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mark @markmulvey - 1y
now we're talkin 🔥
Robert Browning was the one who wrote "A man's reach should exceed his grasp" but i'm pretty sure he wasn't talking about career bureaucrats trying to push through egregious surveillance language into government bill proposals
Nearly all men are slaves, for the reason that the Spartans gave for the servitude of the Persians: because they didn't know how to pronounce the syllable no. —Chamfort
have you preordered your state-of-the-art desk miner yet anon? https://www.futurebit.io/
anyone see the new godzilla movie? i just heard it's pretty epic (which was shortly after hearing that it existed at all lol) https://youtu.be/r7DqccP1Q_4?si=tUjKXkj3-or7niDl
this is my new litmus test when judging dentists
dentists are always on your case about flossing but they never send you home with floss do they. just a shitty toothbrush and a tiny Crest.
i already miss the bear. #bitcoin
"Theory does not emerge phoenix-like from the cauldron of statistics." —Murray Rothbard you can't just look at numbers and get an explanation
more of this energy, lfg 🔥
very cool, love to see it 👏
same 😅
Neil Postman published Technopoly in 1992 and it's still one of the most prescient books i've read right up there with The Sovereign Individual (1997)
this sounds epic, damn
We see plenty of rich people who handle their wealth along with old age peevishly, and who seem as unhappy as those who grumble and whine about being poor. The latter class of person would not know how to be free and generous with money if they had it, any more than the former could manage without. Character makes all the difference: whoever can make use of great resources wisely can likewise cope with few. —Teles of Megara, c. 235 BC
cybertruck is marketed as some sort of apocalypse disaster vehicle but relies on a reliable electrical grid and charging infrastructure to function k
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. —Albert Einstein
it's referenced in the book i linked at the bottom
shoutout to nostr:npub1wtezm6cgm9m8cfg242ce084mgm4w5zxgdkdvf3v7gahks4zl4qdqy9lhtv for making this graphic 👌 we need more comparison one-pagers like this
if someone dies and you didn't like them just don't say anything
