Someone figured out a long time ago that people are largely incapable of taking responsibility for their lives, and that the few that do will still, at every turn, look to slant situations to their advantage and conservation of effort, even to the detriment of others.

Humans have earned the government and the monetary system that they have inherited. Western constitutional republics could only ever be a relatively short lived experiment.

If we want better, humanity has to BE better.

I often wonder if purifying our incentives to the degree necessary to have a world that is not ever more divided into “haves” and “have nots” is even possible in a plane of existence that is inherently competitive.

I’m ditching my windows PC with a hefty Steam library as my primary game rig. What’s the best Linux distro to go with? Thanks.

gn badass

I managed projects and the trades’ quotes and scopes of work for a large home builder/renovation company, and two disaster restoration companies for 8 years. I am so glad to be out of those industries. It fucking sucks.

If I have one word of advice it’s this: holdbacks. Hold back 30% of payment until each trade has completed their deficiency list and cleaned up their work space. Otherwise you’ll never get them back for the next sub to start their scope of work, and your site will look like a pig sty.

Yes and it definitely would be different if one were living in a city. Once when we lived in a more well lit place in my hometown I disabled a whole street’s worth of street lights with a wood handled set of pruning loppers. I opened up the inspection cover at the base of the one pole, cut all three lines, and bolted it back on. It took the town three weeks to get to it land figure it out. We enjoyed some nice evening skies on the back deck with no light pollution for a good part of the summer. Lol

My Dad used to just lay on his back in their back yard up on the hill and just shoot out the one offending light near their place with a .22

It’s all about sharing knowledge brother. It’s amazing that the night sky that I look at now in my 50’s is virtually unchanged since I saw the constellations while tromping around in the bush with my Dad at age 5.

I think you can see the Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud and the Triangulum Galaxy too. Way easier with a spotting scope though.

The Andromeda Galaxy is so large in diameter that it takes light about 220,000 years just to get from one side of it to the other.

I remember being blown away when I first learned how to spot this reliably on a clear night with the naked eye, realizing that instead of looking at a star, I was looking at over 300 billion stars in a patch of sky the size of my pinky fingernail on an outstretched arm. And that I was seeing it not as it is now, but as it looked 2.5 million years ago when the light I was seeing left it

Here’s a couple shots I took the other night. You can see a slight oval haze around the galactic center.

We do. But we are in the Sagittarius arm and all we can see is the band as we look towards the galactic centre.

I remember I45 out of Galveston TX turning into a parking lot in 2008 for the same reason when Ike was inbound. The nation’s infrastructure is totally inadequate for mass emergency evacuations

Hopefully they consider changing the country’s name to something that doesn’t have Eth in it.

I’m considering wiping BTC content from my feed and my Fountain library until after the next halving. It doesn’t seem like there’s much to follow in BTC till then that isn’t rehashing all the macro and inflationary theory stuff we’ve learned 14 times over, and warding off a steady stream of fud reporting. It’s making my brain hurt. Keep stacking ₿ and keep working on your gardens and homesteads 🤙🏽

Zappy Birthday Jay 🤙🏽

It’s almost worse living right in it and working like a farm animal most of the time unable to get out into it. But I will get 5 days straight spanning weekends three times between now and the end of November after some Whitetails. 🤙🏽

Migration of Snow Geese and Canada Geese is on. There were likely 125,000 birds on this small lake today. (Zoom). Absolutely deafening. And it’s the same scene on nearly every sizeable body of water in the area right now.

Crazy northern lights show tonight in northern AB

I think you’d dig this if you haven’t heard it already.

https://fountain.fm/episode/qr0pD4haAA0iaYqP8jVn