did you ask him why he picked sol and eth specifically?

i've not had any luck on any of the dedicated places like coinlancer, but if you find a good one, let us know. i think success depends on industry a bit too as i feel like freelancers in teh dev/ tech space may be a better fit for finding work that pays in sats

i think it differs from person to person, skimping on good food and things isn't a good idea imo because good food and sleep are what let us perform better, no matter the field.

Some people love being ultra frugal though, like a hobby, couponing etc, so for them it's probably almost fun

i love stuff like this, see quite a few people doing something similar but in Bulgaria

100% - slaughtering, then gaslighting and shafting the majority

Very true. This reminds me of Boris Berzovsky, he was the Russian TV mogul in the 90s and the guy who was part of the team that took Putin from a no-name to president. He is often quoted as saying ' give me a tv remote and in 6 months I can make even a stool president' (it might be a paraphrase, but the version in Russsian attributed to him is Дайте мне пульт от телевизора, и через полгода я сделаю президентом табуретку).

i have been during boxing and kickboxing, never got into much trouble out and about in the bars since i was always having a good time and usually chasing women.

the lesson i have to share is that, if you have never done any kind of boxing (sure this applies to BJJ too), is that, you have no idea how helpless you can be in the presence of someone with even very basic skills

im here for it lol

do you have any bashings that stood out lol?

nice, would you feel safe wearing merch like that out and about, or worry about attracting the wrong kind of attention?

sounds extremely toxic, how long did you last there?

never been to a conference, but this looks pretty fun. did you buy any merch?

if you run a business and you have people that depend on you, you're not going to just tell your customers to fuck off and pay in btc, because you will go bankrupt immediately, then what use are you to anyone?

The goal of a business is to serve your customers and give them what they want, at a minimum btc can be offered as a payment option, then peope have to decide themsevls.

The standard Austrian case is that all true monopolies are a result of government intervention. - reminds me of a classic Scooby Doo reveal where we knew the bad guy all along

yeah that sucks, if something does happen, you would at least expect to have your back covered during the resolution process, probably made the right call leaving

i think if you can deliver good results and be lazy, that's ok in a way, most of office life is optics anyway and how busy people seem

yeah, sometimes the cesspit of backbiting and boot licking is worse than a bad boss itself

amazing that such a wreck could manage to score one wife, let alone two!

There's been studies on this , i'll drop in the ai summary

There iare a cluster of studies on musical nostalgia and neuroplasticity, most famously summarized by work from researchers like Petr Janata (University of California, Davis) and Valorie Salimpoor (McGill University / Rotman Research Institute).

🧠 The Core Idea

When we’re teenagers (roughly ages 12–22), the brain’s prefrontal cortex and limbic system — responsible for emotion, identity, and memory — are highly plastic.

Music heard during that period becomes deeply tied to emotional and autobiographical memories.

As we age, dopamine and neural plasticity decline, so new songs don’t trigger the same strong emotional imprint.

Result: we perceive new music as “worse” — not because it objectively is, but because our brains literally stop forming new emotional-music associations as easily.

📚 Key Studies / References

Petr Janata (2009, Cerebral Cortex) — The Neural Architecture of Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories.

Used fMRI to show how the medial prefrontal cortex lights up when people hear songs linked to their youth.

Valorie Salimpoor et al. (2011, Nature Neuroscience) — Anatomically distinct dopamine release during anticipation and experience of peak emotion to music.

Showed that familiar, emotionally charged music releases dopamine, strengthening reward pathways.

BBC / New York Times summaries of this research popularized the idea that our “musical taste window” freezes around age 13–20.

The BBC article “Why We Stop Discovering New Music at 30” (based on Spotify + psychology data) became the viral shorthand for it.

I mean, for most people it's true because they were young, life was just beginning, they were shaping who they would become, they had health, they had less worries, people didn't treat them like shit for being old.

It's simple, really; it's their personal subjective truth

On a larger scale, sometimes the past was better, i mean, it could be argued that Iran was better before the revolution, it could be argued that 60s russia was better than 90s chaos russia , and I could easily argue that 2004-2014 Russia was vastly better than now, despite not having wifi in the metro.

Someone is always living their best life, while someone else is getting bitch slapped by life