The writing was on the wall with the “have fun staying poor”. I came to the Bitcoin because I wanted to demolish power structures. HFSP very clearly states “I’m here to create a monetary hierarchy where I am above you”. The American Bitcoin influencers now are motivated by being above others, and they try to sell Bitcoin by promising that those who adopt it will also be above others. It’s the antithesis of what I thought we were doing here and it’s heart breaking.

I’m really saddened and disgusted with the Bitcoin world right now. And to be very clear I mean the loud, American, Bitcoin social media ‘influencers’. Most of them anyhow. They are a pack of tyrant worshiping, blatantly misogynistic, fame whoring sociopaths. At this point I’m embarrassed to have ever hung out with them, or to now have any association with them. I’m debating what to do about this. I’ve left Bitcoin Twitter and don’t plan to engage with that world anymore. I want to keep speaking about this tech, but I won’t be focusing on that audience. They don’t want tech, they want to be above others. I’m not sure what is a good strategy here. I thought maybe I could help make things there better, but it’s gotten so bad that I can’t in good conscience be associated with it. Should I work on forming better Bitcoin communities? Should I just leave them to rot by themselves and focus on expanding the use of this tech in better communities? ...something else I haven’t thought of yet? I’d love some ideas here.

Hey I got my zaps working 🙌 (receiving anyhow) it's almost like I'm an expert on Lightning Payments 😉 ⚡

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I'm going to try setting up a cashu.me wallet. What mint should I connect to?

It really works out well for me that super long hair is considered luxurious and sexy because do you know what you need to do to achieve super long hair? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I mean I wash it and brush it, but other than that I just ignore it... and ta-da 🪄 luxurious long hair.

Yesterday I was talking to a friend about a really fun day I had a few months back. It was just randomly one of the most fun days I've ever had, and I think it was so fun as I had low responsibility that day, and zero expectations. Every fun thing that happened that day was a pleasant surprise. What's a wildly fun day you had and what made it so fun?

Can someone pretty please zap me? I think maybe I finally got it working again.

If you haven’t thought through who is the target audience of your post, if you don’t know what the learning objectives are, and if you aren’t using effective communication techniques… almost certainly you are not engaging in persuasion, you are indulging in emotional revenge.

Free speech is wildly important. Speaking your mind is a public service. When you can say whatever you want, what you choose to say reveals your character. Every word tells us who you are and we can decide clearly if we want to associate with you, or not. Thank you.

Libertarians: “Our ideas are the best ideas! We should grow our community! We need to tell everyone about our wonderful ideas!” Libertarians: Refuse to read any books on effective communication, and won’t take feed back. Libertarians: Attempt to communicate their wonderful ideas by yelling at others about how stupid they are. ...decades later... Libertarians: “Why aren’t our ideas popular? Is it us? No, no, it’s because everyone else is so stupid.”

There is this false dichotomy with existential beliefs. We tend to think that we must either believe that we are our bodies and this is all there is to existence, or that we must submit to the cosmic dictator to be saved from eternal damnation. I'm going with none of the above. I'm not a fan of dictators either here or in the afterlife, I submit to no one, and I am also not my body. And wow the hubris to think that we have existence sorted out.

A protector protects the autonomy of others. Someone who thinks that protection = control is not a protector, they are a tyrant.

Decent humans are capable of acknowledging the struggles of others. Others who are different from them, others who they disagree with. And this is pretty much the measure of adulthood. Are you capable of taking responsibility for your behavior and are you capable of acknowledging experiences and realities outside of yourself? ...have you realized that the world does not revolve around you?

We have this narrative that men only want young women and that they just aren’t attracted to older women and a man with options will always prefer a younger woman. But then we have the richest man in the world marrying a woman his age. We have this narrative that women only want men that are built like comic book superheros and that a woman with options will always chose the man with the biggest biceps. But then we have the existence of Pete Davidson. Maybe, people are actually pretty complex and attraction is an individual, and complex thing???

Submission is something that you beat someone into. Trust is earned. The red pill crew mistakes trust for submission. Sad and ugly. But they are right in that women want this... want to be able to trust. Being able to trust someone, someone who as earned your trust, is amazing for anyone in any kind of relationship, but trust is especially important for women in a sexual relationship with a man. Sex brings pregnancy and pregnancy is difficult and dangerous. Taking that risk with someone requires trust.