Literally the best feeling lately is smash buying the dip. It represents hope. I’m not stopping till I’m standing on the porch of a bought and paid for 30x50 cabin on 10 fenced acres with gated access and elevated shooting positions, looking at my garden, greenhouse, solar array, propane tank, wood pile, wellhead, chicken coop and a small barn/paddock. Maybe at least my kids will have a place that’s off-grid capable lol.

🫂 🤙🏽

The highlight of the episode. What a banger. https://video.nostr.build/cae83af61f5a913d4ffc0a86e79f8783becf724129bdaad4cff27931c891b759.mp4

The result of this weekend’s 24hr beef broth and tallow project. We ended up with 8 1/2 quarts of broth and about 300g of tallow from a bag of beef bones that cost about 12,500 sats. $15CAD. Purchased at the butcher and the grocery, a similar quantity of the two products would be about $28. But the store bought beef stock is diluted 2x at least. I can make 3 gallons of beef and barley soup with 3 quarts of this base since it is so concentrated.

#carnivore #beef #grownostr

I hear you brother. Focus on what you can control. You don’t need a lobotomy. You need an unfucked world.

It’s all theatre. No one is coming to save you. Get as self sufficient as you can, as soon as you can. It’s going to be back to a 1935 way of living soon. Are you ready?

#shtf #foodsecurity #water #watertreatment #gunstr #prepping

I’m going to see if I can get a couple of store bought, likely sprouting-inhibited Sweet Potatoes to throw off a couple slips. It’s kind of suspect that one of the best survival foods is the most difficult to source growing stock for.

I was looking at old pics today and came across this one. A Wood Duck landed on our chimney, fell down the flue, and ended up in the fire box. When we got home the cats were going crazy trying to see what was making all the noise in there, and the dog immediately led us down to the fireplace to show us. I set him on the lawn and he quickly took flight.

#animals #grownostr

Yes I’ve had a couple of these and a solar powered node on my wish list for a while.

What do you see as the current best tech stack for

- permissionless anonymous internet access at home

- mobile comms and internet access with reasonable app compatibility for commonly used apps in a work environment

- sovereign computing and file serving

I’m on StartOS for my file hosting over Tor and for my Bitcoin tech stack

I have an encrypted volume dedicated Linux laptop for portable computing, access to my server and for doing Bitcoin stuff, and a Windows desktop with a similar setup as a backup, which is almost never connected to the internet

I am considering switching with my next phone purchase to a Google Pixel and Graphene OS

The big thing I’m trying to figure out right now is how to get internet access that is not permissioned. I know public wifi and a vpn are ok in a pinch, but I really want to set something up where I can access the internet with no gatekeepers or any links to my identity.

We need to build a parallel internet.

Thanks for the reply. Judging by how effective the “test run” of Covid was at getting the whole world peeing down their leg and accepting the shot to keep their jobs in many instances, I think at some point the powers that be would like to eliminate all escape hatches, including services that integrate alternate currencies with the widely used financial system.

This interview with G. Edward Griffin, author of “The Creature From Jekyll Island”, has really got me thinking. I’d love to get some people’s opinions on some of the questions I’ve posed below.

Given that the majority of people in my country (Canada) and the US are still:

1) convinced that the right politician is going to be able to permanently stop the slow march towards totalitarianism and the establishment of a digital control grid

2) getting their news and education from collectivist-controlled sources and schools

3) disinterested in “what money is” and oblivious to the implications of the impending loss of a widely accepted currency that can be physically held and spent for the goods and services required to survive

I think it behooves those of us who know better to really start thinking about how we and our children are going to operate in a world where:

1) our main earnings are paid to us in a currency that is not held, but is purely digital and programmable

2) general access to information services, trade, commerce, healthcare and even basic internet access are subject to possession of a digital ID and an acceptable social credit score.

I’ve been watching this “creep” occur for three decades. The rate at which people are pulling their heads out of their asses and waking up to these dangers is currently too slow to stop it.

My questions to those who take the time to read this:

What are you going to do when all banks switch over to the new system, and your employer, retailers, and most of your normie friends and relatives are only using a CBDC, even if it is called by another name to get around the politics of it?

1) What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and received and email informing you that in 30 days all of your accounts are being forked over to such a system?

2) As a Bitcoiner, how do you plan on obtaining the things you need for you and your family to survive without access to the internet or vendors who widely accept Bitcoin?

I don’t have the answers. All I’m doing is focusing on laying up supplies and slowly increasing my self reliance. But I’m doing it on land owned by the bank.

I don’t see anything other than a prolonged general strike slowing this down. But will we ever have a critical mass of people to participate, who understand the cliff that we are racing towards, soon enough to make a difference?

Sorry for the black pill on a Sunday, but I’ve been thinking about this all night. As I post from a permissioned internet connection.

#asknostr #grownostr #bitcoin

https://youtu.be/oyVsfnLrno0

The few people I’ve set up I’ve just gotten them to download Muun or Speed Wallet initially, but I tell them if they get an appreciable amount they don’t want to walk around with, or plan to start stacking or accepting Bitcoin permanently they may want to get me to help them set up Blue Wallet, and a Cold Card to sweep to.

Then I have some pre-written notes on my phone that I can text them over time to get them on their own learning path. One is a link to my educational website and a pdf copy of The Bitcoin Standard. One is about the difference between on-chain and Lightning. One is about recommendations on a good basic self custody setup including seed plates. Another is an intro to the concepts of KYC and non KYC and UTXO management.

Ermagerd bring on the meat sweats.

*say no

nostr:npub1k763esjjzm2vzz7gtt38q4wf49zlua72l4rreu3myzghuwwwdqtq2mcg5x did the legwork lol. But I did snag one new vendor who downloaded a wallet and sold me some biltong for sats. I find if you go regularly and ask vendors if they accept bitcoin a couple of times and then if they do no, say “you should, it’s super easy and this wallet is awesome” and then show them your screen it inspires interest.

https://open.spotify.com/track/4oYNIBkL3n5SRR99kfGV5Z?2Bdrive%2Bchronos

First stab at making beef broth. I’ll likely keep a couple quarts in the fridge and pressure can the rest for shelf storage. I bought a huge bag of beef bones (with sats no less) at the farmers market a few weeks ago, along with some killer ribeyes and ground beef.

Yes I had to unlearn some Windows keyboard shortcuts and learn how to copy stuff from my terminal window doh