90s vehicle to Auto as in electric steering/adaptive cruise control in it?
if so that sounds like a challenging project! i do kinda wonder how hard it is to convert an older vehicle to something that could drive itself.
it's probably only worth it for highly valuable vehicles though
just checked: 200-300$ a month for insurance
that's a lot more than the 80 bucks i pay... i'll probably just drive extra careful with my old car.
there's a Comma AI $999 device that can convert 2016 and newer vehicles to self driving on highways... i've been really wanting to try that. however, the Tesla system works everywhere, including parking lots.
Buying a Tesla seems like such a waste of money.
I'd rather be biking
However, when one must drive, there's a high value on safety. When I was broke, a 25 year old car was great. I still want a 25 year old car, but I also want a car that watches out for hazards for me.
I should probably model out:
How likely are accidents in Tesla versus non Tesla
If there's an insurance for all accidents that Tesla can prevent, what would be the monthly cost?
Bitcoin is apolitical money.
https://blossom.primal.net/3b72e71b3f93c53ef7e36130fde5f2407effbf3a1597ab658b4963ecfa375c4e.mp4
Why argue politics when you can stack apolitical money straight to self-custody with the Blockstream app.
i've started doing this.
the moment someone mentions: "it's the fault of all those people who voted for X..."
me: " is your 401k set to invest in big companies that support either political party and the status quo?"
6 7
are you saying the firetrucks just need a big thing of baking soda?
The sensation I remember is like a tangy dry mouth before the sweet.
Maybe the wild ones have more of the cotton sensation
Hehe, 1 burger shy of possible... , I don't know how I feel about him talking about his afterlife.
The last person I knew who did that with me died a couple weeks later. Then his friends realized he had spoken with us each individually about death.
It's terrible!
insiders must have hefty bills to pay to be so brazen. Or Trump is going to buy his way to heaven with a strategic heavenly Bitcoin reserve.
I had no idea these could be jam... The bears like them
Just name the dog Hoover
I used to warm myself up while waiting for the Geary bus by going in and catching a glimpse of his hands.
I've never seen a non-saint corpse hands so I don't have a control group, but it's definitely weird how they are like preserved like jerky.
some people are just on different relays
Nostr can be like that
"Josh, you're a brilliant man, and we are really lucky--lucky to have you."
league of women voters from 2012
Also,
Ryan went on a rant about them just last night:
https://www.youtube.com/live/XdxilLZaZDU?si=ijqVItbz5TSwFnw-
i felt like doing this for ASST ... these tickers sound terrible tho.
at least ASST has a lot of podcasters.
someone on a podcast this week mentioned that an investment needs "patina".
this is how he described his mentor's investment thesis:
"his theology of investment is way different than like your P/E ratios or EBITDA ratios. he's like 'how to people value art...You need to have access to it. you need to have awareness of it, like a Michaelangelo piece. CUsty and security--you need to be able to borrow against it--that's a huge one. you need to have patina--chutzpah, and the potential for price appreciation... Those are 6 different attributes of something for why it has value.'"
so ASST is going for every investment website newsline and bondtalk forum, etc etc. which i suppose boosts awareness and patina.
what does NAKA do on this front?
reference
yes! 21 sats is
1/100,000,000,000,000
of all of it.
think i did that correctly. grain of sand sized
although if humans go interplanetary and the exchange was based on earth, it could be interesting
venturing over to the AgTalk forum to see what they are saying about bitcoin.
do they know about Nostr? do they need censorship resistance when talking about the price of hay? do they know about the soybean conspiracy?
would they like to zap each other electric commodity "at the speed of light"?
comforting
just when i start worrying it's all going down hill
we're too wiley.
actually, i don't know if this would be called "TA" or "awareness of market makers"
let's see if BTC be 126.4k this weekend:
That's a great point. For me, the choice was between 100% chance of paying a yearly 0.2% fee to some ETF product or take a 50/50 chance on a company to be a proxy and save the fee.
I suppose the game then would be refining the 50/50 odds to something more specific according to price, management and legal news.
she's pulling me back in... she has like a millennial Anne of Green Gables vibe. that's hard not to love, hard not to be harsh on, and hard not to wish the best for.
it's fun to just have something on the side to watch zig when bitcoin zags
mmm... good point. there is some resistance with physical mining. also i heard there was some huge mining accident in Indonesia gold/copper mine recently
this guy is my favorite tea leaf reader of the season:
ok, haha, so someone else has been hearing this pop stuff. you make me feel better.
i was just about to delete this in shame.
i just find it ironic a contender song of the year is called "Golden".
Oh I see the screenshot is of the last frame.Funny. I'll just assume he did.
is this real? i thought he hadn't publicly clarified his position other than a video that could be interpreted either way.
so Candace should go find the hospital and doctor and ask them if they saw him.
i don't think it makes sense that he would just give up his hard work and passion for some ulterior allegiance... it goes against who I thought he was or was becoming at least.
what is the first train and how do you get on it?
the Start9 menu has Nostr relays... i haven't gotten around to that. mainly because i don't understand the whole "spam" issue and how to filter it out of a nostr relay.
you're getting inspiration from stars that "aeons cannot vex or tire"
my mom has been orange pilled by the youtube algorithm. she started quoting Saylor to me.
i was shocked and a tad bitter. i'm coming around to the realization that i am not gatekeeper to the land of orange.
"Where are your orange shoes?" she asked me. (my shoes are yellow).
"Where did you learn all this stuff, mom?" I asked.
"I've been watching Youtube video of Saylor standing on a table. He says we are in year 1 of adoption. So that means I got in in year 0."
She explains bitcoin as the alphabet. 26 letters but infinite combinations.
June 16 to September 16 QTD portfolio comparisons:
Bitcoin only control group: (106,000 to 116,000)
33% BTC | 66% Bitwise OWNB ETF: 0.2% BTC gain
33% BTC | 66% Grok AI managed portfolio: -0.25% BTC loss
33% BTC | 40% MSTR 10% Metaplanet 10% SmarterWebCo 6% MSTR Leaps: -15% BTC loss
As much as it sucks to be beat by AI, bitcoin, and by a passive ETF, this makes me happy about the OWNB etf. Passive investing has a lot of proponents, and this is an ETF of companies who have committed to a bitcoin standard in some shape or form.
The OWNB weighting for Tesla is 1.8% which isn't far off of the Nasdaq weighting. Tesla is the most interesting stock to me outside of bitcoin. However, I don't want the TESLA risks of CEO, batteries, supply chains, LLM hallucinations, etc. I also don't want the public miners.
what i'm trying to do is just strip out the companies from OWNB that have any risk other than accumulating bitcoin. I just want the ones that have publicly active management so I can judge their characters/actions. I want the 20% foreign exposure that the classic portfolio recommends. even tho this is kinda silly because bitcoin is already global.
I can't go to public mining sites and make sure they are getting good deals on land, electricity, etc. I can watch presentations of BTCTC CEOs and have confidence for how they handle business.
December 16, 2025 will tell if my bets paid off, and I will beat OWNB, AI and "just buy bitcoin".
ok so he did say something:
love him or hate him, he's pretty logical
"if i wanted to destroy bitcoin, i would fund intelligent, well-intentioned developers and tell them to 'make it better'" --Saylor
everything has a risk, not everything has a reward
i listened to Bitcoin Mechanicus. 60 minutes to drill into my head 60 times the same message. I actually was reminded of how low IQ i must be and hard-headed.
apparently bitcoin mechanicus also understands he has to talk to me like im an idiot to get me to change anything.
---my understanding---
if i understand correctly :
i can run bitcoin core as it currently is
however, if I update my node after October i have a choice to upgrade to Bitcoin Core version 30 which allows larger Op return. to avoid this in future updates i will need to go with Knots version.
-----a question-----
if a majority of the nodes DO upgrade to version 30, will that mean any blockchain data that is downloaded with my node will include what those machines failed to filter? or does my machine also filter historic data when setting up new nodes.
----how i understand the situation--------
it's a branding kerfuffle. what we know and love as "bitcoin" and by extension "bitcoin core" is being forked into Bitcoin Go-to-Jail edition.
Bitcoin Knots is "Classic Bitcoin Core" edition where classic bitcoin core respectors should download their future updates.
it just feels like i'm being pushed and herded to make snap decisions and i thought bitcoin code was fine *As is.
there are a lot of eyes upon bitcoin core as there are 2.5 trillion dollars of value riding on this piece of software. i'm doubtful something insidious could be hiding there.
Is there a Bitcoin meetup or Bitcoin scene in Portland OR?
yeah, i try to keep an open mind without getting attached to certain things which reminds me i'm getting attached to religion at the moment--christianity.
conspiracy or not. the american evangelical movement that supports zionism is the weirdest scam ever. you would think if God actually spoke to ministers you would have a lot that would realize the scam.
it's as bad as the covid vax brainwashing...
and now back to questioning myself, what scams am I falling for that I don't even know right now? big life scams.
i think i found out that "sex outside of heterosexual marriage" is a big scam last year.
"tanins in wine" are good for you. --although to be fair i think my body is having extra difficulty consuming alcohol after covid vax. but now that i'm not drinking, i see the subliminal cues to drink everywhere that i never noticed before.
It's time to top up the steering fluid and change the oil in the 25-year old vehicle. On queue, my Walter Mitty-esque car contemplations start:
I astral project alongside a SUV speeding across a dusty desert. It's sleek, low-slung yet has ample ground clearance for overlanding in the West Texas deserts. lots of windows that open and a tow hitch. a dinghy sailboat trailer pops out of nowhere bouncing along behind. It's for reconnaissance missions of shoreline cactii and birds in Lake Amistad. the paddleboard on the roof racks deploys to investigate ancient paintings in water-filled caves. there's a feeling of excitement of possible run-ins with cartels along the Tex-mexico border. Billy the Kid is rumored to have held up trains in these parts. The Sunset Limited train whips up tumbleweeds, and i zap back to reality as i need to pee from the morning coffee.
Youtube already read my mind top of feed a "Car care nut" review of new Toyota 4Runner. This reminds me i really want to degoogle my phone to stop these creepy thought prediction/reading scenarios.
it looks like Toyota already anticipated this vehicle. it looks great, and it's made in Japan:
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/suvs/2025-toyota-4runner-review-a3128307508/
Ok Rodrigo, you may have set me down my next tech challenge.
i've heard that Graphene doesn't work great with GPS tho... but i don't actually need GPS and maybe need to stop relying on it.
if Youtube doesn't work on Graphene, that would also be an added benefit.
although long road trips are nice with GPS and podcasts, i don't have any more of those planned for a while.
hello!
consciousness following from microtubules and zero point energy? or just the religious part of gnositicism
Magnets do seem magic somehow.
I thought you were an expert... How did you get interested in this?
I tried reading "Understanding Physics" by Asimov as a teenager and couldn't read past a couple pages before falling asleep.
Computer chips then are very complex field conductors...
The Buga sphere had lots of tiny fiber optics emerging in tiny holes along the outside.
Perhaps elf craftmanship can combine fiber optics plus circuitry to rival human spinal cords...
Also does that mean our nerves if they are relaying electric impulses are communicating with the zero point field?