we are entering the phase of the "lying doom loop"
-"So long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work."
-"So long as the gov pretends to need our taxes, we will pretend to pay them."
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Byzantine
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even the byzantine empire fell
The Russian Nobel Prize winner, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”
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in russia there was this saying: "The eyes are afraid, the mouth is closed but the hands are still doing it"
the best revolts are those that happen in secret.
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i keep wondering if it is apathy driving this cycle. people don't seem to want the 🌽 anymore
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Hydraulic Elevators Below The Giza Pyramids That Lift Stones? \ stacker news ~news
@byzantine stacked 85 sats posting https://readmultiplex.com/2025/12/28/hydraulic-elevators-below-the-giza-pyramids-that-lift-stones/
i have a teenage neighbor who is going to graduate high school and is still confused but is fascinated by energy and power plants. i sent him this guide to starting with an associate degree and working towards a nuclear technician job. Very little capital at risk at his local college.
https://westinghousenuclear.com/media/zhdbuk4m/how-to-become-an-rp-technician-2024.pdf
i still tell nieces and nephews who are smart to get an engineering degree so they have a base in first principle thinking founded on physics that doesn't change.
AI will be used in these jobs but won't take them away.
I tell the more physical minded relatives to join oil and gas companies laying pipe and working the fields in midland or get a master electrician cert so they can be a high earning tradesman.
AI isn't going to take physical jobs for a long time.
Most people with money struggles should excel in community college first before transitioning for the final two years in state school.
no one should start in a private school u less they are the most academically driven kid you have ever met. the risk isn't priced correctly.
took much doom about the future of AI. be smart and learn things that don't change that are based on physics.
every day seeing my node route payments on the lightning network is truly amazing. some people wake up and check the btc price.
i wake up and check my nodes' routing.
it's like tending a garden of sats
@Gunnar Stødle your comma threw me off when pricing your knife in sats!
no one will use stable coins in the western world once they learn about the public nature of the ledger.
imagine paying for something and exposing your whole spending history and current balance.
it is very rare that i will make an on chain bitcoin transaction without using a swap service
there isn't relative correctness in the universe -- there are only truths that match with reality and those that don't.
if luke is wrong it means he isn't operating from first principle truth. if bitcoiners are wrong it means they are also misguided.
both will be judged equally by reality and the real thinkers will be reinforced by truth and the wrong thinkers will be negated by reality
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the hardest part of hodling is the expectation of the future
the more and more buddhism i read the more "non attachment" seems to be the only way to get through this with some level of sanity
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people expect negative cpi
running your own lightning node is a must for privacy. it largely replaces the need to coinjoin given the multitude of swap providers available.
add on blinded paths and you are basically free
one ounce of silver will buy you a barrel of oil
no taxes on tips
no taxes on zaps
when you suppress volatility in the economy with continued bailouts you get volatility in society.
instead of housing crashes you get nihilism
instead of bank failures you get fentanyl addiction middle america
instead of medium sized family owned business you get gig workers with no kids
volatility will just move one one part of the economy to the other and comes out as anger and social fractures
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the daylight computer will be great when the screen resolution is improved.
the current screen is very poor resolution for the size. it will be a wonderful device if they can just fix that one problem. i'll def buy a dc2 if screen resolution can get to the 300dpi level
i really hope they succeed as a company since reflective lcds could be amazing
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