Good thread by the excellent @ElBitcoinCoach on why #Bitcoin is special vs. other #cryptocurrencies

As you may have noticed, there are other projects I'm bullish on. @helium #ThePeoplesNetwork is a prime example

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https://twitter.com/ElBitcoinCoach/status/1453502406025699331

But that's because projects like @helium are finding ways to apply #blockchain usefully to real-word problems. $HNT has value because network bandwidth has value.

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"Online church is not church"

Your simple and obvious 🔥 take of the day

Which is why my 4 most hated words of the liturgy are

"physically, or by intention"

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charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2021/03/online… Church ought to be *last* place the virtual and the Real gets confused.

Yet here we are.

Watching the liturgy on YouTube is *not* the same as participating in the liturgy

Any more than watching the NFL is playing football.

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🔥 take from @saifedean

Somewhat agree and disagree

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https://twitter.com/saifedean/status/1371727688080240640

Electric cars are unaffordable for the majority of humanity.

Fact check: TRUE

However, this is also true for gasoline vehicles.

It's only in the affluent West that "everyone must have a vehicle" has been normalized.

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@Making_of_a_Mom @tannerguzy Deliberately encourage risk-taking. Especially as a mother, it's important for you to give your children (especially boys!) room to push their boundaries and experience consequences without Mommy swooping in to keep everyone pain-free. @Making_of_a_Mom @tannerguzy Good martial arts programs are priceless; @tannerguzy and @noufalibrahim already covered that.

Competitive team sports are good.

There's a healthy balance between "participation! yay!" and "WINNING IS EVERYTHING"

"Self-sufficiency is OPTIONALITY"

Powerful summary of good wisdom there.

https://twitter.com/normonics/status/1300416650378870787

Example: gardening.

Cue the Adam Smith zealots crying "efficiency!"

And the knee-jerk reaction against the word "subsistence", which everyone treats as meaning "impoverished"