Thank you for this space. My goals for this new year are quite clear.

• Exercise more and master bodyweight exercises.
• Read more.
• Learn more about Bitcoin and advance on my path to becoming a stacker.
• Do more fun activities with my daughter.
• Do more activities with my wife.
• Bring knowledge about Bitcoin to more people.

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boring resolution: Eat healthier and exercise more

• measurable outcomes: lose 15 lbs, no gout attacks

job resolution: Retool my academic career to topics more of current interest to me

• measurable outcomes: write at least one other paper about bitcoin OR Christian economic thought (another interest of mine)

fun resolution: Finish my 10 simultaneous runs of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. I wanted to make a resolution about guitar, but I think my health takes precedence so I don't want to overburden myself with too many goals.

it's gonna be a cool year

• Study and learn more
• Lose more weight
• Start practicing a fight
• Increase the amount of sats exchange from my fiat earnings
• Convince a local merchant accept bitcoin

I'll try to find the will to find the time to exercise at least 30/45 minutes at least 3 times per week (like running or some simple training at home).

With little kids and work being ever so demanding, if I make it, I'll feel like the master of the inner fabric of spacetime.

Ah, I'll also try to finish a children's book I ought to have finished one year ago, and finally learn python by trying to implement some streamlit dashboards to feed my idiosincratyc needs to collect and look at data.

More realistically, if I manage not gaining about 20kg because of stress eating, forget how to read/write, and sell my soul and personal data to Google for Gemini to show me nicely formatted plots without any real connection to the data themselves, I'll call that a win.

At least the US has a constitution! EU doesn't have that.

Love that show

Germany has been notoriously bad. I did have some govt interaction there last year, and luckily much more is digitized now. They're working on it (finally.)

It really varies from country to country so it's hard to generalize. Just like I had a completely different experience in CA than I had in PA.

I don't think there's a lot of moral posturing with the people though. That's just the EU leadership. These are unelected bureaucrats. I think most Europeans are pro-trade, pro-peace, pro-growth. Just, if you've worked for 35 years under the promise that that's it and then you can chill, then it's fucked up to break that promise.

In my (now EU) birth country they did address this mostly and if I were to still be a resident there, my pension age would be 69, barring any future updates, which are always possible.

@ek, see how much we love you, miss you. Happy New Year bro.

You mean nearly 100% gain? Only possible if Bitcoin shoots up.

This, I like, but is explicit for a prediction. What about SN launches Sub territories in 2026?

No problem.

Just in case, you can join it, there's no loss, just see how it goes for a month. you can leave it anytime if it's not for you.

Yes, this is ok now, equal opportunity to all.

oh look, a cricket post made it to the top of Hot! congrats!

quite a few, indeed

thanks for including me, but no. Cricket, ugh

Hmm

It's easy to use confusing wording when discussing the EU as a place with certain common traits but not necessarily the EU organization.

This happens when discussing America, too, as most of our laws and taxes are also not national.