If restaurants billed like hospitals.... 1. A menu item would cost X. 2. The value of X would be hidden from BOTH the server AND the guest. 3. The guest would then be charged some value Y (instead of X). 4. The restaurant would then be paid some value Z (instead of Y or X). 5. We, as a society, would then be downright BEWILDERED by how broken restaurant economics have become. Insanity 🤬

So is @PUBKEY DC open to public yet or nah? I think google is trying to lead me astray. Says it doesn't open till December

The US floating toxic financial thirst traps like this 50 yr mortgage scheme WHILE gutting the populace is the fiat govt equivalent of a mob boss that gives a usurious loan, then positions goons outside to shake you down for the borrowed cash. You end up broke and idebted to the mob boss - who ends up with the money & power.

I find it amusing that to many people I know, the statement, "not everyone needs to go to college" is more controversial than "not everyone needs to get married/have a family".... one statement is backed by 70 years of precedent, the other thousands. We have a long way to go yet.

Thought question: assuming bitcoin represents a new New World, complete with its own time zone - or rather its own timekeeping convention (block height)... Would this convention be tenable at extraterrestrial/interstellar distances? Is there already an accepted convention for timekeeping in space (I assume UTC would be a silly idea)? 🤔 #thinkster

The word 'healthcare' is a fairly modern word. I don't know why, but I've always taken issue with it - as compared to other longstanding terms like 'medicine' or just 'health.' It feels like an orwelian misdirection designed to CONNOTE (imply) one thing, but DENOTE (mean) something entirely different. The term is never examined, but I feel it should be. Similar to how 'social justice' masquerades as actual justice, but in reality is a wholly unrelated, highly political, and less noble idea. The serpents should be given no quarter. Every single word should be dissected before accepting any of their premises. Idk. Just a gut feeling I suppose.

Something I struggle with almost daily is authenticity/integrity.... Does being authentic and committed to truth-telling mandate that I share my position on EVERY issue at EVERY opportunity? In my day to day life, I'm surrounded by left-leaning normies who couldn't be bothered to question any of the mainstream orthodoxy. It gets exhausting engaging these people. So I generally keep my mouth shut and my head down. This is taken as tacit agreement with their dogma. This feels cowardly. Is there a proper balance between having the courage to speak my mind and just being combative/argumentative? #asknostr

When a patient is dying, there are a number of physiologic derangements that are universally present. Many appear early and worsen (sometimes gradually, sometimes rapidly) until the person's demise. These commonly include low blood pressure, low oxygen saturations, labile heart rates/rhythms, and an altered or depressed mental state. Many, if not all, of these aberrations, are apparent even to the lay person or the junior medical trainee as worrisome. For the most part however, these findings, though very concerning, do not NECESSARILY spell the imminent death of the patient. There is one derangement though, that once it appears is a harbinger of the end: hypoglycemia. It turns out that maintaining physiologic blood sugar - specifically avoiding LOW blood sugar - is an absolutely fundamental condition of life. So much that this function, largely fulfilled by the liver (with some input from the pancreas), is more protected and preserved than even maintenance of blood pressure or blood oxygen levels. So when a patient's blood sugar begins to tank, requiring administration of dextrose to correct, this spells liver failure and is an undeniable tell that the end is nigh. This is often missed by family members or novice clinicians as meaningful because hypoglycemia seems so innocuous when compared to the other concomitant physiologic abnormalities in the critically ill. ...why do I mention this? Lately, when I listen to people like @NikBhatia, Luke Gromen, Dr. Jeff Ross, @Preston, @MartyBent, to name a few, I get the impression that the silent (as far as MSM is concerned) geopolitical and macroeconomic tremors we are experiencing are America's hypoglycemia moment. These tremors highlight fault lines in the post 1971 USD hegemonic structure. But - just like low blood glucose - to the lay person these events seem like esoteric concerns, easily corrected by a hit of sugar. Bond auction and repo market fragility aren't felt as palpably as inflation, unemployment, or unaffordable housing, but they are nonetheless telling signs of things to come. I'm no economist. But I know a sick patient when I see one. And, as I listen to the people with expertise in this domain, I see some concerning parallels. Just my 2 sats.

My little cousin (20 something) just started a job as a financial advisor. Cold calls me to offer his services.... i declined but said I'd be happy to chat. I was excited to see if Gen Z tradfi has evolved in its understanding of #bitcoin. I was sorely disappointed. The hubris is oh so strong

For the warriors that have passed on. .Anis.Mojgani. #artstr

Probably unpopular take: I've never understood the hate I hear for Charles Hoskinson (the Cardano dude)... I get the shitcoining point. But is it possible that he's just WRONG about crypto but isn't necessarily a charlatan? I've always heard negativity about him, yet every single time I've listened to him speak (most recently on Shawn Ryan Show), my impression is that he's intelligent, nuanced, and ethical. What am I missing?

What tradfi ppl don't understand: they are thespians. They're actors in the play. As a bitcoiner, I am an audience member that noticed the theatre is on fire. I don't care what act/scene we are in or when intermission is. I'm leaving.

Overhearing normie boomer finance dudes sharing their bad BTC and MSTR takes behind me in a restaurant = 4th turning version of taxi drivers giving stock advice

Hot take: when discussing leadership (esp in context of politics) business leaders or often lauded as having the best experience/acumen for the compexities of leadership. I would submit that an overlooked and underestimated intangible in a leader is an understanding of human nature. And few people understand human nature better than skilled adversarial-thinking software developers. So maybe that's what we need: more hackers (preferably cypherpunks) in politics. That's it. That's the tweet.

Every human action is a response to an incentive (or a matrix of incentives). If you can't explain another human's actions, that just means you're missing the incentive that they are attuned to. Dismissive pejoratives like "evil," "lazy" and "stupid" are cop-outs from understanding other ppl's incentives. There are certainly evil, lazy, and stupid people in this world. But even they are responding to incentives.