When it comes to the #BitcoinMindset there are three stages:

1. You don't get it.

2. You get it, but are waiting until others start using it.

3. You get it and use it no matter what others do.

Which stage are you at?

This may seem controversial, but I actually like that Japan is homogeneous. It’s more pronounced where I am compared to say Tokyo and I don’t think I like the “diversity” of Tokyo. Japan has a distinct culture and you can feel it in the rural areas more so than large cities. Having more international visitors seems to dilute this unique cultural vibe. I’m part of the problem too, I’m not exactly fitting in. That’s not to say that tourism is not welcome - but I don’t think people should aim to live in this country. Japan faces somewhat of a population crisis and will require more people emigrating here, and that’ll likely make it feel even less unique, which kind of saddens me.

If it were up to me I’d dismantle all malls and get rid of all the international chain brands. They can ship to homes but don’t pollute the area with global corpo sameness. I know, of exactly free market but that’s how I feel.

was just chilling at a bar in boston and was just told that im evil for being born into canada which was “colonized”. The leftists here are assholes

I'm trying to to figure out how I became an adult that executes on a home project involving wood and power tools and sawing and measuring and planning.

This wasn't me a decade ago, and it's not like I was a kid then either.

Something has changed about my executive functioning.

update:

- looking pretty good, messages are shown in thunderbird, including multiple layers of nesting

- the server mostly seems to be stable

- naturally, we can read the messages

now working on:

- proper message parsing for anything other than 7bit ascii

- basic markdown to html, to allow basic formatting

- SMTP to allow users to reply via an email client, not just via nostr

I need to meet more Bitcoiners IRL

About a 100 people so far

Creg’s scams still haunting us

GM

A very late GM this morning as we had an unexpected dash to the emergency room at 3am this morning for the wife.

All is good now, but neither of us slept much last night.

What was interesting was that even at 3:30am, there was a 3 - 4 hour wait to be seen 🤔