i love the NFL, but i never again want to hear a Super Bowl winner call themselves a ‘World Champion.’

the origins of marriage have nothing to do with love or romance. they have to do with power preservation in autocratic societies. eventually de beers convinced everyone that diamonds are forever and the romance narrative proliferated. finding the right partner is paramount, but marriage is a separate conversation. it is not a natural human construct. one does not need validation from a government to confirm the validity of a relationship. hence it’s ironic that at a time that many are skeptical of big government, they still turn to that government to approve a relationship the government knows nothing about. it is the one decision where even the ardent rebels of society unknowingly seek societal approval. the right partnership is key, not marriage itself.

you will never experience a hyper-focused flow state like the last 6 miles of a marathon where waving hello at someone in the crowd feels like tragically wasted energy that must be preserved at all costs

the nevermind album by nirvana is all disco drums. just fyi. for you disco haters.

takes a village to raise a child and a flag to raze the children.

when the shit hits the fan, saving the bond market will trump fighting inflation. pun intended. that’s all anyone needs to know.

NIN

for the metalheads, my favorite find this year is a band called Sable Hills from japan. think At The Gates. highly recommend.

i mean this. genuinely. for the sake of your soul. listen to stevie ray vaughan.

roughly three years ago, i spent 6 months dating the head of risk and controls at one of the largest banks in the US. btc was trading ~$25k at the time. she would come to my place and see btc books on my shelf and make the usual ignorant comments. on dinner dates, she would ask what i did that day, and i would frequently say i bought more btc. snide remarks followed. one time, in response to one of these remarks, i told her that within a year she would be having convos about btc inside her bank. she laughed. then a month later she dumped me. a year later, btc crossed 100k for the first time. ironically, she is one of the main people responsible for CFTC compliance at her bank. with btc once again trading near 100k, a bull market in sight, and today's news of the CFTC embracing btc, i don't have to ask to know that i live rent free in her head. she'll be thinking about our convos forever. and sorry mama...ya boy left the station a long time ago. ✌🏻😘

imprison this manufacturer immediately. see how foolish that sounds?

give em enough rope

keep going

you never need patience more than when you’re about to lose it

sometimes we have to revisit songs we haven’t played in years. see if you can spot this one.

if this has been your scene since adolescence, we are cut from the same cloth. keep dancing.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

@gladstein were/are you a No Use fan? tony sly 😢 i was his last interview. one of the good ones. the best songwriter on Fat imo.

best open source tools for privacy (vpn, email, etc)?

there is a special place in hell for men that piss in stalls and don’t flush the toilet