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Something I learned in my early days of political activism was to "meet people where they are," meaning: whatever it is you wish to discuss with them, do so on common ground. Over the last decade and a half or so, it seems to me that that is a concept that has gone out of favor. I think that is a mistake. A deep, terrible mistake. I needn't agree with everything anyone says to find common ground. And, if I don't work to find the common ground, the chances of reaching that person goes way down. And what's the point of the conversation if all I'm doing is earning bonus points from those who already agree with me? I've not furthered my cause. I've not made a positive impact. I've only shown any audience that feeling like I've "won" is more important to me than furthering my reach and my cause. Seems a bit silly to me to not meet people where they are. But, hey, that's just me.

I don't play the role of maxi on Facebook. Knowing my audience is something I strongly believe in. I do, however, try to give my "friends" things to think about. This is my most recent post. Now, as always, I wait for the arguements. But, I don't post these things for the people who will argue and never listen. I post them for the people who read them and maybe think about what I've written. The post: If you don't understand what is happening to the USD and how that's going to impact you, I suggest that you do some serious reading. It's not a secret. It's not being hidden. The US government is denying that it's a problem while madly scrambling to do anything to offset the mounting and inevitable problems. Not the least of these actions is attacking fiat on and off ramps to Bitcoin and crypto. Biden and Warren are desperate to stop the average person from having any chance of protecting what little wealth they possess. They are desperate to protect their own class along with their friends like Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger, and Jamie Dimon. And they'll gleefully make it difficult if not impossible for the average person to feed their families over the coming years so they can protect their banking partners. But, no matter what they try, the dollar is failing as the world reserve currency. It will continue to fail no matter how much the destroy the wealth of the average person. And, for what it's worth, there at plenty of Republicans who are gleefully onboard with Biden and Warren. It's important to remember that one of the primary issues that both parties tend to believe in is the necessity of protecting the US banking cartel even at the expense of the people. (And out of fairness, there are politicians in both sides of the aisle that do advocate for some financial freedom.) But, the long and short of this post comes down to this: If you don't own some gold, silver, or bitcoin (and, for this purpose, it's bitcoin, not "crypto" that you'll need), you're going to find yourself in a very terrible situation sooner than you think. Do what you want. Listen to me if you want. But, if you give two shits about your future, at least look into the imminent fall of the dollar as the world reserve currency and what that means to the US public.

Every time I listen to Janet Yellen speak, I honestly wonder what the thought process was behind appoiting her to the position of US Treasury Secretary. Even if, for whatever reason, someone thinks she's in the right path or whatever, she always comes across as ill-prepared, confused, and in a perpetual state of being startled. Of course, I think that pretty much all of her ideas are awful and she's generally either lying or wrong, so that could certainly play into my bias. All the same, I just get the sense that she instills confidence in basically no one.

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I think it's about time for me to start looking at setting up my own bitcoin node. You all have convinced me whether you meant to or not. But, there's a catch: I'm not overly tech savvy. I'm fine as long as I have detailed instructions, however, in most tech projects I attempt there tend to be, often in the middle of the instructions, some assumed knowledge that I don't possess. I don't mind the digging and learning, but about half of the time, I find contradictory information and get stuck. So, if I could get some direction toward resources before I start, that would be wonderful. Unless I'm told otherwise, I'm hoping to use a raspberry pi 4 4GB for the node. Thanks, friends.

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I never really used the blue bird app. At least, I never really posted anything. I only opened the app to find news that I want finding otherwise. Why didn't I post on Twitter? Because, while I have no problem being confrontational. For that matter, when I was younger, I often enjoyed being confrontation. However, I don't find confrontation for the sake of confrontation to be generally useful. Twitter, in my experience, is a whole lot of confrontation for the sake of confrontation. Now, on nostr, I find myself far more inclined to post. I've seen very little confrontational behavior here and even less confrontation for the sake of confrontation. I don't need a safe space. I just don't feel all that inclined to waste my time and energy on a stupid space.

Morning coffee thoughts: I think it's important to remember that we are a part of the network effect. By using nostr, we make it stronger and more useful. By being bitcoiners, we make it stronger and more useful. However, if we cloister ourselves too much or for too long, we decrease the positive impact we, as individuals, can have. So, I think it's important that we remember to interact with other parts of the world. So, when we're out in the world dealing with normies, I think it's important to bring something positive to as many interactions as as we can. If we bring something positive in small, seemingly unimportant interactions with others, it's more likely that they'll be receptive if they find us talking about nostr or bitcoin or anything else. If this is true, then we need not, in most cases, try to orange or purple pill people. We just need to be a positive memory, even a small one, when they discover that we are nostr users or bitcoiners. And, rereading this before I post, I'm not sure if my coffee has taken effect yet. But, hey, I'll post it anyway in case it makes sense to some people.

When I was young growing up in the American Midwest in the late 80's through early 90's, I would have begged my father for this. Be would have laughed at me and told me to go get the chickens back in the coop.

I think much of the mainstream is missing the mark by focusing on the Yuan displacing the Dollar. No one currency needs to displace the Dollar for the Dollar to fail as the reserve currency. All that must happen is that trade be denominated in anything other than the Dollar. Trade can b be denominated in any number of currencies that aren't the Dollar and the effect will be the same. It's not about the Dollar being replaced by something specific, it's just about the Dollar being dropped. And it looks to me like that's happening very fast now. It's not a new thought, but, of course, "first gradually, then suddenly." The fun part is that this is all incredibly bullish for bitcoin adoption. Countries aren't known for their trust in one another. And while multi-currency international trade could work fairly well in the short term, in the long term they'll seek out what bitcoin has to offer.

I've been thinking about the percentage of international trade moving to a bitcoin standard or would take to force most nations to stay formally holding bitcoin on their balance sheets. At the moment, I'm just guessing and running through scenarios. Obviously, if one of the largest economies made the shift, others wold have to move in that direction. But how many mid-sized or smaller economies would it take? (I'm wording this awkwardly because I haven't throughly thought the problem through yet. My apologies.) Does anyone have any ideas on how I could come up with a general number? Does anyone have any links to any good articles on the subject? Thanks, friends.

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