True story:
I once played basketball with a learning-disabled teen who literally could not tell the difference between left and right, which was a problem for executing our plays.
I did not make fun of him, but tried to help.
I said to hold out his hands and see which one formed an "L" with his thumb. That's the Left hand. He was happy.
But the very next time he tried it on our end of the court, he held out his hands palms-up! 😆
Did the Jehovah's Witnesses organization ever come back from their Covid-19 setback?
I don't know if they made it back to their Saturday-morning door knocking.
Whenever I post or reply on X (sorry -- it's not often!), the character limit frustrates me. I'm so used to Nostr.
Not that any of us want to be verbose. We just want to say what we have to say without paying Elon a monthly premium membership due.
My wife and I are taking a FREE, 11-week online course on the Book of Revelation. It begins today. Anyone is welcome to join. Sign up if you wish. It ends just before Advent begins. Great timing.
At least check out the schedule and syllabus. It should be good.
https://instituteofcatholicculture.org/courses/apocalypseI stopped in at Walmart this morning and saw a shopper wearing a face mask below his lower lip.
How has anyone not learned any lessons in five years?
There should be a mask ban.
And maybe a mandatory $100 fine for anyone attempting to procure a COVID vax booster.
Some of the day's garden harvest.
We have given away so much sweet corn, strawberries, squash, cantaloupe, tomatoes, etc., to our friends and neighbors.
Now the fall stuff is coming in.
I wish we had friends who wanted to give us grass-fed beef in exchange for produce! But no matter. We like giving people chemical-free garden food. Tastes so much better than Walmart garbage.
Just sharing a #privacy-related practice I use with my #Thunderbird email client.
I have a few email addresses (personal, junk, PGP-only, etc.) from different email providers -- never using my real name, though sometimes first name only.
Also, I use yet an entirely different provider for my calendar (not associated with any email account I actively use).
With Thunderbird, all these things come together in one place for me, yet the various services don't have all my info and can't associate my accounts with each other.
I find that many who panicked over COVID, wore masks alone outside, and couldn't wait to get the clot-shot in their veins are STILL not willing to learn the lessons of that time.
They still believe whatever their TVs and legacy social media tell them.
My best #popcorn is stovetop; cooked in bacon grease; topped with real butter, salt, black pepper, hot sauce, and a splash of lime juice.
I would like to see vlogs of people spending BTC in real life for real things -- BTC in action.
When your #Bitcoin is traced and tracked and taxed by the government, you are screwed.
If you must use Bitcoin, use it discreetly. No ID attached. No KYC.
Better yet, just use..you-know-what.
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Anytime I see an argument here between a #Monero dude and a #Bitcoin dude, I see the same pattern:
Monero dude values freedom that springs from privacy and avoidance of government overreach.
Bitcoin dude values freedom that comes from getting rich, also desiring government overreach.
Both are unsatisfied with the fiat system.
But what is this "freedom" we're trying to achieve or protect? How do we define it?
FB and X are information scrapers and advertising platforms to serve themselves.
#Nostr and Mastodon are social media.
I get irritated by fake hodlbods.
This
@npub1nyrf...lzp9 sent me direct messages to say "Hey mate" and "How's it going?"
The real
@hodlbod isn't a dork like the fake one is. I'm sure Fake Hodlbod will eventually try to scam me out of BTC. Except now he's probably reading this, so he won't. Unless he's extra, extra stupid.
Two things I want to say to
@Alex Gleason:
1. Thank you so much for the work you do toward making social media what it's supposed to be. You do great work. I'm still impressed with mostr.
2. Eat a cheeseburger.
Please support your local chapter of D.A.M., a nonprofit org that does great work.
I have personally benefited greatly from it. Thank you, Mothers Against Dyslexia!
I am a critic of BTC because of its public ledger and its related safety and privacy issues. I am concerned many BTC holders are more motivated by getting rich (quick!) than they are about being true to principles.
I am a fan of Monero. I have used it to buy a GrapheneOS phone; to pay for VPNs, email aliases, phone numbers, ebooks, gift cards for restaurants; and to tip waitresses — and once to pay back someone for gas money.
While I believe in the mission of the Monero project, I’m not confident that the majority of Monero isn't used to buy porn and drugs and other immoral things. I hope people are choosing to buy coffee grounds and tipping the Columbian workers, but I have my doubts, suspecting that their Monero are often going toward less noble causes.
Whatever crypto you use, spend it for good, not for evil. Buy some, spend some, give some away — just like fiat. True religion is not your cryptocurrency of choice. Crypto does not save us. It is a tool. You cannot serve God and e-mammon.
Touch grass and pray.