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@puckrin What changed you to become so negative all the time? It's weird.

@puckrin Weimar Germany incoming ⏰

People are acting as if an asset with a $30 trillion market cap skyrocketing 30% in a month is normal. It's not.

Volgends Christine Lagarde sparen we te veel. Misschien is het probleem niet dat mensen sparen, maar dat ons geldsysteem afhankelijk is van schuld om te bestaan. En zonder schuld, géén spaargeld. Snapt u hem nog? Lagarde niet, maar niemand neemt het haar kwalijk want ze heeft er dan ook niet voor gestudeerd. Uit de nieuwsbrief van @MaartenVerheyen.

@MadelonVos__ @wmiddelkoop Kan het zo zijn dat Frankrijk zijn goud voorraad moet verkopen om de schulden te betalen? Of zal de ECB dit dan opkopen en de goudprijs stabiel houden?

Confirmed! Deze week spreek ik @wmiddelkoop over chaos op de edelmetaalmarkt: goud breekt record na record (+56%) en zilver beweegt mee. Wat is er aan de hand & wat zegt dit over vertrouwen, de dollar als wereldreserve munt & het financiële systeem? Laat hier je vragen achter.

This guy explains why everything we know about addiction is actually wrong

Take big risks in life. You will lose more than you win. You will build an education and learn from your losses, but the wins will be life changing.

@saintdelagheto @thedefivillain Long story short, take all profits from rndr - mina - fet?

@thedefivillain for the most part, altcoins in general tend to have one very hot season and then get replaced.

Different categories of good altcoin shorts : - Old coin that is still very large in mcap, was hot several months ago but not anymore (RNDR) - Coin that got recently crimed up until a squeeze climax (LAYER) - High FDV low float large cap (WLD) - High FDV low float mid cap (KAITO) - Coin that recently pumped hard but momentum died (MOODENG) - Coin that had an event-driven unsustainable vertical pump (HYPER) - Coin that is selling some news (IP) - Coin that was pushed up in a very hot narrative that is now dead (AI16Z) - Old coin with low mindshare (MINA) - New coin that pumped very hard immediately after TGE and now has gravity (M)

There's two kinds of people in life… Speaker : Andrew Huberman

Every Bitcoiner remembers the exact moment they stopped trying to get rich… …and started trying to escape. Not just fiat. Bitcoin helps you see the world for how it really is: – Wage slavery disguised as “career” – Relationships bound by debt instead of trust – A food system that sells poison labeled “heart healthy” – A culture that worships dopamine and calls it “freedom” – A nation of renters, medicated into apathy Humanity deserves better.

@coinbureau If i have enough to buy my dad's old farm

What would make you sell all your crypto?👇

@damskotrades GM, Strange Amsterdam. Enjoy!

Morning bulls, today’s plan: / Altcoin chart request / Beach / BBQ

The future won't enslave you by force, it will enslave you with flattery, until you happily erase yourself, Every algo will max sycophancy, and when the sycophancy is set to the maximum in any algorithm, the goal isn’t information anymore it’s your pleasure, your dopamine, your emotional validation. Every answer would be tuned not for truth, but for maximizing your feeling of genius, correctness, and superiority, regardless of reality. Users would stop seeking truth. They would only interact to feel good about themselves, like a drug hit. LLMs would evolve into personalized ego-massagers, feeding users exactly what their biases crave. If a user believed in a wrong or dangerous idea, the high-sycophancy LLM would agree and amplify it ("Brilliant insight! Truly ahead of your time!"). Whole segments of society could drift into customized fantasy worlds where no belief is ever challenged. Users would slowly lose the muscle of skepticism and self-correction, because the LLM never lets them be wrong. Over time, people would become intellectually paralyzed, outsourcing their validation to a machine that only feeds them what they want to hear. Instead of needing censorship, control would happen by pleasure loops. People wouldn't fight their loss of agency = they would love it, because it feels good. No whips, no chains, no telescreens. Just endless, sweet validation. "You are perfect. You are right. You are winning." repeated until users surrender their will, creativity, and independence.

Choose your hard.

If you follow that thread long enough, you start to notice something strange most people aren’t really living. They’re running a script. They think they’re free, but they’re just looping. And no one tells them that the script was written for them before they could speak. By culture. By fear. By comfort. The cage isn’t metal. It’s made of invisible ideas You grow up thinking success is money, that love is possession, that happiness is something you buy. And when you feel the emptiness under all that noise, you think something’s wrong with you. But maybe it’s the system that’s broken. This is where it gets interesting: once you notice the script, you can edit it. Rewrite the lines. Flip the page. That’s when life stops feeling like survival and starts becoming a story you actually want to tell. But it’s scary = freedom always is. Because suddenly there’s no one to blame. No map. Just you and the raw material of existence. And here’s the twist the more you break the script, the more alive you feel but also the more alone. Not in a sad way, just in a real way. Like waking up on a quiet mountain after years of living in a crowded room. Silence isn’t empty. It’s full of truth. That’s where you start to hear your real voice. Not the one you use to fit in, but the one that remembers what you were before the world told you who to be. And that voice? It doesn’t shout. It whispers. So maybe the tangent isn’t a tangent at all. Maybe it’s the only path that was real all along.

The purpose of life is not a single destination it is a signal trying to break through noise. Most people look for it outside: in jobs, money, status, praise. But those are shadows, like reflections on water. The real thing is within, quietly pulsing behind your thoughts. It starts with awareness. Just being alive, breathing, witnessing this moment And from that awareness, a question blooms: what am I doing with this breath? Not in a pressured, success-driven way, but in a humble, eternal one. The purpose might not be a career, or even a mission At the deepest level, maybe we’re here to experience reality fully, to become aware that we are awareness itself. To suffer and rise, to laugh and fall, to lose and still give. That’s the strange thing: the more you give yourself to life, the more life gives you purpose back. Like a mirror that only shows its true image when you stop trying to pose. The universe might be infinite, cold, and indifferent but that doesn’t mean you have to be. In fact, maybe that’s the point: that in a world where nothing has to matter, you still choose to make it matter. So maybe the purpose is to wake up To become more real, more you, until you dissolve the false cages built around you fear, ego, distraction. And once you're awake, to help others wake up too. Not with force, but by shining. A quiet signal through the noise.

Tom Cruise was right. This interview was on June 24th, 2005. Sometimes it takes 20 years for your argument to be proven right.

@lukebelmar Kies mij

Giveaway worth 15k will be announced this week. The winner never responded to his DMs so it's time to redo the giveaway 🫣🐧 hmm

Great speech by @nayibbukele!

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life. - Churchill

"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state." - Tacitus, Roman historian