My husband’s 8-year-old niece is having a birthday party with relatives and friends invited. But all seven friends declined to come, one by one, either due to getting sick or family issues or because some of them have big tests.

And the mom was hesitant to tell her about the last ones, including her best friend, being unable to come, since that final piece of news is devastating. So when we arrived, the niece was super happy, dressed up like a princess, showing us all the decorations and picking which colored forks each of her friends would have for the cake.

Basically, the expectations and reality couldn’t be more starkly different. It was like a comedy show setting up for a sad punchline. And eventually the mom dropped the bombshell, crying ensued, etc. The niece said this would be awful since her party would be all adults talking.

So, now I’m playing My Little Pony with her for damage control. Next, I’m going to blow up a lot of balloons to throw around with her and challenge her to see how many she can keep in the air at once. And then she wants to watch Inside Out 2 together.

How’s your day going?

What’s your favorite seafood? Mine is snow crab legs dipped in butter! Pairs nicely with prime rib!

Imagine being British? 🇬🇧

the old Dash 8 plane. Blessings to your action.

One of my favorite projects. Carved out of WI hard Maple.

That's awesome... very cool. I've had so few really good IRL btc discussions over the years. Back in the previous cycle, I used to host "blockchain" meetups, thinking that throwing the net wider would draw in more people. It mostly attracted people that had no clue why a centralized blockchain was a waste of time and only wanted to discuss whether to invest in XRP or Ethereum. ICO's were all the craze and it was all a shitshow. That more than anything pushed me towards bitcoin. To Ben's original point, even back then people felt like they'd missed the btc boat.

It seems like more and more people are seeing the matrix of lies that permeates our society. Which makes freedom of speech on nostr even more important.

Imagine, if you will, the inevitable overreach where the government forces Cashapp and Strike to give up their clients information at gunpoint or by that of harming their family. You are on their list and must give account of every sat you purchased or received as a non anonymous tip or payment. You'll be rewarded for your compliance and rat outs or punished by your resistance with force. You will be rewarded and well compensated for reporting any coins you know of that are nonkyc. Many of us are just one executive order away from this reality. I feel like our threat models should take this very real situation into consideration.

Agreed... it's so weird. I've been meeting with a group of normies regularly for coffee/beers over the past several years. Have attempted to get them involved and in 2021 we all made predictions and I said btc would hit $100K in 2022. I was wrong., but I also shared that DCA was their friend, technology adoption curve shows we're still early, etc.

At our last meetup, my buddy who's a big Dave Ramsey guy, brings up inflation and how families are struggling to keep up. At this point, I just keep quiet... can only bring a horse to water so many times... and don't want to beat a dead horse.

So few realize that the train is still in the station. In this group of seven, I'm the only one into btc., and all the talking points have just failed to stick. Dave Ramsey guy always says "stick with what you know".

Sadly, there are times I feel like flipping them the HFSP bit.

I also wonder if there will come a time that relations will strain as they are so blue pilled and unwilling to take a drink from the btc watering hole. Time will tell.

Hella spilt tea on Mallers pod

I THINK I MAY PREFER TO LOCK UP A COIN FOR A STRIKE LOAN AND WATCH MY MONTHLY PAYMENT TREND TO ZERO..

THAN LOSE MY COIN BY SELLING AND WATCH MY TAX BILL TREND UP FOREVER

PSA to mute this guy before he brings negativity into your life 🧡🫂

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A gold bullet would work fine tho? I don't get what you mean. Lead doesn't work without a charge either

Ideally it should only take one bullet to kill you, bud

You mean you hope you'll be able to kill me and take my food instead of trading precious metal for it.

I'd wish you luck, but instead I wish it for myself and my loved ones and others with brains. Get fucked, clown.

My dad is somewhat of a prepper. He grows all his own food, produces all his own. Electricity and is off the water grid..

His argument against Bitcoin is always EMPs shutting down the electricity grid and the conversation, kind of just stops there because yeah, sure, if the electricity goes, no one is going to be using Bitcoin. Duh.

I think bitcoiners tend to be this interesting niche of Optimistic Preppers. We see the world going to shit, but like a young girl with a crush on a fuckboi, we "say I can fix him."

Half my zaps are failing.

I'm using Primal.

Is this a me problem or a you problem?

"Bitcoin is a discovery on par with that of the wheel, the number zero or the ability to start a fire, mistaken for a gimmick by the masses." —Knut Svanholm

We used to eat out a lot due to the lack of a kitchen. So today when we went out to eat it felt way more like a proper date, especially as we ended the night with a movie!

I love my husband, he's the only one I wanna date 😎🥰