So it's either keep the soul-crushing job that only half ensures a decent future or take another at a lower wage, losing health insurance and most of my ability to save. Please point me to the nearest volcano, I need to throw myself in.

Classical music for violin is such a waste of a good fiddle 😄

Shut up, clanker

And normies thought classic bitcoin was some kind of cult 😅

Foundation's Edge, Isaac Asimov, 1982

Oh? Those largely government-funded multi-billion dollar AI tools enable expendable lone actors and small groups to severely disrupt elements of the parallel economy designed to escape the government's total financial dominance? Quelle fucking surprise.

Nothing says "slow, dull, and crappy" quite like finger-style mandolin 😄

Here it is: https://youtu.be/N_8teVIzfnY

There's a YouTuber who seeks out places like that to play a 150 year old banjo out in nature, I forget his name though 😅

Yet lots of people seem to prefer fear over respect, the former of which being acquired by more drastic and less mutual means 😅 I fully agree, though 👌

Would it still be poor workmanship if one blamed tools one was required to use against one's better judgement?

Who knows, maybe the same or some other spy agency, it wouldn't be the first time those people conjure up some false dichotomy 😄

I didn't plan on weighing in on the whole debacle but consider this: Picking a less popular hardware wallet a while ago would've saved your bacon, while going with coldcard would've baked your savings.

If you're a woman and you want to manage a household, grow and prepare healthy food, raise and educate happy children, and generally care for those you love, you're obviously a monster who should be cast into the deepest pits of hell, shame on your legacy. 😄

"Democracy" means that I'm not allowed to do things that don't hurt anybody with stuff I myself paid for but in return, other people get to take my stuff pretty much at will.

People say "hogwash" like it's a bad thing but I do find it important to wash your hog.