Withdraw your consent-
In this country's founding documents it states:
... Governments are instituted among Men, ***deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed***, ...
Withdraw your consent! That is one of the primary steps to freedom.
Keep DCAing Bitcoin, folks. It has so much farther to go.
Still the best investment out there for financial freedom in everyday life and for retirement.
Would love to. One of the years I will. Still have a - j o b- for 3 more years for insurance and retirement/pension. I'm building my skills for after I "retire" from this job I will already have a growing income stream that will replace my commute.
You couldn’t stop it. Payday loans will explode on these new guaranteed paydays.
People who refused to be responsible will continue to do so. You can’t fix it by “helping “ by feeding the addiction. Prices will explode for basic needs. TV sizes will get bigger etc
I saw this same warning at the front of a Gilligans Island rerun. Are you friggin kidding me? How pathetic is the “modern” human that he/she/it/they/blahblah can be triggered/offended by Gilligans Island?
I know it’s pointless to say it, but I will voice my opinion on that-
Ignore the gripers that aren’t constructive. You are exactly right; they want a perfect something for nothing on their part and will never be happy. They aren’t happy with their own life and take it out on others. Trolls, if you will.
I don’t code, so this is all magic to me and I appreciate work done, even more so since it costs me nothing and I get to enjoy the results.
Well done, frens.
Gillian’s Island.
A few months ago whatever channel it was on had a trigger warning at the start of the episode. I shouldn’t have been, but I was dumbfounded to see that. People are so much a pansy-ass group nowadays that Gillian’s Island requires a trigger warning?
I think I welcome an alien abduction now. Anal probes may be preferable.
It took a minute, but they don’t kill the dandelions because they are ugly. It’s a flower, it’s not ugly. They kill it because it doesn’t conform. I believe that analogy follows to life. Some people will use poison or force to kill something beautiful because it does not conform to that which they want.
He who has the money makes the rules. The money also gets to pay for the interpretation of the laws and implementation of the punishment of violations of the laws.
The movie “Harrison Bergeron” that was done in the 90s with one of the 80s Coreys had that as one of its premises. An extreme “equality” dystopia where the country was ruled from behind the scenes and everyones talent was brought down to the level of being equal with others. Made from a Kurt Vonnegut story. It’s approaching the level of 1984 or Atlas Shrugged for prophecy.
It’s free on YouTube and probably Odysee.com as well.
Fire Safety Tips
A series of fire safety tips to consider for your home or homestead in no particular order.
#wildlandfiresafety #firesafety
Make sure your driveway is accessible to fire engines.
Most fire engines are longer, taller, and wider than your average car or pickup. Your driveway should be wide enough to keep from breaking branches as we drive to your house. It should be open enough to see around corners and at least a little bit of the area. If we are bushing up against the shrubs and branches and can't see what we are driving into, we are more hesitant to go into that property. We need a clear and safe way to exit in a hurry in case the fire moves fast. We also need to know what kind of an area we are driving into.
To jump on the earlier bandwagon...
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
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When you aren't allowed to feed the homeless, when barter is "taxed", when the "freedom of speech" becomes "freedom from speech", when the "right to bear arms" becomes the "right to strip you bare of your arms"...
Dream Chaser's note made me think about how many quotable moments come from Ayn Rand's books. She was a prophetic as "1984" and "Idiocracy". So many of the points in Atlas Shrugged have come true and I fear the rest will be arriving shortly.
I often wonder why we hear so many immigrants warning us about what they see coming on the horizon instead of those here. Perhaps because they have come from a place where they lived it and see the precursors that so many of us are blind to.
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Part way through the show. So far it’s great. I don’t think many people consciously believe ( no, believe is the wrong word) consciously consider (is better) the points you are making in their lives. They don’t think to themselves ”don’t do that”, they just don’t think to do those things.
One must re-“train” one’s brain to think outside the box we have been trained into and continually reinforce the walls of.
Why do “they” design a bathroom sink/faucet combo that gives you 10 inches of sink depth but the water flow is 1/2 inch from the back wall so your hands are rubbing on wall of the sink to wash them? Dumb.
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I haven’t been looking into the airplane mishaps other than to hear that “a door fell off” or “bolts were loose and the part could have fallen off”, so there may be a simple answer, but why is Boeing getting the blame and not the airline maintenance crews?
I despise the designer of the newer rear windshields. You can’t get the squeegees to clean the top of the glass because of the overhang and you can’t clean well around the wiper because it barely lifts up.
They should be hanged from their toenails.
#baddesign
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Truth should not hurt you. Truth should empower and strengthen you.
If the truth hurts you, maybe the problem isn’t the truth, maybe the problem is with you.
Fire Safety Tips
A series of fire safety tips to consider for your home or homestead in no particular order.
#wildlandfiresafety #firesafety
Do not store flammable materials against the outside of your house.
In rural settings I often see firewood stacked against the house. Especially during wildfire season, don't. Bark landscaping should have a gap space so it isn't touching the siding. Don't let tree branches rub against the house or grow to lay on the roof. Don't let trash pile up close to the house.
Keep a space between your house and any flammable items that could burn with enough heat to catch your buildings on fire.
Fire Safety Tips
A series of fire safety tips to consider for your home or homestead in no particular order.
#wildlandfiresafety #firesafety
Keep your roof and gutters free of debris (leaves, moss, pine needles, etc).
A buildup of these flammable materials allows an ember from a nearby fire to land on your house in a hospitable environment and catch your roof on fire. If these areas are clean/clear the ember will just burn out.
Many houses are lost every year due to neglect of this simple maintenance step. If you live near a wooded area especially and are not comfortable or capable of cleaning your roof and gutters regularly, it is worth having someone do it for you.
It really has to be the airline maintenance crews that are failing with the planes. Unless the maintenance manuals are missing something that needs to be checked.
I have a friend that does airplane maintenance (formerly with an airline) and the detailed and frequent checks they do are pretty extensive.
Unless there is something I’m missing…
Can someone explain the sats/vByte for bitcoin transactions? I understand the “sats” part, but I don’t know the definition of the “vByte”. #asknostr #bitcoin
Should be done with the hard freezes here, so last weekend I built my #bioreactor #compost pile used last fall’s leaves, hay bales from a failed haybale garden experiment from 3 years ago, old bark and some rotting stump hole wood. Added some homemade #biochar.
Will pull the tubes out this weekend. You can see my tub of spring ramps on the left. One of the first foods up after the spring warming starts.
Learned it from @jackspirkohttps://homefoodsystems.com/ Thanks.
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This is clown world. I can’t decide if so many people actually believe these things or if they are trying very hard to convince themselves they believe these things so the MSM stops calling them bad names.
509M Bitcoin
Putting the United Stated debt at 34.5 trillion and the current Bitcoin price at 67,700, that means the US is 509,601,182 BTC in debt.
Does that make it sound better or worse?
Here is how I explain public/private keypairs to new people:
I tell them you have a public address and a private key. If you order something from Amazon you give them your public address (you never give them your house key) so they can deliver the goods. Once they drop the package through the mail slot they can no longer access it or take it back because it's locked in your house that only your private key can open.
Same thing with Bitcoin, you have a public address/key that someone sends BTC to you at and once it's sent it is locked behind your private key that they don't have.
The security aspects is where it falls apart - trying to analogize that your private key also has your public address on it, so if someone gets your key they know where your house is and you can't stop them from taking your BTC. They must never find your key because they can take your stuff from anywhere. And that you must never lose your key because then you are locked out and there are no Bitcoin locksmiths.
Peanut butter works great. Harder for them to steal off the lever and has enough smell to get their attention. Got a double once off PB. I should post that picture.
You get 80 years in this physical form, then an eternity in the non-physical. “You” aren’t this body; “you” are your soul/spirit/thoughts/beliefs. You are not the physical aspects of yourself but the non-physical aspects of yourself.
I don't know this brand specifically, but EMT shears are great for cutting anything tough. They actually will cut a penny... once. The blades have fine serrations that grip to help cut and a penny cut will flatten those out.
These things aren't 'sharp' in a way that will glide across butcher paper or Christmas wrap, but they will slice through all kinds of things.
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Here is how I explain public/private keypairs to new people: I tell them you have a public address and a private key. If you order something from Amazon you give them your public address (you never give them your house key) so they can deliver the goods. Once they drop the package through the mail slot they can no longer access it or take it back because it's locked in your house that only your private key can open. Same thing with Bitcoin, you have a public address/key that someone sends BTC to you at and once it's sent it is locked behind your private key that they don't have. The security aspects is where it falls apart - trying to analogize that your private key also has your public address on it, so if someone gets your key they know where your house is and you can't stop them from taking your BTC. They must never find your key because they can take your stuff from anywhere. And that you must never lose your key because then you are locked out and there are no Bitcoin locksmiths.