Do we have anyone here COVID-19 positive?
Hope no one yet.
Hitting close (though faraway):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5233043.msg54065345#msg54065345Somebody close to me is now presenting symptoms fully consistent with COVID-19, including somewhat worrisome respiratory involvement. [...]
This is the singular person in my extended family to whom I have always felt closest, even when she is faraway. I love her dearly; nevertheless, I am still not panicking. Neither is she. She is calm, rational, a lucid thinker despite the low-grade fever, and about as cheerful as one can be in the circumstance. We candidly discussed her probability of death (we think, low but not insignificant); and in prudence, I inquired as to her wishes in the event of her death. I had (and now have) tears welling in my eyes; she was emotionally unmoved. Her morale is a model of personal courage—a quality for which I admit she handily exceeds me, and always has. [...]
If
this person dies, then I will spend a full week doing nothing but weeping, grieving, and contemplating my unalienable right to suicide without actually doing it. I will then pick myself up, and build good things in her memory. —
If.That is a very old-fashioned view of life, obsolete in our advanced technological modern society where everybody has an unalienable right to safety.
With due apologies for the extended metaphor—this is too good to resist:I'll even do a waggle dance for you, if you wear a hat. Here's a preview of the delights that you are in store for.
No HOMO
The lovely dancing worker bees are all non-reproductive females in service of the Queen. ;-)
(Point taken; but if anybody can persuade me to change my avatar, I will eat my hat!)
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It's not about the Covid deaths. It's about their consequences.
Snakes don't do much damage to the economy, do they?
Well, maybe we shouldn't overreact and shut down the economy then.
From my perspective, the lingering question is not the virus, but whether this causes non repairable shit in the legacy financial system. Something has been burning since September already when the repo market got sick. This had nothing to do with the virus.
So I am keeping an eye out for more sorrow (and related scare dumps) before I declare all this over.
Whether Bitcoin would dump as well in a renewed scare dump downwards: we will have to wait and see.
...and others! I just skimmed, and missed much.
I also noticed that
my last post here re mindrust somehow missed this before it:
I've been thinking about mindrust. #nohomo
What is extraordinary (nutildah mentioned it first), is his sincerity about the incident.
Should that had not been so, we wouldn't have known - and/or whatever.
It is important to pause, and take the lesson here.
The shake down of a weak (in retrospect) over-invested bull, realizing a capital loss - but most importantly abandoning all hope and position, is not to be taken lightly.
Question: If BTC goes to $2k, will you buy 20 coins or not? I'm guessing a solid no.
I will not rub it in your face any more.
Hopefully you will do what is best for you.
Oh, and $50 per month, won't fucking cut it.
For one, thank you for sharing.Excellent points.
I followed mindrust’s post history in here, due to my respect for the sincerity with which he has upheld Bitcoin maximalist ideals in other important contexts: Defending Core against fork attacks (check his post history!), bringing
important Bitcoin
messages to the
Turkish forum at the cost of
his own effort, and doing other good things that require significant understanding and self-motivation. It is why I was flabbergasted that he sold out
all his skin in the game, and—now believes that Bitcoin is good for $50/week?
I haven’t been picking on him for the purpose of humiliating him, but to the contrary: My
respect for him has left me shocked and confused. It is
not that there is some cultlike need to pay in to show what a Bitcoiner you are, but the opposite: If you are preaching the message so hard, then I look at you as somebody who
therefore naturally regards Bitcoin as a precious, desirable thing. That is what threw me.
I have not wanted to rub it in mindrust’s face at all. Don’t want to now, either.
Not investment advice: I myself first bought in for €200 when I was literally homeless, from about €500 that a family member had sent for food and other basic necessities
—then went sideways a bit, for to err is human. Times were grim. For other reasons, it was the time when I finally wanted in; and though I could
not afford it, I figured,
now or never.
Go, Bitcoin, go!Life goes on, though I may not be in WO much for awhile. On the other hand, I do need to keep up with the market—so that I can discuss some good news to my strong-willed sick relative, who would tear me in half if I were to speak only of sickness.
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