You love it or you hate it, but I contemplate moving to central Texas and the biggest downside for me are the property taxes.

Property taxes are dynamic and change over time. What a fcking scam real estate is. For its utility, use it. As an investment, absolutely RETARDED and a hard no IMO. Almost certain this is going to be a slow dying investment ideology as more humans start thinking a lil more.

To many corporations owing to many bitcoin means bitcoin gets turned into another stonk

We call them ethical panhandlers 🫡

We all just need to upgrade to selling shit over nostr

The US is going thru the same type collapse the Soviet Union economically did 34 years ago

Understand what is currently happening

Hey, nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgewaehxw309aek2mnyd96zumn0wdnxcctjv5hxxmmd94lnue , would nostr:nprofile1qqs8suecw4luyht9ekff89x4uacneapk8r5dyk0gmn6uwwurf6u9ruspr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq32amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wdau8gu3wv3jhvtc7585z7 ever consider supporting Nostr users like nostr:nprofile1qqstjxt6fnha9ggu3xzqdmed3yl3jl48cyd2ldn27pelfsn83wy28jqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqzynhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4esjl0j56 who strengthen the entire Nostr protocol by providing near-real time reporting of global events?

make your default zap be equivalent to 1 cent, and start zapping more you bunch of scarcity mindset miserly bitches.

This past week has completely drained me. 🫠

I *think* this might be more of an artifact of the mass exodus we saw pics of from last night, assuming they were real.

Might also account for the supposed prisoners on the loose - there’s just no one there to manage things.

If so, this is an abandoning of the state and a collapse in trust by the people. Good for them.

Reports of a raven lunatic threatening people at the white house.

I spent like $2000 USD on ten #solar powered #meshtastic nodes, sold two (will be 3), donated one to charity, published the BOM, and I think I'm going to keep the rest of the nodes.

Lost about $1500.

Gained half a dozen VERY nice nodes.

I'm good with this.

I've taken decentralization to heart. Nodes should be built locally. It's not hard to do and any Makerspace will have a soldering iron and 3D printer. I'll build nodes for my local community. If other communities want them, they can build them.

The moment Saylor said Bitcoin Triple Maxi is the moment I stopped believing

Imagine, if you will, a story about two empires so vast and powerful that they have control over nanites, genes, planetary-busting bombs, and the very ability to time travel itself, while locked in a timeless war with each other.

And now imagine a story of that insane scope is written as a short novella.

Anyway, here's a mostly spoiler-free review of "This Is How You Lose the Time War" which I just finished reading. It's a multi-award-winning short book, and very commercially popular, yet only has a 3.86 out of 5 review on Goodreads because it is polarizing.

Back-cover type of summary: A time-traveling agent named Red works for the post-singularity technotopia called the Agency, and another time-traveling agent Blue works for a vast organic consciousness called the Garden. The two agents are post-human, with powers almost beyond comprehension. They engage in a time-traveling battle of wits over centuries, but eventually Blue leaves Red a letter that says "Burn before reading" which Red reads, and thus begins a chain of letters that they write to each other while warring. After so long and complex of a war, they each find their opponent more fascinating than anything else.

I do like the premise a lot. For those that have played Magic the Gathering, it's like if one side casts a fireball, and the other side casts a counterspell, but then the first side casts a counterspell on that counterspell, and the other side counters that counter that countered their fireball. Two empires so vast and powerful that they're battling across a multiverse of timelines, constantly undoing what the other has done. One side kills a key figure of history. The other side kills the would-be assassin of that figure. The first side goes back further and attacks somewhere else, and so on. Determining the outcomes of wars, rewriting history, dancing across multiple different "threads" of time, while trying to keep Chaos from spiraling out of control.

As a random example, in some time-threads Romeo and Juliet is the tragedy that we know it. In other threads, Romeo and Juliet was written as a comedy, with a light-hearted outcome. Who knows what tiny differences in Shakespeare's life would have led him to write one or the other.

Since the book was polarizing, my assumption going in was that I would not like it. This is basically a story about a time war written by poets, and thus my engineer brain is likely to kind of check out.

And indeed, I actively did not like the first half. I found myself reading out self-enforced obligation to get through it, sometimes skimming over whole paragraphs. The prose is pretentious, though arguably on purpose because the two agents are effectively demigods, playing six-dimensional chess with each other while also being absolute murder-machines when needed, so there is a sort of eloquent battle of wits that they engage in with their letters.

Additionally, despite Red and Blue being so different, and literally written by different people (the book was co-authored), I surprisingly found them to be too similar to each other. Although again I suppose that's kind of the point. Two sides involved in a war so complex and long, how could you not turn out similarly to each other? That's not really a spoiler; from the start there's an obvious "we looked at the enemy and saw that it was like us" vibe.

Lastly, given the shortness of the book, obviously the reader is not really going to know the details of this world. It's inherently hard to empathize with characters that you barely understand even from a physical standpoint, given how absurdly advanced and post-human they are. And since there are multiple timelines that these agents go through, reading most of it made it unclear how death works, or what the consequences of death are in this multiverse. The obvious point from the start is that in this grand war, we would be focused on just two characters, and yet not knowing certain rules of the overly-complex world can potentially affect how well we can attach to those characters.

But then... the second half did get me more engaged and curious. I had to see the punchline, had to see how it would end, and indeed I cared for the outcome of the characters. So, they got me.

I'd give the book an 8/10. There's a creative and experimental aspect to it, nontraditional high-brow literature sort of stuff. Too poetic for my taste; not concrete enough. But I wouldn't necessarily change anything, either. It's very interesting, despite not quite being for me.

Hyperbitcoinization will make long-time hodlers the world’s juiciest targets. Vora is the first self-custody platform that secures people, not just keys. A wrench attack yields zero sats and instant exposure, so criminals pick easier prey. Vora turns Bitcoin from the hardest money into the hardest asset on earth to steal.

It depends what currency you denominate it in. If denominated in something stupid like dollars or euros, sure, go for it. But if you do it in bitcoin, then you have to think very carefully about the trade.

They will come a time when it costs 50 times more in pounds in euros dollars had you denominated in Bitcoin.

You have to keep this growth projection in mind as you plot out overtime because the differences are beyond enormous.

Bitcoin has a way of making everyone feel stupid.

What about the mass of the uranium changing? And the difference in spectrometry?