FeynStructure

Electrician. Eternal student. Proud denizen of the Pacific Northwest, uninterested in nations and governments.

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2026-07-12 19:56:56 UTC

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I work in the trades and can confirm that distrust of government and gripes with "the system" are strong, but few seem to be able to make the cognitive leap to bitcoin yet.

2026-07-12 16:29:59 UTC

Name an industry that doesn't need to exist:
Cat toys.
Amazon packaging material is all you will ever need. That is what they want.
#catstr
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2026-07-11 23:49:10 UTC

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Is this real? Will pay good money for that.

2026-07-11 20:37:26 UTC

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Some thoughts on tools, physical and digital.
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2026-07-08 01:16:23 UTC

Let it be known to all and sundry: szechuan pepper is an S-tier seasoning.
Its delicate, citrusy flavour is delightful, and the juicy, tingling sensation it produces in the mouth is one-of-a-kind.
Five stars.

2026-07-06 20:43:01 UTC

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I'm a big fan of the foxglove as well. Basically a weed, but super beautiful.

2026-07-06 01:01:43 UTC

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I suspect he agrees with us a lot more than he pretends to.
He's too smart not to get it at some level, and there's something overly theatrical about his naysaying that makes me doubt whether he really believes it. I suspect he may be playing a long game of some sort.
If nothing else, he already publicly holds at least 5 million sats which is more than 99% of the world.

2026-07-01 01:27:55 UTC

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I was inspired and I did the same thing!
Characteristics: "Electrical Engineering", "Technology Geek", "Sharp Humor", "Broad Cultural Knowledge"
Reason: Electrical engineering, technology geek, broad cultural involvement —— hardcore technology and open-minded.
Seems a bit generous tbh but I'll take it. Love the double em dash for maximum AI-ness.
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2026-06-28 08:13:48 UTC

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Good lord, that's beautiful.

2026-06-26 03:25:35 UTC

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Perhaps beside the point, but that Adam Back robot in the background is a bit creepy.

2026-06-19 17:32:59 UTC

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So true. Being a resident of the Pacific Northwest (including Washington, Idaho, and Oregon) carries a lot more meaning to me than being "Canadian," whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.

2026-06-17 13:27:36 UTC

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Never been, never going.
Nostr only ✊

2026-06-16 18:13:38 UTC

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Yes.

2026-06-15 21:01:37 UTC

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That's interesting; that's something I usually hear guys say. You never know, you might be surprised.
I met my future wife when I was renting the couch at my buddy's family's house ($400 CAD/month for sleeping privileges between 9pm and 6 AM). She really must have seen the future potential in me :p

2026-06-14 15:57:25 UTC

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Haha I'm glad someone appreciates it.
My wife does not care for "Mr Literal." 😆

2026-06-14 15:07:44 UTC

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Is it though? Negative feedback loops are generally beneficial, as they promote stability and equilibrium.
I would argue that politics, at least in its modern form, is more of a positive feedback loop, leading to increasing levels of chaos.

2026-06-13 18:25:14 UTC

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Nice. I wasn't familiar with ICF; now I have this in my back pocket if I ever build my own custom home. Thanks.

2026-06-13 17:50:13 UTC

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Yes, more of this.
As an electrician, I'm tired of pulling loomex through drywall encrusted shitboxes. Let's have more stone, more brick, more large timber, with steel conduit for the electrical (makes modifications and upgrades super easy too). Hell, even concrete can be aesthetically pleasing when done right.
It's a bit discouraging to know that most of what I install will be demolished in a few decades. Lights and devices will evolve and be replaced over the years, but copper circuitry can last more than a century with minimal maintenance. Let's make buildings that can match this.

2026-06-13 00:43:11 UTC

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The Matrix (1999) was a standalone movie, and a masterpiece of science fiction. There were no sequels.
This is the reality that I choose to exist in.

2026-06-12 17:26:07 UTC

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Like taking sound money from a baby.

2026-06-10 13:13:56 UTC

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Being Canadian, I think of the figurehead king in a faraway land that is technically our head of state. Not great.

2026-06-07 20:05:11 UTC

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Hot take: create more original content.

2026-06-05 20:56:29 UTC

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STRC your cheeks.

2026-06-05 16:56:28 UTC

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Nice side benefit of being an electrician: I collect and sell scrap copper and turn it into sats :)
I doubt I'll ever execute that trade in the other direction though.

2026-06-05 16:42:15 UTC

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I think that ship has achieved liftoff.

2026-06-05 15:38:35 UTC

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There's definitely some form of fuckery afoot, that's for sure.

2026-06-04 12:27:42 UTC

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Oof, yeah I reckon you've got a bit of bullshit to deal with over the coming days/weeks. Is what it is, just gotta ride it out and accept you won't be as productive for a bit, but it's part of the process.

2026-06-02 19:10:26 UTC

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I appreciate the offer. Unfortunately, I'm on the other side of the continent and unlikely to make it out that way anytime soon.
I hope you can find a good electrician, maybe even one who accepts sats. Blue collar is not well represented in Bitcoin yet, unfortunately.

2026-06-01 14:06:08 UTC

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Nice, let the games begin.

2026-06-01 04:28:44 UTC

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That last part is a particularly difficult problem to address. Any one company is wary of investing too much time on an apprentice because they're free to pick up and leave whenever they want and go work somewhere else.
It's a prisoners dilemma of sorts. If we all did our best to give our apprentices a good education (cooperate), we would all benefit from the improved quality of the labour pool, even if individual apprentices moved around from company to company. This could even be a further benefit, as different companies specialize in different types of work, and so apprentices would become more well-rounded.
But if we all distrust each other to provide good education (defect), and we distrust our apprentices to stick around for any significant length of time, then we all collectively lose because the general quality of the labour pool is lower, and apprentices are less likely to stick around when they aren't getting the mentorship they need.
It's a collective action problem playing out predictably in a low-trust society. I don't have a solution that doesn't infringe on people's freedom (like being indentured to a particular company for a specified length of time), but it's worth pondering.

2026-05-31 02:21:29 UTC

The Fiatization of My Job
I am an electrician, broadly speaking. Four years ago, I was an apprentice. Today, I am a foreman. For a few years in between, I was just a standard-issue journeyman. That I was promoted to foreman after just a few short years could optimistically be interpreted as proof of my superior intelligence, or just as well as a sign of the increasingly scant quality human resources in the skilled trades. There weren't many options to choose from when the 30 year vet they had lined up pulled out, and they had to take whatever they could get, even if it wasn't ideal. I sure didn't feel ready to run a crew of 20, wiring a 100-unit apartment building as my first project in charge (what experience I have has largely been in concrete commercial construction; wood frame residential is an entirely different ballgame).
Before my recent promotion into the dismal ranks of middle management, I had ideas about how I would run things when I got here. Notions of improved professionalism, quality-of-workmanship, efficiency, and education for apprentices. Like so many of the recently promoted (or elected, I would imagine), I have now had the full weight of my naivité impressed upon me by the human-logistical constraints of the job market, and a race to the bottom for competitive bids.
The tradition of apprenticeship in the trades, or craftsmanship generally, is one that goes back for centuries, even millenia. Divine origins notwithstanding, someone had to teach young Jesus the art of carpentry. And long before him, uncountable generations of of elder masters have been handing down the techniques of shaping and assembling the useful materials of our world; wood, bronze, iron, all the way back to the crude stone hand axes at the dawn of proto-humanity. Education in the material arts is inherently physical, and can be accomplished only by doing; poorly at first, then a bit better, and a bit better, and so on. There is only so much armchair philosophizing one can do about smithery; sooner or later you need to go hammer on a piece of steel and see how it reacts.
The role of the apprentice is, and has always been, two-fold. The apprentice is:
1. A student.
2. A source of cheap labour.
The two are inseparable. The cheap labour is how the apprentice pays for their education, and frees up the older, experienced master to do the more complex aspects of the job. Contrary to some journeymans' opinions, it's not about "earning the right to not do hard labour anymore." It is merely an economic calculus. The boy cannot yet be trusted to terminate the high voltage connections, but he can haul in the heavy cables, and perhaps faster than the older man by benefit of his youth. But if the boy is not there that day, the man will haul in the cables. No one is above the hard physical work. There are many on modern jobsites who seem to have forgotten this.
From my vantage point working for a particular company in a particular trade, it seems that these two aspects are very frequently out of balance. Namely, I feel that we (I speak now for my company, specifically, but it's a problem in the industry broadly) are failing to give our apprentices a proper education and leaning on them too much for their cheap labour. This ultimately leads to poorer quality journeymen in the future, who do poorer work and give the next generation of apprentices an even poorer education than they received. It is a recursive spiral of degradation, created by the delusion that competent journeymen can simply be produced by fiat, without proof-of-work.
This is a yet another example of enshittification brought on by high time preference. On any given day, an apprentice is more economically profitable to a company as cheap labour, with the absolute minimum amount of training being given to them to do the task at hand acceptably. An hour spent learning is an hour spent not pulling wire and installing lights. At their lower rate of pay, there is also an incentive to make the crew as "bottom heavy" (that is, more apprentices and less journeymen) as possible, with only the minimum number of journeymen necessary to do the really critical stuff (distribution, live work, etc).
What this amounts to is a few overworked journeymen doing all the complex work with little opportunity to pass on their knowledge, and an army of unruly youngsters hacking and slashing their way through the building, screwing things up as they go because they don't have the guidance and mentorship they need to consistently do it right the first time. The time spent redoing and repairing things, and how much of it could be avoided through better training, is difficult to quantify and thus gets too easily ignored.
There exist laws that aim to put a limit on this in regulated trades: journeyman-to-apprentice ratios. In my trade, in my jurisdiction, the limit is 2 apprentices to 1 journeyman. That is the bare minimum level of supervision allowed by law.
We consistently run 4:1 on my site.
My father tells me that when he was laying brick back in the '80's, his ratio was 2:1 but inversed: 2 journeymen to 1 apprentice.
The free market libertarian in me is conflicted on these laws. They're well intentioned, and they probably make work more pleasant (when they're followed), but they are nonetheless an infringement on a company's freedom to run itself poorly.
I have informed upper management (who determine the composition of my crew) that we are in violation of the law. I will do what I can with what I have available to me for the time being. I will not go tattle to the government. But I will not take any shit about the project being behind schedule.
Perhaps it is time to find a new job. There will come a day when it is time to strike out on my own, but that time is not yet. Electrical work is not something you learn in 4 years and then just apply for the rest of your life. The physics never change, but the technology is constantly in flux. The most recent edition of the Canadian Electrical Code (part 1 of 3) is about 1000 pages long. Provincial and municipal regulations on top of that. Building code and fire code to contend with as well. Running a business, liasing with engineers, building clientelle... A more free and noble career awaits, but there is so much to learn, so much to learn...
If you need to hire a contractor (electrical or otherwise), I would implore you not to just go with the lowest bid. High prices do not automatically mean high quality, but the inverse is almost always true; low prices usually mean low quality. You simply cannot do good work for bargain-bin prices for long without going out of business. Do some due diligence on the people you hire, and try to support quality workmanship.
Lord knows, we could use a bit more of that these days.
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2026-05-28 17:50:53 UTC

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Anywhere I can buy with Bitcoin?
I suppose I could just download the PDF for free and send a big zap, but it would be nice to have the professionally printed copy, and it would be nice to pay in my preferred currency.

2026-05-22 20:59:52 UTC

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Nice. Bitcoin is great, but barter is even better when you can manage it; there's just not as many opportunities due to the coincidence of wants problem.

2026-05-22 15:01:02 UTC

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Fair point.
Where can I order the leatherbound and pay with bitcoin?

2026-05-19 03:06:03 UTC

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I fully gave up the like button a few weeks ago, felt pointless and fiat. If it ain't worth at least 10 sats, I didn't actually like it.

2026-05-18 18:41:04 UTC

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Flock Flag Operation.

2026-05-16 20:04:25 UTC

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I like this. The world can be made better through quiet, invisible actions. No one will recognize your contribution, and that's fine.

2026-05-11 01:46:30 UTC

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Citation?

2026-05-07 19:02:05 UTC

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Where do you suppose construction foremen sit in all this? Asking for myself, electrical foreman. It's middle management, of a sort, but inherently anchored to the physical.

2026-05-04 22:06:49 UTC

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After the success of Steak n Shake, I'm waiting for Beyond Meat to start a Bitcoin ETF treasury.

2026-05-03 22:25:25 UTC

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Personal experience:
-Coldcard Q: easily the best in security, features, and general usability. People who say this is too advanced for beginners baffle me.
-Jade Plus: janky, difficult to use, and the whole QR unlock via Blockstream's website just rubs me the wrong way. Is there a way around this to get a fully airgapped session without involving Blockstream? Maybe I just didn't look far enough into this; the whole experience was annoying and I never pursued it further.
-Ledger Flex: first stab at self custody, didn't know what I was doing, now I'll be looking over my shoulder for wrench attacks for the rest of my life. Goddammit... The experience was pretty smooth though, I'll give them that.
Would like to learn more:
-Foundation Passport: the software is basically a clone of CC though, right? Maybe pointless if I'm already using one.
-Seedsigner, Krux, and other self-built devices: this may be my next project. Sounds like they're less convenient, but maybe these two and a CC make for the ultimate multi-vendor multisig at this point.

2026-05-03 13:09:11 UTC

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Amen to that.
Bears are for building skills. stacking cheap sats, and hardening conviction.
Bulls give you external validation that you were right all along.
Both feel good, but one is definitely more productive.

2026-04-30 11:41:50 UTC

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One of the greats, a very fine man you might say.

2026-04-29 04:16:10 UTC

I bet you my cat is longer than yours.
#Catstr #WeirdFlex
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2026-04-22 02:17:06 UTC

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Indeed. Let's make it interesting:
Your remaining life is on a slider. How far to the right do you adjust it before that 1 Bitcoin is worth it to you?

2026-04-21 14:04:11 UTC

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Swimming naked can be quite the thrill.

2026-04-19 13:07:16 UTC

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I think it breaks down at some point though.
I'd argue I was in trouble that time two grown adults handcuffed me and threw me in a cell. I was not free to go about my life for some time.

2026-04-17 20:36:59 UTC

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I come at this from the fundamental physics perspective so no, I don't believe we have free will. I behave as if I do, but I didn't really have any choice in that ;)
That raises uncomfortable questions about personal accountability, crime, and punishment however, since a person without free will can't justifiably be punished for taking actions they had no say in (likewise, credit and reward for valuable or good deeds are also moot).
This leads me to one of The Necessary Lies of Civilization*
NLC #1: For a society to function, its members must believe in human free will .
*Credit to CGP Grey for the concept of Necessary Lies of Civilization. See Hello Internet Podcast episode #99 for discussion and examples.

2026-04-17 09:31:14 UTC

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Ties into the free will debate too, IMO. Most of the time it doesn't feel like you're choosing the next word from a selection of options. They kinda just... come out.
One level higher, even if you are choosing from a list of options, where did the list come from? Who selected the options for you to become consciously aware of?
If you're convinced you have free will, who's to say the LLM doesn't? If you're convinced the LLM doesn't, who's to say you do?

2026-04-16 18:00:20 UTC

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I think I'm primed from my days on Reddit where I found it just absolutely cringe when people would go out of their way to thank people for their worthless upvote karma, so on the one hand I lean towards not acknowledging.
On the other hand, zaps are money; they have real value, so it feels a bit different.
Ultimately, I'm with the people who say "expect nothing in return for your generosity." It's a pretty good stance for life generally.
If you need some sort of pat on the back for your zap, just don't zap.

2026-04-12 17:03:59 UTC

Bitcoin payments for cargo tolls may be uncensorable, but the movement of said cargo remains very much censorable with violence.
We may live in a digital age, but we still exist in the physical world. Bitcoin doesn't solve people with guns being dicks or tyrants.

2026-04-06 15:52:37 UTC

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"Don't pay attention to the fiat price, it literally does not matter. The price of Bitcoin measured in worthless toilet paper is meaningless."
Uhh, no. That toilet paper is currently the best proxy for bitcoin's purchasing power. Bitcoin is money. I care how much my money can buy. I also care what my sat-denominated salary is. It cuts both ways. We're not all monks, it's fine to pay attention to such things.

2026-04-05 20:37:24 UTC

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Can relate. Aiming for right-curve but will settle for left-curve.

2026-04-01 20:39:30 UTC

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A lot of Bitcoiners voted for that immoral retard, somehow thinking that "this politician will be different."

2026-03-26 14:00:58 UTC

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This is where I think Lyn Alden might be onto something.
Big prints have been conspicuous due to their spikiness. If they just do it at a constant rate without letting up, it becomes the new norm, not some anomaly.
Of course, the system will still break at some point, but I suspect they will get away with it longer using this strategy.

2026-03-25 18:36:53 UTC

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Probably a good idea to cover up so you don't get any Vegas on you.

2026-03-23 21:51:01 UTC

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Peter Schiff reportedly checked into psychiatric hospital, mumbling "Ponzi scheme" and "intrinsic value" to himself over and over.

2026-03-23 19:15:05 UTC

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Suck it, Schiff!

2026-03-22 18:06:56 UTC

"You don't get it. There is no head to cut off; it's a conglomerate.
If one of them betrays the principles of the accrual of money and power, the others betray him.
What it is, is human weakness. You can't kill that with a gun."
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2026-03-22 16:01:33 UTC

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It's not as bad yet, but it's definitely got its tentacles into Nostr too. Not surprising given the strong crossover interest with AI in the Bitcoin community.
On the one end of the spectrum, one might use AI to merely pull quotes of things they've previously said and automate posting them. On the other end of the spectrum there's pure slop; shiny generated pictures, em dashes and all. Somewhere in between might be taking things you've said previously and expanding on them in "your" voice.
Where would you draw the line?

2026-03-21 13:48:36 UTC

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Don't worry, our dear leaders will save us.
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2026-03-19 17:45:39 UTC

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Yes, this is essentially a modern day Alaska purchase, where resource rich land was sold for two cents an acre, and everybody looks back now like "boy wasn't that a monumental fuck up to sell it that cheap."

2026-03-19 13:18:29 UTC

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So much to do, so much to see, so what's wrong with taking the back streets?

2026-03-18 21:53:02 UTC

The Physical Record of a Man On the World
I recently went back to my old neighborhood to look at the home I grew up in until the age of 13. Located on a rural street, half an hour from the nearest (small) town, far from the city which I now inhabit, it was the first time I had returned in over twenty years.
A tin can of a double-wide trailer, it's not much to look at, and I'm surprised it's still standing at all. It was in questionable shape when we lived there, and it's been through much since then, I'm sure.
From the respectful distance of the street (I'm not the type to go knocking on some stranger's door for a stronger hit of nostalgia), it wasn't the house that most drew my attention, however. Two other features interested me more.
One, the workshop in the back yard. My father built that shop when I was a child, mostly by himself although a friend would come by and help occasionally when the strength of two men was called for. Somewhere within those walls there even exist nails clumsily pounded in by my sister and I, as we learned firsthand the skill required in even the simple act of wielding a hammer. It takes many hundreds of such clumsily pounded nails before they glide in with ease, as if on command. The designs of the mind do not flow freely through into the world; they must submit to the limitations of the body, and of the tool. To become a master of one's tools, one must first be their disciple.
A humble man, my father owned and ran a small business installing sheet metal gutters when I was born; simple, unglamorous work, largely devoid of craftsmanship (although one can still find opportunities for craftsmanship, however small, in any job). He soon exited that business, however, and returned to being an employee, now in local woodworking shops, building cabinets and millwork. Low quality stuff, but it paid the bills (barely).
The shop in the back yard was where he could work on personal projects, art pieces, and some of his greatest works: grandfather clocks (very much pieces of art in their own right). Over the years, through uncountable evenings and weekends, whenever he could find time between raising his kids and maintaining his home, he honed his craft. In recent years he has become recognized as a master in the highest echelon of his craft: those building fine works of wood in the Pacific Northwest.
That upward trajectory, imperceptible at first, started in that shop and compounded over decades. I don't know what that building is used for today; it could very well be a play space for kids away from the house, or merely used for storage, but there it stands, a silent testament to one man's pursuit of excellence.
Something else began in that shop; something that was never completed, at least not by my father.
Geodesic domes have long appealed to various hippies, libertarians, and science-lovers seeking to improve their land with strong, cheap structures built of simple, repeated elements. My father was somewhat of a blend of those three archetypes, and I think the mathematical elegance of the structure appealed to him. Being a clock-maker, mathematics (and in particular, geometry) was as much a tool of his trade as any saw or chisel.
In the early 90's he set about cutting and shaping the edges and faces for two small wooden domes that were to be constructed on our property (I say "our" but in reality we just leased it from the local First Nations band). Everything was made of scrap 2x4 and plywood from local construction sites, collected for free, and the pieces of the frame were designed to interlock, no fasteners needed.
He never ended up building those domes. All the pieces were stowed away in the crawlspace below his shop but he and my mother ended up separating before construction could begin. He left, moving to the city, and left the pieces of his project behind. My sister and I would soon follow him, and when my mother finally moved away from that place, those pieces still remained, forgotten and collecting dust over the years.
It must have been a curious find for the new inhabitants: piles of identical struts and triangular boards, meticulously stacked and organized, with no (as far as I'm aware) explanation or instructions. For a certain type of mind, finds like this can be quite captivating, as they represent an opportunity for modern day anthropological research. Who fashioned these artifacts? What is their purpose? What do they say about the values and proclivities of those who lived on this land before us?
When I visited my childhood home again, it was evident that someone had found those pieces, deduced their purpose, and put them to use. The plywood faces were not used, but they had built the two frames out in the spacious yard and covered them in clear sheet plastic, creating greenhouses or perhaps just freestanding sunrooms, I couldn't tell from the distance. From across time and space, my father had given them an idea and the materials to create something beautiful and functional that allowed them to connect with nature in a different way.
My father's legacy encompasses more than just the physical structures outlined here, but it is a humble one nonetheless. His name is known by few, his stature in his craft appreciated only by those with the commensurate knowledge to make such fine distinctions. He has acquired no significant wealth. But he has left his mark on the world in ways big and small, visible and anonymous.
I hope to do the same.
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2026-03-15 14:55:56 UTC

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I'd argue that 95k is still pretty cheap but yeah, these sellers doing us a solid right now; their sacrifice will not be forgotten.

2026-03-15 13:43:46 UTC

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It's a complicated story but it basically comes down to efficiency; if DC were the standard, electrical power would probably cost at least 10x what it does now, and that would filter into every product that uses electricity as an input.
Basically, we can't afford it, and the entire electrical system would have to be torn down and rebuilt from the ground up. This would be a century long project at this point.

2026-03-15 13:37:17 UTC

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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...
Here's the actual article. The RF is what would come from your wifi, ELF-MF is what would come from the AC current in your walls.
Good-ish news on the RF side of things is that it seems that it's just the tablets (with or without internet connectivity) that are shown to be dangerous devices (by this study, at least); cell phones showed no increased risks.
I'm also a bit curious about why ELF-MF is so much higher in Mexico City (where the study was conducted) than global average.
Interestingly, wifi and Bluetooth headphones are never mentioned.

2026-03-15 00:20:39 UTC

Does anyone remember Nexopia?
Probably not, unless you were a millennial in western Canada in the mid-2000's. Nexopia was a curious example of a social media platform that, despite being online and globally accessible, nevertheless had tight geographic localization. About 50% of the user base was located in Alberta and British Columbia, with another 30-40% in Canada broadly. I suppose this is because it was founded in Edmonton, and mostly spread by word of mouth back then.
Launched in early 2003, it predated MySpace by six months, and Facebook by one year. Despite its head start, it never achieved the same success of those two giants and remained a distinctly Canadian phenomenon. For a handful of years, it was the place to be online for an angsty emo high schooler in Canada's southwest quadrant.
Some context here: no one really knew what kind of place this was yet, or how these platforms would come to shape culture. Almost all interaction with the platform occurred at home, on a (probably shared) desktop computer. Internet connections were often still dial-up, and even the broadband of the time wasn't great by modern standards (we thought it was amazing though).
Uploading photos was a technical challenge. Phones (at least the cheap ones our parents gave us) didn't typically have cameras yet, mobile internet was little more than a proof of concept, and there was no widely available cloud services, so getting your picture online usually consisted of:
1. Get a dedicated digital camera (not cheap at the time).
2. Figure out how to physically bridge it to the brick on your desktop. Maybe the camera used SD cards, but did your family's computer have a way of reading them? Perhaps there was a cord that came with the camera, but was there a port for it on your computer? Things weren't well standardized back then. Can I find an adapter at RadioShack? What software do I need? What the hell is a driver? Better look it up on Yahoo, hope I don't get any viruses when I download this...
3. If you made it through step 2 and the pictures actually existed in digital form on your computer's hard drive, congratulations. You didn't really understand what you did or how any of the shit you just downloaded to make it happen worked, but you won. Now just upload them to the platform. This will take at least a few minutes per low-resolution photo.
4. Now wait for an actual human employee to manually review your picture for ToS violations and voila! The world can now see a blurry picture of your sick skateboarding skillz.
Nexopia was the first social media platform I ever used, and it would be the last for two decades until I reemerged on Primal recently. There was something special and unique about it that could never be replicated by the corporate giants that would soon come to dominate the space. Nexopia in the mid-2000's was a time and place that felt like it largely belonged to one generation of young Canadians who were, together, leaving the innocence of their analog youth behind and leaping into a brave new digital future. We didn't know what we were doing, or where we were going, or that we would someday miss where we came from.
We can never return to the innocence of our analog past. The world has changed, as we have changed. I suspect that much of millenial 90's nostalgia is probably just misplaced sadness for the lost innocence of our childhood.
But it is, perhaps, a childhood innocence that can no longer truly exist, one that died with our generation. We lived through the final days of a world where a kid could just be a kid: believe in Santa without the ability to ruthlessly fact-check him on Google, say and do stupid things without fear of them being forever immortalized online, experience love and sexuality as a progressively revealed mystery, not a grotesque spectacle of voyeuristic debauchery. We didn't know what we had until it was gone, and now we live in a world where it is difficult for any child to have this experience of youth.
We can't return to the innocence of our childhood, nor should we seek to. Once our eyes have been opened to the harsh truths of the world, they cannot be shut. But everyone deserves a period of innocence before these harsh truths are revealed, and to have them revealed incrementally.
We can't go back to the world as it was, but we can create homes and families and ways of living that allow kids to just be kids again, in a world that pushes them relentlessly towards jadedness.
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2026-03-14 11:14:22 UTC

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It's the straddling of the pre- and post-internet eras that is so unique, I think. My childhood occurred in a world that had not yet undergone that great paradigm shift.
We can never go back to that world, and that's fine. There's a lot that's better about this new world too. But I'll always be grateful for my analog youth. It was a more innocent time.

2026-03-14 00:25:43 UTC

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The bombings will continue until debt-to-GDP improves.

2026-03-13 15:57:01 UTC

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Looks like step 4 to me, although step 3 stuff continues to occur through step 4.

2026-03-13 15:08:18 UTC

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Haha, it's called recency bias, and I have to check mine frequently. Our brains are not as rational as we might hope.

2026-03-13 13:13:16 UTC

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Sounds good to me 👍

2026-03-13 10:02:09 UTC

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Hi Jor. I'm a fellow Canadian, an electrician, and a Bitcoiner. I've been lurking on Nostr for awhile and just started posting recently, just random stuff that I'm thinking about. Check me out if you're interested.

2026-03-12 04:18:32 UTC

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Great perspective.
People often dismiss the centralization of the unit as unimportant, "it's just the nodes that matter." But somewhere between the 3.5% they own now and 100%, there is a line. A fuzzy line, perhaps, but a line nonetheless.
Let us hope they never cross it.

2026-03-11 15:35:34 UTC

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Agreed. I paid for YT Premium to avoid ads, I don't need that shite injected directly into the content.

2026-03-11 02:13:29 UTC

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That man knows how to please a woman, I guarantee it.

2026-03-10 19:47:27 UTC

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I dunno if that's the peak man, you didn't even buy CumRocket.

2026-03-10 02:40:20 UTC

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In the spirit of science, I have elected to conduct numerous experiments on my brain chemistry over the years.
Positive results generally came from naturally occurring substances.

2026-03-09 13:07:20 UTC

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"I had no idea this gif/meme is where that [movie] came from."
It was just that good of a meme.

2026-03-09 00:17:42 UTC

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Hell yeah.
I am, in fact, an electrician, and I can tell you that we (and the skilled trades in general) need all the smart people we can get.
A couple of decades of funnelling every smart kid into college (and telling them that the trades are just for the dummies who couldn't hack it in higher education), has left us sorely low on talent.
We are the people building your homes so they don't fall down (and wiring them such that they don't erupt in flames). You want competent people doing that.

2026-03-08 17:07:39 UTC

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https://strc.live/
Active during New York market hours, assuming STRC is trading above par.

2026-03-08 11:19:31 UTC

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The ironic thing is that the logical time to buy STRC was back in the summer when the bitcoin-fiat exchange rate was high, and yet they didn't sell much at the time.
Right now is like, the worst time to be buying STRC, when sats are stupidly cheap. And yet here we are: people piling into fiat instruments for 11.5% yield at the bottom of a bear market, or close to it.
He's exploiting a moment of deep value, right in front of their faces, with their own money. Wild.

2026-03-08 04:44:09 UTC

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I was careful to use the words "might have." For many people, I'm sure it was valuable regardless of recent developments. As you point out, learning begets more learning, and you never know where you might end up.
For others, they may have spent fortune (possibly borrowed) on a university degree, expecting a lucrative career on the other end that never panned out.
To your point, I'll never regret the three months I spent learning Fortran, even if it's likely I will never use it in any practical application. It opened my mind to the logic of programming, and that's been incredibly valuable in a difficult to quantify way.

2026-03-08 04:25:38 UTC

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Is it the "learn to code moment" 10 years ago, when they had to face up to their own technical inadequacies?
Or is it the one right now where it turns out to have been a significant opportunity cost that might have been better spent learning something else?
Both tough pills to swallow.

2026-03-07 21:02:39 UTC

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STRC pretty much taking care of that singlehandedly, if the numbers are to be believed.
Of course, without proof of reserves it's all just a trust me bro situation, so who knows.

2026-03-07 19:14:58 UTC

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We need to bring back "peevish" and "peevishly." Those are good words.

2026-03-07 18:51:01 UTC

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"It is the small things, everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay".

2026-03-07 14:37:39 UTC

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If you're gonna jump, do a flip.

2026-03-06 22:03:55 UTC

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Thanks for piping up, I didn't get it.

2026-03-06 16:42:19 UTC

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Absolutely; skills are the hardest asset.
"You can just do things" applies just as much to the physical realm as the digital. That plumber is exploiting a knowledge asymmetry, and quite profitably too.

2026-03-06 16:16:51 UTC

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Sounds a bit condescending to a guy who just charged you $2745 for something you could have learned to do yourself.
Maybe he should have been schooling you.

2026-03-06 02:29:08 UTC

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Nero.

2026-03-06 00:00:54 UTC

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That's very Zen, but as long as someone is willing to give me scarce sats for infinitely printable trash units, the dollar price has a meaningful impact on me and my ability to acquire true wealth. Ignoring that does make one wiser.

2026-03-04 15:23:15 UTC

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Every time, I buy that dip... And every goddamn time I look back and HODL's in my head telling me I didn't stack hard enough.
It's a tale as old as time(chain).

2026-03-04 02:53:08 UTC

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All we really know for certain is that he SAYS he is buying that much, and his custodian at Coinbase tells him he owns 700k+, because trust me bro.
Analysts can probably point out the suspected addresses where all that coin is held; what they can't tell us with any certainty is if he's the only one with a claim to it.

2026-03-04 00:15:37 UTC

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Consider me wildly apathetic. I'm here for the separation of money and state, not rules and regulations on shitcoins.

2026-03-01 18:30:20 UTC

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You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself promote yield on Bitcoin.

2026-03-01 13:46:58 UTC

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We all remember Josh Mandell, right?

2026-02-28 05:39:25 UTC

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