I “woke up” to many of the realities of the world we live in shortly after 9/11 and proceeded to drive my (then new) bride crazy with constant talk of the conspiracies that are underway on the part of “the 1%” to enslave us all. Including the whole central banking rabbit hole. I had to cut that shit out.

I have since learned, and I have to still regularly bite my tongue, that it is my job as a man to protect and to provide a nurturing and secure environment for the family without freaking everybody in the house out with talk of impending doom and how we must fight against it. I have those conversations with my best guy friend, not my wife.

While it is a bonus to have a spouse who is inquisitive enough to fully jump down the rabbit hole with you, it is not 100% necessary for you to be doing so at the same rate. Small, single sentence truth bombs over time have a cumulative effect.

Part of the reason why monetary debasement is so insidious and destructive to society is that it is just sufficiently complicated to stand as a barrier to understanding for those who are not naturally inquisitive.

Our wives, if they are the ones doing the grocery shopping while we are at work and have to do so on a fixed dollar amount, are in a perfect position to feel the effects of decreased purchasing power. While I think it is important to subtly and slowly explain the reasons why we aren’t getting as much bang for our buck these days to those in our household, and help them understand the reasons why it behooves us to become more food- , energy- , and security self sufficient over time, I don’t think we need to burden them with the details and highlight all of the threats.

Here’s three things that I have found that have been helpful to slowly get us where we need to be without rocking the boat, as I personally try to gain the control, time, resources and physical space to pursue them:

1) Making food, water, energy and physical security part of my hobbies. Gardening, preserving, cutting firewood, building backup systems, raising small animals, hunting, fishing, shooting, and physical training. These are fun ways to lead through results rather than by words. Many of them also involve activities that you can get your wife and kids interested in, to create some quality time together and pass on what you are learning. Let your gains in these areas, and the sense of pride and security they provide, do the talking for you.

2) Do regular, small, imperceptible DCA acquisitions of hard assets like Bitcoin, metals, and a bit of fiat, and make sure that they are secured, distributed, accessible in the event of your death, and (in the case of UTXO’s), consolidated. Think of how many unnecessary purchases under $20 you can eliminate every two weeks that would add up to a modest DCA that has little effect on the household operating budget.

3) Bring the tools, guns, ammo, prepping gear and electronic hardware in the side door lol 😂

i prefer walking even, the same shit has been happening to cars as well, but mainly more taxes and fees to get the privilege to drive, and i've been dreaming about going on a boat, i know i'll have a transition to getting my sea legs (and probably a big jar of travel sickness pills to get there) but i am getting more and more the idea that i might actually catch a cruise ship for my next move, and then hopefully find some road transport to my destination

quite frankly yeah sick of the bullshit of air travel... i bet i can transport my most valuable pieces of tech much cheaper as luggage on a cruise ship

Listening to a Buddhist monk explain his beliefs is like listening to a mediocre athlete explain why they're happy with a participation trophy.

Holy shit man, this sent me down a rabbit hole

In 2023 I sold my farm and ported my profit into Bitcoin. In 2025 I will be selling my first home. My wife and I lived in this 1987 Toyota camper for 2 years and traveled all over Canada and the states. It will be missed, but it doesn't store its value quite like BTC does.

That tells you there’s more to these fires than first lead to believe

What do you think

Fire does not jump from one street to the next one lol

There's iphone, and then there's everything else.

iphones are technological gold.

There is no second best (to iPhones).

Have fun staying green bubble.

iphone only, everything else are shitphones.

it was a tongue in cheek reply.

critically excel sheets being emailed means we're not interconnected or interoperable enough. unsure what fixes it but we're def not going interplanetary using excel

Jimmy Carter’s funeral. Remember folks the oligarchy is one big club and you aren’t the fuck in it no matter how much you grovel and fantasize.

nostr

FFS... we're never getting to kardashev type I if we keep doing business via excel over email.

My grandpa built his own house, and it was an amazing house, on a lake, surrounded by national park because he built it before the state stole the land to make a park. Its gone though... After he passed away, the new owners burnt it down in an insurance fraud and then built an ugly mcMansion

Which means their custodian doesn’t have to hold the bitcoin. Duh.