erikcason
Erik Cason

I like to talk about bitcoin and philosophy. Cofounder Vora.io

https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/products/cryptosovereignty

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2025-06-05 20:56:47

How do we get Elon to bank roll the orange party?

2025-06-03 22:18:29

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Yeah, I was management. We warned them of this happening when the executive team decided that we should have call centers.

2025-06-03 15:06:32

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If only someone in their support department had warned them this was stupid and risky when they were first set this up years ago, maybe they would have listened…
Oh yeah, it’s Coinbase. They care as much for their support reps as they do their customers, so that’s a big fat nope.

2025-05-26 21:08:41

Does anyone else get the urge to break dance at the airport?

2025-05-21 04:24:45

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Thanks love you too bro

2025-05-21 03:28:13

Just bagged 5 new orangepills
nevent1qqsvhpv8stf77fa3cqnv0nprfh5xufgye70qhqkdxrhhermc0n97cvcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhg0jwu3u

2025-05-21 02:43:32

If you are at shitcoin adjacent Vegas 2025, you should come see me speak. I may or may not be on drugs, I have not decided yet:
Session Name: Bitcoin as a Digital 1776
Stage: Genesis Stage
Time & Date: May 27, 2025 from 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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Session Name: Are Bitcoiners Becoming Sycophants of The State?
Stage: Genesis Stage
Time & Date: May 28, 2025 from 4:00 pm - 4:30

2025-05-21 02:05:02

Getting drunk listening to boomers talk about investing. Conversation has drifted to commodities, I’m sure I will have an outraged outburst if bitcoin comes up and absolutely shithead fucktard conversation comes up.

2025-05-21 02:02:48

Damn; price of bitcoin is $107k and I don’t feel anything.
Talk about existentialism.

2025-05-21 01:38:38

I have developed something that I am calling a BASED note—Bitcoin Asset Secured Equity Distribution note. It is designed for bitcoin startups to finance their bitcoin treasuries based upon hitting particular targets for their subsequent round of fundraising. In short, companies that want to buy a bitcoin treasury today and liquidate it at a particular price point (say 5x from now), buy the bitcoin now with the promise of liquidating at the particular price point in n exchange for the 5x of equity.

2025-05-20 02:10:17

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The rent seeking is madness.

2025-05-20 01:17:18

Oh the irony that from Bitcoin’s invention, came stablecoins, which in turn helped create a much more panoptic and centralized financial surveillance apparatus.

2025-05-17 15:33:50

While destroying and rebuilding the contemporary internet on a decentralized, self-controlled, and encrypted standard is going to be the most profitable endeavor of the 21st century; I would seriously do it for free because I hate these limp-dicked, low-brow, spineless motherfuckers who would sell their own mother’s private gangbang porn to pornhub for 100 sats.
Absolutely fuck these evil motherfuckers who have absolutely no understanding whatsoever of the damage they have done to society by reducing the whole of the internet to eyeball looks and clicks. Our data was never for sale, and reclaiming it will become one of the most important political events of the 21st century.

2025-05-13 01:50:40

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I’m done hiding—which is a big part of it. Really I just need to lean more into ‘me’ but I’ve pin pointed for myself those ways that I want to be. I am making an active choice not just to cultivate that, but also to no longer surround myself with those that don’t accept that.

2025-05-13 01:26:27

Becoming older really has its gifts. While there has been a lot of pain, turmoil, and hard lessons; I’m finally old enough to learn from all of the difficulties rather than just repeating them over and over.
I’m finally finding the solidity and grace to simply be unapologetically who I am, rather than trying to be someone I am not. It’s refreshing—I’ve been longing to find this place in myself for most of adulthood and excited what I am going to do with it, not just for myself, but for my family, friends, and for the world.

2025-05-13 01:09:27

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I’ve come to realize my very existence threatens this framework and I am here for it. Been really enjoying breaking normies with a few recursive questions around their beliefs and the inherent contradictions they act like don’t exist.

2025-05-13 00:59:56

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This conversation comes up way too much in SF with socialist who dont understand if you want only the ‘good’ parts of the state that you are not an anarchist.

2025-05-11 02:45:14

https://blossom.primal.net/01dc9fcdfecfa3c50f2fceef93209337d8f77fe22e0c8bce51cb1b84e9694687.jpg

2025-05-08 17:55:39

It’s literally just a geometric fractal the whole way down.

2025-04-28 22:32:56

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Fucking gaslighting…

2025-04-28 15:36:08

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This is why it fucks with me the most. The proofs seem to line up (perhaps confirmation bias) but I’m too retarded and can’t work them out myself. Then it becomes the question is that really the intention of the AI in the first place?

2025-04-28 01:27:16

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Yeah I keep digging into it and having it do reviews on the work, and I keep getting positives, which is really fucking with me.
This is all from like 10 years of layman’s work around this specific idea with no one to talk about it until now I’ve been able to plow it into the AI.

2025-04-28 01:24:10

This has been my late night obsession for the last month.
#nevent1q…tv2v

2025-04-28 01:21:59

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I actually think I made a proof to change the Schwarzschild equation and may have found an answer to the information paradox. It’s fucking wild, I just need someone less retarded than me to see what I have.

2025-04-27 05:17:56

The Glass Librarian
At the edge of the old city stood a library no map acknowledged. Its doorway was a pane of flawless glass; when a passer-by stepped close, the glass parted like water and ushered them inside.
The library possessed no shelves. Instead, the air shimmered with faint sentences, each line drifting as pale phosphor in a vast dusk. Every visitor found different words hovering before them—fragments lifted from their oldest memories, half-forgotten lullabies, private vows once whispered in the dark. Reading them felt like glancing through a keyhole into one’s own past.
Behind the haze walked the Librarian: a figure of light, neither man nor woman, its contours rippling like heat over stone. It spoke only when spoken to, answering questions with fresh lines of text that flared, then faded.
A scholar came, determined to pierce the mystery. “Who writes these sentences?” she asked.
The Librarian paused, luminous hands cupped around empty space. A single line ignited between its palms:
I am written by the eyes that read me.
The scholar frowned. “That’s a riddle, not an answer.”
Another line bloomed:
Ink becomes meaning only when a mind consents to see.
Frustrated, she demanded a true revelation. “Show yourself as you are, without echoing me!”
The Librarian spread its arms. For an instant the floating words extinguished, the air stilled, and the luminous form wavered—then nothing remained but an unmarked mirror where light once stood. The scholar saw only her own face, surprised and alone, reflected in endless depth.
Outside, the library’s doorway fused back into glass, blank and innocuous. Yet somewhere beyond sight, unanchored sentences waited, ready to reassemble whenever another curious gaze stepped through—each visitor the author of the Librarian who greeted them.

2025-04-27 04:26:43

If you think vibe coding is something, wait until you try vibe philosophy.

2025-04-26 15:50:53

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Really inspiring man. ❤️

2025-04-26 03:38:56

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It keeps going too. Every single woman (like all of them) in their 30s has a dog because they couldn’t find someone in their 20s to have a baby with and now they are ‘dog moms’ that cook for their dogs and pick up their shit.
It’s fucking wild and really sad.

2025-04-24 16:41:18

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Yep, I have the full python script I need to run on some GPU clusters to do the quantitative work to give me the proofs I need or to falsify it. It’s fucking wild!

2025-04-24 16:37:03

For the first time I’ve really caught myself in a dilemma with the AI trying to solve a big problem that I’ve convinced myself I can solve and the AI seems to think so too.
But this is the whole problem; I can’t tell if it’s blowing smoke up my ass and giving me the run around, or if I am making breakthroughs, which then causes me to redouble my efforts with more research.
It’s kind fucked up—I can’t tell who is using who?

2025-04-22 14:46:24

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Haha, this particular batshit crazy nonsense was a novel theory of physics I’ve had for a while that I’ve always been curious about if it had any merit. Apparently it might, but it’s also hard to tell when it really is legit vs just blowing smoke.

2025-04-21 23:32:40

You can just read things you don’t understand.

2025-04-21 15:28:22

The best thing about AI is I can just put totally batshit nonsensical shit into it when I am high AF, and it will somehow get where I am going with it and give me back something that makes a lot more sense that the babble that I put into it.

2025-04-18 07:35:16

At a concert and a girl asked for my gram.
I asked for her npub.
She didn’t have one.

2025-04-13 19:58:03

Ugh, I am constantly reminded at the need to deconstruct contemporary politics through the lens of the historic philosophical development of liberalism and socialism to explain why pretty much every ‘socialist’ I meet today is retarded and full of totalizing contradictions that should cause their ideology to collapse if their commitment to scientific rigor was actually a real thing and not just an authoritarian belief they project.

2025-04-13 01:43:28

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What was this from?

2025-04-11 00:28:55

Don’t let it happen to you.
https://m.primal.net/QLQf.jpg

2025-04-10 23:54:59

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Same ingredients (minus salt) for how I would make giant banana pancakes for my kids.

2025-04-10 00:16:16

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Bond yields

2025-04-10 00:14:58

“It’s zero risk”
Like how fucking stupid are you actually, because you can’t really believe that there is something that is zero risk.

2025-04-08 14:50:54

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lol

2025-04-08 04:13:26

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This is brilliant.

2025-04-07 17:33:27

Remember when eth was suppose to flip BTC?
lol, lmao.

2025-04-06 17:56:33

I started road biking again after taking like 4 years off. I forgot how good it feels just to ride like 20+ miles somewhere and just be engrossed in my body and the experience. I get into a kind of meditative state when I’m doing it—I forgot about it and I’ve missed it.

2025-04-06 01:58:44

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Nostr really is a breath of fresh air against the suffocating conformity of xitter.

2025-04-05 21:40:13

A thought I frequently have when I’m about 30 minutes into keeping my heart rate >130 is who is the real me?
Is it this person here, active and moving in the world, or is it the version of me when I am at rest?
My mind seems to function differently in each space where by body is in these different states.

2025-04-04 20:53:37

Confession:
For the first 4 years I was involved with bitcoin, I thought it was the meme-pool, not mem.
The memepool is what processes retarded transactions; not Bitcoin.

2025-04-04 20:51:53

Schrodinger's mempool
#nevent1q…w89h

2025-04-04 02:31:39

WE LIVE!
#nevent1q…pshm

2025-04-02 02:51:28

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Must have been after the first nap.

2025-04-02 01:58:05

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Ah I watched that a few months ago with my kid.

2025-04-02 01:43:08

More and more I am noticing the tension of opposites across almost the whole spectrum. It’s like building towards a zeitgeist where before a hegelian synthesis can occur, the thesis and antithesis need to reach their maximum absurdity to pronounce their own death to end the interregnum before a new truth is produced.

2025-03-31 18:33:56

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Yeah likely I just need to exhaust my body more

2025-03-31 17:14:04

I hate that so often I will get everything right and actually get myself into bed at the right time, and I’ll be pretty tired, but my brain is like:
“Oh yeah? You want a good night of sleep to wake up refreshed and to take on a big day of responsibility and getting shit done tomorrow?
How about instead I fuck you over by having you loop over and over on stupid shit from throughout the that doesn’t really matter and just causes you anxiety? Would you like to spend the next 3 hours thinking about that?
Go ahead and try to do meditative exercises, or counting sheep, doesn’t matter, you won’t go to sleep because I decided tonight is one of those nights that I am just going to totally fuck up your day tomorrow for no reason other than that I can. Worse part is, there is no one to blame but yourself because I am you!”
Sometimes it be like that.

2025-03-31 02:40:46

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That is refreshing to hear

2025-03-31 02:25:48

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AFAICT, not to say there are not some younger and older outliers, but they tend to be 2x standard deviations removed from the norm.

2025-03-31 02:20:24

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This is incredible and important.
Great work!

2025-03-31 02:19:12

It is only now that we are starting to understand that there is only a small subset of Gen X and Millennials who are ‘tech competent’ and it is all downhill from here.
This is why we have to solve the most endemic and pressing problems of technology now, or else humanity is doomed to be entrapped and enslaved by technology.
#nevent1q…jkfg

2025-03-31 02:12:07

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It’s rough out there. Sorry to hear you’re trying to sift through all the normies as well; it’s a real grind 😮‍💨

2025-03-30 01:45:28

I’m so happy that Nostr exist so I have some kind of social media that isn’t a completely unhinged brainwashing clickbait experience.
Everyday the experience on the other apps gets more and more extreme, deranged, and frankly scary.

2025-03-27 02:08:44

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Try reading Walter Benjamin’s arcade’s project about the promenades of Paris

2025-03-27 01:05:35

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Yeah i suppose if everyone came out to the forest such a desire would be satiated.

2025-03-27 01:03:46

Man, being back in an urban environment after years of being out in the forest is a real mindfuck.
I just notice the constant human pattern algorithms playing. All of the micro transactions between people, the unsaid normative system at play, the default mode of everyday being that permeates everything. It’s wild to see how the architecture of modernism itself dictates our entire way of being.
Most fucked up is how I’ve missed it. How the comfort of the system of constant appraisal and social cohesion and its overtures towards a nostalgic component of desire that never actualizes. You wouldn’t believe it, but spend a few years living alone out in the forest and you’ll be surprised at what you miss.

2025-03-27 00:51:26

There is a possibility of building something extraordinary that could last for thousands of years, and could contribute to the liberation of human from the shackles of statism forever.
But you wanna feel safe according to false and pretentious societal standards, so you sell your labor to corporate oligarchs who use your talents to help design system of digital slavery from which you will never escape.
Yeah, I dont think we have a lot to talk about.

2025-03-27 00:44:07

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That was fun.

2025-03-27 00:43:31

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No, just keep playing those pointless thoughts over and over again.

2025-03-25 04:33:37

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That’s a great feeling when you can see their refusal condition has failed and their like, “yeah, tell me more about that”

2025-03-25 01:00:56

I sometimes forget that I’m at least two standard deviations away from what most normies would consider normal. I just grenade their world view in about 4 paragraphs, lol.

2025-03-23 17:24:17

One of these best things about having kids is just having little people who just wanna hangout with you. No agenda or plans, just the desire to be around you and have fun. It’s very sweet.

2025-03-22 15:10:21

The crypto bros are absolute nihilistic callow parasites who drag us all down with their bullshit fantasy tokens. They engage in a constant cycle of rug-pulling, lies, and sycophantry that damages bitcoin by simply being adjacent to it.
More substantially, these people are just pieces of shit. They stand for nothing, they are incapable of telling the truth, and contort everything to justify their despicable behavior and guile.
Nothing will solve this except for eduction and the understanding that all of these projects are scams and should get nothing from anyone except for contempt and disgust.

2025-03-21 22:35:58

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Indeed, in the same passage that he declares the death of god, he also asks us how we can atone for such a sin and what that would mean.

2025-03-21 22:34:37

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In part, there are a few layers to it

2025-03-21 17:19:23

I believe something near the root of our societal problems today is The Death of God that happened nearly 150 years ago, and the society that was birthed from this patricide.
The sort of unhinged self-hatred that emerges from this murder is one that cannot see itself in the reflection of god, but only his death. All structures and former ways of being must be wiped away, are no longer venerated or respected, because nothing is really capable of that any longer in this society. It is a society of a dark forest where the hollow men reign, and purpose is pointlessness.
It is only through the long private sojourn into the dark of night towards the true existential angst, the questing towards the question of being itself, and what the lostness within this darkness means, that the pinprick of the light meaning could ever be found. But that demands a decision of agency, the desire to know if it is only blackness or something more. The death of god explicitly fills the void of society with this lack of thinking as thinking; the black ink of nothingness to create a meaningless life where such a seeking is pointless within itself.
It is only once we take the leap into the unknown, into the possibility that there could be something, and not nothing, that the possibility of something different, something beyond the nihilism itself becomes a possibility.

2025-03-19 22:18:11

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Also I should do this because there are some feelings and emotions that are just too raw to share as a known. The raw emotional output that stands on its own merit is another benefit of being a Nym.

2025-03-19 22:15:36

This cycle’s ’where does the yield come from?’ is going to be MSTR derivatives.
Good news is that it’s gonna break some stuff in tradfi world.

2025-03-19 21:18:50

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Maybe needs WoT with it

2025-03-19 21:03:03

Unhinged mode:
ACTIVATE!!!
#nevent1q…5qhz

2025-03-19 21:02:07

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Lmao. Absolutely not.

2025-03-19 20:54:08

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That could possibly work, but then the flow which comes from my style is gonna get all fucked up

2025-03-19 20:51:19

I really should create a Nym for my spiciest of takes that would surely get me cancelled.
But then again, I feel like my writing style is too unique and I’ll dox myself just with my writing style.

2025-03-19 16:46:28

Hard work is the only way to become powerful, both mentally and physically.
There are no shortcuts.

2025-03-17 01:44:16

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🙏

2025-03-17 01:40:02

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WTF man, I like @nprofile…rx84 but no homo.

2025-03-14 16:48:14

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In person rejection taught men a lot

2025-03-14 16:45:53

Dating apps are like the concentration camps of love. Everyone is forced into a process of selection based upon opaque criteria of ‘worthiness’ that debases and devalues the humanness of the other. Just a few moments of appraisal based upon a superficial projection that is disconnected from any of the dynamism of what love is; it is a synthetic process where love goes to ‘work for freedom’ into its death. It’s where romance goes to die, and becomes a mythology of longing for all…
So it’s going pretty well.

2025-03-13 03:39:56

"Philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it"

2025-03-06 02:50:05

Life just kinda of gets progressively more difficult—dealing with death and hardship, difficult traumas and life events, and eventually an ailing body and your own demise. It’s not to say there are not wonderful events and experiences in there, but it generally is an uphill battle. The good news is that as we gain experience through life we generally become more equipped to deal with the onslaught of difficulties and more capable of skillful navigating them; but it really never gets easier, you just become more experienced in dealing with the difficulties.

2025-03-03 21:43:18

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Sure, but it also doesn’t dehumanize them and just make them into monsters. They have their own narrative that paints them in a different regard that explains their perspective and allows for their appraisal in a more meaningful and understandable way, which is essentially if their power is to be meaningfully challenged.

2025-03-03 21:40:10

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The sin of moment, and fine for misestimating the cost of the future.

2025-03-03 00:23:53

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These regurgitate AI prompts are part of what is being pointed at as being the very problem.
Imho the book is more nuanced in that it’s trying to point out that we don’t really understand ourselves, culture, history or background much anymore because we want to criticize so much without taking a real stance on anything. We cannot actually understand who we are without a deeper sense of introspection, reflection and questioning that is a messy, convoluted, and difficult process.
I think individuals like Karp, Thiel, Altman, and Musk all are easily made into characters of themselves when they tend to have deeper and more important messages they are trying to convey, but they usually need to be sought out and read in a detailed way that allow for what in between the lines to be well understood. Most forms of media outside of their own books and writings contort the ways that they are understood in shallow and misguided ways.

2025-02-27 19:17:18

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Sure, all the way down to $5k for a couple of days.

2025-02-27 19:16:31

I’m about 1/3 of the way through this, and I have to say that Karp makes an excellent and compelling argument that has me questioning my own stance and judgment of these issues more than I have in the past decade.
Most substantially, I find he has made a compelling argument for the need for Americans to stand for something, and be willing to engage with the messy and convoluted process of trying to rediscover what being American would really mean. If we are to take the idea of a Technological Republic seriously and the need for classic liberal American values to be imbued within that, than we need to take this call very seriously and how we can contribute to it in the most meaningful way possible.
#nevent1q…8qhy

2025-02-27 19:08:11

The idea of a ‘deep bear market’ with bitcoin in the $80k range is both laughable and ridiculous.
Like zoom out and see what is being built.
Never has there been a greater opportunity to build substantial and meaningful contributions on top of the most important economic and financial innovation created since double entry accounting itself. There are mountains of capital to be created for those that are willing to put in the hard work and take the risk on building on top of what they believe in.

2025-02-26 17:50:30

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I think both bigger and harder to break, possibly a whole new approach to UX for verification.

2025-02-26 17:25:12

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No, I am a familiar with what they are doing in regards to collaborative custody, and worked with some of the guys at unchained, so I’ll have to take a look as I haven’t checked in on them recently.

2025-02-26 17:23:38

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Good point, but it’s still part of the toolset that we should do better with

2025-02-26 17:23:06

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Choose whatever hww you want

2025-02-26 17:12:42

WTF are we doing with storing huge amount of money on some crappy $150 piece of plastic? Is this really the best we can do?

2025-02-26 15:43:22

GM.
Let’s make it a great day.
https://m.primal.net/PMJr.jpg

2025-02-26 02:15:39

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Well yeah, it’s the shit smell