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2026-10-03 09:32:39 UTC

I post ideas on Nostr that occur to me without much self-consciousness. Which is odd because it’s the only social media you can’t delete. Don’t know why it’s like that.

2026-10-03 09:31:06 UTC

Sometimes I’m waiting for the subway and get trapped in my phone so that when it arrives I have to remind myself to get on it. Like dude your entire purpose of being in this station and killing time on your phone was to get into the cars that just pulled up.

2026-10-02 07:18:30 UTC

I am lazy af but everything gets done. It’s like I have an AI robot, and it’s me. Can’t explain it. Maybe I’ve just trimmed the inefficiency out of life to a manageable level. I don’t know.

2026-09-28 07:24:57 UTC

There are some intractable people and problems in my life I often bitch about, really unjust, unaccountable shit, but I have to remember while it’s bad luck I have those, my luck on the whole is unbelievably good.

2026-09-28 07:20:20 UTC

One thing that gives me peace is knowing how mentally ill everyone is. In the past, you suspected it, but still had that lingering doubt: “what if this is a ‘me’ problem? What if it’s all just cope?” But now you know for sure they are really and truly ill, just epistemically derelict, worse even than you had imagined. And knowing that you can really understand, deep in your bones, “it’s not me, it’s them,” and there’s a lot of freedom in that.

2026-09-26 12:38:50 UTC

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Had heard about this but hadn’t looked into it. Have never used but now will add it to the bag where applicable. Thanks!

2026-09-19 09:14:58 UTC

The solution is always worse than the problem.

2026-09-19 06:44:09 UTC

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True but even by that standard egregious

2026-09-16 18:39:30 UTC

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I know people like that too, but I get the feeling they're holding on by an ever-thinning thread. Like if a few people around them jumped ship, it wouldn't be long before they started distancing themselves too.

2026-09-16 18:20:43 UTC

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I understand that, but even so, how can something so obviously detested, the scoldy, superior attitude, the serial dishonesty and wrongness, the total lack of accountability even persist WITH the help of the state? The emperor has no clothes, and he is fat as fuck! Everyone sees! No matter how much you are incentivized to pretend, you just look like a fool! How is it that it has ANY sway whatsoever anymore? It is an unintentional satire, a total self-evident joke.
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2026-09-16 16:21:32 UTC

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real talk!
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2026-09-16 14:32:25 UTC

The total pussification and fakeness of everything is starting to drive me a little crazy. How can the NYTimes even exist in its present state? How can news media exist? How can academia exist? Who is even the audience for this bullshit anymore? Who the fuck is still enabling this?

2026-09-16 14:27:28 UTC

Did the AI psyop make it to nostr?

2026-09-12 19:47:29 UTC

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Real talk!

2026-08-31 10:37:59 UTC

Had to click a box to verify I was human, clicked it too fast, failed the test.

2026-07-31 13:14:20 UTC

"Boating accident” just got a plausibility upgrade.

2026-07-28 18:02:07 UTC

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very expensive, just for a pint. At Erewhon, known for its outrageous prices, but great market. CS in EU is bad compared to US. They don’t really care that much.

2026-07-28 15:44:17 UTC

Say what you want about LA, but amazing you can get a pint of raw cream (for $18!) to put in your ice coffee.
Like drinking a health milkshake.
Despite the traffic, the homelessness, the skyrocketing costs, this place where I lived for 16 years still has elements of a paradise.
Haven’t been back since early ’24 and appreciating it more this time.
Other thing about LA (and the US generally) when you’ve been in Europe for a long time is how good and friendly the service is. Seems like a trivial thing, but you notice it.

2026-07-21 19:08:28 UTC

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of course you *can*, but crying about cultural appropriation is pussified

2026-07-21 17:49:56 UTC

Few thoughts about the Odyssey which I haven't seen though I might at some point, probably on an airplane:
1. Don't cry about who is cast as whom or "cultural appropriation." It's a work of art, Nolan can do whatever the fuck he wants. Your remedy is not to see it if it doesn't interest you.
2. If you're pointing out the hypocrisy of other people crying about cultural appropriation when the culture being appropriated is non-white, save your breath. Leftists don't give two shits about hypocrisy, and it's not even really hypocrisy to them since they have long ago abandoned rational argument and logical consistency.
3. If you're complaining about the hypocrisy (fruitless) or mad about the cultural appropriation (dumb) online, you're feeding the controversy, and the controversy is good for box office.
That's because once it becomes coded as "good" by one team and "bad" by another, not only does it get tons of free publicity, but the cost/benefit is asymmetric.
The people who would have bought a ticket but didn't due to perceived politics are fewer in number than the people who wouldn't have bought a ticket but did for the simple reason that there are more people who don't buy tickets for any given movie, i.e., the pool you're drawing from (non-buyers) is much larger than the one you're losing (would-be buyers).

2026-07-21 16:19:21 UTC

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Can be arranged!

2026-07-21 15:03:05 UTC

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Healthcare cannot be a fundamental right like free speech because it requires other people to do something for you. To treat you, pay for you, etc. That's always got to be voluntary.
Whether people *ought* to care about those who couldn't or more commonly didn't care for themselves is IMO a legitimate philosophical discussion to be hate. But a "right"? Doesn't work.
Also, obviously people will get sick and die no matter what the state does. I know rich people who spent millions on care only to die in misery after untold surgeries, treatments, etc. The idea that we should dedicate vast resources to ameliorate something that can only really be prevented by the person themselves seems crazy the way it's playing out.

2026-07-19 12:14:04 UTC

Why am I talking? I made a substantive post about something on my mind which you unsolicitedly trolled rather than engaging on the substance.
I am here to say what’s on my mind, that’s obvious. I’ll ask again, what are you doing here?
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2026-07-19 12:03:48 UTC

LOL “hide and run” — anon troll accusing someone who puts his name and photo on every post of hiding and running!
Why are you even here?
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2026-07-19 11:56:31 UTC

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Trolling just to troll, adding zero of value, got it

2026-07-19 11:28:52 UTC

Think this dude is alleging I used AI to write this post. Not true. I’m a professional writer, never used AI to compose anything, don’t need it, don’t want it.
AI doesn’t own m-dashes, certain phrases, etc. I just write what comes into my mind, not going to go out of my way to avoid things just because they overlap.
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2026-07-19 11:22:54 UTC

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2026-07-19 10:56:15 UTC

People talk about money printing by the banks (every new mortgage or loan is a print), but I would bet that's rivaled, if not exceeded, by the healthcare industrial complex (HIC).
Think about it, every time a boomer gets a scan, a checkup, a procedure, the government has to issue a transfer to HIC. Not even talking about the Learing Centers which siphon off hundreds of billions collectively via fraud, but the legal, "legitimate" health care system which provides actual services.
I know boomers whose entire lives revolve around seeing yet another specialist, getting another test, talking endlessly about health issues. They are like a marauding army seizing enormous amounts of wealth from wage earners and savers and transferring it to the HIC. The system almost seems set up by design for this purpose. And they are oblivious because it's all "covered."
The problem isn't merely that old people get sick a lot and need medical care, but that old people are incentivized to seek it as a first rather than last resort, and the system is set up to treat this as normal. Your doctor with his pills and potions, scans and procedures is in charge of your health, not you via eating right, exercise, attitude, habits. That's one problem.
Another problem is the system takes advantage of old people, endlessly prescribing HIC solutions to lifestyle problems and stoking their fears to keep them as customers.
Politicians call these "entitlements" and warn of "unsustainability", but it doesn't to the heart of the problem which is HIC-capture that sets the prices, optimizes for extraction and controls the messaging.
People believe *health*care is how you stay healthy rather than something you only use if absolutely necessary IF you get sick, which you do everything in your power (and you have a lot of power in this area) to prevent or at least delay for a long time. Just changing the HIC to SIC (sickness industrial complex) would go a long way. It's not how you preserve your health, it's where you go when your efforts have failed, and it's a weak substitute for success.
I don't know exactly how much money is siphoned legally from the tax payer/saver/wage earner to the HIC, but I do know it's an unfathomable amount. I also suspect that's why the vaccine cult has so much power, part of why the covid response was so all-encompassing, why anyone who spoke out against the mRNA was demonized, fired, excommunicated and destroyed. It's not just a few large companies who spend ad dollars on CNN or whatever, it's a multi-trillion dollar extraction engine, and the entities positioned to receive the spoils have almost limitless unchecked power.
Inflation comes from money printing, but it's not like the treasury just runs sheet after sheet of hundred dollar bills and dumps it into the economy. It's the bank reserves enabling issuance via loans, yes, but also this incredibly escalating healthcare black hole, fed largely by old people who are getting it for "free".
Ironically many younger people, who are not completely covered have their savings wiped out by it and fall by the wayside as inflation gets worse every year, advocate for universal sickcare, not realizing that the reason it's so expensive and inflation so severe is in large part due to the universal sickcare (for old people) in the first place.
The solution to this would be to open sickcare to the free market, not cover it at all, let private insurance and private providers compete for business. This would coincide with lower taxes on everyone, less national debt, lower inflation, cheaper sickcare (no endless demand backstopped by govt dollars.) Young people would be more able to afford sickcare when needed too.
Of course, many old people would suffer and die sooner. More families would go broke paying for their elderly parents during the transition phase before the savings from lower inflation and lower taxes offset the cost of private insurance (that would be cheaper because prices would come down.)
That's always the problem -- going from the obviously broken, catastrophic, unsustainable state of affairs to a much better, saner, fairer, more sustainable ones involves real short-term pain. That's how parasites survive, make the cost of getting rid of them painful enough that no one does anything about it until they consume the entire organism.

2026-07-17 13:46:06 UTC

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Did they try "password"?
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2026-07-16 10:11:18 UTC

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bullish
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2026-07-15 17:13:41 UTC

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So you're saying OJ won't kill you?
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2026-07-15 16:50:09 UTC

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Yeah I just kind of threw in gravity but how is electron movement not perpetual motion?

2026-07-14 08:18:02 UTC

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As someone who takes language literally and believes in its logic, this has been a hard truth for me to grasp/accept. But once you see it, it's obviously, self-evidently so.
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2026-07-14 08:16:07 UTC

People are driven by incentives, don't let language fool you.

2026-07-13 16:24:56 UTC

Went away for 11 days, came back, was smoking a cigar on my balcony, and a pigeon brushed by my head very close. Was like WTF, then noticed an egg sitting in an empty pot near the railing. Now I look out the window, and there’s the pigeon sitting on it, and there’s two eggs. Not thrilled to have a pigeon taking over my small cigar smoking lounge/herb garden, but don’t have the heart to do anything about it. The empty pot is in the corner, away from the herbs, and I’m going away again next week for 12 days. Suicidal empathy probably, but assuming these dudes will hatch and fly away.
https://blossom.primal.net/3e5a36d5ff8950ab3afd792949bbc68e0206f4db44265a05e6affc963248444b.jpg

2026-07-13 07:14:30 UTC

EU chat control passing in the shady way it did is good news. They were spying anyway, now the tech cos have to show their hands by complying or not. Second order effect is incentive for freedom tech innovation/adoption. This is what winning looks like — desperate flailing and overreach of illegitimate authorities.

2026-06-30 09:26:16 UTC

A lot of you are fake and full of shit.

2026-06-29 20:32:56 UTC

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Whenever economic problems arise, I like to ask the village idiot what he thinks should be done about it.
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2026-06-29 20:27:40 UTC

@nprofile…xr40 knows what I'm talking about
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2026-06-29 09:42:53 UTC

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Ha --we'll see

2026-06-29 07:06:12 UTC

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You joke but there's truth in that. Banks are coming after him IMO because STRC was a real threat.

2026-06-29 07:04:40 UTC

Remember when MSTR mooned, and Saylor was CIA?

2026-06-26 19:38:31 UTC

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at Chris_Liss

2026-06-26 17:35:28 UTC

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maybe it's that

2026-06-26 13:49:28 UTC

no one is still taking covid boosters, right?

2026-06-23 16:10:07 UTC

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deranged

2026-06-21 13:36:10 UTC

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Remember about 20 years ago during the real estate boom, was riding in the back seat of a car with an ex-girlfriend, her 70-YO dad was driving. He was talking about his new real estate gig (which made him a bunch of money), told us when he interviewed for the job, they asked him what his biggest accomplishments were, and he felt stupid, couldn't think of any except his two daughters. We broke up a year later (quality person, didn't work out for various reasons), but remembered hearing that, and now that I have a 14-YO daughter, I get it.

2026-06-21 10:26:28 UTC

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Good article.
Would just argue SpaceX is being valued on the VAST future potential, not present earnings, and future potential is relatively uncapped in this one case. The AI companies are pretty hard to justify given it's almost a commodity at this point. Of course the numbers would be very different if we had a market-based hurdle rate rather than the FED.
I also watched The Great Taking, and while it scared the shit out of me, I think it's not really saying anything we don't already know, namely that IF things break down badly, anything you don't physically (or mentally) hold will be a legal claim and nothing more. Think of the Palisades fires -- you can sue the insurance company for non-payment, but you no longer have a house, and you are reliant on third parties to enforce your contract .
And the only thing ensuring your claims have real value are incentives -- they won't default on your shares or bonds because that would be catastrophic for their own portfolios and those of their friends and families too. Mutually assured destruction is what keeps the system afloat. But once things get so out of whack that there's nothing to lose, the incentives break down, and the great taking occurs.
I think it definitely COULD get to that point, and when it does there probably won't be much warning, but in the meantime you have to live in the world as it is, pay the fiat bills, etc. because that time could be 5, 10 or 20 years away or happen never. Just make sure you have some insurance in the form of a bearer instrument rather than a claim.

2026-06-21 09:43:34 UTC

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You're talking about a real Christian, but most who purport to be are the guy on the left.

2026-06-20 19:05:08 UTC

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There are no socialists -- every one of them is stingy af when it comes to their own property. The ideology of socialism is just a framework that justifies their meddling. They are a bunch of meddlers. They are miserable and they want to spread it to everyone else.

2026-06-20 17:10:03 UTC

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That's not capitalism. That's the law of the jungle. Capitalism implies property rights. Without property rights, there is no capitalism.

2026-06-20 11:44:42 UTC

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How can private citizens "own" anything unless there are rules protecting private property? That's what it means to own something, that someone else is not allowed to take if from you with force, i.e., they can only convince you to part with it *voluntarily*. If I can steal your property, then there is no ownership. And it's not capitalism.
That's why capitalism does not mean "state of nature". It's the natural order of things only when certain conditions are in place. Laws are necessary.

2026-06-20 10:30:35 UTC

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Probably an element of this — certainly influenced me.

2026-06-20 10:27:58 UTC

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I agree, capitalism is not about moralizing, it's just a natural state of affairs when people are left to trade and exchange value. But theft and fraud are NOT part of capitalism because the exchange is not voluntary. Capitalism needs *some* top down intervention, e.g., a legal system that punishes crime, but so what? That doesn't mean we should be redistributing wealth indiscriminately.

2026-06-20 10:00:43 UTC

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Capitalism doesn't need to be tried, it's the default state of affairs when people are free to exchange goods and services voluntarily. Conflating that with what happens when people capture parts of the system and rent-seek is the sleight of hand. There will always be rent seeking and crony capitalism but it's a baby/bathwater situation. The alternative (indiscriminate forced wealth redistribution) is all bathwater.

2026-06-20 09:19:21 UTC

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Common sleight of hand is to conflate capitalism with crony capitalism.

2026-06-19 13:12:52 UTC

Excerpt from latest podcast. Link to full: https://www.chrisliss.com/p/preference-falsification
https://v.nostr.build/PPiykXesOe51q8ky.mp4

2026-06-18 14:32:23 UTC

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If you bought the credit, you traded fiat for a promise in fiat. If you sold the credit, you traded a promise to pay in fiat for bitcoin. How could the BTCTCs get margin called in that scenario? They seem to be at greater risk for a margin call in the event of dollar deflation.
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2026-06-18 10:57:10 UTC

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Primal, amethyst and Nostur

2026-06-18 10:54:31 UTC

What’s up with all the low-quality AI reply bots?

2026-06-18 07:50:18 UTC

Nicotine on demand is miserable. A cigar in the evening while walking your dog is pleasant and civilized.

2026-06-17 20:26:21 UTC

The communists will probably try to burn me at the stake eventually but think I’m gonna take up golf this fall. Got a friend who wants to do it, knows a cheap 9-hole course. Almost nothing I’d rather do than play a sport outside in the fresh air. Got into Padel 15 months ago and am playing 3x a week. Reminds me of when I used to play basketball all the time in my late 20s in LA almost 30 years ago.

2026-06-17 07:23:20 UTC

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Congrats!

2026-06-16 09:16:47 UTC

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Listen to the Arch Independent Podcast episode on Epstein. I actually now think Kash Patel, Bongino and Trump when he said it was a hoax were telling the truth. Not that Epstein didn't do a lot of what he was alleged to have done, but not at the behest of governments or intelligence agencies. When he was asked in August of 2024 whether he'd release the files Trump said he'd do it, but in a very non-committal way. Maybe afterward they claimed they'd do it as it surely reonsated with voters, but it wasn't a huge part of the campaign. And the warmongers seem pretty disappointed in the scope of the Iran conflict.
I just think "He's owned by Putin" "Israel controls him!" "He's being blackmailed with the pee pee tape!" is so tired at this point. We should just judge him on his performance like any other president. Let's see how the Iran fallout plays out. Better or worse than the status quo ante? Once we find out that's the basis for the evaluation.

2026-06-15 13:08:34 UTC

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if you are telling people they are statist for disagreeing, or scolding them for using Twitter, or for wanting to earn more fiat or buying an ETF or whatever, you are not a freedom maximalist. You are a fundamentalist. That was the point of the post.

2026-06-15 12:52:57 UTC

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And that was the point of the OP.

2026-06-15 12:26:54 UTC

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I’m saying you can’t be a freedom fundamentalist. Freedom is the freedom to be wrong.

2026-06-15 12:18:46 UTC

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Right, depends upon what the consequences are for dissent. If you call someone a racist who disagrees with you and by “racist” you mean anyone reading should excommuniucate that person from their lives including their employer, you are advocating for coercion. If by “ought” you mean in your opinion you think it would benefit them, but there should be no added consequence except foregoing those benefits, then yes.
I mean you can say or advocate for whatever you want, consequences or not, but my point is if you are a freedom fundamentalist, you’re really not for freedom.

2026-06-15 11:43:59 UTC

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You can say what others ought NOT to do if it interferes with you, but you can’t say what they ought to believe or do.

2026-06-15 11:42:42 UTC

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Think there can be substantive discussion about what level of top-down control is ideal for maintaining conditions of bottom-up prosperity (the only kind). I’m for the minimum amount necessary and think zero leads to communism as people overcorrect. But whether I am right or wrong is a matter of how aligned I am with reality not whether it puts me in the “good” or “bad” camp, according to the particular tribal edicts of Twitter or Nostr.

2026-06-15 11:07:04 UTC

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It’s not wrong, so long as you are not purporting to say what someone else ought to be doing.

2026-06-15 11:04:33 UTC

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Both are fake, empty tribal signaling.

2026-06-15 10:45:32 UTC

Found out the other day I have a screw loose.
Literally, dental implant started wobbling.

2026-06-15 10:12:01 UTC

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MSTR’s coins are still part of the network. They just have contracts with preferred shareholders to pay them in fiat later for fiat provided now. Investors in the common have contractual ownership over future balance sheet assets. Both are taking on counterparty risk of course but the network itself doesn’t care.

2026-06-15 09:38:48 UTC

People on Nostr calling you a statist is like people on woke Twitter calling you a racist. It’s meant as a way to disparage your character and dismiss you totally but no one cares anymore.

2026-06-15 09:36:10 UTC

I don’t care about Bitcoin. I just care about living a good life. It just so happens Bitcoin creates the right incentives and the opportunity to live as you’d like us under threat from bad ones. But don’t put the cart before the horse.

2026-06-15 09:32:24 UTC

Older I get, the more distaste I have for puritans, especially around the subject of freedom tech. How can you be a freedom fundamentalist? Contradiction in terms.

2026-06-15 09:30:01 UTC

Two contradictory thoughts about the spectacle on the White House lawn:
1. Bread and Circuses
2. You can unapologetically do things in America

2026-06-15 09:24:26 UTC

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Agree with the first part, but why would he be “compromised?” Just seems like that’s something the legacy media has repeated endlessly from Russiagate to the Epstein Files without basis. I mean I’m sure he’s looking out for his backers like all politicians but the “compromised” thing just seems facile to me.

2026-06-13 07:21:29 UTC

One reason a dog makes such a good friend to a person is you can both comfortably walk the same pace. Contrast with having say a pet snail -- would be too frustrating.

2026-06-09 17:20:25 UTC

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People are salty because they missed the trade the first time, happy to see the price get knocked down now. Most of the vitriol is just pettiness IMO.

2026-06-06 13:35:20 UTC

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Saw that, was wondering what it was about too