Pretty much just my shower thoughts 🚿🧠 But I do other things like... Developer Advocate at Lightning Labs | Co-Organizer of San Juan Bitdevs | Founder of Velas Commerce
Public Key
npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst Profile Code
nprofile1qqs9k2f9t4024t44wa2jhux3zqcrwm6805v6qzw97k5qmhrn6jf4naspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgn5nwjg
Show more details
Published at
2026-06-27T16:01:40+02:00 Event JSON
{
"id": "66efaf03b9bfd2b7fb05aafb48f07f87024a38faacab8d60b8b87fc3e52e397b" ,
"pubkey": "5b29255d5eaaaeb577552bf0d11030376f477d19a009c5f5a80ddc73d49359f6" ,
"created_at": 1782568900 ,
"kind": 0 ,
"tags": [
[
"client",
"Primal Web"
]
],
"content": "{\"name\":\"hmichellerose\",\"about\":\"Pretty much just my shower thoughts 🚿🧠 But I do other things like... Developer Advocate at Lightning Labs | Co-Organizer of San Juan Bitdevs | Founder of Velas Commerce \",\"lud16\":\"[email protected] \",\"nip05\":\"[email protected] \",\"picture\":\"https://blossom.primal.net/80a5b8f122237ec589ed19736b833614af44b0b84331e19fde4cd12d9a64e7a5.jpg\",\"display_name\":\"HannahMR\",\"website\":\"https://hannahmr.com/\",\"banner\":\"https://m.primal.net/KDrX.png\",\"displayName\":\"HannahMR\"}" ,
"sig": "0b842dea7e8b6ed3537e24865641da61835185982d8ff6c9bd0db7da2512de621d6169bb7b7b3058d7f6bc3b684924f4928b4ff7fdf6d5e2d00742efbed1a3f1"
}
Last Notes npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose You’ve mistaken what your brain is good at for the totality of reality. This is especially true for brilliant people. When your brain is exceptionally good at a certain set of things, or when your brain is remarkable at focus or detail, then you lose perspective on all the things that your brain doesn’t want to focus on. Brilliant people are rarely “wrong”, but they are often too narrow. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose I’ll go first with a silly one. I am convinced that I NEED to shave my legs. There is zero scientific/medical data to support this idea. And women shaving their legs wasn’t even a thing until the 1940s in the U.S. Human bodies have hair on them, it’s perfectly normal and healthy… and I barely even have leg hair! I am well aware of all of this, and yet I can’t escape the feeling that something is wrong with me if there is any noticeable hair on my legs🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Humans are a social species. We are pretty much always caught in one form of groupthink/mass psychosis or another. ...Always. You can’t escape it, it’s how we are wired. The best option is to be very aware of it. So tell me, which groupthinks are you currently caught in? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/89dfff939072b7e5128e790c6c72f96ff56ff3aa322ad13be175fed90fdef269.png npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/18037282780f9e16c09edf8af3adba8d9013a83ff566b3da8b0a0f5c525cf14e.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose O I love Puerto Rico! Look at all the sunshine. It's like this pretty much everyday 😍 https://blossom.primal.net/a41c666bcd18618aa4b527c37b007f177110644c10ba6ac6c8fb2a9468ebe29a.png npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Americans tend to have a sort of anti accountability fantasy. They want to be so ‘above’ everyone else that they are accountable to no one. But this is an adolescent fantasy, once you live a bit you realize how out of line with reality it is. An employee is accountable to their manager. The manager is accountable to the CEO. The CEO is accountable to the VC’s. The VC’s are accountable to their investors. Around and around it goes. You will never find a job, a title, that makes you accountable to no one. And even if you could, what a horrifically lonely life that would be. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose 🤣 🤣 🤣 npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/fe8a9b3c7399c5dfdb75f71b65145241e4581ba4b82c9e50487228ef65b39a49.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose FYI, having an IUD inserted is at least a 5x more difficult experience than getting the side of your head tattooed. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Marry someone with a good sense of humor. The vast majority of the time you spend with your spouse won’t be on luxurious Italian vacations, or sipping wine at a fancy restaurant. Most of your time together will be spent changing diapers, and debating who’s turn it is to switch the laundry, and adding milk to the shopping list, and filling out health insurance forms. And you definitely want to be doing all that with someone who can have a laugh about it. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/35563d414ba95f04c418a160a7aad3c782d6cfea7dba284d26803ddef86fdd52.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose you can be right about what you are seeing, but be too short sighted... as in you aren't see all the pieces. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/4fed3710c2613f6c5813fa4f3deb36858f9544f156098c7373b3e3b2f9e0fb60.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose You just really gotta respect anyone who manages to live life on their own terms. And while Dolly Parton looked trashy, if you ever watched one of her interviews or heard about her prolific philanthropy, you’ll know that she was actually one of the classiest humans on the planet. And she looked great in some leather pants till the day she past. #goals npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/395a79e2c99fef7dc355836ac52553a47fe8bd3e77b3f096962b6a04503ac9de.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose I like that! Unfortunately that is not how the word is generally used, at least in American Christianity. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose A lot of people absorbed the idea that “I was wrong” = “I’m a horrible person”. Unfortunately a lot of religion leans into this. In religion “I was wrong” = “I sinned” = “I’m going to be punished by god” ...which is of course terrifying! npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose You can not have a solid, close relationship with someone who does not know how to hear a critique and who is not capable of saying things like “I understand”, “I can see how that would be upsetting”, “I was wrong”, “I’m sorry”, “I’m willing to change that”, etc. Which of course does not mean that someone will always say those things. But you can’t be close to a person who can’t accept that they are a fallible human who is sometimes in error and acknowledge that and adjust. Having real, solid relationships with others requires a specific skill set, and it’s a skill set that we don’t often teach and so it’s no surprise that it’s a rare skill set. But it is something that any capable, motivated person can learn. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose This is mostly true. The details here are that the new death penalty law does not explicitly apply only to Palestinians, but effectively does. The new law applies to military courts where only Palestinians are tried. Israeli citizens and residents including Jewish settlers are not subject to military courts. Also there is some due process, appeals are allowed, though they must be heard by a special court, and it seems that the standard procedural safeguards have been weakened. But the law does prohibit mitigation, commutation, or pardon, and it sets a 90-day deadline for execution after a final judgment. And of course the Holocaust comparison is a matter of opinion. https://blossom.primal.net/3fdc944c684b8d921cafc13a78d1a7fde7b3492573395929c2da50788fa3cd1b.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/e0b9d8a594e0a64dc1561fa19e41a3b559290e374aff36a989af02161221ab6c.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose If you have negative/difficult/intrusive thoughts or feelings, don't try to stop or change what you're feeling, just change the meaning that you give it. For example, you’re on a flight and as it’s about to take off the engines get loud and the plane goes faster and faster and so does your heart! The anxiety has kicked in! And you could tell yourself a number of different things about that. You could tell your self that the plane is about to crash and we are all going to die!!! 😱 Or you could tell yourself that statistically speaking you’re in just about the safest place that you could be and you’re being a complete fucking idiot for feeling this way!!! …or, you could tell yourself that these feelings make sense as flying isn’t natural to humans. You’re probably only the second generation in your whole 200k year family line to have ever felt these weird sensations and noises and to intentionally launch yourself into the sky. So ya, of course your nervous system is a bit on edge right now! npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/50b1ea37edef22f7165848ad8bb799ce05cda03cd9f6604b78a29f04e4eea9fa.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Often I enjoy a morning cup of tea more than an evening glass of wine. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Fashion things that make no sense and I'm done with... High heels - Like why would you intentionally cripple yourself??? Purses that you have to actually hold with one hand - We invented the cross body strap thousands of years ago! npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose One time I accidentally read my daughters diary… but in her diary she was confessing to having read my diary!!! So that left me in a bind. I had found some pages that looked like they were ripped out of a notebook in a trash can. I was curious about what it was so I picked it up to read it. It was an existential analysis of an anime… and then a confession to having read my diary! But she didn’t read much of my diary cuz it was very boring, apparently all I wrote were complaints about Twitter! 🤣 Accurate. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose I keep waking up with this song stuck in my head 🤔 https://youtu.be/eAR_Ff5A8Rk npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose ya, I'm just not getting how your comment is relevant to the meme. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose I don't think that's possible as the texts themselves are contradctory. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose What ya mean? A gun is just a tool for a human. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose The three main Abrahamic religions are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All of their ‘holy books’ contain patriarchal and homophobic passages. All of these religions can be and are practiced in both a very moderate, non-hateful, ways and in very extremist ways. Let’s look at those holy books! Now we need a disclaimer, these books are not of the same length, there are different versions, and different scholars interpret passages differently. Book length: Bible: 31,102 verses total Quran: 6,236 verses Torah: 23,198 in the full Hebrew Bible Patriarchal passages: Bible: 20–25+ texts Quran: 6–8 key legal texts Torah: 15–20+ texts Homophobic passages: Bible: 6–7 verses Quran: No explicit prohibition Torah: 2 verses npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/6c7e824cd2197c6fe67a2ab5499dcefcce56e497c6a740993842fceb43724bca.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose nah I think they genuinely don't agree or like eachother. ...but please don't think I'm defending her here at all! npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose We just insist on seeing a “good guy” and a “bad guy” in every situation. We love the simplicity. But really, 90% of the time, it’s “bad guy” vs “currently worse bad guy” and this is just such a great example. Here I would call Candice the bad guy and this Andrew dude the currently worse bad guy. https://blossom.primal.net/3c116407f3dbc7a3cf571527b90228ecc4e625824a026dbeb256ac3fd5ae850d.png npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose this post was for people like you. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose You do realize that women can flirt with men... or men can flirt with men, etc. ya? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/384bc979ce1d3ddd067fcdfc0ec25fb6fbbcb42691addf178d5e5d866cc11716.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Okay, some of y’all need to repeat after me… The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. The difference between flirtation and harassment is respect. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Fucking terrifying how many people still don't understand that there is a difference between flirtation and harassment. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/65443c5cde862e5a209f692520b946797823de64cbc7879e756eb61119c5d52f.png npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/504bf5f48e8ce752cc90ed20cf206ca2e47bddb6c5f40e86d545ecf43a87ee32.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose This morning I’m remembering that one time I was reading about ancient civilizations and noticed that one of my favorites, the Indus Valley Civilization, didn’t appear on the list that the LLM gave me. When I dug into why I discovered that a lot of times, if a clear hierarchy can’t be found(as in the Indus Valley) then it is decided that group of people were not a civilization… that’s right, researchers are out here equating hierarchy with civilization. Funny, cuz I’d argue for the opposite. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Don't hear what I didn't say. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose It annoys me when people say that women gained some right "for the first time in history"... nah. The world has not always been patriarchal. And I'll bet ya that we discover that most of humanity has been non-patriarchal. https://blossom.primal.net/0a22a225669cd3cc800c26f2f5b60fef9ad60a715474ad07ba9c7aac6605206d.png npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Randomly remembering the one time I put my dog on a carnivore diet and she got really pissed at me about it. Not even dogs like the carnivore diet. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/e1e279114a4815d7b33a36eea7a5b592a1c2d9d1b9ea690a6d6bdb1ad23783ad.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/ed6360989ccf30257c66de744f3d9fdf1c13c2b1f7e2c4b44d388ba706a72485.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/e5c5dec2d6da9119144c9f58b4f9eb0d0d7d0c3c379f307e90b8201f8a03008a.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose wait how did I get tagged in this? And why would using Lightning suppress the value of Bitcoin? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Pretty much every late term abortion chosen by someone who wanted a healthy baby and isn't going to be getting that regardless of what they choose to do. A later term abortion is a way to manage a tragedy that already occurred. https://blossom.primal.net/1de9fbe7802f3f8ed0b2c3085e6378d61d118dd740b99e40f9f79532cc26ff25.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose The internet is still crashing out about the man vs bear thing. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose That's so male. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose ...I don't get it. Why am I tagged here? What did I do? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose I’m so annoyed at there being so many people who hate psychology and therapy. I think y’all just don’t know what you are talking about. “Therapy just teaches you to blame others”: Not at all. Therapists are all like “let’s focus on what you can control.” “Therapists encourage people to go no-contact with their parents”: Not in my experience. I’ve never had a therapist do anything besides encourage me to accept my parents the way in which they are. “Everything in psychology is fake, it’s a reproducibility crisis”: It’s not a crisis, it’s how science works. You have a hypothesis, you test it, if your tests confirms your hypothesis then other scientists try to reproduce it. If they can’t reproduce it then it’s back to the drawing board, if they can reproduce it then its a confirmed theory. It would be a crisis if no one was doing the science and trying to reproduce findings. And many things in psychology are proven accurate/effective via reproducible studies. “Freud was a creep”: Yes! Also pretty much everyone knows that and a lot of his theories have been discredited. Pretty much no one is doing Freud style therapy anymore. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/39be853f72c6bae4b387396a4a85fa19c88ed3e1df25b929448683460d578982.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Geez Claude, calm down. https://blossom.primal.net/79e407740c712d540eb64cf9d193dde4b92954a5a9f143e58d411bbde71e8886.png npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/89e17516de608d5973c38dc3ffb6588f535e4fcc968ada9fe643518217d24692.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose and you are suggesting installing locks that don't work. why would you do that? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Feelings will impact what we see as reason. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Bitcoin isn't your house. It's not my house. You and I don't have to the right to decide what does and does not have access to block space. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose That filters don't work and that clearly this fork wasn't going to work either. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Not getting caught in groupthink isn’t a matter of intelligence, it’s a matter of maturity and self awareness. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose BIP110 fascinates me. Not from a technical perspective but from a psychological one. Technically it's always been clear, and yet I’ve watched very technical, highly intelligent people get trapped in it. We over value raw intelligence and seriously undervalue emotional maturity. Not getting caught in groupthink isn’t a matter of intelligence, it’s a matter of maturity and self awareness. Humans have a big fucking issue with mania and groupthink. We expect that in places like politics but we are often blind to it in fields like science and technology. But groupthink exists anywhere that humans exist. Many years ago I became a technological determinist and decided that the best way to improve the world was to build tech. But these days sometimes I think it might be a better idea to go get a degree in psychology. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose well it's not realistic, it's a cartoon. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/7fef215f0920c575bdb7d5df50344e88a7c109fc72982c39a84139a72bb5cc38.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose but why not?... he does look great in it! npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Rage bait or food for thought? Both, of course. https://blossom.primal.net/90383306529b695f2742d1cd2dca80d37b2c568af86e6cfcbb9c7f8eea9f16c4.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Update to 2.4.2 but also, if you have the standard docker bitcoin + lnd + BTCPay setup, you'll want to explicitly destroy all your macaroons and macaroons.db and recreate them fresh. Or, just shut it all down until you are ready to update. https://blossom.primal.net/a8d314d7d952cbcd01745f8b4178e2656961cb026b8732c56d1c09ddff49a743.png npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose We love for things to be simple. A clear yes, and clear no. One clear line in the sand. But life is messy and complicated and doesn’t often lend itself to clear answers. A sign of maturity and intelligence is the ability to wrestle with a very complex issue and resist the urge to lean on a simplistic answer. If you’d like to test someone’s ability to wrestle with complex issues, ask for their opinion on abortion. Rarely is there an issue that fits this test better. It is complex and for most people it stirs very deep and difficult to manage emotions. Abortion fits this test so well as you have two things that very much matter, a fetus and a woman, and in the scenarios that we debate, their interests are at odds. For every simple and clear answer that you think you can find, once you change the assumptions or scenario, that simplicity evaporates. The question of abortion also reveals someone’s ability to exhibit care and understanding for others whether that other is an unborn fetus or a living woman. The language that someone uses, the examples that they chose… reveals a lot. If you are of the mind that abortion is a simple matter, then I hope that the below walk through of my take on the topic reveals many aspects that you had not been consciously considering. This topic is one where we can very quickly see that the answer will always be context dependent and a constant weighing of the relative importance of conflicting needs. Does a fetus matter? Let’s start before impregnation and imagine an IVF clinic. Here is a classic thought experiment: You are in a building when suddenly the fire alarm goes off and you realize the place is engulfed in flames. As you run to safety you pass an IVF clinic. Inside the open door to the IVF office you see a container holding hundreds of frozen embryos and next to it a crying 2 year old child. You only have the strength and time to save one. Which do you choose? Nearly everyone will choose to save the child. Why? Because while an embryo certainly does have value, it’s value is far less than that of a living child. That child has thoughts, and feelings, a fully functional nervous system that can experience pain, that child has attachments, and has begun forming an identity, a story. While the embryo’s have none of that. This thought experiment illustrates that the value of an embryo grows as it does. Most of us would agree that abortions are less objectionable the earlier in a pregnancy that they happen, and many of us would find a late term abortion to be similar to that of murdering a baby. So let’s move to the very difficult topic of late term abortions. If you were thinking that this one is quite clear, then I’ll tell you about one line that changed my whole perspective on this topic. Years ago I read an article written by a doctor who performs late term abortions, the line that changed my mind was simply “the people who come to me are people who have already painted the nursery.” The stories she proceeded to tell about why prospective parents ended up in her office were absolutely gut wrenching stories of medical tragedy. Situations where the baby won’t make it, and the mother might not either. Stories where the options are to let the baby slip away in peace now, or force the parents to watch their child live in pain and cry in gasps for its last breath of air. The abortions she performed were not done out of revenge or regret, they were a tragedy management tool that saved lives and eliminated certain suffering. With these examples we can see that the bar for when abortion is a decent thing to do raises as that fetus develops. But thus far we’ve only thought about one end of the equation, the fetus, but we can’t forget that this also involves women. Does a woman matter? Thus far in my life I have had two pregnancies. Both well planned and both that resulted in the birth of a healthy child. I have been responsible, but I have also been lucky. Being pregnant was an amazing experience. I had uncomplicated pregnancies and it was mind blowing to feel these new people develop and grow inside my body. They had distinct personalities while still in the womb. I have not been faced with having to make a difficult decision about terminating a pregnancy, and I hope that I never have to make those choices. It would be gut wrenching to end a pregnancy. It is a death of sorts, certainly it is a great loss and a tragedy. But were it my body, my fetus, without a doubt it is my decision. Burden and choice are flip sides of the same coin. Those with the ‘skin in the game’ are those that are best suited to make the choices. Someone in a fancy suit hundreds of miles away who will not have to live with the outcome of the situation is wildly unfit to make difficult reproductive choices for others. No one has more of a right to make reproductive choices than a pregnant woman. Giving someone else the rights to make these difficult choices is to disrespect the rights of women. It is to remove bodily autonomy and make women slaves. While childbearing is certainly natural, it is never easy, and quite often it is very dangerous. Statistically speaking, being pregnant is currently the 6th most dangerous job in the United States. Some years it’s more dangerous than being a police officer. And in parts of the world without modern health care, complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death for young women. When a woman chooses to bear a child not only does she risk her life, she is certain to undergo a very difficult and traumatic experience. Birthing a child is incredibly gruesome work. For most of us we will have a moment of finding ourselves laying in a pool of our own blood and feces wishing we could pass out. With my second child I was unable to get an epidural and I’m pretty sure I maxed out my body’s ability to feel pain. Can you imagine what it feels like to have your body ripped apart from the inside out? No I am not being dramatic, ripped is the right word. And let’s not forget that the recovery is likely to last years. What right does someone have to force another sovereign being through such a process? And I will only touch on the topic of rape. I think any decent person would be appalled by the idea of a woman being assaulted and then forced to risk her life in enduring the birth of her rapist’s child. So which one matters? Both obviously. And that is the difficult and complicated part, that it’s both. I imagine we’ve all seen the very publicized examples of very crass abortion supporters who have done things like throw an abortion party, etc. That’s ugly. And it says that women matter but a fetus does not matter. I’m sure we can all also think of an example of a staunch anti-abortion campaigner who would like to see women forced to carry their rapists babies. That’s horrific. And it says that a fetus matters but a woman does not matter. The tricky part about all of this is that it’s both, and it’s not simple at all. The life and well being of a woman matters, and a fetus also matters. In tragic times and places when their needs are at odds, then very difficult choices about which matters most have to be made. And the ‘answer’ to that will differ in every situation. It’s a constant weighting of conflicting rights at different points in time in different situations. It’s not simple. We can’t make it simple. If we can take a step back from our very understandably intense emotional connection to this topic, we can see that any clear and simple answer crumbles under the reality of varying situations. Having a considered and caring take on abortion requires the capacity to hold complexities. It requires maturity and intelligence. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Look, you want to go & make sure all your stuff is up to date & expect to have to do some emergency updates soon. But this isn’t just the Bitcoin world. Anyone running any kind of relevant software is busy frantically patching things. We are in a strange moment right now. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose well, that is a very revealing thing for you to say. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Every new ”groupthink” will sell itself to you by convincing you that this way of being is above the groupthink. Spoiler: You are never above the groupthink. Human’s are a social species. Just be very aware of what variety of groupthink you specifically are susceptible too. https://blossom.primal.net/24443f2c2abab5700902ecc1ee51cc89b8af975e67011e43c88bfad7867727eb.png npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose someone else deciding what happens to my body is slavery. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Is abortion murder? Well, in a sense. And then also, a woman not having bodily autonomy is slavery. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose seems to be. But we need to wait for the dust to settle. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/ecee6d36e1ab1f9bf2af8cfe19fcc91fee55b868c5a815776bdcda721ed1b461.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose females? you mean women? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Pavol Rusnak's recent Twitter article - Bitcoin Toxic Maximalism Has Failed "Good people attract good people. If you build a community around hating something, you attract people who hate." https://x.com/PavolRusnak/status/2084645616932606300 https://xcancel.com/i/article/2084645616932606300 npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Ya know, I'm just not into the cannibalism. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/970d2aaac74756859d4c231b24430e477a479a1219c89f7d107838eb5086b3d5.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Lately I’ve seen a return to using “gay” as a pejorative. That concerns me. I don’t want to go back to a world where gay bashing is normal. But I call people on it and they are like “nah it’s just a word, it doesn't mean that, relax” And so for those people I have a question… How about when I see something that I think is stupid or an over reaction, or someone just being dense I’m going to note how “male” that is. It’s “male” as a pejorative. I don’t mean that I hate men, of course not. Some of my friends are male! It’s just that things that are silly, or impulsive, or idiotic are “male”. Ya know it’s just a word. And you of course are totally cool with this… right? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/10ae631e83a4519cd285909ee84cc4ccd1309f5573a3c38ce1f46787daf7fd86.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose No. You will read if you care to ✌️ npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose I think maybe you don't actually know much about Jesus. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Just your periodic reminder that being loud on social media does not equal competence. Life is complex, occasionally there are people who are both loud and competent, but generally, loudness covers for a lack of competence. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose is that a yes or a no? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Do you respect Jesus? Do you try to live like him? Do you think he would behave like you do? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose You think that's something Jesus would have done? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose ...is this what you sit up at night worrying about? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose 🎯 npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/559ea8041afde92467e7f356cec983b29324239298744964d804fb02b2d2f520.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Pretty much every Bitcoiner I know has a story about losing funds. I’m unaffected by this latest disaster, but I’ve lost funds in other mishaps. We all have. If this one affects you, I want to tell you that money really isn’t all that important. Which may sound insane when you’re staring at a zero balance with that pit in your stomach. And it’s also a strange thing for a Bitcoiner, with a degree in economics, to say. But, more accurately, I want to tell you that the accumulation of personal wealth is not very relevant to living a good or happy life. Now how money functions, the type of money that the world uses, that is very impactful. I don’t work in Bitcoin to stack sats, or build a citadel, or to drive a lambo, I do this work to separate money from state, to remove a giant concentration of power from the world. And having meaningful work in my life does make me a happier person. Where you spend your time and energy is wildly important, but wealth, the accumulation of stuff, is a different beast entirely. If this one affects you, I want to shake you and yell at you… WEALTH DOES NOT MAKE YOU A BETTER OR HAPPIER PERSON. Please believe me, I checked! ...a few times. I’ve been lucky enough to have seen this issue from many different angles. I grew up in a household that had some wild swings in income. One year a trailer in Florida, one year a month long vacation in Europe. I’ve lived in a roach filled studio apartment on the wrong side of town, and in a house so big you might get lost. I’ve lived among the poors and partied with the super wealthy. One time my ex won the lottery and then fell into a depression. True story. I’ve got some experience with this one! So many of us grew up with the belief that money is how you measure personal value and worth. That understanding is deep in our bones. I believed that for a long time and I fought really hard to ‘get into the room’, and then hated it there. Getting out of poverty will make you happy, but from there the more you climb that ladder, the more you find yourself in rooms filled with people absolutely desperate to prove themselves via money. People who have lost their soul. That is not winning. The accumulation of wealth is not an interesting or valuable goal in life. You can’t take the money with you. You can’t take the Twitter follower count with you. You can’t take the perfectly decorated giant house with you. You do take your story with you. And your story just got a wild new chapter. Welcome to the club. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Can you enjoy something without referencing the achievement map? I’ve been thinking about the zerosum, comparative mindset that most Americans suffer from… that I often suffer from. I’m trying to work this out of my head and I realized that I constantly reference an achievement map. Example, the other day I went for lunch with my husband to a lovely restaurant in Chicago not too far from a place that we used to live. It’s a restaurant that we used to go to years ago. It was nostalgic and when my brain was deciding how much I should enjoy that moment it immediately referenced the achievement map. My brain asked, where am I in my map of things I’m expected to achieve in comparison to where I was on the map when I was last at this restaurant? Am I richer? Do I have more Twitter followers? Am I thinner? On and on. I couldn’t just enjoy a delicious lunch with someone that I love. I couldn’t just appreciate the memories, my brain had to first reference the achievement map to determine if I have achieved enough to be allowed to enjoy this moment. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Good times/bad times don’t make someone’s character, they reveal it. Re this Coldcard disaster, it’s been very interesting to see who is using this to dunk on others, who is trying to CYA, who is using this to gain new customers, and who is simply helping. Noted. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose Good morning 🌄☕ The number one predictor of health and happiness is the quality of your relationships. Less doom scrolling, more texting friends. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose https://blossom.primal.net/aac44aac95c3b89a27dc354f6eb6935ee17fc4542250159231db95c11d1dab37.jpg npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose In case you haven't heard, COLDCARD SECURITY RISK: IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/coldcard-security-risk-immediate-action-required npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose okay, well I'm going to mute you now, but you have fun. npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose You don't seem to enjoy my content. Why are you here? npub1tv5j2h2742ht2a6490cdzypsxah5wlge5qyutadgphw884ynt8mqg4jlst hmichellerose I’m so not a Ayn Rand fan, but she did say something brilliant once, “people who are genuinely racist usually are so because they don’t have a better reason to like themselves.” Nailed it! And this applies to all sorts of things and certainly to sexism, and especially to the Red Pill crew. Men who look down on women nearly always do so because they don’t have a better reason to like themselves. There is that zerosum hierarchy again. If you can be above a woman then you aren’t on the bottom… right?