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HannahMR
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Pretty much just my shower thoughts 🚿🧠 But I do other things like... Developer Advocate at Lightning Labs | Organizer of San Juan Bitdevs | Founder of Velas Commerce
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
“Positive” economics is used to discover cause and effect without the broader moral or societal implications. Ex/ if you do X, you can expect Y. “Normative” economics looks at the broader effects of an economic choice. Ex/ using child labor would increase profits by X%, but the moral and societal impact are too great to make that a wise choice. We need both. We need to understand cause and effect, and we need to then ask what kind of world we’d like to live in.
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
Evolution > revolution. Revolution is replacing an old monster with a new one. Evolution is removing the need for a monster.
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
The loud American Bitcoin maxi’s are the enemy of Bitcoin, or certainly the understanding of Bitcoin that I signed up for. I studied monetary theory in University, and I was appalled when I realized what an epic concentration of power control of money provided a government. I fell in love with Bitcoin when I realized that it was a means of removing that concentration of power. The maxi influencers that exist today, and the people that they are attempting to appeal to, are not in the Bitcoin world to remove concentrations of power, they are signing up to be at the top of the next concentration of power. They aren’t showing up to remove the monster, they are showing up to be in charge of the new monster.
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
It’s amusing how often I am accused of being ‘brainwashed’ by the evil feminists. It’s funny because I have been the subject of brainwashing attempts, but it wasn’t the “feminists”, it was the fundamentalist Christians.
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
Lately I’ve been appreciating how important curiosity is. I’ve found that when I’m having a difficult interaction with someone, when the way they are treating me isn’t up to my standards, it’s generally because they have no curiosity for me or my ideas. And I am better able to understand a situation, and come up with strategies and ideas when I’m looking at things with a sense of curiosity.
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
You can take the zealot out of the cult, but you can't take the cult out of the zealot.
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
I haven't left Bitcoin, but I have left the American Bitcoin maxi scene. And so if I keep talking about Bitcoin, but I'm not talking to American Bitcoin maxi's, who am I talking to? I've been trying to leave the Bitcoin bubble for years and expand to new communities so which communities would be good to take a look at? This is my list so far... The LatAm FinTech world The cyber security scene The broader open source software community Human Rights activists Que mas?
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
"That's a made up word!" Yes, but all words are made up.
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
It's weird to me that we have this common narrative that therapists just encourage people to be "victims" and blame everyone else and do nothing. In my experience that is wildly inaccurate. A good therapist calls you on your shit. You can't do therapy without taking a good long look in the mirror.
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
What's you're fav Linux admin command? Like what do you type in your sleep? Mine is $ sudo lsof -n -P -i | grep LISTEN
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hmichellerose 5 months ago
The dude that was lecturing me on men and women last night told some stories about his grandfather beating his father, and his father beating him. This quote is all I could think about 😢 image