At least they got off the FAX
A photo tonight…San Miguel de Allende #landscapes #photo #photonostr
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I want to have a guest on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8 to talk about the absurdity/corruption of American health insurance.
Who should I talk to?
Here is a great recent story…wife sold her business and we had to look for new insurance. Her business was paying an absurd amount for both of us…I’m 59, she’s 62. If we kept that coverage going, a lower level Silver plan we would be paying near 36K per year. Because we are spending more time outside the US, we found an international plan that covers us for up to 6 mos in the states, and anywhere else in the world, for under 7K. So basically we gain nearly 30K by STAYING OUT OF THE US most of the time. (It’s basically more catastrophic coverage, but we are healthy + plus we get some travel coverage)
Many sunken LR’s have been filled in…prayers…
I’m writing this because I keep getting asked to comment on Saylor/Saif video even though my position hasn’t changed.
The natural state of the free market is deflation which means all prices fall forever in Bitcoin (assuming it stays decentralized and secure)
Free market economies are more productive meaning faster deflation (or real wealth gains by falling prices)
That system is incompatible with an inflationary monetary system meaning one of those systems must fail.
Either:
1) A system based on truth, hope, and abundance for all 8 billion people on the planet driven by a free market economy and all prices fall relative to bitcoin forever. This means Bitcoin is used as a medium of exchange and freedom tech spreads to the world through lightning, Liquid, Fedimint, Cashu, etc.
OR
2) A control system. An extractive rent seeking system that is NOT the free market (similar to the one we have had for 5000 years that resets every 100 or so years through war) continues to centralize by having you believe price of bitcoin is going up in fiat which makes the surveillance state stronger. This eventually centralizes Bitcoin - custodians, media, regulation (funded from the same manipulation of money) where it is attacked from layer 2. (Similar to gold)
While these ideas may “seem” compatible in the short term because you want Bitcoin to go up in fiat. What it really means is that you are giving your energy and strength to the system centralizing the world by converting Bitcoin to Fiat….to then measure prices.
Quite simply - If Bitcoin is only a store of value, it fails as a store of value.
Ps - It won’t fail. #1 is inevitable in time because too many (and more each day) have seen behind the curtain and are determined to build path #1.
Many of you here - the people that inspire me every day. You make a difference with every word, thought and action.
Almost did that in all caps per nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx because it’s so important.
Referring to # 1 above…..There is no second best.
Huzzah!!
I had dinner at my parents house tonight and they busted out the projector. I have the same haircut now. https://v.nostr.build/8uB57NybgsWA7wa2.mp4
OK, cool to have the old film reels…but hold on, that 6 wheeler is AWESOME! I totally coveted something like that when I was a kid…or today…=)
Dunedin, NZ #photography #architecture
Ahead of this week…
Bitcoiner 2024 anthem
https://music.apple.com/us/album/cognitive-dissident/1745000042?i=1745000218
Servile – surveilled
Dumbed-down – curtailed
Screen-grabbed – down-ranked
Un-tagged – de-banked
Nothing to hide – nothing to fear
No one to censor – no one to smear
The revolution’s been authorised
The future? Privatised
The consensus? Created
Reality? Curated
Every place you thought you belonged
Everything you thought you knew – is wrong
Left is right – black is white
Inside out – hope is doubt
Back to front – the witches hunt
Truth stands on the gallows
Lies sit on the throne
Something in the shadows
Communicates by code
The unthinkable is now thinkable
The poison? It’s drinkable!
So, get with the programme – get in sync
You’d better self-censor for wrong-think
Left is right – black is white
Inside out – hope is doubt
Below above – hate is love
Upside down – square is round
War is peace – west is east
Back to front – the witches hunt
Southland Otago, New Zealand. Aramoana peninsula. #photography #landscape
Finally caught a sci-fi flick on my list - “In Time” based on time as the main currency. Cillian Murphy, Justin Timberlake…worth a watch just for the concept. Obviously lots of thoughts about jacknostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle recent quotes about the key component of time.
Lyrics -
Servile – surveilled
Dumbed-down – curtailed
Screen-grabbed – down-ranked
Un-tagged – de-banked
Nothing to hide – nothing to fear
No one to censor – no one to smear
The revolution’s been authorised
The future? Privatised
The consensus? Created
Reality? Curated
Every place you thought you belonged
Everything you thought you knew – is wrong
Left is right – black is white
Inside out – hope is doubt
Back to front – the witches hunt
Truth stands on the gallows
Lies sit on the throne
Something in the shadows
Communicates by code
The unthinkable is now thinkable
The poison? It’s drinkable!
So, get with the programme – get in sync
You’d better self-censor for wrong-think
Left is right – black is white
Inside out – hope is doubt
Below above – hate is love
Upside down – square is round
War is peace – west is east
Back to front – the witches hunt
Foster Nostr. 👍🏼
Post from an old guy…The The has always been one of my favorite bands from the 80’s/90’s. Matt Johnson is back after a long hiatus with one song that may resonate…
Good Day - Dunedin, NZ
#photography #landscapes
Was at the Roman Baths museum in Bath, England today. Bitcoin pops up in the most peculiar ways…#bitcoin #devaluation #inflation 
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OK - don’t know how I linked to this, but so much jumbled mis-information and the comments are even more cringe. Worth a teachable moment? Or hard pass, don’t have the time to explain it to you…?
nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a maybe just a link to Broken $?