Fast food restaurants can't compete at these prices. Think about some options:

Sorry, Chipotle loses every time.

Oh well! Let's be honest, we all should've been eating more ground beef, eggs, and rice all along.

All my snippy proverbs come true sooner or later.

Congrats! 👍

Having the option to mask up if I don't care to be filmed by 10,000 cameras 🎥 is nice. It was only annoying when they wanted to require them.

What are your plans for growing Alby as a business over the next few years? How do you intend to motivate other Bitcoiners (and current nocoiners) to adopt Alby?

This is a tragic side effect of being a Boomer.

Mozart says he conceived of musical pieces as a single whole in one great moment of insight, then only copied into writing what he'd heard in his head.

I don't believe him for a second.

So there I was enjoying my time offline when I heard "grumblings and rumors of war" from the online world, so I'm back online for a while now. Every time everyone is panicking is a good time to get work done.

Hypnosis is the right word for it. It's shocking just how effective a tablet or smartphone is at “quieting” a kid… and not at all in a good way. Do parents have any idea what's being done to their minds?

Bitcoin Company is the one I use more, both for its available brands and satback rewards. Bitrefill is nice though, I use both liberally depending on what needs buying.

Dang that's cool, you made the thread that got DarthCoin's origin story

Yea that surprised me too. Bru seems like he's been here for years.

The rest I'll give you, but not the ☕️

Understandable for fiat bros, but if you're a Bitcoiner... I mean damn, at least send 10 sats right?

Writing about the impact of microprocessing on Karl Marx's economic models. Just a normal day 🥳

Also, the last president, Ceren, is up on corruption charges.

Just like the president before him, who fled the country years ago.

And just like the president before that one https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/el-salvador-police-arrest-former-president-tony-saca-n675656

And just like the president before that one https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-29288915.

Yes that's correct @Undisciplined, @elvismercury—every Salvadoran present over the last 20 years has been charged with corruption, arrested, or fled the country to avoid the same. Salvadoran people think Funes faked his death to avoid arrest and is living large somewhere 🤷

He's only credited in El Salvador with shutting down the Maras during his presidency, i.e., in the last few years. Salvadorans don't actually give a shit about the "declining murder rate" in 2016/2017/2018 because they were still being killed (it was only declining relative to 2015) and because they hated the government for negotiating treaties with the gangs instead of actually dealing with them.

Since Bukele actually dealt with them, he's credited for that.

The decline in murders that happened while he was mayor of San Sal (the capitol city) was a very relative thing. It was relative to the absolute murder storm in 2015, when the city and really whole nation was paralyzed for a while under waves of attacks, but murders didn't decline to anything near what a functional nation could consider acceptable. El Salvador at the time was simply not a functional nation, though.

Ever see The Wire?

Politicians in Baltimore, just like politicians in El Salvador, gamed the murder rate to maintain their credibility. The murder rate would drop when the governments made agreements with the gang leaders, and that's why it "dropped" under Sanchez Ceren. However, the gangs still held power over Salvadoran neighborhoods during those truces, and still murdered each other and people who wouldn't pay them "rent" (extortion).

The guy I work with in El Salvador was paying almost half his $700/month salary to MS-13, for the entire period I've worked with him (since 2007) and would've been killed if he'd refused to pay, truce or no truce—he just wouldn't been added to the "acceptable murder rate" statistics.

When I first bought BTC I thought it was anonymous once I moved it off the exchange. 😀

(Shut up, it was okay to be an idiot in 2017) (😔)

No, Bukele wasn't really elected on an anti-gang platform, but on anti-corruption. The presidents before him made treaties with the gangs to keep the homicide rates at politically acceptable levels, while keeping crime out of the “good neighborhoods.”

The gangs always used murder and large-scale attacks as a political tactic to influence the government (in the USA we would call this "domestic terrorism"). When they tried this under Bukele's administration, and killed 80+ Salvadorans in multiple attacks over a single day, he issued a state of emergency and deployed the military to (finally) end them.