Divestments from humanity

Investments into AI 📈

14 uncomfortable truths about life;

1. A salary is the drug your employer

gives you to forget your dreams.

2. If you continue to wait for the

"right time ", you'll waste your entire

life and nothing will happen.

3. Even when you trust your close

friends and family, let them know

nothing about you.

4. You'll lose 99% of your close friends

if you start upgrading your life.

5. Governments and politicians are

never going to save you from your

problems.

6. You'll be 10x happier if you forgive

your parents and stop blaming them

for your problems.

7. Train yourself to let people win

arguments on purpose to conserve

your mental health.

8. You become more mature when

you train yourself to take nothing

personally.

9. By age 30, your inner circle

should be more focused on making

money, building their body and

starting a family.

10. You don't need 100 self-help

books, all you need is action + self

discipline.

11. Skills and financial education will

make you win over 97% of college

graduates.

12. You can' expect honesty from

people who even lie to themselves.

13. People are stuck in toxic

relationships because they're afraid

to be alone.

14. The most difficult mission on

earth is to focus on your dreams;

the easiest task is to complain.

Checked out the status of the wildfire we fought 50m from our place last fall (😱 - dicy but we had 2 hydrants we could access)

Hopes to find morels (I even purreed some old ones in a blender & spread the spores a few weeks ago), but no dice for now 🤞🏼

one of these days i’m actually going to move all my stuff off fold.

roping ppl in with incredible rewards and then rugging is a very effective retention strategy. banking relationship is incredibly sticky

Stamps I think?

Be sure to do this hike, at the end of the road past the visitor center!

Not sure about Clover but I do see a lot of Square POS systems out there that have the Cash App logo on them. Cash App does lightning so I’m wanting to try that next time I see it

How i get the Shotcuts for iOS?

we are regulars 😅 we try to find a hotpot place in every city we visit—found this little gem called Chubby Cattle in Vegas after the Unconfiscatable conference last spring.

when we lived in the north woods we bought our own hotpot and meat slicer because we’re addicts 🤣

Taking a short walk around the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs today.

#photography #colorado #park #blackandwhite

Hello all…

Reply from my anti-Bitcoin colleague.

Who fancies replying to this? Sats sent of course 🫡

“Yeah this is where you’ve lost me now with the central bank conspiracies.

If you’re concerned with the socializing of losses that’s a matter for regulators, which most central banks usually aren’t. The same people who are pushing the narrative at the highest levels of the Fed being the root of all corruption are also the ones who lobbied policymakers to defang regulators and massively deregulate financial markets in the 1990s. They criticize government for being ineffective, and then do everything in their power to make it ineffective. This is a classic playbook of right-wing economic thought which has permeated into the platforms of political parties the world round, from the Republicans to the Tories to Georgian Dream.

Central banks are part of the social contract. They are able to introduce (they aren’t always the wisest, but they are able to) policies that can help mitigate the effects of financial crises. The pandemic relief in the United States is a perfect example. At the order of the government, they were able to provide small benefits to people to help live through the pandemic.

Now crypto people, especially the bitcoin maxis, often froth at the mouth when this example is brought up, as people spending about 1,600 bucks on rent and food is apparently an immeasurable evil and despicable tyranny, despite it being an objectively positive societal good.

If people are truly concerned about the inflation this could cause (CEOs, “founders” and the beloved “builders” of the world create far more inflation than small stimuli for food do) there are myriad controls that policymakers can introduce to mitigate inflation, they just never do because of the prevailing political forces that view any sort of proactive move from government, other than a monopoly of violence, as an act equal to tyranny.

Instead (because apparently collective or political action is not viable or legitimate in libertarian thinking) we have to for some reason literally reinvent money in the form of this technological silver bullet (I’m looking at the cotton gin and the gatling gun) to cure the ills that are the result of capitalism as usual.

In end, this idea of a Bitcoin standard doesn’t seem like anything new to me at all. It’d be the late 19th century all over again. Early adopters would be the robber barons of the new era, issuing private money as they please and developing Bitcoin based derivatives. Bubbles and busts would still happen.

What’s more we’d be at there mercy of these feudal early adopters to provide more monetary supply in the event of shocks and crises, which happen with no less frequency in a deflationary system.

The technological silver bullet becomes more fuel for the dumpster fire it was supposed to put out.”

I still literally cannot believe that the NYT was brazen and stupid enough to post that article in 2023.

The tides have shifted on the technical understanding of #bitcoin and yet they are still trying to play political games around misinformation.

Tonights dinner… same technique.

Oh man this is the thread I need to join. Is there a food/steak/meat hashtag to follow?