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halalmoney 5 months ago
*Real freedom isn’t being random. It’s being so grounded in who you are that other people’s perception of you becomes irrelevant. Most people spend their whole lives shapeshifting for an audience that isn’t even paying attention.* View quoted note →
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halalmoney 5 months ago
*By reducing the brain to a computer, we elevate the machines to our equals while downgrading ourselves to machinery.* View quoted note →
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halalmoney 5 months ago
*The greatest threat to Bitcoin wasn’t government regulation or corporate takeover, Marek had finally understood. It was the community itself becoming so certain of its righteousness that it stopped questioning whether it might be wrong. Satoshi had built a system that didn’t need heroes, priests, or prophets. It only needed mathematics and electricity and people stubborn enough to keep checking that the numbers still added up correctly. The community would do well to match that humility. But mathematics would continue working either way, which was perhaps the most beautiful and terrifying thing about it. Bitcoin would survive its own community, just as Satoshi had designed it to survive everything else. The code was set in stone. The people around it were not. And that had always been both the promise and the problem.*
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halalmoney 5 months ago
*And although most people were happy with their results, some reported things like acute anxiety following treatment, which suggests “elective aesthetic procedures may, in some individuals, exacerbate underlying mental-health vulnerabilities rather than ameliorate them”. Which makes me wonder, when Botox is marketed as empowerment, what are the long-term effects to your mental health, of getting your self esteem from a needle?* View quoted note →
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halalmoney 5 months ago
*You can’t know in advance that studying something is going to be a waste of time. There is a sunken cost to every instance of education. It is what it is. You can’t justify walking past a closed door by ignorantly asserting that there is nothing of value behind it* View quoted note →
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halalmoney 5 months ago
*This isn’t a normal market cycle. It’s the unit-of-account transition phase. And almost no one is positioned for it because they’re still measuring their “returns” in the wrong yardstick.* View quoted note →
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halalmoney 5 months ago
*when people cling to the debasing unit, they feel rich but measured in the next credible collateral, their system is already collapsing* View quoted note →
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halalmoney 5 months ago
Beardos' Lives Matters ____ Calling out the Norse religion in particular “is a bit undermining,” said a senior non-commissioned officer serving on active duty who openly practices a sub-sect of paganism associated with Nordic traditions and sports a large beard. “I feel like that’s singling people out. Why not say it for Muslims or Christians as well?” “There are people like ourselves that practice paganism to the fullest extent possible, and it’s kind of a low blow to be called fake,” the source said. “Imagery is just as important as conviction.”
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halalmoney 5 months ago
*these are the three big buckets of ministry : clinical, religious, and spiritual. They conveniently map to atheist, deist, and animist. They tend to be exclusive, and they also tend to try converting their patients into spreaders of their own type. True healing depends on meeting the patient where they are. The first thing they need to hear is, its okay and you're not alone.* View quoted note →
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halalmoney 5 months ago
Everyone: it’s not possible to construct a worthwhile sentence using ‘memetic bundle’ and ‘meme payload’. *Comte enters the chat* “Both are trying to inject a meme payload and make you a replicator of the memetic bundle that controls them : on one extreme, they fix you by filling your wound with scientism ; on the other extreme, they fix you by filling your wound with a set of beliefs that are characterized by exclusivity” View quoted note →