How many people got shot, stabbed, robbed, or raped by their dealer when fueling their addictions shopping on the Silk Road?

Sounds like harm reduction to me.

This is so true. Bought my first bitcoin in 2013, but had to go off into the desert to learn about stock investing, and then monetary mechanics (Thanks nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a, Jeff Snider, Perry Mehrling, Brent Johnson, and others). Only once I had that information under my belt did I feel nearly as comfortable to go as concentrated into Bitcoin as it deserves. Glad to have finally made it, even if later than I'd have preferred.

I'd be curious to see how many companies that accept bitcoin actually get a significant portion of their purchases paid for in bitcoin. Because yes, if someone is willing to take the stuff that's roughly worth as much as used toilet paper (over time anyway), why would I offer them my bitcoin instead?

This is why at least a good few folks accepting bitcoin do so at a discount to fiat, just to make up for the savings they get by not needing to pay card processing fees or on ramp fees to buy into Bitcoin themselves. Popular discounts I've seen are 10% and 8.21% (a nod to infinity/21M).

What about progressive conservatives, like Trump and Elon?

Honestly, I use such a firm mattress that if I were shopping again, I'd probably just opt for a Japanese shikifuton and reclaim the floor space it takes up during the day by folding it up. That said, I've had good luck with my Sears extrafirm king size. Not actually sure if you can still get 'em though, given what's gone on with Sears over the past few years.

Sounds bullish for bitcoin to me!

#GM.

Decided after reading a bit about #aerodynamics, and the relationship between a plane's angle of ascent and the turbulence experience during takeoff, that we really just must be in a simulation, and the universe is reusing code to save on system resources.

So then I figured, sure, let's just see how far down this rabbit hole goes, and I pulled up Bitcoin's natal chart (which I had to fudge a little bit with the unknown time and location of the genesis block, but I punched in the plausible 8 am in Palo Alto operating on the assumption that Satoshi was someone who worked in or around the deep state in Silicon Valley).

There's some really interesting stuff in here if you suspend your disbelief about the accuracy of astrology. Bear in mind that Capricorn, where Bitcoin's Sun, Ascendant, and Jupiter are, with Mars on the cusp of, is a fixed earth sign (and Bitcoin is the hardest money ever known to man), and that Bitcoin's moon (representative of the emotional, subconscious, and inner self of a person) is in Aries, the god of war. Meanwhile, Venus, associated with love, beauty, harmony, and relationships, is in Pisces, where it is exalted. Last point for now (feel free to deep dive yourself of course is Saturn in Virgo, which emphasizes discipline, organization, and a strong focus on details and perfection.

If that all doesn't describe #Bitcoin to a T, I must be missing something.

#Astrology #Simulation

The kids aren't all right.

Sounds like someone needs to let these kids know that walking away from a dying platform, taking money from it in the process, and going off to build better ecosystems isn't something people should be chastised for.

Thanks Jack for all you do, even if the kids can't be bothered to know their ass from their elbows.

My biggest reason to use it less as digital cash is the obnoxious tax treatment. Sure I'll send zaps especially because my lightning funds aren't coming out of the Bitcoin I bought anyway (thanks Ember Fund), but the idea of tabulating every small purchase on my tax returns is insane. We need sane de-minimis rules on purchase sizing just like foreign currencies get to get rid of this nonsense. Speaking for American laws anyway.

We'll see if this administration brings in a better situation in that regard.

And beyond that, yes, I'm going to get rid of my dollars before my bitcoin as long as people are willing to take that trash as if it's actually money. Except for when I've got people who I'm looking to otherwise give a nice gesture to in addition to buy things from.

Welcome! And judging by the zaps it looks like you now own at least 0.00015030 Bitcoin -- a nice start!

Amazon's roboticization of its warehouses may be something I expect to see sooner than an at home Rosie from the Jetsons for this reason. While the work may not be that hard in individual increments, expecting humans to spend 8-10 hours on their feet with insufficient bathroom breaks is just begging for burnout. Robots do not suffer these limitations.

I'm not surprised things like roombas aren't all that widely used. Vaccuuming isn't particularly dangerous work, and roombas aren't all that cheap. Things like, servicing nuclear meltdown sites and other hazardous locations, however, is a great use of robots that does seem to be fairly widely used. Also, the use of drones. Though, I suppose it depends whether you consider remote controlled machines in the same space as autonomous machines, because drones and things like Vicarious Surgical's "robot" might not be fair to compare to fully autonomous systems that act purely algorithmically.

Maybe at some point we'll look to robots to do things that aren't so difficult for humans to do, in the same way we use dishwashers now, but I think most things we recognize as robots just don't have the best cost:benefit ratio, especially when we consider the inertia of having a routine that already has us doing things manually.

You can run AlbyHub natively on your computer. Though it will need to be on in order to receive zaps.

It's not so much rule by corporations, but rather, treating the society as a single body, or "corpus." There is definitely some overlap, but it's a bit more integrated and less ad-hoc than this idea of corporatism. Crony Capitalism though is a fine name for this other thing. Could also probably go with corporatocracy.

Corporatism actually already had a definition and this isn't it. See: Mussolini.

In other words, let's continue the genocide, but do it by displacement rather than so much bombing.

I think it happens to all of us. Definitely me in any case. Be gentle with yourself while beating the will to comfort out of yourself...or something, haha.

Focus is the same when adhering to physical discipline as it is when meditating. The more of a big deal you make of a lapse of focus, the less focused you're being.

It's one of those things where inertia cuts both ways. Don't beat yourself up for not doing it right; work on the small things, make a habit of it, and step them up when you can.

The worst though is when you get in one of those grooves and then being a parent to a teenager with multiple sports teams and a work schedule that moves around throws it all off the cliff and you're back at square one...

Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada has been arrested in Switzerland. Abunimah is most known for his work in debunking atrocity propaganda about the Al Aqsa Flood, beginning October 7, 2023, as well as being the executive editor at EI. He has worked tirelessly in reporting on the apartheid system in #Palestine for well over a decade prior to that, and in addition to his own work, he has made great efforts to ensure that voices from the ground in #Gaza have been made heard, particularly over the past 475 days. He is the second journalist at Electronic Intifada to be detained for his role as a journalist over the past year, as Asa Winstanley had his home raided and devices seized in October of 2024.

Switzerland meanwhile used to be a nation that prided itself on neutrality and democracy, but since the early days of the West's war against Russia in Ukraine, its citizens have found themselves in service to the #NATO hegemon. While they may not be known for neutrality anymore, perhaps they'll not be forgotten for their willingness to aid those involved with genocide, both presently, and under the Third Reich.

If you weren't aware of EI yet, hopefully it's pretty clear that it's time to start paying attention to their work. They do a weekly livestream on Rumble, Twitter, Twitch, and Youtube, as well as have their written reporting available at ElectronicIntifada.net.

#FreePress #JournalismIsNotACrime #FreePalestine

https://electronicintifada.net/content/eis-ali-abunimah-arrested-switzerland/50333

Japanese, Italian-inspired, meat doria. A Japanese twist on bolognese, with tonkatsu sauce, cooked over short grain white rice, topped with melted cheese and toasted panko. Who says nothing good ever came from fascism? #foodstr