It's so incredibly hard to hear someone go off about "how expensive everything is" and how "we dont get paid enough" and "how low wages are"... Then explain to them that inflation literally causes all of this, and that the reason it feels like running on a treadmill is because **by default you get poorer if you dont get at least a 7% raise every year.** And then they say "but nobody would buy anything if money got more valuable, it would ruin the economy." Mothafukr you are LITERALLY linking the chains that you complain about weighing you down.

What idiot thought bright purple LED street lamps were a good idea?

It’s kinda funny that Twitter is totally having a stroke right now. Nothing is loading and I can’t even respond to a bunch of people arguing with me in a thread 😂

SHUT UP! I DIDNT ASK TO BE APPRECIATED AND DONT FEEL LIKE IT RIGHT NOW. View quoted note →

Few seem to have any concept of how much easier life would be if money got more valuable over time rather than less. ESPECIALLY during a period of massive technological deflation. Imagine if everything you needed for your living standard was 10% cheaper/better quality each year? The literal opposite of the current system.

Happy NY “Disagreement” Day #Bitcoin May the spirit of GFY live on forever. “On this day in 2017, at the height of the Blocksize Wars, a select group of powerful miners, businesses, and figures in the Bitcoin industry under an intiative by the Digital Currency Group, had a meeting that later came to be called the "New York Agreement." They believed that their combined market, hashing, and social power allowed them to make the decision to unilaterally push a hard fork to increase the Bitcoin blocksize despite virtually no support from the large development community and a significant portion of Bitcoin's user base. This was the beginning of what was called the SegWit2X proposal and the first major attempt to change the consensus rules of the network through attempted dominance of the hash power. After the success of the UASF, support dwindled as the deadline came closer, and the lack of developer support & talent resulted in a major bug causing the forked network to immediately grind to a halt upon execution due to an "off-by-one" bug. The SegWit2X chain never produced a block. • Celebrate by committing to something at the beginning of the day, and then back out at the last minute 🤣”

All other social media now is just the places I go looking for things to share on #Nostr 🤣 Social has become the dominant mode by which we experience the internet. Its purpose is to filter information through our social tribes. Which is a GREAT thing, not a bad one as many assume. The bad part is that it has been owned by platforms, rather than the user. It always necessitated a protocol from the beginning, and was never going to work otherwise. But now seeing its potential and that it’s completely open and permissionless to build on, this is going to change the entire web from top to bottom. I now have over 4,600 notes. Don’t underestimate the value of building a foundation in this place, because we will be able to use it for a million things that were never possible on closed, centralized systems. Slow and steady wins the race.

Brace yourselves, the printer is coming… “It’s important that the economy grows faster than the debt” — Bessent, Treasury Secretary They are realizing cutting the budget and freezing the debt machine isn’t in the cards, and so they go back to the old playbook.

A truth I was surprised to discover: Most people want slavery. They just want to be comfortable. And the moment a little bit of freedom causes discomfort, they rush back to their cage. Then to delude themselves because they can’t accept that reality, they label all things uncomfortable as “slavery” and all things comfortable as “freedom.” Convincing themselves that because their cage is “nice and safe,” this means they are actually free.

Sometimes I’m still just randomly amazed that the public completely accepted that all small business was legally forced to shut down while all the giant corporate stores were allowed to stay open during lockdown.

Bitcoin breaks through the all time high on Rad Swann’s birthday… coincidence? There are no coincidences.

I’m about to just fly somewhere randomly in the middle of the day so I can use lightning at a @SteaknShake