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[philipma1957]

I started smoking sigs at 11 and quit just 5 years ago. Actually it's easy to quit smoking. To start smoking is also easy. For me it's better to avoid alcohol to not start smoking.

I bought more bitcoin at ~ $ 16 000 now.

I am pretty lucky with alcohol I can have it in moderation and not feel cheated that I did not get drunk.

But If I were to go back and smoke a cigarette I would get addicted and be back to 30 smokes a day.


@ somac carbs are really fucking hard but doable.

I would rate gambling a 7.5
I would rate smoking a  8.0
I would rate carbs as 9.9

My carbs are 25-65 a day vs 200-300

My a1c is 6.7 vs 12.1

Finding out about the diabetes and treating it with diet is why I survived getting covid 2 times.

Now carb addiction:

 I am ¾ Italian descent we had a loaf of Italian bread every day.
We had pasta 2-4 times a week.
and of course cereal in the morning.
All the favorites. Frosted Flakes was high on my list.
Yahoo chocolate energy drinks
Soda

I estimate 400 carbs a day was my childhood diet.
Some meat
Some eggs
Some poultry
Some veg.
Some fish
Some fruit


Now
eggs
veg
meat
chicken
turkey
nuts
yogurt
dark chocolate 72-88%
whip cream is my big desert. I use some of that vanilla vodka in it with a small amount of maple syrup and powdered monk fruit.
small amounts of fruit.

[AlcoHoDL]

When I was a teen, my dad (a heavy smoker -- died from it) told me that he had no problem if I wanted to start smoking, but he wanted to show me something first. He filled his lungs with smoke from his Marlboro, then blew the smoke on a white napkin. The napkin turned dark yellow/mustard color. He said "That's what you take inside you. Do whatever you want." I've never even thought of using a cigarette since.

Decades later, when my father passed away (lung cancer), a friend offered me a cigarette "to ease the pain." I asked him if this would bring my father back... I'm still a non-smoker and intend to stay that way.

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[WhyFhy]

When I was a teen, my dad (a heavy smoker -- died from it) told me that he had no problem if I wanted to start smoking, but he wanted to show me something first. He filled his lungs with smoke from his Marlboro, then blew the smoke on a white napkin. The napkin turned dark yellow/mustard color. He said "That's what you take inside you. Do whatever you want." I've never even thought of using a cigarette since.

Decades later, when my father passed away (lung cancer), a friend offered me a cigarette "to ease the pain." I asked him if this would bring my father back... I'm still a non-smoker and intend to stay that way.

I got caught smoking as a teen and was forced to smoke a whole pack. Took me years to quit.

[Cryptolove20015]

Legends  


Twitter

[Gachapin]

fucking merit beggars that don't read the WO and double post crap are back again...


..anyone who merits them will be cursed with a rusty pipe voodoo

[John Abraham]

Damn! I thought the tiger and the lion were going to eat the donkey.

My thoughts exactly

That's a fairy tale. But with a good Moral. Isn't it?

fucking merit beggars that don't read the WO and double post crap are back again...
..anyone who merits them will be cursed with a rusty pipe voodoo

They Follow the same basics.

Wake up, Go to Twitter, and See if new memes or something are interesting. Then Post it on WO. Go to sleep.
Repeat every day. LOL

[cygan]

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[gallianooo]

The only good thing of this whole situation is we purged all these idiots and scammer. Maybe we still have to purge a bit again.

But after this pain and purge completed, we can start to go up again in a more healthy way. And hopefully for a new ATH in 2024/25 latest, and a nice rally in 2023, like in 2019. Let's see.

PS : wait, wait... no it's also a good thing for JJG to not bet, otherwise he would lost 1BTC 

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[BitcoinBunny]

I'll give SBF a new job. Punch bag at my local gym.
I'll happily pay him a dollar per day.

[Gyrsur]

Is BTCitcoin dead?



Black/Colin Vearncombe - Wonderful Life #NoHomo
RIP Mr. Vearncombe until resurrection.




BTW, Thermos invested some of his fortune into new hardware for BitcoinTalk?  

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[Republikcoin.com]

Bitcoin will always be bitcoin and the relevance will ever remain significant as a currency to the world, what others worked on and turns to world's complexity compilation of problem in their research, Satoshi remain ever commited to the project of bitcoin that led to what we all have as a digital currency today, bitcoin will always be the norms and most preferred digital currency from other cryptocurrencies despite high volatility, bitcoin remains bitcoin in a constant way.

https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1594458841894498304?t=Gr5dKYp82h30AavqfMyRSQ&s=19

There's nothing more interesting than Bitcoin when it's only about digital currency, so you also don't need to look at other cryptocurrencies if you feel interested in Bitcoin because the others won't be better off if Bitcoin isn't at a better price level. So hold on to Bitcoin and buy it as long as you can afford to, because if you see anything else is good, then Bitcoin will still be at its all-time best.

[Gyrsur]

if Wolf of Wall Street were about crypto --> so true 


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[nanobtc]

I quit smoking for good by vaping. I was an 'accidental quitter'. I didn't want to quit, I loved to smoke. My wife is a cancer survivor, so I never smoked inside. I got tired of freezing in winter, so i started vaping so I could do it indoors.

Smoking is a complicated addiction. All of us smokers are physically addicted to nicotine, but the other various aspects hold different power, over different people.

Some want a big cloud on exhale (that needs more vegetable glycerin in your vape juice).  Some want a more powerful 'throat hit' (that needs more propolyene glycol).  Some want strong flavors.  Some need the hand to mouth ritual. It's easy to adjust the amount of nicotine you are getting.

Once you can identify these aspects, you can fine tune your vaping experience to what YOU want. It will never taste like your old cig, sorry.

Once I got mine like I liked it, I had a shocking thought. I could do this instead of smoking.  After a month of two you start to get your taste back (I like lots of Scoville units, but I had to back way off on my normal hot food, once I could taste it properly).  I vaped for about 10 years, now have gone about 2 years with nothing.

To calculate the money saved was a huge help. I had an app on my phone, "since my last cigarette" or something. You entered in how much you smoked, and how much it cost.  It constantly showed a running total of money saved, and cigarettes NOT smoked.  When I was weakening I could look at that, and it sometimes would keep me from backsliding.

Cigarette money became my DCA.  Recommended.

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[JayJuanGee]

You know earlier this year I had a nightmare where I checked the price and it was in the 8000s. I really hope this doesn't come true but with the current price and doubt about Grayscale, various exchanges, and others I can't write it off like I did when I had the nightmare.

One thing I know for sure though is that I preferred it when these institutions weren't involved in Bitcoin at all. Bitcoin was driven by actual people then, and after this mess is all past us it seems like it will be again.

I am not claiming to know much of anything regarding where we are going, or even where we have been for that matter  - but these fantasies about some kind of a pure bitcoin that was or could be detached from reality -- seem a bit too much to be going down these roads to wish that bitcoin were to take some kind of a straight-forward road without drama and without war and without outrageousness.

There have always been scams and manipulation in bitcoin, and when there is money at stake (or do we want to call it value), then there are going to be attempts to manipulate loopholes - it is just that with the passage of time, the players (and the amount of value) has been getting bigger, BIGger and BIGGER.  I don't see how we would be able to avoid it and then wondering why so many crashes happening at the same time.. why wasn't the exponential top as BIG this time, and bitcoin must be dead (again).  

You are not really wrong.. but still it seems to be inevitable that we are going to have these kinds of behaviors that go along with financialization of bitcoin.. even if we might not be able to really foresee the particulars in regards to how BIG the blow up will be in one direction or another or which players (or combination of players) will will be manipulation, scam, drama, etc. participants.

I would think that our strategy must be to attempt to prepare to survive.. no matter the direction... and hopefully, it (bitcoin) is not really dead this time.

It seems inevitable that at some point, Ethereum is going to lose control of its peg too (of course, fuck ethereum and shitcoins, but we are also referring to contagion, no?).. and maybe that will be a slow bleed rather than the outrageousness of the combination of our current contagion with Terra/Luna, 3AC, Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi, FTX, potentially Genesis, potent GBTC and potentially some other BIG currently unnamed ones.

All the VC and high net worth individual money appears to be the dumb money, not smart.

Seems to be the case.  They just act like they are smarter, more sophisticated and actually doing more due diligence, when they are not.. they are merely going with the momentum like a lot of normie degenerate gamblers.  Even if they are responsible for the money of someone else, they seem to give few shits, except whether they can get away with it.. (the standard seems to be about what everyone else is doing).

I wonder how they became rich to begin with. I guess corruption and crony capitalism has worked wonders for them, which is why they're being destroyed by Bitcoin, as that shit just can't fly with something that is so honest and transparent.

Definitely depressing but shit happens.

True dat.

On the positive side, time and the monetary system is on my side.

There is no "positive side."


hahahahaha.. that's a joke.

[Gyrsur]

^^is that JJG still alive?

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