erikcason
Erik Cason

So I’m thinking of buying a retreat center in the redwoods of Northern California that supports about 50 people in a rustic setting.
It’s pretty badass. 8 cabins, riverside, large hot tub, 3 saunas, swimming pond on about +200 acres. It’s expensive and would take a few years to get cashflow positive, but I could do it.
I think it would be a great spot to do various workshops on self-sovereignty, and get brilliant people together to teach, learn, and collaborate together. Only problem is I have no fucking clue what I am doing or how to run something like this. I feel confident I could figure it out, I just know it’ll be a lot of work, administration, and management the first several years.
But with that being said, I guess get busy living or get busy dying.

2024-11-12 19:39:40

I’m highly considering hiring a mariachi band to follow me around my home town singing ballads about how right I have been, how great bitcoin is, and how much inflation is going to fuck everyone as a celebration of a new ATH.
Too much?

2024-11-12 04:19:47

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Institutional investors (particularly non-us ones) see bitcoin as a greater safe haven than treasury bills. Fiat goes to hyperinflation.

2024-11-12 02:50:12

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I wouldn’t lol, but you do you

2024-11-12 02:31:52

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IMHO, Bitcoin going into the system as a ‘victory’ for the system is just the Trojan horse playing out.
Folks that need greater privacy have ramps between privacy coins like monero, and bitcoin, and there are newer developments (such as FROST) that provide greater privacy as well. The only way that fiat can be destroyed is by it infecting the system and making it eat itself from inside out.

2024-11-12 02:26:24

The correction will be to $58k.
Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

2024-11-12 02:04:18

GN.
https://m.primal.net/MAXQ.jpg

2024-11-11 00:18:48

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I’m quite familiar with the backend and internal operations, so I highly doubt they’d blow it up from stupid security stuff, but who knows.

2024-11-11 00:17:16

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IMHO I’d keep the housing debt if you got a >4% rate and ride that shit to hyperinflation

2024-11-10 19:56:47

Bull markets are a lot of fun and can be quite euphoric, but don’t fuck it up and chop off a finger trying to time the top or trade it—take what little bit you need off the table (if you have a real need) and let the rest ride.
Take your coins off exchange and don’t tempt yourself.

2024-11-10 19:45:08

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I can see both perspectives, my grip is with licensing from the state and the obligations and perspectives it forces on to the therapist client relationship. I believe that should be sacred first and foremost, and I struggle to see how it can be that with the state in between. And this is not unique to this relationship, but doctors, teachers, and all relationships in which ‘licensing’ is the only way to attain such a practice.

2024-11-10 04:03:15

Cold water surfing and sauna are a zonking combo.
GN.

2024-11-10 03:33:10

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Thanks! Always fun have great chats with my homies.

2024-11-09 03:16:21

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I love each one of you.

2024-11-09 02:24:07

GN frens
https://m.primal.net/LxNA.jpg

2024-11-08 02:58:28

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https://primal.net/e/note16q5w74uncnr2nr94f5q8w6qhtwml29zldt8rgc048ptkj2ruvn6qvfk93e

2024-11-07 21:20:07

Man, the survivor’s guilt thing @npub1rtl…jtfs was talking about on the pod yesterday is real. I’m just realizing how much of that I’ve been carrying around, how much I feel like I should have done more for other people to really get bitcoin long ago, when in truth I’ve probably done enough.
It’s time for me to let go and remember that everyone gets bitcoin at the price they deserve.

2024-11-06 18:32:46

Why TF are we voting on this?
I don’t care about retarded non-technical desires that think this all works by magic.
Let a council of competent contributing devs decide.
#note1sum…x8r2

2024-11-06 18:22:55

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Entertaining at least.

2024-11-06 18:12:11

JOIN, OR DIE.
#note1430…2scl

2024-11-06 15:32:32

I’m assembling a team to party our faces off the week before BTC Prague. This is hands down the best party on the planet in one of the most beautiful places in the world:
https://anjunadeep.com/us/events/explorations
DM me if you wanna coordinate. I need a bitcoiner party crew…

2024-11-06 05:29:50

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Lmao, I just realized you will be in a way, as a dog showed up at my property a few months back, that I guess is ours now, the kids named Sandy. So I’ll take her with me down there so in spirit you will be.

2024-11-06 04:53:21

TBH I’m really excited to go down to the local coffee shop tomorrow and have a big ol’ cup of schadenfreude over coastal liberal tears.
A real deliciously.

2024-11-05 00:57:21

GN.
https://m.primal.net/Lsuh.jpg

2024-11-04 15:53:57

Gm frens,
I have a hopefully message for you all today:
No matter what the state does, who is elected, or what new bullshit they come up with today; they cannot destroy bitcoin and they cannot take away the sovereignty that is found within cryptography.
So long as there are still the crazies, the radicals, and those who refuse to live within the bounds of a walled garden society, there will always be the space for the he rabble rousers to create a life for themselves. And now with bitcoin, there will be a way for them to protect and save their wealth against any and all governments that seek to impose their tyrannies upon them.
Rejoice and celebrate for we are winning and we are only a short 16 years into this. Within another 16 years we will become the preliminary political force to be reckoned with that will offer all people everywhere, and into the future, the power and capacity to protect their wealth beyond the violations of any state.
It is a most beautiful and fitting story for the destiny of man, and what it means to be free in our day and age.

2024-11-04 15:07:40

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Pretty sure this is gonna be the pod that I send to normies when they ask me about bitcoin from now on.

2024-11-04 15:06:18

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Lmao, I just love your kind voice describing the barbarism of NY state.

2024-11-03 23:47:06

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I watch this and it’s my top pod for 2024

2024-11-03 23:44:20

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It’s true. I’d at least feel like we’d really given it a fair shot with the above, but most who reach that point likely are beyond help.

2024-11-03 23:42:59

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I didn’t say everyone, but 90%.
It the 10% that makes accepting and trying with the 90% worth it. I have sympathy for the 90%, but not empathy. At some point we all should take on the responsibility of what it really means to be who we are, and who we want to be, rather than what has been given to us. The former demands the courage to think for yourself, while the latter demands simple obedience.

2024-11-03 23:16:21

I’m coming to the sad conclusion that there really isn’t much going on inside of 90% of people. While they have the capacity and capability to self-reflect and creatively engage in the world, they don’t. They desire ease, comfort, and conformity above all else.
Not only that, but they fill themselves with so much garbage, propaganda, and ideals from others around them who are similar; they mute any real voice or agency that does come from within. They are not interested in the dynamic creative possibilities of the world, but the ease of obedience towards those who know what’s best for them. Their motto is ‘don’t rock the boat’.
These people are fucking dangerous, not because they want to hurt you, but because they lack the capacity to truly self-reflect in a meaningful way. They don’t care about what is true, just that the rules are followed. They don’t want to feel uncomfortable within self-reflection, but to flee into the values of others they have been told are theirs as well and is the only right way to be.
It is a valorization of callousness, a celebration of conformity, and a religious respect for authority to such an extent that their own personal responsibility vanishes.
These are NPCs. They are agents of the system and an integral part of how it functions and projects power. They are little more that drones at the subservience of the state, and only a radical awakening that forces them into the existential angst of what their only life is and means is the only thing that can truly awaken beings that are so asleep that they have forgotten their own being.

2024-11-03 22:59:21

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Look at her. She’s so smug that she figured it all out.

2024-11-03 22:58:02

Like what fucking clown show reality are we living in where any of this shit is real? If your goal is to off yourself why the fuck do you need a pod to do it?
#note1hak…fuhc

2024-11-02 19:17:14

I have always struggled to get myself motivated to lift weight, or work out for that matter, but I’ve finally been doing it more consistently over the last several months.
Much more than simply getting more fit, I find that I have a lot more endogenous motivation to just do chores and other shit that I need to do, and I don’t slip into feeling depressed as I have a tendency to do.
While it was pretty hard to get myself out to my gym in my workshop at first, I’m finding more and more that it’s becoming easier to get myself out there to do it, and start my day on a good note that lets me have a productive day that I would have otherwise wasted.
It feels good man.

2024-11-02 06:19:55

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Likely no, but it’s possible.

2024-11-01 22:10:40

Gonna try my best not to fuck this up
#note1jl4…dxd7

2024-11-01 19:23:10

This movie is fucking hysterical if you get a chance to watch it:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Who%27s_Back_(film)

2024-11-01 01:45:46

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Lmao

2024-11-01 01:32:14

“SUPREME COMMANDER DAD HAS DECIDED THAT FOR THE GLORY OF OUR HOUSEHOLD THAT 2/3 OF HALLOWEEN CANDY SHALL BE REDISTRIBUTED FOR THE GOOD OF ALL”
#note1rq6…w0xw

2024-10-31 19:01:29

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That’s on the bitcoin derangement syndrome spectrum

2024-10-31 19:00:27

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That’s next in line on the project list

2024-10-31 17:12:29

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I guess drop it here, or DM me

2024-10-31 17:08:39

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🙏❤️

2024-10-31 17:04:59

As a gift for Bitcoin’s sweet 16 my friend Tomer Strolight (I’d tag him but the client keeps crashing when I do) and I have been doing a few calls a month where we rap deep about Bitcoin, how it has changed us, and how it is changing the world. We thought that we would try sharing it as some folks might get some value out of it.
With that, I present the first episode (and maybe the last, who knows) of what we decided to call The Spirt of Satoshi!
Enjoy:
https://v.nostr.build/ivyiPSnv7HfuECFE.mp4

2024-10-31 17:02:06

If you have been waiting for a copy of my book, you can download it here now:
https://d.nostr.build/0KPt7hAbg50xhTns.pdf
If you get some value out of it, feel free to zap me.
Thanks for reading and feedback and comments are always appreciated!

2024-10-31 17:00:15

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Yes!

2024-10-31 16:54:17

Ok, I think I got some shit up and running here. For starters lets see if I can share my book:
https://d.nostr.build/0KPt7hAbg50xhTns.pdf

2024-10-31 16:39:34

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Long-form… that’s a short book bro.

2024-10-31 16:33:36

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❤️🙏

2024-10-31 16:32:53

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That’s the name! The Shitshow Rekt House

2024-10-31 16:31:37

Bitcoin is a one-way street.
You don’t see bitcoiners becoming fiat people; once they change they stay that way (with the fun exception of bitcoin derangement syndrome).
This means every single day the fiat system gets a little weaker and bitcoin gets a bit stronger.
It’s just a matter of time before the crossover inflection point happens.

2024-10-31 15:00:51

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I use to have this quote on my wall.
You know the mother fucker was shot in the chest before giving this speech, refused medical aid, and continued giving the speech?
They don’t build men like they use too.

2024-10-31 14:58:14

There needs to be a shitcoiner scammer house reality TV show.
I would absolutely watch that cringe garbage and be ashamed of it every time I do.
#note1jfw…s9v6

2024-10-31 14:26:24

GM, happy conception day Bitcoin!
https://m.primal.net/LoIl.jpg

2024-10-31 14:22:38

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Fair enough, your thoughts on doing them all at the beginning like lex, or are most sponsors opposed to that?

2024-10-30 23:54:41

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A little bit, kinda like being a stripper.

2024-10-30 17:16:34

Like many, I really enjoy podcast, but fuck I absolutely hate the moment of prostitution where they start pitching me on their bullshit.
Look, if I value you what you create, I’ll seek out to support you, but when you need to spread your legs in the middle of a good conversation I just wanna turn it off.
I can’t wait for more V4V only podcast, and content.

2024-10-29 03:41:02

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For those that would like to know more about The Political vs. politics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concept_of_the_Political

2024-10-29 03:40:07

I will not be voting in this election, or any others for that matter.
Not because I don’t believe in democracy, nor because I don’t believe in the political rights that have been won by generations past; but because of how atrophied both have become in the mutilated abomination that we currently call our form of politics and voting. The false dichotomy that is the current forms of red and blue I believe are much more damaging and pernicious than refusing to vote for either could ever be. Our political agency has been lost, and politics is most squarely to blame.
There once was a time that our elections were actually free and fair, that voting for the right people in the right places and circumstances could make significant differences that actualized The Political; but that is no longer true of the system of politics that has replaced The Political. All that we have now is a system of false and petty differences that will ensure that the machine of government and military continues to crush on, be it under a banner of blue or red—this is the only real ‘political’ choice that we are given. As for everything else, it will continue on to masquerade and marionette towards the promise of possibilities that will never come, just as the broken dreams of change will continue to tell.
I say this to you as the US federal government funnels billions of dollars into foreign wars and shell corporations that will get their money no matter who wins. I tell you this as every budget continues to spiral out of control with every politician having more concern with how they will get their cut, than how they will stop the madness. I say this at the very moment that some child is being killed with munitions from money that each of us as citizens had our dollars financed, and with there being no possibility for any of us to end any of this—at least not as far as voting is concerned.
While I believe in democracy, it is not the one of the state provides, and while I believe in voting, it is not a principle that doing once every four years can solve anything at all. Our current system of politics is at its end, and it has been for quite a while. It is all entirely clear and apparent for anyone to see, and yet the consequence of this truth is far too profound and existential for anyone to actually speak to. That is because the terror of having to admit to ourselves that our political system has been overthrown and taken over by non-elected officials who are responsible to no one but themselves and their contingency of politics is all that matters within the engine of the state, and its demand to remain in power no matter what. The real danger is the state of emergency that has become every day of our lives, with no possible hope of it ending, no matter who is elected to whatever role it may be. The machine of the state operates in one direction, and it is to continue to gather more power for itself no matter what.
To accept the truth of the darkness that we are in is to also accept the fact that this is not something that we can vote our way out of. If we are to create the radical change that we must manifest not only to save ourselves from the destitution and squaller that the current system of politics seeks to impress upon us, but to also create a radical new hopeful future where the vote and democracy can means something again, than it is something that we must build for ourselves alone. If we are to give ourselves and posterity a future that is more free and far than the one that we were given, where The Political can open itself up to politics once again, we must accept that the current path leads to nowhere. We must demand of ourselves to go out into that darkness and seek out new and different solutions that are outside and beyond the power of the state to influence or control so that we may access The Political once again and see what the truth of voting and democracy can offer, or what new and different political systems can offer.
The Political is the radical power that all people everywhere are alway entitled to when the see that the power to create change comes not from asking for approval from the old systems; but to neutralize them with something new. While I do not know what these new systems are, or how they will be created, I do see that there is something immensely powerful in what is being built here. The internet and the possibilities that it offers along with decentralized, censorship-resistance systems imbedded with cryptography at their heart, and sovereignty in mind may just be the kind of protocol that we need to breath life into The Political once again. Few of you will believe in the possibility of such new system of politics for the future, and even fewer will participate in attempting to building such systems, but I believe it is our only hope to create a future which is more free than the one that we have been given, and it is the only hope we have now to ever access The Political again.

2024-10-28 23:07:12

Lmao, uptober was fucking with y’all until now. Just wanted to keep it cool until bitcoin’s birthday on Thursday.

2024-10-26 02:11:55

I cannot wait for the news headlines that Rogan is the new Gobbles. 🙄
I wish these people would understand that the more they push, the dumber they look and the more transparent their manipulative tactics are, which in turn pushes more people to Trump.
And yes, they are actually this retarded because they are incapable of self-reflection.

2024-10-25 19:28:34

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I love anjunadeep. Lmk if you ever hit up one of their open air parties or the weekender at the gorge—best party on the planet.

2024-10-25 00:47:59

GN frens
https://m.primal.net/LhKZ.jpg

2024-10-21 16:30:39

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Wait, he actually said that?

2024-10-21 15:27:07

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I’m always impressed when someone isn’t a complete NPC moron. Unfortunately this alludes me in meatspace most of the time…

2024-10-20 14:35:05

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Dog is up too
https://m.primal.net/LcDl.jpg

2024-10-20 14:26:49

PV hommies.
https://m.primal.net/LcDS.jpg

2024-10-17 17:17:07

It’s absolutely hilarious that we are using the apex of war technologies to shitpost our way to the revolution.
God has a sense of humor and he is really setting up his punchline here.
#note1xny…sjq8

2024-10-17 17:13:49

Heading out for the fishing trip now, shill me some podcast from the last month that are real bangers that I can download and ⚡️⚡️

2024-10-17 15:31:37

But voting matters you guys, we can change this!
#note1nsu…0j9y

2024-10-16 18:37:00

Every goddamn time I put on the camper I have to hit my head near concussion once.
Fuck.

2024-10-16 17:45:59

Going off grid tomorrow for a few weeks. Fishing with my stepdad, son, and dog in the eastern sierras; maybe chill down in the desert after that. We are gonna 4x4 into some remote spots and then backpack in the rest of the way in.
I’m looking forward to turning off for a while.

2024-10-13 19:26:56

Sorry for my dyslexia.
Y’all are too kind for not calling me out on all of the gross grammatical and syntax errors I make.
🙏❤️

2024-10-13 16:14:57

GM,
This morning I am just reflecting on how profound the internet is.
Much of my of my life and who I am has been defined by it. I have been lucky enough to meet people from all over the world and some of my deepest friendships are a product of starting to interact with people online. Most of my adult jobs came from working at internet companies, and I helped scale teams that were totally remote and built incredible things with people whom I never actually met.
What the internet opens each of us up to is a radically new and different form of life. One where we are no longer limited to relationships just within our immediate proximity, but that we can seek out others like us from all over the plant to create, build, inspire, grow, and love together. It is truly profound what we are building here with Nostr and Bitcoin and the very real hope and agency that it can offer to all people everywhere, forever. It is the hope of an internet where all peoples who participate and create it together are self-sovereign; owning their data, wealth, and health of their digital life to enhance and liberate the lives they experience and are reflected in meatspace.
Thanks to each and everyone of you for believing in this vision we all share of an internet that is truly free, and beyond the power and control of any nation-state, corporation, or government to use against any of us. It is a task that is reserved for only us, and this generation of peoples at this time. We can lose this all and be doomed to a life for ourselves and all postally to come inside of a guild panoptic cage controlled and owned by states and corporations where the very concept of privacy is eliminated. That is a world that we cannot allow to come into existence, and with each and every one of you fighting against it, I know that we will win.
Thank you for believing in this, for working on it, and for participating. It means more than any of us will ever know, and our great grandchildren will one day beam with pride in knowing that their ancestors worked on such important projects.

2024-10-13 00:21:28

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I was surprised to learn that’s the highest grossing animated film of all time.

2024-10-12 02:18:30

I meet this guy a few times a year. Was super early and bought 1000s of bitcoins only to sell them after a few gainz. Knows that all crypto can be hacked, knows guys at the NSA who are satoshi.
It’s always a cool story bro.
Too bad they never keep any of those bitcoin, with them being super well informed and all…
#note1ucn…nga2

2024-10-11 17:03:49

Most people are so captured by the guarantee for safety and security through the state (which does not exist in any meaningful way) vis monetary and economic means, that the idea of any form of life outside of that seems like nonsense.
It is nothing more than trying to explain the freedom beyond the cave to the slaves enamored with the shadows on the wall. They will insist their chains protect them, and the darkness is security.

2024-10-10 14:28:08

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There is a massive opportunity to use Nostr to build a kind of dating app where people can own their own data. I’d have to think about it for a while for how exactly it could be build, but someone’s gonna kill it with this idea at some point.

2024-10-10 14:18:58

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Sorry you are having this kind of day…

2024-10-09 20:17:33

I love that Alfred Nobel—the dude who invented dynamite and who can arguably be link to more deaths via war that any other human in existence—then decided he’d use his money to make a ‘peace prize’.
It’s funny stuff.

2024-10-09 15:18:29

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I really liked the conclusion of this series, which I think actually aired as an episode of Justice League.

2024-10-09 15:10:56

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He will win it, and he will announce a global CBDC built on ETH at the same time.

2024-10-07 18:34:36

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No no, I’m just retarded

2024-10-07 17:41:14

Holy shit, this honest to god tops the clusterfuck disgrace of ‘journalism’ that originally pointed to Dorian Nakamoto as Satoshi.
Congratulations on this. Seriously, it was a high bar to fail to, and they somehow did it.
#note1tf2…3c3j

2024-10-07 01:18:31

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This happened with my dog last year, good news is they will probably never mess with skunks again after this.

2024-10-06 23:43:11

What I am excited for over the next decade is watching every single app be expropriated into the decentralized web as a P2P self-owned solution so no one gets to harvest your data and use it against you ever again.

2024-10-04 19:30:45

The government hates you and will continue to steal, hurt and punish you no matter what because the people in government believe that’s the right thing to do.

2024-10-03 19:25:19

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I would only care if he signs and moves a substantial amount of coins.

2024-10-03 18:21:48

When I was young man I had a mentor who I asked why some people totally fail at keeping their word or commitments. His response was:
“The hard truth is that most people are going to let you down in life. Most people can hardly commit to their own word to themselves, nonetheless anyone else. Don’t expect too much of other people, or you’ll spend most of your life angry and upset at people who were always incapable of keeping their word. Focus on those who you notice always try to keep their word and live with integrity—they might let you down too, but they’ll at least own it.”
I think about this a lot, and now that I’ve accumulated more life experiences, it’s a hard truth that I’m only fully coming to understand now.

2024-10-02 15:09:09

My son who is under 10 bet me that he could read the1000 pages of the lord of the rings trilogy before the end of the month.

2024-10-02 02:43:39

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Uhh, what do you think we are doing against fiat?

2024-10-02 02:41:09

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“What is FOSS?”
That is correct for 5k sats.

2024-10-02 01:43:33

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socialism for me and not for thee

2024-10-02 01:42:47

To be clear, I am an anarchist.
This is a real and develop political ideology that is important to understand beyond the propaganda we have all been taught.
I believe that our future is one of a political ideology of anarcho-syndicalism. However what distinguishes the form of syndicalism that I see is not one of labor, or worker’s unions—but value itself.
Sound familiar?

2024-10-02 01:36:21

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I agree with most of this, and that is specifically why the vanguard that powerfully leads such a movement must be done with the greatest of safeguards and care or else you end up with a horrific malformation version of nazism.

2024-10-02 01:22:07

Read this, best response I’ll zap 21k sats:
https://heidegger-circle.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/5-Polt-Typewriter-CORRECTED.pdf

2024-10-02 01:18:39

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“Want my spicy content?
Just meaningfully engage with me 💅🐝🤩🏖️”

2024-10-02 00:40:53

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Agreed

2024-10-02 00:08:31

This is exactly why we will get a homegrown American fascist movement that will be outside and beyond republican lettuces-handed rightism, and it will become the most powerful political contingent to ever exisit.
The left will be begging for Trump in 8 years when they see what has been created from this.
And to be clear, fascism has ALWAYS been cultivated as an anti-socialism movement. That’s why it’s national socialism and not international socialism.
#note13z2…zkqj