Wasn't thinking about it like that. I agree with your take though.

I think we are definitely already deep into the backwards reality that Orwell envisioned.

IMHO the real biggest roadblock for bitcoin standard is an Orwellian future where people respond to authority for security more than they do their own critical thinking. Critical thinking takes time, and letting go of a lot of ego.

Regardless, I think that $price is the biggest teacher for bitcoin, and the economic calculations that are inherent with governments just maintaining their debts, has the price going a lot higher.

What other ideas do you have for an “ethical social media”

I’ll start.

1. I’d want a “create only” mode. Too often I open an app to do something and completely get thrown off the rails or make the post then get sucked in.

2. Push notifications off by default.

What else?

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In terms of importance maybe, but personally 1984 wasn't nearly as enjoyable of a read

Well done Sir, that is a fine butter👌🏻.

loved your reasoning for going on the Bitcoin matrix pod

I have no #finance background at all but it seems like simple arithmetic to say as the world's #population stops growing, inflation will fall away. It seems like a problem that will solve itself.

I'm sure that will bring far worse problems in its wake, but it will solve the #inflation problem in a be careful what you wish for sense.

Unless I'm missing something?

Krugman be like “mUh DeMoCraCy”

Once a retard always a retard.

I've had a similar outcome as mandrik, but with a somewhat different context. It's something I still think about a lot.

When I was an engineer/manager, I worked in person, and had a great social group there. After I left it, I became inherently remote-work based in my home office, which has a lot of advantages but also some social isolation-related challenges.

I then gradually drifted away from work-friends I knew for a decade. Between work and family, we just gradually could barely find time for a group lunch anymore. Actually it was more on their side than mine; they have longer commutes, children, etc.

And my US family is small and dispersed around the country. So aside from my husband, a lot of my social interaction is online and at events within the past few post-covid years. The big exception is the part of the year I spend in Egypt, where I am surrounded by in-person family and friends every day, but have less overall productivity (bad internet for starters, problematic time zone, plus it's also vacation time and social time).

And the most notable part of each year is when I come back to the US first to take care of things here, and my husband is still in Egypt for another month to finish taking care of things there, where I risk turning into a solo cat lady.

So that makes me really focus on genuine internet dynamics, treating people online similarly to how I treat them in real life, building real connections there, going to events to meet my "tribe" despite the travel hassle, etc.

It also has prioritized having children to me recently. I've been focusing on work, focusing on elder care, etc. Due to my starting point, I have been in the position of having to support a parent and then in-laws since my 20s, while also being a workaholic to reach the positions I've gotten to. For years I was simply too busy for anything else, but increasingly the next generation is an element of life I think about a lot.

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Leg day really is special.

It’s like a metaphor for life. You just DO the hard thing you don’t want to do, and you feel 1000 better afterwards.

It also works the foundations, that are “less visible” - yuuuuge lesson there.

It’s also the single best area to exercise.

It will do more to stem aging, lethargy & weakness than anything else you can do, or anyone can sell to you.

Does wonders for you hormonally (man or woman) too.

Forget all the biohacking nonsense.

Just go squat, lunge, sprint.

Another major life lesson.

It’s the simple (but hard) things that matter most.

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Which RHR? I thought they aren’t publishing the conference ones