Meaning deep-Gov’t officials would have been wargaming the close of the Strait of Hormuz, just as they wargamed Covid? Maybe? I don’t know, but it seems right to me. And if so that means it isn’t “macro”. We can’t invest if we’re simply second-guessing what insiders are doing.

The Yin-Yang symbol is ancient, and important. But a key to understanding it is recognizing that it doesn’t actually represent “harmony”. The two are engaged in eternal conflict.

I’m a few years behind you, but came from cypherpunk material and think I can appreciate what you’re saying. I also have long fiat investment background. I agree with you. The central problem now is that “if” there is a new generation of Bitcoin Maxis, they realized the OGs are selling out. And since that selling is clearly going to Govt entities, they aren’t inspired that there’s any “Bitcoin Revolution” still being led by revolutionaries. In other words: “OGs” have left the building, conferences are cringe, “cypherpunk” isn’t front and center anymore, and Wall St has completely pwned price. We’re at a make or break year, right now. Gov’t will capsize Bitcoin in a year or so, guaranteed. Because they’ve overwhelmed “Retail” markets, and thereby underwhelmed “pleb” culture, thus rug-pulling self-custody, and all the while the original Bitcoiners have gone awol to sell their stacks to Bukele in El Salvador or Dubai or wherever. It’s hard to stay optimistic. Fiat has fully recognized the need to subsume Bitcoin into its system. And the sociopaths have all the time and all the money in the world to do so. We had a good run, but what I’m seeing is that the people who understood Bitcoin best are cut-and-running. Bitcoin is now a global asset, and that means it will perform as a portfolio savings-asset for the rest of Fiat’s life.

I may have broken Google’s Banana Pro AI with the following prompt, which it can’t seem to return an image for… “If you don’t take Bitcoin into self-custody, you’ve traded your children’s future for someone else’s.”

I’m sincerely sorry your fam is going through such a hard time. Didn’t you also have a box elder infestation? Maybe I should not have brought that up… Hey, there are only two things Nostr has to offer - a Zap and a Kitten….so…incoming…

Cuz I can just say things on Nostr: I gave Vince Gilligan’s show “Plur1bus” a very good shot. But eventually it just became a show about how an abrasive liberal lesbian was right, and the literal entire rest of the world was wrong. Open to critiques?

Respectfully, no. Politics is a social-structure that is necessary at first, then inevitably attracts the Psycho-/Sociopaths. Psycho-/Sociopaths represent <5% of society, but they seem to have an Evolutionary imperative to persist. In fact, the accepted definition is that Psychopaths are born, Sociopaths are made. They represent a tiny number of people who do not understand emotional bonding and connection. As such, they only see their social culture as a NEED to control other people. So they are drawn to positions of power - i.e. positions of central authority or control. It’s important to understand they’re drawn to political positions not just for the control, but because they increasingly feel themselves among “their tribe” - in other words, no longer around “those” people they don’t understand. Politics is where Sociopaths feel most “at home”. [They feel they’re in their element, as sadistic as it is ( I use the word sadistic intentionally). It’s exactly similar to how pedophiles are drawn together in positions of power over children, in fact the Venn diagram between the two psychologies is almost unified…which explains so much of what has been coming to light of late.] The desire to control is the desire for Power. Normal people do not feel this. Normal people will achieve success, and then long to retire asap and “spend time with friends and family”. Sociopaths do not, because they don’t understand their family. They never bonded, they don’t “get” the need for people to be together for any reason other than “networking” or gaining access. This is why people in higher Politics never seem to leave. They have nowhere safe to go any longer. What Sociopaths fear the most is being disrespected. THIS is the leverage they use over each other. Sociopaths DO NOT care whether you like them or hate them. They need you to be in their control, to play their game. What they CANNOT allow is for you to walk away and ignore them.

make sure you’re not taking B-vitamins late in the day. Messed me up for a couple weeks before I figured it out.

true dat…on twitx at least 12 young asian women so far have really appreciated my thoughts…

Me with heretical Biblical history lately.

4h Turning Breaking News: Live theatre and performance art will emerge like the Lady of the Lake from the attention-deficit swamp its been submerged in the past couple decades… …as AI saturates online media and non-NPCs re-discover an interest for real people doing real things.

I’m really tired of Bitcoin, but I like you Bitcoiners a lot, so’s it ok if I just mental-health/kitten-post for a while, no judgement?