*And although most people were happy with their results, some reported things like acute anxiety following treatment, which suggests “elective aesthetic procedures may, in some individuals, exacerbate underlying mental-health vulnerabilities rather than ameliorate them”. Which makes me wonder, when Botox is marketed as empowerment, what are the long-term effects to your mental health, of getting your self esteem from a needle?* View quoted note →

*You can’t know in advance that studying something is going to be a waste of time. There is a sunken cost to every instance of education. It is what it is. You can’t justify walking past a closed door by ignorantly asserting that there is nothing of value behind it* View quoted note →

*racism is a construct of the post war consensus meant to shame Christian nations into calculating their inheritance* View quoted note →

*Early Tibetan legend describes a time when people used telepathy, traveled in the astral, and levitated heavy objects. As the story goes, abuse of these gifts ended that era. Therefore, humanity lost common telepathy—echoed by the Tower of Babel tale.*

Anomalien.com

Uyghur Ancient Cities: Gobi Myths Meet Modern Discoveries

Uyghur ancient cities in the Gobi Desert—once ocean ports—now re-examined with new archaeological finds like the Gobi Wall and Silk Road ruins.

*This isn’t a normal market cycle. It’s the unit-of-account transition phase. And almost no one is positioned for it because they’re still measuring their “returns” in the wrong yardstick.* View quoted note →

*•Gold shows stagnation. •Bitcoin shows collapse.* View quoted note →

*We’re in a regime where the unit of account is decaying faster than the public narrative can absorb* View quoted note →

*when people cling to the debasing unit, they feel rich but measured in the next credible collateral, their system is already collapsing* View quoted note →

Beardos' Lives Matters ____ Calling out the Norse religion in particular “is a bit undermining,” said a senior non-commissioned officer serving on active duty who openly practices a sub-sect of paganism associated with Nordic traditions and sports a large beard. “I feel like that’s singling people out. Why not say it for Muslims or Christians as well?” “There are people like ourselves that practice paganism to the fullest extent possible, and it’s kind of a low blow to be called fake,” the source said. “Imagery is just as important as conviction.”

The Intercept

Hegseth Attack on “Beardos” Targets Troops on Race and Religion, Military Sources Say

Hanafi Muslim and Nordic pagan service members told The Intercept Hegseth's new policy was exclusionary to their beliefs.

*silences scented with rain and burning wood* Beautiful words, beautiful art! View quoted note →

*searching the library catalog and browsing the shelves. We need both.* View quoted note →

*these are the three big buckets of ministry : clinical, religious, and spiritual. They conveniently map to atheist, deist, and animist. They tend to be exclusive, and they also tend to try converting their patients into spreaders of their own type. True healing depends on meeting the patient where they are. The first thing they need to hear is, its okay and you're not alone.* View quoted note →

Everyone: it’s not possible to construct a worthwhile sentence using ‘memetic bundle’ and ‘meme payload’. *Comte enters the chat* “Both are trying to inject a meme payload and make you a replicator of the memetic bundle that controls them : on one extreme, they fix you by filling your wound with scientism ; on the other extreme, they fix you by filling your wound with a set of beliefs that are characterized by exclusivity” View quoted note →

*predictable scarcity is what drives the long-term adoption* View quoted note →

*In the end two things still shine through for me - one that Bitcoin and PoW are just about the most objective source of truth there is, and secondly what an OG told me when I asked him why he still bought bitcoin when it was 100x where it was when he first started. “Because no one can afford my time”*

Stacker News

The last one standing: Reflections from a bitcoin bear market \ stacker news ~bitcoin

@jtwoodhouse stacked 3456 sats posting https://www.jtwoodhouse.com/the-last-one-standing/ [13 comments]

*The whole point of Bitcoin is to route around the state without direct violent confrontation.* View quoted note →

*there definitely was consensus about enabling Taproot, as far as people understood what it would give them, but there definitely was NOT consensus about enabling inscriptions. That can accurately be classified as an unintended use-case of Taproot's features by using an exploit to disguise arbitrary data as part of the transaction's witness section, which no one realized would be the case at the time of activation* View quoted note →

*there is a massive difference between using Bitcoin for its intended purpose as money to BUY an NFT, even if you or I think NFTs are stupid, vs using Bitcoin for an unintended purpose to STORE an NFT* View quoted note →