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2024-07-14 07:12:59

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cool thanks for the explanation

2024-07-13 23:26:43

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who is this guy anyway?

2024-07-13 13:17:22

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lol I love that youused peanut emojis which are legumes.

2024-07-13 00:13:51

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cool, I wonder how close to the beach they'll venture?

2024-07-12 23:32:12

I'm about an hour north of Philadelphia. Was up in Albany last weekend and learned they don't have wineberries up there.
any sitings from other regions?
https://m.primal.net/JOee.jpg
https://m.primal.net/JOef.jpg

2024-07-12 23:13:57

I went back to the house I grew up at today. It's not far 40 minutes from where I live. I went to water some potted plants outside for my mom. It's down a long driveway in the woods were you can't see the neighbors. I love being there alone. I loved growing up there. While I was there I felt no inclination to want to "make a lot of money as an adult"
I didn't realize that to be in surroundings like that as an adult I would either have to do what my parents did which was buy property an hour from their parents where land was more affordable and build their own house (Not have it built, build it themselves). Or make a lot of money.
I'm on a trajectory thanks to Bitcoin to be able to live in a remote setting and not have to sacrifice being far from my family who I love. But in the mean time I live in a town. When I visit my moms property it makes my heart hurt when I leave because of how much It reminds me that I yearn to be at peace in the woods again. That when I'm their I feel content.

2024-07-12 13:15:38

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What a dope bragging right.
Lyn's tomb stone.
Wrote the first book to mention NOSTR
suck it nerds!

2024-07-12 13:10:47

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lol, that's pretty funny

2024-07-12 13:01:39

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here he is again. Less suace more contemplative.
Thinking deeply
https://m.primal.net/JOBf.jpg

2024-07-11 14:01:15

chose not to mow the lawn this year, the chickens keep a fair bit of it down, and in other places patches of bigger stuff like milkweed pokeweed, and this other tall bushy robust beauty I forgot the name of make a nice environment.
https://m.primal.net/JNAU.jpg
https://m.primal.net/JNAV.jpg

2024-07-10 22:43:26

what a poorly installed skylight will do to your framing if left unchecked
https://m.primal.net/JMcN.jpg

2024-07-10 12:46:46

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There are people involved in the government who sometimes get to go around all of the bureaucratic nets and just do things.

2024-07-09 16:39:31

I've been working on this project. where I'm tearing down 3/4 of an addition to build it back bigger and with a 15 foot wall, giving the interior a 10ft ceiling. It's been challenging as a first big build. I'm working by myself. bur I'm about to throw that house in a dumpster.
because it's an allready built addition the challenging part has been tearing it down in stages so I can keep it covered. there is a basement under it.
this is my dad's house and honestly he chooses to do.things the hard way a lot of the time.
Basically he had a builder look at it before me who was like. "yeah I'll tear it down to the foundation and built it for 180k"
I'm doing it for a lot less partly because I want the experience to gain confidence to do more projects. It's also more interestingly going to have about 2x the insulation air leak control as a "built to code" new addition would have.
https://m.primal.net/JLel.jpg
https://m.primal.net/JLen.jpg

2024-07-09 12:41:34

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when it tastes the most delicious is when you need some.
or when your pee is stinky yellow.

2024-07-09 00:44:55

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Ha that's great I'm glad you got some good feelings out of it. It was about 7 years ago and a great time

2024-07-09 00:26:13

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they solve any crimes yet?

2024-07-08 19:45:43

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in some or many ways someone in this position really doesn't need a bank account. as you described they are seeking financial autonomy, not a credit line or safe storage.
I met a handyman type person in the US once who didn't have a bank account. He just dealt in cash and paid in full for cash. he had some line like. "why so they can charge me fees and try to get me in debt?"
That is also my general outlook on how banks behave. but for those who may fall easy prey to debt it may be despite certain disadvantages to not having a bank account better

2024-07-08 15:11:40

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the problem with non autists who use sarcasm a lot is that they can hide behind false sarcasm if they get in trouble

2024-07-08 15:01:57

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yeah that's my scribbles to illustrate the squirrel game.
the S's do represent the squirrels.
I considered drawing long ovals with tails but my drawing skills are really bad. so I went with S's.
if Squirrel started with a K or an A I think I would have gone with the ovals with tails. it would have been too different from how a Squirrel is to have an A represent it.

2024-07-08 13:43:55

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that's great, it's seems so thoughtful.
I once got to watch four squirrels play King of the hill on a big oak tree for like 45 minutes.
the one at the top was the hardest to displace because the second one down had to defend its position by chasing off the squirrel below it while also trying to outmanouver the squirrel at the top to displace it.
they where all spread out on the tree like there was clear levels that they held and tried to get up to the next while still defending the squirrel from below.
it's a crude drawing but it looked like a game with rules.
https://m.primal.net/JKoe.jpg

2024-07-08 13:29:24

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just showed this to my wife and after reading she was like
"huh that's funny because I heard that after those credit score companies got hacked they offered a year of free monitoring"
my emediate thought is that "free monitoring" sounds like extra data collection.

2024-07-08 13:20:23

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is it the situation that they would not be able to.get a bank account or that it would be very difficult and their peers don't so they choose not to?

2024-07-07 22:11:40

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cool thanks. I just stumble around on the internet so thanks for the link.

2024-07-07 12:01:05

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shit that's cool, how does a zapstream work?

2024-07-07 11:56:57

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hahaha

2024-07-06 23:59:00

visiting my wife's gramma who is in her 80s is great. it's a wild reminder of how close to the past we are. she mentioned her grandfather who was born in 1866.

2024-07-06 13:51:56

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Sorry to hear that, it's something I'm familiar with. I wish them well. That's really great that your visiting them daily.

2024-07-06 13:50:22

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Thank you! I will.

2024-07-06 13:47:28

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Yeah I think that would be a good idea. I sort of make the comparison but without much research with the colonial American farm family. But it would be really interesting to see what that was like.

2024-07-06 13:44:49

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I can see how this thinking could look overbroad and yes I should be more specific about "Europeans" I mean the Christian religion that came to dominate the land area we call Europe. For a little more context on that thinking.
The first Nations where on this continent long before and while Europe was becoming heavily Christian. It seems to me that the First Nations through their more prevalent cultural ways of thinking and practices where less destructive to their environment than the Christian Europeans to theirs. Maybe it's just that there was way more land here to spread people out. But I suspect it has more to do with different culture and religion than just space.
In terms of "human population management" I agree that can certainly sound unwell. A non gross way to say it might be. A peoples that are individually and collectively sensitive to their surroundings and caring enough to think about whether bringing another life into the fold would be a burden or a welcome addition to their immediate world. Both a burden to that new person and the environment. I think women being treated equally or far more equally and having a culture of birth control would play a large role in that.
To contrast that. I grew up homeschooled and not taught any religion. So I grew up being like "what are these different religions into?" We interacted with a lot of Christian's that where a bit extra. Like I heard parents refer to having a lot of kids as having "a full quiver". Meaning a full quiver of gods arrows. They were not violent but they where literally referring to their kids as weapons for god. Also these where very patriarchal Christians. Growing up I didn't know what that word meant so we just called them sexist. Like one time we tried out a new homeschool group where we met in a church. They separated the kids into boys and girls. My brother and I played basketball and dodgeball and shit in the gym for the 4 hour group. In the car ride back we asked our sister what she did. She said they taught the girls to fold laundry and sew and shit. As a kid I was like wow that's fucked up. We didn't go back.
Describing a Mohawk village in the 1600's sounds a bit like how a large farm family in early colonial America might be. Except they'd most likely be Christian and pumping out as many kids as possible. I'm in eastern Pennsylvania and there are lots of little clusters of stone farm houses that are like within 100 yards of each other. But they didn't move they stayed and kept degrading the land. Living in small villages and being all up in each others businesses seems like a pretty common thing of those times.
Sorry if this was too long, I'd like to be more concise but it's hard.

2024-07-06 00:46:32

my brother and I make a little extra income via selling books. we usually get them for free by offering to haul them out of people's houses who are elder.or moving or family members handling the estate of their deceased families members.
This is from a pretty old book printed in the 50s maybe. But the picture was taken in the 1880s and is of a Barron.
pretty suacy
https://m.primal.net/JJDF.jpg

2024-07-06 00:31:09

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thanks! no rush, I hope everyone is OK.

2024-07-05 23:51:48

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Cool,
Sorry I'll try to explain my thoughts better.
It seemed to me that Europeans had a very hierarchal system that treated people as resources to be used to get more power. More people = a more powerful kingdom, expand the kingdom take over more land, extract all the resources from that land make more people so on. It always seemed shitty to me.
It seemed to me to live in balance with nature a people had to be aware if they where growing the population too much by having too many kids as a group. If they got too big they'd have to upset the balance by taking too much from the land.
From what I've read there was really well designed and curated food systems in place on the continent and possibly not any over hunting or destructive agricultural practices that where common place in Europe. Like The UK used to be pretty much a giant forest and that got ruined fast. No deforestation, no hunting certain species to extinction, no destroying soil to the point of famine. It makes me think a peoples with that for site and awareness might also be aware of whether or not they should be expanding their population or letting it naturally diminish based on how everything else is going.
Sorry if this doesn't make sense.

2024-07-05 16:14:45

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that's cool you got to talk with the author! do you have an interest in first nations societies?
I've been harboring a theory that many first nations cultures had a sense of human population management and intentionally did not exceed the lands carrying capacity. mostly been reading about Houdenosaunee culture were woman had full bodily autonomy access to many forms of birth control and culturally believed birth control was postponing a birth not ending it.

2024-07-05 16:06:16

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original sin of the decloration of independence. the part they ommited
"All white land owning men, are created equal, everyone else can be treated like shit and will have to fight to attain equality for hundreds of years to come"

2024-07-05 08:53:42

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does this give much anthropological information on the Algonquins?

2024-07-05 08:50:52

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what is that quote from?

2024-06-30 16:49:07

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Yeah it's kind of funny that he seems to be implying Bitcoin's decentralization has failed and it isn't what it used to be, but also he didn't buy enough, but also it's not going to go up much more, but also....but also....but also.
As you said he has a data analysis company with government contracts but also he is a libertarian...

2024-06-30 16:42:07

Here seems a better place than any to put down these thoughts. @DzambhalaHODL posted on X how excecutives knew recycling was a red herring. In other words more lies under the cover of plausible deniability.
Yesterday I was angry with myself because I wasn't assertive enough with the tri axle driver delivering stone to my job site. It's Me and me alone working on the site and responsible for all things that take place there. So I had to shovel 6 of the 12 tons that I let get dumped to correct my fuck up. It was about 95 degrees in full sun and I wanted to blame the driver as I started shoveling. I got over wanting to blame the driver around 15 minutes. I was worried that having to do heavy grunt work before laying the first course of retaining wall block would cause me to succumb to more mistakes.
Because I do most construction or farm work alone I noticed it's difficult to transition between grueling heavy labor and skilled work or planning. It requires a mindset shift and that shift isn't as easy for me when I need my mind to be focused on my body during the heavy labor.
As I drove away from the jobsite at 3:30 (peak heat) I saw 2 guys on a roof laying shingle. If I was in a life where the only way I could support myself was roofing or robbing houses in affluent suburbs I'd choose the later. I'd probably go to prison and I'd still prefer that to roofing.
The executives in the plastics industry had many many career and life choices they could have made besides lying to the entire world. But they lied and lied for some amount more career advancement? They above nearly every other type of person should live with the threat of prison, of physical violence for bad decisions that negatively affect others.
Because those used to a life of physical brutality and instability are in general the least perturbed by the prospect of physical confinement and living with violent unstable prison mates. If someone thinks roofing in 95 degrees and full sun is not physical brutality they should go do it.
In my view those most removed from physical brutality would be those most detered by it as consequence of their actions. It seems unlikely that we will reform the prison system. We might as well make proper use of its ugliness and make it a very real threat to criminals in corner offices.

2024-06-30 12:37:02

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give them some Calvin and Hobbes.
I flipped through them for years reading what I could and piecing together context for the more complex words that Waterson does not shy away from.

2024-06-12 15:39:08

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Fucks sake.
Great article by the way. Thanks for your work.

2024-06-12 15:14:18

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Jesus Christ is that picture real?

2024-06-10 14:07:02

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The past 30-40 years has been a cultural push towards go to college so that you don't have to work with your hands.
It's not just about reading the manual it's about thinking that you should even be attempting to fix anything in the first place.
I went from working at an online travel company remotely and renting to buying a trap house for 25K and renovating it with no where near the amount of tools I own now.
I could do that because my parents built the house I grew up in and did house projects over the years. If you know it's possible and have some familiarity you're more willing to do it.
If you grew up and your parents never touched a tool and told you if you didn't go to college you'd end up like the plumber fixing your toilet flap for $150 bucks then you've got a pretty skewed view of the world.

2024-06-06 14:09:50

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Super Hero stance

2024-06-05 14:58:40

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I eat an almond flour hemp cookie that I make from a strain I grew back in 2019 that has a very high beta caryophyllene and myrcene content. I don't sleep on planes either but the terpene profile of the hemp puts me in a much much more serene state than I would otherwise be.

2024-05-23 15:46:14

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My 2006 Prius with about 500 lbs of 6x6 and 3x6 oak at 6' and 8; lengths.
Got it for $3,200 in 2018 as an R title put 130k miles on it about $1,000 in maintenance and repairs.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/d2db5d74caff5649da805bcc313a36b5d8a8e39d17f724e04ced56ece9f383b2/50e0d0767fc3c576bfd1b0454eabdb4c5b6487cb14f984f44d2b485f975fb8e3.webp

2024-04-20 16:52:27

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Thanks for letting me know. My feat seem to either be cold, or too hot and sweating which then leads to freezing cold and wet. Over the years I've realized animal leathers have superior vapor and heat regulation qualities. Might have to make some for myself!

2024-04-19 17:16:21

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this is very very cool. What type of thread did you use to sew these? I wonder if velcro would allow too much airflow through the connection point but that might only be an issue for lower temps. Really awesome

2024-04-10 13:09:20

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the WSJ running the same story as the NYT is not a verification

2024-04-10 12:38:15

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😇

2024-04-10 12:36:01

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This reminds me of my friend who passed away in 2018, he probably would be able to tell me all about this music video. He was a sergeant in the army running a howitzer crew. He smoked weed everyday in the army and in life. Big metal head very matter of fact about how he saw things which is how most bitcoiners see things.
He was getting into regenerative agriculture for his home garden and home cannabis grow (illegal). He would have loved this movement. We had a 30 year age gap between us but shared a lot of values

2024-04-08 19:29:07

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Feels somewhat reassuring but certainly not like they won't/haven't/aren't figuring out other ways to drag people into their quagmires

2024-04-08 19:27:14

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Hate to disappoint you but it looks like Jesus decided he wasn't going to kill everyone today after all.

2024-04-08 18:26:40

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Try not drinking coffee for a week

2024-04-01 21:31:51

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Some of the members of the don't trust verify crowd still running back the greatest fiat scam of all time.

2024-03-10 16:02:19

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In a world where I am against state overreach but for a consensus driven approach to not allowing one group of people to abuse another group I'd say this is entering a pretty agreeable territory of "Lets not have teenagers creating sex videos of peers without their knowledge or consent."

2024-03-10 15:57:57

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Lyn not to say you're doing this as you are protecting family.
But it seems like any entity earning cash flow in a superior currency could loot and pillage the hard assets/resources of a country with a dramatically devaluing currency.
The only risk being the precariousness of rule of law in that country.

2024-03-05 17:04:33

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Yeah what the fuck ever happened to stay humble stack sats

2024-03-03 07:22:23

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It's 100% that. I have the same problem but with trying to find beach's to surf where there aren't a bunch of fuck heads clogging up the water with no etiquette or decency.
It is 100% about difficulty to reach/find the location.

2024-02-17 17:03:46

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I'm of the position that the language "You are responsible for anything that has ever happened to you" can easily be misinterpreted as "You are responsible for the actions done to you by others."
It is in fact a very common phenomenon that victims of abuse blame themselves. Women who were raped blame themselves they're taking extreme ownership the do infact believe they where responsible for it.
On the flip side, abusers by giving the victim extreme ownership do not actually take ownership for being an abuser as the victim did it to themselves.
What I am saying is there are victims in this world, but they do not have to identify as a victim. If I was hit by a drunk driver I was victimized in that moment but I do not have to make my personality that of a victim.
But in using the example of extreme ownership without nuance. That baby is responsible for itself, not me.
And so in this world there are circumstances and systems that have given people as unequal rights as a baby left on a doorstep of a person who is not going to care for it.

2024-02-17 16:51:28

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I wholeheartedly agree that adopting a victim mentality is a poison to the soul.
However when you use language like
"You’re responsible for everything that has ever or will ever happen to you. Good and bad."
That can easily be misinterpreted as you are responsible for the actions done to you by others. You put yourself in that situation and it is your fault.
The tangible benefit you get out of identifying as a victim in the drunk driver scenario is that you were the victim of a crime and the drunk driver is going to pay you a tremendous amount of money for breaking your legs.
It is the same as identifying as lucky to have won the lottery. But that does not mean your identity as a person who is forever lucky always winning raffles and serendipitous prizes.
In life there are victims, it doesn't mean they have to internalize victimhood as a soul form of personal identity.
However there are plenty of garbage people that use un-nuanced language to write off acts that victimize people as the victims fault. There are no victims if every is responsible for everything that has ever happened to them.

2024-02-17 13:56:46

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There are plenty of people that play the victim, especially in middle class America.
However, making a blanket statement like this is like claiming history does not exist.
I've read books that describe overseers who forced boys to suck their dicks nearly every morning to start the day.
But of course those boys were responsible, in the same way the boys that get raped by priests are responsible.
And by that logic if there are no victims and everyone is responsible for what happens to them then there are no perpetrators of crime are there? Those children let it happen, they where asking for it to be done.
Again plenty of people play victim or allow themselves to feel like victims in circumstances they could in fact change or not let happen in the first place.
But to say there are no victims is quite a historically illiterate statement.

2024-02-16 05:04:11

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Most people have a sub 3.5% a tremendous amount of people refinanced during the covid interest rate lows. Myself included, I was lucky enough to have bought a house prior to 2020. I know some people that chose to pay their whole morgtage off right at the start of 2020. They lost out on enormous market gains that the money would have been in had they not made the decision to essentially have a free short against the dollar while participating in all the upside of the dollar getting debased.

2024-02-13 17:47:42

@npub1a2c…w83a @npub1s5y…6q7z @VailshireCap
First, thanks to each of you for the time you spend educating and sharing your knowledge.
It's perhaps because of that open sourcing of knowledge that I've been put in the position that I'm seeking advice with.
An older friend shared his actively managed brokerage account (1% management fee) with me asking for my advice. His 5 year return is 75%; His account is roughly 60% stocks/options, 30% mutual funds, 10% cash.
My first priority was to get him 5% exposure to FBTC. I would have gone with BITB but FBTC is just a more secure feeling wrapper for him. (We've accomplished this)
His biggest winners are positions in NVDA (+611) and APPL(+496) which he talked his broker into placing. Those have grown to his biggest positions.
On the other hand, what started out as the largest positions taken at the time of purchase are VZ(-23%) and BAX(-47%) These were his broker's decisions.
Given that without my friends picks his portfolio would be somewhere less than 75% returns, and given that 90% of actively managed portfolios underperform the S&P.
Would I be out of line to say that his broker needs to justify (Or even can not justify) not being replaced by the following portfolio allocations?
50% SPY
30% MGK
10% QQQ
10% Cash
I would not ask for any of your time for myself.
My allocation is 100% Bitcoin with 1.5 years of living expenses in cash while carrying 0 debt and having recallable equity in both my brother and sisters houses, my wife and I own our home outright. The world of individual stock picks seems high risk crazy to me if you haven't put 1,000 hours into it like I have with Bitcoin.

2024-02-13 16:19:35

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Fat fingered that my bad

2024-02-13 16:19:22

2024-02-13 16:17:28

@npub1x0h…e8wz

2024-02-07 03:36:45

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We could use a yearly 3 hour state of the network from Andreas

2024-02-06 19:32:02

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Would love to make it but can't.
In light of Powel's recent remarks on price instability hurting people in poverty the most and suggesting that, THAT is a concern of the fed. It would be amazing if you addressed how Fed policy HAS effected people in poverty. Especially because there will be an ex central bank member there.
Truly appreciate the integrity you bring to the table.

2024-02-02 01:18:17

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Fair Enough Pete, fair enough.
How about getting Andreas Antonopoulos on the show for an overall what he thinks about everything that's been going on in Bitcoin and what he's been focusing on. I miss that man so much!

2024-01-28 18:49:20

@npub14mc…frlx
Pete In light of your recent podcasts exploring into Ordinals a bit I would really love if you had Eric Wall back on again.
I started following Eric after you had him on WBD last year and he seems to be a fairly unique character with both high technical and high social awareness.
He seems a bit sensitive and defensive having a bit of a complicated relationship with the Bitcoin cool kids social circles.
But I would say he's a guest that has some of the most informationally diverse content and challenging view points.
He's also a guest that seems like he is quite a challenge for you to interview because I believe he brings up good points that can be hard to reckon with.

2024-01-28 18:24:43

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HVAC technicians, and when I say that I mean people trained who understand it as a craft in which the design of the system is as integral as the installation.