BourbonicPlague
Bourbonic Plague

Bitcoin and Bourbon

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2023-09-13 02:17:55

This is so much worse than any Mulvaney beer can.
https://x.com/tim_cook/status/1701732427897491578?s=21

2023-09-11 14:12:52

In 2020 the UN ran a poll to find out what people think of climate change and these are the questions they asked.
What would happen if they asked the people choosing 2A if they would support doing everything as urgently as possible if it meant that the bottom 75% of income earners would never be able to afford to buy a home or a car?
For 3C, would you support that if it meant you couldn’t afford to heat your home?
For 6A, would you support that if it meant that meat and dairy products would be made illegal and the bottom 75% of income earners would be required to eat bugs as their primary source of protein?
Curiously, they only asked leading questions designed to elicit responses they approve of. They even say that responses they don’t like are evidence they need to do more “education”.
I am happy to see that the US had the second highest percentage of fuck off responses of any country.
The gender differences are fascinating too. I wonder why the serpent tempted Eve with the fruit of the tree of knowledge?
https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/publications/UNDP-Oxford-Peoples-Climate-Vote-Results.pdf https://image.nostr.build/d5b7f3b69d0b3c2e5b1fe0109aec123c7f802e8683712b456c82ee91f97ddd7b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0087fe564947264d39424d011bb0cc4cffaf2c46009c74900261a72047f21ad1.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a2380328ffa7bf805d167686576c3d477a2ee2917a3ea7b740ede203a9ecb01e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ddc2a18e7a70c264d3571be3f167a7dc33ee4c950a622ee53f5c76f401697ca2.jpg

2023-09-10 13:30:43

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If I had to bet, I would bet this is the solution to these white supremacist forests. Conveniently, Bill Gates has just the investment to save us. https://image.nostr.build/fe718a7596b93888a82ba4fd0e6828514839dd6d8d339c4fb0b7699cbbe0d56b.jpg

2023-09-10 13:25:55

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This is how it concludes:
“In many parts of the world, including some of the most densely forested, trees are not perfect allies for tree-huggers anymore, and forests no longer reliable climate partners. What was once the embodiment of environmental values now seems increasingly to be fighting for the other side. In some places, fighting harder each year.”
I have no clue what he thinks should be done about it, but he’s definitely calling out forests for “fighting for the other side”. https://image.nostr.build/188a9c7a2357bb4dfddfc00e096f3940783a63dbb52d4c0e0ca5dcb0cd0a1548.jpg

2023-09-10 13:10:50

The cultists are turning on trees now. I definitely did not have that on my bingo card. They must destroy the environment before it has a chance to destroy the environment. https://image.nostr.build/dbd036f80368f58c866394291039a16584616cfb3c88357fcd244ca6a17a95f1.jpg

2023-09-08 19:19:07

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Ripple bought the Ponzi (Fortress Trust) that handles custody for them.

2023-09-08 17:13:23

Is God trolling Cory Klippsten? Swan becoming dependent on Ripple is something else.

2023-09-08 16:40:58

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How does shareholder voting work? How does it work if you own the shares via a brokerage account? How does it work if you own shares in an ETF?

2023-09-08 15:42:46

Index investing should not transfer the voting rights of the shares to the custodian. Only people who control their own investments should be allowed to vote.
If you don’t want the responsibility of managing your own money, fine. But your cowardice shouldn’t accumulate power to a tiny number of fund managers who control trillions of AUM.

2023-09-08 03:07:29

Immoral communists will say and do anything to acquire and maintain power. https://image.nostr.build/4d158bee1227015ba827b5c04185bd66b376289715c2fbaccc9b0430475465e6.jpg

2023-09-06 16:50:46

“What is an example of high time preference, Alex?”
How many litter boxes is she going to need once she reaches her expiration date?
https://i.nostr.build/thumb/ZkWl.jpg

2023-09-05 21:56:12

Shane Gillis in his new special on Netflix: “This joke isn’t going to make it in. Just know that if you see this joke, I won an argument.”

2023-09-05 14:43:22

There is no scientific consensus on climate change, there is an orthodoxy that is maintained by coercion.
https://www.thefp.com/p/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published https://image.nostr.build/b2c22ff5e503eb2b2801db8d393b97c67fcf17e5ad53e64314f88d2673d283b0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/19c02dfae9a00fdf8997b901f480cdb36bef2b9bb454d512ba5b0f3a0c22daef.jpg

2023-09-05 14:32:02

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The envy described in Cain and Abel is a pretty good sign that this pattern has existed for as long as humans have been telling stories.

2023-09-05 10:02:39

She isn’t wrong, but also, the people who believe this nonsense were never going to make it out of poverty anyway. The people capable of pulling themselves out see this defeatism as a challenge and as proof that they don’t have much competition.
Most people “trapped” in poverty seek this sort of sentiment to confirm their beliefs that it is hopeless to even try. They surround themselves with people who believe this and reject anyone who tries to tell them they aren’t actually trapped because believing there is hope would require them to take responsibility for their situation and do something about it.
The problem today is that this hopelessness is being weaponized into the envy that drives communists. We used to reject that sort of mass envy as a culture and now the dominant cultural forces encourage it. https://image.nostr.build/f8282955d24f2f1b6eb4c39d3807129d0c67c447424e7816bc82f5f41df17a65.jpg

2023-09-04 01:36:51

The Veilid project is working on their Code of Conduct even quicker than I expected. Commies don’t believe in freedom and they never will.
If you build tech that claims to guarantee freedom you will have to tolerate people you vehemently disagree with. They are incapable of that and that’s why I love that most of them despise bitcoin.
I can’t prevent them from using bitcoin and I wouldn’t value bitcoin if I could, but I love that their intolerance works against them and will help keep them poor. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/afbf9a02f0de27557cfb5170ac78b188d1463f64134ddc88b277847fdfcfeefc.jpg

2023-09-03 13:45:53

The budgets of the Five Eyes are controlled by communists (globalists/Davos ghouls/lizard people/demons/whatever you want to call them). As long as that is true, I don’t support any bitcoin soft forks.
Any change you can dream up can wait until the people who oppose private property are out of power.
If things get worse and bitcoin is forced underground, it doesn’t need your scaling solution.

2023-09-02 10:34:50

“Sell your body and be a strong independent woman who doesn’t need a man to survive.” https://cdn.nostr.build/i/71b0a465bb30d33f4d41107f8fa8b5990f652a6e452bda51f4b14cbe332134c3.jpg

2023-09-02 02:43:02

Imagine if instead of trying to imprison him they had hung the entire Covid catastrophe around his neck.
But no, they couldn’t resist taking advantage of the opportunity to implement their own tyrannical ambitions so they couldn’t use the one weapon that would have guaranteed Trump never had a chance again.
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/8r2X.mp4

2023-09-01 23:51:10

Bitcoin only needs to change if it survives. It will only survive if the commies are defeated.
Therefore, Bitcoin only needs to change **after** the commies are defeated.
Trying to force a change before that happens means you are a fool or a commie (redundant, I know). https://cdn.nostr.build/i/4f50067c09a106d7ee892c3fbc04645962e589bb40a9873c76d52d4ba3cbaa30.jpg

2023-09-01 14:21:04

The sooner the 10% of people who pay all the taxes get fed up with public schools and pull their kids out, the sooner we can defund the entire clown car jobs program for rainbow retards.

2023-09-01 13:33:56

DOD recruiting MKUltra candidates for future use?
https://www.eagletribune.com/region/think-you-saw-a-ufo-the-pentagon-wants-to-hear-from-you/article_1afe7e63-bc7f-5700-9368-4e0844c34015.html

2023-09-01 12:37:57

Dave Portnoy dropping the premier of his shitshow pizza review during his Tucker interview was a thing of beauty.
That soy slurping NYT reading owner of Dragon Pizza picked the wrong fight. You love to see it when the assholes fuck themselves in the most entertaining way.

2023-08-31 15:56:49

I’m surprised there aren’t more stories like this already. I’m sure there will be in the future.
‘The serpent told me “…I’d feel empowered by it…”’.
Ignore thousands of years of wisdom at your own peril.
She actually thought her daughter would be proud of her. The brainwashing is so deep/some brains are so shallow, they can’t even imagine how they would have felt if their classmates were spreading pictures of their whore moms around school when they were teenagers. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/123333b41d35ef0d75a313de5a2d9e4b7e5bc85205d3e6fc7a5fd7dfbbd2d2f2.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/b6fa13c24f107aa5cb6ebbc191b0407433879f5d1e4517e88c3fb9138bfa9351.jpg

2023-08-31 15:35:26

You can taper one of the Ponzis more than all the others.

2023-08-31 12:59:02

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How long did your last PM survive after trying to expand the UK’s energy production in opposition to the climate agenda?
I’m thankful they still have to pretend to get people elected here. That probably won’t last much longer unless things change pretty drastically.

2023-08-30 22:02:13

It’s farcical at this point.
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/qwMw.mp4

2023-08-30 16:45:38

Oliver Anthony was at Rogan’s club last night. I wonder if he’ll be on JRE soon.
https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3481183/oliver-anthony-the-viral-rich-men-north-of-richmond-singer-dropped-in-for-a-surprise-performance-at-joe-rogans-comedy-mothership-last-night

2023-08-28 21:00:55

“If inflation is only 3%, why are groceries still expensive?” Is the “if you divide pizza slices, you have more pizza” argument of compounding.

2023-08-28 12:18:20

“Drivechains will end shitcoins.”
I don’t need to hear anything else to flip the BOZO bit. Anyone who believes that can be safely ignored.

2023-08-28 10:55:54

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A fountain pen with premium ink on premium paper is infinitely better.

2023-08-28 03:06:45

Trump is bad on so many dimensions it’s impossible to iterate them all.
But this could end up being one of the funniest things to happen in politics in my lifetime. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/e31c09e1da8e40cbe07f96f636a091687d6050a226430afd7d9579a30f6818c0.jpg

2023-08-27 11:41:16

Their willingness to give 10 year olds puberty blockers and “gender affirming care” is connected to their willingness to inject kids with experimental gene therapies labeled as vaccines which is connected to their willingness to abort inconvenient children they conceive.
It’s all the same phenomena. They will sacrifice their children to assuage their anxiety and stress.
When you see it, you can’t unsee it.

2023-08-26 18:53:49

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Yeah, they are pretty crazy.

2023-08-26 18:41:29

The weather is great and the hummingbird and sphinx moth are visiting our honeysuckle.
(Not my photos, just borrowed for illustrative purposes.) https://cdn.nostr.build/i/281fcfdaf96daf6d0b3793fc495a98030cb7efedf5ad28b020c7ac2f5fd64222.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/03196f9a2709e51434959a495e091567da8972b30a27832fc28d94630ddda1d0.jpg

2023-08-26 13:21:15

This community note was fascinating when it appeared, because of what it revealed, but the fact it has been removed is also fascinating. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/284f4debd33f9368b93306cec8e393b0a017d71932457ce13aa58eee294a0b08.jpg

2023-08-26 12:43:30

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“They protect the country. Who would keep an eye on Russia without the CIA?”
That was their exact response when I said I think the CIA should be disbanded and many of them thrown in prison.

2023-08-26 12:38:27

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I’m GenX and my generation didn’t have enough kids and 90% of us our losers like every other generation. But GenX is tiny compared to the Boomers and Millennials.
Personally, I’d love to see GenX’s relative lack of political power, based on our small size, be used to end the entire communist entitlement system.
Increase the retirement age in us, we don’t have the votes to stop it. Privatize the retirement system so young people who actually pay attention and care can earn a real return on the ≈12% of their income that is extracted from their paychecks every year.

2023-08-26 05:18:47

Young Gen Z and Gen A (or whatever they are being called) will be in their peak earning years and will be responsible for funding the retirement of the Millennials if the system survives that long. The Millennial generation is as big as the Boomers.
If the kids today think the Boomers are blood suckers, wait until they are funding the Millennials’ childless extended adolescence. Imagine watching those fuckers still going on Disney cruises at 65 on the back of your payroll taxes when they didn’t even have the decency to reproduce enough children to cover their replacement rate and imported a bunch of tax dodging immigrants in the name of equity to suppress your income for your entire career.

2023-08-26 04:23:32

Some normies are so fully brainwashed that any mention of the CIA causes them to reflexively utter the phrase “conspiracy theorist”. It’s truly impressive when you experience it in the wild. Evil, but impressive.

2023-08-26 02:43:16

If the police are wondering which computers to search for child porn first, I have a couple suggestions. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/e5c4869f105520234738bf50f9aaca4ccd9a524bc22e353ebf59b1114719fead.jpg

2023-08-25 06:28:23

Trump posted to Twitter for the first time since getting suspended a night after Tucker got “250M views” for their interview.
Who knows how manipulated these new view counts are, but it probably broke records anyway. It’s not surprising he was unable to resist. It will be interesting to see if he gets back into his Twitter groove or if he just uses it for fund raising. I’d bet he won’t be able to resist his old habits. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/25ad0189731b7bc269e91098dca35370e091634f33d2e6813015aa3db3ae9edc.jpg

2023-08-24 06:30:24

Watching the Tucker/Trump interview and I can’t stop imagining Shane Gillis impersonating everything he says.
https://youtu.be/aTGDlljjgEc

2023-08-22 11:44:39

Nobody in the replies guessed that is an athlete and I’m amazed by that. The highest paid idiots on the planet are all athletes, and good for them.
The replies were full of people trying to be funny naming people they are envious of, which says a lot about the state of things.
I just hope that person is able to actually hold on to the money they are making. It’s very likely they are surrounded by sharks looking to rip them off at every opportunity. Many are probably related to them. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/3166c41035c074b128a9bb082f5f417736cdf9fc5be497ae58d15dc34cb7c1f8.jpg

2023-08-21 14:01:26

The number of people that women kill every year is mind boggling when you understand that abortion is murder. ≈1M people per year for 50 years in the US.
Women constantly argue for safety and use emotional manipulation to justify all manner of tyranny based on their desire to protect the children and the fact that this statistic isn’t thrown in their face every time they do that demonstrates how far modern men will go to avoid being called misogynists.
“From Man’s effeminate slackness it begins.”
Unmarried women commit the vast majority of these abortions.
The next time a young unmarried black woman screeches Black Lives Matter in your presence, let her know that 1 out of every 8 black women of child bearing age kills a black baby every year. They are responsible for 50% of all abortions in the US. 500K black people executed by black women every year. Where are the riots for all these deaths?
Women have been aborting babies for all of human history too. The scale might be a modern phenomenon, but the act itself is nothing new. Abandoning babies in the wilderness was also a common approach women used before abortion was so clinical and easily available.
I know women who became completely distraught when a pet dog or cat brought a dead mouse to the door. They spent years berating these pets for that one time they killed the defenseless cute little mouse. These same women don’t think anything about their friends and family members aborting babies at will. The fact they aren’t called out on this insane hypocrisy on a regular basis is astounding to me.
Read Genesis with all this in mind and reflect on why the story is structured the way it is.
Quit being pussies and call them out when they try their safety and “think of the children” manipulations.
You want to regulate how many bullets my gun’s magazines can hold? Let’s start by regulating how many dicks your unmarried vagina can accept. Your hedonism kills ≈30x as many people as guns do in the US every year.

2023-08-21 03:31:34

I’ve never paid attention to or given a dime to the NRA, but I give to the FPC regularly and I can see it’s about that time again. 🤣 https://cdn.nostr.build/i/fd5ad61bbcd9042f869ec73dc240b381e2f643bd764fdcd7ff028a0f71612689.jpg

2023-08-20 11:56:47

The look on the faces of the guys behind her tells the story.
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/YavP.mp4

2023-08-18 07:55:34

If these translations are accurate this guy is at least an order of magnitude better at communicating the problems than any other libertarian who has ever lived. He says it better in a few minutes than most do over their entire lifetime.
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/jZjg.mp4

2023-08-16 01:29:35

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No, I avoid their betas like the plague. Ever since Ventura shipped, macOS has gotten progressively worse. And I’m running it on a fairly high end Mac Studio. I have to reboot the damn thing every couple days just to get it to behave at all now. I used to only reboot after system updates before Ventura.
iOS has started to become almost as unstable. Not quite as bad, but I have to reboot it to get it to behave much more frequently too. And I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max.

2023-08-16 01:16:57

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I use Linux every day too but I use it via iTerm consoles and ssh from my Macs so I don’t have to deal with desktop Linux for all things graphical. I live in tmux+Neovim on Linux.
But I can definitely see a day coming where I have to switch back to desktop Linux. I’m not looking forward to that either, tbh.

2023-08-16 00:51:28

Every OS Apple makes is currently a complete jittery glitchy cluster fucking mess. These woke incompetent fucks are going to drive me off the best hardware available just because they can’t unfuck their software. And before you know it, they will no longer have the best hardware either.
The integrated system is the value proposition. But if everything up to and including typing stops working, that integration becomes a weakness because it all breaks together.

2023-08-14 22:45:19

“Anything men can do, women can do better…”
I’ve heard this nonsense my entire life starting with the ERA debate in the ‘70s. I have to admit the current culture making a mockery of this idiocy is one tiny silver lining.
They can’t even do their own sports better when competing with failed men. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/9d4742f34570a1b9169e658e813e5c41b4f26fde80b7615bda7b6480a5be2b41.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/67b6e0524d95fc942a185c498868d4e22c9e923979b4f59266723038cec56802.jpg

2023-08-14 19:58:41

This is why I don’t waste time with nuance when it comes to climate hysteria.
A 5 year old’s feelings trump your right to mine bitcoin or heat your home for that matter.
Guess the pronouns of the judge involved. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/c97dfd3f5f0bb630d8b9bafcadd474ab2caf29b8dbc0bade478f856139a7e68e.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/8f72564056f84a1d4871f0efb5e362d5d53ce1fe09b6d60905728b495257c772.jpg

2023-08-14 16:30:52

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🤣
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/x2PV.jpg

2023-08-14 16:28:06

Sometimes the only solution is the rooftop Korean solution.
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/eX40.mp4

2023-08-14 16:17:35

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That’s a law abiding citizen doing a neighborhood patrol. They don’t have the right to bear arms, hence they lack proper arms to defend their neighborhoods from the armed criminals who would rape and pillage given the chance.

2023-08-14 16:12:05

The doomers who need the US to become South Africa are missing some important facts in their analysis.
Where are the mags? Where are the NODS? Where are the rifles with thermal scopes?
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/Jd97.png

2023-08-14 12:53:29

This is the first problem I see with Veilid. Their anti-capitalist screeds don’t account for depending on large well resourced public nodes that run on centralized capitalist platforms and require lots of capital to operate.
And if those platforms decide they don’t want to allow such nodes? I haven’t seen the network traffic yet, but if the cloud providers can identify it, they can ban it. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/c18fa561493c31c979877ab1d334a9aa17942be3cc03989c43a249bdd80f02b2.jpg

2023-08-14 12:38:26

Adding Veilid to my list of things to check out once things slow down a bit for me at work later this year.
https://veilid.com

2023-08-14 01:57:42

It’s about time for me to rewatch The Sopranos.
This time I won’t be able to stop wondering how many business owners in cities currently wish they could pay a well organized group of men to exact violence on any degenerates who dare fuck with their business.
https://youtu.be/mJpNmYeooQE

2023-08-13 13:57:58

Another flat earth test: who do you want planning your intercontinental flights, Globetards or Flat Earthers? Your aircraft gets to take the average amount of fuel, plus a 1 hour reserve, used for that aircraft/route combination for the last 100 flights.
Are you going to bet your life that the Globetards don’t know what they are doing with these flights plans? It’s not an accident they are shaped like that and you can get a pretty good feel for why they are if you connect those points on a globe with a piece of string. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/74b51f4a93cc2cdff3d09b6057879ab24e36970532844d1a8fc8f22c088788a9.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/1e86cecc5d56e7b26975c354ec30a91a693d14f2f27c6dcf43c35d89071ffdbc.jpg

2023-08-13 11:52:33

There are 2 artillery teams and one of them is going to target your house with your family in it. You have to choose which one.
Globetard Artillery uses MGRS, which is based on UTM, which assumes the earth is a perfect ellipsoid. UTM is highly accurate within the small zones of a few degrees East to West and UTM zones are 6° wide.
Flat Earth Artillery uses the maps created by their best cartographers based on whatever the fuck it is they believe.
Which team do you want targeting your house and family?

2023-08-13 10:47:11

I just discovered that New Holland Brewing Company has a Dragon’s Milk bourbon now. I’m going to have to try it.
I have a bottle of KBS bourbon and I really enjoy it.
Something about the Michigan breweries and their stouts that I really enjoy. I was born in Michigan so maybe it’s just in my blood. Probably the lead from the water pipes 😂 https://cdn.nostr.build/i/421a23b72f1a9fcbeab000cbb08fdfcf3e0e1b35116200606ca91c69d723b793.png

2023-08-13 10:43:53

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I think I’d rather drink horse piss than any hoppy IPA so I am with you there.
But bourbon barrel aged stouts like KBS or Dragon’s Milk are my favorites. I also enjoy a good Russian Imperial Stout like Old Rasputin.
But any stout that Founders Brewing Company makes is at least 5x better than bottled Guinness for my tastes.

2023-08-13 01:10:30

Guinness is the worst stout I’ve ever had. I’m sure out of a Dublin tap it’s an entirely different beast, but out of a bottle in the middle of the US it is horse piss.

2023-08-12 17:38:36

I love being able to schedule emails. I can write emails to employees at 2am on a Tuesday or in the middle of the day on a Saturday like a psychopath without them wondering if I’m expecting them to watch for emails at insane times.

2023-08-12 15:13:28

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It’s never been easier to be a top 10% performer. Anyone who does that in a field the world values is going to kill it.

2023-08-12 15:06:26

I spent the first decade of my career, the ‘90s, helping Silent and Boomer generation technophobes learn how to use computers while also teaching myself how to write software they could use. I even occasionally did formal day long classes training them how to use Microsoft Excel and Word. I had to start every class teaching several of them how to use a mouse. A few of those people never really understood how to double-click and many people struggled to navigate menus that were nested just because they lacked the dexterity to move the mouse smoothly enough to open one menu level after the other.
I learned that a nontrivial percentage of people can’t deal with hierarchical UIs of any kind. They couldn’t deal with tree views and hierarchical menus and deeply tabbed UIs. The file system was literally impossible for them to understand or navigate. I would bet there is an IQ threshold here if someone ever chose to study it, but since IQ is a taboo subject I’m sure that would never happen.
Anyway, that decade spent supporting people who hate computers but have to use them for their jobs while I was also learning the craft of software development was the perfect preparation for me. The software I built for my business a decade and a half ago is used for only a few months a year by lots of people who don’t care at all about computers, they just care about getting their jobs done. We don’t use any of the UI/UX paradigms that I spent many frustrating hours watching people struggle to understand. We don’t use toolbars with icons only. Our clickable UI elements have words that describe what they do and they animate in a consistent way that tells users they are clickable so users never have to guess which elements they can click on. We don’t assume people can handle drag and drop. We don’t hide UI behind tabs and we never use hierarchy to hide things from users or to make a UI more compact. The only hierarchy is a result of the natural hierarchy that is inherent to the concepts users are already working with every day, and for those concepts we still flatten the hierarchy and show it to users in a single scrollable view. We paginate those lists if we have to, but we don’t hide details behind hierarchical UI. All menus have only one level. People who can’t handle hierarchy can handle scrolling just fine. We have pages that are several pages long because scrolling doesn’t trip users up but almost all the UI paradigms that are used to avoid scrolling do. Our software has a one to one mapping between concepts they use in the real world to do their jobs. We don’t force them to learn a new way to view the world. We use maps to let them navigate geographically important data in places where the geographical relationship between things matters to them. We use colors to show the priority of things on those maps so they can quickly identify potential problems visually. And when all these strategies still fail and users get stuck, a human answers the phone or email or chat when they reach out to us for help and we walk them through it. Even on holidays, weekends, or at 11pm during their busy few months when they are actually using our software. If they need help, a helpful person is there. Even if it is the tenth time they have asked the same damn question. We charge lots of money and that’s what they are paying us for.
My point: even if you and some of your smartest users can handle something you have created, never assume that everyone will be able to. Some users will never understand some things no matter how much you try to explain them. If you have to design something anyone can use there are a bunch of limitations automatically imposed on your design.
Also, there are some subjects that are too complicated for a huge percentage of the population to understand no matter how or how many times you explain them. There is a percentage of the population that will never understand certain aspects of Bitcoin and there is nothing anyone can do to change that. The very nature of the subject is just beyond lots of people and they will always have to resort to trusting people because they will never be able to verify.

2023-08-11 12:00:56

Will there be bread served at the circus? https://cdn.nostr.build/i/979f62050f6d12df57431c983f07126527ae18a5cf33cf3700d2e90b79a235e8.jpg

2023-08-11 02:16:29

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2023-08-11 02:08:57

I didn’t have a clue what point she was trying to make in the Tweet that everyone jumped on, but I didn’t for one minute believe that she was clueless about how bonds work.
But I did find a bunch of new people to flip the BOZO bit on based on their Tweets about that Tweet.
To be fair, I’ve flipped the BOZO bit on most people who comment on macro based on their inability/unwillingness to update their priors in the face of what the Fed has been up to since July ‘21. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/131d9a6e3f8a2357e88e17f8e0432add35eaeb11543ffcba0dbc5f6ee4322afb.jpg

2023-08-11 00:51:33

Rob says he’s been getting a lot of deaf Uber drivers lately. I’d bet 1M sats they aren’t deaf and are just using that as an excuse to avoid having to deal with annoying passengers.
I would absolutely do that if I had to drive Uber.
https://youtu.be/er7T-ELM9xI

2023-08-10 21:00:42

Even if Sam’s insane and irrelevant hypotheticals had any relevance to the real world, he better be prepared to stack up and risk his own life if he thinks he can force me to inject or consume anything against my will.
What part of that is he too retarded to understand?
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/PPg8.mp4

2023-08-10 15:42:26

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Which is why I don’t waste time with the caveat that of course our activities can have an impact on the composition of the atmosphere.
They have brainwashed people so completely most are incapable of questioning any of it. They have convinced people the PH levels of the oceans will dissolve the fish without explaining how sea life existed in the past when CO2 levels were much higher than their most pessimistic models predict. And that is just one example of many.
It’s a psyop used to manipulate the public. The otherwise smart people who are capable of seeing the truth aren’t willing to look for many reasons including the ones you listed.
I used to think religion was designed to manipulate people in exactly this same way, but I now believe the right sort of religion is a fractal/scalable antidote to these sorts of mass hysteria that are so prevalent in the modern world. Smart people need to be anchored to the truth via the proper narrative and rituals more than dumb people do. Bitcoin helped me see the value of internalized truths and rituals that reinforce those truths.

2023-08-10 11:21:34

On her recent WBD appearance Margot Paez detailed how her career was aborted because her research disagreed with the accepted dogmas of the climate cultists and yet she isn’t deterred by that fact. When you listen to her talk about obtaining the credentials she covets you can tell where the search for truth ranks for her.
This is an interesting contrast. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/88010fbfc964fa7ad8f2e815ae103889a0e485a2fb6f345dc6f5318b9a34fa85.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/1073128589fd546318beb7aa61c05b31e9f622a1ef4408214422266255aac1bc.jpg

2023-08-10 11:00:03

Looks like LK-99 is being written off as not a superconductor. Shocking, I know.
Do remember those computer models and the promising results they produced when driven by the highest caste of “published scientists” and understand that all such computer models produce equally worthless horeshit. Computerized motivated reasoning is still motivated reasoning.

2023-08-09 18:23:52

Don’t let them fuck with the money during the Great Reset. You don’t have a clue what their science experiments will do and neither do they.
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/v2Jk.png

2023-08-09 16:44:32

Calling specific people out as easily replaceable is even better. Put them all on notice. Either perform and act like you value the job or fuck off.
And this is why Disney wanted nothing to do with Dave. The velvety soft vulvas of the ESG world can’t handle him. 🤣
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/x23G.png

2023-08-09 16:35:33

Dave Portnoy going off on his employees, publicly on Twitter, for not showing up to the office for his first morning back as owner of the company is a thing of beauty. And all the replies with people saying “hire me” are even better.

2023-08-09 01:19:36

Roll your own entropy. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/e5bccac6e3f71b8680f2f2b5f7034842ea7394a9c3ea200997eec959a4245821.jpg

2023-08-08 20:50:20

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I don’t go quite that far back. I started on a Timex Sinclair in the ‘80s.

2023-08-08 19:36:14

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Yeah, I love Ruby and when I need perf it’s easy enough to write something in C or Rust and call it via FFI. But this code spends the vast majority of its time waiting on the network.
I was able to run the same code single threaded on my M1 Mac against a local copy of the PostgreSQL DB and it only took 1 hour. But adding the network slowed it down by a factor of 24, hence the need for multiple threads.
It’s always easy to forget just how slow even the fastest network is until you run head first into the problem again. 🤣

2023-08-08 18:20:31

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Ruby/Linux. It was pretty simple and I got the code written and tested in about an hour. Just needed to do some simple database updates concurrently to finish a data migration from MySQL -> PostgreSQL in a timely fashion.
Doing them single threaded would have taken ≈24 hours. Doing them in parallel spread over about 170 threads on 64 core servers got it done in about 30 minutes.

2023-08-08 17:39:03

Truck drivers making more than junior software developers is a great thing. If there aren’t people lined up to do the job it should pay commensurate with the need.
Same will happen for more blue collar jobs as more older people leave the workforce. Jobs that require you to be away from home or endure shitty working conditions should pay better too.
You can’t ship a physical machine or a building to the other side of the planet so cheap foreign labor can maintain them. The locals who acquire the skills to do that work and are willing to suffer the working conditions should be paid well for their troubles. And they will.

2023-08-08 14:45:36

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Real, supposedly. As real as anything else on the internet.

2023-08-08 02:37:50

You didn’t need to see this video to predict this is the type of women she is. You could just as easily predict every other opinion she has based on her gender, her circumstances, and where she lives. They are tediously unoriginal.
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/qkwn.mp4

2023-08-06 14:04:48

I need to write some multithreaded code and I’m dragging my feet.

2023-08-05 21:16:30

They created the problem with their idiotic climate hysteria and the policies meant to solve their imaginary problems (CAFE) and now they will use the consequences of those policies as justification for making personal transportation even more unaffordable.
You will own nothing and they don’t give a fuck if you are happy about that. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/5b830929c06cb8a4cc56eae380f514e6cf124e5cc920e2893f3c3dfd2b99ba5d.jpg https://cdn.nostr.build/i/ef363cc783329ddec5b7d4b6fee1beea7f91ad5f33dae52d2155ede8682e9f0f.jpg

2023-07-29 11:25:38

He’s far too stupid to handle the attention his dad’s fame granted him. But he also lacks the humility to understand that. 🤷‍♂️ https://cdn.nostr.build/i/0eea503365eeab4ae48436ddfed85c05a6dcee5795017cfc5307671c921a07b9.jpg

2023-07-28 05:23:04

Look at the correlation between English speakers who can’t regularly see the stars vs those who can. That’s how the psyop works.
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/4kJW.jpg

2023-07-13 22:55:08

Anyone else hope the existing actors and writers never return to work and we just reboot that whole industry from scratch without all the communism?
Too much to ask, I know.

2023-07-12 09:56:38

He’s right and there are far too many people who don’t understand this. If your income isn’t in the top quartile or decile now, a few million sats aren’t going to deliver you to some future aristocracy.
There are lots of bitcoiners who already have fuck you money and are retired and they aren’t going to tell you this either. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/516969515a2e36d2335701d9f279d672cb9db89f85c5416642fda4254d73bde1.jpg

2023-07-10 00:12:26

Dying for likes was always going to be the ultimate outcome of Eternal September. http://nostr.build/i/bea8d981d67029e7899f1b0bf9d7b9b2be01ee0b2e4bf706f81c053ba75f2229.jpg

2023-07-09 03:07:04

This Jonah Hill thing is funny. Women think they can just bully men into accepting whorish behavior and be grateful.
Wait until the modest women realize they have a huge advantage.

2023-07-03 17:45:28

Imagine the home school rates if women didn’t need to work to make the family budget work.
Young men should strive to earn top 10% incomes so their wife can stay home with the kids.
There are aviation and diesel mechanics making $200K with overtime and $150K without OT. Lots of trades are also useful skills that can allow you to run your own business and make plenty of money to support a family on a single income.
The very first luxury we bought when we started making decent money was my wife’s early retirement. She quit working a few years before we even had a second car.

2023-07-01 12:01:38

Funny that the RNG seems to be biased against videos that might offend the woke fucks who work at Twitter. Here’s a video of some commie fucks getting their asses beat in France.
A Twitter Video Downloader didn’t have any trouble downloading the video.
https://nostr.build/p/nb11849.mp4

2023-06-27 05:14:28

Mirror, mirror, on the wall…
The mirror finds a way even in the hinterlands.
https://nostr.build/p/nb11652.mp4

2023-06-12 01:34:15

I reconfigured my node to allow a 1K MB mempool so I can see how many of the pending transactions are inscriptions. I suspect a lot of the 1-4 sat/vB are very stale inscriptions that first got sent around a month ago.
It’s taking forever for my mempool to refill, but at about 10% of the total mempool transactions on mempool.space, 80% of those transactions in my new mempool are inscriptions.
I suspect when we finally do clear the pool, there will be a huge number of new inscriptions and then things will be much quieter in inscription land going forward.

2023-06-07 12:39:26

Peter McCormack loves the state until they prosecute fraud. Why might that be?
Unrelated, remember those times he talked about committing bank fraud (lying on loan applications to obtain loans to buy Bitcoin) on his podcast? I’m sure he was just joking, right?
Also unrelated, remember when he got paid all that money to promote unregistered securities for years at a time? Remember when he freaked out at people on Twitter who pointed out how scummy those scams were and how he was culpable for the harm they caused the people who used them based on his longtime recommendation of them?
I’m sure his current spasm of anarchism is completely unrelated to anything he’s done over the years.

2023-05-27 22:40:12

#Nostr is full of people building stuff and Twitter is full of people bouncing from one pointless argument to the next. 🤷‍♂️