Being able to bear children is a super power. You can literally create life! Epic! The process of childbirth is dangerous and traumatic. It's heroic to take on that task. Cheers to the women that keep humanity going 🙌

Are you going to go with support or repression? For most problems that we can identify, we can respond to them in a number of different ways and often there is a choice between responding with support or with repression. Here are some examples… Drug addicts. When we are dealing with the issue of drug addiction we can decide on a personal and/or public policy of support or repression. We can understand why an addict is in pain and choosing drugs. We can support them in healing their wounds and in finding resources to help them through recovery. Or we can go the other route and convict them of crimes and force them into prison. Declining birth rates. If we see that women are having fewer children and we want to encourage them to have more children, we can go with a policy of support or repression. We can find ways to further reduce the difficulty and danger of childbearing. We can provide more support to mothers so that they don’t have to be isolated from society. Or we can go the other route and remove legal access to birth control, make divorce much more difficult, and try to prevent women from having career opportunities and remove their options until they are left with only childbearing as a possibility for them. Which is more inline with your values? Support or repression?

It's so stupid the way dudes will use "suck a dick" as an insult. ...bro, you have a dick... don't ya think shaming people for giving that some attention might be shooting your self interests in the foot???

SSRI’s/SNRI’s don’t cure depression, because depression isn’t caused by too little serotonin. These drugs are essentially pain killers, and they save lives. It’s pretty damn difficult to climb out of a deep psychological hole, but these pain killers can push you out of that hole. And once out, you are in a much, much better position to do the work of fixing whatever it is that is causing that depression.

I am constantly handing out this career/life hack and it baffles me that so few people do this. It goes like this… you have a special interest/career focus and you see a really interesting person talking about your topic! You’d really love to just invite them out to a bar and have an hour long conversation with them and ask them all kinds of questions about their work… but that’s kinda creepy, you can’t just do that. And so, ladies and gentlemen, what you do is... wrap that whole process in a meetup! When you’re running a meetup you can totally invite that person to a bar to give you a personalized lecture, you just have to do it in front of a bunch of other people and call it a fire side chat at an event. But this way not only will they not find your invitation creepy, they will be flattered, they will show up, and then they will thank you!!! 🙌 It’s the most genius career hack I’ve found. Why are you not doing this?!?!?!

Buen dia a todas. We have an epic @San Juan Bit Devs this month. Janusz will be discussing his research into the privacy of Spark payments and then Isabel Foxen Duke will be taking us on a deep dive into BIP360 & Bitcoin’s quantum issue! As always RSVP below or we won’t have the right amount of beer!

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Socratic Seminar #25, Wed, May 20, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Inspired by BitDevs meetups worldwide, our Socratic Seminars are where curious minds connect, ideas evolve, and nobody leaves without learning some...

I’ve been on a psychology learning binge over the past ~5 yrs, at this point I’ve read over 30 books on the topic and my #1 take away is how wildly important it is to consciously manage your own mind. We have instincts, we likely inherent some genetic memory, our early childhood shapes our brains and forms our nervous system, we absorb the values and narratives of those around us. The thoughts that we think change the hormones in our body. Often depression and anxiety are matters of deeply ingrained subconscious perspectives on life. Consciously managing your own mind is a prerequisite to having a self directed life. The thoughts you think and how you live changes your gene expression. Your neuropathways are not fixed and can be reformed at any point in your life. In order to change a deeply ingrained thought pattern, you first need to be aware of it. Thankfully there are many scientifically proven methods for becoming aware of your own thoughts and updating them. Meditation, journaling, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative therapy, and more.

Mother’s day is and should be about honoring the heroic effort required in childbirth. Being a dedicated parent is it’s own wildly important work, but that is separate from the dangerous, traumatic, and very necessary work of birthing children. It’s such an injustice that we hide away from the world the intensity, danger, and seriousness of this work. People not appreciating the work of childbearing causes such a lack of understanding. If you are someone who has not experienced or witnessed childbirth, at the very least please watch some videos on it. Links in the comments below.

"left up to the states" ...a way to soft launch the removal of rights.

Ain't it funny that the dudes that go around calling everything "gay" and reference their right to free speech are the same dudes who lose their shit when when a lady with a septum piercing makes a mean joke about men on TikTok or when anyone makes a Charlie Kirk joke. Pick one buddy. Do you want the anything goes 'free speech' vibe or the decency vibe?

Frustration comes from a misalignment of expectation with reality. I thought humanity would be better by now. The reality is that we are not as good as I thought we would be.

The jokes that someone makes/laughs at reveals their values. When someone objects to a joke, 9 times out of 10, it’s not that that person lacks humor, it’s that they are rejecting the values revealed by that joke.

Please just walk through Walmart. You will see real people dating real people. Your algorithms are feeding you rage bait.

I am a solar panel, I am so very charged by the sun ☀️🔋😎🫶

You can find things funny when they aren't a danger to you. And I think that is why women often get the label of "humorless". A lot more things are dangerous to women than to men, and so they don't laugh at those things. Ya know like rape jokes. You're probably not going to laugh at a rape joke if you are on a date actively trying to make sure that you don't get raped. There is some nuance here, sometimes humor is a way to deal with trauma. And so whether or not a joke is funny to someone who has experienced that thing depends on the punchline. But a 'ha ha that person got raped' is wildly unlikely to get a laugh out of someone who deals with that fear everyday.

There is a positive correlation between religion and the repression of women. Why?