HNY 🎉

GN 👾

Bro the amount of millennials I know who have some type of shared custody agreement regarding a dog post breakup is sky high. It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

It’s probably all a show to distract you from the files they didn’t release. You won’t find anything in these files. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was planned this way all along to get people to finally shut up.

The older I get and the more means I amass, the more I understand the virtue of charity. Here in the U.S., holidays are so commercial, and I find charity to be a great way to counteract that.

If the commercial nature of holidays is based around material gifts, then aim those gifts not only at those you love, but also to those in need. Instead of lusting after things for yourself, spend some reasonable amount on others, or better yet, make something or donate your effort and time.

Through choices and actions, one can not only subvert the ills of society, but even turn the tables on them!

Just had the most beautiful izakaya lunch combo, but you don’t get to see it because the picture came out blurry. 🐟🍜🍚

I guess this means I have to go back again next week.

Who’s excited for Christmas?

Thank you. I really needed to hear it framed that way. I need to be less self centred.

Ok I understand the whole idea of 1BTC=1BTC. I recognize the folly of selling one’s stack of a pristine asset for a debasing asset. But on the other hand….

Can someone wiser than I make me understand why NGU isn’t important when the capital assets, services, and land that a person wants in order to make their dreams a reality, are all denominated in fiat?

I don’t really care if the natural state of the free market is deflation. We’ve never HAD a free market. We likely never will. All the philosophizing by people who “had it made” in fiat terms before they became Bitcoin shaman is pretty easy when you’ve already got unlimited optionality.

So why is it considered so mid-curve to want to see your purchasing power grow sometime while you still have breath in your lungs and energy to pursue your goals?

I’m still going to stack like a retard (often to my short term detriment) because I believe in the fundamentals and will NEVER trust an institution again with anything more than pocket change. But it sure would be awesome to hit the “fuck you money” stage. Maybe it’s at least going to benefit the kids. If so, I guess so be it.

#asknostr

No one ever understands when I try telling them about China (in the US). China has an actual free market. You must see it to grasp how not-free America's market it. People there... Get this, this wild, man... People there **_start businesses._** In fact, everyone I knew there had a business, even if they had employment somewhere else. Everyone, not one exception. You can walk into actual businesses, little shops that have nothing to do with franchises or government. Shop after shop after shop... And a couple streets over, its factory after factory after factory. They're not uptight about you just walking into a factory and looking, either. Would that fly in the US? I doubt it, if you could even find one.

If you're in the US, look around and see how many businesses or friends are employed by the government, or who's employment would disappear if the government stopped paying somewhere in the chain. Even dog sitters would lose their income if the government stopped paying the business the dog owner is employed at. Small businesses are forced to franchise - that's basically a business on top of a business that only exists to manage the layers of compliance and regulatory burden. Franchises don't exist in free markets. Got some economic reason to disagree? GFY, I know my econ. The whole facade of "free market" in the US is more entry barrier than market.

The town I'm in is "growing" - there's "progress" here, as the boomers call it. That's only for one reason - there's a university with several tens of thousands of kids there basically being employed by government policy to sit there and grow their debt. That's their job. Every year there's over ten thousand 18 year olds showing up who signed a thing that exchanges their productive potential for a giant pile of debt. That debt is the only reason there's roads being built here, after several layers of corruption where bureaucrats or companies that are paid by government take a cut. And after the road is built, all the businesses that appear are franchises. You know who they pay rent to? The university. The town is owned by the university, literally. And it takes one or two **_years_** to build anything here. Nothing takes that long in China. Nothing. Free markets are wild!

Oh but China's BAD!!! Orange man : "CHIIIINA!!" There is one reason for all this anti-china rhetoric and protectionism, and its not geopolitics or containment. Its debt. Not that China owns our debt - that's the usual thought stopper when I talk to "conservatives." Without inflation, our debt can't be serviced. The payments on American debt **_at all levels_** require inflation, or the payments stop. Even your mortgage and those kids' student debt. But especially the $37 trillion of federal debt. Inflation makes payments manageable because if everything costs more after the debt is taken, including wages, then its like you borrowed less. This is why it's smart to use debt - take as much as you can, cuz you're fucking the lender. That's the game. But that also means that anything that's deflationary is the enemy of America. China's gazillion factories are deflationary : that makes China the enemy. You buy cheap shit from China : debt doesn't get devalued as fast as the corrupt class would like. Even American factories are America's enemy. Anything, anywhere, that allows supply to meet demand and prices to not rise, is deflationary, and thus America's enemy. That's it. That's the whole story, from why you can't afford groceries up to why a carrier fleet parks in some other country's waters. The beast is driven by hunger ; the hunger of the beast is debt.

I **_wish_** I knew one person in real life who could understand this. Its not even particularly complicated... But people are too busy with their side gigs to think about stuff. I **_almost_** had a conversation about it with a biologist over Thanksgiving. Almost!!! But they thought I was too radical, like maybe I'm a Commy or something, **_because I wanted the government to do less._** lol. We're so fucked.

People with ADHD, how did you get through school?

Just bought a personal EKG device for no reason other than it happened to cost the exact amount I had remaining in my FSA for 2025.

after today... it's going to be brrr. #tea time. GM.

taking a seat

this morning —

the autumn wind

#GM #teachain

#haiku #poetry

#grownostr

We went from:

-Epstein Files are on Pam Bondi's desk

-Epstein Binder photo op disaster

-FBI is hiding Files

-Files don't exist

-Thousands of videos of Epstein with

children, per Bondi

-Files do exist now

-Files are a "Democrat hoax,' per Trump

-Kash says there's "nothing else to see

-Trump says we are not MAGA anymore, the Files do exist

-Ghislaine Maxwell has FBI interview

-Congress says Files exist

-Trump says he actually wants the Files released and they're real

-Actually, the Files are a "National Security Risk" and need redacted

I can't take this charade seriously anymore.

Nepal/Mexico American government.

GM or whatever

If you could move anywhere in the US right now, where you going? #asknostr

Gm! Back home. It’s 5 degrees C 😬 Will have to manage jet lag for a couple of days. Will be glad to sleep in my own bed again 😁

Flour+water+time That's it. I swore I'd never bake bread, it was too scary. Enter 2020 and nothing better to do, my sister gave me some sourdough starter discard and now I bake bread on occasion. My starter, Wormin is his name, lives in the fridge and is to a point that very infrequent feedings keep him going. #sourdough #breadstr

The Wachowski sisters 😂

I wish there was more of it tbh. So good

GN

Replying on Nostr is like flipping a coin.

There’s a 50% chance you get ignored and a 50% chance you get responded.

GM

it's dark now when we get up and it's light after a cup or two of #tea.

even the clouds

have lost count —

how many raindrops?

#GM #photography #bloomscroll

#haiku #poetry #teachain #grownostr

Bitchat mesh is on the App Store!

That could be an easy sell to my normie friends for concerts or crowded areas

GM! Vacation time to relax and stack sats! That’s a happy heart! 💜 #grownostr #hola

Im suddenly into hippos. Didn’t know they were such interesting animals at all.

Gm👋