Indeed. It's the love and purpose of good relationships that matter, not marriage in itself. It can happen within that framework but that doesn't mean everyone will find it that way - or that it will last. Speaking from bitter experience here. But I'm also a bit older, seems like most posts celebrating marriage unconditionally come from milennials who are just getting started with family life and thus have a more rose tinted view than this old heathen.

Discipline and consistent routines build a solid foundation for your wellbeing and your sovereignty. Without this foundation, you will be a slave to circumstances and emotions.

Great proof that you can be highly intelligent and totally clueless at the same time

Regime change being prepared

Your inner citadel is more important than any external thing you possess, desire or build. With your inner citadel firmly in place you will be well-equipped to handle any situation and interaction - be it pleasant, challenging, or devastating. Without your inner citadel you will eventually slip naked into the sea of emotions, and forever be a slave to circumstance and other people's will. Place your citadel on a firm rock of ancient wisdom and unwavering ethos. Build its foundation and walls of consistent routines that are tried and tested through hard experience. Raise its superstructure of responsibility and understanding high. Make its gate impenetrable. Only allow impressions worthy of your attention to enter; everything else is turned away. Only when impressions are allowed inside your courtyard will you decide how to act upon them. You will be resolute and effective, and then let the experience reinforce your foundation, walls, and superstructure. Raise a flag of verbal communication that signal to others that this citadel is yours and yours alone, and that you are in complete control of it. The sea of emotions may heave and rage, but you will not act upon it, simply observe it from the vantage point of your citadel. This is the architecture of inner peace.

That's the way they always operate. Clandestinely, in the shadows, through lies and blackmail and backstabbing, slowly poisoning the wells and sowing discord, while pretending to serve just and righteous causes. The same people built the fiat system and use it against us to keep us weak and subordinated. Of course they hate bitcoin and want to destroy it. Of course they will do it the way they always do things. It's in their genes. It really baffles me that so many bitcoiners refuse to see the writing on the wall here, preferring to "stay neutral" like we're discussing a fucking football league or something. Staying neutral and not getting involved has already cost us our nations, our history and our children's future. Now will we let them destroy our only chance at reclaiming our lives and our dignity, just because they have convinced us that it's somehow wrong to take a stand?

Correct. Trump is a walking narrative disaster, like all politicians nowadays. Hopefully his term in office will awaken even more people to the fact that politics is not part of the solution but part of the problem.

..or perhaps both

It sure is and that is the way of things. Hard earned experience can be very valuable if properly treasured. If squandered, it can ruin your life.

Torally agreed. The whole concept of developers need to be reevaluated and reformulated. Core are acting like gaming industry devs, not like stewards of the most important software in human history.

It is. But it takes two to tango and sometimes the music stops. Time can be an enemy as well as an ally in this regard.

Core 30 is a major controversial change to btc, which in itself is cause for alarm. A major change requires sound reasoning on a major level. I have yet to see any arguments for this change that do not come from either shitcoiner scammers/ideological purists/autistic technocrats/nepotistically appointed "devs" with limited experience and undisclosed affinities. None of these arguments are sound nor make any real sense; the gist of them all seems to variations on "calm down and trust me bro", or " btc is magical and immune to harm because it is magical and immune to harm", which just isn't enough in light of what's at stake here. Add to this the fact that core 30 provides clear benefits for interests that are actively opposed to bitcoin's main purpose: to be sound money and a viable alternative to the broken fiat system. This change only benefits spammers looking for fiat gains, perverts looking for a way to share their perversions, and malicious actors like banks and state agencies looking to sabotage the only real challenge to their crumbling power structure. The rest of us have no need for it. On the contrary; using money as data storage makes it less viable as money, which means this change would be detrimental even if it only led to more "harmless" spam. These facts combined should be enough to make you pause and consider whether the concerns that Matt and other are raising are just hyperbole and scare tactics, or whether there is a real threat here. Just follow the money for fuck's sake.

The censorship issue is a red herring, basically just sophistry meant to ideologically trigger people of a libertarian mindset into acceptance. It's a variant of the "you're not technical enough to understand" argument, but uses ideological rather than technocratic lingo. You can call it whatever you want however. Bitcoin is a sound monetary network. If "censorship" means securing bitcoin as sound money and preventing bad actors from destroying it either through greed, stupidity, evil, or a combo of the three, I'm pro censorship all day long. Anybody arguing against limiting spam should logically be in favour of having frogs and csam permanently printed on their coins and bills as well - limiting that kind of abuse is obviously censorship, right? Humanity's right to sound money and an end to the fiat standard is more important than some little shitcoiner faggots' right to make extra fiat. They can fake their smut peddling elsewhere, and go fuck themselves in the process.

Actually I think we are in agreement. I do not promote counting calories or subjecting yourself to meaningless symbolic acts. I also enjoy walking, lifting, and the sun. My point is that without consistent discipline, your results and your wellbeing will be less tangible than if you make a point of sticking to your good habits regardless of what you happen to feel like doing in the moment. Good luck to you friend.

Venice, Maple, and a locally hosted one for really sensitive stuff. Would never touch the big commercial ones. Might just as well trust Bill Gates with my thoughts, plans and questions.