Fatherhood is one of the best things that can happen to a man.

It encourages you to be healthy.

Humbles you.

Makes you more patient and kind.

Causes you to plan ahead.

Take less risks.

Be more true to your word.

Don’t fall for the psyop.

Children, family and legacy are the meaning of life.

I went back to Spotify from Fountain because I can't stand Fountain's buggy interface. Sorry 😭

So many people casting rich men north of Richmond as right wing. I’m a punk rocker at heart and the first thing I thought when I heard it was wow, that’s pretty punk rock. And his statements since have borne that out. But you don’t have to look very far to find lyrics in songs many would consider left-wing in ethos that are totally analogous to parts or all of rich men north of Richmond.

But that being said, it reminds me most of springsteen. And people forget how misunderstood “born in the USA” repeatedly is. The recurring line is not patriotism, it’s deeply felt angst of being treated unjustly and of having your life taken from you in a number of different ways, a lot of which is perpetrated by rich men, either north of Richmond or elsewhere.

The protagonist is “born down in a dead man’s town” where the first kick he took is when he “hits the ground.” He describes ending up like “a dog that’s been beat too much” and spending half his life just to cover that feeling up. Sound familiar?

He gets sent to Vietnam to get out of sole trouble. He’s told to kill for his country. He comes home to look for a job and is told nothing is available. He notes he had a brother over there with him who’s long gone, despite the enemy he was there to fight still remaining. The futility of the war.

The song ends with one of Bruce’s most powerful closers:

“Down in the shadow of the penitentiary

Out by the gas fires of the refinery

10 years burning down the road

Nowhere to run, ain’t got nowhere to go…

Born in the USA.”

I also thought of Bruce’s “the River,” which also works a similar vein of disenchantment, resignation, and angst, particularly with the state of the inflationary economy of 1980:

“I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company

But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy

Now all them things that seemed so important, well mister they vanished right into the air

Now I just act like I don't remember, Mary acts like she don't care..”

It’s interesting to me how much things have changed that the left can now reflexively refer to rich men north of Richmond as right wing. But it’s also interesting how incorrect it is for GOP candidates to cosplay as springsteenian protagonists, too.

I think we have another 6 months of painful Bitcoin price action.

This is a huge opportunity to accumulate for the convicted.

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(not quite sure what I’m doing here. posted via habla so hopefully this works as intended. if it doesn’t and you know why, please let me know 😂)

All the quant nerds and doomers on twitter think nvidia is a giant bubble. This means it’s probably not. Entirely possible that subjective value applies to stocks as well at btc.

You always sound *smarter* being a doubter.

(I have no positions in nvidia and don’t know anything about it. But neither do they.)

good people of nostr!

Julia Tourianski and I have written a review of Barbie that we are scheduled to post tomorrow but I’ll probably just post it here shortly 1) to test out Habla and 2) to reward people for staying off the bird app and living in the decentralised future (or the letter app? idk what we are supposed to call it now fml)

Want to learn how to make that dream reality?

During my recent burn-out phase, I ended up binging on all three current seasons of the television show The Boys to kind of refill my batteries. 24 episodes of superheroes being evil.

It was the first show I watched since finishing up Succession. I don't like The Boys comic but I actually liked the show a lot.

Anyone else watch it?