One question that really gave me a lot of confidence when we were starting was, “How could you possibly do any worse than public school?”


14 WoT relays good to go sir

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wss://relay.otherstuff.fyi
wss://relay.lexingtonbitcoin.org
wss://wot.azzamo.net
wss://wot.swarmstr.com
wss://zap.watch
wss://satsage.xyz

Thank you everyone for doing your part fighting spam on nostr


Solo Satoshi is pledging to give away the very first #Bitaxe Gamma that we receive on the NOSTR platform!!!

Like, share, and follow us!

1.2 TH/s of raw desktop power. You don’t want to miss this! We’re decentralizing #Bitcoin mining together!
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Homemade Bitcoin Mining Dehydrator
https://i.imgur.com/6MWtGyB.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/7n0b78h.jpeg
Currently processing elderberry with a S9 set to 980w. I designed the dimensions of the box to be similar popular 1000w consumer dehydrators since that's the wattage at which the S9 is most efficient.
https://i.imgur.com/2Oo68IH.jpeg
The door of the dehydrator simply presses into the front and I can control the vent gap for more or less airflow which also helps to control the temperature.
https://i.imgur.com/ojS6tS1.jpeg
Highest temperatures I've been able to measure are around 135°f, which I read is good for fruit. I can get temps as low as 90°f with higher fan speeds and larger vent opening.
https://i.imgur.com/XtPDMz0.jpeg
I cut a hole in the back of the box so the exhaust fan of the S9 fits snug. That way I can easily remove it and use for a different heating application when I need to.
https://i.imgur.com/q8uoGcV.jpeg
The energy efficiency of this contraption knocks the socks off any other consumer dehydrator available and it cost next to nothing to build. All I had to buy was the screen for the trays for around $10. I had everything else laying around already.
https://i.imgur.com/L6AXzsW.jpeg
I can fit a gallon of elderberry or 2 gallons of grapes per load with the 10 trays. Each bach of elderberry takes about 24hr to complete and the raisins take at least a couple days. So far the elderberry and grapes are all I've had a chance to try. Next up is garlic to make garlic powder. #plebminer #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #permaculture #permies #grownostr #homesteading #doublespendenergy #dehydrator #heatreuse


And broadcast it too. nostr:note15q6smm7nd4vqj0qvyfpthstdn8j5jn72wqqenukrwtlt64xxqwrq8t22ru


Double Down (2005)

https://image.nostr.build/eb9ba8b47bccf27ca7e31dc25fd12a70d67424fe28f806a5a89e6b82efc26678.jpg

https://archive.org/download/double-down-2005/Double%20Down%20%282005%29.ia.mp4

Director: Neil Breen

'A brilliant computer loner seizes Las Vegas and its terrorist attack, while fighting against his fits of clinical depression and obsession for romance and death.'

#kinostr
#thriller #action #kino #neilbreen #films #movies #thrillers #movies #fullmovies


America’s greatest living filmmaker.


Its regenerative to both parties.


My children have listened to this 25 times, and we’re still on repeat. nostr:note1fv9mq8m2nhwlarrgv9s7e7g3qpktdlkapadjy0d6tpr3u4r0tj3s79xm3n


<iframe src=https://embed.wavlake.com/track/cce201e3-e52c-4705-9afc-6c0f974a3ecb width="100%" height="380" frameBorder="0" ></iframe>


I was feeling itchy today, then I realized that the price was around $20k for 9 months, then $30k for about 7 months, and now around $60k for 6 months.

And that was only looking 2 years back!

Back to building.


Well, they didn’t want to lose one of the primary customers that they sell your data to.

You really think their money comes from serving ads that nobody ever clicks on?


I use Brave a lot.  Its great.  One-click Tor functionality is nice too!


Great insight.

I’ll add that apps like Tinder do not want you to fall in love and have children in a monogamous relationship…because then they’d lose a customer.

They want lonely, sex-addicted, appearance obsessed users spending beyond their means.

So if you happen to be fishing there, maybe pick another pond.


bitcoinacct

Class of 2022, Permaculture, Ops & Process Design


Its a wonderful feeling when a dip coincides with your DCA…


Microsoft trackers?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/duckduckgo-browser-allows-microsoft-trackers-due-to-search-agreement/


I can’t be bothered to “love Fold” anymore than my other rewards cards.

Especially since they removed all the fun out of the app, and made it almost the same UX as my banking apps.

Since the April 2023 rug pull, which they pretended didn’t happen at the time, and continue to pretend (by using words like “evolve”), this card is just a useful tool.

Love for Bitcoiners that lie is misplaced.


Announcing Rev. Hodl's Applied Permaculture Class
https://i.nostr.build/d4WP499QWkXJxEjO.png
Saturday October 12 - Baroda, MI - 100k sats

Learn how to apply permaculture to any lifestyle to build sovereignty, resilience, and wealth in this half day class. I will detail how I apply the permaculture ethics and principles to homesteading, share how I build resilience in my wealth with the 8 forms of capital, and illuminate the connections between Bitcoin and permaculture. After the learning about applied permaculture, eat lunch prepared with fresh food grown on the homestead. After lunch I will give a full homestead tour showcasing living examples to see the ethics and principles of permaculture in action. You will leave with a full understanding of permaculture and the inspiration to apply it to your life in any situation.

Saturday October 12, 2024 10am (approximate location Baroda, Michigan)
Tickets - 100k sats
21 tickets available
To purchase tickets direct message

I will also host a fireside bitcoin meetup at the homestead 7pm Friday October 11 open to all.

Lodging available Friday/Saturday night
Free camping
Book the house (4 beds/6 guest max)
Book the yurt (queen bed/2 guests max)
Book the tiny house (queen bed/2 guests max)
DM for details and pricing on lodging

Weekend Schedule

Friday October 11
Check in and Fireside Bitcoin Meetup
3pm earliest check in for those staying overnight
(No plans for dinner, do your own thing)
7pm Fireside bitcoin meetup (byob)

Saturday October 12
Rev. Hodl's Applied Permaculture
10am Permaculture Presentation
12pm Homestead Lunch
1pm Permaculture in action tour
3pm Wrap up and Networking


The future we were promised, and the future we received:

https://isaacyoung.substack.com/p/the-mystics-of-progress


Understanding Inflation - A Short Explanation

You need to understand the rate of inflation alone is not enough.  That lower inflation rates doesn't equal prices going down at all, even a little bit.

Year one, inflation at 8%, a 1 dollar item is now 1.08

Year two, inflation at 12%, a one dollar item from year one, is now 1.21

Year three, inflation at 14%, a one dollar item from year one,  is now  1.38

Year four, inflation goes "down" to only 3%, yay we win right?, A one dollar item from year one,  is now  1.42.

Inflation is now "low" but the price is cumulative as is the true inflation.   The true inflation rate here over 4 years is 42%.

The TV will say "inflation is going down", it isn't a lie, it also isn't the truth.  Not to mention what happens if you get a "bad year" next, say just going back to 8% in the next year.

1.42 x 1.08 = 1.53

In year one 8% was 8 cents on the dollar, in year 5 it is 11 cents on the dollar of the previous year.  And a total of 53% over 5 years.

Now do it on everything you buy and have to pay for, food, energy, housing, clothing.

Inflation is an at will unregulated tax on every thing you own, buy, sell, etc.  It makes the income tax seem benevolent.

If you read this far you now understand the problem more than most so called "economic experts".   Those who didn't read this far are likely wondering why things are so bad if the TV people say inflation is down.


I second B.O.P.


Wow. https://public.work/ is a search engine of public domain images, so very useful for talks. But the way the results are presented is beautiful! I've got so used to the static google-search image tiles, it never even occurred to me there was a different way.


Is the survival rate still 99.5%, or 99.9% if you’re not elderly or morbidly obese?


Second on Garmin.  Battery lasts 3-4 days, can get HRV measurement, do not need phone integration to have text messages sent to my wrist


Why Schwab?


It’s good.  I liked diamond age and anathem even more…and then he jumped the shark with seveneves and reamde


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=osTF7oZ8acw

Bitcoin & permaculture


I clipped nostr:nprofile1qqs2rlzal4lleatrezg4tdrxw5d4srg3tcfkutuvjr5fzvu9h0kmrncpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuetj9eek7cmfv9kqaj826g chat with nostr:nprofile1qqsy6q3ua80awknlxp6m368qssqghct6ra6scca4meepumhcswkuwegpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6at5d9h8jampd3kx2apwvdhk6tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0hzcsrt
what a great use of livestock with plants for seed production and meat as a by product!
https://fountain.fm/clip/fj6mOVgvpP2t5k2bkokP


Son is interested in ELO, via Mr. Blue Sky.

Played The Beatles today, to show where that song came from.

Then I realized:  the “love” messaging sounds really similar to the “love” psyop of today.

The previous psyop gave humanity lots of selfish Boomers, obsessed with sexuality, willing to destroy their families for their own aims.

But it’s not working today.  The young aren’t mating.

But it’s the same playbook:  Libido Dominandi


From who?

Why if America can just print fiat and buy?


Repost this note and reply with a photo from your gallery (preferably one you took) for a
 Zap! ⚡

Please no photos of yourself or any people just cool stuff. Will zap between 21-500 sats till I decide to stop or run out.
#Plebchain #Nostr #Game #Photostr


A 12 year old homeschool family friend expressed interest in the 60,000 FLAC songs I have to share with him.

The kids are alright.


And to those who complain that there “isn’t much going on on Nostr” - the positive requires more effort to create than the negative.

See contemporary music - how much is sad, angry, whining, licentious?  How many artists stay positive without being shallow?

It’s easier to comment and re-post and add snark than to be positive and sincere.

But that’s the house we want to build, and the house we want to live in.


One of the greatest concert performances I’ve ever seen.


Do you want to avoid tracking links?

Just delete all characters from the link string starting with the "?..."

Or, use Brave and use the  « copy clean link » feature.
https://m.primal.net/JgAs.jpg


Reported Employment numbers include part-time jobs, government jobs, and healthcare (proxy for govt jobs).  Take those out of the total and employment does not look good.


Such a system exists, it is called homeschooling.


Gettings Things Done methodology can fit both.

Paper and whiteboard for me.

Digital allows information to accumulate without spatial and cognitive costs.


Tom Luongo has a theory on this, has been saying that Powell, Trump, Supreme Court, and Dimon have been working together for at least a decade.  Once I got over my “The Fed = Satan” blinders, the theory became very interesting.  This appointment may confirm the theory.


Use garden metaphors.  They are accurate and might get you out of him asking more questions.


The ones on the right are my house slippers.  They’ve lasted me 15 years.


That this is Englewood is totally crazy!


Welcome!


When you get knocked down, and you want to prove you’ve gotten up, you show that with defiance.

How many times have they tried to knock him down, and how defiant has he been?

He was shot, and then stood up and said “fight, fight, fight”.

And he cares that everyone knows that he is okay.


Chevron, Jarkesy, SOFR, pro-Bitcoin, cannot convict after immunity ruling, Kamala will lose, will end war in Ukraine, CAFE.


Is a European state selling into an illiquid American weekend?


“Our subconscious” has never been proven to exist.

What is this thing we refer to with such conviction? nostr:note1tfldgkmw4xuswqf2p93jtkznauwzyzqy9kpmf4as8ckeu238099scpvmy8


The words that a person understands as profane, are a clue to their actual god.

They do not want you to take their lord’s name in vain.


More 10 year old Bitcoin Memes

https://image.nostr.build/35c708a23a057824d9cbaa085bb6a47b73b4518097167b655f9e2d13527ffdf2.jpg


This is the meme my 10 year old son wanted to make tonight.

https://image.nostr.build/6e43578a328c43ae4bdd08586a0a24e9950dd37101fc5ea095c0e3be02acbe57.jpg


Early in my wife & I’s relationship I realized that if I just set a monthly calendar reminder, I wouldn’t be surprised by the oncoming firestorm.

At work, I have done the same:  board of directors meetings, quarterly reporting, end of month goals — all inciting moody & irritable behavior.

Cycle-hacking at company level.  Plan accordingly.


Somewhere in that list is The Band, creating modern rock’n’roll.


What is this movie?!?  A Godzilla movie?


I third Tuttle Twins.

Also, the Tomer Strolight short films are very very emotional, and make a moral/spiritual case.  This is often more important than any economic arguments.


Have sons.  There will be plenty to think about.

Single guys are rediscovering what it is after being raised without a father in the household and/or with a feminized worldview via Gov’t schools.

Many focus on casual sex since testosterone greatly influences male thinking until about 35-40 years of age.


You asked a direct question, received a direct answer.  It’s cool that nostr:npub1xvwu6uqag7zunmtl9j7q6dl8y3yvsyqcdjgxduttn3kxn4z5makq89lez0 bothered to respond to help you understand, but there was no story asked for nor offered.


While breastfeeding on a carnivore diet is the gold standard, if for some reason: you can’t produce enough milk, can’t find a carnivore donor, and/or insist on using or supplementing with some kind of formula, this is the cleanest one I’m aware of.

https://myserenitykids.com/products/a2-whole-milk-toddler-formula-12-7oz

It’s also available on Amazon or at Whole Foods.

The loophole here is that it’s labeled “toddler”, but it is still fine for infants. The FDA legally requires all INFANT formula to have some kind of seed oil in it, which is an absolute abomination.

Thank you for bringing awareness to this nostr:npub1qqvt0m3nlvjnssmrn33w9yh7cuq2dx5nkz8wxax9hk5hrjdnj4jqz8cn3w. It’s a very important issue that doesn’t get enough coverage. nostr:note1c88v2pehe6zzhf5n0t5vn3wen3jy9q4x964zx9ag78nzfzwthj9sdzh0my


To prepare for the afterlife, which has been commonly accepted for the history of our species (100k years), and only became fashionable to deny in the past 250 years.  Earth is a school.


Wingfeather

Jungle Beat


Sounds like you separated from church structures, and it sounds like the teachings marked you in a good way.

Who knows?  You may find down the road that you were pretending for the structure but not pretending the faith, and you never stopped living the teachings.

And you may find that you still have a friend.


One more.

The concept of individual worth and human rights goes global with Christianity.

You could compare store of value (worth) and property rights.


They could pick any other day, but they pick Easter.

There’s no need to get emotional if you recognize the obvious.


My XRP-holding neighbor came over to talk about bitcoin last night.

Lord, grant me the strength to execute a shitcoiner conversion.


Here’s my theme to the bull run:

https://youtu.be/AqT4vHVTldA?t=251


The EV hype has been a lot of government interference.

Rivian loses $47,000 per car.

https://insideevs.com/news/709077/biden-epa-rollback-nyt/


nostr:npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z at the location now


I truly believe if we can build a good enough experience for people to live their life on sats we can start a Boston Tea party type movement in the face of what looks to be the biggest monetary debasement era of fiat ahead of us

we're going to be building some tools at Strike around these ideas. curious what the community thinks and what people would need to ditch fiat entirely

https://m.primal.net/HZSN.png

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A brewery owner's wife asked me if I wanted to do a "Bitcoin night" as a trial run to see how they can accept bitcoin and asked me to tell my friends. So I guess that's just nostr:npub15u3cqhx6vuj3rywg0ph5mfv009lxja6cyvqn2jagaydukq6zmjwqex05rq 😂 If anyone wants to drive to Central PA and blow up this brewery sometime in February or March, let me know and we'll pick a date to make this happen.


Also, Castalia House Junior Classics

https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-junior-classics-vol-i/

and the Junior Classics podcast


Already following you, even though we couldn’t find each other in the bar on Thursday.


nostr:npub1uf447fsuk2f4fhhc4zax4aymzdlrz3pc32q7778wmrnhe7ccl4zq8yrz29  Test for echo.


Looks demonic.


To my wife, “Darling, I don’t Google anything.  I internet search it.”


https://search.marginalia.nu/

https://search.brave4u7jddbv7cyviptqjc7jusxh72uik7zt6adtckl5f4nwy2v72qd.onion/


Predictive text doesn’t work so well when you type fast.  I turned it off.

I learned to type reasonably fast in order to get ideas down.

For a carefully crafted business email, where trite turns of phrase and corporate vocabulary are needed, it works okay.

But during inspiration, I can’t think of it as anything but a hindrance.

Like a little man sitting on your shoulder, whispering the wrong words into your ear.


Here’s an interesting search engine (new to me), that helps you find older sites.

Part of the Deadness of the internet is the incentive to show you links that have been monetized.

https://search.marginalia.nu/


Nope, just visiting.  Repair or replace is usually okay…unless Newsome bans natural gas water heaters.


Drip those faucets


It is cold today.

My son and I took the dog for a walk on the trail.

We spent our time throwing chunks of snow on the large frozen puddles and streams, splintering and making holes.

Then I taught him how to walk/run across ice that’s going to break, which would soak his boots.

Finally I turned us around before we got too cold, our hands and jackets wet from picking up and throwing snow boulders.

There is no substitute.


One year ago I recorded a podcast with nostr:npub1jcympy69pht7ptan39se4nd09e4q66qhey649uu3rczm2zh88c7s0n2890 talking permaculture and bitcoin in general.
https://v.nostr.build/dKxP.mp4
This clip is a good summary of my high level thoughts on Permaculture and Bitcoin and was basically the ideal I was working towards throughout the year.
nostr:nevent1qqstwecn8fdcx5jxd233trfgzrd2njml8h8qwp2tuzn03c0txf8jacqt2gx08
The podcast as a whole provides a good reference point for a lot of what has happened on the homestead over the last year. I'm not sure why I thought to detail so many of my plans for the year, maybe hold myself accountable. All in all, I was able to accomplish almost everything I mentioned throughout the podcast in the last year. Take a listen and check out this year in review mega note.

February was defined by maple syrup production, the threads aren't as cohesive as I was still learning Nostr and developing my style.
nostr:nevent1qqsvhgjudnvpny24fd9cxqqrr3027l6g2496a8c4ezqsjchaj2a0z7ck0vayq
March the highlight was working on the 20ft tiny house, still haven't quite figured out Nostr.
nostr:nevent1qqs2f7dc4dsk777h6cxn0vtu8yts2tukjaw4yygj65kxvght7m8tmjs2jauhd
April was marked the completion of the Bitcoin mining dehydrator, one of highlights of the whole year for the homestead.
nostr:nevent1qqsf2cfvzprsp5j6rhgvj4pa6p7ctjs59af3rwmysmyhmrv66kxtx2shu0983
May was the sweet spot of sunlight and waning colder temperatures which lead to lots of pleb mining at the homestead. The solar power was flowing and the dehydrator was constantly loaded. The cold frame was growing cannabis and the portable S9 space heater was saving lambs from hypothermia.
nostr:nevent1qqs9tenvxqfyfprtpchq45smsquwhx9w3mpgnnmn4zj2mauxrcf4kzcqhywnz
June the sheep were grazing the pasture at it's finest and the yurt was booked solid with guests
nostr:nevent1qqsxngyrjf5630slu5vwjnlka8cqgjhcvf8eguhqh576mwgau6y8s8s8hn2pr
July the bitcoin mining clothes dryer was completed in the peak of the summer tourist season. A project I have been thinking about and working towards for over 6 months.
nostr:nevent1qqsrpcafs5e3ry7wu2w0mrm6u8g58639z29wzxk32fj0dvvns74edfsug9sfk
August I made my second appearance on the Bitcoin Rapidfire podcast talking about mining on the homestead.
nostr:nevent1qqs8g763g8hpln22jwuff3srhda5jnz35vmnrasqeuy5qupvnefc0cqvt20qa
September the food forest ripening and cannabis colas were forming.
nostr:nevent1qqsp7473jzdhn6x66uv0cpry9ejmmwps5gnwyrz408ht9988qkknalg3dt5zu
nostr:nevent1qqs86m023f0c63g6g6r7qdv6rmhffaxyta3rmtzvpe72p9s05zx7l9s8l5eky
October the sheep were finishing out the season strong making for some of our best lamb we've grown.
nostr:nevent1qqs9r79fg68dnq36n8muh4guujlk95a2jrssfwzkxryn9l730n6dd6cz4c4xw
November we rounded out a great year with the horses after finally realizing our goal of using them for carriage tours.
nostr:nevent1qqstlj9je3yjkwyfrjqttwaxtlryeek4q87uuxypuee24z0fpggja0spz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qf5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajsxpqqqqqqzar4q02
December I spent spreading the word of the intersection of Bitcoin and Permaculture on the nostr:npub1cl42c2k2j7zw2upef2c2qjpd7sz7ks0r5nkvjag7k86q8zev8l0qwmgf39, nostr:npub1tvqc82mv8cezhax5r34n4muc2c4pgjz8kaye2smj032nngg52clq0rkrq4, and nostr:npub1svc42r2de9sadr7anh7lmdhmt2mnvehnsaawkdrggmj5x73c28aq62a9g9
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https://fountain.fm/episode/xBjvqfEigQCQNGWwsQh2

What a wild year, it's been all that more amazing to share it with everyone on Nostr. Permaculture, Bitcoin, and Nostr is facilitating a new permanent culture in which we are all building together!

#permaculture #permies #homesteading #bitcoin #meshtadel #bitcoinmining #plebminer #foodforest #weedstr #cannabis #rotationalgrazing #yurt #grownostr


This image can apply to so many things I can’t think of one.

https://image.nostr.build/2b8c2e63a2b6ae213e4d939717845ae223b90804bf642b28b1d165fc35cc2549.jpg


Agreed.  First book?  Yeah, I could see it.  Hebrew Bible/OT for sure.  Took till 397AD to canonize the New Testament, but all books were in use prior to that, possibly forming around 300AD.

The real mind-bender to me is that the Church survived for 200-300 years prior to this.  An Eastern Orthodox priest clued me into this.


Check the Epic of Gilgamesh.  One of the few antecedents.


Don’t waste energy on anger/mourning for the medical establishment.  They told us a high carb diet was healthy 40 years ago, now the majority are obese.

Just do what you have to do for yourself.  No permission needed.


No need to go to Mexico.  You can buy it at Tractor Supply near me.  The liquid version is far more tolerable than the paste.  Kind of tastes like light Robitussin.  $45 for 50ml.


In California, a free McDonald’s coffee bought with points costs $0.25 because the county charges you for a non-disposable cup.

A tree 6” wide cut down on your own property can cost up to $22,000 in fines.

To avoid the fines, you need a permit, an approved plan to replace the tree, and an inspector.

Meanwhile, the people I talked to denigrated pretty much everywhere else in the U.S.

They fiddle while it burns.


Leaving the Cloud and saving $7m.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-big-cloud-exit-faq-20274010

They are also working on a product to offer an alternative to SaaS subscriptions, where believe it or not, you only buy the software Once.


In the U.S.?  Houses are the highest they’ve been in 100 years.  Another year or two, the prices will go down.

Can you wait?


I make sure I remind my kids that their access to me and their mother all day is more valuable than any of the other status-seeking, compete with your friends, neighbors, & relatives fiat horseshit.

Also, reminding them that they are not locked-up in a government school for 8 hours a day helps too.

I find that the most committed to fiat gamesmanship are those adults getting allowances from mommy/daddy.


Spent vacation teaching Bitcoin to the family.  Day 1 was rocky.  Day 2 Grandpa started the conversation with “your Bitcoin went up 5% over night”, then Aunt started asking about miners.  Day 3 younger programmer cousin affirmed Bitcoin to Grandpa, but cousin hasn’t bought any yet.

Overall, a very effective vacation.


One thought on the diverter/gutter closest to the trees:  I re-direct one of my rain gutters to my garden, where I dug a cavity.  The cavity fills up, plumes underneath the soil as the cavity drains into the earth.  Even light rains give the garden a good soaking.


I take back anything nice I ever said about RFK Jr.  What an ass.  My pick for American president is Vivek Ramaswamy.


This year, I’m so thankful that Oliver Anthony changed everything for the better.

Now that he’s signed with United Talent Agency, I can’t wait for the Dissident Right Halftime Show at the Super Bowl, including his friends Usher, Foo Fighters, and Rihanna.


Why would any Bitcoiner complain to Apple about spams that send you sats on WoS?

I hadn’t looked at WoS in a few weeks and found free sats there…not a lot, but who cares?  Free sats!


What, the card boosts?  Totally confusing.

I have to keep track of how they are gaming me to break even on my membership fee…how fun.


There’s the possibility that they get taken off the markets YOU are in, not others.


But music has this strange quality which Alan Moore pointed out.

It makes you feel things, and it doesn’t matter how old it is or even who made it.

That feeling might be irritation or annoyance or reverence or joy…but it happens almost instantaneously.

Visual art can’t do this.

Rashomon requires multiple viewings or some understanding of the art form to break through indifference.

The written word can’t do this - try reading Chaucer without training.

Even dance can’t do this.

So there’s potentially something divine about music.

And perhaps its effects on a “society” are just a distraction.


We can, they can’t.

They are not part of we.