If you’re calling on #Israel to cease fire, here’s a suggestion: how about first calling on the Hamas leadership to surrender to Israel and immediately releasing all hostages? If you just want Israel to lay down its arms instead, think for a moment about how you would feel about that as an Israeli living in a town that was attacked on Oct. 7

I went all out on Halloween decor this year

Some thoughts about the #Israel-Hamas war: 1. Zionism is NOT racism 2. Anti-Zionism is NOT the same thing as Anti-Semitism (though one can bleed into the other) 3. Palestinians deserve a state of their own and have a right to self-government and 4. Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state and to protect its citizens from terrorism, including retaliating forcefully against Hamas for its terrorist attacks against Israelis 5. Hamas has no interest in a two-state solution. They embolden the right-wingers in Israel and vice-versa. They also hoard supplies and resources to further their military aims, rather than using them to support Palestinian civilians in Gaza. They are a corrupt, Islamist mafia, not the hope of the Palestinian people for national liberation 6. Any ultimate peace solution must recognize the Palestinian right of return (which is not the same thing as saying ALL the 1948 refugees and their descendants have to return to their ancestral homes). Israel must come to terms that for Palestinians, 1948 was a catastrophe 7. Many Jewish Israelis have their roots in Middle Eastern countries they were forcibly expelled from and disposed of property and possessions. This is too often overlooked in a way that smacks of a pernicious double-standard 8. Hamas cannot be destroyed by military action alone. It is an ideology that can only be made obsolete by a more hopeful, non-violent ideology, and it is up Palestinians to choose to embrace such an alternative ideology 9. The Israeli government can help that competing ideology gain more traction by explicitly committing to a two-state solution and ceasing settlement expansion immediately. But Netanyahu is not the leader Israel needs right now, unfortunately, so that seems unlikely 10. A unilateral cease-fire by Israel now would give Hamas a dangerous victory and set a terrible precedent that terrorism works. If Hamas were willing to free all the hostages in exchange ONLY for a cease-fire, that would be worth considering

How are we celebrating Block 800K? About 5 days away! #bitcoin

Have you spoken to your parents about what they want to do with their wealth / estate after they pass? Why or why not?

Started subbing non-alcoholic beer for my typical ritual of an IPA with dinner. The difference this morning is incredible. Not going back!

My toddler is wildly inconsistent with peas. He either wants to scarf them down or throw them across the room 🫛 😭

Wow. Just checked my mempool for first time in a while. It’s 54 blocks deep with 120K transactions! Is this all ordinals related?

I’m preparing a talk at work on how to set-up a #bitcoin node. I set mine up the “hard” way using a Pi and completely self-sovereign. But I want to provide an option for people who want a more turnkey node-as-a-service solution. What providers and/or set-up tutorials do you like?

Macro peeps: what do you think about money market funds attracting so much liquidity given yields in the Reverse Repo facility at the Fed? Could that lead to a liquidity crisis for the banking sector potentially?

Listened to “The Daily” podcast today about Threads. Competitors mentioned: Mastodon and Blue Sky. No mention of #nostr. Interesting

If you were to hire a financial planner, what would be your motivation? What would you be looking for from them?

Every time I try to get my 2 year old to eat vegetables, it’s like performing a Jedi mind trick 🧙‍♂️

Any #Dispatch fans out there going to the Only the Wild Ones Weekend in Mexico in December? I’m debating it, but have a 2 year old that i would need to bring. Probably will be too crazy for the little guy 😬

I’ve been off of Nostr for a bit. What happened to my zap button on #Damus?

For real, tho: why does the U.S. govt want to incentivize homeownership? Is it just because homeowners tend to be more invested in the well-being of their communities?

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#stats jokes

Is this the end of “crypto?”

Even though we raised the debt ceiling, pain is coming. Treasury now needs to replenish its bank account. And when they do that, money will drain out of the economy and go into the treasury‘s account. This will reduce liquidity even while banks were seeing withdrawals following SVB and First Republic. This will increase their cost of capital, which in turn will make them increase rates they charge to borrowers. So because of the debt ceiling delay, people trying to take out a mortgage will have to pay more because rates will increase #debtceiling