You shouldn’t be forced to invest just to maintain your purchasing power.

Never give up your guns fucking ever

genuine q: would you rather they had shot the public servants who arrested them?

My wife has a much older half sister.

They’ve always had an estranged relationship.

One time they were having friction and the half sister was going to send her a letter to express how she felt about things.

I had met this woman a few times and was always nice and cordial to her, even going out of my way for her and her daughter to take them to the airport, buy dinner or tickets etc…

The letter arrives and before my wife opens it we go for a small walk and I tell her to try her best to reconcile because family is family etc…

Finally my wife opens the letter and half the letter is complaining about me lol

Pure projection, lots of things about me that aren’t even true. Mainly she was jealous about our marriage and the fact that my wife is a stay at home mom.

I was like this crazy bitch lol no wonder nobody in the family likes her.

At that point I told my wife I wasn’t going to give her any advice and she can have whatever relationship she wants.

They haven’t spoken since.

The point of the story is this, you never know who is sticking up for you when you aren’t around.

Try not to burn bridges unless you absolutely have to.

While this is a very fair point, it is also worth noting that this action has explicitly transformed it from one of the most dangerous and violent countries in the world, to one of the safest.

It’s extremely difficult to have a course of action to solve a problem that is so intractable as to have corruption invade every level of the system that is supposed to “adjudicate” the process and have it actually be fair or just. When the system itself is so poisoned that even its design can’t protect it, what do you do?

Again not excusing it, just sharing my thoughts on why “a fair process” doesn’t make a just outcome when it’s completely corrupted from top to bottom.

I’ll point to Jeffrey Epstein as the example for those in the US. How well did it work out to have a system as corrupt as he is, adjudicate and punish his actions? Oh that’s right, they defended him, protected him, funded him, and let him walk around free for decades and then when there was even a hint of the degree of his evil and malice getting out to the public, he was murdered in a cell, behind guards, and under surveillance in a system who’s SOLE purpose was to keep him alive so he could stand trial and we could see some semblance of justice.

So it’s not so black and white as “did they get a fair trial.” Even as someone who holds that as a paramount right of every human. I wish it was, but the world is a messy place. nostr:note1x8z4lwzjknfq7p30p20t3e5yttj0lzjzkywv2hv9388k9cgwma8qn8xq0v

My 9 month old son looked me straight in the eyes today and said “dad, if the government never plans to pay the $35.4 trillion federal debt and keeps adding more, then the debt means nothing, right? But our entire monetary system is based on debt… so does that mean the fiat monetary system is based on nothing?”

What should I tell him?

If you hold Bitcoin you’re long freedom and shorting the entire Fiat system on the same time.

Someone close to me sold all her bitcoin last week against my advice. I had her buy in November ‘22. Today she is pissed that bitcoin is up almost 8% since she sold 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Governments always go after "controversial" causes to change platforms and make companies and their leaders fearful. I love the work Geyser is doing, but at the end of the day, this is why protocols matter more than companies.

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What's that Bitcoin tax basis calculator that's not scummy called? #asknostr

What is something you care about even less than who a celebrity is voting for?

Nothing for me, but Diddy’s 784 dildos is a close second.

GOOD MORNING. RISK FREE YIELD DOES NOT EXIST. STAY HUMBLE AND STACK SATS. 🫡

I have a real love-hate relationship with owning an older home. There are constant projects and repairs to be done, which are not only costly but a real time sink. On the other hand, I really enjoy feeling capable and learning from each project and acquiring new knowledge. It’s just a real bitch in between the start and finish of the project where I don’t know what I’m doing and I can lose motivation because I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing and can’t do it.

It’s a good metaphor for most things in life. Going through the chasm to completion is almost always the hardest part.

STATUS: Bored with seemingly every topic.

Would you know generational wealth if you were looking at it? 🍷👀

Letting my hair grow out for the first time in 20+ years. Wife was surprised to learn I have wavy hair.

“I wish you knew you were in the good old days while you were still in them.” - Andy nostr:note1l2lkpxys0cpqtj3klzatz2dzerqedsu8ntutm90vh4cuz7a9yjysl3qm3p