michiganmade
Michigan Made

Liber-servative? Repubarchist?

I have thoughts on most things.

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2026-03-26 15:12:06 GMT

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Looks like Mich

2026-02-21 16:45:10 GMT

Was thinking about how retail didn't participate the last couple years and that it's mostly been institutions.
I wonder if we need a flattening or downturn in the stock market or gold or real estate to build back retail interest.

2026-02-19 13:10:19 GMT

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2026/02/developer-of-1900-acre-ottawa-county-solar-farm-may-bypass-local-permit.html?outputType=amp
This is near me. 1900 acre of land, the multinational German company is going to the state of Michigan to usurp authority over municipality.... The people living there don't want it.

2026-02-18 04:18:12 GMT

@nprofile…hevn @nprofile…ecfu
People 300 years ago would think video chat over Internet was witchcraft and they should be burned alive or drowned.
The idea of even burning something to death is too radical. Whereas 300 years ago, of course you burn witches alive.
People back then believed evil was a real thing you had to fight, viciously and with force.
Whereas now, eh, evil, eh God isn't real, that's bull shit.
It's dangerous, to think evil isn't real that's doesn't need to be fought with force, and we have a giant cabal of pedophiles that run the world.
Excellent stuff Cason

2026-02-09 03:15:05 GMT

Wife scanned a bunch of old photos from photo books with multiple pics per page.
I used a couple programs to auto divide them up into individual pictures.
They're terrible. Can't figure out where there are two or three or four pics.
AI ain't takin over the world anytime soon.
A 7 year old could figure out these pictures.
AI can't

2026-02-08 22:30:17 GMT

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Oh nice I live in gr... How do we go to the convention? I'm registered R but way way way more libertarian.

2026-02-03 13:36:27 GMT

Unsubscribed from Robert breed love what is money podcast.
His series with Saylor was crucial in my understanding of Bitcoin.
I've enjoyed many of his interviews..
But he's just weird. I know he knows he's weird... Too serious.
Idk, I tire of deep meaningful conversations usually.
He seems, as one of my friends said, slimy

2026-01-31 13:38:58 GMT

Pomliano and Schiff conversation....
Schiff is right to on tariffs. Almost had me sell all my Bitcoin and buy gold

2026-01-26 01:06:23 GMT

Pixel 10 sucks
esims specifically
Esims are stupid bc you can't just switch back and forth between phones.
Samsungs phones still all allow physical sim

2026-01-17 15:19:34 GMT

@nprofile…c0er why was jcd such a grump on the last show

2026-01-15 13:04:42 GMT

The Bitcoin Matrix podcast interview with Lauren Rodriguez is excellent. She clearly explains how corrupt the FBI and moreso the judicial system is.
@nprofile…9ewh excellent work.

2026-01-09 19:14:30 GMT

The US is split right now on enforcing a border.
That's probably the most basic requirement of being a nation.
Seems like we're F'd if we can't even enforce the border.

2025-12-22 00:55:22 GMT

Of course the Detroit Lions lose on another controversial call

2025-12-09 03:17:16 GMT

If you wonder how many foreigners are in your calm Midwestern city, post an old DeWalt tool or materials for sale on Facebook marketplace.
It's hard to unsee

2025-12-07 04:33:03 GMT

I do interior remodeling... Mostly bathtlrooms and kitchens and flooring.
Perfect reviews.
I don't have jobs lined up right now.
I may be an anomaly.
I don't know.
I'm two weeks I might have 3 jobs lined up.
But IDK if I'm a canary.
Thoughts?
I'm in Michigan btw

2025-12-04 04:15:43 GMT

Bitcoin taught me the world runs on energy
Whether is fire. Or food. Or homes. Or water. Or a city.
It all runs off energy and channeling it and using it.

2025-12-03 04:58:45 GMT

Listening to @nprofile…tkhj on @nprofile…hevn ....
In regards to setting up a fedi...
Everyone knows me as the Bitcoin guy.
I don't know anyone who is a fraction of a percentage down the road of possibly even owning Bitcoin.
Mich less using it as freedom money and not simply NGU.
The idea of getting ppl I know on a fedi is preposterous.
Not hating the idea or proposal, it's just not realistic for me.
Maybe I'm spoiled with spoiled friends with financial priveledge

2025-11-22 22:43:18 GMT

I don't know why you'd use anything other than a seedsigner
One lil device. Can make at home or buy one. Open source.
Device doesn't hold your key, just homemade qr code cards for signing transactions.
Wish I'd have found this years ago

2025-11-18 03:45:16 GMT

Somebody paid for a commercial in Monday night football calling for the Epstein files to be released
https://www.worldwithoutexploitation.org/

2025-11-18 02:25:20 GMT

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I have a string of posts with a couple others on this.
In my very humble opinion, 3 key multisig you shouldn't really need metal plates as backups.
I might be switching to seed signer for my multisig setup

2025-11-16 14:42:43 GMT

Rob Hamilton has single handedly made me not use anchor watch.
For now.
I really wanna use them.
But he seems kinda douchy and too institutionalized

2025-11-14 04:08:54 GMT

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I would love to set and forget. I did that with single sig for like 5 years w ledger.
Then I read a book and deep dived.
Then I went all in.
Then I went cold card single for like a year. Always made me nervous having single.
6 mos or so ago I did the multi.
IDK I might just leave my multi setup for now for a while...3 diff device manufacturers....just the ledger doesn't work. But ya I still have the seed

2025-11-14 04:02:35 GMT

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Microseed looks pretty good.
Heard of it from Daniel White on The Bitcoin Podcast a few days ago

2025-11-14 03:58:39 GMT

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Good point, appreciate it
I just ordered a seedsigner this evening.
Yes, I might use my coldcard for one of the signers.
You can keep the wallet config on printed sheet tho, with each of your keys.
Speaking with all humility tho obv
Glad I'm making sense tho. All my edu is from YouTube and podcasts

2025-11-14 01:34:32 GMT

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No...I have one of them stamped ( from when I used as single sig)
Again, I might just switch to seedsigner for long term storage...then just backup the seeds in 3 diff geo locations

2025-11-13 22:10:54 GMT

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Per my recent post, think I'm gonna switch my cold storage to seed signer.
What bitcoin did episode with him on it was fantastic.

2025-11-13 22:10:12 GMT

After listening to what bitcoin did podcast with seedsigner, I'm gonna get one and use that for my cold storage I think.
I just can't come up with a reason to store multi sig 3 diff devices when I could just store the seed w corresponding qr codes.

2025-11-13 04:18:21 GMT

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Aren't all bananas clones? Ask em

2025-11-13 04:17:19 GMT

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Yeah idk it worked when I first used it set it up and put my btc on it.
IDK why.
Qr code worked tho. Had to take a pic of qr code with my phone camera tho to get my computer (both of them) to read it

2025-11-13 03:37:51 GMT

I think about this graph a lot. When I hear my gen and x bitching about boomers, part of me thinks quit bitching.
But part of me always thinks about this chart
https://blossom.primal.net/1d8373b3336e9810a3674d8a8b10bfd58706d7dc18dcfdaba21e230ec44ea451.png

2025-11-10 04:09:18 GMT

Tested my multi sig this evening.
I use sparrow, with three diff devices.
Trezor worked fine.
Ledger would not sign with sparrow, kept getting error.
ColdcardQ wouldn't recognize the psbt file on sd card. (Tried two diff cards)
ColdcardQ qr code could not be read by computer camera.
Ended up taking video with my phone or coldcard qr code, then scanning it
Worked, but I'm considering doing unchained or anchorwatch because of these concerns.
Sometimes I wonder if id be better just single sig on coldcard q w passphrase

2025-11-04 04:25:48 GMT

Had a good year.
Stacked plenty of BTC.
Tryna decide how much I wanna fund my btc IRA or etf IRA, vs just paying the taxes and continuing to fund my self custody.
Real decisions

2025-11-04 04:22:54 GMT

I see these snap benefits gatherings in my city, and I think...
I just spent the day demolishing a bathroom, pretty nasty dirty work, to rebuild it this week with a new tub shower tile surround.
Wish I had time to go down there and stand around

2025-10-27 20:44:51 GMT

Switched to crowd health.
Anybody know if I can still contribute to my HSA for a tax deduction?
Guessing no

2025-10-19 02:24:42 GMT

How is Burger King still in business

2025-10-10 02:23:06 GMT

The most recent Michael malice interview with Tim pool has me thinking.... Tim pool is worth listening to.
I listened here n there 4-5 years ago. I enjoyed him, but he seemed a bit doomy n gloomy.
I'm beginning to think he just looks further ahead than many commenters.
I wonder if he's right about the next 5-10 years.
Gonna start listening a bit again.

2025-10-04 03:09:18 GMT

If Ben Bankas was on nostr, I would donate to his comedy project
Sigh, just get on nostr everybody

2025-10-04 02:49:15 GMT

Got a dog in 2020.
He loved me. Still loves me, but
I started dating this girl in 2022. Got married in 2024.
He loves her more now.
Literally will sit with her way more than he wants to sit with me.
He still respects me more than her.
When I'm not home for the night, my wife says he's on edge.
But I sorta lost him to her.
Just random thoughts

2025-10-03 01:08:53 GMT

Was looking at the cagr of my btc purchases this year (calcd over less than a year).
Bought some in mid June when it was at $119k. So now at $120k.
~3% cagr
Bitcoin has crazy cagr

2025-09-29 02:11:23 GMT

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Lame. So dumb. Halftime shows are dead

2025-09-29 02:10:57 GMT

Finishing another football watching weekend, back to making money and listening to Bitcoin podcasts tomorrow.
The cycles continue

2025-09-06 21:43:48 GMT

Something with my old galaxy s20 messed up with the camera...
So I just bought a "new" used one on eBay.
And people say phones are so expensive now.... I only paid like $170.
Definitely something I would have spent more on and upgraded without Bitcoin

2025-08-19 12:18:45 GMT

Gotta say, Jake Shields x grok questions... I learned a lot from them

2025-08-18 03:15:41 GMT

Luke Gromen being interviewed by Michelle Makori.
Skip to 1:19
AI is fundamentally incompatible with the debt based monetary system
The top employer in 38 of 50 states is healthcare, with most of that in administration. Most of those jobs are in the crosshairs of AI. Those people have mortgages and car loans and credit card loans.
When AI starts disrupting their jobs over the next 2, 3, 5 years, the US will face a choice.
Do we print money or go bust. They're gonna print the money.
Excellent discussion as usual from Luke. But I clipped the best part for ya
https://youtu.be/kXFcuZhtwNU?si=dWBThTuV6-PQFVxx

2025-07-28 02:44:40 GMT

Had my first kid. All went well. Still spreading the word, still stacking.
Have fun with your life guys and gals, you only get one.

2025-07-13 17:04:17 GMT

Many people say you need humility to understand Bitcoin. I never fully understood this, because I never disregarded the idea initially (even tho I was slow to fully understand).
The real humility required by most Americans is that the US isn't as special as we thought. It has some unique characteristics (the New World, free speech, etc), but ultimately human nature will play out.
All successful governments (empires?) debase and devalue their currency eventually. They all fall apart eventually.
With any luck, and with Bitcoin as the rudder, we'll softly land in a world cleansed of such theivery

2025-07-12 23:53:48 GMT

Watched some of the Candace Fuentes conversation.
Cat playing with a mouse, unfortunately.
Fuentes is right side of the bell curve. I like Candace, but she's middle of the bell curve.
Emotionally and intellectual predator prey the entire thing...
Don't listen to it.
But if you must, skip to 3/4 thru

2025-07-12 12:33:33 GMT

A slightly breakthrough moment with the wife. She's not against it, she just trusts me on finances and big picture stuff...and given my obsession, she has no pallet for the topic.
I explained to her how two years ago, a very short time ago, we could have bought my house for 8 or 9 Bitcoin. Today we could buy my house for ~2.5 Bitcoin.
Her: "wow that is crazy"
Me: now you know why I don't wanna buy a new house anytime soon. The prices keep dropping.

2025-07-08 12:52:27 GMT

I had chat gpt run cagr on Bitcoin for the last ten years (ie 6/30/2015-6/30/2025, 6/30/2016-6/30/2025, 2017-2025, etc)
It was so wrong. Puzzled, and uncertain of my own calc, I checked the ai #s. Still couldn't get it. Eventually it said 'oh yeah my #s were wrong.
So I ran it by grok. Grok nailed it. At least, it passed my own check.

2025-06-09 15:16:10 GMT

Congrats to the first OG podcaster in the world John Derbyshire with Radioderb.
He turned 80 and retired this week.
Truly one of the great podcasters, writers, and thinkers of the day.

2025-06-09 02:04:33 GMT

Watchin NBA, good commercial from Coinbase on the cost of a house... 2012, 2022, 2025

2025-05-24 12:48:41 GMT

Weird Hiking perspective I noticed, hikking a gorge in Ohio.
Walking in was uphill but seemed like it was downhill.
Walking out was downhill but seemed like it was uphill.
I think it's a lighting thing.
Walking into a thick green gorge (think rainforest) means walking into darkness, which your brain associates with going downhill base on experience.

2025-05-17 17:56:47 GMT

Vibes podcast was hilarious. Excellent work everyone who participated.
Thanks @nprofile…hevn
Zapping you value!!

2025-05-03 20:22:57 GMT

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It's God touching the physical, natural world. It's the outgrowth of the limitless digital world of light and electronics.
It's the second coming of Christ. Maybe it's Jesuss little brother. Or Jesus's imaginary friend that becomes real in our carbon based world.
Or it was just an NSA experiment

2025-05-03 20:19:29 GMT

Bitcoin was divinely inspired
...
Or it was created by the CIA

2025-04-26 11:08:04 GMT

To anyone going on a Bitcoin podcast or talking Bitcoin.
Please stop using the phrase "this space" regarding the topic of Bitcoin.
I swear the most recent Natalie brunell podcast with Frank Corva, he used the term fifty times.
Gr at podcast, but saying "this space" or "the space" over and over makes ya sound douchy

2025-04-24 11:42:14 GMT

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.... Wife planted

2025-04-24 11:42:02 GMT

Eofer planted tulip bulbs around our two front yard trees last fall.
Deer polished em all off the last to nights.
I told her we can cut a bunch of fur hair from the dog and sprinkle it. Didn't do it on time tho 😔

2025-04-13 14:37:39 GMT

@nprofile…0fg3 Mr X interviews book.
How did it take me so long to read this.
It's fascinating.
This is something I can send to my nerdy friends and family to understand the world.
I darent say, but it might be better than Broken Money, the Bitcoin standard, or The Big Print (all great)
Zapping you

2025-04-13 13:13:57 GMT

I think it's okay to see the world as Red or Blue, as long as you know you're looking through glasses.
Seems like many conservatives I know see the world in these shades, but at least have some understanding they're looking thru glasses.
Seems like when I talk to lefties, they don't even know they're wearing glasses.
I'm sure this differs depending on the person.

2025-04-12 11:40:05 GMT

Don't ever get lasik.
I know a guy, 40ish, got it done. He says he can see fine, but it's different. He gets headaches sometimes, and he suspects it's from the LASIK. He says it's hard to describe, but he sees differently than before. Mind you, his surgery was successful. But he told me he wouldn't do it again. As he said, takes 5 seconds every morning to put in contacts. Or just wear glasses.
He told me he's talked to quite a few ppl with similar issues.
Also my wife's ex bf got it and he's going was blind from it.
Don't get lasik.

2025-04-06 21:34:19 GMT

@nprofile…q0jg most recent @nprofile…0m5k podcast #603 with Dr Mary Bowden.
99% of doctors are employees
77% employed by hospitals (my note, increasingly behemouth monopolies nationwide)
20% by employed by insurance companies or private equity firms
2% employes by government
That leaves 1% independent and "3rd party free" (not contracted w insurance co hospitals or government)

2025-03-29 17:34:34 GMT

"450 million EU citizens should not have to depend on 340 million Americans to defend ourselves against 140 million Russians who can't defeat 38 million Ukrainians.
We really can do better.
It's time for us to take responsibility for the defence of Europe!"
Andrius Kubilius, Commissioner for Defence Industry and Space of the EU

2025-03-24 01:16:50 GMT

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Where? Austin?
I'd start paying for things in BTC if I start seeing it here in Mich

2025-03-19 17:42:17 GMT

I know someone who works for Robin Hood.
When I mentioned there are companies that will help securely store your Bitcoin for an annual fee...
"Well that doesn't really make any sense, it doesn't cost anything to keep Bitcoin"
This is an employee who makes good money at Robinhood.
We're so early

2025-03-17 13:26:14 GMT

I'm continually surprised Rogan has not had on another bitcoiner (since 2016)

2025-03-15 21:28:47 GMT

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I just turned mich v Maryland. It was 11 pt mich lead like 5 min ago. Now they're down

2025-03-14 13:58:51 GMT

I suspect we're entering a stage in the US (and maybe worldwide) where NPCs will think you got lucky choosing the crypto that Trump and the US happened to choose as a reserve.
"Yeah it's at $500k bc Trump back in 2025"
This stage may last for decades.
Just my thoughts. I can see my in-laws thinking this.

2025-03-10 22:51:49 GMT

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Shoulder (lateral raises), throw some overhead presses for fun, bench flys, curls, triceps (overhead crushers).
I've been lifting long enough to just be creative.
I only have adjustable dumbbells and a bench.
Throw some weighted hip thrusts in for butt, front rack squats, weighted calf raises for legs.
I've plenty of times dreaded lifting (usually do), go do 1 set of each quickly, and less than 10 min goes by
Oh, and I always do weighted pullups
I only use

2025-03-08 16:35:35 GMT

If you have weights at home, it only takes about 10 minutes to get a decent lift in. Do it every couple days, and you're in the top 1% of Americans.

2025-03-08 14:20:25 GMT

@nprofile…rzjs and @nprofile…2z2h , I stopped listening mid way thru this one and went to my computer to see the charts.
I slowed down the video to 0.75x for this chart, and it blew me away.
For every 12.7% increase in days in the life of Bitcoin, the adoption doubles and the price doubles.
Zapping you both. Great podcast to really slow down, listen to, and watch
https://m.primal.net/PYOa.jpg

2025-02-28 15:17:40 GMT

Vince Vaughn to play @npub1d3f…r4xv in the big print @npub1ahx…5ech

2025-02-15 11:42:57 GMT

https://m.primal.net/OxZR.jpg

2025-02-08 23:35:02 GMT

night lulu lemon jogger pants today.
I looked all over for what I wanted. jogger type pants, comfortable, but cuffless, that looked good to wear out.
no one else makes them
so I went into lulu and dropped$100.
probably wear them a lot tho

2025-02-08 20:57:40 GMT

"Foreign aid is a transfer of resources from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries."
- Peter Bauer

2025-02-04 23:54:00 GMT

I see people are getting the new prob @npub1d3f…r4xv book.
I feel like a loser waiting two more days until my Kindle version

2025-02-03 04:35:50 GMT

I can't stop thinking about a quote from @npub1wnl…n3wr from a few months ago on some podcast
I've said it a few ppl
it reigns true today
" The best Bitcoin is illegal Bitcoin"
when you get it you get it

2025-02-03 04:16:15 GMT

I have a retired banking guy friend.
Everyday I want to ask him, so how does it feel knowing some retard failed accountant now home remodeler has destroyed your average annual returns for the last 8 years... or even 4 years.
But I smile and simply say cheers. Glad to have good company

2025-02-03 04:12:53 GMT

despite every hit Bitcoin has taken recently has held above 90.
I won't be shocked if it goes down to 70.
probably won't, but I'll keep dca.
in any case, the drop and my Bitcoin anxiety is allayed.
but I guess I'm posting here, so maybe I still have a little anxiety about price drop lol

2025-02-03 02:59:20 GMT

Watching the Grammys makes me so thankful for bitcoin

2025-02-02 19:27:20 GMT

@npub1wnl…n3wr
my zap to you isn't working, do you not have a wallet on here.
great discussion on @npub1hw4…lg0q roundtable

2025-02-02 12:43:59 GMT

The most disturbing news I've heard regarding the Trump administration is that Elon lied about being good at world of Warcraft.
that's very disturbing

2025-02-02 03:51:20 GMT

Two things required for BTC to take over:
1. no capital gains tax in Bitcoin
2. adding crypto as currency and
.... stop paying doing 3% on all transactions

2025-02-01 12:36:31 GMT

This feels like mob rule. gotta file a $349 form each year now, for my single owner LLC.
What happens if I don't file corporate transparent act form
If you fail to file the Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) Report required by the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), you may face significant penalties, including:
Civil Penalties – A fine of $500 per day for non-compliance, up to a maximum of $10,000.
Criminal Penalties – Willful failure to file, filing false information, or unauthorized disclosure can result in up to two years in prison and additional fines.
It's like the Corleone family suggesting you cut them in, bc it'd be a shame if something bad happened to your shop.

2025-01-31 12:52:29 GMT

these rfkj hearings, I'm realizing why they hate trump and him so bad.
sheesh he's exposing so many of the top Dems... Pocahontas, Feelthebern, etc.

2025-01-30 13:30:00 GMT

keys to a successful marriage.
Own your one bathroom house before you start dating her. It's important for you to only have one bathroom. This way she'll acclimate to your way of installing the toilet paper correctly on the holder (over the top of course).
Live this way a few years as you court and marry her.
When you finally add a bathroom or buy a house with more bathrooms, you will have marital solidarity. No arguments over which way the toilet paper roll goes.

2025-01-28 04:39:32 GMT

The ETH et al want to be too many things.
BTC just wants to be simple. really good money.
For instance, my wife couldn't fall asleep, so I offered to talk to her about Bitcoin as a sleep aid.
She said no.
I'm glad Bitcoin doesn't try to be good money AND a good sleep aid.
It's just good money

2025-01-27 15:43:37 GMT

@npub1cj8…rz4u finally doing v4v?!?
don't forget to zap him for goin ad free!

2025-01-25 14:29:54 GMT

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I agree, but I'm not sure which is better for Bitcoin, an sbr, no sbr, or a shit coin sbr.
maybe it's best that trump does shitcoin sbr and gets the retards, er, libs, to scream "crony capitalism" (ignorantly accurate) and BTC simply continues, like in a post ftx fashion, to tick tock

2025-01-25 03:46:02 GMT

can we just get Bitcoin as a medium of exchange already, again.
Maybe if we can fund small Bitcoin miners worldwide (since BTC ers like me don't wanma set up a miner).
so after nation states and banks start claiming hash rate and transaction blocks, us plebs can at least on chain exchange enough for lightning (and aqua etc) deposits and withdrawals.
then start exchanging where banks don't get 3% of every transaction
sigh. doesn't seem too hard

2025-01-24 04:46:29 GMT

my dog has reverse the Pavlov equation.
before bed, he locks his bowl, jingling his tag against the metal.
i get up and give him a late night snack

2025-01-24 00:49:30 GMT

Puzzles me why Rogan hasn't had a Bitcoin guy on.
something fishy about it

2025-01-18 12:41:37 GMT

I wonder if this tiktok an is goin to really piss off gen z. I know a fair # of teenagers....they love tiktok, and they know, regardless of which side of the political spectrum they fall, they know it's all about the $. Google and meta are losing ad money to tiktok, and tiktok doesn't pay politicians as well.
Gen z ain't gonna take this well.

2025-01-15 03:56:29 GMT

Winter doldrums with the pregnant wife. Bitcoin has made me even more frugal than I used to be.
Looking at a quick long-weekend to Florida, and I'm like...dang, $2k.
It's not like I don't have it. I'm just tryna stack sats right now...and save for baby.
Sheesh. I thought I was cheap before.

2025-01-12 03:51:01 GMT

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Gonna comment on my own post regarding the Rudyard kipling poem.
Nature has hard n fast rules. Deserts and ecosystems like around LA car hard n fast rules. They must burn undergrowth.
If you ignore these laws and rule of nature, they will catch up with you.
Read the Kipling poem again.
"But they (the laws of nature) always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome."
California, specifically the LA area, significantly reduced controlled burns in the 90s.
"As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!"

2025-01-11 14:50:44 GMT

@npub1gdu…6nak
just dropped a great extensive write-up on Argentina and Javier Milei on X
They're printing money and growing national debt.
Milei e appears to be no libertarian, no Austria. economist, and merely a money printer.
I highly suggest the read. not gonna post here, go find it.

2025-01-11 12:58:54 GMT

The Gods of the Copybook Headings
1
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
2
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
3
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
4
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
5
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
6
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
7
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
8
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew,
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four–
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
9
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
10
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
Rudyard Kipling

2025-01-09 11:19:28 GMT

Palisades fire, before and after.
These seem to be homes ranging from $2m - $10m based on Zillow.
Looks like prob 1,000+ homes doing some simple math.
It's just the small circled area on the map, zoomed out to show Malibu
https://m.primal.net/NYxr.jpg
https://m.primal.net/NYxr.jpg
https://m.primal.net/NYyB.jpg

2025-01-08 15:01:42 GMT

Casual Bitcoin convo:
"I'm not sure the value of my house is going up. I mean. relative to the dollar value it is. But the dollar value is changing...just look at your grocery bill."
(many have a hard time correlating these, so I continue with my surprisingly nicely packaged example)
"Take my home for instance. If i had 10 ounces of gold in 2020 I could have bought my house with it.y house has gone up in dollar value substantially since then. But if I had held those same 10 ounces of gold, I could now buy my house for...you guessed it, 10 ounces of gold. So was my house a 'good investment'?
(insert example of S&P or something, then proceed to BTC)
"Eight Bitcoin in 2020 would have purchased my house. But if I'd held that, I could now purchase my home for less than 3 Bitcoin.
Worth thinking about."

2025-01-06 03:15:50 GMT

One response to ew I don't like Bitcoin (thinking of my mother in law lib Eliz Warren lover)
"Seems like saying I don't like math. It's like the number zero (thanks @npub15vz…k4um) or the printing press. it's like a discovery of information. you may not like it. but it's very useful."