When bitcoin pumps it feels like: - being in an apple store in 2007 - eating a box of orange tic tacs - renting an n64 game from blockbuster - flipping your pillow to the cool side - beating halo 2 on legendary - the cubs winning the World Series - seeing the dark knight in theaters When it dumps it feels like: - trying to itch your eye but you accidentally scratch it - having to pay taxes - stepping in a wet spot on the floor in socks - getting a paper cut - when the ketchup squirts water before the ketchup - that one mosquito bite right on your knuckle - that one hair that keeps tickling your arm but you can’t find it​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I am trying to be less open minded. I am extremely obstinate in certain beliefs and am in fact actively hostile and discriminatory against counter beliefs. It goes far beyond being judgmental. There are a few principles where It goes to the core of my very being and nothing will ever change my mind. The best way to do this for me is to be open to inquiry for a period of time until I’ve figured out what’s going on and then radically close down any further examination. The critical thing is to be hostile towards the ideas and not the people holding them. Open inquiry → genuine examination → decision → closure → defense Being open minded is a virtue as the inception point of this process, but to stay open minded perpetually is destructive. I usually know I’ve found one of these when a violation of the belief makes me viscerally angry. Not just mildly annoyed but truly angry. Another is when I find sophisticated counter arguments suspicious rather than compelling. That last one is particularly useful. When a clever argument leads me toward a conclusion that feels deeply wrong, and the cleverness itself starts to feel like a red flag, that’s often a sign I’m near bedrock. So yeah I’m trying to be less open minded, I’d like to find more of these deep load bearing convictions.

Wildly bullish

Don’t waste your breath ever telling me what I can and can’t post / repost on nostr. I will post whatever I want whenever I want. I expect you to do the same.

I suggest following @War Monitor for updates on the situation in the Middle East The best on nostr

Got called both an anti semite and a Zionist today lol 😂

Some thoughts after yesterday’s events. After Venezuela and Iran it’s become clear to me that BRICS is dead, the lesson to all who ally with china is this… not only will the Chinese sell you garbage defense tech that the Americans military obviate in seconds, but they will also let you twist in the wind as America comes in and steals your presidente or kills your command structure in minutes. Who the fuck wants to ally with that? When the Americans are also willing to pay you to join them? Only the retarded and criminally insane. The multipolar world is a fiction. America is the superpower. I’m not even sure china can take Taiwan. If you’re a Chinese military strategist you have to be shitting bricks right now.

Stolen post from some anon on X. Being a huge bitch used to be a fast way for women to signal they were high status “Look how awful I can be. The fact people tolerate this implies I’m so desirable that they let me do it” But being awful is a very easy status signal to fake, so many normal and low-status women started doing it to pretend they were hot too Eventually, Team Bitch realized something: “If we can get ALL women to do this, we won’t have to try or be pleasant ever again, because men won’t have an alternative” So they started calling women who make effort to appeal to men “pick-mes” to whip them into shape and get them back on the Bitch Plantation It’s Sisyphean, though. The more bitchy the average girl is, the more men value one whos pleasant So the closer Team Bitch gets to success, the more any given woman stands to gain by defecting to Team Pickme This is basically the same dynamic with male feminists, just in reverse At the beginning of the Woke Era there was a ton of value in being one of the few men who defected to the women’s side because there were so few people who did this But as time went on, more and more guys flipped to get girls, so the benefit got diluted Eventually it provided no benefit at all, and guys just kept doing it because they thought they had to or they’d never get laid This unlocked a male version of the “I’m hot enough to be a bitch” option: “I’m rich and cool enough that I’m not scared to tell you about my horrifying politics” You can learn a lot about people based on what part of the cycle they defect in Early defectors are clever, but you probably shouldn’t trust them Late defectors are much more trustworthy, but also retarded Never-defectors are too high-status to believe in things like “tradeoffs” and they will continue doing whatever they want without ever considering any of this game theory

I found a darth vader mask in the middle of the desert and then a mentally ill woman yelled racial slurs at me and chased me a little bit 😂 Kind of a weird morning ngl lol

Cats give you brain parasites and dogs lower your risk of dementia by 40%. The choice is obvious.

Everyone has their own take on the block size war. I was there. Watching as a noob. My take has always been that this was at its core a philosophical fight. Yes there was skullduggery and subterfuge. Yes the battlefield was over a technical parameter. Yes there was fraud and backroom dealing. All that’s true. But what everyone was really fighting about was the chicken/egg problem that is bootstrapping a new global currency. Gold was monetized in pre history so we have no record of how it transpired, fiat is literally decreed by governments so that doesn’t help us understand reality any better either. Basically money has three functions. Store of value, medium of exchange and unit of account. Everyone knew that unit of account came last. The ideological divide was over which of the others came first. Big blockers believed that medium of exchange unequivocally came first, small blockers believed store of value did and the block size became the flashpoint because it was a lever you could use to enforce your view. I rarely talk about the block size war because I was brand new to bitcoin. It happened during my first two years and I spent most of it confused. Flipping back and forth from side to side. Thus I have a pretty good vantage point on both sides arguments and motivations. What eventually snapped into focus for me wasn’t who was “right” on the forums, but what each side was actually optimizing for. Big blockers were optimizing for use now. They feared ossification, irrelevance, and a future where Bitcoin was technically elegant but socially dead. If people couldn’t use it as money today, it would never get the chance to become money tomorrow. Small blockers were optimizing for survival. They feared capture, centralization, and a future where Bitcoin worked… until it didn’t, because it had quietly turned into something that required permission, scale, and trust. If Bitcoin couldn’t be a credible store of value first, nothing else mattered. You also have to remember at the time the small blockers were the rag tag band of outsiders, which is why it’s funny now when u hear people talk about it in conspiracy terms like a takeover of bitcoin. All of the corporate/legal/financial power was on the big block side. From the outside it looked like a war over an esoteric technical parameter. From the inside it was a war over what Bitcoin was allowed to become. In hindsight, the block size war wasn’t a failure of discourse or coordination. It wasn’t about one side being evil and one side being good (though I have my own thoughts on that) it was the cost of discovering what Bitcoin actually is. And like most growing pains, it only makes sense once you’re on the other side of it.