This is how far we've fallen.

"BTC-only" is correct 99% of the time. But being right for the wrong reasons 99% of the time means that 1% of the time you throw the baby out with the bathwater - a catastrophic result.

If the heuristic keeps you safe as an individual but collectively guarantees the worst possible outcome, your heuristic isn't safe. It's an extinction cult.

This is underappreciated in the retro gaming community.

In 2026, "permissionless DeFi" means chasing single digit yields while risking 100% loss because freedom.

Wow I can't believe someone invested six months worth of effort and $1MM of their own funds to steal $238 Million from Drift.

Or

Wow I can't believe devs installed random stuff from third parties on the same devices they used for a $500MM multisig.

Is there a Solana delegation here in Nostr land?

When your brain is flooded with ambiguous, high-stakes data, the mind rapidly reinterprets the strange lights, shape, or motion as something familiar and less worldview-shattering such as a weather phenomenon (safe natural explanation), because accepting the truly alien would demand far more cognitive and emotional effort than pattern-matching it to known categories.