I'm trying to cut meats out of my diet slowly. All seafood was easy as I was never that into it. Pig meat on the other hand... Bacon, Ham, Pork, etc. I knew that it had to go. So I started with that.
Currently I'm an opportunitarian. Chicken is the meat of choice if I can't handle the vegetarian option, otherwise beef. But pig and all seafood is gone from my diet. My hope is that plant-based or cultured meat improves to the point where I don't have these ethical dilemmas anymore. Until then I'll do my best.
I know it's not perfect but it's something. I think more people need to understand that eating and culture are hard to seperate and we need to accomodate that. Making meat a sometimes food is the first step.
When it hit around the $30 mark I was thinking that was going to be where it levelled off and I was actually excited for it to become a stable currency.
I was pretty wrong, both about it being a stable and a currency.
As another commenter mentioned, I'm also excited to have been here for it all and stille excited to see where it leads. Ultimately, whether you love it or hate it, Bitcoin has made its mark on history and has kind of become the giant shoulders that the next generation can stand on.
That said, in the past it was more generally accepted that forum moderators would rule with an iron fist.
Seems more recently, if you're being a dick and you are moderated it's interpreted as censorship and an attack on free speech.
Related. One thing I have noticed in the last decade is people no longer pulling people up on their spelling and grammar as much as they used to in the early days of debating the internet. I like this.
I think this is why those of us interested in this are very much hanging out for results from our explorations of Mars. It's pretty much our only opportunity to see if life emerged twice in the same planetary system under similar conditions.
What are the chances?
On the positive side Mars had pretty much all the ingredients for life (chemically) and had a long enough period for at least something intersting to develop. On the negative side, the environment was still different to ours (gravity, climate, whether, etc).
We still aren't clear on what conditions need to met for like to get going. This is why both positive or negative results on Mars are exciting.
My favourite theory is that life actually takes ages to get started so much so that it started on Mars and finished on Earth (from Mars being impacted and debris making it to Earth). Kind of like a passing of the torch.
Mars: "Crap. I'm dying. Hey Earth, can you take this thing I've been working on?"
Earth: "Yep. No worries. I got this. Will try to send some back in a few billions years. Take care."
e.g https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=PortaPow