He is in a unique position because being a publicly traded company he can use the stock price to wage an attack on the monetary system.

He can offer convertible notes so he doesn't have to pay any of the loans back. The more he takes and locks in cold storage the tighter the supply the more BTC will go up the lower the chances the stock price won't out pace the bond payment.

Once others take note and start doing the same thing look out above. BTC price will crash up. He will hit a point where no company no matter how successful will ever be able to accumulate as much btc as mstr and they will be a force to be recond with when the BTC economy takes over the planet.

Right now they own 1.2% of the entire future global economy.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial has the most cash on hand of any company at 780billion.

If there is 100T dollars in FIAT in the world Mitsubishi only has .78%

I have a feeling saylor won't be happy stopping and might get to 2.1% before this play starts to top out.

One of the things I think about a lot in terms of modern fiction is this conflict around diversity, wokeness, and so forth. Here’s a bit of a mini blog post on it.

On one hand, it’s normal that people want to see elements of themselves in fiction they consume. And so to create something that appeals to a large and diverse world, one way of doing that is to have a diverse cast of characters. Unless of course the context would be inappropriate, like Saving Private Ryan or something. In addition, fiction has always been used as a form of social critique, and thus if someone has something to say about race or gender, it’s going to come up in fiction.

On the other hand, I think diversity in fiction has a lot of reasonable pushback against it in the current era. Weak Mary Sue characters, an over-emphasis on race or gender compared to writing a good story with compelling characters, diversity quotas, and “creation by committee” where so many hands touch a peace that they dilute it down to nothing. These days most of the movies that win awards are not the movies most people want to watch.

The last three pieces of visual fiction I consumed were Godzilla Minus One, Blue Eye Samurai, and Arcane. They had very different approaches to this topic and I think all of them handled it well. Discussed without major spoilers.

Godzilla Minus One is a Japanese movie set in the 1940s, so the answer for diversify is that there isn’t any, and the topic probably didn’t even come up. Like for Saving Private Ryan. There’s diversity of personalities of course, but it’s mostly about Japanese men dealing with a monster, and then two notable female characters that are well-written in mostly non-action roles. A key theme of the movie is about life over death and the horrors of war, and so for example it explores the ethics of kamikaze pilots and the broader topic of sacrifice in a defeated Japan, which it does well.

Blue Eye Samurai has a female protagonist, disguised as a man for practical purposes as she goes about revenge. So in the current era where diversity is such a big topic, there’s a lot of ways for that to be handled poorly. But her background and why she’s out for revenge isn’t particularly gender-related. And race comes up to the extent that the show explores colonialism, technological gaps between cultures, a society closing itself off to outsiders, viewing outsiders as demons, etc. Which all happened in that period. The show has a major arc that focuses on the limitations of being a woman in 1800s Japan, and I think it’s well done. All of it is in service to a good story.

Arcane uses League of Legends lore, which has like 140 characters so that everyone who plays can find someone they like. Thus diversity is set into it at its core, and the gender and racial diversity in Arcane the show is at a higher than average level. But then they don’t talk about it. None of the conflicts are about race or gender. The setting has a lot of problems that the characters are sorting through, and race and gender just don’t happen to be among them, which I think is well-handled for the story they want to tell. The themes and conflicts they focus on instead are economic disparity, desire for sovereignty, technological progress vs risk, family bonds and their limits, the price of power, peace vs domination, etc. So by the end it feels like invisible diversity- diversity just kind of happened without it having been a big deal. And importantly, the diversity was not at the expense of white men- they were some of the best characters too, including probably my favorite character in the show.

I’m currently reading The Lost Metal, which I’m not loving for plot and pacing reasons but am finishing it for completionist reasons for the broader story universe, and once again I think the author handles diversity well. His books, set in fantastical settings, tend to have a diverse array of characters, and it’s all in service of telling a good plot with good action and so forth that appeals to tens of millions of readers across the world. As an example, his original Mistborn book has the highest per capita fans in Taiwan of all places, even though the book isn’t set in an Asian setting. When the success of Hunger Games led to a big global trend of young adult dystopian fiction for a while, it was Mistborn that caught on in Taiwan. A good piece of fiction doesn't have to be written for a particular group, to be enjoyed by that group.

So when I approach hobby-writing, that’s my focus: tell a good story with interesting characters.

You grow through struggle and adversity, not through comfort and ease.

PSA: I often drink beer, and I prefer Miller Lite, but I also enjoy an Asahi when eating hot pot. #beerstr

Seeing this post when ‘always look on the bright side of life’ by Monty Python is literally just starts playing on the background in a cafe I’m at.

“And now for something completely different” could not be more apt…

What led you to nostr?

1. Build in the open.

2. Ship and iterate fast.

3. Create a community around it.

Project 'Purchase BTC in our Aus Superannuation fund' has officially commenced with the rollover in progress...no doubt the ASX will pump right after they sell everything 🙃

That moment when you try to work out how zaps work and accidentally zap your own post…

Tell me that I am not the only one that does this…

#zaps #newbie #introductions #nostr #learn

Good luck out there #AUStriches, your Housing Ponzi is going to need it!

That was a great episode.

I stumbled on you from nadias feed but just remember that no-one sees your posts on nostr other than your followers. Spend 99% of your time on here doing these things:

1.) finding people you value to follow

2.) posting replies in their feed

Youll gain followers and then people will see your notes.

Cheers

🍻🧡

What do we think about this?

Propping up banks and property in #Australia

Must.

Keep.

Ponzi.

Going.

What aspects do you enjoy most about your favorite sci fi or fantasy novels? Obviously it’s a mix of everything but what consistent themes do you find yourself returning to frequently?

To give an example, I tend to like complex and internally consistent magic systems or “hard magic” systems, eg Brandon Sanderson. He basically invents an alternative physics in a given series and there’s a whole set of stories around that.

I also put a lot of weight on complex characters, eg Game of Thrones. You know it’s good writing when someone can push a kid out of a window in the first episode and then somehow kind of make you almost like the guy later on.

If you don’t like sci fi and/or fantasy, what is it about the genre(s) that you dislike? And do you like one but not the other, or both or neither?