Ethan Blake

@patrickjwitt “We want to make all the money on your money, not you the owner of your money.”

“It’s not a true compromise because it doesn’t eliminate yield completely.” Banks sure have a funny way of defining “compromise.”

@Mysonsdimebag @EleanorTerrett @ICBA 💯

@EleanorTerrett @ICBA Who gives a shit what the banks want. Its our fucking money they hold from us and make billions on it.

🚨NEW: A divide is forming in bank land over the yield compromise. Big banks with consumer facing arms are taking issue, while those without appear more comfortable with the final language. Some community banks are also signaling support, though @ICBA, which represents them in Washington, is voicing concerns. Following my conversation with a larger bank that shares the concerns of the trades, the core issue is that the language is drafted too narrowly and still leaves room for crypto firms to work around the restriction. In their view, it’s not a true compromise because it doesn’t eliminate yield completely, it just changes how it’s offered. The trades are planning to ramp up outreach to Senate Banking Committee members beyond just @SenThomTillis and @Sen_Alsobrooks ahead of a markup, I’m told. The lead negotiators appeared to suggest the issue was closed in a joint statement last night. More to come in tomorrow’s @CryptoAmerica_ newsletter.

@James07172325 @Luke_Tera @GraduatedBen Take NAC as an alternative to glutathione, Quicksilver glutathione is good tho

@Luke_Tera @GraduatedBen Hrm. I did not know that. And it’s pretty interesting considering i have a major dht conversion issue and am also a pretty heavy zyn user. However even before the nicotine i have had issues with dht conversion unfortunately.

I think heavy use of nicotine pouches is going to end up being worse for brain health than even pack-a-day smoking, via acetylcholine receptor downregulation, and chronic vasoconstriction leading to endothelial dysfunction > reduction in white and gray matter.

@PolitiWrecked @SenThomTillis @digitalassetbuy @Sen_Alsobrooks You answered your own question

@SenThomTillis @digitalassetbuy @Sen_Alsobrooks Where was this protective capitalism when walmart and amazon were destroying inefficient and antiquated mom and pop stores? Why tf are crypto investors being punished here?

.@Sen_Alsobrooks and I have worked on a bipartisan basis with all stakeholders to address the banking industry’s concerns about deposit flight. They have had a seat at the table and have been directly sharing their feedback and ideas for months to inform the final product. We have worked in good faith with all sides throughout this process to encourage compromise and to avoid letting the perfect become the enemy of the good.   The result is a substantially improved, consensus-based product. Our compromise prohibits stablecoin rewards from resembling interest on bank deposits, our core concern over deposit flight.   Our compromise also allows crypto companies to offer other forms of customer rewards. Most importantly, it helps put us on a bipartisan path to pass the CLARITY Act, providing the regulatory certainty needed to foster innovation. Some in the banking industry may not want either of these things to happen, and we respectfully agree to disagree.

@Choosey_Beggar @SenThomTillis @Sen_Alsobrooks Entrenched incumbents have all the incentive to maintain the status quo as it requires orders of magnitude less energy and time.

@SenThomTillis @Sen_Alsobrooks Did you try telling them they could just, you know, compete?

Has the US been subsidizing European socialism all this time? 🧐

@realpeteyb123 B

Took the triplets to a desolate beach for their birthday. Had them build rock people. Promised them we will go to Internet to choose who made the best rock person. Drop a comment: Kid A Kid B Kid C Winner gets to plan itinerary tomorrow.

@Poeslawisalive @OwenShroyer1776 Anna Paulina?

@OwenShroyer1776 Why are the cute ones always crazy.

Hate to tell you, but...

@simpleorganix @zaidkdahhaj He’s a Virgo

Nowwwwwwwwe it all makes sense. If he’s vaccinating for head, he’s vaccinating for everything else. I thought it was lack of Sun & meat that fortified his wacky health takes… nope. It goes deeper & dumber.

@bryan_johnson Human easily

In a 100 km race, which do you think wins? + Lion + Human + Camel + Horse + Wolf + Cheetah + Ostrich + Bear

@SirBylHolte @catturd2 The Revenant

@catturd2 My 10 Favorite REVENGE Movies: 1- The Count of Monte Cristo 2 Paparazzi 3 Gladiator 4 John Wick 5 Unforgiven 6 The Northman 7 V for Vendetta 8 The Crow 9 Get Carter (either version) 10 The Limey Which ones have I missed?

The “experts”say that Kill Bill 1&2 are the best revenge movies for all time. I agree that both were fantastic, but give me a break. The greatest revenge series of all time, and it’s not even close, is the John Wick series.

@catturd2 The Revenant for my money

The film that disappointed you the most after months or even years of anticipation?

Wild world ✨

@ThrillaRilla369 Schping

Can anyone spell the sound this makes? 😿

@BigBrainPhiloso The rugged individualism of the US certainly didn’t come out of stability, it came out of chaos, frontiers, and a person’s inability to rely on anyone or anything in the new world - except what they can makes of themselves.

Former Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew on the fundamental difference between American and Chinese society:** Why do America and China see the world so differently? Lee Kuan Yew argues it comes down to one thing: history. "The difference in the core philosophy between the American and the Chinese... it's a reflection of your history." He traces America's worldview back to its origins: "You came over in the Mayflower. You were seeking religious freedom so much so that you refused to allow it to be taught in the schools. You believed in the individual as the creator of all things." That belief in the individual shaped everything that followed: "You captured the wild west. I mean, on horseback. New town, main street, you be mayor, I'm sheriff, you're saloon keeper. We build a gold rush town or cattle or whatever it is." And then came extraordinary fortune: "You have been immensely fortunate and successful. Two world wars left Europe in a shambles and you emerged as the undamaged technological and industrial power." China's story, Lee explains, looks nothing like this. "China has a completely different and a checkered history. 4,000 to 5,000 years of ups and downs. Long periods when there was no governments, anarchy, warlords." He shares a personal moment that brought this reality home to him: "I once had a Chinese masseur when I was in Beijing working my game shoulder and we were talking and I said during the war, Japanese time, what currency did you use? So Japanese currency if it's in Japanese controlled areas or other currencies in other areas. So I said how many currencies are there? Two, three? Says 14 or 15 depending on which warlord's area you're in." So how did the Chinese people survive centuries of chaos, when the state itself kept collapsing? "Why have they survived in spite of anarchy, disaster, floods, famines? Because there was a social network independent of government that sustained them. The immediate family, the extended family, the clan. You owed them an obligation. You cannot turn them away. That's how they survived." This is the philosophical fork in the road. America placed the individual at the centre. China placed the family. Lee describes the system Singapore deliberately chose to preserve: "If we keep those family bonds, those traditional life raft systems not dependent on the state, which places the emphasis on family, extended family, and then the government, and not the individual at the expense of the family and the state, which is the American system." He acknowledges what the American system produces: "So you have Bill Gates or John Chambers of Cisco... you look up Forbes or Fortune or whatever and 50 of the best and the brightest and the wealthiest. That's your experience. That's not China's experience." But the goal in Asia is different: "Yes, we also now want to try and get our little Bill Gates going, but in the context of keeping our society solid so that we will survive as a people." He closes with a sharp reminder of why these two civilisations may never fully understand each other: "You have never been occupied. You have only had one civil war. So you will never understand what it is." The takeaway is uncomfortable but worth sitting with: a society's values aren't chosen in the abstract. They're forged by what that society had to survive. Individualism is a luxury of stability. Family-first collectivism is the inheritance of centuries of collapse.

HS that’s actually insane 🤯

@Old_But_Gold50s 1971

Who delivered the best performance?

@orthodoxmason It’s just a simple IQ test

Sauron was defeated precisely because he couldn’t fathom anyone picking blue. Who would be stupid enough? Frodo and Company toppled a dark lord not through might of arms, but through commitment to Virtue. Subverting the empire for the kingdom

@madeleinewintr It’s a simple IQ test

if blue can win 58% even on this website that self-selects for the kind of game theory-brained amoral weirdo that would press red, it couldn't be more obvious that it's the correct option