Good description of anything worth doing.

1 Cow = 1 Cow

Shower Thoughts (thanks to Will Durant in “Caesar And Christ” Vol III of “The Story of Civilization”) Socialism is a venomous application, disguised as an easy solve to the hardship end of a stressed system, that turns the participants into food for the predator. Socialist Democrats are the eventuality of a party that uses the democratic components of a democratic republic to undermine the stability of the republic. This is done by manipulating the populous to install destructive policies using manipulations through broadcast rhetoric and deceitful social pressures that shift the compass from freedom and responsibility as a participating society to a that of a protected society dependent upon the state. This is the stage of an empire where the populous abuses the democracy and takes what they want from others, which precedes the “revolutionary chaos” phase, whereby the dictator rises, leading back to the beginning again, at Monarchy. It’s a cycle. Our job is to fend it off, but it doesn’t appear avoidable, because we’re perpetually living this out across cultures and millennia. Religion seems to be the only thing that persists across 10 generations or more. Everything else falls away, either by disregard or the ever-failing memory of humanity. I’m beginning to see why religion. It isn’t spiritual. It’s humanity carrying goals across generations. Pick yours wisely and play for your team, I suppose. We’re bugs on a rock hurtling through space. Our lives matter to us, but not to stone. This sounds hopeless, but it’s actually freeing. Get to living. Make your goals that are bigger than you. Live a life that’s uplifting to future generations. I choose freedom, integrity, power in purpose, and community; with a heavy lean toward global cooperation and competition with as little violent conflict as we can manage. GM.

If this comes about, it’ll get ugly. Both in the fight, and in the defense of freedoms from lawmaker oversteps amidst such a campaign against a close and embedded enemy.

wow. wow.

Don’t lose it in a motorboating accident, .

I enjoy listening to these two. The alternate perspective is intriguing as I listen to books of history where empires rise and fall over hundreds or thousands of years. The ever-larger lens of global politics from these ladies, where they talk about 50 year cunning plans by families and governments, feels so short when looking at the Egyptian Age, the Roman Empire, Assyria, and Ancient Greece. Our news is so cycle-to-cycle that we get short sighted. Drawing that out to a lengthier understanding has to be healthier, and is actually more in tune with a Bitcoin Standard if Bitcoin proves to have the staying power we hope it does. Thinking about life on a 100 year time scale is what makes it desireable to build wealth, build a family, build a ranch and build a homestead from granite. Time to set aside stick houses, and maybe it's time to build a castle. https://www.youtube.com/@PrometheanAction/videos

If we unfollow do we get left out of the hell thread?

If you remove CPI, right now it's just us trying to bust through the first ATH of the cycle with confidence. Last cycle was left-translated in this CPI-removed chart, leaving this current cycle to run long if needed. Without removing the CPI, last cycle looked right-translated, and would make current right-translation look out of place. See how the high of last cycle was actually the left of the two tops of last cycle, while with the monsterous inflation of 2020 actually had that second peak hitting a new high dollar amount with CPI included in the USD price. Now we're just stair stepping our way to a healthy blow off top. I wonder if we'll get it. Just lines and math over here, but I love this zoomed out view.

Highly recommend some psilocybin on occasion for someone into contemplating the architecture of human action. 😎

I put a touch of angle on the pcb since I’d have it sit on my desk and the angle would be inviting. I bent the bracket on to lean back a tad. It’s feels great to look at on display. I love these!

My son finished his first triathlon this morning. GM!

Nice hydro reconfig.

Told my son on bike rides to count the nails and screws that could pop our tires. When comparing our counts at the end of the ride I would ensure I counted slightly more on the first few rides. After that it didn’t matter that our counts were the same. I let him know, “It’s not about the counting. It’s about the seeing. If you’re seeing them, you’re not running over them.” This lesson echoes well into life.

Death to Dishes!

You’re right about the age gap. They each had separate phones. But the rules were not so much rules as they were locked-down devices, pretty much bricked for anything that was fun or entertainment. The hardest part came later and is going on now. The 16-year-old watched the freedom gained at 17 by the 18-year-old, and the new complete freedom at 18. As siblings we can’t help but compare ourselves to one another. That earlier mass requested trust feels unfair at this point to the second born. But I’m holding fast. Age matters on this stuff.

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For parents with kids today. Smart phones? Dumb phones? No phones?

As my kids were growing older I saw kids younger and younger get phones with no parental oversight. I had a genuine fear, as a person in tech, about how handheld smart tech could do to our children. My kids are 16 and 18. We never babysat them with phones. For TV we had all Pixar movies, and any calm british kid shows that you’d never find on hyperactive tv like Nickelodeon. We let them be bored, though. Not a lot of tv and stuff. There’s health in the quiet moments. You learn how the world works by watching it. We’ve always had a shared household laptop for minecraft and whatnot. Taught them what code is with the coding games and arduino stuff for kids. When we started doing trips, I wanted to see the world through their eyes by the photos they took and to be able to reach them in emergencies. So, I got them iPhones. At that point they were 10 and 12. I set them up in full lockdown. On an iCloud account that I controlled, Screen Time locking out installs and everything. Only things on the phone were useful stuff. Phone, Text, Camera, FindMy. Raw usefulness and zero entertainment or connectivity. I communicated that other kids were getting fed shit by these apps, and that the apps were intelligently designed to wire their brains wrong. I asked them to trust me and that sometimes it would suck because other kids would have apps and conversations that they wouldn’t get to be part of, but the reason is for long term benefit. I told them they’ll have a long life of using technology. First we learn how to use the world, have real life friends, know ourselves and know where technology fits best for us. Then we can put the tech we choose in our pockets where we can keep tabs on the habits that it wants to give us. In the quiet times they never reached for their phones. They never felt like they needed their phone with them unless we were on the go and would need to communicate for some reason. The unlock PIN on both of their phones was the same. Everyone in the house knew them. I told them, “never text anything that you don’t want others to find out or to read back to you when you’re in trouble”. Hopefully this helps keep them out of court in the future. Texted words can be the worst kind of boomerangs. At age17, I left Screen Time on for measurement and joint review to help teach self management, but I let apps be added that didn’t appear to be actual security threats and didn’t have a legitimate reason for veto. At 18, the phone is his, the passwords are his and he does what he wants. I can vouch that this has worked as far as I can tell. These two kids are very well adjusted, have real relationships, have comfort in talking with people in person, and understand that we should use tech, not the other way around. I just followed my gut. Fingers crossed that it laid a good foundation. I’m excited to see dumb phones hanging on and coming back. Cheers to exploring for the right approach early. Hope my path traveled lends some insight to a fellow father.

Sounds right. He’s very friendly and just wants to be with us. 😄