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The story of you with your estranged friend is pretty sad. I'm an oldish, pretty mellow dude, who keeps himself to himself. That sort of hostility in real life just seems weird. Sure, I find it funny here (with ol' Darth) but in real life it's not good to see.

Sometimes people dig themselves in a hole - and just keep on digging.

He didn't sound like he'd done his homework, so to speak, and thought he'd bash you with something he'd copied. Both your ex friend and the altcoin creator.

For me even slightly forcing something onto someone else rarely equals to anything but being confrontational and therefore counterproductive. So I just try not to do it.

What seems missing, for me, is that sense of curiosity.

This sense of curiosity and sharing to find an answer is what makes me admire the FOSS, art and skateboarding communities (from a distance).

Although relatively old, but surely not as old as Sigl, I can't help but be curious about everything and with it, maybe retained a younger heart (probably Sig too).

I once got into a darkened cab, had a great conversation and really late in the conversation twigged my age I guess after assuming that I was much younger.

Sadly many of our role models, whether fictional or real (sometimes our real ones have only fictional ones to imprint on themselves) and with it, they come out pretty flat and act a role rather than become themselves.

I 'grew up' in a DIY culture - not just the toolbox type, but also a pretty DIY punk one too. I helped set up a club.

Growing up in a DIY culture, you can try many things for size and adapt - and make your own things until they work.

However, the reverse can be true too. I've seen many come unstuck with a drug, new friends or an idea that's truly off the wall.

I can't say my own role models have been conventional - I guess I've been lucky that I've come through it unscathed.

If you've no truly loving conventional role models - one could face a treacherous path ahead - that of having to use your friends as role models and to them you. Truly a scary prospect.

I'll get out of this cab here at this corner - I'll stretch my legs...how much I owe ya? Nice meeting ya bud. Don't worry, keep the change.

[Door opens, light goes on] 💀😵...

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 7 Dec 2023

This sense of curiosity and sharing to find an answer is what makes me admire the FOSS, art and skateboarding communities (from a distance).

This!

I am actually meeting an old friend soon. We used to be something like best friends in school and university but then I switched university, moved cities and got interested in bitcoin. Started to run a node with a raspberry pi 3 since that's what I already had even though everyone in the raspiblitz group told me, good luck, you'll need it / you're ngmi. Without really explaining why but I guess they were also sick of new people at that time haha. I think it was at the start of the last bull run.

But I was just a poor student so I tried anyway and synced the chain for two weeks just for the pi to freeze regularly afterwards, lol

I tried to talk to some friends including this one but everyone seemed so... not interested? Didn't even ask any questions. Everyone was like: cool story bro. Now want to play some Starcraft or Age of Empires with us?

I couldn't wrap my mind around why people are not as intrigued as I am. I didn't even have someone to talk to to get so intrigued! I just watched some YT videos and then read the bitcoin standard and then I was like:

Holy shit. This is it. This is what I need to do in life... Or is it? I need to find out more to make sure...

...

Anyway. I plan to ask this friend (he also seems to have changed a lot over time and we talked recently and we realized we really missed each other, haha) what he thinks is the thing where our interests are the farthest away but it's now flipped: it's something that he is interested in. And then we'll see if I am really not or only little interested in it.

I'm looking forward to this, I think even just asking someone this is going to be very interesting in and off itself :)

483 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 7 Dec 2023

Nice you can meet up with your school friend. There's something cozy and reliable about this as you get older - you can see and know that person really well. When we meet up, we also try not to talk about Starcraft or Age of Empires, but instead try and remember how many grandchildren they have.

They probably know about the games though - as I do.

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