I've been interested in living on a boat for some time now, and as I've learned more about it, I think I've found an undeveloped market niche. I don't have the capital or expertise to exploit it, but I might benefit a lot from someone else doing it... So here it is...

Offshore moorings. Its a developed industry for energy projects, but appears to be completely absent for pleasure boaters or fishermen.

When you tally up the cost of living on a boat - even a modest boat - it gets ridiculous pretty fast. You need slip space, which is charged per foot, and electricity and probably showers and internet and fuel and water. Getting food probably means paying for a ride. And the harbors are tightly controlled by government and have pseudo monopolies, operating in an advantaged position of a somewhat captive market.

Well... F that. We could open this up to competition by putting some pilings in open water and floating some segments between them to create a deployable lagoon. Obviously there are technical details which I don't know, but if we can make oil rigs, we can make artificial harbors too.

Something I think about a lot is just how much open space there is at sea. It's hard to wrap my mind around it. On land, we get the impression that humanity is spreading over everything like a fungus, but that's not really true - we're using a small fraction of the land and almost never venture out to the unbuilt-upon land. The oceans are entirely unused. And states seem to fear the ocean - shipping lanes can be patrolled because they're as one dimensional as possible. The vast expanse beyond the narrow lanes is wild. Raw nature. Practically infinite in all directions. If you took everything humans have ever built and put it in the Pacific Ocean and then forgot where you left it, you'd never be able to find it again. Its that big...

We could build a breakaway civilization from deployable artificial harbors.... Offshore moorings. Or just make boat life a lot more affordable. Maybe.

#boats #sea #boatlife #business #earth #civilization #freedom

Fascinating how Nostr has many super early doors Bitcoiners using it

We're pattern recognition experts

These people saw the early promise of Bitcoin. The WHY

And here they are

Commenting, zapping, posting notes of their insights

This is a signal in what's a very noisy world

Exactly. Galaxy brain listens to the market and goes hard when he sees an opportunity he hadn't even imagined a few years ago. Or you can follow the ops same old mantras.

IMO (gotta recognize the chance I'm wrong) people in churches want to believe their tradition is the best, so that means the Jews must be the best people. Its pride. And pride is the foundation of idolatry. That's the same motivation for believing everything the bible says is literally true. Its definitely not... Almost any part you look at, there is clearly symbolic meaning. To insist on literalism is like giving yourself a lobotomy. IMO. When Jesus said he'd return with the sword, the sword is symbolic. If it was literally true, he wouldn't need a sword, there's an infinite number of ways an omnipotent god can punish people. So what's the symbol? A sword divides this from that. Its the rational mind. A person who denies the rational is denying the world God made. But the repeated lesson the Jews were supposed to learn was, you need both rationality and humility. The two are not opposed - they are actually codependent. Just like how God is both merciful and just - for most people, mercy and justice are opposites and irreconcilable. But there's a better way of seeing it, which is that they're codependent.

Here's an example : king David orders a census to find out how many men he can round up and send to war. God punishes him by sending an angel to Jerusalem and blow up buildings. Basically God takes the other side in the war. Why? Sending men to die in a war isn't justice or mercy. Justice is leaving the innocent alone, not going to war, seeking nonviolent means to resolve a dispute. Killing people sure isn't merciful. Its also not rational or humble. The whole affair was just a fit of pride. Me me me me me... David was an egotistical asshole. He was a brigand before winning his throne, and then continued to act like a brigand. He has a story arc of character development and he grows into a man with perspective, and wrote the Psalms. So... If you're humble, you can be rational. If you're rational, you can be just. If you're just, you can be merciful. All of these are opposites to the initiate, but one to the experienced person.

So yeah, what I see in the history the Bible presents is the worst people slowly learning not to be so bad. They wrote the stories down, and I think that's a sign of humility, maybe the beginning of a recognition that they did wrong. But that's at odds with an apparent pride, which I see mirrored in Christianity. And look now at what they are doing to Palestinians. Those people haven't gotten to the humility lesson, despite 3k years of learning it. But the Jews that didn't go to Israel are Zionism's biggest critics. Maybe they learned.

IMO (gotta recognize the chance I'm wrong) people in churches want to believe their tradition is the best, so that means the Jews must be the best people. Its pride. And pride is the foundation of idolatry. That's the same motivation for believing everything the bible says is literally true. Its definitely not... Almost any part you look at, there is clearly symbolic meaning. To insist on literalism is like giving yourself a lobotomy. IMO. When Jesus said he'd return with the sword, the sword is symbolic. If it was literally true, he wouldn't need a sword, there's an infinite number of ways an omnipotent god can punish people. So what's the symbol? A sword divides this from that. Its the rational mind. A person who denies the rational is denying the world God made. But the repeated lesson the Jews were supposed to learn was, you need both rationality and humility. The two are not opposed - they are actually codependent. Just like how God is both merciful and just - for most people, mercy and justice are opposites and irreconcilable. But there's a better way of seeing it, which is that they're codependent.

Here's an example : king David orders a census to find out how many men he can round up and send to war. God punishes him by sending an angel to Jerusalem and blow up buildings. Basically God takes the other side in the war. Why? Sending men to die in a war isn't justice or mercy. Justice is leaving the innocent alone, not going to war, seeking nonviolent means to resolve a dispute. Killing people sure isn't merciful. Its also not rational or humble. The whole affair was just a fit of pride. Me me me me me... David was an egotistical asshole. He was a brigand before winning his throne, and then continued to act like a brigand. He has a story arc of character development and he grows into a man with perspective, and wrote the Psalms. So... If you're humble, you can be rational. If you're rational, you can be just. If you're just, you can be merciful. All of these are opposites to the initiate, but one to the experienced person.

So yeah, what I see in the history the Bible presents is the worst people slowly learning not to be so bad. They wrote the stories down, and I think that's a sign of humility, maybe the beginning of a recognition that they did wrong. But that's at odds with an apparent pride, which I see mirrored in Christianity. And look now at what they are doing to Palestinians. Those people haven't gotten to the humility lesson, despite 3k years of learning it. But the Jews that didn't go to Israel are Zionism's biggest critics. Maybe they learned.

haha, no, that's the thing about humans... more than 90% of the population is of some value to the rest... markets are the heart of what makes this possible... without it, it really is the law of the jungle and all men must go through a meatgrinder and all women must submit to the most chad of the men...

and yeah, sodom and gomorrah are prototypes of all forms of decaying, collapsing society in this world... most of the large cities are now some kind of Sodom

corrupt government, corrupt judges, corrupt culture, with institutionalised violence and depravity

been reading about this growing trend of high density housing being taken over by foreign gangsters in the USA at the moment... just another point in the constellation of arguments against ever living in a city in these times, just get out of there, i can't say this without undue emphasis

don't wait for an Angel to come and tell you to pack your bags and leave now or be happy to burn

THANKS for posting this!🙏🏻💖🚀

there's one in genesis a bit like this, but the city was Sodom iirc... the detail of that part of the history is much richer in Jasher, it wasn't just the homo pervert rapists it was kooky laws and judges that seemed to be insane and people treating visitors extremely badly

oh and another one involving where the daughter of one of - iirc, Israel (Jacob) where one dude from this town seduced and deflowered one of his daughters, and they confronted the family and township (it was a prominent figure in the town) and they made a deal where the daughter could marry into the family from this town if everyone in the town got circumcised

of course, a vocal minority refused this, and started up a fight about it and because the majority of the towns men were recovering from their surgery they all were slaughtered and all their stuff was taken

i read through this story in three different versions and the one in Genesis was probably the most pleasant.... but yeah, crazy stuff, i mean, crazy

like Isaac and Jacob and Esau story, in two versions it paints it like Jacob and his mother Rebecca are some kind of conniving bastards or something and it made me wonder about how much Rebecca liked her man... he was in his last days and was charmed by the dapper and brutal redheaded Esau and his venison but fell for a ruse where Jacob just fed him bbq goat and accepted this and did some stupid blessing ritual, and out of all this, Esau goes full jealous psycho and wants to kill his brother over this

the themes repeat over and over again, and it's often hard to tell who is actually the bad guys in the story

That stuff about Samson, this involves a weird jewish sect called the Nazirites, and one of their things is they have to never cut their hair, or God will curse them

in the background of many of the stories is sects and cults and all sorts of weirdness, and to be honest, i'm not fond of much of the Old Testament, there is more to the stories but the catholics seemed to pick out much of the worst versions of everything even though there were often dozens of different versions with more details, different focus, and so on

like, on my first reading of Daniel i couldn't get past the seeming treacherousness of Daniel but on teh other hand, Nebuchanezzar was an outright psycho piece of shit... and the Watchers appear in this one, and i'm reading the bible now in a large part for the parts where angels are in the story, because this is an aspect of them that most christians and jews pay little attention to, and i think they are more important

Don't be surprised when you find out that influencers, who you previously liked, have little or no integrity. It happens. Slay your heroes.

I understand that feeling. I resolve it by ignoring the idolotrous Zionism rampant among supposed followers of Christ, and recognize the apparent nature of Jews - they suck. I'm not hating ; in some ways I like them. Jesus chose to enter the world from the lowest point. God chose the absolute worst people on earth to build an ark out of. That makes the story even more powerful. It reminds me of something I heard a real follower of Christ say once : "Christians go low."

They aren't private institutions. They are money laundering operations. E.g. Epstein was heavily involved with Harvard's endowment.

Why don't you move? What's stopping you?

#meme #nostrmeme #memes

#zap it, Feels good man.

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#zapathon

Dumb as a box of rocks

Sorry rocks

my two ortholinear mech keyboards use very light, short press activation keys

what this means is that you can actually press and hold them down with a lot less pressure than normal, for comparison, the cherry silver on my spare has 45nm and the new gaterons on my daily driver are 38

it is habit to be used to pushing them down for the "tacticle" complete press but actually the switch actuates a lot less than this depth of push

so i'm using the cherry currently playing games and realised that i can use a lot less pressure and this is nice because i have peripheral neuropathy

and as i discover just how light i really have to press i'm now going to start training myself to push a lot less and not always push them right down for touch typing either

it's not as definite a signal to stop but i know i can adjust to this and get used to not pushing them to the end ofd their travel and get a better typing speed and less pain

i switched already to dvorak in 2004 to reduce my muscle strain in my hands from typing, this is even more

and also, i now want a custom circuitboard i can put cherry silver low profiles on because their travel is half as much which means half as much total pressure with a tactile termination at the bottom

there's laptops with these things now

normal people don't understand because they don't type as fast or as much as i do

so, i disregard them, as i do with the constabulary

and it's already solved with bitcoin

It will be

BricPay Inflation rate = weighted average of each country currency inflation + inflation tax for BricPayTM

BricPayTM will be secret society consisting of a couple people from each country. It will start small, but slowly snowball as they have to pay more and more people to keep quiet or have positive opinions about BricPay and slowly increase BricPay Inflation Tax.

I'm just joking. It does seem silly that the biggest tech problem is just a trust issue.

Honor? Among bankers? 😂 I don't think there is honor there...

What i have understand so far, i think, is that they want to make a payment system among each other. The important detail, i think, is against what they are going to evaluate or devaluate their currencies. That is the reason about talks for brics currency, because a thought was to evaluate it against resources or something. Previously their currencies were evaluated comparing with the dollar, right? Now what?

Thank you to the kind nostrich who shipped me this NOS spare ThinkPad (you know who you are!). Gentoo install underway.

I look forward to building more with you soon!

Just a brief glance...

Previously formed opinions are the idea of the BRICS trying to coordinate a currency:

Literal Orient Express situation, where USD is the guy thats murdered.

except how in the world is the ragtag crew that hate each other going to refrain from

A race to the bottom to debase each other's currencies