On a scale of 1-10 how cringe are the Ross GM.

1) Continue this will work!

10) Dude, stfu this is annoying 😅

hope is for those without a plan

There has never EVER been a better day to buy bitcoin than today.

I keep reading about how much Bitcoin you need to have made it in the future. At first, it was around 6 BTC, then it became 1 BTC, two years ago it dropped to 0.1 BTC, and now it's already 0.05 BTC and you're set for life.

Then some people calculate how many Sats are actually left for the rest of the population, now that over 90% are already mined and in fixed hands and we don't even make up 1% of Bitcoiners, and a number like 2650 Sats per person comes out.

Okay, let's simplify it: If you're on Nostr today or next year, have set up Lightning, and manage to earn 1-2 thousand Sats, you're among the top 5% of wealthy sound money owners. Agreed? Because, the units will probably be divided further, into Micro-Sats or something, eventually, when 1 Sat = $100.

So, make a few thousand Sats with Zaps today and your grandchildren will thank you and they'll hang your life-sized oil painting portrait, depicting you full-body with a pipe in your mouth as you pet a purring Siberian tiger, next to the house entrance.

Imagine if we piped all the glacial melt water from Greenland to the US and we filled up the Great Basin in Wyoming to serve as a giant reservoir for the entire arid west. That would be pretty cool

One of the crazy things about AI and robotics is that in the year 2025, most people still don't use Roombas or other robotic vacuum cleaners.

They're useful in many contexts, but they're not clearly better across most metrics than a human with a vacuum cleaner yet. They've been out for a very long time, gradually improving. And that's one *very specific* task with pretty clear visualization requirements and floor mobility requirements and pretty low safety thresholds with high repetition levels, and yet that market isn't dominated by robotics yet.

That's an example of why I continue to view white collar computer-work AI as being *way* ahead of in-the-field blue collar robotic AI in terms of competing with human jobs.

The moment where it's a joke to buy a human-powered vacuum instead of a robot vacuum, rather than a debatable trade-off, is kind of the canary in the coal mine moment for consumer robotics. We can't even nail that yet, but once we do, it's kind of a floodgate moment, considering how long that task has been in the works for, and it will probably quickly expand to other areas following that moment.

That's kind of my basic test for robot hype. Yes, they're getting better and better. Yes, they do backflips now. Yes, it's a big deal. But in-the-field blue collar skilled work is a really high bar, and we haven't fully cleared the "vacuum carpeted areas of the same house floor area over and over" stage of that yet.

Everything is kind of hype until that stage is fully breached. Then it's off to the races.

What's your view of that heuristic?

Was Checking The National Debt Clock

Wait....... DOGE Clock has been added now.

What a joke. I asked chatgpt if this was actually Doge like the shitcoin and it replied the following:

"The "D.O.G.E. Clock" displayed in the image is a playful or humorous addition to the typical debt clock data. It appears to reference Dogecoin (DOGE), a cryptocurrency originally created as a joke but that has since gained popularity and value. This section might be tracking the total market value of Dogecoin or simply serving as a lighthearted nod to the cryptocurrency amidst the more serious financial data."

What the heck................

I don't think that having children is the only way to contribute to the future, it's just an undeniable fact that in the end that also contributes. And I understand your point of view, it's just that each one gives it a different perspective. I'll mention money only as an example, obviously who keeps your job and money is not the most important thing. But if we talk about that aspect, I would prefer that my assets remain in the hands of my children, than that they end up in other hands other than mine.

Thank you for your opinion. Now I ask you. If you don't have children, where will your offspring go and where will all the money you have accumulated with great effort during your journey through life go? Children are our way of contributing to tomorrow and the future, and we must work on that basis.

Hoping for a nice dump next week

Not arguing, you're allowed to not have children and be happy about it, but want to point out you totally can move across the country and take care of family when you have children. I literally did it this year, took my oldest son and drove cross county to take care of my father who got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Then a week later my wife and other children came.

I think there shouldn't be.

And seen from different angles we can get different reasons.

* Not having children because life is increasingly difficult in the fiduciary world.

* If you are a Bitcoiner the first one shouldn't be an option.

"family is the most important thing we can have" and that phrase has more weight when we start our own family.

What were the solid reasons to not have children?