On this date 15 years ago I defeated Gina Carano to win my first MMA Championship.

Oct. 19th I will fight in Saudi Arabia for the PFL Belt and the chance to become MMA’s only 5X World Champion

I barely use sats, but I will *never* use bits.

I still prefer "bitcoin" & "bitcoins" as my units of measurement.

I had absolutely no problems hearing Trump on Spaces... Because I wasn't planning on listening and wasn't trying.

X is losing their collective minds.

Don't go over there.

I had absolutely no problems hearing Trump on Spaces... Because I wasn't planning on listening and wasn't trying.

X is losing their collective minds.

Don't go over there.

I always thought that Punks would be the first subculture to embrace Bitcoin, because, you know, fuck the system and all that.

Oh boy, was I wrong.

Will we be able to add bolt12 offers instead of LN addresses for zapping?

The Democratic Party rigged the 2016 primary against Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton.

They rigged the 2020 primary against Sanders in favor of Biden.

In 2023 the Democratic Party changed the schedule and rules to restrict RFK from participating fairly in the primary, forcing him from the party.

Then in 2024 they disenfranchised 14 million delegates who pledged for Biden with a backroom coup, switching the candidate and the campaign funds by changeing the name on the forms.

Gotta save that democracy right?

everything can be a tool

Your lack of discipline is a shitcoin.

Alcohol is a tool that comes with risks

drink to Enhance, not to Escape

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It’s beautiful outside today so the crew is loving it. 🥰

I want to buy a derelict traditional European village and turn it into Bitcoinville. Are you in?

Growing up in the '90s I remember being told a few things about migration, which was just getting started in large numbers:

1. We only let in as many as we can assimilate and will stop if it gets out of hand.

2. We only let in people whose life is in real danger in their home countries.

3. They will need to adapt to our customs, not the other way around.

4. Second generation migrants are very well integrated, third generation are basically Lutheran liberals.

5. Migrants want to be like us and if they don't it's because we're still a bit racist.

This all seemed very reasonable. Voters bought it too, because they kept voting in favor of these policies. Only the truly far right warned that it wouldn't work out that way, but they were literal Nazis (that word used to mean something). Besides, the outcome was anyway future us' problem.

But in the '00s, the story slowly began to change. It was no longer about assimilation but multiculturalism, and how great it is. And frankly, this also sounded quite reasonable to me:

1. Diversity is great, just look at the food options.

2. It doesn't matter how or why they came, they are here now.

3. If you don't like their customs you're just being islamophobic.

4. Some migrants are integrating really well, just look at this anecdote.

5. Everyone should be proud of their own culture, except us (lest you're racist)

In hindsight, there was some apathy in this change. Less than a conscious shift in narrative, we collectively rationalized what had already come to pass. So while voters showed increased concern, they stuck with the parties and policies that got them there.

Then some really bad things started to happen. Murders over caricatures. A wave of terrorist attacks. A dramatic rise in rapes. Regular bombings in peaceful places. Racially motivated grooming. Exploding social expenditures. Gangs and stabbings.

But most concerning it became taboo to suggest that any of this had any connection to migrants. And they kept coming in ever larger numbers. Many seeking family reunification, bringing even more. Past us miscalculated.

By the '10s, this last fact brought a true racial element to the situation, as the change became so visible on the streets that the echoes of the promises from the '90s seemed to some as a cruel trick.

Old conspiracy theories about some great replacement were thus granted subtle credence, making the unreasonable reasonable.

Tragically, this trapped large numbers of migrants who worked hard to integrate and build a better life here in a web of general suspicion. Increasing suspicion harmed integration exacerbating issues increasing suspicion.

And continuing in the '20s, new migrants kept coming much faster than we could break this vicious cycle, fertilizing the seed of conflict we see budding this summer.

So what now? Pray the seed never blooms and go in peace.

There is no way to return to the past without a fundamental break with the core of our own culture - rule of law, basic liberties, human rights. And then what would it all be for. Besides, the past had plenty of forgotten flaws. Careful what you wish for.

But it also seems unlikely we will be able to move into the future without challenging many of the same values. People are being arrested as you read this for speaking their mind in the UK. Many more are afraid to speak their mind. Perhaps for the best.

Because in the end we will have to live together. And remember that the vast majority of us still do so in harmony. So let's not harbor any fantasies about the past, even if we don't know what to do about the future (other than make babies and stack sats).

To quote the Bible: "Don't be afraid". There must be love.

I don't have any better answers, nor did I write this to offer any. I just wanted to share how I've truly experienced these changes as part of the "native" European generation that grew up with them. I don't know any other world.

At best it's valuable context, at worst I hope some can relate.

1 ETHEREO IS 0.04269 BTC LOL.