The variably within groups will always exceed the variability between them.

Not all men see the world as you’d expect and not all women do either.

I challenge you to give up on senseless gender based categorizations.

Self portrait? :)

Yawn.

Bravo

Good for you for staying in shape. Hopefully you are avoiding tobacco, alcohol, and drugs (both prescription and otherwise) in order to do so. If not, exercise and a good diet are easy once you make them routine.

I wouldn’t plaster the internet with my naked body in the age of AI but even if it’s vanity that has tricked/led you into staying healthy, then I’d consider that a win.

When you come to appreciate your body’s function over its form, you will have a winning mindset that stands the test of time. Maybe you already do. What do I know.

Youth and stereotypical ideals of beauty are fleeting though so hopefully you’ve got other attributes to fall back on. Nothing wrong with taking advantage of suckers while it lasts though I suppose.

Happy Friday!

Yes it is. It is the reality check that has been millennia in the making.

It is how we start to fix the world. There is a lot to be done.

Anyone on here with/wanting kids willing to have a purely logical discussion on the topic?

The closest I have ever come to understanding the decision to reproduce came from such a discussion.

It boiled down to a fundamental difference in perceived value of human life, where I place zero value on life that doesn’t exist yet, while the very reasonable person I was speaking with did see value in life that hadn’t yet been born.

Since I very much enjoyed the opportunity to work through this very complex topic with another intelligent human, I am hoping that someone else on here who also has the benefit of anonymity may be able/willing to go even deeper.

Thanks in advance - I know it’s not an easy thing to think about for many.

#grownostr

As I said, you are well entitled to your opinion.

I agree that it is a shame that sound money seems to require energy expenditure. Whether in the form of gold mining operations, or in the form of #Bitcoin mining, or in the form of military expenditure/energy use to secure faith in fiat currency like the USD.

The problem is that humans are greedy. None of us can be trusted to manage a form of money without trying to benefit from the responsibility ourselves.

That means that money will come at a cost. I prefer a form of money that is based on computer code and mathematics. The energy expenditure is worth it to me. The energy expenditure for military/banking sector/etc that is required for fiat currencies to work is not worth it to me because it hasn’t solved anything. You still have the energy expenditure plus you have to deal with greedy humans still, and btw, throw in a side of death and misery thanks to the need for military operations to subdue those who dare question a particular currency’s dominance.

Bitcoin uses a lot of energy. No one is denying that. Those who claim that energy is not required for sound money though, just don’t get the fact that humans are always gonna human, and greed will ultimately destroy every form of money that isn’t secured with energy expenditure.

But again, you do you. I hope your alternative works out. It would be great if it did, but I’m not holding my breath.

Price = noise.

Hash rate = signal.

#bitcoin

Bitcoin’s energy use ties its value to the physical world. It’s an energy standard like gold used to be.

Without proof of work, there is no value.

This is why shitcoins have no value and why they have all gone to proof of stake. They simply can’t compete with #bitcoin’s actual value.

If you don’t get this, or see what makes Bitcoin different, that’s ok. It will keep doing its thing with or without you. In the meantime, I’ll be buying your share, so thank you.

Bitcoin motivates a low time preference (anti-consumerism) and awareness of the rampant corruption in the Fiat system.

For the global fiat elite, it represents one of the most dangerous/disruptive technologies to ever exist.

Shitcoins represent their attempts to attack bitcoin’s scarcity.

Law enforcement actions reflect their attempts to attack bitcoin’s fungibility.

Environmental FUD represents their attack on bitcoin’s societal value.

Induced Fiat price volatility represents their attack on bitcoin’s utility/store of value.

The list goes on. They will not just sit back and let bitcoin happen. They have worked too hard to strip the plebs of individual freedoms and effectively enslave us in a prison most can’t even see. To those of us who can see what they are doing, this is war, and #Bitcoin is our only weapon.

Please do an episode appropriately mocking those seeking to make Fiat off #Bitcoin and then I’ll give it a listen.

Until then, I don’t give a flying fuck if Bitcoin hits $100K bullshit bucks or $1.

Please don’t promote such a stupid yard stick of success for a truly civilization changing technology.

Shame on you. You know better.

PSA:

If you’re tired of people begging for sats/#zaps or posting stupid and lazy AI memes, just click the ellipse on the post and select “mute user”.

Makes scrolling through the more popular hashtags a lot more enjoyable after a few days.

#bitcoin

#zaps

#nostr

#grownostr

#plebs

#plebchain

#zapathon

People who buy #bitcoin to make more fiat deserve neither.

What Bitcoin has seamlessly provided since 2009 is priceless. Pun intended.

I suppose being self-sufficient and not buying any of the disposable garbage we are told will enrich our lives would also count.

CBDCs are just more of the same.

If anyone thinks the trend is toward more individual freedoms, please let me know your thought process. I’d love to be wrong.

I think the bigger problem is that people are now so stupid (thanks to centralized media and our third world education systems) that those in power aren’t even trying to conceal their games anymore.

I mean seriously, how can you even say that CBDCs are a good idea with a straight face? They are patently absurd on their surface.

I am just very thankful for #bitcoin and the fact that I’m not bringing additional children into the world to be slaves to a global elite.

These are the only two forms of protest that actually matter.

If someone were to present a valid argument against #Bitcoin, and there are a few, I would be happy to listen and recognize it.

Bitcoin doesn’t claim to be perfect and it doesn’t require blind faith. That’s one of the things that makes it so special.

It is demonstrably better than any shitcoin that will ever exist however, and not even in the same league as Fiat, which is a complete Pandora’s box of horrors and corruption.

Bitcoin embraces error and imperfection and grows stronger from it. I wish more humans could work this way.

Yes to Gordon Lightfoot.

APAB

All politicians are bastards. A different flavor of shit is still shit.

Welcome!

Building and creating is some of the best fuel for contentment.