No not. Orcas have the greatest of T20 players like Klassen and Warner, they are also a very good team. If I give chance to any of the last three teams standing on the points table... Orcas is my most favourite.

Where do I even begin? I will try to keep individual items short, so as to not blow this post to 10K words, but happy to hash out on separate threads.

While this may mean a few different things, it is most often accompanied by slightly left leaning fantasies as if the introduction of Bitcoin will act as a great equaliser between the man on the street vs the uber-wealthy and a panacea of economic ills (especially for the poor). Nothing could be further from the truth.

If people are unaware of Bitcoin, I see it as my opportunity. So I see no incentive to accelerate the process. I do not orange pill, I do not talk about it to anyone I know, I do not go to Bitcoin conferences or meetups, do not wear a Bitcoin t-shirt. On top of that, people have been kidnapped for private keys/wallet, it seems in France the authorities may even be looking the other way from such crimes, to discourage Bitcoin adoption. So don't go acting like you are a Bitcoin guru at every chance you get, especially for your own safety.

Save a few isolated cases, just...does not...happen...at scale. I remember a YouTube video from a Bitcoin blogger who went to some Philippines island where a shop said they took Bitcoin for payment last year. Asked why not this year, the nonchalant answer (from the owner) was he found it difficult to convert, and forgot some password. This was a year when Bitcoin had a big bull-run, and their peso was going down against USD. He does not want more money, he just wants familiarity. See the previous points, they are related.

Adoption is forced from upward, from the likes of JP Morgan and Blackrock (who get into this for their own selfish reasons). The next door pizza seller? He would adopt when he is forced to sell a large pizza for ~500 sats and rue the day why he laughed out of the room someone who offered ~10,000 sats for the same pizza.

Too many poor people, would rather suffer, watch their savings evaporate and complain, than spending a tiny bit of intellectual horsepower to think and act outside their comfort zone. Their inertia is my opportunity.

All of this stuff, in the end, grounds out in what you think matters. There is no escaping the question, and if you don't explicitly answer it, you discover you've been performing an implicit answer. Safety, status, shits and giggles, domination. Something.

I'm sure of that. I'm unsure to what degree the answers we arrive at are a matter of choice.

Does this book talk about usury? I need more concepts to form a solid conviction regarding the immorality of this practice. In the traditional/fiat banking system, this is very clear since banks have no risk whatsoever when lending money.

is it Mask's dog?

incredible portraits that were even more beautiful and charming in black and white. lots of texture thanks to these cuties, congratulations.

Another win for the good guys.

Thank you Mr. Satoshi

Most people are still just winging it and playing it by ear. The class clown slingshotting boogers at the teacher, he's still out there, also winging it. There won't be a definitive moment when you just know "how to adult". Also don't ever say "adulting" shit is cringe.

These are the kinds of questions I have been recently trying to explore with The Transformation of Value through the 3 themes of Freedom, Money, and Creativity.

Revolutions and zeitgeists have a visual and literary cultural element intertwined with them that goes beyond simply talking "about the thing" to instead expressing the human experience of that thing and its aspirations in a much more subtle way.

Why did Soviet Constructivism art look the way it did?

What do you think of when you hear 1980s popular music? What made it sound that way? What about the 1990s? Why did Taxi Driver or The French Connection come out in the 1970s and not the 1960s?

Why did the 1920s and 1930s have an art deco style of architecture?

Could Neuromancer or Snow Crash have been written any earlier?

If you think about the cultural artefacts they are always a "product of their time" and that means they feed into whatever changes are taking place.

For us, I think the broader cultural questions of money, sovereignty, freedom, the state, the transition into new political systems etc will begin to emerge not through the representative artwork of "21 million Bitcoins" or "songs about orange" but in subtle nods to a spirit of revolution, of saying "fuck off" to the Government, of opting-out from the system of citizen and government that has dominated for a hundred years.

I look forward to seeing films, architecture, music that is clearly and undoubtedly of the times of Bitcoin, but may never even mention the B word.

How Do Economic Forces Shape Cities? With Paul Knight The Ghost in the Shell: Having Voice in the Age of Silence with Cody Ellingham

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We need more moonshots in this world too many safe bets.

I confess, if my portfolio allocation were discovered it would be scandalous

I don't know. I think it's just a starting point. Some will begin trying to understand it further and get into self-custody.

Noted