Nice try, IRS...

Any kind of contraceptives!

Having learned seven languages in my life so far, two of which I speak at a very high level of proficiency, one which I'm quite good at, and three where I can get through some conversation and small talk, and lastly Italian that I started to learn nine month ago 🇮🇹

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At tage tyren ved hornene... It's Danish and it literally means to grap the bull by the horns

The meaning: resolutely doing something that requires that you overcome your fears

Thanks for the replies. Zapped both of you. v4v

Being responsible for my four children alone for a week has made me very humble towards all mothers and single parents. What a walking proof of wotk they are!

I don't think this conclusion is correct:

"In essence, the decline in birth rates is not a consequence of individual choice or even culture but a byproduct of a kleptocratic monetary system that has made child-rearing unaffordable."

Culture has a huge impact as well. As with the year 1971 in financial terms, you can look at the years in the 1960s where the contraceptive pill entered the market, and then you take a look at birth rates in the decades before and after!

Economic incentives may help a little in terms of increasing birth rates, but even though France and Germany have quite high rates of financial support for children, and schools and health care are free (paid through taxes), the birth rates is still below the level of 2.1 child per woman.

Though you may not like the analysis of Mary Eberstadt in her book, Adam and Eve after the pill, I think it's worth listening very carefully. It takes a culture the values the self-gift of parenthood and especially motherhood much higher to turn numbers around...!

As far as I know, the situation is similar in Lebanon. People take whatever currency they can get, but they by far prefer USDT, because it's easier to familiarize yourself with something that comes close to the USD...

I'm even hesitant to use greetings like GM or GN since they also give information regarding the time zone you live in... So yeah, I value my privacy

Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov

I'm on vacation, that is on a data plan, so I'm not logging into nostr for another week. But I noticed that btc is on sale right now... Does anybody have an idea why?

Before buying a Google Pixel 6a I was considering getting a Fairphone to use it with LineageOS. That might be a viable way to go for you?

The rules built into the bitcoin software: difficulty adjustment, mining rewards, block size, etc.

I don't agree. Bitcoiners make up a very strong hermeneutical community that interpret money by the same unchanging rules. Of course, you may interpret money in any fashion you like, but if you want to belong to this community and share it's interpretation if the world of money, you have to abide to the community rules!

It's not just a problem of not being able to predict the future, it is at least as big a problem to interpret the present. Every understanding of the present is necessary just a point of view, taken from a certain perspective and based on a limited amount of data. So we all interpret. What makes bitcoin so incredibly strong is that it is basically a community of people who - at least with regard to money - follow the same hermeneutic rules, and since these kind of hermeneutic communities is the most close you can come to a truth claim, the undebatable nature of these are a really strong selling point!

I was the one who got orange pilled