BlackSheepRehab
Black Sheep Rehab
Agorist, Builder, & homesteader hiding out in the Willamette valley with my small poly tribe
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Last Notes npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab The organization of the UN should be dissolved, or the US? I’d be in favor of the peaceful dissolution of both, but preferably only if we had some way to ensure the power vacuum they created would not be filled by some stronger more consolidated organization. Let that source of power dissipate and the parasites that feed off of it diminish. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Am I supposed to be praying for your redemption, or praying for you to sin with me? npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab And you never get answers when completing them. Did I get 2 images presented because I guessed wrong on the first, or because I was randomly selected to perform a second as part of a training sample. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab My father was a motorcycle rider and I grew up in a country of mopeds. The distinction of the presence or lack of pedals was an important one. I suppose it might not be to most captcha writers or captcha clickers. (Captchors and captchees?) npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Those people look to be on a moped. I’m not sure any of those squares contain any part of a motorcycle. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab N’Quack Quack Street Boys Mother Quackers npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Chicken should be placed head down in a cone! npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Isn’t it a white man’s phonetic spelling of an old Indian name, so there are a myriad of acceptable spellings? Also I wouldn’t put it beyond possible that her interns can’t spell. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab So ignore those haters and walk your own path. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Also, to continue the analogy, you can pick up cool gear along the way. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Sort of. I manage the server it’s sent and received from but it’s co-located elsewhere. Although now that I have better Internet service then when I moved in, I keep considering moving it home and just running a backup MX elsewhere. If start9 would get us a server side IMAP filtering setup, I’d be all over that. For now it’s not worth the hassle of changing setups. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I see a decomposing pile of value, but it can be a means to an end. The end being more bitcoin. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab How do you zap a book author while reading? npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I feel sad every time I read someone’s resume. I pick “the best” of them for a phone interview, which makes me sadder still for the state of humanity. I don’t think most of my candidates could bake a cake from a box, with directions. If you’ve got a good head on your shoulders, you’ll stand out to the right people. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab You can delete those things?! I have all my emails, chats, texts since an unbacked up hard drive crash in 2001. That said, if we stopped talking/dating, I’m not reaching back out unless we move in the same circles and build some level of in person friendship again. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I build and remodel houses on spec. This is my retirement. I’ll do it until I physically can’t, then I’ll have to live on my BTC. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab 19:19 npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I want to enjoy this picture (as directed) but without seeing the hands, what’s to say it’s not more AI generation? npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Coindesk headline: “Craig Wright Assets Frozen by UK Judge to Prevent Him Evading Court Costs” I hope he kept his assets in BTC to keep them freeze proof Oh wait … he didn’t. 😂 npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Nope couldn’t handle people, I’ll stick to fixing houses. But I’ve got a spare hammer if anyone needs to work with their hands. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab One cannot expect to reason with a group whose stated goal is your extermination. Got to keep trying though because what else can you do? npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab And if you cheat in college, you can hold a political office. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I’ve certainly heard the word, and used it. But I’ve also been polyamorous for 30 years. While in that context it applies to being happy for you romantic partners’ achievements it can apply outside of such relationships. I can feel compersion for my neighbor who was able to get or do the X they always wanted. I am happy for their happiness, without feeling that their success in anyway impinges upon my ability to succeed. Our compersion hole in the world is closely tied to the scarcity mindset which makes many jealous of others success rather than finding it uplifting when those around them are achieving their goals. I can only hope that there is some truth to the notion of, “fix the money, fix the world” and that BTC will slowly reintroduce the idea that success anywhere in a community can bring success to everyone in that community. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I am polyamorous because I believe I can love multiple people. Dating is a process to find those people. I am committed to both my partners (of 19 and 8 years). I still go on dates occasionally as I find others intriguing. But I’m also up front about my time, and that I might not be able to share as much time with someone new as when I was single and poly. But other people have other interpretations of those words which makes communication until you know where someone else is going from so much more important than labels. I don’t assume that someone who is poly, is available to date, nor that they would wish to date any aspect of me (my existing relationships, life choices, appearance, etc.) npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab It’s a beautiful evening to welcome 4 new additions to the homestead. Mama duck was not pleased with the paparazzi so I only got 2 in the pictures. Several more eggs are still under her, but she was hoarding other eggs after she started sitting so we’ll see what happens. @npub1587…kv0n Jack, you’re a jerk! The Muscovy additions are your fault. Why did I listen to you? It brought my happy chirping ducklings and a smile to my face. #grownostr #yamhillvalley #permaculture #ducklings #muscovy https://m.primal.net/HlUs.jpg https://m.primal.net/HlUu.jpg npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I tried to tie it to money… my half asleep brain read that you started working at a crypto-therapy spot! Makes me wonder what such a place would be. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab You can believe it has value, but it is the collective desire for it by others that actually brings it value. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab GM ostriches Beghrir with maple syrup. It’s just wrong. But doesn’t stop me from enjoying brunch as I mix cultures. #maine #morocco More traditional served with honey or a nut paste, but I had a hankering for maple syrup this morning. We’re out of milk and I’m never very good making fluffy American pancakes, so I give you Moroccan pancakes. https://m.primal.net/HjbG.jpg npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Your civilization has discovered vertical gardening. +3 to food production. It’s a beautiful day but wasn’t it snowing last weekend? #yamhill #yamhillvalley #gardening #tinktube #emtconduit #grownostr #permaculture https://m.primal.net/Hixa.jpg npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Do you have a traditional furnace? If so you may be able to set up a series of dampers to open a bypass around the main duct and blow air over the miner and then back into the supply when heat is called for and when no heat is needed lose the dampers and run the miner and exhaust the heat elsewhere, garage, attic, outside. Then you could setup the miner to be your stage 1 heat with stage 2 bring your current furnace heat source. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab As a landlord, I offer 10% discount on rent paid in BTC. I also offer to walk a tenant through how to source it and pay for it (using Strike, so they never need to own it) Only 1 has taken me up on it, which requires patience with the initially low limits on Strike. I am required by our charter to pay out income quarterly, so any more of a discount creates more risk of covering a significant 3 month drop. Trying to get all my investors to take a split payout in fiat and BTC to alleviate the need to convert back to fiat to cover. No clean way in Quickbooks to track income in 2 currencies. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I keep looking in this direction. With the cost of electricity in my area, mining for profit is a hard thing to do, but if I’m burning watts for heat anyway, then doing it whilst earning some return makes sense. Now to figure out how to build a miner into a cadet heater housing… npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab It seems like there are so many red flags in dating these days. And then I wonder are they aware of what they are supporting or are they well intentioned but ignorant? Though when considering the energy I want in my life, does it matter? npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab The property next door is on the market… maybe you’re what my neighborhood is lacking. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Absolutely. Five Stars Family Burger in Cornelius, OR. As their tagline says, “Quality over quantity, every time.” npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab In the last run up to a BTC all time high, I was excited to watch my “investment” grow. As the price climbs now, the pit in my stomach is instead wondering if I have stacked enough sats and if I’m ready for the price to rise. Have I best taken advantage of the opportunities made available to me to secure my wealth? Strike sits silently in the background with my hourly DCA. It doesn’t care. #stacksats #preservewealth #bitcoin npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Unless you’re near PDX, I’d have a hard time collecting said lemon. Guess my mouth will stay salivating a while longer. Enjoy! 🤤 npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Well damn, didn’t mean to propose you have an allergic reaction. Best I take it off your hands. How many sats for your lemon? My mouth is still salivating over the thought of fish. I should probably see about breakfast. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab It means you should have fried fish for dinner tonight. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Everyone comes to education on different topics in their own time, but the immediate condemnation from your date without understanding would have turned me off. I'm thankful to have one partner fully in support of BTC. My other partner is freedom minded in some aspects, but has a mental hurdle with money not insured by FDIC. She is not ready for that level of freedom yet but also not dismissive in the same tone. I'll count myself lucky. Good luck to you! npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I want to heat a cargo trailer to keep my supplies from freezing, maybe make it warm enough to work in. It’s got to be electric to be left on and unattended. If I'm just burning watts, perhaps I should put them to good use at the same time and mine some bitcoin. Anyone have recommendations for a mining rig for such a purpose? I probably have 3000 Watts to play with, but I also need the abilty to ramp down when running my compressor. Is there a setup that can sense power demand and throttle back before the circuit breaker trips? (circuit breakers being thermally driven, I know there is some time lag there). #bitcoin #mining npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Do you watch NFL football? Not Fuckin' Likely npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab As with any education people come to it in their own time. Keep cool and stack on, but don't stop providing info npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I want some of that 3¢/kWh power! Any Chinese investors want to set up a collocation facility? My power rates are at 17¢/kWh and slated for an 18% increase! npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab For my business, I need a way to pay various bills either via ACH or mailed check that will cover a bill denoted in USD but settle out of my BTC stash. Then I could reduce dependency on my business bank account while still paying suppliers that only take USD. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Civil disobedience from everyone. Do what is moral in a free and fair exchange and let the IRS go screw. This is the only remaining avenue left to free individuals. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Imagine thinking the pervasive and insidious tyranny we live under should be accepted without struggle because it could be worse. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab First blower door test. How did that result happen?!? That’s Passive House level! Certainly well above my target of “better than we used to build” This is our 2nd new construction using Zip-R sheathing and trying to build an air-tight enclosure. It is our first blower door test except trying it on our own homes. 7ACH on the 1990s construction, 17ACH on the 1912 house. I’ve double checked the volume numbers of 36723 cuft which is the biggest determiner of the ACH number. We were blowing 350 CFM to hit our 50PA so we do seem on the right order. Caveats to the test. We sealed all duct penetrations at the exterior duct terminus (makeup air, laundry, HRV). Not all of these are hooked up yet so the eventual dampers may not have been ready. Once HVAC rough-in is complete we will retest and sealing the interior of laundry vents or undampered fresh air intakes. But otherwise allow air leakage through exterior connected ducting to occur. Also electrical and hose bibb penetrations are not yet complete. This is monopoly framing. Fully encapsulated crawl and attic space. 18 sq in. Equivalent hole @ 4 Pa. #newconstruction #construction #generalcontractor #investorlab #realestateinvestor #keepthecraftalive #yamhillvalley #framing #buildingscience #blowerdoor #carltonoregon #passivehouse https://m.primal.net/HVTU.jpg npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab “Debt-fueled mass consumption is as much a normal part of capitalism as asphyxiation is a normal part of respiration.” — Saifedean Ammous What a mess Keynes has made of our world. Adjust your time preference and restore valuing things other than consumption in your own life. Seemed like a timely quote to come across in my reading tonight. Merry Christmas. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Now imagine adjusting it to the M3! npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab What bugs me is that Hollywood guns make a noise when you point them. Sometimes it’s a slide being racked without anyone touching it, sometimes it’s just a click, but it’s rarely silent. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab From the Oregon Dept. of Justice today: “A new Oregon requirement … takes effect on January 1, 2024. … We will send additional information about how you can begin complying with the new law in the spring of 2024.” So helpful, we’ll tell you how to comply 5 months after the law takes effect. Why bother? Just take your new law print it out on tissue paper on a 4” roll and we’ll use it for all its worth! I should add TP to my shopping list… npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I just had to troubleshoot a tenants unit. It was spinning in high but not in low. And the control panel I suspect as being the culprit is of course no longer available. So I guess it’s time for a new one. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I left my engineering desk job for real estate. I love building stuff so am a bags on builder everyday but working for myself; either to keep as a rental or sell after construction. Started in remodeling but am now doing new construction. Loving it, while growing a portfolio and taking enough income to be comfortable. Thinking about being more of a lender in the next 7-10 years when my current development projects run out and my body asks to not be a carpenter daily. Not there yet. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I feel your pain while also being insulated from it. My work is almost all on spec, and the retail market on houses keeps rising given the huge demand and the challenges Oregon keeps putting in the path of development. So I’m able to absorb most cost increases without affecting my bottom line, it just gets past on to the end home buyer. But skilled labor is typically less skilled and yet 25% more than it was 3 years ago. And of course subcontractors costs keep going up. I’m not a big enough GC to use a sub more than twice a year typically, so never feel I have enough pull to argue their pricing. Plus I’d rather have 1 or 2 I trust to price me fairly than to constantly be chasing the lowest bid. If I can’t budget the price I’d rather reduce scope than try to crush someone else’s margins. But I get most GCs can’t operate that way and so are going to demand you absorb those costs internally. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab You’re not in Oregon are you? I’ve got a bunch of flat work needed on my current job. We do our own form work before framing, so I know what’s happening to material and labor costs, but I don’t have the skills to make it look good on the flat. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab We are the carbon they wish to sequester. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Took the gator out to the back field and spent 10 min picking the plums I could reach from the ground. I could bring a ladder back, or spend more time, but do I need a bigger haul for 2023? Time for some lamb and plum couscous for dinner, some for munching on and the rest to turn into prunes. Also, have I mentioned my jobsite in Carlton has a plum tree? Been munching everyday. #foodforest #permaculture #yamhillcounty #yamhillvalley #homesteadlife #grownostr Poor Felix got attacked by a blackberry in his mane. https://image.nostr.build/b032e8533d80b8dc0026299c93f3addb8862ce7f9b2d315037607bb332112bad.jpg https://image.nostr.build/7d0d5b9c5504bb29578630f3050c17c6290cfd8873ed9bb372816d2ac627cb2b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ea498ec08d6d28b6fd22c3a369ce7b2fe5fff692ee849e4baa2bd9eb5e2ee8e0.jpg npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Come frame with us in the rain in Oregon. Even the best tapes don’t last more than 4 months. Even trying to wipe them dry of wet and sawdust everyday and give them a full pullout and rinse off weekly. Eventually you just choose a brand where you only need to buy 3 a year and you like everything else about it. And since they nearly always break in the first foot, nobody takes my 35’ out of the trailer unless laying out a room over 25’. Milwaukees have had the best feel for me, but every now and then I’ll try some brands new “advanced coating” to see if I can get a tape to last all winter. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Growing up at an American school in an Arabic country that had been a French colony kids on my playground would effortlessly switch languages mid sentence when they weren’t sure of a word, and others had no issue following the switch. Even many decades later that fluidity amazes me. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab The only reason I’m touching one this steep is because I live in it. My new construction I keep under 8:12. Anything steeper is unnecessarily painful to roof. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Hiding out in the shade waiting for the next panel to be cut. There’s a nice breeze to keep cool. Not to much to blow the panels about but really obnoxious when stapling paper. Great scaffolding from @safetyhoistcompany too. Heard about it recently and it’s awesome for handling a 12:12 roof like this. So glad I’m not nailing shingles at this pitch though. #realestateinvestor #renovation #rehab #remodel #homerenovation #homeremodel #construction #generalcontractor #houseremodel #investorlab #keepthecraftalive #yamhillvalley #grownostr https://cdn.nostr.build/i/bb9b3dda977b9c4f82894f4db7ec3fb7350a1847480dda06f7d24c9823ce3d7a.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/4a632540fad73f3605fea0768d0520a866fad768cc1c41107125bd2838c81260.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/c6f859fe3d81117a08b4cec54be5346e13a57fc8ba12a6c31325771b3d0a75fa.jpg npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Restrainable Government is a failed hypothesis. Good experimental design allows for a plethora of outcomes. The experiments performed thus far show that government always tends towards tyranny not restraint. A successful experiment as we have demonstrated a reliable, if terrible, outcome. I laughed aloud at your comment and then got schooled by the experimental physicist I married. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Compare this to Morocco, where I grew up, which is an actual police state and has checkpoints all over the place. But there I never had any issue arguing with the cop (or claiming not to speak French) until he gave up and let me go. Because while they were everywhere they were even less trusted by their superiors and so were never empowered to do anything. Here, if you look at a cop wrong on a bad day, they are empowered to rain down misery on you and piss them off bad enough, they’ll get their brothers in blue to make trouble for you too. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Happy Death to Tyrants Day! Processing 2 ducks in celebration #grownostr #permaculture #muscovy npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab When I’m not building stuff… sailing on Hagg Lake made for a lovely afternoon. #grownostr #sailing #yamhillcounty https://nostr.build/i/2d80ff878f1ef04c9d29c53ad865420607d08c323890c2c390e73011d7b3b4f6.jpg npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab “Unfortunately, issues like this need to be addressed on a case by case basis, which is something the state is entirely too incompetent to ever do.” This part here! All day long! npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Who cares what the parents have to say? The state has removed their voice in such matters where I live. Here a minor can seek out complete transition surgery, hormones, top surgery, bottom surgery, & in most cases significant cosmetic surgery, and the state (as well as private) insurance is required to cover it, and the medical agents are not allowed to notify the parents. It doesn't matter whether parents are pushing it. It only matters that a teen, already troubled adjusting to the changes in their body during that time of their life, is presented with this as a "risk-free" option by any authority voice in their environment and can then seek out a medical professional who will prescribe and perform it. (legality of above is per Oregon ORS 731 as revised by HB 2002-2023 which is currently sitting on the governor's desk) npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Om namah shivay! Om namah shivay! Om namah shivay! Kali maa npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Not peppery but it is mustardy but not spicy. We also have a bunch of red veined sorrel that is kind of tangy. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab We’ve been throwing it in our salads this year (at least the red streaks mizuna) version I’ve been growing. Quite tasty and it provides variety to the green flavor profile. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I’ve got to try to make some more biltong. My stash is running low. Course I don’t know what “real” biltong tastes like, I just know I prefer what I’ve made from online recipes over the sugar heavy American style jerky. And I even dated a South African girl in high school, really should have learned it then… npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Did something like this a few months back, but started with a 4-5 hour cold smoke instead of liquid smoke. And then tried to crisp it up in the insta-pot air fryer. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Process it through a duck first. #muscovy npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab #[2] did an answer on this on his show a few months back. The last section of his expert council Q&A episode 3219. If I recall the gist was, do it inclusive with an offer of a chunk of your time to help onboard them and then walk through it with them in person and then keep a copy of their wallet info yourself. If it clicks for them they’ll eventually not need you as a trusted 3rd party and can create their own private wallet. If it doesn’t click today but they come back to you in 2 years with renewed interest but having forgotten their access, you can restore it with them. https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/experts-12-16-22 npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Its surprising how loud the phone can be just sitting upright in my case and echoing in that little cavity created around the speaker. The buckets got to be next level. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Survived it without panic I hope? npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I have an apartment for rent, in Cornelius, OR. Where should I post it, especially to attract BTC folks? I've got the obvious posting on Craigslist, with a note about accepting BTC (will actually do a discount for BTC and am willing to walk any of my tenants through the wallet setup process if they don't care about BTC and just want the discount) I know nostr has various different clients some of which may be marketplace oriented, any of them suitable for posting housing? In case you're in the area and curious, here's the link. I know I'm posting a link that will go stale on a permanent note, but so be it. https://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/apa/d/cornelius-bed-bath-apartment/7614099427.html #grownostr #yamhillvalley #realestate npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Yay for seller financing! 3.5 hours is a bit far for me to go to do development work though. I like to stick to 45 min. from home. Do you have a title company that will handle transactions in BTC? I've seen a few out of Texas and Florida but none up here in the PNW that I know of. Not that I have a buyer wanting to do a BTC transaction, I can't even find renters wanting to pay BTC. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Do they patrol for this? I have ignored many "gun free" signs as (currently and in Oregon) until they ask me to leave and I refuse, ignoring that sign has no legal ramifications. I will usually keep it concealed at that point, and I will try to find alternative locations to do business if possible, but I won't overly restrict my life because of others expressed preferences. If they catch me and choose to ban me, I will respect that ban, but such signs/regulations are often created by a small number of busy-bodies and may not reflect the bulk of the other employees, much less the customers. In the end, freedom is a choice, and as long as I'm not committing violence against another or their property, my conscious is clear. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I invest in a great many things: stocks, supplies, skills, social, real estate. I store value in BTC. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Love that table. I’m sure I’d enjoy the spread too. But I have nostalgic longing for the tiled tabletops from my youth (in Morocco with frequent travels through Europe). As my current metal table is failing, maybe that’s a future project. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Well, this happened today. My first duckling! There are still 7 or 8 eggs underneath the sister pair of mothers. But there was weirdness when they started. One started sitting on 6 and then the nest grew to 19 at one point before they started pushing out rotted ones. My 35 days of sitting ended April 22 but since so many were added after a duck was sitting I’m not convinced they’re in sync. I have tried candeling several times and while I can see stuff, I have no idea if what I’m looking at is a developing duck or developing rot. I’ve also noticed that the eggs I’ve been eating since they stated sitting (from my other ducks) have not appeared fertilized, so I was convinced that I’d be clearing out a bunch of dudds this weekend. Now that one hatched I feel like I should let the rest be until the eggs get pushed out or hatched out. Here’s hoping I know what I’m doing… I’d hate to kill my only duckling. I’m going to be spending a bunch of time building ramps tomorrow as I doubt ducklings jump as high as the adults to get in and out of coops and pond. How soon might they go in a pond? #grownostr #muscovy #permaculture #yamhillvalley https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_3cadf303e65657b71fd48f69c8dfdf0fc698c168393f719506c6635d51d05541.jpg npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Not yet, but I need to print up a new round of cards, and thinking I might add it npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab My liking myself is permanently there as one of the first actions I took on nostr, while pressing buttons to see what they meant. Since then I've stopped liking stuff and just zap it when it's awesome. There is no undo in nostr, which always frustrates me as I tend to re-read my stuff right after I post and only then do I catch my smelling mistakes. [sic] npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I assume everyone has listened to Dan Carlin's stuff. In a very different vein however, I've been listening to some of the guests that Pete Quinones (freemanbeyondthewall.com) has on. He recently had Thomas777 doing a 16-part series on the Cold War for example. Not all of his show is historical, but he has had several micro-histories of various topics I've found enjoyable to listen to. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Yesterday the Oregon Senate Republicans walked out to deny the Democrats a quorum. I've got to say, the best legislature is a shut-down legislature. Wish I could zap behavior like that in the clown world, cause "liking" it at a ballot box very few years just feels so dirty. This Senate behavior was after a House clown a few days before made a speech about how 15 year olds are old enough to agree to get castrated without parental consent and not 24 hours later was arguing that 18 year olds are not old enough to own a firearm regardless of parental consent. What can one do but shake your head? I've managed to start the process of tuning out most worldwide current event entertainment, but still feel I need to keep one eye open on local Oregon news. As a landlord and contractor stuff occasionally happens that does directly affect my business. Baby steps... In news that matters, I think the next round of micro greens has sprouted and is ready to move into hydroponics system... #grownostr #yamhillvalley npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Add another to be the slogan trash pile: That’s a girl I can get behind. (Certainly don’t want to be in front of her). npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab For a while longer yet. But remember, many will fight changes to their paradigm to the bitter end. Theirs or fiats. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Words I've lived by since I first read them. Love this quote! npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Also I’m terrible at remembering hashtags. #grownostr #gardening #greenhouse npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Somethings just get done for nostalgia. Spent much of this afternoon expanding and cleaning existing bits of my hydroponics system in the greenhouse that has been supplying us with salads all year. Every now and then I would get a hint of jasmine wafting about and smile. One of the first things I planted in the greenhouse even before food crops. So many memories in that scent. https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_dd23fa6ab5ba5fddf9c7c7938c10023f429d658114d2697aef7140a971f9b8d9.jpg npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab That telehandler is awesome! 42’ reach 8klbs lift and 4 wheel crab steer. The advantages of being a home builder. Sometimes equipment needs to be stored at my place and not the jobsite. Of course moving it from site to site is a process, it weighs 26klbs. But my next framing job is only 3 miles away, so I can road it there. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab The time is here! The garden beds I’ve been working on in my spare time since last fall are finally ready to be filled. Or put another way, we finally got a dry week this spring such that the pastures are finally drivable. Each bed (12’x3.5’x2.5’) is about 2 buckets full. It’s premium aged horse shit. It will make a significant dent in the compost we’ve generated in the last year. It will need topping off next year as it settles a lot in the first year. Hopefully by then I will have a biochar retort up and running and start incorporating that into our compost setup. #grownostr #gardening https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_b90b5259d402007d85f323d064a2b9af7823be05ec8ef07b28a293a4ba5c63f9.jpg npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Anyone else heard of the Journal of Controversial Ideas? https://www.journalofcontroversialideas.org Seems like something I might find worth perusing this weekend. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hurtful-idea-of-scientific-merit-controversy-nih-energy-research-f122f74d?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1 Since the WSJ is paywalled, here's the text as sent to me by my father-in-law: The ‘Hurtful' Idea of Scientific Merit Ideology now dominates research in the U.S. more pervasively than it did at the Soviet Union's height. By Jerry A. Coyne and Anna I. Krylov April 27, 2023 06:05 p.m. EDT Wall St. Journal Until a few months ago, we'd never heard of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, a peer- reviewed publication whose aim is to promote "free inquiry on controversial topics." Our research typically didn't fit that description. We finally learned of the journal's existence, however, when we tried to publish a commentary about how modern science is being compromised by a de-emphasis on merit. Apparently, what was once anodyne and unobjectionable is now contentious and outré, even in the hard sciences. Merit isn't much in vogue anywhere these days. We've seen this in the trend among scientists to judge scientific research by its adherence to dominant progressive orthodoxies and in the growing reluctance of our institutions to hire and fund scientists based on their ability to propose and conduct exciting projects. Our intent was to defend established and effective practices of judging science based on its merit alone. Yet as we shopped our work to various scientific publications, we found no takers- except one. Evidently our ideas were politically unpalatable. It turns out the only place you can publish once-standard conclusions these days is in a journal committed to heterodoxy. The crux of our argument is simple: Science that doesn't prioritize merit doesn't work, and substituting ideological dogma for quality is a shortcut to disaster. A prime example is Lysenkoism-the incursion of Marxist ideology into Soviet and Chinese agriculture in the mid-20th century. Beginning in the 1930s, the U.S.S.R. started to enforce the untenable theories of Trofim Lysenko, a charlatan Russian agronomist who rejected, among other things, the existence of standard genetic inheritance. As scientists dissented-rejecting Lysenko's claims for lack of evidence-they were fired or sent to the gulag. Implementation of his theories in Soviet and, later, Chinese agriculture led to famines and the starvation of millions. Russian biology still hasn't recovered. Yet a wholesale and unhealthy incursion of ideology into science is occurring again-this time in the West. We see it in progressives claim that scientific truths are malleable and subjective, similar to Lysenko's insistence that genetics was Western "pseudoscience" with no place in progressive Soviet agriculture. We see it when scientific truths -say, the binary nature of sex-are either denied or distorted because they're politically repugnant. We see it as well in activists' calls to "decolonize" scientific fields, to reduce the influence of what's called "Western science" and adopt indigenous "ways of knowing." No doubt different cultures have different ways of interpreting natural processes-sometimes invoking myth and legend-and this variation should be valued as an important aspect of sociology and anthropology. But these "ways of knowing" aren't coequal to modern science, and it would be foolish to pretend otherwise. In some ways this new species of Lysenkoism is more pernicious than the old, because it affects all science-chemistry, physics, life sciences, medicine and math- not merely biology and agriculture. The government isn't the only entity pushing it, either. "Progressive" scientists promote it, too, along with professional societies, funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health and university administrators. When applying for openings as a university scientist today, job candidates may well be evaluated more by their record of supporting "social justice" than by their scientific achievements. But scientific research can't and shouldn't be conducted via a process that gives a low priority to science itself. This is why we wrote our paper, which was co-authored by 27 others, making for a group as diverse as you can imagine. We had men and women of various ages, ethnicities, countries of origin, political affiliations and career stages, including faculty from community colleges and top research universities, as well as two Nobel laureates. We provided an in-depth analysis of the clash between liberal epistemology and postmodernist philoso-phies. We documented the continuing efforts to elevate social justice over scientific rigor, and warned of the consequences of taking an ideological approach to research. Finally, we suggested an alternative humanistic approach to alleviating social inequalities and injustices. But this was too much, even "downright hurtful," as one editor wrote to us. Another informed us that "the concept of merit . .. has been widely and legitimately attacked as hollow." Legitimately? In the end, we're grateful that our paper will be published. But how sad it is that the simple and fundamental principle undergirding all of science-that the best ideas and technologies should be the ones we adopt-is seen these days as "controversial." Mr. Coyne is a professor emeritus of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago. Ms. Krylov is a professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab Unfortunately, for some it is. Reasons to talk to people about who they are, since not everyone's use of labels will match my own. There comes a point though, that I just wonder, are they intentionally mis-using the label, or am I just jaded at how many times I think someone gets it to discover that what they "get" is not what I get. Be it poly or anarchy :P npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I’ve added a couple of your episodes to my fountain queue, give you a listen in the next day or two. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab I keep wanting to go down this route, but I never feel like I have enough cohesive value to talk for more than a couple episodes. It's all haphazard thoughts of: this worked great, don't do this, that might work but in a desert, not outside PDX. But it's such a mix of day-job construction knowledge, homesteading stuff, general life, that I don't feel I have a good central tenant to bound potential content together. npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab But the weather has been so nice the past few days. This weekend the ground will finally be dry enough I can get equipment in to fill my new garden beds npub1rccegnzfltylh998jsj48z0j43pu5uqq9st6j3h3j4jz5ehy7nxs9ymawc BlackSheepRehab There are downsides to the jumping in approach. The number of times I've had to redo things because I just wanted to see progress, and a little more research might have provided greater illumination up front. I do a lot of planning, but often feel unaccomplished when doing that prep work, and just want to get started to see physical progress on something. In other news, this weekend, I'm rebuilding my hydroponics racks for the third time to adjust all the heights between shelves...