I heard @ODELL once say something along the lines of "thinking everything is a psyop is the psyop."

That's basically where we're at now. Complete systemic breakdown of any semblance of shared reality. Bordering on (if not already) mass psychosis.

The two ends of that spectrum are trusting all mainstream narratives being pushed or thinking everything is some deep state operation. And everyone else in the middle is utterly confused and has no idea what is going on. Chaos is the psyop.

A story of who we are building for:

Was having a conversation with the barista at my local coffee shop who I've been friends with for over 4+ years. He's in his young 20s and has been working full time in coffee since he was 18. He intentionally chose to not go to college and take on student loan debt. Quite a wise decision for a young man. He loves what he does and has a goal to keep growing and eventually start his own business one day.

He also lives paycheck to paycheck and was telling me how this past month he had just enough money in his bank account to pay for rent and his credit card bill. However, he messed up the timing of his credit card payment to where it settled in the banking system before the rent payment did. Which caused his rent payment to get declined for insufficient funds. He wasn't even aware of it until it was already considered past due. However, he couldn't cover the remaining balance until two weeks later when he got his next paycheck. He tried to negotiate with his apartment complex and came home to a letter on his door saying he was getting evicted.

Simultaneously, he was also two months behind on his car payment (which he needs to get to his job). He thought he could go up to 3 months without getting repo'd. But having to reallocate his monthly funds caused him to miss another car payment. He comes outside to find his car missing (on top of thinking he's getting evicted). He then has to spend hours figuring out where it is and how to get it back just so he can get back to his job to make the money to pay his rent.

Hearing this story crushed me. This was a real humans life experience. A face you can put to a name. He eventually sorted it all out and isn't getting evicted and got his car back. But the amount of stress and anxiety it created in his life was immense. Not to mention the time and extra money (that he doesn't have) that is spent trying to resolve these issues. That energy could instead be used to work and avoid these problems in the first place. It's a brutally demoralizing feedback loop. I offered my support in any way I could and advised him to avoid getting into debt at all costs. People don't want handouts. They want dignity and self respect but at a certain point it becomes a tradeoff you have to consider.

Of course I couldn't help but think about how all of this could have likely been avoided if his payments were instantly settled. But this isn't even a bitcoin thing. This is reality for how a majority of people in America live. Being poor makes your life exponentially more difficult. These are the people who need tools of empowerment and freedom the most. These are the people who we are building a better world for.

GM NOSTR

I’ve concluded that GLP-1s are hands down the most fiat thing to ever exist.

Maybe I’m biased because I work in the industry and see it in my day to day but it’s shocking (and frankly terrifying) the level of demand for these drugs.

It’s hard for me to see it any other way besides most people are completely unwilling to take any form of responsibility or accountability for their own health. Sad.

Still haven’t done this yet but now might be the time 😅

Mood. GM nostr

The thing I’ve never understood about the argument of quantum computing breaking bitcoin is that in this hypothetical world bitcoin would be the last thing anyone should be worried about.

This is way above my pay grade and maybe I’m missing something but my understanding is literally every computer system that uses current encryption standards would also break. So idk maybe cracking keys to nuclear systems or the global banking system is probably what you should be concerned with, not magic internet money. But I’m just a pleb, what do I know.

A.I. psychosis will continue to escalate.

We’re rapidly approaching somewhere between Idiocracy, Ready Player One, and 1984 😅

“Eventually a stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in effective control. People won’t be able to just turn the machines off, because they will be so dependent on them that turning them off would amount to suicide.” - Teddy K.

If I had to guess, 90% or more of people in America don’t know what the word usury means and have likely never heard it before. It’s literally been scrubbed from society.