Why are all sunglasses made with tiny little screws that break?

Is this the best humanity can do?

I almost want to quit everything in life just to design sunglasses that don’t suck.

How many terrorists has the TSA caught by making us take our laptops out of the bag?

I dont think they have gone lightning though

It's been since June 16th that customers have been able to buy Bitcoin via Fold. I will no longer be attempting to do so and will be moving back to Strike for my DCA and smash buys. The only reason I had left Strike was for ease of use with Fold, paying bills and buying Bitcoin in one place. Fold's continuing failures means that I can no longer use them, won't be recommending them, and won't be renewing my membership in a couple months.

Every part I've ever visited.

Usually when I travel to the USA and do regular tourist stuff, so many people are so fat they need scooters to get around.

But when I go to bitcoin events, I'm usually the fatty

Drive back from Vegas is always a doozy. 😅

Every year, I spend 1-2 months living in Egypt. This is because my husband is originally from Egypt, his family is much larger than mine, and so while our economic base is in the US, our social base is actually in Egypt. I thus became multinational many years ago.

However, my husband spends 3-4 months each year in Egypt, while I only spend 1-2 months there. So, there are 1-2 months where I’m in the US alone. The reason I choose to do this is to look after the household and business, and because I’m not as productive in Egypt (inconsistent internet, less optimal workstation, way more social pressures, and so forth).

In some ways, we find that spending some time apart strengthens our relationship and lets us focus on our separate things for part of the year. And when we meet after 1-2 months, it’s such a great reunion. We find ourselves wanting to catch up on so much and spend extra time together. But also, even though in some ways I look forward to having time alone and indeed get a lot done during that time, I immediately regret it once I am alone. I find myself constantly looking forward to going to Egypt, as I am now. During these periods, I end up posting more on social media, either constructively or non-constructively, in what tends to be a replacement for diminished in-person contact.

This seems to be amplified by my work situation. When I was an engineer, I worked with colleagues in person each day, but now that I work from home, my colleagues are virtual and I meet them in person only at major events. So, this relatively brief window each year of being in a different place than my husband tends to be oddly monk-like, with me at home alone 24 hours per day, working and living and doing whatever I do. I think one of my future goals will be to increase my deliberate effort at spending time with local friends, especially during this part of the year.

Anyway, I’m doing a series of “real thoughts” uniquely on Nostr, and this is the first one.

Conclusion: Social circles are (obviously) a very important thing, including for workaholics and introverts like myself. Social circles affect us in various ways, and having gone through many cycles, I have become increasingly aware of the changes that take place during these seasonal cycles of being close to others vs far from others.

why is Elon not interested in protocols? He really believes his single company X will handle half of the worlds transactions? Look at what happened with PayPal: they can and will freeze your account for any reason. This would be dystopian hell, worse than CBDCs.

Does anyone else find it kind of senseless and ironic the # of people trying to engagement farm on Twitter by complaining about Twitter or X?

Doesn’t that make it stronger?

Reminds me of all the people complaining about inflation, governments, or control while primarily saving in fiat and ignoring #Bitcoin.