It's not Christmas until I see Hans Gruber fall from Nakatomi Plaza.

Most of current humanity struggles in some way. A brief survey of the historical record shows this isn't new. "Evolution" might tell us this is an adaptive trait, rather than an environmental condition. So why, then, do we purse a life of ease?

Is this place still a thing, been gone for a while.

Sounds like being trapped in a room of mirrors.

How do proponents of technical analysis (chartists) account for their own confirmation bias?

“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.” -Goethe

"there were messy processes of social-consensus formation, appeals to authority, deep readings of original documents, and, ultimately, rancorous splits"
Sounds like 1st century Christianity. Bitcoin’s Existential Crisis by Nic Carter https://link.medium.com/yIv3JtWPLR

What's the over/under in minutes between a news report of "recently unearthed evidence" and the obligatory "this is huge" Tweet?

Hard to beat high school playoff football on a chilly November evening.

Worthy goal. How does the mechanism of DLT support/inform that goal? Is that mechanism working to support the space or is it superfluous to it?

Warming to the idea of making it a national holiday.

Sorry, Peepeth. Actually, not sure if I've ever heard the purpose articulated.

Anyone, regardless of partisan affiliation, who chooses to vote engages in peaceful action and advocates for the continuation of the republic.

The purpose for which the space was created, is it being realized?

Is this space succeeding?

There is truly little unique about the United States without the peaceful transfer of political power.

At this point, there's 'Bama...and there's everyone else.

What sustains maladaptive ideology? The fracture of society into ever smaller echoing slivers. The pendulum swing into rabid individuality perpetrated by the post-WWII generation has produced a viral confirmation bias which undermines society. We have rendered empathy impotent.

As a recent observer of the space, the "stick it to the Man" vibe jumps out in many groups. What I don't hear consistently is the benefits of the model. It's more of "your house is burning, get out".

Riches comment directed at the myopic fascination with token exchange as the driver of growth. Wall Street becomes Crypto Street. The new rises on the ashes of the old. These are all narratives in vogue. Peepeth is good, but why? I don't hear that being discussed enough.

So just sit back and hope everything else fails? Yikes, not a very positive message. Might as well go all in and be a survivalist.

Nicer, sure, but Peepeth employees gotta eat, too. Adoption won't happen without a sustainable business model. Nice isn't enough. Why is decentralized better? How does it make nice possible, what is its advantage? That message is lost in the rush to riches.

So many Dapps seem to simply reinvent the existing smartphone ecosystem, but "now, it's on a decentralized network!", as if that alone will drive adoption.Until decentralization is redefined outside of its libertarian roots, the rest of the world won't care.This isn't about 2008.

I'll know we've made progress as a society when the political views of entertainment and sports celebrities are not a news item and they are not invited to campaign by any politician ever.

No one can believe enough for two people. Loyalty is overrated as a virtue.

Factory resets suck.

How does community-by-choice combat maladaptive patterns brought about by cognitive bias?

There is no logical reason to assign malign intent to a group solely on the basis of its primary association. People are malignant, not groups. This is confirmation bias run amok.

The context of an evil act can outline the response of justice to it. It does not inform or explain its source. There is no bottom to the darkness that can exist in the human soul.

Tens of thousands of years of existence with all of our collective creative energy just trying to keep from dying and having enough kids to perpetuate the species. Serious business. Now life and death issues are Netflix cancelling our binge addiction.

Why are the stakes so high all the time? I wonder with the diminishing of global mechanized human slaughter and pestilence, we have a need to invent crises to rail against something. Are we so removed by modernity from the real threat of death that we are bored as a species?

Wingnut Friday, let the hyperbole commence...

Two distinct types of people: those who don't mind being around others, those who can't stand being alone

More convinced every day that public discourse is negatively impacted by our physical mind's (literally, our BRAIN'S) response to an overload of stimuli that has resulted from the proliferation of access to social media. Confirmation bias is acting like a response to a virus.

One person's profundity is another's absurdity.

I would disagree about technology's power to "make" humans act one way or another. Maybe "allows"? My belief(and supported by some empirical evidence)is that physical disconnection is driving the erosion of civility in discourse, and cannot be corrected through design alone.

I wonder about the potential false hope in the ability to "design" or "incentivize" improvements in non-physical human interaction. Can technology (a human invention) substitute for hard-wired cognitive biases that resulted from tens of thousands of years of human history?

I believe that application of personal morals is inversely related to the distance from the object of that application. Distance weakens the fabric of society and non-physical personal interaction erodes the strength of human interconnection. Ironic post for decentralized forum.