hah! some people are so goofy

funny you should mention ham radios. i keep get advertised these things. i must be in their marketing demo. i do need to do the key thing. it's much more useful than worrying about banks closing and atm networks not working... i'm not really a doomsday prepper, more like a bankers holiday shutdown prepper. I'm pretty sure it's silly to worry about that though, because they will just print/loan money to make sure the system keeps liquid and the public will find out later via inflation. that was the point of a podcast i heard recently: 2008 response took 8 months, covid took 2 days. last bank failures response took overnight. so they won't let it fail when they don't have to. thanks for the ham radio suggestion, i'm going to look into it.

auto parts were 500$ on my expenses last month crazy times.

"bees in beehives thrum their wings in the key of C" "a soldier with PTSD exposed to this sound of bee wings gets better over time" it also may explain formation of the hexagons of the honeycombs....

Early Bitcoin bro

good point about the incentives if gold market can drop 6% in one day, and it's 10x bigger than bitcoin... i assume bitcoin can do something on a much bigger scale so any borrowing against it like a margin loan is really crazy. i'm talking to myself here since i'm tempted to do it of course. what if if 3I/Atlas aliens come and the stock market crashes next month... so just be prepared.

14% Power and light 12% oil and gas 8% business equipment 6% electronics 6% insurance 5% auto 4% aerospace 4% nat gas 3% banks 3% chemicals 2% publishing 1% steel 1% retail 1% tobacco

No one's forcing that behavior. That's kinda victim mentality imo

Those secretaries were hard at work. It looks like a factory of paperwork.

does anyone know why the Salem witch trials happened? from what i gather: a young (apparently charismatic) preacher moved to New England from England. he riled people up against "witches" his daughter and her friends started accusing people of being witches. if those people didn't confess and rat out their co-conspirators, they were put on trial. this process ended up killing an 80 year old Rebecca Nurse who wasn't putting up with this nonsense about witches. --- what were these really about? was this a form of color revolution from the crown to destabilize the colonies? was it a simple land grab of old money by up-and-coming money? were there real witches consorting with he-who-must-not-be-named? was it a localized insanity? was it the government or the church doing this? was it pre-separation of church and state? --- the explanation that i heard is: fundamental christian pastor avails himself of systemic sexismto further persecute women --- i'm very curious because "new-in-town" people don't generally wield that much influence. so i'm really wondering what was going on back in the day...

According to this report from Investors Variable Payment Fund, Inc 1962, total disposable income was up and to the right

speaking from database development side, no one ever asked me to see an undergrad degree much less a masters... it was all about the experience with the particular skills (oracle, sql, etc). i thought masters degrees should pay the student to get them (maybe with exception of MBA)? or there is usually some guaranteed promise of being a teacher's assistant or something... it could be a good backup job plan if it's coupled with a research or teaching job. so maybe apply for grad school while looking for jobs to keep all options open?

my personal favorite is STRK because it solves a problem that I've often thought about for mom-and-pop real estate investors. they own rental properties for both the income and the increase in value of the asset. the problem is that the real estate value only goes up if it's in a booming city. the US is littered with rust belt cities that was the flavor of the day in it's time: whether it was the railroad coming though(Atlanta), timber industry(Portland), naval industry (Oakland), helicopter industry (Ithaca, NY), automotive industry. so STRK is like prime real estate that is located along the interstate highway of bitcoin. and it will always be on that highway, no matter what new technology boom or bust happens. cities go through boom and bust cycles

Oh good. I need an excuse to cancel November travel plans

darn, i just realized that Strategy just went from biggest to smallest with their product rollout: STRK-- preferred for real estate investors in 330T market STRF/STRD-- preferred for bond investors in 300T market STRC -- preferred for savers in 120T market MSTR -- equity market

#handmodelle

i'm in a frontier town where a starbucks just opened... the gal at the register so sweet and remembers my name--it always takes me aback when the cashier remembers my name. she looks like katy perry. and then i realize she probably thinks of Katy Perry like i used to think of Madonna-- someone who was singing before i was born. and then she asked me what i'm up to. it took me some reflection to realize she probably thinks me of one of her dad's friends or an uncle. i'll take it. and then she brings the coffee out and sets it on my table. hah sweet thing, i'm old, but i also don't deserve that. i guess this is what elders feel like when the"Respect for elders" was a thing. starbucks in a frontier town--i feel like first class.