Orion. Nice pic.

I think the hardest part is accepting peoples” general disinterest in the wholesale theft of our time and energy through monetary debasement.

There are magical places north of the 49th where you can walk by a wall in the summer that doesn’t have 100,000 flies on it even.

Fuck Ledger. At least 2/3 of the phishing emails I get are a result of the data breach that they suffered a couple years ago. Add to that the shitty proprietary software and internal battery issues on their nano X series, and the story is clear.

I’ll never forget the first time I went down to Texas on business and found myself standing in our sales manager’s backyard in my bare feet on what looked like lush green beautiful lawn. My introduction to fire ants.

Looks like Nuevo Laredo

Good job. Nice to know that restoring from backup worked so smoothly. And it’s nice when you don’t have to reshare certificates to talk to your terminal machine and SSH into your server all over again.

Stay strong. I forget sometimes that there are jurisdictions in the world where daily personal physical safety (and not just safety from authoritarianism) is a reality. Best to make a long term plan to get out and get that dealt with if you can. It might be a tall order, but you deserve to be able to walk down the street and roam the countryside without fear of violence. God bless.

His face plate just hasn’t popped off in public yet revealing the droid circuitry behind those dead eyes.

Just take baby steps. Try to get out of the city eventually or even to a small lot in town that has some sun exposure and some space for some raised beds. In the meantime see if there’s any borrowable growing space and a reliable alternate water source you could use in your immediate area to do a couple raised beds or a small community coop plot. Even start on your balcony if you must.

Firearms aren’t a must, and if you haven’t been raised in a culture where you’ve had lots of exposure to them, you need safety training. Maybe someday you will be be able to move to a jurisdiction that permits their use as tools for gathering food, if not for self defence. In the meantime, improvise, take a safety course on firearms and explore legal options. Learn about 3D printed options. But weigh risks with the laws in your country. You can’t be much of a provider behind bars. In the meantime make yourself the weapon. Train Jiu Jitsu and get your kids and wife into it. It’s literally the best thing you can expose a young person too for lifetime confidence, fitness, and practical self-defense.

If you have kids, a good way to introduce libertarian ideas into the home in the background that everybody in earshot will absorb is to watch the Tuttle Twins series on Angel Studios. It’s a cartoon series aimed at kids that talks about concepts of freedom, liberty, and sound money.

Baby steps.

I “woke up” to many of the realities of the world we live in shortly after 9/11 and proceeded to drive my (then new) bride crazy with constant talk of the conspiracies that are underway on the part of “the 1%” to enslave us all. Including the whole central banking rabbit hole. I had to cut that shit out.

I have since learned, and I have to still regularly bite my tongue, that it is my job as a man to protect and to provide a nurturing and secure environment for the family without freaking everybody in the house out with talk of impending doom and how we must fight against it. I have those conversations with my best guy friend, not my wife.

While it is a bonus to have a spouse who is inquisitive enough to fully jump down the rabbit hole with you, it is not 100% necessary for you to be doing so at the same rate. Small, single sentence truth bombs over time have a cumulative effect.

Part of the reason why monetary debasement is so insidious and destructive to society is that it is just sufficiently complicated to stand as a barrier to understanding for those who are not naturally inquisitive.

Our wives, if they are the ones doing the grocery shopping while we are at work and have to do so on a fixed dollar amount, are in a perfect position to feel the effects of decreased purchasing power. While I think it is important to subtly and slowly explain the reasons why we aren’t getting as much bang for our buck these days to those in our household, and help them understand the reasons why it behooves us to become more food- , energy- , and security self sufficient over time, I don’t think we need to burden them with the details and highlight all of the threats.

Here’s three things that I have found that have been helpful to slowly get us where we need to be without rocking the boat, as I personally try to gain the control, time, resources and physical space to pursue them:

1) Making food, water, energy and physical security part of my hobbies. Gardening, preserving, cutting firewood, building backup systems, raising small animals, hunting, fishing, shooting, and physical training. These are fun ways to lead through results rather than by words. Many of them also involve activities that you can get your wife and kids interested in, to create some quality time together and pass on what you are learning. Let your gains in these areas, and the sense of pride and security they provide, do the talking for you.

2) Do regular, small, imperceptible DCA acquisitions of hard assets like Bitcoin, metals, and a bit of fiat, and make sure that they are secured, distributed, accessible in the event of your death, and (in the case of UTXO’s), consolidated. Think of how many unnecessary purchases under $20 you can eliminate every two weeks that would add up to a modest DCA that has little effect on the household operating budget.

3) Bring the tools, guns, ammo, prepping gear and electronic hardware in the side door lol 😂

Especially when they’re charging $2500 retail for a roto-tiller.

GM

Way to go! Dad award 🥇

Just about 30FPS lol

The 5000 series NVidia GPU at 1/4 the cost of the 4000 series and an impressive performance jump.

GM 🤙🏽

My first intro to the wisdom of this was Gary Cardone talking about what he was planning on doing with one of his rental mansions. I imagine a lot of people in the Palisades and Hollywood Hills are wishing they could have moved their property at the speed of light this week.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_F3XzLbE0 nostr:note1apnvk42kug4ckugwdzpfykpthyvhyckpmj0s7ynx86yj7pv8mzzs5ugykm