She holds the steak down with her fork so she can tear off about a third of it and then just uses her hands to shove it into her face 😂
This is the way
Gotta have at least one pair of these. Inevitably there’s that one job that needs you to reach just too far, or that one bolt that fell while you were trying to take off an alternator… and if you don’t have this thing you’re about to spend 2 hours recovering that thing 😂
The simple version:
Money has the ultimate network effect, and its core values are in TRUST, liquidity, and stability (not price, but supply). The value is not in payments (this has always been served by a million layers on top), wingdings, “smart contracts,” writing stuff on it, or the million other arbitrary “improvements” that a million shitcoins sell people on.
The “crypto” market is something that will consolidate over 30-50 years with the trend we have seen from the beginning. And everything that isn’t Bitcoin will slowly die, in my humble opinion…
ETH will be a particularly bad one. Their “staking” system for “security” is a disaster of permissioned, unreliable nonsense. Trust is the last thing they have built and everyone wants it for hyped up marketing nonsense that has no lasting staying power.
Want the in depth version:
I’ve covered thousands of hours of the history of money, network effects, Austrian economic theory, and crypherpunk history on my show, Bitcoin Audible
Yeah I’m more thinking about the tradition to a full #Bitcoin standard. Shitcoins won’t be relevant for that time. I’m also counting this as already 15 years into the process.
The problem is that it attempts to hold up the value of a literal monetary good, through some arbitrary compute “utility.” It’s simply not going to work. We will be able to do all of those same things *without* some huge, messy, blockchain with a very poor security system destined to end up centralized anyway. In the end ETH must compete as money. And if you aren’t willing to hold it and only want to use it for “its utility” whenever it seems to be relevant, you’re explaining exactly the dynamic that will eventually kill the whole system
I really wish my #nostr client knew which posts I had seen already.
It would allow me to search through only posts that I’ve seen to find things I liked, and also to refresh my main feed to only posts I have *not* seen.
I spend quite a large amount of time now scrolling through just to get past stuff I’ve already looked at, and many times it will accidentally reset and launch me way up or even back to the top.
Could be just a client side “visible time,” and you just deal with the minor amount of false positives. But basically if you stopped and looked at it for like 3 seconds, it gets locally marked as “seen.”
In other words they will spend tens of billions to create a worse version of what we built for ourselves, basically for free, and turned into a trillion dollar market already 🤣🤣🤣
Ever have one of those moments where you had some sort of a regular problem with a piece of software....
- You search it constantly, nobody in the world appears to have this same problem.
- You ignore it, time goes by, you search again. Still nothing.
- You get annoyed and start deleting plug ins, reseting settings, deleting customizations, etc.
- still happening
- ignore it for some more time.
- drives you crazy one day, you delete the app and reinstall. Still happening.
- every update you install and you think maybe... but no, it still happens.
Then one day out of the blue, you are just working on stuff and you see something and it triggers that little tiny 0.5% processing power in the back of your subconscious that's been set to permanently try to figure out what that problem was, and it makes perfect sense, its super simple, and you do a single thing and its completely fixed... ?
I just had one of those moments. 🤣
So, in Obsidian, my notes would randomly be completely empty. I'd be working on my TODO list, or my current episode's project file with all my links and writing. Then i'd go away from the app to find something, come back, and the entire note is completely empty.
I would have to close the note, open something else, close that, then reopen the original. It would often take like 3-5 seconds, but it would usually come back. Sometimes though I'd have to do this multiple times.
I tried SO many things... today however, I realized i've been using iCloud drive to host all my notes so i could work from the same list on every device without having to subscribe to syncing services.
I was just moving stuff in the file system and I saw the little "cloud" icon next to the Obsidian folder, showing that the content wasn't synced to this device — and it hit me, iCloud is auto removing the files after there is a timeout and only when i refresh it did Obsidian "request" the file again and so it would get reloaded.
Opened Obsidian and my TODO list was blank again, a common occurrence. I clicked on the cloud icon in the finder to download the folder locally, and it popped up almost instantly. 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
This was something Steve pointed out to me that I found super interesting.
On chain fees, DENOMINATED IN SATS, are actually extremely consistent across time. And by the same measure are right now the lowest in 12 years... kinda crazy to think about with all the insanity around discussion of fees and how often its THE talking point when 99% of the rhetoric around it literally has nothing to do with the simple facts of the network and what we have seen.
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I've not made a claim one way or the other, I'm just pointing out a simple thing we can observe about it's history. I didn't even bring up a security budget issue in the positive or the negative.
That said, the point you make is an interesting way to think about it.
Demanding of both someone else's time and their money and acting entitled about it is not a "failing" of those being demanded of.
And of course it is their right to say whatever they think, but in my opinion it is of extremely poor character and will only reflect on them, not OpenSats.
Nobody is owed anything, not an explanation, not a thorough analysis of their project. Nothing. Do you even comprehend how much time and energy it would take to do that?
This was something Steve pointed out to me that I found super interesting.
On chain fees, DENOMINATED IN SATS, are actually extremely consistent across time. And by the same measure are right now the lowest in 12 years... kinda crazy to think about with all the insanity around discussion of fees and how often its THE talking point when 99% of the rhetoric around it literally has nothing to do with the simple facts of the network and what we have seen.
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I increasingly think (especially with how completely ignorant we have been of our gut biome and the parasites in our systems affect us until *very* recently) that these things have a vastly greater affect on our world, the collective conscious, and our decisions than we want to admit.
I always think about the zombie stories where everyone is infected with some fungus or parasite that turns them into mindless demons… and all I can think is that this *literally* could be happening in some form across our society and we wouldn’t even know it.
Just look around at the mental and physical state of most people. Hard to dismiss outright, imo. nostr:note1e5scldf23qermv78edrw9v6cw2ve986zzzrqwxhg6uq403s0dteqhmch7z
It’s funny the researchers that got literally dragged through hell and back by the pharmaceutical companies and establishment media for their data that showed an unmistakable link between autism and the MMR vaccine, actually weren’t studying that at all. The study itself was about connections between gut health and brain disease. They simply accounted for treatments and vaccines in their data, and the connection just emerged while studying something completely different.
Then the pharmaceutical companies when on full attack and destroyed their reputations and careers. Saying they were crazy anti-vax loons and quacks. Yet in the actual research they don’t even make the claim of causation, they merely pointed out the data, with a huge defensive caveat of “this isn’t proof, we know nothing, but this should probably be investigated.” But that was enough to get publicly “black bagged.” Most likely because pharma knows perfectly well there’s a connection.
Judging by the time and consistency in which every air mattress I’ve ever owned will support my weight without touching the floor, I give this a 28 hour window before all of those things smash into the car.
Who even is that? 😂
What’s hilarious is that whatever judgement people are making was likely just proved true. That this doofus literally thinks he’s “cool” and that it actually defines him as a person because he rides a bike… as would every 10 year old boy 🤣
Holy shit he literally has a new account and that’s a REAL post from him? God what an absolute moron. He is just a special kind of fascinating piece of garbage.
You know, I can’t believe I judged him without realizing he rode sport bikes.
Now that I have this totally new and important information, I feel like everything I know about him is in question. Must be an awesome dude. Maybe we can race one day.
Gaming break:
I loved Breath of the Wild, but have to admit that I have no attachment to Tears of the Kingdom whatsoever.
The sequel feels like the same game, with all of the same basic functions and enemies, and the entire “building and connecting things” mechanic is terrible, imo. I have zero desire to use it ever, and they have these stupid piles of stuff to build a cart with all over the place like it’s something useful, but it’s so annoying to build them, and then you can’t steer worth crap and it almost never gets you anywhere far enough to justify trying to put it together. It seems completely useless other than there are little quests or puzzles that purposefully add elements where you need it to complete a task… but even that feels forced and arbitrary.
And the “sky world” element just kinda feels like somebody said “man we should do something different this time… what if we had a bunch of floating islands in the sky!” And then that was it. Theres no reason for it. It doesn’t matter to the story. It doesn’t seem attached to anything of consequence or have even a mystery around it to solve… it just… is.
Also, despite trying to start it back up multiple times in my “spare time” (as if I have any of that), and still in this moment I have no idea what the story is. There’s literally no hook, or engrossing question to answer, so every element just feels like something arbitrary that I’m watching without even knowing why any of it matters.
Just really sad considering BoTW felt like a revival of the Zelda franchise, and I think they spent too much time wondering how they could capitalize on it as quick as possible, rather than thinking about how to make another really engaging story & game for the sequel.
Important caveat: had the game and all the mechanics been the same still, but the story had been super engrossing, none of that other stuff would’ve mattered.
Anyway, that’s my 2 sats on why the new Zelda game hasn’t been able to convince me to charge my Nintendo Switch for like 6 months.
Yeah you should be able to repair every weapon. I’m actually ok with them degrading over time, but then they should also be repairable. If they are going for realistic, that’s far closer to how it actually works.
It would also reinforce the basic idea of taking care of your stuff. It’s not a bad element to add, but I agree the *way* they added it kinda sucked in some ways.
Yeah and it could also be another element of skill vs cost thing. Where you have skills for repairing that you could build up and it would make you able to repair them yourself at your home or something. Might be getting too complicated, but anything that lets you level up a stat and the cost drops, would be a super rewarding metric in gameplay. I think that should happen for recipes and cooking too, then more you do it, the more likely you are to get good results or something.
At this point I’m just inventing a bunch of game mechanics when really all that’s needed is a great story, but considering it against what they added, I think something like that would’ve been way more fun. It also would’ve allowed you to buy stuff for your home/property that wasn’t pointless. You could save up to buy a forge and repair your own swords for free, buy a kitchen to cook recipes more potent, etc.
It would’ve improved known elements to be more engaging and rewarding, instead of adding that stupid “stick stuff together!” which was completely unrewarding, basically useless, and honestly just irritating.
The other thing that always bothered me was that the house had no real purpose, it was just kind of a place to sleep and then amounted to a “skin” for your character in a way. Little function, lots of costs and pretend.
Everything should’ve helped you in the game.
- Like a wardrobe literally let you store away tons of extra armor and outfits with specific attributes, so depending on where you are adventuring, you go back and swap out your outfits.
- Again a forge to repair swords and shields and stuff
- A storage container/closet that let you store materials and bugs, etc.
- A kitchen/oven to cook more potent recipes.
- An icebox to store extra food
- a garden or animal pen to literally harvest plants and ingredients, or farm the animals (they just replicate if you leave them basically)
- A stable for your horses
Etc etc
Then you could add slightly stricter limits to what you could carry, and it would make the game strategy more important and purposeful.
I would’ve thought it was simply age as well, except that I loved BoTW and I hadn’t gotten into a game in like 7 years.
I was kinda thinking I was “over it,” but a good game still drew me in and I had a lot of fun. I think the sequel is just… meh
It’s not about bitcoiners always being the richest person in the room or nothin my they say is valid. Thats a super “crypto bro”/fiat appeal anyway. Plus, most people don’t listen to the good advice from successful people, they listen to people in their community and peer group, even if the advice is literally bad. It’s about *normalizing* it for people. The idea is sound, imo.
Analogy: Saying music should be open and free doesn’t mean you are insulting a performer or claiming they should charge for it by throwing some quarters into their guitar case. 😁
It took muting 3 different phrases so far but I haven’t seen one since. I only encounter a “one off” that sneaks through then I add the new phrasing. Hasn’t been that big of a deal so far. [knocks on wood]
It’s funny how novel it seems to be able to choose your #nostr client and still have your social graph and ID, when we actually do this all the time with email and podcast clients.
Oh no, that would be cool tho, lol. Just meaning the open nature of the network itself. Funny is that because follows and the social graph area thing on #Nostr, doing that now *is* actually feasible is clients supported it.
Imagine a world where podcasts are also given a Nostr pubkey and their RSS feeds are signed and attached? So when you log into @fountain_app or any Nostr enabled podcast app, it just scans for the RSS of those shows and repopulates them.
Having that social graph travel with you is a game changer.
I was actually thinking about that. I usually am annoyed with the “20 years later” sequels, but that actually looks really good and it’s Burton doing it still and I pretty much like his entire portfolio… so hard to go wrong 😆
Merely for a place to start, I will put 1,000,000 sats bounty on this. I will gladly put a lot more if I can speak with someone who wants to take the time to make the right implementation and really make it truly reliable. I have people who are doing the work from the other side on this already, so this would be usable *very* quickly. nostr:note1v9072gse3ztk73d80tw0sahzjat6fchs5gjt9cmd6xe023tm0luqyp9982
Yes, the exact same tech is underneath it. Keet is a chat app built on it, Holesail is basically a “no servers, no accounts, no networking setup” Tailscale alternative built on the same thing.
Something I’ve noticed since I lost Phoenix wallet, is that our ability to communicate or “partner” between projects is kinda horrible.
Example: One of the best ways to get new users sats without any onboarding friction have been services like Fountain and Zebeedee. Yet literally none of the wallets will read or accept a withdraw from those services. Phoenix was the only one that would just do it.
Then the same problem with Cash App, which is easily a dominant service for buying and using #Bitcoin and now #Lightning. Yet none of my wallets will let me enter in an amount if the invoice is for zero sats… which all Cash App invoices are blank.
I thought these would just be growing pains about a year or 2 ago, but neither have changed at all in that time span. Are the wallet builders just not using their own wallets?
(I’ve had a super shitty day so if this is overly critical I apologize, but for lightning to also be a pain in my ass today is just icing on the cake. I’ve tried 5 different wallets and 2 different UI for btcpay trying to get a simple withdraw from Fountain to work)
It’s happening. We are waiting on just a few things for the Start9 side to be done. They’ve just been working hard on the new mobile version, which they want to finish before launching on Start9 so it can be used out the gate. In other words, it’s basically done on the start9 side, but not releasing until theres a way to really make use of it 👏🏻
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