We can’t always be perfect. Love doesn’t need to be withdrawn at every little error- but gentle reminders and communication help the other person know where they are. Forgiveness within reason is of course necessary. There needs to be flexibility. It’s an underlying somewhat silent set of conditions (if things are going reasonably well). Infinitely complex.

Not in a healthy way. There’s conditions: communication, no abuse, mutual respect, empathy… etc. From those conditions you can build something beautiful, spiritual and more unique than most people understand. But it’s not a parent child relationship. Or at least it shouldn’t be. At its best- it’s a healthy adult to healthy adult relationship.

Depends what kind of love. Marital love? Yes respect is a prerequisite. And yes it’s conditional… both ways. Love for a child? Different story.

Hate to break it to you… If you don’t want to trust your government, you’re going to have to trust the people around you. Not blind trust but earned trust. Trust built on shared mission, clear values, and mutual accountability. This is the price of freedom: trading top-down authority for bottom-up responsibility. It’s messier, slower, and human… but it’s the only real alternative. The hard part isn’t rejecting control. It’s building something stronger in its place. How do you cultivate trust at scale? How do you protect it when incentives shift and human nature creeps in? That’s the work. I believe we can do it here.

Agreed. This is shameless clickbait pandering.

Good morning !!

In the past I would trade this wave and make money. Not anymore. Been there, done that. The issue is not buying, but knowing when to close the position. That’s the part that people always fuck up. Smashing buy in these moments is the easy part… taking profit when the euphoria is near its peak is insanely hard. It takes you being OK with all your euphoric “friends” thinking you’re an idiot or a coward. It takes you sitting with the agonizing discomfort of being “wrong” for a while and then being fine with watching people you care about get wrecked eventually. It takes seeing the “more perfect” selling point spike up again and again (or even be way higher than you anticipated- because it’s really easy to underestimate stupidity). It doesn’t matter when you sell- in that moment you’ve gone on the short side of an asset you believe in… and you’re a turncoat. Being a successful trader long term takes a special kind of fucked up person… you may be lucky enough to learn this viscerally like me. Most importantly… all of this shit takes energy. Energy that can be put elsewhere- like building things. So to all of you who decide to play the leverage game this round (yes, that’s what publicly traded BTC treasury companies are): enjoy it if you can… and godspeed. I wish you the best, and I hope you can ride the wave in such a way that’s it’s a worthwhile venture to you. Despite being fundamentally bullish and agreeing with many of the takes here about where we are headed… my time, capital and energy are going to building Conduit and stacking in self custody this round. Blinders on. Cheers and good luck my friends. Be kind to one another- it’s just money.

Happy 4th my American friends. Grateful to be here with you as a resident, and therefore guest. A fun and relevant bit of history: July 4th 1776 was only the DECLARATION of US independence. It took ~15 years of chaos and evolution before there was a functioning government (1789) and enforceable bill of rights (1791). … but even pre-1776 there was what you can call the “gradually” phase. Enlightenment thought started spreading in the ~1740’s through figures like Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau. The Colonial Elites were avid readers of their ideas. That’s DECADES of discourse, conflict, trial, failure and compromise before the new paradigm really stuck. We’re so early.

They cost money

https://opentimestamps.org/

Hate me for this comment but tie them together with OTS and you have a marriage fit for scaling to the world. Nostr lacks decentralized timestamping. Bitcoin can provide it.

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time to #nostronly my friend

The evolving Nostr protocol is already the most advanced form of language the human race has ever conceived of.

Thank you for the review and merge 🙏🏼 cc:

This sums up a lot in one slogan

It’s unconditional for your child

Oh this is fun… I’d love to give this a shot at some of the SoCal meetups whenever I get the time to go back to them