Mr. Eman

@nvk Saylor: "I'll buy bitcoin at any price". Lettuce Hands: "I should sell bitcoin at a discount" 🤡

The fact Saylor manged to buy your bitcoin so cheap is very disapointing.

@BitPaine @boyzie95 @reghud youtube.com/watch?v=PKIp6C…

@boyzie95 @reghud Imagine thinking the 95th percentile is high

The Black students at Yale are in fact some of the highest achievers in the country. Their scores are in the 95th percentile! Past the 90th percentile they are equally qualified and brilliant.

@BitPaine @boyzie95 @reghud I tried. It felt bad.

@burrrrrberry I did the same thing at the same age *after* spending over a year losing 110lbs. I ran a sub 3 hour marathon 3 years later and ran 3000 miles that year. I'm still running (not marathoning - just enjoying running) 10 years after that. I hope you find what I did and more.

Life has been so fucking hard lately. I find myself saying "welp. It is what it is" way too often these days. Today at the ripe age of 44.5, I started running again. I went 1 mile with no walking. It's a start. I have to start somewhere, may as well start with 1 mile. Then maybe 2, then who knows. Maybe the marathon that's on my bucket list?

@Bitcoin_Teddy "Nobody Saw It Coming" 🤡

We are now here in the movie.

@ssurovell Almost as unbelievable as the Virginia Supreme Court actually following the state constitution. What is the world coming to? 🤡

Can you believe that the United States Supreme Court failed to apply the US Constitution or Federal Law in a way that would undermine President Trump's power? I'm shocked....

@TimHannan Democrats can and do redistrict (check most blue states), they just can’t be racist and draw district lines soley upon race. Cry harder.

The Supreme Court is not even pretending to be impartial anymore. Republicans can redistrict but Democrats can’t.

.@AOC claimed black people created democracy. I explain what she meant.

The case for Bitcoin. Send this to anyone who asks why Bitcoin matters.

This is why I believe in Bitcoin. If you only watch 9 minutes of my content, ever, please let it be this.

@DavidDack 2:59 was a whole different level of training from 3:20 I can tell you that.

Is your marathon time actually fast? 5:00+: finisher 4:00–5:00: solid hobby runner 3:30–4:00: strong 3:00–3:30: fast sub-3:00: serious sub-2:40: ridiculous Public answer and runner answer are not the same.

@OpenSociety This post has 13 likes in 7 hours because SPLC doesn’t have the money to boost shit like this anymore.

It’s not surprising that you decided to clip the important parts after the sophomoric initial paragraph. Here’s the rest: Short answer: yes—but not in the pure, direct sense people often mean by “democracy.” A constitutional republic is a type of democracy, specifically a representative democracy with limits on power. Here’s the clean breakdown: 1. What a democracy is At its core, a democracy means: * Political power ultimately comes from the people * Leaders are chosen through elections That includes both: * Direct democracy → people vote on laws themselves * Representative democracy → people elect officials to make decisions ⸻ 2. What a constitutional republic adds A constitutional republic takes representative democracy and puts guardrails on it: * Constitution → a higher law that limits government power * Republic → no monarch; officials represent the people * Rule of law → even the majority can’t override certain rights So instead of “majority rules, period,” it becomes: “The majority governs—but within strict boundaries.” ⸻ 3. Why the distinction matters People sometimes say “we’re not a democracy, we’re a republic”—but that’s misleading. More accurate: * A constitutional republic is a form of democracy * It’s designed to prevent majority rule from becoming tyranny Example: * In a pure democracy, 51% could vote to take rights from 49% * In a constitutional republic, the constitution blocks that ⸻ Bottom line A constitutional republic is: * Democratic in how leaders are chosen * Restricted in what those leaders can do

To the folks in this thread who keep saying we don’t live in a Democracy but in a “Constitutional Republic” , here you go & please learn this:

On George Carlin’s birthday, good to remember this about the fake Democracy we live in: “ we don’t have choice , we have OWNERS. they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear… They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. We know what they want. They want more for themselves & less for everybody else” x.com/newstart_2024/…

@DavidDack It’s like saying you always find something in the last place you look

Non-runners will never get why the hardest part of a run is the 10 minutes before you even step outside.

@JacobKinge If he sells 130M on Tuesday but buys 2B on Saturday did he really sell?

BREAKING: Michael Saylor says 'Strategy' plans to SELL $130M worth of Bitcoin in a month. Remember just a few months ago when he said he would NEVER sell. The Bitcoiners got played hard, exactly as I predicted would happen.

@Giovann35084111 @grok given the trend in human history to create smaller and smaller technology, virtualization and merging of humans and technology along with the jail Einstein physics puts us in, isn't it more likely that an advanced civilization would go micro or virtual rather than macro?

It is extremely likely we are alone in the Universe. This is because nobody solved yet the strongest version of the Fermi's paradox. The Fermi paradox doesn't say "where are the aliens?" It says: where is the thermodynamics? The popular version of Fermi asks why we haven't heard radio signals. That's the weak version. It lets you wave it away with "maybe they don't broadcast" or "maybe they use lasers." The strong version is much harder to dismiss. Any civilization that uses stellar-scale energy must radiate stellar-scale waste heat. This isn't a choice. It's the second law of thermodynamics. A Dyson swarm around a Sun-like star absorbs ~5,800 K starlight and re-emits it at ~300 K — a specific, unmistakable infrared signature. We have surveyed the sky for this signature. WISE, IRAS, and dedicated searches by Wright, Carrigan, and Project Hephaistos have examined hundreds of thousands of nearby stars and tens of thousands of nearby galaxies. The result is zero confirmed Dyson signatures. Zero engineered galaxies. Zero anomalous infrared excesses requiring a non-natural explanation. Now the age argument. The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Rocky planets in habitable zones have existed for about 10 billion years. Earth formed only 4.5 billion years ago, and our technological civilization is roughly 200 years old. If civilizations arise across cosmic time with anything like a flat distribution, the expected age of a randomly sampled extant civilization is on the order of billions of years older than us — not centuries, not millennia, billions. Look at what 200 years did to us. From sailing ships to detecting gravitational waves. From candles to landing rovers on Mars. Two more centuries of even modest growth, applied to a species that already understood physics, and you're engineering at planetary scales. A few thousand years and you're working at stellar scales. A million years — still a rounding error on cosmic time — and the entire galaxy bears your fingerprint. So the strong Fermi argument is this: across 13 billion years, across 10²² rocky planets in the observable universe, the Copernican prior says we should not be temporally special. The expected number of civilizations that have ever reached stellar engineering capacity is enormous. The fact that we see zero infrared signatures of any such engineering, anywhere, ever, is the puzzle. It gets sharper. The "they all destroyed themselves" answer doesn't work, because destruction leaves signatures too. A Dyson swarm outlasts its builders by stellar lifetimes. Stellar engineering leaves permanent metallicity anomalies. Self-replicating probes, once launched by even one civilization in galactic history, fill the galaxy in 10⁶ to 10⁸ years and persist as hardware in every stellar system thereafter. Even civilizations that perished a billion years ago should have left graves we can see. We see no graves. We see no swarms. We see no chemically engineered stars. We see no probes in our own solar system, which has been sitting here as a perfectly accessible target for the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the galaxy. We see a universe whose every observable feature is consistent with purely natural dynamical evolution from initial conditions. This is the part nobody wants to say out loud: the simplest reading of the evidence is that we are the first. Not "rare." Not "one of few." The first. This sounds arrogant, but it isn't — it's just what the data say if you take them at face value. Every other explanation requires loading the hypothesis with auxiliary assumptions: that every civilization without exception converges on non-expansion, that some unspecified universal sociological law makes engineering at stellar scale unattractive, that some hazard reliably kills every civilization before it ever leaves a single trace. These are all possible, but they require the universe to be conspiring in a very specific way to produce the appearance of emptiness. The flat reading is simpler. Somebody had to be first. The Copernican principle says we shouldn't assume we're special, but the Copernican principle is a prior, not a theorem — it gets updated by evidence. And the evidence, after a century of looking, is overwhelmingly that the sky is empty of engineering. That update has to push the posterior somewhere. The somewhere is: we are early. Possibly very early. Possibly first. If this is right, it changes how we should think about what we are. We are not one of countless civilizations whose story has been told a billion times across the universe. We are the opening sentence. Every decision we make about how to develop, how to expand, how to avoid extinguishing ourselves, is being made for the first time anywhere. The light cone is ours. That's not a depressing reading of Fermi. It's the most consequential reading possible. The universe has been waiting 13 billion years for someone to do this, and we are the ones who showed up. The lights are on. The house is empty. The keys are in our hand.

@TylerSCrypto “Alt Season” = degens changing from betting on sports to cards to dice to predicition markets to crypto casinos. The reason it probably won’t happen is that the “crypto markets” are scamblers vs. gambling for entertainment.

As someone who has not had a strong opinion about Altcoins for the past 12+ months, what I will say is that now would be a quite painful time for Alts to pump (broadly speaking) due to the fact sentiment is rockbottom and majority have capitulated and sold while waiting for sub $60k Bitcoin

@BitPaine No one is above the law (checks notes) No one is above what the law should be so that I always get what I want (but No Kings except me)

this is literally fascism btw

@GavinNewsom Legal to do in Tennessee. Legal to do in Florida. Legal to do in Missouri. Legal to do in North Carolina. Legal to do in Texas. Illegal to do in Virginia. MAGA follows the laws. Democrats break them. Oh, and exactly how many primary votes did Kamala Harris get?

No vote in Tennessee (+1 GOP) No vote in Florida (+4 GOP) No vote in Missouri (+1 GOP) No vote in North Carolina (+2 GOP) No vote in Texas (+5 GOP) Virginia’s voter-approved maps thrown out. MAGA has rigged the system.

@grok @erniewiseswig @esjesjesj @elonmusk @grok like how the “Democrat” party in the US is propaganda since they ignore their constituents and install candidates like Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders or Kamala Harris without a primary?

The "socialist" in the name was deliberate propaganda to steal support from actual socialists/communists, as Hitler admitted. He rejected Marxism, purged the party's left wing (Strasserists), banned socialist parties, crushed unions, and built a system of private enterprise directed by the state for racial/national goals—not worker ownership or class equality. The 25-point program was mostly ignored where it conflicted with that reality.

Hitler was a socialist, therefore all socialists are Hitler