Pondering the early Bitcoin meetups, I have a question for anyone who was around then, ~2015-2018. My experience of Bitcoin and Crypto meetups now is dramatically different than in the past in very specific ways, and Iβm not sure if the events changed or if I did.
Did we always talk so much about social issues?
Now when I go to Bitcoin events (that are not my own) I try to discuss tech, but always wind up in discussions of social issues. I am particularly sensitive to this at the moment as in the past ~5 years Iβve been bombarded by people literally following me around trying to give me their asinine gender studies treatise π€¦π»ββοΈ
At the past few events Iβve been to I didnβt get too many insane lectures on why I should go home and have more babies etc, but it was just uncomfortable for me as I wanted to discuss tech and I was seemingly the only one who did.
Was it always like this and I was just less sensitive to it back in the day? Did we discuss a lot of social issues at BOB meetups? Or has it changed?
Sexual attraction and respect should go together. Healthy people are attracted to people they respect, and they respect people they are attracted to.
The gender wars are over.
Men need women. Women need men.
Anything that harms half of humanity degrades all of humanity.
That bullshit is over.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Itβs embarrassing when someone you used to have a close association with has gone off the rails or fallen into an ugly ideology. ...something Iβve been experiencing a lot of in the past few years.
With some people I can look back and see that the signs were there, but then there are others who I was suspicious of years ago who I now have more respect for than ever. You just donβt know which direction people will go in.
People change, sometimes for the better and sometime for worse, and you canβt control that. All you can do is walk away when it becomes necessary.
What a privilege to feel deeply and to have expirences worth feeling.
What makes someone dictator enough for it to be justified for a foreign country to capture and remove them?
Do you think any US presidents have ever reached that mark?
...ya know what, alcohol only works if you're regularly eating carbs.
When you stop regularly eating carbs then alcohol doesn't provide much euphoria and it comes with a much worse hangover. It's a shity deal.
