Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent

MSTR IS STILL A SHITCOIN MY OPINION

“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." -Mark Twain

Being a Bitcoiner used to carry a heavy social cost, now it costs nothing to be a Bitcoiner. Larry fink is a Bitcoiner.

SOMEONE HERE SAID YOU GOT ENGAGED

CONGRATS!

Y’all are the most creative, solution-focused, get-shit-done group of people I’ve ever met. 💜💟🏆

Exodus where? That's my point. Right now there are places I could go. But there isn't that much of a difference really even today, and in any case they will inevitably go the same road we've already gone.

Not true. There isn't one single country in the world, and I mean not one, where financial freedom (just to give one example) has expanded in the last quarter of a century or more. Instead, even countries like Switzerland have finally submitted and begun to apply the same AML and KYC regulations as the countries where those started. Likewise, every single country that has implemented things like national photo identification card systems has expanded them, not rolled them back. And the list goes on.

I don't think most people are willing to relocate to friendlier jurisdictions. Relationships act as anchors - friends and family can't just be replaced.

Most people are going to stomach increasing surveillance and state overreach forever and be boiled in the pot slowly even if they see what is happening.

I'm 40 something, and I was old enough to remember perfectly when the debate broke out in my country about allowing cops to have speed radars, then to put fixed ones on the roads that take pictures of cars, then to have cameras recording open public spaces, then helicopters with special cameras that can see if you have your hands off the wheel or are looking at your cellphone from 300 meters above while flying at high speed, then to have tolls with cameras that scan your plate and your wind shield for a sticker that tells them if you paid for insurance this year or not and even if your car is authorized to enter the metro area surrounding the city or not (it's not if it's approx. 20 years old or more)...

And don't even get me started about the encroachment on telecommunications, internet, and banking privacy... completely gone and forgotten.

Every time, without fail, there is public uproar and people clearly express that they're against the new measure in polls. Nothing changes, the machine keeps going, relentless, with the certainty that people will submit and adapt, and submit again. And the same politicians that condemn these measure when they're in the opposition, never, not once, roll them back when they get to power. On the contrary, they pass new, more expansive ones.

Unfortunately no, there is no final punchline to this note. I'm not optimistic at all. The only way back to normalcy would be a consistent and persistent majority of the population voting adamantly to dismantle the monstrous State structure that has been superposed on them. But that will never happen, because those who have built it know that people value safety and comfort above personal responsibility and freedom, and they have built in plenty of mechanisms to bribe, cajole and threaten, as required to force each individual into submission.

Is it just me or are most of the people on #nostr cat people?

…to be clear, I’m including myself in that population. Well, dogs..cats..horses…stray cats…injured wildlife…anything else that is breathing, furry, and remotely petable. #introductions #farmstr #bitcoin

Most based thing my husband typed into his phone at church yesterday: "King James Bible dark mode"

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BTFD? I'm 40% BTFD.

I drive a hybrid. We bought it in Spring of 2022 when US fuel prices had skyrocketed. I'm renewing my license plate tag, and see this: a newly added "electric vehicle" fee. It's almost double the actual "wheel tax," which is the purported purpose of the fee. This, despite all of the propogandizing about the importance of electric vehicles.

If a government agency can scam you, they will, at every turn.

I have read the same verse many times and do not conclude it has the same meaning as you imply.

I have read the same verse many times and do not conclude it has the same meaning as you imply.

He never said he is God incarnate, neither is it written in the bible. Thats what you've been told about him. Christianity is so much easier to believe when you get this right. Regardless you'll condemn me for saying so, something Christ specifically said not to do.