No reason to die over such nonsense, Trump. And then work to help people stop paying taxes no matter who wins.

Delusion is evil. Not seeing that your govt is corrupt & run by murderous pedophiles just like most others makes you delusional.

Your lack of ability to see what the US is doing doesn't make me a friend to Islamic tyrants.

A penis is still a penis. Cutting it off or calling it "too small" doesn't change the person's chromosomes. It's a silly line if reasoning. Biology IS binary. The infertile exceptions really only prove the rule.

You don't have to identify with shitty people to see that the US has been actively destroying functional countries while installing, bribing, & supporting the shittiest people on the planet (which you claim to hate) to keep oil trading for dollars.

Trying to lump people who believe in property rights & individual liberty together with religious tyrants just because you see both as a threat to your love for some flag & bullshit propaganda narrative is weak.

Birth defects don't really change the fact that biology is binary & that it is impossible to transition from one sex to another.

So yes, you are both delusional about the current state of our political system & about biological reality.

Denying the basics of biological reality is just the modern version of Orwell's 2+2=5. So the fact that you bought the biological propaganda & you also seem to have an inability to see the political reality for what it is, you appear to be a decent example of the desired effect.

Did you also get jabbed & boosted, & support the Ukraine war? Are you vegan or vegetarian & you think we're on the verge of an environmental mass extinction event which justifies govt doing "anything necessary" to save the world? How much of the propaganda have you swallowed?

Good luck with that, I think the better bet is to build or support people building bitcoin tools so that we can just out compete the dollar on a global scale. Convincing politicians at any level to do something good sounds like a losing battle to me.

That's why I have been saying we aren't REALLY at new ATHs yet & the "pre-halving ATH" that everyone was so excited about wasn't some sort of unusual success. It was only because of the lack of a blow-off top last cycle which was the unusual thing. The price levels we are seeing now are just par for the course.

Yep, we have lots of these in eastern NC. First time I knocked one down & saw the spiders it kinda blew my mind.

This is how they corrupt 99% of any industry.

Without the money printer everything falls apart.

Fix the money, fix the world

#Bitcoin

Someone makes a lot of money on this bullshit

PSA: If you were born with a penis, then however you feel is a way that a man can feel. If you were born with a vagina, then however you feel is a way that a woman can feel.

It's completely insane that with zero standard for comparing feelings across sexes or even between any two people, some will claim that they feel like something they aren't. Accept the things you cannot change. You can like whatever you want to like & live however you want to live, but you cannot change who & what you are. Trying to do so will only destroy your life.

The mental gymnastics people use to make Trump into some sort of 4d chess playing genius are completely retarded, but the mental gymnastics to pretend that he isn't being railroaded by a totally corrupt legal system are worse.

We live in a banana republic.

I fucking hate being in the position of defending Trump, I think he is a piece of shit clown...

But if you can't see that the accusations, using "novel legal theory" & efforts to stretch what might be a misdemeanor into something more serious, in an election year long after the supposed crimes even took place, you are delusional.

Every govt is & always has been a purely a criminal organization, but we are now reaching a stage where they no longer feel the need to even hide it.

It's not nihilism to have a low opinion of someone who supports the US funding a foreign genocide, while also basically being economically socialist, & caught up in the climate scam, & too stupid to understand the basic need for tools of defense. The fact that he has to promise what he won't do because he is opposed to guns is pretty good evidence that he is retarded.

Even with all the bad I was half interested at first, but the support for Israel's war crimes killed it.

I like Vivek, but the reality is that it makes no sense to place any hope on any politician. The political system is a waste of time. Bitcoin, P2P projects, self hosted Ai, 3d printing & home manufacturing, open source gun designs, & other open source hardware are far more important than any politician.

The first step to defeating any enemy is to stop funding them. The only way to really win is to give people the power to successfully engage in tax protests, whether its done loudly or quietly, that is the real measure of freedom.

Not really, the current one is obviously a pedophile, Obama started more wars without congressional approval than any other & even bombed a US citizen, Bush helped make 9/11 happen so that they could pass the patriot act & justify attacking a bunch of middle eastern countries where oil was no longer trading for dollars, Clinton was a brutal rapist & pedophile, Bush Sr helped execute Kennedy, so going after a political opponent for an accounting issue during an election year, way after the accounting "crime" itself is of any relevance is actually the bigger deal. The US has basically gone full banana republic.

RFK will fuck everyone over too. And he is mentally retarded when it comes to economics & guns & all sorts of critically important issues.

Bitcoin telegram network...? wut?

I agree that we don't know for certain whether there is any sort of ethereal consciousness we can pray to or communicate with. But I think certainty about the existence of God depends on how you define "God."

I don't imagine myself to be anything, but I have spent a decent amount of time trying to sort out the mess that is Christianity & square it with my understanding of the world around me.

Guy & I became a bitcoiners because we figured out that most of the economic ideas we were taught were upside down, we changed the way we eat because we figured out that the dietary recommendations were upside down, it wasn't too difficult to figure out that environmental science is completely upside down too.

It looks to me like the only things that aren't completely backwards or upside down are physical engineering & blue collar sorts of education where everything is much "closer to the metal." If your engineering concepts are totally wrong then your structures fall down.

Would it really be that big of a surprise to find out that everything most Christians believe & most churches teach is completely backwards? Religion is the subject farthest from the metal. All sorts of bad philosophy can persist for a long time without destroying productivity. But there must be some good bones in there somewhere, some living root back to reality for it to all have survived. I think it would be pretty ridiculous to assume we are just the smartest people to ever live & that no one who came before us had any philosophical contribution worth considering. There is generally some nugget of truth in every philsophy, on which the rest of it is built, even if it's mostly trash.

I agree that the Bible is stupid if you read it like a 5 year old. But I also think reading an extremely complicated text full of idioms & methaphor that has been translated from multiple dead languages would be a stupid thing to do. Unpacking what's there is extremely difficult, but it's not impossible. Some things are easier than others, hopefully no one thinks Jesus literally recognized Nathanial by the shade of the tree he sat under, that would make no fucking sense, right? But you can recognize people who understand the world by the way they behave, the people around them, & the way they have set up their lives. In other words, the amount of shade their trees provide. Has a person built a nice life for themselves, or are they stupid, blindly doing what everyone else told them to do & struggling?

I think God is reality. I don't think "all knowledge" can possibly exist outside the system that is the source of all the changing conditions, so the system itself is God. The map is not the territory, only the territory is the territory. Evolution is how God creates life. If we want to be successful & effective in the world around us we have to be married to reality first. If we want to get close to God we have to work to better understand all that is. If we forsake reality in pursuit of delusions the punishment will be harsh. Gravity or chemistry or the laws of economics are all very unforgiving. Whether or not there is some sort of super consciousness attached to reality is kind of irrelevant. If I am completely honest with myself I do sort of act like there is, but I am not sure there is any way to know that with certainty. So think whatever you want to think about praying. There is plenty of evidence to show that meditation & focusing the mind on certain things can help to direct our own subconscious in useful ways.

So if I think God = reality why do I consider myself a Christian... A lot of Christians tell me I am not one of them, which is fine. If by their definitions I have to believe in some sort of magic to be a Christian, then I'm not. But the interesting thing to me is that if you remove all the magic from the story of Jesus, even if he was just someone who became a carpenter after being born into total poverty, to a woman who whored herself out behind her husband's back. He still grew to be someone who completely changed the world. Our calender is literally centered around him. Seems to me that view potentially makes the story more significant, not less.

But if I call myself a Christian then it must be the MOST significant story, right? Well, if you zoom way out & discard the things we can't really know, it looks to me like a story about a man who was tortured by govt & religious authorities for helping others live better lives because his success was a direct threat to people in power who wanted to be the final authority on all things, but they clearly didn't know how to help people the way Jesus did. What always happens when people in power are embarrassed & shown up by a nobody? And of course, the masses in their tendency to blindly go along with authority celebrated the torture of Jesus. But as the story of what had happened to Jesus spread it became obvious that an innocent man was killed for doing good. So the lesson is not to blindly support authority, & not to pursue status & power at the expense of truth, because doing so will destroy all that is good. And if you look at history, look at the last few years, & look around us right now, I can't imagine any message that is more important than that.

And I believe the message at the heart of the story is important enough that no matter how it gets twisted or misinterpreted it can always be resurrected when the need arises. The Bible actually makes it pretty clear that the majority will basically always misunderstand everything. I generally think the deification of Jesus is the result of kings not wanting their power threatened (yes but he was God, who are you?) And plebs also not wanting the responsibility of having to stand up to the king (yes but he was God, who am I?). And I think there is a natural sort of idealization that happens to stories over time, they become larger than life monuments of the things they represented.

Also potentially relevant: it has been said that we die twice, once when life leaves the body, & again the last time anyone says our name. In that sense Jesus lives. It probably was as if he was at every dinner table in the 40 days after his death. If people realized a supposedly just republic had tortured & killed an innocent man & many people had cheered the torture, how might that story spread? And wouldn't the lesson be an important one to remember?