Like the tattoo, it's just a convenient signaling/tagging mechanism telling you whom to avoid.

Remember that time you said GM after having said GM several days prior? That was a really great GM and I think of it often.

It's a great OS. Love it.

This is one of the reasons I'm going to bail on Proton and self host email, calendar, and contacts. They won't lift a finger to bring basic 2010-era functionality to their dated apps. Meanwhile, they spend their time developing Bitcoin wallets and AI gimmickry that no one even wants. One of their recent promo emails said something along the lines of, "AI functionality is here, whether we want it or not!" That's the moment when I finally gave up on Proton.

I'm on the same journey, bro. GrapheneOS is awesome. Over a year in and I don't miss Apple at all.

Nice! So GrapheneOS definitely works on Pixel 10?

" 'Great life strategy' is subjective. "

That's exactly my point. Some people are cut out for the marriage and family lifestyle and some aren't. It's subjective.

" 'Isn't sinful' is between one and their Maker. "

Nope. The sinfulness of a thing isn't decided as part of some negotiation between a creature and his creator. The creator tells us what's sinful and what's not. It's not up for negotiation. Staying single is explicitly categorized as non-sinful.

" 'Actually quite common' is a bandwagon fallacy. "

Bandwagon fallacy? What is this, eight grade debate class? LOL.

Yes, believe it or not, it really is *common* for a woman to opt out of the marriage and family lifestyle without being a whore. I'm referring to OP's post which stated that the only two viable options for a woman are to (1) marry young and start breeding or (2) become a whore.

See:

https://tinyurl.com/ynchdtah

LOL. Can't tell if you're trolling me or if you actually believe this.

That's simply not true.

Jesus was single. Paul was single. Both of them encouraged men (and by extension women) to remain unmarried. They went out of their way to tell us that neither marriage, nor remaining single is sinful.

No disrespect to those who find fulfillment in marriage and child rearing. But those who opt out aren't implicitly choosing whoredom. Some do go down that path, of course. But others are celibate and just go about the business of enjoying their lives.

The thing is though...

It's possible for a woman to avoid the drudgery of marriage and children without embracing whoredom. It's a great life strategy, isn't sinful, and is actually quite common.

One can say a lot of things about AI but "underhyped" isn't one of them.

Meanwhile he promotes dog-themed memecoins. He's an attention-seeking grifter who doesn't even believe his own words.

Yes to all. I saw a response to one of your other posts, presumably from a Catholic, that said something like "No Mary, no Jesus. Know Mary, know Jesus." Absolutely horrifying. I'll never understand those who see Roman Catholicism as a somewhat misguided form of Christianity. It's not Christian at all. MacArthur once quoted someone (can't recall whom) who said that "the Catholic church is Satan's greatest masterpiece." I tend to agree.

Nice. La Jolla native here. Nowhere beats California!

San Diego?

You post enjoyable and sometimes weird stuff, tell it like it is, and don't virtue signal. I think there's always an audience for that kind of honest content.

That's a good way to live, my man.

I'm retired, own no property, have zero debt, lease month-to-month, own virtually nothing, no kids or dependents other than a cute girlfriend, minimal bank balance, and some corn. I'm content AF. Being fiat-poor with no long-term commitments and having freedom to maneuver is better than being rich in my opinion. No comparison whatsoever.

A man, a plan, a canal. Panama.

Great essay, and I don't really disagree, but some examples or anecdotes might be helpful. What kind of lies are we talking about? Telling a 200 pound women that she's beautiful? Misrepresentations on a resume? Not providing full transparency to government agencies? Claiming you read the terms and conditions? Different lies have different impacts.

Because I only have two channels open. Both of them are with OKX. Anyone who sends to me or receives from me will have a path that passea through OKX at some point.

I read all your posts.

I'm not sure what your Lightning setup is or why your wallet returning an internal error, but I'm able to send and receive without issue.

"We got temporary_channel_failure for the invoice's route hint, assuming it can't carry 1000msat. "

My route hint is pointing to OKX Lightning node which, according to 1ml.com, has 380 BTC of Lightning liquidity.

As for my own node, I have about $6,000 of inbound capacity.

So OKX and my node are the only two links in the chain and each link has more than enough capacity for a 1 sat transfer. So assuming you have a path to OKX, and pretty much everyone does, there shouldn't be a problem.

For what it's worth, I can see on my side that the invoices for your 1 sat payment were successfully generated. They were just never paid.

It works just fine.

I don't know these people but it sounds like she got a really good deal. She just needs to grind out five years with that schmuck and get her citizenship locked in. From there, she can write her own ticket.

There's no shortage of wealthy, older, beta males wanting to play hero to "rescue" her. At least that's the case in SoCal. As long as she doesn't self-sabotage and make herself undesirable by gaining weight or getting tatted up, both she and the kid have a bright future.

Katy Perry went into space a while back and didn't report any surprises re: the shape of the earth. If the earth were flat, she would've written a song about it.

Great article.

Oh wow, didn’t realize that product even existed. Looks like what I need. Thanks for that!

The “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” author was a guy named Josh Harris. He’s an interesting fellow. He wrote that book in his twenties and, even as a young man, I remember thinking it was complete nonsense. He became a darling in Christian circles though. Youth groups everywhere were reading his garbage.

A few years back, he realized that the book, and his association with Christianity was costing his marketing business customers, particularly among the pervert crowd (LBQ whatever). So he went on an apology tour, embraced the perversions he once despised, divorced his wife, and then renounced not only his book, but Christianity as a whole. It got him a few headlines for maybe a week, but he never regained that fame he once had. He once again faded into obscurity never to be heard from again.

Frighteningly accurate.

Flight attendants and Nordstrom shoe salesmen?

I don’t get it. Who is this person?

Agree 💯. The counterargument always seems to be that people’s consumption will plummet. But so what? Is that a bad thing? Isn’t that exactly what the eco-virtue signalers say they want? All their posturing about lowering consumption to save the planet is BS. They *need* inflationary fiat theft to fund their welfare schemes. At the end of the day, they value the handouts that fiat debasement provides rather than the massive reduction in consumption, CO3 emissions, etc. that deflation would enable.

It’s strange that a single mom with a tattoo would see herself as a catch.