The day the US converts to the metric system is the day scientific thinking overpowers the cultural status quo.

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The hill I will die on re: Jan 6th is that we should stop referring to it as an assault "on the Capitol" (a building) and call it an attack on Congress (the legislative branch of the US government composed of duly elected officials who were in danger of being killed/kidnapped for political ends).

Think big, but not too big. Else you’ll be forced to disappear, as Satoshi did.

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Compliments for Humans:

"For a thing so full of blood, it's amazing you don't slosh when you walk."

"Three breath-holes? Now you're just showing off."

"The way you move makes it hard to believe you're stuffed with bones."

"Wow, that's a lot of skin, but you really make it work."

In what ways will undoubtedly have changed the world 10 years from now? “Undoubtedly” meaning “guaranteed in ways that regulators can’t deny & the media can’t destroy”. Don’t say finance / defi.

If TouchTunes deployed a bidding system, I wouldn’t have to listen to the 237 song queue ahead of me. I’d instead be listening to the wealthiest person in the bar’s iPod.

What do you do when the very thing that gets you out of bed in the morning is the same thing that makes you want to crawl into bed and never get out of it?

If I agree that museums in the Western world should return all stolen African art (I do), shouldn’t I also agree that every member of US Congress be Native American? Please convince me that my logic is flawed.

“Transient inflation” was “misinformation”.

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If it is not literally the warmest year ever, someone will complain that global warming has stopped.

Year-to-year fluctuations are a normal part of the ongoing global warming trend. Don't be distracted by the noise.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

The best way to eliminate conspiracy theories is to stop conspiring.

Second best way to say goodbye: “toodles”, or should I say, “”.

The best way say goodbye: “take care of yourself, and if you can, someone else too”

If a tree doesn’t fall in the internet, and big brother wants you to think it has, does that mean that it fell?

If a tree falls in the internet, and big brother doesn’t want you to hear it, does it make a sound?

Public figures can’t use plausible deniability as a reason for not supporting something that would benefit the taxpayer & consumer.

“The Cloud” is the thing that evaporates your data & makes it rain dollars in the location that is most beneficial to your gods.

You are better off dating a divorce attorney than someone with family ties to government.

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