I just realized that many of my most valued and cherished possessions are designed and made in Japan. Simple, elegant, and enduring.

😂 he works for the people now, didn’t you read his bio?

imagine being so dense you think this is bashing damus in any way. ever heard of Nostradamus?

imagine being so dense you think this is bashing damus in any way. ever heard of Nostradamus?

Oh noes! What should I do? 😱

“astrology is fake” while you’re on nostr using damus.

I’m the last Strobel in New York. But in the 1850’s, my ancestors ran a flourishing furniture business in Manhattan, called Philip Strobel & Sons Inc. Philip is my great great great grandfather and today not a single person in my family owns any furniture from our family’s business. With your help, I’m trying to find a dining table for my apartment in the West Village.

For background, Philip Strobel & Sons operated for several decades and was a leading furniture maker in the city. Strobel & Sons primarily made furniture for restaurants and cafes, but they also built home furnishings.

The warehouse was located on 53-55 Elizabeth Street, what is now Chinatown and the building still stands today. I walk past it from time to time and imagine what it looked like in its full operation 170 years ago.

What happened to the business? It grew to be very successful and was featured in The New York Times, and The New York Tribune, and now the full furniture catalogue is housed in the National Archives. I read in one article that there was a large fire in 1888; however, the business rebuilt. I’ve asked multiple family members about its final closure and have heard things from it taking a hit during Prohibition because no one was drinking, to The Great Depression, to gambling. No one is quite sure and it remains a family mystery.

I am decorating my new apartment and would love to be able to break bread with my friends and family on a table that my family built. I've scoured the internet for years, but tables from Philip Strobel & Sons are elusive. I am embarking on this treasure hunt to connect to my past — if you have any leads, please DM me. Thanks! 🫶

That guy is Colin Robinson by design. Guaranteed he spends all day saying opposites.

Muted as it’s tiring.

Now that would be an assumption…

I don’t do Tik Tok and I’m not American, so I don’t do the Kennedy talking points either. And if you look around, you’ll find many an original thought.

If you came from Reddit, please leave quietly and go back. They miss you & your terrible insights there.

Where are the elders?

The wise ones. The ones with knowledge that we should seek. Are they gone? Did they disappear?

All I see are bags of wrinkled promises. Loudspeakers of hate and division, who seek to send young people to certain death. A death they do not contend with, for they have walls of empty platitudes to protect them.

I ask again, where are our elders? The ones with knowledge. The ones who are close to death and understand what men are capable of.

Indians have a saying, "Young men make war, and old men make peace." The fire of revenge and anger burns hot in the young and it is the role of the elders to quench that fire. Not to fan the flames. Not to send them forth to certain death. We live in a world where "Old men make war and young men die."

Where are the elders?

What if most of the supposed threats are a bluff? There won’t really be CBDCs, you will not be forced to eat the bugs, they will not jail you for dissent, etc.

They just want you to think all those things so you don’t participate in shaping the discourse and the zeitgeist.

It’s psychological warfare, and whether you’re terrified of a virus or the police state, in the end it doesn’t really matter to them.

The important point is that you’re afraid and you believe “they” are powerful while you are powerless.

What if Orwell’s prophecy wasn’t about the real world, but the state of the individual mind when exposed to a sufficient amount of techno-manipulation?

I mean it was set in 1984, so it was a prophecy of sorts.

What if most of the supposed threats are a bluff? There won’t really be CBDCs, you will not be forced to eat the bugs, they will not jail you for dissent, etc.

They just want you to think all those things so you don’t participate in shaping the discourse and the zeitgeist.

It’s psychological warfare, and whether you’re terrified of a virus or the police state, in the end it doesn’t really matter to them.

The important point is that you’re afraid and you believe “they” are powerful while you are powerless.

What if Orwell’s prophecy wasn’t about the real world, but the state of the individual mind when exposed to a sufficient amount of techno-manipulation?

Wow no original thoughts in here just a bunch of Tiktok consistory theories and RFK jr talking points…

It’s Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street and Fidelity (to a lesser degree) that run things.

I did it to trigger the latent fascism in bitcoin adherents

Sorry if I assumed, your profile.

If it’s satire, I didn’t get it.

Sorry if I assumed, your profile.

If it’s satire, I didn’t get it.