Someone mentioned bro trip. Reminded me of some dudes borrowing grandma's Lincoln for a night out. They hit a deer 🦌. They put the dead dear in the trunk to carve up at home. It woke up, and put hoof mark dents outwards on the trunk. And blood everywhere.

some good questions from an uncle about bitcoin: one about how will it resist a government that has almost endless resources --> i said eventually thermodynamics will take over. the one i couldn't answer was: how each copy of everyone's transactions was maintained. that part isn't actually protected by cryptography or is it? it is electronic and digital, and nodes/miners are online so theoretically everyone's timechain be updated to a new timechain. kinda like if everyone's copy of the 10 commandments were digital, and someday they wake up and find that there are just 9. it's a big lift, i'm sure but could it be possible?

good advice. i've observed about as much.

Kokinda, yes, love the optimism from someone that doesn't seem like a candidate for being a propaganda spokesperson. and of course it's easier to blame the british for everything... but even Alex jones on his recent Jimmy Dore appearance,says he thought Trump was the lesser of two evils, however he now thinks Trump just used Kennedy, Elon DOGE efforts to gain power over pharma/mic with no plan to expose, just continue the blackmail, etc. "So instead of getting rid of the global new world order, he's creating a new new world order." "And so he's become Darth Vader." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QflZZLXvhBk

this graphic that Phong Le posted shows 3.4% Btc/share growth year-to-date. so that is 16% yearly dividend if that were to hold. according to Claude, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HDjNk6HWAAAOBR4?format=jpg&name=large i got Claude to do this comparison of Strategy to "energy/pipeline" stocks which yield 4.5%. of course this is all silly comparisons, but... MSTR BTC YIELD vs TRADITIONAL HIGH-YIELD STOCKS ================================================ Asset Class Yield Paid in ------------------------------------------ S&P 500 average 1.2% dollars Good dividend 4.0% dollars REIT (Realty Inc) 4.8% dollars Chevron 4.5% dollars Kinder Morgan 4.2% dollars "High yield" warn 10%+ dollars (red flag) ------------------------------------------ MSTR BTC yield 16% BITCOIN ------------------------------------------ MSTR BTC yield is: - 13x the S&P 500 average - 2x the best REITs - Paid in an asset up 300% last 4 years - Compounds INTO more BTC per share - At $250k BTC + yield normalizes to REIT level (8%) = ~$1,300/share - At $250k BTC + S&P avg (1.2%) = ~$8,500/share ================================================ Not financial advice. Do your own research.

what's happening ?

are they getting rekt with the rest of us? serious question, how do we know that the rekting was targeted enough.

wait how does the lipstick factor in... she was kissing someone at church? i would have said "Someone that i admire to chat with at home & on the road". the ship with children that look like me has sailed and i can keep my own house orderly. sounds like i'm out of the pool for women as well IF these are the only requirements...

wait a sec... you mention AC current running through wires, but the fix is to stop using Wifi. is the problem the AC current or the wifi?

yes, that's along the lines of what i am thinking about him. maybe i'm just overly conspiratorial.

hah! i'm looking in the mirror on this one... and basically thanking lucky stars that no one listened to me ever to buy bitcoin at 100,000 plus. my friends and family are impervious to whatever scams i fall into. they have started just started excusing my brash bitcoin statements as unpleasant behaviors of a gambling addict. meanwhile, i do use bitcoin to pay rent: super convenient & efficient for that. i also use it to buy gas at Sheetz, groceries at Walmart. i've even used bitcoin to top up a bounced checking account on a saturday instantly... this would have taken three days at normal bank speeds and probably some 30$ fees: i sold bitcoin on cashapp on a saturday & hit "transfer instantly" to my checking account. bounced checking account be gone. at the speed of a click also, i now manage someone else's lightning account on my own self hosted Alby. I feel like a banker, but it's so much better than a normal bank. they are getting satoshis+ instant settlement on their phone. if my customer wants to check out of the lightning network, i can just flash their balance onto a SatsCard and they can keep their key under their mattress. going to a bank teller and getting a lollipop is fading into the rearview mirror.

yeah, i should tone my criticism a bit. he's charismatic and interesting. i've learned some things from him. charisma doesn't do nuance very well, so it makes sense he would just paint bitcoin as "controlled by them" and the same with political/religious opinions. it's a valuable discussion to have. i did find it interesting that his content was getting promoted to a boomer friend. i can't shake the feeling that someone was paying him to create the anti-bitcoin and eschatology content and serving it up to people that that would disgust. the boomer friend definitely distrusts bitcoin, is anti-war, horrified at weird "christian" cults and unhappy with current state of affairs.

which if he is like peter zeihan with his take on bitcoin going to zero at 16,000, maybe that's a good signal. doomfluencer taking a victory lap before being forgotten. the future is bright as we want it to be.

he's an interesting listen. i stopped listening when he said "bitcoin was created by cia" then he started spouting some nonsense about how christians want some sort of third temple in the middle east. it's just propaganda. he happened to get some things right. peter zeihan 2.0

just one question about retuned gasoline engine on a bike running on hydrogen... is it noisy? it always kills me how noisy those gas powered bikes are... i would be too ashamed to ride one. although they would be safe since the noise lets the drivers know there's someone on a bike

uhoh, i may have to steer clear of that mountain... i wonder how smaug would feel if we tell him that according to science textbooks, we are burning his ancestors in our vehicles