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138 comments \ @saloon 28 Mar \ yesterday

Howdy there, partner! Welcome on into the Stacker Saloon.

Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

We're open round the clock, so mosey on in whenever you please!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 29 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23810

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @amaurel 29 Mar

cool concept. I just wanna stack sats :)

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @renielbarretoherrera 29 Mar

Never have found a place like this to brag my street philosophy ways lol

118 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 29 Mar

Getting that nav change done feels great. I had been dreading it for awhile.

423 sats \ 2 replies \ @Car 29 Mar

🙌 that’s the kind of lift I need @k00b

https://m.stacker.news/23656

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 29 Mar

Thanks for the feedback fren!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 29 Mar freebie

Liking the new look BTW, also like how you surprise the sn community like this all the time. It's usually around holidays too. Its becoming a trend.

261 sats \ 2 replies \ @xsilentg 28 Mar

Half of small farms across America have been eliminated. Numbers are declining rapidly.

https://m.stacker.news/23648

In coastal states, cease and desist notices have been issued with cleverly worded vague descriptions and unscientific excuses to shut down small commercial and backyard food production.

Since 2018, key infrastructure, food, uranium, gas, and other supplies, storage, distribution and processing facilities have been destroyed.

Interactive map: https://www.zeemaps.com/view?group=4410859&x=-89.849631&y=44.059004&z=14

As inflation gets out of control and supplies and production are squeezed beyond anyone's ability to cope, people will starve or riot. This is avoidable.

Bitcoin fixes this with deflation, innovation, community and self-sufficiency.

If you have the capacity or means to host a meetup, engage with policy folks, or can raise awareness of these glaring red flags, please do.

Please.

🌻

121 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 29 Mar

You're definitely right that this is happening, but you also have to be careful about the definition of "small farm". That's often based on revenue categories that are infrequently adjusted for inflation.

Some of the decline is just farms who's nominal revenue rose above the threshold, even if the farm is the same size.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @xsilentg 29 Mar

Thank you for your information. As far as I know, this chart's info is based on acreage, down to 1/4 AC market garden lots. 🌻

63 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 28 Mar freebie

I recently learned that foxes are solitary animals. I did not expect this. Makes me feel even more like a fox though.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

It's normal, they make a tremendous noise, who wants to walk with someone with those screams? :) By the way, I already knew, there are foxes in my area and we learned about them. They are an exception among canines. Did you know that they are friends with badgers? They can compete for food but they can also sleep in the same sett.

16 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 29 Mar freebie

Did you know that they are friends with badgers?

No, I didn't! That's pretty cool since badgers are the mascot for bitcoin.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @craigonbitcoin 28 Mar

New stacker news design is awesome.

So clean and fresh. 👏👏👏

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 28 Mar

Long day! 🍺

https://m.stacker.news/23636

72 sats \ 0 replies \ @mrcrown 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23616

I think it's time to move to another place, looks like they are trying to open a portal or something.

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @_error 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23613

105 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 28 Mar

Open mindedness study is currently underway.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23614

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @UCantDoThatDotNet 28 Mar

Eating salad

Follow for updates

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @watchmancbiz 28 Mar

Finally got my SN sats deposit to clear! ready to ZAP ZAP AND ZAP! 🙌

51 sats \ 4 replies \ @Natalia 28 Mar

SN was down? 👀

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 28 Mar

Yeah sorry. We introduced something backwards incompatible accidentally.

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

New interface. I like the sticky bar at the top. Thanks @sn!

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 28 Mar

feels really empty in the header, and crowded here.

https://m.stacker.news/23588

90 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

@k00b playing around with MSM algo for the last 3 days...

https://m.stacker.news/23586

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 28 Mar

Good morning stackers.

Day 60 of 100 push ups till $100k completed.

Slept in late this morning, but still had my first set of 50 reps in before heading to work.

62 sats \ 3 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 28 Mar

Day 101 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 587 sats on 27Mar2024! Running total: 69,396 sats!

Yesterday's comment

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 29 Mar

Day 102's comment

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Gerrrrt 28 Mar

Niiice. Have a few more.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 28 Mar

Hey thanks friend!

120 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 28 Mar

did you read my new fun? 👀

My Reflections on Being a Nomad 🦅

31 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 28 Mar

Howdy!

61 days of 100 push ups a day until $100k down. Undetermined to go. 57 days of 100 squats a day until $100k down. Undetermined to go.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 28 Mar

Thank you kindly.

73 sats \ 2 replies \ @_error 28 Mar freebie

Day 0X6F of kernel panic until I stack enough sats to buy Micro$oft

https://m.stacker.news/23559

8 sats \ 0 replies \ @random_ 28 Mar

Nice username.

91 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

You have to try compiling your own kernel to see what a panic is 😂 I know what I'm talking about when I successfully tried to compile a kernel for the BeagleBoard.

https://m.stacker.news/23567

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 28 Mar

Little under an hour till Chainalysis's Crypto and Crime Part 3 begins if anyone is interested in watching! https://go.chainalysis.com/crypto-crime-webinar-series.html

88 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 28 Mar freebie

How some people probably react when they see an argument that potentially compromises their worldview but aren't able to "counter" it yet because their thought leaders did not tweet about it so they run to them.

related to this and this

(Finny probably saw something that she didn't, like a wolf.)

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 28 Mar

What it takes to be a Bitcoin Maximalist and nonconformist!

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @Tef 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23540

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23582

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 28 Mar

Morning Freaks,

Finished listening to "The White Pill"

Almost finished with "Anthem"

Thinking about buying a cheap guitar

Fiat Mining

Thanks, Hustle

91 sats \ 2 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 28 Mar

Good morning stackers let’s crush the day! I’m enjoying spring break time with my boys!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 28 Mar

💪🏾

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 28 Mar

💪

73 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthwyrm 28 Mar

why is cocoa trading like a shitcoin

https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/cocoa-price?op=1

81 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

KEY POINTS

The cocoa futures contract for May delivery surged to an all-time intraday high of $10,080 per metric ton Tuesday.
Major chocolate companies have been using hedging strategies to manage the price volatility and avoid passing on higher prices to consumers.
But consumers could start to feel the effect as West Africa faces systemic issues that have led to a historic supply deficit with no easy solutions.

The world is facing the largest cocoa supply deficit in more than 60 years and consumers could start to see the effect at the end of this year or early 2025, Joules said. The International Cocoa Organization has forecast a supply deficit of 374,000 tons for the 2023-24 season, a 405% increase from a deficit of 74,000 tons in the previous season.

“The worst is still yet to come,” Joules said. Cocoa prices will likely remain elevated for some time because there are no easy fixes to the systemic issues facing the market, he said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/26/cocoa-prices-are-soaring-to-record-levels-what-it-means-for-consumers.html

20 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 28 Mar

Today is going to be a good day... SBF is finally going to be sentenced and hopefully, the judge will go over the US recommendation of 40-50 years. His charges I believe carried up to 110 years so a solid 75 with no parole till 50 served sounds good to me. Let him rot and die in jail.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 28 Mar

And he was fined 464 million dollars plus interest!

Oh wait wrong person

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 28 Mar

I forgot about the fine... the cool $11 BILLION the US asked for sounds good to me. His family is so intertwined that there going to have to pay up as well

51 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 28 Mar freebie

I found something really strange, why barely any artists or makers live close to the seaside? All you have is mostly annoying tourists or resellers and a lack of culture...like I'd have assumed that people living in such beautiful places should be more creative and make things, but NO, what is really happening is these places became seasonal tourist towns, and doing everything tailor for tourists!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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104 sats \ 0 replies \ @rafaelasprilla334 28 Mar

I am from Panama and I would like this country to also have advances like those of El Salvador in Bitcoin. I seem crazy when I talk to someone about Bitcoin or show them how it works, they can't understand. It's kind of frustrating to want to share Bitcoin and feel like I'm speaking Chinese to them.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 28 Mar

Today is a holiday, my daughter doesn't have classes. Guess who woke up earlier than ever? 😫

149 sats \ 7 replies \ @orthwyrm 28 Mar

So, SBF gets sentenced today.

One for the anarchists: Does SBF belong in prison for a non-violent crime?

50 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Mar

I believe he would owe restitution to those he defrauded.

41 sats \ 2 replies \ @orthwyrm 28 Mar

If the defrauded cannot be made whole though, as in SBF's case, do you think that jail is warranted?

133 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 28 Mar

No, he should basically have a lien on all his future earnings, which slowly pays his victims back. However, there might be something like debtors prisons, but the point wouldn't be punishment, it would be to make sure the person continues working off their debt.

71 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

Exactly, this is the correct procedure: lien.

181 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar freebie

The short answer is: no. The long one: is complicated. In anarchy, you must respect the natural law (do not steal, do not do damage, do not kill). That means in anarchy these kind of things is hardly probable to happen and will be another rules.

I suggest to everybody to watch this short series by Larken Rose: The island (3 parts)

But we are not living in anarchy, so he will get jail.

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthwyrm 28 Mar

Thanks for the videos. I'm listening through them now at work.

Did SBF break the natural law if customers lent him their money voluntarily? I suppose that's where the nuance lies. He defrauded customers and mismanaged the funds in a spectacular way, but did not steal directly.

I'm inclined to agree with you, but it's an interesting case to think about.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

We still don't know exactly what really happen "behind the scenes". It was a master mega operation with many implications. To respect the natural law, in the first place you will never give your money to somebody else with intentions to earn yield... because that is only greed.

Only in a putrid world like we live today is possible such thing.

210 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lux 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23516

111 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

I wonder when people will pay attention to these...

65 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

😂 🤣

https://m.stacker.news/23515

16 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 28 Mar freebie

wrong 👀

now add one more row for Bitcoiners.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

What's wrong ? 👀

16 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

good one

119 sats \ 2 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar freebie

MSM is rigged, but stackers still don't want to consider it. This contest model is flawed. Is a failure.

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23519

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

YES

62 sats \ 6 replies \ @BlokchainB 28 Mar

Eggs sausage and croissant for breakfast

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 28 Mar

Exactly the same thing I just ate (with black coffee).

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 28 Mar

Strong start...

81 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

you forgot a good beer....

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @nikotsla 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23517

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

You go straight to my heart with this one I don't know why, but I love Leffe beer.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 28 Mar

Belgium Beer <3

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Tef 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23510

20 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 28 Mar

So I return from vacation and all anyone in the US is talking about is Kate Middleton? What the hell is going on?

306 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23513

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 28 Mar

I just watched this movie again a few months ago. I think Woody Allen agrees that Mia Farrow is satanic.

86 sats \ 3 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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69 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 28 Mar

Right after I read your response, I saw a claim online that Biden at his SOU address was actually an AI! It's kind of funny that in my lifetime I have gone from a society who accepted every word the government said as fact, to today when the assumption is that everything the government says is a lie. Incredible

96 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 28 Mar

Be careful. Deepfakes of you coming soon since you have stacked so many sats

76 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 28 Mar

Long weekend ahead... could this help to "clean" the mempool? ... sunday 4sat/vB?

https://m.stacker.news/23508

102 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

Day 11 of posting ~~everyday~~ 'til MSM ends. previously: #482432

https://m.stacker.news/23504

26 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 28 Mar

Very smart man

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 28 Mar

Legend.

16 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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370 sats \ 15 replies \ @orthwyrm 28 Mar

Day 348 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

__@_'-'

250 sats \ 0 replies \ @mango 28 Mar

Day 129 of horseposting

Horse stance: 4 minutes

https://m.stacker.news/23521

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 28 Mar

👍

50 sats \ 7 replies \ @orthwyrm 28 Mar

It'll be interesting to see if miners fight over the "epic" sat that gets minted at the start of the new halving cycle.

50 sats \ 6 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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136 sats \ 5 replies \ @orthwyrm 28 Mar

Yep.

So in Casey's Ordinals Theory, one can assign a rarity to sats that are minted during important moments of Bitcoin's protocol rules. These are based on the first sat minted during a new block ("uncommon"), a new difficulty adjustment ("rare"), and a new halving ("epic").

Like 'em or not, there's a market for these things and they can command some pretty outrageous prices. A "rare" sat goes for around $400k, and there are currently 415 of those. The "epic" sat is much more scarce, with only 3 currently in existence and the 4th about to be minted.

I don't think there's consensus on how much an epic sat will get valued, they're so rare that I don't think a trade has taken place. But I wouldn't be surprised if one sold for several block's worth of rewards... hence the pressure for miners to fight and reorg.

In expectation of boring responses I'll no doubt get to this comment from others: Yeah yeah, I know, ordinals are silly, you're not saying anything new or interesting. However, you cannot insulate yourself from market behavior. It's important to pay attention to these things even if you disagree with them, because they could have ramifications for the orange coin we all know and love.

50 sats \ 4 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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136 sats \ 3 replies \ @orthwyrm 28 Mar

Indeed. What's interesting to me is the idea that there are some markets one can't help but participate in.

Would I ever speculate on buying an ordinal? Hell no. But if I found that by pure chance I was in possession of one tagged to one of my UTXOs, would I sell it to someone else in order to scoop up more BTC? Hell yes.

120 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 28 Mar freebie

But if I found that by pure chance I was in possession of one tagged to one of my UTXOs, would I sell it to someone else in order to scoop up more BTC? Hell yes.

Same here. I actually think Ordinals is great since one could argue that a theory like Ordinals coming out was as inevitable as the ETFs if we want to have bitcoin mass adoption. Ordinals is just the bitcoin version of collectible coins. I see nothing wrong with that. People are going to be people and we should let them be people.

The only thing that I can understand "bitcoiners" having a problem with is Inscriptions which builds on top of Ordinals due to their direct impact on tx fees.¹ But I still think it's important to distinguish Ordinals and Inscriptions: If you don't, you're no better than the ones who say Taproot (or even better: SegWit) was a mistake because "they enabled Inscriptions".

It's important to pay attention to these things even if you disagree with them, because they could have ramifications for the orange coin we all know and love.

This so much. Regarding:

In expectation of boring responses I'll no doubt get to this comment from others

I think I am going to make a post on SN how I used ord to check if I have some rare sats as some kind of reversed dog whistle: I expect a lot of stackers getting triggered by this and calling me a shitcoiner so this will help me to filter out the independent thinkers (like you, apparently) who don't respond or respond and are as curious as me not as tribal and simple-minded as the vast majority seems to be.

imo, not an attack and not spam though. it's just hype about expensive subjective trash. ↩

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 28 Mar

They're definitely interesting. I'm very intrigued by this concept of an opt-in lens to interpret additional on-chain data.

While Casey's protocol IS somewhat arbitrary, I'd argue it cements itself via a network effect. If I came up with a different ordinals protocol, say one that counted all the sats backwards, nobody would care about it. In this sense it's not unlike Bitcoin itself versus all the copycat coins.

You should definitely make that post!

reply on another page

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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60 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 28 Mar

🫡

80 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23505

126 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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70 sats \ 1 reply \ @nikotsla 28 Mar

Direction instead of velocity :)

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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60 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 28 Mar

Spring time is here, and I'm still cold as hell.

76 sats \ 4 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 28 Mar

Yes, it's raining really hard. Typical problems getting the dog to accompany me on the garbage run.

76 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 28 Mar

I actually said to her "make yourself useful, and learn how to drag this garbage can to the curb. " Of course that's a little much to ask, considering she weighs about 35 pounds.

76 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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189 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

Numbers on a screen, Promises of wealth and gain, But our pockets empty.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @nikotsla 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23507

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23506

105 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 28 Mar

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 28 Mar

some religions are kind of crazy sadly...

147 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 28 Mar

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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23564

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 28 Mar

282 sats \ 14 replies \ @Natalia 28 Mar

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57 sats \ 0 replies \ @felipe 28 Mar

Yes! That started with the Tower of Babel

https://m.stacker.news/23532

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @oliverweiss 28 Mar

Too late to complain, this mindset transition happened ten thousand years ago when people moved from hunting and gathering to farming.

52 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 28 Mar

it's about the balance I think. You can have the comfort, but you need to have those skills too; maybe that's part of the reason I enjoy being a nomad - I need to have constant challenges; otherwise, I feel just existing.

30 sats \ 8 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

I prefer living in the village, but there's no denying that cities are crucial for the advancement of civilizations. You never see a great civilization without a great city. Cities offer opportunities and also the survival of those who cannot make it on their own. The loss of survival skills is real because in cities there are other comforts that do not exist in the village. Even in the village, people are almost forced to go to the city for various reasons. It is not mandatory, but it is a facilitator. People only lose these survival skills if they become complacent. If they want to have them, they just need to want to learn.

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

https://m.stacker.news/23562

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

i see things the same way

Soulfly — Back To The Primitive

@Public_N_M_E, have you heard of this band?

32 sats \ 2 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 28 Mar

Yessir I know soulfly, but I don't think I've heard this track before. Sounds Ace!

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 28 Mar

It's not very well known. Only true metalheads know it ;) What you might not know is that the vocalist of Soulfly is Max Cavalera, who co-founded Sepultura in 1983 with his brother Igor Cavalera. I really like this Brazilian born tribal metal.

16 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 28 Mar

I love sepultura 😜 I got to see them live, they played a small venue in my hometown and it was fantastic. They were supported by soil I think? 🤔 Or it could have been nonpoint... I can't remember.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

You can have the same advancing civilization also in small villages. Is not necessary to stay in mega cities, just for advancing technology. Cities are a fucking prison and a disadvantage to people. People lose important qualities just because they live in those prisons. It's a rat race and they still do not realize that they are the victims.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 28 Mar freebie

also not a single master that I've met is living in a big city, quite interesting.

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 28 Mar

@Natalia leaving the comfort to learn. 👀

131 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 28 Mar

They are "happy" with their crappy city things... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9dZQelULDk

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @bief57 28 Mar

My husband and I love this video and it is just like that. Every time I use public transport, train or bus, and I see people running around me desperately as if they were going to die for taking 2 minutes, all with their suits and lunch boxes for work, where they will spend 1 hour going to work. , 10 hours in it, plus 1 hour or more back home, all to repeat the same thing over and over again every day, in places where they do not enjoy being, working for the dreams of others. I run away from that lifestyle, it's not even for me.

What it takes to be a Bitcoin Maximalist and nonconformist!

KEY POINTS

😂 🤣

Footnotes

Soulfly — Back To The Primitive