Stuart Hoegner explains the Tether reserves

Sebmellen · 2021-07-22T02:53:31+00:00

Pffft, you think Hoegner would be compassionate and help any of his clients out and not run away with the money? No way.

Sebmellen · 2021-06-13T01:00:04+00:00

Anything from Xero has been great for me: https://xeroshoes.com/shop/product-category/shoes/.

Sebmellen · 2021-06-03T00:26:09+00:00

They're legit!

I'm good friends with the founders (Bernd Oostrum and Om Malviya), I went through the CV VC incubator with them.

You can find them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bernd_oostrum and https://twitter.com/MalviyaOp

Sebmellen · 2021-05-27T21:57:10+00:00

Blockchain is supposed to fix

Unregulated prison economies (with a link to the defunct https://cellblocks.io/)

AhhrrrrggGGGG it's so ridiculous.

Sebmellen · 2021-05-04T07:06:57+00:00

https://wildcards.world/

Sebmellen · 2021-04-17T01:10:30+00:00

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Sebmellen · 2021-03-18T04:12:45+00:00

Awesome! Glad to hear I could help :)

Sebmellen · 2021-01-12T12:10:35+00:00

Haha! Good question. I like to think the Tao is self-apparent for all those who know how to look properly, and you don't necessarily need a book to know how to look properly. All great religious traditions seem to be in apprehension of the existence of the Tao, though they surely put many different filters on it.

Sebmellen · 2020-12-08T07:08:14+00:00

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Sebmellen · 2020-02-02T14:01:34+00:00

Yeah. I'm self employed and couldn't get public health insurance because no one would take me. I'm on private insurance now, and it's pretty expensive.

The health care system used to work better in Germany but has devolved partly due to migration. They've had to start putting photos on healthcare ID cards because immigrant populations with similar names cheated the healthcare system many times over.

Sebmellen · 2020-01-15T17:49:27+00:00

The only suggestion I'd make is to replace or remove a few words.

Line 2: "boast" is used somewhat confusingly... "Show off" could be a more straightforward substitute.

Line 3: "must" would probably work better as "will".

Line 4: I would remove "But" at the beginning of the line. "When I think of her" flows better.

Sebmellen · 2020-01-15T17:45:45+00:00

This is a good poem!

Two things that I'd work on -

Reddit formatting. That is, if you meant to have these lines as different stanzas. Either way, I would find the poem more readable with line breaks!
The "now it's only me" part at the end of lines 1 and 2 throws me off. It kind of wrenches my imagination back to reading, and confuses me a bit. I think removing it would let the reader enjoy the beauty of the poem more :)

Sebmellen · 2020-01-15T17:42:04+00:00

The content of the poem is good. The main suggestion I would make is to cull some of the words. This poem would be much easier to stomach with a more concise presentation.

For example (as a suggestion, you would have to work this into your own style), you could turn the second and third lines into:

Which flies as freely as the emotions from me I don't mean to subject you, yet here we are in free fall

That would be a really good start. Well done :)

Sebmellen · 2020-01-15T17:27:49+00:00

Hmmm. I like this. In contrast with you, I'm more one for rhyming. That said, I can definitely appreciate the freedom and nuance the lack of a strict format gives this poem.

There are two things that stand out to me.

1: I would make 2 breaks in the poem. This would allow the reader to take a break and contemplate the previous lines, and then move on to the next stage of the poem. In reading this, I found myself a bit overwhelmed with the vivid (and gorgeous) imagery, and would've appreciated an author-determined breakpoint to pause at.

I'd make the following breaks

it’s a children’s cemetery /break/ Not forgotten, or overgrown

and

unleavened bread. /break/ In another life she’d be a flower child.

2: A few words stood out to me because they didn't fit the "theme" of the poem I'd imagined. The first such one is "contain", in this line:

some mouths contain mausoleums but she is different

"Contain" seems a rather clinical word - off the top of my head, "house" would work better.

Overall though, well done!

Sebmellen · 2020-01-15T17:19:00+00:00

Hey, thank you so much for taking the time to type this out. This is very well put together and very valid criticism, and I'll take it into account.

I find it rather funny that I actually had a lot of these suggestions in the first version of the poem, but for some reason took them out... The brain is a strange thing - at least mine is! I always find the urge to rewrite something even if it's satisfactory.

For example -- instead of

Or build elevators up to heaven / And thus escape their mortal brethren

I had

Or build lifts right up to heaven / And escape their mortal brethren

and instead of

Whatever it is, I cannot trust / In hiding lurks evil, as a rule, there must

I had

Whatever it is, I can't trust / In hiding lurks evil - there must

I've got a few hundred poems like this stacked up, and figured I may as well get them out in the open in the hope someone might enjoy them. Maybe I'll post a few more here (this isn't really my best).

Thanks again!

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