WE LIVE IN TIMES WHERE COMMON SENSE HAS TO STAY QUIET SO STUPIDITY DOESN'T GET OFFENDED. REVERSE COURSE WE MUST.

I heard people say kids are different these days. I disagree. Kids are the same. What's changed is a society with lowered expectations, lack of discipline, and acceptance of disrespect. Give kids boundaries, expectations, rules, limits, rewards and consequences. They will rise to the challenge and exceed your expectations, every time. Gm Nostr

So let me get this straight, I go to the grocery store and buy: a pound of sliced ham in a plastic bag, a loaf of bread in a plastic bag, a gallon of milk in a plastic jug, a pack of napkins in plastic wrap, a store made salad in a plastic tub, a plastic bottle of mustard and ketchup, but they won't give me a plastic bag to carry it home because the plastic bag is bad for the environment? Gtfoh..

Every skill has a valley of despair between beginner enthusiasm and intermediate competence. You start excited. Then you realize how much you don't know. That valley kills more potential than any external obstacle. Know it's coming. Plan for it. Walk through it.

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There is an argument to be made there.

We did also! Wouldn’t ever change it. More need to do it. Stop outsourcing your children to the state and then wonder what went wrong. 🙏👊🏼

That a perfect question.

Agree. 👊🏼

There's only 24 hours in a day. But man does everything out there try to convince you they're worth less than they are. Fast food so you don't have to cook. Delivery apps so you don't have to leave the house. Feeds built to keep your eyes down instead of up at the people across the table from you. Every system around you is optimized for right now, because right now is where the money is. Patience doesn't monetize well. Low time preference used to just mean you could wait. Plant a tree you won't sit under. Cook a meal that takes three hours instead of three minutes. Sit at a table long after the food's gone because the conversation isn't done yet. None of that pays off today. That's the whole point. Your grandfather didn't rush dinner. He wasn't trying to get back to anything. The meal was the thing. Somewhere along the way we got convinced that speed was the same as progress. It isn't. Speed just means you got there faster with less to show for it. You still get twenty-four hours. Nobody's taken that from you yet. What they've taken is your patience with how you spend them. Slow food. Long dinners. Nowhere else to be. That's not nostalgia. That's rebellion, and it's the only kind that still works.

A wise man once said "be careful who you let on your ship,because some people will sink the whole ship just because they can't be the captain."

Having an opinion is okay. Disagreeing is okay too. What's not okay is tearing someone down just because they see things differently. Respect should never go out of style, and it's exactly what our society is missing most.

Nsec Creed This is my nsec. There are many keys like it, but this one is mine. My nsec is my sovereignty. It is my identity. I must master it as I master my own life. Without me, my nsec is worthless. Without my nsec, I am silenced. I must sign with it true. I must guard it better than any password I have ever kept, for it does not reset, it does not recover, it does not forgive. Before God, I swear this creed: my key is my voice, my voice is my witness, and my witness shall not be revoked. My nsec and myself know that what counts in this life is not the platforms we trust, but the keys we hold. We know that it is the signatures that count. We will sign… My nsec is human, even as I am human, because it is my identity. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its entropy, its bits. I will keep my nsec clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will. Before God I swear this creed: my key and myself are the defenders of my word. We are the masters of our censors. We are the saviors of my speech. So be it, until there is no more tyranny, but peace.

We literally have grown children running around everywhere these days.

Your role as a father isn't to be flawless, it's to model how a man deals with his flaws.

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