given either dire circumstances or eventual malice.

This situation is perhaps more local than global. So relating it back to your point, and convincingly in favor might I add, that governments may only exist to expand and scale the local problem to a gobal level. Now the question, should that be the case? I honestly don't know.. What do you think? Or are these the wrong questions? 🤔

Great question, it's to protect against adversaries known and unknown. People who may or will want to exert kenetic, violent power over people for various reasons. Perhaps not even tyrannical ones now that you're getting me thinking! 😁 🧠

Good question, we'll see where this goes... My thoughts are if there isn't government, then who's going to organize a military? Who's going to keep the funds for such military? We ought to have one. If we don't, then we're sitting ducks. There are people who have to play the game of power, even if they don't want to. Because there's always going to be some lunatic who worships the game of power, some tyrant... There will always be someone with the desire to exert that power over people through violence, war, and military might.

Got a family member who's going to try carnivore for 3 weeks. The problem, we're meeting up with our grandparents who are very, very entrenched in a bad mixed diet philosophy focused on mainstream advice and plants. Not only that but 3 weeks probably isn't going to be enough time. I feel like picking this time window is a conscious decision where failure is more likely...

Let's just say this family member values eating the same things as family more than health. It's especially dangerous since my grandparents are very judgemental, arrogant, without hope, combative, miserable, and identify with their problems.

They also really, really try to push their lifestyle on to you. There's a lot of very forced "live my way and do things with me" kinds of games. They have a fit if you don't like them or want to do something with them. They struggle with the concept of people who don't want to spend time with them. And usually what they want you to do is to live like them.

They believe they're right about their lifestyle but they have no good indication of such, nor are they open minded enough to at least accept that there is more to know within their own system than they realize. There's also no humility, a lot of lying in arguments, and running to theology whenever they're out of their depth. Who knew old people could be so childish? This is why I've started to say to myself, "I have to let them die their way and hopefully they'll let me die in mine." What an awful mindset! 😩

Problem, Strike requires KYC regulations. You would have to awkwardly enter your details in or the other person's. A better idea might be to install a good, reputable wallet app and then send Bitcoin on-chain or via lightning to that person.

In regards to the coffee thing, well... Lemme introduce you to Bitrefill and thebitcoincompany. You can go to either website or app and buy gift cards with Bitcoin on-chain or with Lightning. And yes, they have Starbucks gift cards. As long as they can add gift cards to Apple pay or Google's wallet app, then all that's left is to try tap to pay (NFC) at a local POS device.

Alternatively they could use a credit card to buy the coffee and then pay off the bill with Strike's bill pay. But that's only if you can get past the awkward part of putting in your info or someone else's.

Same! I hardly watch any. If I do, it's usually because I hit the seven seas to watch an episode or season from a show. That's something I seldomly participate in.

Perhaps! On the face of it, I like the idea. But I wonder about the US military and how that would change- if at all... 🤔

I used to have skin tags a year or so ago. In fact, I actually just easily plucked off a little skin tag that used to be pretty big. It was on my left eyelid and now it's gone. It's crazy how just going carnivore reduced the size of that skin tag. I had no idea carnivore could remedy skin tags! Not only that but this video was quite informative. I didn't know what they meant until now. Thanks Doc! 😁

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