i'll be 40 soon and i'm coming to the conclusion that at a certain age we are just way to stuck in our ways to compromise with anyone else. it's hard to find right age, interests, etc and then layer on top of that someone who isn't addicted to phone or will be able to change habits.

i witnessed my mom in her 70s follow my father's advice to use her phone less. She was getting Reeled in by youtube. She followed it to my amazement. he still reads books, so maybe it's easier to listen to someone who follows his own advice.

however, i have more doubt about my peers. are we able to follow someone else's advice to get rid of bad habits? i'd have to get rid of my own before expecting someone to get rid of theirs.

i have another theory about men who build things... i think women are attracted to men with calloused hands. a friend said "no they are attracted to earning potential". definitely the ones worth attracting would be more of the former--but then we would have to build something.

i don't know if paper airplanes or model trains count.

true. maybe 2 tons isn't as much as i thought. there has to be a number of tons + heat/humidity settign that you start second guessing nuptials.

this is a good daily reminder to never ever get married. 2 tons you say? who came up with that number

which other levels?

i put Charlie Kirk in this bucket
and the recent journey to the moon

Nostr apparently made its mind up about them and just doesn't care.

I'm really not convinced any way on these issues--and even less certain about what can even be done about them

reminds me of the question for wind-powered craft

"is it possible to travel faster than the wind"

Oh darn. I thought it was real.

Does this work on Bitcoin passphrases

What people I know swear by:

Chik fil a combo with a large Dr Pepper.

And/or dip in body of water like river,creek,lake or pond. Dry off immediately after.

i agree that infiltration either side is probably their strategy. so just when someone feels safe advocating BIP110--whatever goalpost moving that took over Core will also start taking over the other side.

I just haven't read anything to show me the clear corruption behind Knots. everything i see just rests on social layer and personalities.

what gives you the feeling that CIA is behind Knots/BIP110? what would be in it for them?

what's the harm in trying if it's going to fail anyway?

software requires testing. this gets some social and system testing in one go

i guess i'm a little confused by the terms. i thought "ossification" was a good thing, and we got a little too in a hurry to implement more functionality.

so , even lightning could go IMO if it would prevent the spam stuff. Buying coffee is not that important if it meant we have to wait another 100 years for better money. And i thought Saylor controversially also failed to publicly support Lightning which was confusing at the time, but in hindsight was a principled stance. Not that i'm worried about lightning--i've read that it can easily be upgraded as channels close to lightning implementations that still work and respect the "money"characteristic of bitcoin.

and Saylor is literally running a company that benefits from bitcoin being money in the best sense. Yes, i know it's in the corrupt, centralized, chokable old system, but all public companies *must* be in that system. I've given up the idea that there is "tokenized" anything that has bitcoin's permissionless properties.

my engineering gut sense for Saylor is still he's an engineer who would rather see something cool working than destroy it for monetary gain

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throwing my thoughts about Matthew Kratter into the same note bc why not:

i love Matthew because he keeps us plebs buying bitcoin instead of Strategy--as they have a moral imperative to do-- AND he makes it easy for Strategy investors to automatically know the worse possible info ASAP.

He's doing feeding two birds with 1 bread crust. easily the most useful youtube channel in bitcoin space right now.

he recently made the point that STRC is unnecessary for institutional adoption because it makes their risk analysis more complicated and it has 80 % retail adoption anyway.

so what i takeaway from that is that Bitcoiner investors have learned that STRC is the best way to preserve dollar-like money in bitcoin.

I love the fact that I have the option to buy STRC and know that it is really bitcoin NOT dollars.

although i'm a masochist bitcoiner and prefer to convert paychecks into bitcoin immediately. I never even thought about a "200 sma".

if it wasn't for masochistic bitcoiners, the 200 sma wouldn't even go up over time. it only goes up so fast because crazy people are buying the tops forever.