hmmm. i sometimes wonder if military type orgs could be better run than private enterprise. especially if the hypothetically well-run military institution had unlimited funding that hamstrings the private enterprise.
Amtrak has this problem .it's national and threatened to be privatized. but then when things get privatized, the vision gets reduced to short term profit. so bold visions need national support, even if it's just the vision of sitting on a train across the desert.
privatized services start skimping on the station cleanliness and the silverware turns to plastic etc.
star trek! i had to ask Ai as I did not watch star trek, star wars or any of that. my childhood was just reruns of "Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier." I don't think there was any money mentioned in those movies. Except for the riverboat episode in which the pirates sink with treasure in the boat.
oh that sounds cool--paper money with gold dust in it. it could just be burned and the gold can melt into a bigger UTXO. Gold Utxo consolidation would just be a pot with burning dollar bills in it.
my new job description includes:
"listens to the Hurdle Rate Podcast"
which i'm doing now
And gold's doing quite well today. I don't think I fully appreciated the fact that it is cold storage custodiable money. I'm definitely not custodying any of it, but there is Bitcoin and there is gold and the rest is just paper.
Actually I don't know if gold can be money and not just store of value/collateral, not sure what the coin size denomination would have to be.
If I were a bank in a small town with no internet and no electricity, I could have a vault and issue currency backed by the gold.
Each piece of paper that I issue would match an entry in my journal. I would just need the citizens to let me know who they give the notes to so I could make sure no one is counterfitting my birch bark notes (paper has been used up in this economy).
favorite words of the day: "trolley dollies" and "dishy"
:-D
weee let's go.
i suppose Ryan's personality is different from Saylor's so there won't be any "dot" day, just sneaky purchases of Bitcoin that show up on the balance sheet?
so there is a reverse psyop going around about a cyber pandemic in which electricity shuts off and flights and so on.
I'm pretty sure this is just to scare people into cash and coins. maybe that's why there's such a liquidity crunch as everyone hoards their cash. But even the $1 coins are actually worth the metal they are printed on
i did have a happy dream in which gold and bitcoin lived side by side. you could have gold or bitcoin or both.
since i'm not hoarding gold coins in a cabin, i need to imprint myself on people's memories by making sure they remember i was nice to them in the good times so maybe they'll keep me around in the famine times.
"i promise i'll pay you in bitcoin when the electricity turns back on" might start ringing a little hollow after a couple days. but paper cash also just seems so silly to hoard up.
"Strong hug"
"60 second hug"
Hugs with short people, hugs that press against the breast, squish into the armpit".
I'm saying goodbye, or am I saying hello. Is it a guy or is is it a gal. Does she have big breasts. Are they just touching my belly or is it from the side.
Does he have a complex. Do I have a complex.
I'd rather hug than fist bump. Not the dreaded fist bump. I'll don't know whether to make a fist, make a palm. Someday I'm just going to slap the guy that tries to give me a fist bump.
#coracle is totally crashing on a regular basis for me now, just sitting there typing a short reply and bam, "Aw Snap: something went wrong while displaying this webpage"
it's been happening for a while, chrome browser
cc: nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn
it just does it after a while of the page running, my guess is some kind of memory usage related thing perhaps
i discovered i could delete notes and that removes the branches on that note. i don't know if those other branches just hang in the air or if there's a Nostr forest floor for disassociated notes
not that i think this is what happened in your case, but theoretically if you were typing on a note farther on the branch, it's like you fell right off the tree.
Springtime in Texas is especially beautiful
i was following her quite early on, and also observed nostr:npub1g49uyac6d83sss7sln8aumsstle7m3wxwwvc8mmpqsnr8e9f2cdq6ltqvs who was at that time in the guise of "Gary Bussey" or whatever, the meme guy about inject one marijuanas from the old days
why i liked her was because she was promoting this catholic trad wife girl thing
i'm about to convert to catholic in some part due to this, and also the fact that this is the christian contingent in the rural parts of this island
i don't want to be weird with it though, it's not like i'm chasing her, i got mad about that at one point when i learned she was spoken for
really, but hey, when you find a person who stands on much the same ground you want to cheer for them and help them out when you can
Aww thanks for thinking of me Mleku. Reading you and Laeserin in the past year was pivotal for me.
Also perhaps Liberty Gals sunflower newsletters in my email inbox 🌻. Not to forget The Beave and some others that chimed in with wisdom.
Somedays when the usernames fail to load I read a comment and I start laughing at this new person on Nostr, and then the names load and I realize it's one of the two of you.
I have been walking everywhere now for 3 months. It's interesting how it changes body over time.
Whatever happened to "Love-- it's what makes a Subaru"?
Google finance also shows ArkB as stuck on 84.
Feels like a glitch in the matrix
uhoh. Turbulence...are we talking grounded airlines?
It's worth it just for the Gladiator, Josh Mandell, Jeff Walton and Ben Werkman entertainment.
Dividend of bemusement and confusion
And then they scroll to the bottom and realize the "other income " box has 100,00 default
It's probably a good business decision on their part. Better to tell potential clients they are going to be stratospherically rich and need your concierge services.
The power of optimism
Yeah, and the fields sorta populate automatically so it can come up with some crazy scenarios if you don't check thru all the default boxes