It was a full moon moonset this morning. Didn't know such thing existed 🌄🌌💖🌕

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The distinction exists between what debt is and what the unit of account is.

Debt is not negative dollars. (Negative units) it is a promise to pay someone something in the future. So even though Charlie has a debt of 32 trillion dollars (a promise to pay someone 32 trillion in the future) it isn’t the case that Charlie has 0 or a negative number of dollars in his checking account.

Specifically if Charlie gets a 32 trillion dollar loan, that means someone gives him 32 trillion dollars today in exchange for charlie’s promise to pay it back in the future. So unless Charlie has already spent the loan he should have 32 trillion dollars in his checking account.

What Charlie has to give out as a loan to Alice is a secondary question unrelated to what Charlie owes someone in the future.

And why would Bob accept Alice’s payment when it comes from Charlie who owes 32 trillion? Because Bob isn’t getting paid with a promise to be paid in the future backed by Charlie who is at risk of bankruptcy. Bob is getting cash from Alice who borrowed it from Charlie. Where did Charlie get the cash to give to Alice. Bob doesn’t know and doesn’t care. what he is getting from Alice is non revocable. Alice has borrowed from Charlie but given what she has borrowed to Bob. Alice might get her legs broke if she doesn’t pay Charlie back. That’s not Bob’s problem. And if Alice’s failure to pay Charlie causes Charlie to be unable to pay back a portion of his 32 trillion debt that’s not Bob’s problem. Does that make sense?

Remembering today many years ago being at a big wedding. We were at the karaoke part of the night when those willing went up onto the stage and stood alone to sing their number. There were hundreds of people there and I got dragged up onto the stage. Cantopop and Bollywood. The lights shining bright on me and the whole crowd waiting for the hit song. I told the mc to switch the music off and I went all in on the kid's alphabet ABC song just to switch it up. I'm not sure the copious cognac erased everyone's memory.

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China is an amazing country, but the Chinese in #Nostr are a cancer. They post porn and huge posts about politics generated by neural networks. Their level of dialog with each other is ChatGPT talking to ChatGPT.

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Whew... I've been quiet the last few weeks because I've been BUSY with my other passion project: coaching -- and helping to RUN -- high school boys gymnastics.

Y'all out on social media don't have much visibility into this side of my life. High school gymnastics MADE ME WHO I AM. I love being a coach now and trying to offer a similar experience to a new generation of kids. And this year demanded more of me than ever.

Please read on to understand why I'm so fucking proud of what my small gymnastics community accomplished.

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Last year the state dropped Boys Gymnastics as a high school Varsity sport. So coaches across the state took it upon ourselves to start our own league. I was part of the 9-member Steering Committee that made this season happen.

We spent MONTHS working out our own process for training and certifying our judges, organizing Sectional meets, and running our own STATE MEET.

AND WE SUCCEEDED!!! We ran a full season that concluded this past Saturday with 142 gymnasts from 33 different schools competing in our State Meet!

The meet ran smoothly, the gym was packed (by our standards; this isn't TX football...), and the kids had the high energy, high stakes State Meet they deserved.

I volunteered to create and run the scoring for the meet. Had to write 5000+ lines of code, work out all the coordination logistics, do all the ENDLESS data dumps and filtering along the way to figure out who qualified and how to slot them into the meet, train the workers, brief all the coaches and judges, and -- most importantly -- oversee and troubleshoot the entire process during the meet.

It was STRESSFUL. My code drove our leaderboard displays as well as provided live web-based results. I'd take quick glances up at the display board and pray it wouldn't be showing an http 404 or 500 error.

(pic doesn't do it justice; the leaderboards looked AMAZING!)

The State Meet was in my hands, on my shoulders. If I fucked up, the meet would be a disaster. Thankfully there were NO problems. Coaches were AMAZED at how well everything ran.

We had to figure out EVERY aspect of this meet. Managing who qualifies, who pays for what, selecting officials, how does the host school break even or possibly profit, all the day-of logistics, designing and ordering the trophies and medals, even produce the freakin' meet decorations, signage, and souvenir program!

ENORMOUS amount of work. But at the end of the day, we ran a PHENOMENAL, professional State Meet.

In many ways it was even better than previous years, because the coaches collectively got to make the calls and run it how WE wanted.

ps - all these photos are courtesy of coach Abi Diaz who shot the meet with my camera. We ended up with ~850 RAW images I then had to cull through and process. Yet another monster task!

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In addition to all that, I had OTHER responsibilities in the closing weeks of the season.

COACHING:

Our team fought and scraped our way to earn a TOP TEN berth to the State Meet! We also had 11 individual event qualifiers, the most of any school in the state. I strategize and optimize our routines for our rulebook and I'm the technician in the gym who refines the most subtle / difficult aspects of our key skills. Unfortunately I couldn't be with our team during the meet since I was so busy running the scoring.

JUDGING:

I judged 2 of the 4 Sectionals meets (head high bar judge!) which determine who qualifies to State. Plus a ton of dual meets throughout the season, Varsity invites, and culminating Varsity Conference meets. I'm usually voted by the coaches to be one of the top 12 judges in the state and therefore asked to judge the State Meet, but obviously had to decline this year in order to focus on my other duties.

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ONGOING:

I'm on our Rules Committee which is just starting to gear up to review and revise our rules for next season. And volunteered to remain on the Steering Committee to do it all again in 2025.

You stopped. I started. lol circle of life.

Good work though if it was screwing with your life. Stay 💪

Thank you ser ✌️

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Feeling proud today. Just over two weeks since I quit smoking weed. 🤠

I know it's early, and Nostr is weird and hard to use, but if you truly believe in censorship resistance and free speech, you have to use the technologies that actually enable that, and defend your rights.