Guilt is an individual thing and not a group project. It is incorrect and very counter productive to try to give the weight of guilt to someone who shares some group identity with a guilty party. And I refuse to carry the weight of any guilt that does not personally belong to me. And also, the world will place these things on you and others. You will be handed the benefits or burdens of other people’s crimes. And I have very little respect for those who can not see that, for those who are blind to the benefits and burdens that they and others have been handed.

We all know that being loved feels great, but also, loving someone is really good for you. Just looking at a picture of someone you love increases oxytocin, dopamine, serotonin, and reduces cortisol. So go give someone a hug today 🫶

Life isn’t about stuff, it’s about character development. The goal isn’t to accumulate more cars, more job titles, more Twitter followers. The goal is to make an amazing story. The things are mostly circumstantial. If a certain character were dropped into midevil Europe or modern day Dubai, the things would be very different, but the character would be the same, and the story could be amazing in both timelines. ...ya get what I mean?

“Traditional values” and “Family values” are most of the time just a quiet way to say “I want the return of patriarchy”. When I hear a man say that he wants a return to "traditional values" what I hear is... "I have a hierarchical mindset. I don't know how to value myself unless I can think of myself as above others. I need to be above women so that I can have a sense of value."

"The strength of a relationship is in the repair." – Terry Real All relationships will have "ruptures". That's just the nature of this life, we are limited creatures with imperfect data, we will step on each others toes. And so all relationships of any variety require repair.  If a difficult conversation about "hey you stepped on my toe" can not be had, then that is a very weak relationship. And really strong relationships are not ones where no ones toes are stepped on, but one's where toe stepping can be discussed and resolved.

Some people wish to use Bitcoin as a means of flatting power structures. Some people wish to use Bitcoin as a means of accumulating power. Which are you?

Humans are pretty much always caught up in group think and social manias. We don’t see it when we are younger as the manias of our time are just the air we breathe. You notice when you get older and the current mania drifts away from the one that you are familiar with.

My Claude skill run-litd uses my litd node setup scripts:

GitHub

GitHub - HannahMR/run-litd: Checklists, example files, and helper scripts for getting a Litd node up and running on a ubuntu server.

Checklists, example files, and helper scripts for getting a Litd node up and running on a ubuntu server. - HannahMR/run-litd

In the process of making the skill I also added a lot of new functionality. Specifically scripts for setting up neutrino nodes and remote signer nodes.

Generally speaking, a desire to simulate violence in the bedroom comes from a history of sexual trauma. Now consenting adults can do whatever they like, but it's not healthy to glamorize people's trauma coping mechanisms.

I made a Claude skill for setting up Lightning nodes! The skill can set up a wide variety of nodes, full node, pruned node, neutrino back-end, build a remote signer, connect to a remote signer, etc. and run on mainnet or signet! You are guided through choosing the type of node that you need and then the skills builds a properly configured node, that means a config file, a systemd service, etc. You can find it in this collection of Lightning skills…

GitHub

GitHub - Liongrass/lightning-skills: A collection of agentic skills for use with Lightning Labs projects

A collection of agentic skills for use with Lightning Labs projects - Liongrass/lightning-skills

Give it a try and maybe tell your Lightning newb vibe coding friends!

I do worry that the pro-natalists are motivated by eugenics. They will say things like "we're losing population", but that's not true. the global birth rate has slowed but we are still gaining people every year. You know how many babies they are making in India and Nigeria??? ...but we didn't want those babies did we?

How's that Lana Del Ray song go? 🎶"I like you a lot"🎶 ...that's me serenading Claude 🫶

Blaming the popularity of socialism on laziness or envy is intellectually lazy. You can't fix a problem that you don't understand. If you want to ponder what actually drives people to these systems, I got a link for you! 👇

A Libertarian’s Guide to Understanding the Popularity of Socialism – HannahMR

Empathy is the foundation of human civilization.