Don’t think RC’s are gonna write in a Teddy book “watch out for electric coin centralized exchange ponzi pump n’ dump” and “be careful when Coinbase founder dumps 100% of holdings leaving households as bag holders.” He’s a pretty subtle guy. DFV knew. Not your coins, not your crypto. Also DRS.

“Debunking” LOL

Mossy doesn’t want this seen, wonder why…

So… I take it your answer is “no” to the whole helping-dig thing. No worries :-)

I’d agree, definitely interesting. Anyone know if GameInformer usually covers/publicizes these kinds of promotional talks by large firms like Microsoft? It’d seem more significant if it was odd for them to cover it. I don’t read the mag (but prolly should, lol).

Thanks, good to consider. A couple more thoughts: 1) they can’t ALL be shills, right? :-) 2) 84 years ago, we joked about “weaponized autism” being the feature most dangerous to SHFs. Some of that is real - obsessiveness can be quite powerful - but it’s also important to look out for each other, as you say. However, there’s only so far an online community can go in that regard. 3) I’ve read Edwin’s most-recent DD being referenced here, and I don’t find it out-of-line with his previous work, really. Yes, he uses catch phrases like “do your own research” that have stronger meanings in other communities, but his foil has always been “beyond” most of our other folks, and I don’t see him as lost or at-risk here. I also ignore politics, since I doubt most of us would agree on that topic anyway. Now, if Edwin’s posts from Dr Eyeball were proven to be sus - or fabricated - I’d agree he’s jumped the shark. But taken at face value, eyeball’s comments do seem to be an attempt to assert control over several key subs by one individual, which would obviously be a danger to those communities. Since we mostly seem to support decentralization n’ all (lol).

I suggest we all be very careful about calling anyone names, or suggesting they’re mentally ill; or, even as Michael did the other night, repeatedly call someone stupid who was being mostly reasonable on the ppshow. The guy didn’t even attack RC, as the pp team claimed; he just said he supported the little people and didn’t care about billionaires, which I understood to mean “billionaires can take care of themselves.” Which is 100% true. I’m a very loyal guy, but when someone’s resources so outweigh those of most others here (presumably), I’d agree they can take care of themselves. I think RC and Pulte do a lot of good in the world, but remember, Pulte called RC a shark at the Florida gig, and we should always remember that idealizing mere humans will nearly always result in a let-down at some point.

The pressure is on rn. Don’t take anything personally. As RC said, “words can never hurt us.”

Yes, there’s a LOT more in this book - the chaos and efforts to solve the three-body problem, plus SETI, military and police action, human relations - very dense but enjoyable. The statements I noted above stood out for me, but I imagine there are many more others might notice. Crowd-sourced research has been a very entertaining part of my last 3 years.

But- can we please also get the album NFT? I like both theories!

Would you believe “soonish”…? 🙃