I taught my oldest negotiation…so now he is open to compromise.

Without any agency, or hope of future payoff, compromise is often just giving something up to win approval or a badge of “moral goodness”…which so often is really compliance.

The Bank of Japan mentioning tweaking their policy of yield curve control might just be a test balloon.

But if its not, there’ll be trouble in Europe.

He carried his big brass balls up to the podium to accept the Nobel Prize, and delivered his lecture, The Pretence of Knowledge.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hayek/lecture/

The Hayek version of two middle fingers raised.

My wife is out of town. Searching streaming options now.

Homegrown basil & homemade pickles taste like a different food than store bought.

I felt the same way. It had to do with the friction between what I thought was the uniqueness of my felt experience vs. the commonality of it. Also, being in the practical world vs. being in a daze of theory and low quality beer.

Belief in *complex* life on other planets requires faith in the theory of evolution in addition to space-traveling aliens. So 100+ year old theory that keeps moving the time to develop goalposts and a at least partial & maybe total Gov’t psyop whose participants solved radiation poisoning, meteoroids, & fuel/propulsion challenges.

But maybe the figured it out, who knows?!?

Entertaining a belief in a Creator only has to start with: “maybe the overwhelming majority of tribes & civilizations across human history are not wrong.”

The skeptics should probably work on their Sacraments first: namely Peer Review, since it’s 50/50 for accuracy in the “hard sciences” and 20/80 in the “soft sciences”.

Graham Hancock details the similarities between shamanistic / psychedelic experiences, cave paintings, & alien encounters in his book Supernatural. Worth a read.

Damus looks good.

And what if God not only loves you (because that’s sort of God’s job)

but God actually *likes* you?

I gave 2 spaghetti squash to my neighbor

So tired of actors, broadcasters, and VC presenters (have I repeated myself?) lining up to speak for the little people and sell them to the current kings.

I did this for my greenhouse thanks to nostr:npub1f5pre6wl6ad87vr4hr5wppqq30sh58m4p33mthnjreh03qadcajs7gwt3z

Went from 110 degrees to a steady 90 degrees.

Yes, I got it! Thank you.

The spin wheel is now competitive with bitcoin faucets and uncompetitive with Lolli & credit card rewards.

The previous rewards feel like a price pump and now we’re getting rugged/dumped.

So cool.

Okay, made a $10 purchase with Fold today. Spins do not effect percentage of rewards on purchases anymore.

This sucks.

For every $10 spent Fold gives you a Spin. Those Spins can be used for the new Spin wheel for sats.

Again, I spun 22 times this morning and I got 284 sats.

An extra 1% on the $10 purchase I made in the old system would have netted me 305 sats.

So yeah, this sucks.

Well, then listen to FNM’s ‘Midlife Crisis’. Great song!

#[2]​ is who orange-pilled me.

All of his gardening and prepping ideas worked so well, I decided to give Bitcoin a chance.

Boy was he right!

And just yesterday I built 3 new wicking beds from his instruction, to put in my greenhouse.