The first cigarette I ever smoked was in the short-stay car park of Stavanger airport. It was a Camel Blue. The sky was Norwegian. Overcast and grey.
Since then I have smoked a lot of cigarettes, and will often claim that taking it up was the best decision I have made in a long time.
A cigarette operates as a small stick of entropy; within that single gram lives an agent of motion, a compulsion exerting itself over soporific lives. The random conversations one has with strangers over a cigarette often carry an edge of meaning that is hard to find in an otherwise superficial world. Mutual participation in a self-destructive exercise. Common ground transcending language. Line cooks, security guards and executives, relegated to a huddle under an awning as the rain pours, sharing a lighter. Ritual.
Much of what we have lost in the last two generations can be distilled to a neutering of our innate risk appetite. An unlanceable push towards comfort and safety, calcifying young minds and inculcating in them the belief that they are enough the way that they are. That to cast the runes is to err. Lost.
You are not enough. To make it is to understand that you never will be โ and then to try anyway.
Smoke.
@0x9212ce55 Almost every security person ive talked to has strongly advised against open sourcing code now
Internal ai security review tools give you all the benefits open source + bug bounty used to give you and open source contributions are 99% slop now
Real alpha
1. Say you're an underground rapper with tiger tattoos and a heart thats all hers (art>>money)
2. Ask if theyโre an ABG or FOB
3. Talk about dramabox
4. Say ่ดฃไปปๅ จๅจ็พๆน (zรฉ rรจn quรกn zร i mฤi fฤng) all the time
5. Ask what kind of car to expect as reverse dowry
Since all the crypto bros are in Asia now, hereโs how to date cute Asian girls 101:
> Say you work in fintech or manage assets and have a career path instead of โI do crypto.โ
> Ask her, โHave you eaten?โ
> Know your Asian food. Orange chicken is NOT allowed.
> Be generous irl instead of only shilling your bag.
> Donโt assume sheโs into you just because sheโs nice and replies quickly.
> Be proactive.
> Touch grass.
> Donโt say you โlike Asian girls.โ Itโs hella weird.
Do I miss anything ?
Guys we planned for like 40 people to be at this event and weโre already 3x over subscribed
Feel free to not show up ๐ฅฒ
Worst case weโre all gonna be smoking cigs in the street I guess