What about people in your church?

I'm not even sure we know what a monopoly is anymore...

Ha, no. Use neither. Observer....

Oh brother

Indeed. But the irony to me is the "unintended" consequence of this dumb monopoly case against Google might actually kill the only real competitor in the market for browsers.

Not a fan of these state attempts to "fight" monopoly. Its laughable.

This wouldn't surprise me and its terrible. As a follower of Christ it seems to me that we have become far to influenced by the world around us instead of being the influence. Many might agree with that statement but I probably mean it in a much more broad sense than most. Things like this, the way churches are operated more like businesses. They ways the churches have subjugated themselves to governments in areas of charity and community. We need to wake up and realize that we are supposed to be the salt of the earth. Not a bland version of it that chases its approval.

The value you provide to SN is massive @siggy47. I was hoping for a comment like this.

Here's the video of a ChatGPT prayer

Yet another example of a culture based in lies

I hope you're wrong but you could be right.

I like the forgiveness but I don't like the way people frame the fake video. Its not the man. We don't know the man. I support freedom so if these people wanna do this cool for them but I reject the idea that this is "his words".

Edit: I would like to see/hear what the family said. They can speak for themselves. I would never want my family to do something like this. Its like paying an impersonator to say words my family would think I would say.

I've seen some people use ChatGPT to write prayers. It can write great "sounding" prayers. But they have no heart. There is no person with emotion and feeling behind it. Its no different than a sociopath hypocrite praying.

The more AI is used the more there will be a backlash and desire for real things. That's gonna be the swing back.

Great way of framing it.

I agree. The only hope is if people (the market) demand different meat. Right now its just hipsters and the wealthy. I've been buying direct as much as I can from regen ranches and farms for the last 4-5 years now. The quality is so much better.

And that is how we win this. These lab grown and feed lot methods are not only bad quality but bad for our local environments. Sustainable farming is not just not bad, it can improve the local environments. That's on top of the quality improvement.

The nut jobs that think meat is the problem aren't the real problem though. Its fiat driving people to the lowest margin products. Money is the motivator for all of this IMO.

Pisses me off and I have to step away from thinking about it to much. Its so obvious to me and so not obvious to most people. The centrality of the fiat system wrecking so much of our world and cultures.

The problem is.... statism. Indeed.

Every chance I get I remind people that we are being robbed. We aren't paying anything. We are being robbed.

Yeah, I think @SimpleStacker is right. I will say this. The dollar will die, gradually and then suddenly.

When I started my Strategic Bitcoin Reserve no one wrote about it...

OR we could use sustainable farming techniques... I do not like this one bit.

Interesting to watch this unfold. I don't know enough to know who is winning but its fascinating.

Yeah, I don't disagree provided they will move the bitcoin. That's the specific scenario I'm thinking of. If you refuse to custody and will never change your mind (impossible to know I guess) then the ETF might be more safe. Might be...

That said I have never recommended the ETF to anyone other than someone that had money in a tax advantaged account and didn't want to move to Unchained or cash it out.

I should narrow what I'm thinking here and I could be wrong.

Here's where that is coming from. The legal protections of funds on an exchange I believe are weaker than the protections of an ETF. There's a much higher standard to get an ETF approved vs. starting up an exchange. Some of this is offset if you use Coinbase since most of the ETFs use Coinbase but it Coinbase goes belly up you better believe the ETFs get more attention than some pleb with 50 million sats on an account.

The trade-off though is that you can very easily take custody of your bitcoin if it is on an exchange and you can't with an ETF. And I would never suggest someone that wants to get into bitcoin buy the ETF. But I would also never say buy bitcoin on Coinbase and leave it there...

Additionally not all exchanges are equal so that's not fair of me. Coinbase is likely much better than some random exchange that started last week.

I mean... I'm friendly but maintaining an actual relationship beyond employment requires effort from both people. Rarely happens. I think it all depends on how you define the borders of what a friend is.