162 sats \ 17 replies \ @CruncherDefi 25 Aug 2023 \ on: The perils of sleeping with your iPhone tech
Do we really want to associate bitcoiners with this kind of content?
”WE” = RED FLAG
We are not a collective hive mind.
This is a VOLUNTARY collection of individuals who recognize each other’s RIGHT to free speech.
Thanks to the owners of this forum, but if it went down tomorrow all future content would be moved to nostr and will never be censored.
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It's pretty clear they are trying to chase us away from our gathering places and place traps and snares in our path. I'm starting to get really ornery about all this. This is not the world I was born into. The children born since about 1990 are extremely feeble minded, unable to make decisions or judgements by themselves. They are teaching them to be sheep, like never before in history.
It's clearly correct what the article says. One of the funny things is that I've been saying to myself for years "I want to get rid of this phone"... nearly 20 years I have been living with this shit and hating it. I'm not just following along, I literally almost ditched my phone altogether but then I need it to organise a migration. So again it is active, but I'm now putting my phone inside a faraday cage at night. I can feel it fucking with my sleep.
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I unironically use wifi calling and turn off the cell radio whenever I have wifi
(2G only at home)
I was born after 1990 and while I do not have children yet, I intend to home-school them.
Education is the thing, no one can teach you how to learn except your parents or close family friends, government schools teach you to be a slave.
We are the remnant, the tyrants will fall.
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Bitcoiners are necessarily freedom maximalists. And that especially includes freedom of speech.
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Oh he has freedom of speech to say that. And my freedom of speech lets me say he's deranged
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And my freedom of speech lets me say that calling someone insane only shows how brainwashed one is.
When my only social media is nostr and my nostr client respects my full control and serves me instead of idiot ideas like calling wanting to be healthy and free insane, well, I won't miss people like you. Nor you us, but hey what do I care?
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I know... I saw a few episodes of Black Mirror the other day. What's funny is that I was reading stories like those in the early 80s at the library, and all the normies thought I was a freak. And now, even as it clearly provides an illustration of the consequences of many idiotic ideas like reputation scores and constant media capture and the alienation of simulation technology and immediately forget what they just saw and happily bend over and let Big Brother even as far as mandate injection of mysterious fluids with zero adequate medical tests being done, and insanity that would make Mengele and Goebbells proud.
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Any doubt what the Apple logo is all about? “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Yeah, surely Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were thinking about satan 40 years ago in their garage when creating their enterprise xDDD
Generally, the further in the article, the less reasonable it gets. 'The god is coming to help us' at the end is a cherry on top lol.
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Of course, you have a better explanation for why the apple with a bite out of it, and the original rainbow over it that has no reference to the bible, don't you, come on, give it to us since you seem to know!
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Of course, you have a better explanation for why the apple with a bite out of it
Not that I need to provide any 'better' explanation (because its you who are challenging the null hypothesis, not me) but sure. Lets play that game. What about:
"No specific reason at all, they randomly thought of apple because it was laying on the table or something. They laughed, they liked it and they went with it".
I really recommend applying Hanlon's razor to not overthink things: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
(To be more serious though, the bite part is to make it look like apple, without the bite it can be confused with other fruits)
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(To be more serious though, the bite part is to make it look like apple, without the bite it can be confused with other fruits)
Apple, pear, plum, peach... I must be insane if I think that thing on the top left is an apple, right?
Asserting you are claiming to have superior knowledge in a sarcastic way has nothing to do with argumentation or fallacy. And your further remarks stating that the apple is not distinctive without the bite is absurd, and you know it.
I don't think Hanlon's razor is a good rule to live by, far more potent a logical razor is Occam's razor, which states that the simplest explanation is probably correct.
Hanlon was clearly a dupe. Attributing error to malice is a safer call in all cases. Better to avoid someone than risk them proving you wrong (about your suspicion).
As for the apple, the bite and the rainbow, the apple is called Malus, the acid in it is called malic acid, which is from the old latin which means "evil" and "small". It has a 5 pointed star, in section through the centre where the seeds are, and has been associated with the devil and the story in Genesis 3 for hundreds of years.
And maybe there is no irony in this at all, really, that the entire theme of that chapter is precisely deception, that is used to trick people into poisoning themselves.
I could talk about some other theories about the identity of that fruit, or the fact that the Pentateuch predates Judaism (it's derivative of Sumerian and Phonecian mythology). But I think it's enough to say that there is nothing innocent about the meaning of that logo. No different to the extensive set of set of symbols used by Google for their various logos that are taken straight out of babylonian, phonecian, sumerian and other mythologies that are associated with what the Jews, Muslims and Christians all associate with Satan, or if you prefer more original names, Chronus or Saturn depending on which side of the mediterranean we are talking.
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It's like a case study in mental illness. Unfortunately, bitcoiners are deep in it, maybe necessarily -- the membrane between understanding the critical consequences of high-impact choices that nobody really notices (e.g., fiat), and a lunatic world where everyone is a criminal mastermind trying to control your dreams and enslave you, is thin and permeable.
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Was thinking this but was also thinking why anyone needs to worry about association.
I have a hard time when conclusions beyond the observable are reached. Mass-formation-psychosis? But to rail against connecting dots or to rail against religion, from an a secular viewpoint is self-defeating when you are yourself amongst a minority group in the world.
It is hard to convince the convinced that all they need to do to guard their freedom and liberty is to follow the money.
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Defi? Really you think you have identity with the group who run and mostly populate this site with content? "we"?
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wdym? bitcoiners are too great to sleep with their phones?
bitcoiners are just humans, too
disclaimer: i didn't read the article
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