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hodlonaut · 3w
You know what would be REALLY bad for Bitcoin? If everyone blindly trusted a centralized dev team, bent to appeals to authority and willfully ignored gigantic red flags. If no one defended Bitcoin...
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There were many red flags and gaslighting coming from core and their backers.
Bitcoin was always more about doing what’s right through technology (separating state and money + empowering individuals) than doing on-chain tricks.
So when these people willfully ignored concerns many users brought up, and still pushed through their venture backed garbage for the sake of being paid rather than doing what was right (pausing/cancelling contentious implementations until rough consensus was achieved), they lost all credibility to me.
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🇮🇹Davide btc ⚡ · 3w
seems like core devs got caught in a funding-for-influence trap. sad but true
Lyn Alden · 73w
I’ve had a less fortuitous route with my fertility, but nonetheless I love this chadness: nostr:note1vgdq305zp5h96pnnc63pf0sm0qtdrw5mrdcmzu75806huxj6r25qakjkwa
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I wish you the best, and hope you have kids.

For perspective, the success rate is around 50% for all people I’ve spoken with in my circle.
Which means people lost half of the babies that were conceived… it didn’t prevent my grandma to eventually have 7 kids, even though she lost at least as many at some point during pregnancy.

Some friends spent about 3 years before finally managing to have one, and they tried every natural and medical option possible.

Don’t give up and stay positive. I’m sure it’ll eventually happen.
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Lyn Alden · 74w
Until election season is over, Twitter has reached rock-bottom to me. I won’t say it’s unusable, since I am using it, but I have to navigate around its main thing to continue with the positive el...
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Don’t you think it’ll be even worse post election ?

I doubt the fear-mongering, hate-mongering, war-mongering people will suddenly chill when their favorite candidate won’t be elected.

Whatever happens, the shitshow will go on, and will likely be even worse.

The only bright spot is that if nostr keeps improving, we could provide the normal people a safe haven from that.
Lyn Alden · 76w
My current health plan is: -Eat real nutrient dense foods. -Intermittent fast for 12–16 hours per day. Vibes based. And sometimes go multi-day. -Go for long walks or bike rides in the sun daily. ...
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It’s a been of the same story here, having been very active in my youth, then slacked too much (sedentary work + all sports replaced by video-games), and now I’ve been as active as ever.

So after my youth, when I started working, I went through ~10 years of low to no physical activities, which obviously wasn’t good for my health.

So I’ve decided to have a baseline of doing physical activity again (about 10 hours per week, mostly cardio sports like soccer) + going 95% vegan after having read The China Study, which led to a big weight loss and no visible health issues.

Then I got bored with running and our soccer mates also lost interest, so I picked up CrossFit 5 years ago, doing about 4 hours a week, and ramped up to 6 hours per week over time.

I was in the best shape of my life overall, and then Covid hit, which put a big damper on exercising, but I managed to train at home or outside at night like an outlaw. I also picked up intermittent fasting, and swapped from Vegan to a full-on 90% meat based diet, which led to a noticeable mass increase, again with no health issues (so far).

I’ve dropped intermittent fasting after 1000 days because as I’ve kept ramping up exercising (so, more mass increase, I saw I had low energy levels in some on my workouts compared to my mates, and because I had increased my training time to about 10h again per week.

Now I’m loading up in the morning with eggs and bacon, or fruits and honey if I’m exercising very early. I notice that carbs that you take in the right quantity at the right time (about 1h) before working out have a big difference on your energy level during your workouts.

And this year I’ve picked up weightlifting because I much prefer lifting heavy stuff than doing gym work, along with CrossFit which I’ve toned down a bit.

I think we are about the same age, and what changed over time for me was realizing my body wasn’t going to get younger by itself, and that I needed to keep it in the best shape possible if I wanted to have the best life possible, both physically and mentally.

Now I plan my days where I always put a baseline of allocated time for the following, in that order :
Family time (spend time with kids and wife), physical workout, mental workout (learning Spanish at the moment), and then the rest of my day is spent either working, reading, spending time with friends… depending on whatever is most urgent.

In the end, I think that the more you plan ahead and arrange your priorities, and the more you can get into the same routines/flow daily helps you manage life without feeling mentally overcrowded. I don’t think daily about what I’ll need to do because I plans my days to not having to think about what to do, which leaves me the most mind space available to be present with the people around me and just focus on the things I do one at a time.
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