The first couple of Aha! moments using Nostr.

1. Receiving a zap from a stranger. Straight up nothing else like it on the net. Beats a ‘like’ by far.

2. Logging into a different client and finding all your data there. This is the future, so good not having to respond to messages across many different platforms.

3. Every time you’re using Nostr you’re strengthening the BTC network through shared experience. Secondary layers on top of sound money make sense.

4. It feels like the early days of BTC, still a little clunky and there’s a bit of tech involved, but that’s how you know you’re early. With bitcoiners behind it you know it will only get stronger ⚡️

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On 9/11 Time Magazine posted this on its cover a few days later someone tried to assassinate Trump on a golf course. Weird timing

I'm putting together a new, more ergonomic work-remote setup, as light weight and compact as possible for travel. I'm loving it so far. still waiting for a mobile monitor stand so putting my second monitor over the keyboard for now...

I made this removable middle piece of the counter together with my dad and I loved doing that little project with him. I now have this huuuge desk space to work from.

I think this setup is perfect for the van, or anywhere else for that matter.

then bitcoin standard ;)

SOMETIMES THE GLASS IS HALF FULL AND SOMETIMES IHALF EMPTY, BUT YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE POWER TO FILL IT UP. YOU ARE IN CONTROL.

You fuks that hate on EVs are no bitcoiners.

Electricity can be made from any energy source.

Does heating oil or deisel fuel flow to your house through a breaker panel?

Can you generate your own gasoline with just a solar panel?

Nevermind global warming, that is a red herring.

Ford and Edison understood electricity will free mankind from centralized global energy cartels.

Anything you need to mine from the ground will be controlled by the government in the name of the environment, and only the crony crapitalists are given a patent over the resources under your feet.

Electricity is the way.

Oil doesen't flow out of nuclear power plants.

Electricity will be nearly free.

Communication will be nearly free.

Bitcoin is here to stay.

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Just feds

Today I visited a school for mentally challenged and disabled kids that didn’t have a lick of AC.

Classrooms do have ceiling fans but they do sweet fuck all when it gets to a certain temperature.

It was 35 degrees + humid today but felt like 42.

That’s like when you open the oven door to check on your chicken.. every time you step outside.

Why was I there?

Well bitcoiners at btccuracao funded the school’s brand new WiFi.

I wanted to see the impact of this donation and speak to a poorer community about their experience with btc.

Btccuraco paid the internet company that installed the WiFi in Sats as part of the donation. It’s one of many grassroots initiatives they undertake to try to show that bitcoin is better money.

The new WiFi is a total game changer for the school and the teachers were tearful explaining how much it has helped them teach, inspire and lead these less fortunate kids.

But it only goes so far.

The solar panels atop the school’s long roof “stopped working” this week.

A govt contractor installed the panels this year as a “go green” initiative.

Long story of govt enraging incompetence short, basically half the school had working WiFi + ceiling fans. Sometimes the electricity simply cuts out.

So one half of the school had classrooms of engaged kids with YouTube access + useful visual aids for the kids in a semi manageable heat

while the other half slowly cooked and tried to read books in the inferno.

My white shirt was wet and transparent by the time I finished the school tour. I was like how the feck are these kids gonna get a chance in life?

I interviewed the head of ICT who was gushing about the new WiFi and was saying how some of the kids can now learn to code with this Minecraft coding thing.

She had the biggest heart. But like many islanders she had been crypto scammed a few years ago and was still really reluctant about bitcoin.

Really saddening because of course no sane person thinks “oh yeah I’m gonna learn about bitcoin now I sold my gold necklace for a crypto thing 5 years ago and never got the money back.”

I managed to send her some sats to say thank you but if I’m honest I think it’s coz I was recording this during the interview.

In all, I left the school utterly humbled and a little bit angry at the world.

I don’t have a nice thing to round off on, sorry.

Bitcoin doesn’t fix everything. And some things utterly suck.

While I have a big orchard (about 50 trees) I haven’t had a large garden in the last few years. After this last trip to the grocery store however, I really realized how much I’m getting fucked on subpar produce and products that I can grow and make much better for myself.

I plan on doing a larger garden next year, adding about a dozen chickens (got two nice coops and a good area for a chicken run) and maybe three or four goats if I’m feeling ambitious.

I know it’ll make traveling much more impractical and add about an hour more of chores each day, but I’m sick of making the trip to the store and losing so much on something that I’ve done much better before.

I feel like the goats and the chickens will be the real game changers. I’ll need to up my preserving and fermentation game, which isn’t bad, I just need to do more of it.

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