reply on: Stacker Saloon \ stacker news

327 sats \ 18 replies \ @ek 11 Mar \ on: Stacker Saloon

I'm slowly but surely getting sick of all these "bitcoin memes" like 1 sat = 1 sat.¹

People just apply it to everything now. Like yeah, we get it. Bitcoin supply is fixed.

Doesn't mean you can now just use "1 sat = 1 sat" as the answer to everything. You can't use one true statement in one context and apply it in a completely different context and still believe you just said something that's true and clever. You only disqualified yourself from the discussion.

I feel like I read too much from @elvismercury.

Thanks to ordinals, one could argue that's not even true anymore ↩

549 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 11 Mar

Memes are great advertising, but when you start making arguments based on advertising things go poorly.

Doesn't mean the memes aren't true. Besides I really enjoy bitcoin's meme world. Bitcoin fixes evil aliens and holding your own keys is sexy.

123 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 11 Mar

Yeah, it feels as if we want to educate the whole world how to be sovereign but we don't even trust them with understanding arguments not based on memes. I thought we wanted to build a new, different system and not enslave people in a new system of idiocracy.

145 sats \ 2 replies \ @elvismercury 11 Mar

Update: I think I might have just crossed over and have become so tired of this that I won't even fight it anymore. Everyone who takes the other side is either un-serious or delusional, and there's no point arguing with either.

Pointless arguing on the internet is something I would like to go to zero in my own life.

108 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 12 Mar

and there's no point arguing with either.

It surely seems like it but I feel like there must be some more effective angle. A common technique is to only let them talk by asking questions which at some point lead to some contradiction which should make them think. It just feels I haven't gotten good enough at it yet.

Pointless arguing on the internet is something I would like to go to zero in my own life.

Me too but sometimes, you just can't help but get your hopes up high that "this time is going to be different". But time is definitely spent better writing longer, thought-provoking posts than replying in some random thread to some random dude. It has more reach and is more convincing. I try to write longer posts to balance stuff like this and this out.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 13 Mar

It's as good a strategy as exists, but it presupposes people actually care about the truth and are trying to understand the world. If you're not discussing in good faith, there is no value in engaging.

I'm not here to fuck spiders, mate :)

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @elvismercury 11 Mar

Haha, I was cheering halfway through your msg.

25 sats \ 7 replies \ @Fabs 11 Mar

You know what's worse, fren?

The "Bitcoin fixes this" crowd, which likes to slap that as a bandaid onto any criticism or "problem" they deem worthy of said bandaid. It's pathetic.