I literally just finished reading Mandibles, like, a minute ago

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You can buy a flat in Riga, and sell it after you don’t need the visa anymore.

Was playing with my kids on an oceanic beach. One where it gets deep quickly and the waves are big. The parallels with markets are astounding.

Playing the game where you need to get as close to the water, but get back with dry feet is like active trading. Exhausting. Also, the best way to keep your feet dry is to just not play. Long-term - pretty much everyone gets their feet wet at some point and loses. Can be played successfully though, but only if you’re super careful, and not really a super competitive person.

But there’s more.

Holding is like breaking through the break line and swimming beyond it. Much more peaceful. You just swim and bob up and down with the waves. Not struggling to stay up, not getting sandblasted on every wave. From the coast you look like a madman, especially when the bigger waves come. From your pov though you just bob up and down there and watch people getting rekt at the break line. Also, it takes some manning up, especially if the waves are big, and the water is deep beyond the break line.

Crazy how two completely unrelated processes can have so many parallels just because the systems are both stochastic, and involve people interacting with them.

I do. Paper format, The Economist. Gives a reasonably good quality normie view on a wide array of things. It helps me not being pulled too deep into all kinds of echo chambers uncritically.

Btw, also serves as a kind of a signal. If I read an article there talking about the crumbling fiat system and Bitcoin being the escape hatch - we’re not early anymore. Hasn’t happened yet.

If autism leads to Bitcoin, and vaccines lead to autism, more kids should get vaccinated.

Welcome, down under kids! This is not social media, and nobody needs to know you’re kids here!

The age old sell low, buy high strategy executed in a single trade?

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Open platforms are like forests, closed like gardens. It takes much more time for a forest to grow naturally, but once it does, it subsumes every garden, because gardens need constant upkeep.

Unless their permaculture gardens, but then Nostr is more like a permaculture garden than the normie garden.

16% cagr is pretty good. But also, what else to do? Shift into Litecoin and hope that it becomes the “next Bitcoin”? That’s a stupid game to play, and a losing one too. Where the fiat Ponzi grifters would be the only ones ultimately laughing all the way to the bank.

We can’t drop the ball on this one.

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A one sat zap has more sats in it than what 99.9% of Nostr posts get zapped with.

Also, in 90% of cases when someone posts some statistic, the percentage is just made up.

Sam just got his surveillance weapon in a different way.

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The labour productivity in communist Cuba is even lower than in Haiti. Which in turn is ruled by gangs in perpetual warfare amongst themselves.

Let that sink in.

It’s the mindset, right? The nations that have a high proportion of crazy makers are the ones on the upswing. The brits were there, the Americans were there, the Germans were there. The reasons why one or another nation finds themselves in that position differ. Also, it doesn’t mean that there are no other ways of growth and “getting by well enough”. That being said though, having crazy makers is a proven recipe. Now China is it. For sure.

Yeah, sorry about that, but it’d need to be some treatise in many parts to give the topic the breadth it deserves. I’m sure some historians are already working on it.

Kind of the main point is that this didn’t start in 2022, and not even 2014. The roots run deep, and the West and NATO are basically just stage decorations in the whole thing.

He's missing everything. And not even like missing, but things are basically unknown to him, because he hasn't followed the developments in Russia and its 'near-abroad' since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It's too long to capture in a nostr post, but: Ryazan sugar, Politkovskaya, Dugin, Nemtsov, GRU 54777, Yanukovich, Mezhyhirya, Titushky, Berkut, Mogilevich, Holodomor, Strelkov/Girkin's rush to Slovyansk, Brosok Mangusta, etc, etc, etc

The whole idea that some nebulous 'the West' could've just promised Putin something about Ukraine and the war would've been avoided is just people falling for Russian psyops.

This part here is total bullshit:

“The West could have guaranteed Ukrainian neutrality and avoided this war entirely.”

Nobody who can’t read Russian should say anything about that war.

Are you saying that Austrians sent one of their dimwits to the States where he was smart enough to become a billionaire and a Governor?

June 14, 2025 – Minnesota Legislators Shooting

What’s the last thing that looks like a bunch of fiat?